Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-06-26

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

Thanks for tuning in. This is Tuesday And hopefully you’ll join us all week long telling your friends and helping us past that word along. By the way, we’re streaming right now to the internet. If you have internet access, you can go to BibleLineMinistries.org or .com. You’ll be able to click on the spinning globe and be connected to today’s radio show. You can go back into archive and listen to probably about a year’s worth of programs if you’d like to do that.

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If you’d like to leave an all fair question for the radio program, you can also go to that radio page. If you click on the spinning globe on the homepage, if a page will come up that’ll have a place all ready to go for you to type in your question, just hit submit and that question will come to us and we’ll try to get it up on the air answered for you here on the radio show. By the way, this Sunday is going to be July 1st, and we’re going to have a July 4th celebration this July 1st as we’ll have a picnic in our back area of our property under the shade of the oak trees with pickles and our mental barbecue you hot dogs and hamburgers will have apple pie and we invite the whole family to come.

If you’re in driving distance, come on over and join us for a wonderful day of celebration. We’ll have our worship service and then the picnic will follow and you’re welcome to come and be my guest and enjoy that. There will be fun and games for the kids as well. So that’s this Sunday, July 1st. We’ll celebrate July 4th. You’re welcome to come. Of course, if you’re in any other part of the country, you can join our worship service by going to the internet, Bible.inministries.org, or.com, click on the camera, and you’ll be connected to our worship service go there about 11 o’clock.

If you have a question you can call it in, or you can call in live with your question and get up on the air with us. You’re welcome to Dallas at 1-800-576-377-1. 1-800-576-3771. We’re going to talk about the Scriptures for a few minutes and then of course take your questions and we’re going to take a look at the Scriptures about what happens at the instant that you believe. According to Ephesians 1-13, one of numerous things that happen at the moment you believe is that you are sealed with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit seals you until you are actually in heaven with the Lord forever.

It says in Ephesians 1,13, in whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. So here’s the beginning. You hear the truth. You hear the word of God. You hear the gospel message, which is the message of the death, the barrel and the resurrection of Christ. And then it says in whom… Also, after that you believe the tense there is obscured in the King James. But if you have a Scofield reference Bible, which is what I used, you’ll find that it should read and it points it out in the margin of the Scofield, having believed you were sealed.

Having believed you were sealed. In other words, simultaneous with belief, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. The Bible tells us verse 14 which is the earnest of your inheritance. The word earnest is Old English but it means down payment. And so really basically God showing that he is an earnest about completing the salvation that he begins. He tells us here that he gives us as a down payment the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is obviously the down payment signifying that God is in earnest about carrying this whole thing through to completion.

In other words, if you’re going to buy something and you are in earnest about it, you leave a down payment and if you change your mind, you forfeit that down payment, don’t you? Well, that’s exactly here what the Bible is saying. In other words, if you could ever lose your salvation, which is impossible, that God would have to forfeit the Holy Spirit to you. And in other words, if you went to hell, the Holy Spirit would have to go to hell with it.

Just never going to happen. Not, not, not, not ever going to happen at all for sure. So the down payment of your salvation, God gives you the Holy Spirit as a guarantee that you’re going to wind up in heaven. Isn’t that incredible? In other words, having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise, which is the down payment on your salvation. God wants to assure you and me that no matter what happens, you are going to wind up in heaven.

And the Holy Spirit seals you. Now in the Bible we find a seal is a symbol that signifies a number of things. Number one, it symbolizes a finished transaction. Usually, if you finish a transaction, for example, if you buy a house, they put document stamps on there. They seal the deal in the sense of these stamps that register the fact that you have completed the transaction. Also, it is a symbol of ownership. You know back in the old wild west, they used to put a brand, a mark on the animal that was recognized as a symbol of ownership.

And the Holy Spirit Himself is the seal. And He is the one that declares ownership of you and me that He has bought us and paid for us. It also is a symbol of security, the fact that we are secure. If a king sent a letter and he put his seal and melted wax on the edge of that letter, nobody dared open it, but the one to whom it is addressed or they would be killed. And the king would take the wax and seal the letter and impress his image or his ring in that wax and that was a done deal.

