What if we ended the week on a high note?  We brought back some things that we used to do in the past which is open it up in case someone wanted to come on. Now, you don't have to come on, you can send your question in or your complaint, whatever it is. It can be, hey Corey, you are the worst thing ever. Well, you can tell me that. Corey, I like you, but I don't like this. Corey, I think you're wrong on this. Or Corey, what about this? Or Corey, listen, you have the best haircut on YouTube. Any of those things, you can say either in the chats, if you do so, put a queue or question in front of it or the link is provided. If you, let me go ahead and send it out again as well. If you wanna come on board, the link is in the chats. So if you wanna come on, now I'm gonna change the link to this, so after today, you won't be able to hit that link and come back on.  If you do so, if you do so, just one thing, make sure that you have a good connection. Also, make sure that your face is visible. Other than that, there's no other prohibitions. Guess what? Even if you have been blocked or banned or what have you, you can come on because the link doesn't prohibit anyone that's been blocked or banned. So if you've got a bone to pick with me, here's your time. If you wanted to meet with me, you wanna have a question answered or a comment, a bone to pick, this is it. So that being the case and course in the past, there have been times where it's gone a little bit off the rails, not so much on my end, but folks wanted to say some things. And so, we're gonna be quick about it.  What does it say? I just saw this one. What about Deion Sanders representation of Jesus and the scriptures have you been following? I think Deion is, I like Deion.  I think Deion is cool. I think he's definitely good for college football. He has turned the thing around in Colorado. All of that is fine. All of that is wonderful. However, I do have an issue with a little bit of the self-promotion, not so, well, even for his part too, because I know that that could be a problem, but even also for the kids and children, these are children who might also feel like they're invincible, they feel, because that's what it is.  So that can be a problem. That's my only concern. That is really my only concern. The back and forth, the people having these comments and criticisms, I really could care less. That really is sports. I don't have a problem with that, because in sports, you talk trash. I don't have a problem with that. So anyway, I've got one guest in the green room. Hold on real briefly. I've got a couple of questions that were submitted previously. And then I will come to you all. So I've got one already waiting. Let me go ahead and answer a couple of these questions. Well, you don't, wait a second. Let me make sure that 1689, are you in the chats yet? I wanna wait for him. He's got a question for him because his question is not to answer until he's in the chat. So y'all let me know when he shows up. That is, of course, he changed his name all the time. Federal ex theology or federal times theology. What does that mean? But let me know when he shows up so I can go ahead and answer his question. But also, let me go to Keelan Wright asked a question. James 113 says, God cannot be tempted by evil, but Jesus is tempted by the devil in Matthew chapter four. Was Jesus's humanity tempted while his divinity wasn't? Does the Greek help us understand? You don't need the Greek to understand that particular passage. You can tempt him. For example, if I, let's say, let me think of a good example. Okay, I've used this before. You can tempt me all you want. Some things you can tempt me with.  It's your effort on your part towards me. So for example, if you want to tempt me with, I don't know, drugs, you can tempt me all you want.  You tried swinging a miss, right? With that, now again, there's some other things you can tempt me with.  If you put certain sweets in front of me, I'm gonna need deliverance. I'm gonna need a deliverance minister to come and cast a sweet demon out of me, because, and I tell my wife, don't buy this stuff. I'm saying, sweetheart, we had this conversation. Don't buy this again. Don't do it while I'm sitting there eating it. That's just me. So you can tempt me with that. With Jesus, the devil tempting him, what is there that he could give him that's gonna move him? Literally, he created the devil. So he was sent there. Remember this though, the devil is the devil, but he's God's devil. In other words, he can't do anything that escapes God or if the Lord sends him to do something, he has to do it.  So that is, so he was, we can be tempted, but he can't be tempted. We can't do anything to him to move him. Next question, spider monkey asked an actual good question. I looked this up before, because it's actually kind of interesting. May you compare Proverbs 17, I'm sorry, Proverbs 11, 17 with what is mentioned in the Septuagint. So let's go to Proverbs, Proverbs 11, 7. Let's put it on the screen and it says this, and the Greek is different. The Greek is real different as a matter of fact. When a wicked man dies, his expectations will perish and the hope of strong men perishes. Let me take this off. Let me go ahead and add the Septuagint. Let me make it bigger. One, two, three, four, five.  You know what, let me just, yeah, let's take that off. Okay, so can you guys see this? Now, let me run through this. There's a, it's worded differently, but it means the same thing. This word right here is a person who dies a man, but this word right here is righteous. So this is if a righteous man dies versus in the English and as well as the Hebrew text, it is if a wicked man dies. The problem is though, in the Greek, it's a righteous man dies. Well, wait a second, Corey, is there a contradiction? No, because here it says if a wicked man dies, his expectations will not perish. Here it says if a man who's righteous, if he dies, his expectations will not perish. So that's all the saying. So it's, and everything else is the same. So all it does is it gives a negative to the Greek and the Greek and the negative is not offered in the English or the Hebrew text. So that's the only difference. So that being the case, let me go ahead. I'm gonna mark some of these questions that were going. The reason why we came on at four, I anticipate us being here, I try to get out an hour, hour and a half, but I anticipate us being here at least two, maybe not as long. And I don't know what the deal is with this cat. This cat loves when I come on because he wants me out. Hopefully his owner, AKA my daughter, will come and grab him. My cat is horrible. He is horrible. Anyway, so let me go to the first person. I've got Brian Feldman. Let me go ahead and move. Let's go to here so I can bring him on and where, let's make sure. Brian, how are you doing, brother? Can you hear me? Good. Yes. Can you hear me okay? I can hear you wonderfully. How are you doing today, sir? Great. I was enjoying some of the earlier show and I had a pointed question, not about deliverance ministry, but about I actually so specifically think that I have a neighbor who needs deliverance. Like I have a downstairs neighbor who quite literally appears to all intents and purposes be like talking out loud to demons. Now, lately it's abated quite a bit, but it periodically becomes a huge thing and occasionally we've had to deal with banging on walls and all sorts of stuff like that. It's been serious disruption sometimes when he has appeared quite demonized. So the question is what kind of advice do you have for situation where it appears that there is a non-Christian that is beset by demons in a very strong way? Well, how would you approach that sort of situation? Hold on one second. I don't know what I just did. I did something that was real. What did I just do? I don't know what I just did. There it is. I'm sorry, I'm pushing buttons. I'm pushing buttons. I'm sorry. So what would I do with this person who seems to have some sort of demonic in? Yes, big. Well, thus far I've just had very brief interactions and I've never really like, I haven't tried to deliver the gospel to him. The reason really I also largely believe he's talking to demons is he seems to be talking talking weird theology to them. He's like yelling things about Jesus and Buddha. I'm like, okay. Well, I think there's something a little bit to this. I think a couple of things. One, everything that we see that looks off isn't necessarily a demon. We're in a fallen world. And so just like we'll see people who may have some sort of physical ailments, someone has an arm missing when they're at birth. No accident that's how we were born or a leg shorter than ever. We're in a fallen world. So those things are gonna happen, which also means there's gonna be some issues internally with some people. Now, I'll go ahead, I would go ahead and assume that this is something demonic though. And the question or the other point that we need to also remember is that everyone that we bring the gospel to is not going to be delivered. And that's not outprogative, that's God. He determines all we can do is all we can do. All we can do is give him the gospel, ask him, this is what I always do. If a person is going through anything, if they know that they have a problem, if they recognize that, well, then I'll ask them kind of the same way Jesus did, do you want to be whole, do you want to be well? Would you like some help? Would you like some, now the way I typically will say it is, would you like some peace in your life? And they may say yes or no.  Then what do you do? You go ahead and leave. I wouldn't attempt to go ahead and lay hands, go ahead and grab him and touch him. Because now you might have an issue. You might have a legal issue, you might have a physical issue. And so all you can do is all you can do, which is you can pray, you can offer them, like the apostle said, silver and gold have I not, but what I have do, what I do have, I'll give to you. That is if they want it. So you ask them, listen, do you want to be behold? Or if you don't see an opening to do so, well then just go ahead and tell them, you can be whole, you can be at peace. And then ask them, listen, just offer the gospel.   And then just let that be kind of the beginning of how you take them down to the gospel. And again, they may not accept it. I used to have a hard time with this, but now I get it now that everybody that you share the gospel with is not going to respond in kind. They're not gonna respond favorably. Well, all you can do is plant, or maybe you're the one that's watering. And so one plant, one water, the God is ultimately the one that's gonna give you the increase. But I would say also, even before you approach the person, since you're thinking about the person, you see the person, be in prayer for the person because prayer does avail. And this is what James is bringing up in James five. His whole point is someone that is bothered, I think emotionally, mentally, who's struggling, who's suffering. I don't think it's a physical issue that James is bringing up because we know spiritually speaking, if this person was to address this in faith, then that works 100% of the time. And so his point is though that the effective prayer of the righteous does avail.  And so it does avail. And so I would just be praying because it might not even be you that is the one that God uses for this person to be delivered, so. Well, and if he's also saying the name of Jesus, well, somebody might have thrown some seeds there already, so. Yeah, yeah. Because you know what? There are some people that believe that they are and they may have an off view of Christianity and they might think that they are. I've met a bunch of people that thought that they understood the gospel. We take for granted that everyone knows what the gospel is and understand what's in the Bible. Most folks, heck, most Christians don't know what's in the Bible. So we take for granted that there are some people out there that heard the name, they think favorably of the name, but don't really know it. And so if there's an opportunity or try to make that opportunity to get in with the person and talk to them. I don't know if you have a good relationship with a person, if you talk to them or not, do you? I've only briefly talked with them, but it's always cordial, like even though they've been disruptive and I've been upset about it, like he does make it a point to try to be polite directly to his neighbors. We try to be very polite to him. So I think that makes a whole lot of sense that just approaching it as much as a typical ministerial way as you would try to spread the gospel with anybody else. Yeah, I have seen the gospel work. Of course you have to, we all have, I've seen the gospel work like nothing else. And so that's all you can do. That's all he gave us. And so if that's all he gave us, then that's all that we need. His word is just the name is powerful. So. All right, thank you very much, brother. No problem, thank you, brother. All righty, and I've got KJ. By the way, he had a nice connection. Did that, I don't know what kind of camera it was. That was a nice connection. Let me go ahead and bring on brother KJ. Did I then listen? After brother KJ, got a star coming on. I got a star getting ready to come on in just a second after, not that I'm diminishing KJ, but I've got a star coming on after him. Brother KJ, how you doing my friend? Good man, thanks for having me on real quick. I won't take too much of your time. No problem. I meant to say this, do me this favor and anyone else that comes on, let me know what your name is that we see you in the chats. So that we, oh, that's so-and-so, and that's so-and-so. So is that what you go about on the chats? Kevin Joseph's in the chat. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember that name. What's going on, brother? Not much, man. I've been watching you with my wife actually for about a month now. So my question's kind of a two-part question. Okay, hold on, before you go. Where are you from? I hear an accent. I'm from Vancouver, Canada. Okay, okay. Okay. Was there an accent for that? I heard a bit of an accent. That's why it was there. I heard it. I heard it. I got to hear an accent over here. So basically it's a bit of a two-part question. So one is, I'm in my mid-30s now. I'd like to consider myself a Christian probably since my late teens. My first question, I've tried getting this through my church. I can't really get an answer, but when someone is a follower of Christ and then they turn away knowingly. So basically there were actions after I got baptized, after I started following Christ, where I did things knowing that I shouldn't do them. To the point where like, I'm not really big on this stuff, but I'd see signs and was spoken to like, hey, you can't keep going this way. You need to change the way you're going. You're going the wrong way. And I deliberately went that way. So now I'm in this point where I'm like, well, you know, a lot of the information on YouTube and on the internet is about people who have lived one life and then start following Christ. But what about someone who was following Christ, knew better and then goes the other way? Is there still salvation hope for that person? And I think it was Hebrews 1026, when I read that, that really got me where it's like, oh man, like that's when I started feeling the weight. And the second part that goes along with that is I approached, you know, my local church because due to the things I got into, I've been seeing a lot of negative things. So basically I've been seeing a certain symbol everywhere to the point where it's just more than, what's the word? Like I'm, it's beyond, I'll be thinking about something and I'll see it. Somebody will walk in and they'll be wearing this. And this is associated with that life I lived. And my church says, hey, you need deliverance. You need to go speak to our deliverance team. They're busy. It's a six month wait. I'm going to get in. I can't get delivered. I'm messaging other churches. They're saying, oh, we got to wait for our deliverance team. And I actually found you because I was emailing Isaiah Salvador and all those guys trying to get ahold of them, trying to get deliverance, anything. And after I've started watching your videos, I've kind of got the question of, well, if Christ died for my sins, if blood was shed, why am I searching for somebody else, another man to deliver me from this? Who wants you to feel, let's think about this for a second. Who wants you to feel as though something or somebody is coming at you?  