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This you said statements either true or false. I gave you a statement and you said it doesn't apply Not to that It's not only truth that statements would be either true or false

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So is it true that i'm talking to you? Is it true? That is true statement. I'm talking to you.

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Is that true? Yes Okay, is it true that babies exist? um

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Well, I mean how many babies exist Babies exist Babies exist. Is that true or is it not the case that it's true?

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I would I mean if you want to go down the you know, if you want to be very strict about it I would be skeptical about okay, we're done talking

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There's no sense in having a conversation with someone who who just can't even recognize the statement that babies exist

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Well, you know, give me a break. We're never going to get anywhere. He's not uh, he's not having a normal conversation

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We're just going to move on to something else. It's ridiculous He's not interested in a conversation. No, no, he's just interested in arguing.

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I am infinitum. That's all I just know You know, I just trapped him find out that I already decided as soon as I said, you know

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How's he going to answer this with babies exist if he gives me a hard time? We're just moving on, you know, all right

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John you had some I was gonna say he doesn't want to have a conversation. You asked him a very simple question do babies exist and he has to Dodge that.

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Well, I mean if you True okay, it's simple.

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It's simple. It's a simple freaking question. Come on John's a little fire.

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I'm gonna lose it. I'm just gonna lose it. I'm just i'm a lot tired of this i'm tired of these games Oh You'll do anything to deny god you guys

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So tell us what you really think john He's saying this telling you man,

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I just Uh All right, so there's no babies

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This is apologetics live Andrew rapaport part of the christian podcast community

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Matt slick is well missing He's gonna be coming in late Which means if everybody fills the room matt won't be able to get in just a thought if we could have some fun

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See him outside trying to get into the hangout and we could just sit there and laugh, uh, that was some classic classic stuff in the intro from Uh years ago about a year ago with that that was recorded.

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Um, and you know Unfortunately, we were hoping we were hoping we had uh an atheist that was going to come in Ah, but no, no, he didn't he he didn't show so He's a no -show

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Unfortunately, but we do I brought some uh, I brought some big guns in Till matt gets here friend of mine.

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Jim osmond is in with us We're gonna we'll at least chat until matt gets here. If you have some questions, you want to challenge us apologetically

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So this is a ministry of striving for eternity we try to help answer your apologetics questions we try to help you to be able to defend the faith and We have uh, well matt slick is usually here.

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He's our resident Apologist that we have he's with carm. That's carm Stands for christian apologetics research ministry one of the largest if not the largest apologetics websites

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Probably definitely the oldest I I would think as far as its size. Um It's up there.

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It's a going It's over 25 years Wow a long time.

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Um so with that, uh Jim, you might as well if you're unmuted and we could at least chat about some of the things that you and I Talked about that's going to be on a podcast that will drop

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Tomorrow. Nope. Sorry sunday. I'm mixing my days up for some reason. I thought today was saturday. That's really bad. I guess um

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But uh, you and I did a podcast dealing with john mcarthur's interview by ben shapiro

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Yeah, fascinating How do you well? Okay, first off John mccarthur is on a secular show more of a political show.

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How do you think he did? Uh, what do you think was the the overall goal that he had in that interview?

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Well, I think probably his goal was obviously to communicate the gospel. That's what he sees every Venue that he is on whether it's larry king or ben shapiro

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He sees it as an opportunity to to present the gospel to whoever might be listening and I was excited.

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I mean Thrilled when I saw that mccarthur was going to be on the ben shapiro because I listened to shapiro's podcast and I have for years

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Uh listened to his daily podcast as well as his sunday conversation that he has and i've heard him on there with sam harris and tucker carlson and Uh, sometimes people that he totally disagrees with and shapiro is always really good about giving people that he completely disagrees with As much time as they want or need to answer the questions

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And so I knew that he would not be he was not going to be combative or confrontational Really his goals in those podcasts is to have a conversation with somebody that he disagrees with about a subject and to let them share their perspective and and then

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Shapiro of course will ask engaging questions He does a good job with that often questions that are intended to be leading in a in a great cocoa style

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You know like a like an attorney ben shapiro is trained as an attorney So he he obviously wants to take the conversation a certain direction

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But I knew that mccarthur would have basically free reign to present whatever he wanted to present without any interruption from ben shapiro and mccarthur did a great job doing that uh his

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Uh the listening audience man andrew, I don't know how many ben shapiro has to have

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Thousands if not tens of thousands of people listen to his podcast well, he's got to have a lot when you consider that he is the uh,

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I think for the 2018 the eighth or ninth most listened to podcast and there's about 660 ,000 podcasts so Yeah, that means he's he's up there

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But yeah, the thing is that I think he mccarthur shared the gospel so much on that episode that on Ben shapiro's podcast that next

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I guess the monday or the tuesday He actually had to say something to his audience on why he didn't criticize mccarthur he ends up saying he disagrees with mccarthur's view of isaiah 53, but he said he doesn't get into those things in his

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You know when he's got a guest on he's there for to discuss with the guests not to do a debate Yeah It you know knowing that it was just great mccarthur had free reign to share the gospel over and over and over be able to explain the gospel to a jewish person,

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I mean If you want to know how to evangelize and witness to a jewish person my challenge is

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Go find the john mccarthur ben shapiro interview Just go search on youtube for it

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And you will see how to do that. I mean they get into political issues. They get into moral issues But over and over again, you see john mccarthur bringing up the gospel going through all of isaiah 53

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Explaining how that is fulfilled in christ just over and over It was brilliant.

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It was it was wonderful to watch it was it was seemed customized To ben shapiro. Um, I said

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I was sitting there watching it with my daughter and uh, I at there's one point where I said either john mccarthur has listened to ben shapiro argue against jesus being messiah or Somebody has told john mccarthur who listens to shapiro's podcasts exactly what shapiro believes either that or the spirit of god was there in customizing john mccarthur's words for ben shapiro because He just in presenting the gospel he presented the arguments in such a way as to basically attack the presuppositions

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That shapiro has given on his own podcast in the past Because he has made the argument shapiro has he has made the argument that jesus never claimed to be god

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He never claimed to be the jewish messiah He was just a rabbi and he was a good teacher and it was years generations

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After the events of the first century that jesus's second and third generation followers invented his claims to deity when they wrote down Some things in the gospels and so that is how he has argued that jesus christ was not the messiah and not divine

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And mccarthur went right to the heart of that almost as if he has heard heard shapiro's perspective on that or as if the spirit of god was just using him because he he

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He basically nailed those those presuppositions. He just he destroyed them Just in presenting the gospel to shapiro.

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He undid all of shapiro's arguments. It was brilliantly done well, I think I think what it is is that ben shapiro is not saying anything that a

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Orthodox jewish person wouldn't say and so Obviously mccarthur if he doesn't know ben shapiro's arguments knows the arguments that jewish people would make

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And he's answering that I thought you know It was brilliant you and I never didn't have time to address this on the podcast episode on the rap report

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But that I should mention that was the podcast that's that is you could search for rap report that's wrapped with two p's

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But if you could just go look for andrew efforts rap report We're going to deal with going through some of that and there's some there were some controversial things that mccarthur did say

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Those were the issues that we were really trying to to address but there were some things that Really, we there was a whole lot.

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We couldn't say just didn't have time one of them was you know, he brought up the fact that The jewish view that jesus was a good person

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He was just a good man mccarthur dealt with that beautifully before like as you said

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It was like he knew the arguments that were going to be made and took them away before they could get made

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And I don't know if he was anticipating To get some pushback. I mean he gets a little bit of pushback Uh from larry king, but usually off air and so I don't know if it was because of that or what but he definitely was looking to address

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Some of the typical arguments like well, jesus was just a good man And he says, you know, jesus couldn't be just a good man.

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He couldn't be because he claimed to be god Yeah, and and therefore No, good man can do that.

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No good. He made the liar lord lunatic a liar lunatic lord syllogism He didn't spell it out exactly like that, but he walked through that argument

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That's right. That's right And You know, I think that it was brilliant the way he did it It was brilliant the way he he addressed the issues and he did it and this is the thing he did it in a very conversational way

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It wasn't like he was combative. It wasn't like it was argumentative and I mean one thing that was very interesting at the beginning of that interview was

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Ben shapiro's folks the people who work for him were Excited to have macarthur there and he said they he they've had plenty of guests and no one had the excitement that john macarthur had

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With the group that works for ben shapiro. I find that very interesting because it says that ben shapiro must be surrounded by uh good

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Christians, I mean christians that understand solid doctrine That they're excited for macarthur. They actually said there was a line of people

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Uh to talk to and and meet John, macarthur. So that's really just kind of interesting with all the guests.

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He's had in there to have that kind of response I just find that I find it interesting.

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I think that maybe there's some something there we can see as a testimony to uh, Really to where he may be at.

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Yeah does tell us something about who might be surrounding him Yeah Yeah, so so let's until we until we get some folks in and folks if you want to join now is actually the best time

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To join, it's always good to join these and we get a whole bunch of people to come later In the show and ask questions and sometimes we don't get a chance to get to you

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It is always best to come in early get your question You'll get a better chance of getting on the air

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But i'm going to deal with something matt and I have one of our many facebook groups that we have is called christian apologetics

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And we have a troll in there an internet troll for folks who don't know is someone that pretends like they want to have dialogue when

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They're really not interested in it. They're interested in attacking and making whatever arguments They want to make and claims and so this is a guy who's a an atheist.

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He put this out. Um, And it was just an interesting

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Uh, let's see if I could share my screen. I forget how to do that. Let's see so Where is that?

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I'll share this real quick so you can see it Um, and so what you end up seeing here is this is his the thing he says

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He's got this list of things and he claims that it's a genuine question that he wants the answer to and So here's the question you have to answer one through seven number one.

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I know for certain god exists number two Can't be certain but I highly believe in god number three

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I am very Unc or i'm very uncertain, but I Inclined to believe in god number four

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The probability of god's existence is 50 Number five. I don't know if god exists, but I tend to be skeptical number six

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I can't know for certain but I think it's Highly improbable number seven.

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I know for certain that god doesn't exist Now he wanted to get a response to that he wanted to know where people were in a christian apologetics group

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Where people fall on that line? So it was kind of an interesting thing

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I guess he wasn't expecting My answer maybe because he really didn't like it very much but my answer uh is

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I responded and said To answer your question paul you Know for certain god exists the difference between us is that you suppress the truth and I do not the proof that you

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The proof of this is that you spend all your time in here trying to convince yourself. God doesn't exist

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I think that this is a way to answer and and we you know going back to what we talked about in the podcast with you know

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The ben shapiro interview of macarthur ben. Shapiro Uh has him on and macarthur was answering

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Ben shapiro's questions very much with a presupposition away. He was Not taking things out actually what we could even play.

