Thank you very much.
Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here for the live telephone question and answer.
First of all, if you want to call in and ask a question, the phone number is going to be 480-758-4348.
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It's better if you call in though, so try to call in. I'm going to give priority to the people who actually call on the phone.
And then I've also got a list of some questions that I printed out that people had called and asked.
I have been having a little bit of trouble with my phone today, so if you don't get through, just keep trying, call back in, and give it another shot.
First of all, I had a question come in from Kobe Lance on my voicemail, and he asked if I had ever done or ever will do a whole sermon on rock music and CCM,
which CCM stands for Christian Contemporary Music, and in fact, I have done a whole sermon on that.
Back on June 7th of 2012, I did a sermon called Christian Contemporary Music, and then Brother Dave Berzins did one back on February 2nd of 2011.
October 17th, 2010, I did a sermon on music, but the best way to find sermons on the Faithful Word Baptist website
is to actually just go to the webpage where it has all the sermons listed. There's like 1,300 sermons, and obviously it would take forever to read all 1,300 titles.
But what you can do is you can push Ctrl F in order to find a sermon on that page. It'll search the text of the page.
If you're on a Mac, it'd be Command F, and if you hit Ctrl F, this little search box comes up, and then you could just type in the word music, for example, and find it.
Alright, here we've got a caller coming in from Washington, so let's go ahead and answer this.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson.
Oh, hi Pastor Anderson. I'm watching you right now. Are you live right now?
Yep, you're live right now, so just go ahead and mute your computer. What's your question?
The question is, in just reconciling 1 Corinthians 6-9 with Romans 1, Romans 1 is very clear.
So what I just wanted to understand is when I read 1 Corinthians 6-9, it appears to me the abuses of themselves with mankind is sodomites,
but my own thought with that is that there are some who maybe are tormented by those sorts of thoughts,
versus those that are given over to those as they're less, and I'm not saying that's accurate.
I'm just trying to understand how do you look at 1 Corinthians 6-9, because I think I understand you don't believe they're sodomites,
and I'm just curious how you came to that conclusion.
Well, actually, I do think that it's possible that the term abuses of themselves with mankind could be referring to sodomites.
In fact, if I had to guess, I would say that it probably is referring to that, but I think that people are taking the scripture out of context,
because if you actually read what 1 Corinthians 6 is about, it's talking about the fact that they're going to law before the unjust instead of before the saints.
It's talking about them suing their brothers and sisters in Christ, and when we get to chapter 6 verses 7-9,
he's talking about what the unjust are like, the type of people who are unrighteous and will not inherit the kingdom of God,
and he lists all these type of horrible people, and his point in giving that list is to say that these are the type of people that are going to be judging you when you go to the world for judgment.
That's why we should stick with going to God's people.
Then at the end of that, he says, and such were some of you, but you're washed, you're sanctified, you're justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the spirit of our God.
What he's saying there is that we're qualified to judge because we've been saved and we've been redeemed and so forth,
whereas these unrighteous, wicked people, we shouldn't go to them for judgment.
I don't believe that the intent of that chapter is to say that the Corinthians had done everything on that list,
just because he's talking about unrighteous people and he lists off a bunch of unrighteous people and says, such were some of you.
I don't think such were some of you means, hey, you did everything on that list, or there are people in the church that did everything on that list.
Just a few chapters later, in the same book, 1 Corinthians, he tells the Corinthians, there is no temptation taken you, but such is as common to man.
Is every man tempted with homosexuality? Absolutely not, because that's actually something that 99% of men are not tempted with whatsoever.
If a bunch of them had been queers in the past, and then he's saying, there is no temptation taken you, but such is as common to man,
that wouldn't even make any sense, because only a person who has been given over to vile affections would even lust after another man in the first place,
because it's just so against nature. I think Romans 1 and many other scriptures are clear that they're reprobate.
I don't believe they can be saved. I don't think 1 Corinthians 6 proves that they can, and I think that it's just being taken out of context.
That's not even the intent that the chapter's about.
Right. Well, and Romans 1 and all the other references to them is very clear.
So, just one other side question on that is, just out of curiosity, I went and I was looking at quote-unquote ex-homosexual testimonials about being saved,
and of course, what I found was with the vast majority of them, it wasn't a biblical testimony of salvation,
but the thing that I did find curious was there were a few, a very few, where they gave a very biblical answer to salvation,
and it was clear that even though they had some of those experiences, they were tormented by it, they knew that it was wrong,
they didn't understand why they were even engaging in it, and so I guess what I'm wondering is,
I know a lot of people blow off the spiritual side of things and maybe, you know, demonic possession or whatever it is,
but do you think it's possible that a person, you know, could be tormented by sin rather than given over to it?
And we're talking one in, you know, a million here or whatever, but...
Yeah, I don't really think so when it comes to that particular sin because, you know, it's not a temptation for normal people.
I mean, obviously, there could be people who grew up maybe being molested now that these bunch of filthy sodomites are allowed to adopt children and everything.
There could be, you know, kids who are growing up being molested and abused, and then they might be confused and stuff like that,
and obviously, that's not their fault, and that later on, you know, they could discover the truth and be saved,
and hopefully, they would not themselves go into that lifestyle.
So, I'm not saying it makes them a reprobate just because they were exposed to a lot of filth or molested or whatever.
You know, I would say a person is a reprobate, according to Romans 1, when they burn in their lust towards someone of the same gender,
and that just doesn't happen amongst normal people.
So, you know, that's why, you know, I don't believe that they could be saved
because the Bible just describes them as being just these reprobate haters of God and it's too late for them.
Hey, thanks for the call. I want to get to somebody else. So, God bless you. Have a good one.
God bless.
All right. So, who's next? Give me a call at 480-758-4348.
As I was saying, you can search the sermons page at faithfordbaptist.org by hitting Ctrl-F or Command-F.
It will pull up a little search bar. You want to hear a sermon about heaven, you want to hear a sermon about hell,
type in the word heaven, type in the word hell, type in the word music, type in the word King James,
and you'll get sermons about why we're King James only and stuff like that.
And so, the 1300 sermons can be overwhelming, but if you use that search function,
you can pretty much find whatever sermon you want that's on there.
I have here five sermons that I listed when I searched the term music.
And so, for Kobe Lance, if he just will type in the word music, he'll get five sermons that are exactly
what he's looking for. Another question that I got here on the text is that someone said,
they listen to my sermons against Bible college, they believe God is calling them to be a pastor,
so they want to know what they should do. Well, the answer is that they should be trained in the local church
and not go to Bible college. There's no reason why a person should have to go to Bible college
to learn the Bible, to learn how to pastor, and churches ought to be training people themselves
so that people wouldn't be forced to go to Bible college. I know that when I was a teenager and a young adult,
I approached my pastor and I told him that I wanted to pastor, and I asked him to train me and he wouldn't do it.
So, eventually I just went to Bible college, but let me answer this call.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson.
Hello, how are you?
Good, how are you doing? Go ahead and mute your computer on the other end. What's your question?
You know the fellow called Simon Peter. Hello?
Yeah, I'm having trouble understanding you. What's your question?
Oh, sorry. I'll get to the point. I've got three quick ones.
I was going to see if you can recommend a few books. You did a sermon a while back about the Google ad,
Arthur Tellego, and so I'm going to see if there's any other books you'd recommend.
Sure, yeah. You're looking for book recommendations. Sorry, I was just having trouble understanding you with your accent.
Where are you from?
Liverpool, England.
Oh, okay. All right. Well, yeah, let me give you a few book recommendations along the lines of the Gulag Archipelago,
which is a great book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that goes through the whole prison industry in the Soviet Union,
all the concentration camps, all the millions and millions of people who were tortured and killed.
That's a great book, but it's about as long as the Bible.
Some of it's really entertaining and easy to read, but some of it's really heavy, difficult reading.
So another book that's easier to read than the Gulag Archipelago that kind of covers the same subject
is the book The Bridge at Andau by James Michener.
It's a really easy to read, entertaining book that covers a lot of the same material as Gulag.
Again, that's called The Bridge at Andau by James Michener.
There's another book that's just called Gulag by a woman whose last name is Appelbaum or something like that.
That was a pretty good book, but again, it's super long.
Is that the kind of book recommendations you're looking for?
Yeah, I've got a couple of quick questions. I'll get to it.
Have you looked into Greg or Pittman's stuff, particularly Greg Chopin?
Because what I've done is since I've seen you memorize the Bible, I've memorized it myself,
but I figured out that it is possible to write the words as you repeat them in order to help you memorize.
I was wondering if you thought about using Greg Pittman to write as fast as you speak.
Whose technique is that, Greg? Are you talking about Greg's shorthand?
Yeah, because if you write down what you're saying, it's proven that it soaks into your memory.
Yeah, you know, I've never tried that, but it actually sounds pretty interesting,
so I will look into the Greg shorthand for helping with Bible memory.
I personally don't really have a lot of tricks for memorizing the Bible.
I just kind of do it the hard way.
I did just a few words, and then just a few words if I did, and then you get it wrong.
But just what I did as well, and I'll be quicker,
I've created a few A4 sheets with the different books that I've memorized.
With each chapter, I wrote just a sentence.
For example, with James, James says,
James, a servant of God.
And then if you get that in Greg, it's just a few squiggles.
So you could write down a few squiggles for each verse,
and then you'd be able to write as fast as you speak.
So you'd be writing and speaking at the same time, and therefore reinforcing your memory.
Yeah, that sounds good. That's pretty interesting.
Thanks for sharing that, and I will definitely look into it.
God bless you, and have a good one.
Alright, so Greg's shorthand, I'll have to look into that.
Hopefully it's not like trying to learn a foreign language or something to learn how to write shorthand,
but I'll look into it. It sounds interesting.
But anyway, I was talking about the guy who had asked about what do you do instead of going to Bible college.
I went to my pastor as a teenager, and I told him that I don't want to go to Bible college.
I want to be trained in the local church.
And I kept asking him to train me, and it just wasn't happening.
So finally I just broke down and went to Bible college.
But our church is training people to pastor.
We've already sent out and trained three pastors,
and we're going to do more as we go in the future.
There are a couple of guys that are being trained right now,
and hopefully other churches across America will start being willing to train their young men
to go into the ministry so that they won't be forced to go to Bible college
because these big Bible colleges are corrupt,
and there's no reason why you should have to go to them
and be trained in a classroom that's basically patterned after worldly colleges and universities.
It would just make more sense if people would just be trained in the local church by pastors
and people that are actually doing the work and so on and so forth.
And so if people wanted to be trained for the ministry,
they could move to a place where there's a church that would actually train them for the ministry
or talk to their pastor or a pastor nearby and see if they can get a good pastor to train them to start a church.
So there's no need to go to Bible college.
Another person asked about church membership.
What do I believe about church membership?
Our church has all kinds of memberships.
So there's no formal process of coming down an aisle and joining the church.
Basically, if you come to church and you've been saved and baptized, you're automatically a member.
And if you don't have all of those three things, then you're not a member.
So basically, if it turns out later that you weren't saved, then you never were a member in the first place.
And if you stop coming, you're not a member anymore.
Alright, we've got another call coming in from Oregon.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Hey, Pastor Anderson. How's it going?
Great. How are you doing?
Good. I'm calling from Oregon. I'd just like to say God bless and thanks for all your work.
I actually got saved listening to your videos not too long ago, so thanks.
Great. I appreciate you letting me know that. Do you have a question?
Yeah, I had a question about 1 Corinthians 12 about spiritual gifts.
It talks about how there's some spiritual gifts like healing and that of miracles and other things like that.
I was wondering if those were gifts that we as New Testament believers today have access to,
or if those were only signs for apostles and people like Paul,
or do we as Christians today have access to stuff like that?
I was just kind of confused reading that. Is there anything you can do to help on that?
Sure. Yeah, here's my belief on that. Basically, I did a whole sermon several years ago called Miracles,
which again, if you go to the sermon page at faithfulwordbaptist.org and do the Control-F or Command-F,
you just search the word miracles and that sermon will come up.
But in that sermon, I explained how I do believe that God is still capable of performing miracles
and that miracles and healings could still happen in present day.
Now, you have to understand that when the Bible talks about the apostles in the book of Acts,
it talks about them doing special miracles. It says special miracles were wrought by the head of Paul.
And so if these miracles are special, then that shows us that this isn't something that everybody was doing
or that every single person had the ability to do all the time.
And if you remember when Jesus sent out the apostles two by two,
he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and they were amazed by the fact that they had that power.
I don't believe that every single Christian has the power to cast out demons, to perform miracles,
to lay hands on the sick and so forth. I believe that that is something that has happened rarely throughout history.
And even if you read the Bible, it might seem like you're reading about a lot of miracles constantly happening in the Bible,
but you have to understand that the story of the Bible covers a period of thousands of years.
So if you even just look at the stories in the Bible, there are centuries and centuries going by where no miracles are happening.
So you can't just assume that we're just constantly going to be seeing miracles and people being healed and people performing.
But I do believe that it's very possible that miracles can still happen and will still take place
and that we can lay hands on the sick and pray for them and that many of them will recover.
Right. Okay. All right. Well, I appreciate your insight on that. I'll study more about it in the scripture.
And yeah, like I said, thanks for your work and all you do and I'll look into that more.
Yep. God bless you. Thanks for the call. Have a good one.
So yeah, that was a great question. A lot of people think, oh, you know, the miracles are over.
But the Bible says that we can pray and have the elders of the church lay hands on the sick, anoint them with oil, and that they can be healed.
I believe that that can still take place.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
I understand. Am I live?
Yeah, you're live right now. What's happening?
All right. Well, I just wanted to give you a call. I just wanted to say I came across your preaching and that's actually what got me saved.
So praise God. But the question I had for you is, will you kind of go over or maybe do a sermon at some point on the people that we are supposed to,
or maybe not let in our house or people's house that we're not supposed to go to or maybe the people that we're not supposed to have fellowship with?
Because that's something that I don't really have much detail on.
Yeah, that's a great question and that's actually a great idea for a sermon. I appreciate it because I'm always looking for good sermon ideas.
So that's probably going to be, you know, coming to a pulpit near you. But that's a great subject.
Who should we not let in our house? Who should we have no fellowship with?
Well, you know, obviously the thing that first comes to mind is the book of 2 John where it talks about someone bringing another doctrine besides the doctrine of Christ,
someone who does not acknowledge the Father and the Son. And, you know, I would put in that category, of course, you know, the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses
because they don't believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost being one. You know, they don't believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.
Not only that, I would put Jews in that category because, you know, Jews don't believe in the Son of God.
You know, they claim to believe in the Father but they don't. So, you know, we definitely shouldn't allow false prophets to come into our...
And by the way, you know, you shouldn't turn on the TV and let them come into your home via television either.
Yeah, I don't listen to TV but I have trouble convincing my family not to watch TV.
So, and then you just talk about which people we should not fellowship with in general.
Well, you know, in general, when it comes to the unsaved, you know, we're supposed to be in the world but not of the world.
So I think it's great to interact with unsaved people and, you know, we're going to work with them and maybe even go out to eat with them
and spend time with them trying to win them to Christ.
Obviously, our best closest friends should be people from our church, people that believe the way that we believe.
But as far as just acquaintances and people that we hang out with on a very loose basis, you know,
unsaved people are fine to hang around with because, you know, we want to reach them with the Gospel.
But the Bible is real clear that we should separate from Christians who are drunks, who are fornicators, who are covetous and so forth.
And he even specifically says if they're not Christian and they do those things, we don't have to separate from them.
But if they're called a brother and they do those things, you know, it's found in 1 Corinthians 5, we're supposed to separate from those people.
So, you know, that shows us right there a large contingent of people that we shouldn't be friends with.
You know, people who are calling themselves a Christian and living a wicked life.
Right. But not necessarily those who are unsaved.
Yeah, those that are unsaved, we actually, they don't have to be living a godly life for us to spend time with them.
Right.
Because how can you expect unsaved people to live a godly life? They're not saved. They're not Christians.
Yeah, of course.
Like, now, what about at your house? Like, how do you go about, like, at your house though?
Well, we have all kinds of people come into my house all the time just because we have all kinds of natural food co-ops that we're involved in.
Right.
And people, you know, get raw milk from us and everything like that.
So, you know, we have all kinds of unsaved people come into the house constantly and we'll invite them in and give them food and talk to them and everything like that because we want to be a good testimony and witness to them.
Now, obviously, we would draw the line with people like homosexuals. You know, they're reprobates anyway.
Right.
They're not going to get saved anyway. Why would we allow these perverts to be around our children?
So, all the food co-ops that we're involved in, a couple times, you know, homos have tried to get in on it and we said, you know, we don't allow homos to come to our house.
You know, obviously, we wouldn't let child molesters come to our house and that's what homos are, child molesters.
