Matt Slick Live

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. It's Matt Slick Live. Mac 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. Hey everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick. You're listening to Matt Slick Live. And as usual, if you want to give me a call, the number is easy, 877-207-2276.

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So, nothing new to report, except the site is coming together still, and it'll be released on a new site that is released on the 25th of this month. When CARM, the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, will be 30 years old. 30 years old. It's been around a lot. And it has a trust value that a lot of people don't recognize, don't aren't familiar with.

In fact, let me let me kind of talk about that and what that means because it's relevant in the issue of And um going to put this, AI and websites and information, because AI is is coming on strong. It's really going to have a very profound effect on our our Our economy, on jobs, and things like that. And I've been studying it, and I've written some articles on AI as well, and I plan to write some more articles and read some more books. And some stuff from the experts. I want to be on top of it.

One of the reasons is I love tech and I use AI a lot. But I use it under controlled circumstances. One of the things I can do. For example, is I can l load up files that I've written over the years. And say to the AI, you know, in this file on Christian theology, say it's 200 pages of an outline that I've got.

I want you to always respond with this information in line. You know, it's not. In light of that. And so you can do things like this, and it guards you. There are a lot of Concerns about AI: Can it be demon-possessed?

Can it be used to control you? Is it the mark of the beast? Various things that people have asked about and wondered about, and I'll be writing about those kinds of things. One of the things I think might be interesting. is at least to me would be uh AI churches.

I think that would be an interesting topic to get into. What does it mean to have an AI church? Is it possible? What about AI producing sermons? And you just listen to an AI-developed preacher give an AI-written sermon?

Be talking about that, good or bad, things like that. And the unction of the Holy Spirit, which would not be there. But that's another topic, okay? All right, all right, all right.

So, uh, I want to hear from you, give me a call. The number is 877-2072276. Last night I was uh. about a forty five minute drive away and uh pay yet Idaho answering questions at a panel discussion, and that was enlightening. It was fun.

The people there are are good people, really enjoyed them. And uh But busy day yesterday. Busy day yesterday. Just constant ministry helping people and no complaints. Just one of those long days.

All right.

Now so what I'm going to do is since we have nobody calling right now, I'm going to just jump in and start Um Getting into some questions that we've had delivered, and uh let's see. Let's see. Man, maybe you can address this on the radio. I'll share a couple of thoughts. Yeah, this is yeah, it's done.

A female chaplain is sharing biblically accurate and faithful messages and teaching the true biblical gospel. And if the sessions provide an opportunity to connect with other Christians and encourage each other in the faith, it might be right for you to attend, despite being led by a woman. Such situations, it might be that the biblical teaching of male leadership would be considered a secondary issue.

However, I could also imagine scenarios where. You decide not to attend.

Okay.

So, um There are It's kind of difficult to get through all of these kind of iterations and possibilities and things like this. We don't want to have any situation approved of where a woman is in spiritual authority over a man in a church.

Now that that's just what the scriptures teach. And I know that people don't agree. And if you don't agree, you want to do a public, formal debate with me, let's arrange it. And I've been offering this debate challenge for twenty years of radio periodically, just saying if uh Would anybody want to debate me? A public formal debate on does the Bible support women, pastors, and elders?

And I've never had a single person accept the challenge.

Now, if you're interested in challenge and taking that, I I do have a few restrictions. I want you to be uh Competent, maybe a pastor, maybe an elder, somebody like that. Uh But we'll see. Maybe not, but it just depends.

So, women are not to be in that position, and it's best if they. They stay out of the position. I know that a lot of times what people want to do, particularly in today's climate of egalitarianism. where women are evil to men and everything which they're not. We're not equal to women in everything, just how it is.

But the Bible does give. Head shift to the male, not to the female.

Now that's just a fact. I know a lot of people don't like that. I say to them, Two things. One, I don't care if you don't like it or not. And the other two is you need to submit to the Word of God.

That's what I tell people. You submit to God's Word, you believe what the Word of God says. But what they'll often do. I've had many conversations with people who deny the headship of males in the Bible is they will twist the Word of God incredibly. It's really almost entertaining to see how badly they treat God's Word.

