Matt Slick Live

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. If you want to give me a call, call 877-207-2276. We've been doing a lot of Q&A.

It gets busy at the last half of the hour because of the traffic pattern at different places. At any rate, why don't you give me a call and we can talk about whatever you want to talk about. It'd be great. I've been keeping records on the shows. I've been doing radio now five days a week for 16 years.

I'll tell you, we've got a lot of stuff. I remember the first day I ever did radio. It was a little bit nerve-wracking.

But it was fun and I've enjoyed it. I just look forward to doing it. Anyway, if you want to give me a call, like I said, 877-207-2276. We're going to have Eric Johnson on at the bottom of the hour. He's going to talk about the requirements. Actually, he could probably call after the break, the first break, in about 10 more minutes. If he's listening, he'll do that.

We could talk about the trip because most of the calls start coming in about the bottom of the hour. Anyway, we're going to be going to Israel. If you're interested in checking out Israel, karmisrael.com. That's what you've got to do. You've got to go check it out.

There's a lot of good information there. It looks like my wife and I will be going. I'll beat her on the bus and you can ask me questions and see how irritating I really am. Then you'll have a lot of sympathy for my wife. It'll happen. It'll take about 20, 25 minutes. You'll go, well, I get it.

She'll say, oh, she's a saint. There you go. All right, 877-207-2276.

We have free online schools if you want to check them out. School of, oh, I don't even know if they're working right now. I put in the request to have them checked out because they were down for just a little bit. We're going to be changing them. Let's see. We'll be changing them to a new format. Hopefully it'll be done by the end of the year.

It looks like, yeah, it's up and running. So that's good. So check that out.

We have these schools. If you want to learn theology, and really, I believe you really should study theology. I'm not talking about this, you know, get 18 books and big thick glasses.

That's what you have to do. I'm just saying that you should really know your theology. There's a disadvantage to it because what happens is you start listening to sermons and you start going, wait a minute, that's not exactly the right way to say it.

It does start happening, and I warn people about that. Not that we want to be judgmental, but I don't believe that many pastors study theology. I just don't think so. I don't. And I think they should.

I think they should study theology so that we can discuss the issues and you can insert them, theological issues, into the discussions and things like that, and preaching and sermons. That's what I believe. All right. Four open lines. 877-207-2276. 2276 spells C-A-R-M on your phone dial. All right. So I think we'll just get to Patricia, and then we'll just jump right on the air with Patricia.

Let's see. I'm going to jump right in. I'm taking the information. Patricia, are you there? Patricia, are you there? You're on the air. Hi.

Yes. Hi. How are you? I'm fine. I'm fine.

So what do you got? Thank you for answering me. So I just have a question. I've been sent to a Christian church that is directed by a general pastor who calls himself an apostle. And I've been there for a long time, and believe me, I receive a lot of word, but there are certain things that I'm still explaining about.

Like he's mentioned all the time on the services. We do the supper only when he tells all the pastors. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You do sermons only when what? No, the supper. You know, like the... I'm sorry.

I was reading something. Only do the Lord's supper. Only do the Lord's supper when what? When he directs it to the other pastor. So practically the pastors preach what the apostles help them to preach, and we only do the Lord's supper when he directs what to do it. I'm feeling kind of funny about it lately because he is being mentioned too much during the service, you know, by the pastors.

I was mentioning him a lot. I mean, they're not telling us to worship him, but it's like he's being mentioned too much. Yeah, when someone calls themself an apostle, I have a problem with that. There are seven kinds of apostles in the Bible. There's false apostles, true apostles. There's apostles that write scripture, apostles that don't write scripture. Jesus is called an apostle.

So there's different kinds. So an apostle, generally speaking, Paul in 1 Corinthians 1, 9, he's defending his apostleship, and he says this, Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?

