Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-01-25

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

And it’s great to be with you. Thanks for tuning in. We always love to meet our listeners. So if you ever get a chance to come to Tampa and visit us, we’d love to have you do that. We’re located right next to the airport on the west side and so it’s very convenient if you’re flying into town and of course if you live in the area you’re welcome to come by. We hope that you’ll come by on a weekday and visit our Resource Center open every day till about 4.30 in the afternoon.

Also on a Sunday or Wednesday and join us for a worship service. You’re most welcome and you’re welcome to come this Sunday and join us for the morning Worship and of course if you come at 9.15 you can join my adult class or other classes we have for adults and for children on Sunday morning and then the worship at 10.30 and then of course in the evening we have a 6 p.m. evening worship. We’d love to have you drop by here always welcome.

By the way we’ve decided on a class next Tuesday January 30th we’ll begin a five week series two hours per night, ten hours total of teaching, seven until nine p.m. every Tuesday for five weeks beginning next week and that will be on the title, Jesus is coming. That’s going to be exciting course and I hope that you’ll join me next Tuesday in the classroom if you live within driving distance, if you don’t, then of course you can get the CDs.

Now we have a special going this week. If you order the CDs of Jesus is coming this week, that’s either today or tomorrow, then you will not only get the 10 CDs, 10 hours of teaching when we finish the class, a week or two after it’s over, it’ll come to you in the mail, but you’ll also get a passcode to actually view the classes live as we teach them here and that’s really a $100 value for a gift of $50 to buy one.

So if you want to call our operators, you can ask for that special this week, which is the order of the class, Jesus is coming, which I think will be terrific. And you’ll be able to, when it’s all completed, receive those 10 CDs in the mail sent to you. And at the same time you’ll get the passcode to be able to go to the internet and view the classes at your leisure over your internet. And that’s exciting. So call in at our 800 number which is 1-800-576-3771.

If you live in the local area we certainly want you to come out and sign up and sit in the classroom. We’ll have an exciting time studying on the fact that Jesus is coming. We’ll be able to glean from the whole Bible and it ought to be a terrific time. Thanks again for tuning into Bible and by the way we’re streaming right now to the internet. You can go there to our website by the line ministries.org or dot com and get the current radio show that we’re doing right this very moment and also go back and archive and get past shows.

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from Tampa for them from our studios here at the calvary community church when i talk a little bit today about being converted you know i was saved When I was 18, but I wasn’t converted until a year later. That’s right. I was converted a year later. Peter, the apostle, was saved, and then three years later, he was converted. Are you believing that? You know, it’s amazing how we don’t carefully look at terms and how they’re used in the Bible, and sometimes, therefore, we mislead people by our use of them.

So I don’t like to use the term converted for a salvation experience because it most often is used of the Christian life experience and as I just said Peter wasn’t converted until after the resurrection. So I was saved at eighteen but I wasn’t converted until I was nineteen. Peter was saved, but it wasn’t until after three years of being a disciple, and not until after the resurrection we find that Peter actually did convert it. So what does it mean to be converted?

I believe that this has caused so much confusion that it has been a tool in Satan’s arsenal to add works to salvation because the word converted really means to change. we don’t change to be saved. You know the hymn writer had it correct when he said, what can wash away my sin? And the answer being nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood can wash away our sin. Human effort or conduct cannot contribute to our salvation at all. Faith alone in the shed blood of Jesus Christ determines one’s eternal destiny.

salvation is not based upon a person’s behavior, conduct or works, but is based upon his faith or trust in Jesus Christ as the one who made a full payment for our sins at the cross. Yet there are those who would sing the words of the hymn that we just mentioned here, what can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood being the answer, and at the same time contradict those words by having a faulty view of the doctrine of conversion.

They would say something like this, nothing but the blood of Christ could wash with my sins, but you must change the way you live if you are going to be saved. You must be converted, don’t you? Have to be converted. Unwittingly, perhaps the Christian would therefore be teaching human works for salvation contradicting clear scripture. The Bible says in Ephesians, by grace, by mercy, are you saved through faith? And that none of yourselves, it is the gift of God. It’s not of works, lest any man should boast or brag.

