Bibleline Radio Show – 2006-11-24

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Coming to you from Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, declaring God’s love through radio and television, providing real answers to an ever-searching world. Got a question? Dial toll-free at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here’s the host of Bibleline, Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Well good morning and welcome to Bibleline. Great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast. We welcome you and all of our listeners as we come to you live from Tampa, Florida, from our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church.

We’re on the pastor. Hopefully you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and didn’t eat too much. And I know that it’s hard to enjoy those Thanksgiving dinners without over indulging a little bit. In any case, Happy Thanksgiving holiday to you. I hope the whole weekend turns out to be a nice one for you. And welcome to Bibleline as we are live here on Friday, coming to you out of Tampa from our studios at the Calvary Community Church. And we want you to know that you’re welcome at any time to come by and visit us.

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So you might want to take advantage and give us a call and order some of these things that we have. If you’d like to call in today and leave a question or be on air with a question, the The number is 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. And we have live callers already calling in. I think I’m going to go to Charlie. And Charlie is in Richmond, Virginia. And Charlie, welcome to Bibleline you are on here. Good. You have a question for us?

Yes. Make sure you turn your radio off because it’s coming back through. You have the radio there. What is your question? Yeah, I’m calling on giving to you. I’m calling the actual question about when Christ comes back for the church, about living in the natural. Where in the Bible where they say that the devil’s and demons will appear, that we will see them. Where they’re located in the Word? So, at the retry… retro, we will see any doubles or demons.

We’re going to see Christ and he’ll come by himself. He’ll shout. First, the saloonians for 16 and 17. And we, which are living in believers are going to be caught up together with Christ and give our new bodies on the way up and we’ll be forever with the Lord. So no demons involved in that at all. Oh, okay. I wanted to know. All right. I mean, you have a great day. You too. Thanks for calling in from Richmond, Virginia.

If you’d like to call that number is 1-800-576-3771. You know, we have a home in heaven waiting for us, and that home really is the new Jerusalem. And what is interesting about the new Jerusalem is one of the things is its tremendous size. Actually, it is larger than the moon. How do we know? Well, the dimensions given in Revelation 21, 16 tell us that it’s 1500 miles wide, 1500 miles deep and 1500 miles high. Now that is a cube in shape, and I believe that is the shape of the New Jerusalem.

And when you figure out how large that is, it’s hard for us to comprehend, but if you were to design a sphere that would encompass the New Jerusalem, it would have a diameter of 2,600 miles. Now I talk about a sphere because we’re familiar with the moon and the moon has a diameter of 2,160 miles. So obviously the New Jerusalem is considerably larger, a diameter of 2,600 miles in contrast with a diameter of 2,160 miles. So the New Jerusalem is huge and we believe it will orbit the new earth and we will live in that city and it talks about 12 gates each being made out of a single pearl.

Can you imagine the size of the oyster that would produce that pearl? Well, I don’t think God has to have an oyster to produce it, but apparently these will be huge gates that will enter into the city. It tells us here that in verse 12 that there were names written on the 12 gates, which are the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. So there are only 12 ways in and out of the city and each one of them is named after the twelve sons of Jacob.

In other words, if you’re going to enter heaven or the New Jerusalem, you’re going to have to enter into a gate named after a Jew. That’s right because the gates are all named after a Jew and each gate is made of a single pearl and these gates are open day and night and they’re never closed. There is no nighttime with the New Jerusalem. Also what is interesting and it’s been rather recently that I’ve come to this conclusion, but because the gates are in the shape of a pearl, I believe they are round.

You know, it’s interesting in space, in our space station, and so on. All the portals between the different passageways and to enter in and out of the space shuttle and so on are all round. And here you can imagine the New Jerusalem will have twelve gates and apparently they will be round and in the shape of a pearl and each will be named after a Jew. We certainly can’t leave the Jews out, can we? Also it says in verse 14 here, the wall of the city had twelve foundations and in them the name of the twelve apostles of the land.