Who wants you to feel attacked? Yeah, well, like the enemy, right? Well, yeah, of course. And so though you can be saved, the people around you may not be. And so let me give you an example. And I know of a guy who actually had, this was his testimony. Here he is, he's married. However, he is messing with someone who's not his wife. Yeah. And different signs would pop up about this other person, right? And in his mind, because he's so messed up, hey, this might be the one because maybe I've just married the wrong one. It's in his head now. And he knows better, but he doesn't know better. And then he's getting all these different signs and so forth. Well, someone says something, someone brings other person's name up. She shows up, okay, well, that's not from God because again, it's not as though that the devil is not active. And so it could be. And so because you see things that are familiar, that doesn't mean anything. Don't put any weight or any stock into some sign or some picture or some voice or some person that you keep seeing. Don't do that because guess what the world is full of? So you're gonna be seeing some things that take you away from Christ or try to take away from Christ. So I wouldn't put anything in that, but what you always have present, you don't need a deliverance team.  You can pray. Lord, I'm just bringing me closer to you because again, I'll use this example over and over again. If on this side I've got, I've got Jesus, I've got the Lord and on this side I've got, I've got whatever the issue is, some sin, some weight, what have you. Then what, which side do I go to? Well, the further I, the closer I get to God, the further way I get away from sin or some weight, something, some stronghold. I'm not gonna go and address that. I don't have to address that sin. All I have to address is my closeness, my proximity with Christ. So that's how I always do that. When it came to, when it came to any other sin of mine, let's say cussing. I didn't think about getting away from that. I really didn't. I just got closer to him. The closer I got to him, he will remove some things from me. So, but now to your first one about people, about this falling away, about someone who seems to have embraced Christ and then rejected and so forth. There's a passage that I wanna go with a couple of things. And it's not that the person is lost forever. The writer of Hebrews brings this up in Hebrews 6. He says, for the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift, he says, if they fall away, it will be impossible to renew them again. Well, does that mean that the person can never come back? Again, well, the person, the writer of Hebrews is writing to these Jews and the writer is trying to get them to see that you are fine, that he's really speaking hypothetically. If you could lose your salvation, if you could fall away, well then go and have fun for the rest of your life because you can't come back. But the point as he keeps writing, he tells them that that's the one that's not them. Two, they are secure. The whole reason why the Jews are even asking this question is because under their old way of doing things, under this old dispensation, remember you could be atone for today, next year you would not be. It's a yearly process. And so the writer says that because we've had this happen over and over and over, you don't have to worry about that anymore. There is no more sacrifices that you have to worry about. None of those things are present. Now he makes a statement in James 519. He says, my brethren, if any among you strays from the truth, meaning there are gonna be some people who are amongst the brethren, not Christians but amongst the Christians, amongst the church who are going to stray away. We've got this 10 in the faith and there are folks who, you know what, I used to believe that now I don't. Now there's never a passage in the Bible that says anyone leaves from believing, but they can leave from the belief. There's never a passage that says anyone that leaves from having faith, but they can leave from the faith, the noun. And that's gonna happen. There's gonna be this great falling away folks who used to believe that, you know what, I like the Bible, I'm good with the Bible, who are now gonna start rejecting. Those are not the ones that have actually embraced it in their heart, that Christ has taken up our residency there. Those won't be those people. It'll be the people who profess to have a relationship but they really don't. And so the power of God to hold you. Remember, James 1 John 5 says that it is God that treats us. Okay, so it's not us that's keeping him, it's God that keeps us. And so that's how you have to remember that God is more powerful than any outside force. He's working in us to keep us.   He says that all of those that he's given to me that includes me and that includes you, he will not lose any of us. And so take heart in that and he will keep working. All you gotta do is, and you hear me say this over and over again, all you can do is all you can do well, since you're saved, now what's next to do? Just keep getting closer to him. Even if you've knowingly went the other way, like I've always had this fear. Don't get me wrong.  And I guess when I read that, now it's different when you explain it because I can think of people who have fallen away. You know, they once believed in God, now they're seeing the other thing where I don't believe in Jesus. I don't believe in that direction. I'm not a Christian anymore. For me, it's just I fell into my own sinful ways but because I knew better, that's really kind of condemned me to this way of, well, there's no salvation for me at this point. I knew better and I sinned. That's kind of what I've been dealing with. That's your spirit being convicted, which is should. When you mess up, oh Lord, what's wrong with me? Why do I keep doing this same? That what's going on God?  I keep messing up. And guess what? You're in good company because Paul had the exact same issue. The thing that I don't wanna do that, I keep practicing. But he said, his point was that he didn't desire that. And so that's how we know. Your desire, hidden for the sin, you may mess up but that's not your desire.  Well, that person's not safe but the person is struggling with their homosexuality and their desire is to not be that and they are trying to get as close to God as possible. That's the difference. That's what Paul has ran. His desire as he brings up in Romans 7 is not for the sin. His desire is to be close to God. So his desire isn't the sin. So even the thing that he's wanting to stop doing, he does it, but it's not him. It's the sin, but his desire is different. And so in that case, as long as you're convicted, I think you're fine. If a person... You don't think I could have been like from going over there, like in that world, you don't think I, like, is, can, like, am I still covered from curses if I've opened myself up to a world of those things? I'm like, that's what I'm struggling with is like why I'm going through deliverance, you know what I'm saying? There is no curse on you. There is the only thing, now there are consequences.   When I will, I'll never forget this. I was in the TV room in prison. And somebody got some kind of way that I don't know what happened, but the wires, the signal for the cable company, in the TV room, you turned to another channel and porn was showing in prison. So you can imagine, the TV room was packed. So I got up and left and guys had all looked at him. He missed a goody two shoes. You know you wanna watch. And I said, you're right, I do wanna watch. That's why I'm leaving, because if I watch, it's gonna be in my mind.  That's just what's gonna happen. Even for like, for me, it's the whole evil eye thing. Like I see it everywhere.  I'll go to work and somebody will come in with it on their shirt. This has been like two months of this to where that's what I was seeking the deliverance for. So when you brought up the enemy and you were saying who would wanna do that to you? I mean, that resents with me, because that makes sense. He wants to tell you, you're not delivered.  So that, and that's his job. That is his job. So you do your job and just get closer to God. Amen. I thank you so much, Mike. I really appreciate you, Mike. No problem, brother. No problem. All right, take care. Now, now it's time to bring on. Senior Conrad.  I'm sorry, that's me. That's me. Let me turn your mic up. How you doing, brother? Doing good, brother. God bless you. You know what's funny? Can I tell you what's funny? I had said, I should have been prepared. I had, I said, you know what? Let me mess with you. If ever he shows up, I had a video of my fakes in your Conrad dance and I was, doggone it. How you doing, brother? I'm doing good. Thank God. Praise the Lord. I just wanted to say thank you, man. I wanna say thank you for all the time you take to spread God's word and to help us. I really appreciate it, Corey. My wife got saved last year. And at home, you're one of the channels that I would put on. And she'd sit and she'd watch with me and she'd hear the word. And I just really appreciate you a lot because God had so much mercy upon me. He allowed her to be saved now. Has six years of going to church sometimes on my own. And sometimes, you know, she'd come for holidays and things like that. And man, just being faithful to God and obeying him. You know? When I hear you talk about when you were in prison and you were in solitary confinement and it didn't matter what would happen because you knew God had you. And I wasn't in prison, but it was challenging, you know, being the only Christian at home. And I felt the same way. Like God, I'm trusting you. He had to crush me. He had to take my pride away and he had to crush me. And that's how much he loved me to do that. And when I surrendered my life to him and I started serving him, I still suffered and I obeyed him. And I'd suffer more and I just obeyed. And he was so good to me. You know, at times I would pray for my wife and pray for her salvation. And I didn't even notice that the times that I would pray, I really was just praying for my comfort. I wasn't even praying for her to be saved because I wanted her in heaven. I just wanted to be comfortable because I missed her when I'd go to church alone. And God was just so kind to me to help me understand that, hey, that's not the point of wanting your family to be saved. And through prayer and through obedience, he helped me understand that. And then just surrendering everything to him. So when I hear you share that too from, you know, how he had to crush you too. Man, how that resonates with me because I just, even though we don't know each other, just feel like that's my brother. Man, listen, I'm upset with you. I'm upset with you because you got me and folks in the chat crying, don't do that. Don't do that. That, listen, that is awesome. I had, you know what's funny though, because somebody's gonna hear this and somebody's gonna hear that if you just trust in God, if you're patient, if you let him, he will. I think that, because you know what? There's other people who have this same issue in their marriage and the tendency is to give up on the marriage and what have you and just, yeah, whatever. Or, you know, let me pull back. Let me just not be so outward about my faith. But no, I know that you are an example. You are an example more than anything else. And so, man, I'm glad you said that. I'm glad you, shoot, I almost wanna make a video out of it. But that is, listen, that is awesome. I know there are people in the chats or that watch this, they're gonna be blessed by what you just said, man. Man, that's. Thank you, thank you because such a great resource to have you and have you online and be live and take the time out of your schedule to do that. And, you know, just to be another resource that you could just put on, on the TV at home and have you there teaching and have you there giving sound and vocal teaching. And it was just really great because everything about my life is just about God. So from what I watch to what I listen to, to what I read. So it was just great because with wanting to encourage my wife's faith and wanting her to see a changed man from who she had married to, who God has allowed me to become. You played a part in that too. And then Corey, from listening to you, right? And then obeying the Lord and obeying him. And then now, like I get to lead a group at church for a small group. And now people see my wife, right? And my wife being saved and they know me from being there alone. And now people come to me and they go, what did you do? As if I did anything. All I did was surrender. There you go. And I obeyed the Lord. I didn't do anything fancy. It's not about me. I just, I trusted him. I trusted him and he is faithful to his promises. And you have to know who he is in order to believe that. It's not just having faith because you have faith. How silly is that? Or something, right? Yeah. So I'm just really grateful for you because you take the time to, you know, for people that may not take the time to read it or maybe understand it all the time that you take to help us. I just want to tell you that. I love you and that I appreciate you a lot. Thank you. I love you too, brother. Thank you so much. Now I got to. Ha, ha, ha. Thank you so much.  Listen, it's okay. It's okay.  Listen, if you got it to wear it, wear it. You know what I mean? So, listen, is that some gray I see up top? A little bit, you know, getting some wisdom there. Wait a minute. Listen, if you're going to have some hair, make sure you got some gray in it. Either have some gray in it or some holes in it. So, but you got the gray. So you're fine. All right, brother. God bless you. Thank you. You have made my day. Thank you, brother. All right. I don't know. Oh, I got Sister Layla coming on. Hey, man, Sister Layla, can you hear me? Hello, can you hear me, brother? Clear, sweetheart, I hear you. Oh, my gosh, I got one. Now, turn your computer down. Oh, my gosh. Oh, I have you on two live streams, because I be hype. God bless you, brother. God bless you, too, Sister. Oh, my gosh.  Hello to my family in the chat. I love y'all to life. I have to piggyback with him. You have definitely been a great, great living epistle. And when you were on, no, seriously, when you were on with my other brother, and he's a little harder, Mr. Sir Walter Jones, I love the way that you handled yourself and you did not back down to that other guy, whoever he was. One thing about me is I'm a radical, I have radical faith. I know they probably hear it in the chat and they see it in the chat. It's because of the life that God has brought me from. I, too, think God was in prison. I was in jail. God delivered me because I was living for me. I thought that I was doing things to help other people and it really wasn't. It was just a flesh thing.  