The Bible Provocateur
The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: All Promises to National Israel - FULFILLED (Part 5 of 5)
The profound truth that we are God's living temple transforms everything about how we understand faith, fellowship, and our future. During this powerful discussion, we unpack the revolutionary concept that God no longer dwells in buildings made by human hands but within the hearts of believers.
Starting with Christ's enigmatic words in John 2 about destroying and rebuilding the temple, we explore how this statement wasn't about physical architecture but about his body - and by extension, the church. This realization dismantles common misconceptions about end-times prophecies focusing on temple rebuilding while revealing our extraordinary identity as "living stones" being built into God's true spiritual house.
The conversation traces God's covenant journey throughout scripture - from the covenant of works in Eden through various Old Testament covenants, culminating in Christ's perfect covenant of grace. This "expansion theology" reveals how God has progressively unveiled humanity's desperate need for salvation, always pointing toward Jesus as the ultimate solution.
Perhaps most significantly, this understanding breaks down false divisions between Jew and Gentile, revealing that God's concern isn't with ethnicity or religious ritual but with building one unified people through Christ. Nobody holds special status apart from being chosen "according to the election of grace."
The discussion becomes deeply personal as participants share how this biblical understanding has transformed their relationships and spiritual journeys. We explore how avoiding "foolish contentions" over theological technicalities frees us to focus on Christ while experiencing authentic fellowship that refreshes rather than drains the spirit.
Join us for this heart-opening conversation that will challenge your understanding of God's temple while inviting you into deeper communion with Christ and his body. Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments - how has seeing yourself as God's temple changed your spiritual perspective?
Brothers always fight. Oh yeah, that's true. But one thing here's the thing, one thing they agree about that we're wrong. They agree on the fact that Christianity, jesus Christ, has no place in either of their lives. They agree on that.
Speaker 2:Well, their book gets dusted every day on TikTok.
Speaker 1:Sister Mariah and Evie, and then that will close out the night. Last words for you guys, or the last comments on what we're talking about Mariah, youie, and then that will close out the night. Last words for you guys, or the last comments on what we're talking about Mariah, you first, and then Evie.
Speaker 3:I just wanted to say that it's very funny to me that I feel like Hebrews 10 is speaking more so to it was speaking to them back then that if we look at today and how they're trying to set up the sacrifices, the red heifer and everything.
Speaker 3:The very verse that people say that you can lose your salvation, which is very well known 1026, is the same thing in which they are doing now. They know about Jesus Christ, they have received the knowledge of Jesus Christ, but they willfully continue in their sin, to go back to bulls and goats and sacrifices, which the Lord is not pleased with and does not accept anymore, because he has given the one sacrifice for all, forever, and therefore they continue in their ways. There no longer remains a sacrifice for them because they had trampled on the blood of the son on the cross.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, sister. It is so true. And this goes on because this is what every single person is going to have to contend with, because so many people, whether they be Jew or whether they be Gentile there are many people, especially here in America and in most of the Western countries, where they have all, for the most part, have received a knowledge of the truth. They know that Christ has come. They know that there are many of us who preach Christ and him crucified. They know that we tell them, that the church tells them they need to repent and turn from their sins and submit to Christ with all humility and trust in him, with their whole heart, that they would be saved. They heard this.
Speaker 1:So this is not a thing. So the thing that we, as believers, need to get away from is this whole division when it comes between jew and the gentile. They are not special, gentiles are not special, but the only thing that is special is those of us whom god has referred to as the apple of his eye, and for nothing good in ourselves. Nothing good in ourselves. But we are chosen by him to be saved according to the election of grace, whether we be Jew or Gentile bond nor free, rich or poor. It is simple as that. God is not concerned with trying to like Sister, like what you're saying, mariah, this whole idea, you know, like when, if they build a heifer or if they find a red heifer and all the other kinds of stuff over there, who cares? They can build 20 temples over there, who cares? Is God going to be in those temples? No, where did it say God was and what did he say was his temple?
Speaker 5:Us. Yeah, think about it. He doesn't dwell in temples made by the hands of man.
Speaker 6:That's right. It's not going to be in this temple or that temple.
Speaker 5:It's going to be worshiping God in the spirit and truth, right when they say, remember, in daniel, it'll forbid them to worship in the temple, right? Well, that's talking about that's the latter days. We are the temple and they're not going to let us worship the name of jesus in this body jesus said in john, chapter 2, 19,.
