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- Well it's time to answer some

of the email that you all have sent in.

And Pat this first one comes from Starla,

who says "After feelingneglected in my marriage,

I started to fantasize about other men.

My husband has had multiplesexual affairs with other women.

He says I committed adultery as well

when I fantasized and it's thesame thing as a real affair.

Is this true?

Is fantasizing the same as the actual act

of being physical with another person?

I have never had an actual physical affair

or even talked toanother man in that way."

- Well, first what I wouldcounsel you is to see

if you could spice upthe marriage you've got

with your husband, something's wrong.

And if you have to fantasize

and you're missing arelationship with your husband

it is something you shouldn't be having.

But the answer is yes.

Jesus said if you evenimagine having adultery

with somebody elseyou've committed the act.

So if you're fantasizing having sex

with some other person than your husband

then that is spiritual adultery.

That's the way it is, at leastthat's what the Bible says.

So you asked me what the Bible says

and that's what it says, all right.

- This is Sue who says"If President Trump is not

re-elected and a far-leftDemocrat is president,

are they given restrictionson their socialist

ideas they want to implement?

Can they do what they want

or does it have to go through Congress?

I was reading that a socialist government

can takeaway our IRAs if theydeem it for the greater good,

is that really true?

Could that happen?"

- I think you're readingsome of these fantasy things

that are way out.

You have to pass somethinglike that through Congress.

You not only have a president,

you have a Congress andthen you have a court

that can review some ofthe things that are done.

So if I were you I wouldn'tspend a lot of time

worrying about stuff like that,

it's not the way it's gonna be.

But if a group gains power,

if they can take the White House

and they can take the Congress,

then they can pass almostanything they want to,

but you've got to haveeverything working together,

and if you don't then it'snot gonna happen, all right.

- Okay, this is Carroll whosays "Hello Pat, is it okay

to watch real-life TV murder mysteries?

The Apostle Paul tellsus in Philippians 4:8

our thoughts are to be onwhat is pure and lovely.

These shows are all aboutwhat is evil in this world.

What are your thoughts?

Should I stop watching these shows

based on what Paul teaches?"

- Well up to you.

If you feel somethingis sin, then it is sin

so don't do it but the Bible says

let the words of my mouth andthe meditation of my heart

be acceptable to you oh God, my redeemer.

And we do live in a world of evil

and especially if you'rein the film business

or you're in the book writing business,

you have to recognize thekind of plot structures

that you're dealing with.

So, but if you feel it'ssin then don't do it.

It's just that simple.

- Nicole says, "I was recentlyinvolved in a car accident

and expected a settlement.

Are you supposed to tithe settlement money

and if so does the tithecome out of the full amount

or after my attorney anddoctor take their fees?"

- Well again, you give outof the joy of your heart

and out of the love ofyour heart to the Lord

and in that case you askthe question, I think

you get a settlementsupposed to make you whole

but I don't know whether it's true or not

but whatever you getyou don't have to tithe

what goes to your attorneyand what goes to your doctors

so I think it'd be what comes to you

and if you feel in yourheart that you wanna share

some of that with the Lord's work,

well, I think by all means do so.

- Okay, Ed says, "Would you please explain

what Revelation 3:15 and 16 means."

This is quoting it.

"I know your works, that areyou are neither hot nor cold.

I could wish you were cold or hot.

So then because you arelukewarm and neither cold

nor hot I will vomit you out of my mouth."

- Well, he's talking aboutthe Church of Laodicea

and the idea was if youwanna throw up (laughs)

you drink lukewarm water,

and to stick your fingerthere down your throat

it makes you wanna vomit.

So hot, you won't doit 'cause you can't get

it in your throat and cold isnot gonna make you get sick

so, what the Lord is saying, look,

you can't have it both ways.

I mean, either be really into it

and be fervently committed to the Lord

and that's hot or stay away from it

but don't be playing games

and there's nothing worsethan lukewarm Christians.

They really turn people off.

And the young people today, for example,

they want hot faith, theydon't want milk toast,

they don't want something in between

and so what the bookof Revelation is saying

get with it, if you're notgonna be on fire for God,

then don't play games with Christianity.

And so much that we seetoday is playing games

and don't do it, all right.

- This is Patricia who says, "Hi Pat.

What should Christians doabout the death sentence.

Does the Bible say anythingabout capital crimes?"

- Oh, it says a whole lot about them

and they used to kill people.

I mean, they've stone people to death

for breaking the Sabbathfor heaven's sakes.

I mean, in the Old Testament,there's an awful lot of that

and very little incarceration.

But they didn't have alot of penitentiaries,

they didn't have a lot of prisons.

They either whippedsomebody and let him go

or else they killed himand so the death penalty

was very, very prevalentin the Old Testament.

And so the idea thatthis is a barbaric thing.

For example, if you have Charles Manson,

why would we have to feed,clothe and house a serial killer

and keep him incarcerated at the rate

of 50 to $100,000 a month, I mean, a year.

Why would you have to do that?

And so I see nothing wrongwith the death penalty.

It's certainly in the Bible

and the thought that it's somekind of cruel and barbaric,

it's a whole lot to myopinion, cruel and barbaric

to put somebody in solitary confinement

for year after year,after year, all right.

- This is Mercedes whosays "I'd like to know

if there is a purgatory.

When I was young I was Catholic

and had heard about purgatory,that you go there first

when you die.

The churches I have attended

since I left the Catholic Church

don't ever mention purgatory."

- Well, the reason is that the Bible

doesn't mention purgatory,there is no purgatory.

Whether to die and be with the Lord,

which is far better.

The Apostle Paul said I'min the strait between two.

I'm either gonna die orI'm gonna be with the Lord.

But I can't there's nopurgatory, no in between thing

where we are somehowperfected a little bit

before we get to heaven.

The Bible doesn't teach that.

Jesus said to the thief on the cross.

He said, well rememberme when you come into

your kingdom, he said this day

you'll be with me in paradise.

Not you will go to purgatoryand then get to be.

It's not in the Bible,

that's why you don't read about it, okay.