Good evening, good afternoon, listen, I don't know about you, but whenever that red intro comes on, this intro, it should just do something to you. It should move you, it should get you in the feeling to go through the word of God. It should almost get you ready to go to heaven. If you were not awake, if you were sleeping, if you were just kind of just lagging, just dragging along or whatever, well, let me just give it to you again. I don't even know where I got that music from. I have no idea and what was funny is there were people at the very outset that said, you know, I don't know if I like that. That's, that's demonic music. That's, that's, that's not godly music. They don't play that. Listen, you know what they're going to be playing in heaven? When God, when God will tell those people who are on their way to hell, when he says, depart from me, you work of iniquity, you know what you could have, God is going to say, he might, I'm, I'm just thinking, I'm just thinking God may say that this is what you could be hearing while everybody's in heaven. Listen, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm having, I'm having fun. I've got some coffee in me. I've got some coffee on reserve. I was up late. My daughter and I were watching a TV show. We didn't go to bed till because my wife's out of town. We didn't need my youngest daughter. We didn't go to bed till, I don't know, won something. So it's going to be rough. I have not eaten today, but I don't need earthly sustenance. The word of God is my food. Anyway, so hope you guys are ready. If you're not, well, let this get you ready. Hey, man, I'm kidding. I'm having fun. Amber, thank you so much already for the super sticker. Let's go ahead and jump into the questions. As always, I cannot get through to all of the questions that have been pre-submitted. I will not be able to get to all of your questions now. But a couple of things. One, I'm going to start taking these questions even more so. So don't be surprised at the questions that I don't get to that are pre-selected or that you may have. Some of those questions are going to show up in the form of a video. Some of the questions will be answered on some of the YouTube shorts. You may also see some of these same matter of fact. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Wait, wait, wait, wait, one second. Let me answer this call. Hello. Hey, listen, right now. Listen, now I want you to be your best behavior because I'm on a live stream right now. I'm on a live stream right now and I see my buddy from prison calling me, which I don't know why he's not actually watching Smart Prison. I don't know what's going on with you. I thought you were safe. OK, there you go. There you go. There you go. Now, listen, you're out in no streets, but you're not in no streets. Amen. That's right. Y'all, this is my buddy. And they can listen, they can hear you too. So this is my this is my buddy. This is this is my good buddy. You don't leave prison with a lot of friends. Those that you do, they're real friends indeed. Can I can I tell you at least your initials? Can I can I tell them that? Yeah, you can do that. OK, y'all, this is my good buddy, L.T. This is me and L.T. I'm definitely going to have to watch this stream. You're going to have to watch this stream. You have to watch this stream. Definitely have to watch this one. Hey, because you want to know what's funny? They don't they think they might think that that what they see. On camera is not how I am in real life. What what am I or am I what you tell me? Do I do I am I am I different on camera than I am off camera? No, no, he's the exact same man. The exact same. I listen, man, and super competitive. Now, don't get it twisted. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can we can we can we can we can I see them play. What was that checkers would have got? No, connect for a guy. Faithfully connect forward to God. Faithfully every day just for the sake of being competitive. We may connect forward into something real competitive. Listen and talking noise, talking trash.  We almost kill ourselves trying to see. Anyway, man, listen, listen, I'm sure that what's a good time to hit you back? I'm finished in the work, too. You can call me in and you listen. You can call me anytime, but you can call me real. I'll be through here about in about two hours, though. So I'm good all day. OK. All right, I'll be moving around. All right, I'll talk to you later. Bye bye. All right. I just had to take the call, guys. I had to take the call. That is when we got to prison. Or in prison. Let me say something about this guy, LT, LT. He was one of these guys. He's looking at all the other different not religions, but all the different faith groups inside Christianity, asking questions and this and that. And he was hungry. He was desirous. He was wanting to know more. And at this church in prison, I'm kind of I'm I'm I'm leading the congregation. And so he would ask questions and so forth almost a point. Well, you know what, forget about forget about church, forget about regular religion. But there was still something in him that wanted him to be close to the Lord and know about it. So we would spend time, a lot of time just going over the scriptures. Good dude. He was in on a a. Pharmaceutical charge, let's say, but. You can see the Lord working in his life. Some blessings that has come his way as a result of that. And so good brother, good, good brother. So again, there are some guys. It's funny. I've I've I've created better friends from prison than the friends that I had before going in. Let that that should say something. Why? Because these were guys who when you were at your worst, they didn't they didn't have a problem with you. And there are some guys in prison who look down on you because of your charge or because of this or because of that. Like, wait a second, you got a charge, too. Now, there are some charges that people in prison don't like.  But even still, though, we neither one of us had those kind of charges, by the way. Let me just put that out there. But when you're doing bad, you got other guys who know what it's like and and to kind of go along with you. You develop a friendship that these sort of friends, as the Bible says, sticks closer than brother. Not like Jesus does, but but but better than the most most guys out on the streets. And so I am thankful for my brother, LT and some of the other guys who I've come to to know and love through prison. But anyway, a couple of announcements. I am decreeing and declaring that April 1st will be April Smarts Day. Yep. April 1st will be April Smarts Day. That will be the day that the Bible studies return. They are going to be intensive. They are going to be intentionally long. We're going to cover a lot of different aspects. Also in that month, well, maybe that month, hopefully in the month of April, will also begin the the Bible surveys over the various different books of the Bible, because I think it's important that you all will kind of just see how God how God lays these things out and you'll begin to see. Wait a second. This kind of goes with this kind of goes with this kind of goes with that. And God did not just put. Exodus doesn't come after Genesis just for the sake of it. There's something that's happening there. And let's see what he's picking back and off of. We've covered the covenants a few days prior and we saw how every covenant kind of brings along usher's in the next covenant, neither covenant are in contrast or in violation of the other covenants. We've talked about how the old covenant pushes us to the the Davidic covenant and then the new covenant and how all of that is kind of wrapped up or butchered or finds as Genesis in the Abrahamic covenant, both for Israel and for the Gentiles as well. So we'll cover all of that. We're going to cover that also in the Bible study. Matter of fact, one of the things that we that we may look at, I think one of the questions that I may grab that I haven't decided, but I may grab will have to do with something that we look at even in the Bible study. But that being stated today, as always, I'm not going to be able to get to all of the questions. There's just there's just no way I can. All those that are submitted and all those that you guys are going to submit on the chat, I would recommend you don't have to. I would recommend that you would hold off at least until I get to about the sixth or seventh, eighth question that I'm going to go through. And that way, I don't have to go all the way to the top to find questions that you've already submitted. I probably will, though. That being short answers, Grace, it's hard, though. It's hard, Chess Champ. But because because you know, I don't want to do the reason why I don't. I would like to, Chess Champ is always say, hey, have the answers short so we can move along, move along. Chess Champ wants to keep it moving. Chess Champ needs to be an engineer or conductor. He wants to kind of keep it moving along. Chess Champ, you could just or just just in his name. There's a little analytical vibe to him. And let's just kind of keep things moving. I want to as well. The only problem is some of these questions just merit us going a little further deeper in. And we got all we got time. We got time. What's the worst that can happen? Oh, we go to heaven. And so even then, you won't need the questions. Now, when you get to heaven, when you get to heaven again, guys, once you get to heaven, do not be surprised if you're confronted with this. Yeah, that don't be surprised, do not be surprised. Matter of fact, they ask me, Corey, what's your what's your theme music? Your interest music? Is that also make sure that you put a cue or a question. Do something to get me to get your attention on looking at the questions. Now, some of the questions that you answer, one, I don't see all the comments. It's just hard. There's no way. By the way, I found out that the software that I have love the software, but it does not send me every single comment. I recognize that one day that I put an uploaded video on the live side, but I was sitting there watching and I'm looking at the YouTube portion and look at the software like, well, this question over here is not over there. This statement. So don't blame me. Some but it does read whatever, put it in there later on. I don't know why I didn't do it now, but I'm not a software engineer. And so anyway, that be that being the case. Which is when I get to heaven, I'll be disappointed.  OK, OK, OK, all right, enough of that. The next time you hear that will be when we end. Now, unless I unless I accidentally hit it, which which happens, because it's right beside the button. There's a button that brings that in and then right beside that button is is the scene that you have the screen that you have before you. So anyway, let's go ahead and jump into it. The first question comes from Pedro. He says, peace be unto you, brother. At first we said I'm thinking, OK, is he a Muslim because anyway. My question is, how is each and every follower of Jesus Christ supposed to live for God? Whether they be apostles, prophets, teachers, what I mean is how are followers of Jesus Christ supposed to live, act and work, etc. Well, that is actually a very good question. So how do we live? Well, Jesus puts it this way.  Doesn't matter if one, you don't act that way. You don't live that way and no one else gets that from you. Jesus puts it this way when he says, let your light so shine. Why? So that men, women will see your good works and then glorify God. Well, what does that mean? Well, that means that sometimes people can hear your mouth. People can hear what you say. They can hear your testimony and that's all they see from you. They as we say, a pair of lips can say anything. And that is true. We need to see the world needs to see. They need to see your mouth in action. They need to see the conviction of your heart come out. We can say a lot of things. Well, look at the condition of the world. Look at the condition of America. Here we are in not just America, go to Europe, go to Asia, places where they say that they tend to focus on Jesus, where Jesus is Lord, their Christian majority country, meaning that they profess to be Christians. The question is, if so many people profess to be Christians, why does the countries that we live in, America, Canada, Mexico, all of Europe, Australia, why do these places look the way they look? Why are they in the spiritual conditions that they are in? Because people say something, but their heart is vastly different. And then there's a passage in Galatians 2. 20 that I think is also important that we should look at. In Galatians 2. 20, it says, he says, starting in verse 20, I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And if the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me. I do not nullify the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ, I don't really need to read 21. But the life that I live is because of Christ that's in me. And so what I do, I do for him. I want to be in such a place that I want to be led by him. And so how I respond to people, how I deal with people. We've got this thing all wrong, guys, sometimes, and I might be guilty of giving that impression sometimes, but this forceful, angry, tough vibe that we give sometimes, first of all, it's an act because we're not that tough. There's a reason why God calls us sheep. Do you know the best part about being a sheep? If the sheep are actually following the shepherd, do you know what the other sheep behind you are going to do? They're going to follow as well. Sheep will follow other sheep. Sheep don't necessarily have to just look at the shepherd.  