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Well? I've done better Hey, so I hear you the so when I went to bed last night at three o'clock in the morning Trump was winning, Wisconsin Michigan And I woke up this morning three hours later, and he's down big so There's a lot of Christians that prophesied that Donald Trump would win reelection and then Eric Metaxas He said that here's the difference they will fail mark my words But this will be a lesson to those who keep Been indifferent in what it takes to keep the Republic we cannot continue as we've been doing But he's saying that they're gonna fail in this this coop Cool, so I was wondering what your thoughts are What's going on right now? well you think I Would say that we get what we deserve because our country is Antichrist because it's it kills babies in the womb because it promotes Homosexuality because it insults the things of God because it uses the Lord's name in vain in every way possible Because it promotes pornography and the destruction of the family promotes lesbianism Gay this and that transgenderism, and it's gaining power in all of its corners of the country because of this God owes this country destruction and judgment But he has not because he's a god of mercy.

He's a god of grace because the Christians have been praying Now some will say well We're gonna get out in a rapture, and then it's all gonna. Go you know go bad I say don't put your hopes in a pre-tribulation rapture That's another topic. We're called to be lights in the world that were promised persecution and personally What I think will probably happen is if Biden does win that come out Kamala will become the president within a year maybe two years and she's a Marxist and You know maybe civil war is gonna come and I Don't want it. Oh, man.

I don't want that because it's bad and What happens in countries it just goes bad? We know what we have to do as Christians what we have to do is start praying and I mean really praying for our country But Christians are being misled by these moron whack of Teachers on TV. You know name it and claim it and blab it and grab it. They should be jailed For heresy, and I mean that for she's facetiously. You know not literally, but it's that bad I mean you know we've got to stand on the truth of the Word of God We've got to stand on the word of truth We can't just put our finger up in the air say which way is gonna be convenient women pastors and elders and deacons We can't let this kind of stuff happen. We can't let this idea of happen that yeah It's okay to use the Lord's name in vain. I know Christians who do this We don't hold the word of God in this higher of reverence the position of God in the higher is Reverence and the Christians don't seem to want to be able to trust in God But they want to trust in their bank accounts and their insurance policies, and this is what's scaring me Because Christ calls us to pick up the cross and follow after him Not after you know our 401k and then it's okay to have one I mean, it's just that we're called in priority to follow Christ, and we should be out there in every Avenue of Society in schools in the media in in periodicals on the web in technology We should be there the ones leading with humility and service demonstrating the truth of Christ's love That's what needs to happen, but we've lost so much ground that basically society has a momentum It's like a big rock rolling downhill the faster.

It goes the harder. It's gonna stop me to stop And this is what's happening in America the degradation the degradation I should say excuse me of our culture and our morality is like this boulder just gaining momentum as it goes downhill it's gonna become more and more difficult to stop it and I'll tell you something you know 138,000. I read this this morning hundred to eight thousand suddenly new of Votes up here.

What was it last night or this morning for Biden hundred to eight thousand just for just for him in Michigan You know and I was my wife was telling me about how she was reading about how? Certified pollsters going around to put some make sure that things were verified weren't allowed in certain areas I mean, it just likes corruption here This is serious stuff and with corruption comes oppression because those who are corrupt and they get in power they oppress those Who will expose them? They they will oppress So this is not prophesying that within three months wrong to be in a FEMA camp But I'm telling you that this is the kind of stuff that is problematic and for those who are listening If you can find the documentation for the new bill that's supposed to be or something some something movement inside of California to make the Bible illegal because it's hate speech and I heard this I don't know if it's true because you can hear things you don't know if it's true for everybody knows about it email me at Info at calm that org I want to find out about it, but here's the thing look. I'm gonna tell you something I'm not a normal guy I've never said this over the radio like this before I'm not a normal guy in a lot of ways you know I've got Asperger's and I moved 26 times before I was 12 years old I weighed 66 pounds at 12 years old 66 pounds I was the lightest kid in her junior high I got beat up a lot. I got chased a lot etc etc We moved a great deal.