Nobody better break that seal. In other words, you’ll never be lost. The Holy Spirit Himself is the seal. To be able to break the seal, you’d have to be more powerful than God the Holy Spirit Himself. That certainly is not possible. Once you trust the Lord as your Savior, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit and He, the Holy Spirit, keeps you saved. It says here until you’re actually in heaven. That is exciting. I’m Dr. Inchlin from Mrs. Byblind.

I hope you are listening and have trusted Christ as your Savior. If you have, then you are saved forever. Now, let me ask you this. Does your church teach that you can lose your salvation? If it does, you are in a false church because that is salvation by works. If you are trusting in works, you will not be saved and anybody who believes that they can that they can lose their salvation is really saying that it’s all up to me.

I have got to live my life faithfully till the day I die and if I don’t I’ll go to hell. That means you’re saying that you’re the same. Because ultimately what you do or what you do not do determines whether you make heaven or not and that’s works. The Bible always points the lost center. Back to the cross of Calvary where Jesus said it is finished. He paid the sin debt for you and me in full. There is nothing left for you and me to do.

I love what the human writer said when he said, Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, but he washed it as white as snow. He paid it all. There’s nothing left for me to pay. But just as I am, says, just as I am, I come without one plea, but that my blood was shed for me. It is the blood of Christ that washes away our sin. You’re hanging on, you’re holding on, you’re trying to live the Christian life, has nothing, nothing to do with your being saved.

You’re saved based upon what Christ did for you, not based upon what you do for Him. In other words, it’s all about what Christ did for you. And when you put your trust in Him, the Bible says, who so ever believe it or trust it in Him should not perish but have, present tense possess everlasting life. And if you possess everlasting life at this very moment, you’ll possess it tomorrow, next week, next year, ten years, a hundred years from now, a million years from now.

It’s forever and ever and ever. Well, I’m Dr. Englinson. This is by blend. We’re going to go to the phone lines if you’d like to call in. It’s 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. We’re going to go to Mike in Seminole and Mike welcome to by blend. You’re on the air. Hello, Mike. I don’t believe we have Mike and I don’t know what has happened there, but we’ll keep trying. Here we have Adam. Let’s see if we got Adam here. Adam, welcome to by one.

You’re on the air. Hello, Adam. I don’t think I have Adam. Sunday’s gone wrong with our phones here and we’ll have to see if we can’t get that solved. But in any case, keep trying to call back and maybe the storm and the lightning had something to do with us. We’ll try to see if we can’t get it resolved. We don’t have any calls. We’re going to now go to some of the offer questions. We got a lot of them.

Ryan in St. Petersburg calls in. He leaves this offer question, is the tribe of Dan a tribe? And of course the answer is yes. And it says in the book of Revelation it is not listed in the tribes. Well the reason why, if you go back to Genesis chapter 49, God gives here a wonderful survey of each of the twelve tribes as their father Jacob or Israel, pronounces a blessing upon their sons, his sons. What the hell is this?

Jesus would come out of the tribe of Judah. And then it’s implied that the Antichrist will come out of the tribe of Dan. Now if you read in the book of Revelation chapter 7, it talks about the tribes that will be the tribes out of which the 144,000 witnesses will come, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes. The tribe of Dan is omitted and that is we believe because the Antichrist comes out of the tribe of Dan. And so Joseph who got a double blessing, his two sons are mentioned and so that’s really how it is replaced there.

But yet when you get into the thousand year reign of Christ when Christ comes back and rules and reigns on the earth for a thousand years you find all of the 12 original tribes are there and then is in that listing. So that’s good news, isn’t it? So we have the answer to it is that during the tribulation period when Dan is apparently the tribe that turns against Christ and the Antichrist comes out of that tribe, then he’s omitted, but later restored in the Millennial Kingdom.

