Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-01-24

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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. Good morning and welcome to Bibleline great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast We look forward to being with you every day Monday through Friday as we come to you live from Pempa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor We look forward to being with you each and every day and I hope you’ll tell your friends and neighbors and those that are in other countries because on the internet they can catch this program 24 hours days seven days a week Anywhere on the planet Earth.

We’ve had 147 countries log in. And so if you know people in other countries, let them know about Bibleline. We webcast our morning worship service here from Calvary Community Church, and we had a family in Sweden watching our morning worship service. And so truly it is the world wide web. BibleLineMinistries.org or .com is our website BibleLineMinistries.org or .com. We have an online bookstore. We have our radio and our television programs there. We also webcast our worship services. And guess what?

We’re getting ready now to do our new class. Next Tuesday we’ll have a class called Jesus is Coming. hours of teaching, I’ll do this over five weeks beginning next Tuesday, that I believe will be the 30th of January, and will do from seven to nine, two hours each Tuesday for five weeks, ten hours of teaching on Jesus is coming. It’s exciting. What a wonderful class will be able to glean from the whole Bible and show how the Bible talks about the Second Coming.

Obviously that anticipates the resurrection, doesn’t it? Because if Christ had remained dead, how could he then come again? But Jesus is coming again. And we believe soon. We ought to be looking up and watching for the Lord’s return. We’re making a special offer this week. If you buy or purchase the 10 hours of teaching, which is $50 for the CDs plus shipping, we We will, just as we go only through Friday, give you the passcode so you can also watch these classes live on the internet and also see them at your leisure at your convenience throughout the week.

So if you want to get in on that, you can from anywhere in America or really anywhere in the world, call into the office here, talk to our secretaries and order the 10 hours of teaching. Now you won’t get it until we get done teaching. That will be five weeks of teaching and then about two weeks after by then you should have them in your hand. But if you’ll order them and pay for mental health Bibleline as we have all kinds of expenses in getting these things set up so we can do these kind of things in the way of cameras and I don’t even know all the list.

But we have a considerable number of things and this This will help us get going and you can pay the $50 and those 10 CDs will come to your home probably one to two weeks after these five weeks are over but you will be able to in the meantime use the passcode and go in and watch these classes live and see them before you ever get your CDs. So keep that in mind if you want to call in today you can do that and order those.

We’re going to be talking about the Bible and then we’re going to be taking our callers on here and off here. You can call in today at 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. You’re invited to always come by and visit our Resource Center during the week. We’re over until 4.30 every day. Also we invite you to come by on a worship day. Tonight we have a worship service. It’s Wednesday and also will be worshiping on Sunday in the morning in the evening And you’re welcome to be a part of that as well.

Let’s go to the Bible and We’ll talk a little bit today about the new birth. You know the new birth is as real As the first birth did you know that? The Lord Jesus Christ said to Nicodemus in John 3 6, that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. So Christ is certainly telling us the new birth is just as real as the first birth, but it’s a spiritual birth and you can’t see it take place yet every time someone receives Christ as Savior puts their trust in him and his shed blood is not.

in death at the cross as the full payment for their sins, the fact that he was buried and then came back again from the dead, as the only means of their salvation they become born again at that moment. In John 524 it says they’re passed from death unto life. And that means you and me, if you’re a believer, you have had this experience, you have been spiritually resurrected, you’ve been passed from being spiritually dead to spiritually alive. When a child is born into the world, a new life comes into existence.

Actually, we believe that occurs at conception. But this life has a human nature, which is sinful, is therefore subject to death. This is the birth that Jesus called the flesh. The result of that birth is a flesh birth. The life, or this life, can’t change its nature. It is a temporary life that we have here on this earth, but our souls, which I believe are given to that person at conception, are ever living souls that live forever, either with the Lord in heaven or separated from the Lord in the eternal lake of fire, the eternal hell.

Well, in any case, if you are born only once, or you have the flesh, birth, only, then you are subject to death, not only physical death, but the eternal death, the separation from God forever in hell, which you certainly don’t want to experience. But the new birth is the birth of the Spirit. It is born not of blood, according to John 1, 12, and 13, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man but of God.