So we have 12 patriarchs, the 12 sons of Jacob being the ones that the gates are named after and then the 12 foundations have the name of the 12 apostles. Which by the way we are also Jewish. And so we have really quite a Jewish connection here with the New Jerusalem which is the heaven of the city in which one day we will dwell. Only the saved will enter into that city. It says in verse 27, and there shall in no wise enter into it anything that nephileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or makeeth a lie.

But they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. I’ll never forget hearing this verse the night that I got saved, and when I saw that one lie, not even a single lie, could enter in to the New Jerusalem, I realized I was and trouble. I had told 3-4 lies at that time, that’s not really true either. But you know, I realized that I was excluded. You know, I used to think that God had a big scale and that he kind of graded people based on their good works versus their bad works.

And if you kind of were not too bad. not too good, but kind of hung in there in the middle. You’re going to get into heaven. Little did I realize the Bible said that there was no slack here. Not even a single lie could enter heaven. You know when the Bible says the wages of sin is death, it says the wages of sin singular is death. So the pain… The payment for one lie would mean you’d have to go to hell forever and ever.

I’m so glad that I don’t have to pay for even a single sin of mine, that Jesus Christ paid my full sin debt at the cross, and because He did, He can offer me eternal life completely free. And it tells us here in verse 27 that not even a lie will be able to enter heaven, but the ones that have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will enter. In other words, if you have trusted Christ and you’ve trusted in Jesus as being the Lamb of God that would be slain and shed his blood for the forgiveness of your sin, you would be made eligible to enter heaven.

And that is, of course, good news. And I trusted Christ at 18 and I received that wonderful gift of everlasting life. And I am so excited that I can know that right now that I’m going to go to heaven whenever I died. Well, we have Antonio calling in from Spring Hill, Florida, and he says, what happened to the people before Jesus Christ? How were they saved? And the answer is, Antonio, they were saved the same way you and I are saved.

They were saved by the death of Christ at Calvary, and they simply looked forward to his coming as we look back to his coming. Let me give you a great verse Antonio. This is a super verse. It’s Acts chapter 10 and here we have the Apostle Peter in one sentence answering your question once and for all. He says here to Jesus or from the Hebrew, Yeshua give all the prophets witness. That means all the writers of the Old Testament.

Moses, who is the writer of the first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, talked about Jesus. And again, the word Yeshua, which in English is Jesus, occurs over 130 times in your Old Testament. And Peter tells us here to Jesus or to Yeshua, give all the prophets witness that through his name, whosoever, believeth in him shall receive the remission of their sins.” So notice he talks about salvation by faith alone, in Christ alone, that those in the Old Testament that would believe the witness of the prophets, the writers of the Old Testament Scriptures concerning Christ and believe on Christ, believe on His name, that God would forgive their sin that they would receive the remission of their sins.

That has got to be super, super good news and thank you for calling in. And that was Antonio up in Spring Hill. No doubt about it. The city that we’re going to live in one day is coming down from heaven. Apparently, Jesus referred to it in John 14 when he said, in my father’s house, are many mansions. If it were not so, he said, I would have told you, but I go to prepare a place for you. That place is the new Jerusalem, a heavenly city, a city which God himself resides in.

In Hebrews 12, it’s called the city of the living God. It’s called in verse 22 of Hebrews 12, the heavenly Jerusalem. It’s not talking about the earthly Jerusalem, but it’s talking about the heavenly Jerusalem, the new Jerusalem, a city made by God. In Hebrews chapter 11, it talks here about a city whose foundations and whose builder and maker is God. And so God is the builder of the city and it is in the north, I believe in the universe, And apparently we’ll come down and orbit the new earth and we’ll be our home.

I believe we’ll have access to the new earth and be able to enjoy a perfect renovated new earth that will be created after the thousand year reign of Christ. The Bible says in Revelation 21 verse 1, and it says, I saw a new heaven. And a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. So John tells us about this present earth being destroyed at the end of the thousand year reign of Christ. Then he sees a new heaven and a new earth and then he sees the new city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven from God.

