Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-07-13

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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. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline. I’m great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast We look forward to being with you each and every day 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 hope you’ll come by and visit us sometime.

We’d love to meet you We had a bunch of people come by yesterday and you can visit our resource center every day until about 4 30 in afternoon And by the way, this Sunday is our third Sunday of the month. That means you can come and join us for a wonderful lunch dinner right after the worship service. Come and make it a day at 9.15 and have an adult Bible study that you can join and there are classes for the children and other members of the family.

Also, you can stay at 10.30 for the worship service and then stay for the lunch dinner that will follow that and be my guest and eat and enjoy and get to know one another. It will be great. That will be this Sunday. We will have the third Sunday dinner and you are welcome to come and be a part of that. We are ready to start a brand new class. Next Tuesday we will start the class called the Gospel of John.

We will be teaching that book verse by verse for six weeks, two hours per night, seven till nine o’clock on Tuesday nights. And that will be a 12 hour teaching on the Gospel of John, verse by verse. I hope you will come and be a student. If you want to sign up in advance, you can get on the phone and call us and it’s $60 to register and advance. Come in Tuesday night and be in the classroom. But if you live anywhere else in the US or in the world, you can sign up and pay the fee and get a code to go and take it on the internet.

And by the way, we’re offering a special that would be $60, but for a gift of $100, the Bible and to help us out will also include the 12 CDs, 12 hours of teaching on CD at the end as well as the passcode if you take it on the internet and normally that would be $60 for those 12 CDs and we’ll give it to you for 40 in addition to signing up to get the passcode on the internet. By the way, if you live in another city and you cannot get here for our Sunday worship, you can join us on the internet.

We have people all around the world that are watching our Sunday morning service live. And you can do that by going to the internet, BibleLineMinistries.org or .com. And if you’ll click on the camera, you’ll be connected to our morning worship service. What you’ll see is a black screen throughout the week, but you’ll find that on Sunday morning about 11 o’clock you’ll see clouds going mine, you’ll hear the old rugged cross, and then you’ll find exactly when I begin the message that the video and the audio will come up.

So keep that in mind and watch for our service. Now if you can’t watch it live, you can catch it in the archive because usually the next We’ll get it up in archive and you can watch probably four months where the sermons just go to that Camera click on it. You’ll come up with that blank black screen in the middle but go over to the left side and click on archive and you’ll get the Messages for the past four or five months all sitting there ready for you to go by the way You can subscribe to our Sunday messages here for a gift of $30 to buy mine You can get all the Sunday messages on CD sent to you at the end of each month.

And you can do that for a one month period or you can do it on a regular ongoing thing where you can get them every month throughout the year. And we have many people who do that and they enjoy the Sunday messages when they drive around in their car. They share them with family members and so on and so on. And you can subscribe for a friend. We have had a number of people do that who have gotten friends or relatives saved by getting them a subscription to the Bibleline Sermons and they have listened and they have gotten saved.

We have really been pleasantly pleased to see that. We are going to be going to the Bible for a few minutes and then we will take our all fair questions and our live callers and we already have people sitting there waiting. The phone number is 1-800-576-3771. By the way, it’s interesting that a lot of people when they’re witnessing have people challenge whether the Bible really is the Word of God or not. One of the interesting things to me is that the Bible is an amazingly accurate book.

One of the areas that attracted me was science in the Bible. I loved science from junior high on. I was just a science bug. And I went on to the University of Florida where I graduated in electrical engineering. And I just loved science, every bit of it. I remember in high school physics and math were my favorite courses. I just couldn’t wait to get into classroom. Loved it. And you know, when I found out what the Bible had to say, I was amazed.

The Bible teaches, for example, the earth is round in Isaiah 4022. Most people believe the earth was flat. That’s right. Up until the time of Columbus, that wasn’t too long ago when you talk about history. About 500 years ago, in 1492, we find that Columbus sailed the ocean blue and he discovered that the earth is round. So Magellan was the one who first sailed around the whole earth. But amazing. The earth is round. And the Bible taught it thousands of years ago, Isaiah 4022.

Some of these verses are very impressive when you’re saying to somebody who’s a skeptic, hey, the Bible is true. The Bible is the Word of God. And men could not have known these things. you find that the Bible doesn’t have unscientific facts, but everything you find in the Bible is in agreement with what we know to be scientific facts. In fact, many times the Bible is ahead of science, as obviously it had been up until Columbus, where the Bible taught the earth was round for thousands of years, and Columbus comes along like it’s Johnny Lately, and Johnny He comes in and discovers that the Earth is round.

