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Christian you're given answered everyone who would ask you i'm asking you to do that and he said no not gonna do it and i know why because he does not want to get shown up publicly to show those doctrines in the doctors a teacher are not biblical that's my opinion okay well you give me a lot of uh... true about it and i'm uh... going to baptist church became a christian and uh... it when i was twenty three and uh... uh... i was led not to go into the uh... into the adverse church role uh... because of a familiar a familiar uh... relationship i got ahead of a high standing there because it makes a difference my grandfather was one of eleanor white's five right-hand man in australia really and uh... yeah though uh... and and and he she insisted that he be ordained at which he was in the later became a pastor uh... uh... uh... various churches around the country and the professor hebrew and greek and uh... and uh... a little bit of Sanskrit thrown in there but anyway i thank you very much for that and i'm sure you've got some good colors coming in a little bit of a way to let out a lot of people are really interesting conversation don't call that to say like something like this okay folks you can call now please call and then they call yeah so uh... well uh... you've uh... you've given me a lot to think about and i'm not i have no uh... no interest in it and going back into uh... the uh... these sda environment uh... i'm very happy but the Lord is good and uh... so i'm sticking with him good so uh... thank you very much Matt you are welcome god bless god bless you as well alright thank you alright folks we have wide open lines five open lines wanna give me a call eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six now maybe there's some of you out there are sda and you're highly offended by what i said uh... well okay you have the right to be offended you also have the right to believe something that's false you have the right to choose to follow a false prophetess who committed uh... theft of writing and she wrote she took what other people wrote and claimed it as her own uh... that's theft she did that uh... the idea of uh... jesus uh... entering the second and last phase of his atoning work and uh... october twenty second eighteen forty four is uh... just ridiculous and the reason that they had that uh... that came about was because of the false prophecies of the return of christ so they had to reinterpret things so that uh... uh... in the middle right movement and things like this now they do teach also that jesus is michael the archangel now you understand even though that is flat out wrong some think it makes him a cult just from that but you can understand something their view of michael the archangel is not that he's a created angel but that he's the pre-incarnate christ now they're wrong in that but that does not make them uh... and that alone doesn't make him a cult this makes him really weird wrong in that because what they're doing is they're saying that jesus is the pre-incarnate second person of the trinity and he's manifested as michael the archangel so they mix that up they get that wrong but that alone does not make them a cult because they're not saying michael the archangel in this context is actually a created being but that he's the eternal pre-incarnate christ that's what they're saying there now they're wrong on that uh... in equating jesus with michael the archangel now one of the things they'll do is have you got the true worship was on saturday the sabbath i've had many discussions with sda people on this i've taken to romans fourteen and colossians two sixteen and uh... other verses first Corinthians twelve not twelve to sixteen two i think it is and uh... sixteen one and two and so what it says in hebrew excuse me and uh... romans fourteen is that we're not to judge anyone on the debatable issues and it goes on and it says one man regards every day alike let his man be fully convinced in his own mind and so the sda when they start saying that you have to worship on saturday to be a true christian then they're saying that under the legalistic mantra of the proper day of worship that's how you are a true christian if you don't worship on that true day you're not uh... a true christian some of them say that cult theology non-christian cult theology because what they're doing is adding a requirement to salvation and that is something that's very very bad they shouldn't do that we have for open lines if you want to give me a call eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six give me a call alright anthony from virginia welcome you're on the air hey matt i wasn't going to call in today but i heard you had open lines and i just thought i'd call in and bother you uh... i uh... i called on friday and i wanted to talk to you about uh... the role of women in the church you're the fan and i'm not no i'm not the platter i do not believe in a platter good for you another guy called in and bothered you uh... that's okay it's a rather but uh... i'm not really full as part of the women in the church you know i think there's uh... i'm not told one way or the other doesn't bother me either one way or the other whether women are allowed to serve in leadership roles in the church uh... let's talk about plasters elders and deacons the bible says they're not allowed to okay yeah well i went there it doesn't seem to suggest that women can't serve as deacon because not all can i play might it may i present my argument sure you can all right if you read romans sixteen one he uh... give it the name