 Good evening, good afternoon, good morning. I've got some sort of, I don't know, I don't know if it's a, I've got an attraction to sickness. It's like every other week, twice a month or something, these doggone kids or grandkids, I'm coming down with whatever they get, I get it. I need to stop hanging around. You know what? I need to start barring the kids from coming over the grandkids. But this time I'm under the weather is my daughter. Yeah, daughter number three, she was sick and she got me, I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. So, me and Joey, my cup of coffee, we're gonna push through. It's just, I don't know what it is. But you know what? But I love you guys. And so rather than canceling or pushing it back, nope. I am going to push through. I got all kind of energy though. I really do. I really have all kind of energy. I've got a lot of excitement in me. And so that being the case, how are you all doing? I hope you all are doing well. Hope you all are doing well. I am just physically, but Corey go to a, I say it's out of our and he will heal you. No, matter of fact, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna cut, I don't know if you all saw the little deal that I did on the Gospel truth last night. And I got a little snarky last night and I'm gonna take a piece of that and release that as a video. Because I just really want to challenge every last one of them. Every last one of these guys are the casting out demons. There was one guy in the chest. Won't even say his name. Won't even say his name because he runs to attention. He wants to be seen. No one goes after him, but he goes and challenges people. And so I just said, fine, you're in Texas. I'm in Texas. Come on up here. I'll pay for your gas. So if you want to stay up here for the night I'll put you in a hotel room. Or you know what? You can stay here with us. You can stay here. You can sleep on the couch. Just to come on out and all of this stuff about slaying people in the spirit and casting demons out. I've got some spots we can go to. I've got some spots that we can go to. Now, I'm not sure if he's gonna try his same tactics there. If so, then likely that they're gonna have to call someone to extricate him from the situation. He won't make it out that way. I just, maybe he will, maybe he will. And I'm not trying to get him killed. Just trying to prove a point. If he doesn't have to make it out well, then you know what? He goes to be with the Lord, amen? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But listen, if you wanna cast some demons out I know where some people are that seriously have some demonic activity and we can go and we can tackle this together. And then you can show us how it's done. You're never gonna agree with our scriptures. So, and one of the past, well, you know, I may cover that later. I'll leave that alone. But I wanna, I'm gonna go ahead and start starting to grove. Yeah, take him to Pleasant Grove, Highland Hills. I can take him to Fair Park, take him down on Second Avenue, somewhere in that area. And we can start with either the prostitutes or the pimps. You pick which ones you wanna cast a demon out of. I'll let you decide. And then we'll see how that goes. Anyway, there was one, I didn't mark any questions previous to going to this. And so I'm gonna start marking some questions in a second, but there was one question that I happened to notice, but I see this come up over and over again. This is about whether there's a different gospel being preached between Paul and Peter and James and John. Is Paul preaching a different gospel than the others? No, he's not. Now, is he speaking differently? Yes, is he presenting the gospel differently? Yes, obviously he's not compromising it or anything like that, but here's what he's doing. Y'all remember, I made a little video and I've said this before. It's good to memorize scriptures, it really is. It really is good to memorize scripture. But if you are having a problem memorizing scripture, what might be better than memorizing scriptures is memorizing the story. If you understand what's happening, you'll know where to find certain things at. For example, let me give you, let me make it kind of practical. Any of you guys ever watch any of these shows that have different seasons and different episodes and so forth, season one, episode five or season eight, episode three, that kind of thing? Well, the reason why I said that because if you know the story, if you know the story of the whole thing and let's say some folks have watched something, they go back and rewatch the seasons and so forth over and over again. What ends up happening is you end up knowing, well, you know what, yeah, this happened, John did this to Mary and Frank did that to Sue and this happened in season seven episode, around episode two, three, four, the general area. Why? Because you know the story. You know what's happening when it happened, how it happened. In other words, you don't understand the micro context you do, but you understand the macro context. You understand what all is happening, what's trying to come about and then when this is going on. Are you with me? So if I'm trying to cover something, I'll know why this person is saying this this way. Why is he speaking this to certain people? Why is Matthew speaking certain ways in regards to the Gospels differently than how Luke is? Who wrote Luke? Who wrote Matthew? Who was actually there? Okay, we've got two writers of the Gospels who were not actually there, that being Mark and Luke. And so how do they know? And then when we talk about when we look at Acts, you see Acts, it goes from third person to first person, to them, they, to we. Well, what happens? There's a shift. And so we see that with Paul. Paul was told that he is going to be an apostle with all of his Jewish bona fides, all of his accolades as being a Jew of Jew. Does God want to use him to be an apostle to Jews? Nope, nope. All of that that you did, all that study in Paul, out the door. Nope, now it is helpful, it is helpful. But now you're going to be an apostle to the Gentiles, the very people that you had nothing to even want to deal with. So therefore he's preaching to Gentiles, okay? And so a lot of his terminology is not going to be the same but obviously you see his Jewishness comes up, especially when he's speaking in a few of the chapters in Romans, okay? So Paul's gospel is not different. It's the same. It's just presented differently. How would I know? Matter of fact, you can understand this. When you talk to someone, and if you all ever presented the gospel to someone, if you've ever presented the gospel, you're probably not going to present it the exact same way to everybody at the exact same time. I mean, the exact same time, the exact same way. To this person, let's say you want to give the gospel to a, I don't know, a 10-year-old. It's going to be different than you would, let's say a 40-year-old. You want to give the gospel to someone, you want to share the gospel to someone who is a recovering addict. You pick what he's addicted to. You want to do that the same way that you did it to a 15-year-old, it's going to be different. Same, the same points, but just present it differently. And even so, Paul, when Paul makes a point, he says, I become all things that I might win them. This is what he's talking about. Not that he's going to compromise himself and he wants to go into a biker bar so he's going to put on leather and so forth, get a patch over his eye, get some fake tattoos with it. No, that's not what he's saying. How I'm saying is kind of how he's presenting. And so the same thing works for us, okay? So no, Paul is not presenting a different gospel than the other people, although he can understand what they're saying because he too himself is Jewish as well, amen? I don't know what that question is. Axe is your second favorite book, Romans number one, Revelation three, okay. Nope, we didn't miss last week's Bible study. I gave you all, I probably should, no, I did put it up, I did put it up, that there will be no more Bible studies until the first Saturday in January. There's so much going on, people here and there, moving about and so forth. So we'll pause those and pick back up in January. There will be a kind of a recap. By the way, what we're going to do is, starting in January, we're going to start picking books. We're going to pick different books of the Bible and cover those one at a time also, okay? Alrighty, let me go ahead and mark some of these questions and we are going to try to move fast. Well, fast for me, not fast, normal fast, but fast for me. Let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see. By the way, remember to put a gigantic cue or question. If you want to put the question spelled out in all caps, fine, but type the question, not in all caps. Probably shouldn't have said that, the moderator is going to get mad at me for saying that. But put a cue or question, get my attention. Okay, all right, let me start answering some of these questions. Your email question, what is your email question, Rashan? Why'd you do that, Rashan? I see you say my email question. Now I need to know what was your email question. Dog on it. No, I cannot explain the two witnesses in Revelation. I will say this though, much speculation has been made as to who they are. We don't know. We don't know who the, but now I will cover this in a little more detail. But there's no way to know who they are. We can speculate, but we just don't know. Is it going to be Elijah and Moses? We don't know. I don't know. I have no idea. Why does it have to be someone that has already lived? Why can't it, why does it have to be an Old Testament prophet? I mean, if we're going to start bringing Elijah and Moses, why couldn't it be Peter and Paul? Why couldn't it be Thaddeus and Bartholomew? Andrew and Philip, there's no way to know. We have no idea and so I would not speculate. Although I will say this though, the Bible says there's going to be some prophets coming, two prophets. Well, those two prophets means there's going to be some prophets and prophecy. So that hadn't gone away with. And by the way, I think that people have the belief, they may think that I am, I lean more towards the typical continuationists. I do not. I do not. Okay. Let me start answering questions and let me start with this one. Brandt Rowland or Rowland? I'm not sure if I'm saying it correctly, Rowland or Rowland. He says, would you mind explaining? Oh, don't want to click the wrong one. That's not the one that was clicking. But since I've already clicked, let me go ahead and answer it. Explaining the difference between Matthew 5, 14 and Luke 7, 10, 7, 1, 3, 10, how the Matthew account is the centurion himself and Luke is the elder of the Jews. Well, you're just getting from two different, two different places. Remember, we've got two people that were there on the ground, Matthew and John. Mark and Luke were not. So Luke is going to give an account different than Matthew's account. That's all. So Luke's account is, first of all, Luke's account is someone telling them. And so that probably adds to the reason why the different, the story is being told from a different perspective. Amen. Okay. Where's the question I was getting ready to ask? There it is. There it is. What is an example of today, today of casting your pearls to the swine? Let me take my time and say this and say this as in a wise fashion as possible in a caring as way as possible, not to be too abrupt. There are people that just seem to be like complete waste of skin. That's the wrong way. There are people who just like they're just horrible rotten people. There are people out there who just, you know what? You don't wish them death, but you understand that their immediate circle will be better once they're gone. There are just some bad people out there. Are you guys with me? Okay. I hope you guys are following me. There are some people that you just don't give. There are people that you just, you know what, leave them alone. There's nothing you can do, nothing you can say towards them. Yeah, matter of fact, a lot of the stuff that we see on YouTube, I don't know if that's what you're talking about, Roshan, but I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna make it be what we're talking about. I won't even go into this. I'll just say that I saw something on yesterday. It's like, wow. Wow, this was just absolutely. And the people that played a part in this just waste of time. Waste of time, horrible rotten examples of how to be so-called Christians. There is what you would call Christian scum. Now, us as Christian, we're just scum that happens to be saved, okay? Hope you all aren't bothered by that, but we are scum that just happens to be saved. We are redeemed scum, amen? Now, that being the case, you wanna make sure that you're not falling back into that. And sometimes you can and you wanna be brought out of that, but there are some folks that like to wallow and like to swim in it, like to hang out in it. I'm not talking about people who are unsaved, because the unsaved people, you expect them to act a certain way. You expect unsaved people to act like unsaved people. You expect people that profess to be Christian not to act like that. And they revert back to their old scummy ways. And so, and it doesn't bother me if they have an issue about what I'm saying, because they'll probably know that I'm saying it and that it's about them, but you've got folks that are literally making, I saw this and I was floored, making up a lie to do, to fool the people to, I don't know what their outcome was, what the whole thing was, and then justified being alive because you wanna flush out some of your enemies. Why don't, just, and I'm like this, everybody leave everybody alone, grow up, move away. This was just absolutely foolish. Where's your grandma at so she can come spank you? This is just absolutely stupid. And when I say stupid, they're acting stupid. Stupid, foolish, idiotic, whatever you wanna say, and it is the worst of behavior for Christian. And