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It's me, Matt Slick, here listening to your calls and responding to your questions at 877-204-2276. So it's either going to be we need to try to save both of these patients or we need to deliver a dead child in which you're still going to have to go through the delivery and you will still be in the same risk. You're now saying this is what needs to be done in certain circumstances so there's lots of variables, lots of things.

I think we should just keep it generic because we can go on with particulars all night. There are a lot of women out there who have had abortions, a lot of men who supported that and both need to come to the cross to Christ and be forgiven of their sins. But a lot of times people will say life begins at consumption and it does not begin at consumption.

It continues. The egg and the sperm are alive and life just is combined. And what a lot of people don't know is when fertilization occurs there's a spark of light that occurs and it's really interesting and it's been photographed.

And so it's there and I don't know what that is but it might be the work of God for all I know. But that point has all the information of being human and you can't say... One of the things I'll do with the womb scrapers is I'll say when does it become human? I've had them say as late as well when it's giving birth. That's when it becomes human, when it leaves the womb, which is stupid.

I mean it's just ridiculous arguments but so many people don't care. You can kill it ten minutes before birth and it's not a human. And then I ask what changes its nature from non-human to human?

What is it? A birth process going through the birth canal? All of a sudden its ontological nature is now altered? Is that what you're saying? You ask all kinds of questions and they just fumble because they don't know how to answer them but they don't care. What they want is the convenience of their own lives at the cost of another. Yeah and that's why this is child sacrifice that's happening. Think about the ancient Israelites who were offering their children to Molech.

Molech was giving them, I mean it doesn't say precisely, but about a full crop or peace or whatever. Today we sacrifice our children for career or education or money or convenience or whatever the case may be. But we're still offering our children up to be slaughtered for a benefit for ourselves essentially.

So by definition it's child sacrifice. And yesterday you were saying that you weren't super familiar with the abolitionist stance I guess. Yeah I'm researching it though. I emailed you. Yeah I've already started. Yeah awesome man, that's great.

I emailed you last night, info at Karm. And it's from a site or an organization called Abolish Human Abortion. And they have what are called the five tenets of abolitionism. I know you're super busy man. It's like a five minute read.

It's worth it because I mean this is like it's biblical. I will. It's right.

Check it out. Yeah cool man. Awesome.

Yeah so I just wanted to follow up with you. I live in Ohio obviously. We have a rep who is putting forward a bill in the coming months for just full criminalization, abolishing abortion in Ohio. If you wouldn't mind I would just like to ask for people listening and yourself for prayer on that that the Lord would use that and see success. Okay.

Well they can pray and that's what people do. That's one of the things people do. So good. Absolutely. Okay. Cool brother.

Yeah and again if you know I know how busy you are so it would be really I think really fruitful for you to check that out. Okay. Sounds good. Okay. Cool man. I appreciate you. All right man. Well God bless. Thanks. Appreciate it. All right brother. Yep. Bye bye.

Okay bye. So about that topic. I know there's a lot of people out there who are very disturbed about this kind of topic. Let me say that you need to look to Jesus. Would Jesus have advocated killing the unborn for your convenience? Is that something Jesus would have advocated? Would he have supported that? The answer of course is no. He wouldn't have.

And we shouldn't either. Now I know that there are people who have had abortions and men who have been involved with them as well. And all I can say is that you need to look to Jesus and you need to confess it to Christ. You need to look to him and find forgiveness in him. If you have guilt or suppressed guilt or if you think that certain things have happened in your life because of past abortions and the consequences have come to you. Maybe just you believe them and no one else may. Because you have guilt because you wonder.

Let me tell you. The blood of God on earth, on that cross is greater than anything you could have done. And by trusting and putting your faith in what he has done.

And only in what he has done. Not his work and your baptism. Not his work and your Eucharist and your priest and your whatever. And your good works and all this stupidity.

No. The only one who can forgive you is the Lord Jesus Christ. He has all authority in heaven and earth. He died in the cross.

He rose from the dead after three days. He commanded the storm to obey and it did. And he said that if you ask him anything in his name he will do it. He is one who forgives sin so you need to go to him. And you will find that freedom in him.

