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Any question of any kind that is appropriate for Christian radio, anything whatsoever you want to talk to me about, give me a call today: 866-348-7884. In particular, any area of expertise I have or any place where you want to challenge me, be it biblically, theologically, morally, culturally, even politically, we'll talk about it on the air. All right, before I get to any phone calls, yeah. Everyone listening to me in the great city of New York, my home city, born in Manhattan, raised on Long Island. And I pronounce huge the way others pronounce it.

So Mayor de Blasio, has there ever been a more radically liberal Mayor, radical leftist mayor. I haven't examined the policies of all of them, but I don't know that any has been more radical than Mayor de Blasio. He and other city officials are urging New Yorkers not to eat a Chick-fil-A. They've opened up a new location in Queens. It's fourth to open in New York City.

And he says, no, the owners of Chick-fil-A support groups that, quote, promote hate. Against gaze. He said Chick-fil-A is anti-LGBT. God, he's calling for a boycott by New Yorkers.

Now listen. Let people boycott what they want to boycott. If we think it's fine to boycott Target and he wants to boycott Chick-fil-A, have At it. Have at it. Number one Number one.

Uh When you go to the restaurant there, they're not making a statement. Target was making a statement. All bathrooms, all changing rooms will be gender neutral. If someone identifies a certain way, they can use the bathroom, locker room, changing room of their choice, of their gender, perceived gender identity. They are making a statement and they are imposing that on everybody.

Chick-fil-A is serving food. Period. That's what they're doing. They are not making any statement about this. They are not shouting out to the world, we are pro this, we are against this, except they're saying we're Christian, we close on Sundays.

And I imagine in New York it'll be the same as in other parts of the country, that they really are great places to go for those that go to fast food. I'm not a fast food person anymore, used to be, but Chick-fil-A was always my favorite place to go in terms of customer service. They were the quickest on drive-through, they got the orders best, and they were friendly. They were amazingly friendly. Manager would volunteer to bring something out, you know, check on things, and the people would, you know, my pleasure, you know, thank you, my pleasure.

They seemed to genuinely act in a way that was courteous and friendly.

So that's why they've always scored so well in terms of customer service for fast food restaurants and for people that like chicken, that it's been a great place to go.

So it's one thing. Want to PayPal? or an Apple sends out a message that says we're going to do business here. Or we're going to withhold business here, or we won't open offices there. It's another thing.

When Privately, a company donates to, how about this, Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Yeah. Chick-fil-A has been branded supporting hate because they donate to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. And The leader, is it COO or CEO now of Chick-fil-A a couple years ago said we're not engaging in the culture wars? We're not.

Th that's what they made clear. We're serving chicken.

So This is this is utterly ridiculous. And my hope is that they'll do great. That they'll do great in New York. If they're open to go fourth place, it must mean they are doing well. Yeah, we'll be right back.

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Phone lines are open, and we start in Miami. Nicholas, welcome to the line of fire. Hey, Dr. Brown, it's so very nice to talk to you and to meet you on the phone even. Thank you.

My question is if you are familiar with someone called Finnis Dake and the Dake Bible. And gates um least Um are one mint unity. And he was pretty positive that in the Hebrew language, you being a scholar, I thought you'd know. this that one ma unity, that God is one in unity. And what you thought about that.

Uh yes, sir. Uh first, uh finish finish J Dakes. Famous for the Dyke's Annotated Study Bible. Number one, on the positive side, he did an incredible amount of work. With his annotations and his references and his lists.

So there's much of value. In the work. That's on the positive side. On the negative side, he did have some strange beliefs. For example, the separation of the races and things like that.

He felt the scriptures indicated that. And then, because he was what you would call a hyper literalist A hyper-literalist that he would say, We know God has a right hand. It doesn't say he has a left hand, you know, for an example. Or he has a right eye. We don't know he has a left eye.

Now, again, he was just saying based on biblical evidence.

So, in that sense, A hyper-literalist. As far as the word one that's used, for example, Genesis 1, one day, or Genesis 2, the man and woman became one, or famously in Deuteronomy 6: Here, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. The Hebrew word echad Means one in a way similar to our English word. In other words, it doesn't have a particular meaning of unity or not unity. For example, I could talk about one rock.

I could talk about one team. I could talk about something that is complex in unity or something that's simple. It just means one. It doesn't mean an exclusive singularity, like the word only. Would that be the same word used in the letter of John where it says the three that bear witness on earth?

And these three are one, and the three agree in one. Is that the same word there? Yeah, well, actually, this is Greek. The New Testament is Greek, and the Old Testament is Hebrew. 1 John 5:7 is not in the original Greek manuscripts.

There are three that bear, what is the heaven of the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost? These three are one. Yeah, so that was not in any ancient Greek manuscript that was added in many centuries later. But it's taught throughout the New Testament, so that's perfectly fine. It summarizes what's taught elsewhere.

But I say that God's unity is complex. In other words, he is one God. That is a major, major message through the Bible. There is one God and one God only, but he is complex in his unity. That's how I would understand the unity of God.

That God is multiple. expressions within one God. God is Father, Son, and Spirit within one God. God manifests Himself in many different ways, but He is one God only.

So, in that sense, unity is there, it's just not the. the fundamental meaning Hey, Nicholas, thank you for calling and thanks so much for being a listener. 866-348-786. 884. Let's go to Brooklyn.

John, welcome to the line of fire. Hello, Dr. Bond. Good. You just faded out there for a second.

You still there? Yes, I'm still here.

Okay, great. Yeah, we're we're good. Everything's good.

Okay. I just have a question. Because I'm a fairly new believer, and I'm a little on the fence about this study that I've been doing about a doctrine of loss of rewards, and I think it's First Corinthians three point fifteen. Does that mean that a person can lose their salvation I'm not really too sure as to what that verse means. Yes, sir.

That is not talking about loss of salvation there. As far as salvation, John, I've written about this a lot and talked about it a lot, but the best way to understand the issue of salvation is not that we can lose it. But that we can choose to walk away from God. God's promise to keep us. God has promised to finish the work that he starts from beginning to end.

He's the author and the finisher of our faith. No one can pluck us out of his hand. But someone can willfully choose to walk away from God. In other words, if someone says to God, I'm leaving the household, he doesn't lock the doors and force them to stay.

So someone could forfeit their salvation. Say, I'm not going to serve God. I will not bow the knee to Jesus. I reject him. In which case, God will not force us to stay.

He'll keep us. He will, as long as we put our lives in his hands, he will keep us. He'll preserve us. He'll help us. We don't have to worry every day, oh, no, I'm going to lose my salvation.

Oh, no, I thought one wrong thought. I'm going to help. No, not at all. What's being spoken of here is reward for service. There are a number of parables, John, in the words of Jesus where he talks about gain and loss.

Where he talks about a greater reward for some than for others.

So. Uh it seems that On that day when we stand before God, our sins have been paid for, right? Jesus paid for our sins. We don't have to pay for them ever again. But We will have to give account for what we did.

In other words, we are e eternally part of the family of God, but we'll now give account. I had a certain assignment. How did I perform that? What if everything I did was built on the flesh and based on carnality and pride? I will not receive the reward for those works, even though I'm still saved.

as though by passing through fire, but I still make it in. even though I don't get the reward for the things that I had done.

Okay, and I have um I've I don't want to keep you too long. I know time is of the essence, right?

Okay, so when it refers to um being cast into outer darkness, that is about hell, right? Yes, yes. And so, if you look at a parable, for example, that seems to indicate. That someone who didn't do well is cast into outer darkness. The parable is there to make a point, not to teach doctrine.

