You’ve For Questions, We’ve Got Answers

Was Friday. That means you've got questions, we've got answers. Let's do it. I am ready to stage for the line of fire with your host activist all the 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.

I love our Friday broadcasts on the line for you.

I love every day. I enjoy every day broadcast on one far, but I have a blast on Friday to answer your questions on a wide range of subjects and some days it can range from intense personal question to an abstract theological question to him how far out cultural question back to a practical biblical spiritual questioning and all-around and it is a joy to dive into the word together with you and to answer your questions so anything you want to ask me anything in any area of expertise. I have you got my personal invitation Michael Brown.

Yours truly give me a call 866-34-TRUTH 7884 if you differ with something I've said rather getting worked up over it. Angry about it posting on the Internet blast to me, that may blast away I get the day and night.

This is fine. Comes with the territory, but that have a constructive conversation that you think you're so sure I'm so wrong, so just posted today misunderstood by positional grace proposed that I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing and I'm cursed and I feel bad for people that are that mistaken, that misguided and sometimes downright blind but rather than post something is completely erroneous that you'll be embarrassed for posting later. Especially when you see the degree of blessing that I live under from my wonderful heavenly father that invented it to call. It's okay to disagree with you on this point or I take issue on this or could you clarify this. That's one reason we do live radio as opposed to having a teaching ministry on the nine do that on TV.

I can teach preaching TV settings and things like that. And of course I'd teach and preach around the world in Montgomery Alabama. Few Auch and I'll be speaking at a leadership conference, but the reason that we don't just have a teaching ministry on the air is because we love the live interaction now there so many find teaching ministries as well that are doing a great job. We don't we don't have a burden to you as if no one is doing anything, but we feel there's unique role to play in life talk radio on these Christian networks. So here we are for you. You have a number. Call 866-34-TRUTH. That's 8663 freight 7884. I've also got some email questions that I want to get to and where I want us start.

Oh let's see here, Rachel asks my good friend who claims to be a Christian is in an unhappy marriage with an unbeliever. She says divorces a lot of two people are unequally yoked.

I can't seem to find Scripture back this up and have a feeling she is wrong and this can you shed some insight into where she's getting this information from. Thank you all. Second Corinthians 614 says being not unequally yoked with unbelievers it so that is in many different ways and respects. We are not to make that choice to do that. However, Paul is explicit. First Corinthians 7. He is explicit. If you're married to a nonbeliever and the nonbeliever wants to stay with you. Do not leave. He is explicit.

It's it is an exhortation from Paul from God for us in first Corinthians the seventh chapter that if the unbeliever wants to stay, then you do not depart from them and he says find out how do you know a wife with you might save your husband or how do you know husband whether you might save your wife. If any woman has a husband was an unbeliever and he consents to live with her she should not divorce in first Corinthians 713 for the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children be unclean, but as it is they are holy. If the unbelieving partner separates that it be so. In such cases, the brother sister is not enslaved. I was holding piece for how do you know wife you will save your husband or how do you know husband you will save your life risk within 713 through 16 explicit explicit for cleansing by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown, welcome to the broadcast. You got questions, God answers Michael Brown delighted to be with you.

866348784. Haven't gotten any email questions the separatist one we get to another one before we go to the phones. This is Bill I'm 65 years old and have until recently practiced homosexuality. Most of my life I can recite tangible and concrete examples of the price. I have paid for this, mostly in the factory. For the most part I have entered my old age alone with no spouse or children. Nobody even to do ordinary things like make funeral arrangements. When I die look after me. When I get too feeble to care for myself. Not only that is in my blood relatives are mostly way older than me and will possibly pass away before I do it if not by totally identifying and immersing myself in the gay lifestyle until a return to Christianity recently not very close to my brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews. Now though, since homosexuality is so accepted and gays are allowed to marry things of change for the younger generation the can marriage and not have to worry about being rejected by their families. The question is that how does one convince a friend of the gay lifestyle is wrong. Used to be that you could point out all the loneliness and lack of family ties and raising a family of her own, but now all about all that you can use point out that the Bible says it's in any thoughts and hints on how to save some of my gay friends from this mistake bill of thanks thanks for writing.

Thanks for your your openness and I'm so sad to hear the struggles that that you've gone through.

Thank God you come back to the faith and the Lord will warmly welcome you and I encourage you to do your best to make new friends and a congregation because that's where your supports can come from as people come to know you and love you and embrace you that that's going to be your support network. Those will be the people to pray with you those of people to help you and work with you as you get older and you have needs and if you're in a good healthy church.

Many of them will have ministry that helps the elderly and those in the end, and sometimes there even church homes that people could could get into with with no government funds and things and of Social Security or whatever so also on the practical level, I'd encourage you to be part of a healthy fellowship where there are folks that can get involved in your life hate your 65 agenda standard and not a moral and it's it's it's wise to think about these things. That being said, Bill, you can still use your own story because nobody stopped you from having a long-term relationship with another man that could've been there with you through the years. In other words, there is still an instability in gay relationships, more so than in in straight relationships. It's there and straight relationships to but well documented more unstable and gay relationships, including lesbian the baby more male promiscuity. But you do have instability more so in lesbian relationships than straight relationships as well fairly well documented semi dispute on ideological grounds, but it's fairly well documented and ultimately the compatibility between a man and woman, this can be different to the compatibility between two men or two women, so I still believe that you're going to have many gay men as they get older that are still going to be experiencing loneliness even if there there young today when they get older there still a culture that perhaps can put more of an emphasis on outward appearance and things like that. And I've I've read stories for the gay manager so they find it harder to get partners are harder to define sexual partners as they got older. They want is desirable and it's something that can be less common in heterosexual settings. We have a better chance of a longer term relationship so first I think your story is more relevant than you realize and will continue to be more relevant. Secondly, the health risks are are very real. It continues to be documented. There's really no dispute of it that there's much much much higher percentage of sexy trance minute diseases among among gay men than straight men and that there even heightened problems that lesbian women have compared to heterosexual women is not exactly the same parallel but you do have these issues coming up.

You also have a relatively small percentage of the gay community. It's actually want to quote get married, especially among the men and then still a small percentage that's actually seeking to raise children and it's much more difficult. I can't just naturally conceive so here you're not going to have the same family dynamic.

It's just not going to be there because it's not going to be the your story is still going to be relevant, and then you can say there's a reason that God made man for women and women from and you can still sure honestly about your own life your own relationships. You can still ask the question, is it best for a kid to be deprived of their biological mother or their biological father by the choice of those bringing them into the world by the choice of those adopted in single never have a mother or you'll never have a father. Is that right is that fair is that best so I still coming from those angles and then of course bottom-line God is against it for anyone that has any consciousness of God.

That's important, but Bill may God give you grace. May you find a caring, loving family that can be with you godly friends at a stand with you in the coming days. 866-34-TRUTH a let's go to JD in Durham, North Carolina. Thanks for calling the line of fire are cupcake in my pocket) I want to find out from biblical point of view that it there election. I think going on it.well, if a difficult allotment of Corolla I nation mean the pregnancy what Hillary running and I had another equipment like you got another caller go ahead and answer the question to the request out. I live in the city of Durham apart and I would like to know if I'm starting to play and I will really last night in the morning if you want in the Durham area on your phone out on sheet they know where it they would meet me tomorrow 10 through 12 at 10 to 11 and we just pray my church is not really clear about prayer, but I am at it. They want to do that on Hillsborough on this sheet on your Corel hobby to filter and read drafts and out. I appreciate that I may, I am just on I thank you for your your shall I meet you UT. I don't even do talk radio anymore market I want to go to power a of an object encouraging brother Victor Weber. If you are listening and down you know you around sheet microcontroller tomorrow and we can play fair in English and thank you for allowing FedEx but yet I didn't really not an icon at the badger, I'm glad, glad to answer, and I'm glad that you find this to be on talk radio with power obviously our foundation is in the work and by the way, just the nature of the show can normally allow announcements and things like that but I am glad that prayer announcement went out.