why I'm saying is because here's an example of if you try to tell them, here's the scriptures, here's why this is seen, here is that, nope, nope, nope, okay, well, I will not throw my pearls to the swine. You are either incapable or unwilling to hear, more than likely, it's just unwilling. Have you ever heard someone tell you, no matter what you show me, I'm not gonna listen? Well, there you go. Now this is unsaved and safe, but it's particularly problematic when it's the professed Christians who do so. And it's like, wow, guys, are you guys serious? Are you, is this what we're doing? Even when you've got people who are, when a person is really trying to grow and to learn, there's no such thing as casting your pearls for the swine. Sometimes it's just, it takes them a while to kinda learn and to grow. Let me just use someone as an example. Let me just use, hey, Rico, how you doing, brother? Let me give, let me, since I just seen him, let me use Rico as an example. Let's say, and forgive me, Rico, I'm just, I'm picking on you because I know you can handle it. Big, strong, young brother, he can handle it. But so I say, Rico, we're trying to go over something. Matter of fact, let's put it like it's math. And let's do it the other way around. Let's say Rico is a math genius and me, nope, not so much. We're on algebra and I've got my fingers out. I've got my socks off because I've got my toes involved. I just, I'm slow at this. And Rico is laboring with me. He's just laboring and people are like, this guy is dumb. Cory's never gonna get it. Well, it's not that he's throwing his pearls to the swine, he's laboring with me. He's trying to help me because I'm trying, I'm struggling. That's different. That's not casting your pearls for the swine. It's if Rico was trying to teach me mathematics, I'm like, I don't care for what, who needs that? Did you watch the game last night? No, you're wrong. There's the problem. And we see that in the sad parties again when you have it with the Christians. When you have it with the Christians, it's like they're just bound and determined to be stupid. And let's just be honest guys, let's be honest. When you find one of the lessons that I learned, one of the lessons that I learned, you know, when you're in your 20s, you think this way. When you're 50s, you don't think like this. When you're 60s, certainly, 80s, definitely not. In your 20s, you think this way. Maybe in your 30s, you think that you can convince and change everybody. You think you can convince and change everybody. As you get older, you're learning, maybe not. Maybe I can't change. Matter of fact, you get older, I don't even want to change whatever. And so a buddy of mine, not a buddy of mine, but a guy that I met in prison, this guy was a moron of all morons. He was just crazy. He said it was a Christian, but he was always cussing. He was like, man, he's reading the Bible and it's like, wow, it was different. He gave me a nugget. Something that his father told him, and he said, when you find a dummy, leave him one. In other words, when you find somebody that's just bound and determined to be dumb, leave them there. You sit and spend time trying to fix this guy who's bound and determined to be dumb, what are you gonna find yourself being dumb yourself? So you have to be wise as to who you give your information to. And sometimes we try to force feed information or force feed something down someone's throat that they're not ready to take. They can take a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time. Amen, amen. All right, let's get back to it. In a room with a hundred people, would no one choose God unless God changes their heart? Yes and no. They can choose them, but not lasting. They can choose, yeah, you know what? This God makes sense. Think about this, if you're in a room and let's say the music is blaring, the lights are folks jumping around, dancing, singing. Oh, church, how about that? And then people get so excited, emotionally involved. What can they do? They can, yeah, I choose you God, I choose you God. Matter of fact, let's see, let's all sing a song and let's call a song, I choose you God, how about that? And they'll choose God. They will choose God for that moment. Get to the parking lot? Nope, you know what I choose? I choose a beer, I choose some alcohol, I choose fornication, I choose drugs, right? We have the parable of the seed and the soils in Luke eight that tells us that. So they can choose, but they can't be choosing. They can't stay with it. It won't be a long lasting choice unless God does something. You are only changed as human beings from a by force within or without. Something on the outside has to keep pulling you and pushing you, such as what we saw in the Old Testament or something inside where you don't need someone. There's old saying that says that 80% of the people require, 80% of the workforce requires constant supervision. Well, that's true. Well, the 20% are those who don't need you to stick around because something's on the inside is gonna keep them moving, okay? However, the rest of them need somebody on the outside to crack in the whip, docking their pay, threatening to fire and that kind of stuff or put them in jail. What have you, dragging them along? We saw that in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, we've got something within bad being the Holy Spirit, amen? So yeah, you gotta have something. We need to have something that's gonna push us and prod us either on the inside or the outside. For us, it's gonna be on the inside. So unless God does something, nothing's gonna happen. I wanna just say this. Let me just say this about some of you guys and where's my tissue? Where is, I don't have any tissue. So if I needed one, I wouldn't have it. But let me just say this, guys. Let me just say this. I'm, dawg, I'm just so proud. I am so proud of you guys. I'm so happy, I get emotional. Now, I don't know if you all saw C.G.'s question. Let me put it back up here again. Here's C.G.'s question. Why is there a definite article in John 12, 48? This is why, listen, it brings tear to my heart. That doesn't make any sense. I tear to my eye, joy to my heart. Why? Because C.G., if we go back, wasn't asking these kind of questions. How long you been here, C.G.? When you see people getting it and eating it and just, yeah, you know what? C.G. is asking about the definite article. What kind of Christian asked about the definite article of a passage? Oh, God on a smart Christian does that. You know what I mean? Let me, so let's answer the question. That does my heart good. Does my heart good? Because it also, what it does is it makes you grow to, it makes you be solidified. I did a video. I did a video and I had to delete the whole thing. You all never saw it. Did a video. I may still cover the video. This was a lady who was covering something about being blessed and highly favored. And I said, well, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, no. The phrase only shows up in the Bible one time. That's in the King James Version. And then the blessed part, the blessed and highly favored part doesn't really show up anywhere else in the Bible. Plus, says she's highly favored, blessed are you among women, but the blessed are you among women is actually not found in any other, or not in the earlier best attest to manuscripts. And then I made a statement such as do we even see this anywhere else compared to anywhere else? But then I look and see, it's found twice in the Bible and it is applied to us and it's in Ephesians one. It's the same word that's used about us as believers. You know how we say this, blessed, how are you blessed and highly favored? And I had to take the whole thing down because I had one point that was wrong. Nope, sorry, can't go with that, can't go with that. So anyway, let's go to CG's question. John 1248, and so these are the kind of things that make you want to study yourself. So John 12, John 1248. And let's see, he who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has one judge, one who judges him, the word I speak is what will judge him at the last day. And your question was, what was your question? Oh, okay, let's go back to it, the one over the one. Uh, he has the judges of him, word which I speak, this one, judges, huh? Okay, the reason why it's got this word right here, you see highlighted, the one who judges. This is heiress, passive, this is, is it passive? No, present actor, participle, the one who's judging. You have to put the one, because the way it just reads roughly is the judging. Actually, take a break. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Actually, big dummy, no, Corey. This is the judging one. So this is the judging one, the judging one. And so, now your question was, does this, does the one have any significance? No, no, he who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has the one judging him, the one who judges him. Well, I mean, in the sense that he's speaking of God, who's gonna be the one that's gonna do the judging, yes. I mean, so that's the, telling you who is doing the judging. But the reason for the definite article is there because it wouldn't even make sense without it. It would be, go back to it. Remada Mu Eke, so words of mine, he has judging him. Nope, no, the judge, the time of credit and time has to be there. So it doesn't do anything special, but the the is someone special, if that makes sense. Okay, by the way, I'm gonna, because you mentioned about the definite article, I'm going to talk about a definite article as it relates to a man. There's a passage in First Corinthians that helps us also with this issue with tongues and so forth, says that the person that doesn't hear it, how can he give the amen? And there's a definite article there. And so I wanna cover that, why it is the the amen. Is there a special amen that you can give other than the amen? And there is, there's a reason for that. Okay, let me check a few more questions. Scott gives a medical update, he's doing better, his blood pressure, amen. I had a buddy in prison, he was overweight, but then he's in just like tip-top shape. And he says, how do you get rid of diabetes, high blood pressure, all that stuff like that? Push-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and dips, that was it. In other words, workout. Let's see, answer some more questions. How do I overcome sexual sin? The same way that you overcome every other sin. Now it might be rapid, it might take some time. Why does it take time? That's up to God. Some of that, he is going to use what you're going through to help other people, especially if I think, now this is me adding to it, I think especially if you are progressing so that someone else can see. Because God wants you not just to, as you are being brought to dry land, that others are coming along with you. Like how Paul says, follow me as I follow Christ, be imitators of me, that's the whole point of being a disciple, that word disciple is actually used for that purpose to show that someone is following you as you're following Christ as well. But the way that you do so is just by proximity. Get closer to him, draw closer to him, draw closer to him. Do not let sexual sin be your thought, but him be your thought. So as you lay down, as you wake up, force yourself to hear about him. Something my wife did, it was last night, as a matter of fact, she had a recording playing and she went to sleep with it on and I came in the room and I heard it, I ended up turning it off, but while I'm getting ready, you're hearing these persons just reading scriptures. It's like, wow, okay, let that sink into you. So even if you don't feel like it, force it in, force the word in you, read your Bible, you don't feel like reading the Bible, well then you can get an app, you can push play and let someone read it to you while you're driving, you're sitting around doing something, you're doing laundry, what have you, you're cooking, you're washing dishes, even if you're just listening to stuff on YouTube, but listen to the good stuff on YouTube. I understand there's time that you wanna hear, hey, this guy is horrible, but there's also a time where you want to get further edification of the word. That's how you do so. Paul says, whatever things are noble, honest, pure of good report, think on those things. Amen. Jeff says, yeah, I wanna give you some homework. I want you to go and translate Luke chapter 10 from the Greek to the English, how about that? Someone gave that homework. Now, in Greek, Luke is one of the hardest writers to read. He writes differently than everyone else. So if I say, Jeff, you have to go translate Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter 10. Well, wait a second, Luke chapter 10, I don't wanna, Luke chapter 10, I don't wanna translate that. How can I, I'm not even prepared to translate that. Just go and grab it, and the guys are like, hey, hey, just go and grab an English Bible and write it down. So that's all, that's all. Amen, Christopher. Amen. Okay, let's go to some more questions. How to have confidence in yourself while not being, come and concede it, a couple of ways. Here's how I could do so. I am, my wife say, maybe you look too confident, Corey, no, I'm not too confident. Do I have, on the things that I say I can do, do I believe I can do it? Yeah, yeah, anybody, does anybody work out lift weights? Could you imagine lifting some weights and say I can't do this? I can't, this is too heavy, I can't do this. Well, guess what you're not gonna do that way. You're not gonna do it. But how you keep yourself kind of grounded, for me, you can try this. I think a lot about prison. Man, do I think a lot about prison? I think a lot about prison, I really do. Not that, hey, man, I miss it. I miss it, no? I don't miss it, but there's always this warning like man, listen, it was worse. And my view is kind of like Jonah, God prepared a great fish for him, spit him up on dry land. I'm thinking, clearly he didn't send him to Nineveh, the fish did not vomit him up on at Nineveh, on dry land where he had to continue his journey. So