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All right, welcome back.
We just did a track session on Roman Catholicism, and there's a lot more to come.
Believe me, there's a lot more to come.
So if you guys got any comments or questions, feel free to let me know.
And because the radio show has been dismantled, but we still don't know what the reason was,
now the place looks pretty desolate.
People aren't coming in.
We've got a couple of losers sitting in the back, but you know.
Not the lady, the lady's not a loser.
Not the, the two guys in the back there.
And one of them, Joel, goes, yeah, it's me.
You're looking right.
I'll raise my hand for that one.
That works.
Yeah, I insulted him too on the first day.
You don't know me?
Yeah.
It was your fault for asking God to use you.
That's right, I can't blame him.
All right, you got any comments or questions?
One, that's it.
On what, Facebook?
Oh, just Facebook, okay.
Facebook or YouTube?
YouTube?
There's supposed to be some Roman Catholics watching tonight, I know.
Yeah, I should be better with a mic now, hopefully.
This question is from Aaron Sinclair.
Are the lost books of the Bible fiction or are some true?
Some of them are in the Catholic Bible, right?
There are no lost books of the Bible.
See, when people say, what about the lost books of the Bible?
That's assuming there are lost books of the Bible.
There aren't any lost books of the Bible.
So when someone says, what about the lost books?
There aren't any lost books.
God has his ways of making sure that everything he wanted to be in the Bible is in the Bible, he's God.
And that's it.
So the things people call the lost books, how would they know they're the lost books?
I'll read these articles.
The lost books of the Bible found.
How do you know they're the lost books?
You know, written by St. Bob, you know, with his pet dog, and they write something and it comes from
the 200.
See, that's one of the gospels.
You know, how do they know?
And so the Catholic church, I mean, excuse me, the Christian church had its ways recognizing what the truth of
God's word was.
And yeah, there were some problems and some disagreements here and there, but God in his sovereignty works through his creation and through
his church to recognize the word of God.
Simple, there are no lost books.
And the apocryphal books of the Roman Catholic church and that were added in 1546 are false.
Tobit, Maccabees have false teachings in them.
Cash for the forgiveness of sins, historical errors.
I mean, blatant, they're errors.
If it's inspired of God and belongs in the canon, then why did Jesus exclude it in Luke 11 51
and Luke 24 44, when he quoted various things about
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the first and last book of the old Testament canon, excluding the apocrypha.
And in Luke 24 44, he said the law of the prophets and the Psalms, the three divisions of the old Testament, he excluded
the apocrypha.
The prop, I mean, Jesus never quoted from the apocrypha and the prophets, I mean, and the apostles did not quote from the
apocrypha.
It's not scripture, but the Roman Catholic church added it in because of its false doctrines of works
righteousness, indulgences, penance, and paying cash for forgiveness, which is what Tobit
teaches, the book of Tobit.
So if you believe God's word and you hear the voice of your Lord, you don't follow the
false voice of another teacher.
This is what separates the sheep from the goats.
The true Christians don't follow the voice of a Pope.
They follow the voice of Christ.
True Christians point to Jesus because the Holy Spirit in them bears witness of Christ, not of a
church, that's how it works.
Any other questions?
Are we done?
Not scripture, next.
What do you want me to say?
They're not scripture.
And just because people might say, well, look, Jude quoted Enoch, so therefore Enoch's inspired.
No, it doesn't work.
Paul quoted Epimenides and Menander in Acts 17, I think that range, I forgot where, I've got an article on my
site.
It doesn't mean that they're inspired because he quoted them, quoted pagan philosophers.
There's many books.
In fact, if you go to CARM and look up books quoted in the Bible or extra biblical books, there's a whole list like 20
or 30 or something like that.
They're just there.
It doesn't mean they're inspired because they're quoted any more than Jude quoting Enoch means Enoch is inspired.
Or Paul quoting the pagan philosophers, Epimenides and Menander or Erastus, those three
that mean that they're inspired.
Of course you're not inspired.
Just because they're quoted doesn't mean they're inspired.
All right.
Next.
This is easy.
The Catholics are not asking any difficult questions.
Next week though, oh man.
Oh, it's gonna be bad for them.
Bad.
Oh yeah, bad.
And then we got to that?
Badder.
Gets worse.
And after that, worser.
You got a question?
Not anymore, you just answered it.
Just answered it?
It's dead, huh?
Yeah, it's quiet.
What, it's quiet?
It's dead?
Like.
It's dead, Jim.
Just let it go.
Dead is Roman Catholic.
Give it a shot.
The importance of the Sabbath in relation to the New Testament.
Some people say that we should honor the Sabbath, but in a kind of a modified way and do it on Sundays
instead of Saturdays.
