Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-01-19

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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. Welcome to Bibleline. Great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast. We appreciate you and all of our listeners. I 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 where I’m the pastor.

And we always love to meet our listeners. And so you’re always welcome to come by and say hi. And a lot of folks do and they say, hey, you invited me to come. And so we really do enjoy that. It’s wonderful to get to meet you. Now some come from great distances if you ever come into Tampa from out of town. We’re right next to the airport. Just take those extra couple minutes and swing by as we’re directly west of the main north south runway at Tampa International Airport.

The road that borders the airport runs north and south and we’re the next street over one block away. And so if you get more than a block away, you are obviously going to get yourself lost. So come on by. By the way, this Sunday is a great Sunday to come by. It’s our third Sunday. That’s when we eat after the morning worship service. And you’re welcome to come be my guest. Stay for the 1030 service. You’re deputized to bring your whole family, your neighborhood if you want.

And join us for the 1030 service and then be my guest for lunch right after the service. We’ll have some of the best home food and all the world. We’re going to eat and enjoy it. And the fellowship is great as a chance to meet one another and get to know each other a little bit. So you’re welcome to come by. You can just put that on your calendar every third Sunday. We have one of those eating times. That’s right.

So plan to combine visitors this Sunday if you’re in the area. You’re sure welcome to do that. By the way also, we are excited about the fact that we’re on the seven days a week here in the Tampa Bay area. So if you are listening in the Tampa Bay area to my blind, we’re on Saturdays and Sundays as well from 10 to 11 Eastern time. So you can join us over the weekend as well. We also are streaming our radio program right now to the website.

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We are excited about being with you today and we hope that if you want to ask a question You’ll call our 800 number. You can leave the question off here or you can go on the air with us. The number is 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. So please feel free to give us a call and we would love to hear from you. So, uh… That number again is 1-800-576-3771. I want to talk a little bit about repentance. A lot of preachers use the phrase and a lot of people use the phrase, repent of sin.

I heard this so often as I was growing up and you know this often quoted phrase repent of sin Does not even occur in the Bible did you hear me the phrase? Let me say quote repent of sin unquote that phrase Does not even occur once in your Bible? You know I was shocked because I heard it so frequently. I thought boy that phrase is everywhere in the Bible now Now listen carefully, I didn’t say repentance wasn’t in the Bible.

I said the phrase, quote unquote, repent of sin is not in the Bible, it’s just not there. And it’s amazing, isn’t it? Most people are shocked to find out that it does not appear in the Scripture. And I was shocked. And it’s amazing how that nowhere does the Scripture use the phrase repent of sin to be saved. that phrase. For example, what the scripture does say in Acts 2021 is repentance toward God that is a change of mind toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

You see the Greek word meta noia is what is translated into the English word repentance. Repentance This is the translation of the Greek word metanoia. The literal meaning of metanoia is a change of mind. Metha means change. Neuya means mind. The two together metanoia means a change of mind. And before learning about metanoia, I am sure that you are already familiar with a Greek word with a preface meta. probably have heard metamorphosis. Metamorphosis means form or structure and this word metamorphosis is used to describe the change that a caterpillar goes through to become a beautiful butterfly.

So I’m sure you’ve studied about this change of form. Well, repentance, the Greek word is metanoia, the word noia means mind, so it’s a change of mind. So therefore repentance is a change of mind. Meta change, noia, mind, change of mind. It doesn’t mean turn from sin. It doesn’t mean sorrow for sin. And this has been obviously a victory for Satan because he’s added works to salvation and cause untold confusion among believers. The misuse of the word repentance has caused confusion among believers and unbelievers alike.

Satan is the author of confusion. First Corinthians 1433 tells us that Satan is the author of confusion. And obviously he’s been delighted in the misuse of the word repent. One of the counterfeits that Satan is using today to confuse the gospel is the misuse of the word repentance. to insist upon a repentance that at any sense includes the demand for a change of conduct either toward God or man is to add works to salvation. And the Bible tells us salvation is not of works.

