WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.040 It is the 7th of August 2026. 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:04.240 I am Corey J. 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:06.720 Mahler and this is at any cost. 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:10.480 This is episode 37, a QA episode. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.360 I will just check quickly to make sure my levels are good 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:17.040 on a couple platforms here. 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:19.280 I'm sure someone will let me know in the chat if my 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:21.200 levels are not, of course. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:30.560 I updated OBS right before starting, so hopefully that will make things 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:31.520 a little smoother. 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:35.600 But I don't really have any housekeeping tonight except to say that 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.800 I have been away from my desk for just about a week, 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:42.480 so I did not have time to get into any of the 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:46.320 more we'll say complex questions on the pending list, so I will 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:51.200 probably focus more on the chat tonight, in addition to a few 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.600 quick questions from the forum. 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.240 Before I get into the questions, I did want to note that 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.960 I did see the question about someone who previously practiced witchcraft and 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:02.560 some things related to that. 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.120 I will get into that one next week because I want to 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:07.680 dedicate a little bit more time to that one before I answer 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.080 it. But getting into the questions. 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:12.320 Question one. 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:16.720 Do the devil and his minions mimic proper worship? 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:20.880 As the devil and his minions only corrupt and not create, correct, 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:25.840 do they mimic rightful worship and introduce corruptions and perversions, rather than 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.320 actually creating new worship methods? 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:30.720 Should we be worried this may have happened in Rome in the 00:01:30.720 --> 00:01:33.920 East, or that it could be happening in our churches today? 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:38.400 Are there any forms of worship he cannot corrupt? 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:43.840 So of course, it is correct to stay off the bat that 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:45.520 yes, Satan cannot create. 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:49.840 And this actually goes to some issues that came up recently, but 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:55.360 this is tangentially related to the issue of original sin, because original 00:01:55.520 --> 00:01:57.600 sin is not man's nature. 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:01.280 This was it the names of the heresies don't matter that much 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:02.560 when they're ones like these. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.600 You know, everyone knows the big ones, Arianism, things like that, but 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.640 you can ignore the name so I won't even bother to mention 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:12.640 it. But But there have been men who have contended, heretics who 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:18.320 have contended that after the fall, the nature of man is original 00:02:18.320 --> 00:02:21.120 sin. And the problem with that is it would be to say 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:24.480 that Satan is our creator, because it would be to say that 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:27.840 Satan is the creator of 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:30.320 man's nature. 00:02:30.320 --> 00:02:32.320 And so that's obviously false. 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:36.560 He's not the creator of man's nature. 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:41.040 Rather, what he has done is he has infused, as it were, 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:42.720 a corruption into man's nature. 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:45.920 There are many ways you can speak about original sin. 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:47.680 And that is just a corruption. 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:48.880 It's a perversion. 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:50.320 It's not a substance. 00:02:50.320 --> 00:02:56.000 It's not an actual thing, as it were, because everything is created 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.640 by God, every substance, every essence. 00:02:58.640 --> 00:02:59.280 And so 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.440 those are good. 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:04.320 And so mankind's nature even after the fall is good. 00:03:04.320 --> 00:03:09.920 But to get into the question itself, which is again tangentially related, 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:11.840 worship is good. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.440 All of the forms of worship of God that God has created, 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:19.360 and He has created these forms of worship, they are good things. 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.200 Now, we can't really create a form of worship of God because 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:24.960 it wouldn't be worship of God, right? 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.760 The ways you worship God are things He has told you to 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:31.840 do. You worship God by obeying His law, you worship God by 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:35.120 helping your neighbor, you worship God with prayer. 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.600 These are things God has instituted. 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:42.400 And Satan can corrupt those, he can misdirect them, he can mislead 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:48.640 you. He cannot actually create any form of worship. 00:03:48.640 --> 00:03:51.920 So y it's absolutely correct to say that yes, the forms of 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:57.360 worship he has created are perversions of the ones that God created. 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.800 So a good example here and is brought up there's some additional 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.280 text in this after this question for the reasoning. 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.080 If you'd like to read that, it's on the forum, but yes, 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.400 the asherah and things like that are all corruptions of worship. 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.960 In particular, Satan likes to corrupt sort of echoes of worship from 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.040 all the way back in the garden. 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:22.080 One of the things that is often overlooked in the Garden of 00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:26.320 Eden narrative, everyone tends to think that it was just one tree 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:28.160 in the center of the garden. 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:31.440 The thing is the word there can be mean can be taken 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:33.600 to mean tree or type of tree. 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.680 So it may have been a sacred grove. 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.920 It probably was a sacred grove. 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.080 And so you don't have to believe that, right? 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:42.720 It doesn't change your faith if you believe it or not. 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.880 But we see echoes of that in the corruptions that took place 00:04:46.880 --> 00:04:51.120 in many places where they planted so-called sacred groves. 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.000 And then those were to worship false gods. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:59.600 So they were doing something that they heard via telephone basically from 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.800 their ancient ancestors, from what Adam and Eve were supposed to do 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.640 in the garden, and Satan turned that to the worship of evil. 00:05:06.640 --> 00:05:09.200 Human sacrifice is the same way. 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:12.400 There are a number of ways you can get to human sacrifice. 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:16.240 Either you can corrupt the sacrifice of animals, which was part of 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:22.240 Old Testament worship, or you can corrupt the narrative of Abraham, right? 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.080 Abraham and Isaac. 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:26.080 That's essentially what's happening there. 00:05:26.080 --> 00:05:29.360 And so the logic is almost sound, right? 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.840 But it's sound in that sort of demonic way where the thing 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:34.320 you're doing is inherently evil. 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:37.840 And so even if it seems to have a veneer of rationality 00:05:37.840 --> 00:05:39.840 to it, it's ultimately wrong. 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:44.160 And the reason it has that veneer is okay, if I sacrifice 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.440 the first of my flocks, the first fruits, right, that's giving something 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:50.080 expensive, costly, meaningful to God. 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:53.920 Well what could be more expensive, costly, and meaningful than my firstborn 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:59.280 son? That's basically the logic of the pagan cults that practice particularly 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:03.120 sacrifice of the firstborn son for human sacrifices. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.160 And of course, that's extremely dysgenic, among other things, and it's part 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:09.520 of the reason those populations look the way they do today. 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:13.280 But yes, Satan is definitely corrupting worship. 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:16.800 And the way that you avoid it is you know the kinds 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.800 of worship that God approves and you stay within those bounds. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.960 Right? God has music in the scriptures. 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:27.680 Now, I do argue and I believe that there should be some 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.480 level of decorum with regard to music, and there's an article on 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.080 my website about that. 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:34.720 But music is part of God's worship. 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:36.960 Liturgy is part of God's worship. 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:39.360 Look at all of his worship in the Old Testament. 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:40.720 It's all structured. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.240 It doesn't mean all worship has to be structured, but the formal 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:48.080 worship of God in church should be liturgical. 00:06:48.640 --> 00:06:52.640 You see the use of written prayers, memorized prayers. 00:06:52.640 --> 00:06:54.320 That's what the Psalter ultimately is. 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:58.080 It's a combination of prayers and hymns, as we would call them. 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:02.160 Christ teaches his apostles, his disciples, a prayer. 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:03.040 We should use that one. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:04.240 It's the Lord's prayer. 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.400 As a Christian, you should be praying that one multiple times a 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:10.160 day. If God gives you a specific prayer and says, I want 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.600 to hear this one, you're not going to create a better one. 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:14.720 He gave you the best one. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.040 It doesn't mean you use exclusively that prayer. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.120 It doesn't mean you repeat it mindlessly, but you use it, because 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.920 it's a gift from God we can use to worship him. 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.040 So as long as you stay within these boundaries that God is 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.560 set, and your worship is directed toward God, right, that's kind of 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.600 a key here, You don't need to be worried about going off 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:35.680 the rails with regard to forms of worship. 