Answering Your Theology Questions on Social Media

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We devoted this tire broadcast to answering questions that you have posted on our twitter account which is DR Michael L. Brown to Al's and their get the right person DR Michael L Brown at twitter or our Facebook page asked Dr. Brown a SK DR Brown on Facebook so poster questions now. We solicit these a few days earlier. We devoted the entire broadcast to answering your questions will start on Twitter as a severe 20 questions and then go from there over to Facebook so start with our friend David over on Twitter. Why do you think the church now has a culture where we can't confess our sins one to another, you think this is a huge reason for many failing away falling away. What is a solution or or maybe it's a three in one question so is it is it a new kind of culture we have now were people are afraid to confess their sins one to another.

This contribute to people falling away with a solution. Your great questions.

I think it's always difficult for some people to confess sins to other people or for any of us to humble ourselves and to say to someone I'm wrong here. I've sinned here, but perhaps today there are a couple of reasons why it's become harder one social media everybody knows everybody's business. How confident am I that if I confide in you and I Sherry up and really gone through a struggle of fighting depression, and test this anxiety I feel like I'm in faith and I share that with you.

Am I confident my story will remain with you. Or maybe you just want to share with someone else on lines.

I don't know if that's in people's minds, but certainly there's a culture where what you did not mean some blatant thing where where you know I confess to my leadership team. I just want you to know I've been robbing Babb and part of that bank robbery gang. The last five years that has been caught. I'm part of the loan. I confess that I'm being marched out to the police okay or if if you know someone sits in a with others and say I just have to confess I've been living in adultery with with four different partners. The last five years. Okay that's gonna have to go to your spouse and that's gonna have to go to a visual working with the ministry and there will be consequences. I understand that but sometimes were just afraid if we we fall short. The slightest way or show any humanity that will get thrown under the bus that will get discarded that and that's our culture and we have a cancel culture in the church so we have to do is make her hate were not condoning sin were not looking the other way were not saying it doesn't matter, but were recognizing all of us need mercy.

All of us are works in progress, this be open and honest and help each other and encourage each other and lift each other up what we have to do is have an environment where mercy is strongly emphasized were restoration strongly emphasized were forgiveness strongly emphasized where humility strongly emphasized and where people feel safe in that context, I believe we can make positive progress of okay, let's see.

Daniel asked the question, are we in the last days we in the last days. Yes, according to the Bible we been in the last days, though, since Jesus died and rose from the dead. No Romans 13 tells us that the night is nearly passed. The day is at hand. The end of Romans 13 within first Corinthians 10 Paul says that that the end of the ages has come upon us, as of risk within is that the 10th chapter, James Jacob, the fifth chapter speaks of of wicked people hoarding up riches for themselves in these last days taking for the poor, pressing others first Peter one talks about the gospel coming to us in the last days Hebrews 1 talks about God speaking through his son in the last days first onto even says it's the last hour. There are those predators in particular for predators to make the terrible error of thinking that the last days ended with the destruction of the second Temple, and now when the period of the new heavens and the new earth amended dastardly airflow predators make that heretical or in fact send resurrections past. However, we have been in the last days. In terms of human history is that the last major chapter been the last day, since Jesus died and rose from the dead, the outpouring spirit asked to is on all flesh during the spirit of the last days, so are we in the last seconds of the last days, God knows the exact timetable.

Okay 2020 doom proper had asked a silly question within a serious one over on Twitter my serious question. What are your thoughts of passages like Leviticus 25, 44 to 46 would seem to suggest discrimination against Gentiles in terms of slavery.

