Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-07-04

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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 1-800-637-771. Now here’s the host of Bibleline. Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Hank Lindstrom. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. We look forward to being with you each and every day, Monday through Friday as we come to you live from our studios right here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church.

And we’d love to invite you to come by and visit us during the week. We have our resource center open every day. People have already been coming by this morning and we’re open till about 4.30 in the afternoon. Also on the Internet you can visit our resource center by going to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the online bookstore and you’ll be there in our resource center. The things that are in there are things that I would approve of and I will save you a lot by not having you go out and do as I did and I bought thousands and thousands of books many of which are not worth what the paper they’re printed on.

So you can invest wisely and we have some great series. I have that Jameson Possett Brown commentary and that covers something on every verse in the Bible and we found it very, very helpful. Just about every time you have a question, we looked up about Moses and his wife and they said Zipporah and the Ethiopian woman were one of the same that he did not have two wives and it was an excellent dissertation on that but it has answers and you can really You can find that as a wonderful tool on your bookshelf if you’re a serious student of the Bible.

You also have the Bern and the Gieset, which is five beautiful volumes, takes you through the whole Bible, and he covers something on every chapter of the Bible, not every verse, but every chapter. Get your heading in the right direction and does a great job, and I love that set also, and we have that. The other commentary on sale for a gift of 100, they cost much more than that in your Christian bookstore. So, take a look. This weekend we’re going to celebrate tomorrow, of course, July 4th, our country will.

And then on Sunday here at Calvary, we’re going to celebrate the nation’s birthday with a worship service at 1030. And then with a picnic afterward, hot dogs and apple pie and hamburgers and cheeseburgers and chili sauce and potato salad and baked beans and chips and soda pop and everything. It’s a family event and if you would like to come and visit this Sunday, I think it would be a good Sunday to come as we celebrate our nation’s birthday. And as we have a wonderful picnic out back in the back of our property, it’s a beautiful setting with shade trees, oak trees, and picnic tables.

I think you’re going to find it will be a blessing. Come on by. We’d love to have you. And you’re welcome. We are going to be into the weekend here quickly. And if you don’t have a church home, you can always go to the Internet and catch our worship services. They’re on live at 11 a.m. If you go to the website, Eastern Standard Time, and you’ll see a black screen. And then all of a sudden it’ll come up with a white white screen that will tell you the broadcast is about to begin and as soon as i begin the message the audio in the video come up and you’ll be able to watch the uh…

worship services on uh… online on your computer and we’ve had a hundred fifty eight days down logon from all over the uh… world and that’s exciting by the way we’re getting the bible and we’ll be taking our calls if you want to write down the phone numbers we uh… will give them out right now it’s one eight hundred five seven six three seven seven one That’s 1-800-576-3771. And give us a call, you can leave a question off here or go up on the air with us with your question.

We’ll try to answer that. We want to welcome our new station. So we have one in West Virginia, WEMM, AM, and FM, reaching all of Charleston and Huntington in West Virginia. Maybe you know folks that way you might call them and tell them to tune that in. and you can call us for the exact frequency. We also are on Evansville, Indiana on WVHI, AM1330, and we hope that you’ll tune in on those broadcasts. And by the way, You can go to the internet and catch our programs anytime of day or night.

I hope you will. Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful fourth in life. I hope you have a safe holiday. We hope that you’ll take advantage of the internet. If you can, join our service by internet or come by and have some hot dogs and apple pie with us. It ought to be a lot of fun. Good to be with you. We have live collars already calling in from different areas. We’ll get to them in just a minute. We’re going to take a look at our Bibles.

If you have your Bible there, I want you to turn to Leviticus 1711. Leviticus 1711. What an amazing verse this one is. It tells us here in Leviticus 1711 that the life of the flesh is in the blood. And God says, I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, Therefore it is the blood that makeeth an atonement for the soul. Interestingly, the Bible is a book of the blood. But what is also interesting here is the scientific accuracy of the Bible.

Up until rather recently, men had it all wrong about the blood. Aristotle taught that the body was bisected into two halves and that the blood on one side vertically flowed independently from the blood on the other side and that the head was somewhat like the radiator on your car so uh… when you had a fever won’t feel well obviously with your head that overheated and uh… anyway that’s strange belief uh… carried right on down until almost rather recently and uh…

you know even george washington died because uh… they didn’t get it right about the blood and the scriptures had it right all along. You know George Washington, according to history, contracted double pneumonia and they called the best physicians that our country had to offer to treat him to come to his side. They prescribed bloodletting because they believed that the blood was the care of evil spirits and diseases and so they actually drained out, listen to this, three pints of blood out of George Washington Today we know he died because of the loss of blood and the weakened condition with a double pneumonia, no wonder he died.

