LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 15:17-19) "Trusting Tradition & Antiquity" Part 2/4

What if the story that moved you most isn’t the truth that will sustain you? We open a hard, honest conversation with a listener’s grief and a claimed vision, then walk through how to test experiences without crushing the soul that shares them. Using Job as our map, we watch Eliphaz reach for tradition, accumulated sayings, and personal insight—only to misapply wisdom when he needed scripture most. That same mistake is alive today: confident claims, thin texts, and pressure to submit to “a word” no one can find in the Bible.

We dig into the difference between the Spirit illuminating scripture and the idea of the Spirit delivering new doctrine. Illumination deepens understanding of what God has already said; novelty competes with it. From Galatians’ stern warning about “another gospel” to the historical rise of movements built on private revelations, we stack the evidence for why the canon is enough and why the clearest love is the one that insists, kindly but firmly, on chapter and verse. Tradition still has a place, but only when it carries the same melody as the text. When customs add burdens or smuggle in new beliefs, Jesus’ own confrontations with religious leaders show the way back.

We close with a pastoral charge: open the Bible with prayerful expectation and let God’s voice steady your steps. Experiences can inspire, mentors can guide, and emotions can be real, but only scripture can bind the conscience and anchor hope. If you’ve wrestled with a powerful “God told me” moment—your own or someone else’s—this conversation gives you a gentle framework and a firm foundation. If it isn’t in the Word, it isn’t binding. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs clarity, and leave a review to tell us how you test truth.

Transcript

Rallying Around God’s Word

SPEAKER_08 0:00

Totally understand that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 0:02

Um, so yeah, and that's what that's what I'm that's what I'm getting at. So when we, you know, because I I I know that too, and I I I will say, you know, the Lord showed me something and whatever, but it has a lot to do with show, you know, giving us that recall. And that recall from our studies and for our spending time with him in prayer and in studying the word of God, he gives us the recall of these things. And so somebody will say something, and you'll go, oh man, I just read something about this in the word of God. And they go, Oh, really? Where? And then you show it to them and they go, Wow, that was amazing. I never knew that was in the Bible. And this is what happens. This is what happens. We rally around his word. You know, he spoke to prophets. And what did what did uh the you know people do to the prophets? They killed them.

SPEAKER_08 0:46

Right.

Martyrs And The Pattern Of Rejection

SPEAKER_06 0:47

He had he sent us the apostles. What did they do with them? They killed them. The first you know, the first couple of centuries of the ch of the church. What did they do with all those people? Killed them. And then God says, I'm gonna send my son. I know they're gonna hear him. Well, what did they do when the son came?

SPEAKER_08 1:07

They killed them.

SPEAKER_06 1:09

That's right. They crucified him.

A Grief Story And Claimed Vision

SPEAKER_08 1:12

So I have a question. So 21 years ago, yesterday, uh, my previous husband was killed in a car accident. And I before I went to sleep, I asked God three questions. Now, anybody that is listening and does not understand why I would say some of these things is because I was a Canadian without a social. I had no social security number. So when he died, I became an illegal citizen. So I said to God, um, he died in a car accident, so I didn't really get to say goodbye or anything. So I asked him if he would show me. Like I need to see him. And I said, What are you gonna do with me? And who's gonna take care of me? Because I just explained myself before I said that. So um I slept for three hours, and when I got up, I sat in the same chair that I had sat in when I asked those questions, and I feel like I I saw a vision of my husband on a cloud looking down at me. Now I had a picture of him that was very similar to that vision. Okay. Then he said, mentions Jeff. I did not know my husband, by the way, at that time. So did he really tell me those things? Because that's all I've ever done is I mean, is really help people in their lives, which is kind of missionary work.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

Did who really tell you what?

SPEAKER_08 3:03

Did God really say to me missions Jeff?

SPEAKER_06 3:07

Missions Jeff?

SPEAKER_08 3:09

Yeah, so I my questions were I need to see him. What are you gonna do with me? And who's gonna take care of me? Missions is the second answer. Like so a missionary is somebody that helps comes alongside people and helps them, isn't it?

SPEAKER_06 3:32

Uh yeah, I get I get missionary, but I'm trying to understand, I'm trying to understand what you're what you're getting at. And I and I and and I'll I'm already afraid to answer. But but go ahead. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_08 3:44

Well, like I said, who's gonna take care of me because I am now an illegal citizen, if that's what your what your question is. And if you want me in the United States, you better prepare a way because that's the only way. Uh the only way I could stay l legally is by remarrying. I was 43 years old. Not that 42 when he died.