The parables are there to get a message across, and the message is: don't squander what God has given you. And remember, this person is called wicked and lazy. It's not just, Lord, I was trying to please you with all my heart. And I fell short. Uh no, this is someone who's wicked and lazy.

With what God's given them. And Jesus says there are consequences to that.

So if I forfeit my salvation, it's because I walk away from God and deny Jesus and choose sin instead of the Savior, which is a grave, grave thing. And obviously, there are consequences to rejecting the Lord. On the flip side, on the flip side, We trust fully in God's keeping power, but there will be reward for labor and service. How that works out. God knows, but here's what we know: salvation is a free gift.

So you get saved three seconds before you die, and someone else is saved at the age of 10 and serves God for 80 years. You're both equally saved. both equally have eternal life, but obviously God's going to be fair. And just, and the one who labored and served for 80 years and used their time for the Lord, that person will receive a certain reward that the other person won't receive. Hey, John, thanks for the call and keep your eyes on the Lord.

Keep growing in the Lord. I appreciate the questions. 866-34TRUTH. Let's see, we go to Shawnee, Oklahoma. Corey, welcome to the line of fire.

All right, thank you. Yes, go ahead. Yeah, uh I have a question on the Mary's pur purification. Um, in the Old Testament where uh Moses gives the law. Yeah, he seems to focus on just her being purified.

Uh in the New Testament, most of the manuscripts seem to point to their purification. I know the King James Version. Uh uses her purification, but it's only supported by one manuscript. Uh can you give any insight on that? All right, so you you're talking about in Luke's Gospel Right, live 2200.

222. Right, right.

Alright, so let's let's just look at the different versions here. And uh by the way, sometimes there's Just to focus. on one person in an account and another one will focus on two um or or mention two. For example, you'll often have in the accounts about Joshua and Caleb saying we can take the land that a number of times it only mentions Caleb. Only mentions Caleb speaking up, and then the other accounts speak of Joshua and Caleb.

And of course, we know Joshua's leadership later.

So sometimes it's just who's telling the story or what the purpose of. of the story is yes so so looking at at uh luke 22 222, King James, when the days of her purification, New King James follows that.

So they would be following there what would be called the Textus Receptus, and that would be the Greek text that they're following. And then the great majority of the other translations are, and even the ancient Syriac says there that does seem to be the best textual tradition.

So why there versus her in terms of purification rites? I'll comment on that on the other side of the brakes. They're right there. Shake the nation, change the world. Change the world.

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So back to Corey and Shawnee, Oklahoma. I just checked during the break something that would be available to everyone online. I typed in the words, Luke 2.22, their purification. And a bunch of articles came up. But the first one that came up is the perfect one to refer you to, Corey.

It's by Daniel Wallace, one of the world's top New Testament textual scholars. And it's on Bible.org. Bible.org.

So if you go to Bible.org and just type in Luke two twenty two. Uh, you'll see the reference to this. It goes through the manuscript evidence, which you're right, it's very, very Very minute evidence supporting the reading of the King James or the New King James, so that we really need to follow their purification versus her purification. But then Daniel Wallace gives a number of very, very viable choices, Corey, for why it says there. For example, there, one of the choices, and he goes through the textual evidence and then the exegetical issues.

One, he says Joseph may have shared in the need to be purified by having to help with the birth. That's a possibility. Another is that Joseph and Mary dedicated the child as their firstborn son, a consecration that would require Joseph to bring a sacrifice. And he said, the problem is it's not the word purification is not normally used, but then he shows how there are other related words, the words for consecration and things, and how that could have fit.

So it could be that this was the time not just of her purification, but of their purification/slash consecration, meaning consecrating. Yeshua as their firstborn son, and he gives lots of Hebrew and Greek evidence for it and makes clear it's not. It's not a major issue to struggle over. It's a very, very good question, but that they're good answers, and this is not a point where you say, ah, look, the King James is right and the others are wrong, because the Greek evidence is strongly against that.

So, Bible.org, just type in Luke 2:22, and you'll get Daniel Wallace's excellent answer. And by the way, for all the years of reading the word, I never asked myself that question, so thank you for raising it.

Okay. Do I have time to ask one more question? Yeah, real quick, sure.

Okay, I was just wondering wonder I've heard before when you've debated, I think, James White on uh uh certain passages that have to do with predestination, uh like Ephesians and Romans and such. And if I remember correctly, you refer more to it as talking about the church rather than Yeah. Uh An individual.

Well, where God has mercy on whom He has mercy and hardens whom He hardens. And then Jacob was chosen, not Esau. That is selection for service, not for salvation. The scripture nowhere says that Jacob was destined for heaven and Esau was destined for hell, but rather that the elder served the younger. And that the younger inherited the blessing of the firstborn.

When Romans quotes, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated, that's Malachi 1. And nowhere does scripture say that all Israelites of all time were saved, and all Edomites, descendants of Esau, all time were. We're judged.

So, this is a calling for service. You could say, well, that's not fair. And that's part of what is being addressed there in Romans 9, part of the argument. As far as Ephesians 1, we are predestined in Jesus, we are chosen in Jesus. The best way to look at that is it's corporate.

That And that God has predetermined and foreseen and done everything that he needs to do to To foreordain that there will be a people. Who responds to his offer of grace, and because he has chosen to give us a choice. Say yes to the Lord and become part of that body. In other words, He knows exactly who we are by name and by faith. By heart, he knows who we are, it's not just a random blob of people, but.

What is known is that everyone gets on this boat, this boat leaves here and goes there. That is your destiny.

So, everyone who is in Jesus is part of that corporately predestined people.

So, it's not, I predestined you.

Okay, boom, I'm going to pick you and predestine you for heaven, having nothing to do with you, and boom, I'm going to. pass over you, which then predestines you to hell, And that's the only place you could go anyway because that's how you were made. And that's an overly simplified way of stating the Calvinistic view. It's not that the predestining is in. Jesus.

So those who are in him are Are part of that corporate body. All right, thank you for the excellent questions. 866-348-7884. Let's go to Santo in Miami. Welcome to the line of fire.

Blessing, Brother Brown. I just want to compliment you because I've been a believer since age seventeen. I'm fifty two now. And every time I hear, I quite often circum and I see different presentators and speakers and stuff. I have yet to find somebody who has remained faithful to the principles of the Bible and that first love that we once met when we were saved by the Lord and who is holding so tight to those values and more importantly to what the Bible says.

Some people have evolved, have changed, have grown. And unfortunately, their evolution or evolution and growth has led them to go astray the old way or the old path or the narrow path that the gospel teaches us. I just want to compliment you. I want to pray for you. And I wanna thank you because um I called the other day and I just wanna say this.

there's a lot of signs that says to the believer When somebody is talking on behalf of the Lord, and if the message or the teaching is really according to the word of God. And this is the one unequivocal sign Knowledge is important. Knowledge knowledge accurate knowledge is definitely a must. But the seal of approval is when it comes in love. And love does not mean compromise or agree or surrender what we have learned and accepted by the Lord.

Love means that we understand that we're bringing the love and that this love and this truth may be contrary and painful, but at the end it yields salvation and growth. Yeah, love love speaks the truth. Santo, thank you for the kind words and thank God for the many who love the Lord and are preaching his truth. Thank you, sir, for the very kind words. Friends, lots of new videos, audio, articles at askdrbrown.org.

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884, the number to call, and we are going straight back to the phone, starting with Ben in New Haven, Connecticut. Welcome to the line of fire. Hi, doctor Brown. Thank you so much for taking my call. Long time listener, first time caller.

I'll get right to the question. I have a friend who's been mesmerized by a rabbi And this rabbi was very critical of the misquote that's in Hebrews 8, 9. From misquoting Jeremiah 31:32, saying that God in Jeremiah was a husband, but then in 8:9, it's totally changed. And he said that was a very blatant. Change of the Torah, and that's what Christians do all the time.

