The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline | S01-E05 | 02-01-23

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

Question #1How do we “prove” that our Holy Bible is the true Word when so many other religions think their Bible is the truth.Question #2Can you be filled with the Holy Spirit and also unclean spirits?Question #3Does Tom realize how frequently he uses the 666 hand signals during his sermons? It’s a lot and as much as I’ve grown to trust him, it honestly freaks me out a little.

Real Talk. Real Talk. Real Talk. Real Talk. Hello everyone and welcome to the Hope Hotline. This is where I answer all of your questions and you have two, well I guess you're succumbed to all my answers, but you wrote them in so it's all on you. Like it or not. First question, how do we prove that our Holy Bible is the true word when so many other

religions think their Bible is the truth? This is one excellent question. It's an excellent question for many reasons. One is because everybody should know why they believe what they believe. But second, we are losing our kids at a very fast rate because when we're raising them up, they're not really being taught why they believe what they believe they're not really understanding the bible and the true facts about it um we're leaving out genesis is is huge and genesis is basically your apologetics of why you believe what you believe believe and the truth behind what you believe a lot of people don't even know about apologetics and that it's what you know as far as what your faith is built on lots of people don't even read

genesis they don't think that it's they they like it because it explains how creation began. But after that, that's really all that it means to them. It defies Darwinism, but people don't understand or can't explain why it does. So apologetics is super important. We should know it ourselves as adults. But if you're a parent a grandparent you should be able to explain to your children we're losing kids in college at a very fast rate because of the lack of understanding that the bible is the true word of god and that has to stop that has to end um if

you're a parent and you're sending your you plan on sending your kid to college i would strongly suggest that you uh learn and explain and teach your children why the word of god is the true word of god well my children i homeschooled my children and one of the things that i did with them uh i always intended we both my husband husband and I both intended that our kids would go to college. They both tried it. They both hated it. And so we said, well, that ain't for you. So my husband's a college graduate. I am not.

Even though you guys are asking me these questions, I only have a high school diploma. So that's on you. Crazy. I know. But whatever. I'm smart, though. Well, in my own whatever um I'm smart though well in my own mind I'm smart so whatever um but here's the thing like I taught my kids apologetics and the reason I did is because I wanted them to understand why the word of God was the truth and that so when they grew up and they were able to figure out if they wanted to

you know I didn't want them to believe that Christianity was the true word of God and that the Bible was fact because I said so I wanted them to believe it because they understood and they knew without beyond a shadow of a doubt there was no other religion there was no other belief system there was nothing that even compares uh to the truth of what the holy bible um has and exists so i wanted them to understand you may try other things which i knew that they wouldn't but in my thought process is you can try other things, which I knew that they wouldn't. But in my thought process is you can try other things, but you're going to come back to the Holy Bible every single time because it's the only thing that is documented proof that it actually factually is real.

So that means that God, Holy Spirit, Jesus is real. And that they're the only ones that we serve. So many people say, well, I know Jesus is real and their other religions are wrong because he's the only one that died and came back, resurrected and came back. And that is true. But if you're going to win somebody to the Lord

or prove to them, because there's so many people that don't believe or there's so many people who don't want to get saved. So they try and discount or discredit the word. And you just sit there and say, well, I believe because I believe. And a lot of some people say, well, I believe. And if I'm right right I go to heaven if I'm wrong then I've lived a good holy lifestyle and my life has still been good that's great and all but that's not going to win somebody to the Lord you have to know why you believe what you believe and then you can share that with people with confidence but more importantly if you have a family you don you know, train up a child in the way that it should go.

And when it grows old, it will not depart from it. That's what it says. And so for me, part of that training is understanding what the true word of God says and why we believe in what we believe. So let me just tell you. Apologetics. It's a Greek word. It stands for apologia. It means to give a defense

so that's what we're going to do here i'm going to explain why the bible is the true word of god and i'm going to make my defense um position on this so in first peter 3 15 it says but sanctify the lord god in your hearts and always be ready to give a defense, apologetics, apologia, a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. How many of you guys can do that? How many of you guys are ready to give a defense for what you believe? Other than, I believe. That's just not good enough for everyone.

Some people you can get away with that. Others, they are not going to take you at your word. They are like a person that has to see it to believe it. They have to be shown it in the word to be convinced. Not everybody just is a trustworthy person. I myself am not trustworthy. And most of the time, I'm not going to just believe it because you tell me.

I already have my own beliefs. So in order to change my beliefs, you're pretty much going to have to show me why I'm wrong. Because otherwise, I always believe I'm right. And that's the truth so and everyone in this room that's with me right now would 100% agree with that I drive them crazy because I believe I'm right all the time and I am I am so everybody has to know why they believe what they believe and let me just tell you when I'm going to tell you this.