Are you not my work in the Lord? Now, this isn't proof that you have to have seen the risen Lord or been with him in order to be an apostle, but notice that Jesus says that he's an apostle, and part of what his qualifications are, he's seen the Lord Jesus. So it's a good case to say, well, the apostles were those who were with Christ. So when people start saying, hey, I'm an apostle, really? Let me check your doctrine. I just want to check your doctrine and sit down and talk to them and see if they know their stuff. But I don't buy into it personally.

I don't buy into it. I'm a prophet so-and-so. I'm a bishop so-and-so. I'm an apostle so-and-so.

No. It just does not sound right. And as far as communion goes, it's not required in the Bible, it's not required that only the apostles, excuse me, the apostles, only the elders give communion. It's just not stated in Scripture. This is important because we don't want to go beyond what Scripture says. That's what 1 Corinthians 4 says.

I'm going to read this to you because it's important. 1 Corinthians 4, 6. Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written so that no one of you will become arrogant on behalf of one against the other. You see, that warning right there, if someone calls themselves an apostle, I'm not saying if they do that they're automatically arrogant, but it's a warning here. Don't exceed what's written so that no one of you become arrogant on behalf of another. So I've had people call me an apostle because of my attitude, what I do, and I say, no, I'm not an apostle. I'm a teacher. Just call me a teacher, an apologist, and that's it. I don't need any titles except lame-o and moron.

I'll take those titles. I'm not going to say I'm a prophet, I'm a bishop, I'm an apostle. I don't want to exalt myself in any way, shape, or form, and I don't want myself exalted in front of a church either. An apostle is a term that has high spiritual authority, and so when someone calls themselves an apostle, they're saying that they qualify in high spiritual authority. And for them to say, well, the only way you can do communion is if I'm giving it, where do they get this in the Bible?

It's just not there. So warning flags, plenty of warning flags already. Okay, so when I say the communion, we don't do it, but it's only the day that he says we need to do it. He tells all the members of all the churches that are under the ministry that let's say, okay, this Saturday all the churches, even the one, the main church where he preaches, we're all going to do the communion today. So everybody has to get together in their churches, in their congregation, and do the communion that day, only because he said it all. That's a warning flag.

That's another warning flag. And the pastors are only preaching, let's say this month we're going to preach about forgiveness. And they're only based on preaching that because he has instructed them to only preach about that this month, an example. So, and I love listening to you. I see that you are a man of God, and I really love the Lord. I believe in you, and I want to praise the Lord as much as I can.

And I know my relationship with God is so individual, you know, and my salvation is so, I just want to do what's right by my door. Can I ask, I'm curious, what denomination or what church, what the name of it is? I'm just curious.

I'm going to check it out right now. Well, it's supposed to be Christian. Yeah, but what's the name of the church? It's called, it's a Spanish church. Hispanic? It's called Iglesia de Cristo Palabra Amiel.

What was the last word? Miel, like honey, M-I-L-P-S. You can write me an email because I want to look at it, okay? Okay. Do they have a website? Yes, that's what it's called, Iglesia de Cristo Palabra Amiel.

Quiero verarlo, quiero ver si es peligro. Okay? All right. Okay. Okay, so email me at info at karm.org. Oh, what's your email? I'm sorry. Info at karm.org, info at karm.org.

Just email me, say, hey, this is Patricia, and the name of the church, and then the URL for the website. I'll check it out, okay? Because it's, I got warning flags. Okay.

It just doesn't sound good so far. Okay. Okay, thank you so much. Thank you so much. You're welcome so much. God bless you. God bless you.

All right. Folks, if you want to give me a call, four, open lines, 877-207-2276. Let's get on the phone with Shirley from Jersey. It almost rhymes. Hey, Shirley.

Welcome. You're on the air. Shirley. Oh, wait a minute.

I have to hit the right button. All these windows open. Shirley, are you there? Yes, I am. All right.

So what have you got? How are you? Tired, but I'm okay hanging in there. Been busy the past few days. What's up?

Yes, I'm right here. Okay. So what have you got? Yeah, I'm a dentist, actually, from New Jersey. Okay. Good.