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.480 You worry about it when you start creating your own forms of 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:42.400 worship, or you start worshiping something other than God. 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:44.800 So that's what Satan wants you to do. 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.680 He wants you to do something that seems good and you go 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.200 off the rails, or he wants you to outright worship another God, 00:07:51.200 --> 00:07:55.040 even if you're using something that looks kind of like worship of 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.400 the one true God, or even would be opp proper worship, if 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:04.800 it were directed at God instead of this other thing. 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:09.200 That's the witchcraft question which I will save for next week. 00:08:09.200 --> 00:08:11.680 Question two. 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.920 This is actually sort of the inverse of a question that I 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.440 answered in my chat, I think, just about a week ago, a 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:20.480 little more than that. 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:21.680 So, question two. 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:24.400 I am a Roman Catholic and my boyfriend is L C Meth 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:28.480 Lutheran. We intend on getting married, and I am somewhat alright with 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.080 becoming Lutheran. 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:32.640 Because I feel as though I am submitting to my future husband, 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:35.600 and after hearing your episode on the Lord's Supper and having my 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.560 boyfriend explain Lutheranism, it makes more sense to me. 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:42.800 I'm scared of becoming Lutheran, however, because when I converted to the 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:47.120 Roman Catholic Church, I confessed that it was the one true Church. 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:50.080 I'm afraid that converting to Lutheranism would mean I am breaking a 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:51.760 confession I made to God. 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:54.320 It doesn't help that I am being told by Catholics in my 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.560 church that I will go to hell if I convert. 00:08:56.560 --> 00:08:59.280 What reassurance do I have that I will not go to hell 00:08:59.280 --> 00:09:01.920 for converting and that I am not wrong in leaving the one 00:09:02.400 --> 00:09:06.480 true church as they believe it to be as she believed it 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:08.240 to be. 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.760 This came up actually in like I said in the inverse in 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:15.920 my chat recently, because there was a woman asking if she would 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:19.280 be wrong to follow her husband and attend the Roman Catholic Church 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.720 because he's Roman Catholic and wants her to attend that church. 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:23.680 And I said no. 00:09:23.680 --> 00:09:26.000 And I know there'll be Lutherans that are angry at me for 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.120 that. And I just admonished her, focus on Christ. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.520 Christ is your righteousness. 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:36.880 Christ is the reason you are saved. 00:09:36.880 --> 00:09:41.040 So, you know, in if you're going from whatever to Rome, don't 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:44.000 go all in on the Mary stuff, don't go all in on 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.200 the saints stuff, but there are plenty of very good Christians in 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:48.960 Roman Catholic churches. 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.920 As a Lutheran, I staunchly disagree with some things they do. 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:54.960 I would go so far as to agree with the confession, of 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.920 course, that some of the things they do are blasphemous. 00:09:57.920 --> 00:10:00.560 That doesn't mean that I think they're all damned. 00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:04.400 And with regard to going from Rome to Lutheranism, of course, I'm 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.360 going to say that I don't have the same doctrinal problems, obviously. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:08.880 That's the reason that I'm a Lutheran. 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.440 But I would start out by saying what is the church? 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:17.840 Right? And so as a Lutheran, when you become a Lutheran, you 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:20.720 can of course appeal to the confession then which has a very 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:21.600 clear statement of that. 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:27.600 You have the small called articles and that is article twelve in 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:28.400 part three. 00:10:28.400 --> 00:10:30.560 So I'll just pull that up. 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:33.040 And actually I will just pull this up 00:10:34.560 --> 00:10:37.360 May as well pull it up in a browser window here because 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.240 so you can read along if you are watching this instead of 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:47.200 listening. So in the small articles, Article twelve of the church. 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:50.720 We do not concede to them, speaking of course about Rome, that 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.680 they are the church, and in truth they are not the church, 00:10:53.680 --> 00:10:56.320 nor will we listen to those things which under the name of 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:59.680 church they enjoin or forbid, and here's the key part of this 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:01.120 that I wanted to really read. 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:04.800 For thank God today a child seven years old knows what the 00:11:04.800 --> 00:11:08.160 church is, namely the holy believers and lambs who hear the voice 00:11:08.160 --> 00:11:09.280 of their shepherd. 00:11:09.280 --> 00:11:14.480 For the children pray thus, I believe in one holy Christian church. 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.440 And holy and Catholic I know there are some people who will 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:22.720 complain about whether you say holy Christian or Holy Catholic Church in 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:23.920 the Creed. 00:11:23.920 --> 00:11:26.240 Both have been used for centuries. 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:30.560 The Germans in the Reformation did not start doing Christian instead of 00:11:30.560 --> 00:11:32.960 Catholic. I learned it as Catholic Kirsche. 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.680 I didn't learn it as Catholic Church in German when I learned 00:11:35.680 --> 00:11:36.240 it in German. 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:37.440 I learned it in English first. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:37.760 But 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:39.040 so 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:43.280 don't let someone take you down that particular rabbit trail, there's no 00:11:43.280 --> 00:11:44.480 real difference there. 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.280 But they mean the same thing. 00:11:47.280 --> 00:11:49.920 When it comes to the church, the church is all believers. 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:53.440 I've said this many times before, but it bears repeating probably to 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.920 the point where people get tired of hearing it, which is good. 00:11:55.920 --> 00:11:57.920 They should want to hear it that many times. 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:00.800 Adam was a Christian, never a part of Rome. 00:12:00.800 --> 00:12:03.680 David's a Christian, never a part of Rome, right? 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:05.120 And I can keep listing these men. 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:06.960 Abraham, Christian, never part of Rome. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.240 Japheth, when he walked off the ark, Christian, never part of Rome. 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.920 His sons, undoubtedly Christians, never part of Rome. 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:17.440 Rome didn't exist for thousands of years after these men were part 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:18.640 of the church. 00:12:18.640 --> 00:12:22.640 So the church cannot be limited to Rome. 00:12:22.640 --> 00:12:24.240 Because the church isn't Rome. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.200 The claims of Rome with regard to being the church are the 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:31.040 same as the claims of the Eastern Orthodox and so many others. 00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:33.040 They're just false on their face. 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:34.560 Because who are the sheep? 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:37.840 The sheep are those who hear the master's voice. 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.920 Are all the sheep in Rome? 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:43.600 No, because there are true Christians outside Rome. 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:48.720 Even incidentally, you can use this with Roman Catholics, you mileage may 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:53.840 vary, but Rome no longer says that those outside Rome are necessarily 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.520 damned. That they gave up on that argument a very long time 00:12:57.520 --> 00:13:01.120 ago. The extra ecclesia no lasalis, right? 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:02.480 Outside the church there is no salvation. 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:04.320 They gave up on that a long time ago. 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:07.760 They specifically said that some Lutherans they'll you know, not say every 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:10.400 Lutheran, because they don't even believe every Roman Catholic is saved, right? 00:13:10.400 --> 00:13:13.440 But they will say that some Lutherans are indeed saved. 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:17.040 The same for some Anglicans, some reformed, others as well. 00:13:17.040 --> 00:13:20.640 So that is even in Rome, their current doctrine does not say 00:13:20.640 --> 00:13:23.440 that you are damned if you are not part of Rome. 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:28.080 So you don't have to be part of any corporate body to 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:29.040 be saved. 00:13:29.040 --> 00:13:30.880 You have to be part of Christ's Church. 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:34.720 And again, Christ's Church is all those lambs who hear the Master's 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.760 voice. So yes, you can be a Christian and be in a 00:13:37.760 --> 00:13:40.720 Roman Catholic Church, you can be in a Lutheran church, you can 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.600 be in an Anglican church, you can be a Presbyterian church. 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.320 Some have better theology, some have worse. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.720 But one of the things, of course, that comes into it is 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:53.680 felicitous inconsistency, so if you don't believe the things these other churches 00:13:53.680 --> 00:13:57.040 teach that are false, they don't harm you. 00:13:57.040 --> 00:13:59.040 It's better if you're not exposed to them, right? 00:13:59.040 --> 00:14:02.000 But if you don't believe them ultimately, you hold on to Christ 00:14:02.800 --> 00:14:05.840 and the faith that is the free gift from God, that's what 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.840 justifies you, then you're Christian. 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:16.400 Just because you're attending a church that is heterodox dogmatically, doctrinally, theologically, 00:14:16.400 --> 00:14:18.640 does not mean you're going to be damned. 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:21.200 The standard is not perfection theologically. 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.880 The standard is the free gift of faith and holding on to 00:14:24.880 --> 00:14:27.120 Christ. So just cling to Christ. 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:28.400 Perhaps you'll like the 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:33.360 famous comment from Luther's wife, I will cling to Christ like a 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:34.400 bird of cloth. 00:14:34.400 --> 00:14:36.400 So just take comfort in that. 00:14:36.400 --> 00:14:40.720 You don't need to worry about going from Rome to a Lutheran 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:42.800 church. You don't y lose your salvation for that. 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:43.840 You're not damned for it. 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.080 You're still a baptized child of God. 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.440 You still have your faith. 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:49.680 You're just going to have different ceremonies. 00:14:49.680 --> 00:14:52.720 Yes, there are doctrinal and dogmatic differences and things like that. 