That release in him. And trust him. But I have to warn you. To warn you about something. You can go to Christ to be forgiven of such great sins.

And he will. But if that is the only reason. Well it may not be the right reason. You see. Jesus died to save us from our sins.

Not just one particular one. If you are already a Christian. And this is over your head hanging out upon your heart. Then go to Christ with that one and you confess it. But if you are not a Christian and you want to be freed from all of this.

As well as other sins. You trust in Christ to forgive you. You trust in him.

You ask him to forgive you. But I have to warn you that he will receive you as you are. And he will cleanse you from your sins. But he won't leave you as you are. He will never leave you. He will take you seriously. And he will want you to change throughout your entire life. To be a follower of him.

Not of your own flesh. And not of somebody else or a career or an ideology or political party. He wants himself to be the number one person in your life. And that is hard sometimes. But that is what he wants.

In exchange. He will forgive you. And even if you don't follow him very well. He still forgives you. But he wants you to count the cost. That he will take you as you are but he won't leave you as you are. He will work in your heart. And he will change you. I know.

I've experienced it. So hey look. If you want to give me a call. All you have to do is dial 877-207-2276. You can also email me. info at karm.org.

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Radio comment or radio question. And we'll get to you. Let's get to Jermaine from California.

Jermaine. We've got about a minute left before the break. What do you got buddy? Oh hi Matt. So today I just want to continue in the believers in politics.

And I just finished the BNC. And I tried to give it a chance. But it was disturbing to me. Because I saw several ministers. Including Al Sharpton.

Kind of sad lightly. But I noticed a lot of people crisscrossing the aisles and beliefs. And it made me go from wondering. Can believers be in politics. Or are some of these people just outright just damned. Because some of the things they were endorsing.

While listing their credentials as ministers and reverends and whatever. It was just completely. We got a break. I want you to come back and list a couple of things that they've said and done. And we'll get back okay.

Hey folks we've wrapped that gap for these messages. So I want you to give me a call. We'll talk to you in a bit. It's Matt Slick live. Taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

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And that was also the phone number to give me a call. I do too much. Alright let's get to Jermaine. Everybody get back on.

Okay. Yeah just as I was saying I saw some things endorsed. And this is strictly speaking for people who claim to be believers. And I kept hearing the phrase love who you want to love. And women's or what they call it freedom of choice and women's health.

And you know of course we're for women's health. But that's usually a code word for something more nefarious. And then now Al Sharpton had said something that just was absolutely atrocious. Where he said basically they were the party that helped bring gays out of the closet. And then of course he identifies himself as a preacher. And it was just very to me it was insulting for someone to say something like that.

Yeah I don't worry. Yeah I wouldn't be attending his church I'll put it that way. But then the other thing I noticed was outside of the DNC.

They had besides the barriers they kept out the immigrants that they begged to get over here. They also had abortion and vasectomy clinics set up outside so you can have it on demand. Like I said I'm not against men doing something. But that's for yourself. That's not eliminating another human being outright. So there's too many red flags for me for any believers to actually consider as something you can have as a political choice. But it just made me wonder are some of these people beyond compromising like they're just outright serving Satan. Well they are serving the devil absolutely.

I'll sharpen this too. If we're going to become Christians and we're going to live for Christ. And you don't support homosexuality. You don't support killing babies.

You don't support socialism and communism and Marxism and things like this. Which are all unbiblical. And so Jesus says if you say you know me and don't keep my commandments. The truth is not in you and you're a liar.

That's 1 John 2 4. So any preacher who gets up there to DNC and starts praising the Democratic Party which is the party of slavery. Jim Crow laws. The LGBTQ idiocy. The DEI. The woke. Socialism. Abortion.

No I'm sorry. You can't call them brothers and sisters in Christ. You can't. And you shouldn't. And they need to be taken care of.

You know voided out and alike. But yeah it's bad news. It is really bad news.

Yeah. OK. Yeah well thank you for that. Listen I try to be fair and watch every agonizing minute. This one was particularly hard to get through.

