Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-06-26

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So cherish the honor and promise, Till my true peace and best thy leader. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Coming to you. 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. It’s great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast.

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We sure do thank you to advance God bless all of you who pray for and give to and make Bible eye not possible without you. We could not be on the air. Alright we’re going to open our Bibles up. I hope you have your Bible open and we are going to turn to Matthew chapter 19. Here is a passage that has caused some confusion for some. We have a rich young ruler coming to Christ and he says in Matthew 19 verse 16, Behold one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good things shall I do that I may have eternal life.

He’s got several things wrong here and Jesus begins to correct those things. In verse 17 he said unto him, why call us down, we good? There is none good, but one that is God. So here is an interesting thing. Jesus Christ was saying, do you recognize who I am as God? Or are you just thinking that there are people who are good? The Bible says there’s none to do with good. No, not one. Romans chapter 3 verse 12. So there’s none to do good.

There’s none that are righteous. The Bible says all have sinned and all have come short of the glory of God. God. And so here Jesus is pointing out to this gentleman that he is a sinner. When he calls Christ good master, Jesus says, why do you call me good? There is none good, but one that is God. And then in order to point out that he is a sinner, he says, if thou will enter into life, keep the commandments.

Did you know the commandments were given for the express purpose of pointing out that we have broken the law and that we’re sinners, unable to save ourselves in need of the Savior. That’s right. In Galatians chapter 3 it says the law was a schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. And then after that faith has come, we are no longer under the schoolmaster. We are no longer under the law. Well, the law has a rightful purpose and that is to bring us to Christ for our redemption.

Somebody once said, the law is like a mirror. You can look in a mirror and see that your face is dirty, but in order to cleanse your face you don’t unhinge the mirror and begin to scrub your face with a mirror. You don’t do that. You reach under the counter and you get some heavy type of cleanser and suds up and wash your face and clean it. But the mirror doesn’t clean the face, it just reveals the problem. The law is the same way.

It reveals that we’re sinners, we look into the law and the law says you’re guilty. And so we then need a means of bidding cleanse or wash, and Jesus is the means of that cleansing. The hymn writer had it right when he said, what can wash away my sins? The answer being nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ, only the blood of Christ could ever wash away your sins or mine. And so then the rich young rumor begins to justify himself and says, which commandment did you have in mind?

And Jesus rattles off a few of them. He says, here thou shalt do no murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Verse 19, honor thy father and thy mother. And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Wow. Well, guess what? Nobody has kept these, really. The Bible says in 1 John that if you’ve ever hated anyone, you’ve committed murder with them in your heart. The Bible says in Matthew that if you’ve ever looked with lust upon the opposite sex, you’ve committed adultery with them in your heart.

The Bible says here, honor thy father and thy mother, do you know of any child who is always without fail, honored their father and their mother? I don’t know of one. They all dishonor them. And it says, Thou shalt love thy neighbors thyself. When you go down to the store and you see a nice outfit and you say, wow, that is gorgeous. I think I’m going to buy that. But I love my neighbor just as much as myself. I’m going to buy him one also.

I don’t see that happening at all. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. That’s one of the commandments. And the young man here, verse 20, says unto him all these things I’ve kept from my youth up. What lack I had. He was either self deceived or just a liar because obviously he hadn’t kept the commandments. Nobody’s kept the commandments. How do we know that? Well, Jesus said that in John 17. He said, did not Moses give you the law and yet none of you have kept it?

Nobody has ever kept the law. This man was trying to say that he had and he’s either deceived or a liar. And then Jesus says here, if thou will be perfect, go and sell that which you have. of the poor, and thou shalt have what treasure in heaven. Now here he talks about after he becomes saved, and if you were righteous as the law demanded as this man said he kept all the law, then he could earn rewards by living for Christ and giving to the poor and serving the Lord.

The key is that the universe 21, if you have your Bible, you need to rightly divide, as we talk about 2 Timothy 2.15 study, to show thyself approved unto God as a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. That means setting the truth of God’s Word in right order. If you’ll notice verse 21 at the end. Jesus says, come and follow me. Stop. Come is what you do to be saved. All you have to do is come.

