 Good afternoon, good morning. Before we get started, I wanna just go ahead and make a quick announcement. I found out something yesterday. I'm not sure if this is prevalent or what the issue is, but there's somebody who I know who watches the channel. Matter of fact, two somebodies who said that their chats or their comments aren't showing up in the chats and that they're blocked. However, the problem is when I go back and look at the, I have a list of on YouTube Studio, all of the people that are blocked, and that person, those two people that I know are not blocked. And so for that reason, I don't know what the deal is. I don't know what the issue is. So if you're trying to make comments and you can't, you're seeing that they're not going through, well, then what I want you to do is go to the other channel. This is, I've got it going on both channels so that if you want to leave a comment, I can go ahead and see it and also put it up. So if that's the case, I don't know what the deal is. It's something, it's a YouTube thing. It's not a me thing. I don't know, since yesterday I went through and saw all of the people that were blocked on yesterday and I wanted to make sure that a bunch of somebodies were not blocked. And so I'm blocking some folks, but some people are still not able to. I don't know what the deal is. I'll look into it, find out more. Maybe look at some videos on YouTube or call them and see what the deal is, but it's not on me. So I just want to alert you guys at that. So if you guys want to go over to the other channel, no problem, we got you covered on both ends. So with that being stated, we have to start off the right way. Well, there we go. You cannot start off a smart Christian channel live stream without the good music. You got to have, I'm just convinced though. I might be wrong, I might be wrong. I just convinced that that is what I'm going to hear right before I die. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong, but I can dream, right? I can dream. Anyway, couple of things. Let's go over a couple of the priests, I shouldn't say priest-selected, but some of the one, two, three, four, the first five questions that were submitted previously on the live stream chat. And I want to go over this, but one of those I'm actually not going to go over. I want to do one better. That is, whose is it? In search of truth 41, your question is too good. Your question, not that the other questions aren't, but your question, your question requires more than the time that we have here. Your question requires us to actually do a video. So either tomorrow or Sunday, you'll see the answer to the question. The question is in regards to is John the Baptist, is he Elijah? What does that mean? Coming in the spirit of Elijah. So we're going to cover that. We're going to make a video over just that. Amen? So, and by the way, a lot of the videos that I'm going to start doing, many of them, I'm going to look at, go back and look at some of the chats and can't cover them all. But you know what? Let me make a video over those. And if you want to have a video sent, leave a comment. I'll look at the comment, email me. Of course, you know how that goes sometimes. And we'll go ahead and make the video. And if you don't mind, I'll even mention your name. Hey, I'll say spider monkey submitted a question. And here is, because of that, thank you for the question. Here's the answer. Brianna left the question here. So those, if you want me to, if you don't want me to, let me know that you don't want me to say your name. But I don't think you guys will probably have a problem because I want to say your name if I raise your question here anyway. But that being the case, that being the craze. Oh, thank you. Watchman 93 says, hey, dear brother, I really appreciate your transparency about what you went through. We don't have a similar story, but just like you mentioned, pride is my downside, pray for me. You know what? It's everybody's truth. Truth be told, there's not a such thing as a sinner who didn't have some level of pride. Now pride shows up in different ways. It does. We think that if a person is what you would call severely humble or depressed, even suicidal to some degree, that is a pride thing. It's a me thing. It's an in focus thing. It just goes, it just shows up in different ways. Sometimes it's all about me. That can be all about, all about me is all about me. Look at me. And then all about me can also be woe is me. So we all had the same issue. All of our sin begins with I. So do I use StreamYard? No, I do not use StreamYard. StreamYard is for Cowboy, Dallas Cowboy fans and unsafe people. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Now do me a favor guys. Hold off on your questions for now because I want to go ahead and answer these four questions. That way I, well, you know, never mind, never mind. Go ahead and submit your questions. I'll go back and just sort through them. I'll go back and sort through them. So the first question is, okay, this is an interesting question. Spider monkey says, according to Psalm 6821, do you think we lose our hair because of sin? This is almost blasphemous. I think we might need to put spider monkey in time now. Let me go to, let me go to this passage. Let me go to this part. Let me see how spider monkey is just twisting scriptures. Psalms, did you say Psalm 6821? Let me go see. I, let me go see. Psalm 68, okay. I can't believe I'm looking this up. Is it 21? Okay, Psalm 6821, let's see. Surely God will shatter the head of his enemies. The hairy crown of him who goes on in his guilty deeds. No, quite the opposite. This is a sinner who has hair. This is a hairy sinner. That's what this is. And so I think I see, I see what you were trying to do. I see what you're trying to do. It was almost like reverse psychology. I see what you did. You wanted to pull it in so you can show the world how godly baldheadedness is. Yes, cause y'all remember teasing people about their bald head will cause a bear to come and get you. Ask the prophet what happened to these kids. These kids, yeah, I don't care they're kids. You kids are talking about me calling me you bald head. Okay, well fine. Here comes a bear. Now let the bear digest off your hair. So anyway. Anyway, thank you spider monkey. Sheila, you ask, can you explain Revelation chapter one verses 18 and 19 and do they relate to Genesis 11? My pastor preached on this and I just want to make sure I understood what he meant. Okay, so let me go to that passage now. But I've got a question. I've got a question and I'm not sure where is it? Okay, so when I go there, let's put on screen. And the living one and I was dead and behold, I'm alive forever more and have the keys of death and Hades. Therefore write the things which you have seen, the things which are and the things which will take place after these things. Now I'm not sure how he related to that. So I wouldn't know. But I just, I do want to make this interesting point though about this. I do want to make this very interesting point about this. Notice what John is getting ready to give a recap. He's going to give a recap of the things that have happened in the past, what is happening right now and then what is going to come. The reason why that's important because I think I saw, I'll look for what we may get to it but asking if certain parts of Revelation have been, have happened. Well, no, because he's telling him what things are to come. These are future looking and so they hadn't happened yet and what they will. So anyway, that being the case, Sheila tell me, help me out. I'm not sure exactly how he put it together. So I don't know how to answer that question. Here's a personal question but I don't have a problem answering. Oh, that's what you're trying to figure out. Yeah, I have no idea. What did he say? What, what, how did he, what did he say about chapter 11 because chapter 11 happens to do with Tower of Babel and then who began who and so forth. So. No, listen, by the way, by the way, guys, I'm going to give you all, I see what Joan just said. No, Joan said, I got 20,000 emails like, listen, I think I'll check and see how many emails have not been read. Let me see. I'll tell you the exact number right now. Let's go to it. Somebody said, how many heavens are there? That's the last question that was given. By the way, there's three. But I'll look and see if there's even more. But right, okay. Not 20,000, Joan. It's not 20,000, just 2,103 emails. Now, some of these emails aren't to be responded to. Like some kind of way I'm getting some spam from AT&T. Ugh, why is that even in there? Why, anyway, but about 2,000, they're about so. One day, one day. But how did he, but Sheila, how did he put it? I'm interested, what did he talk about? You got the Tower of Babel and then all the genealogies of a few people as they're coming off the boat and so coming off the boat. I'd be interested to hear that. But anyway, continuing, continuing, I'm trying to mark some of these. Now, see, this is blasphemous. Speaking of blasphemy, Corey doesn't answer mods emails. Well, first of all, this is why, yeah, I do, sometimes I do, sometimes I do. But here's the thing. Every last moderator, I think, I think every moderator should have my phone number. If you don't, then email me and I'll give it to you. How about that? If you don't have my phone number, ask another moderator. If you're a moderator, ask another moderator for my phone number and call me, text me because if I'm really going and I can see, like Lisa said, put it on slow mode, I happen to see that, but I might not see that. But if you phone me, the text will pop up here and here and here. I didn't set it up that way. It's actually annoying sometimes that text messes up like that and phone pop up over here, but I'll see you guys, I'll notice it. Anyway, so you should have my phone number. You should have my phone number. But here's a personal question and I don't have a problem with answering personal questions even though I have to deal with slander from the moderator, as I've gotten right now from Brian L. Chess. Nathan Senpai, does YouTube pay you well enough for you to do this full-time or do you have other income? Well, here is the answer. Personal question, I'll give an answer. Well, I'll never tell you exactly what I get, but is it enough to live off