Whew, I’m glad those doctors aren’t around the treat me today. But that was a common belief and almost, well, that was just a couple hundred years ago when George died because of the practice of bloodletting. It was popular. Every barber would be able to do it for you. You could go in that striped barber pole, talk about the fact that they could take that scalpel in that razor and cut your wrist and drain out blood. And by the way, they would drain out a certain amount from your right wrist and they would measure it.

Then they would drain out a certain amount from your left wrist and that was so that you wouldn’t walk around lopsided because they believed the blood on the one side, flowed independently from the blood of the other. So they would measure the blood and drain out an equal amount from the other side of your body. Crazy, isn’t it? But today you go to the doctor, I found this firsthand. You see that nurse, she seems so friendly, she comes and approaches you and you think, wow, she’s going to shake your hand and welcome you to the doctor’s office.

And when you reach out, boom! She cuts the end of your finger and you’re bleeding. That’s right. And then she puts that blood on a piece of glass and runs back into some room there where she has a microscope and she looks at your blood and says, no, what are you sick? with all those things crawling around in your blood, you certainly should be sick. Well, obviously, that was a lesson I learned early. Watch out for those nurses who want to take blood, and they would like to take it in the hospital as well.

But basically, they know this wonderful fact that Leviticus 17, 7, 11, Chapter 17, verse 11 says that the life of the flesh is in the blood. So when they take a look at the blood, they can tell the condition of your flesh, your body. And today when you go to the hospital, instead of draining blood out as they did with George Washington, it’s almost not fashionable to be in the hospital without an IV. Everybody wants to be hooked up to one of those bags on a pole with a tube coming down and going into your arm.

And instead of draining blood out, they put fluid in. Isn’t that interesting? We’ve had a real reversal in science. And the Bible was right all along. It says, the life of the flesh is in the blood. God says, I’ve given it to you upon the altar to make an entombment for your souls, for For it is the blood, it is the blood that makes the endowment for the soul. Wow, the Bible is a book of the blood. Today the blood of Christ is under attack, along with so many other doctrines.

When you go back to the book of Genesis, Abel offered a lamb and his blood had to be shed. You see through the whole Old Testament the idea of blood sacrifices, all a picture of what Christ would do when he shed his blood. It says in Hebrews 922. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission for sin. Think about it. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission for sin. Do you have a blood sacrifice that will cleanse your sin?

Well, obviously, the Bible says that Christ is that blood sacrifice, and it was by His blood that our sins were cleansed, and we become washed of our sins in the blood of Christ. I love what the hymn writer wrote. What can wash away my sins? The answer is nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. Boy, the hymn writer got it right. But you know more and more New hymnals are coming out that eliminate the songs about the blood.

Peter makes it very clearly. The Apostle Peter says in 1 Peter 1, he says here, How are we redeemed? He says not with silver and gold and not by our works and not by our deeds. deeds, but he says in verse 19 of 1 Peter, with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, Jesus Christ died and shed his blood. Revelation 1-5 says unto Jesus, who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

Is your church still singing the hymns about the blood? Well, many of the modern translations deliberately eliminate the word blood from the text even though there’s no reason to do so. And there are Bible teachers that people are not paying attention to what they’re saying, but they actually speak against the blood. I’m going to quote here from a booklet by RB Them, and it’s called The Blood of Christ. It’s the ispia number one five five seven six four oh three six x by Robert theme and this is what he says the red liquid that ran through the veins and arteries of Jesus Mortal body is not related to our salvation Oh, he reading the same Bible There is no biblical basis for attributing any unusual properties to Christ bodily fluids The term blood of Christ is far more significant than any magic or mystical power falsely ascribed

to the physical blood by those who are ignorant of doctrine. John’s record indicates that his literal blood was not a factor in either his spiritual or his physical death. Interesting. Wow. When an attack on the blood of Christ, I sure don’t want to be standing close to him when the Lord judges, preachers and believers because whoa, who is going to stand up until Jesus, you know, your blood was of no power. And I love that hymn, there’s power in the blood, there’s power in the blood.

