Hello everybody, it's Alexander Larson with Bible Truth 23, back with another video.
I'm just going to treat this as a live video, basically, if you have any questions about
me or about the Bible or whatever you want me to talk about a particular subject, that's
what this is for.
I haven't done one of these in a long time.
I used to do videos like this all the time back in the beginning of last year, but it's
been like over a year since I think I've done something like this.
So if anybody has any questions or something that they want me to talk about, this would
be the time to do that.
Otherwise, probably just going to go off and talk about something random.
One verse I was thinking about earlier today while I'm waiting for, what are you saying
Isaac?
Hologram?
I don't know what you're talking about.
But anyway, one thing in particular that I was thinking about earlier is John 8.47, where
it says, He that is of God heareth God's words, ye therefore hear them not because you're
not of God.
And I was thinking about that because there was a guy I ran into out soul winning who,
when I asked him what you had to do to go to heaven, he said, except Jesus is your savior.
And I asked him, could you ever lose your salvation?
He said, yes.
I said, the Bible says something different.
Could I show you what the Bible says?
He said, well, Jesus said to go and sin no more.
And I quoted to him, Romans 5, where the Bible says, in verse 20, Moreover the law entered
that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
So the Bible tells us, when sin abounds, meaning sin increases, grace much more abounds.
So I quoted that to him and he just said, no.
That was his response.
And I just said, okay, goodbye.
Because he obviously did not believe the Bible or did not want to hear what the Bible says.
And so John 8 47 is what came to my mind that if somebody just flat out rejects or denies
what the scripture says, they're definitely not of God.
And it's foolish for anybody to think that they're a Christian when you show them what
the Bible says and they just ignore it or they just reject it.
There was another guy we talked to who said that he didn't know he was going to heaven
because only God knows.
And my partner quoted to him, 1 John 5 13, that it says, if these things are written
unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal
life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.
And so it clearly says that you can know that you have eternal life.
But this guy was like, no, I think that only God knows.
I think I can know.
I don't really want to hear it.
So again, clear sign he's not of God, right?
And yet these people think that they're Christians.
They think that they're saved.
They think that they're on the right path when they're flat out just rejecting clear
teachings from scripture.
Looks like I got a question down here.
If anybody else has any other questions, feel free to ask.
Otherwise I'm just going to talk about various different things.
Bendy asks, what do you think the Bible means by the flower of her youth?
And do you think someone can get married right after that or wait if they're too young?
If I, I've heard that phrase before or something like that, but I'm not exactly sure what scripture
that is.
I think it may be 1 Corinthians 7 maybe.
I don't know.
Let me look that up real quick so I can just look at the context just to make sure because
honestly that's not something I've really thought about or studied out because that's
not something that I really thought about.
Anybody has any other questions?
Isaac says yes, it's 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Corinthians 7, 36.
The way that I've heard that taught is that that means that once they're done going through
puberty, which means they have reached a physical adulthood, and that makes sense.
I would, I think I would agree with that interpretation.
Obviously that's different for different people.
Can you look it up?
Is in the Old Testament, I don't, is it in the Old Testament?
I don't think it's in the Old Testament.
It's 1 Corinthians 7.
Maybe, okay, oh I thought there was a mention in the Old Testament too.
Maybe there's something similar to that?
Why is my computer being slow?
But anyway, 1 Corinthians 7, let's just read a few verses into the context here.
There is a difference also, starting at verse 34, there is a difference also between a wife
and a virgin.
The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in
body and in spirit, but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she
may please her husband, and this I speak for your own profit.
Not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may
attend upon the Lord without distraction.
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomly toward his virgin, if you pass the
flower of her age and need so require, let him do what he will.
He sinneth not, let them marry.
Nevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power
over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin doeth
well.
But then he that giveth her marriage doeth well, but he that giveth her not marriage
doeth well.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth, but if her husband be dead,
she is at liberty to be married to whom she will only in the Lord.
Now based on verse 36, where it says, if she pass the flower of her age and need so require,
let him do what he will.
If he sinneth not, let them marry.
I hope that answers your question, because it says, do you think someone could get married
right after that, or wait if they are too young?
The thing is, they wouldn't be too young if they pass the flower of the age, because that
implies that they're adults already.
That's the way I interpret that.
Now obviously, there is an age that would be too young, and that would be before they
actually go through puberty, and I think that's what this is talking about.
When they're actually reached a stage where they're physically mature, I think that's
what that's talking about.
So yeah, now obviously at the same time, we should obey the law of the land and everything,
and so if there's somebody who reaches that age, or the flower of their age, and they're
not necessarily 18 yet, maybe they're 17 or something, then obviously you should still
obey the laws of the land and not get married until they're older.
So that's another thing you should consider.
Hold on a second.
Any other questions, anybody?
Just type a comment or leave it in the question thing.
Anyway, so yeah, 1 Corinthians 7, let's see, any other stories from recently?
I can talk about soul winning stories, things like that.
Let's see, I'm trying to think of something.
I think of something, oh just another soul winning story, and we were on the Hopi reservation
recently, and there was this old woman I was preaching to who, when I went through the
whole gospel with her, it seemed like she understood, but after I had prayed with her,
I asked her follow up questions, I asked her, so why are you going to heaven now, something
like that, and she said, because I'm faithful.
Now, the thing is, having faith in Jesus and being faithful are not the same thing.
Don't be confused by the fact that the word faith is in the word faithful.
Just like you should be confused by the fact that the word trustworthy, or the word trust
is in the word trustworthy.
