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Carl, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, what's up, man? How you doing? Doing all right. Hanging in there.

What do you got, buddy? Good to hear. So I was watching like, TVN, just going through the TV. I was at work late. I was going through the channels and I happened to go on TVN and they saw and stuff like that. And they seemed to, they were talking about white privilege.

And I just don't understand. Why would they be speaking about white privilege? You know, like who was talking about this?

This was, this was like going through TVN. Yeah. Well, you know, it's worth talking about because it's a social construct now, but it's being used in order to attack white people and constantly make them feel bad, caused a racial division and things like that. The solution to all this, of course, is Jesus, him crucified, that we need to treat all people equally. And, you know, I don't believe in races.

The Bible doesn't teach that. There's just one race, the human race. We just look different. And so that's what it is. So why would TVN talk about it? Well, because it's an issue that needs to be talked about. In fact, if you go to CARM, I've written an article on white privilege and it's a hard to define thing. And one of the things about it is you're guilty because you're white. You know, people, you know, I'm a white guy and do I have white privilege? Well, I don't know.

What is it? You know, what does it mean to be guilty of white privilege? And if you're white, uh, are you automatically guilty of benefiting from it? If you are, how do you quantify that?

How do you show that it's the case? Um, you know, all I know is I've had to work very hard my entire life. And I mean very hard to get where I'm at.

And I still work very hard. I don't know of any white privilege that I've had to, uh, or that I've had. I'm not saying it does or doesn't exist. I'm just saying, does anybody in your family believe in it? I don't know. I just haven't talked to him about it.

Cause I'm the only one who's wacko enough to study all this stuff. But, uh, you know, it's so, you know, I got a brother who's blonde haired, blue eyed. All right.

And, um, he's not that successful. Uh, you know, he's having, I do cause I don't mean to cut you off cause I have, I have, I have family members, um, brothers who consider themselves Christian, even though if you, if you look at their life, they wouldn't, but they consider themselves, you know, and they believe in it. Oh, they believe in white privilege.

Okay. Well, the thing is people that consider themselves Christian, they believe in it. Here's the thing, let's look, you know, 50, 60, 70 years ago, you know, there'd be in the blacks and the whites, the stupid Jim Crow laws and the, uh, you know, the black fountain to drink out of the white fountain, you know, and if you were, you were, uh, black, then you couldn't make it because there were so many roadblocks. So in that sense, I think there's white privilege if we're to define it that way. And it was basically what it was is prejudice and unrighteous tyranny.

And with each successive generation, we move away from that. And I don't know, you know, I, I live here in Idaho and, you know, I live in Southern California and I'll tell you, I just worked my tail off and I've gotten where I'm at because we're of a lot of work. I think it's the same for anybody, particularly now. I don't care what race you are and you know, uh, you work real hard.

There's going to be problems just like anybody else. In fact, I would say sort of as a white privilege, there's an, um, uh, a secularist privilege. And I would say that it definitely exists, but, but privilege does exist. It's just no one is privileged.

No one is privileged based on their skin color. I don't know. Uh, I don't know if that's the case.

I think there are places where, uh, where the good old boys who are all white will not allow someone of minority, uh, consideration to, uh, advance because of their prejudices. I think that's, uh, definitely in where? Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. I think it still occurs. Yeah, absolutely.

I think there's plenty of people. I think it happens with all people. I think there are, uh, situations where there are black people who don't want the white people that may work with them or under them to succeed, to get up to where they are. I think it's, so it's, uh, it's possible with all people because all people are sinners. No one's exempt from, uh, attitudes of superiority or prejudice or the inferiority of other groups or people. Uh, so how do you explain to people using the Bible or biblical explanation that white privilege does not exist. God sees everybody the same as human and no race is more privilege than other, you know, in modern day now. Oh, I think there are some that are because of history, uh, enslavement of the blacks and the prejudice against the Asians here in America.