So once God took me and put me in that place, sometimes prison and jail is for the believer. I honestly believe that. I think that those things that we have to go through because he needs someone to show his glory in those places, right? So I just wanted to encourage you to keep standing, keep doing what you're doing because you are definitely a jewel to the kingdom. And all of those that know seriously, all of those that are in the chat are jewels to the kingdom. You guys have encouraged me so much that now I want to start a live. I want to do a YouTube channel for those that, I live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.   And I hate to say that, but it's the truth because there is a death omen over this city where I live in. I prayed nightly for this place. I had stopped, but I gave it to God because I know repetition, he knows, he knows everything. And there are politicians here that are evil, just evil, just evil. And they do nothing for the community, nothing for the community. And I'm at the point where this is with voting. I'm done with voting. Like I can't continue to vote when nothing is changing. The same people get in office because they put these masks on and then they get in office and they do the same things that the other ones that were in office. And the Democrat party, straight death, straight death. I mean, it's serious. Like Obama and Michael, all of them have just done so much to derail us and put us like decades back, okay? So I just wanted to just encourage you, keep doing what you're doing because you have encouraged me. You've put a fire inside of me to want to continue to preach this good news and to preach the gospel to all of those that are lost. I have three children. They have to struggle right now to their journey. And that's what you tell us. Like everybody has their own journey. And I think a lot of people don't understand that. Everybody is not cut from the same cloth and you do not have to deny yourself and look at someone else because your journey is your journey, right? But all we're supposed to do is just live this thing day by day, day by day.  You know what I mean? And the grave couldn't hold you, right? And that's what our testimonies do. And I miss testimonial service. I miss it so much at churches because they have lost the essence. They've lost the essence of who God is. Not that we don't do that anymore, do we? No, and I don't know. I think it's because, you know, church has become a business.  It's a place where you have to put on a mask. You have to literally get dressed up and clothes that you probably don't feel comfortable in and get into the house of the Lord because it's something mundane. It has become a mundane thing. Going to church is mundanity. It's not from the heart. It's not a heart thing. It's just because my grandmother did it or I have to do it because if I don't go to church on Sunday, the people won't see me. And it's just so lost, like there's so lost. People are so lost in the church. So God stripped me from all of that. And now I believe he's getting me on a path. And I just, I wanna ask, I wanted to solicit your prayers to get on live and start bringing the gospel that way. I teach my family here because they're the only ones that I'm around. And it's been a battle. It has been a battle because my dad, I think that's why I'm here, my dad, excuse me, living here with my family. My dad is one who kicks against the prick, right? But he is such a living, he could be so good for the kingdom. He used to be on crack cocaine and no, no church, no one did it. God did it. And he walks and he lives today. The hell that we went through when he was on drugs. I'm telling you, he went to two rehabs years ago. My mom paid for it. She lost her job through Blue Cross Blue Shield. But it came to the point where God had him in a pit. There he is walking by now. Hey, daddy. God had him, come say hi, dad. He says, don't lose him. But it's like my family, yeah. I have living miracles in my family walking around me every day. And they don't, I don't think they believe. They don't believe what God has done. So me, I go through the battle of, oh my God, we on church again today. Cause every day I'm in here, I'm praising, I'm reading the word, I'm telling them and trying to instruct them certain things. But when you had said, I can't do it. God has to do it. And I have to keep living it. So they can see it because some people will never open up their Bible. And that is what I'm doing here. So you encourage me to keep the faith and keep going at it day by day, no matter if they change or not, that's them. It's on them because we have to work out our own salvation. But what they can say is, I'm one, like I told you they have radical faith and I will continue to preach God. Like that is just in me. It's just in me and it comes out. It just comes out, but I just wanted to say, I love you guys to life. And I'm so grateful for this show. I'm so grateful for this show because I know, but I don't know. And that's another thing I think I get in my way. I'm a procrastinator. I don't know where to start. I don't know if I should just start off with just prayer cause I love praying. So if my channel would just be about prayer cause I love praying for people. I don't like when people say, pray for me, pray for me. I'd like to do it right there on the spot. That's what you did. Because with my memory of me getting older, I can't remember people's names. I'm good with faces, but with names, I'm like, all right, God, you know them name by name, one by one. But I think it kind of cuts some short. I get a little emotional because I want to remember the name and I want to make it personal for them. You know what I mean? So just keep me in prayer because I don't know how to start. I just have my cell phone and I have a little thing. I don't have these big things like you guys have cause I know you've worked your way up to get that. But I would love to have that platform where I can have the... Let me tell you this, let me tell you this. Let me tell you this. And then I got, oh, there's five people waiting to come in. So let me tell you this, go ahead and start. When I started, all I had was a phone. I didn't have this phone. Matter of fact, when I started, I had... Oh, your team iPhone, amen. Praise God. Yeah, I had, I had, I tell my wife and kids I had an iPhone one. It wasn't, it was an iPhone five or six and the volume was messed up. And so when I came on, I used my daughter's phone. And you know, now she's a teenager. She didn't want to let go of that phone. So it was a hassle. I had to threaten, listen, I'm gonna get you spanked if I could use your phone. And so all you do is, again, all you can do is all you can do. So I would record, I would edit it later and just, so just, so just start. Listen, even if you're bad at it, one, you'll get better at it too. If you're that bad, no one's gonna see it so you can kinda practice. But eventually, all you do is just share your word, whatever you think the Lord has for you.  Just, but just go ahead and start it. As they say on the, what does it think? Media, just push record. Just, just push record. Don't, you know, and so even if a few folks are reached, it doesn't matter, it's gonna help somebody, amen. Yeah, just one. Amen, amen.  Now I'm getting back in the chat so I can ask questions too. Okay. Have a blessed one, you guys. Bye-bye. Aw, amen. All right, I've got God Shepherd. How you doing, sir? Oh, wait a sec, wait a sec. Let me put your volume up, that's me. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Can you hear me? That's quite all right. Yes, sir, can you hear me? I can, I can hear you loud and clear. Yeah, I was wanting to talk about Genesis one in 26. Genesis, okay. God being male or female. Okay. Is God male or female? Is God male or female? Is God male or female? No, God is not male or female, no. Can we talk about that a little bit? Well, we can, we can go about five or 10 minutes with it. Why do you ask is he male or female? Well, because the Trinity says that the us and Genesis one is the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. But it is not. It is God male and female. God's brain and God's mind. Well, okay, all right, hold on, hold on. Yeah, Genesis one and 26. Uh-huh. It tells us, I'm trying to get it here for you. I should have had it up. I didn't know you were just gonna bring me on. But it says that, let's switch it over. It says, then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness and let them have rule over the fishing of the sea and so forth. So in verse 27, God created man in his own image in the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. Correct.  Because if you go to 1 Corinthians 11 and nine, I think it is, you'll see that woman was not made in the image of God. You go to 1 Corinthians 11 and nine, if I'm not mistaken. So it says, for indeed, man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.   I'm trying to get to you right now, 1 Corinthians 11. I'm a little slow on this, draw on this. It says that the reason why that a woman is to cover her head is because she was not made in the image of God but in the image of man. But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man.  Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying this phrase is said, but every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying this phrase is her head for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaped.  To where? You gotta tell me where. Okay, I'm getting to it right here. Right here at verses six and seven. Since we're indeed a lot of women, go ahead. Of what chapter? 11. Okay. First Corinthians 11, six and seven. Okay, so I just read that.   For man ought not to have his head covered since he is the image and glory of God, but woman, but the woman is the glory of man. Right, and so. Woman is the image and the glory of man, not. Okay, so what's your overall point? So my question is that being that woman is the image and the glory of man, she was not created as man. She was not created in God's image. Bible, just sit here and tell us. For as much as he, the man, is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the image and the glory of man. So woman was not created there when the Bible mentioned male and female. Okay. When the Bible mentioned male and female there, the Bible is talking about God's brain and God's mind. And we can go to, what, okay, help me understand. What is, what's the point you're trying to make though? Well, the point I'm trying to make is that the image of God is male and female. That is the point I am trying to make. If you were to go to Genesis five, one and two, you would see that it says, this is the book of the generation of Adam and the day that God created man and the likeness of God, he made him, male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Adam. Now see, he was not created in the image of God. And as a matter of fact, he was created later. If you read the chapters where God says, it is not good for man to be alone, that is when Eve was created. And Eve then still was not called female, she was called woman or woman. Okay, so if you read, like I said, when you read Genesis five, one and two, it tells us right here that God created them and called them Adam. And he created the male and the female was the brain and spiritual mind. Okay, let me see if I can help a couple of things out. Let's start off in 1 Corinthians 11. Let's go back there. Where it says that verse seven, before man ought not to have his head covered since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. Now, what we cannot say, what we can't take from there is to say that she also, it just, all it says is in verse seven, that but woman is the glory of man. It does not say that woman is not in the image of God. Now, let's go back to Genesis, because what we're doing is we don't want to... Excuse me, Corey, what do but mean then? But is a word of contrast. But is a word of contrast. But the woman is the glory of man. Now, when it says glory of man, it is also talking about the image of man. Well, you say so. Okay, so what you're doing is you're making... Let's do it this way. Let's do it this way. Was Eve and Adam created Genesis 26? Was they created on the sixth day? Adam was, the man was, the woman was not.  Okay, so hold on a minute. So let's go through this. So God created the female on the sixth day and he rested on the seventh day. Okay, let me ask you a question. Here's the point. Genesis one and Genesis two, they both give different sets of information about the same thing. We don't have two creation accounts, right? Because in chapter two, we get more detail or some extra detail about what happened in Genesis one. Correct? So in gen... Hold on, hold on, hold on. And this is how Hebrew is written and understood. He says then, verse 26, then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Now the word for image refers to form. The word for likeness is for function. And so they will, and so we will make mankind and this word for man is the word. The generic word for it is just all of mankind or it could also refer to, it could also refer to Adam himself. But as we read further, he says, according to our likeness and let them, now the them, as he says so, wasn't created. At the time, there was only one person that was created at that time. When he says, so what he's doing is, what Moses is doing is giving a summary of what happened. Because remember, Moses is speaking to people who weren't there, he himself was not there. So he says, then God said, let us make man according to our image. It doesn't mean that God fulfilled all of mankind being made. We know he's speaking of a plurality of mankind because he says, let us make them. So clearly he's not speaking of the first person only that he speaks of in Genesis one. In Genesis one, we see the creation of the earth the first day, the second day, the third, fourth, and fifth, and sixth. We also see a summary of it again in chapter two. How do we know? Verse one, chapter two says, thus the heavens and the earth were completed and all their host by the seventh day, God completed his work which he had done and he rested on the seventh day. Then God blessed the seventh day. Now, verse four, this is what we have. It is, there's what we call this. You know, I won't even say it because I don't want to confuse anyone. But he says, this is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and heaven. So now we're going to get a summarization. We're going to get more information about what we just heard. We're going to get more detail. We're going to see the detail of when he brings animals to Adam. We're going to see when he creates woman. So what you're doing is you're- I understand all of that, but you're missing the point. You're not answering the question. Okay, you said that right here when you read Genesis one and six, you said that the image is the form of God and the likeness is the what of God? Function. That's what those two words mean. Well, God has no form. So when God was talking about image, he was not talking about a physical body. I didn't say it was a physical body. I didn't say form does not always relate to physical. So I never stated that it was physical. The problem is I think you're making some assumptions such as woman was not created. So you make the statement and- It just said that the reason why that a woman is to cover her head is because she was not made in an image of man. No, it didn't say that. It said, no, it did not say, it did not say she was not made in an image of man. It said that it spoke about her glory. Let's go back to it. In this passage- They did say glory, but what did it say before man? It says that- In regards to man, hold on, wait a second. This is what we call isogeny. You're adding into the text. Let's read the text again. What we can gain from the text in verse seven is that man ought not to have his head covered since he is the image of God. So we can glean that man was made in the image of God. Now stop right there, now stop right there. Now, if man is not to cover his head because he was made in the image of God and woman is to cover her head, then that is your proof that she is not made in the image of God. Because if she was made in the image of God- Here's how we know, hold on, hold on. Sir, she too would not have to cover her head. Well, here's the problem with that. It literally says that they were made in the image. And so for you to come back and say that she was not- Hold on, wait a second, wait a second. Wait a second. I'm trying to understand. Well, hold on, because hold on. I've got a lot of folks here and so I can't, this is gonna be a lengthy discussion. And so I- How about this, how about this?  