It says in Matthew 11, 28, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. All you have to do is come to Christ and trust Him and you will be forgiven. He will give you rest. It is God’s gift. But then it says here, and this is separately given. And follow me. Now follow me is the Christian life. Jesus said in Matthew 4 19, follow me and I will make you a fisher of men.

Now you may not be a fisher of men right now, but after you become saved, after you have come to Christ and received eternal life, which is a gift that cannot be lost once you receive it, then we’re to make a second choice and that is to follow Christ And that will be a way of bringing rewards in heaven, as it said in the previous verse here, that if you’ll be perfect or mature as a believer, go and sell out which he’ll ask, give to the poor, now shall have treasure in heaven.

So treasures are earned, they are rewards, and they come by following Christ, and Christ said, follow me, and I’ll make you a fisher of men. But following Christ doesn’t save you. Following Christ doesn’t get you to heaven. I was interested to hear a prominent radio preacher the other day said that he could fellowship with all those who are followers of Christ. Let me just say something. If you don’t define the terms right, you really get in trouble here because there are many that are claiming that they are following Christ.

But yet they have never come to him and simply received the gift of salvation which is separate. Salvation is something that God has done for you in Christ through his death and shed blood and the Christian life is following after Christ and that brings about rewards and following Christ ultimately will develop you into a soul winner because that is the focus that is the object of Becoming a follower is that you would be able to become a fisher of men and lead people to Christ So, as a believer, we should then make a second decision to become a follower.

You know, I got saved and I did not serve the Lord for that first year after I trusted the Lord as my Savior. It was a year later that I made my second decision to become a follower of Christ. I trusted Christ, I was saved, I did nothing, zero. But a year later, God brought me to a place in my life where I dedicated my life, and I said I will follow you, and I will become a fisher of men, and I will witness for the rest of my life.

And I have, ever since that date, I have been a follower of Christ in pursuit of becoming a fisher of men able to lead people to Christ. And what a wonderful joy that has been to lead people to Jesus Christ over these many years. But you know, I was saved by simply coming to Christ. And if I had never done anything in my Christian life, I would still be saved. My works have nothing to do with my salvation. They have nothing to do with it.

My works will bring me no salvation. But the work that Christ did at the cross is the work that brought about my salvation. When I trusted him what Christ did for me at the cross, God saved me and he gave me the wonderful gift of everlasting life. Then I made my second decision to serve. Well obviously the disciples even got mixed up here and they said in verse 25, they were exceedingly amazed and they said, who then can be saved?

Jesus said, with men it’s impossible but with God all things are possible. In other words, you would have to be as righteous as the law demanded to be able to go to heaven. With man that’s impossible, you can’t possibly live a sinless life as much as you might try. You might have victory over sin but you’ll never live completely without sin as a believer. You know, even the apostle John, sixty years after he was saved, said, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

So even one of the most dedicated believer will find that they still have a sin nature and they still sin, and will be plagued with that until the day we die. The Apostle Paul said thirty years after he was saved in Romans 7, verse 18, he says, I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. For to will… He said the victory would eventually come when we’d lose this body and be with the Lord.

not that I do in it and the good that I would not that I do and so that I do not and so he had a struggle here between doing what he ought to have done and not being able to control the fact that he had an old nature that continued to cause him to have sin in his life. He said the victory would eventually come when we’d lose this body and be with the Lord. Well, in any case, Matthew 19 here, the rich young ruler walked away sorrowful.

He never understood the gospel, I believe, and he walked away unsaved. And then Peter says in verse 27, Behold, we have forsaken all, and have followed you, what shall we have there for? Peter asked a pretty bold question. He said, what do we get to get for being serviced and following you? And Christ here breaks again into two things here. He says, You that have followed me in the regeneration shall inherit eternal life. So if you’ve been born again, you’ll receive the gift of eternal life.

But then he says, if you have forsaken things, in verse 29, he says, you’re going to receive a hundred fold. Did you know a hundred fold is a 10,000 percent return on your investment? 10,000 percent. Wow. banks what pay two or three percent four percent on your investment here Jesus said I’ll give you ten thousand percent return everybody ought to be signing up to serve the Lord and say hey I want to live for Christ every day because the treasure you’ll receive in heaven that Christ outlined and shared with his rich young ruler is going to be great a ten thousand percent return on whatever labor you do here for Christ but obviously He’s talking about two separate things.