Speaker 1:He told them what did he tell the Jews of his day? He says and he said this while standing in front of the physical temple that was in shambles. And he said he said to them he said destroy this temple. And he says I will raise it again in three days. And what did he think he was talking about? The temple that was standing behind him. But he cleared up with the disciples what he was really talking about and he said they didn't understand that he was talking about the temple of his body.
Speaker 1:The temple that is rebuilt, that the Bible talks about being rebuilt, is not a physical temple. It is Christ himself and we are his body and we are the temple and the Holy Spirit dwells within us, and Paul calls that the temple, the temple of the Holy Spirit. We have something better than the existence of the Shekinah glory and the Ark of the Covenant inside the temple. We are the temple and the Shekinah glory and the Ark of the Covenant inside the temple. We are the temple and the Shekinah glory is God himself dwelling in us and we are the temple of his body, which he raised again. And now that temple is raised and it is being built, the foundation being laid of the prophets and the apostles, jesus Christ being the cornerstone of that only temple that the foundation was laid upon and we are all the lively stones of it, and it is going to be built up until full perfection. When Christ comes back and that temple is perfected and all and all of the filth and all that kind of stuff that's in the world is gone from it and it will be in absolute purity and go into everlasting glory, forever.
Speaker 1:And he is the temple, he is the light of it, and I don't know, I just get excited about it. But, evie, go ahead. I know you wanted to say something and I forgot to get back to you. So go ahead, sister.
Speaker 8:Oh, my goodness, my head has been exploding, guys, this whole time. It's everything that everybody's been saying and just the topic for tonight. And I always like to say God has used a people from the beginning to show humanity's need for a savior. Call it expansion theology is what I call it, because from the beginning, we can see, like the dispensationists that we were talking about before, they're waiting for the unfolding of like seven dispensations, right. But when you look at it, when you get into the theological words about it, right, you see the covenant theology it defines to override, like it overrides all of this the covenant of works we see in the beginning, in Genesis, right From the fall Adam, it was a covenant of work, something that he could not ever do. Then we see, throughout the covenants of Noah and all these other covenants, everything that he was calling for them to do, every plan, plan, because he has intricately designed things from the beginning that cannot be stumped nor trumped by anyone is just incredible to me. And yeah, I, my mind was just blown all day today just to understand. Once you come to the beauty of this and you understand that we're in a covenant of grace, you know the covenant of, you know redemption, and so I'm. I'm thrilled that we were like talking big stuff today. Um, it's beautiful to just unpack the scriptures with everyone so real quick because, um, I know that we had talked before.
Speaker 8:Let me see if can find I want to read this really quick. How great the chasm that lied between us. How high the mountains I cannot climb. In desperation I turned to heaven and spoke your name into the night. Then, through the darkness, your loving kindness tore through the shadows of my soul. The work is finished. The end is written. Jesus Christ, my living hope.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, sister, appreciate that good word for sure, appreciate that. Brother Randy, I didn't get to call on you today, man, I'm sorry about that, but anything you want to say and add to the conversation that we had tonight, brother, you might not be hearing me. Sister Angie, last word for the night.
Speaker 6:You know I can. I was in earlier. We were in John 1st John actually I don't know. It just came out John 1 John actually. I'm going to read you a little bit more. It just came out the way it's John 3, 16.
Speaker 6:1 John 3, 16, sorry the way that we have come to know love is through his having laid down his life for us, and we have to lay down our lives for the brothers, lay down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers, where, if someone has worldly possessions and he sees his brother in need yet closes his heart against him, how can he be loving God? Children, let us love not with words and talks, but actions in reality. I mean, it's just really, you know that whole being the body of Christ To me. I've always said to other people I say look, I love you.
Speaker 6:I like some things that people do, but my mom raised us. Hey, that's your sister. You don't have to like her, but you have to love her.
Speaker 6:It's just one of those things that I've always grew up on, but to me, being a nurse, and then also just all the things that god has done and prepared me for to have me grow in him, and and everything that you know we go through in life and walking in his steps and calling. You see that when you, when you, when you're cut, don't you bleed? When you get your nose hurt, don't you feel pain? To me it's a humanity thing, it's a human thing. This is a human thing, right, and so we do have these things with the spirit. So I just wanted I always just encourage people to just love one another. You know, we, we do have the seed, and then what the seed is within us, so we are part of the seed of christ, you know. So just being a church and being the body of Christ, you know, god doesn't show no partiality. He also reigns on the dishonorable as he does the honorable. So you know, that's all I got to say.
Speaker 6:I came in late, so I'm sorry if I'm not on topic.
