Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-01-31 – Your Testimony

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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. Good morning and welcome to Bibleline great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. We appreciate you and all of our listeners and look forward to being with you each and every day as we come to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor and we certainly look forward to being with you Monday through Friday live and We hope that you’ll join us as often as you can by the way today’s Tuesday and tonight will be offering those classes here if you’re in the area to come by and sign up

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Well, we’re going to talk a little bit about your testimony today. What is your testimony? I believe this term is so misused that most folks don’t even know what is their testimony. In churches, people often are asked to give a testimony. Usually someone will volunteer and say their testimony is that God has healed them of some illness or has helped them through some difficult crises or that God has provided for some particular need or that God has led them into some particular ministry and etc.

etc. etc. Well, these are all really praise reports of answered prayer or of God’s wonderful provision. And of course we ought to give praise, but technically these are not a testimony. That’s right. Also when people think of testimony, they often point to your life and they talk about what you are doing or not doing. They say how you are living your life is your testimony. Well guess what? The Bible says that the way we live our lives should adorn the gospel, but technically our Christian life is not our testimony.

Well, is that different than what you’ve been told all your life? I’m sure. Our Christian life is important and it should adorn the testimony that has been confirmed in us. It says in the book of Titus, exhort servants or encourage servants to be obedient to their own masters and to please them in all things, not answering again, not per warning, but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things. So certainly we ought to adorn the doctrine of God and our Savior in all things, but That is really technically not our testimony.

What then is your testimony? Well in 1 Corinthians 1, 6, we learn that the Corinthian believers had the testimony of Christ confirmed in them. Let me read the verse. Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you 1 Corinthians 1, 6. By the way, every believer has the testimony of Christ confirmed in him or her. Our testimony is really the testimony of Christ that we have embraced when we trusted Christ as our Savior. Notice that Jesus warned Paul that he should make haste and get the quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me, Acts 22.

Let me read that again. Make haste, get the quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me, Acts 22 18. In other words, by testimony Paul’s testimony concerning me, Jesus is the one that’s speaking here, is of course the testimony concerning Christ. Please note that Jesus told Paul that his testimony, Paul’s testimony, was concerning Jesus Christ. It says in the verse, thy testimony concerning me. And what Christ had accomplished at Calvary? Jesus told Paul that the Jews in Jerusalem would not receive his testimony or Paul’s testimony.

But later Paul tells us in his letter to the people at Pessalonica that the Gentiles at Pessalonica believed his testimony. Second Pessalonica says, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all of them that believe because our testimony among you was believed. In other words, at the return of Jesus Christ, many believers will admire Jesus Christ because they were saved by hearing the testimony of the Apostle Paul, which was the testimony concerning Christ that Paul embraced and was confirmed in him and in you and me as believers that we should share.

Your testimony is therefore the message of the death, the barrel, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that you embraced at the moment of your salvation when you trusted Jesus Christ. is your Savior. In other words, the gospel is your testimony. Paul says, and listen to this one, Romans 1-16 that we began with, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it the gospel is the power of God and the exhalation to everyone that believe it. To the Jew 1st and also to the Greek Romans 1-16.

The gospel of Christ was the testimony of Paul the Apostle Paul’s testimony was the message that he preached which was the testimony of Christ. Let me quote the verse again, for I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe in. That was the message that Paul preached. That was Paul’s testimony. That was the testimony that you and I have also So when we trust Christ, that testimony is confirmed in us according to 1 Corinthians 1, 6.

Paul’s testimony was the message that he preached, which was the testimony of Jesus Christ. This testimony is confirmed in every believer. Again, let me quote, 1 Corinthians 1, 6, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you. We obviously are to take that testimony and proclaim it. And so Christ’s testimony, or the testimony that God gave concerning Christ, is the testimony that’s confirmed in us. That’s the testimony that we’re to share and give. And so when Paul witnessed or gave his testimony, he gave the gospel.

Look at Acts 26, 22, and 23. When giving his testimony, Paul says, this is what he would do. Let me quote, having therefore obtained help of God, I continue under this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those that which the prophets and Moses did say should come, that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto the Gentiles and to the people.