Not only that, the Bible tells us that the Earth is suspended in space upon nothing. Job 26-7, written 3500 years ago. It says God stretches up the North over the empty place and hangs the Earth upon nothing. Well, we know that the Earth is suspended in space upon nothing, and that is not anything new to you and me. We know that as a scientific fact today. But you know when they wrote the Bible they didn’t know that. If you look back at science and what men believed, the Egyptians, for example, believed the earth was a saucer, held up by a ring of mountains on the edge of the saucer to keep the water from running off, and they had five pillars and any of that saucer then held it up.

Obviously the Bible didn’t make that mistake. The Greeks believed that Atlas held the earth on his back, and that belief was so widespread that even today you go to the library and you get a book of maps, and what is it called? It’s called an Atlas. That’s right. The Hindus believed that the earth was on an elephant’s back, and the elephant was standing on a turtle that was swimming in a cosmic sea. I like that one. But it wasn’t true either.

Obviously the Bible had it right when it says that God hangs the earth upon nothing Science today cannot give you a better description than that if you ask a scientist what holds the earth in place you’ll say gravity You ask him what is gravity? He’ll say that’s what holds the earth in place. They just go around in a circle They don’t really tell you anything of substance and the Bible was right on in Job 26 7 3500 years ago.

Isn’t that amazing? And there are hundreds of scientific facts in the Bible. If you want a list of my favorite 40 scientific facts, I’ll be happy to mail that to you for your charge. Just call up our 800 number and ask for the list of scientific facts in the Bible. But there are hundreds. And boy, did that ever get my attention as a young man who loved science. I said this book had to be written by God, that God has to be the author.

And you know, that’s the claim throughout the Bible. God says, I know in Isaiah 48 4 that you are obstinate, brass-headed, iron-necked, hard to be convinced. And I read that verse and I said, Boy, does God know me? I said, I was difficult to be convinced. I wanted proof. I wanted to know the Bible was true. And so he says in verse 5 of Isaiah 48, I have even from the beginning declared it to thee. Before it came to pass, I showed it thee.

Less thou should have saved my idle death on them and my graven image and my molten image hath commanded them. God tells us, lest ye should say that you’re right, your religion is right or your opinion is right. He says so that you know the Bible is right that God is the author of this incredible book. He tells us things before we would ever discover them before we would ever know them and that’s exactly what we find. You know it’s amazing and by the way I have a couple of CDs that are very good on this how we know the Bible is the word of God.

Sometimes you have people that just say ah the Bible you can’t trust that book, but the Bible is a book you can trust. Not only does it tell scientific facts, it tells us history before the history takes place. Nearly one quarter of the Bible is history written before the history happens. And you know, that’s why I really believe the Bible is true myself. You know, what’s happening in the world right now is really there on the pages of your Bible thousands of years ago.

The latest newspaper is the Bible. It’s really tomorrow’s news today. You want the latest news? Don’t turn on the TV. Open your Bible. It lays out what’s going to happen. We can see what’s happening in our world today unfolding as the Bible describes what would take place. Amazing, amazing. You know, the Bible predicted that Israel would be scattered around the world for 2,000 years, not have their homeland. They would go back. They would find the homeland desolate and barren and they would go back and become a nation again.

That happened in 1948. Amazing! After two thousand years of being dispersed, the Jewish people have come back to their land. Absolutely amazing. I’ll never forget sitting on the edge of the sea of Galilee one evening with my my wife, we were sitting there with my guide, my friend, that I led the Christ and were sipping coffee and looking at the beautiful full moon that was reflecting off in the Sea of Galilee and looking out of this open area by the Sea of Galilee where there must have been several hundred young Jewish, young men and women, mostly soldiers on break.

And they were out there doing the Israeli folk dances, something like a line dance. They would catch their arms and elbows together and dance in a line, kicking your feet up and going to the right and to the left. Beautiful Israeli music. I looked out there and I said to myself, wow, look at all the different faces. It looks like a lot of nationalities are represented there. I mentioned that to my Jewish guide Simon that I had led to Christ, a Jewish man who He lives in Tel Aviv to this very hour.

Great friend. And I said, look at all the different faces out there of these young people. And he said, well, there should be. There are probably 80 countries represented out there on that open dance floor while they do the folk dances. And I got chilmums up my arms because, you know, the Bible said that Jewish people would come back to their land from all the world. And here they are from countries all around the world, Jewish people returning back to their land.