We now have Stephen in Northport. He says, please He’s explained 1 Thessalonians 522. There is a circumstance in his life with someone. Does this mean all forms of evil? Let me see what you’re talking about here. I’m going to turn to the verse. 1 Thessalonians 522, and it says here, abstain from all appearance of evil. It’s talking about that you need to be careful that what you do doesn’t imply to someone that you’re doing evil. Although you can’t completely avoid that.

Jesus, for example, who is God himself, who is absolutely sinless, drank wine. And those who want to accuse him, accused him of being a wine beber or that he got drunk. never got drunk. We don’t believe Christ ever violated the word of God. Also, There were numerous other things that were said about Christ, but obviously sometimes you just cannot avoid all criticism, but that’s what the verse is really talking about. Stephen, I don’t know. I’d have to talk to you personally to see what you have going on there that causes you to feel this way.

But basically, if you live your life to please the There will be those things that will come across where somebody will accuse you of some sort of evil or think of it because of something you’re doing but you have to just know that your heart is right. Thank you Stephen. We now have Eric on the line from Port Charlotte and Eric welcome to Beymone. Oh, this is John. Oh John, well welcome to the program John. Where are you calling from?

Where are you going from? You used this. You used this. Alright. Wonderful. Yes. I was reading in my Bible this morning. Second Peter 3.10 in Revelation 8 verses 8 and 18. What is really referring to is global warming. I believe there is going to be a judgment upon the earth like never before. Well, I’m sure you’re absolutely right. There’s going to be all kinds of things that are going to happen. A third of all the trees on the earth will be burned up.

All the grass on the earth will be burned up. There will be apparently two strikes from outer space. A meteor, apparently a huge asteroid will strike the earth in the area of the Mediterranean Sea. And a third of all the ships and of all the life in the Mediterranean Sea will be destroyed. So there will be a comment that will come into the earth’s atmosphere and break up and it will poison all the sources of water. And goodness sakes, the judgments of the tribulation period are going to be really bad.

And I don’t doubt that there are numerous things that are listed and implied and things that aren’t even mentioned that will be happening during that time. Yes, it’s really speaking of a terrible time. And I wanted to ask you, have you ever heard of an old time preacher Oliver Green? Absolutely. I used to enjoy listening to him. Yeah, he was a wonderful preacher. I enjoyed listening to him myself. And I also enjoyed listening to the program. And I want to say may God continue to bless you and may you receive the funds you need stay on the air because we’re living in some perilous times.

I absolutely agree with you. And thank you, John, for that nice compliment. And thank you for calling in today. We are having some trouble. Keep God niling, if you would, because our lines, somehow, are getting dropped. And we don’t really know how to explain that. But we have lots of all-fair questions. We’ll take all of those. And if you call in, we’ll try to get you up on the air. But just keep trying. Be persistent. By the way, today is my wedding anniversary.

my wife and I have been married as of today 42 years and we will do some celebrating after the radio program today but thank you for tuning in and keep trying on those phone lines and I hope you’ll be able to get through. We’d love to have you get up on the air with us. We have Bruce down in Bradenton, Florida, south of Tampa calls in with an all-fare question He says the two witnesses in the book of Revelation many say will be Moses and Elijah if Moses died How will he come back if it’s appointed on to men only to die once?

Well the answer is he’s an exception if you read the book of Jude the little teeny book just before the book Revelation it talks about Satan Just duty with Michael the Archangel over the body of Moses I believe because God apparently has preserved the body of Moses. Nobody ever got to know where Moses’ body was buried. God took Moses’ life and there is no record of where he was buried. And so nobody ever knew where he was buried, if indeed he was.

So apparently his body has been preserved for the very occasion that the tribulation will afford where he’ll come back along with Elijah and he’ll turn the waters to blood and he’ll smite the earth with the plagues during the tribulation period. So Moses will come back and I believe that that is the answer. Yes, he is an exception to the rule. So Bruce, I hope that helps out, but definitely when you see Christ transfigured in Matthew 17 and he’s seen as he will be in all his glory of his second coming who’s standing with him It’s Moses, head Elijah.