That is the single most difficult passage dealing slavery in the Old Testament because many of the laws. You can actually see humanitarian laws, but was God telling the people of Israel. You will not do to your own slaves/service that the Hebrew word could be debated. Translate slave translate servant, you will not do to them what was done to you in Egypt. Your your your slaves/service they'll serve six years of the seventh year go free and if you knock a tooth out getting them hit a lucky tooth at the go free. Based on that, and they rest on the Sabbath, just like you do, you will treat them the way you were treated in Egypt passes like this. This is that you can acquire slaves from the surrounding nations. So now there's a war and soliciting captive and worn out or enslaved. You can acquire slaves from afar nations. You just can't totally mistreat them, but they can be passed on his property. Next generations. How do we justify that there are some who will try to argue that the same laws still apply to them in terms of fair treatment if they were mistreated, they can go free. So that's that's a whole separate discussion, but certainly they were not treated the same as Israelite slaves. They didn't have just the six year cycle. They could be passed on to the next generation so maybe your 70 and you acquire a slave and I you die when you're 73, that slave becomes your son slave.

I look at that as part of the Sinai covenant that was given to Israel to teach, to instruct and so they could conduct themselves in this world, a certain way, but was not God's ideal was not God's ultimate good dislike divorce Jesus as was given for the hardness of heart, so how can we weigh these things out what was God's offer. Israel and it was appropriate in those times and and it was in common with other law codes in certain ways Israelite watercolors is far better in and transcended in terms of its worship of the one true God, but look stoning adulterers, stoning sorcerers and or burning sorcerers and witches, things like that that was to teach that was to instruct that was established in his righteousness that was to weed out evils that evil without destroy Israel if there is no Israel would be enormous either be no salvation. That being said, we have to look at the rest of Scripture, which has an ethic of the slaves and captives being set free and look at that is God's ultimate heart is it working is this a thematic homosexual practice because that was just under the law was also forbidden and condemned by the New Testament just as well so these things are University from dislike murderers condemned an old New Testament adulterers condemned an old New Testament slavery service and forth as an ideal source of difficult passage is one that was it was part of the Sinai covenant, but that were not under today.

Let's get down and Cliff Cliff asked this question. What would God have us to do about the lawlessness were seeing our nation beside pray and vote so one thing we can do is go into the midst of all the situations and share the gospel and people been doing.

That limits the rights to purchase RCF Wisdom and be led by the Lord but to go into the midst of lawlessness, and preach the gospel to preach politics and preach tromp preach Biden don't preach police don't preach Jesus preach Jesus and and and seek to go in the midst of these situations with worship lecture on fourth is done. Just take worship teams out in the messages worship the Lord. Seek to change the atmosphere sure the gospel and then do what you can in your local community to stand with law enforcement civets work together we can we do to bring harmony in the community. How can we get sit downs between people who and alienated and people in law enforcement.

What can we do have a spirit of camaraderie working together for the good of our communities also be some things that could be done GL asked this question does infant baptism count for Catholics are to be baptized again as an adult I feel a strong urge to which the difference between baptism by water and by fire okay yes I would strongly encourage you to baptism is something we do in response to our faith with all respect to my friends were baptized as infants and I believe that's what Scripture teaches. I'm quite of the opinion that the Bible calls for baptism. In response to the gospel. Believe and be baptized repent and be baptized so I can mention how many thousands of people I know that were baptized as infants, but realize it was just a religious ritual that had no impact on the lives when they came to faith a professional phrase like I believe you, but I want to be baptized so by all means absolutely baptized as an adult as a believer of the baptism of water is when we go underwater and symbolize dying to send dying to self and our rising newness in life. That's is my fire Jesus speaks in Matthew 311 of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire.

And I understand to be one of the same. Some some read it differently. I understand to be one of the same. There where the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a baptism in the fire of God. This whether tongues of fire next to when the disciples were filled with the spirit about impurity, baptism and passion.

Others would use the phrase separately. A baptism of fire mean going through a very fiery trial, or while that was a baptism of fire. It's more a figure of speech that while that was a an eye-opening experience that was like throwing get thrown in the deep end with the sharks that's is a hard way to start the baptism of fire by the biblical terminology of baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. I see this as one Jesus speaks of a baptism he had to under go in Luke 12 sufferings he was going to endure. But that again is a is a figure of speech, the right we come back to take a couple more Twitter questions and then go over to Facebook member not taking calls today not catching up on latest breaking news just taken questions that I solicited a few days ago on Facebook on the Cascadia rally aspect of our Facebook page on twitter Dr. Seuss DR Michael L.