I think there's still effects of it that have continued on today. But the thing is that if people, um, are beaten down with this white privilege thing, it's going to cause resentment. It's going to cause division. And what needs to happen is not you're white, white, and therefore you're, you're, uh, you've benefited from white privilege that causes problems. What needs to happen is we need to say all people are equal. All people should be considered equal. And if you have a prejudice against someone else, whoever you are, you need to deal with that. That's what needs to be taught because to say white privilege means if you're white, you're privileged. Well, that automatically is based on racism. You're white. That's why you're privileged. That's racist.

So they don't see that it's a form of racism to say it. And I think they're just trying to identify things, but, uh, they need to be careful because people don't realize that in these kinds of issues, you can cause the problems you're trying to stop. That's the thing. Okay. Okay.

Go ahead. But, um, in totality though, in, in your view, it doesn't exist this modern day. No, no, I think, I think, no, I don't think it's a policy unless there's, I can't speak in all situations all over America. I think that people who are white or prejudice against blacks and Asians, I think they're people who are black or against prejudice against white and Asians. And I think there's people who are Asians who are prejudice against black and whites or variations thereof because they're people.

I believe this is the case. And, uh, we can't just say only the whites are the ones guilty. Blacks are guilty. Asians are guilty. All people are guilty as groups one way or another. You know, how we deal with it is the issue because all of it is sin.

All of it is sinful. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I just try and judge people by their character. That's it. I don't care what color they are.

I don't care what gender they are. Uh, it doesn't make a difference to me. What kind of person are you? And you're going to show that to me and your behavior and your attitude. And that's what I'm going to go by and compare it with scripture. That's it. That's it. Okay. Okay. All right. All right, man. God bless.

All right. That was Carl from Orlando. Let's get to, let's see, John from North Carolina. John, welcome.

You're on the air. Hey, what do you think about CBD oil? Uh, as long as it doesn't have the, uh, the, um, mind on it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is. Do you see? Yeah.

I don't see any problem with it. It's just, uh, if it's medicine and it could be used that way, I know that, uh, it can help with people in nausea who are going through, um, through, uh, kids. Yeah. My wife was, um, thinking about trying something to help her go to sleep and stuff like that. Yeah. There's different things. Um, I've had trouble with sleep for years and going to sleep. So I have tricks I do took me a while to develop. But, um, uh, so yeah, you know, as long as it's, uh, I don't have any problem with it.

If it's legal and it's not addictive, it's not controlling you and it's there to, to try and help. Uh, it's holistic. Yeah. Okay. Appreciate it. Have a good one. All right, man. You too. God bless.

Let's get to Luis or Lewis from Richmond, Virginia. Welcome buddy. You're on the air. Thank you, man. It's Louis Lewis. Yeah.

No problem. So I just was really interested in your take on some of the, um, positive thinking, uh, type of preaching that you basically, you know, if you're thinking that you're a good leader, you just continually say that you're a good leader and, uh, maybe say that you're, um, you know, just struggling with something you just keep saying over and over in your mind to create new, uh, neural pathways. Uh, this type of thing, is this a biblical concept? And I was just wondering your input on that.

Yes, it is. Um, it says, uh, in Proverbs 23, seven for as he thinks within himself. So he is, um, so less Proverbs 23, seven.

So what we say about ourselves is really important and how we perceive ourselves is important. We don't want to deceive ourselves by saying we're something we're not, but the best attitude is to say that I'm, uh, saved in Jesus. I'm holy in Jesus. I'm sanctified in Jesus. I'm justified in Jesus.

I'm loved because of Jesus. And we put our, our emphasis on the work of Christ. And when we do that, then whatever circumstances occur, that won't vary. And whether we think something highly of ourself and it doesn't work out right, then it won't vary.

Our commitment won't vary either. If we put ourselves first and things go bad, then we get, um, upset. We start doubting, but we should not be thinking, Oh, woe is me.

I, you know, nobody likes me. I'm going to go eat some worms. We don't want to say that. I'm going to say I'm not.

I'm going to say I'm redeemed in Christ and I can be used in Christ. And so, uh, as far as, uh, practicing mind things, I can have some stuff about that after the break. Okay. Cause that's important.

I recommend people do it to a certain degree. Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages with Louis and please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Welcome back to the show. All right, Louis, are you still there? Yes, sir.

