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Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by going 866-34-TRUTH that's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Well, it's my great joy to be with you today on the line far you got questions, we've got answers anything under the sun. You want to ask me about anything in any area of expertise. I have typical theological, spiritual, practical, moral, cultural, Jewish, give me a call 866-34-TRUTH 87884 will dig into the word together will give you whatever wisdom and understanding. We have, and hopefully we can strengthen you so you can go out change by God and then go and change your world. Let's start with a question I'm gonna make this anonymous because of the nature of it. It's a Christian leader by the child preteen who had a mental break at a mental breakdown and has been diagnosed with early onset child. Schizophrenia. So he's wondering it is this something demonic. I mean, he's a spiritually minded man is praise fast as they've gone through deliverance praying for the child gotten diagnosed professionally psychiatrically business a demonic thing.

How do we deal with mental illness, especially among children. There are some who believe it must be spiritual was they have no problem if you break a limb you go to the doctor. They have no problem with it, there's no problem if you have some kind of physical injury you get treated.

They have no problem if if you have certain condition. Colby, you take this cold medicine there no problem with that. If they had a serious illness like cancer because they privately go to the doctor to get chemotherapy radiation when it comes to emotional things, mental things. The assumption as well. That must be spiritual, demonic, no, no there there is no basis for that either. Biblically or logically look the brain is also part of the body and certain functions in the brain. It is known.

If you have an injury to certain part of the brain that could impair your functions in other areas of life that could impact your emotions obviously can impact your your ability. Your motor skills to do certain thing someone has a stroke in the they walk with a limp.

And in that they can't move in on this because something happened to the brain. While there are things that can trigger these various mental illnesses and they are actually� We pray to God. The healer certainly we use the same principles we use and everything else in terms of godly counsel and wisdom to try to help. What we can help and work with people to the extent we can to the word of God through wise counsel to wise living in all of these different things and parents learn different skills that help but there are certain things that require medication that apply to the brain. It's not ideal, it's not the best anymore than chemotherapy is ideal or the best when it comes to cancer. So we pray, we look to God, we ask him for help. Yes, certainly, demons can be involved in all kinds of things that can be involved in cancer.

They can be involved in emotional problems Scripture has appointed him as being involved in all kinds of problems, but demons are not the only things involved to make it only spiritually think all manner kid is under Satan's power with the way he's acting look at the way she's acting that would be a mistake. So pray get whatever skills and wisdom you can to help your child deal with these things, but there may be an actual disorder that for a period of time in their lives requires professional help and even require some type of medication. Just look at it like this again. The brain is part of the body. Just like my hand is part of the body.

Sometimes the brain needs certain physical labor gives the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown to the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown today on the one fire phone lines are open 866-3487 84. Any question.

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I'm not insecure give me a call and will talk about the skill of phones with David in Queens, New York. Welcome to the line of fire. Dr. Brown picking Michael you look at the effect of about 11 describing the event that one however great tribulation rapture argue that Matthew 2431 not the right direction and one current birth to her that the last trumpet is the benefit different debating what all the meetings of the truck back to 24, 31 describe the event of the board and one yes sir I dated when when I strongly advocated a pretrip rapture when I argued for pretrip rapture. I tried to say that the seventh trumpet of seven was different than the last trumpet it does really work. Additionally worth. What's clear is that Jesus returns with the audible sound of a trumpet, and he visibly appears and he actually comes to this earth.

So we refer to as the rapture and the second coming. They are one of the same event that he appears in the clouds of glory that we are caught up to meet him and that we descend to the earth together with him so Matthew 2431 says he'll send his angels with a loud trumpet blast.

That's obviously something that is heard will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. First Thessalonians chapter 4. As you mentioned, says that the Lord will come with the trumpet blast again this is to resurrect the saints who have died previously. And this is to rapture up those of us who are alive and remain for the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command against the something that is heard with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. If it is a secret rapture then why is it something that is announced loudly and clearly, and why should Paul talk about sudden loud and clear.

If it's not going to be heard anyone and with the trumpet of God. And then this very same event as you rightly ask this very same event in first Corinthians 15 pulse says this at the end of the chapter talking about the resurrection of the righteous, talking about the transformation of those who are alive and remain when Jesus returns in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound of the dead will be raised imperishable, and we changed the last trumpet is the last trumpet, and since this event that's being spoken of is is something climactic. Revelation 11 places it with the seventh of seven trumpets and says that at this time, the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our God, his Messiah who will reign forever and ever is with the sounding of the seventh trumpet. So again, this is pretty clear to me that this is all one and the same event second coming rapture.

One of the same event. Jesus appears in the clouds.

The righteous are resurrected, we are caught up those who love her manner caught up together with him and we descend to the earth. He comes with his Saints with his angels with believers and we descend to the earth with him extraordinary picture but it's actually going to happen quickly.

Resurrection reference Matthew 24 verse 31 that the argument won't, but even if I put that aside, even if I put that aside and say it doesn't mention resurrection. First, if he's going to gather us together so that event of us being gathered together is something that spoken of in these other passages that we who are alive and remain our labyrinth will be caught up to meet him. That's, that's one thing.

Another thing is this that if the last trumpet prescriptions 15 speaks of quote the rapture, then it can't be seven years earlier. 3 1/2 years earlier from the other trumpet of those would be the last trumpet so it has to be the same event.