of a woman mhm in states that she is a deacon isn't but you know the term that is the equivalent to the free deacon so i don't know if you've come across this year or how do you how do you square that with your assertion they can be deacon let me ask you is jesus an apostle jesus christ is impossible if you know paul yeah is an apostle here though uh... i don't think that he's properly seen as one of like like obviously not equivalent to a twelve apart what he'd like to ask you let me ask you is jesus on apostle uh... he's an apostle of god yes okay good because he was three one says jesus the apostle and high priest so the word apostles yes all right hey folks please stay tuned for open lines why don't you give me a call eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six we'll be right back after these messages it's matt slick live taking your calls at eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six here's matt slick alright welcome back everybody let's get back on the line with anthony are you still there anthony i'm here so we found a woman and uh... uh... roman sixteen one and phoebe the servant of the church right and the word there is deaconess deaconess okay what's for the criminal word is actually deacon on uh... but uh... words in greek decline so like actor actress actresses actors that's all the same word just declines and so we have uh... the word is uh... deaconess okay she's a servant right right and so therefore deacons can be women well the word occurs twenty nine times in the new testament deaconess and its cognates its forms uh... in matthew twenty six to twenty six it is not this way among you but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your deaconess your servant uh... mark nine thirty five uh... if anyone wants to be first he shall be the last of all and servant of all there's the word deaconess again in romans thirteen three through four uh... but if you do it this is the context of the government you know if you do it as evil be afraid for it does not bear the sword among you for it is a minister of god deaconess and i'll do one more second Corinthians six four but in everything commending yourselves as servants of god deaconess so you have to understand that what people do and they don't mean to do this in error but they will they'll take the word for example she's a deacon deaconess a servant in the church and they'll say that means she has the office of deacon that's not what it says in romans sixteen because in second Corinthians excuse me first timothy three paul is actually describing what is necessary in the household of god and he says that in verse fifteen he says i write to you so you'll know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of god and what he's doing is talking about the church of the living god the pillar of supportive truth that's what he says there that same verse and in that same chapter he says that an overseer which in the greek is from episcopos is to be uh... a husband of one wife andra miesko nikas a man of one woman a husband of one wife he goes on and says deacons in verse eight now all of a sudden the word deacons here is uh... an interesting word in that what it is is the masculine in the greek deacons must be men of dignity not double minded or addicted to much wine so that's what it's saying or a sort of game but holding to the mystery of the clear conscience these men must first be tested let them serve as deacons so that's what it says so we're going not to be pastors elders or deacons in the church that's according to first chapter three all right well i think i actually disagree with you your uh... conclusion on first timothy because although he's speaking of male deacons in that particular verse he doesn't say anything about female deaconess is so there's no prohibition against female deaconess so it's it's inconclusive okay i guess women can be elders to that right because it doesn't say women can't be elders right uh... perhaps yeah you would have to use that same logic i guess you would and that means they can be elders and now they can be pastors because now you're saying it doesn't say they can't so therefore they can and it's okay for them to be in there even though the requirement is to be on their musical night costs a man of one woman a husband of one wife let me ask you what when it says laid out how that he would talk let me ask you did we tell you what are going on when it says an elder and a deacon as an elder and a a bishop or to be on there is going to cost on drop miss connect us a man or husband of one wife is it possible for a woman to fit that role so then he's talking about this you have to be to understand this he must be of good reputation with those outside the church deacons likewise must be men of of dignity and uh... and uh... yeah we'll get into that so anyway not double tongued or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid game but holding to the mystery of the faith as with a clear conscience for these and the word there in greek is out toy and it's in the masculine form these masculine ones that was saying in the greek must be husbands and there it is andras mias gunaikas deacons must be husbands of one wife can a woman do that extended woman did it can only be a deacon accord for timothy to twelve three twelve i believe so because okay i'm going to do something that we don't do something we do something way to get right and put it for the face vertically okay all right right now look your left are wasting time i don't know i i i just want to know i i i don't think they don't know that when it's it is my show not yours i want