They may hear his voice, but what they'll see is they'll see the sheep in front of them. They talked about, y'all saw that massive sheep that were going in circles, going in circles, and the sheep behind them were going in circles.  And we've heard stories where sheep would follow other sheep off of a cliff, off of a hill. Why? Because sheep follow other sheep. Thankfully, we have a shepherd that's not asleep at the wheel. And so people need to see us. So how should we live? We should live as to give glory to God. We should live to magnify him. If when someone sees us, they don't hear and see and understand Christ being magnified in us, then we're doing it wrong. That's how we should live. Amen. Okay, next question. Next question comes from Marian. She says, or he says, I'm sorry, Marinan. Marinan, I hope I'm saying this correctly. I probably not. I butchered it. Can the occult be used by God in some manner as to which, I'm sorry, can the cult be used by God in the same manner as the witch of indoor accidentally summoning the Prophet Samuel's spirit for real? What I mean is, can he use something evil for his purpose and somehow advance the gospel? He does it all the time. As a matter of fact, God has to use evil things to advance his kingdom. What I mean? Because he uses us and we're wicked. He uses the world and the world is wicked. He will even use the devil. Someone once said, he's the devil, but he's God's devil. In other words, God will use everything and anything that he so chooses to bring about an end. God will get glory two ways. God will get glory either in spite of or through. Prayerfully for us, he will get glory through us, but makes no difference. He'll get glory one way or the other, and we've seen him get glory in spite of us. In spite of is him rolling over, him moving through, him moving around, him going through someone and really making a spectacle of that person. He's done that with Israel, the whole nation of Israel. He's gotten glory through, and he's gotten glory in spite of, even in their wickedness. And then eventually, he's also going to return or have them return to him and get glory through him. Through him. So excuse me, I'm sorry. But that being the case, I wanted to go ahead and cover a couple of passages I think are pretty relevant. Romans 828, the matter of fact, let's put it on the screen. Let's put it on the screen. Where's New Testament? Where's New Testament? I thought I had a passage from, there it is. And I didn't type it in. Romans 828. You all know the famous passage. It says, we know that all things that God causes, all things, all things punt to all things to work together for the good of those who love God to those who are called according to his purpose. And so God is going, everything is going to work according and it's going to work out for his purpose. Can I give you another passage I think is also that I think makes a, let me pull this up. Let me do it this way. Another passage that it's one of my favorite passages, by the way, one of my favorite passages which is in Genesis 50. There it is. Let me make it large enough so you guys can see. But this particular passage, this kind of goes along with what you said. Here is an instance where evil had been done but God used it. I love this passage because I can see some of it in my life, and perhaps you all can as well. But he says in verse 19, this is after Isaac had died, Jacob had died, I'm sorry. The brothers come to Joseph but Joseph said to them, do not be afraid. Look what he says. For am I in God's place? Because as for you, you meant evil against me but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result to preserve many people alive. So what's his point? Notice how he starts it off. He says am I not in the place of God? Am I not exactly where God wants me to be? I'm right where God wants me to be, where God has me to be. But in spite of your evil, the very evil that you meant, you meant what happened to me for good, I mean for evil. But God, thank you, thank you Carol, but God meant it for good. I don't care what's happening. I don't care what's going on. God, when he's going to get glory, he is going to get glory. And if you're on his team, even if it's happening to you, even if someone is spitefully abusing you, misusing you, mistating about you, even if you are involved in something wicked, if you are his, it's going to come about one for his glory, but two for your good, not the good necessarily that you want. Not that, yeah, I want this brand new car, I'm getting that, not the house that I want it, not the money that I want it, not necessarily that, because that's not necessarily your good. That could be part of the problem right there. You have different dreams, different goals and God has, and so God has to work it out to where he crushes those out of you. And it happens that way. And there are people who have been in religions and cults and so forth that they should not be in and God has worked them in it. For example, somebody might be a Jehovah's Witness, somebody might be a Mormon, somebody might be in some other, somebody might be an atheist. And God has worked it to where he has brought you out of that. There are people who have come to saving faith in the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls.  And that happens a lot. And so absolutely, can God, does God use the occult, even wicked things? Sure, he uses any and everything for his good. He is the potter. He uses everything that he has created. Amen. Clueless production says, does prayer edify us? If not, then why do we pray in private? Well, a couple things. One, prayer does edify us. Now, Cory, you said that spiritual gifts aren't for the edification of ourselves and they're not. This isn't a spiritual gift. This is not a name spiritual. This is what we're required to do. And the Holy Spirit helps us in our prayers because oftentimes we don't know what to pray or how to pray, even the mindset that we should have while we're praying. But it absolutely does. What it does, it draws us near to him. And it's one way that we hear from him, which certainly builds us up. We do. I'm one of these people. I don't believe that we can say that God does not speak to us. He does. He's a, I the Lord do not change. So why would he stop speaking? Now, does he speak the same way? Well, he didn't speak the same way to everybody even back then. He, everyone didn't hear from God like Isaiah did, like Moses did, like Abraham did, even in that time. And so, no, I do not believe that that's really the majority of how it happens. I don't believe it. What majority of how it happened then. But even today, God will move in you. Primarily, obviously, he speaks to us through his word. But then when he says, and give us this day our daily bread and lead us not, so he is always leading us or attempting to. And so, as we draw closer to him, then he draws closer to us. There's this, this, this relationship that intensifies the closer that we get with him. Now, you asked a question. Why do we do so in private? In private? Why do we pray in private? Well, we don't pray only in private. We pray publicly in private. We pray publicly and we pray privately. The Bible says to pray without ceasing. That necessarily means all the time. When we're with people, we're not. Prayer does not have to be, let's stop for a second and let's have a formal prayer. That's part of the problem also. Our prayers tend to be too formal. We want to put our hands together or fold them, what have you, close our eyes, bow our head. But I can't pray while I'm driving. Well, if I, if so, then I can't close my eyes and bow my head. I'm going to be, and have a continual line of communication open with the Father. I'm always praying. Even if I'm in the midst of something, I'm speaking to him, which is what it's like if you and I are having a conversation. I'm having a conversation and let's say it's with, let's grab a person. It's Cephas. I may, I may call Cephas's name initially, but throughout the conversation, I won't keep going back and forth with Cephas. Cephas, Cephas, no. I won't keep doing that. What I will do though, is I'll just refer to you as though you're right here. Sometimes though, the reason why we keep calling his name, the way we call his name is because there's a break in the chain of our communication. There's a break in the chain of our prayer. And so it's every time that we meet him, it's like a formal introduction because I haven't spoken to him in, in a day. I haven't spoken to him in hours. And therein lies the problem. The more that you go without speaking to him, then you've got, it's almost like sometimes you have to reacquaint yourself with him. That shouldn't be the case. You should always be in this, this, this spirit of praying, this, this mindset of praying. Lord, this is what I'm doing, talking to him. And there's nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, there's everything right with that. And so it does edify, but guess what it also does? Not just you, it edifies the body as well. And it can be done privately. It can be done publicly. Is there a time to go and set aside time for just praying? Well, Jesus did that. So if he did that, then obviously we'll do as well. But then also Jesus spoke with the Father even while he was walking. We should do that as well. And so that prayer should not be unfamiliar. Prayer should be the one thing that should be common to us throughout our day. Amen. Here's a good question. Alfonzo Hernandez, what is dispensation? I've seen it in the Bible. You have seen it in the Bible. As a matter of fact, let's go to a couple of places that you have seen in the Bible. Let's move my little notes over. A couple of places. As a matter of fact, let's in Ephesians 1, Tim, we're going to look at it in a couple of spots where we see this word, Ephesians, where we see this word dispensation. The word dispensation comes from, we get it from the Latin term, despario. The Latin term is derived from the Greek word. And we'll see this word in just a second. As a matter of fact, let's go to it right now. In Ephesians 110, let's go to 1-9. Actually, he made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his kind intention, which he purposed in him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times that is the summing up of all things in Christ. Let's pause right there and go to this word, administrations. We get this word for dispensation from this word right here, this Greek word, oikonomia. It's derived from two words, oikos and mia. Mia is law or rule, oikos is house. So it's the house rules, the house law. It's the way God has structured things. Think about it this way. God has decided on his own how he is going to deal with mankind. Don't think that, let's say, for example, the Covenants that he decided kind of on the fly of what he's going to do. No, the Abrahamic Covenant was in full view by God before there was an Abraham, before there was a flood, same thing with the old Coven and so forth. And so these different dispensations that God has for us, or these stewardship, or these economies, you'll see that term stewardship or administration or economies. You might see that translated in your Bible or dispensation. That matter, they all mean the same thing. They all come from the same word and it's how God is dealing with us or man in this present time. For example, how he dealt with man before the fall is very different than how he dealt with man after the fall and even prior to the flood. How he dealt with man prior to the flood is different than how he dealt with man after the flood, prior to the law. How he dealt with man after the flood, prior to the law was different than how he dealt with man during the law. How he dealt with man is different than how he dealt during the law, is different than how he dealt with man after the law, and what we'll see is this dispensation of grace. As a matter of fact, that is in Ephesians 3-2. Let's put that on the screen as well. I want you all to see this term as well. In Ephesians 3-2, it says, for this reason I call the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles. He says, if indeed you have heard of the stewardship, same word, previously the word was administration, now it's stewardship. It's the exact same word, okonomia. If you look on the right hand side, same Greek word, the stewardship of God's grace, or this dispensation of God's grace, which was given to me for you. That, by revelation, there was made known to me the mystery as I wrote before in brief. And so he, as a matter of fact, in both of these cases, he speaks about this mystery. Well, in a previous dispensation, it seems as though God's focus was on Israel. Now we see in this different dispensation, he's got a focus on not just Israel only, but also a focus on Gentiles as well, which now Paul is an administrator of this administration. Paul is a prophet, an apostle to who, to the Gentiles. So does God have these different administrations, these different stewardship? Yes, he does. Is this the last one? No, it's not. Now, you can ask people who have a dispensational view how many dispensations there are. Anyone can make up how many they want to. The Bible doesn't say there's this and this and this and this many different dispensations. It doesn't say. We know of at least, well we know of a lot of different dispensations. I'll take that back. And I don't get into that. Some folks have all these different charts and so forth, whatever that that's really not me. But God clearly has different dispensations. Anyone that denies that, well, that the word is literally in the Bible.  