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I don't like to drink water. That's what's that's part of my problem all right, Jennifer, let's get on to our first question because we have so much to do and I'm just kidding.

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All right. So let's go to the first question Jennifer. Oh one last thing before you get to the questions We are not just taking questions by email anymore

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slash your calvinist and you can leave questions there Or you can join the superior theology Okay now random choppiness, that's not good

I don't like this. I don't like this hmm

What do you think we should do? How hard is it?

Does it I mean we could switch over to? Does you have to lose everybody? Okay, they're saying it's good.

We're gonna We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna roll with it. I I don't like this already. We're trying a new live stream service.

We're trying restream and Hopefully it won't continue to be a problem Okay, if you are a superior theology club member we gave a place for people to um to do that as well

Also, I wanted to mention there's supposed to be a fight going on tonight with uh

Who is it? mike tyson and uh Some guy named paul uh, if you guys if the fight has happened already, please let me know who won in the comments and if you are um if you are

If it's if the fight begins, let me know because I want to know what's happening in the fight I want to know how long it takes tyson to win.

I'm, very confident that tyson is going to win, but let's see All right. Okay. So question number one jennifer read it to us

I just thought that was a funny comment. Canada is stealing our internet Canada doesn't steal everybody up there.

So nice Unless you have unless you have uh, unless you didn't get your vaccine

Okay All right moving on How do we harmonize the righteous people of which david spoke?

And the fact that none are righteous even paul being the chief of sinners. Who are these righteous of whom he speaks?

Furthermore when praying through the psalms are we to consider ourselves as upright and righteous? This seems very heretical and it also seems to be exactly what david did half the time

The other half he was declaring our iniquity All right, so let's let's break the question down the the big part of this question is okay

The bible says there is none not there's none righteous. No, not one But then it also says it calls people righteous david calls people righteous the bible calls noah righteous the bible calls several people righteous

And it says things about the righteous So is the bible being contradictory?

The answer is no Because we have to understand that the bible is talking about categories um, not necessarily qualities

Okay The bible says that the righteous live by faith

And righteousness is something that is credited to us. Not something that we earn now.

We do have a practical righteousness Uh -oh Sir Sir Is there is it happening again?

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Okay. Thanks. Hank. All right, so the bible talks about Righteousness as something that is credited to us something that is

Given to us by god we receive righteousness Um, and so when the bible talks about the righteous it's it's another way of talking about someone who has genuine faith

And so does a person who has genuine faith Exercise that faith in practical righteous works.

The answer is yes James chapter 2 tells us that a person who believes who has faith will do the works but ultimately our righteous standing is is declared by god because of faith genesis chapter 15

Says this when it talks about abraham It says abraham believed god and it was credited unto him as righteousness

The word credited there means it was charged to his account He was righteous because god declared him to be righteous.

He credited that righteousness to his account So that's an important distinction when we're asking the question

Okay, how do we harmonize righteous people with the bible saying there's none righteous well, there's none righteous

In and of themselves all people are born um in a

All people are born in a state of sin. We do believe that and we believe that Righteousness is not something that is inherent righteousness is something that is imputed to us and so that's what we believe when it talks about the righteous and um so I think that's something we have to really understand when we're talking about ourselves as righteous

The righteousness we have is the righteousness of christ. We can talk about our righteous deeds

We can talk about the good things that we do But ultimately none of those things save us and none of those things make us righteous before god

Our righteousness before god is a standing that we have because of the righteousness of christ Only his righteousness will stand at judgment day.

Only his righteousness will protect us from the judgment of god The righteousness of christ is the righteousness in which we stand.

And so I hope that answers the question and um If someone if someone talks about being righteous

It has to be in the context of their being righteous in christ. It's it is as In fact, i'll throw this up there because I agree code, uh code bro or code code duke

Sorry says it's a foreign righteousness. That's that's similar to what luther called he called it an alien

Righteousness meaning a righteousness that comes from the outside All right.

So let's uh move on to question number two What's your take on tithing?

Requirement good idea follow the spirit Most churches i've attended in the past push the idea of a tithe

Being a requirement and do the usual pass the plate ritual One has a box in the front where everyone walks up to the altar and places their tithe in the box

These both seem to me to be an appeal to a person's pride I've recently been attending a calvary chapel church and was surprised to see they don't do any of that If you want to donate money go ahead, but nothing is mentioned during the service.

I found it so refreshing. I started tithing there All right So just a few weeks ago.

I did a sermon on this and i'm happy to link the sermon if you would put our time stamp and our uh

Mention the sermon link on this one. We're at um right around 16 minutes for this one The the the way that I answer this is

I would say that the tithe Is is first of all has to be understood in in relationship to what the tithe even is in scripture

In scripture the word tithe or the giving of a tithe meant to give 10 of something And it was something that was mentioned throughout the old testament as a way of establishing and financing the levitical system under the old covenant system of law

But that tithe is not mentioned In the new testament. We're not mentioned in the new testament or called to give a specific amount

And when I teach on this I talk about two different types of giving that the bible describes the bible describes giving as either um compulsory or voluntary

In the old covenant there was compulsory giving you had to give this much and you had to give it at this time

But in the new testament, there is no compulsory giving nowhere in the new testament Are we commanded to give a specific amount at a specific time?

We are told that we are to give as um as we have decided in our heart Not reluctantly or under compulsion for god loves a cheerful giver.

That's second corinthians chapter 9 and so When someone asks me does the new testament command a tithe?

I say there is no command in the new covenant church That we are to tithe but there is a principle in scripture that a tithe is a is a basic Measurement that can be used as a as a point of reference.

So for instance when abraham Uh met melchizedek. This was before the law

But abraham gave a tithe to melchizedek a tithe of the spoils of war and so Um, and somebody just mentioned in the actual tithe of the old testament was closer to 23

Yes, if you add everything up throughout the year, that's actually very true. So when we talk about tithing

I think it's you're starting in the wrong place because you're starting from the question of compulsory giving

And the bible in the new covenant does not teach compulsory giving it teaches that giving should be not under compulsion but rather cheerful And so it's not about the amount it's about the condition of the heart

And if you can give 10 and the condition of your heart is joyful and cheerful and you're giving well Um, that's great.

