Celebrating 50 Years in the Lord with a Special Q&A Show

The following is a prerecorded program you have an honest talk about some differences today for the line of fire with your host activist all the international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown was the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry getting to the line of fire valves by calling 866-34-TRUTH. That's 866-34-TRUTH your Jim is Dr. Michael Brown friends welcome to the broadcast.

A few days ago I solicited questions on Facebook and Twitter and say tell me where you have some differences with me and post on Facebook, twitter and then on the Monday show. I'll get to as many as I can supply can be taking calls but I think you really going to enjoy the broadcast my appreciation to all who posted if you did so in a wrong spirit. If you don't believe in God at all in and posted some challenges but I'm glad you posted so I can respond to as many as possible and up to start with one from Ross such a series of questions and any links to YouTube video it attacking me and said Ross never saw the video anyway degrees many him that there were nine persons in the Trinity. Of course not. He made a ridiculous statement by the way, and repented of it immediately so he doesn't believe that. But of course not how could you even asked me a question. I've made my views clearly God had for 50 years of Jesus going to hell as many had predicted that he's going to hell and suffer become Demos course not. Course not denounce the teaching scores of times leaving grave, soaking the anointing is much better than he had never heard them talk about it, but there is no such thing as grave soaking as far as a practice. Bill Johnson is repudiated. I don't believe in it.

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The grave of some previous man or woman of God and and so can the anointing, of course not review about the debunked oily Bible and said Ross of supernatural front understand there was a genuine miracle that was taking place over a period of time and then the guy decided to try to enhance it and and and make it happen on his own, but the whole thing may be bogus from start don't know no connection with it whatsoever to leave the use of the 70s is the last use generation before the tribulation as prophesied by Catherine Coleman ops not so if you not aware of her sender. She said it was the wrong prophecy. So that settles that. Let's just move on. Let's see here and and by the way, there is somebody posted this lengthy thing attacking me. You know, for endorsing Todd Bentley for years and years and addressing always false teachings. Of course be bogus of the been on public record and and in private confrontation for many many years. Well over a decade terms of not endorsing Todd's ministry, praying for his repentance and and homeless in the Lord and in any case is been publicly get well when you stop sending out your books and retire for ministry that only your serious this with the guy posted so much to show you that because it's just false witness, but it's really it's distressing to see how people will say these things. For example, the ridiculous statement Benny had made many many years ago that that within the Trinity. The father-son spirit reached try and so was like nine gods immediately what I was told was confronted by elves in this church every Senate repented of immediately is an idiotic, ridiculous, stupid and biblical statement right but just hold said that he never held to it. After that if you record this if that's his view, you know, so that's that's that there's among charismatics Pentecostals. There are all kinds of abuses, mistakes, errors of written whole books dealing with that and then among the hyper critics. There's there's all types of unethical behavior and and both are grievous. Both are grievous in God's sight. Okay, so a bunch of people have taken issue with me for saying pharmacopeia in Revelation 1823 simply means sorcery is not a prediction about the pharmaceutical companies doing what they're doing okay so Scott Dr. Brown. What else could. Revelation 1823, 24 possibly mean other than what it places a group of businessmen using Pharma to deceive the nations okay first the word pharmacopeia in Greek, if you will study it out steady at its usage in the Septuagint right so in the. The Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures which was used as the Bible by Greek speaking Christians for centuries, if you will see it. The Old Testament right if you will, if you'll look into it if you will dig into the best lexicons if you will see how it's even alluding to the Nam chapter 3 verse four which is has the roots of fame which is equivalent to two sorcery.