Faithful means that you can be relied upon, not that you are relying on somebody else.
Faith would be faith in Jesus, you believe in Him, you're trusting in Him to get you
to heaven.
Faithfulness would be you're reliable and you're loyal to Jesus and He can rely on you
to do what He says.
You don't have to be faithful to go to heaven, that works.
So this woman obviously didn't get it, so I was giving her the benefit of the doubt
that maybe she was just using the word wrong.
So I asked her a few more questions, and she said that if you commit a bad sin then
she thought she would go to hell, so she didn't actually get saved.
I think that's the importance of asking follow up questions in your soul winning presentation.
I haven't done a soul winning tip video in a few weeks now, but maybe I'll get back to
that.
Maybe I'll even do one on this subject, because that's something that's really important when
you go out soul winning, is to ask follow up questions, because there's some people
who might seem to get it and might claim to believe it and they pray with you, but
then afterwards you ask them why they're going to heaven and they don't know.
It's kind of weird how that works, but some people will just follow along and if you're
not, sometimes you just might miss something or you're not clear enough, and you might
think they get saved and they actually don't, so you've got to ask a lot of questions, follow
up questions, things like that.
Okay so, I've got four questions in here now, dang.
Good, alright keep asking questions while I'm answering these.
So Eric says, what's your favorite Old Testament story?
Probably that's a tough one, because there's so many good ones.
One that I really like is the story of Elijah, especially his, I guess, what would you call
it, conflict I guess with the prophets of Baal on the top of Mount Carmel in 1 Kings
chapter 18 I believe it is.
I really like that story because he's literally like making fun of the false prophets and
mocking them and fire comes down from heaven and it consumes the sacrifice and then they
go and slay all the prophets of Baal and it's kind of a good story because it's like one
against 450 false prophets and it shows you that no matter how many false prophets and
heretics and preachers of false gospels and teachers of false religions there are in the
world, it doesn't matter if you're outnumbered because God obviously is almighty and he's
on your side so you're still going to win the battle in the end.
What's your interpretation of Hebrews 6?
That's very vague because Hebrews 6 is a long chapter, I don't know what part you're referring
to.
So if you could specify that would be great.
Eric, when are you going to start using free weights and start squatting and deadlifting?
I do use free weights.
I don't squat or deadlift because I have scoliosis and my back is curved so I have terrible form
so I don't do squatting or deadlifting but I do bench press and bicep curls with free
weights so to answer your question, I used to just do it from time to time, now I'm starting
to do it just every time I go to the gym, Mr. Eric.
Any other questions?
ItsGraceland says are you using the King James, yes of course, King James only, King James
version, only King James.
Okay so you said the beginning part.
Okay I'm assuming you're talking about verses 4 to 6 and not the part about the foundations
of the faith because of the fact that Hebrews 6 is commonly twisted and misused to teach
false doctrine by people who believe you can lose your salvation.
I assume that's what you're talking about, is that what you're talking about, Wendy?
Just for clarification.
Eric says read the part where Elijah starts roasting the false gods, okay I'll do that
real quick then I'll come back to Hebrews 6.
Okay Wendy says yeah so yeah I'll go back there to verses 4 to 6 and I also got a story
to tell about that too.
Hold on a second.
Okay so where am I going, 1 Kings chapter 18, 1 Kings 18 verse 26, and they took the
bullock which was given them and they dressed it and called on the name of Baal from morning
even until noon saying, O Baal, hear us.
But there is no voice nor any that answered.
And they leaped upon the altar which was made and it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked
them and said, cry aloud for he is a god.
Either he is talking or he is pursuing or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth
and must be awake.
And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets till
the blood gushed out upon them.
And it came to pass when midday was passed and they prophesied until the time of the
offering of the evening sacrifice that there was neither voice nor any to answer nor any
that regarded.
And Elijah said unto all the people, come near unto me.
And all the people came near unto him and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was
broken down.
So they are trying to sacrifice to Baal and it's not working and so Elijah starts mocking
them and says, cry aloud, louder basically, and they just keep doing it and keep failing.
So anyway back to Hebrews chapter 6.
So if anybody has any other questions just ask in the little question section on the
bottom there.
But Hebrews 6 verses 4 to 6, now this passage is misused by people who teach you have to
lose your salvation, or that you can lose your salvation, including this one infiltrator
in our church a few months ago.
His name was John and he pretended to be a believer at first but then he started saying
stuff that you could lose your salvation and become a reprobate or something.
At first he didn't openly say that.
He was just kind of phrasing in a form of a question.
He was like, oh I'm just asking a question.
I'm just asking if we could lose it, if we could stop believing and then become reprobates
if we reject.
And we're like, no obviously not because he gives you eternal life.
And that obviously raised a red flag if he was asking that and made it seem like he didn't
understand salvation.
But then he kept defending that doctrine and he wasn't repenting on that, he wasn't giving
it up, so it became very clear that he was unsaved and he believed that you could lose
your salvation.
And this is the scripture he kept pointing to and he kept misusing it because, and me
and a few other people in our church explained it to him several times and he still didn't
get it.
So basically, here's the scripture that they misuse.
It's Hebrews 6 verses 4 to 6 and I'll read to verse 8 because the context is important.
It says, for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the
heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of
God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again
unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open
shame.
It says in verse 7, for the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it and bringeth
forth herbs, meat for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God.
But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto cursing, whose end
is to be burned.
