Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-10-26

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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 great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. We appreciate you and all of our listeners. I look forward to being with you each and every day here on Bible and we’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor and we always invite our listeners to come by and visit our resource center during the week open to about 430 every day.

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If you have your Bible there we’re going to get into the Bible for a few minutes and then we’re going to take our colors. The phone number is 1-800-576-3771. We’ve got some good news if you have friends in South Florida let them know that Monday We’re going to be live in Miami. Monday will be live in Miami on 1080, a 50,000 watt station in Miami headquartered in Coral Gables. And I think that we ought to reach all of South Florida.

That’s Monday will begin in Miami. So pray about that opportunity that the Lord has given to us. And I know we have lots of listeners down there that have been waiting for us to come back up on the air. So if you know any of them, you can pass that word along to them and encourage them to listen beginning Monday. That’s right around this weekend. We’re gonna be on in Miami, Florida and we’re happy to be back on the air down there.

We’re now gonna turn to the look of Hebrews and if you have your Bible there, it says in verse four, for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. What it means is it’s impossible. It’s not possible, it’s impossible. Nobody has ever been saved by offering up an animal sacrifice. nobody has ever been saved by keeping the Old Testament law and here it tells us that it’s not starting for… … …

… The blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. It’s impossible. So what happened? God provided a sacrifice that would take away our sins and that is, of course, Jesus. In verse 10 of Hebrews 10, it says, by the Witchwill, which is referring to the will of God in the context here, we are sanctified. That means made pure and holy. It’s interesting that most people define sanctify as to set apart. That’s simply an appetite. application of the word.

The Greek word means to make pure and holy. You have to be as holy or as righteous as God to enter heaven, none of us are. But the moment you trust Christ, the Bible says we are sanctified, made pure and holy. Now, anything that is pure and holy is set apart from everything that’s not holy, so the application is to set apart. But that’s That’s not the meaning. And I think we lose something when we don’t define it correctly here.

It really means to make pure and holy, and this is the verb form, but the noun form is saint. So every person that has been sanctified, which happens at the moment of belief, that person is a saint. I’m Saint Hank. That sounds a little strange perhaps, but you’re saint whoever you are right now, if If you are a believer, you have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. That is just a quote from the Bible.

Hebrews 10 verse 10 says, By the will of God, by the which will we are sanctified, made pure and holy, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. To become holy, to be saved, is something that you can’t do. God can provide it for you and the Bible tells us through God’s will we are made pure and holy. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. When Christ died, His death purchased our salvation and the Bible tells us that we are made pure and holy through that offering that Christ made.

Verse 11 is quite a striking contrast where it talks about every priest standeth daily, In the ministry, in offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which it says in my Bible, never, can never, can never, can never, can never take away sins. So we learn here that the priesthood could never take away sin. The Roman Catholic priest cannot take away your sin by offering up the Mass. It says here, every priest, stand at daily, ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

That includes my friend the Mass. The Mass cannot take away your sins. The priests that are doing that can’t take away your sins. The Bible is saying here, every priest, Hebrews 10, 11, stand with daily ministry and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never, never, never means never, can never take away sins. 1 verse 12 goes back to what Christ did and it says this man, Jesus Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, one sacrifice for sins forever, one sacrifice for sins forever, set down on the right hand of God.

Jesus offered up one sacrifice. That one sacrifice paid for every sin of every human being that would ever be born on this planet from Adam till the last man should ever live on this planet. Jesus Christ would by one offering. It only took one. The offering of the animals in the Old Testament never took away sin. Verse 4 here of Hebrews 10 says, It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin. It’s impossible.

But here this man, Jesus, verse 12, after he He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God. What that is saying is that he had completed his work. The work of salvation has been finished at the cross. The Old Testament priest never could sit down. There was no piece of furniture in the tabernacle or in the temple where the priest could sit down because his job was never done. the sacrifices they offered could never take away sins.

But Jesus Christ, His sacrifice satisfied God’s justice for all eternity, taking His all the way back to the first human Adam, all the way to the last one in the future that would ever be born. Christ died to pay for every one of their sins and by one offering. By one sacrifice for sins forever, he then sat down on the right hand of God. Verse 14 says, By one offering, not many, but by one offering, he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.