If you think about other religions, I want you to think about what they offer and how they compare. Okay, so the Bible. Let's look at the Bible. 100 million Bibles are printed every year. There is no other book that is printed more and sold more. So 100 million Bibles are printed every year. That is insane.

And then 20 million are sold just in the United States. That's a lot. So that's a lot of Bibles being sold just in the United States of America. That's not the other countries, but we take up a lot of that $100 million. So the Bible had approximately, yeah, it's about, well, it is. No, it's approximate. 40 authors, 40 authors wrote it. It was written over 1,500 years ago.

It was written over, excuse me, that's not true. It was written over 1,500 years ago. It was written over, excuse me, that's not true. It was written over 1,500 years. So from beginning to end of its writings, it was a 1,500 year period of being written. Okay? There are 6,000 prophecies in the Bible. And over 3,000 of those prophecies have come into existence. Now, if you look at the Jehovah Witness, they have to change their prophecies constantly because they don't come to pass.

But our Bible, over 3,000 of those prophecies have come to pass. And then there's a little less than 3,000 that we're still waiting to come to fruition. But we're seeing, like in the last several years, we've seen some of those prophetic writings come to pass. So we're very blessed because a lot of people just want to just, there were so many people, the Jews people were waiting so long to see the messiah that the people who were there that walked the earth when when jesus walked the earth uh they were very blessed they were fortunate because they got to be a part and see history come in the making we are the same. Lots of people have waited to see the things that we're seeing come to pass.

Now, that doesn't mean that we're going to be here to the very end and that we're going to see everything. That means that I believe we're in the beginning of birthing pains. So what part of that and how long that takes, I don't know. But I will say to you, we're pretty blessed that we are getting to see things come to fruition that so many people have longed to. And we are, we're present. Just like the people in Jesus's day,

it's kind of like how we are right now. So it's really cool. A lot of people are freaked out and scared, but really there's nothing to be afraid of. And because God's got us and and we're on his side um but also because we're getting to do and be a part of something that most will never or have never so um let's see so the another thing is is um 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were writings that we used, or excuse me, we didn't use them. The Holy Bible existed. People questioned whether it was factual or actual. In 1947, a little shepherd boy, believe it or not, some shep, not some well they in different places it says different things but um the Jewish people say a shepherd boy but it was some sheep herders found the Dead Sea Scrolls it was not in just one cave that they found these. They found them in 11 caves. So all of these documents that consist of the Old Testament, the Bible itself, these scrolls were found.

Now, there was 800 separate scrolls. And after they reviewed the scrolls get this after they reviewed the scrolls they compared the King James Bible to those scrolls and it was found with 99% accuracy that's why it's I mean I use I use the NIV I do but mostly I do a lot out of the New King James that's a lot because it got rid of all of these and the vows and stuff like that that the King James has but it really hasn't changed it doesn't change what the King James says as I've said in the past you can go with the NIV when you start learning but how maybe have a King James or New King James sitting next to you

like I always have two bibles open and then my my stuff that i study with as well so if i want to see maybe how it's differently amplified is phenomenal so maybe uh you use an amplified instead of an niv but And if NIV has become very, what is that? Woke? Yeah, yes, very woke. I was, that's a nice word to say, because I was going to say not so nice something, but they're very woke. They've now made it gender neutral.

They changed different meanings and sentences. They take, they've actually taken different scriptures out our verses out um which changes the meaning um so niv is okay it's not the best the best is king james new king james amplified's fantastic but they took the King James and they they compared the the scrolls with the King James Bible and 99% accuracy of what was found now I will say that you can say well that's okay because they that scrolls but I'm gonna tell you like some things that that go outside of that in the secular world so thousands of archaeological discoveries in the past century,

they also support the Bible. So they've actually found archaeological facts to prove what was in the Bible actually existed. That's another way you know. The Smithsonian Institute, okay? They support that the Bible is real. Believe it or not. Let's look at that the historical books of the old testament and this is their quote they made this statement the historical books of the

old testament are as accurate historical documents as any that we have we have from antiquity and are in fact more accurate than many of the e, Mesopotamian, or Greek histories. Like people look at Socrates and Aristotle and they look at those things and they had like less than a hundred some of them of what they said or is said that they said. And they have disproven some of the things that so many people stand on. They've proven that those statements or those quotes or those theories and theologies, they were not actual factual information or documents. The Bible, although, has far more.

