Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-02-28

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

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last night we finished the class jesus is coming the one i’ve been teaching and we’ve finished ten hours of teaching week in class nine and ten last night the whole series is now available for you to get on cd or dvd for a gift of fifty dollars you can have all ten hours on cd a lot of people are saying this is the best class yet uh… we uh… at a round of applause at the end of the class last night as people enjoyed this wonderful series on jesus is coming and you’ll find that we tapped all of the bible from genesis revelation it was a super uh…

class and uh… the dvd we’re making an available for a very special gift of $75 you can get all 10 hours on DVD so that means you’ll get 10 DVDs and You’ll get a nice little jacket that’ll hold them off and you can get the whole class Jesus is coming for $75 that’s a wonderful bargain and If you bought this individually probably cost you a fortune in any case We hope that you’ll take advantage of the many different classes that I’ve taught in the past plus this most recent when we’ve done.

And we’ll be teaching another class when we get back from Israel. This is February still today. And if you’d like to get in on helping us finish out February with no indebtedness, please take advantage of giving while February is still going. That’s today. And of course, we’re leaving for Israel and we want to do some radio and TV be taping over there while we’re there. And if you could help us towards some of those expenses, that would be great because we’ve had to get all kinds of little things to make it possible to edit and patch cords and batteries and all kinds of things.

And it’s just an extra expense that we could really use your help with so that we’ll be able to take advantage of our trip and bring back a lot of good stuff for you to enjoy also to broadcast to you hopefully from Israel. Anyway, open your Bible if you have it there and certainly one of the hot items this week is the fact that did Jesus rise from the dead and of course the Bible says so quite plainly. If he didn’t then obviously there is no resurrection of anybody and you might as well like a match to your Bible and walk away but clearly the The whole New Testament is all about the fact that Christ rose again from the dead and people were willing to die.

He believed it to be true and they had seen him. Throughout the book of Acts you see testimony after testimony of how they had proclaimed that they had seen him. What is interesting is that Christ showed himself alive for 40 days after the resurrection teaching his disciples. Acts chapter 1, you don’t hear it preached on too often, but it’s a wonderful verse that I love. of, it says here Christ after he had died on the cross of Calvary, showed himself alive by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days.

And speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God, Christ was around for 40 days after the resurrection. And the disciples got to hear him, touch him, eat with him, talk with him, just listen to him, and they all are obviously clearly claiming to be eyewitnesses of this resurrection. We find that Peter in this message on Pentecost tells us that he was an eyewitness. Jesus, in verse 32 of Acts 2, have God raised up where of we are all witnesses.

He says we’ve witnessed this thing. And throughout the New Testament, this is the claim wherever you look. It says here that Christ came back from the dead and this was the message. In fact, the religious leaders being grieved, it says in chapter 4 verse 2, that they taught the people and preached that through Jesus there would be the resurrection from the dead. So Christ came back from the dead and obviously our resurrection is dependent upon him. Jesus himself tells us that all that are in the graves will come forth at his command.

In other words, the saved and the lost. And when it talks about the graves, it talks about their bodies. And we know that there are two major resurrections. One called the first resurrection, which is of all the saved, all those that have trusted Christ as their Savior. And then another resurrection, which occurs a thousand years later, of all the unsaved when they get their resurrection bodies. Now the soul doesn’t sleep. Those that have died that are unsaved are in Hades right now in Flamin’ Torment, the Bible tells us.

Luke chapter 16 beginning in verse 19 describes two men that die, one a rich man, unbeliever, unsaved, goes to Hades, he’s in Flamin’ Torment there, and he still is at this moment and will be eventually bought up out of that place, given his resurrection body at the second resurrection at the end of the Millennial reign of Christ and then finally cast into the eternal lake of fire. The other one was Lazarus, not Lazarus that Christ had raised from the dead, but this was Lazarus a beggar that actually ate from the crumbs of the rich man’s table and he dies as a believer and he goes where all the Old Testament saints were in paradise in the heart of the earth.

And of course everybody in paradise when Christ rose from the dead were taken out of the heart of the earth and are now in heaven itself with the Lord. And everybody since the death-bherland resurrection of Christ are now absent from the body and present with the Lord. That speaks of our soul. So the believers are conscious and awake and in the presence of the Lord at this very moment that have died. But unbelievers are conscious awake and aware their circumstances in the heart of the earth, in a place of flame and torment called Hades, eventually to be cast into hell.