Either way, because it's the last trumpet when this happens the camp you trumpet after the last trumpet I alright thanks 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Let's go to Nancy in Queens, New York.

Welcome to the line of fire. Good afternoon Michael how you doing well.

Found I was calling because you when you spoke on the child had any touch my heart acted like that of a couple of decades ago, and I wanted to tell you that everything that was in nursing school way back when the dinosaurs still on the earth. It was known from the 1800 that did brain damaged many a look by coal. They found that out more toxic and so your advice to get it treated medically is 100% bottle. I wanted to tell you that. And I also believe that when people weaken bodybuilders that just like any body else. I think they're vulnerable maybe to the influence of the enemy, and I think things like causing them to take their lives, which is what happened to my sister kind of comes into it. The Austin yeah, but I believe that you know you you are spot on, and I believe that God's wisdom will bring people at some point to a cure for it, but I can't say what it is and I have been praying over it, you know, ever since my sister came down with it and I honestly don't know what the cure is but nobody else does either.

So your advice I think is perfect will. Thank you and so sorry to hear about your sisters since the tragic look at the bottom line is God can heal anything so have to be missing a limb and God can heal it, soon to be blind from birth. God can heal it.

I had asked on my show a few days ago and he reference the man that was blinded to acid in his eyes 55 years and and did not have normal unstructured and have pupils and after hours of prayer he was healed and he could see. So in that sense God could physically heal the brain problems and then heal emotional wounds and set people free from demonic influences but let's recognize the seriousness of this and will recognize that there are certain brain disorders that cause people to function incorrectly and get to get into different kinds of trouble and we just look at them is bad bad bad people know some different bad people doing bad things, but there are things that have a medical explanation and I can be medically addressed and you forget to be spiritually minded people.

We need to recognize as well. Hey Nancy, thank you for calling.

I appreciated it well all right 8663 for 87884. Let's go to Jim and Northern Virginia. Welcome to the line of fire. Are you Dr. Brown. Just a quick question in light of some of the recent era of Christian knowing lighter, the recent presidential executive order on illegal immigrant know we have a spoke vendor for years working Christian and a lot of people working or attending our church living in our community. You're always poster I don't overly respond to all of that you will do different levels of response and if you go to my website. The line of fire on board. Just search window for the wood Syrian you'll find there were I address how to handle the Syrian refugee crisis arose in some months back so the line of fire.org search for the word Syrian and when you're there you'll see the article where right I give several words of wisdom in terms of how to approach this beginning with the fact that the government needs to major on security and the church needs to major and compassionate. In other words, each has a role to play. So there are laws that must be enforced if you can have a nation, you have to have laws you have to have borders that should be self evident. We had a lot of abuses there and we start here that if there are people in the country illegally doing illegal things troublemakers in gangs selling drugs acts of violence, then the moment that person is apprehended for crime and are here illegally. They should be deported. That should be a no-brainer. So let's enforce that law which is been on the books and if I'm correct your 2015, Pres. Obama deported about 43,000 illegals, which was the highest number in years. So let's not make this matter to Obama versus Trumper Democrats versus Republicans.

Let's look at these larger issues here now that being said, when it comes to our response. We want to help anyone that really wants to become a citizen here and is been here for years if they came in here illegally. Is there some way that they can have a path to citizenship. They may have to jump through some extra hurdles for the been here for years. They have family here is the old way of thinking was citizenship that something that should be looked at in a compassionate ability to hurt government to major on security will major compassion on file.

The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown friends my website. The line of fire.org and when you're there you will find thousands of hours of free resources dig in, take advantage of those go through a digital library latest articles, latest videos go through those check them out as you do, you'll be blessed. We are there to serve you and help you. We also have a whole bookstore with other resources to check it out at the line of fire.org let's go to Clint Marilyn Eliana, welcome to the line of fire Brown are you very well, thank you? You look up descriptive people get distracted regarding the regarding the judgment of the Almighty's people is something I read regarding how will be judged on night out will be judged for every every word out opposite every harsh word or what have you and and of course, this notice talk you know about the strength of being dead. My question is even being that we have our anterior media area, you know, we have issue and they are making intercession and the blood covering as we know, that I think the state how this house is now that what is your understanding of particular. Yeah, it seems clear that the levers will stand before the judgment seat, not what we would refer to as the great white throne judgment Revelation 20 versus 11 to 15 were those whose names are written not written in the book of life are cast into the lake of fire.

But Paul alludes to in second Corinthians 5 that we can stand before the judgment seat of the Messiah in Romans 14 we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and give account that's clear you were alluding to Matthew 12, which in which Jesus is. That will give account for every idle word spoken is that generic human beings is that for believers that are for unbelievers. That's not defined in the context of both other parables of Jesus that he gives the parable of the talents and things like that indicate that there will be rewards for believers and some receiving more than others. Also, first Corinthian's three Paul you speak about believers or about those who are building the church ministers of the gospel leaders either of those categories that their works will be judged, and that which is as it spoke of their wood haste, double that will go up in the fire and that which is gold, silver and precious stones that will endure the testing of fire that's is the one whose works go up and in the fire still say, but as by fire.