Some people say that the Sabbath is the only of the
10 Commandments not mentioned in the New Testament.
Therefore, we don't have to honor it.
What's the correct answer here?
Or at least the answer.
Well, that's the answer.
That's different.
What was that?
Okay, whatever.
So, the, it
says in, I was going to, yeah, first Corinthians 16 .2.
On the first day of every week, each one of us is to put aside and save as he may prosper so that no collections may be made
when I come.
First day of the week, which is Sunday.
And there's some other verses, which I can't remember right now.
Trying to look for them.
It talks about other times, and I think it's Acts 16 .6.
I have an article on Karma about this where it talks about the first day of the week do this, the first
day of the week do that.
Why?
Because the first day of the week is the day that Jesus rose from the dead.
And the early church started meeting on the first day of the week.
Now, people will say to me, well, Matt, you know, shouldn't we keep the Sabbath as in Saturday?
Say, nope, we don't have to.
Because Romans 14 .5, one person regards one day above another, another regards every day
alike.
Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
If we're supposed to keep the Sabbath on Saturday, and that was mandatory, then why would Paul
say, each person must be fully convinced in his own mind about one day above another?
That by definition includes a Sabbath, which is above others in the Old Testament.
So this right here refutes the idea that anybody is supposed to keep legalistically a
single day as the proper day.
Now, it does not mean that if you do have a special day that you like and that you want to
honor God on, doesn't mean you're in sin.
It says each man must be fully convinced in his own mind.
You see, if you think that you're supposed to worship God on Saturday, then worship God on Saturday.
Or Sunday, then on Sunday.
Or Monday, then do it on Monday.
And it's not the day specifically, but it's the idea of having your rights before God, your freedom before
God, being able to do this kind of a thing.
Now, it says in Colossians 2 .16, therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or
drink on respect to a festival, which is yearly, a new moon, which is
monthly, or a Sabbath day, which is weekly.
So Paul says, let no one act as your judge in regard to these things.
So if someone has an idea that they're supposed to worship on a Saturday, I'm not judging them.
Now, Nathan over here, he won't buy or sell on a Sunday, right?
That's true.
Okay, I don't have any problem buying some worms and going fishing on Sunday, but he doesn't want to do that.
Okay, that's his conviction.
I'm not going to stand in the way of that.
That's his conviction.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm not saying it's wrong.
That's fine.
And I think it's a good thing.
And so we're to be convinced in our own minds about these things.
Now, finally, yes, it's true that the only commandment not reiterated in the New Testament
of the 10 commandments is the one on the Sabbath.
Because Jesus is our Sabbath rest.
He says in Matthew 11, 28, come to me all who are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
The Sabbath is our rest.
Jesus fulfilled that Sabbath.
We come to him for the rest.
That's what's going on.
Yep.
We have a question that's coming through Facebook.
This is Thomas N. Chino.
Can you, yeah.
Can you, sorry.
Can you do a flyby of the gifts in 1 Corinthians 12 .10, specifically the ability to distinguish
between spirits?
I've struggled to find sound commentary to help explain what this is.
Please and thank you.
And to another, affecting of miracles, another prophecy, another, the distinguishing of spirits to another
various kinds of tongues.
I'm not sure what that is, to be honest.
Various distinguishings of spirit.
There've been different commentaries who offer different opinions about such things.
There we go.
And such things as being able to say if someone's saved or not saved, or if a
spiritual attitude in a person is good or bad, or if someone, it came from this up here,
right above me.
This bulb, it does every now and then.
And so it could be that, or it could be a demonic thing, or a spirit, an angelic thing, and being
able to decide and know those kinds of things, just an awareness.
And so I don't know what the actual right answer is.
I just know that those are the range of possibilities, and that's what I know.
Okay.
The next question is from YouTube, from Les.
Matt, have you noticed similarities between Roman Catholic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses?
Yes.
Question is -.
That's a good question.
Have I noticed similarities?
Yes, I have.
The next question is from Tess.
What?
Is there another question?
Yeah, there's another question.
I can't follow up with the first one, because I -.
I'll tell you what those similarities are.
Oh, okay.
What are the similarities?
Church righteousness, authoritative system, where their church is the proper authority, as it being for
true membership of God's kingdom, it to be in their true church.
Their true church has the ability to interpret scripture, not supposed to interpret the scripture apart from what they say, things like
that.
Next question is from Tess.
Some people are rejecting Christmas and Easter because of the Roman Catholic Church.
Is it biblically plausible to simply see Christmas and Easter?
Or, I don't know why it says because, it says because of RCC.
RCC, Roman Catholic Church.
Okay, that's what I assumed.
