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all from North Carolina. Welcome back on the air. Alright, thank you Matt.

I'll be real quick. I wanted to ask with all the measures that's going against Christianity from the extreme left and other people, other entities, other groups, I was wondering if there could be some kind of publication that you could write or you could recommend or maybe even a book that we all could reference to kind of keep track of what's going on against Christianity. Well, that's a really interesting question. I don't know the book but the reason I'm pausing is because you kind of stumbled on an idea I've had and it is to literally to document and produce a page that documents just exactly what you're saying by producing links to others. Exactly. And so I'm surprised you actually said that because usually I have an idea and I don't you know I just think about it but if someone you know talks about it it's kind of interesting maybe it's what God wants me to do.

So I can easily do that. I've already gotten a little bit state approved abortion topics, state approved homosexuality, state approved same-sex marriage issues. I'd like to find stuff that you got me thinking you know I like to find stuff where if people here's okay here's what I'm thinking several things at once. What I normally do in a case like this is create a small section on CARM where you know under persecution we already have that and I could do is create a series of articles you know links external links to are to persecution of Christians and I can produce an article and all people have to do is if they want is they can just email me with what they found and what I would need is a URL. So they find it on Fox News or Blaze or the Federalist or whatever even on CNN you know whatever it is where it says it's an example of Christians being persecuted to Christians laws that are passed where we are in trouble. I've got a book that I was just going through and this is what I was thinking about last night as I was reading it was some of the stuff in there is documenting children like you know in a school a little girl goes to pray it just bows her head to pray and the teacher comes along says you can't do that here you know just like this oh yeah yeah and so there's a lawsuit filed you know it's how the oppressive the left is so I'm looking for anything and everything like that and if people want to do this if you want to help me out because I it's just a matter of research but if people find things like this just to email it to info at calm dot org with you know a subject title of persecution links or you know persecution of Christians information and you need to put in there the link because a lot of times people do what they just say there's a good article about persecution on on on Fox you know it doesn't help me it I just delete it right do anything with it but what I will do what I generally do is I have a way of taking the entire article and I copy it and then I store it offline to someplace and actually on the cloud it's not me you know violating copyright it's in case they remove the article I have the original and I can document it and that's what I do so I go in and copy it it just takes me you know 30 seconds and I can produce this stuff so I can do links and link to the actual external site and documents so okay you know I would love to have people help you on that if they are interested they could do that and just send the information to info at calm dot org when I could start producing things okay all right well sounds good I hope like that comes out soon because you know with all the stuff here and there you know people having different ideas saying different things you know it's kind of like the Bible you know we have that one source to go to spiritually it'd be nice to have one source that continues to grow you know anything that goes against us and we could be like look here here's you know what time we're persecuted here's what time this group would against us we have us as Christians the source to refer back to anytime something comes against us so we're all on one accord one page well that reminds me here's something else I've been thinking about is if calm becomes illegal if what I do becomes illegal you know because I call homosexuality a sin and then the tolerant left says I'm not allowed to exercise free speech anymore right right expression of religion what we've been thinking about is to do everything by emails and send out emails to everybody I you know once a day if this sounds like something you're interested in folks you can go to CARM and just sign up for the newsletter we send one newsletter out a week but if it ever got to the point where we need to communicate with a lot more people on a regular basis that's where we're gonna go to so you could always go to the CARM website and just sign up for the newsletter and you'll get a newsletter once a week but if it ever gets to the point where it's illegal then what I'll do is is is that and I I know some people who are really good with tech savvy stuff and there's ways and things and I won't say much but yeah I know I know people so we're slowly prepping for this kind of a thing okay sounds good I'm signed up I suggest other people get signed up as well you know just just just in case but thank you very very much for answering my call thank you very much for answering my question hope you take care and God bless God bless you Jamal God bless man all right that was Jamal good conversation let's get to Jan from Virginia and the question was from Jan