Matt Slick Live

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. It's Matt Slick Live. Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, found online at Carm.org. When you have questions about Bible doctrines, turn to Matt Slick Live for answers, taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.

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Well, there we go. I had to mute on. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Schlick, or listen to Matt Slick Live. If.

As usual, you want to give me a call. It's easy. All you got to do is dial 8772-072276. You can email me also, and that's info at carm.org. And put in the subject line, radio comments, radio question.

And we get to them. We have no callers right now, so maybe I'll do that. I get my email open.

Now, for those who are watching the video, we got a blue haze on the video, and I don't know why. A little bit of a blue setting. I don't know why, I'm not going to worry about it, but there it is. Just letting you guys know. And uh There we go.

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All right. Hey, if you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276.

Alright, so yesterday, I put out a video on TikTok, about a two and a half minute video, on Mormonism. And TikTok's an interesting thing. People have been asking me to come on here for quite a while, and I did. And maybe I'll go on again live tonight. And, you know, I'm live right now for the radio show, and hopefully that'll garner some followers.

But if not, no big deal. We'll stop the radio show live broadcast. But generally in the evening, we get a lot of people coming in. And I'll tell you, there's a lot of heresy going on out there. People who teach that you've got to be baptized to be saved.

What foolishness. I mean, it's just ridiculous. I get these videos that pop up about how great Mormonism is, and it's all emotional appeal. Look, we're together. And so I put this video out with 10 things that Mormonism teaches.

And I narrated through the main topics, and then uh the screen comes up and puts out the um the documentation. It shows the documentation I'm reading from and/or whether it's from, and from their their sources. And the goal is to get people to stop uh joining Mormonism. And to come to the true faith in the true living God, Jesus Christ, and not the false God of Mormonism. That's the goal, and we've got some.

people who Are they interested and things like that? And they're not touching the comments too much in that video. I put a video out in a couple, three weeks ago on Eastern Orthodoxy as a false gospel. And it's got about 2,000 views. That's good.

And we're trying, you know. And I'll tell you. It's a little bit of work to do all the video stuff, editing, text, formatting, uploading and everything. And I've got a I got a lot to do. And today's been busy.

Today. One, two. I make three card trips doing different things and released two articles today. And I still have to do a newsletter. Wow.

Where's my violin? You know, I gotta get that. But hey, look, if you want to give me a call, the number is 87720-72276. Let's get on with Jamal from North Carolina. Jamal.

Welcome, you are on the air. Thanks, sir. Thank you for taking my call. How are you doing today, sir? Oh, busy, but that's okay.

I'm always busy, but this is a really busy day. But that's it. What do you got, buddy?

Okay, all right, yes, I'm uh Well, I hope that's still going well for you. You broke up there for a few seconds. Repeat that. You broke up. Go ahead.

Oh, I was just saying, I'm sure you're busy. I hope that's going well for you. The question I had today is oh, go ahead. Yeah, I'm busy. Go ahead.

I'm sorry. Yep.

So sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. Let's see, the question I have, and hopefully, this person sounds silly. I was wondering if you cannot just only pray in words and thoughts. But can you pray by feeling? Like if you have somebody in mind and you just have scenarios and just feelings running through your mind about them doing well and well wishes for them.

Can you pray by feeling as well?

Well, it's an interesting question.

So it reminds me of a scripture. Um of out of uh Romans and it talks let me find it really fast. The Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too weak, too deep for words. That's a feeling. A groaning is an agonizing and just difficulty.

Uh the inner and the Spirit intercedes uh with this in that.

So, yeah, I would say biblically speaking, we could pray with feelings, without words. And sometimes I do that when I'm praying. And here's a little confession, you know, confession time. I'll be praying about something, and I'll have a little bit of pride creep in. You know, I want this for this reason, my selfish reason.

I'm like, and so you know, I just. I just grieve in my heart as I focus on the Lord because I know he knows my heart. And I just grieve for my own sin in that. And that's a form of prayer. I think it's legitimate.

Okay.

Yeah, I didn't think about that. I've done something similar, you know, along the same lines, you know, making a mistake. Also, why in prayer, you know, mind wandering, drifting, something like that, and you know, just and of course a lot more worse things than that, and it's like, oh, geez.