You simply come verse 21 to Christ to be saved. Then you follow him to earn rewards I’m Dr. Engman’s from this is Bible and we’re gonna go to the phone lines right now if you want to call us 1-800-576-3771 1-800-576-3771 we’re gonna go to Bert in Miami Miami. Welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Afterhand, good morning. Good morning. Congratulations for being on Miami for an hour. Well, thank you very much. We’re excited. Glad you’re back. I’ve got a couple questions for you and it comes from the Book of Jude.

There’s two verses that my wife and I were discussing the other night, and it’s on page 1328 of your spole field Bible there. verse 6 and verse 9. Verse 9 where he talked about Michael the Archangel. When contending with the devil he disfeared about the body of Moses. How does Judah, wouldn’t you get that information that there was a speed about the body of Moses? That’s the first question and the second question is about the angels. I’ve always been taught that the fallen angels are demons.

It sounds like First one of them are chained up and some of them are free to possess non-believers Are they all chained up the ones that were calling? Okay, by the way, Jude got that information from the Lord This is a book written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is the author of scripture James is simply rather Jude is simply writing down what he’s told to write down He had a desire about what he wanted to write about it verse one verse three He says, beloved, I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, the salvation all believers have in common.

But he said it was needful for me to write unto you and earnestly, excuse me, exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. In other words, he was going to write about one topic, but the Holy Spirit redirected the writing of this wonderful book. And I have a ten-hour teaching on the book of Jude on CD. You’ll really enjoy that series. This one that people keep coming back and saying, I love that Jude series.

10 hours of teaching on CD you can order that on the 800 number if you want to call in. But down in verse 9 you have Michael the Archangel, containing with the devil as he disputed about the body of Moses. And this talking here about apparently, God has preserved the body of Moses because Moses is going to come back. Right after the Rapture, two prophets are coming back, Moses and Elijah. You can read about it in Revelation chapter 11, and these two prophets…

The other one will be able to shut up the heaven so it will not rain. That has to be Elijah. and spied the earth with all the plagues as often as he will. That has to be Moses. The other one will be able to shut up the heaven so it will not rain. That has to be Elijah. And Moses and Elijah are coming back. Now Elijah never died, so his body is preserved. But Moses did die and apparently Satan is calling foul play.

He said, hey, that’s not care. He died. He died, he shouldn’t be able to come back, but God has preserved his body, I think, and it’s ready for Moses to come back and preach again during the tribulation period after the rapture. Also verse 6, the demons here, the angels, these are all the angels, and it says here that they are reserved in chains, everlasting chains, under darkness, under the judgment of the great day. It means that they are chained to that destiny.

They are going to be cast into hell. But they are free in roaming around as Satan and his angels are very much alive and active here on the planet Earth. But they are like on house arrest. They are chained to that destiny. They will not escape going to hell. But in the meantime they are about here on the Earth and they are the demons that we read about in the New Testament. but they are chained to that destiny and they will never ever be able to get out of going to hell.

Bert, good to be on in Miami. Thank you for that call. I hope that’s helped. And now we’re going to go to Levita in Lake Worth, Florida and Levita, you’re on the air. Welcome. Oh, thank you, Dr. Hank. Yeah, I have a couple of questions that I wanted to talk about in time. I’m going to run down a quick little list and then I have some questions about it. Is it okay? Sure. Jesus descends from heaven. Dead are raised.

The living are raptured. Then we have the judgment before Christ. We reward four rewards or no rewards. And then you have the tribulation. And I’ve heard people talk about pre-trib, mid-trib and post-trib, which I’m not sure about. in the last seven years. And the last half of tribulation is the whole last half like the Battle of Armageddon. And then I read somewhere where Jesus shows up at the end of the battle and binds the devil for a thousand years, casting him into the bottomless pit and keeping him there.

And then after the Millennium, Judgment of Nations, and it says that we, the saints will be with Christ in association with this judgment, and then you have the end of the millennium where the devil is loose for a time, and then there’s an army that attacks the same new Jerusalem, and I’m not quite sure where a new Jerusalem came from at that point. The wicked are judged after that, and that’s the great white throne, and then they’re cast into the lake of fire.

