Welcome back to the hashtag Esteraask podcast. And I say welcome back, but maybe this is your first time. And if it is, go listen to our whole

the ones. I will say, I mean, every once in a while we repeat something. Usually I wait a

couple years before we do, unless it's something we get asked a lot. But there are a lot of basic

questions we've already answered, and they're all on our website at STR.org. So I recommend you go back and you listen. And I know on our podcast app and anywhere you would get a podcast, you'll only see a year. But we go all the way back. Now, when did you start with Melinda? It was probably 2016 or so that you started this show. Right. Right. Yeah. So we've got almost 10 years of this show and so many questions online.

And I think aren't the questions keyed to our search feature?

So if they search on an issue, they'll get maybe pieces that we've written or segments of shows where we discuss that. Is that how that works?

I don't go to our website that often. You can. Search for things. You can search for particular

questions and find them on our website, yes. Or you can just go through and just start looking all the

little summaries and go back in time and see what we've had to say.

Smorgasbord. All right. We've had to say. Smorgant forward.

All right. We're going to start with a question from Chris.

1 Corinthians 12.3 states, no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit.

How do we understand some TV evangelists slash preachers who seem to preach another gospel

and act overtly on Christ-like and yet claim Jesus

is Lord. Is there statement evidence the Holy Spirit dwells in them? Is this a black and white

tool for discernment? Yeah, I just read this passage before we started portions of it. I want to

start from the top. This is Chapter 12 of 1st Corinthians, which is a passage

that focuses on the spirit, in particular, the way the spirit gives gifts so that the body can

function well. And just as an aside, God does not distribute ministry through calling. That is not a

biblical motif.

He distributes it through gifting, and 1st Corinthians 12 is one example of that.

He had just been finished talking about the Lord's Supper. Now, it changes here topics in chapter 12, verse 1.

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