But I just wanted to be informed and I'm very glad I did. So there is no way any of these people could ever get my vote. Just as a believer I can't. And I know people will try to say well how could you pick the other side. It's like at this point I'd be looking at policy and I understand why people wouldn't want to participate. That's their right. But to me anything and everything to keep these particular groups of people out I think is vital. And what they did to RFK Junior was just it's supposed to be illegal.

But of course they did it and you know he'll make his moves to do what he does. But yeah I just don't see how a believer could endorse these people. So I don't either. I don't either. And what gets me I was watching the news this morning with my wife and this leftist was talking about how horrible Trump was.

Now I'm not saying he's the best. But they said this person said she was going to be going for Kamala because Kamala is wonderful this and that. I'm like what are you taking moron pills. You know it's just ridiculous. And the brainwashing that is going on by the left. It's amazing to me. I want to know what's going on. I want to know what cult technique are they using to get these people to believe the stuff they're believing. It's amazing to me.

Yeah on that one I have an answer actually. What? Because I used to work in tech in that field and it's just she appears to be the recipient of just one of the most prolific media machines I've ever seen. Like they they're going through social media. They're they're trying to make it cool. And I I could tell you that from the music they were playing at the at the Chicago Center there like they they had this whole thing down and they had it almost like a club atmosphere. So it's almost like fun and trendy and cool. You know they had their version of entertainers and they had it from top to bottom where they they do the same thing that a lot of false churches do where they manipulate you with music and they manipulate you with emotion.

And then by the time you're done, you know, you walk out and your pockets have been pleased and your mind's been molested, but you didn't really hear anything. So it's the same thing here. This particular person wasn't elected at all. She was selected and the one who did have the most to say R.K. Jr. They they tried to sue law fair and pretend he didn't exist and make make him out to be a conspiracy theorist and uncool. So you asked what kind of kool aid they're drinking. That said, these are the same people that I mean, I'm trying to be careful here, but some if you if you invited them for a Bible study, they'd look at you crazy. But they would sit for six hours and watch this mess and be completely entertained by it. So that's how it happens.

Also, confirmation bias. And plus, you're fed what you want to see. So you'll only get that kind of information that favors you. Me, I will watch Fox. I will watch Fox, ABC, CNN.

I want to see what's happening all over and I want to be informed. So anyway, that's my practice. All right. Well, thanks for giving me an opportunity to speak.

Thanks for your answer and for the show. Appreciate it. All right, man. Well, God bless, buddy. God bless.

OK. All right. Hey, everybody, if you want to give me a call, the number is 8772072276. Let's get to John from Salt Lake City. John, welcome.

Hey, Matt. Matt, did I hear you say a few minutes ago that life begins before conception? No, it doesn't begin before. Life continues at conception. OK, because Psalm 139 makes it seem like it starts at conception.

I just want to make sure we're on the same page. No, the egg is alive. The sperm are both alive.

They come together. Life continues. That's what I'm saying. Right, but they're just cells on their own until they come together. Yes, but I didn't say human life. I said life continues through the egg and the sperm. We wouldn't say that each egg is a human, a full human being. But the work that God brings, life continues. There's only one beginning of life, and that's God. That's it.

He began life on Earth, and everything from that beginning has filtered down through creation of what we have now. OK? OK.

I'm not sure I'm understanding that. Let's wait till the break, and we'll go over it again, OK? All right, buddy, hold on. OK. Hey, folks, we'll be right back after these messages.

The number is 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276. Let's get back on with John from Salt Lake City.

John, welcome you on the air. Hey, Matt, so let's just be clear what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about life in general. I'm just talking about an individual human's life. That happens at conception, right?

Yes. OK. We agree then. Now, at conception, see, life continues. Life does not come from non-life. But how human life is derived or produced, we don't know. Because God is the one who puts the soul, does the soul, et cetera. And that's what I'm saying is, that's what we're just not exactly sure.

But anyway, go ahead. Well, I think Psalm 139 explains that that's what he's doing in a mother's womb, right? Yes, he forms us in the womb, it says. But there are different views in theology. Is the human soul the product of the sperm and the egg? And that when it generates, a human life is generated. And as a psalmist says, you know, God works it and puts it together. Or is it the case that when they come together, God does something supernatural and induces the soul into that fertilized egg?

