Matt Slick Live

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I'm just going to start jumping right into that. Now, we don't have any hate mail. Sorry, folks. I know that there are those of you out there who love hate mail. I do, too. I really enjoy hate mail.

It's my favorite. And, you know, I just love it when people criticize me, call me names, say I'm incompetent, don't know what I'm doing, serving the devil, that I'm a waste of air, you know, things like this. I've got a kick out of them, and rarely, I mean rarely, do they ever give a cogent argument or reason why. They just say things like, you're stupid, see, I showed you, and then they're gone. And those are, you know, nice quips, but they're of no substance.

I prefer something with substance, and it's difficult for a lot of people to do that. Anyway, so what I'm going to do right now is just get to some of the questions that we have. And all of a sudden, I've got a bunch of yawns coming up, a bunch of yawns. All right, I'm going to delete that question, get rid of this one. Let's see. That's not a question. This is a, oh, okay. Here's a question.

Hi, Matt. Just asking if you believe that Christians can have demons in flesh, not in spirit. No, demons, Christians cannot be demon-possessed. All right, let me go to the verses that talk about this.

And in Matthew 12, let's see, Matthew 12, I think it's 41, 43, actually. Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it. When it says, then it says, I will return to my house from which I came, and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and takes along with its seven other spirits, more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and the second condition is worse than the first.

So notice what it says. If the house is found swept clean and empty, then it can go in. Well, if it's occupied by the Holy Spirit, then the implication is it cannot. So no, Christians cannot be demon-possessed.

Now I know there's some positive confession. Wackos who, you know, get up in the morning and cough out demons, put demons in the handkerchief, because they slept with their mouth open, and demons got in. I've actually heard that, and it's pretty bad. So, and it says, there are deliverance ministries that can preach the gospel, and people can get saved out of deliverance ministries. That is true.

However, nobody yawns all of a sudden. Anyway, so we discovered that a lot of deliverance ministries actually cause more problems than they solve. A lot of times these charlatan-type deliverance ministries will say, oh yeah, you have a demon in you, the demon of apathy, the demon of greed, the demon of, and so we've got to get the demons out of you now. And so it's just ridiculous. They're talking to Christians when they talk about this. Me, you know, I've been saying, raising my hand, going, can you show me in the Bible where it says that that's the case? That demons can be a Christian, and you know, and they can't do it because it's not there.

So that's one thing. Anyway, this is Robert from Slovenia. What other person would you recommend similar to Sam Shamone and can explain, and if why Sam is not the best? Try David Wood. David Wood is good. I know David, and he's a great guy. Sam used to be a good guy, but I can't trust Sam anymore. He's good off the deep end, and I mean the deep end. He's praying to Mary now, can't believe he's a Catholic.

He's foul, and we can't recommend him. He used to like Sam's boldness. I get that, but he doesn't show the fruit of the Spirit anymore. So anyway, that's that. Let's get on to the next one.

I like doing these questions. I'm a firm believer in Reformed theology. I recently came across 1 Corinthians 8.11. For through your knowledge, he was weak as ruined, the brother whom Christ died.

I was wondering if you might have insights. Yeah, ruined doesn't mean that they lose their salvation. Ruined is just a word.

Ruined in what sense? Can Christians get into some bad habits, some bad things, some bad stuff, and pay the consequences? Absolutely.

Absolutely. So that's just what it is. So it doesn't mean that they lose their salvation because Jesus says that he will lose none. Now the Greek word there is poloutai, and it occurs 92 times. So it's used in different senses, in different ways. Wretched end, destroyed, lost, loses, perish, dying, and things like this.

So it has a large semantic domain. For through your knowledge, he was weak as ruined, your brother for whom Christ died. And it's not saying they can lose their salvation because we can't. Alright, Jesus says in John 6 that the will of the fathers that he lose none.

So it's not possible for him to lose any. We can get into all that another time. But that's how I would respond to that. It does not mean that they are lost.