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:55.760 I believe the Lutheran stance is correct. 00:14:55.760 --> 00:14:58.320 But anyone telling you that you're going to be damned for doing 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:00.080 that is completely out of line. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.440 That's inappropriate. 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.640 And like I said, I just advised a woman that if she 00:15:04.640 --> 00:15:07.680 is going to obey her husband in attending a Roman Catholic church 00:15:08.160 --> 00:15:11.440 with him, she's not damned for that either. 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:16.000 Granted, I gave different admonishments in that case than I would going 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:19.280 from Rome to Lutheranism, but I'm not going to say that she's 00:15:19.280 --> 00:15:21.280 damned for it because she's not. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:25.200 Because again, the sheep are those who hear the master's voice. 00:15:25.280 --> 00:15:27.520 Pull up the next question here 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:38.960 Getting some strange chat messages on another platform, so I will just 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:40.640 skip over those. 00:15:42.880 --> 00:15:43.920 Let's see. 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.560 Thankfully the chat I believe anyway is working tonight. 00:15:54.560 --> 00:15:57.760 That's why I restarted the stream because the OBS chat was not 00:15:57.760 --> 00:16:00.080 working, but I but I do have it working now. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.040 At least I see messages coming in, so I assume it's working. 00:16:03.040 --> 00:16:06.400 I'll pull out the first question here from the chat. 00:16:06.400 --> 00:16:09.600 My question is how does one obtain this is question four I 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:13.600 should say, how does one obtain power in a godly way and 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:18.320 maintain it when maintenance means deception and dealing and managing parties and 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.480 people that actively seek to destroy you. 00:16:22.640 --> 00:16:27.280 You almost have that contained there in actually this is question three 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:31.760 rather. I swapped two questions around on my notepad here. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.000 The AI transcript can deal with that. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.360 It's their problem, not mine. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:39.760 But when it comes to power, you sort of answered the question 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.480 for yourself there, right? 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:46.480 If you have these individuals surrounding you, well that's the problem. 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:50.000 The problem isn't maintaining power, the problem is how you maintain power. 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.120 It's It's removing these wicked parties from around you. 00:16:53.280 --> 00:16:56.160 You should think of perhaps Pro Proverbs twenty five. 00:16:56.160 --> 00:16:58.000 I'll pull up the verse here on my screen. 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.040 I I won't show it since we're just reading one verse. 00:17:01.040 --> 00:17:05.040 Proverbs twenty five vers v five. 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:08.080 Cut off the impious from the presence of the king, and his 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:10.320 throne will be established in righteousness. 00:17:10.320 --> 00:17:14.640 Well, there's the recommendation of how you maintain power properly in a 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.120 government. You remove the wicked. 00:17:17.120 --> 00:17:19.920 You don't let them stick around. 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.280 You don't let them cause you these problems. 00:17:23.280 --> 00:17:23.600 So 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:29.920 if you have a righteous government and you have righteous advisors, there's 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:31.360 nothing wrong with power. 00:17:31.360 --> 00:17:33.200 Power does not corrupt. 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:34.880 That statement is dumb. 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.640 And it's mostly used by those who want to undermine rightful authority 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:40.880 and hierarchy and cause chaos. 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.280 So discord. 00:17:43.280 --> 00:17:47.440 And nor does absolute power corrupt absolutely, because that's perhaps even a 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.280 dumber statement. 00:17:49.280 --> 00:17:53.680 Power may attract the corruptible and the corrupt, but it does not 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:59.680 corrupt. It may give you the ability to give in to corruption 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.200 that is already present in you, your own predilections, your own perhaps 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.600 besetting sins, whatever it happens to be. 00:18:05.600 --> 00:18:08.000 Money does the same thing, right? 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:12.800 There's certain vices you can't really indulge if you don't have the 00:18:12.800 --> 00:18:15.440 money to indulge them. 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.880 So the same thing is true with regard to poor. 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.960 But the fact that power does not corrupt means that you don't 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:27.280 have to have this system of elaborate safeguards that you think are 00:18:27.280 --> 00:18:30.800 going to keep people from causing problems with regard to power because 00:18:31.040 --> 00:18:32.400 that's not how it works. 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.400 And also the safeguards don't work for other reasons that perhaps get 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:39.120 into another time. 00:18:39.120 --> 00:18:42.560 But on the other hand, a king is going to deal with 00:18:42.560 --> 00:18:45.360 the kind of men who are corrupt and attracted to power. 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:47.360 And he has to deal with them. 00:18:47.360 --> 00:18:51.360 But scripture's pretty clear about how you deal with wicked men. 00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:53.280 If you're the king, you destroy them. 00:18:53.280 --> 00:18:56.480 So you don't just let them hang around and give you bad 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.000 advice and cause you problems and torment your people and you know 00:19:00.560 --> 00:19:03.360 generally be a nuisance. 00:19:03.360 --> 00:19:06.320 You get rid of them, and you make sure that you have 00:19:06.320 --> 00:19:08.960 righteous men in government doing what is right. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:09.840 That's possible. 00:19:09.840 --> 00:19:11.600 There have been good governments historically. 00:19:11.600 --> 00:19:15.920 There have even been good governments that weren't Christian governments because being 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:21.040 a Christian is not a requirement to be good in the earthly 00:19:21.040 --> 00:19:22.080 sense of good, right? 00:19:22.080 --> 00:19:25.360 You can obey the moral law without being a Christian. 00:19:25.360 --> 00:19:27.200 You don'll get credit for it because you're not in Christ. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.960 You're still a sinner. 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:32.160 I've gone into that before, I won't go into it right now. 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.960 But you can be a good person, you can have a good 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:38.080 government, you can run your state well without being a Christian. 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:42.720 Being a Christian doesn't mean that you can't do that, doesn't change 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:46.080 how you go about doing it, at least not very much. 00:19:46.080 --> 00:19:51.280 Because you're dealing in earthly reality, you're dealing in fleshly reality, you're 00:19:51.280 --> 00:19:54.720 dealing in concrete problems with regard to the kingdom of the left 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:56.800 hand, not the kingdom of the right hand. 00:19:56.800 --> 00:19:57.120 So 00:19:58.800 --> 00:20:01.280 the only people who really think that power is a problem and 00:20:01.280 --> 00:20:04.000 claim to be Christians are like the Anabaptists who say you can't 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.360 without sin hold public office and things like that. 00:20:07.360 --> 00:20:10.960 And that's explicitly condemned in the Lutheran confessions, and elsewhere I believe 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:13.760 some of the Reformed confessions di condemn that as well. 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:18.400 So it's just power and Christianity aren't incompatible. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.080 There are those who've tried to argue they are, but thou those 00:20:22.080 --> 00:20:23.920 are bad actors. 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.520 They want Christians not to be in power because they want evil 00:20:27.520 --> 00:20:28.960 men to be in power. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:32.240 So cut off the impious from the presence of the king is 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:38.160 the answer from scripture and completely sufficient. 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.880 So let me pull up some more questions here. 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.920 If more questions come in the chat, I'll probably mostly focus on 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:48.080 the chat tonight, like I said, but I also have quite a 00:20:48.080 --> 00:20:54.960 list of questions from which I can draw at this point. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:58.080 What is the Christian case for physiognomy? 00:20:58.560 --> 00:21:00.880 there's a question. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:05.120 This is one of those questions where I could certainly go into 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:09.280 it at some length and in some depth, but Uh to some 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:14.320 degree we really went over that and sort of covered it not 00:21:14.320 --> 00:21:18.560 ex sort of extensively or certainly not comprehensively, but we covered it 00:21:18.560 --> 00:21:21.280 in the series on race for Stone Choir. 00:21:21.280 --> 00:21:24.320 Because obviously that is going to come up in the racial context, 00:21:24.320 --> 00:21:25.920 generally speaking. 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:29.600 But the reason that physiognomy, and for those who don't know, it's 00:21:29.600 --> 00:21:32.960 basic looking at the physical characteristics of a person and being able 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.840 to divine or discern things from the physical characteristics back to, say, 00:21:37.840 --> 00:21:42.000 personality, disposition, things like that. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.520 The reason that you can do that is because the human being 00:21:45.520 --> 00:21:47.040 is a gestalt, right? 00:21:47.040 --> 00:21:49.920 You are something that is greater than the sum of the parts. 00:21:50.080 --> 00:21:53.200 You are not just your body, your flesh, you're not just your 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:56.560 spirit, you're not just your mind, you're all of those together and 00:21:56.560 --> 00:22:00.960 more for being the sum of those things greater than the sum 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:02.960 of those things. 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:03.280 So 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:09.760 there is part of the underlying, the spiritual or the mental reality 00:22:09.840 --> 00:22:11.600 that is going to show through in the flesh. 00:22:11.600 --> 00:22:13.840 And it's not just a one-way The one-way street. 00:22:13.840 --> 00:22:19.040 It's a feedback loop because as the flesh becomes degenerate and corrupt, 00:22:19.040 --> 00:22:21.680 it influences the soul and the mind as well. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:25.440 We don't know exactly how that works because God didn't tell us, 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:28.560 and we don't have instruments to test the soul. 00:22:28.560 --> 00:22:32.080 But we know that it happens because we can look at populations, 00:22:32.080 --> 00:22:34.400 we can look at history, we can look at individuals to some 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:38.800 degree. Yes, they're outliers with regard to individuals, but when you're speaking 00:22:38.800 --> 00:22:42.320 about these things, you're talking about more like population level statistics, things 00:22:42.320 --> 00:22:43.280 like that. 00:22:43.280 --> 00:22:46.640 We can look at those realities and see that, yes, you can 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:51.200 actually tell to some degree things like criminality and intelligence from how 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:52.240 a man looks. 00:22:52.800 --> 00:22:56.720 And that's perfectly in line with how God designed the world. 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:01.520 Because insofar as you deviate from what God wanted you to be, 00:23:01.520 --> 00:23:06.320 now it's not the deviation is not due to you personally exclusively, 00:23:06.320 --> 00:23:08.640 because much of it is due to the wicked actions of your 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:09.680 ancestors, right? 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.720 And the fact we live in a fallen world and accumulating corruption, 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:14.800 degeneration, things like that. 00:23:14.800 --> 00:23:18.560 But the way that you look and the degree to which that 00:23:18.560 --> 00:23:22.640 deviates from what God again wanted you to be, is the result 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:23.760 of sin. 00:23:23.760 --> 00:23:27.280 And that sin does not affect just the flesh again, it affects 00:23:27.280 --> 00:23:29.440 also the mind and the spirit. 