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Let me play a clip of macarthur Uh, here's here was one of the clips Of why there has to be a god why should they take any of this seriously and not just think okay

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It's a compilation of various texts by various old people over time. Why should they take the bible seriously in the first place?

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Well, I think the bible is its own defense Um, i've never defended the bible. I've just preached it

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And then here is another question that got asked and again a nice good presuppositional answer What do you think is the the key distinguishing factor between the philosophy of christianity and the philosophy of judaism?

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Well, first of all, I don't like to talk about it as a philosophy Um, I'd rather talk about it as a revelation

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Because it's divine You see how in both of those and this is a good Thing for folks who are doing apologetics to be aware of this notice how macarthur in both of those cases.

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He's asked the question The first one is why should be able to take the bible seriously? He just brushes that off.

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This isn't an issue of Where people whether they take it seriously. This is a divine thing. Well, what about the philosophy?

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No, no, it isn't a philosophy. This is Biblical truth. This is divine truth. It comes from god and therefore

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That is the authority he places on it Okay And so what you end up seeing here is as we look at what macarthur was was doing is he's giving a way of answering these things presuppositionally

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Now there's some folks who have some wrong views of what presuppositional apologetics is For many people presuppositional apologetics they think

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Is to ignore all evidence to deny that any evidence and just either quote scripture or to to just You know, well some people will just sit there and think that the way to do it is to ask, you know

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Do you can you know everything for sure? And if they say no, then you say we'll see then their god must exist and they don't explain it sometimes unfortunately

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But presuppositional apologetics is really quite simple it is the fact that there's two presuppositions that we hold to that we that we don't try to prove because You cannot prove them and that is god exists and he has spoken.

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Why can't you prove them? anything That you could use to try to argue

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To prove god's existence or to prove god's word is actually god's word would have to be greater than god and greater than the bible

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Because it has to be it would have to be a greater source The ultimate source for everything is god

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Now we can we can sit easily and we could take uh, if we want we can end up taking people who want to argue that um

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They want to argue that god is um That god's

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You know needs to be proven You need to have some argument You could take someone that says that god does not exist

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I can sit with them and Go through Simple things that show that their views are impossible to be thrown

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Matt slick likes to do this with the tag argument You could look at things like the laws of logic.

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You could look at things like morality and you end up seeing That there has to be an absolute universal source

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And the only possible one is god himself Where do we get morality from? We get that from the nature of god

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So the question gets asked why is rape wrong? And and people will give different answers jim, you know, you've gotten some answers but the typical ones

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I hear is harm That does harm to people You're harming another person um

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But if you think about it If we say okay we do harm so if I remove the harm done then rape wouldn't be wrong

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So that could be removed There was a a dentist who had raped several women and had them when they were under anesthesia

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They were not even aware. They didn't even know That there was any harm done.

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They didn't even know that it had occurred. It wasn't until one woman had realized well She knew she hadn't been with anybody and she was pregnant something happened worked it out to the only possible case and sure enough

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Paternity tests proved that to be true. Now. There were other women that also Were in a similar situation when it came out and the interesting thing

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Prior to the knowledge of the rape. They did not suffer the effects of Rape of someone that's been raped.

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They didn't have the trauma After they found out that's when they realized so in other words the harm was in Finding out that you were raped not the actual rape.

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So then rape wouldn't be wrong It would be telling people that rape is wrong And when you argue this way what people will end up very quickly doing very quickly is go to consent

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Well, it wasn't consented Now, I don't know why consent somehow makes things morally right or wrong because if you think about it if consent is required

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Then every parent Is morally wrong when they tell their children to do something and the child disagrees

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The child's not consenting In fact, you may have to consent to obeying speed limits.

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Is that morally wrong? It's consent Something that makes something morally right and wrong

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You see consent is not something that you can use as an argument for morality Because there's plenty of cases where we do things not with consent but because an authority says so We don't consent to it and yet it's not morally wrong

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So when you get to how would a christian how should a christian answer the question of why rape is wrong?

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Very simple Rape is wrong because god is not a rapist. You see we get our morality from the nature of god

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So the fact that we have with god that he says Something doesn't make it right and wrong

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This is to take away the you for throw dilemma that people say well god says it's wrong and that's what makes it

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No, no. No, it's not wrong because god says so it's wrong because it is not within the nature of god

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It's not god's nature That's what makes it wrong Jim have you you've you've done a fair bit of evangelism and run into people

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When people try to argue that there is no absolute morality How do you usually try to argue?

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Uh, usually I try to ask them if certain things that everybody would agree is morally wrong um

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If they would object to these things being morally wrong torturing two -year -olds for fun um rape um

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Murdering people the things that with the big ones, you know, the ones that everybody would recognize and this is obviously Morally reprehensible and you try to agree get them to agree that yeah,

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I recognize that those things are wrong but then Then you always got to go back to the grounding question because we all recognize that there is a moral standard

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Uh, the atheists agree with us when they say that there's a moral standard But what they cannot do is ground that moral standard in something transcendent beyond their own preferences or their own

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Uh or their own ideology their own thinking Uh, so I try and get them to say why is that wrong?

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Is it always wrong under what circumstances? Is it wrong because you just think it's wrong? If you are an atheist then give me some some way of grounding your moral your moral enterprise that is outside of and beyond you because If it's just wrong because you think it's wrong then um, then

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I could say that well The rape isn't wrong because I don't think it's wrong So You have to get them to try and ground

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You have to try and get them to ground that morality and then when they try to do so without god in the picture uh, that is when

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I find that it's easy to take them right back to Showing that they basically have both feet firmly planted in midair as uh, great coca would like to say

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Yeah, because if you if you remove the absolute nature of morality you end up with nothing

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I mean nothing is now wrong and you could You know you can very easily go through And work through the issue of the holocaust nazi, germany because the question is

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Was that wrong now for folks who actually studied much on the holocaust? when the germans soldiers who were involved in the concentration camps had been captured and went on trial

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One of the arguments they made is our society said this is true our society agreed

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This is moral. Therefore You can't impose your morality on us and tell us we're wrong

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And the appeal that people made was that there was an absolute Standard there. There's what they did was wrong

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And everybody can know that that was basically the argument that got made and that's why they ended up Having the trial now the way that most people will argue if you say

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That well take whatever the issue is People will say well, it's it's moral because the society

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Says that it is and when they say that you just can easily go to Nazi germany, so was it right?

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You can ask the question. Where is the united states and Britain and all the other nations in the accesses, you know in the ally allies were they all wrong

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When they went up against germany Was it wrong to attack germany based on the things they were doing now

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A person that wants to say that morality is something that's subjective ends up having to argue

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That no what they did wasn't wrong that what they you know Because their their society accepted it

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But they know they shouldn't say that they know it was wrong And so what do they end up doing they start trying to find wiggle room?

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They try to find some other way to argue their way Around this and what ends up happening when they do that is you slowly start to see if you take this piece by piece

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You will start to see That ultimately they're going to get down to might makes right

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Okay, they're going to get to well society decided Yeah, but in that in the society in uh, nazi germany

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There were 11 million people that were murdered 6 million jewish people And they obviously didn't agree.

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So why is it that? The nazis were they get to decide what's morally right?

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fair question The answer usually is that they got elected the people voted for them. They put them in power

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So it's the fact that they're in power. Oh, yes They will you can walk them down they always get to that point

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It's it's because they're in power And really what that comes down to is might makes right?

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And when they get to that point, once you get someone that says might makes right I usually ask so you would then accept that rape is okay, and they say no

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They never want to say that But if you think about it, isn't that what rape is rape is a might makes right?

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If the person doing the raping is stronger Then the rape occurs if the person who's being victimized is stronger

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Then the rape isn't going to happen. It is always a might makes right and so the thing when we look at The arguments that they make to try to say that morality is somehow a subjective and not objective

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That it's something that we can decide. It's not an absolute universal standard that comes from the nature of god

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They say that because of one simple thing If morality is absolute

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They're accountable to god. That's really what it comes down to and When we take a presuppositional argument, we don't give up the fact that god exists

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We don't try to argue for let me prove that god exists Let me prove that the bible is is true

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The bible is true for a very simple reason Because the author god cannot lie

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That's titus 1 2 and when you have someone that cannot lie who is good and kind and faithful and true

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Then when he says something it has those qualities to it and therefore anything that god writes down would be true

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And so god used men to he wrote through men so that we have the bible There's nothing we can use to try to prove the bible is god's word.

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I mean you can look at prophecies. Those are fine That's a great. That's the thing that that I ended up coming to accept that the new testament was

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Written by god was because I saw all the fulfilled prophecy You can look at the prophecies to see that Jesus was prophesied that he would come that he would be god that he would reign

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That he would die for his people you can look at all those prophecies and see that he fulfilled them

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Now those are evidences that we can use but I use those evidences To support the presupposition that I take without question

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God exists he has spoken You see i'm not going to put god on trial as if we have to prove him

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No, we're the ones that get put on trial And the fact is many of the professing atheists and why do

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I say professing atheists because well going back to that Photo that I showed that not really a meme, but that chart that the guy put up Every single human being according to romans one every single human being knows that god exists

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Though some suppress that truth in unrighteousness And so, uh with that we got some folks that that came in Uh, I don't i'm looking to see

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I think vince you came in first and then james then john I don't know if you guys have anything You want to ask any questions you have or if you even want to just chat more about presuppositional projects and what we're started with So i've i've brought all of you guys in so, uh, larry just came in so i'll bring larry up So if any of you guys

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What do you guys think about uh the arguments that that made I know you guys all agree with presuppositional apologetics

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So I don't think you're going to at least those mentioned I think One of the things

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I want to make sure recently that we definitely Include on our presuppositional apologetics is to always make sure we start with the gospel and end with the gospel

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I think sometimes we forget to that's the main focus and So i've just been conscious of that lately uh

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That I make sure that the gospel is front and center and in the end of priests up apologetic because that's really the power to You know convert people

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I didn't hear a lot of what y 'all were talking about came in late. So i'm not too sure which y 'all are Well, you're not the only one that came in late.

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Actually someone else just got in here uh It could that be oh, look at that.

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That is the slick one himself is actually here Look at him a slick one.