Is it biblically plausible to simply see Christmas and Easter as celebration of the fulfillment of the Feast of
Tabernacles and Passover?
Yeah, it's possible to do that.
But look, don't make a mistake of thinking that just because the Roman Catholic Church is involved with it, that it's false.
That's called a genetic fallacy.
The source of it is bad, so therefore it is bad.
No, it's not true.
It'll go on back on itself sometime.
If it happens, unless you do the other bulb, maybe both of them need to be, whatever.
So, oh, my nose.
So, just because the Roman Catholic Church does it, doesn't mean it's false.
We have to judge it by scripture.
They did try, I think, in a good effort to get certain days
holified, made holy, by, I'm trying to get the lights
going here, by, does that light have more settings?
They tried to get pagan holidays taken over to make them sanctified so that the pagans would start celebrating in a good way, not a bad
way.
That's how it became Easter, there we go, Easter and Christmas.
And so, it didn't really work because pagans don't wanna give up their stuff.
But we can celebrate on December 25th, that's fine.
Easter's fine, too.
That's right, you missed.
Okay, any more?
All right, I got another question for you, sir.
Is the Mosaic Covenant part of the Covenant of Works or the Covenant of Grace?
Ha, ha.
Mosaic Covenant being what?
We had to define what the Mosaic Covenant is.
So, the 10 commandments are the Covenant signed documents.
So, in the Suzerain -Vassie Treaty Pattern of the third millennium BC, third or fourth millennium BC,
the pattern was that what you would do in a covenant, the suzerain and the vassal,
the suzerain was the big king, the vassal was the lesser king.
And what they would do in their contractual agreements is they would say, this is who I am and what I've done.
This is how that pattern would open up.
Then God spoke all these words, this is Exodus 20.
I'm the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
You shall have no other gods before me.
This is who I am and what I've done, brought you out of the land of slavery.
And so, then you'd have stipulations and rewards and punishments for keeping or breaking
the stipulations.
You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness.
You shall not worship or serve them, for I, the Lord, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the followers on the children of the third and
fourth generations.
It goes on.
So, now there's a punishment for breaking those laws.
So, it looks like what we have here in the Ten Commandments is a
treaty pattern.
So, the Ten Commandments then would be two documents, 10 and 10, the tablets of stone.
And that's important because they were in the Holy of Holies, which is the tabernacle
and the mercy seat.
So, the Ark of the Covenant, the mercy seat with the angels on top.
And the high priest would come in around the veil once a year and sprinkle blood on the mercy seat.
To open that lid, which is the mercy seat, and in there would be a jar of manna, Aaron's rod and the Ten Commandments, both of
them, the copy.
Now, the mercy seat is said to be the footstool of God.
So, it's the presence of God in the Holy of Holies, but also the presence of man.
Because if we do a contract, you get a complete copy of the contract, I get a complete copy of the contract.
Two copies of the contract in the presence of God and the presence of man.
So, it looks like that's what's going on.
If that's the Mosaic law, this covenant sign there is the Ten Commandments.
And you've heard of one that Moses was the worst sinner of all, he broke all Ten Commandments at once, threw them down, and that's
pretty bad.
That's a bad joke, I know.
That's reaching.
And so, what was the question?
So, is the Mosaic covenant...
Oh, is it a covenant of grace?
It depends on how you define covenant of work, covenant of grace, because some covenantalists will say everything
is a manifestation of the covenant of grace.
Grace is unmerited favor.
Even the Ten Commandments are unmerited favor.
Some will say there's a covenant of works and a covenant of grace.
Covenant of works is you keep this law and you'll be fine, basically.
Nobody really can, they know that.
And then the covenant of grace is the unmerited favor of God that comes upon you after breaking that law in the person of Christ.
And of course, it's not as simple as that.
Trust me, it's not as simple as that.
So, some people will say, well, the Ten Commandments are under the covenant of grace, but the Ten Commandments are also the covenant of works.
But then again, you go back to the Garden of Adam and Eve and the covenant of works that Adam was under,
because he could maintain his position with God as long as he didn't eat of the fruit, he'd be fine, covenant of works.
So, it depends on how you define these things.
And I would say, ultimately, the Ten Commandments are under the covenant of grace, because they're
revelatory from God, they're a gracious movement to bring us to the place of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, because Galatians 3 .24,
the law is a tutor that leads us to Jesus, and that's ultimately a movement of God's grace.
That's what I would say, right or wrong?
I mean, covenant's a huge, huge study.
They're coming in, we're done.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there is no trinity, Jesus Christ is the first created thing,
and that he became a man losing his divine nature, not divine nature, but he was an angel, and he
lost his, gave up his divine, he gave up his angelic nature, and was changed
into a man, and as a man, he kept the law, and as a man, he died on a torture stake, not a
cross, because he kept the law, but he only died and paid for the sins of the 144 ,000.
