Bibleline Radio Show – 2009-02-11

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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 from our studios right here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church where I am the pastor. And we would love to get to meet you if you ever get a chance to come by and say hi, please do our resource centers open every day from about 8 in the morning until 4.30 in the afternoon.

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You might want to take advantage of call operators. They’ll be glad to tell you how you can order some of our resources here at Bibleline. Hope you had a great weekend. Hope you attended church someplace and if not you need to find a good Bible believing teaching church. We have a sheet, an article I’ve written called, Beliefs That Matter, that give about 25 basic doctrines at a sound church on to embrace and you can sit on your phone and just interview and find a church that has sound doctrine by going over the sheet maybe with somebody at that church and find out if they are sound in their teaching.

Today it’s hard to find a sound Bible church but you know in the Bible it tells us that the leaders of the church, the elders are to guard sound doctrine. That’s right. That’s one of the main responsibilities of spiritual leadership is to make sure that the ship is not just floundering at sea, but has clear direction and is solid and sound in doctrine. And if the leadership in your church doesn’t have some doctrine and the whole church is going to be suffering.

The lack of good teaching in the churches. And I’m afraid that that’s a part of prophecy that we would see in the last days. They would not endure sound doctrine. 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 3 says they would not endure sound doctrine, but they want to have their ears tickled in the last days. And I think that’s really true. Today we’re living in a time when there’s so many things competing for our attention. And that is true of television and radio and events that happen in your city, special holidays and other things that really take us away from church and from good teaching in our church because when people come they want to be entertained.

Well, in any case, this is Bible and I’m Dr. Ankerman Trim and we’re going to be talking about the Bible for a few If you want to call us, you can call us at 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. Did you know that God says about you and me that we’re obstinate? Did you know that God says about you and me that we are brass-headed? Did you know that God says about you and me that we are iron-necked? We’re hard to be convinced.

Well, He does. In Isaiah chapter 48 verse 4, and this verse got my attention as a new believer, He says, I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thou brow is brass. Therefore, here’s what God says He would do. 5 of Isaiah 48 says, I have even from the beginning declared it to thee. Before it came to pass, I showed it thee. Notice here God’s telling us that He tells us things before they come to pass.

And He says, here’s the reason why. Lest thou should have say mine idle hath done them and my graven image and my molten image hath commanded them. In other words, you should say, well, this religion or that religion or my opinion or your opinion is right. God says, I want you to know there’s no question about my Bible is right. And I, because you’re stubborn, you’re obstinate, you’re brass-headed, you’re iron-necked, I’m going to tell you things before they come to pass.

And wow, you know, nearly one fourth of the Bible is history written before the history takes place. The Bible never misses. It’s always right on. It says in verse 6 here of Isaiah 48, Thou hast heard, and you see all of this, and will you not declare it, or will you not admit to it? In other words, when you see the amazing prophecies and accuracies of the Bible, won’t you admit that God has to be the author of the book?

He says here in verse 6 of chapter 48 of Isaiah, I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou dis not know them. He says, you didn’t know these things. I’m telling you new things, hidden things, things you didn’t know. And then he says, I’m telling you before that you have heard them or learned about them, lest you should say, behold, I already knew it. God says, no, you didn’t know it. I’m telling you things before you discovered.

Yeah, and in the area of science, I was so impressed. The Bible tells us the earth is round thousands of years ago, way before Columbus, way before Magellan ever sailed around the earth. Isaiah 40-22 tells us that God looks down upon this earth which is a sphere in the King James that reads circle, that it is a round earth. Isn’t that amazing? The Bible is right on thousands of years ago. The Bible tells us in Jeremiah 1012 that God created the earth and the universe out of his energy.

Einstein’s formula, that’s right. Einstein was 3000 years late telling us what the Bible already said, that matter and energy are equatable. E is equal to MC squared, which means energy is equal to matter times the coefficient of light squared, which means that energy can be transformed into matter and matter can be transformed into energy and by the way that’s what happens in a nuclear bomb. The atoms crack apart and the matter is converted into energy and wow the tremendous amount of energy that is released from just a small amount of matter.

You know, an atomic bomb doesn’t have to weigh a whole lot, and yet it can do a tremendous amount of damage. That’s because matter can be converted to energy and apparently a tremendous amount of energy is released when matter is converted to energy. Einstein’s theory actually taught in the Bible 3,000 years before Einstein ever came along. That’s got to be impressive. And it certainly impressed me. I went on from high school to graduate from the University of Florida in electrical engineering and these things of science really got my attention.