So they'll say, well, this is talking about somebody who gets saved and they fall away
and then they can't be saved again is basically the way that he put it.
But the thing is, first of all, you can't just take one scripture out of context and
just ignore the rest of the Bible where it clearly says, whosoever believeth shall have
everlasting life, where it says, I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
You can't just reject scripture and just say, well, I'm going to believe this part
based on my faulty interpretation and just reject the dozens of other clear verses that
say the opposite of what I am interpreting this as.
Now first of all, these people are not saved to begin with.
It never says they get saved.
It says it is impossible for those who were once enlightened.
Now enlightened just means like a light bulb comes on basically, that you have the truth
revealed to you, that you know what's true now.
It's been revealed to you and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers
of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to
come.
Now again, these people are not saved.
Notice how it uses the word tasted, meaning they haven't actually received it yet, they've
just tasted it.
Tasting is not the same thing as eating.
Tasting of the bread of life is not eating the bread of life.
It says, if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify
to themselves, the Son of God afresh shall put them to an open shame.
So this is simply talking about people who are not saved but have the gospel revealed
unto them, okay, and the truth is clearly manifested.
They have all the truths of the Bible and the gospel shown unto them.
It's clear unto them and then they reject it, okay.
If they fall away from that, it says it's impossible to renew them again unto repentance.
Basically this is talking about unbelievers who reject the gospel and become reprobates.
How do we know it's talking about reprobates?
Verse 8 says, but that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected.
Reprobate means to be rejected.
Jeremiah 6.30 reprobate silver shall men call them for the Lord hath rejected them and is
nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned.
Notice also in verse 8 how it talks about that which beareth thorns and briars.
What does that remind you of?
Over in Matthew chapter 7, when Jesus is talking about false prophets, he talks about them
burying thorns and briars.
In Matthew chapter 7, it says beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
You shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit.
But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
So he talks about these corrupt trees which bear thistles and thorns.
It says you can't gather grapes and figs of these trees that have the thorns and the thistles
because they are corrupt trees.
Meaning you're not going to have good fruit that comes from a false prophet.
So when it's talking about these people that bear thorns and briars, these are people who
are unsaved.
They're false prophets.
They're heretics.
They reject the truth.
It's basically saying that these people cannot be renewed again unto repentance.
They've lost their chance to be saved.
That's a clear doctrine that's taught in the rest of scripture in Romans chapter 1 at the
end of 2 Peter chapter 2 where it's talking about false prophets.
It says their damnation slumbereth not.
And it says something very similar in the last few verses of 2 Peter chapter 2 in verse
20.
It says for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge
of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now just to be clear, we are not saved just by having
knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We also have to believe in him.
Having the truth revealed unto you, knowing the truth, does not mean that you're saved.
You have to actually believe it and you have to trust Jesus as your Savior.
It says they are again entangled therein and overcome, meaning they've escaped the world
through the knowledge of Jesus.
If they don't get saved and they go back, it says the latter end is worse with them
than the beginning.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness.
What's the way of righteousness?
Faith, because the Bible says to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly.
Faith is counted for righteousness.
Then after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Now what's the holy commandment delivered unto them?
Define in 1 John 3.23, this is the commandment that we should believe on the Son of God Jesus
Christ, something like that.
Let me just turn there so I don't misquote it.
1 John 3.23, this is why you've got to compare scripture with scripture.
This is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his son Jesus Christ and love
one another as he gave us commandment.
God is commanding that we should believe on the name of the Son of God Jesus Christ.
That's what I believe it's talking about when it says that they've turned from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
That would be the commandment to get saved, to believe in Jesus.
It's basically saying the same thing as it's saying in Hebrews chapter 6 that it's better
or it's worse for them now that they know the truth and turn back away from the truth
than if they were to not know it at all because now they don't even have a chance to be saved.
Let's see, Isaac says he kept saying eternal security of the believer but he literally
believed a believer could not or could stop believing.
That's not eternal security at all.
He's talking about the guy that left our church because we realized he wasn't saved and we
were all telling him he wasn't saved and trying to correct him and he got all offended because
he was the one that was teaching heresy, we were trying to show him what the Bible says
and he didn't like it so he left the church.
Let's see, got another question.
If anybody else who's watching right now has any questions, feel free to ask on the little
question thing down there.
So Wendy asks, what's your interpretation of what John told the Pharisees on the fruits
meat for repentance?
I'm asking because if you keep reading, it looks like John is telling people in the crowd
to do works.
Well I mean there's nothing wrong with doing works, just you don't have to do works to
be saved.
Now my friend Isaac who's watching right now had an interesting interpretation of this
that made sense.
It's been a while since we've talked about it but I believe something along the lines
of I think the Bible uses the phrase the fruit of the mouth or something like that and it's
basically saying that the expression of being saved is, you know, the fruit of the mouth
of calling upon the name of the Lord, basically.
I think that's the way that he interpreted it but uh, it's Matthew chapter 3.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, this is verse 7, come to his baptism
he said unto them, O generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath
to come, bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance and think not to say with yourselves,
we have Abraham to our father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise
up children unto Abraham and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees therefore
every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
Now the thing is about Matthew chapter 3 is that of course we know from other scriptures
that John the Baptist was going out and preaching that they should believe on Jesus but that
wasn't the only thing that he was preaching just like that's not the only thing that Jesus
was preaching.