And these are just some of the questions that have been asked in theology. OK. So I have a related question for you. If I understand right, when people are doing in vitro fertilization, test tube babies, they often overdo it, making embryos, the scientists. Right.

Yes, they do. What do you think ought to happen to all those extra embryos that don't get put back into the mother? They shouldn't be murdered and they shouldn't have been produced in the first place. That's a difficult question to ask. And I think that they were looking for women who need surrogates. That's a possibility. But then there's other issues. It gets complicated.

I've written on this and studied this and it gets nuanced about how to do what, when's one thing acceptable but not another. It's tough. So it's an easy one to get into. I would think that those embryos are alive, though. Yeah, I would say so, of course. OK. Yeah, it's a hard question.

Anyway, that was my main question at the conception. I misheard you earlier. So that's it. Thank you, Matt. OK. You're welcome.

God bless. You too. OK. We'll see you.

All right. Now let's get on to, let's see, Dorothy from Virginia. Hey, Dorothy, welcome. You're on the air. Hi, Matt.

I just have a question. This is my favorite Gospel, the Book of John. The Gospel of John. Someone said that people are saying that's a forgery and I don't believe that. Have you heard that before? Yeah, you know, there's going to be critics who are going to say all kinds of things. They're going to say, oh, that book's a forgery, that book's a forgery, this one, that one. And scholars say this and just dump it. Because I have a saying, my scholar can beat up your scholar.

And the Gospel of John was known in the early church as being written very, very early in the first century. And they recognized it as authentic. So when scholars come along later and say, well, you know what? Let me tell you what couldn't have been the case.

I just take their opinions and put them in the trash can. OK. OK. Thank you, Matt.

That's all I had. Thank you. You're welcome. God bless. OK. God bless. All right. Let's get to, man, let me do this. So the number to call me, 877-207-2276. Let's get to, oh, it's DG. Hey, big guy. I know a DG. OK, so welcome. You're on the air.

Hi, this is DG. I'm calling from Michigan and I'm just calling for prayer. And I asked if you were taking prayers, taking in just for a call, a prayer. I'm in like desperate prayer. Like, I don't know if you want to call desperate, but I'm like, I, I'm a Christian.

I'm a saved Christian. And I've been serving God, loving God, and I'm needing deliverance from something evil. And I'm praying God delivers me very, like, a lot quicker.

This has been going on for two years. And this thing works for the enemy literally of the devil. And I'm just needing prayers for deliverance and forever. May this thing never return again in my life, ever. May it never return and be home where I can be home with my children and their dad.

And just have the freedom in Christ and my children have their mother back. This, this is something, and I know the Lord says he hears from the righteous. So, and two more gather in his name, ask for anything on earth, it shall be done. And so, I'm asking if you can pray for this for DG. Yeah, I can pray.

Yeah, I can pray for you. I'm not sure what the issue is. Is it a demonic thing or a situational thing?

Yeah, it's very, it's dark. It's been harassing me for two years. It's not in my head.

I don't need medication or anything. Okay. This is a person who literally lets the devil go inside of him.

And yeah, it's been going on for two years. I'm not making this up. Are you going to church? I do go to church. I go to Bible study.

I work at home. I read the word of God. I mean, I'm in two different Bible studies and everything. I'm very active.

Okay. So you go to church, which means there should be some elders at that church. Have you talked to the elders about this also? Certain people. I ask for prayers for deliverance. And this is, this thing follows me.

You can't see. Have you, and I'm asking specifically, have you talked to the elders of your church about this? No, this is a church where they don't have elders. They have pastors, so. A pastor is an elder.

If there's an elder in Michigan, I go too. It's a person, an elder, excuse me, a pastor is by definition an elder. They have two pastors and they have two elders. So you need to go to, I'm not saying, I'm not going to pray for anything, but you need to go to them and talk to them about this as well.

Because that's what the church is there for. All right. And we can pray. We have a prayer ministry and Joanne runs that.