Sorry, today's not proper either. Oh my goodness. Um, you know, I'm just sorry I cast myself down upon you. Uh so on and so forth. Um So yeah, that that that does make sense.

Yeah, I have a saying. I sometimes. say in the middle of my prayers when I realize I'm being covetous or prideful or whatever it is, you know, the whatever sin is mixed in with my my sincere prayer. And then, you know, I'll do this. I'll do this.

I'll say, well, Lord, that was prideful in my heart just now.

So please forgive me of my pride so I can get what I want. And so I'm you know even then You know, my motives, I'm like, oh. And so I have this saying: I say, Lord. Um You know, just just plead uh what uh I trust you. Beyond my ability to understand.

I just trust you. And the c you know, there's nothing to do with making cow. Go ahead. Yeah, likewise, same here. And the thought just came to mind, pretty sure that's the Holy Spirit.

About David being a man after God's own heart and having a heart for God.

Well, you know, the heart is the emotion. You know, not to try to get mythical here or anything like that. It's just. Um I think even in our starts, And our thoughts can can move rapid, but our thoughts can be be slow. Our thoughts can move at the speed of light.

So, you know, while we're thinking about something, we can get a lot more prayer out, flash an image of somebody, like I said before. Um so I'm just thinking that maybe we get and not to get away from, you know, actually Speaking thoughts. Um I just wanted to try to see if I can incorporate that as well to get more player out faster than I can just think about them. Yeah, um You know, it must be interesting, so to speak. The majority of the world.

to filter through our prayers. Because You know When I pray my mind wanders. I remember once I was praying, You know, I'm praying. And next thing you know. I'm on a surfboard in Southern California.

Taken away. I'm like, what the heck? Where'd that come from? And I'm thinking about that. I'm like, oh, back in.

And so I remember that. I remember that. Where did that come from? But, you know, I used to go out on the beach all the time and bodyboard and body surfing and. Love to go out on the big day and just get trampled by the waves.

I love that stuff. And so there I am out in the ocean, you know? And so I know we've all got our little things that happen, but um. It's important that we do pray and pray concertedly. I think some people are better at it than others.

Like me, my mind wanders so quickly. On any topic I'm praying, I have so many things in my head about knowledge and Bible verses and this and that that my brain just goes over there, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, like a ping ball, you know, off all over the corners. And so I have to focus on one thing at a time in a lot of short prayers.

So I can get through it. And I even prayed today that God would teach me how to pray better.

So it's like, may I need help? Yeah. Yeah, you you and a lot of us. You and a lot of us. All right, well um that that that's that's pretty much uh about it.

And just to kind of clear up something a little bit, About praying faster than our thoughts can think. I meant to say prayer prings faster. and thoughts faster than our words can come up in our mind. Um Yeah. we're we're we're still in sinful fallen bodies.

And, you know, we're not going to get it right until we uh we are in our resurrected bodies and we're sweating out here in this heat and, you know, the the weight problem and being tired, man, And also the way with thoughts, I can awake my resurrected body so I can get rid of all this stuff. You know My friends, I tell them, when we get to heaven. And we meet in heaven. They're not going to recognize me. And they're like, what do you mean?

Of course, I don't recognize you. And I said, no, you don't recognize me. I'll have to introduce myself. Hey, it's me, Matt Slick. And I go, oh, that's what you look like without sin.

Didn't recognize you. You're right. Uh-huh. Yeah, and I don't know about anybody else I've got issues.

So Right. No, I'm right there with you. All right. Well, I don't want to take up too much of your time. You take care.

Praying for you and your loved ones as well. And thank you. And you have a blessed day. You too, man. God bless.

All right. All right, that was Jim Maul. We got another call coming in, and then young Gull Cruz says, Why would God need to filter? He doesn't need to filter anything. It's phraseology.

Don't take certain phrases and things like that to be literal. God knows all things, actual and potential, counterfactuals, and those things He's decreed. There's no filtering of issues. God already knows all things. And that's why.

And so there you go. Love for Christ. You have mod powers, etc. Just doing stuff on that. And then we're also broadcasting in clubhouse.

We're trying to get out as many as much as we can, as much information out and as many things as possible for the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you would join me in prayer, one of the things that really has been on my heart a lot lately is something very simple. that uh That this ministry, myself in particular, because I'm the head of this ministry, would do God's will, not my own. Pray for the work of God to be accomplished, not what I think. Not what people think who work with me, but what I want God's will, God's work, God's purpose, God's doing.