Right.
And so, you know, obviously, we draw the line. We wouldn't just allow the most wicked, you know, ungodly, violent people, you know, come over to our house.
And obviously, we don't have unsaved people just constantly coming over and spending long periods of time with us but they're definitely welcome in our house.
Of course, yeah.
Well, hey, I hope that answers your question. God bless you and thanks for the call.
Yeah.
All right. So, call in if you have a question. Again, it's 480-758-4348.
Before the call came in, we were talking about church membership and the fact that our church does not have a process where people have to join the church.
And there are a lot of churches where you do have to, you know, come down and join and so forth.
I just don't see that in the Bible, keeping lists of people.
And, you know, a lot of this thing with church membership can lead to hypocrisy because sometimes what they'll do is when someone is a drunkard or a fornicator,
like I was just talking about with the last caller with 1 Corinthians 5, sometimes if someone's a drunkard or a fornicator,
instead of actually kicking them out of the church as 1 Corinthians 5 teaches and putting away from among ourselves that wicked person,
what they'll often do is just delete them from a membership role.
And once they're deleted from that role, then they say, oh, well, you know, we've followed 1 Corinthians 5.
No. If the person is physically at the church services, then you have not followed 1 Corinthians 5.
And so that church membership role can lead to hypocrisy when it comes to throwing people out where they kind of throw people out on paper.
I remember a story about this girl who was a wicked girl who had committed sin.
And the pastor of the church is an independent fundamental Baptist church.
He was going to, you know, kick her out of the church, which to him just meant he's going to take her off the membership role.
And it turned out she wasn't even a member. She had never formally joined.
And it was a big joke. And she laughed and made fun of it like, you know, the pastor is going to throw me out.
Turns out I wasn't even a member in the first place.
But she was still coming to the services even though she was involved in, you know, drunkenness or fornication or whatever it was that 1 Corinthians 5 deals with.
So it's just kind of silly.
When God says to put away from among yourselves that wicked person, he's not saying to draw a pencil mark with a line through their name in an office somewhere.
He's talking about actually, you know, throwing them out of the church physically, not allowing them to attend the services.
So again, our church membership is automatic. If you're saved, baptized and you're here, you're a member.
If you stop coming, you're not a member.
And if you turn out that you weren't saved or you weren't baptized, then you're not a member.
So the membership is automatic and being removed from membership is automatic if you leave and so forth.
Alright, we're getting another call here from an undisclosed number.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson.
Hi, so I'm live now?
Yes, you are. What's happening?
Excellent. So I've got a few questions for you.
I know for one, you know, you've been posting on Facebook, Brian Denler's videos, you know, just kind of your reactions to that.
Do you have anything you'd want to say to maybe some of the more recent ones that he's put out?
I don't know if you've checked his channel.
No, I haven't seen any of his recent videos. You want to fill us in?
Okay, so he's, I don't know if you remember, or at least how much he's been following his channel,
but I think it was either earlier this year or last year that he posted, you know, the pre-tribulation rapture moments.
Well, excuse me, he's been doing two versions of that.
One is his responses to your poster moments, and then another series dealing with the pre-trib moments that he's coming up with.
He's still kind of generally working on that, but, you know, they're kind of more here and there.
They're recently more videos coming out, but he's switched gears now to sort of making Nazi type of videos against you.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I did see that one where he basically, like, photoshopped a picture of me in a Nazi uniform
and is saying that I'm teaching this Catholic doctrine and this Nazi doctrine because I don't, you know, bow down and worship the Jews like he does.
You know, that guy has literally made, I think, 120 or 130 videos specifically attacking me.
You know, the guy's just crazy, but when it comes to this thing of painting me as a Nazi, nothing could be further from the truth
because actually my sermons teach that all races are equal and, you know, that we're all of one blood
and that there is neither Jew nor Gentile, red and yellow, black and white, they're precious in his sight.
It doesn't really matter, you know, what our ethnicity is.
In reality, these Zionists are the real Nazis because they're the ones who basically believe that one ethnicity is superior to the others.
And in fact, Zionism and Nazism have so much in common that from 1933 to 1938,
the Nazis and the Zionists actually worked closely together because of the fact that they both had the same goal.
What did the Nazis want? They wanted the Jews out of Europe, okay?
And what do the Zionists want? They wanted the Jews out of Europe because they wanted the Jews to go to Palestine.
They want them in Zion. And so they actually teamed up from 1933 to 1938 in order to get the Jews to leave Germany and go to Israel.
And that's what they both wanted. But then things started to change in 1938-39 because on the eve of World War II,
the Germans began to round up the Jews and put them in concentration camps because they wanted them to work.
They wanted that free labor that prisons are often used for.
So they rounded up a lot of the Jews and put them into concentration camps or really labor camps is what they were.
And they were there to work and keep the war machine going, you know, making synthetic fuels and making other equipment that was used for the war and so forth.
So, you know, to call somebody who believes in the biblical teaching that Christians are God's chosen people, not the Jews,
to just call them, oh, you're a Nazi. You're an anti-Semite.
It's just because they have no biblical argument, so they have to lash out with these type of just attacks and play the race card,
even though these Jews are as white as snow, these so-called Jews anyway.
Okay. I mean, another one of his criticisms of you, which, again, I'm not sure how familiar you are with this,
but he is showing in other videos connections between the Catholic Church and Hitler and just wanting to persecute the Jews and so on.
I think you had an article posted on your website dealing with the biblical doctrine of paradise and hell.
And I think towards the end of it, you said that Hitler was a devout Roman Catholic.
And then you brought up some quotes where you can just see people have hell.
Well, let me say this. Let me say this. I thought that Hitler was a devout Roman Catholic because that's what I've been told my whole life.
People always talk about how, oh, Hitler was Catholic and he was after the Jews and all this stuff that I heard my whole life.
But actually, I wrote that essay about, I think, seven or eight years ago before I had actually studied the history of World War II
and studied Hitler and the Nazis and that whole thing.
And actually, once I studied the life of Hitler, I found out that what I've been told my whole life that he was a Catholic is completely false
because Hitler was not Catholic at all.
Now, he did grow up in a country that was predominantly Catholic.
So he did go to a Catholic school as a kid.
But it's very clear from reading his biography or reading anything that he wrote or said that he was clearly not Catholic.
He was clearly just a non-believer, did not believe any part of the Bible.
If you look at the Nazi propaganda videos, they are negative toward both Old and New Testament.
And there's nothing Catholic about them. There's nothing Christian about them.
Basically, Adolf Hitler's philosophy was based upon evolution, eugenics.
And so it had nothing to do with religion for him.
That's why he didn't persecute just religious Jews. He persecuted them based on their ethnicity.
So that proves that it wasn't a religious thing.
And it was not something where he was tied in closely with the Catholic Church.
That's what people would try to say but it's not true.
Now, am I against Catholicism? Of course, it's a wicked religion.
Right.
But you can talk about, oh, the Catholics have always been negative toward the Jews.
That's because every single denomination of Christianity, so-called,
throughout the last couple thousand years has pretty much been anti-Jewish
because the New Testament says negative things about people who follow Judaism.
And so read the writings of John Calvin, Martin Luther.
They were vehemently against the Jews.
John Chrysostom, which was a bishop in Constantinople in the 4th century,
is just railing on the Jews back then.
So it's just all branches of Christianity.
And I'm not saying that these Catholics and Protestants are legitimate branches of Christianity.
I'm just saying all branches of anything that called itself Christianity
before the 1800s when all this stuff came out of being pro-Israel.
All of them were against the Jews. So, yeah, does that include the Catholics?
Yes, it does. But you know what? The Catholics also believe in the Trinity.
The Catholics also say that Jesus died on the cross.
So just because the Catholics say something doesn't make it false.
Oh, absolutely. That's one of the false paradigms of when Catholics try to criticize you
or other examples of the preacher rapture, just kind of false examples.
Oh, well, the Catholic Church believes in some version of post-Tribs, supposedly.
They don't even actually believe in a rapture.
But they believe the Church is going through some trial in the future, and that's yet to come.
And then Brian basically will then say, oh, we'll see the Catholic doctrine of a post-Trib rapture.
But no, it's just a simple reading of Matthew 24.
Exactly. Just because the Catholic Church believes something doesn't make it false.
I mean, every false religion believes something that's true.
They believe something that's right. But it's all the error that's the problem.
Even a broken clock, a broken clock is going to be right two times per day.
And so just because somebody's right about one thing doesn't mean that they're right in general.
And just because somebody who's wrong is saying the same thing as you, that doesn't make you worse.
Like if you say, hey, I'm against birth control. Oh, you're like the Catholics. That's what they say.
Or, well, I wear pants. Oh, well, you're like this Joel Osteen because he wears pants too.
I mean, that logic doesn't make any sense.
Right.
Hey, God bless you. Thanks for your call. I'm going to get to somebody else, but thanks for calling in.
Okay, cool.
God bless. Bye.
All right. The number is 480-758-4348.
What have we got here coming in? Let's check out this little text feed.
Or let's not because somebody's calling in.
All right, this is from Florida.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How you doing?
Hey, how you doing, Pastor Anderson?
I'm doing great.
I'm watching the YouTube. Maybe there's a lag there.
Yeah.
I have two questions for you.
One would be where do I find, see, I live close to an independent fundamentalist Baptist church, but they're pre-trib. Okay.
I mean, where do I draw the line and say, okay, well, I can't attend this church?
Well, that's a great question.
I'm trying to find a church as close to yours as possible.
Yeah, that's a great question, you know.
But if you're trying to find a church that's not pre-trib, that's an independent fundamental Baptist church, you know, good luck with that.
Because unfortunately, the vast majority of independent fundamental Baptists have been deceived on this doctrine of the pre-trib rapture.
But honestly, that's not the most important doctrine where I would not go to a church just because of that doctrine.
Here are the three things that, for me, I would call these deal breakers.
Where these are the three things that must be there or I'm not going to attend the church.
Number one, salvation by faith alone.
Number two, some kind of soul winning, some kind of evangelism.
And number three would be, you know, that their King James Bible is all they're using, the King James Bible.
Even if they're not as strong on it, as long as that's all they're using.
So I guarantee, if you're living in the United States, you're going to be able to find multiple churches near you that will fit that criteria.
Unless you're just living out in the boonies.
But, you know, you're going to be able to find something that is King James, that's preaching the Gospel, that's doing some kind of outreach, some kind of soul winning.
Now, if you're living in a foreign country, you know, then kind of all bets are off because there are some pretty dark places spiritually in this world.
But as far as finding a church that's not pre-trib, on our website, kjvprophecy.com, we have a directory of some churches that are not pre-trib, that are post-trib, pre-wrath, that are independent, fundamental, soul winning Baptist churches.
But unfortunately, I think there are only like eight or ten churches on the list.
And there are more than that out there.
It's just I don't know about all of them.
So, it'd be nice if people could contact me and let me know if they know of an independent fundamental Baptist church that believes post-trib, pre-wrath, so that we could get that list on kjvprophecy.com to be a little bit longer.
Now, Austin, my second question is the last one. Where do you recommend I buy my KJV?
Because I know that there's a couple of KJVs out there that don't capitalize, yes, in spirit that, you know, they'll substitute singular heaven for heavens in Genesis 1.
Where do you recommend I buy my KJV?
Well, first of all, you know, as far as the capitalizing spirit or not capitalizing, I believe that that's a non-issue.
All different editions of the King James are going to have different things capitalized or not capitalized.
And, you know, God told us it's every word that's inspired. It's every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
I don't really care about capitalization because the word is a spoken word.
And even before it was written down, it was spoken.
So, I don't get hung up on things like capitalizations and spelling.
Now, changing heaven to heavens in Genesis 1-1 is a problem.
But the only time I've ever seen a King James do that, you know, I don't know, maybe one of these like new Scofield Bibles where they change words.
But if it says heavens in Genesis 1-1, it's not even a King James. I've never seen a King James that did that.
But the ones that are published by Nelson, I've seen a couple of them.
Really? Wow. Well, that's news to me. I believe you. I mean, that's not good.
So, I know that on framingtheworld.com, Paul Wittenberger is selling my favorite Bible, which is a blue hardback Bible.
And it's called the Drill Edition. And the reason I love this Bible, it's only like 12 bucks or whatever.
And the reason I love this Bible is because it just has no frills, no notes, no cross-referencing.
It's just the Word of God. And I don't like study Bibles and I don't like all the headings and telling me what the chapter is about.
You know, I'll read it and figure out what it's about.
So, I really like that hardbound blue Bible that Paul sells on framingtheworld.com.
He also sells a pretty cool waterproof Bible.
But other than that, what I do, if I'm buying a King James Bible, if I walk into Barnes and Noble or whatever and buy a Bible,
I just usually look up 2 Timothy 3.17 and I know it's supposed to look a certain way.
And it's supposed to say, you know, that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
And if it says, throughly furnished unto all good works in 2 Timothy, I think it's 3.17, then I know, okay, this is the edition that I want.
So, if you just have a few tests for your Bible, if you want it to be, you know, a certain edition, you know, the 1769 edition,
which is the main KJV that's out there, then, you know, just give it a few tests when you're in the store.
Or, you know, buy the ones off Framing the World. Those are my personal favorite Bibles.
Cool. Thanks.
Yep. God bless you. Thanks for the call.
And, you know, great question about, you know, hey, I'm looking for a church.
Look, if you're looking for a church, the best website for finding a church is Google Military Get Saved.
I don't know why the website's called that, but it's called Military Get Saved.
And if you look up that website, Military Get Saved, it lists a ton of independent fundamental Baptist churches for each state.
And what I do is, again, I use the control F feature or the, you know, command F if you're on a Mac.
And I'll search the word soul, because if they have soul winning, usually it's a good church,
and they're going to be right on the gospel and everything else.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How you doing?
Hey, it's me again. I was just talking to you about Brian.
Yes.
Is it okay if I call again?
What in the world? Everybody should get first before you get seconds.
Make it quick.
Is that all right?
Well, don't do it again, but make it quick.
I don't know if it's going to be a quick answer for you, but it's a fairly quick question.
Okay.
So regarding your Daniel 70th week chart.
Yes.
I know you placed the Battle of Armageddon slightly before the very end on the 1290 page.
The abomination is set up, you know, which is the very last day of the chart.
You actually have Armageddon about a month before that.
And I was just wondering if you could justify, you know, why you have it there and not the very end of the 70th week.
All right. Thanks for the call. Have a good one. God bless.
I'll answer it off the air so that we can give somebody else a chance to call in.
But basically, how can I justify having Armageddon there?
You know, I'd have to look at the chart.
I don't think I intended to put it like exactly 30 days before.
I think I'm just saying that it takes place in that last month.
I don't think I was trying to be that exact with it.
But I would have to look at the chart and get back into it.
To be honest with you, I've kind of taken a break from it because, you know, doing that Revelation series was a real bear.
It was pretty intense.
And so I kind of got burned out on the subject of Bible prophecy.
So I haven't really been intensely studying it lately.
But I do believe that the Battle of Armageddon happens at the very end.
And it's definitely going to happen during that last month.
But I don't think that my intent was to pinpoint it exactly 30 days before.
So maybe the chart is just not, you know, a perfect chart.
But that's the best answer I could give to that question.
Again, looking for you to call in.
480-758-4348 is the number to call in and ask your questions.
Let me look at the ticker here.
Baptist Todd is asking, can anyone do a baptism, for example, for their own family?
You know, I don't believe that anyone should do baptisms.
In my opinion, I personally believe that it should be pastors and deacons that are doing the baptisms.
Because that's what we see in the Bible.
Our pastors and deacons baptize people. Or the apostles, of course.
So apostles, pastors, deacons.
I don't really see examples of just anybody baptizing.
For example, the apostle Paul.
Alright, let's answer this question.
From Florida.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Hey, Pastor Anderson.
Hey, this is Chad. I'm from Florida.
I was going to ask you about dispensationalists.
It's like super popular today.
But I totally disagree with it.
But I was just wondering whether you think they're saved or not.
Or like, I don't know.
Yeah, you know, here's the thing.
They believe in like multiple gospels.
Yeah, there are people who are dispensational and then there are people that are like hyper dispensational.
Now, just to be clear, I don't believe in any dispensationalism.
I'm against all of it.
I think the whole thing is a fraud.
But I will say this.
People who are hyper dispensationalists where they're saying that Jesus and Paul preach two different gospels
and people are saved a different way during Jesus' ministry than after.
You know, it was by works back then and now it's by faith and then it's going to be by works again.
I do not believe that those people are saved.
For example, Sam Gipp is not saved.
I don't have any doubt about that.
He's preaching a false gospel.
And these people who are saying that Paul and Jesus preach two different gospels are not saved.
