20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 35) 

Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 1:13 {Adam Buried Beneath where Jesus Crucified?} I heard on a program by the National Geographic that there’s a belief out there that Adam was buried beneath where Jesus was crucified. They say when Jesus died, His blood flowed down into the ground and through some cracks inside a tomb where Adam was buried, and Adam was resurrected from that. I am trying to find out where this belief even started, why it was started, and if there is any Biblical or Historical evidence to suggest that this ever happened. Have you ever heard of this, and do you know of any resources on this subject that might help me? 2. 6:04 {About Bribery in the book of Proverbs} Can you please help me and my friend understand Proverbs 21: 14 about bribery? We read the references below the verse but still find it hard to understand. 3. 10:15 {Should I Attend a Calvinist Church?} The church that I currently attend is in search of a new pastor, and the one that will be voted in is a Calvinist. I don't agree with Calvinism and question if I can submit to his authority/teaching. What do I do? Stay? Go? I don't want to be divisive but want to stand on God's truth in love. 4. 14:09 {Faith vs. Works Contradiction?} I’m confused on two verses, Romans 4:3 and James 2: 21. I don’t believe the Bible has any contradictions, can you please clear up my confusion on this? 5. 22:51 {Is God Faithful when We’re Faithless?} Is 2 Timothy 2: 13 saying God is faithful to us, or to Himself? I hear people thanking God that when we are faithless, He is faithful to us, but it seems to read the opposite. 6. 25:26 {About God’s Will in our Lives} How do I know if I am living in the will of God for my life? Do wrong choices mean we have messed up Gods plan and we’re now living plan B? 7. 29:32 {About the Age of Accountability} Does Numbers 14: 29 give us any biblical reason to believe the age of accountability to be 20? In Numbers 14: 18-19 Moses pleads with God, and God pardons the sins of the children 19 and younger. 8. 34:40 {About the Wedding Feast/Garments} The man who was at the wedding feast without a wedding garment in Matthew 22: 11, is he like what would called a nominal Christian? 9. 41:48 {About Cohabitation Before Marriage} What Scripture shows that 2 heterosexual Christians who love each other and intend to marry can’t cohabitate if they are celibate? 10. 46:18 {How to Honor an Abusive Parent} My father was physically and mentally abusive when I was a child. Can I stop talking to him and still be honoring him? 11. 49:19 {About Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia} What are your thoughts about assisted suicide and euthanasia? 12. 52:55 {Is the Holy Spirit Jesus’ Father?} Might be a dumb question but if the Holy Spirit came upon Mary so that Jesus could be born, wouldn't that make the Holy Spirit Jesus' father? 13. 54:59 {About “Pascal’s Wager”} What is Pascal’s Wager, and do you believe that it has been refuted? 14. 59:10 {About Revelation - New Names/White Stones} What is the "new name" in Revelation 2: 17? Is it the individual's new name that receives the white stone, or is it Jesus' new name? 15. 1:01:28 {Should Pro-Life = Immigration Support?} Do you think that being pro-life means that I should also support immigration/refugee resettlement due to the pro-life belief that children should be taken care of regardless of circumstances? 16. 1:04:40 {Can a False Teacher Cast Out Demons?} What is the deeper meaning of Matthew 12:22-28? I’m a little confused. Can a false teacher cast out demons? If so, wouldn't that be a kingdom that is divided against itself? 17. 1:09:20 {Defense of the Trinity} Hi Mike! I fully believe in the Trinity due to ALL of Scripture. But 1 Corinthians 8:6 is a bit problematic and seems Unitarian. What do you make of it? 18. 1:13:20 {Should our Shortcomings Discourage our Callings?} I believe I am called to be a pastor, but I have sin & inconsistencies in my life. Do you think this could mean I’m not called, or do I just need to work on these things before being used in that area? 19. 1:14:24 {About our Prayers and Troubling Thoughts} When does God hear my prayers? I am asking you this because my thoughts are barely controllable nowadays, and those thoughts are causing me to pray very weird things and think about things I don’t want to think about. 20. 1:19:09 {Infinite Universes?} Is the theory of an infinite amount of universes biblical or unbiblical?