So I would really love some clarity on that. Oh, yeah, it's it's not a misquote at at all. It's actually uh quite ignorant for someone to make that charge, Ben. Let me ask first, do you know the particular rabbi that he's been listening to? Yeah, I didn't want to mention any names.

It was Rabbi Toby Singer. Tobias Singer, I believe. Tobias Singer and I debated twice. Over 20 years ago. The first time was unexpected.

I didn't know it was coming. I don't think he knew it was coming. At a house, a private gathering of a number of leaders and counter-missionaries. Let's just say I didn't know what the subject matter was going to be when we got there. People pulled out tape recorders and taped the event.

He requested that we not release those, so we never did for good reason. We then debated a second time on Sid Roth's program, which he had a show that was just based in New York at that time.

So we blanketed New York City. And then after the debate, Tovia, Sid, and I went back to the audio because it was cassette tape and the limit was 90 minutes, and we had over two hours of content.

So we agreed together on what parts to cut out, and then, with full consent from the three of us, put out the 90-minute tape, which you can listen to on my website, askdrbrown.org. Just type in a singer, or just go to YouTube and type in Brown Singer. You can listen to that. And since that day, Toby has refused to debate me. He has been offered many times.

He's been offered debates on college campuses. He's been offered debates on TV, on radio, and he has refused to debate me ever since.

So let your friend know that. Let your friend know whatever you've heard. And Tobia knows because there have even been petitions for him to debate me. He has refused. You have to wonder why.

First set of tapes he asked us not to release after the second one, which was edited and released according to his explicit approval and mine and Sid's. In other words, there were some extraneous phone calls and things like that that we agreed, okay, would not be part of the debate. That we issued. Anyway, he's refused to debate me ever since, and the reasons that he gives. Are as bad as the refusal to debate.

So that's the first thing. And we've addressed these things for decades. If in fact, my whole video series on Countering the Counter Missionaries, which is available through our ministry, over 22 hours, Countering the Counter Missionaries, 22 hours of teaching on DVD, in particular, was done to demolish a lot of his positions because he had a popular lecture series for years that he put out.

So that's all been demolished in writing, etc. And Hebrews 8:9 is anything but a mistranslation or a misquote. And in fact, what I'm going to do, Ben, stay right there. I've only got 20 seconds or so. Before the break.

So, on the other side of the break, I want to explain why there's Hebrews is quoting an accurate Jewish translation in Greek. There's nothing going on whatsoever in terms of changing anything. It is an ignorant attack on the New Testament text and nothing less than that. All right, we'll be right back with your questions. I know Folons are jammed.

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So back to Ben in New Haven, Connecticut. And by the way, I've got five volumes on answering Jewish objections to Jesus. The volume four deals explicitly with objections based on the New Testament, these kinds of things. But very, very simple. And Tovia.

certainly knows the answer to this and is simply not giving it. Hebrews is written in Greek. In fact, it's a very elegant Greek. It's written in Greek, and when it quotes, the the Hebrew scriptures, how does it quote them? It quotes them in Greek.

Just like, for example, if I'm speaking to you now and I said, you know, John 3:16, this is how God loved the world, etc. I don't quote it to you in Greek, I quote it to you in in English and then if I'm Writing a book, I'm quoting from certain English versions.

So, what was the Jewish translation, the primary, most widely used? Jewish translation of the Hebrew Bible of that day. Not a Christian translation. Jewish translation. What was it?

It was the Septuagint. The Septuagint was translated by Greek-speaking Jews a couple hundred years, give or take some decades on either side, before the time of Jesus.

So this was the Greek Bible. The Hebrew says Ba'alti, which would mean I was a husband to them. Others have suggested that it's a biform for Bachalti. Or even gaalti, which would have to do with rejecting, but that's how the Septuagint translated it. Although I rej and I rejected them.

They were unfaithful, and I rejected them. The Hebrew, in its most likely reading, says Although I was a husband to them. But the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the day, Said, the Jewish Greek translation, I want to emphasize that, said, Although I rejected them, and that's what Hebrews is quoting. It's not a mistranslation, it's simply quoting the Greek Jewish version of the day. And in fact, there are scholars who say, yes, that does reflect the more original sense of the text, or that's what we think was the right sense of the text.

But either way, is that a misquote? It's nothing manufactured. It's simply, here's the Greek Bible that was done by Jews, used by Jews who didn't speak English. That's what's being quoted. If Toby doesn't know that, I'd be absolutely astonished.

if he doesn't know that. I I would be more than astonished. The fact that he knows it and doesn't tell you that is Is what concerns me more than anything. That to me. Is deceitful.

Let him say why he differs with the Septuagint, but let him not deny the evidence.

So, real simple. Hebrews is quoting from the Jewish Greek translation of the day used by Greek-speaking Jews. It's that simple. My series, Countering the Counter Missionaries, will really help your friend. It's available on our website in DVD or audio form.

If he's serious about the truth, this will set him free. Hey, thank you for the call. Friends, this is a lot of why we do what we do. Because people are confused. They hear these bogus claims that are put forth in These uh Grandiose terms.

Oh, this is a misquote manufactured. Write out the New Testament. Erase this word. No, no, that's not the case. That's not the case.

And when it's presented like that, people get insecure. These are deceptive things that are being put forth to undermine faith. They are not based on truth. 866-34-TRUTH. We go to Bowie, Maryland.

Renee, welcome to the line of fire. Thank you, doctor Brown, for taking my call. I'm calling because I've been married for twenty years, and my husband refuses to work. And as a Christian, I'm conflicted in terms of What to do in the sense of I've looked up divorce in the Bible and I've also looked up work. But I'm still torn, um in regards to what to do because it I know God hates divorce.

Um, but it doesn't really say anything specifically in terms of um what what works. Yeah, boy, I'm sorry to hear. It's twenty, twenty years you've been you've been married. And Renee, when you say he refuses to work, what does he do for for income?

Well, he sells real estate for income.

However, that's a sales position, so you only get any money when you sell a house. And so he doesn't have um he doesn't have a like he doesn't sell a house every month or anything like that.

Sometimes it could be he hasn't sold any houses this year so far, but even just over the years, um, it's not consistent. And and and how how many hours a week does he work? That's just it. Um, I go to work every day, but sometimes like if I work from home, he'll be sleep or watching T V or he doesn't to work for yourself, you really have to be disciplined and it requires a lot. And I don't see that I don't see those efforts.

Got it. All right, first, there's a quick video you can watch on my YouTube channel when you have a chance about divorce and remarriage. And uh, that's on our ask Dr. Brown uh YouTube channel, A-S-K-D-R Brown. But I do want to say this, Renee, as difficult as this is and as disturbing.

As a man, For me to hear this as a man, it's very disturbing. that the husband is not the breadwinner and is not the provider and doesn't have that incentive. to care for his wife and family and make an effort to I mean that's very disturbing to hear that's no grounds for divorce. There are no biblical grounds for divorce simply because your husband is not providing. Is he involved in a church with you?

He'll go, but it doesn't. I think he just goes out of habit. I don't see any change. All right, so he's does he profess to be a follower of Jesus? Yeah.

I I I would say that it's high time That That uh Fate. You and he sit down. With your pastor or wherever, you know, if it's a bigger church, you know, a leader that you can get with. and just lay out the situation honestly. And then he's got to be held accountable.

Paul makes plain in 2 Thessalonians 3.10, even when we were with you, we would give you this command, if anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. And you could say to him, listen, if I stop working, how are you going to live? How are you going to feed yourself? And do you have children? Yeah.