So what's what's he talking about if we are truly saved. If we truly born again that our sins have been paid for and on the day we stand before God we will not be giving account for our sins. Those words because I consider we shot heroin 50 and we stole money for father's 60 what you like to.

This will be lusted after this week is to say that that's been paid for inclines, but I will give account for my life. Let's say my assignment was to do ABC and I did none of it will then I will not receive certain additional rewards let's say my son was ABC but I did XYZ, the nets can be testify fire and go up in the fire, but some I sent was ABC but I did it through pride and arrogance and self exultation will then that is also going to go up in the far yet. I'll still be safe self. Some people struggle with that they think will. How can that be a medicine salvation. The same for everyone. Salvationist those that will be with God forever.

If we truly wanted to his kingdom. Yes, salvation in itself is the same so the parable in Matthew 20 of the workers in the vineyard that the ones that come at the end of the day. If the same reward is the one with the same payment as those asserted in the early part of the day that salvation. It's a free gift the same for all and yet we see throughout Scripture than a God's justice that he does make distinctions and that there there are rewards for serving him some of the reward can be a deeper maturity, greater development, greater entrustment with responsibility. Whatever it's going to be, but certainly there will be eternal implications based on how we live in this world. So say the apostle Paul who serve God mightily, and was beheaded for his faith. According to tradition will receive different rewards and some else. It was a believer for 60 years and never grew spiritually and tended to be very selfish and and and died of old age.

We can be sure that it's it's also a sobering thought Eliana when when I was in the sales world commission salesman before I started full time ministry once a week I would get a call from the sales manager on the Thursday night and he won an update. How many people did you see how much did you sell and find a good week. I can wait to talk to him. That phone would ring I was waiting for first ring. I pick it up and I would talk to him. But if I the bad week.

I hope you wouldn't cause just an earthly salesman. I would hope you wouldn't call I'd wait to see if the phone kept ringing. It was in the days before caller ID anyway and I either want to tell and then wait to have the we go I want small talk that I want to tell I got a flat tire and wheel. All these other things. First, so it's a sobering thing that one day we will give account to God say that messes with me that wealth come to God the way we honestly ask him to give you a sense of security in his love, a sense of assurance of his love, a sense that you are his child, and your cleanse through the blood of Jesus and then with that assurance asking to give you a sense of holy responsibility because one day we will give account to God.

Hey, I appreciate you calling very much 8663 freight 7884. Let me say one other thing we as God's people have been placed in the world for such a time as this and maybe you find yourself in a situation of life are you think about my life makes no sense your follower of Jesus you love the Lord, that you think but my life makes no sense at all-ite is not going anywhere.

It's not doing anything. Well, God has you here for recent sometimes we feel like that.

In fact, that's not the case because we are blessed by God and called by God and making a difference. At other times we feel like that because were stagnating, but the truth be told, were not really pursuing God's will.

When not doing what he called us to do. He has a purpose for each of us ask 13 tells us that after David serve the purpose of God for his generation.

He then fell asleep. He died we each have a purpose. We may not be known like David was people, maybe not even recognize you when you walk down the street but you have a purpose from God is not just about feeling fulfilled. It's a matter of doing his will so go to him earnestly and say, God, I'm here for reason. If you're shot in because you're sick if if you're so busy raising kids, working several jobs and you just feel your head is spinning. As you driving in the car. Here is your is your taking a break between changing diapers, God why my here, Lord.

What's my purpose and he may show you his purpose for right in the midst of changing those diapers right in the midst of of working those extra jobs right in the midst of being a shut-in look to him.

This purpose is Jesus.holy God to forgive you for your sins, but to give you a specific purpose and destiny doing God's eternal it's the line of fire with your host activist and author internationals leader and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 86643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you much for joining us on modifier broadcast this Michael Brown. I'm delighted to be with you hears them to call 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 87884. You got questions, we've gone answers. Let's go to the phones and will start with Steve in Torrington, Connecticut. Welcome to the line of fire.

Dr. Browning. Me, you bet, and I especially appreciate your ministry as just yesterday I had my first discussion with an agnostic, you realize I'll be in the gospel two hours to scrape, but today I want to ask you about potential and in real problem of social status.

In a sense to do list your book. Your book about food and and and restricted.

I have a problem with my whole life.

Five now and come from a big tight American family and it monitor monitor monitor and down you know grandma down in front of you a big bowl of Italian ways to you. Don't tell her I can eat that grandma had, you know I yeah I it. It won't make sense to more ethnically mixed XL. I want to find out from you. How you handle, you know, family, parties, traditions, holiday, beating it just in someone's home being given gifts of food by well-meaning people by Christians. The neighborhood block party. Thanksgiving dinner and you know I I know of a Christian teacher follows a very strict low-carb diet go drama different character teaches and in all our people predicate diet, but they also kinda have to go either way. For what you do about that that social offense where you tell someone will look I don't want to have this feature. This big plate of French fries that they're just doing it because they love you and all Christian or familial love to let's say that God forbid you have a medical condition right yet and if you a pizza review eight French fries. You die right yet serious medical condition and doctor's orders right everybody would understand without the slightest hesitation correct right I mean grandma with the Italian food by tell you it's good for you but if you say hey grandma, the doctor has been a special diet and your grandsons going to die if he eats this okay so I look at it like that. It's a matter of life and death. It's that simple and I just told you, special diet of this and I travel constantly, perpetually and is, I'm dealing with things on the plains of doing things in hotels and in things with restaurants, sometimes in people's homes on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Number one, we found that people want to accommodate me they love me. They respect me and they want to accommodate me, so that's why I think, and they they enjoy accommodating me. They see the radical changes in my life. All the weight that I've lost and lately see how good I look at how good I feel and they understand that and Seesmic the most part they are believers and as believers they recognize the discipline that I walk in, but I just am on a special diet.