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That's right All hail the slick No, I had a doctor's appointment and uh

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Here I am Traffic coming home and all of that you missed you missed the intro and so did john

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But I I played that that clip from about a year ago matt where we had the guy that came in and said

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But he wasn't sure if babies exist And john lost it that was that's a that's one of my favorites said well you're one so that's over Yeah Um, I am almost tempted to do something matt just for the value

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I I was just sent that video and someone said that they were given permission for me to uh,

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To show the video, but I haven't I didn't even watch it I don't know if we should just play it but it is classic.

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What's that about? Uh, actually you might have been there The it started this is it started from a an african -american friend of mine cliff and I know you've met him but you probably don't remember him because well, you don't remember anybody but Cliff was telling me that we were talking about different preaching styles things like that And cliff said that when you're in the african -american churches, you could be preaching a nursery rhyme

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And People would amen it as long as you have the cadence down and you have that right and I said no way

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No, like you can't he's like. Oh, yeah nursery rhyme And we were at this missionary housing place and he literally starts doing

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Little miss muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds away And he's doing it with this cadence and no joke, this woman is walking past and just goes amen brother preach it and I just I couldn't believe it.

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I couldn't believe it. So we actually got him to to video him doing uh

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Preaching a nursery rhyme Yeah, so I should I should see if I could pull this down and we can maybe play that we'll have to see uh

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Okay, i'll see if I can add it to my drop box That might take some time. So Matt you're you're getting older.

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Uh, oh, here we go. I I don't know how long this is uh Should we play this matt?

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Yeah. All right. Let's let's play this let me uh Share the screen here

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I don't know how long this is, but I hope i'm gonna let's see cliff gave permission for you to use this uh, just want to make sure

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I just want to make sure I said Make sure you didn't say you know Uh He said uh

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Cliff didn't want to be seen as clowning around or disrespecting god. He trusts that you will not use it in that manner

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So i'll say it this way that yeah, I mean this is this is not cliff clowning around.

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It's not cliff It's actually cliff doing something that I think is helpful for for us It was for me to realize that there are people can be deceived just in the way

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That this cadence works that people get into an emotional Response system.

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This is very much like what charles finney had done But let's play this Turn it up.

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Yeah can't hear it Yeah, okay Let me see maybe the uh, maybe the

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I know it's technical and you're you're tech challenged Yeah I'm, not

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I just i'll turn up that Okay, how's that No You can't hear that no

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It's all right All right So we're just talking about he was saying the amen.

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So let's see if I turn it up a little more See if you get it now If there's a url on youtube, just give it to us.

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We can go Uh Right No, all right

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So, yeah, I mean it was uh, he actually goes through and and does this whole thing of uh, where he

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Preaches a nursery rhyme and and uh I mean when you get that cadence going and matt, let's talk about this.

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Let me ask you this Um charles finney known as one of the the great preachers uh of his time

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Okay But unfortunately, unfortunately, so so why do you say unfortunately and what is it that finney's a heretic?

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Okay, so the theology. Yeah theology. He's a pelagian and Works righteousness and sinless perfectionism blah blah.

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Okay. Anyway, yeah So what was it that? made That got charles finney to get so much attention that people they was referred to as the great awakening

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Don't you don't know the story finney? He had a shark fin hat finney That's it that's how he got people

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Well, he he he was known for using emotionalism He was I didn't know.

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Okay. Yeah. No, he he was well. He's the one that created the the They called it called it the anxious bench to get people to an emotional state that they would come forward

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First you got to raise your hand then you got to stand up then you got to walk out of the aisle And then you got to walk down the aisle

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And and all these little steps to get people into an emotional frenzy and and the music was a big part

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You you see this with uh, billy graham music big part you see this also benny hinn uh, you know

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Any other assembly of god and pentecostal churches, that's what I grew up in and that's what they use to really bring out emotions

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Music big time. Yep along with all the uh Uh, jesus culture stuff and yeah, just all that stuff

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I mean, they they all bring everything out as far as music goes that they play hours upon hours of music to get you into a some kind of Trance Yeah, yeah, and it's quite scary the way they do this

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Yeah, that's the kind of um atmosphere that I was saved in and whenever I realized the error

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Is I had to examine myself for months to uh to make sure that just just out of fear that my conversion wasn't false

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Same here, man Yeah, and you know, we have uh, we have uh, justin peter's pastor in here jim osmond

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Jim You know and justin always says that uh

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You know what you end up having is and just as I say that jim has been dropped But you know what you end up having is

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Justin peters always says that you can't have the benny hinns and the and all those guys without the music

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He said they'll they'll go like three hours Of trying to create that emotional frenzy state and get people

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Into I think it only takes me three minutes to create an emotionally frenzy state

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Yes, but that's one of anger and frustration that people have yeah lynching and things like that.

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Yeah, but it's still I thought I thought you're gonna say something like in somewhere in the bathroom

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I can do that, too Yeah, that's true All right, so are there any unbelievers in here we do not have any unbelievers in here

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Talking about presuppositionalism you're talking about presuppositional apologetics. Yeah Want to bring something up You ready?

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Yeah all right now so, uh, I guess all of us in here know a little bit about theology and um, including uh, andrew and uh

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Oh Well, you know, he did say a little a little that's right a little theology, um

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Here's something i've been thinking about recently and it's not earth shattering maybe uh

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There's a verse where is it matt actually before you do that? Can you do me a favor while you're doing that? Can you also put the apologetics live on the home page?

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Oh Thanks, sure you mean like just put the words there So one of the things i've been thinking about lately is the issue of faith

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And I was reading I have devotions I read in bed a lot and um

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I was reading through ian bounds on prayer And he was saying some things about faith that were really impressive and It kind of convicted me

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And it got me thinking about some other stuff as well now Um, i'm gonna i'll read some of the highlights that he is here in a second but uh

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Let's see get this to going here to that you know I'm confused with you said

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You read before you go to bed you kind of have You get into bed and it takes you a long time to fall asleep.

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I I don't like some people I know yeah Yeah, I don't I don't get that I know

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So for the back story there Matt and I were focused on this first so I can get the uh links up for the yeah

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I'm gonna tell the story while you get the links up. So matt and I were traveling together and matt is like Explaining the routine he's got to do so he could finally fall asleep about an hour and a half

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I gotta do this. That's it, you know And i'm just like yeah, okay. Well, good night And i'm just out and he's out like two minutes

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And I get up in the morning i'm having i'm having breakfast with our host and We're sitting there and matt comes out just looks it at our host

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Looks at me and goes I hate you And the host is just like what? and he's like man, he just comes in it's like Good night, and he's just out two minutes.

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He's sleeping Well, I I just assume you're used to turning your brain off Uh, okay, let's see i'm almost done here participate and uh

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And apologetics live thursday night to uh Let's see if this works i'm doing quickly

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Okay, it's up now. Uh I want to find some of the stuff he's saying because It's one of the things he said

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Caught my interest And you know, you guys know how sometimes You can hear something

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And it just kind of echoes for some reason uh Only because i'm a hollow head

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That that works. That's true. I haven't experienced that matt. Maybe it's just you Oh, I definitely experienced that.

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Yeah Let's see I I I get a lot of things highlighted

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But let me just read through a few until we find something You'll see but a faith which believes that The things which he saith shall come to pass.

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That's the kind of faith we need faith must be definite specific and unqualified unmistakable request for the things asked

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Faith gives birth to prayer. Now. That was that was interesting and faith is humble and it's persevering

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And the lack of faith lies at the root of all poor praying And I was like, you know, that's that's true it really is true this issue of prayer and Faith in us now because the reason i'm talking about this is because well, you know let's talk about communicatio idiomatum and how it relates to the imputation justification with the the issue of propitiation out of holosmos and first, uh

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John 2 4 we can talk or first on 2 2 we can talk about this for a while No problem And so the intellect, you know is trained

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But what about our faith? Um And one of the things that he said

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You know faith needs to be cultivated faith needs to be be developed which reminded me of george mueller

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But one of the things he said, okay getting out of the point is and I can't find the exact quote That one of the jobs of the pastor.

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So what do you guys think of this? One of the jobs of the pastor is to increase the faith or work to increase the faith of the congregation

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So faith in god, you know and more faithfulness to god, what do you guys think of that?

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Oh, well, I think definitely in the sense of uh God the preaching of god's word being sanctifying in that sense, uh sanctification

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Uh, the more we're conformed more to the image of christ. Hopefully the greater our prayer life becomes As our faith increases through that sanctification

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All right, so And jesus says if you have faith as a mustard seed you'll save this mountain be cast into the sea and it will be done

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So, what do you think he meant by that? Sorry, I was on mute say that again

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I found the quote incidentally. Um Let me read the quote. Let's see the pastor

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Oh you slimeball Did you guys just hear him call me a slimeball? I just for the record harsh on you.

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I know I I get this all the time So I call you a jerk I call you a jerk

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Are you not a slimeball? Well, no i'm a jerk, but why am I a jerk? Why is that matt?

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Let's let's focus on this The pastor who succeeds in changing uh his people from a prayerless to a prayerful people

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Has done a greater work than aug than did augustus in changing a city from wood to marble talking about rome

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And after all, this is the prime work of the preacher The prime work of the preacher.

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That's what kind of got me. Well, there's a little bit something else i'm talking about here On the very issue of nature of faith, but what do you think of that statement?

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The prime work of the preacher. I don't know that i'd agree with that. It's the prime work I think that will we end up seeing acts chapter six when they

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Are selecting deacons. There's two things that the pastor should be doing The preaching of the word of god the study of god's word and prayer

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It doesn't say leading people in prayer though. I would think that being a an example is important um

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So i'm just as I think about it, I don't know that i'd agree It's the prime work, but I do think that I agree with the emphasis.

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He's saying in Helping to lead people to pray because I think this is a big thing that is lacking in the church today

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I think that we don't have people In churches today that are really mindful of prayer

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Um I think there's more to prayer than what we we realize. Oh, yeah. Well ian bounds.

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Um, I'm trying to look for I mean the book I have is is I have the complete works and it's like this thick um

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Right. That's a reading six six volumes That he wrote on prayer Very detailed work.

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I I recommend that to anybody who you know, it's pretty impressive really wants to dig into prayer and understanding it because that that work is phenomenal in in going through and explaining the the just what's going on and So much of prayer that we don't think about well thing i'm concerned about is um

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Prayerlessness Now we pray as christians I'm on you slimeball.

