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If you can't, that's just the way it is. All right, all right, all right, all right, so let's see, let's see, let's see. I think what I'm going to do is just jump right into some of the questions, because we don't have any callers waiting right now, and we'll get to it. All right, let's see, your info on the first family, smile, smile, smile. That's all it says, info on the first family. I wonder if that person is talking about the Biden crime family. Now you think about it folks, why is the Biden crime family not impeached? Why isn't Biden out? And why did they open the borders so much, who destroyed that pipeline?

Why is the interest rate so high? Why, there's so many emails and so many verifications of Biden being in collusion with his son and the issue of, well, let's just say, not so nice, not so ethical and legal issues. So, yeah, I think our country's being taken over by enemies of our country.

That's what I think. Anyway, that's what that email is about, I guess, I don't know. Let's try another one.

A question, we already got to that one, I was at 1112 yesterday. To Matt, I'm a non-believer. Oh, yeah, we already got to that one, about craving heaven and hell. All right, the passage referencing five Philistine cities, oh, boy, excuse me, sorry about that in 1 Samuel, these are the golden tumors, okay, this may attest to David, five stones.

Oh, okay. The golden tumors that Philistine returned as a guilt offering to the Lord, one fresh, I guess, the number of cities in Philistine belong to the five lords, both fortified, okay, which may relate to the five stones. Actually, I think there's something going on there, it reminds me, I think it's in John 4, the woman at the well had five husbands. And I remember someone told me something really interesting about this, the five husbands might relate to the five nations or something that had been there previous to Israel. There was something, I can't remember what it was, it was really interesting.

Maybe if someone knows what that is, they can tell me. So, there you go, there's that. By the way, I released small bios on Carlos Garbires, he's our Spanish guy in Colombia, he works with CARM.

David Brito, he's our Portuguese guy, he works in Brazil. And I updated Laura's thing, so we've got Laura's there. And now we have Joanne, we're slowly putting stuff together. What I'm going to do is create a chart or a table of who is responsible for what things, so that people who want to know who does what in CARM can contact them. How about that? Sounds good?

Yes, it does, it's a really good idea. See, someone agrees. All right, let's just jump on the air here with, let's see, Joseph from Utah. Hey, Joseph, welcome, you're on the air. Hey, Matt, I had a question for you, I know I mentioned the show The Chosen before, have you seen some of those episodes? I've seen all of them. I haven't seen anything for two or three months, I don't know if they have anything new, but it was completely caught up, yeah.

All right, well here's my question. So, obviously there's parts that are not in the Bible, because obviously the Bible is talking about the main points of Jesus' life and some of the things his disciples did. How accurate would you say the characters are that during the time that they're not in the Bible? Like, Simon, he seems to be kind of an aggressive character, I mean, he's now coming around, now that he's spending more time with Jesus, and obviously you don't know a whole lot about Nicodemus other than he was a secret follower of Jesus, but is there any historical document that would prove that these characters are pretty close? I mean, obviously there's no way they're going to have 100% of the dialogue that happened back then, but as far as characters, I would hope there's some kind of other document that I can show my mom and say, hey, look, here's more proof of the kind of person Nicodemus was during that time, or here's the kind of person Simon or something like that was. Is there anything like that?

Nope, not that I'm aware of. Okay, so, Peter in the Bible is aggressive, you know, let's call fire down, so they kind of just wrote that into his personality. John is the beloved disciple, so they kind of write that in, and it'll be developed I'm sure. And Matthew, who I love, the idea that Matthew, the tax collector, is autistic, because I'm autistic, and my name's Matthew, so I get a kick out of that. Me too, I could have thought that same thing, it seems to be like he's an autistic character, you know, he doesn't really look anybody in the face, he repeats a lot, and he's very OCD about things. Yup, and there's nothing in the scriptures that I'm aware of that would suggest that's him, the real Matthew.