Ephesians 2, 8, and 9. Salvation is not dependent upon what we have done or have not done, nor is it dependent upon what we will do or will not do. It’s dependent upon what Christ has done on the cross of Calvary. Jesus said in John 3, 18, he that believe it is not condemned. He to believe if not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Notice it’s about belief or unbelief, but not about our obedience or conduct.

Whether a person is condemned or not condemned or whether he goes to heaven or whether he He goes to hell, is based upon whether or not you believe or trust on Christ or do not trust on Christ. But what about conversion? What about conversion? When does it take place? The Bible says be converted. What does it mean? When does it take place? Well, I like the example of the Apostle Peter. The Apostle Peter was converted three years after he was saved.

After Peter the Apostle had already been saved for three years he was then converted. you shocked to hear that? I was shocked as I discovered that into my Bible. And it’s just amazing. Most times we never hear this ever taught. What does this do to the use of the phrase converted or be converted? Should we only tell safe persons to be converted? And then what does it mean? What should a saved person do to be converted? Well, let’s look at Peter’s conversion.

First of all, Peter’s salvation occurred when his brother Andrew led him to come to the church. In John 1 we have a verse which says, Andrew, he first finds out his brother Simon and says to him, we have found the Messiah, which being interpreted as the Christ, and he brought him to Jesus. So Peter, very simply trusts Christ. Andrew brings him to Christ and he trusts Christ as Savior. But Peter’s conversion is mentioned after the Lord had already instituted the Lord’s and just before he enters the Garden of Gethsemane, the night of the betrayal when Christ that night is taken by the soldiers and is arrested and the next day he’s nailed to the Cross of Calvary.

Look at Luke 22 32. Are you ready? Luke 22 32 Luke 22 32 Here Jesus says I prayed for the Peter that thy faith failed not, and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.” So actually Peter became converted after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Peter’s conversion after the resurrection of Christ had to do with Peter’s Christian life and not his salvation. So at least three years in the laps since Peter trusted Jesus as his Savior was saved. Peter later testified that the way we live our lives has nothing to do with our salvation.

In 1 Peter 1, 18 and 19, Peter says, you must know or recognize that you were redeemed, ransomed from the useless, fruitful way of living inherited from your forefathers, not with corruptible things such as silver or gold, but you were purchased with the precious blood of Christ the Messiah, that of a sacrificial lamb without blemish or spot. Sometimes people will come up to me and they’ll ask me, Hank, when were you converted? And I love the question being asked because it gives me a chance to explain what’s going on here.

And I usually say, here’s my answer. About a year after I got saved. a year after I got saved. I usually see miles drop a little bit and an expression, a blank expression on a person’s face like, what is he talking about? You see, conversion is not about the salvation experience. I got saved, but I got converted about a year later. Peter got saved, but converted three years after he got saved. What about the phrase be converted? Is it use of salvation?

Well, the answer is yes. In one place, in Matthew 18 and 3, Jesus says, I say unto you, except you be converted to become his little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. But notice carefully, when talking about salvation, Jesus did not say be converted and then say no more. But Jesus went on to define what he He meant by being converted when he used it in connection with salvation. He says, except you be converted and become as little children.

In other words, he defined the meaning of conversion as related to salvation to be that an adult would have to become as a little child to be, say, what do we learn from this? Little children are totally dependent upon their parents to live or to survive. In the same way, a person must be totally completely dependent upon Jesus Christ and is death and shed blood at the cross of Calvary in order to be saved. What can wash away my sin?

The answer being nothing but the blood of Jesus. And then Jesus in his illustration says, Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones, which believe in me and he’s talking here about these children, these little ones, who are saved by belief in him, that they believed in him. An adult must be converted in that way in order to be saved. In other words, the adult must place his simple childlike faith in Jesus Christ in order to be saved. Salvation is a gift.

The Christian life is based upon our changing our life around to conform to the Word of God. And I was converted a year after I got saved. You may be saved and not converted yet. Maybe you need to consider being converted. I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom. This is Bibleline. We’re going to go to the collars. We’ve got lots of people waiting to get on the air. And thank you again for listening to Bible and as we come to each and every day here out of Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church where I am the pastor.

