Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-01-17

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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. I’m great to be with you and thank you for tuning into the broadcast today. We’re coming to you live from Tampa from our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor and it’s great to be with you.

By the way, this Sunday is the third Sunday of the month and if you’re in driving distance, come by and see us. We’re going to have a dinner lunch right after the morning worship. Come as my guest. Come at 10.30, bring your family, your Bible, your appetite and stay for a a wonderful dish covered dish once in some of the best home cook food in all the world. That’s this Sunday, the third Sunday, January 20th. You’re welcome to come and your deputize to bring your friends if you want as well.

Bring a busload. We’re going to have a great time. That’s this Sunday, the 20th of January. Come at 10.30. If you want to come earlier, I have an adult class I teach along with the other classes that are offered here at 9.15 and you can join my adult class. stay for the worship service at 1030 and then stay and eat with us. We’ll have a good time. You can be my guest. We’re getting ready to leave for Israel. We hope you’ll go with me and we’ll have a great time.

It’ll be trip number 15 for me. We’ll leave February 25 coming back on March 7th. Twelve full days in Israel. We’re gonna have a super time. Would you consider going to Israel? Call me. I’ll be glad to talk to you about it and we can get that brochure mailed right out to today. Also, you can go to the internet, go to my website, BibleLineMinistries.org, and click on Bibleline News on the right side of the page on the home page.

You’ll be able to pull down the full page brochure and the two-page itinerary. We’re going to have a great time. Keep you really in the word every day from morning till night. We’re hearing from people from all over the world and here’s a local one. This one says, I enjoy hearing you on Bibleline. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve been saved since I was 38. I’m now 87. And she said pray for her family. There’s some unsaved people left in the family.

We just got an email today from East Africa and a pastor there is listening to Bibleline and said that he wants to learn more and get more materials and would love to have me come to East African visit. Well there’s a lot of people out there. We’ve had correspondences past months from Singapore, from Indonesia, from Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, from Europe, from Canada, from all over. It’s exciting to see that by the line through the internet is reaching out all over the world.

Do you have friends in other countries, missionaries in other countries, relatives in other countries? Email them, let them know about Bible Island. Maybe Bible Island might be a blessing to them as well. It’s sure good to be with you today. Today is our television day. Tonight at 6.30 Eastern Time will be on Direct TV nationwide. Actually, the whole North American continent down in the Caribbean and all the way up into Canada over to Alaska. and that’s going to be on channel 3.0.3.67.

There’s been a channel change. We were on 3.2.1, but now it’ll be on 3.6.7. And watch out for that tonight at 6.30 if you have direct TV. We just started the class Tuesday night this week. First Peter, we got two classes done, two one hour classes. They’re available on CD. They’re available on DVD. You can order the entire set that in advance and we’ll ship it when it’s complete, but you can come by and of course get the individual classes.

It’s a great beginning. We had a wonderful time and you’re welcome to come here in driving distance and visit the class locally and then be a part of our study on first Peter. We’re going to get into the Bible for a few minutes then take our phone calls. The phone number here at Bibleline is 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. You have a question, call and we’ll try to answer it on the air. of salvation. Amazingly, as simple as it is, you would think people could not get it mixed up.

But I hear people all the time repeat phrases that they’ve heard all their life, and they don’t ever consider whether they’re scriptural or not because they hear other people repeating them and reciting them and they just assume that they’re okay. It’s amazing. It took me three years after I was saved to purge myself from bad phrases that I had never seen. learned in the church where I was raised. I really personally don’t believe anybody was saved in the church I was raised in.

The pastor certainly wasn’t in my talks with him and most of the other people that I talked to individually, I don’t believe knew the Lord. So the whole church was the unsaved church. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? I used to think to myself, you know, if the rapture were to happen, the church I was raised in could continue their services uninterrupted because they’d be left behind. What a horrible thought. How tragic that was and it stirred my soul to want to reach out to people and make sure they understand the clear gospel because it could be you are attending a church and that you’re faithful to that church and yet you’ve never understood the gospel and if you were to die you’d be left behind you wouldn’t be saved because it’s really simple the message of the gospel that is but people try to embellish it, flower it up, change it up and if you change or alter

it at all you will not be saved. That’s really what it’s saying in Revelation chapter 22 verse 18 and 19. Have you ever read it? It says in verse 18, and this is Jesus who is speaking, I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. Well, obviously the worst plague is that of hell, chapter 14, where a person will be tormented day and night.