That's okay. Yeah, I'm a dentist, actually. I just actually left my clinic because I was forced to take the jab, which I'm against. I'm a born-again believer.

I'm also an evangelist. You were forced to take the what? I couldn't hear you. The jab. The jab? The vaccine.

Oh, the vaccine. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I chose not to take it for obvious reasons, adverse effects, the injection, the COVID-19 vaccine. Yeah. So I chose not to take it for many different reasons.

I don't want any alterations in my DNA, the adverse effects. There's no liability, and the list goes on. So I did lose my job.

Thank God I'm in a financial situation where I can afford to not work. As we know, we are living in end times. I do see the falling away happening, obviously, in the false church system. I understand how the hierarchy of the church system works because I studied the occult.

So far, many different religious organizations have already bowed down to marrying homosexuals in the church. Yes, I know. I know about that.

You know, the church system. We've got a break coming up, so I want you to hold. So formula your question after the break, okay, because I want to talk to you, all right? Okey-dokey.

All right. Hey, folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. Two open lines, 877-207-2276. All right, Shirley, are you still there? Shirley, are you still there? I'm listening. I don't hear anything. Just letting you know I don't hear anything. If not, let's get the next caller.

Put you on hold. Yes, I am. Are you there? Yes, I am. Okay.

So what's your question? Well, we see that the One World Religion is unfolding in front of our eyes. I mean, Pope Francis is the one that's ushering it. I don't know if you have a background, Matt, and my question is, many churches are bound down, as we know, to this One World Religion. Jehovah's Witness, my brother being one, how do you see this unfolding with them?

Because at this point, which is today, what is today's date? March 11th, they have not announced, per se, that homosexuality is, you know, is acceptable. I just wanted to know your point of view. The J-Dubs?

Where do you see them going? At this point, they're still sharing homosexual assistance. The Jehovah's Witnesses? Wait, the Jehovah's Witnesses said that homosexuality is okay? No, not yet. Oh, okay.

They're still standing their ground, but we all... Right, okay. I'm sorry. I don't understand your question. Try it one more time. Go ahead. No, what I'm saying is that my brother, who is a Jehovah's Witness, I recently had a conversation with him. I don't understand your question. Yeah.

Okay. Where do you see Equality Act affecting the Jehovah's Witness organization? The reason why my primary focus is on them is because other religions other than them have already bowed down to marrying homosexuals, such as Hindu temples, some Jewish synagogues, Mormons. Yeah, Mormons no longer are considered apostates as a LGBT. Actually, my Mormon's a gay friend.

Jehovah's Witness to this date, as far as I know, still consider homosexuality. Well, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

You're going in a lot of stuff here. So I thought I understood your question, but now I'm not sure what your question actually is. So what is your question?

Just ask a question and I'll see if I can try and answer it. Are you there? Hello? Okay.

Are you there? How will the Equality Act affect the Jehovah's Witness organization? Okay, I don't know. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witness organization is going to do. The Equality Act, I've written an article on it, is really bad.

It's dangerous. It affirms same-sex marriage. It would make sexual orientation, gender identity a protected civil right. It supports abortion. It has rules in there for forced compliance.

It has other things. So it's going to be attacking the First Amendment and there's going to be lawsuits about it. So I don't know what the J-dubs are going to do. You can ask your brother, what's the Jehovah's Witness organization going to do? Or you might want to say, what are they going to tell you to do? That's what I like to ask them. What's the organization going to tell you to believe and tell you to do? Just ask them, because that's what they do. It's a cult and whatever the Watchtower says is what you're supposed to believe.

So I would ask them that. What's it telling you to believe? Well, I already know. I used to be a J-dub. The funny thing, Matt, is I used to be a Jehovah Witness 15 years ago. I used to be a Jehovah Witness about 20 years ago.

