Bibleline Radio Show – 2006-12-19 – Christmas

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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 Viblon. 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 Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor.

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We’d love to have you come by on a worship day. We worship on Sundays and this Sunday will be of course Christmas Eve Sunday and we’ll have a Christmas service in the morning, a Sunday school and adult classes and I have a class at 9.15. Also in the evening, at 10 p.m. we’ll have a special candlelight service and the Lord’s Supper, it’ll be special if you’re in the area. We’d like to invite you to come and join us as we celebrate Christmas.

We are getting close, obviously. Time is approaching rapidly and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. in your family a safe time and hopefully you’ll be able to share the gift of Christmas with your friends. Thank you for tuning in and God bless all of you. By the way, we’re leaving for Israel March 12th of Love to Heavy Go. It’s a trip leaving on a Monday, coming back on a Friday, March 23rd, 12 days all in Israel. We’ll have a wonderful time and you’re invited to come and be a part of that trip if you you want and you can get the information by calling the 800 number or by going to the internet and clicking on Bibleline news on the home page and you’ll be connected to everything you need to know about the trip.

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Thanks again and in advance for your prayers and for your gifts to Bibleline. And again, we’re going to open up our Bibles. Christ is mentioned in Genesis 3.15. We talked about this yesterday and it gives us the two comings of Christ in this wonderful verse. It also tells us that Christ’s death at Calvary was planned before the foundations of the earth. So obviously what happened at Christmas was not some afterthought, something that just kind of happened by circumstance. The death of Jesus Christ, His coming into this world was all for planned by God.

And He, through the prophets, unveiled this plan and even tells us where Christ would be born. until Micah 5, verse 2, tells us hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years in advance that Christ would be born in Bethlehem. If you read that verse carefully, it tells us which Bethlehem did you know? Did you know that there are two Bethlehem’s in Israel, one in northern Israel, which is where in Zebulon, which is way up in the north part of Israel, then there’s also one in the area of Vrim Jerusalem, which is of course the one that Christ was born in.

It says in Micah 5, too, but thou Bethlehem, Africa, telling it which Bethlehem Christ would be born in and sure enough, that’s where Christ took on human flesh. It tells us that the one born in Bethlehem would be the one from whose going forth had been from a old, even from everlasting. Only God is everlasting, and Jesus Christ is that one who has existed from eternity past, And he is the only one that is from everlasting. And he is the one that that very passage tells us, will come back as a king one day to rule over this earth and bring peace on earth.

Good will toward men. As we read through the Bible, there are lots of verses that trace from the very beginning the genealogy of Christ. In Luke chapter 3 we find it starts with Adam and then it goes to Seth and it goes through a whole string of people that take us right down to when Jesus was born. And obviously Jesus Christ was obviously related back to Adam and Eve except the sin nature was not passed on to Christ because we have the virgin birth.

If Joseph had been the father of Jesus, then Christ would have been a sinner and hence could not have been the Savior. But yet he was related back through Mary to Adam and Eve. If you read the genealogy in Luke 3, it is about Mary’s side of the family. And if you read the one in Matthew chapter 1, it is about Joseph’s side of the family. the genealogy and Matthew is about Joseph and the Kingly line of Solomon and the one in Luke is about the other side of the family that was Mary and how she’s also related back to King David but through his son Nathan, not Solomon, who was of the Kingly line.

What is interesting is that there was a curse placed upon the Kingly line of Solomon. There was a wicked king named Konaia or Jekoniah. And Jekoniah was obviously one that really got God mad at him. He took the word of God when Jeremiah the prophet brought it to him and he took his knife and sliced up the little pieces. He did not like God’s word. And God really got angry with him and cursed him and said, No man of this man’s seed shall ever sit upon the throne of David ruling over Israel.

And so you know, it looked like this made it impossible because the prophecies had said that Jesus the Messiah would sit one day on the throne of David being heir to that throne. So anybody that was physically related back to King Konaiah would not be able to sit upon the throne of David. And guess what? Through Solomon, all the way down to Joseph, Joseph had one that had that curse upon him. And if he had been the real father of Jesus, Christ would have had the curse of Kornaya.

He could not have sat upon the throne of David, which he will do at his second coming. And then hence he could not have been the Messiah who would have fulfilled the prophecy that he would sit upon the throne of David. Everywhere you read in Luke chapter 1 when Mary is told by the angel that he shall be great, he shall be called the son of the highest, and he shall sit upon the throne of his father, David. Well he couldn’t if he was physically related back to Solomon and had the curse of Konaia upon him.