Now, my question. Number one, is this the right order? It’s fairly right, but you’ve got several things that are not correct. First of all, the Battle of Armageddon happens right at the end of the Seven Years of Tribulation. It’s not a three and a half year battle. It’s a battle in fact that will be over in one hour, one hour. According to Revelation, you have a great team that says three times it’s over in one hour. It will be a nuclear exchange.

I believe missiles will be launched with nuclear warheads and if Russia were to fire at us right now they could hit us in 30 minutes. If we were to fire back we could hit them in 30 minutes. And apparently there will be an exchange between all the superpowers, China, Russia, the West and so on. And in one hour it’s all over. So then Christ returns and sets up his kingdom. And also the deuterism is not mentioned until after this Earth is destroyed, after the millennium, and the judgment of the nations occurs at the beginning of the tribulation period, rather at the beginning of the millennium, not at the end of it.

And so several of you things are out of order. I don’t know where you’re reading to get these things from, but they’re out of order and out of sync. So what happens is the judgment of the nations occurs at the second coming, at the beginning of the millennium. And then at the end of the millennium, there are those unbelievers who are born during the millennium and have never trusted the Lord of Savior that are coming against Satan rounds about when they come against Jerusalem, but not the New Jerusalem at all.

The New Jerusalem is not even seen until chapter 21. And we find that You The pre-rath or rather the pre-tribulation position is the correct one on being caught up to meet the Lord in the air. We’re going to be going out before the tribulation. We’re the church, the bride of Christ. The bride of Christ is not going to go through the tribulation. It’s a time when God is going to be preparing Israel for this kingdom that he’s promised of them since the foundation of the world.

And so during the tribulation period, the believers of this age are all gone. And we’re not going to be there for any minute of so the mid trip the post trip really teach that you have to go through part or all of the tribulation period That’s not going to happen. Okay Okay, and then Let me see. Oh during the millennium Where is Jesus during that time and where are the saints and What exactly goes on? I mean just if you stand a brief synopsis Jesus will be in Jerusalem ruling over the whole earth as king of the earth.

We saints are going to come back in our resurrection bodies and rule and reign with him. The subjects of the millennium are those people who are saved during the tribulation period who survive the judgments of the tribulation and enter into that millennium. I am out of time. We have to go to break here. So let me say again, now we are going to be on a Miami for the full hour and we are glad to be with you today.

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Hey, Hank. Good morning. Good morning. The Christ and me, the Christ and you, brother. I was calling, there was a few things that you had mentioned in your opening dialogue about serving the Lord and following Him and about rightly dividing the Word. It was just, I don’t know, in my as I’ve followed or I don’t even like, that’s the, you know, we talk about terms that we use in references to salvation like asking Jesus into our heart or asking them into our life that isn’t found in Scripture and actually He drives people further away from the Lord.

But this term of following or serving the Lord, I don’t find either in the Scripture because it’s the dispensation prior to that of the ecclesia, the church, because Jesus isn’t here to follow for one, and the whole purpose of the adoption was not to make a servants of someone to follow or to serve, but to be sons and children of God and heirs of God. But this whole concept of following and serving the Lord, I can’t serve the Lord in this flesh.

Neither can anybody else. It’s only Christ living His life and through you. And that comes through… Well, you know, I’m limited about what does tell us that we are to follow after Christ and and you have that certainly very well spelled out in John’s gospel that there’s a separation there between Coming to Christ and that’s a phrase typical of Salvation wherever you find it says come unto me and in John it says him that come with to me I will have no wise cast out and and numerous times you’ll see that phrase come to.

But you’ll also find it says come after, which means to follow. And that always has to do with the Christian life and rewards. And I believe we can serve the Lord. And we are not robots and we’re not just a glove that a hand is manipulating us, that we are God created us as robots, but He created us as creatures of choice. we can choose not only to trust him as our Savior, but we can choose also to serve him.

