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I'm grateful for the Lord for that. I took care of my body when I was younger. I'm 64. I don't have many aches and pains.
Not very many at all. It's great. My mind seems to work still. My wife doesn't always agree with me, but who cares? She's just my wife.
She might know, but no. Let's see. That's about it.
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It'll forward you to the right place. That's all you need. All right. Let's get to Darrell from Texas. Darrell, welcome. You're on the air. Hello, Matt.
It's good to be on the phone with you again. How have you been? Busy, tired.
Let's see. A little whiny. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, I've been a little whiny too.
I had a little stomach bug the past few days trying to get over it. Ah, yeah. Okay. All right. I know you're a busy guy.
I really appreciate you taking my call. Sure. My question is regarding some information that was given to a close friend of mine who's a strong believer in the Lord, but it's regarding the name of Jesus Christ. This guy, he tends to be a messianic Jew from Africa, but he's got a lot of teachings regarding the name of Jesus Christ.
He claims that there's a lot of pagan idolatrous situations with that name Jesus Christ and says since that's not Jesus' real name, it has been corrupted from the Greeks and the Romans who inserted it into the Bible later and all those things. I did read an article that you had. I was wondering if you could expound on that a little bit. Maybe we can go over that a little bit if we could.
Sure. Just to say really quickly, he has no idea what he's talking about. He's just got a lot of false information.
It's really bad. So what I'm going to do is do a search for the word Jesus in Greek, Iesous, and it occurs 914 times in the New Testament. 914 times. Now, you've got to understand that the New Testament documents were written over probably from the earliest, maybe 40 A.D. range to 90 A.D., so about a 50-year range. The letters were sent out in different directions, so they went out to the Mediterranean area. Now, who wrote them?
Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Jude. So what your buddy would be saying is that all of them used the wrong name or all of the manuscripts that have ever been uncovered were somehow manipulated, all of them, all over the Mediterranean area when they were copied and distributed all over the place. So what you'd have to do is you'd have to say to him, Do you have the evidence for this? Give me the evidence, because obviously you don't know what the Bible teaches, but what's the evidence that you have for this? And that would be the case then.
Yeah, okay. That's one thing I was contemplating regarding the original name of Iesous in Greek in that the Bible, the New Testament was written in Greek, so I wanted to take on the old manuscripts if that's where it came from. That's what I thought it was.
I looked it up a little bit, and that's what everybody was saying that's one of the easiest to take on that. In fact, it says in Matthew 1.21, he says, You shall call his name Jesus. Well, he said that was inserted as a transliteration when the letter J really became... Oh, brother.
Not Hebrew, not Greek. Okay. What you do is you have him do a three-step thing. You say, Take your right hand and put it in front of your face. Look to your left.
Slap yourself upside the head. The word J, yeah, J is not in the Hebrew and the Greek. That's correct. Right.
So what? My name is Matthew, but in Spanish it's Mateo, and in Greek it's Matias. Well, which is the right one? Right. It's just what it is, and so we can't transliterate. They didn't transliterate Yahweh into the Greek.
They didn't do that. Ask them, Why didn't they do that into the Greek? Well, how come it's not transliterated? And Jesus is just Iesous. Iesous. It's iota eta, Ie. So it's an Ie, but it's Iesous. And that's how you pronounce it in Greek. Okay. So go around saying Iesous. What? Is that how it has to be pronounced?
You know, in the Spanish it's Jesus. Oh, I'm sorry. You can't be Christian. How? Because you didn't pronounce it the right way. You know, it's Iesous.
The guy's just being legalistically whacked. Okay. Right. And if you have a buddy, what you do is whatever you get behind him on all fours, and then you push him over. You're like that and say, So there, we're done. That's funny, Mateo. I love your sense of humor, man. I totally do. I appreciate your take on it, man.
And yeah, I thought it was as simple as that. I just love to hear your take on it, and I'm glad for all you do, and I'm glad to be one of your supporters, man. Appreciate it. Hey, thank you. I really appreciate it, buddy. I do.
We do. Yeah, you're welcome, Matt. God bless you and your wife, man. Take care, buddy. Hey, thanks. Appreciate it.
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Alberto from Georgia. Welcome. You're on the air.
