Here we are coming to you live from our top secret broadcasting bunker. This is Pastor Mike and I'm online and I am live today with almost nothing to talk about. There's a few stories on Drudge Report I'm going to take a look at. But today is Questions and Comments Day. The email address for those of you watching online or those of you listening to Watchman FM 91.3 KBTR Pastor Mike online at gmail.com. Would love to hear from you and there's something I want you to do. I want you to get a pencil and a piece of paper down or a pen and a piece of paper. or let's see, a paintbrush and a blank wall, or a knife and a piece of wood, and write this down for me. Next week, we are going to be, we have been graciously invited to Calvary Bible Baptist Church in Elbridge, New York. I'm excited about it, I really am. I've been going through some of the material that I'm gonna deal with next week, and a lot of it is just things that I've talked about before, but was just gonna go scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture, and scripture, which is what I like to do. It makes It makes my job so easy when you just go from Scripture to Scripture to Scripture to Scripture. It does. I knew a pastor years ago that said for one sermon, for his Sunday morning sermon, it would take him four days to piece together this sermon that he was going to preach on Sunday morning. And he had so many books in his arsenal. Most of them would not fit in the pastor's office. A lot of them was still over at his house when he lived in the parsonage. And I don't know how he spent his week putting together a message that it took four days and all of this material What I do know is that he pastored several Southern Baptist churches in Missouri and elsewhere. He went to New Orleans, Louisiana for a while, and when he came back to Missouri, he had an earring in his ear and a boyfriend hanging off of his arm. Not kidding. Why didn't he just use the Bible and preach out of the Word of God anyway? I want you to write down, let me give you the information. Pure Bible Study Conference, Calvary Bible Baptist Church, July 14th through 16th, The address is 579 West Main Street, 579, that's this many and this many and this many, West Main Street, Elbridge, E-L-B-R-I-D-G-E, New York, 13060. If you find yourself in Manhattan, you've gone too far. Turn back around and head back about, what looks like about 400 miles, something like that, 300 miles, upstate New York, around Syracuse is where this church is, just north of the Finger Lakes, I'm looking at the map. And this phone number, 315-689-7918. I want you to write that down, 315-689-7918. That's the pastor, Pastor George Berkenshaw. And if you appreciate the fact that he is going to have us up there preaching, give him a call, send him a letter, and just tell him thank you. God's men need encouragement, and this pastor needs the encouragement. I know some things about his family. I know some things that have gone on in his church, and I'm hoping to be a blessing to him. to Pastor George. I'm hoping to be an encouragement to him, to uplift, to edify, to maybe provoke a little. I don't mind doing that in a wonderful, godly, Christian way. But I would just love to see him best. And if you can at all make it to any meeting of that conference. We would love, we'd just love to fill that place up. Monday night from 7 to 9, Tuesday, from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until 9 o'clock at night. It's Tuesday 1 to 4 and then 7 to 9. We're going to have dinner at 5. That's all been taken care of. That's going to be catered. We appreciate Val and all of the others who are helping out with that Wednesday, again from one to nine. and just give him a call, get directions, whatever, or just send him a note. Pastor, we appreciate you having Pastor Mike at your church, and we're gonna be praying for you. If you can't attend or whatever, if you cannot attend, just say we're gonna be praying for him. We are planning on streaming. We talked to Pastor George yesterday. He's okay with that. And so we will be streaming most of the services. That will be on Monday to be 7 o'clock Eastern, which is 6 o'clock Central. And then Tuesday, it works out well, because we're gonna start at one, which is 12 central, which is when I would normally be doing this. And so we're gonna be streaming the services live, and so those of you who are watching online can, if you cannot attend, you can at least attend the service virtually. So anyway, be praying about that, and be praying about that conference, and pray that Pray that I get all the equipment there that I need to get there. It's usually the case, like when I plan on streaming something, I have to check, double check, triple check, because if I leave one piece out of the whole complicated mix, you can't do it. So anyway, but that's what we're trying to get together today, and you pray for us, and pray for our safety of travel, pray that God's blessing will be on there today. 27 years ago today, I put on a white tuxedo. You should have seen me. I was about as skinny as this microphone line right here. I was in my physical prime back then. Man, I had some muscles. I'd been lifting drywall and paint buckets and climbing ladders all day long. That's what I used to do. I used to be a house painter, inside and outside. And 27 years ago, Lisa and I took each other hand in hand, arm in arm, repeated vows to one another. And I can tell you that by the grace of Almighty God, it's not that I've hated the woman all this time and God's made us stay together. That's not it. But by the grace of Almighty God, He has blessed us. We have had our trials. We have had our struggles. We have cried on one another's shoulders. We've held each other in each other's arms while we were facing some of the most difficult times that people have to face in this world, dealing with issues, dealing with death, rejoicing over births, and so on. And she's my sweetie pie, she is my best friend, and we have grown into that over the years. You know how it is with young couples, okay? And as you get older, you just grow together closer and closer and closer, and you love one another more and more and more. And that's really how it's supposed to be with a lot of things in life. It's how it's supposed to be in a family. It's how it's supposed to be in a church, I believe. The longer you go to a church, the more you love the people there, and the more you are attached to them, and you'll do things for them. You'll put up with them. You'll forbear with them. A church will long suffer with its pastor while he goes through issues of life, while he goes through things that he's studying in the Scriptures, things that have captured his mind, weaknesses that he has. Pastors will long suffer with a church and not try to treat them as as You know children that they don't love and care about I know pastors and I God has kind of helped me learn from them I who treat their church members as if they were, I don't know, daycare children or something like that. And was just mean and rough and hard and you can tell there was no love. It was either do it my way or get out. And I've seen men do that, and I decided I don't want to be that way. But pastor long suffers with his church, and he learns to love them and care about them and give himself for them. That's what I strive to be, although I can't say that I am good at it. But it's just something that I long for because I love the people here. I think they love me. I love my sweetie pie. I know she loves me and We are just committed one to another and we just thank God for everything that he has done for us Throughout the years we've had she's had things she's had to do today. I had things I had to do today, but tomorrow is Sweetie pie and Mike day And we're just going to do a bunch of things together and just walk around without a care in the world. So anyway, but good to be with you today. Several of you are sending in some emails, and I appreciate that. I do want to read a couple of articles that grabbed my attention. These are from Drudge Report, and this one in particular got me. Forget OK Glass. MindRDR is a Google Glass app you control with your thoughts. I want you to get this now. I want you to understand the philosophy behind this. When I was in sixth grade, I got a subscription through the Scholastic Book Services to a magazine for preteens called Dynamite Magazine. Some of you, if you were children of the 70s, you remember this one. And I had a school season long subscription to Dynamite Magazine, and one of the magazines I was reading had an article in there about using your thoughts to control things or control people. I didn't really realize then what it was. I'm thinking about it now and I'm going, well that was just witchcraft. That was the power of suggestion or the law of attraction is what it is. It's what Joel Osteen and Joyce Myers teach. They teach the law of attraction, that you think it, you say positive words, you give out positive thoughts, and then... Computer glitch time. the worst possible moment let me make sure we're still good here hang on we do this there we go back here we are back but anyway the law of attraction and it it said that if you if you stare at somebody long enough and project thoughts toward them then they'll turn around and they'll look at you because it's like your thoughts are knocking on the door. And all of a sudden, they're going to turn and look at you. And I remember there was a girl. She was actually a pastor's daughter in town. And she was cute. I said, sixth grade, I didn't know Sweetie Pie yet. And I thought, I'm going to do this. I'm going to try it. So I sat and I stared at her. for 20 minutes. And finally, she turned around and she looked at me. And I went, oh, it worked. Oh, that is so cool. It worked. Didn't dawn on me that if you stare at anybody for 20 minutes, eventually they're going to go, why are you staring at me? What is wrong with you? You're a creep. No, I'm just practicing witchcraft. Sorry. Anyway, back to the Google. Google Glass has made a name for itself as head-mounted hardware that you can control with your