But here's the thing, the vast majority of dispensationalists don't believe that.
Right, they're just blind, you know.
Yeah, they just get sucked into parts of dispensationalism.
But honestly, the vast majority of people who believe in dispensationalism that are independent fundamental Baptists
do not believe in multiple gospels.
And I believe that they can, of course, they're saved as long as they believe salvation is by faith
and that we have eternal security and so forth.
And so, yeah, I believe dispensationalists are saved.
But not these hardcore dispensationalists like Sam Gipp and people like that that are saying,
hey, three different gospels.
No, that's too weird.
You're accursed if you're preaching other gospels.
Yeah, like people get not preaching it.
I mean, if you're out there preaching it, you obviously believe what you're preaching.
So, I mean, you know, if they're preaching multiple gospels, they don't believe there's one gospel.
Exactly.
And, you know, Sam Gipp says plenty of other things to prove that he's not saved.
Because, you know, I think that the best evidence of whether someone is saved or not is whether or not they understand the Bible.
Because the Bible is a spiritually discerned book.
And the natural man received not the things of the Spirit of God.
They're foolishness unto him, neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned.
So when you see somebody who is just constantly corrupting what the Bible teaches
and just constantly misunderstanding every page,
then that tells you that that person is not saved.
Because if they had the Holy Spirit living inside of them, he would be guiding them into all truth.
Hey, thanks for the call. God bless you. Have a good one.
All right.
Waiting for the next call.
480-758-4348.
Somebody asked a question on here.
I'm looking at the ticker. Let's see here.
Do you still work out?
Yes, I do still work out.
I actually work out almost compulsively.
You know, I lift weights constantly, run constantly.
And part of the reason why I do that is just for the psychological benefit.
Because I have a really stressful job sometimes and I get stressed out and frustrated.
And so lifting weights and running actually just makes me feel a lot better.
And it helps me to keep an even feel mentally.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Hey, good. Thanks for taking my call.
No problem.
Hey, can you hear me okay?
Yes, sir. You sound great.
Hey, I don't have a really profound question.
My question basically is just what kind of video equipment are you using?
How are you doing the live streaming video chat assignments?
Yeah, basically we have just a basic HD camera.
Ours happens to be by Canon.
And really all you need to do for the live streaming is you just have to have an HDMI output on your camera.
And then basically you run the HDMI cable from the camera to a device called the Intensity Extreme.
So this is the product that I use because it's for Mac.
And so the Intensity Extreme hooks up to an HDMI cable that goes to the camera.
And then there's a software called Wirecast.
And then that interfaces with YouTube.
But the main thing with the live streaming that makes it difficult is that you have to have a really fast internet connection to do HD.
And you also have to have a fast computer.
And basically does that answer your question about what kind of equipment I'm using?
Yeah, is the HDMI output actually going to a computer?
Yeah, well the HDMI output, which most video cameras have an HDMI output nowadays.
The HDMI output goes into the Intensity Extreme.
And then the Intensity Extreme has a Thunderbolt connection which goes into the Mac.
But there is a PC version of this that communicates through USB or some other method.
So yeah, you have to have that video capture card of the Intensity Extreme in order to bring it into your Wirecast for YouTube software.
But it's complicated and it took me several days to get it set up and get it figured out.
But now that we have it set up, it's working great.
And then for the sound, the way to make it sound good is you have to use a portable, like a little wireless mic like this.
I use the Sennheiser EW100G3.
So this little wireless mic, and then you have to have a camera that takes a mic input.
So that you can have the sound going directly into the camera.
Because obviously the camera's internal microphone isn't going to sound as good as when you're wearing a lapel mic like this.
And when you have the little Sennheiser.
So this thing, you know, costs like $600 or $700 for this setup.
But honestly it's the most important part of the system because, you know, the sound is critical.
And what mic you're using actually determines the sound quality a lot more than what camera you're using or what software you're using.
It's all about what microphone you're using.
Alright, yeah. Everything looks and sounds great.
Alright, well thanks. I appreciate it.
And it, you know, I'm glad I could explain that to you because I hope that, you know, other pastors and churches can benefit from this information.
As far as, you know, how to stream their sermons, how to improve sound quality, how to get their sermons online.
Alright, we got another call coming in from Florida.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How you doing?
Very good. I have a question for you.
How would a person that's qualified to be a pastor that belongs to an independent, fundamental, pre-trip, dispensational Baptist church go about becoming ordained to start a church when the church he's attending, you know, believes in Bible college?
Well, that's a great question. I touched on it a little bit toward the beginning of this broadcast.
But basically, you know, if your church is refusing to train you because, you know, they're trying to send you to Bible college, you know, I would say don't go to Bible college.
You know, you just need to find a different church that will train you.
And if you're willing to move to go to Bible college, then you might as well just move to go to a different church that's going to train you for the ministry.
But, you know, going to Bible college is a bad idea and you're going to get corrupted there if you go there.
Well, there certainly is a need for churches out there preaching the truth and just wanted to tell you I appreciate all you've done.
Hey, God bless you. I appreciate it. Thanks for the call.
Thanks.
Yeah, unfortunately, you know, pastors are telling their people, hey, you know, if you want to go to the ministry, you got to go to Bible college and, you know, they send them to, you know, Golden Calf Baptist College or Clown College or whatever.
All right, we got a call coming in from Arkansas.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
I'm doing fine. How are you?
Great.
I have a question about divorce.
Okay.
I am divorced and remarried.
Okay.
And I did divorce my husband because of adultery, but that does not mean that I was completely innocent in the things that I did.
I know the Bible says that remarriage, that you're causing someone else to commit adultery. Am I committing forever adultery by being remarried?
No, I do not believe that you're in a continual state of adultery. I think that it was you committed sin when you got remarried, you know, that was committing adultery by marrying someone else.
But, you know, now that you're married, now that you've made a vow to that person, you're supposed to keep that vow.
And the Bible is really clear over and over again just about how serious it is when we make a vow that we must keep that vow.
And there were a lot of people in the Bible who made some crazy vows and kept their vows because it was just so clear to them that, you know, God demands that we keep our vows.
So, excuse me, when you married your second husband, you know, you made a vow to be his wife, to have and to hold till death do us part, and you have to keep that vow and stay true to him.
And I do not believe that you're in a continual state of adultery. There are people that will teach that, oh, you know, you need to go back to your first husband.
But that is a lie because, honestly, the Bible says that if you've been remarried, it's an abomination to go back to your first husband.
I believe that's Deuteronomy 24 verse 4. So, you know, you're never supposed to go back to your first husband after you've been remarried.
But obviously, people who've been divorced and they've not yet been remarried, they're supposed to reconcile with their first spouse and go back to their first husband, of course.
But once you get married a second time, you know, you have to just stick with who you're married to now. Does that answer your question?
It does. And I want to tell you thank you so much because I truly do not think my husband or I either, one, were saved before we started listening to you.
I was saved as a little girl, but I don't think I truly knew what that meant.
And I'm truly, truly thankful the Lord sent you to us because we listened to you about, we watched your After the Tribulation video and your New World Order Bible videos, and we started listening to you continuously.
The Word of God opened up to us as never before. The meaning behind everything, it's just a whole new world, and I'm thankful for you.
Well, I appreciate you saying that. Thank you so much. God bless you and thanks for the call.
Thank you.
Yeah, you know, a lot of people, because I preach really hard against divorce and preach hard that, you know, if you divorce your spouse and marry someone else, you're committing adultery.
Or if you marry someone who's divorced, you're committing adultery. You know, they miss the point that I've made many times that, you know, if that's your story, if you've done that in the past,
then you just need to confess it as a sin to God one time. Just admit it to God. It was a sin. I was wrong. I'm sorry. And then you move on.
And there could still be obviously consequences in your life and chastening that God's going to bring, but there's no point in dwelling on the past because the Bible says we should forget those things which are behind and reach forth unto those things which are before.
All right, we got a call coming in from Wisconsin.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
You are very hard to get a hold of, I'll tell you what. This is Paul Kaiser from Wisconsin, and I told you on Facebook that I have some stumpers for you, but first I got a question I really want answered.
Okay.
And I have to do Hebrews chapter 6 verses 4 through 6.
Okay.
I've heard your explanation of it on previous videos you've done on YouTube.
Right.
But then just recently I heard Pastor Donny Romero's explanation on his Hebrew 6 sermon, and it differs from yours. Are you aware of the difference?
Well, you know, it's funny because somebody else already brought that up to me about how Pastor Romero had preached that, and what you have to understand is that, you know, Brother Romero was trained at our church and we love Brother Romero,
and I think that that is by far the best church in the area if you're in Fort Worth, Texas. You know, Steadfast Baptist Church is the place to go.
But here's the thing, we're independent Baptists and, you know, we're not a cult where basically, you know, we all just follow one person and whatever they say we're going to go with.
And so it's perfectly normal and it's perfectly fine that, you know, Pastor Roger Jimenez, Pastor David Berzins, or Pastor Donny Romero, although they were trained by me, are going to have different interpretations of various passages.
Now obviously I'm writing there wrong, but I'm just kidding. But anyway, obviously I believe I'm right or I wouldn't have the position that I have, but it's okay if they believe things a little different.
But, you know, my interpretation is right. I don't know what else to tell you.
Would you be able to maybe expound on why his position is wrong?
Well, I don't want to talk negative about his position because, you know, first of all, you know, if you hear me attacking preachers or criticizing people, it's going to be people that are bad preachers, that are ungodly preachers, or that are in serious error and serious sin.
You know, the fact that he has a slightly different interpretation of Hebrews 6 than I do, at the end of the day, he and I both believe the same thing.
He and I both believe that you can't lose your salvation, you know, that you're eternally saved. That's what matters.
And at the end of the day, he and I both believe that there are people out there who are reprobates and cannot be saved.
Okay. So, you know, as far as how he interprets Hebrew 6, first of all, I haven't even heard his sermon because I heard somebody mentioned that to me secondhand, you know, but so I don't even know exactly what it is that he said.
I'm sure he didn't say anything bad or crazy. You know, it's just, you know, it just sounded like he just had a different explanation of it.
Yeah, it just, I don't know, it sounded more correct, I guess. Not that there's anything wrong with either of them, I don't think.
You know, you got to believe one way or the other.
If you believe Pastor Romero's interpretation is better or more accurate than mine, then I have no problem with that whatsoever. Great.
You know, and I'll listen to what he has to say and, you know, that's fine with me.
You know, my interpretation of Hebrew 6 is that it's talking about people that are not saved and that just because they were enlightened, you know, I believe that being enlightened and having tasted of the gift doesn't mean that you've received the gift.
It doesn't mean that you're saved. Enlightenment means that you understand.
And I think it's referring to a person who comes to a point where they fully understand the Gospel and then they reject it, then basically it's too late for them at that point.
You know, I talked to my wife and I gave the Gospel to my wife about 20 times literally before she got saved. This is before she was my wife, of course. I didn't marry an unbeliever.
But I gave the Gospel to my wife over and over and over and over again and she didn't get saved, didn't get saved, didn't get saved.
And then she finally got saved and she will even tell you to this day that she never really fully understood the Gospel until she got saved.
And once she understood it, then she got saved. So, you know, I think that a lot of times when people hear the Gospel, they don't quite understand it.
But when a person, you know, fully understands it and they're right there and they have that choice, a lot of times people make their final choice and say no.
And the reason I think it's about reprobates too is it also uses the word rejected, which is synonymous with reprobate.
It says, you know, that which bear thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned.
And also the teaching of bearing thorns and briars is something that is associated with reprobates in other chapters.
Because in Jude and in 2 Peter chapter 2 and in Matthew 7, false prophets and reprobates are characterized as trees bringing forth bad fruit.
They're bringing forth thorns and thistles and briars and so forth.
So I believe that start to finish that passage is referring to people who are unsaved who become a reprobate, okay?
Now, I've heard other interpretations. Pastor Romero has a different interpretation. That's no problem. That's fine.
Alright. Well, you're giving me a lot to think about. I'm going to have to go back and reread again.
Thank you for answering the question. I got more, but other people get their first before I take a second, I guess.
Yep. God bless you. Thanks for the call.
Alright. So, yeah, you know, it's a great point to make just that we're independent Baptists.
And if you go to, you know, Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, California, if you go to Word of Truth Baptist in Prescott Valley, Arizona,
things aren't going to be exactly the same, but that's okay. We're all different.
You know, we all believe the Bible. We're all, you know, believe right on 99% of things.
And so, you know, we're all wrong on things.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How you doing?
Good. How are you?
Great.
Yeah, this is Alex from New York.
What's up, Alex?
Well, first of all, I want to tell you this is pretty cool.
And I like what you do. And I do have some out-of-the-box questions for you, though.
Okay.
Well, I kind of come from the truth movement as far as my thinking goes, but I am born again.
And it happened last year. And I do appreciate your videos and, you know, I believe they're speaking the truth.
But regarding the truth movement, your affiliation with Alex Jones and Paul Wittenberger, like, there's a lot of controversy around those two as far as, you know, and I understand coming from...
So, hey, real quickly, just so that we can have time to get to other people, can you just bring up exactly which controversies regarding Alex and Paul you're referring to?
Well, I would just say, like, you know, some of the interviews that Alex has done with David Icke and some of the new age guru type people, just like, do you think, to sum it all up, do you think Alex Jones is saved?
I personally do not think that Alex Jones is saved. But I do think that Alex is a sincere guy and I do believe that, you know, he is not some kind of a, you know, government operative or, you know, that he's some Jesuit implant or whatever.
You know, I don't believe in stuff like that about Alex because, you know, I met him one time when I went down there and basically he was exactly the same off the air as he is on the air.
And I will say this, that when I toured the operation down there at InfoWars in Austin, Texas, and I got to meet all of his employees and talk to them, his employees are great people and many of them are saved Bible-believing Christians that attend local churches in Austin.
And honestly, all of the people that I met down at InfoWars were all really nice people and there were no fags or anything. Everybody was a nice, normal, you know, person.
I can appreciate that. Definitely appreciate that. I understand, you know, there's different people, but he's really the head of the organization and, you know, that's kind of, you know, that's the way I look at it.
It's kind of a weird, I understand you're reaching, you may have a much bigger audience that way. Just to move on to some of my other questions.
I only want to take one question from each person, but let me just finish answering you about, is it quick?
It's kind of more humorous. What's your take on aliens?
Yeah, well I don't believe in aliens. But anyway, that was a quick answer.
What's your take on the phenomena?
The UFO phenomena? You know, I don't know. It could be the government, testing, technology. It could be demonic. I don't really know. I'm not an expert on that, so I'm not a good person to answer that question.
But hey, thanks for the call. I'm going to answer the rest of your question about Alex Oftier. God bless you.
Alright, God bless you too.
Alright, so I guess Oftier is the wrong word. I'm new to this, okay? Basically I mean that I'm going to, he's going to get the answer off the air.
But anyway, when it comes to Alex Jones, I'm not affiliated with Alex Jones in the sense that, you know, Alex isn't going to come and stand behind my pulpit and preach to my church.
You know, basically the fact that Alex is promoting the films After the Tribulation and the Book of Revelation is great.
I mean, it's a blessing that he's promoting the films because it gets him out to a huge audience.
And honestly, I think that Alex is great as a, you know, political commentator. I think he's great at exposing the Federal Reserve and exposing a lot of the things that are going on with the conspiracy to create a global government.
I wouldn't look to him as a spiritual leader though. You know, I don't think that he, you know, believes the Bible is the Word of God.
Because, you know, he'll talk about things like evolution and he'll talk about the species and just he'll say things where it doesn't seem like he really believes the Bible.
And I don't know his heart, but you know, is he saved? I don't know if he's saved or not. He claims to be a Christian. He claims to be saved. He might be. I personally don't think he is.
I don't appreciate David Icke. I even saw an old video where Alex is really slamming David Icke for being a weirdo.
Because David Icke is a weirdo and he's also an Antichrist and a very wicked person. And so I don't know why Alex has people like David Icke on the show.
But here's the thing. I don't just go on the Alex Jones show. I'll go on ABC News. I've gone on CNN.
So, you know, what do I think about Alex Jones? I think that he's a legit, sincere guy and when it comes to, you know, politics and when it comes to exposing the conspiracies, when it comes to exposing 9-11,
you know, I think that his film 9-11 Road to Tyranny is a great film. And I like a lot of his films.
But I don't look at him as a spiritual leader. I wouldn't go to him for something spiritual.
You know, for me, he's just more of a political, you know, conspiracy type of a guy and I think he's good at that.
And, you know, back, I haven't listened to his show in years but I used to listen to his show sometimes when I was on long drives and, you know, I found his show to be entertaining.
So, hey, oh, I got a call coming in from Arizona. Better take this one.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson.
