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April 4, 2022 12:50 am

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April 4, 2022 12:50 am

Open calls, questions, and discussion with Matt Slick LIVE in the studio. Topics include---1- Matt reads hate mail.--2- What is the apocrypha- Where did it come from- Is it Scripture---3- Why isn't the obesity epidemic talked about---4- How do I talk to a Christian who supports gay marriage---5- Why, when there's tragedy, do non-Christians suddenly ask for prayer---6- Matt further discusses homosexuality.

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The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network or there we go little blue took issue with a nice writer will do another baby would you recall all go to do was go 772072276 and once that's what today is April 1, 2022 and had to do some more April fools joke things, but I don't have any solo on the disc is serious or talk about stuff and up off and on Fridays I'll do hate so you'll do that. But if you want to give him a call eight 772-072-2765 open lines and if you're new to the show we do here is answer questions of the Bible.

We do all kinds of stuff.

The Bible we do politics, UFOs, aliens, Mormonism Jehovah's Witnesses criticize unity, but I Islam.

So many of them to quickly significant.

All right now so what I would do is to do this may be home originate guilty right Joy, I enjoy people tell me what they like about my hate mail is how I react to it. So I do not will see will see anything good here, but the let's check out so well. I noticed that you forgot to mention the Mormons also have horns on their heads know it would tell you this with the email system and all the Mormons I've met. I never see any horns on their heads so I was guys talking about how could one possibly be offended by reading another man's ignorance are no good. You and what he says. I found your lack of intellect from the subject of music while you really want to. You really want to put us in our place. Start by getting the terminology correct. The Lord bless you with wisdom, discernment and knowledge with respect to all beliefs in every land fiesta. Very good.

You know, it just is. Can a week.

The stress with you must pray to the Angels and the Saints and that the mother of God as the Bible clearly teaches for your salvation.

Okay, now you see, if we are to have a heresy Fest day. That would be one of the ones of the reason for heresy. Check this out. Pray to the angel Saints and him and Mary as the mother Bible teaches. It doesn't teach that list go to the book of second Marana goals next to our first stupid vacation but I know it doesn't teach that in the Bible at all, this guy goes on since the Protestants are so sad for believing in false teachings will how would you know we are but the Bible teaches. He says they go against the clear teaching of Scripture Protestantism and not praying to angels and saints is one of the most un-biblical things.

There is the Protestants are so said okay Mr. you know everything about the Bible.

I would suggest that what you do is show me if anybody can show me the Bible where, pray to saints and we pray to angels and praying to Mary.

This is just idolatry.

You don't express what it is.

It's idolatry.

He was on the Protestants sadly are not going to heaven, for they protest against Jesus Christ and his clear teaching no you got that wrong elected as a good script.

Good insult.

All right, who have at this your Jesus is another email your Jesus is a false Jesus your Christ is a false Christ, your Christ never taught that it is necessary to accept all his truths to be saved where the car never says either accept all his truths to be safest on the current size is less than the Bible says your Christ teaches that even those who reject his teachings. Muslims and Jews can enter heaven. What this guy does not have all his pause in the litter box. That's for sure, your false Christ teaches that baptism is not necessary. All well what baptism is not necessary for salvation, which is not so what is Tanya's not necessary.

I would cultivate people on the true Jesus said that this in his last command.

The apostles also called the great commission, baptizing them in the father-son Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you see people they don't think Sirs was a good example of how not to think so, where does it say in that text that is necessary for salvation is the say that is going therefore teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father-son Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you in billable thing always human into the earth for the sake you must do these things in order to be saved but not what it says but people read the stuff I do this all the time with Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses with Catholics and Eastern Orthodox you will read a verse like this. A good example of the words it had secretly baptized to be saved right here in Matthew 2818 19 says, baptizing them the father, son, Holy Spirit, as it were, the safe necessary for salvation or to be saved. Of course, is what it means that, and they can't even read the nickel and drive cars. Jesus said answered a minute in a city lesson every born again of water and the holy now he's getting someplace and the Holy Spirit cannot enter the can of God must be born again buddies, a Savior declared the necessity baptism really where this a baptism. It says born again of water and the Holy Spirit, where the safe baptism and how do you know was not that the water of the womb because Jesus is the next verse I was born. The flesh is flesh of the Spirit is spirit. Nicodemus, etc. before enter into the two other mother's womb again that he says Jesus as he was born again and then after it was first born of water and the spirit he says if your book has born of the flesh is flesh and spirit spirit. I mux my honest opinion for what I believe is that was referring to was the natural birth the spiritual birth I think it was and so there we go, and it is good is no, you couldn't exegete his way out of what paperback so couldn't all right, all right. So what are you doing my thing here. I just realized something to change a RICO change that so that now okay the radio I got Russia's last second. When things aren't working right there you know you got him in the all right, all right, just one more class to one $4.08 772072276 is lost on on this before.