voice and a sliding finger. Now a team based out of the Interactive Studio, this place in London, is launching a new app that it hopes will kickstart an even more seamless way of interacting with the device. with the power of your mind. MindRDR is the app, as the app is called, links up to Google Glass with another piece of head-mounted hardware. You know what? I've got to show you this. I've got to show you the head-mounted hardware. Give me a second here. Let me do this, and I'll switch to that. Look where the head-mounted hardware goes. Look where it goes. right here where your third eye is. I'm not making this up. Head-mounted hardware. Control it with the power of your mind. It's the Neuroski EEG biosensor. to create a communication loop. The Neuralsky biosensor picks up on brainwaves that correlate to your ability to focus. The app then translates these brainwaves into a meter reading that gets superimposed on the camera view in Google Glass. As you focus more with your mind, the meter goes up. The app takes a photograph of what you are seeing in front of you. Focus some more and the meter goes up again and the photo gets posted to Twitter like this That's how it works. This is this is insane people It's an early, somewhat primitive vision of how your mind can control glass. Yes, there are devices out there that have even more sensors on them, although that can start to get very expensive. And to be honest, the current hookup is pretty primitive, too. When I arrived for a demonstration earlier today, one of those places' account managers was cooling glass down under the air conditioner. And that's before you start to put on the two different bits of headgear. It can be a little clumsy. Here's, and I want you to think about this. Let me go back, let me scroll back up to this picture here. And let's take a look at it. Here is the Google Glass sensor going right here on your forehead, right there. right where the third eye is, right where supposedly, well, your pineal gland is, it's straight back here toward the center of your brain, what they call the divine center. It's your pineal gland. Your pineal gland, in case you don't know what this is, it's this little nodule in the very middle of your brain and it's called a third eye because literally it does exactly that. It senses light. And you know how like when you wake up in the morning and it's daylight outside and you can see light through your very thin eyelids, your pineal gland picks up the light that's coming through your eyes and it deactivates, which means that it wakes you up. The pineal gland secretes some kind of liquid in your body that makes you go to sleep. When the pineal gland is active, you go to sleep. because the pineal gland, with the absence of light, secretes this thing in your body and it makes you sleepy, makes you start yawning and everything else. And your body starts wearing down and you start going to sleep. That's the purpose of the pineal gland. And you hear the Newagers talk about, we're gonna activate our pineal gland so we can see. That's dumb. It's the exact opposite. They're putting you to sleep They call that the awakening. It's messed up. But anyway, here's a thought that I had with this. Take your Bible. Take the plumb line that God sets in the midst of his people. And I want you to notice this. Gary and I were kind of talking about this morning. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter six. And the Bible says in verse 4, Deuteronomy 6, 4, Hero Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, I want you to think about this, these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Four places you're supposed to think about them. And I want you to notice this. He said, "...thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And you've seen some of these Jews with this little box over their forehead, literally as frontlets between their eyes. I think that's got little pieces of scripture in it. I'm not sure, but I think that's what that's in there. So I'm thinking they're taking this in a literal way. But anyway, notice that God said that the word of God was to be bound for a sign in their hand frontless between thine eyes." Think about it. Go to Revelation chapter 7. Revelation chapter 7. The seal of God is talked about here as being in on the 144,000, the 12,000 from each tribe, we have the seal of the living God in verse two, and then it says in verse three, her not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads. And I want you to kind of think about that's where the frontlets of God's word was to be. And I think the seal of God, in fact, we can look this up. I think the seal of God, number one, is the Holy Ghost. Let's pull up our King James Pure Bible Search software, available at Target, Kmart, Walmart, JCPenney's. No, just kidding, it's not available anywhere like that. Type in the word seal, let's do an asterisk, let's get all the versions of the word seal. And look at, let's see here, let's see here, right, right, right, right, right, right here. In 2 Corinthians 1.22, the Bible says, who hath sealed us, who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. You know what earnest is? When we say, I'm going to give you some earnest money, that means that we have made a contract with someone, and in order to seal the deal, we are putting money down on the deal. In a lot of cases, that money is non-refundable, because you have asked this person to set something aside for you, which means they can't sell it to anybody else. So you give them earnest money. And that's what that is. When God seals his people, and it doesn't matter if they are Jew or Gentile, when God seals his people, that seal is number one, the earnest of his spirit in our hearts. Where did God tell Israel that his words should be? In their hearts. So he seals him, and right here in the front of your brain is where all your critical decisions are made. That's the smart place right here, all right? And we even talk like this. Well, you know, I've got this in the back of my mind, which means we've got it back here somewhere, and when we're gonna talk about it, we bring it right here to the front. And I think that is a good illustration of how you and I should have scripture. We should always have scripture in the back of our mind, but when something relevant comes up, all of a sudden we just bring it to the front here. So we know that the ceiling of God, doesn't matter if it's Jew or Gentile, has everything to do with the Holy Ghost. Look here in Ephesians 1, in whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. You know what the gospel is? It's the word of truth. It's what the gospel is. Did Abraham believe God? Yes, he believed the word of God. Did Moses believe God? Moses believed God. Did David believe God? David believed God. Did Job believe God? Yes, Job believed God. He believed what God said. Did Daniel believe God? Absolutely. He believed what God said. He even mentioned that he got comfort from the fact that he was reading Jeremiah and he found out that they were going to be in Babylon for 70 years. He just said, okay, God, I'm fine. I know that you haven't cast this away forever. You actually said this was going to happen. You said how long it was going to happen. And I'm fine, I'm fine. But anyway, so you believe the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession under the praise of His glory. That's the sealing of God. It's the Holy Spirit, and it has everything to do with believing God's word. And I'm gonna tell you this, You're gonna have a hard time proving to me that somebody can be sealed with the Holy Spirit of God and not believe what God said. You got a long way to go with me if you're gonna try to convince me of that. Look at this, Ephesians 4.30, and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. That sealing, if you remember, we were talking about that, the idea of a seal in our Secret of the Seal series, Watchman Video Broadcast. And I went all through the scriptures showing you what a seal was, what it represented. It represents something, when you take something like Tupperware, you put it in a container, you put the lid on top of it, you burp the lid to get all that air out of there. And what are you doing with that? You are putting that in storage for a later time. Those who can, vegetables, or fruit, or meat, or do any kind of home canning, preserves, jams, jellies, things like that. What do you got to do when you put that lid on that mason jar? You've got to get that thing to seal. It vacuum seals itself. And you can tell that it's good because you touch the top of that metal thing and it doesn't go, dink, dink. That way you know you got a good seal on it. It's in good shape. So that's what that is. You're sealed unto the day of redemption. And I think this is what God's doing in Revelation 7. He is sealing the servants of God in their forehead. 12,000 from this tribe, 12,000 from that tribe. Then 2 Timothy 2.19, I like this one. Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal. Here's the seal of God right here. Number one, the Lord knoweth them that are his. And isn't that true? And ask yourself the question, according to the Bible, how long has God known those who are his? Forever. God's not going, hey, look at you, coming in here to be saved. I didn't know that. God never does that. He has known them from the foundation of the world. By his foreknowledge, he knows them. The Lord knoweth them that are His, and number two, let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Again, you're gonna have a hard time convincing me that a person can be sealed by the Holy Spirit of God and still live an adulterous, wicked, sinful life. You have a hard time convincing me of that. because he said that the seal of God is, the Lord knows them who are his, and they depart from iniquity. By the way, who departs you from iniquity? God does. God separates you from the iniquity that is in this world. So I just think it's interesting that if we go to, let's see here, go to Revelation chapter 13 and We look here It says in verse 16. He calls us all both small and great rich and poor free and bond Think six Okay, think six, that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here's wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man. And his number is 603 score and six. And I believe according to scripture that the mark of the beast, in spite of what John MacArthur will tell you, I think the mark of the beast seals the wicked into everlasting the wrath of God. Look at Revelation 14, 9. The third angel followed them saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast in his image and receive his mark in his forehead. That's where the words are supposed to be. That's where the seal of God is supposed to be. So receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation. And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. Unless of course he didn't really mean it and then God would exclude him. Does it say that anywhere in there? No, it doesn't So don't believe these people who are telling you. Oh, yeah well, you know, obviously some people get the mark and obviously they're gonna be saved through the tribulation because you know there they are and I'd you know, so if you get the mark and you're in that time and you don't like it and Well, by all means, just tell God, God, this thing right here, I didn't mean that. I was drunk, I didn't know what I was doing, I was in Vegas, and I just didn't, Lord, will you not throw me into the lake of fire? Because I really didn't mean it. That's what Brandon House, John MacArthur, and I don't know who all else, was spout out that foolishness and ignorance, telling people, ah, take the mark, yeah. Don't worry about it. I think that's a setup. Personally, I think it's a setup. But to me, it's interesting that that Google thing goes right here, and it's reading your thoughts. Literally, reading your thoughts. We are learning in this world how to do things electronically that people did magically for thousands of years. That's what we're learning how to do. We are learning how, instead of using gods to do for us, I think the gods are teaching mankind how to do for themselves like gods do. That's what I think. Here's another article. Let's see here. Germany demands top US intelligence officer be expelled. Germany's relations with the United States plunge to a low point Thursday. There was a time when Germany and the United States didn't get along very well, 1941, 42, 43, along that area there. The government demanding the expulsion of the chief American intelligence official stationed here because it said Washington has refused to cooperate with German inquiries into United States intelligence activities. A government spokesman in Germany said, the representative of the U.S. intelligence services at the United States Embassy has been asked to leave Germany. Steven Siebert said in a statement, German officials have been frustrated in their efforts to receive clarification from Washington since last summer when it was reported that the National Security Agency had been monitoring the digital communications of millions of Germans. The government tamped down that uproar, but fury flared anew when it was revealed last fall that the NSA had been monitoring Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone. That's bad. That's really bad to do that. In Deuteronomy, 28 God told Israel this he said If you'll if you'll keep my statutes my judgments my commandments my laws If you'll keep them I'll bless your nation. I'll bless you your cities. I'll bless your fields I'll bless the fruit of your womb your children your I will bless your coming in and your going out. You shall lend to nations and not borrow from them. They'll borrow from you. Your coming in and your going out, I see as relations that a nation has with other nations. Right now, Right now, Americans can go to other nations to visit, conduct business, whatever it is. Nations respect, or in the past, respected a visit from a high-ranking American official. Certainly in the days of Ronald Reagan, Reagan goes over to West Berlin. You remember those days? He goes over to West Berlin. And he's standing there at the Berlin Wall, and he's talking about freedom and liberation, and he says to Mikhail Gorbachev that famous speech, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And the German people in West Berlin erupted in the loudest applause that you could imagine. And it worked. Ronald Reagan goes over there and makes a speech. and the Berlin Wall comes down. Can you imagine that? And the clout that the leader of the free world had all over this world in days gone by was unimaginable. Now think about where we are. We have this insane president going around the world, bowing down, to Saudi princes, bowing down to leaders, apologizing for America, saying, you know what? We owe you a jihad. Come on in. This man, his first year in office, customary for a new president to exchange a gift between himself and the Queen of England. Usually it's some fantastic, rare, expensive memorabilia of some significant event in history that relates to the United States and Great Britain. That's what it's been in the past. Obama's first year in office, the Queen of England sends him some kind of nice, fantastic piece of memorabilia, something historic in nature as a gift to the great President of the United States. And Mrs. Obama and Barack send the Queen of England a gift box of American DVDs, movies. That's what we sent, you know, stuff that you buy at a yard sale for 50 cents a disc. That's what he sent her. And now because of our policies, now because of our paranoia as a nation, We think that we have the right to monitor private conversations of world leaders, and we, the NSA, has planted a bug in the German chancellor's private cell phone. Our president and our leaders have caused us to stink. in countries around the world. Do you remember what Jacob said to his boys? His boys found out that their sister had been molested or raped or whatever you want to call it. And they went in, talked everybody in that town into being circumcised, and on the third day when they were good and sore and the guys couldn't get up, they went in and killed every one of them. And Jacob said, you idiots. To his own boys, you have caused us to stink in every land that we now go in. Our reputation is gonna precede us. And they're gonna hate us for what we have done here. The Jews still hate it. To this day, the Jews still hate it. That's what our president did for us. He's made us stink so that now, instead of having an ally close to the Russian border, and I'm no political scientist and I'm no genius when it comes to military and politics and everything like that, But it just seems like to me, when you've got a listening post right close to the Russian border, that seems to me like a pretty good place to be. And now you've angered the Germans to such a state to where they're saying, get out. Doesn't sound like everything is well in America. Here's another one. This is from the Mail Online. And we knew it was coming. Stem cell patient accidentally grows a nose on her back eight years after surgeons injected tissue there to try to cure her paralysis. Here we are. We are taking DNA and we're playing God with it. We think that we have it all under control. A woman has developed a nose-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to cure her paralysis failed. It didn't work. They said, yeah, let's try this, boss. Yeah, let's put that in her bag, see if it works. And it didn't work. And now all of a sudden, eight years later, I mean, this would make, this would make a joke. This is a joke. People tell I've got a couple going through my mind right now. What do you, what do you do with a nose so close to your backside? What do you do with that? The hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, the unnamed woman, I would want to be unnamed too, a U.S. citizen had tissue from a nose implanted in her spine. The doctors hoped the cells would develop into neural cells and help repair the nerve damage to the woman's spine, but the treatment failed. However, last year, eight years after the stem cell operation, the woman, then 28, complained of increasing pain in the area. Doctors discovered a three centimeter long growth, which was found to be mainly nasal tissue, as well as bits of bone and nerve branches that had not connected with the spine nerves. Neurosurgeon Brian Delauey from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, who removed the growth, said it was benign, But I'm not making this up. The growth was secreting a quote thick copious mucus like material. You can't make that up. She was snotting out of the nose in her back. That's what she was. I'm not making that up. A stem cell researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, who advised the team who conducted the surgical technique, which had been tested on rodents, said that most of the recipients of the nasal tissue who received the right kind of rehab after their surgery experienced improvement. In other words, it was her fault that she had grew a nose so close to her rear end. It was her fault is what it was. You cannot make this stuff up, people. You absolutely cannot make this stuff up. Today is National Mike Hoggard Reads Your Email Day. So that's what I'm gonna do. So if this portion of the Pastor Mike Online live broadcast is not very entertaining to you, it's everybody else's fault but mine. Okay, because I'm going to read the emails. And we've already got quite a bit here. We appreciate you sending them in. Carrie, how you doing, Carrie? Says, Pastor Mike had a question about these two verses. And I kind of was reading this a little while ago, and I like it. I think I got an answer for you, all right? The first one in Job. When Job's children had sinned, Job said he sent and sanctified them, offered burnt offerings for them. How did he sanctify them? Is it like he was asking God for forgiveness for his children's sins? Then in 1 Corinthians, it talks about an unbelieving husband or wife being sanctified by the believing one. How is this possible? Do you understand what I'm trying to ask? Can we sanctify our unbelieving children? If so, just what does that