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September 10, 2024 8:00 am

A discussion on various Christian topics, including deliverance and speaking in tongues, the role of apostles in modern Christianity, and the use of contraception in marriage. The hosts also address questions on Islam, the Bible, and the book of Galatians, providing insights and perspectives on these topics from a Christian perspective.

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The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. If you want, give me a call at 877-207-2276.

Today's date is September 10, 2024. You can also email me if you want. The address is info at karm.org. You can put in the subject line, radio comment, radio question, and we can get to them. I'll be on the air Friday because I'm going to California to speak at a church, a conference actually at a church, Yorba Linda Calvary Chapel. This Friday evening, Saturday, I'll be preaching in Calvary Chapel Norco down there as well. So looking forward to that.

And I think that's about it. Let's get on the air with Jermaine from California. Jermaine, welcome. You're on the air. Hi, Matt. How are you doing?

I'm doing OK today. Just an interesting one for you. I know there's this new movie about deliverance out. And I see a lot of people that are charismatic friends of mine. They seem to imply that speaking in tongues is a weapon spiritually. And, you know, I politely contended that was scripture. I just want to hear your take on that. It's just because I don't find anywhere in scripture where says speaking in tongue is is a quote weapon. So I want to hear what you have to say about it.

Well, I'm with you. Where is it a weapon? In what sense is it a weapon? You know, speaking in tongues, there's different interpretations on it. One is speaking in a known language and one is speaking in an angelic language. One is speaking in a language you understand, a different language in tongues, because in the context of not hearing things in the original Hebrew and or Aramaic with the Jews who were there in Israel at the time, they're having and hearing things spoken in different tongues. But like, you know, Egyptian, Syrian, whatever it might be. So that's another possibility. And in the New Testament, we're talking about tongues and interpretation of tongues. It's like you.

I'm with you. It's never said to be a weapon. So I'd like to know what it is they mean by it being a weapon. In what sense? So interesting. You know, I don't know. OK. Yeah, I know that's the answer. Some people like to hear it developed. I think they're implying that's supposedly when they're doing these deliverance ministries, how demons don't like speaking in tongues and therefore it's a weapon. So that's the logic I've heard. Well, OK, then everything we do spiritually is a weapon.

So, you know, tithing, prayer, you know, going to church, singing hymns, singing praise songs. So I think it's too loose of a definition there. So anyway. OK. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, man. God bless. OK.

It was Jermaine. And if you want, you can give me a call. 877-207-2276. Let's get to Cole from Georgia. Cole, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, Mr. Matt, how you doing, sir? Oh, hanging in there. Oh, hanging in there.

So what do you got, buddy? Oh, you're yawning. Don't do that.

Don't do that. Don't yawn. It's been you know, I've been super busy all day. And it's just I got so many things on my plate that I often work up to two minutes before the radio show. And sometimes on the breaks, I'm writing during the show.

I mean, I got I'm just buried all the time. So there was my your busy man, the busy work, busy in the work of God. That's good. That's good. I'm busy.

Boy, I need a lot of help, too. But go ahead. So here's my question. Ezekiel 1653.

This is a simple question. That Sodom, is that the same Sodom and Gomorrah or is that a different Sodom? I would think it's the same one. It says, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, along with your own captivity. So it has to do with there's a judgment that was on them. And God's going to restore those areas and or descendants. Interesting.

It says we're daughters. That's interesting. Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria. Yeah.

Well, what does Sodom destroy with Sodom and Gomorrah? It's confusing to me. It says a couple of times in that chapter. Yes. Yeah, it is. That was confusing to me.

Yeah, they're destroyed. What I want to know is what sense is it of Sister Sodom? I think it's talking spiritually about those represented by Sodom and Samaria. So verse 48, As I live, declares the Lord Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom.

She and her daughters had arrogance. So it's interesting what's going on there. It's a prophecy, harlotry. It's about idolatry and things like that. So it's an allegory is what it is. So it's an allegory talking about Israel as an abandoned child and God is using family language to convey ideas. So it's not a literal issue of the literal city. It's what they represent, the pagan nations, the pagan alliances, judgments pronounced, things like that.

And they're using a comparison. Yeah, I figured that, Matt. What confused me in 53 where he said he restored Sodom.