But the bodies are spoken of as sleeping in the grave, and the believers get their resurrection bodies first prior to the thousand year rate of price, called the first resurrection. And then a thousand years later it says in Revelation 20 verse 5, the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished speaking of their bodies. They don’t get their bodies until at the end of the millennium. So when it talks about the dead being raised is talking about the body, but their souls are already with the Lord if they are believers and if they’re unbelievers their souls are right now in Hades in the heart of the earth.

Wow. The Bible is quite clear that Jesus is the ruler of heaven and earth and actually also over hell. Satan, you know, I used to believe because of the comic strips I guess, that Satan ruled over hell. He doesn’t. He’s the worst punished in hell. That’s right. There are degrees of punishment in hell and Satan is the worst punished of those that go to hell and his angels. And then of course everyone in the human race that has died without pride.

will be there forever and ever and ever and ever. Well it tells us here in verse 29, 28 rather of John chapter 5 says Marvel not at this for the hours coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice talking about Christ. You know when Christ went to the tomb of Lazarus, the other Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha. He shouted, Lazarus, come forth. And at the command of his voice, Lazarus came out of that grave.

Jesus Christ is God. He’s God who took on flesh. The claim is clear in the Bible. The Old Testament prophet said in Isaiah 9, 6, this child that would be born would be called the wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Jesus is the mighty God. He is the everlasting Father. He is God who took on human flesh, the second eternal member of the Godhead. We find that it is at His voice that the dead will come forth out of the grave, speaking of the bodies.

The saved will come forth first, and then the unsaved will come forth a thousand years later, as we mentioned a moment ago, Revelation 20 verse 5, the rest of the dead, speaking of the unsaved dead, do not come back out of the grave until after the thousand year rule of Christ. But when you believe the words of Christ concerning salvation, God saves you. John 524, Jesus says, verily, verily, or truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, He that hearth my word, Christ says, and believeth in Him that sent me, that person Christ says, has everlasting life.

That means you possess it right now at the moment you believe. You shall not come into condemnation because Christ was condemned in your place. You will never be condemned as a believer, but it says you are passed from death unto life. A resurrection has happened already, a spiritual resurrection, where you were spiritually dead. Now you are raised from dead spiritually at the moment you believe, and then of course future we deal with the body, and that will happen for the believer.

In other words, if you died right now, if you are a believer that is, you would be absent in the body present with the Lord. At the event called the Rapture, when Christ comes back to snatch out all the believers on the earth that are living, He will give the resurrection bodies to all the saints of this age from Pentecostal to Rapture. Those that are living will be simply caught up and transformed into their new bodies on the way up.

So let’s say I died today, if I did, my soul and spirit would leave my body, 2 Corinthians 5, 8, I’d be absent from the body, present with the Lord. But my body would be buried most likely, and return back to the elements, back to dust from which it came. But when the rapture would have happened, Christ would bring me back with Him because I would be with him in heaven and I would get a brand new body rising up from the earth that would meet my soul in the air.

And then those that are living that have not yet died, that are believers, will be caught up and transformed into their new bodies on the way up to meet the Lord in the air. That’s the way it works out. Now the unsaved, they’ll be brought up out of Hades according to the Bible in Revelation 24.14, they will come up out of Hades, their souls, and spirits will, and then their new bodies will rise up, and they will be reunited, soul, and body.

And judged according to their works to determine the degree of punishment and hell, and then they will be cast body and soul into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 24 describes this as the second death. It’s the second separation, the word death always means separation in the Bible. And the first separation is the separation of your soul from your body, but the second death, which only unbelievers will experience, is the separation of your soul and body from God in hell forever and ever and ever and ever.

The good news is, whosoever believeth of trusteth in Christ should not perish, but they would have everlasting life. I’m Dr. Englund from this is by blind. I hope you have trusted Christ as your Savior. And if you haven’t, you need to do that. And I wouldn’t waste another minute. Lord, I’m a sinner. Just pray a simple prayer like this. But I trust that Jesus made the payment from us and by his death and shed blooded to cross what was buried in Rosalghind from the dead the moment you trust him.

God, I’ve been heaven knows and he saves you. We’re we’re going to go to the phone lines if you have a pencil paper jon down the number one eight hundred five seven six three seven seven one we have jim in clear water him welcome to buy a line on the air yes i got it and so i know why couldn’t uh… here broadcast yesterday and i was wondering if you had mentioned anything about the jesus to him because you’ve been to do some something oh yeah the the real term of crisis empty there no bones there he took his bones the heavenly rose bodily.