mean? I've included the verses below. Job chapter one, verse four. Everybody turn in there in your Bibles and read with me as I read along. And I like it, I like these questions. Verse four, this is Job. And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And it was so when the days of their feasting were gone about that Job sent and sanctified them, rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Now here's something that immediately, this is just what I think and what I see here. Number one, this is very similar. to the law that God was going to give to Moses at Mount Sinai, although Job and Abraham lived at about the same time together. Here, Job, who I see as a type of the Lord Jesus Christ, number one, he is offering sacrifices and burnt offerings. Number two, he not only does it at the beginning of Job for his children, But you see at the end of Job that God is telling Job's friends, you better go back to Job and apologize because he is going to beseech me to forgive you or something like that. And that's what God, that's the ministry that Job had. And so I see the office of Christ here as the high priest who offers the sacrifices for the atonement of people's sins. Other people's sins. The substitutionary atonement for other people's sins. That's what I see. Number two, Job is a type of the suffering Lord. He is Lord, when he comes, when you see Job at the beginning, he suffers, he suffers great loss, he loses his family, loses all of his wealth, loses everything that he's got except his wife. But at the end, 42 chapters later, think of that number. It's three and a half years. How long was Christ's ministry? Three and a half years. at the end, in the day of restoration, God gives Job a double portion, more so than what he had at the beginning. Do you see that? And I think this is a reference, number one, to the first and second coming of Christ, to the downfall and the restoration of Israel. That's what I see here. But what I see here is Job doing precisely what the high priest did for the nation of Israel in that he offered sacrifices for their sins. And so you leap forward to Christ and you have Christ who as the high priest is offering a substitutionary atonement for other people's sins, not his own. in the case of Christ, the atonement and the sacrifice that he offered was not a bull or a calf or a goat or a bag of flour. It was himself. So that's what I see there. Now the second question. 1 Corinthians 7.14, for the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, else were your children unclean, but now are they holy. Carrie, take your Bible, and turn to 1 Peter. 1 Peter. Chapter three. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plating of the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorn themselves being in subjection, even unto their own husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not frayed with any amazement." There's an instruction there for husbands. "...dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered." There's instructions here for the wife and the husband. And specifically in the case of the wife, Peter is telling you that if you will let your conversation, what is that conversation? Conversation with words. And what do we say? Actions a lot of times speak louder than words. The conversation that we have with people is how we react to people, how we act toward them, what they know about us by our thoughts, by our deeds, and by our words. He said, if you wives who are saved will be the way God wants you to be toward your husband, you just watch and see if that old boy don't come around one of these days. My dad did. That's exactly what happened with my dad. My mom, when she got saved, I can remember her being down at the altar at Bethel Church, bawling her eyes out. I was young then, I didn't quite understand it, but she was turning her life over to God, and from that point forward, Sunday morning came around, we got up, we went to Sunday school, we were at church, we went back Sunday evening, and I can tell you that for years I lamented the fact that I didn't get to stay home on Sunday night and watch the wonderful world of Disney. You remember that? It was on a six o'clock central time, and that's when Bethel Church started. We always had to leave right then. But she went Sunday night, Wednesday night, quarterly meetings, which were denominational district meetings at the time, revival meetings. She cleaned the church. She helped pass out tracts, helped with the bus ministry. We were in church. She was doing that in front of us. She still loved my dad. She still cared for him until the day he died. But she decided that the old days were gone. And that, over time, impacted my dad. And he finally came around. And so I don't believe that the mere fact that a man who is married to a saved and born again wife, he automatically gets to go to heaven because his wife was saved. I don't believe that. I don't think the scriptures teach that. Because if I'm correct, 1 Corinthians 7, If I go back and look at this, I'm pretty sure that there is a situation here whereby if the husband doesn't come around and he decides, since this woman won't be his honky-tonk angel anymore, And he departs. Let's see what verse we in verse 14. Yeah, look at verse 15 But if the unbelieving depart let him depart a brother or sister is not under bondage in such cages such cases But God has called us to peace So I don't believe that it's teaching here that just because the old dog wants to run around and sleep with bar whores and everything else in the world and comes home drunk and his wife is going to church every service that he's going to get to go to heaven hanging on to her dress I don't think that but I think at some point if that woman will live a godly life in front of her husband and not give him cause to despise her still reverencing her husband and yet living for the Lord at the same time I think there's a really good chance that old boy's gonna come around one of these days and say, you know what? And we had a situation in our church. We had a man, him and his wife started coming. They were in their 70s. She had been in church all of her life. She was a good Baptist girl. He was a good fella. He just never was much on going to church and living the religion. And all of a sudden, he started coming. He loved our church. We were just friendly to him. He was an old World War II veteran. And one day he called me and he said, he said, Michael, why don't you come over to the house? Sure, sure, I'll be over there. And I went over there and I said, what do you got in your mind? He said, I want to know how I'm going to heaven. 77 years old, 77 years old that guy was. And you know what it was? It was the Chase conversation of his wife who said, you know, I found a good church here, let's go. And he started coming. So that's what I see there, all right? So I hope, Carrie, that makes some sense for you, all right? Leslie asked the question, does God give repentance? 2 Timothy 2, verse 25, in the King James Version. Here's what it says. Her question is, God gives repentance, question mark, not sure what this means. I thought we were supposed to repent. Verse 25, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God paraventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will. Let me see if I can explain it to you like this. Less-ly. It says God, if paraventure, God will give them repentance. Because you and I both know that just because somebody wants to say to you, I'm sorry, that doesn't mean necessarily that you have to accept it. Because we know that we have been in situations where we have been unforgiving to someone who was sorry. Or someone has been unforgiving to us, who we have been sorry toward. Well, I've told you that I'm very deeply sorry. Well, I don't care. You can stuff your sorries in a sack, buddy, for all I care. We know we've been in things like that. Does God give us repentance or does God grant to us repentance? And the answer is yes. In fact, God is, from what I can see in the scriptures, God is the originator of what repentance really is. Let me pull up a verse here for you. 2 Corinthians 7.10. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of. That verse is to all y'all out there who say that repentance is a work and therefore is not required for salvation. What is wrong with you? Does this verse not appear in your Bible anywhere? Do you have the King James Version minus 2nd Corinthians 7.10? I mean, was it a publishing mistake or what? Because that verse is in the Bible. And it says, godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of. Pastor Mike, you just broke the rules. We're not saved by works and repentance is a work and therefore you're preaching a false gospel. There's YouTube videos, people harping on that nonsense. I don't know where they get their doctrine from, but they don't get it. from the Scriptures, because it plainly says, Godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation. What is 1 John 1, 9 for? If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It is God that worketh in us to bring about repentance. It's still the work of God in us, through us. You know how God does it? How did How did God, how did your mother or father teach you about sorrow for unrighteous deeds? How did your mother or your father do that? Let's see here. I think I have a sound effect for that. You like that? You like that? Did you do that? Well, yeah, I guess I did. Are you sorry? No. Are you sorry? Yes, yes, I'm sorry. That's how your mom or dad did it, right? And when you see the belt coming, and you go, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and your mom says, that's right, I'm gonna make you sorry. Was she doing the right thing? Oh yeah, oh yeah. She was doing, you know what she was doing? You know what your dad was doing? If it was your dad or your mom that whipped you or both, both of you, both mom and dad beating on you at the same time. You know what they were doing? They were teaching you about how to be a son of God. That's what they were teaching you. They were teaching you that when you are a son of God, and an heir to the