I'm now born again. So I understand the hierarchy of the religious system, unfortunately, leads to basically Lucifer and Freemasons controlling the religious system. So I just assume that one day he might walk in and they might say, well, we've got to bow down. It might happen. I expect the cults to bow down when more pressure comes in. But you never know. Some will, some won't. There are 501c3 like all of the religious system is.

So they're going to lose their tax exemption. Which is fine with me for all of us. But, yeah, okay. I don't know what's going to happen with them and I just don't know. It's something to ask to see and just watch.

That's all I can tell you. All right? Okay. All right. They eventually are going to fall.

It's the Bible prophecy after Revelation, the one world religion. So I kind of know the answer, but I just wanted confirmation from you. They're going to fall eventually. I just don't know when. Okay? Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you, Les. Shirley, thanks. Okay.

All right. That was Shirley. Let's get to Josh from Texas. Josh, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, Hank. It's not Hank Hanegraaff. I'm Matt Slick, but if you've got a question.

Steve Kinstein. Okay. You have a question?

Yes. So one of my questions is mainly why is it that the black Hebrew Israelites, you might be able to tell me why they say the phrase or they believe, they'll say, you are what your father is? They believe in a descendancy and that through the proper genealogical records, this is who the true Israelites really are. Black people are the true Israelites from the tribe of Judah.

Okay. And Hispanics and also Native Americans are also real Israelites, they say. White people are not true Israelites. They're the, I've been called white devil by some black Hebrew Israelites. And so some black Hebrew Israelite groups see white people as being demonic just because they're white. It's an extremely racist organization. Okay. Rod, I remember the, I guess, if you want to call it a debate with you and Andrew against that one fella. And it just, he had no other agenda than to use it as an opportunity to vent his anger, I guess.

Yeah. There's a lot of anger and a lot of prejudice and people don't realize their own sin. And the black Hebrew Israelite group is sinful. It's cultic and it is highly racist. And to say that black people, because they're black, are the true Israelites is, well, just not true. And to say white people are evil because they're white, that's not true either. You know, they don't understand biblical theology and it's just a racist organization or a belief system. That's what it is. Right. So descendancy is basically what kind of explains why they say that because I met a black Hebrew Israelite and he was trying to explain to me, you know, like all these scientific things he was trying to tell me that every person is pretty much 100% of what their father is and you're in no way, it's not like a sharing. Yeah, I'm not sure about that because I just don't know that much about it.

I do know that it's a cult and it denies the Trinity and the deity of Christ and salvation is required by speaking the proper name of Jesus, which they say they know. So, yeah, it's just a bad, it's really bad. Okay. All right, buddy. Thanks, man. All right, man.

God bless. Hey, folks. We have three open lines if you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276 will be right back after these messages. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. All right, buddy. Welcome back to the show.

We have three open lines if you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276, give me a call, and Eric from Salt Lake City. Hey, Eric. How you doing, buddy?

Hey, Matt. How are you? Doing fine. Hanging in there.

Just hanging in there. All right. Everybody, this is Eric from the IsraelTrip stuff. He's going to just give us a little bit of info, a little update. All right.

Absolutely. We are so happy that we are selling this trip now since Sunday, and I just want to let your people know that we are about one-third of our spots sold, so we had a really good response from North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Idaho, among the states who are going to be joining us, and I just want to let people know that they can register now by going to karmisrael.com, and that trip is in March, March 10th to the 22nd, it's a 13-day trip, and it has all the information if they go to that website, but what you can do is look at each of the days, there's hotels that we're going to be staying at, these are four-star hotels, you can take a look at those hotels, there's little clips from some of the places we're going to visit, but we're going to see a lot of things, and I'm excited to be able to go with you. We're going to give devotionals all the way through the Land of Israel, and so that's really awesome. We have a video that we did a week ago, and that's on the top of the website, you should have to click on there for that YouTube interview, it's about 45 minutes, but if anybody has any questions, then they can go to the website, and if they sign up in March, I wanted people to know that there's $100 off. The price is $38.95, land only, and so it's $37.95, we're going to figure out next month where we'll be flying from, but for right now, you just need to reserve by going to karmisrael.com and clicking on the registration button, and you can actually sign up and get yourself ready to go, and it gives you a year to get ready, in fact, we'll be leaving a year from yesterday, so we're within a year now of going on this trip.

