Matt Slick Live

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Francis, taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick. It's a nice Friday.

It's the first day of July, 2022. And as usual, if you want to give me a call, all you got to do is dial 877-207-2276. So we can blab, we can talk, we can, uh, you know, whatever you want to do. All right. We have nobody waiting right now.

So, uh, you know, if you want to call, you can get right in. So I'm trying something a little bit different right now. I'm on Discord in the KARM server on the radio show or something. I'm just putting this up.

Nobody knows I'm doing this. I don't expect anybody to really come in and I'm simultaneously going to a club deck or which is on the phone. It would be club, uh, clubhouse and just a broadcasting there as well. We're also broadcasting via StreamYard and we're going to, let's see, we're going to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Odyssey.

So we're trying to, uh, we're trying to get it going. Anyway. There you go. All right.

So nobody's waiting right now. Okay. Now, so, uh, I want to talk about something, you know, um, I'm gonna do some hate mail too later though. I got to do some hate mail because you'd be able to hate mail first because, oh man, because there's some tough stuff. I'm going to tell you what, uh, I was reading through some stuff and, um, here, let's see, let's see, let's see.

Where is it? So, uh, uh, GOP, oh man, look through this folks. The GOP slams the white house official for saying that high gas prices defend the quote liberal world order, close quote. And, uh, that disturbed me in no end. It really bothered me. Uh, it's like, what is going on? You know, and, uh, man, uh, you know, uh, and, and my wife read me a quote today.

She read me a quote, uh, and I wish I had that quote as well. Uh, that is from the guy, the president of San Salvador, I think it was, he says, America, the greatest falling is a powerful nation can only fall from within, not from without. And, uh, boy, it's happening. It is, it is happening. So, uh, quote, let's see, national economic council director Brian Deese appeared on CNN Thursday, just hours after president Joe Biden told reporters that people should expect gas prices, regular gas averaging $4 82 84 cents on Friday to remain high. As long as it takes for Ukraine to win its war against Russia, which is insane.

I don't see what's the sticking connection. The left are so full of lies. You know, I'm going to get a t-shirt that says, uh, truth and lies are equally valuable to the left. Uh, let's see what, what we heard from the president. This is about the future of the liberal, liberal world order. We have to stand firm. These said the Washington assembly reported that liberal world order, what did the liberal world order means?

I know what it means. It means, uh, uh, freedom of re of, uh, religion is restricted. Freedom of speech is restricted. That woke is necessary. That, uh, borders are open, that socialism comes in and destroys our economy.

Uh, you know, just basic stuff like this, the reduction of our property rights, that's what socialism does, a reduction of our right to self defense and bear arms. You know, you know, just sometimes, you know, it's just like, I would say to my wife and I read that, I read it to her. I said, look, I could take that line and write into, I've written science fiction before and just put it right into a science fiction, dystopian novel.

Just quote it flat in. It would fit right in. I started thinking, you know, um, I wrote a novel, a novella, uh, called atheistic, uh, and it's about an atheist, uh, nation that forms on a newly formed island and things don't go as well as they're supposed to. And I thought, you know, people been asking me to write a sequel to it cause it's a short novel. Um, you know, full notes, about half the size of a regular novels called a novella. And, uh, so I was thinking that would go right in there.

You know, when they, they, uh, in order to solve the problems that, uh, their philosophy has created, that, um, it would be just perfect right in there to their socialist, uh, um, humanist ideology. Anyway, man, yeah, depressing, depressing, but that's just how it is right now. All right. Hey folks, you want to give me a call for open lines, eight seven seven two zero seven two, two seven six, Oliver from Maine. Welcome buddy. You're on the, you're doing all right, man.

What do you got buddy? Hey, so it was the first thing I just want to let you know, I'm, I'm actually the guy who called up a box and what three months ago and I, I'm, I'm the guy who called up, called in and I was, I was anonymous about three months ago. Um, you're that guy who I didn't know who it was and everybody else has done that too. Bull that guy. Okay, gotcha.

I'm with you. Yeah, yeah, no, and um, I actually call up and uh, I fall into some thin and I, I went through you, I talked to you about it a little bit and I took your advice and talked to my wife and actually repented to her. So, um, I just want to say thank you. Oh, you're welcome.

How'd it go? Whatever. I don't remember the topic. Remember vaguely we'd call it, but things are okay. Yeah. Okay. No.