And I said, wow, I am actually watching with my eyes the literal fulfillment of the Bible. It’s happening right before my eyes and I couldn’t help but get excited about this amazing book that we have. I hope you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior. If you haven’t, my friend, you’ll never make heaven. There’s only one way to heaven. Jesus is that way. Christ said it in John 14, 6, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life, and no man can come unto the Father but by me.

One Savior, only one way to heaven, Jesus is that way. You must trust Him to be able to go to heaven. In the moment you do, God saves you. We’re going to go to the phone lines. I’m Dr. Englund from This is my boy, and we’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida. And we want to welcome Nancy, who’s calling in from Jacksonville, Florida. Nancy, welcome to the bottom line. You’re on the end. Hello. Hi there. Hi, I have two questions, Dr.

Lynch. I’m going to I’d like to get them out before we start discussing them. it’s a very big one. Yeah. Um. Um, Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. That’s clap. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. The Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. The first one is what do you think the end result will be if the statements made by Pope Bradson Berber are taken seriously by Catholics a great following away or another inquisition even. Excuse me. And the second question is, do you think when reading the scriptures of Matthew 24 Revelation at Daniel that Islam will possibly merge with to salt to all of system or Islam will be the one world world religion of the Antichrist because scripture says Christians will be beheaded for the testimony of God.

Jesus Christ, the believers of Islam, certainly are known for cutting off heads of non-Muslims. We are absolutely right about that. And I think that that really might be it. I know for years I read about the guillotine being revived and capital punishment being being instituted. But I think we have the answer. I think you hit it on the head. I think the Muslims are the ones that will be be heading Christians during the tribulation. I really don’t feel like Islam will probably merge with Catholicism.

I think that Islam is going to be a separate force all of themselves. It will be this, well, what is so fascinating and I think it’s probably coincidence, but in Daniel 911 it’s interesting that 911 is the chapter verse, but it talks about how that because of Israel’s sins that this curse would come from God upon the whole earth. the word curse there in that particular verse is the Hebrew word Allah the name of that really yeah of Islam’s God and I said whoa Islam is the curse of this last day coming upon the whole earth isn’t that amazing yes it is incredible well I’m so glad I’m up on the air now and Jackson know that you can listen to us up there sometimes I can right now it’s a good day so we can hear you oh good what do you think the results will be by statements made by

Bratzenberger about the the Catholic Church being the only way to tell a lot. I think probably he has to make that kind of statement to, if the churches are going to merge with Catholicism and see them as they head, there’s going to be this world church, I believe which will be headed up by Roman Catholicism. And we have this big, I just got a magazine this week in an email the coming home movement, which is supposedly every one of us that are not Catholic have, have departed from the one true church supposedly and they’re inviting us to come home.

You know nothing in scripture matches with what the Catholic church does as far as worshiping God. I know it. I mean it’s just amazing that people can’t see this. Some people can’t see this. Well if they don’t know what the Bible says then they are blindly just following what the church tells them. Well that’s how I think the great following away will happen. These people who are ignorant of the scriptures will be easily led away. Oh, yeah Because they just don’t have a clue.

They really don’t know what the Bible says So they don’t know that they’re being misled and Jesus tells us to study to show themselves approved and study the Bible to have an answer for everyone When they ask and believe me I’ve been asked and challenged plenty of times I always run back to the Bible. Hey, look for the answer. Well Nancy. I we’re right on the same page here. Oh good Well, thanks for calling in today. You’re welcome. All right, that was Nancy.

I’ve been Jackson, Florida. We just have now been up there for a couple of weeks on WYMM, 1530 on the AM dial, a very powerful station, 50,000 watts. And we’re glad you’re listening in. We have some offer questions. We’ll try to take those. We also welcome you to call in and go up on the air live with us at 1-800-576-3771. when we welcome all those folks up at Mobile, Alabama, Pensacola, Florida, Panama City, Fort Walton Beach, those people in Memphis, Tennessee, over across the river there into Arkansas, for the people that are listening in Nashville, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, and covering there Northern Georgia and and Tennessee and and Some parts of Alabama.

We’re so glad that you’re listening there. We Appreciate our audience there in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that listen to us every day and those in Richmond, Virginia and Chesterfield Virginia those in Attica Utica rather and Albany, New York the capital of New York State, we’re also up in Lansing, Michigan, the capital of Michigan, we’re also in Flint and the second of Michigan, we’re all around. And on the internet, we’re all over the world and we’re excited about that. We have Mark and Bradenton on the line here with us and Mark, welcome to Bible On Your On The Year.