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:31.280 Soul, whichever term you want to use. 00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:31.680 And so 00:23:32.800 --> 00:23:35.680 those go hand in hand, down through history. 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:39.360 And so you can look at it physically in a person's features, 00:23:39.360 --> 00:23:42.720 how far he is from that thing, and extrapolate it to the 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:43.600 mind and the soul. 00:23:43.600 --> 00:23:45.920 And generally speaking the connection holds. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:47.680 Like I said, there are outliers. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:53.280 We're talking more about population level truth here than individual, because an 00:23:53.280 --> 00:23:59.680 individual could have, you know, a mutation during the very early stages 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:00.880 of pregnancy, right? 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:04.160 You can have some very unfortunate mutation that can lead to something 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:07.120 that that individual is severely disfigured. 00:24:07.120 --> 00:24:10.880 That's less an issue of physiognomy, which should be applied more to 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:15.680 that population level truth as it is just bad luck essentially. 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.480 In so in the Christian sense of luck, which I won't get 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:19.280 into right now. 00:24:19.280 --> 00:24:24.000 But yes, absolutely physiognomy makes perfect sense for Christians, aligns with what 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:28.240 we know about God's creation, and is a valid tool. 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:33.120 It's not, you know, the absolute source of all truth, but that's 00:24:33.120 --> 00:24:34.560 never the case with any of this stuff. 00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:36.560 But it is a source of truth. 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:41.600 Just copying some things into 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:47.360 my notes here so that I will have those in the show 00:24:47.360 --> 00:25:04.080 notes. We'll have to make someone else do it. 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:09.280 I had someone jokingly asked me, so I will not number this 00:25:09.280 --> 00:25:12.800 question, but is studying German grammar a good way to exacerbate hair 00:25:12.800 --> 00:25:17.600 loss? I think probably there are worse languages for that, but I 00:25:17.600 --> 00:25:21.680 guess it depends on if you enjoy German or not, because stress 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:24.000 will actually cause you to lose more hair, so 00:25:25.280 --> 00:25:29.760 jokingly, I guess perhaps the answer is yes. 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.920 Pull up my backlog of questions here. 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.960 we go To decide if I want to answer this question right 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:50.080 now. 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:52.960 I'll give a preliminary answer to this one. 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.720 I may not answer it fully because this is a one of 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:58.320 those complex ones that 00:25:59.280 --> 00:26:01.360 I may address at greater length in the future. 00:26:01.360 --> 00:26:03.280 But I question five. 00:26:03.280 --> 00:26:07.520 I had a friend argue that the Lord's words from the cross 00:26:07.600 --> 00:26:11.360 speaking of Christ, why have you forsaken me, mean that he is 00:26:11.360 --> 00:26:15.440 not all-knowing, I did not know how to respond to that. 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:15.760 So 00:26:17.120 --> 00:26:23.200 let me just drop that into the show notes here. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:29.600 That was not Christ saying that he didn't understand what was going 00:26:29.600 --> 00:26:35.040 on. That was Christ doing really one thing but in two senses. 00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:36.800 It's fulfilling prophecy. 00:26:36.800 --> 00:26:40.000 Because this was prophesied of the Christ, that he would be forsaken, 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:43.040 he would be cursed, he would become a curse for us, and 00:26:43.040 --> 00:26:45.600 he would suffer the punishment that was rightly ours, which is what 00:26:45.600 --> 00:26:46.320 he was doing. 00:26:46.320 --> 00:26:49.680 During his entire earthly ministry, which we call the state of humiliation, 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:54.320 but certainly in intensity with his sacrifice on the cross. 00:26:54.320 --> 00:26:58.480 This came up in a recent debate, perhaps, and one side was 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:00.160 very wrong about it. 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:00.480 So 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:07.200 we do not know the exact specifics of how 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.320 this works, right? 00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:12.160 How is one person of the Trinity 00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:18.800 forsaken and how does he become the propitiation for our sins on 00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:21.120 the cross? 00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:24.720 We can say some things about it, but we can't understand it 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:29.280 fully. Because when you try to understand this fully, what you get 00:27:29.280 --> 00:27:33.360 into is the intimate details of the incarnation itself, right? 00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:37.120 This is something into which the angels long to look and cannot 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:39.120 because they can't understand it. 00:27:39.120 --> 00:27:42.560 That sort of truth is reserved for God. 00:27:42.560 --> 00:27:44.400 It's something we can't fully understand. 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:49.280 We can see and we can believe God that Jesus Christ is 00:27:49.280 --> 00:27:53.200 fully man, fully God, one person, two natures. 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.080 We can affirm the things that are said in the creeds and 00:27:56.080 --> 00:28:00.320 that are pulled directly from Scripture, and then we have to accept 00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:02.960 their limitations to our reason. 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:04.880 The reason that Christ had to be 00:28:05.840 --> 00:28:09.360 the payment for our sins on the cross, and the reason that 00:28:09.360 --> 00:28:13.040 it is ultimately penal substitutionary atonement, which I may get into. 00:28:13.040 --> 00:28:16.480 I know I have a pending question about that as well somewhere 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:20.160 here. The reason that Christ had to do it is because the 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:24.640 debt of sin that we owe to God is infinite. 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:28.160 The only thing that can pay an infinite debt is an infinite 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:34.320 sum. We being finite can never pay an infinite amount, right? 00:28:34.320 --> 00:28:37.840 You know, say you're working for ten dollars an hour, which isn't 00:28:37.840 --> 00:28:40.800 unusual in the US unfortunately, but say you're doing that, right? 00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:43.600 How long would it take you to pay an infinite amount? 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:47.120 Make it a thousand, make it a million dollars an hour, it 00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:48.880 will still take you eternity. 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.800 Because you are finite and you're doing something that is finite. 00:28:52.800 --> 00:28:57.920 Christ, being fully God, was infinite, is infinite, and so his sacrifice 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:02.720 fulfilled the law, the righteous demands of the law, in your place, 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:05.520 and you are counted righteous when you're in Christ. 00:29:05.520 --> 00:29:10.480 So he is forsaken in the sense that he is cut off 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:15.920 and punished in our place and for us, and that's all we 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:19.440 need to be able to say about his words. 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.280 Because that is what he was doing at the time. 00:29:21.280 --> 00:29:24.400 We don't have to understand exactly how it worked because we can't. 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:28.480 This is the infinite God doing something that is above and beyond 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:31.440 us, and we thank him for it because he did it for 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:32.720 our sake. 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:36.240 So it's not saying that he's not omniscient. 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:39.840 This is a fulfillment of prophecy, and a fulfillment of what was 00:29:39.840 --> 00:29:44.480 necessary for our salvation. 00:29:44.800 --> 00:29:48.320 But yes, this is one of those things that the Aryans tried 00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:51.840 to bring up and argue that Christ was not truly God, which 00:29:51.840 --> 00:29:54.640 the problem if obviously is I just explained, if he's not truly 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:57.920 God, his sacrifice wouldn't be of infinite value. 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:00.960 And like then he'd just be another guy. 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.000 If I die on a cross, it doesn't benefit you no matter 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:05.200 what I say. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:07.440 Right? Because I'm just a man. 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:09.920 He has to be both man and God. 00:30:14.800 --> 00:30:17.040 Just make a note for myself here. 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:49.040 Excuse me. 00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:50.800 Someone asked me a question about Nietzsche. 00:30:50.800 --> 00:30:53.520 I think I will save that one. 00:30:53.840 --> 00:30:58.000 People trying to make me get into the polemical topics comparing John 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:05.280 Calvin and Nietzsche. 00:31:05.360 --> 00:31:10.160 I already answered the question about speaking in tongues previously, so I'll 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:13.840 just comment briefly on that one here. 00:31:13.840 --> 00:31:17.360 Speaking in tongues is a gift from God. 00:31:17.360 --> 00:31:20.560 And it is one of the signed gifts that accompanied the early 00:31:20.560 --> 00:31:21.280 part of the church. 00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:23.920 This is question six, if I didn't say that. 00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:27.920 And it was made basically to go give God's imprimatur, right? 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:31.120 To give God's stamp of approval on the apostles he had chosen 00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:33.920 He had chosen to spread his word and other men who were 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:37.200 speaking his truth at the time amongst the early Christians in the 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:38.640 early church. 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.480 The signed gifts are much rarer these days because they fulfilled their 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:44.000 purpose in the early church. 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.480 God is just not doing that as much anymore. 00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:48.720 It's not to say that there are no miracles. 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.480 Lutherans are not cessationists, there are cessationists, I think they're wrong, I 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.080 think they're obviously wrong, but we aren't. 00:31:56.080 --> 00:32:01.760 So So could God suddenly give you the ability to speak Romanian 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.680 if you had the opportunity to talk to a Romanian group about 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.160 Christ? Sure, he could do that. 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:10.240 These days, I guess he doesn't really need to, since we have 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:14.160 live translation, but it would certainly show something, right? 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:15.680 The miracle would prove something. 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:18.640 So that does at least can still happen. 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:21.440 God's not, you know, his arm isn't foreshortened. 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.520 He isn't unable to do that. 00:32:23.520 --> 00:32:27.360 But the admonitions in scripture are important with regard to speaking in 00:32:27.360 --> 00:32:30.400 tongues. One, tongues are human languages. 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:31.680 That's what tongue means. 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.200 It even means that in English still, it's just an archaic sense 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:39.120 that has fallen out of usage amongst most modern English speakers. 00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:42.240 But right now I'm speaking the English tongue. 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:45.440 Earlier I said a couple words in the German tongue. 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.120 It just means language. 