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So I'm looking at some of the questions right now. That's interesting. Uh Keep Uh praying third. There's a lot of stuff. And I don't understand.
When people if you're gonna write a an email to us with a question, just get the question very quickly. A lot of times what people will do is they will write a lot of stuff. And it really doesn't help us that much. At least it doesn't help me on the radio. Anyway, let's see what this person says.
As an avid listener, and I agree with you in most of what you talk about in the radio, I'm a Christian, believe in the Trinity. I believe God predestined us for salvation because that's what the Word says. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. Rosen the third day. My problem is that I carry this extreme burden of anxiety, trembling with fear that I'm not his.
This has been burdening me to the depths of my soul. I'm struggling emotionally and spiritually more than ever. Um Uh I'm in extreme emotional pain and fear. I'm just burdened with all of it. I have a very hard time evangelizing the people.
get so worked out feel em Pressure. work my dad's Okay, whatever. And uh So, I feel like I contribute very little to the kingdom at times. I'm just so terrified of him saying to me, Depart from me, I never knew you. How do I know if he knows me?
Alright, what I'm going to do. is go to a scripture. And uh I'm going to recount a story.
Well, I was in seminary, Westminster Theological Seminary in Escondido, California. And I had the same question. questions. I had the same worries. And You know, I I would Ended up talking to a professor.
in uh our chapel. Hold on, there we go. Talking to a professor, and I still remember the conversation. I still remember. Uh he listened patiently and I told him, look, I don't know if I'm really believing in my Deceiving myself?
How do I know I'm really believing? Because I can think I'm believing, I'm not. You know, the things I think I don't want to think, and things I should, I don't. And, you know, I was just going through a lot of stuff. In seminary's pretty hard.
A lot of it's pretty tough. But um I remember he was very patient and uh You know, I said so I'm just not sure what to do. And Mm-hmm. He took me to scripture. Matthew 7.7 It says, Ask and it'll be given to you, seek and you'll find, knock and it'll be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, of bread, that is. Uh we'll give them a stone. Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him.
And so he read that to me. And he said Matt. He said, Are you asking God for salvation? I said, Well, yes. Do you believe he rose from the dead?
I said, Yes. You believe he's got inflict? he asked.
Well If you ask of God, He's not going to trick you. He won't give you a stone if you ask for a loaf, and what that means and that culture. Is uh that when they cook bread, it often looked like some of the stones in the area, flat and round and had the same kind of appearance. You asked for a loaf. Won't give you a stone, and if you ask for a fish, won't give you a snake.
Because in this Sea of Galilee, from I understand. Or maybe it's in the Mediterranean, I don't know. There was a fi or there is a fish. It's very, very skinny and long. It looks like a snake.
And the point here that Jesus is saying is that he will not deceive you. He will not try. trick you. He will not Give you something you did not ask for. If you're asking.
He's going to give it to you. says you being evil. Give good gifts to your children, how much more Will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him? And it was really uh uh a very good uh Um are very good. the session that uh that I had with with the professor because it really did help me a great deal.
It helped me understand. That and to believe. That Yet God was not there. As a deceiver, he was not there. Uh not letting me know.
if I was really trusting in him. But he says But God is faithful. And I walked away from that discussion, helped. Yeah. the wisdom of of this.
the professor. And um It's so uh I just want to say that same thing to the person who is listening. how much more will God give to you, if you ask? The issue here is don't look at your own feelings, your own failures. Look to God.
Take your eyes off of yourself. Put them on to the Lord. He is faithful. He is the one who will save you. He is the one who keeps you.
Now, on that day in Matthew 7:22 and 23, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, do we not prophesy in your name, perform many miracles in your name, cast out demons in your name? And he says, Get away from me, I never knew you. workers of iniquity. What they were doing there was appealing for their salvation and their faith and their works. Lord, Lord, did we not do these things?