Jesus of course all throughout the book of John preached that we should believe on him
to be saved but there's also an element of what you do after you get saved, okay, because
salvation is the beginning of the Christian life, it's not the end, okay, you get saved
and then God has a purpose for you of what you're supposed to do now, okay, and that's
to serve him, to obey him, so I think he's just telling the Pharisees to bring forth
fruits, meat for repentance, so basically I agree with what you said there in the question
where you said it sounds like John is telling people in the crowd to do works, I would agree
with that because he's preaching to a nation, it's kind of like in the book of Jonah when
Jonah goes to the Ninevites and he tells them to repent, he's not just talking about now
believe in the Lord but he's also talking about repenting of their sins meaning so that
they could escape the judgment of God on their nation as opposed to individual salvation,
okay, because God was going to destroy the city of Nineveh, right, and the Bible says
that God repented of the evil that he said he would do unto them and did it not, okay,
because they turned from their evil ways in Jonah 3 verse 10, so that's not salvation
from hell but that's salvation from God's destruction on this earth, okay, so I think
that's what it's talking about in John chapter 3 because again, you know, John the Baptist
preaching and Jesus' preaching was not all about salvation, it was also about, you know,
them living righteously as well which is of course what you do after you're saved but
there's more to life than just getting saved and going to heaven, God also is going to
destroy the people on this earth, you know, who are living wickedly and he judges nations,
he destroys nations, you know, we saw that constantly through the Old Testament of God
judging and destroying Israel many times and the only way that they would escape that wrath
is if they repented, right.
So any other questions?
Put it in the, oh, I missed one, Geo says how long have you been saved for and what's
your story?
That's a good question, so I've been saved since December of 2018, I got saved from listening
to Pastor Anderson online, he, basically I listened to a video called Once Saved Always
Saved and then another sermon about the Trinity, so at first I thought I had gotten saved around
summer of 2018 but I wasn't actually saved because I didn't believe that Jesus was God
because I had not been raised in a Christian household, I didn't really have knowledge
of what the Bible taught, I was kind of in some foolish beliefs before I got saved, I
was in a lot of Hebrew roots kind of things and so the Trinity was a foreign concept to
me and so my faith was not in the right Jesus and so I got falsely saved at first and I
thought I was saved for a few months from listening to the Once Saved Always Saved sermon,
so I already knew how to be saved, it's just by faith in Jesus and once you believe you're
saved for eternity and you just call on the name of the Lord and then you get the free
gift of eternal life and then that's it, you're saved forever but because I was not trusting
in the right Jesus, I was not yet saved until December 2018 when I came across additional
preaching, preaching about who Jesus really is and that's when I realized I wasn't believing
in the right Jesus, so that's when I actually believed in him and called on the name of
the Lord, that was, I don't remember the exact date but it was sometime around December of 2018.
Yes, to answer your question, Wendy, maybe I'm wrong but I think that's what it's saying.
Have you heard Pastor Shelley's interpretation, his interpretation of what, Hebrew 6? I don't
think so. Alright, anybody else? See, we got five people watching, Isaac, Geo, Anthony,
Wendy, and somebody else. Okay, another question. Oh wait, Isaac says something. Jesus could
tell the Pharisees in John 8 weren't saved because they didn't do the works of Abraham.
The works don't save us but obviously if somebody's trying to kill Jesus, they're definitely unsaved.
Yeah, that makes sense. It just shows they don't believe in Jesus Christ. Alright, the
question, have you always gone to faithful words since you got saved? No, I've been going
to faithful word since about April of last year, so I live about an hour from faithful
word. It's in Tempe, Arizona. I live out in a small town called Florence and basically
I got saved when I was 16. Yeah, wait, 16. I got saved when I was 16. Yeah, okay, so
December 2018. Yeah, okay, I was 16 and I didn't have my driver's license yet. I got
that a few weeks later after I got saved actually, but I had a friend from high school. His name
was Sean who I had met around the same time which was pretty interesting and he started
telling me about his church which was an old IFB church that's much closer to me, about
15-20 minutes away. It's called Fairhaven Baptist Church and so he invited me to go
there. I went there. That's where I got baptized and I started attending because, you know,
one of my best friends went to that church and obviously, like I said, I had just gotten
my driver's license at that point, so driving an hour away wasn't really something I felt
comfortable with doing. It's not really something my parents wanted me to do either, so I just
went for about two years to this Fairhaven Baptist Church which is much closer and then
in April of last year I decided to start going to faithful word and so that's about a year
and four months I guess. Alright, Wendy asks, how is your brother? Have you had any chances
to get him saved yet? The few times I've talked to him he has kind of just tried to change
the subject. Now he has moved out of this house now, so he's living down in Tucson and
right before he left we went out on like a, like me, my mom, and my brother, we all went
out to eat at like a cheesecake factory or something and he, I tried talking with him
about it because I realized like, okay, he's going to leave soon. I only have a few more
chances at this point, so I started talking to him about it but he kind of just changed
the subject. I asked him, you know, do you even believe the Bible? He said, some of it.