Good morning. Question for Dr. I first to thank you for the webpage. I was sitting at my grandson’s house last night, ten years old. And with the are you going to heaven quiz? I was able to lead my 10 year old grandson to Christ. So what a blessing that was. Thank God that was a great word to hear. Amen, but my six year old daughter, our granddaughter was sitting on my knee, and I believe the Bible says, if you’re old enough to know you’re left from your right, then you’re old enough to make that decision to come to Christ.

And when I asked her that, she said, I don’t know, but I know when I’m in daycare and in school. So my question is, what provisions is Christ made God made for young children if they die prior to being old enough to make that decision to come to Christ. Well, all of them go to heaven. Christ died, you know, for the whole human race. And those under the age of accountability are under the blood and would go to heaven.

The greatest, I think, verse that supports that is David’s son by Bathsheba was ill from birth and at seven days old died. And David makes the remarkable statement in 2 Samuel 1223. He says, the child will not return to me, but I’ll go to be with that child. So we know David went to heaven. And David was looking forward to seeing that young child of his in heaven. So the child doesn’t return to us, but we go to be with that child.

And so I think that there are children that may be different ones that are listening to they They have lost under the Age of Accountability that they will see in heaven one day. That is the blessing, I think, even with all these terrible abortions going on in the world and tragic things happening with young children that we can know that thank God they will be in heaven because they are under the blood. But once they reach the Age of Accountability they become responsible to trust Christ.

So hopefully that answers the question for you, Mark. Yes, sir. Thank you. for calling in that was marked and if you try to listen to the radio it’s about a twenty-second delay so that will really just mess things up. We have Aaron in Dade City and he calls in and says off air could you explain first Samuel 28 seven through 19 how can a dead prophet be called up by a witch could that happen to any deceased and the answer is no can’t have anybody else this was the the rare exception to the rule.

The dead do not come back at the command of somebody. But here was Saul, not an ordinary person, and Saul found that God wasn’t answering his prayers anymore. So he disguises himself and he goes to visit the witch of Indoor. And I have been there to Indoor in Israel. He could still go. These are real places. And there he asks her to call up Samuel. While Samuel really comes up out on the heart of the earth, he came out of paradise, which is where all the believers were prior to the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.

So here Samuel comes up and obviously Saul recognizes him and Samuel the prophet tells Saul that he’s going to lose the battle the next day with the Philistines and that he and his two sons would die. that his two sons and himself would be there with Samuel after their death, which tells us that they were saved, because Samuel was saved and since he was going to join Samuel, they’re in the heart of the earth with the other saved, obviously Saul was a saved man.

But this was the exception. If you read the story carefully, the witch screams as Samuel comes up. This is something unusual. This is something that didn’t normally happen. This is something when that happened she immediately realized, whoa, she had been treading into an area where she shouldn’t have gone and this was King Saul. She didn’t know up until that point that he was but realized that this had to be the king. Here was God actually bringing up Samuel to give a special message to King Saul.

So that was the exception and if you’re going to go to a witch to call up the dead, it’s not going to happen, and only in that one rare exception God allowed Samuel to come forth to bring that message to Saul. But we do learn from that that Saul was a saved man. And he was to join Samuel in paradise after his death. Interesting story, Aaron, and thank you for calling in from Dade City. I hope everybody listening today has trusted Jesus as Savior.

So we have a wonderful Bible and it is true from cover to cover and you need to check it out for yourself and there are evidences that prove… The Bible is the Word of God. And if you would only just write down some of these references we gave today, you’ll be able to give some real ammunition to those that you’re talking to to demonstrate the Bible is indeed the Word of God. If you like my CD on that, is the Bible the Word of God?

I think you can call right in and we can ship it right out. It’s for a gift of $5.00. We have a lot of standalone CDs plus about 40 series of CDs 10 to 12 hours of teaching and you can call and order those as well. If you haven’t given a gift to Bible line, this is the summer months when things are a little bit lean and Christian giving for all churches and ministries and we hope that you will call in and maybe give a gift by credit card over the phone or ask for an envelope to be sent with our name on it so you can mail your gift in.

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We’d love to meet you. It’ll be a lot of fun. That’ll be this Sunday. the 15th, it will be the third Sunday of the month and we are halfway through summer here. We are excited about being with you today and again if you could pray for Bible Land we would appreciate it and if you could give a gift to Bible Land in this month of July we would appreciate that also very much. Call in, talk to our operators and they can help you out with all of that.