There's no question it should be translated sorcery. There, that's what you'll see a translate that into and virtually all English versions right well before I was doing a similar source will messes totally separate issue, but because this is pharmacopeia people think all its pharmaceuticals know you cannot take the word used today drive from an ancient Greek word SLS with the Greek means responds endlessly but we get our dynamite from the Greek Dumas power when power went out from Jesus didn't blow people up and healed them to can't take a meaning. Centuries later, and in the language. I will that's with the original met but let's let's just take a look for a second right, let's go to two Revelation chapter 8 chapter 18 Jesus came up from from a bunch of people that took issue with me over this so I'm gonna read this okay so will Babylon the great city, be thrown down with violence is a big farm is not a segment doesn't have to be actual city to be metaphorical. I'm fine with that right Babylon. Conferred with system role system. I'm fine with that and the sound of harpist musicians of flute players and trumpets will be hurting you know more aware were harpist musicians flippers trumpeters heard within big farm will know that me and craftsman craft will be fanning them on the sound of the mill will be hurting, the more it really does seem to be speaking of the civilization of the city of a people, not companies in the light of a lamp will shine on you know more in the violence of bridegroom and bride will be hurting you know more for your merchants were the great ones of the earth and all nations were deceived by your sorcery look at this and in her and big Pharma. According to this interpretation was found the blood of prophets and the saints, and of all the been slain on the earth.

This talk about people being martyred for their faith being killed for their faith. This didn't you say well it's been far you would never would've said that for a split second, if not for the Greek word pharmacopeia but the Greek word pharmacopeia doesn't mean pharmaceuticals doesn't mean drugs there. It means sorcery.

So go if you want to indict big Pharma for Griego text about greed.

If you want to go somewhere else about putting people under pressure during to do certain things go there right, but this has nothing to do with it. I don't know how to make it anymore plate before you can interpret the passage you have to understand what the words mean in this wording sorcery and let me say one more time. No one would've been talking about big Pharma is the Babylon of Revelation 18 and read the whole chapter does not apply big farm right nobody would've been saying that if not for the Greek word pharmacopeia which is been misunderstood to mean pharmaceuticals so do you honor the word of God, you reference the word of God you believe that God knew what he was doing and speaking those words, which are also relevant to the first century Christians heard them and don't change the Bible don't change the Bible and only choose those who want to be truthful to what the text says for not being spiritual because they go about with the actual words mean, okay, let's see here yet and in another one says is your stance and from the key anomalies that were deceived in the world seems to contest drugs which the back permissions etc. goes on Longmont.

So what you keeps going on with her things and global restrictions. The fact is it that read Revelation 18 it does not apply to to big Pharma. It cannot. Many of the verses simply cannot. So a say for the last last time and less the word pharmacopeia occurred there which people wrongly took to mean pharmaceuticals nobody would be reading the form into Revelation 18 and I won't do is the people involved. Developing a vaccine are trying to save lives there may be a lot of greed at the top.

There may be others who are trying to get control over populace with them. There may be many with wrong motives along the way but I personally believe that those under Pres. Trump who were working hard to develop the vaccine is Trump's motivation as well were seeking to save lives, whether they did the best job or not, whether it's wisest or not to rush you through that quickly whether there's a lot of greed along the way, those are all separate questions but I do believe that there was an actual attempt and continues to be an attempt to save lives that I do believe whether you agree to vaccine or not. Okay where let's just see here I'm looking for a statement that I have at this one from Debbie I feel you defend your stance about believers looking to Pres. Trump is the Savior too many times and at some point on I wrote a book called on a compass, Savior, and I wrote that book is Trump voter Donald Trump is not my Savior. Subtitle evangelical leader speaks his mind about the man he supports Pres. wrote that in 2018. After going from 2016 phone from 2020, but all the while shouting at seller Savior don't look to him as bigger than life skill be a mistake. So I'm sorry you feel of defendant my stance about that. Generally I only do when I get attacked for it and I feel it's helpful for people to understand why there was then about defending my stance said about me being eschatology to load just to gloat now rather can help people see a particular thing in how we look to him in an idolatrous way and how I had warned about that many a time along the way and once we got past the elections and and then there was that there term overloaded Lexus was stolen and I saw traumatized people were in it and it was as if the Savior is gone. Then I spoke out even allow the and of course got attacked forward so I'm trying to help people see that the Lord's legacy conference again.

2024 and the less he was a changed man and not as destructive in his ways.

This is a someone who voted for him twice right unless he was a changed man and not as destructive and in his ways, and unless we did not look to him and idolatrous way that I would have grave concerns about his presidency if if we said hey when I look in Tim's and Savior without looking for nowhere without saying, without trouble member is known only Trump can save America as many have said, if were not saying that's like you pragmatically him versus Democrat you have. If he won Republican nomination there. Pragmatically, I think you do a better job and but where I differ with him on the complaint and he himself learns exercise in humility and not be so destructive that I'm okay. Great. Good.