This is good to the antichrist of Matt slick that seek it. Do hate mail. That's how you do it that's a good insult to the antichrist. Matt slick. I didn't know wasn't antichrist. He says I'm not a Jehovah's Witness but I've studied with them and in. I've also studied the Bible.

Now I find it strange that your website that in your website you have different religions. However, the only religion you against is always with his what you know if I need something like this.

They said that I be staring up at UK wrong you dyslexic you got. You can't legally blind wool wife, Debbie, what is it the only religion of against the Jehovah's Witnesses.

It didn't read everything else. Mormons the Catholics the Muslims you know really ends. There's all kinds of stuff I've written there. That is un-biblical. You know it's just it's amazing to me was what I don't see anything that you saying biblically, other than saying you have had this that winter okay rock headers stop hating since you call yourself a man of God, then show us show you what I've stop trying to be famous about others. What Jesus would have done what you doing okay.

So yeah… That are some issues there. Obviously this guy just goes to all right this is to buy the phone with Joel from Charlotte, North Carolina. Welcome you are on the straightness there we go. Mitchell welcoming Rainier and very good all right with somebody. What a government we observe any of the book on the Catholic get there like we mean by observe, I guess earthly considered Scripture no doubt talk to you get back home.

The pocket were just writings between the book of Malachi in the birth of Christ, a verse of the treatment. That'll and Z are not Scripture does not Bible of the Catholics added in 1546 and I didn't respond to the Protestant Reformation that the Apocrypha has lots of problems and needless to say, the Jews never considered apocryphal books to be Scripture and we Protestant should not either in Roman Catholic should not.

But hey, you.

They do all kind of stuff is not biblical. How you can't keep the of the book, but I did not ever be back into the right people are like a contradiction.

Yeah, like I get you there or are there are problems in the apocryphal, one of the things is, it condones the use of magic and told that 6527 and the angel said take out the entrails of the fish and life is hard and is galling as litter for 344. These are necessary for useful medicines and when you've done so heroes of the flesh took it and rested salt on etc. then Tobias asked the angel said to him I beseeched you brother as Arius tell me what remedies are these things good for which could keep this for shingle said if you put a little piece of it's hard on coals. The smoke will drive away evil spirits so that the smoke of the heart of the fish on a fire drives will evil spirits. And that's in the film at 6527 and then into it for 11 for almost deliver from all sin means getting money deliver small standard from death will not suffer the souls go to darkness as Tobit 12 for almost deliver from death and stuff like that and then second bank Maccabees. This is the Apocrypha 1243 and making a gathering he sent 12,000 drachmas of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, and it just, you know it's got errors in it.

Historical errors it's this is just noise back there been if you so to answer the question that I would add, after the that product Reformation. No dessert. He's written before the birth of Christ, and they're not Scripture. Okay okay I okay with localized you want to give me a call. The number is 877-207-2276. It's good to Doug Perrone, North Carolina Doug welcome your near Matt are you doing.

So good. We got I don't like that activist or anything, but I have a topic bugging me and then I'm wondering why the pole. Do not ever discuss your be the epidemic in this country that is causing many problems. I know this is not your tip hot button topic and that you break this list as it is able to write back. After these messages, please state to mass Y. Call 77077 back to Doug North Carolina. Doug welcome you here unusual topic. I was wondering why Opie is not the church year. The epidemic like everybody wants to avoid this topic. No politicians never talk about it. People of the church never talk about it.