And the power of the blood to Washington, Zarshan is taught throughout the Bible. Now you go to the book of Hebrews for just a moment, and it says in Hebrews chapter 9, and what a great verse this one is, it talks about the blood of Jesus shed at the cross, that Jesus himself took that blood up to heaven and applied it on the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies. And by doing so he obtained eternal redemption for us.

So if you have your Bible open turn to Hebrews chapter 9, and look at what it says here. It says in verse 12 of chapter 9 of Hebrews, but neither right of blood of goats and cabs, but Jesus, by his own blood, entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. How did he obtain eternal redemption? By taking his very own blood, the blood that was shed across, and taking it up to heaven. And it says in verse 24, Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true, but in the heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us.

that Christ took that blood that we shed at the cross and took every drop up to heaven. And He actually entered into the holy place in heaven and actually applied that blood on the mercy seed in the holy of holies. And having done so, He obtained for us eternal redemption. Wow, I’ve got a number of articles written about the blood that you really probably ought to look at. And it will certainly bring your back to the truth of Scripture that is the blood of Christ that took away our sin.

Well, it tells us, for example, in Colossians 1 and verse 14 about the blood, it says about Jesus, in whom we have redemption through His blood. Catch that, Plosians 114, Christ in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sin. The Bible is very clear that the blood played an important role that was the blood of Christ, which by the way the Bible says was incorruptible blood. That Jesus was sinless, His blood was sinless, and only Christ blood could take away our sins.

And his blood was shed at the cross so that our sins might be washed away. The hymn writer again said, what can wash away my sin? The answer is correct. Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. But there are those who teach falsely concerning the blood. And today, more than ever, I think the blood of Christ is under attack. And obviously, if you’re a believer in the Bible and you get your doctrine from the Bible, you have to believe the Bible is the book of the blood and it’s the blood that was offered up for our sins.

Leviticus 1711 that we began with is an amazing scientific fact. The life of the flesh is in the blood. God says I’ve given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood. It is the blood that makes an atonement for your soul. It’s the blood. Now, Jewish people have a problem because they haven’t offered a blood sacrifice for 2,000 years. Because the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed and they can’t legitimately offer blood sacrifice anywhere but at the temple in Jerusalem.

And so the blood of Christ was shed and therefore God destroyed that temple because there was no other sacrifice necessary. His sacrifice was pointed to by the blood sacrifices of the Old Testament, pictured to us by the blood sacrifices. But when he died, he made the full and complete and final payment for your sin and mind. So when you trust Christ, the Bible says God saves you, he saves you eternally at that very moment. We’re going to hear the phone lines.

That phone number, by the way, is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. And we’re going to talk to Mac. And Mac is down in Miami, Florida and Mac, welcome to Bibleline. Good morning. Good. I got a question about the choir. What if the choir is, I mean, what is it used for for God? Well, choir can sing God’s praises and set the stage for the message to be brought. But I think obviously the music needs to prepare the worshiper and get them ready to hear the message.

I think if you use music, I think at least my theory is you start off with faster, more majestic songs and then as you come to the message you slow it down and play more slower and more worshipful and thoughtful songs and then bring the messages that prepares the way for the message to be brought. But really in the Bible you read about the choirs that were used in Israel in the worship of God. But in the New Testament you don’t read about church choirs but I don’t object.

But I think that if you’re not careful the bees you can take you away from God rather than lead you closer to God. Yeah, because I’m sorry, I mean cut you off because what I’ve been hearing is that the The choir has been singing songs according to the seasons, like the Easter, the Christmas, the Thanksgiving and stuff like that, instead of giving praise unto the Lord. When the Lord gives the Holy Spirit for them to just go ahead and give all the praise unto the Lord to God.

Well I think the words are very, very important and I love the old hymns like the theme song for Bibleline is the old rugged cross. I love that hymn. It talks about how Christ died on that cross and shed his blood. That’s the means by which we’re saved. I think today a lot of the modern hymns are just light and fluffy and don’t have any substance. Somebody once said about the contemporary music today that it’s 7-11. Seven phrases repeated 11 times and that’s about it.

No real substance to the words. Some of the great hymns were written several hundred years ago and they are full of Wonderful doctrine and like I quote some of them as we did the thing what what could wash away my sin the answer is nothing But the blood and I love that hymn there’s power in the blood power in the blood Wonderful power in the blood of Christ it can cleanse us of our sin and give us the gift of eternal life So I think we need hymns that reflect and remind us of the precious teachings that we believe in the scripture And we need to be careful that our songs are not giving us bad doctrine because sometimes hymns are wrong.