Yeah. It went well. It's just, I felt kind of numb when I repented, but I turned in the left, you know, apologize to her and to God as well. So, Oh, well good for you. Good for you. And uh, you know, just stand strong in the word and be a good Christian man.

Good Christian leader in the home and uh, do it the best you can that way. Good for you. All right.

Yeah. So, so my question today for you is actually a, so I struggle with something called OCD and it's right now it's kind of hard to tell right now, like is this my OCD trying to, you know, compulsion me to do something or is this, you know, the Holy Spirit's conviction about something. It can be very confusing at times and one that I'm particularly struggling with, I struggle with it bad, like medically bad.

So one I'm struggling with and I'm kind of like, um, I don't really know. Um, it's, it's fast, you know, I feel like a compulsion that like right now I should not eat immediately and I should fast right now, you know, and start now and, and then I don't do so cause I, cause it seems like OCD, but then also it seems like it's God cause it'll happen and I'll, I feel like I'm disobeying God when I don't do it. Like it's almost like just God's hand is just pressuring down on, you know, and I, it's very confusing sometimes that OCD will sometimes latch onto things that are genuinely like, I should stop doing that, but you will watch a whole of it and kind of, it's very hard to explain, but I gotcha. I gotcha. You can't discern between what you ought to do and what you're in a sense forced to do by an OCD compulsion and you want to do what's right and then there can be sin mixed up in it, conviction of sin, memories of things and it can become a bit of a mess. You're not exactly sure what to do and how to do it. Yeah.

Yeah. Usually knowledge, well usually when I have a knowledge of something like biblically then I know that it's okay, it's okay to be just biblically, not quite lining up with what I'm feeling convicted of. But with the fasting thing it's kind of difficult because there's a passage that seems like one in Joel 2 where it says, you know, uh, turn to me with all your heart, with prayer, with fast, with the sin that I fell into. It'll last that way. You need to fast right now. You know, and it'll last that. But then I'll also look at scriptures where it talks about how, you know, um, fasting needs to be more of a heart thing.

It's not like a compulsory sort of thing. So, so what's your question? I'm just struggling with that and oh, I'm just trying to figure out is how do you know when something is the Holy Spirit's voice first thing? And then also, well, hold on, let's do that one first.

One thing at a time, one thing at a time. How do you know it's the Holy Spirit's voice? Good question. I'm not sure how to tell you what the answer is.

Because I mean, how do we know? I mean, you're just calling up a guy on the radio and saying, Oh, this is how, you know, there's the three steps, you know, and the Bible doesn't tell us. It just takes practice. Um, and it's not easy.

What I would recommend is that you have people you can trust, you can talk to not an infinitum. You don't want to burn them out because I know how OCD people can do. And you want to just nail down the issue as quickly as possible and say, what do you think about this? And then, um, I would also recommend that you keep a record and people don't realize how good a record can be. Just something short because OCD people sometimes can be rather verbose.

So just, you know, on this date, I had this problem. So to talk to someone, so conclusion this, and, uh, you can start learning patterns that way and it will help you understand yourself and the Lord and your relationship better. Okay. Okay. I guess the second question too, would be, is, is, is fasting something that the Holy spirit will convict us to do?

Like he wants us to do that even if our hearts aren't quite like wanting to right then and there. No, of course you can. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay.

You know, of course you can do stuff that you can convict you about stuff you don't want to do. Yeah. But how do you know it's really him? What I would recommend you do, I got an idea for you. There's a book, uh, answers to prayer by George Mueller and it's short.

He's called the orphan King in the 1800s. And, uh, he has a, I don't want to say method, but let's just say he has an approach for finding and accomplishing the will of God. And there's some principles in there that I think are very good. You might benefit from it.

And he has a lot of instances of practice in it. Okay. I'll give you a shot. Awesome. Thank you. I apologize for this kind of all over the place. It's hard for me to even like explain it with word to word, but I appreciate you and your ministry here. So thank you. There's no problem, man. There's no problem at all. You call any time because, uh, you know, as you know, I have Asperger's, so I can read a little bit to some odds and ends that, um, that we go through and, uh, you know what, God's beyond it.

And he's not limited by it. And if we submit to him, uh, and stumble on our way towards him, uh, it, it works out. And that's what you got to do. You know, that's why I say keeping a record.

It can be surprisingly helpful. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. All right.

