MSL: April 26, 2024

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All right, let's get to Jason from Arizona. Jason, welcome. You're on the air. Hi, Matt.

Thank you. I've been calling, and we've been discussing Reformed theology, and you've been helping me a lot with that, and today

I just wanted to go over 1 Corinthians 2 .14, since you've really been cementing

Reformed theology in my mind. So the natural man, the unregenerate man, he cannot accept or receive the things from the

Spirit of God. So if I'm understanding correctly, he has to be regenerated first before he believes the

Gospel. Yes. That's a powerful

Reformed theology verse, then, do you agree? Yes, it is.

But what helps is to understand the issue of what we say, regeneration precedes faith.

We don't mean it temporally, we mean it logically. So I can explain that if you don't know.

Want me to? Oh, absolutely. I soak up everything you're teaching on Reformed stuff, so.

Okay. Well, so I use the illustration of a light bulb, and let's say you flip a switch on a light bulb, electricity goes into the light bulb, and five seconds later, there's light.

Let's just use that as an analogy. That would mean, then, that temporally speaking, electricity precedes the light, in this case, by five seconds.

And you know, that sometimes happens. You click a neon light on, it flickers, flickers, flickers, and then it comes on. So there's a temporal priority.

Electricity precedes the light by, you know, in this case, five seconds. All right. However, that's not how it is in Reformed theology.

In Reformed theology, it's not temporal priority, it's logical priority. What that means is, so we take the light bulb, we flip the switch, electricity is in the light bulb, and at the same time, light comes on, because they're simultaneous.

However, it's the electricity that causes the light, not the light that causes the electricity, so therefore, the electricity is logically prior.

It must be there in order for the other thing to occur, but they occur simultaneously. Make sense? Yes, that's a great explanation, and that does make sense.

And while you were saying that, I was thinking of Romans 8 .8, where Paul says that basically the unregenerate, um, um,

I'm drawing a blank right now, but they cannot please God in the flesh,

I'm sorry, they cannot please God in the flesh, so they cannot, in an unregenerate state, believe of their own free will, of their own sinfully enslaved free will.

It's a misnomer of how people define free will in churches today. They define it with humanist philosophy.

They don't define it biblically. It's very true. Okay. Amen. So, so, um, uh, those are, 1

Corinthians 2 .14 and Romans 8 .8 are like, um, reformed text proofs of, you must be regenerated before you can accept the gospel and believe and, and please the

Lord with your, you know, so. Yes. And what we say is that we actually do the believing that God grants.

We believe Philippians 1 .29, but we do the believing, but it's that he regenerates us and that results in our believing and we freely do.

That's what we teach. So we don't say that God doesn't, we don't say it this way.

We don't say that we don't have free will. We do have free will. Free will is the ability to make a choice that's not forced on you.

That's consistent with your nature, your essence, what it is, and that's it. And so we affirm that everybody in reformed theology affirms that.

So Jesus, Jesus, Jesus had free will and yet he could only do what the father told him to do.

You know, John 5 .19, John 5 .30, he could only do what the father sent him to do, but yet he had free will.

So free will and God's predestination work hand in hand because Jesus is the proof. He's the proof right there.

So what was, what was amazing was you had a video I watched, um, and, um, on the five points of Calvinism and when you were talking about, uh, first John 5 .1,

that the way the Greek actually reads is that anyone who believes Jesus is the Christ has been born of God already.

So at any point, if someone says Eureka, I believe Christ is the son of God.

Well, that's only because they first been regenerated. And when you taught that, that was powerful proof of reformed theology again.

Well, yes. And you know what the Bible, even the NASB that I like, I don't think translates it properly.

It does say in first John 5 .1, whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, it says is born of God, but it's a perfect passive indicative in the

Greek. Perfect tense is I have walked, which means

I have walked, not I had walked, I have walked is perfect tense.

It means the action is in the past and it's not designated as having been stopped in the past.

It has the, the possibility, probability of occurring now. I have walked. It doesn't mean you're stopped walking, but I had walked means

I was walking in the past and I stopped in the past. So the perfect tense means that it's, it's a past action with continued on effect now.

So you have, and it's so there'll be passive, which means you've received the action.

That's what it means. An indicative means it's a statement of fact. So it's a perfect passive indicative third person singular.