Okay, quick question. The first appearance of the word image in the Bible is where God's saying, let us make man in our image.
During your Revelation series, you said that the image is possibly some kind of projection.
I just thought you might have some comments on the idea that if you read Revelation, he said he made the image like unto the beast.
We know that the beast is a man. We know that the devil is the great counterfeiter. He counterfeits everything God does.
God created man in his image. So I would suggest that perhaps the image of the beast is like unto a man who suggests some kind of advanced geminoid, android, whatever you want to call it. Thank you.
Yeah, thanks for the call and that is possible. I, you know, I don't think we know exactly what the image of the beast is but, you know, I think that your theory is legitimate and it could be possible.
My wife wants me, my wife texted me and she wants me to answer the question by the, she says the idiot who thinks that I'm lying when I say that it costs $4,000 to set up the live streaming of the sermons.
Well, you know what? He said, well, all you need is a computer and a camera. Well, anybody who says that all you need is a computer and a camera to live stream the sermons doesn't know what they're talking about.
Because if you're going to stream at a really low quality and have all kinds of glitches and have bad picture and bad sound, then yeah, all you need is a computer and a camera and an internet connection.
But we're streaming in HD 1080p. Now if you're looking at it and it's not crystal clear, you might need to push that little gear button at the bottom right of the YouTube box.
There's a little gear and if you click on that and then you choose 1080p, then it will become crystal clear.
Now this camera that I'm on right now is only a 720p camera but the sermons are in 1080p.
Well, in order to do it, we had to have a really fast computer. And in fact, right now as I'm streaming, I have a little monitor pulled up on the computer screen that says that right now my CPU is using 90% of its capacity right now.
It's fluctuating between 89 and 91. When that number hits 100, this computer will crash or this software will crash.
So we had to spend thousands of dollars to upgrade our computer and then we had to buy the Intensity Extreme for 300 bucks for the Intensity Extreme.
Even the HDMI cable, just the cable that's a 100 foot cable from the camera to the computer was like 140 bucks just for the cable.
At the same time, you get all the little connectors and cables and you upgrade the computer and you upgrade the video capture device and you're paying for internet every month.
I mean, it's thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars really fast.
So if this guy thinks that you can just for free just stream 1080p live, he's sorely mistaken.
It's very complicated and costs many thousands of dollars. It costs way more than $4,000, everything put together.
Alright, from Ontario. Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. Are you from Ontario, Canada or Ontario, California?
Canada.
Alright, how are you doing? What's your question?
Hey, are we still live?
You're live. You're on right now. What's happening?
Okay, yeah, I just have a question regarding, is it about the sodomite? Can you explain to me Matthew 11, 23, and 24 for me, please?
Yeah, sure. Matthew 11, 23, and 24. I'm going to go ahead and turn there so that I can read it out loud for everybody so that everybody knows exactly what we're talking about here.
Matthew 11, 23, and 24, the Bible says,
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell.
For if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.
Now, first of all, let me deal with verse 24. First of all, he says it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than it will be for the land of Capernaum.
The simple reason for that is because the Bible is really clear that how serious people's judgment is when they are brought before the great white throne and cast into the lake of fire,
how serious their punishment is, is based upon what they knew. Because the Bible says that the servant who knew his Lord's will and did it not shall be beaten with many stripes.
Whereas the servant who knew not his Lord's will and did it not shall be beaten with few stripes.
Now, that proves that ignorance is no excuse on judgment day because both are going to be punished, both are going to be cast into the lake of fire.
But people who knew the Gospel, people who had a clear presentation of the Gospel are going to be judged much more harshly than people that did not have as clear of a presentation of the Gospel because unto whom much is given of him shall much be required.
And the Bible says in verse 20 of Matthew 11, then began Jesus to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because they repented not.
So these are people that actually saw most of Jesus' mighty works, they heard great sermons, they saw the great miracles, so basically they're going to get the most serious possible judgment because they had every opportunity to be saved and they did not get saved.
So that's why even though Sodom committed these horrible abominations and filthy acts and violent acts, they're not going to be judged as harshly because they did not have Jesus show up and preach the Gospel to them and do the mighty works.
Now as far as verse 23 where it says, if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
I don't think that verse, and I know that's probably the one that you mainly wanted to ask about, I just wanted to mention that about verse 24.
But in verse 23, what he's basically saying here is that if the works would have been done in Sodom, they would have gotten right, it would have remained until this day.
I don't believe that that is saying that if the works would have been done the day before it was destroyed, that they would have repented.
I believe that at that point it was too late for them.
Because if you notice, if you read the story in Genesis 18 and 19, God never gives any hope for them.
He never says, hey, I'm going to send my angels down there to warn them that they need to get right, or hey, I'm going to send a preacher, hey Abraham, go down there and talk to them, or hey, I'm going to talk to Lot and see if he can give these people the Gospel.
He says that he's sending the angels just to see if it's as bad as he has heard, and just to see whether it's as wicked as the cry of it.
And he says if it is, he's going to destroy it, period.
Now you say, why would God need to send two people to figure out if it's that wicked?
Well, it's symbolic because in Deuteronomy he talks about that if there's a wicked city that goes into abominations or serves other gods, they were supposed to send two people and so forth, and so that was a parallel with the two angels.
But when it comes to whether they would have repented if someone would have done the mighty works, I believe he's talking about before it was too late.
It'd be like saying, hey, Barack Obama could have believed and gotten saved before it was too late for him.
So, for example, San Francisco is in many ways a modern day Sodom, right? A lot of homosexuality there.
But here's what you have to understand. San Francisco has not always been like that.
Obviously, San Francisco was not built by Sodomites. San Francisco was built by normal, straight men, many of whom were Christians.
And so San Francisco used to be a normal place, and obviously it slowly has degenerated and gotten worse and worse and worse to the point that we see San Francisco today where there are parts of it that are just a total cesspool of filth and sodomy and disgusting things.
So when God destroyed Sodom, it was because it was too late for Sodom. If it had not been too late for Sodom, he would not have destroyed it.
So he's not saying, oh, if somebody would have come in five minutes before it was destroyed and done these mighty works, they would have repented.
What he's saying is that if somebody would have come in earlier on before it was too late, those people would have repented because they, you know...
So they would not reprobate that time, then?
Yeah, exactly, before they all turned into a bunch of filthy reprobates. Because, you know, Sodom, even Sodom occurs in the Bible before it's destroyed.
You know, when Lot first moves down there, and if you remember, Lot gets kidnapped, and the king of Sodom is going to war with King Kedorlaomer, I believe it's in, what, chapter 13 and 14 is where we get that story.
And so, you know, I believe that he's saying that they would have repented, you know, before it got too late.
But that when God's actually destroying them and they're trying to rape the angels and rape Lot, at that point it was too late for them.
Okay.
So that's what I believe the interpretation is of Matthew 11 23. Hey, God bless you and thanks for the call.
Hey, thank you.
Alright, so we've been getting a lot of good questions, a lot of variety.
Jamie Richardson asked on a text, is it hard juggling life as a pastor and father of eight, and do I have any role in homeschooling or is that left to my wife?
Well, I'll be perfectly honest with you, my wife does 99% of the homeschooling. I spend lots of time with my children, but I don't do the homeschooling.
When I spend time with them, I'm usually playing with them, taking them to the park, taking them to the store.
I take them on hikes and things like that, so I don't participate in the homeschooling.
And honestly, it's not hard juggling life as a pastor and father of eight.
Now, when I was working my secular job doing fire alarms and pastoring and being a father of eight, that was hard.
But honestly, just pastoring and being a father of eight actually feels pretty easy right now in comparison.
So let me take this call from New Jersey.
Hello, Pastor Anderson, how you doing?
Hi, how are you?
Great.
I have a quick question. I've listened and watched the videos of your Revelation series over and over again.
I was just wondering if you could possibly just quickly tell me how you get the tribulation, the great tribulation, and God's wrath all in that seven-year period.
I'm kind of mixed up when you go over the numbers and everything. I'm wondering if maybe you can explain it in a way I can understand it now.
Well, you know, that's kind of a really broad question, and it would take like 22 hours to answer, so that's why we've got the 22-hour Revelation series.
But basically, when it comes to how it all fits into seven years, I don't really see a conflict because when you look at God's wrath being poured out,
He doesn't give us the exact timing of how long each of the trumpets and vials takes, except for He does tell us that the fifth trumpet is going to cover a period of five months.
So even if they were all about five months, then the math would add up and it would all fit in that second half.
And then as far as the events of the tribulation, the wars and the famines, the pestilence that's eventually going to lead us into a one-world government and a cashless society,
I think it could easily take place in that three and a half or so years.
Right.
That's too broad of a question, but I'm glad that you're watching the series, and I appreciate the call.
Have you watched the entire series?
Yeah, more than once. I'm not into commentaries and stuff anymore, but that series is the best I've ever heard on Revelation.
I've been post-trib for a long time, but you really got me thinking, and it's an excellent series, really excellent.
Well, I really appreciate you saying that. Obviously, I don't guarantee that I'm infallible or that I never make mistakes,
but I did put a lot, a lot of study and prayer into that series. I did memorize the whole book of Revelation,
and I went through it every single day for months, the entire book of Revelation, and I studied and studied and studied and prayed and prayed.
In fact, many things were revealed to me about Revelation during the making of that series and the study that I did
that were just some of just the greatest moments of Bible reading of my life, how things opened up to me.
And so I do believe that that series is 99% accurate, but no one's perfect.
And I appreciate you saying that you enjoyed it, and God bless you, and thanks for the call. Have a good one.
Thank you. Have a good night.
All right. Again, the phone number for those who are just tuning in is 480-758-4348.
By the way, don't try to call that number at any other time, because that number is just exclusively for this call-in.
All right, California. It looks like the Los Angeles area.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Hi, Pastor. This is Ashen.
How are you doing?
Good. I have a question for you.
I'm trying to put it to bed, this ridiculous theory about Sheol and Abraham's bosom, and in my, you know, how it's two different compartments.
Right, right.
You know, it's ridiculous. But basically, in my studies, I came along 1 Peter 3.18, verse 18 through 20, basically.
Right.
And my question for you is, who is Peter talking about when he refers to the spirits in prison, and why does he associate them with time with Noah?
Well, you know, that's one of the most complicated passages in the Bible. A lot of people, you know, struggle with that passage and are confused about it.
I think one key thing to understand is that if you read it, be sure to read it starting in verse 18 of 1 Peter 3.
But read all the way to, let's see, verse number 6 of chapter 4, because actually in 1 Peter 4.6, he goes back to the same subject.
Now, that's kind of a complicated question that would take a long time to adequately answer.
Let me point you to a sermon where I know for sure that I covered that subject. And that sermon is called Baptism and the Flood.
In fact, I'm going to pull up faithforwardbaptist.org right now and give you the date that it was preached just so that you can find it a little bit more easily.
Baptism and the Flood was preached on April 22, 2007 in the morning.
And I actually went into great detail going through this passage and explaining this difficult passage about, you know, the spirit preaching to Jesus Christ,
preaching in the spirit to those spirits that were in prison, which sometimes were disobedient when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
when the dark was a preparing, where as few that as eight souls were saved by water.
And then if you jump down to 1 Peter 4.6, it says, For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead,
that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
I'm going to give you a quick answer right now, but I want you to listen to my sermon called Baptism and the Flood from 2007 to get the full answer.
But the quick answer is that in 1 Peter 4.6, he's saying that the gospel is preached to them that are dead.
He's not saying that the gospel is being preached to people after they died, okay?
I think what he's saying is that the gospel is preached to them that are dead, meaning the people who died in the flood, okay?
Because it says that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
And that reminds me of 1 Corinthians 5, when that man was committing fornication, and they said,
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
And we have something similar here in 1 Peter 4.6, when it says, you know, they're judged according to men in the flesh,
but live according to God in the spirit. I believe that that's referring to people who died in the flood,
meaning that they drowned, but that they were saved. They still were saved as far as in the spirit, but they were physically judged.
And that the fact that Noah preached them the gospel was not in vain.
The gospel was preached unto those that died in the flood also because of the fact that they still got saved even though they didn't get on the ark.
And, you know, it's a complicated passage, but the reason I say that, and I go into a lot of detail in that sermon
where I prove it and cross reference it and everything, but the reason I say that is because I've heard preachers my whole life say that
Noah preached for 120 years and nobody got saved. And I do not believe that for one second.
Because of the fact that, you know, when you preach the gospel, people will get saved.
And the people usually who said that about how, you know, Noah preached for 120 years and nobody got saved,
usually they were trying to justify the fact that they were getting zero people saved.
And I believe that if you're getting zero people saved, you're doing something wrong.
Either you're not preaching the gospel or the gospel has lost its power.
Because he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
So if you're preaching the gospel, if you're doing the soul wedding, it might take a lot of work and a lot of people are going to reject it,
but you're going to get people saved. And so to teach that Noah preached the word of God for 120 years and nobody got saved is ridiculous.
Just because people didn't get on the ark physically doesn't mean that they weren't spiritually saved.
And there's a difference between being, you know, physically saved from drowning and being spiritually saved as in going to heaven.
Now the ark was symbolic of Jesus and being saved, but being on that ark did not get you to heaven
because one of the men on that ark was clearly not saved and that was Ham.
Because Ham was a homosexual, you know, because of what happened in Genesis chapter 9 when he gets off the ark.
Okay, he was obviously a wicked person. And plus Noah was told that only he was found righteous.
So God wasn't even looking at, okay, these eight people, I'm going to basically have the ark built to save these eight people.
It was actually Noah who was found righteous, not necessarily saying that all eight of his family were righteous.
Okay, but obviously he's going to put his whole family on the boat because he's the boss as every man should be the boss of his home.
Even though Ham was a wicked person. You know, if it was up to Ham, if Ham were doing his own thing on his own, he probably wouldn't have gotten on the ark.
I don't know. But the point is that there were many hundreds of thousands or even millions of people living on the earth when the flood came
and they all drowned, except eight people. But I don't think that that means that none of them were saved.
I think that it means that they just disobeyed God and didn't get on the boat because they didn't listen to Noah for whatever reason.
Look at it. It's usual with a lot of your sermons, so that does give me definitely some perspective on it.
It does raise some questions as far as why weren't the ones that were saved brought onto the ark?
If they were saved, was God just, maybe they weren't completely right in their lives?
Well, let me explain to you why. Let me explain to you why because here's the thing.
I'm saved, right? I'm going to heaven and no matter what I do, I'm still going to go to heaven. I can't lose my salvation. I have eternal life.
But what if I went out and started committing sin, you know, and I basically start, you know, obviously we all sin, but if I start committing big sins,
like let's say I become a bank robber or let's say I go out and commit adultery or I become a drunk or a drug addict,
God's going to physically punish me in this life and even could cause me to get killed.
I mean, I think that there have been a lot of people who disobey God on something and they end up being killed.
It doesn't mean they weren't saved. Even in the Bible, King Josiah was a very godly, righteous, saved man
and, you know, he wasn't supposed to go fight with Pharaoh, king of Egypt, but he disobeyed the word of the Lord
and he went and fought with the king of Egypt anyway and he ended up being killed as a result.
King Saul was killed in battle because of his disobedience to God. There was the man of God in 1 Corinthians,
I'm sorry, 1 Kings 13, who disobeyed God when God said don't eat bread in this place and don't go home the same way you came.
He disobeys the command. He eats bread and God sends a lion to tear him apart and kill him.
That guy was obviously saved. He was a prophet of God, but he disobeyed God. He got eaten by a lion.
Well, you know, just because somebody's saved, it doesn't mean they're going to obey everything God tells them to do.
And so just because somebody called upon the name of the Lord, you know, if they're backslidden and living a wicked life,
they might not have the guts to get on that ark. You know, they might want to just fit in with what people around them are doing
or, you know, they don't want to be made fun of or embarrassed or whatever.
You know, whatever reason they didn't get on the ark, they didn't take Noah seriously.
You know, they didn't like Noah, whatever. But the bottom line is only Noah got to go on the ark and his family.
And I don't think that that means that Noah was the only saved person on the planet.
I think he was just the one who was the righteous person on the planet.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that.
Yeah, no problem.
I also did read that book by, I think it's Floyd Nolan Jones on the Bible versions that you recommended. Great book.
Good. I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, that was, I think, which Bible would Jesus use by, what did you say the author's name is again?
I think it's Floyd Nolan Jones by which version is the Bible.
Yeah, that book has a lot of good stuff in it on the Bible issue.
Hey, thanks for the call. God bless you. And again, to get the long answer, listen to the sermon Baptism and the Flood where I want to do it in more detail.
Definitely will do. Thank you, Pastor.
Yep. Thank you. Bye.
All right. So we're live. The phone number is 480-758-4348. Give me a call and I'll answer your questions.