So clearly and there are many more references we could turn to. It appears that that is the case. We’re going to build Glades, Florida and we have Arthur on the line. Arthur, welcome to Bibleline your own ear. Yes, how you doing pastor? Good. I would like to ask you two questions. Number one question. I hear a lot of people say that Billy Graham did not believe in hell. Do that still, exclusively on the Bistid Bistid Bistid because he, because that scene I hear Bill false times, Well, it is a false doctrine, but that wouldn’t cause you to go to hell.

He believes, and I have a book here that has quotes from him, he believes it’s metaphorical and it’s just, you know, obviously a picture of how bad it is to be without Christ, but he doesn’t believe in a place of eternal flame and torment forever and ever. And it’s interesting to me how many people manipulate the Bible and don’t take it literally. But I definitely believe there is a literal hell and it’s hard not to get that idea, at least for me when I read it, because so many passages Christ very passionately talks about a place where your soul will never die and the fire will never be quenched.

I think it’s hard to explain that away. I think it is obviously literal and there will be people who will go to help. Okay, and the number two question is the, I know I think referring to the pastor that’s died in Fort Lauderdale that signed the letter. They say the letter that’s saying that Israel do not meet and say. They don’t have any right to the property, the land over there in Israel. Now that was the open letter signed by 154 pastors and it’s on the Knox Theological Seminary website and the president of Knox Theological Seminary is D.

James Kennedy. And obviously this is all about replacement theology, prederism, all these people believe that God is through with Israel and that God has replaced Israel with the Church and that the promises to Israel ceased. And now all of those promises are given to us, the Church, the body of Christ. That we believe is not true. The Bible is very clear. If you read Romans 11, Paul says, has God cast away his people which he foreknew? He says, God forbid.

That’s not through with his plans. And there in chapter 9, 10, and 11 of Romans, Paul lays out the plan that God has now turned to us Gentiles in this church age, but will soon at the rapture turn back to Israel and carry out the promises that he made to the people of Israel. And there will be an earthly kingdom and Christ will come back and set up an earthly kingdom where Israel will be the head nation on the earth.

So if that’s the case, what is their position in the criteria? Does that mean that they saved? That’s another false doctrine. Oh, it really is. And it’s so sad because they rob away the rapture, which is the blessed hope of the believer. And they just reject the whole teaching of a tribulation period, a millennial kingdom. And they just put their pixie dust on it all and they make it go poof and go away. And they say Christ has already come back in 8070.

The tribulation period was between 64 and 8070. And that the beast was Nero and the blah blah blah blah. But it just doesn’t match up with scripture at all and it’s totally wrong. But it doesn’t mean that they cannot be saved. Of course, if you trust in the blood of Jesus, as your only hope of heaven, God saves you. But it’s unfortunate there are many areas where people are departing from the truth of God’s word and that’s the apostasy of the last days.

Okay, Pastor, let me ask you one more question. Have you ever heard of a guy named Peter Rushton, I don’t think he’s from the toxicola? He used to be, he had a similar eye to the toxicola Florida. I’m not sure if I have or not. Arthur, I don’t know. Okay, thank you. You have a blessed day. to the Arthur down in Belgrade, Florida. And that’s right down near Lake O’Kachopie. And thank you for listening and calling in. We now have Rod in Charles City, Virginia.

He says the demons that are chained up In Jude are they loose now or they chained up now they’re loose, but the Chaining there’s like house arrest it says they’re chained to eternal darkness In other words their destiny is set they will wind up in hell forever and ever and Ever but they are Restrained or contained or as it says you’re chained in Jude to that destiny, but they are free to roam about and certainly These are Satan’s angels and they are the demons of the New Testament, but they are chained to this destiny of eternal darkness or being cast into the leg of fire.