That's what we have to do in Greek. We have to talk like that, you know, the professional go, okay, parse this one,

Matt, uh, panic, you know, perfect passive indicative, third person singular, and you do it by looking at the

Greek word. And in this case is the Gentile. So what is that? Well, you know that you go and you learn these rules, you learn this stuff.

So anyway, so it's perfect passive indicative. Perfect means past tense, continued action of the present and passive means you receive the action indicative means it's a fact.

So that's what it says. You have been, that's what the best translation is. Just my, uh, my opinion on, on, um, what

I believe reformed theology really shows is that it shows man's incapacities, what he's not able to do.

And what I think Arminian doctrine is they think man is capable of all these things that the scripture says we're incapable of.

That's right. You are absolutely correct. You're absolutely correct.

So anyway, um, well, I'll let someone else join on the phone, but thank you so much. Okay. Yeah.

I love talking about this stuff. I know it pretty well. I've been defending it for over 30 years since 91 actually when

I graduated of seminary and I became a five pointer shortly after graduation. And so at 24,

I've been doing it 20 or 33 years now defending it and not saying I got everything down. I know everything right, but I've debated it a thousand times and so I know what the arguments are against.

Let me tell you, you're way ahead and let me, let me just, let me say this reformed theology isn't the cure for everything, but if people hold a reformed theology, you're far less likely to fall into a lot of heresies that are prominent in the

Protestant church. You won't become man centered. You become God centered. You'll recognize your own depravity and that you need to depend on God.

You recognize that when things happen in your life that seemingly are bad, that God somehow is behind them.

Not that he's causing evil, but that within his sovereignty he is allowing, and there's a reason for it.

And though we may not know, we can trust him through it. Just like when you, you know, my wife and I lost a son, we, we had to go bankrupt once.

We've had threats to us, our lives. We've had things happen and I was swatted, you know, we have things happen and this is the kind of stuff you have to go through and sometimes

God doesn't give you the reasons, but in reformed theology, you know, it's not by chance. It's not because God, well, you know,

I didn't really want that, but okay, it's not like that. And so reformed theology puts you 50 steps ahead of the

Armenians and I'm, I know it's a bold statement, but if Armenians want to call up and challenge me on that, that's fine, but that's my opinion.

And you're right, the incapacities of man, you know, um, yes, the reformed people accept, you know, we, you cannot come to Christ unless it's granted to you.

You cannot believe unless faith is granted unto you. You cannot be regenerated unless God regenerates you.

If you're in the flesh, you cannot please God, cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot over and over and over what you cannot do.

And then you talk to most Christians and they think they can do all those things. That's just like, well, at the end of the day,

I'm either going to believe the written word of God, which gives incapacities of man, or I'm going to believe your opinion that your grandma or your grandpa told you,

I just have to go with the Bible. You're a smart and wise man because you're submitting to the word of God.

And in this journey, you're recognizing you weren't wise enough to save yourself. You weren't wise enough to pick

Christ. He was merciful enough to consider you and gave you that faith and granted it to you.

And it's humbling and it's also freeing. And you also know that your salvation doesn't depend on your goodness.

It's on God's goodness. And he's never going to leave you. And it gives you it gives me it gives us an awe, like like a fear of God in a healthy way, like if he had not had mercy.

Wow, it's a scary predicament. You realize you're so codependent on the Lord. And I just realized

I'm so dependent on him for breath and everything. It's just there's a there's an awe when you realize when you accept the incapacities and we do as reformed, you realize by the grace of God, do

I go another day? What you're doing, you don't even realize it is you are speaking like many of the ancient, not ancient, but the guy that the

Presbyterian divines wrote. They wrote the same thing you're speaking of, except better.

They're just so awesome. For the four. Thank you. Take care, Matt. OK, bye bye. All right. But God bless, man.

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Let's get on the air with John from Georgia. Welcome, John. You're on the air. Hey, Matt, how are you doing today?

Oh, hang in there. Hang in there, man. Hang in there. What do you got, buddy? Yes. Well, suddenly, suddenly your voice is really distant.

OK, are you there? Hello. Hello. Hello.

OK, now I can hear you. A lot of road noise. But what do you got? We've got some problem there.

Maybe you can call back. Yeah, we did. Or he'll have to just just lost him. That's all right.