he probably vomited him up in the same place or at least close by the same place. Meaning, I'm not gonna let your sin catapult you to the direction I want you to go. I'm gonna take your sin, put your butt right back where you're supposed to be, and now go and do it the right way. Now my thought pattern is this, and this is what I said in one of the last sermons that I preached in prison. You can disregard that great fish that God has prepared. And if you forget, you can forget those cold nights, those lonely nights, those nights where you were just in a damp, stinky cell by yourself, whatever that might be to you. You can forget all those hard nights, the times that you're crying and no one is there to hear you or even worse, you were crying that everybody could hear you. You can forget those if you want to, because now you've been vomited up, at least you've been put back, but you're on dry land. You can forget how you got there if you want to, but I can promise you this, when God prepares the next fish, the next time it might be a shark. And so that kind of keeps me humble to think about where I've come from, where he's delivered me from, and what it could be because it's not as bad, it was not as bad as it could be, and it can be a lot worse. And so that's why Paul has this thorn in the flesh to keep him from exalting himself. Lord, this is bothersome. This is bothersome. Well, yeah, good. Now you gotta focus on me. So, all righty, continuing. I got an area where I gotta answer these questions. I got to answer these questions. Or Cheshamp is gonna say something crazy. I know he is. How do you know if you have truly forgiven somebody when you root for them? How do you know if you've truly forgiven somebody when you root for them? I don't mean like, yeah, let's clap, brother, so and so, so and so, they've done good, yeah, and you don't mean it. They go to accept their acceptance speech, or their reward, and hopefully trip, hopefully fall. No, when you really wanna see them do, I'll never forget there was someone who I thought turned their back on me and did me wrong, but I saw them get accolades some other place, and I felt good for them. I felt like, man, yeah, amen. Dude, give them some more. And I knew I forgiven that person. That's how you know, when you root for them, when you root, not when you, out of sight, out of mind, you don't think about them, because I hadn't thought about them. I don't have to worry about forgiving, because I haven't thought about that person in a long time. Well, that's easy, right? That part can be easy, because I don't see them. But if I can, you know what, I want the best with them. Sometimes you don't want them immediately. Sometimes you gotta talk yourself into wanting the best with them. Sometimes you gotta talk yourself into wanting the best with them. So, it can be rough, it can be rough. And sometimes, though, you have forgiven them, but you're still, there's still some residue. You don't, and let's just thank God for some of the small victories. Lord, I don't hate them as much. Well, amen, let's keep moving. Because if you start putting into context what you've done to other people, now, if you're one of those people that think, I haven't done anything like that to anybody, okay, well then, all right, you might not be safe. But no, no, but you have to look at it from God's standpoint. And it could be, it could be, let me ask you this. Don't go on, Rebecca, let me ask you this and everybody else, let me ask you this question. I'm assuming, because you asked a question and you said, I'm definitely in trouble, I'm assuming that it's difficult. The person did your wrong, the person hurt you, okay? And a lot of guys are this way, women aren't, but a lot of guys are this way. It didn't hurt me, it didn't bother me. Well, then why are you talking about it? It did bother me and get hurt too. And it's simply by 99% of the time, it's by someone who knew you, someone you were close to. Here's my question to you and everyone else. The person that you're having trouble forgetting, did it result in anything positive in your life? Did you grow from it? Are you stronger? Are you more aware of that situation now? It won't happen again. Because if that's the case, it's a good thing. Now, is it also possible if the benefit that you've gotten from that, even though the person hurts you, is it possible that it was the Lord that wanted to use that person to do just such a thing to grow you? The likelihood is yes. So thank you for being the reason why I'm stronger. Thank you for being the reason why I don't, why I have thick skin now. Thank you for being the reason why I can't be hurt in that position. Thank you for being the reason why I'm better off than I was. We used to do this thing in prison. We're working out. And this last set, this last rep is heavy, or we're doing something we're ready to throw up. It's just hurting. This one's for the judge. Let the judge, this is what we do. You know, talk crazy to the judge, healing him here. But this is for the judge. Thank you, judge, for making me tougher. Thank you, judge, for making me a better person coming out of prison when I went in. So sometimes you kind of have that same attitude. This person made me better and I'm thankful that what you did. I don't have any, I don't hold any grudges against anyone that did anything to me. Of course, I did things to people too. But folks that were there on my side that turned their back, praise God. Praise God. My wife asked me, have you seen anybody? Some of the people from back then, nope. No, I don't, I don't look for them. Not really all that caring about it. If I see them, hey, praise God. But, and I heard some of the hurtful things that folks said about me and things like that. But what can you say now? And so, let people see that you are a whole lot better. Let their pain, let what they did be the reason why you're better and then God gets glory. And so, yeah, this one's for the judge. That extra set, I'm struggling to get that up. I'm straight, one last pull up, one last burpee, one more lap. This is for the judge. This is for everyone that had something to say, thank you. I appreciate that, for that coach that pushed me for that teacher that didn't think I would do it for whoever it was for the person that left me on the side of the corner. Appreciate you. You caused me, you taught me how to grow, how to be tough. Amen. Alrighty, I already answered that one. Okay, I have no idea what that means, Rico. You gotta tell me, can you give me or explain, give a biblical explanation for prosperity, wealth and God's revision for his own? Oh, okay, okay, I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. Give you, let's put it back on, let me keep it on the screen so you guys can see it. God's explanation or version, if I understand you correctly, of being prosperous, healthy, wealthy and so forth versus the world. Well, here it is. My grace is sufficient. You just did it. Just settle all that. Now, what I want you to do is go ahead and sow a seed into the ministry because of that. Yes, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I am kidding. But no, my grace is sufficient. That's, if I've given you that, I've given you enough. I've given you more than enough. I've given you more than what the world is gonna get. I'm not, I'm speaking on behalf of God. I'm not giving you, I'm not promising to give you a house and a car. I'm not promising to give you a health and wealth. I'm not promising to give you the prettiest girl or the most handsome guy. I'm not promising to give you none of that stuff. If you get it, you get it, if you don't, you don't. But you got me. But you got me. I'm more than enough. I'm gonna make you see if I am. You say I'm more than enough. If you, no, we say, if you don't do anything else for me, you've done enough. Most people don't believe that. They just say that. Most folks say that they don't believe it because Lord, what have you done for me lately? My grace is sufficient. Why? Because the life that I'm giving you, one comes with already some benefits accrued to it that you're not paying it to do. But then also, where are you gonna be when it's all said and done? I used to give the example of the lights come home, the lights are turned off, the wrecker followed us home. He's ready to repo the car. There's an eviction notice outside. I've got mountains and mountains of bills. What can make me walk into this situation with a smile, see them hooking the car up, towing it away? I got three days to vacate, the lights are off. What's gonna make me feel good? Well, suppose I also know that earlier today I got a letter from the lottery commission because I just won a million dollars in the lottery. I'm just throwing something out there. I just won a million dollars in the lottery. I just won a million dollars in the lottery and you are repossessing my car, the lights are off, I'm getting evicted, do I care? I don't care anymore, do I? Matter of fact, take all of this stuff. Matter of fact, you actually helped me out. It's less things I have to get rid of. Well, we have something like that, don't we? And you gotta look at it that way. I've got a greater reward, a greater expectation. And so this is, as the song says, my temporary home. How's it go? Windows and rooms I'm passing through. This is just a temporary home. And so I used to see guys, they would, in prison, you want yourself clean, but some guys went overboard. I mean, they would get on their floors and they would wax it and polish it and so forth. I mean, it was spick and span. The whole room and they got pictures on the walls and they got rugs, how they get rugs in there, another story, but their sale is home, sweet home. I'm not here to make prison my home. I'm not here to make earth my home. It's not my final destination. For some it might be. This for some, it's gonna be the best it's ever gonna be. And so if I never get that, I got you. And let me tell you the key to that. Let me tell you the benefit of that is because when God can know, and I don't even know, he already knows, but when you can know that God knows, you can say, yeah, God, when you can say with your chest out confidently that God knows I trust him, you'll start seeing him do other things just cause because you can handle it because he wants to show, why give something to someone who you can't trust? Why bless them? That's the person who, if they got it, didn't care if they didn't get it. Oh, well, you've got to get yourself in that kind of mentality to where you think about him where he is your most important attribute. If God is your greatest attribute, then you feel like I've already won, I'm already set ahead of the game. Everybody else, these are poor people compared to me with my Lord. Amen. All right, I'm taking too much time. I'm taking too much time. I got to, I've got to move, I got to move on. Okay. I'm struggling to understand why God would command all men to repent if they can't unless God aids them. Here's why. This is me. Now, obviously my Calvinist brothers are gonna be bothered with me when I say this, but he's just saying, listen, I'm giving you the opportunity to do it so that, so that you can't have an excuse. Again, I'm not saying that you can't do it, I'm saying you won't do it. There's nothing, here it is guys, let me just say this, there's nothing physically, intrinsically that's stopping you from doing right. In other words, if I'm supposed to pick up this cup and I don't, there's nothing stopping me, I just don't feel like it. I'm like a little spoiled little brat, I don't feel like it. I don't want to, right? But I can, and God says, pick up the cup. I can't, physically I can pick up the cup but I just don't want to. All right, fine. You go to hell, you go to hell, you go to hell, you go to hell, you go to hell, you go to hell. But dog on it, everybody's gonna be in hell. So what I wanna do is I wanna show these people how loving I am, how gracious I am. And I wanna put something in them. So no one is gonna ever be able to say and the reason why he commands them to repent so they can never come back and say I did not have the chance. I didn't have the opportunity. I couldn't. Okay, that's why. Everyone's in hell, they're in hell because they worked their way there. Amen. Everyone's in heaven, God worked in there. Thank you, thank you, Scott. I appreciate that. Dog on it, you made me feel good, Scott. I'm not even gonna put it up there because, but I appreciate the question that you put up there, Scott. Thank you so much, brother. I will say this though, if there's anything that I do good as it relates to the Bible as far as teaching, I owe it to the people that were there before me and that gave me an example. Dr. Bolden, Willie Bolden. There was one man, I thought he was almost boring, but he've always made sense. One of the older elders of the church, his name was Antrim Crinton. A good godly brother. Good godly brother and his old book. I mean, you go to his little office at his house and he's just studying, he's always studying. Tony Evans. Some of you all don't realize this, but if you're in the Dallas area, if you've been here for any in length of time, a lot of Southern preachers, mostly black preachers, get really, really hyped up and a lot of antics and it's not a lot of the word and where Tony Evans separated himself in the 80s and the 90s, particularly is that he didn't, there was no gimmick. It was just giving the word, solid word and folks don't like Tony Evans now. Most cases because someone says don't like him because of this, because of his daughter, because of this, well, because of the whole trans-dispensationalism stuff. Okay, well, I promise you, you got some stuff that you're a pastor or you and it might be questionable, but now, and he's not saying what people think he's saying, they just don't, they don't realize that, but they'll hear the little sound bite, which is fine. But what he was doing was, he was going through the scriptures, breaking them down without a whole lot of antics. And so that was good for me, that was good for me. And