Again. Okay. All right.

God bless. All right. Okay.

Whoa. I think I might have hung up on somebody. I think I messed up.

I don't know. Wait. If, if, uh, I did just call back wherever it was.

Cause two lines has appeared really quickly. Let's get to Scott from Utah. Scott. Welcome. You are on the air. Hey, good afternoon.

Thanks for taking my call. Um, I've got a question that, uh, we were having in, uh, men's Bible study, a friend of mine, uh, as a close family member, it's, uh, there's the homosexual lifestyle and he's, he's convinced that she is saved, but she is currently married to another woman. And we were discussing whether unrepentant sin such as that could ever inherit the kingdom, whether she'll be able to go to heaven or not without renouncing that sin. He says that she says all the right things. She believes, you know, Jesus Christ died on the cross for her sins and, and she believes he's the only begotten son of God and so on and so forth. But yet she still lives in this 10 and I would just want your opinion. My, my opinion is that she wouldn't be able to unless she renounces or repents of this sin. Here's as we all have to do.

Here's the thing. Repenting of sin is not what gets us to heaven. If someone's truly a believer, they're also regenerate and out of the regenerated heart, people will then do what is right and turn from what is wrong. And first John two, four, it says, if you say you know him and do not keep his commandments, the truth is not in you and you are a liar.

So with, you know, love and patience, I'd say to her, I'd say, I'm sorry. Uh, if you say you're a Christian and you live as though you're an unbeliever, then the scriptures tell me that the truth is not in you. You are not regenerate. I can't say you're a Christian even if you profess all the right things, because orthodoxy and orthopraxy have to match. So that's one thing.

Okay. We can talk about this issue of repentance. We ought to repent, but repentance is compliant with the law and compliance with the law does not save us. Repentance is the work of the Holy spirit in us and granting it through us in the regenerated state that we are in.

And we do it because we're saved not to get it or to obtain it. We write back after these messages, please stay tuned. Welcome back to the show. Scott, are you still there? Yes. Yes. That's uh, that's, that's kind of along the lines. I was thinking, you know, I was telling him that the devil is a liar and a counterfeiter. He uses all the terms, love and tolerance and all that to, to bring, you know, sin into the church.

And by accepting, you know, things that go against clearly go against what the Bible says, even if it, you know, seems right or, or feels right to you is, is not right. Correct. See, if you say, you know him, you better, better show it. Um, gotcha. And so, you know, if she were there, I was in the room with her and this topic came up. I mean, I'd be gentle. I'm very gentle.

Really. I am on radio. I gotta be direct. They just, I'm teaching and doing apologetics.

But I would say, I'd say, look, you can't do this. And I just show the scriptures where it's called an abomination, where it's sin. And you know, even go to, for example, first Corinthians six, nine, do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived either fornicators or idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, homosexuals, or thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. So, homosexuality is our sin.

Equitas a man betters. And, uh, it's talking about this, this issue. It includes, uh, you know, lesbianism and all this kind of thing. It's a sexual immorality. And, uh, the word for it says fornicators is pornos. And so the idea of sexual impurity in the practice of it is, is ungodly and we cannot call someone who's openly practicing it to, we can't say that they're believers or regenerate.

We don't have that business ability to say that. Gotcha. Thank you very much, man. Have a great day. Appreciate it. You too, man. God bless.

All right now, what do you do? However, let's say there's someone who has homosexual tendencies for whatever reason. And recognizes that it's false that it's sinful and is warring against it, but still has those attractions. I'd say that's a sign of regeneration because the person recognizes the sin is warring against the sentence and uh, and that's it, you know? Okay. But someone who practices such a sin and has no problem with it and continues in it and also claims to be a Christian.

Sorry, you cannot do that. Uh, again, 1st John 2 4 if you say, you know him and do not keep his commandments, the truth is not in you and you are a liar. And so we need to understand, ladies and gentlemen, if you say you're a Christian, let's say you live like it. Now we're not talking perfection here. People make mistakes.

We blow it. But there's a difference between the accidental of messing up things like that versus, Hey, I'm going to go into this hook, line and sinker all the way. I'm just going to go, go for it. I'm going to live in sin. Don't call yourself a Christian at that point. And I've told Christians before people claim to be a Christian and they say, I'm doing this.