Seems like a better choice. But if it was a repeat scenario of what we seen, I have grave concerns in any way I do my best to first seek the Lord and speak what what I get burned just because me a perfect right. Obviously we all your best to sort out your pastor, preaching parents instructing their kids will do our best to sort out what's important way to prioritize but I do that and then as I see things happening. And I feel this need to respond like what I saw the rise of hyper grace, wrote a book about that confusion over can you begin Christian wrote a book about that when I saw evangelicals in wrong relationship with Trump when a source looking to Milan Weisel so I gave guidelines here.

If we are past the Trump test evangelicals at the crossroads came in 2020. If it were gonna pass the Trump test and have to get these things right so I was laying out the concerns as a Trump voter laying out the warnings and and I've finished another book that's due out September of next year.

On the political seduction of the church like talk about what we got wrong and they reiterate what we need to lightly move forward effectively in the God has called us to be so hard and that they will be right back in the wicked more of your differences with me right here in one we will file the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the reminder file now by calling 866-34-TRUTH dear again is Dr. Michael Brown friends. We are celebrating 50 nights of surrender. December 17, 1971, or by the grace of God. Surrender to his Lordship and support all never put a needle in my arm again. That was the point of surrender to say yes to God. Yeah, free from that night. What a glorious wonderful Savior. So I solicited some questions on Facebook about these 50 years and about my walk with the Lord in the special day of celebration and Mark asked all battle temptation to buy them over the years to stay strong so there's a message called off her REIT. I just taught it last last week.

Last Friday morning actually in Fort Worth, Texas to a students of the spiritual leadership school mercy culture and at times I couldn't see the words on the page of the Bible because of the tears. It is a message about the final consequences of sin and righteousness and it it's as many since my signature message. It's it's a message that I preached on the world and go to a country have been there for 10 or 20 years, someone comes up to me they heard me when I was there they will speak a word of English, but they come up legal authority hurried. They remember that and based on truth found specially in Proverbs about the final consequence of sin and righteousness.

The short lesson being if you could see in advance with the Sims give-and-take if the reality of that would be there if if the agonizing that you destroyed your family are destroyed your ministry if you could see that and feel that in advance never starts flirting with that thing in going in that direction. So I have preach that message to myself many times over the years by God's grace. It has saved my life because I like anyone else could fall and mess up and I like anyone else can get casual not be vigilant enough so what happens when you blow it yeah I've blown it like I was, thankfully, I haven't crossed certain lines in blown it in ways that would have destroyed my ministry or disqualified me your stroller family.

I thought that thankfully by God's grace of but yet everyone of us is blown it right is a human being on the earth is on a minister on the Thomas blown it one way or another. Right so I can say the thing that's help me not be discouraged is I know the love of God.

I deeply, deeply, no, the love of God and and he knows that my repentance is sincere.

That I hate sin, but did something wrong thought or wrong thoughts said wrong words acted in the wrong way that I'm truly grieved over and I know his forgiveness is real and then I'm determined to get real low draft a hat due before him to fix things to get things right and not to take his mercy for granite.

Somehow the father's love has been planted my life very very deeply, and with it a sense of calling and purpose that that he doesn't want us groveling that when we truly repented nesters forgiveness we receive it and yeah I know it's chastisement.

I've gone through months. Roy felt under his chastisement under his correction, but I knew it was love was love because that love I knew was for good purposes that I knew the lore I get the moral be raised up for his purpose. So those are some the things with the author REIT message, as is been critically important will make sure in days ahead. There's a linkup you can click on the listen to or watch it preached and with that the recognition I could mess up like anybody else that's just Me. Seek the Lord earnestly and and then my wife Nancy Smith. Her deep perception. Knowing something is wrong or something's off knowing if I'm not walking intimately with the Lord as I should just kind of that pusher that questioning and it's been so helpful for me to drive me deeper and okay let's see, let's go over to €20 is a testimony of the Lord's power.