How about this? I don't know. Honestly, I don't know if I necessarily want to. I don't know how fruit was gonna be. Send me an email and we can talk, all right? And then we can go from there. Okay, good enough. I have to say this a couple of times, but yeah, I'd rather do this backstage because I like what you do. I see what you do with Jake's and all of those. We're on the same page and all of those guys. I like what you do, but yeah, I would like, yeah. That's what I do. I send you an email and we'll go from there. Okay, all right. And so guys, and I've got Brianna coming on. I've got Zach and Andre and Jeff and Jerome. And so y'all give me a brief second, but I wanna hit this point really briefly. What we see here in 1 Corinthians 11-9, we see that man is made in the image of God. I'm sorry, that man is the image of God. So don't cover your head because you are the image of God and the glory of God, but woman is the glory. Now, could you deduce, could you take away from that that woman is also not in the image? Well, that didn't say so. But how you can determine fully to make sure if woman is in the image of God is because if we go to Genesis 1-26, he literally says he created them, male and female, he created them in his image. And so that nullifies the point. Now, I understand there are different doctrines out there that folks might wanna try to change so forth, but again, this literally says what woman was made, who woman was made in the image of. So that being the case, let me go to, let me, Brianna was next. Hold on one second. Wait a minute, I'm making sure I'm hitting right. Okay, there we go. Brianna, how are you doing, sweetheart? Wait a second, uh-oh, hold on, hold on. There we go. All right. Can you hear me? Hello, yeah, can you hear me? I can hear you. All right, so first of all, I just want to thank you for your channel because like it's been really helpful on like my journey and stuff with getting to know God and creating a relationship and everything. And it's kind of hard to find like good teachers and stuff and like good ways to learn and good ways to study that actually wanna teach you how to do these things so you can do them on, you know, your own and stuff. So I just want to thank you for that. But like one question I did have was like finding a good church because like I've been struggling finding a church to go to for like me and my family. Where are you? I'm in Chicago, like the south side of Chicago. Well, first of all, there's a problem. Why don't you just move over to the east and move to Indianapolis? That's where you need to go. That's the number, no, I'm kidding. I'm messing with you, I'm messing with you. I'm scared of Indiana. What? Well, hold on, wait a second, wait a second, wait, hold on, all right. Why are you afraid of Indiana? I've been there, it looks like a ghost town. Where at? You ever seen SpongeBob? I went to, well, okay, there's my second problem. I went to Gary. I was in Gary. Wait, she said I went to Gary. Well, you're right, there's your problem. You went to Gary, don't go to, there's nothing in Gary. Listen, the Jackson's left for a reason. So, well, in all seriousness, let's do this. Guys, anybody in the chat who knows of a good church, I know of one person definitely who was in Chicago. I know of a moderator that we have who was in Chicago. And so maybe she can help you. Do me a favor, send me an email and I'm gonna send you some different churches. And Lisa, help her out. Lisa is in Chicago. Matter of fact, you can tell us if she goes to a good church. No, I'm just kidding, I'm kidding. But we can find you a church in Chicago. Lisa goes to, well, the Sir Walter Jones's church. Lisa goes to Sir Walter Jones's brother's church. And listen, that might not float you both. There might be some other churches that you might wanna go to. So we'll find you one. We're gonna find you one. Surely the guy, there's some good churches in Chicago. Yeah, cause I went to, like I've been going to different churches, but like I'm kinda like, it's big for me to find a church that's good on doctrine. Cause like I don't like to just hear stuff like, you know, the claim you're blessing right now, you know that kind of stuff. I wanna hear like, I wanna be really convicted. So it's like, I wanna be able to learn. I want somewhere where like my family can go to learn. I have a younger brother and it's like, it's kinda hard because I'm trying to, I want him to be on a good path. I don't want him to go down, you know, a wrong path. And he's a really good kid. So it's like, also another question would be like, should I, how would I go about like teaching him about the gospel, maybe like just like showing him some things or like, should I just leave that up to somebody else? How old is he? He's, he's 12. He's 12? Yeah, cause I, well, I knew he couldn't be that old because you can't be that old. You, I'm 19. Okay, okay. There we go. So listen, be an example to your little brother. Now you're, you're a good, a good enough age difference where you're not competitive with your, with your younger sibling, right? Now me and my siblings, we were competitive cause we were closer in age. And so I looked up to him, but also didn't like him.   Just set an example. And you know what? There's enough real life examples in Chicago. Hey, listen, this is what happens when you don't serve or follow the Lord. And if, and since, listen, kids want to be different. They want to be different. They want to be rebellious. They want to be, they want to stand out. Well, since the majority of the world ain't serving the Lord, there's a prime way that you can stand out, be different and watch everybody see you. And so, and there's, there's, there are a few examples of people who claim to serve the Lord who are public point them to them, point them to yourself.  You're not thinking about killing yourself. You've got, you've got peace and joy. By the way, everybody, if you are struggling and you know someone is looking up to you, that, that's enough of a, a reason to kind of push yourself. Cause I know someone is watching me. I know someone is looking me. And so I wanted, my mother would always say, listen, I, I'm a, I'm a, I'm going to be all right. Cause I have to be. And I didn't catch what she meant when I was a little when she said that, but I have to be for you all. I got to look the part, be the part. Sometimes you don't feel like being strong, but dog owner, somebody's, somebody's counting on me to be strong. So for your little brother to show him, your little brother should think that you are the coolest sister. Do you have any other sisters? Yeah, I have, I have, I'm the oldest. Okay. So, so he going to think that, that my big sister is the coolest. My big sister, Layla is the coolest. I'm sorry, Brianna is the coolest. I'm thinking of Layla. She's the coolest. So therefore, therefore he going to see what one, he going to see what a godly woman looks like. He's going to see what a godly person looks like. And so again, all you can do is all you can do. And one of the things you can do is just live holy before him and, and make an example. I, you know, make an example before him. Yeah. Yeah. And I definitely try to like, in my car, we don't play nothing, but gossip, we've got to be trying to show him. I'm like, look, this cool. I'm like, look, it could be different. I'm trying to say all these kids trying to do the same thing. And you know, you say you want to be different. Let's follow God. You know what I'm saying? Let's believe Jesus. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get a buddy of mine who just got out of prison. He, now listen, he is, he's a, he's a rapper and they, and other big rappers know him. His name, his name is Twisted Black. We were at two yards together. I'm trying to, I'm trying to get ahold of him because I really would like people to hear his testimony. I would like for him to become, it's just me putting out there. Hopefully he hears it. But me, I would like for him to be a little bit more, because he's got talent. But what he can tell you is, his testimony is what it's like being out there in those streets. He's got a big, this is where he gets termed Twisted. He's got this, this, this big bruise, his scar right here, right?  He just happened to turn to where it got the edge of him. And so, now he doesn't do Christian rap, but you'll hear him speaking about God because he knows, he knows intellectually.  Good dude, however, and I'm saying in the prison sense, but he can, his life is a testimony as to listen, if I do the wrong thing, what can happen, what the streets offer, he was blessed. And it's my prayer that he turns around and just, I would love for him to do Christian rap. I would love for that to be his thing, but we'll see, but just what happened and how he got to prison is also a testimony.  There's a lot of guys that was on the streets that can tell you what not to do. And it don't really end up well. And so, be real with him, let him know what it is out there, but let him also know that it don't have to be like that. And so, you do your very best to be an example for him and for your family. Yeah, I definitely try. I feel like, because I have a couple of cousins and it's just like, I really do try to be an example to like my whole family. So like, I wasn't, I wouldn't say I was not into God, but I was just trying to live my life. I felt like, oh yeah, I'm young, I got time, I could do this, I could do that. But it's like a lot of stuff didn't happen in the past year that just really made me take, you know, God more serious in knowing that I can't, I can't, life will just not go right without him and just being in his will will not be, you know, is not a place that I want to be, is not in his will. So it's like a lot of my cousins, they got kind of closer, they started to see like, okay, you know, I feel like it is a lot of young people that's starting to understand that like the street is not where it's set, outside, parties, drunk, all the time it's not where it's set and they starting to get like, they starting to get like closer to Christ. I feel like that's just what I've kind of noticed, but yeah, I wanna thank you again for like your teaching. Oh, and I, okay, I do have another question, I do have another question. I'm so sorry. It was about your timeline, cause I had, I wrote down your timeline for the, you know, the Bible study like the chronological order for it and everything. So I was wondering how, how you got that just so like, you know, if somebody were to ask me, we're like, okay, well, how did you get this? Like I could get him an answer. Like, well, you know, I watched this, I watched this channel, he goes online and you know, I asked him how he got there and I could find it for myself, if you know what I mean. So where did I get the timeline from? Yeah, like, how did you get the timeline? Well, the timeline is actually spelled out in the Bible, even if you have like a, if you have a chronological Bible, it, you know, kind of have it written in the order. A lot of Bibles, especially those with commentary will tell you when certain books were written, but there was a former professor and he was on the channel before Dr. Christopher Cone. When I say the brother's brilliant, this brother is brilliant. He's the guy that I said that he would come in the class and he would have his Hebrew and Greek Bible with no English in it. And he's sitting there reading the text like, wait a second, wait a second, I've seen that Bible. And he's reading it fluently. That comes from him. Matter of fact, I would say, what is the name of that, doggone, what is the name of that video? There's a video that I did. I think it's, I don't know the name of this video. Let me find out, oops, I pushed the wrong thing. Let me find out what the name of this video is before you get off, because I want you to go to it. Let me see if I type his name in. Cone, is he, no, doggone it. Reading, I'm trying to look up the, where is this doggone thing? I'm trying to figure out, oh, selfish. It's called selfish Bible reading. Selfish, okay, doggone it. Hold on, I'm trying to figure out where do I have this. I know it's, I know it's on your channel. Yes, but I'm trying to figure out the actual name of it. Hermann, no, that's not it either. Where's this thing at? I'm gonna find this thing and post it, because we talk about in that particular video, just how we should be reading. There's a way, and I'll talk about it on next week, how to become a professional, how to become a Bible superstar in one day. Just little basic ways of reading it, and if you just follow this little formula, how we read it, I think most people's Bible knowledge will just increase simply because I'm reading it in the right order that it should be written in. Selfish, oops, I can't spell selfish. I'm trying to, I can't remember, Lord, I can't even remember the title of this thing, which is sad. Okay, I'm putting all these little keywords on my own, on this 91. Okay, I'm gonna find this, I'm getting ready to find this thing before you get, I want you to know it before you get off, and others will find it out as well. Lord, where's this thing at? Where are you at? Where are you at? I don't, I can't find this little silly thing. I don't know where this thing is. I've got, I know exactly where I can find it. Hold on one second. I'm not letting you go until I find it. Give me one second. I know exactly where to find it. I can go to, Bible, let me say this also, guys, we are going to, we are going to have this website, the reason why the website has slowed down in terms of, where's it at? In terms of why it hadn't come out yet, because there's something that I'm trying to do, I think I told you guys before, that at some point in time, where is it? I think this is it right here. It's called, nope, that's not it. Where is this thing? There it is. It's, hold on. There it is. There it is. It's called, oh, what's wrong with the way, what's the wrong, oh, what's the wrong way to read the Bible? That's it. What's the wrong way to read the Bible? Okay, so, let me push this as well, bring some other folks in. So go to that video and listen to kind of how we're talking. There's some other ones, the Bible study methods and so forth, and just use those applied to yourself. And in terms of timeline, this actually comes from his book. And I told him, I said, listen, I've stolen it. I've kind of re-edited it, but it's his work. And it just works. I was reading it that way anyway, but didn't have it in front of your face. You kind of see like, you know what, this is pretty cool. So anyway, and people are asking, is that Brianna? That's Brianna. Well, I'm Brianna P. I think you guys have another Brianna on the channel, but I'll be in the chat sometimes when I can catch a live. Okay, okay. Well, today you are the Brianna. Okay, period. All right, sweetheart, I'm gonna let you go. I gotta go grab some other people. All right, thank you so much. You be blessed, baby. You also. All right. All righty, let me go to Andre in the chat. Hold on one second, let me bring Andre on. Andre, sorry about the wait. How you doing, my friend? I don't know how about yourself. Can you hear me? I'm wonderful, I am wonderful. Okay, good, good, good. I would first of all like to thank you for your channel. I grew up in a very, very word of faith. Pentecostal church got saved out of it two years ago. And ever since then, I've been watching your videos and it actually has helped me and growing my Bible knowledge and basically helped me get closer to God. Oh, amen. Thank you, I appreciate that. I appreciate that.  