Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-01-09

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Coming to you from Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida declaring God’s love through radio and television, providing real answers to an ever-searching world. Got a question? Dial toll free at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here’s the host of Bibleline, Dr. Hank Lindstrom. 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 every day Monday through Friday as we come to you live from our studios right here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church, or I am the pastor We look forward to being with you and I hope you’ll tune us in every day and you can not only get us on the Radio but also you can get us on the internet Go to my website, BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe or on the television

set and you’ll be able to get our radio show. We’re so glad to be able to be with you today and if you ever get a chance to come by and say hi, do that. Our resource centers open every day till about 4.30. We also would like to invite you to come by on a worship date. And on our third Sunday, we always have a dinner lunch right after the morning service. That’s a great day to come and make it a day.

Come at 10.30 for the morning worship. Be my guest and bring your Bible, your appetite, your family, and then stay for the dinner lunch that we’ll follow. We have some of the best home-cooked food in the whole world. You’ll enjoy the fellowship and the activities that go on. We hope that you’ll take advantage of that and be a part of our third Sunday dinner here at the Calvary Community Church. We’re about ready to announce the titles of the classes we’ll be offering here on Tuesday nights.

And if you’re in the area, you’ll want to stay close listening to what they might be as we might have you be a part of those classes offered on Tuesday nights. And those will also be available on CD and DVD, wherever you might be in the country. So you can sign up and take them by internet if you want, if you sign up and get a code to watch the, or join the class by audio and video on the internet.

We are excited about being with you today. We’re going to talk about the Bible for a little bit and then we will be of course going to the live callers. And we hope that’s you. number here is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. And you can leave an all-fair question if you like as well if you don’t want to go up on the air and we have lots of those all-fair questions that we’ll be trying to answer as well today. So let’s go to the Bible.

If you have your Bible, get it open to 1 Corinthians chapter 3, and this will be at verse 11. For other foundation, then no man lay, then that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. He is the foundation. He is the rock, not Peter, but Christ. And if I was very clear about that, that Peter is not the rock, Peter is not the foundation, Christ himself is the foundation, and even Peter himself said that in Acts 4, 11, and 12 he said, this is the stone, and he says, Christ is that stone, and neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

So we find that Peter also admits he’s not the stone, he’s not the rock, but Christ is the foundation. And here you have it in 1 Corinthians 3 and 11 as well. For other foundation can no man lay, and that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now verse 12 and on, talk about a judgment coming up for believers only, called the judgment seat of Christ. There are two judgments. One is for believers only, one is for unbelievers only, and they are separated by a thousand years.

And we as believers will stand at this first judgment. Paul the judgment seat of Christ. It says in verse 12, now if any man build upon this foundation, which is that of Christ, only Christians therefore are in this judgment because stuck in here about those that have the foundation of Christ and can build upon that foundation. It says your gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, six different kinds of building materials. And the first three are lasting if tried by fire.

The last three are burnt up if tried by fire, and only ashes will remain. The Bible tells us that our works will be tried by fire at this judgment. It says in verse 13, Every man’s work, that is those that are believers that will stand at this judgment, shall have their works made known. For the date shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. This is not a purgatory.

This is a judgment of works, and the works will be tried to determine whether they were lasting in a value and worthy to be rewarded, or whether they would be burned up and represent things that were temporary and would not last into eternity. So verse 14 goes on to say, now if any man his work should abide that he have built their pawn that is on the foundation of Christ, he shall receive a reward. Now rewards are earned. Salvation is never in the Bible ever spoken of as a reward.

And so salvation is never spoken of as a reward, but rewards are earned and there are many different crowns and rewards that can be earned by the believer for the things that we do. So it says, if any man’s work abide which hath built their pawn, he shall receive a reward. But look at verse 15. This is 1 Corinthians 3.15. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss. And it’s loss of reward, of course, not loss of salvation.