I mean, look at that. I mean, it's like 6,000 prophecies. And 3,000 of them have already come to pass. No one compares. Even if you take someone outside of the Bible, there's no real truth in some cases. So it says these biblical records can be and are used as other ancient documents and architecture or archaeological work. So even the Smithsonian uses the Bible to go and prove some of the things that have come to pass. Let's look at NASA. NASA actually can confirm that Joshua 10, 12 through 14 happened.

The lost day when the uh joshua was fighting and he prayed uh when they were um waging war and he prayed that the sun wouldn't go down so that they could continue to fight and take over um territory it's proven that one day was lost nasa the new testament has four gospels and each of those gospels matth Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were written by people who actually were present. They were eyewitnesses. Let's look at Matthew. Matthew was the tax collector. He's one of the twelve disciples. He was there. He was present and he actually watched and saw things come to pass. We look at Mark. Mark was not an eyewitness.

I mean, Mark was an eyewitness i mean mark was an eyewitness but he was not a 12 one of the 12 disciples he's actually um barnabas's cousin and barnabas uh was paul barnabas and paul went out together so he was uh somebody that everybody knows. But Mark, what is interesting about Mark, Mark in the Gospel of Mark talks about when Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane and a young man ran out of the garden and was only in his loincloth. He ran because of fear of being arrested as well. Most consider that to be Mark. They believe that that was Mark and that's why he was present.

Then you got Luke. Luke was a doctor. Luke is believed to be with Paul on the road to Damascus. Luke is also considered one of the 70 disciples of Jesus, not the inner 12, but one of the 70. And his documentation in his book is probably the most detailed or considered to be the most detailed of when Jesus walked this earth. And the reason they believe it is, is because he was a doctor, very detailed.

So he was there because he was a doctor very detailed so uh he was there he was present and they believe that he was an eyewitness then you have john john the beloved um also one of the 12 and present so the four gospels of jesus are documented by eyewitnesses of the accounts that happened. True blue. Josephus, who's got great commentary, if you ever want to dig real deep, his documentation is phenomenal. So you can get that commentary. You can get it online. You can look it up. If there's a verse or something or a chapter you want to dig deeper on,

Matthew Henry is excellent for commentary Josephus is phenomenal he was a historian and he actually confirms and records all of the things in the four gospels as well as new testament and and then even in old testament he he documents things like that with the same facts there are 4, to 10 000 different religions but there are only six religions that most people follow christianity judaism muslim islam buddhism and hinduism we're going to look at those six religions christianity has the Bible is a proven recorded document. Okay. Then you have Judaism, which is the Torah, which is the first five books of the Bible.

And they don't really go past that very much because they don't believe the Messiah. They do. They do look at other books of the Bible that's not what i'm saying but the torah is mostly what they memorize they live by it's the law um and then once you get into the new testament it's um they don't really recognize it they believe jesus was a prophet a great prophet but they don't believe he's the Messiah they're still waiting for the Messiah Muslims uh they have the Quran they believe in Muhammad um they uh they worship Allah uh uh there ain't very much about them that I can recall.

Islam is the same basic faith as the Muslim. Buddhism is the Tripitaka. We looked that word up. It's a weird word. They don't have a god. Hinduism is the Vida or Vita. I don't know how they do it and they have many gods and they actually have many books um actually buddhism has many books but the

tripitaka is the one that they use the most um and as i said before i mean those six religions none of them like their books have not been confirmed they have prophecies that continue continually have to change um actually if you look at the quran it's some of it's been taken out of the bible a lot of like even the jehovah witness um mormons um they all use a portion, like even New Age. New Age, they take aspects of Christianity and or the Bible, and they manipulate it to create their own faith. Scientology, actually, even though it's a very psychology-driven faith, they've even kind of manipulated some of the teachings from the Bible they've extracted them you might not recognize them but they are there actually and it's so that

the real word of God draws you in just like Satan he's facade um and what he does is he always takes oh the bible and he creates a counterfeit and that's what these other gospels are these other religions are they're all counterfeit with a little bit just like the devil does takes a little bit of truth and he makes something out of that and either you believe it or you don't but most of the time some people I mean some people fall for it so I won't say most of the time some people fall for those things um I will tell you that uh by not teaching your children the true word of God like I said we are leaving them open to when they go to college, especially when they go to college,

their first year of college is walking away. There is a 70 to 80% chance, because right now it's 88% actually, 70 to 88% of all kids who call themselves Christians, their freshman year of college, they walk away. That's a staggering, that means 12%, anywhere between 12 to 30% stay saved. The rest of them walk away.

And that is something we can control. That's something that we can change by just teaching our children that the Bible, because what they do when they go into the colleges, these professors, they totally make the word of God of none effect. So what they try and do is they try and teach these kids that Christianity is not a real religion. It's a false religion. It's a religion of rules. They try and make these kids feel bad because they have conservative values, which, you know, right to life.