Well, good evening, Matt Slick. Mm-hmm. Yep. My question is, what's the difference between a Hebrew, an Israelite, and a Jew? There's a slight difference in how it's used. The Hebrew nation is everybody, but the Jews kind of came out of the northern tribe Judah and became Jews, but there's a uniting in them, and so they just call them Jews. Hebrews is just more of a technical term, but Jews is just out of Judah that was absorbed into the Judah tribe when Israel was separated a few hundred years before Christ. So basically, that's what it is.
Okay. So the Israelite is a different kind of nationality? Well, it's from Israel. It's the guy named Israel, and so these are just different words.
Like, what are we? I'm an American. I'm a U.S. citizen, right? Well, it's the same thing.
So, hold on a sec. Or I could even say I'm a North American or about European descent who lives in America. There's different ways of saying the same thing, and that's what's going on there. So an Israelite was a descent out of Israel, and then the Jews or the word came into play with Judah when the nation of Israel was divided. And it became the word Jew.
In Hebrew, I forget where the word Hebrew came from, but it's just the Hebrew people. And that's what it is. That's it. Okay. Thank you, sir. Good evening. All right, man. God bless.
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8772072276. Let's get to Mike from Virginia. Mike, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, Matt. Thanks for taking my call on this brief show. I've got a question about the Trinity.
Sure. I believe in the Trinity. I'm trying to kind of get my own mind around it.
And I've got a question. I don't know if it might be kind of a silly question, but when we get to heaven, will we see all three of Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit? The Bible doesn't tell us.
Now, it doesn't say specifically you're going to see all three, but it does say that God dwells in unapproachable light whom no man has seen nor can see. 1 Timothy 6 16. And that's in the context of speaking of the Father. So, Jesus is the one, second person of the Trinity, the Word that became flesh and added human nature, or was joined with human nature.
And that happened 2,000 years ago, and that would be called at the hypostatic union. So, Jesus is the manifestation of God. Hebrews 1 through 3. He's the exact representation of the nature of God. Hebrews 1 through 3 is what you should read about that. And that's why Jesus said in John 16, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. So, he's the representation of God. In fact, he's the one, the pre-incarnate Christ, is the one who appeared in human form in the Old Testament. And there's many places where this occurs.
Genesis 17, 1, 18, 1, Exodus 6, 2, and 3, Exodus 24, 9 to 11, Numbers 12, 6 through 8. Those are these places where God appears, and those are the pre-incarnate Christ manifestations. The Holy Spirit always appears in flame or wind, things like that. And so, if we were to see the Trinity, that would be problematic because the Father seems to can't be seen. And the Holy Spirit is like a wind or a flame. Well, if we saw a flame, would we see that's the Holy Spirit?
I don't know. So, what we do is we recognize who God is through the person and work of Jesus. So, he's the one with whom we're called to fellowship as 1 John 1, 9. God is faithful through whom you're called into fellowship with his son, Christ Jesus. So, he is our representation of God. He's our mediator, 1 Timothy 2, 5, and he's the one we'll be seeing and dealing with. And I want to see him.
I definitely want to see him. So, that's the best answer I got for you. Well, I appreciate that. Certainly, I was interested in your take on it, and that's just sort of a question that's been on my mind. I was interested in your thoughts on it. So, what do you think the Trinity is? Let me ask you, what do you think the Trinity is? Well, I think the Trinity is God in the form of God and Jesus and Holy Spirit.
Okay, let me help you out a little bit. So, what we say is the Trinity, the proper teaching of the Trinity is one eternal God who exists in three eternal, simultaneous, and distinct persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So, God is eternal as a single being.
That's what God is. But he also exists eternally in that state as three, so I could say three eternal, simultaneous, and distinct. That means the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have always existed as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit from forever ago. They're distinct, and that the first of the Father is not the same person as the Son, who's not the same person as Jesus, et cetera. Yet, they're all simultaneous, and they're all divine, and they're all eternal. And so, that's what the doctrine of the Trinity is.
I'm a very visual person, so when I read the Bible... Hold on, buddy. Hold on. Hold on.
We've got a break. I want to hear what you say. I do. I don't want to cut you off, but I have to right now.
I want to hear what your visual thing is. 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. Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to the show. We have three open lines if you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276. Mike, are you still there? Yeah. Okay. Okay, so you're a visual person.