SPEAKER_06 4:11

But you're married now.

SPEAKER_08 4:12

I'm married to Jeff.

SPEAKER_06 4:15

Right, so you're a citizen, right?

SPEAKER_08 4:18

Yes, but God spoke his name to me without me knowing him.

SPEAKER_06 4:23

All right. But here's what I'm but so I'm I'm trying to understand what the question is exactly. Are you saying did God tell you this?

SPEAKER_08 4:30

Do you believe that God spoke to me and answered my questions?

SPEAKER_06 4:35

No. No, I don't. Not that.

SPEAKER_08 4:40

But I I wasn't talking to the devil. I I I specifically talked to him.

SPEAKER_06 4:47

I I think here's what I'll say. Here's what I'll say. Because I uh because I don't what I don't want to do is say anything that could be potentially crushing. Um I think it calls for a bigger con a broader conversation. Um when we start talking about God giving people, telling people specifics about things. Um and God takes care of all his children. And that is what he tells us in the word of God. Now, for him coming to you, telling you that, giving you a specific name of a person who's gonna take care of you, whatever, you know, these kind of things, I like like I'm saying, I I want to be delicate about this because I don't want you to, I don't want you to think ill of me or see me being cold in this matter. But what I will say is that I will go to what I would be look at things that happen in the scriptures that sound similar to what you're saying. And I personally believe that if you make that search, I think that we will probably end up on the same page about the experience, which is what we're talking about. And and so I don't I I don't want to hear right now at this moment while we're going through Job to um uh speak to this, you know, but I'm definitely willing to talk about it outside of this, you know, if you're willing. But I will say this at the outset I am the kind of person who is very strict when it comes to the word of God and what it is intended to do. And the word of God is given to us so that we don't have to rely on supernatural occurrences, and so and so we have to be careful when we start saying, God told me I'm going to marry this person, this is their name, this is their last name, this is how He didn't say any of that. No, I didn't I didn't I didn't I'm not saying that I'm just giving you an example. I'm just giving an example. I'm just giving you an example. All I'm saying is that you have to be really careful when you tell people and tell yourself this is what God told me in some vision or for whatever. Um and that's all that's all I'll say. Like I said, I don't want to take you further than that because you know, you you know, you are a very gentle, soft soul, and I I would want to say talk about this in a different setting rather than like this, um, and and explain my reasoning about certain things. And you know, and you know, but there are a lot of people, and and I'll tell you this, there are a lot of people, and this is what we're talking about here in this passage. There are a lot of people who will tell you, who will tell you that God said something to them, and they expect you to either heed what he is telling them to tell you, or they will expect you to heed what they're saying is true because they say they came from God. You know, there are many things that men experience. Uh, you know, most people they dream and have all kinds of things happen to them, and you know, and you know, you have to ask yourself, well, do you know unbelievers have dreams and so-called visions and experiences? Unbelievers have that. So we have to be careful when we say these kinds of things. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_05 8:22

Okay.

Job, Eliphaz, And Misapplied Wisdom

SPEAKER_06 8:23

So we'll move on. Brother Jeffrey, go ahead, your turn. Opening remarks. Good evening.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

Uh yeah, covered a lot of ground here tonight, Jonathan. Um I just made a one note about back in Job, we were talking about Eliphaz. Uh Eliphaz was trying to tell Job, this is the way it is, this is what I'm going to tell you, what's going to go on. Eliphaz, Jonathan, did not lose what Job lost. He has had not had taken from him what Job has had removed from him temporarily. Now, if he has, we're not aware of it. Because the word doesn't give us that. But as far as we're concerned, there is friends. They come to him, and he and for him to uh come out and say that to Job, to me, is the absolute height of arrogance on the part of Eliphaz. He is he he may he is knowledgeable. We've established that. Yes, they are smart men, but they are again misapplying their knowledge and wisdom again to Job's situation. And this is just another example of that, Jonathan, to me. Telling him, you know, I'm going to tell you now, you know, what are you going to tell Job? Have you lost everything? Did your wife tell you to curse God and die? Did you lose your kids? You standing out here, sitting out here in his field with me covered in boils? No. So, you know, it's just like the arrogance of Eli Faz and Job's friends just astounds me. It's one of the things I've gotten out of what we've read so far, Jonathan. And that's just what I wanted to say. Thanks.