You know, I haven't even read it all and I said, well, you don't have to read it all
to believe it and I quoted him a few verses. I explained how to be saved because he apparently
had the idea that Christianity was getting baptized and doing good things basically and
I explained to him, no, it's just believing in Jesus and at that point he just ignored
me and just changed the conversation and just started talking to my mom. So he obviously
wasn't interested, so that was the last time I got to talk to him about that. I'm hoping
and praying that somebody from the Tucson church will eventually maybe knock on his
door or talk to him because obviously since he's my brother he's probably not going to
listen to me as much as if somebody else because he kind of looks down on me for some
reason. We kind of, I mean, I don't even know why I'm not really like a bad brother or anything
but he just doesn't like me for some reason. So yeah, we got a few other statements here,
alright, did you share the gospel in high school? Yes, I did. There were a few chances
where I talked to some of my closer friends. I think the first time I attempted to preach
the gospel was before I was even saved. That's because, like I said earlier, I already had
an understanding of what the gospel was and I thought I was saved when I really wasn't
and that didn't really work out that well. Then the second time I preached the gospel
was after I got saved. It was to a kid that I knew from school but it was at his house
because I was hanging out with a couple of my other friends and we'd just gotten out
of church. This was a Sunday in like February of 2019 or something and we went over to another
friend's house and I started talking to him about salvation. I'm not sure if he got saved
or not. He didn't really seem to understand it. Like I said, it was my first time ever preaching
the gospel so I wasn't really that good at it, good at making sure that he actually understood
the things and the verses I used weren't exactly the best verses to explain the gospel and
the salvation and things like that. There were a few other friends that I talked to
and eventually as it started to get easier to talk about the gospel, there were a few
other people who I wasn't as close with or just classmates or whatever. If I just got
an opportunity, I would try to talk to them. I think there were probably like two or three
people I got saved in high school, total. We've got another question. Geo asks,
how old are you? 21. Also, I met you at Faith Award on the midweek service I came with Pastor
Mia. Yeah, I remember you and I saw you at Red Hot also. I'm 20. I'll be 21 in May, so yeah.
When Pastor Mia was there for the mega conference, all the preachers from all over the country were
coming to Faith Award for a few weeks. All right, Wendy asks, he doesn't like you anymore. Is that
because you're saved now? Probably. I mean, the Bible says, marvel not my brethren if the world
hates you. He's technically of the world. He's not saved, so I shouldn't really marvel that he
hates me. Obviously, it's different for different people. He kind of does make fun of me sometimes,
but I feel like his opposition to me was before I was saved. Although, the more and more as time
has gone on since I got saved, the split has become wider. I guess just because, I mean,
personally, I don't really like spending time with him because he's super worldly. Of course,
the Bible says not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Obviously, he lived in my house
for most of the time up until a few weeks ago. As he lived in my house, I obviously had to be
around him and talk to him sometimes, but I try to avoid hanging out with him, that kind of thing.
So, any other questions? Got the same five people watching.
Alright, what else can I talk about in the meantime? Oh, got a question from Geo. I have
the same situation with my brother. Obviously, growing up together, we had our fights, but as
we got older, we got closer, but once I started getting more on fire for God, he actually had
bitterness toward me. I'll be praying for you, bro. Thank you. Yeah, kind of happens sometimes.
No, Isaac, my shirt is not backwards, okay? This is the front side. I've worn this shirt in your
presence, like, several times, so I think you should probably know that. Does a reprobate know
the right gospel, but just doesn't like it? They can, but that's not necessarily always the case,
because Romans 1 just talks about people who just know God, it doesn't necessarily say that they
know the gospel. Now, as I talked about earlier, Hebrews 6 talks about them being enlightened.
2 Peter chapter 2 talks about knowing the truth, and knowing the way of righteousness, and knowing
Jesus Christ, and all that stuff. So, obviously, if somebody knows the true gospel and they reject
it, they become a reprobate, but there's other people who become a reprobate by simply blaspheming
the Holy Ghost. You know, Jesus said that if you blaspheme the Holy Ghost, that person does not
have any forgiveness of sins, they cannot be forgiven. Removing from the Bible, I'm sure there's
a lot of people who have done that, who have taken verses out of the Bible, and tampered with the
Bible, who have not necessarily known the true gospel. What's the other one? Taking the mark of
the beast, that's something that obviously hasn't happened yet, but in the future, in the end time,
it's not like everybody who takes the mark of the beast just knows how to get saved or something,
because Romans 1 just talks about them knowing God. It says, for the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth
and unrighteousness, because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has
shown it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they
are without excuse, because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Now, oh,
and I'll just continue reading to verse 23, professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like a corruptible man,
into birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Now, these verses speak nothing of them
hearing the gospel or knowing the gospel. This is just talking about them seeing God and creation
and the evidence that there is a God just from the creation itself, as it talks about in verse 20.
In Psalm 19, it talks about this, how the creation itself is a witness for the fact that there is a
creator. It says, the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Day into day uttereth speech, and night into night showeth knowledge. There is no speech,
nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run
a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it,
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. There's a good sermon about that concept by Pastor
Roger Jimenez when he did this series called like doctrines of the Bible or something, and he did a
sermon called like general revelation or something, where he's basically going through the first half
of Psalm 19, where it talks about how the heaven is itself and the creation show the glory of God,
and as opposed to specific revelation as he called it, which would be the actual word of
God that's given. So this is just talking about you know the heathen people who might not have
necessarily heard scriptures from the Bible, things like that, but they obviously see that
there is a God. They see that there's a creator, but then they worship the creation instead. They
worship the creator. They're not thankful. So I believe that those people become reprobate.