In dozens and dozens of verses, Ephesians 2-9 says salvation is not of works, lest any man should boast or brag. Here are some definitions for you. Penance is payment for sin. Penance is sorrow for sin. Works and something of self is turning from sin, but metanoia, translated repentance in your Bible means a change of mind. Repentance in salvation means a change of mind from any idea of religion that man might have and accepting God’s way of salvation. Man’s great need is to understand God’s way of salvation and accept His sacrifice.

You’ve heard it, John 3.16, for God’s love the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Well, why do we have this problem? Well, the problem has come about because Bethenoyah should have never been translated into the English word repent. the English word does not mean the same thing as the Greek word metanoia. So perhaps what the translator should have done was a transliteration. The Greek word, for example, the translators of the King James Bible took the Greek word Baptizo, dropped the O, replaced it with an E, and they brought the new word baptize into the English language.

This is called a transliteration. They should have done this with Bataenoya, and the problem would have been eliminated. Can you imagine preachers saying, as they speak to their congregations, Metanoia! Metanoia! Metanoia! Well, at least we would probably get the correct meaning then because we’d have to look at the Greek word and figure out what it means. But that would have been better than the English word repent. It was just a bad translation from the get-go. The word in English does not mean the same thing as the Greek word metanoia.

So this is the problem. Understanding the doctrine of repentance can relieve some of the confusion your friends may have had concerning repentance. Here’s a way to handle it. Remember this, a person may repent without believing, but a person cannot believe without repenting. Let me say that again. You can repent without believing, but you cannot believe without repenting. What does that mean? Well, if you get this down, you’ve understood the doctrine of repentance. In other words, you can repent, you can change your mind and not believe or trust that Christ died for your sins.

You can acknowledge who Christ is and you can change your mind about how sin is paid for and quite a number of things, but you have never trust Christ. But you cannot believe or trust Christ without repenting because you see, when you do trust Christ, you change your mind in the process. impossible to believe or trust Christ without repentance. Because you change your mind about whatever you were previously trusting in to now trusting Christ when you put your belief or trust in Christ you change your mind it’s a part of it.

You know repentance is necessary for salvation but it means you have to keep this in mind it means a change of mind. I I use the Scofield Reference Bible, and Dr. C.I. Scofield in the Scofield Reference Bible that I’m using copyrighted in 1909 has the following footnote. He says, and this was about a hundred years ago, now we’re two years short, that repentance is the translation of a Greek word, metanoia, meaning to have another mind or to change the mind, and is used in the New Testament to indicate a change of mind and respect of sin of God and of self.

This change of mind may, especially in the case of Christians who have fallen in the sin, be preceded by sorrow, but sorrow for sin, though it may work repentance, is not repentance. And then he says, saving faith includes and implies that change of mind which is called repentance. And that’s what we just said. You can repent without believing, but you cannot believe without repenting. So when you trust Christ, you do repent. You do change your mind from whatever you are previously trusting in to trusting in Christ, whereas you can change your mind and not believe.

So you can repent without believing, but you can’t believe without repenting. Write that down and that will help you to be able to convey the meaning of repentance to somebody else. Because when you believe or trust Christ, you do change your mind. So the Schofield Bible a hundred years ago points out that saving faith includes and implies that change of mind which is called repentance. The night that I trusted Christ I knew nothing about the doctrine of repentance. I really didn’t know a thing about it.

I trusted Christ and was saved. Later, as I began to understand the doctrine of repentance, I realized that I had changed my mind that night that I trusted Christ at eighteen about several things. I had never heard in my church that Jesus Christ is God. I saw the scripture that Jesus Christ is God and took on flesh and I changed my mind about who Christ is, that he is not just a great teacher, the founder of Christianity, but he is God who came and took on human flesh.

Also was taught all my life by my church that works would get me to heaven, that I had to have more good works than bad works to make heaven, or I would go to hell. I had to change my mind about that and realize that works wouldn’t pay for my sin. And then I had to learn that Christ alone was the Savior, that if I simply trusted Him and Him alone, I would be saved. And so I changed my mind about all of those things and maybe some more.