Okay, excuse me. So I was wondering if you had any insights in that verse. Yeah, many disagree with the doctrine. Also cite Romans 14, 15. Let me get to Romans 14, 15. For if, because of food, your brother is hurt, you're no longer walking according to love, do not destroy with your food for whom Christ died.

Now there's two ways to look at this. For whom Christ died, does it say he bore their sin? Or is it saying individuals? Or is it saying groups of people?

These are just questions you have to ask. And when it says do not destroy with your food, how do you destroy someone with your food? Well, what he's talking about here is you stumble somebody because you're eating something that maybe he thinks you shouldn't be eating.

Something sacrificed to idols, something like this. You're doing something bad or in his eyes. And you can stumble him and really destroy his confidence and faith in Christ. Does it mean he's not saved?

Because a lot of times what happens is people will go through this and God uses it. But that's another way I would answer that one. All right, let's get to some other stuff. I'm hearing static on the line here. Maybe during the break we'll get back in or something. Hey Matt, speaking in tongues today, I believe it was a sign gift.

No use today. Can you explain? Well, we have to define what speaking in tongues is. And in Acts 2 it seems to be speaking in tongues seems to be the common knowledge or the common languages at that time.

All right, so that's one thing. Now it does say, oh man, in 1 Corinthians 13 about speaking with the tongues of angels. And then in 1 Corinthians 14 it talks about people coming and speaking in tongues. And so I don't believe that the sign gifts have ceased. And I don't believe that they were just sign gifts.

I don't see those, that categorization in scripture. These are the sign gifts and therefore they're going to cease. So if you could say, if someone could make a case that they are sign gifts, they're for certain things at certain times and the scripture needs to say that. Not just the ideas dispensationalists often say, it was just for sign gifts and therefore that's why they're gone. But words that say they're sign gifts or words that any scripture has used to allude to that. So it says in 1 Corinthians 1, 7 that we're not to lack any charisma, any charismatic gift while we're waiting for the return of Jesus. Don't lack any of them.

So if we're not to lack any of them and the charismatic gifts is what's spoken of there, then speaking in tongues would be something that we're not to lack either. Okay. All right.

Hey, if you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207-2276. Here's another question. Regarding the fall, would any every human have sinned if placed in the Garden of Eden? I believe so, except Jesus of course. And can you explain why it is fair that everyone born automatically inherits sin nature even though they weren't the one who picked the fruit? Because Adam represented all people. If you want what's fair, then you're in trouble.

I don't want what's fair. I want grace. And the grace is that Jesus represented us. Romans 6, 6, Romans 6, 8, Colossians 3, 3. And so he represented us, took our place, Isaiah 53, 4-6, and bore our sins, 1 Peter 2, 24. So it wasn't fair that he'd do this, but he did. And it's called federal headship in that Christ represented us. Well, it's not fair in the sense of his representing us. But since he's called the last Adam in 1 Corinthians 15, 45, Adam, the first Adam, okay, by default, also represented us.

They're both federal heads. As it says in 1 Corinthians 15, 22, in Adam all die, in Christ all shall be made alive. So if you want fairness, then you should not want that Jesus represent us on the cross. So since he did represent us on the cross, and he's the last Adam, and he's the ultimate federal head, then we can see why Adam represented his people just as Christ represented his. And the ultimate representation is what Christ did on the cross. And so Adam derives his representation ability out of Christ himself.

So if you don't want fairness in what Adam did, then you're going to have to indirectly reject the idea of Christ representing us on the cross. Okay. All right.

Does that make sense? I hope so. Let's go to another one. I've been a regular visitor to your site for almost 15 years now. Praise God.

And it's an amazing resource. Oh, thank you. I belong to a face group, apologetics group, and recently got in a conversation with a guy who sings right along the lines of JW's.

But when I looked at his profile, I found this. The Fellowship of Apostles. Oh, it can't be reached. Darn. I like stuff like this.

Do you have my hopes up? The Fellowship of the Apostles. I think that's awesome, you know, because that means they're apostles and there's a fellowship of them. And I love it when people have things like the Fellowship of the Apostles. And so I get a kick out of that.