I had a mom who's a genius and my dad very intelligent, but he's a stutterer We moved around and we lived in tents for a while we lived in trailers We lived in two various areas, and it was difficult. I learned how to survive I learned how to not go with the flow because the ones I've Discovered who were the oppressors in my life and the lives of art my brothers and and my friends We're always the ones with these liberal wacko ideas who just went along with with the status quo I learned not to trust them. I learned not to trust them. This is why I do my own research This is why I I quote scripture because don't trust me trust the Word of God and as I became a Christian I discovered that the Word of God has power it has power to upset people and has power to bind them and has power to Loose them if they believe the Word of God They're freed if they don't they become people under bondage And the power of the Word of God needs to be promoted by Christians, and I believe in that power I believe in the power of that word it needs to be preached from the pulpit and I think pastors ought to sit there and point to the exits to say if you don't like what I'm gonna preach out of the Word of God today, then please leave and Open the word and preach it and preach it to the congregations and preach it in truth and preach it with power so that the people are made to feel a little bit uncomfortable because they're convicted by the power of the Holy Spirit in the face of the Word of God preached and It should motivate them to do and the first thing would be to pray and the second thing would be to stand and go do What God has called them to do whenever it might be this is what Christians are supposed to be doing and if we don't stand Up we're gonna lose not only this country completely But we're gonna become oppressed to such a high degree that we'll be fleeing and this is what we're we're afraid of As Christians when corruption like this gets in the government and any government the righteous become oppressed And this is what's happening. The righteous are being oppressed. It's gonna happen even more and more and I'm worried about it I'm scared because I've been oppressed. I know what it's like.

I'm a public figure and I know what it's like to be Excuse me. I know it's like to be persecuted. I know what it's like to be Okay, there we go, I know it's like to be persecuted I've been swatted I've you know, I had the police called on me and for something I didn't do of course. I've had that happen. I've been Lied about I've been pursued in cars. My wife's been pursued in cars.

We've had Satanists. They threatened to kill me We've had lawsuits that have been threatened against us I've had the websites being hacked constantly still now even I just talked to the host guy He said it's still happening. We're under attack. I know what it means to be under attack This is my wife. I don't we move again.

We want to be able to Hide our address and only trusted people that we know are allowed to come over because we've had things happen the middle of the night We've had things happen. This is what it means to be a Christian a public figure go out and stand for truth and righteousness what happens is you're persecuted and Christians just aren't ready for this Christians aren't willing to pick up that cross and follow after Jesus Christ and risk would it risk life and limb This is what we need to do as Christians We need to live for Jesus and if need be we need to die for Jesus And it begins with our own hearts before God on our knees And then we have to follow through with the church and the church needs to follow the Word of God and do what's right According to the Word of God and if people don't like it, let them go And we've got to follow up to Christ none of the ways of the world and then God can send us into the world once we're fine-tuned sharp swords ready But right now we're not Well, there you go. Hold on Andrew be right back after these messages. We have one open line eight seven seven two zero seven two Two seven six be right back It's Matt slick live taking your calls at eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six here's Matt slick I'm gonna welcome back to the show Andrew. I kind of took over your question and ran with it.

So You want to try it again? No worries, do you have any advice for me for You know just to accept the things the way they are and keep moving forward like you have any yeah Even corrupt But leaders are Appointed by God and it's not that he directly appoints for the purpose of Carrying out his direct will but his indirect permission often as a persecution and a punishment to his people for not doing their job and His discipline you'll notice deals with the people of God Not with the other nations other nations are destroyed in the Old Testament When it was a hindrance to the arrival of the Messiah But once their discipline comes to the people of God and he uses the ungodly to do that And it's because if we don't discipline ourself Then it comes from outside another source So what our job is to do as Christians is to pray for a revival in this country and To accept that God is in control And to read the Old Testament you'll notice that great amounts of pressure that happened to God's people and yet They always prospered they always survived They were always taken care of one way or another the same thing is going to happen here as our country Gradually slips down into the abyss of corruption and liberalism and ungodliness But our hope is not in the government. Our hope is in Jesus Christ So keep your eyes on him and pray for the deliverer and deliverers to be raised up and Just pray that we can preach the gospel Because that's our opportunity one way or another is to find ways to preach that gospel And I'd ask people to pray for an anointing from God to to empower them to live for Christ But I'm going to warn you if any of you pray for that anointing For that dedication to serve Christ it comes with a cost Most Christians are not willing to suffer that cost Because the cost usually is internal and then external Usually it's with your own humility and pride and it follows a lot of times with externals and varying forms Christianity is a tough life It's a tough life because it's one of righteousness, which is internal Holiness honesty integrity and when you live in a world that hates those things You become targets and you have to be ready to suffer and in accordance with that and I've gone through these things myself Suffered for righteousness sake and it's been very difficult to go through them, but I've come out and been better for it So I guess my warning advice It's called warning advice. It's advice, but it's a warning too For Christians, I've always taught this I've always believed this that we Christians are to be more active That's why I do what I do radio Go door to door.