If if you can give more than that, uh, the bible says that um, you know God loves a cheerful giver

I think we can also see in the scriptures that god loves a sacrificial giver if you can give more great If you can't give 10 and this is where a lot of people disagree with me

But I do think there are times where people can't give 10 they give what they can And god will still bless that because they're giving from a cheerful heart not under Yeah.

Yeah. Absolutely. Well, she gave all she could right? She gave sacrificially so um,

I think that When someone asks this question, it's normally related to the issue of What what's the what's the command?

And the command is that we are to give what we have decided in our heart to give not under compulsion For god loves a cheerful giver not reluctantly or under compulsion

And so you should give but you should give as you have decided in your heart and there is not a command of a specific amount

Now I want to go further on this and address the question. The person who asked this question mentioned a

Whether or not we should give in church now, this is where I would maybe disagree slightly with with the questioner because She asked or I think it's a she

I don't remember I have to go back and look but um the person who asked this specifically says

That they're in a church right now where you where they don't have a time during the service to give

And and that it could possibly be a time of pride if you have a time where people come and give their money in a box

I do think that giving Is an act of worship and should be included in the worship service

Uh, I think that it's it's one of the parts of worship where we are We're exercising the command of God to be generous and and to give as as he has uh as he's

Directed us in our heart to give and so I I do think having a time during the service to give is a good thing

Uh, if a church decides not to do that and simply have boxes in the back for people to deposit their offering in I think that's fine as well.

Um But I don't think that It's uh, I don't think it's a bad thing if a church has a time for giving our church has a time for doing that I don't think it's necessarily a time for pride.

I think it's simply an opportunity to worship in this way We worship in different ways on sunday morning.

We worship through prayer. We worship through singing We worship through the preaching of the word we worship in the participant of the sacraments

And we worship through giving and it's all acts of worship in different ways. So um

I don't think you should judge a church one way or another if they have a time in the church for For forgiving

All right. Um Let's see All right Yeah, uh

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All right, jennifer. Let's move on to question number Three three. All right.

Okay first timothy chapter three Does it allow for women deacons or is it strictly referring to deacon's wives?

Oh y 'all had to ask a hard one Okay, let's talk about this, um

This is actually a question that I get quite a bit because that is a

This is a place where good men disagree That doesn't mean the bible is unclear But it does mean that depending on how you understand particular words in the greek and how you understand how they're being done

Or being used and how they're fitting within the context. It might cause you to come to a different conclusion

And so the question revolves around this in first timothy three some translations say the wives, but some translations say the women

And in relation to that it's asking the question Is that referring to the wives of deacons or is that referring to women deacons?

A lot of people think that it actually does refer to women deacons for instance. I do believe that's the position of dr

John, mccarthur He holds the position that a woman can be a deacon and he bases it on that passage

And of course the fact that phoebe is called a deacon a deaconess in Romans chapter 16 so Can a woman serve as a deacon based on that passage or is it talking about the wives of deacons?

I have long been convinced that the reference there is to the wives of deacons

And so in our church, we do not appoint women to the office of deacon

But I am sympathetic To the position that would say that this is actually referring to To women deacons and here's my reason why is a a woman can serve in the role of a servant the word deaconess or This word

Does mean a servant and a woman can serve in that role and serve well and serve the other members of the church and therefore the issue of Can a woman be a deaconess?

in the sense of Doing the work of the deaconess. I would say absolutely

Where the issue arises is is this an appropriate office in the church?

And when you begin to talk about an office you are now talking about officers and officers in a church

Have a specific function of leadership And even though deacons are servants they're servants, but they're also servant leaders

And so this is where I have the issue with applying the office of deacon to a woman

And and so Here here is my understanding of the text.

I do believe it is applying the I believe it's applying A qualification to the wives of deacons because the expectation is

That a deacon's wife will serve alongside of him as he serves in his capacity. So they're going to serve together

Right. This is this is something that's going to happen And therefore she is expected to have those qualities as well

And I would say those same qualities should be expected of an elder's wife as well And this is one of the places where people have the issue with the text

They say well, why is it applying it to the wives of deacons and not to the wives of elders? well, my answer to that is even though jennifer does serve alongside of me as my best friend helpmate and Most beautiful person

I know She doesn't elder with me Is that does that make sense she's not

If I was a deacon she could deacon with me But as an elder she does not elder with me now.

She's my confidant. I love her we talk I don't talk to her about everything because there are things that I have to keep confidential because i'm an elder

There are things I don't talk to my wife about and I want people to understand that They can talk to me about things and i'm not going to run home and say oh, honey

Did you hear you guess what you know that that would be bad if people couldn't trust me But there is a distinction between the wife of an elder and a wife of a deacon

In that the wife of a deacon can deacon right alongside with her husband But a wife of an elder is not going to elder right alongside of her husband

So I think that might be the reason why the wives of deacons are mentioned in that text and not the wives of an elder

And also if you think of it this way Uh the word gunakos for woman There is no word for wife.

The word in scripture is gunakos and it's either A woman or a man's woman, which would be a man's wife

So for instance the phrase one woman man is me on gunakos andre which is one woman man

Husband of one wife, but it's gunakos wife And then later that same word is used when it says the wives or the women

It's the same word because there's no distinction for the word uh woman

Uh, it's the word Or for the word wife. It's just the word woman. Um What does that mean joy bubble said keith needs elder care

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Protesty is out there. All right. Hey guys Uh, my buddies at protesty I just want to say

Thank you guys continuing, uh to be my pals you guys load me up for bear when i'm doing my church soup

Uh church soup wouldn't be the same without you. So thank you guys for for being out there All right um

Okay, so getting uh on to the next question. Let's go to question number four

All right I am a member of our church's search committee Our chairman shared that he didn't think that limited atonement is biblical

At least five of the seven members do hold to that doctrine. Is there an easy argument for limited atonement?