That's it, because that's the only way to do anything right, is to submit completely and totally to Him and say, Your will. In fact, if people, you know, I've been asked this question: if God gave you one wish, you know, one thing He would do, what would you ask? And I thought about it over the years, and there's only one answer I have. My answer would be. Whatever you want.

I just say I don't it doesn't matter. Whatever you choose for me is what I want. Just just tell me. That's it. And that's what I want.

And you can pray for that if you want. Oh, hey, you know. Let's get to Jermaine from People's Republic of California. Hey, welcome. You're on the air.

Hey, Matt, today I don't believe I ever asked you this, but. I wanted to ask you about ministers that use their first name as the name of the ministry. I know I can't find anything really biblical, but it's always been a little uncomfortable for me. And I'm not talking about business. entities with actual You know, church.

It just kind of is weird to me. I just wanted to hear what you had to say about it.

Okay.

Yes, the first thing that comes to mind is Matt Slick Live. And we'll talk about that because there's a break coming up. We'll talk about the idea of using your own name in a ministry. There's problems with it, but then again, there isn't. But it just depends on the context.

Please write back, folks, after these messages, please. Stay tuned, be right back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.

All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. Let's get back on with Jermaine. Are you still there, buddy? Oh, yes, I am. All right.

Okay, so uh When I was doing radio in Boise, I'd drive into the station. I've been doing radio for 20 years this way, except now I do it from home, but it's the same thing. We had this show called, it was called Faith and Reason at that time. And we found out that it was another ministry that had Faith in Reason. They asked if we'd change the name, ours.

And I didn't want to argue. And, you know, whatever. And we talked about it at the radio station, and they said Matt Slick Live. And I was reticent because I don't want my name as a name of a ministry or anything.

So. But they said it's just it's a great radio name. I mean, you know, Matt Slick live, you know.

So I grudgingly went with it because I couldn't think of anything better. And I still am not really all that happy about it, but at least it makes sense.

Now What do you do in other cases where an individual will say, johnsmithministry.com, it's all about what you know. It depends on what's going on because We want to glorify God and we don't want to have the idea that we are doing it for our own vainglory. And are we risking that by using a ministry name after our own selves? That's a possibility, but it deals with the issue of the heart of the individual before God. I think it's possible that God could certainly use someone who would have their own particular name on a ministry because it's a marketable name.

So, in light of that, I'm a public figure. And sometimes when I'm talking to the staff and stuff about increasing karm, I talk about this individual called Matt Slick. Matt Slick needs to be this, Matt Slick needs to be that, you know, got to be more. Then it's not about me, it's about the issue of the name has gathered a certain reputation. And so the name needs to be promoted.

And when I say that, it's not about me, it's about, well, God's allowed that to be used, like the name karm. We want it to be promoted. And I look at it the same way in the same logic. And so. What's the goal?

The goal is to further the kingdom of God. That's the goal.

Well, is that okay? It would seem so.

So, you see, it's just not an easy thing to. to just sort through very easily, very quickly. And there's a lot of variables in it. I don't know if that helps any. I think that's very fair and and And for the record, I think Matchlick Live is an excellent name.

But It's a little different from some of what I've seen in in some entities where they They have their name like outside of the church, and I guess it's kind of a gray area for some people, but you know, when it looks like they're um.

some of the posters and and they almost look like a celebrity. And it almost looks like a Hollywood production. And, you know, that to me is very unnerving and uncomfortable. I do know of some other ministries where I see names they actually preach the gospel.

So I guess. It's an individual thing. It is, and nothing in the scripture says really I think about that. And so, um I just I wouldn't do it. Uh I wouldn't have my name And that's like ministries.

I'd only submit to something like that if a team of people said this is what's needed and here's the 15 reasons. I'd grudgingly maybe submit to that. But It's not about me, it's about the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to have Him glorified.

So each individual who has to face this issue before God is responsible for God on His own. It says Scripture doesn't address this kind of a thing. Then I'd say it's up to them. And uh Just leave it at that.

Okay.