But again the virgin birth delivers Christ from that curse. And so Joseph could pass on the airship to the throne, but he wouldn’t pass on the curse. I didn’t want to fasten anything. And by the way, Mary and Joseph, after Christ had been born, had at least six natural children born of them. In Mark chapter 6 it names four boys by name that Joseph and Mary had. Plus there were two girls at least. It says sisters. It could have been three sisters or four sisters or five sisters.

who knows how many, but at least two because it’s plural. And so they had at least six natural children after Christ was born. That’s Mark chapter 6. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that Mary never had any other children that she was perpetually a virgin, and of course that is simply not true. The Bible record tells us that she had four boys, at least a minimum of two girls. And what is interesting? What about these four boys? Could they not have been the Messiah?

No. All four of them had Joseph as their father, therefore they had the sin nature of Adam and would have been sinners and hence disqualified as a Savior. Secondly, they could not have sat upon the throne of David because the curse of Konaiah was upon them, and they could not sit upon the throne of David. Only Jesus could have qualified to be the Messiah. He had to be a man and he was born of the flesh and he was a son born to Mary.

And we find that he could make the payment for another because he was sinless. If he was a sinner, he would have to pay for his own sins and could not pay for the sins of another. But because he was also God, he could make an infinite payment and pay for the sins of the whole race. Then we find that he had to be, of course, of the lineage of David, and he was Joseph through Solomon and Mary through Nathan.

If you look at the two genealogies in Matthew and Luke, you’ll find that’s where the difference is. It’s the same from Adam right down to David. Then at David it splits, and in Luke you’ll find Nathan mentioned, and then those that descendant of him, bringing us down to Mary, and in Matthew you find David and then Solomon, and those descended from Solomon right down to Joseph and then Jesus. And of course, the virgin birth is clearly taught throughout the New Testament.

Jesus Christ is God, who took on human flesh, born of a virgin. Isaiah the Prophet said, 740 years before he ever came, that the Lord would give a sign, behold a virgin would conceive and bear a son, and his name would be called Emanuewell. And Jesus Christ is that Emanuewell. Emanuewell is a Hebrew word that means God dwelling with you, or God with you. Jesus Christ is God, who came and dwelt among us here on the earth. I’m Dr.

Anglinstrom. This is Bibleline. I hope you’ve trusted Jesus as your Savior because without trusting Christ, you cannot be saved. Again, we invite you to give us a call here and Bibleline will take our calls now. 1-800-576-3771. 800-576-3771. We have an off-air question, Brad, from Clearwater calls in. He says he bought a $2 thrift store Bible. The Duet Reams, are you familiar with this Bible? What is your opinion? Well, it’s the Roman Catholic Bible, but it has a number of problems with it.

They’ve come up with a couple of translations since then that are much better. There’s the Confaternity edition of the Bible. Also the New Jerusalem Bible that are much better. In the Duet Reams, they really did some sleight of hand and they did a number of things that would be objectionable, but those are corrected in some of the more recent ones. I have all of them in my library, and certainly the Bible is so wonderful that even though there are temps on the part of men to change things, it’s so complete in 66 books that you can’t really erase the Gospel.

In the Gospels, generally pretty clear. In Ephesians 2, 8 in the Confucur trinity version of the New Testament, which is a Roman Catholic approved version, it says, 4 by grace, you have been saved through faith. The tense is very clear that as Paul writes to the Ephesians, he tells them about their experience of salvation that they had been saved when they trusted Christ as Savior through faith in Christ that God then bestowed his grace or mercy upon him. This salvation was not as the outcome of anything that they did.

It was the gift of God not of works. And again, those are very clear in most all of these translations. Peasus 3.9 are powerful versus On the gospel. We have Rick waiting in Lutz, Florida and Rick. Welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Earth. Dr. Hank, how you doing? Good. Um, yeah I had some, uh, some, uh, some, buddy, he asked me, I was talking about Christ. As he, uh, like you was just saying, the mercy seat. He’s not related to what you were first asking before the night.