And so, that's the heavenly class.
And so, the rest of people, the earthly class, have got to earn their salvation by keeping the laws and ordinances and things like that.
And so, they only take communion once a year, that's only for the 144 ,000, because that's only for whom Jesus mediates.
And if you wanna be a good Jehovah's Witness, you gotta go door -to -door and do things like that.
They also teach annihilation, that when you die, you don't exist anymore, and that the wicked are judged to
annihilation, non -existence, and that's a judgment.
Basically, that's Jehovah's Witness theology.
It's a cult, because the Holy Spirit's an active force, like radar.
Another question?
Yes, sir.
All right, so, a couple weeks ago, we covered some false teachers in the church.
One of them would be Steve Furtick.
So, some of the bizarre things we've heard Steve Furtick say, leads us
to say he's a false prophet, false teacher, what have you.
Anybody in his church, say that, well, there is actually somebody who has a ministry, a
national ministry that goes to his church, who calls him pastor, who's a member of that church, actually fills in in the pulpit
sometimes.
Should we be concerned about that person just because Steve Furtick is their pastor?
Yes and no.
Depends on what kind of approval, what kind of situation.
Things need to be looked at in detail.
Steve?
That Steve Furtick commends for their work.
Katie Jakes, for example?
This particular person is a female.
Which, I wanted to leave that out because her, Liza Turkhurst?
I don't know the name.
If he approves of her as a woman pastor, then Steven Furtick is wrong for doing that.
I know she's filled in in the pulpit for him before.
I wanted to leave that out.
I just was -.
Well then, he's making very poor choices.
He does not understand biblical theology in this regard.
And he's failing in that.
He's flat out failing.
A lot of pastors are, when they allow women to be pastors and teachers and get into the pulpit on a Sunday morning and preach in a position of authority.
Not for women.
Men are supposed to do it.
What I'm wondering, I've been working through this in my head is, because I know I sit
under my pastor and I learn from him.
And my pastor's a good pastor.
He rightly divides the word of God.
And I'll stand by him on that.
If somebody's sitting under somebody like him or T .D. Jakes or Joel
Osteen or any one of the crazy people,
if they're saying that their pastor is correct and they're proud to be a member of that
church, when we take into question anything they would teach just based off of that
I've been watching with the they.
I don't know who the they is.
They teach.
Well, I kind of got lost in the question.
Well, so if I'm running a national ministry, but I'm going to Joel Osteen's church
and I think Joel Osteen is the bomb and Joel Osteen has me fill in because he likes me and my teaching.
And I would have a lot of suspicion about you.
Okay, that's -.
Because you can't have a judgment to know who's good and bad.
Yeah, if they're going to mess up in some areas, can you trust them in others?
Now, we all have our mess ups, okay?
But when the Bible explicitly declares, I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a
man that remains silent for Adam was first created and he's giving instruction to the church,
then a woman's not to be in that place.
It should be that simple.
And so if someone can't get that right, I can't trust them to get other stuff right.
I'm just - I'm not even looking at the woman teaching part.
I'm looking in general,.
Whether it's male or female.
The elders are supposed to be able to teach sound doctrine or refute error.
And a lot of them don't know what sound doctrine is, don't know what the error is because they don't know sound doctrine.
And so theology is not being taught from the pulpit.
If I were a pastor, again, I'd be teaching theology, not seminary level theology from a pulpit, but I'd be teaching
theological aspects while I'm preaching sermons.
A little bit here, a little bit there so that people can get edified.
And I would teach during the week a class on theology and logic where they can understand what the Bible says.
Make them capable.
Now what?
The next question is from someone I believe you were talking to within the last week.
This is from Hellbound Heathen.
Will Matt Slick either offer actual proof of his accusations made against witches on his website or take them
down out of respect and reverence?
The proof is found in the word of God that rejects Wicca and witchcraft, which is demonic
and is never gonna come down.
Yeah, we're not gonna revere that which is demonic.
Witchcraft is not good, not good at all.
I used to be involved with the occult before I became a Christian.
I know what it is and I remember the sense of darkness.
I remember it.
I remember that when I became a Christian, that sense of darkness went away very quickly.
There's a real spiritual palatability of evil.
Witchcraft is evil.
And I'm sorry, but it is.
And if it offends people, don't listen.
You don't have the right not to be offended, all right?
You don't like God's word, then don't read it.
Don't pay attention to what I have to say.
It's not coming down.
If anything, I'll put more up.
When people make statements like this, it makes me wanna do more.
It does.
Oh yeah, well, watch this.
And so I'll write even more.