But uh nevertheless um It's one of the things that I stand on, it's one of the things I'll defend. And it's one of the things I think is important in the Christian church. You can get into all kinds of stuff about that. But for now, let's get on with Anthony from Kansas. Anthony, welcome.

You are on the air.

Okay.

How you how you doing um Uh math, my my oh my brain short cookie for a second. We're too young for that. You're hard to understand. It's echoey. It's not very clear.

Echo it. I don't really know why that is. How's that? Oh yeah, but Oh It s you sounded a little bit better. It sounded like you're in a big room on a speaker phone.

I know I'll speak for it. It's a fairly big room I'm in, though.

Okay, well, see we can go ahead. Yeah, I think I hear you well enough now.

Okay.

Those of the Bible Forbid women to wear jewelry. I kind of had a running somebody on Facebook and They tried to defend that easy. with either 1 or 2 Timothy. In like manner, women should adorn themselves with not with threaded hair or costly apparel or or with a jury I tried to point out that the spirit of the world that scripture. does not necessarily mean that.

So, and he just comes back and says, What part I've not do you not understand? I think I understand what your what your question is. First survival condemned jewelry. No.

So it doesn't condemn jewelry. Rebecca and Esther wore jewelry in the Old Testament, Genesis and Esther. And in the New Testament, when it talks about this, it says, Do not let your adornment be external with braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry. What a lot of people will do, or the clothing you wear.

So, what a lot of people do is take only the jewelry part and they'll say, Look, that's it, it can't wear jewelry.

Well, then you can't have braided hair either, can you? And you can't have clothing that you wear has to be a certain kind of clothing.

So we get into some problems here. The idea that Paul is teaching, and Peter is teaching, is that. The modesty of the woman is very important, and she is not to display herself in such a way to arouse sexual attraction. Or just be a display of beauty. When that happens, they lack modesty.

And those are the kind of women you stay away from. You just stay away from like that. Yeah, because if they're going to advertise their looks with jewelry and low-cut tops and everything else like that, then you know what their heart is. And it's not in the things of God. But anyway, so it's an admonition, it's not an absolute rule, because if you're going to take it as an absolute rule of jewelry, then you can't have certain clothes, which we have to get into that, and or braided hair.

Okay.

Right.

Now some people do take it by way back. But Ethan James uses the term shame-based.

Okay.

Do you have any idea what shamefaced is? In the game variations, right? No, I don't know. Yeah, I don't use the King James, so I'm not familiar with. With what the King James says.

Let's see if I can. maybe find where that occurs, shamefaced. I found it. And it's 1 Timothy 2:9, in like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness. And so tried to Shame-facedness.

Wow, that's interesting. It's the Greek word audus. And. Uh-huh. It means an innate moral repugnance to a dishonourable act or fashion.

Oh, well, I like that. Um Which reminds me, you know, my wife uh we went to church on Sunday and She wore something and I and she had a nice figure. And I said, Hun, uh, etc., etc., you know, and uh, about what she's wearing very politely. And, um about her her shape up top. And she instantly Instantly I said, Oh my and then she made sure that everything was appropriate.

Um And you know, she's like that, and I really appreciate that about her.

So she's not there to do that kind of thing. But when you see women who do. Wear revealing clothes and adorn themselves to demonstrate their beauty, even if they're married, especially if they're married, they shouldn't be doing that. It's just not appropriate.

Okay.

Okay.

Because I've seen that script to condemn women wearing wedding rings or men wearing wedding bands, you know, and um. I just don't think the spirit of that scripture needs that. Yeah, I agree with you. Because if you're going to get into that legalistic kind of thing, you can't wear pearls, you can't have any jewelry, you can't have anything. And uh like I wear a wig.

What I take that off now. No, it's what it means, a sign of the covenant, and so we like covenant signs biblically.

So, yeah, we don't want to be legalistic about this stuff.

Okay? Yeah, I have a tendency to be legalistic myself, been there, done that, don't want to go back.

So, thank you, man. Yeah. Oh good, man.

Alright, well God bless, buddy. All right.

Okay, bye.