All right. So one of the things I tell people to do is to, uh, train their brain as just as you were talking about neural pathways, you know, I've done martial arts, I've done, um, tennis and, uh, in both things like tennis, for example, I worked on my serve and, uh, developed a very, very good serve, but I just served like a thousand balls a week and just go over and over neural pathways. So now I can go through the same motion, even after all these decades. Well, you can set up a proper pathways in your brain. When I counsel people and they have a problem with lust, pornography, drinking, whatever it might be. And, uh, though there are different degrees of success with this, what I'll tell people is to, when you entertain the idea, automatically think of something other to do, uh, something godly. So if you have a thought of your mind about, uh, doing something wrong, that you automatically think of something good and you train your brain to when one occurs, the other one follows immediately.

And, uh, this is one of the ways of re-patterning your brain. So talk about, uh, someone talked about sleep earlier. Well, what I do, uh, in order to go to sleep, cause I have a very active mind.

I've always had that. I've always had years of trouble, you know, going to sleep. What I'll do is I do certain things on my phone, a certain pattern of things.

And then, um, I wait for a certain amount of time and then I turn over to my right, uh, to go to sleep. And, uh, so it's a certain pattern and my, my body starting to recognize time for sleep and I can go to sleep each year. So, uh, this is just one of the things we can do to pattern ourselves. And that's okay. As long as we're not patterning it for an ungodly reason, you know, make sense.

Yeah. So I guess, um, you were obviously on the godly path as far as Romans, like 12, two, you know, renewing your mind. And I definitely agree with that. But one of the things that, you know, um, just say for instance, the, you know, famous Joel Osteen sermon, the I am sermon, um, saying these things, uh, it, that really sounds as though to me where Satan says, I will ascend on high and make my throne. Um, and so when I hear pastors saying that you should say things to yourself without basing it back to like you led off with as far as in Christ and Christ is our strength. Christ is our salvation.

Christ is their, uh, justification, all of these things. But rather just saying, no, just say that you're a good athlete. Just say that you're this and not really giving the full depth of it. So I guess how would you tell somebody, you know, to retrain their brain, but then also, I mean, that's what Joel Osteen does. Yeah.

Joel Osteen's a false teacher. And, um, yeah, no, I agree with that. Yeah. In fact, I actually can put video on. I've been practicing with some new features in this program I'm using. I could actually go find a video of the church that I went to and, uh, took film on my phone, but, um, I can show it on the screen here if I want.

But the thing is, um, Joel Osteen and others, uh, they're not biblically minded about the things of Christ. You see, I was involved in the occult and pornography and foul language. And the only thing I didn't do, and there's other things I did, I never did drugs.

Uh, you know, I was living with the girl. I was doing bad stuff. I mean, I just a pagan and God saved me. I can look back on those things. And as it says in Romans 6 21, what benefit were you then deriving of the things of which you're now ashamed for the outcome of those things is death. That's Romans 6 21, one of my favorite verses. And the reason that is, is because I look back on my old life and I say, what benefit was I gaining?

None. And nothing but regrets from that time. And I'm only by God's grace am I saved. And so by God's grace am I saved by God's grace and my retained by God's grace. I can move forward by God's grace.

I have hope for my life by God's grace. And it's not, Oh, I'm wonderful. You know, I'm, I'm great. Uh, I'm, I'm good. No, I never say that. And in fact, I say the opposite.

You may hear me joke about stuff on TV here on the radio. You know, I say to people, when they say that they're those who they don't sin anymore. And I say, well, just spend five minutes with me. I'll fix that because I'm such a, uh, you know, obstreperous, uh, loser that it won't take long for them to fail.

And my wife right now, if she's listening is going, amen to that. So yeah, I am who I am. That's it.

Right. And I think we're on the same page with that. I guess my biggest thing was, is, um, how do we train or how do we make people aware of the difference between knowing that their salvation and their security and their being is in Christ and not to say, well, that's what, I mean, as far as these teachers, uh, that say these things.