But as Helenezy wrote in his book, Satan is alive and well on this planet Earth and so are his demons. They are all judged, Satan and his angels, all are condemned to hell and chained to that destiny, but they’re all going to be cast in the hell eventually. We’re coming up on that break time. We’ll have to take a break and come back and do a second half hour. I hope you’re listening and if you’re not sure of your salvation, you would trust Jesus as your Savior.

And also I hope that you’ll tune into the second half hour of Bibleline. Also, if you haven’t given a gift for the month of June, could you help us this month? and give one by credit card or have a sinu envelope with our dress on it. We’re going to break. We’ll be right back so don’t go away. We’ll be back in just a minute. 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. Right, I’m Dr. Inglinstruments. Wonderful to be with you. Thanks for tuning in. And again, God bless all of you who listen. You know, it is you who are the ones who keep us on the air. It’s because of our listeners that we’re able to be on this station today that you’re listening on. Why? Because we don’t have any other means of support than our listeners. That’s right. We don’t have a piggy bank. We don’t have a reserve account.

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You are the ones who keep this program going for us. And in fact, here we are ending the month of June. We could use your help to come out in a positive note here in this month. So if you want to help, you can call and I’ll be sent to you with our address on it or you You can call in and give a gift by credit card over the phone. Would you do that? That would be great. We sure could use your help, especially during the summer months, which are somewhat the lean months of the year as far as giving is concerned.

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Go there, BibleLineMinistries.org or .com, and then you’ll be able to see all those things on our homepage. The first thing you’ll see is a seven minute video of how to trust Christ and be saved. I hope you’ll get people to take a look at that. By the way, you can put that on your website if you like. Many have done so. We have many businesses and individuals that have websites and not free of charge. You can take that seven minute video and put it on your website.

Many have done that as a link where they can get people saved. come to their website by going to see that seven minute video presentation on how to trust the Lord of Savior and be saved. This is Tuesday. We plan to be here all week with you and I hope that you’ll join us each and every day. And right now we’re going to go to the phone lines and the phone number is 1-800-576-3771. We have only two of our lines apparently working out of the many phone lines we have, and we’re hoping to get that repaired.

But keep trying, and we’ll get you up if we can on the air with us. We have Adam in Tampa, Florida, and Adam, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Yeah, my question is from Jude, and it talks about angels in verse 6. I know you get to talk about angels who did not stay in their own position of authority, but they left their proper dwelling. And he’s kept eternal chains on them.

Adam, this is talking, I believe, about the angels that followed Satan in that rebellion against God and is attempted overthrow of God and in heaven. It says here, the angels who kept not their first estate. Their first piece of real estate, I believe, was the plant earth. I believe the original earth, Genesis 1, 1, has created perfect inhabited, was inhabited with animals, dinosaurs, and all of the angels. that Lucifer was the God of this world ruling over all of God’s angels on the planet Earth.

When he decided to overthrow heaven, he led a rebellion from the Earth to heaven with a third of God’s angels. So it says they didn’t keep their first piece of real estate but left their own habitation. The place in their habitation was here on the planet. So as they followed Satan to heaven to overthrow it, God cast them back down onto the earth and it says, He has reserved these angels in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.

Now that is the judgment that will occur at the end of the thousand year reign of Christ. At the end of the thousand year end of price, we have what is called the Great White Throne Judgment. It is at that point Satan and all of the angels that followed him will be cast into the eternal lake of fire. Right now Satan’s angels and Satan are loose here on the planet, but they are chained to this destiny where they will be rounded up and cast in to the eternal lake of fire at the judgment that will occur after the thousand year earthly reign of Christ.

It’s there in chapter 20 of Revelation verse 10, tells us about Satan’s cast in. Then verse 11, we have the earth being destroyed by fire and the angels are cast in the hell. Then all of those in the human race are brought about of Hades where they are waiting that Judgment Day and they’ll be cast into the lake of fire as well. So this is what’s going to happen and I believe this is talking about they left their first estate, which is the planet earth They left the place where God gave them to inhabit and they tried to follow Satan to heaven to try to make their new place of habitation in heaven and they were cast back to the earth and judged Adam hope that helps and Adam is not there anymore.