I'm doing that. For example, um, I was talking to a guy once who said he's, uh, you know, messing around with this is a girlfriend and that they go to church together and yet they, they kind of live together. They know that's right. This one guy said they did live together. And I said, okay, so you're living together and going to church, right? Yeah. How long have you been doing this for? 6 months. Oh yeah. Yeah.

6 months. He says, I said, okay, well, don't call yourself a Christian. And he goes, what? I said, don't call yourself a Christian and you're not eligible for communion. What? And I had to tell him what the truth was. And we've got to take our faith in our Lord.

Seriously. We take it seriously, ladies and gentlemen. So if you say you're a Christian, act like it. And if you don't act like it, you have to understand out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Jesus says, Matthew 1234, we behave based on what we believe. If you behave in a manner that is consistent with sinfulness and then regeneration, then that's what's going on in you. All right. All right.

Need to repent of it, turn from it and stop it and show the manifestation of regeneration. Let's get to Matt from North Carolina. Matt, welcome.

You are on the air. Hey, Matt, how you doing? Oh, I'm hanging in there, man. Hanging in there.

What do you got buddy? Uh, yeah, we're good to chat with you. Well, I, abortion is obviously a hot topic now. And I've heard an argument before, and I recently was reminded of it. And, um, I read an article on the scripture and they gave a couple of reasons. Um, but it's something that sometimes people like to use to try to prove, you know, abortion in the Bible. It's numbers 5, 21.

And I think I don't have 22 in it. And I, I'm sure you've probably been, I'm sure you've heard that. And I also know your opinion, or if you had a, or if you had some enlightenment and talk about it, I'm going to read it for people and I'm familiar with it. Uh, so there's, uh, there's a concern that of infidelity.

All right. That's the context. The pre shall have her take an oath and she'll say to the woman, if no man has lain with you and if no one, and if you have not gone astray and into uncleanliness, being under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse. If you, however, have gone astray being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you, then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse. And the priest shall say to the woman, the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people by the Lord's making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell. And this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away. And the woman shall say, Amen.

Amen. Now that's not to say that they're pregnant for one thing, but even if it did, which it doesn't, it couldn't be used for a support of killing the unborn. And the reason is because this is under a theocratic system where God is ruling through the prophets and the judges of Israel and that when infidelity was suspected that the person would be under a curse. And notice that the text says they agreed to that curse. And the reason they'd be under the curse is because they're breaking the, the marriage covenant, as well as the sanctification covenant that they're to undergo in relationship to God who's working in that governmental system specifically. That's the whole context. We don't have that now.

We don't have it now. So it's under a system where God is in control and ruling through his prophets there. And when infidelity is suspected, the means of finding out that infidelity is to be tested. And it's by God's hand that the swelling occurs. It's not by the human hand that it occurs. They don't go in and destroy that life because abortion is of course violence. And so it does not apply to that. And I'll tell you something. Those, I'm going to offer this. I will be glad to debate does the Bible support abortion or does is abortion right or wrong?

That'd be the thing to do. Is abortion right or wrong? And so under every circumstance, for example, I'd be willing to debate anybody on it. And I'm talking about a formal debate.

We have to green the title and we could have it publicized, recorded, videoed, the hold that we did online, do it in person. We want to debate the issue, but you won't find anybody taking me up on that or anybody else up on it. And the reason is it because they're afraid of the facts. They're afraid of the logic and they're afraid of the truth that would come out. This is why abortion advocates never enter into public debates on the issue.

It's always ad hominems, short soundbite things that misrepresent truth so they can justify killing. Let's get back. Matt, we'll hold on.

Okay, buddy, we've got a break coming up. We'll be right back after these messages, folks. 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. All right.

So Matt, are you still there? Yeah, so I will re-listen to that and do a little more research on it. But I was going to make another quick comment and go, but it's weird when you, and I know you deal with it a lot more than the average person, but they'll claim that they don't believe in God or they don't believe the word or that it's corrupt or it can't be trusted, but yet they'll use it to try to formulate arguments and either gotcha questions and, or just, and it just shows they're double think and how, um, how they're deceived. And when you really, and of course I've learned that from you and some, and some other people, but when you, when you say that and hear it, you can really, it's just so there, but it's just, um, it's just sad really, you know, that they, that they act that way and do that way. But it's just how they do. Yeah, it really is. And they don't see it that way.