Okay a lot of what the heck? Why are you breathing fire at me all of a sudden? Isaac says,
and then he says I'm going to sleep yet he's still here. How many time? Oh okay that's what
you meant by it's backwards because the cameras flipped obviously. Let's see, how many times
should you read the full Bible in one year? I mean you could do it as many times as you want,
but at least one time that's for sure, but at least one time would be good, but I mean if
you're like really really serious about it three four times, you know, if you want to be a preacher
someday, you know, that's probably at least like four times a year, six times a year, I don't know
something like that, because obviously a preacher needs to know the Bible, so one time a year is
just like 15 minutes a day. You're not really gonna learn that much that way, so it just depends on
how much time you have and what your goals are, things like that, but yeah I agree with Isaac one
time at least. He could read it 12 times a year if you wanted to, yeah you could, just read it
once a month, that'd be pretty hard, you'd have to read it for like three hours a day or something,
but it's possible, probably even more than three hours, I think like, well maybe like three or
four hours a day, because I, well you could probably get through it four times a year if
you read it an hour a day, so you have probably about three hours, but that'd be reading like,
who knows how many chapters, like 50 chapters a day or something, I don't know. Ah, this year
I was supposed to do four times, so far one among my second read, better than nothing, that's for
sure. Hello Daniel. All right, let's see, we got a few more questions. What's one experience you
had that you show someone the gospel and they just twist a verse? When you say they just twist a
verse, do you mean twisting a verse that I quote, or they'll quote a verse in response to that when
they'll twist it, is that what you're talking about? Because if it's the latter, pretty much
anytime I ever talk to a Mormon, they'll say, oh well faith without works is dead, right? That's
obviously something that every Mormon and a lot of Catholics, at least Catholics who are actually
devout, will twist, and they'll just quote that, they have no idea what it means, so that's um,
that's one example. Okay, so you say that, you quote, so that's a little bit different. I'm trying
to think of an example. I don't, I don't know if that's ever happened, or I'm sure probably has,
but I mean I know that there's been times where I've quoted a verse that literally says, just
believe, and then I'll say, does that say repent of your sins, or live a good life, or do that,
and they'll say yes. Like where does it say that? It literally says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. There's been people who will say, oh well no, you also have to repent of
your sins, and even though that's not what the verse says, but uh, I guess the most, the most
ridiculous example, and I think this guy was just joking or something, but when I showed him Acts
16 31, he says have a house, because it says and thy house at the end of the verse there, and I,
that was the first time and last time I ever heard anybody say that, that was kind of ridiculous. So
let's see, how do you explain the ministry of the HGM, assuming that's Holy Ghost in the world? Well
the Bible says that the ministry of reconciliation has been given unto us, so obviously we as
believers have the Holy Spirit of God within us, so when we go forth I believe that's when the Holy
Spirit reproves believers of, or unbelievers of sin rather, as it talks about in John 16 where
he says that he would send the Comforter, which is the Spirit of Truth, and says he shall reprove
the world of sin because they believe not on me. So I believe that through the preaching of God's
Word from a Christian who's filled with the Holy Ghost, that's how the Holy Ghost ministers to the
unsaved. There's not just like, you know, the Holy Ghost just goes out and just starts, you know,
moving people to get saved just on their own. I don't think that's what the Bible teaches at all.
Let's see, I thought there was another question here. Where do you get your Bible reading plans
or schedule? Honestly I just kind of make my own because I don't know why I do that, but that's
just what I do. Especially the first year I started reading the Bible I was, it was very random. The
first time I wanted to do it in seven months, then I wanted to split that in half, and I wanted to
split that almost in half, but it took a little bit longer than I thought because it was hard
trying to get through it in two months. Then I went back to like four months, then I went back
to six months, then six months, then I did that for a while. Right now I'm trying to read through
it three times this year, but I basically just calculated it that there's 1189 chapters in the
Bible. I just divided that by, by I guess 160 or however many days are in four months, and I just
figured out that I have to read like nine or ten chapters a day on average to get through it in
four months. So I just basically, I don't really have a plan at this point, I kind of just read
somewhere between like seven to twelve chapters or somewhere between there. So that's my goal at the
moment. Let's see, we got anybody else? Is there a difference between remission and forgiven? If so,
what is the difference? I don't think there's a difference, I think they're the same thing.
Because the Bible will use phrases like remission of sins and forgiveness of sins interchangeably.
So yeah, I believe that those are the same thing. Let's see, I got another question here. Why does
it say there's another one? Let's see, Anthony, Wendy, Bold Baptist, Parky June, NGO is watching
right now. Do these questions and answers get saved somewhere? Would be nice to be able to
watch full. Yeah, I can upload this video on IGTV after, after it's live, so you will be able to
watch it because I'll basically post it to my page afterwards, so yeah. Let me actually pull up some
examples of remission of sins and forgiveness of sins. So there's only ten times the Bible
where it uses the word remission. This is the blood of the New Testament which is shed for
many for the remission of sins. Actually, let's just look up the actual definition of remission.