So obviously again Paul gave testimony concerning Christ and that was Paul’s testimony. Our testimony is not a praise of money. We have praise of money as many churches. How many would like to give testimony? People give a praise of money. Well, I praise the Lord that I’m well. I was sick. Or I praise the Lord that I got a job. I was without work. Or I praise the Lord I was able to make my mortgage payment this month. I didn’t have the money at the time.

And on and on and on. Or I praise the Lord that when I fell I didn’t break any bones in my body. I hear these all the time and those are praise reports. That’s not your testimony. That’s not your testimony That’s not your testimony the testimony of the believer is the testimony of Christ that God gave concerning Christ that we believed Embraced and were saved by that was confirmed in you at the moment you believed according to 1 Corinthians 1 6 Which is the testimony then that we proclaim and so when we give testimony We give the Gospel.

We give the message of Christ. The message that we proclaim is the testimony as to how we were saved and how we are to present that to others. John the Apostle tells us that his testimony is the testimony of Jesus that he received. In Revelation 19, 10, he says, I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. of Jesus. Think about that. Here is John the Apostle, the great apostle that wrote five of the New Testament books, the Gospel of John, the three epistles of John, and the book of Revelation.

And John the Apostle tells us that his testimony is the testimony of Jesus that he received. Same thing I have been saying all along. Let me quote, I am thy fellow servant John says, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Who has the testimony of Jesus? Everyone that has put their trust in Christ has that testimony of Jesus. According to 1 Corinthians 1, 6, that testimony is confirmed in them at the moment of belief and they are saved eternally.

And that testimony is the testimony that we are to share. So if you were to ask me to give testimony, I would say I was lost and headed for hell, but Jesus Christ loved me and came He was buried from the dead. He was alive forevermore. I trusted him to save me and he saved me. That’s my testimony, not anything else. So it’s not when you look at somebody’s life and say, boy, they have a great testimony. That is really not theologically sound.

When we, uh, uh, talk to somebody and they tell us about Jesus and his death barrel and resurrection then we say wow what a testimony that’s the testimony that every believer has in them if they’re a believer and that’s the testimony that they’re to share with others. I’m Dr. Englinstram and this is Bibleline we’re coming to you live out of Tampa from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church and I hope that you would focus it on really what your testimony is and it’s the testimony of Christ that you should be sharing with others.

If you’ve never accepted that testimony then you need to and when you do you become born again, you become saved, you become a child of God and you’re saved forever. And again we’re now going to turn to our callers if you want to call in the number is 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. It’s 1-800-576-3771. We look forward to talking to you. If you have a question, this is your opportunity to call in and share that with us. And of course, if you want to leave a question off here, you may do so.

We have our first caller and that’s Edgar and he’s in Petersburg, Virginia and Edgar welcome to Bibleline your own the air. Hey, how you doing this morning, Doc? Do you know a dad? Yeah, but I don’t even want to mention his name. He’s apparently so messed up and so confused that it’s not worth discussing. I know he’s given me the skull and crossbones for the being the worst and most false body-billed teacher on the earth. So that’s, you know, you know.

And he pits people in the same category with me as David Jeremiah, Charles O’Brien, and David Hunt, and John Anchorburg. So I’m in good company. He slams all of us as being false prophets. Okay, okay. I’ve heard of him, yes I have. Okay. All right. I have two questions today, but I know it is not saying that they are three guards, so I need you to illuminate on that, please. Here we’ll do that for you Edgar the word used about 3000 times in the Old Testament that’s translated God is Elohim, E-L-O-H-I-M and it really is a word that denotes the office of God.

And so when it talks about Yahweh or Jehovah being God, the office of God is the word used there Elohim. It’s plural, the I am on the end of it, lets us know that it’s plural and plural in Hebrew means three or more. So it really gives us a hint at the Trinity throughout the Old Testament that God existed as the eternal Father, as the eternal Son, and as the eternal Spirit. There is one God, but He exists as three separate eternal persons.

wonderful word and it’s used throughout the Old Testament. I’ll never forget I had in college some Jewish roommates and I learned a lot about Judaism from them and of course I was able to really learn how to witness the Jewish people through that experience in my college dorm and you know they always would say they believed in one God and I said well I believe in one God They said, no, you believe in three gods. And I’d say, no, we believe in one God, but he eternally exists as three separate eternal persons.

