WWUTT 1085 Q&A JD Greear's Preferred Pronouns, Preaching Every Sunday, Playing the Lottery, Abraham and Hagar?

J.D. Greer, Pronoun Hospitality, and the Call to Speak Truth in Love

Did J .D. Greer say you have to refer to a person by their preferred pronouns? Must we preach a sermon from the Bible every Lord's Day? And what does the Bible say about playing the lottery? The answers to these questions and others, when we understand the text.

This is When We Understand The Text, a daily Bible study in the Word of Christ, that we may with confidence draw near to the throne of grace. To receive mercy and to find grace, to help in time of need.

Visit our website at www .utt .com. Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. So if you want to pick up the book, 25 Christmas Myths and What the Bible Says, go to Amazon .com and type in that title, it'll take you straight to it. We have sold quite a few copies this past week.

Yeah, it's been very exciting. Yes, I've even given a few away for free. Thank you to those who have taken pictures of the book and shared it on Twitter and say, hey, I'm reading this book now. Yes. And if you would, please, after you read it, leave a review on Amazon.

We have to try to push out some of those one-star people that very clearly did not even read the book. Yeah, it's kind of awkward. I'll say something controversial on Twitter. And since the top, you know, the pinned tweet that I have on there.

Is your book. Is plugging the book. Yeah, of course. They'll go to the book and leave a bad review because they were angry about something I said on Twitter. Of course. So yes, if you can read the book and leave an honest review, that would be appreciated.

That would. Now as we go through the questions today, some of these topics are going to get more mature as we go on. So I'll let you know kind of where the point is like, okay, now we're going to get into some more mature subject matter here.

But we start with a couple of stories that unfortunately, by their nature, probably are a little bit mature. I just won't get descriptive with them. This first one comes from Life News, Pete Buttigieg.

You know who Pete Buttigieg is?

No, I don't remember the name, though.

He's the mayor from South Bend, Indiana, who is running for president. He's attempting to get the Democrat nomination, of course. And he's actually doing quite well in the polls right now. Even beating out Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in a lot of different districts.

So he's doing quite good. But Pete Buttigieg, being a liberal, claims that the Bible says babies can be aborted up to their first breath. That's terrible. He says that the Bible allows this. That's terribly wrong.

Yes. I mean, it's a sick and satanic twisting of scripture. But of course, this is a man who claims to be married to another man. And of course, that's the only way he's going to read the Bible. Twisting it to suit his own demonic ends.

It just so happens that I've done a video on this. And this is not a new concept. This goes back a long time. Of various people who say that until the baby is born and takes a breath, the baby's not actually alive.

It's not really a person. So you can destroy the baby in the womb up until the point that it takes its first breath. You know, a baby is breathing in the womb. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. Anyway, so I've done a video on this.

And it was actually in response to something that someone played at my church. And it was from a teacher named W .O. Vaught, who used to be a vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He was a spiritual advisor to Bill Clinton.

And Clinton claimed that he got his views about abortion from W .O. Vaught. And Vaught used to teach that a baby is not actually alive until it's born and takes its first breath. So in response to that, looking back how far that particular teaching went, and because, like I said, this even came from a teacher within the Southern Baptist Convention, I made this video.

The debate continues as to when life begins and when it ends. President Bill Clinton's spiritual advisor, a Southern Baptist minister, taught that because Adam wasn't alive until God breathed life into him, then a child isn't alive until the baby takes his first breath.

This is not the view shared in Scripture. About 30 times in the Bible is there a reference to a child in the womb. And in every one of those instances, the Bible speaks the same of a child inside the womb as it refers to a child outside of the womb.

Consider in Luke chapter 1 when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and said she was going to be with child, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and she would call his name Jesus. Mary went to visit Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist.

And when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child in her womb left with joy. Science has only recently caught up to the fact that children express emotion in the womb as early as eight weeks. If they'd only read Luke 1 .41, they'd have learned we already know that.

Jesus verifies and sanctifies every aspect of human life from conception to natural death because He experienced it all. Yes, even death is sanctified by Christ. He even sanctifies suffering because He suffered.

We argue about whether or not a person should suffer when the Bible tells us to rejoice in suffering, to share in suffering, be patient in suffering, and that our present suffering does not compare to the glory that awaits us if we endure.