They’re not aspired. All the descriptions are. So we have to, in fact, sometimes I will change the words in a hymn if it’s not doctrinally sound because I don’t want to have the congregation sing something that’s not sound doctrinally. So I’m changing the words on hymns all the time. Thank you Matt. Okay. All right. Thank you. That was Mac done in Miami, Florida and I was born and raised in my man was born in the Jackson Memorial Hospital right there in Miami and so I have a An affinity for Miami.

I really want the gospel to go out in my home city We’re not going to Glenn in Tampa and Glenn. Welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air morning pastor In your opinion How old is the earth do you think and if you get back that up now listen hang up Thank you, okay The Bible says in the beginning and that’s when the universe was created and I believe that was probably Millions and maybe billions of years ago But I only believe man has been on the planet about 6,000 years if you read Genesis 1 1 it says in the beginning God created the heavens in the earth now when you go over to Isaiah of 45-18, it tells us that when he created it, he created it perfect and inhabited.

So he did not create it void or without form as you find it in Genesis 1-2. So I believe the earth was originally created and inhabited according to Isaiah 45-18 and that there were plants and animals and dinosaurs and that all of God’s angels lived on the original earth. And then when Satan decided that he wasn’t happy with that and went over through God, God judged the earth and it became without form and void as we find it in Genesis 1-2.

Then the earth that was completely flooded, according to verse 2, that was without form and void, the life on the planet had been killed, God incubated it. Apparently it became frozen. It accounts for the ice ages because scientists tell us that if the sun’s light were cut off for as little as 72 hours, the planet would be quick frozen. NASA tells us that a huge asteroid struck the planet 65 million years ago and that hit in the area of the Yucatan Peninsula.

You can see it on a map that big ground circle. The diameter was somewhere between 125 and 150 miles. They say that it threw up so much debris into the atmosphere of the earth light from the sun was cut off for millions of years. And so all life that breathed air died. And then it says in the end of verse 2 of Genesis 1-2, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. That word moved in the Hebrew means to brood upon or to incubate.

The same word used of a hen sitting on her eggs and keeping them warm and hatching them out. So God made the earth ready, thought it out from the ice ages, and then in seven days decides to put life on the planet again. And if you read carefully, God did not have to create plants again. If you read what happened on the third day, it says the plants all came forth from seed that was already here on the earth.

And then on the fifth day, God created all animals that breathed air again. And then on the sixth day, he creates man separately from all the animals out of the dust of the ground. And so I believe man has only been here on the earth 6,000 years. But I believe the earth is very old and has an old history. And I think there are many reasons to believe that. I think if you look up at the sky at night, if the Earth were only created 6,000 years ago, you’d have a dark sky.

Most of that light from the stars you see in the heavens came from even billions of light years ago. So that light has been traveling for billions of years and is finally arriving here for us to view into glory as we look at the night sky. But there are many, many reasons to believe that the Earth is all. We have the ruins of that destruction. The petroleum deposits that the world is now fighting over are really the fossil remains of that original Earth that God destroyed.

Look at that, pockets of petroleum, which is fossilized animal life. We used to have a series of gas stations a number of years ago that had the dinosaur out there as their symbol because we were really burning dinosaur bones and fossil fuels that are the modern-day petroleum. And of course coal is a fossilized plant life and it’s all trapped all around the world in pockets underneath the surface. When did that happen? I believe it happened when God judged the earth in Genesis 1, 2.

And so the earth I think is very old but I think man has only been here for 6,000 years that the seven days were a re-creative week. And when God told Adam to be fruitful and multiply and re-plenish the earth, he’s implying that there was life here earlier that he was to punish it again, replenish. I wouldn’t make a whole lot out of that except if you go to Genesis chapter 9, Noah is given the same command in the Hebrew.

He’s told to multiply and replenish the earth. In the case of Noah there was life destroyed. Now Noah was now ordered to punish it again just as Noah was given the same command in the Hebrew to punish the earth of life again after the destruction of the life in Genesis one too from the original creation. Lucifer was the God of this world. He still retains that title to this day. Second Corinthians 4.4 says that Satan is the God of this world.

Hope that helps and thank you Glenn for your call. We’re out of time here. We’re going to have to go to break. By the way, we hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July tomorrow. We hope you’ll have a safe holiday and we hope of course you’ll continue to use your computer to get Bibleline at convenient time for you. By the way, if you can pray for Bibleline, we’d appreciate it. and also to give the Bible, and we have no other means of support than you our listeners.

