 Good evening, good afternoon, I hope you're all doing well. I had to pardon the delay, I had to take care of something briefly. Also, normally I will pick questions that were immediately put on the live chat, chat deal. I did not do so today. Normally I will, I'll go back to doing that again. So if you happen to put one on there, no, I'll take the first three or four or five and then do those. So if you did, go ahead and put it on because I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Okay, so I'm saying some of these now. So that being the case, well, first of all, how are you all doing? Hope you all are doing well, hope you all are doing wonderful. I have had a interesting week so far because I thought I was getting my grandkids, I don't get them to tomorrow. My kids is kind of interesting. My daughter and her husband, we actually live across the street from each other. They got married so my son-in-law, my son-in-law, his parents, they live across the street. So the grandkids are in the vicinity, they're just across the street. So for these six, seven days, we get them for the last four days, they get them for the first three days. So it's kind of interesting. They are, that's how they meant from being across the street. And so their parents, one child, my daughter's parents over here obviously and then my son-in-law's parents are over there. So it's actually interesting. It actually works out really good for them. So that being the case, let me go ahead and start marking some of these questions and then begin answering them. Let's see, I'm trying to work something new to where I can note where I leave off here. You can't see what I'm talking about but if you look in the intro, you can kind of see my little setup a little bit and one of the things I'm trying to do is perfect working this dog on software. If I can get it to stop where I wanted to start, I can know where I picked up at. What did you just say? I saw Sheila, I just told my friend that you would answer her question she put in early. Who's your friend? No, she didn't have it. No, she does not have it made. Maybe a little bit, they are spoiled. They are spoiled but I've got four of them and they take turns really getting on my nerves I really do but I love them to death. Who's your friend? Who is your friend, Sheila? So now dog on it Sheila, now I've got to go in. Now you're gonna make me feel bad. I can go back and look it up, Tony Hawkin. Okay, now you're gonna make me feel, wait a second, I don't see it. I'm sorry Sheila. Do you know what her question was? If you can tell me what her question was, Sheila, do you know what her question was or if she's there, can you repopulate it? So that would help. So help me, I promise I'll get to yours. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Okay, anyway, and by the way, my memories let me know when Sheila posted so I can remember to do that, I'm sorry. And that is my fault for changing things up. So in the meantime, let's say I'll stop right there. So let's deal with the first few questions. What is Brandon asks? Brandon, BT, Brandon, BT. All right, what is your opinion on ethnic nationalism? I believe it's biblical. Well, the only biblical nation that we really need to worry about or the Bible is concerned about is Israel. That's the only one. There is no other nation that God makes any promises for except for those that he's gonna destroy. Now, people will say, well, what about us as Gentiles? Are we also a nation? Not in that sense, not with an actual border and a flag and a government. No, he's gonna make us into a people or a nation. And sometimes those kind of get mixed up. You'll see people, you'll see nation. You'll see now or generations or kind kind of mix together or families to kind of be synonymous. But the only ethnic group that the Bible ever has any concern for, the only one, the only one that he's made specific promises for that nation and doesn't mean that all of Israel, all of the Jews are contemplated, but just at that nation. Now, which Jews is he going to save out of that? We don't know, but that's the only one. So anyone that's touted, anything happened to do with some sort of ethnic privilege or superiority or anything like that or what have you, you would disregard because the Bible would disregard that. There is, we don't do that. The only family that we focus on as believers are our brothers and sisters. Hey man, oh God, I tried to, I tried to, I tried to get this thing to stop at a certain spot so I can mark where I'm taking questions. And it didn't, or did it? It didn't, there's a way to do it. I'll figure this thing out. I'll figure this thing out. So did you put one in for Tony Hawken yet? Let me, I've got to make sure I do that. While I'm also marking some of these other questions as I'm going. Oh, she wants to know, Tony Hawken's friends of Sheila wants to know how to identify a false teacher. Well, the first way to identify a false teacher is by the Bible. Now, a false teacher is going to first, sometimes it's easy, sometimes it is easy and obvious to kind of pick out a false teacher when they do things that are ungodly. For example, if they are promoting themselves, we don't find biblical characters promoting themselves. We don't find Peter or Paul. Remember, when they thought that Paul and Barnabas were something special, they tore their clothes and beat their chest and say, hey, we're just mere men, like you don't do that. When they could have, hey, they could have milked that whole thing. But remember, Samuel's boys were not like that. They wanted to, they were well, they were to be prophets. They were to be these leaders of God, these priests. But what were they doing? I shouldn't say prophets. But what were they doing? They were taking advantage of the people for themselves. And so one surefire way is to, well, I should take it back. I take one note, I take it back. Yeah, one way, I shouldn't say surefire way. One way to tell is if they are promoting themselves. But the most important way is if their scripture, their biblical understanding is off. Now I don't mean off, they have to be perfect. There are sometimes where everybody's going to be wrong about something, but when they are wrong all the time, they make a habit. As a matter of fact, it's almost like they're, they are coming up with things on there and they have brand new revelation. God has given them fresh revelation all the time. And then obviously if they give a prophecy and the prophecy does not come to be true, well then you're speaking for God where God did not speak. So you're saying, Brandon says I'm a Christian, British ethnic nationalist, nothing wrong with it. If you're speaking about, I don't have a, now I don't have a problem with, let's say a national list in that, hey, I'm in the UK and I'm for, I'm UK first or I'm Canadian first or I'm America first. I don't have a problem with that because that's the country. I don't think that people from, I don't know, Zimbabwe should move into Botswana and then try to say, hey, you need to adapt to our culture. Similarly, I don't think that folks from another country should come to this country and say, hey, adapt to our country. No, you come to this country and adapt. If that's what you mean, I don't have a problem with that. But if what you mean by that is, let's say now, not you, but some folks say, hey, let's keep this country pure. We don't want all these folks in. Well, now that becomes a problem. Now you are a little bit racist. So if that's what you're talking about, then no. But again, we ought to be friends to the sojourner and show them as best we can the godly way. So Mark a few more of these questions. And he doesn't have a question. I just like putting his face up on the screen. I just like putting him up on the screen. No particular reason why. But hey, senior kind of red, how you doing, buddy? And this person goes to the front. Sarah L. goes to the front line because he's a new subscriber. What's the best way to approach studying the Bible? In your opinion, I'm trying to go chapter by chapter, little by little in the Old Testament, a little in the New Testament, back and forth. That's fine if you're trying to, if a person, if you're going to take the time to go from beginning to end and go back and forth, back and forth, I would submit this. I would submit this. I would read the Bible for your enjoyment, get an understanding of it, just for your own enjoyment. But if you're trying to get a good study for it and get a good foot hold on it, I would start from the beginning. I think there's a reason why we have the beginning in the beginning. Start from the beginning, because what you'll begin to see is you'll begin to see a pattern of how God is acting. As a matter of fact, I think this is the right time for you to make that statement because do you know what happens on tomorrow? Tomorrow, every Saturday, we have a Bible study. Now, what we're doing in the Bible study, we are taking, just going through the Bible, kind of slowly, we are doing it intentionally in certain areas. We're focusing on the words, we're looking at things kind of slowly. And what we're doing is we're trying to get rid of any preconceived notions. How do you get rid of someone's preconceived notions? Someone comes from a Baptist background, someone comes from a Wesleyan, a Episcopal Methodist background, someone is a Calvinist, someone is an Arminian, someone is this or someone is that. And then when we read this passage, what do we tend to do? We tend to read into it what we were taught, what grandma taught us, what the church taught us, what we read in the book. How do you get rid of that? Well, the best way that I've seen so far is to ignore everything but the pages that we've read thus far. So if we started in Genesis, if we're in Genesis chapter six, then the only thing that we can focus on or use in dealing with Genesis six is what we've read in Genesis six, Genesis five, four, three, two and one, nothing else as we make our way through the scriptures because the Bible reveals things progressively, right? And so what we might learn in Exodus, we have the benefit of Genesis and Job and Exodus, but we don't have the benefit of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The reason why I'm saying that is because when we look at these passages, sometimes we wanna say this is what that means and it's not because we wanna read into it. But if we can put ourselves on the ground at that moment because whatever Moses or Job or whoever said at that time was it truthful? Sure it was truthful. That's why it's in the Bible. It didn't become less true the moment we got more scriptures so we wanna get a good understanding. So this is the reason why sometimes things fly over our head when Jesus or someone else in the New Testament makes a statement and they're referring to the Old Testament, we don't get it. And what