Bibleline Radio Show – 2010-02-16

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom, a ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, declaring God’s love through radio and the internet, 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. 63771. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline. Great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast. We look forward to being with you each and every day, Monday through Friday as we come to you from Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church.

And we look forward to getting to meet you sometime. If it’s ever possible, we hope that you’ll come by and see us if you’re ever in the Tampa Bay area. We’re located right next to the Tampa airport. So we’re easy to find. We’re just one block west of the Tampa International Airport, so we’re very easy to find. And we’re just on George Road, midway between Memorial and Hillsborough Avenue’s on George Road runs north and south. Alright, we’re going to get into the Bible.

If you have your Bible, get it open and please study along with us. And if you have your Bible open there, turn it you will to the book of 1 Corinthians 2. We have a passage in 1 Corinthians 6, and this is really based on a phone call that came in yesterday. This passage is very much misunderstood. It is here talking about the Christians and how they ought to live now that they are saved and telling us in 1 Corinthians 6, 9, 10, 11, and 12 that although they were committing sinful practices that they were saved and justified and sanctified in the sight of God by trusting Christ as Savior.

It’s a little lesson here in rightly dividing the word of truth. In 2 Timothy 2.15 it says study to show thyself approved unto God as a workman that need is not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. And to rightly divide the word of truth you have to be able to define the terms, you have to be able to slice and divide a verse where one part might deal with one doctrine and another part might deal with another doctrine.

And as we begin 1 Corinthians 6 in verse 9, it says, No ye not or don’t you know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. A couple of things here. First of all, the unrighteous in the Bible are the unsaved. back in the book of Genesis in chapter 3 and 4 we have Adam and Eve bearing children and Abel is the first one that that title of being righteous is ascribed to and he was righteous by faith.

He brews 11-4 says, By faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain by which he obtained witness that he was that he was that he was righteous. And it doesn’t say he became righteous by offering that sacrifice, but Abel believed by faith that there would be a coming Savior, a coming Lamb, the Lamb of God that would die to pay for the sins of the world. And he believed on Jesus that Lamb of God and was declared righteous by God, and he obtained witness that he was righteous by offering the sacrifice that showed or demonstrated his faith that he believed in the coming Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, that would pay for the sins of the world.

So obviously Abel was saved by faith. It says that in Hebrews 11-4, and he was saved by faith in the coming Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb that he offered up, pictured that. And it says that when he offered that sacrifice, he obtained witness that he was already righteous in God’s sight that he was declared righteous by God. It’s exciting. And that is the way it’s used throughout the Bible. Abraham, it says, was declared righteous in Genesis 15.6 by simply trusting in the message that God gave concerning his son Jesus Christ.

It says in Genesis 15.6 Abraham believed God. And it was Canada and to him for righteousness. Abraham believed God if you read the context about the coming Savior that would come of His lineage that Sarah would have a child and He would have a child and that that child would come through Abraham and Sarah would bear children and down the line there would be a Messiah that would come the Lord Jesus Christ and by believing on Christ Abraham was saved.

That very passage is quoted in Galatians chapter 3 and in verse 8 following the quote of that wonderful passage from Genesis 15-6 It says the scripture for seeing that God would justify the nations through faith preached before preached before The gospel under Abraham. So Abraham heard the gospel believe the gospel and was saved by believing on Christ as his Savior Genesis 15 and 6 tells us all about that. So the Bible tells us that the righteous are those that are believers and the unbelievers are the unrighteous.

You know when Abraham was told that he was going to destroy Sodom, that God was going to destroy Sodom, Abraham of course was concerned about his nephew Lot that lived there and so he began to bargain with God and he said if there only 50 righteous there in Sodom would you spare the city and of course God said yes. And so there you have the word wicked contrasted with the word righteous and most of those in Sodom were wicked.

So God listened to Abraham and he bargained his way down to 45 to 40 to 30 to 20 to 10 and Abraham said don’t get too mad at me but if there’s only 10 righteous. Well the Bible says in Romans 3 and there’s none righteous, no not one. How could anyone therefore be considered righteous and the answer is they have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in order to be considered righteous. And so Lot therefore and his family were saved, they were righteous.