SPEAKER_06 10:01

Amen, brother. No problem. Sister Mariah, good evening. Opening remarks.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Yeah, um, I just wanted to say that one scripture came to my mind as you were talking about um the 17, and it says, Who whosoever in verse 2 John um 3819, it says, Whosoever transgressed it and abide in the doctrine of Christ, have not gone. He didn't abide in the doctrine of Christ, he has both of them. If any of them come to you and bring not this dungeon receiving not into your house, neither and bid him gonna speak. He's basically, like you're saying, is going on for this experience and he is abiding in the in the doctrines of the mud. Um ultimately, this is what what he's been saying the whole entire time, right? But really, it's it's them better not abiding in the doctrines of God correctly to apply them correctly to one. Um, so I just find that pretty interesting over there because he's letting the experience of his fathers and things of um that sort guide and trump really the word of God.

The Sufficiency Of Scripture Today

SPEAKER_06 11:41

Right. You know, here's the problem. You know, in in Old Testament times, all the way up until Christ's coming and even afterwards, there has always been this influx of people who claim to have or to receive messages from the Lord. Right? And see, here's the problem. Once you open that door, once you open that door, there's no way to close it for anyone. And this is why I'm adamant about the word of God. Now, see, when you go back to Deuteronomy, Moses talked about, you know, how to verify whether or not a prophet was telling the truth. And so that continued on throughout the ages. But what we have now, we have the more sure word of prophecy. We have the completed canon of scripture. We have in our hands, on our phones, we have the word of God in its entirety, what he intends for man to know at our fingertips. There's nothing else for him to say. So he's not talking to people, telling them something that is different or an alternative message that is than that which is conveyed in his word. I know a lot of folks want to tell us that, oh yeah, God told me this. No, he didn't tell you anything. Unless it is in the word of God. So if somebody asks you, well, you telling, if somebody tells you they that God told them something, ask them where that is in the word of God. Because if it's not there, then it didn't come from God. That is the simple solution right there. That is it. If it's not in the word of God, because he gave us his word to ensure one thing, we can never ever be dumbfounded again. We can never be left in a place of bewilderment again. We may have problems with interpretation of the scripture, and we fight against this all day long, every day. Christians differ all the time. But we all, if we are true believers, we all believe that the word of God is true. And if there's a problem, it is with our own ability and to be able to rationalize and interpret correctly. But we all will agree that it is the truth. Even some of the most ardent opponents of ours who believe the word of God, like even people who are part of the oneness movement, these people they will tell you that the word of God is truth. We may disagree on interpreting doctrines, but there needs to be a consensus amongst the people that call themselves Christians. There must be an initial consensus that we agree that the that the Bible is God's total, complete, and final word spoken to man. That's what we have to end up concluding. Sister Grace, good evening, sister. I'm glad you can make it tonight. What's your opening remark today? What do you think so far?

Calling Out False Revelations

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Um, sorry if it's loud. My daughter's having a sleepover, but um they're not sleeping. No, they're not sleeping. They're having a dance party, apparently, but um no, I've definitely needed to hear this for sure. Um I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that the Holy Spirit, like when I'm reading the Bible, like I do believe that the Holy Spirit reveals like deeper meanings of things um like regarding scripture. So like I'm just curious, like, so can someone else like as long as it lines up with scripture, can someone else be like, um, you know, like I hey, I have like a word for you or something.

