20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 68) 

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Thanks for the timestamps Sarah I love you. 100TH COMMENT I'M EARLY ASFLIP AGAIN 👊. AMEN brother Mike Winger many of these cults in the modern era use unscriptural doctrines of different mythological and religious concepts mixed with Christianity and worldliness to take advantage of people in already emotionally and psychologically compromised situations. I found that you can find the Age of the Earth in the Bible by applying The Scriptures to world history which leads me to believe that the Earth is over 13 thousand years old since the 7 days of The Creation in Genesis are 7 thousand years since a day to The Lord is a thousand years as Psalms and 2 Peter says. I really appreciate your Christ centered and Scripturally accurate content for the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 🙏👊. I'm still grasping what happened last night how Will Smith slapping Chris Rock for making a bad joke about Jada's hair loss yet he won't slap the guy sleeping with her in their bed so it's HYPOCRISY AT IT'S FINEST 😂. Will Smith definitely was a bully in this situation with Chris Rock for making a bad joke about Jada's hair condition. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.

@@Gamefan86 Nonsense!

@@Gamefan86 Are you off your meds?

My favorite part of mikes videos is the few seconds at the beginning where he looks a little bewildered before he realizes he’s on.

Amen 🙏

That courage came from God’s love in his heart.

@@Gamefan86 ??

@@Gamefan86 my bro this analogy falls apart in any other language 😂 sun and son happen to be homonyms in English but English as we know it didn’t come around until about 500 years ago. how do you explain “soleil”and “garçon” in French which came about many years before English?

Your honesty is great. Thank you!

@@Gamefan86 sorry man but we're not into jokes, thank you

You need to seek god and the Holy Spirit. Mike Winger does not appear to have any researching skills. He is a milk drinker.

@@Gamefan86 Did you get that from Zeitgeist and are you aware of how terrible their research of Christianity’s origins is?

Might I suggest Pastor Chris Rosborough 'Fighting for the Faith', Justin Peters, Voddie Baucham and John Macarthur. Sound, Biblical men and they're all on RU-vid. 👍

More worried about looking witty than teaching sound doctrine.

I know your comment is a year old but I am looking at Mike's old videos and happened upon your comment, I am very touched and blown away by it. God is so good and faithful to us. My own mother died from AIDS, so it makes me extremely happy to know that people who get this illness will be able to live with it through God's grace

God still heals today. Physical healing is paid for in the cross in Isaiah 53:5 just as forgiveness is. I've seen the Lord heal people many diseases and conditions by His miracles and I have been healed by His power myself.

@@ucarouen Why do we grow old and die then? Heaven isn’t now, heaven is later when we will have glorified perfect bodies 😃

@@ucarouen that’s very true God can and does heal today. But He doesn’t always heal how and when we’d like. And often we don’t understand. Our Lord Jesus Himself learned obedience through His suffering (Hebrews 5:8) If Jesus Himself suffered then there is no reason to expect ourselves to be exempt. Almost every person in the Bible I can think of experienced suffering (Jesus obviously most of all) God can and does cause good to come out of suffering (eg Gen 50:20) but it is not at all fun to endure. For me personally reading stories like Joni’s is encouraging and helpful when undergoing my own trials, especially as it shows that even in dark times God is greater still. Or as Corrie Ten Boom said ‘there is no pit so dark, God’s love is not deeper still’

@@HopeKuhn We grow old and die because God said men's years would not exceed 120 and everyone must die once and are raised for the final judgment. That has nothing to do what Jesus taught in the Gospels. "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand." The Kingdom is here and now! Jesus preached it everywhere he went. Through parables He explained what it looks like it and how to do things that usher in the Kingdom. It's all over all four gospels. It's in the Lord prayer: heaven coming to earth. When Jesus cast out demons and healed the sick, He equated those acts as "The Kingdom has come upon you.". He taught us to do as He did and by that the Kingdom has spread across the earth and continues today. Through the lie of cessationism, millions of Christians stopped believing that was Jesus taught a out healing the sick and casting out demons was a thing of the past and means nothing for us. It is absolutely still for today. It's our own unbelief that stops the Holy Spirit. Jesus hated unbelief: he called it perverse. Unbelief prevented miracles in Mark 6:5/Matthew 13:58. If you waver in doubt/unbelief, the James 1 said you "should not suppose you will receive ANYTHING from the Lord, for you are a double minded man, unstable in all your ways.". That is especially true for receiving bodily healing that Isaiah 53:5 says is included in the work of the cross.

@@ucarouen I think you misunderstand the point I was trying to make. I did NOT say that God never heals today, of course God can heal someone if He so chooses today and He does. He does not promise that every time though. I did try to get the point across basically that we will indeed suffer in this life and to expect it, for it is God’s will that we be sanctified and to be made more and more to look like His Son. The Kingdom of God is growing as we speak, as more people get saved, but we do not expect perfection yet as we are still in our broken and sinful state. How could you tell someone in this earthly life who is a devout follower of Jesus who has maybe a health ailment or disability that they must not be saved or have enough faith? That is so incorrect. God looks at the heart.