Okay, go for it. Yeah, so when I read in the Bible about Jesus is in heaven sitting at the right hand of God, that sort of sea, I guess maybe I'm taking it... That doesn't mean that God has a right hand, because in the culture when there was a king, those on his right were in the position of power and authority. And on the judgment day, the sheep are on the right and the goats are on the left. And when Jesus told the disciples to cast a net, to catch fish at the beginning and the end of the ministry, he said cast your net on the right side. So the right side deals with salvation, judgment, and authority, and good judgment. And the left is damnation and judgment in a bad way.
So on the right hand of God is talking about the authority position. Okay. Okay, there you go. Well, that's helpful and that's all I got right now. Okay. That sounds good, buddy.
You know, you can go to Carm. I don't know if you have or not. I've looked up the doctrine of the Trinity. I have, yeah.
I've been on there a little bit. And I've defended it many, many, many times. And I can go through a logical reason why God must be Trinitarian, not Binitarian or Unitarian or Quadritarian. If there's a necessary efficiency and minimalist necessity out of the ontological essence of God's personhoods as they relate without any impersonal aspect being part of the nature, I can get into all that.
I teach it every now and then. So, there are different ways. And I love talking about the Trinity because it's true and it's biblical. Okay. Well, I haven't been on Carm to research that specific topic, but I have been on there for other times. Yeah. Well, you could go and look up the Trinity chart on Carm.
The Trinity chart will help. Okay. Okay.
I'll definitely do that. All right. God bless you. And I appreciate you taking my call. Hey, no problem at all, buddy. God bless.
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Four open lines. Mark from Virginia. Mark, welcome. You're on the air. It's Marty, M-A-R-T-Y.
Marty. Okay. No problem.
Sorry about that. I just wanted to ask you about grace. You have the grace alone crowd, which I know you and I are members of, and then you have the grace with works. When people that believe in grace with works, when they explain it, very often they're pretty distinct about it, and the people that are grace alone, I have noticed have problems sometimes explaining it almost to the point where they almost sound like they believe in grace with works. I don't think they do, but I was hoping that maybe I could get a clear explanation from you as to the difference. Sure.
Now, the issue here is that, let me get more technical, and I'll go slowly to introduce some concepts, make sure it's all on the table. Grace is the unmerited favor of God, and God is gracious to every person who ever lives. God's grace extends to the believers and the unbelievers, and grace is the unmerited kindness and favor of God. So the unbelievers enjoy the grace of God in that God lets them breathe, eat, have families, enjoy life, have fun. He provides for them in that way even though they deny him. The Christians enjoy the grace of God in the same way, plus there's, so to speak, an extension in the grace of salvation.
All right. Justification is a legal declaration of righteousness, and it's according to the law. So Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly.
He never sinned, 1 Peter 2, 22, Matthew 5, 17, and his righteousness, or the righteousness of God, is imputed, reckoned to our account when we believe. That's at Philippians 3, 9, we have a righteousness that's not our own. And so this is obtained by faith, having therefore been justified by faith.
All right. Now faith is the issue. It's not an issue of works, but let's go to James. James says, see, we're justified by works and not by faith alone. And so people will bring this up all the time, and what they fail to do is read the context because in James chapter 2, starting in verse 14, it says, if a man says he has faith but he has no works, can that faith save him? You know, if a brother says to a friend, you know, go be warm and be filled, but doesn't give him what he needs, then that faith is useless. He says, faith that works is dead. And he says, you show me your faith by my works, I will show you your, or I will show you my faith by my works. And so faith in James 2 is manifested with works. And so before people, that's how we justify our faith, our faith in our works, are necessary to justify before people but not before God.
It's before people because one person can say he believes but doesn't act like it. And so how do you know if I'm a believer, for example? Well, hopefully, what I profess and what I do are the same. I profess Christ as Lord, and I live for Jesus in varying ways, defend the faith, right, you know, do all this stuff, professing Christ, teach about him, et cetera. So I'm justifying, in a sense, justifying my faith in God by my works before people, and I'm convincing people that I have that true faith by my works.
That's on the horizontal. Justification before God, the vertical, is by faith alone without any works. We know that because Paul says in Romans 4-5, to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. So he's clearly stating no works is faith alone.
All right, that's the biblical position. Unfortunately, what some people do is say that faith has works and that faith must be proven with works and that without the works, you can't have true faith, and so you can't be saved. So what they're doing is mixing the idea of faith before people and faith before God and saying that even the faith before God must be justified by works. Well, you see, that's foolishness. God knows our hearts and particularly says God grants that we have faith, Philippians 1-29. He doesn't need any justification or proof from us. The works that we do, according to James 2, are on the horizontal between people, and the faith that we have with God is what he grants to us, Philippians 1-29, by which we're justified without any works, Romans 4-5.