we end up doing is we try to make ourselves understand it by looking at it through the lens of our eyes. Here we are in America 2023 and that's how I see things. So let me give you this also. I think this helps look at this timeline. This is the Old Testament timeline. What you're gonna wanna do here and anyone else if you haven't done so is take a screenshot of this and in it you can see the chronological books, Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, verse and second, same and so forth. Then you have complimentary books. Books like Leviticus and Deuteronomy. What I mean by complimentary is that those books were written commensurate with the book of, let's put it back on the screen, it was they were written commensurate with Exodus. So when Moses is giving the law in Exodus he's also referring to, you get more detail about the law in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. If all you had was just Exodus, you'd know about the law and you know of some of the law but you would not know all of the little intricate details in the law. You wouldn't even understand the day of atonement if you don't have the complimentary book of Leviticus. And then the same thing you have Ruth and first and second Chronicles and Asters, those are complimentary books but where it really helps you at, where it really is beneficial is going to be here when we look at these, the prophets. We do not want to divide up between major and minor prophets. No, what we want to do is divide up between who's prophesying to who and when. So we've got two prophets that prophesied to the Northern Kingdom that be Amos and Hosea. Then we've got these prophets that prophesied to the Southern Kingdom, Joel, Micah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, Habakkuk and Jeremiah. Interestingly enough, you get a lot more in times prophecy about the world and Israel from the prophets to the Southern Kingdom. Then we've got those that are prophesying during the exile, those are prophesied during the restoration and we've got three prophets who prophesied to not Jews but to the nations, indicating that God did have a concern for not just the Jews and that they're part of God's bigger picture. Understand, God doesn't tell everybody everything. He's not saying, hey, listen, let me ask you a question. What I'm thinking about doing this, what do you think? He didn't do that, okay? And so we kind of get a, we wanna look at things from God's standpoint, not ours. But then also we've got this New Testament timeline as well. Take a screenshot of it. And so we can see the historical books when the, specifically the Gospels, we see these historical events that kind of coincide with them. We've got the Pauline epistles, the general epistles. We have these doctrinal writings on eschatology, soteriology, Christology, ecclesiology and the epistles and so forth. So use that to kind of help you in your guide. So I would say you tuned in at the right time because now you can check out the Bible study. Amen. This is kind of to go along with what Sheila asked on behalf of her friend, Child Young Cat. Thank you also as well for the super chat. I am against the prophets who wage their own, who wag their own tongues and yet declare the Lord declares, which is what happened. Matter of fact, what happened in Jeremiah is interesting and we know what was happening because we read things kind of in this way. Now, I have what's called a dispensational hermeneutic, that means that I'm dispensationalist, but everyone has a dispensational hermeneutic to some degree. Everyone is dispensationalist to some degree. Now, without the charts and this and that and so forth or whatever, what you just saw, that's the extent of my dispensationalist charts. But we recognize that God deals with people in different economies throughout the Bible, the way he dealt with mankind in Genesis or before the fall is different than he dealt with mankind after the fall, before the law was given, how we dealt with mankind during the law, how we dealt with mankind in the new covenant with Israel or the church. So how God deals with people, he doesn't change but people have changed and so he deals with them accordingly really where they're at. There's not two tracks or three tracks or different tracks to get to God although there might be an individual journey. So the way I came to Christ would be different but ultimately the way to come to Christ or to come to salvation is through faith in Christ. So we all have to end up at the exact same spot. There's only one road to heaven. Are you with me? So that being the case, I say that because in Jeremiah, you've got these false prophets that show up because Jeremiah has prophesied. Remember where Jeremiah is at, let's go back to this, this is why this is helpful. Jeremiah is prophesied to the Southern Kingdom. This is just before they are getting ready to go into the exiles. A matter of fact, Jeremiah is telling them, hey, get comfortable, marry, have kids. You are going to be there for a while. How long? 70 years. But these false prophets come up and what do false prophets do? Oh, everything's gonna be wonderful. I prophesied this, I declared this. It's gonna be wonderful. And so that's these false prophets that are being spoken of in Jeremiah. So let's keep going. Let me write some more of these. By the way, I am going to be, I'll probably supply the link if I can remember, but I'm gonna be on Alton Johnson's program. Tomorrow, he's gonna be asking me a bunch of questions. And I told him, he could ask me, I haven't skipped your question LA 91. I have not skipped your question. He is going to ask me whatever. I said, you can ask me whatever you want. So he says, I don't wanna ask something. Ask what you wanna ask. It's like I told you guys, whatever you guys wanna ask me, whether it's biblical, whether it's this, whether it's that, whether it's about me, feel free to ask. Someone said, well, what about these kinds of questions? Well, most folks aren't asked those questions. So apparently they're not as important as other folks who are there. Or anyway, that being the case, what person should he consider? Oh, is Tony a he or a she? Well, you said he, so I guess he. Why is Tony T-O-N-I? That's what we need to figure out. When you said Tony, I thought it was a she. Ask Tony, why is it? I'm just kidding, he had nothing to do with it. He had nothing to do with it. So I'm just picking on him. I don't wanna say who I would say is a true man of God, but I would do this. I would assume that every preacher that you come in contact with is a true man of God. Why is that? Obviously it's not the case, but you hold them to that standard and then let them disappoint you. Listen, these are some things that I expect a true man of God, especially, let's say, if I'm walking and I know I've got a good way to go and you pastor look just like me, act like me, talk like me, think like me. I'm questioning you now. And so, and it's a good thing. I hold them in a high regard if you're gonna be in that office. So I would assume all of them are and then let them prove otherwise. There are a lot of good pastors. Unfortunately, most the ones that get the bad attention are, I mean, the most of attention are the bad ones, but there are a lot of good, I don't wanna say who, but you do your due diligence, make sure that they are exegeting and expounding on the word. If your pastor tends to be, there's nothing wrong with being a topical preacher, nothing wrong with that at all, but if he's almost always topical, I think we got a problem. I really think we got a problem if they're almost always topical. Open up the Bible. If you can't, well, then it's not big because one of the qualifications is to be a teacher. And if you can't do that, well, then in Jesus' name, sit down and shut up. Yeah, I said shut up, sit down and shut up, pastor, because you shouldn't be a pastor if you cannot teach. That's just one of the requirements. Oh, God, there's a lot of questions coming in. There's a lot of questions coming in. Okay, I need to shut up, Corey. Shut up, Corey. Stop talking so much in here and get to these questions. Okay, I've got, okay. I've got 21 questions. Yeah, and that's true, Jason, most of them are topical. Most of them are topical. So, all right. Y'all forgive me if I can't get to all of them. Y'all forgive me. Okay, because I never can, and I'm sorry. BJ's life said, please exegy first Peter 224. Matter of fact, BJ, I think I went on about the other day, but for you, my friend, I'm gonna go over again. Ooh, matter of fact, I did go over this again. He says, and he himself bore our sins in his body on the cross so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness for by his wounds you were healed. This is pointing to what was stated in Matthew, but it's referring back to, to where? It's referring back to Isaiah 53. And let's think back why he's saying this, why is Peter bringing this up? And then let's think also why this is brought up in Matthew. Remember in Isaiah 53, you hear the words that are used, the verbs are past tense. Why is he speaking about a future tense, I mean, a future event using past tense verbs? That didn't make any sense. We don't do that. If I say this is gonna happen in such and such time or whatever, but I'm using past tense, it doesn't even quite jive. The reason why is because this Isaiah 53 prophecy, yes, it is explaining what Jesus is going to go through, but the prophecy was not for us, although we can learn from it like, hey man, this is an awesome prophecy. It's accurate to a team. And you can use this to even help to evangelize Jews, especially those that might be contemplating is Jesus of Messiah. Well, look at this, because it talks about they're gonna look back and see, these Jews are gonna look back and see what happened to Jesus. So in Matthew, there are some healings that take place. And so when the time comes where God is going to deal with Israel as a nation and gonna afflict them and then also touch their hearts, what are they gonna do? They're gonna look back and say, oh, he was bruised for our transgression. And this was fulfilled that he did heal those people now. People, some folks got all up in arms when I said, you mean tell me Jesus doesn't do physical healings? That's never what I said. I never said that God doesn't do physical healings. I'm saying that's, and that is not the passage that brings about physical healing. God was doing physical healings long before Matthew, long before Isaiah. God was doing physical healings long before there. Matter of fact, the first physical healing recorded in the Bible is who? Joe, that's before they even knew about Jesus. And so he doesn't need a passage to bring about healing. And the passage is not to say that he was going, he's going to heal everybody as a result of that. No, it's a prophecy to show that Jesus, who stepped on the