And what really caused them great consternation was I would point out Elohim, which they knew and was very familiar with, but they never connected the dots. That Elohim is plural. And I said, that’s three or more as they would know. And I said, how do you explain that? the Godhead, the office of God, is a plurality. He said, I began to learn how to lead Jewish people to Christ. They needed to know their savior. Christ was a Jew. God took on Jewish flesh.

All the first believers were Jews. All the apostles were Jews. They came to know Jesus. And of course they were surprised when Gentiles got saved. But now we’ve gotten it so turned around that sometimes we Christians Gentiles are shocked when we see a Jewish person getting saved. We shouldn’t. Savior and it says in Romans 10 12 that all are under the curse. We’re all sinners and there’s no difference between Jew and Gentile. We all need to trust Christ in order to be saved.

Thank you Edgar for that call and we hope that that has helped. We’re going to go now to Brian in Tampa Bay. I hope he’s not on a boat. I hope you’re not swimming. is to have a big is there somewhere in the area friend you’re on the air hello yeah but it’s a good morning dot and uh… got blessed in the name of jesus followed right i sure hear you what your question okay to make sure all right i got a couple questions on maybe on how you state the fact that you know one salvation is a permanent and uh…

i agree with you one of them being um… you tell me about this out there’s a three things you can count on. I mean, that was my not be the exact word, but if we die We die with him. We will live with him. We suffer with him. We will reign with him. And if we disown him, he will disown us. Well, that’s not true. I mean, what do you think? Go ahead. I just know versus says that. No, it does say if you deny him, he will deny you.

Never does it say disown. That’s a total different ball game. And what he’s talking about there is in Matthew chapter 10 that if you deny him, that means the whole chapter is talking about witnessing. Read it carefully, Matthew 10, Christ is sending out his disciples, he tells them to go out and proclaim the message of the gospel. And he says, if you do that, you’ll be rewarded. But he says, if you deny me, then I’ll deny you before the Father.

What he means is that if you witness and live for Christ, Christ will profess unto the Father. The Father will reward you when you stand before Him one day at the judgment to Christ. But if you deny Christ, in other words, if you did nothing, you did not witness, then he cannot say to the Father, boy, you did a great job because you didn’t. He is going to deny giving any praise to the Father about you and therefore you are not going to have any rewards.

But it is not talking about loss of salvation. Now when you talk about salvation, it says in Timothy, even if you deny him, God is faithful and cannot break his promise. Let me read to you 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 13. It says, even if we believe not, let me go to like verse 12 here. This is probably the passage of your affirmative. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

And that’s talking about rewards. But it says, if we believe not, yet he if and faithful, he cannot deny himself. So even if you stop believing, he’d still be saved because Christ has made a promise that once you trust him at that moment you’re born again and you’re forever his child no matter what occurs later in your future. You might have a mental breakdown and forget that you’re saved and had not even recall the incident. But once you’ve been saved, there’s no chance for you to become unborn once you’re born again.

And plus he gives you eternal life and he keeps us safe so you can’t be lost once you’re saved. I agree with you. I mean, it’s a thing to him who made and if you continue believing, if you continue doing this or that, you know. One at a time now, enduring to the end has to do again with the physical life that it says in Matthew chapter 24, 13, if you endure to the end. It’s talking about if you’re in the tribulation period and you’re saved and you manage to endure to the end of it, then you will be saved physically to live into the thousand year reign of Christ.

But if you are killed, obviously you will not enter the Millennial Kingdom as one of its subjects. You will not be able to do that. But it is not talking about losing your salvation. It is not even talking about gaining salvation. It is talking about physical death. And in the context you will see that it says in verse 22 there that Christ will come back and shorten a tribulation period at just seven years in length and if he hadn’t done that or if he doesn’t do that which is still future.