Brown post request is now only answering those that he will be right back here on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown friends welcome to modifier Michael Brown delighted to be with you not taking calls today answering questions. I solicited a few days ago on Facebook and Twitter not catching up on breaking news if there's something earth shattering happening right now just concentrating on your questions. By the way, if you're watching on Facebook and asked her to run Facebook page you see a donate button. If you click on that button you can give directly to our ministry work. It's super convenient. Many have done that already with us a five dollar gift or $5000 gift we deeply appreciate it helps us do what were doing and reach more and more people with excellence with I believe a voice that you back and are encouraged by student either on Facebook. Just click on the $if you watch on YouTube so both asked Dr. Brown channels on YouTube or the Facebook page asked Dr. Brown if you're watching their beneath the chat box is $you can click on that and donate or your website Esther Gibran asking your Brown.org, just click on donate their right back to Twitter for a few more questions on a switch over to Facebook Peter asked the question how would you best counter open theism. How would you best counter open theism. What is open theism, open theism is the view that although God is all-powerful and all-knowing and all wise that he can only know what is knowable and because the future is still to unfold. And people have free will to make decisions that the the the future can be changed. There are possibilities about which ways things will go.

And God does not know for sure every decision that we made so things are open in that respect. I have an excursus. My Jeremiah commentary where I deal with this very question because there versus and Jeremiah were God speaks as if he does, I was really hoping for this. I was expecting this and didn't happen or Jeremiah preach to the people.

Perhaps the listen as if God really is.

Know what's coming, so II address the issue in depth. There and the best way to reject it to me is twofold.

First look at the statements that God makes about himself in the Bible.

Descriptive statements in Isaiah 40 through 48, where he describes himself in distinction from the false gods that he knows the end from the beginning that he can predict things before they happen. Where's the false gods can't wear where he sees eternity. Isaiah 57,000 5715 that he inhabits eternity. So the whole view of everything is before him so look at self descriptive statements. Psalm 139. The psalmist is before words even on my tongue. You know it you know it. So these passages indicate to us that God knows everything, every detail of everything that will happen before it happens. Not because he fixed and ordained everything that will happen. Certain things he has fixed and ordained many things he hasn't given to the choice and free will. But he knows in advance was can have because he inhabits eternity because time is something created in God dwells above and beyond time.

So I look at the statements God makes about himself and say based on those statements. We understand that God has eternal foreknowledge. The other thing I would do is logically think through the passages where God seems genuinely disappointed or surprised was he was he actually surprised. For example, in Genesis 22 when Abraham is ready to sacrifice Isaac to the ends of the Lord is as now I know now I know that you really fear me all now I know the truth God. God didn't know that before God was uncertain how Abraham act.

God didn't really say in Genesis 18 on the tell him what to do because he's going to order his children after after after himself, to follow me in Genesis 12 are goddesses. The three the whole world would bless God didn't really know how Abraham would respond really, and God telling Jeremiah from the outset how judgment destruction to become that guy was generally surprised was peopled in the snow rather God speaks as incarnated in our world, just like he incarnated himself in Jesus incarnated himself in the in the sun so that Jesus experienced legitimate joy and sorrow and and and grief and surprise you literally express those things. I believe God is the ability to incarnate himself in our old day by day's that he feels grief and joy and disappointment and expectation even though he knows definitely getting used to how is that possible first is goblin not but second we do it all the time so we never watched a movie you seen before. Maybe a classic you watch with your kids every time you want but you know the outcome you know the outcome but you experience the moment. Why can God do that today. All right, Tyler asked the question, is the kingdom now. Not yet, or both, is the kingdom now. Not yet, or both. The kingdom is here and is growing the kingdom will not be fully manifest or fully come until Jesus returns, establishes his kingdom on your right.