So I was actually a pre-incarnation of Christ. If you look at it, you know, showed him in Psalms and Genesis and Hebrews. It was. You’re absolutely right. And Christ was the tribe of Judah, and the Levite tribe was a totally different tribe. And Jesus, we believe, appeared back there in Genesis 14 to Abraham after he had gotten the victory over the kings there in the Sodom Valley and recovered his nephew a lot. And we find that the Bible says that he, Christ, would be a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

And it was a superior priesthood. If you read Hebrews, it says that those priests obviously were not effective in that they had to continually offer sacrifices and that they also died so they couldn’t continue to do what they had to do. But Christ obviously offered one sacrifice for sins forever by his one-time death at the cross and because he lives forever, therefore he can make good on his promises and as a high priest can guarantee salvation to us who have trusted Christ as our Savior.

It is blood because whatever blood you know could never take away sin, right? Right, right, okay. Well you’re right on track there Rick, thank you. All right that was Rick in Roots, Lutz, Florida and we have Eric in St. Paul, Minnesota and we welcome you to the program. This is Eric in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Welcome to Bible Eye. I ain’t got the going today. Good. Good. Hey, I listen to your radio broadcast over the on the internet usually extreme post podcast and this is the archive a few oh I don’t know so I think it’s from the end of November and I had a question about something you told a caller, a gentleman called in and you might remember if he was really broken up that it’s probably converted to Islam and you guys are talking about that and you made a reference to Daniel 911 and you’re talking about how the word

for curse is the Hebrew word sounds like Allah and you mentioned that it was in your commentary it was a proper people filled that Allah is the, the Islam is not a curse upon the, upon the earth. Well it seems like if not a direct reference, maybe a coincidence, but it is interesting that the word curse is Allah and certainly today, the curse on the world is Islam and this religious system that is obviously the radical Islam wants to conquer the entire earth and they say by the year twenty thirty that the entire earth will come under their control in fact they say the first country in europe will be england and they’re ready to take down europe and then they want to take us down in the west and control the whole world.

So when you were saying it was more of a coincidence? Well I wonder because 9-11 is the verse reference and that certainly is when we all we had got our attention when it was Islam that attacked America and that started this war that is apparently not finished till all of us are either dead or become converted to Islam and the word curse interestingly when you look it up is the Hebrew word Allah. Well the only reason I brought it up is that I was just concerned that you know if I was If we, if we read, I’ll think it, correct me if I’m wrong, Mr.

Lynch, if we read. I would, I would, I would really wasn’t, you know, Muhammadism, Islam didn’t begin those six centuries after Christ. So this is clearly something we, in the Old Testament. And, but whether you want to make much out of a verse or not, Truly, the curse upon the world today is Islam because it is out to take over the world and to destroy and kill every person that does not submit. The Bible warns early in Genesis that we are not to worship the sun, the moon and the stars.

These are God’s creation. The Bible warns early in Genesis that we are not to worship the sun, the moon and the stars. These are God’s creation. and the Bible warns that in particular in the last days that men would worship the creation rather than the Creator who created them. And this is where we’re going, where we’ve gone so far from God that we are now worshiping the creation. I totally agree. And I meant to preface my question by agreeing that obviously Islam is a false system with the works rights system that we know that were saved by grace.

I know that I don’t disagree on your conclusion on Islam, that it’s false, that the state of Islam today is definitely a curse upon the world. My only question was interpretationally wise. I would agree with you. I’m not hard and fast that that is a prophecy naming Islam, but it seems to be a fascinating coincidence if it’s not because it is the and obviously the numbers of the chapters and the first numbers were established till many many years later and I don’t necessarily think that they’re inspired at all but in any case it is fascinating that there is a coincidence here that it’s 9-11 and the fact that the curse that would come, the word curse is Allah.

So I just leave it for people to ponder and think about it and could it be? And I’m not hard-passed saying it’s an interpretation that we can stand by and say, this is an absolute prophecy about Islam. I will not say that. And the reason why I wanted to say that was because we know that the Greek word for but, the New Testament is Allah as well. And so, you know, the word Greek, the Greek word for but means that’s kind of the bigger one of the words are translated to but, it’s phonetically is Allah.

So if we wanted to look for Allah in scripture and try to find correlations that the Bible probably wasn’t intending, We can find them all over the place and then the New Chestnut wouldn’t mean anything. If every kind of word sounded like all of them, it swabs. That was my concern. Okay, I agree with you and I certainly understand exactly what you’re saying and I agree with you. Thank you, Eric. Have a good day. All right, Eric up in St.