Hey, we'll call back and and we'll get to him. Let's see. OK, OK, let's see.

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So please consider supporting us and definitely please pray for us. We definitely need that. Let's get to Cheryl from North Carolina.

Cheryl, welcome. You're on the air. Thank you. Thanks. I hear a lot of I hear a lot of ministers, preachers that say that Jesus fed five thousand with two fish and five loaves using a boy's lunch.

I cannot find anywhere in scripture that it says that it is his lunch.

Interesting. Let's see. Bible. Jesus fed five thousand.

Let's see if we can find those references. So we have it in Matthew. Let's see. Let's go over here. Matthew 14.

And there we go. Fed to five thousand. So a large crowd encompassed and they have nowhere to go.

Bring them here. So we have five loaves and two fish in order to sit down on the grass, which is interesting.

Sit down on the grass and Psalm 23. You just made me lie down in green pastures. So anyway, and so I'm looking there.

I don't see anything in there. So let me go to another place in scripture, which probably talks about it, because sometimes it'll have one word that will make a difference.

Let's see. Scanning. You know, I'm scanning. I wish I'd had the answer to you already, but I don't.

Yeah, it actually says you had them lie down on green grass, just like it says out of Psalm 23.

We place a desolate and something to eat and command and sit down on the green grass.

So I don't know. I'm not seeing it yet. Doesn't mean it's not there. When I did a

Google search, John six nine. Let me go to John six nine. I get there. Let's see.

It says there's a lad here who has five and two fish. But what now

I get feedback. That's weird. A lad, five barley, two fish.

But there are those. What the heck? All of a sudden, I just started feedback. I don't know if you can hear it.

Anyway, so the word lad is Pied de Ron, and it means a boy, a little boy, a lad.

So it's right there in John six nine. I think that was Charlie. Put that in. I'm not sure who did, but thank you.

So you can say it's lunch. I'd say, well, it was from a lad, a young boy.

He had it. So they say that's good enough. Right, right. Yeah. But I don't see where it says lunch, because exactly a lot of ministers, even on TV, very familiar ministers, very popular, say lunch.

I don't see lunch. And when I did a Google search, it asked, why would a boy have that much food for his lunch?

Yeah, I find that nowhere scripted that it was his lunch, his actual lunch.

I agree with you. Does it say lunch? That's not what I'm saying. So maybe if someone else has some information, don't know about that, you know, open to to check it out.

So wait a second. From borrowed from a boy's lunch, Christ led the mass, John six, nine. But that's what

I'm looking at right now. John six, nine. There's a lad who had five barley loaves, two fish. But what are these for so many people?

And he sat down. There's no much. You know, that's it. That's all it says. So no lunch. I wouldn't say lunch.

Maybe he was caring for, you know, for other people. Five barley loaves and two fish.

That's a lot. A lot of it's a lot. And I'm just so surprised. I'm surprised that ministers, even the

TV ministers say his lunch. And I mean, I don't know why they keep saying that.

And of all people, people that you study from and sit under and listen to for years and years and years, why they would say lunch because there's nowhere in Scripture.

So I just wanted to ask that question. They don't. That's right. They say it because they hear each other say it and they don't check the text a lot of times.

And so and I'm not surprised they say it because many preachers will say things that are not just found in Scripture.

But you're good for you. You got that right. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Good for you, Cheryl. OK, we got a break. Thank you so much. Thank you for your help. OK, God bless.

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And so sometimes on Fridays, trying to focus on hate mail. And I don't even know if we have any hate mail left.

I see two sitting in there. And oh, my goodness.

Oh, this is a good one. Oh, man. Whoo. I'm going to read this one because it's it's a little it's a little wacko mail and hate mail put together.

I don't know if I've read this one already. So I'm going to read this because it's pretty good. And I like doing this. So this is what someone says here.

You lose, Matt. That's a good way to start off. It's not like, hello,

I've got a gripe with you on something. No, it's you lose, Matt, and your attempt to justify your innermost problems.

You know, I always crack up when I read stuff like this because I didn't know I was trying to justify my innermost problems.

I did that news to me. You know, I like it when people reveal to me my innermost thoughts. I think it's useful and helpful.