Is there an easy argument for limited atonement Yes, but it is probably not going to convince someone who is opposed to it

I think the argument for limited atonement is simply that um

When we address the subject of what does christ accomplish on the cross We have to ask what what is what does christ do the bible says that christ is our propitiation

Now I believe in something called penal substitutionary atonement Which means that I believe that when christ out on the cross he took the penalty of our sin and he

Acting as our substitute made an atonement for god All of the sin all of the debt that I have for my sin was laid upon him

And his righteousness was given to me. That's called the great exchange It's described to us in second corinthians 5 21 where it says

Um that god made him who knew no sin to become sin for us that we could become the righteousness of god in him

That's the great exchange. So We that is something that I believe only occurs for the elect and here's why if god

Allows a penalty to be paid for the person who is going to hell

Then the question is why does he go to hell? Why then does he go to hell if his penalty has been paid?

And the answer usually is well, it's because he doesn't believe and then the question to return is is unbelief a sin

And if the person says yes, then the question is well did jesus not die for all of his sin

So it comes down to the question And that that we that we find in um owens work owen

Wrote the death of death and the death of christ and in that book. He describes what he calls a trilemma

Or what others have called a trilemma and that is that christ either died for all of the sins of some men

For some of the sins of all men or for all of the sins of some men Wait a minute.

Did I just say I think I think let me start over again. He either died for all of the sins of some men For some of the sins of all men or all of the sins of all men

And if he died for all of the sins of all men, then no one would go to hell If he died for some of the sins of all men

Then everyone would go to hell because that would mean only some of their sins have been paid for But if he died for all of the sins of some men that some men would be the elect and by men

I mean mankind so that's a short And simple argument for limited atonement

Now if you want some scriptures to go along with this you can look at certain passages for instance in the gospel of john

Where jesus says my sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me and I lay down my life for the sheep

In romans chapter 8 you don't believe because you were not my yeah, it says you don't believe because you're not my sheep That's a very important uh position

And so, um, and then I like this sm threw this in here. So i'll post it He says in part everyone limits the atonement except universalists and that's true

At the end of the day if you believe in hell you believe in some form of limited atonement

Yeah, yeah, and that's what feckless cowboy said still not quite sure know what his name means

It's i've seen him all the time though. He's my buddy on x. Um Always commenting on my stuff and I appreciate he said do you believe that people will be in hell?

Well, that's a form of limited atonement. I agree with that even though there are a lot of people who disagree Uh, I know if layton is listening to this which he probably is layton's always scanning the internet if layton's out there he's gonna argue but um but uh

Yeah, I think that's I think owen's trilemma is still the simplest argument for limited atonement

And I think it's to me the most satisfactory so I hope that is helpful and speaking of limitations

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All right Are sins that we commit in our dreams real sins on par with conscious sins committed while we are awake?

Or do they need to be confessed and repented of? On the one hand it feels wrong to say actions and dreams can be sinful since we are not fully conscious or aware

But on the other I could see an argument to be made about it being a result of adornment Or latent sin in the heart that needs to repentative.

Thanks for your ministry. God bless This is such a great question I was actually looking forward to this and everybody who sent in questions

I know they're always thoughtful and i'm so appreciative But this one particularly is one that I have not heard before A lot of questions

I get are questions that i've heard from people at church and things over the years But no one has ever asked me um

No one's ever asked me if their dreams are sinful and that's what this question is basically asking are your dreams

Somehow sinful if you sin in your dreams, are you sinning? Is this something that needs to be confessed and is it something that needs to be?

repentative and boy I'm just glad you're answering the question

This is a great question. I want to thank the person who sent it in again I thank everybody for their question, but this one particularly is unique And so let me answer by simply saying uh first thing out of the out of the gate um

We are not culpable uh in the sense of If there are things that we cannot

Control, I think I hear I think heard the back door open I hope I hope we don't have another issue like we had last week with the kids beating on the door.

Um Uh If that happens, I apologize. We'll hope that it doesn't

So getting back to the question if If if something happens against which we have no control

Um, we taught we like like we're coerced to do something um, we're not

Liable for that if we're coerced into it. We we talk about this in ethics Uh, we talk about the difference between someone being willing to do something and someone being coerced to do something under the threat of Death or under the threat of torture and and someone does something it's it's not the same

Level of responsibility now may there may still be some responsibility, but it's not the same level of responsibility.

So we do talk about in ethics different levels of culpability different levels of responsibility

And when does someone stop being necessarily responsible for something that they do? and um

Where this really becomes an issue is the issue of Uh, like for instance if somebody doesn't know

Something I'll give you a great example Let's say someone has a mental a mental incapacity someone is um

Someone has had a traumatic brain injury. They are mentally unable to do something.

Um Or and it causes them to behave in a certain way Let's say a person has a brain injury and it causes them to shout out

And and they and they happen to shout out a curse word Well ordinarily we might say that somebody shouting out a curse word might be something that needed to be repented of but a person who had a traumatic brain injury and shouted out a curse word would not have the same level of culpability as I would if I just stood up and shouted out a curse word

Am I making sense when i'm talking about the different levels of culpability? Okay, so the reason why

I bring this up is when you talk about someone who is um When you talk about somebody who's dreaming

That isn't something that you're actively controlling. However And this is where uh,

I see Um a couple people in at least one person channel mentioned about thought life being something to warrant the wrath of god

I'm getting there and I I I appreciate this cage stage crusader. I've and by the way, what's up, man?

I see you. I appreciate you comment on a lot of my videos and I appreciate you um, I do think our dream life can be the byproduct of our thought life

And this is where I was was getting to so for instance If we fill our lives with lustful thoughts

And then our dream life is a byproduct of that where we're having lustful dreams I think what needs to be repented of is the lustful thoughts that are causing the lustful dreams

If we're a person who's constantly angry We're allowing the people around us to anger us and that produces dreams of wrath and violent behavior

Then I think the dreams The dreams are not the the issue the what's causing the dreams

The thought life behind it is is what is the is the major issue?

And so let me let me give you an example of something that You may never have heard of but if you are if any of you are martial artists

You have heard of what i'm about to say Martial artists experience something called warrior dreams.