Then mankind would annihilate themselves. It says it would be no flesh saved on the earth. In other words, no flesh left on the earth. They would all be annihilated by the battle of Armageddon. If Christ didn’t come back and interrupt it and stop the period, it just seven years in length and set up His Kingdom here on the earth. So basically you have to go and look at each case individually. So hopefully we’ve handled two of them. What was the third one?

Are you still there? Yeah, I’m still here. That’s two of them, but you just have to go out in one of the time here and I guess it does get overwhelming and causes you to stumble if you get hit with a barrage of these things at one time And you don’t deal with each one individually every one of them can be answered. They all have to do You know, yeah, it’s right. You said a lot of things in there to make you think Like it’s about how you continue, but we already know it’s great to get there The Christian life is about continuing, you know if you read John 8 it talks about If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed.

He said and then see you’re saved. He said you become a disciple when you continue. This is called rightly dividing the word. Brian, I hope you can come out to my classes tonight. You’ll learn a lot about interpreting tonight. Jesus is coming two hours from seven to nine. that’s the name of the uh… together yet ten hours for teaching to be getting tonight ten hours tonight at what time seven o’clock come on over here we gotta take a break here will be back and i hope ryan and many others of you come out tonight you’ll learn about how to interpret the bible and we’ll have a great time we’ll be right back by the line will be back in a moment give us a call at one eight hundred five seven six three seven seven one that’s one eight hundred five seven six thirty seven seventy one

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welcome to by one morning sir morning The question I have today isn’t there a verse in the Bible that teaches about a prophet being right a hundred percent of the time? Never missing anything? Well, that’s exactly right. And Deuteronomy chapter 13 is the passage that gives you the test of the two prophets. What was that? Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy, the fifth book of your Bible, chapter 13. And 13. Isn’t it interesting? And I know it’s just quite by coincidence, but false prophets are discussed in chapter 13.

There’s a lot of them are going on out there right now. Oh my goodness, they’re everywhere. And this is the test. time that the Bible spoke about. In the last days, it said there would be many false preachers that would come along and we have them. They’re all over the place today. So you just almost can look out and say, I’m probably looking at a false prophet. You really have to look very carefully and listen very carefully to what they say.

And if they don’t agree with the Bible, then the Bible says it’s because they have no light in them. Isaiah 8-20, my favorite verse. If they speak not according to this word, that is the word of God. It is because there is no light in them. James, thanks for the call. Thank you. Alright, that was James over in Seminole. We have been in Clearwater, Florida and then welcome to Bibleline your next. Good morning, Dr. Han. Good morning. I just I just want to have a question.

I know Jesus is going to consume for his church that we call, he’s going to get the church that we call, he’s going to get the church that we will be in the rapture. But also in Matthew 24 31 Jesus don’t come. not come with that group. He sent the angel, I want to know if that group in 24, Matthew 2431, if that group is going be or take part of the church or that group is just Jewish or that group is stayed in earth.

Explain to me that please. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Ben. Actually Matthew 24 is talking about the second coming of Christ seven years after the Rapture and is talking about the many millions that will get saved after the Rapture during the tribulation period and the second coming of Christ Jesus sends out his angels. At the rapture Christ comes all by himself. It says that 1st on Solonians 4, 16, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.

But at the 2nd coming every eye will see him, Revelation 1, 7. So we know that there is a tremendous difference between the rapture and the 2nd coming. In Matthew 24 what is in view is the tribulation period and the saints that get saved during the tribulation period. Those are the elect that is talking about there and when he comes back he sends out his angels to gather them up and they will of course be invited to enter into the thousand year reign of Christ as we see in chapter 25 of Matthew at the judgment of the nations.

Thank you Ben for calling in we now have Adam in Tampa, Florida. Adam welcome to Bible Ed. Yes, that’s right. My question comes from Matthew 10 verse 19, but when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say. I had to say it. The timing will be given what to say. So not be you speaking with the Spirit or Father speaking through you. Is that applied to us today or is that just for the study? I believe it does though.