So it’s a birth of God that occurs at the moment of belief. Peter says over in 1 Peter 1 verse 23 being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abided forever. So we find that the new birth is a new birth which is of an incorruptible seed. The first birth is a corrupted birth and that corrupted birth is of course inherited from Adam and his sin, but the new birth is absolutely incorruptible.

And in order to enter heaven Christ said you must be born again. You must be born again. There is only one way to have that happen and that is to place your trust in Christ the Savior. You know in John 3 when Christ discusses this, he tells Nicodemus how to do it again in John He says the Nicodemus for God for Love the World, Nicodemus, that includes you. It includes everybody else in the human race that he gave his only begotten son, that’s Jesus Christ, that who’s so ever, that means anyone and everyone that would believe or trust in Christ would not perish, but they would have ever lasting life.

That means you would live forever and ever and ever and ever and that happens From the very moment you trust Christ the Savior you know John 524 says it very well Verily barely Christ says I say unto you. He to believe us half everlasting life That means you presently possess everlasting life secondly you’ll not not come into condemnation Which means you’ll never be condemned you’ll never go to hell and then thirdly he says you’re past from death in the life.

You are obviously born again. Over in 1 John it says in chapter 5 for what’s or rather whosoever believe it that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. So that’s the key. Just simple belief or trust in what Jesus Christ did for you at the cross brings about the new birth and that’s consistent everywhere we look in the scripture. And when you trust Christ at that moment you become born again. Then it says in verse 4, 1 John chapter 5, for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

And then it says in verse 5, who is he that overcometh the world, but he to believe that Jesus is the son of God. So we know that being born of God is He says, equivalent to trusting Christ’s Savior when that new birth then occurs, which is a birth which is of God. It is not a flesh birth. And of course the flesh birth is flesh. It never becomes anything but flesh. But the spirit birth is a birth of the spirit and will always be that, exactly, a spirit birth and without the new birth you cannot enter heaven.

You know, Jesus said over in John 5, chapter 3 verse 5, he says, very, very well I say unto the accept a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Now, a lot of people get confused when they see the word water there. Amazingly, most people lock up in their minds and they think baptism somehow. I remember talking to a fellow one day who said you had to be water baptize to be saved.

I said, could you show me that in Scripture? He said, yes. He turned to John 3.5. I said, well, would you read that verse to me? He said, sure. Jesus answered, barely, barely. I say unto thee, except the man be baptized in the water and of the Spirit. He cannot enter into the kingdom of God. I said, now, wait a minute. Would you read that again and more slowly? He said, sure. Jesus answered, barely, barely. I say unto thee, except a man be baptized of water, and of the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

I said, you know, as I was watching as you read, I didn’t see the word baptized. Would you do this one more time? And this time point out with your finger the word baptized in this verse that you have used twice now in the two times that you read this verse to me. He said certainly no problem and we went back and said Jesus answered, barely, barely, I say unto thee, except of Anby. And you know, he had never realized that says B-O-R-N.

Born! Not baptized. Born. You know, people sometimes, I guess, after a while, read things in that are not even there. And he thought the word was baptized in this verse and he read it that way several times before i actually forced him to try to find the word baptize in this verse and it’s not there there’s a tremendous difference between being born and being baptized really think about it if you’re about ready to deliver a baby uh… you would run to the church would you uh…

but if you were going to be baptized would you run over the hospital to say help help and even baptized and expect the people in the emergency room to baptize you Well, of course you got it backwards. Obviously there’s a tremendous difference between being born and being baptized. And this is not talking about baptism. It’s talking about a birth. And guess what? It’s speaking about the flesh birth that we mentioned a moment ago. On both sides of John 3.5, it’s talking about a flesh birth.

Nicodemus, after being told he had to be born again in verse 4, says, How can a man be born when he’s old? He’s gaining in the second time into his mother’s womb and be born. He’s clearly thinking about that flesh birth. And by the way, when you’re born of the flesh, you’re enclosed in a sack of water in your mother’s womb. And when that water sack breaks, then out you come. And so the water birth or the birth of water is really the flesh birth.

