Friday's I'm trying to go one just so I can get a catch a catch a little bit of a break But while I'm saying that there is going to be a video later this evening late this afternoon I'm not sure what time at the time is I forgot but Anyone that is dealing with Lust issues sexual issues things like that. Please make sure that you watch this particular video Matter of fact, you could probably apply the video to other aspects of Different struggles that people have and so be on the lookout for that also tomorrow remember we have the The Bible study the world's greatest And I do mean the world's greatest Bible study not because it's me But because of how we're doing it But also because of you guys as well and then also there was someone that wanted to have a Conversation with me a debate a discussion About what I believe about Not necessarily what I believe about Calvinism, but why I don't hold to total depravity The way that Calvinists do or why I don't hold to limited atonement In the end I think it all shakes out the same way in the end, but I Don't know what people a lot of times folks get a lot of lot I don't know that's a little bit disjointed because you don't believe quite the way they do Which is fine. We just find we should always be open and engaged when it comes to doctrine So no problem. We will have this have the discussion sometime tomorrow Sometimes tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening. I'm not I'm not sure But also next week. We've got a person coming on board Brian J. Wright who happens to be a scholar Of greek and so he will be on as well And how are you? pompous ultimer I'm doing well. How are you? So I'm getting ready for that and then as you've heard I think it's I think I've got to go back and look I think it's two weeks from now or two weeks in about two weeks the discussion the debate discussion with dr. Michael brown on tongues. So we'll have that as well I've emailed you a lot. I'm sorry Guys, let me just tell you emailing me Might be at least at this point right now might be an exercise in futility. I Just there are I've got at least at about 3,000 maybe close to 28 29 103,000 videos. I mean videos emails. I'm behind. I am behind so Prayerfully, I'll get to him get some of them. Not all of them. Just just won't happen Anyway, let's go ahead and jump into it guys go ahead I've got one two three four five six six questions that I already had marked Because for some for some reason sometimes you put a comment in the comment section of the chat section on YouTube Before the video starts, sometimes you can catch them. Sometimes YouTube just cuts them off Don't know what that's about and because of that now you guys can see it on your end certainly But I can't I can't see them on my end where I can propagate them either so But I try to go and catch them. I try to go and look and see and so I've got a I've got a few questions I've got questions from Sheila Brianna Dutch from spider monkey from just me and from Byron. So I will oh Do a video. Okay. Do a video on Joshua Selma, which one is he? Is he one of the he's one of the the African Apostles? Is that is that who he is? Is Joshua Selma one of the African Apostles?  I have a pen Emma, I wouldn't say email it to me, but It'd be hit or miss let me write this write this on the back of this I'll just I'm gonna write down Joshua Selma for you. Let me look into him. I think I've heard about this guy Joshua Selma Video with question mark. How about that? How about that? Now I can't do it for everyone folks. Hey, can you cover this guy? I can't cover everybody, but he's a Nigerian heretic, okay? Okay, let me let me look into him and Then we will I can't do everything. I mean every one but I'll try I'll try to get to them That being the case, let's go ahead and jump into some of these Sheila asks a question. She says Corey question Cory, can you explain the conflict between Israel and palace and the Palestinians? Yes, I can't I'm gonna give you two I'm gonna give you two I'm not gonna give you very in-depth, but I'll give you the biblical genesis of all this The first portion of it. Let's go to what is this one? This is no not that one. Let's go to you know what? Let's go to Genesis chapter 16 verse 9. We've got Hagar who is a who is the maid servant of Sarah Sarah has done a dumb thing Sarah says here, honey. Why don't you? Why don't you? Sleep with my um, I don't know. I don't know what Hagar look like. Maybe maybe maybe Hagar was put together Maybe Hagar was gorgeous. So sleep with my smoking hot maid servant. You can have her Well, but there could possibly be nothing that goes wrong with this you sleep with with her and everything will be all right Sarah is not getting any intelligence awards right now for that one of the all-time dumbest Who's I'm not I'm not this merchant. Hey girl. We've all I mean that's Sarah. We've all done dumb things But yeah, that wasn't it first of all you're thinking for God. Don't go to thinking for God. God said what he'll do He'll do it which is also gonna bring us to a bimlich Which is Dutch's question. So I'll go from that question to the next question But Hagar decides here's the right idea. Let's go ahead and give Hagar to you not so good because once that happens then what is what's gonna happen ladies, you know too many too many cooks in the kitchen and so now Sarah is mistreating at least as far as Hagar's concerned. She's mistreating her. So she runs away. So we go to Genesis chapter 16 verse 9 the pre-incarnate Christ the angel the Lord Catches her and says return to your mistress and Submit yourself to her authority moreover the angel the Lord said to her I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count the angel of the Lord said to her further Behold you are with child and you will bear a son and you should call his name Ishmael Because the Lord has given heat to your affliction He will be a here it is a wild donkey of a man His hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand will be against him That sounds like Muslims did that doesn't it and he will they can't get along with anybody or themselves and He will live to be the east of all his brothers So now here we see now. We don't know everything's gonna take place But here we see the first parts of this being spoken up now. Why is this an issue for Israel? Let's go back to Genesis chapter 12 Let's go there and this is strange place to go, but we'll make it fit.  So here we get we have two promises two things God has promised to make ishmael or his family is the sentence a great nation not great in It's awesome the best ever like in terms of great being good but just in terms of a large nation The same things to be said about Abraham Now his nation his great nation isn't quite the same Because genetically speaking his physical lineage in terms of size isn't the same size as ishmael Now truth be told in terms of actual true adherence to it to Islam It's not nearly as large as people say that say this because a large portion If not the majority of people who are Muslims aren't practicing They're in a country in the state where they have to they have to say that but I promise you if you bring freedom to some of these Muslim majority countries you're gonna find out that there'll be a lot fewer Muslims there You're gonna find that out. Why do we know that because when they leave they typically a lot of them tend to abandon their Muslim roots but The same promises made to Abraham Abraham is gonna be a great nation Now this great nation has two implications one in terms of size, but awesome. It's gonna be pretty awesome pretty awesome nation We find out later what he means I won't get into that that portion of but he says that I will bless those that bless you and I will curse those that curse you The Jews and the poor and the Muslims in this case of Palestinians They've been going at it and going at it and going at it and going at it forever Mohammed One of the first groups that Mohammed goes to to say that he is something special are Is a Jewish village where he goes to them and tells them that he's a prophet and they kind of making fun of him And they say well prophesy and he doesn't and so they they just kind of scorn and scoff and mock them And then of course as he gets some some me and some money and some power He comes back and destroys it So there's always been this tension when you see that even when you read the Quran There's this tension this hatred towards the Jews The Jews because they're disobedient they've been scattered. They're taken out of their land They're gonna be brought back to the land, but who is now before they're brought back to the land in 1948 who is there? Muslims, but the world is a side of it. This is where they're going to go Now the Palestinians for some reason won't go into all of the historical issues behind all of this stuff But the Palestinians no one really wants them they could have been absolved into Egypt or any other the surrounding Muslim country But no one else wanted them It was really kind of a we don't like we don't like the Jews and then they've claimed both of that spot For their holy lands for both of them But the issue is the land but the land was promised to these Jews gonna be theirs We know so and God will make that the case and the longer they go after Israel The more that they have problems typically the problems or the consequences for their problems Has been Israel. I mean has been America. We've been the ones that's been battling and fighting Their battles, which is fine good for us because I think God has blessed us because of that. So I Would say there's a lot there's a lot of material that that's better than me at Giving the historical accounts of Israel coming into the land and the different accords that brought them in there and so forth, but Spiritually speaking they are going to be against them and I think he really the genesis has to be with Abraham Descendant Isaac and the niche male and ever since then they have been that they have been in it. They've been in odds the second one Matter of fact, I was going to go to Brianna, but I'll go to her after I do Bible Dutch the Bible Thumper Dutch says and I did ask and remind me if we have this on Friday He says it's a Bimelech the same of Bimelech that was dealing with Abraham the same of Bimelech that We see encountering Isaac you remember the story with a Bimelech with Abraham Abraham has been told that He's gonna have a son or he's gonna have a child He is he doesn't believe God and his wife doesn't matter fact his wife laughs Now something happens in that time frame He tells when he comes when he's coming in contact with a Bimelech He comes in contact and he tells them tell me you're my sister Because they're gonna see you and because you're awesome. Look you listen. I know I know Hagar is pretty But nobody's as pretty as as you Sarah Sarah's old lady, but she she is a knockout Yeah, some of you ladies would be hating on Sarah because she just she's just fine. She's she listen 75 in the brick house. She's she's all that everybody. She she would be in I don't know Somebody everybody wanted Sarah everybody's going Google got over Sarah and so so no one will kill me Way to be a tough man Abraham.  Well Abraham, but Abraham's looking out for Abraham is looking out for number one so What happens a Bimelech takes him in takes her in problem is I've been like that and it enabled to do the job a Bimelech is not able to do the job Hold on. I'll answer it in a second. He's not able to do the job. Why?  