In Acts chapter 1 verses 9 through 11 it says they watched him as after the forty days that he had taught them after the resurrection he bodily ascended and they watched him ascend up into heaven and two angels stood by and said why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This is the same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so return in light manner as you have seen him go. So his bones are in heaven, bodies in heaven and he didn’t leave a body in a grave anyplace.

So that’s just absolute nonsense. And I just read something from the Jerusalem Post yesterday and 15 top archaeologists in Israel said this is just absolutely baloney. They totally rejected. Okay. Thank you very much. You’re very welcome, Jim, and thank you very much. And it’s amazing how many attacks there are now, which are, of course, exactly what the Bible pretty sure happened and we’re seeing attacks on Christianity like we never seen before and on Christ and on the gospel message to death the barrel the resurrection of Christ and we see the Da Vinci code was one we see all these other so-called pseudopigrapher books that are written around the third fourth century that are absolutely contrary to the scriptures that teach that Jesus was not God and so on are all being thrown at us today to really cause confusion.

We have Matthew in Spring Hill and Matthew, welcome to Bibleline your own ear. Hi, Dr. How are you doing today? Good. I was just wondering, I’m in the car right now, sorry, I can’t directly reference my Bible but I’ve been reading in the Pauline of Pisslesley a lot about being a slave to sin pretty much is what I get from it Now this would like your but what I get from Paul is that Christ is working in our bodies and and changing and taking Inside of us.

We’re slaves to Christ because you know even Christ says we’re not We are so kind of a noise in the background I don’t know with on your phone or whatever but but Romans chapter 6 really does As long as we are in this body, we are servants to this body which is associated with our sin nature. We can have victory over our sin nature which Paul tells us in this chapter. is based upon our yielding ourselves to obey the Lord.

And it’s a continual thing day by day, moment by moment, where we yield ourselves to obey the Lord. And we do not yield ourselves to our sin nature. So it says here in verse 12 of chapter 6, let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey it in the lust thereof. yield ye your members. As instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield rather yourselves unto God, and as those that were raised from the dead, and your members should then be instruments of righteousness unto God.

So basically it’s a matter of choice and we are completely free from being influenced by our sin nature but we will still sin but we don’t have to let sin rule in our life and we don’t have to commit big crimes but certainly there are sins of thought that we can’t perhaps avoid coming into our minds but like somebody said you don’t have to, You can’t stop a bird from landing on your head, but you can stop him from building a nest there.

So you obviously get victory over it right away and dismiss those evil thoughts. Okay. Thank you, doctor. I like that answer. Good. Thank you very much, Matthew, for calling in. And we’re going to go now to Mike in Northport, Florida. And Mike, welcome to Bibleline your own ear. Yes. Good morning, Dr. Lynch Crum. I want to thank you for your ministry. blessed me for a few years now. I have a question about Catholicism. Basically how we got it started, what the differences are, you know, between that and true Christianity.

And if you could just explain that to me and like how it got it’s break apart like the when Martin Luther did his thing, if you can shed some light on that for me, I’d appreciate it. Okay, a little brief synopsis of this. Because Christianity began to grow and so on. We find that in the fourth century, Constantine, the city of Istanbul, which was called Constantinople after Constantine’s name, was the center of Christianity. At that time he declared the whole world to be Christian.

But then a couple centuries later, about the fifth or sixth centuries, there was a break and you have the western branch of Christianity and the eastern branch of Christianity that still exists to the state. The western branch was called the Roman Catholic meeting universal church and the eastern universal or Catholic church and we find that those branches still exist today, but in the West they began to accept tradition over the Bible. That was a major thing that happened particularly probably about the 8th century on where tradition ruled.

The Roman Catholic Church has claimed that Peter was the first pope and they had this Apostolic succession. Why is it true at all? Not only did Peter not claim to be the first pope, we find that when the early church met in Acts 15, James presided not Peter, and that Peter definitely did not have that role. Plus, there is no apostolic succession, and certainly the church, the Roman church, didn’t exist till around the sixth century. That’s when they really can kind claim that they have some kind of a continuance, but they have assumed that they have the right because of this apostolic authority to do whatever they want to do and change the rules as they go.