Verse 6 on the other side of verse 5 also demands that interpretation because it says that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Referring to where Christ said in verse 5, except the man be born of water, that’s the flesh birth and of the spirit, that’s the spirit birth, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Now, Nicodemus already had the first birth. He just simply needed his second birth.

So Christ says in verse 7, Marvel not that I said into the, you must be born again. He doesn’t ask a person to have both of these births after he addresses him, but he’s telling Nicodemus you’ve already had the birth of water. But you have to have a birth of water and a birth of the spirit to be able to have it. And now, marvel not that I said unto thee, you must be born again, but I’m not talking about another flesh birth, I’m not talking about another birth of water, I’m talking about a spirit birth which is totally different.

Now which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit of the spirit. If you are a member of the human race, if you have existence here on this planet, you have had a flesh birth. Reach down and squeeze your arm or pinch your arm and see if you don’t have flesh on your bones there. But to be saved, you have to have the second birth which is the birth of the spirit. Another way we receive that is the Believer Trust.

Christ as Savior when we trust Him as the only hope we have of heaven we become born again. The result is you are now a son or daughter of God. We are not God’s children until we are born again. We are God’s creation. God is our Creator but we do not become His children until we are born again. And once you trust Christ the Bible says you become a son or daughter of God. You become a member of the family of God.

I’m Dr. England. We’re going to go ahead and go to the phone lines and we have a number of people waiting and we’re going to go right now to Jack in Tampa, Florida and Jack, welcome to Bible and you’re on the earth. Good morning, Pastor. Good morning. I’m in a little bit of a difficult situation. Every year, my stepmother is a Catholic and a very good Catholic and strong Catholic. We put… We pray my mother, I know not what the Bible says, because every year she has an answer.

I’m a doctor for my mother. And this year is the same thing this time of year. And if she wrote something in an email to my other family members about it, anybody has any questions on the sacraments or how the mass is performed and why it’s performed no one’s. no one does every answer any questions and she’s getting very angry about it. And she knows where I stand on a lot of issues. And it’s really long to minute when we get into it and I don’t want to go there with arguing in an angry way.

That’s not in the situation. She’s mentioned to other family members that she doesn’t know why, that the state doesn’t have the other Bible that the other books that the Catholics do. And I’m not sure how to quite answer that either. I do, but I want to hear your answer. We’ll go ahead and talk about that a little bit. First of all, that Catholic theology is totally wrong. That’s talking about how we can do something herences to rescue or save somebody who’s already dead.

You can’t do that. Hebrews 927 says, it’s appointed on the men once to die and then the judgment. And once you die without Christ, then you’re in deep trouble. Obviously, Luke 16 is a great example. You have two men, a beggar named Lazarus, a rich man who’s unnamed. They both die and immediately they’re in where they’re going to be forever. The Lazarus was in a place of comfort and the rich man was in playment torment and obviously he’s still there and will be there forever and ultimately cast into the eternal lake a fire.

So once death occurs, it is too late. There is nothing you or I can do. The person that has died cannot do anything about it. Once you die without Christ, you are condemned forever and ever and ever and ever. So to try to think that we can say prayers or have masses said on behalf of a dead person is crazy because the Bible doesn’t teach any such thing. So we can’t help those that have died. The only thing we can do is try to reach those that are living while they’re still alive before they die.

And even the rich man in Hades there in the heart of the earth in Luke 16 says please send Lazarus or somebody back because I have five brothers back at home on the earth and I don’t want them to come to this place. So obviously once you die, it’s too late and he knew his five brothers would be right there with him unless somebody would go lead him to Christ. And so we know that the dead can’t be saved once they have died.

In Hebrews 927 again it says it’s appointed unto men once to die and then they stand before God. And if they’re an unbeliever then they’re lost. And the The Bible tells us that we are even lost before we die. It says he to believe it not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God, John 3 18. So the unbeliever is already condemned from the time they enter this world, the inner with a flesh birth which is a sinful birth which is condemned from the get-go.

