Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-01-23

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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 the Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast. We look forward to you joining us every day Monday through Friday as we come to you live from our studios here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church.

We’re on the pastor. We’d love to get a chance to meet you. If you ever get a chance to come by during the week, you can visit our resource center. We’ll get a chance to meet you and you’ll get a chance to meet us. And hopefully you’ll do that. We’re very close to the airport in Tampa, so if you can find Tampa’s international airport, you can find us. Also, you’re welcome to come by on a worship day. We worship on Wednesday nights, and we also have worship services on Sunday, 10.30 in the morning, 6 PM in the evening, and we have, of course, adult classes and Sunday school at 9.15.

Come on by and say hi and visit with us. By the way, we have decided on a class I’ll be teaching next Tuesday night, the first one, two hours from 7 to 9 for 5 weeks and the title of the class will be Jesus is coming. Well, I think how fitting a title and what a great course that will be. Jesus is coming and we not only say that, believe it, but we’re going to teach on it for 10 hours, 5 weeks, 2 hours per night, 7 till 9.

If you live in the Tampa Bay area in the sound of this local area, come on out and sign up and join the class and sit in it and do it live with us. Also, you’re welcome, of course, to get the CDs or the DVDs after the class series is over, and then you’ll be able to see them wherever you are or listen to them. And also you can call the office here and sign up and get a code and go on the internet and catch the classes live and also view them again at your leisure, whatever time it’s convenient for you.

So Jesus is coming beginning next Tuesday and that’ll be for five weeks, two hours per to the 7-9 and mark it on your calendar and hopefully you’ll come and be one of our students in the classroom. In any case, we’re glad to be able to be with you today and again, thank you for tuning in. Again, check out our website. We are streaming the radio program right now to the internet and you can catch our radio program 24-7 from anywhere in the world.

We have so far 147 countries that have logged on. And that’s from all over the world, from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, from the Cook Islands, the Macaw Islands, the Simo Islands, all across the Pacific, up into Beijing even, Saigon, and all across the Asia continent, and then of course into the Middle East, and Europe and Africa and Central America, South America and of course all over the U.S. You’re welcome to pass that word on to your friends and family in foreign countries and also across America.

How they can tune in by one from wherever they might be. We’ll be taking our callers in just a minute and if you would like you can call in and get set set up to go on air and or you can also leave an offer question and we’ll try to answer those as many as we can possibly answer today. I’m talking about the Bible being an incredible book. One of the things that impressed me early on was the accuracy of the Bible in the area of science.

Science had become my God in my younger days. I was raised in church and I didn’t get answers. And so I turned to science as a possible place to find truth. And so science became my God. And when I saw the accuracy of the Bible in the area of science, I was quite impressed. And there are hundreds of scientific facts in the Bible written long before we ever knew them or discovered them.

In Isaiah 48 verse 4, God says, because I knew that you were obstinate, iron-necked, hard to be convinced. God said, I’m going to tell you things before you discover them so you can know that this book is my book, that I’m the author of the Bible. One of the interesting ones, I think, is Leviticus 1711. It says, and I’ll quote Leviticus 1711. for the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it is the blood that makes an atonement for your soul.

Wow, that’s interesting. Here we didn’t know much about blood so rather recently but here it tells us the life of the flesh is in the blood. We know that today. In fact, when you go to the doctor’s office, the first thing they want to do is blood work. They can tell a lot about your health by looking at your blood. And here the Bible says it thousands of years ago. But science had it wrong right up until almost now.

Aristotle taught that the body was divided into two halves right down the middle. the blood on the left side flowed independently from the blood on the right side. And basically for many, many years if a person was sick and they went to a physician to be treated, they were told because the blood carried the evil spirits and diseases. They would recommend flogging. They would whip you. So can you imagine being sick? You don’t feel good at all. You go to the doctor and he says, well go ahead and flog that guy.

So then they beat you to death while you already feel terrible. It doesn’t sound like a smart idea. Well, supposedly science advanced and then you know and have read, I’m sure, about how they began to practice bloodletting. And that is they would slice your wrist and train blood out of you. Here you’re not very well anyway. And then they start grating your blood out. And then people didn’t always like that. So then they chose to put leeches on you that would suck the blood out.