Therefore, we must protect and cherish every aspect of life from beginning to end, a gift from God made in the image of God when we understand the text. So in light of the statement that Pete Buttigieg made, you might have some folks that will talk about that, where this might become a talking point in certain circles.

If you're looking for that particular video to answer some of these questions that people might be raising in light of this news story, go to YouTube and you type in WWUTT and life begins at conception.

And that will pull up that video for you. That'll be good. In fact, that's a good way to search for what videos on YouTube. You just type in WWUTT and whatever word topic you're looking for, and you're probably going to find a video on it.

Yeah, likely. Since we're nearing 300 videos. Yep.

There's very few that people ask you about and you're like, oh, I hadn't thought of that yet.

Yeah. And then there are some times when somebody will ask me about a video topic, hey, could you do a video on this one? And I'll go, yeah, sure. And then I go to start working on the video. And then it looks familiar.

Yeah. I'm like, wait a minute. I already did one. I think I've covered this already. That's happened a couple of times when I've been working on the script, I've been writing the script and I'll go to save it.

And that title already exists in my save folder. I'm typing up exactly the same title. I'm going, oh, I already did that one. Well, there you go. So then I go back to the old script and I'll bring it up and go, yeah, but I could say that better.

And I managed to morph that into a different video that kind of covers the same topic. Yeah. So.

Well, I mean, that's good because they're only 90 seconds. Yeah.

Right. So I mean, what can you cover in 90 seconds? Well, quite a bit.

But at the same time, it's usually just one topic. So if it deviates from that, any then. Yeah.

I remember G3. This was a couple of years ago, but I was talking with Phil Johnson and Justin Peters at the same time. You know, the two of them were standing together talking and they both were like, how do you do all of this in 90 seconds?

Right. So I don't really think of that as being a skill. Yeah. But it was my years in radio. I'm too wordy.

Yeah, I know. And I know you don't get that here on the podcast very much, but I really am. I try to land the plane, but I like to explain myself very clearly. And so, yeah, I think that quite wordy.

I don't think you're really all that wordy. I don't think so. No, I think that I feel like I talk a lot. Maybe it's just because I repeat myself all day to children who don't listen to you. Is that I don't think that you that you talk a lot.

I think that you have trouble finding what it is that you're going to say. Yeah, that might be it. So it might seem like it takes a minute. Yeah, it takes it takes a little bit to get around to what you're actually trying.

I always start at the end to get across of my point and then I work my way back. I don't know why I do that. Like my thought process has already finished the beginning part. So it just jumps to the end.

Yeah, that's right. So yeah, because there's a few times she'll start in the middle of something. Like we might even both be on the couch and reading and then she'll just say something and I'm like, what are you talking about?

Yep. Like, why didn't you go with me? Come on. Weren't you reading my mind? Yes. Weren't you reading my mind before that finally came out? We usually have a good laugh over it. So if you feel like you talk too much, that's the reason why I don't.

But you don't. Okay. I say way more words than you do.

Well, but by the time we actually get to sit down with each other, I have said so many words all day long. Well, that's the same with me.

I get all worded out. And that's what they'll tell you in like those marriage courses. They'll say, hey, be prepared when your husband gets home. He doesn't want to talk because he's been talking all day.

That's me. It's actually quite the opposite for me because I'm usually alone at the church most of the time.

Yes, which makes up for it because then I don't feel like I have to say something to carry on a conversation. Like all I get to do is, yeah, and I'm completely content. And so are you. It works out well.

That's right.

Now, where were we? What were you talking about? Okay. Other news story that I got here. Other news story. So this one is from discern. And I'm not sure if you're aware, but Adam Ford, who's the creator of well, of course, Adam Ford Comics.

Okay. But then he went on to create the Babylon Bee. Right. He sold the Babylon Bee. It's under different ownership. But Adam Ford will say what the Babylon Bee is now is even way above and beyond what he imagined it being.

So he's really proud of what it is, what it has become. Barnabas Piper, who's one of John Piper's sons, had made a comment on Twitter one time about how Adam Ford must be embarrassed by what Babylon Bee has become.

And Adam Ford had to correct him and came right back and said, no, I'm really quite proud of what it is. And the guys that are in possession of it now, including Kyle Mann, who's the editor, have taken the Babylon Bee and done even far more than.