internal inheritance of God. When you do wrong, God is going to take a rod and he's going to chastise you. And he is going to make you sorry for what you did. I don't even want to begin to get into the number of times and the number of ways that God has whipped me over the years. But you see, I had a mom who didn't fail to whip her son when I did something wrong. She didn't fail. And if my mom said, when we get home, You're getting a whipping. And all the way home, we're hoping, Lord, let her forget. Lord, maybe we'll get into a car accident. Maybe we'll get like, like struck by lightning. Maybe there will be a, like a plague and she'll forget about it. And of course we get home and I walk in the door and I'm trying to become incognito, not be seen. And we get in the door and she says, go to your room, lay over the bed and hand me your belt. And she'd lay stripes on me out of love. You know, she was teaching me, you're a son and you've done wrong. And this is how I deal with it. And so when I got all growed up, and went out, I thought on my own, remember that? Remember those days? You left home and you thought, nah, nobody can touch me, Jack. I thought that I was on my own. I found out that I wasn't. I found out that my mom and dad had transferred ownership of their son to God. Transferred ownership. I asked my mom mom Was I adopted? And she looked at me in the eye and she said yeah, but they sent you back Anyway, it's God who grants the repentance to us as God who brings us godly sorrow when you when when you do is I I don't worry about about the people in my church not living right. I don't worry about it. I really don't. Well, you're the pastor. I mean, you gotta control what goes on in that church and you gotta do this and I do not rule my people with an iron fist. I don't do it. Because I've learned that if they are really God's children who are in my church, and they do something wrong, God will chastise them. I'm just gonna be there to warn them that it's coming and to love them when it happens. But if they're in my church and they are not sons of God, what good is it gonna do for me to whip them when they're bastards and they won't even let God punish them? What good does it do? So I mean, I just, I mean, yeah, we've had situations where we've had to deal with issues and deal with things with people and so on. God's had to deal with me on things. But I just don't think that I need to be the policeman for our church and monitor everybody's activities. I don't think I have to. God, if they're doing wrong, that's your son, you get them. You deal with them. God, if you want me to say something behind the pulpit, I'll say something. God, if you want me to counsel with him, I'll counsel with him. You bring him to me and we'll talk. So anyway, Leslie, I hope that helped you out. Robert says, hi, pastor, I so much enjoyed your last broadcast. Here's a verse I found that I liked. Does that mean you put it on Facebook and gave it a thumbs up? Romans 15, four, for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Robert, I appreciate that. It says, God bless you and happy anniversary to you and sister Lisa. Robert, I'd like to come visit you because if there's one thing that I like in this world, it is a really good Salisbury steak. and you're from Salisbury, Maine, and I bet they have the best ones in the world up there. So anyway. Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of scriptures might have hope. You know what that means? That means if God has a doctrine in the New Testament, he's got a picture of it in the Old. If he's got a way that he works through righteous people and sinners, if he has a way that he does, then he not only proclaims it with doctrine, but then he shows us the doctrine by way of typology. I mean, consider this one, the falling away, 2 Thessalonians 2, rather than rather than you, I'll put it to you like this, rather than the reader and the student of Scripture be confused by all the varying eschatological, which means future times, study of eschatology, all the varying contradictory eschatology theories about the coming of the Lord and our gathering together unto him and when the Antichrist is gonna rise and what's gonna happen rather than us be confused by reading all of the other books and if you read this guy's book he says oh no no the rapture happens after this and this guy's book says oh no no no the rapture happens before this and this guy's book says what's a rapture They're all, and so instead of us being confused by reading some guy's book, when he says, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he is God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself, he is God, only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked be revealed. Instead of us being confused about, well, does the rapture happen before that? Does the rapture happen after that? Or what's this going on here? What does this look like? Then God drew a picture of it. And you go to 1 Samuel chapter four, you find the Ark of the Covenant, which was God's throne. It was his mercy seat. It's where God's pardon and forgiveness was taking place. It had the law and the covenant of God on the inside of it. And that was taken out of the way. And when Eli heard it, you know what he did? He did, he did, you know what he did? He fell away. And when that was taken out of the way and Eli fell, the man of sin was revealed, the son of perdition, whose name was Ichabod. And you find out just a few verses later where the throne of God, the seat of God was taken. It was taken to the house of Dagon because he wanted to sit on it. It's a beautiful story. So you go study these stories, study these pictures that are all through your Bible. They're there for a reason. They're not just little Sunday school pictures for children, a flannel graph. These have deep, deep meaning. So those of you who think you stand, take heed lest ye fall as Israel in the wilderness. Why did they fall? Did Israel, let me ask you this. when Israel was at the base of Mount Sinai, and every one of them was bowing before this golden calf, this idol they'd made, and every one of them had taken the Lord's name in vain, and every one of them was naked. And they were all down in there committing adultery, and they're all down there coveting, and they're all down there rioting, and they're all down there worshiping false gods and taking the Lord's name in vain, and they're all down there polluting everything that God said. Did God cast his children away then? No, the mediator. The mediator stood up and said, God, don't do it. And God withheld that. That's a picture of Christ. So even when Israel was at its worst, sinfully, God didn't cast them away then. What was it that tripped God's trigger? Is when he told them by the word of the Lord that they could have the land of promise and God was gonna give it to them and God was gonna drive out all the inhabitants. And 10 spies came back and said, we can't go there. We can't do it. And so, you know what Paul said? See now that they could not go in, not because they had committed adultery, not because they were worshiping calves, they could not go in because of unbelief. And you know what Israel is a picture of? This is what some pastors won't touch. Israel's a picture of a person who starts out going, oh yes, I believe, praise God, I believe. That's how they start out. But they don't end up that way, do they? They fall into unbelief. Did they get saved? Well, they went to hell, didn't they? It doesn't sound like salvation was what they had, because if they would have had salvation, they would have went to heaven. If they had the sealing of the Holy Ghost, then they would have believed every word of God was pure. That's what the seal is. Remember we looked at that? They fell through unbelief. And if there's anything, you can say, well, I don't get my doctrine from Hebrews and Peter and James and the gospel, I only get it from Paul. Well, then go read what Paul said. How many times did the apostle Paul say, if you continue in belief? How many times did he say things like that? If you remember what was spoken to you, if these things, if you let these things be in you, That's what he was getting at. Don't be like Israel, our example, who just decided we don't believe what God said. And I'll tell you something, here again, you're gonna have a hard time showing me from the scriptures that unbelievers are sealed with the Holy Spirit and receive the everlasting inheritance of eternal life. You have, you have, with Scripture, with Scripture, you have a hard time convincing me that unbelievers who are sealed in the Holy Ghost are going to be the inheritors of eternal life. The Scriptures aren't there. That's not what the Scripture says. Let's see here. Sebastiano and Tiffany! Mambo Italiano, eh? Dear Pastor Mike, hello. I just wanted to point out that I was a Catholic since birth. How do you get to be Catholic from birth? Was a priest... I'm just teasing you. But my wife joined the cult, and in six weeks she figured them out! She read the Bible and the Ten Commandments, especially the first and second, no other gods before him, and no graven images. Isn't that just kind of like a sticking point with them? Okay, you're in the Catholic Church, we want you to read the Ten Commandments, and you're going, thou shalt have no other gods before me, thou shalt make any graven images. Sorry, I'm out. Also, we notice the hexagrams on most all the products, but since the 70s and the 80s, the barcodes have 666 on them. That's true, by the way. I mean, there's all these internet rumors and stuff like that, but the universal product code, you'll notice that two long bars at the beginning, two long bars in the middle, and two long bars in the end. That's six. Okay, proven fact. There are barcodes on our car tags and inspection stickers too. What about that? Is it possible that we are very near the mark time? Your Italian friends in Texas. Subby and Tiffany. I agree. I agree. I did a Pass the Mic Online here a while back and I just showed all these hexagons everywhere and I'm still taking pictures of hexagons on products, on buildings, everywhere