Well, people like you never talk about address the topic have never heard anybody on the radio talk about the subject will I have over the years. Occasionally, very often people ask me and I'll talk about it. The reason I I know about this topic is because I and I actually know someone who is overweight because of cancer is cancer. Cancer met certain kind of problem is got a takes medicine. The side effect is is overweight. I also know that there are people who have just metabolisms that just doesn't it's very, very, very difficult for them to to lose weight. I friend who was a lady friend with my wife. She, her friend and they went out one weekend and my wife is slender. She's always been slender. She's always thin just wishes and so the they both went out and both ate exactly the same meals the same amounts effective hurt my wife's friend did this just a test and she gained two or 3 pounds and my wife to gain anything so there are people that just have difficulties. What we need to talk about is what's called gluttony. Gluttony is the issue and that does need to be addressed become gluttony is wrong what is gluttony.

Gluttony occurs when erratic dinner table. In this context and you're eating far more than you need to and it happens over and over and over.

That's gluttony that sinful shouldn't do that because we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. We should take care of our bodies. For me, exemplum 65 years old, have a sedentary lifestyle. So what I'm doing is cutting back on meals, cutting back on this go to the gym working out probably take a 20 minute walk around the block here later today trying to do think that is tough and I've lost some weight and then I'm hovering in a certain place so just the difficulty so some people have legitimate difficulty issues.

We are talking about the need to be addressed under said just reiterate his gluttony that is sinful.

It is abusing food as a comfort thing is that of Christ using it to satisfy you and you dive into purely physical satisfaction needs to get gluttony in several areas and he could be in TV they could be with music. He could be with food, but generally to associate with gluttony. So yeah it's it's it's a topic needs to be addressed when the Scripture teaches should be spoken of absolutely I read article a couple years ago about how Seventh-day Adventist have a lifespan disc 10 years longer than the average person, and they seem to think that it's because they have clean lifestyles like Detroit you think that is all but liking the way you everybody should make make healthy choices. We think that this topic could get swept under the rug. No one will would grit out and I agreed on the it's it's an important thing is the health related issues are just bankrupting this country and high blood pressure answer at all. The even COBIT could be connected to obesity yet could in fact I just recently got diagnosed with diabetes to an element of another classic one. Yes some sort.

That's right. And so I've lost 15 pounds since the diagnosis and my A1c went down to normal so you know it diet that does have a bodyweight has a huge impact on her life.

I noticed that the lighter I am the better I feel it is just tough though. I can tell you I recommend people have this problem. Understand metabolisms are different. Don't do it all at once just to one change one thing, do it for a week maybe you don't eat that certain something is do that for a week and then that's become a habit and in the next week you do one more thing this stuff like that you take a five-minute walk. You take a 10 minute walk in ticket when you work at an end. Just measure out once a week on the scale to go up and down, you'll have to do better.

I know that a lot of this is because my wife's health issues.

Yes, of eating things as well. Everything else so I've been paying attention, but you can do it and you write the time for me to not I'm 60 and my entire life. People tell me I don't look my age for same.

Their first 40 years that when in one ear and out the other but when I turned 40, I realize I was hearing this lot and I and I started paying more attention to it. I think it must have stuff to do with my eating only thing I can click I'm just I don't know.

Just because a little bit more of a add advocate of healthy eating and I think true conservatives treat their body like a temp. I'm not a fanatic and I'm not of the amount of vegetarian about a lady and I'm not a fanatic about the I just don't think people got, life eating healthy. There's no other explanation for this obesity epidemic was because he is not trying, but he could about trying and everything is designed in foods to make you fatter to to crave more things it's deciding right in foods. Yes, I suggested people do the thing to do one thing left the sugar for three days. This is sugars everything, but don't take a candy bar. Don't take M&Ms. Don't do don't do this to put sugar coffee use honey and it takes. I think it's 33 days to two weeks for the sugar to get your system and then you start feeling better and it's that it's an addictive substance were using more more honey.

My wife and I can fact, we got a distiller were even using distilled water truck a little and we don't know what's in it in the water just a distiller. We just put water in cleaning once a week but the witness told this 20 better and even drum and veggie garlic got up this topic or people in tears because nobody ever talks like a hot button topic, but I think they that comes up every once in a while. I agree with you not eating natural food tech that Jack Delaney knew he was right. Yet, I would have to so his philosophy was to eat what's alive and I don't eat processed food.