Is dispensationalists to some degree? Is to how far and does it control when you're hermeneutic? Does it control your theology and so forth? But we all believe that God has worked with man differently at different times. That part you can't get around. And so sometimes, uh-oh, uh-oh, I almost banned someone accidentally hit the button. And so sometimes we'll see how that how that affects us, how God, what God is doing. Again, we'll cover a lot of these same things in the Bible. I mean, in the Bible study to see how these different dispensations work and that God speaks about them and how he's going further into a new economy, a new set of house rules that he is going to govern us by.  The next set of house rules were, uh, you can't eat anything in the garden, but I'll still supply you. I'll still bless you and I'll also allow you to have a relationship with me by you bringing offerings, which we see with Cain and Abel, although Abel did it right. Cain did not. There are another set of house rules that we see under the law. There's a new set of house rules, a dispensation, uh, after the cross, after the cross. Are you with me? So that's what it is. And that's kind of what the word means. We'll go more into it later on. So anyway, that being the case, let's move to the next one. Milton Mara says Mark 16, nine through 20. It's sad, uh, that it's not the earliest in the earliest writings. So my question is how do we read those verses compared to the gospel and why were those verses included if they were not found in the early writings? Let me say this. This is how I treat, this is how I treat, um, Mark 16, the latter ending. By the way, there, there are more than just two endings of Mark. Does Mark end at Mark 16, eight? Does it go from nine through 20? There is another mark where it ends a little shorter than 20. There's another ending where it ends longer than 20. Well, which one of these we take? Well, the, I'll let the scholars deal with it better. They can deal with it better than I can. There's a lot of evidence that seems to indicate that it should be ending at eight. Mark nine takes a little bit of a different turn after verse eight. Some of the wording is also used differently. I say this because the possibility is there's a possibility that nine through 20 was added. There's a possibility nine through 20 is part of the original. We don't know for sure. No, no one can say with full, complete certainty. So what I do is, and by the way, when you look at Mark 16, nine through 20, when you look at it, there's nothing that is different or taking away from what the rest of the Bible says. It doesn't add any more or didn't take anything away. Well, what about the part that says that you should take up serpents and drink and if you drink any poison and so forth? Well, I still take that this part of 16, nine through 20, even though I believe that it was added by a scribe. I believe that the person that wrote it that added it was still referring to the apostles. If this is, if this actually is Luke, he's just giving an account of what is being said. It's not, there's no command here. I don't think so, except that it's stating what will happen to the apostles. And we know it's true because we look at what happened with the apostles. All of these things in the scriptures happen to the apostles. The problem comes in. We want to be like the apostles. There's this desire, this tendency for us as human beings to want to be something or somebody great. It's not a good thing to do because if you want to be something or somebody great, well then something, something great is going to happen to you and not necessarily a good great. When I say great, I mean something big. And so when you look at our apostles, how they suffered, we don't know how John died. We don't, we don't know how he died, but he suffered. We, the stories of the other apostles and their death, they weren't, they weren't great stories in terms of good, but they were horrified.  More so the person who wants to be great, something great will be required of you. So the way I handle Mark 16, the latter portion, what I need to teach, what I need to preach on, what I need to speak on, I can get it anywhere else. And so I just don't want to kind of hold myself. I'm not, because if I preach something about the, the, the tune, I can do it through Matthew, Mark, and John. I don't necessarily need Luke. If I want to speak about the apostles and the signs of the apostles, I can, I can do that elsewhere as well. So that's kind of how I handle. I don't, I won't just, you know, just dog someone for using the latter portions of it. Because again, they may very well be authentic, but the good part about the Bible is what it says in one place, it'll say in another place as well. Are you with me? So I hope that helps. What real proof do you have? This comes from Donald. What real proof do you have that the words in the Bible are God and not man? Well, the Bible says, Paul says that all scriptures are God three. In other words, they are literally from the mind or the spirit of God into man. So what Paul is writing, what John is writing, what James is writing comes from God, but that person's personality is only you see Paul's writing style is personality in the writings. Sometimes we don't think about that, but especially if someone has started the undertaking of learning Greek, when you start reading certain books in Greek, first of all, you'll, you'll start reading from John. You will not read initially from the writings of Luke. Luke writes differently. You all can. It's hard to see it in the English because it's been translated from the Greek into the English, but Luke writes differently, vastly differently than John does. John is the easiest writer. He is by far the easiest writer. Paul writes in a way that you can understand as well, too. Even though Paul is educated, he uses words that that John or Matthew, they don't use. You see this brought out. And so that person's personality is still in there, but it's still God breathed because the words they say are true. They're powerful and they are right. Now, how can I justify that even for the skeptic? Well, a couple of ways that I can do that. Two, I mean, one, the Bible, the Bible itself. As a matter of fact, I want to pull up a passage. Where is it? I want to pull up a passage. The Bible gives validity to the Bible. How so? Well, the prophecies, the prophecies about Christ. Think about it. The prophecies about Christ, if this book was illegitimate, are there some things that maybe we can manufacture and fake? Well, sure. Let's be honest. We can fake some of these things, but the prophecies speak of Him coming when He's going to come, how He's going to die under whose hands before these things were even set in place. Historically speaking, how do you account for the prophecies of Jesus coming and then them being fulfilled? Whether He was, let's just pretend, for the sake of the skeptic's arguments, that Jesus is not God. He's not the Son of God. He's not, He's not the Savior. He's not the Messiah. He didn't do any of these miracles. Okay, but at least a skeptic would have to agree that the historical counts state that people believed that He did. That part we can't escape. At least the historical, the skeptic has to believe that historically is documented that He was crucified and at whose hands and when it was done and between who? Two thieves. And so there are some things that even if you want to be a skeptic, it's hard to denounce just the historicity of what the Bible prophesied of Jesus coming, even when and where He would come and when and where He would die. It's pretty hard to escape that. And then just as important as these prophecies about Jesus, the prophecies about Israel being taken down the Lamb and brought back and then scattered again and then brought back, we see this fulfilled in 1948. And then what He's going to do with Israel, that helps to bolster what He says. Matter of fact, let me go, go to another prophecy that I also think helps. This prophecy in Daniel 11, I'll let you guys go and look it up, but in Daniel 11, He speaks about not Israel, not Jesus, not about salvation, but about a person in the name of Alexander the Great. Does it say Alexander the Great? No, but we know He's speaking of and that His kingdom, His territory, His empire will rise, but when it's destroyed or when He's destroyed, it will not be given to His posterity, meaning not to His children, not to His descendants. We broke up in four pieces and then His four generals take over and then we're going to have two kings, one in the north and the south, who don't like each other, form an alliance through marriage and then read Daniel, read Daniel 11. It's so vivid. It's also like a soap opera that the king gives his daughter to the other king.  This is prophesied long before it happens and when it happens, the skeptics come back and say, this must have been written after the fact, but it's not. We have verifiable proof that it was written long before it happened. And so just the prophecies alone help us to see that the Bible can be trusted, every word. Does that mean that every scribal word, meaning that every time that a scribe makes a copy that prescribes copies are God-breathed? No. No. All scribes are not God-inspired. As a matter of fact, a lot of scribes are evil and wicked. Some of these very same scribes, we find confronting Jesus. Even those scribes that are in a scriptorium, there are sometimes where there's just honest mistakes that are made in a place like the scriptorium where they mean to honestly and intellectually translate the Bible. There's a passage that says that we have faith or we may have. Well, the question is, which one is, because when I say the word, Ekamen, did I say the passage of Ekamen, then I say Ekamen, which is we have faith or Ekomen, which is we may have. Well, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but some of these things happen as the Bible is being translated. We know for a fact what the words say, even with all of some of the variants we call, where this word is not in this order, it's over here, or where instead of it saying the Lord, it may say Jesus or he. Those are considered variants, but not of the nature where it impunes the word at all. Yes, men physically pinned it, but then again, men physically pin a lot of things. We don't have a problem with our, the menu that we read because it was written by a man. We don't have a problem with the directions to fix a computer or to install batteries in our clocks, something like that, or a menu. No, not a menu, but a cooking directions. They were all written by men. We trust those, but for some reason we don't want to trust these. Why? Well, because Satan didn't want us to trust it, but here's another reason why I think we can trust the words of the Bible, how we can trust and know it's true, because the Bible speaks about his resurrection. The Bible tells us that in, let's put on the screen as well, in 1 Corinthians 1512, he says that now if Christ is preached, that is he has been raised from the dead. How do some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead, but if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain. Your faith is also in vain. And some version might even say that we are to be pitied amongst more so than everybody else. Well, that's the truth. If the resurrection, which the Bible prophesies is going to happen, which we believe has happened because the Bible also gives an account of it having happened. The issue is this. When it did happen or if it didn't happen, something happened in the world to where it created a lot of demarcation, even to the point to where we even began to number or date our time, the whole BCAD thing, which we'll talk about at some other time. But if he didn't die, and if he was not resurrected within this faith that we have, we'll go along, we'll go by the wayside. Why? Because Rome, nor the Jews, nor the rest of the world would have had, one that wouldn't have anything to worry about. But the fact that something did happen gave a rise for the need to cover up what did happen. Christians would not follow Christians on that date that the tomb is empty. You wouldn't have any Christians because we would have a grave site. We would have a headstone. We would have a marker where he died because we don't have that because the grave is empty. Well, then now we have reason to rejoice. They have reason to hate. And someone can say, well, maybe someone stole the body. Well, how do you steal a body when you have a legion of Roman soldiers guarding it? How does that happen? Where's the body buried? By the way, if it was stolen, why don't the people who say that they saw Jesus some days after resurrected, why do they even die? There was a man by the name of Pliny the Younger who writes a letter and states that these Christians, these people that follow this man, Christus, they're dying. Now he's not giving validity to the fact that Jesus is who they say he is. He's saying that they're dying because they believe that they, because of who he says he is. They're dying for this belief.   