And she does a great job. And if there's a person who is demonically influenced and they're defecting you, I can certainly pray for that. All right. Okay.

Yes. And to be delivered by God, God is here to deliver me, but it's just very scary situation. So just pray if you could do that for me. And also for my children and their dad.

Trying to get back home and stay there and just to be delivered forever. May this never return again in Jesus' name. Yeah.

It's difficult to pray specifically without knowing more, but I'll be generic. Okay. All right. Okay. All right.

Okay. Lord Jesus, we come before you, Lord. We ask that you would just guard DG and that you would be around her, put a hedge of protection around her and her family, her children, her husband, and that whatever demonic influence is going on, Lord, that you would break it, that you would put a hedge of angelic protection around her, that you by your sovereign hand would move, and that demonic forces and influences would be rebuked. And if there's anybody working against her and praying against her, Lord, that spiritually I ask that you would break that as well and turn their cursing and their wishes against them, that they might be taught to not ever mess with you or God's people. We ask, Lord, for your mercy and grace and power upon her and upon the people in her lives.

And hopefully she can meet with elders in the church, pastors in the church, and talk about this and have regular prayer and meetings as it would be good. So, Lord Jesus, we lift this up and we ask this in your precious name, Lord. Amen.

In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you so much. And if you could put me on the list, too, with the woman that you left. You can always email us. There's a prayer list on Carmen.

They'll put you in contact. But you're on, okay? All right. Thank you. Okay. All right. You're welcome. All right. Can I get?

Okay, thank you. Bye-bye. Okay. So, folks, if you want, you can give me a call, 877-207-2276.

I want to hear from you. Give me a call. Also, you can get to me via email. If that's easy to do, just send an email to info at karm.org, info at karm.org, and put in the subject line radio comment or radio question. Then we can get to that as well.

All right. Since we have nobody waiting right now, and what I want to do, nobody waiting, nobody coming in, I can get to some of the emails. Now, as so many of you have wanted me to read hate mail, I have bad news. There's no hate mail. You know, I used to get a lot, and it was great. I really enjoyed it. I would love reading hate mail, going through it.

It was a lot of fun. But, unfortunately, it's dried up, and we'll just have to do without hate mail, and we can get to some of the questions that people have emailed me. I'll do that after the break, 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. All right, everyone, welcome back to the show. Please give me a call.

All you have to do is dial 8772072276. Easy. We have nobody waiting, so how about if I get on to, let's see, some of the emails and stuff like that, radio comments, radio questions. We've got a few. All right, let's see.

How about this one? Corporate election, not familiar with it, please explain this. Corporate election is that God, for example, elected the nation of Israel, corporately the people in it under the covenant requirements, and God's work through covenant with the people and representations of the nation.

He then worked with those people. An election means choosing. God has the right to choose what nation he does what with, and that's what that is. So he says, I absolutely hold to individual election.

That's good, because I do too. It's biblical. You can go to, I think it's Acts 9-15 where it says that Paul is a chosen vessel, so individuals who are chosen. That's one of the approved texts for others. So the person says, I absolutely hold to an individual election, and we cannot come to God on our own.

That's correct. That's what Jesus says. You cannot come to me unless the Father grants it to you, John 6, 65. But my pastor holds to this and also denies predestination. How do you do that? How do you affirm God's election chooses people for salvation, because that's what election is, and then he doesn't predestinate them into salvation, because it says in Ephesians 1, 4 and 5, and I'll read this to you, it's just blowing me down.

How do you do that? Let's see. So it says here, he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we'll be holy and blameless before him in love. He predestined us to adoptions. So I mean, election and predestination go together. It's right there in Ephesians 1, 4 and 5. Anyway, he claims God just needs to nudge a person to get them to believe and have faith.

Oh, man, I love this kind of stuff. Just a nudge. God just nudges you. And then I believed. And I did.

Why? Because God nudged me. What did it feel like? Well, he nudged me, and then I woke up five states later, because the nudge was pretty strong. You know, that's one kind of nudge. But what he's talking about is nudging the heart. Here, nudge, nudge, nudge.