Paul, Minnesota. I bet it’s cold up there today. I don’t know, but I would imagine it is. I’m glad I’m down here in sunny Florida. What a beautiful day it is here today. Clear skies, cool weather, just absolutely beautiful. We have Lee in Port Charlotte, Florida. He just called in and leaves us off air question. What is the standard of attire for church service? It seems so many are wearing whatever they want. I believe that one should dress their best.

Well, I think if you think about it and you’re coming to worship the creator of the universe, wouldn’t you want to be dressed your best now if you were going to invited by the white house to come and meet with the president would you wear uh… flip-flops and and jeans and and uh… uh… a raggedy shirt or whatever t-shirt probably not uh… and and so obviously i think we and of course we wouldn’t keep anyone away because they didn’t have the money for a pair of nice shoes or they didn’t have clothes that were not raggedy or whatever.

But certainly I think that people ought to dress for church, not to be seen of others, but just simply to show respect to God himself. So Lee I certainly agree with you, but we never turn any way or look down upon a person who doesn’t come with the best attire by our standards. But certainly, hopefully, people would think about what they’re doing when they come to church. And I think somehow we’ve lost that today. Church has now become entertainment, and it’s more like going to a sports event or a theatre event and you just dress as you want.

But it’s not for us to be entertained. It’s for us to go and come into the presence of the Lord in the sense that the service is devoted to that purpose so that we might worship the Creator of the universe. And I think we ought to look our best simply out of respect for the Almighty Himself, the Lord, the Creator of the universe. Thank you so much. All fair, we have anonymous in Brandon, Florida, and he says, please explain this earthly house in 2 Corinthians 5.

It’s talking about our body. It’s a house for our soul, and it’s only temporary, but it talks about a new house waiting for us in heaven, speaking of our new body. And that’s exciting. We have a new body not made with hands eternal in the heavens, according to 2 Corinthians 5. This house will die and will get a new house as believers in which we’ll live with the Lord forever and ever. First half of my mind is just about up and we’re going to go to break here, but we’ll come back and do a second half hour.

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Just pick pick up your phone and dial 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Alright we’re back for now breaking this is my line it’s wonderful to be with you. We’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church. We’re one block west of the Tampa International Airport. If you can find the airport, you can find us. Just look at the skies. You drive closer. You’ll see planes landing. That’s where we are right on the west side of Block West.

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But we answer all the tough questions and we’ll get you right through Hebrews in my series of 10 hours of teaching on Hebrews. All those things are available through our resource center. You can call and place your order and we’ll ship that out to you. We do have Doug in Pensacola, Florida, waiting and Doug, welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Earth. Hey, good morning preacher. I say preacher because many people are pastors, but some are called to preach and I think you’re a preacher.

Well, thank you. Sir, and you were talking about the Sisters of Jesus ahead of you. A little booklet by John I writes about 20 years ago called Spectators at the Cross, a beautiful little book. And as you study it, you know, if you go like most people don’t study this way, but I’ll go from like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and look for all the verses that are comparing whatever I’m looking for. And in Matthew 27, 56, you’ll say Mary, the mother of James and Joseph.

Now you’ll see the patterns show up and in Mark 1540 you’ll see the sisters show up. the mother of James the last and of Josay for holding the healthy pounce and salomi and then if you go to Luke 2410 it’ll once again mention Mary as the mother of James so you know by by reasoning out and by using the Holy Spirit it’s I know you probably have already said this but many people don’t know the girl’s name they think he maybe was a veil dancer the seven bales that’s your that you’ve ever heard probably the name salomi in the in the secular world amen well that’s wonderful and i think you for here not with us uh…

a lot of people don’t realize that they just have had children all and it’s clear that they did Well, like I said, I wanted to thank you for your, when I, when I complimented you the first time I called, I said, thank you for mentioning the blood because so many are preaching another gospel, social gospel, Christian Reformation. America doesn’t need reformation. They don’t need more Christian politicians. They need regeneration. Why feed people? Why send toys for cats and send a bunch of people to hell when that money should go for the spreading of the gospel, brother?

Well, thank you so much, Doug, and God bless you. Thank you for calling in Merry Christmas, and, you know, it’s true, somebody once said that I’ve never been able to get rid of it in my mind, that God didn’t leave us here on this planet to make this earth a better place to go to hell from. You know, our major mission as Christians, the Great Commission, which I call the Forgotten Commission, is to go in the all the world and proclaim the gospel to every creature, And that is low on the totem pole.