Obviously, and the phrase you use in Christ to me, greets Christ to new, sounds a little bit new age to me because that’s a phrase typically used in new age teachings. That is really, I don’t see that in Scripture at all either. I think that’s something I’ve never really heard anybody use, at least in a biblical perspective. coming from somewhere else. So I think we really can and do need to make that choice to serve Him. In Ephesians 2, 10, it says that we are created in Christ Jesus, which is the new birth, unto good works, which God have before ordained that we should walk in them.

So we are ordained to do good works and to serve the Lord and an numerous verses that talk about us becoming living sacrifices where we submit our lives to serving Christ and living for Him after we become saved and it brings about reward. We’re now going to go to Loretta in the land, Florida. Loretta, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Good morning. Good morning. I’d like to ask you a question, Brother Hank. I was watching the 700 Club and I saw something very unusual and I thought I was hearing something very strange.

I had never seen anything like it before. They talked about the 700, I mean, excuse me, about the word of knowledge. And then they start saying, you know, have different things wrong with them. They haven’t got a prayer request, but they’re just saying, this or that, the other623. Supposedly they’re supposed to get a healing from what? Uh, envisioning. Yeah, I believe that’s terribly unique. I think it’s on the edge of fortune telling. and is creeping into Christianity and alarming rate.

If you read 1 Corinthians chapter 13, Loretta, it says in verses 8 through 10 that three of the gifts with sea, and one of them was the gifted knowledge, the other is the gift of prophecy, and the Sins, and they would all halt when the New Testament record was completed. So the gifted knowledge is gone. I believe the gifted knowledge was to have perfect recall about the events in the life of Christ and to be able to record them in scripture for us, which we have today.

So now that we have the New Testament record complete, we don’t need any more the gift of knowledge to know what happened at the feeding of the five thousand or when Jesus walked on the water or when he calmed the sea or when he raised Lazarus from the dead. Obviously the Holy Spirit gave that gift, especially to the writers of the New Testament, who were able to know. now today.iron Tajriat, noon today at 20 40 40 40 40 40 40 60 60 40 40 40 60 50 40 40 with 30 40 40 50 60 40 equal 80 90 40 Sealrs, women’s If I want to know about the tribulation period or the return of Christ or the millennium or the casting of Satan into hell, all of that is recorded in the scriptures.

I don’t need the prophecy gift anymore. But again, in many churches, the gift of prophecy is like what a palm reader would do. And they say that I see a tall, dark stranger coming to your life and I see you inheriting some money and this and that and the other. That is not biblical at all and what you’re seeing is not supportable by Scripture and I believe is terribly wrong. I do too. I was just wanted to hear what you have to say about it and appreciate your answer.

Well, you’re very welcome and thank you for calling in. The gift of knowledge has ceased and the gift of prophecy has ceased and there are no New Testament prophets right now because it ceased and the gift EDITION of the season nobody speaking in the biblical gift of tongues today. So these are all ceased and they ceased when the New Testament was completed by the end of the first century and they’ve been gone church history records that endif we have a resurgence today of counterfeit gifts which I think are a sign of the end times were there right now.

We now have Richard in colonial heights and Richard, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hey Dr. Hank, this is Richard. This is purely an evangelistic call, a little bit of a format, I hope you forgive me. I’m big on people, telemarketers call your home, and want to refinance or whatever the reason is. I want to see Christians speak to them and just ask them, after you politely listen to this field, Look, if you were to die today, would you go to Heaven or Hell, salvation was a free gift, and it’s our job as Christians to take the opportunity where people call or see them on the street, whatever the case may be, tell them about the free gift of salvation.

I just want to encourage people to do that. Well, I think it’s a great idea, and a lot of people I know are putting a good track with their bill payments so that the person that they’re in might receive that gospel track. I know a number of people are doing exactly what you’re talking about that are in my church. When a telemarketer calls they say, look, I’ll listen to you, but you gotta listen to me. And they give them the gospel.

And they’ve led a number of the Christ. It’s been wonderful. It’s really been very powerful. And many of them have received the Lord as their Savior as a result of that. of that. Then Richard, that’s great. And thank you for that reminder to us of our privilege and responsibilities, Christians, to share the gospel with those that are lost. And that’s one way you can do it without having to leave your home. You can do it right from your home, which is great.