It's ridiculous. It's nudge theology. God doesn't nudge you.

I love this stuff. It's just not there, okay? God grants that we have faith, Philippians 1, 29. It's nudge. And it's so dumb.

Sorry, but it is. And so God is just going to help you love. He's going to give you what you need, right? It's up to you and your wisdom to believe. Nowhere does it say that in the scripture.

Nowhere, except in the book of 2nd Chronicles. Let's see. Nudge a person to get them to believe and have faith, which comes before regeneration. Is that a temporal precession? Because if it is, then we have someone who believes who for a time is not regenerate.

Now, how do you have that? How do you have a believer who's not regenerate? It just doesn't make sense. Anyway, he says, which is entirely different than my understanding, stance, and belief. The gospel is preached, but the way of calling men to Christ, he is very man-centered and bothers me.

Yes, it is man-centered, obviously. It's like a prevenient grace. Prevenient grace. God gives you the grace ahead of time. He works in you to kind of nudge you into the place so you can go, hey, I just recognized I need God because I got nudged.

A little prevenient grace nudging me in there. Yeah, it doesn't work. Not in the Bible. And he says, I'm not sure how to handle this. Oh, have him talk to me. I'll nudge him towards the truth. Anyway, handle this, but want to know what the issue with this view he has.

It's semi-Pelagianism and Armenianism. It's a weak theology. I hope I explained this well enough, brother. Are there any good books outside of Scripture on regeneration before faith and how should I handle this situation? I don't know of any books out there that discuss that.

I mean, I know there are. I just don't read them because I study Scripture and I've gone through so many years ago. I've read the books. I have books for reference.

Now I just use them for referencing and searches and they go, what's the specific point? So it's been a while since I've read any. In fact, the latest book I've read is my own on the influence which I re-released on Karm and on Amazon. That was the last one I read. And before that, man, I can't remember the last book I read. I go through a lot of books, though. Anyway, he says, I feel an urge to move to another church and it is a tough situation.

Yeah, I'd be moving, too. God nudges. I mean, come on. Doesn't God know how much grace, how much nudging to give a person to get them to believe? It's ridiculous.

It's just ridiculous. It's the idea that God's saying, I want you to get saved. I'm going to help you out a little bit, kind of bring you to a neutral position so it's all up to you. It's all up to you.

And then a little nudge, a little help, you'll come in and you'll believe and pat you on the back. No, it's not how it works. It's not biblical theology. I'm sorry, but it's not.

And I discuss this regularly with all kinds of people on the Internet. It is not biblical. So anyway, as Arminian as he is and preaches the gospel, as he preaches the gospel, the true gospel, it is still focused and the main thing but the way of salvation is man-centered and it robs the gospel in my eyes. Correct me and hope. I hope I get a chance to call A.S.A.P. Who's A.S.A.P.?

That guy in the Bible. It will be nice to try to converse rather than explain this via message Jeremy should call. You can call A.S.A.P. or you can call me. There you go. Yeah, you know, the Bible's clear. It's clear that you cannot come to me unless it's granted to you from the Father, John 6.65. That's what Jesus says. Then we can get to other verses. I'll just teach on this a little bit.

I want people to understand biblical theology, not man-centered theology, which is taught in so many churches. It's up to you. It's completely up to you. All that God does is He just gives you an opportunity.

He just kind of works it out. But the balance, the scales is right even. Now it's up to you.

It's up to you. That's fortune cookie theology. If you want good theology like that, go to someplace good fortune cookies and make your theology out of that. That's not what the Bible says. It's what the Bible does say. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be called to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not of the blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man.

Oops. It says right there, nor the will of man, but God. You go to Philippians 1 29. To you it has been granted to believe. Who grants it to you believe?

God does. It's an aorist passive indicative. Has been granted.

What that means, aorist is past tense, passive means you receive the action. God performs the action on you. To you it has been granted.

It's been granted to you by God that you believe. That's how it works. People say, well, they don't like that. I don't care if you don't like it.