And that's the reason he says I never knew you. True Christians don't add works to salvation. They don't add baptism to salvation. They don't add anything that they do in their sincerity in order to obtain salvation, whether it be the Eucharistic supper or the the false teachings of Theosis and becoming more like Christ through the energies of God, that you then do good works and achieve salvation. All this, these false demonic doctrines in the various churches.
Uh no. We are justified by faith alone in Christ alone, and God who grips us, gives us that faith. Fleetpins 129, so we can trust him.
Alright, that's what we need. That's what we're hoping for.
Now there's something that's really kind of interesting is the phrase uh How much more? And uh If we look at that to see how many times it occurs in the Bible. and what context. You find out that it occurs a lot of times. in the Bible.
It really does. It's in Deuteronomy. You have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more then after my death? And it goes on, but I'm going to focus on.
um on the New Testament teachings. In Matthew 7, 11, we already went over this. How much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him? And uh In Matthew 10:25, if they have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they malign the members of his household? How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep So then it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
That's Matthew twelve, twelve. or Luke eleven thirteen, if you then being evil This is a repeat of Matthew seven. Of giving good gifts. in Matthew 12 28 if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive already, and to morrow is thrown into the furnace. How much more will He clothe you?
You men of little faith. Uh let's see, Romans 11:12.
Now, if their transgression, that's the Jews, is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be? Romans 11.24. Uh Uh the uh and more gra uh that If you are cut off I agree the whole thing. If you are cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature to a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted into their own? Do you know that we will judge angels how much more matters of this life?
1 Corinthians 6.3, and two more. Oh excuse me, Philemon 16. no longer is a slave, but more than a slave. as a beloved brother, especially to me, how much more to you And then Hebrews 9:14. How much more will the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, Cleanse you of your sins.
And so uh It's kind of interesting. to see how God uses phrases. in the Bible. All right, let's see what time it is. We've got a break coming up.
We got a little bit of time. Let's get to Cody from Texas. Cody, welcome. You're on the. Uh on the air, sorry.
Go ahead. Yeah, hey Matt, this is Cody the the frescatology guy.
So Hey, bud. I had a question. I ran across a TikTok video the other day, and I never heard this because, like, I've heard you teach things such as. you know, like you don't really understand the whole deal about the wedding feast, with the day and the hour of Someone coming, unless you, you know, and Christ not knowing the day of the hour because it was the honor of the Father, that kind of thing, unless you know the context.
So the context uh this guy said was talking about turning the other cheek, which I think is you know, semi-applicable considering what just happened. Right. What Christian's name turned the other cheek, and what he said was in the culture. Uh it was The thing about turning the other cheek was not just to let them hit you again and be submissive. or all that kind of stuff.
It was about If they've slapped you on one hand, you give them the other cheek because it was a sign of disrespect that they backhanded you. But if they slapped you from the forehand, it was a sign of seeing you as an equal. And so, if you gave them the other cheek, they would have, and they hit you with the same hand, they would have to do it. On the f And that way. You know what I'm saying?
I hadn't heard that by the open hand for the back of the hand. That might be the case. I'd like to see some documentation for that. But uh It was, generally speaking, what I understand, when they would have disagreements. There was uh I forgot the exact order.
but they wouldn't actually produce anything, they would do the sound and make the the motion uh of disagreement. And then there was pulling the beard, the man of the beard, the beard of the man, excuse me, pulling his beard, and then physical contact of a slap. and it was an escalation of disagreement. And at that point, Jesus says, turn that other cheek. Don't return evil for evil.
But I'd be interested to see if which way the hand is delivered. I've not heard that before. Maybe it's the case. I just don't know.
Well, yeah, I'd like you to look at it and find that out because you're better at finding that kind of stuff around. Uh another one of those things. Hold on. Can you hold on? I'm gonna break it up, okay.
There's another one.
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It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. All right, welcome back to the show. Let's get back on with Cody from Texas. And before you ask your next question, I did some research during the break, and you're correct.