We got a call coming in from West Virginia.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How you doing?
Hey, Pastor. This is Mike Maludich in West Virginia.
Mike Maludich. How you doing? You're the first person that's called that I actually know in real life.
I'm doing great. Just wanted to tell you, we, me and my wife are listening to you and we love you and had a quick question for you.
Sure.
First Corinthians 1529. I was looking at that today and I was wondering if you could maybe point me in the right direction on what it means.
Yeah. Let me look it up. I don't know off the top of my head which verse is 29. So let me look it up here.
All right. It says, else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all?
Why are they then baptized for the dead? My belief on that verse is that he's pointing out the hypocrisy in people who are getting baptized for the dead and they don't even believe in the resurrection.
He's just saying that doesn't even make any sense why they would do that. I don't think he's obviously commanding us to be baptized for the dead because there's no other place in the whole Bible where he ever mentions anything that that's something we should do.
Now the Mormons, of course, take this verse and they perform baptisms for the dead which is silly to create a whole doctrine on a question.
And I always say that we should never base our doctrine on a question in the Bible. We should always base it on a statement in the Bible.
So you're saying there was a group of people baptizing for the dead at that time and he's kind of just using an ad hominem argument?
That's what I think he's doing. I think that there were people in Corinth that are baptizing for the dead and he's just pointing out how ridiculous it is.
The whole chapter he's just saying, well, if the dead rise not, then what about this? What about this? What about this? And then he just throws that out there.
What about these people who are baptizing for the dead? If they don't even believe that the dead even rise, then what is the point?
And just the fact that the Mormons baptized for the dead now and the Bible says there's nothing new under the sun, I would venture to guess that that doctrine has probably been around for thousands of years.
Satan is constantly just repackaging the same lies and they keep manifesting in different ways. So that's what I think is going on in that verse.
Did you have an alternate theory?
No, I just looked at it. I noticed it says, what shall they do? So it sounds like you're talking about a different group of people than themselves.
Right.
Because he didn't say what we do.
Yeah, that's a great point. So it kind of supports the fact that it's something that somebody else is doing.
But I wasn't real sure. I just wanted to hear what your view on it was. I appreciate it.
Great point. God bless you, my friend. Have a good one.
You too. Bye.
All right. Good to hear from Mike Milutich in West Virginia. He was just out here a few months ago, in fact, and we got another call coming in here.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Hello. Can you give us a quick insight? You might have seen a quick and a forthcoming release of yourself.
What about the intro? Thank you.
Hey, I'm sorry. I'm having trouble understanding you. A quick insight into what now?
Sorry, the forthcoming release of the new film, Marching Design.
Oh, Marching Design. Okay, great. Marching Design is probably not going to come out until February or March.
Unfortunately, we were trying to have it shipped by Hanukkah when you pre-order.
But not going to happen just because it's a big, long, difficult process to make these movies.
And it's probably looking more like February or March by the time it's going to come out.
But this movie is going to be awesome. I'm really excited about it. There's so much cool stuff in this movie.
And whenever I talk to people about the contents of the movie, people are always like, wow, I've never heard that. I didn't know that.
So I think this movie is going to be super interesting just because it's going to bring forth a lot of new information that people haven't even heard of or thought of.
Can you give us a sneak peek idea of what you think?
Some of the things that we're going to be covering?
Yeah, like a sneak peek.
Yeah, like a sneak peek. Well, you know, obviously, you know, a lot of the stuff in the sermon, The Jews and Their Lies,
and if anybody hasn't listened to the sermon, The Jews and Their Lies, parts one and two, that's probably one of the most important sermons that I've preached.
So I'd recommend it. But other than the stuff that's covered in The Jews and Their Lies sermon,
there's going to be a lot of interviews with these four rabbis that we talked to.
And they're going to be basically describing what their idea of the Messiah looks like.
And basically they describe exactly to a T who the Antichrist is.
And kind of like we mentioned in After the Tribulation that, hey, the Jews are looking for a Messiah and it's really the Antichrist,
you're going to hear that out of their own mouth where they talk about what the Messiah is going to be like and it sounds exactly like the Antichrist.
We're also going to go into the history of World War I and World War II about the forces that were behind the nation of Israel becoming a nation.
For example, one of the most famous things in the history of Israel becoming a nation is the Balfour Declaration from 1917.
And you'll hear people talk about the Balfour Declaration all day long.
And in any history book that has anything to do with Israel becoming a nation in 1948, it's going to talk about the Balfour Declaration.
But how many people know that it was written, it was a letter written from Lord Balfour to Nathan Rothschild.
That's the part that a lot of people don't know.
And so the Balfour Declaration was a personal letter written to Nathan Rothschild.
And Nathan Rothschild had a lot of his money behind the settlements in Palestine of Jews.
And so we're going to show all the evil forces that were at work in creating the fraud that is the modern nation of Israel,
such as the Rothschilds, such as the United Nations.
And even the United States' involvement in World War I was due to the machinations of the Zionist Jews.
They made a deal that said, hey, you know, we will get America, the Jews made a deal with, the Zionists that is,
they made a deal with the English that said, hey, we'll get America to come into World War I and win it for you if you'll give us Palestine.
And so in 1917 they got the United States to enter World War I and then they got the Balfour Declaration,
you know, giving Palestine as a homeland to the Jews.
So, you know, World War I was something that we never should have been involved in.
And in fact, President Wilson, when he was running for office, he ran on a ticket that said, you know,
vote for the guy that kept us out of the war.
And yet in 1917, you know, he brought us into World War I because of the Jews paying him off and so forth.
Yeah. I was just going to tell you, you once spoke about the supernatural experience you had there.
So I'll just say this and quickly, would you have any other supernatural experiences that you'd be willing to share?
Thank you for your time.
What supernatural experience?
You were talking to a guy as you left his house after witnessing to a gentleman.
He began screaming.
Oh, right, right, right.
Yeah, you know, supernatural experiences, you know, it's hard to actually know always what is supernatural and what's not.
But I've had a lot of stories that I could tell of people that I firmly believe were demon possessed.
And, you know, the story you're bringing up is one of them.
You know, I'm not going to sit here and run through them all right now,
but I've been talking about them a little bit in my sermons on the book of Mark
just because there's so much doctrine in the book of Mark about people being demon possessed.
And so, you know, I haven't really had many supernatural experiences, to be honest.
No worries. Thank you.
So, hey, God bless you. Thanks for the call.
But when he said supernatural experience, he's talking about a story that I told in a recent sermon about,
you know, just a really strange experience that we had out soul winning where a guy was demon possessed
and definitely had a lot of situations like that over the years.
Hello, it's Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Hey, Pastor Anderson.
The question I have is I live at home and so, like, would you consider it a sin if I was to, like,
travel to faithful or Baptist church in order to receive pastoral training
like without cleaving to my wife first?
Well, here's the thing about that. We've had single guys move out here to Faith Forward Baptist Church
because they wanted to be trained in the ministry. They wanted to go to our church and, you know,
get better at soul winning and just be around the atmosphere of our church because it's a great church.
And, you know, I always tell them all the same thing.
I always tell them that I believe that they should be home with their parents,
but, you know, I don't turn them away. If they want to come here and do that, it's fine with me
because they're, you know, hopefully their parents are okay with it.
If they end up moving out here, getting an apartment, living out here, whatever.
But I don't recommend that and I never have because I believe that, you know,
if you're a young single guy, the best place for you is to be living at home with your parents.
Now, first of all, I don't train anyone to pastor who's not married because,
Of course, yeah.
You know, I know that you already know that obviously you have to be married and have kids to pastor,
but I don't even start training people who are single and they're like,
well, yeah, but I'm going to get married and I'm going to have kids and I'm going to pastor, so train me.
I don't provide that training to people who aren't married.
The only guys that I'm training right now to pastor are people who are married
because anyone who's not married yet is so far away from being ready to pastor
that it's premature to start the training.
Now, the young single guys in our church, obviously they get training through going out,
soul winning, and we do have a preaching class that takes place every couple of weeks.
And every two weeks when we have the preaching class, you know, young guys, single guys, married guys,
even my son Solomon and Isaac, they've preached a few times even though they're only, you know,
11, 12, 13 years old.
And so, you know, the young guys in our church do get chances to preach
and they get the soul winning and they learn a lot by being here,
but I don't actually specifically train them for pastoring until somebody's married
and has at least one kid so that actually they're getting close to being ready to go out and do it.
Right. All right. I really appreciate that.
You know, everybody's got to make their own decisions.
I'm not the police, you know, I'm not like the family police who's going to tell you,
like, hey, you must live at home with your parents, you must do this, you must do that.
But you know what, that's what I teach and that's what I did.
I lived with my parents until I got married and I believe that we should leave father and mother in Cleveland to our wife.
And if you live on your own, you're opening yourself up to a lot of temptation, a lot of sin.
Yeah, of course.
Yep. Hey, God bless you. Thanks for the call.
Thank you.
Yeah, you know, these Bible colleges, they want to bring all the young singles,
but then the problem is then all the churches are empty of singles because all the singles go to Bible college.
And you know, getting married and having kids is the first step towards becoming a pastor.
Take that first step.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How you doing?
Good. How are you?
Great.
Just really wondering what hymn book you use at your church there.
Well, the hymn book we use, in fact, let me grab one for you here so I can actually show you.
Alright, the hymn book that I use is called Soul Stirring Songs and Hymns.
And it's published by the Sword of the Lord publishers.
And it's a great hymnal. It's not perfect.
There are definitely a lot of songs in here that I don't like, you know, especially like when you get into the section that's called The Second Coming.
You know, and basically it's a bunch of pre-trib songs.
But, you know, as far as the hymnals that are out there, this is the one that I like the best.
I grew up with this one and I think it's a good hymnal.
I stopped taking my wife and kids to Miss, you know, Mambi Pambi Fun Center Church.
So we were used to those rock concerts and you really helped us to open our eyes to see what was really going on around us.
So I really appreciate that.
And yeah, you know, it's just a good book. I like the songs you guys sing.
And other than that, my kids really like it when you start talking like a parrot.
So is there any way you can do that again?
What?
Yeah, I know. Well, I got to have something to parrot.
What is it that I usually parrot? I'm trying to remember.
Pre-trib. Pre-trib.
Yeah, something about the preacher, Brad, we're like, not appointed to rat. Not appointed to rat.
But, you know, the Soul Starring Songs and Hymns is a great book.
Every song that we sing at Faith Forward Baptist pretty much comes out of this book.
So if you like the songs that we sing, they're all in this book. It has like 450 songs in it or something like that.
And you can just Google the Sword of the Lord. And they sell these books for like 10 bucks each.
And I think it's great to have a hymnal in your home because it's great to just pull this off the shelf and just have a family singing time.
Sometimes we'll even take this on a drive and sing this in the car.
Yeah, definitely. We were listening to a lot of the modern Christian music, but then we listened to your sermon on that.
And so I started looking into the band members and I actually noticed that most of them get paid by the same companies that pay all the secular music.
So I found that really interesting and it really turned me off to that type of music altogether.
So I just want to say thanks for everything and I'm going to keep listening to you and we're going to keep learning. So thanks a lot.
Sounds good. God bless. Have a good one.
Thank you too.
Yeah, he's totally right about it being the same people who are putting out the secular rock music and the Christian contemporary.
Because if you look at a lot of these hymnals, it'll say Nashville at the bottom of every page.
Because it's coming out of that same industry in Nashville of the country western music.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Good. This is Brother Matt from Minnesota. Remember me?
Yeah, of course I do. How's it going, Matt?
Good. It's going really good. And on top of the news that I'm going to be back in Arizona in one month, I just want to ask you one question.
What is the best way to get a local pastor to get fired up about soul winning and about having a preaching class like you do at Faithful Word?
Well, you know, that's a tough question because I'll tell you what, when I was coming up in church, I would have loved to have a preaching class.
And they usually never had a preaching class. But as far as getting people fired up about soul winning or getting a pastor fired up about soul winning,
the best thing to do is to go out soul winning yourself and try to take a partner and try to take as many different partners in the church as you can, just invite people.
Hey, even if the church doesn't have a soul winning time, you could say, hey, you know, I'm going soul winning on Tuesday night. Can I take you out and show you the ropes?
And if you do that for a while, then, you know, you can approach the pastor and say, hey, this is something we've been doing. Can we make this official?
Can we announce this? Get other people involved? And, you know, it'd be great to start a soul winning program in your church.
But as far as starting the preaching class, I mean, all you can do is ask and he's either going to say yes or no.
Okay. Yeah, definitely. There's probably three or four young men that I know right from a local church here within our college that are really interested in that kind of stuff.
So we're definitely trying to get our pastor motivated into doing it.
Well, I think that maybe just show him how to do it for a little while, like as far as get out there and start knocking the doors just on your own, you know, even if it's not an official church soul winning time.
And then maybe even if you can get some visitors to come to church through soul winning, maybe he'll see that and realize that, you know, you guys are really, you know, making something happen.
Okay. Great. Yeah. I thought I wanted to ask that question live and a whole bunch of people would be able to hear it and would have some ideas for their own local church.
Yep. Definitely. Great question. See you when you're back here, Matt. God bless you.
Yep. Thanks. You too.
All right. Good to hear from Matt Boer. And let's see. Another call is already coming in. New Jersey. Hello, this is Pastor Anderson.
Hey, Pastor Anderson. I'm actually glad that a few callers ago that they were talking about Abraham's bosom and, you know, that, you know, garbage doctrine of paradise.
Because, you know, it's, I actually wanted to ask you about that and to clarify was the first year three at 20 and three 19.
But, um, you know, the more I think about it, because, you know, obviously it's such a garbage doctrine because.
Hello? Yeah, I'm here. I'm listening. Keep talking. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Why is it garbage?
But, well, because, you know, obviously, first of all, death in the Bible is always, you know, hell, first of all.
And just, you know, Jonah, the, you know, the book of Jonah, the sign of Jonah, you know, David talked about not leaving my soul in hell, you know, Acts 2, 227, 231 and onward.
But, you know, I have a few people to believe that in my church.
And, you know, it's almost kind of like when Jesus rebuked Peter for, you know, saying, you know, get behind Satan, you know, for saying that he's not going to die.
Because if, the more I think about it, you know, I know there's people in my church who believe this.
And, you know, would you agree that they're not even saved?
No, I would not agree with that because I think a lot of people are saved and they're mixed up on that doctrine, you know, because people have just been, people have just been taught wrong.
And it doesn't mean that they're not saved just because they're wrong on this or wrong on that.
Now, if somebody is just wrong on everything, then, you know, there's a good chance that they're not saved or they're not reading the Bible at all or whatever.
But I wouldn't say that somebody is not saved just because they're mixed up on that one doctrine.
Because in order to be saved, the Bible talks about believing the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ.
And, you know, the burial is referring to his body.
So when he says the death, burial, and resurrection, he's talking about...
What's death referring to? Is death now referring to dying and going to hell?
No, the death is referring to his physical death.
When it says you have to believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, it's referring to physical.
And the proof is that he uses the burial.
Because, you know, you don't bury a spirit.
You know, the burial is the body.
That's why none of the Jehovah's Witnesses are saved.
You know, obviously there's other reasons why they're not saved.
But no Jehovah's Witness can be saved because the Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus did not bodily rise again from the dead.
And it's the death, burial, and resurrection.
So that's the death of his body, the burial of his body, and the resurrection of his body.
It's a physical, literal, bodily resurrection that we have to believe in to be saved.
So if a person doesn't believe that Jesus went to hell for three days and three nights,
and let's say they think that he was in, you know, Abraham's bosom for three days and three nights or whatever,
I don't think that that means that they're not saved or that they don't believe the Gospel.
It's just, you know, they just were taught that and it's wrong. It's not true.
And if anybody who's listening...
Thanks for the call. God bless.
And if anybody who's listening thinks that, you know, Jesus didn't go to hell and, you know, that's heresy and whatever,
well, the bottom line is that in Acts 2.31 it says that he was in hell.
A lot of other scriptures too, but Acts 2.31, certainly.
And well, hell doesn't really mean hell.
Okay, well what else do you want to change in the Bible?
From Kansas. Hey, how you doing? It's Pastor Anderson.
Hi. I'm calling from Topeka, Kansas, and I just had a quick question about baptism.
I just recently went to go get baptized a couple months ago,
and I was turned down by the pastor because he had found out that a couple weeks before,
I'm actually in recovery and he found out that I had relapsed,
and he told me that Jesus straight up wasn't going to baptize me.
And I'm just wondering, I mean, is that scriptural? I told him it wasn't, you know, because,
you know, Philip told the Ethiopian eunuch that the only thing he needed was, you know, to believe.
Exactly. You took the words right out of my mouth. He said,
If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.