Speaker 1:Last word is for you to say whatever's on your mind at that point. Brother Randy, go ahead. You want to say anything? You want to conclude? Sorry to get to you earlier, brother.
Speaker 4:It's all right. I don't usually talk a lot because I don't live by myself. There's other stuff going on where I live and it's a very small space. I don't even have a closet, but I'm not trying to complain. I'm grateful to God for what I have. Okay, just to clarify that.
Speaker 4:Anyway, I feel like it's important, like what Paul was saying about to the churches, like you talked about earlier about we already know things, and that we shouldn't get caught up in stupid arguments and still be being immature and acting like we don't know what's what, that we already know all the worst, we know what we're supposed to be doing and that we shouldn't let ourselves also, but we're supposed to be focusing on Jesus and what he said, because it's always about Jesus to please the Father, you have to go through, and he said he's the only way to the Father. And like you were talking about how people get trying to deceive people, and it's important knowing the truth. Jesus is the truth and you know Jesus and you know what he says. And it's the easiest way to defeat confusion and being led astray by knowing what the truth is. And it's like he says Paul says study, show yourself approved. That also goes with that and then, like I had somebody, I wrote it in the chat and people sometimes get hung up on little small technicalities or words and things, like this guy's saying that we're supposed to be baptized in the name of Jesus and I said I'm baptizing in the name of the father, the son and the Holy spirit and then he tells me that I need to be re baptized because those are titles and I'm just like I'm not going to argue with you because I know who the father is, I know what his name is, I know who the son is, I know what his name is and it doesn't nullify me and my baptism, that I that they didn't say I baptize you in the name of yahweh and I baptize you in the name of jesus Yeshua.
Speaker 4:You know this is pointless, stupid conversations.
Speaker 4:That's unnecessary and getting in the way of like y'all were talking about, about people trying to say confused and saying, well, you don't understand and make you, make you confused and hold you up in your progress, in your walk with Jesus, that they're trying to keep you from going forward. They're trying to keep you in the past in a way, about not letting you go anymore on, and that's the way that that's what leads to confusion and people twisting words and then like how people go and say, yeah, we're, and we are saved by God's grace, through our faith alone. And then Paul says with, but works without. Faith is dead because we're not saved by anything that we can do, because we're saved by faith alone, by God's grace, by our faith in Him. But then people also go back and try to confuse things and argue and change the meanings of things in their own understanding. The Bible tells us not to lean on our own understandings and that they get so confused by their own self or by listening to other people's arguments and arguing with other people.
Speaker 1:You're right on all of that and I think that's what I mean. I think it's important for all of us to do our due diligence in the word of God and to be able to speak to people in a way that we feel that, in a way that we can articulate clear truths to people. But the whole, but keep in mind that the whole idea and the goal of it all is to win souls for Christ, and that's what we need to do and avoid all of foolish contentions that that scripture talks about we should avoid.
Speaker 4:So I think I thank you for that, brother Randy, and also you know you, randy, and also you know you welcome here On that point, though more specific to the point is that you know, some people are not going to understand because they just don't want to understand, and that's their choice too. That's true, and we're supposed to be winning souls, not saving people, because that's Jesus' job, right, right and their choice, and we can't force anybody into doing that. And that'll lead you into, like Proverbs says, into arguing with a fool and looking foolish, amen.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 7:Sister Candy last word. I will say what he just said. It has to do with people sucking the spirit, just draining the spirit out of us sometimes, and that's what gets us down. But then that's when we have to turn away from the world and we think sometimes, because we are isolated and we're not around people, that we're being punished. And it's not that it's God is preparing us, he is rebuilding us of what he wants us to be. Not a real world is around us that we can become conformed to and lose a lot of our spirit because of it. But if you don't care, I just want to read Psalms 22 and I'm gonna start with verse 23 okay ye that fear the lord, praise him all.
Speaker 7:Ye see of jacob, glorify him and fear him all. Ye the seed of israel. For he him not this. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath he hid his face from them, but when he cried unto him he heard. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord that seek him. Your heart shall live forever, to all the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee, for the kingdom is the Lord's and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon the earth shall eat and worship.
Speaker 7:All they that go down into the dust shall bow before him, and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him. It shall be accounted to the Lord. For a generation they shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto the people that shall be born, and he hath done this.
Speaker 1:Ooh, I love that part too, and he has done this.
Speaker 6:Absolutely. He did this has done this Absolutely, he did this.