Not only this, only this this this set simple, special diet and I'm not. I'm not worried about social offense and trust me it's around the world and in many different cultures but I just tell them I'm in a special diet and this is what I eat. This is what I don't eat and enforce accept it and if they bring out the wrong food them to stuff skip a meal that's okay said no no thanks I appreciate that I can eat that you and this do like that hysterically by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. The lines are open for 87884. Let's go to Steve again and in Connecticut so Steve if if you are in a group of people in all drank beer but you stood your drunkard and got delivered from it. You stay away from it overcomes here to say hey I I don't drink if they're all smoking cigarettes used to hey I don't do it well. The effects of obesity the health effects of obesity are far far far far far worse statistically than the health effects of of smoking cigarettes or or or and alcohol so in any case like that. We just have to make rigid choices and then once people get used to it, then then they're fine with it and if you don't want to inconvenience anyone just to have won't be eating or or just a just have a guess if you got me through the house all have that you just have your salary or other meal before you get to the place were you going, but when when I travel and speak churches often want to know okay for the hotel room which they have, you know, because I have a stack basket to the when you're in your room so the old as it used to be pretzels.

It used to be chocolate and things like that. Where is now, it's your fruits and then we just tell them to make sure I have some giant salads went out and then I personally travel with other things. I travel with beings or travel with outgoing Israel doubling tomorrow night and I'll be back about in a one-piece luggage with healthy food stuff that I bring with me so you have to make choices is most of the culture is not in harmony with this but when you do. It's wonderful life-changing. If you look at it as a medical thing. Life and death issue. Then you make the choices, and others will will readily accept those choices okay basically you're saying number one this is my life. I gotta serve God have to be healthy. This is destroyed my life thought it important that weight and number two is a problem in my life so I knew I would need to avoid it anywhere right now. Just like I would alcohol or any other application yeah and I look food addictions are much rougher than other addictions because we have to food every 80 that suits is worse than drug addictions. Alcohol addictions in certain ways because say when I was doing drugs and I quit doing drugs and 71 by God's grace when I want to restaurant they went off me heroin what went right on the plane to fly the they went off me.

LSD right but for example fly back from California the other day I got upgraded so when first-class it's maybe 4 1/2 hour flight so they come by with little clay of nuts so I decline those because they're salted and I have my own notes that I travel with that are not soft, it signaled the salt to taste better yet they taste better and there were streets I got used unsalted on our insults.

Then they serve a meal and it had all kinds of cheese and other stuff that I don't eat so I did. I decline the meal and I had just a small snack that I did.

I didn't need a meal than any anyway. Then they come by with roles while I used to love rolls and bread. My favorite in-flight roles pretzel roles so the come of principles of literary right in front of my face.

Would you like Pretzer about no thanks you know them within a drenched in butter, but would love that, and then afterwards after the meal they come by with a really good looking piece of chocolate cake. I mean, it looked like it was really delicious and I said no thanks and the flight attendant with like are you sure are you sure you don't you don't want that. So all of us go. Thanks and just just smiled while the. The point the point I'm making is is that it's say to myself was attempted at all, but I was sinless of you.

This is very different. This is very different than the than other issues because it's right in front of you. But once you make the lifestyle change and then look at it like an addict.

I don't play games with. We know so many people that lost weight and gained it back and that's and I would just talk about it. We've got a recognizer, food out of definition is many people said I know how important this is.

I know how big this is. But I like my food.

Think of that was something else. Your married man. Your aunt attempted to commit adultery with some gal next door you see I like I love my wife. I love the Lord. I love my kids but I'm really into this lady now and that is a believer would do that you know if you still at your job.

You could you could have access to hundred thousand dollars, and so on site yet, but I'm a believer. I will do that because the food we know it's wrong and we overindulge and we cut our lives short and then the will of the years we have or are more difficult to live.

One of my friends a pastor and a 66 with the other day. You know, some people spent the last 20 years of the lies dying in and it's very sensory tragic event happens, but it's even more tragic and sad when it's because of choices we made, so I look at it like that. Steve and I think you'll do well and hopefully the incentive and encouragement in our books will help. So God bless you.

May God give you grace to live this out and the book is referring to breaking the stronghold of food we continue to get wonderful reviews from people whose lives have been dramatically and wonderfully changed and we are deeply deeply grateful breaking the stronghold of food. The name of the book that's and I rode together all right. We go to Middletown, Delaware, totally welcome to the line of fire by currently right on time and let know I live a good group, though I'm not wasting the 20-year-old daughter. About 21 and had a child in November and now both of the father the child has talked her into moving into play ill and I am totally against that you know most of the point where portly, I almost want to get violent with the guy, but I know that you and I got a bike that act and not my brother Ernie that well you know the story of the prodigal live with you about that. You know the loving father not on when I read that it really doesn't say that the father was in agreement with the you know the prodigal son of the without while behaving.

