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We're live. That's good. Okay back. Welcome back. Everybody. It was really exciting. We had a great time in between. You laughing about anything? I'm funny-looking. That's for sure when I used to work at the hospital registering patients in the ER, I would make him laugh and Tell him jokes and stuff like that.
You couldn't do it to everybody one time this guy I think I told a story here before this guy comes in and He's got cracked ribs. And so I could tell right away. He's pretty cool guy. So, you know, he's I'm typing away name.
And I said, okay. He's like, oh man, those stupid, you know, he's okay, but he's like He's kind of chuckling and I said something stupid. He kind of chuckled so I knew he's alright. So I said Okay. So and he's smiling he goes don't make me laugh.
I go. I Said so what happened? Okay, and he says well Changing a light bulb on a chair put my foot up on the chair and the chairs I fell down the side of the chair crack my ribs. It's like like this I go.
That's what you want me to put. And he starts Dude this is gonna be a permanent record and you want this on your permanent record that you fell off a chair. Changing a light bulb and he's going dude. You're making me laugh.
Don't make me laugh and I said I could put something better in there. He starts to laugh, you know, he goes. What you want to know I go shark attack. Shark attack in a living room ago. Yeah. Just give me the word.
No sweat, but right in there shark attack. I'm gonna you know get a mako in there make was a good sharks, you know I think he started to laugh and he goes to the chair. Okay, so I put the chair thing in there.
You know, and so he had to go in the back. So about 20 minutes later. I took a break. And what I'd often do because I have a way of calming people my voice is soothing. They tell me and so I go in there and hey, how are you doing?
And so I walk back in. I go back I had to code to get back in the ER right and I go back in there and this guy. He's in one of the beds, you know with the curtain halfway drawn and his wife is there and he goes.
That's the guy right there. I'm like. And she goes. Well, you make my husband laugh and I said yes. And he's laughing. She's trying not to laugh, you know, you know, he has cracked ribs. I go. Yeah. Hey another joke he's going.
So, you know just having fun. You know Theology. I make you laugh.
Really gets a skits going back, you know. You're like, but you know, you heard revenue articler haven't you? Okay. Okay, so this is a reverend the articler you want to hear all right. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, this is reverend the articler coming at you from the feelings tabernacle.
Today's message is from deuterectomy 1313. I Think I think I had to write out a verse for what do it every 1313. Then I have one about he says do not listen that do not miss that heretic match slick on the radio You know goes on anyway.
So we've got any questions from anybody out there a couple. That's it. Make them good. Don't bore me. Those are good tangelos, huh? Yeah. Are you gonna read them? Uh-huh. Okay. We've got a lot of people watching.
I wish they were here. It's always better. I was a plethora crowd.
Will you watch the debate on. We watch the debate on this Friday between James White and.
Inglesia. Nicristo. Oh, no way. I Didn't know. No, I didn't even know he's having a debate with anybody from a glacier Nicristo. Where's the debate gonna be held? I'm curious in America or in the Philippines.
Because it was in the Philippines I'd be worried about him if he's there because they'll beat him up. They're aggressive, but I didn't even know about it. So I don't know. Maybe I'll watch. I'd love to debate them.
I would. Oh, yeah.
Tulip doctrines of grace. Question. What is your take on Hank Hanegraaff converting to Greek Orthodox? Biblically, is there any hope for him when you turn away from the gospel?
Well, if you turn away from the gospel, there's no hope but that would be because they never were of us. I met Hank years ago, and I used to work not work, but I did some volunteer work at the Christian Research Institute Where Walter Martin was the founder?
I met Walter many times and I sat under him for studying at Melodyland which was across the street from Disneyland off of Harbor Boulevard and did that for years. Then when Walter Martin passed away Hank got in there and let's just say I Knew people inside of CRI and stuff and I'm not gonna give you the specifics.
But let's just say I Was not impressed. I was definitely not impressed with him and I'm not surprised and He's moved into heresy and to the Eastern Orthodox Church because he wants that feeling. I need to write an article on this and do a video on it the feelings that That kind of associated with it.
I'm gonna I need to write something on it, but bad news. It's I'm being very generic on purpose. But you know, he's apostate. Here's another question.
If God isn't in time and is timelessly eternal Then how could he change from one emotion to another? That's a good question.
Because what we're talking about here is Timelessly eternal. What does that mean? I don't know. How could he express emotions? Don't know. He just does it in the Bible as he tells us in that time frame reference to us.
So we have a strong disparity to be able to explain those things because we just don't know how God can do that. There are things in scriptures Which we don't understand and we can't provide answers for because God just doesn't give us the answer.
And that's just those kind of things are are the problems as I was talking about the issue of impassability and stuff like that with God. You had her questions Slow night tonight. What is with them? Yeah, that's all right, we don't have any questions we can end it so what.
Okay, you got a question good.
How do we I Guess the the by the world view and science the arguments against the Bible like the 6 ,000 years I know you don't know if you believe that's a literal 6 ,000 year old earth. But a lot of the you know evidence in the science today.
How do we go about talking to them about it scientists and people that disagree with the Bible per se.