You've heard me talk about this remember You and you've experienced it too. Not just because you're a martial artist, but you're a mom

If you're a mom, you've probably had a warrior dream. Here's an example of a warrior dream In a warrior dream you are experiencing a fight of some kind Against someone who's trying to hurt you and you're you're going through the motions in your dream of fighting back against Against this person.

So for instance moms have this dream often about their children being injured Like you've told me about dreams you've had right somebody trying to take your children take our kids and you're fighting them off and you

Can't get off can't get your beating and punching not stopping And you wake up some dirt, you know, you wake up like angry because you had this dream

That is a natural a natural byproduct Of the desire to protect a child martial artists have this dream because we train to fight we train to defend ourselves

And so we often have dreams of going through the motion of that action

And it's a byproduct of that training it's it's I think it's our mind's way of Preparing us for these things

So if you if in your dreams you're acting out sexual Sinful sexual desires or in your dream you're acting out terribly angry or perverse or violent desires

Then I think that is is probably an indication of something in your heart that needs to be addressed and so um

Uh -oh the stream hiccup again, oh no Well, I hope that what

I just said made sense and I hope that I didn't lose everybody, um, so Let's uh, let's end there by simply saying

Your dreams aren't necessarily what need to be repented of but your dreams are the byproduct of your thought life

Sometimes and therefore if your dreams are if your dreams are expressing things that are sinful

It might be coming out of your thought life And therefore you need to consider your thought life The bible does say we should take every thought captive to christ and it says in matthew chapter 6

Matthew chapter 5 rather that even our thought life our lives of our thoughts of anger and lust Are sinful and do need to be repented of so, um

So that's that's the way I understand that it's not this it's not the dream itself It's what the dream is a byproduct of I just got to think too.

What about television before you go to bed? Boy, boy. Yeah. What are you watching? That's a great question.

Are you watching something that's encouraging? this um All right. So thank you mariah.

She said she heard all of it. So that that's great um Okay, uh

We're moving on we got more questions again quite a bit to get to get through tonight Some of these are short though.

I'll answer them as short as I can as I'm not known for being very brief so I'll try especially sunday morning.

You'll be oh 30 minutes in That was my introduction Listen here.

I didn't order the sass with tonight's podcast. I didn't order it with a side of sass I don't know why i'm talking like a methodist

All right united methodist Okay Let's go when feeling guilty about doing as much for god as you think you should be doing

How can you tell the difference between the holy spirit convicting you and just thinking less of yourself because you were not as zealous As you were when you were first redeemed

Oh, man, this is This is a difficult question. Um, because It's getting into the realm of motivation

And that's that's a hard question when you ask the question I'm feeling guilty because I don't feel like i'm doing enough for god right away.

I I I always say well, let's step back And let's talk about what it is that you think you should be doing and that you're not doing

And then let's talk about What actually is? God's expectation of us.

What does he expect he expects are all But there are also seasons of life where things change

There are times where certain ministries are going to be more active than they are at certain points

And this is something I have to explain A lot of times in our relationship because jennifer is in a stage of life right now where she's a mom

Most of the time that's taking up the vast majority of her life and her energy

She's a very dedicated evangelist. She likes to go out and hand out tracts She likes to go and evangelize.

She likes to talk to people about jesus But in the current stage of life, you don't mind me sharing this.

I guess I just should have asked but But we've talked about this how you know, you'll say to me

Well, I don't feel like i'm doing this or that and and I say yeah, but you're doing this other thing You're still serving christ.

You're just serving christ differently in this season of life And therefore you shouldn't feel guilty because things are different than maybe what you might want them to be and it might be again um, and so If somebody came to me and said hey

I feel guilty because i'm not doing as much for god as I think I should be doing I would I would really want to drill down into that and ask more probing questions about what it is.

You think you should be doing What it is that's keeping you from it. Is it is it mere lethargy and sluggardness or is it actually that your life is in a different station now and you're

You're not able to do the things that you can do all the time that you used to be able to um

There is a reality where the bible talks about You know not being as zealous for christ as we were at the beginning

And we do we should check ourselves for that and this is part of the reason for Continuing to to be a part of the local church, right?

You know And so we we we come to the worship Uh service and we worship together and we learn together and we grow together

We look for opportunities to serve together and so those can help us but ultimately um

One last thing on this question. I do want to address How can you tell the difference between the holy spirit convicting and you just thinking less of yourself?

That's a great question um the holy spirit points us to christ and to his word and so I don't think the holy spirit just sits there and weighs on us like a heavy bag

I think the holy spirit guides us and directs us to the word of god. And so um, if you're feeling

Just this sense of guilt or weight or something like that I don't necessarily say that I would point and say that's the holy spirit telling you it might not be

It might just be your own sense of guilt and displeasure with yourself It's hard to always know for sure where that feeling is coming from We talk about the urging of the spirit or the nudging of the spirit things like that ultimately

Just understand that If you think the things that you do

Are contributing to your salvation Those things will become a burden on you But if you understand that the things that you do are out of love for christ

Then those things will be a joy and not a burden And so if they are a burden, it might be because you're looking at them the wrong way

So I was just thinking come to me all who are weary and heavily So if they're holding on to that and wanting to work,

I mean I don't know That was just my first thought Okay I'm um

Oh, are you reading the chat? Yeah, i'm just reading the comment. Somebody said the dude doesn't say I don't know then he's lying

But i'm assuming you're saying about this particular question to say I don't know I did say I don't know whether it's the holy spirit

Or if it's your guilt that's that's shedding you because I don't know your heart I'm giving some ways to evaluate but again,

I don't know the answer 100 percent to Judge a person's heart. So i'm assuming that's what this person's saying.

Um And yeah, no that certainly I don't know for certain i'm giving them some ways to evaluate

And uh, that's what people are asking me for and i'm trying to do my best here. So Hope you have a great day.