And second Peter, Peter tells us that Lot was a righteous man. But yet it wasn’t because of his behavior. He obviously chose to live in Sodom and there he became a city leader. He sat in the gate It’s Sodom according to Genesis and so Lot was saved but not because of his behavior or because of his choices and so the unrighteous are the unbelievers the believers are the righteous then he goes on to say here in verse 9 Do not be deceived neither Fornicators nor adulters nor adulterers nor feminine Nor those that are abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

So it warns us here that all of these sins are enough, of course, to cause a person to be eternally lost. But, verse 11 tells us about the Corinthians, and such were some of you, but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified. All three of these things occur at the moment of belief. And it says you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

So believers are washed, cleansed of their sin, at the moment they trust Jesus Christ as their Savior. And if you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior, then obviously you are saved and you are saved eternally. And then it says in verse 12, all things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient. What it’s saying here is because every sin that you’d ever commit in your whole lifetime past, present, and future were paid for by Jesus Christ at the cross of Calvary, you, because those sins were judged at the cross and paid for by Jesus Christ, you are already declared righteous for every sin that you would ever commit in your whole lifetime because all of your sins, past, present, and future, were paid for by Christ’s death at Calvary.

So basically, you can’t be judged twice for the same crime. You know, if someone commits a crime and they go before the court and they are judged guilty and then they do their prison time or whatever is required of them, and then later you see them out on the street, you can’t have an officer arrest them again for that same crime because they’ve already been judged and they’ve already paid the penalty for that crime. Well, our penalty was paid for by Jesus Christ and therefore we can’t be judged again for those sins which Christ has already judged and paid for at the cross of Calvary.

And because every sin that we’d ever commit in our whole lifetime was paid for by Christ at the cross, they were judged and paid for there, all things therefore lawful unto us. We can never be judged again a second time for the crimes that we have committed and be judged and penalized a second time. We were judged at the cross in Christ, our sins were paid for in their entirety, and therefore according to the Bible, we are justified, we are washed, we are sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

But Paul is saying even though I could go out and do anything, any type of crime or sin, and still go to heaven, it’s not a smart thing to do because God is going to judge us. He says also a second time in verse 12 of 1 Corinthians chapter 6, all things are lawful for me. He says that a second time, he says, but I will not be brought under the power of any. In other words, he could live in sin, but he chose not to because of several reasons.

He says first of all that God the Holy Spirit dwells in our body, and we dishonor God when we sin in our body against God the Holy Spirit who dwells in our body. He also tells us that God is going to discipline the delinquent believer. God can take you home to heaven early if you’re not going to listen. In 1 Corinthians 11 verse 30, because the Corinthians needed to be corrected in this area and they were continuing to sin without correcting themselves, it says in verse 30 of chapter 11, for this cause many of you are weak, many are sickly and many of you are dead.

of the Corinthian believers went home to heaven early because God took them out because of their sinful life. You know, as a little boy living at home, whenever I did wrong, my parents would call me into the house. They would say, and now it’s time to come in, son. You’re not going to be allowed to play any longer. And God sometimes might say, it’s time to come home to heaven because you’re not listening and you’re blaspheming my name by your behavior.

I’m just going to take you home to heaven now. So God calls us home. And also then we’re going to stand accountable at the judgment seat of Christ covered in chapter three of 1 Corinthians where we’ll suffer the loss of reward in heaven for not having lived for Christ. So there are consequences for not living for Christ as a believer, but the consequences never help. We will never go to hell. Corinthians 11-32 says, when we Christians are judged, we are chastened or disciplined of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world.

So the world will be condemned, but the believer will never be condemned. We have been saved and in John 3, 18, Christ says, He, the believer, on me is not condemned. And that means not only at the point of time when you believe, but the tents in the Greek is such that it is forever thereafter. In other words, you’re not condemned from the moment you believe and unto the future eternally, you will never be condemned if you have trusted Christ as your Savior.

I’m Dr. Anchles from Mrs. Bibleline. We’re going to go ahead and go to the phone lines. All right. We’re going to go first to Adam in Tampa, Florida. Adam, welcome to Bibleline. That’s right. I have expressed my interest with the Jewish people and to you before. My question is just yesterday I asked you about the coming of the Messiah and where it is in the Old Testament. And there were some verses that you showed that were outside of the 5 books of the Torah.

But is it true that some Jewish people just regard the 5 books of the Torah? Well, that’s where they focus. They love They love the writings of Moses. But let me just share with you something interesting. Look at what Jesus says in John’s Gospel, chapter 5. He tells here an unbelieving hostile Jewish audience. He says, do not think verse 45 of John 5 that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuses you even Moses in whom you trust.

For had you believed Moses, this is the good verse, verse 46. Had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for he wrote of me.” And then it says in verse 47, if you believe not his writings, the writings of Moses, how shall you believe my words? So here Jesus is clearly telling us that Moses spoke about him, and one day Moses will point his finger at them and say, look, you didn’t pay attention to what I read, even though you You claim you read Moses.