I'm glad that my dear sister in the red dress is calling people to to pray and that's that's our most foundational most important calling of all. So does the Bible speak against women as potential presidents in general should we say it would be judgment on us to have a woman as president. Well, God has raised up godly women like Deborah in the Bible is the exception. As we see we've not had a woman president. Yet around the world you have your Golda Meir was prime minister of Israel, but that was the one so far there been some female prime minister's in India and Pakistan but that's not the rule worldwide.

So the rule is normally going to be male headship and I believe that that that is the normal pattern male governmental headship. That's why the vast majority of pastors are man.

That's why the vast majority of of heads of state nations are meant but not exclusively God can raise up godly women like Deborah and certainly Margaret Thatcher was a great leader in England and and I would compare her favorably to most of the last mail presidents we've had an American citizen.

Margaret Thatcher was a better stronger leader than they were all right.

So, that being that being said, God could easily raise up a woman to lead America and if I saw a godly woman called and anointed by God, I could very easily vote for that person.

My objection to Hillary Clinton is not that she's a woman. My objection is that she's radical liberal that she is totally pro-Planned Parenthood and sanctions abortion if it's allegedly needed right up to the last minute before delivery of a nine month old baby in the womb. She has upset many nations in Africa by pushing America's gay agenda of radical gay agenda on African nations and on and on. So, it's because of who she is and then whatever degree of corruption and compromise.

There is in the Clinton family, so I cannot possibly vote for her.

Not because she's a woman, but because of the kind of woman she is, because of the things she stands for and believes if we had a godly woman candidate. Let's say that there is just switching for second let's say that it was a godly woman running for the Democratic nomination and the Democratic platform is godly Republican candidate is compromised." Woman in my case, I thank you for asking the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 86. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you so much for joining us on the line of fire at 866 is number to call. You've got questions, we've got answers, 866-348-7884. Let's go to Kim in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Thanks for calling the line of fire coming from her current chapter. Versus 1617 W. talking about the waterworks but is expanding. It says that we, the temple, God, and if it is damaging their guy would destroy any believer. I guess that the files that you dumping your talking about the automated and not saying that I believe that the father's heart. God would destroy that believer know that I appreciate you taking it seriously and and asking that what what's being spoken of their is a little different in first Corinthians 6 first Corinthians 6 says that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit speaking of an individual believer and therefore we have to keep ourselves free from sexual immorality and things like that in first Corinthians 3 he's talking in the plural that we as a people are God's temple. Okay, so he's not talking to an individual about our body being the temple of the spirit, but rather that we as God's people or the temple. We are the body of Christ we are the temple.

We are the house in which the Holy Spirit dwells. So to say right instead of an earthly physical temple.

We the people of God and of the temple. If someone tries to destroy God's people.

If someone tries to destroy the church. Gobble destroy that person. That's what's being said, there also some translations read don't you realize that all of you to gather that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you gobble destroy anyone who destroys this temple for God's temple is holy and you are that temple.

So if there are people who are trying to destroy the church. Someone may be of radically trying to destroy the church or pull people into more immorality and they are actively working to destroy God's people gobble ultimately destroyed that person.

That's what's being said there are. You are very welcome 8663 freight 78840 we go to Fort Worth, Texas will walk into the line of fire and Dr. Brown are are very well thank you and I've got a question for you want a personal level and try to frame it in a way that makes them redundant and let me know it is hard for me to Hold up together, but I've been I've been a believer dollars around 20 I'm now going on 43 out over the quarter, went from being having a strong temple made that would very fundamental to China when it moved into more kind of a critical viewing of the Bible and it really researching in our time. You know II battle with all the different controversy. I think it up� I built up what he believed to be, three dental foundation for my fate and one would from from a biological and ecological standpoint.

I learned I had a lot of the college and kind of in my career path and so I'm I'm big on intelligent design movement anyone object, but all I think it fooling themselves if they think that that the function of an accident. The second secondarily I don't really dug into the Old Testament and I literally pen mark every statement, not just the reverse. But every time that the Lord talked about the ingathering it in in you looking at the history of Israel and and in in what is happening transpired.

1948 again for me that beyond the scope of An incomplete mark miracle that was my second kind of foundation and then thirdly, I again look at the pop like a day, 49, are they could be three and I logically conclude that Jesus is the Messiah, though II feel like I've got this empirical data that I can you, you know, the hard kind of fact, at least in my but at the same time. I know my walk had been there, and though I'm trying to understand now from more of the experiential fate of of walking through Christ we have had one. How do I get that babe I get my backed up against the wall or when the crisis. And in life. Am I gonna have the kind of faith that that I'm supposed to have. I don't feel that right now for some reason yet one is exactly so and we can we can analyze this together is like going to a doctor and telling them your symptoms and he sees enough people and he can tell you K this is the problem here is how we address it. So, you've done well in fortifying fortify your mind you've done well and having these. It's almost like someone climbing up a mountain. And they've got the gonna rock holes here. They've got something they can hold onto and so that's solid that you can build on that and it's good to do that. It's good to know that that that all the evidence points towards intelligent designer. It's good to know that the scattering and regathering of Israel has no logical explanation. It's good to know that God laid out in advance key prophecies about Jesus the Messiah.

That's good to know.

Basically you've convinced yourself that the water is really water your standing on the diving board by the pool and you've convinced yourself that's not a mirage of that. That is real water. There now what you need to do is jump now what you need to do is completely give yourself over to God because he Israel because he is true because were lost sinners without a because Jesus died to save us so that we would be in relationship with God forever. It would be like to give you another analogy you've convinced yourself that your wife is not cheating on you were afraid she was. But you now have empirical evidence that in fact she wasn't. That doesn't mean that you have a good relationship with her. Now you need to spend quality time with her. Now you need to be a godly husband and and and enjoy your wife and be a blessing to her. So what you really need to do now is get to know God on that on an intimate level. See how you do that you pour out your heart to him in prayer you talk to him like you'd be talking to me yet alone, but it's taking a walk with her schedule in your room and and and shutting the lights and turn yourself off and you talk to God, you pour out your heart, you sure it's going on your life. You thank him for his goodness.

Things like that and then you taken the word not just for information not just for intellectual verification but you taken the word so that you can really understand who he is.

You can really understand what he desires and requires you meditate on Scripture you pray through passages.

I found it useful at times, actually read the word on my knees out loud and as I was reading to turn each chapter into prayer father understand this. Lord help me to walk this out. Show me what this really mean show me how to please you and as you do that and then also give yourself to worship and praise and things like that you will find that you will get deeply involved with the Lord, and experiential way and their their books have been written on experiencing God and knowing God that their valuable but ultimately this is how it's done. You build a quality relationship by spending quality time and it sure as jumping off that diving board into the water, which lacks just as surely spending quality time with God in your heart. Take just going for letting go. Give yourself over him. You will get to know him experiential.

All right, Douglas will it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 6643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome welcome to the broadcast.

It is writing.

That means you've got questions, we've got answers. 866-34-TRUTH is in the call 86687884II was talking to someone very close to her family.