Oh, the far as the teachers go. Well, what I would say at that point is that you need to, well, uh, if you can, you need to talk to them somehow, some way, then, uh, let them know, you know, uh, but if you can't, you can't, uh, the idea is to, um, uh, if you can't, well, you know, it's just, it's hard if you can, you do it. If you don't, or you email people and say, why are you doing this? You know, I have an open, I have an open standing challenge to, uh, Joyce Meyer and Kenneth Copeland and others, uh, to, to have a discussion with me on, uh, on various, uh, various things. And so they will never take me up on it. And the reason they won't is because they don't want to be exposed.

They don't want to have anything that contradicts their idea of what they believe and teach about these things. So, uh, any rate, that's, that's what it is. Okay.

Yeah. Well, thank you, Matt. I appreciate your comment. All right, ma'am. God bless buddy. Okay. All right. Let's go to the phone with Alberto from Georgia. Alberto, welcome. You're on the air. Yes. Good evening.

It's Matt slick. I want to look at the Ephesians chapter one, verse four and talk about a lot of people think that God predestined us, you know, against our free will. I believe in things for knowledge. God knows who's going to accept them or not. That's not going to override our free will. That's not correct. Let me finish. Okay.

And so why would Christ command us to repent if it got, you know, if God would not, uh, override free will because he knows who will and accepting who won't because he got us a lot violate our free will. First of all, first of all, you're just incorrect. All right. In a lot of things, a lot of ways, you're just incorrect.

And I have to tell you that. Okay. So, um, it is God does not know who's going to pick him. And then they become the predestined ones because no one of their own free will would ever pick God.

Period. Because the Bible says the unbelievers, a slave of sin, Romans six, 14 through 20, he does not seek for God. He's a hater of God. Romans three, 10, 11, and 12. Ephesians two, one says he's dead in his sins.

Ephesians two, three says he's by nature, a child of wrath. First Corinthians two 14 says he cannot receive the things of God. And because these things are true, Jesus says in John six 44, you cannot come to me unless the father draws you. John six 65. He says you cannot come to me unless it's granted to you from the father. It says in acts 13, 48, as many as had been appointed to eternal life, believed in John one, uh, John one 13, it says, uh, we're born again, not ever on will.

In acts 13 of one, first Peter one three were caused to be born again. We're granted belief looking to 129. There's more, but after the break, we're going to continue.

I'm going to set down the proper biblical theology and then we can start talking about other stuff. We'll be right back folks after these messages, please stay tuned. Welcome back to the show.

Let's get back on here with Alberto from Georgia. Welcome. You're on the air, buddy. Are you there?

Hello? Yes. All right. So I was trying to make the case biblically. God does not know who's going to pick him and therefore his choices are based on that. That's a false teaching because nobody of their own free will is capable of believing and trusting in Christ.

God has to intervene and if he does not, nobody will ever be saved. Okay. Yeah. But my question, I never said that, that God, no, I said, I said that God, his, on his side of the end, he knows, but we, he doesn't force his foreknowledge on us. That's my point. My point also, let's talk about foreknowledge.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, one thing at a time. You said he didn't force his foreknowledge. What do you mean by that? Well, when I say he knows on his end, he knows who's going to believe who's not, but he does not overwrite our free will that he knows that he, okay, automatically, okay, you'll get saved. You're going to heaven, you're going to hell, because he knows it all. So, so he predestined us, who's going to heaven, who's going to hell?

No. I believe that foreknowledge, God knows who, but listen to me first. Listen to me first. He knows who's going to accept him, who's not. He knows who's going to accept him, who's not. Now, I know that God, the Bible says, God gives God to, God plans to see who's going to believe in him, who's not, when you hear the gospel, but we have to make a choice to listen to the gospel because God's going to force us to listen to the gospel. Christ commanded us to listen to me first. No, listen to me, listen to me, Alberto, Alberto, look, you don't tell me you don't tell me several times to keep quiet and listen to you.

It's my radio show. I'm trying to help you. Okay, I'm sorry, I didn't. All right, listen, you're incorrect, okay, you're incorrect, all right. The biblical teaching is not that there's a group of people and all it is necessary is that we just need to hear that gospel message to believe. That's not the biblical position. A lot of people think it is and it's a false doctrine that's taught through a lot of churches in America. They think that it's just up to the individual unbeliever, the sinner, all he needs is that gospel message and he somehow has that ability in his own free will to be able to believe in Jesus. That is a false teaching. It's a heresy and it's taught in lots of churches in America.