So in any case, all of this was supposed to bring about a cure. And it’s interesting that the striped barber’s pole that was around for so long was really a reminder that they did the bloodletting. That was a picture of blood. And supposedly because they were a startle of teaching, they would measure what they would drain out of one wrist and drain out an equal amount from the other wrist because they didn’t want you to walk around lopsided. Well, anyway, we don’t have to look too far back into the past to see when this happened.

Our first President, George Washington, contracted double pneumonia. The best physicians in the country were called to his aid. They came and they prescribed bloodletting, and they drained out, according to the medical records, three pints of blood. Now they know George Washington died from the loss of blood. Isn’t that amazing? Would you want to go to a doctor of 200 years ago? Wow, scary, isn’t it? This is really the doctor’s kill George Washington and that was a tragedy but they didn’t apparently know any better.

You know, but if they’d read the Bible, the Bible says the life of the flesh is in the blood. And today when you go to the hospital, instead of draining it out and out, what do they do? It’s not fashionable to be in the hospital without an IV. they’re either putting liquids or whole blood into you, not draining it out. The Bible had it right thousands of years ago. Let me read that verse again. The life of the flesh is in the blood.

There it is. Leviticus 1711. An amazing scientific fact, really, when you think about it in the context of today’s knowledge about blood. Then God says, I’ve given it to you upon the altar to make it a tome and for your souls, Or it is the blood that makes an atonement for your soul. And here it tells us that it is blood that brings about the atonement for your sin. And without a blood sacrifice, according to the Bible, you could not enter heaven.

And of course, Jesus is that blood sacrifice. He according to the Bible is the Lamb of God, which would take away the sin of the world. And it was with, according to Peter, in 1 Peter 1, it was with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, who was without blemish, without spot, who was sacrificed for you and for me, that by his death and shed blood our sins were washed away. And that’s it. You know, we’re not saved by keeping the commandments, we’re not saved by church membership, we’re not save by water baptism, we are not saved by how we conduct our life, we are not saved by living the Christian life.

What can wash away my sin? The hymn writer got it right. He said nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ. What can wash away my sin? Answer being correctly. Nothing but the blood. And yet so many churches might sing that hymn and yet they disconnect from truth and when you talk to them about how to be saved, oh they’ll say well you have to. of the Christian life. Oh, you have to go to church, or you have to keep the commandments, or you have to be water baptized, or you have to go through confirmation, or you have to end the list goes on and on and on.

There’s a church here in Tampa. I got one of their tracks that said 22 things one must do in order to be saved. Wow, you know the Bible says nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. The hymn writer got it right. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood. There is only one condition for you to meet nor to be saved. That is to put your trust in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He died and paid for your sins. And no matter how many sins you have committed, if you simply come and trust Him, God saves you. You know God’s wonderful illustration is out of the cross, there were two what? condemned criminals, condemned criminals. Think about it. These were bad guys, condemned criminals. One of them in the last moments of his life believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and Jesus said to him in Luke 23, 43, today thou shall be with me in paradise.

Today thou shall be with me in paradise. He was saved on the spot And it was with disregard to what he had done in his life. It was based upon Christ’s death on the cross as the substitutionary sacrifice, dying there to pay for his sins and yours in mine. And it was my sins that he was paying for on the cross as well. And by his blood I have been washed of my sin. Revelation 1 5 is a favorite of mine.

It says unto him Jesus that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Have you ever trusted Jesus as the only hope that you have for heaven? Have you ever trusted that Jesus’ death and shed blood was the only means by which you could be forgiven and in heaven? Have you ever done that if you haven’t? My My friend, I suspect you’re not saved. You need to trust Christ and His death and shed blood as the only hope you have of going to heaven.

Why not do that right now? Just whisper that prayer between you and the living God. And just say, God, I’m a sinner. I don’t understand much, but I know I’ve done things wrong. And right now I trust that Jesus made the payment for my sin on the cross by His death and shed blood. I trust him right now to forgive my sin and give me the gift of everlasting life. My friend, the moment you do that, God saves you and you can be assured from that moment on whenever you die.

You will go to heaven and live with the Lord forever and ever and ever and ever. Well this is Bibleline. I’m Dr. Anglins from and we’re certainly looking forward to talking with you today and sharing. You can call our 800-number, 1-800-576-3771, or you can call and leave an offer a question. But either way, you can go up on your live with me or leave an offer a question. We’re going all the way up to Flint, Michigan. And there we have Rodney in Flint, Michigan.