So there is a a kingdom now teaching that's been popularized in recent decades will hear about it as much now that basically everything in the kingdom is here now take it. Now they can lead to dominion is that can lead to a a false identity of Christians is the superior beings that rule everybody else or some some misnomer like that, but the kingdom is ready here that the kingdom broke and with Jesus coming into the world and indicated not just pay a visit and depart dispensationalism a teacher like that, but the kingdom of God is not pay a visit and depart the King of God broke in RI and is been growing and expanding through the preaching of the gospel.

The kingdom of God is the role of God, so is there more and more people under the dominion of God, more more people honoring him serving and loving in the kingdom is expanding more more people getting set free and liberated from the kingdom of Satan to the kingdom of God became of God is spreading is DA Carson Craig Keener send their Matthew commentaries that we pray your kingdom come, were praying for the full manifestation were praying for the return of the Lord the full establishment of the kingdom of God on earth. So it's here with an incipient form will not see the fullness of the kingdom in its entirety until Jesus returns. I will grab a bite to two more questions on twitter in the most which over to Facebook Moses M2 76 was reading in Leviticus that if anyone offers their children to molest, they must be put to death. What in God require can Manasseh be put to death when he allow human sacrifice to more or death for adultery at King David was allowed to live simple answer to your question as they were the kings Manasseh and David were kings and kings were kings and did what they wanted to do and no one had the authority over them to say all right were taken off the throne and put his death. Now they worshiped idols.

Some of them. Manasseh was involved with the shedding of innocent blood.

He should've been put to death. Now ultimately, there was divine judgment.

Those things happen. The various penalties.

Profits would bring words of rebuke, but the king was the king that sense he was going to do and was, and replenish the way others would be punished. And last twitter question James Christian support any political party, and possibly an unbeliever without becoming unequally yoked and losing their witness okay it depends on to what degree we support the party and how we support the party. In other words, if I say that I stand with the Republican policies on ABCD E and I differ with the Democratic policies on those same issues there from voting for the Republican candidates you say what about this. Not don't agree with that point. But that's secondary to it with this one. The way he behaves the way she behaves yeah I don't like that. I agree aggressive behavior on both sides with here voting for these reasons we can maintain a Christian witness a godly witness I've no issue say I was Donald Trump would say certain things to do certain things that I've no issue differing. What would a policy decision or something like that. I wish the Trump would be more consistent.

For example, in opposing activism. You get one side sings this most pro-gay prison. We were having and the other side things the most antidepressant. There had we should be more consistency.

There wishes behavior and demeanor were different and in ways many ways, we should be more more accurate and honest when he speaks. I say that freely is my president on my Savior. But when it comes to the role of the president to do better job him really Clint Hammer Joe Biden my view Trump so I'm not married to the party to the person I I want my proclamation of Jesus to be a thousand times stronger and louder than my vote for the president if you're one that you were a maggot hat and you got a Trump Penns 2020 bumper sticker yet assign your front yard but nobody knows your Christian sums wrong with that picture is wrong with that picture. So if we defend a candidate at all costs. We put our trust in emotions in in into politics far more than we doing to God the service of God. If we look to a political party to save the nation are politically insane.

They should never make a mistake then it's unhealthy and that we do compromise or witness. But when we lay out here is my vote. Okay here I'm going to the store and I have to pick up paper towels, which is the best brand know or I've got to get this to to work on a clogged drain, which is the best brand that works for this or that or whatever the question is you put everything in its category got to get the oil change, which is the most reliable place you that's quickest in and out you make your choice. Okay, what comes to the role the president was the role the president was the role of Sen. what's the role role the state rep. What's the role of a local city council member or school board member. What's their role was a best candidate. You vote accordingly. But you proclaim to the whole world. The woman it's my heart my soul my life my devotion, my all in all is Jesus not presidential candidate or any other kind of don't have to compromise over the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown in the line of fire now going 866-34-TRUTH your exam is Dr. Michael Brown transferred joining us on the line of fire. This is Michael Brown delighted to be with you. Hey, are our ministry name is S dark brown, and because of that we get lots of questions sent into us and we have staff and team that helps answer questions for me. With me, of course, on the air we answer as many questions as we can sets were doing today. But I solicited these questions a few days elusive. You just turning and don't call in the post.

