Matt Slick Live

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All right, everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick, and you're listening to Matt Slick Live. Today's date is June 11th. 2026 for the podcasters. If you want, you can give me a call and we can talk: 877-207-2276.

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Alright, so we have nobody waiting. I'm going to tell you a little bit of something last night. As you know, many of you know, I go online frequently. And I go into chat rooms at various times, at various things I do. I sometimes been taking a walk around the block.

Typically, one circuit is one mile. I'll do two, three, four miles. And I'll do it while I'm listening to people on um On my phone with a headset and going through and listening and just doing stuff that I do.

So Yeah.

So yesterday I didn't go for a walk. I stayed in the house and I went into one of the chat rooms I frequent a lot, Discord, uh politics and server. Uh server and um Politics was it? Pol and religion. That's right.

Politics and religion server. I went to the Calvinism room and I went in anonymously. I have ways of doing that going in, so you don't know it's me. And I listened for an hour while I was working on an article, which I released the article today. On Doctrine and Covenants 130.22, I believe it is.

And uh the Problem of Mormonism, and we'll get into that. At any rate, so um. It was interesting to me because I just listened to them for an hour. And whenever I'm in the room and they cuss, I say, please don't cuss in here because I'm an admin in the room and I can ban people and kick them and things like that.

So when I show up, their language improves just because I'm there.

Well Yesterday I went into this room anonymously. And I just listened while I was working for about an hour, an hour and a half, just listened to them. And Boy were they foul These are supposed to be Catholics. And Eastern Orthodox people and some others, and I know I mean F-bombs. polysyllabic Cuss words, I can't even repeat.

Uh And it wasn't like every second, but it was It was frequent. And so I listened for an hour, an hour to an hour and a half out of those work on an article, just listening. And uh So then, after a while, I go, okay, I'm going to go in the room as myself. And I went into the room as myself, and then all their language was just proper. Everything was good.

And there's a few lessons out of that. One is if you require people to speak better, they generally behave. I remember when I was working as a tech at Hewlett-Packard, Desk Side Tech, and I'd go into these rooms. We had this big room where all the techs would go in. You'd have a badge to go in, and it was security, because we had people's computers, and we were trusted to go in our computers, fix computers, and see their data, but we wouldn't look at data, you know, fixing computers.

The point is behind that those doors, that's when these guys would cuss. And when I first got there They everybody had a nickname and um So I wasn't going to tell him I was a pastor. You know, I had been a pastor. I just didn't want that, you know, I didn't care. about that and and I just said, well, nickname I call me Rev.

You know, and they go, Rev. I go, Yeah, you know, I just rev is good. And they go, like, like cars. You go, Yeah, that works. Whatever, you know, whatever.

And they call started calling me. Flint. Yeah. But yeah, then he called him Matt too, you know, it kinda didn't work really work. But, um They would cuss and they would swear.

and they were pretty foul about ladies and things like this. and I never said anything to them. And Um One day after several months, they came to me and said, a few of them came to me, they go, you know, we've noticed something about you. I said, okay. We notice you don't cuss.

And I said that's that's correct. Yeah, I don't cuss. And uh that a few times you've laughed when when we're telling these these these jokes. I go Yep, that's right. And they said so You know, we know you're a good tech, you're a good guy, but why is that?

And I didn't know what to say at first, and I thought, you know what? I said, Let me ask you a question. Why do you think I said my nickname is Rev? And they go, Well, for cars. And I said, Nope.

And he said one, it says reverent. And they all were, you know, took a step back. Reverend, yeah, sort of minister, pastor, seminary graduate. And that's why I don't cuss. That's why I don't participate in those things that you do.

And I've not complained about it to anybody or any of you. I just Don't do it. And uh they they didn't they didn't tease me or anything. They said, Oh, okay, now now that makes sense and uh One guy said, Does anything you, anything we do say, does it really bother you? I understand you guys are pagans, I guess, because we're all friends by now.