Homosexuality is a sin. Just all the different things that we as believers stand on, and they try and make them be open-minded to things. And at some point, the peer pressure of that is they're taking over. Unless you're really, really strong, it's like COVID. Unless you're a really, really strong believer, you're gonna fall for it because you want to get along

with everyone, so you go along to get along and that's what happens in these schools because they don't want to be the one that that is not like everybody else and um so they give up their faith um part of the reason is also these uh these kids were never discipled they go to churches that don't teach the true word of god they don't teach holiness um they've never owned their walk they believe what they believe because their parents tell them to believe it not because it's what they own it's not their their faith i see a lot of kids walk away um and I was one of them myself to be honest with you one of the reasons I walked away from God is because I believed what I believe I mean I believed

in Christianity because that's what my parents told me to do not because that's what I chose to do and so at 18 years old you start you know you're an adult you know everything and your parents know nothing and so I was more or less like I think I'll give this Christianity thing a break it's not that big of a deal and I pretty much didn't look excuse me I didn't look at my Christian walk as my lifeline. I looked at my Christian walk as something that I'm okay with it. I'm okay without it. If you know the true word of God, then you realize you can't live without it.

It is your lifeline. And if you walk away from it, the destruction that is in your path that you have no idea that is in front of you, you're not even ready or prepared for. So let's save our kids. Let's teach them. Starting now, there are some really great books

for apologetics, starting from a very young age all the way up to teens. So I wouldn't just fall for anything. I check out the books I like for me. I got a few. I read them through. You're smart. You can take it and make sure it correlates with the word of God. And let's save our kids because they are the future. But more importantly, like they are your future. Like they're the only investment that you can take to heaven. It's really our job to make sure that we do everything possible to make sure that that happens.

And one of them is teaching them why the Bible is the true word of God and that they never want to walk away from it. And that Jesus is the Lord and of God and that they never want to walk away from it and that Jesus is the Lord and Savior and everyone needs it and no one should walk this life without it. And that's it for that. So I hope that answers your question. Question number two, because that took me 30 minutes, actually longer than that, but that's important. So question number two, can you be filled with the holy spirit and also unclean spirits the answer to that is no it's not possible romans 8 9 through 11 says you however are not in the flesh but in the spirit if in the but if in fact the spirit of god dwells in you

anyone who does not have the spirit of christ does not belong to him but if if christ is in you anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to him but if if Christ is in you although the body is dead because of the because of sin the spirit is life because of righteousness if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through our spirit who dwells in you. So Holy Spirit and demons cannot coexist. They don't. There is a difference. So if you are saved, the Holy Spirit dwells in you.

There is absolutely no way the Holy Spirit will dwell with demons. In scripture it says demons have to flee at the name of jesus so if a name causes them to flee then the holy spirit dwelling in you there is absolutely positively no way that if something if something to the magnitude like it's god jesus holy spirit the trinity there's no way, Jesus, Holy Spirit, the Trinity. There's no way with one of the parts of the Trinity dwelling in you that a demon will even want to be there if the name of Jesus causes them to flee. So there is a difference between possession and oppression.

Okay. There are a lot of people who call themselves Christians that are demon-possessed, okay? They believe they're a Christian, but their lifestyle and everything else we reflect that it is not. And you say, well, you're not to be a fruit inspector, and I would say that's not true. Jesus says you will know them by their fruit okay if you have demons in you the fruit of that is that you're not saved all of it's fixable and you don't have to be demon possessed but in order to make that happen is that you have to become a solid believer okay you have to actually be saved ephesians 6 12 says oh so uh oppression and possession are different obviously we know possession means a demon or demons are dwelling

in you oppression is like the spirit of fear um the spirit of infirmity, things like that. That is oppression. That is not possession. And that an oppression does exist. I mean, we know people who have the spirit of depression and things like that. Ephesians 6, 12 says, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. So oppression would be anything that's like abnormal fear. Like you can be afraid. Like I'll say this, like normal fear is like you walk out your door and you see a snake eek a snake right okay that is different like nobody is like I don't mean I guess there's what is it when you're

afraid of reptiles arachnophobia are that spiders? I don't know. But if you're afraid of, if you are deathly afraid of, like, heights, if you fear and worry, like, there's no tomorrow. Like, if you're afraid when your child goes somewhere, let's say, like, you let your kid go and spend the night at a friend's house, and the whole entire time you're full of fear like they have a pool what happens I mean is the gate up to the pool all this other stuff right that's abnormal fear the the word is clear a hedge of protection surrounds us so you have to stand and believe that your child when you let them spend the night somewhere