was what was the name of the woman at the well the Bible does not reveal that information we don't know so we can't say and that's it okay let's get to well let me give you the phone number out we have three open lines if you want to give me a call eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six let's get to Antoinette from Virginia welcome you're on the air hi thank you so much can you hear me okay yes I can okay I did have a question I am a believer and I've been a believer for over ten years now and I had a discussion with the Christian friend of mine about weed smoking I know in the state of Virginia they are planning to legalize weed I think by 2023 now as a believer I don't participate in it and I believe that someone that is truly born again should would not you know even indulgent in that type of thing this this other fellow believers said that they did not believe it was a sense of partaking weed smoking now I know a lot of people have different views on drinking some believers do drink because the Bible does say it's a Christian liberty other believers do not drink I personally do not drink but other believers do drink so would you consider weed smoking to be a Christian liberty I just I personally don't partake in it I don't think okay you know the Bible says we go from glory to glory and faith to faith so I believe that you're truly born again that you would not do that with all the negative health effects of weed but I just kind of wanted to know your opinion all right so as Christians were not to become drunk and we're not to allow anything to take us over to the point where our judgment is impaired and drunkenness various forms of intoxication occur that's that's what the scripture says don't do that it can occur in alcohol it can also occur with drugs so Christians are not to participate in drug use for simple entertainment value now what if someone has chemotherapy and smoking weed smoking marijuana can help them is it okay then I'll answer the question when they get back to the break and folks if you want to give me a call three open lines eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six be right there it's Matt slick live taking your calls at eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six here's Matt slick all right welcome back to the show everyone we still have three open lines if you want to give me a call eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six Antoinette are you still there I am okay good so let's just say that someone is has gone through cancer treatment chemotherapy and is very very nauseous would it be okay in that instance for someone to use marijuana as a medicinal aid and I have no problem with that just as the Bible says in 1st Timothy 5 I believe it is it says take a little wine for your stomach and the idea is that using a willingness in alcohol is a intoxicating effects it can be used medicinally so if something's to be used medicinally then great now furthermore the Bible says that the herbs let's see where that's interesting says the herbs are therefore healing and try to find that and there's a yeah there's a verse I forgot where it is but it's in Genesis I believe it is that they're given for the purpose of healing and anyway so you know it's okay to use things for medicinal uses it's not okay to use things just because hey it's a drug that's legal so now let's go out and have fun and party and we'll get altered in our mind and drink this and do that that's sinful so we're not to do that so I don't have any problem with it medicinally I do have a problem with it if they're gonna use it recreationally even in this as I would have alcohol as a recreational thing because people sometimes go out and they just drink and they just drink because they can drink I have a problem with that personally I don't see that as being something that we should be doing but here check this out though this is Proverbs I'm gonna read it to you Proverbs 31 6 and it says this give strong drink to the man who's perishing and wine to him whose life is bitter let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his troubles no more so that's not just ignoring problems is talking about the use of alcohol as a medicine to help soothe and that's okay so if marijuana could be used in that kind of a context there's no problem with it and we've got to be careful where we draw that line though cuz people go okay well hey it always helps me so we feel better so now I can do it that's not the issue that help it does help I just wanted to make sure it wasn't black and white thinking it's not we have a negative association with marijuana I have never ever smoked any marijuana in my entire life never done any drugs ever and I rarely have any alcohol and that's it I just I don't care about it so if you know a friend of mine or a family member was really sick and nausea was the case because of whatever it was that marijuana could help I don't any problem with it as long as it's helping it's not as long as not hey let's just get you don't get high no no no no I can't do that but if it can help people right well can I ask you another question sure okay so what if you have not really friends or what if you have family members that smoke recreationally I mean I know the Bible does talk about evil communication corrupts good manner don't like but I don't want to cut my family off so I wouldn't you know what is a biblical perspective I wouldn't cut up cut your family off for that any more than I would cut a family member who is alcoholic and has abused drugs and let's just say in