So when people sometimes say faith and works, you have to be very careful what they say because they could be teaching damnable heresy if they're combining faith and their works in any way before God by which they would be justified. Okay, hold on, I'm going to interrupt you, we've got a break, I want to hear you, we've got a break, so we'll be right back, okay? Hey folks, if you want to give me a call, all you've got to do is dial 877-207-2276, we have four open lines, give me a call, we'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276, here's Matt Slick. Hey, welcome back everyone, we have two open lines, 877-207-2276.
Marty from Virginia, welcome, you're on here. Yes, so I was just going to finish the thought, could it be the timing of the grace, in other words, the grace alone crowd believes grace then works and the grace with works kind of put the works before the grace? I don't know if that clears it up or just makes it work. Well, they kind of put them simultaneously. They'll say that grace and works have to go together.
This is what Mormonism teaches, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, they denied justification by faith alone in Christ alone and that's the problem because our justification is without any works and the reason is because our faith is only as good as the person we're putting it in and so we put our faith in Jesus Christ so therefore even if our faith is a little or a lot, it doesn't matter, it's faith in Christ and that's why it's so good but our works are touched by sin so there can be no works in any way, shape, or form that can be contributing to our salvation or the maintenance of our salvation, otherwise it's blasphemy, period, and this is something that Christian churches need to know, need to be taught from the pulpit that anybody who would say that it's your faith and your sincerity, your faith and your continued goodness, your faith and your continued resistance of sin that keeps you saved, then you're a false convert or is ignorant, need to know the truth and so you can repent, it's faith alone in Christ alone, okay? Go ahead. Yeah, and just like I used the filthy rags very often when I'm talking about the works.
Very often, yeah, me too, you know I was just talking to somebody, there's nothing I've done that's ever good because everything I've done is touched by sin so only in Christ, only in Christ, do I have any right to say anything good, only in Christ, that's it. Anyway, okay? Thank you, sir. Okay, buddy, God bless, man. All right. Bye. Bye.
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I appreciate your show and your perspective, I find myself really coming from your point of view on those things, so yeah, I appreciate it. So my question is around basically Satan getting kicked out of heaven and I was the youth pastor for eight years and I haven't had this question asked to me, a friend of mine asked it to me the other day and basically you can tell me if, too, I can tell you my response to him was that I didn't know the exact scripture but I was just kind of giving him what I thought is that when maybe God created free will, he created it universally and that's up in heaven, too, and that's when Satan went against him and that's when, therefore, when Adam and Eve, when he made Adam and Eve, he didn't want to make us like robots and all that, so he created the principle of free will and then that enabled the enemy, Satan, to go against God. But the question he was asking me was basically, did God just in general kick him out of heaven and Satan chose to come to the earth or did God say go to the earth, you know, like what was the deal with basically Satan coming to the earth? Like was he cast out into the earth and his question was why did God send him anywhere else in the universe, basically. I don't know why, in no place else, but he was cast down to the earth. And so we don't know why, we don't know everything that happened, in fact we don't know when it happened.
There are people who have different conjectures or ideas about it. Some say right away after he was created. Some say, no, it took a while.
How long? We don't know. Some say that he didn't fall until he tempted Eve. Some say he didn't fall, or he fell before the foundation of the world. Some say he fell after the foundation of the world and before the temptation of Eve.
So we don't know when, we just don't know. But it does say he was cast down, and it's all, you know, what does it say, and I saw, and I saw Satan cast down, sorry, I misspelled it, wrote Stan, and so I was just reading that a couple days ago, as a matter of fact, he was cast down to the earth, so I forgot where it is though. But that's it. That's it.
Sure. Would you say some scriptures are like, like we get just tripped up on the way they're worded? For instance, you know, where it says, you know, Jesus went into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, so it's kind of like, instead of getting tripped up on the to be tempted by the devil, it was just like, of course, Jesus had to be, because, you know, when Jesus taught, you know, he was tempted with the same things, like he's taught on the pride of life, the lust for other things, whatever the three things were that he said is our temptation, that was his temptation, as far as what, I mean, that's what the enemy tempted him, you understand what I'm trying to say, but, and two, like when they gambled over his lots, it says, you know, this was done so that the scripture would be fulfilled. So I think it's some of us just getting tripped up about the way things are worded, you know, because God, this is one thing I told my friend, is God is a God of faith, and he doesn't change what he's going to do based on fear, like, for instance, because, he can tell me if this makes sense, but this is my general perspective on it, is, because when I was asking God these why questions, I felt like he said to me, he asked me a question, and said, well, you know, you want to have children, don't you?
