Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-11-10

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So cherish the old again, God, Till my true peace and past I may die. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom, a ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Florida, declaring God’s love through radio and television, providing real answers to an ever-searching world. To reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep Bibleline on the air in your community, dial toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here’s a rebroadcast of Dr. Hank Lindstrom, host of Bibleline. Hi, this is Tom Perry for Bibleline Ministries.

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That’s 1-800-576-3771. Once again, we would like to thank you, the listener, for your prayers and support for Bibleline Ministries. God bless you. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. We look forward to being with you every day, Monday through Friday as we come to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios right here at the Calvert Community Church where I’m the pastor. We’d love to have you come by our resource centers open every day till about 430 people coming by every day and we’d love to have you join them.

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So check that out and I hope you’ll enjoy that. Several of us about our Israel trip, well the brochure is being printed right now and shortly maybe another day we’ll have it up on a website too so you can take a look at it on our website but that’ll be maybe another day but we’ll keep you informed about leaving next February 23rd for Israel. And if the Lord hasn’t come and snatched us out, it would be a wonderful experience for you.

That’s for sure. Our Resource Center has lots of goodies and you might want to check out what we have. We have some In expensive booklets that are available in our website, we have the Facts on the Messianic Lodge, which is an incredible book that will help you understand the masons. We have one called the Facts on Islam, showing the contradictions in the Quran and the cracks in the armor of the Muslim so you can not lead them to Jesus Christ.

We have a book called Knowing God’s Will Made Easier, $7. All of these are seven dollars, by the way. Bible teachings made easy, seven dollars. The Bible study made easy, seven dollars. Bible prophecy made easy, seven dollars. And the Bible promise book, which has a thousand promises the King James translation, all available. You might want to get some of these as a gift or as a study aid tool. But we also have the heavy duty stuff. We have the Jameson Foset Brown commentary, The one I like so much, the one I use on a regular basis, that gives you something on every verse of the Bible.

This set retails, I don’t know, for about 150 we have it for a gift of 100 to Bible, and you can call and order that. We also have the J. Verda McGee five volume set, which retails for 200, we have it for a gift of 100 to Bible, and that’s available, just call in and get it. We also have the Lewis-Spery Shafer Systematic Theology. That retails for about 180. We also have that for a gift of 100 to Bible.

And that’s for the more serious student. And you might want to add these books to your library. Plus we have the CDs and DVDs of my teachings. And we have about 40 different ones on different books of the Bible. For example, first Peter, second Peter, the Gospel of John, the book of Hebrews, the book of Romans, the book of Jude, the book of Revelation, the book of Daniel, and so many. And we also have, of course, on topics like the Rapture, in-time prophecies, parables, Huddly and Souls of Christ, the spirit world, and so on and so on.

Lots of good stuff to be able to use to facilitate a study school class or a Bible study, a a home study or just play in your car to and fro from work and you’ll find that it’ll be a great way to learn the Bible and we have those all sitting here in our site. We’re coming up on August beginning tomorrow and we would love to invite you to come see us sometime. The third Sunday if you’re in driving distance is a wonderful Sunday to come because we have be dinner, I covered this dinner right after the worship service in the morning.

Come at 1030, bring your Bible, your appetite and your family, be my guest, stay for the lunch that will follow and make it a day. And also we’re going to be baptizing on that day, August 17th at 3 in the afternoon at a late nearby Bible and headquarters. And so if you’ve not been water baptized, we would be happy to include you if you’d like to call us and get the information and get directions and make it a day.

Come for the morning service, stay for the lunch, then hang out with us for a little bit and we’ll go up to the lake and do the baptism at three and then maybe you can head on home. But sure it would be great to have you on the third Sunday in August. If you have your Bible get it out we’ll be talking about the Bible. Then we’ll be of course taking our callers if you want to call in. The number is 1-800 5763771 write that down 1 800 576 3 7 1 Jesus said in Matthew 12 40 as Jonah was three days and three nights in the fishes belly Social the Son of man be three days and three nights in The heart of the earth.

I believe that is literal that Jesus Christ when he died went into the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. And then he obviously rose from the dead. He came back and entered that body that was in the tomb and showed himself alive for the next forty days. What a great verse. verse. And you know it seems interesting here that Jesus would take the one story in the Bible. This seems to be the most difficult to believe by people.

And links his own credibility to the story of the Prophet Jonah. Notice he calls him a prophet and obviously he’s one of the books in the Old Testament, one of the minor prophets, and he’s called a prophet by Jesus. And we find here that Jesus says, as Jonah was, three days and three nights in the fishes belly, social the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Well, obviously Jonah was a perfect type of Christ and was a picture in the Old Testament of the death and the burial and the resurrection of Christ.