I used to go door to door prison ministry beach, you know, miss ministry radio web Newsletters whatever I can and and we can make a big difference and Christianity to support this ministry that I'm As well as other ministries because if you say you want things to happen in this world Then start supporting financially those people who are in the front lines And if you know people who are in front line ministries and they need support and support them There's not to be a whole bunch but support them Financially and prayerfully because you have the ability to do that and you can reap part of the benefit of that idea judgment Anyway today of preaching I guess this is what I'm like in the pulpit Anyway, I've got to get going. Okay. Yeah true. All right, man. Thank you, man. I appreciate it I hope you have a great night. Oh you too, man. Thanks.

God bless All right, let's get to Doug when Salt Lake City Doug welcome you're on the air, right? Thank you It's kind of interesting You're kind of a hard act to follow but Anyway, I believe you answered my question here. My question was basically Now I'm fairly new to this and I'm trying to play catch-up, I guess In reading the Old Testament and there's so many massacres and and everybody's dying and yet Jesus says basically loved my enemy and I You had talked about that some weeks back and the guy where you were talking to was really talking over you and they didn't get a good answer So I I guess I'd like to know and you talked about the fact that it was hindering the Messiah's arrival Wow, is there like a technical term for that? No, it's just the view if look at this way if you look at the Old Testament Satan comes into the garden in Genesis 3 and he causes problems and Then Cain kills Abel. It's an issue of murder Then there's just jump ahead the people of Israel become oppressed in Egypt They escape that oppression Varying countries seek to destroy Israel They're delivered Repeatedly, they are scattered at the time of Christ and and you got to think about these things as a movement by the enemy of the gospel to destroy the people of God and Ultimately, it's for the purpose of destroying the Messiah And even when Jesus was born there was a movement by the enemy to destroy the firstborn in order to get rid of Jesus So you're gonna think in spiritual terms like this. This is why history is written the way it is Jesus the Messiah is God in flesh and nothing is more important than him and his work on that cross and so when a nation would come against Israel a thousand years earlier ultimately it was because They were seeking to destroy the people of God and the enemy behind them was seeking to destroy the Messiah Back in you know, if you were to go to 2nd Chronicles 20 You'll find that there's a time when the enemies want to destroy the people of Israel and so God says is He says that the battle is not yours The battle is mine and what he talks about there is that the people who want to come the Jebusites that I call them The gesundheits all the people all over the place, you know They come down and they want to destroy Israel and Israel's terrified And so they turn to God and he says, you know, relax I'll take care of it and then he causes the enemies to fight amongst themselves to kill each other He said the battle is not yours. The battle is mine Why did God intervene like that? Because this ultimately was a battle to destroy not only the people of Israel but the coming Messiah and that means he's out there to destroy you You and me because without the blood of Christ being shed.

We have no redemptive. Hope we're gonna go to hell So ultimately the Old Testament battles to destroy Israel are actually in part and parcel an attempt to destroy you In all Christians and all people so there's no hope of redemption. So all will go to hell in the insane Evil that possesses Satan This is the kind of things that work if you look at this in history You see this is why God was so tough in the Old Testament Then it makes perfect sense and he has the right to execute judgment on whom he desires Because they're all guilty. Everybody's guilty of sin. He has the right to execute them. It's not murder.

Murder is the unlawful taking of life But if God executes someone who deserves to die, it's just an execution And that was happening in the Old Testament or executions and a lot of times when people have been warned for Decades and decades and decades to stop doing what they're doing and then God used Israel to wipe it down. I Can talk more about it, but there's a break. Stay tuned. We'll be right back folks after these messages. We'll talk to Doug again It's all exciting. Please stay tuned You It's max like live taking your calls at eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six.

Here's Matt slick Rather looking back at the show Doug. Are you still there? Yes, sir. All right, man All right So what's your question? Well, well, I'll try one question to the to the one before Kind of a stupid question, but How do I justify to God the fact that I do have a concealed carry permit? So you have to get a lot of comments on that.

