MSL: April 5, 2024

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Cremation and the Christian View of Suicide

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All right. Let's just get to Tricia from Virginia. Tricia, welcome. You're on the air. Can you hear me okay?

Yes, I can. Yes, I can. I can hear you fine. What do you got? So, I am a Christian, and I wanted to get your take on cremation. Yeah. Cremation.

It's not a problem at all. People can get cremated if they want to get cremated. That's okay. The Lord is not going to be restricted by or surprised by an issue of us getting cremated. It's not a problem.

Okay? All right. I didn't know if there was anything actually in the Bible. I did not think there was. That said, no, you should not. No.

People die in fires. They die in different ways, and God is certainly able to reconstruct the molecules, do whatever you want to call it, however you want to say it, that God can do in order to bring about what he desires.

So, it's not an issue. All right? Cremation is certainly within the biblical realm, and it's not sinful. Nothing in the Bible says we should not get cremated at all. Okay? May I ask one other question?

Sure. Yeah, please do. And your take on, I guess, suicide. You know, I guess I feel, you know, the Bible always says, you know, thou shalt not kill, but when then someone takes their own life. So, kind of, is your take on that?

Yeah. Actually, it's thou shalt not murder, and that's different than killing. All murder is killing, but not all killing is murder. So, it's just an unfortunate thing that a lot of times people will come to, you know, they will just say that, you know, it just means you can't do this, you can't do that, and that's not exactly correct.

So, anyway, suicide. Generally speaking, when someone commits suicide, they are not in their right mind, generally speaking. I'm not making an excuse for this, but let's just say that someone is in a great deal of pain, and they are struggling left and right.

They are just struggling constantly in order to be able to just endure the pain. And then the strain on the body causes them to get to the point where they commit suicide. Well, is God going to condemn them to hell for that?

Well, of course not. Now, when it says, you know, thou shalt not murder, that's the unlawful taking of life. Now, if someone says suicide is illegal, well, then we've got an issue here. But I don't believe that we lose our salvation because of suicide.

I believe we can lose a lot of reward and the like, but it's not an automatic, you know, gate to damnation. Okay?

I got it. All right. Thank you for the clarification. Sure. No problem at all. God bless.

All right. God bless you. Okay. You too. All right. Hey, folks, if you want to give me a call, all I have to do is dial 877 -207 -2276. Let's get to Christopher from Raleigh, North Carolina. Christopher, welcome.

You're on the air. Hey, Matt.

Thanks for taking my call. Sure. No problem. So my question is regarding whether we, well, it's kind of like a two-fold question. First, is tithing taught and committed in the New Testament? And with that, is it a part of the law?

Tithing is part of the law, most definitely, and we are no longer under the law. Now, what I tell people is about tithing is that we're not obligated to do that. We don't have to do that. We're free to do it.

And so if you want to tithe, then tithe. If you don't want to, then don't. But here's something to look at. This is 1 Timothy 5 .17. Let me get to it. And it says, the elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

For the scripture says, you shall not muzzle the ox while he's threshing. And that is used of making money. And so, I heard one comment or read one commentator that said it's possible to say that the elders are worth more money than the average person because of this.

They said, if it's talking about money, double honor. And it's just a thought. I'm not saying it is the case. But the idea, don't muzzle the ox while he's threshing. He's able to make a living out of what it is he's doing.

In order to do that, he has to eat and he's got to support his family. So where does he get the money for that? Well, by the tithes and offerings that the Christians give. So it's not unbiblical to do that.

And that's how, generally, that's how pastors survive. In fact, in this ministry, in this ministry, it's how we live. This ministry, I've been at it for 28 years, the website, and I've been full time in it probably 19 years.

And so we are supported by people's generosity. That's it. And we support missionaries. And I do this full time. And so I'm enabled to do a great deal of work that other people can't do because of this.

And so people, in their gracious attitude, support me in this ministry, actually. It's cool. I'm grateful, too.

Yeah, well, yeah, the reason I'm asking is because I agree with everything you just said. I, you know, a lot of churches teach Malachi 3. If you if you tithe 10%, you know, or more, whatever, God will bless you.