you to stop yourself side-to-head you know why all right i don't know what job i've read you with the scripture says you already agreed a woman could not be a pastor and elder because it says a pastor and elder must be a husband of one wife the same thing applies to deacons must be a husband of one wife in the church context and then you disagree with it so it's not my interpretation it's you who's violating the world are up the problem no i'm not because yes you are a little confident back that dead paul uses the exact same word in another context referring to a woman to it at least we'll have been waiting with not only the uh... the worker door for deacon well you mean so it can mean that uh... the uh... the government is a minister the deacon of god i guess then what we can do is is we can take was called the semantic domain of the word occurs in many places and use in different ways and let's commit what's called illegitimate totality transfer now let's take the meaning of it over one place in transferred to somebody else someplace else but here in in first timothy three twelve he specifically says deacons must be husbands of one wife now let me ask you how does it deacons of that the rules of male deacon this is a male did well at it's as well as he said in the group it well word in the greek are gendered so if he's speaking of anthony you're denying the word of god i'm informing you you're denying out yes you are i'm just looking at i'm looking at exactly what it says and thinking about the possibility of the what it could potentially mean and nothing that ruled out there's nothing that okay clearly prohibits women for becoming deacon deaconesses also then tell me how did i can missus deacons must be husbands of only one wife how does a woman to do it that that one can you please tell me that again again the word that call you the as you've already explained it specifically referring only to mail deacon he doesn't say anything about female deaconess but in roman p clearly establishes a female as a deacon the word elders also used of feminine females as well so you can tell me now what has the elder woman of uh... of second john that there was talking about now she can pick up women elders you already agreed a woman cannot be a pastor it cannot be an elder because it says there to be the husband of one wife and then you can consistently say but if we apply to deacons it's different because over in another place it means that they can be but it's not over in another place you don't even know what you're doing dude hey folks we'll be right back after these messages we'll put him to bed on that one after the break we'll get on to so much heresy so little time we'll be right back please stay tuned it's that's like why taking a call seven seven zero seven seven six i decided to move on because uh... the guy had this discussion with so many people and they're just inconsistent and they don't want to see because they have a position and he said that the word of god to their opinion and we'll just move on let's get to craig from ohio craig welcome you're on the air hi matt thanks for taking my call just had a what is probably a simple question but um... had a discussion this morning with my sister around you know what happens to a person's soul when they pass away do they go directly to heaven is there a holding place or or how does that how does that work and i was interested in getting your thoughts on that we go be with the lord second corinthians five eight we are of good courage i say i prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be home with the lord so we're home with the lord we're with jesus where he is simple no holding place and if he's in heaven then that's where we are second corinthians five well that does make it that does make it simple that's right quick and slick that's a lot uh... that's a lot faster than your last call wasn't it well that's because you believe the word of god unlike some people who want to argue about it to make it fit their theology all right well listen i appreciate it i appreciate your ministry too i really enjoyed listening to you that's because you're really intelligent and really nice that's why that's why uh... i don't know about all that but i do feel like you're pretty well schooled in the end of the word and i appreciate that i've been schooled. I need to do a little better job myself I said I've been schooled that's for sure but uh... but i appreciate it all right baby all right Craig god bless all right let's get on the phones with Terry from Utah. Terry welcome you're on the air hey Matt how are you today uh... yeah I'm okay I'm just dealing with dealing with obstreperous people who don't believe God's word at any rate so what do you got then I understand we moved here from uh... here in Salt Lake area from Tennessee back about a year ago we're part of a southern Baptist community here in Lehigh Utah oh down there okay yeah yeah so anyway I've been listening I travel home in the afternoon I've been listening to your show and I love your show you said it wasn't that busy so I thought I'd call but I appreciate your ministry on the radio thank you I mean I love the things I've heard from you but uh... my question sort of was just related to the LDS how would it be best to penetrate again we're new here trying to to learn and love these people at what point should we interject the truth my perspective so far has been let me get to know uh... you know know some people and know the people before I start you know just uh... their terms that they use are completely different uh... than what our Bible would tell us