So We invite you to call it 1-800-576-3771. Mike in Seminole, Florida calls in with this offer a question. He says, why would a loving and merciful God allow children to be born with disease and deformity and so on? Also, allow famine. Well, the answer is because of Adam’s sin, because Adam’s sin, God put a curse on this earth. And if you don’t like what you see, it’s all because of sin. When Adam sinned, God cursed the earth. And of course, Jesus went to the cross of Calvary and died for you and me, so that the earth could have this curse lifted.

And when Christ comes at the second coming, he will lift the curse from the earth, and the earth will blossom and bud, and there will be peace on the earth. And obviously this is a wonderful future that’s ahead. But right now that’s all because of the sin of the human race. If there were no sin, this would not take place. But this is really the result of what Satan did in causing Adam to fall and it’s tragic. That’s no doubt about it.

Thank you, Mike, and I hope that helped, but Adam is responsible. We have Shelley in Tampa, Florida, and Shelley says, are you familiar with the evangelical show, The Way of the Master? And are these evangelists radical? I really don’t like the way I think they put people down. Yes, they’re trying to use the law to point out that they’re sinners, but unfortunately their doctrine is flawed because they tell them they have to stop sinning or turn from their sin to be saved.

The turn from sin is works and that is obviously a flawed plan of salvation. If you read 2 Corinthians 519, you can read 2 Corinthians 519. It tells us that the message that were to proclaim is that God is not imputing men’s trespasses against them. It’s a flawed understanding of what happened across. Jesus died for every sin that everyone in the human race would ever commit past, present, and future. and they’re paid for. The only sin that can cause a person to go to hell, shall we, is to die rejecting the provision that God made for sin, Jesus Christ.

And so God is not charging our sins against us. He is charging us with one sin, the sin of unbelief. If you die rejecting Christ, then you have committed the unpardonals and we’ll go to hell. But I really think that they’re doing exactly what Timothy warns against. Timothy talks about vain janklers, not understanding the law, and they are preaching the law and how that you have to stop sinning, turn from sin, repent of sin, a bad definition of it, Because the Greek word, Translant Repent, really is metanoia and it means a change of mind.

Meta means change, noia means mind. And it simply means that. In the Old Testament, the word repent in the English occurs 43 times. Of the 37 of those 43 times, it is God who repents. And if you do the math and divide 37 by 43, you get 86%. 86% of the time in the Old Testament it is God who repents. Now if you believe as this TV show presents that repent means to turn from sin, then you have a big theological problem.

You’ve got God who is holy and righteous and not capable of sitting, turning from his sin left and right. 86% of the time in the Old Testament it is God who repents not men only six times is repent used of man Repeting but 37 of the 43 times it is God who repents and 37 divided by 43 is 86% of the time it is God it does repenting that obviously tells us it can’t be a turning from sin It’s a change of mind and When you change your mind about You are a center in need of a savior when you change your mind about Christ that he is God who came in order to give his life so that we could be forgiven us in.

When you change your mind, recognizing your works cannot save you and no human contribution will get you to heaven and you simply trust Christ, God saves you. There are numerous things you can change your mind about that are all part of what happens when you trust Christ. Dr. Schofield said in the Schofield Bible, a hundred years ago, almost, hundred years ago, 1909 edition of the Bible that I have in my hand here, says that saving faith includes and implies that change of mind, which is called repentance.

When you change your mind from whatever you were previously trusting in, the trusting in Jesus, the only Savior you are saved and you have repented or changed your mind in the process. So I believe that they have a flawed planet-solving Shelley. I don’t recommend that type of evangelism. We have Matthew in Tampa, Florida, and Matthew leaves an unfair question. He says, we’re Adam and Eve cavemen, like the archaeological digs, and where is Eden? Well, they could have lived in a cave.

I don’t know what cavemen means to you, but there are cavemen today. If you do any reading, some of the rich people of Europe, their children in their late teens and twenties are jet-setters and they have a lot of money to spend and a lot of them go to the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea and hang out in caves. Does that make them cavemen? Well, I think it does. And so we have modern cavemen who obviously live pretty lavishly and fly around and get airplanes.