And I like to hear what kind of things they say. And let's see, I'm looking for another way to find it. That website seemed to be finito done.

And I don't see any other places to go find it. Darn. Let's see. I'm going to try this. What did the website? I'm going to try this. The Fellowship of the Apostles.

Teach. Let's see if I can find anything like that. Do some searching on the web. And looking and I'm not really finding anything. So, okay. Well, we have a problem there. Darn it. Oh well. Okay, can't answer. Okay.

Can't answer. Alright, I was listening to the show today and heard you talking about a gentleman who wasn't married but had been living with a woman for 13 years. What would you say to a parent who is allowing their kids to live in that on their property? Well, the parents are in sin. And whether it's Christians or non-Christians, they're still in sin. And they should not allow fornication and ungodliness to purposely dwell within their home. And that's what they would be doing.

And they shouldn't do that. Very simple. Hey, there's the music. We'll be right back after these messages so please stay tuned. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back after the break. Alright, everybody.

Welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, it's easy. 877-207-2276.

I want to hear a friend give me a call. Alright, let's get on the line with Todd from Philly. Todd, welcome. You're on the air.

Hey, Matt. Thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it. Sure, no problem, man.

What do you got, buddy? Yeah, so I wanted to ask you about continuity. I believe you talked at length about this idea that, for instance, an angel has a certain essence to it. And, for instance, if an angel were to take on flesh, then you would have an issue there because then the angel would cease to be. So I wanted to ask you, how is it that we as Trinitarians solve that for the Incarnation? There's no problem because the second person of the Trinity does not change.

The nature, the ontological nature, the essence of the word does not change. It remains intact as it is and then there is an addition, a human nature. So there's a divine nature and a human nature. And so they are in the one union in a single person.

So they're distinct and we call this union the hypostatic union. Furthermore, since each nature, by necessity, has a will, then we call this dietheletism, two wills, dietheletism. That within the person of Christ, with each nature, is a will. And then that the attributes of the natures, or the attributes of both, the properties of both natures, I should say, are attributed to the single person.

So this is called the communicatio idiomatum. And this means that the attributes of both natures are ascribed to Jesus as a single person. So Jesus as a single person said, I am hungry, I will be with you always. So the I is a single person and he has a single will, Luke 22, 52.

Not my will be done, but your will be done. He's talking to the Father. So he identifies himself with a single will as a single person. However, within that person are two distinct natures, hence dietheletism. The two natures combine not in a monophysicist sense, or myophysicist sense, but in the sense of their attributes are ascribed to the single person and they perform as one person.

Okay? I see, I see. So the addition of the human nature doesn't affect the divine nature at all, and it doesn't create a new nature in of itself.

Right. That would be monophysitism, which is that the divine and the human nature combined and formed a new third nature, which would be neither God nor man, and that would be false. So a really basic illustration would be like saying we have a bag, that's a body, and in the bag is an apple and an orange. Just because there's two in there doesn't mean either one nature is changed by the other. You're just both there.

So the divine nature and the human nature are both there, and yet the attributes of both are ascribed to the single person. Okay? Gotcha, gotcha. Thanks so much. Can I ask you another quick question? Sure, go ahead. Yep.

So I was debating a modalist a few days back, and I got into a little bit of trouble. So in terms of the Trinity, is it better explained as three spirits or is it one spirit? I mean, John 4-24 says God is spirit, so.

Okay. So when it says that in John 4-24, what he's talking about there is the issue of the nature of God. In Luke 24-39, Jesus says, Spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. So when Jesus is speaking, speaking of the Father, in the sense, he's a spirit. Okay?

So that's what's going on there. So you don't want to say he's three spirits. Don't want to do that. Okay? Just say that in the Trinitarian essence, God is one being who exists eternally as three distinct, simultaneous persons. Now the analogy I like to give is time. Time is one thing.

One thing. Time. But time is also past, present, future.