I was like, huh? That confused me. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what that means. It says God promises that it will be restored, but maybe it's just as a symbol of God's mercy that he's merciful even to restore them. But I don't think it means the actual city.

I think it means, well, I don't know what it means actually. But Matt, can I bring one more point in that Jesus said? Sure. Remember when Jesus said it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom and Gomorrah? Could that tie into that? It could because what Jesus was talking about with Sodom and Gomorrah's sin of homosexuality, if you want to go that far, was exceedingly great and they were destroyed for it. And the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the scribes, their sin was greater than that because they were condemning the Messiah, God in flesh. So it would be more tolerable for the wicked people of Sodom and Gomorrah than for the wicked judges of Israel who at that time of Christ condemned him and killed him. That's a much greater crime.

So that's what Jesus is saying. Okay. Yeah. Well, thanks very much, man.

Yeah, I was a little head scratcher for me. Okay. Yeah, I think it's just- Well, thanks a lot. If you get anything else on it, you know, just I'll listen to you every day.

So if you get anything else on that, let me know. All right. Well, appreciate that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. All right.

Sounds good. Okay, God bless. And then, you know, I'm not exactly sure what something might be. That happens. And they'll sometimes write a response and they'll email me, have you thought about this?

A lot of people are listening and a lot of people have studied different stuff. So I always appreciate when people do that. So if you have any suggestions on that one, let me know. All right. Let's get to Janet from Raleigh, North Carolina. Janet, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, man. How you doing? I'm hanging in there. More hanging than in there, but I'm hanging in there. Keep hanging, keep hanging. You got to hang in there.

Hey, I'm calling because I'm trying to, I'm following up. I don't know if you remember because you have so many phone calls, but we talked, you looked up a church for me, vintage church in Raleigh, and I was going to go check them out and see how, you know, I can fit in there or whatever. So anyway, that was about two, three weeks ago. And I did just that for the past two weeks, two Sundays, I think I went to church there and, um, they're the one, they're the church. I was telling you, that's very different from myself there.

Um, the median, the median age is like 35 and I'm 60. And, um, most of the majority are, um, Caucasian and I'm African-American. So, you know, it was, it didn't seem like a really good fit, except that they are really good on scripture. They just seem to be really on point when it comes to scripture, they stick straight to the text. They don't go all over the place. They make their point and they're on a mission to a discipleship.

They're really on that. So, um, you'd be proud of me cause I did all those things. Plus I'm at the library right now getting ready to go in.

Cause I don't have a printer. I'm going to print out the, um, the information about finding a church on the CARM website so that I can go there tomorrow and talk to them about those things that are on that list. Good for you. Yeah.

Good for you. I'm looking at, I'm looking at this vintage church out there. I looked it up. Um, so there's central, downtown Durham and north and chapel.

Which one is it? Uh, downtown. Downtown. Downtown Raleigh.

Okay. So Mike Schilling law, what an interesting name. And I'm looking for women pastors. Uh, hopefully they don't have that. They have women directors. Um, they don't have women pastors. I can tell you that now.

They don't. That's good. Yeah. There's a big thing on that thing.

Men in leadership. Good. Good for them. And, um, yeah. Go ahead. Okay. Yeah.

You looked it up last time and you, you said you thought it was safe enough for me to go explore when you look at the information online. So that's right. So I decided to do that and, um, yeah, I don't know how, I don't know how I'm going to fit in or what God is really leading me to do because I can see they're very different for me. I can see the worship that I'm used to or the music that I'm used to, but, um, they seem to be solid on scripture.

They just really seem to be, have a good foundation on scripture. So I'm kind of going on that kind of, I just got to ask, okay, and I got a reason for asking. Okay. So you're a African American. What kind of church service are you used to going to? I'm curious. Well, you know how churches, I, you know what Martin Luther King said at 11 o'clock hours, the most segregated hour of the, of the day, of the week or whatever.

It's true. I mean, you know, you go to, there's mixed churches out there, but they're not as easy to find. Um, I don't know. I'm just used to just, you know, I'm sure you understand what I'm saying when I say that I'm go, go to a typical African American church where they have music and they make it very emotional sermons. They're good sermons, but they're emotional. And then you leave there, you're kind of fired up like, Oh wow, you know, um, I don't feel that way. When I leave this church.