Let's move on to question number Seven, what is your favorite book of the bible and why?

um Say that again. Oh, what is your favorite book of the bible and why? uh

This one shouldn't be as hard as it is Because I love different books of the bible for different reasons

Can I guess? Well, yeah Maybe this would be fun for people to guess guess what you think my favorite book of the bible would be and tell me why

We'll we'll do that and we'll come back to this question We'll ask the next question then we'll come back to this after everybody gets a chance to answer

So if you're listening to this and you're you're watching the live stream and you're and you're and you're putting out questions um

Put your answer down jennifer write your answer down and we'll come back to it in a few minutes Uh, and i'll write my answer that way um

Okay. All right Okay so Let's go to question number eight and we'll come back to question seven in just a moment

Okay I was not raised in a church but was baptized as an infant in the ukrainian orthodox church to shut my great grandma up Forced to be baptized in a mormon church by my abusive father

And never stepped foot in a church again until my mid -20s When I was baptized in a rock and roll mennonite church

I have no stop right there I want to know what a rock and roll mennonite church is I've never heard that before A rock and roll mennonite church if anybody knows what that is

Send me a link to the website if it's a rock and roll mennonite church I better be able to watch a service because I want to know what's up.

All right continue I was trying to wrap my mind around that too Okay, I have no kids. So what if any ramifications does holding to infant or adult baptism have on other doctrines?

Will going one way Or other or the other impact trinitarian theology or anything about the atonement or any other doctrines?

I'm, really not sure What if any difference adult or infant baptism plays in the theology of an adult with no kids and who has both?

Okay All right This is where the idea of Multiple baptisms really becomes a major issue because I do believe that a person

Should be baptized on the right side of their faith. That's why i'm a baptist. I believe that faith precedes baptism

And that if a person has not been baptized in accordance with their faith that they should be baptized according to their faith

People would say that's re -baptism, but the typical baptist understanding is it's not re -baptism, but it is a once for all proper baptism but when you have a person who's been baptized every church they've gone to And nailing down who baptized them why they were baptized and according to what?

Formula, they were baptized this person mentions everything from orthodox church to Mennonite or more or mormon church

It can be difficult and so I think that uh, this is one of those times where I would at least try to ascertain when they believe

That they got saved And and and that can be a difficult question for some people some people don't know when the

Conversion took place, especially somebody who grew up in church not maybe not this person because they grew up in every church but But somebody who grew up in church might not be able to say when they were

Saved and so that can be somewhat difficult but the question ultimately is

Will choosing one or the other and they're they're really Seemingly in this question trying to get you to choose between infant baptism and and believers baptism and they're saying well

We'll we'll going either way impact trinitarian theology or anything about the atonement

Well, the answer to that is no Uh what we believe about baptism Provided we believe baptism is to be done according to the trinitarian formula father son and holy spirit

As long as we believe someone has been baptized according to that formula. We we we do believe that that is something that that god honors and And we can differ on the mode and we can even differ on the person who receives it

And that's where denominations do come in um, and so I I have never ever once said that my presbyterian brothers who baptize their infants are are um

Are not christian or not seeking to serve christ. I believe they are christians.

I believe they are trying to serve christ I do believe that their baptisms are um

Are improper I believe they're they're they're not the way that god intended baptism to be done

And that's why i'm a baptist that's why I can say that but I don't believe they're Invalidated in the sense that I don't believe that that That i'm i'm going to look at them and say they're not christians.

I do believe they're christians and so this is a this is a distinction that I make and I can say

I believe that That this is an area we can differ and by god's grace.

I hope it's an area where we can show each other mercy and grace um so Having said that If a person in this condition said well,

I I've chosen to go to a presbyterian church I would say well, I think that they are wrong about baptism, but I understand your confusion.

You've you've you've had a a rough go um But I I think it makes a difference ultimately in how you understand the new covenant

And i've debated this subject several times with several different Uh Presbyterian ministers including pastor danny hyde

And um, even redeem zoomer and I did he's not a pastor, but he and I did an infant baptism debate and so um

I think that it's important enough to debate therefore. I believe it's important enough for us to consider

But if you ended up on the other side of this, I would not say you weren't a christian And that's the question you're asking is it going to affect you being a christian?

no, but I do think it ultimately affects how you understand the new covenant and understand the The church and understand people's relationship to the church and what the church is.

So I think it's important But um, not so important that it's going to imperil your soul All right

Okay This next question I'm 29 and i'm from texas. I'm getting baptized in two weeks and i've been struggling with porn for years

I'm trying to quit but the harder I try the worse it gets I know i'm addicted and I know it's wrong and I need to stop

I feel like such a hypocrite for being baptized for getting baptized I feel so guilty and ashamed.

I know we're all sinners and we all fall short, but it's hard to forgive myself One of the deacons at church prayed for me once and that helped for about a week

For me asking for help is embarrassing Plus I go to a baptist church and i'm scared to tell anybody and I thought with all your superior theology

You might be able to help Any advice would be appreciated Hmm I genuinely just like I I just want to pray for this guy um because this this

This is heartbreaking to me. And I remember when I first read this, of course, I pre -read these um

And and I don't pre -write an answer. I want you to know that I don't sit and like know what i'm going to say, but I get an idea at least what the questions are

So i'm not too surprised but this one just reading it earlier really hurt my heart and I said, you know

I'm gonna stop and pray for this guy. So just for a moment Father, I pray for this young man I pray that he would um

First of all recognize that this is a sin Um, it is not something that is impossible to overcome by the power of the spirit

And I pray that you would give him the power to overcome this sin I pray that you would also remind him of the beauty and and and joy of knowing christ and um taking every thought captive to christ for the sake of His name and his glory and I pray that you would give him the spiritual discipline to overcome this issue

I pray also lord for his pastors. I pray Lord as i'm going to encourage him to talk to his pastor about this issue

I pray that he would take that advice to heart and lord that his pastors would minister to him in this situation

In jesus name. Amen Okay, so I said in the prayer what i'm going to do

Uh, i'm going to encourage you to talk to your pastor uh before you're baptized and uh

I don't think that you should carry This the burden of this guilt, uh into your baptism without at least having confessed it to your pastor

Um, i'm not telling you to confess it in front of the whole church I'm not telling you to go and you know any of that but I am saying

You you need counseling on this issue And I can't counsel you through the internet. Uh, I can't do that for you and if I were your pastor and you came to me,

I would want to Uh counsel you on this Anytime a man says i'm addicted to porn

I think that's something that has to be Discussed as to what does what is addiction, right?

