 Ladies and gentlemen, I am so sorry. I am so, so sorry. I got caught up in something and what I got caught up in some in doing was I've got some assignments to do. I've got actually a paper that I've got to turn in. And I was, there's a lot of different stuff you got to do research and then cite the people that you are quoting and so forth. And so that's what I was doing. I looked up and I'm thinking, wait a second, there's a lot of folks here in this live stream chat. We're not even ready and then dawned on me. Yeah. Yeah, Corey, you're the one that's late. So y'all forgive me. I was actually, I was doing a good thing at the wrong time. I was actually doing my own little study and so forth. So I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. So that being the case, guys, please forgive me. Someone said that I was getting my hair ready. No, I didn't get my, no, listen, as I said before, I woke up like this. This is natural. This is my natural hair. So anyway, all right, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't get a chance also to go and look at any of the questions previous that you may have submitted. So go ahead and submit your questions, put a gigantic queue or gigantic question so I can go ahead and note those and then pray for me. Pray for me because I am, what's the word? I'm tied up. I'm busy. My schedule is hectic. There have been people that have, there have been some, some interviews and some guests that were supposed to come on that I had to want. No, two of them had to move back because I just can't, I can't get it done or do anything. My, my time is, is my, I don't know what I'll be doing at this time from one day to the next up until probably the first week of May. There were some people that wanted to kind of get together as well, a couple of people and I just couldn't even, even in the later months. And I just, just can't because I don't know. As a matter of fact, come, come fall, my, my class schedule is going to be more hectic than it is now. I should, I should say hectic is going to be more compressed. And so I'm going to have to be more efficient, more organized as far as my time is concerned. So therefore, y'all pray for me because doing this whole school stuff again, it's been, it's been 30 years since I've had a full classroom schedule, 30 years since I've been in, since Texas Tech is where I went to college at 30 years over 30 years, 30 years, yeah, since I've actually been in a classroom setting. So that been the case. It's going to, it's going to be, and what they do is you don't just make your point, you know, you don't just make your point, you have to argue your point and you've got to show why. And so, yeah, matter of fact, so much so, so much so I couldn't, listen, I'm not just drinking coffee. I haven't drank coffee. What I've been drinking the last hour is this. I've been, I've been on that stuff again, y'all. I've been, I've been on that stuff. I've been on this Red Bull. So just because I need to have my energy up. I haven't, I've got about a half a can left. I'll leave that. So when I get off of here, I can go back to it and I have energy. So anyway, but it's been an interesting week. It has been an interesting week for me. And by the way, I'm not complaining because I think that, that even the hard things that I'm doing, I love it. I actually do love it. So much so that I don't even watch as much sports as I used to, which for me, man, that was something else. But just watching Christians, watching Christians on YouTube, watching Christians watch YouTube, watching Christians who have YouTube channels, watching pastors and preachers, it is, it's been something else. And I actually thought about addressing a lot of the things that I've seen, that I've seen thus far over the last couple of weeks today. But no, I'll wait. I'll wait. But some of the things, let me just say this to kind of give a preface of what I'm going to say eventually when I do say it. And there might be some, some, some YouTube people, some folks on YouTube that are cool with me or cordial with me, that I'm going to step on their toes. Because it's almost as though, I see you Sheila, it's almost as though people, now right now I'm speaking about men, men. And I should say, it's not just men who don't know how to handle things who are just different, but it's Christian men. It's one thing to talk about how men are different. It's another thing to talk about how Christian men are different. You can't expect men of the world to be different if Christian men are not up to par. And I'll tell you what I mean by that into a second. But it's also women as well. It's also women as well. And what I mean by that is how we deal with each other. I think most people on YouTube have one go to move, one go to move, the one go to move for most, or I shouldn't say for most, but a lot of them is just to point the finger or point out what's wrong or criticize. And there are a lot of times where they are actually right. Their criticism is right. Yep. And then there's nothing after that. Then they don't know how to address how if they don't understand something or they disagree. They don't understand how to address or disagree. They really don't. And so sometime next week, I'm going to upset some people. And I mean to upset some people. Sometime next week, I am going to put myself in the position of rebuking some folks. Because it's one thing to rebuke the outright, the known, the easy heretics, right? It's one thing to call out the people that we say these people have some bad doctrine. That is one thing. But it's quite another thing to talk to the people, talk about the people that have good doctrine or support good doctrine, but their practice is off. And there have been some folks that have been that have been even critical of me. And then, and I would say every last one of those folks are critical. I'm still waiting on the scripture that you tell me that I violated anything. So if you're going to be, if you're going to be solo script touring, you can't give us, you can't give a single solitary solo scripture. We got a problem. And so next week, it will be you and I'm going to issue a challenge. Do y'all recall the challenge that I issued? This was, I can't remember about a year or so ago. About a year or so ago, I put out a challenge to all the demon slayer types, not necessarily just the demon slayer, but those that go out and cast out demons. I said, listen, come show me, come, come to the streets and show how much power in the spirit you have. And let's go to some of these places where we would both agree that this is a heavily demonically infused or influential, influenced area. Let's go to those places and let's, let's cast out some demons. Let's go, you know, you bring your hand, I'll bring the gospel. Obviously, I didn't need any takers. And I might even share what's happened behind the scenes with some of those things as well. But I'm going to make the same challenge. Matter of fact, I'll go ahead and give you all a sneak preview of the challenge. All of those videos and all of those comments and all of those critiques and all of those comments in the comments section and so forth about how you handle people with bad doctrine or who are in sin or all those different things. I'm going to issue the same challenge. I'm going to pay for them for them to come down in Dallas or drive a Dallas and find them a place for them to sleep. And we're going to those same places and we're going to call out sin together. And then we're going to see which way works because what it is is there's a lot of folks that that can talk about it, but very few of them that can actually be about it. And so we're going to, and that's a big problem. You've got to have a balance, right? You got to have a balance when you're talking about the word, but you have no way to apply the word, no practice. You're all hat, no cattle. That's what, that is what a lot of Christians, especially those on YouTube, that's what a lot of them are. All hat, no cattle, even some of the ones that I'm friendly with, even some of them and they might be, listen, we're going to tell the truth, shame the devil. We're going to tell the truth, shame the devil. These are those in the comment section, those that have their own channels and so forth. And so we're going to tell, or if you don't want to come down, then fine, we'll take a camera to your neighborhood and let you do the same thing. Let you call. So I've got a challenge coming on next week and some folks are going to be bothered before your gaslighting. Okay. If you call what you want to call them and give you the scriptures, I'm going to give you the scriptures. So I've just noticed a lot of things and it's time to go ahead and address some of the things that we've been noticing not just last week, but the last year, the last two years. And then what the whole goal is, what are we, what are we doing? What's the point? What's the purpose of what it is that we do? Are we just getting here just being a club or is there an end to what we're doing? So I'm looking at some of these comments. Someone says, I don't, I don't know who David is responding to. He says, yes, Lucifer. Satan Lucifer is the music angel or the minister of music or the leader. No, he's not. No, he's not. There is no, there's no such, there's no such passage as Satan being the, the choir director or the minister of music. There, there isn't. There's a passage that speaks about his pipes and so forth, but there is no such passage. We get that. That's one of the things that we do. We, we hear something and we just run with it because it's been said enough. It's been handed down time after time and we don't, we don't go back and investigate. And some of these things, they're just, they're easy to investigate, but, and I think I did a video about, I know I did a video about Satan being the minister of music. You still haven't given 25 observations about mark nine one. I'd settle for 10, but I don't think you'd accept it. I'm not giving you up. Listen, I believe I've got too much work to do. I've got too much work to do. So no, I'm not, I'm not doing it, but anyway, how you doing friend? How are you doing? So, uh, incidentally leave on, I was looking at someone put, uh, Jake Corey put out something about leave. I went to high school. We went to high school. We buzzed from high school. Someone put out, Jake put out some deal about most likely to do something. Uh, you know, most likely to win the lottery, most likely to this month. And I was sitting there thinking, going back, what, what, what would have been the most likely thing that Corey might have done? I was sitting there thinking it wouldn't have been anything good. It wouldn't have been anything good. So, all right, let me go ahead and start, uh, addressing some of these questions. As always, we're not going to get to all of the questions. By the way, on next week, next week, we're going to open the channel up and have a kind of an open mic on next week. And so some of the folks that I offered and invited to come on, uh, we'll do that on next week. So you all be prepared. Well, next week we'll definitely be on again one hour early, just so we can cover all the folks that might want to come on. So, and then how cool would it be if on next week Dutch just showed up and came on since who doesn't want to see Dutch the Bible Thumper on camera? I, I think we all do. I think we all do. Teresa said, please don't skip my question. Let's see if I have her question here. If I have it. Okay, let me find your question, Teresa. Oh, okay. I see why. I didn't see it because you put I have a question first. Okay, I got it. I got you there. I got you. I got you. All right. So, yeah. Yeah, we got, we want to, we want to see Dutch the Bible Thumper. You got those eyes. Yeah, we want to see you on. We want to see you on. Anyway, let's go ahead and jump into it. This is a good question. If we're all going to go, I'm sorry, if we're all going to go through the tribulation, who will evangelize to the people that aren't saved? That is a very good question. Here's a very good answer. Every one of us who says that we are saved aren't saved. That's the truth. Everyone who says that we're not saved. You know what won't get raptured? Can't tell you what won't get raptured, Josh. What, by the fact, let me ask you guys as well. What do you all think in the chance? There's something that, or let me ask you this question, what won't get raptured? What is it that will not get raptured assuming I'm correct? And I think I am on this issue. But what won't get raptured? Something pretty influential. Something pretty important that will not get raptured. And folks aren't putting in. I tell you, there it is. There it is. What won't get raptured is the Bible. Cindy said it. Neeta said it. Michael said, no, no, no, he said unbelievers. The Bible won't get raptured. The Word of God has to be there. Can you imagine, remember, by the way, when they say, the prophet says, and Jesus says the same thing, that you'll see these things, I think it's Jeremiah. I want to say it's Jeremiah. I see it's Jeremiah or Daniel, where he says that, I'm sorry, it's Daniel, trying to figure out how this is going to happen. And he says, basically, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. When it happens, they'll know. They'll be able to look back and see. And it'll make sense because they'll have, they'll have the Word of God before them. They'll have the Word, they'll see it, and