She obeyed him congrats yeah what what mercy would goodness Chris what is the single most stunning divine intervention you've ever personally witnessed law. That's a big one was the single most stunning divine intervention you've ever personally witnessed. I mean, I have seen God turn the tide dramatically. I have seen things going in one direction completely turned upside down so many times I've seen favorite, adequate look like this can be disaster or someone attacking me and it ends up being turned for for good. I'm thinking of services where God just broke and suddenly, shocked us all with the Holy Spirit just came in.

It's just get on your face, get on your face God is moving. God is moving back that kind of thing, though, being part of some outpourings were were God just broke anomie we knew from months and months of person was going to happen but then the way he broke in and how within a day a congregation from the morning to the evening look different because of the spirit, the spirit falling climbing there just dramatic answers to prayer. I had to think about that one more if there's just one in particular but I have absolute faith in the intervention of the Lord.

I thought I just one example, God called me to quit my job and go teach Christ for the nations Bible Institute that had a branch among dollars from 83 to 91, the famous school in Dallas, which continue strong to stay was just there point to the students look forward to be with them on the years ahead that a branch among dollars 8391 and when when my got the word from the Lord to quit my job and go teach this before they were hiring anybody was so I did it all by faith. I told I told my boss I'll be leaving in a certain point year until my mom will be moving in our out to Long Island.

She was will then and and of course told Nancy that the moment God spoke to me the first night, quit your job and go teach their so we we put our house on the market and beat before officially being hired or anything that you have the word to do it and I still remember our house had had sat on the market before we bought it for like a year and 1/2 something like that week we found a house in in that we thought the kids can work near the new school on the island and the guy that as were going to buy this is okay look of the only thing is we've got another offer and we got a close by. By the end of the week right we had we had put our house on the market yet.

It sat on the market a year and 1/2 before before of the before we bought it so the guy guy says look we need to close by the end of the week and that you don't go to contract. This is no problem. I said our house be sold by the wedding put on the market that I had had this supernatural faith resist wave of faith.

I was riding a wave of faith the gift of faith was operated.

I just knew so call it local realtor.

Okay, put our house on the market and so on and each day people, looking at the house. It's an you don't let them know you have beautiful house. Mrs. Brown to Nancy Lily whatever in our little house and that we are processed so I remember taking a day off like I gotta pray this thing through your pray through an the guy calls me this is okay, look, we need to know because we have another offer and we need to the hospital and will be sold by the end of the day limit set out on the market for year and 1/2 before soul and we were now asking more is three years of the well know, five years later, right, five years later, check this out check this out. So tell tell the guy it's given cell by the end of the day right it's been on the market three days is going to sell.

By the end of the day and then we get a phone call shortly after that they listen, here's the deal with people look at the house last night. The really like it really suggest he said and they want close immediately. He said, and fact to make sure enough you to back or anything to pay with cash that was just this supernatural faith they let it happen. I just just knew it was going to fall into place, and this can announce in advance. Our house will sell them at all of this, and remarkably, for some reason. At the closing.

There were two separate checks one was for the exact amount would be paid when we moved in and the other the other was just what our profit was an they know that this are two separate checks and then when I told the realtor afterwards what happening is you can believe this, he said. I felt bad that I couldn't get people to to go look at your house to get all these people go through a new year in a hurry he said, so I just random went through my my card file and found this 1 cup so maybe the look and that's how it happened but as I'm saying this. Remember, the most dramatic intervention was with the birth of our first or Jennifer. That's a whole other story. But that was the most dramatic answer prayer. When I had to come at a certain points we can have Janet home. That was the most suddenly all my but there there been a number of these, over the years, Michael posted, so you're officially a juju muscle talk yeah a Jewish believer celebrating the Jubilee Harry asked this question, how many Jews have become believers in Yeshua because of your ministry. My respect and admiration for you. Dr. Brown okay this is really really God glorifying II can't give you a number. It's impossible, maybe even guesstimate but I can tell you all and some of this on the inside of the break. I can tell you that overwhelmingly we have heard from Jewish believers over the years who said, I'm still in the face because of your resources. That was they were there get hit with objections they were questioning. I'm still in the faith, because resource is one and constantly. We hear from frontline ministries doing Jewish outreach that they are leading people to the Lord on a regular basis and the key is that they are using or resource so I want to share more about that moment is to the glory of God.