Yeah. And so I feel like I'm not setting a good example. Right. Look, he needs to be sobered up to reality. Based on what you're saying, He needs to be held accountable.

And if the real estate thing is not bringing the money and he's not putting in his 40 hours of work a week, then he just needs to do something. And I know that you would feel better even if he had a low-wage job and was working 40 hours a week that he was working and that he was being responsible. As opposed to right, right.

So he needs to be held accountable. And I would basically work with church leadership to help him, whatever his issues are, if it's just plain laziness, he needs to repent, if it's he just doesn't know how to do certain things or whatever it is. He needs to be confronted. I mean, 20 years is a long time. And This is totally radical.

This is totally radical. But if he's just re if he literally refuses to work, You could almost say, listen, I'm going to provide for my daughters, but I'm not providing for you. And where there's some type of pressure and accountability. Again, this is complex. I'm only looking at it from the outside.

I don't know him. I don't know you, the whole situation. But here's where the local church, key guys, if he has brothers who are friends, they need to hold him accountable. And if he just has some. Weakness, you know, if it's sin, he's got to repent.

If it's some weakness, then guys stand with him and say, Look, buddy, we're going to help you. You need to work.

Okay, I'm going to hire you to dig ditches. I'm going to, you know, or get a job at McDonald's, or every day, here's your job every day. You go to the employment agency every day and you sit there until you get hired. And you do that nine to five until you get hired, and then you do what you have to do. And when you're sick and tired of these menial jobs, maybe that'll give you the incentive to do something else.

This is where the church really needs to hold him accountable. And whatever way you can without. trying to dominate over him. You need to try to hold them accountable. But let's just do this.

And again, I can only give so much counsel because it's not right or fair. Because I'm not there involved with your situation. I'm not the pastor. But Lord, I pray for Renee and her husband. that you would turn this around for good.

They've been together for 20 years. They have daughters. I pray that you'd bless them and that this man would have a holy fire lit under him to be the head of his home, to be the provider, that whatever is stopping him from a healthy work ethic, that he'd make the necessary adjustments in his life, and that the church community would help this couple. find a place of real wholeness and blessing. In Jesus' name.

Hey, thank you for the call. And here's where the local body Here's where the local body really needs to come together. 866-348-7884 is the number to call. And before I go back to the phones, let me just take a quick look here. Let's see.

My poll on Twitter I normally vote Republican. In this election, I plan to vote for one, Trump, two, Hillary, three, neither. Zero for Hillary, but only 31% for Trump and 69% for neither. Or neither. Wow.

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Thanks so much for calling today, 866-34TRUTH. You've got questions, we've got answers. Queens, New York, Frank, welcome to the line of fire. Good evening, Dr. Crown.

Hello. I got I got yes, sir. Good evening. I think it's afternoon still, isn't it? Yes, it is.

I I got I got a two-part question. On paradise. When Christ was crucified on the cross, he said to one of the the man that was there with him that today thou shalt be with me in paradise. Yes.

Now, wh where where is that paradise? And where was Christ? For those three days, where was Christ? And where is that paradise that he refers to? Yeah, paradise is only mentioned a couple of times in the scriptures.

Jesus, as you mentioned to the repentant thief on the cross, today you'll be with me in paradise. And then Paul in 2 Corinthians 12 talking about being caught up into paradise. There's also a reference in Revelation, the second chapter.

Some argue and believe that paradise was previously. in an under-the-earth setting And that from paradise you could see into Hades, the place of the lost, and that's reflected in Luke 16. And then Jesus now brings everyone that was in paradise up into heaven. That's one belief. The other belief is Luke 16 is just a parable.

to show you the gulf after death. Between the righteous and the unrighteous, the saved and the lost, and that paradise has always been in God's presence in heaven. what what is clear is that Jesus does several things. Frank, from the time of his crucifixion to his physical resurrection. It seems that he ascends into the heavenlies to purify the heavenlies.

Hebrews 9 talks about that, that he purifies the heavenly tabernacle, which had previously been defiled apparently by Satan's fall, as we would understand it. And that you could say the righteous were always there, but waiting for him. And that upon his death, one of the things he does is ascend. The other thing that's clear is that at a certain point, he descends. And he does not suffer in hell.

The idea that he went into hell and suffered the fate of eternal punishment, that's incorrect. When he died on the cross, he said, it is finished. The work of redemption was finished at that part. But 1 Peter 3 seems to indicate that he descended into the nether world and declared his victory over the forces of darkness. He descended into the nether world and basically said, I am he.

It is sealed. It is over.

Now, there are two possible choices. One He descended into the netherworld and declared his victory, and took the righteous who had been in this place called paradise. which was also, as I say, in an under-the-earth spatial setting. We're talking about a spiritual concept in a spatial setting, and then took those people. up to heaven with him?

Or He descended into the nether world, declared his victory, once and for all over death itself. and then ascended to heaven where the righteous always were.

So certainly that thief on the cross was with Jesus in paradise that very day. Was it because paradise was relocated from under the earth to a heavenly place, or paradise was always in a heavenly place? Either way, it seems Jesus descended and ascended spiritually before his physical, bodily resurrection. That's as best as I can understand it, Frank.

So thank you very much for the question. Much appreciate it. We go to Brockton, Massachusetts. Tom, welcome to the line of fire. Hi, Dr.

Brown. Good afternoon. It's nice to hear your voice once more. Um And I thank you so much for the wonderful work. You continue to do the Lord bless you and the work and your team.

But I want to thank you for always speaking the truth in love. and speaking with a sense of respect. even when others are not being respectful. My concern is with Donald Chump. is that I see mister Chump um in the same light as I look at Pharaoh in the Bible.

Where God raised Pharaoh up as a king, but Pharaoh made himself out to be a god because Of his success, I see Mr. Chump. you know, who has a public um f who is a public figure. And he has given a public speech. His tongue.

It's carelessness in speech. and his blatant lying. Which I think has something to do with his financial success, which I'm happy for. But I see Mr Chump as a boiling pot. is getting ready to be spelled.

And I just want people to understand that, look, these are two two guys that are very similar Mr. Chump and Mr. Farrell. And we've got to continue to pray and ask the Lord to intervene because uh and on the other hand either, I'm not calling because I want to bash mister Chump. I don't think Hillary is any better than mister Chump.

You know, it's just time for prayer, it's time to press in because it's a boiling pot. And when a boiling pot spills, it's going to cause damage. Yes, Tom, first thank you for the very kind words, much appreciate it. And yes, that's why I've had grave concerns about Donald Trump. It grieves me that there were some who thought I had concerns about Donald Trump simply because I was a supporter of Ted Cruz and I wanted to see Senator Cruz elected.

I can understand someone feeling that way, and I'm only human, my sentiments and emotions are not perfect. But I can tell you before the Lord, That quite a few times I tried to have a positive attitude towards Donald Trump, even after endorsing Ted Cruz and to this day. And that my concerns rose because of who Donald Trump is. And I wrote an article Tuesday night after he had that crushing victory in Indiana: that Donald Trump is a national inquirer candidate for a Jerry Springer generation. That's my great concern.

Now, there are people who said months ago, And some apparently years ago, that Donald Trump would be raised up as a president of America, that God would greatly use him, that he would do good to the country, and that he would help demolish the corrupt political system. If that's so, let it be. Let's pray for God's best for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and America. Let's pray for their repentance. Let's pray for their real salvation.

Let's pray for God to raise them up for his purposes or raise someone else up for his purpose. But right now, Yes, I share those grave concerns, Tom, because of who he is. And when you think of what he has done in savaging candidates by name. In ugly ways, in false ways, in lying ways, in savaging their wives, in savaging their fathers, and in attacking and demeaning. Uh I could not in conscience at this stage Vote for someone who is that kind of person.