We’re gonna now talk to Sean in Richmond, Virginia and Sean welcome to Bibleline you on the air. Good morning, Mr. Good. I have two questions for you. I asked this question earlier. I wasn’t clear in my answering. I was wondering about signs and wonders when you train. An example I would give to somebody that prays and what God does. If somebody wanted to know about dating someone or wanted to date this person, have this person call me. Or something like that.

Is that who was I believe it’s not the way to go. Thanks. Actually, many things are clearly spelled out in God’s word that are yes or no and our gods will or are not gods will, but in the gray areas the Bible says that the peace of God will guide our hearts. There are several verses in the Epistles of Paul that talk about being guided in that way. So as you pray about something, if it is not spelled out as being against God’s will, sometimes people say they’re going to do something even though they prayed about it but the scripture is forbidden.

For example I’ve had people, you know, when you’re to marry someone you’re to marry somebody who’s another believer. And sometimes I’ve had a couple come to me and they said we believe God wants us to get married and one’s unsaved and I’ll say but you can’t do that according to the Bible. They said well we prayed about it. Well, it doesn’t matter if you pray about it, if you know what the Scripture says that it’s not scriptural, then you’re not to do it, period.

So the only solution is to get the other person saved and then determine whether it is truly God’s will for you to get married or not. But you don’t violate Scripture and marry somebody else. So in any case, we need to have God’s peace. The Bible talks about if you doubt in Romans 14 that that is the opposite of faith and doubtful things you probably ought not to do because that’s probably a signal from God that is not his will.

But if you have peace and it doesn’t violate Scripture then you’re to move forward and that is the will of God for you. I have a question. I stumbled upon Benny Hinn’s website, which was some research online. He was talking about salvation. It was being very scriptural in his salvation, but it was very confusing because, you know, of course, he doesn’t have to look at it. He doesn’t have to look at it. He has a finance, and he seems like it was well.

The things he spends his money on. I’m wondering, the Bible talks about that someone can’t beat before the devil and for God. How do you think that’s possible to the salvation began? It’s still be so deceptive of so many other areas. Well, I don’t think his plant salvation is correct either. I heard him just the other night. Give a message that it was all works for salvation. He mixes discipleship with the plant salvation and says that if you’re to be saved, you have to have those ingredients that are required of disciples, which are works.

And so he doesn’t have the correct message at all. So you just need to be listening very carefully to what they say. The devil will give you a lot of truth and you’ll notice the cults will come right up in your face with the Bible. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Seventh-day Adventist and the Christian scientists and all the other cults out there. They’ll claim to believe the Bible and actually use the Bible, but they usually pervert the Bible then change what it says, and so you’re not really getting the full scoop.

So you need to carefully look at the Bible and compare what you’re hearing against the Bible and make your choice in that way. But as far as the signs and wonders and those things, I would stay away from it because Jesus said in the last days, over there in Matthew 24, 24, There shall arise false preachers, and they shall show great signs and wonders or miracles. In so much of it were possible they would deceive the very elect. And he says in verse 25 of Matthew 24, behold I’ve told you before.

In other words, I’m telling you before it happens, he gives us really 2,000 years of advanced warning. Don’t get tricked by signs and wonders in the last days. He doesn’t say genuine believers will be doing signs and wonders. He says false preachers will come along and do great signs and wonders. I think that’s a flag that we need to watch out for anybody claiming signs and wonders today that is according to Christ on words, something that will be done by false preachers as we approach his return.

Thank you Sean. I hope that helps and we’ll be praying for you. We have Melody in Largo, Florida and Melody, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the earth. Yes. Hi, how are you? Good. I would like to know what you believe is an angel. You know, he on earth, the Bible talks a lot about the angels and what is your belief? Say, if a loved one, who is a believer dies and later people may say the loved one has come back and visit them in a dream, you know, quickly.

Do you believe in this type and what does the Bible say about it? And I’m going to hang up in the sincere answer. All right. Sure, Melody. And the answer is that the dead don’t come back. Once you die you’re forever with the Lord. It says in 2 Corinthians 5 8, if you’re a believer and die, you’re absent from the body and present with the Lord. You don’t get to come back. They don’t come back and appear to people here on the earth.

Satan would love to have you believe you can contact the dead. Throughout the Old Testament there are strong verses that warn against praying to the dead, seeking the dead, or looking to make it a contact with the dead. That’s all in the occult realm. What happens is Satan’s angels will impersonate the dead. And when you think you’ve actually made contact with Uncle Harry, it’s really an angel that is impersonating Uncle Harry. He probably knows enough about Uncle Harry to make you think you’ve really reached him.