they'll put two and two together. Oh, guess what else is going to happen at that time? What else is going to happen during the rapture to these people? Well, God won't stop regenerating hearts at the time of the rapture. As a matter of fact, a whole lot of people at one time are going to have their hearts regenerated. Israel, God is going to finish the work that he started. When the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, then what does Paul say in Romans 11, that after the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, then that's what he's going to deal with the Jews. And so at that point in time, that spirit of stupor, that partial hardening will go away. So that's how it's going to work. That's a good question. Very good question. All righty. Oh, this is where you all get this from, this first Samuel 16, 24 through 23. Let's put it on the screen. Now, the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him. Saul's servant then said to him, Behold now an evil spirit from God is terrorizing you. Let our Lord now command your servants who are before you. Oh, I suggest, and you're asking, is that talking about a music? No, no, it's not talking about a music ministry. It's just that there was always those who had music that they would use music to play it and to sue the hearers. And so in this case, Saul would be sued. But this is how God ends up bringing in someone like David. And so you bring in David. Now, I don't know if David could also sing, but he was skilled with the with music. And so here comes David to come in, and he sues him with his music. This is how God again, God is awesome. How he orchestrates things. He has stated that the, the separate should not depart Judah. Saul is out of the tribe of Benjamin. David is out of the tribe of Judah. And so how is he going to get you to there? I mean, David there by this way. And then so you got these issues or these things about David, one, him playing music and then to him standing up and saying, I can defeat this, this, this, this Philistine. He's not some stranger to Saul when this is made. So it's how God is kind of orchestrating things and putting people in place at the ready so that they can go ahead and work out God's plan. Amen. Our midnight prayers more effective. A lot of churches emphasize waking up to pray at midnight or five at another night. They are not more effective. As a matter of fact, somebody could even make the statement, the argument that those prayers might be the least effective. Here's what I mean by that. It's going to sound funny to say that they might be the least effective, but you're going to have a bunch of people. And I know this, that you got a bunch of folks that are out there praying who may not have been praying. Now we're looking for the, the effect, the effectual fervent prayer of the rights. We're looking for folks that's been praying. We want the folks that's constantly praying, not that, that their prayers are any, that, that God is going to disregard their prayers. But in many cases, some of these little 24 hour prayer chains, we're going to have someone praying from this time to that time in the church. In many cases, they're really just more gimmick than anything else. How about just keep praying? How about we just make prayer just normal? How about that? Let's make, let's make prayer great again. How about that? Make prayer great again. How about if, instead of praying, being a, an event, this is when your prayer life has taken off. When prayer is not an event, it's a custom. Well, what do you mean by that Corey? Well, when prayer is a custom, it's just what you do. When it's event, you know what? I got to stop and go pray. But if it's, if it's a custom, it's what I do. I'm praying. I'm praying. I'm sitting, you know, working with Lord help me. The lines of communication are always up and available. They're always open. I'm in the car. I'm praying. I'm not just waking up and going to sleep and eat my food. Lord, thank you for this food you provided me. And I don't know why folks always have to close their eyes and pray because you don't have to close your eyes to pray, but you can. But you make it special. And so it's like, I got to go do it. You got to get yourself ready and so forth. And so it takes effort and energy to go. It takes effort and energy to go do something versus when you're already doing it. You're already there. Think about this. How many of you all try to work out? Any of you all trying to work out? Well, the hardest part about working out is showing up. Once you're there, you're there. You'll do something. But going there is the problem. So it's the same with prayer. Let me go. Let me go pray. But if you're already in prayer, you're good. And then what do we do with the Lord? We sometimes talk to him as though we hadn't seen him in a while. And, you know, it's good to reverence him and to speak highly of him. But you know how it is, if I haven't seen you in a minute. Hey, Sidney, how you doing? Sidney, this is Corey. Well, if we had been talking, there's been no chain of communication broken, then we're just talking. I don't have to reintroduce myself and reacquaint myself to you. Now I'm still going to speak highly of you as I'm praying. But if you make prayer an event, it becomes normal. It becomes what you do. Versus, what do I say? How do I pray? This is why folks sometimes are kind of unsure and easy about what to pray. Lord, I'm having a bad day. Lord, my foot hurt. Lord, I'm sick of these people. Lord, this bill. What am I going to do? And so you're just talking to me. It's not like, you know, just kind of in a flip. But you know, just in passing. No, you're actually having a conversation with and you are going on and on and on and on. That's what prayer ought to be. Amen. So these little prayer chains, the midnight. Now I'm not saying that that you shouldn't pray at midnight. Because by the way, if you, I also like this though, let's say if you happen to wake up in the middle of the night or at one or two in the morning, what have you, is that always God waking you up? No, it's just you woke up. In my case, in my case, nine times out of 10, there are three things. There wasn't no four things that wake me up. Four things. One, this cat, this cat is a jerk. Our cat is a jerk. He'll wake, he'll wake us up. He will catch like to be around warm bodies. They do. And our cat, he will, sometimes my daughter closes her, it's her cat. She'll close her door, put the cat out because the cat's bothering her. So he'll go around and bother someone else. So he'll jump in the bed and you tell the cat to get out. What's he going to do? He's going to look back at you. And so he just, so he wakes, he wakes me up. Sometimes the dogs might want to go out and use the bathroom. What am I going to do? I don't want to wake up to a puddle. Because sometimes these are old dogs. They got to go, they got to go. Sometimes my daughters, they are just, they might be doing stuff and then like playing around with them. These two girls, they play with each other all the time. Or fourth might be my wife. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? What was that? It's the cat. Well, what if it was a burglar? Well, leave him alone. Let him have him finish. So sometimes it's other things, but sometimes it might be the Lord. And if you, if you're up at night and you can't go back to sleep, pray. And if you still can't go back to sleep after you finish praying, we'll read your Bible. Some of you folks that you read the Bible, I'll put you to sleep. If, if that still ain't work, well then dog on it, go to the smart Christian channel. Go to the smart Christian channel and watch you some videos at night. Watch this. That ain't going to put you to sleep. Bad way to have you awake. It will have you awake. You'll be, you know what? Let me go ahead and let me do some spring cleaning. Let me, let me wash some stuff. Let me wash some dishes. Let me do all this stuff. Let me do the things I didn't do in the day. And I've got enough energy because something about that song, it just moves me. And listen, when that song is playing, if you ain't dancing, because you ain't safe. Let's just tell the truth. Shame on devil. When that song comes on and you ain't, you're not dancing. You're not moving. Listen, you almost want to speak in tongues. So I'm going to hold you back. I won't play it again. Anyway, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. All right. Next question. Next question. Why do you deny intercession of saints when we see it in the early church? I don't care what we saw in the early church. I wouldn't care if we saw dragons in the early church. I wouldn't care if we, listen, I don't care what we saw in the early church. Isaiah, you matter of fact, matter of fact, my paper is over inspiration. And in doing this, this is, this is over the sufficiency of the word, how the word is at a higher level. Let me just talk now, because now, now you got me on my, on my paper. Now you got me on my paper. I got this, this one book I got. I'm citing sorts from this book. I got a book right here. I got a book. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm dealing with inspiration right now. And the issue with inspiration is how it's elevated above. You remember, I did something on Patreon. By the way, if you haven't seen Patreon, if you haven't gone to Patreon, go to Patreon and go sign up. It's free. It's free. But what we talked about on Patreon was about inspiration. I think, I think I was on Patreon and the issue, I may, I may have brought it over to the regular channel, but it's the words, the right things that are inspired, not the right errors. So Paul is not inspired. Peter is not inspired. John is not inspired. But what John wrote in the, in the Bible, what Peter wrote, what James wrote, that's inspired because that literally comes from God. And so matter of fact, even one of the quotes is what, what the Bible affirms, God affirms, but not what, what the early church fathers affirm. Do you know how, how all over the place the early church fathers were and who determined who's an early church father? So if it's not scriptural, I could care less what the early church did. You should too. Don't ever get to the point to where you're looking at the early church as a guide. You might have started looking at the book, the, the gospel of Thomas as a guide. You might as well start looking at the assumption of Mary as a guide. You might start looking at Enoch and all these apocryphal books, these extra biblical books. And many of them are just fraudulent. You might as well start looking at those. No, we have the scripture for a reason. If God wanted us to look elsewhere, he'd have put elsewhere inside until we wouldn't have to look elsewhere. So you need to be careful about that. Praying to dead saints is an abomination. It is heretical. None of them died for you. And if you think that God lied, when he tells you that you can go boldly to the throne of grace on your own, we don't have some other mediator but Christ. We've got one mediator. And so if you think otherwise, then you are missing the boat. Matter of fact, you're missing the gospel. You're missing the whole point of this, that we don't need some man-made intermediary such as a priest, Old Testament priests, not even one of these fake priests in these other churches. That's not what you need. If you think you need that, then you've missed Jesus. So how about someone, not you, my friend, not you, but others who think this way. How about you either get acquainted or reacquaint yourself with Jesus? And then you realize you don't need anyone else. Why would you pray to someone else? Why in the world would I ever, hey, hey, excuse me, can you please tap that billionaire right there and ask him, he's giving away money. Can you tap him on the shoulder and ask him a question for me when I could just, hey, move out the way and ask him myself? What's the same thing with Jesus? Even more. So why would I ask someone to talk to Jesus for me when I can do it? That makes absolutely no sense. That is, you know, ask not you, not you, not you. But for anyone that believes this, you know, asinine that he is to want to have someone talk to Jesus on your behalf when you know for a fact you can. What is a dead saint going to do? Where do, where do we get that from? Nowhere in scriptures. So therefore don't do that. Don't do that. Amen. Amen. And amen. All right. Next one. Is it possible for believers to go to hell? It is impossible for someone who is believing who has, who is believing in a state of believing to go to hell. It is impossible because one, they place their faith in the one thing that will stop them from going to hell. That is a debt being paid. If they believe that the debt was paid, that is Christ on the cross, then what was in the hell? There no longer is a debt. That's why in Hebrews he says there is no longer a sacrifice for sin because I've placed my faith in the only sacrifice for sin. Now, if I reject that sacrifice of sin, then there is no longer any sacrifice available, which is what Hebrews is actually speaking of. So no, a true believer cannot go to hell ever. Okay. Let me see what this is about. We all know Matthew 24, 36 and Mark 13, 32. Since our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ spoke these words prior to his death, burial and resurrection, now seated at the right hand. Huh? Okay. I think you just make, you make a statement because I don't. Um, so could Jesus now know the day of, and his hour of his return, the day of Christ, since the solar, since 4824 solar eclipse signs of the Jews, there have been wild storms, earthquakes about, there haven't been any more than normal, but there are going to be more. So, but to your question, I wouldn't, don't worry too much about the eclipse. Don't worry too much about the eclipse. Rather worry about if you are ready when he returns. And if you should die before then, if you're ready, but does, to your question, does Jesus know when I'm pretty sure he does. When Jesus makes this statement that no one knows a time or hour, a couple of things were there. Jesus and both, both are possible. Jesus was not saying he doesn't know in the sense that I have no idea. It could be that he's pointing you to the, to the father, to God, or also at the same time as possible is this voluntary veiling of himself. He did not know. Remember, he chooses to pull, to put down some of his godly prerogatives and he can pull it back up at any point in time. Because we see times where Jesus knows things that we don't know. And so now he is where in heaven, he's with the father. So obviously he knows everything. So I think whatever, whatever, however you take that passage to be, clearly he knows now. Amen. Okay. Okay. When Jesus uses the us in Matthew 3 15, when talking about fulfilling all righteousness, was he referring specifically to himself and John? Or was it in reference to all beliefs in general? So let's go to Matthew 3 15. What did you say? Yeah, Matthew 3 15. Okay. But Jesus was answering permitted at this time for in this way it is fitting for us to hold on. Let's back up. I've got to back up. Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan. Oh, okay. This one needs to be baptized coming to John to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent him saying, I have need to be baptized by you and do you come to me? But Jesus answering him said him permitted at this time for it is for it is in this way. It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permitted him. And so the question is, what is he? Well, what is he referring to? Let's go to the, let's see. Let's do something real quick. Okay. No, that's not it. That's not that's not so much it. Hold on. I'm trying to see. Wait a second. Let's go back to that. Hold on. That might be. No, I was trying to see. I thought that maybe this particular passage might refer us to him coming previously and it being foretold. We don't really have specifics about him saying, hey, you need to be baptized for it for this particular reason. We know that that John is coming to make straight the way. Didn't say the Old Testament doesn't tell us exactly how that's being done. We see it how it's being done now. But John is going to proclaim him. And so the only way that John can proclaim what he's going to do is that as he says in John one, the one who sent me told me basically how I will know that Jesus is when now obviously John knows John the Baptist knows who the one is. One is his cousin too. He clearly demonstrates in Matthew three that he knows who he is because he says, I need to be baptized by you. But to make extra sure, to be extra sure, the one who sent him, God has told him. Now we don't have it in scriptures where God at the moment that God told him what's going to happen. But we're told by John that when he baptizes him, he will know definitively that this is the one because the Spirit will descend on him and then a voice from heaven that is God the Father will speak and say, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased. And so that happens. And so what does John now have? John has a testimony to speak to the people. So now when Jesus shows up, he can say like he did with the disciples with Andrew, particularly who is Peter's brother and others says, look the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Now, obviously these things are prophesied. So as he says about all unrighteous, put this up to fulfill all righteousness. Well, how is this righteousness going to be fulfilled? Now it's not for everybody, but everyone that's going to eventually become right in righteousness and for God. Well, remember the Bible tells us in the Old Testament what Jesus or what's going to happen that he is going to send someone to be an atonement for the people. How so? By not just being the Lamb that takes away sin, but the one that pays the debt for sin. So the debt is paid and then we'll have a mediator, not like a high priest, a man as a high priest will have a greater high priest. And so in that regard, all John is doing, speaking of, and Matthew is referring to it, is all righteousness being fulfilled in Jesus and what he's about to do. Amen. All right, let me hold on. Let me grab. I just saw this. Who is my favorite preacher? I don't have a favorite preacher. I actually moved away from that. I actually moved away from having a favorite preacher. I really don't have a favorite preacher. For me, I noticed that it wasn't dangerous, but when you have a favorite preacher, it's hard to have a problem with that favorite preacher. It's hard to look and say, yeah, he's right. It's hard because emotionally you're invested in this. Man, this guy is that he's awesome. Now, you don't want to also go to the other extreme to where you can't stand any preacher. You have a problem. You have a disdain with anybody. No, no one can get it right and so forth. No. So I really, I honestly don't have a favorite preacher. I really don't. Maybe one day. No, I take it back. No, all my favorite preachers are dead. They're in the Bible. Now, here's a better question. What's the prophetic word for the cults this year? Super Bowl. No, I don't know. Hopefully a step forward. I'm waiting to see what we're going to do in this draft coming up. I am so waiting to see what we're going to do. So anyway, good to get a good football question in. Good to get a good football question. I'm marking a few more questions, guys, as we as we move. By the way, trade, trade, Chaplain Pastor trade. You have my number. The reason why you have it is because you can call me. I can promise you've waiting for me to call you. I intend to call you, but it's going to be a minute. But if you call me, I'll do one of two things. I either won't answer it or I'll answer it. If I don't answer it, I'll call you back. Eventually, eventually. So, or you can just text me. No problem. Do you know what I listen? Do you know what, what, what, what, what a chest chant with Brian L. Chance had to go through to get my phone number? Yeah, listen, it was hard for it. I gave it to you a lot easier than I gave it to him. It was hard for him. He had to go through. He had to fill out an application form. We had to do a background report, all that stuff, just to, yeah, so it took took him a while. So anyway, and he he's going to say something in a second. He's going to say something in a second. So anyway, back to answering questions. I did see Michelle ask this question earlier. So let me go ahead and ask this question. I listened to a debate regarding justification. The guy who argued that faith was enough for justification stated that the 10 Commandments were a part of the law in the New Testament Jesus spoke of. Okay. The justification, it would help to know what justification is. It is to be declared right and to be treated as such. Now, declared right by who and treated as such by who is the issue? I can declare you right. I listen, you're in right standing with me and I'm going to treat you that way, but it doesn't do any good. You don't, you don't want my justification, but that's why Paul says in Romans, it is God who justifies. Sometimes we go a little too deep, a little too far in trying to figure out, you know, again, let's just deal with what the words mean. And so it's almost like when they talk about generational curses, which there are none anymore, because they're, because we see that abolished. Jeremiah is telling us that it's going away. But what happens is if you take what the word curse means, it just simply means to be thought of lowly or esteemed light and so forth. I don't regard you in a good way. Well, it, it, that doesn't matter depending upon who it is. Let's say, for example, somebody doesn't like you. Well, guess what? It depends on who somebody is. If the somebody is the United States of America, you got a problem, right? If the somebody is, I don't know, the state of California, the state of Texas, the state of Missouri, they don't like you, they're looking for you. That's a problem. That's a problem. If the little girl, the little girl scout cookie seller, the little drug dealer girl scout cookie girl, if she's looking for you, not so much a problem. Now she's going to get you back to your addiction, but still, if God has cursed you, that's different because nowhere in the scriptures do we see that from anyone else. That's different. If God has justified you, who can bring a charge against you? And that's where the argument begins and ends. The argument begins and ends on who is the one that's doing the justification. Well, in this case, in our case, it's God. There is no longer a debt. We're in right standing. Who's going to bring a new charge against us? Nobody. So, oh, and so I guess to that point, there's, I don't think there's a need to bring up anything regarding the, the 10 commandments. If you are a believer in Christ, you are going to fulfill what the 10 commandments were after, what the, what the law is after. All that stuff is to point you to have faith and a walk with, with the Lord. But because you now have this spirit, that's what's going to happen. Nothing can defile the marriage bed. It's not that nothing can defile the marriage bed. Obviously, you bring some other folks in there. That's defiling the marriage bed. That's the, we, we had this conversation before about the pets getting in the bed. I, I hate pets in the bed. I hate pets in the bed. And I remember saying that defiles the marriage bed. Get these, get these creatures, these critters out of here. Yeah. But the cat, he didn't care. The first time we got him, he was jumping on them. We got rid of him, throw him out, but he comes back. He'll wait till you're good to sleep. So, but what can defile the marriage bed? Obviously sin can defile. If what you're doing in the marriage bed is sin, someone who ain't your wife or someone on, on plus your wife or plus your husband, yeah, that's sin. Those are the things that can defile the marriage bed because those are sin. Amen. So, in terms of now what you guys do, we'll leave it there. But if, if you bring someone else in or someone sin and you, and you bring in the judgment of God, yeah, because it ain't just a marriage, the marriage bed, that's defile. Now it's, it's, it's you. If it's impossible, this is piggybacking off his question. What about first John 315? What about first John 315? Let's go to it. First John 315. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murder has eternal life of Biden, him. Well, amen. What you don't want to do people to avoid, people to avoid, what you don't want to do is ascribe these things to what a believer is. Now he tells us that as a matter of fact, let's, let's stay there. Let's go to first John. Say in first John, let's go to five, first John five. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. So if you were born of God, then you must believe that he's a Christ. Okay. Now notice what it says. Again, in this coup, every, you keep looking at this word, you keep showing up, all of the believing ones, pos, epistle, all the believing ones in Christ, because of Christ is the Christ. I'm glad Jesus is the Christ of God. They've been born act to fail, get, get a tie. They have been born. And he says, and whoever loves the father loves a child born of, of him. So here's why this is important. If you hate your brother, you can't love your brother. That makes sense, right? You cannot hate your brother and love your brother. So the one who hates his brother, he's not saved. Where is he going to hell? Now, today, nowadays, folks want to say, well, I love you. I love you. That's the reason why I'm talking like I'm doing. I love, if I didn't love, I wouldn't tell you this. Yeah. Okay. We all know what loves, what loves, love feels like. We all know what hate feels like and been thoroughly acquainted with what hate feels like. So you can't just tell me, because you're calling me all sorts of names and just smack them upside the head and you do all these things like that. And every time you get an opportunity, hey, did you see what she did and she's this and that, whatever. And that, but you love me. Okay. Love me differently. Yeah. Oh, okay. I thought that was a question. That was a question. That was a statement. I have a question. Ephesians 411. Since Christ gave apostles and prophets as gifts, why would you say there are no more if we are not in the unity of our faith? Okay. So the question is in Ephesians 411. Let's go there. Ephesians 411. And here's what she's, what she's speaking of. And he gave some of the apostles and some of the prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastor teachers. That's the word pastor teachers. So it's, it's regarding the same one. Okay. There is no definite article separating the two. And so what we have, make sure. Yeah. So what we have are pastor teachers. So we got four different offices that are mentioned here for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the