I said, you're all pagans, and I get it, your paganism and stuff. I said, but the one thing that bothers me is when you use the Lord's name in vain. And that that It causes me discomfort. But I've never said anything that is between you and God. I'm just but since you asked.

And they said, okay. And um They stopped using the Lord's name and feign around me. 90%. I mean, their bad habits still prevailed a little bit, but they would often then say, Oh, I'm sorry. I said, Oh, thanks.

And that was it. I never pushed them, I never said anything. But just the presence of someone in a context that encourages them to act a little bit better. worked. Another time I was in another chat room and there was there were these these women and they were just being foul.

This one in particular was really foul. And I just listened and After a while, I thought I'm going to take a shot at this. I'm going to see what happens. And we get talking about Christianity and other stuff, and this one woman was just foul. And I said, you know, I said, I'm a lot older than you.

And I said, I've been around the block a few times. And back in my day, I said, women weren't as foul as you are. Uh they they showed more decorum, they were more feminine. more gentle than you. Yeah.

I knew that was just taking a match and putting it on a pile of firewood. Boy, did you Did she unleash on me? I just waited. And uh, you know, I just I just just let her, you know, cuss her way out of out of it and I said, Well, like I said, You just proved my point. And And you know, that's all I did.

And she did not like me, and people jumped all over me and called me bigoted and called me names and all this stuff. And they were foul. And I just sat there and waited, and I said, Yeah, you see, the Bible says, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Matthew 12, 34. And apparently, in all of your hearts, it's is filth.

That's what comes out. And Let's just say that another two or three minutes of foul was thrown at me, filth and foul stuff was thrown at me in my direction. And I just took it and I said, Well, I'm just going to tell you that the Lord redeemed me out of that. And I'm grateful to Him for what He's done as He worked on my heart. And I said, You guys need Him too.

And more, another minute or so of filth and foul and stuff like that. But I noticed as I stayed in the room. and that topic changed another topic, they were more polite. And it's really interesting. And so when I went in this room last night and I brought it up, I said, you guys, I said, I've been in here for an hour, hour and a half.

listening under I said, I have ways of getting in that you guys don't know about. And they didn't ask how. And I said, I was listening to you. I said, you were saying this, and you were saying that, and this and that. I said, and I proved it.

I was listening. And I said, why is it that you're so foul? Why is it that you speak like that? And uh they didn't like that. And I said, You call yourselves Christians.

I don't believe you are because you're Mormons, you are Catholics, you're Eastern Orthodox. And I said, you know you know my position, I said, but for real Christians, that's supposed to be gone. Why is it you behave like that? They didn't like that. They didn't like that.

They called me names, said I was holier than thou, you know, mean and bigoted, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you know, that's that's what's funny is when you expose someone else's just foulness. They attack you. It wasn't any of this. You know, I think you have a point there, Matt.

I think we need to work on that. Or any one individual say, you know, I think you're right. I think I need to clean up my act a little bit on that. which would have been nice and say, Yeah, I think so too and You know, I mean, we all have areas we're going to work on. But it wasn't the case.

There was no humility. None. It was just attack. And then, as we went into other conversations, the foul stopped virtually. We got about.

Two percent of what it was, and then one guy said a couple of things and he apologized. I go, you know what? And um The point is, we have an effect on where we are. We have an effect on the people that we are. I'm not saying be holier than now, I'm not saying be judgmental and attitudinal.

But like I said, as I went, I worked for months without saying anything at one place before they finally asked me that at several places. That's the exact same thing's happened where I've worked. And after weeks and weeks and weeks, they'll come to me. People, one or two or three, they'll come to say, Why do you not cuss? Why this?

Why that? And I tell them. and I never put it upon them. I've done it many times over the years. And um Uh you know, I think it's interesting.

You yourself, you can have an influence on the people you're around.

Now that doesn't mean be judgmental. You know, and like I said, having a bad attitude, you're waiting to correct them. No. But the attitude that you can have is a humility before Christ where you take time. and you don't participate in the deeds of darkness.

You just You don't judge them, you pray for them. You don't mock them. You don't look down at them. They are where you were. Right.

