Matt Slick Live: November 5, 2024

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The following program is recorded content created by The Truth Network. It's Matt Slick Live!

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Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, found online at karm .org.

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When you have questions about Bible doctrines, turn to Matt Slick Live for answers. Taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877 -207 -2276.

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Here's Matt Slick. Everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick. You're listening to Matt Slick Live.

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I'm going to apologize for my voice. I'm still recovering from this cold, or head cold, that I caught coming back from Europe.

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I think I got it actually in Istanbul, in Turkey, on a bus and things like that. Someone was sick there.

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You know, it happens. So, there you go. Today's date is 11 -05 -2024, voting day.

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I hope you voted today. I did. And we'll see what happens. We will see what happens. I hope that you make a good, strong effort to vote.

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And if you want to call up and talk about candidates,

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I'll be glad to. In politics and things like that, I have no problem.

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Now, I just got back a week ago from 19 days on the footsteps of Paul tour.

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Went to Turkey, and went to Greece, and then went to Italy.

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And it was a great trip. And I talked to Eric Johnson today. And if Terry's listening, hey,

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I'm waving Terry. I talked to Eric Johnson. He's the guy who puts these trips together, and we just do them with him.

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He does a good job. He delivers. He's good. And he called me today, and he said he's working on another trip.

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A year from now, a year from this month, to Jordan. Jordan.

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So, you know, and it's already filling up. Now, Jordan's interesting. It has Petra there and some other stuff.

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And it's really good. So, we'll get more information out about that. But if you're excited about that, I'm just getting the word out.

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You know, we can see. He's probably going, that's too soon. Well, okay. And if you want to give me a call, as always, the number is 877 -207 -2276.

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And if you want to e -mail me, that's easy to do as well. Just direct your e -mail to info at CARM .org.

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Info at CARM .org. And in the subject line, put in radio comment or radio question.

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And that should be fine right there. All right? So, there you go. All right. Now, let's see.

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I'm doing a little adjustment on the camera here. This is a slight thing. It should be really good, right? Let's see if it works.

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Heck, it's not working. It should work. Well, that's okay. And if you want to watch the show, nothing's any big deal.

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You can just watch me sit here in the office and do this. All you have to do is go to Rumble .com

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forward slash Matt Slick Live. Or you can also go to YouTube and just type in Matt Slick Live.

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I didn't get a live thing. I think it's on YouTube. I think if you just go to YouTube, Matt Slick Live, all one word, you'll find the show.

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That's okay. No, I'm not muted in Clubhouse. Don't know what's going on there.

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Everything should be working. I'll check. We have little technical problems every now and then. It should be working fine.

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Everything's looking good. I'm not sure what we're having a problem with.

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But unless someone undid something I don't know about, it should be working. So let me try this right there.

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And that's not how it's supposed to be. And then I'll go back to that.

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And that's how it's supposed to work. So there you go. And we have comments coming in.

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We also have people. If you want, you can also watch on Twitter. That's right. I forgot about that. What's the address for Twitter?

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Maybe Laura can tell me. We're working on that. And I'm still fighting a cough, so I'm hitting the cough button frequently.

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All right. We have nobody waiting. And I suspect it is because people are out voting.

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And they're more concerned about that than calling in, which is fine.

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Because I can teach in all kinds of things. And maybe what I'll do is get to the radio questions.

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And I'll do some of those right now because I think that might be a good idea. And let's see.

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Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. That reminds me. I saw an email just reading, and it reminded me of something that happened in Greece.

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So about three weeks ago, three and a half weeks ago, it was in Greece. And we were going to go see a canal built between two bodies of water.

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And I didn't see it. Everybody else went on this bridge and looked over. Well, I was talking to two

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Jehovah's Witnesses. And they spoke Greek, of course. And so one of them spoke

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English half and half. So I'm trying to witness to them and trying to convey the truth of Christianity and the falsity of the

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Jehovah's Witness organization. It was very difficult to do. And what was interesting was

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I asked them a couple of times to look in their Bible. And I'll show them the verse about something.

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And we were talking about 20 minutes. And I wasn't expecting it. I should have been. But it was in Greek.