When you go back to Jonah in chapter 1 verse 17, it says, Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Three days and three nights is not by accident. It was all a part of God presenting the gospel long before Christ ever came, and Jonah being a picture of Christ. You know, Jonah was on a boat running away from the Lord, and it was not until Jonah was cast overboard that the men on that ship were saved.

And Jonah died! Jonah died! That’s right, most people have concluded that he maybe was swallowed by a whale, The Bible nowhere says the Jonah was swallowed by a whale and they do that because they can’t imagine him dying. They put him in an air-breathing fish that would maybe come to the surface often and Jonah is sitting in the fishes belly, sitting in a table and putting his thumbs as a candle burns on the table there while Jonah is alive for three days and three nights.

That’s not what happened at all. Jonah died and as a result became a Savior to the men on the ship that were at storm and then Jesus as Jonah was raised from the dead. So Jesus was also raised from the dead. I want you to notice something here with me in Jonah chapter 2 and verse 1. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fishes belly. There’s two different words here in the Hebrew used for belly.

In verse 1 it talks about the fishes belly, this word means abdomen. And so here Jonah was actually in the fishes abdomen, but then we find he drowns, he dies. And in verse 2 he says, I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord and he heard me out of the belly, here’s that word again, this is a different Hebrew word and it means hollow place. of the belly or the hollow place of hell. Now the King James reads hell but the Hebrew word here is shield.

S-H-E-O-L. Shield is equivalent to the Greek word Hades and it speaks of the hollow place in the center of the earth. Jesus said he would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth according to Matthew 1240. So here we find out of the hollow place, the belly of Sheol, cry die and thou hurt us my voice. Now you can’t get the Sheol unless you die. That’s the place of the departed dead. And all of the saved and the lost went to Hades or Sheol prior to the death of Christ.

When Jesus died, he went down into Sheol where the The believers were in paradise and emptied the place out and took all these believers up to heaven. Now the believers no longer go to the heart of the earth, but they go directly to the Lord, absent from the body, present with the Lord. We know it tells us here down in verse 6 that Jonah says of Jonah chapter 2 verse 6, I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.

You know our Earth’s crust is about 8 to 12 miles thick and it is floating on top of the rock liquid magma that is underneath the crust of the Earth. And the bottoms of the mountains go all the way down to the bottom of that crust. So the bottoms of the mountains might be 8 to 12 miles deep into the crust of the Earth. Well obviously Jonah says he went down below the crest of the earth to the bottoms of the mountains.

And obviously he went to the hollow place in the heart of the earth just as Jesus did according to verse 2 out of the belly. That Hebrew word means hollow place of shield. That’s where he goes and that’s in the very heart of the earth. And it says here that I went down to the bottoms of the mountains verse 6. The earth with her bars was about me forever. Jonah was completely surrounded by this molten liquid magma and then way way up.

The Bible is about 4000 miles up. You will find that that was where the crust of the earth was and where the bottoms of the mountains were. Jonah was in the heart of the earth. The earth has a radius of 4000 miles, a diameter of about 8000 miles. We find that Jonah was right there in the heart of it. But look at verse 6 of Jonah 2 where it says, it says, yet, yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption.

His body was beginning to corrupt, and God brought him back to life. Jonah went back from the heart of the earth into the fishes’ belly, and there his body was resurrected, and then the fish spit him out on the shore, and Jonah then continued his journey to Nineveh. Jesus died and was in the heart of the earth just like Jonah. And after three days, he went back from the heart of the earth into that body that was in the tomb and the body was resurrected and Jesus showed himself alive for 40 days.

Jonah showed the marks in his body of his death. Can you imagine that stomach acid trying to digest Jonah’s body. It must have eaten off all of the hair on his body. Can you imagine Jonah then would be totally bald, no eyebrows, no eyelashes, no hair on his arms, no hair on his legs. I mean, he was totally nude of hair. And then plus, can you imagine his skin must have been bleached and wrinkled looking, and he was a sign, the Bible says, to the people of Nineveh.

He was a sign. They looked at him and they realized he had been through some incredible experience, and obviously he had died, and in a sense was buried. His body was entombed in the fish’s belly, and after three days and three nights, Jonah comes back from the dead and preaches in Nineveh. Well, guess what? Jesus also bore the marks of his death. When Jesus came back, He came back in the same body that had the marks of his crucifixion, the wounds in his hands and his feet and the wound, of course, in his chest where the Roman soldier pierced his chest with a spear.