You don't take an apple tree new heater it's still technically a live wire chewing on – to manufacture stuff like cheeses and breads and this what he did on his first 65th birthday. I saw the film the video stuff with the pictures he swam from Alcatraz Island to shore San Francisco Bay with his hands handcuffed and his feet shackled and in his mouth was a rope we pulled both rowboats with hundred people and what is your family got out to the thousand that I remember that you is amazing. Direct family got a go but they folks there you go you five of the blind wide-open thought of the argument.

Call eight 772-072-2760 McCall mass Y call 77077 right now is what 72760. I thought my jump back into that or hate mail because I got a good one reading it during the break.

What so if you call me and asked me to make sense of this. I will be able to but the looksee says I do not think you know very much about the truth about true crypt.

The true Christianity how he didn't. After Jesus Christ obtains the Holy Spirit, Jesus Crist orders the saved to go after the cross for Christ. The leader is made Marion's dad made Marion's dad leaning up with God in heaven made Marion's dad discovers that a marker that reveals the location of the cross for Christ is in the dungeon of God's one true temple escaping from Jews fired gunmen and they ship made. Marion discovers that her dad is being held in Moses Desert when she and Jesus reach the desert big Marion locates her father but make Marion proves herself the commandment proves Proves herself the commitment and even worse Walter.affect what the heck after made Marion and Jesus escape the desert they had to Berlin. Written by couple of monkeys after weekend tequila. It's not working okay after made Marion to Jesus escape the desert they had to Berlin to get Peter's faith where is your faith though it lasted walk a lot and check my pocket with my faith that God's so Peter Peter's faith, as it did for lead is awesome.

You know hope to lease.

Imagine you walk along you got your faith there and you reach your pocket, pull it out in the street sweeper comes along and put in the trash that what he had to wait so we went to Berlin to get Peter's faith that provides apocalyptic information of those who seek the cross for Christ all lot of explanation you need is capitals like Peter, however, is preached by Jesus in Jared Roosa lab and made Marion met up with Paul write the Bible they run into Jews and a huge sermon ensues.

That's cool. They run into Jews at a huge sermon ensues. I like that is pretty cool made Marion and Jesus obtain the cross for Christ while okay verily Jesus obtain the cross of Christ for Christ and gave eternal life giving the world a future of faith will Jesus Christ and the pastor Peter teach and send the Christians of darkness marching all over America.

I will pray for you that is awesome on one you know sometimes. Some types of intelligibility crack me up and submits comments the people in the chat room okay all right okay now you serious. We went with what for one you should believe Jesus of heaven is also a perishable object. According to him in Matthew 24. Is it not virtually a blasphemy of Bible father. What is the use of going on to another perishable place called heaven like earth's Bible, God confused.

After becoming a man. Jesus think seriously.

Wow this is awesome. Seriously, think seriously, no, I didn't know what to do. Think Sarah can help with all man okay let's get to Julia from South Carolina hey Julia, welcome here on the air. I wanted to kick Hermia that I would be one thing that you did not take out prime and what man around a lot of common much cheaper stated and it had the great man, more experienced, and some people cannot think because they don't have the money yet. I love the test was cheap the taste. It's tasty but it's loaded with chemicals, preservatives, fat and things that get your body depended on it, easy go to YouTube and look up a healthy diet, certain watching some stuff. There's hot water stuck Eagle's care. You it's in our food. It will is that we get back. Whenever they die while the bank known a lot of people who have several children and not much money and they would go away you get after Margaret acknowledged and I and on it at that doing the best I can never really be a good guy and I understand that I did.