But if your works are burned up, you’ll suffer loss of reward, but he himself shall be saved. Yet so has my fire. In this amazing, it’s saying here that basically even if all your works were burned up, if you did absolutely nothing worthy of reward in your Christian life, you’d still be saved. But you would suffer loss of reward, but you’d be saved yet so as by fire. So we’re only saved by faith alone apart from works. And so if your works when they’re examined at the judgment seat of Christ are burned up and you have no works worthy of reward, you’d still be saved.

That certainly goes across the grain of those who teach that you have to have your life improve in order to be saved or that you have to have works in order to be saved. The Bible doesn’t teach any such thing. The Bible says in Ephesians 2, 9, salvation is none of works. as any man should boast. But as a believer, we will be held accountable for what we have done since we have been saved. And this judgment tells us that we need to work not to be saved but to earn rewards in heaven.

If any man is work abide, which hath built near upon, he shall receive a reward. But if any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss also reward, but he himself shall be saved.” Wow, it’s talking here about what’s going to happen one day when you stand before the Lord. Verse 8 tells us, every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. I trusted Christ and received the gift of everlasting life. The good of heaven has been purchased as received by the believer as a gift, but rewards then are earned and I realized as a new believer that if I was going to have any rewards in heaven, I needed to get busy.

I needed to get doing things and our works are going to be examined. Now, if we’ve done things that are worthy of reward and the Bible outlines things that God will reward, then it says here, when he judges our works by fire, if any abide, then we’ll receive a reward, but if we’ve done nothing, since we’ve been saved, we’ll still be saved, but it says in verse 15 if any man’s works should be burned, he shall suffer loss. In Revelation chapter 20 it talks about the great white throne judgment where all unbelievers will appear and they will have their works examined and it will determine the degree of punishment in hell.

In other words, belief or unbelief in Christ determines your destination. If you are a believer in Christ, if you have trusted Christ as your only means of reaching heaven, you’ll be saved and you’ll go to heaven. If you die as an unbeliever, if you die without Christ, you’ll go to hell. But all believers will stand before a judgment where your works will be examined to determine the degree of reward in heaven. There are degrees of reward in heaven. The Bible is very clear on that.

And unbelievers will go to hell because of unbelief, but their works will be examined to determine the degree of punishment in hell. You see there are degrees of punishment in hell. Satan is the worst punished. Some many people think because of the cartoons that Satan is the ruler of hell that he goes around and tortures people and pokes them with a pitchfork and he’s the one that turns up the heat, turns up the flames and hell and so on.

That is not true. Jesus Christ is the ruler over hell according to the Bible and those that are lost will be cast into hell in the presence of Jesus and the presence of God’s angels and they will be cast into the lake of fire while they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. But before they are cast in according to Revelation chapter 20 verses 11 through 15 they will will stand before the great white throne judgment and their works will be examined and it will be determined what degree of punishment they will receive based upon their deeds.

Believers a thousand years earlier will stand before the judgment seat of Christ and the Believers works will be examined to determine the degree of reward in heaven. So there you have it, A destination is determined by belief or unbelief in Christ, whereas what happens at destination is determined by your works. That’s why works are very important, but they are not a part of our salvation. They are the means by which believers are rewarded, and it’s the means by which the degree of punishment and hell unbelievers are rewarded.

That’s right, they’ll be rewarded according to their deeds, and they go to hell because they reject Christ but their deeds will determine the degree of punishment and hell. I’m Dr. Englund from Mrs. Beimlin. Great to be with you today and we look forward to being with you all week long. I hope you’ll tune us in as often as you can and if you can’t get us during the live broadcast you can catch us certainly on the internet 24-7. We’re now going to go to Jack in Clearwater, Florida and Jack, welcome to Beimlin, you’re on the right the morning doctor was from how are you uh…

my question is that uh… and look at mark i think it’s chapters nine through twenty i’ve got the speculation that that wasn’t actually written by mark that headed later i want to know what you thought for and i want to know what the mission okay jack thank you i totally disagree with that i believe that it uh… is there belongs there and uh… when they talk about the best manuscripts that are you with the best group manuscripts are uh…

and and uh… uh… basically what they’re talking about is that too uh… manuscripts that were in the custodial care and still are of the roman catholic church in uh… the vatican and i really don’t trust those folks and so uh… i don’t think that that we have a reliable source there by the way nobody has ever seen those manuscripts that’s right They have never let anybody see them. Now they have made copies that have been seen, but nobody’s ever seen the original.