It's just cancellation of a debt, charge, or penalty. That's just basically forgiveness. He
forgives the debt that you owe, basically. And that repentance and remission of sin should be
preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem. Whosoever believeth in him shall
receive remission of sins, Acts 10 43, which of course just means that your sins are gone. They're
cancelled. They're forgiven. They're no longer held to your account. You're innocent now, not
guilty. So, yeah. How do you explain to people why we need, what? How do you explain to people
why we need our sins forgiven after, oh. Wait, what? Oh, okay. How do you explain to people why
we need our sins to be forgiven after salvation? So, to have fellowship with God, basically. 1
John chapter 1. Verse 4, I'll start. And these things write we unto you that your joy may be
full. So, why is he writing this? That their joy may be full. This then is the message which we
have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. If we
say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we
walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus
Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and
the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar
and his word is not in us. So, in order to have fellowship with God according to this chapter,
we need to walk in the light. And if we're not walking in light, if we're walking in darkness,
we're not doing what's right, we have to confess our sins and then he's faithful and just to
forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Why? So, we could be restored to
that fellowship with God because it's basically just like a relationship between a human son and
father. If my dad was still around and he had rules for me and I broke his rules, our relationship's
not going to be good. If I just keep breaking his rules, I'm just a disobedient, unruly, wicked
child, then obviously that's not going to be a good relationship between me and my dad. Versus
if I actually obey him and have respect towards him, then we're going to get along. You see what
I'm saying? So, I would say that's a good way to explain it. Then also just the fact that only our
spirit is saved when we believe in Jesus, our flesh is not saved, our flesh has not been changed,
so therefore our flesh is still punished for the sins that we commit. In Romans 7, Paul says,
it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me, for I know that in me that is in my flesh,
no good thing. So he's saying, in my flesh there's still sin. He says, for to will is present with me,
but how to perform that which is good I find not. So he has a desire in his heart to do that which
is right, to serve and obey God and to not sin, but because he still has a sinful flesh, he still
sins. So, when our sins are forgiven and remitted from us and washed away by the blood of Jesus,
that's basically our heart, that's our spirit, okay? But our flesh can still sin and so our
flesh will still be punished for our sins on this earth and that's why the Bible talks about
chastisement in several places like Hebrews 12. So, we still have to live righteously, we still
have to make an effort to not walk in the flesh but to walk in the spirit so that we don't commit
the works of the flesh which, you know, obviously are the works of the flesh, what the flesh does.
You know, our flesh, our body still has the ability to sin so it will still sin and therefore
we need forgiveness in our daily lives but that has nothing to do with forgiveness in terms of
going to heaven because our flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God in the first place as
it says in 1st Corinthians 15 50. Who's that behind you? What? What does that mean? The angels
protecting him. Well, there's nobody behind me. I mean, maybe there's an angel behind me, I don't know.
Who's that behind you? Forgiven equals rod of chastisement spared. No, because Colossians 1
14, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, Colossians 2 13,
and you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened
together with them, having forgiven you all trespasses. What else? Ephesians 1 7,
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of
his grace. Romans 4 7, saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and his sins are
covered. So, yeah, forgiveness of sins is not just after we get saved, like you say here. Forgiven
would be also talking about for salvation. Okay, now obviously there is an element of forgiveness
after we get saved, like I was just talking about, but when we get saved, our sins are forgiven and
they're omitted because that's the same thing. I'm gonna go to bed, but this is pretty cool and
you should probably do this weekly if you can, it would be pretty fun. Alright, well, see you later,
talk to you later. And, uh, there's another one, sorry. What's next on your four dummy series? Now
that's a tough one. I've been running out of ideas. I think I probably have a list somewhere
on my computer of ideas. Let's see. Alright, I already did this one. Maybe church for dummies,
just to explain what church means, because there's obviously a lot of false doctrine out there,
a lot of teaching about this universal church kind of doctrine. A lot of people, or some people,
think that, you know, you can just have, you know, a Bible study with your friends in your living
room and that's church, so I think that probably needs to be a thing. I was thinking about doing
one about herring the Word of God for dummies, because there's some people who think that you
could just saved, be saved just by reading the Bible, so that might be another thing I do. The
fall of man for dummies, okay that's a good idea I guess, probably do that. Oh wait, maybe I could
talk in that subject of the fall of man or whatever, I could, you know, talk about why
original sin is wrong and the fact that we're not born in sin like a lot of people say. It was funny
that so many people will say that we're born in sin and they don't even realize that the person
who said that in the Bible is a Pharisee in John chapter 9. Like he says, thou was all, or I guess
they, I don't know, it wasn't one person, but the Jews say to the man that was born blind, thou was
all together born in sins and dost thou teach us? And it says that they cast them out basically,
so it's like they're literally quoting from a Jew who's unsaved to get their doctrine. It's
foolishness. Creation for dummies, that's a good idea. Never even thought about that, I don't know
why. Let me know if you need ideas, I mean throw some ideas, I mean I'd be willing to. I haven't
done a video in a while, I think the last for dummies one I did was calling on the name of the
Lord for dummies, which was like like two months ago I think, and then before that I did the
Trinity for dummies, but that's actually not on my Instagram page, that's only on my YouTube channel,
because at that point I think, like there's something like my charger wasn't working on my
phone or something, and it uses up a lot of battery doing videos like this, so I wanted to
do it on my computer instead, so I put it on YouTube. So the Trinity for dummies and then the
calling on the name of the Lord for dummies, those are the only ones I've done this year so
far, and it's already in August, so yeah. Nicer, two or better than one, well that's why you haven't
thought of it, you need one here too. I mean maybe, I mean it's, I kind of don't want to just re-talk
about it and do the same thing, you could just go to my YouTube channel, watch it, it's not that hard,
everybody uses YouTube. Catholicism for dummies, well that would work, because really what the
for dummies series is, is talking about doctrines that are biblical, but a lot of people have false
ideas about, like let me give you a few examples like I talked about. The first one I did was
replacement theology for dummies, where I basically explained that there's a lot of misconceptions
about what replacement theology is, and then I explained that it's actually a biblical doctrine,
and kind of tried to clear it up and simplify it from the Bible. Same thing with, you know,
the post-Trib rapture for dummies, and repentance for dummies, and you know what repentance actually
means. I did predestination for dummies, basically explaining that predestination is a biblical word,
but Calvinists use it incorrectly, etc. So I'm not gonna do the Catholicism thing, that's not really
what the point of it is, the series. I mean I could do a video just talking about why Catholicism is
wrong, but I guess that would be not part of that for dummies series I guess. End times for dummies,
it's complicated for me. I kind of did the post-Trib pre-wrath rapture for dummies thing,
you can watch that, but I could do like a general end times timeline kind of thing too. Relationships
courtship for dummies, maybe. I don't think there's, I mean I'm not sure if there's enough
in the Bible about that to talk about, but I'll consider if I find enough verses then I'll do it.