When Pastor Mike makes you a bible geek and you can't help but get deep into scripture! Thank for your hard work Pastor Mike for being my new Netflix lol

Question number 11, in 2011 my late husband died he had three cancers in six years. The last five months of his life he had asked me so many times to help him die. I struggled with it but I didn’t do it. After his death I felt so guilty for not helping him, but praise the Lord I know that I made the right choice. My husband was saved a month before he died and spent the last month of his life so close to God. It was the hardest choice I’d ever made in my life not to help him die. I often pray for people in this situation because it is so painful

“Never lower your calling to match your compromises. Get rid of your compromises and serve the Lord.” LETS GOOOOOOOO MIKE!

“Never lower your calling to match your compromises.” Someone put that on a motivational poster with a sunset, or a cat doing pull ups. That word was 🔥🔥🔥

“Never lower your calling to suit your compromises”. ❤️🙌🏼. Amen!

I love Mike’s answer to #19. Lots of Christians struggle with not only sinful thoughts, but also intrusive thoughts. The harder you try to stop the thoughts, the more they come! The trick is to remove the anxiety. Know God understands your heart.

Mike, you are a relatively young man, but you are very wise, and I am greatly blessed by your ministry here on RU-vid. Thank you so much for your faithfulness to Christ, and your hard work to put out these videos. God bless you!

The "Fine Tuning" argument is my personal favorite argument for God's existence just because it's so cool that it's real 🙂 Also, there was a semester in college where a classmate went from atheist to theist based on that evidence. It's just so bonkers that the numbers are so so so perfect in the universe.

I love the fact that you don’t just answer questions about the scripture being asked about BUT RATHER you go to and read the scripture in full to obtain context prior to answering.

Question 11 (49:19) I am so glad that you talked about pulling the plug. I just ended life support for my 4 month old in February. She had coded 4 times, and though I clearly heard God tell me to release her, I have dealt with so much guilt over the past few months.

God always shows up when we seek I see it time and time again. And personally in my own life God's amazing

Question 4: I don't remember who told me this, but it really helped me. "Good works don't get you into Heaven. Good works help convince your loved ones that Heaven's worth getting in to."

I hope this blesses some... 🙏 I was 5 years of chronic illness! I was Semi Housebound, lost my health, job, finances and my fiance left me. I couldn't even look at electronic screen for 5 minutes, or hold a 10-minute conversation. But God did an amazing work. I now have a Christian Channel where I encourage people and show them what God did in my life and that there is hope for you also. ✝️🔥😊 *Keep believing even when it's hard* 🙏❤️🔥 *All things are possible with God*

If we knew where Adam had been buried wouldn’t that location have been camouflaged or probably lost during the flood?

This is the first time I ever really understood the main point of the book of James. Thank you for your thoughtful and excellent explanation. God Bless.

Such great questions and answers. I'm learning so much even though I've been a Christian for 20+ years. Plus I've laughed out loud 3 times so far (and I'm only 46 minutes in). I never usually laugh out loud when I'm watching stuff by myself.

Anything to learn about Jesus Christ. The beginning was just right!

Lol at first at 0:04 I thought he was going to say “oh didn’t see you guys over there.”lol

Thumbs up for faith v works. One of the most straight forward distinctions that has articulated for me that sense of the way things were but haven't been able to elucidate on my own. Thanks, Mike, and thanks and glory to the one who sent you!

I’ve studied James before, but haven’t heard the works/faith idea exactly the way you explained it. Wonderful! I will be sharing that with others.

Wow...assisting life vs assisting suicide. I never thought of it that way. That makes a huge difference in the dilemma to me now. My heart goes out to those that have to make that choice. Thank you!

I just found you due to Dallas Jenkins suggestion! So glad I did! Thank you for sharing God’s Truth!