Welcome to Bible On. Yes, sir. How are you doing, Dr. Inkscomb? Good, good. Yes, it’s good to have you have a resource. Thank you. Okay. Now Dr. Inchram I have a question, ran across in my study. When it came to Jesus re-entering into heaven after the crucifixion, there seems to be a to be a contrast or do they go together? It is stated or known that some people believe that Jonah being in the belly of the well and Jonah the second chapter, that is the type of Christ, praying to the Father in his anguish as the Jesus the man in hell.

And then it says in Hebrews the ninth chapter about the 11th and the 12th verse that Jesus entered back into the uh… tabernacle the holy of holy to the father by his own blood is that a contrast or do they go together or or how do you equate all of that? All right. Well, the answer is Jesus himself said in Matthew 1240 as Jonah was three days and three nights in the Fish and Sperley. Social of Son of Man be three days and three nights.

In the heart of the earth. So when Jonah died by the way, he died in the fishes belly. He went down into shield, which is not really hell. Hell and shield are not the same thing. Hell is empty right now. But the place where the departed dead was in the heart of the earth and called shield and the Greek is called Hades and there he went of course to the paradise part where the dying thief later met Christ in the heart of the earth in the same place.

So yeah, it’s a beautiful picture. because Jesus said just like Jonah died, the fishes’ belly became the tomb for his body. His soul and spirit were done into the heart of the earth in the paradise. And after three days, Jonah was raised from the dead. He went back into that same body that was in the fishes’ belly and became alive again, and it was vomited out on the shore and continued his mission. So Christ was in the heart of the earth three days and three nights in paradise and came back into the tomb and brought that body back from the dead.

And then he appeared over the next 40 days showing himself alive, even as Jonah went to Nineveh and showed himself alive after that experience. And the Bible says that Jonah was assigned to the people of Nineveh. Obviously they could see that he had gone through a horrific experience and apparently was raised from the dead. So when they looked at his body, I would imagine that stomach acid in the fish’s belly had absolutely taken away all bodily hair. He had no hair on his head, no eyelashes, no eyebrows, no hair on his arms or just he was absolutely without any hair.

Plus his body. When he said, where does it say in the scripture that it was apparent that he had been or where does it indicate it? Well, it says he was assigned to them. The fact that he’d come back from the dead was evident by the way they could look at his body and see, just like Jesus in the same way. He came back and had the wounds in his hands and his feet and in his side. And they recognized that this man is the same one that had been crucified that had died and now had come back from the dead.

Okay, now would you consider Jesus? Absolutely. I have a question or to get to the meaning of what I’m trying to ask. Did Jesus now, in the grave or in hell, his words of Jonah indicated that he had some anguish in hell? No, that is not true. If you read John very carefully, there are two prayers that he prayed. He prayed one while he was still alive and drowning in the fish’s belly. And that was prayer number one. The second prayer is from the very heart of the earth where he was in this place called Paradise.

It was actually a place of comfort. It was not a place of discomfort at all. Christ never went to a place of torment or discomfort either. that he went to the heart of the earth where the believers were, and of course Christ announced liberty to them, telling them that their sins have been paid for, and on the third day he emptied the place out and took these all up to heaven. But Jonah also went to that very same place.

Let me just quote the verse here where it says he prayed. Then it says, I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me. So we find that this prayer was prayed out of the fishes’ belly. He was still alive. But then also, then he prayed out of the belly of hell. The hell is really a bad translation. It should be out of the belly of Sheol, which is the hall of place where the believers went.

the Lord heard him and of course the Lord said that or Jonah says that he went down to the bottoms of the mountains. He was in the heart of the earth. It’s like Christ went. But it says yet has now brought up my life from corruption. So his body had begun to corrupt in the fishes valley and of course God brought that life back up from the dead. And then when he went to Nineveh, they listened to this man because obviously he was somebody who had come back from the dead.

Yes sir, okay. God bless you. Rodney, thank you for calling. Oh, that’s your hope you’re at the start, okay? All right. Thank you very much. We are on the air up there in Flint and 2nd on Michigan. We’re also on the air in Lansing, Michigan. Thank you Rodney for listening and tuning in and calling us from Flint, Michigan. We now have Benjamin in Clearwater, Florida and Benjamin. Welcome to Bibleline your own. You’re good morning, Dr. Oh, I have a question here and first for engine.