I Didn't know he told me but So this lie that he that he concocted Isaac also concocts the exact same lie with his wife and Who's he concocted with a Bimelech? Now this is a bit like is the king in Gerard the same Gerard that a bit like was a king of in Abraham's day is This is the same a Bimelech No, not likely. Why? It's about 90 years apart. It's about 90 years apart so however old a Bimelech was he was old enough to be an older man with family and So we're talking 90 years later So it's not likely not likely that this is The same Okay, so but now a Bimelech is probably a title The name a Bimelech means I be which is my God. I mean, I'm sorry my father Malek King my father the king or My father reigns Because my let could be taken as a as a noun or a verb And so it means my father king or my father reigns So that could be like a title like like Pharaoh or Caesar or president. So Brianna says what do you think about the doctor of easy-belief is it depends on who's giving the definition of the doctor of easy-belief of easy-belief is Easy-belief is him is kind of the extreme form of free grace or it might actually be free grace again these titles free grace easy-belief is him Lord sip salvation would have it depends on who you're talking to to find out what you mean Which is why another reason why maybe we ought to stay away from some of these titles because even the people who are adhering to these titles They have differences within them But easy-belief is him is basically a phrase that was coined not by them But by folks who disagree with the with the ultra free grace's Or tints of free grace that all you got to do is just believe that easy just simply believe and then kind of live how you want to It brings a negative stain to other Christians who we believe in eternal security Because it looks like wait a second just all you got to do is just believe and that's that live how you want to live Well, no no no no no no no that's how that goes And so easy-belief is him is kind of a pejorative. It's a put down You gotta do is believe believe and live how you want now how it's explained means that You just believe Just that simple now do we believe that's what it takes to be saved sure But there's there's there's something to the type of belief it what kind of believe are we talking about a Believe that says that all you got to do is believe and live how you want to live You can either become a Muslim and still be safe. No you can be you can believe and live in sin No, because that because true belief won't allow you to live in sin something that's half actually happening on the inside And so that's what's meant by easy-believing is it's usually a dig and it's usually by folks on the Lordship salvation camp or closer That that will that will impugn them. Okay, so That is that is easy-believism. It is if and The way is described by those who put it down that type of belief in some folks who hold to that easy-believism That's wrong. That's not biblical as well Spider monkey says what did why didn't God tell Adam and Eve? I'm not sure you ask him Why didn't he tell him to not eat from the tree of life or why did he tell them to eat from the tree of life? Remember he tells him you you may eat of any tree in the midst of a garden except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil so While he doesn't say specifically hey go eat from this tree We know they're eating because he says you can eat from any of the trees There are there are two named trees that we know of One The tree of knowledge of good and evil and then the tree of life the tree of life is this tree that is sustaining them Now why weren't they born with immortality? I don't know. I didn't I didn't create people so God did and he did it in such that by the way if you want to me if you guys are going to submit a question uh put a cue Put a or a big question so I can see that But he didn't he didn't he didn't create us with immortality We can die and they could there but they had the tree of life there to eat from them Now I don't know because it makes you wonder doesn't say what makes you wonder that the tree of life How long do the effects of the tree wear off in the words you eat from the tree of life? I don't know for a few days whatever do the effects last for you know because again You under years Adam lives I don't know but we'll see the tree of life again. He didn't tell them Too specifically, but he says of all the trees you can eat so I hope imagine the question correctly All right, let's answer these other two questions on here and then I'll go to you guys's questions in the chat Just me says question in the new testament Jesus says father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing When he is on the cross who was he talking to he says I'm still getting confused with Jesus also being god Okay, which is fine, which is fine Who he's talking to we've got god the son Speaking to god the father we've got god who's in heaven and we've got god who's on the cross Remember and let's just go back to and this is kind of the way I put it I know it's a hard concept to wrap our heads around sometimes because we don't know anyone that that exists like this But remember in my favorite way of going over this is in Exodus 3. We see God in the burning bush We also know if god is in heaven So we got god in heaven and then we got god In the midst of the burning bush. We know so because he says so it begs the lord the lord and god calls out from the Miss of the burning bush who also calls himself. I am. What's your name? How who shall I say sent me tell? Miami sent me so God is still in heaven And then also god is also there on earth and in this case he has wrapped himself in fire So it's possible god has the ability to be in heaven And also to be in earth And while on earth he can wrap himself in flesh Or wrap himself in fire in this case in Exodus 3 wrapped himself in fire on the cross He's has wrapped himself in flesh. Remember a body you have prepared for me But then also because he's in heaven And just because he's wrapped himself in fire or flesh does not mean that his spirit is also no nowhere else His spirit is still all over the world Everywhere else Okay, and so that's kind of the point and so he takes a form even when we see him talking to Hagar the person that's speaking to Hagar and genesis 16 Is the pre-incarnate christ jesus is the angel of the lord god She we know so because she says so we know she's accurate because She didn't make that up And even if she were wrong the person that's writing the story is moses He would have told us the reason why moses would have told us is because he didn't come up with the story God is telling the story to moses so We see him showing up in the old testament quite a bit wrapped in flesh Yet still His full presence his his ultimate glory is in heaven Now he has he has to take a a form that's a little bit veiled In order for us to be around Okay, which he can do that He can veil himself if he wants to in order for us to be in his presence. He can do that In his fullness, we just can't be And so that's what he did and so who he's praying to Who he's speaking to is god the father the reason and and don't get hung up on the The god the father god the son and so forth This is so that we can have a distinction for us to know who he is Are you with me Since he we're not saying that he's the father and he's the son in the sense that This man married this woman and they had a son. No, this is not It didn't this relationship isn't isn't like that that he begat him Okay, no, it's not like that. He's always been just like god has always been are you with me? Now that being the case the next question is why would he do so? Well, the reason why would he do so? Father forgive them for they do not know He is he's actually speaking about what he's going to do for mankind. Forgive now. Is he gonna forgive everybody? No, he's not going to forgive everybody Because everybody is not going to place their faith in what he's literally doing on the cross So if that helps Brian hamler Says i'm going to ask my question now in case i'm not able to watch live brian Is brian in the chats? I just want to make sure he he says he's gonna be in and out So let's make sure brian are you still in the chats? If so, I'll go ahead and answer your question as soon as I see that you are in the chat I don't want you to um to miss your question being answered So i'll give that a second. Let's look at some of the other questions that have been asked and I will go to Would you say you said, uh, did you hear the isaia versus johns? Isn't going to happen he discussed in in his last video Yeah Well, I had been I didn't say anything but I had I had been talking to uh to john I hadn't heard that that that latest portion. I hadn't heard that but um I would have been thoroughly surprised Thoroughly surprised had isaia Debated why because there's just too much to lose We've got we've got a good thing going don't blow it now isaia Don't do that I could imagine the other demon slayer saying to him because you can't win you do not you literally do not have scriptures On your back, which is why you're going to other sources try to prove your point Well, he believes so and he believes so and he's a doctor. Well, it doesn't matter. They're both quacks Anyway, okay. Byron's here. So Byron says, how do you know if you are called to preach? Simple Let's go to the bible I won't pull this up for you because people say this statement all the time. I've been I've been called to preach. I've been called to preach. Well, what does that mean? What does that mean? I've been called to preach Let's see what paul says He says it is a trustworthy statement if any man aspires desires To the office of overseer It's a trustworthy statement if anyone has been called to preach. Well, there is there really is no such passage That says a person is called to preach But do we believe that a person who is going to preach has been gifted in such a way?  Maybe he's been gifted to go to a seminary and teach some people or just to teach People period not necessarily the seminary but How you know that you got this calling or this blessing upon your life Well, what does he do? One you also have to warn it There's got to be a little bit of something in you to desire it because we see that him saying that here But then the second thing is or the more important thing is that he gives a list of criteria And this criteria that we see in 1st Timothy 3 Also in Titus if you pass this criteria Then you have you have the ability to be one And it may very well be that God wants now just because you have that ability to also necessarily mean that you Should do it Because there are some internal issues also A lot of these things have to do with kind of how you control yourself or what have you but then Once the rubber meets the road and you start dealing with people because I don't know if y'all notice this You all probably don't notice this you guys probably live in a nice gated community and and people bring your groceries to you You have the milk man and the juice man brings your juice You know your kids still ride their bikes across town and nothing happens as long as they're home by The time that the street lights come on you probably live in that that world, but the rest of us Have found this out human beings are horrible Really Even christian human beings we do dumb stuff and we do horrible things even to each other So that being the case it's difficult pastoring people Pastoring or dealing with sheep. Sometimes it's like you're you're shepherding cats Sometimes it's like you're shepherding wolves Then they may not actually be wolves though they might actually be wolves But they may act like it Have you all noticed the tendency of christians sometimes to not act like christians? Happens a lot happens a whole lot and so because of that So because of that it takes an awful lot Out of the pastor and he may find out I had a pastor who was a great teacher great teacher but He didn't have really the backbone of the stomach for it That happens a lot. There's this burnout. They don't have the the ability to last The greatest pastor for a week the greatest pastor a month or a year but five ten years down the road And so you must be committed And so you and you must be willing to in a sense almost lay down your life for them to almost just Deal with And what we see in the youtube world we have we don't really know what it's like being a pastor We don't really know what I'll never forget. There was a there was an old buddy Who he was working in the sound booth And there was something happening in one of the offices. So we were having a a meeting With the other ministers and the pastors and other people who were in certain positions And we brought it into the sanctuary When we came to the sanctuary we were close enough to where the guy that's