Well, you know, um, I'm smiling because I have been saying for a long time and I'm serious. I was hoping to find a black church in my area where they're reformed because let's just say some churches are rather subdued and stuff and, uh, that, that works. But I like a little bit of liveness. I like, that's what I was thinking too.

That's what I was thinking too. Um, have you ever heard of university Christian fellowship? Yes.

Okay. Well I was real big on in a partially, which was a really great thing back when I was in college. Anyway, this church was founded by some people from the inner varsity or whatever. Now they branched out to these different locations. They only had one location when they started, but um, that's kind of the style I'm used to too. So I'm used to both. I'm used to the African American style. I'm also used to a different style where you study and you teach and not necessarily preach. You kind of teach. They're more of a teaching church than a preaching church.

That makes sense. I miss the preaching. I'm like, ah, but I can't deny the scripture. There's the break. Hold on. We'll talk a little bit more cause it's a big topic for me lately. Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages. We'll get back to Janet, but we have four open lines, three open lines I should say. If you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276 be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276 here's Matt Slick, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call.

My phone number is 877-207-2276. Let's get back on with Janet. Janet, welcome.

You're on the air. Thank you. All right. So, the reason I said hold on because I had an experience when I was in seminary.

Okay. I had a black friend in seminary, right, in San Diego, he goes, hey man, come to my church. I said, yeah, I'd love to, to my wife and I. And let's just say that I was accosted immediately with handshakes, smiles, and hugs, okay. Oh, I love that, I was like, oh, yeah. And the people were just happy and oh, hey, praise God, you know, it's like, oh, yeah.

Now you go into, let's just say, typically speaking, a white church, welcome, there's the cookies are over there, and you know, it's okay. And so then, you know, the music was, oh, it was awesome. You know, it was just alive. And they're moving. And I'm having a great time.

And my friend's next to me, and I'm just having a great time. And then the pastor comes out to preach and everybody started applauding. And I said to him, I said, No, no, no, you can't applaud for this guy. And he goes, he don't get it.

He said, they're plotting for the man who's bringing the Word of God. So I started applauding, I started clapping. It was awesome. I had a great time there. Yeah.

Yeah. And if I could find a church like that, that's reformed, oh, yeah, I'm there. I think that's what's scary for me, looking for churches, because I'm like you, I'm used to all of those things and leaving feeling good. I don't know why I'm going to this church, I have absolutely don't have any idea except that I do like the location, which is downtown, which they're near the homeless population, and all of that. So the outreach there is really good. But I don't know why.

And I keep going and going and going. I'm like, I don't understand it. Now, they have what they call community groups, which are their Bible study groups that meet during the week, I went to two out of three of their classes to prepare you for that. So I'm going to go to all those classes, because I want to make sure I do everything the way that they want you to do it, and then go to those Bible studies. So I'm worried about that, because the average age is 35 years old in that church. And there's a lot of younger people, there's a few older people, but not many. And I talked to somebody, I went to a meet and greet on Sunday after church. And I talked to a guy who was in his 60s, he had me laughing, he said, Oh, he goes, I went to the young people's group. He said, you know what, I couldn't hang with him. He said, I'm in a group now. Everybody in there is 60 60 and older.

That made me sad. I'm like, you know what, I don't think I want to be with somebody 60 and older. I kind of like thinking about the young people. I mean, there's people that are gonna be taken over the earth.

They have the enthusiasm to drive, they're not tainted by all the stuff that a 60 year old is tainted by. I'm like, I'm gonna end up being in a 35, 20 year old Bible study group. You know, so I'm worried about that too, Matt, you know, I'm like, what do I do? Just go, you know, just go and you'll be loved and the people are, I'm sure, good.

And you'll find out, you know, it'll be, you probably have a gift or quality or something that people don't. We need mixed churches. We really do. We really do.

We need to have that variety because we get too comfortable in a tradition or a look or whatever. You know, I was an assistant pastor. I went to a Dutch reformed church. My last name is Slick, Slick, S-L-I-C-K. And I went in the first day when I was hired and the first day they were introducing me, this woman said, well, what's your name? I said, Matt Slick. And she said, Slickstra? And I went, uh-oh.