We know each and the house spirit. Oh, you’re going to try the Bible tells us that we have our spirit and the Holy Spirit. spirit, indwelling the same body once we become saved. Our body becomes this temple. In Romans chapter 8 it talks about how then his spirit can witness to our spirit as he dwells within us. By the way, that happens and the witness of the Holy Spirit is when we read the Bible, God the author of scripture, the Holy Spirit being the author of scripture, then witnesses to us as we read the word and we see examples of that in the Bible where it tells us, for example in Hebrews, about an event that the Bible had told about Christ’s death for our sins and how that the Holy Spirit, I’m going to read verse 15 now, I’ll read verse 14 first, it says, by one offering, by one offering

Christ hath perfected forever them that are sanctified Hebrews 10 14. Then it says in verse 15, where of the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us, for after that he hath said before, and then it quotes from Jeremiah 31 that talks about the same incident. So Christ died one time to pay for our sins, and the Holy Spirit as we read the Bible witnesses to us, as he said before, back in Jeremiah, the very same of it that we read about in Hebrews chapter 10.

So it’s exciting to see how the Holy Spirit then becomes one who dwells on our body. So it says in verse 16, verse 3, No you not that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you. Now that’s not true of an unbeliever. The unbeliever or the world cannot receive the Holy Spirit, but the believer does receive the Holy Spirit at the instant of belief and possesses the Holy Spirit for ever. That’s during this age from Pentecost on the Rapture.

So hopefully that helps a little bit, but we have two spirits for this, our spirit and the spirit of God. We now have Arthur in Bell, Glades, Florida, now near Lake of Kachobee in Florida. Arthur, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Good morning, Dr. Lefl. I have two questions I would like to ask you. The first question uh… is your company can you keep you explaining why do preachers uh… most people do not preach you know to you like seeing and everything that it teaches no quarter he is playing it to me why that we did this is going on in this day of time well i can tell you it’s because of the men in the bible you know it’s interesting that this is a new fad it seems that it’s come along uh…

preaching uh… fifty hundred years ago didn’t do that. So this is obviously preachers, copying preachers, and they’re not listening to the word of God because the Bible says, yay, in 1 Timothy 3, all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. So if you’re going to live Godly, you’re going to have persecution. It never talks about having wealth or health or prosperity. Although God may bless you with those things, that is not promised at all. We are promised we might suffer for Christ.

James talks about suffering. Peter talks about suffering. You find throughout the Bible that Christians suffered that lived for Christ. If you read Paul’s letters, wow, he was shipwrecked and he was beaten and thrown into prison. Just about everything. He threw stones at him outside of the city of Lister and dragged his body that they assumed was dead out on the garbage pile outside the city of Lister. So if you’re going to serve a ward you’re going to have trouble and nowhere does it say everything’s going to go well and that you’re just going to be healthy and wealthy and prosperous.

That’s a false message today and a lot of preachers are caught up in it because they become rich and I guess that’s what the bottom line is they’re after earthly riches. Okay, in my second question, can you explain to me about why today churches do you think that’s because it’s not being taught of this part of what God said we were living in the last days? was a sign of the end times. You know the Bible says in maybe 24 where the love of many will grow cold and I think that that’s exactly it.

First Timothy 3 tells us how that men would become lovers of self and not lovers of others. So they would care only about themselves be very selfish and not love others and we see that happening every day and Arthur’s sure good to hear from you down there in Belvoir’s Florida. We’re going to break and so we’ll have to come back after the break and talk again, but Everybody stay tuned don’t you change that really well. This is Bible and I’m not drinking instrument will be right back After this short break Don’t go away Bibleline will be back in a moment.

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You know the Bible talks about laying up treasures in heaven. Maybe we don’t talk about it enough, but Christ said, don’t have to use those treasures here upon the earth where moths eat it up and rust the corrupts it and thieves break through and steal it, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where none of those things happen. Do you know what the crime rate is in heaven? Zero. There are no crimes committed in heaven. And so nobody is going to steal your treasure.

If you lay up treasures in heaven, they are safe and secure forever. And the Bible says God gives us these treasures because they are an incentive. It says where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Isn’t that true? You know where your treasure is, that’s where your heart is. Whether that be material or other things. The Bible wants us to be heavenly minded, our thoughts to be heaven-work. And God does that by saying, I’m going to have treasure for you for living for me.

So as we live for Christ, it’s insane to keep our eyes focused on the Lord and on heavenly things. You can invest your time and your talent and your treasures and earn rewards in heaven. has got to be exciting. I love the verse in Philippians, Paul talked to the Philippian believers about giving. In Philippians 4 17 he says, not that I desire a gift. He’s saying very plainly I’m not trying to get your money. So if you’re giving an offering because you think I’m giving you money, I’m trying to get your money.