Fascinating stuff here but we have a city all ready for us. that one day we’re going to enjoy forever and ever. And this city is the city of the Living God. And I believe that we’re going to enjoy, as I said before, a brand new earth, a perfect earth that has not been polluted by man or by sin and will be able to enjoy its rivers, its streams, its mountains, its hills, its valleys. and it will be a wonderful eternity for all of us who are believers.

So this is Bible and I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom. I hope you have trusted Christ as your Savior because the only way to enter that city according to the Bible is to have your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. That means when you die you will have to have trusted Jesus Christ and his shed blood at the cross as the means of your salvation. Unless you have done that you will not be able to enter heaven. The Bible says just a single lie would be enough to exclude you or me.

Nothing that work of the domination will be able to enter in. not even a single lie will enter in, but those that have trusted Christ as their Savior. Boy, I am ever glad I found out about that. And I trusted Christ at 18, received the gift of eternal life, and I have God’s guarantee that He’ll never cast me out, He’ll never lose me. But one day I’ll be in that new Jerusalem and live with the Lord forever and ever and ever.

Well, by the line’s phone number if you’d like to call in is 1-800-576-3771. We have a caller from Bradenton, Florida, and that is Gary’s on the line. Gary, welcome to by the line. You’re on the air. Good morning, Dr. Eilenshom. How are you today? Good. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Happy Thanksgiving to you too. The other day you had talked a little bit about Pharaoh and hardening of his heart. And I hope we can have a little discussion on this issue because I think it’s a fascinating issue.

And the first question is, was it a sin for Pharaoh not to let the people of his… I believe so because these were God’s people. He was using the slaves and kept them in bondage. And God said, let my people go. Okay. Then my next question would be if God, because we are told in Exodus 7 verse 3 that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart. And my question to you is if God wouldn’t have hardened Pharaoh’s heart. Well, then he probably would have let the children Israel go.

But if you read Exodus 14, God hardened his heart in respect of letting the people of Israel go simply so he could win the victory over the Egyptian army and that world power at that time by drowning the Egyptian army in the Red Sea. So he basically baited Pharaoh and Pharaoh said in chapter 14 of Exodus the land has entangled them and they can’t escape. So he brought his troops against them, literally he realized that God would open the Red Sea and then of course he decided he would follow them and when he did then got a lot of the seat of clothes and drowned into entire Egyptian army and it says there he did that so that the Egyptians may know that i and the Lord so he was really trying to get the gospel a knowledge that he is the savior the redeemer

to the Egyptian people and the other nations around the world at that time by what i think of What I think is puzzling about this though is that if it was a sin for Pharaoh not to let them go and then you say if God wouldn’t have hardened his heart, Pharaoh would have let them go. So but for God intervening with the free will of Pharaoh because you already indicated that he would have let them go, but God intervened and took that free will away from him and also cause them to sin when he wouldn’t have otherwise sin.

I think that’s very puzzling. Well, it’s true, but it has nothing to do with pharaoh salvation. Pharaoh could have come to know the Lord as a Savior, but apparently that was not the issue here at all. It was simply… He was using Pharaoh here to work out his purpose so that others would come to know Christ as their Savior. And his choice to accept to reject the Savior was not in view there. It was simply a matter of God hardening his heart, concerning not letting the children of Israel go out of the land of Egypt.

But Pharaoh, I think, could have become saved if he had a bit of that disposition. but I don’t think Pharaoh ever was interested in that at all. But in any case, that was not what the hardening of the heart was about. It’s quite clear in Exodus that he hardened his heart concerning letting the people go, not concerning salvation. Right. I think you have fair to say. And as a result, you know, even Rahab gives her testimony when you read over in the book of Joshua when she talked to the spies, she said, we heard what your God did to the Egyptians and our hearts melted and so on.