You know, you have a how do you justify that? You have a concealed carry permit to God I Have one Okay, I was out today I had to go someplace and I was carrying Look, you know try to host or anything Luke 22 36 Jesus said I'm gonna go to the verse. I'm gonna read it to you.

Okay? That's what it says Luke 22 36 All right. There's a context And he said to them when I sent you out without money belt and bag and sandals Did you not like it did lack anything did you they said no nothing he said to him But now whoever has a money bolt is to take it along Likewise also a bag and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one That's what he just said now, why would he say that because we have the right of self-defense Because we're going out in the world and Notice what he says, you know, you didn't have to have anything you're taking care of but now take along your supplies God in the world takers supplies and he said it right there Luke 22 36 whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one For I tell you that is which is written must be fulfilled in me and he was numbered with the transgressors for that Which refers to me has been fulfilled. So some commentators you'll read about this the issue here deals with persecution The Christian Church is under heavy persecution is increasing but we have the right of self-defense and I'll tell you if I go over your house and I found out that you were carrying routed got out at dinner to get her.

I'd feel perfectly fine perfectly comfortable I feel safer You know the wackos, you know, they want to go to these gun-free zones And that's where they're gonna be safe to do their bad stuff and you know so Carry do it responsibly Don't boast just do what you got to do to protect You know, I do it to protect my family because I've been threatened enough. I have been threatened enough I took almost five years of Krav Maga and the two years of kung fu and a year of judo and And you know, I mean who knows what really will happen, but I don't want anything You know, I have to do this because of my living. I People don't know what it's like When you're a public figure things happen and when you're a public figure like I am where you knock on doors and you push over idols people react and And things happen and so when I drive I drive defensively.

I like a little sporty car If I can get something like that, I can move quickly And get out of the way and be if I'm persecuted pursued I've been pursued before I have I've had to lose someone in the in Well trailing me So, you know, I don't know what's going on Now how you know, but this is we have the right of self-defense not the obligation of self-defense We have the right but not the obligation Okay All right. I appreciate that God bless map god bless Okay And we just take this one minute to say folks I Don't talk about this very often but I want you to pray for this ministry and the people involved in this ministry because it's You know, we don't filter a lot. We filter a lot of stuff out, but let me just tell you there's a lot of persecution There's a lot of problems a lot of tech issues. There's a lot of attacks technologically. There's a lot of financial challenges There you know, we get threats Various things occur and 90 80% of the time. I don't I don't see anything But just because we're talking about this kind of stuff I'm gonna let you know that this kind of stuff does happen in this ministry a lot and I'm a focal point for a lot of the crud that comes down the pike and I would just ask you pray pray known for myself much much But my family also and also for those involved with this ministry God knows who they are and if you could support us financially that helps We just need a little bit from a lot of people five hours a month From a thousand people and we can meet our maker make our bills without having to be bailed out Every now and then you know, I don't make it sound bad it's just that this COVID thing has really done a lot of a lot of damage to a lot of ministries and God's provided but I'm just saying this is what it's like to be in the public eye and Maybe a lot of people just don't know and it's like this for pastors, too a lot of us people just have no idea what the pastors are under because they can't say too much because of the minute nature of The ministry work. Do you understand they're often under some varying forms of persecution and or requirements?

be very very vague here and You need to pray for them because pastors are often under pressures that you just do not know about I know know what it's like. All right. So anyway Pray for us. Let's get to Nelson from California. Sorry for the long wait, man.

What do you got buddy? God bless. Yes. Um, my question is about Roman Isaiah courage out concerning Israel though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea It is the remnant that will be saved. Yep Yeah, well concerning that verse I think I got is I spoke to one of the one of the instructors teachers from Calvary trouble that I attend to Mm-hmm, and he cleared it up for me and But remember that friend of mine that believes in the one Yeah, he basically believes from that verse that That right now as we speak the Jewish The people that don't believe the Christ there was a Messiah that they are saved by keeping the law He's a heretic Your friend there is a heretic go to write these verses down.

You ready? Yeah, why don't we write them down Are you there you're there good? Yeah Romans Romans 3 28 All right, Romans 3 28 Romans 4 verse 5 Romans verse 5. Yep, Romans 5 1 1 Galatians at Galatians 2 16 and Galatians Yep, and to 221. Okay study those which one you want.