working on in the sound booth and running wires and so forth He could hear what was happening and sometimes they're The sausage making in church didn't pretty either You may put on a unified face A unified front afterwards, but during it they're human beings and we're going back and forth and there's some personal issues too You've been you've been having out for me for the long was you you just mad at my son You just don't like my daughter. Whatever there's all types of things and I and I told you guys We should have got this colored paint on the walls and the pews think This all kind of I'm little there's all kind of weird stuff I'll never forget when I when as a when I was brought on as the youth pastor It was a long time ago And when I say the thing exploded it it it took off Uh, this was us going from a smaller church to a decent size church And we go from having seven eight kids to over 120 kids And what happened was now for our size church at the time as we're growing so we we went from one from having one service to two services one of the elders did not like The way I was doing things now kids were placing their faith in christ and more and more kids were coming And as more and more kids were coming Kids don't birth themselves. They typically come with a parent maybe two And so their parents started showing up enjoying and so forth and so things were things were working I think we need to set him down pastor because he's the way he's doing. He's got them pews over there. They just they They only come to have fun But he said you're they're getting the word they're placing their faith in christ What are you talking about? The tent they're tearing up the church pastor They're they're tearing up the church pastor so that You have to have some ability to deal with the people that way you have to be able to deal with people who just For whatever reason just don't they're just just not being godly that day or that week or that month of that year so Those are things you have to know about yourself if you want to become a pastor. Are you with me? Alrighty, let's answer some more questions What is your opinion on world mission society church of god? I have no idea. I never heard of them So therefore I cannot have an opinion because I don't know who they are Somebody's gonna have to send me something about them. I have no idea who these people are Jesus said there will be no marriage in heaven. People will be like angels, but isiah 65 23 people can procreate Could you help me out with that? So let's go to isiah 65 23 All right, let me see what you read what we're reading. Let me just go to the top So we can keep this in context. These are some I've got these words pretty large on my screen So it's taking me a while to scroll to the top of isiah. You know what I could do Instead of scrolling to the top just Hit isiah 651 duh Okay So he's speaking about israel This is during the exhaled be brought back All day long. I've stretched my hands out to these people And let's go to your verse. He says they will not labor in vain Or bear children for calamity for they or they are the offspring of those blessed by the lord And their descendants with them I'm I'm Not I'm not catching your point. So This isn't him speaking about people procreating Um in eternity So there there there should be no no confusion. This this is not about anyone procreating any eternity um Which by the way, I'll be honest I'll be honest. I kind of wish we were given marriage and so forth in heaven. That's just that's just me That's just me. I kind of I kind of wish that were the case, but Father knows best god knows best My ex believes in Call things that are not Theory I can't get him to see it wrong. Okay. Well, just is what you do. You just angel just mess with him Pickle Just say did you call me to be your wife? I'm not now. How about that, sir? But no, I'm just In romans, where is this roman 16? I do believe let's go to roman 16. Rome. Is roman 16 Is it roman 16? I don't think so. Wait a second. Let's see No, it's not. Uh, what is it? Is it 416? I'd be 416 There it is. I'm sorry. Yeah, roman's 4 starting in 16. Let's go there He says for this reason It is by faith in order that it may be in accordance with grace so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants Not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of abraham Who is the father of us all speaking about god? Obviously as it is written a father of many nations I have made you in the presence of him who he believed even god speaking about god I mean he's speaking about abraham, but now he's speaking about god god who made him Even god who gives life. This is the god who gives life to the dead and calls Into being or that which does not exist or call those things that are not as what they were So this is god who does so not abraham not man And a simple way to refute that is to tell them to call something into existence right now Ask them. What are you waiting on? Typically the people that do so are the people that really don't have what they what they want and ask them Why don't you have what you want? So call those things that are not Call those things that are not is the only way to do it now And then ask them because he's got a history of saying so but it's never happened. So ask him why So Who said david was gay? You know david wasn't gay People do bring it up because of uh Nathan and david's relationship, but Anyway, let me mark a few of these before I go back To the questions that I already have already marked Oh, oh you're talking to another quarry. I see it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah I'm I said Nathan with Jonathan.  So let's go genesis 38. Let's see I don't I know that's what you're talking about though It's not some wild stuff that happened in the bible like some weird stuff. Uh, this is about juda and tamar Uh, let's see Let's move down to where I'm trying to look at something real cool. So I can go to to your point or to answer your point properly You know what I'll do. Let's do this Cory would I just Double-click the wrong thing. Okay, and then we'll go and look and see Well, I mean I guess I'm trying to ask question That's just who the I get. You know what the simple the simple answer is that's just who it came through That'll come through both Did you I'm not really sure how you well how you're asking asking the question Do me a favor if you can re resubmit your question Resubmit it re ask it a different way because I'm not I'm not understanding you exactly How you're asking or what you're asking Why are people saying that deliverance is the children's bread? How do we combat this? Well, just go to the passage go to where he's talked to the king night woman and ask him Why do you say that deliverance is the children's bread? It's not just uh Reform people or Calvinists Who hold to solar scriptura who say that we don't we're only going to preach what the bible says Okay, well then find where it says that deliverance is the children's bread didn't say that It doesn't say as a matter of fact The one that's delivered This daughter of the dog. He's not calling her a dog, but this one is not called the children She's not part of the children that jesus is referring to so The verse they go to refuse their refuse this this point Why do they say that because they don't know the bible? That's just the best way to put it. They just they're making up as because it sounds good It sounds good. So let's just say something. Let's make let's make something make it sound good How do you deal with the end of the book of mark? Do you believe that it is in verse eight or that it expands further does it make you question where the Other things were added to the scriptures. No The bible was written By the people who god wanted to read and to say what he wanted them to say And they were able to put their personality in that was relevant to how they wrote how they spoke into the people And the culture that they were speaking to now That doesn't mean that because they were ordained to do so that those that came back and copied it were also ordained However, the original came about It came about the right way perfectly the problem is The people that wrote it. I mean the people that copied it. We have no idea Who these all these people clearly worked godly there were some some of the scribes we're talking about You know what scribes do right scribes, right? And so not all of these scribes were godly Which means they weren't sent by god But they're just copy if that's the case and every time that we make a photocopy of the bible and passes on Then that means that kinko or the xerox machine or the copier is also ordained by god. That's not what that means The issue is as they're writing it. We know that there have been some different Errors in the copier the copyist And every bible has that Matter of fact, every bible carries them on one because we're not totally sure on certain things For example, if you look through first and second king first and second chronic first second samuel compare some of those numbers Sometimes the numbers don't add up. They're they're they're off. Now. We know the right Numbers was he eight or was he 18 or 18 or 42? Well, we know how old the person was but we'll leave that there just because we don't want to say that Hey, we're tappering with the scriptures because what if we might be wrong? What if there are you with me now? You see that in the old testament in the new testament with this issue of mark I believe personally that I I lean on mark having actually ended at eight But it could be that it did in further but which further because there's other ends the ending that people have typically in their In their versions of the bible and there's typically some sort of Annotation that tells you that hey, they're oldest and best attest to the manuscripts don't have that However, there are other endings of mark. There's a longer ending than the one long ending that we have There's one that's that's shorter than that. There are different endings. So which one is it? well Even if we were to take the one that we have now whether it ends in eight or whether it ends in 20 9 through 20 Didn't change a whole lot for me anyway Because I don't think that that I think this was a scribe that was writing That was probably putting his notes in or notation because sometimes you take the bible And you'll have you have these things written down for what are called these electionaries You'll get out and you'll speak in front of the people And tell them what was happening and then you may even throw in your notes now because you wrote the whole thing down So let's say this person wrote down mark mark 16 in his handwriting If the latter portions are added and that's part of his notes Well, then guess what kind of it's going to look just like the Noting notations or the writing previously But I take it that Whoever wrote it was still probably referring to the the apostles the disciples Because they accomplished all of those things that we see whereas we don't Now what do I do in case? the scribe added To it or because guess what? It may not be because there's other thing it doesn't necessarily mean that the scribe actually added anything It says it doesn't mean that that there was something added to the bible y'all do realize There were there were a couple of things that you would do Let's say if you're writing if you're copying the bible And as you're copying when you're copying there are no You make a mistake What do you do with the writing that you've gotten so far and you've made a mistake with it? Not that you made a mistake in the first line. That's different But you made a mistake two hours into it What am I gonna do? Well, there's a couple things you can do with that because I can't use it now I can't erase it scribble out or put a line through it. No Which is why this is painstaking when they do this But they still might make a mistake in terms of how they wrote this a letter might change their eyes might get heavy They might they might start they're reading this line and they start writing up on They might put the this line on the right now That happens. So what do you do? There's three things you can do