The commentator does say that um And I've got some documentation from that Mishna Bhava. Comma eight, uh verse six. A slap with the back of the hand was considered far more insulting than one with the palm, and it carried double ch damages in rabbinic law. And I got other quotes.
So, yeah, there you go.
Okay. Yeah, and then that's what the guy was saying was the whole principle was to point out the injustice They already expo ex expose injustice. Um And and another thing he uh mentions right after that was whenever he When Jesus says to If he asked you to carry his off a mile or whatever. Then and go a go the extra You know?
Well, the thing was they were the Roman soldi uh, he says that the Roman soldiers Like they were they would tell them to carry it one mile, but like if they carried it longer than that, the Roman soldier could actually get in trouble for that. Oh, interesting.
Okay, well I that's another thing to check out. Yeah. Because it was long. Couldn't force them to do it for more than one mile, but I think they could if they volunteered. But okay.
Sure. Yeah, and I I guess I'll just go ahead and read what I put in the Rumble chat. Um the uh You know, I put on X earlier, like, the reasons in regards to the whole Charlie Kirk thing. the reason for gun quote unquote gun violence right, whatever that is, I don't even know how that's defined now. was quote unquote gum violence.
trying to silence the gums. presenting arguments that one can't uh actually argue with. Yeah. And that was the, that was a, that was, that was result. That's what resulted in the gun violence is from Trude.
Well, I don't know. Yeah, it I guess you were just saying there. Yeah, it's really unfortunate. I've seen some videos of people rejoicing that Charlie Kirk was killed. And it's money.
Yeah, they rejoice in murder. And you know, they're obviously they're leftists and uh Yeah. It it's amazing to me uh that evil people who rise up and say, Yes, it's good that he was murdered. For what? What was he doing?
He was saying, let's talk openly. Let's have discussions. You don't have to agree, but let's discuss. and they wanted him dead for that. because the left is totalitarian.
They don't want free speech. They don't want free speech. They want domination. And Just think, what would happen? I I wrote in a post.
uh what would happen if the leftists like that We're in control of concentration camps for Christians were were gathered. What would they do? And you know what they would do. Yeah, a lot of bad stuff. Yeah, I mean it like we we as Christians presuppose The the sinful nature of man.
So we know that people are going to be bad, which is why we have. That's why people don't understand. That's why laws exist. Because it presupposes the sinful nature of man. That's the entire purpose of them.
to restrain that. That's right. That's right. They believe those that buy into the idea of a socialist utopia. presuppose that people aren't bad.
And it doesn't work, it's not reality. Right. Yeah, I agree with you. They are bew they're bewitched. Communist I read the Communist Manifesto a while back just to do it, and it was interesting.
It presupposes in there, just like you said, the neutrality of humanity and that you can rise to the occasion given the right resources and fairness. and it completely misses the doctrine of the depravity of man. And that's why it doesn't work. It can't.
So yeah, Yeah, I mean, it's the same thing we hear when we evangelize, right? It's it's you know, I'm not I'm not that bad a person. I'm basically a good person. By what standard? Right.
So All right, God bless, brother. I appreciate you taking my call.
Alright man, God bless.
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Two two twelve. Uh two two seven six sorry. 877-207-2276. Let's get to Jermaine from California. Jermaine, welcome.
You're on the air. Hey, Matt, um just uh your your first caller alluded to what I wanted to talk about with The whole Charlie Kirk aftermath Watching how many people are just giddy and gleefully enjoying a man being murdered. Yeah. They'd disgust me. Yeah.
And I I realize a lot of them are in bad places. Even some people that I knew were they're not believers, but still Seems like common decency is going out. The world is. Is this the actual state of humanity without God? Like when you see these kinds of disgusting things like is this?
Is this like who we are? without his intervention. Yeah, well You know, Ephesians 2.1, we are by nature, excuse me, Ephesians 2.3, we are by nature children of wrath. And Ephesians 2.1 says you're dead in your sins.