You’re absolutely right when you say most efforts go to lots of things, everything but getting the gospel to that child, that homeless person, that other person, and certainly as we give to meet their physical needs, we can bring them the gospel of Jesus Christ and reach them that they might not perish and go to hell but have everlasting life. And thank you Doug. We have Fred in Richmond, Virginia. Fred, welcome to the Bible and you’re on the air. Okay.

Go ahead. You’re on the air. Hello. Yeah, Fred, you’re on the air. I’m still on the line. No, you’re on the air. Right now, you’re on the radio. Am I able to talk to Dr. Nistro? You’re talking to him right now. You’re on the air. Fred, you’re on the air. I’m talking to you right now. Hello, Fred. Are you there? Yeah, I’m here. All right, talk. I want to talk to him. Well, you’re talking to him? I want to talk to Dr.

Lynch to him. Alright. Somehow Fred doesn’t realize who he’s talking to and will hold up and try to get that squared away and we’ll come back and touch base with him again in a minute. We have Madeline in Bradenton, Florida and Madeline welcome to Bible End. Hi Dr. Hand. It’s in Revelation about angel wings and it’s Revelation 8, as I beheld and heard an angel slang through the midst of heaven. Does that mean angels do have wings or? No, not at all, but they can fly, but I don’t think they need wings to be able to do that.

You know, we’re going to fly away at the rapture and I don’t think it’s going to mean we have to have wings grow out before the rapture happens. We’re just going to go right up to meet the Lord. Oh, that’s it, Dan. Yeah. Oh, thank you. You’re so welcome, Madeline. And there are no verses in the Bible that talk about angels having wings. So that certainly is not true. This is Bible, and I’m Dr. Englund’s, from the phone number.

Here’s 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. Angels are always in the Bible appearing as men. They always are mistaken for as men. And there are no female angels, there are no baby angels, and angels don’t have wings. And most amazingly, there’s not a verse in the Bible that says angels sing. And yet at Christmas that poses a problem. Most of all the hymns talk about choirs of angels, and there is not a verse anywhere in scripture that says an angel ever saying anything.

Angels don’t sing. Every time you see angels, they speak or say the multitude of angels when the shepherds were in the field watching their flock by night. It says they said, Glory to God in the highest, Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men. We have Doug in Pensacola, Florida, and he leaves an off-air question. He says, I believe you are taking Hebrews 1, 5 out of context. If you leave begotten thee out, then you could explain it in the way you do.

if you left it out you couldn’t explain it in the way you do. Hebrews one time is very clear that God never ever called an angel his son. To which of the angels did God at any time say, they aren’t my son is pretty clear. The sons of God in the Bible are clearly defined in other places as believers. John 1 12 tells us to as many as received Christ to them God gave power to become the sons of God.

In 1 John chapter 3 and verse 1 it says, behold what manner of love the Father had bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. But believers are called the sons of God because they’re born again into the family of God and God becomes our father and we become his son or daughter. But angels never ever were in that category. And if you read Hebrews, it’s very clear that we have been upon the new birth elevated above the angels.

Angels are not sons of God, but yet we have the title sons of God and become higher than the angels in position once we trust Jesus Christ as our Savior. We’re going to try again to talk to Fred and Richmond, Virginia. Let’s see if we can do that. Fred, you are on the air. You’re on the air. You’re on the air. Fred, you’re on the air. Fred. what you’re saying. Talk up what is your question? I want to ask him the question.

Well you’ve got him. I am him. If I talk to him I’ll ask him the question. Alright well again I don’t think he understands that I am him. And so I don’t know what to do there with Fred. Fred is you’ve been on the air now twice but Fred is not understanding what we’re saying here somehow. Alright, we have Laurie in Tampa 4. That she says, explain Genesis 6, 2 through 4 on the sons of God. Are these angels?

Well, we just mentioned that with Doug. The sons of God are believers. Believers were marrying the daughters of men. Now the daughters of men is a reference to the fact that they are unsaved women and they are not born again. the believing men were choosing wives of those that were unbelievers and so the gospel got corrupted the whole world went downhill and only no one in his family were the only remaining family alive that were saved. So the sons of God there are believers.