Nat Geo was “click bait” before it was a thing . I wouldn’t trust much that Nat Geo says about anything

You have no idea what you did for me tonight. My entire life has been a horrible painful, physical and emotional nightmare and at 63yo its all I can do to keep my mind from destroying me. I have been a child of YEHOVAH since I was very small and I know that's the only reason I have literally survived death so many times it stuns me that's how bad it's been. I am on the autism spectrum so it's not like I can be around people to help and guide me but your advice on my ability to choose what I can think and reject the thought that leaves me in tears ( why couldn't I get away when I had the chance, why did I do nothing and let them get away with it, I am shamed by my children going through hell with me. Etc etc) and so often I'm in agony telling YEHOVAH (I don't know the words or what to pray for I'm so confused) . Now that I know that I can just cry out to YEHOVAH and groan and cry out to him my thoughts being so painful that no words can explain and that no matter because when I cry out to YEHOVAH now I know those quiet emotionally painfully feeling will not require words and that truly all the years I have cried out groaning in desperation and pain YEHOVAH hads always heard me. My brother because of your wise words at a time where severe chronic pain leaves me so exhausted along with PTSD trauma night terrors and isolation have drug me down now I feel lifted up. I can talk to Father YEHOVAH knowing that He knows me He understands everything about me so I can breathe easy and let Him sooth my soul as I bear myself to Him from now on.I just saw one of your videos yesterday and now for the first time in a long time I feel like I am finally home May YEHOVAH bless you and your family so that you can keep us closer to understanding more about our Abba YEHOVAH. Thank you for having the courage to be brave enough to tell the truth about YEHOVAH and YESHUAs word rather than lie to us and pervert the bible as soooo many so called teachers of YEHOVAH s words do EVERY DAY misleading and causing soooo many to loose their souls. May YEHOVAH bless everyone here now and in the future, I love you all Yes I do very dearly believe that YESHUA YEHOVAH s Son is our savior and Redeemer ❤️🕎🔯🙏🙏🙏🔯🕎❤️

Thank you so very much for all your teachings, especially Q&A"s. I look forward to everyone. You teach total truth and I appreciate your humbleness. When you do not know something you just say you do not know. Again, thank you so very much for your time, study and knowledge.

Any burial site for Adam would have been destroyed in the cataclysmic upheavals of Noah's flood...

Edifying, thank you brother Mike. God bless

Jeremiah 17:7-8 "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit."

I had that pascal discussion with my friend. I told him to look at how happy I am, never depressed, never unhappy and always pleasant. Wouldn't he rather live like I do than the way he lives. He shook his head and said, "the way you do." I said, "well there is your answer." You live a much better life as a real Christian and you can live in heaven by believing than not. "

What a great conversation. I really enjoyed the variety of questions and the sound answers.

God bless you, Mike. You are a true follower of Christ and thanks to you and your teachings i learned a LOT about my religion. Thank God for you and your knowledge, brother Mike. I love you, brother. Thanks once again and may our Lord and Saviour protect you and your loved ones.

Thank you pastor Mike, for answering the question about God plan for that sis life. I must say that I was struggling with the same question about how I know that I am living in God plan. I am so happy to hear that even though I read Roman's 8 and Ephesians 2 but i still was struggling. So I thank you for clearing up that. God bless you.

Your response to question 8 was perfect!! Thanks so much for explaining this...you have a gift in helping others understand the meaning of scriptures.. God bless!

“Never lower your calling to match your compromises.” So good pastor Mike.

Thanks for all your hard work Mike!! Love you brother 😊

I love u Brother Mike. U have so much love. And wisdom

May God bless you Pastor Mike, for in Jesus Christ's Name I ask and pray. Amen ❤🌹❤

Lord Yahweh thank You so much for showing me the Way! And introducing me to Pastor Mike! please forgive me as I stumble, and stumble and stumble some more cuz I am just a baby.... An ignorant Lil baby but I love You so much, My Lord, and Heavenly Father and I am trying so incredibly hard to do better and be as much like You as I can possibly be!! Please help me to become stronger and more courageous in You Lord and willing to stand firm in my convictions even when it feels like I am standing all alone. I am so incredibly sorry I'm always sorry... I don't want to be sorry anymore I want to be Your Warrior!! Not a worrier.... Please Lord help me be strong!! I need You so much!! I am nothing without You!!! Nothing!!!!!