It's really polite of them and considerate of them to take the time out to email me about my innermost problems that I have that I didn't even know

I had. And that's what's motivating me. And they get to let me know. So I do appreciate that. Thank you for those who are listening on it.

So your attempt to justify your innermost problems with your twisted ministry. It's like a punk band.

Twisted ministry. Twisted ministry is gone. So I didn't know that it's gone.

Wow. So interesting. Interesting. My twit. My ministry is twisted. Well, how is it twisted?

You know, someone said my ministry, you'll call me up. Your ministry is twisted. I'd say, OK, well, what does it mean?

Double, double, not twist. What? What is it? And, you know, it's always like when they say stuff like I get to ask them, you know, it's good.

Now, shut down. Karma. Oh, wow. Check this out. Shut down. Karma or be arrested by the

FBI and sentenced to prison. This is actually an email. It's actually in an email.

So now this is what's really good. I lose and I'm trying to justify my innermost problems with a twisted website.

Karma. And then if I don't take it down, the FBI is going to arrest me and I'm going to prison. Now, that's pretty good.

I mean, that's a pretty good one. That's that's three sentences. It's got to be written by a guy because it's to the point and it's efficient.

So you're not a lot of a name person flies, you know, you get it. Well, what's he saying? You know, what's the point? No, it starts off really brilliantly.

You lose, Matt. And there's even a comma after the word lose.

You lose. Comma, Matt, it's proper. It's good. And then your attempt to justify your innermost problems with your twisted ministry is gone.

It's a good sentence. There's no punctuation errors, no spelling errors. No. Now, shut down Karm or be arrested by the

FBI and sentenced to prison. Another well -structured sentence. I don't see any problems grammatically with it.

And the punctuation is pretty good. Let's go on to the second sentence. All right. If you think

I'm going to fall for your sick games, I know what that means. A sick game. What's a sick game?

You know, the temperature, you know, I don't know what is a sick game.

Anyway, I turned you into the Department of Defense. Whoa. Saying you are a threat to national security.

Wow. And how am I a threat to national security? Talking about Jesus on the Bible. Well, maybe maybe in 10 years with the way things are going in the left is getting control and making things intolerable for the conservative.

Maybe then I'll be arrested for something. I don't know. That's pretty good. If you think I'm going to fall for your sick games.

I turned you in. Now, that's a logical problem, because if you think I turned you in, it's not it doesn't follow logically.

If you think it should be you're wrong, I won't. In light of this, I turned you in.

That's how it should be structured. So he blew it the second sentence in the structure there. He said, I turned you into the

Department of Defense. Saying you're a threat to national security. I could just picture of sending them an email or, you know, calling them up.

Yeah, well, I want to talk to you about a guy named Matt Slick. He's on the radio and he's a threat to national security.

And they say, and how so? Well, he's on the radio talking about Jesus. And what else they say in Islam is not good in the

Catholic church is false. And he's a threat to national security. And I could hear them say, and what's your address?

Somebody had to talk to you. Who knows? So anyway, you see, it's fun on Fridays, Friday fun with hate mail.

All right, let's get on the air with Paul from Virginia. Hey, Paul, welcome. You're on the air. Hello, how are you?

Oh, having fun with hate mail. That's all I'm doing. Enjoying it. Yes. Yes, I heard that.

So I haven't talked to you quite some time. And quite a long time ago,

I told you about a book called COVID -19 and the

Global Predators. We are the prey by Dr. Peter Braggett.

It has introductions in it by Dr. Peter McAuliffe and Dr. Elizabeth Villette and also

Dr. Zelinko, Vladimir Zelinko, who has since passed away due to cancer.

But I wondered if you ever got a minute to peruse or look through that book.

You know, I'm opening up my Kindle, everything on Kindle, and it's taking a while to open. And then

I can go to the book and see if I have anything highlighted. Then that's how I can tell you if I have or haven't, because I'm always so busy reading a lot of stuff that I jump from book to book that sometimes

I just forget. I've actually gone in Kindle and go, I'm going to read this book. And I realized I read half of it.

It was highlighted. I've already highlighted it. So that happens. And OK, now it opened up.

So hold on. Let me see. Here we go. The truth about it. OK, I'm opening it up.

And what page am I on? On page ninety nine. Oh, yeah, I've highlighted it.

Highlighted a lot of it. Uh huh. How about that? Oh, so you have had a chance to look at it.