They will have no rest day and night. They’ll be forever separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. Verse 19 goes on, and the safe enemy shall take away from the words of the Book of this prophecy. God shall take away His part out of the Book of Life and out of the Holy City and from the things which are written in this book. Wow, again, it talks about being lost for eternity. If you read Revelation 22, you have to read these couple verses in the context.

Verse 17 says, as this book comes to a conclusion, and the Spirit and the bride say, come, and let him that is a thirst, or let him that hearth say, come, and let him that is a thirst come, and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely. This is God’s final invitation, as God reaches out to you and to me and everyone in the human and invites us to come and take of the salvation that he has purchased at the cross by his death and shed blood, absolutely free.

Notice he says in the last phrase, and whosoever will, anyone, everyone is invited, let him take of the water of life freely. It is offered free to all that would take. Isn’t that amazing? Boy, when I heard that at eighteen, I said, Boy, I will take you up on your free gift of eternal life and I trusted Christ as my Savior and I knew from that moment on that I was going to heaven. I knew I had eternal life.

But verse 18 and 19 talk about the two ways you can violate the gospel, you can cancel the gospel, you can make the gospel of none effect, you can find yourself breaking the deal. What is the deal breaker? While it’s adding or subtracting from what God said, notice verse 17 is quite clear, there’s only one condition that must be met in order to be saved, and that’s to come. Let him that hearth say come, let him that is the thirst to come, the spirit and the bride say come, and whosoever will let him take of the water of life free.

But as soon as you add some human work to it, and that’s the first part here, adding Some people add baptism, church membership, living the Christian life, and on and on the list goes, we mentioned that I have a track here from the Church of Christ that lists 22 things you must do in order to be saved. Obviously, terribly wrong, doctrinal error, big time, and if you add anything, guess what? It says here that God will add to you the plagues which are written in this book.

Then it talks about taking away. If you take away from who Christ is, if you say that Jesus is just a man, he’s not God. Obviously, the cults all do that. The Seventh-day Adventist, the Mormons, the Jones Witnesses, all deny the deity of Christ. My friend, you will not be saved. It says here, the God will take away his part out of the book of life. Did you know that everybody’s name is in the book of life to begin with?

And if you die as an unbeliever, your name will be taken out of the book at death. That’s what it’s saying here. He’ll take your name out of the book. It says here, in and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book, you will not partake of heaven. You will not partake of living with the Lord in heaven forever and ever. You will be forever lost. All you have to do is alter, change, ratify what God has offered in the Bible.

He says salvation is the gift of God. Romans 623 says the gift of God is eternal life. The gift of God is eternal life. gift of God as eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Salvation cannot be obtained in the mall. It cannot be obtained on eBay. Salvation cannot be obtained by your church dispensing it. The only one who can give you salvation is God. And the only way to receive that salvation is to trust Christ. All you have to do is come to Christ and trust Him as your only hope of heaven, and God will save you eternally.

I hope you have done that. Ephesians 2 8 9 says, By grace, by mercy, are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast or brag. Amazing, isn’t it? It is not of works, it is not of yourself, it is the gift of God, and it is by grace that you are save through faith in trusting Christ as your Savior. Grace means unmerited favor, favor or mercy that is not given based upon your being meritorious, that you have done something worthy to deserve it.

The Bible tells us that grace is undeserved. It is received simply because God loves us and offers it to us free. All we have to do is come. And when When I trusted Christ the Savior at that instant I received everlasting life. You can also receive that gift of eternal life right now, wherever you might be listening, whether it be in East Africa or Indonesia or in Singapore or in any other part of the earth. As we had 152 countries that have logged in on this program so far, and not exciting.

We hope that you, listening right now on the radio, have trusted Jesus alone. If you think you have to give your heart to Christ, that’s a false gospel. That makes you the Giver and God the receiver when in the Bible, the Bible teaches that God is the Giver and we’re the receivers. Salvation is God’s gift. We receive it by trusting Christ as Savior. But yet, look at how many Prince’s say, give your heart to Christ to be saved. I guess their picture of heaven would be this, as when you get to heaven you walk down those golden streets.

You’d say, you’d see huge containers full of hearts donated by people here on the earth that they gave their hearts so they could go to heaven. You believe that? That you’ll see big bins full of hearts left and right down the road that leads right through the heart of the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem in heaven. Of course not. That is strange thinking isn’t it? Give your heart? God doesn’t need your heart. He doesn’t need your kidney, he doesn’t need your liver, he is not trying to get anything from you.