Well, I guess a follow-up, do you think that some of these ministries were They make them celebrities almost. I've been to some churches where they actually have a smoke machine. And uh the you know, the preachers coming out And it's almost like a uh Like a star state of production. I was kind of freaked out when I first experienced that. I said, Is this for real?

Is it joking?

So I was like, oh, no, they do this every week. I'm like, oh, wow, okay. I guess I'll have to observe there, but Yeah, that one is a little bit of a yeah, yeah, that to me is beyond the pale. That's not acceptable. You know, I went to Joel Osteen's church in Houston once, and I still have the film from it.

It was a rock concert with looked like laser lights, but it wasn't. I think it was just regular flashing lights, and it was just ridiculous. And it was like a concert. And. Um To me And this is my opinion.

To me, The man who walked out to but goes up to the pulpit to preach. His primary job is to open the word, and the best of his ability, exegete. the truth of what it says. And applied in lives according to what the scripture says, so the body of Christ will be edified for the work of unity, the work of ministry. And I believe that the word of God is so powerful.

Isaiah 55:11 says, God's word will not come back empty without accomplishing what he desires. And so I believe that the job of the pastor is not to soften the word or strengthen it with stories or lights or smoke. or whatever. but the solemn preaching of the Word of God. It should be should be encased, in my opinion, in prayer.

Whenever I have the privilege of preaching in a church, which hasn't happened in quite a while now because of so many other things, but I will start the sermon with prayer and I end the sermon with prayer. And during that time, The book ends of prayer. The preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God, as far as I'm faithful to it. I take it seriously. And it's for the edification of the body of Christ and for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And every sermon, by the way, I don't get to say this very often. should be crystal centric. Not moralistic. There's a lot of people out there who will give a sermon. And it's good.

But they don't say it's because of the cross, and here's why it's because of the cross that we do this and that. Otherwise, it's moralism. Yeah. And so uh back in seminary One of my professors asked me a question. about s preaching.

and a sermon I preached. that was good moralism. I didn't understand what he was getting at until he asked me a question. And the light went on, and he said, Matt, could the sermon you preach That you preached in class, you know, he says, could it have been preached in a Mormon church unchanged? Would they have accepted it?

And I reviewed it for 30 seconds in my mind, just sitting there waiting. He was quiet, and then I said, Yes. And I said, that's a problem. And so it I never forgot that. It was a pivotal moment for me.

And I believe that the power of God's word needs to be. adhered to and Brought out by faith and humility in the one who presents that word in the pulpit to his believers. And so I think that. The lights, the music, the ambiance, the smoke, and all this stuff. The introduction of a humorous story is.

Cover. For the pastor's failure is my opinion. Pastor's failure. for the most part to Um unleash the power of God's Word. It's not to say it doesn't, it's not okay.

I'm not saying it's not okay to have a little intro or a little story, because it might be necessary. But that shouldn't be the substance. It should be the substance should be the The power to preaching. That's what I believe.

Okay? Anyway, there we go. All right, brother. God bless. Yeah.

Okay, we'll see ya. All right. Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please, stay tuned. Be right back.

It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.

All right, and welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, it is easy. All I have to do is dial 8772072276. By the way, I'm just going to let you know that so far I'm still planning to go out to Kannapolis, North Carolina in August 15, 16, 17th.

So If you want me to speak at a church, if it's a Wednesday or Thursday, one possibility is I could come out a day early and speak on a Thursday night. I've got to be at a church on Friday, Saturday to speak at a conference. I'm supposed to, we'll see if it happens, preach at another church someplace on a Sunday. And then. On Monday, I plan to do a little bit of driving, go down to Gastonia, visit somebody, go up to Salem, Winston-Salem to see the headquarters of the radio station network that I'm on.

And, you know, so it may take an extra day or two.

So I'm going to be out there. And it'd be one of those nights. I was thinking someplace I could just be at a restaurant or if there's a church, someone says, hey, we'll help in the church for you. You know, meet in a church building someplace. I don't know, whatever.

It's easier than a restaurant. And I have problems with too much sound. I really do. It's not a joke because I'm autistic and there's a condition. I've been trying to research what it is.

I can't input or can't process too much input sound.

So, if we're in a and some days are better than others. If I'm in a noisy restaurant talking with people, I can get overloaded and I have to put earplugs in. And it's embarrassing, but it's just what it is, it's the way I am. And so that's why I prefer a quieter venue. But hey, you know, if that's what it is, that's what it is.