Some years ago they were appointed teenager wanting to really surrender fully to the Lord. But knowing there was some rebellion in their heart. They were concerned. We got really hear them what God really embrace them that cometh out there on the outside and I said put your feet in the water and you will get with put your feet in the water and you will get with their something about taking the plunge. There's something about stepping out of your comfort zone saying yes to the Lord's will reason that we often have altar calls us to say. Step out from where you are and make that conscious move forward like Jesus telling someone stand up on your feet are stretch out your hands or that kind of thing the roots take your step of faith and obedience and and often when we do that, that's the place where God meets us so one encourager of the Holy Spirit's challenging you calling you speaking to you telling you to step out to obey. That's the place where the breakthrough often will come all right. 86634 to the number to call.

Check out my latest articles getting a lot of attention on Brendan Ike fired from Mozilla and for defending marriage now has a brave new web browsers called brave of fascinating story behind it.

You can read it by going to our brand-new radio website. It's beautiful. I do keep your ball away every time I go there just launch this week.

The line of fire.org the line of fire that argued El Cerrito watch my latest video there on our USA social conservatism dead.

That's it. That's the latest video in winter their way around the broadcasts of every broadcast is archived there in the line of fire and you can weigh and add your comments there. 866-34-TRUTH to the phones in Charlotte, North Carolina Darrell, welcome to the line of fire. Our ceramic ceramic event last cholera question on our struggle that is well also for your server in a practical anchor, but my question it is not Adam and Eve, talk to my brother the other day and he was dialoguing with a woman who asserted that Dominique be interpreted allegorical because she was an evolutionist, and I told him well, you know. Romans five Paul said that through one man came and and of course Tina no trust in Christ to grant and calm, and it took the girl responded by saying what Jesus inexplicably stay out of any work will character the real biblical figures every allegorical and she said that because when he does mention God created male and females in a marriage contract to percolate historical person contact out your thoughts on that presupposition of evolution is true that I have many don't.

You will character you so, so his immature world. Yet here's a simple answer. If there were not evolutionary objections to the biblical account. Nobody ever would've wondered if they were real characters.

You might wonder if the full narrative in Genesis 2 and three.

Israel was there really talking snake is that other allegorical messages God's trying to get across, etc. but for sure what is absolutely explicit visit.

They were real people. We have their genealogies. We have the account of what happens with their sons if they weren't real that were Cain and Abel real was was Enoch real was no real was anybody. You know what point does reality kick in. So there are there are some who try to argue that there just allegorical figures but biblically Paul is quite explicit on it that Adam's sin plunges the human race into sin. He frequently refers to Adam and Eve as literal people who did literal things. Certainly the everyone writing in Scripture, making reference back to them makes reference to them as real people's genealogy goes back to Adam genealogies first chronicle starts without there's no question the Bible presents them Bible absolute presents them as literal man. The first man in the first woman. The founders of the human race. No question about the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome to going to fire this is Michael Brown enjoyed with you 866-34-TRUTH 7884 is the number to call you got questions.

We got answers.

Let's go right back to the phones in Chesterfield, Virginia Jerry, welcome to the line of fire room.

You're welcome and repair my understanding that Jesus was born, but because they no longer was built over 140 problems and I think that was somewhat dim to order your pal and I noticed was big.

Over 200, 300 from Bill. I was wondering if there is an accumulation of books will writers anything that would always prompt you now yeah okay I I would approach it a little differently. Limit. Let me explain why that there there plenty of websites. If you just type in prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, you'll find whole websites like that. There is a book a little booklet 100 prophecies fulfilled by Jesus that you can order online of 100 prophecies fulfilled by Jesus. Another book all the messianic prophecies of the Bible. Many of these books exist in there very easily found just takes a minute.

Just type in a messianic prophecies and annual you will see of many many like that. I approach it a little differently just to say this, Jerry. It's absolutely supernatural God did lay things out. But many of the prophecies have to be understood rightly. In other words, it was, not like I'm going to give you all of the statistics that are gonna work out a certain way in the mafic mathematical probabilities against debtor XYZ. Many of the prophecies we have to study the text understand their messianic prophecies, many of them have a spiritual application. For example, Psalm 22 Psalm 22 is not a direct prophecy of the death and resurrection of Jesus. It's a Psalm of a righteous sufferer who is delivered from death and his deliverance is so great he brings praise to God to the ends of the earth who fulfills that Jesus fulfills it but when you read the Psalm. The psalmist is writing about terrible suffering. I was she's going through, but it ultimately points to Jesus as the one fulfills that the same way there prophecies which are not direct prophecies but parallels as it happened to Israel, Israel went down into Egypt in its infancy. And God called Israel out of Egypt is God's son.

As it happens, it Israel. So what happened to Jesus the Messiah. If you want my whole approach on the Jerry if you want to get into some depth and read it more deeply then you could read volume 3 of answering Jewish objections to Jesus. Volume 3 of answering Jewish objections to Jesus. I get into the details of the prophecies and things like that and answer the objections but if you want something that's more simple that lists some of the prophecies involved of. There's even a messianic prophecy Bible that has 400 messianic prophecies and commentaries of that's just been put out again these are readily available wants to just get online search for messianic prophecies and you'll find some books and websites that that lay that out offer free for you right thank you sir for the call 866-34-TRUTH where we go next. Let's go to Winston-Salem. Samuel, welcome to the line of fire Brown a my question concerns the great commission today and it starts off with the idea that our great God is all-powerful and can do whatever he wants to do. So why did Jesus command to spread the gospel in the great commission and things like maybe okay we get to experience the joy of adding were trying to advance that the goal of a kingdom, but, to hear what you think guide to what was the point at the great commission, yet with the point of the great commission is that God works through us that that we sell. We send and we have a responsibility to now share this good news that God does not work totally independently, even the death of his son Jesus was carried out by human beings, killing him and then he has his team of disciples to take this message and share it.

That's how God works throughout history. Once he created human beings he works through human beings he's committed the earth the world into our hands and we have a sacred responsibility for what happens here. And because of that we share in the responsibility yes we share in the joy but we share in the responsibility and it's it's also it's also a matter of of of God is not just going to appear in the sky and and talk to people and you know what you think of this writer come back another day. It know that this is something that we carry out so everything has come through human feet through human beings we send we spread destruction through the earth. We help one another.

We hurt one another and this is just in keeping with the way God works so God is working the authority, the power is his. He's working behind the scenes, but in terms of the responsibility to take the message responsibility to share the gospel. The responsibility to carry this that that comes to us and outside of that.

Yes, God does work.

He sovereignly saving Muslims in their dreams and things like that. At the same time. At the same time I'm I'm quite confident a quite confident that that that's also answers to prayer, so it's not just the going, but it's the praying God expects us to pray. He's working with us and it just like a parent that doesn't do everything for the child. The child take certain responsibility than the parent helps the parent is with the child can't do. That's what's happening with the great commission.

It is our sacred responsibility, and we carry the weight of that before the Lord, 8663 for 87884 the Long Island John, welcome to the line of fire that Dr. Bernhardt doing very well thank you have a question alike to my heart. I mean, thank you for your program. I call you about a month ago good is my my situation. I just got back from actual mission stricken onto a now being commission to some short-term missions replaced to the goal. You know mission original week got served by smooth quote clothing and Wisconsin, the cost of course. Okay now I'm not a lease on understand this one case to me by will or creativeness, like I needed people always like to know the common help starts now. I'm trying find out from Scripture passages that that we can get is a guideline that change the creations of our self-sustaining system like you know teaching heart like you know and gives us an indication that you might be aware of our packages. Just make sure I'm following you correctly practical Scriptures that will help us to do what electrically like to help them be self-sustaining to help self-sustaining. Yes you a lot.