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Well, of course it's going to be in Greek. And so I was able to look at the verse and read some of the stuff in the

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Greek. And I could tell the stupid Jehovah's Witness organization alters the

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Bible, even in the Greek. It does that. It's just bad. And I told the guy,

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I said, that's not what it's supposed to say. It's not what it is in the Greek. And he goes, just right here.

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I'm looking. And I said, no, no, no. I said, the watchtower changes it in the

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Greek. Go check. And he's frowning. And I said, no, go look. Go research. I said, but here.

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Here's something to think about. And what I did was I did focus on something.

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And this seemed to carry some weight with them. And it was the false prophecies of the

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Jehovah's Witness organization. And so I told him that there were false prophecies.

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And I got my phone. And my phone is really cool because it folds open.

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It's one of those folding phones. And not a flip phone, but it's actually a folding phone. And I use tech a lot.

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I use it a great deal. And so right there's a good example that I was able to open up the false prophecies on my website.

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And I was showing it to him. And he was looking at it. And I kept quiet. And he's trying to understand.

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I could tell he was a little confused. And so I helped him out. And I said, look at what it says right here.

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And this is for anybody thinking about looking at J -dubs, the Jehovah's Witnesses. There's proof, absolute proof that they're false.

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And it's from their own writings. And it says in April 1st, 1972, page 197,

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So does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come?

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These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet? This prophet was not one man, but was a body of men and women.

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It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students.

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Today, they're known as Jehovah's Christian Witnesses. Of course, it is easy to say that this group acts as a prophet of God.

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It's another thing to prove it. So I showed this to him, and we went through that quote. And I said, see, the

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Watchtower claims to be the prophet of God. And he got that. Well, check this out.

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We didn't have time to go through all of these. But we went through one or two.

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And it shook him off, I could tell. Because we went through some of this stuff. But I'm going to just go through them, because, you know, we've got nobody waiting right now.

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And it's going to be a slow day, because it's Election Day. And I think I might as well just do this about the

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Jehovah's Witnesses' false prophecies. To show and prove that this is a false organization.

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Because it says, in 1897, they said, Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present since October of 1874.

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So Jesus was present. Present where? Well, some say the Earth, some say the

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Heavenly Kingdom, whatever. In 1899, the battle of the Great Day of God Almighty, which will end in A .D.

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1914, with the complete overthrow of Earth's present rulership, has already commenced.

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So the Great Day of God Almighty, which was to end in 1914, the Great Day of the

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Battle, it didn't happen. In 1916, it says, the Bible chronology here in Presented shows that the six thousand -year days beginning with Adam are ended, and that the

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Great Seventh Day, the thousand -year reign of Christ, began in 1873.

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A lot of people don't know this, but there was a movement. And out of the movement there,

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Jehovah's Witnesses formed, I think Christian Science was influenced by it as well, and it was the group called the

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Millerites and some others around that area at that time. And they were talking about 1 ,260 days out of Daniel and from a certain marking point.

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Anyway, they were making these prophecies about Jesus coming back to the kingdom in the mid -1800s.

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And of course it failed. And the Jehovah's Witnesses were part of that. A lot of people don't know that, but they were.

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So here, check this out. In 1918, they said this, Millions now living will never die, page 89.

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Therefore, we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the faithful prophets of old, particularly those named by the

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Apostle Hebrews 11, to the condition of human perfection. So, the prophecy is that in 1925,

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the faithful prophets will return. That's what it says. In 1922, they said in Watchtower, September 1st, 1922, page 262, the date 1925 is even more distinctly indicated by the scriptures than 1914.

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In 1923, our thought is that 1925 is definitely settled by the scriptures.

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As to Noah, the Christian now has much more upon which to base his faith than Noah had upon which to base his faith in the coming deluge.

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So, I mean, Noah, he heard the voice of God. But the Jehovah's Witnesses have even more evidence and reason to believe than that.

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So, that's what they're saying. And then 1925 comes along. The year 1925 is here.

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With great expectation, Christians have looked forward to this year. Many have confidently expected that all members of the body of Christ will be changed to heavenly glory during this year.

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This may be accomplished, it may not be. In His own due time, God will accomplish His purposes concerning His people.

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Christians should not be so deeply concerned about what may transpire this year. So, the

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Watchtower just spent 1, 2, 3 years, 1918, 1922, 1923, saying that 1925 is definite, it's going to happen.