I don't have to still love you need from God and thought how you know how I handle the field. If the weight yeah it's it's difficult Tony and I'm sorry that you are going through that many of us raising kids with your kids go through times of rebellion. Our older daughter Lisa, the light in this great member of her family with her husband and their two kids when she was a teenager she will give us a lot of trouble and and it was very challenging and she can outgrew some of the things in God we establish certain foundations and in her life and we have a distal wonderful wonderful relationship with her today but many go through challenges some serious challenges the kids of the fund drugs, kids of different jail kids in the pregnant out of wedlock and things like that but it's all the redeemed Tony which you want to look at is the bigger larger picture, not the temporary situation. So this is what I would suggest the number one issue. If your daughter getting right with God and that is that.

And she's old enough to make her own decisions on these issues as well of.

There was one situation I know of where the daughter was not living for God. The boyfriend that she was going to be marrying was going to live together with her and the father said if you want my blessing in your relationship, get out of there and he did II know the situation like that personally. Even though neither of them at that time serving the Lord. He honored the father's wishes, there with this I could be in. In every case by any means whatsoever, so number one biggest issue is her relationship with God. What can be done to help her really get right with God's number one number two. What can you do to preserve a good strong relationship with her, and number three what you do to minister to her boyfriend to try to leave him to the Lord.

Those of the biggest things, whether they're living together or not. This is not as big of an issue. I know it's grievous. I understand that if their phone around sleep together and do what you doing that. They didn't find ways to do that anyway there in an environment here where he's taking an interest in one student to be around his his girlfriend and child so she hasn't run away.

You know the essence and and and he saying come to my place, so there's some level of one of the support so even though it's the other living together and said I understand all of that. The biggest thing I would say again is the relationship with God and your relationship with your daughter. If you feel the guy is going to be that bad an influence on her, and it's only gonna drag her down, then obviously pleased with your daughter and you do your best to show her why it's not a good idea, but otherwise it's it's not the end of the world. If it happens and the best thing would be preserve your relationship with her and try to lead her and him ideally to the Lord. All right, well, good. God loves directly on more than flesh and anger have yelled cut off and this is the Lord right as a kid I was not sleeping with sensitive boyfriend when standing in the spirit and then if there's a real warning about it, you'll be able to share with� Is not the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH paradigm is Dr. Michael Brown back the line of fire Michael Brown delighted to be with you 866-34-TRUTH if you think of it. I pray for us for a few days traveling to Israel gobbling Saturday night Sunday and then do our Israel tour and all going smoothly coming your way every night next week from Israel. Some from Galilee, some from Jerusalem, but live from Israel as live as we can be will have a little live audience. Some of the folks on the tour that want to sit in and watch the broadcast and things like that it's it's always special to do something with this very special hardly ever get to do it so jointly all next week. Live from Israel, gobbling 866-34-TRUTH. Let's go to Mike and Tampa Florida. Welcome to the line of fire. Dr. Brown, Vic McCall of the show that so my question is regard. Like you will and predesignated and allowing a friend of mine and I are having a good gushing about and wondering what your take is on the R&B like we all like men. Note we choose to turn away or do we have to have a response both to accept him or be fired.

Quote make a decision for him to follow him or we decide to turn away so the ministry? If you're just reading through the Bible right are you being confronted over and over and over and over with choices that you need to make. This is the right thing. This is the wrong thing to do the right thing, don't do the wrong thing would you say that that's throughout the whole Bible.

Yes, I would write would you say that there's anything in the Bible that says don't worry about choosing the choices are to be made for you. The verse in Romans by One of those something about you know with that followed along the lines of predestination/elect race or anything though that directly tell someone in the back. Talk about a theological statement, but that tells someone you don't need to worry about making a choice. The choice already been made know I would is not certainly not certain that so let's start there from the viewport skews me of our responsibility.

The Bible's crystal clear. We have a responsibility to respond, and if we don't we judge not a Calvinist someone who believes in predestination would certainly agree with that. Okay, they would they would certainly agree that we must respond and that we never tell someone will.

The choice has already been made.

So, from a practical viewpoint. I don't need to speculate about predestination when I need to do is respond properly it. In other words, in other words, let's say I actually believed that 10 cars driving down the road are going to fall into a ditch today, and 10 cars driving down the road won't we have no idea what cars they are all we know is that their constant warnings. Watch out slippery when wet.

Watch out short-term drive carefully and and and before we get the car the voice of God says to us drive carefully. That's all I need to know right. If I drive carefully above those cars that doesn't fall into the ditch. So the first thing is overwhelmingly through Scripture were told to choose choose choose choose choose choose literally from Genesis to Revelation. Without exception, go through the preaching in the book of acts, without exception, repent, turn, repent you don't, your responsibility over and over and over and over. Then we know that there are other verses that speak about being elect or being predestined so look at it like this, God has chosen to have a people in Jesus before the world ever began. He made a plan. We're knowing that people would fall. He did make them fall knowing the human race would fall set in motion before the foundation of the world. The solution to that the antidote to that, namely that his son would die for the sins of the world and the Bible is very clear about and die for the sins of the world.