Well, there's many places in the scripture that speak of people who are ungodly. In 1 Corinthians 2:14, the natural man cannot receive the things of God. Uh it says um That those who commit sin, John 8:34, are slaves of sin. And in Ephesians 4:18, people are darkened in their understanding, excluding the life that comes from God.
So their minds are blinded. They're unable to perceive truth. And that's just that's the state of people without God. It's going to be bad, and they're going to live according to their depravity. That was going to happen.
Yep.
Okay, and I guess the second part I would ask I've noticed that throughout history, God seems to have a way of using these kinds of things, these people who are in a martyr type situation and You know, it it almost seems like the ultimate We gotcha spiritual warfare where you think you persecuted someone and then all of a sudden there's an explosion of faith because For me this This inspired me to learn more here. you know, go on the carm side to read my Bible, study, be with my church, pray more because I can see just the hopeless state of mankind Without God, when people are celebrating something like this, and I actually felt pity. I I haven't felt that that many times for people who say disgusting things, but when I saw A couple people I knew. I felt pity for them because I know they're headed for hell short of God's interventions.
So it do you think that we're going to see a similar situation here where someone who You know, such a tragedy, sort of snuffed out so young, but At the same time he was a professing believer or maybe people will be inspired by that. Yeah, I think it's going to happen. I do know that there are conservative y young ma men who are growing up. And uh in our environment now and they're becoming Educated. and informed.
So I believe God is raising up people, and they're going to be Christians. And this kind of a thing. It it's uh you know, murder. Um it it's It often brings about the opposite of what the people intended. They intend to shut down free speech, but it forces people to go forward.
And men have a tendency to to fail. fight. Men have a tendency to brave storms. And so I believe what will happen in a lot of contexts is a lot of people are going to say, well, we're going to speak up even more. Because they're tired of what the Left is doing and the evil that the Left proposes.
So I think that there's uh gonna be a lot of A b positives coming back from it. what I think.
Alright buddy?
Okay. All right. All right. I'll pick it up tomorrow. Thank you.
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Oscar from New York, welcome. You're on the air. Yes those fish. The Bible speaks about falling from the faith. Does that mean some yeah, does that mean some people have a Christian experience?
But we are not saying Well, individuals don't become unsaved once they're saved. But there are generic statements. about uh groups of people And things like that. Like there's a prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2 of the the uh coming Um The upcoming apostasy. Right, and so that's what's going to be happening, and that means that churches and groups of people, denominations, are going to go apostate, but it doesn't mean that individuals lose their salvation because Jesus says we can't, and that you know, we can get into that if you want, but okay.
Okay, thank you. Uh thank you very much.
Okay, bye bye. Sure, no problem at all.
Okay. Well, now let's get to Eugene from North Carolina. Eugene, welcome. You're on the air. Hi.
Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Yes, I can. Yes, I I can hear you fine. What do you got?
Here.
Okay. Yeah, hey Matt, this Yeah, I listened to your show for a while the first time called. Good. early again today and we'll you know, be a preordination. Uh Uh that God you know for new who would be saved and who would not be.
And I I I've always heard you say that there were some people who That's for God. Chose under the not chose, I don't want to misspeak, but chose is the right word. That that okay.
Okay, that's going to hell.
Well, he chose people for salvation, and he may very well have chosen people to go to hell too. That's out of Romans 9:22 and 23, and then Proverbs 16:4. Yeah, that's a hard thing, but that's what the s the scriptures seem to say. I I think you gotta also um You know, weigh out against the scripture that God desired. that no one should perish, but all should come to eternal life.
So I think a lot of that has to do with Maybe he knew what choices people were gonna make, but Number Why are you there? We lost. Do we lose your time?
Okay, yeah. Yeah, you're breaking up. You're breaking up there. Uh so don't think If you can can you hear me okay? Is there?