Oh, it's terrific. Yeah. It's seriously like this is what the Internet was made for, the Babylon Bee. They really are kind of owning the net right now. But Adam Ford has gone on to start other projects.

And I know that he tried to do like a news aggregate at one point. I don't know if he's still doing that anymore, but it was something similar to the Drudge Report, where it's he's not writing the news, but he's putting together a bunch of news stories from different places he's finding on the web.

Yeah. Well, he has since started his own news site. OK. And it's called Discern. OK. D-I-S-R-N. Oh, I have seen that. Yeah. Oh, I've shared a bunch. Floating around. Right. I've shared a bunch of articles and I'll post articles from them on our church Facebook page even.

OK. So this came from Discern. This is where I'm getting this particular headline. Southern Baptist president, who is J .D. Greer, says that he prefers to call transgender people by their chosen pronouns.

OK. And he calls it pronoun hospitality. Southern Baptist Convention president J .D. Greer revealed on an Ask Me Anything episode of his podcast that he prefers to call transgender people by their preferred pronouns.

Greer said that while there is room for disagreement and Christians should disagree charitably, he sees it as a hospitable courtesy to refer to transgender people by their chosen pronouns despite knowing that their sex does not match their descriptors.

Now, see, if you can't tell, I can understand why you would struggle to pick the right pronoun. If you don't know. Right. Then it makes sense that you're going to go by the pronouns the person tells you or they're going to introduce themselves as a man or a woman.

Well, if you can't tell, then you're just going to go by what they say. Right. They're the ones that are lying. If they're telling you they're a man when they're really a woman. Right. That's on them.

Yeah. That's not your responsibility to have to know that in case they are mistaken. So J .D. Greer says even if he knows that that's a man, but that man wants to be called a woman, he's going to call him a woman.

That just, I don't know. I can't even describe it. It just reminds me so much of that. I don't even remember where it was. California, maybe? But the school board had allowing the boys who identify, self-identify as girls, go into the girls' locker room.

Oh, I saw that story. Yeah. It was just this week, but I can't remember where that was. Yeah.

I don't remember either. I don't remember. But anyway, it was, it just reminds me of that. Like, are you going to allow those men to go in the women's restroom? You know, I mean. Yeah. So like these folks.

Everybody has a stall, sure. But at the same time, nursing moms go into the bathroom. Yeah.

I didn't listen to the podcast and there is a link to the podcast in the discern article. But I would like to know, was there any follow-up questions to this? Like, okay, so if a man comes to our church and he identifies as a woman and you can tell that that's a man and not a woman, are you going to let him go walking into the women's restroom?

Yeah. You're going to use the preferred pronouns. You have to follow it to the end of what the LGBTQ lobby says you have to do. Yeah. You have to let him identify as a woman and let him go into the women's restroom.

Are you going to do that in your church, J .D. Greer? Right.

That's, I mean, that's where my mind would go. Right. Is how far are you going to go with this? Because that's seriously concerning.

He goes on to say, and he, it says that Greer wrote this in the podcast description. There is a spectrum of generosity of spirit versus telling truth. And I tend toward generosity of the spirit. What?

I mean, it's almost like. That doesn't make sense. Yeah. It's almost like he's pitting generosity against truth. Sometimes you have to be generous at the expense of the truth. That's really the argument that he's making there.

That's crazy.

That's crazy talk. But then again, this is coming from the man who said, stay home for Christmas instead of going to church.

That wasn't, it wasn't. Was it Christmas? Yeah, it was. You're right. It was their big Christmas shindig that they did. So instead of coming to church, hey, we had this big get together. So now we're just going to cancel church the next week.

Yeah. Kind of odd. He's inconsistent in a lot of ways. But yeah. So in Ephesians chapter four, we are commanded to speak the truth in love. Right. That's what we're commanded to do. So if you're leaning toward generosity at the expense of the truth, then you're not being generous.

If you're not speaking the truth in love, you're not being a generous person.

It sounds noble, but it's really not. Yeah. It's generous to lie. Right. That's what he's saying there. It makes you feel guilty about not being generous. You know, like, am I being generous in doing this?

Am I being, you know, giving the extra love and support that they need? And then it's like, yeah, that's what they want you to think. And then you need to stop yourself and go back to the Bible. Yes. Stop listening to outside world.