you turn around you're seeing six-sided, six-pointed figures, the spark symbol. from Walmart is that it's a Variant of the hexagon. It's a it's a number six And if you look at signage you'll see Three of them together So I absolutely believe that I think that the devil is Getting people to think six That's what I think he's didn't go to Walmart find out what that is I Let's see here. Susan. Susan says, Sweet! Jury duty today so I get to enjoy a live Pastor Mike for a change. All right. Glad that's working out for you. All right. Let's see here. Franco says, Dear Pastor Mike, I've been listening for two years. Glad to know you're a faithful pastor. I appreciate that. Franco if there's anything I'm faithful to it's the Bible. Okay, that's the Bible Thank you for preaching God's Word. My question is is there a difference between God's perfect will and God's permissive will? Franco let there that that is based upon verse. Let me see if we can dig it up here. Sweep that with the bism of destruction. And let's see. What is that? Good and acceptable. Acceptable. I think that's what it is. Yeah. Here we go. Romans 12.2. Let's walk circumspectly around this verse because this is where it comes from. The answer that I'm going to give you is... I don't think so. And some people are going... He said that? He said he didn't think so? Let's read the verse. Romans 12, 1. I beseech you therefore brethren, what is the therefore? Let's go back here to Romans 11. He's talking about all the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out. For we have known the mind of the Lord, who hath been His counselor, who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Look at verse 36. For of him and through him and to him are all things. You know what that says? It says that God is the governor of everything in the universe. That means he's in charge of everything. He calls all the shots. Oh yeah, well what about the devil? He made him, and he made him exactly the way he was. He made him a beast, and he made him full of pride, and he made him a dragon, and he made him, I'm just, he made him the way he was. Why? Because it fulfills God's purpose of choice, free will. You cannot have free will if you don't have a choice. You don't have a choice if you don't have a tempter, an advertisement. Anyway, God is the originator and the governor of everything in the universe. He even made Judas Iscariot. So anyway, now we go to verse one of chapter 12. Therefore, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind And I'm gonna ask you a question as we stop right here. Let me underline this phrase. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, comma. Is there another choice here? Aside from not being conformed. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed. Let me put it this way. Option A is that our mind conforms to the world. Option B is that our mind conforms and is transformed by the Word of God in the renewing of our mind. That is option A and option B. Option A is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That's being conformed to the world. Option B is the tree of life. That's having your mind renewed by knowledge, by the Word of God. The question here is, is there an option C? Is there an option on the table whereby God says, or you can kind of be transformed, you can kind of be sealed, but it kind of comes and goes? Is that option on the table? No. It's either conformed to the world or transformed by the Word of God. One the other so now let's look at this verse be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God did you catch that there is only one option for you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind and when you are transformed completely because there is no halfway when you're transformed completely you know what you will do you will always prove to the world that the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now, I've heard preachers say, now, there's a will of God that's good, but it's not perfect. There's a will of God that's acceptable, but it's not the perfect will of God. Ask yourself the question of everything that you know about God. Let's go back to the law. When an animal was brought in to be a sacrifice, oh look, you present your body as a living sacrifice, same context. When an animal was brought in to be sacrificed, the high priest or the priest that was working that day was forbidden to be drunk. The reason why he was forbidden to be drunk was because if he was drunk, he might overlook a blemish. Now if he's sober and he's doing what's right, an animal is brought and this meat inspector priest is to look over this lamb for any sickness, any disease. He's to look to make sure that this lamb has pure white wool and has no darkened areas on his wool whatsoever. Because while most of the lamb might be okay, if it's got one blemish on it, it's not perfect, therefore it's not acceptable, and it's not good. Make sense? So, I mean, I have. I've heard preachers say, now, you can be in the, God would say, well, it's acceptable, but it's not what I want. Are you kidding me? You're saying that God accepts something that is not perfect. That's not in the Bible anywhere. What's the test of a prophet? Deuteronomy 18, how many times can he be wrong until God finally says, okay, I've had enough, you've got it wrong like 25 times, that's enough. Was that the standard? How about five times? Could a prophet be wrong five times and still be acceptable by God? No. How many times could he be wrong? Zero. God would not accept it if it was wrong. Neither should you, by the way. You should not accept. What do we do? What do we preach about the King James Bible? What do we do when we stand on our pulpits and yell and scream at everybody for bringing in false translations into our church? We say, if it's got one mistake in it, it's not the word of God. That's what we say. But then we get up and say, well, you can be in the acceptable will of God. But it's not perfect. That's not what it says. Number one, that's not what the verse says. That's not even in the circle of that verse. Good with God is acceptable and perfect. All three. When God transforms your mind with his word, with his spirit, You will be in the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. I promise you. Promise you. Let me give you, let me give you another scripture here. Let me, I think, where is this? Where is this? Where is this? Saver? Yeah. It's in this area here, hang on here. It's in Corinthians. Ah, here we go. Look at this, look at this. 2 Corinthians 2.14, now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ. Look at this word always. How often is that? How often is always with God? It's always. And then he says, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us, where? In every place. So Paul said that his thanks is to God because God always causes him to triumph and makes the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. And I'll just tell you that your version of triumphing and God's version of triumphing is two different things. We do something good one day and boy, we think we are on the mountain to stay, don't we? And then all of a sudden we do or say something stupid again. I failed you, God. I failed you. I know you had high expectations of me and I failed you. When you have reconciled your life and your mind over to the Lord Jesus Christ, you're His. And wherever He drags you, that's where you go. Wherever He takes you, that's where you are. Whenever He moves, you move. Whenever He stays, you stay. Yeah, but pastor, you know, there was a time when I was, you know, I was in church, I saved, I know it was saved, but man, I backslid, I was in the bar, I was with these guys, and I was doing this, and I was doing that, and boy, I mean, God got a hold of me, and I mean, he brought me around, he whooped the fire out of me, and I'll tell you what, I'm never going to that stuff again. What about those times? Absolutely, absolutely. That was the good and acceptable perfect will of God. You know what God was doing? Look back on it. God was allowing you in that place at that time so that he could take you, show you what a rod felt like, and bring you to a place to where you say, I ain't never going in that place ever again. And it was the will of God. It was God causing you to triumph always and in every place. That's the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. I don't know why some guys teach that you can be in the will of God that's not really the will of God. I don't understand why they do that, all right? But that's what I see from Scripture, okay? If you've got a varying viewpoint on that and you can bring me Scripture, I'd love to see it, okay? Shannon. I'm looking at the time here. Hi Pastor Mike, happy anniversary to you and sister Lisa. I almost said, who's Lisa? Sweetie pie. Anyway, I was reading my KJB, good for you, and I found something interesting. When does that not happen? John 6, 16. And when even was now come, his disciples went down into the sea, and entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them. And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew, How's that? That's pretty good, wasn't it? So when they rowed about five and twenty or thirty-four longs, they see Jesus walking on the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid. But he saith unto them, It is I, be not afraid. Then they willingly received him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. Now here's what Shannon says, what I found interesting was that the Bible makes a point of saying that they had rowed about five and 20 or 30 furlongs, they see Jesus. He gets in the boat and immediately they're at the land. Do you think Jesus did something with the ship so that they were immediately at the land or am I reading too much into the verse? No, you're not. That is exactly what happened. Jesus got in that ship and boom, there they were. Think of what happened to Philip. Philip was told in Acts chapter 8, go read this, this story is cool. Philip was told to get up, walk outside the gate, turn left, go forward. And so Philip did. God didn't tell him why. God didn't say, now Philip, at 9.30 this morning, I've got an appointment with you and a eunuch from Ethiopia. He's gonna be reading Isaiah. 