no harm is going to come to them because you have prayed a hedge of protection over them but if you can't sleep because your kid is spending the night at someone's house you have abnormal fear that is oppression it controls your thoughts and emotions again you can't sleep, things like that. You have to take every thought captive. It's very clear in the word. If you do not, you will let your imagination run amok. And before you know it, it's bigger than what you ever thought or imagined. A lot of fear-based stuff is me, me, me. Like it's your fear of what will happen if something happens and how it'll affect you. Fear usually, selfishness is usually being someone who's super shy. As crazy as that is, people don't believe that shyness is is uh self-motivated it all is because a person who is

super shy if there's they're they're worried about what others will think about them which ultimately goes back to yourself you're worried of how you will look um if you say the wrong things what will that look like how will people respond again it's all me it goes all back to me and people think that being shy is not like that but if you truly examine if you're shy if you truly examined and we're honest with yourself why you're shy a lot of times it's because of of how people respond or look at you um so first peter 5 8 says be alert and of sober mind your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour a lot of people who have uh oppression of some kind, they usually have an inability to rest.

They have a lot of bad dreams. They have depression, fear, and anxiety. They have a lot of anxious moments. Fear does that. I know a lot of times, like in the world that we're living in right now, people are afraid of if there's going to be food for them. They have small children.

Will they be able to provide for their families? A lot of people based on fear, they took a vaccination. And under normal circumstance, they would say absolutely not. But because of fear and what would happen, I'll lose my job. So they did things that normally they wouldn't have. But it took them over a period of time. And in a lot of cases, a lot of people just didn't automatically take that vaccination. It built up over time, like their job saying, if if you're sick you don't get paid and then I know

people who were told if you're sick and the team around you that you're on a team with you get sick then they've been around you so now all of them and you are out for two weeks and all of them and you don't get paid for two weeks. So a lot of people were pushed into it. Airlines, if you don't take the vaccination, you don't get to fly. Well, I have a job. Like I have to travel. I got to get on that plane.

I'll lose my job. So what they did is they like people who just love to cruise. They have to go on a cruise. That's their life um so what they did is fear of not what is that FOMO fear of missing out so FOMO right um they don't want to miss out on their cruise so and and there was this big thing like they figured out how do we get the most that we can get vaccinated? Because initially people were not getting vaccinated. So what they did is they kept amping it up, amping it up, amping it up. And so fear made people do something that they normally wouldn't have done.

And now there are people who are vaccinated that they're fearful of what's going to happen to them. Those are all oppressed feelings okay if you're vaccinated we can pray for you and we can believe that that vaccination will just excrete out of your body it's listen it's really no different than somebody who is healed of cancer blinded their eyes that that were or open, the deaf ear hearing. It's really no different than that. It's no different than somebody who has heart issues and now the heart issues, their heart is healed.

That have back issues, their back and their discs have inflated instead of being compressed. The vaccines really is no different than that. So let's just pray really quick. My husband does this a lot on his podcast because there are a lot. He just said there's 5 billion people vaccinated. People, that's not good. And we need as many people who will believe with us

and stand with us. If you are vaccinated, stand with us and believe that your body is healed and that all of that poison is out of your body. So let's do this right now. In Jesus' name, we come to everyone that is willing to come together with two or more are gathered in your name. And this room is praying with me. If you are vaccinated, we stand with you and we believe in Jesus mighty name that that

vaccination and that poison that is in your body is removed and evaporated in Jesus mighty name. We speak to you poison. You have to leave. We bind you and we loose you out of this body in Jesus name. And we thank you and we praise you for what was done on that cross by your stripes. We are healed and we thank you for this in Jesus name we pray amen so you stand with us from this point on you are vaccine free and nothing by any means will harm you in Jesus name amen um so what I would tell you if you are a fear-based person if you have an infirmity if a spirit of infirmity if you have anything that you know is not of God and you battle it on a daily basis. Fear is a big one.