So when I'm talking to people and I go to Greek, they're like, why are you doing that? I'm like, well, here's what it says in the original language and stuff. So, yeah. Yeah, thank you. But I do have two questions for you. One, I feel like God has been calling me to be a preacher or pastor for the longest. And, you know, part of me doesn't want to because I don't know, I just don't want to hassle. But at the same time, there's a bigger, deeper part of me is like, that's what I want to do. And there's times when I'm like reading the Bible, then I can just, everything clicks. There's times where, I don't know, there's times I just want to just teach, you know. I do Sunday school now at church and I'm teaching kids and I was discipled by old pastor before he left and he was the reason why he told me he's like, you should do Sunday school if you want to be a pastor. And with him, he actually helped me in giving topics to write the sermons that I'd be writing my own sermons. And he's like, you're almost there. But so, what can I do to be a pastor? Cause I'm married, I know some people say you should go to Sunday school seminary and I don't have the time for it or the money. So, first of all, first thing, if you feel called but you don't want to, then don't do it. Do it when you want to. He says that anyone that desires to do it, they desire a good, it's a good thing that they desire. But you need to, if, cause it might be that maybe you should sometime in the future, but not now, okay? And so don't do it before, but then again, you want to make sure that it's you. Make sure that if you want to go into pastoring, the most important thing is the use of your tool. Someone in the military, if they're not good with their weapon, you don't might not want to be there. If you're going to be a pilot, but you can't fly a plane, you can't be a pilot. If you want to be a basketball player and you don't know how to dribble a basketball or shoot it, you can't do it. Same with football, right? So make sure that you can handle the word properly. If you look through what Paul is telling Timothy and Titus, so we've got three books to Timothy and Titus, first and second Timothy and Titus, look at what Paul is urging them to do in terms of teaching. It's very important you have sound doctors. You got to be able to handle the word. Now, you're not going to handle the exact same with someone else does because you might come to a different conclusion. But be able to answer questions or be able to go and look. But another thing is you need to, as Peter says, be able to shepherd the flock of God. And so what that means is shepherd them the way that you would shepherd your family. First things first, make sure that your household is in, or not perfect, but that you manage your household. Make sure that however you want to go is the way you want to go.  If you can do that at home, then now you can do it in the big picture. Because remember the qualifications is that he must be able to manage his own household. A person that can't do that, he's going to struggle and fail with the bigger house of God, right? And this is in the place where you want to go and experiment. So make sure that you are a leader. And how do you know you're a leader? Well, look back. If someone's following you, then you don't have to be a good leader to be a leader. Hitler was a bad leader, but he was a evil leader, but he was a good leader because look who followed him. Same thing with Ben Laden. You can be a wicked leader, but still a leader. Look back and see who's following you. And then if you want to see what kind of a leader you are, look at the kind of people that are following you. And so if you're working with youth or other people right now, then see if your message, your point is getting across. If they can come and ask you, if they want to see that you love them, to know that you know the word, which means that three, you love the Lord, not in any particular order, but that's how you, that's what you want to do.  And then just move. Trust God, but as long as you know his word, and as long as you know him, then fine. He says, if you desire to do so, then it's a good thing, but you need to make sure that you're desired. No one's pushing you to do it. Be a forceful, be a, I say this, if you're going to be a pastor, be an aggressive pastor, meaning that you're going to pastor aggressively, that the thoughts, the hearts, the mind of the people that you're shepherding, they are fully at the forefront of what you're doing. Obviously your family by them. And so letting up and get in the way of that. In terms of seminary, you don't need to have to go to seminary to be a pastor, but what you want to do is, if you can't go to seminary, bring the seminary to you, meaning that you should be studying as often as you possibly can, that you should be drilling down into the tool that you have, which is the Word of God. And so that's really all that you want to do. And so if you can do that and you feel like that the Lord is going to bless you and that everything, go ahead and do so. Oh, I'm sorry. One last thing, make sure that you, I would say, find some, at least one other man or some other man that also will go along a side with you to help you. Oh God. Go. And then, so I am, well, my wife, she's not a full believer, but we're working on that, starting devotionals and... Well, now listen, now listen, if she's not a believer, well then that's gonna hinder you because you have to, she has to be a believer. Okay, her walk affects yours. And so now that is your first ministry.  Your household must be, according to Titus, must be a believing household. Now, if you've got grown children and they're doing their own thing, that's different, but Paul writes it with the expectation that the house that you are shepherding is a household of believers. So if it's two people there, three, four, that's a lot easier to deal with their souls than it is if it's 40 people or a hundred or a thousand. Are you with me? Yep, yep. So that has to be first and foremost. Amen? Okay. All right, brother, listen, I gotta run, I got like six, yeah, six people in the chats. Okay, I'll ask my question at a different time then. But we're gonna do this again. So I'll probably do this again next week. So matter of fact, I'm gonna do this again next week. So moderates remind me, I'm doing this again next Friday. So if you're coming to work on the faith in the chat. So if you see my question, that's my question. What is your name? Contenders of the faith. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, all right. Wait, all right, brother, I'm gonna let you go. All right. God bless you and your endeavors, brother. Thank you. You have a good day. Okay, so I've got Jeff coming up next, then Jerome, then Zach, then Julian, then Micah, and then Cody. I feel like a radio show host. Wait a second, did I see, did I see, is 1689 here yet before I continue? Is federal theology here yet? Yeah, I'm seeing if he's here. Because he wanted me to answer his question. He didn't want me to answer it until he got in. So y'all let me know if he's here. I thought I saw him as somebody else's profile, but let me go to Jeff. I wanna say, like I said, a radio station, we got Jeff and Lincoln. Jeff, how are you doing, Jeff? Wait a minute, Jeff, where yet? Okay, Jeff, I'm gonna come back to you, Jeff. I'm gonna come back to you later, Jeff. Uh-oh, what'd I just do?  All right, let me go to, Jeff, hold up until you show back up. You'll be next when you show back up. Let me go to Jerome. Are you ready? Let's bring on Jerome. All right, Jerome, are you there? Yes. I have a question. Can you hear me? Yeah, take your computer. I can raise my voice if I want to go with it. I have a friend who's also, I have a friend who's also blind, and I go to SSA, Stephen F. Austin State University with him. Uh-huh. And we both go to the same church at Grace Bible Church here in New York. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on, I'm getting some feedback on your end. Do you have something else? I can hear you, but I'm getting some feedback. Do you have something else that's open? Anyway, I'm gonna get to that question. Do you have a blind friend who goes to Stephen F. Austin State University here in Nacodotus, where I attend, and we both go to Grace Bible Church. And I'm trying to encourage him to share the gospel, but he's very fearful of being rejected and persecuted. What can I do to encourage him? And it's not just being rejected, but not just being rejected by other students, but also being rejected by other students or even the professors, because there are some of them who don't believe in God. So what can I do to help them out? And there are also professors that go to my church as well. How can I help them out? What can you do to help a shy person become more outward when it comes to sharing the gospel? Yes. Again, all you can do is all you can do. And so I would say this, have them, if they want to, well, first we gotta ask if they want to. You can't make a person do it, but they want to. I didn't talk to him and he wants to, but he's just scared to do it because fear of being cussed at and rejected. Well, two things he needs to know. Two things he needs to know. One, you're going to get rejected. That's the life that we live as believers. That's the life that, that's what we signed up for, so to speak. So he's going to have that time. But if he wants to kind of ease into it to where, because everybody hates the fear of rejection and being told no and so forth. So I would say this, give them some tracks and pass out tracks and then ask them, hey, can I pray for you?  Is there anything that I go to such and such church? Is there anything that you could use? That you could, you know, any questions you'd like to have answered? Any of those things. Ask them to get in touch with, if your church has an evangelism team, then have him to get with them because being around other people. But also another thing that he can do is to go out with other people who are excited about sharing the gospel. So him and another person can go out because it's easier when it's someone else with you. So that would be what I would do. And I know that there are professors at my school, which is a state university, but they would love to share the gospel and pray for people. So I use them, I do with them during lunch, like every Tuesday, he was one of them. And I'm a very good friend with them, with the professors who go to church with me. And I pray for them every day too. So what I'm gonna try to do is also invite Trevor to eat with us too. Okay. I wanted to feel at ease and feel more comfortable knowing that he doesn't have to fear of being rejected. Yeah, that is something that, unfortunately, we're called to do it, but we're not all called to do it the exact same way. And so you don't have to necessarily be out in the front to share the gospel. You can be part of a team. So that's fine. That's fine, just do it. Just do it, stick your toes in the water. Put one toe in, then the next time put two toes in. Yes. I'm currently doing that as we speak about it actually. So I'm gonna try to, I'm still praying for him and I'm gonna talk to him, see if there's anything I can pray for him for and then go from there. Yeah. So that's what I wanted to say. Okay. Because I'm concerned for him spiritually as well. So what's that? His name is Dr. Borgard, he's a peace professor too. He really encouraged me by telling me that we're gonna get rejected and not to lose heart. So it's really a breath of fresh air to hear a professor who is into the gospel and encouraged me as an SFA student not to lose heart. Amen. Amen. What do you guys, you guys are the, hold on, the Stephen F. Off, are you the Lumberjacks? I am a Lumberjacks, yes. Okay, okay. I was trying to see if I knew my Texas college mascots. So. Yeah, I'm not just any Lumberjacks. I'm a Lumberjacks who loves Jesus Christ. Amen. And I've been through the Dr. Jack program at Grace Bible Church. And actually Dr. Borgard was actually my first, Dr. Borgard is actually my original Dr. Jack and we have a relationship with that too. Okay. And I remember when I first got to Nacodotus, I was spiritually broken when I first got there. Like after all the racial, after all the racial incidents and after that incident that happened, it took place. I was just, I was really down to myself. Like long story short, I realized it was not just the students that loved on me, but even the professors who loved God. And Dr. Borgard, Dr. Borgard has been an inspiration. His name is Dr. Matt Borgard. Very inspirational with me. And I'm just so blessed to have him and Dr. Scott LaGrathe as well and Dr. Jonathan Mitchell. I'm grateful for these guys. Wait a minute. Amen. Amen. Well, listen. I'm gonna have to. I felt that kind of love from professors and I realized it was God working through them to bless me with what I've been looking for. Long story short, God watering me just really changed my heart for the better. Amen. Nowadays I'm serving at Grace Bible Church where I attend. What I do is hold the door open for people and hand out bulletins. And there's a professor who also rails out the sermon notes, congregational prayer and the worship lyrics. Her name is Dr. Heather Monroe and God bless her. Amen. Well, listen, Jerome. I've gotta let you go. I've got six more people in mind. That's all I wanted to say anyway, so. Keep us in touch with me. Let me know how I was going with your friend as well. All right? As well.  All right. God bless you, brother. God bless you too. All right. Okay, I've got Jeff coming up next. By the way, I'm gonna try to run through these and then get to some of the questions you all submitted as well. Jeff, what's going on, my brother? How you doing? Did I finally get it working? It's working. You in? Right on. It's because I'm not bald yet. I can't figure it out. Listen, that's what it is. God, listen. God loves you just not as much as the bald people. Right, I get it, man. I get it. Yeah, I'm just gonna quickly say, you know, now that I've had enough tissues that clear my eyes from seeing your conrad, reckon us all. Which Jeff are you? The Jeff. Not the one that you released from Bondage Zero. All right, okay.  Jeff Ellenberger. That's what I thought. That's what I was thinking. Jeff, what's going on, brother? Not too much, man. Not too much. I like to be able to put a face to the profiles. Yeah, same, same. How are you today? Yeah, I'll keep it short. Good, man, good. I'll keep it short because I know that there's a lot of people with questions, but I just wanted to say, you know, honestly, man, I think a senior conrad touched on it all, like the amount of difference you've made in everybody's life, the amount of work and effort that you put into it, man. That's, I know flattery's a sin, so I'm telling you it's the truth, the amount of difference you've made for us. I think I can speak for everyone in the chat when I say you have no idea how much you've done for us. You all don't know. You all don't know how much that actually blesses me. You all really don't know. I think that what I do is pretty, I don't say it's easy, but it's easy.  