uh... so to start correcting them uh... you know I've been reluctant I don't want to say reluctant but I've got to know one guy pretty well but most of the time they shut you off pretty quick they're quick to talk to you about spiritual things but uh... once they realize you're uh... have a different uh... uh... truth then they'll pretty much shut you down so that's what I've experienced so far yeah that's the case is uh... you understand about mormonism it does not teach truth it teaches feelings it teaches testimony and feelings and mutual uh... uplifting and you should ask the guy to go to uh... sunday service with them and expect us to be there from one to three hours because there's different things that they do you'll need to see this you'll need to experience what they go through and when they have a church service as I've been through many of them you'll notice that jesus just isn't there what is there is the testimony the truth of mormonism the testimony the church of the true church a testimony of uh... of joseph smith and they bear their testimony in the name of jesus and it's ritual and it is indoctrination and its participation and it is uh... union in a group and jesus is there to facilitate their union with other each other in the true church you gotta go because I've had people go we've done uh... you know field trips right i say don't go through any trouble just go there and and we listen and come back and most of them say the same thing they go the holy spirit is not there they just don't feel them you're right okay that's a question I mean there's rewards on every corner uh... how do I I just walk up at their service time and go I've said that before I think maybe I ought to go and you know just go yeah absolutely so just walk up about that when their service time is and just go yeah go I've done it and they're not mean you know they're nice people they're just deceived they are nice people they are extremely nice I have been asked to leave an LDS award before you use the right word uh... because I was in southern california and had a meeting and I went in there and I didn't start any trouble they just knew me by sight and they asked me to leave you gotta go but uh... but for the most part they're really nice people and and they'll bend over backwards to help you but they just believe in a false god so what you have to do is go there and and and learn you'll you'll learn things about how they think what they feel it will affect how you present information to them because if you challenge their feelings then they're going to reject you because their feelings are where truth is truth to them is not in facts actuality the scriptures and the word of god and the truth of the resurrection of christ it's in what the world the uh... mormon church says is true and the testimony that they get from the holy spirit or the holy ghost that's what it's about so when you start doing this I just want to call and say thank you for what you do on the radio and I did hear last week somebody called in, who's J.D. Greer?

I was like J.D. Greer was president of the Southern Baptist for right back a few years ago he's got a big church up in the DC area but anyway J.D. Greer yeah I don't know much about him, I think he's a probably conservative solid guy but uh... that solid bastard, he writes a lot of books and all but anyway let me ask you, before you go let me ask you, have you heard of mormonism research ministry mrm.org have you heard of that? enormous research, you know, things like I have but not necessarily uh... there's a truth in love hold on, one thing at a time, so mrm, I know Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson, they headed up in Sandy you're down in Lehigh, we're not too far away but then also you need to go up to uh... to Salt Lake proper and go to Sandra Tanner's bookstore and if you go on a Saturday you can meet Bill, he's off in there filling in on Saturdays so Mormon research mrm.org ministry and what's the place in Salt Lake? well the ministry is mrm.org and he's there in the local area and when I have questions on Mormonism, Bill's the guy I call up Bill, we've met her a long long time, and he's where again?

in Sandy Sandy, Utah which isn't too far from Lehigh is it a book store? no, mrm.org okay, you're telling me about mrm.org, I'll look that up also, there's Sandra Tanner's ministry, Utah Lighthouse Ministry and she is probably the world's expert literally, the world's expert on Mormonism and uh... she's there across the street from the baseball stadium okay, just down a few houses but uh... Sandra Tanner sure, well thank you very much for the information, I'll look that up okay, sounds good brother well God bless, Terry yes sir, thank you all right all right, let's get to Noel from Virginia and we lost Noel, let me hit the drop on that one, we have three open lines if you want to give me a call, 877207 2276, let's get to Ron from Utah, Ron welcome you on the air hello, can you hear me? yep, that's alright uh... hey Matt, thank you for taking the call uh... have me back on, we talked on Friday, you probably remember about the flat earth okay, so uh... I wanted to address the issue we had left off on about the four corners you asked the question about the four corners of the earth yeah, so first of all with the issue, you have the same problem on the ball earth, on the globe earth what are the four corners? a lot of times I talk to people who hold positions like you do, you don't actually answer a question you attack with another question, okay I will answer it, so hold on I asked you before, do you believe the earth is a round disc?