Lots of churches in America. Are you with me so far? Mm-hmm.

All right. So I always thought, okay, so I understand, too, I really do, but I believe in a half and a half. I believe a half Calvinist and a half Arminian. Half and half.

Not totaled completely to the left or full Calvinist, I mean completely to the right towards Arminian. Okay, well, hold on. If the Bible says that the unbeliever is a slave of sin, a hater of God, can do no good, can't seek for God, doesn't seek for God, is a slave of sin, his righteous deeds are filthy rags, how does someone like that just believe in God? How does he do that? Well, we're creating God's image, right? Okay, you're not answering my question.

You're not answering my question. How does someone with those characteristics simply believe in God, who's a hater of God, cannot seek for God, doesn't do any good, cannot receive spiritual things, the righteous deeds are filthy rags, how does he just believe in God? He's dead in his sins and he's by nature a child of wrath. How does he just believe in God?

You see, he can't. Well, I understand what you're saying, but then God put eternity in every man? Eternity in every man?

Okay, wait, you're not answering my question. The scriptures teach what they teach, and because they teach that, if it's the case that the unbeliever is incapable of his own free will, his sinful free will, he has free will, but it's free will that's sinful. If that's true, then we would expect to find verses like this, Acts 13, 48, for as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed, or those who were born not of the will of the flesh nor the will of man, John 1, 13, or that God has to grant that we believe, Luke 1, 29, grant us repentance, 2 Timothy 2, 25. He causes us to be born again, 1 Peter 1, 3. If it's true that the unbeliever can't do these things on his own, his own sinful free will, then it would also be necessarily true that we would find those verses in scripture where Jesus says, you cannot come to me unless it's been granted to you from the Father, John 6, 65.

So these are how it works. What we would say is that God regenerates us, and we're freely able to believe at that point. Now what some people do, and I'm just going to say this, I call it kindergarten theology, is they add something called prevenient grace, prevenient grace.

So God gives a measure of grace, whatever that means, prevenient grace to a person, to an unbeliever, that enables him to believe or not believe of his own free will. What the person who advocates this is doing is saying without merit, without biblical support, that human free will must be equal to God's free will in sovereignty. But that's not in scripture. God causes us to be born again, 1 Peter 1, 3, and Proverbs 21, 1, it says that God moves the heart of the king where He wishes it to go. So God's the sovereign king. Furthermore, it says that God creates everything, even the wicked, for the day of evil, Proverbs 16, 4. So people think in a humanistic philosophy that our free will is on the equal level of sovereignty in our lives as is that of God. That is not true. He's the king.

We are not. So what God does is He has given the elect to the Son, Ephesians 1, 4. And He did this in Christ before the foundation of the world. That's why Jesus says in John 6, 37, all that the Father gives Me will come to Me. It's not all that who come to Me the Father will give to Me. This is the sovereignty of God, which is why Romans 9 says what it says. Romans 9, 9-23 says what it says.

See, this is so important. The Christian church needs to repent of its false teachings that man is the center of salvation and that man's free will, his sinful free will enables him to believe because the Scriptures teach to the contrary and back to prevenient grace. When they say that God gives a measure of grace to a person to enable that person of his own free will to be able to believe, there's still all kinds of questions. Then why does that amount of prevenient grace given to that person work but not on another person? Doesn't God know how much grace, so to speak, to give to someone to get him to believe?

Of course he does. And if he gives the same amount of grace to Bob and Frank, why does Bob believe and Frank does not? Well, because of their free will. Well, why does his free will enable him to believe? Because that's his free will and they can't answer the question. But I would go to the Scripture and say God grants that we believe in Romans 1.29. And our believing is the work of God, John 6.28-29.

We have answers. They don't. And it's because they elevate man's free will to an equal level of God's in their area of sovereignty. And so what they do is they preach false doctrines in the Christian church and the Christian church as a whole in America and the world needs to repent of its false teachings about this free will-ism of man as an equal level of sovereignty. I'm not saying we don't have free will. We do. But the unbeliever has sinful free will.