We've got to do it at a loud restaurant, done it before, and I just put earplugs in and just deal with it. But if that sounds good, if you want to arrange something, you can email me at info at carm.org, info at C-A-R-M dot O-R-G. And it's you know, just whatever it is, subject line you want, and you can uh check it out. And maybe we can do that. Maybe fun, you know.

Been broadcasting out there for years.

So I'm looking forward to getting out there. But it's all tentative. It may drop through at the last minute, depending on my wife's health. She's doing much better. And for those of you who have been praying for her, thank you very much.

She is doing a lot better, seriously. And I'm confident enough now in her present state, I could leave her alone for a few days. And. have neighbors that just check on her. She seems pretty good.

But you know, you know how life is, there can always be a setback or something that happened. Uh You wear earplugs during your worship. I have to do that a lot: wear earplugs during church service worship because it's so loud. Why is he having a so loud? You don't need a so loud.

And I liked I don't mind it I don't want a c a quiet, I want it loudish, but man, sometimes it's just too loud.

So anyway, I'm winding. Hey, let's get to Pastor Joe from North Carolina. Pastor Joe, welcome. You are on the air. Hello, Matt Slick.

I just heard you say you're coming to North Carolina. I jumped out of the chair. Oh, okay. I'm glad to hear it. Good.

Yeah, I talked to you a week or so. I talked to you a week or so ago, so I want to get you scheduled. And I work with you and if you need any transportation, I'm going to take you out to E, and we'll just have a good time. And you tell me when you can be there. We're in Lexington, which is.

If you're coming from Charlotte and Cannapolis, you come within a quarter mile of the church up to Western Silver. Oh, so you tell me, when can you be there?

Well, uh uh here's the thing, I don't know, but Yeah, I don't know because it just depends. You know, it depends what you want. And what's what's what city are you in? What what city? Lexington, which is 15 miles south of Winston-Salem.

Yeah, 15 miles. Oh, 16 miles south of Winston-Salem. Oh, I can go up there. Oh, that's right.

So it's about, I think, an hour and a half drive or something like that, or so drive from Kannapolis, which is where I'll be staying. And that's fine. You know, I don't mind.

So, yeah. And, you know, I tell you what, the thing to do is email me. We got a guy who's helping with the email, and already there's already people who want me to stop by and to do stuff. We have to coordinate.

So, whatever works, you tell me what you do is you get an email and say, hey, these days come by. If you want me to speak or whatever, let me know. If not, you just want your dinner. That's fine. Yeah, absolutely.

Dinner and speak and all this stuff. Yeah, well it took a whole day effort. Yeah, yeah, you know, I got to go to Winston Sale. Maybe I'll get a hotel up there and spend a night up there and then the next day come back down. I don't know.

I just got to coordinate, and I won't be able to know. I'll get a motel room for you, hotel room within a quarter mile church. It's a brand new holiday inn, we'll pay for it. Oh, man, that's hard to resist. Come on up.

I'll take care of them.

Well, that's good. Yeah, well, tell you what, this is what I need. I just need you to email me at info at Carm.org and give me some details like what city, you know, because that way I can, because it's all geography, driving time and things like that, and what days, and what you'd like, or opportunities, or whatever. And then I could just put them all together and see what I can work out, see if I can figure something out. It might be that I might not be able to make it.

It might be that I can. I'd like to be able to meet people because I think it's fun. And I think it would be fun.

So. But I definitely want to go to the bottom.

Well, that that that's nice. Until you meet me, then people aren't all that impressed. Once they meet me, it's over. It lasts five minutes or done. You're not.

You and I have a lot in common. I find that same thing happens with me a lot, but. Yeah, we got a holiday in brand new holiday in Rop within a quarter mile of church. right off the forelane. You'll be coming right to us.

Okay.

Yeah, just send me an email saying if you want me to speak, what do you want me to speak on, or just do a QA, that's fine, or just show up for dinner, whatever, because I'll be free. Probably Sunday evenings, Monday, and Tuesday or previous Thursday. I'm going to spend probably a week out there. And uh just do what I gotta do, drive around and say hi to people. And stuff like that.

Okay.

That sounds good. I'll shoot you an email right now.