The question I really solicited these on Facebook so the S dark about Facebook page and on Twitter the Dr. Michael DeRosa DR Michael L.

Brown, twitter page, but we've finished with Twitter for now and were going over to Facebook and let's start with this question from Kevin. And yes, this how does solar script Torah justify itself without tradition in some way. There's no God-given table of contents handed down to us at some point the books of Canon came to us through tradition, correct yet so first Kevin many things come to us by way of tradition, but we believe that God is superintending the process, meaning the canon of Scripture that we have recognizing the Old Testament the books of of the Hebrew Bible. Those come to us by way of Jewish tradition right that date that the canon of Scripture was ultimately decide on terms Old Testament by Jews and then received by subsequent generations, and usually receive Jesus and the Gentile Christians as well or as as we go on in history. The preservation of the Hebrew Bible that is been at the hands of Jews who do not believe in Jesus. Through the centuries right in the manuscripts reserved by Catholic monks well Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox believers use those same manuscripts even though they have some different traditions and Christians in Ethiopia that have a little bit different canon. They use the same Greek manuscripts, etc. so if you just try to save some is meant to preserve our tradition must be true, then which way do you go you become a traditional Jew coming which way to go there so yeah the decisions as to ultimately what books are part of the Bible. Those were made by human beings but we believe they simply recognize what God was doing in a God superintendent that process and that's why for example, all branches of Christianity agree on the canon of the New Testament right that you know if you get a Roman Catholic Bible you get a evangelical Bible you get it in an Ethiopian Bible.

This is not the same books in the New Testament that you may have a disagreement about some other books present simplex with it for the New Testament. Okay, so in any case, I'd I justify so Scripture by saying what is it that is quoted as authoritative and in every age of Scripture.

So you go back to God revealing himself at at at Mount Sinai and through the Exodus is the only true God and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

So that verifies what comes before the prophets have to speak in conformity with was written in the law of Moses that Jesus comes into the world to the Boston Globe to fulfill patient bills on what comes before then. He sends his disciples out to teach and preach and and they refer back to the words of Jesus and and then ultimately there is acceptance and recognition of the words of the of the apostles and and of other writings of the New Testament to God, superintendent process, but now I get balancing way. Everything based on Scripture because that's always been the authority right in and we know that some traditions are good like pulsing father traditions. We gave you and then Jesus doing things by traditionally going to synagogue I was a farcical tradition that allows rebuking some of the Jewish leaders are hypocritical hypocritical traditions and traditions that violated the word of God as he does in Matthew 15 Mark seven Matthew 23. For example, so everything is tested by Scripture. And when I see church tradition violating Scripture just like what I see rabbinic tradition filings Scripture have to go back to Scripture was written so the other things are interesting and can bring support and further information. But Scripture is the ultimate God.

Let's see Cecil when we sin, replacement theology, people, and is of the biblical duty to take the side of Israel on political front to what extent we stand with Israel. We say to replacement theology people is Israel still here.

Jews are still here. How that happened, happened because God made promises is Israel's better because God is into racial or genetic superiority, but because God made promises that he keep his people that he bring her back to the land, even in unbelief they turned their hearts to welcome the Messiah knew all the you can check my videos on this a short one.

What is replacement theology.

You can check that it S dark brown YouTube channel restrictor Brown.org, or better still get my book.

Our hands were stained with blood that I have three chapters get the new edition came out last September of three whole chapters in the book dealing with the error of replacement theology so Israel's here by the will of God. The Jewish people did not cease to exist up until be wiped out.