She said that she believed on the God of Israel as a result and that’s how she got saved. She was of course spared in the destruction of Jericho when the children of Israel came into the promise land. But she had gotten saved through that very thing that God had done and it was God’s intention to bring a judgment against all of the gods of Egypt. The Nile was one of the gods that the Egyptians worshipped, and he turned the waters to blood and polluted the waters so that they could not drink them, and so on.

And they worshiped the flies, and they worshiped the frogs, and they worshiped all these different beings. And God brought a judgment upon each and every one of them showing that he was indeed the true living god and all these were false gods and all of that whole contest was god attempting to bring a knowledge of himself to the Egyptian people that they might know who he is and that he was the living god and become saved as a result.

Well I think it’s awfully strange that if Pharaoh would have let them go but for god intervening and you say it was a sin for him not to let them go god then the The ergo logic God caused Pharaoh to sin. There’s no other possible logical explanation for that. Well I don’t disagree with that. I think in that case he does. We don’t have absolute free will in this life anyway. We have the choice to accept or reject Christ but many things are not given to our choice.

I didn’t choose what city I was going to be born in. I didn’t choose what parents I was going to be born to. many, many other things that are true about myself that I have no control over that God had predetermined. But God does not pre-determine my choice as to acceptance or rejection of Christ. That is indeed my choice. Okay. I still think it’s puzzling, very puzzling. But if you have time, I have one more question. All right. Fire away.

Okay. The other day, another caller had called in and asked, can you still be saved if you You don’t believe in all of the doctrines and you said of course you could as long as you trust Christ and believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, you will be saved. And I would like to know how you would square that away with other comments I’ve heard you say that if someone believes in trust Jesus and the death, burial and resurrection, they will not be saved if they had a misunderstanding of about the doctrine of salvation as far as whether non-belief subsequent that they can lose their salvation, you have indicated that they cannot be saved even though they trust Jesus and believe in the death, burial and resurrection.

Well, you’re absolutely right about that. I’m talking about there are obviously many, many doctrines in the Bible that we really don’t have to embrace to become saved. And many things I knew nothing about when I trusted Christ in 18, but as I became acquainted with the Bible learned about these doctrines and embraced them because the Bible taught them. But no doubt about it. I’m not required to believe all those things to be saved. It says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and that’s what we saved.

If I’m trusting or believing in something contrary to that gospel message, the fact that Christ maybe perhaps is not the Savior, not God, then obviously that’s contrary to Kriyana, I would not be saved. But I have to trust the gospel message of Christ. His God who came and took a new inflation went to the cross and by his death and shed blood, datarced and dead and phoned his buried and rose again from the dead. But you also have to believe in the doctrine of once saved, always saved in addition to those things.

Well, that’s a part of it. The only kind of salvation God offers is eternal life. He doesn’t offer probation. He offers salvation and there’s a difference. So a lot of people are buying in on a trial period. And God is going to give me a trial period. If I managed to succeed at this, I’ll be able to interheaven one day. That’s not what he’s offering. He’s offering the complete pardon, forgiveness of your sins, past, present, future, based upon his substitution of death at the cross.

And once you trust him, you become forever saved. Okay, but again, if they trust in Jesus and believe in the death barrier or is that most Christians don’t have an understanding of this whole doctrine of one saved, always saved versus other difficult passages like Hebrews 6, 10, and 12, you know, you’re saying they won’t be saved. And that’s the trouble that I’m having with that. Nowhere in the Gospel does it say that you have to trust in Jesus, believe in the death barrier or in resurrection, and believe in the doctrine of one saved, always saved.