But I hadn’t really consciously thought about it. It was just that I came to see the light in the Scripture about who Christ is, about how sin was paid for by Christ’s death, that works would not save me, that I could not be say by anything that I would do. You’ll notice, for example, if you study the book of Acts, He told them that they needed to change their mind. He told them that they had made a mistake, that they had actually crucified the one who is the most famous.

the one who is the Messiah, that He is the Lord of glory, that He has God in flesh. And He presents His case and they were convicted in their hearts. They said, what should we do? And Peter says, we can’t change your mind. And He wasn’t telling them to turn from sin. They were to change their mind about who Christ is and place their trust in Him and they would be saved. Well, I wish preachers today would get that right.

And you know in the Old Testament what is amazing to me of the 43 times that repent occurs in your Old Testament, 37 of those times it is God who repents not men, only six times as it used of men saying that they repent. What does that tell you? Well if sin means to turn, or rather if repent means to turn from sin, then we’ve got a big theological problem. We have a Holy Sinless God that is turning from sin left and right throughout the whole Old Testament.

Check it out for yourself. 43 times the word repent occurs in the Old Testament and 37 of those times it is God who repents. So if you do the math and divide 37 by 43 that means 86% of the time it’s God who repents in the Old Testament. Do you believe that God has to turn from sin? Of course not. That’s craziness. But we have a lot of ed teaching out there today and we’re going to hopefully clarify this thing for you to help you understand that when you trust Christ you become saved.

If you had to turn from your sin to be saved, that would be something of self, it would be a human work and would violate the plan of salvation and make works a part of the plan. I’m Dr. Inge’s instrument, this is Bibleline, and I’m going to go to the phone lines. We have a lot of colors. Some have already had to drop off and others have dropped or have come on to the line, but we’re going to Andy, Andy in Tampa, Florida.

Andy, welcome to Bibleline. You’re on the air. How you doing? Good. You’re on the air, Andy. Go ahead. I got a question. In Genesis chapter 15 it talks about Abraham having a vision from God and then down in verse 12 of the same chapter it talks about that he has another vision but this vision is kind of it says a whore of great darkness and I was wondering if you could maybe talk a little bit about what’s going on there and maybe a little bit about people say they have visions today.

Well, the kind of visions of the Bible talked about that he gave in the Old Testament, which obviously had to do with the teachings of the Bible. Here we have a picture of Christ in verse 9. He’s told to think in Heifer of three years old, and it speaks of the, I believe, the three-year ministry of Christ, and it speaks about this sacrifice being offered. And here he enters into a promissory covenant with Abraham and it’s based on the blood of that sacrifice, which is really a picture I think of Christ.

And what is amazing to me is he foretells the future for Abraham over the next many, many centuries. It says here, no assured, he, verse 13, that your seed will be a stranger in a land that’s not theirs. and they shall serve them, and they shall afflict them for 100 years. Well obviously that talks about when his grandson was born, and in his great-grandchildren were born, that they went down into Egypt. And they wound up serving the Egyptians as we know, and it says they then became afflicted for 100 years.

Well that’s an amazing prophecy because this is formed before Abraham even had any children. So we find here that obviously he’s telling about a nation that was spring forth from him and go down to Egypt and they were there 430 years but they were in favor with the Pharaoh that knew Joseph. Now, the Church of Egypt had been a Antim tablet for 30 years but then after that another Pharaoh came up that didn’t know Joseph and obviously they were afflicted for the next 400 years and it says verse 14 that nation whom they shall serve Egypt will I judge and he did judge Egypt and destroyed their RV and he worked all those 10 plagues upon the nation of Egypt and then he says afterward Israel or the descendants of Abraham would Egyptians that came out with all kinds of gold and other subsidence, including animals

and so on. Verse 15, and it says Abraham, now she’ll go to thy fathers in peace, so he died a peaceful death, which it says later, and now she’ll be buried in good old age. So he lived 175 years, so he did live a pretty good time. Verse 16 says, in the fourth generation, they shall come hither again back to the promised land. And you know it’s exactly four generations later. When you follow the genealogies over in Exodus, you find that Moses was the fourth generation from Abraham, and that was exactly what happened.