Okay, what Yeah, what I was saying was that you know, the scripts there that got doesn't desire that anyone perish but also from the eternal life. And he also says that I set before you life and death. But that's just encouraged them, you know, to choose lies.
So There's a choice that I believe we all have to make. That's common theology taught in most churches, and uh. It's uh it's just not very biblically based.
Sorry, but it's not. Yeah, it's not very biblically based. When you quote, you know, choose this day whom you're going to serve, that's out of the Old Testament and that's when Moses is talking to the Israelites. And I believe it's Moses. And it's to those who are already covenant people and believers.
It's not to be taken out of the context of the Old Testament, put into a modern context and say this means you can choose to be saved. That's not what's going on. When we ask the issue, people ask me, they'll say, Well, in 2 Peter 2. Oh, 2 Peter 3:9, 1 Timothy 2:4, it says God wants people to be saved, all people to be saved. And I say, okay.
Right. And I say, well then, if that's the case, do you interpret it to mean that God actually has a heartfelt desire that every individual actually come to faith and that God's just waiting and hoping? that they do it, but they choose not to. If that's the case, there's lots of problems with that. One of the questions I ask people who propose that is: does God know?
What it would take to save anybody, any time. According to their free will, whatever choices, whatever, does God know what it would t do to What it would take to do that? And the answer, of course, is yes. And the question is. Yeah.
Yeah, then why doesn't he? Because it allows us to choose. But he knows how to do that with your choices. He manifested to Paul the Apostle, knocked him off his horse, got him to believe.
Now that's obviously biblical, so why doesn't God do it to everybody? Be because then it it wouldn't be love. But wait a minute, did God was Jesus loving Paul the Apostle? When he knocked him off his horse? Of course.
Absolutely, yeah.
Okay, so then God knows. How to be loving. Enough. To get anybody to be saved, all God's got to do is show his glory to people. And they will repent.
Oh yes, they will, absolutely. Absolutely. What happened to Joe? He was walking. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't understand what I'm saying. The glory of God. the majestic glory of God, When it is manifested to somebody. They will believe. That's what happened.
Jesus was the word and the glory of God. They walk with him. They touch him. No, you don't understand what I'm saying. You don't understand what I'm saying.
Okay, maybe I'm there to. No. God's glory, the very nature of his light. Holiness. put upon you Sh uh just just I don't know how to describe it.
The reason I'm saying this is I know because I experienced it. I experienced it when I was 17 years old, and there was just no choice you had to believe because there was no way to. There was just simply no way to deny what was happening in the presence of God. There was no way to deny your sinfulness before holiness. There was no way to deny that you didn't need Him.
It just I'm serious, that's what it is. And uh in uh in Isaiah, the same Okay, I'm just saying Well, hold on, hold on, let me finish. I'm just saying, if God He shows His glory, His omniscient, omnipotent power, holiness to people, they're going to repent because that's the nature of God's greatness. And so God knows what it would take to lovingly, with everybody's free will, to bring people to faith, and yet He doesn't choose to do it. This is a question that the other side can't answer.
Alright.
Okay? That is one of the problems. That's just one of the problems. And there's another one. The other problem is that God did reveal his glory.
He said, Jesus, he said, you're not hearing me. You're not hearing it. You're not hearing me. No, you're not. Because when it says he, no, Jesus wasn't manifesting, walking around with the light and the emanations of holiness just all around him, so that whenever anyone was in his presence, they're on their knees weeping.
That's not what I'm talking about. God knows what it takes to save anybody. And why doesn't he do it?
Furthermore, Why does Jesus speak in parables? He tells us why he speaks in parables. Yeah, he told them why.
So they will not be forgiven.
So they'll not be forgiven. Mark four, ten through twelve. He says To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive. And while hearing, they may hear and not understand. Otherwise, they might return and be forgiven.
