Welcome to Bible Believers Fellowship and the ministry of bbfohio.com as we begin our study of Luke chapter 6 verse 38 titled Give and it shall be given unto you. If you have any questions comments or prayer requests Send those by email to bbfohio at protonmail.com or mail your letter along with any check or money order contributions to support this ministry to Bible Believers Fellowship PO Box 662 Worthington, Ohio 43085. Donations can also be made at bbfohio.com using the PayPal donation button. We now begin our study of Luke chapter 6 verse 38 titled give and it shall be given unto you This is part one of two Before we get into study. We'll start with our current events update Corona balona The virus is real The statistics are not. I want to say this. We're still looking at all the evidence. I sent out a video link to a few of you that I thought of and had your text and everything. But the man who discovered the HIV virus has studied this coronavirus and he says it's manipulated and basically man-made. that they took the virus and they added strands of HIV DNA and malaria, something like that. I don't know all the science behind that, but we're watching it, we're reading it, we'll continue to report on it. So the reason I'm referring to this as Corona bolona is not that the virus isn't real, but that the statistics are not. This is one of the reports that came out just yesterday. As US coronavirus death toll mounts, so does the belief by some that it is exaggerated. Well, there are some who just believe whatever they're told to believe, and there are others who check what they're told against the science, against the facts. And so I wonder what would cause that. What would cause people to think that the statistics are exaggerated? Well, maybe it's something like this. There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, And let's say the virus calls you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem. Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now, we're still recording it. And we all, I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to market as COVID-19 infection The intent is right now that if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that. Get that? It's not that you died because of COVID-19. I mean, it's as dumb as saying, let's say I had a toothache, and then I go out and step in front of the COTA bus and get run over. They report my death as death with toothache. That's the implication there. Someone that has a heart attack and they had COVID-19, they're listing their death as death with COVID-19. They didn't die from it. They died and a lot of people are asymptomatic when they have COVID. So in a lot of these cases, these people weren't even showing symptoms of COVID, but because they died with it, that's what's going on in the statistics. Now last week, she said this, that she believed coronavirus death toll was inflated by up to 25%. I think it's worse than that. But this is a quote from her. She told the CDC director Robert Redfield this, quote, there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust. Everything going on right now, everything your governor has basically, Governor DeWine has given most of the authority to an unelected liberal named Acton, Dr. Acton, as the health director. Now think of that. The Republican Party wonders why people love Donald Trump and despise them. We voted for a pro-life governor. What did Rino DeWine do? A pro-abortion liberal as the health director calling the shots. It's disgusting. You know any Republicans in Columbus in the party? Tell them, they're disgusting. We elect people who say one thing and do another. That's why Trump won, because he said the same thing. He talked about the Bushes and the Republican Party being as bad as the Democrats. That's why he won, because people are sick of it. And the numbers are already being revised downward. In the state of Colorado, as an example, just yesterday they announced they amend their death count for coronavirus, says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously reported. Here's the quote from the article. The change came after Colorado's Department of Public Health admitted that its COVID-19 death toll was counting those who tested positive for the coronavirus but had died of other causes, just like Burks had just said. That was reported by Fox 31 in Denver. Quote, the department now says 1,150 Coloradans who died had COVID-19 but only 878 of those deaths were due to COVID-19. That looks closer to more of a third than 25%. I just read in Ohio, the number of deaths in Ohio is currently at 1,500. 644 were in long-term nursing homes. That's another thing. You take these statistics that are already cutting them down and then take the ones, the 878, probably half of those were terminal or near death to begin with. It's just amazing and they shut your economy down. Why? Trump, I always tell him, I'll criticize him when he needs it. He's a sucker. And he keeps buying this garbage that people are feeding him. And now he's coming out and saying, we're done. Thank God. I believe it's prayer. People are kind of been praying, Lord, open Trump's eyes to the reality. And now he's starting to refute Fauci and distance himself from these guys and say, we need to just open stuff up. He says, with or without a vaccine. And the next thing we want to pray for him is that he'll stop pushing the vaccine. And because I'm here to tell you they push a mandatory vaccine, your pastor will not take it. I'll go to prison if I have to. I will not be vaccinated with this Bill Gates trumped up vaccine. So they