You know, how do you deal with people who are scientifically minded in the Bible if you're gonna talk to Mormons. You guys study Mormonism you talk to Jehovah's Witnesses. You gotta study Jehovah's Witnesses Islam.
Yes, you know Muslim study Islam. So what you have to do is study this stuff. You've got to do that. You have to be able to speak to some degree some of the language that they understand. So for example, I would recommend That you get a book called icons of evolution and it's very critical of some of the evidences of evolution.
I've been going through it for the again and Be familiar with some of the terminology in there. I'd also get a books on intelligent design even though a lot of a Lot of Atheists and scientists say that intelligent design is no is not to be taken seriously.
I believe that it's knee-jerk reaction because intelligent design has a lot of good a lot of good things to offer and seriously, I've read books by Intelligent design authors. So how do you deal with all this stuff?
Well, you have to pay attention and Learn how to ask the right kind of questions. So, for example I Think I talked about this a few weeks ago there's a thing called homology in evolution and they use homology to try and establish common ancestry and So It's the right way.
So those you know a bat has five digits in its wing a human has five digits in his hand. The porpoise has five digits in his flipper. So what they'll say is if that's signs of a common ancestor. Because how do you know because it looks like it because each has five digits.
They'll say see that's exactly what you'd expect if they came from a common ancestor. Okay, that makes sense. Except you say you ask questions. Well. So you're saying to me then that it's a common ancestor because it Looks like it.
Yes, is that scientific. Just because something looks like it. That's not scientific. So they're leaving science in order to hold a philosophical position a faith position and They'll say they're actually keep committing a circular reasoning.
How do you know? It supports evolution because our theory says that's what you'd look for. Oh, so that's what you look for and you find it. So therefore it's true right that that validates itself which validates the theory which validates itself.
So you go into a circle. Plus there's a problem in that different genes that are not related know what they're going to often do is go to could I think it's cladistics and Genetic morphology and some other things they're going to go into areas and say well certain genes have certain Relationships and we can trace a history of certain genes By genetic analysis and we can see ancestral commonality.
Except that when you study that you find out that there are non related genes that produce homologous structures. Why. Well if they're non homologous genes produce related structures how do you know that the genes that you say are related to other things in a descent are Actually by descent.
It gets a little more complicated. I'm trying to exemplify even though I've been reading on this lately. It's a hard to articulate. So what I'm going to be doing what one of the plans I have is to read several books discussing evolutionary theories.
Geological stuff haven't got into yet very much and I'm going to condense into statements with quotes and Documentation some of the issues that are at hand so that give Christians more of what they need to be able to deal with these issues.
As far as the earth being 6 ,000 years old. I have no problem with the earth being 6 ,000 years old. I have no problem with it being a lot older than that. I don't in my personal opinion I'm not convinced that the Bible requires a literal 6 ,000 year period.
I have no problem with it being 6 ,000 or 8 ,000 or 10 ,000. I don't believe it's millions and millions and millions. I don't hold to that. And I certainly don't hold to the theory of evolution being true.
We have too many Problems with evolution. The Cambrian explosion cannot Work according to the present theory of evolution neo-darwinian ism. It just does not work. What that is the Cambrian explosion is about 530 million years ago.
For about anywhere from 5 to 40 million years range. That there were new file a new phyla formed a phyla is a body type of fish bird Insect Human horse, and so these are body types and something like close to 40 new body types formed quickly with what geologically speaking that's blink of an eye 5 to 40 million years and The genetic alteration is too great In that period of time to enable Roughly 40 new phyla types let alone one.
It's a it's a problem so the evolutionists came up with what's called punctuated equilibrium that there were super great sudden jumps. So the reason I'm talking like this is because this is the kind of stuff you got to talk about.
You're gonna talk like this. You have to get into stuff into clades. What's a clade? You know, what's DNA? What are proteins or 14 folds? What is RNA? What is information how does it form what's archaeopteryx.
What is? Irreducible complexity. You know all these things you got to learn. So it's tough to talk to them because a lot of times these guys will have learned specifics. Read some articles and they'll throw it out at a Christian.
You don't know what you're talking about. What do you do?
The counter argument you said to why you could hold to a six to say 10 ,000 elder. Did you say your arguments because Jesus made wine?
Because in John chapter 2 there were six water pots and John the Apostle actually drew a comparison between Genesis chapter 1 and John chapter 1 in the beginning the word light Salvation things like this and then there were six water pots and then six days of creation.
And what Jesus did was he created those water pots wine mature bang? I think that's a very strong evidence for six days being Short periods that where God created things very immaturity. What's why not do that in the universe?
Why not? No problem. Jesus did it right there wine wine takes time to ferment bang. It was ready. He Created a man. Yeah, that's right. So he can do things in completion and Maturity, so I have no problem at all Biblically with the earth being created in six days or even less or six seconds.
God could he's gone. Oh, there it is. I do believe that there are things of the scriptures written in such a way that those who do not have eyes to see will not. Science is is a philosophical approach to learning.
It's a philosophy. People understand that about science it is absolutely without a doubt of philosophy. Because it presupposes the uniformity of nature that all things are going to behave in a consistent manner.
They can't prove that they assume that they assume the laws of logic. You can't prove it without assuming them. These are philosophical endeavors that they impose upon the natural world and then they have what's called pragmatism.