Yep. Study those verses. Okay All right, and also you want to go to Matthew 7 22 to 23 Okay, many will say the word Lord. Do we not do this and this and this they're appealing to salvation based on their faith And their works and are condemned to hell and also Luke 18 9 through verse 14. So Luke 18 verses 9 through 14 Luke 18 9 through 14, that's the the tax-gatherer and the Pharisee went up to the temple to pray and The one who was keeping the law and doing all the good stuff was condemned The one who was by faith was not so these are the things you can work with and present him to him Okay. Yeah. Yeah, because um, but with this it's another what this was the same thing that I mentioned Because I quoted to him you could pull it up there Galatians 3 10 and 11 Those are great verses And also you want to go James 2 10 on that? Relate to those to the place of 310 Says for as many as are the works of the law are under a curse for his written curses everyone who does not abide by All things written in the book of the law to perform them.

He's quoting Deuteronomy 27 26 right there And it's a requirement of the law Okay, no Amen, yes, because he was telling me because I was quoting that that I was cursing is real right now. No, no No, he said this guy. Okay. This guy doesn't know what he's doing. He's always talking about. Okay, you need to Go through and study these things.

What I would suggest you do is get a a word document take his statements his objections write them out and Put them in an outline form and hit enter and then hit tab and it'll you know sub sub point and it starts thinking through responses and then you need to go through the scriptures and find these verses and look at these verses and if he gives you a response of something write it down and then come back to him after having prayed and studied and And come back because you got to learn how to handle these guys this guy All he's doing is repeating various forms of heresies This guy couldn't couldn't think straight if life depended on it All right, so you can try and have him come give me a call and I'll try and straighten him out But you need to get in there He doesn't want to he doesn't want to call you because you said that you're gone way too far to come to the truth So there's no hope yeah, well then that means he doesn't have faith in the power of the Word of God to be able to speak to someone and First Peter 3 15 says to give an answer to everyone who asks so I'm I'm publicly asking him to give me an answer Okay, so see if he's gonna be the Word of God first Peter 3 15. All right Okay, okay, man Okay, okay. God bless. Okay. All right. Let's get to Kelly from Los Angeles Kelly. Welcome.

You're on the air Hey Real quick. I was thinking earlier that say if Biden does win and You so him and Kamala go on to do whatever it is that they're going to do My question was is it possible that? That's God's judgment and that God has given over America for four years to like their own lust and we'll just have to endure Just enjoy that four years. Yeah, Obama was eight years of it Oh trouble's about so hey, hold on. Okay folks. We have a break coming up. There's the music It's max like live taking your calls at 8 7 7 2 0 7 2 2 7 6 here's max slick I look back at the show Kelly.

Are you still there? I'm here max, you know, I never thought about Obama being eight years. So I guess Trump was a break, huh? Trump was a break.

He's not that great in a lot of areas, but he's a good businessman and he believes in America But Obama did a lot of things under the table. Well, so to speak I mean passing laws and things like that He's a Muslim and he did not help us in a lot of ways. He entered us into some things that were pretty bad And you know, we just patiently endured him and then we had hope in Trump but then the leftist media went after him and everybody else did manufacturing allies and it's just corruption moving forward and You know, so it good America Deserves a judgment from God for the the evil that it promotes out of Hollywood the pornography and the ungodliness You know the homosexuality issues the abortion, you know the killing of the unborn You know America was so prosperous because of Christian principles that were laid down And then they've rejected those principles and are reaping the benefits of those principles and great success and then they're abusing The benefits that they've received and then kicking out those You know the followers of the ones who laid that foundation down to begin with You know and this is what happens is just the way of countries over centuries and they fall So we Christians Christians are you know, should we pray and not just praying you pray and you do something Not just praying you're done two minutes and once a year and you pray. Hey, I prayed.

No No, no, what God doesn't call us us to that. He calls us to more Okay Okay. Okay. Thank you, Matt. You're welcome. God bless.

All right. Bye. Bye. God bless You too.

Let's get to Derek from Los Angeles Derek. Welcome. You're on the air Grace and peace to you.

Mr. Slick. How are you doing doing? All right, hanging in there man hanging in there.