What an amazing book Jonah is. And Jesus, of course, ties the story of his death and his burial and his resurrection to the story of Jonah. You know when Paul tells us that the Old Testament Scriptures told us that Christ would die according to the Scriptures that he would be buried and he would rise again the third day he’s talking about the Old Testament. And here Jonah is a perfect picture of the death, the three days of being buried, the rising from the dead and then showing himself alive and having the marks of his death shown visibly in his body and he became a sign.

Jesus also came back from the dead, had the signs of his death, burial and resurrection. Incredible. The Bible’s an amazing book, and it all fits together. And what you believe about Jonah tells me what you believe about the rest of the Bible. If Jonah’s a myth, then the story of Christ is a myth, because Jesus said, as Jonah was, social to Son of Man Be. I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom. This is Bible and we have lots of collars on nine waiting to go.

So we’re going to take our collars right now. that phone numbers 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771, we’re going to Matthew in Spring Hill, Florida and Matthew, welcome to Bibleline you’re on there. Good morning and I’ve got a question. What is the difference between reincarnation and a resurrection and a youth ask me this? So what would you say? Well reincarnation means you come back in another life form, not in the same body. So you might come back as an elephant, you might come back as a horse, you might come back as a rat, and of course in India they really believe that because they won’t kill the rats because it might be Uncle Harry or Aunt Susie running around.

They don’t kill the cows because that might be Uncle George or Aunt Hilda. Obviously it’s a crazy religious system, but When we talk about a resurrection, you come back in a body that is your body and it will have qualities that will make you recognizable and it will be a body that will be of course perfect and live forever. And reincarnation is a repeated experience. There’s only one resurrection and there’s quite a difference between that and the doctrine of reincarnation.

The resurrection body that’s a one-to-one correspondence with our body absolutely Amen, all right. Thanks. Thank you. You’re very welcome. Thank you, Matthew for calling in we now have Doug in Lansing, Michigan And Doug, welcome to Bibleline. You’re on the air. Hi, this is Doug from Lansing. Dr. Lindstrom, I had a question for you about the early Christians in the, you know, right after Jesus died. They called themselves the followers of the way. And I was wondering what at what point did Christians stopped calling themselves the followers of the way and then just two Christians.

Well it says that Antioch, they began to call them Christians. Of course, the word Christ comes from the Greek word Christos and it’s completely equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah. They were those who believed on the Messiah, which of course is Jesus Christ, that He is the Messiah. The word Christ means Messiah. But also, as Jesus said, I am the way. Obviously, you’ll see that phrase numerous times in the book of Acts that they followed Christ who was the only way to heaven that no man could come into the Father except by him.

But that was about one that took place. It was about mid-ax there. There’s a verse that says, at first that Antiochity began to call the believers Christians. And that seemed to stick, that seemed to be a more popular term. Now, as the followers of the way, does that have anything to do with the egg two cymbal? What cymbal is that? The egg two cymbal of a fish. Not necessarily. I I think that was developed during the persecution of Christians that occurred in that first couple of centuries.

And during that time they had to kind of meet secretly and disguise who they were. And so I don’t think that occurred until probably many years later after the New Testament record was already completed. In other words, that persecution really continued all the way up to Constantine. There were ten Roman emperors that severely persecuted Christians and killed them and put them in the arenas in Rome and they became a spectacle and they would impale them and pour oil on them and light them on fire for the night games and so on.

It was a terrible, terrible time. The last Roman emperor was not a cliche who had ten terrible years of persecution upon Christians and then boom, Constantine comes along and he declares the world to be Christian and all of a sudden Christians were now in favor. There were several centuries there where they had to hide. I’ve been to the catacombs in Rome and it was usually in that context of Rome where the persecution was really heavy. where they meet underground in the tombs to have their services that they use that symbol of the fish to identify each other.

Yeah, I just read that somewhere, Dr. Lindstrom, where if there was two people walking down He was walking down a road in ancient times and then they would, one would draw an arc in the sand and then the other person would draw another arc and complete it and that’s how you knew that they were fellow believers. That’s right. That’s right. And that’s why I wondered what that really meant. Yeah, that’s exactly it. Christ was the way. And sometimes it says that way or the way, and clearly it’s talking about one way and that’s Christ.