Okay, brother, and put your phone number in there, and you know, all that kind of stuff. For anybody who wants to do that, you know, it'd be fun. I love meeting people that I get to teach on the radio, you know, and do the radio forward and meet people. It's a lot of fun. I get a kick out of it.

So, there you go. In fact, one time. I'm really looking forward to it. When I was in a group of people and I had to speak loudly, my voice goes up, you know, because I got to speak loudly. And they go, You don't sound like you do on the radio and I go, Come close, and then I go, Now this is how I normally talk.

And then they go, There you are. I remember that once.

Now I recognize.

So it was funny.

So we have a good time.

Well, all right, brother. I appreciate it. God bless you, brother. I'm looking forward to meeting you. Hey, looking forward to meeting you.

Okay, another servant of the Lord.

So praise God. I'm on work with your schedule, whatever you got. And we definitely want you to speak.

Well, if you do, great. And then what's good about me speaking is the pastor usually has several weeks of mess to clean up, which is good. They give some active. Kind of fix things and comfort people. Yeah.

Okay.

All right. All right, brother. God bless. All right. God bless you.

Bye.

Okay.

Oh, it's fun. I like that. All right, now let's get on with Chuck from Ohio. Hey, Chuck, welcome. You are on the air.

Well, thank you. Um I guess A cute I got a few questions. I think Open up. Make it too confusing, but Uh So I guess to start out, what do you think the uh Value of uh street evangelism and preaching is and What would be the best way? you do think that it's uh a good thing.

What would be the best Way to start.

Well, I do think it's a good thing to preach God's word. In season and out, the preaching of his word is good for various reasons. I've done street preaching. I've done preaching at swap meets, at the beach, on piers. I've tag teamed with Ray Comfort, done radio preaching.

I've even gone door to door. And so uh you know, it and in prisons too.

So the thing is I believe that what we should do is if you think God wants you to street preach. Then just pray and saturate it with prayer and then ask him to guide you. And You know, and he has to guide your heart, guide your mind, and for an opportunity, you want to go out with someone if you can have someone else help you because you need to be guarded. And then find a venue. It's either on a street corner, which doesn't really make sense, okay?

But at a gathering of people, and you find out what rules you can follow or can't break and things like that in doing this. I've done open-air preaching in New York, you know, at Times Square, but. I can't quite remember. Anyway, where there's 100, 200 people around, and you have a little thing you stand on, just a foot high, and you have an amplification on. And then you preach.

I've done that too.

So it just depends, you know, and if that's what God's leading you to do, then do it. Hey, hold on, brother. We got a break, okay? Hold on, man. Hey, folks, we'll be right back after these messages.

Then we'll get to Luke from Washington, D.C., and Rob from North Carolina. And we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.

Hey everybody, welcome back. Let's get back on with Chuck from Ohio. Chuck, welcome. You still there, buddy? Mm.

I guess so.

Something's happening. Yeah. The lawnmower flew by. Are you there, Chuck? Oh.

Hey. Yeah. All right. I just got home. Yeah, I didn't think I was going to be back on.

I just got home with my wife's supper. Um Yeah. That's all right. Yeah, thanks for the advice and encouragement and everything. I appreciate it.

Yeah, I do want to say this, though. If you're going to do this, you. Have on your person, you have an audio recording device. Don't go out there without it. You have it run all the time.

You can also get body cameras. And um you can have that on. If you have someone who's with you, they need to have a camera recording thing of somehow. Uh when I go out and do certain things, I if I'm you know, I've thought about how to do this, put the car my car in a certain position, put a camera in the car and turn it on. And then I can have a a microphone that transmits back to the the camera.

And the reason I talk about this is because the unbelievers can get violent. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I have I've been threatened. I've been followed and various things. For the most part, it's not a big deal. But if you don't have the protection device camera, whatever it is.

something bad will happen. If you do have it, nothing ever goes wrong. You know what I mean? Murphy's Law.

Okay, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. And I would carry um pepper spray. Yeah, I carry pair perspective. Yeah, I would.

And um and and know the laws. Uh I I remember once a guy was approaching me and I put up my hand, you know, and I as I step backwards, I says, Look, You're putting me in a state of apprehension. Legally that's called assault. Batteries if you touch me, that's battery. You're putting me in a state of apprehension.