I don't think necessarily, but until you, until you point it out, you know? Yeah, it is. And, you know, I'll use atheists, uh, as an example here, you know, they'll, they'll say something and, uh, yeah, actually there's that, uh, yeah, I have an article on this, does, uh, numbers five 11 through 31. Well, that's a numbers. Yeah. Five 11 through 31. Yeah, five 11 through 31, uh, prescribe abortion drugs in case of adultery and things like that. That's one of the questions I have.

I'll go to your website and look that up. Yeah. Um, and so when I talk to atheists, for example, they'll use the Bible, they'll try and use the Bible against Christianity and I'll say, are you doing an internal or an external critique? It's cause there's two kinds of things that we look at here and that the premise here is logical, and then you can learn how to apply it in real time. An internal critique is to look at it from inside of itself to see if it has internal consistencies. An external critique says you have a value outside of that worldview, and then you attack that worldview from an outside perspective.

Now, each one of them has methods that you go through in order to, uh, to argue and I mean present an argument. If it's an external critique, they have to justify why that external fact is correct and is applicable to your worldview. If they can't do that, they don't have any right to say anything. If they want to use an internal critique, all you have to do is understand the biblical theology, the cultural context and apply logic. And you'll see that they don't have a leg to stand on. And so this is, these are just principles now applying it.

Okay. So someone goes to numbers five and they want to talk about this issue of abortion and try and use the word of God to justify it. And I'm going to ask them, do you believe in the truth of the word of God or do you not?

I'm going to see if they're going to go external or internal. If they say, no, I don't believe the word of God. So you're going to use what we call, I'll tell, I teach them as I do this. You're going to then use what's called an internal critique, right? You're going to go to the word to see if it supports your view, which means we have to look at the context, the culture and the whole bit. Let's look and see if what it does, as soon as they say, well, we don't agree with that. Well, then why would you then look at it and try and use it?

If you don't understand it, you want me to teach you what it means, or do you want to just say that this is something I'm going to jump on, not learn what it is in its context and try and use it against you. And I say, now, if you do that kind of a thing that's, that just demonstrates, and I say to them, no disrespect, but it demonstrates that you're not thinking clearly and you don't understand the issues here and you can't, you can't have a valid argument in that manner. So I talk to them. They don't realize a lot of times I'm doing an external, internal critique analysis on them and I'll, I'll do this. If they say they, I love doing that.

So they say, well, abortion is a human right. Let's say, I'd say, okay, so is it a universal truth, right? And they'll, they'll, they'll say, well, yes it is.

Okay. If it's a universal truth, what must be the case in order for it to be universally true? And they'll say, what are you talking about? Well, it's a universal truth. It's a moral issue. What must be there for you to be able to say that the statement abortion is a universal good or whatever it is, is always good. Or it's a right of every woman. I'd say, what, where, what must be the case for that statement to be true? People aren't used to thinking like this.

What I'm doing is I'll say, what I'm trying to do is to ask you to validate your statement. If you say every woman has the automatic right to abort that life in her, then you're saying it's a universal truth. Where do you get that from? How is it a universal truth? And if they say, well, because that's what women want, that's called argument event populum.

The majority wants it, so therefore it's true. Well, that's not the case. See, so what is the reason?

What is the reason? And they don't have any ability to justify anything. They don't. And so these, when I have discussions like this with people, they're just basic principles that I use in any worldview conflict thing. And it does not take much to destroy their arguments. And I want to destroy their arguments because they're working against God. And I'm going to show them the foolishness of their arguments. And then I'm going to present to them the truth.

And I'll say, for example, the reason we know that killing the unborn in the womb for no other reason, for example, I'll narrow it down because I saw the woman chooses. You see, we know that that's not good enough. And the reason it's not good enough is because the life in her is not her own life. It's a different life. And if it's a different life, what gives her the right to destroy it, to own it, to kill it, to abuse it?

That's what we call slavery, chattel slavery. And I get in, I start talking to them. I'll tell you, they do not like it because of all the topics I've argued with people, abortion is one of the easiest to undermine. And again, I'll offer anybody who wants to have a publicized debate on this is, for example, is abortion morally right or wrong? Oh, man, I would love it if someone took me up on that one, but no one's going to.

I bet you would, yeah. All right, well, listen, I'll let you go and get some other callers, but great information. I appreciate you sharing, appreciate your ministry, and we'll talk again. All right, man. Well, God bless, buddy. All right, man. All right. Well, here we are on a Friday. We have no, uh, uh, no more, I mean, no, sorry, I'm thinking two things at once.