I so hope that he'll be a changed man. I so hope that my concerns will prove wrong, or if Hillary is elected, that my grave concerns about a Hillary candidacy would prove wrong. I'm sad to say that my grave concerns about a Barack Obama presidency, in terms of gay activism, in terms of abortion activism, in terms of assaults on our religious liberties. I'm sad to say, I told you so. I would so much rather, almost eight years into his presidency, I would so much rather say, Boy, was I wrong.

Thus far Not the case.

So I share these concerns. You may be a person of conscience. You may love the Lord. You may be spiritual, patriotic, and support Donald Trump. I'm not damning you.

I'm simply saying why I cannot. Thank you, Tom. My bottom line today: keep your eyes on King Jesus. The world is getting completely chaotic. Stability comes only from him.

Well, let's do it. I'm ready. You're ready. You've got questions. We've got answers.

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Michael Brown, delighted to be with you on this Friday broadcast. The easiest day of the week for me to broadcast because we're not putting news items together. We're not looking at key scriptural discussions we're going to have. We're not planning out guests that are going to be on the air with us. We're simply taking your calls and answering your emails.

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Any question that is. Relevant, any question that by relevant I mean for this radio show, any question that's suitable for Christian radio, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to give you answers based on scripture, based on whatever experience or knowledge that I have. And if we don't know the answer, we'll do our best to point you in the right direction. We will go right to the phone starting in Boston, Massachusetts. AJ, welcome to the line of fire.

Hi, Dr. Brown. Thanks for taking my call. Sure thing. I just had a qu before I get to that question, I I'm with you that I couldn't in clear conscience vote for either Hillary or Trump, so I'm right with you.

Yes, and by the way, for those just tuning in, I had answered a question right at the end of the last hour about that. But I'm doing a Facebook poll and a Twitter poll. The Facebook poll, we have to read through the comments on our Ask Dr. Brown Facebook page. But on Twitter, it's automatically computed as votes come in.

So I just started this last hour and just the first 176 votes so far. But I said, if you normally vote Republican, who are you going to vote for in this election? Trump, Hillary, neither. And so far, 70% say neither. 30% say Trump.

0% say Hillary, so that's That's very eye-opening. Anyway, back to you, AJ, and your question. Um uh yes, um I I just uh I I had a um a a a dear brother talking to me about the uh book of Enoch and he sounded like he's he's he was saying that it it it should have been part of the canon of scripture and I ha i i it and I was just wondering um did the um did the ancient rabbis ever consider the Book of Enoch part of the God-based scriptures? Or I was wondering how it ended up not being part of canon? I was just wondering.

It was never recognized. By any wide body of ancient rabbis or of the early church leaders as being canonical. It was widely revered. And red but it never achieved that status. And that status would be achieved when there's kind of a universal recognition that this too is God's word.

So, for example, when Jude quotes it, he doesn't say, as it is written. Uh, the way, or as the scriptures say, rather, he just quotes Enoch the seventh from Adam with a quote. Uh, the Bible quotes other books, you know, it quotes the book of Yashar, for example, or Joshua, and as you see in English translations. We don't have that, you know, there's something many, many centuries later, someone wrote claiming it was that, but no, we don't have that. There are certain other books that are quoted.

Paul sometimes quotes poets, secular pagan poets. He quotes them on a couple of occasions in the New Testament, once in Luke 17, for example.

So, just because something is quoted doesn't mean it's scripture, but when something is quoted as as it is written or as the scripture says, then you know it was taken as scripture.

So, no, the ancient rabbis at no point widely or universally received it as scripture, it's not quoted as scripture in rabbinic literature or in the New Testament. And if you don't even have anything close now to an original Enoch, we have. The the entire book is in a much later Ethiopic translation. But you can just tell your friend, if you read all of the book of Enoch, you'll understand why it was not part of the canon of scripture. And it's several different books composed over a period of different times.

Yes.

Could it have some actual quotes back from Enoch that have been passed on? Yes.

And is that what Jude's quoting? Could be. But was it ever widely considered scripture? No. And it shouldn't be.

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All to help foster awakening in the church and moral and cultural revolution in the society. We go to Germantown, Maryland. Michael, welcome to the line of fire. Hi, Dr. Michael Brown.

Hello. Yes.

My question has to do with With God dwelling in the believer, I believe that. the church for the most part teaches that the Holy Spirit dwells in the believer and And I believe this as well. I believe that there's scriptural evidence for that. But My question is, does Jesus. Dwell in the believer as well as the Holy Spirit simultaneously.

I know I've heard people say that only the Holy Spirit dwells in the believer, not Jesus, but a couple of scripture scripture versus brought this question up to me. One is Second Corinthians chapter thirteen, verse five. And also Galatians. chapter two, verse twenty. Yeah, the the The passages you're referring to.

And we could have also gone to John 14, where Jesus says that he and his Father will manifest themselves in our lives. And look, we're still talking about one God and one God only, right?

So, we don't want to split hairs unnecessarily. But when Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 13:5, do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to meet the test? He's in us by the Holy Spirit. In other words, Each Person in the Godhead has a certain role and function, and yet it is one God in us. In that sense, the Father dwells in us as well.

How? By the Spirit. We know if we get a few verses down in 2 Corinthians, the 13th chapter. Verse 14: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Notice that our fellowship, our communion is with the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, who has been given to us as a deposit.

So yes, Jesus is in our hearts by faith. Galatians 2.20, it's Jesus who lives in me. But I understand that as by the Holy Spirit. and that Jesus by faith being in my heart Jesus being in me, he's obviously physically not in me, right? And it seems that he is located at the right hand of the Father, so that his role he may appear to people and things like that, but his primary role is that he's at the right hand of the Father, and the Holy Spirit is the one who's working on the earth and indwelling us.

So I simply understand this to be, and look, I'm not going to argue with someone who says, I believe Jesus lives inside of me also. But when someone says he lives, he lives, he lives within my heart, you know, that old hymn, and I know I'm saved because Jesus lives inside of me. Yes, to all of that, but I understand he does that by his spirit. That's the spirit's role. And that's how Jesus lives inside of us.

That's how I would understand it. But I'm certainly not going to get into an argument about it.

Okay. Well thank you very much. Can I ask one more quick question? Yeah, real quick. Go ahead.

About Second Timothy chapter three, verse sixteen, that talks about all scripture being inspired. When it says that scripture is good for reproof, What what exactly do you think that means? Yeah, it's pretty simple in context because he then uses that again. It's profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. And then in 2 Timothy 4:1, he exhorts him in the presence of God.

And of Christ Jesus, who's to judge the living and the dead by his appearance in kingdom, appearing in kingdom, verse 2, preach the word, be ready in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching. This is correction. A reproof is correction. The scripture is given not just to bless, not just to encourage, not just to comfort, but also to correct, to reprove. And that's what Paul does in many of his letters.

This is wrong. Read 1 Corinthians, for example. This is wrong. I can't commend you for this. Don't grieve the Holy Spirit, he writes to the Ephesians.

Jesus says in Revelation 3:19, as many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore, be zealous and repent. Read through the book of Proverbs, and it's filled with words of rebuke. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

So Absolutely. Reproof is correction. And if we were never being corrected by the word, then we're not reading it rightly, or we're not hearing it rightly, or it's not being preached rightly to us. All right, thank you. And it's not being condemned.

God corrects us. He corrects his children. He doesn't condemn his children. 866-34-TRUTH. Let's go to York, South Carolina.

Minnie, welcome to the line of fire. Thank you so much, Dr. Brown. Just wanted to call, this is my first time calling in. I was actually introduced to you.