service to the building up of the, of the body of Christ until this word, nekri, until, or leading up to, we all attain the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man. Now a couple of things. As he said, he's going perpetually give prophets and apostles. Let me ask a question. Is what he gave in terms of the prophets and the apostles, isn't that sufficient enough? Name the apostle today. And I want you guys, and this is not just for you, Teresa, but this is for other folks. Name the apostle today that does better than what the apostles, if you assume that there are apostles and prophets today, name the one that is on the same level as Paul, Peter. Name the one. There are none, right? So we have the valid witness going back to this whole issue of inspiration. We have their words. He gave, he gave us the apostles and the prophets, not because they were special. He gave us them to utilize them for the words of God. Again, what they affirm is what God affirms because what they affirm, though, their words, not them and other of themselves. Paul, aside from these scriptures, he's a regular person with the Holy Spirit, a regular Christian. But when God is working through him to give us these scriptures and using the lead, well then that's different. Okay? So does that mean that everything that Paul would do or Indian apostles would do is God ordained? Absolutely not. If that were the case, then there would be no need for God to have to humble Paul with this thorn in the flesh. There would be no need for Paul having to rebuke Peter. They would still have the occasion to do wrong. Paul says so. So this issue of the building up of the body, well, didn't he give us Christ on the cross for the building of the body? Well, he's not going to keep giving us those. And oh, by the way, this is past tense. So what he did, he's speaking of what he did to give us to the building up of the body, what they didn't have again. And remember, speaking about the fact that there is no Bible at this point in time in Ephesians, we don't have a lot of writings. And then what we do have, we don't have a lot of copies to go around. And so you've got these people that are giving these utterances, these words, and make them think about it, guys. Prophets in that day, just like we see in the Bible, the overwhelming majority of prophets and prophecies are forth-telling, not foretelling. They're not, the Lord is going to do this in 20 years or in five years. Today, we think that that's what prophets are, you know, we got a lot of false prophets to do that. But the point is, we need folks to give us the Word. What were the apostles doing? Giving us the Word. What were the prophets at that time that the Foundation of Churches put upon them? Giving us the Word. Now, notice, incidentally, that we don't see any more calling for prophets or apostles after the ones that we have. Now, we do see a call for and qualifications for pastors and for us to be evangelists or for us to be evangelists, but we don't see that as far as detailing what a prophet should be or an apostle should be and so forth, and that we see the criteria for them and that there are no more. So we can't have it both ways. We can't have it to where we're giving the criteria of an apostle. And in giving the criteria of the apostle, they must have seen and been with Jesus. But then we've got apostles today who have not seen Jesus. They haven't even, they haven't even seen the 1970s or the 60s, much less Jesus. And so they can't be. And then, and same thing with the prophets. So all right, ladies and gentlemen, let me move forward. Thank you, Cheshire. Yeah, I'm not avoiding questions on purpose. There are a lot of questions. There are 30 something questions that I have marked and I haven't even marked all your questions in the chat. I'll try to get to them. I'll try to get to them. I'll try to get to them. To my best. Let me mark a few more as I'm going. Okay, next question. Here is, I think we covered this before. I think we covered this before, but let's go, let's go to this passage. This is, if you make a vow, don't break your vow. That's the point. Judges 11. Now obviously, these titles that you see above, these are not inspired, but it says, Jeb, uh, Jephthah's tragic vow. Now the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, uh, so that he passed through Gilead, uh, and Manasseh, then he passed through Misfai and Gilead. Let me just move forward down. He said, Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, if you will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from those sons of Ammon, uh, it shall be the Lord's and I will offer it up as a burnt offering. A couple of things. One, God didn't tell him to do that, but we talked about this before. One of the things that God holds you accountable to just like he does himself to your words. You remember when, um, Jacob's boys made a vow, they were lying because they thought they were defending their sister's honor, but the reason why we have the separate not passing through Judah is because two of the boys did something wrong. They, God is not comfortable. He does not like you going back on your word. Don't give it. It's all you. All you got is your word. You don't have anything else you you don't. And so he's bound by his word. Now he was honorable in what he did, but it was a rash vow. God didn't tell him to do so. And so because he did so he, he did it. Now me, me, if I were his daughter, she said, well, let me just, let me go take care of a few things. No daddy, you can go see me again. Jeff, I would have came to the kitchen table and we'll saw a letter. Daddy, I'm gone. It's nice knowing you. I'll see you if I ever see you again. So yeah, or he can't outrun me. He can't outrun me. So, but it was a rash vow. It was not what God told him to do, but he's going to honor his word and he was, he was sad. He was, and don't we do that sometimes too? We do nothing like that, but we do similar things where we make these vows. Just let your yes be yes, your no be no. God, I promise you if you give me out of trouble this time, I won't, I'll never forget this guy. He was, he was always making fun of, of, of, of me and the Bible and this and that. And I said, all right, whatever. At some point in time. And so I never forget one day he came to my cell and he was outside the cell. I was talking to somebody. I was rebuking somebody for speaking in tongues. No, I'm kidding. But I was talking to someone and, and he was outside at the entrance and I could just look and see and say, I could see something was wrong with him. He was, he was, when I say destroy, he was destroyed. He was barely holding together. So the guy said, let me, let me hold him for a second. So he came in and he came in and he just, just broke out crying. His, his son and his son's mother were in a real bad traffic accident. And he didn't know that they were going to make it. It didn't look good. And he just said, you know, well, listen, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. He said, I don't, he said, I don't know the Lord. I don't know. He called him the Lord. He called him the Lord. So I said, well, let's just pray. Let's just pray. So we prayed. And his vow was, Lord, if you, I promise, he said, man, I promise, I promise on my mama, on God, if you, if you save my son, I will, I'll go to church and I'll, and I'll serve you. All right. So I said, well, let's just pray. So we prayed. And his son made another, now the child's mother didn't make it, but the son is fine. And he came back. He was so happy, man. Thank you so much. Thank you, man. Everything, everything's good. I said, now, you know, listen, buddy, it is time to ante up. When you come to church, let's come on. Let's, let's just go over the Bible. No, and he kept put it out. I said, all right. I said, listen, I don't know how it's going to work out for you. I don't know how it's going to work out for you. He said, I said, but that was your word. You're not even going to honor your own word. And, and you made this vow for the sake of your own child. Now, did God move because of that? I don't know. But what we do know between me and you, the angels and heaven is you and your word are no good. You and your word is no good. So I don't know what happened to him. After, after I left Beaumont and went to another place, I don't know what happened to me. He wasn't, he wasn't that good. But God matter of fact, we almost, almost beat him up one day whole another story. Somebody asked me, I've never gotten to fight, never gotten to fight in prison. But he thought someone was laughing at him and something like that. And he said something about me. And I said, listen, let me just give you a second to back up because I promise you, you don't, I'll back you up. And he moved back and so forth. He was having a bad day. Red Bull isn't good for you. I know it's not good for you. My daughter tells me that too. I know. But right now, listen, I got a paper due. I got some other stuff to do. And so this Red Bull is going to get me through the night. Red Bull prayer and these grandkids. We also have the grandkids tonight. They're spending the night tonight and man, listen, between the grandkids, the cat, the cat is something else. Y'all have no idea this cat, the grandkids, the cats, my daughters are old enough. So they have to stay out of the way. My wife, I'm pretty sure she's going to be tired. Well, she should be watching the grandkids. It's going to be rough tonight. So me and this paper and this other stuff and these grandkids, yeah, this Red Bull is going to come in handy. I'm going to treat this Red Bull as though the Lord sent it down from heaven. He didn't, but I thought I'm going to treat it. When the Lord Jesus is sending into Sio and freed the captors, what kind of gift do you think he gave me? And I think that, oh, well, wait a second. You asked me a good question. Let me ask you this question, Chess. Let me ask you this question. What kind of gift do you think? Or even better yet, what kind of questions do you do? I mean, what kind of gift do you other guys think? What kind of coffee do I use? I use Folgers. If I can get me some Keefy coffee from prison. Listen, that was some good coffee. It was cheap. It was good. But what kind of gift do you all think? What do you all think that thinks? What kind of gifts do you guys think that he left? Think about what he said he's going to do. Remember, this is why I say guys, by the way, I want you all to do this. I want you all, I'm going to start trying to remind you guys as much as possible. The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup. He's old. You've got to be old to remember that. But I want you guys to remember the story that's being told. From Genesis to Revelation, God didn't do enough about a bow to face it. Wait a minute. Stop. No. This is why I said before and I'm on your question, Brian. But we talked about issues with Israel and the church and so forth and folks today act as though God is I'm through with Israel. No, he's not. Follow the story. He's carrying things forward. He's making things and he's going to deal with Israel. He's going to deal with the Gentile believers. Follow the story. So as we get to this other part of the story, what did Jesus tell us he was going to do? He told us that he's going to die, that the helper is going to come after he dies. And so is it possible that that's who he's speaking of? I think so. I think so. Is Jesus God? If he ain't God, we ain't safe. More to the point. If you don't believe he's God, he's not safe. You're not safe unless you believe that he's the I am. You will die in your sins according to Jesus. So yeah, he is God. He is God. The past month I have given up on my faith as things have been really bad and I feel like God has just abandoned me and doesn't care about me. I've been so angry at God was I never saved begin with. Now I can't ask the question as to whether you have, whether you were ever saved. And even sometimes there are times when people feel like they have given up on their faith and they haven't. They have, they're in a state of anger and remorse or disbelief. But I can promise you this. He hadn't abandoned you. You know how I know he hadn't abandoned you or to the point how I know he hadn't even given up on you is because two things. One, you're still thinking about him, but even more to the point you're right here. It can feel like that. Excuse me. It can feel as though everything is spiraling out of control. Things are happening over here. Things are happening over there. And Lord, why aren't you fixing it? Now it could be. Now I don't know. I would suggest you find some, some woman, some godly woman, maybe someone who doesn't know you to speak to you because it might be something that you're doing often. A lot of times I'm not saying issue, but more likely it is things that we're doing and we're not comfortable with the outcome. And we think that what's happening is, is reflection on God and his love towards us. No, let me put it this way. God is patient. He is patient with you. He's been patient with me. And I can promise you where you are now is not as low as some people have been. And I can promise you this. If you allow him to bring you out, you'll think about this. Where you are right now, you'll be able to look back on that with a smile. Grateful that he brought you through taking, taking account of what he's done for you, bringing you through. You'll say, listen, I don't want to, I wouldn't