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And then they said, hey, you shouldn't be too concerned about it. Well, that's interesting. And then 1925, again they said, it is to be expected that Satan will try to inject into the minds of the consecrated the thought that 1925 should see an end to the work.

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That's September 1925, Watchtower, page 262. You know, this reminds me of the

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Ministry of Truth in the novel 1984. If you have not read that, you really need to read it.

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I've got to warn you, there's a little bit of nakedness and some fornication in there. Because Aldous Huxley was an atheist.

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But aside from that, you really must read this. It's one of those books, the top 100 books that you must read.

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That's one of them. And the reason is, is because something happened in the

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Ministry of Truth. The same kind of thing that happens in 1925 in the Watchtower organization. And the same kind of thing that's happening with the news media today.

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The Ministry of Truth, what they did was, they would say there were two nations that were warring.

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And they said nation, it was A and B, I forget their exact names. But one nation was the bad nation, and that they were the enemy.

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And this is how it was for years and years and years. Well, in the Ministry of Truth, they switched it so that the first group was now the enemy.

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And the other one that was the enemy was now the friends. Except that what they were saying is that this rule was always taught.

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And this is clever. And in the book, Ministry of Truth, people were brainwashed enough to believe whatever the media in that situation told them.

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And they just believed it. Same thing happens in the cult mind. Hey, there's the music. I'm not out of here yet.

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We've got a break. Give me a call, 877 -207 -2276.

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We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276.

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Here's Matt Slick. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. I'm going to finish up with the J -Dub stuff, and then we'll get to Rusty from South Carolina.

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We also have three open lines if you want to call me, 877 -207 -2276.

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I want to hear from you. You can give me a call. It is easy. Also, you can give me an e -mail. To do that, all you have to do is send it to info at CARM .org,

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info at CARM .org, and put in the subject line, radio comment, radio question.

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Let me finish with the J -Dub stuff. And then in 1926, it said, some anticipated that the work would end in 1925, but the

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Lord did not state so. Oh, man. The difficulty was that the friends inflated their imaginations beyond reason.

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So you can understand something about the cult mind. I've been studying cults for over 40 years, and in the cult mind, they can believe one thing and believe something contradictory and justify it.

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And when the cult mind refuses to take responsibility for its own beliefs, the person doesn't do the homework, will believe whatever media is told to them.

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And this media here, in this sense, is the Watchtower Organization's magazines and books. We have the media on TV.

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It includes Fox and CNN and ABC and MSNBC. We need to make sure that what they're telling us is true.

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Don't just believe what they say. Do a lot of research. There's lots of ways to do that. And to that end, you know,

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I've got to refine that. To that end, I'm going to recommend something here. This is something I've been using for years, and I've recommended it before, and I might as well do it again.

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There is an app that I use that, here we go, called

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Conservative News Pro. And I paid for the, you can get a free version, and a paid version is not very much, like $5 or $10.

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And it puts a lot of conservative news outlets in one place, so you can get a lot of information.

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And it's really interesting because, you know, the media is dominated by the left. But anyway, so the reason

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I'm kind of segwaying into that is because of what I've seen in cult mentalities

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I see in adherence to political parties. And in sports games and things like that.

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The same kind of a thing, being given over and giving yourself over to something, and then other opposing views just are automatically dismissed, not valid.

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This is dangerous. Because that means then that you will adopt whatever you've already said is the truth provider.

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So if you believe that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is the truth, then whatever it says is true.

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If you believe that MSNBC or Fox are the truth, then you believe whatever they tell you. And that's not how it should be.

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You are responsible for checking things out on your own. Anyway, let me go on here. In 1931, the

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Watchtower said there was a measure of disappointment on the part of Jehovah's faithful ones on earth concerning the years 1914, 1918, and 1925.

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Which disappointment lasted for a time. And they also learned to quit fixing dates. Don't fix dates anymore.

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And yet, in 1968, they said, why are you looking forward to 1975? And it goes on.

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So the thing is that liars contradict facts that contradict themselves.

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And then they justify it with inane persiflage. Inane persiflage is just kind of an illogical, almost logical, but not really logical, bunch of verbiage.

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That's phrased to try and get you to be persuaded.

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It's cult stuff. I read it a lot in cult magazines. Particularly the Jehovah's Witness Organization magazines.

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I used to read them regularly. It was pretty obvious how bad they were. Cult mind. It's there.