Okay you right back. Give us a break. Join me in celebrating the mercy began once again a good work here on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution of year again is Dr. Michael Brown was much as I love doing radio thing I regret is I will get even had days just set up for critics to call in on different subjects and sometimes on whole days without a single from them at the same time, the post will be piling up attacking it wrong on this this this is that we tell you what this talk about on this day gone on this day thought.

I regret that I'd love to hear from more people are different. For a lot of folks do talk radio to get calls that they love to take calls from different so there's no end of questions that you call him without a love that Emily time a controversial subject. Some so glad that you way ahead, but I wish for you were called to differ with me. I love dealing with differences okay call on Facebook post that I disagree with you that you can lose your salvation.

I believe this is an important issue. We should all be in agreement, especially as we witness to others, so Nicole I don't use the term lose your salvation is a term for figure salvation. My question is what you do with all the verses in the New Testament, and there are many which warn us about the danger of apostasy that talk to us about the danger of a brother or sister turning away from the faith even of one book I keywords you have.

Warning after warning he was to Hebrews 3 before he was 10 Hebrews 12 about the severe judgment that will come on those who willfully turn away the symbol that makes one insecure. Why do you think I will force you to stay in his house using double force you to stay in his family or are you saying that the that once you save God forces you to follow him in and and when Jesus says that if you deny him. He'll deny you. He was just empty words. The computer warns about those that once Newman and turned away be better for them if they never knew him. That release those verses out so what I'm witnessing to someone on them telling God's saving him keep you to the end. But why on earth would I tell someone the matter what you do once you say you can you can live in adultery can be a serial killer this Monday so that I haven't, why would ever say that it was not true. Why would a more preset message signal you want to tell me eternally secure. Okay, first, show me in the Bible where that was the message word that was included in the gospel message. Let let's start there. Show me that okay we are. There's a reference to. If you believe your eternally secure but it is the intent and the salvation message exhibit. No one can focus on the policy and correct knowing the noncomplex of the funds, but will force us to stay so if if you want to follow in your safe your good find another worry about if you don't want to follow him.

Why would I want to give assurance to someone while her spelling assurance to someone that no matter what you do, no matter how you live your your your still in its falsehood. McKenna messages that you said not believe that I believe a summons to save the fallen will does not exist as I can selling salvation by works to some those. If you preach it like that. I preached so if you cry out to him for mercy will save you.

You actually save you as long as you won't be saved or saved.

But if you want to go your own way and deny him live in sin and rebellion. Turn your back on him. He will stop you.

So the assurance is there for those who want what more could there be, let's see. Okay I want to skip down to here we go. Dena I want clarity regarding your position concerning the rapture and the charismatic gifts deny. I imagine you are a newer participant in our Facebook page because I clear on these issues from many many many many years. So obviously you're coming a new song very happy to take the time over the whole book with Prof. Craig Keener not afraid the antichrist why we don't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture so of that will make absolutely clear view. I am historically millennial, I believe, according to Scripture that Jesus is coming at the end of this age will set up his kingdom there will rule and reign of the earth for thousand millennial kingdom will be the final rebellion.

Destruction of the wicked, and then the eternal age.

I do not believe in a pretrip rapture because of what the Bible says I don't believe in it, a Jew believe that tongues are spiritual gift. Of course if so, why because the Bible says so what purpose did tongue serve after the completion of the canon of Scripture have nothing to do with the kind of Scripture. Tongues are spiritual differ according to Paul first instance 14. We commune with God you pray in tongues. We praise in tongues speak mysteries in spirit to God. Nobody understands us reefer at once I started first of these 14 to some of the questions I file you may want to review that chapter the Scriptures make it clear that tongues means language yes could be heavily language. Paul talks about speaking tongues of angels and tongues of men for scripting 13. The gift of tongues was a supernatural ability to speak a foreign language that the tongue speaks of never learned Gladden once asked and asked to dozens it happens again.

And when Paul speaks about it for scripting's 14 he refers to it that no one can understand you and you speaking mysteries in the spirit to God.

There were specific rules in place with the apostle spoken, tongues were simply had to be an interpreter with his 427 and speaks in a tongue to her the most. We should speak one of the time, and so misinterpret speak about publicly publicly if you're delivering a message in tongues privately posted.