In order to be saved, you have to have tradem birth and that can only occur in this lifetime. Unfortunately, many people are taught that they can somehow pray to the dead, pray for the dead, and the Bible, says that is absolutely wrong. It’s absolutely false. It’s contrary to the Bible. We need to recognize it. In the case of your mother, you need to leave her to Christ before she dies, but there’s nothing she can do for her mother if she died without Christ.

So there’s nothing you can do. Now the Catholics added some Bibles, rather books to the Bible, in the Council of Trent in 1554 AD. What is interesting is that all these books that they added about 15, they added them to the Old Testament, and these were books that were written after the Old Testament. It was completed. The Old Testament that you and I have, 39 books, the same that the Jewish people have in their Bible, is the completed Bible that was finished around 500 years before Christ.

Between 500 years before Christ, when God withdrew the prophets and completed the Old Testament and the last Old Testament prophets John the Baptist who announced Christ, there It was about 500 what we call silent years where God was not speaking. He had nothing more to say. It was all said and is contained in the 39 books we have in the Old Testament. But there were histories written of that time and obviously those histories were around but they were never accepted by the Jewish people as being in the inspired Word of God.

They were not written by a prophet or by an authentic spokesperson for God. And so they were rejected. When Christ came along, he could have corrected that and said, hey, you guys missed these books. You should have added them. He didn’t. Nor did the apostles after that do it. Nor did the early church fathers. Two thousand years go by and the Catholic Church adds them in the Council of Trenton AD 1554. Obviously, they’re two thousand years late. If they had been scripture, they should have been received at the time they were written as is true for all the other books of the Old and New Testament.

They were all accepted as scripture at the moment they were written because they were written by an authentic spokesperson for God, one that the people believed was speaking on behalf of God and that their words were God’s words. Peter tells us that Paul’s writings are scripture in 2 Peter chapter 3. And we find that Paul talks about Luke’s writings as being scripture. And we find that Paul himself commends the believers at Puslornaika for receiving his words as being the very words of God as he said they are indeed in truth.

And so obviously as they spoke and wrote, those words were considered to be God’s words at the moment. So the, I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. They don’t change any doctrine. So I don’t really get into an argument over that. I just say I disagree. I don’t believe those belong in the Bible and tell them why, but they don’t affect any doctrine. So it’s not a plus or minus either way. So I don’t deal with that. You have to deal with what the Bible really says, which we already talked about.

When you die without Christ, you’re going to be forever lost. So hopefully, Jack, that helps a little bit. We’ll pray for your mother. You can lead her to Christ and she’s obviously Reaching out and allowing dialogue to be held but obviously she wants To you to be in agreement with her and I just pray you’ll be able to reach her alright. We’re gonna go now to Betty and Beverly Hills Florida Betty. Welcome to Bibleline. I’m yes good morning brother.

I’m sure I find myself in now Between a rock and a hard place yesterday. We had two of the deacons over to our home to discuss the material it to be taught for evangelism. And I had told you the other day I had found an error in the sudden Baptist manual regarding salvation and the order, you know, what is necessary. They put more than just trust Christ. So I down loaded and printed out your articles on repentance, which they readily received graciously and said that we wouldn’t use a particular manual.

My issue was this. I mentioned that I got an email from a fellow comrade and it was a very beautiful music, a lot of philosophical words and so forth and it was signed Mother Teresa and I said, you know, something Mother Teresa had said. And I said to them that I object to that because I had seen when she was alive that she said she helps those that are sick and that she feels that what God wants her to do.

to do if it’s a Hindu man, she wants to help him die, the best Hindu he can. And I said so therefore I’m not supportive of anything Mother Teresa, her writing was or anything regarding her. And they said because she was not a Christian and they really jumped on me both deacons. How can you dare to say she was not a Christian? And I said, you know, We have to test the spirits and I said that just and I thank you so much for explaining the heresy of the Roman Catholic Church of which I’ve really been aware of.

But Brother Lynch and then said what about Hippo Betty? Was he saved? You know we’re not supposed to be judging. I tried to explain to them. I showed them what first John fourth chapter first verse test the spirit. Is that a correct verse to make the application to this situation, Brett? Absolutely. Certainly we’re to try any message we hear. to see if it agrees with the Bible. I like Isaiah 820 where it says if they speak to this word there’s no light in them right?