Okay. Thank you, Doug. Okay, thanks so much. Doug, in Lansing, Michigan, the capital of Michigan. We have Jimmy in Chesterfield, Virginia, and Jimmy, welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Air. Yes, Dr. Hank, in fall, 1st, verse 6, we say about the everything placed. Well, what did that really mean? And also, does the Bible, is it for the faith and the unsafe? And I hang on and listen to your answer. Yeah, absolutely, the Bible’s for the saved and the unsaved, and everything gives praise to the Creator Himself.

Everything that God has created, the stars, the sun, the moon, and all of the animals and the hills, the mountains, Everything really just praise to God who created it. What beauty we see when we look out at the creation and Sometimes in our worlds today we live within a city and we don’t get to see it in joy All that God has. Thank you for that call Jimmy and Chesterfield Virginia We’re gonna hold the rest of our calls. We got a bunch of calls still waiting till the second half We are coming up on the end if you haven’t trusted Christ Would you just say, Lord, I am a sinner?

That’s just being honest. But what I hear makes sense. And I trust Jesus Christ right now as my only hope of heaven, as my Savior, as the one who died to pay for my sins and forgive me. And I trust Him right now to give me the gift of eternal life and become my Savior. The moment you trust Him, God saves you, the most important decision you’ll ever make in your life. This is the last day of July. We’re behind in July and we could use your help financially if you’d like to help Bibleline.

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And shortly we should have that brochure also available on the internet for you to look at. So you can go to Bibleline News and maybe by tomorrow We’ll have the brochure up and available, and by next week we should have the brochures in hand if you would like to go with us next February. That is, if we’re still here, the Lord is coming back and we may not have an opportunity again to go and see that special place where the biblical events really took place.

We certainly hope you’ll come by and see us sometime if you’re ever in Tampa for vacation or business. come by and say hi. We have people do that all the time. We had a family come by yesterday just before our prayer service and they were from the east coast of Florida near West Palm Beach and they just wanted to thank us for the Bible and program, encourage us to keep it going and to just know where physically that program originated from and we had a good time and I hope that you’ll come by sometime.

That would be wonderful. We’d love to get to meet you, shake your hand and we’ll give you the red carpet treatment and we hope that you’ll help us by telling your friends about the program and growing the ministry. If you have missionaries overseas, tell them about BibleLineMinistries.org and they can listen to the radio shows and watch the television shows and listen to the sermons on the Internet. It’s exciting. Again, we want to thank you and advance all of you that pray for and give the Bible and we could use your gifts today as we close out July a little behind.

We could use your help to catch up and I hope you’ll help us by calling in and giving a gift by credit card. We’re going to now do the second half of Bibleline. So keep your radio tuned right where it is and here we go. If you’d like to help Bibleline continue in your area, you can. Just pick up your phone and dial 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. All right, we’re back from that break and this is Bible and it’s so wonderful to be able to be with you and Thank you for tuning in to Bible and we sure do enjoy our audience.

We have such a wonderful Group of listeners. We had a couple husband wife and their two sons come by from the West Palm Beach area on the east coast of Florida and they were on vacation and wanted to just stop by and say hi and and encourages to keep this program going because of what it meant to them and how that they just want to see where the program originated from. And it was wonderful and we just love getting to meet you our listeners and we have so many that do come by and we’d love to have you come by.

You can’t, of course you can visit our Resource Center online, you can visit our worship services online, you can listen to our radio programs online, You can watch our television programs online. Just go to BibleLineMinistries.org BibleLineMinistries.org and you’ll find you can Get it all right wherever you might be. But if you ever come to town, if you ever come to Florida Please take that extra minute to come by and see us We’re right next to the Tampa airport just a block on the west side and we would love to have you visit us on the third Sunday of every month we have a dinner and that’s a lunch.

Right after the service a lot of great home cooked food and you’re welcome to join us on that day. It kind of makes it nice if you’re traveling a distance. Come for the 1030 service, bring your Bible, your appetite, your family and enjoy the worship service then stay for the lunch and then this third Sunday August 17th we’re having a baptism at 3 in the afternoon and a lake very close to the Bible and headquarters. And we would be delighted to include you and baptize you if you’ve not been baptized since you have been saved.

Well, this would be an opportunity. If you don’t have a church that would baptize you, some churches don’t put you under the water, we do. And we believe that’s scriptural. And I’d be happy to be the one to baptize you if you’d like. So give us a call and get directions and information and get on the list. And we’ll include you on August 17th at 3 in the afternoon on our baptism, and you can come and make it a day.