They couldn't even, she couldn't even get my name right, but with me telling her because everything was filtered through the Dutch mentality. Oh. Uh-huh. And that confused me and it concerned me and, you know, and they're godly people.

They were very godly people, good people, but you know, people just have their comfort zones. And, um, I think we need to not have so much comfort zones. Yeah. And that's why I feel led to do what I'm doing now. I'm really out of my comfort zone. I'm not, you know, I don't get up on Sunday thinking I'm enthusiastic about going to church. I am.

And I'm not at the same time. So I'm like, I know I'm not going to hear the music I want to hear, but at the same time, if I listen to the words and I listen to the message and listen to the scripture, I get a whole lot out of it. I'm like, I can't deny that. I just can't deny it.

I'm getting something out of it a lot, you know? So I just continue to go. They do have a group there that's, um, uh, when they called it a diversity group, I talked to the pastor there the other day and he said, we have a diversity, um, group. I said, well, fine.

I think that's probably where I'm going to be somehow or another involved in that group because I'm really concerned about the diversity, but, um, so I do have places I can fit in and I think I have gifts and talents that that church could benefit from if I end up going there. So, yeah. Um, so that's, well, I think it's good. I think it's good.

Okay. It's good. Yeah. I think it's good. And it'll be interesting to see what God does with you. Yeah.

And yeah, I'm doing the work. I don't, I don't want to sit on the pews. I don't want to be a pew person. I really want to get my hands wet and do ministry and they're really big on discipleship.

They think that everybody should be involved in discipleship and that's their main thing. You know, they preach that almost every Sunday, so I'm like, well, yes, I thought you'd be proud of me. Let me call him, give him the update, tell you how I'm doing.

And then, um, I'm like I said, I'm getting ready to print off that sheet today so I can go to church tomorrow night and give him that, you know, some things about what to look for in a church that can answer those questions that I have. So I'm trying to do that. I think I'm doing everything that I need to do, if I let anything off, but yeah, I'm trying that. I'm really trying.

Huh? You seem to be doing okay and figuring it out. I think God's going to bless you.

I do. Oh, thanks. Thanks. Thanks for your encouragement and thanks for that information on current. So that's going to be real helpful. So I appreciate that and yeah, and I'll, I'll keep you, yeah, yeah, this is a great resource. Um, I'll keep you updated as things get better.

I'll just continue to let you know how things go because I think they're going to get better. I really do. I hope so. Yep. Well, good.

Praise God. Yep. Okay, Matt. Well, I will let you go and then I'll touch base with you later on when something's on fire. Okay.

Sounds good. God bless. Okay, Matt. Take care. All right. You too. Bye bye. Bye.

All right. I like that. That's good. That's, that's encouraging.

That is encouraging. So, Hey, look, we have nobody waiting right now. If you want, you can give me a call 877-207-2276.

We have nobody waiting right now. So what I can do is go to some of the emails that we get sometimes and I can try and deal with some of those questions, radio comments and radio questions. Um, so let's get to some of those. All right.

While waiting for people to give me a call. All right. Let's see. What about, uh, are there apostles today?

No. The apostles were the ones who saw the Lord Jesus Christ were called by the Lord Jesus Christ. And now there's different kinds of apostles because in the Bible, believe it or not, there's seven kinds of apostles.

Let me see if I can find that information really quickly. Let's see. Um, let's see.

Seven. I can find that kinds of apostles that didn't find it because there are, uh, let me see. Let me see. I'm going to look at my dictionary, something like that.

Anyway, if I can, if I can find it. Yeah, here we go. There are apostles who were only among the 12. Uh, they performed miracles and some wrote scripture. Paul was an apostle and maybe a unique one because he's commissioned by Christ, but he wasn't of the original. Uh, Barnabas is an apostle. He performed no miracles and wrote no scripture. Jesus is also called an apostle. There are apostles in the sense of simply being sent, uh, it could be that the apostles of anyone who's involved in Christ ministry back then, and of course there are false apostles.

So now there's no true, good, godly, battle based apostles for today. We'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned.

Welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, it is easy. All you have to do is dial 8772072276. You can also give me an email.

That's easy to do. You can send an email to info at karm.org, info at karm.org, and put in the subject line radio comments or radio question, and, uh, there you go. Let's get to Brian from Utah. Brian, welcome. You're on the air. Yeah.