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It's alive and well. Hey, if you want to give me a call, 877 -207 -2276.

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Let's get to Rusty from South Carolina. Rusty, you're on the air. Hey, Matt, how you doing?

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Oh, I'm hanging in there. Just fighting a cold. But other than that, I'm doing okay. Yes, yes. Yes, yes, that's good.

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Okay, so when we die, are we going to be judged right then or will we be judged after everyone has lived on earth for a thousand years?

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The judgment occurs later. All right, so. Okay. Now, it's not a judgment for salvation for the

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Christians. Because the Christians have passed out of judgment. 1 Corinthians 8, 1,

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I believe it is, or Romans 8, 1, Romans 9, 1. All these verses in my head. Yeah, there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8, 1.

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So we as Christians don't face that judgment of damnation. However, our works will be judged.

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That is a fact. Our works are going to be judged. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.

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Okay. Yep. So what that said is, from my understanding, when we be judged by that, it depends on how we will live in heaven or on earth.

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Well, we don't know. So we know we're going to heaven. If you've trusted in Christ, for example, and you love the

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Lord, and you're not perfect, okay? I'm not perfect. That's just how that is. Right. But we're trying, okay? So you and I both will go to heaven.

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Now, we're both going to face the judgment seat. He's going to say things like, I don't know if this is going to be exact words.

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I don't know how it's going to work, but let me just kind of represent it in human terms. We're going to be facing a judgment, and He might say to you and me,

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I gave you guys gifts. What did you do with them? You know? What did you do with them?

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Now, me, I'm gifted. My wife says I'm very gifted in being obnoxious and irritating. So, hey, you know,

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I just play that gift for my wife all the time. She rubs her forehead a lot. Now, I'm a teacher, and so I teach, and I hope

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I'm teaching right, which is why I'm always open to being corrected. Now, you know, someone else might not have that gift.

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Their gift might be prayer. Their gift might be just helping people. It doesn't matter what the gift is.

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It matters what you're doing with what God has given you to do, okay? Amen. Amen.

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So, how will I know what my gift is? Is there a way to find out how?

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Yes, absolutely. What you do is very simple. It's simple, but it's not.

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It's simple, and what you're supposed to do is not so easy to do it. First thing to do is you get on your knees or stand up or drive, whatever it is, and you ask the

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Lord to reveal to you the gifting that he's given you and what he wants you to do with it.

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You pray this on a regular basis. You just ask him. You ask him. That's right.

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And then what happens is things in life, let's say you want to try,

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I'm just going to make this up because I knew a guy who did this, you want to try a canned drive at the church for homeless people, let's just say, okay?

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I knew a guy who did that, and it failed. It was bad. It didn't work out very well, and he was really bothered by it, and I said, no, don't be bothered by that.

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You tried to serve God, and it just didn't work out. What else are you going to do in your service of God?

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Because a lot of times what happens is we'll do something and it finds out it's not right for us or the situation.

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That's okay. That's okay. God's showing us what we are supposed to be doing by also showing us what we're not supposed to be doing, but even what we're not supposed to be doing, he teaches us in that as well.

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Now hold on, buddy. We've got a break. Hold on, man. We've got a break. Hey, folks, we'll be right back after these messages.

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Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick Live!

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Taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick.

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. Welcome back. It's at the bottom of the hour. If you want to call me, the number is 877 -207 -2276.

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Let's get back on with Rusty. Are you still there, buddy? Yes. Yes, I am.

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Okay. So that's what you do, all right? That's what you've got to do. You've got to try.

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You've got to try. And I've got to say one more thing. Listen to the inclination of your heart.

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Now, the heart's desperately wicked and deceitful, Jeremiah 17 .9. But what I mean is, do you get fed in your heart, warmed in your heart by serving someone, by changing someone's tire, by tithing, by praying for them, by teaching on the radio, by writing a book, by whatever it is, helping in a church, setting up chairs, take them down.

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Because God, He will reward in your spirit with peace and a desire for the thing that you want to do.

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That's why you have to experiment by trying different things to see what works. Okay? Yes. Right now,

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I'm in school. I'm taking up theology because I'm learning things that I didn't know.

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And it's giving me more knowledge and wisdom that I can teach to my kids. And I know that they enjoy it, too.