Notice here it talks about the believer being sanctified forever. That means made pure and holy forever. Let me just ask you a question. If you were made pure and holy in God’s sight forever, Could you be assured of going to heaven? The answer is of course, yes, yes, of course. If you were made as righteous as God and perfected forever, there’s no question about it. You’re welcome to enter heaven and resign there forever. That’s what the Bible is saying.

Our entrance into heaven is based upon the finished work at Calvary. He offered up one sacrifice that did the whole job for all eternity, then he sat down because his job was done and it says in verse 14 by one offering, he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Wow, in other words, God says I am perfected forever based upon what Christ did for me at the cross. How about you? And as a result, the noun form of the word sanctified, which is the verb form, is saint.

I’m a saint and near a saint. It’s almost too hard to believe, isn’t it? The Roman Catholic Church has a system where somebody has to live an exemplary life and die and maybe much after their death they are recommended for sainthood and they examine their lives and committees pour over what they did and they look to see if some kind of miracle is taking place in their life and they go toward this course of called Beatification and finally they are declared a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

God has not the biblical system. The Bible says that we are instant saints at the moment we believe. I became a saint when I was eighteen when I trusted Christ. And whenever you trusted Christ, if you have, you became a saint at that instant. And the Bible declares those that have believed on Christ are saints and it says in verse 14, by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. incredible. It really tells us what happened across the Calvary was incredible because it has eternal consequences.

When we trust in the finished work of Christ, we become saved forever and ever and ever. And as a result, we can be absolutely assured of going to heaven. I love the fact that the Bible tells us we can know right now that we already possess eternal life while we’re still living. The reason why you can receive eternal life, the reason why I can right now possess eternal life is because the payment for my sin debt past, present and future sins has already been paid for in full by the one offering that Christ made on the cross.

Isn’t that incredible? It’s all paid for. So therefore I can receive it in real time. When I trusted Christ in 18, I received everlasting life. First on 513 says, These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know KNOW, not hope or guess or perhaps or maybe, but you can know that you have HAVE, present tense, right now you possess eternal life. It says you can know you have it, you can know you have it, you can know you have it, You can know that you have eternal life the moment you trust Christ as your Savior.

Boy, it’s exciting. I’m Dr. Engvens from this is my blindness, wonderful to be with you today. And we thank God for all of you who listen and pray that you’re getting your friends to listen and pass that word along. And of course, the new news is a couple of things are happening on Monday in Lansing, Michigan. We’re on every day and our delayed. But beginning Monday for you folks up there in Lansing, Michigan, you’ll hear us live at the same time We go out of Tampa here at 10 a.m.

In the morning You’ll be live there at 10 a.m. In Lansing and so we’re excited about finally getting that time slot open and also money 10 o’clock in the morning will be live in Miami, Florida on 1080 on the a.m. Now a 50,000 watt station without a reach all of South Florida with one station and so if you don’t folks down there give them a call telling Monday on AM 5 rather a m at 1080 they’ll be able to hear Bibleline live at 10 o’clock on this coming Monday morning.

Well we’re gonna go to the phone lines we have a lot of people already waiting to get up on the air with me and so we’re looking forward to talking with you give us a call at 1-800-576-3771 and we have anonymous in Texas. Welcome to Bibleline. You’re on the air. I have a question about the assembly of God, that denomination. I don’t know too much about it, but I know there’s a guy that came to our church recently and he claims he’s a similar God.

Do you know what they stand for or anything? I could be wrong because there’s so many different church names that aren’t necessarily the same group. But generally I believe they believe in the oneness doctrine that there is no Trinity. Number two, they believe you can lose your salvation. Number three, they believe in the gifts of the Spirit including tongues which I believe is ceased. So I think there are some things there to examine. I would imagine if you went on the internet and looked up their doctrinal position, you would find it out.

But I’m pretty sure they’re famous of Pentecostal Church. And they are definitely speaking in tongues and believe you can lose your salvation. So their doctrine is flawed. Okay, okay. I know that God did not allow or he didn’t create evil or anything like that. Can you tell me why the devil was allowed to do what he did? Why was he allowed to fall? When we go to heaven is there anybody else that’s going to be allowed to fall or to lose their position like the devil did?

Okay. Okay. Okay, good question. In the answers that God made angels creatures of choice, and they all have already now had their choice, and it’s set in concrete now. But a third of the angels apparently chose not to stick with the Lord, and only one-third did that, but they are forever already judged. They’re headed for hell, but they’re alive and well on the planet right now. He will not be cast into hell until Satan is at the end of the Millennial Kingdom.