But nevertheless, you know, they took a license, and of course they're going to do that, because they have to fill in many, many, many, many hours of stuff. So it's not a big deal, I don't have any problem with that principle. Just like the Ten Commandments, there's a lot of stuff in the Ten Commandments, but with Charles and Heston, that they took liberties. But the general ideas, the story is there, and they're trying to stay faithful to scripture, and that's okay. And according to Philippians chapter 1, verse 18, which I refer to about that, Philippians 1.18, what then, only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice, yes, I will rejoice. So I rejoice that Christ is proclaimed, even in that series, okay? Okay, so then, like I said, there is no other kind of backing of who some of these characters were, because I know they said that Herod was actually worse or that he was portrayed in the Bible.

The Bible showed that, you know, he was pretty bad, but then there are other, I guess, kind of things that say he was a lot worse than what the Bible actually gave time for on Herod. So that's why I was wondering if maybe there was something around other people like Nicodemus and stuff. Yeah, I just don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe there is, but I don't know. I'm not aware of it. Maybe there's some other writing.

So if some people were listening, know of other sources where it talks about them through a legend or some of their early church fathers had heard stuff and they wrote it down, then, you know, then fine. But other than that, I just don't know. I don't think so, though. Okay. Yeah. Okay, yeah, because I love the show, and I know the parts that actually are in the Bible. I'm like, look, Ma, that's 100% accurate.

That's exactly what it says in the Bible, where Jesus says this or this happens. So I love the show. I just was holding that maybe you might know something that could give me a little more backing for other characters. All right, well.

Sorry, wish I could help you. All right. That's all right. Well, as always, Matt, I do appreciate your time and thank you and have a great day and God bless, brother. Okay, you too, man. Thanks a lot. God bless.

All right, that was Joseph. Hey, we have three open lines. If you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276 Spence for North Carolina. Welcome, you're on the air. Hey, how's it going, Matt? Great show, man. I love you. I listen to you all the time. God bless you. Thanks, man.

Appreciate it. I have a question, man. I was having a discussion with some friends of mine in a Bible study meeting, and the conversation came up about a, I think we have the same opinion when it comes to women leading in a pastoral role.

I do believe the word on that. The question was, is that a gentleman asked me that if a minister was ordained by a female pastor in a pastoral role as a minister, how does that line up in terms of a true ordination? Yeah, that's a good question.

I've never even thought of that. I would, my first reaction is to say that I don't recognize it as a valid ordination. Yeah, but there could be exceptions. I talked to a woman in Pakistan, and she was a pastor, and the reason she was, the men weren't, she said is in the area where she was, if the men stood up to be pastors, they'd be killed quickly. Right, absolutely.

And women could get away with it. So that's an exception, but normally speaking, no, women pastors and elders are just simply not biblical, and they should be avoided. And so a woman who had ordained someone, I don't recognize her position, so I don't recognize that ordination either. I guess that's my position. Wow, that's a strong opinion.

All right, man, I do in some way agree with you. Wow, does the word cook in any way clarify that there's been cases in which women has been used because of the men, you know, was not just obligated their position of leadership? Deborah, correct. Deborah in the Old Testament is a judge.

The men weren't doing their job, so she stood up, yep. And, but she was not a pastor. People used Deborah, see, it's okay for women to be pastors. She wasn't a pastor. She wasn't an elder. It's a different situation altogether. And so the Bible says that the elders to be on their musical nancos, a man of one woman, a husband of one wife. That's what it's saying.

How does a woman fit that bill? It's just, it's ridiculous. Paul says he doesn't allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man that remains silent for Adam was first created, 1 Timothy 2, 12, and 13.

So it's just not accepted. He says the next chapter in 1 Timothy 3.15, he's giving instruction on how we're to behave in the household of God. So I say to these people who deny that, or who affirm women pastors and elders, I say, you're denying God's word.