Tradition Versus Canon

SPEAKER_06 15:53

Yeah, it's like winds up with if they have a word for you that they're saying is from God, they need to be able to show you that word in God's word. So that's that's what I'm saying. So, because a lot of times people want to sort of assign to themselves some kind of a spiritual connection to God that they can lord over other people and warrant your submission to what they say. And so, and so the reality is here's here's how things really should work. You get up in the morning or in the afternoon, whatever you do, you pray to God, because you're getting ready to sit down and read the word of God, you ask him to open your eyes to his truths as you read or listen to the word of God, however you do it. And you ask him to show you and make you understand his word. And when you un and when you start reading his word, I guarantee you, I promise you, if you are sincere in your search for truth in his word, I promise you 100%, you're going to have a moment almost on a daily basis where you where you read something and you go, wow, this makes sense to me now. This makes sense to me now. Or you may read something in the Word of God and you don't understand it, and then the next day, or the same day, or another week from now, you're talking to somebody who is another brother or sister in Christ, and they're talking about something, and then they point to what you talk, what you were talking about, and that light bulb goes off, and you go, now I get it. Now I get it. But God is not driving any anybody's attention for truth, for ascertaining truth. He is not driving anyone's attention to somewhere other than his word. And that's what we need to understand. That's what we need to understand. Because people will tell you something, they will tell you, God told me this, and then you're gonna be confused because you're gonna be like, Really? What I mean, like, so then what's the purpose of his word? Is he can he talk to me that way too? And they'll tell you, oh, yeah, yeah. And next thing you know, everybody's running around giving each other prophecies on each other. And there's no end to this. God put it into it when he gave us his word. When Christ came and put on flesh, and he had and he did what he did on earth, and he left, and then he left his apostles here to teach us and instruct us on the things that Christ did while he was here, and then they canonized all these experiences and they put them in the epistles, which God blessed himself, which is why he appointed the apostles to be apostles. And listen, and listen, here's what I'm saying. We are still struggling with the truth he's revealed. So this is another reason why it's frustrating to deal with people talking about God told them something. It's like, wait a minute, do you understand the whole Bible? Because the only reason I can imagine that God is telling you something is because somehow you covered everything in the entire scripture, and there's nothing left for you to learn. Because there's something else for you to learn that I'm quite sure God's not talking to you personally, not in the way he spoke to Moses or Isaiah or Jeremiah and these guys. This is not what's happening today. That's what the word of God is for. And I can tell you this all those great men and women of the scriptures, all of them, I guarantee you, even with Moses and what he went through, having that direct relationship, that face-to-face, so to speak, I guarantee you, he would have given an R to have what we have today. He didn't have that. But I guarantee you, he would have saw this something to what we have today, something to be preferred. Sister Lisa, go ahead.

SPEAKER_07 19:53

Um, so I was just gonna speak along the lines of you know, be you know, being careful when you hear something that you that you think might be from God. For example, in Galatians um one, is it verse six or verse eight? But if anyone or but if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a different gospel, contrary to the one we preach to you, let him be accursed. So this was a problem going on even back then. But how many religions, how many religions have started with that very thing happening? A person has uh an encounter with an angelic being, supposedly, and it we know what Mormon Mormonism started that way, and I think Jehovah's Witnesses and is it Seven Day at Venice, they all supposedly had a messages that were contrary to scripture. So it's really, really um we that's where we have to be so careful. I mean, literally, so many religions came off of this very thing.

SPEAKER_06 21:01

So it's Islam, Islam of the same way.

SPEAKER_07 21:04

Islam, Islam. Oh my goodness, I didn't even say that. Same way.

Christ Confronts Added Rules

SPEAKER_06 21:07

Well, Muhammad had his black stone, Joseph Smith had his blue goggles and his plates, you know, and you know, and this is why in case some of you guys, well, you may have seen it tonight because I sent all these little history things that I'm doing now. I'm starting to do these things, and I'm gonna send them to everybody so you understand where he came from because so many people come tell me, well, you know, your Christian faith, when you know, uh um, what's his name? Um uh the Council of Nicaea, uh Constantine. He was the beginning of your church. Constantine wasn't a Christian, he usurped Christianity so that he could lord himself over it all. And see, and that's why it's important to understand these things. And so I'm gonna be doing these things on a regular basis and I'm gonna send them to all you guys. They're gonna be anywhere between 10 and 15 minutes. Listen to them because it's gonna help you understand how these. Things came about. You know, and when you look at Muhammad, what he said and what he did, I mean, this guy was a feeble person and he built this massive religion. Massive religion off of this blackstone that he found and having this vision that he had. See, all these people, they start talking about visions and what they saw, and these roll over and they become religions, and people don't even know how they got there by the time they get so imbibed in it. That's why the word of God is so important. You don't need anything else. Don't let anybody tell you about their crazy visions. The word of God is all that you need. That is it. The word of God, the ability to speak to him in prayer, and the fellowship of the brethren who are like-minded in these truths. Brother Ben, opening remarks. And good evening, brother.