As a Calvanist, we'd love to have you or any Arminian believer. I'm glad you feel the same way. Our teaching on it is firm because we think it is clear in scripture and that to deny it leaves room for self-boasting instead of reserving all boasting to that in the Lord. On another episode of 20 questions you answered a question about denominational or individual restrictions on teaching. The gist of your response is that all pastors should be free to teach as they believe on anything but primary matters. I think that has the real potential for the formation of sects and confusion. Our church wouldn't allow someone to rob the glory due God for single-handedly changing the blind hearts of those dead in sin and causing them to be born again. Also, knowing that Jesus was thinking about specific individuals (like me) when he was agonizing on the Cross has significantly influenced my love for Him. Doesn't the man who choses Jesus have room to boast over his neighbor who did not? These scriptural images all insinuate that this is not merely a decision but an act of God impossible for people to do on their own. I also see no way to explain John 6, Jacob vs. Esau and many others passages from Arminianism. I also see a related, apparent contradiction in your teaching. You've said homosexual proclivities aren't sin because you cannot change your desires. Why the command to not covet, an illicit desire for that which doesn't belong to you? How about same-sex lusting? Jesus made it clear that the sexual desire for a woman who is not your wife violates the command against the prohibited act. Also how can you change your desire from not loving Jesus to loving Him? I believe that desires can be changed once the Spirit monergistically first sets our primary affections on Jesus. Practically this works by exposing oneself to the glories of Jesus found in all the various means of grace: prayer, fasting, reading scripture, sitting under expositional preaching, fellowshipping with others of His, communing with Him through labor and sufferring for His sake, etc. This naturally causes us to love Him more and the contrasting bitterness of sin to be more obvious. If you were to respond, I'm sure I'd learn much. You have changed my mind multiple times with your clear biblical teaching. I thank God for you, a gift to His called-out ones. May He bless you, keep you and make His face shine upon you, May He be gracious to you. May He lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.

I love this 20 questions .....and such great questions.............GOD bless you and yours Pastor. Grace and peace Gilly wife of Mark

Boy, never lower your calling to match your compromises is a great word for all of us called to serve Christ.

Mike: … I’m Mike & you’re you- Me: I see no wrong here! 😆

Always enjoy your videos. Thank you. Has helped enrich my faith even though I have been a Christian since childhood.

One of the best Q&A's in a very long time. Great questions! 👍

Thanks for a very informative Q & A!

One can honor their parents by rising above their parents moral failings.

I left my Assembly of God church for my now Orthodox Church and have never looked back. So for me, “divorcing” the Protestant way of thinking have saved me.

Stopped watching after I realized there was no counter. (I’m kidding)