You're just denying it. I need you to repent. They do need to repent. And so women pastors and elders, if you're listening to me, you're a woman pastor, a woman elder, you need to step down immediately. You just, well, that means a church would have a pastor. Good, then let the men stand up and get it done. Okay, get out of their way and let the men stand up and start behaving like men, instead of mamby-pamby, crackerjack theologians who believe that a woman can pastor and preach and teach when that's not the position of a woman. I could talk about this for quite a bit. It's really a sensitive issue. Oh yeah, I've heard lots of your conversations based on it.

So in the position in which a man has been ordained by a female pastor in that role of leadership, pastoral leadership, do you feel like if he himself is a man of the word and he believes that a woman should not be in that pastoral position, but yet before he understood it fully. Hold on, hold on, we got a break. We got a break. No, you're not gonna finish it before we get the breaks. So hold on and we'll get to that after the break, okay? All right, buddy?

All right. Hey folks, please stay tuned. We have several open lines. Give me a call, 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Everybody, welcome back to the show. I wanna hear from you.

Give me a call, 877-207-2276. Let's get back on with Spence. Okay, Spence, where were we?

Spence. Okay, yeah, as I was saying, in all righteous, do you feel as if, because I, myself, leaning a little bit towards the fact that maybe that minister should go back and renew his ordination through a credible, you know? Yeah, I would agree.

Yep, I would agree. So think about this. A woman is a pastor and an elder in a modern church here in America. She's obviously not believing the word of God in that area. And she's submitting it to her private interpretation.

The Bible's clear, okay? It is. And if people wanna do a public, I do this every now and then. For years, I've been doing this. You wanna have a public debate with me on it?

Let me know. We'll fly up to your church. We'll do an arranged, public, recorded, in front of your church debate on the issue.

But in all the 18 years I've been doing this, full-time, I mean, four days a week, I've not had anybody take me up on it, not even once. So I think it tells something, okay? Because they know what the Bible says. So I think the women who do this, once they've been shown there and they don't affirm the word of God, are in rebellion.

Now, why would you wanna be ordained out of someone who is purposely rebelling against the word of God? See? I don't trust them. Right. And I wouldn't trust the men who approve of it either.

I'm sorry, but I wouldn't. I have a high regard for the ministry and eldership and a high regard for the responsibility of men. I have a higher regard for that than I do for those of the women because the men are the ones who are supposed to be doing what they're supposed to be doing in the church. When Adam and Eve sinned, the pre-incarnate Christ came to the man and said, where are you? He didn't ask her.

He addressed the man first. This is how it is. And so men need to step up and stop being wimps and start acting like good, godly men and don't allow women pastors and teachers and elders and stuff, pastors and elders, don't allow them in your church. Just say, no, it's not your position. Here's the word of God. You need to submit the word of God. They won't like that.

They won't like it. But I think that men should stop putting their finger, putting it up into the air and see which way the cultural wind is blowing and just follow that. Now, I believe men need to stand up and behave like men and not like followers. They need to be followers of Christ and his apostles and stand up for that.

And if it costs them, then so be it. Stand up for men. As 1 Corinthians 16, 13 says, be strong, act like men. That's what I believe. Right. Wow, appreciate it so much. I think you touched on everything as if I feel about the situation and circumstances.

And I don't feel like I've let them in a direction in which to ask clarity to the question he'd ask. So, appreciate you, man. Hey, no problem, man. God bless. Appreciate it. God bless you. Thank you. Bye-bye. All right. All right, folks, we have nobody waiting right now.

If you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276. Yes, I said it. If it's new to you, you're not sure about what I just said. Women are not supposed to be pastors and elders. Let me go over it in scripture.

According to scripture, what does the Bible say? Paul says, I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but remain quiet. The word quiet there is hasukiya. And it means, it doesn't mean you're silent. It means just keep it down. But to remain hushed is like that.

You know, hush, you can still talk, you can do stuff, but it's just, that's what's going on. And he says, for it was Adam who was first created and then Eve. And so what he's doing is he's tying this authority thing into the created order. It was Adam who was first created.