SPEAKER_04 22:59

All I would say is these false charismatic people are those ones that come knocking at the door saying, Oh, the prophet has said this, or the prophet has said that. Well, like he said, you don't.

unknown 23:15

Oh, God's word.

SPEAKER_05 23:18

And it'll stand every time. Break it up, brother. Every time. God's word every time. That's what I'll beat him up the head with is the business God's word.

The Awe Of Hearing God’s Word

SPEAKER_06 23:34

Brother, brother, I'm gonna have to mute you because your phone, you're you're going in and out. You got a bad connection. Ben, if you can hear me, you got a really, really bad connection. It's going in and out, brother. All right, sorry about that. So, brother Ben, if you could if you're able to clear it up, then come back up. No problem. Or, you know, hit me up again. All right, so now I'm gonna get it to verse 18. Verse 18. So in verse 17, Eliphaz says, I will show you to Job. I will I will show you, hear me, and that which I have seen I will declare. Verse 18, which wise men have told from their fathers and have not hidden. So here's what he's saying. Here's what he's saying. He's going, look, he's telling Job, I'm gonna tell you something, I'm gonna show you something. So listen to me. Because what I'm gonna declare is based on what I have seen. And then he adds more validity to it by adding to it, what I'm gonna show you is also those things which wise men have been told, have told from their fathers, and have not hidden. So he's telling Job, he goes, listen, what I'm gonna tell you is validated by antiquity. Like Sister Lisa says, this has been passed down from the traditions of many. You hear a lot of Christians today talking about, you know, when they want to validate some silly doctrine they have, they will tell you that this is what the church fathers said. And very few people that I've ever known that talk about the church fathers know what church fathers actually taught. They don't know what Luther taught, they don't know what Calvin taught, they don't know what Owen taught, they don't know what Bunyan taught. They just talk about church fathers because it makes them sound more theologically cool. Until you ask them, where did you see that? Send me the clip where you saw Thomas Brooks say that. Or Origin or Clement. See, people just talk because they want to get you to submit to their intellect if they even in fact have one. So he says here, he's appealing to antiquity. He goes, Listen, you should hear what I'm saying. I'm gonna tell you my experience, I'm gonna declare it to you, and I'm gonna reinforce it. He's reinforcing it by telling Job, these are also the things that I'm observing, that I've observed, that I'm gonna tell you about, which wise men have told from their fathers. So, in other words, he's saying, I know other wise men above me, they know, and their fathers, the fathers of these wise men, they know. Surely, Job. You're not gonna say that all of us are wrong. You're not gonna say that the church fathers are wrong. Surely you're not saying that. But this is what this is what Eliphaz is doing, trying to reinforce his arguments by tradition rather than making the case from the word of God solely on its own on its own merit. Meg, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Yeah, I have a question. So when it comes to tradit tradition, like you'll see people talk about, oh, well, we go by tradition. Is it true that like anytime tradition was used, that it had to align with the word of God? Or how or how, for that matter, was tradition able to be used? Um, because anytime I think of tradition, then people will say, oh, word of mouth because they didn't have scriptures back then. But I'm saying, like, now, like, like if somebody says, Oh, it's the Eucharist is a tradition, but you don't see it anywhere in scripture, so therefore it couldn't be tradition because it doesn't align with scripture. You see what I'm saying? So my question, that's my question is like, when does one what is valid tradition? And is is my question, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 27:54

Well, here's here's a very simple answer to that. That it's just like talking about somebody saying they they've heard from God. Well, what did he tell you that's not in the word of God? Because if he told you something that's not in the word, then it wasn't him telling you. That's the way I look at it. So if somebody wants to invoke tradition, to me, that usually means one, you either don't know what you're talking about, two, you tried another approach and it didn't work with me or the group or whatever. And so you've you've lost your ability, or you because you can't reason or rationalize, you want to point to history and tradition to make your to make your point. And here's the thing sometimes what traditional fathers believed were true. But you your problem is you can't explain it, so you want to direct people somewhere else. And this is what you see a lot on social media. I see this a lot on social media, and I hate to bring it up, but it you see it a lot where people will tell you, go read this, or they'll send you a um see, this is like what you see on what you see on social media where somebody says uh they disagree with you, and then they will send you a link to some pastor or somebody else, because they don't know. They don't know. But here's the thing tradition is always good if the tradition is that common salvation that the word of God speaks about. In other words, if what you are gleaning from antiquity doesn't line up with the scriptures, then I must reject it. We all must reject it. You know.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

So, Jonathan, what did they do before the canon was established when it came to like things of word and mouth and um tradition?