Habitual behavior is not necessarily addiction um some people will say it's addiction because Of the hit of dopamine and things that come along with it

Just like video games are addictive or you know television can be addictive or scrolling through tiktok can be addictive

Well, it's not it's it's addictive in the sense that it's creating perpetual habitual patterns um, but it's not in the in the same way that you're going to have a uh,

You're going to have withdrawals Like a person who is addicted to opiates or something like that and goes off of those medications or off of those drugs

So we have to we have to consider our language because sometimes when people use the language of addiction It makes them feel as if there is no hope

And so I want you to know there is hope there is hope to overcome this by the power of the spirit And I want to I want to reference something rob is online and he just mentioned this he said, um

Covenant eyes question mark find one accountability mentor to help guide you If you don't know what covenant eyes is covenant eyes is a web program

That monitors your online activity. It provides accountability for you And I do think that it can be helpful um, and so I I they're not a sponsor of the show or anything like that, but they are a company that i've seen uh help people before And that I have recommended to other people before so it is available

I don't know if you're married, but but I do want to say this. I I I feel the need to at least point this out

You're asking About whether or not this should keep you from being baptized

Here's here's my my thought behind that um, we don't clean ourselves up to go to christ

We go to christ because christ can empower us to um

To cleanliness he can empower us to to turn from our sin. He can do that And so I I hope that when you go and talk to your pastor and I truly hope that you do

I hope that when you go to and talk to your pastor, he doesn't Say well, if you don't meet certain requirements, you cannot believe in jesus because that's not the way it works

We repent and then we keep repenting and we live a life of repentance And I don't know any man who lives a perfect life

Uh, and yet I know many men who trust in jesus me included who does not live a perfect life

And and we have to trust in christ and so That's a lot to simply say please talk to your pastor

Please don't hide this from him and don't let your fear of being embarrassed like you mentioned in here that you were embarrassed and uh, you're scared to tell anybody

But don't let those two things keep you from yeah, and again, he through it. He may want to counsel you for a time he may want to He may want to walk through this with you.

I pray that he would I pray that he wouldn't leave you out on your own I pray that he would love you in this and minister to you to minister

To you through this. I like what baptist memes just said repent and keep on repenting.

Nobody's perfect. That's true And uh particular penguin said this he said the ordinary means of grace are huge in a struggle like that baptism even

Can be a sanctifying thing and that is so true. So, um You know just know that uh

One you're not the only man in the world who struggles with this You're not the only man who's ever had to struggle with this There was a book that came out when

I was back when I was a youth director There was a book that came out called every man's battle now. It's been 20 years since I read it so I can't really endorse it now,

I don't remember all the Answers that it gave but I will say this it did key in on a very important point and that is that many many many men

Struggle with the issue of lust not necessarily pornography, but definitely lust in the mind and in the heart

And so, um, you're not alone and uh you you You need

You need brothers around you men around you godly men who will come around you and pray for you Give you accountability and encourage you so that's um that's my my encouragement to you is um

To know that this can be this can be overcome by the power of the spirit and uh

Have some godly men around you that can help you. All right. I hope that I hope that's helpful Okay next question

Um, we talked about this earlier. We just read about melchizedek in hebrews 7 Do you believe this to be an actual person or a foreshadow of christ's priesthood?

Can you please give me your thoughts? Okay there are two

Opposing positions on the person boy. This is a big jump theologically. My brain just went

Like stop put it in neutral back up, you know, um, uh, you know, so let's let's let's we're getting out of the realm of dealing with uh something

Uh a little more practical and getting into more of an esoteric theological question And that's the question of melchizedek who is melchizedek is it jesus or is it a type of jesus?

um Let me give you my answer. I preached through genesis. Oh, by the way earlier

I asked the question. What was my favorite book of the bible? Several of you answered some of you said you thought it was romans

One person said they thought it was genesis jennifer. What did you put I put I had a hard time between romans and genesis really did a masterful

Expository preaching of the book of genesis. Um, oh several years ago That was that was the kindest thing you've ever said and and I love you

You should y 'all should look that up if you it's I know it's on sermon audio. I don't I preached uh, over a hundred messages from the book of genesis, uh, it was a

Period of three years, but it took it took three years, but it was about it was about two years plus worth of messages um through genesis but It's not my favorite book

I said romans not romans I wrote it down. Do we even know each other?

No My favorite book of the bible is I don't know if you can read that luke

That was the first that was that was the first book of the bible. I ever preached through verse by verse

And because of that it will always hold a special place in my heart. I wanted to preach through the gospel of luke because it it

It was so well It was just to me A wonderful expression of who christ is and telling this telling the narrative of christ's life

And I wanted to preach that and so I started preaching In 2005 and uh,

I preached through the entire gospel of luke took me took me two years and that was taking big sections Because luke's, you know, 24 chapters um

I love the I love the gospel of luke and and I love to hear the words of jesus there there are so many

Of jesus's parables and narratives from his life that are only found in luke's gospel for instance the the parable the prodigal son

Only found in luke's gospel the parable of uh, the good samaritan only found in luke's gospel.

So, um Yeah, rob says your wife should know well, she knew that i'd preach through it the first there's a first book

But but yeah, if you're asking me, that's it and by the way, i'm drinking apple juice Ah, so for those who guessed that it was fresca.

Nope. It's apple juice All right. So let's go back and actually deal with the let's start this one over We might want to start the time on this one.

We're at 106. Okay All right. Somebody asked the question.

Um of malchizedek I Taught through the book of hebrews and through the book of genesis and in both of those because the question about Malchizedek comes from hebrew hebrews hebrews says that malchizedek is without father or mother with uh

Without beginning of days or end of life and people believe that that is saying that malchizedek was a christophany or a pre -incarnate

Jesus christ I don't take that position I take the position that malchizedek was an actual man

Uh, but that his life and his priesthood Are not given to us in the text.