Well, how do you know that the scientific method is true because it works doesn't mean it's true. They just know that it works and so they are able to obtain predictability, but predictability doesn't mean you've got something that's true.
So they're basically philosophical or pragmatists and they're naturalists. They presuppose Naturalism which ultimately self-refuting so the scientific method is A philosophical endeavor and when you really kind of expand out what's going on.
It's a health. It's a self-refuting system. But what they do is they don't think critically deeply Philosophically about these issues they stop and they say well We can predict that when you shoot a bullet because of resistance and terminal velocity when it falls and the rate of this and that We can predict exactly where it's gonna hit.
Why. Because they assume the uniformity of nature they assume that they can examine these things with the laws of logic. They can assume mathematics will be the same. They can assume certain things and so and so doing they don't realize they're being philosophically minded.
But what justifies our philosophy what justifies our philosophy is that it works? Their work because it works. That's what they assume. That's the right way. Why. Because it works, but that's fallacious.
So they're actually working on a fallacious system. Philosophically, but they don't care because it works, but that's a problem. It doesn't mean they got truth. It means you're discovering something works and when you do that and you exclude God then all you're doing is learning.
How does this work? And it's by definition then the scientific method excludes God's existence now. They'll say no it doesn't exclude God's existence. Functionally, yes, it does. Because you are saying how will the paper fall?
How will that rock fall? How will that bullet fall? How fast will it go? You don't need God for any of that. So it presupposes a worldview that doesn't have God but philosophically it necessitates God.
The uniformity of nature can only be properly defended philosophically if You assume a single being who's out there in the universe. Who made the universe and you can trust him in his regularity? And that's how you can know that all things are gonna work in the universe because God is beyond it and behind it.
That makes sense philosophically or the laws of logic which are transcendental abstractions which require mind. You need a universal transcendent mind for that. Well, these things presuppose God's existence.
So what the scientists are doing ultimately is putting blinders on themselves and saying I only want to see how it works. And because it's working and God's out there. Undergirding or underwriting everything that they do the table that they're doing their experiments on rests on The ground which God made and is held together by the word of his force and yet they're saying see there is no God.
Huh because we can't detect him. And so what they do is they get a microscope for example, and they're looking at a cell and say see God's not there. But they don't know what to look for. What do you look for when you find God and I've written an article on this on karma if you're to look for God.
What would you expect? What'd you expect if you look for him? You'd expect to find Uniformity the transcendental laws of logic transcendental laws of morality. You'd expect to find things like that. You'd also expect not to find him in merely a Petri dish under a microscope or in a telescope.
Because he would not be restricted to the physical laws. He's beyond them. But what they do is the arrogance of the scientists when they start saying things like no way. Because we can't see him therefore he's not existing because it's not pragmatist not pragmatic pragmatism leads to deception.
And I have ways of illustrating that with a tiger that jumps over the cliff and things like that. I just read an article a couple days ago. I Can't remember the Asian astrophysicist theoretical astrophysicist.
And I just read an article where he affirms God exists. He said most of these guys up in that level of Astrophysics and they look at the universe. He said most of them they believe God exists because if the universe is too well-designed.
See, they're not restricted to the Petri dish. So to speak in the microscope. They're looking at too many things that just cannot add up unless there is a universal being behind them and authoring them so.
Yeah, I like science. I really do. I wish I Was younger so I could go. See ya. I Wish I was younger so I could go get a science degree. I mean, I love science. I really do I want to get a degree in evolutionary biology.
I Would with a minor in geology. That'd be so much fun I'd be in class, um, excuse me back. I'll tell you a story. Oh I could I could do it. Let me tell you how you do this, I know the guy did this. I was in my cultural anthropology class.
I took two years at a community college cultural anthropology class and the woman teaching it was an obvious evolutionist. Obviously and so that's fine. Whatever and I can regurgitate answers for what she wants I can regurgitate them on the thing.
But what I decided to do Was to do a little bit of research on one of the hominid ancestors and I think it was Australopithecine. And so it's been a while like 30 years. So I Researched and found out that this particular hominid.
I forgot which one it was Was not a hominid human ancestor and that the evolutionists themselves were saying this wasn't part of one. So I had a documentation I'm not gonna do research on every one of them.
I had a documentation. This is no exaggeration. This is what happened. I'm in the class and And Every now and then I ask a semi tough question, but not you know, there's nothing problematic. And then she said evolution was true evolution was true evolution was true.
It's a fact. It's a fact. It's a fact and I'm not kidding. She actually brought up the exact hominid ancestor. I studied and had documentation right there. I mean, I was like, are you kidding me? And so Raised my hand.
And I was turning she goes. Yes. I said what you said, that's blah blah blah blah. I said the class is listening and I said According to dr. So-and-so the curator curator of the British Natural History Museum.
Blah blah blah, you know his degree is from here and he like he says about that. No, no, no. No, also here's a I did this like three or four quotes. I mean, how you gonna get around this stuff? Right just destroyed what she said.
Destroyed it. So she said after where she was done. What's he gonna do? She said They're all wrong. That's what she said so this is what happened so I go like this I go. I raised my hand. We had like 20 minutes in the class left before time to class to get over she wouldn't call on me.