I said, God has to be the author of the book. Nobody knew these things. And the lack of scientific error in the Bible also impressed me because you know if the writers of the Bible were influenced by their societies at all, they would have included the mythology and the wrong science of those days. But there isn’t any of that. You know, Moses being raised in Egypt, and he was educated in the finest universities that Egypt had to offer as he was now the adopted son of Pharaoh as he could have been Pharaoh of Egypt.

And we find that he was educated with the best education they could have had. And you know the Egyptians believed that we evolved out of the Nile, that they believed in evolution. That’s right. But guess what? Moses, as he writes, by the Spirit of God, says in Genesis 2-7 that man was formed of the dust of the ground, that God took the dust of the ground and fashioned man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.

Well, when I first read that, I thought, well, that’s just poetic language. We’re just made of dust. But you know, science today has come along to tell us that the dust of the ground is composed of 16 basic elements or other trace elements. And guess what? Man is made up of 16 basic elements, other trace elements in us. But guess what? the same identical sixteen elements. Boy, it’s a scientific statement when God said He created man of the dust of the ground.

We have the exact same chemical composition as that of the dust of the earth. What does that do to you? I don’t know. It just made me light up. I said, wow, wow. Even the most simple statements in the Bible have great and deep meaning. times that we gloss over. Well, God says, look, I knew you’re stubborn. I knew you’re obstinate. I knew you were brass headed. I knew you were hard to be convinced. So I’m going to tell you, before they come to pass, before you know them, before you discover them, lest you should say, well, I already knew that.

And today, of course, we’re living in a time when we say, well, I knew the earth was round. Yeah, but they didn’t know that when the Bible is written. Yeah, I know Einstein’s formula is out there. But you know, they didn’t know that when the Bible was written. Thousands of years ago, God tells us things that we could not have known. And there are hundreds of these, hundreds of these. That’s why I’m convinced that the Bible is the word of God.

Let me just tell you, there’s only one Savior according to the Bible. That’s Jesus Christ. If you die without Christ, according to the Bible my friend, you’re not going to heaven. You’re not going to make it. Christ said in John 14, 6, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. And no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. When you simply trust Jesus Christ, His death and shed blood, as the means of your redemption, your salvation, the fact that He was buried in any rose again from the dead, and saves you.

Too often, though, people are misled by phrases that might be biblical, but are wrongly applied as the Bible plan of salvation is very simple. One thing you must do, believe or trust on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. And I can’t forget just a week ago a lady I talked to I was talking to her about how to go to heaven and I said that some of the things she was reading over in the track that I’ve written am I going to heaven the first on the list is following Christ as a potential way to be saved and I said all of the ones that are choices here are wrong and she looked at me and she said, is it wrong to follow Jesus?

I said, no, it’s not wrong to follow Jesus, but you’re not saved by following Jesus. You’re saved by trusting Jesus is death and shed blood. Following Christ is the Christian life. That’s after you become saved. We come to Christ and receive His salvation by faith at the moment. We trust Him, we become saved, and then we follow if we want to get in on the rewards and blessings. I’m Dr. Anglinstrum, this is Bibleline, we’re going to go to the phone lines in just a moment.

The phone number here is 1-800-576-3771. We’re going to go to Hopewell, Virginia and we’re going to talk to Anthony. Anthony, welcome to Bibleline, you’re on the air. My name is Anthony Wade, I’m called to Hopewell, Virginia. I agree that I know without a child of a doubt that Jesus Christ is Lord and it’s going to be one Lord to know the throne. I have a question from Genesis 1 chapter 26 when the day of creation when God created the earth.

Verse 26 says, and God said, let us make man and out. Who is referring to himself when he was speaking or to angels? He said, us. Okay, he’s really referring to himself. This is a proof of the triunity of God. The words there in the Hebrew for God are plural and plural in Hebrew means three or more in English plural is two and the word for God in Genesis 1 1 in the beginning God is Elohim Elohim it’s plural and there it is telling us that the Godhead God the eternal Father God the eternal spirit God the eternal son working in consent concert together brought about the creation of the universe and the same is true when they created man.