Could I ask you for prayer fellow believers? I feel deeply that something is not right with me after being stuck at home for a year and almost a half. (This post is long but I pray that someone will read this and agree with me in prayer for the end of it). I am 16 and my best friend, who was more or less the leader in our friendship in making friendships with the people at our youth group and just coming up with fun ideas because she was insanely outgoing, moved away a couple months ago. I struggled with certain things about her that weren’t healthy, and her personality is abrasive to most people who aren’t used to it, in fact, most kids at church didn’t like her when we were growing up. But she was my absolute closest friend and the only person I am really comfortable with at our church. I’ve always been the quiet, nice one in all of my groups, at school and church, but now I feel like a part of me is missing, the part that made it easy to talk to other people. Now that she’s not here to blab her mouth to people and start conversations that I can insert myself into easily, I find myself absolutely mute and speechless in simple interactions like saying hello. I am terrified of social interaction where I have to respond to questions because I feel like I do a horrible job at answering in the moment. And Like I said, staying at home with no contact with anybody and not practicing my social skills definitely hasn’t help. For example, yesterday was our youth group’s first day back in person and I dreaded so much of it because I couldn’t find the words to speak to others, I was petrified. And I can’t bring myself to open my mouth, even when I have the answer in my head, I feel debilitated by her absence. I have absolutely no other friends at church to talk to and the other girls and boys are all friends, I am a total outcast. I’m left with no one to sit by or share even one word with. The people respect me and love me for what I do for our youth group but they have no reason to talk to someone who never responds back to them with any substance. I need the help of the Lord to relate to this people who I have never tried to be friends with and who are increasingly irritated by my awkwardness. I need the Lord’s grace so bad!!! I need him to open my mouth and flood out the right words that will help me have fellowship with even one person!! I am doing all that I can in terms of service: piano every week on the worship team, prayer team after service, a couple other teams too, I just CAN’T get close to ANYONE at this current time! Lord please help me. Remove what is stopping my mouth please. I am desperate for communion with you and your people. I know who I am on the inside, the bubbly, happy, girl who loves to be with and serve other people. Where is she Lord? Where has she gone? What do you have for her future? Please Father, I beg you please, give me the grace that is necessary to reach these boys and girls who I can currently see are drifting away from you but I have no strength, ability, knowledge, or skill on how to become friends with them. Open their hearts and open mine to the possibility of friendship and let me not fail! Let it be for your honor Lord!!! That I may be able to connect with your creations! I desire to see your church filled with brothers and sister, not just a group of brothers or a group of sisters with some neighbors hanging around the church, not knowing or having someone to talk to or at a loss for how talk. I pray for those in similar situations as me. Brings us through Lord. Make this a part of our testimony, something we will look back on and say, “I see exactly why that had to happen. Isn’t my God good!” Yes Lord! I can see that you’re good even now as I’m alone among men! This loneliness will not last I believe, if it is in your will, so that I can bring lives to you God and the constant communion with others will sweeten my days and revive my spirit. I see you Lord in my interactions. The Spirit of God speaking through them. I want you Lord to speak through me. Please give me the words to speak life into others! Words have the power of life and death in them - but what happens when I have no words? Do I kill my friend, do I give them life, both, neither?? I want my words to give life and life only Father!!!!! I am so dependent on you Lord that I can’t see where my feet will be placed next in this situation God. Take my hand and lead me Lord, I reach my hand out! Take it please!! And take my burden in the process Lord, make my way easy. I love you and trust you God. You haven’t ever let me down. I need more and more trust in this situation. But never let my trust in you run out God, I ask you that. Instead let it abound! I commit my spirit to your Spirit, Lord and my heart to your Son, and my future to you, Father. I place it all in your hands, I’m not holding anything back. I give you my broken life to fix God, I can’t do this. I pray for peace for me and my brothers and sisters and love and the Holy Spirit to be the glue between us. I pray so seriously God that you remove this awkwardness from me fast!! I commit all of us into your hands God, in Jesus’ mighty, glorious, powerful name. Amen. 💓

Great teaching, thank you!

Thank you so much Pastor Mike. .😊😊😊 It is a blessing to me. . 😊

The question about thoughts, I understand what he is talking about I think. There was a time when I first came to Christ Jesus in faith as an adult, and my thoughts would scare me at times. What I mean is thoughts would come in to my mind that were contrary to my faith in Jesus. Thoughts of blasphemy, and uncontrollable cursing in my mind that were not from my heart but we're almost as if the thoughts were put in my head to create doubt. My friend, this is war and your flesh is resisting the Holy Spirit and the devil does this to get you to doubt your salvation. I would every time a bad thought would come into my mind I would say in my mind " I love the LORD Jesus Christ" and I would pray with sorrow in my heart and ask God to guard my mind and I think that this backfired on Satan and strengthened my faith and my relationship with God. I know it's hard but with great victory comes great suffering. Don't give up and don't fear, God loves you and is never going to reject you for fighting the war of the mind. Hope this helps, I will remember you in my prayers

Thanks for the video

My number one favorite channel for apologetics.

Hi Mike, I love your page and I am always sharing your links to my friends and family in Panama, city Panama. Some of my friends had asked if you ever going to have your studies in Spanish? So much wisdom and teaching on hold here. I will continue praying for you to be able to translate to Spanish some of your studies. Especially the Book of Mark, Jesus in the Old Testaments and sooo many more. God Bless you!

Love your content Mike! Need to catch up your videos! Maybe do a series on the family. Scripture that pertains to families specifically, parents, children etc. Im a stay at home mom!

It's because of the brokenness of sin that we can say one thing and do another. Our being is dis-integrated into conflicted parts: our thoughts, words, feelings, intentions, actions, etc. The child of God's new birth by the Holy Spirit is a healing, a miraculous work to re-integrate us so that all is one in Christ. As both Paul and James wrote, it is an ongoing work while we remain in this flesh (e.g., the joining of faith and action), but we are ultimately predestined to be conformed to the perfect image of Christ.