my family that's been the case where I'm gonna be very vague where alcohol and drug use was was improper and I never cut off the fellowship but I instead was regularly in contact and not all the time I would speak in such a way as to try and correct because you can't do that all the time but I was there as a as a family member and then when it came up I would give that advice and this happened for two years on a regular basis and finally that person is doing much much better and I say just because of me but but you know if you close off that communication one of the things to think about is well then are they gonna be going to their unbelieving friends first sources of comfort we have to be careful because where Jesus go Jesus went to eat with the tax gatherers and the drunkards he went and fellowship with them he hung out with them and the tax gatherers were particularly hated by the Jews because they would require the Jews to pay taxes for the Roman oppressive government and so they were hated there were two categories of sinners sinners and tax gatherers that's they had their own category of sinfulness according to the Jewish mindset and Jesus went and hung out with them and drunkards and so he did I'm not saying hey let's go out and hang out with you know the evil people just saying that that we've got to be careful that we're not so judgmental about people who have bondage into various sins that we cut off fellowship with them and communication because ultimately we want to be there to help them and to give them that word of truth and love it in the in Christ and if we cut that off we can't do it now there are times when we do need to cut that off and that's between that person and God and and stuff but I me I'm a little bit different than a lot of Christians I believe in getting out there with the unbelievers I believe in going out to where the unbelievers are and meeting them where they're at just like Paul did just like Jesus did because they went out to where these people were and they met with them and hung out with people that were not the best and you know so we're not any better than him that's for sure okay amen well I guess that that's a good example of being salt and light I just I guess the part that was so confusing was you know the evil communication crops good manners like so how do you prevent these people influencing you and your lifestyle oh you keep it right on Jesus it's simple you know I can go into a place not that I just hey I'll just go do this but I can go into a place where people are drinking and cussing and swearing and I can I can mingle with them not that I approve of it I don't but I can be there and I can witness to them and a lot of Christians have a problem with that that you shouldn't do that well where does it say that in the Bible now you know when I was younger I used to go to dance clubs and my brother and I would go and one of my brothers and we would just go have fun and I used to carry a New Testament with me and I can remember more than one occasion people would say well what are you doing well I'm getting ready to go to college so I can go to seminary be a minister and they were stunned and they said what are you doing here I say having fun I'm not I'm not drinking I'm not doing anything illicit just have you know fellowshiping with my brother and and I enjoy dancing and stuff like that you know I said I'm a white boy with rhythm I would say to them and they'd chuckle and I more than once I mean I would hand a Bible to someone they said no your kid you know you're not really a Christian I said yeah I am here's here's my New Testament I'll quote you 100 verses and and I would witness to them now I'm not saying it just makes everything okay but where does it say in the Bible that we Christians are supposed to avoid the unbelievers there if they're out if they're out where they're sinning I'm not saying we join them in their sin but shouldn't we be out there with them to some extent I actually met a guy now you always say this you can judge us what you want because I'm not sure what to do with it this guy told me that he grew up in a very odd situation where his dad would take him to topless bars I'm not approving of this but he said this is what happened and he grew up and it didn't mean anything to him he would literally go into these bars as a grown man and witness to people and he said he was he was stunned at how many times there were Christians in church church goers who are in bars like that and he would witness to them and they said well why are you here it's because I'm here for you and he said many people turned back to going to church because that's where he was now I'm not saying was right or wrong I'm just saying we have got to be careful sometimes we are so self-righteous about what Jesus would be and do that we wouldn't do what Jesus would do when he hung out with the tax-gatherers and the sinners you know so you know I was just thinking my daughters one of my daughters has a transsexual friend who's went one way is going back and I was just thinking last night I haven't seen that person for a while I was gonna talk to my daughter say invite over you know just why not it doesn't bother me I want that person to be exposed to Christianity not that I'm gonna witness and talk every single second about the Lord but sometimes you got to be a friend for a couple of months before the door opens up at the right time I believe in us doing I believe in us going out there I used to dress up as a bunker and go down to the beach in Southern California and witness dressed up