We have no callers waiting. And partly because I'm sure that the, uh, uh, the 4th of July is on Monday. It won't be on the air on Monday.

It'll be a day off. And as I often do on, um, on, uh, on Fridays, as I do hate mail and I'm already smiling, I'm already smiling because I love hate mail. Um, and so what I thought I would do is jump right in. Um, oh man, I'm already, I'm already laughing. Now, for those of you who've not heard me do a hate mail before, you will probably clue in that there's something wrong with me because for some reason I get the biggest kick out of hate mail. I, I've been known to laugh, to have a great time reading it.

I enjoy it. I don't know what it is, but, uh, there you go. So I'm just going to read this.

I haven't even reviewed these for today. So I'm just gonna tell, let's see, um, tell Matt his name rhymes with what, with what he is. And I can't tell you what the, what the, what the, what the, what it is.

So he needs to love, not hate. So, wow. I love when people talk like that. There's, there's nothing substantial in that.

And this person was obviously, uh, uh, um, wow. I'm not thinking in my hand. I'm reading it. Yeah. It needs to love, not hate. It is what he's talking about. God hates, uh, those who do iniquity, uh, Psalm five, five, Psalm 11, five. You can go to Romans nine 20, uh, let's see 14. Actually, I think it's nine through 13, nine to 14 talks about God hating, uh, one and loving another hating is not wrong folks. And when someone says you need to love and not hate, that means accept everybody and all of their sin.

And then, you know, we talked to somebody like that. I'd say, am I supposed to love the adulterer and say, Hey, it's okay. That's just your lifestyle.

And the pedophile, ah, don't worry about it. It's your, it's your lifestyle. It's okay. I don't want to judge you.

I should be loving right now. Of course not. And when people think like that, uh, the, um, the logic just goes right out the window. They couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag.

If it was 45 degree tilted down and it was greased and there was a chain pull pulling them out with a neon sign saying this way, I still couldn't get out. Let's try another one. Matt, since you have a talent for writing and you write nonstop, that's not correct. I do write a lot, but not nonstop.

I suggest you remodel your website, um, get the grace movement. Oh man, out of your head and seek an honest job as a columnist or published author on a mainstream topic. So I guess from this, uh, I'm not honest. Apparently, uh, when I, I study issues left, right up and down, and then write about them on my website, I guess that's not being honest. Okay. So it's really stupid.

If I had my way, I'd be a Christian, but that would be kind of selfish for Jesus. Oh, you know, I could just see talking to somebody. They say that to me, you know, my eyes would just kind of narrow and I'd be thinking, okay, they just get out of the hospital. They just have a head injury. What is wrong with them? You know, uh, because that makes absolutely no sense at all.

And so I had to start asking diagnostic questions. Now, guess what? There's the music for the final break of the hour. And if you want to give me a call 877-207-2276, or you can hold on and I'm going to do some more hate mail after the break. So, hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages. It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. All right, everyone. Okay, now during the break, I was, um, I was reading some hate mail, so I got some good ones here. I'm going to enjoy them. And if you want to call 877-207-2276 and let's get to some hate mail.

I love this stuff. Okay, here we go. Remember for those of you who are new, I do hate mail sometimes on Fridays.

And, uh, since it's the holiday weekend coming up and it's slowing down, that's normal. Here we go. Where in scripture does it instruct us to indiscriminately mock people and their opinions in a hostile and uncaring fashion? Your sarcastic abrasive demeanor borders in my view on bullying.

I can't imagine that you convert many people with a style of apologetics. I have listened to your show for a couple of months and have come away wondering if you are perhaps psychotic. Wow. It's awesome.

If you're psychotic or mentally disturbed in the way that you communicate with some people that you call that call into your show. Now this is written a while back, but, uh, wow, that's good. You know, that's a good insult. If you're so annoyed by the comments and questions posed to you, then why do you do it?

Why do you do this? I'm a regular listener to, uh, blah, blah, blah. Uh, okay. I am a huge proponent of defending our faith and standing against heresies and false doctors.

Honestly, I can say that if I were not a believer, I could easily draw anything public. It goes on rambling. That's good. I'm either psychotic or mentally disturbed. I think that's really good. It's interesting. All right. Uh, now here's a good one. This is a good one. As you know, I like to say that, uh, the quicker and the slicker the insult, the better.