The Bible says that it is not of yourself, it’s not from yourself, it is not of works lest any man should boast. The only way to go to heaven is to trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ. You know sometimes we get a little bit extreme to show how foolish some of these teachings are. Can you imagine big containers full of hearts in heaven where people gave their hearts? God just stockpiles them hundreds and thousands of hearts all piled up in big containers in heaven.

That is nonsense. There is no such thing in the Bible, but people aren’t reading their Bible anymore. They’re not paying attention to what the Bible says. And you hear phrases that are totally wrong. People repeat them because other people repeat them. And they don’t really check out to see that what they’re saying is in conformity to the Word of God. I’m Dr. Englins from the Bible and we look forward to talking to you today. Give us a call. We’re going to go right now to David in St.

Petersburg and David. Welcome to the Bible and you’re on the air. Yeah, I want to add to what you’re saying. People who believe that you have to earn it or pay for a part of your sin. Look at how insulted God must think. When my father, my firstly father, went out, I mean, God, sacrificed. I think they got insulted the guy who, my friend should not give him credit. People don’t realize how when they take it some kind of a God’s point of view how insulted it must be.

He gave his only begotten son and you’ve got to go around thinking. You’re absolutely right, you know, and the Bible makes that clear. It says in Ephesus 2 9, not a works list. Annie Man should boast. So you are prevented from boasting or bragging by God. by the plant isolation of God’s device that says you have no part of it, but to simply receive it and you have to give God all the glory. You know, that verse that you mentioned is you took that out of context.

I don’t know where you could plug that into anything and get anything out of that other than what it says. I don’t really care. You really can’t. It’s so sad. And you know, I have a Roman Catholic Bible in front of me and it reads the same way. It’s not a matter of what Bible you use oftentimes. It’s a matter of do you believe it? In the Catholic Bible it says, for by grace you have been saved through faith.

They really get the tense even better than the King James. And then it says, and that not from yourselves. It is the gift of God not as the outcome of works unless any man should boast or brag. It’s very clear. But Charles Stanley put it this way and one of his books I got it really nails that back. I have it in my car It’s really nailed it because all the verses and he uses his own logic and how you know how how a lot logical would make God sound Just logically if he had to earn something like that He said his put it put it shortly he goes if you have to add the grace it’s no longer grace Anything you add to grace changes it from grace the word doesn’t mean grace anymore.

That’s right That’s right. The times of the little stuff I didn’t do a good job by. I understood you and that’s good enough. God bless you David. Thank you for calling in. You know, it’s amazing. God must be really disappointed that people just cannot accept his love and the gift of salvation that he offers. They want to contribute something. And it actually is such a pale contribution in contrast to what Christ did. Christ gave his life and shit is planned and then you say well god here’s a quarter I’m going to help you out it must be terribly insulting as David said we’re going to Jeff down in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Jeff welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Good morning Pat and thank you for taking my call and I would assume that instead in the beginning of the world and the work working speaks that Christ came and dwelt among us and he was God and I believe that the teaching is that Christ himself is God and he was one verse he died God and I had shown all in Jesus God It says there are three that bears witness in heaven and that is the word the whole of prayer and these three are one.

So any teaching that is saying that Christ is not God and the Father is not God is a teaching up and a seven day event is teaches that God is Jesus Christ and the whole of Spirit is God and the Father is God and all the denominations is if we look and see what the belief in Bible teachers and nothing else and anyone that teaches that Christ came to that for our sins and that he has redeemed us from our sins and has not walked as Christ walked then the poor of Christ is not in blood and in that person and I pray God that Go on, lift me up.

Our teachers that hear these words will teach the righteousness which comes through Christ Jesus and teachers that mention keep the commandments of God because God has given us that power through Christ Jesus and it’s about to pray you would adhere to the teachers also and not just speak because those who teach and teach better. The Lord said in German 23 one will be unto them because it’s got to my sheep at three. So everyone that teaches should teach what the Bible said and nothing else because the Bible is what is leading us.

Okay, Jeff. Well, let me have Venice really teach a lot of strange doctrines that are not biblical at all, including the fact that the mark of the beast is the worship on Sunday. That’s totally a man-made doctrine and not biblical. And to teach that you really ultimately are saved by works, Jeff, because LNG White taught the investigative judgment that occurred on the date that they previously said that Christ would return to the earth. They said that the date was right, but the event was wrong.