00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:47.440 So 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:52.880 Someone just gibbering incoherent nonsense is not speaking in tongues. 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:54.800 He's gibbering incoherent nonsense. 00:32:54.800 --> 00:32:57.200 We have mental wards full of people who do that all the 00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.440 time. They're not speaking in tongues. 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:02.480 Paul admonishes things to be done in order and not to do 00:33:02.800 --> 00:33:04.400 it unless there's an interpreter. 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:08.320 Well, if there's an interpreter, you're interpreting a human language, right? 00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:13.200 So that's really all speaking in tongues is the Pentecostal churches get 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:14.320 it wrong because they want to 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:19.520 have some sign of some kind that makes them feel special. 00:33:19.520 --> 00:33:23.680 And right, a wicked generation seeks for a sign, so don't fall 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.400 into that trap. 00:33:53.920 --> 00:34:02.000 I don't remember if I answered this one previously or not. 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:05.280 So I will answer I know I've touched on quite many questions 00:34:05.360 --> 00:34:07.840 similar to this one, but I'll go ahead and answer it just 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:12.000 in case I have not answered this specific one in the past. 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:12.880 It's a quick one. 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:18.400 Question seven, how should we respond to miscegenation within the church? 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:22.720 So the general answer to this is that it is not really 00:34:22.720 --> 00:34:27.680 the place of the church to deal with it, because this is 00:34:27.680 --> 00:34:30.240 something that is handled by the state. 00:34:30.240 --> 00:34:33.600 This is the left hand of Christ, not the right hand of 00:34:33.600 --> 00:34:35.840 Christ, first and foremost. 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:39.040 And so this should be the Christian prince handling this, which just 00:34:39.040 --> 00:34:40.800 means the rightful ruler. 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:44.240 Preferably it is a monarch instead of a president or prime minister 00:34:44.240 --> 00:34:47.680 as we currently have, but you do the best you can with 00:34:47.680 --> 00:34:49.440 what you have. 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:53.840 Within the church, I don't think that it is wrongful if a 00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:59.040 church restricts, and I think that actually a church should, restrict membership 00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:03.200 Actual membership, so in the case of men, voting membership if that's 00:35:03.120 --> 00:35:05.440 a thing in your church, which I think voting is fine for 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.160 certain things, not for you know everything. 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:10.960 But to restrict that to members of the nation. 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:13.600 And that's one of the things that was done in National Socialist 00:35:13.600 --> 00:35:17.920 Germany. Only members of the nation could be members of at least 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:19.520 certain of the churches. 00:35:19.520 --> 00:35:22.000 You could attend if you were not a member of the nation 00:35:22.080 --> 00:35:25.280 because you weren't cut off from, you know, word and sacrament a 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.600 Christian who is a different race isn't a non-Christian. 00:35:29.600 --> 00:35:31.440 You can be a different race than a Christian. 00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:33.840 You're just a Christian of a different race. 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:37.680 So whether or not you're in the country is a question for 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:41.440 the kingdom of the left hand of Christ, for the magistrate. 00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:45.680 But the magistrate should say that you can't be member of the 00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:49.680 church, an actual member of the church, which I Which I hope 00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:52.320 everyone knows the difference between a member and just attending. 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:54.560 So you can't be a member of the church without being member 00:35:54.560 --> 00:35:55.040 of the nation. 00:35:55.040 --> 00:35:56.160 That's perfectly fine. 00:35:56.160 --> 00:36:00.160 I have no problem with individual churches these days enforcing that, because 00:36:01.120 --> 00:36:04.960 granted, you know, modulo, talk to your attorney on that one, but 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:08.400 the state's not going to enforce it right now. 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:12.320 So this is something that you address by dealing with membership at 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.440 the church level, because that's the only thing the church has in 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:20.560 the in this area because again primarily a matter for the magistrate, 00:36:20.560 --> 00:36:23.840 not for the the priest or the pastor, or the bishop for 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.680 that matter. 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:32.400 See someone just joined the forum, so I will go ahead and 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:35.840 approve that just in case he wanted to ask a question that 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:40.160 way. Then I'll pull up the next question here. 00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:43.120 The chat on my end has not refreshed for a little bit, 00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:44.480 so I don't know if it's working. 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.720 So I'm also going to pull up the chat in 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:51.760 the web interface for restream to make sure that it did not 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.400 suddenly stop working again. 00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:57.120 Tech gremlins. 00:36:57.120 --> 00:36:57.840 They are 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:07.120 unending. And the web interface 00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:07.760 shows 00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:11.440 One tenth of the messages I've received so far. 00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:13.040 That's helpful. 00:37:13.040 --> 00:37:14.000 Great. 00:37:17.200 --> 00:37:20.800 I will just keep pulling from the the backlog of questions in 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:21.680 that case. 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:41.680 I have quite the backlog of difficult questions at this point, some 00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:44.080 of which have to be worded carefully in how I answer them 00:37:44.080 --> 00:37:45.760 on a live stream. 00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:50.400 Someone asked about my favorite gun. 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:54.320 I've answered that one before, but I do generally like either 9mm 00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:57.680 or 10. 00:37:57.680 --> 00:37:58.800 Other ones are fine. 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.920 I'm not gonna be the the crazy guy who's you know hiking 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:03.920 with a desert eagle. 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:05.600 I'm not quite a boomer. 00:38:05.600 --> 00:38:07.920 I'm half the age of the boomer, so 00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:21.520 I'll go ahead and answer a question about communion. 00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:25.920 So since maybe it'll be a theme tonight of making certain amongst 00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:33.440 the other Lutherans annoyed with me. 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:36.640 Question eight. 00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:41.840 From which denominations churches in the USA may a confessional Lutheran accept 00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:43.520 communion these days? 00:38:43.520 --> 00:38:48.080 LCMH church LCMS churches are hard to come by in some regions, 00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:49.360 that is very true. 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.640 An Anglican church I visited declared in their bulletin that those who 00:38:52.640 --> 00:38:58.000 believe in the real presence were welcome to commune. 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:05.040 Historically, and in the overwhelming majority, we are going 00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:08.960 to tell you do not commu do not commune at other churches 00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:09.680 because 00:39:10.640 --> 00:39:15.040 it is viewed as one of two ways, really. 00:39:15.040 --> 00:39:19.360 One would be ascent to their theology of the real presence or 00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:21.520 the lack of the real presence in say the case of the 00:39:21.520 --> 00:39:27.040 Baptists, and therefore would be you making a false declaration publicly, or 00:39:27.200 --> 00:39:33.280 it would be condemned as giving your approval to their false dogma, 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:37.840 their false theology, and so it would be rejected on the grounds 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:43.440 of potentially leading brothers astray by you holding out, you know, an 00:39:43.600 --> 00:39:48.080 affirmation of what they believe, or at least not condemning it in 00:39:48.080 --> 00:39:50.800 the way that people think that you should, right? 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:52.320 So 00:39:53.520 --> 00:39:54.800 the issue there 00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:58.240 I understand why they make that argument. 00:39:58.240 --> 00:40:01.920 But at the same time, I don't think that it is always 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:03.200 necessarily wrongful. 00:40:03.200 --> 00:40:05.600 I think ultimately to give you the short answer, I think it's 00:40:05.520 --> 00:40:06.960 a matter of conscience. 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:11.040 You shouldn't commute at a Baptist church because they flatly deny the 00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:13.920 real presence, so you don't want to be party to what they're 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:17.760 doing. The Anglicans are one of the edge cases, one of the 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.640 reasons I picked the question because you mentioned the Anglicans. 00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:23.200 So I wouldn't s give a blanket condemnation. 00:40:23.200 --> 00:40:25.600 I'm not going to say it's wrong for you to do so. 00:40:25.600 --> 00:40:27.200 I think it is a matter of conscience. 00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:32.000 And I think the difference there is whether you view it as 00:40:32.240 --> 00:40:36.880 you are holding out or assenting to the their dogma with regard 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:40.880 to the real presence, or if instead what you are doing is 00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:45.920 emphasizing, I believe these men are Christian brothers, and I am partaking 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:51.360 of the Lord's Supper with Christian brothers And you're not making that 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:55.280 statement about their dogma, their theology, their stance on the real presence, 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:59.600 because obviously we do disagree with the way the Anglicans formalize it. 00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:03.680 Because theirs is sort of more like the Reformed than what we 00:41:03.680 --> 00:41:07.600 believe. So there's a difference between what we would n if we 00:41:07.600 --> 00:41:11.040 were being very specific, we would call it the Sacramental Union to 00:41:11.040 --> 00:41:15.360 distinguish our belief from the Reformed view of the real presence, but 00:41:15.600 --> 00:41:18.880 they do believe in a form of presence. 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:22.160 So I be that's basically what my answer would have to be. 00:41:22.160 --> 00:41:26.320 It's a matter of conscience and do you view it as assenting 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:30.400 to what you believe is error as a Lutheran, or are you 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.080 rather affirming that you do indeed believe they are Christian brothers? 00:41:34.080 --> 00:41:37.520 Because I think both of those views are legitimate. 00:41:37.520 --> 00:41:41.200 Ideally, yes, you attend an LCMS church and you don't have this 00:41:41.200 --> 00:41:44.800 problem, but if you're attending an Anglican church, I'm not going to 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:48.720 say that you're just flat out condemned because you communed there. 00:41:48.720 --> 00:41:51.760 Because you still have that faith in the proper understanding of the 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:52.240 real presence. 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:58.000 The elements are there, the words of Christ are spoken. 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.800 What Christ told us to do is being followed. 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.640 And to some degree, whether those other men believe something that is 00:42:04.640 --> 00:42:08.400 in error or not Or not is between them and Christ. 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:08.720 So 00:42:09.600 --> 00:42:13.120 if you view it as participating in their error, refrain. 