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And that includes tomorrow you’ll be able to hear Bibleline as we are on five days a week live out of Tampa and on the weekends in Tampa Bay area we’re on for the full week on Saturday and Sunday as well we play the best of and we hope that you’ll take advantage of that. the broadcast and by the way this Sunday we’re going to be celebrating July 4th on July 6th in our morning worship at 1030 and then we’re going to have a picnic out back and we’re grilling hot dogs and hamburgers and cheeseburgers and we’ll have potato salad and baked beans and chili sauce and chips and soda pop and it’s a family affair and we invite you to come in if it’s too warm we’ve got a big air conditioned educational building and you’ll be able to walk in there with your hot dogs and sit down and enjoy the cool of your conditioning as

we celebrate our nation’s birthday. Come on over. If you are coming from a distance, this makes it worthwhile. You can come and enjoy the service, celebrate with us, and then enjoy the picnic and the wonderful food that will happen. We want you to be a part of that so you’re welcome to come. We are excited. We’re in July and we’re going to have a lot of things going on here and including probably I’ll teach another class. Well, that’s pretty soon here.

What we’ll teach you. There will be two nights, and of course if you can’t come, you’ll be able to catch it by getting the CD or DVD series after we finish. We have second Peter right now done, and first Peter is done, ten hours of teaching on each of those books, and also the Gospel of John, twenty hours of teaching are available on CD and DVD. And we have about forty other series that are available, and we hope that you’ll take advantage and get them to enhance your personal study of the word and maybe facilitate a Bible study or a home study or a study school class using the CVs to get the teaching rolling and take questions and answers and so on and think you’ll find it very powerful.

We’re going to go to Decatur, Illinois and we have Ken on the line and Ken, welcome to Bible on Your On The Air. Hi, yes, Dr. Hank. I have a question for me for you. A friend of mine is doing a lot of studying on Charles Fenny, and he’s going to Pentecostal churches. This guy helped to introduce me to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible back 40 years ago, almost. And at that time, he was going to a church.

It was pretty, you know, pretty well taught what you taught. And I ran into him in a few months. I worked out in the country. I hadn’t seen him in many, many years. ran into him in a few of this guy and I were very close friends back when we were young men. And anyway, his wife was telling me that he’s reading a lot of Charles Penny books and really study it and I didn’t have a lot of time to speak with him.

But from what he was saying things like that he wanted to get it all and I asked him about the church he was going to and he said, well I was going to Pentecostal church in this one town. He said I quit going there. He said because I wanted all. He said I want him to teach it all. And from that after him telling me about this, Charles Fannie, I’m going to meet with him again here in a week or two.

And I wondered if you’d give me some insight. I have a little knowledge of Fannie. I understand he was born back in the late, back in the early 1800s somewhere, and he had some sort of a strange experience. And I understand that he was part of the beginnings of the Pentecostal Movement. I also understand that it’s a lot of work based in there and a lot of behaviors and moral stuff. Anyway, I just wondered, because I want to, you know, it’s hard to go to a guy that helped lead you to the Lord and feel like you’re going to help him in some way.

But I just got a bad feeling that he’s being misled terribly. And I just don’t want that to happen. I want to give me some insight on how to deal with this business, with this Charles If any of you were in the beginning, turn the round on it. Well, I agree Phil’s been a had a repentance wrong and salvation wrong and you could lose your salvation And he really needs to get away from that. You know what I tell people Why don’t you read the Bible?

I mean doesn’t anybody think? That might be a good book to read They’re reading books about the Bible and the books are leading them away from the Bible and We need to be more than ever into the Bible if you read 2nd Timothy Chapter 4. It says the time would come when they would not endure sound doctrine, but they would heap to themselves teachers that would tickle their ears and give them what they’re looking for. But as a result, it says that their ears would be turned away from the truth and they’d be turned on the fables.

And so they wind up believing lies. And I have tons of books, but I tell you, the number one book, the ones in my hand every day, the book that I love, the book that I read all the time, is the B.I.B.L.E. Yes, that’s the book for me. The Bible is the Word of God and you can’t go better, higher, deeper than to go right directly to the Word. I would suggest, have you thought about sticking with the Bible?