Since a Jew and Gentile the sins of all of us the sins of each person to use different terms are used in the Bible that Jesus died for the sins of the world so that those that put their trust in him and those that looked him salvation for salvation would be infallibly saved and obviously God extends his love to the whole world. Those who respond are now in Jesus and those in Jesus have a certain destiny so look at it like this. There's an ocean to cross and God is determined that there will be a massive ship filled with people that will cross that ocean that is their destiny there predestined on that ship to cross that ocean who gets on the ship or off the ship's is up to the human beings we can refuse God's grace and we cannot get on the ship.

We can refuse God's grace and jump off the ship into the water. But if we respond to God's grace and said yes Lord have mercy on me, save me, forgive me then that ship will get us infallibly to the other side and that is being predestined in the Messiah and in the Messiah. There is a people we are elect in him outside of him. We are not elect. So again, on a practical level it's very simple pray for God to save people.

We then reach out and do it we know how to do to share the gospel, trusting to God's power and then we call on people to respond.

And we ourselves know that we can say yes or no to God on a daily basis in terms of disobedience or obedience. We know that is called us to obedience government, working women who no longer met on the worker work right just because those are actually doing something to know what the Scripture is a criminal elevation or were that there that's that's a false Calvinist argument that the Bible categorically teaches against that. If it's faith it's not a work Romans is very clear and that if it's faith is not a work. The work would be. I fasted 40 days and God save the work would be II have no witness to 100 people this year. Gobble say B.that is works. The work would be of The Sabbath flawlessly for the last year that would be works, but to put my trust in Jesus to save me from my sin is grace through faith and pauses explicitly because it's grace because it's faith. It's not a work okay great thank you so much for the detail.

Thank you, sure thing that this might what I'd encourage you to do is go to my website. The line of fire.org and in the digital library search for white and Bennett you be able watch several of my debates with Dr. James White on Calvinism and with Pastor Bruce Bennett you be able to watch those debates so that's the line of fire.org when you there. Just search for white and search for Bennett and if you do it in the video library for doing the video library then you'll be able to you be able to watch the debates that we have also done radio shows with Dr. White.

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Can't wait to answer questions right now right here on the line of fire stage for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH. That's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown, welcome to the modifier friends. It is my joy to be gobbling when you next hear my voice on the radio be live from Israel Monday and Galilee, which would be Monday night Israel time, but will be regular time to be live with you. Take your calls. Talk about the latest breaking news and always broadcasting from Israel to bring something from Israel to the table. 866-34-TRUTH I'm going straight to the phones what you think of that we start with Bellini in Greensboro, North Carolina answer: the line of fire. Yes Brown thank you you're welcome to question John Before all the blood updated you out your father now. My question Jewish warship God Yahweh right yeah so when Jesus said that what got him they warship the jukebox all not to do for me. Yes, very clearly first thing Bellini.

He's not talking to all Jews terminologies he's talking to those who heard his word and rejected him.

So, for example, he would not say that to his Jewish apostles as Jewish followers is through his disciples that the many, many thousands that followed him doing say that but to those who rejected and would say that now that's in common blend with all human beings. First John 519 says we are of God, little children in the whole world lies in the power of the evil one so lost human beings. The most devoted Muslim the kindest atheist.

The most religious Jew. Whoever this person is if they don't know God through Jesus the Messiah.

They are in some way under the sway of the enemy in some way captive some way blinded so they don't see the light of salvation and maybe have other issues with Eliza being dominated by sin and dominated by the flesh. So in that sense, yes, religious Jew, religious Muslim, sincere, atheist, devoted, Buddhist, Hindu, that does not know God, because they do not know Jesus the Messiah. They are of their father the devil in terms of there will be aspects of their lives that will be fleshly and sinful and destructive and their notions of God will be destroyed. It's about now religious Jew, contrary to a Muslim does pray to God a vibrant Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the God of the Bible is different than the God of the Quran and contrary to a say of a follower of both say it's a Hindu, then I praying to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

So in that sense traditional Jew is much closer. My rabbi friends are sincerely praying to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, and they believe that my beliefs are wrong and erroneous I would say that's because they are deceived. That's because in that sense there into the sway of the evil one but doesn't mean that all their conceptions of God are wrong doesn't mean that all their beliefs about God are wrong doesn't mean that when they pray there praying to the devil, not to God, no, doesn't mean that at all and Paul's words, they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge, and that would be the best way to understand this seal for God, not according to knowledge and their sinful traits of their lives. That is because they dislike all of us outside of Jesus or of our father the devil, as far as those traits if we lie because we are descended spiritually in some way under the power of some way.