There are, as Paul says, after his death, there are over 500 eyewitnesses to his resurrection. So I've died, but many are still here. And then these people are in danger. Well, why would they be in danger if they know it's a lie? They would simply renounce it and they have not. And so those are some of the reasons why I believe that the Bible is accurate, that it's true. And I think it's also a reason why you or anyone else could believe so as well. Darrell Mail, thank you so much for the super child. I appreciate that. Next question will be, okay, here's the top one. This is one that really I probably ought to give more time to. So I'll just go ahead and read this and kind of even consult some of my little notes here. But Lorena, Lorena says, can you explain Elijah being in John in Matthew 17, 10 to 13? It confuses me on how it works. Did he come back as John or what? Because I thought once we died, we'd go into a sleep. Excellent question. So let's go to this passage. Well, wait a second, let's go to the New Testament passage first. Let's go to Matthew 17 first. Let's go there. In Matthew 17, 10, and the disciples asked him, why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come? And he answered and said, Elijah is coming and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah already came. And they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wish. So also, the Son of Man is going to suffer at the hands. Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Baptist. So the question is, what's being referred to here? Let's also go to another passage. I'll battle Elijah. Two passages in the book of Malachi. In Malachi 3, let's start in verse one. Behold, I am going to send my messenger and he will clear the way before me and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight behold he is coming says the Lord of hosts. Now I want to go to another passage Malachi 4. I think it's three or is it five? There it is. Malachi 4, 5. He says, behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the children of the children to their fathers so that I will not come and smite the land with the curse. There's a lot of things happening here with this and it's pointing to obviously to somebody, but is it possible that it's pointed to somebodies and is it possible that it's pointed to to benefit more than one group of people? Well, if you look at John the Baptist ministry and kind of compare that with Elijah's ministry, there's some similarities. One, they both are both weren't both predicted. John actually kind of dressed like Elijah as well. They both preached in the wilderness and they preached a message of repentance coming back to the Lord. Folks didn't heed and John the Baptist was killed as a result of this. By the way, have you ever wondered what the word Elijah means? And there are some stories, I don't know how true this is, but there are some stories that say or some believe that say that Elijah is not his birth name. It may be, may not be. The reason why they said that is because of what the name means and that now he is his name because you see in the Bible names have been changed. I'm not saying that's the case, but there are some that believe that the name Elijah is the Lord my God. Eli is my Lord or my God and then Yuh is God. So the Lord my God or my God is Lord or my Lord God. Are you with me? And so this could be because obviously Elijah is not Jesus. He's not John either, but he's a person and he had a birth just like John the Baptist had a birth. So it's not that Elijah was reincarnated to be John. Like some folks believe that's not what happened, but I believe the spirit of Elijah, the same thing that's pushing, that was pushing Elijah was also pushing John. The spirit of Elijah to, I mean to proclaim my Lord my God or that my Lord is God and that he's coming. They were both forerunners. John the Baptist even more so. And then Elijah, that same spirit that's pronouncing or predicting or pushing or telling folks about the Lord that's coming. I think it's also speaking of Jesus as well. Why? Because he is the Lord our God. Now there's some confusion about it and you won't find a lot of folks that's going to all agree on every single point of it, but we know a couple things that's going to happen. One, he is to announce to the world, one obviously the salvation is going to come, speaking about John who is Elijah or Elijah in the spirit. And then he's also speaking about Israel, about what he is going to do and how he's going to turn. Obviously John the Baptist is not the one that turned the hearts of men that has to be Jesus. So the word, the phrase, the name is pointing to two people, one, the forerunner, but then also the person who is, who fully embodies that, that being Jesus. That will be the person who will ultimately turn the hearts of the men and women of Israel and that land as well. Are you with me? I will, I'll try to cover this a little bit more in detail later on, especially as we get into the Bible study, as well as some of the end time things as well. So a lot, and yes, see if it's right, a lot of the people, a lot of the people, their names, if you go back and just look at their names like, wow, okay, that's, that's pretty interesting. That's pretty interesting what their name is. A lot of folks were shocked when they found out that Caleb's name literally means dog, the Hebrew word for dog, that's Caleb. Well, but Caleb came, comes from the Edomites, and so he's not, he's not of Israeli descent. Okay, that's pretty interesting. He was not originally of the children of Israel. Sometimes you give someone a name that their old name has gone away. For example, the Hebrew boys, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and Daniel as a matter of fact, those weren't their Jewish names. I'm sorry, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, those were not their Jewish names. Sol and Paul. Paul is his, I'm sorry, Sol is his Hebrew name. Paul is kind of the Gentile version of his name. Are you with me? And by the way, just for clarification, when we asked, well, when did God change Sol's name to Paul? Well, he didn't, he didn't. Just a little trivia. Please explain. This is Kurt Chetan, Ashotan, I'm not sure if I'm saying this correctly. Please explain this verse, Corey. Exodus 2319. Let's go to Exodus 2319. This has, this can be a bit tricky for a couple reasons. One, there's a whole lot of debate about this passage, what it means. Let's go, let's go to the screen. You shall bring the choice fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God. You are not to boil the young goat in the milk of its mother. Huh? That's an odd statement. Who does that anyway? Well, there's a couple of reasons why this may be the case. One, God, he's got these festivals, he's got these rituals, he's got these things that are set up. God didn't do these things just because. There are a lot of different theories that have been espoused to, to, to figure this out. One, and this, this, there's some validity to this one, that is that the pagans would do such a thing. And so this is something different than what they do versus what we, as a children of Israel are going to do, what we cannot do to boil a goat in its mother's milk. Some of them said, wait a second, the goat needs to be full-born and the strangulation and so forth of it. The problem is there, there's, there's just not a whole lot. Let me read, let me read this, this note for you guys to see if this helped. These were kinds of reminders to Israel of God's provision for his people. So three times a year, all adult males, and I'm sorry, I read the wrong one. The prohibition against cooking a young goat in his mother's milk may have been because of religious practices in which the Canaanites cooked goats in their mother's milk and a fertility right. God did not want his people to partake in anything related to idolatrous worship or prohibition may have been against the inhumane treatment of young goats. Now I could, I can go and find some commentary on this and they're all going to be something different. We just don't know, we do know this though. He doesn't want us, I can even see the inhumane treatment for these animals. I could also see the differentiation between them, the pagans and the children of Israel because remember when they get this command to not do certain things, the Gentiles have this command of how to behave from the Jews in the church and acts. And one of the things is to abstain from certain foods and idol worship. Well that practice has, God carries that forward. I do not want you to be like those folks that are doing these certain pagan practices because of what it might conjure up. But then also like for example the issue with blood being strangled with blood, the reason for that is well there's a lot of health issues, health consequences for ingesting an animal's blood, which is even why today we tell you people to cook the meat thoroughly to where there's no blood in it, make sure all the blood is drained. The blood is supposed to be drained as much as possible when they give it to you and then you cook it so that it's thoroughly cooked, the meat is cooked, the blood is out of it, all those things like that. So that may have to, again there's no consensus, there is no definitive way of saying what exactly is meant by this passage, what God is getting at. There's some speculations and I think the main thing is that there should be some sort of differentiation between the children of God and those who are not. In other words being holy or being separate or being different. So Jojo says, when does unforgiveness turn to not standing up for yourself or being a pushover? Okay good question. Forgiveness and being a pushover are two different things. Being a pushover, we are never commanded to be pushovers. We're commanded to be bold. Jesus was not a pushover, but he was also a forgiving person and I think what happens is our pride gets in the way, our pride, our flesh, our anger sometimes gets in the way of forgiveness. Let's read a couple passages. As a matter of fact let's also, I want to deal with a few other passages, well I want to deal with two passages in particular. But the first passage on forgiveness, this is a command. This is a command. This is, there's no if ands, buts about it. He says in Matthew 615 he says, but if you do not forgive others then your father will not forgive your transgressions. Guys you have to forgive. There's no if ands, buts about it. You may not like it. You may not like the way it feels. You may not appreciate what the person has done to you. What am I doing? Oh that's what I said. That's what I did. You may not appreciate what has happened to you, but the command is to forgive. If you don't forgive then God is not going to forgive. You walk around harboring feelings and anger and bitterness and so forth. Then God is going to, God has a right to do the same thing since you clearly, you clearly do not trust me. The point is to love as God is love. Again we are to reflect God to the world. We are to reflect God to an undeserving world. We are undeserving. It may be that the person doesn't even merit forgiveness. That's not what he says. That's not what he says at all. As a matter of fact let's pull up Ephesians 432. He says, be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. That's just, it is what it is. Sometimes they don't deserve it. Sometimes we want them to do certain things to get forgiven. You got to ask for it. You got to ask a certain way. You got to do this. That is not what he says. That is not what he says. And so there are people, and we all know, we can name probably five or ten people off top of our head who have a hard time forgiving people. But then let's take the attention away from people that they need to forgive and look at the person who does not want to forgive. That person can tend to be bitter. That person can have a bad relationship with a lot of people. It's an ungodly perspective upon not the people that you think need to be forgiven but it's an ungodly perspective on yourself. And so you don't need to forgive these people. Yes you do. You need to forgive them in full view of why God forgave you and others because the fact of the matter is you didn't ask God for forgiveness before he forgave you. You did not ask God for forgiveness before he forgave you. How do I know? Well, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. He is the reason why we even approach him to even ask for forgiveness. Our heart was changed. Why was our heart changed? Because he first forgave us. He did something to us. Then we in turn, Lord forgive me. I'm a sinner. Well, that's after he graciously laughed upon you, him. He regenerated your heart. He caused you to be born again. That's him forgiving you first. You cannot then turn around and say, well this person did me harm. The pastor that we read earlier where the brothers of Joseph come to him and ask for forgiveness, he says, you ain't got to forgive me. Listen, no big deal. No harm, no foul. Am I not in the place of God? What you meant for evil God meant for good. Praise God. Same thing for us.  Am I not in the place of God? Am I not where God wants me to be? And so the fact of the matter is you don't have to ask me for forgiveness.  