It says, let us make man in our image after our likeness. And that has a lot of deep meaning. But part of it is that we are made as triune beings as well. We’re body, soul and spirit. And so we are a trinity in a sense, not quite the same as the God that God had three separate eternal persons co-existent as one God. But you have the Trinity taught right from the get go of the Bible verse 2, you have the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters.

So no doubt about it. All members that any read the New Testament, we find that Christ is the Creator. We find that God the Father is the Creator and we find the Holy Spirit was there as the as the Creator. So we have all three members of the Godhead and you’ve discovered it in Genesis 126. I’m sorry for having another question, but I’ll be my wife with discussion. Back in the Proverbs, I was talking about wisdom, and his wisdom was there at the beginning.

Is this describing one of his attributes? That’s a personification of Christ that Christ was there, present, and that’s talking about Jesus. Okay. Excellent. Okay, thank you, sir. Alright, Anthony, keep listening to Bibleline, and we’re going to go now to Benjamin in Florida, Benjamin, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the earth. Good morning, Dr. Han. I have a, you know, and look, talk about the rich man, and that person went to hating or to help. We see there that the soul and the spirit was in fire.

Now, but the soul, look like the soul and the spirit there was together. But in Hebrew, for birth, say the words of God divide the spirit and the soul. What is the purpose that gets born again? The spirit and the soul is together. Why is it supposed to be separate? When it looks like the soul and the spirit goes together in her. But now in Hebrew, I divide the spirit and the soul. What is the purpah of God, please?

Can you torment? Sure. I believe it’s telling us that although they are never separate one from another, they are divisible, that they are separate entities, but they always are together. So that’s the non-material part of us. And when you die, your soul and your spirit both depart the body. And at the time of Christ’s return at the rapture will get our new body. Now for those that are lost and wait in Hades until after the thousand year reign of Christ they will get their new bodies at the end of the thousand year reign of Christ.

The word of God can cut between them and they are distinct and individual. Thank you so very much for calling in Benjamin. By the way, the phone number here is 1-800-577. 6, 3, 7, 7, 1. We have some more offer questions and we have John in Tampa, Florida. He says, can you provide me with evidence that dates to the time that Jesus allegedly lived showed that he even existed at all? Well, John, have you looked at the newspaper today?

Obviously the date on there is 2008, 2008 years from what? It’s 2008 years from Jesus Christ. Obviously, that is a confirmation of the fact that He was here. You cannot write a check, John, and have it be a legal document unless you date it, and there you give testimony yourself, whether you believe it or not, that Jesus was here 2008 years ago. You cannot buy a house or make up a contract and have it be a legal document unless you give testimony to the fact that Jesus here two thousand eight years ago.

So what evidence do you need? He obviously everything in history points back to that event when Christ was here. In all history before Christ is called B.C. or before Christ. In all history since is dated from Christ’s birth and coming into this world. So what more evidence do you need? Obviously he’s impacted the entire world and certainly a mythological character would not have had that impact that we find that Jesus had upon our world. Today is 2008 years since Jesus was here.

John wake up. You’ve got plenty of evidence that Christ is here. In fact, they say there’s really more evidence that Jesus Christ was here and who he claimed that he was, then there is George Washington was the first president of the United States. I don’t think you’re wrestling with whether George Washington was the first president or not, but abundantly more evidence that Jesus was here and who he claims that he was. It says here, Richard calls in from Tampa.

What are your thoughts on the up-and-coming event in Tampa, which is a big event here at Raymond James Stadium? The answer is that the teaching there is obviously wrong on the gospel. It basically works oriented. You must commit your life to Christ as basically the main, apparently, presentation. invite Christ into your life and all of those are not the gospel. If you’d like to get a sample of my track, Am I Going to Heaven? I have twenty of the most common terms used today by people who have angelized pastors and people alike.

And to ask someone to commit their life to Christ is works. The focus is on your life. To be saved, the Bible says we’re saved by His life in Romans chapter 5. We’re not saved by our life. And it’s amazing how it’s a subtlety that the devil uses to cause people to be lost and remain blinded to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are saved by trusting in the finished work of Christ. It has nothing to do with what we do or do not do in our future.

If you are being tugged by message, here’s the way to tell whether you’re hearing the truth or not. Close your eyes and just listen and ask yourself, am I being tugged to do something or not do something in my future that will determine whether I’m saved or not? my friend, if that be the case, you’re listening to a false message. You see, the true message of the gospel takes the lost and dying sinner, you and me, and points us back to the cross where Jesus said on the cross, it’s finished, it’s paid in full.