I’ve heard I’ve heard preachers say that boy I don’t need to study my Bible. I just let the Spirit lead me. That’s really kind of crazy. As we need to study, and the Bible commands us to it in 2 Timothy 2, 15, but then as you rise or have an occasion where you’re under fire, the Lord then will cause you to be able to recall the scriptures you need and will guide you so that you’ll know what to say.

And certainly I know that when many times I’m speaking I can just sense that the Lord is taking me to passages that He’d like to have me share. But I have to put Him in there first or He can’t pull Him up out of my head. When I do this radio show, we have two men right now manning the phones and I’m sitting here with just the Bible in my lap. People come in to visit sometimes and they’ll say, this is not the way I thought it was.

I thought you had a whole team of people doing research and handing you answers and it’s not that way. I have my Bible open, but many times I can quote the passages without even opening my Bible because I’ve memorized so much of it. And that’s when you really can experience what you’re talking about in Chapter 10, where you don’t have to worry about what to say when the occasion rises, like for example on this radio show, I am prepared, which the preparation occurred long before, but when I get…

Questions fired at me blindly because we don’t screen anybody. We take them whatever whatever comes hit by way is what we take and the Lord of course I believe guides me to the right answers, which I have already put away my head. So yes, I think I think it does apply. Okay, and just another question as it goes down to 1020 you will not finish going through the city of Israel. We clearly know that well second coming or one two things are going on.

First of all, if you read earlier in Matthew chapter 10, it talks about the about in verse 6 in the Gospel of the Kingdom. That kingdom message is not being preached right now, but will be resumed by Christ’s disciples during the tribulation period and will be preached in all of those cities by the return of Christ at the Second Coming. So it leaps ahead. This age you have to pull it right out of the equation and jump ahead to the tribulation period which of the Old Testament dispensation of law.

Adam, thank you very much and I hope that helped. We now have, off here, James calls in from Higdon, Alabama, and he’s 30 miles from Chattanooga, listening on WJOC. Welcome to all of us that are listening on WJOC at Chattanooga. Chattanooga and thanks James for letting us know you’re listening to it. Anybody else up in the area there please give us a call. Let us know you’re hearing the program. So you’re 30 miles from Chattanooga and listening on WJOC and we’re excited about that.

We’re hoping that we’ll hear from a lot of you folks in Chattanooga as well as we got the Tennessee covered a little bit. We got Memphis and Nashville and Chattanooga. And thank you for calling and letting us know that James. We have Sam in Lakeland, Florida. Sam, welcome to Bible In Your Own Year. Hi, good morning and I enjoy this program this morning. I was listening to the guy talking and I was talking to my brother a couple days ago and we were talking about this script about what got your own salvation.

And I went over that person and I went over and I went over it. And the owners, and I was telling my brother, because he was telling me that, like, working for you, the salvation. And when I was doing that, and I said, well, you don’t work out your salvation, I’ll be just sweet dad to say it. Work for your salvation. But when you say that work out your salvation, that means when Jesus inside of you, you’re working out of Him because when you get saved, you don’t have no side of the world to work for Him.

like you come out a few minutes ago that then you had that decided want to teach the words and you want to tell people so that’s what they call what I just said. I’m actually you that question now. That’s what I would say it is. Well you’re right on there Sam. Sam that is in the flippings to 12 where it says work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. The fear and trembling has to do with the fact we’ll give it account one day at the judge’s seat of Christ for what we have done since we’ve been saved and the result will the reward or loss of reward, but it doesn’t say work for salvation.

It says work it out. Then the next verse, verse 13 of Philippians 2 says that God works in us. So he’s in us and he wants us to display outwardly. And the following verses go on to say that how that we’re lights and we’re testimony in this world. And so we’re working it out or displaying it outward as we open up the Word of God and share it with other people. James ilial WARN JPMSHARE 379UGE Zup arij \(\ about thirty miles from Chattanooga listening from Higdon, Alabama.