The father of lies and on and on it goes from there. I appreciate your questions and request the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown one address listing all over America. In particular, all of you listening all over our great stations in North Carolina. We want to talk about something it's affecting the nation affecting North Carolina. Specifically, and it has to do with transgender issues has to do with bathroom laws HB to the state of California has now issued a ban. If you would certain public universities like California State University, publicly funded universities. You cannot use public funds to travel to certain states that are supposedly anti-LGBT Mississippi, North Carolina, other states yeah the NFL and the NBA are threatening the state of Texas is if you have laws that a man who identifies this woman can't use the woman's bathroom or locker room and really take advance out of your estate going to grab Greg Abbott is said you focus on solving your problems and let us govern the state of Texas. You focus on on sports let us take care of of the state of Pres. Obama with Atty. Gen. Jeff sessions have reversed Pres. Susan Pres. Trump with Atty. Gen. sessions have reversed the ridiculous change of law, with the guidance set forth by the Obama administration and Department of Justice saying that biological sex, actually equals gender identity in the law, and that if the state would not allow a 17-year-old boy who identifies as a girl to share the girls locker room and bathroom and plan to go sports team that that state could potentially be penalized billions of dollars now the trumpet administration said let that be decided by each state is put things back to where they should be.

With that we go to our friend and colleague Tammy Fitzgerald was North Carolina values coalition hey Tammy what's going on. That's of special interest to the folks in North Carolina named Dr. Brown thank you for inviting me on your Saturday I'm wrong on bathroom private safety and not just for the right people of faith to live and work according to their ability, your count at Republicans in the state legislature are starting crumpling caveman and I'm what we thought happened last week with the building File to do a full repeal of house built to and replace it with them at the really a provision that did create the ability for city like Charlotte path or anything like Charlotte all over the state that what they're calling at bay cortical compromise, but really it.

The capitulation and you know North Carolina has led the nation in enacting, and protection for children's privacy and now the trumpet administration integrate with Arbeiter and the candidate federal trumpet adopted last week North Carolina law house built to remain more vital than ever because ever to strip away privacy protections are beginning to ship the state level. Under current policy right so what how far has this gone, how concerned should the folks in North Carolina be one of them file the file back to Republican to Democrat and sent it was filed 12 more Republican find on cosponsors and it looks apparent that the Republican the primary font.

The Republican McGrady from Henderson Hendersonville. I'm sorry and that it looks to me like planning to give Democrat to help him get repeal voted on and over to so all they really need is about 15 bad that I had all the Democrat in order to pass and now it looks like I don't know about there not because federal Democrats have come out against it because it's not stronger now. According to Dan that it will be interesting to see if they can put together the better they need any thinking mind that, and I have 46 Democrat and right now 14 Republican Petfinder if all the Democrats voted for it and I got one more Republican have a nap path.

It I so what you folks do live in North Carolina. Tammy nation immediately call their state house representative and asked him not to repeal out the and not developed for this new repeal effort, which is called House Bill 186 and we do not want people comment barrel or for the bill because it of repeal and not what they replaced it with almost as bad a full repeal. We are asking people to call their house representative or to email them and made it very easy for people to do this if you got to religious freedom.live you'll feel way to email or call your state house member very easily look up that they are not. I just give that website one more time.

Religious freedom.live right and then insert once again to build that were talking about give that that information yet now important people do this and find a day because the MPAA given North Carolina, March 1 to repeal house built and even then this is an ultimatum and really extortion on the part of the sport organization that enjoy tax-exempt status.

Apparently some Republicans are prepared to keep the instructions that the MPAA and felt it important.

People make a phone call in the email out right away. Now Tuesday night at 730 we have our Facebook live town hall where we started this past week, featuring victim at the local sexual orientation and gender identity, blog find one path in Charlotte, you shall people real live story at real victim at the law near people in North Carolina for placement in a sort of thing out of it going on here but never happened here when you hear the story like we did last week Jack Philip Baker is really a cake artist in Denver. He had a lot of gay people in it. But when a gay couple came in and asked him to do a wedding cake. He said I can't do it if I like my faith and evening for a better state of Colorado under law, just exactly like Charlotte and he can't believe everything is okay and in the court right now this coming think I will be talking to the lark, a couple from Minnesota you are in the videography business and what we want people in North Carolina to understand is that there are real victim to the law and if not, I think that we keep out warning about it really does happen. People who have been hacked by the laws and really only persecuted by their own government handling the lot.

Yeah, this is referred to it as bullying is exactly what it is and is coming from the government.

A one last time, give that website. Tammy it's related freedom.live and where you can find application to send an email to your legislator or you can make a phone call let your legislator know you want and again House Bill 186 which would be a full repeal of house built to God and I all clear. Tammy, thanks for calling in folks that listing older North Carolina do this get word out you friends let's raise our voices make a difference. Much appreciated. Thank you, Dr. Brown sure thing.

All right 866-34-TRUTH 87884 is a wash we pick on transgendered not pick on transgendered were simply saying that if a man identifies is one that does not give him the right to the woman's bathroom to the women's locker room to the woman's shower stalls, said YMCA and that we have to be concerned about everyone else who said what about the person identifies transgendered while the deaf have some issues and let's see what we do to help them but you don't help them by imposing their struggles on everyone else in the society clear, 866-34-TRUTH. Let's go to Raleigh, North Carolina Mary, welcome to the line of fire. Hi Dr. Brown and I felt grateful for the work you do thing I question my question to you. I think a lot of creatures online and Iranian kid.

This man called Dr. Michael Heiser and Heiser and done a study on the Bible talking about divine counsel of God in the Bible as to where John, 34, it calculated is it not written in your lot.