of? No, it's not. I heard someone say, someone said that I'm getting like $10,000, $11,000 a month just off of YouTube AdSense revenue. No, I'm not. I wish it was. Lord, I wish I was. Maybe one day, but I wish I was. No. And then they've got this little thing where you can just plug in someone's YouTube channel and then see what they make. First of all, it's a long range, big range and it's always incorrect. It's always incorrect. But to answer the first part of the question, is it enough income to live off of? No, I do other things. I do other things. That's why sometimes if you catch me, I might be out and about doing other things. Plus, when I came back home from prison, my wife was working and she still works. So anyway, yeah. So Simone asked a question. Jay Simone, I'm sorry. Jay Simone asked a question. Hello, how can we uphold Proverbs 226 with our uninterested children without causing them to further resist biblical guidance? Well, the question's gonna be, Jay Simone, is are you speaking of adult children? You said with our uninterested children without causing them to further resist biblical guidance. Oh, I think I get what you're saying. If there's a child that you're trying to discipline or you're trying to train, according to how I'm pretty sure you're reading this passage, then what if they're not interested? Well, let's go to the passage. Let's go to the passage because there's an interesting tidbit in that passage in Proverbs 226. Here's how you probably read it. You read it as the way it says in English, train up a child and the way that he should go and even when he is old, he or she will not depart from it. So how do I do that? How do I force that child to do so? How do I do so without, I guess, what'd you say? Causing them to further resist? Well, that's a good question. Here's an answer to that problem because the problem is also in how we're reading it. I want you guys to listen to this. I've covered this before, but if we can cover it again, we're gonna cover topics over and over again anyway. But this word right here, train can either be a warning or it can be a command. I'm gonna tell you that it's not a command. It's not a command that's telling you, hey, you better train up your child this way. It's a warning. The warning, if you really wanna get a good understanding of it, put that if you train a child. Just for us as English speaking people, here's why. Train up a child and I want you all to notice on the right hand side. I'm gonna highlight the Hebrew. Let me highlight this right here and highlight that now. You see what's highlighted? The words that are highlighted in the Hebrew are the words Al, P, Derko. Al is upon, P is the word, is for his mouth, upon the mouth and then Derko, Derek is way, the polynomial suffix on it is the holom. So Derko, so it's his way. Here's how that literally reads. Train the child or train to the child upon the mouth of his way. And then it reads correctly that in the way that he should go, I'm sorry, not the way that he should go and even when he's old, he will not depart from it. Well, that didn't make any sense. That makes absolutely no sense. Have you ever heard it said that way? Train up a child upon the mouth of his way and when he's old, he will not depart. Well, let's back up for a second. If you train a child the way that he's supposed to go, if we take it like that, train a child the way that he's supposed to go, does that work all the time? Ask a parent, any parents in the live stream chat. You've trained your child as best you could and maybe most of the kids have worked out well. Maybe there's one kid who's like, Lord, this child is going to be the death of me. This child is causing my head to turn gray. It doesn't work out 100% of the time. Matter of fact, who's the greatest parent ever? Who is the greatest parent ever? Well, that'd be God. And did all of his children turn out right, even less think about Israel? No. So if it's to be taken that if you train it, train a child the way that he should go by doing so when he's older, he won't depart from it. That's not what this passage means, which is why I gave it to you in the Hebrew. Train a child upon the mouth of his way. What does upon the mouth of his way mean? And then you'll see why the English, and you'll see it in the English as well when I explain this to you, but upon the mouth of his way is an idiom. Train a child according to his natural bent, according to the way that he goes, according to the way that he wants to go, I'll be there according to the mouth of his way. That means if you train a child according to the way he wants to go, if you do it the way he wants to do it, according to his natural bent, then when he's old, he'll always be that way. For example, if your child is messy, if you train that child and that's, and being messy is the mouth of his way, being messy is his bent, being messy is the way that he should go, being messy is the way that he should go. Well then when he's old, guess what he'll be, messy. Train up a child in the way that he should go, if that child is selfish, well then if he's selfish at five and you allow him to be trained and be selfish at five, then at 15 he'll be selfish, at 25, at 55, if that's the way you're gonna train him according to his bent, he'll be that way. That's what that means and so what you do is, so what it is is, it's kind of a little bit of a warning to look at your child, notice his or her bad patterns, his natural bent, this child has a tendency to get angry, this child has a tendency to get frustrated and throw his crayons, this child has a tendency to kind of get recluse and retreat to his or her room when things get bad. A lot of kids a day don't handle uncomfortable situations and they kind of retreat, especially now we've got all this technology we can just be by ourselves and do all this all day long and not interact with people. If that child is like that now, how will he be when he's 50, that same way? And so it's a warning to not train your child according to his bent. Now if his bent is something godly we'll find, it works both ways, but that's literally what that passage means. So matter of fact, I'm gonna take that part and make it into a smaller video for someone else to see. Okay, was that the, I'll make sure that was the last one of the pre, okay, yeah, yeah, and I will get to in search of truth 41, I will get to your question later. Yes, the right of correction is necessary. The right of correction is very much necessary, even though it's 2023 and we look down on that, we should absolutely be correcting these children. As my, what do they say? Ain't nothing wrong with these children, but a good blank whooping, kids just listen, kids need a whooping, kids need, sometimes they need a whooping, good whooping, they need a spanking. So anyway, let's see. Now let me go, I'm moving past the introductions and let's go to the questions that I've marked off. I'm trying to mark off some more. And monkey moves had the audacity, the audacity to ask another question after the first blasphemous question about hair. The unmitigating gull of you, spider monkey. The anyway. Okay, let me just take 30 more seconds and mark some more questions as well. By the way, let me just say this as I'm marking some of these questions. Sometimes I go back and I'll just see you all's comments in the live stream chats and so forth. And guys, it does my heart good to see how smart some of you guys just really are. You guys just, and just see you all thinking your way through, like, man, he's, yeah, yeah. Because you know what you don't want? It's gonna sound kind of mean. But you don't want a live stream chat or subscriber base full of people who have no clue about the Bible. Like, wow, this is. So if you got, and by the way, I, you guys answer or ask some great questions and you answer them. A lot of times where I see someone asking a question or saying something and a lot of you guys are jarring on the spot with the responsive. So I think that's cool. I think that is, that is, that's amazing to me. Brooke Junior, I'll tell you about the military thing later. When I tell you it's embarrassing what I did. Okay, maybe a shit. Let me think. Let me think. Because I can see. I can see. I can see. You know what? What the heck? What the heck? Yeah, you know what? Let's do a quick poll. Cause maybe no one wants to hear this. Does anyone want to hear this? How I got out of the army? See if I want to hear this. It's not a godly, it's not all that godly how I got out. It's stupid how I got out. It really is stupid. But I'll tell you guys real quick. Cause it leads to another story, which I can't tell. I was, I never really told you guys what all went into me being homeless. That's another time. But when I was homeless and I still wanted to play football, my thought was because I'm always at that point trying to figure stuff out. I'm going to make it happen. I'm going to try to make this work. I'm going to figure out how to make this stuff work. So that's what I'm going to do. And so I'm still young enough. I got to get back in school. They took my scholarship away and daddy wasn't helping me out cause I had just told him to go somewhere cause I'm a grown man. All of 19 years old, I know what I'm doing daddy. I don't need you. So when that happened, I had no place to go. And I had to go literally stay in one of my best friend's basement. Matter of fact, I wonder if my other best friend is here. I literally had to go stay in his basement. And so while I was in his basement, I'm trying to figure out how to get back. I'll miss this season, but I'm young enough. I can get back next season. So what did I do? I saw a commercial about the Army GI Bill. I can go in and get the funds, join the Army and they'll pay for me to go to college. Fine, since anything, and I'm not thinking, you know, as a 19 year old, you don't think. I didn't think. So what did I do? Join the Army. And if you ever have met a really overzealous recruiting officer for any of the branches. Well, I met one and this guy, this guy told me, he said, this is what you can do. I said, well, because I saw, you know, you go to basic training and then you go to AIT that's your advanced individual training. That's where you go to whatever year, wherever you're gonna go, whatever you're gonna do, that's where you're supposed to go after