So for 20 minutes, I had my hand up 20 minutes I kept shifting hands like this for 20 minutes. I was gonna ask her what she wouldn't give me the chance. So, why is it that you Know more than these guys.
I give the documentation and you just say they're wrong. You dismiss it. Why should I trust you? To be objective of what you teach. That's what's gonna ask her. Of course, that would be a very condemning question because she's stuck and I busted her.
And so I get my hand up and for 20 minutes the students occasionally would look at this jerk Just sitting in the chair 20 minutes, right? It's right. That's right. It's right. Just like that. It's so So this is what you do.
That's what I did. Okay, I said I said, okay I said so that the time would time to go so we got up she goes class dismissed. So I very slowly Closed everything so I was the last person walking out and I walked by her and I said I Said I'm looking forward to coming back to class I'm gonna keep coming back.
And she knew that I meant that she flunks me. I'm gonna take her class again and again and Again, and I'm gonna be there with the questions all the time. And I I would because I already had a reputation in that school of asking difficult questions and it wasn't malicious but I would ask questions and She did not like that.
I could tell in her body language and then a day later I saw her in the hallway and I walked by I just walked right towards her and she just Just did wanting to do with me. So I'm in class and I basically I told her without saying it if you flunk me out.
I'm back here for your class. I'm I'll be here. I'll be here. I got stories about stuff like that philosophy philosophy classes would happen.
So what do you think about Christians who believe you have to adhere to the literal six days?
If they believe you have to adhere to it, I'd say for what reason. For what purpose you have to adhere to it.
But they'll say you're not trusting in the sufficiency of the scriptures if you're if you don't adhere to it.
I'd say how do you know what I'm trusting in and show me where it has to be literal six 24-hour periods. You show me that scripture. I'll believe it, but you show me exactly where it is. That's it. They can have good arguments.
But you know, the seventh day though is is not 24-hour period. The seventh day we have first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh and the seventh. These are ordinal numbers. And then the seventh doesn't have the end.
So if the argument is that whenever it's with art ordinal numbers, it always means 24. Then why is it that doesn't apply in the seventh? That's it. That's my answer. That's my response. Maybe it is 24.
I had no problem, but you can't prove it from that argument. So stuff like that. Got more questions. But you know, whatever you want a six-day creation not seven. But if they want to refute it fine they can what they're gonna do is they'll quote geology.
They're gonna go through G. But how do you know how old certain things are? I'm not an expert in this. But how do you know that that how do you know how old the fossils are by the rock strata? How do you know what rock stratus age is by the fossils in them?
That's actually one of the ways they do this. They have found boots with human feet fossilized Trees that shoot their eight ten twelve different strata. I talked to it some evolutionists about that. They had a name for it.
And what they were saying it was was not really trees but come on, there are two but they'll dismiss data and if people are listening. If you're into evolution and all that stuff don't for a second think that these evolutionists and these scientists don't falsify Information so they do that's been proven and don't think for a second that they don't have their way of excluding contrary evidence because they do.
Just don't think that all of a sudden because you're a scientist that means that you get all the answers and your objective. Don't buy that for a second. You just find out what happens when someone casts doubt on the neil darwinian theory of evolution.
They lose their tenure. They lose their ability to To teach a lot of cases and they don't want to say anything because they've studied the evidence and they're not convinced of it. And they have PhDs and they're not allowed to say anything.
Yeah, don't don't be thinking you guys all have all the answers. You certainly don't Fossilized Footprints. There's a debate about that they'll say it's not and they'll say some different stuff about it.
But if I understand the rock strata can't be refuted. But at any rate.
Nicholas Davidson from Facebook asked what is energy and how does it relate to God?
Wow, I think one of the definitions of energy is the ability to perform work then you define what work is. How's it relate to God. God would be the source of energy? Christians harming themselves arming.
I Got two arms right here. What's wrong with that? No, I have no problem with Christians arming themselves. Jesus said in Luke 22 36 to the disciples. Do you have a sword? No, we don't we have two cloaks.
He said sell a cloak go buy a sword. Luke 2236 you have the right of self-defense. So I've taken kung fu. I've taken judo and I've taken Krav Maga so I've taken three forms of martial arts in order to defend myself and I have no problem with someone carrying a gun if they want to be responsible For the right of self-defense.
You don't have the obligation to you have the right to Remember Luke 26 Jesus said by a sword.
Bob Ritchie from YouTube. He is really stuck on the emotion of jealousy when way back when you began the Bible study. So he's jealous of my teaching. He's asked this question multiple times. I'm going to try to sum it up.
If God gets jealous then jealous of who Satan. Unbelievers, he can have anything he wants.
What would he be jealous for the jealousy that God expresses is his desire that we be faithful to him? And he's talking about jealousy in that sense of I want you to be faithful to me because this was best for you.
I'm jealous for you, and that's the context the kind of context that he talks about it's not an a jealousy as in. An envious jealousy like Cameron might have a nice World War two Jeep or something that I coveting.
Okay that I want to ride in sometime. I don't know if it's his or something. He invited me like so that would be. That's yours, dude. And now I find out oh, man, that's you should have let me know a lot of it sooner than that.