You didn’t believe what I said because I talked about Christ and you have rejected him. And he says, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for he wrote of me, John chapter 5 verse 46. So clearly the story of the gospel is there in those wonderful first books of the Bible. Is he talking specifically in the… Well, yeah, he’s talking about a prophet that would come up of their own people like a nemesis, a great deliverer, and Moses was a type of Christ, and Jesus, indeed, around me, 18 is the fulfillment of that prophecy.

In fact, even when they came to John the Baptist, you read in the different Gospels, they said, are you that prophet? They were referring to that one that Moses has spoken about, and John the Baptist said, no, I am not, but he says, I’m the one who’s announcing his coming, and he was the one that prepared to wait for Christ. But Jesus is indeed that prophet that Moses had predicted would come, that Moses said you better listen to him.

Yes, very good. Thank you. You’re so welcome Adam. Thank you for calling into Bibleline today. We’re now going to go to Benjamin in Clearwater. Benjamin, welcome to Bibleline. Chapter 5, talk about the paralyzed person and how Jesus healed this person. But then in verse 14 Jesus finds him in the temple and Jesus says to Hank, look. you was healed, don’t seem no more to avoid. It looked like me, I mean, look to me that the CDC came the senior or practice the scene.

The scene, I would like to, to, to, you explain to me if when people, uh, uh, uh, scene, they can, you know, they can get sick, uh, because, uh, uh, it’s practicing their, the scene. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And certainly illness can come as a result of sin. And the Bible certainly teaches that. But there’s a lot of different reasons for illness. I have listed in my studies over the years about 10 or 12. or 12, I forget how many I came up with, different reasons.

In John 9, you have a man that’s blind from birth and the disciples began to say, who sinned his parents or did this man sin that he should be born blind? And Christ said, neither. He was born blind for the glory of God that Christ might heal him and demonstrate that he is God, that Jesus is God. And so in this particular case, he’s warning him about the potential. But certainly we know that there are sins that can be contracted because of sexual activity that’s outside of the will of God.

We’ve seen a tremendous number of people in the world become afflicted with AIDS and millions have died. Millions have died in just the country of Africa because of AIDS and it seems to be spreading around the world and it takes a long time to incubate. So sometimes it’s many, many years later when death finally occurs. But all of these are potentially true. So we have a great book in our resource center here called None of These Diseases, which is written by a medical doctor and there have been, I don’t know how many million copies sold, but it really is a wake up.

It tells you that if we were only to follow the rules of the Bible, that we would live much healthier lives. And we, as the title of the book comes right out of the book of Exodus, God promised Israel that if they would follow His rules, that they would have none of the diseases come upon them that were afflicting the people in Egypt where they’d come out of. And it’s really quite an eye opener about how you can live a longer, healthier life by simply following the promises and the rules and instructions that God gave.

So you might want to get that book. I love it, and I think it’s a powerful, powerful book that actually tells us that it predates, the Bible predates modern medical science by about 3000 years plus. That’s exciting. And now we’re going to go to Walter in the safety harbor. Walter, welcome to the Bibleline. Hello. Hi Walter. Dr. Lindstrom, I want to ask you, when you die, I know he talks about, you know, that the body goes back to where it came from and the breath of life goes back to God.

The body goes back to the death where it came from. So what happened to us? What do we mean to grave until judgment day? Our bodies do, but our soul goes to be with the Lord at the moment of death. Absolutely. When the body present with the Lord second Corinthians five, eight, the body is spoken of his sleeping in the grave and tell the resurrection. So when Christ comes back, that’s when you’ll get your new body that’ll rise up from the earth.

Or if you’re living, you’ll be just transformed on your way up this body you’re in. Now we’ll be transformed. So you say our soul goes to be with him. Right immediately, you’re conscious and everything else. You just don’t get your new body to tell the resurrection. The body sleeps, not the soul. I’m really, I’m still looking at you. We’ve got to go to break and stay there. We’ll come back and we’ll talk more about it in just a moment.

All right, we have Walter still holding on out there and we’re going to go back to Walter and are you there? Yes. asking about Jehovah? What is your question? My question was, you know, where did you go and you was asking that formula during the break? Yeah, okay. But anyway, in the Jamison Faucet Brown, it gives here, it says, but by my name, it says, rather, interactively, by my name, Jehovah was I not known to them. Am I not the Almighty God who pledged my honor for the fulfillment of the covenant, also the self-existent God who lived to accomplish it.