So someone recently wrote or spoke against the vicarious substitutionary atonement or penal
substitutionary atonement theory.
I wrote an article today and put it up.
That is what it says.
What it says.
That's right, I'm a fighter.
So witchcraft is bad news.
Did you guys know that there's 50 to 70 million people in spiritism, which is the form of witchcraft in the world?
And it's growing.
Of course, Jesus said, and Apostle Paul said, and Peter said, in the last days,
it'll be apostasy.
People are gonna go after what they want.
They want control.
They want influence.
That's what witchcraft is about.
Manipulation or personal gain.
It's selfishness.
And you contact the devil and his dominion or his minions in the process.
Anybody else?
What do you wanna read it or?
I can't hear you.
Both.
Yeah, am I Clarkian or Ventilian?
I haven't studied Clark enough to be able to say, which some people say I'm more Clarkian than Ventilian, but I don't know.
I just don't have time to study that particular nuance.
I got too much heresy to deal with.
So, okay.
We're done?
Anymore?
Slow crowd.
I mean, not slow crowd.
Jesse?
I don't know.
You threw me off a cliff, yeah.
Oh yeah, right.
This happens a lot.
People will, this is what happens, okay.
I'll have four or five conversations going with different people, answering my phone,
going here, doing radio, doing whatever it is.
And people will fire questions at me and I don't get to answer all of them.
See, we refuted and he couldn't answer.
That's what happens a lot.
And so I'll say, call me up on, you know, we can talk.
And then they don't want to do that.
They like to claim victory.
It just shows weakness on their part.
So yeah, throw me off a cliff.
Yeah, right.
I just spanked the crap out of Roman Catholicism earlier tonight.
And you can hear, wee, wee, wee.
More's coming.
Man, we're slow.
One more?
Two more?
This is from YouTube.
The user Jesus Saved From Hell.
His question is, are we living in the last days?
Go to Acts chapter two, verses 15, 16, 17, and 18.
You'll see in these last days.
Question is from Facebook, Rockwell Featherstone.
How do you determine whether a particular scripture passage is for those in those days or our
day?
Usually by reading the context.
See, that question is a big question.
And it has to do with hermeneutics.
And what I could do sometime after we're done trashing Catholicism is I could teach a
course, a little thing on hermeneutics and how to interpret scripture.
There's a little bit of science, a little bit of logic, and a little bit of art.
And sometimes we can't all get it right.
And so when you, you know, your question was very generic.
And so I can only answer generically.
But if there's specific questions about specific scriptures, then we can use those as tools to try
and teach how to interpret scripture.
And it doesn't mean we're always gonna learn everything properly.
But the more we do this, the more we're going to see the whole of scripture and narrow things down to
a better understanding.
And when I say that, I'm reminded of some of the stuff I was watching today.
Lately, I've been watching on, you know, direct TV, some of the moronic religious teachers
send in your $25 minimum gift, and you will get, you know, the sow your seed and you'll get this
miracle water, this miracle oil, this miracle, you know.
Where do they get this?
They rip things out of context.
They misapply scripture.
They don't just read for what it says.
I was listening to Joyce Meyer a few days ago, did the same thing.
Not about miracle water, but she was applying something out of the Old Testament, but that has nothing to do with what you're applying it to now.
Just basic stuff.
And I was really disturbed by what I was hearing because the crowd was cheering.
Yay, it has something to do with the Old Testament.
God will expand your territory, expand your thing to Israel.
And they're going, and he will expand your territory as though he's talking to you right now.
And they're going, yeah, that's right.
He's talking to Israel back then, 3000 years ago.
What are you talking about?
It doesn't apply to you right now.
He's talking about Israel.
I'll expand your borders, Israel.
What are you doing?
Can you take it out of that context and apply it?
That's right, I get a bigger bank account, expanding my territory.
This is the kind of idiocy that comes across TV waves.
They couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag.
I mean, think of it this way.
Take some Kleenex.
And then what you do is you very, very carefully, you make a little
bitty bag out of Kleenex thing.
I mean, you like look at it wrong, it's going to fold down.
Then take this air sprayer, with little bit of mist of water, just very lightly spray it.
I mean, we're talking not many more molecules and things are going to fall apart.
They couldn't find their way out of that.
They don't know what they're doing.
A Kleenex paper bag that's damp.
Like, what do I do?
How do I get out of here?
They don't know what it means.
And this is the kind of stuff that's on TV.
And my wife was making a comment yesterday, which, you know, heard this idiocy.
And, you know, she said, you know, just staring at it going, yeah.
She said, you know, it must be frustrating to know that these people are getting so many millions of dollars
teaching these false things.
And you're working hard to preach the truth and basically few people care.