I'm so glad because we don't want to get with people into submission in your center. If you know you can eat right and stuff that is such a good point. I'm so thankful you saying have a question like me several people get week thing the biblical how thinking a friend out yesterday day and am talking about different denominations and I won't. You know I don't want to get electric energy for anything wrong. If people want to go to transplant, just like other comparable will look and find well she's claiming to be Christian then asked her how she studied this issue. According to the revelation of God's word and shield wealth course… Something to be effective no and what she's doing is submitting to God's word to her feelings or sensibilities. She's read about settlement tomorrow and to safety. 19 range of how the hope of the homosexuals there were aggressive and this is one of the thing that happens and all we had great problem. Cultural cultural life that cultural here you say like this, it wasn't cultural okay I think that it cultural, cultural, and here's the thing about this, this asked her what did God make me homosexuals, or did he make a male and female, and commanded them so is homosexuality, the fulfillment of what God had created or is it something that is the result of sin because it has to be the result of sin in sinful D Mike and you help me in my and Albert, I guess what yesterday on the air when you do something I don't know anyway like I went out need to step out in Scripture outlook on car air and I'm old you praise God were expanding it more and we can we do more video work with that and try to string do the best we can fool God and about God by God's grace and you gotta give kudos to the radio station network to keep me on here because they could. Let's just say be making more money with my slot than what I'm getting. So if you're not doing it for money we don't have a lot of money. The ministry we want to get on a more station money for it and will be. I've been asked other networks of said to me what you want will but nevertheless no humans, anything truly have these people on and being faithful to the word of God and things like that. It's good to hear that to get you should call up the office talk to my wife and daughter. She's a listen anymore. People like you healthy and helpful labor alive. She's just so you know she's a lot of health issues but she's a good woman and she really won't get back.

Try to get a friend or she what she is. I'll wait right back in the day is very good to know what to believe. Like this line break got ago okay got a folks, we have one of the line less than 77 mass Y call 770-7777 Alberto from Georgia welcoming on here knowing that you entered call cricket hypocrites all time. And then when tragedy happened to call up after pray for an antiquated paper that the public stripper with money on the bike the bar with a name I don't recall the bartender to trigger the data called shortly but in the tragedy happened like because her hypocrites. This way you said it all the stuff for my best to get a very consistent.

That's what it is called a stripper, but if a Christian partnership Oquendo shut up right without a tragedy. All about courage good by filing with all that fed line not like the bad guy left the preacher pray for them in the creek and a great you want people to get on the money in the bartender because they hope to get in contact with the divine and the and such of the good pastors and things like that.

I don't know what to so it's it, let hypocrites out there looking very consistent or anybody could got plus okay all right and we were talking a little bit ago about homosexuality and stuff and oh yeah strictly to sink what you say to someone doing the same. It's okay to just have each other well, not really know who says so think about what we can't love each other can. When you love one already married a marketable fall of my neighbors wife is a remarried that person instead of somebody doesn't mean it's right this minute. Mix okay with you love your car you want to marry get some people want to. What about the children pedophilia. Thanks so you know Dr. much but the people to cart carpet. You don't this thing is with the homosexual community. They are all are already free to marry like anybody else but what they want is the definition of marriage change to suit their paved fear. I think about its behavior is not an issue of who you love because that doesn't justify marriage. Like I said below I married my wife and I love another woman which is not gonna happen, but if I did I say I don't want to marry hurts and my wife asked. Mix okay because he is waiting for you know I like blocks and brunettes or brunettes is a brought lunch or whatever it is that while it is because I'm I need to be free. Freedom covers it with responsibility for so few people want to exercise that responsibility. They don't want to do that they wanted they want to go after their feelings they want to feel good and they want to fulfill the desires of the flesh, and this is what city for trying to stand fine where it talks about this whole issue of lustful desire of flesh and life and things like this don't put homosexuals in the LGBT community will symbol homosexuality is is in the nature about lung animals, so therefore it's natural yard was asked to give it but it is a work because in nature and also either eat their young and eat other of the same species even alive that make it okay because that's what nature does of course not. But yet with that there was no use, homosexuality occurs in nature. Therefore, it's okay, well then I guess it's okay to eat your children to write the cadet that occurs in nature and from an evolutionary perspective how does it further the kingdom should be has a further the species get on this is to possess an internal critique of their position. I was homosexuality working benefit of the furthering of the species in evolution, it doesn't.