And so there have been some folks that have changed, and so I do appreciate you guys saying that. It encourages me all the more just to keep going. So I do appreciate that. Yeah, well, and again, I know you say that it comes easy, but I mean, that's part of what we were talking the other day about gifts from God, right? So that's part of it is that for you, it comes natural. And for a lot of people, it doesn't. And that's the thing God's using you in that way, right? So it's a blessing as much to you, even if you don't notice it, it's death. So... Hey, Jeff, where are you from? Yeah. I'll say one word and see if you can figure it out, about. Oh, you're in Canada. Oh, he's in Canada. I'm in Canada. We're it. So it's a place called Kingston. It's kind of like in between Toronto and Ottawa. Okay. So now, when you coming down south to, I wouldn't, well, you know what I was going to say, as though America's better, but we're not, we're not getting bad down here. I don't know that anywhere in the world is better, but I think my fellow Canadians would say with what's going on right now in the, I mean, I guess I was going to say leaders, but I mean, you guys have your own problems as well. I think I might be coming down to Texas a little sooner than I think. Pack my bags. They man, they man. I think the only, I think it's sad when the most godly place on earth is Antarctica. I think that might be the most godly place. And we're not even sure of that because they keep most of it under wraps anyway, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was just going to ask a real quick question because normally I asked you super long ones, intense ones, and it sounds like I'm smart, but it's because we only have 150 characters. I have to use bigger words. But in 28 of Samuel, second Samuel, sir. In second Samuel, 28? Second Samuel, 28. Okay. Where's my cursor? Ah, don't go on it. This cursor is okay. I've got this other computer in the front and it's not supposed to connect to that, but it's connecting to it. So, second Samuel and what chapter in verse? 20 and then verse eight. Oh, oh, 20 and eight. Okay. Yes. Okay, and what's your question? So just the summary because this piggybacks off of the previous chapter when Daniel says about Amasa being his permanent commander and that if it doesn't happen that way, all these curses upon me, et cetera. And then we see in this part when Joab actually kills Amasa. But the way it's written, and I've looked at different textual variances, I can't tell if it's on purpose that he's doing it or that it's an accident because it's like his sword falls out and then the way they embrace each other, but they also just kind of disregard his body.  Okay, let me hold on one second. You know what? Because you always ask. There are a couple of people that ask questions that make, okay, I can't, this is gonna be, I'm gonna take some time. Glory, glory. The Lord gives his best warriors the hardest thing, right? So I mean, we gotta give you the hard questions, so. There is a variant here. Okay, let me read this. Let me read from verse one down to eight. Now I'm gonna put it on the screen. Now again, the anger of the Lord burned against Israel and incited David against him to say, go number Israel and Judah. The king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, go about now through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bathsheba and register the people that I may know the number of the people. But Joab said to the king, now may the Lord your God add to the people 100 times as many as they are while the eyes of my Lord, the king still see. But why does my Lord the king delight in this thing? Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to register the people of Israel. They crossed the Jordan and camped in Eor, I'm sorry, in Eror, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward Jezeir. Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tatim Hachi. And they came to Dan, John and around Sidon and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and to other Canaanites and went out to the south of Judah to Bathsheba. So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of the nine months and Joab gave the number of the registration of the people to the king. And there were an Israel 800,000 valued men who drew the sword and the men of Judah were five. And let me back up and read this really, really briefly. Hold on one second. Let's see. Sorry, Chad, I thought I was actually asking a quick question. No, okay, well, ask your question again. Ask your question again. So, yeah, so it's just, and again, it's not on you Corey. It's just, I always ask things that are a little more, have a little more to them, but so in 28, verse eight of 20, it talks about how Joab's approaching Amasa. And this is after 19, when David had made the statement that Amasa, you'll be my commander forever. And then as Amasa approaches Joab, Joab's sword falls out of his sheet and Amasa doesn't notice it. And then they embrace, like how are you doing, et cetera, and they embrace, but the way that it's written and the contextual variants that I've looked at, it doesn't seem like Joab is purposefully stabbing him and killing him. But then the result of after his death, they just kind of like push aside his body, get it out of the way. Which verse is that? Which verse is that? So that's 20, sorry, so chapter 20, verse eight, second statement. You know what, what, oh Lord. I sent you on the, No, okay, this is the problem. The problem, I don't know if y'all noticed this. The problem was what I was reading was not chapter 20. I was reading. I thought you were taking that to add to it. No, I was reading chapter 20. I'm thinking, wait a second, okay, okay. I was reading chapter 29. Wait a second, huh? Okay, so here it is. So when they were at the large stone, which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was dressed as a military attire and over his belt was, okay. So now your question, now, okay, fine. Now what was your question now, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, no, no, you're good. So it's just the way that it's written out, any textual variance I've looked at, the Hebrew and the Greek, there's nothing that really alludes to the fact that it was either an accident or deliberately Joab killing Amasa.  It's just hard for me to put it together. Why they disrespected his body that way, what led up to that? And was it on purpose that Joab killed him? Like was it him killing him like murder? Or was it an accident? And then it just went from there. Okay, since the belly ain't gonna do that. It was too long a question. We can move on to other people. Well, we're in, well, we're invested now. Yeah. The word is used here, it's just simply fell out. So it looks like it was accidental. And he grabs him by the beard and pulls him close to give him the ceremonial kiss like hello. Yeah, which is fun. And he ends up stabbing him. It was just an accident. As all I can see as I'm reading is just an accident. Yeah, so then why then the following where they just kind of dismiss his body and like nothing comes of it. You know what? The army marches up and like... Let me look at this. I don't know, because it's like, nothing is just there, you know, just kind of happenstance just put there. So there's a reason why it's there. No, that's why I'm thinking about it. Yeah. Okay, where's my pin? Oh, I'm going to Jeff. Jeff's doing homework. I know, I can't, I don't have my YouTube on right now but I know for a fact there's a bunch of hashtags that I'm going to right now and probably my name right after. What's the deal? Jeffing it up. With, got to write his name right. Okay, I'm going to figure this out. I'm going to figure this out. Matter of fact, we'll be here at this particular, well probably about three weeks we'll be in this chapter and the Bible's under itself. Yeah, I was going to say we're probably coming up. Yeah, give me some time on this. Give me some time on this and I'll see what I can come up with, what the deal is. I don't think there's much to be made out of the fact that he was killed accidentally but why is this there? Yeah, and again, just because it piggybacks off of what David had said about bring curses on me if you're not. Yeah, now you've got me kind of intrigued. So let me, I'm going to look into this. All right, well anyways, you got a ton of other people coming up and a ton of good questions coming up. Yeah, I do, yeah I do. I've got, who's up next? Let's see, Julian and Micah, Cody, then Pastor Trey, Trev. Oh, I'm sorry, BJ's next. Bernard is next, this is BJ. So he's next and so, yeah, what is it? Six, seven people? So, all right. Yeah, at least another six hours, you're fine. Yeah, look what ChessChap said. ChessChap, that's a good question. I have to go back and check, yeah, yeah. All right, my brother, I will talk with you later. Thanks, Gary, good seeing you, brother. Thank you. Okay, let me go to Mr. Bernard. Brother, how are you doing? Can you see me? I can see you and I can hear you. I can't, okay, that's good, that's good, that's good, that's good. I recently saw a video about a gentleman by the name of Michael Pearl. He said that there is no such thing as a sinful nature. I just wanted you to do a video about that because I believe there is. He said that, yeah, he said there's nowhere in the Bible. He said some people just be making it up. And he said Calvin is using it as a reason to say that we're so depraved that we need God to regenerate us before we could believe in Christ. So I just, it really was troubling me and bothering me to the point where I was just like, I always believed this. So, I just want you to do a video about it if you don't mind. Okay, that's no problem. Let me, matter of fact, let me just put this on the screen, we just cover a brief portion of it and I'll do a video of it. It's not, I think sometimes what happens is that people will hear certain things that maybe let's say Calvinists would agree with, that they don't agree with and they'll ascribe everything that Calvinists that believe, that they believe that if I disagree with this part, I gotta disagree with everything that they believe. This issue about a sinful nature is that, that's not, that shouldn't be debated. Let's put it on the screen. This is Ephesians 2-3, among them we do all formally lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging in the desires of our flesh and of the mind and were by nature children of wrath. And so even as the rest, our nature, our natural stance is children of wrath. And so, and he says that while we were enemies, Christ died for us. And so our natural nature is this, it's enmity towards God. Now, as a believer, has that been changed? Well, yes. But it sounds like the guy that you're talking about doesn't believe that our nature previous to our hearts being changed was that of children of wrath. Well, he clearly says that we were by nature, children of wrath. We have a natural disdain towards God. Even if we wanna do right, we'll do right for a hot second, but then go back to what we really are. And so, because he says the heart is desperately wicked or desperately sick, we go astray from the moment we're born, from the womb, that's just who we are. Tell him to go find his first, just the nearest neighborhood two-year-old and watch the two-year-old do things. Well, that's something wrong. Something's wrong, the little two-year-old. Well, no, that's just his sin nature. He just likes to do bad stuff because that's just who kids are. And so, I don't know why he would say that, but I'll tell you what, I'll definitely do that. I will definitely do that for you, brother. And do me a favor. If you look at Michael Poro and you look and watch your video to help you see why he would say that. Michael Poro. Michael, like Michael Jordan, and then put Poro behind it. Michael. Poro. Look. He has good content, but it's just that video kind of bothered me yesterday because I was like, I always thought we had a sin nature. Well, we don't now, but then we did. Was he saying that we don't now or that we never did? He said that the flesh dies at salvation. Not the sin nature. It's the flesh that actually dies. And he's in crisis alive within us. Not the sin nature. He said the flesh dies. So he looked up the Greek word and I forgot what word. Okay, matter of fact, if you can email me, send me the link to that particular video. Yeah, I'll look at that. Paul, if that's the case, then Paul needs to be given an insight because Paul says that there's these two laws at war in him. These two, these two dueling. And I don't know, I can't remember Paul actually used the word nature, but I'd like to see that video. Yeah. That'd be, that'd be cool. One more question, Corey. I can't let you go, brother, because you still haven't answered my email. What's the email? What's email? You sit. I was supposed to be seeing you with some shirts, man. I designed logos. Send me, send. Okay, I'll tell you what. Email me again.  I'm gonna send you my phone number and then you and I can talk.  I appreciate it, brother. All right, now, do not, do not, do not change your profile name again. I've always been an indecisive person, man. I'm not gonna change it anymore, though. I'm messing with you, I'm messing with you. No matter how you change it, I'll know it's you, so. All right, man. All right, make sure you submit an email and I'll get you my number. All right. All right, talk to you later, brother. Okay, let me bring on Julian. Julian, how you doing, brother? Oh, wait a second, wait a second, I gotta, I'm sorry, I have everybody muted, so I don't hear the background. I'm sorry, brother, how are you doing? I'm doing well, thank you for asking. I hope you're doing well and God bless you for the work you do out here because there's so a lot of wrong teaching out there that anyone can get caught into, especially myself as a new Christian. Actually, I'm a Catholic by place of birth, was born in Puerto Rico, so pretty much everybody over there is a Catholic, but recently the Holy Spirit hit me, man, and I came into Christ and understand the purpose of Christ in this world and I found you and I wanna say thank God too for the work you do, man. It's amazing. Thank you, brother, I appreciate the kind words. Thank you, Julian. No, that's, no thanks, it's just the truth, but my question is, I wanna get, my local church, our pastor just this last week, said some strong words that I don't know, maybe your opinion, that God loves all of the LGBTQ community. Of course, God loves everyone, but especially that community and maybe I can get your thoughts on that. Especially that community. He doesn't love that community any more than any other community. He doesn't love them more than he loves the straight community. Everybody on the planet, he does love, but to what extent? Now, that being the case, a person, and I understand what people are getting at and they say that we might be ostracizing or zeroing or calling out one particular segment of sin more than others, but that still doesn't nullify the sin. That doesn't make the sin any less egregious to God. And God does, in many cases, point out the gravity of that particular sin. Because sexual sin tends to, because of how enticing it is to the flesh and it kinda makes you kinda double down. People that are caught in a sexual sin be it heterosexual or homosexual, you tend to wanna kinda be invested in that particular sin and fight it to the nail and make excuses. But in terms of God loving that community any more, no, just like he doesn't love a person who's heterosexual. This dog is in here, I thought she moved something. See, he doesn't like the heterosexual who is struggling with sin any more so than any other group. And so I'm not sure what his point is. Oftentimes today, though, a lot of folks are trying to make inroads to that community and there might be some compromise. I'm not saying that's what your pastor is saying. I hope that's not the case. But I don't think, you can't find a scripture that says that he loves that community or any other script community any more than another segment of the population. All right, no, no, I appreciate you clarifying that. It's just the way it was presented during the sermon on Sunday, it was just a little bit different. And I think there was, I wasn't the only one that was probably shocked when he said that. So, open. Did you guys ask him what he meant by that?  