Stop listening to your feelings. Yeah. It's crazy because they actually took me down that road of questioning whether or not that I'm being loving. Right. Which is called gaslighting.

Okay, sure. That's what that is. I mean, it's emotional manipulation. Yeah. I'm going to make you feel bad for my sins so that you have to accommodate me in my sin. That I want to do.

And I mean, but that's really whenever I saw the headline, I was like, oh, well, that sounds good. You know, being generous, you know, maybe we should. And then I'm like, no, no, no, no, Becky, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

That is not what the Bible says. And that is what we should go off of.

We have to follow scripture. Yeah. Right. Mark 10 6. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. And earlier this year, at the start of 2019, we've already heard how J .D. Greer twist Romans 1 when he preached through it.

I did a video on that. So this is very disappointing coming from the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. I cannot wait until he's out. Albert Moeller is going to be the next nominee, according to H .B. Charles, Jr., who is going to nominate Albert Moeller, Albert Moeller, Jr.

Yes. To become the president of the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando in 2020. I would like to see him run unopposed. That would be nice. Because who in the world could possibly be Albert Moeller?

I don't know. I really hope that Albert Moeller takes a strong stance. Yes. And a courageous. And really cleans up the mess that the Southern Baptist Convention is starting to spiral into. We have a big mop and bucket.

We have, as a convention, been in some dire straits in the past before the conservative resurgence came about in the late 70s, early 80s. So if we can get cleaned up like that, the way that we were 40 years ago, then I don't have any doubts that we can do that again.

If it is the will of God and his spirit moves through the convention, we can see things shift back to the sufficiency of scripture again, which is what we're leaving. That's what J .D. Greer is dismissing here when he says we need to lean toward generosity.

Instead of the truth. Just quit playing with my emotions like that. Just stop. I need to focus back on the word so I don't get suckered into those things. That's right.

Yeah, it's bad. So this is the Friday edition of the broadcast. We take questions from the listeners. You can send a question to when we understand the text at gmail .com. On that note, if you send me an email with a link in it and the only thing you say in the email is, hey, watch this and give me your thoughts.

I'm not going to click on the link. You got to give me more than that because it could be spam. It could. Your email could have been hacked. Right. Even if I know who you are, even if we've exchanged before.

Because, yeah, you could have clicked on something funny on Facebook or something like that. Now your email is hacked and it's just sending emails out to all your list.

Yeah, I can't even send you that type of email. No, I won't open it. And you'll come to me and ask, did you send me this? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I did open it, you know, or whatever. I don't think there's ever been a time that I've said, no, I didn't send you that.

So I'm glad for that. I'd still rather be safe than sorry. Very, very cautious about that.

Yeah, rightfully so.

But I'm getting I'm getting emails from one person right now. It's somebody that we know. And I can tell by the email, OK, she's not really sending me this. And so I've tried to contact her and say, hey, are you really sending me this email or have you been hacked?

And she hasn't responded. So anyway, probably hacked then.

That's probably an offline conversation, but off air conversation. Off air. Hey, you sending me those junk emails. Knock it off. But yeah, please include something with a little bit more detail as to, hey, I'm so and so.

I love listening to what. So at least I see something personable is happening in the exchange. And then, hey, a friend of mine sent me this. Would you watch it and give me your thoughts? Yeah. If you send me a 40 minute video, I'm likely not going to watch it at all.

And this has happened a few times where somebody sent me something is really long. I just don't have the time. Yeah. If there's a certain part in that video that you want to zero in on. Right. And say, hey, this starts about 646 in the video.

If you'd start watching there, I'd appreciate your thoughts. That would be helpful. Right. But narrow it down a little bit. But generally, if you send me a 40 minute to an hour sermon or something like that, I just don't have time to watch it.

I thank you, though. I thank you for valuing my opinion in something like that. But I have to keep my. We like our family time with him.

That's right. I want to see my family today. Everybody asks you how you manage all of these things, writing a book and doing the podcasts and doing study and working your job and preaching and all that stuff and prep for those things.

I mean, and having family time. Yes. And keeping the family happy enough that we get to see your beautiful face. Keeping the family happy.

Not just doing my husbandly or fatherly responsibilities, but just keeping you happy.