He speaks in parables so they won't be forgiven. If God wants every individual to be saved, then why does He speak in parables? If he wants every individual to be saved, then why is it in Exodus 2 Thessalonians 2:11, God will send upon them a deluding influence so they'll believe what is false? And this To answer your question, I believe it. you know, he said white broken parallels because that they had eyes but the the people that want us that could succeed.
or wanted to see they would draw closer. Like the woman who wanted the blessing and said, Don't even the dogs get the crumbs. You know? Yeah, I'm going to just say that you're you you what you've heard is humanist philosophy woven into uh Bible talk. from varying pastors and teachers.
It's humanist philosophy, not scripture. Yeah. Read God's Word. Study his word. That's what I said.
I'll I'll I'll read some more and and pray some more and uh Okay, check this out.
Well, check this out. God wants everyone to be saved, right? Everybody. It means Sihon, king of Heshbon. Was willing, yeah, but it's okay.
Was not willing for us to pass through the land, for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today, to be destroyed. Yeah. or Joshua 11 20. For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts to meet Israel in battle, in order that He might utterly destroy them, that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them.
Now I can go on and on. I just what I'm saying is God is not mean. It's just that when people say, Oh, he wants everyone to be saved, that we're done talking. No, we're not done talking. Take the rest of Scripture.
Where God hardens people's hearts, where He speaks in parables so they will not be saved. And then we go back to these questions: what does it mean He wants all to be saved? Who's the all? Does it mean every individual who ever lived?
Well No, it can't. in 1 Samuel 3.14, for example. God says, I've sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquities of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.
So you see uh It's just not that easy. I can teach on this for a good hour. I've gone over it hundreds of times. But there you go, buddy, okay? We got a break, so.
That helps. All right, brother. God bless. Hey folks, we write back out for these messages. Please stay tuned.
We'll get a Chuck from Greensboro, North Carolina. Carolina. We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.
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This is the Physically Blind Trying to Help the Spiritually Blind, just like you. Only to a smaller point, smaller extent. Sure. One conversation I had recently, someone mentioned when they came back from one of the battles when the Hebrews came back from one of the Battles. They divided up the people among the between.
the actual soldiers and the people that stayed behind. And they said, For the Levites to take one of every 500, but the language in one soul from every 500. And it even used that same language when it was talking about the animals. And this person was trying to tell me that meant that the donkeys had souls. I said, no, you're not reading it right.
You have to use a little common sense, but can you help me out there? Um Real quickly So Only people are made in God's image, not animals.
So they don't have the size in the image of God. That's that would be the argument I would give. It's short, sweet and to the point.
Well, that didn't work, was it? They use the word soul there repeatedly. Yes, but you look up some word. I understand. They use some word, I forgot, was like niche or something.
They said that. And I said, Well, you've you got the wrong language. Nefesh is the problem could be. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
So, the word is nephesh in the Hebrew there. He's talking about. I know the argument, but. Uh Yeah. Uh I don't do well with dogs barking in the background, I gotta go.
Okay. Sorry, folks, I have auditory problems. If there's too many dogs in the background and stuff like that, I don't process sound very well.
Sorry, it's just what it is. I'm defective. Couldn't really continue.
So let's go with Adrian on North Carolina. Adrian, welcome here on the air. Thank you.
God bless you and yours, sir. You know, the gentleman that was talking was this uh green other green spur janima The things he was saying What else? made me think of predestination. Yeah. Uh-huh.
It's the end. what that is or and what it not is. And I'll tell you right now, That I am safe. I mean, I know that I know that I know. When God calls me home, I'm going to be with him.
It happened.
Okay. Do you have a question now? I was yeah, can you talk a little bit? Can you talk some more? I know this is in the show about predestination.
Sure. Yeah, not a problem at all. Yeah, predestination is a sovereign work of God where He elects people and/or nations. a specific reason. to and he brings about that uh that purpose in them.
Okay, that is what it is. Right. So he does that. And God predestines people, he predestines nations and uh groups of people as well. A lot of people don't like that because they think it means you don't have free will or and they like the idea of their own sovereignty instead of God God's sovereignty.