And the Roman Catholic Church is constantly changing their rules. You know, it wasn’t too many years ago that if you ate meat on Friday that was a mortal sin and you’d go to hell. And all of a sudden now they’ve changed the rules and it’s not a mortal sin now to eat meat on Friday. And isn’t that a shame that people up until about 40 years ago or 30 years ago went to hell because they meet on Friday, but now they don’t.

Of course that’s not true at all, that’s completely wrong. And other doctrines like purgatory are man-made, and these teachings are absolutely contrary to the Bible. The whole concept of penance is contrary to the Bible. Many of these doctrines came through into the Protestant churches at the time of Martin Luther when he brought to light salvation by faith. Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic priest. He had a doctorate of divinity degree and in 1553 he had gotten saved. He recognized that the church was obviously teaching so many things contrary to the Bible.

He attacked his theses on the church door of Wittenberg, Germany and it started the Reformation pointing out that we’re saved by faith and not by The church, savviness, and so on and so on. And so, basically, tradition is the difference. We have to go to the Bible’s authority. If you do that, you’re always going to come out nice and clean. But if you go to tradition, traditions change, and they kind of wiggle around and they develop little uniquenesses about them.

And obviously the Bible warns about that, and Clausians 2, 8, it says, made it says beware lest any man seduce you through tradition and so on and so on which would lead us away from the Bible and what it says. So that’s basically it. And does it also say something about the Lord’s Supper and about taking that into repetition and is dead? Well, I don’t know if you can mix a few things up there, but it talks about repetitious prayers being wrong that we’re not prayer’s conversation and God never intended for us to to just give a repetitious prayer as a So many do and they just recite a prayer over and over and over again Whereas the Lord tells us that it’s just Talking to him and it’s conversation and we he wants us to have an intimacy with himself as a believer We can have that.

That’s for sure. I have so many good Catholic friends that I’d like to witness to a minister to in their traditions and in the Bible and through Christianity. We’re going to have to go to break and we’ll talk about this in a few more minutes. Let’s take a break and we’ll come back and feel with that. 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. I’m Dr. Anglin Sturman. This is BibleInus.

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We’re on the the pastor and we look forward to being with you each and every day and I hope you enjoy being with us as we talk about the Word of God and answer your questions. We just had Mike on the line just a moment ago and we have a wonderful resource here center and we have a book called Understanding Roman Catholicism which is excellent. It takes the difficult, complicated Roman Catholic Catechism and reduces it down to 37 basic doctrines, gives you the quotes and then shows you quotes from the Bible for each of them and you can really get to the heart of what is the differences between the Bible and the teachings of the Church of the Catechism and we recommend that highly.

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Again I’m Dr. Inchlinscherman and we’re coming to you live from Tampa and thank you for joining our show and we’re going to go to some of more of the colors here we have uh… dendzel in penelis park for and then so welcome to bible chich take my call your welcome uh… i wanted to talk on on a fairly new believer and uh… i’ve been reading so you know we reading them from some close one thing that that i’ve realized is that that charismatic lot of people who are part of it and i know one one thing about it is the whole speaking of tongues okay and now i know i know in like first krentians thirteen eight you know i’ve got my bible right here i’m reading from the charity never fail it but whether there be profit is a shelf a well whether there be tons they shall see

but it cares mad at like like pastors that that read from the bible they read a lot from bergie that speak it in an unknown tone speak it not on demand but under god for no man understand that and he speak it and that’s really talking about that the real gift uh… in the misuse of it in the wrong place where as in uh… currently should have been speaking greek they were speaking in a foreign language that the people didn’t understand so they were speaking to god because he’s in stands every language but uh…

they weren’t speaking to the congregation there so nobody in the congregation understood them because he was speaking the wrong language and uh… that’s not what’s going on today though the gibberish today is not the biblical gift at all. And they’re not reading chapter 14 very correctly because it says in verse 9 that the tongue was given, it says, except you speak by the tongue words, easy to be understood, how shall it be known when it’s spoken, you just speak into the air.

So the real gift was to communicate and should have been words that would be easily understood by the hearer and the Corinthians had the problem with just showing off the gift and using a foreign language that nobody in the congregation understood and Paul was correcting them so verse 2 of first grade and 14 does not prove anything and also verse 22 It says that tongues was a gift as a sign to unbelievers, not to believers. So it was to be used with unbelievers.