in weird clothes with a pierced ear and go down there and go into the crowds and witness and people they were stunned that I would do that hmm that's it well why can't I and they they listened to me preach the gospel to us all right amen thank you so much all right with folks you have three open lines if you want to give me a call eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six it's Matt slick live taking your calls at eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six here's Matt slick welcome back to the show we have three open lines eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six give me a call let's get to Jacob from Wisconsin Jacob welcome you're on the air Jacob I hit the button I'll wait for him he's probably panicking right now was Deuteronomy 21 11 allowing the Israelites to marry unbelievers that's a good question because in Deuteronomy 21 it's talking about when there's battles or cities of battles and this an Israelite would want to take someone as his wife then he could and I would think that sometimes they were unbelievers but the way the culture was at that time the wives would follow the lead of the husbands and they'd eventually would just adopt that culture and that practice within the the Israeli system because they had something called covenant theology where all people in and under the headship of the male in the house whether they were believers or not believers who were to be circumcised etc were to be considered under that covenant protection inside of Israel so there's this kind of a weird gray area that would justify them to be able to marry women then have children of course those children be raised in the Lord okay and I was also wondering on verse 14 can you explain that it seems like if they have no delight they can let her go it says it shall be me are you Christian by any chance just curious yes okay it shall be if you are not pleased with her then you shall let her go wherever she wishes but you shall not certainly sell her for money you shall not mistreat her because you have humbled her apparently in that culture at that time if she wanted to go then he would let her go and and but had to treat her properly there was no no forcible relations allowed by Israelites upon any woman and if they wanted to have a woman and all you don't get this to this is something that's important culturally we just don't understand this but in that culture one nation might fight another nation and men would go out to fight and they would be destroyed and the economy and the culture social structure of that losing nation would be obliterated and they would often have famine and disease and stuff like that because there was no one there to to take care of what needed to be taken care of so one of the ways of helping believe it or not was actually Mary the the people of the women of the losing side but it had to be done under certain rules but nevertheless so apparently in this it's with that condition if you're not pleased with her she's let her go to wherever she wants and that's what was allowed okay and also Hosea was he to marry an unbeliever you gotta tell him to do that yeah but that would never be the case now is that correct for the New Covenant probably not that's correct because we're not to marry unbelievers so in the New Covenant but God there was some exception in back then just like there was for polygamy yes okay I had another question if I share that do you know anything about the false teachings of Norman Vincent Peale yeah he's bad news basically he taught a form of New Age mysticism kind of not that's not really good it's hard to explain he was into the idea of faith as a force and a power and that the Christian was to send forth the the faithful act of belief in order to get God to release his power in your life and that you could influence and not control but release the power of God through your particular efforts efforts in that area and it was it was false doctrine and a lot of the positive confession people are into that okay cuz I saw that he was he was it confirmed that he was a 33rd degree Freemason I didn't know that but if he was that would be problematic because to get to that level you have to swear allegiance to the god a god and loyalty under oath of blood the sake of being killed if you reveal what goes on in the Masonic Lodge and stuff and also he was the pastor of the church that Trump attended when he was young what it says on the Wikipedia so maybe that had a bad influence why he had in a Paula white and other people that got bad ideas from that yeah I don't know about that it's very unfortunate that he that Trump went with Paula white she's a bad teacher but you know it's just what it is but I don't know about the other part though okay all right buddy okay thank you all right man yeah that's good okay all right let's get to scarlet from Winston-salem North Carolina scarlet you're on the air hello my question is this I think I have heard you say before that nowhere in the Bible did it say if the Christians were going to be or the believers would be raptured up before the tribulation started right and can you just kind of walk me through that only because that I've always heard that in her that the Christians will be raptured and then we'll come to tribulation and that's that's what I'd like to know that's the backing for it yeah there's nothing in scripture that says that it's just I see rapture timeline I'm gonna pick a note here so it's it's just not there you know they'll say two men will be in the field one is taken one is left you know