And so we don’t look to our own lives or to our future. That would make us the Savior, and salvation by works of the Bible is clearly not saved by works. If you are trusting in your works my friend, you will never make a decision. Heaven. That’s the problem with the group in Matthew 7. They’re religious, but in verse 22, they’ll stand before Christ one day at the Great White Throne judgment, and they’ll say, Lord, Lord, didn’t we preach in your name?

Didn’t we heal in your name? Didn’t we do many wonderful works in your name? And Christ will say, I never knew you. I never knew you. They were never saved. Never saved, because why? They were trusting in their works. If they had only said, Lord, Lord, we trust that you died and shed your blood at the cross to pay for our sins, that you were Reached gmaxwell buried and that you were risen again from the dead. And we placed our trust in your substitutionary death at the cross as the only means of our salvation.

Christ would have said, come right on in. But you know today, it’s amazing how that all the different churches that will gravitate to in a big event like this. And that shows you that they all have a common denominator. And that is all of the counterfeits believe in works for salvation. So they can come together and hold hands and say, we all agree, we all agree, we’re in agreement here today and so on. And yet they’re not in agreement with the Bible.

When the Bible says it’s not a works, it’s the gift of God, it’s not of yourself, it’s by faith in the finished work of Christ that a person is saved. You really have to check out what people are saying and realize that there are subtleties. My track, I’ll send you a copy of it free to look over and examine. But if you look at that, you’ll find out that I have scriptural answers why each of these are wrong answers as how to be saved.

I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom. This is Bibleline. We’re going to go to the break and come back and do the second half hour of Bible So keep your radio dial tuned right where it is, and we’ll be right back. Go away, Bibleline will be back in a moment. To pledge your support for Bibleline, give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Well I’m Dr. Angles from It’s Great to Be With You Today. Thanks for tuning in and this is Monday and we’ll be here throughout all the week.

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So I would ask you to consider giving Bibleline your prayers and your gifts to see that this program continues. We’re now going to go to Merrily and she’s down in Fort Myers, Florida. Merrily, welcome to Bibleline. You’re on the air. Hello? Hi. You’re on the air, Merrily. Excuse me. Oh. Oh, okay. Okay. Yes, I had a question. Okay, go for it. I’ve been, when I witnessed the people quite often, and, you know, to try to lead people to the Lord, and, et cetera, and tell them that Jesus is coming back soon.

And something I come across a lot is, I believe it’s a satanic stronghold that Satan has used to and as you said to see people, I come across a lot like,hoe do you believe, well they’ll say well how do you know? I feel because the Bible tells me so and I believe it. And they say well how do you believe a work of fiction? And I said the Bible is not fiction, it’s the truth, it’s a word of God.

And they said well I went to Catholic school and I learned all that. So I’m just wondering if there’s an effective way to answer that. Well, as we just covered in the earlier part of the program, maybe you didn’t hear that, but I was talking about how God in Isaiah 48 says that he knows that we’re obstinate, stubborn, hard to be convinced. So he would tell us things before we would ever discover them or know them that would come to pass, that would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s the author of the Bible.

And we talked about some of the scientific facts about the earth is round, the fact of Einstein’s formula, all these things being given in the Bible thousands of years ago, way before man ever discovered them. And that’s just the area of science. But also God tells the whole life of Christ. The first and the second coming is in the Old Testament. There are over 330. The Bible offers many proofs. There’s a book that we have here called Evidence of the Man’s Verdict by Josh McDowell that is really well documented, shows the prophecies, shows the prophecies to the letter, and that is not an accident.

That has to be the hand of God. So the Bible offers many proofs. There’s a book that we have here called Evidence of the Man’s Verdict by Josh McNally that is really well documented, shows the prophecies, shows the fulfillments, and is very, very powerful. If somebody is a skeptic, and will honestly take a look at that book, they’ll either no longer be honest with themselves, or they’ll no longer be a skeptic. So I recommend something like that to go to your aid.

But the Bible has stood as a book like no other book down through the centuries. Most books don’t last more than ten years and then they’re out of print and they’re gone. But here the Bible is still the bestseller, translated into more languages than any of the book on the planet. And obviously the Bible tells about itself that it will live in a bind forever and ever and ever. So don’t underestimate it. Just give them scripture anyway. I’ve had people tell me that they don’t believe the Bible.