Cause I get, I say some things like, why did you say, oh yeah, hey guys, I said this when I should have said that it happened sometimes. So I would go to them and ask them, hey, listen, did you mean that or what did you mean by that? That's a good point that definitely gonna do that. I'm actually thinking about becoming a member at the church actually just so I can have not say, but ask more questions about some of the things that are brought up in church. Yeah, if a person's a pastor, the pastor should be open to, or if he's not available, then at least other people in leadership should, hey, I got a question, because if I can't ask you a question, well then I don't need to be one of the sheep here that you're shepherding. If the sheep can't come to the shepherd, well then I need to find a shepherd that I can come to, you know what I mean? And so I would go to him and ask him, and if he can't get to him, then ask someone else and see what maybe they're talking about, what he's talking about, maybe they can clarify, because you know what, maybe you're not the only one that's thought that. So. All right, appreciate you. Corey, God bless and God bless you too, brother. Get some dinner soon. Hey, bro, I'm hungry out here. Yeah, my daughter's still cooking, so dinner ain't even ready yet, so I'll, all right, I'll talk to you later, brother. Bye, take care. All right. Now we are going to go to my brother, Isaiah, Micah. How are you doing, brother? Can you hear? Yeah, I'm doing good, I'm doing good. How you doing, brother Corey? I'm doing wonderful, I'm doing wonderful. Now I get to see your face. How are you doing, brother Corey? Turn your, I think you got it. Do you have your computer on the background or something? Thank you, thank you. Or should I say, yes, I do actually, I'm gonna turn it down. Okay. Well, I have two questions, really. Okay. Well, my first question is, what do, there are a lot of people who have this, they have this thing about where they, where when they desire to go into Christian ministry and become a preacher or a pastor or whatever, they have this thing where they kind of feel like, but they kind of feel like they have to have this super spiritual experience, where they feel like they have to have like a vision or a dream or whatever, like a God or an angel appearing to them or anything like that. And I'm not saying that that can be, not legitimate in some cases, but I think one thing that I have been learning or at least have been thinking about a lot is like, what is it biblically speaking according to the scriptures, what are like some surefire signs that people should be looking out for that they've been called into the ministry? It's kind of similar to the question that the brother Andre guy had asked earlier, but it's just a little bit different from what he asked because it's just more like, I'm looking for like, what are the ways that you can know biblically speaking that you're called into the ministry? And what about like over-spiritualizing it? This was one of my, I know this because this was one of my ordination questions. How do you know you're called? Well, the Bible doesn't speak about a person in ministry being called, it's not there, in terms of the offices. And there's really only, truth to be told, there's really two offices that we know of, that's for us. That is the pastor, the shepherd, which the overseer and then the deacon. If you want to be, let's say the elder or the overseer, it's your desire. And so now, does that mean that God hadn't gifted you in some area where he could be calling you? I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that God doesn't call a person to that, but how you know that you should be there is if, as he says, you desire and then he gives a qualifications. And some of these qualifications, there's gonna have to necessarily be some giftedness from the Lord, being able to teach, you having a heart where you're hospitable and so forth.  This pastor lets us know how we know that we are called. Well, when we say that I was called, what I'm really, in many cases, I might be just giving my opinion, how I feel. Because there are a lot of people who would swear they were called and then ultimately in a year, two or three or four or five end up leaving. Well, then if you were called and you end up leaving, well, then was that the Lord or was that you? You just, you love the Lord, you like to teach or you like to preach. Does that necessarily mean that you ought to be before the people leaving the shepherd, leaving the flock? No, because there's a lot more to it. Can you deal with the people?  And they're pulling you this way and that way, there's a lot of politics. Pastor, sister so-and-so said this. No, sister so-and-so said that. What do you think about this? Everybody's gonna be a critic of the pastor. They don't like the color of the walls, the air conditioning temperature and the service is too cold. There's a lot of different things. Things you think are small that a pastor has to deal with. I'll never forget. And I've worked with some good pastors closely and to see, there's some things like, hey pastor, why are you dealing with this guy this way? Kick his butt out, right? Because that's just me. And then there are times where the pastor is wrong. I'll never forget there was one time the pastor wanted to put another guy out.   Meaning that he's gonna grow. And this was just a time where the pastor was just frustrated, things were happening. And I said, wait a second, wait a second. God didn't give you the good sheep only. He gave you sheep. And since sheep were naturally wayward, you gotta deal with him too.  Someone that you can talk to and because you can't be out there by yourself. So you gotta have a good support team at home. He's gotta be able to manage his home but also be able to listen to the people that are around him. But also that you gotta, you have to be a praying pastor. If you're not praying, you're not in his word, well then keep it to yourself. Be a Sunday school leader, right? Even a deacon, there's still qualifications for a deacon. So this is serious and you ought to take it seriously. And so people, one way that you can know is how do other folks see you? Cause that matters. How do the sheep, because if you're gonna shepherd these people, they need to see you in a positive light. But then also how do the people that are outside of the church, how do they see you? You know, I don't trust this guy. Now, if that's the prevailing thought because everybody is not gonna agree the same way about you. There are some folks, he shouldn't be a pastor. Well, that's fine. But if the overwhelming majority or if the majority of folks see you as pastoral, then that matters. You have to have a good reputation amongst those outside the body. And so somebody's gonna come and say, hey, listen, my guy, no, no, no, because he was this way. Well, what are the majority of folks? Some folks are never gonna get past that.  But how do people see you? So if you've done some things, I would say, you know, if you're involved in some sort of leadership right now, that's a good way to test and see how, you know, what sort of leader you would be if you're leading a bigger portion of the flock, right? The people that are following you, what's their life like? If the life of the people that are following you is trash or it's in shambles or this is all over, well, then that speaks to you also. So I don't know if you watch sports or do you watch sports? I think, I think, Micah, can you hear me? I do a little bit just basketball though. I'm not gonna be a football fan. That's fine, that's fine. Listen, it's even more so in basketball. The leader of the team kind of controls the direction of the team. The coach as well as the, let's say the star player, Michael Jordan, excellent leader. That team ran the way he wanted him to run, right? That's just a good leader is gonna affect everybody else as well. And so spiritually speaking, it should be the exact same way. You are going to, because look at how Paul is kind of teaching Timothy and how he's teaching Titus and who he's telling Titus to choose the kind of men, faithful men. And so those are the things that I would say in regard to that. You said you had another question as well? Yeah, my other question was basically, why do some people have this thing where they, well, it's just always bothered me. Like why do we have some preachers and pastors in the church that start out good, but they end up falling into so many scandals and stuff and embarrassing themselves in the church? Like I just want to ask you, what's your take on that? Well, a couple of things. One, you've got to have a support team around you. You've got to have men that hold you accountable. But two, you got to be saved. Everybody that's a pastor, they might look saved and may not be saved, right? But then also, I think one of the things that every pastor needs to have done is to have gone through some stuff to where he has some stability. Sometimes falls help you. Everybody, I don't know how old you are, you look fairly young, but older people can tell you they've learned a lot from not their successes, but from their failures. And about 25. Okay, okay, so you are young, not just in ministry, but just young period. And so me personally, I would never personally, not just because you're young, but because of the lack of experience. I could never follow a person who is let's say a pastor at your young age, right? As a matter of fact, even in Jewish culture, they didn't lay hold of you until you were at least 30, right? When people say that, when we talk about Timothy, Paul says, don't let anyone look down on your youth. Y'all realize Timothy was well over 30, probably in his 40s. Now that's not young, but he says Paul says, don't let anyone look down on your youth. And so because seasoning experience matters when here you are as a young person and this young woman who maybe she had meaning thing.  I surely enjoyed the way you preached. And she kind of batted her eyes and you didn't catch that, right? Or you did catch that and you didn't think, well, I can handle that. No, you can't. No, no, you can't. You need other men around you. You need, you need strong men. You need folks who hold your candle, but you need to have a strong prayer life. You need to know your word, but you need some wisdom because you gotta deal with these sheep who are gonna say some things, are gonna do some things and how do you handle them? And it's not a cutter way of dealing with one person. And so the reason why I've seen a lot of men fall is because when you say something good, you feel the patch on the back and it can go to your head. The one thing that I'm most grateful for is for my fall. People patting me on the back and telling me this and telling me that, then it went to my head and made me think that I can do anything. Now I see the result of me thinking that I can do anything. Yeah, you know what?  And so now, if someone gives me a compliment, I say, man, praise God. It actually does humble me and make me wanna even prove it even more so. But back then, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, God is, and that's what happens a lot. You can feel yourself and not get, and you can become detached from yourself. You have an inflated view of yourself. I'm some trash. I'm rotten, I'm horrible and I recognize that. I recognize that and how do I know the mere fact that I went through what I went through? That's nobody else's fault, but mine, I did that. I created that. Yeah, I could, I had the ability to build something, but I have an extraordinary ability to tear some stuff down, to mess up stuff. And I have, and as always, as David says, my sin is always before me. I know how messed up I am. And I'll never forget that. And even, and here's the cool part. There are people that's gonna remind me of my failures. And I'm not all that bothered by it. I'm not bothered because someone, hey, Corey, you're this, you're that. You know what? Good, I'm glad I got you out there reminding me because it'll make me remember of how fallen I could be. And so that's really the biggest reason why people fall because, as Paul says, if you think you stand, take heed lest you fall. And so therefore, you need to have a solid understanding about how weak you are. Most men fall because they didn't see it coming because they thought they could handle it. They're pride, they're ego group. Paul says that he was given this message of Satan, this thorn in the flesh. Why? So that he would not exalt himself because he saw some things and that can make you bigheaded. He says, I don't know if I went to heaven physically or in a vision. Either way, that would make you bigheaded. Man, now he didn't come back and talk about what he saw, but he was given this to keep him humble. And meaning we need to find a way to keep ourselves humble. So, and that's the biggest reason why men fall because they're just not humble as they're going through it. And then they may even realize this wasn't for me. So I don't know if, can you hear me? Yeah, I understand that. Okay. All right, my brother, I gotta go ahead. Yeah, I think there's a little bit of a delay in the stream, I don't know why. Yeah, there is a delay. Where are you? Are you in America? Yeah, I'm in the state of Virginia. Okay, okay. You're too close to DC. That's the problem right there. We figured out why there was a delay. But anyway, brother, listen, I love you. Your face looks just, your profile, where's your profile at? Thank you, thank you.  So, all right, brother, listen, I gotta let you go. I gotta get on to these last few people. So, I appreciate you, brother. God bless you. Let me know how things are going though. All right, all right.  Thank you so much. Thank you. Alrighty, I am going next to Cody has been waiting. Cody, how are you doing, my friend? I'm sorry it's taking me so long. Hello. How you doing? I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. I have a question. Okay. So, you're talking about deliverance earlier, right? So, I just got delivered this year from my past trauma years ago. And so yeah, I live in Florida, I'm 20 and I go to RSC. To who? RSC, in the Indian River College, state college. Okay. And yeah, so I've been going out there, been doing Bible studies and like I remember, I'll tell you my testimony, I remember that I was driving and I was just like, it was July 1st. I was driving, getting my gas, some gas and I started like having visions, like fast visions and stuff. Yeah, like I was going to my friend's house cause I forgot my charger. And so yeah, I was driving there and I just felt, I didn't feel well cause like I used to have a addiction for masturbation and lust. And yeah, so I was going there and yeah, and then my friend's like, oh, we're going to watch this video, so okay.  And I was like, oh my goodness, like that blew my mind because I thought he knew but he didn't knew, I thought it was a setup. So yeah, so my total might happen and he was like, okay.  