Come to the 1030 service, stay for the nice luncheon, get to sit back and enjoy the good food and fellowship, and then we’ll baptize you at 3 in the afternoon in a small lake. Beautiful setting, outdoors, and it’s so biblical, think to do these things outside of the church building. But we’d love to have you and you’re always welcome and I hope you’ll take us up on it. Our brochures for the Israel trip next year are being printed right now and we should have the brochure up on our website maybe by tomorrow.

I hope you’ll keep looking under Bible and news and you’ll be able to see the full itinerary of the trip. If the Lord hasn’t taken us out, we’ll be planning to go. It’ll be trip number 16 for me. We now have Annie in Miami who has been waiting patiently. Annie, welcome to my line. You’re on the air. Mr. Roma. Okay, Roma, okay. I listened to you, I can enjoy listening to you. I have a person who I’m very disturbed I have my fiance, he’s Jewish.

He told me that we will never see God, we don’t need to see God, and when we die we can’t eat again and whatever if we don’t do what we accomplish on earth, we come back again as somebody and it just goes on and on. I’m confused. Obviously he’s not believing his Old Testament. If you read, for example, Job, chapter 19, Job said that he knew that his redeemer lived, that he had a living Savior. He’s talking about Jesus and how that even though he would die, .

. . . . . And the body that he was in would be destroyed. He would get a brand new body and actually see Jesus, see the Lord in a new body with his new eyes that he would receive. That’s Job 19.25. You have David in the 23rd Psalm, said surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The Bible nowhere. Older New Testament teaches reincarnation.

And certainly you need to get him under the sound of God’s word. He is not paying attention. And if he’s Jewish, he ought to be reading his Old Testament. But you might point out those two passages. I hope you write them down. That’s Job 1925. And have him read the 23rd Psalm and say, look, the Bible doesn’t teach anything like what you’re saying at all. and you need to get him saved. No doubt about it. He needs to know the Lord, which is the Messiah of Israel.

He’s already been here and died on the cross to pay for our sins. Thank you, Roma, and we appreciate that call. We’re now going to go to Timothy in St. Petersburg, Timothy. Welcome to Bibleline. Thank you. You’re on the air. Timothy? Yes. Go. Okay, yes. First of all, I’ve got to tell you that. When my mother was back at cancer, I was going to a from the Moffat Cancer Center and I had your program on and she was saved.

I helped her to lead her to the Lord because I was one big thing. Wonderful. And then that… that helped me out big time and then also Mary to her lady 12 years she’s a master’s a master’s degree she’s sharp she’s smart she knows the Bible that she says to me but she doesn’t she’s afraid of grace she can’t she doesn’t understand how to be saved and I talked to her and I’d be up real easy or sometimes and we get an argument over 12 years going on.

I’m telling bring her to the Lord, but she don’t want to listen to me in regards to being saved by me. Let me encourage you to get the CD I have called How Permanent is Your Solvation. We’ve had thousands get saved by listening to the CD. It seems like God is really blessed. And it could be like a third person. If you could get here to sit down with you and listen to the CD. We have such a wonderful track record.

People tell us all the time when they get somebody to sit and listen to it, many times they get saved. And so I’ll be happy to send you one free. If you’ll just call back and tell our operators that you want to get that out, how permanent is your Salvation CD. I think that might be just what it would take. It will be a clear presentation that God has really blessed over the years. We’ve had so many use this as an evangelistic like a track.

They get somebody to hear it and they come back and get saved. One man in our church gave it to a friend who’s a truck driver and he had put it in his CD tray in his truck. He was coming back from California. He was fiddling around hitting buttons to get a radio station, couldn’t find anything decent. Then he hit the tape player and this was in there and he’d forgotten all about it. He listened to the how permanent is your salvation?

CD. And he got saved. And he pulled his truck over to the side of the road and called the friend back here in Tampa that gave him the CD and said, guess what? I just finally listened to that CD that you gave me and I just got saved and of course then that friend called me and said, guess what? I gave a truck, a rather a CD to a friend who drives the truck and he just called me from the middle of Texas someplace he just got saved.

And we hear those stories all the time. Let me encourage you to get that CD and give that a try. Okay, and I got the phone number I’m going to call after. Right after you, so that’ll be great. Thank you very much. No, thank you, Timothy. All right, that was Timothy. Let’s pray for his wife that she’ll come to know Christ. We have Joel down in Miami, Florida. you’re welcome to buy one more good to hear you i had a couple of questions um…

what is your take on The book of Solomon’s I have I have heard different interpretations that the spiritual meaning of the book of Solomon’s and I just want to do it but what we here take on it well well obviously uh… there he wrote most of the book of proverbs he wrote the book of ecclesiastes and uh… solomon also wrote The song of Solomon and I don’t know if you’re referring to anyone in this particular. The song of Solomon.