There's a lot of false teachings going on in churches today. Where human free will is equal to God's free will, and it's not the case. Oh no. Yeah, it's good, but it's tough. That's right.
It's bad news.
So, this is what it says in Acts 4:27, 28. For truly in this city, there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus. whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, Along with the Gentiles, the peoples of Israel.
So now we have two individuals: Herod and Pontius Pilate. And the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, as two people groups. to do whatever your hand and your purpose predestined to occur.
So there we have an instance of God predestining certain things and peoples and groups of people, individuals, and the goal, the end of it was for the crucifixion of Christ.
So this is a doctrine that's in scripture, but a lot of people will reject it. The reason a lot of people will reject it is because they do theology by feeling. They feel that they and their wisdom are the ones who decided to come to God. That's now the authority. Is their feelings, their understanding, their experience.
They interpret scripture that way and say that if you believed in predestination, Then that means you don't have free will, and that's not the Bible. And what they don't realize is what they've really been doing is judging scripture by their own experience, and that's false. They should not do that.
So the Bible teaches what it teaches from Acts 4, 27, 28. I teach people this all the time, and they get upset with me. the time.
Okay. Yeah. I'm here you talked about it before and I know that's what you've you have made comment about that people get upset. Yeah, they do. They had to go to car.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, scripture first, carb second. But yeah, when I first heard about it, I rejected it too. I remember. I absolutely remember where I was.
I was in college, a Christian college. The professor, Rod Rosenblatt, said that people are predestined by God. And I said in class, no, that's not true. And he. Politely said, Well, why don't you just go study it and come back to me and let me know?
And I did. And about a week later, I came back, and since I disagreed in class, then in class, I raised my hand and I said, Look, I gotta apologize. You were right, I was wrong, the scriptures teach it. Because I studied it, that's what it teaches, so I had to change my view. And he said, Good and then we we g went on.
So s so you were m were mature of mind even as a young man?
Well I had an advantage that some people don't have Disadvantages and advantages, but one of the advantages with my parents both taught me: don't follow the crowd. Just because someone does something. And my mom used to say, Well, if they all jump off a cliff, are you going to do that too? No, mom, I'm not going to. And, you know, she says the same thing.
Yes, that's right. And so she nailed me with that all the time. And uh and and plus I moved twenty six times before I was twelve, so I went to twelve different elementary schools.
So the side effect was I learned to become independent and self reliant. And So uh I don't care if you don't like it. It's not going to hurt me any. tell you what the Bible says. My reliance is on God.
You know, and if you don't like me, oops, I don't care. And that's something that's always bothered me, is why people get so upset on social media. People, look, someone said something negative about me. What am I going to do? I'm laughing.
It's like, are you serious? Yeah. Could grow up so what? Anyway, so I mean we were banging at one. Thank you so much, sir.
And God bless you for what you do. I listen to you all the time. and the tail people back yet.
Well, I appreciate that because I certainly Need all the support I can get. And maybe call my wife up and tell her to start liking me again because she's just tired of me. She doesn't listen to me. She doesn't listen to anything I say. She doesn't care.
Mm-hmm. you know I hope she's not hearing me that right right now. Give me a s one of those lucks. I I hear that. You take care, sir.
Thank you so much. Yeah. All right. Hey, if you want to call me, 877-207. two two seven six So, this predestination thing, did you also know that the word occurs in the Greek in Romans 8:29?
Those whom he foreknew, he also predestined. Notice what it says: the foreknown ones are also the predestined ones, they're the same group. Those who before knew he also predestined. It does not say Of those whom he looked into in the future to see who'd picked him, he predestined them. Doesn't say that.
Okay. Okay. And then it says, Those who be predestined, he also called, those who may call it also justified. Those who be justified, those are glorified. in 1 Corinthians 2.7.