That’s the part that I’m disputing. I understand. And the point is, though, if you haven’t understood that, then you’re not really trusting Christ. You’re really trusting yourself to be the Savior and not Christ. We’ve got to come up here on the break. I’m sorry, Gary. But here comes that music, and we’re going to take a break and we’ll come back and do Bible in part two. 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. Englund. It’s great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. And we’re coming to you from Tampa, Florida, live on this Friday following Thanksgiving. Hopefully you’ve had a wonderful Thanksgiving day and that this holiday will be a safe one all the way through the end of this weekend. If you get a chance and you ever come to Tampa, come by and visit with us. And of course, if you can’t do that, you can visit us on the internet you know we’re webcasting now are sunday morning worship if you go to my site and click on the camera which is on the uh…

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We’ll have a wonderful time. It’ll be trip number 14 for me. We’ll baptize in the Jordan. We’ll have the Lord’s Supper next to the Tomb of Christ. We’ll be visiting the Hill of Calvary and all the significant sites. I know that you’re not going to want to miss out on that. You can get that information right off my website by going to Bible and News on the homepage and you’ll be able to pull down the full itinerary sign up sheet and so on.

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We’ll be right back in just one moment. Don’t go away. 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. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Alright, we’re back from that break and we have a car all the way from Canada, Ontario, Canada. And Clyde, welcome to Bibleline. You are on the air. Welcome to Bibleline. Clyde, are you there? Excuse me, I hit the wrong button here.

Clyde, are you there? Hello? Hello Clyde. Welcome to Bibleline, all the way from Ontario. Yes. Well, it’s not really clear. Nobody has given a good explanation and we’ll have to wait and see why. But definitely in the New Jerusalem will be the river of living water and we’ll get the drink of that but it doesn’t tell us about why there are no seas. I don’t understand I don’t have an answer for you and we’ll have to wait until we get to having to find out.

Okay thank you Dr. about as good as I can do. Thanks for tuning in to Bibleline today from Ontario Canada. Wow and we appreciate all of our listeners wherever you may be calling and from. By the way, we have just finished two classes of 10 hours of teaching, one called meeting the challenge, a great one on the Christian life, 10 hours of teaching, and one called 10 vital doctrines, both of them excellent. And they’re available now on CD, but now for For the first time these two classes, the ten hours of teaching are also available on DVD.

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I’ve written a brand new one. It’s the same format as the other track we had called, Am I Going to Heaven? But all brand new questions. Nov. So you might want to give that a shot. And so give it a try. Call our 800 number and you can order those tracks. And we hope that you’ll take advantage of them. We have Jose in Seminole, Florida. And Jose, are you there? Yes. Good morning. How are you doing? Good. Well, a little bit.

You got a question for us. Yes, I was listening to one of the callers the other day, and he was talking, how could God look someone who is saved but keeps on spending after they’re saved? And I just wanted to make a quick comment about how I think God’s going to do it from what I read in the scriptures. And the comment is that, you know, that would-hey, in double-scripture where it talks about how God’s going to burn away all those things, and he’s going to leave the silver and gold.

Well, anything that isn’t of Christ into eternity, in the glory, you know, for a saved Christian personality that has, you know, done this thing or that, no matter how bad it is, won’t even be in heaven. That’s from what I see is that’s why I’m coming. He’ll wipe it all away. But in this life though, it says, when we are judged, we are chastened, or disciplined of the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world. So God spanks delinquent children in this world.

And He does that so that we should not be condemned with the world, which they’re lost and going to hell. So we’re dealt with differently, just like a father. disciplines his children. My dad never disciplined the neighborhood kids, although several times I tried to get him to do that. I said, Dad, you know, I didn’t get in trouble by myself. It was all of us guys in the neighborhood that did this thing. And he said, I’m going to deal with you.

Their parents will have to deal with them, but I’m going to discipline you. You’re my child. And so God deals with his own children. And if you’re not saved, and he does not interfere as to how you live your life. But if you’re a believer, you’re not gonna get away with it because he will discipline you here. And you’ll suffer the loss of reward later when you stand before him. And that part of your character that will say you have a drinking problem and say, say it’s the person who’s like an abusive drinker.

Well, we’re going to lose this property, which is where our sin nature is. And you’re absolutely right. We’re going to be rid of the sin nature and we’ll be rid of the capacity to commit any acts of sin at all. But up until the New Heavens and New Earth, apparently will still suffer regret and sorrow and be ashamed for our lack of service here. And it doesn’t tell us until after the New Heavens and New Earth in Revelation 20 in verse 4 where it says God will come over and wipe away all tears from your eyes.