basic training. Well, by the way, I'm one of the few people, I don't know if I'm the only person, one of the few people to ever be enlisted in the Army without ever having to go through basic training. Yeah. Kara, I know you were in the military. You can't say that, can you? You can't, yeah. I went in, I was special. I was special enough to go in to the armed forces without going to basic training. Yep. Here's what happened. When I signed up and I noticed, I said, wait a second. No, no, no, no, actually I didn't notice this. I noticed that, wait a second, by the time I finished basic training at AIT, school started back up and I wanted to get back in before the spring. And so he says, oh, no problem, minor, just like in prison. Just like in prison, the Army calls you by your last name. If only I had a new thing in here. He said, Deron Walker, how do you pull that off? I'm gonna tell you, it's just the dumbest thing. And it also involves my mother. Minor, tell me what we can do for you. It's no problem, it's no problem. Now this guy's good, this guy's good. He's dealt with 30,000 people just like me, just didn't know anything, thought they'd be just dumb as a box of shells. He said, minor, it's no problem. We can do what's called split training. Huh, split training. Yeah, split training. What split training is, is you go to AIT and this is how he explained it to me guys. Listen to how he got me. He said, you go to AIT, then you can go to school in the spring and then do, I'm sorry, go to basic training, then go to school in the spring and then do AIT after, just split training. So you do basic, go to school, go to college in the spring and do AIT after that. And he says, you do that and we'll pay for your schooling. That's exactly how he said it. And if you do that and we'll pay your schooling. He said, okay, I can do that. So how cumbersome will that be in the summer? It's not very long, you'll have your summers and so forth. You'll be able to go back to practice and everything. Yeah, he got me, he got me good. He got me good. Cause I could do that, but what he didn't tell me, and I didn't find this out, you know, you go in a room, you raise your hand to the president on the wall, with everybody else. Take your little drug test. I go to the base there in Annapolis on the, over by the airport. And I'm reading the brochure, cause I got time, reading the brochure and it says that if you do split training, it says that we will not pay for schooling until after AIT. Well, wait a second. How does that work with my split training? So I asked, I asked another officer who was walking by and he said, oh no, no, no, no, no. If you do split training, they won't pay for it until after you finish AIT. So if you go to school in the middle, you got to pay for it. Well, that puts me back in square one. No, I quit. No, no, I quit. Bye. So, but you know, yeah, you're not quitting. You are not quitting cause you are literally property of the United States armed forces. So here I am talking about I quit. I know you're not. You ain't going nowhere. So I'm trying to figure out a way to get out of this. I go back home or to my buddy's basement and I'm trying to figure this out and I'm getting desperate cause my buddy is now, he's playing football at Purdue. He's getting ready to leave. I got another, my other best friend. He's getting ready to go back off to school. Actually he was, but then he decided not to. Hold another story. And so I'm nervous. Everybody, all my friends are going back to college summers over with and here I am in my friend's basement who's going back to in his parents' basement. This ain't working. This ain't working. So I devised a stupid plan. I devised an absolutely stupid and embarrassing plan. Back then, let me drink some coffee cause I, yeah. Who asked that question? Yeah. Back then, if you were gay and in the army you couldn't be gay in the army. You could not be gay and in the army. This is, yeah, this is prior to don't ask, don't tell. 13 Romeo's, 13 Romeo? Yeah. So I said, with my brilliant plan, stupid plan, I missed my ship date by the way. I had missed my ship date. I ain't going nowhere, forget that. Nope, come get me. So there's one corporal, I forget her name and she thinks she's tough. She's about five, one and a half and she thought that she was the toughest person on the planet. She said, my name is Skip, your ship date, what happened? I said, well, I said, I couldn't go. And now she's been upset with me. So I said, I gotta figure something out. She says, cause if you don't show up we got another ship date for you. You missed this one. We've got some marshals coming to get you. I don't know how to live on the run. So, what could I think of? She said, yeah, you're AWOL. Well, the reason why I didn't go is because I'm afraid of gay bashing. I'm afraid of gay bashing and the phone got quiet. And my buddies are standing there and they're like, what you just, what? Oh, you didn't do that, Courtney, no. And he said, minor, tell you what, oh no, no, she gave the phone to someone else. She said, minor, let me get this right. What'd you say? Yeah, I'm afraid of gay bashing. He said, I'll tell you what, I'll call you back. Gives it to his superior to call me back. Now, in the meantime, me and my two buddies and my buddy's brother were sitting there and they just laughed at me and said, you big idiot. What you do realize that's probably going to go in your record somewhere. Somebody's gonna know and think that you are gay. Said, I'm not gay. Well, it doesn't matter what you say, it's what they say. So, look at CG, that's just mean for the rainbow up. So what did I do? Who called me back? Cap and so-and-so called me back. Cause now these folks are, this is serious. Cap and so-and-so, I forget his name, called me back. Minor, what's this I hear about you being gay? Well, my friends have talked some sense into me by this time. Where'd you hear that? I'm not gay, who told you that? You didn't say that, no. No, I didn't say that. So now I'm lying too. Cause it hit me, you can't go out like that. You cannot go out like that. So, okay, listen, stop playing with it. That's what he says, stop playing with us. You've got a new ship date. As a matter of fact, I need you, I want you here on such and such date. I go up there, I figure, I can talk these folks out because you lied to me. Didn't ever listen, you can say you lied to you, whatever you signed, you're ours. Well, my mother, I told you the story about my mother as a bit of a, she's a bit of a gangster. She's a bit of a thug. All five foot, or five foot one of her. She drives up there to the base while I'm there. And she says, I want to have a talk with the captain, the agent captain, no, agent, who was it? I forgot who it was. Agent captain or agent general, and there's another, some higher ups in the Indiana National Guard and someone else. And she says, just stay in the room. I mean, stay out here, we'll go in there and talk. Can I go in? She said, no, sit your little butt down here. No, I'm like, mom, I'm grown. No, you're not. If you was grown, you wouldn't be in this situation. So they go in there. And at first I hear my mother yelling, she's yelling. All right, come on, mama, come on, mama. Get me out, get me out. It got quiet for a while. They finally come out. And my mother said, they won't talk to you. She said, but they're gonna let you out. I love you, mama, I love my mama. And then the captain and sergeant, so and so is the minor. If you don't want to be in the Army, we don't want you to be in the Army. But it's gonna take some paperwork. We gotta process you out and so forth. So give us about a week or two. We're gonna start the process of processing you out. But you gotta show it for all of your duties. So they said, in the event of a war, if they call you up, you're going without any training, what have you, but you're going. All your duties and so forth, when we call you in, you gotta come in. So I'm going to all of these different duties and so forth. Listen, I got a gun. I got a gun and ain't been trained on nothing. I'm back in the little area where they got all these little old and new satellite pieces and so forth. And they drag out my DD-214, my getting released for about eight months. Why? Because they want to try to get me to stay. So I will say this, I scored, Carol, listen, I scored really well on the ASVAP. So the guys said, they're gonna try to let you out. They're gonna try to do everything mechanic and convince you. You can go to school through the Army. You can learn whatever you want to. No, does the Army have a good football team? No, so no. That's part of my story. That's part of gonna fold up here. That ain't gonna work in the Army. That ain't gonna work. Yeah, no, that's not in the Bible. So anyway, yeah, that was, can you see why I didn't want to tell this story? Can you see why I didn't want to tell this story? So anyway, let's go ahead and jump into this. Why is Pontius' wife mentioned in Matthew 2719 and how do you view Pilate? Do you think there was, there's a work being done in him? So let's go to Matthew 2719. Pilate and his wife are interesting. Matthew 2719. Watch that part of that clip that I just said that whole story. It's gonna show up on somebody else's video. Somebody's gonna clip that and make it, which is why I don't care. Meanwhile, he was sitting on the judgment seat. His wife, his Pilate, his Pilate's wife sent him a message saying, have nothing to do with that righteous man. For last night, I suffered greatly in a dream because of him. But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death. So Pilate's wife, apparently the Lord is speaking to her clearly, working in her and she knows. By the way, you don't even have to be a godly person and look at Jesus and see this person is not like everyone else. You can see how he's moving. You hear, they hear the rumors, they know what's happening. And even Pilate says, there's no fault in this man. Now, Pilate though, because of political persuasion and pressures and so forth. And you cannot have this person going around preaching against Caesar. Cause you know, these Pharisees, they're gonna do everything they can to cause problems for Pilate. I don't know what would happen to Pilate. Do I think that anything, and there's no real record to talk about what may have happened to him if