If you don't, he'll curse you. But it's like so out of context. Yes. What they're even what he's even talking about. And one reason it's so heavy on my heart. You know, my I just got married and trying to work through like because my wife is like, oh, well, I'm going to do tithing 10 because the Bible says like, what do you what do you mean?

I'm being obedient. I'm like to to what? Well, what the Bible says is like, OK, well, that's what the law says. So are you you know, and I was like, I don't have a problem. You would do 10%. Cool. But don't attach it to what Malachi says, because it's out of context.

And two, if you're saying that God is going to curse you because you don't give him money, is this the God that saved us? Did he save us to pay tithe? Because every time I hear this, I that's what I think.

I think so. Jesus saved us so we can give him 10%. If not, he's going to punish us. That's what I'm hearing from people. Right. And and it's bad.

So here's a there's a couple of things. One, you're married, newly married. You are the spiritual leader of the family and she needs to be in submission to that leadership. Whether she likes it or you like it or don't is irrelevant.

This is what you're commanded to be and do. The woman's job is to be a helpmate for the man. Your job is to spiritually lead. I'd be glad to teach on this to a seminar on this. But that's what the scriptures teach.

It doesn't mean that she just blindly obeys everything you say and do. That's not what's going on. But you're the one who's like the captain of the ship. You do this. You lead biblically, prayerfully, lovingly, patiently and kindly.

But you lead and you're the one responsible. So you're the one who has rightly divided the word of God in this context. And you need to inform your wife and teacher biblically and lovingly and patiently what the scriptures actually teach.

Now, something to think about is this, that the tithing is an Old Testament requirement under the law. But we have died with Christ. Romans six, six, Romans six, eight. And if we've died with Christ, we're no longer under the law.

Galatians, I mean, excuse me, Romans seven, four to just read Romans six and seven. You'll see all this that we've died. We're no longer under the law. Well, then we're not obligated to tithe. And what I tell people is you're free to tithe.

You're free. Tithe 12 percent, 100 percent, 50 percent, 1 percent. Do what you have to do. If I were a pastor of a church again and the tithing issue came up, I would say, look, you do what you was before you and God.

I'm not trying to guilt with you. You know that the pastor needs money to live on. And if there's not enough coming in for the congregation, you know, I would say I'd have to get a job and just do this part time.

And that's fine. There's no complaint. It's not a threat. That's OK. Many pastors are like that. And that's perfectly fine. Paul was that he was a tent maker. And so he was able to do other things to provide.

And that's OK. So the thing is, we're free to tithe. We're free to give. We're free to give more. We're free to give less. And I just say, do it. What you think is right before God, you and your wife, you discuss it and you come to an agreement and whatever.

And you go that way. Now, here's another thing. Think about this. Is she saying or is someone in this camp saying, if I do this spiritual thing, I am guaranteed a spiritual result? Yeah, that's what that's what witchcraft is.

Yeah. Witchcraft is you do a formula and it affects a spiritual realm and you're guaranteed a spiritual result. We've got to be careful that we are not saying I will tithe and I know God will do this in response.

He owes me. Now, some people will do what's called a congruent or condign merit. It's a thing out of Catholicism, but it applies here. Even though Catholicism is apostate. Condign merit is that God will obligate himself to bless you, but he's not obligated to do it.

He doesn't do it because you owe it or he owes it to you, but because he freely blesses you in your work. Well, that's OK. I get it. But it's called a condign kind of effort. And I can see that. So if you tithe, you know, I would expect God to bless you.

But I'd also expect that maybe he won't. Maybe he won't. Maybe that's just the way it needs to be for a while. And maybe if you tithe, you find yourself short on some bills. And he might be testing you.

It might be that you shouldn't tithe at the moment. Because I'll tell you, my wife and I, when we were newly married and had kids, literally, the car ministry was just starting off. And we got to check for $15.

$15. We had to decide how much food, diapers and gasoline to get out of the $15. And that happened more than once. Many, many times. And we didn't have enough to tithe. So we didn't at that time because we just didn't have it.