They don’t believe this. They don’t believe that and then I tell them Well, just let me explain what the Bible says about how they’re going to heaven And I quote a few scripture verses and five minutes later they trust Christ So it’s figured that one out the Bible is powerful and it can work like a sword And he can cut through all the nonsense and so give it anyway You seem like you have a lot of knowledge and and there’s always the questions that I can never think of them when I’m talking to somebody who’s but anyway I just have a really astounding testimony where I was in hell for a season and I believe that you would agree with me whether any man agrees with me or not I know I was in hell and I know it was Satan that that did it to me because

Jesus said in Revelation that he has the keys of hell and of death. Well in any case of whatever experience you had you You don’t want to wind up in hell for eternity. And if you die without Christ, that’s where you’re going to be. I have some teachings here. We have a wonderful book that will help you on your witnessing call handbook of personal man’s of them. I recommend some of the things we have in our resource center here and the tracks we have are very, very effective.

And it’s a way of being able to give people’s scripture in an attractive way that doesn’t turn them off and allow them in their privacy sometimes to review it and then you can come back and talk to them again. So I hope you take advantage of some of the things we have there and go to my website. A lot of stuff is right there. Okay, well I wrote that down. Bibleline ministries? Yeah.org or.com Bibleline ministries one word and you’ll find- Because I might even be interested in maybe taking a, do you have courses online?

We sure do. Yeah. And you can call our 800 number and my operator can explain exactly what you need to do or what you can take. Uh huh. Okay. Thank you, Mary. Are you Dr. Hank Lindstrom, huh? Dr. Hank Lindstrom, huh? Okay. And we’re on every day Monday through Friday and you’re welcome to listen and of course call in whenever you want. Okay. Thank you. I’m early, Mary Lee down in Fort Myers, Florida. You’re welcome to call us at 1-800-576-3771 and we hope that you will give us a call here at Bibleline headquarters.

We have Trish calling in and we’re going to talk to Trish and she’s calling in from Pensacola, Florida and Trish, welcome to Bibleline. You’re on the air. Good morning. Like you said, I am from Pensacola, Florida, but I listen over the internet from initialization from WJLC1490 in Ross LaDortia, New York, Tennessee, and I thoroughly enjoy your program. My question comes from 1 John 518, who, so ever is born of God, it’s got the sin factor. And I know that you believe in eternal security.

Could you stress a little bit on that scripture again on 1 John 518? First John, it talks about when you trust Christ of Savior, you become born again and you have a new birth that is not capable of sinning. And at the same time, we have an old nature of flesh birth which desires the sin. And these are in conflict with one another. So if you are a believer, you have to wrestle with these things. you need to do is choose The Spirit is the Spirit Nature.

The flesh is the physical birth that we have when we come into this world that is sinful. and it says in verse 17, for the flesh lusts of the against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to the one to the other Galatians 5-17, so that you cannot do the things that you would. So we have a struggle as Christians, and it’s like somebody said that I have inside of me a good dog and a bad dog, and the one I say, sick them to wins.

So as a Christian, you have to say, sick them to the good nature, the new nature, and let that be the dominant nature of your life. And of course that means you have to do the things that feed the new nature. You need to be in your Bible, you need to pray, you need to fellowship with other believers, you need to share the gospel with those that are lost. And if you do the things which are foundational to the Christian life, you’ll grow and become stronger in your new nature and you’ll be able to live for Christ.

But the new birth, it says in 1 John 3, 9, which is even better, whosoever is born of God, that not commits sin. For his seed, that is God’s seed, remained at him in him and he cannot sin because he’s born of God. That’s the new birth. It cannot sin. It’s not capable of sinning. Peter talks about how we are born again of an incorruptible birth, whereas the first birth is corrupted by Adam’s sin and it is a nature or it is the way we’re made such that we are going to sin.

You know, a sinner doesn’t become a sinner by sinning. We sin because we are sinners by nature. A dog doesn’t become a dog by barking. A dog barks because he’s a dog or cat meows because it’s a cat. And we by our flesh birth have this in nature. That’s why Christ said, you must be born again. The flesh birth is sinful and will never get rid of it until we die. So in order to go to heaven you have to be born again.