Speaker 7:So no one can say that they didn't hear him nor know anything. There's no excuse for not knowing who and what God done, did and will do and it's still to come, amen. So anyone who wants to believe those lies, that they try to receive someone else or manipulate or whatever, he is cursed, those who think they have to do any of this in the earth. We are to live by spirit. He is in us and we are in him. Who are we to be selfish enough to even think of me?
Speaker 1:Amen, sister, appreciate that good last word, mariah of me. Amen, sister, appreciate that good last word, mariah. Last word for you. Sister, I think something's wrong. I think something a bad connection or something there. Sister, yeah, you got a really bad connection. I can see it. Okay, meg go ahead, because Mariah has like a I think she has like one bar or something like that. It shows she has a really bad connection. But I'll try to come back to her, but Meg go ahead. Last word I'll try to come back to her, but Meg go ahead. Last word.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess my last word would be when we read the word of God make sure that we are truly seeing him for who he is and not what we think he should be, because I think so many times inadvertently oh yeah, be in our life, situational, or Lord, why haven't you done this? I've been praying and you haven't done this.
Speaker 3:But man, god, is not slack concerning his promises at all.
Speaker 2:He is long suffering and, brother Jonathan, I just want to thank you so much for continuing. You know, regardless of naysayers or what anybody might oh, you're man, brother, I'm going to tell you something, sayers or what anybody might, oh, you're man, brother, I'm going to tell you something. You have a beautiful gift that the Lord has so graciously blessed you with to be precise, in the scriptures, and you know, bring a true beauty to the scriptures when you treat, when you teach them, brother, and that is such a gift from God and I thank you for doing this every day, no matter. Like you know if you're going through something or you know who knows, like you know the love that you have for people and the way that you come in here and truly have the heart to help people understand straightly what the word of God is. I just love you so much and I thank you for everything that you do, and you just are just a bright light in my day and it means so much to me, so I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, sister. I really appreciate those kind words. You can't understand how I brace my heart in a good way, to hear those kind words, generous words, and I do love this. I do love God's people, my brothers and sisters, all of you. And when I say that it's not just, I'm not just not being hyperbolic about it. You know that careless with it you can't be, and so it is genuine.
Speaker 1:And so when I come on here, I, when I started going and that countdown goes down, I started looking forward to your names and you, you know these, you know you guys here who show up. It's just a blessing. And so I realized that what we have here is something that is glorious in a lot of ways, and we may not understand the full import of it now, but we certainly will later, and so I really appreciate that. And if God's merciful to me, it won't get to my head, I promise you, but I am grateful and thankful for those kind of words, meg. It really means so much to me because sometimes it reminds you that, in spite of all the things that may be going on in your life, god uses my brothers and sisters to keep me going. So just know that that is exactly what happens. What?
Speaker 2:else is really cool too is my husband hears every single time and he he'll be in the living room playing the game and I'm in another room doing Bible study and as he's heard you, you see him playing the game with half of his microphone on one ear and the other half has his his ear pod with you on the other one. I said are you listening to brother jonathan? Yeah, and so he. And like tonight when he was going to bed, like it's early but he has his phone, here's brother jonathan, while he's sleeping. You know, like you don't realize, like man that's. That's such a blessing to me Because you know what it does. It inadvertently puts us on the same page, and so even in our studies, because I don't like to be bothered when I'm studying, and he knows that. So, thank you, brother Jonathan, I love you so much, I always pray so much that I just ask the Lord to bless you and that we'll get to meet on this side of heaven.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 7:Keep loving, jonathan, and keep sharing the truth. Keep people provoked and persuaded. Yes, that's what you do and you are great at it. Like Meg always hits us with that heartfelt stuff because there's so many things, but after she hears everybody else, she does what's most important with you and that's thank you. She does what's most important with you and that's thank you. So I have to back her up, man, because again I'll be honest with you. Like last night was my first night back on here in three weeks and it was because of your love. I'm back on here tonight because of your lives and the word and the people and all of you guys. I missed y'all but I had to do away with a lot of things in the past three weeks. I wasn't being, I wasn't in trouble and I wasn't being disciplined or anything. I was being prepared.
Speaker 7:We weren't shaped and so I had to. Um, God was working with me and in me and through me, and I had to see a lot of things that it goes back to what I was talking about earlier, that sometimes you can be spiritually gained or spiritually drained and sometimes you gotta, you gotta just remove yourself from it and find Jesus again and have him build, rebuild, you fill me back up and then know what got you to the drainage.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 7:And give it and then know what got you to the drainage Right and give it to God and let him remove those that are not good for us.