he actually repented, if he places faith in Christ. Who knows, or if the wife did because simply merely having a dream or knowing, hey, this man is righteous. That necessarily that mean that they actually place saving faith in him. Maybe they did. I pray they did. Wouldn't that be cool to be in heaven and to see Pilate and his wife? But there's no reason to believe that he is and there's no reason to believe that they're not. We just don't know. We just don't know. That's a cool question though. Oh, okay. Oh, two people asked that question. Okay. So Goon Bamidele, Rebecca, someone who was saved, got into a car crash and passed away. But right before the crash, they said an expletive. Will they go to hell? A friend said this to me and I don't know how to reply. Well, you're not going to hell or heaven. Because you did this sin or you did that sin or you did that sin. You're going to hell or heaven based upon you owing an outstanding debt. That is the debt that you owe if that debt has been paid. The only way that debt can be paid is if you place faith in the debt that was paid. And so if that person placed faith in the debt that was paid, though there was a sin that they committed or that they said something. Now, we talked about cussing before. The word cussing is just to be profane, vulgar and so forth. And it's usually towards someone else, but does that mean that you can say something to yourself inwardly? Is that profanity? Probably so, I would say yes, but does that mean that you die for that? You go to hell for that? No. No. Because guess what's going to happen when you die? There are going to be some sins that you also have committed that you haven't, that you just committed. And I don't want to have you repent of that particular sin. You remember when you cussed in 1987, you haven't cussed since then, but the last time you cussed, you didn't repent for it. You had to lower off, apologize for that. That's not how repentance work. That is not how repentance work. And oh, by the way, we're going to talk about on sometime next week about repentance, how it actually works in relation to salvation and in relation to sin. Because what happens is we look at sin and we forget everything that we've ever held to and believed about salvation. All that we believe about salvation goes out the door because we're focused on either our own sin or someone else's sin. So we got to go back in and look at that. So, no, that person, that person plays legitimate faith in Christ, that person is safe without question. Thank you for the super chat, Lashonda. Oh, thank you. You said you had, I had on myself very well yesterday. Thank you. Those are, you know what? I thank you for those words. I thank you so much. Love you also. Thank you for the, for the supersticker as well. Gabby, here's a good question. How do you stop having suicidal thoughts? It's a good question, important question. At my lowest, by the way, I had suicidal thoughts for a hot, for a hot second, for a hot second, because I wanted to make sure that everything and everybody would be, would be whole. So there was, there were, there were policies that would cover one, my family to the business, which would also cover the family as well. And then anyone else that was old, old money clients or what have you. And so my thought was, you know what? If I, if I just died, Lord, just I can die and then everything would be right. Now that, that's, that's also my what was me and not wanting to deal with the mess that I created. I found out that I don't want to die. Found out that I don't want to die. You know how I know that? If you're in Dallas and you're driving on I-20, the Southern part and you drive towards, going towards 45, there's a bridge on 20 where there's a small little, what do you call it, shoulder? So you can pull over, pretend like I'm changing my tire. There's semis going all, going back and forth all day long. I can just act like I'm hitting my tire and just fall out in the street. I mean, let the semi hit me. And I thought about, listen, I thought, I was thinking, what can I do? I thought, first of all, if the semi hits you and you don't die, you're going to be messed up. You go, and you still got to fix this problem. So never, I said, I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. No God, this will, this will be rectified one way somehow. So anybody can have suicidal thoughts. How do I know? Because even Paul himself said, because of what was happening to them this for the sake of the gospel, he says that we despaired even of life itself. Things can get so bad like, you know what, I can just go ahead and die. I can, so people have those thoughts, even good Godly people such as Paul, such as the disciples, it happens. Well, how do you do it? Well, the way you fix that is two fold. Philippians four, let's go to Philippians four. That's one passage we can go to the point to it. Philippians four, Philippians four. We're going to two passes. One, the first one is Philippians four, but then the other one is going to be James four. So let's start with James four first. James four says it's starting in verse, let's start in eight. Now, you know it's starting seven. Therefore submit therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee. So these thoughts of you dying or killing yourself, they come from the enemy. They don't come from God. They come from enemy. So resist the devil and he will flee. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. I can promise you this, the closer you get to him, the closer you get to him, those thoughts go away. Why? He's better at cleaning you up than anyone else. Anyone has a problem with the way you are or what you're going through, have them pray for you that you get closer to God. Your incessant complaining and talking trash about me and this and that, whatever, that won't fix me. What will fix me is my closest, my proximity to God. What saves us, what grows us, what keeps us, what makes us better is our proximity. You can be a believer and be even more distant from God. The closer you get to God, the better. Whether you are a believer or a non-believer. If a non-believer gets close to God, what happens? Same thing that happens with the believer. So that therefore you need to, as he says, draw yourself closer to him. How do you do so? Well, here's a good way to do so. Let's go to Philippians four. He says, well, you know, let's start in verse, let's start in verse seven. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension will guard your heart and your minds in Christ. So finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is humble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is a good repute or report. If there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise dwell on these things or think on these things, you do those things. That is how you help yourself to overcome suicidal thoughts. Something else I also wanna do with, because it also may be that a person might not actually be saved. And we're gonna cover this on next week as well about a person or what's happening here in James, but James 513 says, is anyone among you suffering? This word suffering, this is a person that is hurt, that's torment, that is, and it could be, this is spiritually speaking, guys. Now, this could be a believer, likely not a believer. And so if a person is going through these mental machinations if I'm saying the correct way, then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. Is anyone among you sick? He must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over them. And knowing him with the oil in the name of the Lord. Look what it says, and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up. So we're talking about one being in sin or a person who's not a believer, but the important thing to remember here is that you just simply draw closer to God. You think on godly things. Read your Bible. But then also be around the people of God. Call for the elders. If they're not around, call for your brothers and sisters until you can talk to the elders. But being around your brothers and sisters, that helps a lot. That helps a lot. So I hope that helps a lot. If anyone is suffering, if anyone is depressed and guys, we're gonna see this more and more. If you are depressed, do those three things and do those things all the time. Simultaneously or as much as possible or as what's the word, contemporaneously, consecutively, however you wanna put it, do those things and then watch how your soul is healed. Amen? Hoki doki. How did you come up with smart Christians and the saying, love it, learn it, live it? This came up in prison. In prison, what happened was I was actually, I still remember the, well, I don't remember the exact day, but I remember actually starting to sing it more. I was at my, in my cell, and I was at, we got these little metal desks. Yeah, metal desks that are drilled to the floor so you can't move. So I'm sitting here at my desk and when you come in, the desk is right there and I've got my stuff out. And people oftentimes will come in and ask questions. What do you think about this? What about that? And so we would just, sometimes we would just have a little pow wow in the cell. And in the cell, I said, our goal is to be, we should be a smart church and we should be a smart Christian. So the idea was, should I, should we just kind of call it the smart church or the smart Christians? Initially it was called the smart Christian channel, but people were thinking that I was calling myself the smart Christian. No. Matter of fact, actually initially it was called smart Christian. I was like, no, I'm not, I said, okay, I can see how that looks bad. It's not me saying I'm the smart Christian, that we should be smart Christian. I have the channel and then I had the S. But that's how we should be. And wherever you are, just getting a little bit smarter. And if your trajectory makes you smart, mainly because you know that you don't know a lot, but you're trying to figure out how to know. And so the whole goal is to love this word enough that we will learn this word and then live it. And we do that by also conveying what we love and what we've learned to other people. So that's where that came from. That could have been a whole like smart Christian's trailer, couldn't it? I could have made that the channel trailer. Sure