It says, We speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom of God predestined. Before the ages to our glory. Ooh, interesting. How about Ephesians 1:5? He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.
And then Ephesians 1:11. In him, you also, after listening, oops, uh, guys, I got the wrong verse. Ephesians 1:11. Here we go. And, yeah, it is it.
No, it's not. Here we go. Also, we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose. Who works all things after the counsel of his will.
Now that's a killer verse, you know. Also, we also have obtained an inheritance having been predestined. What is that inheritance?
Well, that inheritance is the what we would say is the right to be called the children of God, redemption, to be counted in the family of God, etcetera. and we're for his own possession and his own work and his glory. And so that's inheritance. And it says we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined. Why do we obtain this inheritance?
Because we're predestined. Having been perdescent. That's what it says, right? And a lot of people No, no, it's not true.
Well, it is true. It's an auspic aeris partis it's going to be aeris passive participle. Aeris means past tense. Passive voice means you receive the action, and participle is an ing word. Having been.
Predestined in its participial form, its continued action in the past. God has done this according to His purpose. Who works all things after the counsel of his will? This is the sovereignty of God. Ephesians chapter 1 is one of the most important chapters in the Bible.
Because in it In it. Arc critical verses of uh truth. If you were to really get in some if you want to be irritated, annoyed, And uh Here's stuff that the Bible says: go to Ephesians chapter 1, Colossians chapter 2. and study. Look at this, Sherry from Utah.
Welcome, Sherry. You're on the air. Hey, how are you? I'm okay, hanging in there. You know, just coming in there.
Um talking about He thought God said that He wanted all people to come to the knowledge, his knowledge.
Well, he says. Knowledge of the faith. Yeah, but who's the all? Yeah, and I thought it was so beautiful where he was going, and I just wanted to encourage him because. A couple of things you said I just had a problem with.
One is you said that people who don't agree with you are They're using humanistic theology. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I didn't say that. I'm not sure if you're a scripture. No, no, no. Their own experience.
Hang on a minute. No, no, no, no, no. You hold on. You hold on. And yet, you.
No, okay, we're done.
Okay. I said, she's not going to do this to my show. I want her to put it in context. It's not just disagreeing with me on that particular thing, was the issue. That was the context we're talking about.
And she worded in such a way as if it's just disagreeing with me with me. That's not it, that's not it at all.
Okay, Sherry, go ahead. Go ahead. You're back on the bottom. Um I think that if more than half of the church believes that People have free will whether to come to Christ or not. I don't think you should belittle those people because they love God and they love the Bible and they know the Bible as well.
But let me figure out if you're brothers and hold on. Hold on. Okay, never mind. Boy, she doesn't want to talk. Let me talk.
I'm not belittling them. I'm telling them what the truth of God's word is. If that belittles them, that's on them. The truth of God's word is that we have free will. Certainly, we have the ability to make choices.
But God is the sovereign one above our free will. It's not an issue that free will just means we can just choose God, because if that's the case, then why did Jesus say, You cannot come to me unless it's granted to you from the Father? John 6, 65. He takes it out of our so-called free will and he puts it in the hands of God. That's the issue.
And that's what Christians need to believe because it's the Word of Christ, it's the Word of God. And too many churches, too many people in America are teaching Mamby-Pamby theology about man's free will, man this, man that. It's all to man, up to man, up to man. And this is just a bunch of crud being taught from pulpits all over America, and it's not in the Bible. And they don't, people aren't doing their thinking.
They're not doing what they need to do. In their deep theological examination, remember John 65, Jesus says, you cannot come to me. unless it's granted by the Father. If it's up to your free will, Then why did Jesus say what he said? And when I ask people that question, you know what they do?
They change the topic. There we go. We're out of time. May the Lord bless you by his grace. We'll be back on here tomorrow.
And maybe she'll come back and let me finish sentences and put things in context instead of just keep trying to dominate. with her free will. Hey he'll be right back. No, he won't. We'll be back tomorrow.
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