But once we’re in heaven, the Bible says that there will be no more sin and that will be in a sin-free environment. And all those that are lost will be separated from God forever. So basically, he allowed choice and he knew that if he did, it would bring chaos and ruin and destruction and sin into the universe and that’s exactly what did happen. So I hope that helps. Thank you, Derek. Okay. Thank you. All right. And Derek said he was anonymous, but he told us his name on the show.

So we have now Lee in Lake Susie, Florida. Sounds like a nice place. Lee, welcome to Byline. You’re on the air. Hello, Dr. the person I want to know and I have been looking forward in the Bible and I had my friends who have been studying Bible many, many years. Mary, the mother of Jesus, I wanted to know some of her background. I can’t find that her grandfather, her father or anybody like that in the Bible for her. Well, there’s a whole genealogy in Luke chapter 3.

There you have the genealogy of Mary, and in Matthew you have the genealogy of Joseph. Both of them were related back to King David. Mary in Luke 3 is related to David through his son Nathan and Matthew. Joseph is related back to King David through his son Solomon. So the King line was passed on through Joseph to Christ. But Mary was the direct line back to David and all the way back to Adam as far as the flesh is concerned.

Joseph was not obviously the Father, but being the stepfather, he passed on the airship to the throne of David, being of the Kingly line of Solomon. But Mary, of course, takes us back all the way to Adam, and the genes of the human race were in that body that Jesus took upon himself. So there you have your answer, follow that genealogy in Luke 3 and you’ve got the ancestry of Mary. Thank you. You’re so welcome. Have a blessed day.

All right. That was Lee in Lake Susie, Florida. We now have Adam in Tampa, Florida and Adam, welcome to my blind. You’re on the air. You have my question. I’m coming from Romans 12 and verse 3. Towards the end of that verse it says, God has dealt every man the measure of faith. Can you explain that for me? Well, I believe that face is one of the gifts in the sense that some people have a greater capacity seemed to just trust God and I believe that that is One of the 19 gifts that God gives.

Some people are really men or women of faith, really believing, really trusting God. But our salvation is a gift, received by faith, but that faith of that capacity to believe is given to everybody, and the human race saved and lost the like. the lost exercise that trust when they become saved and it’s through that trust in what Christ did that we reach out and take hold of the gift of eternal life which is offered through Jesus Christ. When we trust that He died for us, but then in the Christian life which is talking about here, He’s talking about brethren, I beseech you that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.

Some have a special gift of being able to trust God, it seems like more than others, and they just step out believing God in so many areas of their life, and they really are inspiring to other believers. I hope that helps answer it for you. My question is, do people have more believing God to them where to reject Him? Well, of course, you are responsible, but I think this is in the area of gifts here, It’s talking here about, for example, some are more gifted in the area of evangelism.

Some are gifted in the area of administration. Some are gifted in the area of helping people and so on and so on. So there are different gifts and some people are given a measure of a greater ability to help or comfort than someone else and depends on what your gift is. have the gift of faith, which is a separate thing from salvation. I wanted to make that distinction because everybody has the capacity to believe and no one can say one day, hey, I did get the gift of faith.

Now what’s interesting here, those that are Calvinist go to Ephesians 2 8 and they say that God only gives faith to those that are elected to be saved. And they use Ephesians 2 8 to do that. It’s interesting little trick they do, but it says in Ephesians to eight mind grace by mercy, or you say through faith in Jesus Christ. And then the next phrase says, and that none of yourselves, and they say that none of your souls refers back to faith, that faith is none of yourself, that faith is the gift of God, and that God gives faith to those of you who have elected.

But it can’t be because the phrase, and that none of yourselves is neuter in the Greek and has to refer back to a neuter subject. And faith in Greek is feminine. So it has to refer back to the neuter subject, which is salvation through faith. So salvation through faith is not of yourself. It is the gift of God. It is not of works with any man should boast or brag. So obviously that was the distinction I was trying to make there is that everybody has the capacity to believe or trust on Christ.

But after we become saved, some have a greater measure of faith in the sense that that’s a gift where they really excel in just trusting God, just believing that he can do anything in their lives and they are really great mentors for the rest of us to say, wow, we need to trust God like they do. Can I ask you one more quick question? Sure. Okay, it’s in Matthew, chapter 17, and it’s in verse 20, I’m sure you’re familiar with it.