There go I except for the grace of God. And so That was it. But think about that. You have an influence. You have an influence with the people that you're around.

What kind of influence are you? Are you participating in the foul language as a Christian? Are you participating in the deeds of darkness? in the foulness that comes out. of the the evil hearts of the wicked who use the Lord's name in vain.

Do you use the Lord's name in vain? Do you say oh my and then G-O-D? Do you say you say that phrase? Do you use God's name in vain? Because the Bible forbids us, especially as Christians, we shall not use the name of the Lord your God in vain.

And what that means is not just saying the word Lord or Yahweh, but any and all titles that are reverenced about his nature, his essence, his person. The name of who he is, because the name of God is Yahweh. But also you shall know his name in Isaiah nine six. you know, wonderful counselor, mighty God. It means more than just a single word.

And so you have to understand. If you're a Christian, You should not be using the Lord's name in vain. You should not be saying oh my Or whatever it is, or using the Lord Jesus Christ in foul contexts. explanation. If you're a Christian, you need to stop that.

And the unbelievers, every time I hear that with an unbeliever, I wonder if there's a counter that goes off. in the mind of God.

Well that's number 8522. On the day of judgment, they're going to be held accountable for it. I don't know. I don't want that of people. I want them to find Christ.

But we are called to levels of holiness. That um Others are not. Because we're Christians.

So act like it, right? Act like it. Don't be judgmental. Don't look down your nose at people. Just behave and follow Christ.

Let them see the difference. Hey, if we write back after these messages, he'd want to give me a call of a number. is 877-20722. 7-6, we'll be right back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Ryan, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, you can. It's easy. 877-207-2276.

Just want to give a shout-out. Happy birthday to Adriana Anowski. And happy birthday. Don't know how old you are, but happy birthday. Just want to say that.

We have a friend who asked me to do that, and I do that every now and then with people. Anyway, happy birthday, Adriana. There you go. All right. Yeah.

Well, like I said, if you want, you can give me a call, 877-207-2276. He'd also email me, and so I think I'm going to get to some emails right now. And let's see, he's wondering if you can talk about Psalm 110 and Hebrews 113. Recently you teach this in the Philippines. I was going through Hebrews 1 to show the DD crash on relation to the Trinity, your notes were very helpful on Carm.

The question they brought up was, Is there distinguishing between a lord in each spot? and Psalm one ten, one.

Well, let me go there and see. Let's see, Psalm 110. One the Lord to do my Lord. Yeah, there is a distinguishing there. The first word, Lord.

Uh-oh, my program just crashed. My Bible program just crashed. The first word, Lord, is Yahweh. The second one, I believe, is. Paddle and I have to check it out when the night Bo Baba program opens up again.

This hasn't happened before. Hit my uh I use logos, it's really good. be unit for a long time and it just crashed. And there we go, now it's opening up. Yeah.

So uh I have a lot of books and a lot of different formats and things and layouts that I use, so it takes a while to. To come back up.

Alright, so let's go to back to Psalm 110.

So the Lord, and that's just simply Yahweh. Says to my Lord, and that is Adonai, yep. Sit at my right hand until I make the enemies your footstool. Yeah, there is a distinguishing there. And It is a messianic psalm, of course, and is referenced in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Acts, and Hebrew.

So in Hebrews 1.13, look over there, if he referenced Hebrews 1.13. To which of the angels they ever say, Except my right hand till I make your enemies a footstool.

So um Yahweh says to my Adonai or and the word Adonai is a word that means it means lordship and supremacy, but not the word Yahweh.

So it's uh Rendered in different ways, owner and master and things like that, in reference to God. And so it just says, Yahweh says to my, it's like saying, my king, master. It's like saying that. And that is a reference of uh of Jesus.

So that's all that's going on there. It's not a big deal. It's just a prophetic work, Trinitarian support verse. All right. Someone also said they were confused because Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father.

How is there not two gods? Sitting at the right hand is a.