Wow, really? The 10th? March 10th? Yeah, today's the 11th, and so we're going to be leaving on March 10th from some airport, we'll figure out where that airport is.

We might have two places that we originate, depending on how many people sign up, but man, if you've never been to Israel, you've been to Israel, in fact, I'm looking at your picture right now on the website, you didn't have as much gray hair eight years ago, Matt. It's almost all gray now. I'm looking at you on the video, and I'm looking at this, and yeah, you had some black hair back then.

Yes, it was definitely dark, yep. My wife says it looks good, though, so that's nice. She likes the gray, huh?

She says I'm distinguished looking, and she hopes every day that I look more like Sean Connery, but it's just not happening. Yeah, well anyway, you're going to be going with Aneek, she's never been to Israel, maybe your kids are going to go, so it's going to be fun to have the slicks there, and people who I know are faithful listeners of this show, as well as people from the website, so we're just trying to let people know that if they want to sign up, I know you've been hearing about it, people have been hearing you talk about the trip, but now it's time to take action, it's a $500 deposit, and that deposit is all but $125 would be refundable if you cancel for whatever reason by Thanksgiving, and so this is one of those deals where if you want to get in, you probably need to sign up, and also if you get the insurance policy, there's two different insurance policies, it covers anything related to COVID, so that's really nice, too. Yeah. Yeah, it was a relaxing trip, I remember, because everything was just taken care of, and you were the one filling in the blanks here and there on things that need to be done. So yeah, karmisrael.com, check it out, that's right, good stuff. Yeah, and we're going to have Joel Kramer, an archaeologist, who's going to be with us for three of the days, and he's going to take us to places that people don't get to go to oftentimes, like Jacob's Wells, Shechem, Bethel, Eye, I mean, sites like that, I mean, Jericho, we're going to send you a DVD with Jericho on Earth that he did that really proves that Jericho really is the biblical Jericho, and if people sign up by Thursday of next week, we have a second DVD of Joel's that we'll send you as well, so you're going to get a book, The Holy Land for Christian Travelers, two DVDs, a welcome packet, and you'll be getting communications from me throughout the year as I do some teaching and give announcements on emails, and it's really, I mean, this is a trip that's really trying to equip you to be able to read your Bible in a way that you really can't read it the same way unless you've been there.

That's right, I really was affected by it. So somebody asked in the chat, does the trip include any in Palestine? That's what the question is. Yeah, well, we're going to be going to the West Bank, a lot of the Old Testament sites especially, so we will go to Jericho, we'll go to Bethlehem, we'll go to Shechem, a very important place right between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, we'll have a chance to go there. So yeah, we'll be doing some visitation there that a lot of people don't like to go on the West Bank, it's very safe, and if you're wanting to see some of the sites that are not usual, that none of your friends have seen, we'll even have a chance to go to Qumran, and Joel will take us up to Cave 1. It's a little bit of a hike, you have to be steady to get up there, but we'll actually have a chance to walk into the cave where the Arab teenager found the great scroll of Isaiah in Cave 1, so that's pretty incredible, because nobody really gets to do that, you have to know where the cave is.

Yeah, it's hard to find, and we didn't even see it until we were right basically on top of it, and he knew where to go, so yeah. So anyway, I just wanted to call in and just let people know that we've done really well this week, we just started on Sunday, about a third of the spots are filled, but there's still plenty of room, and if they want to get the $100 off, they do need to sign up this month, after that it goes away. So I'm hoping that a bunch of people on the radio who listen to you regularly will want to join you, and you're going to be talking all through Israel. And you said you would do some teaching of doctrine too, on some of the long bus rides, so we're going to hold you that, is that Matt? Yeah, if people want, you know, they can ask you questions, they can teach, but mostly people just talk and share about what they just saw, and that's fine, you know.