so, and then just God, God has just blessed me to be around other people who, and I won't just, I'm not gonna name drop, but just other people that you guys would think, hey, that's a, I know that guy, I like that guy, sound preacher, maybe he's gonna be with the Lord or he's got a bunch of books out just to be around like, I like that. I like that. So, thank you for the compliment, though, Scott. I appreciate that. Smooth artist says, God, thank you for the super chat. God, does God have a limit on forgiveness? No. No. His limit is that he won't forgive you at the end if you have not placed your faith in him. That's it. You've got time to be forgiven by him. You've got time to place your faith in him. If you place your faith in him, well, then you've already been forgiven. You've already passed from death. You've already passed from judgment and you will go on to life. Now, in terms of you keep messing up and doing the same thing over and over again. God, listen, here's what God knows. As messed up as you can be or I can be, God knows exactly what he signed up for. And so sometimes we treat God as though, God, I don't think you, you got a raw deal, God. You bought a bunch. You realize that God paid for a bunch of lemons. Y'all know what a lemon is, right? They have these lemon laws you buy a car that looks good on the outside. There's just trash on the inside. That's a lemon. As soon as you get the car off a lot, it just falls apart. That's us. God literally paid for a bunch of lemons. So he knows what he got. No warranty on it, but he gave them a warranty. He gave them a warranty and so he fixed that. So he knows what he's doing. If you're his, he knows you're broken, you're messed up. He's gonna fix it up. He's gonna fix it. He's gonna work you and work it out of you. And now, are you gonna be perfect when you leave? Nope. Nope. Not gonna happen. If you get cold in your stocking, who put it there? Chess Champ. Brian L. Chess, that's who did. If I get cold in my stockings, it came from him. Who would? Well, let's see, wouldn't be anyone. Maybe it would, I don't know. Wouldn't be anyone in my family, I don't think so. Wouldn't be anyone in my family. I'm kidding, Brian. What? Now, there's some people who maybe on YouTube would like to come put some colds in my stockings. There's some people on YouTube who would like to put some dynamite in my stockings and light the fuse. There are some people who would like to do that. But, hey. Are Edomites cursed? No, they're not. No, they're not. There's nobody on the planet that has a presiding curse over them. All they have to do, like anyone else, is place faith in Christ and bam. That's it. The cat loves me, by the way. T.T. says the cat. No, the cat loves me. The cat actually loves me. I'm not sure if I'm his favorite person or a second favorite person. I feed him. We share a room together. I look over there, there's this toilet right there. I smell him all the time. I clean up behind him. And he will, I can be sitting here. He'll come and he'll just sit right here and just wait for me and just wait. And he'll come and bump me and put his head on me and go, okay, fine, I'll rub you. So yeah, the cat loves me. And there are times when he'll come and just hop in bed at four in the morning and just sit there. Nothing like waking up in the middle of the night and seeing a cat looking right in your face. So anyway. Anyway, all right, how does one become a smart Christian? You are a smart Christian if you are a Christian and you realize how dumb you are, how fable you are. That's how smart Christians don't mean you know stuff. And smart Christians means you know that you don't know stuff. That's it. And then you know what it turned to. That's it. It's just humility in your ignorance. That's it. I got a question. L. Boogie just put this in, but I got a question. L. Boogie, are you in Indianapolis? Because I'm seeing stuff. I think, are we, are we, are we Facebook? I got a bunch of Facebook friends, I already did. But are we face, uh-oh, wrong thing. Are we Facebook friends, L. Boogie? And if so, are you in Indianapolis? I just wondered, are you in Indianapolis or L. Boogie that putting up Indianapolis stuff? I'm like that. And I'm thinking, do I, I think, do I know this person? I'm gonna say your name, because I was looking at the other day. Do I know this person? Did I go to school with this person? Did it? Oh, Canada, okay. There's another L. Boogie that's Facebook friends with me because your profile looks different. And he or she, one of them, they're in Indianapolis. So, okay. All right, I just wondered. I just, sorry, I had to ask that question. This, great question. Great question from my brother, Aaron. Cheers to you, my brother. You all don't know how profound this question is and how you all ought to fall to your knees and how broken, fallen, and soft what you guys ought to be because you're not like me and Aaron. He says, in our glorified vies, will we be cursed with hair or will we be able to keep our glorious bald heads? I'm gonna go out on the limb and say we're gonna be bald. I'm gonna go out on the limb and say, because what do we need hair in heaven for? Temperature's gonna be wonderful. Who's gonna brush it? You guys think that your hair, you're gonna wake up and have new hairs, it'll be perfectly, no, no, no. Us men are gonna, now the ladies, different. Men will be bald. Yes, I'm proclaiming, I'm doing like the word of faith. People, I'm calling those things that are not as though they were. We're going to be bald in heaven. Who needs hair? Who needs hair when you got God? Am I doing any debates soon? No, I don't have any planned. There are some people I'm gonna have on here though, that we might get into a little bit of a back and forth, but I don't have, not any formal debates. I'm not doing formal debates again. I've decided if I do another formal debate, I'm gonna break all the rules. I'm not doing it because to me, you can't get across what you need to get across. No, I'm gonna hold you to this. I'm not moving to the next topic, we're staying right here. Cory, you kicked out, okay, fine. So, no, I don't have any planned, but I also don't have any problem bringing someone on if they wanted to, if they wanted to debate me though, no problem. Are we expected to read the Bible at face value, or are we supposed to see ourselves in the characters? I often find myself interpreting the word in relating to current time. Yes, if you're doing that. We have exegesis, we have ice-egesis, and we have what's called nars-egesis, that is us becoming the characters in the Bible. This is about Joseph, this is about Isaiah, this is about David, this is about Paul. You're not them, you are who you are. And it's not a disservice that you weren't written in the Bible. By the way, the peak that we think of that we admire the most in the Bible, a lot of them died horribly, not all, but a lot of them did. You want to be Paul, you want to be Peter? No, you don't, you don't want to live how they lived, but you take the Bible at face value, you read it for what it's saying, you read it to me. I say you read it as literally as you possibly can until you have a reason not to. Understand that there's similes and metaphors and figures of speech and idioms and so forth. But what he's trying to get across is he's trying to do it as simply and as plainly as possible. Now, a person might think, well, I can handle it. If he wants us to read deep into it and get the deep meaning, well, then ask yourself this question, do you think everyone else is as intelligent or not you, not you sweetheart, but everyone else. Do you think that everyone else is as deep or as intelligent or as spiritually evolved as you are? And you're gonna come with the answer, no, no, surely everyone can't get it like I get it. Then the next question is, did God give the book to only you? He gave it to just the smart and those not so smart and everybody in between for all of us to understand. And so if that's the case, those who can't see the deep parts, how do they get it? Well, cause he's not trying even for those folks that think they're getting it the deep parts. It's not meant to be that deep. It's just meant to be straightforward. Cause that's the case. He wouldn't have to blind the eyes of certain people. Okay, so, but if you think that you keep seeing yourself in the, now there might be some times where you can relate to it, that's different. I can relate to, by the way, let me ask you guys a question, let me ask you guys a question. Who in the Bible do you think that I can relate most to? Who do you think, do I have cat allergies? No, I don't. No, no, but who in the Bible do you all think that I can relate to? Matter of fact, I can relate to him in a lot of ways. I mean a lot of ways. Yet a culture having a winning season. I don't know how I feel about that, but we're doing good in our quarterback. It's unhealthy. No, not Jonah. You know, I can't, yeah, you know what? Yep, I actually take it back. I can relate to Jonah. I can relate to Jonah, but Joseph, I can relate to Joseph. 13 years in prison. Yeah, but Cory, but Joseph was in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I'm not talking about it. I can relate to everything about him. I mean, his name begins with the J, mine begins with the C, but in terms of being in prison for how many years? 13 years. I can relate to that. I can relate to Jonah. I might actually go and do a video over all the people in the Bible who had been in prison. You start thinking about like, there's a lot of folks, there's a lot of folks that have been locked up that have been shackled in, think, have you just thought about the folks that have been locked up or been in shackles in prison? Think about it. Joseph did. David called when he was in a prison, but I maybe, maybe not. Solomon, I mean, I saw him in Samson. I said Solomon, Samson, Paul, Peter, John the Baptist, Jesus. Yeah, Jesus was Jesus. They had him shackled up. Maybe all, maybe all of the disciples and apostles. But think about it, a lot of people in the Bible have gone through that. Now, obviously their reasons aren't the same as mine, but once you're there, you're there. So I want to cover that. And I want to pull out some different points for that. So let's say Ruth. No, I cannot relate to Ruth. So yes, VP Lawman, I'm coming to you, sweetheart. I'm coming to you. I'm coming to you. I'm going down the, you are the second to next one. How about that? Jamie, see, I don't know much about, I don't know much about the movement. Honestly, I don't know much about that movement. I'm sorry. When the Bible talks about it being he or veiled, if, matter of fact, let's go to that passage. Let's go to that passage. Second Corinthians four. Four. Let's start with verse one. How about that? Therefore, since we have this ministry as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth, commending ourselves to every man's consciousness in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In whose case the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. Now, a couple of things. Oh, I'm sorry, let's keep reading. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ is as Lord and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake. So here's a question. Matter of fact, let's put this question back up. If the gospel is he or veiled to the lost, is the Bible for believers or a lost sheep? Well, it is now, because again, it goes back to the question that was asked earlier. The information is put out and you are responsible for it, but even though you're responsible for it, you actually won't acquiesce, but you cannot blame anyone but yourself. But a case could be made that who he's speaking of specifically could be just the Jews, because remember the Bible says that he's giving them a spirit of stupor. Now, do we think that the devil is blinding people's eyes that he can stop the gospel from being heard? No, the devil cannot stop you from here, but what he can do is he can bring things that will kind of cause you or move you towards what your proclivities are. For example, let's say you hear the gospel and it's like, man, this just sounds so good. Wow. And let's say you're struggling with, I don't know, an addiction. Your friend Herbie shows up with that addiction. Maybe it's some alcohol or some drugs went at you and Herbie's like, yeah, man, listen, I got this and that. In your mind, I was thinking about Jesus, but Jesus can be there. Jesus can wait. Oh, let me do this. And so he's just bringing to you what you already want. But he can't stop you one from hearing it. He can't stop you from contemplating it. He can't stop you from making a decision, but what he will do to kind of veil it is to bring the things before you that you like, not magically, but he's got folks that work on his behalf that are not believers, okay? And so the word was given so all of us will know. And oh, by the way, we're all going to be judged and held accountable to its words. If you've already covered this, I'm sorry, but there seems to be a contention between 2 Corinthians 5-8 and 1 Thessalonians 4 16 through 17. Can you explain how these passages align? I think I have an idea what you're talking about. And so let me go ahead and drink some coffee in preparation for this. 5-8 and then Thessalonians 4. Okay, let's go to 1st, I mean 2nd Corinthians 5-8 first. We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Let me read not. Therefore, we also have as our mission, whether at home or absent to be pleasing to him, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body according to what he has done. But your main point was verse eight. We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and present at home with the Lord. Comparing that with 1st Thessalonians 4, 16 and you said 17, I believe. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we all be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these things. And so your question is, let's put it back on the screen. Can you explain how these passages align? Okay, well, they're not related. Except for, there is a leaving the earth at some point in time, but they're not necessarily related. In 1st Corinthians, I'm sorry, 2nd Corinthians, Paul is speaking about us living, but if we're absent from the body, then that means we'll be with him. That's a good thing. But while we're here, look what he says, he says, therefore, we must also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, what's absent and what's at home. To be absent from the body is to be at home with the Lord. Wherever you are, whether you're here on earth or whether you're there, it's your aim to get there and to please him in doing so. So whether you're here to live that way. And I think really Paul wants to focus on not so much getting there, but what you're doing while you're here on in route to there. For we all must appear, because that's what he says, for we all must appear before the judgment seat of Christ so that each one may be repaid or recompensed for his deeds. But here over here in 1st Thessalonians 4, this is where the folks who would disagree with my eschatology, we'll talk about more about eschatology in January. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout and the voice. Now, this is what we believe is the rapture with the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up. And usually we get this word, her pasio word or this word where we get the word, Latin word is raptiso to be caught up. But we will be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in air. And so we shall be with him. And that's what he says, therefore comfort one another with these things. And so he said, be assured, feel good about this. One, it hadn't happened. He's writing in 2nd Thessalonians because he told him about this in 1st Thessalonians. And they're like, well, wait a second, some time has passed. Did we miss it? No, you haven't missed anything. Which is why he says, come for one another with these words. You are going to be caught up if this time, when it happens, if you're still here. And that's to say, this is me. Someone's gonna be like, ah, disagree, Cory. Well, we're not gonna have the eschatology conversation right now. But this is me that the body, because the pattern of God is that he will not, he will not judge or deal with the righteous with the unrighteous. The way he deals with the righteous will not be the same way he deals with the unrighteous. That's been his pattern. Even when he's, when Moses, not Moses, when Abraham is having a conversation, that's always been his pattern. Same with Noah. He just does not seem, I can't see him dealing with the righteous the same way with the unrighteous. We are righteous. The whole point of this is to deal with the unrighteous. Well, what lesson is the Christian, is the believer? Those that are truly in him going to get from this. Now, so what's gonna happen at that point in time, then it's gonna start the seven-year clock, the last seven. In the middle of this last seven, it's gonna get really, really, really, really rough. It's gonna look pretty good for a moment, relatively peaceful. And then, for lack of a better way of putting it, all hell is gonna break loose. And the Jews are gonna regret it. The lawless one is gonna break his deal with him in the middle, three and a half years. Right in the middle, once it happens, he tells him how many days you got left. So, even if they're not aware of it, once that happens, uh-oh, three and a half years left, guys. It's about to get rough, buckle up. But those are two different things, though. And here I am saying, I'm not gonna really cover the eschatology stuff and I'm starting to get more into it. Okay, cool, look at this. This person, Jordan, is gonna be joining the prison ministry next year. Question, how do you know if the women is the one for you according to guys? Oh, hold on, hold on, let me back up, let me fix something. That's how you said that. I'm thinking you mean the women in the prison? Hold on, let me fix this, because you caught me off guard. You caught me off guard. You gave one statement that is unrelated to the second half, if I'm understanding this correctly. How do you know if the woman is the one for you according to guys' will? Well, there's no passage to go to. I would say this, all the things that you think that you might want in a woman or a man, hold on for a second, let's do it this way. Let me, let me, guys, as the love doctor. Yep, yeah, I wish I had the music to play. I should play some music in the background. Love doctor, this is for you ladies and you men. If you are contemplating being with someone forever, male or female, but you haven't made that decision yet, now is the time to get picky. Now is the time to be choosy. You cannot, after you get married, you know what, I don't like this about you. You know what, I don't like the way you walk. Your teeth look funny to me. You know what, do something about you. No, it's too late for that. So if you wanna be picky, be picky now. Now, don't get too picky. Don't get too picky. What's the old saying? Don't, what is it? Don't throw out for good because of the perfect. I forgot, I forgot. You're waiting for perfect and you miss good. So don't do that. Don't, don't, don't do that. Here's what you want if it's a woman. You want a woman who first of all, first and foremost loves the Lord. If you got that, that's the first point. That's the first point. Make sure she loves the Lord. Make sure she is amenable, is that my sentence correctly? To being a wife that God wants and that also you are the same as far as being the kind of man that you want. That's right, she can't drink almond milk either. And I'm kidding. But if there are things that you like or don't like, let her know. If there are things that he, that let him know. Same thing. This is prior to you, you know, because jumping in this and then having a problem in the middle, cause you don't like how this person is. This is how this person is. Because once you, when we got married, the preacher said, he turned, this is how you know that he's the right man and she's the right woman when you say I do. When you say I do, that's it. All bets are off. There's no option. There's no take backs. There's no refunds. All sales are final. But then make sure that, cause she's not gonna, you complete me, we're not having that. My rib, all that stuff. All that stuff. Okay. All right. Listen. After about a week, two weeks, a month, two months in the marriage, you start checking the receipt. And then dog on, can I take this one back? I don't know. I think this ain't what I bought. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. So there's gonna be issues, there's gonna be problems, but you want someone that is there for you. So the first and most important thing is that one, she or he is loyal to God. That's number one. Number two, that they are loyal to you. There is no talk about split ups. There's no talk about none of that talk. Him first, cause if he's first, then it's easy for you to be second. That's the most important thing. I can't pick out different traits. All I can say is, you be the kind of man that you think she wants you to be. Cause if you're the kind of man that you think she wants you to be, you'll be okay. Same thing with a woman. You be the kind of woman that you think this man wants. And you're good to go. Amen. Amen. The love doctor has spoken. So Jordan, Corey, I took your advice and me and my wife are getting divorced. Anyway, let me keep, let me keep moving. I gotta keep moving. I gotta keep moving. John, this might be interesting. Let's see. Explain why Ephesians 4-8 does not match Psalm 68-18. Let's go to Ephesians 4-18. I'm gonna assume this is a quotation from therefore it says, when he descended on high, he led captives, excuse me, he led captives, a host of captives and gave gifts to men. Okay, let's see. This is quoting Psalm 68-8. Let's go to Psalm 18, I'm sorry. Psalm 68-18. All right. You have ascended on high. You have led captive, you're captive, having receiving gifts among men. Let me do this. Therefore, it says, when he ascended on high, he led captive, a host of captives. Old Testament, you have ascended on high, you have led captive, you're captives. Okay, so far so good, and gave gifts to men. And you have, oh, you have received gifts among men, even among the rebellious, also that the, huh, yeah, this is the issue because the word likhakh is the word to receive, not to give. Natan would be the Hebrew word for, tell you what I gotta do, dawg, gonnit, who, Joshua, that's a good word. That's a good word, here's what I'm doing. I'm taking my pen, and before Sunday, I'm gonna, I don't think it's gonna be too long, I'm gonna look this up. I'm gonna even see how, I'll look and see how the Septuagint puts this as well. Compare, that's a good one. So, I'm not gonna sit and make it up for you. I'd like to, would it be cool if I just knew it automatically, but I don't? I wanna see why the shift, maybe this will be the reason why we finally have to stop reading the Bible. We've been founded an actual error, and we can't read it, and I won't be the case. We'll figure this out. We'll figure this out, and Joshua, great question, I will get back to that, I will do that. So, this is gonna be one of those videos where it might get 50 views. One of those videos where it might get 50 views. Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Is this Truth or Talk? Is your name, your name is Brad Craig? Okay, I recognize the icon of Truth or Talk, okay. As someone who also considers himself a biblical continuationist, I'm not sure I follow your tongue interpretation. Well then dog owner, you can't be part of the club. It's all or nothing. How are you not reading that GIFT being used, hold on, in view of Acts two, how are you not reading that GIFT being used into the text, huh? Hold on, let me just find out what you're saying. I'm not sure I follow your tongue's interpretation of view of Acts two. How are you not reading that GIFT being used into the text? What do you mean? I'm not okay. I'm not sure I'm following you. I'm not sure I'm following you, so can you? Okay, cool, that's Truth or Talk. Tell me, what do you mean by that? Can you rephrase that question? Cause I'm not sure I understand how you're asking that question. And if you can do it really quickly, I can go ahead and pull up Acts two. Because I don't know what you mean, or really what you mean that, or how you think I take it, Acts two. Because what I mean by how I see Acts two happening with tongues, these are languages that are being spoken. And I think there are a couple of people that are there. You've got the people that are hearing it. I'm sorry, you have the people that are speaking it. That's group number one, those 12 apostles. Oh, the GIFT of interpretation, okay, cool. That's kind of what I thought. So you've got three groups there. One, the group of people that are hearing, I mean, that are speaking it. You've got the group of people that are hearing it. Now, the people that are speaking it, they know what they're saying. They know what they're saying. The people that are hearing it, clearly know what they're saying. This word interpret, or interpretation. This word is, a matter of fact, the same word that's used when Paul says that, that was explained of the prophet Joel. It's just where we get the word hermeneutics, hermeneon, or hermeneon, or hermeneo, which is to explain, to understand, okay? And it's also used up to say, so when I speak, the whole point of speaking is to have understanding. So I said there's two groups there. I'm sorry, there's three groups there. I explained the first two. Who else is there? Of all those groups that are there, what's the third group that's there? Those that are speaking it, those that are hearing it and understanding it, and then what's the third group of people that are there also? The third group are there is those that are there that I have no idea what the people are saying. I'm not one of the hearers or one of the speakers. I'm just there. There's a crowd of people there. Now, in that crowd, there are two different people, groups that are there. There are the mockers and scoffers, and then there are those who they're just, I'm concerned, what's happening here? Remember, thousands of folks are added to the body that day. Well, it's not just those Jews from different parts of the region. It's also those Jews that are there as well, those that, let's say, if we are speaking English, and let's say Pentecost happened here in America, and it happened here in America, and there's 12 guys who are from Texas. I'm just gonna throw in Texas. And then you've got all these different groups. And so Peter is speaking Spanish. John is speaking French. Andrew, one of the others is speaking German. Bartholomew is speaking Mandarin. So you've got all these different languages being spoken. Okay, so the person who speaks Spanish, here's it, this guy's speaking Spanish. This guy who speaks German, hey, he's speaking German. This guy's in French. Yeah, nobody speaks, you're right, Monkey Moon. Nobody in Texas speaks French, less than a high school somewhere. But someone who speaks French, here's it. But what about the majority of the people that are there who don't speak any other language but English? Right? What do they get? Remember, the rules are also brought out again. There must be some sort of interpretation. Now we think, we kind of think that it's got to be this guy speaks, a separate person has to get up and interpret, that's not how it is. A separate person may get up and interpret, but the same person that's speaking can also be the interpreter. How do I know? Because in First Corinthians 14, he just says pray that you also, you yourself may interpret, that you also may understand. The word that's used there, the same word means that there'd be explanation, understanding. Remember when Paul talks to them in First Corinthians 12, I don't want you to be ignorant. I don't want you to be unknowing. And then in chapter 14, he says, well, if I were to do so, Paul's not saying that he himself prays in the tongue. He's saying to them, if I put himself