53 so kind of brush up on that and and why don't you try to sell him the salvation thing and by the way wait until you see that pool of water because I got it kind of worked out that that's How but if you if you'd get it too soon It's gonna mess it God didn't say that God just said Philip get up and go so Philip said okay Lord you're the boss I'll do whatever you say. I don't understand it, but this is where I'm gonna go so that's what he did and so he sees the eunuch he talks to the eunuch and And he jumps in the car with him. That's where the word chariot, that's where the word car comes from. He jumps in the car with him, and it was probably a Mustang. It was drawn by Mustangs. Anyway, he's in the car with him and he's reading Isaiah 53 and it's about the suffering Savior. Is this talking about Isaiah or somebody else? And then Philip proceeded from there to show him Jesus. By the way, can you show somebody the gospel in the Old Testament? Philip did. He did. He showed him the gospel in the Old Testament. So he's there, and he shows him the gospel, and he teaches him about Jesus, and the eunuch says, look, here's water, what does it mean to be baptized? God brought that all about, and then if you take verse 37 out, Philip just baptizes him without believing, like Catholics do. Check your NIV for that verse. Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And the eunuch said, I believe that Jesus is the Son of God. In the name of the Father, Son of the Holy Ghost. And he's baptized. And when they come out of the water, Philip immediately disappeared and was found somewhere else, way far away. So Shannon, you read it. It's right. It's like a time warp and a time warp or something like that. It's like the transporter on the Enterprise. All of a sudden, there they are at the shore, just like that. God works miracles, doesn't he? You remember that story about how they were coming after Jesus? Oh, let's kill him! He's Frankenstein's monster! And they were walking toward him, and Jesus walked right through them! And they were walking past him, and they're going, where is Jesus? We're gonna kill him! And Jesus was walking through them, never touched them. I've read a lot of science fiction. I've read stories like this, and I'm going, it's in the Bible. That is so cool. You young men out there you young boys that just love sci-fi and love the stuff about transporters and monsters and Time warps and all read the Bible Read the Bible because all that stuff's in there and it's true Glenn, Pastor Mike, T.Y., so much for all you have taught me. You're in my prayers every day. Glenn, T.Y., for saying that. I mean that. I may never get to meet you here on earth, but I was just wondering if I could stop by your mansion in heaven one day in eternity. Yeah, mine's gonna be the one that has wheels underneath it, okay? Glenn, you just get in the pickup truck and head on down here to Festus, all right? And just come say howdy. And we might even have barbecue for you that day, all right? Glenn, I appreciate you saying it. And the part about you praying for me means a lot. You probably can imagine what I go through sometimes, but I do, I go through it. and there's days when it ain't good. I try to hide it most of the time. Some days I just can't, but it means a lot. Let's see here. Odessa says, I wonder if the mark of the beast is staunch unbelief. Odessa, I think you got something. I think that it is the, as we know that the Holy Ghost is the seal to those who believe, I think the mark of the beast is the seal to those who don't believe. Lori. Says, I got my King James here Bible search, but can't make head to tails how to maneuver or how to use it. I click on something and nothing happens. Example, the highlighter. Help! That's what she wrote. By the way, love you, love you, love you, love you and your ministry. I'm 67 and to be 68 this August and I've learned so much from you young man. Here I come to save the day. Your teaching has blessed me so much I've been able to pass it on to the younger women. Amen! Amen! That is exactly, you get it! That is exactly what you're supposed to do. Let the older women teach the younger women. Don't try to correct and straighten out all the men, but yet let the older women teach the younger women. That's right and it's biblical. Let me give you a quick rundown. The highlighter. Let's see here. I don't know if I've ever used the highlighter hang on here. Let me can I do that? Let me do that let me see if that works look at there. Oh Watch this watch this Okay, watch this here. We go. I got I figured it out Here's how to use the highlighter Take a portion of the scripture hold your mouse button down the the pointer finger, the left mouse button down. Hold it down. As you go over the text, it turns it all blue. While it's highlighted, go up here to the highlight button. Let's pick purple for this one. What is the options here? Ooh, look at that. Let's do that color, okay? So let's highlight it. Look at there, it's highlighted. And if we go up like that, and then we come back down like that, look at there, it's still highlighted. That's how you do it. You've seen me do searches before. Take your mouse, go over here, sweep it with the Beast of Destruction, click your mouse inside there, that's very important. Donna, if you're listening, I'll tell you what I would like. If I sweep it with the bism of destruction, I'm used to just go ahead and start typing and nothing happens. So I don't know if you designed it this way or not, I don't know. But if you could, when I sweep it with the bism of destruction, I'd like for the mouse cursor to automatically just show up there. Okay? That's just my preference. If anybody else likes it the other way, you send me an email or send her an email. All right? So let me type in a phrase. Word of God. Type it in and hit enter. And you'll see up here some numbers. 49, 49, 49. 49 times in the whole of the Bible all right and All right here is where all the verses are but the Word of God came unto Shemaiah the Son of God saying and again, let's take this now and let's let's highlight it and Then we can highlight it now. It's highlighted. Okay So that's just that's just a simple Thing now Donna The software master, we've been in contact. She is planning on coming down to our homecoming August 8th, 9th, and 10th on August 9th, Saturday afternoon during the late afternoon session. She is going to show all of the great things that this software can do. She is working on version 3.0. And she's going to teach all that. We are going to stream it. We're going to present it here. We're going to have it on video. And we'll probably try to figure out a way that we can make a disk. with not only the software that you can install on your Windows, Linux, or Mac machine, but also the teaching video on how to run the software all on one disk, all right? If somebody out there knows how to do that, we could probably figure it out. But if somebody out there actually knows how to do it, let me know and I just might give you the job of making. We just need one master disk and then we can make the copies of it, all right? Listen, I'm having fun, by the way, and hope you are too. Anthony says, the mark is the whore's forehead. They refuse to be ashamed. They are of a reprobate mind. Ooh, he gives scriptures here. I like that. Jeremiah 3.3. Now I'll tell you what I like. Okay, just not being picky. You send me an email and it references scripture. Copy and paste the whole scripture there. That way I can read it with ease. Let me say this, Jeremiah 3, 3, Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain, and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed. I think that's, I think that's good. I like it. I appreciate that, Anthony. Thomas, hi Pastor Mike, and happy in the nursery. No, anniversary, that's what it says. I recently, Discovered this is what Thomas says I recently discovered the truth of God's Word regarding the translation of the Saints I Was taught the pre-trib rapture all my life and found it was unscriptural the Bible says in first Corinthians 1552 in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed the last trump According to the Bible we are to be raptured at the last Trump I am in perfect agreement with you because that and when people ask me Pastor when you think there's a rapture gonna happen and I say to them at the last Trump Now I'm gonna be honest with you some people don't like that answer They don't like that Yeah, what are you trying to hide, huh? Why are you evading the question? Why don't you just answer the question? Why don't you just ask me what you really wanna ask me? Why don't you just ask me, Pastor Mike, do you agree with our rapture theories 100%? Because if you don't, we're not gonna like you. Why don't you just say that? Because that's really what you're trying to do. But I just, I believe exactly what 1 Corinthians 15, 52 says. I believe what it says. So anyway, Thomas, he says, I'm trying to understand the process of these events. I've heard preachers say we would be raptured before God's wrath, so when will the trumps be heard? How many are there? Can you help direct me to scripture concerning this topic? When will the trumps happen? After the seals? Will the world hear all the trumps or just believers? I'm sorry for asking so many questions. It's just that this has been on my mind a lot lately. And thank you in advance for replying. Pastor, God bless you sincerely in the Savior, Tommy. Tommy, here's what I'm gonna tell you. The only answer that I would give you would be to, okay, here Tommy, here's this passage here, this scripture here, this verse here, this is what this says here. So here's what you can do, and in doing this, Tommy, I like for people to be free. I like for people to be free in that they will let the Holy Ghost teach them rather than some man, okay? And I appreciate the thoughts that people have, Pastor, we have learned so much from you. But I will say that if you have learned from me or anybody else, and