And then it says here, it goes on, it’ll come back here to the Promised Land, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. So God basically was going to use Israel to judge the Amorites when they came in and destroyed that nation because of their sinfulness and God was giving them four generations and obviously 430 years plus to get it right but they didn’t and then he brought judgment by bringing Israel in to judge the Amrites. So quite an incredible story here and this is the promise that he made and is a picture of the shed blood of Christ being the means by which God made this oath to Abraham that he would let him know what the future would hold for him.

It’s a wonderful, wonderful chapter, and certainly it tells us how Abraham got saved in verse 6 where he says he believed in the Lord. That is, the Lord would bring the Messiah, the seed that would come of his lineage, and he counted it to him for righteousness. So Abraham was saved by faith without works, by simply trusting Christ that he would come future of his own lineage to be the Messiah that would be his Savior. that helps Andy. Thank you.

You’re welcome. Andy in Tampa, Florida, calling in and now we’re going to go to Benjamin in Clearwater, Florida. Benjamin, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hello, this is Benjamin. How are you? Good. The Bible say the John the Baptist is the, what we have, we see on the Bible that we have also a prophet in the New Testament. Why did you do that? You are the new, I think you. The New Testament prophets were very temporary nature. They were to be able to bring revelation to the people in the interim until God’s revelation was given through the apostles in the scripture.

And so you read 1 Corinthians 13 verses 8 through 10. It says that one of the gifts that was temporary that would cease would be the gift of prophecy. And it wasn’t like that you were going to meet a tall dark stranger in the near future or that you’re going to inherit some wealth as some of the modern day prophets do today. But basically, prior to the reading of the New Testament and having the Bible completed, you didn’t know what God’s program was.

But now, I don’t need a prophet because I can read in my Bible the next to God’s program is the Rapture. Then will follow seven years of tribulation, very which time the Antichrist will rise to power and gain control over a great portion of the earth. At the end of that seven years, Armageddon will occur, a war over the Middle East, over inlaxley, begin there in Israel and Armageddon. And then Christ will come back, defeat those armies and set up his kingdom, Christ will rule for a thousand years, and then it takes us into eternity about how this earth will be destroyed, how new earth will be created, and how that we’ll have a home in heaven in the New Jerusalem that will come down from heaven to the new earth and we’ll live with the Lord forever and ever.

The loss will be cast into hell and it tells when that will happen at the end of that morning and so on. So basically we don’t need to get the prophecy today because the Bible tells us all these things well in advance. Thank you Benjamin for that call. We have a lot of other colors sitting here, but we’re getting toward the end. Let me just say that this… We’re going to spend our time exclusively in Israel and we’re going to walk again the steps where Christ walked and go to the places where Biblical stories are.

where biblical stories took place, it’s going to be really quite an education. I’ve been 13 times. This will be trip number 14 for me. And we’ll study the Bible basically all day long together. Wouldn’t that be fun? I’d love to have you go. Please call me today and have my operators let them know that you want to go and I’ll talk to you personally about it and answer any questions, but we have to get a yes side of you this weekend if you want to get in otherwise the door will be shut.

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This Sunday would be a great Sunday to come by and visit. We have a dinner every third Sunday and so you can come at 1030 for the morning worship and then stay for the lunch that follows. And everybody’s invited. You’re invited to be my guest and bring your family and your appetite and your Bible. And stay for a lunch dinner, some of the best home good food in all the world. And that’ll be this Sunday, the 21st right here at Calvary Community Church.

Now, if you’re from out of town, I know you probably can’t attend the dinner. But whenever you come to town, you’re always welcome to come by and visit our resource center during the week. Open Monday through Friday, till about 4.30 in the afternoon. Also, you’re welcome to come by on a worship day, either a Wednesday or a Sunday. We hope you will do that. And we will just give you the red carpet treatment. We want you to come in.

We’d love to meet you. And certainly you’re my guest. I hope you’ll come. And so many people tell me I’m here because you invited me. And I said, well, that’s great. We just are delighted to be able to meet those who come and and visit with us here in person And of course you can also visit our website there You can see a lot about us not wherever you might be on the planet We are down to the wire on our trip to Israel leaving March 12th.