I think I speak in tongues more than all of you of what languages are modern day tongue speakers communicating when they communicate the speaking indecipherable gibberish exit sounds like and discipled to restricted all the language I've preached around the world and my translators translated think that You language a serious of people heard people talking to something that can't be a language sounds are those why they keep repeating certain syllables and its actual language sounds in the several may affect. Paul writes about tongues in his day that outsiders will think your speaking gibberish. That's what he writes the real tongues.

The outsiders with thinkers speaking gibberish when he said King James will think you are barbarian wetlands and a barbarian is someone this piece a sidebar bar. Barb was we get barbarian from suppose like to say that that those on the outside. If everyone speak in tongues at the same time, the genuine New Testament times, right which the vast majority of cases are not a foreign earthly language with a heavenly language that God understands right that someone hears it from the outset that were crazy. That's what he said about the tongues in his day, so tongues is a wonderful gift. I pray in tongues virtually every day my life and it is wonderful communion with the Lord and an clause explicit. Don't forbid speaking in tongues, so this continues effect is explicit that this continues until Jesus returns to see him face-to-face and know him as were known to us, beautiful, wonderful gift is wonderful revocation. Now I do have friends, colleagues, first hand, where the spirit came on them and they spoke and they just out there speak in tongues, but it was the language of the person or they were. I know of accounts like that to this day, and then I was just with her brother. We were checking out of a place that we both been on TV and I heard them talking to the. The gallops clean rooms in Spanish.

Is it someone to pick up Spanish is not why learn just a little in school but I can speak it is that I was ministering in Spanish-speaking countries a lot and just have a tremendous burden that that to be able to come to speak with people conversationally, and he said I really pray and give the gift so to this day speak Spanish.

I heard him speak Spanish. He has witnesses that know the whole story until what happened you gave me details when he was in the car was translated… Other assignments don't €and then he began speaking so I'm speaking Spanish. So does happen still happens like that I been heard from a non-charismatic friend seductively will happen on the strip with my translator.

He said not and then we talked to the head of the minister. The so you reach all these unreached people. Happens all the time, but the primary gift in the New Testament is particulates for scripting's 14 is speaking to God and praising, worshiping, praying in tongues in this beautiful, wonderful, edifying, and then my mind gets renewed in the spirit.

Is this just a beautiful beautiful experience but was Cindy, thank you for taking middle road to the vexing issue appreciate not being a knee-jerk reaction or hike some SF with another brother could tease me for lack of courage assume the appreciates by my nothing knee-jerk reactionary. It let me say this again many of you follow the ministry for decades. Literally decades, and and we we built up a certain amount of credibility with you and those that are new. Getting to know me realize that I meant is going with the tide of the society or what the right says her with this one says her do my best to honor the Lord, the biblical regional many others preaching teaching you do the same thing right were returned to sort this out before the Lord.

Whatever the issues are so honored to take unpopular stands all the time because my goal is to please God, not please people, but by pleasing God.

I hope I can serve you. I may not please you initially but will serve you in the long term. Your essay what you said was reliable what you said was truthful when you said was helpful if I'm not sure which I am not sure if if I see could be this way could be that weight.

I'll tell you in with the stand to be taken. I'll take it regardless of cost or consequence J probably only disagree with the tone you exhibited in your post relation book and a few people thought the little bit I just don't see definite evidence that anyone's reviews roughly correct.

There's always an argument for the Right. I feel quite emphatically that the pretrip rapture. Teaching is not in the Bible quite sure of it.

But some of the finest people I know on the planet differ and we differ before the Lord. We love the same Lord studied the same Scriptures, so I we we differ is I LL think is ambiguous, that's fine. Others no problem we can have differences there. What what troubles me.

J is the feeling that you have that that the tone, the doctor can and I wrote with was belittling if you could really help here. Please go through the book and if you spot the passage will notify router creaking eroded anything that sounds belittling. I would love to know because everything in our hearts and writing it from beginning 10 was. Not to belittle and to constantly talk about the people that love the Lord that differ with us here and not to accuse people of just having an escapist mentality fight the title but not for the antichrist was on a title and an the publisher subsequently realized how much it was our title as we talked about our title is one of leaving the pretrip elation rapture.