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But I don't want – but sometimes I come to, I guess, being shy when

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I try to say it or tell someone else. That's right. And then, one more question.

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How do I know when the enemy's been – since I've been doing this, I've been having so many distractions.

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And I know that's not God. Well, you never know. God could often distract you for a reason.

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He could actually be the one distracting you. There could be a reason for it. But generally, we want to say that the devil is the one getting in the way, stopping you from doing something.

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You remember, the Holy Spirit forbade Paul from going into a certain area to preach and teach. So we've got to be careful.

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We don't always want to assume everything's from the devil. That seems to be negative. Because God's going to test us.

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So what you've got to do is you've got to prepare in prayer and then just trust and go.

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And you'll gradually figure it out. You'll just gradually figure it out. It takes a while. And if you make a lot of mistakes – like, say, you call me up a couple of months ago.

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Hey, man, I took your advice. And, man, did I make some mistakes. I'm going to laugh and say, praise God. Because that's what you have to do to find out what you're good at.

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Just like in sports. Why? What can you do? You've got to try stuff. I'm good at that, but not this.

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That's true. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're welcome, brother.

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God bless. Keep studying. You too. All right. Yes, sir. All right.

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Let's get on with Chris from Ohio. Chris, welcome. You're on the air. Hey. Hey. Hey, I just wanted to call and thank you.

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Okay. So, probably about six months ago, I called, and I was like, hey, I'm an atheist that's married a

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Catholic and went to Catholic schools. And I found this Reformed Baptist church, and I've been going there for three years, and what do

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I do? And your advice was let them hug you. They didn't pressure me at all. And I wanted to share with you my come to Jesus moment was when

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I was reading, I think it's in Galatians, where Paul was in Arabia for three years, and I was at that church for three years, and I was like, he had to turn around his thought.

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You know, he was a persecutor. He was an eighth -day Benjamite, and he persecuted the

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Jews, and he had to go out in the desert and think about, like, how am I going to change my life, you know, after the way

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I've lived? And reading that and then justifying what to ask, because it was like,

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Barnabas just took Paul, but he didn't take him that quickly. And I was like, you know, it took me three years to say, you know what?

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You can't live this way anymore, Chris. And he told me, just be patient.

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Let them hug me, and I did, and I got baptized. And I just wanted to tell you, thank you. Wow. Well, praise

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God. Now, I got some questions I got to ask you, though, okay? I mean, I don't want to make light of that, man.

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It is awesome that you were an atheist now, you know, with Christ. That's awesome. But now

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I got to ask you some questions, okay, because the pastor in me, okay, can I ask you some stuff? Is it okay if I kind of quiz you a little bit?

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Just a little. Nothing big. Yeah, well, now you can quiz me, yes. All right, okay. So what church is it you were baptized in?

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What church? Yeah. Was it a Catholic church or a different one? It was, no, the

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Southern Baptist Fundamentalist Church. Good, okay. Good, good, good, good, as long as it wasn't

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Catholic. That's what I, oh, man, dude. Good, good, good. You want to hear something funny, and I don't mean to interrupt?

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No, go ahead. My wife's Catholic, one of the

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Catholic priests, he came to the baptism in his black.

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Wow. It was a big deal. Maybe he can get saved. Really, I'm serious, because Roman Catholicism.

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I think he might have been. You never know. But Roman Catholicism is not Christian. It's a false religion.

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There's a lot of bad stuff in it. Oh, I know, but I had to go, we got, our date in public schools were so bad that I had to get pulled out and put in a

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Catholic school. We had to pay a lot of money and just keep from getting beat up. So, I mean, it's, but yeah, no, so I went to the

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Catholics, but I was like, nah, I mean, I know all the problems with the Catholic religion. Well, good.

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I wanted to hear what you wanted to say about his three years in Arabia. You know,

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I'm reminded of Moses, 40 years of learning he was somebody in Egypt, then 40 years in the desert, being reminded that he wasn't anybody.

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And then 40 years after being used as nobody. God often puts a desert in someone's path and to discipline them, to prune them, to hone them.

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Jesus was in the desert for 40 days. Paul had to go to the desert too. It's a time of, of a purification.

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And the analogy I use is actually a desert. You know, if you're going to go through a desert, say it's a 50 mile journey, it's just you.