At the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, you came and you did devotions a couple of times. And so um I was Introduce to you then. And so one afternoon on my way home from work, I Just Flipping through the stations. I didn't want to listen to the music.

So I turned on the AM station and I heard your voice and I was like, wow, that voice sounds familiar. And then I was like, that's fucked up.

So I've been listening to you ever since. That was like last year. Just wanted to say thank you for what you do. I've been very blessed by everything that I've heard on your program and just wanted to say thank you. Oh, I'm blessed by that, Minnie.

Thank you so much. I do appreciate it. Hey, let me ask you this: we talk about a lot of tough issues on the air here. We tackle controversies, we talk about divisive things happening in the political world, and try to bring a kingdom perspective. How does this broadcast help you?

in particular, because there are a lot of things to listen to, and I'm always blessed to get good reports from our listeners too, but how are we able to be a blessing and help in your life through this broadcast? I think just actually giving me a new perspective of a lot of different areas, you know, mainly you hear teachings. um on the radio just strictly you know talking about spiritual things, but you get into more of social And things like that, which is a tremendous blessing because. You know, as a believer, we should be well-rounded.

So we should be exposed to, you know. knowledge and And I just feel like I've gotten a lot of that from listening to you, and I'm so appreciative.

Well, thank you so much. I'm blessed to hear that. And obviously, each one has their role. There are those that are just going to teach through the scriptures systematically. There are others that are going to focus on certain spiritual subjects, and that's really their calling.

And where would we be without the focus on the families and those types of ministries? Then it's our role to tackle lots of these other subjects and to equip and help believers to stand strong, to stand courageously in an informed way, speaking the truth in love in the midst of a dark society. Hey, thank you for the words of encouragement. Really appreciate it. And blessings to you at the Billy Graham Association.

866-34TRUT. Let's go to Kaysville, Utah. David, welcome to the line of fire. I Hello? Oh.

Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. I have a question. On the book of Esther. Uh it goes back to something I heard from a Man.

Ah.

Well, he uh wrote an article Can He was a uh Jew. They've been tortured.

So bad that he couldn't stand up him or he preached.

So, I met him one time and he was preaching and had to sit down and preach. He's talking in his language about the book faster And he stood in there where uh For uh Hannah. His horn For his crime against the Jews? Uh It misses it. There were three times in uh The last Catra Vesta and Ninth Centre, I think.

And he Says that the readers For is there twice is because at the second time it happened But in nineteen forty six, And that was the his righteous minister that were the Nazis. And uh There. Yeah, yeah, tell you what, let me um Let me jump in here. Got a break. You must be talking about Pastor Richard Warnbron though.

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A fascinating question from David in Utah about Purim. And the hanging, actually impaling would be more likely what happened. The impaling of Haman and his sons as those who were plotting to kill the Jews got killed themselves.

So, what does this have to do with Nazi war crimes? over the centuries. Over the centuries There have been striking things that have happened. At the same time that Purim takes place, it's only February, March, thereabouts each year on our calendars, and it varies based on what it is on the Hebrew calendar. And for example, Saddam Hussein's Scud missile attack, 39 Scud missiles, and instead of doing the incredible damage expected, massive casualties, there are hardly any casualties.

Uh it was shocking and then it ends and and it's it's it's Purim time and Of course, Jews many times have suffered right through Purim, but there have been these unusual deliverances and For example, I'm looking at the unitedwithisrael.org website, and if you just type in online, Nazi War Trials and Purim. You'll find a bunch of articles on this. But Unitedwithisrael. org says the haunting connection between these two eras in Jewish history So, the hanging of Haman's ten sons in the story of Purim, and the hanging of ten Nazis after the Nuremberg trials for crimes against humanity. The haunting connection between these two eras in Jewish history begins with a story from the Talmud, in which it is explained that in the Purim story, Haman's daughter committed suicide and thus didn't need to be hung.

Similarly, following the Nuremberg trials, Hermann Göring, a well-known Nazi cross-dresser, according to this article, also committed suicide and thus was not hung. In fact, Julius Streicher, the Nazi editor of the anti-Semitic De Schurmer newspaper, even proclaimed before he was hung, Pürimfest 1946. In other words, 10 of us are being hung, just like 10 of Haman's sons died. We who wanted to kill the Jews, and in the case of the Nazis did kill the Jews, now we are the ones being killed. Richard Wornbraun, as someone that knew Jewish tradition well and spoke many languages, but knew many of the Jewish stories, the traditional stories, was probably making reference to one of these interesting rabbinic parallels.

So it's just something uncanny where it seems the book of Esther plays out again in history. Hey, thank you for the call. Much appreciated. Friends, we have been swamped with calls since the broadcast started almost an hour and a half ago, but now is a great time to call in so that we can do our best to get to your calls before our show is over. 35 more minutes of broadcasting time ahead of us.

866-348-7884. Four. Abulah asks this question. I'm interested to know what your views are regarding divorce and remarriage, please. Beulah.

Can I point you to my website, ask Dr Brown.org, A-S-K-D-R-Brown.org? In fact, let me make it simpler for you. Go to our YouTube channel. Go to YouTube. Ask Dr.

Brown, A S K D R Brown, our YouTube channel. And you'll just look for our video on Can Christians Remarry? Or what about divorce and remarriage? I believe that's the title of it.

So we answer that. A question about are there ever grounds where a Christian who has been divorced can remarry while the spouse is still living. In other words, let's say you're married. Let's say your husband, that's your woman. Your husband leaves you.

He commits adultery with multiple women. You offer to take him back if he'll repent. He says, I don't want you. I don't want the kids. I don't want your God.

I'm out of here. I'm divorcing you. He divorces you, cuts you off, and goes ahead and marries one of those other women. Do you have the possibility of remarriage? Based on my understanding of Scripture, the answer is yes.

You need to come to a conclusion yourself before the Lord. But I deal with that. It's only about four minutes long, the video, so it's easy to watch on our YouTube channel, Ask Dr. Brown, A-S-K-D-R-Brown, and it's about divorce and remarriage. 866-566.

348-7884. I haven't grabbed any email questions until now. I'm going to take a few more. Uh amber. I know it says to send in a letter for questions, but I have to ask this question now.

What doctrine is right? What type of church should we go to? And is the blowing on people and making people fall to the ground biblical? I don't see the point when people go up for prayer or word for a speaker or someone to blow on the person, even when they're resisting the fall and making them fall. Is that really the Holy Spirit?

I'm so confused and I have such doubts on what doctrine is right. And it's causing me to be sad and down. Thanks. Oh, Amber, don't be sad and down. Don't don't be sad and down.

at all. First, there are many, many churches where the leaders, the congregants love the Lord and want to serve the Lord. And they're preaching the scriptures. And lives are being changed, people are being saved.

So, you want to major on the majors. That's the first thing. You want to major on the majors. You want to go somewhere where the word is consistently preached and taught, where Jesus is central, where there's outreach to the lost, where there's nurturing of the believer, where you're called to go deeper, where there's integrity among the leaders. That may sound like a lot, but that should be every church in our community should fit that mold.

Be it a group that meets in the house. be it someone that meets in a large cathedral building.

So you you find the place major on the majors. Don't major on the minors. Major on the majors. Is there a doctrine about blowing on people?

Well, Jesus blew on his apostles and said, receive the Spirit. It's not wrong to blow on someone, but are we commanded to blow on people? Should we blow on the sick? We pray for the sick. And if someone says, hey, I don't even want to touch you, I don't want there to be any sense of my physical touch or you thinking I'm trying to push you or anything, and that's why I blow on someone, fine.

But we don't make a doctrine out of it. It is not. against scripture to blow on someone. And say, receive the Spirit. Jesus did it.