Yeah, I'm on page ninety nine of it. Mm hmm. Yeah. You know, I just wanted to talk about that for a minute.

There is another website called React, R -E -A -C -T dot

O -R -G, React 19 dot O -R -G. And real not rare dot com.

And there are many people that share their stories, they're being injured, disabled or in some cases family members have written in for the deceased relative who took these shots.

And I'm a person that's been severely injured. I'm still under treatment. Two and a half years later, because unfortunately,

I believed what they said in the beginning. And I don't quite understand, even though I know there's corruption and greed and politics, exactly how they are getting away with this.

Um, one person that is on this same station, Charles Christmire, who is also an author.

He was a former attorney and then teacher and then became an evangelist and has written several books.

I was able to listen to his program about a month or so ago. And he talked about this subject for the whole hour.

I missed half of it. But ironically or miraculously, I was able to get him on the phone right after that.

And apparently one of the people from Washington, Chip Roy from Texas, is trying to get legislation introduced in Congress to where it would at least be some civil liability for this situation.

Where that is now, I don't know. But I just wanted to do you have a question, though, because I did check the book.

And so I need to read a lot more. I got so many books I'm reading. You know, I have over almost 600 books in Kindle or whatever

I'm going through. But, you know, basically, I just wanted to call in and mention that again.

And now I know you've you've you've read parts of it.

And I just wish that I don't I don't really have a question.

I just wanted to speak with you because I have not done so in a long time and raise awareness of this, because there are literally, according to Dr.

McCullough, 17 million people around the world have been killed by these shots.

Wow, I wouldn't be surprised just for correction. I haven't read that far in a book. That's where it opened to my highlights.

Don't go that far. But I did read a lot of it. So or some of it,

I should say. OK, but yeah, it's a it's a big thing. And I wrote a lot on on COVID. I wrote a lot of articles, too.

I did a lot of research. And I and when this subject comes up, generally YouTube will ban me.

Just for talking about. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see if they do. And I haven't even said anything. You're the one saying stuff.

You're giving names and books and dates and stuff like that. And a lot of times for YouTube, you're not supposed to do that.

You can't even do that. And they just ban you. And we're you know, we'll go into the the pig pen for a while. So that's what happens.

Yes. And along that same line, real quickly, I asked Mr. Chris Meyer, how are they?

Why is the media not saying anything about all of this? The mainstream media and the leftists, because they're all together.

Yeah, they're all together. That's right. Yeah. The leftist media. Yeah. And what I recommend people do is go check out the the goals.

See, I have it on CARM. The goals of the Communist Party and look it up on my website and you'll see what they've wanted to do is an official document that the communists released about destroying

America during control. And that's what's going on. You can read that. Hey, we got to go. OK, buddy. Talk to you later, man.

All right. OK. There's a break. May the Lord bless you. Be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick live.

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Let's get to Ed from Virginia. Ed, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, Matt, how are you doing tonight?

I'm doing OK. Hanging in there, man. Hanging in there. So what do you got, big guy? I get to get money. I get my slick fix again tonight.

I'm out delivering. I got it for you, smart man. My understanding that in the

New Testament, the Greek word for Lord Kyrios is equal to the Septuagint Yahweh, is that correct?

Yes and no. It's used in part to replace the word Yahweh Kyrios, which means

Lord. But it can be used in other contexts. It's not just a one to one equivalent. OK.

So so what is the word in the in the Old Testament or I am and then

Jesus said before Abraham was I am. That's Yahweh Yahweh. So what is it in the

Tetragrammaton in the Greek? That would be I am is literally a go a me.

I am. That's how they say it. A go a me. OK. All right.

But it's equal to Yahweh. Nope. Well, yes, kind of. You see, when

Jesus says, unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins. He's not claiming the divine name, per se.

He's using it in a context. And he says in Johnny 58 before him was I am. Now, that is a is more of a strong statement of his deity.

He was claiming about himself. I want to kill him for that. But for example, if you go to, for example, you go to someone 16, four says they called upon the name of Yahweh, called upon the name of Yahweh.

Oh, Yahweh, I beseech you, save my life. So that phrase is translated into the

Greek called upon the name of the Lord. How curious. So in that context, curious is equivalent to the name of God.