could have. Why isn't the apocrypha in the Bible? You may have discussed this in previous videos. Not a lot. Not a lot. And I need to do more apologetics type videos as well, kind of defending the faith. And so I'm gonna do more of those. I'm gonna do more of those. Well, here's a reason why. First of all, the writers of the apocrypha never assumed nor did the Jews at the time ever consider them to be there. What happens is we start, we'll see that there are writings of antiquity, writings of those days. And we'll assume that because we discovered them and they were around the time of other biblical writings that they must belong in the Bible. Well, no, because people wrote other things other than what we see in the Bible. The first time Moses ever wrote was not to write Genesis. The first time Paul wrote, he wasn't writing part of the Bible. The first time any of these writers wrote anything, it wasn't, they had been writing before. So we're not gonna go and just, if we happen to find, if we were to actually find a old writing of Jeremiah, I mean, the prophet, and we know for a fact it's his writing. Does it belong in the Bible? No, no, all of their writings don't belong in the Bible. Only what was inspired by God. Only what was God breed. The apocrypha was not. As a matter of fact, the apocrypha, there are mistakes in the apocrypha. There are, in some cases, just slight contradictions, but the apocrypha is really meant to be a history in many cases. As a matter of fact, they are good. When I said the apocrypha, I'm speaking of the books in between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Asedra, Tobit, first and second Maccabees, those kind of writings. Those are the ones that even the writers themselves will say, well, no, these writings were writing and they'll tell us that they're waiting for a prophet, that there is no prophet in the land. The reason why that's important is because they understood that these writings needed to be written by a prophet of God. Someone who they know as a God, which indicates that they didn't think that these writers or the writers themselves did not think that they needed to be there. Even Jerome, he puts them in the canon, the canon or in the writings with the Old and New Testament and it goes to the Catholic church, but he's left instruction. This is not part of canon. What it is is history. It's valuable history, but it's like the Constitution. It's like someone's memoir. Could be true, but it's not from God. And so that's the reason why they're not there. And no one in the church, no one, none of the Jews thought that they should have been there as well. Anyway, let's see. Let's see. Epixegetical question. In Jeremiah 31-34, is this speaking about Israel in the future, not having teachers? And in Galatians 2-11, most translations say Peter stood condemned, but Romans 8 says otherwise. Okay. Yes, a bunch. That's why you said epixegetical question, which is, I see you being sneaky, but I like how you use the word epixegetical. I won't answer. Well, okay, I'll comment on the Jeremiah 31-34. Is this speaking about Israel in the future and not having teachers? Well, I've got to go through again and look at what may have been spoken in 31-32-33-34, that I know this one is speaking of the new covenant coming, but this is a future looking to Israel. Israel is going through some problems, but God has promised to bring them back. Not all of them. As a matter of fact, some of those folks that are part of Israel will die and will never see heaven, but he is going to choose some folks specifically out of Israel to be the true Jews, true Israel. Now, that being stated in Galatians 2-11, he states, because this one Paul, I believe, confronts him, Galatians 2-11, but when I, because he stood condemned, all right. And you said, but in comparison to Romans 8, okay, so let's go to Romans 8. I see what you're saying. I get what you're saying because it says there's no condemnation in. So let's, first of all, first thing to do is let's see if there is, if it's the same word, which is kind of creno, which is a combination. Creno is judging or judgment, and I oppose him because, and this word is not the same. This word is dealing with knowing, knowledge. And so this means, this is a different condemnation. This is, he's guilty of it, and he knows better. He should know better. So those two words, they're two different words, and they do mean differently. Oh, by the way, though, but judging, there's nuances to that as well. You can judge, but then there's another judgment that is kind of a condemnation, so what he does. So there's a judgment to say, yet you're wrong, and when you deal with that, there's another judgment that says, hey, listen, you're so wrong, you're going to hell. So the judgment in Romans eight is different than what's been spoken up in Galatians two. It's just, hey, brother, you are wrong, you know better, and you're causing other people to see it. You know better, Peter. So that was that. So, like the way you snuck in, exegetically. What was it, two questions? Yes, ma'am, yes ma'am. No, I don't have any thoughts on Tiffany Montgomeran. I keep hearing her name. I think I may have even seen her face before, but I have no idea. Is she supposed to be like a apostle or a prophet or a prophetess or something? I'm not sure. I'm not sure where she is, but I don't really have any thoughts on it because I don't know enough about her. So apparently I should know something about her, so let me just put a mental sticky note in my mind and go look at her sometime. Thank you, child, young cat, and just to, because you know what's funny? When I look at this video, I always think for some reason it looks like a llama when I first glance at your profile picture. It looks like a llama, then I have to look. That's a cat, that's a cat. So by the way, you're not gonna see our cat around that much. At least I don't think you will, because we've got these geckos at the front of the house. And apparently every now and then, one or two might get in. There might be a little spot where they come in and the cat is preoccupied. He sleeps by this little door, my daughter's closet door, and he'll stand there, he's just waiting. That's where he's at right now, waiting. So, this cat is goofy, it's a goofy cat. Good cat, but he's a goofy cat. Oh, I did that one. Okay, could you please explain Matthew 1112, and she said please? Oh, this isn't difficult, this isn't difficult. Matthew 1112. Oh, mm, mm, mm. Okay, let me just, I'm gonna go over this really, really quickly, I'm not gonna give you full service. I mean, a good in-depth answer, but please, please, please leave a comment. Soon as I'm through, I'll go to the comment section and I will forward you the video that covers this in more detail. Because we use this, we use this wrong. We use this passage wrong. From the days of John, the Baptist until now, the king of violence, the king of heaven suffers violence and the violent takes it by force. The key is going to be this right here. From the days of John, the Baptist, he's speaking of a certain time, not now, but from the king, the king of John, from the days of John, the Baptist until now. So he's speaking about how, what was happening with the rule of God, particularly as it is in Israel's life and Israel's life and so forth. I won't go into that except to say this is not used typically properly when we say that that must mean that we would have to also fight back. We don't fight fire with fire according to this passage. So please send a comment, put a comment in the comment section and I will send you, I will send the link for that particular video. Where does the Bible say or imply that it's a sin to gamble? Here's where it says so, nowhere. It doesn't say that it's a sin, however, however, there's a couple of things that you need to make sure that you're not violating. One, if there's some sort of unjust scales. One of my best friends, one of my best friends, as a matter of fact, my buddy from prison. Come and find out, my father was, yeah, my father was out, not out there, but my father was known. And he had some folks that he was affiliated with that were in organized crime. One of his best buddies, not matter not one of his best friend, guy named Bird, Red Bird, he was in the gambling. He didn't do drugs but a lot of drug dealers knew my father and knew Bird and they were in the gambling. They had, Bird used to have this little gambling trick that was just, it was kind of shady, talking about it before. Matter of fact, my buddy Cotton was telling me about this too. That kind of gambling is certainly illegal. It's certainly wrong. Plus it gets you killed. It gets you killed, so don't do that. The kind of Las Vegas gambling, where it's, I don't know if it's rigged or not, so if y'all say it is, don't get at me, hey Corey, that's rigged or whatever. If it's legitimate, that in and of itself in the sin, but are you wasting money? Are you being a good steward of your money, which you should be? Now, are you doing it? You know what, I'm a billionaire and I wanna go and just waste $1,000 to, okay, you're not hurting anybody. You're not hurting anybody. It could be though. What you have to do though is you gotta look at the different aspects of it. If you're, because it can become addictive. It can become another God altogether. Like you know, the little ladies who like to go play bingo. And they're doing it because it's their way of gambling and they're, you know, I got a rent to pay. Or down here in the south, they wanna go to the boat. They still go to the boat down here? I don't know. They did what I went to prison, so I gotta go to the boat. Yeah, it becomes a sin because now what, not in and of itself is the problem. It is the means that you are taking to go do it. It becomes an addiction. So I would just say this, my caution is you probably ought not to do it. But let's say you go to the store and you spend a dollar on the Powerball. Is that a sin? No, it's not a sin. It's not, that is not necessarily a sin. Now, if that's your retirement, if that's your retirement, yes it's a sin. That can become a sin. So, but not, there's no specific passage. And people say, well, casting lots, that's different. We'll talk about casting lots next week as well, by the way. So, there's a good question, good question. Very good question, as a matter of fact, should two Christians, but with different doctrines, not including the doctrines of salvation, be considered unequally yoked? If you got two Christians that are either hanging out together or they want to get married? No, no, because you're part of the same team, the same family. Matter of fact, you're gonna be hard pressed to find someone that agrees with you on every doctrine anyway. So, no, that's not unequally yoked at all. That's a good question though, good question. BJ, now logo man. I'm always gonna remember you as BJ. May you, by the way, you asked me did I get that email? I didn't, I didn't. So, send it again. Send it again so I can go look at it. I will go look at it, and then I'll go look at it again tonight and make sure that you sent it. So, go send an email, because if you did, I'm not finding it. But anyway, could I please exegete John 16.8? Please explain what conviction means in the Greek. Okie dokie, John 16.8. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. And so this word convict is the word ecligo, eclico. It is to reprove, what it really is, is just look at it as convince. So, matter of fact, let's highlight it. Look at the right below me where it gives definition. It is to reprove, that means to prove you wrong or to prove you, give you the, or prove the right thing to refute, we know what it is, refute what I just said. And so that's what the Spirit is going to do. So the Spirit is going to convict the world. Now, when we say the world, are we talking about the entire world? And he will come, the Holy Spirit, and he will convict the world of sin, concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. Is he speaking about the entire world? Well, matter of fact, let's keep reading. Concerning sin, because they do not believe in me and concerning righteousness because I go to the Father and you no longer see me and concerning judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged. Well, in this regard, he literally is speaking of the whole world. Now, at what time, how is the whole world going to be convicted? Obviously not all at once, and some of this, some of this conviction is going to happen at their death. Some folks won't be convicted of sin and judged until they die. They won't get in their heart. They won't understand. Now they may have some sort of, maybe fainting understanding of it, but for some people it will be at the very end. Some people right now, you did this was a bad thing and you know it, what caused that? Well, that's the Holy Spirit convicting you. That happens too. Okay, then obviously, I don't think we need to parse, try to figure out what it means about being righteous, righteousness, because, matter of fact, that's actually a good point though. Let's go ahead and talk about that too. Concerning righteousness because I go to the Father and you no longer see me. Well, what does that mean? Well, that's the Holy Spirit coming to convict people, convict or to change. There I go again, doing this, but to change hearts, to regenerate hearts. And so that is for every believer. That's going to be the work of the Holy Spirit. But concerning sin, that also, now by the way, all of this stuff works in the heart of a believer in terms of concerning sin. But in this regard, he's speaking because they do not believe in me. This is the people that won't be saved, but now we will be convicted of sin, but that is more of concerning righteousness. But this portion of chapter nine that I have highlighted, that particular part is dealing with non-believers. Will all believers be convicted of sin? Those that don't believe in him? Well, some won't happen until they die. So I hope it helps my brother. Okay, let me go and check some more. Wait, what did I just, oh, moving too fast. So what I want to do now is grab some more. Hold on, I need to answer, I just saw it. I need to answer this question. Even though CG made that homophobic remark about me and my getting released from the army, should I continue, because this is a good question, should I continue to listen to biblically sound gospel songs sang by artists who promote sin or live worldly? So let's say there's a song that just really, really ministers to me. But I come to find out that this song sung by John Smith, and I don't like John, I don't like what he's saying. Matter of fact, his doctrine is off, but that song ministers to me, that's a good song. Well, I don't have a problem with you doing that. Here's why, because now you would have to start looking at all the people that wrote all the songs that you like. I just listened to the hymns. Have you heard or seen the lives or heard about the lives of some of the people that wrote some of these hymns? A lot of them weren't very good people either, but they wrote this wonderful hymn, yeah, and? The words are the important thing. And because someone took those words, and by the way, I'm pretty sure this singer aren't the first ones to put these words that way they might put in that sequence and put the music to it, but okay, fine. I would say this, I would say this. I like what he's, okay, I got you Carol. I would say this, if it's at a point where it bothers you, then don't listen to it. There's other songs you can listen to. I wouldn't though, I'd be careful about, I would not promote the person. I would not, if I know that this person sing like Hillsong, there's some songs with Hillsong, like man, it's a good song. I'm not gonna tell anybody, hey listen, you need to listen to this Hillsong song. Or this, I've got some elevation worship on here and like man, that song just, there's one song called, hold on, I have to look at it, I love this song, but I can't remember the name of this song. Hearing this presence, hearing the presence, I like that, I remember hearing it while I was in prison. And so when you're in prison, you don't have a whole lot of options. If you happen to have an MP3 player from prison, you don't have a lot of options of what you can actually listen to. So I find a song and the song is like wow, okay. And then I didn't know all of this up about elevation or Hillsong while in prison. Didn't know, we don't hear all this stuff about them in prison. But the song, wonderful song, I love the song, but now I'm free, I can't listen to it. Yeah, that might be a little bit too much. Might be a little much so. But if you think it's a problem, if you think it's the same, then don't. Then don't. Like what Carol said, she said this is good sound advice. Take that gambling money and put in a mutual fund. Be the sore with 10. Amen. Amen. I used to do this thing, Carol, you'll appreciate this. Let me give y'all some investing tips, investing advice. Let me drink my water. I used to do this little analogy with either clients or prospective clients and I would tell them that they should be investing money. As a matter of fact, I would try to get people who were poor to invest and I don't have money. I said, well, let me just tell you a quick story. And I would use this particular mutual fund. I won't even say the name of the mutual fund but this particular mutual fund. I said, if you would have put $10,000 in this mutual fund 10 years ago, it wasn't like it wasn't a tech fund. It wasn't a small cap fund or anything like that. It was just a regular, as a matter of fact, one of the, no, it was one of the largest growth in income mutual funds in America. Matter of fact, it was by American funds. So anyway, at the time, this was around 2000. Yeah, 2000. I'll say if you put $10,000 in this mutual fund 10 years ago, it'd be worth $55,000. I said, no, if you'd have put $10,000 in it 20 years ago, no, not 20, I'm sorry, it'd be worth, yeah, I'm sorry, I got it backwards. If you'd have put $10,000 in this mutual fund 10 years ago, it'd be worth $100,000, $110,000, $100,000. Give or take, $110,000 is what it was. Then, well, I didn't have $10,000. I don't have it now and I'll get it, I'll come and sell you. But what if, what if you had $5,000, $5,000 in the mutual fund and that very same mutual fund 10 years ago would be worth what? And they would say, well, half of that would be $55,000. They'll say, you are correct. Doesn't typically work that way, but you are correct. I don't have $5,000, what if, but when I do get $5,000, I'll come and sell you. Well, no, hold on, hold on, because I want you to get your mind adjusted towards seeing your money work for you. So I said, what you could do is what's called dollar cost averaging. That is putting a set amount of money. Of course, you could also increase the amount at a set interval. So $25 a week, $100 a month. Can you afford $25 a week? I don't know, yes, you can. When you start thinking about, now this was back then, this was 2000. You think about what you're putting money into, how you're wasting it, yes, you can. You just go and count how many times you stop at the grocery store, not the gas station, bought a snickers, bought a soda, bought a this, bought a that. It adds up, it adds up really quickly. So $25 a month, I mean, a week, and put it in this thing. I said, what would have happened if you did that in that same mutual fund 10 years ago? I don't know, $55,000, the same that it would have been if you would have put $5,000 a month. I mean, $5,000 in 10 years ago. I said, now, what would have happened if you would have put $100 a month in this mutual fund 20 years ago? And the stocks that were in this mutual fund weren't, again, tech stocks. Walmart and Target and AT&T and GE, just good old regular basic growth, slow growth stocks, but good solid companies. And so they said, well, I don't know, $100,000, because they figured, well, twice the amount of time, because 10 years ago it would have been $55,000. Well, $100,000, no. In this same mutual fund, from 1980 to 2000, if you'd have put $100 a month in it would have been $1.1 million in 2000. Now, is that to say that if you did that over the next 20 years, it would do the same? No, because past performance is not indicative of future performance. But, did I say that like it was a commercial? Like I said before, the point is, you can take your money, it could be a small amount of money and just contribute, pay yourself as we would say. Just put money in, put money in. Well, the market didn't do it, we'll put money in anyway, it'll bounce back. Well, what if it didn't