So you have to go with the Word of God and that’s what I did Brad and forgive me for taking your time. I hold myself back because I want to give everyone else a chance but this is my my last bottom line. I did say to them that my husband and I really cannot be involved in the teaching of the evangelism course because this the smacks of ecumenicism and heresy and that we just cannot I cannot in good conscience before my Lord and Savior be involved in this as you spoke to me Regarding this subject the other day.

Do you think I’m justified? Yes, indeed you are we’ve got a good a break and I Pray for you. I feel sorry. Anyway, stay tuned. We’ll be right back after the show break Bibleline will be back in a moment. Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771 That’s 1-800-576-3771. Alright, we are coming to you live from Dan Bithorda from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church on Dr. Englinserman. This is Bible and obviously, whenever someone doesn’t teach the doctrines that are taught in the Bible, that presents a conflict.

And obviously the Bible tells us that we are to stand for the truth and to stand for sound doctrine. And of course the Bible teaches that the elders and the deacons in the church are to guard against false doctrines. So they are the very ones that are to be the watchmen for the church to make sure that no false doctrine creeps in. Unfortunately today, our churches are so shallow and doctrine they don’t recognize false doctrine when it comes their way.

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We’re going to go right now to the phone lines. We have Annette patiently waiting on her cell phone and Annette welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hi, how are you today? Good. Good. My question is about judging and judgment. We often hear a lot of people and I think a lot of non-believers like to throw this at us too about that we’re not supposed to judge. And I know that there is the ultimate judgment of God that we’re not to take upon ourselves.

But as Christians and among Christians aren’t we to exercise a certain type of judgment and isn’t that kind of what some scriptures tell us just by what they’re asking us to do like to be where a fall teachers to be accountable to one another and in first printing five nine when it talks about the brother who is in you know a life guy with him that you know they’re to put him away if he doesn’t you know what does that look like that so I was just wondering if you could speak on that a little bit we had a discussion at my family and of course they just threw out that we’re not supposed to judge and I was trying to explain to him that we’re not, but there are certain things that we are to do as Christians among Christians that are asking us to exercise a certain type of judgment.

And I’m going to hang up and let you comment on it. We’re absolutely to do that. We are to judge whether somebody’s doctor is correct or not. The area where we’re not to judge is in the area where we are not capable of judging. of persons motives, what their thoughts are. You know, there are some people that will look at somebody and say, I just know they’re up to no good. And we can’t know somebody’s thoughts and we can’t know things that are unseen.

And of course the Bible warns in 1 Corinthians 4 about that kind of judgment. It says, don’t judge anything until Christ comes back and then he’ll make manifest the the counsels of the heart, and then he’ll reveal the hidden things of darkness. So the things that you can’t see, you don’t know anything about, you’re not to judge in those areas. But when somebody tells you that they reject Christ’s deity, for example, the cults, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, deny the deity of Christ, you can judge and say these people are wrong.

the The other doctors, we can say, well, you’re wrong about that. And if you die without Christ, you’ll be lost forever. So if somebody tells me that they are working their way to heaven, I can judge and say, well, they’re not saved. They’re not going to heaven alone. So there are areas where we can judge, but the areas that we’re not the judge, first Corinthians 4 is a good passage where it says, I think in the first six verses that we are to reserve judge.

judgment until Christ returns in the areas where we are not capable of judging. We don’t know the hidden things of darkness. We don’t know the counsels of somebody’s heart. We don’t know what’s really inside. I remember one person I thought he just loved our church and he was coming. You know in a private conversation with him he was quite frank with me and he says, I come to your church to make business contacts. It’s a great place to do business.

And I said, whoa, I never knew that. And of course, then it was out of the bag. And I said, you know, that’s a good reason to come. And he knew, of course, knew that. But on the outside, if I was the judge, I would say this guy is really a super-duper Christian. He loves to be here at the church. He’s always friendly talking to people. I didn’t realize he was handing out his business card and he was arranging business with different people to sell or market whatever he was selling.