Yeah, the song of Solomon really is a beautiful love story and when you see the pictures and types it’s a picture of Christ’s love for us, the church. And I think that you can see that there have been some wonderful, wonderful commentaries written about this and it’s a picture beyond Solomon there to the love of God for each and every one of us. And it’s a beautiful love sort and I believe it’s inspired of God. It’s a part of the Scriptures and definitely has meaning and certainly it also is a great book to use as a pattern for loving your spouse.

Definitely the Bible has given us some hints as to what makes us a successful marriage. Some hints? Well, I mean some instructions. Thank you. Okay, that word hints a little bit like. Yeah, it does. And that’s fine. Because the Bible says like in Hebrews 13 and 5, marriage is honorable in all and the marriage bed is undefiled. It does talk about sex in the book of Song Solom. So you basically say that it could be both things? Oh yeah, I think it is definitely a real life story for that time.

I think the overview is it’s a picture of Christ and his love for us. Alright and the other question What did you take on the the preferred that it’s not? Well, I believe we are and here’s the man who sells all that he has so he can buy that pearl I think the man there in the parable is Jesus and he gives his life he gives everything he has To purchase us and by his death and shed blood he purchased us and we’re the pearl of great price Okay, and one more question How did you store up all this information, all these viable verses in your head?

I first started by three by five cards and I would write the verse on one side, the address of the verse on the other side, carry the, you know, a few in my shirt pocket with me all the time and I got up to about 5,000 verses that I could recite off of three by five cards and most of it stuck with me to this very day. I still can recite almost all those verses that I’ve learned. And it’s been wonderful.

I think it’s something that everybody really ought to do. And I hope I’m in encouragement for others to start memorizing. You have to start somewhere and just take, in fact, on our website. We have a place called Flashcards where we have my web designer who said, hey, I could do what you did for our people who use the website. We have some selected verses that you could begin with or you could pick any passage or Versus that you’d like to memorize and it’ll show one side the verse and then close your eyes and recite it See if you got it right then ask yourself.

Can I? Remember the address of it and you hit flip at the bottom of the card and it’ll give you the address like Romans 323 and once you’ve got Romans 323 in your head then try to quote it for all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. Hit flip and you’ll see the text of the verse come up on the other side and you can put it back and forth and back and forth till you get that verse and then move on to the next one.

So we have some sets of suggested verses all set up for you to memorize right on our website. I’m gonna look up I have your website punched up right now on my computer. the way it sounds to me like you memorize the entire Bible. Somebody asks you where does this particular verse come up? We’ll show up and boom, you’re dead there rattle it off at exactly where it is. I said to me, do that. You want to have a computer mind?

Well, let me tell you I’ve been doing it for a long time and if you were to be here in the studio, a lot of people come visit our radio show. I’m sitting here with my Bible in my lap and that’s it. I don’t have anybody else feeding me answers or whatever. In fact a lot of times I’m quoting the verses to you From my head not actually even turning in my Bible because I have memorized the great deal and I I’ve become very familiar with the Bible Which is what I wanted to do to be able to not only know it for myself, but be able to help others in answering their questions Yesterday you mentioned something about the that existed I’m putting pieces of it Do you have anything on your website that gives more information about though?

maybe a sermon that you preach that involved that. Absolutely, there’s some there and also look under the bottom right hand corner, Dr. Lindstrom’s articles. I have about four or five articles that I’ve written about that. And maybe next week I’ll go back and touch on that topic again and go further with it, because there’s a lot of scripture about it and yet you never hear anybody ever preach on it. Exactly. And that has always dumped me has been the whole thing about the dinosaurs.

You can’t deny the dinosaurs. I mean, they’re there. I mean, they’re all over the place. And the Bible is very silent about that. And people say, well, those dinosaurs walked on the earth. when Adam and Eve were around. I don’t think so. I mean, they were huge. I know it. I hate to have one come in money. We’re looking for one. I mean, no matter how spiritual you are, you can do that about with one of those P-rexes or anything like that.

You got that right. Thank you so much for your time. I love your ministry and it’s a real blessing to us. Thank you, Joel. Joel in Miami, Florida. We’re now going to go to Jonathan in Coral Springs, Florida and Jonathan welcome to my line you’re on the air. You have to turn your radio down Jonathan we can hear the radio. Good. I’m turning it down so that a couple of us are listening to you. One of the questions that we want to ask you was about tithing.