Well, I mean, we have to see you enough to keep us happy. I know. I know. It's just funny the way you put that. That's all I'm pointing out. So anyway. So whenever you send extra lengthy things, it's just not it's really not doable because we are maxed.

We value every second. Yes. Together.

And that shortens up times. And unfortunately, even though I don't have much time and I'm and I'm a very busy person, I will still get distracted by stupid links that I'm clicking on on the computer that I'm just wasting time.

I'm just clicking dumb articles. Yes.

That's why I am precious of time. I make sure that precious time.

And there are times when I'll be doing that and I start getting convicted and I'm like, my wife is way more lovely than than whatever it is. I'm clicking on here, just reading these ridiculous articles and watching stupid cat videos.

So I'm going to go find my wife and talk to her because that's much more enjoyable than this anyway. See, I mean, you get on the computer, you just start clicking stuff and it's easy. It's so easy to start wasting time or I'll watch those videos.

That's like, did you see what happened in this movie? It's analyzed and explained. I don't ever watch that. Yeah. Well, because I watch them and you tell me about it. I'm glad I didn't waste my time. Something documentary like or something like that.

You told me in less than five minutes what you watched in like over an hour. Yes. But that's only whenever you're waiting on something to load up or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And that's when I'll get increments.

That's when I'll get in trouble. Yeah. Because I'm waiting for something to load. Like I'm uploading the podcast and I'll start watching a couple of videos. Well, the upload finished 20 minutes ago and I'm still watching videos.

Sucks you in. Yeah, sucks me right in. Okay, so let's go to this email from Jeanette. She says, hello, Gabe and Becky. Let me start off by saying I thank and praise God for the ministry and the work that y 'all do to further his kingdom.

My husband and I just got married a little over a month ago. Aw, congratulations. He is the one who introduced your show slash podcast to me. Now that we are married, we get to listen to it next to and with one another.

Aw, that's so fun. Thank you for posting it early because we get up at 4 a .m. Whoa. Wow, that's an early start to the day. Yeah, I don't get up that early. Becky starts the day before I do, but not that early.

After we wake up, I get my coffee. That's the way Becky starts hers. And by the time we get moving, which is 4 .30, 5 o 'clock, the podcast is usually up. It's much appreciated. What time zone do you live in?

Yeah, I'm curious too. Because I've had it. I have it uploaded around 1 or 2 a .m. So yeah, I'm not sure why it would wait until 4 .30 or 5 o 'clock. So she goes on to say... Well, some mornings. Very rarely.

Rarely. Yeah, very, very rarely. There have been some where there's been some sort of computer snafu or something like that. It probably takes 3 to 4 o 'clock before it finally gets loaded. Central time.

Yes. So we're in the central part of the U .S. So anyway, she says, I drive my husband. I'm still trying to get used to saying husband. I drive him crazy. I was thinking she was about to say, I drive him to work.

Yeah. I drive my husband parentheses. I'm still trying to get used to saying husband crazy. I make him put his phone by me so that I can pause or go back a million times. It usually takes us twice the time, an hour to listen to it all.

I'll take or I'll ask questions or we'll talk about it. Or you have me acting out what people's expressions were. It's not just the kids that have a vivid imagination. Going through acts has been fun.

I have had him in stitches. For example, when the angel helps Peter escape from prison and get to Mary's house. And then Rhoda recognizes Peter's voice and she runs off, leaving him standing there. I was like.

I like that part, too. Yeah. I was like, can you imagine him standing there, lifting his hands, shrugging? And he's got this puzzled face going, huh? What's going on? Hello. I'm trying to come in. I'm kind of escaping from prison here.

She says, or like yesterday in Acts 13, 13, when Paul stood up and start speaking to everyone. It was almost like Ben was waiting for me to say it because I start giggling. I pause and say, Ben, seriously, can't you just see him?

Paul with both arms up loudly, almost like proclaiming, saying with me, lowering my pitch and lifting my arms and hands. Bit of Israel and you who fear God. Listen, can't you see it? He put his hand on his face.

He shakes his head and laughs at me. My stomach hurt from laughing so hard. What can I say? It helps me remember. That's awesome. Again, thank you so much. And praying for the ministry, humbly in him, Jeanette.

She even gave us a few emoticons in there. Yes, that's awesome. I hope everybody even understood what I was reading there from Jeanette. Because it was even quite colorful in its language, in the email there.

