 If a woman is anointed, messed my intro up, I don't know what that was. I actually had something that was still set there, so it wouldn't be right. It would not be right if it didn't come in with the red intro. So here we go. So now we had, listen, if you're going to start it, you got to start it right. If you're going to do it, do it right. If you're not going to do it right, don't do it all. So let me go ahead and start marking some of these already. Guys, I am so, so, so busy. I am swamped. Matter of fact, I'll tell you something that I was going to tell you guys some time ago. I'll tell you that in a second. As a matter of fact, I'll go ahead and tell you now. I told you guys before that I had to go take a test. I was studying to take a test and people asked, what's the test you're going to take, Corey? What's the test? What is this test? Well, the test was for me to return or to go or to return to seminary. The first thing I had to do because the old man has been out of school for a while. So I had to take either the GRE or the MAT. And I'm not, I loathed actually taking the test. I really did. I hated the test. I could not stand taking the test. And I did not study like I was supposed to. It was just too busy. So I had to take the GRE. I did a little studying. I guess I did well enough. I guess I did well enough. So now I am going to be starting. I'm not even sure when the classes start. I'm not sure when the classes start. But when they start, it is going to obviously take away a lot of time that I used to have. And so I've got to figure out where this time is going to come from. So that being the case. Now I am going to a lot of the things that I go through and deal with there at seminary. I'm going to also bring it to you guys. I'm going to use those things on Patreon as well. Now again, some of the things that we'll do there, they're all free. Okay. Everything is free. So there is no need for you to have to pay. The payment again is just to support what we're doing. So that being the case, it's going to be a difficult now. I think that this particular seminary is the best seminary that is in America or period. That is, by the way, would you all have care to take any guess as to which seminary is? I think this is the Harvard of seminaries. Without question, it is the seminary that is known most for its languages or for the languages. Hebrew, Greek, and so forth. There are other languages they offer as well, too, and that you become proficient. As a matter of fact, it's one of the few places where you have to be, you have to show some proficiency in the languages. Well, you guys are smart. Yeah, DTS Dallas, the logical seminary. So, and just going through the, the, the, not the application process, but the, but the tech side, having this little email deal that you have to have, I couldn't even figure this thing out. So it's going to be rough for me. It's going to be rough for me as far as the, the technology side. Oh, by the way, I don't know if I've ever mentioned this to you guys, but I do not like reading. I do not like reading. I'm not, I don't like reading. I read, I read, but boy, I don't like it. Give me the cliff notes or give me the movie. Corey, what would you rather watch the, the, see the movie or the book? The movie, which, what do you, much rather watch the movie, not the book? Thank God, the Bible is not in a movie. Thank God, if the Bible were a movie, I would have all, my doctrine of the odds would be so over the place because I'm going to watch the movie over the doctrine, I mean, over the Bible, but thankfully. And so you've got to pick out your different classes and so forth and what your, what your emphasis is going to be on. And so anyway, I look forward to that. My, my goal is to go as fast as possible. I'm not trying to be, I'm not trying to do this for the next seven, eight years. Nope, not going to matter. I actually have to be through by eight years anyway, so I can't go long on that. But yeah, reading is fundamental, but man, I should have got, I should have grasped that early. By the way, if you got young children, make sure that they read, give them things to read the paper version, the hardback version versus the stuff online. Don't give them that make them sit down and actually read books, even if it's comics, all that stuff. So that being the case, let me go ahead and pull up a couple of the questions. Where are the questions? The questions are, I only picked a few questions this time. Where are they? There they are. They make them bigger because I can't see that. A couple of questions. Oh, Bre and Apologist asked, Bre and Apologist asked, what does, I'm sorry, what, oh, what are the books behind me, the books behind me, underneath? By the way, have you guys seen my mug? Have you seen, I went ahead and because I was testing, we're testing the site to make sure things work well on the site. And so I had, I just ordered something off the site. I'm not ordering all of those shirts off the sites. I'm not, I'm not doing that. But I wanted to test it and we're still testing to make sure that what was ordered, how it works and so forth. And there are still some things that we have to tweak. As a matter of fact, let me say this also with regard to the website. You guys have sent messages that I thought went one place and it didn't go to another place. It went somewhere else. And so I didn't even see the message. My, my daughter's asking, hey, well, you've got these messages. Yeah, I just noticed those. I thought they would go to another spot. So we're getting that fixed. So like I said, there's going to be some, some, some bugs and kinks to work out of it, but we'll still be good. But this is, what, what, no, this way, whatever God said. I just love that phrase. Whatever God said, let's go with that. Whatever God said, and then it's got the, I didn't even know it had this part on here, the little smart Christian Dylan. So that's what that is. But anyway, the question that Biber, Bibery, or I'm sorry, Bibery and Apologist asked was, what are those books back there? Well, you see those books every time we come on. Every time we come on, you see those books. The one on top is the N.A. 28 Nestle, Nestle Allen or Nestle Alland. It's the Greek New Testament, the 28th version. And when you go to the, when you go to the, to the screen, I'll just put some more on the screen. Here, this is what we're looking at. So the Greek that's over here is the N.A. 28. I also, now that, that particular version back there behind me has the critical apparatus. I also have the critical apparatus on there as well. And then if we go to the Old Testament, we have the same thing, Bibery Hebraica, Student Gartensia. So that's what you guys see up top. That's what that brown book is behind me. And so if I ever want to, sometimes I actually do it. Rather than going to the screen, I might just actually grab the book and pull it up and look at it that way versus going on screen. But sometimes it's just easier. It's just bad. It's right there. Just push it and type it in versus thumb through the page. Now I do go through the pages just to make sure that I have not lost my familiarity with it. So anyway, that being the case, that's what that is. A couple more passages. Any questions? Chat with Grant. How do you overcome sinful thoughts? Well, I was going to say easy. It's not easy that you overcome sinful thoughts. But how do you overcome sinful thoughts? Well, the passage that I had up is a good way. Now I, Paul, myself, by the way, do me a favor. Moderators, remind me to deal with this now. I, Paul, so guys, make sure I cover that. I want to, where's my cursor? I want to cover that because it's important. I want to address something. So make sure you guys remind me of that, okay? But now I, Paul, myself, urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. I, who am weak when I, when I, when, I'm sorry, when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent. I ask that when I am present, I need not be bold with confidence, confidence, excuse me, with which I propose to be courageous against some who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. Okay. And we're getting to your answer. Though we do not walk according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh or some versions, not carnal, but divinely powerful or mighty through God for the destruction of forces or pulling down, forces or pulling down a stronghold. We are destroying, here it is, destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God. And we are taking every thought, that's what you're asking about. The word that's used here is noema, which is thought, mind, taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience whenever your obedience is complete. Now, what does that mean by taking every thought captive? How do you do so? Well, the weapons that we're using are not carnal, but they are mighty or divinely powerful. So what is our weapon? Well, it is one, obviously our prayer life. What does Paul say in Philippians? Whatever things are noble of a good reporter. Think on these things. When you pray, when you spend time with him, you get closer to him. Your prayer life is so important. Ladies and gentlemen, let me say that again. Your prayer life is vitally important. The closer you get with him, the more your thoughts become like his. One part, not like his, that you're thinking the same thing because our thoughts are not like his thoughts. But my point is, your thoughts are focused on him. You are focused on the things above and not the things below. How do you do so? Well, you have to kind of immerse yourself in him. And that can be, it's not difficult to do so, but it is a consistent thing. The more you think about him, the less you think about it. Because what it's hard to do, to think about multiple things at the same time. Now, your mind can jump from one thing to the next thing, but think about two or three different things at the same time can be difficult. It's easy to focus on one thing. And so when you're focusing on the Lord or the things of the Lord, well then it's difficult to focus on the things that are of the world. Now, Josiah, I happen to see your response to it. Maybe Josiah wants it to be a demon. But let me just say this. All we can do is go off with the scripture say. What do the scriptures say in regards to someone who has something going on with them or their minds are all over the place? By the way, by the way, that's common for all of us. All of us, our minds can wonder. I don't care who you are. Your mind can and will at some point in time will wonder. You'll think about this. You'll think about that. It just happens. Sometimes you can pray and you're thinking about, did I leave the iron on? Wow, what times of games are there? All sorts of things that can pop up when you're praying or when you're trying to focus on the Lord or when you're just walking about in your daily life, different things pop up. That part is fine. That's understandable. And so how do you bring those things into submission, into control? How do you take them captive? Well, by replacing that thought with another thought. Amen. And that's just the scriptures. Philippians 4 and 2 Corinthians 10. Amen. Okay, next question. Shining River says, does Colossians 119 and 20 mean that fallen angels have a chance to be reconciled? They absolutely do not have a chance to be reconciled. But let's go to that particular passage. Do I have that art? Okay. Okay, here we go. For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the matter of fact, let's pull up. Let's go back a little further. He is before all things and in him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church. It's important. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself will come to have first place in everything. Now the word that's used here for everything is the word pasin. Well, question. What are we speaking of? What he's speaking of is be him being, obviously speaking of salvation, him being the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself will become the firstborn of everything. And the word thing is not there. It's just the word pasin. Now it couldn't mean everything or all, but it needs referred to all of what? Or each or every of what? Each or every or all of everything possible? Or what he's speaking of? Well, in this case, we see what he's speaking of. He's speaking of us being, or him being the firstborn among the dead, which would be us, for it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness of him to dwell. And through him to reconcile this word all, it's not all things, the same word, ponta, which is all into himself or to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. So was he speaking of? He's not speaking of all things, but all of us that are in him. Amen. Amen. All right. Next one. Let's move in right along. What is the biblical definition of peace? That is a good question. The biblical definition of peace is peace. It means the same thing, but the question is, what does it mean? It's almost like the word love. What does love mean? Well, what does peace mean? Peace means peace. Or it's a state of, it's how you are, how you're existing. Let me give you an example. For, let's say they're all sorts of things crumbling about. Your focus is not the things that are crumbling about. As a matter of fact, and I've used this example before, where someone might even wonder what's going on with me. Why am I not overly emotional? For example, when my mother passed away, even when my father passed away in both cases, there were those that wondered, hey, Cor, are you okay? Because you are not as emotional as you would think. And I love my father's death, love my mother as well. And it hurts that they were gone, but I could be focused on other things. But at the same time, I had, there was a level of peace, especially when my mother passed away. When she had a stroke, and when she passed away, I was really at peace. My focus is, and this is where true peace comes from, when your focus is not on the peripheral, the things that are around you, but it's on the main thing. That's how you can have peace. Your peace must be in him, and what he's done, and your confidence in what, because without confidence, there's no way to have peace. More confidence in what? Well, confidence in what is running things, what's going, what's happening, what's pushing things, what's controlling things. And I use this example before. I use this example before, if it's a goofy example, but you all can understand the example. If you come home, and there is either an eviction notice or foreclosure notice on your home, the lights are off, there's also piles of bills that state that this is due, that's due, all those things. You pull up in the driveway, and right behind you, there is a tow truck hooking your car up to repossess it. You've got bills on top of bills, everything financially bad is happening right now, but you've got a smile on your face. Why? Because your rich uncle Fester died and left you a billion dollars, a million dollars, whatever, or you played the lottery. Whatever. You know that these things are meaningless because you're going to get your check, your payout, I don't know, in a day, two days. Well then, listen, you need some help hooking this car up to the tow truck? I don't want to stay in this house anyway. I've been wanting something great. That's what I mean. I'm using this kind of as an example because your focus is on something, not what's happening, but on something great or something that's more important and that's bigger. And so, if you have confidence in God and what he's doing, it's easier to be at peace. Amen? All right, let's go ahead and start checking some of these questions. Who's really running the government? And you said, I'm guessing Satan. Well, maybe directly, indirectly. It doesn't even matter if there was the most devout Christian on the planet running the government. Let's say devout Christians who happen to be in government and sometimes, listen, there have been devout Christians who we might even think there are Christians because they have different political persuasions. I believe that... Well, I can't say I believe. I don't know. But by all accounts, Jimmy Carter was a devout Christian by all accounts. But how he handled the government, how he ran things, well, he got to the devil. He came at a time because some things are out of the control of the president, the price of oil in the 70s. Stagflation, inflation. It was not a lot that he could have done. There's a lot of things that he could have done, though. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that he... That nothing was his fault. George Bush, I believe he was a... And he is a devout Christian. There are things that out of your control, he can't control. I know some of you guys conspiracy theorists, he can control what happened with the towers. No, he did not control what happened with the towers. And so sometimes, you can be a Christian, but you are still a Christian in this fallen world. And there's just not a lot that you can do about that. Ultimately, this is his world, the devil's world, in the sense that he's got more influence in anything else over... Well, not more influence. He's got influence over more people than does God have over people. Now, God wants to exercise that influence. He certainly can. If God wants to make everybody behave, he certainly can do that. But he's not. Now, he's got something else going on. So therefore, it might look like it's his world. He's in control. And by the way, he is, because he's the God of this world. But I wouldn't say that someone says George H.W. was not a Christian. How do you know he wasn't? Don't make statements like that, Donovan. There's no way to know that. There's no way to know. What makes him... Someone says he's a Satanist. What makes him a Satanist? He's not a Mason. What makes him that? What makes him that? You know what? Let me just say this, and I'm not here to support George W. Bush or Jimmy Carter. I intend to use a Democrat and a Republican. George W. Bush in one of his... In one of the debates, in the 2000 debate, 1999, I believe. No, 2000. And they were asking who's the most influential and what he said about Jesus and about how he helped him to overcome his addiction and so forth. That resonated with a lot of people. Now, do I think that... Do I think that Masonic Temple has this picture? And... You guys are... Okay. That's funny, you guys. You guys are bringing up something that he did when he was... When he was 18, 19, 20, 30. He ran as a... He became a believer in Christ long after that, guys. Long after that. So... But anyway, I don't want to have an argument over George W. Bush. Not George... No, George... Not George H... I'm talking George W. Bush. Not George H. W. Bush. I have no idea. I'm using George W. Bush. Okay, so anyway. Back to the topic. When will we go back to during the Bible studies? This Saturday will be the first Bible study of the year. So we'll have them this Saturday at 11 a.m. central time and can't wait. Will you please exegete Hebrews 411? Let's go to Hebrews 411. I've got more folks bothered by George Bush than anything else. I shouldn't say that. Although... Although this is a season, this is going to be the season. We're going to have it out this year. Anyway. Therefore, let us be diligent to enter that rest so that no one will fall through following the same example of disobedience. It seems to indicate that it's your work that will cause you to be saved. And if you're not diligent, if you're disobedient, then you will fall so that no one will fall through following the same example of disobedience. What's the example he's speaking of? The writer of Hebrews. He's speaking of what Israel had gone through. Israel was one disobedient but two unfaithful. And that's his point. So, as he's speaking about... Because he goes on to tell them and comfort them in their assurance of if they actually are faithful, then they're fine. Amen. Okay, wait. I had to read this whole thing before I put it out. Me and my girlfriend broke up because we're both sexually active. And she says she prayed and God told her that we need to grow apart. Can you explain this to me please? More better what you're thinking. My thinking is I could see that if you guys were doing things you weren't supposed to, behaving in ways you weren't supposed to, and she felt convicted and said no, we gotta stop. Amen. Amen. That's the kind of woman that a man would want. Some of that wants to be holy and chaste even if they've made mistakes, they've done things. And so that being the case, yeah, that's what... If what... No, I don't know if that's the case or not. I can't say... I don't know her. I don't know you. And so it could be that it might be other reasons. But if that was truly her reason, if she believed, she prayed and just felt, you know, we can't do this. And the only way we can stop doing this is if we're just not together with an amen. Jesus makes a statement. He says it's better that you cut off your... Cut off this appendage than to go into hell with all of your digits, right? Enter into heaven lame, missing an arm, a leg, an eye, what have you. It's better to do that and go into heaven that way. So his point is cut off whatever it is, cut off whatever it is that is causing or bringing about sin. And so if what she says is true, if her explanation is true, well then amen, she did right. She did right. Amen. My path back to God. Amen. Praise God. Praise God for you. I'll let you guys see what what our friend said. But amen, amen. Why would God allow the children to be mauled by two she bears? Were they were they teasing because of Elijah's belief? No, almost as bad as that. Almost as bad, Keith. They had the audacity to blaspheme and to pick on, pick a fight with a bald man. That's what you don't do. This is what you don't do. You don't talk about the bald head. You don't talk about the bald head, right? Anybody listen, the bald head man, you know, some of you guys who have hair don't get it. And maybe you'll never get it. Maybe you'll never get it. But once once you shave your head, nothing better. I woke up like this. Yeah, you guys had to guys had to brush and comb. Some of you listen, some of you guys, by the way, let's just listen, let's just tell the truth, shame and devil. Some of you guys are whole known to the last messages of your youth. Let it go. Let it go. Some of you guys got holes and patches and and yeah, some of you guys hair look like my lawn. It's just sparse. Let that thing go and comb over, comb forward. Let it go. Let it go. But no, they were teasing him and in honesty, in all honesty, teasing him. And so the Lord sent this, these two she bears. Now the word that's used