So right now Christ is examining your works and my works to determine whether we’re worthy of grace. So ultimately your salvation is based on your works. And no seventh Adventist can say that they can know right now that they’re going to heaven because their sins really haven’t gone through the investigative judgment as yet, and they have to wait until the works are waiting in the big scale of the sky. Unfortunately this is all our out of false teaching. Thank you for that call and we are now going to go to a couple of our all-fear questions.

We have several here that we’d like to get to today. We have an anonymous call though in Miami. Let me go ahead and talk to that person right now. Mr. Anonymous, go ahead. Yes, I want to know. Well, if their doctrine is not correct, you need to get out. The Bible says in Revelation 18, wherefore, come out from among them and be separate. Second Corinthians chapter 6 says the same thing in verses 14 through 19, come out from among them and be separate.

So you need to check out what they believe. And if they are not teaching in line with Scripture, then you need to get out, especially on salvation. And if a church teaches that you can lose your salvation, that is a major doctrinal error, because they’re really teaching works for salvation. And any church’s teaching works for salvation is as many as people because they’re not saved by works or saved by grace through faith. So I would say you have to look at what they teach and compare it to the Bible.

We have an article I’ve written, you can get it off my internet site, but it’s called Beliefs that Matter about 25 basic doctrines that every sound church ought to teach. And it’s a good way to check them out against those doctrines and see that they believe the Bible’s Word of God. The Godhead exists as three separate eternal persons. We often use the word Trinity. Jesus Christ is God who came and took on Him in flesh. Solvations my faith and faith alone and without works You turn left cannot be lost because you’re saved eternally and so on and so on You might want to either call back and ask that to be sent with mail to you for your charge Or you can get it off the internet site on my articles dr.

Winston’s articles Thank you for thank you for listening in down in Miami Alright, and Miami is where I was born and raised Well, it’s not, I’m glad to have Miami on the, on the air down again there. We were off for a while and now we found a station, WMCU 1080 and glad to have you guys with us. We hope you get the full one hour one time and by the way we could use your help to make sure that we can stay on the air down there because it does cost money.

You could send a gift by mail or you can give a gift by credit card today. of you in Miami, would you help us continue the program in Miami by giving your gift to Bibleing? Gotta go, but we’ll talk to you guys again tomorrow. I had to say goodbye to Miami because they go off a little bit before the other stations, so we’ll continue for a little bit more till we take our break coming up. Well let’s see what we’ve got here.

Maybe we’ll give a quick offer here question. Here we have Kevin, I think we answered this question, but he said you touched on the original earth being inhabited by angels before the fall of Satan. Please, can you give scripture? I think we answered this, but let me just give you a couple. In Isaiah chapter 14 verses 12 through 14 you find that Lucifer himself ruling over the original earth prior to Adam was ruler over all of God’s angels here on the earth.

And when he attempted to overthrow God, God judged the earth and all of Satan’s angels and their judged. Back at the very end of your New Testament, it talks about this event in the little taming book of June. And it talks about here these angels that sin that says the angels which kept not their first estate, their first piece of real estate was the planet earth. And they left their own habitation to go where? To live in rule in heaven.

They didn’t rule in heaven. They didn’t live in heaven. But they were cast back down and judged. And Jude, verse 6, tells us about that event. We’re out of time. I won’t be able to take anymore. But we are going to go to break. If you want to go to Israel, give me a call today. I’d love to hear from you. I’ll talk to you about the trip. If you want to help by the line financially, you can give a gift by credit card over the phone or call and we can tell you how you can mail it.

So we want you to, well, if I want to thank you in advance, or sure, because all of you that give are the ones who keep us on the air and we sure appreciate you. We got to go break. We’ll be back in a few minutes to do a second half hour. So keep your radio tunes right where it is, and we’ll be right back. Don’t go away. Bibleline will be back in a moment. Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771.

That’s 1-800-576-3771. Well, I’m Dr. England Strimman. It’s Thursday and I hope you’re enjoying the program. We’re on TV tonight. If you have direct TV, you can catch us anywhere on the North American continent. We’re on channel I think it’s 367. It was 321. So, catches the 630 Eastern time and you’ll catch us every week there on direct TV. Also, we want you to know that we are going to Israel and that’s February 25th. It’s not too late for you to go.

This is a trip that will change your life and it will be a trip you will not believe. You’re going to have a great time. Some people worry about being killed in the Middle East. The likelihood is very slight. You never read about any tourist being killed in Israel. We are going to obviously be safe. We’re not going to go to places which are going to put us at risk. So we want you to know you’ll be safe. I’ve been 14 times.