SPEAKER_06 29:52

I think that I think that it was, I think that there was a lot of tradition in that. Things that you know that there was that was passed down, things were passed down um um orally for the most part. So even when you go back to, even when you go back to uh Adam and Eve in the garden, you know, God told them um you know what they did and told them what was coming. Like for instance in Genesis 3.15, when he tells that, when he tells Adam and Eve that she was gonna have the seed come in the future. Now, here we are in 2026. We know this very well. But somehow that was communicated through thousands of years, and we still read about it in the Word of God and believe it today, and we know that Christ was that seed that was prophesied about. So I do believe that there is a an oral uh aspect that is associated with antiquity, and we carry that on. So the the issue is this that once something that God says is firmly established as having come from God, there can be no deviation from that, nor can there be some other aspect that might be considered traditional that goes contrary to what was already heard. Anything that has not been said by God is speculation, and that must be rejected unless it is affirmed by God. That's why God gave us prophets. That's why he gave us the prophets. He gave us Moses, he gave Moses the law. And this was what this was, and these were things that God gave to Israel, the nation of Israel. He gave them all these things, and he told them all these things that he had never disclosed. And he really showed them the blueprint when he gave them his law and he set up the Aaronic priesthood or the Levitical priesthood, and he set up all that. He gave us the blueprint. And then what happened is they end up abusing it. How? They invited idolatry, they started taking extravagant measures to make the word of God more progressive by adding to things that the the law or the or the or that the laws of God that he gave didn't say. You know, and so you see throughout church history that there were times that people started to um violate and be stoned, let's say, because they did something that the clergy was saying is contrary to God's law when it never was contrary to God's law. So when Christ comes along, he starts calling them out on it. And so you hear him give all these woes to the Pharisees and the scribes and the elders, because what he was saying was, you have added to the very things that that you've added things to the word of God that wasn't there. You've added to it. And by doing so, you have caused these people to err in their way, to err in their way and to fall up and to fall away. And now they follow you, and now you and them are going to fall into the ditch. What Christ was emphasizing, you should have stayed cl you should have stayed close to my word and not deviated from that. But you took liberties and added to it and took things apart from it so that you can bind the consciences of other men for your own benefit. For your own benefit. And this is why we have to be sticklers about the word, because Christ, he called them out on this. This is what he called them out. Woe to you, scribes and the Pharisees and the elders, because you you you you you know you do these things and you miss the weightier matters of the law. That's what he told them. And they didn't recognize that he was the one coming to deal with that issue, that they missed the weightier issues of the law, which are spiritual in nature, compassion, love, mercy, and grace. They missed it all. They didn't see it in those laws that God gave. They didn't see it. But thankfully, God sent ministers who did understand it. He sent it, he sent us Isaiah and Jeremiah and Daniel and all these prophets of the past, Daniel, I mean, and Job here, so that we can know today and get some color on what God was saying to them then and how we apply it to ourselves today. We have, we literally have at our fingertips the word of God Almighty, the creator. There are so many of you who would think it a big deal to meet your favorite celebrity or to meet the president of the United States or to meet whoever. There are certain people you would love to hear from. But here's the thing there's no one that can tell us anything more magnificent than what's in the word of God and knowing that it came from Him who created all things. You really when that when this settles in your mind, that we get to speak and to hear from God Himself. I hope you understand this. When you read the Word of God, you are hearing, you are hearing in your heart and in your mind, you are hearing Him talk to you. He's talking to you. When you refuse to pick up the Word of God, you are refusing to hear His voice. I wish that I could make people understand this. God is speaking to us now, and He's speaking to us in a way that we should be thankful that He's speaking to. Because when He comes back, there are going to be a great many of mankind, the greater part of mankind, they don't want to hear what He's gonna have to say, and they're certainly not gonna be able to stand the way He says it. It will be very easy to be critical about my tone. You can tell somebody, oh, you could have said it nicer. You could have been more gentle, you could have sounded more compassionate, they're not questioning your truth. They don't like what you're saying, so they want to question how you said it. But man, let me tell you something. When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, what the sinners are gonna hear.