And so the only prerequisite to getting baptized is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, just to give you where he's coming from, and I believe he's wrong.
I believe that, you know, anyone who believes on Christ has a right to be baptized.
To give you the idea where he's coming from is that a lot of people will misinterpret
where John the Baptist said to the Pharisees when the Pharisees came to his baptism,
he told them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come,
bring forth therefore fruits, meat for repentance.
And they say, you know, hey, if we don't see the fruits of repentance in your life,
then we're not going to baptize you. But if you get the context,
John said that to the Pharisees because the Pharisees did not really believe.
They weren't even saved. We know over and over again Jesus Christ condemned them
as being unsaved and that they were going to hell.
So, you know, when they came to him to be baptized,
John didn't baptize them because they weren't saved.
And when he's saying bring forth fruits for repentance,
he's saying, you know, you need to basically show me some evidence
that you've actually even changed what you believe, that you even repented
because, you know, you guys believe in a false gospel, you know, you guys aren't saved.
So he was refusing to baptize the Pharisees because they weren't saved.
It wasn't because they were drinking or doing drugs or, you know, had long hair or whatever.
Right. And the funny thing is when I met with him prior to the supposed baptism,
I actually was going to show him that the King James Version was the true word of God
and he pulled out an NIV and I turned to that same scripture, Acts 837,
and he acted like it was a funny joke, like, oh, you want to see something neat?
They actually, like, try to find verse 37.
And, you know, I told him, I was like, that's absurd, you know, that you think that that's funny.
And it's funny how that is actually the verse that applies to the whole thing.
Yeah, the actual issue that you're dealing with.
Hey, thanks for the call. Great question. And God bless you. Have a good one.
Thank you. You too.
Yeah, so a lot of churches will withhold baptism if people are living a sinful life or whatever.
But honestly, people should get saved and then immediately baptized the same hour if possible.
And some churches will make you take a six-week class or something like that.
From Tennessee. Hey, it's Pastor Anderson. How you doing?
Hey, this is awesome I got through.
Yeah, God bless you. What's your question?
All right, I was listening to you on Sheila's Wednesday the other weekend.
On the weekend, or the week of vigilante.
You were giving some advice about, so and so's about people becoming their house churches,
and you were kind of correcting that saying people should stay in churches.
Absolutely. And I feel very strongly about that.
And this trend of people getting out of churches is actually something that was predicted in the Bible.
Because he said, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is,
but exhorting one another and so much the more as we see the day approaching.
So, Hebrews 10.25, because that verse is showing us that as the day is approaching,
people will forsake the assembly.
Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm a targeted individual.
I got kicked out of a big Baptist church down south in Memphis, excuse me, called Bellevue.
And I follow you, I love you, I sit underneath you any day.
Me and my wife watch your sermons.
What's your advice for people like me who are targeted individuals?
What does it mean to be a targeted individual? I don't know what that means.
You get on the list pretty much. I mean, if you just, if you YouTube it.
Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. Well, here's my advice to people that are, that got kicked out of their church or they're struggling.
No, no, no. I'm not, like, my brethren turned on me because I became a targeted individual.
And it's like, I'm chased around by the masons and the government.
Okay, well, I'm trying, I'm trying to answer you. You gotta, you gotta let me answer you without interrupting me.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
But anyway, what I'm saying is if you got kicked out of this big Baptist church, as you said,
and if you're looking for advice on what to do, the answer is very simple.
You need to just find another church.
And if you don't have a church in your area that you believe is a good church or a right church,
you know, you need to be trying a different church every single Sunday until you find one that's good.
And if you can't find a good one, then you just need to move somewhere else.
But honestly, you know, if you're in the United States, if you're in a major city,
you know, you should be able to find a decent church to go to.
And no church is going to be perfect, but again...
Well, the clergy response, I'm sorry to hide that.
Do you understand what I say when I say stuff like I'm gang stuck? Do you understand what I'm talking about?
Yes, I do, yeah.
Like, it's not just the church people doing it. There's clergy response.
People at different churches that do this who are just part of the team.
But it's like when it's very hard for me to...every church I try to go to with this,
they try to tell me to get on meds and all this other...
Well, but here's the thing though. You know, honestly, I got to let you go because we got to have time for other callers.
But honestly, the bottom line is not every church is going to kick you out and gang stalk you and be a part of the clergy response team.
Are there bad churches that have bad people in them?
Yeah, but sorry, not every church is corrupt and I get tired of hearing about how every single church is corrupt and all the churches are bad
and they're all working for FEMA and it's all clergy response. You know what?
There are plenty of good churches. You need to just get your butt in a good church.
My wife would love to visit your church if we were in Arizona.
Would you do me a favor and just research the topic a little bit and maybe speak on it one day if you look into it a little bit more?
Yeah, sure. No problem. God bless you. Have a good one.
God bless you.
Alright, so the number is 480-758-4348 to call in and ask a question.
We've been pretty much getting calls nonstop tonight, which is great.
Talking to a lot of different people, getting a lot of variety.
Nobody's calling right now. Now's a good time to call.
A little bit of a lull there.
But anyway, the question was asked via text,
what's the update with Bibles International suing Paul Wittenberger over the film New World Order Bible Versions?
They backed off from that right away.
As soon as we started putting up YouTube videos exposing all their lies and hypocrisy,
that went away really fast as a result of that.
Alright, we've got another call coming in from Los Angeles, California.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Alright, how are you doing Pastor?
Hey, I wanted to ask you about your film Marching to Zion.
Okay, specifically, what did you want to know about the film?
How did you get the four rabbis to participate?
Well, here's how I got the four rabbis to participate.
I got a list of every rabbi in Arizona, and I think I found 41 rabbis.
And I just figured, you know, if I contact enough rabbis, somebody's going to agree to do it.
And so I actually contacted all 41 of them.
And I told them that I was making a film about Judaism and the history of the nation of Israel, which is true.
And I gave them a whole list of questions, and those are the questions that I asked in the interview.
So they knew the question that they were being asked going in.
I told them it was going to be about Judaism and the nation of Israel,
but I didn't tell them whether it was going to be positive or negative.
Well, they just assume it's going to be positive because they assume that I'm going to be like,
you know, the rest of evangelical Christianity and bow down to the chosen ones and worship them and say how great they are.
So basically, you know, all four of them are going to hate this movie, of course, but it's the truth.
They're false prophets and they deserve to be exposed.
And I didn't lie to them. I mean, everything that I told them was the truth.
And whenever they asked me questions, I told them the truth.
Did you ever tell them you were going to try to sell it to PBS?
No, I didn't. Absolutely not. Is that what somebody is claiming?
Uh, yeah. Yeah, one of them is claiming that.
Well, guess what? Who is a liar but he did deny it that Jesus is the Christ?
He's anti-Christ who denied the father.
So basically, if somebody is lying and saying that Jesus isn't the Messiah,
it also does not surprise me that they would lie and say that I was selling the film to PBS.
Pastor, it's possible that you could be lying too, Pastor.
Ooh, it's possible that I could be lying too.
It's also possible that the Bible could be lying, but guess what?
The Bible is not lying and it's the Jews that are lying.
And so obviously this is somebody who is calling in trying to defend the anti-Christ Jews
and he'd rather listen to somebody who calls themselves a rabbi and spits on the name of Jesus Christ
and calls Jesus a bastard and his mother a whore.
And he thinks I'm lying because I supposedly claimed that I was selling the film to PBS?
No, I never said any such thing and the lying Jewish rabbi that told you that made it up.
Yes, Pastor Anderson, how you doing?
Hello. Oh, I'm sorry. I had your volume turned down.
I had to turn down the previous caller because he was defending anti-Christ Jewish rabbis and calling me a liar.
How you doing?
Not too bad. I just have a quick question about, I was wondering why the Apostle Paul was trying to keep the feast days in the book of Acts
and then once again in 1 Corinthians 16, 8. I'm just wondering what his motivation was behind that.
Yeah, that's a great question. Basically the Apostle Paul was completely wrong in the book of Acts
when he was keeping the feast days and shaving his head and doing the Nazarite thing.
Because if you actually look at that story, it talks about that they were going to do an animal sacrifice for the Nazarites
and that's all blasphemy and it's all stuff that Paul was against in Galatians and Colossians
and so that was Paul making a mistake. I've done a lot of sermons where I preached about that
especially when I went through the whole book of Acts chapter by chapter.
If you look up the sermons on those chapters, you can see where the Apostle Paul was in error
when he was trying to please man because if you look at the story, he's trying to please the Jews
and it didn't even work because when he goes down there and shaves his head and does the Nazarite thing
then he ends up getting arrested and everything and the Holy Ghost already had told him not to even go down to Jerusalem
and he went to Jerusalem anyway even though the Holy Ghost through the prophet Agabus told him not to go.
He went anyway. So Paul was in disobedience.
And then he finally threw up his arms at the end and said, okay, I...
Yeah, exactly. He threw up his arms at the end and said, forget it. I'm just going to go to the Gentiles
because the Jews have counted themselves unworthy of the Kingdom of God.
Exactly. Well, thank you for taking my call.
Yeah, thanks for calling. Great question. God bless you.
God bless you too.
Yeah, it's funny because a lot of people will point to that in the book of Acts
where the Apostle Paul goes down and does the Nazarite thing and they're going to do an animal sacrifice
and say, see, we're supposed to be doing this stuff.
But just because somebody did something in the Bible doesn't make it right.
You know, David had multiple wives. That doesn't mean we should have multiple wives.
You know, the Bible is filled with stories about sinners.
We should base it on the clear statements of the Bible from Chicago.
Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Pastor Anderson. I got through to you. This is awesome.
Good to talk to you. What's up?
Your line is super busy, buddy.
Hey, I was wondering if you could touch on the...
This is Keith Albert, by the way. I follow you exclusively.
But anyway, if you could touch on the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost.
Yeah.
Only unpardonable sin. What exactly is that?
Well, the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, if we just take a real strict interpretation of what the Bible says,
is broken down in Mark chapter 3.
In Mark chapter 3, when he describes them as having blasphemed the Holy Ghost,
it says in verse 30, because they said, he hath an unclean spirit.
So, according to the Bible, the Pharisees blasphemed the Holy Ghost by saying that Jesus had an unclean spirit.
So, you know, strictly speaking, that's what it means to blaspheme the Holy Ghost,
to say that Jesus was possessed with the devil.
So, the question is, is that something that someone could do today?
Or, you know, was it only people who were guilty of it at that time who could do it?
You know, I don't know for sure, but I know that there's this thing called the blasphemy challenge,
where young people will go on YouTube and upload videos of themselves blaspheming the Holy Ghost.
And I think it's very possible that God would take them up on it.
I got you. Okay.
Does that answer your question?
It does. Very clearly. I really appreciate it.
Alright, great. God bless. Have a good one.
Great talking to you.
You too. So, the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is the only unpardonable sin.
But, you know, the Bible also talks about other things where a person can get their heart hardened
or become a reprobate, like Revelation 22, they tamper with the Word, etc.
Alright, from Inland Empire, California.
Hey, this is Pastor Anderson. How are you doing?
Hello, Pastor Anderson. This is Adrian calling from Corona, California.
From Corona, California. How's it going?
Yeah, good, good. I have a quick question.
Ever since I started watching or listening to your sermons, I was using my CEP version Bible,
but after I saw the World Order Bibles, that's when I changed to the KJV.
Well, I told my parents now, because my parents were using the Spanish Reina Valera Bibles,
but I was curious which Spanish Bible is the closest to the KJV.
That's a great question. The closest to the KJV is going to be one of a few options,
because I don't know of any Spanish Bible version that's perfect,
but if you want to get one that's 99% like the King James,
as long as you have the old Reina Valera, which is often called the Reina Valera Antigua,
and the years that are associated with that would be either 1602, 1885, or 1909.
Basically, anything before 1960 is a legit Reina Valera Antigua.
They really corrupted it in 1960 and 1977, so the stuff before that is good to go,
but now there are some new editions of the Reina Valera that are coming out
that are even better than the Reina Valera Antigua.
For example, there's the Reina Valera Gomez, which came out in 2010,
which is even closer to the King James,
and then there's another one called the Reina Valera Purificada.
So, I've read several of these.
I've read the Spanish New Testament like five times cover to cover,
and I've read it in various different editions of the Reina Valera,
and I've found issues with all of them, to be honest.
In our church, we don't really demand that it uses any particular edition
for the Spanish soul winning or anything,
but we do reject the 1960 or the 1977.
But if people want to use the Antigua or if people want to use the Reina Valera Gomez
or the Reina Valera Purificada, we would accept that
because they're all real close to being the same and none of them is perfect, unfortunately.
But we put the movie After the Tribulation into Spanish,
and when we did, the version that we used is the Reina Valera Gomez 2010 edition
because I believe that that's the best one.
But I'm not a super-duper expert on Spanish.
I mean, I do speak Spanish, and I go soul winning and win people to the Lord in Spanish almost every week.
I would say 50% of the people that I win to Christ is in Spanish language.
So, I do a lot of soul winning in Spanish, and I know how to speak Spanish,
but I'm not an expert on the issue.
But to my knowledge, the Reina Valera Gomez 2010 edition is the best one.
Okay, and what about in Deutsch? Because my wife is German,
and I know there's an El survival and a Luther Bible,
and I'm saying the same thing, which one is the closest?
Because I've been looking online as well.
Well, in German, you've got the Luther Bible, the Schlachterbible, the Elbefelder,
and then all the modern corruptions and everything.
I think that the best one in German is the Schlachter 2000 edition.
Schlachter is a guy who translated the Bible into German. He's a Swiss guy.
And I think that the Schlachter Bible seems to be better than the Luther.
I've read the Martin Luther German Bible twice, cover to cover.
Once in the 1912 edition, once in the 1914 edition,
and the Bible that I read from, because I actually do read the Bible in German a lot,
lately especially, because I've been working on improving my German,
and I read the Schlachter translation, the Schlachter 2000.
Stay away from the Elbefelder, that one's bad.
Okay.
And look, there could be something else out there that I'm not familiar with,
because I don't live in Germany, because I know that I think there's a Martin Luther 1912 edition
that they corrected and improved, but I think that, to my knowledge,
the Schlachter 2000 is the best one, because honestly, the Martin Luther Bible is not a great translation.
First of all, Martin Luther did not believe in translating things literally,
and the King James is very literal translation.
Obviously, no translation is 100% literal, but the King James is very literal,
and Martin Luther would make fun of literal translation,
and he believed in more of a dynamic equivalence.
So if you read the Martin Luther Bible, it's a very loose translation.
In fact, he has a famous quote where he said,
I'm going to make Moses sound so German that no one will even suspect that he was a Jew.
That's just a famous quote that he made, just about how he really made the Bible sound German,
because he used dynamic equivalence and not literal translation.
So that's why the Martin Luther Bible is not the best translation,
even though it is coming from the Texas Receptus.
Right, that's what I read online.
Yeah, but he didn't translate it very literally. It's a very loose translation.
And the Schlachter Bible isn't perfect, but it's the best one that I've found.
Okay.
Hey, great questions. God bless you. Thanks for the call.
Thank you.
Alright, 480-758-4348.
These are a lot of great questions, and I appreciate people calling in and asking.
I get hundreds and hundreds of emails and voicemails,
and I apologize that I'm not able to answer them.
I'm very hard to get ahold of, and it's just because I'm busy.
I don't have a secretary.
I have to prioritize my life, and I have to give priority to the people
that actually go to the church here and to my family and to the work that I have to do.
And I wish I could answer every phone call and every email, but I can't.
So I'm hoping that this question and answer session will allow me
to just answer a lot of frequently asked questions,
where hopefully if one person's asking me,
there's probably a lot of other people who have the same question,
and everybody can get the answer that they're looking for,
which is a lot faster than me answering every email,
because a lot of people are asking the same questions.
So, alright, nobody's calling. What's going on?
Or is there a log jam down at T-Mobile? I don't know.
But in the meantime, let me pull out another question here.
CJ asks, what do you think about people that have had a near-death experience
where they say they went to heaven or hell? Are those real or not?
I think it's just out of people's imagination.
I think about soul winning, and somebody will bring that up to me and say,
oh, I almost died. I had this experience where I went to heaven or hell.
And you know what I say to them is I don't just make fun of them and say,
you're crazy, you're making this up.
I just say, well, you know what? If you almost died and came back,
or died and came back, then maybe God allowed you to keep living
so that I could be here today and give you the gospel,
and then I just go into the gospel with them.
So I try not to be just rude, because a lot of these people,
maybe they believe it was real.
Because a lot of times dreams and hallucinations and things can seem very real,
especially when you're in a traumatic situation and in a near-death experience.
So I'm not saying everybody's just lying or making it up,
but I am saying that I believe it's their imagination.