But anyway… Signal are the homosexuals born that way, that make it okay is either born that way, and it also shouldn't deny them what's what they they feel they need being born that way does make it okay because what if I'm born to be a liar. I just love to lie that they can okay course, not just because you have a tendency or claim to have a tendency doesn't mean it's morally right. You'll notice have you ever on TV and for after all these decades ever seen a debate on this topic, homosexuality, for and against with a competent opponent not I haven't even heard of it. I've never seen it and you know why because they don't want the other side hurt only their own.

Let's see, so you are already free to marry the people of the opposite sex the same as anyone else that you still own businesses have relations with whom they desire. But they want to have all of society. Follow their definition of what marriage is and so statistically select 96 to 98% of all people in United States are straight, are heterosexual.

So the half of what's left over claims to be in the LGBT Q kind of realm and enter rate remaining have a percentage of the records presented really significant after the questioner and so that the thing is that it looks like 90 correctly 90% of all people and your strength. Why is it then that we have been on a disproportional amount of representation and radio in books and magazines and TV and sitcoms and movies where homosexuals LGBT Q this that are more more prominent and yet they don't represent the population expression, but I'll tell you one thing though Christians are 1020 real Christians to 20% of the population everything and yet when they represented on TV that represented his evil bigots notice of the homosexual community wants fairness of representation right don't because they don't fight for first representation of others just what they claim for the rooms themselves there hypocrites.

So freedom requires possibility now health why is homosexuality protected under the law. She's protected by the government, but 29.

Be careful how I say this stuff because by the children up to living under the be very vague 28% of the males involved with that have excessive number of leave it at that 43% of its half that expects super excessive number. I mean jaw-dropping, jaw-dropping, and and then let them are strangers agent. It it stopped in 2008 over 1.1 million people in the states were infected with HIV is according to CDC 90% of some of that stuff are infected with HIV, 44% are unaware that their affected and yet they promised you the amount of worldwide profit when everyone hundred adults ages 50 to 49 is HIV-infected. This is statistics from about five or seven years ago, I believe so. Inmate population percentages you 96.6% of adults identified as straight in the 2013 and eight and HRIS data 1.6 identified as gay, lesbian .7 is bisexual, remaining 1.1% of the adults identified a something else selects it deserve a fair representation. No structure is an agenda pushing it and they wanted a new school for children. They want your children to be brainwashed into their leftist and moral sinful lifestyle and approve me tell you what happens when that that happens.

Those who approve of it will hate Christ because of what Christianity says this is wrong because of this rock and they will deny Christ and they will deny those whom they called unfair bigots, no press, they will process this is what that's going to happen.

It is going to happen in the sea so I could talk to some of the fun. I won't look at the caller. Let's see give Violet see Martin from Virginia Mark welcome on their body that I got what I actually meant for that Matt might call black traffic that we are more lighthearted, jovial night you had so much I can't tell you how my current family. We cheese I she's learned about sandwiches because instant veggie tales. I forgot who would clean got kicked on the kingdom because she would make her her husband a sandwich and so I heard that I would hate so that's a hard sell usually runs right there you go about veggie tales, so I've been having a lot of fun. Okay you're talking about the homosexuality mother. I will meet Dr. job that I will now turn so far to the minority that it they are really going to hurt me. I've been there five times in a California Florida mom, my wife and daughter had been there seven times and never got back to live in Anaheim worse. Disneyland is housed and to go there the past hold 90 more covered the best and I would trust him, it's… Yet no doubt you very very minority. Obviously, if the art you might argue that the flock that I would try to out out backed up having moral or good about that back that up really cutting out most the folks that just aren't vocal like a wallet later using majority people peaceloving work hard like a family one and have fun trouble and so most people just kind of relax when this kind of idiocy goes on committal past, but even realize that passivity is an involuntary form of approval and we better make sure that you don't support it where it counts with it when they implicitly look it up around the cave apart pocketbook and so yeah well you all make choices will make Detroit.

Read up our my opinion Christian should go to Disneyland should not participate in certain movies or sitcoms. I know Christian used watch these trash programs of gossip they think it's wonderful they've the this deny Christ so what were getting is a debauched society is going to fail. Exercise can crumple yet thought watching your child healthy awareness. You and Mark Horton the world out picture of yourself. Bad news is there to break a goblet on the folks that we go I'll go have a great weekend by his grace was back on the air on Monday so grand powered by the Truth Network