And when they can spend a little time with me, most people are going to want to stay on the far side of the bus, so that's okay. And you're going to do communion, and we'll have some baptisms that will take place in the Jordan River. There's a really neat place near Bethsaida, where the river is rushing by, and there's a little jetty, and it's the perfect place to do some baptism, so you know, there's so many things. You're going to go on a Sea of Galilee boat ride, go behind the Western Wall, we're going to go to Masada, we're going to hike through Hezekiah's tunnel, I mean like I said, drinking water out of Jacob's well, it's not the fountain of youth, but it is pretty incredible when you have a chance to actually see this well, that John chapter 4, just read that in the Samaritan woman, it just really is impressive when you get to see the well itself.

Yup, and drink out of it, loved it, tasted good too, yeah, alright, well anyway, just wanted to let people know, so go to karmisrael.com, and I hope that a bunch of people will sign up. Sounds good, brother. Alright. God bless you, my friend. Thanks, Eric, God bless. Alright, bye. And someone asked, can you swim in the Dead Sea, yes you can, I did, just bring some goggles, because you don't want any of that stuff to get in your eyes, it's extremely painful.

I had to get out, go wash my eyes out, and then get back in the water, because it's still fun, I mean, it stings badly is about it. Alright, four open lines, if you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276, Seth from California, Seth, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, Matt, thanks for taking my call.

Sure. So, a quick rundown for you, what's going on here, I'm a part of a great church here in Southern California, and there's an upcoming, well, potential ministry that we're going to start revolving around witnessing at abortion clinics. It's very much in the early stages, in fact, I have a meeting coming up this Sunday with one of our elders and pastors to discuss kind of what we want it to look like, so what I'm doing is just seeking some research, some wise counsel, I was curious, as I've heard in the past, you said that you had been a part of a number of ministries, like Swat Beat Ministries and whatnot, so I'm just curious if you've had any experience witnessing in abortion clinics, or any wisdom that you might be able to share for me.

Yeah, I've got several things I would recommend. I would get a sound recording device on your person, I would have somebody off-site in a car with a camera running, and that's just me, okay? Because sometimes the pro-aborts, they get rather difficult, and it's better to be safe than sorry. It's not very often that anything happens, but it's a good thing to do. I'd also recommend that you contact the police before you go out, unless you don't think the police is friendly, but contact the police and say, this is what I want to do, and this will be on the sidewalk, and I want to let you know, and what's the name of the supervisor or the whoever, whatever, in case there's a problem. We're not looking for any problems, we just want to know, and they really appreciate that. That's a good idea, and I've had people use contact so-and-so, you say, we can't be here. Yes, we can be here. The other thing you can do is ask what is acceptable, if not acceptable, to the police department on the rules, and we'll talk about that a little bit after the break, okay?

Okay, thank you. Hey folks, we have four open lines, if you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276, we'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Everybody, welcome back to the show. We have four open lines, if you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276, give me a call, let's talk. All right, Seth, are you still there? Yes, I am. All right, and of course I forgot to mention something, pray.

Of course you pray, I just agree with that. All right, so when you're out there, there's a potential of being assaulted. Assault is when someone puts you in a state of apprehension. Assault and battery is one step further, and that's physical contact.