00:42:13.120 --> 00:42:17.040 If you view it as affirming they are Christian brothers, commune. 00:42:17.040 --> 00:42:19.920 It's a matter of conscience. 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:48.320 Someone asked a question about the Mogdeburg confession. 00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:51.280 For that, I would just say go listen to the episode from 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:52.880 Stone Choir for that. 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:57.200 I think we pretty much covered that other than I mean if 00:42:57.200 --> 00:42:59.120 you want a just a blunt answer, are we sort of in 00:43:00.240 --> 00:43:02.160 circumstances where that comes into play? 00:43:02.160 --> 00:43:04.560 Absolutely yes, which we did say that in the episodes. 00:43:04.720 --> 00:43:07.200 I would say go listen to the episode for that one. 00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:11.120 That's not really uh a numbered question, just a sort of a 00:43:11.120 --> 00:43:12.000 quick aside 00:43:17.120 --> 00:43:21.360 a string of questions about psychology, which maybe I'll save those for 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:22.960 an episode with a theme 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:33.120 See if I can find that question about oh I have 00:43:34.240 --> 00:43:37.760 several questions on X that just showed up. 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.680 Some questions on X are from a crazy person, so I will 00:43:47.680 --> 00:43:48.880 skip those. 00:43:51.200 --> 00:43:55.280 No need to burden the stream with those. 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:57.200 I think I will pull up instead. 00:43:57.200 --> 00:44:01.520 I had a question from someone about like I said PSA, so 00:44:01.520 --> 00:44:03.280 let me pull that one up. 00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:17.120 I sort of touched on this because I 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:22.080 spoke in reply to an earlier question about the punishment on the 00:44:22.080 --> 00:44:25.440 cross, the nature of that with regard to Christ being forsaken, the 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:28.160 fulfillment of prophecy. 00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:29.920 And And 00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:36.720 I don't know that I really want to get into the morass 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:42.960 of the Eastern misconception with regard to the penalty paid by Christ 00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:43.600 on the cross. 00:44:43.600 --> 00:44:48.400 Penal substar sub penal substitutionary atonement is the gospel. 00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:52.800 And so denying it is denying the gospel is to be damned. 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:55.040 That is the baseline there. 00:44:55.040 --> 00:44:57.280 I guess I'll just make this sort of a 00:44:58.240 --> 00:45:02.240 short bit on penal substitutionary atonement. 00:45:02.240 --> 00:45:04.480 That can be question nine. 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:04.560 So 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:13.680 penal substitutionary atonement, as the phrase itself kind of rather heavily implies, 00:45:13.680 --> 00:45:18.880 is that there is a juridical, which is say legal or judicial 00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:24.960 aspect to core aspect to what is going on with Christ's earthly 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:31.520 ministry, his submission, his fulfilling of the law, and ultimately his death 00:45:31.680 --> 00:45:34.560 and conquering sin, death, and the devil, his resurrection. 00:45:34.560 --> 00:45:37.680 Right. And bear in mind, he says it is finished, so it's 00:45:37.600 --> 00:45:38.800 finished on the cross. 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:42.800 After that point, it is his triumph, right? 00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:47.120 That is not yet the state of exaltation, but he is finished 00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:50.080 the state of humiliation, he's completed his work. 00:45:50.080 --> 00:45:53.840 So the descent into hell and things like that are after that 00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:57.360 state of humiliation, because Christ says it is finished. 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.000 He did not say it's almost finished. 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:04.240 But with regard to penal substitutionary atonement, the penal part I explained, 00:46:04.240 --> 00:46:07.680 substitutionary, Christ is the substitute. 00:46:07.680 --> 00:46:09.600 Christ is the sacrificial lamb. 00:46:09.600 --> 00:46:13.840 He's taking your place with his perfect life and his death on 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:14.240 the cross. 00:46:14.240 --> 00:46:16.400 Because remember it's not just the death on the cross. 00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:18.800 He fulfilled the law with his perfect life. 00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.800 That was a necessary part of it. 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:25.360 He had a full earthly ministry, not just, you know, one very 00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:26.880 bad day at the end. 00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:28.000 All of it's important. 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:31.520 It's all the state of humiliation, it's all the fulfillment of the 00:46:31.520 --> 00:46:34.320 righteous demands of the law. 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:35.600 And you have 00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:41.360 this juridical language all throughout the scriptures. 00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:46.480 The words for it are all legal terms in the Greek and 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:47.600 you can look them up. 00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:49.920 I obviously don't have all of this prepared so I won't get 00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:51.600 too technical right now. 00:46:51.600 --> 00:46:55.760 But you can get into the family of words that deals with 00:46:55.760 --> 00:47:00.880 being righteous, with righteousness, that deals with being justified. 00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:06.560 These are legal terms with legal definitions and when the Greek speaking 00:47:06.560 --> 00:47:10.240 audience of the early church heard these words, they had no doubt 00:47:10.240 --> 00:47:14.800 what was being said, because the Greek wor the Greek world knew 00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:16.240 what a court was. 00:47:16.240 --> 00:47:18.800 They knew what court proceedings were. 00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:22.880 They knew what it meant to be declared guilty or not guilty 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:25.760 or whatever it happened to be. 00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:28.880 These were not foreign concepts to them. 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:36.720 So the forensic justification, as particularly those who oppose the correct 00:47:36.720 --> 00:47:41.120 Western view like to call it, is actual scripture. 00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:44.400 You are not made righteous by virtue 00:47:45.520 --> 00:47:47.920 of the declaration, right? 00:47:48.160 --> 00:47:50.960 This is not to say that God's words are ineffective. 00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.520 It's not to say that the things that God declares do not 00:47:53.520 --> 00:47:56.640 come to pass by his having spoken them. 00:47:56.640 --> 00:48:00.960 Right, that is the reason that for instance the creation, right? 00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:03.840 God speaks creation into being. 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:08.000 The problem with the East and some others as well is they 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:11.120 don't understand the system that God is using. 00:48:11.120 --> 00:48:13.200 Christ is the propitiation. 00:48:13.200 --> 00:48:17.120 Christ is the payment for the debt that is rightfully yours, because 00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:20.800 He suffered, He fulfilled and suffered the things that you were supposed 00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:23.760 to fulfill and that you should have suffered. 00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:30.080 So that's been paid, but it is credited to you via faith. 00:48:30.080 --> 00:48:34.480 And so faith is the means that God uses to make to 00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:36.080 make you righteous. 00:48:36.080 --> 00:48:40.960 First, you are made righteous in the judicial sense of declared righteous 00:48:41.040 --> 00:48:43.120 for the sake of Christ's work. 00:48:43.120 --> 00:48:46.080 Justification. That's the one and done. 00:48:46.080 --> 00:48:47.680 That's monergism. 00:48:47.680 --> 00:48:50.480 God did everything, you just benefit. 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:55.920 Then there is sanctification which takes place in this life when you 00:48:56.240 --> 00:48:58.080 start to believe. 00:48:58.080 --> 00:49:01.600 You become progressively more righteous. 00:49:01.600 --> 00:49:05.360 That does not finish in this life because you are still burdened 00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:10.640 by living in a fallen world, among fallen people, in corrupt fallen 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:16.960 flesh. That doesn't go away until you are finally and fully regenerated 00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:19.200 in the resurrection of the just. 00:49:19.200 --> 00:49:20.800 And then you are glorified. 00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:24.480 And so you can think of the golden chain from Romans 8, 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:26.320 right? the whole way that it works. 00:49:26.720 --> 00:49:31.200 There's the election, there's calling, there's justification, there's sanctification. 00:49:31.200 --> 00:49:33.120 That's the process how it works. 00:49:33.120 --> 00:49:37.200 It plays out with regard to God's decree of election in eternity 00:49:37.200 --> 00:49:41.680 past, with the means of grace in time and then glorification in 00:49:41.680 --> 00:49:43.040 eternity future. 00:49:43.040 --> 00:49:45.440 That's the short version of this. 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:49.040 And the reason that you have to understand that it is penal 00:49:49.040 --> 00:49:53.200 substitutionary atonement isn't just all of the juridical language. 00:49:53.200 --> 00:49:55.680 And I'm not talking about, you know, three examples. 00:49:55.680 --> 00:50:00.160 I'm talking about 80, 90 examples of this occurring in scripture. 00:50:00.160 --> 00:50:05.040 This is all over the place, abundantly clear. 00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:10.560 You cannot get rid of it because everything else breaks down if 00:50:10.560 --> 00:50:14.560 you try to make some other theory of the atonement be your 00:50:14.560 --> 00:50:15.840 core understanding. 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.000 And that's a key point in this. 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:21.440 We don't deny Christ as victor. 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:27.280 We don't deny that Christ is a model of moral behavior and 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:28.400 moral living. 00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:31.280 We don't deny these other theories of atonement. 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:32.800 We don't deny ransom theories. 00:50:33.600 --> 00:50:35.680 They're not the core. 00:50:35.680 --> 00:50:39.200 The core is penal substitutionary atonement. 00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:42.800 The core is that you are accused by the law because the 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:46.560 law has righteous demands placed upon you Upon you by God your 00:50:46.560 --> 00:50:49.920 Maker. You are his creature, you owe him that. 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:51.360 You failed. 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:56.640 Having failed, the law has punishments that you should rightly suffer, you 00:50:56.640 --> 00:51:01.440 will not suffer them, because Christ paid for them as your substitute. 00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:05.520 He atoned for them, he atoned for you. 00:51:05.520 --> 00:51:07.520 That's the gospel. 00:51:07.520 --> 00:51:10.720 If you jettison that, you have removed the heart of the Christian 00:51:10.720 --> 00:51:13.920 faith and you are no longer Christian. 00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:17.760 That is why I find it so important to condemn the dogma, 00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:22.880 the theology of the East, because their whole thing, mostly among the 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:27.840 converted ox in the West, is because they have left their former 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.520 faith and now hate it, they attack the part that is the 00:51:31.520 --> 00:51:32.080 core of it. 00:51:32.080 --> 00:51:35.440 The problem is they're attacking the gospel itself. 00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:38.560 And that's the reason that I've said bluntly that they are damned. 00:51:38.560 --> 00:51:43.360 If you deny that, you have denied Christ and you are damned. 00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:47.200 Period. There is no way around that you can't mince words with 00:51:47.200 --> 00:51:51.280 that because if you mince words you are going to damn others 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:54.720 by letting them walk the same path. 00:51:54.720 --> 00:51:55.040 So 00:51:55.920 --> 00:51:58.800 that's the overview of penal substitutionary atonement. 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:02.320 I'm not going to get into essence energies distinction tonight. 00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:05.600 Honestly, I don't really even ever want to get into it because 00:52:05.600 --> 00:52:09.280 it's just a morass of nonsensical philosophy. 