We as Christians have regenerated free will. Okay? This is important. Okay. Thank you. I don't mean to disrespect you. Thank you. No, and I need to apologize too. I get a little upset there. And this is what it is. No big deal.

You called many times. You're a great guy. And sorry about that. But the thing is that this is such an important thing. And I see the damage that the other stuff has done to the Christian church. That one of the ramifications is, well, if it's up to your free will and your sinful self, well, then that teaches what's called semi-Pelagianism, which is a heresy. And it also means you can keep your salvation by your goodness.

That's another heresy. Because it's the level, it's the elevation of human nature and human ability to that of God in that they say, well, that man's free will and his sinfulness is equal to God. It says equally sovereign. So God's not going to do anything to violate our people. Then why does it say God moves the heart of the king where he wishes it to go? Why does it say that we're born again not of our own will?

John 1 13. So God is still sovereign over our will. But our will is subject to him. And people say, well, then that's not true. Then we don't have freedom.

Yes, we do. Jesus had free will. He absolutely, he had free will. Jesus had free will. And what Jesus says in John 5 19, I'm going to put it on the screen here.

This is really important. John 5 19. Therefore, Jesus answered and said, truly, truly, I say to you, the son can do nothing of himself unless it is something he sees the father doing. Whatever the father does, the son does in like manner. And in verse 30, John 5 30, I can do nothing of my own initiative. As I hear, I judge and my judgment is just because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me. So Jesus, his will is subject to the, to the will of the father. And yet Jesus still had freedom.

So they both work under the sovereignty of God's economy. Okay. Alberto. All right. Okay. Thank you. God bless you. God bless you too, buddy.

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

Here's Matt Slick. Welcome back to the show. Let's get to Nelson from Bakersfield, California. Nelson, welcome.

You're on the air. God bless, Matt. God bless.

Well, first and foremost, I want to praise God because everything you just described with scripture, it took me back in memory lane, how the Lord saved me. Yeah. And it just, wow.

Yeah. Um, my, you know, God is good. God is good.

He's good. And we're not, um, my question is, um, referring about the vaccine, basically, what would you say to a person that would, that would say that if a person takes the vaccine, they're not trusting in God at all. They're putting the faith in the vaccine. Well, my wife has a very, very, very rare condition and it's one of the rarest in the world. No, no exaggeration. And she's got all kinds of medical issues. And, um, but she's just a trooper.

She, she's a great woman, except for taste in men. She's had open heart surgery and she has a pacemaker and she's taken other medicines for osteoporosis. She's got scoliosis. She's had three back, four back surgeries, actually total.

There's lots of things. And by going to doctors, we're not saying we don't trust God. And if she had not had the open heart surgery, she would have died within just a couple, three, four months, that kind of range.

That's how bad it was. We're not saying we don't trust God by taking a vaccine. Vaccines are very helpful. Vaccines are very good, but the vaccine is, uh, it's the right of the individual to take. And no one has the right to force it on you. You know, as they like to say about abortion, my body, my privilege, my body, whatever it is, except when it's vaccine. And when they want to control you, then it's different than it's, it's, it's our body, not yours.

And you need to submit. So there's hypocrisy there. So there's nothing wrong with taking the vaccine in that sense. Now I don't want to take one that's got baby embryo stuff in it. And I don't want to like that. And I've had COVID and I don't plan to take the vaccine unless I have to, when I go to Israel next year, if there's a necessity and I have to go because, okay. But, uh, other than that, I don't plan on it.

Yeah. What about, um, if, if they say, if it wasn't FDA approved? Well, that's okay. You know, lots of medicines are FDA approved. I just mean to take them, you know, Tylenol is FDA approved. I don't have to take Tylenol. It means like someone saying, we want everyone to walk around, uh, with masks and you have to pop a Tylenol once a day.

Why? Well, because if you don't see, you get headaches and then and headaches cause you to be mean towards other people and impatient and it affects driving and affects productivity. So if you truly love everyone else, you'll take Tylenol every day.