This is before I had kids, and I was like, well, yeah, well, you don't even think that way. You think that you're not going to operate in fear and think I better not have kids because, you know, something evil might be. I'm not sure I'm following you because there's some theological connections, but what's your question in relationship to that? I'm going to see if I can ferret this out and kind of ... Well, that's my point, is that God is a God of faith, that love hopes the best, believes the best, holds no record or wrong, so he doesn't think I better not make something good because something evil might be more powerful. He has total faith that what he did in his son is enough, and that he's a good father and he takes care of us.
He doesn't let fear work something. What's your question? You're saying things, but I'm not sure what you're getting at, so I'm conscious.
I was just asking you, does that make sense of what I'm saying? My response to my friend was when he asked about things about, like, with Satan kicked out of heaven, and like, why was Satan allowed to come to the earth, basically? We don't know why, but God allowed it. The Bible doesn't say why he was allowed, and according to Isaiah 14, 12 through 14, there was pride that was found in him, and this is why he fell out of his own freedom. He chose to rebel against God and consider himself to be equal to God in that sense, okay? Thank you.
That was it. You said some other things, though, and I forgot what they were, but there's room for clarification in there. I'm not saying you did badly. I'm just saying, because I'm a little anal about things, that's all.
It's like, well, that word, next to that word, that's what I'm talking about. The idea of our freedom. We all have freedom of will, which means we have the freedom to be able to do what we desire to do, and Satan desired to rebel against God, and he freely did, and God knew this would occur, and yet he created, and you're on the right track when we have children. We know that they're going to rebel against us. It's not a reason not to have them, and so, yeah, you're on the right track there, okay?
Yeah. My point in all that was that we know that our love is going to be strong enough to keep our kids, so we go ahead and have kids so that God's that way. This was my answer to my friend, was that God cannot let fear or the thought of something bad, not let him make decisions, because he's a God of faith, and faith folks the best believe the best, so he had full confidence that what he was doing in his son at the cross was going to be enough to sustain us, and that we would choose that over... Yeah, it's not an issue of God would not have faith. God in the Trinitarian sense would not have faith in what he can do. It's just true that he does, because it can't be any other way, so we have faith because it's granted to us by God, but God doesn't exercise that in his own self like that.
That make sense? Yeah, I think I would hear where you're coming from. Yeah, I guess hope, you know, God is love and love hopes the best, you know, holds no record of wrong. Yeah, but that's not talking about God's nature in the sense of, you know, God is love, that's true first on floor eight, but hope doesn't worry.
What he's doing is talking about love in 1 Corinthians 13 about us, and so we've got to be careful when we talk about the nature of God and what his essence is, because he's love and just and holy and righteous, and ... I think I'm on the same page with it. Yeah, it's just, what I would do is just refine a few of the words you have a little bit and stuff like that. That's what I would do, but you're on the right track.
Sure. I guess I would just say he's not going to require of us to give something that he's not, so when I say he's not a faith, I mean he... That he's not what? I'm sorry?
I'm sorry. He's not going to require to give us something that he's not, and then I didn't hear what you said. Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
If he requires us to have faith, I believe, you know, he's a God of faith, and when I say that, it's like... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on. There's a point I've got to make after the break, okay?
Because God will require of us that which we can't do, which is not necessary for him to do, and I'll explain in that relationship there in a second. Hold on. 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, everyone. Welcome back to the show. Let's get back to Jason. Jason, you still there?
Yeah, I'm here. Thank you. All right. Now, so what you're doing is good. You are thinking things through and you're relating them, and the reason I want to take a little bit of extra time with you is because you need to have a little bit more precision in a couple of concepts, and that's it, just to help you along and stuff like that.
So you're doing great, though. So when we say God is a God of faith, he's not a God of faith in the sense that he has to have faith in us, but he's a God of faith in that he teaches us to have faith. Now, God will require of us to do what we can't do. He says, be holy, for I'm holy. Well, no one can be holy, 1 Peter 1.16. So God provides for us the holiness that's in Christ. Now, this is because God is holy.