in that position, if I were to pray in the tongue, if you pray in the tongue, pray that you also interpret, that you understand, that's what the word means, that you have understanding. Well, then why would he say that if the people who are speaking on the dead Pentecost didn't understand what they were saying? They did. And we know Paul gives an explanation of what was saying because people said that, hey, we hear them glorifying God in our own language, magnifying the Lord in our own language. And then what does Paul turn around, I'm not Paul, what does Peter turn around and do? Magnify the Lord in their own language. So you got all these folks now placing their faith in Christ. And so that's how I see this happening. Otherwise, we've got all these named spiritual gifts. All of them we see in action except one. So are we to believe that there is no example in the Bible of anyone ever giving interpretation? I think we do. I think the one time that we see interpretation being given that we can actually see it is also the one time in the Bible that we can actually see tongues being spoken. Because every other time that we see tongues being spoken and we assume they were spoken in Acts eight, we know they were spoken in Acts 10 and 19, we don't know what was said. We don't know how it went. We just know tongues were spoken. But in Acts two, we know tongues were spoken and we know what was said. We even know the languages that were spoken in. And then we get the interpretation. We get the explanation of it. And so that's how I see that. So, okay, continue. Let's move quickly. Let's move quickly. Why do people keep trying to tie Jeremiah 10, two and five with Christmas trees? Because they look for something that there's always gonna be somebody who wants to diminish what we're doing. Now, whether we celebrate Christmas or not, doesn't take away from our faith. We're not, I don't know of anyone that's celebrating Christmas as though this is a Christian ordinance. This is a sacrament. That they celebrate Christmas like it's communion or like it's prayer. No, this is just, hey, you know what? We're just coming together. We are wanting to give gifts to some people, to our children. You know what it amounts to? Just a family day. And if because of that, we think about the birth of Christ, praise God. So you ask people who don't celebrate Christmas, how often do you think about the birth of Christ? Cause we certainly don't think about it at Christmas. Now, some folks are so just, crotchety, yeah, he wouldn't want that day. Okay, well, fine. Okay, fine. That's all you got. So, but it's just, some people just are bound and determined just to be miserable and let them be. Now, if you, if you don't, now I'm not saying that if you don't celebrate Christmas that to make you miserable. No, I'm saying if you got a problem of other folks celebrating Christmas and you want to make everything about Christmas or that Christians do pagan, and well, you could have that. That's about, I'm not going to fight with you. And thank you so much too. Thank you for the super challenge. Well, thank you. Appreciate you. What are some New Testament passages that shows, okay, that show that he is a God in the flesh? Well, a couple of passages also. What is this passage? Let me think, let me think, let me think. Philippians 210, at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow and those who are in heaven on earth will confess that is also quoted in Isaiah 45, 23. John 17, where Jesus is saying, give me back the glory that I have with you, but then we go to Exodus, that he will not show his or give his glory, share his glory with anyone else. Isaiah, hold on, let's see, where is it? It's not, where is this passage? Oh Lord, I know the quote, okay. Isaiah 428, I am the Lord that is my name. As a matter of fact, the same one that you would also use with John 17, give me back the glory that I have with you in the beginning, you would use that also in conjunction with Isaiah 428, but then also Isaiah 428, where he says, I am the Lord that is my name, well then use that with Romans 10, that if you confess that he, that Jesus is the Lord, and whoever confesses that he is the Lord shall be saved. So, okay, can I elaborate on being judged? I'm going to cover also the great white throne judgment sometime in the future. I was supposed to do it last month, but. All of us are going to give an account. Now, some people's judgment is different. There's one judgment that we have passed from as believers. That is where he's going to judge us for not placing our faith in him. And then at that judgment, not the good judgment you want to go to, you're going to be told to go to hell. It's one thing when your neighbor says it, or someone in a parking lot says go to hell, but when God says so, that's the judgment that we have passed away from. But then there's another judgment where Paul says that our deeds are going to be judged or recompensed, and there's going to be some sort of reward. How does that work? We really don't know. We really don't know how that works, and if this reward is actually going to be in eternity, or during what I believe is the thousand year reign. We don't know for sure. There's a lot that God has left open and hadn't told us fully. And I'm fine with that. I'm fine with not knowing all that there is to know that God is going to do. Now there are some folks that, yeah, well, no, I got to know. And some folks have to know so bad that they'll make up something this ago. So I'd be happy that you know him rather than knowing everything. What are your thoughts on 1st John 315? Well, let's go to 1st John 315. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murder has eternal life in him. So how does that relate to someone losing their salvation? Well, let's keep it all in context. Let's go back up to the top so that we can see what's happening. There's a statement here. Let's go to 1st 4. Everyone who practices sin also practices slownessness. And now this is what I have to include hating your brother. And sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sin, and in him there is no sin. That's Jesus, no one who abides in him sins. Now, it doesn't mean that you won't commit a sin. That's not what he's saying. No one who sins has seen him or knows him. The little children make sure that no one deceives you, that the one who practices righteousness is righteous just as he is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has sin from the beginning. The son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil. No one who was born of God practices sin because his seed abides in him now. That's important. Then we work our way down, speaking about someone who hates his brother. Before I leave John, let's go to 1st John 5 because he speaks about us as well. This is all kind of in the same vein. Whoever believes Jesus is Christ is born of God and whoever loves the father loves a child born of God, one of him, which is your brother. If you are born of God and you love the father, you will love your brother. Now, to what degree does it mean I also like him? No, I've got brothers, not necessarily physical brothers, but brothers in the Lord, sisters in the Lord that I love, I just don't like. You know what? Let me love you on the other side of the table. When you go over on that side of the table, I'll be on that side of the table, right? I love you, I'll fight for you, die for you, what have you, but man, us in the same room just ain't a good look. Okay, but I love you. Not gonna do anything to hurt you, do everything I can to help you because I love you. Now, let's go to where we need to go to to get a full understanding about this whole issue of practicing sin, because it seemed like I do a lot of sinning. I sin from time to time and it feels like sometimes it's practicing. Well, what does Paul say on the matter? This is what Paul says on the matter in Romans 7. Starting 14, I believe. Let's start in 15. For what I am doing, I do not understand for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing that I hate. So Paul is doing something that he hates, but if I do the very thing that I do not want to do, I agree with the law, confessing the law is good. And the law points out how horrible I am, for I know that nothing good dwells in me that is in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing of good is not. For the good that I want to do, I do not do. Here it is, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. Well, Paul seems to be practicing evil because he literally uses that word. The issue is this word that I have highlighted that I do not want. The Greek word is phthalo. Even earlier, he says, where is it? But the willy, verse 18, for I know that nothing good dwells in me that is in my flesh. For the willing, the same word phthalo is there. Paul's desire is not to do those things. I don't want to be mad at my brother. I don't want to be this. I don't want to be that. I want to be, and so I'm struggling. There is a legitimate struggle there. That part is fine. It's the issue of, let's say, if it's a sexual sin. I want to be the person in sexual sin and a Christian. I want to be the homosexual Christian. Well, no, no, no. I hate these desires. I don't want that. That's not my desire. That's who Paul is saying that he's like. Not the homosexual, but I'm like the person who I might have a struggle, but it's not my will and I'm fighting. I hate it so much. It's a struggle for me, but the thing is, it's not my desire. Paul is literally saying that I practice some things. Now, either Paul is lying or he's telling the truth. I think he's telling the truth. And so his struggles are not because it's his desire. His desire is opposite of what he's doing. Okay, and so the person that hates his brother is verifying that that person is not a Christian at all. Do I have a discord? No, I've never even been on discord. And if I did have a discord, it would take up way too much time. Check a few more questions. Randy Swagg, thank you for the super chat. Thank you so much. And VP Logan, thank you again for the super chat. How do you biblically love and treat a person who likes to constantly gossip about you? It's difficult to disease yourself with his family. Well, a couple of things. One, I know what that's like. I actually know what it's like to have someone to always gossip about you and so forth. Chess champion, are you still there? Where's chess champion? There he is, there he is. Okay, I just want to make sure he's still there. There is a guy. This goes back to what I was saying earlier. Who gossips about me all the time? Made 50 plus videos about me gossiping, all of them wrong, all of them wrong. And he picked up the phone and called me, which I don't care. I don't care. I wish you wouldn't. I wish you wouldn't. It diverts attention away from what we're trying to do, but okay, am I bothered by that to the point where I gotta shut down what I'm doing, I gotta stop and I'm not gonna sit and make a bunch of response videos and so forth and cover this and that or whatever. He said, no, I do, I'm talking about a guy by the name of, I'll leave it alone. But you can gossip about me all you want to. No big deal. It really isn't. There's a whole, I remember the whole rap song says you can say what you want, just spell my name right. What am I gonna do about it? I'm not gonna go in the comment section. I'm not gonna go to your channel. I'm not gonna give you what you want. Fine. I've said before and I've said it to them. On those, what is it? What was it? Once a month, twice a month? I put the link in anyone. Come on, ask whatever you want. Do you think the person really wanted to have a conversation with me? They know about it. You can come in and ask a question. You can ask whatever you want to and that way, but the problem is if you actually want to ask me a question, it would end a lot of the gossip and that's what you want to do. And so you run around the countryside calling everybody male or beta boy and this and that or whatever, that just, yeah, listen. When we were in prison, there were guys that would always call other men, other names and then you come to find out the reason why they were calling everybody else that is because that's what they were. You had people that were sex offenders that were hiding because if you're a sex offender in prison, oh Lord, you gonna have hell in prison. And they would call other folks that and then come to find out and you get their paperwork. Wait a minute, wait a minute. So this is where, God, ladies and gentlemen, this is where you have to show, especially in your case, if it's a family member, this is how you get a chance to prove that the Lord is working and you know what, you know what, the lady, J247, ask your question, sweetheart, I will answer your question. Y'all let me know when she answers the question. But this is where you get to show how mature you are. This is where you get, cause you can't say I'm mature, you can't say I'm grown, I'm this, I'm that and then never show it. And then when the opportunity comes to show it, you shriek back, you can handle it. You can handle the people saying things to you. You can handle people saying things about you, take it. I'm this, I'm that, fine, okay, fine, what else? That's it, that's it. Corey, you are a liar, a thief, a this, a that. Praise God I am and was. But say it correctly, I am a redeemed liar, thief, this, that, all the, I'm redeemed though. Cause it, cause what it does is advertises what God has done for me. So yes, fine, fine. You think you're this, you think, okay, if that's what you think, maybe you think I think I am. You think you're all that, no, maybe you think I am all that. But even if I'm worse than all that, maybe everything you said about me is true. Maybe you wanna keep putting my business out there. Maybe I've done this and done that and you wanna let everybody know, okay, fine. I just think you oughta stop being one sided and not say all the bad that's happened. Gospel about the good, yeah, Gospel about the good. Let me, I'll tell you what, I'll send