That’s totally wrong Paul says. But he says, I desire fruit that may abound to your account. Well, I’ll never forget discovering that verse as a young believer. Just changed everything for me because I thought everybody had their hands out and we’re just trying to get my money. And I realized according to the Bible that as I gave to a work that was producing fruit, that fruit would be my fruit too, that it would accrue to my account as I gave to the things of the Lord.

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He never knew how to go to heaven. But at 76, he has come to know Jesus as his Savior through Bibleline. It’s just overwhelming. And I hear it all the time. We had a nice note from a fellow a week ago. Forty-one years old raised in church all his life. He said he got saved just a couple of weeks ago by listening to Bible Aid. So thank God for what he’s doing through this radio program and you can be a part.

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We’re going to Henry in Richmond, Virginia. You’re on the end. Good morning. From the statement that you said, get out of your program, that Jesus all matters to him. But I have a lot of advice for that. Don’t you need to be baptized with the name of the false son and all the ghosts and all You need to act God. You understand? I just came walk around every day and stand and stand and God and just before the blood of Jesus saved me, that will have a turn in heaven.

Is that right or wrong? Well, you’re wrong. The only way you’re saved is by trusting Christ. And that doesn’t mean that you’re going to be able to live sin free. Every believer still sins. And if you say you don’t sin, then the Bible says you are deceiving yourself. 1 John the Apostle said, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Now we can have victory over sin, but we can never live sin free.

And once you trust Christ, you are saved forever because He is the one that saves us. But not only that, He is the one that keeps us saved. If you read 1 Peter 1-5 it says we are kept by the power of God. We’re not kept by our own power, by our own strength, or by our own deeds, and we’re not saved by our works or by our deeds. It’s all of Christ. He’s the Savior. I love the hymn writer when he wrote that Jesus paid it all.

And the sin had left the crimson stain, but he washed it as white as snow. So Christ completely wipes your slate clean and he pays for your past and your present and your future sins. When you trust that Christ died for you, what he did at the cross, he paid for every sin you’d ever commit your whole lifetime. He knew exactly when you’d be born, when you would die, and he paid for the sins of your entire lifetime. He didn’t pay for part of those sins or the sins of until the time you believe, he paid for all of them.

Now you are not allowed to live with you. Please God will discipline you if you are delinquent as a believer. He’ll discipline your life and you won’t get away with it. You might go to heaven early. You might even take home that in heaven early. But you’re still saved once you trust Christ. I’ll see you. I’ll see you. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you so much, Henry. I got saved. And the Lord began to interfere in my life.

I didn’t realize all these things from the Bible at the beginning, but I did trust the Lord. I didn’t serve the Lord. My first whole year I was a secret believer. Nobody knew. I kept it a secret from everybody. Nobody had a clue that I had trusted Christ. God do. And he… He followed me up. I was at the University of Florida as a freshman. And, you know, God, during that year, worked on me. He brought me to a place where I got on my knees and I dedicated my life to Christ and said, I’ll live for you and serve you the rest of my life.

And I’ve been doing it ever since that moment. I chose deliberately to serve Christ. That’s the second decision. We are saved when we trust Christ. But when we dedicate our lives or commit our lives or whatever term you want to use to service, that’s a second decision. And it’s a lifelong decision that everybody brought to me. And I didn’t realize it’d become a preacher, but I said, Lord, I’ll serve you and I’ll witness and I’ll tell other people about you.

And that’s what I began to do. And you know, I was amazed at how many people really wanted to know. And I led a lot of guys to Christ in the dormitory of the University of Florida. Then they came to me and asked me if I would teach you a Bible study. And I said, I don’t know anything about the Bible. I said, I don’t think that’s a good idea. And they said, yeah, you’re the one that led us to Christ.

You’re the one that ought to be teaching us. And so I took the challenge and began to study. And the Bible study grew from two people to as many as 50. a week we had to move out to meet in a professor’s home there at the University of Florida and we had a lot of young men that got saved and many of them went off into ministry. One of them is a professor right now, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dr. Aubrey Malfers, I led to Christ and he went on to go and become a professor and author at Dallas Theological and I’ve got people all over the country and all over the world on five continents that are serving the Lord that I have led to Christ and mentored and challenged.