And you know, it’s amazing how that that will be the ticket because it’s the Word of God. God. It tells us in Isaiah 820, if they speak that as those that we’re reading and learning from, they speak that according to this book, the Bible, the word of God, it’s because there’s no light in them. And all the way through we are to judge everything that we hear and everything that we believe and everything we practice against the standard, which is the word of God.

So that’s what I would recommend to him. I said, you know, I think you need to forget all those books. And when you conquer the Bible, then go ahead and maybe read a few other books. But it’s like this. I had a friend that was in the banking business and he was sent by his bank to the Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. and when he came back after this two week course he said, hey, since we were sent up there to be able to detect counterfeit money, I thought we would be seeing counterfeit bills every day in the classroom.

He said, you know, we were never shown not even once a counterfeit bill. We were instructed very carefully what the real U.S. currency looks like and what to look for. And he says, when you know the genuine thing well, you can pick out the counterfeit easily. So we didn’t have to look at any counterfeit bills. And I thought, wow, what a great illustration from the Bible. You know, if you know your Bible well, you would know that Charles Finney is off in doctrine.

You know, your Bible well, you’d find a lot of books that you probably have on your shelf are worthless and they don’t teach in line with scripture. So there’s one book that we need to be with and I think if you know it well you’ll be able to have the discernment to recognize things that are false because they just don’t line up with the Bible. Well, I was going to say the tape that you have or the CD that you have, how permanent is your salvation?

When I met with him over there and we went out and had a meal on him and his wife and I gave him that CD and I told him I said, you know, listen to him, I gave him that and a couple things. I told him I said, well, you got a pretty good drive home. I said, why don’t you stick this in your CD by the time you get home? I said, you’re going to be pretty happy about your salvation.

And then I spoke to him again a week or so later and not a word. I mean, it was almost when he was a pastor. talking to me he was telling me what i wanted all of it uh… there was something that you know what i mean so i i just anyway i think i’ve learned enough from you that i i just was wondering if you knew anything else about this penny that i might want to know but i thought i pretty well i didn’t cover it on works and and moral issues and it was all basically all works so that’s all i need no then right that’s it that’s all you need to know okay Go on, go on, go on!

go to work. Got a question. Thank you very much. Alright Ken in Decatur Illinois we have now Jerry on the line and Jerry is in the plant city for them. Jerry, welcome to Bible on your own ear. Yes, Dr. Hayne. Here we are July of 2008 and we see what’s going on in the world as far as tornadoes. The gas plane, the impending roll with Iran and all that said the Temple Institute started preparing to build a third temple on Jerusalem’s Mount arrived and decided don’t look at the rock and asked a mosque or a set up but anyway by inaugurating a workshop that manufactures increasingly garments and when you’re sharing these things with people or witnessing and the first thing they say is no man knows the name or the hour respond to that and where exactly do you think we are right now

I believe we’re right there. In fact, I think it’d be foolish to try to put this thing off. Now, he may be, the Lord won’t come for a couple of years, but I’m working against the clock here. I feel like what if he does come this year? I sure don’t want to be sitting on my bottom doing nothing. I want to be active, and so I’m trying to make every day count. And I’m counting down as though he were coming this year.

Now, I’m not setting a date, and I’m not saying he’s coming this year. He’s coming this year. But I think if you live with something to motivate you in the whole thing of Christ coming unexpectedly. The first thing that I want to say is to motivate us. It says when you have this expectation in you in 1 John chapter 3 that it motivates you to really get going for the Lord. I’m trying to reach out as far as I can and do all that I can because what if the Lord did come this year on the Feast of Trump, which would be September 30th.

We have now just a little less than three months to go. Don’t misunderstand what I said. I didn’t say Christ is coming this year. I’m saying that He could come this year. I like to live with that extra excitement in my life saying wow if he comes in three months I don’t want to have to say oh Lord I didn’t think you were gonna come this year and so I’ve been sitting on my Bottom and doing nothing and I think a lot of Christians are gonna be caught In a sense off guard because they’re not You know believe he’s gonna come very soon.

I think we ought to live that with that and also when it says you can’t know the day of the hour. I tell people, doesn’t say you can’t know the week of the month. I think we can. You know, I think Jesus is pretty smart. He’s the creator of the universe. And we have an Earth that’s round and we have 24 different time zones. So when you talk about the day or the hour, you know, I understand naval ships like to take their sailors on the international date line with Pacific Ocean, part the boat and they’ll run to the stern and to the bow back and forth and they’re actually crossing from one day to the next and then going back to the previous day by running from one end of the ship to the other.