Hi, Matt. Uh, thanks. I just had a question in regards to, uh, uh, your, your view on the use of contraceptives with, you know, with, with intimacy between, between your spouse, um, and this all kind of came up in my mind. Um, I started doing a little research and the most I can find is that the Catholic church is pretty, pretty, uh, positive on, on not using them and relying on, uh, you know, the females menstrual cycle and her infertile days to, to avoid pregnancy. Whereas it seems like most evangelical churches argue against that and say, Hey, look, we can't just assume because there's nowhere in the scripture that says, um, anything against it. Uh, so they, they don't see it as a, uh, a problem as just curious, your, your take on it. If you look at, um, a lot of people will say that you accept a contraception contraception is a sin. I don't see that in the scripture saying it's a sin.

Um, so there are different reasons to practice it. For example, uh, I got fixed because the doctor said the next pregnancy of my wife might kill her because of her condition. She has a rare condition. It was getting worse and worse. And so the next one might've killed her. So it was, you know, she had birth. I went and did what I had to do. Well, that's to, that's to protect and to help.

Okay. And then there's conditions, uh, you know, more difficult conditions. What if you are, uh, in a situation, you and your wife for a situation where really having a child at the time would not be a good move, not be a smart move.

It could be that you're on the run from a persecution or something. So there, there's that as well. Now, what if you're just normal, uh, man and wife and you want to do that? I don't see any problem with it. I don't see any reason that you're obligated to have a child and that every event between a man and a wife has to be along those lines.

So I don't see it now. Contraception is wrong when it kills a fertilized egg or anything like that is wrong. Yeah. So generally speaking, those are the general principles. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

Thanks. I, you know, I, I think where I had some, some hang up was, you know, I kinda, I kind of equated it to, there's not all, there's also not anything in the Bible about say people who decide they want to change their gender. Um, and, and I guess I don't know where everyone stands, but it seems like a lot of folks in my church and I, I agree as well as, Hey, it's not right because it's not how God designed you. And, and so that's, that's why I, I kind of have the hang up on, on this, this issue. And it's just been helpful to talk with you as well as a few other people in my church that I, that I trust. Um, so I, I appreciate you, you walking me through it and your thoughts on it. Yeah. It's, it's an important thing.

And, um, I remember sitting in a car with a seminary student, um, I think it was either right at our senior year or right after, I can't remember. And, uh, he was, you know, I was dropping him off at his house and with his wife and children and he said, we were talking about this and he said, there's no reason ever for a man to, you know, get fixed or a woman to get fixed if you're Christians. And I said, really? And I gave him the situation with my wife and I said, you know, she has this inner condition and et cetera, et cetera, and she might die from the next one and it's to put her life in risk. And it really is.

What do I do? And he said, I never thought of that and said, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay when there's certain circumstances, it's okay. And, um, and in certain practices, I've written a lot on sexuality on the website, actually a lot.

So all kinds of topics that people don't want to talk about on the air, I wrote, I wrote about. Yeah. Right. Well, thanks, Matt. I appreciate it. Okay.

Nice to speak with you. You're welcome, man. God bless. Okay. God bless. All right. All right. All right, well, we have three open lines. If you want to give me a call, it's easy, eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six Jen from South Carolina.

Welcome. You're on the air. Hey Matt. How are you doing? Doing all right. Hanging in there.

Busy is all get out, but you know, that's just me. I love it for you. Thanks for all you do. Um, okay, so just, um, so I'm struggling with, um, several work with, I work with a coworker who is a Christian and we were together last week in Reno of all places, um, but she expressed to me that her father is a Muslim and I don't know, like since we were together, it really has been, the Lord has impressed upon my heart to do something for him either by, by him a Bible or just reach out to her and say, Hey, if he would read a Bible, can I read it or can I send him one? And she expressed to me that he doesn't read, he won't read, he won't go to church. And so I'm thinking, of course I've been praying about this and the Lord impressed upon my heart. Just just maybe write down some scripture, send him a little notebook and then maybe attach a small little King James Bible to it and send it off. So I just kind of wanted to, and I don't know a lot about Islam.