Speaker 1:He brings that refreshing. You know I was worried about you. I wrote to you and I was so glad that you came back because I was wondering what was going on with you. But I'm glad you're back. I don't care what happened, as long as you're back.
Speaker 7:And Brother Jeffrey, you got to love the person that's looking back at you too, because we have to realize we are loved, we are somebody to God, but for us to think that we are something or someone, we're nothing.
Speaker 1:No, we're nothing. No, we're nothing.
Speaker 7:So and it's easily to to fall short and because the things going on around us that we know is wrong and we we try not to. What's the word? Push people or, you know, shove it in their face and stuff, but there comes.
Speaker 2:And you know, you know, brother Jonathan, why, why I like, I love you so much, is because when I first started on my journey with the Lord, the Holy spirit told me one thing. He says I want you to go out there and I want you to be bold, and I don't ever want my sheep to stumble. Please, whatever you do, don't allow, don't, don't let my sheep stumble, do not let people stumble getting to Jesus. And for me, I see that in you too, like if, if I don't do anything else, I just I don't want people stumbling to get to Jesus. And that's why I'm out here doing what I do in the streets of TikTok, you know.
Speaker 2:But I'm telling you, man, it's God is good, and I and Jeffrey feel I have to pray for Jeffrey. If you don't come on, I feel like he's gonna have a heart attack, like he'll, he'll message me and if it's, if a day goes by, he'll be like megan, have you talked to brother jonathan yet? And I'm like yes, I mean, he's gonna come on, or jeffrey will message me every day. Brother jonathan's on, I had somebody come get me out of a life because I guess I didn't see it, and he's like bang brother jonathan's on. You need to go over there.
Speaker 2:people pull me from life, so I mean it's it's such a blessing the group that we have and it's so edifying. And everybody, man, I love y'all so much. I'm so grateful to God that we have got such a beautiful group of people, the people who come in the comments regularly, it's just so great, I'll add something to that, because I can tell you, you know, when I first made Jonathan, I just, you know, I was introduced by Lisa and Lisa.
Speaker 6:Me and Lisa are just tight. It's tight, you know. I mean we get in trouble with each other because we just talk about Jesus all day long. And so, you know, when I met that, you know, when I met Jonathan, it was just such a beautiful blessing. I just thought like, wow, I can so learn from this guy. I can so because I don't. You know, we all can learn from each other, but we also are supposed to support and encourage each other in our walk, and so, because we all go through the same thing, whether it be different situations or circumstances, we all go through the same things. So you know, that's something that I always do for everybody else, but to have that done for me was just amazing, especially in the testimony that I've been in. But being encouraged because not too many people can withstand being a Lord in some of the circumstances that we go through, and I've been blessed by so many people in more ways than one from this panel, and it's helped me get through some of these times, because you can't go around it, you can't get over it. You got to go through it. When you do go through it and you have the uplifting and you have the encouragement and you have the support.
Speaker 6:I had problems receiving blessings from people because blessings was used as something wrong against me or the word help and I was starting to lose hope in humanity as in the body of Christ look where's my brothers and sisters at. Because I've always been that one that even if I had ten dollars, you need five. Okay, I got it, god will provide the rest. I don't care, I don't care, you know, that's just, I'm a giver. And when you're a giver and giver and giver, you know you do have people that take, but it's like I don't care, I'm just going to do it anyway, because this is the way Christ did and he gave and he gave and he poured out to people who were.
Speaker 6:He was healing people and do you imagine he was standing there when they were saying crucify him. Those are the same people he healed, you know. But when he poured himself out, he also refilled himself up with spending time with the Lord alone. So sometimes we do have to have that solitude time with the Lord. But I just want to thank you, jonathan, because there's some words that you said to me, such as me coming into this place. You said I'm right where I am. I will repeat it over and over because part of my testimony is you're right where God placed you and I know that. But I needed to hear it from another brother and sister to help me stand firm in it, and when I heard that I was like yes.
Speaker 2:I am.
Speaker 6:I so am. Here I am and it's like it's not even me. It's what God has me doing in this place for him. It's not for me, it's for him. So you know, I mean I got some great news and I'll share it with you on the DM, because I got some news to share. But it's like, you know, things happen the way God wants to happen and you just have to go along with, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 6:Thank you for being such a blessing to me and to my family and my daughter, because it wasn't for that I couldn't be the mother for her, and I need to be either in this situation.