you can bury it Let's get rid of this buried somewhere You can burn it They say bury it burn it or banish it banish it means they sent it to the schools Because people are learning how to read And when they're learning how to read there's no place to go and get books So they might take one of these scrolls that have some errors in it and they're learning how to read Whether it's a burning the banishing or the burial what happens if someone finds it Well, the person who who burned it tried to burn it didn't finish burning because we found some scrolls that are burned We found some scrolls or some writings that were buried Some that were meant for the trash heap that were put in the books or bookshelves for people to learn They were never intended and nor did at the time that anyone read them as though they were authoritative But they were actual copies But what happens if we discover them 100 years 450 years 1000 years later? We don't know that Then someone said well, wait a second. That's someone adding to the bible. No, no They never meant that we just happen to we we found a rough draft copy or bad copy and we don't know what's a bad copy So what do we do? We'll even the bad copies will treat like their goal because they might not be We don't have enough information on the copy which by the way when when Brian Wright comes That's probably one of the things that we'll talk about He along with dr. Daniel Wallace wrote a book called revisiting the corruption of the new testament So I hope to to kind of cover that as well He could offer a lot of insight on just some of these very same things that we are talking about Why aren't the book of nicodemus enoc in the bible just for the same reason the constitution did in the bible the same reason that um The color purple is not in the bible the same reason it roots it in the bible It wasn't supposed to be Because someone and i'm not being silly but the because someone wrote something at that time that didn't mean that it goes in the bible There's some specific criteria that goes i won't go through all that right now But one of the things that we'll maybe we'll talk about that on next week as well But one it has to be apostolic Meaning that it came from a an apostle or under the jurisdiction of an apostle or a prophet But then was also widely accepted Um These books you're talking about even the jews at the time did not accept the book of enot to be authoritative Even the like the apocrypher Matter of fact, even if we look at the apocrypher, we know that they weren't never meant for that As a matter of fact, some apocrypher even says so they're waiting for a prophet to speak And so what happens is this what we do because we're Johnny come lately We're a thousand years removed 5,000 miles 10,000 miles away We say hey, there's this book this writing that happened at that time. Why isn't that in the bible? Okay, why didn't the magna carder part of the constitution?  If you are a muslim now First of all, you won't die a muslim Or I should say you may die a muslim but soon thereafter you won't exist forever as a muslim You will exist as someone who has bowed the knee Confess christ Islam makes absolutely and when I say absolutely absolutely No sense whatsoever as a matter of fact We're told That you should ask the people of the book That's ussas And where it says in do not doubt Now when this statement is made in surat 94 is he talking to muhammad or talking to All the muslims what doesn't matter This is coming from god And so and whatever the writing of the book is however it looked in the seventh century Which by the way it hadn't changed at all from the seventh century to now Do not doubt it so whatever condition or whatever State that the book was the bible was at that time He says trust it ask people of the book if you doubt do not doubt what they say Now that being the case Even to tell me god will go all these thousands of years before he reveals himself and do not say that He revealed himself in the in the tour in the old testament or in the new he has he has not And muhammad is not speaking of as the And when jesus speaking of this help, we're coming because he says he will be in us forever. That's not muhammad So I would say this I would say this It's very important That you submit to christ that you come to recognize What he has done if he muhammad has done absolutely nothing for you Caused a lot of strife He's done that Anyway, let me get back to a couple of these a couple more of these questions was death The the death punishment in the old testament applied. No not not no no matter fact the overall majority of sins were not Punishable by death now there were some There were some raping somebody killing somebody Being caught in adultery those were some crimes that could be punishable by death But it what one of the beautiful things that god did do Was allow for a atonement Was to allow for atonement yours and even as we go through so we got the day of atonement Then we've got ways to make atonement on your own or give these offerings. I should say throughout why because That's something in my eye Because you mess up We get to Genesis we see that god even after the sin wants people to be reconciled with him And so no Super bad. I'm actually we're gonna cover that tomorrow, but I'm gonna answer that that right now super bad But I'm gonna cover that tomorrow. That's those one of the two things that we're that we're covering. I'm in agreement with you So let's ask a few more of these questions Wait a minute This is awesome. This is awesome He says thank you and I thank you for the super chat He says I recently found out that my son is a frequent viewer. Can I tell you why? Can I can I can I tell you why he's a frequent viewer? Because he was raised right The boy was raised right. That's that that's all it is The boy was raised right and so kudos to you and your awesome parenting skills kudos to you listen Mom and daddy both mother's day and father's day. You guys need a gift like no other You guys need a wonderful gift I'm looking at this and someone says so like I I I must address this I must address this someone says Brendon may says let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the right to Does this support losing salvation? No in revelation That we're told that and god opened up books plural Now we see him speaking of the book of life the lamb's book of life But because he says and god opened up books or and other books were open There's at least three books Because he says and other meaning a particular book other than that particular book books plural Two three four five don't know but at least so there's at least three books were open We don't know about the other books. We do hear the name of one other book Actually, I take it back. We might hear the name of other books depending Because there are certain books that we're not talking. We don't know if there are chronicles That are in heaven don't don't know but there is a book In as matter there's two books or two times that this book of the living Is mentioned in the Old Testament in Psalms and Exodus Moses is talking about blot names out of the book of the living and so to this day But this is not the book of life This is the book of the living meaning those that are alive I did a video where I cover this where there's even where's even stated how god has written down your time to Be born and to live all the days in between so god has written these down And so your name your time all of stuff has been written down I guess presumably in a book a heavenly book Uh, whether it's literal or what have you not sure but In this case in this case, let me right click this In this case, it's not speaking of the book of life, but the book of the living I don't even think they even know anything about the land book of life because they don't even know anything about the lamb So therefore And if they did they know that those names that are in that book If it's the lamb's book of life were written before the foundation of the world and he says I will not blot those names out They're talking about the book of the living. So what they're really asking is kill them Take them out of the book of the living or we might even say the land of the living but take them out of the book of the living Now because the words are similar especially with us in english living and life same thing. No, it's not This is the book of the living. Oh, well, that's just because I'm okay. I see what you're saying. Um tt It just came through. Well, it's the same reason why ishmael is not in the not ishmael Um Jacob and esau These are twins, but the line still only comes through Jacob. Esau is The line goes that way. So Perez the line goes through him as well But not through his not through his sibling. So that's why Other than christ, who is my favorite person in the bible and why? My favorite person in the bible and why is joseph did not start off with joseph as my favorite person in the bible Did not start off Can anybody guess as to why joseph is my favorite person in the bible? You probably could guess as to why joseph Is my favorite person in the bible you you probably could guess Yeah, that's it dutch But not only because he went to prison Because there are other people in the bible that were in prison do you know first of all Because he you know what i'd like to think joseph was bald being a man of gaudy problem joseph probably was bald the bible didn't talk anything about his hair, which And typically that people with hair in the bible Tend not to be pretty good people Yeah Yeah samson was used at his best when he when he cut his hair Paul cut his hair. So that might be it. Yeah, joseph might might have been bald Elijah was bald. Elijah, let's see you mess with Elijah. Here comes the bear Do you know when i when i'm in prison?  No, why because joseph was in prison for a long time I don't want to be in prison that long I got stuff to do god give me up out of here Joseph was in prison 13 years Cory was in prison 13 years But when you look at his life though Joseph makes a statement. I love I love preaching joseph I love me some joseph. I love preaching joseph. There's a lot of stories in joseph that I can relate to The people that did me the worst May come back and say hey listen, brother. I apologize. You know what I would say just like what joseph said Am I not in the place where god wants me to be? Am I not where god wants me to be? You May have meant evil because of it, but god did not And so yeah And now joseph had to learn some things because joseph clearly was not ready and I clearly was not really awesome So but yeah, I love I love joseph Um joseph says I came to christ while living a long term unbeliever Um girlfriend. Can you help me understand second Corinthians six? Oh god, you got me reading multiple texts That are at okay. Hold on. Let me hold this here so I can look at this. I don't I don't Okay, second Corinthians six Okay, hold on second Corinthians six 14. I believe that's what you said. Okay Do not be bound together with okay. Okay. So stop right there That's not about marriage. First of all second Corinthians six 14 is not about marriage Now You you could apply it to marriage obviously you don't want to be bound with unbeliever. What if you are? What if you're married to someone who's not a believer you ask? Um, I came to christ while living with a long term unbeliever girlfriend. Can you help me understand? Okay. Are you married to her? That that's going to be the other question. Then you said first Corinthians seven, which does deal with marriage first Corinthians seven 12 But to the rest I say not the lord that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she Consents to leave with him or to live with him. He must not divorce her. That's Pretty self-explanatory, huh? And a woman who has an unbeliever husband and he can sense to live with her. She must not send her husband away So therefore Now here's the issue. Are you guys married? Because if you're just living together, I wouldn't care if she's a believer or unbeliever There's you're not bound. What you are bound to do as a believer is to stop living that way So if you are just living together You got one or two