So apparently tears will continue to be shed until after the thousand year reign of Christ is over. So there is no escaping the consequences of our actions as believers we will give an account. We thank you so much Jose for calling in today from Seminole, Florida. The phone number here at Bibleline, 1-800-576-3771. If you live in the Tampa Bay area and you don’t have a church home, we welcome you to come by and visit with us this Sunday. We have an adult class at 915 that I teach in addition to other adult classes and Sunday school classes.

And then at 1030 we have the worship service and you’re welcome to come and be a part of that. That’s this Sunday, you’re welcome to come by. this will be the last Sunday in November. Hard to believe November has just evaporated on us. We have Gene in the very Florida and Gene, welcome to Bible Life. Hey, good morning, Hank. How are you? Good. You’re on here. Not really a question. I guess a comment. Your last caller talking about the Pharaoh and the God at heart and his heart.

You go through the Bible all over different places. He knows our will and he knows what we are going to do way in advance before we know anything about it. And he says throughout the Bible that he hardens people’s hearts because they won’t turn to him and he turns them over to their own lust and the saviour’s nuth. So I don’t think you can lay the blame on God on that part. He knows what we are going to do.

Well you are absolutely right and oftentimes the hardness is the result of our own turning away from the truth. Absolutely, absolutely. And that’s my whole thought about the Pharaoh is that he thought he was themselves as gods so that they didn’t need anybody else. And their actions spoke for their greater than their words did. Absolutely. That’s a good point and I’m glad you brought that up, Gene. Hey, no problem. I have a great holiday. You too. Thanks for calling in today.

That’s from over near Daytona Beach in to Berry, Florida over on the East Coast, Florida. And thank you, Gene, for calling in today. The phone number again, 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. We have Mary in St. Petersburg, Florida. And Mary, welcome to my line. You’re on the air. Oh, thank you, Dr. Langstrom. I just wanted to make a comment about that guy that said he was puzzled that Bill’s heart was hardened by God. I just wanted to say that I’m sure our all-knowing God knows who is going to accept him and who isn’t.

He knows who will be his and the end. and I’m sure he picked somebody that wasn’t. Well, I think you’re absolutely right about that too, Mary. And God, of course, never did harden his heart so that he couldn’t become saved. But apparently Pharaoh was headed that way, and God knew that, and he hardened his heart so that God could get the message to the whole nation, which is what happened. Right, okay. All right. Thank you very much. Mary and that was Mary calling in from, where did Mary call in from?

In any case, Mary called in from St. Pete and the phone number here is 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. We have a new volunteer today on our phones and want to thank John who has come in today and is sitting in and taking the calls for me as we are bringing the program to you today. Thanks for… You’re welcome to call in if you like. We appreciate all of our listeners and welcome you to call us, either with an on-air question or an off-air question.

You’re most welcome to do that. All right. Who do we have here on the line? Yes, this is Robert Deluna. Robert, okay from where? From Tampa. Tampa, okay, Robert. Do you have a question? Yes. I’m actually going through divorce right now. It’s not by my will. It’s by my wife. We were together 14 years. And I’m kind of against what’s going on, but it’s all my wife. We were married for about two and a half years before we separated.

And if that’s not by my choice that we’re going through this. And I just want to know how in a sense, affect my life. You know, due to the fact that I feel more spiritual than my wife was. And where do I, how do I pick up the pieces from this and what does it say about divorce, obviously the Lord doesn’t condone divorces. And I just want to know, you know, where do I stand from there? Sometimes you can become the innocent victim and there’s nothing you can do about it.

it because it takes two to make up a marriage and it says unless two are in agreement, how can they walk together? And so you need to obviously be in agreement about many things to be able to continue your walk together as husband and wife. And God of course doesn’t like divorce. We have a good book by Chuck Swendall that I recommend to folks called Strike the Original Match. It’s meant as a recovery book, but it also deals squarely with the issues of what happens, when divorce happens, and what the Bible says about it.