We don't know when he was born. We don't know when he died and we don't know the the His ancestry and so when it when the bible says he was without beginning of days or end of life without father mother it's referring to not having a um a listing of those things to give us an indication of who he is and He is a priest from god his priesthood comes from god

And therefore christ is said to be a priest according to the order of malchizedek

Jesus wasn't a levite. The levites were the priesthood in israel Jesus was a judite.

He was from the tribe of judah But he could be a priest because his priesthood comes directly from god

Not from his ancestry in the same way malchizedek's priesthood did not come from his ancestry

But came directly from god and so that's the connection that hebrews is making not that malchizedek wasn't a real man

But that malchizedek's priesthood was given directly from god and didn't come through a lineage

And so that's why I believe malchizedek is a type of christ, but is not a christophany

Now here's the great thing about my answer I know I can be wrong. I don't think I am but I know

I could be on this particular issue I think that it's okay to differ. So if you hold a different opinion

That's okay It's okay to be wrong. That's all right. Yeah, if you disagree with me, I always tell you it's okay to be wrong.

Well, i'm gonna Jump to this question because I think it kind of goes with it scripture reform theology apologetics church history

Being so vast what tips would you have on retaining information? What pathways if any can a layman grow?

To I mean to grow and gain a deeper understanding of the faith as if of that of someone who went to seminary

Okay, that's a great question. How can you? How can you grow?

retain information What ways can you do that watch your calvinist podcast every week?

And Watch friday night live every friday night. Don't forget to subscribe. So you see when all the new videos come out

That's how you're gonna grow I'm just kidding uh, kind of I do think you should watch the show, but uh, but let me say this you are

You are living in a time where There is no excuse for a lack of knowledge because There is so much that is available to us now and so if you're asking for a

Somewhat of a shortcut if you're saying how can I? How can I grow quickly?

Well, I I don't think that Quick growth is always the best growth sometimes it's a matter of steady

And uh consistent growth That is important and i'll give you an example

From this is something I teach in our martial arts class that I that i've always thought is very helpful as a as an instructional tool when you think about A a pyramid and you think about like the bottom is the foundation and then things get smaller as they go higher

And you say okay the to learn anything I need Correct fundamentals

Consistency accuracy and speed Right like like like think about typing

I can type 300 words a minute But you can't read any of them because i'm just going to be

You know if I sit there and type 300 words a minute You won't be able to read any of them if I slow down enough to be consistent and accurate

By using the fundamentals of typing I slow down to an average typing speed probably 50 to 60 words per minute not fast at all

Because I have to slow down to actually get consistency and accuracy

Right speed is not my goal Fundamentals consistency and accuracy.

That's my goal and the more I get better at that The more

I will learn more quickly So my Recommendation for you

Is that you focus on the fundamentals? And focus on having a consistent diet of biblical fundamentals

So, how does that start one? You need to make sure you're in a church that's preaching verse by verse You need to make sure you're in a church that has a solid preaching ministry

You need to be being discipled by someone someone who cares about your soul Whether that's in a sunday school class a small group or a one -on -one discipleship opportunity.

You need to be doing that If you're wanting to grow and add to that,

I would say you need to look at well -qualified material from from from reputable sources

And so i'll give you a good example of one thing That's probably one of the most useful tools that I could just throw out and that is um

Ligonier ministries has what's called from dust to glory And that is r .c.

Sproul's Taking you through the whole bible from dust right creation to glory and it is a long series

But if you take it consistently you can get through it in a relatively short amount of time And if that's something that's helpful to you to listen to and watch

That can help you grow in your understanding A little bit more quickly, but it's because the fundamentals are there you want to make sure that you have solid fundamentals now too legit to quit

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Download it all as well. That's what feckless cowboy just said So, yes, my recommendation is to find a solid ministry that you know is trustworthy and Get get in some kind of a course that can help you from dust to glory.

Dr. Sproul's is very good. Um, The book everyone's a theologian by rc sproul is very good

Uh, what's that book you talked about last week ology ology that the the ology that is a book for children

So if you have children use it to teach it to your children and you'll learn some things as well so that's uh

That's helpful and uh to legit says they're on their third and fourth courses. Awesome I i'm really hoping you guys are enjoying this history class i'm enjoying learning along with you as i'm learning new things to teach so I love the early church and learning new things all the time

All right. So we have a couple more questions almost done. We have uh 800 people watching right now

Yeah, yeah, so, uh, we'll keep going until we've been here for 84 years. Yeah, it's

Yeah, we're the end of titanic. It's been 83 years All right.

Uh, well, we're almost done. We got a couple questions and then we're going to finish up Okay, this is a total one out of left field pangea

What are your thoughts on pangea? Do you think the world was at once one mass continent and then separated at the time of babel?

Okay, um The question About pangea

I think is a serious question. Uh, the person who wrote it wrote it as a serious question. Um, it's it's

Pangea is the is the theory that there was once a super continent and um

It has divided and separated and and has has continued to separate and that's why we now look at the continents as being separated um, but that there were once one large land mass

And the question is do I believe that that's true? And uh, do I believe that they separated at babel?

Well, i'm going to answer this i'm going to answer the question in two ways, uh one I do think it was possibly true.

But two I don't think it was separated at babel. I think it was separated the flood so, um, I don't think

That there's any reason to disbelieve in a in the continents being all one

Especially when you kind of look at the way the continents are shaped it looks like they sort of would fit together um, not perfectly, but it does look like they

Could you know could fit together? Uh, but that's of course just anecdotal. That's not proof of anything.