Well Wednesdays at the bad day. I got a study and everything else, but we'll figure it out. Okay letter question. Nice hat. We there's like no there's nobody here. Okay, we're gonna have to move this just just to the house or something.
Do it this way. Just go to Facebook and YouTube because that's where everybody is. Yeah, we could. I'm gonna gut one of my girls rooms in a couple of months when she goes to Japan and paint do all the stuff and make it so that.
You figure it out. She's been in my office. Dude you gotta come on over. Do you have an eater? Okay, we got to figure that out. We'll do a some party with pizza and a movie or something sometime if you do this Saturday.
Whatever you guys let me know. You got a baby. We had a deal with this past week, you know. You may know about it. I'm gonna ask you about it. Mike more from YouTube. This is a repeat.
He would still sometime like you to please address salvation in the Old Testament such as regeneration and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in.
I'm gonna say some 34, but I don't believe that's it or something to 51. I can't remember. No, 33 4 is not a joke. Anyway, do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Okay, can people be saved in the Old Testament?
Yes, they were saved in the same way. They are the new by faith. So you can go to Romans chapter 4 verse 3 and Abraham believed God and was credited to him as righteousness so he have trusted in God and he was justified by faith and Paul the Apostle quotes that in Romans 4 3 so The salvation was ultimately by faith.
Why the sacrifices. The sacrifices were necessary in order to Point ahead to the true sacrifice of Christ the high priest later on. The I think it's Hebrews 10 for man the blood of goats and bulls does not cleanse from sin.
I think that's the verse might not be and so we know that the Old Testament sacrifices were not able to cleanse us of our sin. So the only way to be truly justified is by faith. Mr. Law is a tutor that leads us to Christ.
Galatians 324 so the law and all the sacrificial stuff in it Simply shows us the insufficiency of those things to truly save us. Abraham was before any of that law was instituted and he was justified by faith.
So that's the demonstration there. Paul brilliantly brought that out now. Regeneration. What does regeneration mean if it means in doing of the Holy Spirit once you've been cleansed then they couldn't been regenerate.
Because if it means when they were cleansed by faith in Christ Then they couldn't been regenerate. If you mean regenerate is indwelt by the Lord God. Then they could have been regenerate because Oh Lord God could it indwell though?
But the Bible doesn't talk too much about that in the Old Testament. So I really can't get into any more specifics than to say those seem to be the possibilities. When David sinned he said don't take your Holy Spirit from me.
What does that mean? Does it mean the Holy Spirit was indwelling him and that prior to the covenant of Christ sacrifice on the cross? Doesn't mean that in that Old Testament context and covenant the Holy Spirit could be taken from a person you could lose your salvation.
Or does it mean the anointing that he might receive could be removed? We don't know what that means either. And so we really can't give a solid answer to that. There's a lot of speculation and some debate about it but as far as I understand the scripture nothing is definitive and Because I don't see things definitive in Scripture.
I can't say anything definitive in Scripture either. There were just but I can say they were justified by faith. Ultimately as they looked ahead to the cross we look back to the cross or justified the same way we are by faith.
They didn't have all the info that we do but they had faith in God and what he provided and that justified them.
Now they're rolling in. Okay. Man, some of these are Really deep. What are your thoughts about theosis?
Theosis becoming God and godlike depending on how it's defined in the Eastern Orthodox position. I don't agree with it. The Roman Catholic I don't agree with it. But what they generally mean is that there's an indwelling of us to such a degree that we're going to become divine.
Divinized that there's a divine quality added to us in our nature. I don't agree with that because our nature is fallen. Our nature is human. We cannot become godlike period. In a sense of being divine in our essence of nature, but then most people who hold a theosis don't hold of that either so.
Depending on how it would be defined by which particular group then we could tackle The nuances of it, but generically speaking. No, we're not going to become divine. Okay in any way shape or form we'd be indwelt by the divine and our nature is still going to be human and that's it.
Samuel my read from Facebook says hi Samuel from Jamaica. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute. Is that the guy from the taxi on the side of the street or somebody else?
Acted like he knew you or the seventh-day Adventist guy.
Jamaica because my wife and her walking down a street in Jamaica and this guy was passing I had literature and I immediately started to talk with him and He was thrilled thrilled that somebody knew the Bible I could talk to him and He just loved it because he nobody knows this stuff.
Nobody talks. I go. I can't believe I met somebody, you know, he was ecstatic. I don't know if that's the same guy or not.
His question is Nothing was promised to us but salvation. So should we still pray for things. Pray for what?
Of course we should because God tells us to. Pray for patience. Yeah, careful. Pray for the salvation of others. Pray for the deliverance of others. God ordains the means as well as the ends. Obviously we should be praying for everything if we're only supposed to pray about the issue of salvation.
Why even pray for that is guaranteed. Basically would be don't pray at all. Pray for the will of God. Jesus prayed In Luke 22 42 not my will what your will be done. He didn't want to go through the crucifixion, but he prayed that the will of God would be accomplished.
Even though he was God.
Can you still hear me sitting down? Yeah, you're fine. All right, can you hear you. Candles what. I'm trying to go in the right order that they're coming in from Facebook and from YouTube. So again, just.