You could use the same kind of logic. And then they guilt with you into, into submission. Well, yeah, I guess I got to start taking it.

I got to help people because they have ways of wording things to make people feel guilty about not submitting to whatever they tell you supposed to do. Now I've had the measles vaccine. I've had polio vaccine.

I remember when I was a kid, I got him standing in long lines. I remember that and having to do it. Uh, okay.

No problem. I had pneumonia and almost died from it. And, uh, I had penicillin. So there was a medicine, no problem. So you want to take a vaccine, take a vaccine as long as biblical.

I can research the different kinds, but you know, that that's it. Okay. You don't have to, if you don't want. Okay. It's up to you. Yeah. Cause, um, I mean, I'm, I'll, me personally, I'm not gonna, I mean, I'm, I'm not against it, but also I guess I'm not for it either, but it's not, it's anyone's decision.

Um, I need the, or, but the fact is that I also got COVID, I had COVID and so I don't need to pick the vaccine and that's right. And so yeah, I've had it. I've had it. And, um, you know, so there you go. Okay. Okay. Well, thank you very much, Matt. Appreciate it. All right, man.

God bless. What I recommend everyone does is every morning you get up and drink a tall glass of water because your kidneys need that extra water in the morning to flush out all the crud that it's been storing overnight. And it's also very good to get, um, a little bit of a dab of apple cider vinegar with mother, and you put a little bit in half a tablespoon or something like that in there in the glassy and drink it every morning. It's really good for you. Look at what apple cider vinegar with mother does for you. It balances a lot of things.

It's really helpful. Little things like this can make a difference and, you know, don't take a lot of bad crud in your, in your, uh, bodies like Coca-Cola and, and all these carbonated things and stuff. This is sugars get in there and it's not good for you. Okay. Unless it's chocolate peanut M&M's.

Then that's an exception because those are perfect. Okay. Let's get to Kelly from Los Angeles.

Kelly, welcome. You're on the air. Hey Matt. Okay. Um, quick question. I'm gonna take you off because I hear an echo. Hold on. There we go.

Matt. Um, what have you ever had an instance in your life when God was just silent? You know, like, like he wasn't providing any direction. I mean, we know he's there, he's omnipresent and of course the Holy Spirit lives in me, but I just, he's just silent on some things and he's not given me any direction.

I just kind of feel like he's on vacation. Yeah, I've had it happen. Yeah. It lasted about five years. Yep.

Uh huh. And what did you do? What, what was the outcome?

The outcome was, here's the analogy I give. I went into this desert and I had my compass, I had my hat, I had my solar panels, I had my Walkman, Walkman. I had my radio, my, uh, you know, my cell phone into this desert. I had all the stuff that I needed for good survival. I had backpacks and candy bars and everything, energy bars. And I walk into this desert and this is the desert where God doesn't talk to me for some reason. And I go through this desert and I find out that I don't need this and I drop that on away and I don't need that and I get rid of that and I get, don't need this and I get rid of that. When I came out of the desert, one thing was left.

Just one thing I had with me. My faith and trust in Christ. Am I trusting in Christ because of what He can do for me? Because how He speaks to me?

Because how I have to hear Him? Or am I trusting in Christ because of who Christ is? For me, that desert was to strip everything away so that I realized my faith was just in Jesus and in Him alone. And after that was thoroughly ingrained into my heart because I needed it. There were some other issues, you know, I'm a sinner like anybody else.

Then I started hearing, so to speak, in that vague way we talk about as Christians from the Lord. So maybe the same kind of thing is going that way for you, that He wants to strip things out of your life. And if God is not speaking to you, it's for a good reason. If He's not opening up that door to you, it's a good reason. Just ask Him what it is. And if He doesn't tell you because you're in a desert, just keep moving forward.

And what happens is your faith is usually purified and it's worth it. Okay? Okay. Okay, Matt. Thank you, Matt.

I appreciate you. And one last thing. Sometimes the will of God is not knowing the will of God. Okay? I'm going to write that down.