Why Romans 1120 and 29 even though Paul writes to the Gentiles. Their enemies now your sake on account of the fathers.

They are loved for the gifts and calling of God or irrevocable promises remain the silly exclamation for the Jewish people being here, being back in the land is rich, what degree we stand with Israel. We stand with Israel and is registered as we make clear that we stand with Israel. Overall, believing that God brought the Jewish people back to Landon. This is the promise land stem of them.

Overall it in the larger picture absolutely and and we stand with them righteously when they are doing the right thing in the in the in the Middle East and with the Palestinians and things like that will be different. We differ is friends we said we stand with you. We believe that God has raised you up. We believe that is the enemy who wants to destroy we stand with you. However, we stand for righteousness above all. And when we disagree with you, will call you out will say this is wrong or that is wrong and that happens on a regular basis. Let's see Adele.

It seems like what primarily happens in church as we go over and over moral lessons. Almost like were over for Dr. and completely disregard the power and presence of the Holy Spirit thoughts will it all depends on what church circles ran.

That's absolutely the case in some during the days of the will survival it was said before the revival in 1904, 95 of the people were taught to death in the edits is there is a 29 cycle that Jesus refers to the discordance of the pastors in Matthew 15 Mark seven and referred to them received. You draw near with your mouth that your hearts far from me. Talk talk talk talk Dr. to Dr. but there's no vibrant relationship with God. They have other circles in the ultra charismatic circles where it's all about encountering the spirit encountering God and very little doctrine. We need both need the word and the spirit we need the word and the spirit.

The father wants people who worship him in spirit and in truth, both and not either or, as Riverplace where it may be you love the congregation there and it's a place we can put routes down your film is been there for years in your home there but if it is a real lack of vibrancy in the spirit than you best is supplemented elsewhere or get into a place with good balance between word and spirit my book authentic fire.

I think you find really helpful authentic fire. If you haven't read it all. Let's see, let's go to Marie Eve hello.

I finished reading your book, Israel's divine healer really good. I'm not sure if you answered this question that I have a so forgive me, to have not seen or reading it. If you take this passage the past and assisted by stress really do believe that a lot of Christians don't get healed because they don't believe in the literal meaning of the sentence. I don't I know you don't believe everybody will be here on earth would you think complete divine healing is available.

Some Christians don't believe the right way to get healed if you believe that one is someone who believes that should be healed. Once they begin to think the right way. I'm not talking about you need to get the right amount of faith. I know you don't believe that. Thanks, refers congratulations on reading through the book. It's a serious academic book and it's got even more words in the footnotes than the main text. In fact, every other book in that series. There is no Testament of Michael theology has footnotes or your reading the. The text of the footnotes in this case a reference for that since endnotes minor in the back say why because the text look to intimidating was so much footnotes so they moved to the back 80,000 words main text 85,000 words of endnotes, but I do deal with it and in the passage when I treat Isaiah 53 and then I get into Matthew suture usage of it of inshore. I do not believe that the text is saying that we were already healed at the cross and therefore are healed now. In that sense like some some face teachers would teach. I understand if a cover hotel near Parliament to meet at the cost of his wounds. Your ceiling for us was any feeling for the whole person. First Peter 224 quotes it with reference to our salvation.

For you, like sheep going astray. But you return to the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls by whose stripes, but his wounds you were healed. So speaking there of returning to the Lord coming to God being forgiven healed. In that sense but I do believe that everything needed for redemption was purchased at the cross and at the cost of his wounds. There is healing for us and it will take hold of that we can see physical know you will receive 100% in this world, but it is available through the cross. It has been paid for at the cross and therefore is available to us as believers today Sean how to get more Christians to engage culture with a kingdom mindset. Have them listen to and watch the line of fire and has Sean's grant I could level from question to and have them read my daily articles and the other good stuff that's on the other websites right to publish. Basically what we have to do is is understand that we play a role in every aspect of society is kingdom minded people. When I try to take over when I try to set up a theocracy veteran to force everyone to follow our faith were set of clergy to rule the nation rather receive a salt like we are seeking to make a difference and you just asked the perennial question.