We have got to take a break now and we will come back into a second half hour in just a moment. Keep your radio dial tuned right where it is here to Bible Art. We’ll be right back. Don’t go away Bibleline. We’ll be back in a moment. Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Alright, I’m Dr. Englund Striman. This is Bibleline. We’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida. From our studios here at the Calvary Community Church, we look forward to being with you each and every day Monday through Friday.

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You could also do it by mailing a gift and you can call and ask for a number of up to be sent or call and ask us to recite that address to you real slow. It will be repeated later at the end of the program if you have your paper and pencil handy. And we want to let you know this Sunday is the third Sunday if you’re in the driving distance of the Tampa area to come this Sunday to our worship service here at Calbreak Community Church.

We’d love to have you come and we’re having a dinner so you can make it a day. Come to my 915 adult class, come to the 1030 worship and also then stay for the lunch dinner be my guest and we’ll have a great time of food and fellowship. You’re welcome. We’d love to have you come and I hope you will. That’s this Sunday, the third Sunday. Tuesday, that’s right July 17th. We’re starting a new class called the Gospel of John.

We’re going to do it verse by verse 12 hours of teaching, six weeks in a row, two hours per night, Tuesday nights, seven till nine. And if you’re not in driving distance, the sign of an actually sit in the classroom with me, you can join me by internet and you can watch me teach the class live, but the advantage on the internet is you can go back at any time day or night and watch these classes once we have done them.

They’ll be sitting there for you to review and watch as often as you like. If you want to get in on our special, it’s $60 a gift to my blind to take the class and if If you take it on the internet, you can call in and pay that fee and get the passcode and you’ll be able to take it. But if you give a gift of $100, not only will you get the passcode to take this class on the Gospel of John over the next six weeks beginning this coming Tuesday, July 17th.

But we’ll send you the 12 CDs, the 12 hours of teaching on CD when the class is completed. And that’s a real bargain. So hopefully you’ll take advantage and call in and sign up for the Gospel of John beginning Tuesday night. We’ve got a lot of callers, our phone lines are lighted up. We have John in Brandon, Florida. We’re going to go there first and John we want to welcome you to Bibleline. Thanks for being patient waiting there on the line.

John you’re on there. How are you Dr. Hank? Good. My question is how do you, in other words, when you’re being attacked by saying through a negative score so you’re trying to pray to the Lord and you have this confidence experience. What are the words that one should say and where can I read something about that? In other words, you know, get behind the Satanist something I don’t know. Jesus said that and that’s obviously a good line but I think I would like to point you to the book of Peter and Peter tells us some good advice about dealing with Satan in chapter 5.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with that chapter. But first Peter chapter 5, it says here in verse I want to hang up and listen. Okay, it says in first Peter 5, 7, cast all your care upon him. For he careth for you. I love that verse don’t you first Peter 5 7 casts all your care upon him for he careth for you Then it says in verse 8 be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil let Satan as a roaring lion walk at the bout seeking whom he may devour So Satan’s out there looking for opportunity to just eat your lunch as a Christian But verse 9 here’s the answer and I hope this helps John It says, whom resist?

How? It says here, steadfast in the faith. And that phrase, the faith occurs 43 times in the New Testament, and refers to the body of truth that’s contained in the New Testament record. So as you stand fast in the Word of God, in what the Bible tells us to do, and are in the Word and living the Word, the word, you’re going to find that Satan is going to run. So it says here, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

You’re not the only one that’s going to be under Satan’s attack. Every Christian is where the enemies of Satan as believers. And the Bible tells us here that we can stand tall and as you’re in the faith, the Word of God, and you’re standing the Word of God and living the Word of God, you can resist the devil and he will flee from you. John, I hope that helps and thank you again for calling in. We have Adam in Denver, Colorado and Adam, welcome to Bibleline.

Okay, thank you, Dr. My question for you is if you can help me with the verse in Revelation 20, verse 7 and 8. And what he’s talking about, he says, and when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be lifted out of his prison and shall go out to deceive the nations which are on the full part of the earth. Who is a saint and going to be deceiving? Is that going to be us? Because we’re going to be with Christ for a thousand years.

He will not be deceiving us. What’s happening here is that at the Rapture we’re taken up to be with the Lord. On the earth, seven years and the darkest hours of history will unfold. It will conclude with the Battle of Armageddon and Christ coming back at the end of seven years. We will come back with Christ to rule and reign, and those that get saved during that seven years who survive the judgments of the tribulation period, who are still living, will walk into the Millennial Kingdom and be the subjects.