Okay, bye.

All right, now let's just jump on the air with David from North Carolina. Dave, welcome. You're on the air. Hey Matt, thanks for taking my call. Full bottom.

Drive it here.

So uh yeah Could make it. Yeah. A quick comment on the last caller. It's funny because I posted something recently uh on a one uh there's several women on TikTok that are you know claiming to be preachers and Some of them are really extravagant in their makeup and Bother accoutrements and I just commented that it's really distracting, you know. And that's a really serious about the word of God that really doesn't.

They don't really need that. It's distracting and they they attack me back. Mm-hmm. Yeah. What I want the reason why I called was I wanted to ask you about I really believe Sharia law.

I've talked to you a little bit about this in the past, but I was thinking about maybe starting like some kind of American Constitution Coalition against Sharia or something. I don't know, there's probably people already doing it, but I think the churches really need to get together and unify um you know for that Well, let me get a break on it.

Okay, buddy.

Okay.

And then we'll get back. You can ask the question. And, folks, if you want to give me a call, the number is 877-4. 20722. 7-6.

We'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.

If you want to give me a call, we have wide open lines 8772-072276. I want to hear if you haven't given me a call. And the previous caller, I guess we lost him talking about the issue of Islam. And yesterday, before I did the radio show here, I was on another radio show and we talked about the issue of Islam. Let me just say that Islam Is not compatible with the American Constitution.

Islam is um A violent, oppressive religious system that forces people to subject itself to fifth century, sixth century ideology and practices. And So Some of the aspects of Shuria. For example. which is Arab for law. The amputation of the right hand for theft.

For illicit sexual relations, a hundred lashes. Uh if you're married, st you you're stoned to death. False accusations, 80 lashes. Drinking alcohol, you get flogged 40 to 80 lashes, depending on the. And I built this the school of Islam.

highway robbery, execution, crucifixion, apostasy, death penalty. There is no um There's no freedom of religion in Islam.

So the And or no freedom of speech, for example.

So, for example, right now, here I am. On the radio, and I believe and I will teach that Islam is a false religion. Muhammad was a false prophet. And if we were under the control of an Islamic Caliphate. or system, I could be killed for that statement.

Islam does not promote freedom of religion and expression. It does promote killing the unbelievers until they feel themselves subjected. And under your control, under their control, then you've got to pay very heavy tax. I've heard as much as eighty percent of your income goes to the Islamic State. You're not allowed to have good jobs.

You're not allowed to be an authority in a job over Muslims, etc. And um In Islam a man is uh allowed to have up to four wives. But not a woman can't have uh various husbands.

Now, of course, the LGBTQ is sinful, but in an Islamic State such adherents would be executed.

So there's a lot of of danger here.

So we have the the idea of the freedom of expression of religion.

So Muslims will come in and use that. until they gain enough control to stop it. You understand what I'm saying? Islam Muslims will come into a country like ours. Use the the idea of the freedom of religion.

And then they will gain power. and when they get enough power, they stop your freedom of religion.

So they will use what we have against us in order to subjugate us and to dominate.

So in my opinion, No true Muslim should ever in the United States Senate or Congress. Uh or the executive branch. Because They cannot, if they're true Muslims, they cannot uphold the oath that they might take to uphold the constitution. which would then require, for example, freedom of of religious expression.

Now, think of this. Let's say there's a Muslim on the Supreme Court, let's just say, hypothetically, and there comes a case up where someone. was preaching against Islam in a public setting. And Said it. that Allah excuse me that Muhammad was a false prophet.

And then there's a lawsuit that ensu ensu ensu uh that goes all the way to the chain of commands to them. Then what does such a Moslem judge? Do. Does he uphold the the law of the land, or does he uphold the law of uh Sharia? Of Islam.

If he's a true Muslim, he has to go with what the Quran says, what the Hadith says. And he would then condemn. the uh anybody who said that that Muhammad was false. This is the kind of thing.

Now people may think that I'm overreacting. I'm not. I'm not at all. You may think that I'm prejudiced or whatever. You can say whatever you want.

I just know the facts. Check this out. This is from. Heavenawaits.wordpress.com. There's another one from examiner.com.