00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:12.240 We got into it to some degree in the episode on Eastern 00:52:12.240 --> 00:52:16.000 Orthodoxy. I get into it in my article on my website about 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:19.680 Eastern Orthodoxy, so listen to that, read the article. 00:52:19.680 --> 00:52:22.320 I think that's sufficient. 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:27.360 It gets to be somewhat technical philosophy that most men don't ever 00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:28.160 need to hear. 00:52:28.160 --> 00:52:31.440 The The short version is just that it creates a real distinction 00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.600 in God, and for those who don't know what that is, a 00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:36.240 real distinction means that God is composed of parts. 00:52:36.240 --> 00:52:40.320 If God is composed of parts, he's not simple in the philosophical 00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:43.280 sense, and what you've done with that real distinction if you you've 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:48.560 created multiple deities because that which is truly distinct isn't unitary, it's 00:52:48.560 --> 00:52:52.480 not one thing, and therefore you're polytheist. 00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:53.520 That's the short version. 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:57.840 If you didn't understand that, doesn't matter. 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:03.760 Because unless you are thinking about swimming the Bosphorus, it's utterly irrelevant. 00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:11.120 But it is heretical because it's polytheist. 00:53:34.160 --> 00:53:38.640 My My replies on X are full of insane people asking things 00:53:38.640 --> 00:53:41.520 that are potentially criminal in some of those cases. 00:53:41.520 --> 00:53:45.680 So I think I will stick with my backlog of questions then. 00:53:45.680 --> 00:53:55.600 Seems like a better plan. 00:53:55.680 --> 00:53:58.160 Question about psychoanalysis. 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.680 I've answered that one previously, so I would just refer to previous 00:54:01.680 --> 00:54:03.840 episodes. The short version is that 00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:10.400 psychology more generally, but psychoanalysis specifically has valuable insights. 00:54:10.560 --> 00:54:13.920 I guess this is question ten as it were, but it'll be 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:18.240 short. However, cum granulis right, take it with a grain of salt, 00:54:18.240 --> 00:54:23.840 because a lot of those men, particularly Freud, were evil, anti-Christian, in 00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:27.120 Freud's case a Jew, ungodly men. 00:54:27.120 --> 00:54:32.800 And so even if they had some insights that were correct, it's 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:36.640 not necessarily worth sorting through all of the other stuff that is 00:54:36.640 --> 00:54:42.400 either nonsense or outright wicked in order to find the bits that 00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:43.920 had some value. 00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:45.600 Jung is different. 00:54:45.600 --> 00:54:47.920 There's a lot of good stuff in his writings. 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:53.040 There's also some Eastern mysticism and things like that that are not 00:54:53.040 --> 00:54:57.280 beneficial and Christians should generally avoid. 00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:00.000 This sorta gets into a larger topic that I don't want to 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.680 get into right now, but the short version is just because a 00:55:03.680 --> 00:55:09.440 man isn't 100% right or always perfect doesn't mean we can't benefit 00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:13.040 from the parts of his work when he was correct, where he 00:55:13.040 --> 00:55:14.720 did good things, right? 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:20.080 This desire to say, well, you can read that man but all 00:55:20.080 --> 00:55:22.880 these caveats, or like I like his work butt and then all 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:23.120 these cop 00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:28.320 it should never be the assumption that a recommendation of something or 00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:33.680 a lack of a condemnation of something is an implied argument that 00:55:33.680 --> 00:55:36.880 the man or the source of the book, whatever is perfect, right? 00:55:37.120 --> 00:55:39.600 Again, fallen world, fallen men. 00:55:39.600 --> 00:55:41.840 We're not dealing with perfection. 00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:47.200 But yes, there are some valuable insights in the field of psychoanalysis, 00:55:47.200 --> 00:55:52.560 and it's not all just evil anti Christian Jews. 00:55:52.560 --> 00:55:53.760 But some of it is. 00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:54.080 So 00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:55.920 you have a conscience. 00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:58.400 God has given you that. 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:02.400 Compare what you see to scripture when Scripture speaks to it and 00:56:02.640 --> 00:56:03.920 rely on your conscience. 00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:07.040 There's and if this is only if you have some reason to 00:56:07.040 --> 00:56:08.000 deal with this stuff, right? 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:11.360 If you have no reason to deal With psychoanalysis, I don't know 00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:12.320 why you'd be reading it. 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.760 It's not like it's a hobby or enjoyable. 00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:19.280 And maybe for some men, but I think unless you're working in 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:24.240 the field, you probably don't need to be reading these things. 00:56:24.240 --> 00:56:29.040 And just to make sure that I'm clear, there are things Christians 00:56:29.040 --> 00:56:30.000 should never read, right? 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:32.800 There are evil works that should not exist and no one should 00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:37.360 read. I don't think that psychoanalysis is in that category. 00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:46.480 Immediately scroll and see another question about Nietzsche, which it's almost the 00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:47.440 same answer, right? 00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:54.000 There's value, but also insanity and nonsense at times. 00:56:54.000 --> 00:57:02.480 Same is true of most philosophers. 00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:09.040 Let me see here. 00:57:09.040 --> 00:57:14.800 Answer a few more questions since I have not eaten dinner yet, 00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:19.360 and it is Eight o'clock here, so. 00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:22.400 But if anyone has any more questions, I would recommend you get 00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:25.680 them into the chat now because I think I'll only answer maybe 00:57:25.680 --> 00:57:30.640 two or three more for this stream. 00:57:40.640 --> 00:57:44.560 And yes, I do know that I have a backlog of some 00:57:44.560 --> 00:57:50.080 questions from last week, week before last week, but like I said, 00:57:50.080 --> 00:57:54.880 I have been away from my desk for a week and did 00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:58.320 not have time to really get any of that done this past 00:57:58.320 --> 00:57:59.040 week. 00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:16.640 Another question about Eastern Orthodoxy. 00:58:16.640 --> 00:58:22.000 I think I've probably said enough about Eastern Orthodoxy recently that most 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:25.280 men probably have a pretty good idea of my views and why 00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:28.160 I hold them and again we did the episode on that and 00:58:28.160 --> 00:58:31.280 I wrote an article on it which I will make a note 00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:33.680 for myself to link that article. 00:58:49.120 --> 00:58:51.920 Someone asked about the proper understanding of ecclesiastes. 00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:54.160 I think I'd like to save that one for maybe just a 00:58:54.160 --> 00:58:55.680 a stream specifically on that. 00:58:55.680 --> 00:58:58.480 That's one of my favorite books in scripture, so 00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:06.320 Of cour my drink is dripping on me 00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:23.200 What is the Christian position on insurance, both as a concept and 00:59:23.200 --> 00:59:26.320 as And as the industry exists today. 00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:32.240 So I guess this is question ten. 00:59:32.240 --> 00:59:37.360 This is another one of those where historically if you were to 00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:40.560 ask, actually, this is question 11 because I answered that question about 00:59:40.560 --> 00:59:43.600 psychoanalysis briefly. 00:59:43.600 --> 00:59:47.920 Historically, and this includes a number of Lutheran writers, in particular, I 00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:51.840 can think uh Volter, C of W Volter, wrote about this at 00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:53.120 one point. 00:59:53.120 --> 00:59:56.960 Many of them opposed things like life insurance and things like that 00:59:57.120 --> 01:00:01.600 on the grounds of it being a lack of trust in God 01:00:02.160 --> 01:00:07.040 and also some of the corrupting aspects of it and things like 01:00:07.040 --> 01:00:13.360 that. I would agree with them under the same circumstances in which 01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:15.280 they were operating. 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:20.560 But today I think that generally speaking, it is often a wise 01:00:20.560 --> 01:00:26.320 thing to insure the things that it makes sense to insure, right? 01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:29.200 Like your vehicle should be insured. 01:00:29.200 --> 01:00:33.040 If you are a man who works in a risky job and 01:00:33.040 --> 01:00:36.400 you are the sole provider for your family, which is often the 01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:39.680 case, you should probably have life insurance. 01:00:39.680 --> 01:00:43.200 You know, I have insurance on various things as well, right? 01:00:43.200 --> 01:00:47.440 Like the phone that I'm using right now as my camera. 01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:49.280 I have insurance on that. 01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:55.200 I don't think that insurance is necessarily inherently wrongful. 01:00:55.200 --> 01:01:00.400 I think that the industry itself is deeply evil and it operates 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:06.240 in a way that is pernicious, undermining, causes all sorts of harm 01:01:06.240 --> 01:01:07.840 in society. 01:01:08.240 --> 01:01:12.080 I I can't change that system myself, right? 01:01:12.080 --> 01:01:13.840 I don't have that power. 01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:20.400 So if I don't insure my iPhone, right, against damage, loss, theft, 01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:25.920 and it gets stolen, then I've harmed myself in a way that 01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:32.160 I could have prevented, and I haven't achieved anything concrete toward some 01:01:32.160 --> 01:01:33.600 other end. 01:01:33.600 --> 01:01:36.400 So there is a degree of rationality that has to play a 01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:40.800 role in how we make our decisions here in time under the 01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:43.920 circumstances under which we live. 01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:47.920 So I don't again, I don't think that given the reality that 01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:53.360 insurance is wrongful just to own for Christians. 01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:55.920 So yes, I think that there are times where you should insure 01:01:55.920 --> 01:02:01.200 things. If we had a proper government government that was operated in 01:02:01.200 --> 01:02:05.840 a better way, I think the insurance field, the entire industry would 01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:08.880 be alm it would you'd have to call it a new thing 01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:12.720 almost, because it would be so unlike what we have today. 01:02:12.720 --> 01:02:15.920 That would be a goal, a future goal, right? 01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:20.400 A Christian government, a Christian prince should seek to implement those changes 01:02:20.640 --> 01:02:24.880 to have the industry be something that is in line with Christian 01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:29.600 teaching. So not practic practicing usury for one, but that gets into 01:02:29.600 --> 01:02:33.120 the bigger issue of having to reform banks, because ultimately we're talking 01:02:33.120 --> 01:02:36.000 about banks, we're talking about insurance. 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:39.600 So I think that just the summary is again to say, yes, 01:02:39.600 --> 01:02:43.040 it's fine to ensure the things that make sense to ensure these 01:02:43.040 --> 01:02:48.000 days, but on the longer scale and the grander scheme, as Christians, 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:51.520 I think we should oppose the the insurance industry as it is 01:02:51.520 --> 01:02:53.120 formulated today. 01:02:53.120 --> 01:02:57.360 So vote against it, right, or advocate against it when the opportunity 01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:02.240 arrives. If God hands you the sword as the magistrate, use the 01:03:02.240 --> 01:03:03.280 sword against it. 01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:10.240 But as an individual Christian, it's a matter of conscience and perhaps 01:03:10.240 --> 01:03:12.880 even more so than conscience wisdom. 