land, would do so. And it's for the Jews to get that, especially when they go, as I believe, through the tribulation. Now, we go to 1 Peter. Who is the book of Peter written to? So let's go to 1 Peter 1, 1 Peter and Apostle of Jesus Christ to those who reside as aliens scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia. So who is he speaking to? It's written to the Jews who have been scattered abroad. So there's going to be some Jewish overtones in this. Does that mean that 1 Peter is only for the Jews? That is not what I'm saying. Hear what I'm saying. It's not saying that it's just for the Jews, but he is writing, because remember, Paul and Paul, Peter is an apostle to the Jews. Paul is an apostle to the Gentiles, okay? And so you're going to see certain words that are brought up when speaking about the Jews. For example, you'll hear Jewish terms when speaking about salvation, such as high priests and things like that, that the Gentile, the average Gentile wouldn't get. Most Gentiles in the world did not live around Jews, okay? The Jewish nation, Jews were a small number, comparatively speaking. So they had no idea. A lot of them about Jewish lifestyle, okay? So all this is really iterating, or reiterating, go back to 1 Peter 2, 24, VJ. And I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing, moving quickly, but I'm sorry. He himself bore our sins in his body, speaking about to these Jews what Jesus did. Remember, now this is past tense, and he's quoting the prophecy using these past tense verbs as well, but he bore it on the cross, which was added. That wasn't in the actual original Isaiah 53 prophecy, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. In other words, the effects of sin are not on us. Now, will we still sin? Sure, but we should die to it. Pray with me. As a matter of fact, oh, I think I covered that too. Are we, whether we are sinners or not, we will have not just them, but also us as well, we'll have died to sin, the effect of it, and no longer live in it, as he says in Romans 6, for by his wounds, by his tribes, we were healed. That mean that we were physically healed, but that wasn't the case in all Christians, all Jews, especially, would have been physically healed. That's not the case. Amen, amen. Right, this is a tough one. Why Revelation 13, 8? Why are some translations changed to before when the word means from? Alrighty, doggone it, she wants to, or LA question, LA 91, are you a lady or a male? Sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I don't know. Say somebody like Neland, he puts his face in his deal. Jay Simone, her face is in there. P-T-I, I don't know what you are. I know you've been here before. I don't know what you are. A-R-N-A-Lady, Cameron, male, David, of course the name is David. So guys, do me a favor. For a while, start telling me, put a, what should we put to distinguish male or female? Let's put an F for female, or just spell it out. I'd like to know. Anyway, Revelation, cause I don't want to call you ma'am or sir, and you're not, you're one of them, but Revelation 13, 8. I'll try to go quickly. All who dwell on the earth will worship him. Everyone whose name has not been written from, and here it is from the foundation of the earth. It would be simple if the Greek word was pra, kathabalay, which is definitely before, but this apah, kathabalay, kasmu, which is from, now the NASB has it from, some will say before, so which is it? It can be either or. We know that there were early Christian writings in Greek where the apah was used to say something happened before, but then most cases is used from, since. Now, the issue is when is the since? Every time that we hear of the book of these books that are written, they all have been written. And so however you want to take this, and this is why context, as well as maybe doctrine may creep in as well, because sometimes just because it's Greek or Hebrew doesn't mean that you totally nailed down the meaning. If that were the case, well then we would all have the same meaning because the Greek and Hebrew grammarians would say, yeah, that's what this means. This is one of those other ones. Have not been written from or since the foundation. Now the question is, did God start writing names in the book after the world began, after you were born? Here you are, you're born and so on and so forth. Well, the question, the reason why we can't take that, and this is where context and also understanding will come in. Now, someone may have a different context, textual view and understanding and say, well no, this is since or someone say before or someone say from, which is still from kind of leaves it up in the air, but someone say before, someone say since. The reason why it has to be before, if your version says it, since it's fine also, is because we know where people were when they were chosen and predestined before, because we go to Ephesians, it is the same word Calabales is there, foundation, but instead of api, it's prah. And so the choosing took place before, which is what these names are as well. So that's the reason why there's a whole lot more into it, you can write a doctorate dissertation about it as well and have even more confusion thrown at you, but that's the reason why. A lot of times it's gonna be just context and sometimes your doctoral bent might do so. But now remember in these translation committees, the reason why the large like the NASB ESV and so forth, you have these people from these diverse backgrounds so they can kind of check each other. Cause you may even have, you may even have an atheist on a translation committee. Why would you do that? Well, because atheists has no bent and he's just strictly there looking at the Greek and that's what it means. Okay. Okay, now, and that says, will you answer my question? So now I have to go find your question. Oh, is that it right there? Okay, there it is. Romans 8, 21 pertaining to the creature. I was wondering, does this scripture reference God having animals on with humans in mind? So let's go to Romans 8, 21, that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom from the glory of the children of God. And so the question is, is it contemplated that, is it contemplated that there will be, let's say animals in heaven as well? Do it. The likelihood is probably so or in the, in the, in the, in eternity because it talks about, and I forget, oh, my mind just went blank. It actually does speak about, it's the leopard of the lion. I forgot the animal, but there seems to be this closeness, this relationship where there is no more fear. Remember, that's how it was in the very beginning. And so does that mean that what God intended to create, he is now, you know what, y'all messed up the first time, no more gaining. So that it, now in regards to this passage, it could be referring to that, but it's, because it's speaking of the whole of creation itself. So it could, I can't say definitively or not, but it could. I just happened to see some of your comrades. So let's answer his question. He says, are all believers called saints or are saints only believers who are dead? No, believers are saints. All believers. You cannot be a believer if you're not a saint. The Haggias, the ones who have been sanctified, they're considered sacred by God. God set us apart. And there's kind of a three-part way of him doing so. Setting us apart before the foundation of the world, to go back to a previous question. Those who he is, who is demon, that he is going to regenerate their heart. As they are saved, there is this sanctification process where their walk helps them to be identified as those who are different. While we're on earth, a good term to familiarize yourself with or to apply to this term saints or holy is to just, we're different. So you should look at a Christian and the Christian should be different all the time. That no, because there are going to be some times where we don't look like the world. I mean, where we do look like the world. There are some times where the world looks like us, meaning that the world is, the world is, or someone in the world is on their best behavior. They look good and godly. And now that can be dangerous too, because just because a person looks like they're a good person, you can be lulled into this false sense of belief that they're okay. And so whatever they say is okay. And then now you buy into what they think and believe. So it can happen, but an actual saint is someone who was sanctified by God before he's being sanctified during and after. And then book of Hebrews tells us that these folks that have been sanctified, they are being perfected. So that only applies to a believer. Okay. Jay Simone says, does the orthodox church follow sound biblical doctrine? For the most part they do, but just like in every other church, there are some differences. As a matter of fact, I was looking at the orthodox church because I'm going to probably cover them at some point in time. There are some differences. Some in the orthodox church believe in a kind of a continuation of the apostolic. And so obviously that can be a problem. So there are just like in every group, there are those that kind of go left, those that go right and those go up the middle. So it can vary, but I don't want to give too much on it because I'm still in my research of it right now as well. So Sheila said, what is a closed canon? The word canon comes from, it's a Latin word that where we get this word for us. It's a, okay, how do we get this? There's a Latin word, you know what I didn't go into this dog without going into the word, it really means this measuring, this read, this measuring to determine the beginning and the end. And so the canon is just really kind of the whole of the scriptures, how we get them. They have to be either a prophetic or apostolic authority, meaning written by a prophet, written by an apostle who have this sort of authority. Now, or those who have the accompanying authority basically under the unction and guidance of it. For example, Marx writings, Luke's writings, those are apostolic. We have no idea who wrote Hebrew, a book of Hebrews, but it's believed that it was some apostle or someone who was under apostolic authority, which is why you see the majority of the books that we have clearly written by either an apostle or a prophet either by Moses or Malachi or Jeremiah or what had you. Well, what about Joe? Who wrote Joe? We don't know who wrote Joe. We have no idea who wrote Joe, but could it have been Moses? Could have been, we don't know. And so, but they also have to be, here's one good thing about it. These books were by and large, excepted by the church and which church? Well, remember, we're talking about a lot of folks all over and there's this harmony that goes with these books in these different languages all these years apart and they're widely accepted. How do you get folks to accept