Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-02-28

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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 to the broadcast. We look forward to being with you each and every day. Monday through Friday as we come to you live from our studios right here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church.

We’re so glad that you’ve tuned in today and we’re here every day Monday through Friday and next week we’ll be in Israel. We’ll be broadcasting beginning Wednesday. You’ll here in the program is coming to you from Israel. We hope you’ll follow each day. It ought to be a lot of fun as we talk to you about what we’re seeing, what we’re doing, what we’re experiencing. You can call in with your questions and you can submit them by internet. We hope to answer some of your questions while we’re there.

In any case, I wish you were on this trip and if you’re not, then you can call in and get your name on the list for the next trip. We have a lot of people that want to go on another trip and we’ll be planning that and it’d be nice to know that you’re interested and you could be a part of the planning because if you tell me here’s the time which would be best for me to go that would help me.

If you would tell me here’s where I’d like to go in addition to Israel that would help me. If you can tell me other things about what your preferences are we’ll try to accommodate them and put them into the trip. So give me a call. Call 800-1-800-576-3771. Get your name on the Israel list and we’ll talk to you as we bank our plans and hopefully you’ll be on board and go with us the next go round. Good to be with you today.

We just finished up first Peter and that series on first Peter. 10 hours of teaching is available now on CD and DVD. You can call and order that set. So we get back from Israel, we’ll do 2nd Peter, 10 hours of teaching on 2nd Peter, and then we’ll finish that Peter series. We’ve done numerous books in the Bible. You can get the book of Romans, which was incredible. What a great study that was. You can get the book of Jude, 10 hours of teaching on the book of Jude, so rich that we really almost didn’t finish that in 10 hours.

It’s such a great book. You will not believe what the book of Jude holds. It’s a transitional book between the first 64 books of the Bible and the last book of the Bible, the 66 book. It’s book number 65, the book of Jude is incredible. We also, of course, have done the book of Revelation, the book of Daniel, and the book of Hebrews, which is considered so difficult, we’ve covered all the difficult portions and explain them, and that’ll be a great help if you’re struggling with passages in the book of Hebrews.

We hope that you’ll call and check with our resource there about things that might be helpful to you. You can look on the website at the online bookstore and see everything. You can also call for a resource sheet. We can mail that right out to you free of charge. And you can then study that sheet and decide what things you might like to add to your personal library. We have the Old Scofield Bible. We have some beautiful additions in leather.

We have the large print in genuine weather, thumb index. It’s just beautiful. I mean the outside of that Bible is just gorgeous. You just want to sit there and look at it. And you’ll want to maybe take a look at the different editions of the old school filled Bible that we have here in stock, along with that strongest concordance which retails for I forget how much, but we have it for gift of $35. a gift that is about three inches thick, has every word in the Bible every thee, every dowel every end, everybody shall gives you the original Hebrew or Greek that it comes from how it’s translated what it means and you’ll be really really miles ahead of anybody else if you have a strong concordance in your library.

Hopefully you have your Bible handy. We’ll get into the Bible for a few minutes and then we’re going to be taking our callers and you can call in if you’d like at 1-800-576-3771-1-800 5763771. And by the way, you can go to the internet right now and catch this program live. You can also go during the week and catch it any time of day and archive. There’s two years of radio program sitting there. Plus you can catch the worship service.

If you’re in the Tampa Bay area, I hope you’ll come and see us this Sunday. I’d love to be able to have you in my adult class at 915. And it’s one as far worship service at 1030. And by the way, if you can’t, you can go to the internet and you can catch that worship service live from anywhere on the planet Earth. Just click on the camera on the home page. If you do that at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the video of the audio will come up.

You’ll be watching the worship service. It’ll be like you’re right there in the worship service. Also, if you’re doing a week, there’s a year’s worth of sermons all sitting there waiting for you to take a look at. I hope you’ll do that and I hope the internet becomes a blessing to you. Bibleline Ministries, 154 countries have logged on. We’re getting correspondence from all over the world from people that are watching this wonderful, wonderful opportunity you have through Bibleline Ministries to get into teachings and video and to go to the recordings of the Bible and radio programs all sitting there waiting for you.