They're all by nature time. But we see distinction between them by their relationship to each other. Once past, once present, once future. And so God is one being who is triune, past, present, future, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

And we see the distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in their relationship to each other and to us. Okay? Gotcha, gotcha. Thanks so much for breaking that down. I really appreciate it, Matt.

You are welcome, buddy. All right? Okay. Okay, God bless. All right. Now let's get to Tommy from South Carolina. Tommy, welcome.

You're on the air. Yes, I've been doing some studying of the characters of Genesis and I'm just curious about in Genesis chapter 5 it says, well the character Seth, Adam's son. Genesis chapter 1 says Adam was created in the likeness of God and in verse 3 it says Adam lived 130 years of God's Son in his own likeness after his own image and called his name Seth. I was just curious of, you know, it never said, you know, it says that Seth was in Adam's likeness and image but it never said that about Cain and Abel. I'm sure they were but I'm guessing the context of chapter 5, it may be something to do with this, you know, starts out with this book of the generations of Adam and tracing the line of the seat of the woman. But I can't figure out why, you know, it specifically says in the image of Adam, likeness of Adam in that verse.

Just curious to see that. That's an interesting question. But when Adam had lived, this is verse 3 of Genesis 5, when Adam had lived 130 years he became the father of a son in his own likeness according to his image and named him Seth. And then it goes on, Seth lived 130 and became the father of. I don't know why, that's a good question, I don't know why he mentions it there in his image. Unless, I'm thinking top of my head, it says Adam's made in the image of God and then what it's doing is establishing the consecutive image bearing from Adam on down through the Seth and stuff.

That's what I'm thinking is happening there. It's interesting that this book of the generations only occurs twice in the scripture, it occurs a year. It starts with Adam and goes, chapter 5 goes through Noah and the rest of the Genesis goes through Abraham and all. And then in Matthew chapter 1, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ and it goes back to, it starts with Abraham and it's sort of curious that those two are sort of tied together I guess. In Luke and in Matthew you have two different genealogies of Jesus, one is traced through Mary and one is traced through Joseph for the legal one and biological one. But before you go, here check this out, this is Genesis 5, the word Adam means man, Seth means appointed, Enosh means mortal, Kenan means sorrow, Mahelel means blessed God, Jared means shall come down, Enoch, teaching, Methuselah, when he dies it will come, Lamech, despairing and Noah, rest or comfort.

So it's a sentence. It's appointed to men with sorrow, blessed God will come down, when he dies it will come, bringing to the despairing, rest, comfort. Alright, there you go buddy. Alright, God bless. Alright, alright, now, someone sent a start question but we don't have a start question anywhere do we?

No we don't. We're out of calls waiting so at the bottom of the hour what I'll do is, yeah Stephen I started your question for Matt but I believe I know you decided to hey what's wrong with reading the chat stuff. I don't see any start questions. Alright, hey, we'll be right back after the break and if you want to give me a call the number is 877-207-2276. Be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Alright, welcome back to the show at the bottom of the hour if you want to give me a call the number is 877-207-2276. Alright, yeah, that's right that commercial chewing pick, I don't know, I turned it down.

It's just me. Okay, so someone asked me a question and I'm going to get to it. Do I have a backup plan to keep the KARM website up and running long after the Lord calls me home? We kind of have a 50-50 backup plan. I need to make it official.

But there's only one person who really could take it over. His name is Luke Wayne. He used to work with us. He's working in the ministry now but he's a great guy and we stayed in contact. He loves KARM and wants to be able to work with us. And we could do that if we could then give him all that he needed for his family and stuff.

And if something happened to me, then we would just say, hey, take it over and give him all the keys to the car and the house and all that kind of stuff as far as the ministry goes and do that. So there you go. Alright, that's what we'll do. And we've got a caller coming in. If you want to give me a call and join in, you can.

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I'm just looking at some stuff here. So let's get to, let's see, let's just get to Steven in Virginia. Steve, welcome. You're on the air.