Speaker 1:God bless you, sister, and you know again. Thank you for the kind words. And you know, you guys, there are just no words. There are no words. It's heartbreaking in a great way, in a good way.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 7:Thank you. Thank you for giving all of us a place to come and worship and fellowship with our Lord and Savior. There's not many places that we can actually come to and go and feel the love, the Holy Spirit, and it just be as beautiful as it always is here. So all those people that persecute or say negative things, remember the scripture in John. They did it first to him and he is in you and they are going to do the same to you that they did to him. So with him, though, we overcome.
Speaker 1:Thank you the word, your last word, and I'll try Mariah again, and then we'll. Thank you the word, your last word, and I'll try Mariah again, and then we'll wrap it up.
Speaker 5:Yes, sir, I appreciate it, host, and I'm just going to read a few passages. Sure, and I want to show everybody Jesus Christ and the body of Christ concealed in the law. This is Leviticus 21, verse 13 through 16. And it says and he shall take a wife in her virginity, a widow or a divorced woman or a profane or a harlot, these shall he not take, but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. And then verse 7 says they shall not take a wife that is a whore or profane. Neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband.
Speaker 5:So now I want to show you who the harlot and the bride is and who was put away. Jeremiah 3.8,. And I saw when, for all the causes whereby, backsliding, israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce. And what we just read in Leviticus 21, they shall not take a wife. That is a horrible thing. Neither shall they take a woman who is put away. And he put away natural Israel, and Jeremiah 3.8. And then, if we go to 1 Corinthians 11, paul says For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy, for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ.
Speaker 5:So the church is the chaste, virgin and natural. Israel is the harlot he cannot marry.
Speaker 1:According to the law and that chaste virgin. So you know, a lot of times people you know will ask me questions about you know, or we'll get into these discussions about the 144,000. And what did they say was a characteristic of the 144,000?
Speaker 5:They all follow the Lamb, go wherever he goes.
Speaker 1:But what else did they say about them? What was the other characteristics that the Revelation tells us about the 144,000? They have the Father's name in their forehead.
Speaker 5:What else? Yep, that too, but what else they sing the song of the Lamb Is it about the chastisement of his children.
Speaker 1:No, they were called. They were chaste virgins.
Speaker 5:Yeah, absolutely. I believe the church is the 144,000. It is.
Speaker 1:You're right and the verse you read is where that is proven. Yeah, absolutely so. They are sealed by the Holy Spirit of God. That's all Christians. They are chaste virgins, not in the sense that they have never had sex, but they had been made pure by the righteousness of Christ.
Speaker 5:Well, think about it. In the Old Testament, israel was considered committing adultery by worshiping golden images and false gods. I got to go, guys, sorry.
Speaker 1:So, sister Mariah, if you can get on there I think you, hopefully you can it'll come through, but you'll have the last word if you can get in there. It's not working. I don't think her phone is working. I'm so sorry about that, sister. I can't hear anything. If you're saying anything, let me try something really quick. Hold on.
Speaker 4:She said she was going to pass oh okay, all right, well, anyway.
Speaker 1:Well, everybody, it's been a great night, longer than usual, which usually means it's been a good time, and it's always a good time for me, and I couldn't ask for a better group of people to fellowship with. You know, we sit on here for two or three hours, when most people squirm in their seat when they're in a sermon for at church for a half an hour, and when most people squirm in their seat when they're in a sermon for at church for a half an hour. You know. So I could not be more blessed than to have such a great you know body of people and with all the kind words that all you ladies have been saying, that you guys have said, you really will never be able to understand or imagine how important and how special it is to me to hear those words and to have it come from such, as I said earlier, such an august group.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you, I love you all and it thrills my heart to get on here and have these conversations and to us to carve off facets of this diamond of faith that we have in Christ and understanding things in a deeper way and in a more illustrious way, and all I can pray for and hope to, is that God keeps me sane for the rest of my life, to be able to do this until the day I drop, because that's what's going to happen at some point. But if I get to go out like this over the next 20, 30, 40 years, whatever it may be, this is how I want to do it with my brethren and sisters. Like you guys and I, just I can't. There's just words that don't. I can't explain it, I just know it and I hope that you can feel that radiating for me. With that being said, be provoked.
Speaker 2:And be persuaded.
Speaker 6:We love you, brother, I do love that, I love you guys.
Speaker 1:Have a great night and hopefully you love me too, brother. I will be back here tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite, and if they do, I'll name them after you.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 6:Everyone in the chat. Love you all.
Speaker 7:God bless you.
Speaker 6:Love you guys so much.