I would say to answer that John that the greatest wisdom that were going to have about practically how to live that is good to be in the book of Proverbs, work ethic, taking responsibility from A-to-Z. There are things that we read in Proverbs that show us� I don't know what happened. We discussed some background noise here will check this out all right.

Hang on hang on what will deal it will deal with this is something unusual we just encountered here try to finish down as we toss this out there we go well this is what happens when your off-site is a demonic is a demonic is that it no phone just started acting.

We think that Dennis had explained that one demons think so anyway, my apologies on the ground where they come from Alyssa my headphones. Where is that puts very sorry the joys of live radio so John Proverbs read through Proverbs over and over practical wisdom for every area of life, including human responsibility including human sustenance, including how to live practically effectively. Here on planet Earth. All right, thank you for calling 866-34-TRUTH but to what before we go back to the phone's little short on time before this breaks their right there when you get your calls. On the other side of the break and again to check out my latest article you find it really interesting Brendan Ike Internet grew he's the creator of JavaScript which is the ubiquitous programming language online and was the cofounder of Mozilla and develop the Firefox browser had to step down from his position there because parish the thought in 2000 $85,000 to support proposition eight is a profoundly pro-marriage amendment. Yet the one that reflected Pres. Obama or candidate Obama's public stance at that time the marriage is uniform animal, and with the majority of Californians voted for the latest step down profound 2014 vacate your homophone. Hey, he hasn't stopped before he developed the brave browser find out about a Carlotta fire.org. Spell line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution there again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you for joining us on the broadcast is Michael Brown the questions we got answers 866-34-TRUTH again to read my latest article and cutting edge video commentary go to our brand-new wonderfully completely revised but brand-new radio website. The line of fire.org.

It's also place we can join in on the conversations you can join in on the conversations they are about the broadcast way. It was your own comments as well might we go to Dallas, Texas Mike, welcome to the line of fire here hello how are you doing October through all thank you.

Got a question about spiritual question about, you know, being oppressed by demonic person general and was wondering what are you feeling your take on the monitor person like say from fighting a sexual morality, pornography and masturbation. Electronic stuff to open stork you believe that a demonic person can take like there certain parts of your like, say like the digestive tract see if you're a glutton or stuff like that you know all you know your sexual organs or something like that and how would you get rid of it yet will certain the first thing is the spiritual Israel demons are real and there are also physical addictions and their mental addictions. So I'll start here and say this number one if you play with fire you get burned. So first and foremost, if you play with fire you get burned you can have food addiction side food addictions. Many years my life and God help me to get completely free from them, but I was addicted to chocolate and sweets for for years of my life. You do have physical addictions. I was addicted to the needle before I was saved was a heavy drug user and people develop addictions that are emotional addictions that are of mental meaning that some actually are. I should say affect the brain physically that certain things will will change the wiring of your brain.

Pornography is addictive and destructive. In that respect.

So all that to say that there are real addictions that can be controlling you go without certain thing in the go without a cup of coffee and you get the shakes you go without certain foods. You get the shakes you found find yourself drawn to pornography and you can can't seem to stop it now any believer has authority over sin and authority of the devil. But we can open ourselves up to addictions, in which case we get down we become enslaved. Here we are God's people with the Holy Spirit living inside of us serving the risen Jesus and were tied up and enslaved it can happen and once you open yourself up to the devil what you self you open yourself up to addiction the enemy can come in so there can now be a spiritual dimension of repression of demonic torment of attack on your body. So what you do. How do you get free and I would recommend if something is deep and serious that I would go to a Christian leader and remember people in ministry of hurt at all. They've heard every kind of confession they've heard it dealt with every kind of issue, and if there real shepherds are going to carry I would go and say I am having the struggle.

And I do not want to live like this anymore. I 100% renounce this but you might select and attend times of Saddam through this and I'm still back to the same thing again right so you probably some outside help. So you sit down with your pastor with a trusted godly friend you renounce the thing together you Sam closing the door on this if it's on God's relationship. If it's a pornography addiction of whatever it is I'm closing the door on this in Jesus name I renounce it and then you asked that person to pray for complete freedom to come against the enemy on your behalf.

If service is the experience to doing this to praise your deliverance, Jesus of whom the son sets free is free indeed with the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and then you work together, and the wisdom to keep the door shut so for me with food addictions that God freed me from an poly. Most Americans have food addictions or just an addiction to food a gluttonous wrong way.

I don't play games with was untouched. It's over two years.

I have not touched the single time.

Anything that I would eat in the old days in terms of their chocolates or sweets, or certain none, zero, and I'm free and I'm wonderfully free and healthy substitutes I have are just that.

If I real point issue I would get radical with you if that meant. I don't carry a cell phone if that meant I don't use computers if it meant that I have accountability software and everything I touch and that I have my spouse or someone else close to me who follows river among my the know exactly what I'm looking at whatever it takes to make sure that I'm walking freedom I would take that radical step so that's what I would. That's what I would recommend that you confess it before the Lord and and get help with someone who pray with you and and there are there are ministries that work full time with people like this post just assume this is something I can be worked out in the context of view and a godly leader as well. And if you can, and you're in the Dallas area. There plenty find churches and fellowships that you can reach out to. May the Lord give you grace. May the Lord give you freedom.

May the Lord give you victory. That's our prayer. All right, thank you for calling Sir, let's go to Dothan, Alabama Jeremy, welcome to the line of fire. Thank you Dr. Brown's that quick question regarding old gravity. I am not a calendar but I will confirm total depravity relief being a great just wondering your opinion on.

You know, holding to the Calvinist pupil depravity versus people having above, no universal drawing it all Tyler people are able to choose God anytime they want. Or is there a need for to be drawn or we can choose God is your view on that was yet will most certainly, there is drawing John 1232 if I be lifted up, will draw all men to me that that I am I am quite confident. I'm quite confident that there is a continual drawing that the Holy Spirit is drawing people through the cross to him to the Lord and that's happening all the time God reaching out in various ways and drawing people to himself. Without that drawing. We will not come on our own. In that respect.

Luther said no man's will is freaking go up and down.

But just like a rock that if God picks it up if you pick it up it goes up if you let it go. It goes down, so in that respect. Human beings are going away from God. Human beings are going to choose darkness, but the Holy Spirit is drawing and there is a grace to say yes or no.

That's right would differ with my Calvinist friends they would. So if your dead incentive your blind you can't see your deaf you can hear that you can't possibly respond is nothing in you that would respond the debts of the Holy Spirit, strong, and there still is, will they can say yes or no and that's God's grace working in us to draw some close to him again if there was, not that choice that I that I would not be able to explain why the Bible ubiquitously calls us on us to make a choice and holds us responsible if II don't prorate someone in a wheelchair that's been crippled from birth and say why won't you walk. They don't have the power to and yet God rebukes those that don't respond consistently rebukes those that refuses grace consistently says what you don't count yourselves worthy and and then says all I'll go to others and then when people do receive them.

He he he he honors that he commends that for for humble themselves, that Telus to humble ourselves if we didn't have the power to but we don't fully have it in ourselves and ourselves.