It's too bad we don't have you on video because you even raised up your hands.

Well, see, I gesture a lot doing this. I really do gesture a lot. Yes. So you don't see that. Anytime you hear a or something like that, I'm just knocking the mic stand. My arms going everywhere and they start bumping into stuff.

Becky uses motion and movement and actions to help the kids memorize as well. Yes. So as Jeanette says, it helps me remember. That's it is a good learning method. It is. You know, helps you remember. Everybody learns differently.

So some people have to write it out. Some people have to read it. Some people have to act it out. Some do something while they're listening to it.

You know, there's different things. Like, I tell you to do a jumping jack when you take your allergy medicine in the evening so you remember that you did it. Right.

Yep. Jump up in the air. Yeah, because I get so tired by that hour. I'm like, did I take it? She's like, did I take it? Yeah. I don't remember. I don't know, babe. I'm going to be miserable tomorrow if I didn't.

So you'll find out tomorrow. Oh, I didn't take my allergy medicine last night. Anyway, that's awesome, though.

That's great. I love that you get such a kick out of it.

Preaching the Word Every Lord's Day

This next one comes from Marco in Texas. Greetings, Pastor Gabe and Sister Becky. It's your friendly Texan Marco reaching out to you from Uvalde, Texas. How y 'all doing? Anyways, my question for you is this.

Must there be a sermon for every Lord's Day? I recently had a discussion with a pastor about this subject when he chose not to have a sermon for his Sunday morning service and instead had a special guest speak on church membership.

There was no Bible in any of the guest speaker's speech. Okay. I don't know how you talk about church membership and you don't even reference scripture on that. Yeah, that's kind of odd. So what sort of lesson is this supposed to be if the Bible's not there?

Yeah. I mean, is the church coming under submission of the Holy Word of God regarding church membership? Or is church membership one of those things where, no, you know, we don't really need the Bible for this.

Yeah, I just, I'm still really confused.

I know, that's the way that comes across. See, we don't really need to submit to the Bible on this subject. Yeah, you just need to do it.

You just need to do it. So would that be tradition over scripture? Probably.

Yeah, that's almost Catholic. Yeah. So you're going to say tradition trumps scripture in this particular place. He goes on to say, I was taken aback by the act and had a conversation with the pastor of that church and informed him of my concern.

His response was, well, do we have to preach every Sunday? Okay. I believe the correct answer was an obvious yes. He didn't think so. I told him the scripture portrays the importance of preaching every Lord's day.

And he told me I was being legalistic. Oh, wow. Yeah, and that's a very common response. You go to the scripture and you say, here's what the Bible says. And a person who doesn't want to submit to it will say, well, that's just legalism.

I'm just blown away.

So yeah, Marco goes on. Am I wrong in thinking that it's biblical to have the word preached every Lord's day? Was I being legalistic? What does scripture say? Thank you both. And in the words of the apostle Paul, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you.

2 Corinthians 13, 14. Well, Marco, you even brought us the word in your email. Yeah, no joke. So do you think that the word is important to preach every Sunday?

But I tell you, people just get in our heads so easily to make a second guess. Because whenever you're a Christian and you're trying to follow the word, follow scripture as it states in there and guides us, you are going against the majority.

You're going against the world, yeah. Yeah, and the world is going to look at you like you're not going with us. So you are obviously wrong. And it makes you second guess every step, at least those that you're not 100 confident about.

Yes, which is why the apostle Paul to the Galatians. Galatians 1, I think this is verse 10. Am I trying to please God or man? Right. If I'm trying to please man, then I would not be a servant of Christ.

Right. So we must remember that we fall on the word of God before we fall on the opinion of man. Right. And we must test every opinion and everything that would be raised up against the knowledge of God, we must destroy with the word of God.

That's actually the instruction in second Corinthians chapter 10. Yeah. That the word of God has the power to destroy strongholds and every lofty opinion that's raised against the knowledge of God. So, Marko, when you bring this to your pastor, you did this the right way.

Exactly. You brought the word of God to him and pointed out to him. I'd be curious to what scripture you used. But yeah, you bring the word of God into this situation. The apostle Paul says to Timothy, second Timothy 4, 1, I charge you in the presence of God.

And of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing and his kingdom. Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke and exhort with complete patience and teaching.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.