Hebrews 1, 5 again tells us that God never called an angel his son. So they are not angels. They were believers marrying unbelievers and the same thing is happening again today. Believers are marrying unbelievers and when children come along they just don’t even try to win them to Christ because it causes division in the family and it’s so important that if you’re believer you marry another believer. That is scriptural. Claude in Brampton on Terrio calls in from Canada and Claude from Canada.

Welcome to Bibleline he leaves an offer question. I heard you mention pork and other various foods that were deemed Abominable can we eat these foods now and the answer is yes, we’re not under the law and if you read the first Timothy chapter 4 It tells us that we can eat anything as long as we give thanks and and Again, there should be caution because the ones that God put on the forbidden list in the Old Testament, it was for a reason and it’s for health reasons.

Today our government regulates the raising of pork and so on, but obviously pork could cause serious problems. And there are those who have died from eating pork. If it wasn’t, you know, today they give the pork, the animals, antibiotics and so on, so that they don’t pass on the problems of diseases to the human. These are all scavengers. And they were forbidden. But today you can eat pork and if you obviously didn’t eat any pig at all, you wouldn’t be able to have bacon, wouldn’t be able to have a ham sandwich.

Obviously a lot of people would just leave all that other diet. But certainly we can. First Timothy chapter 4. We have, the phone lines are open right now for the moment. You want to call us, it’s 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576. 3-7-7-1. And we invite you to give us a call here on Bibleline. We have Robert in Pompano Beach and he asked a question about Luke chapter 10. And I think we answered this the other day. Luke chapter 10, let me turn over there and take a look.

Yes, we did. We, this is about the rich young ruler and we answered it, but basically this man was lost. Christ was obviously attempting to lead himself. The man was self-righteous and he says to Christ, what good thing must I do that I may inherit eternal life? He starts that question by saying good master. Christ says why do you call me good? There’s none good but one and that is Jesus Christ. God. And obviously, Christ was pointing out to the man that he was the sinner, that he needed a Savior, and the man left sorrowful because he didn’t own up to the fact that he was in need of a Savior, and obviously was eternally lost.

We have here a man named Scott calling in from near Orlando, He says, Divine Intervention of Hell. Have you heard about this book? Someone claims that the book took him to hell and back so he could talk about it here on the earth. I haven’t heard about the book, but certainly that’s not true. Once you die, you can’t come back. So if you die, you can’t come back. come back and by the way the title would even be wrong if somebody says in the book that they’ve gone to hell and come back.

Nobody’s in hell right now. Hell is empty. Hell according to Matthew 2541 was created for Satan and his angels and no one is going to go into hell until Satan and his angels are first in. the thousand year earthly reign of Christ. We find that then Satan will be cast into hell Revelation chapter 20 verse 10. Then Satan’s angels, then all the lost of mankind will be brought up out of Hades and they will be cast into the everlasting lake of fire.

So for For somebody to say they’ve been to hell and then come back. They don’t know their Bible and they obviously are manufacturing the story. There is nobody in hell yet. Nobody has been to hell yet, believe it or not. Satan and his angels get to be first and then the people of the human race that have denied a rejected Christ will wind up in hell. We’re going to go to Betty and she is in Beverly Hills, Florida and Betty welcome to by blend you are on the air good morning brother and friend good morning happy uh…

on a crime america crisian c you know are we all are touching on the secular society that we live on a live in rather where in the world but we’re not supposed to be at the world and my husband and i attended a christmas party the other night in uh… that our church was holding and i was really very very upset because they are you but i have a large poem about how children should be taught about Santa and why.

And he pulled things, different articles off the Christmas tree that was and tried to illustrate why children should be taught about Santa. And Bob and I don’t do Christmas. Well, somehow we just lost that call. And let’s see what happened here, Betty. I mean, I’m sure yourself and the other believers, brother, have thought about the fact that, You know the song he sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. I mean those are attributes of the living God that he’s only present on Nippetan and he knows all and he’s everywhere at the same time.

And they’re giving me that attribute through Santa Claus. Well you’re right, he’s taking the place of God and he’s replaced Jesus Christ as well. If you take the word Santa and slide the letter N to the end, you have Satan. I really believe there’s a connection there. And I know for myself it was devastating for me because as a little boy I discovered on my own that Santa Claus was not real and my mom and my dad, my aunt.