And so that’s kind of scary in itself. Why do they keep that a secret? Why don’t let people see that? So these are two manuscripts that people are basing their opinion on, which they’ve never seen. Nobody’s seen those manuscripts at all. only copies have been released that they have said our copies of those manuscripts and that’s the uh… sine adicas and the vaticanus to manuscripts that are in the custodial care of the roman catholic church never seen by outsiders and uh…

so if you want to go that route you can but i i don’t think that that’s uh… reliable there’s a whole nother stream of manuscripts by the way which uh… produce up a whole other series of Bibles from the Eastern branch of Christianity and they are certainly in those manuscripts and I believe they belong there. Thank you Jack for that call and we are now going to go to Mary in the land. Florida over toward Daytona Beach and Mary welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Good morning. I’m calling you concerning your statement that children would not be taken during the Rapture under the age of accountability. And the reason I’m calling on that is because I feel that we are all born into sin, but we are born into the sin of Adam and the sin of Adam you are not held accountable for at the throne of God. You are held accountable for your for your own sin, what you commit. So children beyond the age of accountability don’t differentiate good from evil.

So they are only under the sin of Adam and the blood of Jesus Christ at the cross of Calvary covers them for the sin of Adam. So they have no sin because they cannot account for good and evil under that age. So they would go in the rapture. And I don’t know, maybe you have a Bible verse that would back up something that would say they wouldn’t go, but I feel that they would go during the rapture. Okay. Now Mary, I agree with you that children under the age of accountability are under the blood and would go to heaven.

No doubt about it. David had a son that was born to him by Bathsheba. The Lord took that child. The child became ill, and for seven days David prayed and fasted that God would spare the child’s life. But when the child died seven days old, David said the child will not return to me, but I’ll go to be with that child. So we know David was saved, and David obviously has that child in heaven with him, and will be there for all eternity.

It is what a great comfort that is for believers who lose a child or for anybody who loses a child to know at least the Bible teaches that children under the age of accountability go to heaven. That’s 2 Samuel 12, 23. That’s a great verse. Now the difference here at the Rapture is that life is going to continue on. If God is going to rapture out children under the age of accountability, he would have to take all children that would mean unsaved and save the like.

And so that would be very disruptive because there would be no children left. And yet the Bible tells us that life is going to continue on and they will marry and buy and sell and all those things are described in Matthew 24 that will happen during the tribulation period. And so I believe that if children will be taken and every child on the planet will be taken, not just the children of Christians, but I believe that all would be taken.

But I don’t believe any would be taken. And it’s not really a matter of going to heaven or not. It’s a matter of rapturing out those that are believers that are members of the Body of Christ, and you have to be born again to become a member of the Body of Christ. If those children die because of neglect or whatever, then in a few days or shortly thereafter they would immediately join us in heaven because if they’re under the age of accountability they would be saved.

But I don’t believe that they’ll be raptured and we’ll just have to wait and see. I would like to say that it would be wonderful if you’re right Mary. I have a granddaughter just 14 months old and obviously every parent and grandparent worries about those little ones but I believe that God is going to do the right thing and we’ll just have to trust him. That’s my reason and my answer. I believe that life is going to continue on and it’s not an issue of whether they’re going to be saved or not.

If they die, they’re going to be saved. But being raptured is another ball game and I believe that they will and I know every mother just hates that answer but I try to be as honest as I can about the thing. Life is going to continue on. Once we are rapturing out, the tribulation period will unfold. The Bible says in Matthew 24 that they will marry and give in marriage and buy and sell and eat and drink and so on.

up until the day that Christ will come back at the Second Coming, just as they did in the days of the flood. And then all unbelievers at that point will be killed and only believers will be left behind to live into the Millennial Kingdom. But babies would not be taken out. Life is going to continue. Families will continue and it will be uninterrupted, but the only ones raptured out will be those that are saved that have become born again, that are members of the body of Christ, the bride of Christ, will be caught up to meet up with the Lord and then the tribulation period will win their way.