Paul implies not to cohabitate: First Corinthians 7:8-9 says, “Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion

I know this video was a long time ago. But I would like to point out that there’s a side message in this as well and I think it’s that we need to pay attention to what our hearts are guiding us to do in secret. When no one else is watching or when no one else cares or when it doesn’t affect how other people think of us. It is better to bless someone with a pure heart for pure reasons than to try to bribe someone for your own well-being. I think there’s another message with this proverb. I hope someone reads it and it helps. Another great video mike!! Thank you

One thing I'd add to Mike's answer on question 19: In addition to counseling I've experienced the most victory over intrusive thoughts by dealing with them from a paradigm of spiritual warfare. Its way too much to talk about in just a RU-vid comment, but The books Victory over the Darkness and Winning the Battle Within by Neil T. Anderson have been very helpful on the subject for me. The main focus of the books is learning to fully embrace your identity in Christ and how to wage spiritual war from that foundation.

Thanks for these!

Good. Thank you.

Yes!!!!! About the groans!!! It is so true and extremely beautiful when you realize that HE understands. I have given this advice before. I wasn't sure if it was good advice..

So many helpful nuggets. I often struggle with the notion of not being able to control random thoughts that come into my head or Impressions that you get just from stimuli that you pick up in the world. If you see an attractive person or you hear a word or you see something on TV and something comes in your head and you're like no I don't want that and then you wonder like geez am I bad for that but it is The Human Condition.

I would love for you to crop your answer to number 6 so I could share it with the planet. Please do this. What a great answer

My kids bribe me with hugs, kisses and big smiles. Melts me every time 😂😂

Pastor Mike needs to write a book on some of these great helps. 😎

#6 is a big struggle I've had as well, thinking if I screwed up then I would forever face the consequences of my mistakes

Christian here, chastely cohabiting. Both disabled, both over 60. Cannot marry because to do so would be economic suicide due to SSI rules. Would gladly make economic sacrifice to marry the woman I love, but this would put us out on the street. I agree with your view in the general case. But we need to be together, not least so we can advocate for each other and gain a measure of protection from the neglect and abuse that are the all to frequent lot of disabled people who depend on medicaid. At our age, chastity requires the grace of God, but is not so difficult than if we were younger.

thank you

Never knew I would miss the counter this early... Mike's compassion shows after Q11. Struggles for a few afterwards. I still struggle with some things I wasn't even involved with...

with the assisted death issue I have the same opinion as you. if the person is being artificially kept alive with little chance of recovery. I think the technology is there to give the person a chance to recover or for God to do a miracle but at some point, we need to turn off the technology let the person go. deliberately killing someone is a different thing although the person may be suffering or lost the desire to live they are meant to fight on. remember how Elijah asks God to kill him and God basically ignores him and told him to get over himself

So good!!

In the question of pulling the plug, I absolutely agree with you here Mike. I do think it should be done with prayer and a slow consideration for sure tho. Here is kinda my thoughts on why here: Imagine science progressing far enough where we can preserve someone, forcing their heart to beat and give blood to the brain like for years after someone should have died and has no ability to do anything, suffering in pain. It just sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. What if science can separate vitals, and keep life indefinitely from there? I do think there is a limit to what life people have that should be preserved for life's sake itself. What that limit is might change from person to person, but I think everyone should have some limit based on examples above.

I've recently felt called to do something for God's kingdom, but I'm not sure if it's to be a pastor or maybe mission work, if I did mission work, it'd be in countries where Christianity is not only absent from society, but frowned upon, as those are the places we are needed most. Perhaps I could do both (mission first, pastor later) Although, focusing on being a pastor seems much more stable, and it could help cultivate well meaning Christians (not the lukewarm variety commonplace in today's world), again, the issue is that I don't know how to do it. This isn't a right now thing, but that doesn't change the importance of this calling, so I'll definitely put much prayer and thought into whatever I do, but if anyone here has advice, I'd be happy to hear it!

I’ve never heard of Adam being buried underneath where Jesus was crucified. I don’t think that really makes sense since the global flood would’ve destroyed the earth and most likely the body of Adam. Unless God supernaturally secured his body and planted it in the spot. However, I heard that the Ark of the Covenant was buried underneath where Jesus was crucified and His blood seeped down and landed on the Ark of the Covenant.