This will be trip number 15. And I wouldn’t put you in harm’s way. So we’re going to have a good time. And you’re going to learn so much you won’t believe it. And the Bible is going to come alive to you in a way that you never dreamed possible. So call, get the brochures sent to you, or go to my website and click on Bible news on the homepage and you’ll be able to pull down the full brochure and itinerary.

But we need to get to going now because we’re getting close and you have to let us know so we can make sure that your seat is reserved for this trip to Israel. Also we want you to know that we have a number of CDs and DVDs ready to go. We are now teaching a new class first Peter but we have about 40 other classes we’ve already They’re available for you to purchase if you want to study the Bible.

They can be used to facilitate a Bible class, a Sunday school class, or personal study. A lot of people use them in their car when they travel to and from work and on trips, vacations and so on. It’s wonderful. Plus, you can catch our worship services on the Internet during the week. That would be great if you would do that. We’d love to hear from you. Let us know that you are enjoying Bibleline throughout the week, either on TV or radio or worship services, all of them on the website, BibleLineMinistries.org and we hope that you will check that out for yourself.

It’s great to be with you. I sure enjoy being with you every day. Thank you for calling and writing. As we just said a minute ago we got some correspondence by email from East Africa, from Indonesia, from Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, from Europe, from Canada and all around the world. People are catching by one. We’re going to do a second half now, so stay tuned. Stay tuned!

Would you like to call Bibleline and ask Dr. Lindstrom a question? You can. Just pick up your phone and dial 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Alright, we’re back from that break and this is Bible and it’s exciting to be with you. We’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida, from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church and we hope that you will tune us in every day Monday through Friday as we come to you live from Tampa.

You’re invited to come by and visit with us. Our resource centers open every day till about four or thirteen afternoon. Also you can come to our third Sunday dinner. If you want to pick a service to visit, I would say the third Sunday would be a great Sunday because you can come at 1030, join us for the worship service, stay for a great lunch, a dinner that will follow and we always have a great time eating and fellow sitting after the worship service.

If you want to come earlier and make it a real day, you can come at 9.15 and join my adult class. There are a number of classes offered but mine you can join and sit in a lot class and also the worship service at State for Dinner. You’re deputized to invite your family and friends. Get a busload and come on over and we’ll have a great time. If you can’t, if you live too far away, you can go to the internet, click on the camera on the home page and you’ll be connected to the Sunday Morning Worship service.

If you do it at 11 o’clock, you’ll see it coming up live and you’ll be able to watch that. But during the week you can go back and watch a year’s worth of sermons video and audio in color on your monitor. You’ll see a year’s worth of sermons sitting there for you to watch. No charge. You can watch them as often as you like. Isn’t that great? I’m excited about that. We’re teaching a new class now on Tuesday nights called First Peter and you can order the set on CD or on DVD.

That’s right. And we’re excited about being able to offer it in those two different formats. If you live in the Tampa Bay area, you can actually sit in the classroom on Tuesday nights when we actually teach the class live. So consider that and give us a call. We’ll be going to tell you how you can order these series and other series, Daniel, Revelation, Jude, Hebrews, Romans, and a lot of the books of the Bible and many specialized topics that we have spoken about.

You want to call us today, the phone number is 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771, give us a call. Also, don’t forget we’re leaving for Israel February 25th. I want you to go. I want you to go. I’m telling you, this will be a great experience for you. It will change your life and you’ll learn a lot of Bible. We’ll be opening up our Bible all day long at every site where we stop. past trip we walked down into the creek bed of the river or the creek where David picked up his stones with which he killed Goliath.

Wow, it’s exciting to be able to visit the very spots. Everyone in our group picked up a stone and our guide had brought a slingshot and we had couple of our guys that tried the slingshot there and I’m afraid that Goliath would have won. Our guys were no good. In fact, I ducked a couple times in the case they released it and it came back at us and hit our group. But we had fun and we enjoyed it and just so many experiences that will live in your mind for the rest of your life.

Can you imagine? Just being at those sites, walking where Jesus walked, walking where you know the disciples walked on the same stones and we’re going to be in all those places. I hope you’ll decide to join the trip and go with me. We’re going to go back to the phone lines right now. The phone number is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. We have Sue and she is in Sherlock, Michigan. And Sue, welcome to Bibleline you are on the air. Sue, are you there?