You have to have this new spirit birth which is called the divine nature, the new man, the new birth. and it is a birth which is of God. That’s what it’s saying there. Whose whoever is born of God, that nature does not commit sin. Right, okay. Let me just do one more thing. John, the apostle who writes this in 1 John 1 8 talks about the old nature in chapter 1 verse 8 where he says, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

It almost seems like a contradiction. So we’ve got two things going on here. We sin in our old nature, but in our new nature we cannot sin Right, okay Well, you just passed on what I was gonna ask you about so that is wonderful and again I do appreciate the service that you are doing for God and I enjoy listening to you via the internet from China And again, I do appreciate the service that you are doing for God and I enjoy listening to you via the internet from China and in good Tennessee and you have a blessed day and keep the wonderful work that you’re doing Thank you, Trish, and by the way, we’re on live in the in the Pensacola area on one of the stations.

I forget the, but if you go to my internet site on Bibleline, you’ll find the frequency and we’re on live right now in Pensacola. Oh well, well that’s great, wonderful. Okay, well I just wanted to tell and ask the question, but I appreciate all that you’re doing and God bless you so much. Keep listening, thank you Trish, and let’s Trish. And she’s listening in Pensacola on the internet from our broadcast being streamed out of Chattanooga. Wow, interesting. We have Dave from Plant City, and Dave, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Hello again, Dr. Hank. Could you clarify that for me, please? No, hang up, thanks. Well, you’re absolutely right. At the end of the seven-year tribulation period, which begins at the Rapture, at the end of that, Christ comes back, and he throws the antichrist and the false prophet into the everlasting lake of fire and we find then at the end of the millennium that uh… satan joins them and it says the devil that the seath them in chapter twenty verse ten was cast into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet are so they’re already there and this is all of satan’s uh…

If you look at chapter 28 verse 10, you’ll find that you have Satan, you have the beast, which is the Antichrist, the Antichrist, and you have the False Prophet, which is the Antichrist of the Holy Spirit. So you have Satan’s Trinity, all in one verse, and there are a number of verses and revelation that have those three members of the Satanic Trinity, but they are all cast into hell. But the False Prophet and the beast are first in. I hope that helps and thank you Dave for calling in today and Dave hung up we have Chris on the line from Tampa, Florida and Chris Welcome to Bibleline you are on the air.

Oh, I have a dial phone on Chris. So Chris apparently couldn’t hold any longer We have Joanne in Tampa, Florida Joanne. Welcome to Bibleline dr. Hank. This is Joanne and I’ve heard you talk two or three times about If we give to the wrong people and they don’t give the right gospel You know, when God directs you about the Americans act, we don’t know what kind of gospel they give those children. Well, I know, and I really can’t discuss every ministry that’s out there with you, but you have to just do your homework and do your best.

And I know you want to give where your heart is being touched, especially I know with the children. We just have to do the best we can. What you can do is require at least of a ministry to say, what do you believe? Get a doctrinal statement and maybe even over the phone quiz them about… Most important questions, can you lose your salvation? Because that is the question that really divides between somebody who has the true gospel and who doesn’t.

There’s no doubt about it. That is a major, major area of question because if you believe you can lose it, you’re really saying you have to work to get it or keep it and that is wrong. But thank you, Joanne, for that question. And definitely, the Bible tells us that we are to lay up treasures in heaven, but he certainly wants us to be not supporting those who teach a false message. When the cults come to your door, I would not donate to them or give to them because again the same thing is true.

We have Chris, he’s back and Chris, welcome to Bibleline, you are on the air. Hello sir, how are you doing this morning? Good. I had a question for you concerning the word manipulation and I know per se that word is not in the Bible, to the United States to kind of help teenagers and I’ll teach from tiny time and that were to come up to me and I looked it up in dictionary but I was looking for what the Bible really says about manipulation and what are the effects, you know, what a person uses that to get their point across for, you know, just in their everyday life.

Well, obviously that’s an illegitimate way to impose a person’s will on someone else. Obviously, I would imagine that if you looked carefully at Proverbs, you’d find a lot of information. That’s a wonderful book that tells us about our relationships with other people and how to live life and live at peace with your neighbor, your friends, your family, and to get the maxed out of life. So that’s where I’d recommend looking, but you’re not going to find the English word there, I’m sure.

You can find the concept, so the principles taught there and how to avoid that in the book of Proverbs. I would point you at least in that direction. Okay. Thank you, Chris. Thank you, sir. All right. That was Chris calling in. Maybe one of our listeners might know of a verse or two that would be an example of manipulation and its wrong use. We have Adam in Tampa, Florida. Adam, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Yes, I question, um, I have to do with what you said earlier in the program about, um, about the wisdom personifying Jesus.