I'm asking you to stop advancing on me. Please stop. I put both my hand I took Krav Magaw and uh for four and a half years, and you put your both your hands up, it's a defense uh thing, but it's also uh uh you know, ready to move if you have to. And so I've done that before. And then they've stopped.

And then I just take another step back and say, let's just talk calmly, you know, and things like that. I've had that happen more than once.

Okay.

Well, that's that's a good idea, yeah.

Okay, thank you very much. You're welcome very much. I've I've taken martial arts. I've but you know, I'm I'm not going out there for that. I'm seventy-six years old now, but you know, if um I could still surprise somebody, but yeah, I know what you mean.

I just I haven't had that much trouble. I've been passing out gospel tra tracts and, well, actually, mostly Gospels of John from Pocket Testament League and all over the place. And I've never had anybody get I've got a couple of cuss words, but that's been about it in the last maybe six years. Yes, yeah.

Well, I've uh yeah, I've had people steal try and steal stuff from me. I've um been threatened. I've I've had one guy try and get me to take a swing at him on purpose. Um once, get this, I was out in front of a Mormon uh temple. And true story here in Boise area, and actually in Meridian, and um.

This Mormon was very aggressive. He didn't like what I was doing. I was very polite, sitting on the sidewalk and passing out literature and just holding up a sign, you know, is MormonismChristian.com. I got to get that site going again. And he came out very aggressive, and his wife had to stop him.

And And he calmed down, but he was ready to take a swing at me, and I kept backing up. You know, I don't want any trouble. And to the Mormons' credit afterwards, the different M Mormons who are watching, They caught it, caught on. Wait a minute, this guy's being aggressive, and then it and then they were aware of it. After he left and they figured out what was going on, they came to me and they said they said, Look, if this happens again, just come inside and we'll protect you.

And, you know, it was awesome, you know, and they were great. They were great people. And I said, you know, I really appreciate that. I said, you know, I don't hate you. And they go, we know that.

You know, you just do what you think is right. I said, that's right. And they're good people. When I first got saved back in 76, the little housing area where we lived. We had Mormons come to the house like three years in a row and it'd be like two guys and then what next year it was two girls and then the next year it was two more guys.

And they're with their little elder badges on, and they look like they're in high school. Yeah, they're young. You know, I didn't try, I didn't know enough, and I didn't try to. Um to handle the Word of God with them by myself. I had Walter Martin set of tapes on Kingdom of the Cults.

And I said, if you want to get together with me, I want you to agree to uh listen to this state by Walter Martin. And they did all of them did, and they sit there and they listen to it, they were respectful. And usually, by the time it was over, we would maybe exchange a few words or ideas, but they were ready to go. Yeah, they're nice people. I mean, you know, they are, they're nice people.

Did they just believe in a false god and a false Christ? What I really liked about him was, you know, he would talk about, you know, when you're learning about counterfeit money. You don't study counterfeit money, you work with real money. And that's what he did with the scriptures. He would.

He would go over the Trinity. He would go over where it tells you in the Bible what the gospel is as compared to all the occult gospels. That type of thing, and it was really helpful, and it really helped me in getting my. Theology, at least on the the major doctrines, solidified.

Well, I had the privilege of studying underneath him for about two years, so in person.

So he was great. He was a great teacher and good, godly man. All right, buddy, we got to get going. And so there you go. All right.

Well, God bless. Thanks for calling. Thank you very much.

Okay.

God bless, brother. All right. Now let's get to Luke from Washington DC. Luke. Welcome, Your Honor.

Hi, Matt. How are you? Uh I'm okay. I'm okay. Yes, we got back in clubhouse today.

There's a lot going on, but yep.

So what do you got, Big? What do you got? My question is, you know Jimmy Saugert, right? Jimmy Saugert, he died ninety years old.

Okay.

So should Christians support ministries like Jimmy Sauger's Family Worship Center?

Well see this is a it's a debatable thing. Jimmy Swaggart, in my opinion, was disqualified from any ministry when he was done with the prostitute stuff. And so he's disqualified. He should not have. Continued in ministry.

So I wouldn't recommend anybody support that for that reason.