We never do it with his help and grace we can say yes Lord, in other words, when he reaches out to us were in that were in that pit out, we are lost and hopeless and fallen, could never get out of the pit and 10 trillion years. When he reaches out his hand and says take my hand we have the power to say yes or no and when he pulls us out of the pit. We have one testimony only. All grace, all grace will grace our friends physically website the line of fire that all last when you get there, explore it. Bottom line today. In ourselves we are helplessly hopelessly lost. This live forever was Friday. That means you've got questions, we've got answers. Let's do it. I am ready 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. I love our Friday broadcasts on the line for you. I love every day. I enjoy every day broadcast in 15, but I have a blast on Friday to answer your questions on a wide range of subjects and some days it can range from an intense personal question to an abstract theological question to a far out cultural question back to a practical biblical spiritual question and an all-around and it is a joy to dive into the word together with you and to answer your question so anything you want to ask me anything in any area of expertise I have, you've got my personal invitation Michael Brown.

Yours truly give me a call 866-34-TRUTH 784 if you differ with something I've said rather getting worked up over it. Angry about it posting on the Internet blast to meet on a mind that may blast away. I get that they're not.

This is fine.

Comes with the territory, but that have a constructive conversation, don't you think if you're so sure I'm so wrong.

Some just posted they misunderstood my position on grace reposted that I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing and I'm cursed and I feel bad for people that are that mistaken, that misguided and sometimes downright blind but rather than post something is completely erroneous that you'll be embarrassed for posting later. Especially when you see the degree of blessing that I live under from my wonderful heavenly father that invented it to call and say okay I disagree with you on this point or I take issue on this or could you clarify this. That's one reason we do live radio as opposed to having a teaching ministry on the nine do that on TV.

I can teach, preach, TV settings, and things like that.

And of course I teach and preach around the world and in Montgomery, Alabama few hours and I'll be speaking about leadership conference, but the reason that we don't just have a teaching ministry on the air is because we love the live interaction now there so many find teaching ministries as well that are doing a great job. We don't we don't have a burden to you as if no one is doing anything, but we feel there's unique role to play in live talk radio on these Christian network.

So here we are for you. You have a number. Call 866-34-TRUTH.

That's 8663 freight 7884. I've also got some email questions that I want to get to and where I want us start old. Let's see here, Rachel asks my good friend who claims to be a Christian is in an unhappy marriage with an unbeliever. She says divorces a lot of two people are unequally yoked.

I can't seem to find Scripture back this up and have a feeling she is wrong and this can you shed some insight into where she's getting this information from. Thank you all. Second Corinthians 614 says being unequally yoked with unbelievers it so that is in many different ways and respects. We are not to make that choice to do that. However, Paul is explicit. First Corinthians 7.

He is explicit. If you're married to a nonbeliever and the nonbeliever wants to stay with you. Do not leave. He is explicit. It's it is an exhortation from Paul from God for us in first Corinthians the seventh chapter that if the unbeliever wants to stay, then you do not depart from them and he says find out how do you know a wife with you might save your husband or how do you know husband whether you might save your wife. If any woman has a husband who was an unbeliever and he consents to live with her she should not divorce in first Corinthians 713 for the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children of the unclean, but as it is they are holy.

If the unbelieving partner separates that it be so.

In such cases, the brothers or sisters that enslaved others closing fees for how do you know wife you will save your husband for how you know husband you will save your life risk within 713 through 16 explicit explicit, her plan and by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown, welcome to the broadcast.

You got questions, got answers Michael Brown delighted to be with you. 866348784. Haven't gotten any email questions the separatist one we get to another one before we go to the phones. This is Bill I'm 65 years old and have until recently practiced homosexuality. Most of my life I can recite tangible and concrete examples of the price. I have paid for this, mostly in the factory.

For the most part I have entered my old age alone with no spouse or children. Nobody even to do ordinary things like make funeral arrangements. When I die, we look after me. When I get too feeble to care for myself.

Not only that is in my blood relatives are mostly way older than me and will possibly pass away before I do it if not by totally identifying and immersing myself in the gay lifestyle until her return to Christianity recently not very close to my brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews.

Now though, since homosexuality is so accepted and gays are allowed to marry things of change for the younger generation the can marriage and not have to worry about being rejected by their families. The question is that how does one convince a friend of the gay lifestyle is wrong. Used to be that you could point out all the loneliness and lack of family ties and raising family from the now all about all that you can do is point out that the Bible says it's in any thoughts and hints on how to save some of my gay friends from this mistake bill of thanks thanks for writing. Thanks for your your openness and I'm so sad to hear the struggles that that you've gone through.

Thank God you come back to the faith and the Lord will warmly welcome you and I encourage you to do your best to make new friends in the congregation because that's where your supports can come from as people come to know you and love you and embrace you that that's going to be your support network. Those will be the people to pray with you those of people to help you and work with you as you get older and you have needs and if you're in a good healthy church. Many of them will have a ministry that helps the elderly and those in the end, and sometimes there even church homes that people could could get into with with no government funds and things and of Social Security or whatever so also on the practical level, I'd encourage you to be part of a healthy fellowship where there are folks that can can get involved in your life hate your 65, but you understand or is not a moral and it's it's it's wise to think about these things. That being said, Bill, you can still use your own story because nobody stopped you from having a long-term relationship with another man that could've been there with you through the years.

In other words, there is still an instability in gay relationships, more so than in in straight relationships. It's there and straight relationships to but well documented more unstable and gay relationships, including lesbian the baby more male promiscuity. But you do have instability more so in lesbian relationships than straight relationships as well fairly well documented semi dispute on ideological grounds, but it's fairly well documented and ultimately the compatibility between a man and woman is can be different to the compatibility between two men or two women, so I still believe that you're going to have many gay men as they get older that are still going to be experiencing loneliness even if there there young today when they get older there still a culture that perhaps can put more of an emphasis on outward appearance and things like that.

And I've I've read stories for the gay manager so they find it harder to to get partners are harder to define sexual partners as they got older. They want is desirable and it's something that can be less common in heterosexual settings. We have a better chance of a longer-term relationship so first I think your story is more relevant than you realize and will continue to be more relevant. Secondly, the health risks are are very real.

It continues to be documented. There's really no dispute of it that there is much much much higher percentage of sexy trance minute diseases among among gay men than straight men and that there even heightened problems that lesbian women have compared to heterosexual women. That's not exactly the same parallel but you do have these issues coming up. You also have a relatively small percentage of the gay community. It's actually want to quote get married, especially among the men and then still a small percentage that's actually seeking to raise children and it's much more difficult.

They can't just naturally conceive so here you're not going to have the same family dynamic will. It's just not going to be there because it's not going to be the your story is still going to be relevant, and then you can say there's a reason that God made man for women and women from and you can still share honestly about your own life your own relationships. You can still ask the question, is it best for a kid to be deprived of their biological mother or their biological father by the choice of those bringing them into the world by the choice of those adopted in single never have a mother or you'll never have a father. Is that right is that fair is that best so I still coming from those angles and then of course bottom-line God is against it for anyone that has any consciousness of God, that's important.

The go. May God give you grace. May you find a caring, loving family that can be with you godly friends at a stand with you in the coming days. 866-34-TRUTH a let's go to JD in Durham, North Carolina. Thanks for calling the line of fire. I take my pocket) I want to find out some biblical point of view that it election.

I think going on it.well, our biblical allotment. Corolla shall mean the pregnancy what Hillary running and I had another quite like you got another caller go ahead and answer the question to the request out. I live in the city of Durham apart and I would like to know if I'm starting to play and I will really last night in the morning and it went in the Durham area unhealed phone out on sheet they know what it they would meet me tomorrow 10 through 12 at 10 to 11 and we just pray my church is not really about prayer, but I am at it.

They want to do that unhealed morale on this sheet on your Corel read drafts and out. I appreciate that I may, I am just on I thank you for your your shall I meet you at UT.

I don't even do talk radio anymore market I want to go to power a of an object encouraging brother Victor Weber.