And so I have a lot of fruit and a lot of people out there serving the Lord as a result. But it’s not a license to sin, the fact that we’re safe forever. I could have chosen not to and I would have lost out on the blessings and had God spanking me the rest of my life, but I chose to serve him and get in on his blessings. Thank you, Henry, for calling in from Richmond, Virginia. We have some anonymous questions.

We might as well go ahead and take some of those. Not anonymous, but all fair questions. And the first one is David in Tampa, Florida, says, if we trust in Jesus’ work of cleansing the Jerusalem Temple, would that be making heaven by symbolically doing away with money? Not too sure if I understand the question, but what was happening there when Christ cleansed the Temple of the Money Changers was that they were cheating the people. They were cheating them in two ways.

When you came to the Temple, you came to offer a sacrifice. you couldn’t offer the sacrifice you brought from your home. So you had to buy their sacrifice at a great markup. In other words, you got gypped. Then you couldn’t buy it with your money. You had to trade your money in for temple money. And there they got you one more time. So they cheated you two ways. And Christ was very upset with that. So it has nothing to do with that at all.

And Heaven, of course, is a gift. It’s paid for by Christ and has nothing to do with whether you have money or don’t have money or how you spend your money. It has nothing to do with works. So, David, I hope I’m answering your question. I’m not sure that I have the question there. Keith in Richmond, Virginia. Could you please give me some insight on the ministry of T. Jakes? All I can tell you is I believe it’s Pentecostal, or in the gifts.

And of course, that is they’re ceased and they’re not around for today. So I would listen very carefully to whoever you listen to. But it’s Pentecostal. and generally they believe you can lose your salvation and they preach gifts which I’ve already been done away with. So Keith I hope that helps Thomas and St. Petersburg. Should a Christian be buried or cremated according to the Bible? Well you notice throughout the Bible they buried in a picture as a testimony that they believed in the resurrection.

Even Christ’s body was placed in the tomb and then of course he came back into that body and resurrected it and that’s the picture. But it doesn’t affect your salvation and today it’s so costly to have a… I don’t think anybody even makes that connection anymore because it’s just a matter of economics today. It won’t affect your salvation or your resurrection as a believer. You’ll certainly go to be with the Lord. Again, this is Bibleline. I’m Dr. England Strimman.

We are taking some of the offer questions that have been left. We have anonymous, I don’t know what city, but it says if a Christian couple want to divorce and there’s no biblical reason for it, will they be punished by God somehow? And of course, there’s always consequences whenever we break the rules. And of course God says he hates divorce and if you give divorce and there’s no biblical grounds, you will suffer consequences. But you’ll never go to hell.

You’re still saved. You will not be lost because you’re saved forever. We’re not, as we said earlier, you’re not keeping yourself saved. We’re kept 1 Peter 5, chapter 1 verse 5 by the power of God. were held tight in Christ’s hand and he will never let go. John 1028 and numerous other verses. So that’s exciting news, isn’t it? So once you trust the Lord, you are saved forever and ever and ever. So we have another caller here. Let’s see.

His name is Sam and he’s in Lakeland and Sam welcome the Bible on your own. on the earth. Hello, how you doing there? Good. I enjoy your program and everything. See, I like to give a question and then a comment down question. I was listening to a lot of people call on about losing their salvation. And somehow that was where I understand he said, he’s going two people qualified to die a little. And it seemed like people don’t understand that they can’t die once they already died.

when they bone the spirits of dead, from the bone them, and then they Jesus bring them back alive and they don’t seem to understand that they can’t die when they’re in Jesus. So I hear one day a lady said, calling one day and she said, you got to be holy. And she was talking to you and she said, well, in order to go to heaven, you got to be healthy. She used to come out loosing her salvation and she said, you have to be holy.

And I was thinking about a scripture that our God told the angels of the Lord to take on the huge cause he was on hold of ground and the question was when he took all the huge and then took all the huge they still have been hold of ground. It just amount of being aware that he’s on hold of ground and he took all the huge. The same thing about him was listening to your body. When he’s either living in your body he want to make your holy and your body is still filthy and it’s always going to be the sin part.

That’s why we have to die to go to heaven to call the body so filthy. So people think that by them doing something, they’re calling in to go there, to go there and lose the salvation, but the devil can’t be God doing anything. And the only thing he can do next with is something that goes on to God. And the flesh is never the God. It’s only the Spirit and the Spirit that one, making them and God that one, make the Spirit holy, and the flesh will always be what it is until it dies and makes a new life.