and they'll go to that and say that's pre-tribulation rapture but it's not about the rapture it's the wicked who were destroyed all you gotta do is read that context I find no verses in the scriptures at all that ever say we're going to escape anything the best that anybody has offered is to go to revelation and say that the church is not mentioned at a certain point in time and therefore the tribulation means that the church is taken out because the church is mentioned but that's not a very good argument because justification by faith isn't mentioned in revelation either it doesn't mean that it's not still true so it's just not a good argument and when I look at what the scripture says about stuff it says be wary watch run to the hills that's what it talks about and then Jesus says in Matthew 13 30 the first ones taken aren't the good but the wicked that's what he said at the end of the age and that's what he says people are you know I know people are listening right now your eyebrows are shooting up saying what Matthew 13 30 read the whole context read the whole chapter and he says you know that the wheat and the tares allow both to go together till the time of the harvest I'll say to the Reapers first gather the tears and buy them to get him to be burned that's what he said so I believe the first ones gathered over the tears I why cuz Jesus taught it so if if that's the case how could we have preacher rapture it just doesn't make sense okay well I want to thank you I just wanted to ask because like I said I'll wait for that and I knew I had thought I had heard you talk about scriptures and you didn't ever say that but you know you know you can go to I've got a lot I can teach a whole study on this and I've got a way of doing this I've done it in Bible studies where it takes an hour I say look I'm gonna read the scriptures you guys tell me where to put the timeline and we've done it in every single time it's come out that the rapture is after a tribulation period without exception every one of them and I just look at the scriptures and not just one or two but a whole bunch you know 15 20 scriptures looking all over the place and people are they're scratching their heads so why is the preacher rapture stuff so prevalent I believe in my opinion it's because it's consistent with the comfort theology that we received from the pulpit here in comfortable America all the time we don't face persecution well yes we are we're gonna be facing it more and more and so absolutely yes that's right I hope thank you okay I just lost more viewers okay oh god bless all right let's get to Craig from Kentucky Craig welcome you're on the on the air hey thank you Matt I would actually like to start off by apologizing we spoke very briefly last night and after reviewing our very short interaction I realized that on two specific occasions you actually tried to transition our conversation into a genuine genuine witness like you were trying to actually understand or actually engage in evangelical evangelism with me so with that being said yesterday when we spoke I was I was rude and so I apologize for that well I was accepted but I don't even remember it so okay yeah well great well my question is in regards to the activist where I've done research about study on different hypotheses about when the Exodus may have happened and I know that there are broadly two or three popular dates for the Exodus and I was wondering where you generally place the Exodus and in kind of the justification but why that is you know I don't know enough to be able to give a date off the top of my head oh sure but there is a there is a video I think it's on Netflix where two guys they filmed going they took the book they took the Bible and they went through and actually followed the the route and the location of the Exodus is different than the generally held position it's really interesting and there's another video that talks I'm trying to remember because there's a video I remember saying a big gigantic wall on the TV you know and they were moving the the Exodus timeline left and right under certain events and I forgot what that was what the name of it was yeah there's there's some I guess more and I guess more broadly maybe you could touch on the question I was I was kind of focusing it off more broadly that if you take 480 years back from I believe it's the time of Solomon but it may have been King David but if you take 480 years back from that date that it roughly put should put the Exodus around 1450 like that with the mention of the cities of Pithom and Ramses that that would seem to place the date sometime in the 12th century BC because that was the first time that Ramses the first rained Ramses the second obviously being more tenured of the two Pharaohs but long story short if the Exodus did in fact happen in the 12th century BC and more or less allegorizing the 480 years would that how would you reconcile that with their view of inerrancy in Scripture? Well I wouldn't say that there is no reconciliation needed because the Scriptures correct usually when people disagree with Scripture is because they're wrong and then they find that out later so I just believe that the inspiration and sufficiency and the Word of God is accurate and we just got to learn what the truth really is and we're out of time but thanks for calling man, thanks for calling, appreciate it. Hey folks give me a call tomorrow if you want 877-207-2276. Tomorrow's the same number as it is today and by God's grace we're back on the earth then and hopefully we'll talk to you then. God bless. Bye.