I watched some of the Trinity one. Yeah, we needed it after, you know, some of those online people
were saying stupid things about the Trinity and teaching false doctrine about it. So yeah,
that's kind of why I made that video in the first place. Who's watching? We got Anthony,
Bold Baptist, Wendy, and Parkie June. Any other questions anybody? Maybe I should do this a little
bit earlier in the day, because it's kind of late, 10 o'clock. Especially since I live on the West
Coast, so there's some people over in the East maybe, who may be followers who are definitely
in bed by now. Biblical friends for dummies or friendships, oh that's actually a good idea. Let
me write that down. I could kind of talk about loving the brethren and kind of tie that in with
that too. Suffering for dummies is another one I see on this list here. That's one that I actually
really want to do, because the whole concept of suffering in this world and why they're suffering
and evil and things like that is something that a lot of people misunderstand or don't really have
a right view of. Especially people who don't believe the Bible, and they kind of ask the
stupid questions like, oh well if God is real, why do bad things happen kind of thing. And I
think I came up with that idea after we ran into some atheist guy out-solen-ing who was saying
those kinds of things, and I'm like, have you never read the Bible? Oh no, this guy claimed to read
the Bible 15 times. I'm like, yeah right. People are such liars. Working hard for dummies or works
for dummies. Yeah, that's another good idea. I think I did a rewards in heaven for dummies
where I kind of touched on the works thing, because there's been some people in our church,
there's this one bozo that got kicked out recently. He had this weird idea that the only works that
matters is soul-winning, which obviously is foolish, but there's a lot of things which
fall under the category of works, and we're not just rewarded based on how many people we get
saved. We're rewarded according to all kinds of things we do for God, and even just working hard
in the workplace has something to do with it, as we see in Colossians chapter 3. Fruit for Dummies.
I think I did one about that, maybe. No, I don't know if I did, but that's another good one. Fruit
for Dummies. That actually is a really good one, because I know I actually did a sermon about that
in the preaching class at Faithful Word. It's not on YouTube, though, because we didn't get the
videos for all of the sermons, so I could probably rely on some of my notes for that sermon, because
that is a subject that a lot of people, especially Calvinists, have a foolish idea about. They think
that the fruits of a Christian is the fruits of the Spirit when it's not. The fruits of the Spirit
would be only if you walk in the Spirit, and the fruit of a Christian is, again, only if you
actually go in to get somebody saved. It's not automatic once you get saved that you have fruits,
which is what Calvinists believe. Did Anthony get kicked out finally because he's a bozo for sure?
Yes, he did. There's a lot more to the story than that. I don't want to talk about it on a live
stream, but yes, he got kicked out. I heard Pastor Anderson kicked out a homeless man. I don't know
the full story. I don't know if this is recent you're talking about, but there have been times
where there have been derelicts who have lived on church property. The Bible says in 2 Thessalonians
chapter 3, here's the thing you have to understand about homeless people, especially homeless people
where I live in in Phoenix, the Phoenix area. Okay, they're homeless by choice. They're not
homeless because they're actually poor, and that's the case for like 95% of people who are homeless
in the United States. That they are homeless because they are lazy, and they refuse to work,
or because they're addicted to drugs or alcohol and refuse to get help, and not because they're
actually struggling. Here's what the Bible says about people who refuse to work. Verse 6,
Now we command you brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves
from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
For yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you,
neither did we eat any man's bread for naught, but wrought with labor and travail night and day,
that we might not be chargeable to any of you, not because we have not power, but to make ourselves
in a sample unto you to follow us. For even when we are with you, this we command in you, that if
any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you
disorderly, working not at all, but our busy bodies. Now then them that are such we command
and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread. Okay,
so it defines in verse 11 being disorderly as working not at all, and it says to withdraw
yourselves from a brother that walks disorderly. So if there's a brother who refuses to work,
the Bible says withdraw yourselves from them. So if there's a homeless man who is trying to be
part of the church and they refuse to get a job and they're just in that condition because they're
lazy, they're thrown out of the church. Okay, so maybe Pastor Anderson did do that, I have a vague
remembering of one of his old videos talking about that, and he was completely justified in doing so.
Let's see, they're not allowed to be at church, they need to work hard, yeah. Alright, I think
I might call it a night here, it's been over an hour now. What about homeless women? I mean,
maybe that's different because obviously, you know, women should be keepers at home,
but I mean, the best case scenario would be that woman gets married and then her husband
provides for her, but if like her husband dies or something and she's a widow and then that's why
she's poor, obviously that would be a different story. So yeah, that would be a different story,
but somebody who's a man who refuses to work, definitely not. Okay, so I'm gonna call it here,
and it's like an hour and ten minutes I think I've been doing this. So thank you everybody for
watching, God bless you, and God bless you.