Rest assured, therefore, that it is a lie that will bring it to pass, and the passage has caused a lot of discussion. It is alleged by many that the occurrence of the name Jehovah in the earlier portions of history was really added in later. It has been thought to intimate that as the name Jehovah, he was not known to the patriarchs and so on and so on. But this view certainly is opposed by many, many other verses from other parts of the scripture.

And what it’s saying here is that the use of the name Jehovah now by God himself in so special a manner must be considered with reverence to the national covenant into which he was about to enter into with Israel. And so I think that is what he’s talking about here. This is the first time that he’s known by that name to the nation as he enters into them, enters into a covenant with him at Mount Sinai. The dispensation of law begins and now this is the way that he would address himself to that nation from now on in a covenantal way.

I think the note is very good and I recommend the Jameson Fossep Brown commentary. It usually has a great discussion on almost every verse of the Bible. We have that for a special gift of $90 for the three volume under bridge set and it normally sells for about $140. It’s really a wonderful treat. Next caller that called in from Tarpon Springs and says if a person asks Jesus into their life, doesn’t that mean that they trusted, that he died on the cross for their sins?

The answer is, in my case, no. Now I guess in spite of that, in spite of some bad terminology, in spite of wrong doctor, and there are people who simply trust Christ and praise God and the result will be that they’re saved. But if you say that the means to be saved is to invite Christ into your life, that’s not true. You can do it, as I did, for 12 years and never was saved at all. So I didn’t understand that I had the trust that Jesus died for me.

It’s amazing. I was raised in church and I didn’t doubt that Christ died, but I had never been told that to be saved I had to trust Him. You know the Bible says in John 1, 12, to as many as received Him. To them God gave the authority to become the sons of God, specifically to those that believe, that word believe means to trust. So when you trust Christ as the one who died for you, God saves you. Think about the dying thief.

And this clears up so much wrong doctrine. And I know we try to accommodate for people who use bad doctrine because sometimes we say, well, I’ve been raised that way all my life. I hate to admit that I’ve been wrong. But the dying thief say, as you looked over at Jesus dying next to him on the cross, Jesus, would you come into my heart? Of course not. The dying thief believed that Christ died for his sins. He, if you read the passage in Luke 23, it’s quite remarkable because the dying thief admitted that he was a sinner, recognized that Jesus was dying and was sinless, recognizing that Christ was going to rise again from the dead.

And he says, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. He knew that Christ would rise again from the dead and have a kingdom that would go on for eternity. and he asked Christ to save him. And believing on his death that Christ would die as the innocent substitute for his sin and come back again from the dead and live forever. So in order to be saved, you must trust Christ. And unfortunately, as Christians, we need to really dump all the bad terminology we’ve learned all our lives.

And it took me really, I’m telling you the truth. It took me about three years to get rid of all the bad terminology that I had picked up along the way before I was saved. I had deliberately say, I will not say that again. I will not say that again. I will not say it again. And I have trained myself to not use phrases that are not biblical. But we have a lot, in fact, probably most of Christianity is using bad phrases that really are not the gospel and praise God in spite of it.

Some people get saved. But how many more would be say, if we only had a clear message. You know Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3, 12, seeing we have such hope, he says, I use great plainness of speech. In other words, we ought to simplify it, make it as plain as we possibly can. So somebody might understand it. And I really believe that I would have trusted Christ much younger. I trusted Christ at 18, but I believe I would have trusted Christ much younger in my life if somebody had come along and explained to me the wonderful simple plan of salvation that I didn’t really hear until my sister invited me to a Bible study after I graduated from high school.

And that only took one time for me when I heard the truth, when I heard it simply explained, I said, wow, that makes sense for me. And I’ll trust Jesus Christ as the one who died for me. And that was the first time in my life that I ever trusted Christ as the substitute sacrifice that He is, that He gave His life in my place shed his blood for my sin so that I might be cleansed of my sin and given the eternal life.

Give to me eternal life. So, Alice in Tarben Springs, I hope that helps answer the question. You really won’t find any verse in the Bible that says to invite Christ in your heart or your life. People use Revelation 3.20, that’s their verse. But it’s not talking about the heart, it’s talking about the door of the church of Laodicea. Christ was left outside the church. They were running the church just fine without Jesus. And you know there are many churches today that don’t need Jesus.

He doesn’t attend their board meetings. He doesn’t attend their worship services. He’s just not included. They are running the church quite well without Him. Alright, well here we go. We have to say goodbye. God bless. Have a great day and we’ll see you tomorrow. Keep looking up. Jesus is coming and try to join us again tomorrow if you can’t hear on Bible. Our time together has ended for today. We’ve enjoyed being with you as always. You can really grow in your Christian walk by spending time studying God’s Word while listening to Bibleline.

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