I forget what it was. But you know, I wouldn’t have known that if he hadn’t told me. Those were hidden things. And that was what was in his heart and why he came to church. But not everybody comes to church for the right reason. And so we can’t judge why they are coming. But if they tell you why they’re coming, then you can know and judge in that area. I hope that helps a little bit. But I like those verses in 1 Corinthians, otherwise we are to judge.

And we are to test the ones that we hear. There are many false teachers, the Bible says, don’t be gullible, don’t believe everything you hear. But check out what they say against the Bible, and if they don’t agree with the Bible, the Bible says there’s no light in them, and that we should not have fellowship with the unfurful works of darkness. So thank you Annette, and we’re now going to go to Arthur in Belvane, Florida. Arthur, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Yes, how you doing, Pastor? I would like to know, is there any scripture in the Bible that speaks on the age or accountability for a young person salvation? I believe there is. I didn’t know for a long time that if there were one and I’ve heard different preachers set certain ages, but apparently it’s going to vary because every child develops differently or different rates of speed. But I found in the last verse in the book of Jonah a most amazing verse.

God was talking with Jonah after God has spared Nineveh and he was telling Jonah that there were 120,000 children in Nineveh. That was a pretty big city to have it many children and he said that didn’t know their right hand from their left hand. So apparently those were the innocent ones that would have gone to heaven should they have perished. But the age of accountability therefore is set by when they developed mentally enough to be able to discern their left hand from the right hand person.

I think I know some adults that can’t even do that but maybe they’re not accountable. But I’m teasing. That’s apparently where it is. So it’s pretty young and when children can discern their left hand from the right hand, then I would say you better lead them to Christ. Jonah the last verse, chapter 4 I think is verse 16. Okay thank you very much. Alright Arthur down in Belgrade, Florida and welcome to my mind. We have Rick now in Lutz, Florida.

Rick welcome to my mind you’re on the air. Good morning brother. How are you doing? Good. I’m here studying some of Genesis and you know Genesis 10 talks about the generations of He was the son of Noah’s sons. So, then I’m reading through all that. And then Genesis 1031, you said these are the sons of Shhem after their tongues and their land after their nations. These are the families of the sons of Noah after their generations and their nations by these were the nations.

the nations abided in the earth could mean language correct I mean that’s what I’m looking at in the show. Okay, well then you go to Genesis 11 on speech. Well, in chapter 10, it explains in chapter 11 what happened, how they were divided. Actually, in chapter 10, you’re just having the different descendants and how they went and where they went. And of course, they did develop languages after the Tower of Babel. But chapter 10 really precedes what’s going on in chapter 11.

Okay. Thank you. All right, you’re so welcome. And that was Rick calling in from Lutz, Florida. Lutz, Florida. We have Sandy in Tampa, Florida, calling in. Sandy, welcome to Bibleline You’re On Here. Hi, Dr. Hank. I would like to expound on this Galatian 189 who fits that category. The Catholics say they believe in the death bearing resurrection of Christ, but they add works to it. And that’s a Ephesians 289, they’re cursed. I would like to expound on that Galatian 8-9 who fits that category.

that they think they’re saved and they’re not. They add work to their gospel. Well, I’ll sure do that, Sandy, and thank you for calling in. In Galatians 29 talks about a perverted message of the gospel, where you add any works to what Christ has done, makes it a message that will not say the message that is a curse of God, a message that the person preaching it is is accursed as well. It says in Galatians 1, 8, though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, then that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

And then he goes on in verse 9 and says, so now let me say again that if any man preach any other gospel, then that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. And verse 10 gives us a real clue as to what’s going on there because it talks about pleasing men. Paul said, I’m not speaking to please men, but those whose agenda is to please people will obviously pervert the gospel and water it down and make it something that people will go along with.

But when you preach grace without works, it seems to cause division or persecution. That’s what Paul says. He said in chapter 5 and verse 11 that if he He had continued to preach the law as the means of salvation or works. Then he said, why am I persecuted? The offense of the cross is ceased. So there is an offense when you preach Christ only in his death at the cross. And that’s really true. And so those who want to please men will compromise the message.