And I don’t think they’re dumb as far as intellect. And this of course is what they would try to have you believe. Anatomy and Eve, I believe, were the brightest people that have ever lived. I think that man has lost the capacity to use the fullness of our brains. They say, scientists say, that we’re only using 5% of our mental capability. Can you imagine the creativeness of Adam’s mind, how fervent and alive and brilliant he was? God brought before him all the animals, and Adam named them all.

That takes a lot of creativity. I have people in my church that are going to have a baby. They’ve got nine months to name that child and they have trouble figuring out what to call one baby. Can you imagine? And Adam is able to name. He’s never seen an animal. He’s never had a book to refer to to get suggestions for names. And yet, out of the creativeness of his mind, Adam was able to name all the animals. Give them a name.

giving them each their individual name. That is great. Think about it. Maybe if you’re married and you have children, how long did it take you to figure out what you’re going to call just that one baby that came into the world? I tell you, they were a lot smarter back then than they are now. Whereas Eden was apparently over there in Iraq in the Mesopotamian Valley. And of course at the time of Noah’s flood it was destroyed. It’s no longer around.

So Eden is gone, but Eden apparently existed I think until the time of Noah’s flood. Thank you Matt for calling in. We now have Josh in Tampa Florida calling in. He says as Christians can UFOs and aliens be explained where are they if they exist. Well, UFOs simply stands for unidentified flying object. And a lot of them, most of them, can be identified. I had some neighbors that awoke in me one night and they thought that they had seen a UFO and I went out and saw it and then I got my binoculars and looked at them.

It was a kite. Somebody had a kite and it was up there way up in the sky. I don’t know how high. But it zigzagged it around and this is in the middle of the night and the light reflecting off of the kite from the moon, gave this eerie look to it and it would go shooting down and come back up and all the things that a kite would do. I think most of these can be explained, but also certainly it could be that this is angelic Satan’s angels.

Satan himself is called an angel of light and I don’t doubt that we’re going to see more more of these types of things as we approach the Lord’s return. And I think there will probably be a lie told about the Rapture that will include the explanation of alien beings and UFOs. And as we get close to the Rapture, I don’t doubt that we’ll see a lot more so-called UFO sightings. I don’t really believe that there’s any life in outer space outside of God and the chair The seraphim, angels, and human life and animal life as we know it here on the planet.

Otherwise, I don’t believe there’s any other life in the universe. Thank you, Josh. I hope that helps a little bit. We now have Carl in Riverview, Florida, calling in with an off-air question. And again, if you want to call in and get on the air, please, if you would, call 1-800-576-37-8 And if you want to call in and get on the air, please, if you would call 1-800-576-3771. We We have in the Carl’s question here, where in the scriptures does Jesus actually drink wine?

Well, if you read the Gospels, he obviously went to different people’s homes and he drank wine and he’s obviously accused of being a wine bibber. He did drink, no doubt about it, but he never got drunk. There is no probation in the Bible against drinking wine, but there is an old and New Testament probation against drunkenness. Jesus never got drunk, but certainly he did turn the water into wine at the marriage in Canaan. No doubt he also probably drank of that wine.

But he never got drunk. So Carl, I hope that helps and I don’t have a specific verse to point you to right now. But read the Gospels, I’m sure you’ll find many references. We have Ken in Decatur, Illinois. He says Hebrews 114, please explain the Ministry of Angels. How did they minister to people? Well, obviously, I think they provide protection. You know Job was protected from Satan. Satan brought that up in Job chapter 1. He said to God that you’ve got a heads of protection about Job.

And I think that was angelic protection. He was not allowed to touch Job. And of course God took away the protection and allowed Satan to take away the possessions of Job and even kill all of his children and also allowed Satan next to afflict Job’s body and make him ill. So there is angelic protection that watches over us and I really believe that and I think that’s part of it. So we find that angels also apparently escort our souls at death to heaven.