I respect your opinion and I hope you’re right. Well, from what I’ve read in the Bible and stuff, I still strongly disagree with you on that subject. I do feel that you’re covered under the blood of Christ and even if all children were wrapped their life would go on, life would go on here on earth, but it would go on. The Holy Spirit would be gone. These children that would be left behind believing parents would have no way of finding Christ.

So, therefore, the only way they would find them is if they died and then they went to have it. And I feel that as a young mother having a small child, that it would encourage a mother. It would encourage young people not to believe because they wouldn’t want to leave. I wouldn’t want to leave my grandson here and go. I would rather stay and die with it. I understand. And I don’t think it’s a matter of, you know, whether, you know, you know, believers, it makes a difference if children are going to go, children are going to go, period.

And I hope you’re right, Mary, and thank you for that call. But in any case, my view is that they will not be taken. I know that it’s not a popular answer, but I don’t try to give answers based on how many people will agree with me. All right, we’re going to go to J.C. in St. Petersburg and J.C. Welcome to Bibleline Your On The Air. Yes, thanks Dr. Hank. My question, the comments in regard to salvation, my question is if in regards to salvation you identify yourself or you’re born and sin needing a Savior and that when you believe in Christ you can certainly, there are those who can never be saved.

In other words, there has to be a transfer of trust. Is that correct? Yeah, that’s right. You have to trust Christ to be saved. I was raised in church and I always acknowledged the facts of the life of Christ. I believed that he lived and died and was buried, rose again from the dead, died to pay for sins and all of that. But I never had understood that I had to personally trust him as my Savior to be saved.

So when I was 18, that’s when I trusted Christ. I was not able to believe I had to work on way to heaven, but I never had a problem with the facts that I ascended to concerning the life of Christ, but that didn’t save me. I had to be saved when I trusted Christ and that’s what I did in 18. Yeah, Dr. Heng, how would you believe, how would you do that person, how you actually? Well, it’s from whatever you’re previously trusting in, if anything, the trusting Christ is Savior.

I give illustrations just like a chair when you rest your weight upon that chair. When you sit down and you take your weight off at the floor and rest your weight totally upon the chair, you’ve trusted the chair. And when you take your feet off the floor in the sense of whatever you may be trusting and trust Jesus as the one who will support you and save you and take you into heaven. It’s then that you’re saved. At that moment when you put your total trust in what Christ did for you at the cross by faith alone in Christ alone in His shed blood, the moment you trust Him, God saves you.

Just like the ninth Eve, that’s a great illustration. You have two thieves. One believes one doesn’t. the one that trusted Christ is the one that God saved and he simply relied upon Christ. He said, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom and he placed his trust in Christ to take him into that afterlife and to be with Christ and that kingdom that Christ was going to have. He obviously believed that Christ would come back to the dead, that he would have a kingdom and he wanted to be included and he trusted Christ to get him there.

Yes, I guess so. We’re not in witnessing to the unbeliever. If I use that terminology, transfer your trust. That’s pretty sound when you say. I would say it’s good. I like the phrase Christ died. That’s history. Christ died for me. me, that’s salvation. So you can believe in the historical facts of Christ, but to be saved you must trust that he died for you. Amen. Okay. Thanks brother. Alright. Thank you JC. We have Benjamin in Clearwater and Benjamin, welcome to Bible you’re on the air.

Good morning, Dr. Hank. You have a question? Yes. My question is, as you know, John chapter 3 explained to us how we born again. Yes, it does. Now, when we born again, our flesh is still being seen, our spirit. Blackness is seen, our spirit can not be seen no more. Well, what happens is you have a new birth that is incapable of sinning when you trust Christ, it says in 1st John 3-9. He says that God’s seed remains any man he cannot sin because he’s born a God.

So the new birth is sinless and cannot sin, but yet we still have the old birth but who doesn’t tell we physically die. And until as long as we’re in this body, we’ll still find that we have sin. I believe that we can sin with our old nature, we are body, soul and spirit, but the new birth which is of the spirit of God cannot sin. My vision is in our spirit, even when we are in the spirit we are not sinned no more.