What would've been the right thing for us to do during the days of slavery as followers of Jesus is kingdom minded people following Jesus. What would the right thing to do, have been what's the right thing to do today when it comes to reports what's the right thing to do today when it comes to racial reconciliation was the right thing to do today when it comes to the the deterioration of the family was the right thing to do today when it comes to sex trafficking and things like that and what can we do is God's kingdom.

People make a difference that we believe work and Vance were called to make a difference. You generally can preorder my my new book the new edition of my revolution, but Matt October 6. Amazon will have a home website, a special officer is called revolution can call for moral uprising really give you picture how meeting changed by God are called to go out to the world around about positive change right a few more questions on the inside of the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us today on the line of fire. I am answering your questions that I solicited a few days ago on Facebook and Twitter settle post now. Don't call now with this breaking news happening right around us. We are focused just on your questions right now, breaking news, major news, I'll be writing about it.

You can watch my articles right now just focusing on your questions. All right, so Joe asked this on our estrogen on Facebook page.

Why do influential Christians go with religious pluralism. The theological position that all religions are valid paths to salvation. Why even Fuller theological seminary, has professors who say Islam is better than Christianity. I don't know Joe exactly who you speak about at Fuller but why do some well-known Christian leaders are professing Christian leaders go the way of religious pluralism first. I do not believe if you are a true Christian leader you can go that way you can be compassionate towards people of other religions. You can see good qualities in some of the belief systems or moral values of religions, but if you say that all religions lead to God or that all monotheistic religions lead equally to God, then you're no longer true Christian you're denying fundamentals of the faith in saying that, why do people go in that direction is the spirit of the world is the spirit of compromise and can be many different reasons.

One can just be we lose sight of of God's truth and try to be reasonable about this is that the reason position of my fate, my my church, my group, my religious right. Anybody else is damned this is that were you believe really does seem reasonable to get to know people, decent Muslims, decent Buddhist induced atheist just now nearly 10 else going the same direction right, better the human race. Good lives in honor whatever is out there will certainly try to be reasonable or you want to look enlightened you want to be accepted by the world you know Paul was talking about. People are preachy. How to be circumcised and obey the law of Moses nor the safe and he said the only reason they do that there was summons to Gentiles as to avoid the offense of the cross, so some of this is to avoid persecution for the offense of the cross.

Others are more subtle reasons, but can be any of the above be someone who really does know the Lord but is intellectually convinced of the validity of all these different religions and therefore they come up with this leaf. All right, let's see. Andrea why was it so important not to mix fabrics in the Old Testament. Why was it so important not to mix fabrics in the Old Testament what it wasn't that big a deal that was it. It's it's barely mentioned is like a death penalty for but it was part of God teaching Israel to be separate from the nations. It was in everything they did they learn to be separate. Don't worship the gods of the nations don't intermarry with them. You can't eat with them because of dietary laws and an you are a separate people separate people. One of the meanings of holiness is to be separate Kadosh in in in in Hebrew.

Could you shop holiness. One of the meetings hug us in Greek is is to be separated, so separated from sin separated to God ultimately is what holiness is about, but your separate people. So constant learning okay you don't mix fabrics don't no mixtures, no mixtures right in the incense you make exactly this Mix in other ingredients so seeds in your field can't decant so to difference because I see the same field segregates them separate so it was to teach them separation. This was just part of the concept supplied today. No, but but separation.