This deals with what's called primogeniture, that the first one formed. Adam, he's the one that God formed first. He's the one that God gave the authority to name the animals. He's the one who named Eve. He's the one through whom sin entered the world.

Romans 5.12, even though Eve sinned first. And so this is what Paul the apostle ties it into. And then when you dare to go to one chapter, just the next chapter, 3.15, in case I'm delayed, I write so that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God. So he's writing about this, what is supposed to be in the household of God.

He's specifically doing that. That's 1 Timothy 3.15. But notice what he says in 1 Timothy 3. It's a trustworthy statement, if any man aspires to the office of overseer.

That's the word episcopas. So some people call it bishop. It's a fine work he desires to do. An overseer must then be above approach the husband of one wife. That's what it says.

It's andra, mias, gunaikas. And that's husband of one wife. Temperate, prudent, respectable, et cetera.

He must be one who manages his own household well. But if a man does not know how to do that, then how can he manage the church? So it goes on, okay? Now when you go over to, I'll do this, go over to Titus, okay? I'm gonna read what Paul says to Titus. Titus chapter one.

He says in verse five, for this reason I left you in Crete that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you. The word elders in Greek is in the masculine form. Now this is important because in Greek, nouns have gender. They have masculine, feminine, or neuter.

So it's a very precise language. Elders in every city directed, if any man is above approach. So he's saying if any man is above approach, the husband of one wife. And here we have, why does that keep doing that? Every time I click on a word, it does that.

I don't want it to do that. I'll have to check that. And so if any man's above approach, the husband of one wife. And that's andra, mias, gunaikas. So he said the elders are to be husbands of one wife, okay?

We have children to believe. And it says for the overseer must be above reproach. So now what Paul is doing is equating the elder with the overseer, the bishop. So they're either the same office with different words or slightly different offices.

But nevertheless, we'll get into that now. It says that they're to be the husband of one wife. How does a woman fill that? How does a woman take care of that?

But can't, right? And then if you go over to 1 Timothy 5.17, the elders, oh man, the elders who rule well. Okay, the elders who rule well. And that is masterly and also are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. So the preacher in that church, we have elders who are preachers and teachers.

And so what we see here is that the elder is male. That's what it says. That's how it's supposed to be.

So why is it people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing? I'm just amazed. I'm amazed that people don't want to believe the word of God. And so I'm gonna just tell you that if you are attending a church of the woman pastor, woman elders, just leave.

You should leave. But it might offend somebody. Oh, so you're worried about the opinion of men? But I don't agree with your interpretation. Then call me up and tell me why my interpretation and the reading of scripture, just what it says, tell me why it's wrong.

This is a serious stuff. You know, the church is gonna go into apostasy as the Bible says in 2 Thessalonians 2. Well, you know what?

You don't want to be part of that, do you? Hey, we'll be right back after these messages. Please give me a call for open lines, 877-207-2276. We'll be right back.

I'm trying to text somebody in Clubhouse and it's not letting me text for some reason. So Rotten Tulip, why don't you call me up on the radio and talk about what your bio says about it. Love to talk to you.

Please feel free, 877-207-2276. Buskman from Ohio. Hey, Buskman, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, Matt. Once again, it's always a blessing to get to talk to you, sir.

Couple weeks ago, we had a tragedy in close proximity of my area where a Haitian, illegal Haitian immigrant had got behind the wheel of the car, went off the road, and basically caused a school bus full of children to wreck and a child died. In the comments of the Rumble, I'm gonna post that story from christianpost.com, Matt, so you can read it and so can your listeners if they're following you on Rumble. Here's a cool story real quick, Matt. The day, I believe it was the day after that tragedy, the moms and dads of the area gathered where the crash happened and cheered on the children in the school buses passing to help them with their grief and to kind of help them with their negative emotions about being in that area where the crash had just occurred just basically hours prior. I thought that was really cool.