I am. But the word occurs in different contexts. It said so, for example, in, let's see,

Matthew eight to a Lord. I mean, man came to him and said to Jesus, you know,

Lord, if you're willing, you can make me clean. Well, he's not calling him Yahweh at this point. He's just calling him the master teacher.

And the word is used that way. OK. OK. And it's used as a term.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just thinking in terms of like witnessing to Mormons, one

Mormon tried to do me the other morning and he was asked, do you believe Jesus is God? Yes. Yes.

So he's God. Yes. I'm like, I've never heard a Mormon tell me he believes Jesus is God. But he didn't say that a guy.

He's yeah, he's you know, you understand how they think. They're taught to say he's

God, but they are taught to say that just God means one of the gods. So he's God. Yeah, that's all.

They're not taught to think critically at all through this. So you have to see.

I tell people if you want to talk to Mormons, you have to speak in terms of definitions. You have to say something.

Do you believe that Jesus is a second person of the Trinity? The Trinity being one God, not three gods, but one

God in three distinct simultaneous persons. That's how you have to talk to them. And you have to use affirming affirmations as well as negations that there's only one

God and none other in all existence. That kind of a thing you got to talk to.

OK, right. Got you. All right. OK, well, thank you. I appreciate my slick fix tonight so I can get off.

All right. A few minutes. Enjoy the evening. You too, man. God bless. All right.

God bless. God bless. All right. Let's get to let's see. Jamal from North Carolina.

Jamal, welcome. You're on the air. Thank you, Mitch Slick. Always a pleasure, sir.

Thank you. Let's see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You always enjoy your show.

Had a question. Probably softball for you. Where do the names of the books of the

Bible come from? I don't know. The early church. Oh, no.

The early the early church has designated them. I don't know the exact steps. So the early church knew that Matthew wrote

Matthew. Luke wrote Luke, et cetera. And they just assigned the names of the authors to them, even though those names are not included in the text, which was a common way of address back then.

They wouldn't often put their name in it. Paul did. You know, it's just, you know, what big letters I write, you know, in this one epistle,

I put his own name in there. But normally it didn't really do that. And so it's just a custom.

And so the tradition was and the church knew and the people knew from him that you wrote it. And then that's how they knew it's just passed down.

That's the basic answer. OK. OK. All right. Well, just a follow up.

See if you can help me out with this. So the book of Acts and like Leviticus.

What about those those books? Do you know about them? The book of Acts and Leviticus.

Yes, I know about them. Yep. OK, so what about them? Well, like where those names originated from.

Oh, I think it's a big accident. It's interesting. The acts of the apostles.

I don't know where that originated from. I don't know who designated it first that way or why the Jews called

Leviticus Leviticus. They called Exodus Exodus because it's it's leaving.

It's the exodus genesis. Basically, it was beginning. So it's a good question.

I don't know what who or how or what the original names were derived from. I don't know. OK. All right.

Well, you got time for a completely different follow up. Yeah, we got nobody else waiting.

So you're it, man. Go ahead. Oh, nice. Hopefully you don't regret it. OK, we'll see.

OK, Moses denied entry to the promised land.

How was he denied? Was he just getting some kind of physical ailment to prevent him from going? Was that some kind of barrier?

I know it sounds silly, but you know, that doesn't say I was wondering what going. Yeah, it doesn't say what the actual thing was that prevented him, but it just he was prevented.

And I don't know if it was like, you know, a chain to his ankle. It's nothing like that. He just was not allowed to go. God said, you can't go in.

So he didn't. And you know why he he was prevented, if the reason was, incidentally.

Let me take a stab at him. Of course, you can you can correct me, because he acted out of anger and hit the rock with the staff.

He hit it how many times? Twice, dos, senor. Twice. How many times was

Jesus struck? Not individual slaps. The the whole issue of the cross once crucified, once the rock that followed them was

Christ, first Corinthians ten, four. And so the issue here is that the ultimate, the striking of the rock, water comes out of the blood.

You know, he's living water. It's all symbol symbolic of Christ. And so he struck it once because God says once because that's it been one time that Christ has struck.

I mean, the whole of his ordeal of crucifixion. It's a one time event. And and Moses did it twice.

And so you're in trouble because it's eschatological, it's Christological. OK. That's amazing.