Hey, Matt, thank you so much. A question for you. So I would like to know by your definition, or by the Bible's definition, what a wife entails and what a husband entails. Oh, yeah. All right. Duties of husband and wife, you mean duties and parameters. And if that, and if being still in the, you know, I guess, dating stage has anything to do as far as not, you know, fulfilling those duties.

All right. So when I talk about the nature of the husband relationship with the wife and stuff, I talked to the Trinity first, and there's a reason for it. And you'll see the Trinity is one God in three distinct, simultaneous, co-eternal persons. But the father sent the son. The son is in subjection to the father, but the son is equal to God because he is both, he is divine. Likewise, we have the equality between the male and female in marriage, yet it is the husband who is the one who is in the place of responsibility more so than the wife. He's the head of the house, whether she likes it or not, or whether he likes it or not.

It doesn't make any difference. So when I do marriage counseling, pre-marriage counseling, when I perform their wedding ceremony, or afterwards when people are having problems, because, you know, people are people, I teach, I go a lot more depth, I teach the doctor of the Trinity. And what I do is I relate the father to the husband and Jesus to the wife. And the reason I do it that way is because Jesus was the one in subjection to the father, but he's equal to the father. John 5-18 talks about this, John 5-23.

And I tell them that you have to understand there's a difference. And that one subjects him or herself willingly, just as Jesus did, so when the wife is subjecting herself to the will of the husband in a godly way, and that has always a parameter, then she's honoring God. And so the husband's responsibility, on the other hand, is to live as Christ lived. So when I say then, I kind of shift and I say, look, Jesus is the example to the husband, he's the example to the wife. He's the example to the husband in that Jesus, who was in that place of authority, he loved, taught, gave, healed, provided for, sacrificed himself for the bride. And what the church, the bride, is supposed to do, and the wife, is to emulate Christ in Christ's submission to the father and willingness to do with the will of the father.

Now then we have to ask the question, what happens when the guy's a jerk? Well, that's more nuanced, we don't have time to get into all this here, but we want to say, generally speaking, that he needs to be a godly man. And if he's not a godly man, she needs to take his lead until he's ungodly, and then she stops, she doesn't do that, and she has to do it respectfully.

And so I talk about this kind of thing a lot, and responsibilities, and I teach on something called federal headship. Federal headship is a teaching that the male, not the female, represents a descendant. So when Adam and Eve were in the garden, Eve sinned first, but sin entered the world through Adam. That's Romans 5-12, because he's one responsible. So when they sinned, and they hid themselves in the garden, the pre-incarnate Christ said to the man, where are you?

This means that the male in the relationship, husband and wife, is more responsible than the female. Whether anybody likes her or not, I don't care, it's what it says, it's what it teaches. Because the pre-incarnate Christ addressed the man, not her.

Where are you? If he was one, he would. So then there's that, and then I'm just shooting around a lot, and then I introduce this concept, and boy I'll tell you the ladies really just bristle with this. 1 Peter 3 talks about, in verse 5, 1 Peter 3-5, For in this way in former times holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, and you become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear. You husbands in some way love your wives in an understanding way, and it goes on.

But this is the thing I teach about this one aspect that a lot of people forget. I've been on both sides of the desk as far as marriage counseling goes, and my experience being the receiver of it, unfortunately is every single time it's always the husband who gets lambasted constantly in marriage counseling. It's always attack on the man, and what happens is after a while the male shuts down. He doesn't care anymore. Because it's all his fault all the time, every time. Forget it.

They just shut down. And when I experienced this, it taught me a great deal. Because even though, I'm not trying to point at my wife, my wife's not perfect, she's a sinner like me, it just got to be 95% I'm always the problem everywhere all the time. And I've talked to so many guys who say the same thing. They don't want to go to counseling.

Right. Because it's just a beat down all the time. Because the people who are trained theologically or who are counselors don't know that it's 50-50. And so what I'll do is I'll talk about marriage responsibility first because that's what's required. Then I talk about the woman's responsibility but what respect is.

And I'll ask the woman, do you know what it means to respect your husband? And they'll say, well yes. I say, give me an example.