We now have Janice in Tampa, Florida. And Janice, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hello. Good morning. Yes. I’m going to find out. So that if you listen to like art school or you read the book, just say it on some part of which graph. When you read what book is that? Like when you, okay if you listen or read, like things that have to do with the idea of art science or art school. Well guess what? You’re absolutely right.

Let me give you a good verse, Janice, you might want to write this down. Isaiah, chapter 47, says in verse 13 Isaiah 47 13 thou art wearied in the multitude of thy councils. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, that’s your horoscope, stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. So here are several areas that we’re to be staying away from astrology the stargazers monthly Prognosticators don’t buy into any of that verse 14 behold They shall be a stubble the fire shall burn them.

They’ll not be able to deliver themselves out of the power of the flame these are people that are lost and You don’t want to be listening to them and let them influence you and Really on purpose and I really I’m telling you the truth here. I don’t know What my astrological sign is I have absolutely avoided ever even discovery what it is because I believe it’s not a lord and we’re not to be into astrology. I say a 47 13 and when people ask me what sign are you I?

Tell them I’m born under the sign of the cross See I’m just startled because they don’t know what to do what I’m talking about and it gives me an opportunity to witness to them But I see my sign is the sign of the cross. I have trusted Jesus Christ as my Savior and a heavy kernel life. And the astrological things are not of the Lord. And the Bible says we should stay away from that. Isaiah 47, 13 says that those who are into those things are really not from the Lord.

And they will not be able to deliver themselves from the fires of hell one day when they’re cast into the eternal lake of fire. So I hope that helps a little bit and that’s a good verse to write down. I write it down. It is because I participated, but somehow it didn’t sell a rice in me and I remember hearing someone say it a long time ago and I was ever sent to really go through it. And I’m like, should I read it or should I take it back?

And I wanted to take it back. I said, let me find out if it is the same or is it wrong before keeping it and if it is, I’ll take it back. Yeah, you need to get rid of it. All right. Thank you, Janice. You’re welcome. uh… the uh… astrology stuff is really not from god and uh… fortune telling the horoscopes uh… all that is not for god is a forty seven thirteen right down and stay away we now have jeff and jeff is in palm harbor for the jeff welcome to bible on your on the air morning sir morning of a question or more of a comment i guess i’m calling about the uh…

and there are great many people believers who have a great many questions about what it was a bad information that it is not a bad and so there is a lot of division the church over this issue with quality of hospital in this situation i believe that he would go and confront this man after was a demon involved and and the whole situation with twenty pastors would and deal with this man and if he is a state that they would cast a demon out also and if not they would find out what it is or is not a bad it would have flocked well uh…

first of all i don’t think it’s going to happen this this is not a guy but it’s going on there and you can see it not only does this message not match up with the bible but he doesn’t even preach the bible he doesn’t even use the bible and he uh… obviously is uh… doing things which are uh… the opposite of what the scripture teaches you know the bible says the holy spirit gives you the spirit of a sound mind I’ve watched the videos on the YouTube of his meetings and people convulse and flail on the floor and jerk uncontrollably and that’s certainly not a sign of the Lord.

And in some cases he and his staff, I seem to kick people that are down. It just seems to be, whoa, why would I want to go to a meeting and have somebody give me to put both on the floor and then kick me on top of it. But if you read the materials about him, he’s obviously since his beginning of his ministry. He’s added some incredible tattoos on him. One of them is of Christ upside down on his arm.

And if you look at the beard of it real closely, and it’s on the internet, very close, it’s monkey with a weird, satanic type of demonic form or image of Christ. There are many of these things which you can look at on the website. He has a criminal background. He was in jail in Canada for a while for molesting a young boy, a pedophilia. And of course that doesn’t hinder him here in the United States, but back in Canada is where he was a part of that.

I believe the whole thing is not a God and it certainly is supposed to be the third wave now in the new charismatic Pentecostal movement, the first beginning in Toronto, the second in Pitskull, Florida, and the third one right here in Lakeland. This supposedly grows new limbs and does all kinds of miracles and I don’t believe anything happens and I understand he or although challenged him, he got real silent about producing some real proof of his healings that he obviously can’t and I don’t think he’ll ever be able to show anybody that he actually healed anybody of anything.