go through that again. But what I've learned from it, I wouldn't change. I wouldn't change for the world. I know I've gone through some stuff and what I went through, I wouldn't listen. I wouldn't change it for the world. Nope. I don't want to. I wish I hadn't gone through it, but it's grown me. I've lost some things. I've been through some stuff. I've been stepped on, kicked on. Sometimes I threw myself under the bus. So the bus driver can ride over me. I've done all sorts of things and I've done all sorts of things. And there are times where it feels like Lord, what is going on here? What do you, what have you done? But he hadn't left you. So what you do is you do well in your well-doing. As he says in Galatians, as a matter of fact, here's my King James version. Be not weary and well-doing for in due season, you shall reap a reward. It might not seem like it's coming, but it's coming. But what you need to do first and foremost in terms of your faith, do you, Tanya, do you believe that Jesus Christ died for you? Do you believe that this Jesus Christ, who is the Lord, who is the Lord, who is God, thought enough of you to pay a debt that you couldn't pay? Now that doesn't mean that he paid a debt that you couldn't pay so that you could live happily ever after with no problems on the planet. No, that's not what he said. It's going to get bad for us nationally, globally, and also individually. So all you can do is all you can do. There are going to be situations, but you prove your faith, you prove who you are by still remaining with him through it all. Because just like the apostles, the disciples, were distraught in the boat, Jesus was in the boat with him. And that's what you have to fix your mind, your focus on the right thing, not the wrong thing, not the stuff around you, not the storm, not the winds, not the waves, not the boat being tossed in the back, no. Feast your eyes on the part of the boat where Jesus is at. Now think about it. If Jesus is calm, if Jesus is relaxed, matter of fact, in this case, he will sleep. That should tell you, that should give you a better appraisal of the situation. He hadn't left you. He's there. And I've been through that, but even more to the point, Paul can tell you. Paul says, again, we despair even of life itself. How bad is it? Now Paul, the apostle Paul, we despair of life itself. It's bad out here. And Paul starts talking about how, pardon me, I just want to leave. I would just rather leave. As a matter of fact, leaving, that would benefit me. But staying, that would benefit you. And so Paul, don't get twisted. Paul was not fond of this world. He was fond of the people in the world. And so we all get these things that come at us. But Tanya, I believe, and I don't even know you, but I believe you got all that you need to make it through. Now, you can make this an easy trip or you can make it a rough trip. How do you make an easy trip? By drawing closer to him. You can keep him at arm's distance and the trip will be that much harder, more difficult. Amen. So I tell you what you can do. If you need a female to talk to, send me an email and then I will get you in touch with somebody. Amen. Let's go back to these questions. I saw one of them just a second ago. I want to answer this question. Where is it? Where did it go? Where did it go? Well, let me just answer that. This wasn't the one I was looking for. But did you learn Hebrew and Greek in prison? Mostly in prison. You know what was funny? I started learning Hebrew first. And then my Hebrew has gotten, has gotten rushed and gotten behind on my Greek. As a matter of fact, I looked up one day and said, I haven't, I've got to get back into my Hebrew. I went, when they put me in the shoe, I went, I went months without reading Hebrew. Because I didn't have, I didn't have access to it. They took all my property and so forth. So I didn't have access to my, to my books. I did have, you all see this right there, this blue book, the, right there. That's the NA 28. That's the Greek New Testament with the apparatus, critical apparatus. I had that. I was able to, you can get your Bible while you're in, in the shoe. I said, well, that's the one I want. He's like, I don't, don't look like a Bible. Well, it's because you don't read your Bible. You know, I'm telling the officer that, but it is, but I couldn't, I didn't get, I didn't have one that had the Hebrew in it. And he couldn't find, this is the one that I wanted to get. The one I said that has the, the Hebrew and Greek in it. I didn't have that one. And so I went months and months and months and months without reading any Hebrew. And what was funny is while I was there, an actual Greek scholar shows up at the prison to become a chaplain. He's a pastor now, but he's, but he's one of the ones that he co-authored or edited whatever with Dr. Daniel Wallace, revisiting the corruption of the Greek New Testament. Weird name for a book. And so God placed me in front of an actual, an actual honest of goodness Greek scholar. And so that helped me out a lot. There were some Jews on the compound who were fluent in it and could speak either, you know, modern Hebrew as well as Old Testament, biblical, Masoretic Hebrew. They didn't like me as much though because you're a Christian, huh? So that was the problem. But that's where I began learning. And so right now, when I, when I read Hebrew, I look at it and I have to, I have to take my time with Hebrew with Greek. I'm a whole lot better. That's really where I learned, but I've been going back into it ever since then. And so I've got more, more stuff. So what I do now is I just read it. I don't read as Hebrew as natural as I used to, but you got to sit and just read a text and okay, okay. I see what he's saying. That's where he's going. So yeah, let's see. Where was it? Where was the dog on question? I just saw it. Maybe I didn't mark it. Okay. Like I said, it wasn't worth the question. I saw a question. The question was asking, um, is suicide a sin? If you're going to say it is, you've got to have a biblical verse to go with it. So is suicide a sin? Well, as a matter of fact, let me ask you guys in the chats, do you guys think, and I keep hitting this microphone, do you all think that suicide is a sin? Is it a sin that can't come around? You can't, you can't, if you commit suicide, that's it. What do you all think? I'm interested to know what you guys think. Do you think suicide is, is it an unpardonable sin? We're only told that it's one, only one unpardonable sin. Is it the unpardonable sin? Is it that amount of that? So what do you guys think? You all think that, that, that, uh, suicide is a sin? Well, I'm sorry, that suicide sends you to hell. Can you go to, can you commit suicide and still end up going to heaven? The answer is no, suicide does not send you to heaven. There are going to be people that are going to say, you can't repent of that. Remember, remember, repentance does not mean that you, um, have apologized for all of your sin. And for the person that thinks that you have to apologize for all of your sin is the person that thinks that they don't have that meaning to apologize for. But I can promise you, I can promise you, yeah, Paul said do yourself no harm, but he wouldn't say that you're going to hell if you do. I can promise you, you got some sin that you're going to die of, that you won't be able to say, Lord, forgive me for this sin. There are going to be some sins you're going to die of that you won't say that. There are some sins you don't even think about, but go ask your spouse, go ask your kids, go ask your neighbor, go ask your coworker, um, about some sins that you don't think that you commit, that you don't know of. And those sins that you don't know of, or the ones you do know of it, that's not how this works, ladies and gentlemen. If you have to repent after every single sin, wow, you don't have time for anything else. If every time you sin, you have to repent after every sin in order to make it in heaven, well then what was your initial faith for? That's not how that works. To repent means you have to have a heart that's repentant, means that your heart is grieved by sin, even the sin that you're going to, that you're going to commit later. I don't like sin. I hate my sin. I hate your sin. I hate all sin. I don't even like videos that have sin in it. So if a person commits suicide, they're just a straw. Does that mean that person has forfeited their faith in Christ? What if they're to the point where they're in a, they have stage four cancer? This is it. This is it. They prayed and prayed and prayed and that's that. And they're in pain and they're, they're, you know, I'm ready to go be with the Lord. That's what I can't wait for. So let me go ahead and do what I can to end it and hasten my arrival to be with the Lord. Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. The Lord would say, you can't come in because you killed yourself. Ultimately who kills themselves? Who ultimately who takes life? Who takes a life? Ultimately, it's God. He gives life and he takes life. So is it right to commit suicide? No, no, it's not right to commit suicide. But if you're going to say that a person goes to hell for committing suicide, find the passage. So what nullifies or what fixes all of this is the passage. So I'll wait for the passage and anyone and it's fine unless we can disagree, but, but let's disagree with the scriptures. So you're going to have to give me a passage that says, that says, that says that this is a sin that, that sends you to hell. You won't find one. You won't find. Let me ask you guys a question. If you are a believer in Christ and that believer in Christ lies. Does he go to hell? If that, and I'm looking at the chest, I'm looking for a scripture. And I just tell you, you can save your, your, your thumb page and turning. You can save it because there is, there just is none. There just is no passage that says so. Well, is murder a sin? Well, yet murders a sin. Does murder vitiate your faith in Christ? Let's say Peter's sword would have landed one inch further over. Peter, you can't go to heaven. You killed the guy. Well, Jesus, I killed him, but you're right there. You could have brought him, brought him back to life. I'm not, and I don't want you to leave here thinking Corey says suicide is, I'm not, someone's going to say Corey says suicide is okay. I'm not saying suicide is okay, but it does not send you to hell. Yeah. Judas hung himself, but that's not why Judas went to hell. Judas didn't go to hell for, for hanging himself. Judas went to hell because he was unbelievered. He would remember the Old Testament tells us that he is a wicked person. They, so to appoint a wicked man. He was never saved. That's why, that's why Judas went to hell. So again, suicide is not okay. Suicide is not okay, but if a person commits suicide and you say that person went to hell, I'm going to ask you, I'm going to challenge you, find the past, find the passage. Amen. Can you earn God's love? No, you cannot earn God's love. Now, he bestows his love on you. He shows his love, and I'm going to put it this way, kind of in a generic sense towards the world, but also intently towards his, towards those at a place of faith in Christ. Those that he's also, that he's also regenerating and so forth, that he's working in them. He shows his love, but you can't earn his love. What are you going to do? What do you do to merit his love? Now, he said, we're told that we end up loving him. Was that causing him to love us? No, because he loved us first before we first loved him. So, anyway, Gerard Perry says, he's asking, Chestnut says that I'm curious how to see this, what is meant by his own place. And that's a, that's a quoting from Psalms, his own places where he is going to be buried by himself, ultimately, others are going to be there, but he takes his money to buy this land, or he didn't take it, but the land is purchased for him, and so that no one will be there. And that's kind of what what Haldakba is, that's spoken of in Acts. I think it's Acts one, somewhere around Acts 20, between 2026, somewhere in that area. I'm in the Bible study class, and the instructor teaches that we are spirits with flesh. I believe the opposite. So you believe that we are flesh with spirits. Can you help me to understand this? I want to go too far into it, but go into this trichotomy and dichotomy, soul and spirit and so forth. But let's just say you're both, you are flesh and you are spirit. Now, there's going to come a point in time where the flesh that you have, which is all you've ever known, which is all your spirit has ever been in or existed. Though he knew you, that wasn't together, that there was no coherent thought or any life in either one of them until they, until they became married. Now, how does that work? You have to ask God. There's going to come a point in time where you will be separated from that, from where your flesh and skin, I'm sorry, your flesh and your spirit will be separated. There's going to, that point in time is going to come. Okay. Now, when that happens, if you are a believer in Christ, you're going to get a new one of these. If you're not a believer, well, no bueno, no bueno being you. So, let me answer this question. I just saw this question. Why are there Christians who eat pork when Jesus himself didn't do it? Well, did Jesus tell us not to do it? Again, we want to use the scriptures. We talked about this the other day about when Christians, when eating, now, I