Here we go, we’re going to turn to 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy in your Bible, chapter 4. It says here in the last days, for the time will come, will come, I believe it has come, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. That means healthy doctrine, sound doctrine, good sound teaching from God’s Word. The Bible is the Word of God. Not only does it claim to be the Word of God, it demonstrates that it is the Word of God by its accuracy, by the fact that it tells the future before it comes to pass, by the fact that it is accurate in all areas that it covers, no matter whether it be science, whether it be medicine, whether it be astronomy, whether it be history, whether it be geography, it is right on, absolutely right on.

You will find no error in your Bible. It’s prior to this verse, it says in 2 Timothy 3, 16, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction, righteousness, that the man of God might be completely equipped, furnished unto all good works. What a great passage. You need to remember that 2 Timothy 3, 16. That phrase given by inspiration of God is just two words in the Greek. It means God breathes.

That God is the breath. He’s the author. He’s the source. He’s the one that gave us these words. And he used men, yes, but he breathed through them the scriptures. You know when you speak, you inhale air and you breathe it out or your breath coming across or local cords forms words and you are able to communicate with somebody else. Well God is the one who was in the prophets and he spoke through the prophets using their bodies in order to communicate to us his word and you know you can tell this book is far apart from the writings of man.

If you were to just compare scripture in the secular realm against other writings, the difference is the same as it would be between Shakespeare and Bugs Bunny. There is quite a gap there. The Bible shines out as a book different from all other books. There is no book like the Bible. And the Bible says it is living. It is powerful. It is sharper than any two-edged sword. This is a book that cuts spiritually into a person’s very inner being and divides between their soul and their spirit and divides between the joys and the moral, the material and the unmaterial part of man.

It discerns their thoughts, hits an incredible book and guess what? It brings life to those that are spiritually dead. If you do not know the Lord as your Savior, the Word of God can bring life to you. Jesus said in John 5, 25, the hour is now and is now coming. When the dead, those that are spiritually dead can hear the voice of the Son of God and they that here shall live. You can hear this word and the word of God can bring life to the spiritual dead person.

I have led many people to Christ that in one breath said they didn’t believe the Bible, they didn’t want to hear anything about God, they didn’t want to look at the Bible at And yet I shared it with them anyway, and guess what? The Word of God is powerful and living Five minutes later. They trust Christ the Savior Now, that’s not true of everybody I’ve talked to, but I’m telling you, this book is incredible. It is living in powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.

We as believers need to believe that and take up the scriptures and share them with people. I like the track we have called, Am I Going to Heaven? All the verses that you need are right there fully quoted so that when you are witnessing you can share with them scripture the Word of God. Because it is the Word of God that does the work, it is the Word of God that penetrates, it is the Word of God that brings life to a dead soul.

And so when you bring the Word to them and this track so nicely allows you to go verse by verse and just share the scriptures, they are already printed out, you don’t have to turn a Bible, you don’t have to look them up and you can just lead them right to a saving knowledge of Christ right before your very eyes. You’ll be amazed at how this thing works. We have those, by the way, in bundles of a hundred and they really, really do work.

One lady told me that she said we’ve had a lot of tracks and this was up in Tennessee and she said that they’re pretty and they look nice. But the ones that you gave us, am I going to heaven? They work. People actually get saved. And we’ve heard that so many times. But it’s kind of interesting to hear that a lot of chikes are pretty. And they might have an interesting story, but they don’t do anything. But we have a track here that really works, actually leads people to Christ.

And it’s so easy to use that you almost don’t have to do much at all, except just turn the pages on it or just leave it with a person. Anyway, 2 Timothy chapter 4, we’re looking at verse 3, it says, The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But after their own lusts, shall they heap themselves teachers having itching ears. It’s interesting today that we’re at culture time when people just want to have their ears tickled.

They want to be entertained. We’ve been spoiled, I guess. Television, movies, video. technology of today our phones even giving us all this kind of information. Well guess what? The Bible says that they would want to have their ears tickled. I was riding with a driver that was just… The smoking, and I would not make heaven. I said let me explain what repentance means. It means a change of mind and it has nothing to do with stopping your smoking or turning from your sin.

And she trusted Christ as your Savior. Three weeks later she came back and she said, yes, what? She said, I don’t smoke anymore. She said, I tried and equipped for thirty years. And once I trusted Christ, all of a sudden the Lord took away my desire to smoke and I just don’t smoke anymore. And I said, well, that’s the way it ought to be. The Lord is the one who gives you the power after you become saved to be able to have a victory of your sin, but prior to your salvation, the unsafe person doesn’t have the power nor the desire to turn from sin.