And yeah, so I been struggling that my whole life and yeah, so I got delivered that day. And yeah, so it was- When you said you got delivered that day, what do you mean you got delivered that day? Like, like I was like, okay, I'll tell you the full thing. I was like, I was like, I told her what happened and I was like crying, like I didn't want to cry. And then demons start manifesting into me. So like I kind of didn't have control of my body. So yeah, like I started, like that's me but the demons started screaming and stuff and throwing up, not physically throwing up, but like it was just, yeah. And then after that, I just kept throwing up, throwing up and then screaming, screaming, screaming and then I felt this heaviness, like lifted off and I just felt light. And then yeah, I just wrote my testimony the same day. Okay, so let me ask you a question, Cody. Let me ask you a question. Yeah.  Have you placed your faith in Christ? Yeah. Are you, now hold on, there was a little hesitancy. Did you place your faith in Christ? Now, I typically ask this question after that. How do you know? That's true. Yeah, I don't know, I guess I was wondering like, yeah, I don't know. Okay, okay, okay, this is what you need to know and you need to be sure of. Okay, one, what Jesus did, why he did it. Now, I'm gonna assume that you know why Jesus died on the cross. You know why he died on the cross? Yeah, he died for a sense because we're bad people and that we need to save you. Okay. And then there are services. How does a person become saved? By putting their faith on Christ. And what, okay, now the question is though, that's all that's required for salvation. That's it, that you place your faith in him. The 64,000 on the question is though, how do you know you did? Because there are those that will say they did, but did not. There are those that might, yeah, I really believe that this is what Jesus did and he did it for me. But I, even though there are those that profess to it, but not our actual believers. And so this is why Paul says every man ought to examine himself to make sure, okay? And now if you did, if you legitimately trust that what he did paid the price for you, that the debt was paid for you, you believe that then you're saved. You don't have to be hesitant in your response, okay? When someone asks you or wants someone wants to know about your salvation, your life in Christ, it's not a trick question, be bold about it because if it happened, it happened, right? Now only you know. Now that doesn't mean that you're gonna be perfect. That doesn't mean that you're gonna not mess up and so forth. You're gonna listen, how old are you? You look pretty young, how old are you? 20. Okay, so you're definitely gonna mess up.  That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that when it does happen though, doesn't mean that you're lost. Doesn't mean that you forfeited anything. It just means that you're young and you're still growing. If it bothers you when you sin, then good indication, right? Yeah, yeah. When you sin, you don't like it, right? Or do you? Yeah, I don't like it. Probably a good indication. So that's what I wanna do then. Send me an email, okay? I'd like to talk with you. So do you have my email? No, I don't have your email. Okay, what is the email? Don't go on, I should know it. Smart Christian channel at Gmail. Someone also populated in the chat so he can see it as well. Send me an email. Tell me in the email who you are and then you and I will connect, all right? Do you have a phone number to talk in private? Yeah, I won't give it online. Oh, okay. But that's what we're gonna do. I'll give it to you then. Okay. All right? Thank you. All right, stay right there, though. Stay right there, though. Father God, I just wanna thank you, Father, for Cody. I wanna thank you, Father, for his young life being in you. Who can imagine how awesome and how great you're gonna be in his life over the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years? So God bless him, Lord God. Keep him, Lord God. Grow his confidence in you. His confidence is not about him, but his confidence, his sureness, is in what you did on the cross. So God bless him, Father.  Father, I pray that you just touch him and grow him in Jesus' name, amen. All right, young brother, I will talk with you later. Send that email and we're gonna talk, all right? All right. Thank you. All right, bye-bye. Okay, I've got coming up. I've got Daniel coming up before him, Feliz. And right now I've got Trey. So brother Trey, how are you, my friend? I'm good, how you doing, Corey? Now my question is this pastor Trey? No, this is not pastor Trey. This is Trey, actually. This Trey, okay, my bad, my eyes aren't that good. How you doing, brother? I'm doing all right, man. I just wanna say as well, I appreciate the stuff that you do online because there's a lot of content. Hold on, what is that? That's his question, that's his question. I gotta ask this question.  Ah, I just have a gray hat, gray T-shirt. Okay, until I ask that question, until I, I wasn't gonna ask where, but I got some, I got some buddies locked up behind some walls who shouldn't have cell phones. And the colors in prison are gray. So I was just wondering, the gray hat, the gray shirt, so. Yeah, no, I'm not watching. All right. Yeah, your content is really good. Just been looking at a lot of things. I've been going through some personal stuff in just some regards to my faith, I guess. And I know I've had like, I don't know how to explain, but talking to my mom about it.  And I felt like, you know, I committed a sin. And then the next day I felt like, it kind of just dissipated from my, from my chest. You know what I mean? It's hard to explain, because people are like, what do you mean? But I feel kind of like I'm struggling a lot. So I've just been reading a lot of, a lot of scripture and just praying and stuff like that. My question is, I guess, when in the Old Testament, when the Holy Spirit was with, you know, David and Saul, it was a different, I guess, the spirit will come upon them, right? Same with Samson, it will come upon them. And when, you know, people talk about grieving the Holy Spirit, quenching the spirit, I understand those things as when, when you're resistant to what the spirit is trying to do in your life to a place, right? Do you, do you think that it's a sensation of when you quench the spirit, the spirit where you feel kind of hollow, kind of sapped of like a bit of joy? Do you know what I mean? Okay.  There are times though, when we want to, because we still got this flash, where we still want to just do our own thing, we want to mess up because he's in you and your heart has been changed when you do, so you're going to feel, you're going to feel bad. You should feel hollow. You shouldn't have, there's different sensations that people are going to have because of their sin and you should feel something. You should, if you can sin and it doesn't bother you, then Houston, we got a problem. But, so here's a good thing. I don't think a lot of the young folks get this. Matter of fact, I know you don't because nobody young gets this. One, it's supposed to be hard. Two, you're going to mess up. Three, God is going to use the hard part and the mess ups for other people, right? So there's somebody that's going to look at Trevor and like, man, yeah, I see what Trevor's going through and so why, man, it says something about this brother, right? Because your life is real. What you're going through is real. Somebody else is going through. You ever wonder why God didn't take away all the struggles in our lives immediately? God, I'm your son. I'm your child, what gives? You don't love me? Or you ever wonder why the addictions with the strongholds, a lot of them are still there? Lord, I thought I'm supposed to be perfect. No, guess what? There's somebody else that is all so struggling. Maybe they're not struggling as much as you. I'm sorry, you're not struggling as much as them, but they can identify with how you have been grown in the Lord and I want that. So this guy is struggling with XYZ sin. I am too. He's not struggling with it as much. What is it about him? What did he do? Well, not what he did is who, not the what, but there's who that's in him. And so now I can, that's what I can do. Someone that's been molested can help someone else. I don't know what that's like, but someone else who has had that, they can help another person along, right? Someone who's been in jail, someone who struggled with drugs, someone who struggled pornography, somebody that's had that happen to them, they can be used to bless somebody else.  God is going to get the glory, either through you or in spite of you.   He'll use your mess ups also to help somebody else who loves him. And so you're supposed to feel messed up about it, but those mess ups are gonna grow you, right? You don't, I don't know yet, you ever work out? Yeah. Okay. You work out now? I've been for a bit of time, I play sports, but stupid, I've got a bit of weightlifting, quite a bit of weightlifting to do. Okay, cool, okay, well, cool, fine. Well, then I'm gonna use analysis, you know. So let's say I'm bench pressing, right? And I want to get up to a certain weight. I wanna bench press twice my weight.  But that's my goal. Anybody can do it, well, I shouldn't say that because if you're 700 pounds, you're not gonna bench press twice your weight. But if you are regular weight, you can get to that point, but it's gonna take some work. Well, it's gonna take, as you know, some failures to get to my goal, right? It naturally takes some failures. Even if I was cheating, if I was using steroids, I gotta fail at the weight. So I gotta have that bar, I'm pushing, pushing, it's gonna come down.  After a while, those failures are gonna be what's gonna result in your victories in that lifting, that weight.   You feel bad about it, because you know. It's gonna work out. And so next thing you know, I'll never forgive you. I'll never forget this. I had, I'll tell you a little benching story. I was in prison and today was chest day. Now in prison, we got cars and so I'm leading the car, but the guys go out without me. I'm upset. Dog gone and you went out without me. I'm looking for them.  This was, at this weight, we were doing, we were doing like these little ladders. 10, eight, six, five, four, you know, all the way down the one and then the last one is a little burnout. Then we're going to the dumbbells, right? And so the weight that we have up there is at this, I think it's like 260, 27. Now can't remember exactly what it was. That's the 10. Now I could hit it, but I could, I've never done it for 10. And I failed in higher weight. Here's what happened. I was so upset with them because they went out and left me. I was hot. You mean tell me I'm out here looking for you guys. Y'all wasn't looking for me. I was mad. Well, Corey, you wanna work out? No, I wanna work out. No, I'm sick of y'all.  I got to eight and my anger went away and I'm looking around and my buddy that spotted me said, you think you're gonna get it? Did you? I said, I had no, I had no, I was so mad at y'all, I didn't think about it. But guess what? All those failures amounted to a success. Same thing in your life. Every time that you felt bad because that's in hollow, it's gonna work out for your good. Why? Because you're in the Lord. So you're supposed to feel bad.  That sounds weird when somebody says you're supposed to mess up. What do you think God is trying to use for other people?  If all you had to look up to were perfect Christians, you would think, I can't achieve that. But let me run down my hall of fame list of Christians who've messed up. You ready? Paul, Peter, John, James. How about David? How about Moses? How about Abraham? These are people that messed up at a time or two. Now, some more egregious than others. Jonah, Jonah was in a, listen, my jail cell was not as bad as Jonah being inside that well. He's crying out.  So that's normal. If I could tell everybody that's young, one thing you supposed to mess up and grow from it.  Amen. Amen. I appreciate it. No problem. No problem. Are you sure you're not in jail? I'm sure I'm not in jail. I mean, man, listen, that looks like prison attire. It's like, you have taken me back. Next time I wore a white t-shirt and no hat. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. You got any hair underneath that hat?  There you go, brother. There you go. Why are you cuddling? Man, look at it. Look, God is good. God, God is good. Amen. Amen. All right, brother. Listen, don't stay in touch with us, brother. That sounds good. Thank you. All right. God bless you, brother. God bless. All right, I've got, I've got two more folks. I've got Feliz and I got Daniel. Let me bring on, oh, I'm bringing Feliz. How are you, sister? Can you hear me? I can. Hi, Corey, how are you? I'm fine. I'm wonderful. I'm not really, you know, the camera type. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. Listen, God gave you a face for a reason so we can see it. So how can I- Yeah, I keep finding myself being seen somehow. I have, I wanted to ask you about some encounters that I've had. I don't know if from your experience in that area, but like supernatural type of things. Okay, like what? Yeah, so really since I was, you know, young, I've been really in tune with God. Like I didn't really know everything about him. Of course I'm young, but I know that he's around just because I'm finding myself in dangerous situations that he's literally having to save me. Like literal danger. Like he's saving me from gunshots. Like he's literally saving me. And I just, I keep having these experiences. I feel in tune with the world because I pick up on little patterns.  Like, so what happened is that I was kind of upset with God.  Like constantly you're going through something. Like he's putting you on a mission. So I was kind of tired of that. And I just yell with him like, listen, I'm done, you know? Because I know you're real, but it's just like I'm done. And then I know this sounds really strange, but like two days later, I'm not doing anything. I'm just standing outside because I went for a walk and I felt myself come out of my body. Like I wasn't even asleep. I went to stand on by my garage and I just felt myself come out of my body. Like for a long time, I want to say like 20 minutes. I could see, I don't want to go the long version, but ultimately God, he kind of like, show me what it feels like not to have him. Absolutely not. So it's not a good feeling. I was really scared, terrified. I kind of knew that, wait a minute, this is serious that we're here. When I look back at my body, I could tell that it was my body. I could tell that I was attached to myself. Even though I was not in myself, but my body was working. I saw like a bunch of light. Like the body looked like light, but I could see the cells moving. Just like, it looked magical to be honest. I didn't hear anything per se. I didn't see. I don't think you can see God, but I didn't see him per se or see something. I just was taken out. Okay. But then a month later, right? I was in Hawaii and I was visiting with family and then we got into a little back and forth. So I got a little upset. I left and I went to the Starbucks. This is the encounter I'm going to ask you about. And I don't even know what's going on. Like within one minute of me walking into that Starbucks, there was this being that walked in on me. Like if I can describe this person looked like a human being, they looked Polynesian and their mannerisms were not like ours. The one difference that stood out was that how we kind of interrupt each other or we kind of look away from each other. This being has some type of focus. So I just say being because I'm not trying to speculate, you know, the type of being. But I had my stuff in a different chair than I was sitting because I couldn't fit all my stuff at my area. It was busy. The being looked at my stuff, looked at me, looked back at my stuff and then shook the head, yes, at me and when I came up because I had went through the Starbucks line to come sit back down, the being stopped me. And like it was almost like it stepped in sync with me. And then i