Isn’t that exciting? I think that’s exciting. And so really even though Christ comes back at a particular moment in time, it could be in some parts of the world, the day before, in some parts of the world it could be the day after and you don’t know what hour because there are 24 time zones. So I think you can’t know the day or the hour, but I think you might be able to know the week of the month. So I challenge you to throw that out of people and we’ll see what happens.

We now have Donna down in Avon Park and Donna welcome to my mind and so good to hear from you. Praise the Lord if we… Wouldn’t that be something? It would be great. Oh boy, would it. Um, have you ever heard of a Steve Walberg? I haven’t. WhitehorseMedia.com. Okay. I think that he’s on one of our local channels here. It’s called Faith Channel. But he is tearing apart the third temple. There is no third temple. Hal Lindsey is wrong.

And he goes to the Old Testament, the New Testament, and he’s just looking really hard to get people not to believe all this stuff. Well, you know, he’s on loan. There’s a hell of a hang-handi-grap doesn’t believe in the rapture. And he promotes a book, Ten Reasons Why The Rapture Is Not Gonna Have It, and other books that are against all of those things. So you need to watch out. But anyway, the guy you’re having to refer to is the Seventh Ed Medicine.

medicine they do not believe in the rapture. This is a part of the end times and it talks about how there would be many false teachers, Matthew 24 24 and we’re seeing that happen and people are being deceived but if you really want to know the truth I believe God will scare you to the truth and hopefully Bibleline is sounding out of call to go back to the Bible and pay attention to what the Bible says and come out with all these crazy ideas if you just stick with the Bible, you’re going to be right on target.

That’s right. So I think he’s a seven-day Adventist and that’s why his doctrine is flawed. And I mean, and that would be on salvation too. Usually bad doctrine breeds bad doctrine. If he has that wrong, and if he’s a seven-day Adventist, he has salvation wrong because they believe in salvation by works, they don’t believe in hell, they believe in a lot of strange teachings. Right. Well, I haven’t heard enough of him enough to find out about his salvation, that’s because he’s all out of it.

I’m sure you can go to the website and Google his name and type in next to that false doctrine. And usually there are people that have exposed some of these people. And you can read about their bad doctor. Thank you, Donna. Okay. Keep up the good work down there in Avon Park. Janice in Tampa, Florida and Janice welcome to my blind good to have you on the air Janice hello Janice well I guess Janice are you there? I Think Janice is doing something else we’re gonna have to go to Surely in Lakeland, Florida Show me welcome to Bibleline.

You’re on the air. Yes. I’ve heard him speak about eternal salvation and I would like for him to explain Hebrews 6, 4 through 6 for me and I’ll hang up and listen. Thank you. You’re very welcome. Hebrews 6, 4 through 6 is talking to a Jewish audience. It’s called the Book of Hebrews and they were used to that yearly sacrifice. at the temple. And when they would get away from the Lord, they would be used to that sacrifice. So they would think in terms of maybe they have to go back and offer another sacrifice.

Well, that’s really saying that you don’t need another sacrifice. In Hebrews 10, it says, by one offering, Christ has perfected forever those that are believers. And so in Hebrews 10, 14, we know it’s just by one offering. Now, it’s saying there in chapter 6, it is talking about There are five points that outline these genuine believers. It says it’s impossible if they fall away. That’s not talking about falling away from salvation. That’s impossible. But falling away from serving the Lord and being steadfast with the Lord.

And it says what you need to do is go back and start serving again. And God is going to reward you for your faithful labor. It says in verse 10, God is not on righteous to forget your work in your labor of love. of love. Verse 9 he says he’s talking about things that accompany salvation. He’s not talking about your salvation. But if you go back and try to become saved again, look at what it says in verse 6.

It’s impossible to become saved again. And then it tells you that if you do that, you’re crucifying Christ all over again to yourself. Obviously he’s never going to die again, but you’re crucifying him to yourself again. And what does it say? Putting him to an open chain. So anybody that goes back and tries to become saved again is putting Christ to an open shame and crucifying Christ all over again to themselves. What the Bible is saying is that the one-time sacrifice of Christ was sufficient to save you eternally.

So you don’t go back and become saved again, you go back and start serving again. And so if you get away from the Lord and you’re not serving the Lord, don’t go back and try to become saved again. Go back and start serving again. And it says that God is not going to be unrighteous to forget whatever you labor you do. reward you for your faithful service. Hope that helps Shirley. Thank you so much for your call from Lakeland, Florida.