there, by the way, can mean that these were younger men. OK, so the same word that's used there for for for young boys or younger men. The likelihood is that they're younger men, but they could have been little boys. They could. They could have been little boys. More likely they were, they were younger, maybe teenagers would have you. Who knows? Who knows? But heck, if they were four years old and picked on the bald head, they had they had it coming. I'm kidding. But if God decides to take their life, irrespective of their age, or what we might think is kind of, it's not that big a deal. God, why would you do that? Well, guess what? Guess what? It's God's prerogative to do so. If God think about this now, who controls the winds and the waves? It's God. When there's an earthquake, a tornado, a hurricane, that's God. When there's a famine, that's God. Our problem is we get so caught up in the method. What if they were just gone in their sleep so peaceful? They're still dead. Because the issue is not the death or the means of the death. The issue is the destination. What do I mean by that? The person that got to, that goes to hell is not complaining about how they got to hell. The fact that they're in hell is their issue. They're not all that concerned about their death. They're more, they're bitter and bothered by where they are. The person that goes to heaven, guess what he's thinking about? Man, I wish I'd have died sooner. The person that's in heaven, would he have rather, I don't know, been shot earlier or died of natural causes 50 years from now. Get me there as soon as possible. And so the destination is the most important thing. How you got there, we focus on that. Just like funerals. We focus, we give the big fuss about the funerals, but the people that are dead, that's not their concern. It's like baby showers. Babies don't care about the baby shower, but it's the people that are there. So anyway, it said, boy George, not boy George. What's his name, George? No, Michael, George Michael, what is his name? The guy from Wham. Why are so many Christians Zionists when Jews reject Jesus Christ? Well, the most important thing for the Jew or whomever is that they don't reject Christ. We're broken and bothered when anyone doesn't accept Christ, doesn't place their faith in Christ. Especially if it's a Jew, because again, the gospel was entrusted to them first. The oracles as Paul says in Romans, the oracles of God were entrusted to them first. So now you would have to ask someone individually why they are the way they are as it pertains to Jews. Is there any biblical backing to doing a fast at the beginning of the year? When should we fast? Bible note taker, I'm so glad you asked that question. You know why? Because over on the Patreon page, think this, yeah, did not do that on Patreon? I think I did. I think I did. I'm pretty sure I did. There is a video dealing with fasting. Did I do that? Someone help me out. So I don't have to go look. I think I did. I think I did that. You all helped me out, but I think I did. That's listen, that's how that's how full my scare. Yes, I did. Thank you, Sheila. Yes. So you can go and see the what, the why, the when, the what for and so forth about the fasting. The point of fasting is that you are humbling yourself for the benefit of something spiritual. By the way, I saw, I saw one of the great demon slayers do this. He put up a video or some some some comments about fasting. I won't say which one it is, but put some comments about fasting. And I think it said that you fast. It's he had part of it, right? You are humbling your soul so that God, I think God can bless you in the open or something like something like that. What? Wow, you missed the whole point. You missed you missed the whole point. But you fast to get closer. You fast for for a need of proximity. You fast as when they ask Jesus about his disciples. Hey, listen, everybody's everybody's fasting. John's disciples are fasting. The Pharisees disciples are fasting. Everybody's fasting, but you're a disciple. What gives Jesus? He says, why would they fast? I'm right here. Why do they need to fast? I'm right here. But when I'm gone, they will fast. It's an issue of proximity. And so it's to make your voice heard on high. In other words, heard by him. Doesn't matter that God, it's not that God needs you to be your voice to be louder or whatever. It's just that your voice is magnified. Why is that the case? Because you are humbling, afflicting your soul yourself. And you'll see the different verses that I use to kind of bring this up to tell us what humbling, what fasting does. In other words, you are humbling your soul, which is what was required of the day of atonement. And so the same thing is happening now. It's just you denying the soul, the spirit, I mean the physical, for the benefit of something spiritual. Amen. Now in terms of when you should fast, should you fast the first day, the last day, what have you? As often as you want to. There is no command as to how often too fast, really even how long to fast. But there should be something that causes some humbling or afflicting to you. In other words, if you fast from 12pm to 3pm, did you really afflict anything? Did you really humbling thing? If you fasted while watching the Super Bowl, did you really miss it? No. And so there is something that's missing so that you can get to the one thing you need. You're not fasting for something. You are fasting for someone. Amen. So, all righty. I've heard this so often. Does praise really confuse the enemy like some charismatic say? No, it does not. Listen, if that were the case, if that were the case, then you would have any problems in church. The louder the music, the more we're screaming and dancing and shouting and what have you. Then you wouldn't have any problems, would you? So, no, that's just kind of... There are songs that say that. As a matter of fact, you'll even find songs that says praises confuse the enemy. So, no. Yeah, let me leave it at that. Let me leave it at that. I was going to go ahead and cover it more. Now, there are some times in passages where you see they are praising and so forth. The best example you can think of, oh, there it is. The best example you can think of is when they shouted in the Old Testament, there are times when they would shout and the other enemies, the human enemies would be confused, but that's God confounding them. You're not confusing the devil. That's for sure. So, anyway, was King Saul saved? No, no. This comes up about Saul. This comes out about Satan for some reason, as to whether they were actually saved and because now they are either inhale or death and for hell would have you, well, then that proves that salvation could be lost. Well, no. One, Saul was never saved. What Saul may have had, Saul may have been atoned for under the Old Covenant, but remember, how does the atonement work? Under the Old Covenant, this was a temporary thing. You had to have your sins atoned for a year after year after year. And so therefore, if Saul may have at any point in time had his sins atoned for, he had to do it every year and every year. Saul clearly was more about himself than about the atonement. Saul was not a humble person, and so there's no reason to expect that one, he was not saved in the way that we're saved. Having our sins atoned for by a savior versus having his sins atoned for temporarily by the blood of bulls and goats. Amen. Okay. You know what? I got to give it to myself. I'm actually moving pretty quickly. I'm moving pretty quickly. By the way, while I'm saying this, tomorrow and Thursday, we do have two guests, and so we're going to be early on both days, both around 12 o'clock, I think. I think tomorrow, we're going to have another esteemed guest, a professor, author, a doctor, who is going to, we're going to talk about dispensationalism and the history of it. There are those that believe, incorrectly, that dispensationalism is something that is new, that dispensationalism just started. Now, I'll tell you this. I am not, I don't call myself a dispensationalist. Now, I do hold to dispensational hermeneutics. We'll talk about that even more so because I'm still waiting. I had a discussion with a friend of mine today who is, no, the guest is not going to be Rachel. Rachel's not coming back. I don't think she is, but he is at, he's a 12-point Calvinist. He's a 12-point Calvinist. We were having conversations and he was explaining his hermeneutics. And as he explained his hermeneutics, I say, okay, well now, acquit yourself, sir. Give me, give me your definition of a hermeneutic, of your hermeneut. He says, basically the same is Christ-centered. It points to Christ. Well, everyone will say that, but here's the point though. When the people in the Old Testament read the Bible, read their scriptures, and they don't know of Christ on the cross, would they come away with the same thing or do they have a different meaning? And if they have a different meaning than what you have, well, then something's wrong. Was God veiling his scriptures for them? Or was it that they could not know? Because not only did the readers, the audience not know, the person that's speaking didn't know. Jeremiah had some things that were giving him and he said it. Same thing with Abraham, same thing with Moses, but none of them ever uttered the word Jesus. How is that? How does a person who's saved in the Old Testament never understand or utter Jesus? Well, because their atonement was different. And so the point is, how we read it matters. So if you say that the scriptures point to Christ, ultimately they do. We have a better picture because we have all the scriptures. But there has to be some sort of way that we, some rule that we have when we're reading it. So when I read this passage, I should have the exact same keys and clues and ability to come to the same understanding as you do. God wants us to get the same understanding. Amen. Amen. So we're going to talk about that. And then we're going to have Dr. Layton Flowers on Friday. I think the same. I think about the same time, the same time. So that being the case, it's going to be pretty interesting. Then sometime soon, we're going to follow it up. We're going to follow it up with, we have an iron it out. I need to get back with these gentlemen. We'll have Justin Peters back on again. And then Virgil Walker. So, and there'll be some more as well. So I'll let you know about those as well. And then obviously on Saturday, we'll have the Bible study. So going to have some good stuff happening. Good stuff, good stuff, good stuff. Amen. Amen. All right. Next question. Douglas Ray says, thoughts on 2nd Samuel 8 through 18, priest order of Melchizedek. Okay. Let's go there and see 2nd Samuel 8 through 18. Wait a second. You said, oh, 8. Oh, 8 and 18. Okay. Okay. I've got it right. Am I, did you, did you say just? Okay. Douglas, are you saying just 8 verse 18? Your question was, were they out of the order of Melchizedek? Let me read some more of this. No, I'm not understanding why you would, I guess I'm not really even understanding the question. That might be the bad question, because I'm trying to figure out where, why are you asking or this is the point of was this or are they out of the order of Melchizedek? Who's out of the order of Melchizedek? I'm not, I'm not understanding. So do me a favor, Douglas, when you get