bounce back? Well, if it didn't bounce back, that's at least your worries. So you should be taking that money and doing something wise with it. Now, you said, Carol says, please answer Amanda Hall. Okay, so let's go find Amanda Hall. Okay, okay, wow, okay. If God is all-knowing and, or if God knows all, and I'm a lesbian, God knew I was going to be a lesbian before he created me. How is it loving to send someone to hell because they're gay if two persons or two people love each other? You are not being, it's good questions, sweetheart. Here it is, you are not going to hell because you're a lesbian. You're not going to hell because you, the person becomes transgender. Nope, you're not going to hell because you're gay. You're not going to hell because you're tall or short. A person goes to hell because they have not placed their faith in Christ. That's it. But let's just say a lesbian or a gay person places their faith in Christ, and this is true faith in Christ. What faith in Christ means is I trust in Christ. For what? Everything. I trust in Him for everything. And in order to do so, I have to consider that my ways are not His ways and I'm wrong. He's right, I'm wrong. On what? On everything. I'm wrong on virtually everything. He's right on everything. So if I have that sort of belief and that sort of trust that's faith in Him, then whatever I'm going through, poverty, sickness, or even sexual desires, I go to Him. He is Lord, okay? And because of that, because He is Lord and I have trusted in Him, well then guess what? Because I've dealt with this before with other people who are struggling with other things in regards to sexual identity. Typically it's been men, but sometimes it's been people who are heterosexual who are struggling. Let's go back to a passage that I used earlier because here's your answer sweetheart, if you trust in Christ, this is your answer. And I want you all, everyone else, because this is not just her, this is everyone else. Here's your answer. Submit therefore to God, rest of the devil, he will flee. Here it is verse eight, draw near to God and he will draw near to you. When you do so, I don't care what the issue is. Sexual, physical, emotional. It can be something with your attitude, anger, jealousy, whatever it is. You get closer to Him because if you place your faith in Him, what will you do? You'll get closer to Him. And then the question that you ask, why would He send a person who is a lesbian? Why would He send him to hell? He wouldn't because what's gonna happen is you would no longer be identified as a lesbian, you would no longer be identified as a gay person, you won't even be identified as a heterosexual. You won't be identified as a liar, you won't be identified as a thief, you won't be identified as a covetous person, you won't be identified as a murderer, you will be identified as one of His who He's cleaning up. Because if you truly place your faith in Christ, if you're in Christ, what will you naturally do? You'll naturally be moved towards Him. You'll have a desire. Yeah, I like people of the same sex, but I love God more. So let me go to Him. And if God, and you can listen, you can even have a combative attitude towards us who say that's wrong, but have a loving attitude towards God. I'm gonna go to God, I'll let God deal with it. But now if you're serious, if God is actually dealing with it, He's not dealing with it, He's dealing with you. I've said this before, even when dealing with cussing. I did not run to cussing and start, hey, I'm gonna stop saying this word. I'll start by not saying the small words, the small cuss words. I'll stop by saying first the three-letter cuss words if there are any three-letter, if there are some three-letter cuss words. Then I move to the four-letter words, and I'll use the five-letter. That's not what I did. I didn't think about it. I just moved to God. I would get closer and closer. Now, sometimes I would stumble. Sometimes I would fall back. I would, yeah, it would happen, but I'm on a journey to get closer to Him. And so as I place, as I go closer to Him, then watch what ends up happening. Listen, I've talked about the most hardened racist. Some of the coldest killers I've seen just change. Not because I was a, I would love to say it was because of my great preaching. No, it wasn't that great teaching. Nope, nope, nope, because of God. I haven't placed my full faith in Christ. I know there's a God and I've been following your channel for a while. Now you're a good, thank you. You're a good teacher. I'm going to place my faith in Christ. Thank, listen, here's what you do. I'm a firm believer. This is the ultimate gamble that's not a gamble. It's a sure, it's a, to borrow pun, it's a sure bet. If you try Him, if you try Him, try Him and see what He does. Try Him. See if He won't give you a feeling like you've never had before. It's not about a feeling, but see if He doesn't move in you in ways that you've never considered. And this joy, this peace, the kind of peace that somebody who's in a persecuted country don't even mind a bullet been at their head because I know what my word, pull the trigger. I know where I'm going. Help a brother out, get me there quicker. That kind of peace. Okay, I'm going to come back to you Duncan as well. I got you, but, but I, okay, hold on, there it is. Because I got a proud Hoosier right here and I'm a proud Hoosier as well. The proud Hoosier says, let me put it up here so I can read better, so it won't move. I finally figured out how to keep these things from moving on me. I believe Jesus is changing me because I just sold some stocks today at loss and I'm okay with it. I'm telling you now, a few months ago, I would have been angry. Thank you. Well, here, look, look, look, here's my, here's my financial, my investment advisor cap going on. You sold them at a loss. Well, so what you can do is you can write that off against your taxes. You can carry that loss forward against any other games. Don't go around back to financial. Stop it Corey. Stop it, I said I'm gonna do that, but. By the way, anybody, does anybody invest in mutual funds? Sometimes you gotta look at the fee structures and so forth because why am I paying taxes on this mutual fund that lost money? Well, because these mutual funds inside the mutual funds, they will have sold off some stocks inside there for a gain, but overall, the mutual fund is down. Well, those gains, those capital gains that incur taxes, those taxes are passed along to the investors and so you gotta pay, you gotta pay for that as well. So anyway. Thank you, C. Gardner, I appreciate that. You truly, thank, good, listen. The words help me, they really do matter to me. Thank you so much, you guys are wonderful. Ah, let's see. This might be a tough question. Duncan Gray says, if God is a spirit according to Jesus, but God, his father is not the Holy Spirit according to the Trinity doctrine, what nature is the father of the Lord? Hold on, let's fuckin' answer, fuckin' understand what you ask. If God is a spirit according to Jesus. Oh, I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. God is a spirit and then we got the Holy Spirit. I think I'm getting understanding. But God, his father is not the Holy Spirit according to the Trinity doctrine. What nature is the father of, what is, I'm sorry, what nature, what is the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ? Hold on, I'm butchering this. What nature is the father? Are you asking is, I'm trying to figure out your question. Are you asking are they, is the Holy Spirit a spirit and is God a spirit? Yes and yes and no and yes and yes and no and a whole bunch of other stuff. Let me just put it this way. In terms of the fullness of God, and this is the part, this is the problem we run into, trying to explain him. We weren't trying to understand how he is fullness. It's difficult. It's difficult, okay? I can't tell you because the Bible doesn't tell us enough about the nature, how he, his full existence. We just know that God is a spirit and he should be worshiping spirit and truth. Yes, but what does that mean? That's hard. It's one of the, we just know who he is and what we also know is this. The fullness of God, we have not seen. We could not be in his presence. However, the Holy Spirit, we can be in his presence. Even though this is literally the spirit of God and the Holy Spirit is God, we can't be in the full presence of, in his fullness, in his full glory, but we also can be in the presence of the Holy Spirit. How does that work? There's, I cannot tell you. I could not explain to you if you gave me, well, if you gave me a billion dollars, I'd figure out something, but I'd be making it up because the Bible doesn't give us enough about him. And this kind of, this is kind of part and parcel of what Jesus was kind of getting. Listen, I've told you all these earthly things. You don't do, you don't get that. So trying to tell you some heavenly things or spiritual things, well, what is more spiritual than God and his existence, his nature? So it's difficult. But I would say it's one of those things where you just simply need to trust on that. You have to trust in that, okay? Yeah, but I'm not sure. I think they're wanting more than that to be answered, but that is, yeah, my daughter's calling me. Hold on one second, guys. My daughter is coming back into, she's gonna be making time for me. So let me take this call. She hung up, which means she's talking to her mother. So good enough. She's talking to her mother, then that's fine. As long as I know she's back, she's back in the States. She's back, yeah, she's back in the States. So let's see, let's take a few more questions because I think I might have to go pick her up. I think I might have to go pick her up. Had the whole, well, I didn't have the whole house of myself because I hadn't been here all day. Let's take a few more questions. By the way, I'm gonna have to go live either Saturday or Sunday. Somebody sent me, people send me stuff all the time. They send me stuff all the time. And 90% of I can't do anything with, even though someone was like, I didn't do something. But this one, and it's over Isaiah South Davor. I am going to touch it. I said, I don't want to deal with Isaiah South Davor. I don't want to sound like, but what he said so thoroughly irked me. He literally says that he didn't