And that’s not happening today at all. It was to be used for evangelism. I always challenge. And I’ve never had any takers yet to go with me and I’ll get a crowd at the mall or someplace. And then introduce that person and let them do their gibberish. And if it’s the real gift, we’re going to have revival. And I’ll even buy a mistake dinner afterward. I’ve never had any of them. anybody want to go with me and use their gibberish out in public because they know that it’s not going to be assigned unbelievers.

It’s a counterfeit today. That’s totally something that’s not a good at all. Okay. I have a friend of mine gave me a book that says how to explain the modern-day tongues phenomenon. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but it’s quite… I haven’t read… But who wrote it? It’s by Dr. Dennis Corle. No. He or Ellie. Not for me or that. The book we have here is the New Testament teaching on times by Merle Unger. Very excellent.

He’s a scholar and actually takes chapters 12, 13 and 14 of Corinthians and exegetes them or exposes the meaning there, which is really clear that there’s just no wiggle room at all that what’s being done today is not the gift. Well, thank you very much, sir. All right. Thank you for calling in. We now have Frank in winter haven Florida and Frank welcome to Bibleline your own ear. Yes, hi. Yes, I have a question for you, Dr. that it’s about salvation and I know it’s very clear, but I happen to know somebody that continuously sins against the Lord in fidelity.

And they had repented their sins the first time, but since then they continue to do that. And I had several passages that talk about Noah’s, everyone before Noah, they got wiped off of the face of the earth and then trying to think of the three verses coming up. And then I guess… I guess it’s the reverse of blank here. But anyway, clearly for Sodom and Gomorrah, I guess it was a lot. And then there’s another one. It just talks about how, you know, that you’re fooling yourself if you think God’s wrath isn’t gettingyou know, his judgment’s not getting hit you.

you. Well, absolutely. And the Bible very clearly teaches that God disciplines believers and in Hebrews 12 It says if you be without discipline, where of all believers are partakers, it says you’re a bastard and not a son. So in other words, if you could live as you please, after you got saved without God interfering in your life and disciplining you, then it would prove that you were not a believer at all, that you’re illegitimately claiming to be a child of God when indeed you’re an illegitimate child.

legitimate child you’re not really a Christian or believer at all and You are a bastard as it says in Hebrews 12 8 pretty powerful passage When you tell them that they say, oh, so I’m not saved and I have pointed out that I don’t think that they are. And they get very angry. And of course, in fact I got baptized with this person. So I mean it’s kind of a…

Continue to walk this way and my testimony is I ran from the dark when I accepted Christ and Well obviously the Lord if they are genuinely saved will definitely deal with them and they’ll have accounting to do when they stand before the Lord one day because we’ll all be judged according to what we’ve done good or bad. Second Corinthians 5 and 10 says, excuse me, we must all appear before the judge’s date of Christ that everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that which you have done, whether it be good or bad that has to do with rewards.

So it’s all going to come up one day and there’s nothing that will be done by anybody that’s going to be hidden and not exposed by the Lord when He comes back. So, his… The Bible says that what you’ve done in the secret will be shouted from the housetops. So it’s going to come out and one day you’ll be accountable for it. Alright, thank you. And as Frank in Winter Haven, Florida, we have Robert in Pompano Beach, Florida. And Robert, welcome to Bibleline.

Hey, Dr. Lindstrom, how are you? I’ve got a question for you. I got to an argument with a friend of mine yesterday. the catholic and i was looking for a gentleman previously talking about catholic and it was about when the pilgrims came to the united states are they the ones that brought Christianity to the united states would you say well you know all those early settlers did they uh… they were all were called pilgrims but yeah they sure did and i i kind of heard i think you say that uh…

a few um… programs back that you uh… thought that it was that they were running away from catholic system from england is that right for all of european the roman kevie church uh… during the time of the reformation was coming down hard on those that became safe and those people were persecuted and tortured and and many hundreds of thousands of them were killed and and so uh… yeah they were rats jumping off a sinking ship they needed a flee europe become no america so they can ever live just freedom exactly he said that it was not catholicism that it was a break off and it was a protest and fact that was doing that that there was a fight between the protest and from there the one that’s why they came over but i was trying to tell them that it was not happen that with the policy them that’s right it was the catholicism and

uh… you just have to go back and read history it’s amazing how people uh… don’t uh… know their history anymore and uh… but you know in fourteen ninety two and uh… uh… uh… so the ocean blue that same year spain uh… kicked all the uh… jus out of uh… spain and uh… everybody had to be roving catholic in that country and if you didn’t uh… profess that then uh… you were in big trouble and the spanish spanish in position uh…

was responsible for coming out thousands and thousands of people It was awful. Obviously Spain at that time was a world power, but thank God took them down where now they, you know, they’re not a superpower anymore, but they were, at that time, they ruled the seas with their ships and the influence you can see across all the Americas. At that time they really influenced the whole world, but they lost it once they turned against against the Jews and against the Jewish people as well.