yes, it's flat then I ask you, what do you do with the bible saying that the earth has four corners? so that's my question okay, so I will answer it, but I must first say you have the same problem okay, I hung up on him the reason I hung up on him is because he wouldn't answer the question I get very tired of people who don't answer the question and then they try and misdirect it I don't put up with that, if he wants to call back and actually answer the question then we can talk about something else and I don't have patience with people who refuse to answer direct questions repeatedly and who hold on to aberrant wacko theology like that guy does if you want to give me a call at 877-207-2276 give me a call, I'll be right back alright everybody, welcome back to the show, let's get to Keith from North Carolina, Keith welcome you're on the air hey Matt, I enjoy listening when I can had a question, what if anything does the bible say about cremation it doesn't cremation is okay it's a common question people ask is it okay to be cremated, yeah it's okay to be cremated god's not restricted or disabled from being able to reconstitute your actuality of your physical form because you got cremated logically, just think about it, people have been lost at sea in the ocean and have been consumed by the elements in the fish I guess if cremation means you can't be reconstituted then I guess that means you can't be reconstituted either because you've got to get all the molecules out of the fish so we go on with a ridiculous kind of a thing but no, there's not a problem with it yeah, good answer, I appreciate it sure man, what's that? you can do it if you want alright buddy, god bless, alright let's get to Jennifer from North Carolina, Jennifer welcome you are on the air hello I'm Jennifer my boyfriend is incarcerated, I talk to you once in a while with his questions that's right he has a question about in the 2 Kings 3, 16 to 27 I'm not sure you get the word for it, there's a lot there where Elijah prophesied, yeah it is, where Elijah prophesied about the war with the Moabites to and God said they would win and the kings of Moab offered up his oldest son and as a burn offering and Moab the Moabs repelled Israel and yeah well that's alright I'm just mumbling a little bit so we don't have dead air, go ahead okay, you, you so what's the question?

sorry, I got froze so what's your question? okay, the way I wrote it he asked me is it referring to the altars built by Solomon or his wives is what the, what's the it? I don't know Israel so here's how, okay I know he's listening, here's the question is it Israel's disobedience or the burn offering okay without knowing a specific verse uh... in that context I really can't off the top of my head just tell you so you have to know something specific about a specific verse with a specific thing the more specific it is then I can look, oh that verse, there's a thing, then I can take a look at it the pericope of roughly twelve verses it's hard to know exactly what the question is referring to in that pericope right thank you very much, I'll have to study this more so I can know how to present what I'm asking you tell them to keep studying and keep asking uh... and it's good I hope there's a bunch of guys in there who are listening and I hope they're learning and I want to tell them something, I want these guys to listen to me if they're listening okay they're in there for a reason, alright, when they get out they need to be Christian men and they need to study who Jesus is they need to emulate who Jesus is as recorded in the gospels and he had great authority and great power and what he did was he used his authority, even his masculinity and his strength to serve to teach to help to minister to people to forgive that's what he did with it and so we are to do the same thing especially as men so that our women around us need to trust our strength because we are stronger than them and not only physically but also mentally sometimes and emotionally sometimes is combined with that strength and we need to be very careful and we need to make it so that our women around us feel safe with us emotionally as well as physically and if we're failing to do that we're failing as men and so we need to be studying Jesus and emulate him and don't worry guys you're going to mess up welcome to the club because when we start using Jesus as a standard and we live according to his will and his word we're going to mess up but that's okay because when you are at the foot of the cross and you look left to right you're going to see me there with you and we're all the same and we all need the blood of Christ and we all need to live for Jesus whether in there or out but once you get out you're obligated to live for him even if it costs you and even if it hurts you stand on the strength of the Lord Jesus Christ not on your own strength that's what's important we need to be that as men for our ladies alright guys I'll just give them a little super small sermonette for that that's what needs to happen I'll tell you I'm going to tell you a story uh... when I was in Tehachapi prison and I was preaching and there's a lot of there are people who are Mexican, whites, there's Asians, there's blacks there's all this mixture in the chapel maybe thirty guys and either one of these guys any of them could have beat me to a pulp in .28 seconds and they're in chapel and I'm there to preach and I have what's called the button it's in my left shirt pocket it's a button that they would give me that if I was in there preaching if there's any problems I just hit that button the guards come running in but hey it's chapel you know and we go in there to preach and teach and everybody's cool and I'm trying to relate to the guys and I'm preaching and I'd lost my son just a couple of months earlier two or three months earlier I was trying to connect with these guys not in a making it up way but in a real way which I could do to some degree on what it means to suffer loss and I said you guys have lost so much you're in here some of you