I do know that they have to acknowledge Jesus as a prophet. And I just wondered like what, if you were in my shoes, what you would do? Well, it's a tough one. If you could talk to him directly and he's open to having a conversation, that's one thing. If you're open to reading anything, maybe you could offer a switch, a deal. You'll read the Quran if he reads the New Testament, something like that. Or you can tell him, tell me what to read in the Quran, you know, like how many chapters and you say, and I'll have you read this and we'll let's discuss both.

That'd be one option. The thing that I talk about with Muslims more and more now is the resurrection is a forgiveness of sins. Excuse me. They deny that Christ is crucified, surah 4, 1 57. They deny that. And so they deny that Jesus Christ is God in flesh, et cetera, and all the stuff about him. And he's just, just a prophet and all that. But any rate, so I'll say, are your sins forgiven right now?

That's the question I ask him because that's what it all comes down to. And I can tell them that my sins are forgiven right now. Now, sometimes they will respond by saying that I'm arrogant. If I say that the reason anybody would accuse me of arrogance, if I said all my sins are forgiven right now, the reason they would say that is because they believe that your salvation and forgiveness is based in part on your goodness. So to say you're saved or to say your sins are forgiven is arrogant because you say you're that good. But then you have to correct them and say, no, no, no. That's not our position. The position is it's by faith in what Christ has done only.

I would say it's arrogant to say that you could please God by your own actions in any way, shape or form. And I'll ask them if you're to die right now and you say, I don't want anything to happen to you, but if you were, where would you go? And that's what I do with the Muslims and they don't have good answers. Oh, if you repent and if you're sincere and I say, oh, so you're good enough, you're okay.

You think that, and that's what I'll do with them. That's one thing. There's another thing I do, but it just depends on the situation and stuff, but I can give you suggestions and you could try ideas and, you know, what you could do is just ask questions. Well, I got a question about the Quran and I know questions that are tough to answer for Muslims.

Do you have something on your, on your website that maybe you could direct me to? karm.org forward slash Islam and I've written about 150 articles on Islam. Oh, well there you go.

Yeah. Now if you want the short version of a lot of stuff, it's just karm.org forward slash cut for cut and paste, just C-U-T and it'll take you to a page and you can see a very, very, very, very, very summarized version of, of, uh, information on, on Islam and it's designed for cut and paste in chat rooms and there's some things in there that you might find useful and one of the things you can do is I ask Muslims, I say, well, why are you Muslim? Well, what's the reason? I'll ask them that and I'll say, well, also tell me, why is Islam true? And I say, what are the reasons for this?

And you'd be surprised the weak answers that they give, that gives you opportunities to speak and of course the best stuff you can do. Okay. All right.

Here's the music. We've got to go. Okay. God bless. All right. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.

All right. Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Welcome back to the show. Let's get back on the air with Elijah from Pennsylvania. Elijah, welcome. You're on buddy.

Hey Matt. Um, uh, my, my, my question today for you is, uh, out of Galatians five 20. Uh, and, uh, and I would like for you to, if you can pull it up on your screen, um, on the, on the Bible hub, you know, the different translations, because, because I want to ask you about this. So, uh, I know your favorite translation is N-E-S-D and, and for the very last word in that verse, it says factions.

Okay. So you got, um, you got the N-E-S-D 2020, the 1995 and the 1997 version. They all say factions, but, uh, you go to, uh, new living translation and E-S-D it says divisions. And then when you go to King James and new King James, it says heresies. And then when you go to the amplified Bible, it says factions that promote heresies. So, and, and, and, uh, when I read the amplified Bible, that reminded me of, you know, people like, you know, Sean Griffin, they, they, uh, they, they, uh, called division, uh, called divisions through their, through their heresies. So, so, uh, you know, you know, this verse seems to be teaching that, you know, people like Sean Griffin, they're, they're, they're still in the flesh because they're causing division in the church, you know, you know, through their heresies. It even applies to Calvinists and Armenians who will snot on each other and cause factions divisions among the people of God. So yeah, so the word there in the Greek is, uh, is, uh, heresies, heresies, we get heresies from it.