If you are listening and down you know around sheet microphone Kroger meeting tomorrow. We can play better in English and thank you for allowing FedEx but yet I didn't really non-Nikon badger, I'm glad, glad to answer, and I'm glad that you find this to be on talk radio is that with power obviously our foundation is in the work and by the weight, not just the nature of the show can normally allow announcements and things like that but I am glad that prayer announcement went out. I'm glad that my dear sister in the red dress is calling people to to pray and that's that's our most foundational most important calling of all. So does the Bible speak against women as potential presidents in general should we say it would be judgment on us to have a woman as president. Well, God has raised up godly women like Deborah in the Bible is the exception. As we see we've not had a woman president. Yet around the world you have, you know, Golda Meir was prime minister of Israel, but that was the one so far there been some female prime minister's in India and Pakistan but that's not the rule worldwide. So the rule is normally going to be male headship and I believe that that that is the normal pattern male governmental headship. That's why the vast majority of pastors are man. That's why the vast majority of of heads of state nations are men, but not exclusively God can raise up godly women like Deborah and certainly Margaret Thatcher was a great leader in England and and I would compare her favorably to most of the last mail presidents we've had an American citizen. Margaret Thatcher was a better stronger leader than they were all right. So, that being that being said, God could easily raise up a woman to lead America and if I saw a godly woman called and anointed by God, I could very easily vote for that person. My objection to Hillary Clinton is not that she's a woman. My objection is that she's radical liberal that she is totally pro-Planned Parenthood and sanctions abortion efforts allegedly needed right up to the last minute before delivery of a nine month old baby in the womb. She has upset many nations in Africa by pushing America's gay agenda, a radical gay agenda on African nations and on and on. So, it's because of who she is and then whatever degree of corruption and compromise. There is in the Clinton family, so I cannot possibly vote for her. Not because she's a woman, but because of the kind of woman she is, because of the things she stands for and believes if we had a godly woman candidate. Let's say that there is just switching for second let's say that it was a godly woman running for the Democratic nomination of the Democratic platform is godly Republican candidate is compromised woman in my case, I thank you for asking the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 86.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you so much for joining us on the line of fire at 866 is number to call.

You've got questions, we've got answers, 866-348-7884. Let's go to Kim in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Thanks for calling the line of fire from her current chapter. Versus 16 and 17 talking about our Lord works but is expanding. It says that we, the temple, God, and if it is damaging their guy would destroy any believer. I guess that the files that you something it talked about the automated and not saying that I believe that the founders heart God would destroy that believer know that I appreciate you taking it seriously and and asking that what what's being spoken of their is a little different in first Corinthians 6 first Corinthians 6 says that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit speaking of an individual believer and therefore we have to keep ourselves free from sexual immorality and things like that in first Corinthians 3 he's talking in the plural that we as a people are God's temple. Okay, so he's not talking to an individual about our body being the temple of the spirit, but rather that we as God's people or the temple. We are the body of Christ we are the temple. We are the house in which the Holy Spirit dwells. So to say right instead of an earthly physical temple. We the people of God and of the temple.

If someone tries to destroy God's people.

If someone tries to destroy the church. Gobble destroy that person.

That's what's being said, there also some translations read don't you realize that all of you to gather that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you gobble destroy anyone who destroys this temple for God's temple is holy and you are that temple. So if there are people who are trying to destroy the church.

Someone may be of her radically trying to destroy the church or pull people into more immorality and they are actively working to destroy God's people gobble ultimately destroyed that person. That's what's being said there are. You are very welcome 8663 freight 78840 we go to Fort Worth, Texas will welcome to the line of fire Dr. Brown are very well thank you and I've got a question for you want a personal level and try to frame it in a way that makes them. Doug then did let me know it is hard for me to pull it back together but I've been a believer of dollars around 20 I'm now going on 43 out over the quarter, went from being having a strong simple bait that would very fundamental to China when it moved into more kind of a critical viewing of the Bible and it really researching in our time deny I battle with all the different controversy.

I think it up� I built up what he believed to be got three dental foundations for my fate and one would from from a biological and ecological standpoint.

I learned I had a lot of the college and kind of in my career path and so I'm I'm big on intelligent design movement anyone object, but all I think it fooling themselves if they think that that the function of an accident. The second secondarily I don't really dug into the Old Testament and I literally can market every statement, not just the reverse.

But every time that the Lord talked about the ingathering it in in you looking at the history of Israel and and in and what it happened and transpired, 1948 again to me that beyond the scope of An incomplete mark miracle that was my second kind of foundation and in thirdly, I again look at the pop like a day, 49, are they could degree and I logically conclude that Jesus is the Messiah, though II feel like I got this empirical data that I can use you know the hard kind of fact, at least in my but at the same time. I know my walk had been there, and though I'm trying to understand now from more of the experiential fate of of walking through Christ we have had one. How do I get that babe I get my backed up against the wall or when the Christ. And in life. Am I gonna have the kind of faith that that I'm supposed to have. I don't feel that right now for some reason yet one is exactly so and we can we can analyze this together is like going to a doctor and telling him your symptoms and he sees enough people and he can tell you K this is the problem here is how we address it. So, you've done well in fortifying fortify your mind you've done well and having these. It's almost like someone climbing up a mountain.

And they've got there gonna rock cold here. They've got something they can hold onto and so that's solid that you can build on that and it's good to do that. It's good to know that that that all the evidence points towards intelligent designer. It's good to know that the scattering and regathering of Israel has no logical explanation. It's good to know that God laid out in advance key prophecies about Jesus the Messiah. That's good to know. Basically you've convinced yourself that the water is really water your standing on the diving board by the pool and you've convinced yourself that's not a mirage of that. That is real water.

There now what you need to do is jump now what you need to do is completely give yourself over to God because he Israel because he is true because were lost sinners without a because Jesus died to save us so that we would be in relationship with God forever. It would be like to give you another analogy you've convinced yourself that your wife is not cheating on you were afraid she was. But you now have empirical evidence that in fact she wasn't. That doesn't mean that you have a good relationship with her.

Now you need to spend quality time with her. Now you need to be a godly husband and and and enjoy your wife and be a blessing to her. So what you really need to do now is get to know God on that on an intimate level. See how you do that you brought your heart to him in prayer you talk to him like you'd be talking to me yet alone was taking a walk with her schedule in your room and and and shutting the lights and turn yourself off and you talk to God, you pour out your heart, you sure it's going on your life.

You thank him for his goodness. Things like that and then you taken the word not just for information not just for intellectual verification but you taken the word so that you can really understand who he is. You can really understand what he desires and requires you meditate on Scripture you pray through passages. I found it useful at times, actually read the word on my knees out loud and as I was reading to turn each chapter into prayer father understand this. Lord help me to walk this out. Show me what this really means. Show me how to please you and as you do that and then also give yourself to worship and praise and things like that you will find that you will get deeply involved with the Lord, and experiential way and their their books ever written on experiencing God and knowing God that their valuable but ultimately this is how it's done. You build a quality relationship by spending quality time and it sure as jumping off that diving board into the water, which lacks justice surely spending quality time with God in your heart. Take just going for letting go. Give yourself over him. You will get to know him experiential. All right, Douglas will it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 66343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome welcome to the broadcast.

It is Friday. That means you've got questions, we've got answers. 866-34-TRUTH is on the call 86687884II was talking to someone very close to her family.

Some years ago they were appointed teenager wanting to really surrender fully to the Lord. But knowing there was some rebellion in their heart. They were concerned with God really hear them with God really embrace them that cometh out there on the outside and I said put your feet in the water and you will get with put your feet in the water and you will get way. There's something about taking the plunge. There's something about stepping out of your comfort zone saying yes to the Lord's will reason that we often have altar calls us to say.