Okay, just whatever. Okay, right people like this. He's firing questions. Yeah. Do it. What is it when a series. Jamaica, okay.
Joshua Says, can you explain Genesis 30 37 through 43. Wow? I don't know if I can. Because it's a lot.
Come on okay. Genesis 30 37. And Jacob took Oh fresh rods of poplar and almond flame trees and peeled white strips and them exposing the white which was in the rods to the rods of the peeled in front and.
The flocks came the drink When they were mating. I don't know. Different theories have been offered. I get my dry throat here. Different theories are all have been offered. One. It could just be a miracle that God had caused that to be.
Others have said that maybe there's something to do with the way the rods were arranged and there was some seeing issue with the the Habits and the abilities of those goats and those things at that time.
Different theories have been offered and I just don't know. But I do. I think I've written on it. That's been a long time. So and I could read some commentary. And those things could mean something too, but that's been a.
That's a good question. It's been a long time since I've looked at that one.
Okay Ryan Vulcan from Facebook. What do you think of the regulative principle? Should the methods mentioned in Scripture be normative for the church or if it's not prohibitive then it would be allowed.
Regular principle is the principle of how do we properly worship before God? There's a Lutheran regular principle and the reformed regular principle. The Lutheran regular principle says you can do anything unless the scriptures Prohibit it the reform says you must do what the scriptures tell you to do.
So I Was just reading the other night the reformed position if it says that Then we are obligated to worship the Lord with ten-stringed leers. Because I just read a couple nights ago Worship the Lord with a ten-stringed leer so if we're to take it for what it says, then we should have a ten-string leer in church and if that's the case we should also have symbols and we should should be dancing and we should be raising our hands and We should be shouting it's all 100 and we should be using horns.
Chauffeurs. So if the. Then then the question becomes how literal do you take each one of those positions? So does a ten-stringed instrument mean no guitars because it's only six strings. I Think what generally the principle is.
You stringed instruments horned instruments drums cymbals and things like that and raise your hands and shout and and Just be joyous to the Lord and guess generally what's going on. And I think there's piped or there's pipes also the flute so then you can use a flute.
You can use organs and things like that and piano is a stringed instrument so you can use pianos, but no amplification. But wait a minute a chauffeur amplifies the sound so, you know, how far you could take this stuff.
The Lutheran says you can do basically anything you want so can we have bikini clad girls in the worship service as an example. I've actually heard an emerging church where they actually got nubile females Who were in very tight small bikinis and went up and did worship that way.
Obviously not a good idea. I wouldn't be looking or thinking about the worship. All right. So That's where the regular principle of the reform one would guard against something like that with the Lutheran one would probably Could be twisted to say that it could allow that but of course they would say no that caused lust and caused problems and we're Not to do that, obviously.
So it's a tough thing. I prefer the freedom of being able to worship which in a way you want to where there's hymns or praise songs and Some people say praise songs are not biblical. Yes, they are. Because we're I forgot the verse New Testament worship each speak to each other and hymns songs.
No hymns psalms and spiritual songs. So being a what. Polemic addition. Yeah. The polemic has to the fighting and war and stuff like that and an aggressive kind of a commentary or whatever a defense. For what for a Near Eastern text?
Not sure what they mean by that I'm just gonna say this Adam was the first man created and. So there weren't any people before him. I don't care what Anybody else says or Shepherds Chapel says There weren't any people before Adam.
He's the first and the first man. Adam became a life-giving soul first couldn't 15 45 or 50 40 to 50 range talked about the first man. Find that verse. Go ahead next.
What is the place for science in a little bit, you know, what is the place for science in hermeneutics?
What's the place for science in hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is a proper understanding of Scripture and how to exegete what the scriptures say. Science is relegated to understanding understanding patterns in the revelation of nature so Hermeneutics should govern science not science governing hermeneutics.
So the Bible tells us that for example in Romans chapter 1 verses 18 through roughly 20 21. That's the invisible attributes of God are made known in creation. So then we would have the Bible shedding light on creation on the material world.
Incidentally, a lot of people don't know this but that's how science got started was by Christians who understood that God was behind things and we could discover his wisdom and Secrets that he had embedded in creation because they then knew they could trust God to be regular.
Because science so to speak size at that point was not Christian based Science believe it or not. A lot of people don't know this and the scientists arrogance of the atheists in particular Science this science that well the science.
That was without the Christian worldview taught things like like a spontaneous generation that life comes from non-life and things like that and So it was a Christians who said no. Let's look for regularity because God is there so they could trust their experiments to find things out.
That's how true science got started. So science does not Illuminate scripture scripture and illumine science. That's how it's supposed to be. No hermeneutics it has to do with literature but a scientific method has to do with just observing natural a natural realm.
Do a hermeneutic lesson sometime to.
Revivals sweeping through Orange County.
With guys like Greg Groschel and Levi Lusky. Or Sunnybrook, California Orange County, California, I haven't heard. Get puts on the big thing in Angel Stadium every year. I haven't heard anything about that at all if anybody's got information like to see but I'd be suspicious of it because I used to live in Orange County for many years and Certainly God can do a revival and we need it and that would be a good place to start one in Orange County but I Have my reasons for going.
Okay, let's check it out.