a chance, submit your question again. Maybe I'm not misunderstanding, but no, I don't think these that in them are out of the order. By the way, this whole point of being out of the order of Melchizedek, all that really refers to is, he's not one, he's not an ironic or of a certain lineage priesthood. He's not, he's not of Aaron. He's not, he's not a Levite, are you with me? So that's all. Okay, a man cannot divorce his wife, but can a woman divorce? What, no, they both can divorce each other if they're, if for the right prescribed reasons. If there is infidelity, either can divorce. He can divorce her, she can divorce him. If there is cheating about an abusive husband. This is where I would say this, and I'll be, I'll tiptoe on this on purpose, okay? I'll tiptoe on this on purpose. I wanna make sure that we define what it means to be abusive. Let's say he's got a mean temper. He says mean things and so forth. Does that give a person the right, the woman or the man to leave? Because they are abusive in that regard. No, he talks too much trash. He's mean, he's angry. Now, as it relates to someone that's being violent and hurting the person, I would say, do your very best, your soonest to leave. And then, and then go to the pastor and go to the authorities as well. When it comes to this person, if this person has abandoned you, amen, you are under no obligation, okay? These are just what the scriptures say, all right? Alrighty. Once saved, always saved, all day, every day. If you are truly saved, you are saved. So if you're asking, do I believe that? Yes, the scriptures are clear. One of the things that I think everyone needs to think about and I ask this question so many different ways and people, I don't think they're understanding what I'm saying, or some don't. So let me ask you guys a question. Let me put it, let me put the chat on the screen. So I want to know, if God believes that you owe him a debt, if there is an outstanding debt on you owed to God, do you go to hell? Yes or no? Well, the answer is yes. But what if there is no debt? Jonathan says, what do you mean by truly saved? I'm going to show you in a second. What if there is no debt? In other words, how does a person get to the position to where there is no debt being paid or being owed? How does a person end up in the position to where there is no debt? And I use this word debt for a good reason. One, this is the very reason, the basis of our atonement, the old covenant atonement and the atonement at the cross. There's a word that you're going to see this term justification. It means to be declared right and treated as such. And then Jesus makes a statement on the cross. He says to tell us that it is it means it is finished. It's been used. It's all it was used. It was a common term that was used in the old, I mean, in the New Testament and really Old Testament as well, when a when a sale of something was complete, you owed somebody something and it was paid off. You bought a house, you bought a land, you bought some servants, whatever. And there's nothing else old. And then it would have stamp to tell us that what to tell us. I mean, it's the perfect tense of something. Meaning, so when I see this on the sheet of paper, it means this debt, it had been paid in the past. Now, what you think about that for a second, the debt had been paid. Now, it makes sense if let's say, let me just use, let me use Sheila. Sheila, someone says, no, Sheila owes Corey, but I'm not around. Sheila can show this paper. No, it has been paid. Well, that refers to the debt being paid in the past. Are you guys with me? I need you to follow this. That paper says the debt has been paid. So like if you look at your, let's say your title in your car or your house is free and clear. It will state that it had been paid. Now, I might even give a date to it. Well, what Jesus, when he makes a statement, tell us die saying that it has been paid. The funny thing is, he makes the statement before he dies. And he makes the statement before you place your faith in Christ. Think about that for a second. It has been paid. It's also used in a financial transaction. It has been paid. When was this debt paid? That's the question. Well, all the way back in Leviticus, God says what is required, that there needs to be this atonement. What does the atonement do? It reconciles by having two other things happen. One, the cancelling, I mean the covering of a sin and then the cancelling of the debt. The covering of the sin, when he would place his hands on the live scapegoat and send him away, all of the sins are gone and moved away. So there is no more sin before the camp or in this case before the Lord. Then the cancelling of the debt, what cancelling the debt? The payment for the debt is blood. God determined, this is how you're going to pay this debt. If the debt is satisfied, oh, by the way, who determines if it's satisfied? God does. He says, pay this and it's done. They pay that, it's done. Now let's fast forward. The exact same thing is happening now at the cross. There is a priest that administers this. There is a covering or cancelling or taking away of sin. Remember, the Bible says that Jesus, the Lamb of God, John makes his statement in John 1, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, like we see in the Old Covenant. And then we have the cancelling of the debt. The blood that's paid, however, in this case, the blood is different. How different is it? Better. So now this blood is unlike the blood of bulls and goats, where it now takes away sin. That's why he makes a statement, the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin. But Jesus' blood can. And so when he does so, that debt is paid. How fully paid is it? Totally and completely. That's why in Colossians 2, he says the debt was paid. And how so? Nailed to the cross. So now, if the debt required blood to be paid and paid by Jesus, there is no more outstanding debt. If by placing my faith in Christ, humbling your soul, meaning I recognize I'm no good. I'm right. I'm in this downtrodden sense. I know how bad I am, how rotten I am. And then I place my faith in Christ, just like what was required on the day of Atonement. Now what happens? I place my faith in Christ. The debt is paid. If the debt is paid, can anybody ever, ever come back and say, you still owe the Lord? You still owe God? They can never come back and say, remember Paul makes a statement clear. He says, who can bring a charge against God's elect? Those that he chose that he saved. And then what does he say thereafter in Romans 8? It is God who justifies. That's why he used that term. And so if the debt is paid, then what happens is reconciliation because the debt is paid. The debt is paid means nobody. And I don't care how big the church is, how big their channel is, how loud their voice is, how smooth they say it, how wrong they say it. And it's wrong to say that you now owe a debt that has been paid by God. Well, if Jesus pays a debt, well, my God, who can come and pay a better debt? And it would be the exact same situation that we had under the old, where the blood of bulls and goats, if that was insufficient and temporary, then Jesus' blood does the exact same thing. No, the debt is paid for ever. Amen. All right. Okay. Let me answer this question as well because someone brought this up because it kind of goes along with this. Let me... Uh... Does John 1026, this passage seems to support double predestination. Could you explain this? Where are you speaking of? Let's pull on the screen. John 1026. I know why you say that because he's speaking of who is saved or who not he is. John 1026. But you do not believe the reason why you don't believe, because I have to highlight it, underline I'm sorry, because you are not my sheep. You're not my sheep, so you don't believe. You don't believe because you are not my sheep. Does that mean that they can't believe because he didn't make them their sheep? Well, double predestination means that he predestines some to heaven and then the rest to hell. So he's predestining them and predestinating them. Predestining them and them. However, there's a passage in 2 Peter 3. Oops. 3 9. The Lord is not slow about his promises. Amen. As some count slowness, but is patient towards you. Here it is. Not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. Now the question is, Corey, how does that prove or disprove anything about double predestination? Well, because the word that's used here is the word bulimenos. Bulimenos or bulimai refers to God ordaining or planning or putting someone in hell. In other words, he has not caused you or put you in hell. The reason why you go to hell is because you put yourself in hell. Now this is where I depart from and let me just put on the screen because some folks might be bothered, but this is where I depart from my Calvinist friends. I believe that you have the ability to choose. However, I know for a fact because of the scriptures, you have the ability to choose, but you can only believe temporarily. Why? Because there needs to be something in us, either outwardly or inwardly, something from within or something from without to cause you to keep doing right. How do I know? Go look at your two-year-old. Go look at your three-year-old. Go look at your five. Go look at your teenagers. Go look at the little babies. Yeah, they can do right for a minute. My little grandson, the one-year-old or the four-year-old or the eight-year-old granddaughter, they will listen. They are perfect angels while I'm right there. Well, I shouldn't say the one-year-old. The one-year-old, he'll hit you in the head whether you're watching or not. Matter of fact, he likes to hit you in the head if you are watching. Let's put him to the side. He'll know me better. But the rest, even my 13-year-old, she is a perfect angel. Perfect. Now, she's got an attitude, so she's an angel with an attitude. But perfect angels, because I'm right there. What happens if I leave? Now, I got some time to do some thinking. Let me think about it. If I do it, I get a whipping. But if I do it right and he doesn't see, I won't get caught and won't get whipped. Right? You know how that works? There needs to be something on the outside or the inside. Inmates, prisoners. When the guard is there, they're fine. When the police are there, they're fine. When they turn their back up, let's party. When the, in the Old Testament, when the Lord was with them, amen, Lord, whatever you say, God, you're awesome. You're amazing. When his presence was gone, not that his presence ever leaves, but when they couldn't see the glory, when they didn't recognize it, or when the prophet, the man of God is gone. What do they do? They act up. It takes something from within or without something on the inside or something on the outside. Well, in the Old, they had something on the outside and even then. But now we have something on the inside. So you can believe temporarily, but what's going to keep you believing? Because you still got this flesh. But when the Holy Spirit is in you, then guess what's going to happen? You're going to keep believing. And so what does he do? He sees that, you know what, you're not going to do right, but I will choose some. I will choose some. Now this is where Layton Flowers and I will agree on some parts and disagree on other parts. I will choose some because I know nobody's going to do right. And so