But that is a deception. The Bible warns against that we are forbidden to try to contact the dead or pray to the dead. And obviously many people do that. Even this present pope said that he talks to the past pope. That’s right. He’s praised to the dead for his guidance so that the previous pope who died might give him good advice in his present popehood. That’s forbidden and yet the Catholic Church violates this all the time. And even praying to Mary is the violation of scripture because again that is in a category of praying to the dead.

1 Timothy 2, 5 says there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. So to try to pray to God through Mary is a violation of scripture because we are never to pray to the dead. And Mary is in that category. We are to pray to God through Christ who is living. We are never to pray through a dead person. And so So that’s all forbidden and we should not go in that realm at all.

But angels are present. Angels by the way are always masculine. Angels don’t have wings. There are no female angels. There are no baby angels. Angels don’t have wings or halos. And by the way they apparently don’t sing. There’s not a verse in the Bible anywhere that says an angel sings anything and never has. So those are some interesting things, but we don’t need to worry about angels. We do have believers, angels that watch over us, but we don’t need to concern ourselves with that.

If we just concern ourselves with living for Christ, God will send whatever number of angels are needed to help us if we are needing that angelic help. But we are not to ourselves, pray to angels or look to angels. We are simply to pray to the Lord. The Bible says, if you are steadfast in the Lord, that Satan will flee from you. So we don’t have to worry about the forces of evil. All we need to do is try to take care of business and let our lives be lived for Christ.

Thank you, Melody. Thank you. Thank you for calling in. We have Tony in Richmond, Virginia. Tony, welcome to Bibleline. You’re on the air. Good morning. I have a question about why I just want to make a comment to Sean and Richmond and sort of others that may believe the sort of thing sort of thing. That the Lord will never answer a prayer that’s anything contradictory to what he said in his word. And I press back to my statement of it’s so important for us to study the word and to be able to rightfully divide the word and what it’s saying to us.

The question I have though is about Peter being saved. I didn’t think that you could be saved until Jesus had died on the cross. Well, you can be saved. But the sin had not yet been paid for. Old Testament salvation, they had the promise of salvation, but the actual full receiving of the complete salvation did not occur until Christ died. So in other words, they had the promise of salvation and people were saved throughout the Old Testament and Peter was saved.

But it wasn’t until Christ died that actually we have the new covenant ratified by the shed but of Christ which is more than a promise. It’s an absolute, absolute covenant based upon God’s word that he would save anyone that would simply come to him in faith and trust him a Savior. Very well. All right. That brings up a question. I’m not one more question. It’s about The kingdom that the kingdom come hasn’t the kingdom since Jesus has Completed the work and rose and now he’s with the father hasn’t the kingdom come and lives within us or is that all right?

We’ll have to take that after the break because here we are It’s time you to break you will have to come back Tony hang on and just listen We’ll talk about that when I get back from break. Don’t go away. Bibleline will be back in a moment Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Well, it’s great to be with you. I’m Dr. Inkland Striman. This is by the line, and we enjoy bringing this program to you and being with you every day.

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It’s real simple and it’s easy to do and I hope you’ll take advantage of our radio and television programs. And thank you again for tuning in today. We have a special, we just mentioned I’m teaching a class beginning next Tuesday for five weeks, two hours per night on Tuesday nights and if you order the CDs of that course then we haven’t even done it yet so you have to wait for those five weeks to be over and then a week or two after the classes are over you’ll receive those CDs in the mail 10 CDs 10 hours of teaching and if you would like to do that this week like today or tomorrow we’re going to throw in as an extra bonus, the key password so you can go on the internet and actually see the classes and hear them live and also listen to them on the internet throughout the week

and throughout the entire course. So you might want to do that and take advantage of this special. It’s actually a hundred dollar value and if you call today or tomorrow you can have the promise of these CDs coming your way, but also actually be able to enjoy the classes as often as you want to play them and hear them on the internet. We’ll give you the passcode to go in and view the classes live on the internet and also hear them in archive.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. We’re going to now join the stations that have been on break and do Bibleline part two, so stay tuned right here. We’ll be right back. Would you like to call Bibleline and ask Dr. Lindstrom a question? You can. Just pick up your phone and dial 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Alright, we are back for that break and this is Bibleline. We’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church.