things to do well really one of three things to do especially if she's unbeliever one Make her get saved Well, you can't make her get saved but two You need to get married three Rather than getting married if you're not going to get married um Then separate but if she's an unbeliever you you don't that's not necessarily the things you want to do Now you can marry her if you want to you you you may absolutely choose to marry her Might be some issues there There might be some issues there so because of that I would recommend if it hopefully you're part of a church go and speak to the pastor But you should not you should not Live in sin because you love her You should live away from sin because you love him So you're going to need you're going to need to take her And yourself and go to that pastor if she is not willing Then you may need to say I can't do it. I can't I can't do it. I love you But I love him more Hold on One of my many children Who I've Who I tell them often that I carried them for nine months Is calling me and I had us in their message So daddy you didn't carry me for nine months. You didn't carry me for nine months. I carried your mama same thing Carried your mama. So listen, I I carried her she carried you if so facto I carried you In prison. Did you teach teach the bible? I love how honest you are. Thank you. Your testimony is given. Thank you You know what when I gave a testimony, I didn't mean to give that testimony. I didn't even mean to give that testimony I had no no, but just came But yes, I did matter of fact the bible said that we do on saturdays was birth in prison We had people who were One is pentecostals. We had southern baptists. We have a piscule. We had a and me and c and me We had everything else and we had some Catholics people who said they loved the lord They would come to the bible. They started off with just me and one other person The other person was a a a clerk in the chapel and so the chaplain would have him come in and to Set up the church for saturday service Me and the chapel me and the chaplains were all good at the time By the way, the guy the scholar that's coming is where I met him in prison.  He'll be here on tuesday, I believe But what I did was I wanted to have this bible so I'm just showing this this is how we learned this scripture Well, then it turned out from being just me and him inside the sanctuary To me him and two or three other people then it became five people then it became 10 then it became 20 then it became Right about 50 people from various backgrounds give them homework and assignments like that When I tell you that the distance apart from each group got smaller and smaller and smaller And the one that's been a castle wasn't one that's been a castle after all Uh They started shedding some of the labels and we're gonna hold each other to the text So but yeah, that's where I now I was teaching before prison But I wasn't living like I should have been living What is my favorite book in the bible? It depends my favorite book to read in greek is john because it's the easiest to read in greek My favorite book I don't I really don't have a favorite book. I guess it would probably john also and genesis Those are my the two books that I like to go on for um because I don't know. I like genesis sets the table It just does Okay, let me ask some of these questions. I'm sorry guys. Let's let's let's get through because I gotta leave just a little bit Wow, we're already it's already 130. Okay How do I shift my focus? Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second You change your eye. Okay. You guys go changing your little icons I'm looking for one thing and I see okay, but it's cool. It's cool. I'm pretty I'm pretty quick. It'll take me a little bit to adjust But then I just and then you're probably going to change it next week and just throw me off And I hear my I hear my my grandson my my how does he eight? It's about be nine months. Okay I hear him How do I shift my focus on god and try to get closer to him during trials? Well, it could very well be that the trials are to bring you closer to him You know why that might be and I want you all to listen This as well. The reason why that might be is because Prior to the trials how closer were you trying to be with him? Oftentimes god is trying to Have this relationship with you and we ain't budging. No god. I tell you what the next emergency I have I'll call you but right now I'm busy doing me god.  You know why you're gonna do me. I'm gonna take your job away You know why you're gonna do me. I'm gonna get your foot a broken foot. I'm gonna make you back. I'll do whatever Think about what happened. Some of you guys were alive. Hopefully most of you guys were alive Many of you were I know because of the age of the audience typically Think about 9 11 when 9 11 happened. How many people why is my grant now? He wants to come in and just yell now But when when 9 11 happens at 9 11, how many people after 9 11 decided, you know what? It's time to seek god when god allows something or does something.  Let me hear from god right lord.  But then when all these things been blown on and moving aside God would you hear me think about david? david those prayers That broken and contrite heart that you have where was that with basheba, huh?  Tell you what i'll do. Let's go ahead and get rid of that baby Now that does that does that seem rough does that seem rough for god to go ahead and to take the child? Seems rough, but but God will do any and everything that he needs to do or deems necessary for his glory not for yours And that's how we get it twisted sometimes we think is for our benefit for our better No him first then you in line that is if you are in line with him That's how it goes That's how it goes and so sometimes Take the trials as a way for you to prove to god No god, i'm with you I know i failed the last 17 times matter of fact. Okay god. I know i failed the last 77 times But i mean at this time. Let me show you all right.  I got to get I got to get myself in order I got I got too many things happening I'm gonna need to get a crew in here. I'm gonna need to get a crew to handle this and Anyway, no, I just paid attention what i'm doing But Those trials are there to do something for you know that the testing of your matter of fact Oh go on it wouldn't be something How cool would it be? How cool would it be? Wait a minute. What did I do right here? You big something something something? Oh, that's my great. Come on in grandson. Come on in, baby Come on. I'm gonna open the door for you. You got to open the door. He's three years old. He's struggling You better ask somebody to help you with the door. I'm like, I'm not getting up to help you open this door Open the door little boy Wouldn't it be cool though if god actually put in the bible something that could help us? How how cool would that be? Okay Well keep trying you'll get stronger He couldn't do it. He's struggling. He is struggling keep trying Keep trying little fella You can't turn it We go go ask go ask you go ask bailey to do it for you Let's see if god has figured or told us something about that. I think it'd be pretty cool If john if dip john if god told us Um And he does He says count it all joy consider it all joy my brother when you encounter various trials, huh? Like what you just asked about right knowing that the testing of your faith Produces endurance I'm testing. So what is he doing testing your faith? The testing of your faith produces endurance and endurance And let endurance have its perfect work or results so that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing So just like when you're in school You're going to get tested And the purpose that he can come in honey. He can come in and the purpose of the testing is to grow you now Notice this though If you take a test in school The teacher gives you a test Where's your mom? I don't know where your mom is. I don't know where your mother is. I don't know where your father is All I know is you are interrupting me. Everybody can see you now Say hi, wave your hand Wave your hand. No wave it higher boy Wave this hand so they can see the hello. You can't see see the camera. Wave the camera. All right You look for your mommy All right, kick kick baby rocks Bye I don't know little boy Okay, now go with your auntie. What's your aunt? You don't want to go? I don't know. All right. Okay. So he's here. He's here with me. He don't want to go All right. This is three with hair on his head. I do I keep asking me does he want me to shave his head? He says he says yes And then he thinks about it. So That's my baby I know his mother's here because I hear the nine month old somewhere. So Anyway He's probably gonna want to watch something. I don't even know what I was saying before Oh, I know what I was saying when you guys take a test. That's what I was saying when you take a test He needs a haircut too on the side and everything but leave his hair alone. No no need to cut that stuff He listened the world does not about hair the world does not revolve around his hair. You want to get a haircut?   Yeah You do All right, cool. I'm gonna shave his head then for some cookies even sold out his hair for some cookies and some ice cream He's worse than samson Anyway When you take a test The teacher gives you this test The teacher ain't talking while you're taking the test is she or he or she silent Because it's giving you all the material for you to apply what they've taught you Two things are gonna happen. You're gonna pass the test. You're gonna fail the test If you pass the test, how much closer will you be with that teacher? If you fail the test You're gonna have to retake it now when don't know but here's the other thing While you're taking the test is the teacher talking. No Teacher's quiet Same thing with god while you're in the trials while you're going through it. God is going to seem like he's silent You pass the test you're closer you fail the test Matter of fact, if you fail the test if you fail the test correctly, you will also be closer to god You know why because now you're gonna start asking questions Now you're gonna start getting closer to them asking questions just like you did with that teacher Yeah, some of you are realizing that's why I didn't I didn't graduate because I didn't I didn't ask teacher anything That's why I dropped out. That's why I struggled and cause asked teacher You're ready to go Okay, he's not ready to go right.  Love you. Wait, we're going to I don't know where we're going. You don't know where we're going. Okay. Okay. I don't I don't I don't know where you're going Anyway, me neither.  Okay, we'll go and kick rocks it good. Bye You just said you wanted to go It's my buddy. This is my buddy All right, where's baby brother? Oh, this is a good question. I just saw it come across quarry I was wondering if we could understand god's will for us if I pray Uh, it is not guaranteed to will be answered unless it is in god's will am I praying? Listen, this is what you do This is what you do if you want to know first of all, what is god's will for you? That you live your life in a light that magnifies him before people That people can see and want and desire what's in you from him That's the will now. How does that work out? I can promise you this If you take a left But you take a left because you are doing all things for the glory of god like 1st Corinthians 10 31 32 33 if you do so If you do so And god means for you to go right.  