I would recommend that to you. But the Lord, of course, can still greatly use you and your relationship with Him is not based upon your marriage, it’s based upon your acceptance of Christ of Savior, whatever you did that and for that moment on you’re forever his and and you’re gonna go to heaven regardless and God wants to use you while you’re here so I would just be watching for God to guide your footsteps and try to live your life to please him every day and God will bring joy into your life.

I appreciate it. Alright thank you for calling. Thank you. Bye bye. Alright that was from the local area here. We now have Fred in Richmond, Virginia, and Fred, welcome to my mind while you’re on layer. Thank you. You have a question for me today? Yes, yes, I do. Can I tell you the question now? Should I ask it now? Absolutely, let’s do it. All right, our Lord said that unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you shall not have life in you.

How does Dr. Lynch from achieve that? How does he tell the listeners to achieve that? That’s a very good question from John’s Gospel chapter 6. The answer is in verse 63. Christ wasn’t talking about literally drinking his blood or biting down in his arm and eating his flesh. He says, the flesh profits nothing in verse 63. He says, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. you believe those words that Christ gave his life and shed his blood at the cross and partake of his life and shed blood by trusting that he died there and gave his life for you God saves you.

But to actually have to eat or drink his blood is not what he’s talking about at all. He’s saying and very clearly in verse 63 because some have the question. He says does this offend you? And then he says what if I go back to heaven, how in the world are you’re going to eat my flesh and drink my blood if I go back to heaven. And he says, the flesh profits zero, nothing. You could bite on Christ’s arm and drink blood from his arm where you punctured his arm and still get a help.

You must believe that he gave his life. And earlier in that chapter in verse 51, he says, the flesh that I give is my life, which I give on the cross for the sins of the world. And so when you believe those words that he spoke and he gave his life and verse 47, one of the most wonderful verses he says, Verily, verily, I stand to you, he the believer on me has everlasting life. And so immediately after he says that in verse 63, in verse 64, he goes on to say, He knew from the beginning who they were that believed not.

So those that believed that message were saved and those that believed not were lost and in contrast, they’re those that believed from those that did not believe. So we partake of his flesh and blood when we trust Christ as our Savior. Alright, let me ask another question. Once the doctor and the doctor said that the Catholic Catechism has a lot of errors in it, can you explain to me what those errors are? Well, we have a book here called Understanding Roman Catholicism.

It covers 37 crucial doctrines from the Roman Catholic Catechism and then gives you verses of scripture to compare and you’ll find that the Catholic Church has widely divided itself from the scriptures and have invented many doctrines. For example, there is no purgatory in anybody’s Bible. There is no such place as limbo. The Catholic Church teaches Lent, L-E-N-T. There is no Lent in anybody’s Bible. Lent is totally pagan and has to do with bail worship. And so on and so on and so on.

They have so many doctrines that are just purely man invented and men created and are contradictory to the Bible. So you really have to go to the Bible. When the catechism talks about the 10 commandments, it will give you 10 commandments. But if you read the 10 commandments the Catholic Church gives you in the catechism against the Bible, you realize you get cheated they have completely done away with the second commandment about graven images and they’ve taken the tenth commandment also not covered and broke it into two commandments and so they give you ten commandments but they rob you of one of the most important commandments you’re not having a graven images which account church violates every day so they don’t want that commandment in the face of their parishioners That’s deliberate, obviously.

Nobody could make that mistake by accident, but they give you 10 commandments but the second one is totally gone from the list in the Roman Catholic Catechism. We have that book available. It’s a wonderful study that allows you to compare for yourself and you can see whether the Catholic Church and the Catechism line up with the Bible or whether they disagree with the Bible and I am afraid that they have departed away from the Bible and teach many things which are not Not true.