something like that? That even goes to show that God is working in it because we don't have universal agreement today like they did then and I wouldn't say universal, but there was a large, a greater number of agreement for the acceptance of the books then than we do have now, which can only speak about God's role in that. So, but anyway, the point is that the canon references the books of the Bible. Thank you, Francisco, I appreciate that, sir. How do you know, number one trucker, how do you know when you receive the Holy Spirit? Well, it's not a feeling. However, this might throw some folks off. Could it, could you feel it? Well, I imagine you could. I mean, you could feel a lot of things, right? But don't let the feeling be how you, but you base it on, okay? Anybody can feel something. You know, I felt, I just felt like my team was gonna win. Anybody can have a feeling, but that's not, again, it's how you base it. How you know you have the Holy Spirit. Ultimately, you're gonna look at your life and how you're walking, how you're moving. You're gonna notice the conviction in your life. The Holy Spirit brings about this Godly repentance that's sorrow, I do not like sin. What sin don't I like? I don't like my sin and I don't like your sin. Yeah, but I keep sinning. So how can I have the Holy Spirit? What, do you like it? No, it bothers me. Okay, we're fine. Having this, maybe this stronghold, maybe having this, whatever that's holding, that's working in you and you're still, because guess what? All your sins have not been taken away from you. Now, you die, let's say you live for another 70 years and then you die. Will you still have some sin in you? Sure. Will the sin that you have in you at age 110, will you have had that same sin 70 years ago? Yeah, how often has you committed that sin in between then and the time you died? Well, maybe a thousand times, maybe 700,000 times. Who knows? Wouldn't that constitute habitual? Yes, how habitual, not every day, maybe every other month, what have you? There's gonna be some sort of sin that you have in you that you will have until you die. Why? Because you're gonna have this flesh with you. That flesh isn't going away. The next time that you'll be without this flesh is when, as a believer, you get a glorified body. So the Holy Spirit will convict you, but also something that the Holy Spirit is gonna do. The Holy Spirit, according to Jesus himself, says we'll want to testify about Jesus. Do you like to testify of Jesus? Do you like the things of God? Do you hate the things that God hates, the things that he's against sin? Do you love to testify of Christ? I don't mean getting a bullhorn and going on the street corner, but you like to let folks know that who you serve, who's your father, who's your Lord, who's your savior, who's banner, who's flag you're under, then that's a good place to start. And then just look at your life, amen? I, Micah says if a Christian preacher teacher is a hypocrite where they preach true Bible Christian doctrine but still live in sin, are they still a false teacher? If they are living in sin, yes and no. The issue is, because here's what we need to look at. When we say living in sin, they're just gonna have to be, what do we mean by living in sin? They commit a sin and we don't worry about the egregiousness of the sin, but they committed a sin. And if this person is struggling with it, then there might need to be some deeper delving into it. Why do I say that? Well, remember Paul, well, first of all, Paul and Peter, both of them had, obviously they had issues in some regard. Peter, he seemed to have a, he was more emotional when you would think, right? Peter, if someone does or says something racist today, a pastor, would you say that he is not a pastor? He's that he, would he qualify as a hypocrite? We probably would say so, cause that's a sin. Well, Peter did, look how Peter treated the Gentiles when the Jews showed up and Paul had to rebuke him to his face. What about Paul? Paul himself talked about his pride, his arrogance, his boastfulness. Well, what about that? Well, is the person struggling with it? What's happening with this sin that they're dealing with? Are you with me? How long is it a pattern? Is it a sin that they relish in? In other words, I'm struggling with this. I'm struggling with it. I know my family knows it. Does that mean that they're qualified to keep being a preacher teacher? Well, it depends. Especially if it's affecting one, they're teaching one their walk. It's not, it's something they deal with. I knew of a pastor who struggled with smoking tobacco. And he's trying to fight it. And folks, they just hated it. Well, wait a second. 60 years ago, it was not a problem, him smoking. Today, yeah, that's filthy, that's filthy, that's nasty. Or he came from a culture where something we think is illegal, let's say like we in this particular culture, it's okay. Now what do you do? But he's an American, he's struggling with it. Is he unqualified? Well, again, you take it on a case by case basis, but if the person, the pastor is living in unrepentant sin, well, then he cannot be. And I think the key has to be this unrepentant sin. And why does someone say, hey, no, Cory, I disagree. Which is fine, which is fine. Everybody's allowed to disagree with me. Do you think it's okay for a Jew to keep the Sabbath? I know for Gentiles, you aren't obligated to keep the Sabbath. Jesus is your Sabbath. Is it okay? It's neither okay nor not okay. The question is gonna be why is he keeping the Sabbath? That's a greater point. Now, if he's keeping the Sabbath because that's what a good Jew's supposed to do, but he's not a Christian, well, it doesn't matter what he's doing. It doesn't matter if he's keeping the Sabbath or not. But let's say he's a Messianic Jew and he wants to hold to it. And he's treating the Sabbath the way that they treated the Sabbath or intentionally initially supposed to treat the Sabbath. I don't really have a problem with that as long as that Jew is not saying, that Messianic Jew is not saying that this is a requirement for my salvation, that I get extra benefits. But if he's doing it for his own personal enjoyment and closest with the Lord because that's what the Sabbath was for, then I don't have a problem with that. Matter of fact, I don't have a, I have a problem with the Gentiles saying, you know what? I'm just gonna take this day. I'm gonna commit this day every day to me and the Lord. I'm not watching my car, not watching TV. I'm just me and the Lord. Well, that's fine. That's fine. Jordan Ali says, hey, Corey, can you elaborate on the glory of God? People like AGM, I don't know who that is. Oh, Apostle, oh, I did. Yeah, Apostle. Is that what they asked him for? Apostle Guillermo. I remember that now, Apostle Guillermo Maldonado. I tried to say it with a little Hispanic flair, which I could not do. He used to speak on that. I left his church, his recently, or recently for false teaching and false prophecies. You did a good job leading him. The glory of God. What is the glory of God? Well, that simply is just Jesus. Now, if I'm glorifying him, that's different. We can do that. Now, that becomes a verb. But if I'm talking about the glory as a now, well, that is Jesus. Now, what did Jesus do with the glory? He emptied himself of something. I would have to say conclude. There would have to be, to some degree, if not completely glory. Something about him where he comes in a veiled form. Remember what Moses could not be in the presence of. He could not be in the presence of his glory, but as my buddy, my southern friend would say, God allowed him to see the exhaust fumes of his glory. Moses too. Well, we could not be in his full presence, in his full glory, in the presence of his full glory. So Jesus, who is God comes, obviously he could not come in the presence up with his full glory. And so Jesus and John 17 makes his prayer, give me back the glory that I had with you in the beginning. But now we read, Paul tells us that he emptied himself. He humbled himself and emptied himself and said, of what, but I conclude glory to some degree. By the way, John says that we beheld his glory, but glory as of the only we got of the Father. So if that helps, hope that helps. J plus one says, should Christians celebrate any holiday? It's not a sin to celebrate a holiday. There's not a, it's not a sin to celebrate a holiday. As a matter of fact, we see in the Bible, Jews going to celebrate certain days. Now what you do with those days and so forth, that's up to you and that would depend and determine if it's sinful. Now we don't send a steam a day better than another day that, hey, this day is the greatest day ever, like Easter, celebrating his resurrection. Is that bad? That's not bad at all. As a matter of fact, that's what we, that's the very basis of our salvation. And so to remember that, but should we also remember that every day in our walk? Sure. Should we make that day the greatest day ever or the best day of the year? No, no. Now someone's going to say, well, wait a second, aren't these pagan holidays? Well, every day, this would bother me, every day is a pagan holiday. The day you were born was a pagan holiday. That's what I like to tell the guys. The day you were born was actually a pagan holiday. Every day there are thousands and thousands and thousands and literally I'm not making thousands of pagan holidays because what's a pagan? Well, there's a lot of different, anything that's not a Christian truth be told, there's a lot of different pagan groups out there with their own holidays. And so you can't find a day that something happens that doesn't fall on another pagan's holiday. That doesn't impugn us, okay? So it's not a sin, no, you're not commanded to either. So, but it's not a sin to do so. This is an interesting question. Neland says, how should Christians handle starting their own business? Let me tell you, let me give you some of my advice. If, how you start a business as a Christian should be, there's a lot of this is going to be the exact same whether anyone else starts a business. First of all, in biblical speaking, you shouldn't enter into a task without first counting the costs. Do I have what it takes? Just because you would like to do it just because you think you're good at it doesn't mean that you would do well in it as a business. You can cook good. So does that mean you ought to have a restaurant? Or you may not be able to cook, to fix the books. Okay, you might not be well out of counting. You don't know how to order things. You're keeping inventory and so forth. Maybe your customer service skills are horrible. Maybe the way that you would lead a team would be horrible, which means that you should be in the kitchen by yourself cooking, that's that. But you can't have a staff because you run them off or the way you keep and prepare the food, that's just different. So