Thanku

#5. I take that verse to be of similar meaning to "Let God be true, and every man a liar." Above all, God must be true to Himself.

My mother was extremely physically, mentally and emotionally abusive to me as a teenager. (My parents were divorced). I used to run away a lot because of its severity. Many years later I asked my dad, who was a Christian, how I was supposed to honor my mother in light of what she had done. He said "Don't speak ill of her". In my case, he was right. When I would talk bad about her it the aftermath of the abuse would rear its ugly head and I would become depressed or act out in bad ways. When I stopped talking about her to anyone who would listen, about how evil she was, I felt better. That does not mean I didn't talk about her in counseling. But not talking about her evil helped me to "honor" her. I don't know if this makes sense to you but it did to me.

Praise God

I'd like to expound on the multiverse question: Who is rolling the million sided dice?

1:16:05 Thank you.

FWIW - I've always understood the new name to be a new name for each one of us individually so that if for some reason Jesus ever calls us for something there will be no confusion as to who it is He's talking to.

If you love God you will obey Him not to get saved but because you love Him and “It Is FINISHED” Glory! Ephesians 2:8-10 👑 “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life”

Concerning the Adam skull issue: there was a publication that some archaeologist had found a cave beneath Golgotha and the Ark in it. He said that Christ's blood flew through the cracks and sprinkled to the cover of the ark. He described everithing in details. But at the end he explains (in details) why he can not provide any proof.

Cheers for the chuckle, Pst Mike! 😂

With question 1. In the 90’s there were claims by Ron Wyatt of many things one was that the ark of the covenant buried under the cross and when the rock split and Jesus blood dripped on it. Many times we want believe things that excite us.

David takes Goliath's skull back to Jerusalem. Not saying it is buried there, but it is the only skull mentioned going there.

On question 1, I heard a theory that the Ark of the Covenant was hidden under ground where Jesus was crucified. As His blood dripped on the ground, it seeped down, and fell on the Mercy Seat.

On the question #14, in Rev 2:17, this is spoken to the churches not of Christ. My thought when read was that this went back to psalm 147:4 when God named each of the stars in the heavens, the beauty of his knowledge of each, and individual attention to them. What I see corresponding in the Revelation verse, is the intimate relationship this brings into knowing each and every one of us as his perfected children under the blood and Lordship of his Son. Jesus said the Father knew and numbered every hair on my head, a statement of deep love and caring for the uniqueness of each one of us in that love. I take Rev 2:17 to say the same kind of loving statement of God toward His redeemed who persevere to the end. Just my take on it. ❤

We just have to use discernment when fables attempt to infiltrate Christian beliefs. I just focus on what is in the written word of the Bible.

I love the cat meow at 1:07:36 😂

53:50 MAT10 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Alright, Mike. Here are some things I'd really like to see from you: a video on fasting and praying, a video on the spiritual gifts, and a video on your opinion of Altiyan Childs' video of Freemasonry being Satanism in disguise

Good word, Bro Mike! #4. Always loved how Paul and James corroborated one another using the same illustration of Abraham! Romans 4 = What God Sees, our heart. "...by grace, thru faith, unto good works." (Eph. 2:8-10.) James 2 = What People See. "I'll SHOW YOU my faith by my works." ✌️😎

Regarding leaving a church- I’ve been struggling with this the past year. I wanted to be a part of my old church and help build it up I love the community there and relationships I’ve made and I see how the church has been a blessing and covering for me and others the past 4 years. But the church has been under huge transition and is being rebuilt. I feel I am getting better discipleship and teaching at my new church. Ive kind of been going to two churches a lot of back and forth for the past year but I feel like this hasn’t been the best for me spiritually either I haven’t been able to fully invest/ be planted. How long should I discern before I make a decision and what is most important thing to consider to decide?

Mike when you talked about Israel being continually brought back it proved the earlier point , when we are faithless, he is faithful.

The Plan A/ Plan B topic was so good (number 6) . Just resonates in my spirit.

I was wondering if its Biblical to pray on behalf of animals. I'm a vet student and will see a lot of animal suffering in my career. I'd like to know how to approach it. Anyone have some thoughts on that?