We were busy trying to feed our family, keep diapers on the kids and pay the rent, which was being raised. And so I don't believe that God was upset. And, you know, he's blessed us greatly. But, you see, we're free, not under the law.

That's the whole thing. OK?

Yeah. And real quick, just a couple things. I did mention that to her. It's like, hey, we're free under the law. You know, we're no longer in law. But what scripture? You said Romans 6 and 7. What other verses or chapters would you recommend to look at?

Because it is in the law. And there's some other resources that I have for her to look at. But as far as scripture goes, is there any other scriptures that or chapters or anything that you can recommend?

Well, I have an article.

Are we obligated to tithe? And you go to CARM and you can look it up. Are we obligated to tithe? The answer is no.

OK. We're free. I try to look for. OK, so I could just type in obligated to tithe and it'll pop up. In CARM, the search engine. Yep. OK. OK. All right. Great. Thanks, Matt.

I appreciate it. All right. God bless. OK. Hey, folks, we have wide open lines. 877 -207 -2276. Be right back.

The Law, Grace, and Christian Giving

It's Matt Slick live. Taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick.

All right, everybody. Welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, all you have to do is dial 877 -207 -2276. And we have nobody waiting on the line. And by the way, I was in a debate last night.

I talked about it yesterday. And I don't know how many people watched it. It was on total depravity. And if you did, if you have any comments or questions or follow-up you'd like to talk about on that debate, all I have to do is give me a call.

And we could talk. 877, that's toll free. 207 -2276. 208. I mean, not 208. 877 -207 -2276. You can give me a call. And we can talk. I would be interested to see what people thought about our little debate last night.

In fact, next week, I'm supposed to debate somebody on the deity of Christ. Does the Bible teach that Jesus is divine? And the answer, of course, is yes. It's also a topic I'm very familiar with. So I should be able to, well, hopefully, represent the truth of who Christ is and discuss relevant issues and some stuff with the opponent.

So if he says the Bible's corrupted, the debate is not about if the Bible's corrupted. Does the Bible teach what the Bible is? Does it teach it? That's the question. So we'll see how well he does if he sticks to the scripture.

All right. Let's get to Tony. We'll get a Tony from NDE. Hey, Tony, welcome. You're on the air.

Hey. Thanks for taking my call. I hope you can hear me. If you can, I'll call back another time. Yeah, I hear you. I called in a couple of weeks ago. This truck makes a lot of noise. I apologize. It's all right.

If you can hear me okay, I'll keep talking. If not, I'll call back. I hear you fine. I hear you fine. Go ahead. It's not a problem. Yeah, I called a couple of weeks ago. You had a caller yesterday talking about near-death experiences.

I had mentioned my name, and I was hoping, you know, with the form you have, that I could get to some people all over the country that would, you know, read my story and understand that, you know. Well, here's what we bring.

I don't know.

Here's the thing. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you teach. So we can't just say, hey, go for it. We have to vet you first. So if you could send your information to info and karm .org, you know, you say, hey, well, yeah, maybe.

Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I was just. Yeah. I was just hoping, you know, maybe you could. But anyway, you know, we talked about I was dead and was dead for close to six minutes. I was just at the cardiologist yesterday.

You know, we talked about, you asked me if I saw anything. No, I didn't see anything. And I can honestly say that, you know, Jesus brought me back. There was an atheist there that day. And the whole the whole department of cardiology is Christian.

And so anyway, she was they've been working on her, trying to, you know, get her to understand. And she wouldn't. So, you know, I feel like my death was, you know, for her, maybe. But I don't know. I think it was left here, you know, to witness things like that.

And I know I was laying there being examined by him yesterday. And he's a good Christian man. And he goes, you know, Jesus brought you back and said we were just here to witness it. And I said, well, Doc, this is how dead was.

He looked at me. He said, you were dead. That was his very, very word. So all right. Well, that's just, you know, I'll send the information to you and I'll send you the link. And if you want to take time, you know, I understand you don't have time, but if you do sometimes take a look at it.