It’s because of your unbelief, ververly I say unto you, that ye have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall stand to this mountain removed. So some people, and I guess it would be called on faith’s movement, that say that we can actually move mountains, but we just don’t have an update. You explain that verse, and I’ll hang up in one second. Sure, that’s in the… That’s in Matthew 21. And basically it’s not the quantity of faith that is in question there, it’s talking about the object of faith.

So if you have a little faith in Jesus, you can be saved from hell and go to heaven. If you have a lot of faith in a palm tree, it’s not going to get you across the street. So it’s not the amount of faith, it’s the object in which you place your faith. But there in that particular verse, it’s talking about removing this mountain. If you read it carefully in the context, Jesus was on the Mount of Olives. And that mountain one day will be removed as you read in Zachariah 14 at the Second Coming of Christ, his feet will touch down on the mountain, it will split and it’s going to be removed.

And a pathway will be provided between the mount that Jerusalem is built upon and the Dead Sea Valley which is straight down below. And so the river of water that will flow from out under the temple during the millennium will flow straight down to the Dead Sea. That’s exciting. And right now the amount of others is in the way, so it will be removed and that’s exciting stuff. By the way, water already is beginning to flow underneath the temple mount.

And you can read this on the internet and the Muslims who control the temple mount have tried to stop it. They are using pumps to pump it out and away. it might be the beginning. of what will happen when Jesus returns. Keep an eye on that. I think it’s one of the signs of the times that there is water beginning to flow underneath the Temple Mount River. It will flow there. The Bible says two directions-one way down to the Mediterranean sea and the other way down to the Dead Sea.

Did you know that the map Jerusalem is dead centered between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, exciting stuff. Anyway we’re coming to the end of this half of the program. We have people waiting online and we’ll try to get us back on day 1. and the other way down to the Dead Sea. Did you know if you look at a map Jerusalem is dead center between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea? Citing stuff. Anyway, we’re coming to the end of this half of the program.

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Yes, good morning brother Lynch. Jim, the reception is breaking up a little here through the computer but I I just wanted to tell you that we did go to California to visit my brother and his family. He lived in Needles, California. We were in Nevada, Arizona, and California. But we went with our pockets filled with, am I going to the flight attendants? But my main point is my brother and his family are not safe and they go to the casinos.

Now we made it clear to them that we would not be doing any gambling and he understood that. But they give a lot of very, very reasonable buffet dinners in all of the casinos out there, which I tell you really, when you talk about California burning up, it really is. And then when I saw the waste of money and the smoking and the drinking going on and the casinos I felt very unhappy and out of my element but I figured as long as the enemy was busy working there I would like to be privileged to be used of the Lord.

So I began to give our tracks out to the folks that were working in the casinos and they were very graciously received. The lady that worked in the casino said please would you give one of these to my girlfriend? So I explained to them and I asked if they had computers and they said yes, and I showed them your web address, and I told them to log on and to listen. And to the flight attendants that we’d be friended in, five hours and almost six hour trip out to Vegas when we visited with them, I thank them for their service on Southwest.

And I said to them that I gave them each a track and I said these are only one-way tickets. But if you would read and follow the instructions and put your faith in Jesus Christ, trust him for salvation. That’s the best route to take. That’ll be the best trip that you’ve ever taken. And they both smiled and put them in their pocket and thanked me graciously. Now my point is this. Well, he wrong in going in the casinos with my brother and his wife.

I don’t think so. I think that’s wonderful that you took advantage of it and what a witness you were to not only the employees there, but also your family members that saw you, I’m sure, witnessing for Jesus. Sure. I think that’s a powerful witness. I’ll never forget that. And I like that about a one-way trip to get to heaven through Christ. That’s for sure. We don’t want to come back once we go. And once we trust Christ, we’re going to be there.

I think it’s great, Betty. God bless you. Thank you for your faithfulness in witnessing. And I guess, uh… The slot machines, I said to them that they could really be a winner if they were to be saved. So, thank you so much for your faithfulness and we’re really grateful to be back safe and sound. Amen. Well, that’s wonderful. To take advantage of the opportunity and, you know, we can’t go out of the world. says in the first Corinthians 5 about being in the world, but yet not of the world, and how that although we ought to not become tainted by the world, that we can’t live without being influenced by the world around us unless we just totally left the earth.