running a business is different. You need to do a market survey. Whatever you're going to do is anyone else doing the same thing? What am I adding? What am I bringing? Will it be better? It didn't have to necessarily be better. Who's the best hamburger joint in town? Is it McDonald's? Is it In-N-Out Burger? Is it this burger? Is it Burger King? Whatever. It doesn't matter. Is there room for you to also bring about something quality? Won't be perfect. And it may not be the best, but is there room for you to have to figure that out? Can I handle it? Do I have the fortitude? Do I have the desire, the drive, the initiative to keep it going? Cause it won't do well in the very beginning, but how well you do it. Do I have the personality to keep doing this? You had been out. I thought about that when I said cook the books. Cause if you don't know how to handle the books, you will have to cook the books. And then you'll find yourself in federal prison. Don't do that. So I would say first pray, but if you desire to have a business, there is no passage that says that, listen, God wants you to have a business if you do X, Y, and Z, no. You can go ahead, because remember back in the day, and I say back in the day in the day of Jesus and prior to that, if you were a farmer, that's starting a business. Did you have to pray about farming or herding sheep, or you were good at building tables to be a carpenter? No, just go do it. But treat folks the way that you would want to be treated as well, and don't have unjust scales. Don't be a godly person. But that applies to the person that has their own business and works for them. But count the costs. Understand what it takes. Do your research. Go and look at everyone else that does the exact same thing that you want to do. Can you do that? Go interview them. Go sit down with them. Go do those kind of things. When I started my business, I went to a lot of other companies. I had been in business, the same sort of business before, to see what they do, how they do certain things, and so forth. One funny thing, I went to Merrill Lynch. I went to Smith Barney. They were, these were the names back then, Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, Goldman Sachs, and so forth. And just, I wanted to see how they had their offices arranged. I knew what they did. Obviously that. But I wanted to see, and what you'll note, I'm not sure what it is now, but then you'd see a lot of windows. Why do you have these big windows? Why are these big windows in each of these offices? Why? Well, we designed our offices just that way and then found out later why. Sometimes I didn't know why, just okay, let's go and do it. It's not a big deal. And the reason is because it promotes productivity. People walk by and you're in the office of your own. You can get bored and tired. I don't feel like it. And someone walked by and said, see you playing spider salad on your computer. Not gonna look good. So it kind of helps promote, makes you be on the go because you know someone's looking. But anyway, the point is though, do your research and then when should you start? Now, start. Don't do, if you got five different business ideas, don't do five different business ideas at once. Don't do that. You want to have a rifle approach. Not a shotgun approach, but like a rifle, fine-tuned. Are you with me? I got one, I wanna do this. This is, we'll do one thing right first. Then as you have time, add another and then add another. Amen. Now I will send you my fee for this good consulting work that I've just given you. Anyway, it's chess champ here. I need chess champ to be proud of me because I'm moving quickly. I don't see him. I don't see chess champ. Dog on it. What is happening? How do I become a sheep? Well, place your faith in Christ. That's how you become a sheep. But if your greater question is what causes that, the one part that's undeniable and that people, now some folks push back on it and it doesn't matter to me if they, he wasn't okay. It doesn't matter to me if you push back on it or not. The scriptures are clear. You cannot, we use philosophy to get past but we don't deal with the actual text. And I'll say something about that in just a second, but the texts are clear. God looks throughout the lens of time. Remember, God is not just present. God has also been in the past, but he's also in the future. He knows what's gonna happen. And so, God knows that each and every last one of you, given the opportunity, will not choose him, at least not consistently, you will not do so. Go back and look at the history of the people in the Old Testament. The moment the cat's away, the mice play. When God's presence is there, these folks will follow. These folks were the best on the planet. When God had his spirit upon someone or God was having signs in one of the four people, then they will, they would do right. And in the meantime, because people do wrong and have a habit of doing wrong, if you give them too much space, he also used offerings. We had this yearly atonement that we don't have anymore because one time was good enough and we have these offerings in the meantime. Now, we don't have that now. Why would we have now the Holy Spirit? So God looks throughout the lens of time and sees that nobody is going to be choosing him. That's what he says in Romans. No one is going to choose him or be choosing him. What does that mean? Well, that means if he doesn't do anything, then in eternity, it will be God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and some angels and that's it. But God is going to demonstrate his love that while we were yet enemies, he died for us. He is dying on behalf of people who do not want him. But the Bible says that he is going to cause us, put a spirit in us and cause us to walk with him in him. And we will never turn away from him, nor will he turn away from us. And so the first step according to Jesus is that we must be born from above, born again, born of water and spirit. That's the first step. That's chronological. You can't get past that. That's the first step. And so everyone who is born of the spirit, we are sons of God. Well, the born of the spirit, that's God doing that first. We love him after he first loved us. It's not that we loved him first and he loves us. And so no one chooses him, no one seeks after him. He calls us before we decided to call upon his name. So to be a sheep, you have to have been delivered to him, the son by the father. The father gives the sheep to him, to the son or gives the bride to the bridegroom. Amen. Okey-dokey. It's purgatory a bad place. This whole idea of purgatory. It comes about as a result of this. It comes about as a result of this. The thought, there was an abode of the dead that prior to the cross, you had folks who were waiting for Christ's death bearing resurrection and then those who are destined for the lake of fire. And so the belief was that you could pray someone out of that. And so this whole idea, this concept of purgatory comes up. It's not that purgatory is a bad place. It's that purgatory is a non-existent place. There is no such thing as purgatory. You were either inhale, waiting to be tossed into the lake of fire or not. There is no in between. Amen? Amen. I see that, BJ. Send me an email. Send me an email, buddy. And let me see. Yeah, yeah, let me play. There is no purgatory. Now, again, they built off of an actual biblical concept, but that what they did is just wrong and backwards. There's no purgatory. Excuse me. Child, young cat is like a Bible genius. Raised it says the word so-so is used, by the way, I actually did preach a sermon called so. I preached a sermon called so based off of this word for salvation. But the word so-so for saved or healed does God pick and choose who he saves or do we all get saved and healed? That again goes back to what I was saying before. You have, I believe, now this is where I would differ from my Calvinist friends. I believe you can choose. I don't, I don't believe the guy is just saying, hey, choose and you don't have the ability to choose. I do believe though that our ability to choose is limited by our sinful nature. So we choose a day and then fall off and God sees that. And so to be a believer, he only calls Christians as those who are constantly believing, constantly following, constantly hearing. He calls us believing ones. How does he do so knowing that we are still in the middle of this journey, the middle of this walk? Because he's at the end and he also knows what causes us to be believing ones. The Holy Spirit that he puts in us causes us. And so none of us are saved absent ourselves. This desire to do it on our own, we don't have it in our own to keep staying saved or in our own to keep believing, to keep following, to keep hearing. But what he does is, hey, like it or not, he puts the fix in. And some folks would just not like that word that he puts the fix in. He does. And I don't have a problem with God putting the fix in. He is moving me on his own accord. I don't have a problem with that. Who has a problem with that? God, you made me go to heaven. Okay, okay, I don't have a problem with that. But you know what it's like though sometimes though, we can be like little kids, little kids do not, little kids when they're younger and you try to help them, I can do it. I can do it. Okay, okay. So that's how we, that's how we are. God said, Rex, no, you can't. You've tried a thousand times and you failed. But this, oh, but this time is gonna be different. Okay, okay, I'll let you keep thinking that. I'll let you keep thinking. Yeah, CG, thank you for regenerating me. Thank you for saving me. Thank you, thank you for all that you've done for me. I don't know why the golden girl song just popped in. Thank you for being a friend. Traveled down the road and back again. Dog on it, your heart is true. You're a pal and a confidant. We can, can we preach that? Okay, Dee, what's your question? What is your question, Dee? I don't see Dee's question. I'm looking for your question. Dee, put it, wait a second, what did I just do? What did I just do? So I'll tell you what, put your question in and I'll look for the answer about that. How about that? Now let me know when Dee puts a question up. I'm promising to, Dee, are you a male or female? By the way, LA 91, did you ever tell me if you were male or female? I can't remember. Did, did, did LA 21 ever, 91 ever say that he or she was a male or female? What does it mean to pray in the spirit? It does not mean, oh, shabbabah, kah, takabah, ma, arattah, atta, matta, atta. Is that how, what's her name? Oh, what's the lady's name? What is that lady's name? Paula White, is that how she did it? Praying in the spirit does not mean praying in tongues. It is by and with the power of the authority in concert with. That's all, that's all, that's all it means. How do we know? Test that definition I just gave