Okay, so we get a couple things here. Second at the right hand means position of authority. People who are going to heaven sit on the right side of the Lamb on the day of judgment. Those who are going to hell are on the left side. Jesus said when he told the disciples to cast their net out on the fishing, he says, Cast your net on the right side.

And they caught fish. And so, when it says that Jesus is on the right hand of the Father, it means in the position of authority. And it's not two gods because Jesus. Has two distinct natures, a divine nature and a human nature, but the divine nature is part of the Trinity. It's just what it is.

And when the word became flesh and dwelt among us, the union of the divine and human natures is what we call the incarnation, the person of Jesus.

So Jesus has two natures: a divine nature and a human nature. And so he forever will be a man. He's not going to stop being a man, he lives forever to make intercession for us. Hebrews 6. Twenty-five six thirty and seven twenty-five After the order of Melchizedek, and you've got to be a man in order to be a high priest, and he's a high priest, and that's why he was baptized to enter into his priesthood, etc., etc.

So, what's happening here is it's just saying he's sitting at the right hand of the Father. Not that he's another God, but that in the incarnational sense of what he is permanently, he was in that position of authority, the right hand of God.

Now, does it literally mean God has a throne? I don't know. I can't say that because that would imply a corporeality of God.

So, that we're talking in terms of. of relationship and majesty. All right? All right. Let's see, let's see, let's see.

In John 2:23 to 24, do you know why Jesus did not entrust himself to these people, even though? They believed. Oh that's interesting. Let's see. Um get over to the verse.

Come on, where are you? There we go. John Alright, John 2:23.

Now, when he was in Jerusalem at Passover during the feast, many believe in his name, observing his signs, which he was doing, but Jesus on his part was not entrusting himself to them, for he knew all men. And because he did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for he himself knew what it was, what was in man.

So apparently the reason he wasn't trusting them is because he knew them. you can have uh faith But it does not necessitate that they're going to be good people. And that they're going to act accordingly to what the faith that they might process profess, excuse me, necessitates.

So, uh we can We can understand that Jesus knew what would happen? under certain conditions, because he's God. And He was not yet scheduled to go to the to the cross. It had not been yet ord uh manifested in by the eternal ordination of God.

So one possible reason he didn't want he didn't he left and didn't really trust him was that they might have said who he was and brought about the difficulty of Of not being crucified until Passover and things like that.

So. That's one of the issues. And so he had the knowledge of the heart, and it doesn't mean that every individual was believing. It could mean that some of the individuals there were only half believing, or kind of believing, or some were doubt, because it says when he was in Jerusalem during the feast, many believed in his name. And the signs he was doing.

Now, when people believe because of signs, then you have to ask: are they really believing? or they believing because of signs, which means their faith is in what they see. And not in the person of Christ. And so there's lots of reasons we can get into why that could be difficult and why he didn't entrust himself to them. All right.

So now let's see if we can get to another one.

Okay, let's see.

Well, let's see. Let's see. Oh man, we got. While looking up sermons on YouTube, I ran across Dr. Gene Kim.

Some outlandish video titles. He says, Watching the teachings, may wonder if he's full of flaws. We went over this before. Um You can send him some of his teachings and you see real Bible believers. There are just a handful of examples you can look up where the their giant and mutants hiding.

Oh, those are great titles. Wickedness and In evangelical Christian churches, worldliness, and evangelical churches, paradise, and hell. Yeah, these kind of titles usually are the kind that come from people who are. Claim to be Christians. I'm not saying they are or aren't.

And then they're, man, they condemn anybody and everybody. about anything. It's really interesting.

So anyway, um Let's see, let's see. I want to first thank you for putting together such an awesome resource. And there's the music.

So, hey, if you want to give me a call, you can. 877-207-228. 7-6, we're right back, please. Stay tuned. It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. All right, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, you can. It is easy. All you got to do is dial.

On your phone, 877-207-2276. And we have nobody waiting right now. Slow day. Uh an email I was checking out, um one thing led to another and I swear. Maybe some of you out there don't know this, but I've written several books, and if you want to check them out, You can go to Amazon and just type in Match Select Books.