I don't believe that people go to heaven and come back or go to hell and come back.
Once you're there, you're there.
That's what I believe.
But then again, I don't really know what everybody's experiences are,
but the question was, what do I think?
And that's what I think.
That it's probably just people hallucinating or making things up.
And then why do you not think that a church needs a plurality of elders,
more than one elder?
I think that a church with less than two elders is wanting.
Well, listen to my sermon called Pastors Getting Paid,
and I explained it in that sermon that having multiple elders is great
and having multiple deacons is great,
but I believe that scripturally these people are full-time workers that are getting paid.
Anybody who listens to my sermon Pastors Getting Paid
and still thinks that pastors shouldn't be paid is crazy,
because I provided mountains of scriptural evidence in that sermon.
And so I would point people to that sermon to get that.
So how does that tie in with multiple elders or multiple pastors?
Well, it's pretty simple.
A church would have to be pretty big to be able to afford having multiple elders.
Now, my wife is telling me that my phone is messed up.
My phone is freaking out and people are not being able to get through anymore.
That's why the calls have stopped.
So I'm going to go ahead and just quickly reboot the phone,
and hopefully that's going to fix the problem.
So I'm just going to restart the phone.
It should only take a couple minutes to power back up.
And while that's happening, I'm just going to go through some of these textual questions.
More than one elder? More than one pastor? Yeah, great.
Can you afford to pay the salary of 12 pastors and 7 deacons?
Our church has only been supporting me full-time since January 1st of this year.
For the first four and a half years of pastoring Faith Forward Baptist Church,
I didn't get paid at all.
And then I just received a part-time salary for a few years while I was doing part-time my business,
part-time pastoring.
And I've only been a full-time pastor since January 1st of this year.
And part of that reason is simply because the church was not big enough to support me full-time.
And still be able to do all the other things that we want to do financially.
So, you know, they want to have all these pastors,
but the thing that doesn't make any sense about that is that they're not really a full-time pastor.
They're not even a full-time deacon.
And by the way, churches that have deacons, the deacons that churches have aren't even real deacons.
Because in the Bible, a real deacon was a full-time worker, a full-time guy,
that was taking care of the daily business of the church.
Nowadays, churches have deacons that are like an advisory board or a governing body.
That's not a biblical deacon. The word deacon means servant.
That's what the etymology of the word is.
And they're servants of the church and they work for the church and that's what they do full-time.
And the same thing with pastors.
So, everybody uses Paul as the example of a pastor who was working a secular job.
Guess what? Paul was never a pastor.
Paul was an apostle, but he was not a pastor.
He wasn't even married, didn't even have kids, so bad example.
John was an apostle, but he was a pastor of a church.
He called himself the elder.
Peter said that he was an elder.
John and Peter were married and had children
and they were full-time preachers of the gospel and that's all they did.
They did not have a secular job.
And in fact, Peter was specifically told not to go back to fishing
and that he was to preach full-time.
Alright, my wife's calling. I hope she realizes that if she gets through, she's going to be put on the air.
So, I don't know if she wants to be on the air, but now my phone is showing no service.
But I think that's just because it's still booting up.
So, let's bear with the phone for a second. I think it's going to be fine in a minute now that I rebooted it.
I think it's just a lot of calls are coming in, so it's causing it to freak out.
Another question is, you know, people are often asking,
hey, I'm looking for a church in this area, looking for a church in that area.
The website that has the most independent Baptist churches is Military Get Saved.
Just Google Military Get Saved and on that website,
you'll find a very long list of churches for each state.
And you can use the Ctrl-F feature or the Command-F feature
to search the page for whatever town you're looking for.
You can type in the city you live in or the surrounding cities.
But, you know, what I would rather do is I go to Military Get Saved,
I just search the word soul. S-O-U-L.
Because if I type in the word soul, it'll jump to all the churches that mention soul winning in their listing.
And I just look at all the soul and figure out, okay, where are all the soul winning churches in my state?
And obviously other churches are soul winning, but if they say soul winning, that's good.
All right, honey, you're on the air.
You're streaming live. Mute your television.
I haven't muted. Your phone is not working. I've called you like 30 times.
If my phone were not working, then we wouldn't be talking right now. I just rebooted it.
Well, I'm calling you direct though. I'm calling on the number that all the priests on the air do not get.
Okay, so you're not calling on the forwarding?
I'm not calling on the forwarding and it's not working.
Give the forwarding another shot.
Okay, so do you want me to call you again from the forwarding?
Love you.
All right, so let's look at this little ticker. I haven't been looking at this little chat thing that's on the side of the video.
It looks like there's a lot of crazy stuff going on here.
Somebody is really shocked that I said the deacons are full time workers with a bunch of question marks.
Well, you know, that's just because you're used to churches that are doing it wrong if you don't think that the deacons should be full time workers.
They're supposed to do that work all day. That's what they did.
Well, obviously they have to be paid and make a living.
Hey, did you call on the call-in line Zuzia?
Yeah, I did and it just says you're not able to make this call.
So, I think the forwarding freaked out about the call volume.
Okay, well I'm going to go ahead and deal with that then. Love you.
All right, love you.
Well, that stinks. It seems that our call forwarding isn't working right.
And no, I'm not going to give out my cell phone number because then I'll be getting these volume of calls 24 hours a day.
So, I'm forwarding it from our church line here.
So, I'm going to go ahead and un-forward it.
Okay, so I just un-forwarded it and now I'm going to re-forward and see if that fixes it.
All right, now I'm getting calls coming in but I've got to hang up on them.
No.
All right, I'm going to try to re-forward things.
This is a good time to get up and get something to drink, have something to eat.
We're taking a brief break here while I get my technical difficulties sorted out here.
All forwarding always service has been activated successfully. Thank you.
But I really can't complain because we went the first couple of hours without having any technical difficulty.
And we got all kinds of calls that came through just fine, so thank God for that.
And obviously with this technology it's never going to be perfect, but actually it's been working pretty good.
So, keep calling in. Give it another shot because I think I've got it fixed.
And it should be forwarding now.
If it's not working after I'm saying this right now, then tell me in the little ticker that it's not working.
And then we might just have to call it a night on this call in.
And hopefully my phone company hasn't just permanently banned me from call forwarding because there were so many calls that came in.
Hopefully next time it's going to work once again.
So let's see what's going on in the chat.
Okay, people are telling me they want me to look at the chat, but the problem is there's a lot of weird stuff on the chat.
And so it's hard for me to find the questions.
Alright, let's see here.
What is your take on thou shalt not touch the anointed?
Alright, that's the verse that says, touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.
God's anointed would be anyone who is saved because we've all been anointed with the Holy Spirit if we're saved.
And when he says touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm, I don't think that would refer to only pastors.
I think that would refer to anyone who is saved and who's preaching the Gospel even when you're out soul winning.
And so if you're out soul winning and somebody physically assaults you, they're going to be under that curse where God says touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.
A lot of people will hide behind it when you try to expose false prophets and bad preachers and bad pastors.
They'll say, hey, touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.
But an unsaved false prophet is not God's anointed and it's not God's prophet.
And so you're not violating that scripture by pointing out the wickedness and error of false preachers.
Alright, Pastor Anderson, how can the same hands that have sinned also do good if good and evil cannot come from the same source?
Well, you know, that's just a little bit of a metaphysical question. Why is the sky blue? How can these things be?
That's the way it is. I don't know what else to tell you.
What was the transition like from fire alarm business owner to full time pastor?
Well, I think that it was an easier transition because I eased into it.
Because first of all, I was working just full time, even over time.
You know, the first four and a half years, I would work seventy hours a week at my secular job in the fire alarm business.
And be pastoring and family and it was really hard and there's no way I could have sustained that for the rest of my life.
It was just a very difficult time in my life.
And then I was able to scale back my business to where I could do part time pastoring and part time of fire alarm business.
So I was able to ease into pastoring full time.
So ever since January 1st, I've been pastoring full time and it's allowed me to put a lot more time and effort into the things pertaining to the church.
And when people in the church need me, I can be there for them.
And the church is growing a lot and it's growing very quickly.
So it's very good that I'm no longer doing the fire alarm business, otherwise I don't think I'd be able to juggle everything that needs to be done.
But I'm enjoying it because my life is so much simpler now.
Just because at least I'm just focusing on one thing of church and not having to juggle so many different things and my life was just very confusing.
Alright, somebody says here, how do you rebuke an elder? I mean under what terms should you...
Oh no, the thing has disappeared, the question in the middle of me reading it.
How should you and how according to the Bible?
Well, here's the answer. How do you rebuke an elder? You don't.
Because the Bible says rebuke not an elder.
So that's an easy answer. The Bible says entreat him as a father.
So basically if you feel that your pastor is in error or needs to be corrected, then you need to just gently and kindly tell him that and talk to him respectfully.
I don't think there's anything wrong with going to your pastor and correcting him, but it needs to be done gently and in a very respectful way and not disrespectfully.
So the phone is still not working. I think it's time probably just to call it a night and a minute, but I am just going to do a few more of the text questions.
CaliforniaCarpenter7 says, Pastor, can a person who accepts the mark of the beast be forgiven? Absolutely not.
The Bible makes it clear. They're going to the lake of fire. They're done. And so once a person takes the mark of the beast, it's over for them.
Their fate is sealed. They are reprobate at that point.
Somebody asked, Mrs. Anderson, can the pastor use a different number to forward calls from?
If my wife wants to drive down here with the phone since she's only a few blocks away, then she could do that.
If she would be willing to loan me her phone, then I could use her phone to do it and we could forward it to that.
But honestly, my throat is starting to wear out here, so I think we're going to call it a night and a minute here.
Pastor Anderson, when are you going to send a pastor to Vancouver, Washington?
I think that Vancouver, Washington would be a great place for us to send someone to start a church.
Vancouver, Washington is right outside Portland, Oregon.
And a couple of the guys that are being trained right now at our church to pastor, I've mentioned Portland, Oregon to them as a place.
Another person wants me to send a missionary to Botswana. That's going to be a little tougher of a sell to talk somebody into going to Botswana.
I think Vancouver, Washington is probably a little more realistic, unfortunately.
But honestly, I wish we could send people everywhere. I wish we could start churches all over America and all over the world.
The harvest truly is plenty, but the laborers are few.
Pastor Anderson, what is your take on the Bride of Christ being heavenly Jerusalem?
You know, I did a whole sermon called the Bride of Christ.
And again, you can search the sermon page for that using the control F feature on faithfordbaptist.org slash page 5 dot html.
Or you can also listen to Revelation 21, I think, in the Revelation series. I cover the Bride of Christ.
What's your take on infertility? I did a whole sermon called Infertility.
You just search the sermon page, search YouTube for the word infertility and that sermon should come up.
I believe that a lot of times infertility is because God has chosen not to allow someone to become pregnant.
Because God often closes and opens the womb as he sees fit.
It doesn't mean that you're a bad person if your womb is closed.
Because some of the greatest women in the Bible had their womb closed.
You look at women like Sarah and Rebecca and Hannah that had their wombs closed.
And it wasn't that they were bad people, it's just that it was God's will for whatever reason that they would not have a child at that time.
A lot of infertility, though, is due to health and lifestyle.
First of all, there are a lot of poisons in the tap water that are harming people's fertility.
There are a lot of poisons in the food and the GMOs that could be causing people to be infertile.
But also I know that being very overweight or being very underweight can both harm your fertility.
So the best advice, if you're really, really skinny, then the best advice if you want to get pregnant is you might need to gain a little bit of weight.
Or if you're very overweight, you might need to lose some weight and just be healthy, exercise, eat right.
That's going to help your chances, obviously, of being fertile.
So I don't think that it's always necessarily God closing the womb because sometimes it could just be poor health.
And it could be a lot of the toxins that we're exposed to in our air, our food, and our water.
But not only that, there could be spiritual things going on.
You've just got to trust God, take the best care of your health, and leave it in His hands at that point.
Once you've done everything you can do.
But if you're going to live a really unhealthy lifestyle and then not get pregnant, well, you might need to just make some changes.
But, you know, maybe you're doing everything right with your lifestyle and you're still not getting pregnant.
Well, at that point, you know, it's in God's hands.
And so I hope that answers your question.
Do you believe that Calvinists are saved like James White?
James White is for sure not saved.
And I believe anybody who's a hardcore Calvinist is not saved.
I think there are some saved people who are mildly mixed up in Calvinism.
But how could a person who believes Jesus didn't die for everybody be saved when the Bible is so crystal clear on that?
They don't seem to be hearing the voice of the shepherd.
And the Calvinist gospel is a corrupt gospel.
Again, search the sermon page for sermons on Calvinism and I'll explain all that.
But no, James White is not saved, Calvinists are not saved.
Man, these questions are coming so fast I'm having trouble reading them here.
Let me go ahead and try to scroll down.
More comments below. Okay, show them to me.
Maybe, you know what, I bet I should probably, I bet if I pull up the questions on a different computer,
it'll probably be easier to see them because of the fact that this computer is kind of just maxing out its capabilities just to do this live stream right now.
So I'm going to pull it up on a different computer and it'll probably be easier for me to field the questions that way.
Hopefully, right? Let's check it out here.
Another brief intermission here.
Go ahead and get it rolling here.
Alright.
So I appreciate everybody calling in. A lot of great questions tonight.
It's been interesting. I wish we could go back to talking to people on the phone.
That was a lot better than doing the tech stuff.
But I have kind of ignored the ticker and people were asking questions so I'm just going to spend a few more minutes on that and then we'll call it a night.
So, got it pulled up here.
Alright, here are the questions.
What books have you memorized?
Well, I've memorized many books in the Bible.
Let me start with the New Testament books I've memorized.
And here's the thing that you have to understand. There are some books that I've memorized but then I forgot.
Because it's so hard to retain chapters when you memorize hundreds of chapters and then try to retain them all.
Like there was a time when I memorized all of the book of Matthew and all of the book of John.
Well, I only have parts of those books memorized now. I don't have the whole things memorized.
But I'm just going to list for you the books that I have the whole thing memorized right now that I still remember it and know it.
And that would be Philippians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1, 2 and 3 John, Jude.
Those are the ones that I know the whole thing right now.
Now, I still have most of Revelation memorized and I have lots of Romans, 1 Corinthians, Matthew, John, a lot of those memorized.
Those are just the books that I have fully memorized where I can quote them right now, the whole book.
Old Testament books that I've memorized, Habakkuk is one that I could quote right now.
I used to have the book of Joel memorized, forgot some of the chapters.
And then I've just memorized a lot of Psalms, several Proverbs, a bunch of things.
Anyway, I have about 150 chapters memorized but there are a lot of chapters that I've memorized and forgotten.
And honestly, I'm not that consistent with it unfortunately.
I go through phases where I work really hard at it and I do a ton of Bible memory and then I kind of fall off the wagon for a few months.
And then I don't work on Bible memory for a few months and then I dust it off and try again.
And so I'm constantly having to relearn stuff that I've forgotten and stuff like that.
But right now, I have around 140 chapters memorized, something like that.
But every time I fall off the wagon and quit memorizing for a few months and then when I come back to it,
I usually can take it a little further each time I come back to it.
So right now, I'm in a phase where I'm struggling with Bible memory and just getting back into it.
But it's hard. I mean, I've been doing it now for about 10 years.
And I thought I would have had the whole New Testament memorized by now but I'm still only can quote like half of it.
But I'm constantly working on it and I'm not giving up.
And hopefully, I still hope to achieve memorizing at least the whole New Testament and then as much of the Old Testament as I can.
But it's very hard because when you only memorize like 8 or 10 chapters, that's one thing.
But once you break 100 chapters, just the sheer amount that you have to quote back each month is a lot.
So very, very hard to retain it all.
Alright, let's see. What have we got here? I'm just kind of scanning for the question marks.
Let's see here.
Should I get rebaptized if the person who baptized me is not saved?
Well, that's a good question.
You know, I would say when in doubt, just get rebaptized because it's not going to hurt to get rebaptized.
And, you know, if it just gives you doubt in your mind that you were baptized by somebody that wasn't saved,
that bothers you, you know, and you wonder, hey, have I been scripturally baptized?
Then go ahead and redo it.
But honestly, I would say you don't have to get rebaptized.
I wouldn't get rebaptized because, you know, you weren't being baptized in the name of that person.
You were being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ and in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost.
You know, if the person was unsaved, I mean, that's not good, but I don't know that you need to get rebaptized.
But I would say when in doubt, might as well just do it again just to make sure that you're covered.
Could an adoptive father be a pastor if they only have adopted children?
So, because the Bible says that a pastor must be the husband of one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly,
what if they just adopted children?
Well, you know, I think that's a gray area, but my personal opinion is I would not send someone out to start a church or pastor that had only adopted children.