So we're going to use that one. So if you battle fear, what I would tell you to do is get in the Word. First, get in the Word and start seeking out those scriptures that talk about fear and how it isn't of God. And then you start quoting them. I say you put them on index cards and you put them all around your house. Let's look at the spirit of infirmity sickness and disease you go through and you write down every single scripture and there are so many where it talks about by his stripes we are healed because

it talks about it in first peter 224 it talks about isaiah 53 it says that uh isaiah talks about present and future and second Peter talks talks about it in past tense but it is both of them reference it as it is a finished work so those are the ones that you quote over your body you speak them to your body then you put scriptures up all around your house that talk about healing and things like that. And then what I would also tell you to do, there are great YouTubes where you can make it play eight hours of scriptures over you. So while you sleep, you just put that on and you just have those scriptures be spoken over you while you sleep. There's some really good ones on healing

and things like that. Faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing by the word of god so if you need your mind here healed your body healed get the word being spoken over you and then be in the word continuously plus there's some great um bible teachers uh pastor rodney howard brown great on healing. Jonathan Shuttlesworth, great on healing. Andrew Womack, phenomenal. All of them have free. My husband, great on healing. You can look up YouTube. We're banned off of YouTube, so you're going to have to go to BlackRobeTV.com, correct? BlackRobe.

Yep. BlackRobeTV.com. That's where you want to go and listen to my husband's uh teachings really great teaching on healing uh andrew wamek is awmi.org i believe he has like like so much unbelievable amount of teaching so good with the two that you're going to want to start out with is um you're already to want to start out with is um you're already what is it god bless you're already healed quit trying to get it no you're already well

yeah she's going to google it for me there's two it's awmi.net you're going to want to go to um believers authority that one's really good you're already you're already healed quit trying to get it and then you're already healed or you already got it that's another one look up those um better way to pray he's just got i mean i've listened to hundreds of thousands of hours of his teachings. He also has healing testimonies of like every sickness and disease. And these people didn't get healed by going to him. They got healed by reading the word, taking his teachings, applying it to their lives, and seeing the healing happen through their faith.

Pastor Rodney, unbelievable teachings on healing um he also has a really good two hour i love his voice like it's so soothing so i just put on his healing scriptures and just listen to them over and over and over again over myself um you can find that on youtube and and pastor jonathan he and pastor dallas they constantly have stuff you can go on youtube you can look up all their stuff all their stuff is free great teachings you can just constantly feel your feel your um spirit the thing is is we fill our our spirits up with so much of the world either through being on the computer scrolling on our phones watching TV listen if you want you know junk in junk

out you want word in word out you want to see the results that you're looking for then get out of the world quit putting that junk in you and put more of the word in and less of the world and see the results you get. They're going to astound you and blow your mind. The other thing I would tell you is fast. Fasting is huge. Like it gets rid of your carnal nature.

So it breaks down that fear and all the anxiety feelings of what if it doesn't happen. It makes you stick to what you know the word says and it gets rid of all that carnality also Ephesians 6 10 through 18 the armor of God put that on look up those scriptures Ephesians 6 10 through 18 put the armor of God on find out what that is find out what that means to you second corinthians 10 5 is one i use all the time we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of god and we take captive of every thought to make obedient to christ you have to take every thought and make it obedient to the word jesus is the word that is what it says it says that jesus is the word. That is what it says. It says that Jesus is the word throughout the scriptures.

And that's what you have to do. You have to make every thought obedient to the word of God. Period. God is more real than your situation. God has already made a provision for whatever your need is through the stripes that Jesus bore. You just have to believe and you just have to have the faith to see the results that you expect that's it it's super simple super easy it just

takes a little bit of work I would say a lot of bit of work and a lot of overcoming on your part because most people don't want to pray and they don't want to read that's just the facts well if you want to see something happen you're going gonna have to put a little effort in so question number three and I'm down to 15 minutes so I'm a talker we are loyal fans and watch Tom every Sunday and Saturday night I thank you for for that very, very much. I appreciate that and I sincerely mean it. I only have one question and it's not a serious one. Does Tom realize how frequently he uses the 666 hand signals during his sermons? It's a lot and as much as I've grown to trust him,

it honestly freaks me out a little. I've been awakened to the truth only since early 2020. I've gone down long days and weeks of rabbit holes. I feel like Tom is the only person in Florida that knows as much as I know. I've never been baptized, and I'm new to religion. You're 60 years old. I was never introduced to it. Tom is the one that hooked me in because I trust him

and he deserves to be trusted he is a very trustworthy person I added that in not her or him what does what days does Tom do baptizing I feel ready and I wouldn't have it done by anyone else and that is a very precious statement so first of all i want to thank you again for being a faithful watcher second of all this is where it gets tough because as much as i appreciate your question i'm going to be very frank and honest with you and with that it might not feel good so the 666 I cannot tell you like he's been asked this question by several people and it's like uh it's crazy to me like I'm gonna be honest with you it's crazy like who actually looks at hand emotions whatever and and correlates them with something like you've gone down too many rabbit holes instead of going down and studying out the word of god i know you're a new believer but there are

people who are not new believers like you and they spend so much time going down rabbit holes QAnon nonsense it's crap you're wasting your time like he means absolutely nothing when he makes this hand motion how about okay I mean the hand motion stands for lots of things. It stands for okay. The Jewish faith, what? The Jewish faith actually uses this hand motion. It means the wheel of the law. He doesn't mean the wheel of the law, actually, when he's making this hand motion for the Jewish people. It means, some people believe it means white power.