How did the Bible come to be? Who put these books together? Well God put it together and He used the apostles to write the New Testament letters for us and the New Testament was completed around AD 96 and we’ve had the New Testament record ever since and that is the 27 books that we use which we believe are the authority by which we judge our faith and practice. And when you go to the 27 books of the New Testament, it tells us that we’re to take heed to what he has said there and not to depart from it.

So we’re not to add to it in Revelation 22, nor subtract from it. We’re to take what God has said and believe it and embrace it and proclaim it. Okay, thank you very much. You’re very welcome. The Roman Catholic Church didn’t give us the Bible. God gave us the Bible. It says in 2 Timothy 3, 16, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction, and righteousness that the man of God may be completely furnished unto all good works.

So God has given us his word as the Supreme Authority for Doctrine, for correction, for instruction, in righteousness, and for equipping the believer to do the job that God wants us to do as a believer today. So I would turn to the scriptures for my answers, and if you go to the catechism, you’ll find that the catechism and the Bible don’t agree on many, many, many doctrines. There is no purgatory. That’s a false doctrine that says you can work off sins after you die.

The Bible teaches that works won’t pay for sin at any time, past, present, or future, that it was only Christ’s death that could pay for your sin, death, and full. And when you trust that Christ died for you, God saves you and saves you eternally. Thank you for that call, Fred, up in Richmond, Virginia. We have a question. Call us at 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. We find that if you have celebrated Thanksgiving, hopefully you’ve taken time to give thanks unto God for so many things, but particularly his gift of Christ who died for you and me so that we might receive the forgiveness of sin and the wonderful gift of everlasting life.

Okay, we’ve got another caller here, 1-800-576-3771. And we have Carolyn in Clearwater, Florida. And Carolyn, welcome to Bible Inure On The Air. Thank you. I have a question. My question is concerning a Christian who continues to sin. The Lord continues to sin. you said the other day there was a scripture reference in the Bible where the Lord might take him home early. Can you give me that scripture? Sure. There are several of you you might look at in 1 Corinthians 1130.

It says for this cause many of you are weak and many of you are sickly and many of you sleep. And so that means dead. Yes, okay. I have to say that. And so the Lord, there are numerous passages where the Lord takes people home. 1 Corinthians 5, there’s a Christian living in adultery or fornication with his probably a stepmother and it says in verse 5 of 1 Corinthians 5, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

So in other words, God allowed Satan to kill this man, but yet his spirit would be saved one day when he stands before the Lord when Christ comes back. Was a Christian and was play addicted to drugs and couldn’t seem to get off and continue to stand with this apply? Sure. Sure. Any type of sin or addiction could be, you know, after a while saying, unless you get this in control, I’m just going to take you out of here.

You’re very welcome and I know that’s painful if you know especially a loved one that is in that situation Well the phone number here 1-800-576-3771 and we have a caller from Temple Terrace, Florida and this is Roseanne and Roseanne Welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Yes, sir. Good morning. Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. Thank you. I’m sorry about that I hope your throat gets all better. I just told your answer to what to do to help. Anyway, I was asking Dr.

Rinsen, could you please refer me to a scripture about… Can you hear my radio? Maybe I better turn it down. That’s all right. I can hear you. Go ahead. Okay. Okay. About authority. daughter is having an issue with her employer of authority. He is being unfair and I told her she should obey the authority anyway, but I don’t know the scripture to tell her. Okay. In Ephesians chapter 6 it talks about employees and employers and it talks about how you should be obedient to your employer as Under Christ and if they mistreat you God is going to compensate you for that in heaven He’ll make it up to you, but he wants you to be a good witness on the job now You have two choices you can quit that job and get another job But as long as you’re there you are required to do good service to your employer

So hopefully that’ll help Ephesians chapter 6 is the passage. I think about verse 8-11 in particular. So hopefully that helps Rosanne. Thank you for calling in from Temple Terrace, Florida. We’re going to have to run here. Time has just evaporated on us and we’re going to come back, of course, on Monday and do Bibleline Live. Pray for my voice and I’ll have it fully restored by then. You’re welcome to come by on Sunday and worship with us if you’re in the local area.

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