They will have children, and their children will marry and have children, and so on, and the population of the earth will again increase over that thousand year period. And these that are born during that time will be related back to Adam and have an end to a damn nature, a sinful nature. They’ll need to get saved. But apparently, and this is the amazing thing to me, that under these most ideal conditions when Christ is visibly ruling here on the earth, when the world will be full of the knowledge of the Lord.

be peace on earth, good will toward men. And in the most ideal conditions, Satan will be bound up during that time in the heart of the earth, Revelation 20 verses 1 through 4. Tell about how Satan will be bound during that thousand years and chained in the bottom of his pit in the heart of the earth. And so Satan is bound up and the Lord is here on the earth and yet millions apparently will not trust Jesus. So when Satan is loosed, He’s listed for that very purpose to expose the wickedness of the human heart and the fact that millions will not trust Christ out of these most ideal conditions.

He’ll run up a huge army and of course the battle’s over rather quickly. Christ just breathes fire out of his mouth and destroys him and then Satan is taken and cast into hell the lake of fire where he’ll be forever and ever and ever. That’s the end of Satan. You’ll never see him again. by Satan and also goodbye his angels, but also goodbye to everybody in the human race that is not trusted Christ as they’ll be brought up out of Hades and also cast into that eternal lake of fire.

So what’s going on here is that Satan’s loose and will deceive the unbelievers who are those who become born during the millennium that hasn’t happened yet and they will be deceived. Okay. Thank you very much for putting that up for me, Doctor. Kay Adam thank you for calling in from Denver Colorado. We are now going to go to Barbara in Tampa Florida. Oh we don’t have Barbara I think she hung up. We have Dave in Plant City Day. Welcome to Bibleline your on there.

Good morning Dr. Hank. How are you doing today? Good. I appreciate you taking my column. I always enjoy your show. The last few weeks, Jack Van Ifees, noted that May the 12th 2008, I believe it is, that all Americans are going to be required to have a RFID chip and a driver’s license or in their skin. Have you heard anything about that? Yeah, it looks like some states are reneging because it’s going to cost billions for them to do it and they don’t want to put out the money.

So it might be delayed somewhat. But certainly these are the steps that are leading the way for the Antichrist to put a mark not in your driver’s license but in your hand or in your forehead. So we’re in the last days and we’ll have to wait and see if that happens in our driver’s license. But apparently some about 12 states have said, hey, we’re not going to do that. is going to cost us too much money yup okay another thing i was watching the joe van kuber in last night i don’t know if you know who he is uh…

he was talking about mary being the link between catholicism and and islam that the the karan makes many references he was showing this on the show that that’s true and and and i’m sure that there’s going to be overtures uh… but i really think they’re going to remain separate uh… Actually, one of the cities where supposedly Mary appeared, I don’t believe she’s appeared anywhere, but was the appearance of Mary at Fatima, Portugal. And Fatima is one of the names of one of the daughters of Muhammad.

So obviously, interesting that Mary would appear, of course, I don’t believe that’s the Mary of the Bible, the name of that appearance in Fatima, Portugal. But why would she visit a city named after one of Muhammad’s daughters? You know, Portugal and Spain all were conquered by Islam and controlled by Islam and we find that that city was named after Muhammad’s daughter Fatima. And I’ve got a question today. Could you explain to me what will be the Holy Spirit’s duties like after the Second Coming and I’ll hang up and listen?

Thank you. All right. Well, I’m not the one to tell you what God’s responsibilities are, but God during the Millennium, the Holy Spirit will be poured out upon all flesh, so every human being on the earth, at the time that the Millennium begins will have the Holy Spirit. But as we said before just a moment ago, that there will be millions born during the Millennium, and unless they trust the Lord, they will not have the Holy Spirit. It says in Romans 8 and 9, if any man have not the Holy Spirit, he is none of his.

He is not one of his. And Satan is loosed at the end of the Millennium to reveal that there are millions apparently that do not receive the Lord as their Savior and do not have the Holy Spirit. Satan has radar for those kinds of people that are unsaved and can easily deceive them and round them up and he organizes them and so on. But his ministry will be to obviously do exactly what he does today. If you are a believer, you are kept by him and saved by him eternally and He’s going to be in dwelling us and he will illuminate our understanding to the word and etc.