You have to tithe 10% or what is the biblical information for tithing? And I’m going to hang up and just listen to you, Dr. Linson. Thank you. Okay. I have again a couple of sheets, articles that I’ve written that are on my website. You can go into Dr. Linson’s articles and look about finances and giving and so on. But basically the tithe was the Old Testament law that you were required to give 10%. We’re not under the law, but that doesn’t mean that we’re exempted from giving.

And the Bible tells us that every man should give. If you look at 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 in particular, it talks a lot about New Testament giving. And it says in chapter 9, I think it’s verse 7, that every man according as a purpose of his heart so let him give. And so you are to make a conscious decision as to how much to give and somebody once said should we give less under grace than we gave under law.

So it’s really the whole object here is that we give from the heart not because we have this requirement upon us. So it says that God doesn’t want us to give grudgingly, or because of the need or necessity, but it says God loves a cheerful giver. And the word cheerful from the Greek means a hilarious giver. Somebody who just loves the giver, he just says, wow, I want to give. And it’s because as a believer, you learn how that giving can be a real way of not only showing God your love for Him and gratitude for what He’s done for you, but also a way of investing in eternity.

One day, whatever you have given will come back to you in the way of eternal rewards. And so the more you invest, the more you get back. And itgeon says there in that chapter, if you sow sparingly, 2 Corinthians chapter 9, you’re going to reap sparingly. But if you sow bountifully, you’re going to reap bountifully. And God says he’ll always see that you have enough to meet your needs as you give the So, Marvel’s chapter, I hope you dissect it verse by verse and take a good close look at it, but that’s what we’re under today.

We’re not under the Old Testament tithe, we’re under grace as we choose to give what we would like to give, and we should do it from the heart, not because there’s a commander because there’s a the need. And you know, a lot of churches just beat you up with the need or they may embarrass you and you kind of give against your will because you feel embarrassed if you don’t. And God really doesn’t want any of that. He wants you to give from the heart because you want to give.

And that’s where you really get the blessing is you’re giving from the heart as an expression of your love to God. So thank you for that call and we hope that’s helped a little bit and we’re now going to go to Melanie in Salem, Indiana and I’m Melanie. Welcome to Bioin One. Hi, I’m Hyne Doctor Hank. I’m your special inspiration for me. I’m so excited to talk to you. I was wondering my question here about cremation. I was wondering if you could tell me your views on that.

If you guys did you believe it’s okay to be cremated or do you think we should be buried? Okay, well, being cremated will not affect your salvation at all. There are people, for example, who are burned in a house fire, or in some other type of environment where they get caught in a fire, in a forest, maybe, or something. And there’s nothing to do about it, and it won’t affect your salvation at all. If you’re a believer, you’ll get a brand new body and heaven, it’ll be perfect and so on.

But in the Old Testament, the Jewish people always buried as a picture. of of the fact they believed in the resurrection. And it was kind of a statement that they made by being buried. I personally want to be buried myself, but it doesn’t really matter. Sometimes that decision is out of your hands. Your loved ones because of financial concerns may not be able to afford to bury you so they might do accreation, but it won’t affect your salvation. I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.

I find that I do a lot of funerals and I do probably 50% of my life. 50-50 cremations nowadays is because the cost has just become such a tremendous expense and it burdens those that are left behind that are alive and It doesn’t really affect your salvation. So I wouldn’t lose any sleep over there are people who were cremated in the Bible Saul and his sons were cremated and There are others that were cremated and and we know that according to the Bible Saul and his sons went to heaven So had nothing to do with their eternity Thank you Dr.

Hayk, your such inspiration to us. I’m so glad that we can hear you out here because you’re the only one that got it right for us. God bless you and thank you so much. Well, thank you so much. We’re excited about being on your station. We’ve only been on about three weeks or so, or maybe a month now, and I’m glad you’re able to hear us. Oh, God bless you. Thank you so much. God bless you and thank you, Dr.

Hayk. You’re welcome. Bye-bye now. Hope Melanie will keep listening and tell her friends in the area about the program and get them to listen as well. we now have a live here and she’s in clear water florida and olivia welcome to buy one year on their this is a live here yes ma’am is that the answer yes ma’am it is uh… i hope you get my letters i am and i i’m sorry that i been so busy and don’t be so i don’t think i’m so i’m not to hear you know and god bless you but what i want to ask you i want to ask you about The law of Moses Moses had loads he gave the people didn’t it?