So we have to try to influence the world rather than letting the world influence us. I think you did a great job. I give you an A. Thank you. We have Jay now in Tampa, Florida. Welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Year. Jay? Yes. Hi, Dr. Hank. Yes, you’re On The Year. I got a couple of questions and I’ve been trying to find it in the Bible if it addresses it at all. If there’s any material in the Bible, or any portion of the Bible that addresses interracial marriages or masturbation.

It doesn’t talk about, well it talks about interracial marriages in the sense that they weren’t to marry unbelievers but otherwise no Bible has no reason why you couldn’t But again, there are words of caution because sometimes there are so many cultural differences that these marriages generally fail at a higher rate. So you have to know that. And obviously if you’re getting married, you want to have enough as many things in common with your partner as possible because that helps keep you tied together.

And if you’re fighting other customs and dress and where you’d like to go or what you’d like to do or whatever, I just kind of divide the family so they have to watch out for that, but otherwise no. And I don’t know of a verse that actually describes masturbation. It talks about it in Genesis. You see somebody there that didn’t want to have a child and they obviously did not allow that semen to penetrate into the woman. But their God was angry with the person because they didn’t carry out the seed line which he wanted them to do.

But otherwise it doesn’t say that but obviously we’re to glorify the Lord and the Lord wants us, I believe, to have sex within marriage and as he designed it to be. So I believe it’s something unspoken but I think the principles are there that we really shouldn’t be engaging in masturbation, but I don’t have any verse to point to. So I hope that helps a little bit. I’ve been looking in and looking at it. I couldn’t find anything. So there’s a fellow named O’Nan and Genesis.

You might want to look that one up. That’s the one that they typically go to. I think it’s in about Genesis 38. So take a look back there and read that story and see what you think. All right. And there’s nothing, you could say that there’s nothing wrong about the Well, you have lots of complications because you can have people on both sides, family members that may not accept it, then you have people that you’re going to interact with the rest of your life that may not accept it, then you have children that may not be accepted by this side and you have to weigh all those things into the mix.

In some countries, it’s more accepted than others and some parts of the country are more accepted than others. So you really have a lot of things to deal with there and that some of them can He’s eating away at you to the point where it eats away and destroys your marriage. So you have to realize that you’re adding some extra complications when you have an interracial marriage. But otherwise there’s nothing scriptural as soon as you can. You just marry another believer.

Make sure they know the Lord. Okay, you’re welcome and that was Jay in Tampa, Florida. We’d love to hear from you. The phone number here’s 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. We have a lot of all fair questions here and I believe that we probably need to take a couple of them. We have Bobby down in Miami, Florida. He’s going to be excited to know that we’re getting on the air in Miami beginning Monday. He says, please answer a question about salvation. On one hand in the Bible says if you believe in Jesus, you’ll go to heaven.

On the other hand, it says not everyone who says Lord Lord will enter in the kingdom of heaven. Please explain. Well that is an easy one because the passage in Matthew 7, where the mini will say to the Lord Lord Lord, it is clear that they are in the are not saved because they boast about what they are doing as the means of their entrance in the heaven. Nowhere do they say, Lord, Lord, we trusted you as our Savior.

We trusted in your death and shed blood as the means of our salvation. Not at all. And that’s the reason why Christ says in verse 23, I never knew you. He didn’t say, I once knew you and I lost you. But he said, I never knew you. They were never saved. And it’s because they trusting in their works. They said, Lord, why we preached in your name and healed in your name and did many wonderful wonderful works in your name.

And obviously that will not save. So when you trust Christ, you will be saved. These others are claiming to be Christian and are appealing to Christ to let them in the heaven based upon the things that they did. Their deeds rather than faith and salvation is not based upon works or deeds. It’s based upon faith in Christ alone. We have Fred in Auburnville, Florida and we’re going to go to Fred and welcome to Babylon. Good to have you on the air.

Okay, am I on the air? You are right now. Okay, God bless. How’s everything today? Good, just turn your radio down because that’s bleeding over. Turn your radio down and just listen to the phone. I asked the God bless. I had called yesterday and I forget to add to the question about the witnesses in the revelation. I know you told us that Dan was not there because of certain things. I wondered about the half tribe of Ephraim. Why were I?