That’s really Chattanooga’s right on the corner there and I’m sure we’ll get some people from Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee all listening on that station out of Chattanooga and welcome to the broadcast today. We have James asking about Matthew 24 12 and 13. It says in verse 12 of Matthew 24 because the iniquity of Shella bound and the love of many shall grow cold. It’s talking about the terrible time the tribulation period will be the seven years following the rapture preceding the second coming of Christ when he sets up his throne and brings peace on earth.

Good will toward men. Verse 13 says, he that shall endure to the end the same shall be saved and is talking here and I think I answered it earlier for another caller that is talking about physical salvation. If you notice verse 21 and if you have your pen handy mark this James it says for then shall be great tribulation. He was not since the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall ever be. That hadn’t happened yet, but once it happens, it will be the worst time that has ever occurred in history past and never in history future after the Tribulation period will there be a time as awful as this period called Great Tribulation.

Now verse 22, get ready and look for the word saved. Except those… Those days should be shortened and Christ does come back and is second coming and shortens them to just seven years a length. There should no flesh be saved. The fact that it says flesh be saved is talking about physical salvation, not eternal salvation. If you take that and draw a line over to verse 13 where it says the one who endures to the end the same shall be saved, verse 22 tells us it’s a physical salvation from the tribulation period to live into the millennium.

It’s not talking about eternal salvation. So that’s called rightly dividing the word of truth. You have to be careful to read the passage and see if it’s talking about physical salvation or eternal salvation. There’s a verse in the book of Acts that we could probably start a new cult if we wanted to. Paul was on a ship at Storm and the word told him that everybody that would stay on board the ship would survive. The ship would end up sinking and they all get off and went on to an island.

But he told the people on the ship, except you bite in the ship, you cannot be saved. He wasn’t talking about going to heaven. He’s talking about a physical deliverance from that storm that if they bite in the ship they would not, I think it’s chapter 27 verse 35 of facts that you are not going to die if you remain on board the ship. Well can you imagine we could maybe design a church in the shape of a ship and we could tell people to come and bring their food and their clothing and just stay here and accept you abide in the ship you won’t be saved and so on and start a new cult.

I could just imagine we could do that tomorrow and people would probably come and buy into it and believe it. Obviously, that’s not a correct interpretation. A biting in the ship, or you won’t be saved, it’s not talking about eternal salvation, and it’s not the same physical deliverance here of Matthew either, but it’s obviously from that particular storm. We have Pat in Richmond, Virginia, and Pat, welcome to Bible Life. Hi, Dr. Hank. I’d like to thank you so much for letting me know how much I love you in ministry.

Thank you. So I wanted to ask you about Beth Moore. Do you know anything about her? Not really a whole lot. I don’t pay too much attention to women preachers because I believe the Bible says that we shouldn’t have women preachers. So right up front I would say that we shouldn’t have women preaching. So first Timothy chapter 2 talks in verse 12 that I suffer not or allow not a woman to teach, or to usurp authority over the men.

And so women are not to be the Bible teachers or preachers. And it gives you two reasons there. Why? Number one, Adam was created first and then Eve. And so God gave the responsibility to the men simply before order. And he gave them the spiritual responsibility. In a home, the man is to be the spiritual leader. Unfortunately, all the men don’t take that leadership position, but they are to be the leader and that doesn’t mean they’re the dictator and that they shouldn’t listen to their wives input but certainly ultimately God’s going to hold them responsible.

You know when the baby Jesus was born God warned them of Herod’s intent to kill that baby and the Lord spoke to Joseph didn’t he? He said Joseph take your wife and the baby down to Egypt until the death of Herod. He didn’t say Mary, take your husband and the baby Jesus. You know? And wherever you read in the Bible, God led the family through the man. And if you’re married and your man is not leading, then you have to tell him, hey, God expects you to be the spiritual leader here.

How about step up to the plate and do your job? Okay. That is great. Well, thank you, doctor. You have a blessed day. All right, YouTube, Pat. Thanks for calling in from Richmond, Virginia. Alrighty, we want you to call the number is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. I’d love to hear from some more of you around the Chattanooga area, listening on the BJ of C out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Live right here with us. By the way, you folks in Chattanooga get a blessing because they’re playing us in the afternoon drive time.