to you with other things in the spirit, walking in the spirit. Same thing, we don't walk in tongues, but we walk according to the authority in concert within by the Holy Spirit. What is, wow, what is my view of Bishop Noel? You mean Jones? He is a heretic. He's a flake. He is to be disregarded. He did a, he was involved in a conference with this lady, Haqjahamun, who calls herself the only begotten of the father, the only begotten daughter of the father, something like that. And he's promoting her. I said, that's the journey that God has her on and so forth. You won't call out sin, huh? You, so no, to be avoided. I want, I'm not going to really get into his personal life, but definitely biblically his scriptures are off. He says, what is the unpardonable sin? Well, depends upon who you ask, but let's say this. The one sin that will not be forgiven of you is if you don't place your faith in Christ. Why? Because at the point in time where you, the last moment that you could have possibly done so and you did not do so, I see you Grady, the last moment that you do so or that you could do so and you don't do it. Well, he's not gonna, there's no forgiveness for that. Now, in, when Jesus is saying, blasphemy of the Holy spirit, you intentionally know, you know for a fact that this is, this is the spirit worker. This is of God and you deny it. We know that they knew that this was of God because what does Nicodemus? Nicodemus spills the beans. He says that, remember Nicodemus is a Pharisee. He says that we know that you come, we know, who's the we, us Pharisees, we know that you come from God because no one can do the things you do unless they're, unless he be of God. So I would say they might be two different things. That sin is unpardonable now. Some will say that that sin is only allowed or only for them because they had full view and full knowledge that this definitely was the Holy spirit working in them. They knew for a fact. That's why I say that when the spirit moves, when you see the move of God, you know it. There is no, huh, wonder, right? That's one of the things that I have a problem with the people who are touting these miracles and wonders or whatever. And we can never see it. It's almost like you gotta get an act of Congress to get them to show us something. When was it a secret in the Bible? But that being the case, that does not mean, let's say the unforgivable sin is not the only sin that will not be forgiven. It's just these other sins that won't be forgiven and won't be forgiven once you die. Are you with me? You were in this intentional sin pattern and you have just turned your back on God. Well, while you're alive, you can turn and then you will be forgiven. But that's while you're alive, okay? So, well, the Abrahamic religions come together to defeat the evil trans movement. Nobody's gonna come together and defeat any evil movement on this planet. Save Jesus. Guys, y'all do understand that it's getting worse and worse just as the Bible stated, just as Jesus said, it's gonna get worse and worse and worse. So, therefore, to think that any religion is gonna stop it, no? Our goal is we're not, listen, we're not on the Titanic sending folks down with some blow torches and welders and patches and, you know, no. By the way, do y'all remember, who had a bike patch kit? You know, patch up the inner tubes because we're always, well, I guess nowadays kids don't ride bikes like we used to. Matter of fact, you would have one on the, some guys would have them on their bikes because you get a flat, because you know, we might ride to the other side of town. Ride to the other side of town, you catch a flat, I'm not put, I've done it before, I have done it before, rode to the other side of town or felt like it, had a flat and had to push it back. But we're not trying to save the Titanic. We're not trying to save the Titanic. Two things we're trying to do, we are trying to get people off the ship. In the meantime, we're trying to tread water as much as possible so that we can increase the time. Now, is that possible? Don't know, but our goal, that's why we fight politically or socially or, you know, or in the community. We want things to be, the environment to be as best as possible, we don't want our kids growing up around, folks are gonna try to kill them, take them, stuff like that. We want people to be able to walk the streets and so we fight for a better world as best as we possibly can. But we're not trying to save this world because we understand this world is a lost cause. But would I like to see the world kind of be like it was 60 years ago, 50 years ago, 40? Sure, sure. And, oh, here we go, Corbyn, wait a second. It wasn't always good for everybody. What's never been always good for everybody? That's a ignorance, when people make those statements, like what world have you ever lived in where it's ever been that way? The best that we can come to was Eden and as two people messed that up. So what would be a good class to take? I would say the first class that you want to take is something dealing with hermeneutics. How you read the Bible is gonna affect how you understand it. So that would be the first thing. By the way, that being said, I wanted to state something. I'm actually going to do a video over this because this is the problem, it's the failure of the Christian community. I put a video out today. It was a wonderful video, by the way. Anyway, I put a video out today about my new favorite, just see my new favorite verse. My new favorite verse, it's not John 10, 28 anymore, though that's still the undefeated text. But my new favorite verse is John 10, 5. So what do people who disagree with that text do? The same thing they did with John 10, 28 and other texts. They go to other texts. You would get a failing grade. I mean, a failing with a big O F. A failing grade because you did not deal with the text. Well, what about over there? Well, fine, what about over there? We're talking about right here. You're the kid that we're talking about division and then you go back to where you, but what about multiplication? Ma'am, can you come get your son? Yeah, he is incorrigible. Yeah, find something for him to sweep because that's what he's gonna do for the rest of his life because he can't be taught. There are people out there who are Christians who just, I'm talking about this text. Oh, you're wrong, Corey. Well, then tell me what this text means then. Well, but this pass over here, but this pass, what about this text right here? Any tips for being a Christian as a teenager? Yeah, good luck. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Well, listen, I think that you're doing well right now. Just by, by the way, can I give you some, can I tell you how you can be a cool teen? Every teen, I don't care if they were a teen in 2023, the early 2000s, the 90s, the 70s, the 80s. By the way, being a teen in the 80s was cool. We were just better at it than you guys. Just my two cents. But, or in the 50s, the 30s, the 1800s, what a, I'm getting to your question, don't go that greaty good. I'm getting to your question. Listen, I got you on, I got you. I got you on radar, I got you on there. We got you, okay? We have the tractor beam on and we're not gonna let you go, we got you. But, here's how you, here's how you can become cool. Cause every teenager wants to be cool, wants to look. Whatever, wants to look. They don't like a square. Every teenager, every teenager. We want to stick out, we want to be unique. Well, you are at a special moment in time. Or being godly will cause you to look cool because you'll look like, first of all, you look different. You will look different if you're a Christian. You're gonna look different and folks will notice it. Now, is everyone gonna like it? No, but you pick one group that everybody likes. You can be part of the cool group and the cool kids. Everyone doesn't like them. Everyone doesn't like the pretty people, the so-called folks that wanna make up themselves all the time, dress certain way. The private people, no one likes the bullies. No one likes the athletes, they still call them jocks. No one likes, not everyone likes them. No, not all folks like the nerds. Not all folks like the goth people. They still have goth people in school. They should just trip us out of here. There's always a group of kids that's black everything. Everything was black. Black, you know, black boots and everything like that. And then they had some chains somewhere on them. They had those kids back then like, these kids. But then you also had the other side of the black kids, the pro-black kids, the guys with the af... In my day, they started doing the afro, not the afros, but the hot top fade with the African, the leather African medallions. High school was crazy. High school was crazy. Hold on, she said, slow the chats down, please. I'm sorry. High school is, but it was fun. I had fun. Now I would say this though. I will say this for a teenager. This is what you don't want to do. You do not want to have your best memories, your best life in high school. Have you guys seen people who are constantly reminiscing about high school? That was the best of their life was that. You don't want to peak in high school. If your best life was when you were 18, 19, or I shouldn't say 19, but I guess 19, something. 18, 19, 17, 16, 15. You got 60, 70, 80 more years maybe. Chow Yun Cat does not like that slow mode. Just not like that slow mode. No, you have not been penalized. What are you talking about, Benny M? No, you're not penalized. Hi, Benny. So now you can have fun, but there's a time to grow up. I thought I was pretty cool in high school. Matter of fact, I know I was. I know I was, but I'm gonna peak there. I look back in high school and I think to myself, you were an idiot. You were an idiot. I did some dumb stuff. I did stupid stuff, but it was fun then. Time to grow up. So you have to keep in mind that while you're something 10 years old, double that. So think about this. Double that. Double how ever old you are. 15, 16, 17, 18. Double that, which would make you 30, 34, 36. You still won't be where you need to be as a 36-year-old. You still got a good ways to go, right? Because life is a process, Miss Teenager. Life is a process, Mr. Teenager. You're gonna get better and better. Ask yourself, are you smarter and wiser now than you were five years ago? Well, sure you are. But then, in five years from now, you'll be much smarter and much wiser. But when you get in your 30s, much smarter and wiser, you're in your 20s. And when you get in your 40s, much smarter and wiser, you're in your 30s. So you got a long life to live. This isn't what's important. This is where you just set some of the foundation. Enjoy life there. One of my favorite country songs by Mr. Trace is you're gonna miss this. You are really gonna miss those days. You're gonna miss this. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. Yes, I like country music too. I like country music. I like old school rap. I like R&B. I don't know about any new R&B. I hadn't really listened to it, but obviously I like Christian, but yeah, you're gonna miss these times. So enjoy it. Take, as he says, take a good look around. You may not know it now, but you're gonna miss it. No, I don't like techno. Who in the world likes techno? Monkey moves? No, no. Anyway, so let me go ahead and answer some of these questions because people are getting upset with me for not. You don't get my ex of Jesus on. Is this a question? I know you asked a few of them. Oh, you asked two questions. Okay, I'll deal with the first one and the second one. See, for you, for you, Grady. I still don't get your exegesis of Matthew's text on by his tribes. We are healed. I feel like you were filtering the text by your own presuppositions and not, well, remember. Who is the writer of Matthew? That matters. Who is Matthew's audience as he's writing? Even more to the point, who is Jesus speaking to? The answer is gonna be the same, Jewish. Where does this prophecy come from? A Jewish prophet in Isaiah, they're referring to Isaiah. And so let's go back and look at the prophecy. He says, again, it's weird, but he's speaking of something in the future where they're gonna say, were healed. He was all these past tense verbs. And then he says that this had to be done so this prophecy will be fulfilled. Again, the prophecy, think about the prophecy. The prophecy is stating that somebody's gonna say these things were the past tense that's happened. Well, part of the prophecy that has to be fulfilled in order for the people in the future that's gonna, remember, who is gonna make this statement? That's the question, Grady and anyone else, who is gonna make this statement in Isaiah 53? Who is ultimately gonna be the ones that's gonna say this? The Jews, during the tribulation, they're gonna look back. Well, what are they gonna look back and say? That he was bruised for our nakedness, the chastisement of our peace was laid upon him. He bore our sins. They're gonna say that. And then by his stripes, we are healed. And so in there, there's a prophecy that's fulfilled at that moment, that someone, not just that person, but others were healed also. So he had been healing. And so they'll look back again, people were healed by his stripes that they were healed. Now, does that bring about a physical healing for everybody? It couldn't be that. It's impossible for it to mean that it brings about a physical healing for everybody because of that, because everybody didn't get physically healed. Well, that just means that though, that he brings about the possibility because he was bruised, because he was beaten, because he was crucified, that we could possibly be physically healed. Yeah, but even before he was bruised, even before he was crucified, we could possibly be healed. Are you with me? So look at who the prophecy was for, who Isaiah was speaking to. Now, can we glean from that? Sure. I've always stated that we can glean from that, okay? Now let's go to your last question, your last question. I think this one might have been the one you were talking about. How do you test prophecy? Well, there's a couple of ways. First of all, you have to identify which prophecy you're talking about. Most prophecy in the Bible and most prophets that's intended to be understood is a forth telling. In other words, given the indicative, the right now what God has said, what the said the Lord, either by the scripture or what he has revealed. How we can test it, is it true? If it's not true, it's not a revelation of God. Prophecy is not, like I did a video earlier about where a guy was saying, prophesy to the atmosphere, prophesy to your neighbor. What? No, we have taken prophecy to mean something what it does, what it's never meant. Prophecy has always been to talk about to give a revelation from God about God. Not to prophesy that you're going to get some money or no, even think about this when Ananias gives a prophecy to Paul. He says, the prophecy is that, yeah, God is going to use you. He said, but you're going to suffer. Why? For his sake, for God's sake. Now our prophecy today, they're prophesying about how they're going to make out like bandits. And they are making out like bandits, by the way. They are making out like bandits. Laila says, could you please answer my last question? Let's go to Laila's last question. Cory, what do I do with a person who is a hacker? I feel they can be used by God still in a FBI, what do you mean? Hold on, hold on. Is a person hacking you? Well, turn them in, but if there's someone that you know that's a hacker, I'm not, hold on. I feel they can, oh, is it that, are you saying you know somebody who is a hacker and you're trying to figure out how can that person be used? Is that what you're asking? Well, I would say if I'm understanding you correctly, because I'm not sure if I am understanding you correctly, but if that's what you're saying, then tell them to use their talents for good. Use their powers for good. What I used to tell the guys in prison, use your, okay, they can break down, okay, yeah. Well, listen, use your powers for good. Use your superhero powers for good. Whatever you can do, use it for good. There are guys. This is, yeah, Dianna said don't do illegal things. That is kind of the main point, the main thing. If you don't get anything else out of this, get that point. But if I, I don't know if any of you guys have been around people who are pharmaceutical distributors, drug dealers, and they can see something in their hand. They can see some power. Now, nothing illegal. They can see salt. They can see sugar. They can see liquids. They can tell you, look at it with their naked eye, I said that's X amount of ounces. That's X amount of ounces there. Yeah, that's, yeah. That's 13 grams right there. It's like, what? And so I did something. I got some sweetener and I opened the packs and poured it in a little bottle and I put it in front, in the TV room in prison. I put it in the middle of it. And I asked the guys, I said, what is this? How much is this? And I mean, they all had pretty much the same amount. It's like, wait a second. You guys can see that? Do you know how many math students can't do that? But you can see that. Well, why don't you guys start using your powers for good instead of for evil? Instead of, you know, getting folks high and shooting up people, why don't you use it for good? There are things that you can, and these folks, they can be used. They have abilities. And so they can use whatever it is instead of scheming people, lying to people, beating up people, killing folks. Use your power for good. So a guy, because it's prison, somebody gonna say something stupid. This is what they do. Well, what about that guy who's here on a porn charge? What can he use this for? It's like, okay, fine, you got me. I can't do anything with that. I can't do anything with that, but anyway. Mark, Kurt, now I gotta go look. I gotta look up who that is. I know the song. I have to go look up this person. Is he a devishly handsome person? If so, then amen to you. Thank you. But if not, I'm gonna get you. If not, I'm gonna get you. All right, guys. Do I believe that God speaks to individuals outside the word of God? This is gonna bother some folks, but I'm gonna say yes. How do I know? Well, because he says so. Now, how he speaks to you, that's the issue. An audible voice, I don't think so. Now, here's a question, though. Guys, guys and gals, can I point to a passage in the Bible that says that God does not speak in an audible voice anymore? No, I can't. I don't think that's a pattern, though, because we see, because it's not like he did it a lot in the Bible, but okay. But if God speaks to you, that is God giving you a revelation. Again, we can test that. We can test that. No, I'm not reformed. I'm not reformed. No, I'm not reformed. I'm not charismatic. But we can test that. The Lord told me to tell you, ah, will you stop that mess? Because we just abuse that. Now, Jesus says in telling us how to pray, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from soul. There's some leading. So how does God lead us? Well, there's a way that he leads us. How so? Could it be through the spirit? Well, sure, I was that way. But could it be him speaking to us? The Bible isn't as hard and fast on it as we would like to be. And again, a lot of the pushback, a lot of the problem with that is we look at other folks who abused that, the Lord told me. So the Lord ain't told you nothing. The Lord ain't talked to nobody. We have to use the scriptures. So one of the things that we have to do, as a matter of fact, as we get further and further in the Bible, because we have more and more scriptures that will have to be accountable for, you'll hear me say this, there's more and more. Earn that statement. Earn it. You say this, give me the passage that says so. Thoughts on public prayer. A. Z. B. Boy says, thoughts on public prayer. Jesus specifically says not to, not to yet every church. And okay, what Jesus, his point is that there are these folks that would stand up and they would have these wonderful prayers, these long, which by the way, I'll leave that part alone. They're these long prayers and they have these many fanciful words in their prayers and they might even, they might even change their voice. You've seen them, you've heard, God, wait a second. Did Frank just change how he said, normally he says God, but now he says God. And now you're praying, you're praying in the King James version. Vine is this and thou art and thee and okay. Now it seems like you're being a little bit fake. And that was Jesus's point. You got these folks that would go out of these long babblings, these prayers that now you're just trying to be seen. Well, you have your reward. You know what your reward is? That's a good prayer. You did a good job. So, but to pray publicly, yeah, corporate prayer is fine. Corporate prayer is fine. We should come together for corporate prayer, which means you have to say something publicly. Benny M, what do you lost? Well, you said you lost you. What do you mean? Tell us how, how are you lost? Are you saying something? I'm not catching what you're trying to say. Let me type in Benny M. Let's see. All right, Benny, you're asking a lot of questions. I don't know which one you're asking. So let me pick, let me pick a question. Wow, Benny, you asked a lot of, okay. What do you mean? How is the, okay, you're asking a lot of, and listen, you got some good questions. Benny M's asking, but okay. He said, how is the rejection of the body God gave you, not one of the greatest, biggest sins, what do you mean? It is a big sin. I'm not sure what you're asking. So let's go to one of the other ones. I can't believe how cruelly desperate addicts are treated. Are they seen as lesser? I don't know. Anyone that treats someone that's suffering, that's struggling cruelly, you're not doing so by the spirit. You're not doing so in accordance with the Bible. We are to handle people, treat them who are in a sin gracefully, lovingly. How God treated us. Because guess what? We were addicted to sin. We were rotten, horrible people, and sometimes we still act that way. But that being the case, whoever is following the sin, we are to restore this person, or at least even bring them for the first time, with some grace, with some love. Amen. Who the young man in Mark 1451, Jaredx Disciple asked, let me go to Mark 141. I'm sorry, 1451, I'm sorry. 