Well, yeah, and it’s really from God But it’s called the law of Moses, but God gave them for Mount Sinai for the people of Israel to guide them and direct them as The commandments was one right the 10 commandments were a part of it But there were really about 969 different commandments given under the law so there’s a lot and some of it was dietary laws telling you what to eat and what not to eat. So you know you’re that today though we’re not under the law so if you want to eat a pork chop you can but according to the Old Testament law you were not to eat any pork at all.

I know that and so on and so obviously there’s some good rules there you’re not to eat birds of prey that like buzzards and you know feet on dead bodies. You might get sick if you eat those things. So God has given you good advice there as to what you can and cannot eat. You’re not supposed to eat fish that don’t have scales. So that’s why catfish really are off the list. Tuna fish and a number of things from the sea.

Sharks you don’t want eat them, they don’t have any scales, don’t eat them. Usually they’re scavengers. And that means you again are getting something that’s just eating trash When I want you know cause I’ve been getting different message it seems that though this person is trying to tell me that Moses had different laws and the law that the angels gave him from God Yes, and a lot of it’s a good advice and I think that as Because you read those old testament laws, a lot of those things you should still follow, even though we’re not required to.

They’re good advice. And the other thing I want to say, and I’m going to hang up, I want to say that I thank you so much what you said about people giving to the church because I have had church with people who send me letters, and they want me to give them. I resent that because I like to send what I can For everybody don’t have credit calls and you know and what not and what I give I give it from my heart That’s where it should be.

I do you you know. Yes ma’am. I do and I do it makes me it puts the guilt Feeling only when I can’t say maybe five hundred thousand. I don’t have any kind of money You know sure I understand very much and it’s a shame that God does not like that I know you’re not like that. I know that you don’t even like to talk about money. I heard you say it’s not a thousand cents. But anyway, I don’t have any qualms about what I’ve seen.

You may not be a lot, but it’s from my heart. And I will send it as often as I can. Okay, thank you Olivia. Okay, and I need you to pray for me. All right, we’ll do that. We’ll keep going on our list. That was Olivia in Clearwater and we’re about toward the end here. I’ve got lots of colors. Our lines are all lighted up. But I think I’m gonna have to hold them back. until tomorrow. I’m sorry to do that to you all that have been waiting.

But if you haven’t trusted Jesus, that’s the most important thing you could do. You need to do that right now wherever you might be. Just say, Lord, I’m a sinner, but I trust Jesus right now as the one who died. And in the blood, the day for my sin, I trust him right now to save me. And God will, and then you become a child of God, and then you need to grow. Again, Bibleline is winding up the month of July.

We are short. We could sure use your help if you could mail a gift in or call in and give one by credit card. Be so appreciated. I hope Bibleline is a real blessing to you and I hope you’ll pass that word along to your friends and help us grow our audience. I believe Jesus is coming and He’s coming soon so keep looking up. I’m Dr. Engleinster. I have to say goodbye but we’ll be back tomorrow. Lord willing and join me then on the Bibleline program.

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Englinserman. It’s been wonderful to be with you today. It’s Thursday and we’ve had a good time. I hope you’ve enjoyed. We had callers. We couldn’t get to. All fair questions we couldn’t get to. We’ve been busy as a bee here taking all of your calls. And it’s wonderful. I wish we just could spend the day talking together. But obviously we only have that one hour, which is we’re grateful for. And we thank you because you’re the ones who make it possible to have that time on the air because of your gifts.

We can pay those radio bills and stay on the air. This is July, this is the last day and we’re short and we could really use your help. If you could see your way to give a gift, would you call and give it by credit card or call, ask for an envelope to be sent, mail your gift in? That would help us out. And I want to thank you in advance. God bless you. Thank you. out and hug you for your faithfulness and praying for and giving the Bible in because you truly are our partners in this venture to get the message of God’s Word out to as many as we can and try to steer people back to the Bible and to believe the Word of God and to not drift far off as so much of Christianity today is moving off course and

I feel that is so sad. Jesus is coming and I believe He’s coming soon. Take a look at our website, pass out along to your friends as well, people overseas, people that are missionaries, let them know about BibleLineMinistries.org. And as one gentleman today called to find our little flashcards there and start memorizing Scripture. We got it really easy for you where you can just start memorizing and flip back and forth. The cards are already printed up for you and I think you’re going to really like that.

So check that out on our website at BibleLineMinistries.org. I’m Dr. Hank Vincent. I have to say goodbye but we’ll be back again tomorrow. I hope you’ll join me every day and we’ll look forward to seeing you tomorrow. So in the meantime, keep looking up. Jesus is coming. Dr. Linsam, saying goodbye, we’ll be back tomorrow here on Bibleline.

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