Well, I don’t know if I’d agree with that. It says over, here’s a great birth over in 2 Corinthians 7, 1. says having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. So apparently the spirit can sin while we’re still in this human body and that verse seems to indicate that we need to constantly be cleansing our flesh and spirit. Gotta go to break and so hold on we’ll be back for a second half hour.

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Alright, we’re back for that break and this is Bibleline. It’s exciting to be with you. All of our phone lines are lighted up. We have lots of all-fair questions. We’ve got plenty to keep us busy here and hopefully you’re enjoying the Bibleline program. Again, we want you to know that we’re on every day, Monday through Friday. We’re on many stations across North America from the state of New York all the way down here to Florida and over to the West Alabama and Michigan and so on.

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That would be great. If every listener gave a little bit, we would really be in great shape and we trusted God will lay that on your heart. We’re going to go to the phone lines. We have so many people on that all of our lines are blinking and we’re going to go first to Vicki in Tampa, Florida and Vicki, you’re on the Bibleline program. Greetings, Pastor. Happy New Year. Well, same to you. Thank you. My question is regarding Colossians 4 verse 5.

And this scripture was referenced from St. Matthew, chapter 10, when Jesus had instructed the twelve disciples and sent them forth. And verse 16, he had given them the instruction to be wise and serpents. That’s where the Colossians 4-5 reference was given. But it says, walking with them towards them that I was out redeeming the time. Yes. Can you give me a little insight in, you know, what’s that? Well, obviously we need to be smart in trying to win the loss.

They have really, basically, if you’re unsaved, they don’t have any spiritual knowledge generally. They don’t know much about the Bible. and many times they’ve been stung or turned off by religions, whatever that means, and therefore we need to be smart in our approach to them. And then it says redeeming. Redeem means to deliver by paying a price, so we need to redeem the time. In other words, buy valuable time and use the opportunities that come our way to be able to bring the gospel to the lost.

And one of the things we might be alert to here in our wisdom is that most people get saved around some kind of event in their life. A birth, a death, a birthday, a graduation, an accident, a surgery. Whenever there’s something significant going on, maybe in your neighbor’s life, their child is graduating, that’s a good time to intercept them with a gospel. give them a book or a CD or some kind of help at that time or if they go to the hospital, bring them a devotional booklet, maybe a track that would have the gospel in it, maybe Okay.

All right. Okay. Now. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. I’m going to do this. Okay. Thank you. I’m going to do this. I want to go. Okay. Okay. We’ll have a little bit of quieted. Because we can’t go here. All right. He said, I’ll do this two weeks from now when the urgency for them may be passed and may not be as interested or open to hear the gospel. So this is a this is a be what it is to be wise and even with your own children There are times when they will listen and there are times when they don’t listen if you’re a parent You know what I’m talking about and now all of a sudden there’s a window of opportunity when you’re curious about something and that’s your opportunity to talk and And explain and so on so if there’s a door that opens where they’re curious about heaven or about death or about whatever

I remember in my son’s life There was a time where driver long and there was a place where they made tombstones and he was curious about that. We had a great discussion about death, but it all came out of the fact that he saw this place where they made the tombstones. And so I took advantage and we talked in the car for quite a while about life after death and so on in the tombstone and whatever. And it was an opportunity that I’ll never forget because the door was open and I used that opportunity to explain things to him about eternity.