I cannot be a light harboring bitterness and the passages are clear. Paul says so, but even more so, Jesus said so. Period. And if you can't get along with that, well then you can't get along with God. The whole point of the atonement, guys, ladies and gentlemen, the whole point of the atonement, kafaq, is a, excuse me, the whole point of the atonement is to bring about reconciliation. There's a covering and a canceling. The third element is brought by the first two to bring about reconciliation that we'd be together. How many times do we see people in the Bible offending God and God still forgives them? No, they don't require it. Next question. Do you have to be this from strong island? Do you have to be baptized to get to heaven? No, you do not. In the sense that we're talking about a water baptism, there are many times in scriptures where people believe and the Bible does not indicate they were baptized in water, but Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians that all believers have been baptized into the spirit. Peter goes on this discussion saying that there is an antityp and a two-pwn. There's a symbolism that saves us focusing on baptism, but not the baptism, not the removal of filth from flesh, not the physical water baptism, but this is the baptism that comes as an answer of a good consciousness towards God. That's the Holy Spirit. That's the baptism that saves you, because if it's the baptism saves you, then we're going to start talking about how it has to be done. There are those that will tell us that the baptism has to be done a certain way. So you mean tell me now my salvation is also dependent on how they do it at this church or who's pronouncing or speaking over me? That is not how salvation works. Now my salvation is dependent on my faith and their faith and their way of doing things. That's not salvation. So no, water baptism is not required, but spirit baptism is required. There is no such thing as a person who's a Christian who has not been baptized in the spirit. John was it this way? That I baptize you with water. Then what does he do? He contrasts it, but not many days hence forward. Jesus will baptize you in the Holy Spirit. Which one do you think is the important one? Last question, and I'll start taking you guys's question. Can you explain more what does apostasy mean? I keep backsliding and I went, I'm sorry, I'm not reading this correctly, or it's not written correctly, at least for me, but I keep backsliding. Do I feel this pain deep inside, sort of like sadness or disappointment? By the way, I just turned to Christian six months ago. Well, amen, praise God. Amen, praise God. Now, basically I think someone is still asking about or talking about baptism. By the way, I want you all to leave America for a second or leave the friendly confines in America. I'll give back this question in the second autumn. Autumn goes.  I want you to think about them. How easy was baptism then and how easy is baptism now? I want you all to think about that for a second. How easy you might think it's not that hard to get baptized. Okay, okay, go to go to North Korea and try to get baptized.   Are you even telling me that no one in prison can be saved because do you know, do you know how difficult and incredibly difficult it is to be baptized in prison? Very difficult. We don't have, we don't have standing water around in prison. Go to another country. It's difficult. See, sometimes we look at things from our own viewpoint and think that the way that I think it's saying is the way it is and the way how I see it. So now, if a person thinks that water baptism is appropriate against steel and most of them say, well, that was under A. Here's the same word, a different dispensation when the people on the cross was killed. No, when the people on the cross died, what was inaugurated? The new covenant. And so at that point in time, that person would have to also do what everyone else had to do. Well, God made a special case for that person. Okay, we'll find he's made a special case for everybody else. That's what you want to say. You have no basis for that. And so I think the word of God is clear. What says is what Peter says is clear. Think about it. Paul himself says, I thank God I didn't baptize all of you. Matter of fact, I didn't come to baptize. Well, if baptism was necessary for salvation, why don't you baptize Paul? So I totally disagree with your water baptized answer for even Jesus baptized. Why was Jesus baptized? What happens is you're thinking the way everybody else has kind of led you to think or kind of customs. Nothing wrong with baptism. Nothing wrong with baptism at all. Why did Jesus get baptized? Why did John baptize? Some of you guys said, well, I believe what the Bible says. Okay, well, let's believe what the Bible says about water baptism, about why Jesus baptized Paul, not Paul. John says, the reason why I came baptizing and the reason why I baptized Jesus, John tells us that Bruce, pay attention. It's not my opinion.  I'm going to give you the word that makes more sense, doesn't it? I'm going to actually give you the word. Just go to John one. I think it's 24. I think it's 24. John 24. Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. They asked him and said to him, why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophets? John answered them saying, I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you do not know. It is he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. These things took place in Bethany, beyond the Jordan where John was baptizing. So now John is baptizing, he's going to answer why he's baptizing. The next day he saw Jesus come in him and he said, behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This is he on behalf of whom I said, after me comes a man who has a higher rank than I, for he existed before me. Now look what he says. I did not recognize him, but in order that, this Greek word over here, henna, this henna clause, in order that the reason why I baptized so that he might be manifest or made known to Israel, I came baptizing in water. John testifies saying, I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven and he remained upon him. I did not recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him, this is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit. I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God. Now let's back up. John is sent to go baptize people. These people that are getting baptized in water, many of these people did not become believers. A lot did eventually, but a lot did not. They became, they came baptized in water to give a public profession. Remember this baptism, by the way, guys, is something done publicly to state before the public. What happens if baptism is necessary and you get baptized and no one else sees it? That's the point of this public profession. As a sign of repentance of your sin, which is why John says to the Pharisees, describes them, coming after me says, you brutal vipers, what fruits of repentance do you have to show? So there should be some fruits in accordance with this form of baptism. But he said, I didn't know him. The one that sent me said, all those folks who are baptized and the one whom you see, whom you see the Spirit descending upon him like a dove, that's him. He's the one that's going to baptize everyone else in the Holy Spirit. I didn't know, but or in order that he would be revealed to everyone, specifically to Israel, that's the reason this is, don't take my word, this is John the Baptist's word, as recorded by John the Apostle. These are his words as to why he did so. The reason why Jesus got baptized is not so that you can get baptized. Is that where the case is? The Spirit would also descend upon you. Or if you want to say that the Holy Spirit will come upon you once you get baptized, that's not true either, because there's a lot of folks that have been baptized who do not have the Holy Spirit. They just got wet. Now, am I saying, don't get baptized? I'm not saying that. Don't type that. Don't write that. Don't think that I'm saying the baptism that is the one that saves you is the Holy Spirit. That's why he says, but I baptized in water, but him, that guy whom the Spirit descended upon, he is going to baptize you in the Holy Spirit. What's the point? The Holy Spirit resides in someone who is saved. That's what saves you, the Holy Spirit, not the physical water. Are you with me? Now, you can disagree, which is fine, which is fine. But I'm literally guys, I am literally giving you the scriptures. Well, wait a second, where the Bible says, repeat, and be baptized, every last one, even for the remission of sin. Question, can everybody get baptized in Acts? No. Which baptism is it possible? Is it possible that the baptism that he meant was because sometimes when we see the word baptism, we have to figure out, is he talking about the spirit baptism or water baptism? We see people getting baptized in water all throughout the book of Acts. We don't see a lot of folks getting baptized after the book of Acts. Why is that? Because what's happening is we've got this transitionary period where people are declaring and making it known that we are his. We've got Jews that are going on making public record that the Jews have now become his. We've got Samaritans that are going on public record by way of water baptism to make sure the folks know that we are also his. We also have Gentiles making a public declaration that they too are his. So we've got the same way that we see the Holy Spirit coming in people into the Jews, the Samaritans and the Gentiles, the same things happening with water baptism, making this public declaration. But the thing that saves us according to 1 Peter is this spirit baptism. Paul says all of us have had that. There is no such account that says that all of us who are saved have been water baptized. As a matter of fact, even if someone wants to go and look at the famous pastor, I'm pretty sure the guy most folks who disagree with me on this also hold dearly to Mark 16. So let's go to Mark 16 and see what it says. Mark 16 says, He who believes and has been baptized shall be saved, but the one who disbelieve does not believe shall be condemned. Well, what's missing here? The what's missing here part is the been baptized part. Is the writer saying that if you believe and it's exegetical referring to if you believe being baptized? I think that's the point here. Same thing clearly Acts 238 is exegetical. Repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Spirit is exegetical. These are the things that are happening at once. Your repentance as being baptized as receiving the Holy Spirit. That's what it means to this exegetical. We use the English all the time as well. We don't use the term exegetical. My tongue is getting tied up. We don't always use a tongue exegetical. But that's what it means. One or two words referring to the same thing. So if you want to get baptized, get baptized. Listen, get baptized twice, get baptized five times, get baptized every day of the week, get baptized every month. It doesn't matter. By the way, there is no there's no prohibition on how many times you can get baptized. Fine. No one is saying don't get baptized. I'm saying which one saves you. That was the question the person asked. So now go back to the questions to the last question. He says, can you explain more what apostasy means? This question comes from autumn ghosts. What does apostasy means? I keep backsliding and I feel this deep pain, sort of like sadness and disappointment. He says, by the way, I just became a Christian six months ago. Well, God bless you for that. Awesome. The mere fact that you feel disappointment when you sin is a good thing. By the way, the term backslide and apostasy are two different things. Backslide is only used in the Old Testament and it's only used in regards to Israel. Could they mean the same thing? It's possible. I would have a problem with someone saying the same thing except for one thing.  Let's put it on the screen. What the word apostasy means is a couple of places where we see this and I'm going to look at a couple of these passages plus another passage. I'm going to look at Luke 813. He says, and the ones on the rock are the ones who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root. They believe for a while and in time of testing, they fall away. And this word for fall away is where we get the word for apostasy, epistem, epistem, tie or epistem, me, which we'll get the word apostasy. And then Hebrews 312. Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart leading you to fall away from the living God. A couple of things. What it really is, guys, it is a lack, what do I just do? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I put something on the screen. It is a lack of trust in what Christ has done. Either there's a greater trust in works or a distrust in the sufficiency and the power of Christ. And so, for example, in Luke 813, let's put it back on the screen in Luke 813. Here's an example of the people who they hear the word. They hear this word kind of intellectually. They know it. They receive it. But in time of testing, because there's no root, it's just, it's not even taking root in their heart. The word falls away. They fall away. They move away. It is an intentional revolt against God. It's an intentional revolt against what he's done. Same thing in Hebrews. Remember the writer of Hebrews is right to these Jews. Either you accept and trust what Christ has done, the atoning work that he's done, or you don't. That's a disbelieving heart, an evil disbelieving heart. You do not accept or trust what he has done. It does not mean that you did before and then you left. Apostasy means to revolt to go against. It is something that you do intentionally. I'm moving away from the thought now. I can know something to be true. I can know something to be actual. I can know something to be the fact and still apostatize from that very fact. This won't talk about this great falling away. There are people who know for a fact, or at least in their head, they have 90. They know that Jesus is Lord, that he died for their sins, and they still reject it because if I accept that and accept him, I cannot be who I want to be. I got to be my best me. And folks do, people apostatize for all types of reasons. There are folks that call themselves Christians today and they're not a Christian tomorrow. Well, the Bible is clear that a Christian is someone who's a Christian all the time. Sheep continue to follow. They don't follow one day and then leave. As a matter of fact, Jesus gave a prohibition about sheep leaving. He even says in Jeremiah that his spirit is in us, which by the way all believers have his spirit in him. Then he says that the sheep or that person will never depart from him. Neither will he depart from them. So apostasy is not a person being saved the day and then not saved tomorrow. Apostasy is someone intellectually rejecting or moving away, revolting against what they know to be true. Are you with me? What they know to be true. Where this comes up is in Galatians 5.4 again. Let's put that on the screen. Galatians 5.4. Matter of fact, let's go to verse 2. He says, Look, I, Paul said to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who wish to be justified by the law. He says you have fallen away. You have fallen away from grace. And so this falling away, the same as in other passages, the same, you have intentionally placed yourself, you have revolted, you have come against what you have, what you say you accepted. You say that you accepted what Christ did, but now you're doing something else, either you don't trust it or that do me any good anymore. I'm not down with that. I'm more into me. In this case in Galatians, their goal, their interest was in satisfying the work of the law, as though what Christ did on the cross wasn't enough. Well, fine, you're cut off from grace, you've fallen away. And so that's really what it means. But you, sir, do not sound like that type of person. Sin bothers you. And if sin still bothers you, ladies and gentlemen, if sin still bothers you, well, then amen. That means you're probably in good shape. That means you're probably in good shape. Sin doesn't really, no, I shouldn't say it doesn't bother because they're folks in the world who are not saved. They get bothered by their sin, but they don't do anything about it. So anyway, now let me go ahead and jump into, as a matter of fact, let me go ahead and start answering. Let me start marking some of these questions.  As I'm going through them, since I'm seeing some of these comments, I don't know, still not to agree with what you just said. I just saw it. Don't go into this thing and moving too fast. Okay, what I'm doing now, guys, I'm actually going through and trying to mark some of these questions. And the fact that I have not eaten today is I'm starting to feel it. Man, it's this question. Okay, let me go to the very top because I know there were some questions that were asked initially when I said don't ask questions. Initially, let me go there and see if there are some questions there. By the way, is Rashaan still here? I see him. I haven't said hello to Rashaan. Hello, Rashaan, as well as to the other moderators, Tyra. I spoke to chess chat. Carol, perfectly in perfect. Oh, Lord, this cat is here. Oh, at Lisa. Okay, there's a question there. Another question there. Okay, I'd like to get to I'd like to get to as many of these questions as possible. I'm not. Oh, thank you, Jeff, for the super chat. I'm not getting them anything with this money. No, thank you. I appreciate you. They've already eaten. They've eaten, sir. I've got, oh, no, no, I've got all my grandkids here today. I got four of them. They're all here. And they've all eaten. And no one brought anything to eat. No one brings old grandpa. You're on your own, old man. No problem. No problem. See what happens when I turn the internet off. Take a few more. Okay, let's go and deal with a few of these. Oh, that's the same thing. Can you show from the Greek that the body of Christ and the bride of Christ are one of the same? I would have to do an actual study. They don't say the exact same thing. But in context, you'll see the refer to the same thing. And so I'll tell you what you can do. If you want to send me an email, by the way, a lot of the emails that you guys said I can't do much with right now, there will be a place in the future for you to send an email to to get your questions answered. I do try to look at some of them, but it's just just a sheer volume. I really can't. Okay, acts 1348 is acts 1348 another example of predestination. Well, let's go there and look acts 1348. I know the past, but I just want to put on screen for you guys to see acts 1348. When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord. And look what it says. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life, believe we get an actual order. We says, and those hustle, which is or as many that were this word, a sign is the past tense. So as many that were, and then we have the word appointed to tagman, which is this is the perfect tense. So they had been appointed even more related. They had been appointed in the past. It's completed action in the past. So those that were appointed, all of the ones that were appointed in the past to eternal life appointed to what appointed a zoane onion. They were appointed into eternal life. Those ones will they do they believed they were believing they're with me. So follow the picture. All of the ones hustle is all of us. So all of the ones I said, so it's no s on the end of all of the ones that were appointed in the past. What do they do? They believe when were they appointed to eternal life? They were appointed to eternal life in the past. And because of that, it seems as though they believe it. So I think that this is a clear example of election predestination. Some folks will be bothered by that, but it's what it says. It's what it says. So I guess cat again, this cat, this cat, my daughter literally opened the door for the cat to come in. And then he just stood there. He stood there at the front door. He may have to come in and he just stood there. You know why?  By the way, the cat is he's been my he's been my roommate for the last how long when my wife leaves. She went out of town on Wednesday, third year. Do you know who who has been sleeping in the bed with me? Somebody sleeping in my bed, spending the cat. I wake up at two in the morning and he's right by my leg just sleeping and he won't move. I'll move my leg to kind of kick him over. He moves to the other side of the bed. He's actually pretty cool cat though. He really is. He really is.  He just he just does stuff. He just knocks stuff over. Anyway, I love him though.  I think that's what makes cats cats. They're cool. They're by themselves. But you know what, let me go over and mess with the dog.  Why do heretics love the Book of Acts? Because they see themselves in it. They see themselves in the Book of Acts and so they feel like it's speaking of them. They feel like they can have that same power because in the Book of Acts we see the story of Simon the Sorcerer who he himself, supposing or wanting to be something great, they too also want to be something great. They want to have that same power.  They want that same power. This is why I, from my perspective, I think they don't have the power. I think they know they don't have the power, which is why they won't do certain things. One, they won't go out. If they've got all this power, they won't go out and deal with the true problems, the greatest problems in society. They won't do that. They can't do that and they're afraid to be found out that they can't do that. And so what do they do? They talk as big and as bold and as bad about it as possible to get us to recognize or not to see that they're not doing what they're saying. Look at my hands move so fast. They're moving so fast you can't see them. As a matter of fact, they're a blur. They're there. My hands are moving so fast. They're a blur. It looks like, matter of fact, my hands have entered into a different dimension. And we're like, look, I'm literally looking at your hands moving. No, you're not. Yes, I am. No, you're not. They're not even my hands. You, sir, in the flesh, I'm in the spirit, which is why you see what you, and they do that. And it's an argument that you can't win with them. They have these arguments that you can't have Bruce Lee. That's funny. That's funny. Yeah, Bruce, show enough. They, they, it's, it's arguing with them is, is really pointless to some degree, but it's more to expose them to the people who actually are and are genuinely trying to learn. So Hey Corey, would it be wise to date or pursue a relationship with someone who goes to church where a woman teaches and is a pastor and she herself is also a children's pastor? Well, here's the answer. Is, is, is she cute? That, that, I mean that, in that how we, that's how we decide. Is she, is she cute? Can she cook? Although for some people, listen, the cuter she is, the, the better looking he or she is, the more we are willing to overlook some of the problems. Right? Come on. Tell the truth.  Tell the truth.  The more the, listen, the better, the better she looks, the better she's shaped, the more, yeah, you know what y'all tripping. Y'all can't, don't limit God.  Matter of fact, even more so to win her over to the truth. Why, why, these are all my problems.  Why, why can't she move away? Why can't she hear the truth?  Tell you what I'm about to do. I'm getting ready to help you. I am getting you ready to help. I'm going to, first of all, I'm going to help you land her, okay? I'm going to make sure that she ends up dating you and I'm going to make sure that she ends up leaving that, that church. I'm going to help you to get her to see the right way. All right, you ready? Matter of fact, what I'm going to do, I'm going to help every single male, matter of fact, every single female who is looking into someone or interested in someone who they might not be doctorly sound, okay?  I want you to download this and when you see that person, I want you to play it that way. It gets them to stand up. It puts them into a biblical trance. They can't help it. They'll be putting your hands. So when you walk up to that girl, who you're pursuing, you're interested in and you want her to leave that church, just play this. She's yours. She's yours. Listen, you can pop the question. After that song plays, pop the question. She's yours. After that song plays, hey, listen, let's go meet your parents. I got something to tell your daddy or your mama. That's all you got to do. So, all you got to do, she's yours.  A little YouTube buddy, buddy of mine. Have you all heard of a channel called Hold the Line Ministries? Brother, Keith Hanley. Keith Hanley, metal woman, I think, if I'm correct, Keith, you have to help me out where, I guess you could, where I think the church that she was at has some teaching of what have you. Well, he steps in and gets where they're not at, at that church. So, you're not going out looking for a perfect mate, because if you are, you'll be single for the rest of, matter of fact, they'll stay away from you if they're looking for a perfect mate as well. So, I would say you be the example for the person, male or female. Women can be exemplary, man. When I, when I first met my wife, I'm telling myself a little bit, when I first met my wife and now she tells the story worse than I do. She, she makes it as though that I'm just living for the, for the devil. I wouldn't. I was checking her out. She was passing out Christian tracking. So, she might have been a little bit more serious. She might have been a little bit more serious, but, but being around her made me want to even be more, and I was, listen, I was in the Lord, I was even out sharing the gospel, but I wanted to even get more sold by watching her talk on. She said they want to read the Bible all the time. You do realize honey, I want to do something more than read the Bible. I'm not as saved as I should be. So, I want to do something more than read the Bible. So, can we put the Bible down? Well, now I end up winning. I end up winning. I end up winning. You know how I end up winning because I got her, I got her and the kids. Yeah, listen, I had, I had, I had the best game, the best line. Listen, if I wanted you, you was going to be mine.  So, hey baby, she was hooked. She was hooked. So, then that size old head song, that song will weigh back. That song goes to the 90s. She was hooked. She couldn't, she couldn't resist. All the other guys who want to talk to her, she getting rid of numbers. Yeah, she was hooked. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. And all seriousness though, but you can be the example.  This is what now, okay, all seriousness. This is what I know for a fact. When weak, all bad doctrine is weak doctrine. All bad doctrine is weak doctrine. By the way, I did, I'm sorry, I'll get there. All bad doctrine is weak doctrine. And because all bad doctrine is weak doctrine, when you come in with your sound doctrine, which is strong doctrine, what ends up crumbling, because you've got your scriptures, because you know how to, how to point out what's true, what's sound, you know how this verse and this verse and this verse come together. The bad doctrine, they don't have bad, theirs is more emotional.  Why do you think people with bad doctrine do not like smart Christians? Why do you think people with bad doctrine don't want to have a conversation with us? Why? It's almost like the devil does not want to be around the Lord. I'm not saying we're the Lord, but the same thing. Sound doctrine takes up all the space in a room full of foolishness. That's why they don't want to have the conversation. So I say, what you need to do is be a boatload of sound doctrine coming into the seas of foolishness. I just made it up, by the way, I just just off the top of my head. But that's the truth though. Bad doctrine and good doctrine, good doctrine leaves.  