Thank you for that call and I believe that we’re living in the last days where it says that the false preachers would be doing the signs and wanders And it says it would be so effective that even genuine believers would be deceived by it. And Christ says, look, I’m telling you, 2000 years in advance, know that in the last days, not genuine believers, but false believers, false teachers, false preachers would be doing the same gifts. And obviously I think we’re seeing that happen right now before our very eyes.

We have Alice in Tarpon Springs. She calls in with a software question. She says, where is the Third Heaven? The third heaven Alice is in heaven itself where God resides That’s where Paul was caught up To in chapter 12 of 2 Corinthians Versus 1 through 4 and he saw things that were unlawful for him to utter or talk about We have guys like Todd Bentley who barely travels to heaven on a regular basis and Of course, that’s all phony baloney He says he visited Paul in his log cabin in heaven and got to interview the apostle Paul.

This is just complete nonsense. If somebody were caught up to heaven today, why would they be given license to talk about it when Paul the apostle was told that he saw things that it was not lawful for him to talk about? And God gave him an illness and infirmity in the flesh to keep him humble so he wouldn’t talk about it. read it in 2nd Corinthians 12. But that’s where Heaven itself is. I believe it’s in the North and our universe, the Bible hints in numerous places that the Lord is in the North and our universe.

We know that Job tells us about a narrow corridor where there are no stars in the North. Job 26-7 that God stretches up the Heavens over the empty place in the North. And obviously today we know about that and scientists are studying it. And I believe That’s where God is. Leviticus 1, 11, and 12 tell us that they offered the sacrifices in the Old Testament northward before the Lord. So the sacrifices were offered to the north and that’s where I think God is Psalm 75, 6 tells us salvation comes from the north.

Satan when he wanted to overthrow God and overthrow heaven he said he wanted to sit in the mountain of the congregation in the sides of the north and on and on you can go apparently The third heaven, Alice, is in the North in our universe where heaven itself is, where Paul was caught up to paradise in the third heaven and where the New Jerusalem is and where God will one day bring that New Jerusalem down here to the New Earth and that’s where we’re going to live forever and ever.

We have Linda in Eden, Florida and Linda, welcome to my blind, you’re on the air. with the call that called in about requesting the 25 ministers to get together to go over and confront Todd, you told all the evidence for this being not of Christ or not of the Lord. So why don’t we as 25 born-again Christian believers, ministers, go there and confront him? Well, it sounds like you all want to go to battle, but the Bible tells us to avoid all those who teach false doctrine and not to in any way be a part of it.

I think we just need to stay away. I think it’s dangerous. There’s churches that are taking groups over there. I think they’re endangering their people that they may come back with a demon or a demonic experience that they would regret later on for the rest of their life. I think it’s dangerous to go there and I don’t think the Bible tells us to go seek out and park on their porch. You know, we could do that with every cult too.

We could all head to the Watchtower Society headquarters and rebuke them and also the Mormon tabernacle, the no-mormon temple out there in Salt Lake City, Utah. And that’s really not our job. Our job is to proclaim the gospel to the lost. And otherwise, we could take up guns and go after and shoot everybody that didn’t believe like we did. But we’re not to do that. That’s totally not what we’re being doing at all. I think we’re not to do that.

That’s not our task. And I think you get in trouble when you try to take those things on. That is a powerful fortress of Satan. And I don’t think we should be involved in trying to take them on in that way. OK, we have Richard in Clearwater. He asked this off our question. He says, is it important to let people know? That they have broken God’s laws before they are presented to the Gospel of Grace. Or can you tell them that God is love and you will receive peace, love and happiness?

Richard, my person needs to recognize that they are sinners, but you don’t have to beat them over the head with it. I find that most people will readily admit that they are sinners. And that they’re unable to save themselves. And so if they admit that they’re a sinner, they say they’ve never sinned in their life, then you’re going to have to go further with that. But otherwise, I don’t think it’s this. I’ll just tell them the gospel message of good news Christ died and was buried in rose again and God will take care of that You have Peter in Palm Harbor Peter welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Peter Can’t get Peter up.

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