I've got different ones. When the population of a country is one percent Islam or Muslims, they're peaceful. 2% to 3%, they start proselytizing the disaffected ethnic minorities recruiting from jails and street gangs. At 5% of the population, they exercise an inordinate amount of influence upon society in relation to their percentage of the population. It will insist on Islamic standards of fool food preparation called halal.

With increased pressure on food supply chains to adapt to the Muslim rules. 10% of the population, there's an increase in lawlessness as a means of getting what they want to harmony, to be in harmony with Islamic teaching. When there's 20% of the Their population. There's rioting and various killings. Churches are burned, synagogues are burned.

This is what happened. This is statistically the norm.

So they can't They they don't play nice. with anybody else. except Muslims. And even then, there's problems. But when it's sixty percent, widespread persecution of unbelievers from different religions with sporadic ethnic cleansing.

When they're eighty percent in control, it's state run ethnic cleansing. 100% complete domination with the oppression of religious and ethnic minorities, not in harmony with Israel.

Now, I've recently seen some information, and I got a d document that I want to be able to get it down and give the stats. But when Muslims uh when Islam takes over an economy, it basically tanks. It it goes bad. There's you can just look at the the Muslim run countries and and their third world in a lot of areas because they want to be stuck in the fifth and sixth centuries. And this is this is bad.

Now you may have other Islamic-run dominated areas where they're more up-to-date, but that's because of Western influence upon them and things like this.

So Islam is a bad religion. It's a cancerous religion. It is not true. It denies the Trinity, denies the deity of Christ, denies the crucifixion, denies the resurrection, and denies salvation by grace through faith. Then it says that the word of God is not true.

and it misrepresents a lot of what Christianity teaches. the uh Muslims um who are true Muslims. Uh just I I my opinion is I would never trust them. If they're true Muslims following Islam and I mean they're dedicated to it. It says in Surah five fifty one in the Koran, Do not take Jews and Christians as your friends.

Don't do it. And in Surah 9 it talks about Obliterating. Kill him. Those who are not Muslims, until they submit.

So this is a serious thing I'm saying, and it needs to be seriously addressed. by our Congress uh and uh you know, even though it sounds like a violation of the separation of church and state, Um Which is not a constitutional issue, by the way. Uh it's an issue of treason. And we need to uh be cautious about who. We led into political office.

particularly when their loyalty is to the culture and morals of the fifth century. Bedouin guy who couldn't read and who liked a lot of money and women in power. We'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Everybody, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, it's easy. 877-207-2276. Let's get to Oscar from New York.

Oscar, welcome. You're on the air. Thank you. The In 2 Corinthians 13, verses 5. I'm trying to understand this verse, it's kind of difficult.

Is that first saying that Salvation is what Jesus did for us, not what we do. But we cannot take advantage of What God did for us. as far as where sin comes. Which verse was that? 2 Corinthians 2.15?

Oh, it's the 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 13, verses 5. Oh, 13.5, okay. Uh Test yourselves to see if you're in the faith. Examine yourselves or do not recognize this about yourselves that Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail the test. Um So this is I I'm not sure what to tell you about what it is, but it's just uh It's just Paul saying, make sure you're in the faith.

That's all. Make sure you're on. Spoken of to be in the faith. Is it the same thing as being saved, as salvation? Yes, yes, decisions, if you're in the faith, it's just a metaphor.

for uh being a Christian.

Okay, examine yourselves. To see if Christ is in you. This is a testament of Christ's indwelling per but John 14 twenty three. But That is what it is. Is Christ living in you?

It means He's indwelling you. It means you're saved.

Now, how do you know if you're saved or not?

Well, then, generically speaking, is by tr there's what's called orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Orthodoxies believe in the right stuff. God is. A trendy Jesus is God in flesh. He died on the cross, rose from the dead, bore our sins in his body on the cross.

Justification is by faith alone in Christ alone, not by faith and anything like baptism. And so these are the right doctrines. And then. Uh orthopraxy is what you do. Are you living what you profess?