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You're going to, you're getting all ready. You got a backpack, you got a trailer pulled behind you, solar panels, you got a portable jacuzzi, whatever you got, all the stuff you're going to need.

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You know, you're going along, right? The sun's coming up. Well, you put your umbrella up. Hey, this isn't that bad.

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And about the third or fourth day, you're going, this is bad. I don't need to carry this anymore. I don't need that.

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I don't need this. I don't want anymore. Because it becomes, it becomes an adventure in finding out the minimum of what it is you need to have for a proper relationship with Christ.

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And by the time you get out of that desert, you got nothing left. And that's what it is. I was in a five -year desert myself.

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A five -year desert. Where I would pray. Oh, I'm serious. I would pray and my, as far as I was concerned, my prayers weren't being heard.

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I didn't feel God. Didn't feel His presence. Nothing for five years.

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And I remember. I remember going through it. And I didn't lose my faith or anything.

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I wasn't challenged. But what was purified was one thing. Do I believe in Jesus Christ, God in flesh, died on the cross, rose from the dead for three days, and was saved by faith in what

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He did? Or do I not? And that was the thing that came down to, and of course, well, of course

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I do. But it needed to be purified even more than what it was. And once I got to that place, you know, the oasis was then there again.

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Everybody's got to go through it, it seems. The clear water flowing. Yes. And you'll probably have it, you know, you'll probably have it.

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Because you're a slimy atheist and now God's got to fix you. You know, that kind of thing. Well, yeah, I was more than slimy, yeah.

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But the beautiful thing is that, you know, people are like, well, they're fundamentally

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Baptist. And it's like they never asked me once. Like, when you're going to get baptized, they didn't pressure me at all.

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All they did was love me and love me and love me. And it's like, and I was at just rock bottom because I was like, well, what do

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I believe in? And it's like, well, you got to pick a side. You got to choose, dude.

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You're an adult. That was your desert.

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Yeah. That was my desert. That's a little one. You may have a couple more for you to go through, but there you go.

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Yeah, well, anyways, I know you have other callers. I just want to say thank you because I asked you what to do and you said, let them hug you.

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And that's what they did. And I'm saved. Well, praise God, brother.

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Praise God. You know, I'm just I'm joyful to know that God has called you and that you've trusted in Christ.

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Now, I got to say, you know, at the risk of tooting my own horn, go to CARM and learn theology.

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Learn who Jesus is and stuff in the Christian doctrine section. And you just get grounded.

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You don't need it. I'm reading City of God right now. I can't get enough.

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I don't have enough. I know I'm 54 and I don't have enough time in my life to do everything

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I want to do now. But I'm so excited to explore it. Praise God.

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There's some music. We got to go. But call back in a few days or a week and let's talk some more. Okay? Let me know what you're doing.

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Okay. Thank you so much. All right, man. God bless. God bless. Oh, wow. That's awesome.

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Hey, folks. Be right back after these messages. Praise God. It's Matt Slick live.

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Taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick.

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All right, and welcome back to the show. Let's get on the air with Courtney from Ohio. Courtney, welcome. You're on the air.

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Hi, Matt. How are you? Hanging in there. Hanging in there. That was a very sweet caller.

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Yes. That was really sweet hearing that. So nice. That was nice. It was so nice. It was great.

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You could hear the joy in his voice. That was really great. Amen. Praise God.

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Yeah. The reason why I was calling, usually I'm calling to pick your brain and then you teach me or tell me something.

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This time I'm just calling because I was just wondering if you've ever heard what

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I'm about to say. What I'm about to say is it's something I read in a book called God's Final Warning to America.

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There's a section, there's a chapter about abortion. In the chapter, it references

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Proverbs 16 .25 where it says, when a man thinks something is the right thing to do, but its end is the way of death.

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I read that when a woman has an abortion, that her chance of breast cancer increases by 50 % and if any abortion thereafter, that also increases it.

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And I have never heard that or read, like with all the rhetoric that you hear about abortion.

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I just wonder if women knew that. Have you heard that before?

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Oh yes. Yes. There's an increased rate of cancer among women whose hormones have gone into producing for the child in their body and then when that is cut off, the body, it's the processes of not being taken care of properly and naturally as God designed and there's problems that result.