We’ve had a couple of consulat cancellations So we have two open spots if you would like to be The two that would fill that up You’re welcome to call me and my operators will put you right through to me because I want to talk to you and I give you this opportunity to go with us and we’ll be studying the Bible all day long, we’ll be baptizing in the Jordan River, we’ll be retracing the footsteps of Jesus and we’ll see one end of the country to the other from Mount Hermon in the north, So it’s a very low-capped all year long, the source of the Jordan River, down to the Dead Sea, and the most fascinating spot on the Earth.

This Dead Sea is 1,300 feet below sea level. It’s the lowest spot on the face of the Earth, and it’s quite significant in size. It’s about 40 miles long, totally, so it’s a pretty good significant body of water, and it’s about 1200 feet deep so it’s not only at the surface, 1300 feet below the sea level, but it goes down another 1200 feet. So it’s a big hole in the earth and the water is beautiful, clear and nice greenish, a blue color and nothing lives in it because it’s so filled with minerals and salt that it’s saltier than any other body of water on the earth.

And we’ll all get a chance you’ll win if you’d like, bring your bathing suit and you can’t sink. That’s right, you’ll float. I have laid on my back and taken a newspaper, let it catch the wind and kind of body surfed on top. It’s fascinating. I’ve taken a rock, maybe about eight-pound rock and put it on my stomach and still I’m floating it on my back with my arms out of the water. You’ll just thrill at the whole trip and what it will do for you.

So please give me a call. This weekend is it. So call me anytime during the weekend, but today would be good if you could call me and at least inquire because we got to make that decision by Monday. So let me know. In any case, we’re going to go back to the phone lines. We have a lot of people waiting patiently. And so thank you for your patience as we go to Everett in Richmond, Virginia and Everett welcome to my one.

How are you doing Dr. H? Good. My first question for the 19th 14th to the Jehovah Witnesses and my second is we’re coming back together as a country before the Messiah returns. Absolutely. I will try to take a look at that. You know, I’m not too sure of the 1914 day, but I know that the witnesses have announced the return of Christ numerous times and have set dates that have been wrong. And they try to deny that, but they, they’re like chameleons.

They’re hard to, you know, they change as they go. And I have, for example, they teach that Christ was crucified. on a stake, not a cross, but I have several Jehovah’s Witness books in my library that are copyrighted around 1940-1942, and they all have pictures of Christ on a cross, not on a stake. So they just, you know, they’re just slippery, and they wiggle, and they obviously are liars because they don’t tell the truth, and the witnesses obviously change their mind about things as they go in 1914 is one of those incidences.

But definitely Jesus will come back and the Bible talks about it will be when Israel has been born again as a nation in the Middle East. I love Jeremiah chapter 30 Everett. It says the word in verse 1 of chapter 30 of Jeremiah, the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, thus speak if the word got of Israel, write the words that I have spoken into the book. So here God is telling Jeremiah to write down what he has to say.

For though the days come, say of the word, then I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, say of the word, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and they shall possess it. And these are the words which the words thank concerning Israel and concerning Judah. So this is an amazing prophecy really written here around 2600 years ago and 2700 years ago. And it tells about the return of the Jews back to the land.

And the Bible tells us when the Jews have returned back to the land that is the latter days and that’s when Jesus will return. So we’re in that time right now and I believe the Lord’s coming is probably very soon. There’s a lot of doom and gloom out there in the world and that’s obviously the people as they look out in our future, the near, very near future they see. Really what the Bible has already predicted, a time of tribulation, a time of lawlessness, a time of trouble, a time of violence like the world has never seen before.

I said it would be like the days of Noah and if you read Genesis 611 it says the earth was filled with violence. And wow, the earth was corrupt and it is today and it was filled with violence and we see that. I think we’re very close ever. Thank you for that call. We now have George in Tarpon Springs, Florida and George won’t come to Bible and you’re on the earth. Okay, hey Dr. Hank, the other day I was reading through Mark and I came to a Mark 1st 21.