don't know if you guys are older, but it used to be special. It used to be an occasion to eat with somebody. That used to be the thing. Eating with somebody meant something. You didn't just have any old body over your house. Matter of fact, if there is a brother of yours who has this certain sin named among him, you're not even supposed to eat with him. Why? Because you are in Tadamot, you're Tadamot giving a proof to that person. So, when it comes to pork and certain things that are, that are deemed that the Jews should not eat in the Old Testament, notice how the Lord frames those things. He says they are unclean to you. Unclean to you. What, did God change his mind? No. The whole point in the New Testament, when he says that what I've called, what I've claimed, I'm calling in common, he's using this example of food, is because the issue wasn't so much the food. Again, he was the one that created the animals. The issue was these other people over here, they eat that stuff. So, you can't eat this stuff because if so, I know you guys are, are, are disobedient. I don't want you going to their house and eating. Now, if they want to come to your house, they will be under your rules, your God versus you going to their house around and sent around their God. Big difference. Big difference. You, you're at the dinner table and you got this big statue of Baal. You got a picture like, you know, like black folks used to have in the, in the 70s, 60s and 70s growing up, you got a picture of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr. and white Jesus, but you got a picture of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Baal. Whereas you come the other way, you got a picture of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr. and white Jesus or black Jesus. But the point is it's quite a different, difference to be around the God, the true God and the people who are supposed to be supporting that versus the people that are supporting Baal. Are you with me? And now you guys got me thinking about Baal. We just bought some bacon too. So, you got me thinking about some bacon. Yes. Anyway, is journaling your prayers as effective as verbally praying? It could be. I don't think one is necessarily, you're sitting and writing it down. There is something to writing something. I mean, and all teachers will say, listen, when you, you learn better and you recall something and you kind of keep something if you write it as well, because you're not only just using one train of thought, your mind, but you're also involved in your senses, your hand and in your eyes. You may even say it out loud. So now you're getting your mouth involved and so forth. So that, that does help. That could be a good thing. I don't tend to journal because men with bald heads, we don't journal. We're too tough for that. So ladies, journal and men with hair journal. I'm sorry. I could, I could not resist. Maybe I'll start journaling. David comes back and says, yeah, Satan Lucifer is the music angel or the minute. Okay, that's fine, David. Listen, you're more than welcome to say that you're entitled that, but you have to give us a scripture. Guys, I don't, I don't know. I don't get why we just don't get the importance of the scriptures. I don't know why we don't get the importance of a scripture. Listen, listen, this last mistake. He says that's a myth. Bald guys aren't tough. Well, go ask those kids that, that insulted Elisha. Go ask them, mister. That's what you do. Very, can you, can you, can you explain to this man? The berries bald, very, listen, I know, I don't even, I've never been to this house, never talked to him, but I'm pretty sure he buried, buried in the journal, buried in the journal. Anyway, now I'm pretty sure senior kind of read journals. Yeah. He, I know he's, he's as journaling as, where is the Bible verse that Jesus bald? Remember Jesus humbled himself and came down in a lower form. He came down in a lower form like, like you, like, like you low men. Yeah. He came down in a lower form. So he had to have hair. I better quit. I better quit. I better quit. Anyway. Okay, let's move quickly. Question. If we have apostles and prophets today that God speaks to, does that mean the Bible is not complete? Do they think that they should add, should be added since, well, they'll say no, but when God speaks, how God speaks, when God speaks, it's still God speaking. So if it's God speaking in the Old Testament or God speaking in the New Testament, if there was ever a way which it can't be to record what God spoke of before there was an earth, what God will speak of after everything is all said and done, what God would speak in late in the midnight hour, what have you, if it's from God, it's from God. And it's all at the same level. It's authoritative. It's true. It's powerful. So if these apostles today and these prophets today claim to have the same authoritative word from God, then we should be listening to them. And so therefore, that's why that's why we have to regard scripture so highly. And so if they're going to come back and say that what they're doing is just as high as scripture, fine. Fine. Let's do this. I got you, Bernard. I got you. I've got you. I've got it marked. If they're going to say that what they say is on par with scripture, even though they're not going to say that, but if they're going to say it came from God, then by saying it came from God, it is on par with scripture. Fine. Of course, what do you mean? Fine. Yeah, fine. Fine. Let them say that. Let them have that. The moment that you are in error with what you say, why don't you be a genuine and honest person and never speak to anyone publicly again about what God is saying? Take your Bible and read it in silence. Let someone teach you. Since God did an error, there's no error in what he does because we know what the Bible says is what God says. And you're saying what you're saying the same thing God said. God told me, it's why I caution folks, be cautious about saying the Lord, I sense the Lord moving because him moving, saying that's still him. So be very careful about that. Don't act as though that God gave us his word. That's just one tool. It's just one tool. I can use a socket wrench or a monkey wrench. I can use a hammer. I can use a screwdriver. That's just one. No. So don't let folks diminish the Bible. No, pastors should not use or teach from the message Bible. And I haven't looked at the message Bible in a while. I'm I don't think it's on par with the passion translation, which no one should use. But what you want to do is, you don't want to use these sort of paraphrased Bibles. If I recall, I think it's kind of really what the message Bible is. I haven't seen it in a while and I could be wrong. A Bible that you want to have, I think that when you're up preaching, again, there are two types of Bibles. There are word for word and a thought for thought. There are some that are so fringe thought for thought that they are like paraphrased Bibles. Now, for a child, you know, you get a child, you know, a little four or five year old kid who's learning to read and you give them the little Bible and it's only got a few pages, right? Genesis is vastly, it's not different, but it didn't have a whole lot of detail as actual Genesis, right? Well, when you're in the pool, that's not what you need. I even think that even though I think the NIV is fine in the NLT, I would prefer that the pastor would not use either of those, but instead of using a thought for thought, use a word for word. Here's the reason why. Now, thought for thought can do what a word for word cannot do. A word for word gives you what this is what it says. Let me give you an example. Let me find a passage in the New Testament. Where are we at? Okay. Matter of fact, we just got, we were using Ephesians 411. So a word for word translation, I can, if I'm a pastor, I should be studied enough to know that I want to give these exact words so I can also convey the thought. So, Kai out to Edokan. And he himself also the, indeed, Apostolos, he gave, or he gave some Apostolos, or Apostolos, Tuesday prophetized. So he also gave prophets Tuesday. You are in the least house, which he's also gave. And so now I can give the thought behind the word for word. But if I'm reading a word, a thought for thought Bible, like the NIV or the NLT, it's hard to go back and look at the word. Are you with me? And so I would much rather or prefer that the pastor would have that because it's just, it just, he should already be able to convey the thought of the words. Are you with me? So that's just me. All right, let me go back to, oh, pull this up. If a homeless Christian has a weak moment and steals a bag of chips and subsequently dies without asking for forgiveness, is that person still covered under the blood? Yes. Okay guys, yes. I don't think we're getting it. I'm not saying you don't get it, but, but this, this almost had amount to the same question about suicide. So let me just ask you guys a question and let's, let's just, let's put it on the, on the big board. Let's put on the screen. And so I want to, I want to hear you guys answer. I want to hear your response. Okay. So take a second. There's about a four or five second delay from me saying it to you hearing it. Okay. Now the reason why I want you all just to, just to hold up type and I want, I want to ask you guys a question. Answer this question, ladies and gentlemen. What makes you save? What determines if you go to heaven or hell? Matter of fact, in as few words as possible, what makes you, what sends you to hell? What sends you to heaven? What makes you save? What makes you not saved? In as few a word as possible. Okay. Works, faith, faith in Christ, faith in Christ, faith in Christ. I want to give you all something that I want you all to, what I'm going to tell you, I want you to remember this. And don't you forget it, faith in Jesus, faith and grace, the blood of Christ, God, for destination, believing in Jesus, Jesus. By the way, I think I told you guys before that everything that you guys see on the YouTube chats there, I don't always see over here. So there are sometimes where some messages, some chats don't make it to the software. I don't know what that is. Belief in Jesus, knowing Jesus, believing Jesus, faith in Christ and Pro Cowboys. I haven't seen Jonathan in a while. Hey, Jonathan, how you doing friend? And so you show back up with heresy. He says faith in Christ and Pro Cowboys. No. Mamas again, if you haven't heard anyone tell you this, don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys. I knew the answer. Okay. I'm not saying you but this is a good point, Bernard and BJ. This is a good point for everybody. Blasphemy sends you to hell, belief in Jesus, in heaven, belief in Christ, faith in Christ. I'm looking for this word and I've given you guys this. I have given you guys this and I'm going to give it to you again. And I don't want you to ever forget it. I don't want you guys to ever forget this. It's the same word that sends you to heaven is the same word that sends you to hell. All right. What sends you to heaven or what sends you to hell is your debt. It's just that simple. It's just that simple. Colossians, I think it's 214. And then let's also go to John 1930. Let's put Colossians 214 first. Colossians 214, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. No debt. No debt. Why did Jesus make this statement? He said to Telestai. Jesus, therefore, when Jesus had received the sour wine, hyacinth was at pain to Telestai. Kaiklinas tain kaifaling, which is, he said, this is finished and he bowed his head and he gave up the spirit. When he said to Telestai, it is finished. It's a perfect tense of the word, which means it's a complete action past. What he's speaking of is that the debt that's owed by me, by you and everyone else is canceled. Now, obviously, how is the debt canceled? You've got to have faith in Christ. But when you say, let's just, I'm being facetious here, but let's pretend when you're standing in a line wondering where you're going, you can, you can figure this out. You don't need, you can take the guessing game out. It's not like it's going to be a line. There is not going to be a line when you die. But what determines what line you get in, what determines where you go is, is there still an outstanding debt? Is there an outstanding debt? That's how salvation works. Is there an out, is there anything that I'm owed or that, that, that I owe to God? Now you can't pay what you owed, which is why Christ pays it. So therefore, if you go to hell, it's because you owe a debt. There's an outstanding debt. If you go to heaven, there is no longer an outstanding debt, which is funny because the debt has been literally, the debt has been made available for you. Told you a true story about these kids who were at a restaurant, at a restaurant, and the bill was too large. And they're sitting there wondering what in the world are we going to do? There's an old man sitting there to the side hearing this. He's pulling out his checkbook. One of the kids, one of the kids get up and runs out. Cop grabs him. He just, he just not that bright. Runs into a cop. Cop grabs him, brings him back in, says this guy's, yeah. So he cuffs him, takes him down. What he did know at that very same moment that he was getting up and running was the man was literally talking to the waitress, writing a check to pay it, writing a check to pay it. The other kids that stayed thanked her. The other kid