And no one's ever gotten it right. You know, do what he says. You know, make him sandwiches. And I look to the husband, is that what it is? He goes, no. And they never get it because they don't know. But on the other hand, if a man says, if I ask a man, what does it mean to love your wife? Oh, you sacrifice for her, you be patient with her, you love her, you're gentle with her. And on and on, you know, put her first in the marriage and things like this. And I say to the wife, is that right?

And they go, yeah. Then why is it the men know what it means to love but the women don't know what it means to respect? Because women aren't taught to respect their husbands, they're taught to disrespect their husbands. And then when I bring this up, I then go here and I say in 1 Peter 3, 7, you husbands, excuse me, verse 6, Abraham, Sarah called Abraham, Lord. I asked the wife, would you call your husband, Lord? And they always instantly say, never. I say, well, wait a minute, why did Peter bring this up?

Why did Peter say Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord? And it's in the context of marriage. Now, then I slow down. I'm making them feel guilty. I know where I'm going with this.

I say, why wouldn't you do that? And they'll say, well, because he's not Jesus. It doesn't say he's Jesus. It doesn't say Abraham is Jesus here.

Peter knows this. Why is he bringing this up that Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord? What about his position is it that he's Lord of?

That's the question. He's the Lord in the family and responsibilities. She needs to understand that. That's what she needs to do. And she needs to learn how to respect that position. So in that position, if a wife will do this, men will rise to the occasion. Women don't realize that their brow beating, their tones, their side eye looks of disapproval, their passive aggressive means of trying to control and influence is part of the fall and is sinful.

But the opposite of that is taught in scripture. And I ask the men to do this all quickly. And I've done this before where men and women are there. And I say, okay, men, I'm going to ask you this. What would you do if you came home one day and your wife said, look, listen to Matt Slick and he made some sense and I'll call you Lord in the sense of the Lord of the house, the master of the house, the position that Jesus has appointed you. I said, if your wife called you that it wasn't mockery, wasn't teasing.

Just going to do it in the privates of your home occasionally, not outside. But what would you do? And all the guys go, we don't like that. And I know why. And I said, I say, don't answer to the ladies. Why do you think they don't like that? And they're confused. And I go back to the men.

Why is it? And they go, because then we got to live like it. Because then they got to act it. Because if she's going to treat him that way, he'll rise to the occasion.

But if you subjugate a husband to your passive aggressive stuff, he'll lower to that level. So this is the kind of stuff I teach about this. I do both. This is why I want to do a seminar, three day seminar. Monday, Monday, husbands, Tuesday, women and Wednesday, everyone together. And then we put it together. Homer, everything.

I've done a lot of teaching. I gave a lot of stuff there really fast. Hold on. We got a break. And then you can comment if you want.

Or ask questions after the break. Hold on, buddy. So there you go, folks. That was quick and slick.

Be right back after these messages. All right, everybody. Welcome back to the show. I know it kind of gave a rapid fire little thing there about marriage and stuff.

But I can teach on it for about a lot longer. Let's get back on the air with Stephen. Steve, there you go, buddy.

You're back on. Okay. Now, appreciate you all your insight. Just kind of to fight a lot, you know, finalize the topic. So if you're not married and you live together, you know, you're a boyfriend.

Right. Would it be so should neither of the genders be, you know, fulfilling those duties then because we're not married? Because you're not married. Now, think about this. When I encounter couples who are in that situation, I set them up.

I'll do it to you. I mean, I'm not saying if you're in that situation or not. I say they're sitting with me and I say, okay, look, let me ask you a question. You're living together, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I say to the woman first, you want to marry this guy? You really love him? Yeah.

Wait a minute. You're living with a guy who's willing to set aside his obligation before God and satisfy his own needs by using you outside of marriage. That's highly sinful. And this is the guy you're interested in. And I say to him, so here's this woman who's willing to compromise what it requires us as godliness to satisfy her physical needs and emotional needs outside of marriage. And she also, like you, steals what does not belong to her. And this is the person you want to marry?