I've got, I wrote Atheistica, Influence, the Influence, Apologetics and Atheism, Notes on Calvinism, Roman Catholicism. A manual on Roman Catholicism. Basic Christian doctrine, influence. There's a lot of stuff there. In fact, Yeah.

If you go to, I'm curious about stuff because we have been working on things so much that. I forget sometimes what's on the site. And so I'm going to the Karn store, and yeah, there's actual books there. uh some of the stuff that I've written. And the influence and atheistic are not there because those are just to my personal.

uh support counts and things like that. But um And these books, a lot of stuff goes in for karm and and We've got to work all the details out, but we're still developing the site. We are still developing the site, and there's a lot there.

So you can check out the books. And if you can call up, I'll tell you what the books are about, too. Written novels. I like writing novels. And I've been getting in the mood lately to write the second in a series.

I have three different novels I've written. And uh one of them is a a Christian-based one. One is um one of them is an apologetic against atheism and called Atheistica. And then another one is a science fiction novel. And uh it's called um Time Trap.

And so people won't be writing sequels to to them because they've enjoyed them. Anyway, just blabbing. Hey, let's get we just lost. I was just clicking on a guy named Matt from Ohio, and he wonder if you lose your salvation.

So I was gonna click on that. I'll wait and see and go back to some emails, see if he comes back on. Got another guy coming in a little bit. And let's see. Why don't we just jump there?

Let's go to day from. Virginia, Dave, welcome. You're on the air. Thank you. First time caller.

Hey, good. I'm glad you're calling. Yeah. Okay.

So what do you got? I was wondering, what's your view on the book of Enoch? Uh Jubilees. Gas or Etc. You mean the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Jasser, the different books you're talking about, right?

Right, in the book of Enoch in particular. Yeah. There are over 20 books mentioned in the Bible, as well as philosophers that are in the Bible. Epimenides, Erastus, are quoted by Paul. And so they reference external non-scriptures.

Books sometimes, and that's okay. It doesn't mean that the ones they reference are inspired. The Book of Enoch is a collection of pseudopicled texts. Um And basically written, you know, a couple hundred years BC, that kind of a thing. And it's worth looking at, it's worth considering, but it is not scripture and should never be considered scripture.

Okay.

Okay.

What do you think? Same thing. They're just uh they're worth looking at, but they're not scripture. All these books are are like that, okay? Enoch is very Interesting.

Yes. There's l lots of books that are interesting, but they're not inspired. Right. And and Jubilee also, you know, it makes you wonder Uh should we not be more into observing The Jubilee, the celebrations that is biblical as opposed to all the little celebrations that we have.

Well, the first thing I would do if I were to is go to Colossians. Uh 216. And And it says, Let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or respect to a festival or a new moon or Sabbath day. These things are a mere shadow of what is to come. The substance belongs to Christ.

So if you want to celebrate things, you're free to do that. But there's no obligation to, and there's no obligation for any Christian to do it. Because the Bible says we're not obligated. If you wanted to do that, do it. As long as you're not doing it to be more spiritual.

based on something not endorsed by God. Right. Okay.

That was it.

So curious, because a lot of times people who are who are Are curious about those books, are drawn to extra-biblical stuff and ideas. Ryan. Is is that the case with you? Uh I'm not really sure. If that would be the case.

It was just something that I I kept From the early times of my youth.

Okay.

when it was mentioned y you know. and in the book of Enoch. And I'm like, well, wait a second, where's Enoch? And it's been in the back of my head all through my life. I mean, I first heard about Enoch.

when I was probably seven, eight years old and I'm seventy one now. Yeah. We finally got to a point where that I guess curiosity got the best of me.

Well, it's okay to check it out, you know, and read as long as you know it is not inspired. And if you go to my website, I have a list of 22 books. that are mentioned in the Bible that are not inspired. They're just there. There's, you know, the book of Enoch is there.