This subtype. In other words, it is a must apply well your friend antichrist. That's what you would rapture out. That applies to some of the supply to many others is theologically read it differently and believe it will be here and see the antichrist but it would really help if you could pull it out because overwhelmingly we get thanked by readers from FOR our gracious tone wheat we get thanked by people or even attacking us for our gracious tone so I would really want to know if if the passage came across in a way that was belittling, I would really want to know that I really want to take a look at that. So if you could do that and then perhaps we really get euros. I know it's not belittling at all. You just read something into it, but if there's anything belittling, we would actually want to fix that this is not a heart again. According to we heard from an overwhelming number of readers was anything but belittling people appreciated our gracious differences with others within the body, making clear heavies or differences within the body. We don't divide them said many times, literally decades.

So my own immediate team. I don't know Monday with a scan all of them pretrip posters rapture pork summons of number by Expo light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown of your voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us friends of the special celebration, a thesis and blows me away think I would've made it to my 18th birthday gets even a 16 literally don't think I would've made it to my 18th birthday because I would've been able to get my drivers license before then New York's little bit older than than some other parts of the country but would been able to get my drivers license my learners permit at least in been out driving in Rome so crazy with drugs. Those are reckless with drugs and these Tacoma drug bear and Ironman and because I would take these massive quantities right way more than a normal human being should be able to take and just seal far I could go in and I since I can distinguish reality from from hallucination.

I remember doing massive doses of LSD are masculine and and I be walking down the street. My friends is the middle of winter. I couldn't tell if the weather was literally I couldn't tell if I needed a coat or not and then everything would become hallucination. In other words, the cars on the road would morph into other things in an and the trees would become cartoon treason so I would walk with my hand in front of my face little I'm okay. I'm not kidding you would walk with my hand from my face because I couldn't distinguish hallucination from reality and you think okay what happens if you're driving a car and I was foolish enough I probably would've done it and just say let's see what happens. Let's see if I can go or you get some paranoid thing you're on some bad drugs and get some paranoid thing driving fast.

Whatever.

I literally don't think it would've made smiting birthday. Plus, I experimented see how far I could go without overdosing so contrary. I was a jerk I was an unsaved jerk was so you know my brain is fried. This all the drugs and and then you know it, smoking pot initially didn't do anything for me once I was in high all the time. It would smoke pot all the time as well so sometimes morning either afternoon and evening smoking pot into another drugs. When I got saved it.

It took some weeks for my head to clear and I realize my head wasn't clear because of kind of interacting with with my other friends we got saved and got off drugs and arose mother a lot sharper than I am. So it took some time for my head to clear but deceiving God's done over these years, and his grace and mercy. So here I am at 66 and seven years ago.

God help me to radically transform a lifestyle with healthy eating, so I mean I'm basically pain-free a free medicine free all my vital signs. Blood tests come out one file, boasting about tomorrow. My post about the next breath but I'm just saying the 366 and full of life and joy and vitality and it will you know you intense workouts with young man in and you know just what I cannot not make a strong I'm not a global bodybuilding know that without additional cardio and the pushing all that hidden it together and and and full of enthusiasm and vision faith and can't wait for for tomorrow.

I that's that's the grace of God's grace of God, no reflecting back on a question that I was asked for today's broadcast of things that I've done to keep the fire burning in my life and in one of the things as being conscious.

Tease me that you need to keep the fire burning so after I had repented of leaving my first love.

So the late 70s early 80s committed believer in many ways, but had left my first love and is a shared scholarship to become an idol in my life is supposed with tool God's purposes so and I was more theological than intimate.

Your reading the word more to understand theology than to understand the Lord reading the word to grow theology more than two growing relationship with the Lord, and there is there's a difference. Theology can get you connecting better with garbage can also just get you into theology. So when I saw it happen. I thought okay I have to be sure that I will fall into this again so those days before I'd written anything I would I would take a message of mine that I preached one time and let's say in this message. I was burning with fire.