It's a good story. They called me a few weeks after I got out of the hospital and they asked me if I would do the story. And I said, sure, I'll do the story.

Well, I appreciate that. But there are lots of cases of people who've been down on the table, you know, for a period of time. And that's great. We're really interested in is if they've seen anything and if they just died and came back or revived.

Well, not to say that's not significant, but, you know, that that's that's interesting. And I'm glad that you're back and serving the Lord. And so what we're curious about is to encounter people who this is what I saw.

This is what happened, et cetera, but doesn't seem to follow a follow with you. So I don't know how relevant it would really all be. I mean, I try to be dismissive of your experience and you're in D .E., but that's where we focus basically.

OK.

Yeah. I just, you know, like I said, I think, you know, we need to give on this call. I want to give Jesus the credit for all that he does and everything he does. There's always a purpose in something.

And one other thing before I'll get off, but I think I heard you say that you believe that the tribulation and the second coming was the same time. Yes.

Is that correct? Well, the tribulation is a period of time, and so the second coming is at the end of the tribulation. Yeah.

OK. Yeah. I don't I don't believe that. I want to debate with you on that, but I got to get my homework done, look at all the scriptures yesterday. I'll get it all together and give you a call back out of this noisy truck.

We're going to wait on that one, because I think it's two, yeah, I think it's two separate times.

You know, the tribulation is a different thing than the return. The return happens at the end of the tribulation. That's all. OK.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll just say that. OK. I believe that, you know, the rapture and then I think then the second coming. But anyway, when I get my ducks in a row, I'll call you back and we'll debate on it. All right.

Sounds good. All right. Well, thanks a lot. All right, Tony.

All right. God bless you. All right. Bye bye. OK. All right. Let's see. Now let's get to Jeff from South South South Carolina. Hey, Jeff. Welcome. You're on the air. Yeah. How are you?

Oh, hanging in there. Hanging in there, man. What do you got, buddy? Oh, I was on social media the other day and looking at these reels or whatever, and kept popping up this I .U .I .C., Israel United in Christ, and these guys dressed in these purple outfits like uniforms and they were in the cities and they were had megathons and they're shouting this stuff like Jesus was black and all this stuff.

And I didn't know if you had ever heard of it.

Israel is a black Hebrew, Israelite or Israelite movement, and they're usually racist, that.

The blacks are the ones who are very racist the way they were talking, you know?

Yeah. It's the the the blacks are the true Jews. And Jesus was black. And I don't care if he was or wasn't. I don't believe he was. But it's a racist, very racist kind of thing. So I've talked to a lot of people on B .H .I., you know, black, Hebrew, Israelite, but they don't like being called black, Hebrew, Israelite, because they're expanding, just calling themselves Hebrew Israelites.

And underneath there, there's a lot of subgroups, subdivisions, like two or three hundred of them right now. And so they're adopting also and including people who are of Hispanic descent because they're not white.

So that's OK. Right. It's a very, very racist group needs to be avoided. It's cultic.

OK. I know because I mean, I guess it's been around a while, but that's the first time I ever noticed. I was like, what in the world? That's crazy.

And then we got a break, man. Hold on. Got a break. OK, so I'll be right back. Folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned.

It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick. Everybody, welcome back to the show. Let's get back on with Jeff.

Are you still there? Yes. All right. All right. So, yeah, it's a it's a non-Christian cult and should be avoided. It's very racist. And salvation. So keeping the commandments, observing laws. White people are basically evil.

Stuff like that. It's racist.

Non-Christian cult. Yeah, I thought I think his name is Michael Brown. He's on the truth radio. But he was debating one on YouTube. It was a real conversation, but as soon as Michael Brown, he knows so much about Jewish history and all that.

I mean, I didn't have a the guy didn't have a clue. And so he just started shouting stuff like shouting. We are the true Israelites. You know, just shouting. They take scriptures out of context. And one of them was where in Revelation where it says that his hair was white as wool and his hair was like wool.