Amen. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. As a matter of fact, I tell you what, I tell you what we're gonna do. Tell you what we're gonna do. Hold on. I'm gonna do this right now. I'm gonna do this right now. Where's it at? Let me put this together. Let me fix this. No, that's not it. Why is that on here? Let's slide this over here. I'm gonna do this right now. I'm gonna do this right now, sir. Wrong thing. Wrong thing. What am I doing? What are you doing, Corey? Where's it at? Give you guys a treat. Oh, it's over there. That's why. Duh. All right. I didn't mean to do this, but I'm gonna do this. I can't see a thing. Okay. All right. Hold on, guys. We have a treat for you. There it is. There it is. All right. Let's do this. Let's go from that scene. Let's know. Let's do this scene. Hold on one second, guys. Let's put this right here. And so what I'm going to do is let's remove that. Let's add this as we go. Let's go to... There it is. All right. Let's play this thing. I'm sorry. Let me go and put it back.  I don't know what I just did. I don't know what I just... Oh, I see what I did. Let me move that out of the way now. Okay. Now let's pop back up.  I messed up something. Hold on one second. I gotta fix my screen. Hold on. I'm having too much fun on the fly. Go to... There it is. Now it's playing something in the back of me in this. Okay. All right. But yeah. Yeah. I saw that. I saw that scene kind of red and I just thought like, yeah, he did it. He did it. He did it. So anyway, won't you all see that? That's when they're always saying, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Okay. Well, let's put some use to that thing then. Let's get a hit off of that. Anyway. Ah, thank you for the super chat. Star that makes your ideas bright. He says, how do I... Corey, how do I compromise with intrusive thoughts? Paul addresses struggles. Okay. How do I deal with these intrusive thoughts? This is for everybody. This is not just you. This is for everybody. The way you deal with intrusive thoughts... Now, we want to bring these these intrusive thoughts captive, right? Anything that exalts us up against Christ, even if it does so in our own personal life. How do we do so? By what James says. There's one thing that's true if we believe the Bible. If we resist him, he will flee. Oftentimes, can we just tell the truth though? Let's be honest. Oftentimes, we don't resist him. Oftentimes, we succumb. We enjoy his company. We appreciate what he's doing for us. Here I am by myself and I appreciate the fact, Satan, that you have brought me some pictures, some images to cause me to lust today. I won't say it around my Christian friends, but I thank you for that. Or I'm having a struggle with this addiction. Maybe if it's alcoholist drugs. I thank you, Satan, for bringing Fred around or Hermia around or whoever it is, asking me, do I want to go out and party tonight? I don't want to. I don't need to, but I thank you for that. Let's be honest. We entertain our flesh and the enemy a lot. And so what do we do? The Bible says to resist him. Why do we resist him? Easier said than done. Easier said than done. Well, no. It's just as easily done as it is said. Okay. Why do I say that? If you just, if you just offer up praises, think on him, think on good thoughts, things that are noble, honest, of a just report, think on the good things. Think about him. Focus your, yeah, I see what she's wearing. I see what he's wearing. I hear that, but God, you're awesome. You're amazing. You're wonderful. You know how hard it is to sin and to think about it? Listen, if you can sin, if you could intentionally sin and at the same time intentionally focus on Christ, you've done something. When I was, when I first became a Christian, I thought, I don't know where is it at? Oh, it's back there behind me. I thought that I could not, I wouldn't do anything bad in front of my Bible. Anybody ever do that?  Even if all I had to do was turn it over, if I put a book on top of it, put underneath my pillow. I did not want to see that Bible because my mind is about, is about sin right now. I think it works the same way with us. If we have in mind God and that sin, something's going to, something's going to win. So what do we do? My desires for the sin. So I, I'll stop thinking about God. So how do you fix that? Drawing, as he says, draw near to him. He draws near to you. Focus on him. Proximity is the issue. Proximity is the issue. Get closer to him. How do you get close to him? By reading his word, by praying, by praising. He doesn't have it. I praise also the fellowship with the saints. Do not discount how good it is to be around the saints. One of the good things I would say about YouTube, even in the little community, you guys are in the chats, there is a bit of a fellowship going on. You might go to the next channel and see some of the same folks and fellowship over there.  He is, he is absolutely correct. Resist him and he will flee. Resist him. Amen. So that, that's how you do that. That's how you do it. Let's take a few more questions. Whoa. My church has started to install women elders. I recognize this is an opposition to God's word. I seem to be the only male elder opposing this. Is this reason to leave my church? It absolutely is reason to leave your church because typically that's, it may be one of the first shoes to drop. It's probably the first shoe to drop. It's probably the first issue. There probably might be some other leaky doctrinal issues there, but they begin manifesting in these sort of things. So yeah, if you cannot convince him to go otherwise, then it is definitely, without question, it is definitely a time to leave. Love you all, but I got to go. Okay. Okay. What do you say to those who say Yahweh is a God from a pantheon of God's? Oh, okay. He's a former warrior God. Sometimes you, can I be honest with you guys? Sometimes you can't say anything to people like that. Sometimes it's just good. So you know what? Okay, fine. The guy that I'm talking about is not the guy that you're thinking about. And so you got the officer getting pulled over and you're looking for a six foot seven heavy set white male. No, officer, you got the wrong guy. That's, that's not me. See? No, that's, no. I see where I see your confusion because they call him God, but because they call him God, it'd make that mean that he is God. This is God. How do I know? Look at his actions in the Bible. That's the guy that you're thinking of, of the pantheon of God's resemble this guy. No, the God of our world is not the God of Islam. It's not the God of Hinduism. It's not the God of Buddhism. Now, is he that is, is God the God of Judaism? Yeah, he is. He lived the same God. They just don't, they just don't accept that Jesus as the Messiah, the same God who brought them out of Israel, same God. They just haven't, they haven't accepted that the one that led them out, what the angel of the Lord was actually Jesus himself. But other than that, we have a description of who God is and they may not accept it. That's fine. All you can do is all you can do. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think. Do you all think it's okay to cook on the Sabbath? Well, we're not, I do cook on the Sabbath. I'm gonna eat on the Sabbath because I don't observe the Sabbath the way the Jews were supposed to. The way the Jews defiled and profaned that very same Sabbath. No, the very same Sabbath that God himself says that I will not, I will no longer take part in your Sabbath, which is funny. People going around trying to keep the Sabbath, the very Sabbath that God told Israel, I'm no longer going to take part in your Sabbath in your fees, your new moon fees and so forth. I'm out. So no, let me just say this again, guys. Let me just say this again. I'm going to have to start. I'm going to start answering more of these questions in the form of more videos. I'm almost through with what I'm doing here, but then also in the form of some of these YouTube shorts is what some of the questions can be answered fairly quickly. Do I see your question? No. Can I can I go over the Hebrew of 32 43 and compare it with with how the ESV reads it? That's a lot of work. Be honest with you. That's a whole lot of work. Tell you what, because I don't have the I don't have the ESV pull up. I can pull it up. And then just to go and reek. I'm not sure what the what the what the point is. I tell you what though on next week, we do this, send your question in and I will make sure that I answer it. By the way, I think you also saw the other question. Why is the clock at five o'clock?  Do you think the tongues in first making 14 were different from those performing acts to because they required interpretation and were performed in a church? Well, both required interpretation. So I don't there's no reason to believe that they were different. Both required interpretation. The words that are used to describe the tongues in acts 12 and acts 14 are the exact same words that are used to describe in first career in acts. The same words. And so if they're the same words, the same two words, there's no reason to believe that they are that they are different. They're with me. And we see that they require interpretation next 14. We also see that there is interpretation in acts two. I'm sorry. In first Corinthians 14, they require interpretation in acts two. They also were not told that they require interpretation. We just we just see that they have interpretation are with me. These are the apostles. They don't have to tell themselves that they have to have interpretation. They actually do it. And so we see that Peter gets up. We see the person that's speaking knows what's being said. The audience who doesn't know what's being said, they get an understanding and the people who are hearing it, they obviously know what's being said because it's being said to them in their language. Peter tells us that he knows what he's talking about. And the audience around them hears what they just said to all these people. So there's interpretations happening there. Thank you. Listen, that is that that makes me feel good. That makes me feel good. I appreciate that kind words. I appreciate you guys. I remember guys for you all that came in later also. I am the decreeing and declaring April 1st to be April Smart's Day, not April Fool's Day, April Smart's Day. That is the day that we'll start the Bible study off. So make sure you're there. Chadwick says, can you explain the heiress in Greek? Yes, I can. The heiress in Greek is in a rough sense. The past tense. As a matter of fact, let me go. Where is it? Where is it? Where is the dog on the bucket? Where is hold on one second. Let me give you guys some new music while I find this book. Hold on. Right. This book right here is Greek Grammar Beyond the Basis. I should have got I should have got went over and grabbed mouses, basics of biblical Greek. Let me just let me just pull this up. Let me let me find where heiress is found in this book. This is the this is the thing about Greek. This by the way, this is why this by this book, whenever I see this book, guys, by the way, this book reminds me of my my my issue with some of these preachers, these teachers, some of these pastors. Y'all see why this has this has this stuff on the side. It's got the foil on the side and so forth. It's a little torn and a little tattered. I got this book while I was in prison. This isn't a cheap book either. But I wanted this is my desire to grow and learn in the word as much as possible. If I'm in prison, I'm a lowly old rotten, raggedy, nasty, horrible, inmate in prison and I want to go deeper in the word. What's your problem preacher? What's your problem YouTube person? Anyway, let me just show you all this right here. I don't know if y'all can if I can bring this in closer. Okay, let's see. Here's where he's talking about the heiress tense right here. This way brings up the heiress tense and he's covering. It goes all the way over to all the different types of heiress. I don't know if y'all, you can't see that, but just know there's a lot in there. There's a whole lot of nuances to languages, including English as well and Greek. The heiress just in a generic sense is the past tense. It's the past tense and so when you feel like an English ED or ES receives or Daniel Wallace wrote this. The ED just means that it happened in the past. It's a generic way. Now, there's what you have in Greek, say in English, you have aspect and you have time. Okay, let's put this way. I don't want to confuse you guys anymore. You can say I did something in the past. I ran or I studied. I studied is kind of a basic heiress tense. I studied, but what if I also want to say what I did in the past, but it was continuous, meaning that there's some aspect to it. I was studying. Yesterday I studied or yesterday I was studying. You all see the difference and just like there's some nuance between the two, there's other ways to convey other nuances. So just in just a basic sense, the heiress tense is just the past tense ED or ES or instead of less run, he ran because you know in English, sometimes the words, you have the, you have the whole word has a morph. So can you, can you re ask that question? 1689 re ask that question. I can't, I can't answer right now, but re ask that question. Thank you, Aaron. I appreciate that. Thank you so much for the super sticker. Okay, when let me ask, let me ask one more question because I've got to run the question. Wow, that's a good question.  