No, his name is um His name we call him three his uh his father's name is anthony And his father's father's grandfather on his father's side name is anthony And so he is we call him ways anthony the third we just call him three But he's got a little brother I'm gonna be honest I love three But his little brother has an awesome name What is your little brother's name? Corey that's right awesome name Everybody can't be named Corey And three has understood that he's he's accepted that He's accepted that he can't be named Corey and he has here. He's accepted that you've accepted that Have you accepted that? You have it you want to be named Corey also You are messing me up Thank you amber if one saved always save is true How do we explain apostasy the bible warns of falling away? That's a good question, but the falling weight You would you would agree that there that you can fall away if if you believe that you can fall away from believing Can you also believe that you can fall away from what you believe? Can a person fall away from what they believe? For example, I used to not mean but someone might say I used to believe that abortion was wrong But now I fall away from that view. I don't believe that abortion is wrong people People fall away from a belief all the time Well, when we go and look at the at this word apostasy not the word apostasy Just falling away and so forth this intentional place you step away What are they falling away from they're not falling away from believing The text says they're falling away from the faith the belief are with me. They're falling away from a noun Not a verb. They're falling away from a thing Are you with me they're not falling away from because if it was believing it would be a verb But they're falling away from a noun a thing which is the faith the belief Okay, so That's what apostasy and there will be there will be a great apostasy will be a great falling way of people from from belief from from the belief uh Matthews explain Matthew 16 18 When I first saw I thought you said mark 16 20. I thought somebody was playing Matthew 16 oops 16 We need to brush your hair to my friend.   I don't think he's referring to them at that time. He's speaking of future uh He's speaking of Those in the future that will that will actually see and hear this are you with me? So this is not to say that he's that the those out of there will actually see him He's not speaking of them the the question is going to be who is he referring to There are some of those who are so anyway Um, what I'm going to do though As we go into eschatology. I'm going to actually cover that and so We're going to revisit this this whole issue before I think I think it's pretty clear I actually do I think it's pretty clear. Um, especially when we look at all the other pastors that speak about him coming Let's see Okay, explain this luke Drew says explain luke 1 6 And verses like these please. I'm not sure what you're asking about but I think I I think I do let's go to verse 5 in those days Herod king of judaea, there was a priest named Zacharias of the division of avidjah And he and his wife from the daughters of erin and her name was elizabeth They were both righteous in the sight of god and walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the lord So if you are you asking how is it that they were righteous? Remember under the old covenant How does a person become righteous because what does he just say? He says they were walking blamelessly in the commandments and the requirements of the lord So to be right in right standing with the lord is one adhering to the day of atonement and then fulfilling even In between the day of atonement the day of atonement The different offerings and so forth and how you honor god doing your very best to be close with him And then in doing so you would actually you know the word about trying to fulfill the tenets of the law You just naturally wouldn't so they were blameless. They were what are you doing boy? That's why the minute they were like sinless or holy Without any any sort of blame whatsoever. They didn't mess with all that's not what they're saying So okay, you ready to go to your to your mother? Okay I think she's outside. I think she's coming. I heard something What is the time says what is the correct interpretation of second second? That's the only except for two verse one.  She's not I don't know some kind of way. She let you out of her sight. Now you're here with me Now we request but we would that we request you Rather with regard to the coming of our lord jesus christ and our gathering together in him That you not be quickly shaken from your composure to be disturbed either by the spirit. Oh, so you're asking Um, Cory, what's the correct interpretation of festival names the greek? Which okay tom which help me out tom. What are you asking specifically about that? Because I'm not I'm not sure what do you mean by what are you trying to get from the the correct interpretation What interpretation are you getting that's different? so um So we were requesting but now we're requesting you brothers By the the coming the perusias Perusias, which is the coming the drawing near of the lord of ours jesus christ and our gathering episode of go go gays Our gathering at our tones I'm not sure what you're what you're asking. Aren't you leaving? Okay I'm not sure what what you're asking on that tom ale But I'll say this He writes back wait a second. Wait a second.  He he's in here. He's troubling pop up. Yeah, where's quarry? Oh, yeah, I'm on live and he kept yeah, he wanted to get in I'm about to call cps Okay, listen, it's a madhouse of you today. It's the dog came in But let me say this what he's writing here. Remember I take some I think someone I saw someone ask this question I believe In a pre-tribulation rapture. I think this is what paul is saying here also First that's alone is he's speaking about him coming Second that's the only is there a word that they missed him and so he says now He because he ends and says comfort one another with these words what they're going through the rapture I'm going through tribulation then that's no comfort, but you won't so come for each other with these words and then in um Second Thessalonians he's telling letting them know that you haven't missed it You haven't you haven't missed it. And so That's uh his point now what tom was asking for specifically To give the greek. I'm not sure what what he was asking for. So I really can't I really can't answer That question. I'm not I'm not totally sure. I'm not totally sure Thank you betty king. I appreciate the super chat. Thank you so much. Thank you so much Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no we we have a CPS CPS here means something different than the cps with you guys cps is quarry protection service. That's me So when I say gotta call cps, that's me It it it took my it took my grandson the longest time to realize that I am His mommy's daddy How do we handle politics as christians the same way we would uh if it had to do with politics If you're a son or daughter asked you hey, should I should I have an abortion? No, why? Well, you do the same thing with pockets now. Should we is it okay to be involved in politics? It's fine. Is it okay to have to pay your gas bill? Is it okay to uh be a bank president? It's okay to be part of the world Although our focus cannot be the world remember Now you couldn't try to keep the world as sane as you possibly can While we're in the world just recognize the world is going to hail literally Not necessarily handbasket, but maybe and so we there's nothing wrong with trying to fight for godliness Again as long as you also realize that ultimately we are going to lose Ultimately we're going to lose on this earth We are not gonna there's gonna come a point in time where as christians we're gonna look at the scoreboard And they're up 137 to 3 But then you're gonna have the world's greatest comeback ever So as long as you all remember that It's okay to to have a thought towards towards Politics matter of fact Won't that help with somebody with some of these babies not being killed or being mutilated? You know, it's funny. I thought it was so funny. I thought it was so hilarious Not hilarious, but funny. That's in a bad way. Now. There are a lot of people I'm not anti-democrat pro-democrat anti-republican pro-republic, but I just recall though There was some time where democrats were wanting us to send money and to stop aid going to african countries Where there was mutilation of these children Now we're doing it and the very same party is now okay with mutilating our own children Curious george or whore's george. I'm gonna say george. I think I asked you that before Can you explain james to 24? Let's go to james 22 24 And I got a few more minutes guys See that no man is justified by works I mean it's justified by works and not by faith alone In the same way was not rahab the harlot also justified by works And so what people say is that that seems to be a contradiction that seems to go against the other teachings that We're not justified by works. But what does works do? Our believing will actually cause Some moving and that's all james is saying james is not saying that it's the work alone Because the work in of itself doesn't do anything So the harmony of the scriptures are that you must you are saved by believing What kind of believing to kind of believe that always when there's going to be something that's going to happen There's going to be something that's going to happen Now to what degree how much don't know But you've got the kind of faith that as uh, who asked a question earlier? Brianna asked about easy believe is you had that kind of faith The kind of faith that we see in luke 8 that jesus describes they believe that they weren't actually safe but then we have those who Who jesus goes i'm gonna say that they believe it was in their heart and it grew and they bore fruit Do I believe this is and this is the point This is where that there needs to be this harmony between those folks who don't understand What salvation is because those folks who believe that you can lose your salvation say what you've got to abide You've got to bear fruit. You've got to keep believing. Okay fine. Guess what? We will why because now there's something deposited in us that is going to cause us to abide to remain There's something deposited in us. It's going to cost us to bear fruit There's something deposited in us. It's going to keep us believing and following that being the holy spirit And so when you believe Then what do you receive because of your belief the holy spirit who is going to work in youth? that's why we can say He who began a good work in you is he's the one that's faithful not us, but he will bring all he will complete it Are you with me? So anyway Let's go back to some more of these other questions. I got a few more answer than I've got that I've got to leave Okay How can we be transformed by the renewing of our minds in christ yet still work jobs and deal with people who are Acting living and morally well because that's our job. That's our main job Our job is to be where the people who need us are You're supposed to be light And so we can be listen, you know, we can be we can be a light store We can be a candle store We can be a flashlight store or we can actually be useful as lights as flashlights as candles and go out into the dark world and so You're saved I'm saved and alive For purpose and the purpose has nothing to do with me or you but but them the rest of the world You realize the reason why he hadn't taken us out of here because somebody needs to hear the gospel who's going to give him the gospel us us so How do we as christians? Um that want to take scripture seriously exercise our christian liberty, especially in light of john 1 To attend that's the one about not loving the world. I do I do believe or in my king james voice. I got to believe 215 I believe you said Yeah, do not love the world No, the things of this world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in him and so your question was How do we as christians that want to take the scripture seriously? Well Because if we take the scripture seriously, we know that there's the the focal point is obviously us Placing faith in him and because of our love for him and the tear of the lord and our love for our brothers. We tell them We don't love this world Well, we love the people that are in the world enough to tell them. Hey get out of this world with us We we found a way out We we want we've cracked the code. We will unlock the secret and so won't you come? Now they may not they might and so Approach people believing that they absolutely will come to christ Have the confidence that when they hear the gospel as great as it is Have the confidence that when you say it they're gonna take it Have that kind of thank you angel the super chat have