So this is something we do after we become saved. And I’ve heard that story so many times where people said, I guess I’m not going to be saved. I just can’t conquer the sins of my life, and they don’t have the power to do that until they do get saved. They’re to come just like they are and get saved. Anyway, the people here in Galilee, Christ is now speaking about them, they did not change your mind. And yet they had greater light than any people who have lived up prior to that time.

Because Jesus walked through their streets, they saw Him, they heard Him, they saw the miracles that He did, and yet they did not change their mind. Let me read that verse again. It’s Matthew chapter 11 verse 20. Then began to hear to upgrade the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because they didn’t change their mind. They repented none. He says, Woe, or judgment under the Coruscant, woe unto the Vethsadia, for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented or changed their mind long ago in cyclos and ashes.

But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment. When the Bible here talks about the day of judgment, it’s talking about the judgment of unsaved people called the Great White Front Judgment, described in Revelation 20. And when the unsaved dead are brought up and are judged, not to determine whether they’re saved or not, they’re in that judgment because they’re lost. The judgment for believers occurs a full thousand years earlier and only believers are at the judgment seat of Christ, but only unbelievers are at the…

He says here it’s going to be more tolerable for the cities of Tyron side and wicked cities that God destroyed in the Old Testament than it will be for you. So in other words, those cities of Corazon and the city would receive a greater degree of punishment and hell because they rejected greater light. They had Christ walk through their streets and do many of his mighty works and miracles. Then it says here in verse 23, the Bible says, Thou Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell.

For if the mighty works which had been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would remain until this day. And I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment. That’s a great white-thrown judgment than for you. Can you imagine? The people who sought them will not be punished as much in hell as the people of Capernaum because the people of Capernaum rejected greater life. That’s just amazing.

Yet you hardly ever hear anybody say anything about that or preach on it, but there are degrees of punishment in hell as there are degrees of reward for believers in heaven. It’s only belief or unbelief that determines your destination if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is your only hope of heaven, you will go to heaven. But if you die as an unbeliever, you will go to hell. But all believers will have their works examined one day at the Judge and Seat of Christ and there will be a signed degree of reward based upon your deeds.

For the unbelievers, they will be at this other judgment mentioned here in Matthew 11 and they will be assigned a degree of punishment in hell according to their works or deeds or to the amount of life that they rejected. And so works are important, but they don’t determine your destination. Works determine what happens at destination. And if you want to go to heaven, you better be a believer. You must trust Christ as your Savior. And that’s how people, if you haven’t trusted Christ as your Savior, just don’t die.

Because you don’t want to experience what’s going to happen after you die. First of all, you’ll be a believer and it’ll be too late. Did you know that everybody in hell believes in Jesus Christ, everybody in hell believes in hell, everybody in hell believes in heaven, everybody in hell believes the Bible is the Word of God, but it’s too late. So just don’t stop breathing. I remember talking to a young man from the Middle Air Force base in Tampa and I came up to him to talk to the Lord and he said, get away.

I don’t want to hear this stuff about the Bible. Get away from me.” I said, fine. But just don’t stop breathing. See you. As I walked away from him, he begged me to come back. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What did you mean by that? Come back over here and explain that to me. Well, when I explained it to him, five minutes later, he trusted Christ as a savior. Isn’t that amazing? He got a little bit frightened, I think.

to think that, wow, if he died, he’d be a believer, but it’d be too late and there’s no turning back. Once you die without Christ, you’ll be forever lost. And so, just don’t die if you’re an unbeliever. You better stay alive because you will not like the consequences of dying without Christ, but you need to really trust the Lord before you die so that you can be certain of going to heaven. Well, anyway, we visited Capernaum today, and we walked around the ruins, and this is, of course, the city where Peter lived, and for those that don’t know it, Peter had a wife.

And Jesus went into Peter’s house and found Peter’s mother-in-law sick and with a fever, and Jesus healed her. And so that happened right there in Capernaum. And this of course was a city where Christ went and stayed for a period of time. And the synagogue there was obviously a place where we believe Christ would have been attending or would have preached or said some things there. And we stood right there, not only in the synagogue, but walked through some of the streets of Compernium and we were really where Christ once stood.