But the loss those that are becoming those that are born during the millennium will that are lost that do not trust the Lord will not have those spirit and not have that. Hope that helps a little bit. Thank you Dave for calling in out there in plant city 40. You’re welcome to call in if you want the numbers 1-800-576-3771. Lori in Tampa 40 calls in leaves an off air question. He says in Ezekiel 1, 4, does this refer to a UFO or aliens?

Neither one. What you have here is a scene in heaven being shown here to Ezekiel and he sees the throne of God and God upon his throne. He actually sees, if you look at the chapter and the letter part of it, he actually sees Jesus. And this is what it’s like to see Heaven itself and the throne of God. And it’s not talking about UFOs or aliens unless you want to say that God and Jesus Christ are aliens. Actually, they’re God is the creator of this universe.

And Jesus did make a visit to this planet for 33 years. So the creator himself came here from outer space, but it’s not talking about UFOs. So hopefully that answers your question. It’s clearly a vision of the very presence of God. Very similar accounts are seen in Revelation and also in the book of Daniel. Talks about in verse 5 here, the four living creatures. You read about those in the book of Revelation in chapter 4. John saw the same thing that Ezekiel saw.

We’re going to go over to Orlando, rather the Orange City Florida near Orlando, and we have a listener named Orlando on the line. Orlando, welcome to Bibleline your On The Air. Hi, I wanted to make a comment. It was a caller I called a few months ago, and he was talking about somebody that he knew that was supposedly Christian, then he went to another religion or something like that. And I just wanted to get your input on what I have to talk about.

I would say a person that is born again, and I look at that like the prodigal son. You know, once, my personal experience, once I come to Christ, there’s nothing but it says in Romans I could separate me from God and his love. So I look at it that way. If a person departs, if he has been considered a Christian, he’s going to come back no matter what. no matter what, like he says in Rome, it’s nothing can depart us from the love of God.

And like if I back slide, I’d say, I don’t know if that’s, there’s nothing that’s gonna keep me from being a son of God once I’m a son of God. That’s the way I look at it. I just wanted to hear your comments on that, and I just listen on the radio. All right, thank you, Orlando. you’re absolutely right. You know, once you’ve saved, you’re safe forever. Now, there are some who professed to be Christians who are not, and it says in 1 John chapter 2 that they went out from us, but they were not of us.

If they had been of us, they would have not really departed from us. So in 1 John 2, it talks about some that are like that. For you and me, I think we have to assume maybe they weren’t saved because we don’t. We want to err if we’re going to err on the side of the fact that they probably may be are not saved and try to lead them to Christ. But if they are indeed saved, certainly nothing we say or do or anybody else says or does or what nothing they themselves say or do will change the fact that they’re saved.

Once you become born again, you’re born again forever. There’s no provision in the Bible to become unborn. So once you’re saved, you are saved forever and you can’t be lost. And Christ will discipline a delinquent believer. If someone departs, they’ll suffer the loss of reward, they’ll suffer the loss of joy, and the loss of enjoying the fruit of the spirit in their life, and they will incur God’s discipline upon their lives. But they’re still saved for sure forever. Thank you.

Orlando in Orange City, Florida, calling in and probably listening out of D’Lan, Florida on the radio. Thank you for tuning in today. We have Larry and that Larry in Tampa Fort he calls in and he says during the millennium and eternity will there still be a trinity. Of course, God is eternally existent and exist as a triunity as three separate persons being one God, God the eternal Father, God the eternal Son, God the eternal Holy Spirit and certainly will continue forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

So Larry, yes, the answer is the Trinity will continue as he has always been, will always be. And we’re not infinite, so we probably have difficulty comprehending that. But God is infinite and eternal and will exist forever. We have Robert in Elkin, North Carolina, just calling in now, leaving an an offer questions is what do you think about the announcement by the pope that the catholic church is the only true church well i believe the catholic uh… that the pope is wrong obviously the true church is not personal of all of the or the organization i’ve been the room numerous times and it’s absolutely uh…

uh… amazing how that uh… they don’t present any truth at all i’ve stood out there when the pope comes out on his balcony and gives the people blessing to maybe a crowd of 100,000 people looking on. I’ve stood out there with him and he says nothing of any substance. Wouldn’t it be great? I thought to myself as I stood there. I’d like to trade places with him for five minutes and tell this crowd that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that his, who ever believe it in him, should not perish but have everlasting life.

And then I’d close my balcony window. I think he would accomplish a lot for Christ if he just would tell the gospel, but they don’t. And that’s because the Catholic Church has a false gospel, one of works, and that’s unfortunate. I hope that… The Pope gets saved one day, but it appears that he’s looking in all the wrong places. If you’re reading what this present Pope is saying, he’s saying he’s praying not to God, not to Jesus Christ, not searching the Scriptures, but he’s praying to Pope John Paul for advice.