That is a blessing. Thank you so much. Just to tap onto that regarding our children, that is so true because I remember having a conversation with my son when he was younger. He wanted a tattoo and I was just explaining to him why he really did not need to have a tattoo. and it was years later when he was like twenty-three that he you know gave me the explanation that he gave to basically girls who inquired why he didn’t have a tattoo and he said well you know years ago my mom said something and it just stuck with me and i didn’t even know he was really listening and it was you wouldn’t write on it would you go and cook graffiti on a church wall look at that you said and he said no i said well your body is a temple why would you put graffiti on it

and I never even knew that he really heard it. Look at that. But I’m such a blessing. Justin, thank you so much. Well, Vicki, you’re so welcome. And also, of course, the Bible verse Leviticus 19.28 says you’re not to print any marks on your body. So that’s a great Bible verse as well. It might keep in your arsenal for future use. Can you repeat that Leviticus? 19.28. 19.28. Thank you so much. All right, Vicki. God bless you, Pastor. God bless you.

and happy new year to you and all of our listeners out there. We’re going to Sam in Lakeland, Florida. And Sam, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hey, enjoy listening to your program and everything. I had a couple of comments that I like to say. It was a guy listening to the day was talking. He called in and he was talking to you about a hair. And he was talking about something about hair. And he said somebody started to call her hair and how to ask this question.

And he said something about the fact It was, if I understood it right, right, he said something about the fact that it’s a skeleton and shame. A person saying they ain’t saved have more time on hand. You get more time than you do to a Christian. But to my understanding, I would thank you for the reason because people just say they spoke to the God and people to the Christian to be here to word and everything. Which when Harold, I admit Harold called him and he talked for Alsace, or he had no And he also told you, he said you’re offering this every week.

This guy was talking and he didn’t say he’s saying it. He might send you one. I don’t know. But he didn’t say he did send you that often. And so I think he should have been, I asked you, telling you, do you own a good job for the comfort of reason, you’re going to try to tell us and explain to the loss and everything else. And I think that’s wonderful. And I also like to come in the lady with saying this morning, I think you would write about the baby because God said, when he come back to the people that is a patient and one willing to be saved and a child if he died, yeah he would go to heaven.

But we don’t have life in our hands, God have life in our hands. So when she says she don’t want to go there, we don’t want to leave without her grandchild. She’s going to leave anyhow without her grandchild. When she die, she’s going to have to leave when she want to go or not. So you’re right with your family at Caragold because we die every day and leave our children here when we want to or not. So, but the point is I think you’re doing a good job and I like listening to you.

I like the answer. You tell I wish we’re not. We didn’t say everybody would be But I thank you for doing a good job. Also, I want to say, when I was to my Christmas other day, I just to my Christmas, we spoke to praise the Lord seven days a week. We’re every Sunday we come together to praise the Lord every Sunday in the Spirit. When I was talking about it, in the Spirit we praise Him seven days a week.

So we pick out a day of Sunday that prays and everybody come together and prays. And the only thing I was saying was for a birthday everybody should pick out another day like your own Christmas. And the way I understand it, of course I want to ask you this, when people come to celebrate Jesus, I mean, to celebrate His birthday, when they come to celebrate being best, that means they come in and worship Jesus and praise Him just like they do all their Sunday.

They don’t go wishing to tell them they go wishing Jesus up. And so this is what’s wrong with having a special day for once a year, which is Christmas for the praise of the Lord, which is going to praise Him in and out. At least we should praise Him in and out on the kind He said, praise Him seven days a week. So that’s my comment. I agree with you Sam. Thanks a lot. I don’t have anything to add to that.

We have Frank in Lakeland, Florida and Frank welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Frank. Oh You gotta turn that reader down Been a long time coming. I’ve been listening to you now about the mouth or more And then planning to call you. Well look at that. Oh, you’re finally got through and you’re on the air right now I only did it. I know this you talked about I’m going to heaven. You can be saved, but you won’t reap the rewards.

That could you explain to me what rewards will be considered. Okay. There are, in Frank, five crowns that the Bible mentions. One is called the teacher’s crown, 1 Peter 5’4″, called the crown of glory to those that would teach the word of God to someone else, maybe your family, your children, maybe a Sunday school class, in some way begin to teach the Bible to others and you’ll get the crown of glory. There are those who will endure testing or trials in their life and still be faithful to the Lord.

James 1 12 says, blessed are they which endure trials or temptations and they’re going to receive the crown of life, a special crown given to those that are willing to stand tall for God even though they’re going through trials. We find that there is a crown called the Crown Interruptible, given to those that keep their bodies disciplined and live focused for the Lord. Like an athlete training for the Olympic Games, which were in view in the passage during 1 Corinthians 927, it tells us that that person would receive a crown not like they got in the Olympic Games, which was a corruptible crown, usually a laurel wreath, but it would be an incorruptible crown, one that would be around forever.

