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It's time for the line of fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown, your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

Call 86634 Truth to get on the line of fire.

And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey, friends, welcome to the Line of Fire broadcast.

You notice I didn't say the phone lines are open

because I'm not taking calls today,

but I've got a bunch of excellent questions that I'm going to answer.

I think you'll find this edifying, helpful.

Friends, my goal is to help equip you to be strong.

It's not just to answer abstract questions so we can have more information.

And for the most part, that's not why you're asking.

You're asking because your students of the word, because, that's not why you're asking. You're asking because you're

students of the Word, because you're living out your lives before the Lord, because real questions

come up in life, in ministry, in study, and you want answers to those. So we want to do our

best to provide you with answers. Now, some are questions for me.

What's my perspective on a particular issue? What have I taught in a particular issue? And I'll do my

best to explain that. In other cases, the questions are more like, Dr. Brown, I've heard this,

I've heard this. What does the word say? And of course, we do our best to lay that out plainly and clearly

for you. You can always write to us at ask doctor brown.org. You can write with further questions.

We do our best to answer as well. Okay. Here's a question from Clyde. I'm not sure, Doc,

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