My boss actually told me about that and showed it to me on his phone. I said, I would like to shake every one of those mom and dads hands. My question, Matt, is this. I know the church. I heard the missionaries on the stage, quote, unquote, missionaries, and they said that they were going to partner with the federal government in McAllen, Texas and help the federal government process the migrants coming across the southern border. And the pastor said, we're gonna take up, you know, an offering for these folks. And I just found out recently that they reported back to that church and the pastor was all for them being there.

Should $5 go to that kind of activity, Matt? In their defense, they did say they were going to evangelize, but. Yeah, I can't tell you what people want to do in that respect. That's between them and God. I wouldn't support it.

That's just my opinion. Because I believe what's happening at the border is illegal and I believe that the President of the United States, this moron who's in office, is trying to destroy our country and I don't want to assist people in it. In my part, and I talked it over with another brother too, Matt, it seems like aiding and abetting. The church is aiding and abetting this illegal activity and should our tithe dollars be supporting such activity. I actually talked to the missionaries when they got off the stage when I saw them. And I said, ma'am, sir, can't you go to their country of origin and give them the gospel? Why are you waiting for them to illegally cross the United States Southern border and then you quote unquote evangelize if you actually evangelize them and what you said up on the stage was that you are going to aid the federal government in processing these folks. Yeah, I have a problem with that.

I couldn't reconcile it, Matt. Yeah, I can't even watch news anymore. I stopped about three months ago because I get so angry at what the evil that our government is doing. And it's promoting homosexuality, it's promoting abortion and now it's flooding, let our borders be crossed and flooded with people, not just illegals. From different countries, but also from people who are coming in our country who hate America and are going to be working in secret cells in order to wait to a right time to destroy and to cause problems. And this is what's going to happen, sir.

And Biden, as far as I'm concerned, he's the Biden crime family ought to be impeached at the least. And I think good men, they're going to do something because we're going to lose our country and it's happening. You know, and I'm here in Idaho and I speak Spanish pretty well, you know, and I'm in stores up in here in Idaho and I hear people just speak in Spanish all the time.

And I'm like, come on, you know, at least, you know, I get it. You know, you can learn, you know, speak the language, you know, you're comfortable with, but I'm just hearing it more and more. And I was in San Diego for, you know, 14 years and you had to speak Spanish to get around. And, you know, if you could come to the country, learn a language and it just doesn't seem to be happening. What seems to be happening is that people coming in, they keep their culture, they want their language and they want us to adapt to them.

Well, that's the formula for the destruction of one of the factors of destroying a country. When you go into a country, if I were to go to Germany and live there for 10 years, one of the first things I'm going to do is take lessons on how to learn a language and speak their language to the best of my ability. That's what you do, you learn their culture.

You don't demand what you want for yourself. And I got lots of stories from being down there. I do, I got stories. And it's not good.

And so I know what, you know, I've had firsthand of experience in it in several different contexts. So I just think what Biden is doing is wrong. And, you know, people want to come into the country, do it legally, do it the way you're supposed to do it. That's all. Yeah. But it makes me so frigging mad what he's doing.

He's a socialist communist, as far as I'm concerned, who hates this country. Yeah, he's just trying to... And I'm sure a lot of Americans feel the same way, Matt. And when it came into the church, so that's when I really got flags went up. And I thought, I'm going to have to talk to this couple, you know, at least try to reason with them calmly, you know.

And it seemed like it went in one ear and out the other. Somehow they seemed justified. And I'm like... They don't care. Yeah. I couldn't finish my thought because I get upset, Matt.

Yeah. You know, people, I've talked to people who said that there should be no borders. Okay, then you better not lock your door at night. You better have your door wide open wherever you live. If there's no borders, don't have a border on your domicile where you live.

Don't do that. Don't be a hypocrite and say it's okay for someone else to have to pick up the cost, but not me. So I've asked them, your door's open. They say, of course not. So you're just a hypocrite. The left thinks, I hate the left. And I'm not proud of the right either. The left thinks they know better than anybody else. They're useful idiots.

And that you're going to... That nobody could beat America externally. They're destroying it internally. That's what's happening. It's just so much stuff.