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It's not you i'm doing the i'm fixing it again. Yeah. There we go. There we go um As christians we pray

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And I'm reminded of some stories. Um george bueller the orphan king of the 1800s and what he would do, uh

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He had a methodology not that that's a formula but he just had an approach before god he just wouldn't do anything unless it was bathed in prayer and stuff like that and there was a an instance where Where the orphans in england, um 1800s electricity had been

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Invented by that time, but they didn't have it in their head kerosene lamps that they were using in this gigantic wood building and the uh the central heating system

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Was on the brink of just failing and they didn't want to fail because if it did room to get cold pneumonia

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Uh, and then what are they going to do? And so they had to run through various scenarios to solve this problem And I'll skip all the logistics, but they concluded that the own he concluded the only thing that could be done was to pray when the

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Uh furnace had to be scheduled to be shut down instead of break because if it broke it'd be a lot worse

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Scheduled to have it shut down and fixed repaired. They'd be down for a day or two or three or something like that two or three days

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And they didn't want the kids to get pneumonia during that period of time. The only thing they could conclude was to pray and ask god to stop

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The cold wind blowing from the north. This was in england And to send a warm wind from the south because there were no other options

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And since he had Done this ministry because he felt it was what god was wanting him to do and because it was god's calling

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Then it wasn't his problem anymore He was just the facilitator of the will of god

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And so he just went in prayer as he did daily twice three times a day and said lord

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This is the only option I can see This is you know with respect. He's saying this is your concern your endeavor.

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It's your your problem. You're going to solve it and so the people gathered to To shut the furnace off and The cold wind from the north stopped blowing and a warm south wind blew

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And he prayed for two things that and that the men would have a mind to work

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And so they shut it down on a saturday. They worked all night to the evening And they were time to go time to go home and so he asked the foreman

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If he would ask the men to come back early on sunday to work And he and they the foreman asked every single one of them and every single one of them declined

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Everyone said no instead every one of them worked through the night And they got the furnace fixed when they turned it on the cold wind from the north started blowing again

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So That's an instance of faith peter walked on water and and jesus said

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Uh in other places, you know be it done according to your faith It's been

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Something i've been thinking about recently, you know, you've got the doctrine of the hypostatic union down the trinity down But not this doctrine of faith and uh

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You know, we talk about apologetics. We talk about various things. We try and reach people connect with them And I can't help but wonder sometimes if we're missing i'm just thinking out loud

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If we're missing a significant part of the boat, so to speak by not, uh dwelling in prayer far more than we ought to be maybe because we don't have enough faith in prayer and so faith and prayer

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Are related i'm just thinking out loud. What do you guys think? I agree. I mean, you know a lot what a lot of people don't know about george.

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Mueller They think he was some man who had this supernatural faith that He was special in some way and yet if you actually read his autobiography you read the introduction

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He says in there that the reason he Wanted to do an orphanage Is he wanted to live his life completely on faith to serve god?

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and he wanted some way to display that and what he said was back then there was

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Just thousands and thousands thousands of orphans And he thought that this would be the greatest way to glorify god to put god's on on display for people to see

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How he will answer when you live by faith now There is a point

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I think you know where some people try to test god and There's I think there's a difference there.

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So I would be morning with you. You don't Say well if god, you know if god exists, he's going to do this or you know god i'm going to say

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Not an insolent test but a submissive test correct correct I mean

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You end up seeing throughout the his autobiography. There's a ton of things that happened That he didn't know how god was going to answer, but he just said we're going to trust that god's going to answer

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There's no food And all of a sudden a bread truck breaks down a milk truck breaks down I mean time and time again things like that would happen

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Right outside the orphanage and then say hey, you gotta get rid of the food. You want it? Yeah Yeah And and the guy doesn't know that broke down.

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He didn't know that they didn't have anything He he he was unaware of that You know, he didn't know that all of a sudden they're

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You know going to be dealing with the fact that uh, these kids are going hungry Uh, so that becomes a thing that we end up seeing, you know, and he really was trying to to show

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What happens when you live by faith and he was a man of prayer. That's for sure And I think prayer look matt.

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You've done tons of conferences Have you ever done a conference? on the topic

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Of prayer No Yeah I've i've never

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Really? I mean there are some But you don't see those type of conferences really being populated people won't go to a conference on prayer

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Yeah, no because uh Prayer prayer is a very difficult thing and for someone like me with a little bit of asperger's and And stuff i'll be praying for one minute.

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Next thing, you know, i'm surfing And then two minutes later. Oh, wait a minute. That's right. I'm on my knees here praying

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And so I have that problem of concentration and things like that And I know that it's difficult for others as well, you know, our minds wander but we've got

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I don't I don't just It's something it's like the spiritism saying there's something more about this issue of faith

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Prayer is important. We know that but Faith is the engine of prayer

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You know, it's when we are praying We are I like to call it faithing we are in that position and condition of faith in an ongoing place and time and And I was somebody else something

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I read or something something about The issue of when you pray

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You have to have and you should have in your heart the intention of not sincerity for the sake of sincerity, but You don't want to have a hypocritical attitude

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In that you just go through the process of praying because you're supposed to do it and then you move on Because that's pharisaical prayer

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And it was this discussion was on the nature and the essence of the condition of the heart in a humble state before the almighty god as we

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Lay our concerns before him and in this there has to be a time of of expectant humble trust in him

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And I think there's something to the very nature of being in that state with god

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That somehow Moves things moves him moves. Whatever empowers.

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That's all this is the wrong terminology. I'm going to find better ways to say it Well one thing that I learned over the years

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In prayer well a couple things one thing that i've learned is I keep a notebook when i'm

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Either that or my my phone just for prayer just for when I get those distractions Think of something and you know, my mind wants to to stay there.

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Um, what i've learned to do is just Jot it down get back to it later Not even bother just i'll get that's a good idea

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And and I I know that i'm going to do that. So i'm just not going to i'm not even going to think about it till later later i'll deal with it and That that's one thing.

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The other thing that i've done that I find very helpful is uh just to when i'm when i'm

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Having prayers to have I have an app on my phone And so what it does is it it allows me to just check off When i'm done praying for something, so if I End up having something happen.

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I get distracted or something happens and I I have to you know To step away from that time prayer.

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I can go right back and I know where I left off I know what things I haven't prayed for that day. That's on my list

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But one of the things i'm horrible at And this is what I think you're really getting to matt is um

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The one thing that i'm really that's really hard is the fact of just having that meditation and this is what

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I think is different is what uh the pastor of my church focuses on a lot is this idea of just the old testament term of meditation where you're you're it's basically dealing with how cows eat where they they regurgitate it and Eat it back up and just keep doing that and it's the idea that We just keep going over something over and over and over and just being quiet I mean we live in such a busy constant especially with the technology

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Constantly having something That we we have to have before us keeping us always on the go

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To just sit in silence is hard And let me try it just try it just Jesus jesus himself said go to your closet pray

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I mean, I think that that's rather significant for us to do in practice Is to get away, you know, maybe not physically go in the closet, but still find the seclusion find a place where you can kind of Uh get away from all the distractions and and just really focus um,

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I was going to say that andrew you also give a great tip when it comes to your um, uh, your little cheat sheets that you have you have one of them is the attributes of god and that you go through those

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Uh in your prayer time and really reflect on on the natures of god and the attributes of god who he is um

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But also you guys just kind of gave me an idea you too. You should get together and write a book together and and matt kind of already did the um,

01:00:05

Uh the title of it already called faithing I think it's a good idea Well, there's something about faithing because you know doctrinally speaking faith is only as good as who you put it in and so we have to define who god is to Properly have faith in him and that can only be understood and received through the revelation of scripture which we go to prayerfully as we

01:00:26

Ask him to unfold that word in our hearts and our minds And then as we encounter god in a more personal relationship

01:00:33

Through the word, you know by the revelation of his knowledge that's revealed we learn about him Then we we need to go into prayer to experience him but being in that presence of god practicing the presence of god

01:00:44

That's the title of a of an old book to practice the presence of god And dealt with the issue of prayer meditation time with the lord

01:00:51

And a lot of this is just lost in our busy schedules and things like this

01:00:57

And I can't help but wonder i'm going to use myself as an example uh of the arrogance that someone like myself routinely

01:01:06

Exhibits in my in my own heart In that I have knowledge. So therefore

01:01:11

I don't need to go in prayer Because I can solve this problem on my own effort. This has been a downfall that i've had to deal with over the years

01:01:20

And it's just what it is It's not as bad as it sounds but it's it's there enough to be a concern

01:01:27

Where i've realized over the years that there have been times, you know, I say i'll be out witnessing and something comes up Oh, I can handle this one.

01:01:35

I can handle it Give me the you know, give me this thing I can tell them with this logic this and that at that instead of saying lord

01:01:41

Give me the answer as I go speak to this person Because one is moving out of the power of your own flesh and the other is trying to submit to the power of god

01:01:52

And so what we do is we we fall on our strengths as well as our weaknesses. I say that all the time And when we approach the issues of the things that are spiritual, how much more should we all be praying?

01:02:02

There's nothing wrong with learning and all these doctrines and all these truths, but there's I just There's something

01:02:08

I just can't put my finger on it. There's something about the issue of having faith

01:02:14

There's something about faithing. There's something about it And again, it's not like the positive confessionists will say

01:02:22

Yeah, you have faith and faith and you'll be good because faith can move mountains because you put your faith forward And what they're doing is they're having faith and faith

01:02:29

And I don't want to have faith and faith. That's idolatry I want to have faith in uh who god is and his power to move and i'm reminded again at this point of of um

01:02:42

Of uh george muller and the way he He was a pastor and then he had this

01:02:47

Inclination on his heart to start an orphanage And what he did was he didn't tell anybody And he didn't know if it was god or not.

01:02:54

He didn't know if it was god or his own flesh So what he did was he started praying about it lord if it's from you

01:03:01

Then increase it if it's not from you then decrease it And so he would pray like this for weeks until uh

01:03:10

He said at this particular instance That he would read as he was studying the word of god there came a verse that was

01:03:19

Unusually enlightened to him or made powerful and it had to do with the issue of helping

01:03:25

The orphans and stuff like this And he said it was with such force that he realized

01:03:31

It was god Doing this and the interesting thing is that at that point?