Here's one that fits both quick and slick. Just reach up to your head. See if there's a little switch there.

Please move it to the on position. Thank you. That's awesome. Now that is a good one. You see, I think that's a good one. I think, uh, I like that. It's, uh, it makes me feel good.

Cracks me up. So it's awesome. All right. How about this one? Let's see. Um, your facts are wrong.

Get it right or don't post. Thank you. Of course, there's nothing more than that. There's nothing more than, than that statement.

It doesn't help at all. Your facts are wrong. Get it right. Don't post. Okay.

How about this one? Um, this is in regard to Mormonism. All right. Now, just so you know, I've done a great deal of research on Mormonism and have a lot of resources and gone to their documents.

Okay. And, uh, so, you know, this person wrote and said, your documentation is your interpretation and it is wrong. You do not have the testimony nor faith that a Mormon does.

Do you ask a plumber to do electricity? No, you don't. Well, it's, it's not logical to say that. You see, when I ask a Mormon who's deceived by the, by the enemy, say, Hey, is your religion true? Of course it's true. How do you know it's true? Because I believe it's true.

What? I have a testimony. Well, how do you know the testimony is true?

Because God wouldn't deceive me. Who says it's God? You know, and you're not allowed to ask these kinds of questions, but, um, I wrote, um, well, check it out for yourself and see if it's wrong. See the documentation is wrong because what I do often is quote them. Just take a quote and then say, here's the quote. And then here's a documentation where you can find the quote, go read it all in context.

There it is. And, uh, I like it when people say to me, your quotes are out of context. And I say, well, what's the context? You know what the context is.

Well, I do. So you said it was wrong. You said the context is wrong. That must mean, you know, the context, what's the context.

Oh, don't play games with me. You said, you said it was out of context. So what's the context? And they don't know. They just say stuff. So this person goes on.

I've read, read it a thousand times, a thousand times. Really? You are extremely biased. Well, yeah. And so are you as a Mormon.

Um, no, I love this statement. No religion should be analyzed or researched. Whoa. So no religion should be analyzed or researched. Just let them all go.

Wow. All religion are based on your beliefs and faith in God and Jesus Christ. Well, this person does not have all, let's use a woman.

I think it's a woman. Uh, all her, yeah. Kaylee does not have all her theological powers in the litter box. All religions are based on your faith and beliefs and faith in God and Christ. You know, Mormonism is not, I mean, excuse me. Uh, Islamic Mormonism isn't either a false Jesus, but Islam doesn't.

It doesn't recognize it. Judaism doesn't. Neither does Confucianism or Jainism or, you know, all kinds of stuff. Um, anyway, uh, you are wrong about Mormons. No, I'm not wrong about Mormons. Okay. They do not go around saying Baptists are not Christians or Methodists or Presbyterians are not Christians.

Each religion deserves the same amount of respect. They don't say that? Oh, wait a minute. Let's see.

Karm.org. Um, Mormonism condemns other religions. Let's see.

We can find this relief. Does Mormons attack other religions? That's the article. I wrote this article and Joseph Smith, he, uh, his alleged first vision, my object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know what to join no sooner. Therefore did I get a possession of myself so as to be able to speak. Then I asked the personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right. Now the personages are God, the father of Jesus and which I should join. I was answered.

I must join none of them for they're all wrong. That's what, that's what he says. Okay.

What is this? This that's out of history, the church volume one, pages five and six. What is it that inspires professors of Christianity?

Generally with the hope of salvation, it is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil by which he deceives the whole world. That's teaching the prophet Joseph Smith. Okay.

Uh, let's see. Questions directed at Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. First, do you believe in the Bible? Uh, if we do, we're the only people in their heaven to do that. For there are none of the religious sects of the day that do. Third, will everybody be damned of Mormons?

Yes. A great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness. Brigham Young, John Taylor, James Talmadge.

I'll just do James Talmadge. Let's see what he says. A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation is laid down by the savior, a universal apostasy for the church of Christ. The articles of faith has read book companies all excited page 182, Joseph Fielding Smith, the book of Mormon, uh, doctrine and covenants.