It occurs nine times in the New Testament. So it's referring to a sect, S-E-C-T, a sect of the Sadducees. So that would be a division, and that's Acts 5-17 and Acts 15-5, a sect of the Pharisees. And then there's the sect of the Nazarenes in Acts 24-5. In Acts 24-14, uh, it says, and according to the way, that's the Christians, which they call a sect. So Sadducees, Pharisees, the Nazarenes, and the Christians are all considered sects, S-E-C-T-S. And then, uh, there, Paul, I mean, it says, um, he said, I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion. So we see the word has that, uh, meaning in what's called the semantic domain.

It has a range of meaning. In 1 Corinthians 11-19, for there also must be factions or divisions among you so that the truth can be made known. 1 Corinthians 11, uh, let me get over here, 1 Corinthians 11-19, and I'll see how that is translated to different versions, uh, 11-29, no, 19, that's right, 19, come on. I've got to get my right, my verse here to go.

Boy, I messed up on typing that one out. All right, here we go. Why is it not working, 1 Corinthians 11-19, that's strange, maybe there's a glitch, let's see, there we go, and there we go, all right, so there must be factions, factions, uh, heresies, that's King James, factions, New King James, factions, R-S-V, uh, L-E-B, differences among you, the N-I-V-84, factions, C-S-V, and heresies, the Dewey-Rames.

So we can see that factions are divisions, heresies, uh, and then we're talking about the verse here in Galatians 5-20, in 2 Peter 2-1, it says that, uh, false prophets secretly introduce destructive heresies, and this is a doctrinal, uh, kind of a division here. So the word, like a lot of words in English, one word can have a variety of meanings, and that's what's going on there, okay, so that's that so far. All right, now, laid a little bit of foundation down, so I'm not sure if I answered your question though.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, I just thought it was, I thought it was, uh, very interesting because, because, uh, because, uh, that never popped out to me before until I, until I looked over that again today. Mm-hmm, yeah, the factions mean the heresies or whatever it is? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and like, like, especially when I started comparing translations, because like, I noticed that, that, that when I compare translations, it helps me to like, to like, to like, uh, uh, understand the Bible more.

Oh yes, yes, that's a very good thing to do. That's why I recommend people have the ESV, the, uh, King James, and the NASB, NASB 95 or 2020, and just compare them, that's what I say. Because words can, they mean, they have, a word might have a direct one-to-one correspondence meaning from original language to our language, but not always. And I'm reminded of, of an instance when I was in seminary and I had a guy come in and he was talking about translation differences. And it says in the Bible to build your rock, uh, your house on the rock, so it'll stand, not on the sand.

Okay. So it was a culture that they were translating into some language and they were in the jungle. And if you built your house on a rock, it would be swept away with the floods because the rocks were flat. So in order to make themselves secure homes, they would take bamboo and they would pound it down into the sand, six, eight feet.

And then you'd build a house on the structure of the bamboo and that was secure. So when you're translating, what do you do? You translate it literally or do you translate it dynamically? What is intended to mean? And so this is just one of the examples of difficulties that can occur in translation. This is why it's good to use different translations because meanings of words can vary slightly.

And so getting them understood in a corresponding language isn't always perfect, but it can be, you know, it's very, very good though, for the most part, not a problem. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. And, uh, uh, I got, I got, I got one last thing I'd like to bring up to you because I would like to, uh, know, know what you think about this, um, cause, cause, uh, I was reading Genesis 18 and 19 of the other day and, uh, I noticed, I noticed in, um, verse, uh, two, uh, a lot wanted the angels to come inside with him, but the angels replied, uh, no, we will spend the night in the square or some, some translation say, well, no, we'll spend the night out in the streets. And, and, um, and, uh, I thought about that and, and, uh, you know, you know, uh, what if the angels really did spend the night out in the streets instead of coming in with him? Uh, I think, I think the story would have went, you know, probably quite differently. Uh, uh, those angels would have probably had to kill the men of thought of because, you know, eventually the man came and they tried to rape, you know?

Yeah. There would have been a severe consequence for the people of his, of Sodom, which there was later on, but yeah, so a lot of the hospitality issue is very critical in that culture. So for us, not so much, you come into my house, I'll help you out and we'll do stuff and you know, you might take off, but back there, uh, individuals and household individuals were, were required culturally to help out, uh, passersby if the, the passersby needed a little bit of help, because if you didn't, and then the passersby found out that you weren't helpful, they would go someplace else and speak ill about you and that culture, that town. Well, that would mean then a lot of people would avoid that town when word got around that you weren't very nice.