Are you honest and a man of integrity? Or are you in fornication, uh living uh with a uh With someone you're not married to, you're having relations, things like this, which are ungodly and demonstrate the lack of regeneration in a person.

So that's why Paul saying you've been sure you're in.

Okay.

Yeah, thank you.

Okay, okay, look back.

Okay, well You're welcome. God bless.

Alright. Folks, if you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207-2276. Let's get to Scott from South Carolina. Scott, welcome. You're on the air.

Hey man, thank you for my taking my call. I'm a Reformed Presbyterian, okay? Oh, good. And some of my friends are not, and we have a Bible study, and we have issues over. they have issues with predestination.

Okay.

I'd like for you to give me a way to explain it to them and a way to Uh you know, make them you know, freewheels their answer to it too, you know, and Yeah, I just wanna know what your your take is on everything and how you would approach that and what's your belief in that? Yeah, I'm Reformed Presbyterian. I was a PCA pastor and Yeah. I'm a covenantalist and a whole bit, so and I'm also a continuationist, but Nevertheless, the issue of predestination and free will rests in the definitions of the terms. A lot of people think they understand what those terms mean, but they fail to.

They don't understand them.

So, what we can do here, let's go to the doctrine of predestination and what it means. Because you have to d uh define things properly. and if they don't define them properly.

Well then they're just gonna talk past each other.

So, predestination is God's action in willing something to a specific result.

So he wants to bring something about.

Now he can do it. Um Trying to decide how deep I want to get into this. I think I'm going to slow down and use a little bit so that you can understand more. Um Okay. In Ephesians 1.11, it says that God works all things after the counsel of His will.

This means that nothing that occurs occurs without the permission and/or will of God. Within the will of God, we look at what's called the decretive will, the prescriptive will, and the permissive will. The decretive will of God is, for example, His will is: let there be light, there's light. The prescriptive will is the will of God in moral things. For example, you shall not lie.

The permissive will of God is to let you lie.

So he wills to permit you to violate his his his uh Um prescriptive well. is moral law. be it all of those are within his sovereignty. Because he works all things after the counsel of his will, Ephesians 1:11. All right.

So There is also the issue of causation.

Now there's what we call efficient So in the Garden of Adam and Eve, Adam chose to eat the fruit. No one made him do it. He did it on his own. He wasn't forced. He ate the fruit, so he is the efficient cause.

of his own action. His own rebellion against God. But God is the proximate cause of Adam's sin.

Now, what we mean by proximate cause is that God is the one who. Create the garden. put the trees there, So don't eat that one. put Adam and Eve in there and let the the the servant come in. And so God is not responsible for Adam's action which is generated out of his own self.

But God is responsible for the conditions in which a self-generated action occurs.

So Adam is the proximate is the efficient cause of his own action. And God is the proximate God. Cause, but the difference between responsibility and culpability. is between those two. God did not force Adam to sin, he allowed him to sin.

And yet, Adam is the one who freely sinned.

So, this gets into the issue of free will.

Sometimes, what I'll do is, I will trick people, and I'd say, Can I try and trick you about what free will is? And they go, Yeah, sure, go ahead. And I ask, is free will the ability? To You can do evil, you can do good, you can do right, you can do wrong. And you can make a choice to do either one of those, and no one's forcing you.

And that's what free will is. And they look and they're confused. How am I tricking them? That's what free will is. And they say, yes, that's what free will is.

And I say, well, you're a good humanist. Because that definition excludes God. God cannot choose to do good and/or evil. He can only do that which is good because he's holy.

So, free. Free will must be defined with God in it, not as man only. And this is a demonstration that a lot of people, what they do, when they define terms, they define them. for their own experience not based on the nature and quality of God's essence.

So free will is the ability to make a choice that's consistent with your nature. It's not forced on you.

So now we see that if free will is the is defined like that, it includes God. But the free will of a non-believer is such that he will only choose according to his nature. The nature of an unbeliever is that he is a slave of sin, Romans 6, 14 through 20, cannot receive spiritual things, 1 Corinthians 2.14, does not seek for God, does not do any good, Romans 3, 10, 11, and 12. He's dead in his sins. Ephesians 2.1.