Yeah, I'll tell you what you can do. You can just take that verse, write it in Philippians 1 29. You can just cross it out if you don't like what the Bible says. And also, Philippians 1, or John 1 12 and 13, you know, when He has received Him, born not of the will of the flesh, nor of man.

You can just cross that one out. In fact, let me help you guys out with some verses. You can also cross out if you don't like the idea that God's the one who's sovereign over us. God is the one who grants us repentance. 2 Timothy 2 25. God is the one who grants that we come to Christ. John 6 65. You cannot come to Christ unless you've been dragged to Him. John 6 44, the word there in Greek, implies the dragging of forceful movement.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen. That's what the Bible is teaching. And you can go to Romans 9.

All people love Romans 9. And it says, God says He'll have mercy on whom He has mercy, and He will have compassion on whom He has compassion. So it does not depend upon the man who wills or the man who runs, but upon God who has mercy.

Oops. You see, there are verses that you can cross out to make the Bible more palatable for humanist philosophy in Christian churches today. You know, it's one of the reasons I wish I was a pastor teaching on a regular basis and teaching the Bible, teaching the sovereignty of God, not the sovereignty of man, the greatness of God, not the greatness of man, the inability of man and the ability of God, and that God gets all the glory, not man, and that we're saved by His grace. And once we're saved, we pray and we ask God to save someone else. And we ask God to open their hearts just like He did to Lydia in Acts 16 14. We ask God to do this work. That's what we do. If left up to the sinful machinations and desires of man, apart from God, nothing will occur.

And if you want to say, well, God just nudges them, gets them balanced till they can make that choice, well, then you don't understand what scripture says because it doesn't say that at all. Let's get to Greg from North Carolina. Greg, welcome. You're on the air. How are you doing, sir? Oh, doing okay.

Just a little bit of preaching, teaching. Yeah. Well, that's kind of what I'm looking for. I don't know how much of this you'd like on the air, but for the last four years or so, I've had what's called a dark cloud that follows me around. And it will, within time, if I focus on it, it will manifest itself into an evil type creature, you know, horns and a tail and everything.

But moments within itself manifesting itself, there's another type of creature that will manifest itself and completely destroy that creature. And this happens to me frequently for the last, I don't know, three to four years, and I'm wondering if you have any insight into that. Well, I don't know. I'd have to ask you lots of questions, you see.

I just talked to someone a couple of days ago with some similar stuff, and I'd ask lots of questions, you know. Do you go to church? I do go to church. Okay. Is Christ God in flesh, died on the cross, rose from the dead? Yes, absolutely. Do you believe in the Trinity, one God in three distinct, simultaneous persons? Yes, yes sir. And salvation, the forgiveness of our sins, is by faith alone in Christ alone, right?

Grace through faith. Okay, good. Now I've got to ask you a quick question because we're so close to the end. Have you ever done any drugs? I have done drugs in the past, but I've been clean the entire time through all of this. Have you been doing, have you done injectables from years ago? Years ago, yes, injectables, yes. Okay, this is before you got injectables. Is that before you got saved? Yes, oh yes, absolutely.

Okay, all right. Okay, so the reason I'm asking is, for one, I'll make sure you're, you know, I can't, I don't judge you, but I mean, the outside, you appear to be a Christian. Injectables are important because there seems to be a connection with demonic activity, not only with drug abuse, because the word for sorcery in the Bible is pharmakeia. So drugs are connected to demonic oppression. And a lot of times, people who have done injectables have residual demonic effects coming on. But if you've done them before and you were Christian now, generally speaking, that should be gone. So then what we'd have to do is talk about what it is you're seeing and why you're seeing, because what's really interesting to me is more people are coming to me and telling me they're seeing things like what you're talking about.

And I have no problem with people actually seeing those. It's certainly possible. We are out of time. We can't continue with this. So you're going to have to call me back on Monday. We can talk about it some more, okay, buddy? All right? Okay, I'll do that.

Well, just go to karm.org forward slash radio and carm.org forward slash radio. All the info's there. Okay, buddy? All right? C-A-R-M. I'm sorry.

.org forward slash radio. Okay, we've got to go, buddy. God bless. Have a good weekend, everybody. Talk to you on Monday. God bless.