Now I'm praying for you to receive the Spirit, to receive the fullness of the Spirit. I don't think I've ever done it in my life, but I am not absolutely. Not going to debate that. If my pastor, let's say I was going to a church. And that's how my pastor prayed for people to receive the Spirit.

I wouldn't leave because of that, or I wouldn't go there because of that. That would be totally peripheral to me. My bigger question is: is he a godly man? Is he teaching the word? Is he shepherding the flock?

And are people being touched when he prays for them? Are they receiving something from the Lord? As for pushing people, look, the goal is not for people to fall. I have no problem with praying for people, and the Holy Spirit touches them. I've prayed for people, and they've fallen flat on their face.

I've prayed for people and they've fallen flat on their back. I pray for people and they fall into their knees. I've prayed for people and they begun to weep. They begun to shake. But I do not pray for them so that they will fall or weep or shake.

I pray that they'll be healed or so the Holy Spirit will touch them. And the whole idea of someone's going to, the whole thing's going to fall or someone's going to push, oh, come on, that's just silly. That's just immature. If that's a big, big, big issue, a church makes a big, big, big issue out of it. That's the big thing.

Well, that's a problem. That's a problem. But if it's a side thing, it's not the major issue, I wouldn't major on it. It's the line of fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian Dr. Michael Brown.

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Now Hillary is now up to 1%.

So I've got 1% of my Republican Twitter followers who say that this election they're going to vote for her. 30% say they'll vote for Trump. 69% say they'll vote for neither. That's I don't know, look, all this reflects is my own Twitter followers. And our Facebook page, well we've got over 360,000 Facebook fans, but our Twitter following is smaller.

We're developing that more slowly than our Facebook site or our Facebook page. But we've got almost 21,000 Twitter followers. And this is the first couple hundred plus votes that have come in.

So it's a representative sampling of some subset out there. Maybe very conservative, primarily Christian-based. uh Republican voters.

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We go back to the phone starting in Riverdale, Utah. Josie, welcome to the line of fire. Hi, Michael. Thank you so much for having me on the show. You've had me on the show before.

I've asked a question, and I can't tell you how much I thank, God, that your words are loud and clear and really encourage us and inform us of the Spirit and what the Lord's delivering message through you for us.

So I really appreciate all that you do and all your staff. members do. My question was on dreams. I have family members that are kind of caught up with dreams. They are Christians.

Um they're very committed to their church and and and I myself just um knowing myself how negative dreams can be and and really misleading. Um but I feel that they they have maybe placed a lot into those dreams that they're having. And I just kind of wanted an idea of how dreams are playing into the end of times and how Possibly the enemy can use dreams, and how much we can really trust or not trust in our dreams as far as God's messages. I know we have. Our um Our pastors to do that for us.

So just if you could just kind of give us an idea of Of that, that would be great. Sure. And Josie, thank you for the kind words. Really do appreciate them, and our whole team appreciates them.

Okay, there's no question to me that God can and does speak through dreams, both Old Testament and New Testament, and that I expect that to happen right until Jesus returns. I have not had prophetic dreams myself over the years. Most of the time, we dream about. What we're thinking about. And a couple of years back, there was a dear brother who's with the Lord now, but he was known for interpreting dreams.

And We hadn't seen each other in a few years. And That night I dreamt That I had a dream, and in the dream there were three clear messages to me. And when I saw him in the morning I said to him, I had a dream, and this is the interpretation I believe is right. And he said to me, You're wrong on all three points. I told him that in the morning, we had a good laugh.

But you know, my dreams are pretty much what's on my mind, what I'm thinking about, and that's that's normally what I'm remembering dreaming about. But I have other friends who really have prophetic dreams. I mean, there is no denying it, some have been. Uncanny.

Some have named names and they've seen people's faces and They've been extraordinary. And a friend of mine will be planning out a major prayer and fasting rally, and he's planning it out a year ahead. And someone that doesn't know him calls his ministry, the Lord gave me a dream, I'm supposed to work with you and help with this prayer and fasting rally for such and such a date, whereas it hadn't even been announced yet. And I've been with groups Where they are really praying and seeking the Lord together. And in the morning, the leaderships, the leadership, Team comes together and they say, Has the Lord spoken anything in dreams?

And three or four people, I was in a meeting like this, where three, four, or five people have almost the identical dream with the same theme.

So I believe that God speaks like that.

However, it is absolutely not. the primary way that he speaks. And to the extent that we put our emphasis on dreams rather than on the word, we can really open ourselves up to deception for obvious reasons. One is dreams are subject to interpretation in a way that the Bible is not. In other words, dreams can be so full of symbolism, so full of hidden meaning, so full of things that only become clear as they unfold or that are exaggerated in our own minds through dreams, that to compare a dream to, say, the teaching of Jesus or to compare a dream to the wisdom of Proverbs, you just can't do that.

One is forthright declaration and teaching and instruction, and the other is often largely symbolic in its meaning. That's one thing. The other thing is. Anybody could dream a dream, and it could be due to eating something you shouldn't have eaten, or going to sleep with wrong emotions, or it could be Satan and demons intruding.

So, you don't test the word by dreams, you test dreams by the word.

So if God in fact is dealing with A family like this, and they really hear from the Lord through dreams if they put their emphasis on scripture. If that is the main place of learning from God, hearing from God, following God, if they understand every dream is subject to Scripture and does not stand above Scripture, and that their faith ultimately must be based on what God has said and only secondarily on things He may communicate in a dream, then. it could be fine and healthy. But if it becomes an obsession, if they won't do anything unless they have dream confirmation, if they're looking to dreams more than the word, then that's a real caution and it could easily lead to error.

Okay, thank you so very much. Negative dreams, the dreams that you're ever having that you can't even go for even your the moment you fall asleep and they're just constantly negative, negative, negative, and you pray and you pray for those dreams to not torment you. Is that something that usually is it? I mean, do you believe that having the pastor come into your house, having pray over, having to come, you know, you know, to pray over the house, and is that something that's that's biblical? Is that something that's supported by the word?

Or is it something that a person themselves just needs to have prayer personally? You never know, Josie. I don't want to be closed-minded. To something just because it's different than what I am used to, or because I can't find an exact text. That will back up everything, because this is a secondary matter, not a primary matter.

If someone is constantly tormented by negative dreams, whenever they fall asleep, they dream that they're dying, or they dream that they're gonna kill someone, or they dream that something terrible is happening to their family. And it's not that the Lord was warning, you know, it's not like this was a genuine warning from the Lord. It's just tormenting dreams. It's either the result of anxiety in our own hearts and minds or demonic attack.

So we go to the Lord before we go to sleep, we lean on him, we give him our thoughts, we give him our desires, we then meditate on scripture before going to sleep. Let that be the last thing that your eyes fall on. You meditate on the scriptures. If the things continue, And you seem unable to break them, it could simply be asking for a leader to pray over you for deliverance and freedom for this, or to pray with you to help get to the root of what's causing the anxiety or opening the door to demonic attack. But there are real spiritual powers and strongholds.

Things were cleansed in the Old Testament. You know, they would get rid of idols. It's common for countries I go to, if I'm in like a third world country and maybe we're going to these little hut homes and people say, would you pray over our home? Would you bless our home? I believe these are biblical concepts.

And I know here and there that they're demonic strongholds from the past. And that a house may have been used for satanic purposes. He says, I mean, like, they're ghosts. No, just sometimes they're demonic strongholds. And I know of cases where leaders came in, or leaders, they prayed over the whole house, they anointed the house with oil.

He said, it seems strange. They did it, and then everything broke and was free after that. I just would not make that the major focus of practice, but sometimes these things do happen for sure. 866-34Truth. All right.