He's by nature a child of wrath. Ephesians 2.3. His heart's desperately wicked and deceitful. Cannot be trusted. Jeremiah 17:9.

So we ask: if someone is, that's their nature, then their free will must be. must act in a manner consistent with their nature. Therefore the unbelievers will freely act in a manner consistent with their fallenness. They will always choose that which is consistent with their nature, which is unholiness. They will never choose God on their own free will.

This is demonstrated to be true because Jesus says in John 6:65, you cannot come to me unless it's granted to you from the Father. If it's up to people's free will to come to Christ, of their own free will. Then why does Jesus say you can't unless God grants it to you? And this is a case. Killer verse that destroys their whole argument.

And when I put it together like this, they start to see the truth. And I say, your free will, you've got to understand, is restricted to sinful or the unbeliever's free will. But the Bible says in Acts 13:48, as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. And it says that we were granted faith in Philippians 1:29 to you. It has been granted to believe.

Jesus says, This is the word of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent. John 6:29.

So, the reason anybody believes is because it's worked by God upon them and within them that they believe, they're granted to believe, and they're granted to come to Christ.

So therefore all of this is worked under the sovereignty of God, who works all things after the counsel of His will. This is how predestination and election work and free will work together. When you understand the relationship of them to each other, because you define them properly, and then you can say, according to scripture, I get it.

So anybody I'll say this before I break here. Anybody who denies That God predestines is not reading the Bible. Anyone who denies that God elects people for salvation is not reading the Bible. They're not believing the Bible. Anyone who exalts their human free will to the level of the supreme choice-making ability is has uh elevated their themselves to a point of idolatry, giving to the created thing that which belongs to God alone, an autonomous free will.

I can go into that more after the break if you want.

So this is a serious issue inside of Christianity, and that's why so many churches today are not preaching proper biblical theology of ungodly, human-centered Trophead. Star file is put. That way. Hey, folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned.

And we'll see what else we get into. Be right back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Alright, I would welcome back to the show.

Let's get back on the air. Oh my.

Okay, there we go with Scott from South Carolina. You still there, buddy? Yeah, hey, how can I uh They say, well, God doesn't choose you or me, or does not choose this guy.

So they come up with this, that's not believable that And and and how can I explain to them where you know Tell you what. get their Bible study together, put me on a speakerphone. And I'll talk to them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a great that was a great one.

Yeah, I can do that, but we don't start till seven.

Well, I got a Bible study coming on tonight. Give me the quickie of. I can tell them either. Yeah, I'm uh did God choose me, Matt, or not? Yes.

Well, I don't know.

Okay.

Let's back up. Second. How do we know that? And that's what. Second.

Hold on, hold on. 2 Thessalonians 2.13 says, But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation. That verse right there says that God chooses people for salvation. Right.

He knows who's going to come to him who won't, though, right? No, no, no, no, no. No.

No, no. He doesn't. Look, he chose you, not based on any good quality in you. I'm going to tell you right now, most people who are you're arguing against are humanist philosophers that impose their philosophy on scripture. There's a real a real Bad theological milquetoast theology being taught in most churches today.

And it's basically the idea that Jesus is the blonde haired, blue-bodied Caucasian surfer dude dressed in a woman's nightgown, waiting for you with your wisdom to realize that you need him, and then you activate the power of the atonement by your belief that you choose to do. It's humanistic philosophy. It's ungodly. It's sinful. And it's it's prevalent in a lot of churches.

And when I speak like this to people, I have to show them the scriptures repeatedly that contradict what they say. And then they still. refuse to believe God's word. And what they want to do is say that God knows who's going to pick him. No, he doesn't know who's going to pick him because no one's going to pick him because of the verses I gave with the other break.

No one seeks for God, no one does any good, etc., etc. And then, if they want to say that God knows who's going to pick him, therefore he picks them, that's Mullinism. And that's a problem. And the other thing is, it can imply it means he's learning, and then it also can mean his choices depend on man's choices. And so they don't understand what they're doing to God.

They're reducing God to the level of Mormonism. In their Christian theology, they don't realize what they're doing. And it really. upsets me. over the years to see this repeated heresy that's taught in so many churches.