It can potentially happen. So we'll talk about different things here for a little bit, because this is important, but we had a temple opening, Mormon temple opening here, and I have some signage, and I just stood out, and one guy, one time, was literally six inches from my face, and not yelling, but very aggressive, and he was threatening me, and so I just backed up, and I said, sir, you're putting me in a state of apprehension, and this is called assault, I don't want the police involved, but if you don't stop, you may have to get ahold of the police, please leave me alone, and I backed up, and he kept coming forward, and I said, sir, I need you to, and I said, I was very calm, and I've been in martial arts, I could have taken him out with one stroke, but I'm not going to do that, because I'm not there for that, so I just kept saying, no, don't want, and he finally backed down, and then some Mormons came out, and to their credit, they helped, and one Mormon said, look, this happens again, just come over, we'll hide you inside, they're really nice, they're not bad people, and so that kind of a thing, so you've got to be protected, I really do believe in having some recording device of some sort on you, and I prefer that you have something across the street with a camera and a car, or someone just ready, and it could just, for a lawsuit if it ever happens, I've known of people who, Christians who, things have happened to them, and let's just say that it was one of these Mormon things that something happened, and it was on film, and let's just say it made a huge difference, a huge difference of what happened, what was said to have happened. I also recommend you watch the women, if any women go with you, you don't want to have, I would not have a bunch of women together, unless they're just a few feet apart from you, because I'm very protective about the ladies, so if there's one woman, and just you, that's fine, be out in public, if there's two women over by the side, as long as you can get to them, and if anything, somebody starts talking to them, you go interject and make sure everything's okay, you know, that kind of thing. If someone gets violent, you have the right to defend yourself, not the obligation to have the right to defend yourself, but don't be the aggressor, alright? Now as far as staying on the sidewalk, the sidewalk is public property, they can't tell you to get off the sidewalk and to leave, you say no, I'm on public property, and you have that right. Now sometimes there's grass between the street and the sidewalk, and sometimes you can get on that, sometimes you can't, this is why I recommend you contact the police and say where can I stand, etc, etc. Something else you want to be careful about is sometimes there's a driveway next to where you're standing, and cars come out, and if you have a sign that can block the vision of the traffic coming in, that can be potentially dangerous. So in the situations I've been in where that has arrived, or arisen, what I've done is moved out of the way and took my sign and put it at such an angle it didn't block anything, so that they could see. So I'm very cognizant of that, and then when they're gone I go back to doing it.

You can't block any pedestrians, and there's traffic, not intentional, you can do it accidentally, oops, I didn't see it, but that kind of thing, you don't block any pedestrian traffic or vehicular traffic at all, and you want to just be careful. Don't be yelling and screaming in a crazy fashion. Now the thing is though you can yell, now it's not yell as in screaming, but like I've been at Mormon openings where there's 100, 200, 300 people there, and I'll raise my voice to preach, and that's what is okay. Then you have to ask about the issue of amplification, are you going to use a small microphone with a battery operated amplifier, and if you do, you've got to talk to the police and say what's acceptable, and they may say there's not, you'll get a permit, and otherwise you can just use your regular voice, and that's okay if it becomes necessary, and if you have signs and things like that, and then what are you going to do if someone comes up and asks you questions, and they want more information, do you have follow-up information, and stuff like that, and then here's the last thing I'm thinking of is it's really good to have a meeting afterwards where you just kind of debrief when you're done, you know, you quit at a certain time, you meet at a restaurant or someone's home, whatever, or you talk, or if you don't, that's okay too, but it's sometimes nice to do that. Okay? Absolutely, you know, I really appreciate you taking the time to share that, I took some notes, so this is really good stuff, a lot of good wisdom here, I really like the aspect too about, you know, protecting, of course, women, but also ourselves from any, you know, false allegations or whatnot that, like you said, very well could come from people that don't like the fact that we're out there.

Yes, you know, I've been flipped off, I've been mooned, I've been cussed at, I've had eggs thrown at me, I've had physical assaults, very gentle, but it's technically physical, I've had people threaten me with arrest, I've had people get in my face, block my walk, it happens, and I just remain calm, that's all. So great stuff, well thank you so much, Matt, thank you so much for your ministry and for the time, just in general, the ministry, and I always pray for those that do this. So, just to ask for anyone else listening, great for us out here, thank you, Matt.

That's the one last thing, thanks for reminding me, you have a prayer team praying for you, you know, praying for you, and stuff like that, and you have your phone number to the police ready, just in case, you know, you have a question, hey, just call them, this is what it says, we already talked to them, okay, stuff like that, it'll work out fine, okay? Great, great, thank you so much. All right, call back and let me know how it went, I wanna know, all right, Seth? Hey, great, yeah, sounds good, sounds good, thank you. God bless.