They're going, yeah.
But that's how it's been happening for thousands of years.
That's right.
That's what it is.
So, and it's not because I'm annoying and obnoxious and prideful and arrogant and
ugly.
It's because of the other stuff.
That's what it's going to be.
Probably because I'm humble.
That's why people are listening to this.
Any more questions?
More?
It's what I love to do.
Answer questions for people.
A guy named -.
Oh, right.
Yeah, yeah.
Jacob Diaz asks, what is your opinion on Paul Washer?
Paul Washer, I like him.
Good guy.
Heard a little bit about him.
Listened a little bit.
He's a solid preacher.
Says it like it is.
Next question is from, I'm sorry, I'm going to probably mispronounce this.
Diego Pizarro -Seguera.
As a Calvinist, how would you explain 1 Timothy 2 .4 and 2 Peter 3 .9?
He wants all people to be saved.
Basically, both of those verses saying, well, God can arrange, he can desire one thing and arrange something
contrary to it.
That's one way of looking at it.
If the all means every individual who ever lived, if that's what it means, then we would see that he would desire that.
But if you go to Mark 4, 10 through 12, they ask
Jesus, why do you speak in parables?
He says he speaks in parables so that people will not believe and be forgiven.
And in 2 Thessalonians 2, he sends a diluting influence on people so that they will believe a lie.
Wait a minute.
Why would God say he wants all people to be saved and yet work against that?
We can get the principle from scripture that God can desire one thing and arrange another.
You may think that's a problem.
We could expand on this.
I could go through, I could teach on that for a whole hour and go through verses and go through Hebrew and some other stuff.
And some stuff I wrote 20, 25 years ago on this.
That's one possibility.
Other possibility is that he wants all men to be saved and the all are only the elect.
Now, some people may say, well, that's ridiculous.
No, it's not.
In Romans 5, 18, it says, this is what it literally says in the Greek.
Through one trespass, condemnation to all men.
So also through one act of righteousness, justification of life to all men.
Justification means you're saved to all men.
That all can't be everybody who ever lived.
In 1 Corinthians 15, 22, in Adam all die, in Christ all shall be made alive.
Now that all obviously is limited.
Then we also see, Jesus says in Romans, and I'm gonna have trouble tonight, John 6, 37 through 40.
He talks about all that the father has given me, of them I will lose none.
Who's the all?
So when God says in 2 Peter 3, 9 and 1 Timothy 2, 4, he wants all to be saved.
We have to ask the question, who's the all?
It's a legitimate question.
Who's he talking about when he says the all?
Is it all sorts of people and all the nations?
Is it only everybody ever lived?
That wouldn't quite make sense.
Is it the elect given to the son by the father?
That could be a possibility as well.
These are legitimate things to look at.
It's not me trying to play linguistic escapism like a Houdini.
It's just, these are things that the scriptures talk about.
And so we have to look at them and see what's going on with those things.
And the principle that God can desire one thing and arrange another is clearly in scripture.
And why would he do that?
And that's another question to answer sometime.
We can do a study.
Go ahead.
So in society today, we see an all out assault on truth with the
genders and truth is subjective and the news media and politics.
Do you see this as an attack on Jesus as well?
And if so, then why?
Jesus says on the way, the truth and the life, nobody comes to the father but by me, John 14, six.
Truth is personified in Jesus.
If there's no absolute truth, then Jesus is not absolutely God who absolutely died on the cross, who absolutely bore our sins on his body on the cross,
who absolutely rose from the dead and who absolutely is the only way to salvation.
So truth is the blurring of truth ultimately can be a demonic
venture in order to not have absolutes.
Without absolutes, people decide for themselves what's true.
And when they do that, they don't listen to God and then they're lost.
They forfeit themselves because they don't want truth.
Now I say this about truth.
It's rude.
Doesn't care what your feelings are.
When I had my gallbladder die on me, the truth was it was extremely painful.
And if I hadn't had emergency surgery, I would have died.
And so that's the truth.
The truth is I have a bone back here that's deformed.
The truth is I'm 60.
I don't like that.
I wish I was 30 again.
Well, you know what?
Truth doesn't care about what you want.
Truth is what it is.
And so the world rejects the truth of God and all truth ultimately is based in God.
And that's another topic, another study.
So the liberalism that is coming across our nation and our culture
is a decrying of truth and then an establishment of a false truth.
Because when truth is removed, a false truth has to be replaced.
So there's only two sexes, male and female.
No, there's 90 something.
False truth come in.
Or you can't believe Jesus is the only way, even though he said so.
You can't believe that because that's bigoted.
It's not fair.
So what we're going to say, the new truth is everybody's equal.
There's many paths to God.