you some videos of me and my grandsons and my granddaughters, my grandkids playing, Gospel about that. Gospel about everybody that loves me now. Gospel about that. Gospel about the fact that he went to the cross for me and you and did not cast me aside. You wanna cast me aside? Fine, fine. Go and tell that. You got to at some point in time, Roman 623 and everyone else in this chat. At some point in time, you got to say, you know what, I can take it and let me prove it to you, talk about me. Let me, I'm not gonna go back behind it, you know. Let me talk about this person that was talking about me. Okay, I'm not gonna do that. What are they, back in the, back in the, they didn't really do it in the 90s. They did it in the 80s. They definitely did it in the 70s. I could, you can go by a building or a billboard and for a good time, called Maria. I shouldn't say this is a Maria, that's probably Maria, call Betty Lou. For a good time, call Betty Lou. Or you're going to, you go in the bathroom and there's somebody wrote somebody's phone or some girl's phone number on there. What could she do? Could she go and try to run that down? No, because the harder she tries to prove that she's not that person, the more she looks bad. So what you do is, blessed are they, as Jesus says, when they say, revile or spy for hateful, evil things about you. But here's the key. Here's the key. Here's the key when they do so for my name's sake. See if they're accusing you of something and you're on the wrong team or you got it coming. Well, that's not for his name's sake. But if you've been redeemed, if you've been, if you've passed that and they're still accusing you of something, now it's for his name's sake. Now someone wants to take what God has cleansed, talking to Peter, what God has cleansed and call it unclean. All right. Did you call me up and try to help me out? Did you, are you praying for me? So there are, again, we are redeemed. We are Christian scum, but we are redeemed scum. Own that. I don't walk around and act like I'm all that in this net. Do you know, do you know I don't dress a certain way? I don't act a certain way. I don't spend a certain way, try to keep up with the Jones. I don't do any of those things because I am, I am Corey. There was a time where I wanted to have a, have a nice car or this or that. Eh, I'm good. How old am I? I am 51. 51 going on 40, maybe 35. Someone says 50 is a new 30. No, it ain't, 50 is a new 30. No, it's not. It doesn't feel, I can tell you this. I've been 50 and I've been 30. They don't feel the same. 30, listen. At age 30, I can pop up out this chair, jump over this land on my feet. I couldn't think about jumping over this land on my feet. Something, something ain't gonna feel right either when I jump or when I land. And Lord knows, pop up too quick. That might be, that might be that. That, that might be that. Oh, what did I need you for? I just want to see if you was there. I'm, I'm, I just wanted to make sure that knowing chest champ, knowing you're there keeps me grounded. Make sure that I don't go off. You are my compass. How about that? But, but yeah, I, 50 is not the new 30. 50 is the same. 50 is the same old 50. It's the same old 50. So, you know how you get, you know, you get an old, when sometimes you sneeze and your whole body feels it. Your whole body, like whoa, hold up. That's not the way that sneeze is supposed to feel. Just kind of just shook you to your core, right? That was the Holy Ghost. So every time you sneeze, I just call it the Holy Ghost. Is dispensationalism biblical? It depends. It's not unbiblical. Dispensations are literally in the Bible, and the Bible calls them, the Bible calls them Echinemia or, or it's where you get the word house rules. Both of those words put together. The economies, how God deals with people at different times. For example, God deals with mankind differently before the fall, before the fall, before the flood, He dealt with them one way. After the flood, before the law, He dealt with them another way. During the law, as the law was given, He dealt with them. After the cross, He interacted with men differently. So, and then there's one long dispensation that we're gonna definitely have to deal with. Probably two, maybe three. Now, dividing them up into all these different dispensations. Some people have seven, some people have 14, some people have 10, I'm not into all of that. But anyway. Wow, okay, sweetheart. She says, the church of I-10 only preaches that blacks are the Hebrew Israelites. When the war broke out a month ago, they did not side with Israel, but they had it coming. I'm confused. Leave that church. Leave that church. Those that place their faith, Christ, are those are the sons of God. There's a reason why you can't find, and I'm not being mean, I'm not being mean, but you cannot find any legitimate scholars that think anything worthwhile of what Hebrew Israelites teach. Are there some Jews that are black? Sure. Are there some Jews that are not black? Sure. If your nationality ethnically is Jewish and only God knows who all those are, the true Jews and so forth, ethnically, he still says that he's given the spirit of stupor over them, that he's given a partial hardening to them, which is why the old woman, so let's just say, let's just say all of these black folks that are Hebrew Israelites, that they are the true Jews. If they are the true Jews, well, that explains a lot. That's why they're so hardened. So fine, fine. You wanna be the true Jews, not all of you are, but fine, fine. Because it's those that place their faith in Christ, and if that's what they're preaching there, it's a bad gospel, it's the wrong gospel. You need to leave. You need to leave. That's a good question. What authority did Judas cast out demons? We're not totally sure how the mechanics work, but he says, by the way, we actually don't have an actual example of Judas casting demons out. When the 70 return, they just said that that even the demons are subject to us. What does that mean? Does it mean that they were quiet about it, that they move out of the way? We don't know, we don't know. But interestingly enough, when we think about demons, demons, everyone knew that a person had a demon then. Today, we're not too sure, even unbelievers, that person's got a demon today. But if God gives you the authority, I don't know if he just, I don't know if he infuses your words, if what has, who knows. Certainly wherever you go, the spirit of the Lord is. And so when you speak, ultimately the Lord's gonna be the one who's gonna move, and so I don't know how that works. Have no idea, okay? Clearly it wasn't some sort of hocus pocus magic, say these words would have it, but when they came back, they said, man, even the demons are subject to us. What does that mean? We don't know, don't know. Because it's not that demons only live in people, that demons only demonize. Demons don't, demons do other stuff other than demonize people or oppress or possess people. What do you think about T.D. Jakes as being judged by God right now? It seems like God is exposing him and his family. I would say this, and I'm probably gonna say this on YouTube, just for the other people that are on YouTube. I would say this, as it relates to T.D. Jakes, I wouldn't say anything about him because we don't know if it's true or not. You don't wanna speculate, and especially somebody would say, if you got a large following and you parrot something that might not be true, then you can be sued. Plus it's just not why, if I don't know it, then I would leave it alone. I would leave it, it's just why to leave it alone because it could be a lie. You mean to tell me that everyone in Hollywood and everyone else doesn't know how to tell the truth? I mean, to always tell the truth, I wouldn't go with that. So until more comes out, leave it alone. And then probably more than likely when more comes out, still leave it alone. Well, I take it back, I take it back. I take it back, I take it back. If what's being said comes out and it's true, well then you do speak about it because you have a person who's leading a large church, a large following, yeah, that's a problem. That's a problem. But until then, he's got enough heresies that we can deal with until then. Amen. What's the good side? I saw something, someone asked a question about something and about something else. And I had something in mind to say. By the way, that person is still speaking something about what I said about being vindicated. I'm thinking to myself, how slow and low? How slow and low? I've explained the point. Did Corey answer my question? Well, where's your question? It's we don't, I don't see a question. Oh, there it is, there it is. Good question. How can these stories encourage us without reading ourselves into the text, which is Joshua, Jonah, Job, because if there's something that is in there that you can relate to, that helps. But even more to the point, what do these people's stories have in common? Especially the way they end well. These are folks that trusted in the Lord. The one thing I liked about, about, let's say Joshua, I'm not Joshua, Joseph, Joseph for a second, we got Joshua, Jonah, and Job. But I'm thinking of another J, Joseph. In that it says that the Lord was with him. Same thing with Joshua. He says, be of good courage. So there's points that you can take. You know what? I want to be of good courage. Same thing with Jonah. Jonah, you intentionally disobeyed God and you couldn't get away with it. Well, we do the same thing. Job trusted the Lord. Job said, one of the Job's statements was this, shall we take the good and not the bad from God? Do you know how much it helped me? That helped me a lot, realizing there's gonna be some bad coming my way. There's gonna be something coming my way at some point in time in the future and I want to be Lord, I want to be ready to deal with it. And so my thought is okay. What if what I'm going through isn't the worst? Then I better be ready for what is the worst and maybe this is kind of conditioning helping me. Maybe what I'm going through is the worst that I'll ever go through. But you look at the main points of what he's trying to do. Ultimately it's that God is sovereign, God is working. If you can be on his team doing what he's doing, trusting in him and be of good cheer, be of good courage because of what he's doing, you'll be okay. Being obedient to him. Amen. But yeah, the person keeps bringing up this issue about God that Corey said that he was vindicated. Like I was a good, I'd never said I was a good guy. I'll shut the channel down. If I ever said that I was in the right and they did me wrong, I've never said that. I use the word and use it in context and explained it. The word that's used for vindicate is, there's two words, but the main word is shopec, which is to judge. Judge me. Look at me now, Lord. Judge me. See if I'm right. But if a person is bound and determined to just be against you, let them be. Let that person be miserable, have a funky attitude by themselves. Leave that dog alone. I'm not calling that person a dog, but leave that dog alone. If the dog is miserable, biting, lashing out, wants to roll around in the dirt and so forth, leave them. Leave them over there. The dog pound will come and get them soon enough. Somebody will shoot them and put them out of his misery. You don't have to worry about it. I promise you, two things are gonna happen to the person that is gossiping about you. That same thing's about two things. Two things. One, they'll stop. Two, they'll die. They'll stop or they'll die. Now, how it works out, don't know. They stop because the Lord worked in their heart. They stop because maybe you do have what they're putting at you. Maybe you got it coming, and once you change, it stops. Or they stop because God shuts their mouth. Or they die. That's the end of that. So, no, God does not forget our sins. He does not forget. He's not, he's not, ah, I forget that. I forget that. What did Corey do? I wish God would forget my sins. Boy, listen. I wish God would forget my sins. But no, he didn't forget. He just doesn't, he doesn't regard them. The word that can be used for the car is to remember or to regard. He doesn't regard our sins anymore. I know what you did, I'm like your children. You got children did wrong? I don't, I haven't forgot what you did. I don't regard them anymore. My daughter, as a how was, how was she? Five, four or five, writes on the wall, drawn on the wall, she keeps doing it. And she's blaming her imaginary friend. So her and her imaginary friend got a whooping. Do I, have I forgotten about that? No. But do I hold it against her? No, I don't hold it against her. So who do you think is gonna win the AFC style? You know what, that's a good question. Good biblical question too, by the way, because I haven't, it's tight right now, isn't it? You know what's funny? All of them are competitive and the entire league is full of young quarterbacks. Think about it, just young. Your quarterback is the oldest and he's young. The AFC South is gonna be something in the future. How do I know if I completed my season in the wilderness? Simple, you've come out of it. Now you got nothing to go into. Do not have it, don't be bothered by the wilderness. Don't let it grow you. Let it shape you, so to speak. I don't know what your wilderness is. Sometimes you might not even be in the wilderness. Sometimes you're just not getting what you want. But think highly about them and this is good. This is great. The Lord has taken the time. Do you know in other places they are glad and happy when they're going through something that the Lord has taken the time to count me worthy to suffer and I'm suffering for his sake? That is indeed if you're suffering for his sake. If you're suffering for your sake, if you are suffering for your own sin, that's different, stop the sin. But if you're suffering because of his sake or you're a sin pushing situation, but he's growing you because he loves you, amen. Amen. But you're gonna have a lot of wildernesses to go through. A lot of seasons, a lot of times