that's why he says in 1 Peter 1, that God caused you and me, whoever is saved to be born again. Amen. Amen. I wanted to cover it because it was it was germane to what we were just talking about. So can you explain in Greek how confident is confident in Philippians 1, 6 concerning finishing what he started? Amen. Mike Taylor, Philippians 1, 2 Ps. Okay. No, wait a second. Fli. Okay, there we go. Philippians 1, 6. For I am confident of this very thing that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. This work. This seems to be a perfect tense, and it is a perfect tense. This is word petho, which means to persuade, believe, trust. Now, this is a perfect tense, so Paul has been this way. So Paul's confidence, here's why it's extremely confident. Paul's confidence, Mike, isn't in us. How do we know Paul's confidence isn't in us? Let's go back to it. Paul uses the perfect tense. This word, if you see what's called this reduplication, so this p-epsilon, and then p again, so the beginning of this word, pethos, begins with a p or pi. Some of you guys would say it's p. There's no i sound in the Greek. It's e. This poethos, so it's pepoethos. It is the perfect tense, which is a completed action in the past. Well, how can Paul be confident about them? He's not. He's confident about God. That's how confident he is. And so for this reason, I am very extremely confident of this very thing that he, and notice he even emphasized why he's confident. He's confident in this very thing because he, that being God, who began the good work. So who starts the work? Who begins it? God does. He began a good work in you, and will perfect it. Oh, by the way, this is a future active indicative for this word. He will perfect it, or I should say he will complete it, perfect it. He will cause this thing to come to a completion, to completion, to end. That's what the word teleos is. He will do so until the day of Christ. So how long will he, how long will he, who began a good work, continue doing it? He says, look at it, Archie Jimérez, which is until the day of Jesus Christ. Yeah, Paul is extremely confident about that. Extremely confident. Amen. Now, someone can want to refute it, but again, words have meaning. Words have meanings. By the way, we have so many questions. Tell you what I'm going to do. Tell you what I'm going to do. I'm not going to be able to get through all of these things. Since we have, since we have our two guests coming on early on Thursday and Friday, let's also do this again on Friday. We'll do as many as we can a day. I will, I will she'll, she'll I'll see you. We'll also do this again on, on Friday. Okay. So that way, let's see. Okay. I got you. He, he, he, he, he, Michael Jackson. I got you. All right. All right. All right. Next question. What does the word of God mean that he is the Alpha and the Omega? Well, in Greek, the Alpha is the first letter. Omega is the last. He's the first and last. He's the big. Now, by the way, interestingly enough, who is the first and the last? Any idea who the Bible says is the first and the last? Well, matter of fact, do I, I still have this. Nope. Don't have. Sorry about that. That's the wrong one. That's the wrong one. I've got it somewhere on here. I think I still have it on here. Maybe I don't. Maybe. Don't know. I don't. I thought I did. Or I do. I just can't find it. There's just so many, so many on here. Nope. I don't have it on here. Or I do somewhere. I just can't find it. I have a slide speaking about who, who's who, who does what, who said what. God is the beginning and the end, the first and last. So too is Jesus. So what does that tell you? But that's what it means. To say that he's the first and he's really, he's letting us know that, hey, I'm that guy too. He is me. What platform am I using to study scripture on the computer? On this computer, what I'm using right here is Lagos. This is Lagos. I'm starting out Lagos. This is accordance of Bible software. I'm sorry. I also have Lagos. So when you guys run around and I'm doing some studying, I'll go back and forth between accordance as well as Lagos. A Lagos rep, I may want to give him a call, called or emailed me and asked me if I wanted to, you know, be a sponsor or have them be a sponsor. I didn't ask, I didn't say yes one. And I'm not, I guess I could take the, the money grab. But the reason why I didn't or haven't is because it doesn't show as well on the screen for what I'm doing as accordance. I think Lagos probably does better. Matter of fact, it is better in some ways, many ways than, than accordance. But I can't go back from scripture to scripture, scripture to do as much moving around as I want to do the way I want to use it as accordance doesn't. So for that reason, I've, I still use Lagos, but I use publicly accordance privately. I use both. So that's the software that I'm using. Miss Love says, in Revelation, are, are there any saved Gentiles that missed the rapture on earth during the millennium reign or they are all Jews? It doesn't say they're all Jews. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure they're not all Jews. They're okay. Everyone that makes it prior to the rapture or that's raptured out are Jew and Gentile who are believers irrespective of their nationality, Jew or Gentile. In the millennium, the millennium is going to be populated by people who were raptured and brought back at his second coming. And then those who made it through the tribulation, Jew and Gentile. Now the tribulation is to afflict Israel. According to the Old Testament, is to afflict Israel. But there will also be Gentiles as well and there will be a large number and they will, there are going to be people that will need to, that will give birth to other people, those that are raptured won't. They'll have a glorified body and they don't give, they don't give or are taken in marriage in heaven, but those that go through the tribulation, they will. Okay, they still have all their parts working and so forth. And so that's where, at the very end of the thousand years, that's where you're going to see when Satan is released and you're going to see him gathering people and deceiving people in the nations. There will be some people who aren't saved that actually are born, not come to the tribulation, I mean out of the tribulation, but after the tribulation in the midst of the millennium, you'll see those people who also will be born, who even though he's reigning, will still turn away or still be deceived. Amen. Someone asks King Saul, save already answered question. No, he was not. Is the kingdom of God a country? No, the kingdom of God is a rulership, a ruler, a governance of him, of his people. That's literally it now. Ultimately, where is it going to be when he actually is ruling? Well, it's going to be in a country, it's going to be in Israel. But is it a particular country? Like here's the land over here, there? No, but when he comes back, the Bible is clear where he's coming back to. He's not coming back to Iowa. He's not coming back to Guatemala. He's certainly not going to Cuba or Russia. He's not coming anywhere in America. He is going to Israel, particularly Jerusalem. Amen. Okay. When are you planning a church? Tony keeps asking a question. It's going to be some time. Again, going through what I've, what I'll be doing with seminary and everything else with this, one with my family also, but also with just what I'm doing here online, what I'm doing offline with seminary and so forth. There is going to be a need. There's going to be a need to my dog is barking because my daughter is bringing another dog. Her friend has a little dog and she's babysitting this little dog. This little dog is probably about the size of this cup. She's a cute little dog, but she is, she's like a little rat. She's, I mean, when I say about the size of this, about this big and runs a billion miles an hour. She just all over the place. And so Rosie, who is anti-social, is barking. Anytime someone comes around, she wants to go bark. So that's what you guys are hearing. But I'm not sure what it's going to be. It could be a year from now. Could be two years from now. It could be three years from now. I am going to cover though, I covered what she can and cannot do, what women can and cannot do in the ministry. I'm going to cover what men can do and which men can do it as well, who qualifies to be a pastor and so forth. So I'm going to cover that as well. So, I was going to do that on Friday. I made it on Thursday, but I was going to do it on Friday, since just, but since we're going to have an extra an extra question and answering, I may push it back till to Monday. Maybe I'll do it Sunday. Who knows? Or record it. No, because I want to be live. I want to be live. You made a video about the Catholic Church, the Pope, because not all Catholics are for this. And you said Catholicism is not a legitimate religion. Did Jesus establish the Catholic Church? No, he did not. The first Pope comes three centuries after Christ. And so no, he did not. Now the Catholic Church, the term Catholic Church originated before the organization Catholic Church shows up, and it just simply means the universal church. So when you hear the term Catholic, it means universal. Now they co-opted it and took it over, and which is why you'll see a lot of times a lot of Christian thought was dominated by the Catholic Church. For a long portion, we didn't know who or what was the majority thought or the greater thought in Christendom, because you have the Catholic Church that override, that overwrote that. This was the church that, think about it, this was the church that did not want anyone individually to have a Bible. They didn't want you to have a Bible. They wanted someone else. They wanted their, even in places where Latin wasn't the language, the priests were still speaking Latin in their masses. Why? Because they didn't want the people to, and the translations, the voguing and so forth. They didn't want the common man to have the word. And so you had a lot of people that died as a result of this. William Tyndale literally gave his life so that the common man, as he said, that the common man and the boy in the plow could also have the scriptures. So, Regina asks a great question. Regina asks a great question. Regina says, Packers or Cowboys? Well, let's use the biblical standard. Let's use the biblical standard. Which one of these teams is represented in the Bible? Packers or Cowboys? Well, there are no Cowboys in the Bible. No Cowboys. But Cory, there are no Packers in the Bible either. No, there are none. There are none. So, what we need to do is find the closest team to that team. The closest team to the Cowboys would be the Houston Texans. And the closest team to the Packers would be the Bears. There are no Texans in the Bible. However, there are Bears in the Bible. And the Bears defended the prophet of God. Therefore, the Packers will win. It has been said, it has been decreed. Yeah, I've spoken tongues for you. I prophesied. So, all you charismatic, I just gave you what you needed. I'm kidding. Got to have some fun, right? You know what? Actually, if I were a betting man, I'm not a betting man, but I think the Cowboys are probably going to win this game. It's going to hurt my heart. It's going to hurt my heart. It's going to hurt my heart, but I promise you, if they lose, I might go live. I might go live. Anyway, okay. Oh, this