It's just bad. We have a great thing here. I kind of wonder if I took the story that happened close to where I work, once again, my boss knows some of the folks that was involved in the cheering crowd.

I thought that was so awesome. What if that pastor found out that the couple that he supports with his congregation's tithe dollars, what if that was one of the people that those missionaries processed who got behind that wheel of the car in that area and that little boy's dead? But you could also have the same thing happen with someone who entered legally through the process. So it's not the best idea. Yeah, but this guy was illegal. Yeah, this guy was illegal. But I'm saying just because, I'm saying the logic is just because he's illegal and did this doesn't mean that that proves being illegal is bad. Because you can have someone who's legal come in and do the same thing and it doesn't prove that. So you can have someone who's legal come in and it happened. It doesn't prove that therefore that what's his legal immigration is bad.

So it's not the argument I would use. But when we start seeing more, well, we're starting to now, where groups of these illegals who are coming in are now attacking the police. And I don't know if you've heard about this. It's happening. And so it's just, we're just breeding, my mom used to say breeding scabs.

You just cause, you just make yourself worse for yourself later on. And that's exactly what's happening in our country. And as far as I'm concerned, they need to be rounded up and kicked out of the country. You just send them back to where they're coming from. Because they're, and if you want to come in, you do it legally and not illegally. And I don't blame them for wanting to get a better life.

I get it. But do what you got to do in your country. We can't take everybody. We cannot do that. Our country will fail. We can't do it.

And I need to send missionaries out there, but we need, what really needs to happen is we need to get these morons out of governmental office. And there's just, there's gotta be a deep state in control of everything. Yeah, I just tell you, it just makes me so stinkin' mad.

It does, I can't even watch news anymore. Yeah, it's, I mean, it just makes me mad. But as Psalm 4 says, and the apostle Paul reiterated, brother, we can be angry, but sin not. And that's where I wanna go with, you know, should I tell my friend who attends the church to keep paying his tithe to, you know, support.

Because part of his tithe dollars that he's given to the Lord is going to help process these illegal migrants coming into the country. And I can't, I can't do it. I couldn't do it, Matt, yeah.

Okay, ask him this. Would you support someone coming in and squatting in one of your bedrooms in your home? Yeah.

Or anybody else's? And they're doing it illegally, they're coming in, would you, and hey, it's okay, they're here, so let's evangelize them, it's okay. Don't you guys support that? No. Hey, we gotta break, okay? And that's their, yeah, that's, yep, sounds good. Hey, thanks, Matt, I can take off. Okay, God bless you. Have a good evening, brother, bye-bye.

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You can give me a call if you want, 877-207-2276. So we talked about, you know, various things, and I brought my notes up on the biblical form of government and stuff. I was gonna read through some of the things.

I went through and looked and did some research from other sources and things like that. What does the Bible say about our government and how it's supposed to be? So it says people have the right to do with their properties that they desire, Acts 5, four. And so we have these climate activists who I think should be jailed. And some of them have gone in and sliced tires out of SUVs, now I think SUVs are gas guzzlers, but people have the right to purchase what they want and let the market change the issue to electrical to more efficient this or that. Not a bunch of people slicing tires.

So that means you are damaging someone else's property. And that's not biblical, can't do that. You can complain, you can protest. You have the right, because that's part of free speech, which is what the Bible teaches also. We're supposed to have a representative form of government led by godly people. That's Exodus 18, 21 through 22, Deuteronomy 113. We certainly don't have godly people in the government, and I don't believe it's representative anymore. In my opinion, the last election was, let's just say it best, dubious.

Just look at the special 3,000 mules, you should look at that. The government, we're supposed to have self-governance, Matthew 18, 15 through 17, private property rights, Exodus 20, verse 17, the liberty to act freely, 2 Corinthians 3, 17, 1 Peter 2, 16. We're supposed to be able to act freely. So what happens now is, more and more in our culture, if you act in a way that doesn't go with the status quo, they use the word canceled.