So I’m the covenant I like to give. Thank you. Well, thank you, Sam. And you’re right. Once you die, it says in Hebrews 927, then you will stand before the God. It’s appointed them in once to die and then the judgment. And so once you die, it’s too late. But once you’re a believer, you cannot ever be lost because God is the one that keeps you saved. We have Benjamin in Clearwater and Benjamin. Welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. I just want to know the difference in 1 Corinthians 3, 16, talk about the temple of our body, but also in 2 Corinthians 6, 16, talk about the another temple. I would like to know if one of those temple is our body. Will you please can you explain to me? Thank you. We’re going to go over to 2nd Corinthians and look at the verse that he’s referring to. In 2 Corinthians chapter 6 it says in verse 16, what agreement hath the temple of God with idols for you are the temple.

So again it’s talking about your body being his temple and we should not worship idols and we shouldn’t do things that defile this temple which is the temple of God, the Holy Spirit that dwells within us. So once you trust Christ, you’re saved forever because the Holy Spirit is going to be with you. Christ said he would abide with you forever. So that means that if you somehow went to hell, the Holy Spirit would have to go to hell with you.

It’s just not going to happen. Once you become saved, you’re saved forever. Off here we have Joe in Miami, Florida called it a few minutes ago with this off air question. He said, I need references in the Bible where Christians should pay their bills. I’m not too sure what he means by that. Now, if you mean where you should pay to give to the Lord, you need to give where God is blessing you. And so you need to, if it’s your local church, then that’s where you have to give it.

If you don’t have a local church, then whatever ministry is ministering to you, but definitely someplace where the doctrine is correct and the word of God is going forth and people getting saved and people are choosing to live for Christ and are being impacted by God’s word. So Joe, I’m not really sure about what you mean by paying their bills but Chris is definitely out to a gift to the Lord and I think it’s where something affected is being done where the Bible is honored and Christ is preached and that’s where I would do my giving.

We have Alison in Sharon Springs, New York and she calls in with this all fair question. She says a reference to salvation in Matthew 6. It says, if you don’t forgive them, God can’t forgive you. That in Matthew 6 is talking Alison about the Christian life. And so definitely we need to recognize that if we have attitudes of unforgiveness or pride or other things, it obviously hinders our Christian life and it doesn’t mean that you’re not going to go to heaven.

When you trust Christ, you’re forgiven period of all of your sins past, present, and future. But this passage there about forgiving others and then being forgiven has to do with the Christian life and has to do with rewards and relationships with other people. So you have to separate between salvation, which is a gift. Now this is a part of what is called the Lord’s Prayer. And remember this one begins our Father which art in heaven. Only a Christian can pray that.

Only somebody who’s already been saved. Because God is not the Father of an unbeliever. God is our Creator, we are as creation, but we are not God’s children until we become born again. This is talking about life within the family as a believer that we need to be forgiving of others, or God will have to deal with us about our spirit of unforgiveness if that makes any sense to you. We have Mark in Glendale, Arizona, calling in and he leaves this off our question.

He says, I’m starting to get the impression that eternal life and the Kingdom of God, maybe even the Kingdom of Heaven, are not all specifically the same thing. How might I rightly divide this? The Schofield reference Bible that I use has some wonderful notes that will help you, but the Kingdom of God is encompassing everything that is under God’s authority and control all of God’s creation. The kingdom of heaven is a reference to the millennium, the thousand year rule where the heavens will rule over the earth and Christ will actually be here on the earth, ruling over the earth and we’re going to come back with him and help him rule and reign.

Eternal life is to be again separate and that is of course the fact that once we trust Christ we will live forever with God wherever he resides. So that’s a little bit of a summary, but Mark, you’re absolutely right and rightly dividing is very important and I recommend the Scofield Reference Bible. The notes are excellent. We have it here in our Resource Center. If you go out to your bookstore, they’re going to try to sell you the new one.

You don’t want to get that. Okay, we have Walter in Lansing, Michigan and he says, which view is right? Pre-tribulation or post-tribulation or rapture? And the answer is pre-trib. The Bible says the next event is the Rapture, not the Tribulation. It says that 1 Thessalonians 1-10 were to wait for Christ. To come from heaven to deliver us from the wrath to come. So the post-tribulational position is wrong. I think just that one verse would answer it. First Thessalonians 110, Walter in Lansing, Michigan.

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