That's part of his nature. But faith, as Hebrews 11.1 says, faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. God doesn't hope, not in the open theist sense, which is another topic, and he knows all things, so there's not an issue of things not seen. What faith has described is from the human perspective of us looking to things we don't know for sure and we're trusting God in them. That doesn't apply to God because he knows all things equally, all the time, as things as actual as well as potential as ordained whatever should come to pass, Ephesians 1.11.
So that's not an issue. He's not faith, he doesn't have faith like that. He's faithful in that he will never break his word. And so we have to be careful that we don't mix an attribute of, excuse me, an essence apart, how to put this, his essence with a characteristic. His essence is holy but an action is talking. So his talking is not, his speech, for example, is not his nature. His holiness is his nature. His light is his nature. But his speech is an attribute of his nature. So faith is something that we have in him, but it's not an attribute of his nature in the sense that he has to have faith in us. He doesn't.
Okay? Yeah, I see what you're saying. I wouldn't say that he would have faith in us, and I get what you're saying about, I guess what I'm looking at when we, from your perspective, it almost would seem, when I say he hopes or has faith, I mean, there's no possibility of it not happening. He has, there is no mistake or, you know, but, so I'm just saying he has this, he trusts, I guess is a better way to say it. He trusts that what he did in his son is sufficient and he has, he has total confidence in that. Well, yeah, he, you've got to be careful how we use the word trust, but you're correct. The father does trust the son, and that's correct because he knows the son will never fail him. So he trusts the son to do what is necessary. And in that sense, yes. Yeah. But we also know that it's impossible for Christ to fail to do the will of the father.
Sure. I'm just saying he's not insecure. Like what he did in Jesus on the cross, he's total totally, he has, he has total confidence that that was sufficient, that that, and that that's enough for us to live by and to get us through. And that's why I like you a whole lot is because when you, when people call and ask you questions about grace and works, you're basically, if I could sum it up, what you're saying is trust is the opposite of trying.
If you're trying, you're an error and that's the wrong doctrine. If you went, took it to the extreme, but trusting is basically we trust in what Jesus did, that that's enough. So I think me and you are on the same page and I get what you're saying, but I'm not, when I say that, that God hopes or has faith, I'm not thinking it in the possibility that cause our, our mind frame, we're thinking when we have faith that that there's a possibility we could fail with him.
There's no possibility, you know, but he's not a computer up there. Like it's, you know, I mean, he, he did an actual, uh, work in Christ on the cross and I'm just saying he has confidence that that was sufficient. That makes sense. Yeah. I know what you mean that way.
Uh, he's confident in himself that it is sufficient because nothing greater than he exists, but yeah. Okay. I appreciate it. Okay.
Well, God bless man. All right. Thank you. All right. Keep up the good work. You too. God bless. All right. Let's get to, I guess that's FAL fall from California.
Welcome. You're on the air. Oh, you know what? It helps if I hit the button. That's all that.
That was my bed. Sorry about that. Okay.
You're on the air, buddy. Yes. Sorry. I did.
That's right. How you doing? Doing all right. Okay. So I just wanted to get some prayer from, from you and from your audience because my wife and I plan on moving to Tennessee from California. Okay. We're leaving California after having lived here my whole life.
My employer in college and they are mandating the shop, which I refuse to get. So we're leaving California, but it's not easy because my wife has her first granddaughter here who is only four years old and she's very attached to her. So am I, and it's going to hurt us really bad, but my wife has taken it extremely, extremely hard and we've been arguing a lot and I've been trying to stay out of those arguments because I know, you know, there's, there's no point. I just have to understand, you know, so I mean what we would like, what's in my will, if you will, is for her parents to go with us. Her dad is a heavy drinker and we've been praying for him for a long time and we'd like to see him get away from California, get away from his friends and start a new life out there. That's my will. That's our will, but I don't know what God's will is. So hopefully that can be revealed to us or hopefully God can work in a different way to help this man out so that it's better for the granddaughter overall. The granddaughter's name is Stella.
The dad's name is Adrian. I'm South and my wife is Angela, so prayers would definitely be appreciated. Sure. People are hearing you, they'll be praying.
So what, okay, what's your question though? Well, I mean my question was basically just a prayer request. I wanted to get some prayers from you guys because it's difficult. I guess maybe a question would be, you know, I think I'm doing the right thing. I prayed about it, but how do I know for sure? I asked God to reveal to me.