that kind of confidence Don't they they don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear what I got to say. They don't want to be bothered No, don't don't do that when I I told you guys before I had my own investment firm And when we brought people in there were some people that we said we've marked. Okay. This person's getting relieved the company They don't know it yet Because we're telling them How to put together certain financial plans and talk to them about certain products and so forth Stop buying whatever some sort of financial plans and sort of state planning There are people who are just They're already poo-pooing it Are they are you sure they're gonna want to hear this? Thank you DT for the suit. I appreciate that for the super chat Are you sure they're gonna want to hear it? Well, no not the way you're saying it absolutely No, who would want to hear what you're selling who would want to buy what you're selling I don't want to eat what you're cooking you make it sound like All right, um, I'm cooking burnt toast anybody want some No, I was hungry, but no I'm fasting Because how you sell it Let somebody else see the joy in you let the redeeming the lord say so and say so with some little smile on your face Dog gone it you're going to heaven. Has anybody has anybody told you you're going to heaven? Has anybody has anybody told you're going to heaven? Maybe you don't know maybe you don't care That might be it. Maybe you don't care because if you did care and you If you knew where you that that I made this statement before I made this statement before and I'll answer this question second cam But I say and I was saying it kind of jokingly But see if you can get my heart out of this That I said man, I wish you guys can go to prison I I wish some of you guys can go to or all you can go to prison You know what now I don't really wish or want you to go to prison I don't really wish or want you to suffer But paul says I am not going to compare the suffering of this world with where I'm going Maybe you guys need to compare how bad it can be or how bad it is with where you're going and then It should cause some joy and you make you realize man. Do you know where I get to go? Some of you all have this take that I got I got to go to heaven. No, you get to go to heaven You need to fix that You absolutely needed there should be some have you ever met a happy salesman? They really believe what they were buying what they were selling It should be the people in cults are more excited about telling us about their cult Jehovah's Witnesses are more excited about telling us about Their fraudulent cult and Mormons and so forth But christians aren't where is the joy in us how we were redeemed and we want to tell anybody Come on I understand that need to pet people up and give us a pep talking so forth But man look at what he's done for you And just sing praises let the redeemed the lord say so but not you because you say you don't act like you're redeemed So you sit over there with everybody else you sit over there with the rocks right now The rest of us are going to praise god So let somebody know what a smile man. You know what he's done for me I'm not going to tell you about the rest of these christians now. I'm just gonna tell you about me That's why I like my story I love my listen.  I'm not there Lord, what are you doing?  I mean that yeah That's why I'm saying I wish that some of you guys understood what it's like to be delivered to growth or something And so now when you ask the question why does god allow some of these things to happen to you? Why are you sick? Why are you going through financial problems? Why is everyone abandoning you? Well, because he's trying to show you something Your team was down about 35 points. You came back and won the game My favorite football game is one where we were behind All my favorite basketball games football games where we were behind came back and won That's my life So I'm happy We spotted we spotted your team 30 points and came back and beat you. That's my life Let me ask a couple of these questions and then we'll get up out of here uh Cam says people says Thank you for the super chat people says that there is no power in the name of Jesus because His actual name was Yeshua. Okay. Let me fix this. Let me fix this and Jesus from the occultic catholics What is your view? Okay Let's deal with his name. The name is the greek name is onoma The name is onoma Upon the name based on the name epionoma Uh into onamari mu was how how you put it all it means is based the name mean or onoma means name reputation Based on what he's doing if you're in leagues with him If you're on board with him if you're doing what he's doing in his name Does it literally mean the actual name? Jesus listen, you don't know his name. First of all, you can't pronounce his name People say his name is the name Yeshua. You do realize that how he grew up the majority of people called him yasus Because they spoke greek. Now there might have been some Jews that called him yasua Remember in in that day you were called by what your name meant and so it may change That's why I throw out a little trick question. When was Saul's name changed to paul? It never was god never changed his name That's sol and paul mean the same thing One is jewish one is a gentile way of saying that's it same thing with jesus The issue is not what you hear how his name sounds But do you hear him calling you like he says his sheep will do That's the issue and so when you do something in jesus name it is in a course with jesus Not in a course with the name Do you know how many people say the name jesus or if you want to call whatever you think his name is There's somebody who's on their way to hell that also uses that same name sounding yashua yoshia Yah jaw Jesus yasus whatever Ain't gonna hail Do you know his name? Does he know your name? That's really a more important point Felt like I just said something right there. Let me answer a few more questions How can you know your faith davante? Hey davante buddy. I haven't talked to you in a minute How can we know our that's probably my fault though, by the way How can we know that our faith is mere intellectual faith? Well, because if you just sit there, you don't care about it people with intellectual faith don't care about that People with genuine faith want to show their faith in an action We want to show the love of the lord and because if you have faith that means the holy spirit's in you You're gonna want to move and it bothers you when you mess up. That's one way True faith means you love the lord. Do you love the lord? BJ good question. Do you have to be an expert and apologize to share the gospel? No Find that in the scriptures. Matter of fact, can I can I be honest with you? Most of the people that you see that are experts and apologetics can't save what can't save an ant I'm just I'm beyond me. I shouldn't have said that.  No, I'm not But a lot of these people out there that are so-called experts and apologetics They can't they haven't witnessed and and someone converted to christ because of their expert apologetics You don't see matter of fact You see somebody shows on on on youtube where the guy's on the street preaching and All the only thing that we have to go off of is that some transgender person slapped him or spit on the copter called That can't be the victory guys That's that's all is that all we're looking for that somebody went off on the guy that's preaching What dawg on and what's the preacher doing?  We're not talking about Jeremiah We're not talking about the old test where there was no holy spirit right now There's the holy spirit and nobody's coming to christ off your preaching Maybe you're not saved or maybe you're not doing it right something Somebody ought to be coming to christ somebody. I'm not saying you got about a thousand But can you bet at least zero point zero zero zero zero one percent? That's something so some of these folks that they want to kind of tell you this or tell you that or whatever No, why don't you just tell them what the lord has done for you?  Hmm, how about that jesus says let your light so shine You your life let it shine and then what will happen People will see your apologetics The way you handle the text well, he sure no greek and hever will know They will see your good works and then do what glorify god Let them see that that's why works are important You're not saved because of works, but you say the do works those other folks can actually see the same salvation that you have And guys it's not that difficult we make we really make it out to be more difficult than what it really is we really do We really do houston dante. Thank you for the super chat. Thank you for the encouragement word. I appreciate that I want to get charismatic too. I want to just Now i'm not gonna go running around and jumping and stuff like that but Anyway, but that's we we need to I'm again I don't want y'all to think that i'm picking on the folks that are out there on the streets and doing apologics I really I they do a valuable work. They do a valuable work But most folks that they even the folks that have an audience and folks come and ask them questions I love frank turk, but a lot of folks aren't coming to christ in those sessions Hey frank, I got a question about so and I love I love them to death But I got a question about this or I got a question about that Well, they came many of them because they already know the lord or they just came to be an antagonist But the work let's what you know what? Why don't we become grassroot christians? Where we just plant where we are where we just share the gospel where we are With our cousins with our friends With the waiter with the uber or lift driver Or the uber lift passenger for if you're driving uber lift Just just do that I said to try and yeah the name of the channel is smart christians and we're smart christians because of One who we know but to recognize what we don't know but don't go and tell somebody Take the smart part of let's just be christians christians tell people You know how I know because Jesus said the Holy Spirit comes in you and he's going to be a witness to me How is the Holy Spirit in you who wants to testify and you ain't testifying what that might mean? That might indicate that there's a vacancy in your heart might it might I'm not saying you got to do it all the time. Listen if you share the gospel once in the last year I'm fine. I wish you do it try twice this year break a record this year and do it twice Go for broke and do it five times But share the gospel and then let people see you in your life How you walk amen All right guys, I have got to run remember remember watch the video this evening If you are someone who is dealing with some sort of sexual issues or sin or just stuck and struggling with it You do right for a minute the next minute. Man. I'm checking out just this chick over here Or man, I'm looking at this guy over there or you might be the same sex Look at somebody the same sex, uh, whatever it is and even if you're also dealing with other issues In your life, I think this would help as well I'm gonna need you guys to give me a warning too when you guys keep changing your changing your avatars or your Or your looks whatever Good old divanta. He hadn't changed his yet. His is that little Uh hot pink D Uh, so you're kind of read the same the same he hadn't he ain't changing nothing Some of you guys aren't changing rick. I think you've had that brown R for the longest you ain't Which is cool. Listen because what happened is I get used to seeing wait a second. Did you just check? Oh, oh, I see a gc and a cg cg has is the same.  I think for the longest yours has been like that. Cool.   What what what here have been changing here have here have been changing so I can get used to it Nick you Listen that what color is that?  I've gotten used to it I see I like how you got to get the eye and the c Leave it alone leave it only just just leave it alone.  I think you did you change yours recently?  I'm thinking here. I am thinking man We got more folks watching channel now. There's the same folks. You just got didn't change jarard parry is the same matter of fact How old is that picture? That's how long he said that icon So anyway, all right guys, um The wait a minute. Did you say who are the lions going to draft who cares about the I'm not a lions fan The question is who the cult's going to draft. Let me take a drink out of my Heaven proof mug. I hope we draft somebody a winner I don't know if we're gonna do it. It's getting bad. I got got me looking at who the cowboy's gonna draft now. That's my Anyway, all right guys, I love you guys so much. I have got to run. I've got I've got a bunch of things to do Yeah, jay, I don't listen jay. I don't let it happen again I'm kidding. I'm kidding Is that bud light? No, I can't I can't I can't drink beer Can't can't do it duchess blasphemy. That's okay though. I love you still I can't drink beer I can't drink beer Now when I was younger the older men in neighborhood, they'd give us some beer take us behind the house Let us drink beer with them Try to make us tough. Hey here boys. We'll put some hair on your chest. I'm I'm six years old What I need was I'm hearing my chest But I thought so I thought he's hearing my chest. So I'm drinking beer I can't drink wrap them. I don't like it. Anyway, I'm just sitting here. I don't know why I said I got I gotta go. I'm not leaving got by guys. I love you all and I will see you later. Be blessed