In fact, those false teachers who have the broadest base of listeners oftentimes are very clever in disguising what they really believe and they just make the message sound so nice. But they don’t really come out and give you the true message which is that you’re safe forever and it’s not based upon anything that you have done or will do, but it’s based totally upon what Christ did at the cross. So if you read Galatians 1, 6 which you have to proceed there, it talks about the gospel of Christ perverted by something added to what Christ did.

So if you believe in Christ plus baptism, that’s a false message. If you believe in Christ plus works, that’s a false message. If you believe in Christ plus confirmation, that’s a false message. And if you believe in Christ plus living the Christian life, that’s a false message. Christ plus anything equals no salvation, but Christ alone equals salvation. So when you trust Christ alone, God saves you. So a lot of churches fit into that category and I was raised in one just like that where I was taught Christ plus.

So they taught Christ, but you had to work and earn your way to heaven and I always always led to believe that I was gaining new heights every day as I worked my way on my way upward. And I was totally misled. It was not until I was 18 that I discovered that salvation was a free gift through simply trusting Christ as Savior. Thank you, Sandy, and I hope that helps a little bit. That’s a powerful, powerful passage. And the whole book of Galatians is written with great passion by the apostle Paul to warn about if you pervert the message of the gospel, then it’s no longer a saving message.

And those who believe the false, a cursed message won’t be saved. And you can see how Paul was very, very, very concerned. And he was warning them not to allow that to happen. We have Kathy in parish Florida. He leaves it all for a question. She says, Catholics believe during the Lord’s Supper, the bread and the wine actually become the body and the blood of Christ. Where did this belief come about? Is there any evidence in the early church of this practice?

It was actually added many, many centuries after Christ had gone back to heaven and obviously is a false practice. But they began to The whole practice of the Mass precedes Christianity. You can read about it in Jeremiah 44, where it talks about the people then offering up these round cakes. And by the way, those who observe the so-called Lord Supper and use the round cake, that comes from the false worship of the Sun God, S-U-N, Sun. And the Jewish people in observing the Passover and Lord Suffer, they use the bread, the Matsu, which is rectangular in shape.

And the round bread cake was obviously something Jeremiah warned about as being another religious belief. in Roman Catholicism, they put that round wafer in a thing called the Monstrance where you have glass on both sides and you can see that piece of bread. But outward from it you see all these little spikes going out. That’s the sun’s rays. It really is the sun god, not the SON of God, but the SUN. And that comes from paganism and was wed into Christianity it has nothing to do with Christ at all.

And of course, the elements never are transformed into the body and above Christ. If you read 1 Corinthians 11, it talks about as often as you eat this bread. It doesn’t say the flesh because the bread remains bread as you observe the Lord’s Supper and the juice remains juice. So it’s a pagan practice. We have a book here that will enlighten you. It’s called two Babylon’s and it’s not very expensive and that one traces this history of the so-called Eucharist and the round bread cake that would be used which was really having to do with worshiping the Sun God, S-U-N, not the S-O-N.

We’re now going to go to Tony and Daytona Beach and Tony, welcome to Vibeline. on the earth. Thank you. Hi, Doctor. I have a quick question and it was in Galatian. I think it’s in the chapter. after we’re got talked about the grafting in and be careful. Is that referring to that MDMA promises to Abraham? Will the Jewish people still enter into heaven without Christ? No, it will not. You They have to trust Christ in order to be saved.

Remember Christ himself was Jewish. God took on Jewish flesh. All the early Christians were Jewish and those that were saved by trusting Christ on Pentecost, Peter preaches to the Jewish leadership that encrassified Christ and tells them that they needed to trust Christ. Later in Acts 4, Paul, Peter says neither is their salvation in any other. For there’s none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. And he’s talking to a Jewish audience. So only through Christ can Hi, it’s going to personally say.

Okay, and so that does make because he said he made promises to Abraham and that. And I’m reading because I mean because the promise to Abraham was that the Jewish people would make it in. No, the problem. The promise was that anybody that would have the faith of Abraham to believe on the coming Savior Jesus would be saved. It says in Galatians 3-7, they which are of the faith of Abraham are really the children of Abraham and the children of God.