I’ll hang up and I’ll listen. The answer again is Joseph. You remember the one that was sold in Egypt and became second only to Pharaoh? He was a wonderful, wonderful man, a man of God truly, and God raised him up for the purpose of delivering the Jewish people in their infancy while they were down in Egypt during this worldwide famine. Remember he had the dream or the Pharaoh had the dream about the seven fat years and the seven lean years and Joseph was able to interpret the dream and God set Joseph in charge over Egypt.

Well Joseph had two sons and because of Joseph’s wonderful faithfulness in Godliness he gave him a double blessing. So you have the two sons carrying on the line and becoming the extra tribe to replace Dan during the tribulation and it’s because we believe in Genesis 49 there is a prophecy that the antichrist would come out of the tribe of Dan, that blood from the tribe of Dan would flow in the antichrist veins. Hopefully that helps, Red, and I hope that answers it for you.

We’re now going to go to Ken in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Ken, welcome to Bibleline Your Own The Air. How are you doing, Dr. Lynch? Good. I’ll just kind of give an approach for the caller before the last one about masturbation. It you might approach it from as a man looked upon a woman with lust in his heart because he’s imagining things. And it’s generally people creating a pornography and the other stuff. stuff deal in the imaginary world.

What’s the point of being in Christ? That’s a very good point I hadn’t thought of that. I appreciate you sharing that with us. That’s a good answer. Yeah. Any of those verses in there because when you look at the behavior patterns so the people get caught up in that, take them down a path of being derogatory towards other people because they’re living in this altered world all the time trying to cover up their life for who they are. And then if we’re in so much time focused on that it’s hard for them.

They haven’t spent any time in the word. to come to a mature point to be able to evaluate who or who they shouldn’t be married. And they gently fall right into lust with some other girl or guy. And then that turns into help me. It’s already over at that point. Thank you, Ken. That was great. A great answer. Have a good one. All right. That was a very good answer. And that’s an area where there’s so much written about it.

And there are not many people who talk about a period. Thank you, Ken. That was great. in Brandon Florida and Glenn welcome to Bob on your own year. Hi Pastor my question is that third of the angels they’re now demons we’ll say God and when they whenever non-believers are going to be down in the demons I know What’s the name of the Bible? The angel’s in heaven. We’re actually a little more powerful in that. We’re a little more powerful than the angels once we get to heaven.

Now, as believers were… were higher than the angels because God never called an angel his son and tells us that in Hebrews that we were lower than the angels in our entrance into the world as members of the human race but once we become saved we become sons of God and we become higher than the angels in authority. I don’t think we’re going to be doing any fighting with angels and we’re not even to fight with them now, where to appeal to the Lord to defend us against angels.

It says we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with these angelic beings in high places Ephesians 6 tells us and we need to put on God’s armor and trust that God will give us the protection that we need against the wiles of the devil, the trickery of the devil that he brings against us as believers. And even in the eternity future we won’t be duking it out with angels. Do you believe that whenever the non-believers get to heaven, sorry, when they get to hell, that the demons, text angels will be basically the ones who are going to be the humans?

So I think that’s all part of medieval paintings and also cartoons and I don’t believe that at all. Actually, if you read Isaiah 14 where you have the fall of Satan in verse 13 and 14, if you read the prior verses 9 through 12, it seems like Satan and his angels are going to be mocked by humans that have died as unbelievers and saying, how could this happen you guys, you know, and here you are in the same situation we’re in and yet it didn’t seem possible because they had such positions of power.

It’s kind of an interesting read there in Isaiah 14, 9 through 12. Okay, I don’t know if you’ve heard of it. I have heard about it, but I haven’t read it, but obviously anybody who claims that they’ve been the hell came back. That’s can’t be true because you don’t get a chance to do that. Okay, I mean, it might be if it’s written from a perspective of what it might be like. But if the person’s claiming an experience where they went to hell and came back, I think somebody actually claimed that they went there and came back.

That’s that’s not true. Once you die, you don’t come back. The only exception was Samuel when Saul appealed to the Witch of Indoor, even the witch there freaked out and screamed because she’d never seen anything the likes of it. And the earth really opened up so that they could see directly down to… He’s in the heart of the earth where the believers were in paradise and Samuel came up out of the heart of the earth and talked to Saul.