can make billions. And that's something y'all I'm telling you, everybody hears my voice right now. You better start praying about what you're going to do because they're pushing for a mandatory vaccine where you have to have an ID showing you've been vaccinated or they won't even let you go to the grocery store or work. And what needs to happen is everybody who's a real American should stand up against it. They can't put us all in prison. Some of us may have to go, but they can't lock us all up. And I won't go any further with that, but that's the reason we have the Second Amendment. This shutdown was based on a fraud. People over 60, people with diabetes, people with heart disease, people with underlying conditions should have been told you probably ought to stay home, and that's the end of it. There shouldn't have been a mandatory anything, and everyone not in those categories should have been at work and at school this whole time. the heralded model which predicted 2.2 million deaths in the US and justified the UK lockdown, totally unreliable, said the experts. This was just yesterday. The heralded model United Kingdom experts have largely used to guide their coronavirus policies is, quote, totally unreliable, according to experts. Quote, experts have derided the coding from Professor Neil Ferguson, warning that it is a, quote, buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming, end quote. That describes most of what programmers are doing across the board in the world today, by the way. I mean, developers. That's why you're constantly having glitches on your computers and everything. But whenever you're talking about shutting down the economy and you trust that incompetence, that's what you're dealing with. The virus is real. It's the response of the government, which is criminal. A lot of them, especially the liberals and Democrats and RINOs, they're doing it to hurt Donald Trump because he has not been going along with the New World Order. They want to get one of their people back in there. Just like Obama, just like Bush, just like Clinton, just like Bush. When people say there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two major parties, that's not really accurate. There is a slight difference. But most of the Republicans, there's no difference. Proverbs 23.23 says, ''Buy the truth and sell it not, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.'' Think of it like this. I've said this before, it's buy the truth. Yeah. How many times somebody tell you something and say, ''I'm not buying that.'' That's what it means. Buy it, buy into it. The phrase we use, buy in to the truth and sell it not. Lack of wisdom is what's killing this country. But folks, we don't have anything to worry about, but we do need to do what's right. You need to take a stand, you need to tell your friends and relatives even if they mock you and make fun of you. Tell them the truth. We love them enough to tell them the truth. Now if they're lost, the main thing is they need to hear the gospel and be saved. But regardless, once you've done your part to preach the gospel and they know the truth of that, then you need to tell them the truth about what's going on in the world around you. And for the sake of, we're gonna see in our next study of Hosea, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, By the way, anybody who chooses to get a vaccine, that's your business. I'm not out here telling you not to do, what to do. I'm just going to give you the truth about it. And right now, the information I have is that there's not even going to be in a legitimate vaccine for this. If you do your research, you're going to find out what is happening with most of the vaccine program is to sterilize you. Sterilizing all the women in Africa, for example. But if you want to get shot up with that, that's your business. People ignore me about the flu every year and get that flu vaccine. I'm like, that's up to you. Don't jab me. Don't get that thing near me. I might have to jab you with it. Luke 638 is where we're gonna be in our Bible study. Give and it shall be given unto you. And a reminder, the context is Jesus has brought balance to the subject of judging, condemning, and forgiving. You judge righteous judgment, you judge biblically, you judge based on the facts, you condemn what God condemns, amen? And you forgive if they repent. Unconditional forgiveness is satanic. It hurts the person that you're actually forgiving. They need to repent. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. A lot of Christians get in his way, forgiving people without repentance. And now, he speaks on giving. Don't get up and leave, you're too late, you're here. Gotta stay. We have a visitor here this morning, and we go verse by verse through the Bible, and I don't preach about giving very often because God only mentions it every so often, but when he does, we deal with it, amen? And I assume everybody came here with a complete, submissive heart, ready to receive the word of God and do what he says, amen? All right, so verse 38, if you're there, Luke 6, read it with me. Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you meet, with all it shall be measured to you again. God's people say amen. So we're touching on the idol of modern Laodicean Christianity today. On the one hand, you have a whole segment of Christianity where it's all about money and prosperity. That's all they ever talk about. You turn on these TV preachers and it's almost always about money, money, money, money, money. Then you've got the other extreme where You have some Christians who act like they're so, I love the Lord, I love the word, but they do not like what the Bible says about giving. They don't obey what it says about giving. They don't care, they don't even want to hear it. There's the two extremes. We've had people who have heard me, when the Bible talks about it, bring up the issue, I talk about it, and they say, I thought you were different, I'm not going to listen to you anymore. I said, well, if you thought I was gonna ignore the Bible in places you don't like it, you didn't think right about me to begin with. I'm not gonna ignore anything the Bible says. Anything. Revelation 3.17 describes the lay of the sins. Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. First, we'll come back to that in a second. Every once in a while, somebody will send me a link, and sometimes they'll say, oh, you ought to watch this, this is good. And I'll turn it on, and it ain't got a thing to do with God's word. These preachers go on and on about, it has nothing to do with God's word. Then there's other times where they'll send me this, thankfully, and they'll say, this is absolutely crazy. This is what my so-and-so sent me to watch, and they want me to see it. share the misery, and I'll turn that on. Man, there's this guy, Michael Todd. How many of you know Michael Todd? He's a bestseller. He's effeminate, and all he ever wants to talk about is relationships and sex. and he's up there and he's, oh, I got a word, and all this is something God told me to tell you, and all this stuff. I mean, one quotes the Bible, but he don't teach the Bible. I'm not saying one way, the other man's married and hopefully he's square with his wife. But I've seen some of these guys in the past who are experts on relationships, and sex, and all that kind of thing. and it's amazing how many of them go queer. Remember Josh Harris, talk about him, the I kiss dating goodbye. People gave me that book back when he was pushing it and I said, this is not biblical. What he's teaching isn't biblical. Well, he's left his wife and the last place he showed up publicly was at a gay pride parade. All these experts, listen, it's the word of God, not men. Then you got this guy, what's his name, was a president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Man, I'm going to forget his name now. They caught him with a male escort. What was he doing? He was all about relationships and getting along, and he didn't want to make anybody mad. Listen, if you're a man, it's really natural for a woman to be very nurturing. I got that motherly instinct thing going on. Ted Haggard, that's him. Remember Ted Haggard? Expert on relationships and everything. Then he's caught with a male escort. That's why, not because I have anything to hide, but I'm not up here claiming to be a relationship expert. because the Bible is the relationship expert. That's what bothers me about so-called prophecy teachers. They all end up out in the ozone, out in the weirdo land. Why? Because God never called anybody to be a prophecy teacher. He said preach the word, cover to cover, every word, amen? And that's what's led to these attitudes among Christians, because instead of being in the word, they're into men and women, Beth Moore and Joyce Myers and these people. They always listen to these people. Those people aren't Bible teachers. They might be one thing or another, but they're not Bible teachers. They use the Bible to teach. They don't teach the Bible. And 1 Timothy 6, 9 says, but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare. America is the most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. And America's churches are the most prosperous churches, not the little Bible-believing churches, but all the mega churches. They will fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. That's the context of for the love of money is the root of all evil. Your new Bible versions pervert that to say the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Why? Because they are evil. They are about making money. New Bible versions are not to make God's word more understandable to you. They are about making money. That's why they copyright them and will sue you if you copy them. If you use too many verses out of a Bible version, you can be sued by the copyright owner, and that's why they make changes. There's a hundred different versions, the New American Standard, the NIV, the English Standard Version, the New King James, the Holman Christian Standard, now that's Christian Standard Bible, the Living Bible, the Message, I could go on and on and on and on, and they all make changes, not because it's a better translation, not because they're improving God's word, they're making those changes because they have to in order to get a copyright. So first, before we get into anything else, let's just see what Jesus said to his immediate audience here. In verse 38, it begins with these words. Give, and it shall be given unto you. Now, do you believe Jesus? Now, think about what he just said. Do you believe that? Give, and it shall be given unto you. First of all, he says, he doesn't say, if you wanna give, he doesn't say, give if you like, if you want to, he just says give. That's supposed to be the attitude of the Christian, to give. to just be of a giving spirit. We're not just talking about money, by the way. You're just supposed to have a giving attitude. I had suits that I outgrew. Yeah, I got taller. I just had a late growth spurt. I went around looking though, I couldn't find anybody who could wear them, mainly because my arms and legs are so short. These were tailor suits. Somebody