Now on the other hand, what do you do when he he might have a ministry that does reach people? If it's legit that he's that other people inside the ministry are reaching people, then I'd say, well, it seems okay to support the ministry for that reason. But not the individual he he should have been uh He should be kicked out of ministry. Permanently. Yeah, they He has a good T V evangelistic ministry in uh Sun Ray Sun T V and so many people, you know, every day he has a Bible marathon or something, people s sending money, thousands and millions of dollars.

Uh-huh. Yeah, and you know, I could do the same thing and get up there and try and be slick and quick and all this stuff and nice hair and the whole bit and say, Send me money and you'll be rewarded. But I stick too close to Scripture for that.

So um You know, There's just a lot of problems there with the name it and claim it kind of stuff he's done and some other stuff. But it's up to the individual who they want to support. And just because the leader's bad doesn't mean the group itself is bad. We don't want to commit what's called the genetic fallacy.

So at this point, I would say you have to study certain things. Like, you know. Oh well. Billy Graham. towards the end of his life taught heresy.

He taught that people are, everybody's going to be saved, not everybody's going to be saved, but that people can be saved. He hinted at the idea of being saved without Jesus. That as long as they're good, as long as they're this. And that's heresy. Does that mean the whole ministry is not tr good?

Well, no, it doesn't mean that.

So you see it it's just it it's Yeah.

Okay.

So then one more question. How did John Wesley interpret Romans nine? And is that interpretation faithful to the text? John Wesley. I don't know.

I don't know what his uh exegesis is of Romanstein, so I can't comment. I haven't heard it.

Okay.

Take care.

So did John Wesley teach that a believer could lose salvation? How does that align with the scripture? I believe he did teach you could lose your salvation.

Okay.

Mm. So what about his view of sanctification? Uh I don't know. I've just I have not studied him. Uh Because it's just not been an issue.

Because Wesleyans believe in the Trinity, the deity of Christ, justification by faith alone, and Christ alone. They have some aberrant views I don't agree with, but it's just not been an issue I've had to tackle a lot of Wesleyans. The ones I've encountered have loved the Lord.

Okay.

So I just tackle heresies. All right?

So, did you think John Wesley compromised biblical truth for the sake of practical religion? I don't know. I'd have to know what particular issues. You can compromise certain things for various reasons and still be in the faith. And there's other things you can't compromise on, like the essentials of the faith.

So, it's just not a blanket statement I can say yes or no to. I'd say we have to look at particular instances and statements in certain contexts, okay? One more question about John Wesley. John Wesley split from George Whitefield, more doctrinal, personal. I could understand you repeat that?

So was John Wesley split from George Whitefield? George Whitfield, yeah, they were friends, I know that, yes.

So they split John Wash John Wesley split from George. I don't know the history. I haven't studied their relationship. George Whitfield was a Calvinist and Wesley was, well, you know, Wesleyan. And they both preached.

And what I do know that George Whitfield had an incredible voice, apparently. He could preach to with unmodified, because they didn't have electricity back then, he could preach to thousands and they could hear him. And he's a great evangelist. In fact, he's one of the greatest evangelists of that time period. Anyway, that's all I can tell you about him.

I just haven't studied that particular issue.

Okay? I'm good, sir. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. All right, man.

God bless. Okay.

Oh, sorry about that. Let's get to Rob from North Carolina. Rob, we got about one minute. What do you got, ma'am?

Well, thank you, Matt.

So I'm a Calvinist and I guess my question is, um, you know, we're dead in our sins and transgressions before God calls us. How can people not be called and then be held eternally accountable? I guess that's my question. Because the responsibility is to God and. God says, be holy, for I am holy.

1 Peter 1:16. It's a universal command because it's what's right, because God's a standard of righteousness. In Acts 17:30, God says, everyone to repent.

Well, not everybody can repent. But the standard is not humanistic philosophy. The standard is God's character.

So everybody's obligated to do what is right, and what is right is to honor and serve God.

So they're supposed to repent. They're supposed to do this stuff. But God has to grant them that ability to. And their inability doesn't mean they don't have the responsibility to do what's right morally.

Now, this gets more complicated. I can work out the details, but we're out of time because the music is going to start in five seconds.

Okay? Okay, well thank you, brother. All right, man. Call back tomorrow. We can talk more about it.

Hey folks, we are out of time. May the Lord bless you by His grace.

So, back on the air tomorrow, and Lord William, we'll talk to you then. Have a great evening, everyone. God bless. Bye.

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