Can't remember what it's called. Hmm, you know. Daniel Lundy from Facebook asks, do you think that it's possible that there was a judgment on the earth before Creation after Genesis 1 verse 2 called gap theory.
No, I.
Don't think it's possible. Because the Bible doesn't say so. But then what they'll do is they'll say the people who support that will say And the earth was formless and void and God's is a way it's worded that implies they say implies a reforming.
What? But nothing in Scripture that I'm aware of tells us that I've read the arguments years ago. Formless and void darkness was over. It was formless and void. You know the gap theory between Genesis 1 and 2 that some say that Between there.
That's when the fall of Satan occurred and therefore Creation was affected and there was a judgment that fell then and then they had to remake things. Some say that's where the dinosaurs were. It gets them all kinds of theories.
I just don't know but I don't believe in it. I've read the arguments. I'm just not convinced. It's my opinion.
Michael Williams from Facebook asks was the main purpose of the flood to wipe the Nephilim off the face of the earth. If so, why did God allow them to be around after the flood? Could the Nephilim still be around today?
Whoo. I love that question. Yeah, they could be still be around because Jesus says in Matthew 24 Luke 17 as the days was the days of Noah So shall it be the days of the coming of the Son of Man. So if you look at the Nephilim as bringing the half-breed between angels fallen angels and women If more women were after the flood the angels are still around.
Hey, let's try it again. And so why not? I mean, that's a theoretical possibility that could still be Going on and some a lot of people still believe that is the case and then that gets into some interesting ramifications about all kinds of stuff but could it be that that's the case that Fallen angels are still interbreeding with women and doing stuff.
Maybe. You know, we had the Anunnaki which the reptilian aliens are interbreeding with Nazis and underground cities. And then when they get enough population, they're gonna take over the earth. That is an awesome theory.
That is so good. It's like I want to get a t-shirt. I want to believe in the Anunnaki. It's such a good theory that he's just how do you not want to believe something like that, you know. It's just like come on reptilian aliens Breeding interbreeding with Nazis in underground cities.
Yeah, it's like V. That's right I.
Can make any sense in Oregon. Yeah, that's right. Sheila Danucci from Facebook asks, I'm looking at the personhood of the Holy Spirit and I was wondering if the Old Testament Saints could be involved.
That's the question we were talking about earlier. It seems that that is the case. But I don't know of anything specifically that says that the Holy Spirit indwells a saint. In the Old Testament it might be there I just I just not aware of it.
We know that David said don't take your Holy Spirit from me. We're talking about that earlier. Doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit was indwelling people don't be taking or was it an anointing? Don't don't take the Holy Spirit from me in that sense.
Don't know it's.
My spirit is also God. Then how did he change in the new covenant as it relates to the new covenant?
He didn't change ontologically with a new covenant. The Covenant has ratification. This is one of the studies I've wanted to get into just don't have a time. It'd be a very detailed and a very laborious covenant Examination what are the stipulations the Old Testament Covenant and that would I believe would be a 10 to 20 year study and I'm not joking because they're so involved I'm sure that there are guys who have studied that women to we studied that but any rate.
How does it relate to the changing of the Covenant Hebrews 8 Hebrews 9? I Don't know. It's just not an easy question. It's a great question, but it's not an easy question to answer. But it would seem that With the offering of the atonement that all who had by faith trust in that atonement would then be ceremonially Cleansed by the sacrifice of Christ and then Actually, I should say actually cleansed and then it would make sense to say that it's Holy Spirit couldn't dwell you then Why some people say that the Holy Spirit couldn't indwell you in the Old Testament?
The same way in the New Testament because the blood of Christ had not been offered so that you couldn't be considered cleansed By the blood of Christ since the blood of bulls and goats doesn't cleanse us of sins.
I think that's Hebrews 10 for again I gotta remember which one that is. Keep quoting. I want to quote it wrong. So anyway, I hope that helps. I mean look good questions. Those are very good questions, and then they don't have good answers.
Who are your top three pre suppositional lists. Jesus Paul John. He asks also, what are your thoughts about the lesser form of Eastern Orthodoxy and 2nd Peter 1 for Theosis in Eastern Orthodoxy. Second.
Peter. So that guy's an Eastern Orthodox person for by these he has granted to us the precious and magnificent Promises so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
The lesser idea of theosis depends on what they define it as as is always the case you don't define your terms. How do we know what you're talking about? So if I make a suggestion for the people there if you have a Specific definition you want to work with then she can read the definition and then we can talk about it.
Lesser theosis. Well, what does that mean? Well, you know, it's a pretty standard verse, you know by the partakers of the divine nature second Peter 1 for. What does that mean? What does it mean to be a partaker of the divine nature?
Well, I'm a partaker to divine nature in his indwelling. But does it mean I'm divine? No, so what does it mean? Partakers of the divine nature. That's one of the things we got to deal with and so we just don't know children.
Gosh, look at these guys over here just haven't just. Wait for your giggle.
Yes. Kevin Parker from Facebook asks, what was the significance of Scripture pointing out? How John beat Peter in a race to the tomb. Did John feel more loved than Peter do you think?