Let me take a break. Yes. Can I tell you where he says that at? Can I tell you where he says that at? Let's go to my handy dandy. I almost said my Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu. Some of you young folk don't know what that is, but in the Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, come on, Corey, in the Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, the lowly old janitor, as he turns into Hong Kong Fui, the lowly old janitor becomes Hong Kong Fui and then he's got a book to help him get out of every problem. And so, let's talk about the Bible. Corey, what's your IQ?  If I, if I, I did have a benefit one day in prison, I was messing with a guy because people in prison, sometimes they just say some stuff. And sometimes you just want to just deal with them.   He was the bombshell. Yeah, there he was. Hong Kong Fui's a lady. He's still out there. Got a cat named Spot who had stripes. You can't make this up. A cat named Spot who had stripes. Yes. And that secretary, hello, hello, hello.  And so guys will ask a question. I give an answer. Do you think you know it all? Wait a second. I didn't ask you. I didn't, I didn't ask you to ask me a question. You asked me a question, but that's how it is in prison. Guys just, they just look and just do it and say all kinds of crazy stuff. And so you ain't that smart. Okay, fine. I never said I was. Why are you asking me questions then? I told the guys that there's a reason why I don't ask you anything. You always ask me something. I never asked you anything. Yeah, I said, you know why? He said, why? Because I don't expect much from me.  I said, tell you what, I don't know what would have happened if people took me up on this. I said, tell you what, they have over at the prison library, these IQ tests. They've got these exams you can take. They've got some college aunts. What's, oh, what's the, by the way, you can take the MCAT. They have the MCAT there, the LSAT. They have all the, what's the other one? My mind just went blank. I said, tell you what, we'll go over there. We'll just take, you can find five or 10 people. We'll take the test. You find five or 10 people, they'll take the test. Who you think are the smart. And then let's see if, if I score higher than them. I don't test the library. The people over there are gonna grade, they just want us to see and find out. So let's find out. And if I test higher than them, and we, I forgot what we bet, if I test higher than them, $100 worth of commissary or something like something silly, something stupid, he didn't want to bet. Now I don't know what the outcome, I might have came in last place. I have no idea. But if you put it out there, if you say it a certain way, basically anybody that you can find that you want to test me, anybody you find, I gave the appearance that, yeah, I'll outscore all of them. Now I might have came in, in last place, but he was so scared. And I said it so confidently, he left me alone. He left me alone. So I don't know what it is. I know what it was. I've taken an IQ test twice, once in fourth grade, going, no, going into fourth grade. And the other one was, was in college. So that doesn't really matter though, because I know a lot of guys that are highly, they score high on, on those little intelligent, intelligent quotient exams. And they can't walk past this door without falling. So anyway, but your question, your question, what's the question? What was the question? Wow. See, get no, get no, does it? Hold on. Let me put it back up. They'll find it first and then put it back up. There it is. Did he, when he died on the cross, did he save anyone who was already in hell? Let's go to John chapter three. Uh-oh, I went too far back. Jesus makes a statement. Let's start in verse nine. He says, after telling them they must be born again, he says, Nicodemus says, how can these things be? Jesus answered, said, are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things? So obviously this is something that was covered in the past that a teacher of Israel should know. Again, Jesus never commended these teachers of Israel, including Nicodemus, for their understanding of the word. Pharisees don't know the word.  He says, look, I've told you earthly things, and you do not believe. How will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.   Why did I read all of that? Well, a couple of things. First of all, the people who are in the grave prior to Christ, his incarnation, they were not in heaven, none were. That even includes Elijah, that even includes Enoch. They walked with God, they were taken up, they were no more. That didn't mean they went to heaven, which is why you would see some of them show up from the grave, Elijah and Moses and so forth, Samuel, because where they were had not been translated to heaven yet. That's why he says no one has ascended. The only one has gone up is one who's come down, that being Jesus. Now, what he did say though, the purpose for his death is that there will never be any reason for anybody, for anybody to ever perish. Now, they're dead. They don't have to worry about having their sins atoned for because they died, however they died, whatever state they were in when they died, that was the state that they'll be in. So, if they died righteous in a righteous state, with an amen, there's nothing to make them unrighteous while they're in the grave. If they died unrighteously in an unrighteous state, there's nothing that's going to make them righteous. But there's one issue that the people in the grave don't have, even those who are destined to be with the father. There's one issue that Isaiah couldn't fix for himself, that Jeremiah can't fix for himself, not even Moses, not Abraham, you name it. There's one thing that they could not do for themselves that necessarily required Jesus. That is what Jesus just said. No one has ascended to the father, except in his case, him. So, after his death, burial, resurrection, and then subsequent ascension, that's when these people who are in the grave, who are in God, go up with him. They are not going to proceed Jesus to heaven. They get there, that's why he is called the first fruits, because he goes first and he leads them. The Bible is about leading this host or this captive on high. That's him doing so. Are you with me? And so, they needed that. He is how they are reconciled and brought to the father. Are you following? And one of the interesting things that we noticed is that after this happens, we never see some Old Testament saint from the grave show up. We don't see Moses again. We don't see Elijah again. We don't see Saint. We don't see anyone else again. Why? This is now Paul can make this statement. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.  The statement that Jesus makes in John 3 is not made after his ascension, but before.  Previously, you waited. You see this story about, yeah, Abraham's bosom. When you passed away and you were in right standing, you go to Abraham's bosom or paradise on that day. That's why he says it deep on the cross. Today, you will be with me in paradise. Well, guess where paradise was at that time? It was not in heaven because Jesus tells us he didn't go to heaven. Why? When Jesus is confronted with Mary at the tomb, she wants to grab him. What does he say? Release me for I have not yet ascended to my father. Okay. Okay. J.Rod Jr. 1295. Had to look close to read the whole thing. I'm actually going to have a video for you for that, for that very same issue of Matthew 25, the parable of the Talons and Outer Darkness and so forth. I'm actually going to have a video for you all. I don't know if it was you or someone. I think it was two of people also asked this, and so there will be a video for you guys on tomorrow to see the explanation. Does not, it does not mean that a person in that particular parable that is saying that that person loses their salvation. Explain the three heavens. The three heavens are when you see the word in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, the word for heavens is the Hebrew word ha shamaim, ha the shamaim is heaven and the im, but the im part that you hear is the yad mim. The mean part, im part, that's where we get the im part. That's the plurality in Hebrew. And so in Hebrew, there's three ways you number word. You number word singularly, duly, like two, two eyes, two ears or poorly, three or more, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, a thousand, a billion. Well, ha shamaim refers to at least three heavens. Well, we understand as we look at how he's creating the earth, he separates the expansions. So we have this one set of waters above the waters, the atmosphere, which has water in it, the one that we breathe. The second one would also has a little bit of water in it, but there's a canopy that divides it to bass outer space. That's another heaven. And he talks about the, uh, the celestial beings in the heavens, the stars and moons and so forth, the planets. Then there's another heaven that Paul has a vision of that you don't get there by rocket ship or by a long walk. That one you can't get to. Okay. And so when we talk about the three heavens, the two we can visit by man's desires, by rocket ship, but the other one, you can't, you have to get there by faith. So anyway, you are really on a, an eschatological bent. Where does it say the church will be raptured? Well, go look at my video on why I believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. I'll cover this more in depth as well. But anyway, guys, I've got to run. That'll give me something neat. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. I'll do this because I think I actually did click on yours earlier to cover it. I didn't have time to. What does Paul mean by saying may God repay Alexander in? I didn't fully read your whole question earlier. What does he mean? May God repay him. Let's go there. Second Timothy. Second Timothy four, verse 14. Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. The Lord will repay him. And let's go the Lord will repay. And this is in, it's in the neuter. It's not in the, okay. So it's not even may the Lord will repay him. It's that the Lord will. Let's see. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I take it back. I take it back. It's in the, the, the future active. Yeah, he will. So I don't say out to how curious cut to tie air guy out to. So in this sense, yeah, I don't say, which is the Lord will, the Lord will repay him out to how curious. So he will repay him, the Lord, according to cut to tie air guy, according to the word out to of his. So what that simply means, all that means is that what he did God is going to give him what he's got coming. God is going to give him what he's got coming. Now, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully Alexander has repented. I don't know. I know some Alexander's that don't repent, but hopefully, hopefully Alexander has, whether he does what he doesn't, you are going to get what God says you're going to get. What you're going to get is going to be based off of your faith in what God has done or based on the faith, your faith about what you have done. You've got faith in your work so much so than fine. God will give you what you've got coming. You've got faith in so much so than what Jesus has done than fine. You're going to get what you've got coming. Good. The good thing. And so God is going to repay him. He's going to, really, he's going to pay all of us. There are wages for sin, but then there's also a gift for us. Alexander is on the wrong side of the tracks. And so he's saying God is going to deal with him. So, no, CG, what do you mean throwing shots? Oh, you thought when I said Alexander, you thought I meant somebody in particular? No, I didn't know. No, what are you talking about? CG, you troublemaker. And oh, by the way, by the way, by the way, yeah, it could be at the judgment seat, but sometimes we forget the God also. God is under no obligation to deal with you then. He can deal with you. I know full well that he can deal with you right now. He can deal with you right now. He can give you a crooked limp for the rest of your life. He can put a hurt. He can put a hurting on you. He can put, I saw a video. I'm not being slick, CG. I saw a video where this intelligent person gets into the enclosures with the animals and the animal decided to have his waywarder. You got what you got coming because you decided that, I don't know, maybe you're too cute or the animals too slow or there's a reason why he's in a zoo in an enclosure. And it says do not, but okay, fine. Okay. We'll say some nice kind words with you or for you over, over your body at the funeral. But God is under no obligation to wait until the judgment seat to deal with. Now, he'll deal with you even more harsher at that point in time, but he can mess you up here. He can deal with you here. He didn't have to. And he does oftentimes as a sign of wonder. I mean, as a sign of warning, he will, he will deal with you according to his own purpose. He might have, he might have use for you. He might have use for in how he deals with you right here. I've seen it to the good or to the bad. I like, I like, I like how you put that. He could put your candle out at any time. So true. So true. Anyway, guys, I have got to run. I've got a billion things. There will be another video this one coming out later on about how to deal with, oh, and interestingly enough, addiction about addiction and strongholds. There's a video that I think will be very helpful. Anyway, guys, I love you all. I will see you when I see you in the meantime. Listen to this wonderful, awesome, godly outro music.