was a horrible story. This was a horrible story. Did Jephthah burn his daughter as an offering? The Bible records this happening. It was a rash decision. It was a stupid decision. God did not tell him to do so. Sometimes you vow a vow. Remember, I made this statement before, guys. God does care and concern himself about the vow that you make. Don't just say something willy-nilly and then, because that was the issue with the brothers. They made a vow and broke the vow Jacob's boys, which is why we have Judah, who is now the lineage where we wish the separate would not depart. They made a vow and broke it. He expects you to keep your vow. We see the Children of Israel doing so. Matter of fact, they are tricked. When they take the land, they are tricked. And Josh was upset with them because they make this vow. Well, we made a vow. We got to keep it. You tricked us, but we got to keep the vow. The vows are important. So we have this man who makes a vow. First one to show up. All right. So his daughter, who means no harm. Good girl. And listen. So she shows up and, well, I made a vow. I got to carry through it. And so she, this is a good daughter. This is a good daughter because they were me. Daddy, you and Trump, tough for you. You made the vow. I didn't. So I don't know where you're going to get this sacrifice from, but it ain't going to be me. If the daughter, listen, I would have. If me personally, if I were her, yeah, daddy, daddy would not have made it out out that house alive that day. Daddy would have died. No, daddy, you messed up. You messed up. So the thing though that we can get from this is that the Bible does, the Bible does account even for when people do foolish things or wrong things. The Bible doesn't hide people's mistakes. It doesn't. Like he didn't hide. The Bible doesn't cover up David's mistakes. We are told that the Bible doesn't endorse it either. So, yeah, but I feel bad for that girl. No fault of her own. She's just, yeah. Can you explain James 4-3 in regards to prayer when you're asking God for something? James 4-3. Let's go there. James 4-3. Let's start in verse one. Let's do that. What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Now, he's not being exhaustive, saying that's the only source, but what is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source of your, the source your pleasures that wage war in your memories? Yeah, I want stuff. I need stuff. I've got to have stuff. You lust and do not have. You commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain. So you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive. Why? Because you ask with the wrong motives so that you may spend it on your pleasures. When your prayers are for your pleasures. God, it's not okay. No, no. Go ask your other father. Go ask the devil, because I'm not giving it to you. You want things. Lord, can you bless me please? I want a brand new, I don't know, Mercedes. I want this. I want that. And then what do we do sometimes? We ask for certain things and couch it. Lord, if you give me this, I'm going to bless you with it. Well, first of all, God knows your heart. You're not Hannah with Samuel. God, if you bless him with a child, I'll give him back to you. God knows your heart as well. Delight yourself in the Lord and he'll give you the desires of your heart. Well, he knows what her heart is, because she has already delighted herself in him. But Lord, maybe, maybe I want a husband. I want a wife or I want a raise. I want some money. It's not for selfish reasons, Lord, but because I need these things. Well, the Lord already knows what you have need of, even before you ask it. So therefore, you can't pull that over on him. So when you ask for something, one, I think the most important thing that anyone can do when they're asking, grace and mercy, what you ought to do, is ask for a closeness with God. Let that be your first prayer. Because what does he want? He wants proximity. He wants you to be close to him. If that's what you want, well then don't be surprised that you start getting the other desires, because your heart is for him. Amen. Okay, continuing. I'm moving faster. Man, I marked about, wow, I marked over 30-something questions. Am I aware of a Harlem pastor having Harlem pastor manning on who that is, having problems with the banks wanting to foreclose his church and how should a pastor deal in such a, well, there's nothing he can do. If you owe the banks some money and you can't pay, you better figure out some kind of way to do it legally. But do I have a problem with a bank foreclosing on a church because the church did not take care of its financial obligations? This might surprise you. I don't have a problem with it at all. Now, if the church does, I mean, if the bank does something nefarious or kind of unconscionable, then there's a case of a church in Illinois that they're having to suffer from another, what another person did. It's a whole long convoluted story. But if the church took out a loan, which maybe they shouldn't have taken out a loan, why did you take out a loan for something that you couldn't afford? And I've seen churches do that, where they will go and take out a loan and they could not afford it or they just did it by the skin of their teeth. They could almost like some of what we did, people did in the early 2000s with the mortgages. You could afford this mortgage, but barely. If you lift one leg up, turn around, bend a little bit, squint your eyes and less not air. Maybe if we don't have a high electric bill and the water bill and so forth, maybe I can afford this mortgage. That's what a lot of churches are doing. You don't do that. Don't don't do that. Because now you put yourself under a bond, a yoke that you're going to force the church to pay. We're going to have all these different programs and building fund programs and so forth. And don't do that. Don't don't do that. If your church, if your church, has got 50 people, don't try to build a church for 2000. Take some time. Let it be crowded there at the church for a little bit. But you get so happy because, well, we got a little bit of growth and I think we need a building or bigger building. No, just be crowded. Be comfortable in the place that you're in for a little bit. Bus at the seams. Let folks see that man, this place is too, let other people tell that you need a bigger place. Not you. So yeah, if they foreclose because of your poor decisions, you'll learn next time. You'll learn next time, but yeah, that's not the bank's fault and we can't be mad at the bank because the bank also have people that they're beholden to, other folks who have put their money in. You know, these mortgages come from deposits. And so they are also obligated to be good stewards with the people who are depositors in that bank. And by the way, by the way, because I know this part, there are also requirements for these mortgages in the state of Texas. Now they have been loose with them, but instead of Texas, the bank can only have so many foreclosures or so many people that meet foreclosure status before the state deals with that bank. So Jay says, does Matthew 1720 prove what the Waterfaith movement preaches about if you have enough faith? Let's go to Matthew 1720 and let's see. Why is this bright right here? Let me close that. There you go. 1720. And he said to them, because of the littleness of your faith, for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there and it will be moved. And nothing will be impossible to you. But now, this part is highlighted. It is bracketed because in the original, the fasting and prayer part is the issue because the prayer, the fasting part is not there, but this kind comes about prayer. But here's the issue. Because I don't want to make that the point. Because of the littleness of your faith, how many times guys in the Bible, how many times in the Bible have we seen someone say to a mountain and that mountain be removed? How often has that ever happened? Have you ever seen it happen in the Bible? Has anyone ever prayed and a mountain be removed? Has God in recorded history that we know of moved a mountain? Now we know he can. As a matter of fact, when Jesus comes back and sets his foot on the mountain, it's going to split into and move one this way to the north and one to the south. By the way, I literally moved my hand to the north in this office. The north is that way in the south. I just, I don't, anyway. It's the only time that we know of a mountain moving. Well, what's his point? Go back to the passage. He says, if you have faith the size of a monster, because it's not the faith, it's the object of the faith that you point to. It's not the faith of you. It's the faith of who your faith is in. I mean, it's who your faith is in. That being God. Now, faith in yourself, that ain't gonna do anything. And so no, that didn't prove, that didn't prove that, because if that were the case, I've often said to these people who are in these, in the Word of Faith movement, you have this sort of faith that can cause mountains to be removed and call these things that are not as though they were, which that's a that's a twisting of the scripture. Well, fine, do it. There are a lot of Word of Faith people that were in prison with me and I would, they said, well, yeah, we can listen. We just gonna pray and all right, fine, why don't you pray and have the judge release us all? Why don't you pray and have these fences fall over? That shouldn't be, maybe changing the judge's will. Now, the Bible says the heart of the judges are in his hand. Well, go ahead, cause it to be so, or cause just a portion of the fence to fall down. Just do that. Now, I'm not gonna go with you, but it never seems to work out the way that now, what does seem to work out with Word of Faith people is as it pertains to your money. So, a seed here and get blessed, it's worked with me. Okay, okay. So, no, that does not prove what that does not prove. Why did God, Mark, came not to be killed by people? Who were those people that should not kill? Now, the reason why I didn't want to kill cause I don't want other people killed, I'm saying for God. Don't want other people to keep to do the exact same thing that you're doing. I'm the one that gives life and take life. I don't need you stepping in and doing anything. So, I don't want anyone to kill and here's a mark. Now, I don't know, the Bible doesn't say what that mark was. Was it big and bright? And did the mark say, you touch him, I'ma kill you. You touch him, I'ma touch you. You kill him, I'ma kill you. I don't have no idea, but whatever the mark was, the others got it. As a matter of fact, came and his descendants ended up being problematic for the people that were following God. We can cover that later, but they became problematic for the people that were following God. And this is who I believe. We'll cover this later. Chat wants to talk about Nephilim. We'll talk about Nephilim in about a week or two. And that's where I believe these people of God, these sons of man, and the daughters of God. That's where that comes from. Now, who are these people? The people are daughters and sons, great grandsons, great granddaughters, and so forth of Adam and Eve. Cain's wife was either a sister or niece. And so that's where all these... Remember God said, be fruitful and multiply. And that's what they did. Alrighty. Vernon asked the same question of Tony. Yes, I still plant on planting in Pastry, but not in Indiana, not yet. No, it's going to start off more than likely 90% likelihood it's going to be here in Texas. 