I'm going to put that on the fridge. Sometimes the will of God is not knowing the will of God because sometimes He wants us to walk by faith, complete faith, as we weigh everything and we move forward by faith to trust Him, according to prayer, trust, and the Word of God. And sometimes those decisions aren't good, and sometimes they are, but it's how we learn and we're glorifying God in the process. Okay? Thank you, Matt.

You're welcome. All right. All right. Bye-bye.

Okay. God bless. Let's get to Vern from Boise, Idaho. Hey, Vern. Welcome. You're on the air.

Hey, Matt. I've been watching your program for a little while. I appreciate what you have to say. Okay. Good.

What are you going to do? My question is, is Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday? Well, it was on Saturday, and now it's on Sunday. And so, even though some people today, like the Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh-day Movement, teach that you must worship on Saturday, but of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 1-17, the Ten Commandments, which includes the Sabbath, the only one commandment that's not specifically reiterated and re-justified in the New Testament is the issue of the Sabbath. And the reason is because Jesus is our rest. And that's Matthew 11 28.

Come to me, all who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. And so, he is our rest because he fulfilled the law. The Sabbath in the Old Testament was a prophetic representation of salvation and or the end times in heaven kind of a thing, but our rest in Christ because we're not obligated to have to follow the law.

But it became a legalistic thing, and that's another topic. So, because the New Covenant is instituted with the death of Christ, that's Hebrews 9, 15-16, then the ratification of the Sabbath became Sunday, because that was the day that the church started meeting. And that's why it says in 1 Corinthians 16, the Sabbath became Sunday, that's why it says in 1 Corinthians 16, 2, and Acts, where they started meeting on the first day of the week and gathering together, hearing the word preached. And it's called the Lord's Day, because that's the day that Jesus rose from the dead. And the early church, very early, started practicing Sunday worship and services.

And so, that's how it is. Not that the early church makes it true, but it was very early, and it's just further evidence that, yeah, that's the case. So, I have an article on Karm on this, on the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday. So, if you believe it's Saturday, then worship on Saturday, if that's what you want. And if you believe it's Sunday, then worship on Sunday. But if you crash land on an island and forget what day it is, then what do you do?

Well, pick a day, have it be your Sabbath, relax, you know, have some coconuts, juice, and stuff like that. Okay? Okay. Thank you, Matt. You're welcome, Matt.

God bless. All right, let's get to Brian from Charleston, South Carolina. Brian, you're on the air, man. Hey, Matt.

Thanks for taking my call. I got a question about child rearing, about discipline. What does the Bible say?

What's too far? Does it even address abuse or going too far, how to hit them, discipline, all that? You know, and it does talk about the rod of discipline, and the rod can be spiritual as well as physical. But it also says don't frustrate your children, and that's a key thing. All discipline must be consistent and done for the glory of God, and that may sound odd, but the idea of disciplining a child, whatever direction that must be and the means that it must be, must be for the purpose of it training the child in righteousness. And for some kids, you look at them sternly, and that's all that's necessary, and for others, you've got to vacuum pack them, seal them, put them with Velcro on a ceiling, and hose them down before they get the message. And so the parent has to abide in the discipline that's appropriate, but never to a level of abuse, because what might be for one child abusive might not be for another. But I think the key is not to frustrate your children.

Don't want to frustrate them through inconsistency. And what children will often do is take the thing that dad said and then go to the mom and then ask the same thing. Can I have that M&M or that cookie? Dad says no. It goes to mom, and mom says yes. Well, then the child needs to be disciplined on that, because you don't set mom and dad against each other. Now, what's that discipline going to be?

You don't get any cookies for the rest of the week, or whatever it is. So that's what it is. So I think that one of the key things is to be consistent, be biblical as much as you can, because we're all going to make mistakes. And don't frustrate them.

Don't frustrate the children. And if you make a mistake, acknowledge it. Okay? Thanks. That's very helpful. Appreciate it. All right, man. Okay, God bless.

Hey, Marty from Washington, D.C. Grace Without Works. I would love for you to call back tomorrow and talk about that, because very important topic. Let's talk about it tomorrow. May the Lord bless you all. By His grace, folks, I'm out of here. And hopefully, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a great evening. God bless. Bye.