WHERE IN THE BIBLE, DOES IT SAY THAT IF YOU USE PROFANITY, YOU WILL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN? WHAT DO I DO WHEN MY SPOUSE HAS GIVEN UP?
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- All right, it's time for email.
Are you ready?- All right, let's go for it.
Yeah.
- Okay, Pat, this firstone comes from Tamara,
who says: Pat, my husbandhas left our marriage
several times, and thenmoves in with other women.
He has stolen from meand physically abused me,
and I keep trying tolove him through this.
What should I do?
- Tamara, I know this sounds harsh,
but you should cut him loose.
The guy has really,he's broken every rule.
You're under no obligation whatsoever
to continue in that marriage.
He has committed adulteryon a number of occasions,
a serial adulterer.
You just don't need that.
He's bringing nothingbut grief to your heart.
Cut the tie.
You don't have to be involvedin that relationship.
You don't have to feel like,well, I'm bound to the Bible.
You are free according to the Word of God.
Get out of it and let him go, all right.
- This is Thomas, who says:
Pat, where in the Bible does it say
that if you use profanity,
you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven?
- It doesn't say thateverywhere that I'm aware of.
There's sort of, you know, profanity...
Thou shall not take thename of Yahweh, your God,
not the Lord, Yahweh, youshall not take the name
of Yahweh as a vanity, which means
you shall not identify Himwith some heathen idol.
That's what the command is
and that's one of the Ten Commandments.
But there's nothing in there that says,
you know, all manner of sin and blasphemy
will be forgiven the sons of men
except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Well what is that?
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
is refusing the wooing ofthe Spirit to get to Jesus.
So other than that, there'snothing in there that says
if you curse that you're gonna go to hell.
All right.
- But you should, don't you think,
that if you've come to the Lord
and the Holy Spirit's done a work in you,
the profanity should go out?
- Everything cleans up.
My speech
- Amen.- was cleaned like that.
If anybody is born of the Spirit of God,
they cannot keep on sinning.
You just can't do it.
And if you really have beenborn again, you will not,
but the profanity, when you come to Jesus,
that should just be erased immediately
along with the taste of alcohol
and some of that other stuff.
Count on it.
It will happen.
All right.- This is John, who says:
My wife and I haven'teven been married a year
and I've caught her using a dating app.
I have left the house three times already.
Recently, she told me she can't forgive me
for how I would leave andnow wants to get a divorce.
I know marriage is a covenant,
but what do I do whenmy spouse has given up?
- That's a weird...
- That is a very weird
situation.- What I don't know
is what you did along the way.
But she's...
You know, those datingapps and stuff like that,
that is a form of adultery.
She is fantasizingrelationship with another man
and she needs counseling.
I mean, maybe you wantto preserve your marriage
and she needs help.
But if I were you, I would findout what the root cause is.
What did you do thatgot her going this way?
I think you're notbeing absolutely honest.
So ask the Lord.
I mean, were you unfaithful?
Did you have a girlfriend?
Have you been doing something on the sly
and haven't told her about it?
Honesty is so important.
Honesty, you know.
They made a show of themopenly triumphing in his cross.
Open up.
Talk to each other.
All right.- This is Linda, who says:
If God already has chosen His own
before the foundations of the earth,
do the rest of us simply go to hell?
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Is there hope for those who aren't called?
I need an answer.
(Pat chuckles)
- Look.
How do you know if you're called?
Well the call is: Do you receive it?
For your own life, areyou sensitive to the Lord?
Do you want to know Jesus?
Do you want to be born again?
Do you want to be partof the Kingdom of Heaven?
If that's the case,
then you can say you are one of the chosen
because you have heard the voice of God.
All that other, I mean, hasno meaning to anybody else.
These are theoretical statements,
but if you yourself have received that
and there's something in your heart
that says, "I want to believe in the Lord,
"I want to receive Jesus," well then,
you are one of the chosen, okay.
- This is Alan, Pat, who says:
You said on the show thatevil happens in the world
because God gave man free will.
I understand, but howdoes that explain things
that happen outside of man's will,
for example, earthquakes,tornadoes, and diseases?
- Well, that's part of thenatural process that we live in.
A tornado happens becauseof a buildup of heat
and it has to release theheat through all that wind.
The other thing there, earthquakes,
the crust of the earth is breaking apart
from place to place andyou have fissures in it.
They call these things acts of God.
They're not acts of God.
They're part of thenatural world we live in.
I don't quite understandwhat that question is
because some of the problem we have
is caused by the sin of mankind,
the butchery of the peoplein China under Mao Tse-tung,
the butchery of the Ukrainiansunder Joseph Stalin.
I mean, those things involved the death
of millions of peoplebecause of human beings.
So keep that separatefrom the natural disasters
and don't call them, quote, acts of God.
All right.