Step out from where you are and make that conscious move forward like Jesus telling someone stand up on your feet are stretch out your hands or that kind of thing the roots take your step of faith and obedience and and often when we do that, that's the place where God meets us so one encourager of the Holy Spirit's challenging you calling you speaking to you telling you to step out to obey. That's the place where the breakthrough often will come all right.

86634 to the number to call. Check out my latest articles getting a lot of attention on Brendan Ike fired from Mozilla and for defending marriage now has a brave new web browser. It's called brave of fascinating story behind it. You can read it by going to our brand-new radio website. It's beautiful. I do keep your ball away every time I go there just launch this week. The line of fire.org the line of fire that we can also read the watch my latest video there on our USA social conservatism dead. That's it.

That's the latest video in winter their way around the broadcasts of every broadcast is archived there in the line of fire and you can weigh and add your comments there.

866-34-TRUTH to the phones in Charlotte, North Carolina Darrell, welcome to the line of fire. Art around the track and make you better think a lot cholera question on are singled out as well. Also for your server in a practical anchor, but my question it is not Adam and Eve, talking to brother the other day and he was dialoguing with a woman who asserted that Dominique be interpreted allegorical because she was an evolutionist, and I told him well you know mom five. Paul said that through one man came and and of course Tina no trust in Christ to grant and calm, and it took the girl responded by saying what Jesus inexplicably stay out of a neighbor real character. The real biblical figures every allegorical and she said that because when he does mention God created male and females in the marriage contract percolate historical person contact out your thoughts on that presupposition of evolution is true that I have and you don't need to feel character yet so so his immature world.

Yet here's a simple answer. If there were not evolutionary objections to the biblical account. Nobody ever would've wondered if they were real characters. You might wonder if the full narrative in Genesis 2 and three. Israel was there really talking snake is that other allegorical messages God's trying to get across, etc. but for sure what is absolutely explicit, is that they were real people. We have their genealogies.

We have the account of what happens with their sons if they weren't real that were Cain and Abel real was was Enoch real was no real was anybody. You know what point does reality kick in.

So there are there are some who try to argue that there just allegorical figures but biblically Paul is quite explicit on it that Adam's sin plunges the human race into sin.

He frequently refers to Adam and to Eve as literal people who did literal things.

Certainly the everyone writing in Scripture, making reference back to them makes reference to them as real people's genealogy goes back to Adam genealogies first chronicle starts without there's no question the Bible presents them Bible absolute presents them as literal men. The first man in the first woman. The founders of the human race. No question about the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome to going to fire this is Michael from joy to be with you 866-34-TRUTH 7884 is the number to call you got questions.

We got answers. Let's go right back to the phones in Chesterfield, Virginia Jerry, welcome to the line of fire room.

You're welcome and repair my understanding that Jesus was born obey and film alone was built over 140 prompts and I think that was somewhat dim to order your pal and I noticed Busby over 200, $300 bill. I was wondering if there is an accumulation of books will writers anything that would always prompt you now yeah okay I I would approach it a little differently. Limit. Let me explain why that there there plenty of websites. If you just type in prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, you'll find whole websites like that. There is a book a little booklet 100 prophecies fulfilled by Jesus that you can order online of 100 prophecies fulfilled by Jesus.

Another book all the messianic prophecies of the Bible. Many of these books exist in there very easily found just takes a minute. Just type in a messianic prophecies and and you will you will see many many like that. I approach it a little differently just to say this, Jerry.

It's absolutely supernatural God did lay things out. But many of the prophecies have to be understood rightly.

In other words, it was, not like I'm going to give you all of the statistics that are gonna work out a certain way in the mafic mathematical probabilities against debtor XYZ.

Many of the prophecies we have to study the text understand their messianic prophecies, many of them have a spiritual application.

For example, Psalm 22 Psalm 22 is not a direct prophecy of the death and resurrection of Jesus. It's a Psalm of a righteous sufferer who is delivered from death and his deliverance is so great he brings praise to God to the ends of the earth who fulfills that Jesus fulfills it but when you read the Psalm. The psalmist is writing about terrible suffering. I was she's going through, but it ultimately points to Jesus as the one fulfills that the same way there prophecies which are not direct prophecies but parallels as it happened to Israel, Israel went down into Egypt in its infancy. And God called Israel out of Egypt is God's son.

As it happens, it Israel.

So what happened to Jesus the Messiah.

If you want my whole approach on the Jerry if you want to get into some depth and read it more deeply then you could read volume 3 of answering Jewish objections to Jesus. Volume 3 of answering Jewish objections to Jesus. I get into the details of the prophecies and things like that and answer the objections but if you want something that's more simple that lists some of the prophecies involved of theirs. Even in a messianic prophecy Bible that has 400 messianic prophecies and commentaries of that's just been put out again these are readily available wants to just get online search for messianic prophecies and you'll find some books and websites that that lay that out, all for free for you right thank you sir for the call 866-34-TRUTH where we go next. Let's go to Winston-Salem. Samuel, welcome to the line of fire Brown hey hey my question concerns the great commission today and it starts out with the idea that our great God is all-powerful and can do whatever he wants to do. So why did Jesus command to spread the gospel in the great commission and think like me. Okay, we get to experience the joy of adding word trying to advance that the goal of the kingdom of God on earth. But, to hear what you think died.

Jesus will and what was the point at the great commission, yet with the plan of the great commission is that God works through us that that we sell. We send and we have a responsibility to now share this good news that God does not work totally independently, even the death of his son Jesus was carried out by human beings, killing him and then he has his team of disciples to take this message and share it. That's how God works throughout history.

Once he created human beings he works through human beings he's committed the earth the world into our hands and we have a sacred responsibility for what happens here. And because of that we share in the responsibility yes we share in the joy that we share in the responsibility and it's it's also it's also a matter of of of God is not just going to appear in the sky and and talk to people and you know what you think of this on a come back another day. It know that this is something that we carry out so everything has come through human feet through human beings we send we spread destruction through the earth.

We help one another. We hurt one another and this is just in keeping with the way God works so God is working the authority, the power is his. He's working behind the scenes, but in terms of the responsibility to take the message responsibility to share the gospel. The responsibility to carry this that that comes to us and outside of that. Yes, God does work. He sovereignly saving Muslims in their dreams and things like that.

At the same time. At the same time I'm I'm quite confident a quite confident that that that's also answers to prayer, so it's not just the going, but it's the praying God expects us to pray. He's working with us and it just like a parent that doesn't do everything for the child. The child take certain responsibility than the parent helps the parent is with the child can't do. That's what's happening with the great commission.

It is our sacred responsibility, and we carry the weight of that before the Lord. 866-34-TRUTH 87884 the Long Island John, welcome to the line of fire� Doing very well thank you have a question alike to my heart. I mean, thank you for your program.

I call you about a month ago good is my my situation. I just got back from a mission, stepping onto a now being commission to some short-term missions replaced to the goal in our mission original week got served by smooth quote clothing and Wisconsin, the cost of course I'll okay now I'm not unleashed on understand this one case to me by will or creativeness, like I needed people always like to know the common healthy start now I'm trying find out from Scripture passages that that we can get is a guideline that change the creations of our self-sustaining system like you not teach how to write, you know, and gives us an indication that you might be aware of our packages. Just make sure I'm following you correctly practical Scriptures that will help us to do what electrically like out to help them be self-sustaining to help self-sustaining. Yes you a lot. I would say to answer that John that the greatest wisdom that were going to have about practically how to live his skin to be in the book of Proverbs, work ethic, taking responsibility from A-to-Z. There are things that we read in Proverbs that show us� I don't know what happened.