where man this is just hard as rough. Tell yourself, man I got this. Cause he's got me, amen. No, Barry Bull, Barry Bull, dog on a Barry Bull. You have some statements, I'll give you that. You say some things. Do I agree that some people deserve hell more than others? No. There's nobody that deserves hell more than anybody else. Except for Satan, but we're talking about human beings. No. Nope. Nope. You are no better than Saddam Hussein. You are no better than any other people because maybe if you had the same power, maybe you would have done much worse. No, we all deserve it equally. Every single person, every single person. And so you need to look at that. Do not get, because if you have that attitude, you know what can happen? You can say them wrong, but you know what can happen? You can be like that Pharisee. God, I thank God I'm not like that. I'm not like that tax collector. I'm not like that sinner. That's what can happen. I thank God I'm not as bad as this person. Well, what did Jesus say about that person? That person doesn't know me. That person's not a believer. That's not his. So yeah, you don't want to do that. You are my, see, dog on it, Barry. Brother, I'd love to talk to you. You are mild, look at it. You are miles better than evil people. You're not evil. Yeah, yeah, Ricky, they're supposed to be. We were, when we had, and I'll come back to you, Barry, but we were all over the place because they never actually told me exactly what we're going to be talking about. They never said, you know, just, it's okay, fine. I didn't prepare for anything in particular, but they do want to come back and go over demons and maybe over other spirits, it gives, I don't know, because there's some things I want to kind of flesh out that they covered as well, but yeah, we really couldn't. And so, yeah, I would love, I hope we do. I think we're going to, I don't know when though. But now back to this Barry. Brother, I would like to leave today knowing that you are in a better position than you are saying this. Brother, what makes you think that you are better than evil people? What is it about you? What was it, what is it about you? Okay, hold on, wait a second, where's your question? Let me go see where your question is. Let me go see Smoky Off. Let me go see that, let me type your name, hold on, Smoky. Okay, I'm going to answer your question just a second as we are. But Barry, back to Barry, back to Barry. What makes you better off than everybody else, Barry? And I don't know if you understand the danger in what you're saying. I don't think you understand that because you're thinking you're the, it's that level of arrogance that sets you up for a great fall. I don't think that I'm not as bad as these people. I'm not as bad as that person. I'm not as that. And then it's almost like I got a message from heaven. Like the angels like, watch this y'all, watch this. Watch him fall, watch him fall. Yeah, see, I think you're being self-righteous though. All due respect, brother. I think you're being self-righteous. The evil people to me are people who commit sins which affect society, which I've never done. Well, which sins do you commit? Help us out, Barry. Which sins do you commit? What are the kinds of sins? Since you want to be transparent, you want to say what you don't commit, what do you commit? You said, I know what I think. Well, okay, Barry, what sins do you commit? Help us out, because we don't know it. All I do know is this. Barry, you, I got you, Rashawn, you tend to, people are always on you in the chat. So it's a lot of things that you're always saying. And I don't always catch it, but there's a lot of things you always say. Yeah, Barry, yeah, you have pride. Barry, Barry, your pride is up there, brother. Your pride is high. Now, okay, got to take, all right. You said between me and God. All right. I'll say this, Barry, God bless you, brother, but I know for a fact God will not say that your sin is better or less than that other person because he never said that to anybody. He's never, anyone ever said that their sin or their worst off. They never, we have a couple of counts where someone is doing that and how did you just deal with that person? Paul, Paul says that he's the chief of sinners. Now, either Paul is lying about exaggerate. I don't know, maybe he's telling the truth. Yeah, all ungodliness is evil in the sight of the Lord. And you think that you don't, you just think that you don't stink as much. Yeah, you might, you might, you might. Do I believe that working in the marijuana industry results in ungodliness? I do. Here's why, let me tell you why. Even though it's not what is a scheduled seed drug or not one, I forgot how the thing goes. And then it just so happens, our wonderful president has pardoned a lot of federal convictions for marijuana. Let me tell you, let me tell you what marijuana does. It actually absolutely affects the brain cells. And what we don't need are people less alert. I don't think we need, I think you all would agree with that. We don't need people that are less alert. Think we need people that are more alert. And then we see that there are a lot of crimes that take place in dealing with marijuana, even with legal marijuana. So I would say, no, I just, I just wouldn't do a plus. It still has the feel of sin or ungodliness. And so you want to avoid the very appearance of ungodliness or sin. So cannabis is good for sleep. You know what else is good for sleep? Working out, get your workout in, get your workout regimen, and guess what you'll do? You'll sleep good at night. Amen? I saw, wait a second. Okay, let me go to these last few questions. Okay, smoky eye. She's growing up in a church. I never heard of all these isms. Is this coming, is this something new than y'all be fighting over these isms? Who is and isn't, why do y'all need to identify with these isms? I don't think that a person needs to be a Calvinist, a Methodist, a Baptist. I mean, to go over the iss, a Dispensationalist or anything like that. Some of these kind of help identify what you believe, but I would never, me personally, I've said that don't call yourself aist. Don't call yourself a Calvinist. Don't call yourself an Armenian. Don't call yourself a Provisionalist. Don't call yourself a Dispensationalist. Now, even if you hold all of those views, don't call yourself that because what ends up happening is just human nature. You end up entrenching yourself in those clicks and you end up defending people who are like you, even if they should not be defended. Now, the confrontations, the disagreements, that's always been and always will be. We have those even in the Bible and they're healthy, they're good so that we can kind of flesh out what good doctrine is. Now, what we don't want to do is turn on others. So let's say you are on this side of the aisle and smoke y'all, I'm on this side. Steel brothers and sisters and the Lord. I think you're wrong on this, but man, I love you. Anybody mess with her, gotta fight, but beat you up, right? But we can talk about it and it's how we talk about it. We can do it in a loving fashion. And then there are times where you have to say, you know what, listen, you're a goofball. You are bad for the church. You're doing a disservice because Paul does say, he says a couple of things. He says to reprove, which means we have to, hey, I think you're wrong. This is literally a command, reprove. He says, rebuke. So when a person says something that he rebuking for, we rebuke them. Exort, encourage, all those things, encourage people. Exort these folks. And then he wraps it up by saying, do these things with all long suffering or great patience continually in teaching. So you teach to do these things so you're gonna keep doing it over and over and over again while teaching. You're gonna reprove over and over and over again while teaching. You're gonna rebuke over and over and over again while teaching. You're gonna exhort over and over again with teaching, okay? That is just literally a command to do. And sometimes, and sometimes some people just, it bothers them because I don't wanna see the fighting. It's a, can't we all just get along kind of thing? Sometimes we can, but it's necessary to go ahead and just iron some things out. Amen? Rashan, Dr. Rashan asked me a question with two verses. Possibly more. He says, John 1.48 and 49, Matthew 16, 16 through 18, comparison Jesus's response to Peter versus Nathania. Okay, don't go on it, Rashan. I'm taking your moderator thing away. John 1.48, Jesus, well, what happened? Okay, Nathaniel said to him, how do you know me? Jesus answered and said to him, before Philip called you when you were under the fig tree, I saw you. Nathaniel answered him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel. Oh, and then you see what he says. How does Jesus say so? I mean, how does Peter and Paul say so? Not Peter and Paul. How does Peter say so? My King James version, thou art the Christ. Jesus answered and said to him, because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater signs than these. And he said to him, truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens open and the angels of God ascending and ascending on the Son of Man. And then you contrast that with what Peter says. Let's go to Matthew 16, 16, 16. I say to you, you are Peter. And upon this rock, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail. I'm sorry, let's back up a little bit, 16 verse 16. You are the Christ of the living God. And Jesus said to him, blessed are you, Simon Bargeon. Now let's go back to the other one. In this one, hold on one second. Let's go to verse 46. Nathaniel said to him, can any good thing come? Matter of fact, let's go back a little further. Let's go, the next day he purposed to go into Galilee, this is Jesus, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, follow me. Now Philip was from Bethesda, I'm sorry, from Bethesda, which is Bethesda, of the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathaniel and said to him, and said to him, I just lost my spot. Oh, and said to him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. Nathaniel said to him, can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, come and see Jesus sawed Nathaniel coming to him and said of him, behold, an Israelite indeed in whom there is no deceit. Nathaniel said to him, how do you know me? Now, it's not as though Philip, I'm not Philip, Nathaniel is not knowing of who Jesus is, even though he's just now a medium. Remember what's happening here. As Jesus calling the disciples at the very beginning, as he's calling people, there are other people that are disciples of someone else. John, the Baptist has his disciples. We see some at the very end in Acts 19 who are telling everyone, repent, the kingdom of heaven's at hand, and they're coming out to see John, and John is telling them, also the scriptures tell them about this prophet that's going to come, this Jesus is going to come. And so they know they're waiting there. Their hearts have been prepared, so to speak. And so Nathaniel already knows. So do we know that this is the Holy Spirit that's saying this? No, this is probably just him being already told. Now he's getting a revelation. And Jesus said that you're going to see even more so, however, versus what Peter, this is clearly Peter. Jesus saying the Spirit has some sort of way informed him of what's going to happen. Flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you, but my father has done so. And so there's a little bit of a difference, but I still think though that the Lord had a hand in opening up Nathaniel and bringing him there. So I don't think there's too much of a difference. However, the confession that Peter is making, not that it was the first time that someone is making this confession, that Jesus is the Christ. Jesus the Christ isn't the first time that that confessional profession is being made. All Jesus is saying in Matthew 16, let's go back to it. All he's saying in Matthew 16 is that also I said to you that you are Peter and upon this rock, that this rock is the statement that you are the Christ. And I will build my church upon this and I will give you that. Now he's speaking to them specifically now though, but upon this profession, I'm building my church off of this, that he is the Christ, that he is the Lord. And then for you guys, you disciples, I am going to give you the ability to hear what heaven is saying, the keys, in other words, that what heaven declares, you will be able to declare it. You're not forcing heaven to declare anything. You're not binding heaven to bind what you bind. You will just know what's been bound and what's been lost. Does that make sense? Hope that makes sense. Okay, all right, ladies and gentlemen, I have got to leave. Actually, I do have to leave. Let me see something one quick second. No, I don't believe that any believers in Christ could be excluded from the rapture. If there's a rapture, no believers will be excluded. Does worry equal work to the devil? No, but it does help them out. But it doesn't mean you're working with the devil. I've seen people say things like that. So, all right, guys, I started off. I was not feeling so good today. I'm feeling a little bit better. Feeling a little bit better. In the meantime, guys, I love you all so much. What's the day today? Friday, Friday, Friday. I will see you again, not live. I don't think live. Who knows? Something might happen. Something might happen. But more than likely, I will not see you live. But there will be several, several videos in the meantime between now and Christmas. I will not see you live on Christmas either. So the next time that we are live, we'll be, where's my handy dandy calendar? What is the day today? Is, so the next time we'll see each other live will be Tuesday. So in the meantime, guys, please, JL, JL, JL, stop it. We're trying to leave on a good note and you want to mess stuff up. How about them cowboys? Well, you guys are something else. I love you. Listen, you keep us on our toes. Anyway, guys, I love you so much. In the meantime, be blessed.