So therefore, it's. That's right. It has to do with that. Yeah. I'm like, I don't know how's that proof. That's. Yeah. It's just what they do. That's just what they do. All right. It's just a symbolic of the less symbolic about the vision that John had.

It's not actually Jesus. Looks like in the flesh.

I think that was more symbolic. Right. I don't know how they get that right. They take verses out of context. They don't know what they're doing exegetically. They submit the scriptures to their personal racist ideology.

They look for whatever they can out of the Old Testament to make it fit their ideology. It's a non-Christian cult, and it's bad news. It's racist.

But it's like they talk over people like, no, I can't really say anything because they got these megaphones and they're shouting just they take the scripture and they'll sit there and shout it like really loud and like they have authority or something.

Right. Yes. I'm aware of that. Yep. OK. All right.

Well, we have a great weekend. You too. All right. OK. God bless. All right. Now, let's see. Next longest waiting is Tom from Virginia. Tom. Welcome. You are on the air. Hi, Matt. How are you?

Oh, I'm OK. Hang in there, man. So what do you got? OK. I got it. I've been pondering while I'm sitting here on the phone thinking, but my question is about election and maybe predestination. Yeah. And so I understand election is God chooses who is going to who's going to be part of Jesus's flock, who's going to be saved, who is the very good.

Right. OK. So there's there's lots of scripture in there. And I apologize. I kind of called you on a whim. So I wasn't really prepared. But there's scripture. Yeah, there's yeah, there's scripture that that says that.

But there's also a scripture in revelations, I believe, and I think it goes something along the lines, we're supposed to evangelize and pull people out of the fire. Of course. Of course. OK. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So. So I guess that goes into predestination. Right. So election is is where God tells us where God just kind of maybe indwells us with the Holy Spirit. Would that be a way to look at it?

He election is his choosing. That's what it means. Election is the choosing. So he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we'd be holding blameless. Ephesians one for that's what it was.

OK.

Yeah. So that's that's that's that's like Jesus is. That's everybody who who who calls Jesus their savior.

That is anybody and everybody whom God himself has called. Right. OK.

So that's that's whoever's got caught. And then God still calling people at the very end times where we're pulling people out of the fire. And that's predestination. Right. Where we go evangelize.

Well, OK. So here is how generally how it works. Election is is the work of God before the foundation of the world where he chooses for salvation people. And that's what he does. Second Thessalonians 2 13 says he chose you for salvation from the beginning.

Acts 13 48 as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. So there's verses like this in the scripture to teach this. A lot of people don't like it, but that's not my problem. That's theirs. That was good for teaching.

So what is predestination? Predestination is the work of God to bring about what he decrees, what he desires. He can do this and he can bring about people to do some things that have been predestined to occur.

Yet they are the ones still responsible. So for example, when you go to Acts 4 27 and 28 for truly in the city that were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel to do whatever your hand and your purpose predestined to occur.

So the two people, individuals, Herod and Pontius Pilate, and the two groups, Gentiles and the Jews did whatever God's purpose predestined to occur. Yet what we see in Acts 2 23 Peter says, this man delivered over by the predetermined plan and for knowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of ungodly men.

So even though it's predestined, they were the ones responsible. In fact, Jesus says in Luke 22 22, he says, for indeed, the son of man is going as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.

So it's determined that will happen. But this man who does this, Judas, he's in trouble. So we have a mystery here. God elects and God predestines, and yet we are still responsible. Now I get into the issue of what you're talking about evangelism.

We don't know the criteria that God uses for evangelism, for how he hears us in prayer to save people. We just don't know. He does not tell us. Some people, what they do, in my opinion, is stop the thinking at this level and just say, well, you can't have evangelism if God just evangelize predestined.

Why evangelize? Well, he told us to. And furthermore, we don't know how he elects. We don't know what the criteria is. We don't know if from all eternity he's ordained that I, you, other Christians pray for the salvation of people because that's what he wants and he saves them because it's part of what he's decreed to occur in his grand plan of things.