Let's get this one. So, uh, DSC 112 23, uh, verily, verily, I say to you, darkness covers the earth and gross darkness and minds of the people and all flesh has become corrupt before my face. So what are the Mormon missionaries do when I go door to door? Hey, there was an apostasy and Joseph Smith restored the true church, which means you aren't in the true church, which means you believe in a false church, you believe in a false church. So when someone says, well, Mormonism doesn't condemn other religions. Of course it does. You know, I just say, of course it does. You know, I wish people would do some critical thinking, but that's what's okay.

There's a problem with Mormonism. They don't, I'm sorry. It's a truth. They don't think them to teach critically. They don't.

And it's very unfortunate because they're believing in a false God, a false Christ, false gospel. Let's see. Now here's another email. Let's see.

Uh, hope you guys in the stream yard are enjoying this. It says this, uh, okay. It says the hope that we have in Jesus as the world comes to an end is now available. It's part four. I suggest you obtain an actual hard copy of these books now.

Wow. Uh, because when the world, the world gets to point to the point where Sunday laws have been introduced, it will then only be a few days before we get to the point where all the satanic digital technology stops working. So when we, so get this. So when, when all the Sunday laws have been introduced, then in a few days later, few days later, all satanic digital technology stops working. I don't even know what satanic digital technology is, you know, and all your electronic digital storage devices revert back to being what they actually are.

Nothing but a lump of plastic. Time is running out for this world. Will you be surprised when they create a fabricated world war three?

Will you be surprised when Satan introduces demons that look like aliens? Will you follow my triad, et cetera, et cetera, as goes on. And, um, when was this one written? I've got a lot, all of this back in 2012.

So I guess, uh, it's hasn't happened yet. All that stuff, man. Yeah, this is good stuff.

Let's see one more and we'll get to the color. Um, firstly, this is not, and there are multiples, if not hundreds of beliefs in the Wiccan society, although it doesn't matter much to me, as I'm a Satanist, it would be better if people were better researched on it. Wow. Wow. Um, well, even though I did my Wiccan research out of Wiccan books and quoted Wiccan books and with Wiccan websites and stuff, I've talked to Wicans. Yeah, it's not true.

The Satanists would know that, wouldn't they? Let's get on the air. We're here with Caitlin from Oklahoma. Caitlin, welcome.

You're on the air. It's actually Caitlin with the PD, but I came in on the tail end of you disgusting about abortion. And I just wanted to, I just wanted to tell everyone I am 23 years old and I don't consider as a woman, it's not empowering for me to know to, uh, to, uh, you know, to kill the child that God has placed inside my womb.

I don't have any children, but this, this is my passion and like you, I wanted to just, I wanted to help argue that that child inside the womb and whoever's listening, that thing inside your womb is made in the image of God and it is not your own life. It's not a part of your body. It is, there's not a lot in there. Yeah, I would agree. I would agree with you. It is not your own body.

Yep. You're 23. I'm glad that you're calling and I'm glad you're, uh, lending support to that. And, um, I hope that more women would realize the blessing that having, uh, a child growing in you really is. Um, it's an incredible blessing. And then, yeah, that's all I have. And I just wanted to get that out there. Well, I'm glad you did. I appreciate it.

I do. I'm glad that you called up and talk about it. So thank you. All right. You're welcome. And thank you for doing the show. My pleasure. I do want people to understand, uh, the truth of who Christ is and the forgiveness that he offers, even for those, and especially for those, those women who've had abortions and the men who've supported them, that, um, you can be freed from that guilt.

You can be freed from that, uh, that act and that Jesus, Jesus can forgive you, turn to Christ, just lay it before him, be cleansed of it, and he'll do well, and he'll, he'll, he will forgive you and he'll change you. Um, you're gonna live for him. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. It's beautiful.

It is. I'll let you, I'll let you get on with the show. And I just wanted to call and support and let everyone know. Good. Well, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Okay. You're welcome. All right. Thanks, Cat. Caitlin.

Oh, Caitlin. Right. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. You're welcome. All right.

All right. There we go, everybody. Hey, if you want to give me a call, you'll have to whittle next week. We're off on Monday because it's the 4th of July and, uh, like by God's grace, back on the air on Tuesday next week, I hope we have a great weekend. I hope you have a great holiday, uh, you know, celebrate what we have left in this country and pray for the repentance of our country because it certainly means it may the Lord bless you by his grace. We're back on here on Tuesday. And God bless everybody. We'll see you. Bye. Another program powered by the truth network.