What do you got, buddy? All right, so I'm trying to exegete Philippians chapter 2 specifically verses 12 and 13 I myself am reformed. So I believe that I'm five point and also I believe in the That we can have assurance of our salvation However, when I read this phrase, um that read In my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. I'm trying to have a Well, I guess just for lack of better phraseology I would like to hear your opinion as to what Paul is talking about here working out your own salvation with fear and trembling Yeah, for does God who is at work in you both to work and to will for his good pleasure He's working in you. What's he working in you to do? He's working in you good working out to work out the salvation that's already there within you Not it doesn't say earn your salvation doesn't say retain your salvation by your it says work it out Manifest it go forward Work it out figure it out.

Well, where does the fear and trembling come in? Because in our salvation what we need to be doing is trusting the Lord Jesus Christ and he is the He is the one who authored our salvation and we're secure in him the word fear here Is is not meant to be you know He's he walks by and you cover yourself you're hiding because this guy's like a you know Bully and whacked you're gonna whack your head if you don't if you're not, you know, careful And not that kind of fear it has to do with awe and respect before God and trembling in that presence of the almighty God he says in the context he says because the issue here deals with the humiliation of Christ beforehand And it talks about Jesus being found in the form of of a bondservant made in the likeness of men And he says he humbled himself to the death of even death on a cross So this is Jesus being found in the form of of a bondservant made in the likeness of men And he says he humbled himself to the death of death on a cross So this this is what's talking about for this reason God highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name So that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow Those are in heaven and earth and under the earth and that every tongue will confess That Jesus is lord of the glory of god. So then my beloved just as you've always obeyed Not all as in my presence only but also now my absence work out your salvation with fear and trembling So you think in the humility of Christ and what he has done lays the foundation for what it is that we're to be And to do because earlier in chapter 2 we're to consider others Better than ourselves or to be humble in our attitude He talks about this issue what Christ is that everyone's going to confess who he is. So then He says as you have always obeyed if you've always obeyed Then there's nothing you have to say to do if you have to earn your salvation in way shape or form if you've always obeyed Then it means you're saved if you're obeying the law to keep yourself saved or be saved, right? If that logic is true in here Then you wouldn't have to say work it out as in you need to obtain it because the obedience would already have gotten that He's not talking about anything like that You see you've always obeyed. This is the manifestation of your salvation the obedience of what we're called to do in Christ and be in Christ The obedience is what we do if you jesus said john 13, uh Uh 1334 I think it is he says, you know, if you love me keep my commandments. Let's see if i'm right and uh A new commandment I give that you uh, you love one another And uh by this all men will know that my disciples and I think it's john 10 What is that 17?

No, that's not it. I got a lot of verses in my head, but don't have them all Anyway, the whole idea here is is that um What we need to do is continue in our obedience to Christ that obedience is not what gets us saved. It's not what keeps us saved It's the manifestation of the salvation that's already in us. So therefore work out the salvation that's already in you Okay And and would you say that that's that obedience to Christ?

That that wouldn't be in the form of keeping fringes and dietary laws, would it? Well, it doesn't say does it What does christ call us to do? He calls what the things he says specifically He says a new commandment I give to you that you love one another To love love everybody Do that, okay Uh, he says, you know to put others like like this is because he's speaking through through um paul the apostle In the same chapter verse three do nothing from selfish or empty conceit But with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves Don't merely look out for your own personal interests, but the interests of others have this attitude which also is in christ Jesus and it talks about how he became one of us the humility of christ.

This is what we're called to do The works that we're to do is to love others To love god to be humble to seek out those things and to work out the salvation that's in us Because it's god working in us That's all that's going on. Okay All right All right, be fair. You're welcome. God bless All right, let's get to alex from van eyes alex. Welcome. You're on the air Hey, what's going on matt? How you doing?

Uh, i'm doing okay hanging in there Hey, I I just wanted to say that debate between you and matt, uh, you and sam, excuse me, sam shimon Was it amazing debate? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for doing what you were doing I have to be completely honest with you about it. Uh, roughly a year ago when sam started going his catholic ways About roughly a year ago when sam started going his catholic ways, uh, it feared me it feared I I got a little bit panicky Could you imagine if shams shimon became catholic and turned against the protestant? you know biblical teachings and so forth or just biblical teachings in general and um when I saw Uh, you came on his show, I believe somewhere in july how you just Being the matt slick that we all love and started talking about anything that goes against specifications It's heretical the catholic church is heretical the uh, greek orthodox church is heretical and so forth and so forth Um and all the comments that everybody was, you know hyping like why is he hating us? Why is he bashing us and you know, sam was rolling his eyes I knew at that point something was going to happen and when I heard about this debate I was just like My main man better have it matt and you just showed up and showed out thank you for that and uh You really put my fears to rest because his arguments.