But that’s the exception. Nobody else gets to do that and you’ll see there at Luke 16, prior to the cross, both saved and lost in the heart of the earth. In two separate place of comfort and a place of torment and there was no escaping that person. He couldn’t come back out of Hades. And of course, technically nobody, is in hell yet. Anyway, the first one in hell gets toraised Satan and that’s after the millennium. So anybody would claim this side of the end of the millennium, which is a still long way out there, going to hell is completely unscriptural.

They would have to go to Hades, but they can’t get out because Christ has the keys and not going to let you go in and out of that place. So thank you for I hope that helped, Glenn, and thank you for calling in today. All right, that was Glenn, and now we have, let’s see, we have Dr. Anonymous, which we haven’t heard from for a while, and it looks like he’s roaming around somewhere in Pasco County. So, Dr. Anonymous, welcome to Babylon.

How you doing, Dr. Doctor? Doing okay. How are you doing? Hey, man, I’m on my second cup of coffee. Hey, listen. With all that caffeine you ought to be really just really on top of your game. Go ahead, what’s the question? Hey, let me turn the radio down. I’m having feedback. Oh, this was a question from I was calling up. Let me talk about masturbation or something like that. Whatever the front and left which is true, just even talking about thought and stuff.

But what are you teaching on your mind about if you try to do anything on your own, then the net going to work and salvation is something like that. But what I’m saying to this is that need to consider trusting God and praying like this because somewhere in the lineTwitter goingisode get weak and saying what.venue what happened to the thing is whether or notdrm we still standing and saying it’s here. Okay, God know and nobody’s perfect. House of Barn had certain struggles and thingslike that and we Brees doniewt know what he was wrong.

A thorn in the flesh and saying that this. And I just went there focused on that. Where were they in the Bible in Romans and stuff? Well Paul’s thorn in the flesh, that’s 2 Corinthians chapter 12. And we believe that it was probably an eye ailment, a problem he had. The book of Galatians, he talks several times about how the people of Galatia loved him so much they would have been willing to pluck up their own eyes and give them the Paul.

but it was an eye problem. Also, when he finishes the book in chapter 6, he talks about with such large letters that he wrote that book with, as he didn’t dictate that particular book because he was so passionate about getting that message out that he personally took pen and hand. And obviously, the letters of each word were written very large because he had an eye problem. And so we believe that’s what it was, although he doesn’t directly ever tell us this is what his medical problem was all over the party with the roman he would say something like you have an instructor with something i know what it up with malcolm based no no the he had a struggle with his old nature and uh…

we all have that you know it says uh… i know in roman seven is what you’re referring to their in my flesh their growth no good thing and so uh… for the will is present with me but how to perform that which is good i find not so Paul struggled as he wanted to live for the Lord faithfully every day but also the old nature wanted to be satisfied as well. And that doesn’t necessarily mean even anything evil but you just allow time to just slip away from you and you don’t do the things you really need to do that are important.

And that of course is what he was struggling with there. We’re sure getting to the very end here. Thank you Dr. Anonymous. I want to go to one more caller here. We have Carol in Tarpon Springs and that will be it for today. Carol, welcome to Bible Eye. Hi. I have a couple questions. Don has placed me in the companion, one of my doctors, and another friend that I meet. I’m meeting all these people that are involved in metaphysics.

And especially, I sat down with my doctor the other day. And all of a sudden, now the clear blue sky we’re sitting and talking. And he says, Carol, I said, you know what I try to do right. And you know, and God is my strength in this and that. And He says, well, you know, I believe that we are, you know, that God is in all of us. There is no hell. You need to forget about that. This is it.

We’re not going, there’s no hell. And it’s all about love. I was sitting there going, you don’t believe in hell. Have you ever read your Bible? Have you ever read a case for Christ or a case for faith? And his receptionist and other people I’m meeting, I really don’t know what to say to them except getting an argument. Well, they’re very difficult to talk to because they don’t believe anything is real. I mean, the physical world around us isn’t really physical.

It’s metaphysical and I mean, it really doesn’t exist. I don’t have any more time, Carol, but I definitely need to pray for them. They’re tough to lead to Christ. They’re tough to get out of that. The Christian scientists are of that same mindset and it’s all in their head that supposedly, when you’re sick, it’s just all in your head. There’s no such thing as sickness or death or disease. and they really, it’s a mind game, and definitely they’re on the wrong side.

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