There is also the crown for soul-winning, 1 Thessalonians 2, 19 and 20, talk about the crown of rejoicing, which comes by leading someone to Christ. There is also the crown of righteousness in 2 Timothy 4, 8, which if you look for Christ’s return and live your life in view of that. You’ll receive that crown. So that’s a little bit of a tip off there is the things that we can do. Each of them will earn a different crown in heaven and there will be crowns given out for those that have been faithful in different areas of their Christian life.

Great, sir. Absolutely. Our salvation is a gift that was purchased by Christ’s death, but rewards in heaven are earned by what we do here. Christ speaks about that in the Sermon on the Mountain in Matthew 6. He talks about in verse 19, don’t have your focus on earthly treasures, but verse 20 says, lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. We can do that by investing of our time and our talents and our treasures, our monies for the Lord. As you give of your time to the Lord, setting aside time maybe to read the Word of God and to pray and maybe attend church.

As you said, aside your talents, if you have any abilities or talents you could use for God’s glory, we had some fellows that are great at painting and they came and painted our church auditorium for us free of charge. Wow, what a great investment of their talent for God here in blessing our church with their talent. And then there are those who invest of their finances and their treasures. And in all those ways, you’re laying up treasures in heaven the Bible speaks about.

So we could all be giving to the Lord, not in order to be saved, but because we’re grateful for what He gave for us. he gave his life at the cross. Wonderful Frank. God bless you. Happy New Year. That was Frank in Lakeland, Florida. We have Bonnie in Richmond, Virginia and Bonnie. Welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Bonnie, are you still there? You have to. Well, you’re not Bonnie though. You’re Bonnie. I’m Bonnie. Okay. I didn’t, I was spelling here was different than I thought they go ahead.

You’re on the air. I’m on the air. Right now with me, uh-huh. Oh, excuse me. I got two questions. One is, well, I forgot what I would say. One is, what’s the difference between trusting Christ and receiving Christ and the reason why I’m asking you because I heard a lot of pastors be saying, receive Christ as your Savior. And then I heard you said, trusting. Well, Well, you know, they do mix you up, don’t they? I tell you, I hate that.

But in John 1 Paul, it says to as many as received him. So it’s a valid thing to receive Christ. But it tells you how in the end of John 1 Paul, it says by believing or trusting on his name. In other words, recognizing who Christ is and what he did for you. When you trusted He died and shed His blood at the cross was buried in the dead, God saves you and it’s in that way that you receive Him.

So John 1 12 defines how we receive Christ by trusting that He died for us. John 1 12. John 1 12? Yes sir. The next question is from 1 Timothy 5 16 through 18 and the reason I’m asking this far as you know your regular family and your family of God. Okay let me go to that passage and that’s in 1 Timothy. Yeah 1 Timothy 5. It’s all right. I’m there right now. It says here, if any man or woman that believe it, have widows, let them relieve them and not let the church be charged, that it may relieve them that our widows indeed.

So it’s basically saying take care of your family members. Now today we put people in a home, whereas the biblical thing was to, you know, and today Many families are all divided. It used to be that in the family you’d have grandma and grandpa and the children and the grandchildren and everybody was at least in close proximity if not living right next door to each other or in a huge or large home. Everybody took care of one another. But today we kind of isolate ourselves from one another.

But basically the biblical principle is you take care of your mom and dad when they get older as they took care of you, well, you were in your youth. And so, of course today some do that by putting them in a home, but there’s not that time of fellowship either separated then and so on. It’s wonderful if it’s possible for you to do it to take care of them in your home. Well, I think that if you can, as you know, not necessarily you take care of the whole extended family, but family members ought to take care of family as much as possible and that doesn’t mean you just have people that don’t work, say it at your house and you feel a little bit, but it means that if they’re disabled or not able to or they’re all aged, does it permit that as best as you can to try to help them in a system in their old age?