We’re on the pastor. We’d love to have you come by and visit with us. We are right next to Tampa’s airport, so we’re easy to find. All you have to do, if you come into town and you get here by airplane, is just take that extra minute and swing around the west side of the airport. We are just about a block west of the main north south runway of Tampa International Airport. I feel like we are so close to the airport sometimes I can reach out and slap those airplanes as they come in.

You know, we are that close. We hope that you will take the time to come by and see us and we do have people coming in here from all over to visit Florida and when you come we would love to have you come and visit us as well. Also, if you’re living the area, of course, we want you to come by. And by the way, we’re going to have a new class I’ll be teaching next Tuesday. We’ve done about 40 of these over the years, and those are available on CD on lots of different books of the Bible and topics from the Bible.

But we’re going to choose beginning next Tuesday to teach Jesus is coming. That’s right. Jesus is coming. Isn’t that wonderful? He is coming. And we’re getting ready to teach that class and that will be next Tuesday beginning at seven o’clock till nine o’clock, two hours of teaching for five weeks and we’ll do the topic, Jesus is coming. And we’d love to have you in the classroom if you’re in driving distance and you can come, you’re welcome to be a student in our class and we hope that you’ll sign up and do that.

There is a charge and it’s again to help Bible I stay on the air and that’s $50 for the 10 hours of teaching. It’s really $5 a class. If you are not in the area, you can order the CDs and also if you’re not in the area, you can actually take this class by internet because we’ll have you sign up for the $50 and give you the passcode so you can go in and watch these classes. Now we have a special just this week only.

If you order the 10 CDs of this class, the 10 hours of teaching now, today or tomorrow, will also give you the passcode so you can view these classes as often as you want over the next five weeks. And when the classes are finished a week or two after, you will see these 10 CDs arriving to mail at your home and that’s a hundred dollar value because to take the course would be 50 and the CD’s would be 50 for the 10 hours of teaching and you’ll get both for $50 if you do that today or tomorrow and that will help Bible Ed.

We certainly hope that you’ll take advantage of this. It’s going to be a great class and it’s called Jesus is coming 10 hours of the instruction beginning January 30th Tuesday night from 7 until 9 for 5 successive weeks, 10 hours total of teaching. I hope you take advantage of that special. And I would love to have you if you’re in the area, be in my class because there’s nothing like the live classroom situation where you’re right there with other believers and we all have our Bibles open and we take a look at what God has to say.

It’s really a great time and I think he’ll really enjoy it. So also we want you to know that we’re streaming this program right now to the internet. We also want you to know that this day is Thursday and we’re this is our television day we’ve already been on this morning several times. If you’re in the Tampa Bay area and you’re in Hillsborough County you can watch an our television program of mine called What’s Up on the Access Channel on Bright House Channel 20.

So if you have the Bright House cable in Hillsborough County you can get that anywhere in the county for an hour from four to five this afternoon at 6 30 tonight Nation-wide we’re on direct TV Channel 321 world harvest television. We’d love to have you join us at 6 30 anywhere in the nation Then at seven in the west coast of Florida. We have the Christian television network We’re on at seven o’clock and that’s all over the west coast of Florida from Fort Myers to Crystal River over Toronto If you have cable you’ll be able to tune in that TV program.

So keep that all in mind. And again, thank you for those of you who pray for us. We covet your prayers. And if you could give a gift to Bibleline this month, that would be great. We have a little more time in the month of January. And if you can help us get off to a good foot this year, this month, we would appreciate your gift. You can send that to Bibleline at 4811 George Road. Our operators can tell you that and get it down for you.

Or we can send you an envelope with our address on it. And or you can give a gift by hand. credit card over the phone. Well we have a lot of callers sitting under ready to go and we’re going to now talk to Marnie in St. Petersburg and Marnie. Welcome to Vitaly. Hi, how are you? Good. Turn your radio down. Good. Hey, can you hear me now? I do. Okay. I have a question on, you’re talking about speaking to the dead and When life in scriptures, I have a friend who thinks that that’s not wrong to do.