Because if God didn't give you, if God wanted you to be a pastor and the requirement is that you have children,
then it seems like he would give you children if he wants you to be a pastor.
And again, I'm not attacking any pastors.
I know a pastor that's a great pastor that doesn't even have children at all.
But I don't agree with that. I don't think he's qualified since he has no children.
I know of other pastors who have adopted children. I'm not attacking them or criticizing them,
but my standard is that anybody who I would send out to start a church has to be married and have physical children.
But again, it's a gray area, so if people disagree with me on that, no problem.
And I don't think it's wrong to go to a church if the pastor has adopted children, if that's the best church in your area.
And by the way, I think adoption is great. I think adopting children is great.
We're only talking about this in the context of pastoring, though.
Being a pastor, my inclination would be to say, hey, when in doubt, just don't be a pastor
because you should make sure that you're not ordaining somebody that doesn't meet the qualifications.
So I think that the pastor should have children.
But I don't want people to misunderstand me because I believe that adopted children are every bit
as much of a real child as natural born children.
But I would just question if it's really God's will for that person to pastor if he's not giving them children.
But let me say this. I do believe that it is wrong to adopt children who have been taken away from their parents
because we have CPS stealing people's children from them
and then giving them to someone else. Well, I'm against that adoption. You should not participate in that.
The children you adopt should be children that have been given up by their parents or abandoned by their parents
or orphans whose parents have died. But you should not adopt children because they were taken away from their parents
because of marijuana or drugs or whatever else. So hopefully that answers your question.
Self-baptism? How about no. That's what Joseph Smith did. He baptized himself.
And then later he told the story that him and his buddy baptized each other. Of course there's nine versions of that story
because Joseph Smith was a liar. But no, you should not perform a self-baptism.
If you can't find a church that will baptize you, I don't know what to tell you.
You need to go to a Baptist church and get baptized. Try to own a church.
Try the tritone in music. I don't buy it. I don't...
You know, we should base what we believe on the Bible, and the Bible does not mention the tritone in music,
so therefore I'm not going to teach for commandments the doctrines of men.
For those of you who don't know what the tritone is, it's a musical tone that the Catholic church declared was
Satanic during the Middle Ages, but again it has no biblical authority.
Do you agree that your works must be perfect to get into heaven?
Do you agree that everyone that will be judged by their works, if their works are not perfect, they will be cast in the hill?
Well, theoretically, if your works were perfect, then, you know, yeah, you'll go to heaven.
But guess what? Nobody's perfect and nobody's works are perfect.
And there's none righteous, no, not one.
And if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
So, therefore, the only way for any of us to get to heaven is through believing on Jesus Christ.
And no one can be saved by their works because no one works are perfect.
Let's see, what else have we got here?
You can self-baptize by laying on a beach and letting the waves wash over you.
No, you can't. That's ridiculous.
What else have we got here?
Our daughter passed away at a young age. Will we see her in heaven? Absolutely.
The Bible is crystal clear that babies and very young children and the unborn,
when they die, automatically go to heaven because, you know, they haven't even had a chance to sin
or understand, you know, what is right and what is wrong.
A lot of people will say, oh, they're sinning even in the womb.
Well, that's not true because how can they steal, commit adultery, covet or any of those things while they're in their mother's womb?
That doesn't make any sense. I don't believe that.
Paul talks about how he was alive once but then when the law came, sin revived and he died in Romans 7.
So I do believe that there's a period of innocence in a child and then once they become older,
there's an age of accountability.
Now, it's not an exact age like the Mormons will put an exact age on it.
I forget if it's 8 or 12 or whatever.
But there is an age of accountability.
Now, one thing that I think is a good rule of thumb is that when Adam and Eve were in innocence,
they did not realize that they were naked. They had no shame of being naked.
And you'll notice that little kids are the same way, right?
They'll run around the house naked, strip off their clothes and you have to tell them, hey, get dressed, put that, you know, put something on.
Whereas when they reach a certain age, they start, you know, covering up and being self-conscious about it.
That's probably a good indication that they're at an age now where they're old enough to understand the gospel and be saved.
So if it was a little young child that was still running around the house naked, then, you know, they'll be in heaven because they are not held accountable.
Okay, pastor, are there any other denominations besides IFB that you would consider to be spiritually healthy?
And by IFB, they mean independent fundamental Baptist.
Look, I believe that independent fundamental Baptist churches are usually going to be the best churches in your town.
They're going to be the most scripturally sound, most likely to be King James, salvation by faith, soul winning.
That's not to say that there couldn't theoretically be, you know, other churches, especially like a non-denominational church that could meet that same bill.
But honestly, it's a jungle out there. So start with the independent fundamental Baptist for sure,
because it's tough to find a church that's not independent fundamental Baptist that's doctrinally sound.
Even amongst the independent fundamental Baptist, a lot of them are not sound.
So other denominations, well, I mean, I could tell you what's wrong with each denomination.
Presbyterians are hardcore Calvinist. Methodists believe that you can lose your salvation.
United Methodists have a stinking lesbian pastor half the time.
You know, Lutherans are, you know, often going to be, they're going to be baptizing babies.
They're going to be doing all kinds of crazy stuff. Catholics, enough said.
You know, Pentecostals believe you can lose your salvation. Nazarenes believe you can lose your salvation.
So most of your non-denominational churches are either Pentecostal or Baptist deep down,
but they're usually really liberal and watered down.
So, you know, independent fundamental Baptists are your best bet, in my opinion.
Vaccines, somebody asked, I say no to vaccines. We don't vaccinate our children at all.
Vaccines are filled with poisons, heavy metals. Thimerosal is a preservative in the vaccines.
That is mercury and that causes, you know, heavy metal toxicity.
Autism and a lot of other things have been associated with vaccines.
Not only that, but the vaccines are being developed on aborted fetuses in a lot of cases.
So right there, we should stay away from, you know, any kind of a product that was, you know,
developed or cultured through aborted fetuses and do the research.
That's where a lot of these vaccines have come from.
And even the concept of putting something dirty in your body to build immunity, you know,
we should just touch not the unclean thing, in my opinion.
I'm not saying we should live in a bubble, but if we're outside and we're barefoot
and we're getting dirty and we're, you know, playing in the dirt as kids and we, you know,
live a normal life, interact with people, eat food, drink water,
we're going to build our immunity the right way and vaccines are bad.
We should stay away from them.
When do you believe Jesus was born?
You know, I guess somewhere around, you know, A.D. 1, right?
I don't know exactly. Some people say it was a few years before, a few years after.
I don't think it's possible to really pinpoint it to the exact year, but it was right around A.D. 1.
All right, let's see here.
Have you repented of all your works or only the works you think are evil?
You know, I think this guy who's asking this is just a work salvation guy.
And so he just needs to get saved by believing in Christ.
Thimerosal isn't in vaccines anymore.
Well, it might not be in some vaccines, but yes, it is still in some vaccines.
Some might have thimerosal, some might not, but others have formaldehyde and other weird things in them.
So I'm not going to vaccinate my kids.
Rather than losing salvation, do you believe a born again person can reject grace unto forfeiture of salvation?
All that is is just a semantic argument.
You can't lose your salvation in any way, shape, or form.
Once saved, always saved, period.
And the Nazarenes are the ones who will phrase it like this questioner where they say,
well, maybe you don't lose it, but you know, you forfeit it.
You voluntarily forfeit it.
Well, who in the world would voluntarily forfeit their salvation?
Oh, God, I'm sorry. I changed my mind. I want to go to hell now.
Nobody would think that.
But what it is when they say, oh, you're forfeiting it, when the Nazarenes teach that,
here's what they'll then say.
Well, but when you go out and live a life of sin, you're pretty much telling God that you're forfeiting it.
So all it is is just another way of saying lose your salvation.
And you can't lose your salvation.
It's once saved, always saved. It's eternal life.
You shall never die.
Rebecca Skillman says that even though tritone is not in the Bible, so are many other truths.
Well, I agree that there are a lot of other things that we can learn outside the Bible that are still true.
You know, for example, just on subjects that the Bible doesn't really talk a lot about.
But I think if we're talking about right and wrong, good and evil,
I think the Bible has everything I need to know as far as good and evil.
And even if the Bible says fear God and keep his commandments and this is the whole duty of man,
then I don't see how God could hold me accountable for using a tritone in music
if there's no commandment in the Bible telling me not to.
Then how could I be condemned for doing something that the Bible never told me not to do?
So hopefully that helps her understand where I'm coming from with that.
What about the polio vaccine?
Well, polio was already going away before the vaccine came out and the vaccine just took credit for it.
Whose name can be blotted out of the book of life?
Well, I believe that every single person's name starts in the book of life
because the Bible never talks about anybody's name ever being added to the book of life
except from the foundation of the world.
It talks about names being put there.
So people's names are not added when they get saved.
Everybody's name starts out in the book of life.
There are lots of scriptures about people being removed or blotted out.
So I believe that a person's name is blotted out
when they either die without Jesus Christ
or if they're a reprobate, then their name is removed,
like if they tamper with God's word.
Because the Bible says to him that overcometh,
the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life,
but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
So everybody's name starts out in the book from the foundation of the world
and people are only removed, never added.
Brief summary of how you spiritually lead your family at home, Bible schedule study, etc.
How do I lead my family at home?
Well, you know, I strongly believe in the husband being the head of the wife,
the husband being the boss, the children being obedient to mother and father.
So when dad is gone, then mom rules the home and is in charge,
and when dad's home, he's the boss of the home.
And we do have family Bible reading times and stuff like that.
My wife usually takes care of that because of the fact that, you know,
a lot of times I'm gone, I'm at work and everything like that.
So she's really good about doing Bible time with the kids.
Let's see what else we got going on here.
Are Calvinists saved? I already answered that.
Pastor, do you agree that Jesus Christ...
Oh, this guy's still just on work salvation.
Let's see here. You mentioned tap water being bad.
How? I'm worried now. I drink only tap water and bottled water is expensive.
God can protect us, right?
Yeah, I sure hope so.
I grew up drinking tap water, but if you move to Tempe, Arizona,
you'll probably stop drinking the tap water
because the tap water in Tempe is worse than anywhere I've ever been.
But the main thing that's wrong with tap water is that it has fluoride in it,
which is not good for you.
And so if you can afford to get a bottled water,
it's better to get bottled water or some kind of a purifier.
But, you know, I guess God looks down and sees us doing our best
to eat the right food and drink the right water.
And, you know, we just have to pray for good health
and hope that he makes up the difference for us.
Let's see here.
Somebody's telling the questioner from Africa that was concerned about tap water
how the USA water is what has fluoride in it.
So, honestly, ironically, the person from Africa, you know,
might have access to tap water that's not fluoridated, you know, which is great.
Let's see. What else have we got coming in with the questions?
Oh, here's a good question.
KJV with Apocrypha.
Need help, Pastor Anderson. Is the Apocrypha good or bad?
That's a great question because a lot of people are freaked out by the fact
that the original 1611 King James contained the Apocrypha.
And they say, oh, you know, maybe the Apocrypha is supposed to be part of the Bible
or why was it in there?
But the King James originally contained the Apocrypha
in a separate section between Old and New Testament.
And a lot of people will try to claim that the translators believe
that the Apocrypha was part of the Word of God.
That is false.
The translators of the King James Bible were members of the Church of England.
And the Church of England had 39 articles of faith in 1611,
39 articles of the Church of England,
and one of them very clearly states that no doctrine
shall be based on any of the 14 books known as Apocrypha.
No doctrine shall be based on these books,
but that they are only for historical value and moral reading
and its history, its morality, but it's not Scripture.
So no, the King James translators did not believe that the Apocrypha was God's Word.
Same thing in a Martin Luther Bible.
It says in the Martin Luther Bible that he says right in there
that these books, no doctrine shall be based on them
and that they are only there for reference material.
The original 1611 King James contains all kinds of reference materials,
calendars and charts and genealogies,
and the Apocrypha books are there just for reference,
and they were not considered on par with the rest of the Bible,
not considered God's Word.
In fact, if you don't believe me, open up a 1611 replica,
and we have one at our church for people to look at.
Flip open the very first book of the Apocrypha, which is 1 Esdras,
and you'll only have to get a few pages in before you find a note in the column
saying, this verse is corrupt,
and then explaining how the verse is corrupted in the book of Esdras.
And all throughout the Apocrypha, there are notes like that,
criticizing the Apocrypha and talking about how there are mistakes in it and so forth,
and directing you to the Bible to get the true story, the actual Scriptures.
So, don't be confused by that.
If you want to know whether the Apocrypha is God's Word or not,
just read a few chapters of it and you'll quickly realize,
whoa, this is not even close to being as good as the Bible.
It's clearly written by man.
All right, what do we got going on here?
Let's see here.
Pastor, please tell me the signs of possessed.
I guess they mean, what are the signs that someone is demon possessed?
Well, people in the Bible that were demon possessed were,
you know, basically throwing themselves in the fire,
throwing themselves in the water, falling on the ground,
foaming at the mouth, they were writhing and tearing around,
and so people that are, you know, and writhing and foaming,
and those are definitely signs that someone could be demon possessed.
Someone who's suicidal could be demon possessed,
because people in the Bible who were demon possessed would throw themselves in the water,
throw themselves in the fire, etc.
People talking in voices that are not their own voice,
using other strange voices could be signs that they're demon possessed.
Hope that helps.
The book of Mark, if you want to learn about demon possession,
just read the book of Mark.
It's in almost every chapter of the Gospel of Mark.
How's about a song, Pastor Anderson?
Are you saying that you want me to sing you a song?
If you want to hear me sing a song, tune in to the live stream
Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, and I sometimes lead the singing.
Medical marijuana.
I don't believe that people should smoke marijuana,
but if they're using marijuana for medicinal purposes through like a tea that they drink
or other things like that, I don't think there's anything wrong with, you know,
cereal and granola that has hemp in it or
whatever people make teas and medicines out of marijuana,
but I don't think people should smoke marijuana for medicinal value,
just because of the mind-altering effects.
The Bible tells us to be sober.
For a new believer, what would be the best way to read the Bible?
Books, chapters, etc.
That's a great question.
I would say start by reading the whole New Testament cover to cover
and then read the Old Testament cover to cover.
That would be my recommendation.
If somebody wants to do it in the other order, they can,
but obviously the New Testament is more important and more relevant.
All scriptures given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine,
but today the most important teachings that we need
are the story of Jesus Christ and the Gospels.
So I would say start in the New Testament.
I like to tell people to start in the book of John,
or if it's a small child, I usually direct them toward the book of Mark,
because it's just a lot of stories in the book of Mark that will keep them interested,
but I recommend you using the Bible,
or the table of contents in the front of the Bible as a checklist,
because I'm a strong believer in reading the Bible cover to cover,
so use the table of contents as a checklist.
That way, in case you want to read the books out of order,
you can just check them off as you read them
and read them in any order you want,
but just make sure you get through the whole book.
I don't read the Bible in order.
I don't go from Genesis to Revelation.
I skip around and read whatever I want.
I just check them off and make sure I get through it multiple times per year.
All right, let's see here.
What else is coming in in the ticker?
How many languages do you speak, Pastor?
Well, the only languages that I'm really good at at this time are Spanish and German,
and my German is a lot better than my Spanish,
so those are the languages that I'm good at,
and if you want to hear me speaking Spanish,
you can watch the Spanish version of After the Tribulation,
because I did all my own preaching in that in Spanish,
so that has over an hour of me preaching in After the Tribulation in Spanish,
so Spanish and German are the only ones that I'm good at these days,
as far as being able to just have conversation and speak really well,
but in the past, I have spoken a lot of other languages,
like I used to speak Romanian.
I used to speak Norwegian,
and obviously, I can still understand a lot of Norwegian and Romanian.
I've read the New Testament cover to cover in Romanian multiple times.
Also, I'm studying a lot of Greek and Hebrew also,
so I know a lot of Hungarian,
but the only ones that I'm really good at are German and Spanish,
so I'm trilingual in that sense,
but I've studied tons of other languages.
I used to be able to speak Romanian,
like I could have conversations with people for a half hour in Romanian,
but it's just if you don't use it, you lose it,
and I get to practice German at home with my wife,
and I get to practice Spanish out soul winning in Phoenix, Arizona,
so that's why those are the only two languages that I still know how to speak.
Well, it's been three hours, pretty much, or close to three hours,
so I'm going to go ahead and call it a night.
Thanks, everybody, for tuning in.
A lot of great questions.
Thanks for the callers.
Sorry about the glitch with the telephone.
If I ever do this again, I'm just going to have maybe multiple phones going.
That way, in case we have a phone fail like this,
we can have an alternative to use instead.
So next time we'll do that.
Thanks for all the questions via text messaging.
God bless you, have a great night, and enjoy doing it.
Thanks for watching.