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And yeah, the risk of cancer increases quite a bit. I've known that for a long time. I've never heard that and honestly,

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I just, why? Because the leftist, because people don't want them to know that.

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They don't want it. No, because the enemy wants to kill. He's a destroyer.

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And that's why. Well, that makes sense. But I just wondered if that knowledge was not stifled.

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Like that's why I was calling. I just, I was wondering if you knew that and then for it to maybe be shared because I, you know,

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I think women, they, they think that they're, you know, stopping a pregnancy and that's the end of it and there's no consequence and there is a huge consequence to their own body.

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So that's why I wanted to share that. I just, I was like, you know, wow,

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I never heard that before and it makes so much sense. Yes. And there's also the emotional damage that is done for women.

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I can't relate to the idea of having a baby in my own body that your body produces and nourishes and gives life to and then kill it.

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I, it's me, it's, it's incomprehensible. What does it do to women? And if, if women are not injured by that emotionally, it just tells you that the hearts are dead, that they're right.

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Totally. It's horrible. And they need Jesus. You know, they just need Jesus to be reawakened and forgiven.

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And also this, a lot of people don't know this, but the men also, there's a report of men's emotional difficulties when they're on that side of things.

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Well, sure, because they didn't stop it. That would be hard too. Yeah. Yeah. And you need, trust me, you need the cross at that point.

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Yep. Definitely. Absolutely. I just, um, I was just hoping, even if, if you had heard it, if you hadn't, just maybe if anybody was listening, that might be a good piece of information for them.

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And, and also, um, I just don't want to put, most of the time you're always hearing about, you know, women and abortion and as a mom,

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I just, if there's anybody who heard the sound of my voice at all, as a mom, when

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I had my daughter in my belly, I mean, it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

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And then once they're born, I mean, I think that the enemy is really trying to put out there, you know, that they're a hassle, that kids are a hassle or too much money.

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And God says kids are a blessing and they are. I mean, my daughter, oh, she's wonderful.

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I mean, she is the epitome of Psalm 127. You know, she is a blessing. She is wonderful.

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And when you pour all your love into this person and then they start loving you back, you're showing it,

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I mean, you know, starting to learn to talk and tell you that they love you and they're hugging you. I mean,

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I just want women to know, don't forfeit that. You know that God is putting someone in your life to love you.

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So that's all. And to love. I think women are gifted, better gifted than men to be nurturers and the givers of that kind of love.

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I think it's there and it needs to be supported and encouraged instead of insulted.

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Yes. And made fun of because you stay at home or you're in the kitchen or whatever.

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But, uh, yeah, I just, uh, I thank God for my daughter.

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She's wonderful. Praise God. Praise God. And I thank God for my daughters as well.

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I know you do. I hear you. You know, even though they're not saying it well, but you know, well, we'll have to pray.

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Yeah, this could take a lot of prayer for my daughters. They're well entrenched in. Well, sometimes they have to hear it from somebody else.

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, that's right. You know, because you're a dad, maybe they have to hear it from somebody else.

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But, but I'm saying with a smile, my eldest daughter is famous for all the wrong reasons.

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All the wrong. Wow. Oh yeah, she's well known in her circle of things. And, uh, it would take an act of God, the way he knocked, uh, uh,

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Paul off the horse. It would take that for her and it would be a tremendous blessing.

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But, uh, I don't know what God's going to do with her because she has absolutely turned her back off on God.

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Absolutely. And doing the most horrendous stuff. So anyway, and you knew what the funny thing is about turning it back to what you said, even then, even there, you're still joy and loving your child and caring for them.

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It's just worth it. Children are such a blessing. And I got to say this one. They are.

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Oh, they're such a blessing. Now I raised three daughters and I just fell in love with the age of two, two to three.

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They're so stinkin' cute. They're just adorable. Oh, I couldn't take it.

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They're just wonderful. And so when I see little two or three year old girls in the store, you know, they just smile because they're just so cute, you know.

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Okay. Let me tell you this real fast. When my daughter was that age, we took her to the doctor and, you know, they gave her a shot.

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So when the doctor was sitting there, no, we were, she was just standing in the room. No, you know, we didn't think anything.

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She was just standing on the other side of the room. All of a sudden she runs over to the doctor and bites him in the leg.

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Oh, wow. Like, I know this guy and he's getting shot. Yeah, so she was protected.