And it says in verse 8 of Galatians 3 that the scripture for seeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the Gospel of Abraham. So Abraham heard the Gospel, believed the Gospel, and those that have the same faith as that of Abraham to believe on the Gospel message are saved, but no one else. Okay, and also one other thing, Dr. I looked up Joel Olstein in your commentary, and I always thought that as I listened to him even further, but I looked up the interview with him and Larry King and disappointed in Joel.

I was really disappointed you could look it up in your list and they’ll have the whole interview. And he finally states… He skirts around and says, I don’t know because Larry King questioned him about other pastors coming there and saying, without Christ, you don’t make it into heaven. Joel said, well, I don’t know. I mean, anybody can look at this one and thank you for enlightening. You’re always here. Okay, Tony, thanks a lot from Daytona Beach. Sounds like a nice place to be right now.

But thank you, Tony. And it’s amazing, but I do have to admire the fact that he was honest to say he didn’t know, he didn’t know, he didn’t know. Unfortunately, here is a person leading many people who doesn’t know himself how to be saved apparently from his own words, and that is sad. So every believer needs to be going to the word to see what they believe and to make sure that what they believe is correct. Well we have Bill in 7-0 Florida and he calls in and says after the resurrection of Christ there were those that came out of their graves and were seen by living people.

If men are appointed once to die, did the ones that came out of the grave receive their glorified body and then they could not have died again. Very good point Bill and apparently that’s what happened. We believe Christ rose on the Feast of First Truth State. When you read the Old Testament, it was a harvest feast, a picture of the resurrection, and what they would do is go out into fields and gather handfuls of grain, bring them for the priest as evidence of a harvest that was become.

These were samplings. And so when Christ came back from the dead and fulfilling that type, He came back from the dead but also brought a sampling of the resurrection by Anfield by giving some of the Old Testament saints, a probably a very small number, like a handful, their resurrection bodies. And they just disappeared off the scene and I’m assured that they went on to heaven, being the sampling, that yes, there is a future resurrection that you, Bill and I, as believers, will be in and we’re going to get our resurrection bodies.

So I agree with you 100%. That’s exactly right. If they did get their glorified body, they could not die again. And I don’t think they did. I really think this was a sampling and a fulfillment of the feast day. In 1 Corinthians 15, 20-22, it tells us that Christ is the first fruits of the resurrection clearly, a reference to that feast in Leviticus 23 called the feast of first fruits. So certainly that’s the case. in Tampa, Florida says Moses and Elijah are to come back and preach for three and a half years.

After that, what happens in the next three and a half years before Christ comes? Well, if you read Revelation 11, they are killed. And then, of course, the darkest hours of the tribulation period will follow where the Antichrist is really in power and becomes the wicked dictator the Bible says that he will be. So no doubt about it. You don’t want to be in the tribulation period at all. But the last half, the last three and a half years will be the worst.

If you haven’t trusted Jesus as your Savior, would you do it? Right now, just say, Lord, I’m a sinner. I don’t understand much about the Bible. But I believe Jesus Christ died for me and shed his blood and paid my sin that in full was buried and rose again from the dead. You know, the moment you do that, God will save you and you can be assured of going to heaven. I hope that you would do that. I’m concerned that maybe someone listening today is very close to death.

And if you die without Christ, my friend, it’s too late. No one can help you once you have died if you die without Christ. Right now, Christ can’t help you. He can save you. When you trust him, who’s whoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life. But if you die without Christ, there’s no church, there’s no organization, there’s nothing that anyone can do that will help you at all. And you’re forever lost once you die without him.

Don’t slip into eternity without Christ. Again, I want to mention we have this special going this week. I’m going to teach you class and I hope you’ll come and sign up and be in my classroom here on Tuesday nights, beginning next Tuesday for five weeks, two hours each week from 7 to 9. I’m going to teach a course on Jesus is coming. It ought to be wonderful. And if you order the CDs of that series in advance this week only, then we’ll also give you the passcode to be able to go on the internet and watch The class live or in archive throughout the week.

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