that ran off didn't. Now was, was the whole thing paid for? Yeah. But did the charge stick to him? The charge did stick. The charge did stick. He and the judge said, you owe the debt. What was this tap? He had to pay it. So it's not wrong to ask for our brothers and sisters to pray for us. No, it's not wrong, but it's, it's wrong for them to intercede to Christ for us. We are told we should, we should pray for one another, but we don't go to dead saints. We don't go to Mary. If you're going to give a scripture, if you're going to make the statement, make the statement with the scripture, otherwise we're going to have to ask you to be quiet because all you're doing is giving you opinion. That's all you're doing. You think your opinion or your traditions and your customs usurp the word of God and they just don't. I'm not sure what you're saying. Carl Martin or who you're saying it to, but also stop typing in all caps too. Didn't bother me, but the bothers of moderation. So they say stop typing in caps, all caps. So if a person were to steal some chips, is his debt paid by the Lord? Has he justified them? Who can bring in charge against him? Nobody. And it's, if indeed he actually is a believer. But if he's a believer, he wouldn't steal. Okay. I'm not, I'm not following your question. Since God is love, does that mean unbelievers have love in marriage? I'm not, since God is love, since God is love, does that mean unbelievers have a void even if they, I'm not, I'm, I don't want to say the question. I'm not following. I'm not, I'm not following that. So I'm, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I was saying, were you say before prison or not truly save until after that experience? I was saved before I went to prison. I was without questions saved before. How'd you go to prison? Well, same way you, not you, but same way you do stuff too. It's just what I did got me in prison. That's all. The question is going to be is when you sin, your state, not, not, not your actions, but your state internally is like what now, oftentimes folks can't see what you're, what you're doing. If you're trying to rectify it, if you're broken, if you're grieved, sometimes you sin and you try to fix it. And folks don't see the fact that you're trying to fix it. But yeah, I was, I was definitely saved before that. I was definitely saved before that. Not as safe as I like to be, huh? I wouldn't know. I wasn't. I wasn't. This was where I was leaning on me to fix stuff. No good. No bueno. You know, I did, I did the dumbest thing I could do. I said, Lord, would you just fix this? Would you stop all this? I don't have to keep doing this. I don't want this. The surface happened with the business. I don't want it out of this. I want it over with. Lord, please. Actually, it wasn't like that. They did not go to the door. They did not. I wish that they came in. It was like 30 agents, their guns drawn in an investment firm. We ain't got, we don't have any guns. Why are you pointing guns at me? But oh well. But God answered that prayer. God, Lord, that is not how I wanted you to answer that question. I did not want you to answer that prayer that way. That is not what I want you to do, Lord. I want you to just drop a boatload of money in here so we can take care of this stuff. Do you believe that Old Testament Saints were saved by faith alone? Old Testament Saints were saved by them trusting God. Remember what God has always wanted to do before the law? Listen, in the garden, after the fall, before the flood, after the flood, before the law, during the law, and now he's always wanted you to place your faith in him. And that's what makes you right. Just think about, think about Abel. Abel didn't have a law, but he had faith. So think about Jonah, not Jonah. Think about Noah. Think about Enoch. They had faith. And so that is what keeps us. That's what saves us, which is more biblical. Topical or expository. There is not one that is better than the other. However, let me say that. No, I said that wrong. Topical preaching is not bad. But if all you do is topical preaching, then it is bad because all you're going to do is find yourself preaching to the cares of the world, speaking to people who only want to hear what's happening instead of what was said. Now, if a person is bringing in a lot of topical sermons, he needs to be the pastor, needs to be expository. They need to be expository in nature. Every sermon should be expository in nature. What I try to do, even on these little videos, I try to be as expository as I possibly can be. I try my very best. Someone will say, well, Corey, you're giving too many scriptures, you're making it too complicated. No, I'm giving it as much as I possibly can. Well, in some cases, not always. And because why are you telling me we can't get, it's a possibility of getting too much information? I just look at your profile, pick two. I like that. I've heard that expository is better, but often hear the argument that neither Paul nor Jesus ever used this method. Yeah, they did. Yes, they did. They would say something and then expound on it. They often would refer to what a think about it. They're referring back to Old Testament passages, to Old Testament quotes, to prophecies and so forth, or what was said or what was done. And so they're expounding on what they're saying. When Paul says that I forbid or I don't allow a woman to teach or usurp authority over a man, then what does he do? He expounds them by pointing to what? To Adam and Eve. So, yeah. J Word 08 says, do you feel you were called to preach or teach or both? And how do you know? Well, a couple of things. Do I think that I can preach and do I think that I can teach? In the worst of situations when people didn't want to hear a preacher or a teacher, I got up and preached and taught. And so I would say that validates something, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. But consistently throughout my walk, I've been able to do so. Now, to what level, to what degree I wouldn't say. I'll let others say that. But I think I think the validation is is just that. Let me just say this. I think that the obviously the bulk of what happens on this channel is teaching. The bulk of what happens on this channel is teaching. Now, some folks say, all you do is call it a folk. Well, those folks don't watch this channel. The other channel is, in matter of fact, even more so will be exclusively for a commentary reaction and so forth like that, either biblical or even sometimes social political. But this channel, the over one majority, and it's getting closer to 90% of the videos are teaching. So and I think the fact that this channel in a short amount of time has garnered support and people that come watch to hear the teaching. I think that that speaks that speaks to that. But we'll see the Bible when it talks about someone being a pastor. Now, there is a gift of teaching and you'll never hear me say, I've got the gift of teaching, the gift of knowledge. You won't hear me say that. And I don't think you have to say that. I don't think a person has to brag about themselves or say anything. Again, if you want to know, and I've always said to share this with other people, if you want to be a pastor or a leader, then just look back. Look back. Is anyone following? Well, then you're a leader. Now, what kind of a leader? Look back again and you can see who's following because who's following you determines, let you know what kind of leader you are. And so the people that I think that are over here by and large, not all, but by and large, come to hear the word, even if it's to refute the word or talk about the word, but it's about the word. So when I look and see and you get so many between the two channels, about two million people that will watch or tune in now, obviously some of the same people or two million views or what have you, is word oriented. And you guys, your brothers and sisters in the chats, they're not here for, you know, let's just do something stupid. Let's just, let's just throw holy oil on the computer screen and just say the Lord told me and God is I could do that. And this channel would be at a million subscribers or 500,000 subscribers would have you. And I could do that. And then you would just see folks just sending in money and this and that and let me annoy you. Let me pray. Okay. I could do that, but I'm not going to do that. The people over here want, they desire, like Peter said, the word like babes is our milk. And we're not giving them milk. We're actually going into this stuff. So anyway, all righty, next question. Thank you, Charles. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the super chat. Thank you for the kind words. Angel Quilla says, what do I think about Steven and I don't know a lot about Steven Anderson. I don't, I don't know a lot. So I can't, I know he gets angry. I know he's a bit abusive, but I don't know if the people there love him or not. I have no idea. I don't even know, you know, how his teaching is. So is polygamy a sin? Well, first of all, polygamy is not what God wants. It's not, it's not what God wants. So in that regard, it certainly misses the mark, doesn't it? Now, here's another reason why you would say polygamy is a sin. If you're in a Western culture, the United States of America, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, you're only allowed one. So if you've got more than one, you're breaking the law, which is also a sin. If you are a believer in Christ, have one. Now, if definitely if you're a pastor, you can only have one. So deacon also. So in that regard, if you're violating the law, now does it come out and say that anyone, does the Bible strictly prohibit it? Because some folks want to kind of, you know, I got you the Bible and say, well, no, it doesn't say that you can't have. So if you're in a culture where they allow you to have multiple wives, then knock yourself out. Now, there's a lot to come with that. As Solomon, there's a lot. Matter of fact, as David, matter of fact, as Jacob, it's a lot that comes with that. So, yeah, don't do it. And if you're in America, it's definitely a sin. It is definitely a sin if you're in America. The key key way says, I'm asking Corey, what are you asking me? What are you asking me? I just, I just popped up some less. Let me type it in. The key, okay. You said it's okay to drink. I thought we couldn't drink. So is it okay to drink alcohol? I stopped drinking because I thought it was wrong. Also, how many questions can we ask? You get one, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. You can ask me as you want to now. I may not be able to get to them. So, but let's do this. Let's, let's type in this. This is going to type in the wrong spot. This is going to bother some people. This is going to bother some people, which kind of makes it cool. Since it's going to bother some people, it's going to be all right. Where is it? Let me find this. I think that's it. Is that it? There it is. Luke 7 34. What do you glean from this passage? They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another and say, we played the flute for you and you did not dance. We sang a dirge and you did not a week. Look at what he says. Now, guys, use your observation glasses. Put your observation glasses in the observation hat zone. See what you can observe from these two texts. 33. For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine. And you say he has a demon. So, what does John the Baptist come doing or not doing? Eating no bread and drinking no wine. And you call, you say he has a demon. Look at verse 34. The son of man has come eating and drinking. And you say, behold, a gluttonous man and a drunker and a friend of tax collectors and sinners. Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children. In this case, we see, it seems to say, it seems to say that Jesus did drink wine. The Bible didn't say drinking wine is a sin. You can, you can drink wine. Okay. But you can't get drunk. You can't be controlled with wine. As Paul says, that's dissipation. So, no, you can't get drunk. But drinking? Well, just think about it. If drinking is a sin, then Jesus turned the water into wine. Is Jesus now causing folks to, no. So, it is okay to drink. Now, me personally, I don't drink. I don't like the taste of it. I don't like the taste of it. Although we were little kids, some of you all remember this. We were little boys. Some older man's going to give us some, if you want some beer, you want some beer? I drank my first, I had my first taste of beer. I was four. I was four. I don't know what is wrong. I don't know what's going on with you. I don't know what is going on. Do I reject the first century fathers? Yes, I reject them. I have, I don't have any, I don't have any problems with them, but I don't put any validity in them either. I do not rest on what they say or what they teach or what they believe can be helpful. It can be, it can offer some insight. It cannot offer direction. It can only offer insights. Why is that? Well, some of the first century teachers thought that Jesus died at 50. Some of the first century preachers had a misunderstanding. As a matter of fact, they had varying views of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit was, was not a part of the Trinity. They just thought they were, they were binitarians. They were those that thought that Jesus was spirit only. There's all sorts of thoughts in the early church. Who determined which writers of early, let me ask you a question. How many polycarps writings do we have? We have a little bit, but virtually none. This is John's disciples. So a lot of the writings we don't have. As a matter of fact, do you want to know who has gotten rid of a lot of? Now, this is one that they, they actually have to take this. They have to take the blame for this. Who has gotten rid of a lot of, a lot of the early church writings of the Catholic church has. That's not even, that's not even all that debatable. So yeah. And so why you're trying, I don't know what it is about you and Mary and so forth. Listen, go pray to Mary all you want. And then when you, and then when you're in hell, and I'm saying yes, you're in hell because you want to deify Mary and you want to place her right there with Jesus and you want to bow to her, fine. Have at it. Listen, do what you want to do. Go where you want to go, do what you want to do, but you want to be, I don't care. I do care. That's just part of the song. But no, listen, I don't put credibility into the early church fathers because what ends up happening is now we're going to keep going down the line because we started saying that they are inerrant and inspired. That was the problem with the church. Thinking that the leaders were on par with the scriptures and they are not. That was a whole point. That was a whole point of them breaking away from that corrupt Catholic church. Oh, I said it. I'm sorry. Be upset with me, but that corrupt Catholic church where you put men who are the go between between, and I don't care if it's the Catholic church, the Eastern Orthodox, if you got a man who was a go between between you and God, leave that church. I don't care how, because guess what they don't predate. Neither one of those churches predate the first church that did not have that, that didn't teach that if they come teaching a different doctrine. Now, if you want to give me the scriptures, give me the scriptures. Other than that, listen, and let me just be out as gracious as I can say it. This might not be the place for you because I'm not going to give a whole lot of validity to the early church fathers. Matter of fact, it depends on which early church fathers you believe and how you read them. For example, you all have heard, I won't go too far into this. We'll cover it maybe in a week or two maybe, but this whole belief that the early church fathers did not believe in one saved always saved. But if I show you some scriptures, then you'll say, okay, well, maybe that. Sometimes the early church fathers were kind of schizophrenic in their writing. They say this, and then they say that. Or here's one, the early church fathers, the early church fathers did not have a dispensational view. Well, that was given to us by Darby. No, we go back to the very early of the writings. We'll see that. So no, I'm not putting a lot. You know why you don't? You know why you don't? Do y'all remember? I think, matter of fact, this was yesterday, the day before yesterday, we covered when Jesus tells his disciples, my time is at hand. The Son of Man is about to be delivered for death, into the hands of the scribes and the Pharisees, and is about to be killed. Do y'all remember that? Y'all remember that, right? What happened after Jesus makes that statement? Let me drink a little bit of my water. I'm not going to drink my red buoy just yet. But what happened immediately after Jesus says, the Son of Man is about to be killed? What happens? I hope y'all, I wonder if y'all remember this? What happened? This is vitally important. This goes with what the brother was saying. What happened is the disciples, the disciples start arguing and bickering. Who's the greatest? There's this battle. There's this argument. Who is going to be the greatest? Now, remember, these are the guys, they're not apostles or disciples of the apostles, or disciples of the disciples of the disciples of the apostles. They are literally disciples of Christ. This is how man's mind can get, even with the disciples. They start arguing over who is greatest. They get some things wrong. So, in so far as they have been inspired by the Spirit to give us scriptures, that's what we go off of. We're not going off of the actions. If we were to go off of their actions, then we could also say, you know what? I'll eat with the Gentiles until the Jews show up, huh, Peter? No, the Bible isn't sanctioning their actions. The Bible has given us their words that were given to us by the Holy Spirit, and that's what we do. Amen. So, we're not going to worry about what the early church says. That's fine. You can look at that for some sort of guidance. Huh, I wonder what they were thinking, what they were going through. What was happening at, do you know, what was this, Cory, you don't read about the early church. Okay, fine, if you say so. What was happening during the time of the early church? There was a whole lot of, there was a whole lot of philosophical teachings that were coming, making its way into the church as well. That was also poisoning the landscape. So, that's why he gave us the scriptures. If God cared enough for us to have the early church as our guide, he would have included them too, but he didn't. All right, let me take one more question because I've got, I've got to go, I've got to get back on onto this paper. Uh, and we're going to have to, we'll have to do this again. We're going to have to do this again. How about that? And my grandson is in there crying. Oh, I did this. Okay, I asked that question. Okay. Okay, does the Bible support any ministries to charge a set fee for people to attend any type of teaching conference? That's a, that's a, it's kind of a great area. Is it, is it a sin? Well, the Bible doesn't, doesn't preclude it, but also the Bible doesn't, doesn't promote it either. So let's say you're going to have a conference and people are going to show up and you've got folks that, um, we want to do, we want to have a conference on, oh, oh, oh, let's have two of we have a conference that is about spiritual gifts. And then we could also have a conference that is teaching against spiritual gifts. We have a continuations conference and we have a cessations conference and I'm using it because these are two examples that we have seen just recently, right? So is having the conference in and of itself a bad thing? No. What if having the conference and there's a fee to get in? Well, if you've got it covered and you want to make sure and now I think as long as you're upfront with people, hey, we're having, we're charging the fee, a small fee, just so we can, you know, we got this arena filled out just so now a lot of times though, if you don't, if you don't charge a fee even still, but you take an offering, it's another way of you getting, you know, the fees paid. But even that's not a problem. So is there a problem? It could be. Ultimately, well, one of the first things you have to deal with is the heart of the people or of the organizers, why they did this, why they put this together. Sometimes, again, we have some of the same conferences over and over again and nothing happens. Me personally, I'm not a conference person. I'm not, why? Well, we want to get the word out. We want to get the word out. So we want to wait a second. Hold up. Let's think about this for a second. We want to get the word out. Well, why in your church getting the word out? What if your church just focused on evangelism? What if your church decided, what if your church decided that we want to equip our people, teach them, empower them, implore them, encourage them to share the gospel with someone that they haven't shared it with before? A cousin, a family member, a co-worker, a neighbor, a friend, someone at the grocery store. What if we did that? Because that's kind of what we're supposed to do. I will just, okay. What if we did that? And then what if we also, what if we also taught the men and women in the church those different things? How cool, how cool would that be? That's really what we're supposed to be doing. And so, all right, church, hold up. I'm going out of town to do with you and teach with you, teach with them and then do for them what I supposed to be doing here. I might send the pastor to do that. Don't do the same thing at home. That's not what I'm saying. But sometimes they get to be a little bit redundant, monotonous. It's like, okay, all right. Now, I'm fine with going to them. So, I'm fine with it, but I don't really, I think we ought to be careful because you look up and we've got conferences all over the place, right? Let me, I want to give someone, someone's asking for a particular answer, question, ask, can I, can I cover this issue about, about being a coward? Can cowards go to heaven? I'm not going to answer the question. What I did, I just put it in the, in the chat. I put the link to the video that we did. And in that, in that chat, I mean, that video covers that question. It doesn't mean what people think. I'm scared. So therefore, I'm going to hell. That's not, if that's the case, listen, listen, we all are going to hell because I promise you this, every last one of you can get scared about something. So, all right, let me do these last two things. And then we are out of here. First question. Wait a second. Hold on. Let me pull this up first. Let me do this first chest. Hold on one second. I didn't see, but chest said to remember our sister, Catherine, I'm trying to see. Okay. All right, guys, help me out because this is from yesterday. Give me a second, guys. Okay. Okay. When, when, when, if I can ask, when, when is the surgery? If you don't, if you don't mind saying so, Catherine, but let's just do this. Let's just do this instead. Let's just do this. Let's just do this. Why is chest champ called me during the live stream Monday? Okay. Father God, we just asked you, Lord, that you would just touch our sister, that you would one, keep her in spirits, but also Lord, that you would even touch the medical staff that will be around her, even the equipment, Lord God. And we pray that through all this, you get glory. There's no one better on the planet than getting glory for themselves like you. And so, God, we pray that through all of this, Lord God, your name be praised, be preached and be searched. We got, we pray this for her in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Now, the last question for the day, this is a good question. This is really a trick question. Long beard and no hair or long hair and no beard. It's a trick question. Why is it a trick question, Corey? Because you don't need long hair, long beard, period. All you need to do is be sleek and smooth, sleek, smooth, aerodynamic. You just listen. No, no wind drag, nothing. A little bit of stuff, you know, a little bit of stuff over here and there, you know, a little bit of stuff over here and there. Let your wife know that, yeah, you know, you can grow if you need to. A little bit of stuff over here and there and you, and you're good. That's all. All this extra beard and stuff like that. Let me just tell you, listen, ladies, if you're single, let me just help you out. Man with a big beard, he's hiding something. He is hiding something. What kind of, what kind of man doesn't want to show his face off? He's hiding something. That's right. What's all that for? Who are you fooling? Who are you fooling? I mean, anybody can grow a beard. It might not be a good beard, but yeah, you don't need a beard. Hair, you definitely don't need hair. And some of you guys are hanging on to your last few strands as though you're going, you're going to reverse the Asian process. Let it go. Let go. Let God. Yeah. I'm doing you guys a favor. I am doing you guys a favor. One day, one day you'll see, because how funny? Listen, listen, and I don't want to be petty, but if we get to heaven and all the men have no hair, I'm being petty. Yeah, I told you. I told you. Anyway, anyway, of course, when we get to heaven, we all got hair. Well, then I'm hiding from you. Then I'm hiding from you. You don't need hair. One of the most powerful prophets ever was bald. Mighty powerful prophet, mighty, mighty, mighty. Anyway, guys, I love you all so much. I need to go ahead and leave. I need to go ahead and get to this. Get to this paper. I've got it all set out. Now I've got to type it. Did this guy just said baldness is overrated? I don't take his wrench from him. Anyway, guys, I love you all so much. And the most powerful one had a point. No, he did not have a ponytail. Did you say Jesus had a ponytail? Who had a ponytail? Okay, Dutch, who had a ponytail? We got to stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop who had a ponytail? Let's see. Now we had one guy who had a bunch of hair and he died as a result of it. Samson. Yeah, all that. His hair didn't do me good, did it? So Kai, Kaiopistus, Kaiopistus, I love you too. I love you too. And what I would say to every Catholic or every Eastern Orthodox or even every Protestant, Presbyterian Baptist, whatever. I'm not Baptist, because I'm Baptist. We're going to lean on Scripture. We are going to lean on Scripture. Stop following man who tells us that we got to listen to other men. No, we're going to look at Scripture. And to the extent that you listen to a man, is he following the Scriptures? That's it. So anyway, guys, love you all so much. I've got to go and I will, I look forward to you if the Lord is willing. I look forward to seeing you again either on tomorrow or the day after or sometime in the future. God bless you.