So when you have a truth that's negated, you have to have a false truth, not really true, presented in.
Because people believe in things.
They operate their lives based on what they believe.
And so when you believe lies, you behave in a manner consistent with those lies.
If you believe that it's all about love, for example, without the truth of who Christ is and what he's done on the cross,
then you will believe that a Christian who judges, no, that's not true.
Hinduism is not true.
Islam is not true.
Oh, you're not loving, you're wrong.
Then their truth becomes condemning.
Their love becomes condemning.
They become very judgmental and condemning because the truth that you hold to doesn't agree with their truth.
Then relativism gets in.
But the funny thing is they're inconsistent because they'll say, you can have your truth, I can have my truth.
But if you have a truth that differs with mine, I'm going to condemn you.
And that's the hypocrisy and the inconsistency based on lies.
If you have real truth, these kind of problems don't occur.
Any more?
I have to finish a Mullenism first and then I'll get back into the NAR, New
Apostolic Reformation.
And then when I start studying, it's going to take me a long time to get through it.
So I won't probably be able to teach on it well for the rest of the year.
Sorry, but it's just, I got so much to do.
I mean, there's so much heresy and there's so many false things.
And plus I got to start, you know, this new thing of, not new, but annihilationism is making,
rearing its ugly head inside of Christianity as well.
So I'm having to study on that as well.
I kind of break up everything.
And then I got to work on the site and I got to work on articles and I got to make my own bed, wash my own clothes.
Man, it is rough.
I wash my clothes.
Yeah, you don't, huh?
I can tell.
Just turn them inside out.
And I do that, and I throw them in a pile.
When the pile moves, that's when I wash them.
I saw them move once, my pile moved.
I have a story.
Once, once I had, well, I'd live with my brother in a room.
This is, you can stay there.
It's a good story.
This is a good story.
And I had left something in the closet for months.
And basically what I'd left in there was some dirty, stinky socks that festered
in a moldy kind of cockroach -ridden, horrible environment in darkness.
And I was cleaning out the thing and it opened up, it was like this.
And these socks are just crusty and soaked at the same time.
And they'd been there for a long time, but they're horrible, horrifying.
And so my brother was there and we were sitting there cleaning up.
And he's bigger than me.
I'm the smallest in the family.
I'm 200 pounds, six feet tall.
I'm the small one.
And so my brother was sitting there and I go, I took the sock
and he was sitting down and I went up behind him and I went, I
put, it was like a gas mask.
He's like, and I can hear him gagging.
He's struggling and I'm holding on for dear life because as soon as he breaks free, of course I'm dead.
It'd break every bone in my body after he recovers.
And so I'm like, I'm holding on for life because if I'm going to die, except for lots of pain in the process, at least I'm going to
enjoy this.
And he, anyway, so I did this for like 30 seconds.
He finally broke free.
I took off and came back and he was still recovering after
10 minutes.
And I thought he was going to kill me.
He goes, man, that was rough.
You're not going to kill me?
He goes, no, I'm not up for it right now.
It was that bad.
So that's why I'm still alive.
You should have broken every bone in my body.
It was horrible.
And he rang me.
The next question is from Marat.
How can Mary hear all the prayers she gets?
I was told theosis by Peter D. Williams on May 15th in London, but there was no time.
How would man answer?
That's the question we ask.
How can Mary hear all our prayers simultaneously all over the world, but there was no time?
Both thought and spoken in different languages.
That's deity.
Well, and I've had Catholics say, well, you don't know what it means that Mary's like in heaven.
So wait a minute.
So she can hear all our prayers?
Simultaneously spoken and thought in different languages?
You believe that?
Yes, I do.
So, wow, she's a goddess.
No, she's not.
Well, God can do that.
Yeah, because he gave her the power.
You got, where'd you get that?
We know where you got that.
The book of second, whatever.
Say it again.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
And we got that.
They believe heresies.
They believe lies.
Next question.
The Wiccan likes me.
I'm a bigot?
Of course I'm a bigot.
Look up what bigot is.
Look up the definition of bigot.
I did that once to a guy.
You're a bigot.
What's it mean?
Well, what does it mean?
I don't know, but you're one.
Wait a minute, look it up.
And so I'm not gonna look it up.
You look it up.
It's a real conversation I had.
Okay, we looked up bigot.
And basically it means someone intolerant of another person's position.
Are you intolerant of my position?
And he wouldn't say anything.
So who's the bigot?
You're stupid.
Let's look up stupid.
So it was a great conversation.
I don't know what it means, but you're one.
Okay, thank you very much.
Look, if you're a Wiccan, you're lost.
You're on your way to hell.
It's not me name calling.
It's not me being mean.
It's me being truthful.