And so it's called prior restraint, where you restrain your own speech and freedom, because you're afraid you might get penalized for it. This is not a free culture when that's the case. We're supposed to have the right to bear arms, Luke 22, 36, practiced capitalist principles, believe it or not, Matthew 21, 33 through 41. And every now and then I see these morons, Marxists saying how evil capitalism is, and they're just stupid, ignorant morons. Because they don't study history and see what Marxism has done, what communism has done. More people were killed, or over 100 million people were killed in the 1900s under communist socialist regimes.

100 million, over at least 100 million. And these morons say that capitalism is what's bad, and they want socialism, real socialism. They don't know what real socialism is. Anyway, the Bible says in Deuteronomy 19, 15, Matthew 18, 16, that we're supposed to have a fair trial with witnesses. That's good, and this is interesting, Deuteronomy 17, 14 through 15, not to have foreigners rule over you. Now, that's interesting because the United Nations, our country, our stupid, oh, it just makes me so mad, leaders, what they're slowly doing is giving our rights away to foreign powers.

And this is ungodly, it's wrong. They don't have the best interests of America at heart. They're the ones who sit in the comfort of whatever home or whatever situation they're in and starting to decide what America should and shouldn't do. It's supposed to be a representative system here, but it's not representative if someone else is saying what we can and can't do. And it's starting to move more and more towards that to the United Nations.

This is, it's bad news. And the government does have the right of taxation, and that's fine, Luke 20, 24 through 25, but not to be oppressive in it. And our taxation system is oppressive. Supposed to have the right of free speech, that's Proverbs 31, Galatians 4, Psalm 19. So further Christian principles in government should be things like not taking a bribe, not lying. Now, how many of you believe that our politicians are just incredibly honest people of character? How many believe that?

Not me. Not take a bribe, not lie, supposed to be honest, believing that your position of influence is for the benefit of others, not yourself. Does that fit the Biden crime family? Of course not.

You're not to participate in insider trading, Hillary. Believing all life is sacred, even that in the womb, that's what it's supposed to be doing. But no, what do they do? They promote killing the unborn.

It supports killing the destruction of life in the womb. Our borders are supposed to be secure, but they open the borders. There are such things as men and women, and then our government is starting to blur that as well. And when you blur that, you undermine the strength of the family. And then when you assert that there's a male and a female husband and wife, that's how it should be, then you're the one who's bad. So things are just, this is just evil.

As Isaiah 5, 20 says, beware of those who call evil good and good evil. Sexuality should not be taught in elementary schools of children. This is another issue, it should not be taught. This is brainwashing. It's brainwashing and it's perversion. This is not the job of the schools to try and get children to drop pronouns, do transgender crap. It's not the place of schools to do that. They're supposed to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic kind of stuff.

Not the morality of sexuality. This is something that is between the parents and the children. But now what the state is doing is believing more and more like big brother and brave new world that the state has the right to condition your children for the use that it sees fit. And this is something that we have to be careful of because when they start demanding your children, they'll turn them into brown shirts. Brown shirts were the youth group that were in Nazi Germany.

And it was an unofficial uniform, they called them brown shirts. And they would turn people in who didn't bow to the Nazi socialist system. Nazism was socialism.

People don't know that the socialist party was, not just the socialist party. And so the brown shirts were those who turned people in and even parents were afraid of their own children because they were being indoctrinated through government-run schools. This is what's happening in our country today, folks.

It's serious stuff. And we have the right of self-defense. And what's the government want to do?

Take away our guns? It's really bad stuff. And so it's just bad stuff. It's just bad stuff, let me read something from 2 Thessalonians 2, I can go into that.

Maybe it'll depress people. In 2 Thessalonians 2, let me get to it. There we go, come on. Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or disturbed, either by a spirit or a message or a letter, as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first. So the apostasy means the falling away from the truth.