Another full hour. This program is repeated for you guys. So if you’re listening right now, I forget the time in the afternoon, but they’re playing us another full hour. If you’re in Nashville listening to our program, they play us every day, Monday through Friday from 1 to 2 in the morning. If you want to get up in the middle of the night, you can hear the program additionally. And so we have two hours a day in Chattanooga, two hours a day in Nashville, and we hope that you’ll take advantage.

We are now going to Mary Ann in Sarasota, Florida. Mary Ann, welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Earth. Hello, I’m Pastor. Thank you for all that you do with your program. I’ve learned an awful lot, and I respect you a lot. I wanted to ask you about Hank Hanukkah. I’ve listened to him for a while and I just, you know, there’s just so much and maybe you know about him. I disagree on this position where he believes Christ has already returned.

He’s a preterist. I have his book here, The Last Disciple. It’s all about John the Apostle and how they establish an early date for the book of Revelation saying that the second coming occurred in AD 70 and they give an early date to the last disciples writing of Revelation about AD 60 or so. So that they say the tribulation period was from AD 63 to 70. the 70. The Christ came back in all of his power and glory in 80s 70, but just nobody saw him.

And I can’t buy that at all. So he doesn’t believe in the pre-tribulational rapture and he believes Christ has already come back and we’re in the kingdom and all of that is nonsense. And so that’s my major disagreement with him, but he does a good area in the area of the cults and so on. And we have a couple of his books here in our resource center. I like the book Christianity and crises, but when he gets off in the areas of eschatology, which is the fancy word for prophecy, I think he’s totally wrong.

So then how is he classified? How would you classify him? Not as a false prophet. But certainly some areas I think just confuse the modern believer because Jesus is coming That’s what I’m going to start teaching on tonight and and no doubt about it We’re anticipating that return at any time They say he’s already come and that’s certainly I don’t believe is true And and when the Bible says how he would all his power and all of his glory that didn’t happen 80-70 they said it was the Roman armies and that was Christ coming back and they destroyed Jerusalem and and That doesn’t meet the Bible description that I see and I’m anticipating Christ to come anytime.

I’m ready to go. Yes, and I am too. It’s made me really curious and I’m not as intelligent. Maybe as you are, of course. I know the Bible pretty well, but it’s just, you know, I like to listen to him about certain things, you know. I’ve met, I think, anyway, I’ve shaped his hand, and I’m sure he’s sincere with his beliefs, but I think he’s wrong in those areas. in those areas. And so where does that lead him as far as like, well, facing and all?

Because you’re not supposed to lead a little one. I know. Well, I think bad doctor and breeds bad doctor and I’m sure that this filters his whole thinking, you know. And so definitely, you know, I can shake his hand and accept him as a Christian brother, I would say he’s wrong in many areas and I would have to disagree with him if we had a debate I would be on the other side of something So then okay, so if it keeps on doing this well, it’s Lord.

It’s Lord’s hands. I have no control over other preachers I’m just trying to Alert people to what the Bible does say and then you have to make your own mind And we do have to know God’s word ourselves amen and so but thank you so much for your opinion Thank you, Mary Ann, in Sarasota, Florida, Colleen, and we have Jerry in Zephyr Hills, Florida. Jerry, welcome to Bibleline Year on the Year. Hello. Turn your radio down. I could hear it in the background.

Okay. I need to ask you a question. from my… What did I find exactly when I do try to figure out how many hours or time they actually took price and actually? Jesus was actually before pilot around 6 a.m. in the morning. He was placed on the cross at 9 a.m. The Bible says the third hour of the day. The daylight period begins at 6 a.m. And so 9 o’clock a.m. would be the third hour. He the darkness came over the land at 12 noon or the sixth hour at the ninth hour Christ actually died.

that was three o’clock in the afternoon and by six p.m. or sundown he was placed in the grave so that’s kind of the way it lays out. So you’re talking about actually from the time you’re talking probably you’re talking about these? He was on the cross six hours. He was nailed to the cross at nine a.m. he died at three p.m. Okay. All right. All right. We’re about out of time. We have lots more people waiting on the phone here.

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