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We cracked up. Well, you know, I was in a store with all my daughters once and they're all nice looking.

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And my wife's really good looking. And so this man, this stranger, he comes up and he says, your daughters, wow, they're all really nice looking.

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I says, yeah. And he said, they got all the good looks from you. I'm like, what? Because I look like a bag of rocks.

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I'm like, what are you talking about? He says, because you got none left. And oh man, he totally got me.

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I was laughing. I never forgot that one. At any rate, yeah, the children are a blessing.

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They are. Well, I will be praying for your daughters. Thank you. Yeah. You're welcome.

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Talk to you soon. All right. Okay. God bless. Okay, bye bye. Bye. Actually, you know what?

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I just thought of something. I have another daughter and I'm going to make a request for you to pray for her.

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I can't say details, but let's just say she's going through a very, very, very difficult time. And another daughter,

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God knows who that is. And that God would use this to reach into her heart.

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Just ask the Lord to bind the evil one and speak into her heart so that she would trust in Christ.

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Definitely. It's a huge request because it's a huge need. All right, let's get to Jamal.

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Winston -Salem, North Carolina. Jamal, welcome, man. You're on the air. Hi, Matt.

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Thank you for taking my call as usual. Hey, brother. I like it when you call, man. You're good.

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What do you got, man? Well, thank you. Appreciate it. That ain't my day. Well, you opened up the floor to talk about Voting Day and politics.

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So I figured, well, might as well go ahead and take that opportunity. Okay. Go ahead.

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I heard earlier on Truth Talk Live, a show that comes on a little bit before yours.

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And you're probably aware, but for those that don't, it's a call -in show. So Roger Gilmore, the

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Christian car guy, he was asking people who they were voting for. And he asked the people that were voting for Harris.

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And they said, well, I'm voting for Harris because she has a good demeanor about her.

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She carries herself well. She's all about love. And the other guy, he's so mean.

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And I don't sense love from him. And I'm like, we're not electing a guy to run the

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Boy Scouts here. I don't see why we have such emotionalism over evangelism, over Christian biblical values.

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That's right. This guy's going to be in charge of the economy. He's going to be head of command and chief of the military.

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He's going to be meeting with foreign dignitaries. I don't need a guy that's just going to be all ooey -gooey and talking about love and emotionalism and all that.

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So when I heard that on a Christian radio station from people that are claiming to be Christians, you know,

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I got rather perturbed. So I'm just calling you guys to say, hey, look, guys, that's a pretty audience.

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Don't go for emotionalism. Emotionalism is a paper tiger. It's empty.

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It's hollow. You can't run the economy on emotionalism. That's a number of facts. And Trump did it.

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And not only did he do it well, but he did it to also profess in the Bible.

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You know, he's promoting and supporting Christian values. Hey, I could have said it better.

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You're right. I'm astounded people vote for Harris. She's incompetent. She's a buffoon.

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She's the one who was in support of defunding the police. She's the one who, I forgot what city it was, wrote a bill so that people could be, they could steal and not be prosecuted.

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She is the one as the borders are. It got invaded from the borders and from the left.

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She hasn't stopped it. And we know why. So they get more votes. They can make it illegal. So the left can't be trusted.

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And she's the leader of the left right now. And so I'm just blown away that she has any chance at all.

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But this is how bad America is right now. It's anemic and sick.

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It's right. Yeah. And the list goes on. You got her

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VP pick, which is almost even more left than she is, putting tampons in boys' bathrooms.

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Uh -huh. And from what I heard, her wife was saying, her wife, his wife was saying, well, this might raise test scores if we put tampons in boys' bathrooms because it's going to be kind of emotional distance or emotional learning.

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And I said, you guys cannot be serious. You guys cannot be operating.

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You can't have all your balls in a little box. That's right. Oh, man, we're out of time. Dang. You got a call back tomorrow.

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We're going to talk because it'll be interesting to see what happens. Let me talk tomorrow about it. And Mike from North Carolina. Mike's got a good question.

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How will God punish America for being unfaithful? That we're going to talk about tomorrow as well.

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Hey, God bless. Talk to you later, Jamal and also Mike. And that's it. We're out of here.

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May the Lord bless you. By His grace, back tomorrow. Talk to you then. Another program powered by the Truth Network.