01:03:38

That his faith Was in god Not in the circumstances not in the people

01:03:46

Not in what could be done with people But in god and what god can do in all these things and it's the object of his faith was the divine one

01:03:54

And so he would look to god and he would rest in god Because as part of the issue of the faith that was cultivated through this whole thing

01:04:01

If god is putting it upon your heart, then it's then the working out of it is his problem not yours

01:04:07

So therefore you can have a restful confident faith in god And I think it's that kind of restful confident faith in god that we're supposed to be having as christians

01:04:17

That can only really be cultivated through experience time um and developing that A lot.

01:04:25

In fact one quick story about him. Um Was uh, he was on a boat and He is after he had left the the orphanage, uh ministry work

01:04:36

And he was going around europe lecturing he spoke german and english I think and uh

01:04:42

So he's lecturing and um, they were socked in by fog in the bay

01:04:48

And so the ship he was on could not move and go get docked So the captain was a christian and said i'm going to go to the cabin and pray that the lord

01:04:56

Will lift the fog and muller said No I'll go pray

01:05:04

And He went in and prayed within 20 minutes it was gone the fog was gone I always thought that was interesting.

01:05:10

No, i'll go pray I think muller Had developed such a close relationship with the lord in prayer that he knew

01:05:20

If he prayed it would be taken care of I mean If you say to this mountain Be cast into the sea and you do not doubt it shall be done.

01:05:29

I think that's where he was at I think that's where we need to be Yeah, I think this is why the church is so anemic and in our generation why we

01:05:42

Don't see I mean you and I've talked about this you've you've Care very deeply about the church

01:05:48

This is why I think that we've had such problems with the churches because we don't see people And i'm i'll be honest i'm speaking to myself um

01:05:59

We don't see people that are spending the time prayer one of the more convicting quotes that I think of is from martin luther

01:06:06

That he used to pray for two hours every day unless he had a busy day Right, he would make it three

01:06:13

Yeah, uh, you know For many of us to think that we're going to spend just block out two hours a day

01:06:22

Would seem insane like we just You know, would we have that kind of time? uh and yet That is something that um

01:06:32

That's important Get this, you know who walter martin was right? Yes Well, I had the privilege of meeting him a few times and on one of these occasions

01:06:45

Uh, we were at cri when I was in southern california and I was doing volunteer work to raise funds

01:06:50

And dr. Martin came in And we were gathered as a group around a particular table

01:06:56

To discuss a few things before we started doing hitting the phones and to pray And a guy named dan schlesinger

01:07:04

Uh was the the guy in charge and dr. Martin walked in Behind us 20 feet unexpectedly in the evening

01:07:11

And he said hey, dr. Martin, um, would you mind praying for us? He said I would love to Well, it just so happened he put his hand on my left shoulder and he put his hand on somebody else's right shoulder

01:07:24

He stood there He started praying And I remember very clearly

01:07:32

That I stopped praying I just started listening I'd never heard prayer like that before And I can't recall what it was.

01:07:43

He said but I just remember going Wow, that's what prayer is

01:07:51

Yeah, I remember being out in london at charles hadden spurgeon's church Dr.

01:07:58

Masters is the I think who was there And he had a regular habit of praying for you know pastoral prayer and you know

01:08:06

Most pastors they have pastoral prayers maybe a couple of minutes Everyone was standing during this prayer and it was about 20 or 30 minutes of prayer

01:08:17

And He could have ended that prayer said amen got home and we would have been like wow, what a great service

01:08:24

I mean We just all of us were like he we got he got done praying And there was a team of us and we all looked at each other and we're just like wow

01:08:33

That was just great. I mean like take it back to what we talked with finney Where finney uses the music and all these guys use the music for something like that really?

01:08:42

Biblically what we get is when you're in a position like that, like you're talking with walter martin you get someone that prays like that right

01:08:50

Tozer was that way tozer actually they said tozer wouldn't come to his own church's prayer meetings

01:08:57

Because when he used to and he would pray no one wanted to pray afterwards They just wanted to sit and listen to him, right?

01:09:06

And there's something to it Yeah, there is or something to it, you know I'll tell you what I think is to it.

01:09:11

I'll tell you and I bring it to tozer Tozer's book the attributes of god it goes to when you have a deep knowledge of who god is

01:09:20

And his attributes and you meditate on that I think That's what informs our faith that is what

01:09:29

Really brings about a knowledge that god is great and not us Right because this goes to what you said earlier kind of matt

01:09:36

We we kind of think well I could solve this problem I could do this and we don't Depend on on god so much of prayer is dependence on god

01:09:47

Not asking him to do things for us But depending on him for answers

01:09:53

Yep You know, there's a book called scott's worthies and i've got a copy someplace um

01:10:01

And it's uh dealing with the presbyterian divines Uh george wishart john fleming

01:10:08

Charles not I mean charles knox. John knox and uh in There was a

01:10:18

There's one one story i'm trying to remember I thought it was two but anyway one I remember um

01:10:25

That there was this man Oh, yeah, two stories. That's right one about scotland um, but anyway, there was this man who um

01:10:32

He was a man of prayer and um When he would say to his staff he had helpers at the at the parsonage or whatever

01:10:42

They said i'm going to go down to the garden or go out to the garden and spend time with the lord

01:10:49

What he meant was he said to go out into the garden And spend time with the lord

01:10:55

And people said they saw a second figure walking with him in this garden and uh

01:11:04

I'm, like wow, you know, this is what they you know, they said this there's another man who

01:11:09

I forgot their names Who had to arrange with his wife? uh the permission

01:11:17

Make sure it was okay with her that he would spend eight hours a day in prayer And she said okay because he wouldn't be available and he did this for two years

01:11:31

And when he was done in two years, there was a revival in scotland not saying it's a formula

01:11:37

But you know, you hear these guys like oh my goodness well, you know in new york, um trimmer, there's a church in manhattan that they that's what they decide to do they actually they actually

01:11:51

Encouraged all their members. They didn't have everyone but they had a Prayer that would start

01:11:56

I think at five or six in the morning And people could just come in this is monday through friday come in before work

01:12:04

Have a time of prayer then you go to work Their their wednesday night prayer meeting would be full and it's nothing but prayer.

01:12:11

I we attended there once well, and it's there's no No sermon, no bible study.

01:12:18

It's just everyone gathers and they pray for like an hour hour and a half and it's

01:12:24

There's got to be over a thousand people there Um, yeah We're going to be needing more of this

01:12:33

I think as as our history here unfolds

01:12:38

Yeah Subjective prayer. Oh, i'm, sorry

01:12:44

There's a more simple thing for that too is if you think about a relationship that you have with any human being If you don't talk with them often your your relationship sort of dissipates

01:12:54

So I think prayer is good and when you hear other people praying you hear that guy that gives that amazing speech

01:12:59

And you're so moved and then you get up and I don't know it's for me. It is is like, uh, hey god, uh, thanks

01:13:06

Uh, how's it going, dude? Yeah, exactly and we're all different and that's how you know that that difference in that communication that's what makes us closer to god that in that we're

01:13:19

Putting ourself in that position to have that communication And increase that relationship and it's also a form of validating him in our lives because you know

01:13:28

Unless we're crazy and have psychoses at this point. We don't talk to unknown imaginary things in our lives.

01:13:35

So For me, it's it's it goes from the range of very simple like that all the way up to complex and increasing your faith

01:13:43

Because you know that he's there um, and then also You know I think some people get turned off by the fact that when

01:13:50

I pray for the health of this person or pray for that Or for myself It's not answered always in what we expected or had wanted in prayer and that I think frustrates people because You know you kind of have this false idea that it's almost like santa claus, you know, you're getting your wishes granted and but You know god has so much greater plans for you in life that Sometimes the answer to this prayer is not going to open bigger doors

01:14:20

And I think people need to remember that that we're not going to have these wishes granted There's a bigger plan in motion and god's plan ultimately is going to be the best design there ever was you know, obviously and you bring some up that we we could talk about as far as encouraging christians in corporate prayer because There is a time where in corporate prayer you you may have that person who is so eloquent in their speech

01:14:45

And no one wants to follow after them Let me give some advice in prayer um father god lord

01:14:57

That's not punctuation You all know that person i'm not

01:15:02

I don't have anyone specific in my mind that i'm saying this and so none of the listeners think that i'm thinking of you, but you all know that person that gets up and prays and every other word is

01:15:11

Oh lord, I just want lord for you to come lord and do this lord and help my my grandmother lord

01:15:17

And you know father do this father, you know, you know, someone so sick and father, you know It's annoying to listen to yeah, and and When you're praying also the word just just just do this just just do that It's really annoying

01:15:34

But they should use the word justice and then maybe some of those things wouldn't I wanted to bring it up because he mentioned it or matthew 6 7

01:15:44

And when you pray do not heap upon empty phrases as the gentiles do for they think that they will be heard for their many words

01:15:51

Do not be like them. I mean I can understand long prayers as long as they're actually meaningful

01:15:58

But right I see so many people just filling them with meaningless What's it used to make them long that I think that's wrong it's almost like what cliff was was, you know pointed out in the in the clip we were trying to play earlier was

01:16:11

You know, you can have you can have a nursery rhyme And you know, it's it's a meaningless words

01:16:18

And you can have that in prayer. You can also have people in corporate prayer that are using corporate prayer for gossip

01:16:25

Where they're they're doing it as a prayer request so it's okay And really what they're doing is yeah

01:16:32

Pray for you know, bobby over there, you know, he was over at the bar, you know There are certain things that you

01:16:40

You know, that shouldn't be the case you have things that prayer can be abused um

01:16:48

There are things that we could you know should be helpful things in in times of corporate prayer. Um You know not speaking so you could be heard but but honestly praying as if you're the only one there it's just you and god because otherwise

01:17:03

The pharisees at that point, huh? Yeah Have you have you heard paul washers worthless prayer meeting sermon?

01:17:11

No Oh, it's delicious. Okay, so you'll drop a link in here for us Uh, well i'm on my phone so I can't drop a link in the chat

01:17:18

But if you look it up on sermon audio worthless prayer meeting, I love it man when he's talking about that He said just like what you're saying.

01:17:26

He said what we have now at prayer meetings He's like when I go in church and churches and try to get them to fire up prayer meetings

01:17:32

He's like what you have is a 45 minute gossip session five minutes of praying. Yeah What you should do is just everybody express their concerns while you're praying

01:17:44

So that the spirit if the spirit moves the person to meet that need if that individual or can do that You know and he's like the other thing is he's like we spend more time

01:17:54

Uh praying about keeping saints out of heaven than then Getting lost people in there.