You don't need white power either. People play this game. They make you look down below the waist. It's a whole game even. He's not playing the game. And he doesn't mean okay when he says it. Okay? It's just a hand motion.

It's something he's done all his life. He doesn't even remember not doing it. Okay? Okay, it's just a hand motion. It's something he's done all his life. He doesn't even remember not doing it. Okay, it's got nothing to do with 666. I mean, I just, for me, I sit there and go, what in the world have we come to when we look at someone make a hand signal? I mean, if he was in a gang, whatever. I mean, no gang. I don't even know gang symbols what like I don't know what I don't know I'm not gonna try they're telling me not to try I will stop um but seriously like it means nothing

absolutely nothing and you are right to trust him like for me you were like concerned you but you're smart enough to know that you can trust him and that probably means nothing i mean that well you didn't know that it means nothing but you're smart enough to know you trust him and that there's nobody else that you want to baptize you, which is very sweet. And it's very endearing that you feel like that. But there's a lot of people that do what you do and not necessarily with Tom, but they examine that stuff and they spend less time in the word and more like chasing down political stuff as their tunnels in Disney, under Disney. Like, what does this mean where you know when's trump going to be back in office like like all this stuff like it's been

people need to spend less time doing that because even if trump was back in office it doesn't solve our problems no man can do that the only person that we find our hope and trust in is the lord jesus christ and what happens is is because we have the ability like for example with if trump was to come back into office he's tangible so we feel like oh there's hope there you know um because we can feel him we can see see him, you know, we can hear him. But you can absolutely hear the voice of the Lord. And that's far superior than seeing a tangible man that is a very, he's full of faults. He's, he's not he's not uh by no means somebody that we should put our hope and trust in he's a human being that will fail us and a lot like he's the like when it

comes to trump god bless him i was i was a fan i'm losing my fanship for him more and more each day because he's the one that created the vaccination and he's the one that keeps promoting it and thinking it's a gift from heaven and like he saved millions of people. No. At the end of the day, he will be right now because of many people losing their loved ones and uh does that make him the worst

thing ever no it doesn't because in his heart and mind i think he thought he did what was right but um and it doesn't mean that everything he did he's probably one of the best presidents if not in my opinion the best president we've ever had even through even though that happened but he's still a faulted man and um it's not good so focus on the bible focus on the bible because seriously uh nothing else is going to heal the sick, win the lost, and disciple believers. All the rest of the junk that people are focusing on, you're not going to win the lost through political debates

and a Republican being in office. It's not going to happen. The only thing that really matters is what we do on this earth, not politically, but as a Christian. And stick to the word of God. Heal the sick. Carry power. Win the lost.

Disciple believers. Be a Paul. Be a Peter. Okay? They didn't care who was the emperor and the Roman emperor. They didn't care who was caesar they didn't care any of that they they just did they were about kingdom business about doing what god had called them to do that's what we need to do amen all right but i will tell you it does satisfy the carnality of

people to just sit there and dig deep into what's going on politically or in the world or what this means over here or what that means over here it satisfies the carnal you know it's like listening to gossip and um all that other stuff but it doesn't win the lost and right now our job is to win the lost in disciple believers becausefully, that's all that matters at the end of the day. So what I'm going to do is we only have about six minutes left before we close out. And so what I want to do is I always say, I'm going to do what I just gave you the advice to do. If you are not a believer or you've walked away, today's your chance. Today's your day to come back to him or to him or to find him for the first time.

I can promise you there is no other thing that you will do that will make your life better than it has ever been before. It'll bring life. It'll bring hope. It'll bring joy. Happiness is a choice. Joy is what God promises for us in his word. And so those things, if you want them on a daily basis,

then he's the thing that can provide them for you. And there's no, I can promise you, I've lived with him. I've lived without him. And I've lived and got my life right back and lived with him again. And I will tell you it says in the scriptures taste and see that the Lord is good and he tastes good he is good there is nothing like him when I walked away from God fun was for a season it was I had fun for a season but it goes really fast and then you're miserable and then you try and find other

ways to satisfy being miserable because you know really that you run from what you know and if you've never been saved you may not know but instinctively we all have a god-shaped void that he can only fill. So you pretty much know that the only way to be happy and to have what you've seen other people have is through him. So I would say that you can run all you want to. You can buy all the cars, all the boats, fill all your Sundays with the hobbies and the hopes and the fishing and and the RVing and the trips and whatever you can do all of that your heart's content you can drink