Now what in the world count of a thing is that? That’s called necromancy, praying that the dead is forbidden in the Bible. He’s doing exactly what the Bible says you shouldn’t do. And he’s asking the dead to give you Isaiah 8 19 and 20 tells us that is forbidden. God says don’t do that. The Pope is doing what the Bible says. God says you should not do. So the Pope is wrong. The church church, by the way is a living organism comprised of all believers from Pentecost, Tola Rapture, all that receive Christ as Savior are saved forever and are placed into the church, which But you can’t join.

You have to be saved by trusting Christ to be placed into that true church, the body of Christ. Thank you, Robert, and I’m afraid that there’s a lot of people that are not checking out the Bible and probably will be persuaded to believe that the Pope is right. But I’m afraid when you read the Bible, you realize the Pope is making a statement that is not true. By the way, the only true church again is that comprised of those that are in the body of Christ.

And Jesus said in John 14, 6, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. And no man can come unto the Father but by me, not by the Roman Catholic Church but by Jesus. You have to trust Christ. He’s the only Savior. And when you trust Him, God saves you and you’re saved eternally. A lot of people ask me, how can I get closer to the Lord? How can I grow? I would like to recommend the teachings that I’ve done.

We’ve seen so many people really grow, really develop by sitting under the sound of God’s Word. That is it. And I have about 40 presentations, books of the Bible, topics where we’ve covered 10 or 12 hours of teaching. of putt for three Bible colleges. I taught eleven years for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. And I love to teach. And these teachings will help you understand the Bible and that’s where you grow and develop as a Christian. The word of God is our food.

So we have, for example, the book of Romans, the book of Hebrews, the book of Jude, the book of Revelation, the book of Daniel. If there’s something there that interests you, of those books, get one of those series, the book of Genesis. We have so many. Then we also have topics like Jesus is coming, the end time controversy, the rapture, the Holy Spirit, parables, and so on. All of these things I think you’ll find are very, very powerful. We did 12 hours on the Holy Spirit, and it’s an incredible study.

And if you really would like to get clear on the Holy Spirit, there’s so much false teaching today about the Holy Spirit, you can order that series and get the CDs. Maybe while you’re driving down the road to and from work or whatever works for you, you can play those and learn and grow. We appreciate all of you who tell us good reports of how much you’re learning. Some of them that call in and order these use them to facilitate a Sunday school class or Bible study.

We have many that tell us they invite people over, play a portion of a CD or play a whole CD, have some discussion every freshman’s and they’re leading neighbors to Christ and friends to Christ. We know sometimes we just had a group of businessmen that were meeting every morning early and they would play one of my CDs on the book Revelation. They went through a whole study and they invited me over toward the end of the study and I got to meet these men that were listening to the book Revelation through my CDs.

In a sense, I was their teacher, but they would discuss what I said. It’s been a wonderful tool in that way. Get a resource sheet, call in and ask for that to be sent He’s going to be sent or go to the website by the line ministries.orgio.com and click on the online bookstore and you’ll get to see all those things and you’ll be able to order them for yourself. Don’t forget this is the third Sunday and you’re welcome if you’re in driving distance to come out and visit with us and join us for the lunch dinner that will…

that will follow. Also, by the way, you can join our worship service from anywhere in the world by going to the website and click on the camera. Then if you do that about 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, you’ll see clouds flowing by and hear the old rugged cross. And when I actually begin the message, you’ll see the audio and video come up on the screen and you’ll be able to watch it live. it live. But you can go back during the week and watch the archives.

We have many, many, many hundreds that watch those servants on the Internet site. Check that out. I think you’ll enjoy it. And many, many other things are there for you. Patty, by the way, in St. Petersburg calls the ask about my opinion of Charles Stanley. I believe he’s a pretty solid teacher and would recommend you watching him. We’re going to have to run, but if you’re in the Tampa Bay area, don’t forget we’re on seven days a week at 10 o’clock in the morning.

Don’t forget that we’ll be back on Monday live and don’t forget you’ve got the internet to go to if you want to hear some of these programs over the weekend at your pleasure you can do it anytime day or night by going to Bibleline ministries.org. Don’t forget that we’re list or supported and summer time is a lean time of giving we could use your help to shore up Bible and keep us going here over the summer. Would you call and give a gift by credit card over the phone and we would thank you in advance.

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