It just looks like it could But the idea that when the earth flooded If you remember the book of genesis genesis chapter 6

Uh when the earth flooded it says the water Came from above and beneath it says the great spring springs of the of the earth burst forth and so when the flood happened

It tore the earth apart from the inside as well as flooded from the outside And the amount of sheer destruction that came along with the flood

Nothing looks the same. We don't have there's nowhere on the earth that looks like it did before the flood

Uh, this is why when we talk about like the tigers and euphrates, well, yeah those existed before the flood

But it's totally different because it's not it can't be the same Those rivers are absolutely different than they were than they are now because quite frankly

Rivers would have completely been different after the whole earth flooded now I know there are people that don't believe in a in a the and that the entire earth was flooded

Dr. Hugh ross is an old earth creationist. He does not believe the earth was completely flooded He believes it was the mesopotamian valley that was flooded

Um, I don't believe that i'm a young earth creationist and I believe in a worldwide flood You can disagree with me on that, but I think the bible bears that out

I think you have to impose something on scripture to argue that it's not the case But that's my position.

And so could there have been a super continent prior to the flood? Yes, was it separated by Babel, no babel was a separation of people not land

If the land was separated it was separated at the fall That's right, okay last question In your recent video this week, you mentioned that there's a time that a ministry has ran its course as a minister in training

What would be a telltale sign that this has happened if I had to guess it would be familiar

Familiarity can't say that word or lack of progressive sanctification, but could be wrong okay, the what this is referencing if if um

If you guys watched my video on david platt Now I have to say I do want i'm glad this question is our last question because I want to reference something from that video

Man, that video took off. I did not expect to get as much of a response as it did

Especially I think some people said I used clickbait because I said don't make me defend david platt And I wasn't really defending david platt

But that was what I titled the video and some people thought well, that's clickbait. It wasn't clickbait There was it was just based on something

I said in the video But what I did say Is I said if you watch the day if you watch the david platt documentary

The thing that bothers me the least about what happened with david platt is that when a new pastor came in some old ministries went away

I said now how it happened is not good and i'm not defending david platt But when we look at how ministries change when new ministers come in when when pastors change

Oftentimes older ministries will go away new ministries will come in. It's just it's just the nature of how things work

It's not always good. It's sometimes bad But it just happens and and so it's a it's a it's a reality but the point

I I want to bring out of this question is The person is asking I did say sometimes ministries have run their course and The question is

How do you know a ministry has run its course? I will I will tell you the the best the best way the best way um

If a ministry is causing sinful division in the church It has run its course I have seen it too much where a ministry draws lines between friends between families between People that are supposed to be serving christ together and now can't even talk to one another

And they have begun to even hate one another because they can't serve in this ministry together

That ministry is not worth um Continuing if it's going to divide the body

Right. The bible says there's six things god hates seven are an abomination to him and the seventh thing Is one who sows discord among the brethren

And that's talking about a person who sows discord But I can testify that sometimes ministries can sow discord the ministry itself is causing a problem

And therefore it needs to be removed. So that's the very first answer I give is if there's a ministry in the church

That's causing discord causing division That ministry needs to go now

Before I I want to answer a little bit further, but I do want to mention one other thing

Sm said one day my question will be picked I tried to pick every question that I received

So if you sent in a question and I didn't answer it Put it in the comment and i'll answer it before we're done as long as it's something

I do know the answer to so uh What what's your question sm? I don't want you to feel like I didn't that i'm not throwing love your way

Um, so throw it throw it in there and i'll i'll try to answer it But getting back to this this question

How do you know a ministry's run its course number one if it's causing people to sin if it's causing sinful division in the church If it's if it's if it cannot be done with joy and love and unity, uh, and it's creating this

Disorder and uh division then it's a problem two. Um If something better Uh can can be put in its place and and and we're seeing that this is this may sound practical

But there are times when certain ministries are are no longer as um useful as as Another ministry and you don't want to have two ministries that are doing the same thing, right?

If you're going to have a weakness there So sometimes there needs to be an evolution in a ministry not that one ministry

Has to die, but it may have to be replaced with something more effective. And um so for instance, uh 15 years ago

Most churches did not have a social media ministry It didn't exist

But now there may be a need for social media ministry there may I mean, this is what this is for our church

This is your calvin's podcast is a ministry of sovereign grace family church

I say that at the beginning of every show because this is part of the ministry and so um

They're they're in in the in the older days This ministry wouldn't have existed. It might have been a radio ministry

Right, but who listens to the radio anymore? I mean honestly So does that make sense when

I talk about sometimes ministries have to be simply by the nature of evolution and change In how people communicate how people function um, you know call lists may become texting lists and things like things change and when we hold too tightly

To something that we used to do and say well if i'm not doing it then um

We're not doing ministry anymore then sometimes that's unhelpful so That's a second thing.

Did you have 10 years from now? We'll be live streaming from mars, right? Yes, i'm going with elon.

We're going to the mars I was gonna say the mars we're going I don't know why I said that we're going to mars with elon

Okay, um make mars great But But those those are two things that I think also

If um, and this is gonna again, it's gonna sound overly practical Maybe somebody's gonna call me a pragmatist. Call me what you want.

I don't care um Sometimes ministries just lose support Because the the interest has waned and it's time to do something different And we've seen that as well and we've had to ask the tough question

Is this just not the best way to minister to our people right now? And sometimes they're like well we're going to keep it going because it's been going for 10 years.

Yeah, but maybe We need to try something different and go a different direction.

So there's all kinds of different ways to know Um, you mentioned on here. Is it

Familiarity and lack of practical progressive sanctification. Maybe it might be an issue.

Um, But again things change churches change ministries change. What doesn't change is the gospel

And so as long as the gospel is continuing to be preached and continuing to be proclaimed through these ministries

As the ministries change, that's okay All right Uh Manai said how is hope doing hope is doing great.

I talked about her a little bit earlier She's been bouncing and that means she's doing good. Uh, so we're we're thankful.

All right. Did sm ever ask this question? No first baptist church of mars reformed

Love it Uh, let's go up here sm. Did you it said it's fine

Oh, he said it's fine. Okay. All right. Well, I love you, bud. I was trying to throw a little love your way All right, guys, well we have gone for an hour and 25 minutes.

Uh, what do you want to show? Okay, should preachers be live streaming their lives?

Oh, that's it. See Everyone like and subscribe for keith. Thank you. Email the questions Yeah All right.

All right. Well guys, I think we are we are at the end i'm

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Theology So I mix a manly drink

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