what you have learned hasn't come from the Scriptures, then what you've learned is bad. And so, it's what I do. I'm going to give you Scripture, Scripture, Scripture, Scripture, Scripture, Scripture, and let the Scriptures say what the Scriptures say. And believe it or not, some people think that's dangerous. They have this massive bowel movement every time I'm just quoting Scripture. One guy mocked me by writing the comment section of a YouTube video that I that I put on there rightly dividing He mocks me and he says the King hoggy version says Do word studies to show yourself approved So he was number one mocking me Mocking the Word of God to Because apparently, we're not supposed to do word studies of the Bible. According to this guy, we're not supposed to do what I'm fixing to tell you to do, Tommy. According to these guys, you can't do this. It's a no-no. But here's what I'm gonna tell you to do, okay? I'm gonna show you how easy this is gonna be. And you'll say, well, I don't know if I'll get understanding from that. I guarantee you, if you'll put your head in your Bible and say, God, show me great and mighty things that I know is not. Another guy, and I can't believe he said this. I quoted Jeremiah 33.3 one time. Well, it's at the Rightly Dividing teaching, the YouTube video. And I said, Jeremiah 33 calling me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not. And this guy comes unglued and he says, you idiot. That was not written to Mike Hoggard. That was written to Jeremiah. And you know what he did after that? He proceeded to rewrite the entire passage. I just got a problem with that. Here's what you do. t-r-u-m-p asterisk and hit enter 118 occurrences of the word Trump or trumpet and if anybody tells you oh There's you're doing wrong. There's a difference between the Trump and the trumpet. There's a difference. Oh If anybody tells you that, just go read 1 Corinthians 15, 51 and 52. And you'll see they're the same thing. So look for all the occurrences of the word Trump or trumpet in the King James Bible. Start here in Exodus 19 and study not just this verse, but walk circumspectly around that verse. Get the whole story. Read it. It's typology here. Okay, look at here. Here's a third day prophecy here. Here's the trumpet. Here is thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud. Write those down and study clouds, thick clouds, thunders and lightnings as part of it. Here's the word, let's see here. Fire, smoke ascending up as the smoke of a furnace. Looky here, the smoke of a furnace. Write that down and study that one too when you're done studying all the occurrences of the word trumpet. Now what I'm telling you to do is get you a big notebook and start making notes in all these places. But that's where you start. And I asked God one time, When I was first starting to study all this and see things in the Bible, God, just give me the answer. Because I asked God, is there going to be a rapture? I mean, I just threw everything out. God, is there going to be a translation? There's a rapture. God could have sent me a text message and said, yes. That's not what he did. God did what he does, what he tells us in the book of Proverbs. He gives us knowledge first. So you start assimilating all the effects. Just lay out all the facts, which are just the verses. And then, he starts giving you understanding. He starts connecting the facts together. And then with knowledge and understanding, he gives you wisdom. That's how it works. Let him teach you that okay, and here's here's why I'm telling you this okay Again, if I told you what I thought was the answer Thomas. I could be wrong If you let the Holy Ghost teach you There ain't a man in the world who can unteach it to you All right so that's That's my answer to you, and that's going to be my answer to everybody. Instead of you asking me whether or not I'm on your side or not, and I know, Tommy, that's not what you're doing, but some do. Instead of you trying to ask me whether or not I'm on your side or not, you should do it. Isn't it reasonable to just ask guys like me and other people, Mike, Do you believe every word of God is pure? Do you believe every word in that book?" And I'll say, yeah. And you should say, that's good enough for me. Ileana, thank you very much. Ileana says, happy anniversary to you and Sister Lisa. Dottie. says, Pastor Mike, I'm confused about women preachers. Oh, me too. They're awfully confusing to me. Anyway, and women's role in the church. I know about preaching, but I'm confused about teaching Sunday school and other duties. What exactly can a woman do biblically in the church? Do you have a teaching on this? Well, I mentioned a while ago, yes, yes. I have, let's see, what is it called? The biblical role of women. That's somewhere in the internet. I know we have it here, but just go to YouTube and type in Mike Hoggard, biblical role of women. And I'll show you from the scriptures what they can and cannot do. Can women teach Sunday school? Absolutely, absolutely. They cannot teach men or usurp authority over men in the house of God. They cannot do that. In the church, they are to be silent. The church is different than being home. Women are not to be silent at home. Remember guys, women are our helpers. And our women sometimes see it a lot better than we do. And I've learned that in 27 years. I have learned that my wife sees things that I just don't see. Okay? And she's been right. Does she know it all? No. And I always talk about the difference between men and women genetically. Women have two X chromosomes. That's what defines them as female. Men have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, because men sometimes with women were going, why? Why? Anyway, Dottie, take a look at that video, all right? Julie says, another listener for about a year, and a lot of what you say is very knowledgeable. You mentioned the other day about being born again out of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. The question is, in my mind is, what is the seed of God? If you could name my name, it is Johnny Appleseed. I hand out gospel tracts, give me what the old King James Bible, give me that the old King James Bible is the seed, the word of God, written, breathing, just like you say. But I was wondering where the two nations comes into play when you, the corruptible seed, is the other perversions, and the incorruptible seed is our King James Bible, which described the word of God. There's a lot of misspelling here, so you'll have to forgive me. I'm trying to read this here. Let me address what I know you're asking here. You're asking about, well, you say the King James is the incorruptible sea. What about other countries? Here's what I teach. Here's what I believe. No, let me clear that up. Here's what the Bible says. The Bible says in Isaiah 28, verse 11, for with stammering lips, For with stammering lips and another tongue will I speak unto this people, saith the Lord." That's Isaiah 28, 11. God said, stammering lips and another tongue. You know who the stammering lips were? Moses. The other tongue, New Testament, which was written how? In Greek. When Paul got a hold of that verse, by way of the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, in 1 Corinthians 14, when Paul got that verse, he said, what saith the law? With men of other tongues, plural. Well, I speak to this people. And what did they do on the day of Pentecost? Were they just speaking Greek? No. What were they doing? The Holy Ghost was giving to those men who were there his word in their language. Now, you might be able to find some culture, some tribe somewhere that has this obscure language that the Bible has not been translated in and you say, ah, see, they don't even have the word of God. You know who did that? God did. Who translates the word? The Holy Ghost does. So who decides what language it gets translated in? God decides that. So you know what I believe? I believe to every nation that God wanted His Word to go to, He translated His Word for them. And it's incorruptible. It's what I believe. Alex, thanks for all you do to help edify the body of Christ. My wife and I love your ministry. Quick question, when the Bible says all Israel shall be saved, I always thought that meant that only those who believe in Jesus and are born again are the true Israel. What will happen to the Jews who live in Israel now if they still reject Jesus in the last days? Thanks, Alex. Very interesting question. I think I know. He says all Israel shall be saved. Oh, sorry. Gotta go. It's my anniversary, you know. Now, quick answer. Everybody that's saved is Israel. Does that make sense? Okay. Everybody that's saved is Israel, both Jew and Gentile. Okay. Is there the Jew? Yes. Is there the Gentile? Yes. But you know who Israel is? Israel is my son, God said. Did you catch that? Everybody that's in Christ, who is saved, who is born again, is Israel. Is every Jew going to be saved? The Old Testament doesn't even prophesy of that. God says, I will call a remnant. And when you see the remnant, you see it in Revelation 7, you see it in Revelation 14, the 12,000 from each tribe, the 144,000. So when it says, and so all Israel shall be saved, it does not mean that every Jew who lives in the earth at that time is going to believe in Jesus and be saved. many thousands, maybe even millions of Jews are going to perish in the lake of fire because they don't believe. But God is going to choose a remnant out of them and save them and they will be, because we know Paul said they are not all Israel who are of Israel. So that's where I'm bringing that in there. Those who he will choose to give his belief to, those who see the veil lifted, will know who their Messiah is, they will know who Christ is, they will be saved and sealed, and they will be Israel. So my story, and I'm sticking to it. I love you guys. Be praying for us. Always, always pray for me and Sweetie Pie and our church and our family. And we can just keep doing what God's asked us to do until he's done with us. All right? We'll see you. Have a great weekend. Watch the video broadcast coming out this Sunday. America, the Sodom connection.