He was also my son and school teacher as a little boy. All among others taught me about Santa Claus and I was really hurt and disappointed when I said that this is a grown up, you know, masquerade and game that they’re playing. And I remember saying to myself, since they also took me to church that that was another masquerade and I said they weren’t going to catch me on this one. And I became resolute that I wasn’t going to be easily deceived.

And I was maybe that was a good thing. But I was very, very cautious. And I rejected everything I heard in church as a result, because I had been misled about Santa Claus. I think if people do the Santa Claus thing, now to be honest and say, Santa Claus is make believe, but Jesus is real. Yes. Because I know a lot of believers call me Scrooge And you know, claim that I say, bah-humbah. But anyway, I agree with you, brother Lynch.

Another thing I just want to briefly touch on, and that is when he was speaking about the food today and how the cattle and so forth are fed antibiotics. I myself, who happened to have had a systemic yeast infection and was on record the only one that ever survived it, by God’s grace and intravenous infusions. I want people to realize that ingesting a lot of antibiotics can certainly throw off our systems and what happened to me was it suppressed my immune system.

So it’s just food for thought, pardon the pun. Alright, thank you so very much. That was Betty in Beverly Hills, Florida. We have James in Memphis, Tennessee. And James, welcome to Bibleline from Memphis. Yes, I was just wondering, I’ve heard this, different people say different things about whether or not the consumption of alcohol in any form is allowed or not. What’s your take on that? Well, the Bible says in Ephesians 5, 18, be not drunk with wine. So there really isn’t a provision of drinking any wine, a Christ-drink wine, a disciples-drink wine and of course it was a very mild wine that they had and basically it was a way of preventing dysentery and other things that came from the water in those days.

We didn’t have the water purification systems and so on and they didn’t drink to get drunk necessarily although we do read about people getting drunk. The Bible forbids drunkenness but not drinking wine. I don’t drink anything because I don’t want people to think, because in America if you drink anything, it’s alcoholic people assume you get drunk. And so I haven’t. I think I took one taste of a beer when I was a high school senior and it didn’t taste good to me and I spit it out and I never drank anymore.

So I haven’t had a beer since one swallow but I had this high school senior. I don’t drink and I don’t smoke and I try to not do any of those things. Well, yeah, we’re, you know, but it’s nothing fine. Right, but the Bible, right. But that was a very mild wine and what is forbidden is drunkenness. So the Bible says that Ephesians 5, 18, be not drunk with wine. So I believe you can. I’m not going to do it myself, but I believe you can, but I would not get drunk because that’s where you cross the line.

Well, it’s no different than Gretonie or any other thing else. Okay. So, thank you, James, and the answer is the Bible does not forbid the drinking of wine, but it does forbid drunkenness. And certainly, our bodies are God’s temple and we ought to respect that. And that means we’re not to obviously use drugs or anything else that’s harmful to this body, which is God’s temple. Thank you James. It’s wonderful to hear from people from Memphis, Tennessee and Canada today and Lots of different places all around America and we appreciate all of your listeners Merry Christmas to all of you We hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday.

It’s a great time to evangelize This is a time to tell people about Jesus and I know I celebrated Christmas for 18 years before I ever discovered the real meaning of Christmas. We have Tanya in Lakeland, Florida. Tanya, welcome to Bible when you’re on the air. Hello, yes, sir. I have a question. I really wanted to find out for, if this guy that I wrote with last week and it disturbed me very much, he told me that he did the ultimate stand.

I’m helping save so more than prosperity. I’m into getting people saved. and this guy, man, he told me he said he don’t feel as though he can go to heaven because he did an ultimate sin and I asked him what was that man, actually, and he said that he cursed God and he don’t think he’ll go to heaven. I didn’t have an answer for him. And I want to ask a friend because I told him I would get back with him.

Let me give you a quick answer because we’re out of time here. But John 3 36 tells us there’s one unpartable sin. And the difference between heaven and hell is belief or unbelief. It says, He to believeth on the Son has everlasting life. But He to believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on Him. John 3 36, if you trust Christ, you go to heaven. If you don’t trust Christ, and you’re the Son of Christ, you’re the Son of Christ.

And you’re the Son of Christ. If you don’t You go to hell, it’s that simple. Cursing God is not the unpardonable sin, is to reject Christ who died to pay for every imaginable sin. God of run, keep looking up. Jesus is coming and join us in tomorrow, Lord willing. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida. Your donation to Bibleline makes it possible for this ministry to continue in your area. The Times Address is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634.

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