It is an emotional trauma when you come out of a cult. I was raised as a Mormon. It is not easy but God helps us through it. Thanks for the enlightenment on the UPCI.

God's word is never wrong. If a husband could be won without a word when 1 Peter was written, then it's just as true today. I think too few people recall that Abraham "gave away" his wife to other men TWICE and Sarah submitted even though she knew that he was lying and it was wrong. God himself finally intervened the second time and made everyone barren until she was returned to him. So regardless of how he is currently motivated, God can and does change the heart. May God give you the strength and the peace that passes all understanding to deal with this episode in your life.

@@ih82r8 Thank you so much for your kind words.

Wow. If I read this a couple of years ago, I would have been angry about your decision. But now I just pray for you and that the Lord answers your prayers and show you what you shall continue to do. God sees and he will make things right.

@@amyqb117 Thank you for your prayers, I really appreaciate it. It hasn’t been an easy road but I don’t know what else to do.

@@MSS-fs8wn You are, by no means, alone! In my opinion all Christians face problems that we, ultimately come to understand that, in and of ourselves, we may never or could ever be able to bring the changes, whether individual or cultural, that we so deeply want to see happen. This can be so difficult and frustrating that many just give up. Yet it appears to me that, even in the midst of your own personal suffering, you didn't give up. No, you did exactly what the Bible teaches us to do in every aspect of our Christian walk. You recognized that we are called to "give to God what is God's," you laid your burdens at the foot of the cross. I encourage you to continue to pray with the understanding that God is always in control and He uses all things to accomplish His will. God Bless You! 💕✝️💕🇺🇲 Matthew 11:28-30 28 ¶ Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Please don't encourage this blind guide.

As a former UPCI member myself, I would love to see a video addressing it!

I would love to see a video covering that topic as well!!!

I’d love to see a video on that too. I came from an apostolic background so my first thought was oneness Pentecostal as well….As a side note I love your channel. It helped me so much in my journey out of the oneness church.

Also a former Pentecostal, I would love to hear a message on it.

I also was a former member and licensed minister of the UPCI (United Pentecostal Church International). This organization, along with others that claim to be “Oneness Pentecostals,” are not just errant in their doctrinal belief of the Godhead, also believe salvation is only by a 3 step formula that must include repentance, water baptism with the minister audibly saying “in Jesus name”, and one receiving the Holy Ghost that is only evidenced by speaking in tongues. They declare if these do not happen you are not saved. In addition you must follow a certain set of rules of lifestyle or you will lose salvation. It is extremely fear based, controlling and narcissistic. This is a cult and there many people that have left or have tried to leave and deal with much emotional trauma. PLEASE DO VIDEOS EXPOSING THIS RELIGION TO HELP OTHERS SEE THE TRUTH!

Amen!

Amen!

In Jesus' day, everyone wore robes. Yet you could tell the difference between men's and women's robes. In the same way, today you can tell the difference between men's and women's pants.

@@FRN2013 exactly! I’m not sure the church in question but in the one I came from it’s all about control.

Yes to all this. They require all this and so much more. All of the churchs also require 10% in order to maintain your salvation. Some even require 5% offerings in addition to special offerings throughout the year.

@@jeremebrewer6763 isn’t this like general to modern churches today. I know many like this and it wasn’t listed by the OP.

Yes! coming out of it, I also felt like that was what the Woman was talking about. I Hope he can some day, in depth take on the cult

@@Gamefan86 You have a little too much time on your hands. 🤣😂🤪 Gotta keep trollin’! 😂

Literally this. I came out of the message 2 months ago after he did his study on serpent seed and I am so glad im out of there. grew up in that for 14 years.

@@Gamefan86 Hi, Jesus didn't want His teachings to be complicated. The things you write are meant to complicate biblically written scriptures. I knew a person who was learning unbiblical teachings. When he talked it sounded ok,but when I would want to repeat what he had said to another person, I was unable to make any sense of it. Later I learned when a biblical teaching is confusing you can be reassured, it isn't coming from the Holy Spirit, rather a different spirit.

@@yeetus_reetus_deeleetus he was asked about it once in an old Q and A video but he said he hadn’t heard of it unfortunately

@@Gamefan86 nope

Lol Caucasian? Why point that out? Curious

Absolutely true!

@@Gamefan86 you’re spending a lot of time and energy trying to state Christianity and the gospel is a fable. Question for you - if it is, why do you care if anyone believes it? 🤷🏼‍♀️

They're brainwashed like jehovahs witnesses and Mormons. This is how you keep people in a cult: by fear.

In Jesus' day, everyone wore robes. Yet you could tell the difference between men's and women's robes. In the same way, today you can tell the difference between men's and women's pants. Legalism is deadly. They are modern-day Pharisees.

There is a very similar group in French speaking country such as Benin, Ivory Coast and several others. They are called JESUS COMING SOIN TV

Sounds like a heart issue. What I’d want to know is why she’s avoiding the Word. Guilt? Not wanting to submit to God? Fear that her idea of Jesus might be erased? Try seeing what she’s holding onto in her beliefs and (if you haven’t already) address it with the truth. Sometimes it could be a certain sin, but other times it could be fear that the real Jesus isn’t as loving or that the Bible gets in the way of feeling close to God.