I don't want to interrupt a call here, so let me answer this quick, and then I'm going to get back to your calls right on the other side of the break. This was from Scott. It was right before, he wrote this right before Saturday Night Live did a mocking skit, mocking Christians, mocking the movie God's Not Dead. And he said, should Christians boycott Saturday Night Live NBC and their local affiliates over the planned Saturday Night Skit mocking God's Not Dead? My feeling is we just don't want to be entertained by that trash.

And if that's what Saturday Night Live does, then we don't watch it. In other words, If a restaurant were serving poisoned meat once a week, I'd never go there. If if they were serving dog food as the appetizer, I wouldn't go there.

So I've seen on video Some skits from Saturday Night Live that people have referred me to. Did you see this? Did you hear about that? But I've never watched it. I never watched it because, from what I knew, the entertainment was filled with lots of stuff that was.

ungodly or profane. Or degrading in content, the kind of stuff I wouldn't want to be entertained by. And therefore, simply say, well, I'm going to be entertained by that.

Well, next week is wholesome. You know what? I'm just not going to be entertained by Saturday Night Live. That would be my posture. We'll be right back with your calls.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Well, I missed this news a little bit earlier. that Labour Party's Sadiq Khan Has beaten Zach Goldsmith to become London's first Muslim. Mayor.

Wow. Missed that news earlier to day Fascinating to hear, and 866-34 TRUTH. Jim in Greensboro, North Carolina. Welcome to the line of fire. Thank you very kindly.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I have always been concerned.

somewhat intrigued about the use of audio. in prayer services doing this uh Uh day in time. I'm just wondering, is it really appropriate? And uh what I'll do, I'll just get off the phone and listen to your answer. All right, you got it, Jim.

Thank you for the question. Yes, it's certainly appropriate, sir. Why do I say it? First, oil is used in many different Sacred rites in the Old Testament. People could be anointed, things could be anointed for divine service, etc.

When we get to the New Testament, we see, for example, in Mark the 6th chapter, that when Jesus sends out his 12 to preach the gospel to heal the sick. It says they preached that people should repent. They drove out many demons and they anointed many sick people with oil. And then when we get to Jacob. Or James, the fifth chapter, it does make this as a rite, something that should be done.

As many sick among you. And the presumption being the person is too sick to go for prayer, so people have to come to the person. If there's any sick among you, let them call for the elders of the congregation and let them anoint him with oil, praying over him in the name of the Lord, and the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.

So the oil. In a symbolic way. The oil to represent the Holy Spirit. the oil to represent the means of healing was certainly used and I'm 100% for it.

Now the vast majority of times that I'm praying for people, if if after a meeting I'm asked to pray for the sick or something like that, I'm just laying hands on them. And of course that's perfectly appropriate as well. But sometimes someone will will hand us a little vial of oil. I've had people ask for prayer and hand me a vial of oil and say, we'd like you to anoint us because it's scriptural. Other times in the church, the leaders will say, okay, here's the oil, and they'll give it to you to dab a little on your hand to pray for them.

So 100% for it. No reason not to. Anything could be gimmicky. Anything could be merchandised. Anything could be superficial.

But this is thoroughly biblical and no reason not to. The big thing is, though, to pray in faith. The big thing is not the oil, but the prayer offered in faith. That's what makes the sick person well.

Someone's being set aside for ministry. You want to anoint them with oil as part of setting them apart. It's not explicit in the New Testament, but I certainly have no problem with it whatsoever. All right. We go to Chesterfield, Virginia.

Robin, welcome to the line of fire. Good afternoon. My question is on speaking in tongues, and I want to tell you what I've always believed and grown to believe. Um I recently started attending a church. I've been out of church for a long time.

I found a church that I thought I really, really liked, but a couple of Sundays ago there was a couple of women And it always seems to be women. that started speaking in tongues in the church. And my belief from when I researched in the scriptures was that if it's to edify the church, but if there's Not someone that can interpret, they're to sit down and be quiet. And I just. I don't know, and this, please forgive me, but it's just turned me off on this church.

I just. It makes me uncomfortable. I don't know why. But can you just tell me tell me your point on that. You had sent me a C D on True Grace, and it helped me tremendously.

And I really believe in your guidance and would appreciate just your input on this.

Well, thanks. First, I'm glad that the true grace CD was of help to you. And frankly, the Bible says a lot more about grace than it says about tongues, but we do have some very explicit Teaching about tongues.

So, in case others don't know where I stand in general, I do believe that tongues is a gift for today. I've prayed in tongues for well, since January 24th, 1972, sometimes for hours at a time in communion with God. I absolutely believe in it, and I do believe that there is tongues with interpretation for the public assembly.

So, I am not a tongues basher or a tongues critic. I I believe that uh As we pray in the Spirit. And speak in tongues. Let's say I'm alone with the Lord in my room praying, that I'm praying from my spirit to the Father, that there's deep communion in that. Paul says that when you speak in a tongue, you edify yourself, you speak mysteries in the spirit, but that for public use, now it's one thing, Robin, if I've got five leaders with me in the room and we're all praying together.

And we pray in tongues, and then one of us leads out in English, and everyone listens and agrees. That's one thing, because we don't have unbelievers among us, and we don't have skeptics and things like that. But for the public assembly, the rule is that if there's public tongues, there should be public interpretation. Right. So, for example, if um Uh it doesn't mean that You know, a few words can't be spoken.

And we got to stop everything, having interpretation. But if there's a public message delivered, like when I got up to preach, right, what's the use of it if I could speak fluent Hebrew and I got up and preach in Hebrew and no one there understands Hebrew, it's done nobody any good. In the same way, if I get up and speak in tongues for an hour, I might be blessed, but no one else is blessed, and it's unedifying.

So that's the context. If you're going to give a message, it must be intelligible.

So if these women, whether it's men or women, doesn't matter, but in this case, it's women. If they are doing it in a disruptive way, it's not a matter of during the worship, you're next to them and you can hear that one of them is quietly praying in tongues, you know, under the music. And we're talking about. A message being delivered, or something that's loud enough for others to hear, if there is an interpretation, then it's out of order. It doesn't mean the person's ungodly.

It's out of order. It is a distraction. Just like if I'm standing next to you saying, hubba bubba, hubba bubba, hubba, bubba, I love bubblegum, it doesn't matter. Or if I'm saying the ESV is better than the KJV and the NIV is better than the NET, or I'm giving sports scores, either way, it's a distraction and it's not relevant, and it's not for corporate purposes. worship.

But I would say this. If this is a healthy church otherwise, That you like the leadership, you feel they're godly, the pastor's godly, you're encouraged in the word, you're challenged to serve the Lord, you have a place where you can serve. I wouldn't leave over this, I would simply sit down with the pastor or whichever leader you could sit with and read through 1 Corinthians 14 or even reference this phone call on May 6th, towards the end of the broadcast. It's archived on our website. And say, Look, here's where I'm troubled.

I love the Lord. I just want to do things in a way that's pleasing. But forget it was tongues, just let's say it was German. Let's say it was anything. If it's not understood and there's not interpretation, it's not helpful.

And what it functions for the unbeliever, if you're doing it and unbeliever is there, it's basically pushing them away as an unbeliever. Whereas if there's prophecy, Now, this prophetic word can speak to them, and that would be the purpose of interpretation. But hey, Robin, I'm all out of time, but thank you for the question. And I hope the priorities can be worked out here. And that if it's a good church, aside from some minor abuses, that there can be some correction.

Hey, thank you for the call, and glad to have you as a listener. My bottom line today, oh, I've said it a hundred times, I'm going to say it once more: major on the majors, and you won't fall into the ditch on either side of it.