I think cursing the Jew really probably did them in because God says if you curse the Jew then you’ll be cursed. Do you have anything in your resource, Senator Dr. Lynch, from that wood that I could buy to show him what happened back then? Is it better to go to encyclopedia or something like that? Well, we have a couple of things. Fox’s book of martyrs will really just open your eyes as to all the martyrs that have come down through time and how Rome has been a major player, not only with the Roman Caesars persecuting Christians, but then later even the political religious system of Roman Catholicism killing Christians from the time of the Reformation on.

Yeah, we got several. So why don’t you call one of our operators and I’ll be glad to help you. Okay, I can go to the internet and get that. You can also get on the internet. You sure can. And I’m going to try to help you out with the donation. Thank you very much, Dr. Lim. Okay, Robert. Thank you. And that was Robert in Pompano Beach, Florida. We have Ken now in Largo, Florida. Ken, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Good morning. I’m not curious. I’ve been reading about the Holy Spirit has been given in three different times to the Jews, to them. I’m curious why is that true or am I just confused or why it’s three different times and I’ll hang up and listen. Well, the gospel, you know, went out from Jerusalem. The plan was Christ said in Acts 1 8, you’re going to receive power after the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and unto the edimals parts of the earth.

And in the book of Acts you see how that really took place. You have the gospel given there in Jerusalem and then you have Philip picking the gospel to Samaria and Peter and John coming there and you see them getting saved and they receive the Holy Spirit as everybody leaver in this age receives the Holy Spirit. And then of course you see Incesarea Cornelius getting the gospel and he’s clearly… A gentleman from the U.S. and a gentleman from the U.S.

and a gentleman from the U.S. and You’ll see Paul getting saved. He really became the real apostle to the Gentiles and spread the Gospel all over Asia Minor. And finally of course wound up himself in Rome and writing many of the pistols that we read, the prisoner pistols from Rome to us. So you see basically the gospel going… going forth, but there is no mystery there. Simply as people got saved, they received the Holy Spirit. As every believer in this age receives the Holy Spirit at the moment you believe.

But you see the plan of evangelism for the world that Christ gave at Acts 1 8 enacted out in the Book of Acts. As you see the Gospel moving out to Sumerian and finally out to the Gentiles. And finally the book of Rome, but rather the book of Acts ending in Rome with Paul in prison and his execution and so on. And the gospel had reached into the very palace of Caesar because the guards that guarded Paul also were working and doing duty in the Caesar’s Palace.

Thank you Ken. We appreciate your call. We have some all fear questions here. We might as well try to take a couple of those while we have a chance here. The phone number if you want to call in 1-800-576-3771. Rick and Tampa calls in a current news release. states that the Lenten season is a time where Catholics honor the 40 day fast of Jesus. Our Christians command to fast anywhere in the Bible. Well, first of all Lent is pagan and is not at all related to the 40 day fast of Christ when he began his ministry.

But we are not really commanded to fast, but we do fast all the time. certainly that’s something that we can do. But when you go to sleep at night, you don’t eat till morning, and the first meal you eat is called break fast, breakfast. And so we always fast. And I fast, but not as anything to brag about or whatever. I always try to eat several hours before I speak so that my mind is clear. You know if you try to do anything significant using your mind when you are on a full stomach you can’t concentrate because you get sleepy as your body is concentrating on digesting that food.

So that’s really what it’s all about and Lent has to do with the Baal worship and is taken and goes all the way back to Genesis chapter 10 and is forbidden in the Bible. So certainly Lent is not a Christian event and it’s amazing how many people have bought into Lent when there is no Lent in your Bible. And thank you Rick for that question. John, St. Peterborough calls in with this offer of question, why can’t we add anything to God’s grace and be saved?