and party but at the end of the day it all leads right back to the same place and the same place is you're going to be miserable until you get your life right with him or you get saved and I know personally I ran from it and then when I got myself back to where I needed to be my whole outlook on everything completely changed that doesn't mean that you don't walk through times where you're like, what's going on? But that means it says that there will be many tribulations, trials and tribulations in this life, it says. But take heart, I will deliver you from them all. So even though you may face many trials and tribulations in this life, you have to know that you don't't lose you'll win every single time

so you just have to be strong you have to withstand whatever it is you're walking through and know on the other side is victory and you grow and you're you're better for it that doesn't apply to sickness and disease that applies to just life circumstances that come your way sickness and disease is always always always god wants you well god wants you healed always i don't care when anybody tells you if they tell you that uh that it's god's will no matter if you're healed or not that's not true does not say that people need to check out the lord's prayer lord's prayer is very clear on that so um if you haven't if you need to be saved or Lord's Prayer. Lord's Prayer is very clear on that. So if you need to be saved or if you need to rededicate your life,

I ask you to pray this prayer with me. Dear Lord Jesus, I ask you to come into my heart. I ask you to be my Lord and Savior. I ask you to forgive me of my sins. And Lord, when I go to be with with you I'll have eternity in heaven forever in Jesus name we pray amen amen the next thing I will tell you is uh if you want to live a life of abundance the thing is giving I always like to talk about giving because I think that outside of being saved, giving is the next best thing that you can do to make your life prosper.

It's in the word. It's very clear. He said he'll meet every need. And then he goes above that and he'll give you what you want as well. But in order to make that happen, you have to give. It says in the word, you were to give 10% to the storehouse. And so if you get anything from this podcast or if you get something from watching Foundation Church

or the Time Likely podcast, then you need to give 10% to the storehouse. Unless you have a church, then you give us an offering if God asks you to do that. If you feel like you have a prompting, an urging to give, but you have a church, you give 10% to your church, and then you give an offering whenever you feel like God has called you to do that. And we do.

We have a lot of people, and we are very blessed. People who feel like they are being fed by this church and um my podcast is new so we'll eliminate that from the equation but from uh my husband's podcast we have people who are very faithful to give and we thank you for that support because it keeps things going everything costs money um but i will tell you this when we first started the church um i had a friend. Her name was Tracy. She's still a friend.

She's still a good friend. It was crazy because we ended up, we started out in a cafetorium in an elementary school. The elementary school was not a conducive situation for us. So we went and found at the time, which things were so expensive at the time, we found a place that we could rent. And actually the rent was actually one of the cheaper rents, but it was like $10,000. We were a 40-member church. We believed that God told us to go rent this place out, 40-member church.

Where the heck are you going to come up with $10,000? It was $10,528 or something or $32.28 or something. It was ridiculous. But it was the cheapest place for us to have at the time for what was out there. Well, we just took a step of faith and we said, Laura, we know you're telling us to do it, so we're just going to do it, and we're going to believe. It's not our job to figure it out.

It's your job to figure it out. Well, every month, we rented this place out for a year every single month we had the rent not the crazy thing it wasn't we had the people of the church giving but a friend of mine said that the lord told her that whatever the difference was in the lease payment every month she was supposed to come up with that lease payment it would be like as if it was a bill to her she said the lord told her it's going to be just like your electric bill just like your your comcast bill this is going to be one of your bills every month that you'll pay and you'll be giving it it's nuts because every single month she would write me a check and it would basically be

for the exact amount that we were short every single month and you say well how can that be because with all things with God all things are possible his ways are higher than our ways you would say that's irresponsible for you guys to rent a building that you have 40 members that you can't pay the rent. And I would say, not with God. If God tells you to do something, you don't question it, you do it. And then he works the rest out. But the church had to be obedient. you need to be obedient you want to

see those results you want to see you want to get those kinds of things happening in your life when you have to give you have to do what doesn't make sense sometimes and you have to step out and say no matter what my finances look like I'm giving and I'm gonna trust you and I like, I'm giving. And I'm going to trust you. And I know that I know that I know. I say, I know in my knower that this is what God has called me to do. And his word is clear. He's called all of us to tithe 10% to pay your tithes and give an offering.

Okay, so I suggest strongly you do that. You will get the same results we did did he is no respecter of persons amen take the chance give and watch and see because i promise you three months you'll be blown away just do it for three months you'll be blown away what god does with your finances it will not make sense to you amen Amen. All right. I will see you on Friday at three o'clock. I look forward to it.