And then when he was stabbed, well, Jesus was stabbed in the side. Blood and water came out.

You know why? You know why that's the case from the spiritual standpoint or medical standpoint?

Medical, try medical. OK, because something with the heart pumping in the blood and the water didn't get through or something like that.

That's my standpoint. No pun intended. Well, when when you die to what happened was

Jesus was on the cross and he has holes in his wrists, not his palm, but his wrists and his feet and his back had been ripped open, probably was able to see the ribs, some of his ribs.

It was his bad shape. And in order to breathe, he had to push up on the nails on his feet to take a breath because of the condition of how his arms are stretched out in the condition and positioning.

So the body, the blood is draining out. And in order to compensate, the heart will just beat faster and faster because it needs oxygen or it wants to provide oxygen to the body because it's being depleted of oxygen, because there's less blood to carry the

O2 in the hemoglobin. So it beats faster and faster and faster until it ruptures. It explodes.

It just breaks. It ruptures and it's gone. You're done. And with that point, the blood circulation ceases and then the blood settles in the cavities of the body.

And I read a medical thing about why that occurs there. I forgot what it is. And it separates.

And so they knew where to stab someone to see if in that area, the cavity was filling up with blood and water because it meant it was no longer circulating, which meant he's dead.

Wow. OK, I never knew that. That's what's going on.

Yeah, these guys are ancient times. There were no there were no dummies.

I know we look down on them a lot, but they had some form of intelligence, morality and spirituality, you know, a little different.

But there's a lot of intelligence back in those days. And they know what they were doing or crucifying.

They they understood it because it was a common thing about the empire, the Roman Empire, to crucify people.

So what are you going to do? You know, when you do it all the time and you have experts teaching it, this is what's going to happen.

You break their legs because you break their legs. Then they can't push up in order to breathe.

They're going to die right away to suffocate. Can't take a breath. So they came to Jesus to break his legs, but he is already gone.

He'd already died. It's all this is is from the issue there of of the crucifixion ordeal.

It's all natural to it. Yeah, it's very interesting. Back to Moses, I almost forgot this question.

And by the way, guys, I'm not making light of the crucifixion. I watch Passion of the

Christ. I can only watch it once. It was a rough movie. I have to put the highest regard for Jesus. He's my Lord and Savior.

It's just, you know, sometimes, you know, me and Matt have a good banter going back. That's all, you know, the most respected

Jesus. So thank you. Amen as well.

So Moses, he did make it to heaven, though, eventually, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. He was called by God as a prophet. And he went to there's nothing to say that he didn't go to heaven.

There's nothing spoken against him at all in scripture. So in that sense. So he went to heaven with the

Lord. Yeah. Mm hmm. That's good. Thank goodness. All right.

Good to know. In fact, what else is else is interesting. Check this out. He didn't he didn't circumcise his son, but that's part of the law.

It was to do that. Well, yeah. And so the angel of God was coming to kill him.

They're going to kill him from kill Moses for this, for breaking the covenant requirement. Zipporah, his wife, circumcised the son and threw the foreskin at his feet.

There's a strong rebuke against him. Oh, yeah. And that's when the angel of the

Lord said, OK, and let him go. Now, it does not say that the foreskin touched his feet.

It says, do it at his feet. So it's certainly possible it did. The shed blood touched him and he was saved.

If it touched him, that would be representative of the atonement because circumcision represents ultimately the shedding of blood in the maleness part thing that represents the descendants.

And this deals with federal headship and ultimately deals with the atoning work of Christ. Yeah. A lot of stuff.

Wow. My goodness. Yeah, you can't get tired of the

Bible. I mean, from a cultural standpoint, just reading the scripture, solo scripture, right?

You can't you can't get enough of it or you shouldn't. I'm trying to get deeper with it.

And, you know, listening to your show is really, really helped me out a lot. I know some folks want to say, well, there's the music, man.

Oh, OK. All right. Try not to be. Thank you for answering. God bless. But now I now

I want to know people are here and they're saying, so now I'm curious, but we're out of time. So email me or call me next week and let me know.

All right, Jamal, we're going to go. All right. Hey, folks, there we are. We're out of time. May the

Lord bless you by his grace. So back on here on Monday. Have a great weekend, everybody. God bless. Bye. Another program powered by the