If you read Luke 16, it talks about when the beggar Lazarus died, that the angels took his soul at death and carried him to where Abraham was at that time, paradise in the heart of the earth. But definitely, angels are involved in our lives and especially the way some people drive out on the interstate. I imagine that whole team of angels have to kind of watch out over you. I remember seeing that chorus as a kid. Angels watching over me, day and night, angels watching over me.

I used to love to sing that and I still do. I haven’t sung it lately. But it’s a real true song, I believe, that day and night angels are watching over us. We also know in 1 Corinthians 6 it says that there are spectators watching, observing what we are doing. So they are certainly watching us, observing us, and they are obviously protecting us and at death, escorted us safely to heaven. You know when you die, you have to go through the earth’s atmosphere to heaven.

Satan is called the prince of the power of the air. So in order to get to heaven you’re going to have to travel through Satan’s territory. I believe that God’s angels give us safe escort through the atmosphere to heaven whenever we die. I’m Dr. Englund Stroom, this is my blind and we certainly invite you to give us a call. We have had phone line problems today and a lot of calls have dropped and you have to be persistent and keep on dialing.

So if you’d like to dial us right now, you can. And we hope that you can get through on a line that’s working. And we’ll try to get all this sorted out and figured out later. We have Mike in Seminole calls in with this offer question. The offer question seemed to be getting through here. Why should we choose Christianity out of all the religions? Well, I believe that true Christianity is not a religion. and we should reject religion. The word religion comes from two Latin words, re- and Ligio, and it means to do something of self to bind back to God.

And all religions have that common denominator of works that you have to do something to be saved. And the Christian counterfeit also says, yes, you have to turn from your sin and you have to live the Christian life and you have to do this and do that and do the other. And that is a counterfeit. Christianity is the opposite of religion. It’s God doing for men what man could not do for himself. In other words, Jesus paid it all.

And when you trust in Christianity or Christ, really, then you become saved. All the world religions really don’t even need their leader or their founder. If you have Islam, you don’t really need Mohammed. If you have Buddhism, you don’t really need Buddha. If you have Confucianism, you don’t need Confucius. But Christianity, if you take the word Christian out or Christ out of Christianity, all you have is an entity. You have nothing. Christ is essential. Christ is the way, the truth of life.

is God who came and took on him in flesh. Basically, all the world religions teach works are required. It gets you to heaven. Whereas the Bible or the truth or Christianity teaches that God himself made the provision for your sin. When you trust in what Christ did for you, God saves you forever and ever and ever. So, Mike, Jesus said in John 14-6, write it down. I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life, and no man can come under the Father, but by me.”

Okay? And I hope that helps. And we have now, any in Holiday Florida calling in. If God created earth, why do we have other planets Jupiter and so on? Good question. And one of the answers is Jupiter is so large and has such a gravitational field. They They tell us, scientists tell us if it weren’t for Jupiter, are… The planet would be dead. There would be no life on it. Did you know most of the asteroids and rocks that come into our solar system are taken and deflected by the gravity of Jupiter so that they never reach us?

Did you know that? They are caught in that tremendous gravitational field of Jupiter and slung like a slingshot in another direction. God certainly knew what he was doing when he created the earth and he created these other plants that have been have a real purpose in relationship to ours. We don’t understand all of it yet, but we’re learning more every day about how they really do protect us. I’m Dr. Englund, this is my blind, and while the time goes by so quickly, we had phone problems today, but we still have tons of offer questions.

We have a wonderful audience that has full of questions apparently, and hopefully you’re enjoying the program. Join us again tomorrow, and then I hope that if you’ve not trusted Christ that you would simply just say, Lord, I’m a sinner. But I trust Jesus right now as the only way I can enter heaven by His death and shed blood that I am trusting Christ as the only hope I have of reaching heaven. If you haven’t helped Bible and we could use your help, June is about over, but we are totally dependent upon you, the Lister, to be able to pay the bills and stay on the air.

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