I love the brothers. The man is amazing when it comes to Defending the deity of christ. He's amazing when it comes to the trinity But just lately I think our brother's lost and hopefully, you know, he'll feel he'll see the light and find his way back home Yeah, i've been hearing more stuff I don't want to further what i've heard if I need to call him up sometime and talk to him But uh that debate was interesting. Um, you know because he's formidable he's intelligent very knowledgeable And we've met more than once we've you know, these other phone numbers we talk every now and then but uh You know he he blew it in the debate.

Uh, he put way too much in coal. Yeah 120 Yeah, and then he wouldn't answer the difficult questions. I was asking You know is satan at peace with the because it says colossians 120, you know the blood of the christ Blood of the christ, uh made peace with all things. So he means all things means everything possible, you know, and including the demonic realm So I asked him what does that mean peace with satan and he wouldn't answer the question because it's ridiculous to say Yes, so i'm trying to falsify the idea that all things means that And also I didn't bring it up in the debate, but I have a direct quote from him that says that jesus himself jesus created Evil and sin And that is flaming heresy Yeah Yes, sir It is it's ridiculous to say that and I called him out on it. I called him out, you know, he's teaching heresy Yeah, wow, did you did you kind of know after that, uh when he had you come on the show to do uh, I think solo feed a from a uh, protestant perspective Did you know like after that youtube live that there was going to be a possibility that you guys might have debated?

Uh, there's the biggest you were like you were so attacking. Mm-hmm. The debate was like two or three months in advance And it kept moving because of different things, but that's fine But the sola fide I had my suspicions But I just nailed it You know best I could And now i'm i'm thinking along some new terms of some other stuff and apologetic stuff i'll be working on And I have some new ammo about this It'll be working on so yeah, I I just I just really want to say thank you from from the bottom of my heart for someone who actually Um was a heretic at one particular point and then god was gracious enough to uh, um to um Regenerate me right and uh caused me to believe and have faith and repent. Uh, thank you so much. You did an amazing job and And everybody we're all loving you right and glory to god. So I just wanted to say that publicly and you are amazing So thank you, man.

My wife hears that Hey, thanks a lot, buddy. Appreciate it Okay, you got it my brother. All right, man. God bless.

Thanks Okay, let's get to Uh janeta from raleigh north carolina, is that right? Yes, sir. Good evening to you. Good evening. We got about uh, about two minutes.

So what do you got? Oh, let me make this real quick. I just wanted to say sir. Good evening to you. May god bless you You have an awesome show I hate so bad. I was so overwhelmed that I pulled over. I just got the gym and I had to just pull over to the side And just listen, but I just wanted to make a comment Uh, like I said god bless you and i'm going to be praying for you I'm going to be praying for you.

I'm also going to be i'm going to start going into this program To help you out because I think it's awesome. We need more of you and I agree with you when we you say that uh, We're christians are not doing enough for example when you're talking about obama And I I had called you about two weeks ago. I was telling you that I didn't agree that we black people need to be Uh giving reparations and you were saying to call back but i'm gonna make this real quick because you said I only got two minutes But we are not doing enough Against what's going on in the world, for example? Obama sanctioned same-sex marriages and look what it has done to this country. Yeah, and in march against it. We didn't say nothing And now it's just terrible now our kids our grandkids Got to grow up And see this kind of stuff going on and I just want to ask you something. Do you think that this covid?

Just your personal opinion Is that we are kind of being under a subjection? and As to the immorality and all everything that's going on in the world Wow, uh, and i'm right out of time. I'm not exactly sure that is what's if it's from god or not We talked about it before But we you know what? I gotta go. Can you call back tomorrow? Ask the question we could talk about that's okay Just put it in this call back tomorrow. Okay. I'm so sorry It's okay. Have a good night. All right, you too. God bless call back tomorrow though and uh carolyn from charlotte, north carolina I apologize for not getting to you. May the lord bless you and folks get back on there tomorrow by his grace Talk to you then