Well, that could be an economic disaster for towns because they were loosely connected economically. So there's one of the many reasons, but, um, so in that culture, he said, no, no, no, you can't stay there. You got to come in because we know, uh, you know, I'm going to go out and do this. I'm saying I'm going to, I'm going to go in a hotel and I'm hoping that my friend might say, no, we got a spare room. And you're supposed to be polite and say, I'll do this, hoping that they will, uh, want you to do something different.

And this is probably what's going on here. We're going to spend the night in the square. No, no, no, you can't do that. You got to come with me. Okay.

We will. That kind of politeness. All right.

So is that probably what a lot of it was too. All right. Yeah.

Uh, uh, do you have anybody else waiting? Yeah, but that's okay. Um, go ahead. One more quick one.

Um, yeah. So, so in, uh, I think it was Genesis 18, Abraham was interceding for, for the people of Sodom and, uh, he got down to the number of 10, you know, you know, can be wholly be found. Uh, we spare the city and God said, yes.

And um, and, uh, when I counted, you know, a lot in, in the rest of the people that were with him, I think I counted six, I didn't quite get to 10. And so, so the story doesn't tell us if there were four other people who are holy in that town. Um, also, so like slice, slice, like my question would be, do you think that's why, do you think that's why God destroyed the city because he didn't find 10 or could it be God destroyed the city because the men of Sodom try to, uh, try to rape the angels. And that's just extremely disrespectful to do.

Well, it's not only disrespectful, it's incredibly sinful for anything that kind of sexual immorality is what happens when, when people's passions are allowed to be inculturated and approved by society, then the society tumbles downhill into the abyss and the trash heap. So, uh, that, you know, I never thought of that. That's a good point that you counted how many there were and there were six, that's what you counted. Uh, and not 10. I believe that there had been 10 that God would not have destroyed that the, uh, the city. That's what I believe because he said, if he finds 20, if I find 20 or 40, you know, whatever it is for 40, 30, uh, 20, uh, 10 and, uh, each time God, I won't for that won't for that. He meant what he said. So there weren't even 10 righteous people, true believers, et cetera in the entire area. That's what, that's a good, interesting point because I really didn't point out that I'm really glad you brought that up because you really got me thinking about it. I just shows you what happens to an area geographically, politically, culturally, when sexual boundaries are broken down, look what happens.

Everybody comes corrupt. Yeah. Interesting stuff. Okay. Uh, it was, it was a nice problem with you. I'll, I'll, I'll call you again soon. All right, man.

Sounds good, buddy. God bless. All right. God bless. That's a really good insight. I like that. I can actually count it.

I'm going to do that myself sometime. Alberto from Georgia. Welcome buddy. You're on the air. Yeah. Good.

Yeah. Good evening, Matt. My question is, how come when people just get recently saved by ex porn stars, ex rappers, they already see him already becoming the position of pastors when they're not properly prepared or educated under a pastor who trained, who could train them properly and expositional preaching and theology and doctrine. Like example, my friend told me that Danny Yankee, he got saved.

He's an ex record, told him, you know, best rapper in Puerto Rico. He told me now he's already a pastor already, or like I've seen other videos on the internet that people who are ex porn stars already already pastors. What do you think about that? That people just ought to make one acolyte positions in churches. Well, I don't know the timeframe of what it is, if there had been discipled and for how long, if they feel the calling and there's a recognized calling externally, there's a lot of factors, but generically speaking, uh, the Bible tells us not to lay hands on people suddenly and the context has to do with ordination and being called to ministry. So such people who come out of incredibly bad moral, uh, conditions often are when they're saved or saved dramatically, very, very dramatically, and they study incredibly and they are blessed by God incredibly.

And so they develop very quickly. And so sometimes people will say, well, then you're, you're called and it doesn't qualify them just because of that. And we're out of time, but we can discuss that more on conditions and other things plus social acceptance and excitement of having someone switch into the Christian side.

So they get elevated. So there's a lot of reasons that aren't biblical, but anyway, there we go, buddy. We're out of time. May the Lord bless you all. And by his grace, we're back on here tomorrow and we'll talk to you there. God bless everybody. This is another program powered by the truth network.
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