Alright, well, Isaiah 819 comes to mind where it says we’re forbidden to pray to the dead. And numbers of them are in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. Deuteronomy 18 is a whole list of things that are forbidden in the area of the cult. The occult that we’re not to do. Let me see if I have the chapter correct. I’m turning back there in my Bible right now, but it’s Let’s see here deuteronomy Let’s see it’s not that chapter it must be earlier I’m turning my Bible pages right now and and I’m It’s going to be, I’m going to go to Leviticus.

I know there are verses in Deuteronomy, Leviticus chapter 20 has a list of things that are forbidden that are in the area of the occult. And verse 27 in particular also verse 6 talks about contacting the dead. And then also in chapter 18 of Leviticus there are a number of verses that would apply. and there are others. I’ll have to kind of dig them out for you. Okay, great. But Isaiah 8, 19 is a great one. I know the one that comes to mind is the one about I think when Saul.

Yeah, in the first Samuel 28, and he was forbidden and obviously he went anyway because God wasn’t answering him and there the dead really came back. There he asked for Samuel the prophet to come up and he did and the medium freaked out. She screams and of course Samuel the prophet comes up and tells Saul that he’s going to die the next day in battle along with his sons and would join him, which means it’s all was saved because Samuel was saved and he would actually be with Samuel then upon his death.

But that’s an interesting passage for sure. But in general when people are trying to contact the dead, they’re not getting the people. I would think that they’re getting them. No, no, they’re really making contact with if they make contact at all. They’re making contact with angels, I think, that impersonate Soiewerly getting jipped plus their getting lured in the Satan’s realm which is certainly something you don’t want to do. You’re going to ask for big trouble when you do that.

Yes, I used to be into that a little bit before I was saved and when she brought this up I freaked out and I thought, okay, I need to find some scriptures to tell her. But anyway, Deuteronomy 18 verses 9 through 14 are very, very good. We’re you’re not to It talks here about a necromancer which is conducting the dead you’re not to do that. Okay, great Okay, Marnie and thank you for calling in and it was Marnie in St.

Petersburg and Deuteronomy 1811 has that in it for you. We have Jim in the land Florida and Jim welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Good morning sir. Good morning. I would like to go back. Yes. And you stated that the Seventh Day Adventist is called. Can you describe to me where or why you think this is called? Well, first of all, a cult usually has a source outside the Bible that is superior to the Bible and the writings of LNG white are the, apparently the lenses through which all seven had been a seem to read the Bible.

If you just got rid of LNG white, I think the seven dead minutes would come out clean and believe what everybody else believes but they denied the basic tenants of Christianity that Salvation, there is no hell for example. They believe in soul sleep, they believe in salvation by works. So there are numerous things that I think are just, you know, depart from the very basic deep doctrines of the Bible. But I think the big one is the fact that they have an authority that is greater than the Bible.

That’s the writings of Elton G. White. The Joe’s Witnesses have the Watchtower Society. The Witnesses actually admit that if their people didn’t read the Watchtower literature in two years they would become a post-date, in other words they’d really become Christians. But they need the Watchtower to keep them online where they don’t shift over to believe the doctrines of Christianity in the Bible because they also deny the basic tenets of Christianity and they have another outside source that’s greater than theirs.

and the Christian scientists the same way they have the writings of Mary Baker Eddie, her book The Key to Science and Scriptures and Health Guide them as to how to approach the Bible and interpret the Bible and all cults usually have that as a major part of their doctor. But look to me like these people could be teachers rather than someone that you would actually say pray to or something of that nature. Yeah well they are the teachers like you know they read the Bible.

Through the lenses of whatever those teachers are and so they don’t really feel confident to go to the Bible on their own They have to go to those books first to see what they have to say about the Bible and that’s what they really Believe and that’s what they espouse because if you read your Bible there is a hell No doubt about it But if you read LNG white there is no hell So seven to end and say there is no hell because they believe LNG white and her writings above the Bible Well very good and and that means they’re not good people I mean, but they just are deceived and they need to recognize that they need to just forget Elan’s E-White and just go directly to the Bible and they would come out clean, but I’m afraid that Denying hell won’t put out the flames.