Well, our government is certainly doing that in the sense that it is falling away from the truth of biblical principles and governmental systems in protecting the innocent and not promoting homosexuality and the perversions of such things from an official system. And so apostasy in the world is often followed by apostasy in the church. And because the church, what it often does is listen to the ways of the world and tries to get along.

Instead of being evangelists to the world, they're pacifists to the world and let the world become the aggressors. But anyway, Paul says, no one would deceive you for the coming of our Lord will not come until the apostasy comes first. So this is happening in the Christian church. Now, the Roman Catholic Church is already apostate. The Eastern Orthodox Church are apostate. They're false churches. They're not true Christian churches. And anyone who believes in official Roman Catholic and official Eastern Orthodox doctrine, you're going to hell when they die. Official, I said, okay.

And you can call me tomorrow and we can talk about it. And so Protestants, they're moving into heresies with teachers like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland and Joyce Meyer and various doctrines, doctrines of demons as they're denying the sufficiency of the cross and the means of salvation only through Christ. There are a lot of false teachers out there. And this is because people are not regarding the word of God with the severity that they need to, that it is true and it's the final authority in everything it addresses. And so the Roman Catholic Church, for example, and the Eastern Orthodox Church don't believe that the scriptures are the final authority. They believe that their churches are the final authority. And this is why they're an apostasy. And so in Protestantism, if you don't believe in the authority of the scriptures, then you're going to follow the apostasy. And it reminds me, you had this guy on, and is he still around, where he says that the five points of Calvinism tulip are just ungodly and biblical and this and that.

And I always challenge people like that to say, well, come and talk to me, let's see, let's go to the scriptures, let's see what the scriptures teach. And they don't want to do that. And it reminds me, this is a small point, but it reminds me of those people who attack this sovereignty of God, the majesty of God, because that's what they're doing. They're attacking the doctrines of God's grace that God calls, God elects, God predestines. They don't like that.

It's up to us. And so this is a form of apostasy. Man-centeredness is an apostate position where God is the one who judges you on your worthiness based on your condition of your heart and how you were wise enough to pick God. That's not what the scriptures teach.

And so this is an apostate doctrine taught in a lot of Protestant churches. So the apostasy is coming. And he says, that must happen. And then the man of lawlessness is revealed.

The son of destruction. So the apostasy must occur. And then the man of lawlessness, the antichrist, is to be revealed. So the antichrist will come into play when the church has gone basically apostate. You don't want to be among the apostate. You want to be among those who are Christians who may have to lay their lives down for the faith. Sorry, but this is what the scriptures teach. And you don't want to become part of the apostate system, right?

So then this son of destruction who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship so that he takes his seat in the temple of God displaying himself as being God. So this is going to occur. They're actually working on rebuilding the, getting ready to start building at the third temple in Jerusalem. And so if that starts to happen, they start building it, oh my goodness, get ready. We seem to be heading down a one-world government kind of an idea. I saw some recent stuff now where, I don't know how true it is, but I saw it, it seemed like a TED Talk or something.

I don't know where it was. The guy was talking about how they can get brain waves. They can start seeing what your thoughts. And they have some really interesting ways of doing that.

Don't know how true it is, but I wouldn't be surprised. Technology's advancing very, very quickly. I do know they can tap into your routers in your homes and find out where you're standing.

They can aim weapons, not these weapons, but these things at your home and they can tell you where your guns are. I've talked to a lot of people who have a lot of knowledge about a lot of stuff that's just not taught very much, but these things are the case. I have a friend, I just say, oh, we're out of time. Oh, I got so much more I could tell you, but we're just out of time.

I can't tell you about the vehicles they're producing to go through the neighborhoods. Hey, oh, there we go. So, hey, I'll be on the earth in about two hours on Clubhouse. Just answer your questions. Do it on Wednesday night. If you're interested, you can join clubhouse.com. Clubhouse is an app on the phone. You can check it out. Your register, it's free. Look for my name and you'll find it two hours. Hey, I'm out of here. God bless everybody. Talk to you tomorrow. Another program powered by the Truth Network.