The spiritual separation. Without these physical aspects that were required. Okay, let's see here Austin does systemic racism exist and what can we as Christians do to help stop injustices, abortion, systemic racism, etc. in our country all right. I am not trying to be ambiguous in my answer no problem being black-and-white clear in my answers systemic racism on the one hand, the idea that exists across the nation today is absolutely false, meaning that there are intentional things built into the system of American justice. American economy American education that are intentionally rigged to keep people of color down black people in particular. In that sense it is a tool that is often used by the left, even by socialists to try to advance a social agenda or to to drive a wedge between people and play identity politics. On the other hand, dependent how you define it.

Yes, there is systemic racism, meaning that even if it's not intentional.

There are things set up in our system or passed on through the generations that still make for inequality almost by default. So what is the reason that from what I understand black Americans on average the same crimes receive a stiffer prison sentence than white Americans committing the same crimes with the same backgrounds and saw right in the same person committed the same crime the same number of times whatever from what I understand I know this dispute of this but it seems from a meta-analysis of different studies that the percentage that that that court sentences will be longer, stiffer, harder for black Americans than white Americans.

It is it an intentional thing through the system where judges agree on. No, I don't think that's it at all. I don't believe that is the case, but it is a perception that is been inherited. It is something that is part of a larger mindset. So those are the things that I believe we have to address if something still is in the system than of court intentionally be addressed so much of that was eradicated really with the Civil Rights Act of 64 and and progress that's been made since.

But there's still a legacy of generations and generations and generations of slavery and segregation and and then racial superiority white supremacy in different aspects of her history that even if it's not actively in the system still legacy that remain so how do we address these things will we. We pray for God's heart and burden we get a scriptural perspective on what's right and wrong wheat we have uncomfortable conversations with people whose experiences different than ours to widen our own perspective and and then we do we can to bring about positive change your vote for pro-life candidates should get involved in sidewalk counseling in front of a local abortion clinic or work with abortion crisis center.

Maybe you can donate money to the good pro-life causes to help women that want to have their babies change their minds and don't have the abortion when it comes to race issues. You can be a bridge builder you can be want to sit with people in different communities asked about their life experience and then and and then try to identify problems together and address them, and how can we fix this. How can we bring more public awareness.

Those are the kinds of things you can do. Let's see Gregory when Jesus rode up on the fig tree, and even acknowledge that it was out of season. Why did he cursed the fig tree for not having any figs. This question comes up. A lot of times, and it's it's a very good question one answer would be that because it gave the appearance of of being ready to bear figs and it wasn't that this was a a larger statement he was making an end.

In other words, Jesus was that the fig tree was not so much the guilty party, but it was a it was a symbol of a people that was supposed to be bearing fruit and wasn't and gave the appearance of it so it was it was purely symbolic of the other answer why won't this come up.

Okay, I'm just trying to to pull up my my friend Craig Keener's Bible background commentary on the cereal. So let's just go to St. Matthew 17 and let's see if Jesus deals with this their note with go to Mark 11 see if he deals with their and the cursing of the fig tree Temple and the tree judgment coming crisis. This at this time of year edible figs were still about six weeks away, but the bland fruit had recently appeared on the tree in late March they would become right by late May. These were the early phase that preceded the main crop of late frames which were right for harvest from mid August into October, only leaves appear with yearly fees that tree would bear no fruit things that your earlier late because everyone would know that it was not yet the season of real things.

Jesus is making a point about trees that only pretend to have good fruit, some Jewish stories exceptionally holy man concurs others or objects are destroyed and Jesus exerts genuine authority occurs only here is an active parable to his disciples.

So in other words Craig saying that you could tell if the tree was going to bear fruit or not.

So even though it wasn't the time. You could tell when the time came. If it was going to bear fruit or not and therefore it was right to say your cursed you give the appearance which are not actually doing so. What is justice prophetic parable the others that it was actually accurate. It was a tree that looked like it was going bear fruit, but it actually wouldn't. And you could tell that society were used to it. Even at that moment all right friends we are out of time again if you want to stand with us on the broadcast on her Facebook page. Just click the $at the bottom you can excuse me the donate button the gift of any size is appreciative on YouTube.

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