I have it listed as number 19. Number 18 is the book of judgment, and there's the book of life, the book of remembrance. and the Seven Sealed Book, the Angel's Book. The Book of Gad. Always think it's cool to say gad.

But Egad. Yeah, that probably was his brother.

So then there's the word to the kings of Israel. And, you know, so as long as you're not believing things like from the book of 2 Moronicals or Third Hysterectomy, you know, you want to get into those books, okay? Of the book of colonoscopy. Or the book of colonoscopy. Or the new one I've discovered: Second Exalaxicus.

Yeah, we don't want to do that one, that's right. Third day. Yeah. There's a variant.

So yeah, they're they're there. If you want to read them, that's fine. Just always remember, the Christians are the ones who recognized in the early centuries. They recognized what was the Word of God. And they didn't recognize Enoch as being that, because it was not authored by the Old Testament prophets, nor was it authored by the New Testament apostles.

So it's just not scripture.

Okay.

Four. All right? You have a blushed evening. You too. God bless.

All right. And a bodacious one. Bill and Ted. That's right. Okay.

Rand will talk to that.

Okay.

That's right. All right. Um Next longest waiting is Scott from Washington. Scott, welcome. You're on the air.

Hey there, Matt. Thanks again for the shout out. My question is. Has to do so you know the Israeli flag has what we all call the Star of David on it. And you know, we all are familiar with that symbol.

But lately I've I've learned some things from people I generally would trust the information on.

So I was told that that Star of David's really not the Star of David, that it's actually the Star of Solomon, and that Solomon went into some very dark, black magic kind of stuff, witchcraft and whatnot. And that star is sort of not a good sign You know, like the Star of David is supposed to be some, you know. Good thing. Do you know much about that? It's uh It is referenced out of the story of Solomon, and yes, Solomon did get into some bad stuff.

And that kind of a symbol, though, is not unique to them, but in our context, we're talking about that. And so We have to be careful that we don't draw an improper conclusion that the source of something might have been bad, so therefore everything from it is therefore bad. Mm-hmm. Boiling the well. Yeah, and it's called the genetic fallacy, also.

The source was bad, therefore, the information is bad.

So let's just say.

Now, Solomon, you know, he fell into. He fell into great sin, but his writings are considered inspired scripture from God.

So, if we're to say, well, therefore, the son of David is to be rejected because it came from Solomon, then the scriptures that. came from him should be rejected as well.

So we just have to understand that, yeah, okay, it came out of him, let's just say, and it eventually worked its way down. And now the Israelis use it. It doesn't mean that they're believing in all the stuff that the best of that Solomon did.

Okay.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

Yeah, I guess more or less I just wanted to verify that that's true. But um But yeah, it's interesting stuff. I don't know, I've heard other things too, like Um That was, I guess, some symbol that he put on the this big book of of But I don't know, that could be numbers number, who knows? Yeah, and uh it's worth writ you know, I I just put it in my list of articles to write What's the Origin of the Star of David, which I don't know if I've written on that. I may have.

I've written so much I don't recall, but uh it's worth looking at to see if I've written it. If I haven't, put it in my list of things to work on. And uh and stuff. All right? Okay.

Well, thanks, man. All right, brother. God bless, man. God bless. I have to retake your wife.

Okay.

Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages. We'll get to Joe from Florida next. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207. 2276, be right back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276.

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Hey.

So, what do you got, buddy? Oh, hey, cool.

Well, first of all, you know, Bank Award for you. Love your ministry. Praise God for all the info He's provided you. You provide it to us. Um So Just want to talk about how I don't know if you noticed, but nowadays It just seems like there's a lot of And I don't know if this is leaking through from like the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics.

But it seems like there's a big push for False gospel like works your salvation. You know what I mean? Like trying to like keep it and and this and it's it's really disturbing man. You know? It's really prevalent.

I don't know. Have you noticed that? That's what I do for a living. I battle this. That's exactly what I do for a living.

Battle of false gospels out there. Yep.