If we're at the house, if you're at my house, and there's a, you know, and I
pour some boiling water into a cup and you walk into the room and you don't know that this cup
is scalding hot.
Am I evil or mean for saying don't touch that?
It'll hurt you.
Of course not.
And yet your Wicca is like that boiling thing, the boiling fires of hell.
And if you get involved with it, it's gonna burn you in eternity.
If I warn you, you call me a bigot.
This is the intolerance of the left, the intolerance of the lost.
Jesus rose from the dead.
Your Wiccan people didn't do that.
Waldensian, Gardarian, whatever, didn't do that.
He claimed to be God in flesh, the creator.
He walked on water.
You better listen to what he said and not go after whatever it is you want, because this is what Wicca does.
A lot of people don't know this about Wicca.
What God or goddess do you want to serve?
That's the one you serve.
You can make up a God or goddess.
I've read it in the Wiccan books.
You can make up what you want and you can have rituals designed
to bolster your relationship with that, with the powers as you manipulate the
spiritual realm to get physical goodness.
I'm not going to harm anybody.
There's a Wiccan creed, I forgot how to pronounce it.
Do what you will, but harm no one or something like that.
Not trying to harm anybody, but Satan has them just where they want, just where he wants them.
Not trusting in Jesus, manipulation of the spiritual realm in order to gain with this
guise of, but don't harm anybody, so it makes it okay.
Exactly what Satan wants, so that you'll believe a lie, so that you'll face the one who died
on the cross for sins and rose from the dead.
You said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life, and nobody comes to the Father but by me.
You can reject Jesus, but you'll do so to your own peril.
And you go out in your forest and have your rituals, get naked or not get naked, or do crystals or not crystals,
whichever particular view you want to have.
And you can do whatever you want to manipulate science, to manipulate spirits, manipulate your realm, to try and get things and
blessings.
But all you're doing is being manipulated by the evil one and his demonic forces.
How do I know that?
Because the Bible reveals it to us.
I'd recommend if you were interested, and probably won't take me up on this, go to my website, or just go to
Amazon and look up the book, The Influence by Matt Slick, by me, The Influence.
And it talks about demonic forces.
It's a novel.
Demonic forces, angelic forces, deceiving people and things like that.
It's not about Wicca specifically, though in my second novel, a follow -up, there will be some of that in there,
talking about some Wiccan -type things in it, as it infiltrates the issue of our society.
And in this case, my novel, in the church as well, in this particular instance, at the
whole church.
So I know what it is.
I used to be involved in the occult.
A lot of Wiccans, they want to say, oh, I've seen this or I can do that.
Really?
I have seen, with my own eyes, a figure, a human figure materialize.
I've seen a cross materialize.
I've seen lights move around.
I've heard voices in darkness.
With witnesses, I've seen these things.
I've seen auras and other stuff.
I could tell you details.
I know.
I left it for the truth and personal work of Jesus.
No Wiccan is perfect.
All people have sinned, broken the law of God, and you'll be judged for it.
So you need to come to Christ.
But you reject him, and you'll reject him because your heart doesn't want him.
Your heart wants what it wants.
Your heart will reject him, a little bit of anger towards him, a little bit of resentment towards him, his
absoluteness, his superiority, his greatness.
And it greats you the wrong way, and you'll reject him.
For what?
Your subjective experience and desire for your own greatness.
That's what Wicca serves.
And people who want that are attracted to that kind of a thing.
And then they deceive themselves into thinking that what they want to do is good, and it's okay.
It's not.
Another one?
Huh?
Yeah, sometimes they put curses, they're not supposed to.
I warn the people in the occult not to try that on me, not that I'm inviting that.
But you got to understand, there's a spiritual realm out there.
And I can pray what's called an imprecatory psalm.
An imprecation is an inspired work from a psalmist recording
the prayers of asking God to deal with the wicked.
And he does.
And too many times, people in witchcraft,
I've been assaulted spiritually by people in witchcraft.
I know what it is.
I don't talk about my occult days very often, but I know what it is.
And God has his way of working things out.
I've even had no lie.
A Satanist helped me against other Satanists.
That's a true story, an interesting story, how it came about.
I won't get into that now.
Hey, it was nice.
Been real.
Don't levitate.
Trust in Christ and believe in him only.
God in flesh died on the cross, rose from the dead.
There's nothing you can do to earn your salvation.
Your salvation means to be saved from the righteous judgment of God.
You can't get away from God's holiness apart from the work of Christ.
His holiness requires judgment upon the sinner, the one who's breaking his law.
The only way to escape that is by what he himself has provided.
That's Jesus.
You gotta trust in Jesus.
Ask him to forgive you.
Ask him to reveal himself to you, and he will.
Amen.