It doesn't mean they're not saved, but boy, I'll tell you, it sure hamstrings them from understanding the greatness and the majesty of God. We are told in scripture to leave the elementary principles and move on to maturity in Christ. And we have to understand that God is the supreme being from all eternity who works all things after the counsel of his will. It's not based upon him knowing what you're going to do and then him reacting to what he knows you're going to do in your wisdom. It's foolish, ungodly heresy that's taught like that.

Okay.

People need to repent, but I would be glad to have a polite conversation with your group of guys if you want to do it on a phone or a computer or whatever.

Okay.

I'll keep that in mind and see if I can work that out. I appreciate it. Yeah. It's it's I sometimes I feel on the obvious side defense with these guys and Yeah, but it's because I don't understand. And you have to learn how to defend the faith.

You've got to learn how to articulate it. And you've got to, you know, it takes practice, okay? But I can help you. All right? I've done this a thousand times.

Catechisms are good, but you need to develop your own notes. Development. I'm in a church that peer preaches it and teaches it, and that's very good, and they don't deviate from the word. the Bible. We don't with the truth.

they preach the truth, not It's an ARP church, so it's very Very solid, and people have left other churches to come here because of that.

So Yes. I feel real good being there.

Well good. Uh as long as they're biblical. But uh They are very good.

Alright. All right, well thank you for your call and thank you for taking mine.

Okay, no problem, buddy. God bless.

So, folks, I know what I said may upset a lot of people, and that's the nature of truth that comes from God out of His Word. And if you want to say it's just my interpretation, then call up. And let's talk. If you think That salvation depends on your goodness and your wisdom to be able to make a choice. Find it in Scripture.

Find it in scripture and then harmonize it with what Jesus says in John 6:65.

Now, just think of, this is easy to remember, John 6:66. one verse before that, John six sixty five. Jesus says You cannot come to me unless it's granted to you from the Father. You cannot. Jesus said this.

But people want to say, no, you can.

Sometimes, what I'll do is I'll say, You can't come to God unless it's granted by God. You can't come to Christ unless God grants it. That's not true, Matt. It's up to your free will. They don't even realize I'm quoting Jesus.

This is how bad it is out there in a lot of areas, a lot of levels of theology. They don't understand what they're doing. Let's get to Alberto from Georgia. Welcome, Alberto. Yeah.

Well aguri master, you're 100% correct. Jesus himself said, If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me. John 12, 32.

Okay, that's right.

Now my question is for Titus two, chapter two, verse eleven and twelve. Thank you. Yeah. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires, to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age. Yep.

Okay, now it says obviously it came to all men, but my question is: how can God respect? the armory generators. standard to live ungodly and and unworthy passions, but don't have the Holy Spirit. They can't. They're slaves of sin.

Romans 6:14 through 20. They cannot receive spiritual things. 1 Corinthians 2:14. They're dead in their sins. Ephesians 2:1.

They can't. Okay.

So why God says to say no to ungodliness and worldly passion if they can't in the first place? They're obligated to do it because the standard of righteousness is not them, but God. God is the standard of what is right. God says, Don't lie, Titus 1:2. That doesn't mean that the nature of the fallen in their tendency to lie means it's okay to lie because that's what they do.

Because it's just natural. When people say, I'm born this way, therefore it's okay. Oh, I'm born to be a deceiver. Does it mean it's okay? Of course not.

So what people want to do, even in Christian churches a lot of times, is like I said before, is make uh doctrine out of a human standard.

So God's a standard. He says, Be holy, for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16. He doesn't say try to be holy if you can do it. Be holy, for I'm holy.

till he himself is the standard. In Matthew 5:48, Jesus says, Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

So the standard of truth is God, not man.

So when it says in Titus 2.11, For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, it means not just the Jewish nation. Because covenantally Jesus was sent not to the whole world, but only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, Matthew 15, 24.

So that's what it says. And then instructing us to deny ungodliness, worldly desires, etc. And he's talking to those who are redeemed. Of course, the obligation is for the ungodly as well. They should do these things.