Prayed about what? The right thing is getting out of California and moving to Tennessee. Yeah, I think so. Where in California are you? We are in Riverside, California, which is about... I know where it is. I used to live in Corona and I was out there in Moreno Valley for a while in Ontario. Okay. Yeah, you know exactly where we are then.
Oh yeah, yeah. Riverside, right in between. Yup, I have a 91 freeway out there. Yeah, so, yeah, we're at that merger where the 91 intersects the 60 and the 215 and it's kind of chaotic, but not too bad. Oh, and about by Corona.
Isn't that what it... No, that's the 250, that's the 15, sorry. It's been a while since I've been down there. So I think leaving California is a smart thing to do. Everybody from California is moving here to Idaho and people are leaving. Our housing is skyrocketing, which is a good thing, but they're bringing their liberal whacko politics here with us.
They don't like what they cause and then they want to infect everybody else. But it's exploding. I've heard Tennessee is a good place to go. You can get a good house. And if you're in Riverside, depending on where you are in Riverside, you should be able to sell your house, depending on how big it is, for a lot more than what you paid for it. Oh, yeah, we bought it during the crash. So I was fortunate enough. I mean, I'd like to say God blessed me. I was not a believer back then, but God's in control of everything.
So he definitely blessed me with this. We bought it at a very low price and now it's worth much more. So we're in a good situation as far as buying a home. However, we did look at Arizona. Idaho was the first place that came to mind. And I noticed that those prices out there are not as bad as here, but they're higher than Tennessee.
Yes, yes. And the reason it's not that bad in Tennessee is because they play country western music over there. And it's torture and not many people can handle it. So I strongly dislike country western. I'm not knocking people.
They like it. Okay. It's just, you know, I'm into anything, but it's just, it's just not your flavor, right? Anything. Yes, not my flavor.
It's a, to me it is sour grapes and that's just me. Okay. So I know people, I got friends who like it. I just say, I don't, I just don't ever hear it.
That's all I live. I'm the same way for some reason. I just, I do not like country music. It's not that I despise it. It's just, it just doesn't connect with me for some reason. I don't know why.
Well, we connect with me usually in, in, uh, in some, in some nerving, the nerving kind of fingernail on the, on the chalkboard kind of connection. That's how it is with me. And I remember years ago when I was, cause we had nobody waiting. So I was going to ramble to get into the show.
I remember I was driving down the 22 freeway going east and um, by the city of orange. Any rate, so I would, I'm going to give country western a try. I'm going to, I'm going to get really be open minded and give it a try, you know, and I flipped through the stations and I'm not kidding.
I'll never forget it as long as I live. So the lyrics, it was going to do all this stuff. And the guy literally said in the song, I'm like, my eyes are bulging out. This is on the radio. He says, I was driving down a road by a pond full of toads.
That's it. I gave it my five seconds. I can't take it. The good thing is my wife likes country music.
Well, did you believe her in California? Forget it. Sorry. No, that's okay. That's all right. I'm just teasing. But um, you know, it, they're great people out there in Tennessee.
They're better than they are in California. That's for sure. For the most part, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I know.
Yeah. I was out there last year for the national religious broadcasting network, um, out in Nashville and uh, um, you know, and the people are just sweet. It's great and a nice place.
Southern hospitality and we plan on moving to East Tennessee where you get even more of that out in the mountains. So yeah, I mean, how do I know that I'm like, that I'm, I guess that I'm doing this, how do I say this? That it's not of my will, that it's of God's will. Yeah. Good question. When you figured out, tell me. Okay. See, look, that's hard one for me. Oh, it's hard one for me too. What I do is when I say, Lord, I want to do X, Y, Z. Uh, is that from you?
I don't know. What I've learned from, um, George Mueller reading his stuff, he's from the 1800s, is that if there's an impression on your heart, what he recommended you do, and I think it's good advice, is to pray and ask God to strengthen it. If it's from him, make it go away. If it's from you and pray this for weeks until you get that confirmation.
Yes, it is from him. Then you talk about it with your spouse and then you pray about God opening the doors for whatever it is he's desiring of you. And then you move forward and then the doors open or they'll close as a direction of God's will becomes more evident.
And that's how we walk by faith. Okay. Okay. Okay.
There's the music. Thank you for that. All right, Sal, man. God bless. Hope you have a good day. All right. Thank you.
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