How do you trust each other if you're so willing and so eager to violate the word of God for yourselves? And this is how you're going to enter into marriage and a relationship? Is that what you want? You think about that? You see? Okay. So are you living with a girl? Yeah, I am. And, you know, I guess I expect certain things because I've been, you know, I guess, fulfilling husband duties.

What you need to do is move out or she moves out tonight. Okay. You get out of there. Are you a Christian? I am.

Yes. But, uh, you know, if wait, I'm not going to you though, if you're a Christian, why are you sending against God in such great rebellion against him? Why is he hasn't killed you yet for your disobedience?

Because he's merciful to you. You need to find a way to honor God before you honor her or anybody else. You find a friend's house. I need to come over and see if on the couch and you tell her moving out, you want to honor God. That's what you do. You stop sending.

And what? If she's a real Christian that she would understand as well. If she's a real Christian.

Yeah. Even if she is a real Christian, does understand, well then, uh, you guys, you don't need to, to get your act together. It's not okay. It's not okay. And you've got to stop and I'm not mad at you.

I'm not calling you names or stuff like that. I'm just informing you. Biblically speaking, you need to stop this sin.

You're very fortunate. God hasn't judged you right now and disciplines you. I'm probably your first or second warning you're getting. If you continue in this kind of rebellion, the judgment of God can be upon you in a judgment physically or emotionally, spiritually, where he gives you over to the gravity of your heart, your mind.

As you demonstrate that you may not really be a believer if you are seeking to satisfy yourself, uh, by violating the covenant marriage so willingly and publicly. Okay. All right.

Well, I appreciate the insight. Yeah. We're just talking man to man. That's all. See man to man. Right.

Men need to hear it straight. Right. Of course. And that's how it is.

That's how it is. I appreciate it. So you're going to, you're going to move out, you're going to move out or you're going to continue with to seek a sinful relationship. And honestly, I can't just move out because she doesn't have a job and I don't want to put her in a position like that. Of course, I'm still sinning because of the fact and you know. You don't sleep with her? You don't sleep with her?

No, I don't sleep with her. I don't do that. You don't do anything like this. You don't do that. You're not married. You shouldn't be doing that. You find, you find some godly men that you know and you say, here's a situation and I need to take care of it. Give me some advice. You go to your church, you talk to them.

They better be saying that basically the same thing I'm saying. And then you find a way to, to stop the sin and then you both get spiritual counseling and you work together in this way. Okay. Quick question just to finalize everything. Is there a time limit as far as when you should marry somebody? No.

I mean, as far as age goes, I mean, you know, we don't want a three year old, but I mean, you know, you know how long you should be dating kind of thing. There's no time limit. No. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, I appreciate it so much for the time and all the wisdom.

Thank you so much. Okay. Okay. There you go.

All right. Now let's get to Joshua from North Carolina. Joshua, welcome. You're on the air, man.

Hey, Matt. Um, so I have a, uh, man, not so much. It's a question. Um, so, uh, I, I just had, uh, I believe, uh, I've been waiting 40 years and I believe I just heard God's voice, uh, through, um, I'm reading a book and, uh, uh, through what? Finish your sentence.

Finish your sentence. You heard God's voice through, and then you stopped through what? I heard God's voice through a video on Facebook. I apologize.

I'm very scattered right now. I kind of don't get, um, uh, so, um, I heard his voice through this Facebook reels video. Uh, now let me continue. Um, I was reading a book by Jamie Winship called living fearlessly. And, uh, there's this section in the book where you pray and you ask God the most important thing that he wants you to know at this time. And you just kind of write something down and you don't question it and pick it apart, whether it came from him or whether it came from him.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay. So this person says, get an, get something and then get an impression and write it down? Yes.

And I mean, you know, with my mind, hold on, hold on, hold on. No, no, no, no. I just asked for verification. That's all I'm doing. Verification.

That's what this person is saying, right? Okay. Here's the question. Where does it say to do anything like that in scripture? Just pray, get a feeling, write something down.