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:28.720 And again, often these days the wise choice is to ensure things. 01:03:35.680 --> 01:03:40.400 So I think I will end with one more question from the 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:43.040 chat. This one is from X 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:50.000 and then I will give my usual caveats and dismiss you all 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.960 for the weekend as it were I guess. 01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:53.920 Question 01:03:55.040 --> 01:03:56.000 Which one is this? 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:56.560 This 11? 01:03:56.560 --> 01:03:58.640 I'm looking at the wrong list. 01:03:58.640 --> 01:04:00.080 Question twelve. 01:04:00.080 --> 01:04:02.080 Right. Question twelve. 01:04:02.080 --> 01:04:05.520 What is your opinion on going to another denomination if the Lutheran 01:04:05.520 --> 01:04:10.400 churches in my area do not pass the test of pastoral orthodoxy. 01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:10.720 So 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:15.840 if you're talking about my article, then you aren't going to find 01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:19.520 unless you are very lucky, or you happen to be in one 01:04:19.520 --> 01:04:21.760 of a handful of places I know in the US, including one 01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:25.360 that I was this week, which is why I was not in 01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:27.360 my study and not at my desk. 01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:30.160 Unless you're in one of those areas, you are going to 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.280 have to deal with pastors who are not completely orthodox and not 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:37.360 in the sense that we would prefer them be not to the 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:39.200 extent we would prefer. 01:04:39.200 --> 01:04:41.680 Because they're going to be wobbly on something. 01:04:41.680 --> 01:04:45.280 The standard today is not whether or not the pastor, the elders, 01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:50.000 the church, etc, whether these things are perfect, but whether they are 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:55.120 good enough that you can have Christian fellowship, you can hear the 01:04:55.120 --> 01:04:58.640 word, you can receive the sacrament, you can do the things you 01:04:58.640 --> 01:05:00.960 are supposed to do and the things you that y that you 01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:06.080 do clearly want and are supposed to want as a Christian without 01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:12.320 endangering yourself in some extreme cases or going against your conscience. 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:17.040 So will your pastor probably say some dumb stuff every so often? 01:05:17.040 --> 01:05:20.160 Inevitably, almost. 01:05:20.160 --> 01:05:23.600 That doesn't mean that you have to leave the church immediately, right? 01:05:23.600 --> 01:05:26.560 Now, there are lines, there are obviously lines, right? 01:05:26.560 --> 01:05:31.600 If your pastor starts having women do the readings, maybe talk to 01:05:31.600 --> 01:05:32.640 him about that. 01:05:32.640 --> 01:05:35.600 Maybe talk to some of the elders first, so you can go 01:05:35.600 --> 01:05:38.240 with the elders to the pastor and have a little more clout 01:05:38.720 --> 01:05:39.760 as it were, right? 01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:43.600 You can put a little more leverage on him, have your Bible 01:05:43.600 --> 01:05:46.080 verses prepared and things like that. 01:05:46.080 --> 01:05:50.400 If your pastor starts having women give the sermon, then you need 01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:50.960 to leave. 01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:53.440 Because it's no longer a church, then it's brothel, right? 01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:54.320 There are lines. 01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:58.000 There are bright lines that once crossed, you have to make a 01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:02.080 choice. And that is basically you tell the pastor you've done something 01:06:02.080 --> 01:06:04.160 that is inappropriate. 01:06:04.160 --> 01:06:07.200 This is something that is wicked, it's sinful, you need to stop, 01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:09.600 and his response will tell you whether you need to find a 01:06:09.600 --> 01:06:11.200 new church or not. 01:06:11.200 --> 01:06:14.720 Hopefully, you know, if you go to an LCMS church, even though 01:06:14.720 --> 01:06:17.440 some of them are not that good these days, and the leadership 01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:19.280 is certainly wicked. 01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:20.960 There are still good parishes. 01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:24.320 And even if they're not that good, you're probably going to find 01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:27.280 one that is acceptable. 01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:30.480 The pastor's not going to step back and have a woman give 01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:34.160 the give the sermon, they still crack down on that in the 01:06:34.160 --> 01:06:37.040 LCMS, thankfully. 01:06:37.040 --> 01:06:37.360 But 01:06:38.640 --> 01:06:42.480 if you can't find a Lutheran church in your area, and you 01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:47.360 are, I assume, Lutheran for this, then yes, I've answered this question 01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:49.120 for many men before. 01:06:49.120 --> 01:06:52.560 If you can find a good Anglican church, right, you're going to 01:06:52.560 --> 01:06:55.760 have to check the parishes because Anglicanism in the US particularly is 01:06:55.760 --> 01:06:57.280 a very broad umbrella. 01:06:57.280 --> 01:07:00.000 There are some good ones, there are some terrible ones. 01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:05.120 I've driven past Anglican churches, flying BLM, rainbow flags, all that, and 01:07:05.120 --> 01:07:11.120 I've spoken with Anglican pastors who are nearly Lutheran, in the good 01:07:11.120 --> 01:07:13.200 sense of being nearly Lutheran. 01:07:13.200 --> 01:07:15.840 So it just depends. 01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:17.520 Same thing with Presbyterians. 01:07:17.520 --> 01:07:21.360 There are some good Presbyterian parishes, there are some really bad ones. 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:22.880 I've been to both. 01:07:22.880 --> 01:07:26.000 I've spoken to pastors and elders at both kinds. 01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:26.320 So 01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:31.040 unfortunately these days, the best advice that I can give on finding 01:07:31.040 --> 01:07:33.280 a church, and I get asked this all the time, but I 01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:36.560 of I'll try if I know about the area, then certainly, but 01:07:36.560 --> 01:07:39.600 if I don't, then the best advice I can give is 01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:45.760 whatever tradition you are, find the most conservative version of that tradition 01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:49.360 in your area, and then start attending parishes. 01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:53.600 Attend them for two, three Sundays apiece, and make an assessment. 01:07:53.600 --> 01:07:57.600 Go out to coffee with the pastor or the elders, or a 01:07:57.600 --> 01:08:00.480 beer, whatever it happens to be, if you're reformed, I guess you 01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:02.000 get the cigars and whiskey 01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:05.120 Talk to these men. 01:08:05.120 --> 01:08:07.760 You have to make the assessment for yourself, right? 01:08:07.760 --> 01:08:09.440 I can't make the assessment for everyone. 01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:10.320 I don't have enough time. 01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:13.520 I don't have enough days, hours, well, days in the week, hours 01:08:13.520 --> 01:08:15.120 in the day, either one. 01:08:15.120 --> 01:08:15.440 So 01:08:16.400 --> 01:08:19.680 do the best that you can and then pick the church that 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:23.920 is good enough and make it better by being there and talking 01:08:23.920 --> 01:08:27.440 to the elders and talking to the pastor and pushing things in 01:08:27.440 --> 01:08:30.880 the right direction when the opportunity arises. 01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:34.320 These things don't get better by good men abandoning them. 01:08:34.320 --> 01:08:37.760 They get better when good men stick around and push things in 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:38.880 the right direction. 01:08:38.880 --> 01:08:41.120 That doesn't mean that you join a lost cause. 01:08:41.360 --> 01:08:43.120 I'm not telling you to do that. 01:08:43.120 --> 01:08:46.880 But if there's a church that's kind of wobbly, sort of in 01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:50.880 that gray area, you may be the deciding factor that pushes it 01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:52.640 back onto the straight and narrow. 01:08:52.640 --> 01:08:55.600 And that's a great thing and God will bless you for it. 01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:57.600 But you have to make the call. 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:01.120 And it e is again a matter of conscience and wisdom. 01:09:01.120 --> 01:09:04.800 So according to the measure of those things that God has given 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:07.360 you, use them to make the best call. 01:09:09.440 --> 01:09:13.840 I think that will be it for this stream. 01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:18.560 I don't see any other pending questions in the chat. 01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:21.680 I if there are pending questions in the chat and I just 01:09:22.080 --> 01:09:25.840 do not see them, then it is a software thing which would 01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:29.200 not be unheard of using this software. 01:09:29.200 --> 01:09:32.000 But at any rate, thank you for those who asked the question. 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:35.040 For those who have pending questions, I will try to work on 01:09:35.040 --> 01:09:36.320 some of those this week. 01:09:36.320 --> 01:09:39.200 Thankfully I will be at my desk and have some time to 01:09:39.200 --> 01:09:40.800 do that this week. 01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:44.400 So other than that, if you want to submit questions, the best 01:09:44.400 --> 01:09:46.880 way to do that is of course the forum that should be 01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:50.400 linked in the information for the stream or the show notes, whatever 01:09:50.400 --> 01:09:52.480 platform you happen to be using. 01:09:52.480 --> 01:09:55.600 It can be found just by searching for it, it can be 01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:56.880 found on my X page, etc. 01:09:57.760 --> 01:09:59.840 Of course you can ask questions other ways. 01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:02.880 I respond to I try to respond to the questions in the 01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:07.600 chat and questions on X and DM and however else people get 01:10:07.600 --> 01:10:08.560 them to me. 01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:11.040 The forum's the easiest because I can link them in the show 01:10:11.040 --> 01:10:13.680 notes and other people can find them, but if you ask them 01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:18.640 somewhere else, I do try to collect those together into one long 01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:22.080 list of pending questions, which can be found again on the forum 01:10:22.080 --> 01:10:26.000 in the future topic slash question list. 01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:30.160 I think that pretty much covers it for this stream. 01:10:30.160 --> 01:10:33.680 Again, thank you for submitting questions and participating in the chat. 01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:37.040 I I do like getting the opportunity to do this every week. 01:10:37.040 --> 01:10:39.680 I at least try to do it every week if I'm not 01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:42.560 out of town or whatever it happens to be. 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:45.200 Attempt to do it on Thursdays, but it usually winds up being 01:10:45.200 --> 01:10:47.120 Friday, just depends how my week goes. 01:10:47.120 --> 01:10:49.840 Given that it is Friday, I hope that you all have a 01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:51.520 good weekend. 01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:54.160 Maybe go out and get in nature a little bit if you 01:10:54.160 --> 01:10:58.640 happen to be in part of the country that isn't oppressively hot 01:10:58.640 --> 01:11:01.040 or actively on fire for those of you who are in the 01:11:01.040 --> 01:11:04.880 part of the country I was also just there that is currently 01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:05.760 on fire. 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:08.400 I wish you all the best and I'll continue to pray for 01:11:08.400 --> 01:11:10.800 you and I hope you pray for and check on your neighbors 01:11:11.120 --> 01:11:14.720 because it's pretty bad in a few places out west right now. 01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:17.760 So for those of you who are not out west, also pray 01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:21.840 for our brothers and sisters who are out there in those very 01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:25.040 bad conditions, particularly pray for the firefighters out there trying to get 01:11:25.040 --> 01:11:27.040 them under control. 01:11:27.040 --> 01:11:30.080 But that is it for this week. 01:11:30.320 --> 01:11:33.360 Again, I hope you all have a good weekend, and of course, 01:11:33.360 --> 01:11:35.360 go to church on Sunday. 01:11:35.360 --> 01:11:38.480 And until next week, God bless you all.