And the answer is because you make grace void if you do that. Romans 11, 6 says, if by grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. So grace by definition is the absence of any works or any human merit. But the second half of Romans 11, 6 really is powerful where it says, but if it be of works, then it is no more of grace, otherwise work is no more work. What it’s saying is that grace works are opposite, and if you try to be saved by any work, then you’ll have no grace, which if you have no grace from God, you’ll go to hell because it’s only by grace that we’re saved.

As it says in Ephesians 2 8, by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves is the gift of God, not of works as they mentioned. Whenever God’s grace is described in the Bible, usually right there it also makes a statement that works or excluded. For example, in Ephesians 2-8 it says, 4 by grace are you saved through faith in Jesus Christ. We are saved by grace, by His mercy, by His unmerited favor. The very next phrase negates any work that says, and that none of yourselves is, this salvation is none of yourself.

Then it says again, salvation is the gift of God in Ephesians 2-8, and that is of course by grace. But then the next phrase says, this salvation is not of works, lest any man should boast. So wherever you look, you can find verse after verse. Wherever you talk about grace, you also find at the same time grace is exclusive of any works. And so all works are excluded and grace can’t… If you add any works to it, it becomes no longer grace, and therefore you’ll not make heaven.

That’s the whole point is that you either have to be saved by grace or you’re going to try to be saved by works. there’s no middle ground. We have Reggie in Largo, Florida calling in and Reggie, welcome to Vile on. Oh, thank you for taking my call. My question is, Pastor, is there any place in Christian teaching today on numerology? Some take great stress on this and others don’t regard to it at all, but I’m just wondering, is there any place for in the sense, I know that some Some people put a timeline on Christ’s return, which I know in Revelation says he knows no time, but there’s other things that numbers of, you know, they add up in there.

And is there any place for that or is that to speak? I think so. I think you need to be careful though because you can, you know, go beyond where you need to go. But the numbers in the Bible do have significance. Obviously, two is the number of division, and three is the number that certainly is associated with the trinity of God, and so on and so on. There’s a lot of numbers in the Bible that seem to make significance.

It’s interesting that thirteen is always associated with Satan or the devil. I think that’s because perhaps it first developed because of the twelve disciples in Christ when all were together, there were thirteen, and one of them was actually involved by Satan Judas was, and so the thirteenth member became that one. So a lot of people were very superstitious about thirteen and about his connection with evil and so on. That’s where it came from, how I see it. And you know, it’s quite quite coincident, I’m sure, but the thirteenth chapter of the revelation deals with Satan and his influence through two men, the beast, the end of Christ and the false prophet, both of which will be empowered by him in the future tribulation period.

So it actually turns out to be the 13th chapter. So there’s a lot to enjoy about that, but when you try to force it and try to make everything stand on your numerology then you might have gone off too far but it’s kind of fascinating. Yeah, I see. What other quick question about mine too? Your church is Calvary Community Church. Explain that to me. I come from a kind of… We’re an independent church. We are not linked to any other churches or denominations.

We founded ourselves to be independent of that. And so we just chose the name Calvary because of Jesus dying across the Calvary and we chose the word community because we wanted to be open to everybody. I understand. I can. I’m autistic in my background and I, and where I come from of course they were just so they don’t made your donations when I got saved. I come out of a liberal denomination. But my concern was, of course, what doctorately, how they are.

And in relationship to, we’ll say, Baptistic, Doctor, could you explain that to me or my off and a? Where I stand in relationship to that? Yeah. I’m probably around the same page with you then because generally that’s exactly where I stand. Baptists believe in internal security and I certainly believe in that. and salvation by faith in Christ and so on and evangelism and all those things I endorse as well and believe. Okay. My doctoral statement, you can go on my website and look under beliefs that matter and articles I’ve written and you’ll get a pretty good…

A doctoral statement? Yeah, you’ll pretty good statement there about what I believe. Okay, one quick more quick question. Sure. Coming from St. Pete’s, Franklin Causeway, you said that your church is near the airport. Yeah. Where would I? Well, if you come over and come to the airport, whether you come over on Hillsborough Avenue, you know, from, or across 60, you just come, and when you bump into the airport, you need to go north of Independence or Memorial and we’re right there.

The Thank you for your time. Thank you for calling in today. I hope everyone listening is trusted Jesus. If you haven’t, just say Lord, I’m a sinner. I can’t save myself and I trust Jesus right now. His death and shed butt is the means of my salvation. I trust that he was crucified and buried and rose again from the dead and I trust him as my only hope of heaven. the moment you do. God will save you. I’m Dr.

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