lost families relationships, members, marriages and they're nodding and I said you're in here and I said I'm not going to say it's what you deserve or not what you deserve whatever this is just the reality of where we are because it can happen in here or out there and I understand and I started talking about what it means to sacrifice what it means to face ourselves and to face the problems of our life and how we face them and I'm going to tell you two of these guys got up and these guys were tough, tattooed and they looked like they belonged to some Mexican gangs and they started walking up the center aisle where I was and I was up on a stage about two feet elevated full stage left and right and I thought these guys could just jump me and hurt me bad fast and I kept preaching and I still remember these guys walking up and they're watching me and why are they walking up in the middle of my sermon? they walked up to where the pulpit was which is only a foot from the edge which was you know the thing was two or three feet elevated the stage they moved to my right to their left and then they went over to the just a few feet away they got on their knees and they prayed they prayed for the rest of the sermon and I found out later that they prayed that the word of truth would minister to those men who were listening and I was you know ashamed at one point but I was so privileged to be in their presence that such men would risk humiliation in front of these guys in prison and get on their knees on the hard tile and pray for others to receive that truth of the gospel message now that to me was a good example of what it means to be a Christian man I never forgot that I have never forgotten it and I never will those guys ministered to me in their humility in their action so guys in prison can be very strong in their witness and they can accomplish great things for the Lord and they can also do it even more so when they get out but they've got to understand whether in or out they need to submit to the will of God and the ministry that God has called them to do to serve where they are and be witnesses for the gospel of Jesus Christ because God will change that season and they will minister in there or out of there in season out of season rich or poor incarcerated or not imprisoned or not just like Paul was and do it for the good of Jesus Christ so there you go okay Jennifer that's for those guys in there yes sir thank you that was a great powerful all right well God bless okay okay okay Jennifer all right all right let's try one more time with Ron from Utah are you going to answer the question I asked you yes sir I'm looking at Isaiah 11 chapter 11 verse 12 and Revelation chapter 7 verse 1 both use the phrase uh... the four corners of the earth in the context of both passages he is talking about the four cardinal points of a compass north, south, east and west so how do you know then that the circle of the earth is literal if the four corners is not because of the context so the earth is a circle yes like a pizza so it also says in first chronicles sixteen thirty that the earth is immovable does it move around the sun no it does not and I talked about that last week when we talked about the heliocentric model in Genesis the first four days of creation so you're a flat earther and so the sun moves around the earth right well that's what the scripture says in psalm nineteen verse one through six so you believe that you can take metaphor and you can take things and then turn it into literal it's not meant for that so that's a mistake you're making so I just want to get this straight I want everybody here what flat earthers teach so you're teaching then that the sun moves around the earth no the bible teaches that no you're teaching it so I deny that the bible teaches that okay hold on so is the sun and the moon they're up above the earth okay in a dome is it embedded in the dome or underneath the dome well it's in the firmament of heaven is it embedded in this firmament dome or is it underneath it well there are some questions I'm not sure about it I don't know exactly but I know that we're not spinning around why is it that the sun can't be seen at night if it's in the dome above us and the dome just kind of revolves because of its proximity to the earth and I used to have the same questions Matt so bear with me the proximity of the earth to the sun to the earth is such and you can do this on a table with your cell phone you can turn out the lights and put the cell phone above the table and go around and where you leave there's darkness as you go around in a circle on your kitchen table and I used to I agree look this is a new epiphany you're not making any sense is the sun a sphere or not a sphere well it's circular from our perspective is it a sphere or not a sphere that's the question I don't know okay is the moon a sphere or not a sphere is the moon a sphere or not a sphere is the is the is Mars a sphere is Mars a sphere or not a sphere it's a light in the heaven okay so you don't know that's what it is so it's circular I have an experiment does NASA know? so here's the thing so uh... you're saying you don't even know what the other planets are you don't know you misinterpret scripture you take things literally when it shouldn't be literal and then you say that the sun revolves around the earth and so you don't even know why the sun is dark at night when it's still visible from all points simultaneously on this flat circular disc called the earth and yet you can't see it at night but you can also see this the moon in the day and the night if you have the proximity listen to me please if the proximity of the sun and the size of the earth is what's that the moon's with the sun okay there's the music we're out of time buddy we gotta go you know sometimes I need a wall close to being my head on talking to these guys alright I think I'll be okay by God's grace we will talk to you tomorrow and we'll see what else comes rolling down the hill to discuss may the Lord bless you another program powered by the truth network