Alright, go ahead. Go ahead. It says when his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, where they said he is out of his mind. I take it as Jesus’ family coming to take charge of him. This is when it is early ministry, I guess. Where are you reading? Mark, what is it? Three what? Mark 3 21. It says in my King James Bible and when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him for they said he is beside himself.

Let me just read this talking here. I think that they were just saying that I have to read this passage more carefully here, but apparently they were saying that Christ was, I guess, out of his mind. And his friends, it doesn’t tell us who they are. But we find here that I’m not too sure who those are that are coming after him. I have to read that again. But no doubt about it. Here we have Christ choosing his twelve disciples here.

Then we have Him healing a man. And the religious leaders couldn’t even accept. The fact that this was a demonstration of who he is that he was the Messiah. He healed a man that was both blind and dumb and they said well okay he healed. They admitted to that but they said he did it by Satan’s power. So they thought he was demonic and was or at least that was the accusation laid against him that he was that he was impersonating the Messiah that he was doing healing by Satan’s power and obviously they We’re turning against the very early on in this ministry and the leadership of Israel at least were and rejecting him So it apparently here is talking about about that that They were rejecting him right up from the very beginning Okay, I’ll take a further look at it, but thank you for that question and we’ll look at it

Maybe return to it on Monday. We have Doris down in Bradenton, Florida and Doris. Welcome to Bible in your own ear Okay. I wanted to know your opinion. If you’ve heard about it, what you think about it, a book that’s just been brought out and all these pastors are promoting it. And it’s called, Nine Minutes in Heaven. You heard anything about it? No, I haven’t. But apparently it’s saying that some of them have gone to heaven. Well, it was about a minister who was an in that automobile accident.

He just did. They said he just did. for 70 minutes or 90 minutes. I’m not sure which it was, but anyhow, they had to be very hard getting a mail to get a car. It took to be an accident, and he was in the hospital for 13 months. But he said in that time, when he just did, at 90 minutes, and I said, people found the doctors on the leaves of bed all that time, he went to heaven and he felt about his experiences and having about meeting loved ones and how beautiful it was and all.

But I can’t see that that is scriptural. I can understand ministers, there is ministers in there, born again, very good men, but they’re promoting the vote. And I just want your opinion on it. Well, I would think the book is a fraud. Once you die, you don’t come back. I would use Hebrews 927, which says it’s appointed on the men once. Don’t I, yes, it is judgment. That’s right. Obviously, if he died, then his soul left his body for 90 minutes.

He’s not coming back. He’s still there. So that’s just not true. And of course, when people supposedly die and come back from dead, they really never died. Typically, once the soul leaves the body, it doesn’t come back. If you’re lost, your soul goes to Hades in the heart of the earth and is in flame and torment. If you believe you’re absent from the body, present with the Lord. And if you ever got there you wouldn’t want to come back.

I’m sure I think the book would be totally wrong because obviously That’s just not possible if you judge the book in the light of God’s word. It has to be a fraud I I agree with you and I I would appreciate it. You would look it up. Okay. I’ll have to take a look. I think that I don’t want to mention the name But very very well known one again ministers are promoting this book. Well, that’s that’s not it That is shocking.

Yes. Well, thank you Doris and I’ll definitely try to get a copy and look at it All right. Thank you very much. Thank you Doris. I was Doris done in Bradenton, Florida Once you die you don’t come back And of course, I think the Bible is very clear about that Hebrews 927 We’re gonna go to Darnell in St. Petersburg Darnell. Welcome to Bibleline Good Okay, and two things. I got into a government that’s made, my aunt and they came out of town and they’re all kind of called for faces.

So, you know, we had to go through it about moving the foundation, able to get a point across to this crime. But one thing I was studying and I want to know, is it possible that an indigent believer? Absolutely. Nobody’s going to be left behind at the rapture or death when you die as a believer. from the body present with the Lord and no exceptions. And at the rapture, every believer’s going to be taken up. No exceptions. No one left behind.

OK. I think it’s John 524. You would let us know that we are eternally saved with that. But I just read a little bit further. And I don’t have my body looked on that word. But I think it might have been like the 27th verse. And the way that it read to me, it read that an indigent, believable, can be left behind because then it correlates with another scripture, first Corinthians on 15.