They should abandon fornication, pornography, adultery, lying, using the Lord's name in vain. Or they're obligated to do it. Even if they can't. Those who are enslaved to their sinfulness are still responsible. People may not like that.

But that's biblical theology.

Okay.

Okay.

Then you ran into the young man about Free will. When the Bible says the We got Yeah.

Okay, we got two options.

So since we don't have a free will, So I have free option, heaven and hell.

So we have free option. We we have free will. Free will is the ability to make a choice. freely out of your own nature. consistent with your nature.

Best free will. Unbelievers have free will. their free will is consistent with their nature. Which is fallen.

Okay.

Uh-huh. That's the key. Uh like God gives you two two but presents you two places to decide. Heaven or hell?

So if I have a free will consent to my nature, why can I choose to see to exist or to choose to spend eternity in a and a on a planet instead of heaven or hell. Your choices don't supersede God's.

So, God has ordained that people have eternal existence, unlike the the false teachers of the Annihilationists. But He has ordained that that is the case. We're made His image, and we have a continuity and a continuation natural to our existence. And people are born in sin per the sin of of Adam. Romans 5:19 talks about this.

By the transgression of the one, the many were made sinners. We are the many, those who are in Adam. 1 Corinthians 15, 22, in Adam all die.

So that's just the natural state of old people. But Unbelievers and Christians believers alike have free will. They exercise their free will according to what they want to do. Unbelievers want to sin and Christians want to struggle with their sin. Because there's a change in us having been regenerated and redeemed by the blood of Christ and indwelt by God.

'Kay.

Okay, very well explained. Thank you, sir. God bless you. Keep it a great way, sir.

Alright buddy, thanks a lot, Alberto. Appreciate it. All right, now let's get to Jamal from North Carolina. Jamal buddy. Hey man, welcome buddy.

Hey dude, how's it going? This is Slick. It's going. It is going, man. Just teaching biblical theology and offending a lot of people in the process.

So, what do you got? Yeah, that's what I was going to say. You're out there breaking a lot of hearts from what I hear. Yeah, and it's not because of my looks, that's for sure. It's because of the truth.

Okay.

'Cause you've seen me. Oh, you see you should have said amen to that. But it's the nature of the mm. It's the nature of truth, okay? And I just, I want to stand on God's word.

I let people to know what the truth is. They need to hear it. They've got to stop following these Mamby-Pamby theological teachers who say that a sermon needs to start with a 20-minute illustration that makes you feel good. And then they get to the word for the three-step features on how to tie your shoes properly for the glory of God. You know, the Mamby-Pamby stuff that's out there and the.

Kowtowing to the idea that God is waiting for you and your wisdom to choose Him because it's all up to you, and it's not true, it's not biblical. You know, we Christians are the ones who are set free from our sin, and we Christians need to ask God to intercede with others and to pray and to use us in the process. And now, this goes beyond my page scale. I don't know how it works, but I know that what I'm teaching is biblical because I can quote the references and say what that is. Right, right.

I mean uh Most definitely. I'm still waiting for that t-shirt to come out because I'll be one of the first ones to buy it. I want to wear one because. Which one?

So much heresy, so little time. You need to copyright that before somebody else feels it. That's such a good line. I've been singing for a long time. But uh yeah, we're gonna work with a group called Wrath and Grace and get that going and some other stuff.

But yeah. Good, good. Yeah, I know I'm also up on time, so I'm not sure if you have enough time to answer this question. Considering you were talking about the Muslim faith again, Um I was kinda wondering if Our Christian values Christian biblical values and the Constitution, will that work in other countries? like uh Muslim countries.

Uh yeah, it can if they give up the uh The dominance and prohibition of the stupidity of Islam than it would. But it can't work in harmony with it because Islamic law does not allow constitutional freedom. freedom of religion, of expression, and things like that.

So now Okay. Another quick and slick answer. I would expect nothing less from you, brother. All right, all right. Thank you.

There's the end of the show, so God bless, brother. All right.

Come on out and visit, man. Anytime. All right, folks, we are at a time of the Lord bless you by His grace of back on here tomorrow, which is. Friday already. Wow.

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