All right, that was Seth, he's in California, so, you know, the People's Republic of California, so pray for Seth and what he's gonna be doing, it's a good thing to do, it is a good thing to do. Let's get to Jill from Pennsylvania, Jill, welcome, you're on the air. Hi Matt. Hi. Can you hear me okay? Yes, yes I can, you sound fine.

Okay. Yeah, so yesterday I had this situation where I was invited to this Bible discussion group on Facebook, and so I accepted it, and that's all it said, Bible discussion, it was sort of generic, and I knew the guy very well because we were the administrator of it, because we were in a cult about 20 years ago, where we were just into everything back then, and I was just hoping maybe this guy perhaps was a Christian, but anyway, it turns out he was into Swedenborg. Swedenborgism, yeah, it's a cult. Yeah, and so I looked it up on your website, but I already knew about Swedenborg, but I just couldn't articulate it, I just knew it was wrong, I didn't know exactly, so here's my question, so I did contend with the guy, he private messaged me and was very upset, and I honestly was trying to be really concerned about his soul, and based on what I knew about Swedenborg, and I even had Bible verses, because he was saying that Jesus was God, and that was it, there was no other, there wasn't a trinity, you know, so based on his reactions today, I started thinking, maybe I should not have even attempted or contended or challenged the guy, because my question is, should women, is this wrong for women to challenge like a guy on one of these forums, you know, Facebook or whatever, because I felt very, very bad after he private messaged me, and just went on and on and on. Comment about this issue, okay, can women correct men in the church, absolutely, absolutely. If the men have said something wrong or done something wrong, and some astute woman is listening, and she happens to have learned something that someone else hasn't, which is fine, and she comes up and says, you know, I don't agree with this or that, or we look at this, if I were a pastor and a woman did that, I would treasure it, fine, good, I mean she feels comfortable enough to come up and challenge, or say, well, what about this, what about that, that's fine, that's fine, we're all called to do that, just because you're women doesn't mean you can't get up there and ask questions and challenge stuff.

Women can't be pastors and elders, but you know, it's fine, there's no problem with that at all. Well, I felt really kind of guilty, because I thought, well, maybe I, like, when I challenged him, and he, you know, he took me off the form, so I couldn't go back to reread to make sure I was, you know, had dotted all the I's and crossed the T's and, you know, but I was really concerned that he's teaching people this, and I think I was coming from a good place. Yeah, well, organism is a non-Christian cult, it's just flat out cultic, all right, denies a trinity, denies a deity of Christ, right, so it's just a cult, and that's it, and so you have the right to say, hey, you know, you got problems, and if you don't, that would be what's wrong, not because you're a female challenging some male, forget that, the thing to be concerned about is not challenging somebody. If they're speaking heresy and leading others to damnation in their cult doctrines, if you don't speak up, well, you know, it depends on the situation. That's very good, I'm so glad you're telling me this, because I have this war inside me going back and forth, like, it's just not lady-like, you know, and honestly, I do try to stick the log out of my own eye, you know, before I get out of my brother's hut. I do, I'm thoughtful, I'm prayerful, you know, but I'm also grieved, because I was in a cult, and nobody got faith except me in that cult, and I'm still very sad, like, maybe I should be reaching out more to those people, and here I had this opportunity, and granted, that was like 20-something years ago, and he just, he was furious, and caught me by surprise.

Well, I'll often do, when I go into a cult place on Facebook or some other thing, before I start talking, I will look and see who people are there, get their names, so that if I do get kicked out, I can contact them in private, and try and continue to witness. Okay? That's good. Okay.

Yeah. Thank you. I'll do that.

So, that's one of the things I'll do. All right. Okay. Thank you.

Well, God bless. Okay. Thank you. All right. Bye. Well, goodbye. All right.

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