Okay, I aspire to be Paula because she said all of that, just, you know, no notes. But anyhow, as we get started, memoir is one of the most popular genres right now, and it's a genre in which women writers have been both prolific and commercially successful. There's also an argument around memoir that if we don't have narrative, which is to say stories, we don't have stories, we don't have identity. The narrative is the way, stories are the way into understanding our identity. If this is true, then who is able to tell stories and how those stories are told becomes very, very important. Some of these women stories were going to be reading for you tonight. Now, in terms of organization, we're not going strictly chronologically, although in general, we're starting with classic writers moving into contemporary writers and we're also starting with those writers that are just writing childhood and moving into concerns of women facing the later parts of their lives. Again, still focused around identity. And issues about how does identity develop, what sort of constraints affect identity. Those are the kinds of things that I will try to be sort of alerting you to between the speakers. I'll be introducing the speakers and the authors between every reading, trying to give you a couple points to listen for in those cases. But I'll ask you to fold your questions in discussion until we finish all of the reading so that we have the fullness of voices when we're done. We'll have readings for about an hour and a half. Now, if anybody wants to leave during that time, you are absolutely welcome to leave. I hate being trapped in a room, so please feel free. I'm also a teacher, so I'm used to the students just like getting up and walking the hell out. So don't worry about that. But we'll also give you a break between the reading and the discussion so that if you need to get on to something else in your evening, you're free to do that. So with that, let's begin. And we're going to begin with Virginia Wolf, famous, classic, feminist, modernist writers of all the writers tonight. She's probably the one who is most subconsciously grappling with the difficulty of writing autobiography, of the challenge of describing the surface and telling some truth about what lies beneath that surface. This key question of who is this I being described? Is going to come back again and again over the evening. Ben Luebner, who is a visiting assistant professor in the English department at MSU, is going to read from Wolf's a sketch of the past. This is something that Virginia Wolf wrote in 1939. She would have been about 57 or so at the time, just a couple of years before her death, although in this sketch she's looking back to the earliest memories of her childhood. Two days ago, Sunday, April 16, 1939 to be precise, Nessa, that's Wolf's sister, said that if I did not start writing my memoirs, I should soon be too old. I should be 85, I should have forgotten, because it's the unhappy case of ladies. As it happens that I'm sick of writing Roger's Life, that's Roger Fry, a painter and friend of Wolf's, whom she was writing a biography of at the time.  There are several difficulties. In the first place, the enormous number of things I can remember. In the second, the number of different ways in which memoirs can be written. As a great memoir reader, I know many different ways. But if I begin to go through them to analyze them and their merits and faults, the mornings I cannot take more than two or three at most will be gone. So without stopping to choose my way, and assuring a certain knowledge that it will find itself, or if not, it will not matter. I begin in the first manner. This was a thread in purple flowers on a black ground, my mother's dress. She was sitting either in a train or in an omnibus, and I was on her lap. I therefore saw the flowers she was wearing very close. You can still see purple and red and blue, I think, against the black. They must have been anemones, I suppose. Perhaps we were going to St. Ives. More probably, though, for from the light must have been evening. We were coming back from London, but it's more convenient artistically to suppose that we were going to St. Ives. For that will lead to my other memory, which also seems to be my first memory. In fact, it is the most important of all my memories. If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills, then my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory. There's a flying half asleep, half awake. In bed and nursery at St. Ives, it is of hearing waves breaking and sending a splash of water over the beach and then breaking behind a yellow blind. It is of hearing the blind draw its little acorn across the floor as the wind blew the blind out. It is of hearing this splash and seeing this light and feeling it is almost impossible that I should be here. Feeling the purest ecstasy I can conceive. I could spend hours trying to write that as it should be written or give the feeling, which is even at this moment very strong in me, but I should fail unless I had some wonderful luck. I dare say I should only succeed in having the luck if I had begun by describing Virginia herself. Here I come to one of the memoir writers' difficulties. One of the reasons why though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happen. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say, this is what happened. They do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. The events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened, who was I then? Adeline Virginia Stephen, second daughter of Leslie and Julia, Princess Stephen, born on January 25, 1882. Sended from great many people, some famous, others obscure. Born into a large connection, born of rich parents, but of well-to-do parents. Born into a very communicative, literate, letter writing, visiting articulate late 19th century world. So that I could, if I liked, take the trouble. Right a great deal here, not only about my mother and father, but about uncles and aunts, cousins and friends. I do not know how much of this or what part of this made me feel what I felt in the nursery I'd say knives. I do not know how far I differ from other people. That is another memoir writer's difficulty. Yet to describe oneself truly, one must have some standard of comparison.  Are we part of the fact that I was never at school, never completed in any way, never competed in any way with children of my own age? I'd never been able to pair my gifts and defects with other peoples. Of course, there was one external reason for the intensity of this first impression, the impression of the waves and the acorn on the blind. The feeling, as I describe it sometimes to myself, of lying in a grave and seeing through a film of semi-transparent yellow. It was due partly to the many months we spent in London. The change of nursery was a great change. And there was the long train journey, and the excitement. I remember the dark, the lights, the stir of the going up to then. But to fix my mind upon the nursery. It had a balcony. There was a partition.  There were passion flowers growing on the wall. Great starry blossoms with purple streaks and large green buds. Hard empty, parkful. If I were a painter, I should paint these first impressions in pale yellow, silver and green. There was the pale yellow blind, the sea green and the silver of the passion flowers. I should make a picture that was globular, semi-transparent. I should make a picture of curved petals, of shells, of things that were semi-transparent. I should make curved shapes showing the light through, but not giving a clear outline. Everything would be large and dim. And what would seem would at the same time be heard. Sounds would come through this petal or leaf. Sounds indistinguishable from sights. Sound and sight seem to make equal parts of these first impressions. And I think of the early morning in that I also hear the caw of rocks falling from a great height. The sound seems to fall through an elastic, gummy air. Tolls it up, which prevents it from being sharp and distinct. Quality of the air above talent how seemed to suspend sound to let it sink down slowly as if it were caught in a blue, gummy veil. The rocks calling as part of the wave is breaking. And the splash as the wave drew back and then gathered again. And I lay there half awake, half asleep, drawing in such ecstasy as I cannot describe.


This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Last week, we told you about the Imagine Cup Finals in the United States. Team Flash Food from Arizona State University won top honors at the Microsoft event. The team developed a mobile application and website to help restaurants, hotels, and farmers markets donate food to people who need it. The businesses enter information about the food they would like to donate. A notification goes to a team of volunteer drivers who can go pick up the leftover food and take it to people in need. This is perishable food. The kind of food that cannot normally be handled by food banks or other food recovery organizations. The Flash Food Project grew out of the engineering projects in community service program at Arizona State. The director of that program, Richard Philly, says the project has far-reaching possibilities. Mr. Philly plans to work with the team to find ways to extend the Flash Food app to other countries. In his words, Would those cultures in those different countries be open to the idea of taking leftover food and using Flash Food to connect with people who are hungry? We don't know the answer to that yet, says Mr. Philly. The Imagine Cup is now in its 10th year. Mark Hinsbow is a vice president with Microsoft. He says students who enter the competition can now build their ideas around a lot of technology that was not widely available 10 years ago. In the beginning, he says, people were building almost everything from scratch. But now he points to the Flash Food app as a good example of bringing together existing technologies. The students built the app on the assumption that there are smartphones in the hands of most of the people they need to work with. Also, the use of mapping software lets the app give the volunteer drivers turn-by-turn directions to the restaurants with food to donate. Team Flash Food will represent the United States at the Imagine Cup World Finals in Australia in July. Mark Hinsbow says solving world problems like hunger is a major goal of the competition. But another major goal is to get more American students interested in jobs in science and engineering. When you look at the pipeline in science, technology, engineering and math, we come up way short, he says. As a result, he says around a million software and tech jobs could go unfilled in the United States over the next five years. For VOA Special English, I'm Carolyn Presuti.