else had them tailored, and then a fellow named Marty, and I pray he got saved. He wasn't even saved. He called me in his office one day and said, he had actually gained a little weight and had a little growth spurt. He said, I got some suits, I bet you could wear them. So he got my measurements and didn't tell me, but he went and had them actually altered to fit me. We're talking a couple of thousand dollars worth of suits. So I was dressing really good. Well, let me start there by saying that I had been giving at that point and really cutting it close. I'm going to get back to this a second. I believe 10 percent is a minimum for the Christian. I barely was making it and yet I said, you know what? I'm going to give 10 percent. First thing I do, get my paycheck, 10 percent. Not law, we'll come back to why I believe that, but I did it. I'm thinking, I had two suits and one of them was tan and had a stain on it. I had another one's black. That's all I had and they were like cheap, cheap suits. jackets that I just got pants to wear that look decent with them. But I said, Lord, if this is how you want me to look when I preach, then that's how I'll do it. Then this happened, and I got thousands of dollars of suits. I was afraid that it might hurt me actually, because people think I have too much money. I wouldn't give any offerings to support my gas money and everything I needed. At that time, I was traveling, doing a lot of preaching at different churches. But that's an example of what I'm talking about. Some of you are hurting right now, it's because you think you know more than God. You're like, well, I'm going to do this and do this and this way and this way, and I'm not going to listen. I tell you, you want to get a good conversation with Fundamental Baptists and fundamentalists that we know, we agree on a lot of things, but boy, you want to get some guys hot under the collar, start talking about money and bring up tithing. I mean, their head spins and they start to vomit pea soup. Amen. It shows in their life if you're around them enough, It shows they're always having trouble with money and with life in general. You wonder why? Listen, folks, God will bless those who obey his word. He's a good father. He's not going to bless you when you think you're smarter than God. Now, here's what happens in your home. If you have children or you are a child, that's most of you, have been a child at one time. If you have a parent who says, do this and you'll get this, and you don't do that, and you still expect to get that? No. If John tells Johnny, I need my car washed. But if you do that, then I'm going to give you 10 bucks. You can get that book or whatever it is you wanted. Then 6 PM comes around 7 PM, and John comes walking in the door, and Johnny says, ''Can I have my 10 bucks?'' John says, ''I just walked past my car, it didn't look like it was washed.'' ''Well, yeah, but you said you'd give me 10 bucks. I said I'd give you 10 bucks if you wash my car. Get out there and wash my car, you get the 10 bucks, amen?'' Now, a good father, that's how he is, but Christians, why do so many Christians think God is a bad father? He's going to reward you for being a tightwad. He's not, because he's a good father just like you are if you have a child. He's a good mother. Bible actually refers to God in motherly terms, the father of the fatherless. Tracy, I know, That's the rule in your house. Why? You love those boys enough to do what's right. You tell Dre's got to do something before he goes someplace. If he don't do something, he don't go someplace, right? Well, that's how God the Father is. Simple enough, amen? If you want to receive, you have to be a giver. He also talks about friendship. If you want to have friends, you must first show yourself friendly, amen? That's a principle in whatever it is, Doug. You don't be good, but something about being a hilarious. Well, two things is hilarious isn't the right word. It's cheerful. The hilarious thing is changed. I'm just telling you, it's not the right word. Second of all, we're going to come back in a minute. I'm going to ask you why it doesn't work. Yeah, it's just the wrong word. It's changing the King James Bible and preachers have done that from the pulpit for years that gets stuck in our head. We're not a giver. That's the word hilarious. Let me ask you this, Doug. Why isn't cheerful good enough? That's what the King James says. Is that good enough? That's my point. Hilarious is changing the Bible. It's cheerful. See? And Doug, you and I went through it. We've all gone through it. I sat under preachers who would change the Bible like that all the time. Which is what cheerful means. So why do you have to change the Bible? Why change it to hilarious, which, but hilarious isn't the same word. That's just what I heard. That's what I'm saying is you and I have sat under preachers who changed the Bible. So what do we got to do? We say, wait a minute, isn't cheerful what it means? Hilarious means that's hilarious. No, it's not. God doesn't want you to be that kind of giver. He wants you to be a cheerful giver, which is what the Bible says. See? We get used to it. It takes some time to get used to it. Ginny will tell you every once in a while, I'll quote something from the NIV. And she'll say, is that what the Bible says? And I'll say, wait a minute, look it up. I'm like, because I was raised in Christ, not by my parents. In Christ, in the local churches, as a babe in Christ, I was raised up by guys who would change the Bible all the time and quote those new versions. And it gets stuck in your head.