90% likelihood. But who knows? Listen, I still have an affinity for it. I think there's a need for churches everywhere, but I even still here in Dallas. I tease and talk about Atlanta and Lord knows Atlanta is another beast. But just like you all having a problem with a bishop, we got a bishop here that needs some help. And we've got prophets and apostles here. So, yeah. Anyway, continue. Let's go back. Would I visit a truth of God temple? If they don't, I don't think they have one here in Texas. If I would have a problem going. Listen, I've been to all sorts of churches. I would not have a problem at all. Go up in Meadow, Geno Jennings. Geno, I got a problem with you. I got a problem with you. You said if someone has a problem with you, tell you, I got a problem with you. I wouldn't go and start a problem, start a mess with him. Now, do they have? So if they have one in the Dallas area, I'll go. I won't have a problem. I'm not going to start. I'm not going to go and start a problem. Start a fight or something. Like, I'm not going to do that. I was raised better than that to go and just, you know. Now, I don't have a problem with going to, you know, like a Dallas mass deliverance. I'll go to a Dallas mass deliverance. I'm not, I'm not going. I didn't, I didn't even start a problem there. I didn't start a fight. I was not rowdy. I was not disrespectful. All I did was just go there. And I just, stood there with my arms folded. Like, yeah, whatever. This is ridiculous. That's, that's, that's what I did. So, but I wouldn't go there and start any problems there. Is it the oldest book? No, it's not the oldest. Now, I will say this though, because I forgot who this was. Oh, I know it was. I know it was. What's the leader of IUIC? Oh, what is his name? What is, what is the IUIC? Bishop Nathaniel. Nathaniel. Bless his head. Bless his head. He just says goofy things. And they don't. What's it, what's the saying that Ben Kenobi said in Star Wars? Who's the bigger fool? The fool of the fool follows. Well, he makes a statement about the white man giving us the Bible. I'm like, well, the Bible was in Africa before it was in Europe. So on that, I'll make that statement. But in terms of the every translation is translated off of the originals in some way they make them. So obviously we don't have the obviously we don't have the originals. We don't know if we even have the second originals, the next copies. We have no idea. And so it'd be hard to determine who had the first copies and so forth. When the apostles did when the apostles did venture and take the word and so forth, they went to they went to Africa. They went to Asia and they went to Europe. It'd be difficult to figure out who who has the oldest translation first. Now there is a paparite fragment that dates back to 90. 90, 80. Could that be actually John's handwriting? Could be. We don't know. No one I wouldn't be. I don't think anyone would be so bold to say that it is. It was close to that dating. And that particular paparite was not in Africa or that fragment was not in Africa. Don't know. I'm coming to your question. He, he, he, he, he, he, he. I'm coming to let me go to the right. Let me go to your question now. Let me go to your question now. Because your question now. There's acts 818 acts 8238 imply two different baptisms by the same spirit. Hebrew 62 dog on it. Now I got to look up all of these different passages. Okay, let's go there. Acts. Uh oh. I didn't spell it correctly. Acts 818. And let's put the other one over here so I can act 818. Now when Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the puzzle's hands, he offered them money. And then obviously acts 238. Repent and believe. Matter of fact, let's put it on the screen as well. I've been wrong thing in. Acts 238. Record, please. Repent each of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit. Now in this case, what are we speaking of? Is it speaking of physical water? Or spiritual? In this case, he's speaking of spiritual because there's no teaching that says that physical water must be. What is it now? By the way, by the way, I spoke before about how this is exegetical and how this word and. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? This word and it doesn't only mean and in terms of succession. Do this and do that and do that. That's not what that always means. Let's put it back on the screen. Let's go to this word chi and I want to show you something. This word chi and I want to see if you guys can see them the bottom. It says and also even and yet but it can be namely. So in this case, it is to be taken. Repent each one of you being baptized and when it gets to that and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, namely, even as resulting in and even Jeff put coinciding. This is this is extra. This is part and parcel of the same thing. The Bible knows of no Christian who's not repented. Who is not who hasn't repented? The Bible knows of no Christian hasn't been baptized. Every Christian has been baptized and every Christian has the gift of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so that's his point there because he asked a question later. Oh, by the way, by the way, it doesn't even tell us that all the same people that that day were baptized. I mean, that day they were, which are going to 41, but there are other passages where people get saved and then the Bible doesn't tell us that they were baptized. So the baptism that's been spoken of and I cover this before and I use different colors to indicate, are we speaking of a water baptism? Are we speaking of a spirit baptism? Or it's kind of in between not sure. Okay, I'll have to go and find that particular video. I think I think it's a pretty good if I do this with myself, a good video worth watching so you can see how sometimes we're baptized. It can be used to refer to either or, but in this case, especially as it relates to salvation, it refers to this spiritual baptism. Amen. Okay, it's going to church men. I'm going to speed up a little bit. It's going to church mandatory to be saved. And why is it so hard to find an actual biblical church? One, I don't know how hard it is to find a biblical church. There are so many churches and so there's there's still this however many biblical churches there are, they can be kind of clouded and crowded out by the number of bad churches. And typically it's the bad church that you hear the most about. Your friend, your buddy, someone says, Hey, I go to this church. It's exciting. The church is just exciting because they do all kind of crazy stuff. You know, like walking stuff out, you know, swagging, searching, that kind of stuff. And so you attract a lot of worldly people because of the church's world. And you get there like, wait a second, this is not what I want to be at. By the way, thank you for the, for offering me the way to give a shameless plug. Go to the website. Go to the website smartchristians.org. And there's a part only that says church search. We're adding churches all the time. Go in and search your locale. Now here's what I'll say as well. Anyone that is looking for a church, if there is not one in your locale, simply email us. Send the info and we'll, because we're still put, there's a bunch of churches we have. There's more churches that we have to put on than there are on there. And so email. Hey, I'm in the, I don't know, T-neck area. I'm in the tri-state area, which tri-state area. I'm in Poughkeepsie. I'm in Lincoln. And I need to see it. Well, then fine. We'll find, we'll find churches that are there. And if not, if we can't find one that we have our little list that we're pulling off of, then we'll ask the body, those guys who are here, hey, help us. Someone know, there's someone out there that is, that watches this channel, that can also point us to a good Bible-believing church. Now it would be perfect in the sense that they believe everything that you believe, because guys, there's no such thing as a perfect church. They're going to have some things that might be right, I mean, that might be off or what have you. So therefore, we're not going to throw out the whole thing because they have one thing. For example, if I go to a church, and that church is sound all the way around, but they have this, they still talking about tides. Am I going to leave the church because that, no. If everything else is sound, that makes me wonder how they get to tides, but that's fine. That's fine. I'll stay there because if you look for that perfect church, you won't have it. You just not going to find it. So now let me also say this as well for folks that are looking for churches because sometimes, not you, but other people, sometimes it's not the church. Sometimes it's you. We hear people all the times and I can't find a good church. It's like, well, it's because of you. You're the person that can't find a good church. You mean tell me, you live in a large metropolitan area and you can't find a church in let's say Dallas. So thousands of churches, you can't find one. Maybe the church is a little too boring for you. Maybe that's your issue. Or they're too old or too whatever. So make sure that it's not your requirements. Make sure it's you. I mean, make sure it's the church. And I promise you, God has not left us barren in a desert where there is no church to be found. Amen. But we'll help you out if we can. Okay. Does the Bible make any mention of reincarnation? The Hebrew Israelites think so. Let's go to Luke 117. It is he who will go as a forwarder for him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children. So the question is, is this Elijah? Now Jesus says that it is Elijah who is coming. Then John comes back and says, I'm not Elijah. Well, he's speaking of the power that he comes in. He is likened to the same way that Elijah comes. And I actually, there's a video. If you just type in, is John Elijah or just happened Smart Christians and Elijah? And I covered this. And then one of the things you're going to see kind of some of the similarity between John and Elijah. But also, Elijah shows up at the Mount of Transfiguration. At the Transfiguration. They are different. Okay. He's Elijah is not John and John is not Elijah. But to say that he is like an Elijah, that part is proper to say. Amen. Thank you, Steve, for the Super Sticker. Okay. Doug was said, going back to this 2nd Samuel 818. Let's go back to 2nd Samuel 818. Oh, I still have it up. As a matter of fact. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Yeah. Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. Let's see. Oh, in verse 17. They were priests. Okay. I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. Hold on. Well, let me read this really briefly. Let's find out. Oh, okay. I think I get what you're I think I get what you're saying. Okay. So let's start in verse 15. So David reigned over all Israel and David administered justice and righteousness for all his people. Joab, the son of Zariah, was over the army and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was recorded. Zadak, the son of Ahitou and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests and Zariah was secretary. Ben Anaya, the son of Jehoida, Jehoida, was over the Cherithites and the Pelithites and David's sons were chief ministers. So are we saying do we take that Ben Anaya that he was a priest? No, I wouldn't take it that he was a priest. Here we have who the priest was, Ahimelech and Abiathar. We know that that they were the priests, this father and son. Ahimelech was the son of Abiathar but no, they were and they were of they were of a Levite descent. But Ben Anaya, I don't know if he was a Levite descent. And I don't know that that is taking to say that he was a priest as well. Let me see. Let me make sure. Yeah, matter of fact, matter of fact, here we go. Here we go, dog gone. Hold on. Let's put this on the screen. Now, remember, let's put it back on the screen. Who were speaking of Ben Anaya was son of Jehoida, Jehoida, was over the the Cherithites and so forth. The question is, was he a priest? Well, no, let's go to First Kings 4-4. And this person, Ben Anaya, the son of Jehoida, was over the army. So he was not a priest and Zadak and Abiathar were priests. So therefore, no, he was not as your questions asking, was he a priest out of the order of Melchizedek not being a Levite? No, no. Dog gone. It does make me do some researching. What's my take on the Euphrates River dry up in recent years and tunnels discovering and the weird whaling sounds coming from it bound angels. Well, one or two things. One is it's just tunnels doing what tunnels do. Have you any all any all have been in caves? Some of you folks are from the south. So you haven't seen caves. But if you go to a cave and we have these caves up in or in these caverns in Indiana and Kentucky, matter of fact, I broke my, I know about it because I broke my ankle in one of these places, these caverns and they can listen. These caverns can be pretty steep. We were at the top part of one and we saw this water, this clean water just flowing. And there was some light in there. It was weird. And so we were going down to actually see, get close to it and get close where this underwater aquifer work was. And here I am. I'm moving a little too fast. You know, when you're going down here, you can't stop. And so I fell and slid. This is a pretty good, a steep little fall. And I got to the end of it and fell and hit my ankle and broke it, fractured it. Right? Well, inside there, you hear these sounds. If, if, if when all the kids would just shut up, this will tell the haggie kids, if you guys, if you guys just shut up, you can hear something. So we, we shut up. And you can hear these sounds. It's just the wind moving. There's air down there. Okay. And what does air do? When air moves, you can hear some sort of little sounds and so forth now. Depending on how far and how fast, I don't know. I can't, I can't destroy. I'm not a, I'm not a scientist or a geologist or anything like that or whatever archaeologists. I can't determine what's there. And nor can anyone else. Now, could it also be angels? I guess it could be. I guess it could be. I would say to those that think it is, go check. Go down there and check. Now I wouldn't go check, would you? But I don't think so. I think, I think, because I think wherever an angel is, you wouldn't see it. Not like that. But I tend to think it's just what caves do. What caves and caverns do. Now, why is it drying up? Well, again, you got to ask the person that keeps the weather. That's God. So, Stephanie B, thank you. Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate that. Thank you for the super chat. Thank you. Okay. Here's a good question. Double J says, When we consider the catalog of sins to include murder, can we say David was, was only good for a little while? David was a human being. David was a man. David is a man. So David, the Bible says that he was a man after God's own heart. So I have to say that, that God, he had the heart of God. David, David lied. David committed adultery. David killed a man for it. And David was pretty prideful at the time. David was, David was lost. But David was also humble. God doesn't stack up in terms of this ranks higher than that rank sin is sin. Now, the consequences for sin differ. That's important. The consequences for sin differ. And so you, especially with men, you kill a person. Yeah. Well, guess what? They ain't the same as you. Still as a bubble gum. So, biblically speaking, there can be also severity and consequences, but how God deals with the sin is no different. Okay. So, unless we, obviously the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, but that, again, that's a whole other story. I don't want to deal with that because that takes more. Just a little bit of that. Okay. Rebecca says, I understand that we are not under the Old Testament law, but verses like Matthew 519 confuse me. It seems like Jesus is saying to follow law. Can you please explain? Let's go to Matthew 5. Whoever then annals one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Here's the question. Does anyone keep those laws? No. By the way, who's he speaking to? This is where I said that I have a literal, grammatical, historical hermeneutic. I wish you would adopt that as well. Everyone else. I think everyone should have that hermeneutic. Why? Because the literal part, we can get that part. But then the historical aspect of it, this was spoken to these Jews at the time that it was spoken, the law was still in effect. Now, Jesus comes and does away with that, but the law was in effect. And so you would not have anyone to go and teach against the law and say, don't keep the law. The only person that can annul the law is Jesus. And he does so, but they can't do it. And so if you do so, well then you, my friend, are in hot water. And so at that point in time, they were to keep the law. As a matter of fact, a young man comes and says, I've done everything. I've kept the law and so forth. All right, fine. Let's check your heart. Sell everything. So Jesus didn't be at that point at time didn't say, don't keep the law. All right, fine. You've done well. But now let's check your heart. John Ford, thank you so much for the super sticker. I appreciate that. You asked a question. How are we going to get to Jerusalem? You mean at that time? I'm not sure what's going to happen then for those that are still left on earth, but for us, we'll be dead and gone, or we'll have been raptured. He'll bring us back. So it's a good question. Ashley says, how do I get assurance of salvation? I feel conviction, but now I'm in a dry season and losing faith. I'm safe. Well, again, the faith that you have is should not be in you. That's why I think that was a good example of a scripture to use in Philippians one. The faith, the confidence that Paul has is not in using him. Are you going to have times, moments, seasons where you feel like, I don't know if I'm safe or not. That does happen. Everybody has that time and the person that says, I don't have that time, that person is just telling a lie. You're going to have ups and downs, peaks and valleys in your walk. It's going to happen. And sometimes those valleys feel like I might not be safe because maybe I've done some things or thought some things, hoped for some things, didn't do some things and now I'm feeling convicted. Well, guess where the conviction comes from? The conviction literally comes from the Holy Spirit because you're doing or not behaving the way that he wants you to. That's a good thing. It's a good thing to have him there. It's not like insurance. It's good to need it. I mean, it's good to not need it but have it then to need it but not have it. The Holy Spirit is with you. And so therefore, he is going to remind you, he is going to tug at you, he is going to... You can grieve the Holy Spirit. You can have him and you express some discomfort, some angst, some bothersomeness because you are not being how he's leading you. He's not going to make you put your right foot there and then your left foot and then your right foot. He is working in your heart and oh, by the way, some of the things that you're allowed to go through, he will use those things to cultivate and grow you. That's why Paul says that all the things, even these dry seasons, are going to work for your good. That is those of you like yourself who love him. So just keep reading, keep praying, keep fellowshiping and so forth. You're going to be fine and be happy that you have these times, these periods of conviction. Be happy for that because if you didn't, Houston, we got a problem. All right. So let's all right, let's go ahead and move along. Got to hurry up, got to hurry up. Wow, we are an hour and 40. Wow. Thank you very, I appreciate that. Thank you for the thank you for the kind of words. And Michael LeMay, thank you as well, both of you for the super chat. Thank you guys so much. Let me do this because I've got to do some, some, some seminary preparation stuff or what have you. So I've got to, I've got to move, but I knew we had a lot of questions. Didn't that was not able to get to all the questions. I knew that, but we'll do this again on Friday, on Friday again. Tomorrow we'll have the, we'll have Dr. Cory Marsh, is that actually his name is Cory also. He'll be on. And we'll be talking we have this issue about dispensation, dispensation of hermeneutics. Again, it's going to be early because of his schedule. He's also a professor at a seminary. So he's going to come on at the 10 o'clock his time, 12 o'clock our time. Is that right? Yeah. 12 o'clock our time. And so because of that, we have to go early. Okay. Love for you guys to be there. There's going to be at the very end, some questions that you, that you could ask him. So if anyone disagrees with, with a dispensation, dispensationalism or dispensational hermeneutics, that's going to be your time to ask the questions. One of the things you're going to cover, though, is how old is dispensational, dispensationalism or dispensational thought. And then Friday, where's, where's Pastor Trey? Where you at? Let me, let me, let me find him. There he is. Chaplain Pastor Trey, we're going to have your buddy on here. Where's Alton? We're going to have your buddy on here. We're going to have Layton Flowers on Friday around noontime as well. And so we're going to cover a couple of things. Some things I agree with him, some things I disagree with him on. And so you guys also have the opportunity to ask some questions as well. So, so then Friday we'll come back in the evening and do a Q and A. Hopefully, hopefully God willing, all things, if God is willing, all of these things will happen and then be able to come on again. So now this will be the last question. And this is a good question. This is a good question. He says, is Dr. Corey Marsh bald? Of course. Of course he is. This is why he's coming on. He's bald. We try to do our best to get the best and typically the best are bald. From my experience. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I am kidding. Anyway, what time? Both of them should be 12 o'clock. Both of them should be 12 o'clock, CST, Central Standard Time, or Christian Standard Time, or Corey Standard Time. However you want to use the CST. So if you're on the East Coast, one o'clock. If you're in the Midwest Central Time, 12. Is anybody on Mountain Time? I guess some people are. That will be 11. And 10 o'clock. Is it 10 o'clock? Yeah, 10 o'clock West Coast Time. So anyway, guys. Anyway, guys, love you to death. I will see you all. God willing on tomorrow. Bye-bye.