As I preached it. I would listen to it and see if it convicted. Have I lost a fire in my not there today was a started writing books, I would take some of the really intense chapters from different books and look at them and read them again year to later see Jesus convict me in my still in the same place as is when I wrote the book or go back Noster journaling toll journal entries and look at those seal camp at my experiencing God and loving God, the same way and journaling it now express it the same as it did, that are about lost some of that. Another thing would be to periodically read for for me is better than listening to messages but periodically read things that that would deeply stir me or deeply convict me some some of the great sermons I used to read John Lake spiritual hunger message once a year, read it again. All of this year, actually after not reading it many many years and that you know those kind of things just to Sturm-year-old Ravenhill Classics while revival tarries chapters from there. So Am I keeping the fire burning part of it is to do this consciously to to make a determination. I am going to continue to to put fire and passion and hunger in front of me challenge myself to run my race be all God's called me to be, and another thing that's kept me sharp is as I'm constantly attacked and constantly hated and attacked in the line for the gospel and I know it's for the gospel know it's for the Lord and because that that that keeps the fire burning that the hatred the attacked the betrothed misunderstanding. All the junk that comes my way is a service, Micah, a giant lightning rod for all the stuff and spun my calling as much as there's attack with it the people to pray for me and I know that I know that I know that a major reason that I'm strong and thriving and loving the Lord and full of purpose say hey I want him. He knows I want. He knows the Lord knows when anything is relevant to please him and glorify him. He knows my heart in those mysteries put their one major reason I'm here is because of people praying for people praying intercessors faithfully cry out to God for me.

I'm sure more than I know I'll my life to them more than I know I'll my soul to and so many will to the Lord. Of course, but you know what I'm saying. So II don't play with – and I know that's what also helps carry me in the midst of the attack and the attack further fuels the fire and then the good fruit we see that the lives change the testimonies that further fuels my far in fact if you missed at the beginning of the broadcast were asking for you to do this day celebrating with me 50 years of God's mercy and in my life. The ministry that we been able to provide to to the body here and around the world. Risk is this that for your file. Your voice of money that this can go towards the gospel. Of course, but two things.

One, if we been a real blessing to you in the recently over the years, played a significant role in your life or family member coming to faith or just help you be strong but been a significantly would you take the time to shoot us a note you can email info@askeddr.brown.org info@askdoyourbrown.org and just share your story would you do that how we been a help and blessing to you and this is so they will look back on the years that will share with her team and and and we look back at some of these things for for further encouragement and strength I tell you I'm strengthened by the attacks but I'm so deeply blessed by the testimony.

Sometimes they bring the tears literally symptoms a rhythm on the air and had to hold back tears because I am so grateful to God he's allowed me to be a help to you. So that's one thing would you do that if you 70s email, you can always write to us at PO Box 5546 PO Box 5546, Concorde, NC 28027 it's a book we've written. It's changed her life would love to hear it. PO Box 5546, Concorde, NC 28027 or info@asciidearbrown.org that's the one thing the other join us in prayer as I've been doing his regular prayer retreats. Basically once a month going away for weekend just to seek the Lord is as I've been doing these almost no I can't say almost every single time I get overwhelmingly burdened by God to pray for the massive national expansion of the line of fire your broadcast friends. We want to be a voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity to millions more people we want to bring a revolution in radio and Internet to millions of people across America not a revolution of hatred or anger Jesus revolution truth overcoming lies love overcoming hatred, the fullness of the spirit overcoming the power of the world. So were asking you to join with us in faith and to ask God for this as I have agonized on my face before the Lord and shed many tears before the Lord. He knows I I want to exalt his name. He knows I wanted to clear his ways and to clear his truth to wider and wider audience and he knows when to help people struggle to help those who are hurting when help those that the that need equipping and empowering this in Jesus we are over commerce and world changers are so many more Jewish people want to reach with rerun certain key cities in America that were not on down the radio we get regular calls from Jewish listeners would one be back on some of the station so were simply asking you to believe God with us that he would amplify this voice which services your voice the things that burden you the things that convict you the things that concern you by God's grace we got a great platform and were able to shout out your burden your concern together to the nation so would you do that, would you believe God with us is my request to our 50th anniversary Jesus on the special broadcast that the Lord would allow us to blanket America with the line of fire broadcast that by his grace helped spark revival in the church gospel base world cultural evolution inside salvation lost sheep of the house and that's what we need to send us a Jesus. I'm so grateful you are amazing mirth. My life another program powered by the Truth Network