Hell is still real. And to one of my best friends is what about the worm at Diaphnoth? There you go. Okay. Thank you now, gentlemen. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you calling in from the land, Florida. And we’re on over that whole area, which includes everything from St. Augustine down to, I think, Titusville and back over toward Orlando. And thank you for calling in. We have Brad in Clearwater, Florida, and Brad, you’re on the air. Good morning, Pastor Lynch, Tom.

Good morning. I have a question. I know that Iraq is getting us close to the One World Government. And I was wondering if would Iraq most likely surrender to a Democrat US president? I’ll hang up and listen to your response by radio. I don’t think the people of Iraq are going to submit. I think they basically are trying to get their own independent government over there. I think the biblical event that’s going to happen is that the Antichrist, who I believe comes out of this country, will actually take over the whole place.

Everything that was ancient Assyria will be militarily taken over and controlled by the Antichrist. That means Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. That’s right. to be militarily taken over by the West. And obviously every day we’re getting stronger. You know we’re building a huge base in Israel. You don’t hear much about it. But it’s along the Mediterranean or south of Tel Aviv. But we’re… We’re getting entrenched into the Middle East and it’s all part of the end time plan.

The Bible said that the Jewish people would go back to the state of Israel and that would be the last days and the whole world then would become focused on the Middle East and look at how that has happened. It’s unbelievable. But you know when you go to the Middle East you’d wonder why would anybody even care because it’s all a lot of just desert and sand.

Cairo and I asked if I could go up in the cockpit and I did in the navigator, got up and said, you can take my seat and I sat up there and I don’t know where he went but he never came back. I was in the cockpit all the way across the Mediterranean and as we flew into Egyptian airspace and as we landed in Cairo and actually they shut down the engines and I walked out with the flight crew out of the cockpit.

I was there the whole flight. And it was interesting, they got their witness to the pilots and they enjoyed talking in English and it was a great time to witness about Jesus to Egyptian pilots. But as we crossed over Egypt, I saw nothing but sand as far as I could see. And then as they told us that we were approaching Cairo, they pointed out this little green ribbon down below. And that was life. And it was the life on either side of the Nile River, the Nile brought life to the desert.

And actually 94% of Egypt is desert. Only 6% is green and it has vegetation. And of course it’s all that little bit of land that’s around the Nile River that flows through the desert country. Well the whole Middle East is like that. It was not until just recently that the world had a desire now for oil. And guess where all that oil is? It is underneath that desert sand. So now the world is focused on the Middle East like we have never been before because of our dependence upon oil.

And it is all part of God’s plan. God said in the last days he would put hooks in the jaws of the nations and draw them into the Middle East. And the hook is oil. We are there. And I think we’re getting real close to the Lord’s return. That’s why my class, I think we’ll start next week, will be really fast and we’ll have a great time studying from the Bible. Jesus is coming and of course the special that we’re offering Brad has the 10 CDs on that class that we will teach and also gives you the privilege of getting the passcode and being able to watch these classes as often as you want during the period that we’re teaching over the next one on your own.

Thanks for calling. We appreciate your call. We have Tony in Brooklyn, New York and Brooklyn. Welcome to the book and by one. Tony, you’re on here. Can you hear me? I hear you well. Thank you. God bless. Thank you for taking my call. I, my question to you is, through the grace of all, the question is, Biblically, I’m in a situation with my wife, my wife is not saved, and it ended a lot of stuff in my life, you know?

It’s a good idea. My question to you is, with the grace of all, well, the question is, Biblically, I’m in a situation with my wife, my wife is not saved, and it ended a lot of stuff in my life, you know, what I’m doing is, be gone by. My wife’s given me a very, very hard time and she’s always threatening to get out of the house. She’s basically Catholic. And my question is, bibberly, I’ve been living peace if she leaves you technically.

How does that work? If she kicks me out, is that still being in peace or do you understand my question, Pastor? Yeah, well then it says in Corinthians 7 to go ahead and remain separate but not remarry. I just need you just need to pray for her and see if you can’t somehow bring her to Christ and it has to be just a little bit at a time to get her to question what she has been taught as verses to Bible because and you know if you get her to see Bible verses the word of God is living in powerful and I’m sure that if you could get her to see the scriptures that maybe she would trust the Lord.