So, if you go to Carm, you can read a lot about the false gospels of Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy. I do minor cults also as well in analysis. I battle for. Very frequently, the issue of justification by faith alone in Christ alone and not by adding any works. I know lots of scriptures about it, I deal with it.

Weekly basis, usually one, two, three hours at a time. It almost always comes back to the issue of justification, sanctification, eternal security, the nature and extent of the atonement, the type of the atonement, what is it? Is it legal? It's called a penal substitutionary atonement, or is it the Victor, Chris's Victor, or recapitulation theory? Get into all this kind of stuff.

The devil is alive and well, and there's only two gospels in the world. the true one and the false one. The true one is justification by faith alone, in Christ alone, or salvation by faith alone in Christ alone. With his works alone, we put our faith and our hope in. We don't add anything to it.

And the other gospel. is the gospel that says your faith plus your works. Get you saved. And that's taught in Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses Islam. It's taught not Islam, it's taught in Jehovah's Witnesses Mormonism.

and Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodox, and they're all false religions, and those who believe in those official doctrines from all of those religions are etern or will be eternally damned if they die believing in them. Yep.

Right, right, right. There was a video I I watched earlier, I think it was today or yesterday, and I put a comment, right? And so I answered this one dude who answered me, and I work with Chrysalono Rome. Oh, you know YouTube? And uh Yeah, yes.

And I just asked him, So, are you perfect like our Heavenly Father is perfect? And does your righteousness exceed the Pharisees? And this dude answers absolutely. I know. Do you have a problem with the words of Jesus?

He says? It's amazing. Oh, my gosh, bro. This is crazy, dude. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. I ask people, I say, so, um Are you keeping the law on the same level as Jesus? I've had people say, oh, yeah, uh-huh. It's just the same level as God. I think, yeah.

Okay.

All right. What do you do with that? Exactly. You know, you just walk away, you know, and you just hope the lightning bolt doesn't get you while he's getting zapped. You know, I mean, it's just, what do you do?

It's you know what I I've done now is I started saying, oh, I know where that's taught. That's from the taught from the book of first colonoscopy. Yeah, that's where that book pad is. And, you know, yes, and I never experienced that. Thank the Lord.

Man, it's just, you know, and second hysterectomy and first ex laxicus. And so I try and make fun of it without being derogatory, but try and get, you know, it's make it funny, even though some people take offense.

So you mean, you call it moronic. Yes, then I'll say, yeah, your demonic doctrine is what you're espousing. Your doctrine's from the pit of hell. I tell them sometimes, just straight out. That's what it is.

Yep.

Yes, yes, it is. And you know what? Like, how you felt when you heard other people say that? That's exactly how I felt when this dude wrote that back. I was like.

What the heck, dude? I don't even want to like talk to you, bro. You're yeah, you're totally off. You think you're perfect like the Lord? Oh, my gosh.

No, man, they don't have all their paws to litterbox, do they? They do not. No, exactly. Exactly. Um oh, another thing And it's kind of a similar It kind of goes with the same thread is if you could.

Expound on the idea that, which is very clear in scripture, that Judas was never a believer. Because these same types of people want to think, oh no, Judas believed, and then he just fell away. He chose, like, he lost his salvation. No, in John 64, very, very clear, Jesus, and the Gospel says there. He did not believe, and he knew it.

It's not. He never believed. That's right. And you've nailed it. It's right there, and good for you.

And here's another question I'll ask people: so you can lose your salvation? They'll say yes. I'll ask them: well, what do you do to keep it? Or they'll say, you have to do the words of uh do the works of God, whatever they are. What's this list of things?

And I always love to ask them, what do you have to do? And I actually get lists of things from people. I actually get a list. And yes, absolutely. In fact, one guy uh This is on Discord, and I keep notes on people.

I just recently told them I keep notes on what they say. I asked this one guy, Eastern Orthodox guy. I said uh Are all the following necessary? Uh He told me all these are necessary for salvation. Struggling against sin, confessing our sins, loving one another, doing virtuous works of self- Okay.

So those are all necessary for salvation. Oh, wow, that's really good.