We have an anonymous caller from Belgrade, Florida, and an anonymous welcome to my blend. Hello, Dr. Hank. Hey. Will you please explain to me? All right. I’m turning over there right now. And let’s see. Song of Solomon. I’m almost there. Chapter 1 verse 5 is that right? Yes sir. Okay, hold on, I’m almost there. Here we go. Chapter 1 verse 5, it says, I am black, but comely, and you, daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Qidar, as the curtains of Solomon, not upon me because I am black.

So it’s talking here about a black woman. Who would the crew know about? Well I think that’s a particular area. I think you’d probably get your Bible map and take a look as to where that region was. But you know it’s not like the buildings of Tampa or Chicago or Belgrade’s downtown. They had tents. So wherever that settlement was is the area that you’re talk about all right thank you very much can’t know if i was of help you or not we’re not going to go to carland tampa florida and carl welcome to my mind you’re on the a lot of time coming back to the bottom on uh…

the different ministers on the radio are i listen to talk down another year in favor of it but what do you think about that michael u-saff and i’ll just hang out with and uh… i’ve heard michael u-saff mixed a little work into salvation it’s so hard to find somebody who is pure grace without works and uh… uh… but i’ve heard him uh… uh… add uh… works to it so it’s just so hard otherwise either fairly uh… you know it’s closer to the truth that most but again i’ve heard him uh…

mix it up it’s amazing how the devil is clever and at the invitation is when he Generally, we’ll get a preacher to add a little bit of works in there and the Bible says in Galatians 5-9, a little 11, 11 with the whole lump. So all you have to do is have a little yeast in that bread and it will puff the whole thing up and put it full of holes. So in the same way, a little bit of works added to salvation is enough to corrupt the message and you have to listen carefully.

I can say and compare what you’re hearing against the Bible, check me out as well. Make sure that what I’m saying is in line with Scripture and that’s why I quote the Bible and refer people to the Bible because I’m not the authority. The Bible is and hopefully that will help you. We’re now going to go Carl to Gene in St. Petersburg and Gene, welcome to the Bible and you’re on here. Hi, Dr. Lunscombe. I believe that if you trust God and believe in your faith.

Well, my question is, do you believe that if you don’t believe everything the Bible says, you’re still things? I mean, some people, my friend, you doesn’t believe parts of the Bible. I think that’s what I’m not sure about. I think that’s possible. I think that’s possible. But he needs to grow in his knowledge and recognize that all the Bible. I like to take it in Timothy 3, 16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. That’s everything from Genesis 1-1 to Revelation 22.

And obviously he is not believing that, but he doesn’t have to believe all of that to be said. He has to trust Christ that he’s God who took on flesh and paid his sin debt. But I think if he gets into the Bible, my series on 1 Peter and 2 Peter is powerful on the Bible being the Word of God and would be a great series maybe to get him to listen to. But the Bible is claimed for itself that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.

And not just part of it, every bit of it. And I believe every bit of the Bible from cover to cover. I even believe the cover says holy Bible and I believe it’s not a book full of holes, but it is God’s holy word. So hopefully that helps. He can be saved without confidence in all the Bible being true. We now have Janice and Tampa and Janice, welcome to Bibleline You are on the air. Yeah, hello. Okay. Yeah. Yes, I have two questions.

I’d like to ask you what you think of TV chase and John A.D. and also to one, how you said before, like you get all your family will stay based upon you, bring them over to Christ. If you want to all of your best, get someone to put them to contact or to come over to Christ. Let’s say they created a put it to them. I will ask a little more. Okay. We have a wonderful book that is called How To.

It’s called A Handbook of Personal Evangelism and tells you what to say. When to open your mouth, what to say when your mouth is open and how to close it down and invite them to trust the Lord. Lord and it’s powerful. It’s going to give you lots of ideas so that you can be creative and lead your family and friends to Christ. I would recommend that highly. You can call it and order that book. And I also have a ten hour teaching how to lead a soul to Christ.

And I think that would be very helpful also to train you and prepare you to lead someone to Christ. But very definitely John Hay believes you can lose your salvation. And obviously that serious bad doctor and he’s a good presenter very talented and obviously a lot of followers but his doctor in on salvation is seriously flawed as he believes you can lose that salvation. Well we’re out of time here and thank you, Janice, for that call. We are going to have celebrating the Fourth of July tomorrow but we’ll celebrate also at our church on Sunday.

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