Hello, Sue. Well, I don’t hear since then we’ll try to get back to Sue in just a minute though. I’ll move over and we’ll go to Mark in Jacksonville, Florida. Mark, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the end. Yeah, yeah, it helped me push that button, doesn’t it? I know it. I was reading different scriptures. I studied the Word of God and I’m actually a student of Bible college here in Jacksonville. I know that the word says that the disciples came to Jesus and said, Master, we found another man up basically up the road.

He was catching out devils and land hands on the sick. We forbade him. And Jesus rebuked him strictly and said, Hey, if he’s doing it in my name, do not forbid him. And another scripture also that says, Do not speak about other believers and people, whether you eat meat and they don’t eat meat, you know, because they don’t do things the way you do it. that you’re not to speak against them and you’re not to. Basically, you’re supposed to kind of just buy our tongues.

And I notice I hear certain creatures speaking against other believers, even though they don’t believe in the way they do things. And scriptfully, the Bible rebukes that. He says that they have harsh judgment for people who do that. What do you think of that? Well, I think as far as practice, whether you, you know, What kind of songs you sing or what order of service you have or any of those kind of things are not the issue. But if they preach a false gospel, it says clearly that they are cursed.

If you read Galatians 1, look at verse 8 and 9, Paul says, if though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel, and that which we have preached unto you, let him be a cursed. And then he says, as I said before, so now I say again, if any man preach any other gospel, that which we have preached unto you, let him be cursed. Really, it’s strong and the Greek it means God damned. Obviously, the Bible warns about false prophets and part of our ministry as a good minister of Jesus Christ is to teach the Word of God, but also to warn against false teachers and false doctrine.

And you’ll find that throughout the Bible, that is taught that we’re to watch out for wolves that will enter in and devour the sheep. Let me share with you a great verse over in Colossians and we find here that Paul says, to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. First, 28 says, whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man.

The ministry is twofold. That of warning and that of teaching. If you were shepherd, you have to protect the sheep as well as feed the sheep. And I think both are true. And obviously, there are many that are false prophets today that are claiming to be apostles of Christ. And in 2 Corinthians 11 Paul says the same thing about how there are those who appear to be apostles of Christ. But they’re really Satan’s ministers. And you have to warn the flock to watch out for that.

And I would believe a lot of what is called Christianity today is a complete counterfeit. you listening. And the other thing about people in true news that Christ came and died for your sins and he alone is the only way to heaven, the only way to God and that we should have everlasting life and that everlasting life means eternal life means starting the minute you get born again is what the Spirit in the Word says. If you get born again you immediately become a heavy eternal life which is relationship with God.

I’m talking about people who like the Word Paul says, I’d rather that you speak in and and tongues or praying tongues more than I or that you prophesy more than I. And then there’s people out there speaking against that type of thing. I hear people fan things about people because they say, you know, the Bible says that my sins were forgiven, the ones I committed from the day I was born till the day I died. And basically I am the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus.

That means when God looked at me, he’s looking at Jesus’ righteousness, not my right, filthy rags. So I’m just saying that when people speak, we speak against other people for their because we don’t speak in tongues or they do speak in tongues or we do and they don’t miss a harsh judgment for people that speak against other believers. Well, I find that there’s nobody on the planet earth that speaks in tongues today. They’re speaking gibberish, not speaking English, but the gift of tongues is ceased according to the Bible and that’s the normal foreign language about any training.

Nobody on the planet is doing that. I’ve never met one yet. And everybody that’s doing what they call tongues today is it’s a gibberish done by all the world religions. And I have found in my experience that you can pretty much make the equation if you speak in tongues your salvation is wrong. I always divert from that and ask these people. He said, can you lose your salvation? And they say, oh yeah, you bet. Absolutely. And if you teach that you can lose your salvation, I’m afraid you don’t have salvation because if you teach, you can lose it.

You’re saying you have to work to get it and keep it. And salvation by works doesn’t fly. You will not be saved if you’re trying to be saved by works. So if you are saying that if you live the Christian life successfully and die that you go to heaven. But if you don’t live the Christian life, successfully and you backslide and die, you go to hell, that’s works. It’s saying that what you do between now and death determines whether you make heaven or not.

That makes you the Savior not Christ. And I find that almost 98% of the time when somebody says they speak in tongues, that’s just a symptom of a bigger problem that they don’t have salvation right. And so I can win the tongues argument, but I try to win their soul because I don’t want them to go to hell. And that is a big issue. So I don’t see anybody today that speaks in tongues. But what I see is a gibberish that is done by people in Buddhism, in Islam, in Hinduism, all through the native tribes and the jungles of South America, Central America, Africa, Australia, the gibberish is everywhere.