I have a CD. If you could get here to listen to it, I think we’ve seen so many people get saved who have listened to the CD. It would be a tool. I’d be happy to send it to you free. Tony, maybe you could try to… either have or listen to it with you or apart from you in either case if you would listen to it I think maybe this might be the thing that would break the barrier. You don’t thank you.

Get it to say. So let me go. I’ll give you back to my operators and let them pick up your address from you Tony and we’ll try to get that done. Okay, thank you Pat. Thank you Tony and we’ll be praying for your wife and if you get saved everything is solved Because then that’s the big obstacle. to go with the apparently you’re bringing up here in your relationship. Alright, we’re going to go to Bev in St. Petersburg and Bev, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Hi. Right now? Yeah, you’re on the air right in this 20 minute. Okay, I was listening to the radio. Don’t ask me a little bit by your friend. Turn that down because that will confuse you. We’re 20 seconds to the late on the radio. Okay, well good morning to you and thanks for taking my call. I’m a single parent. I’ve been single for about 13 years. I have two children, one of which I adopted. And my question is regarding sexual immorality, fornification, and adultery.

I have met a gentleman who is a very good man, and we both go to church together. I read and study the Bible. I’m also Catholic. And I understand what the Bible said. Yes. Here’s, sometimes in today’s, and this could be my deception, but sometimes people cannot afford to get married, such as taxes, homestead, children. If two people are not harming anyone else, if there’s no adultery, if they’re not, if they’re not prostituting themselves to other people, and they have dedicated themselves to each other, you truly need to be married.

I just, I have a hard time with that. Well the answer is yes, you need to get married. The Bible says that in 1 Corinthians 7 it says to avoid fordication which is sex outside the relationship of marriage, it says get married. So it’s very plain in 1 Corinthians 7 that you need to get married yes. Well how back in the scripture when this was all written, sometimes men had several wives. Well they were violating the scripture, you know God only intended for men to have one wife and whenever they violated that they had all kinds of problems that came down upon them as a result of it.

But God never intended for more than one wife and that was the way it was to be and in some other cultures in Islam I think you can have four wives. So if you can’t afford to get married say if you can’t afford to lose your homestead you can’t afford you know type of that what to do go without a relationship? You might have to. Yep. According to the Bible, you are to get married. First-grind is seven. You just have to…

When God wrote all this, he didn’t have home study, didn’t have to ask. He didn’t have all that thing. You know, it wasn’t the way that the world had been. Well, they had other problems, I’m sure. Maybe not exactly the same as we have today, but I’m sure they had their problems as well. But that basically is what God wants you to do. In Genesis 2, when the first marriage occurred, it said the man and the woman who were both to leave their father and their mother and to cling to each other and become one flesh.

And to be in that relationship with marriage, obviously God is the one that instituted marriage and he said that first marriage. But after that throughout the Old Testament, They all had contracts. It was a legal thing where they were bound to each other. If you don’t get married, then obviously either one of you could walk away and say, well, this is not working out. And there’s no real commitment. No commitment there. So you need to be careful about that.

Okay. I’ll let you were going to say this. I have one more question for you, please. Go ahead. Hey, Lowe’s. The halo’s that around Jesus’ head. Not in the Bible. That’s all done by artists. and there’s nothing like that in the Bible at all. So you don’t think there’s any meaning to that? No. Okay. No, no, hello in the Bible. Well, Beth, thank you for calling. Keep listening to the Bible then. All right. Thank you. All right. That was Beth in St.

Petersburg. We have Martin in Deltona Beach, Florida, and, or Deltona, Florida, and Martin, welcome to Bible then. I’ve been talking about three years ago in Toronto radio. I began to call before and I was safe and I’ve been serving the Lord for a night. I began to visit this other church called me to teach. I’m trying to teach this. I’ve been having problems because the tongue, the movement and all that was to call it that. Because now I know the truth, the tongue.

and i always i’m having problems with my friends because i’ve been telling them you know some people are always speaking the same time i know it’s a givrish but they don’t get to understand that and i i am scared with the leaders because they’ve been something i always feel that them speaking the same time here well you know that’s really not a god and i would you have to get out of there uh… you really can’t uh… join the bible says you’re forbidden to do that we gotta run You can listen up Jesus’ presentation of Bibleline ministries of Tampa, Florida.

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