We discussed some background noise here will check this out all right. Hang on hang on, but will deal it will deal with this is something unusual we just encountered here try to finish down as we toss this out there we go well this is what happens when your off-site is a demonic is a demonic is that it no phone just started acting.

We think that Dennis had explained that one demons think so anyway, my apologies on the ground where they come from Alyssa my headphones were is that puts very sorry the joys of live radio so John Proverbs read through Proverbs over and over practical wisdom for every area of life, including human responsibility including human sustenance, including how to live practically effectively. Here on planet Earth. All right, thank you for calling 866-34-TRUTH to what before we go back to the phone's little short on time before this breaks their right there when you get your calls. On the other side of the break and again to check out my latest article you find it really interesting Brendan Ike Internet girl. He's the creator of JavaScript which is the ubiquitous programming language online and was the cofounder of Mozilla and develop the Firefox browser had to step down from his position there because I perish the thought.

2000 $85,000 to support proposition eight is a profamily, pro-marriage amendment.

Yet the one that reflected Pres. Obama or candidate Obama's public stance at the time the marriage is uniform animal, and with the majority of Californians voted for the ultimate step down profound $2014 vacate your homophone.

Hey, he hasn't stopped before he developed the brave browser find out about a Carlotta fire.org. Spell line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown.

Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you for joining us on the broadcasts. This is Michael Brown you got Austin's regret answers 866-34-TRUTH again to read my latest article and cutting edge video commentary go to our brand-new wonderfully completely revived looks brand-new radio website. The line of fire.org.

It's also a place we can join in on the conversations you can join in on the conversations they are about the broadcast way. It was your own comments as well might we go to Dallas, Texas Mike, welcome to the line of fire here hello how are you during October through all thank you. Okay. Got a question about spiritual question about, you know, being oppressed by demonic person in general and was wondering what are you feeling your take on the moniker person like say from fighting a sexual morality, pornography and masturbation. Electronic stuff to open stork you believe that a demonic person can take like there certain parts of your like, say like the digestive tract see if you're a glutton or stuff like that you know or you know your sexual organs or something like that and how would you get rid of it yet will certain the first thing is the spiritual Israel demons are real and there also physical addictions and their mental addictions. So I'll start here and say this number one if you play with fire you get burned. So first and foremost, if you play with fire you can get burned. You can have food addiction side food addictions by years of my life and God help me to get completely free from them, but I was addicted to chocolate and sweets for for years of my life. You do have physical addictions. I was addicted to the needle before I was saved was a heavy drug use and people develop addictions that are emotional addictions that are of mental meaning that some actually are. I should say affect the brain physically that certain things will will change the wiring of your brain. Pornography is addictive and destructive. In that respect. So all that to say that there are real addictions that can be controlling you go without certain thing and you go without a cup of coffee and you get the shakes you go without certain foods.

You get the shakes you found find yourself drawn to pornography and you can can't seem to stop it now any believer has authority over sin and authority of the devil. But we can open ourselves up to addictions, in which case we get down we become enslaved.

Here we are God's people with the Holy Spirit living inside of us serving the risen Jesus and were tied up and enslaved it can happen and once you open yourself up to the devil what you self you open yourself up to addiction the enemy can come in so there can now be a spiritual dimension of oppression of demonic torment of attack on your body. So what you do. How do you get free and I would recommend if something is deep and serious that I would go to a Christian leader and remember people in ministry of hurt at all. They've heard every kind of confession they've heard they've dealt with every kind of issue, and if there real shepherds are going to carry I would go and say I am having a struggle. And I do not want to live like this anymore. I 100% renounce this but you my savant and a 10 times of Saddam through this and I'm still back to the same thing again right so you probably some outside help.

So you sit down with your pastor with a trusted godly friend you renounce the thing together you Sam closing the door on this if it's on God's relationship. If it's a pornography addiction of whatever it is I'm closing the door on this in Jesus name I renounce it and then you asked that person to pray for complete freedom to come against the enemy on your behalf, expresses the experience to doing this to praise your deliverance, Jesus of whom the son sets free is free indeed with the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and then you work together, and the wisdom to keep the door shut so for me with food addictions that God freed me from an poly.

Most Americans have food addictions or just an addiction to food a gluttonous wrong way. I don't play games with was untouched. It's over two years.

I have not touched the single time.

Anything that I with eat in the old days in terms of their chocolates or sweets, or certain none, zero, and I'm free and I'm wonderfully free and healthy substitutes I have are just that.

If I real point issue I would get radical with it. If that meant.

I don't carry a cell phone if that meant I don't use computers if it meant that I have accountability software and everything I touch and that I have my spouse or someone else close to me who follows river among my the know exactly what I'm looking at whatever it takes to make sure that I'm walking freedom I would take that radical step so that's what I would.

That's what I would recommend that you confess it before the Lord and and get help with someone who pray with you and and there are there are ministries that work full time with people like this post just assume this is something I can be worked out in the context of view and a godly leader as well.

And if you can, and you're in the Dallas area. There plenty fine churches and fellowships that you can reach out to.

May the Lord give you grace. May the Lord give you freedom.

May the Lord give you victory. That's our prayer. All right, thank you for calling Sir, let's go to Dothan, Alabama Jeremy, welcome to the line of fire. Thank you Dr. Brown's quick question regarding total depravity.

I am not a calendar but I will total depravity, relief, reporting a great just wondering your opinion on.

You know, holding to the Calvinist pupil depravity versus people having above, no universal drawing it all Tyler people are able to choose God anytime they want. Or is there a need for to be drawn or we can choose God is your view on that was yet will most certainly, there is drawing John 1232 if I be lifted up, will draw all men to me that that I am I am quite confident. I'm quite confident that there is a continual drawing that the Holy Spirit is drawing people through the cross to him to the Lord and that's happening all the time God reaching out in various ways and drawing people to himself.

Without that drawing.

We will not come on our own. In that respect. Luther said you know man's will is freaking go up and down. But just like a rock that if God picks it up if you pick it up it goes up if you let it go. It goes down, so in that respect.

Human beings are going away from God.

Human beings are going to choose darkness, but the Holy Spirit is drawing and there is a grace to say yes or no. That's right would differ with my Calvinist friends they would. So if your dead incentive your blind you can't see your deaf you can hear that you can't possibly respond is nothing in you that would respond. That's for the Holy Spirit, strong, and there still is, will they can say yes or no and that's God's grace working in us to draw some close to him again if there was, not that choice that I wrote that I would not be able to explain why the Bible ubiquitously calls us on us to make a choice and holds us responsible if II don't prorate someone in a wheelchair that's been crippled from birth and say why won't you walk. They don't have the power to and yet God rebukes those that don't respond consistently rebukes those that refuses grace consistently says what you don't count yourselves worthy and and and says all I'll go to others and then when people do receive them. He he he he honors that he commends that for for humble themselves, that Telus to humble ourselves if we didn't have the power to but we don't fully have it in ourselves and ourselves. We can never do it with his help and grace we can say yes Lord, in other words, when he reaches out to us were in that were in that pit out, we are lost and hopeless and fallen, could never get out of the pit and 10 trillion years.

When he reaches out his hand and says take my hand we have the power to say yes or no and when he pulls us out of the pit. We have one testimony only. All grace, all grace will grace our friends physically website the line of fire.org last when you get there, explore it. Bottom line today. In ourselves we are helplessly hopelessly lost in Jesus (