And that’s been around long before Christ even came. That is worn against in the Old Testament as well. but the real gift was a known for language to be used for evangelism i think we’re right on with salvation from what i heard you say but some of these other issues are unscriptural unbiblical and uh… uh… are oftentimes symptoms of of other deeper problems as they don’t have salvation right thank you for that call we now have uh… uh… john in lakeland florida and that john welcome to my mind on the air Oh, okay, hey, yeah.

A few things actually, I was just listening to a few minutes ago and he was talking about tongues. And that’s what I ran across and I was reading some of the church fathers a few months ago. And there was a pastor, I think this was about 300 years ago, and he was complaining that some of his, some of the people were speaking in tongues, but he was calling it gibberish. You’re absolutely right and that’s what happened in 1906 in Azusa Street out in California is it was clearly reported in the San Francisco paper that they had spoken in this gibberish It was not intelligible.

Nobody knew what the world they were saying and that’s the counterfeit And that’s not the true gift of tongues and that’s been on a resurgence here. Obviously since 1906 it has been sweeping across America in so-called Christian churches but it’s a counterfeit as not the real gift. The real gift is to be used for evangelism and I always ask people if you have the gift let’s go to them all and try to use it and according to 1 Corinthians 14 22 tongues are for a sign to those that do not believe not to those that believe.

So I’d like to see it work. Let’s try it out. I’ve never had anybody go with me And I’ve even told my bottom mistake dinner when we get all done They they just really panic because they know that what they do this gibberish Doesn’t go over well with the unsaved. It’s not assigned to the unbeliever and so nobody goes with me Well, actually what I called about was I’ve been reading a lot on the Rapture I think the book is but is by a writer who’s a predatorist and I’m trying to figure out what they actually believed, because when I was reading I haven’t discovered what they believed as far as actually when Jesus was going to come back.

Well, they say he’s already come back. He came back in 8070. That’s what Hank Hennigraff R.C. Sproul would many of these teach that he came back in all of his power and all his glory in 8070, but nobody saw him. And the Roman armies came against Jerusalem, they believed that was the Second Coming. They believed that the tribulation period was from maybe 64 to 8070. But Nero was the Antichrist and the book of Revelation was already fulfilled in those events back then.

So there is no future. Ultimately, there’s one general judgment and one coming of Christ when time is over. So they don’t believe in a literal millennium or a literal tribulation or a literal rapture or all those things are rejected by these people. So what are we still doing here then? I mean, what are, if they don’t believe in a millennium, then we’re not living in the millennium. So what’s happening now? Well, some of them say we’re in the kingdom right now.

And many of the Reformation churches have that doctrine and they teach that we’re in the kingdom. And that’s, again, totally false. I always like to give them the lion test. you know in Isaiah 11 it says during the kingdom during the millennium that the lion will eat straw like the ox. So I say let’s go out to the zoo. I’ll bring straw. You bring your arm. We’ll go to the lion cage. I’ll put straw through the bars. You stick your arm in there.

Now if the lion goes for the straw I will admit that we’re in the kingdom. But if the lion goes for your arm then we’re not in the kingdom. I have had no takers. Can you believe that? Nobody wants to try that? Because they know. They know were not a keen i have one other thing and talk about on a radio whatever but I believe that we’re really getting close to the time of the rancher. And I don’t know if you had a s- had a chance to investigate you know that the the and uh…

have you had a chance to this no i haven’t i don’t know uh… what can i tell you what i what i found a real short go ahead well basically that’s the fact they discovered a plan of and they call it because of the number ten but then they’ve they’ve downgraded pluto but they discovered it in in the early eighties or one day actually that was not the mayor and then in two thousand one another astronomer aground that would have ground-based telescope discovered it so that’s a job to know we really discovered it back in the eighties but the reason they didn’t want to take them on it it takes thirty six hundred years for the orbit around the sun so for fifteen hundred years it’s been or it is becoming back in close it’s uh…

it’s orbit is out around that turn But, NASA covered it up because it’s supposed to cause lots of problems with our climate, especially our tides and things like that because it’s a planet like… It very comes in close to Neptune, it’s close to calls and real problems. I got a book, I set off, I got a book by an astronomer who lives in England and I read the whole thing and a lot of it out which is going to be in September of 2012.