@Yoel Cohen I don’t think that’s the only issue. Another is the discouragement and the environment it produces especially in a family setting.

Very good and accurate point. Something else folks might want think about dresses only on girls is the follow: I worked on a sexual assault response team for 30 years. Most of hose who assault women look for victims in dresses . I can't say more because this is a family program. I prefer my female relatives to wear pants. I hope it's very soon that this man made church belief of women only wearing dresses goes away soon. Anyway, you make a true and educated good point.

@@susanfanning9480 I always felt uncomfortable in dresses, since my legs were basically bare (though I only wear long dresses). It doesn’t feel modest. Pants are so much more comfortable and you don’t have to worry about the wind 😅

@@gigahorse1475 yes! I always thought the same thing lol

Right, Christopher! And in Jesus' day, everyone wore robes. Yet you could tell the difference between men's and women's robes. In the same way, today you can tell the difference between men's and women's pants.

@@susanfanning9480 I'm not going to stop wearing dresses because of the existence of bad people in the world.

Yesss. Dogs make wonderful companions. I'm sure Gracie is adorable. ♥️

Only God can say what is sin, not man.

@@Omatimestwo is it a sin for a woman to disobey her husband? “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.” (Ephesians 5:22-24, KJV) Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15, KJV)

Is Mike a young earther?

@@davidfayfield6594 I don't think so. As far as I can tell, he's a soft theistic evolutionist? You can find him talking about it.

@@alleadonai what even is that?

A theistic evolutionist is someone that belives God used evolution to create the world. I dont think mike is even softly that though? I think he thinks the earth is old, but also believes in a historical Adam and Eve- a theistic evolutionist would not. Old earthers don't all believe in evolution

@@arcguardian It's basically trying to mesh evolution and Genesis in one way or the other. I think it's pretty common because it's been crammed down our throats for so long. I think what's being mistaken for evolution is actually epigenetics, personally. However, I know Pastor Mike isn't dogmatic about it I just remembered him saying something about the theory of evolution not being a problem with his faith.

What you wrote made me think of when Paul said, these light momentary afflictions don't compare to the eternal weight of Glory that we will encounter when we finally meet the Lord. Or in Isaiah where it's written that those who wait in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar and wings like eagles they will run and grow weary. Or I think of when James talks about not trying to rush trials or difficulties, because they create perseverance in us. Or when Jesus said, blessed are those who mourn because they will be comforted. (Forgive me I have paraphrases those verses). Honestly the season of sadness and attacks and weaknesses can go on for years with or without Jesus. This world is fallen and it rains on the just and the unjust. The difference between me now that I know Christ, and me when I did not know him, is that NOW in my trials I am a conduit for his power and glory to be displayed to people who don't know him and encourage those that do. My pain isn't wasted because he will use me to minister to someone else whose walking the path that I have and needs someone to tell them it isn't pointless. And he will use every single bit of that pain to mold into the image of his son so that I can be salt and light in the time that I am here. Don't despair. Trust he is good even when you don't understand why. Wrap yourself up in him and his word. Run to him and his word whenever your thoughts and circumstances want to dismantle you and as you move toward him you will be comforted and he will carry you through the valley. I know it cuz I've walked it. I'll pray for you.

The Bible actually tells us to do this. If you hold something against your brother, go and tell them. I will have to look this up for the exact passage. It is about asking forgiveness for something that you have done against a fellow Christian. I have done this twice because I treated that person badly and unjustly. It is also about fellowship. Being angry with a member of the church hurts the church. Neither knew I was angry about something that they did. But God persisted in making me admit my sin. Others thought doing this was stupid. My relationship with God required it. So I did it.

@@claudiapoe8439 I'm going to disagree with your comment and agree with Mike(and I'm familiar with the verse). She did not need to confess this to me as I literally had no idea about her wrong thoughts and she had never treated me poorly. Her thoughts did not affect me at all. Telling me about them actually hurt me. She did not need to confess this to me.

@@acarroll Agreed. It was a retroactive injury of the relationship.

@@acarroll there is something to be learned regardless I'm sure. What hurt you so bad?? We all fail and say out of season or even stupid things. God forgives, we move on. What's the prickly part? You don't have to reply, just consider it and sail on. Peace.

@@JesusLovesBest I've moved on...ages ago. The point of my comment was simply to provide a real-life example of the question that Mike addressed in the video.

"Wives, do not ask your pastor if you have a spiritual question, but ask your husbands at home." Of course husbands have spiritual authority over their wives, what would that even mean? God tells wives to "submit to their husbands in everything as unto the Lord," not anything spiritual!! If your wife wants to baptize your children, she should disobey your desires and baptize them anyway because she is not under his spiritual authority? Reality is we're just uncomfortable with God has revealed about marriage, so we invent arbitrary or just unbiblical categories.

Joanne, if you search “Matthew 27” here: biblethinker.org/biblethinker-qa-topical-index/, Pastor Mike addresses that passage in a couple of clips from past Q&As.