Yes. Um, what doesn’t refer to wisdom as being a she. And why is it referred to as being a she in the scripture? Oh. Yes. I don’t know. We do that on so many other things too when we are just speaking figuratively, but obviously Christ is male, but there’s no doubt about it when you read all the way through there. There’s no one who could meet that description. Wisdom by itself apart from Christ could be identified that way, but the picture is bigger than that.

It has to be talking about Jesus. And maybe somebody out there can help us out with that. He says, but I don’t have a better answer than that for you right now anyway, but I’ll give that some thought. This is the time when I read it, I just think being filled with the spirit, wisdom comes through the spirit. That’s true, but all the members of God had are masculine, so it doesn’t get us across that bridge there that we’re talking about.

That’s a good question, and it tells me you’re thinking. And maybe when you get the answer, you can call me back and let me know. I’m always learning. I never point when we cease learning and I would love to have the answer to that question myself. Maybe you can help me find a good answer for that. Why wisdom is addressed to she there. All right, we’re going to go to John in Richmond, Virginia and John. Welcome to Bibleline. We have a dial tone for John.

Somehow we don’t have John. John called back because Somehow we have lost you. I am Dr. Englinsen. This is by blind. We Certainly hope that you’ll If you’re in the Tampa Bay area visit us this coming Sunday And so if you come at 1030 be my guest bring your family and your bible and join us for a wonderful service That’s this coming Sunday here at Calvary. We have John in Richmond, Virginia, and John welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Yeah, I tellin’ on back there. That we were moving, we’re trying and moving, we’re still removing. Well, you’re right. I mean, everybody on the planet is moving whether you realize it or not, because the Earth is turning on its axis, you’re aware of that, and the Earth has to turn one full revolution, which obviously, that means you’ve traveled 25,000 miles every 24 hours. That means you’re traveling at over a thousand miles an hour on the surface of the Earth, yet you’re in the same spot on the earth so you don’t have any sense but if you could be lifted up let’s say a hundred feet and held in that same spot and let the earth continue to rotate and for 24 hours you can watch that earth spinning by at a thousand miles an hour plus to get it back to the same spot the next day so what does it sound like what

it’s on the moon be done. Well they’re all moving to the the moon orbits the earth and so it’s turning around the earth and it is an orbit about the planet earth and of course the earth and the moon in orbit around the sun and then the sun is also in its own orbit in space and scientists tell us that our whole solar system is in orbit so we’re moving we’re constantly moving did you got it well you can look at any encyclopedia i’m sure i mean this is just facts i mean that that that’s the side is that not that’s not according to the bible called the bible that he put the sun and in this place he put he placed it in the goat goat he’d be the side is saying that you ain’t got that no proof in the bible right there you have give me a strip of writing

Well, there’s a great one in Ecclesiastes and I hope you’ll take a look where it talks about the I don’t believe in the scientists. The scientists got things all mixed up. He ain’t telling you about it. He said the world is got, you know, the Bible doesn’t say it’s wrong. They don’t say that. They got east and west and all that. They can say it got corners. Well, it does. It does have corners. NASA has discovered now from outer space that the Earth has four bulges that they now call the four corners of the Earth.

We wouldn’t have known that without the scientific knowledge. Everything is moving constantly and our solar system is moving, our Earth is moving in relationship to the sun and it’s just a very effective life and the Bible is accurate John in relationship to science. It tells… The Bible says to know wisdom is to know Jesus and to your last God I just call. This one thing I stress to you is to know Jesus. to you for your last, got to just call.

This one thing I strongly believe that science in the Bible go hand in hand. And that’s all I want to say. Okay, well that’s true. Two science now and two science in the Bible are in 100% agreement. And you don’t have to fear science. You know, the Bible is an incredible book that tells us things that really are beyond what we could have known at the time that today we’re discovering that show us how this Bible has to have been written by God.

We’re about out of time. I hope everybody listening is trusted Jesus as Savior. And if you haven’t, do it right now to say Lord I’m a sinner. I don’t understand much, but I trust Jesus right now. His death and shed bud is my only means of getting to heaven. Join us again tomorrow, would you? And I hope that you will. I look forward to seeing you. In the meantime, keep looking up. Jesus is coming and we believe very soon.

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