So, this is one and because… Yeah, I don’t know anything about that. I’m going to have to Google it and see if I can find something on the internet about it and we’ll maybe be able to talk about it. Interesting things though, and obviously I’ll have to check that out. Thank you for letting me know. I’ll get some information to you. Okay. Thank you, John. That was John in Lakeland, Florida. We now have Sue in Sherlock, Michigan. Sue, welcome to Bibleline.

Hello. Hi. Could you explain the new scriptures to say you were saying that our names are all written in the book when we were born? And then you said we’re platted out and I’ll hang up and listen to you. Okay, it’s implied everywhere. You’ll find in Revelation 3.5 a promise that if you become a believer, he says, I will not blot out your name out of the book of life. It’s implied that your name is there. Christ died for everybody, therefore God potentially has made a plan whereby everybody would be saved.

He puts everybody’s name in the book from the beginning and then if you die as an unbeliever, your name gets bought it out. In Exodus 32, Moses talked about having his name bought it out and God said no, he would not bought out anybody’s name unless they committed that unpardonable sin that is the sin of unbelief in rejecting the Savior. In Revelation 22, 18 today and 19 we showed there with a person changes the Gospel and rejects the Gospel as presented in the Bible that their name will be taken out of the Book of Life and they will not be there.

And so it’s implied everywhere you look but there’s nowhere. That it says that when you trust Christ your name is written down. That’s usually the implication that we all get in our churches that my name has been written down from the time I believed. That’s not true. I have the guarantee, Revelation 3 5, that he will not bought my name out of the book of life. It’s going to stay there because I became a believer. But if you’re an unbeliever, potentially you can go to heaven and up until the day you die your name is still in the book.

But if you die without Christ your name will be brought it out and it will not be. be found there when you stand before God as an unbeliever at the Great White Throne Judgment when he looks through the book, your name will not be found written there in the book of life. Sue, I hope that helps and we’re glad you’re listening up there in Sherlock, Michigan. And thank you for calling in today. The phone number here is 1-800-576-3771. Don’t forget tonight is our television program on Direct TV.

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Hey, Dr. Lynch, how are you? Good. I had a question about Moses. I was reading, I believe it was a book of Exodus, and there was one of our passionate scripts where it says that the law was about to kill Moses, but it didn’t really specify why he was about to kill him. And I… Well, it tells why. He did not circumcise his children. And so his wife was the problem. She did not want to circumcise those kids. And when she was there watching this take place, She took a sharp stone and circumcised her son right there.

She was disgusted about the whole thing. She says, Moses, you’re a bloody husband to me. But Moses’ life was spared because she did go ahead and circumcised the child. Okay. If you had a message to teach on Moses, what would you teach about and what would you say that set both to far from? I guess any other prophet in the Bible. I ain’t got the wisdom. So, unlike Hebrews chapter 11, verse 25, 26, 27, 20, 29, all talk about how he made a deliberate choice to serve God rather than take the Pharaoh job.

He could have been Pharaoh, but he chose to suffer afflicts in what God’s people choosing to do, what God chose for him to do. And obviously, you and I would agree he made the right choice. Read Hebrews 11 beginning at about verse 25 and you’ll see a wonderful, wonderful story about the choice that Moses made that turned his life around and God used him in a mighty way. Alright, we’re now going to go to Tommy in Jacksonville, Florida and Tommy, welcome to Bible and you’re on the air.

Good morning sir. Good morning. Today, a couple of days ago, you were given some advice on women pastors. Now, my understanding and basically teaching throughout the church is no difference between you and I agree. Okay, now, I myself read in the book of Timothy where he’s given the order of the church if any more desires, opposable things. for the can you know they must meet certain priorities for a man now this is not a show in this thing I’m going to point a view because whatever God’s words lay out, that’s the way I believe it should go.

But can you please, you know, re-enterate on that statement? There’s no difference between June or Greek. And does that have any correlations to the rest of the chapters and Timothy? What if we’re saying there’s no difference in position before God, whether you’re a Jew or a Gentile or male or female, if you’re a believer you’re going to heaven with the same rights and everything else. But it doesn’t mean that the woman has the right to be a preacher. And there are differences between men and women, and that’s something that we face throughout our life.

I can’t bear children, but women can bear children. So obviously we have different roles, and God has intended the man be the head of the home and also the leaders in spiritual matters in the church. you can certainly see that wherever you look for it again. First Timothy chapter 2 verses 11 through 15. Pretty powerful. We’ve got to run. We’ll be back of course tomorrow. And I hope you’ll join me then. And of course, don’t forget our TV program for the 6th 30 under 8 TV and call us and we’ll be glad to tell you what we have in our Resource Center.

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