1451, oh, okay. A young man was following him, following Jesus, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body, and they seized him, but he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped. So the question is, who is this young man? Well, I don't think we're told. I don't think we're told who this person is. And so here is, let me tell you what there are some that believe, who's writing this, Mark. And so, and it could be, it may very well be that this young man in Mark is Mark himself, referring to himself in the third person, because you know who else, that's not the first time or the only person that has referred to himself in the third person, kind of in a differential way as well. John did the same thing. John said the one whom Jesus loves and John kind of treated himself as though he was the young one. And so it's possible that the young man in Mark 1451 could very well be Mark himself, could be, we're not sure. If someone wants to say, I think that's Mark, well then fine. If someone says, I don't think it was, that's fine also. The problem is if someone says, I definitively believe that's Mark, then you can't say that. Or it definitively said that's not Mark. We don't know. We just don't know. So, but it's not the first time. Matter of fact, other times people refer to themselves in the third person sense and in a kind of a demeaning fashion. So, all right, let me take one more question. Big shoot of 16, I am definitely free, but that wasn't the one question. Let me take one more question. Let me take two, because I want to answer this. What do I do if I feel like I am new to an amazing church but I don't feel a connection with anyone in the church and I do not see myself making friends or finding a partner at this church? Well, wait a second. Is that on you or them? That's a question, because now you can't walk in there. Your arms folded, you lip out with a style in your face. Oh yeah, I'm not gonna approach you either. Actually I would, but many might not. And so, are you making yourself available and open for friendship? But now it may take time. I don't know how long you said you're new. So give it some time. If it's amazing church, well then find out why it's amazing. Devote some time to find out why it's so amazing. Just stay there. Somebody might come to you and say, hey, listen, I see you here. Hey, friend, hey buddy. So, I wouldn't look at those other books like, I'll get with you, Grady. Matter of fact, probably next week, I'll bring some folks on next week. But book like Cedrus and some of these other books in the biography, they are, matter of fact, here's what's funny. None of those books were ever deemed to be canonical, not then or even by the writers. Matter of fact, you'll hear this term about that there was no profit at the time. It was for a new year period where these books were written. They were not even by the writers or the people thought to be that way. And the reason how they made to the Catholic book, Jerome compiled them, but even Jerome said that they, Jerome didn't believe they belonged in there, but he compiled them. Why, because they're good, they were good historical references as well. Okay, hold on. APF, I don't know what that with going, consequence of going to a root worker when I was young and dumb. I'm not sure what that is. I don't, I have, you have to explain to me what a root worker is. I'm either slow or old or both. I have no, I'm out of the loop. I don't know what that means. This is a good question. I'll take two more questions. Fine. Should you just force repentance with sheer willpower or should you let God's spirit convict you and change your heart? Well, if you're forcing it and it works, I can guarantee you it's actually God that's doing it. God is going to, if he has granted repentance point you are, it's going to happen. But if you find yourself pushing and pushing, that's just, that's cause your heart has been convicted. So there's no such thing as a believer who's not repentant. There's just not. And there's no such thing as a person who is godly repentant, who's not a believer because that's God working in them. Amen. Oh, you went to a spirit worker. Okay, when you were young and dumb. No, listen to that. Oh, okay. Okay. Don't worry about it. Is that you now? If that's not you now, then fine. Listen to what you don't want to do. Don't let you or yourself. Oh, I'm sorry, let me do this. Kevin, if you feel like you're forcing it, listen, just keep doing it. If you feel like you're forcing it, fine. If you feel like you're forcing it, then fine. Again, my point is you're not really forcing it. It's God working in you. But this forcing that you think you're doing, it's just maybe, it's a desire for you to be as holy and as godly as you possibly can. Who's working that in you? That's God. Now, back to the other thing. If you have done something in the past, stupid, dumb stuff, here's what you do not want to have happen. We're gonna end on this guys. I can never do enough of these. I really can't, because I'll never be able to answer all the questions. But let me just say this. And I think all of you need to understand this. There are two people that want to take you back to your sins. You and someone who's against you. Neither one of them should be listened to. Neither one of you said my audio's been bad for, really, you think my audio's been bad, really? Okay, I'll have to check into it. I'll have to check into it. If I've got to update, if I've got to update it, then I think I heard someone say the same thing. Okay, so I'll look into it. I'll go back and test this stuff and see. So thank you for telling me about it. Y'all, by the way, if you all are hearing my audio a little bit differently, then let me know. Let me know. But sometimes you are going to want to remind yourself of your sin. The bad part is, if you're not in that sin, if you're not in that sin, then don't worry about it. Because it could, maybe it's not you, maybe it's the enemy speaking to you. He's not, listen, I can promise you this, the enemy's not through with you yet. It's not like he, he got saved. She got saved. I got to leave her alone. I got to leave them alone. No, no, no, not gonna do that. The enemy still has designs on you. How do I know? Because Jesus himself said to Peter, who's an apostle, Satan desires to sift you like we, what did Jesus say? Jesus says, Jesus says, I prayed for you. So guess what? You're gonna have to deal with that stuff. Satan's gonna come at you and attack you to try to remind you of stuff that's no longer important. Then you're gonna have someone else out there outside of you who maybe is a hater, someone that doesn't like you, whatever, who wants to remind you of your sin. I talked about this last week. I'll say it again. We talk about a person like Rahab. And I can identify with Rahab because folks who wanna tell me about my past, okay. Well, what are you gonna tell me about my past? Tell me. First of all, you don't know all of it. You don't even know why you think you think what you're thinking about my past. So tell me about my past. Matter of fact, let me hear it. Well, Cory, you did this and you did that and this happened and then that happened. Yeah, what else? What else happened? Oh, and you did that. Oh, by the way, Cory, you did this and Cory, you did that. Matter of fact, Cory, I can look, I can go and I can find your court records. You did this. Cory, you also, matter of fact, you know what? You did this too. Matter of fact, Cory, I think I can probably call and talk to some people that knew you in the past. They said you did this. What else you do, Cory? You did this. Tell me some more of what else you did. Cory, you did this, Cory, you did that. Cory, Cory, you were, man, you were bad. Cory, you did this, you did that, you did this, you did that. Come on, keep it coming, keep it coming. What else did I do? Well, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it was small. Let me help you out. I also did this, this, this, this, this, this. How much time you got, buddy? I got some more to tell you more than you know. You know why that don't bother me? Let me tell you why it doesn't bother me. Cause all you're doing is recounting my testimony. All you're doing is helping me out. You are literally helping me out. When you keep talking about what I did, you're not talking about what I did. You're talking about what I overcame. That's what you did. So come on, bring some more. I need some more encouragement so I can think back on how good God is. You mean I went through all of this time. You mean I did all of this stuff and God, you still love me? Wow, you are amazing, God. You must really love me, huh, God? Yeah, because as the man said, you did this, you did this, you did this, you did this. Matter of fact, he's got all these documentation, all these notes, all these receipts, all these things that say what I did. All you're doing is reminding me of how good God is. So when someone wants to talk about, let's say a person like Rahab, like I said with Rahab, Rahab was a harlot and a liar. She was a lying harlot. And as I said before, all Rahab has to do is tell you, turn the page. After you get through listing all my sins, after you get through telling me all the bad that I did and there's a whole lot more that I ain't even noted. I've done more sin than Jesus did miracles and that's not even blasphemy in Jesus. Jesus did a lot, but how bad was I? I was horrible. So after you get through telling me all about what I've done so bad in the past, don't forget to turn the page. What page? You know, the page that says that Rahab is also in the genealogy of Jesus. Don't forget that. That's the last great accomplishment, the last great thing that I'll be known for. When you go back and look at how great my faith was, my faith was had to deal with bringing a nation down and put me in part of a blessed nation. So I don't have a problem with you bringing it up. Matter of fact, all you've done was wasted your time on my past when you could have been focusing on doing your future. So recount them all you want. All you're doing is talking about one of the greatest comebacks the world has ever known. Amen.