And I don’t know. I don’t know. Maybe I read it wrong or when I get back home I would read it again. But maybe I read it wrong. It kind of scared me because like I said I was searching to see if I can believe it can be left behind. And when I read it like I said it was John 5, it might be 27 or 28. And I think it’s something and it kind of spooked me because it sounded at that.

In verse 28 he says, marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the witch all over in the great. grave shall hear his voice. Now the believers will receive their resurrection bodies and the bodies will come out of the grave at the rapture and at the second coming and the unbelievers a thousand years later will hear his voice and their bodies will come out of the grave and they will be cast into hell with their resurrection bodies which will endure through the fires of hell forever and ever and ever.

But the believer is in a separate different judgment here and so maybe you’re mixing those two up you’ll have to come back at me with the exact verse but no doubt you cannot be lost John 637 him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out and in verse 39 of John 6 Christ that he would not lose one of those that have come to him so once you’re saved you’re stuck you have to go to heaven with you like it and I but you will for indigence believe that there is a loss of the will be Joe is that’s what We’re talking about the Bible.

Absolutely. Works determine what happens at destination. Believer’s going to heaven. Unbeliever’s going to hell. John 3.18 Christ said he to believeth on Christ is not condemned. But he to believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed. So if you’re a believer, you’re not condemned to go to heaven. If you’re an unbeliever, you are condemned and will go to hell. But then believers will be in a judgment where degree of reward will be determined by your works. For the unbeliever, a thousand years later, there will be an judgment where works are examined to determine the degree of punishment and hell.

So works determine what happens at the destination of the believer or the unbeliever, but our destination is determined by belief or unbelief in Christ. That’s exactly right. Okay, good. All right. Thank you, man. You really put some depth on that thing for me. Thank you. All right, Darnell. And keep witnessing this. Wonderful to hear. We’re going to go to Adam in Tampa, Florida. Adam, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Yes, Adam. And hold on. I lost Adam. Let me see if I can get him back.

Adam, welcome to Bibleline. Yeah, my question has to do with SHIO. And could you explain what that is? And also, I think that I heard you say something about how Christ went and released people from paradise in the heart of the earth. Could you explain all that? Sure. Shio, S-A-T-O-L is the Hebrew word. Hades is the Greek word, H-A-D-E-S. They’re equivalent for this hollow place that’s in the heart of the earth. Prior to the death-barrel resurrection of Christ, we find that everybody that died went to the heart of the earth.

The save went to a place of comfort called paradise. The unsaved went to a place of torment where there was slave and fire. In Luke 16, you read beginning at verse 19 about too many who died. A beggar named Lazarus who was saved and a rich man that was unsaved and they both died almost right at the same moment, the one went to flame in torment in Hades in the heart of Lazarus went to the Paradise part and they were separated by an impassable gulf.

If you read Ephesians 4, 8 through 10, it describes how that Christ descended down into the lower parts of the earth. In Matthew 1240, Christ said that He would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. And that’s of course where Paradise was, as we know from Luke 23, 43, that he told the dying thief today, now she’ll be with the Imperialized. So he goes to the heart of the earth on that very day and he tells the dying thief he’s going to be with the Imperialized.

We know Paradise was that place of comfort in the heart of the earth. But if you read Ephesians 4, 8, through 10, Christ descended there and then he led a group out of the heart of the earth captive up to heaven and took them far beyond all of the visible heavens to the very horizon, I guess, of the universe. Scientists tell us that’s about four trillion light-years away. Obviously, Christ being God apparently is not bound by the four dimensions that you and I are bound by, and otherwise Christ will still be on his way.

He went back down to the earth and preached for 40 days. He is a multidimensional God and able to do a lot more than we are able to do. He is the creator of the dimensions that we live in. I hope that helps a little bit. That is a quick summary. I am sure I have some CDs on that that you can get through my operator. That will help you give you further clarification. Thank you for that call Adam.