I just don't know. So our job is not in production. Our job is in sales. What we do is we promote the truth and let God save. OK. OK. Well, thanks, Matt. I appreciate that.

OK. Hope that helps. It did, actually. You know, the question's been on my mind. You know, why do we have to go and evangelize if it's already if God has already elected for us to follow Jesus and you just answered the question because he said to the man where.

He said to, you know, we do it because he told us that that's the answer. Yeah. No, that's another thing. I tell another thing. I tell people is, well, God teaches predestination election. I mean, he does.

It's right there and it's in the Bible. I tell people there it is. But it doesn't mean we understand it sufficiently. It's always possible, like myself, who I've studied this a lot. Maybe I'm just not getting it.

And maybe someone who disagrees with me really is getting it. But I just can't see it. That's certainly possible. So I don't put all my eggs in the election predestination back basket. I say, well, you're the sovereign king.

I see that that you elect. I see that you predestine. I see that you say, go evangelize. I do. I believe in what you do. I believe what you called us to do as Christians. I'm doing it. And I pray, Lord, save them.

Save that person. If they're not elect, please elect them. And I'm saying, I don't know how it works. So I just teach one thing and then try and live by that one thing. I don't know exactly how it works.

So I do. I believe one and do both. Believe in election and also evangelize. OK? OK. Thank you. Thank you much. Much. God bless, buddy. All right. All right. Now, next longest waiting is Christian from Dayton, Ohio.

Welcome. You are on the air. Yeah, it's actually Chris. But that's all right.

Don't worry about it. So thank you. Thanks for taking the call. Sure. Yeah. I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your ministry and I'd use some of the information. And this is a shout out to you and to anybody else that goes on there to read about, you know, apologetics regarding, you know, whether it be Mormonism or Jehovah's Witnesses.

And, you know, I've talked to them over the years and and some of the material that I've used has been from your Web site. And I really appreciate it and the ministry that you do. So shout out to you and all your work.

Thank you. Praise God. Praise God. Appreciate that. Yeah. The question I had was, basically, I just wanted to comment on that guy that made a comment about the tithing. I mean, I, when I first was a believer, I tithed all the time, did that for years.

And, you know, I finally kind of saw the light years back and just realized that, you know, it's part of the law and, you know, and God wants me to give because, you know, I want to do it for him, not because I'm getting something, you know, and I'm doing it to figure out some kind of formula.

And so, yeah, and, you know, grace giving, you know, whatever you want to call it. You know, I, you know, there should be a sacrifice, but, you know, it's not to get something.

We're having a break coming up. So hold on. Sorry to cut you off, but hold on. And we'll get back to you. All right. OK. That's OK. Hey, folks. We'll be right back after these messages with Chris. Please stay tuned.

It's Matt Slick Live! Taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick. Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to the show. Let's get back on the air with Chris. OK, Chris. Yeah.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I just want to. Yeah. I was just kind of echoing that guy, you know, talking about timing. And I know people feel real passionate about this sometimes. And I've even talked to people and they just lose their minds over this because I used to do it.

I used to do it all the time and would do it religiously and thinking, OK, I'm doing this because this is God's command. And I said, well, be careful about that because it's not in the New Testament and it's not a command.

And, you know, we have to be careful that we still hold to this Old Testament law. Now, God obviously calls us to give and I support my church and I really think, you know, maybe this is me personally thinking this, but I think he wants me to sacrifice something when I give.

And so whatever it is that I have to give up and that's going to be different for different people. But, you know, it doesn't mean that I can just do whatever I want to say, well, you know, it's all, you know, it's all his anyway.

And, you know, so, you know, and there's different ways to tithes, you know, we can tithe of our money. We can also tithe of our time and we can do absolutely. And so what do you what do you do if, you know, you're at a grocery store, for example, and someone behind you or in front of you or next to you suddenly doesn't have enough money for something and you know, that person has kids and they're struggling, which would be a thing to turn back.

Hey, I'll buy it for you. It's a little help because the idea of tithing is to give for the work of the Lord. But within that word is, you know, helping others. And so these are more might we consider offerings.