Thank you, Dr. Nelson. You’re very welcome and that was from Richmond, Virginia. Well, we have lots of offer questions. I need to go ahead and grab some of those. We have Greg in Tampa, Florida leaving this offer question. Do you have a theory as to what the seven thunders are mentioned in Revelation 10? Are and why God had John mention them at all since he was not allowed to write what they said? I really have no idea what those judgments are, but apparently it lets us know that there’s a whole other series of judgments like the seven seal judgments, the seven thunder, the Given that Trumpic judgments and the seven wild judgments, there are another set of seven.

This is a wonderful lesson that is a book that will occur, and for whatever reason God doesn’t tell us what they are, but we’ll have to leave it at that, Greg. I do have a series on the book of Revelation on CD, 12 CDs that cover all 22 chapters. I recommend that highly if you would like to do a study on the book of Revelation. We have JT in Powitan New York. He calls in and says, I see you in the book of the book.

something true during the thousand years after the tribulation that we will be having babies and they will need to be saved. Well, we won’t have babies as believers. We’ll come back in our glorified bodies. And the Bible says in Matthew 22.30 that will not be given in marriage or be married or have children, but those that are saved during the tribulation, J.T., that survived The judgments of the tribulation and living to the millennium will still be in their mortal bodies.

They will have children and their children will marry and have children and so on and they will need to be saved. But we won’t be having marriage or sex once we have died. We’ll come back in our resurrection bodies. Thank you, JT, up there in New York and hopefully that answers your question. We have Claude off here from Brampton on Terrio, Canada. He says, why is it that although we are not saved by works, yet Christians say it’s a sin to drink a beer or wine and so on.

Well the answer is that even though we’re not saved by works and salvation is the gift of God, we are to live our lives in a way that glorify the Lord. So if you read 1 Corinthians 6-19 it says, what? Don’t you know? Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God and you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which belong to Him.

So basically whenever you do any activity ask yourself is this going to glorify the Lord? Is this going to be a good testimony? Is this going to impact somebody to bring them to Christ or will it turn them away as a Christian testimony. That’s the rule 1 Corinthians 6 19 and 20 are powerful. Verse, off eared David in St. Petersburg, Florida calls in and leaves this off eared question, what was the crime that Jesus was crucified for? And the answer was, or is, the Jews brought him to Pilate and they wanted to kill him because of blasphemy, because he was claiming to be God and they rejected that claim, but he of course is God.

The Romans cared less about that, and so the Romans crucified him on the charge that was brought that he was claiming to be a king. And so the crime that Pilate had written above the cross was Jesus, King of the Jews. And that was the crime, which was treason because only the emperor in Rome was to be the ruler and for some else to come along with the king. That was treasonous to the Roman Empire. So hopefully that answers your question.

Two charges, the Jews charging for blasphemy, the Roman government charging for treason and claiming to be a king. Self-air Sally in Michigan calls in and leaves this offer a question. In Mount Kai 4.5, who was the prophet that went before the great Lord? Was it Elijah? Well, I was talking about Elijah coming back. Sally, during the tribulation period after the rapture, Elijah will come back before the great and dreadful day of the Lord. The great and dreadful day of the Lord is the last three and a half years of the tribulation period.

In the first three and a half years Elijah will be back and be preaching. You can see that also in Revelation 11 where it talks about two prophets coming back and preaching during those 42 months, the first half of the tribulation. The other one I believe is Moses. We have Ken in Stintville, New York and he says, please give scripture that proves that tongues no longer exist. Well, 1 Corinthians 13 verse 8, Ken says that tongues would cease. It tells us they would cease in verse 10, 1 Corinthians 13, when the New Testament record was complete.

We have a wonderful book written by Merle Unger called The New Testament Teaching on Tongues that goes through all of this and just absolutely nails the coffin shut on the whole issue. The New Testament was completed with the book of Revelation written around 80-96, and what is done today is a gibberish. It is not. We’re going to have to wind it up here. I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom. This is Bibleline. We’re going to be back again. Lord willing tomorrow. We’re on Direct TV tonight at 630.

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