01:18:01

Yeah, he's like we pray we spend more time praying for aunt betty's knee Than we do for the lost person that lives next door to us and i'm sure that The speed demon charlie spine will have the link in in the in the pretty quick He'll find that even though it's not on karma, but Yeah, I I think that you know, you bring up a good point

01:18:23

That's that's why I think john was saying earlier, you know when I struggled with prayer many years ago My pastor said pray god's word back to him pray god's attributes back to him and that's when

01:18:35

I developed the the card that that john referred to which was Basically, I just wrote out all the attributes of god put some verses next to it

01:18:43

It's now that whole thing is in my phone And you know, let me pull up my app.

01:18:48

Um So here so I don't know if you guys can see that that's probably not going to show up too well but you know

01:18:56

That's my that's my prayer list and and you see it's just the attributes of god. And so I I end up praying through uh every day 31 different attributes of god

01:19:08

And so what does that do? What what does it do is this it focuses us on who god is the nature of god

01:19:16

Before we're even getting into praying for aunt millie's knee and you know, uncle jack's back, you know, whatever we we

01:19:25

We end up finding a lot of things at least for me I find a lot of the things that I thought I needed to pray about This brother or that sister or someone like that?

01:19:33

And really by the time I got done talking about who god is I realized that I had a bad attitude It was me that had a perception problem so so let's see

01:19:44

I want to try to get to some of the questions. I know there's some in here, but before we do Uh, let's talk about sleep

01:19:51

A lot of people struggle with sleep a lot of people have difficulties as matt does falling asleep.

01:19:58

I don't have this problem But that would be because I have a my pillow and my pillow can put my head down and it doesn't matter

01:20:05

Every night that I go to bed. I know that that pillow is going to be the same firmness every night

01:20:10

Even when I wake up in the morning, it's still nice and firm I love my pillow

01:20:16

You can love it as well. You can call 1 -800 -944 -5396

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And order your my pillow and maybe you can start to sleep like me and not matt. Oh wait

01:20:35

Matt, you have a my pillow. I do. I love it So, why can't you sleep I think it's something i'm autistic that's why because I always drew you never sleep

01:20:47

No matt knows I do Oh, he does. I remember we're uh talking one night in the hotel, you know, he's in his bed

01:20:54

I'm getting ready for mine and i'm talking to him. Maybe I go dude How did you go to sleep so fast?

01:20:59

He's out like that I love my pillow

01:21:07

Like you matt than andrew I have to go to a ritual Yeah, yeah, but uh, yeah, it is a good pillow.

01:21:14

Seriously. We're not just saying it Um, we had there are three sizes. I remember we got one. I tried the big one

01:21:20

And it wasn't right for me and I ended up with a smaller one. Um But I i'm serious

01:21:26

If if it's not there, I don't want to you know, it's like okay, where is it? Where is it? Yeah That's honest man.

01:21:34

It's weird. It's good pillow And and we've heard from some of the the listeners here who have gotten out and they i've

01:21:40

I got some emails from from some listeners and They said we didn't believe you but we tried it and you're right.

01:21:47

Yeah So it just fits right? Yeah, so let's get to cat. She's uh, she actually has a question and but it's not her question

01:21:56

She says she's got a question from her husband who's home and listening. So Yeah, go figure right?

01:22:01

Right No, yeah, so he's here he's actually looking at me right I see you

01:22:06

I see you um, so I mean We're we're somewhat familiar with well

01:22:11

He is more so than I doctrine of depravity all that stuff So he wanted me to ask about tulip and if matt could explain a little bit more about tulip and um,

01:22:21

You know, not just for us I guess for other listeners and whatnot. Um, what exactly is tulip?

01:22:27

It's a nice flower. I like tulip. I prefer roses Um Pink jasmine all day long.

01:22:35

Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. I'll try that um, but theologically speaking it's an acronym t -u -l -i -p total depravity unconditional election limited atonement

01:22:49

Irresistible grace and perseverance of the saints and so Total depravity simply says that we every human being is touched by sin

01:22:59

In every part of what he is heart soul mind body Everything and as a result of that Then he is incapable of coming to god on his own and I can quote the references, but I won't

01:23:12

And so that's total depravity. So total depravity also leads to total And it's not really the right way to say it total inability

01:23:19

But it means total inability to be able to come to christ of your own volition because the totally depraved individual's

01:23:26

Will is enslaved to sin and I got plenty of verses for that so you is unconditional election and what that means is god does not look into the future to see who's going to pick him under different circumstances

01:23:38

And then decides to elect or choose that person for salvation That would violate james 2 2 through 4

01:23:46

Which deals with the issue of not showing partiality? God doesn't do that In other words He doesn't look into an individual to see anything

01:23:53

Of value in the individual and then say based upon what he knows that person can or or won't do or whatever it is limited atonement, uh says that The blood of christ is sufficient to save all you know his his infinite value but legally speaking

01:24:11

He only bore the sins of the elect So he did not bear the sin of everybody who ever lived but only the elect of god

01:24:20

And it's called limited atonement where we calvinists Limit the scope of the atonement arminians limit the power because they say that the

01:24:30

Atonement is for everybody But it doesn't automatically cleanse you have to apply it and there's some problems there, but we'll get into that so limited atonement and Sometimes it's called definite atonement

01:24:43

And then a eye for irresistible grace and what that means is that at the time of regeneration

01:24:51

Is not dealing with the issue of um, hold on Okay, potential spam might be my wife she's not feeling well today

01:25:03

So at the time of regeneration a sinner cannot successfully resist the grace of god as he brings that person into a

01:25:11

Saving state and regenerate state That's what irresistible grace means. It's often misunderstood to think that it means that um

01:25:24

Irresistible grace means that you can you can resist god's grace or you can't resist It your whole life all kinds of gracious things.

01:25:30

That's not what it means. It only refers to the issue of regeneration And then perseverance of the saints that when you're paid your sins are paid for when you're regenerated you will persevere

01:25:41

To the end of your life and you will not lose your salvation where you're truly secure in him

01:25:47

That's what it is. That's tulip what it stands for Thank you very much And it's all biblical

01:25:55

I love that part Yes, it is and you could get if you want matt has on amazon a whole list of his notes

01:26:05

Okay So yeah calvinism calvinism notes, I think is what's going on.

01:26:10

That's like Outlines on calvinism or notes on calvin. I forgot which one. Yeah, I might be outlines

01:26:16

I have I could check the other thing you could do is he's got a website called calvinist corner

01:26:21

Uh dot com I believe right dot com or dot org forget dot com dot com look at it right now

01:26:27

So that would be a good place. You can you can see a lot And this is on sometimes people ask there's not a lot on carm about calvinism on purpose you know because Calvinism is you know, matt is has a whole website devoted for the calvinism, but You know, he's got the apologetics to answer apologetic questions.

01:26:48

So Yeah Right, you know, I defend calvin on carm. I'll defend.

01:26:54

Um I'll defend Eternal security and i'll openly defend that because uh, if you can lose your salvation then that the

01:27:04

Logical necessity is you keep it by being good And that of course is a problem but um

01:27:11

So I try and keep my calvinism off of carm But on calvinist corner and I just put a link in there.

01:27:17

Did jesus teach tulip? And so I extracted some scriptures that I think support the idea

01:27:25

So yeah, jesus did teach it So you guys can check it out if you want Love it.

01:27:30

Thank you so much sure Okay, I love teaching reform theology The the next one up is larry had some questions for you

01:27:40

Sure, it's good to have larry back. We haven't seen him for a very long time. Good to see you Wow, can you hear me?

01:27:48

What? Yes, I can. Oh perfect. So Hmm so I just have a question in regards, um with matt

01:27:56

So what is your thoughts in regards to the regular principle of worship? I prefer the lutheran regular principle over the reformed one the lutheran regular principle

01:28:07

Uh says that you can do anything unless scripture forbids it The calvinist one says you can only do what the scripture commands, right?

01:28:15

And so I like the one Uh, I like the lutheran one. I just do i'd like the lutheran one better because um

01:28:23

I want to be able to use uh guitars and drums and slideshows and you know and overhead projectors and things like that to be able to To aid in that and I don't have a problem with that at all colossians 3 talks about spiritual songs or is it for Talks about spiritual songs hymns and so I like it, you know, yeah, so you like it

01:28:47

But is that biblical? But is it biblical? Yeah, I think the lutheran one is more biblical.

01:28:55

Um Well, I you know, actually I I can't tell I can't say that because I want to find scriptures that would support that view

01:29:02

What I do find is the command to worship god with uh, you know singing speaking to each other with psalms uh

01:29:11

Psalms hymns and spiritual songs singing praises to one another and so you know

01:29:17

I think I just think that the presbyterian View of the regular principle

01:29:24

It's just too narrow. Yeah Um, I just do it's the only thing in presbyterianism. I really don't really agree with but that's okay, you know

01:29:33

But uh, it's just too narrow. We can only do it this way A professor of mine in seminary believed in only singing the psalms

01:29:41

And I raised my hand I said well then that means you can't say the word jesus in your your worship He says yeah, that is a problem.

01:29:48

He admitted it flat out, but but he still held to that position um I don't know.

01:29:54

I just I like more freedom in worship. I mean, maybe it's just me. I don't like hymns they

01:30:01

If I you know a church full of hymns, I won't go back Because I can't

01:30:06

I can't survive in it. It's a spiritual It's just me. I'm not knocking them. It just doesn't speak to me so I like to have the praise, you know, you stand up and raise your hands to the lord and Just enjoy presence and worship of one another

01:30:22

Ah, it's nice So that's why I like the lutheran one because it gives me more freedom so are you fairly, um conscious of the the theological, um,

01:30:34

I guess, uh The premise of any songs that are sung. Yes Oh, yeah

01:30:40

One of the things I want to do and I started a little to test is to analyze christian song lyrics and um, so What got me on that is

01:30:51

I I actually like hillsong music. I like a lot of hillsong and bethel music I'm, sorry, but I do it's beautiful now um

01:31:00

Some of it is pretty No, let me just clarify for a second matt, are you saying you like the music

01:31:07

Or are you saying you like the lyrics Or I like the music. Yeah, the that's what

01:31:13

I thought the harmony the beauty the melody. I love that Uh, yeah And and personally

01:31:19

I believe that the lord is working through a lot of them Right and that the lord is there in a lot of them

01:31:25

Um, I think we tend to fill the baby out with the bath water and there are heresies there and there certainly are

01:31:31

But there I think there's something about The free will expression of adoration to god

01:31:39

Where he indwells the the presence of his praise, but it's been mixed with a lot of bad stuff

01:31:44

Yeah, and so deciphering that is problematic so i'll listen to some um

01:31:51

Some of the praise music, you know of all kinds and I when I work in the house or i'm doing stuff i'll just put it on and I have a

01:31:58

Like almost 40 songs and there's one thing on pandora that i'll listen to praise songs

01:32:04

Not one is a hymn, incidentally and um, so, you know, i'll just enjoy the presence and um, i was gonna say something

01:32:11

What was it? Dang it Let's let's see. Oh, yeah, so In one of the songs, um, you know god blah blah.