want to create a straw man and then proceeds to create seven straw man about eternal security. So is it okay for a man to divorce his wife, marry someone else and realize that he made a mistake and divorce a second wife and get back with his first wife? He is not safe with his first wife. No, it's not okay. One sin, you can't sin to fix a previous sin. It was done, prayerfully there will be somebody, if there will be Bible study tomorrow, prayerfully there will be forgiveness if they are in Christ. But no, there is no, you don't sin to fix another sin. That can happen. By the way, Daryl, thank you for the super chat. I appreciate that. You don't sin to fix another sin. That's not how that works. So no, don't do that. Don't do that. Let's see, let's see, let's see. Let me take a couple more, maybe one or two more questions. Any advice for when you are totally unmotivated to read the Bible? Yeah, I feel unmotivated due to distractions. I have a toddler and urge to get on social media and I can't read a lot at once like I used to. Well, the first step, the first step to do is to regularly, and I mean regularly, I mean like binge watch regularly, is to watch the Smart Christians channel. That's the first step, because we always put scriptures up. That's the first step. And then, and when you watch the Smart Christians channel, making you a Smart Christians, and I trust that you are, if you, listen, what you always, let me just give you some motivation to read. If you're not motivated, listen, if that doesn't motivate you right now, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. If that doesn't motivate you, this should. I'm pretty sure right now you're rushing to get your Bible. I know for a fact, you probably just tripped over your toddler, knocked him over to get to your Bible. That's what it does for you. That's what that song does for you. Who knew that that song was a gospel song? Who knew that song was a praise and worship song? But it just is. I'm sorry, it is, but in all seriousness, we have this misnomer in the body that we have a relationship and not religion. That's false. That's false. Here, let me go to it. Let me go to the passage. This will be, oh, you know, it's still in James. You need both. Our relationship brings about a good religion. Religion is not a bad thing. We don't want to do things religiously. We don't want to have to do it, but if we have to do it religiously, then fine. James 126, if anyone thinks himself to be religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, so being religious is fine. This man, his religion is worthless. Look what he says, pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God is this, to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world. Religion is just this practice of you doing things. Religion is, matter of fact, it literally means worship. It can mean worship or religion and they kind of go together. So what you're doing is you are doing something whether unmotivated or not because I have to. I want to, I want to want to, but I don't always want to, but I'll still do because I have to. I would like to go to church every time, like, man, I'm glad I get to go to church, but sometimes I'm like, I got to go to church. You push yourself. God honors both. He will honor your heart moving you, your motivation, and he will honor your unmotivated movement because you did it because it's unto him. So sometimes you just force yourself. So here's what you do. Here's what you do. Grab your, put your Bible somewhere. You got kids, I get it. You look, yeah, you look, you look young. So grab, grab your Bible, put it somewhere. Of course there's not very many mothers, 70 year old mothers of toddlers. There might be a couple. You might, you might be in the vein of Sarah and you're like Sarah or Sarah and you're going on 80. So, but most cases you're just younger. Thank you David, I appreciate that. So what you do is this. Take your Bible. Just take your Bible and open it up. Put it somewhere. Put it by, let's say if the baby has a bed, does your baby have a bed? I hope your baby has a bed. I hope your baby, Lord, let's pray this baby is sitting on the floor. I'm kidding. Put it by your bed as well. So put the Bible by either the baby's bed or by your bed. Not by your bed or have two of them. Because by your bed, in most cases we have a Bible by our bed and we're just not reading. But I'm gonna read one or two verses out of this Bible. I don't even care if the verse isn't even registering with you. I just wanna get you in the habit of it. Get in the habit of reading a verse or two and then three and then four. And then do this also. Get in the habit of finding a, matter of fact, put on your phone, put little reminders on your phone to remind you set the alarm for a one minute prayer, a 30 second prayer. Do that. Your eyes don't have to be closed. They can be open. Make yourself take small steps because in doing so, what are you doing? If I take small steps to read a little bit here, pray a little bit there, what am I doing? I'm drawing close to him. I'm literally doing so. And then also, when you can't physically look at the stuff, you can physically hear it, which is fine. And I was joking about Ram's Acts of the Series by listening to these sort of shows like the Smart Christians channel or going to other channels, listening to what other people have to say. By the way, somebody that gives, I think she gives good encouragement is Sister Diana Reviews. When you go there, you're not gonna get some long drawn out sermon. She's gonna give you encouragement, just kind of real world encouragement. I don't know if you still have that video up. I haven't checked, but this video where she did, she's talking about people, women, and I think it's what is, correct me if I'm wrong, Diana, where you're telling young women about not being in a hurry to get married and have a family, just enjoy yourself because, and then Diana's children are walking around her just doing a little toddler stuff, right? It's a cute little video. And so that kind of stuff you need to hear, you need to see, right? Because you're not the only one listening to other channels, my friend Rick Caldwell's in it. Now, let me just say this, and Rick won't be mad at me if I say this, but you're not going to Rick's channel and you're not gonna get a five minute sermon. Rick is going deep. Rick's got, if, listen, if you ask Rick a question about John one, Rick's gonna pull out 45 verses. He may not read all 45 of them, but dog owner, he's gonna read at least 30 of them. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but he's in depth. He's detailed, he's thorough. And so going to those certain channels, they help you, they benefit you. Somebody's at my door. And it's gotta be someone who, I can't stand my dog. Now, the ice cream man is here. Y'all know who the ice cream man is, the new ice cream man. The new ice cream man is, is a Amazon. Yeah, when you see Amazon, ooh, somebody, now for me, somebody spent some money, but yeah. So the dog, the dog was attacking the blinds. Anyway, so that's what you do though, sweetheart. Just consume yourself as much as you can with content. Either you are hearing it, you're reading it, you're praising or you're around other believers, that's what you want. That's what, no, she's not, you know what? She actually is a good watchdog, she actually is. She actually is, now. She's getting a little blind and she's getting a little deaf and she's stubborn. She's as stubborn as they come. But she's, listen, she's, Rosie is about, she's about this tall, but this long. She's got couple of feet, she's got a couple of feet. Couple of different things in her. And one day, some guy was walking by and they had this, I don't like pit bulls. They had a pit bull and Rosie didn't like any dogs around and Rosie bolted out and went after that dog. It was attacking that pit bull. That pit bull didn't know what to do. It's like, lead a dog, lead the poor pit bull. No, it's not coconut, coconut is sweet. Coconut won't do anything. This is Rosie. This is the dog that I inherited. It was my second oldest daughter's dog, who she claims she loves this dog so much, so much so that she didn't take that dog with her when they moved out. So, there she is, there's Rosie. She's protecting the house. So, let me say, let me take one more question here. She's, and then after she barks, after she goes barking, she goes a-sneezing. This dog, she may have another year or two left. She's old, she's old. Okay, I'm sorry, I did mark this question. Now, Joan says, why did God call Israel a nation and not a country? And now you want scripture-rate references, please. I'm not gonna give you scripture-rate references because it's towards the end. But the Hebrew word for nation is, you know what, let me do this, let me do this. Let me go and grab you a couple of scriptures. Let's go to Genesis 12. So, you can see, and you'll see why it's a 12, Corey. Genesis 12, you'll see why the word nation is used as opposed to the word country. And there is a word for country, by the way. Well, it's a land. So anyway, let's go to Genesis 12, one. Now, the Lord said to Abraham, go forth from your country. The word country is this Hebrew word, erets. And, or erets, it refers to the land. That's what country is for there. What we tend to think of is country and land. I mean country and nation kind of being synonymous. And it's best here in our vernacular, but then it's not. But then he says, verse two, he says, and I will make you a great nation. This word for nation is the Hebrew word for goi. The word goi refers to a sovereign group of people. So it refers to people, but it's a collection of people. And so that's why, if that helps, hope that helps. So anyway, guys, thank you all so much. I need to go ahead and get out of here. I've got a couple of things I have to do to kind of tidy up, get some things ready for tomorrow. But in the meantime, let me go ahead and motivate you guys to go on to bigger, better things in the Lord. This is gonna help you guys, not just our sister earlier who's felt unmotivated, but for the rest of you guys as well, you need some marching music. So let me give you the world's greatest Christian marching music on YouTube. You already know what it is, but I know you're just waiting with anticipation. God bless you all.