So they're necessary.

Okay.

And that was two years ago. I talked to him and he said that. And then he gave me a list of more stuff you got to do. And almsgiving, supporting the widow, controlling your tongue, keeping the Lord's commandments, such as don't lie, steal, or committing adultery.

So they think They can do it. It's just amazing. And uh I've got lots of experience with these guys, you know, it it's just it's bad. And so uh it kind of um I I think you mentioned this before, but in a sense, because they really don't believe and trust. that Jesus.

Fire. is sufficient that they l they're really Following a false Christ, a false Jesus. Oh, yeah. Right? That's bad.

That's right. Yeah, they just don't understand. And last night I was talking to, I don't know, it was Catholic. It's the same arguments. These are the very same arguments.

And I had to give him the gospel. I said, you guys don't even know what the gospel is. And their loyalty is in a church. In fact, I asked this one guy, what's your foundation of your belief? And he said, Jesus and the church.

And I said, okay.

So yeah, the church is necessary, right? The church is where you gotta go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sounds to me like you've got a lot of experience on this stuff too, right?

Well, you know what's funny is, um Okay. is speaking of the Church Fathers, right? You know, like you said, with the Catholic, Kind of found out this past week is, and I put it in the chat yesterday, but about this one priest from Gaelic, Gaelic, his name is Dejilanthius. You heard Anne? It rings a bell.

Rings a bell, okay? Vigilantis. Yeah, for real. He was from like the fifth century. And basically, this dude, this priest, right, this brother was looking around and like he was very concerned about all the paganistic.

Of rituals and funky stuff that was coming in, really, um. Crookening the gospel and the church, you know?

So he wrote. Like a homily or something about what was happening, and Jerome. He wrote against them.

So it's kinda like, okay, so you you follow Church Father So what happened to this guy?

So you just chose to follow Jerome, the guy who practiced a whole bunch of funky stuff, rather than the guy who actually 1,000 years before the Reformation was actually wanting to do a reform? Isn't that interesting? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm quite familiar with this. Yeah, you and I could have some interesting conversations, but it sounds to me like you're also involved with this kind of interaction with people on a regular basis, right?

Um not Not enough. I mean, like I said, I do uh With uh work with the Christ alone, no Rome, you know. But I don't The debates nowadays, they just seem it's so vile, you know? I just don't get it. I don't know.

But I do like commenting and and answering certain things sometimes. Check that group out. I want to equip more Christians on how to refute the false doctrines. In fact, I've found a way to undermine the EO and RC's apostolic authority claim and their priesthood. And they've not been able to get out of it.

It's really simple.

So they claim apostolic, a lot of people don't know this, ladies and gentlemen, but these churches claim that they're the true church because they have apostolic authority by the laying on of hands from Jesus down to the apostles, down to their bishops and presbyters and various people throughout the centuries. And so they have apostolic authority.

Okay, so I go to Roman, I mean not Romans, Matthew 10, where Jesus specifically gives the apostles apostolic authority. And it includes raising the dead and healing every kind of sickness. And then I say, and the disciples went out, the apostles went out and did this in the book of Acts. There are many places where they demonstrated that apostolic authority because great crowds followed them everywhere, multitudes and crowds of people.

So I said, if your church has that same apostolic authority, then we need to see the same actions and the same results. Commanding people to be raised from the dead on command, and it happens such that great crowds follow your church members. Where is that happening? And it's not. They don't have apostolic authority.

And that gets another thing. We're almost out of time anyway. But yeah, I do a great deal. That's really good, man. Yeah, I do a lot.

And they have not been able to get out of it. Sure. Yeah. We have absolute authority. Good stuff.

I think so.

Well, hey, Brother Matt, listen, thank you so much for letting me come on, you guys, and you know, on the radio here. And hey, God bless you and your ministry, man. And Hey, keep on fighting a good fight of faith, right? I'm fighting. That's right.

Fighting a good fight. Jude.

Okay.

God bless, brother. Yeah, but I'm not sure.

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