01:32:18

I give you permission And i'm like what? Well, what kind of crap is that?

01:32:25

You know? And uh, that's what motivated me to go. Hey, wait a minute. I should do a thing on it on analyzing lyrics

01:32:31

Yep Well, you know there's a fine line because matt you love heresy.

01:32:38

So you know, I know I got a problem But but there is a thing look I this is why

01:32:43

I have an article on striving fraternity about music I'm, not a musician. I don't listen to music. I listen to preaching and and podcasts and stuff like that okay,

01:32:52

I have No music on my phone at all so Wow, that's you're not you're not normal.

01:32:58

Yeah. No, I know You don't you don't need to know that to know i'm not normal. There's plenty of other reasons but dang

01:33:04

I'm, i'm with andrew on this one Oh now we got two ab abby normal people Um, but here's here's the thing

01:33:12

I think that music has a potential danger in the fact that What people focus on is the lyrics?

01:33:19

Okay. What are the lyrics? Are they biblical and they think if the if the lyrics are biblical then it's okay yet music so we end up singing scripture when we have our our intellect our thinking our

01:33:31

Our emotions and then our our will our our volition What you end up realizing that the the thinking is the first line of defense against sin and If so if something can get past your thinking and get to your emotions it's easier to give into the

01:33:49

Sin to in the in the in your will therefore Music can has a potential danger because the music does affect emotions

01:33:58

And you can have great lyrics with music and that music is bringing upon Bringing out certain emotions that you're not thinking about It also

01:34:11

Can have great music as like you're saying hill song Bethel that they put great music to heretical wording and people don't even realize they're singing heresy, right and It's because it's get it had they feel good about it and because they have that good feeling

01:34:31

They think the words are good. And this is how some of this heresy is coming into the church

01:34:37

So there is a danger I think there Oh, yeah, there is absolutely Yeah, so i'm a reformed baptist.

01:34:44

We actually just sing the psalms which uh, I don't i'm not against singing hymns other songs and so forth but uh

01:34:52

Obviously there is no danger in singing god's word right And it's safe to sing the psalms but then

01:35:01

Like I said earlier, you can't sing about jesus, you know specifically his name Yeah, and and that's a disadvantage there

01:35:08

I call that sola hymnola Or no sola somnola And then there's sola hymnola, you know

01:35:16

And then one of the one of the criticisms of praise music is they'll say one thing over and over and over again

01:35:21

And that's not biblical. I go you mean like holy. Holy. Holy is the lord god almighty. Yeah Is in church they'll say okay we're gonna sing the psalm it is to the tune of You know xyz hymn i'm like well if you grew up in this church, how would you know that tune right?

01:35:40

Well, well my issues they have to reinterpret that songs hymns and spiritual songs it's like hymns hymns and hymns when you a lot of these people do exclusive psalmody

01:35:51

Yeah, I believe the uh, the reformed baptist Position is that uh, those are just different types of psalms because obviously when oh man

01:36:02

Hymns didn't exist worship songs didn't exist. So it was just the different types of psalms

01:36:10

You really say that huh Yep I've never heard that before. So let me look at this psalms.

01:36:16

Obviously that's there in the greek psalm noise and hymns is hum noise

01:36:24

And spiritual songs Oh, no way.

01:36:29

That's interesting. So hymns and spiritual songs. What does that mean at the point in that his in history?

01:36:37

Yeah um I'm looking at the word song in the greek in a lexicon.

01:36:44

Come on. Give me come on Oh you slimeball uh

01:36:50

Why would it work? Oh, I see it does. Okay a particular melodic pattern with verbal content

01:36:58

They said facing the throne and sang a new song revelation 14 -3

01:37:04

It's there too This is gonna it's getting interesting. Okay, i'm gonna do a little study We have someone that just came in that had a question.

01:37:10

I was going to ask you the question for them but uh, someone dropped out to make room so uh

01:37:17

Ran ral I think is how your name may be pronounced Um, but i've unmuted you or i've i've brought you in if you can unmute yourself

01:37:27

Let's see, maybe I can't i'm gonna mute Okay, so go ahead ask your your question there

01:37:36

All right. I see your lips moving, but I don't hear you We don't hear you.

01:37:42

Um And it looks like you're turned up on this end.

01:37:48

So um I'm gonna i'm gonna ask your question if you can look in the chat while you try to fix that You could check questions in there i'm going to read the question that you had so at least matt can give an answer because We have about 15 20 minutes left in the show.

01:38:02

Um, so the question that you had and What you could do is play with your mic to see if you can get it working

01:38:08

But his question was do you think that god used a reasonable? Logical process to decide our morality

01:38:18

No And I know matt you weren't here at the beginning when

01:38:24

I talked about morality and and presuppositions That I have but where do we get explore?

01:38:31

Morality is a reflection of the character of god It's not arrived at or decided as if it was a time when certain morality was not real

01:38:39

Or was not a decided thing in the mind of god So to say that god used a reasonable logical process

01:38:46

Means that it implies or could be made to mean that there is a system of logic to which god himself must appeal

01:38:53

That would be heretical to say that Logic exists because it's a reflection of the mind of god

01:39:00

And since god is eternal and the process of the mind of god are also eternal The morality of god is also eternal and never variant because it's based on his eternal immutable character

01:39:12

Therefore when it comes to us Then he is simply revealing the truth of more moral things

01:39:18

It's not a logical process to arrive and decide which is and is not moral in god Because that would further imply god has to learn and make decisions about what will and will not be

01:39:28

Something that's good And that's another problem. So the the question has many, uh problems woven into it

01:39:40

So killing is wrong because god doesn't kill um You know god always when he executes somebody it's killing

01:39:47

But uh killing is not wrong Murder is wrong Murder is the unlawful taking of life killing is not wrong and uh, so if someone breaks into my home and May it never happen, but I have to take that person's life to save the life of my wife and family and stuff like that Then it's not judicially wrong or morally wrong

01:40:12

And so murder god can never murder But the reason it's wrong for us to do it is because When we sin we sin against god and the wages of sin is death separation from god

01:40:26

So all sin is against god and so therefore all people um

01:40:32

Are under the Subjection of god as a to be executed

01:40:38

He has the right to execute all people because all people have sinned And so it can never be murder

01:40:44

But what we're doing when we murder somebody is we are going against the revealed law of god

01:40:51

And he has revealed to us What aspects of killing are permissible and which are not?

01:40:58

Now we can't I don't think I could haven't tried connect the logical dots

01:41:03

But that's not an issue that I have to do god has simply revealed the issue To do that.

01:41:09

Is it right to execute all people? judicially For god It would be judicially

01:41:16

Correct and proper to execute all people because all people have broken the law and all people deserve death

01:41:23

So there'd be nothing wrong With that. Yeah, even babies. We are born by nature children of wrath ephesians 2 3

01:41:30

And the obligation of all living beings Particularly, you know humans is to love god with our heart their soul their mind and if the babies can't do that Then they would have a judgment upon them

01:41:44

But then we get into the doctrine of federal headship the representation of adam for all people and that in adam all died what that means is when he died he

01:41:54

Became sinful in his nature and then all descendants of him Also inherit a sinful

01:42:01

Fallen nature and the necessity of the fallen nature is separation from god so even babies

01:42:10

Okay, but personally I believe that god is merciful to all babies. I believe they all go to heaven.

01:42:16

That's just my opinion I can't believe it isn't right to execute all babies like you. Okay, you believe whatever you want rawl

01:42:22

But um, let me ask you i'll just type it in. Are you a christian or an atheist or what? Just curious?

01:42:30

Just tell me what you know he's typing that in let me let me just say and I think this is where he's having the issue is If if god did absolutely nothing if god didn't come to earth

01:42:39

And die on a cross as a payment of sin every single human being would rightly go to hell

01:42:46

That's what we deserve. We break his law So he says starting his own new religion

01:42:53

Who is raw that that's starting my own religion, okay, so a rawl i'm just curious.

01:42:58

What are you? Um, You know, you're not a christian if you're starting your own religion and it's to say that it's either serious

01:43:05

Which means you're not a christian or you're just joking And so that's why I still need to understand

01:43:11

You know what you are what your position is. I can better cater your answers I don't believe we can assume that all babies go to heaven.

01:43:19

Um, That is in composition opposition to john macarthur's position, uh, that's just my position

01:43:25

I just assume that's the case and um, I can never be objective Because i've had to bury a baby

01:43:33

My own baby and I just long ago Just gave up trying to be objective about it because I just not

01:43:41

Not able to be and that's just where i'm at You can't look matt you and I take different positions on this and we both had to Your child actually survived outside of the womb mine didn't but we both had lost a child um

01:43:57

I think we can be objective, but it's hard and But I also think that as as humans,

01:44:02

I mean when we I think that people throw out the The child of you know, what about a baby?

01:44:09

Because they have this false idea that a child is somehow sinless and innocent

01:44:16

And that's the question you know is the child sinless and innocent or Is that child

01:44:23

I mean the first act it does out of the womb Act in selfishness and crying out in selfishness,

01:44:29

I like how Bodhi bachem puts it, you know, that's it's a you know, that you that child if he's 18 years old would rip your head off Right.

01:44:38

It's I think that's why he calls it a viper in a diaper it's The the child is selfish

01:44:46

And breaking god's law. It's not innocent. No, no child is innocent And that's

01:44:51

I think no child, you know, we're by nature children of wrath And that's true so rawl, let me help you, uh create a uh a religion, okay, you want to create one

01:44:59

Why don't want me to help you? Want me to help you create one?

01:45:05

Would you like that? Because I get that you touched with the moral issue So why don't we develop a moral, uh code?

01:45:13

You want to do that? It's hard. It's hard while he's he's trying to type in it.