What's the significance why they would do that? Probably just historical fact and maybe it's an attack on the papacy. I don't know and. But John is also called the disciple that Jesus loved even though there's no proof of that, but that's pretty much everybody agrees.
That's where it was. And maybe the true love motivated him to be quicker or Maybe just a faster runner.
Okay Daniel Hamilton. In the Old Testament a king is mentioned with lions around his throne and I'm confused if there are 12 or 13 Lions around his throne and did they have any symbolic meaning lions?
I don't know. I have to see the context. 12 was a number of governmental perfection. 13 is a number of sin. Lions are generally seen as being something of great power and force. Jesus is called a lion of the tribe of Judah.
So if a king's gonna have 12 lions around him, it would be symbolic of his great power and authority. If a king has 13 lions One of the things that I would be concerned about is is he a false king because 13 is a number of sin.
What do you mean by that? But when you take the Hebrew letters and the Greek letters, which are also numbers and you add them up add words up. You get a gematria like for the word fish. The value is 1224 what that means is that It's not in you know FISH we have English.
We also have one two, three four, but in Greek the letters are also numbers. So whatever you write a word, you're also writing numbers. So the word ikthus in Greek is 1224 that's the all the letters which are numbers added up.
That's the value it turns out that when a pericope is Discussing Satan a pericope is a section of Scripture that It could be a lot longer short but the section of Scripture discussing Satan. That when you add up all the letters of all the words in the pericope, they're divisible by 13.
I haven't verified that 13 seems to be the number of sin and The 14th of Nisan. I've gone over this before do one more time. So we have a Clock. Yeah, I know and so here is sundown here at 6 Roughly p .m.
So this is midnight. So from here, this is the 14th of Nisan for the Jews but for the Egyptians it was the 13th. So it changed here so it's a 13 it's the 13th for both. Until sundown for the Jew and it was a 14th, but on the Egyptian calendar it was So the 13th and this is the day.
This is the time the 14th of Nisan. It's when the angel of death came over in Egypt and so that was Friday the 13th of some say so for the Egyptians bad day for him 13 number of judgment. So that's why I would say I just wonder 13 lions.
Does that mean a false ruler? Don't know just check could it be a textual variation? I don't know check.
We only have one last question, but it was also from the first guy who asked what energy was and he's getting into some pretty deep. Thinking okay. Just have him Contact you. But we had someone just walk into the YouTube page.
Brian Stevens is seemingly confused possibly atheist or a believer he has. He wants evidence. The Bible is The Word of God, how do we know. Jesus is the Word of God? How do we know?
You want to know this in the Bible's Word of God. Read it. Read it. Here's how it's gonna work. It's a spiritual book. If God's gonna give you the mind to see eyes to see ears to hear you'll recognize it.
Otherwise you won't. If you want evidence you want to scale. What do you want on prophecies? You want textual reliability? Then it becomes subject to your preferences your subjective idea of what you want to be sufficient evidence.
The Word of God is powerful and it's meant to be understood by the elect those chosen by God for salvation. Read it the Talia a Lot of it's gonna be confusing because a lot of us just history. But a lot of it has great truth.
Just read the Gospel of John for example. Read the book of Galatians, they're short. You see what you think? If it speaks to you great the evidence. This is subjective. The evidence is that internal witness of the Holy Spirit that bears witness of the truth of who Christ is because the Holy Spirit according to John 14 26 15 26 bears witness of who Jesus is and the truth.
And If you're not meant to hear it you won't. That's what it is. The evidence is it itself? The Bible is its own evidence. What's up? He's ready. Good no more questions. Was energy. I gave a basic things one of the definitions I said is the ability to do work.
Okay, so you could also say an energy. I think one of the definitions is a difference in a Difference in the momentum of things between states of every get all these technical stuff of what energy is.
You know, I'm a theologian a scientist even though I want to be a scientist proud of energy like energy. Right, right. Right, but I understand that when you have an electron and an energy is added to the electron.
Then it goes to a higher higher valence orbit and when it's reduced back down to photons emitted. That's what I understand, but I don't know if that's true or not for a long time.
LEDs are going straight to that instead of where with the light we heat it up to force that action. Right is using a different thing to force the light out. That's the way we have less heat with an LED.
There you go, I've also heard rumors that if you take a Set of plates of a certain material which I don't know the material a few angstroms apart Which I don't know the distance and then you send photons into that gap that what happens is a field is produced and the field tends to negate to some degree momentum Which could have effect on gravity and force?
Ideas is that but it looks kind of like a funny disc and they shoot lasers into it and that shoots it up in the air. Which is light. Mm-hmm.
Laser light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation. Yeah, I like lasers. When I preached at a church a couple weeks ago, I've used laser on the overhead. I said these things are great and they're also good for pointing at planes.
At the airport, you know people laughed I. People are. You know, they can do that. I like to have it sometime where it'd be kind of fun to have a set up on the screen and just go and Interact with the people that do stuff and just do a an interaction thing.
People that can say stuff and I'll just go, huh? Yeah, except different because Sunday nights we have someone who moderates takes one person comes in. I have a long discussion. I think it'd be good. Just the text comes in.
I read the text, you know, these mad dog, you know read that. And that's that's that. You know, I just go. I think that'd be kind of fun. Alright, see ya.