It doesn't. What does the Bible say you are to go to if you want spiritual truth and guidance? God. The Bible.

Yeah. Scripture. God's word. So when someone says pray what you, you know, and you get this impression and write it down, that what you're doing now is trying to get direct revelation from God, aside from Christ, aside from the word. Which can lead you into self-deception. So whoever that author is basically doesn't know what that author is talking about right away.

Yes. And I thank you for that because I immediately think, you know, something that is coming out of your own brain is not a direct revelation from God. You got that right. But this is the reason I called you, Matt. Funny enough, okay, so I wrote what I had to write down, okay? And I had a question immediately. I said, God, what is my identity? What is my spiritual gift? You know, and my phone went ding, and it said, and I'm quoting, you've been waiting on a message from God.

This is it. It had Matthew 24, 16 scripture in the video, and it just went on. It was some God's voice, you know. It wasn't God's voice. But to me, I feel like God was speaking to me. I mean, oh, man, I mean, I started crying.

I took the wrong, when I was going down 40 west instead of, you know, I mean, I just, I was like, man, I've been waiting 40 years to have this. And it wasn't a book. It wasn't, you know, that is very, that's not, you know, that's just kind of what led me into that revelation that I feel like was from God. So what do you think that, I think it's possible to hear God's voice through something like that. Sure it is.

What do you think? Absolutely. Absolutely. God is sovereign. He can use circumstances. He can use other people. He can use various means to communicate stuff to you.

He certainly can, but it'll be in concert with the word of God. Okay? I just, I'm sorry. I listened to your show. You're sorry you listened to my show?

No, I'm sorry that I called you with a very scattered, not so much of a question, but a statement. I mean, I've been waiting for God's voice for 40 years and hearing it that way just kind of, I had to share it with someone and I just wanted to put it out there on the airwaves that, you know, God is working in my life and he's going to be working and everyone is living in his life. You just got to receive.

Always go to the word first. See how God communicates to you and he will. He has ways of doing it.

He uses people, he uses situations. Okay? Alright buddy?

Thank you Matt. Okay, God bless. Alright. Now let's get to Jermaine from California.

Jermaine, welcome. You're on the air buddy. We've got a couple minutes. What's up? Yeah, okay.

I've got a quick one today. As far as the use of language, I know the Bible is against swearing, but what is it that constitutes swearing or a curse word or just foul language in general because that seems to change over time. Yeah, a swear word would be something like Democrat, socialist, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer. These are swear words. You shouldn't use them in polite company, you know, because it might hurt people's intelligence and things like that. Are you there? Are you smiling?

I hope you're smiling. But for some of the more common known ones, you know, with certain letters, is it something with the intent behind it? Right. The connotation, there's connotation and denotation. You can call a man a garden tool and get killed, but you can say some other stuff and people will ignore you.

That's true. Context, pejorative meaning, connotative meaning, intention, all of it is such a varied thing. In Colossians 3, I think it's verse 12 says, remove all abusive speech from your mouth.

Right about that verse, I think. And so we're not supposed to be abusive in our speech. And so we don't use foul language.

We shouldn't. And we should be seasoned in our discussions. So, yeah. And so the pronunciation of a syllable in English might be an actual name of someone in Chinese, you know, pH, starting with that.

And so, which I've heard is the case. Well, okay, it's just the name. So what's the intention in the pejorative context of a swear word?

And then we want to avoid those things that are negative, pejorative, and sultive and vile. Okay. All right. I think that's good enough.

Appreciate you, man. Yeah. Okay, man. All right.

Hope you got my joke there earlier. But sound good? Yeah, that sounded good.

I'm still kind of laughing, but yeah, thank you. God bless you. Okay. Okay, man. God bless. All right.

That's Jermaine. He's always got good questions. So he's a good guy. I'm going to meet someday. And so there you go. And I was going to have fun. So I know I just offended a lot of people. That offends me. Well, be offended. I don't care. That's what humor does sometimes is it offends you. There's always going to be some truth in it.

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