01:45:19

Yeah He says yes, we're not evil didn't say they were evil. So you see

01:45:25

Well, see one of the things that happens a lot when I dialogue with people is they they I don't mean this in a derogatory insulting way, but they don't listen to what

01:45:32

I say They think they hear what I say, but I don't never said children were evil but um so, uh

01:45:41

Uh, hold on andrew we're gonna you'll see what i'm going to do andrew so rawl. Um, what would be you know offer?

01:45:49

A a moral absolute that we would have to have in your new religion. Uh, let's just um

01:46:00

There could be execution for the purpose of deliverance into salvation, too There's a whole other topic we get way off, but I I don't want to talk about the issue of the morality

01:46:09

Um, could you offer? A moral absolute that would have to be true for everybody in your religion

01:46:16

And when he types stuff matt i'll read what he says so folks can know Oh, are you reading it? Okay.

01:46:21

Yeah, so so he said, uh, we don't know moral absolutes. We need to be able

01:46:28

Uh, he typed too much. We need to be able to figure out moral conundrums Okay, so we don't need a moral absolute so then there's no absolute moral truth.

01:46:39

That means that all morals that are subjective which means My subjective preference and your subjective preference about what is moral um can differ and That's a conundrum

01:46:52

Now, what do we do? Since there is no standard by which we can judge whether anybody is right or wrong morally

01:46:59

So your position then? Would not just leave to a conundrum but an impossibility

01:47:05

Because you could not ascertain if anything was true or was not true or excuse me True morally true or morally good or morally bad you could not do that You don't have any standard by which you could judge anything and then all you would be offering is

01:47:19

Nothing more than your personal preferences And if that's all you're offering then why is it that we should even consider those to be valid?

01:47:27

Okay, here's my moral absolute for critique quote An action is moral or immoral to the degree that it fulfills or denies the fulfillment

01:47:35

Of the needs of the entities involved to the degree Those needs are needed. Um Uh, that's just a whole bunch of doesn't make sense written between quotes, okay um

01:47:50

It just Think about it Uh, this the sentence is not coherent

01:47:56

And the reason it's not coherent i'll show you why an action is moral or immoral to the degree

01:48:02

So now you're saying there's a degree of morality or immorality based on an action That it fulfills or denies

01:48:10

The fulfillment fulfills the fulfillment of the needs of the of uh, the entities

01:48:18

What entities? cats dogs Uh what to the degree which you have another thing to the degree that those those are needed

01:48:28

So what's the things that are needed the needs of the entities are needed? It's to tell us it's just Um, it just doesn't make any sense your statement has no coherence

01:48:39

So the point i'm trying to make ral is that Who are you to answer back to god the thing molded will not say to the molder.

01:48:47

Why did you make me like this? Does not god have the right to make one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

01:48:54

He says how do you figure out your morals? Jeez, I just read the bible

01:49:00

See my morals are not based upon me. My morals are based upon the revealed word of god

01:49:06

And so when god reveals himself and the morals that are reflecting his character

01:49:12

And he reveals them in the word then I try and be humble And the humility is manifested by submitting to the truth of the of the lord god

01:49:23

It becomes arrogance When you say that the revealed word of god is not

01:49:29

The standard of morals I will judge morals myself that is actually a form of arrogance, which is immoral so the

01:49:39

Conundrum for you. I'll use your word the conundrum for you now is that you are advocating a moral standard based on the immorality of your position the immorality of your position is that you are

01:49:57

Being acting in an arrogant manner to say that you are the one who decides what is morally right or wrong for people

01:50:05

And that is truly arrogant only the creator of the universe who knows all things has that right to reveal what that is

01:50:12

I create new plant species. How can you tell me if it is moral to create say a new species from a cactus?

01:50:18

You don't create a new species What you do is you use the existing genetic information that would be there inside of a living organism

01:50:27

And then what you do is you manipulate what doesn't belong to you the information belongs to god

01:50:33

It is his he's the author of the information just as i'm the author of my book the book belongs to me

01:50:40

But uh for you to take life and manipulate it and say you're the creator is another form of arrogance so raw um

01:50:49

I think you're really screwed up. He says Manipulation already

01:50:55

Uh exists materials Is not creation Well, then why are you using the word create to create means to bring into existence out of nothing?

01:51:04

but if you have um plants and you Manipulate them genetically then you're simply not creating

01:51:12

You're altering He says I create new species uh via He's got a little using myotic spindle inhibitors.

01:51:22

They do not cross fertility back with the original Well, you can do that if all you want um

01:51:29

That means you're working the cellular level. But here's the thing you're borrowing from god's world to do this

01:51:35

You don't create new species via you know and if you define speciation as the ability not to to uh cross uh breed and that's the the uh,

01:51:45

Speciation wall or divider. Well, then what you're doing is is you're saying you create something and create a new species

01:51:51

But you really it's really not that um, you know if I were to learn how to manipulate something and turn a gene off so that uh

01:52:00

It can't breed with another something. Hey, I created a species. Look at me. That's that's not it see the issue is that the information in the

01:52:07

The cell that you're manipulating the genetic level That belongs to god It's what you're doing is immoral

01:52:16

You have to understand something all actions by us are moral actions

01:52:23

Ephesians 1 11 says that god works all things after the counsel of his will Now that includes the direct decree and the indirect decree of god

01:52:33

Which means that all things that occur occur by the will of god and since everything that god does is morally, right?

01:52:41

Therefore everything we do is connected to god in his decrees and therefore everything we do has a moral value to it

01:52:48

So what you're doing is immoral and the reason it's immoral is because You're not doing anything for the glory of god.

01:52:56

You're doing it for your own arrogant gain Manipulation of what he has so you are being immoral from the very beginning in this

01:53:06

That's what's going on there. What does the bible teach about poly? Deploying it uh occurs in nature.

01:53:12

Well, what I would say is that god provided the necessary information for Speciation and subspeciation through microevolution through the reduction or altering of the allele frequency

01:53:23

That's what I would say and it's just something that already is there within the gene pool that god created

01:53:29

And you should be familiar with the issue of epigenetics, which clearly Is problematic for the neo -darwinian theory of evolution because epigenetics

01:53:37

Talks about the activating and deactivating of certain genes based upon environmental Pressures.

01:53:42

Well, this is because god had put the information there And how do you calculate the moral value of an action when you go to?

01:53:50

Amazon they have what's called a moral calculator and then you can just add hate plus killing

01:53:55

Equals and then you can it comes out with murder. I think that's you know, i'm kidding. Of course Um, I do not make the world better in my life

01:54:04

Better so is it morally biblical moral biblically you do make the world better and my life better What you're doing is immoral because what you're doing is not for the glory of god

01:54:15

And so therefore you are immoral It doesn't mean that there can't be some incidental benefits on a temporal level for people

01:54:26

An atheist could discover, you know an antibiotic that could kill certain really bad, uh germs

01:54:33

And that that's that happens But he's not glorifying god and so we could not say on the divine level that his action is a moral action

01:54:44

What we would say is that on the human level people would say it's good But on a human level everything's subjective.

01:54:51

So goodness Only is defined Tautologously, that's not a great word. But what it means is

01:54:58

If it aids in survivability, then it's good. But what is good that which aids in survivability?

01:55:04

It's a tautology. It's circular. It doesn't provide any information of morality Only of survivability.

01:55:10

So if what you're talking about is making the world better How do you know what's better because someone lives longer how you know, it's it's better because they live longer is living long longer better Yes, why because this means they're living longer it doesn't answer any questions

01:55:23

You're just sitting there And you're having a problem bridging what's called the is ought barrier

01:55:29

The is ought barrier. Let's say that you have a drug that that enables someone to live another 50, uh years

01:55:37

Due to um the ability to resist all kinds of germs. He lives 50 years longer average.

01:55:42

Is that good? Well, I would say Maybe maybe not We'd have to have a standard by which we could measure goodness

01:55:50

What would happen is that people said well the standard is that we average we live an average of 75 years

01:55:56

And now we live an average of 125 and since the standards have exceeded therefore it's good based on that standard

01:56:02

But what makes that standard the right standard of a moral judgment? The problem with the secularists is that they adopt what's called pragmatism

01:56:11

Morality is developed out of pragmatism. It works. So therefore it's good Well, how do you know it's good because it works this kind of circular thinking doesn't accomplish anything.

01:56:20

It's not a moral issue So we get back to the absolutes of morals What we're finding out is that if you know who god is and apparently you don't

01:56:28

Nothing you can do is morally pleasing to god and that's what matters so what you have to do is hope that your

01:56:35

Gene manipulation will only benefit. Well, it will only benefit people in some areas and then you can just pat yourself on the back and say

01:56:44

Therefore I declare that it is good and what that is is another form of arrogance manifesting

01:56:51

Delivering I can't keep up. All right. Okay. So what if you eat 50 more years of damnation on yourself?

01:56:57

Yeah so matt, let's um Because we're at the end of the show. I'm trying to see from vincent if there's uh going to be an after show or not

01:57:04

I haven't heard but what I want to do roll is if after we go off the air

01:57:09

I don't want you to leave what I want to try to do is help you get your mic working so that Maybe next week we can get you in earlier and we can make sure that you could be heard

01:57:21

That would be really good. Um You know, I mean it'd be great if matt's mic worked as well as yours right now just saying

01:57:30

No, but but let's let's see if we can get your your mic up and work and we could do some of the technical stuff after and um

01:57:38

No, I can't hear you now. I see I see you trying um so Uh vincent, you're still here.

01:57:45

Is there going to be an after show? Yeah, give me a second I'll get one up in like 30 seconds. Okay So the after show is put on by the council.

01:57:53

The council is a group of guys reformed guys that are on Online they are in discord a lot having great discussions doing some evangelism

01:58:02

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01:58:26

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01:58:32

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02:00:33

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02:00:43

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02:00:50

Matt is I think I think what the karma is working on some on some new, uh books for the schools

02:00:56

So hopefully you're the schools that you've had for years. How long ago have you did you write those?

02:01:03

I don't know 10 12 15 years ago Yeah I need to go through them and revamp just to do it

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02:01:37

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Uh now ours are free to watch they're on youtube We both have things on systematic theology and it'd be good to take both because we both have two different views of Theology and and they'll give you a difference give you better rounding of of the scriptures

02:02:01

One thing's radical, but we don't know what? One of them is heretical, but we don't know which one though.

02:02:08

Oh, yeah, we do mats. Um where he disagrees with me Uh, he'll say me where he'll say my we're at disagrees with him.

02:02:16

No, but i'm just being more humble taking the high road For a change

02:02:23

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