They carry help. All right. That was Adam and Tampa, Florida. And we now have Dave in Plant City, Florida. Dave, welcome to my blind year on the air. Good morning, Dr. Hank. I got a question for you, Dave, in a comment while I was on the line. I listened to the, I think the lady’s name was Doris called Paul Perry Stone. He had a series of shows on, I don’t know if he was promoting that book, but he had people on that supposedly went to heaven and then came back to earth.

I think one of them was a professional boxer and they had explicit illustrations of what they saw when they were there and all that. She might want to watch some of his shows. They might repeat one sometime. Was he saying that it was true or he was talking it was? it was not true. They all believed that it was true. I agree with you. I’ve heard a lot that you said about people going to the afterlife and coming back whether it be hell or whatever.

Bad doctrine breeds bad doctrine. Then, Perristone has some wonderful teachings on prophecy, but he believes you can lose your salvation and in many other areas. Obviously, that’s a major, major, major, doctrinal error. That tells us that you’re partly the Savior with Christ, that is Christ plus what you’re going to do with your life. And ultimately, you’re the Savior because it’s how you conduct your life between now and death that determines ultimately whether you make heaven or not. That’s works.

And so that’s terribly wrong. I’ve got two hours of recordings of Perry Stone telling us why we can lose our salvation and how that we need to watch out unless we lose it. So that’s certainly a big error. And I’d be cautioned by anybody who says that there are people coming back from the dead telling us about what they saw and that’s just not going to happen. Hebrews 9, 27, it’s appointed unto men once to die. Not to die and come back and then die again.

You’re only going to die once. Uno. So Dave, thank you very much and we certainly need to judge what we’re hearing by the Bible. We have Cindy in Tampa, Florida and we’ve been trying to hit the small fairs here. She comments on the caller about divorce and she says that I had talked about a person getting divorced if the spouse abandons the other. She feels this is wrong and she said you didn’t mention whether the one that was left was a believer or an unbeliever and says the believer has no grounds biblically to get a divorce.

She leaves and I think these must have to be wrong. Matthew 3 23 there is no 23rd verse in the third chapter of Matthew. First Peter of course talks about the wife winning her husband to Christ but that’s if you have proximity. I know of cases where a young girl married a fellow going off into the armed services and he comes back and moves to another part of the country and divorces her and remarries and she’s abandoned. And so I believe that obviously in that case the person who has abandoned the marriage has dissolve it and remarried and what are you going to do?

I think she’s absolutely free to remarry and I hope that answers that and certainly the Bible teaches that God hates divorce. I hope you understand my position is I’m not advocating that people divorce but the Bible does talk about it and it does talk about a person who has been deserted or abandoned in a marriage can of course remarry. In the law fair, Becky in Lansing, Michigan calls in and leaves this off-air question, how do you know Jesus was 33 years old when he died?

How do you know his ministry lasted three years? Well, we know he was exactly 30. If you read Luke chapter 3, as the genealogy there is given, it tells us he was 30 when his ministry began, when he was baptized by John the Baptist. And then if you just kind of go through the Ministry of Price, you see that it lasts for three years. And I’ll have to dig out a verse that was specifically, I believe you’ll believe that, but you can connect the dots and see that he ministered for three years.

He was baptized by John in the Jordan. And then of course he was crucified. Sally in Lansing, Michigan calls in. She leaves us off her question. Please explain. 2 Peter 2 4 angels that rebel. Go to hell. Where are they? All of those angels, I believe are alive and well on the planet Earth. And so Lindsay says in his book. is alive and well on the planet Earth. So they are chained to judgment or chained to everlasting darkness. I think it’s like a house arrest.

They are ultimately going to be cast into hell, but they are right now in a sense house arrest and they are very much alive and very much out there to give us a hard time. So all these angels that have rebelled against the Lord, which are a third of God’s angels are out there. We have Claude in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He says there are so many different denominations. What does Jesus think about this? And is there any original church from Paul or the Apostles’ Day?

Well, you know, the true church you have to be born into by trusting Christ as Savior. And no God is not for division, but the churches have divided because of different doctrinal differences. If we’re ever to come together, it would have to be because we agree. Gotta go. Keep looking up. Jesus is coming, and I believe so. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida. Your donation to Bibleline makes it possible for this ministry to continue in your area.

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