I tag you are you are God and exposed to correlate with Psalm 82 and I was wondering what your thoughts were. He'd heard anything like that. Not sure I'd encourage you first to listen to some of the entries have had with Dr. Heiser on the show so you do that Mary go to the line of fire.org the line of fire.org and click on listen and just search for Heiser's policy for several hours. Listen to all of her interaction to be pretty clear he believes in one God and one God is that there is a spiritual well there are other beings who have been worshiped as gods and look to divine beings that we deal with that scripture error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown got questions, we've got answers phone lines are open 86 rate 7884 so Mary just going back to explain a couple things. Dr. Hodges been on. We talked about his book the unseen realm we met face-to-face the other day I was getting on the shuttle train in the Dallas airport with my assistant, Dylan. We were between terminals and there is a tall guy there about that. My heart maybe slightly taller with baseball cap on and said hi to me and at first and recognize and of course Michael Heiser's first time we met face-to-face, but I since it was so funny is that the stuff that we all know, just as Old Testament arranging recent scholars is kind of a discovery to others so think of this, Mary.

Exodus 15 after the splitting of the sea and God bring the children of Israel out. Moses is who is like you oh Lord among the gods right it was understood that there were many different gods that the people worship. Exodus 2010 commandments don't have any other gods before me.

So there were other beings that the people worshiped. You might call them fall in angelic powers or demonic powers are just the creation of people's all minds, but those were that were creations of people surmise that there are spiritual beings. Ephesians 6 talks about the warfare that we have with demonic principalities and powers and things like that and sometimes these other beings are referred to as Elohim gods with a small G and behind these gods is demonic power and on the flipside, the Angels can also be looked at as divine beings because there also spiritual beings, in and of that that nature. So that's why Job one speaks about God and and they are the sons of God come before him, and Satan, among them the adversary among them, so the interpretation of John 10 is interesting going back to Tucson 82. What's Jesus actually saying there they say you're upset with me be called son of God, but your own Scripture calls you gods in that sense by talking about the earthly rulers of the Israelites who have been appointed by God and are also called Elohim the same word so Elohim can mean God with the G Elohim can mean God's the small G of war. Elohim could sometimes refer to earthly judges and and leaders and that's part of what Psalm 82 is is going back to, but God sits in a heavenly counsel. We know that there are opposing spiritual forces in the spiritual realm, but he alone is God. He alone is the creator. He's the only one whose eternal brought all things into existence. So he is different in that sense from every other so-called God right for a couple days like you need start remembering the first time the Bible got in a lying spirit on by. I just was hoping that I wasn't following some wacko and now I know he's easy. It's really good and really good yeah and everybody listen to me listen to him. You don't necessarily believe every last thing we see you testify Scripture but again Friday key thing is the key thing is there's only one true God. The only one whose eternal and uncreated. Everything else is created and and is not worthy of being called God in the fullest sense of the world. Words also understand that were good and we all agree on that and there's a lot to learn from Dr. Heiser for sure he thank you for the call. Much appreciated. 866-34-TRUTH we go to Greensboro. It will we go to, you will go to Greensboro Rob walking to light a fire all all all calculus speak speak right to the phone speak up on it any better yesterday seven yeah I wanted to tell the international all my life my going all along Illinois. Think about it and found out more go all the way. Maybe you element going up in the national Bible. You might begin the light on how they can be long, white important but don't bet on sure what I would. I'm not intimately familiar with them.

Apparently their breakaway group from the churches of Christ in general. I I would estimate a few questions do they recognize that there are other believers equally saved with eternal life. Though be with God forever that are outside of their movement. That's the first thing they say no obviously you know that's they've revealed the cultlike nature of their beliefs. If they said if they recognize that there are those who are outside of their sphere were genuinely born again okay that's that's one that's positive number two asked them how we justified in God's sight.

If they say that we are justified through faith in Jesus, followed by baptism we select okay. We agree that baptism is important, but when the word says were justified by faith in the word calls us to repent and believe. Yes, baptism is important. Baptism is essential.

Most churches underestimate the importance of it, but you asked them on what basis are we baptized if they if they argue that your excuse you on what basis are we justified if they argue that you are only justified when you are baptized.

Then again, there is a spiritual error that were dealing with their and then asked them or they say by faith or by their works to simple questions to ask and hopefully you'll find true believers among them, and you know II just don't know how extreme they are, they may be fine folks. I just I don't know okay but they they may also have some of the cultlike tendencies of Church of Christ. This Church of Christ is totally liberal that hardly leaves the authority of Scripture is still supports gay marriage and I kind of thing and then there's the more conservative Church of Christ, but they have some other errors that are mixed in. In the midst of it warm will allow law law from all the more the more long about long gone, but will not only the one normal mall, although law will on wall. Yeah, for a moment, yet not known that not closely but you just ensure Rob it's the cultlike tendency of we alone are right it is what you be an emphasis on works and it's what can be an overemphasis on baptism alloy agree with them that baptism is fundamentally commanded that if it should be part and parcel of our salvation experience that we truly turn to the Lord in faith that by his grace we turn away from sin and the first thing that we should do as as genuine believers is be baptized, but we do that as genuine believers and that's why Annex the 10th chapter of Cornelius and his household. They were saved and speaking in tongues before they were baptized.

Baptism is important. Essential, but we are saved by faith. Baptism thank you call it's the line of fire with your host