I’m sure that we walked over some of the same stones, I believe, where Christ was once. That was exciting for our whole group. We all were just taking it in and it’s almost more than you can digest or more than you can fully comprehend. The thing that we were walking where Jesus walked and stood were priced to it, were in the town where Peter lived and where this area where the disciples were recruited at the northern edge of the Sea of Galilee.

we had a… One of the experience seeing the cities of Capernaum and others, but we also went to see where Christ gave the sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes. And it seems like that there is a natural amphitheater there that we call it, all we’re able to see, where it’s acoustically just perfect for somebody to speak and be heard by a large crowd. And apparently this is maybe the very place. Traditionally it’s close and it’s right there at the northern edge of the Seogality.

We also went to the traditional place where price had been the 5,000. We saw a mosaic in a church floor there from about the 4th century that had the two fishes and the five barley loaves depicted in the mosaic on the floor. And obviously taking his back to a couple of hundred years after Christ. This is apparently the area where he did it. We can’t mark the exact spot on the ground, but we know it’s certainly close. We also saw where Jesus appeared to his disciples after the resurrection, when they had gone back to their fishing.

Jesus meets them in the morning. After a full night’s fishing, they caught zero fish. and Jesus asked them the question, you all have any meat, if you caught any fish, and they said no. And he said, cast your net on the other side of the boat and you’ll catch them. And they filled the nets with 153 fishes and brought them to shore. And there when they got there, Jesus had a fire going, fish on the fire, and he had bread, and he said, He had come and died, so he invited them and he had them.

And obviously it was a time where he spoke to them about the need of doing the job he called them to do the spiritual job of feeding God’s flock and to obviously win the lost surprise that they’re not saved. It was a lot of fun. The boy, the fish went wild at the site. We were looking at the water boiling as fish were just of the water. It looked like a shark feeding frenzy. People say, what kind of fish?

Well, we can’t really say for sure. But you can see their fins and their tails as they rolled around in the water. And I think they were fairly large. I would say they probably were in the range of 15 pounds or maybe more. At least they were pretty big fish. And that was really great. So we enjoyed death early and got to just really enjoy a great day of great weather. And by the way, for those that were afraid to go because of the weather or rather the threat of harm, we haven’t seen anything that made us feel like we were threatened everything so peaceful.

We haven’t even heard a car backfire. By the way, I want to say a word to you folks in Miami that are listening. Hope you got all your power back. I’m hearing over here about the power failure that took out over a million people’s power electric power all over the East Coast of Florida, but we’re going to be with you every day. Thank you for listening I hope you’re hearing this particular program and of course tell your friends about Bible and in South Florida We should be here all the way down to marathon the keys and all the way up to at least West Palm Beach on the East Coast We’ll see you tomorrow because we have to sign off for you as Miami goes off the air before other areas that are still on the air with us.

We have a number of offshore questions. We’ll try to take many of these. They’ve been coming in while we’re here in Israel and we’re getting them and we’ll try to take care of some of those in the second half hour. If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, you need to do that wherever you might be. You can just whisper prayer and say, Lord, I don’t understand a whole lot, but what I’ve heard us made sense to me and I trust Jesus Christ as the one who died for me and paid for my sins was buried in the rose again from the dead and the moment you do that God will save you wherever you are me.

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We’ve got to take a break. It’s time for that break. We’ll come back and do a second half hour, so don’t change your radio dial, but stay tuned right where you are, and we’ll come back and do a second half hour Bible on it. So I’ll be right back. Just a little bit of a win. 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. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Well, I’m Dr. Anglin Strowman.

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That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. We’re back from that break and this is Bible and we’re coming to you from Israel. Can’t hardly believe it, but we’re here. And wow, it’s so wonderful. This really is to see all that we’ve been seeing. We’ll try to share some of that with you. And maybe we can also talk to you in the going with us on the next trip. We feel safe. We had a wonderful plane ride across the ocean and across the Mediterranean and landed in Tel We’re in a beautiful hotel with overlooks in the Sea of Galilee.

Couldn’t be better. We have great accommodations. We have great food. We have a great bus that we drive around in. And we have obviously a great guide and a great driver. And we’re just really having a great time. And we’d love to have you come along on the next trip. So call in and leave us your information so we can keep you informed as we make our plans. plans and you can share with us your thoughts and maybe you can be a major influence as to what we do and where we go and when we go and so on on the next trip over here to Israel but as far as safety we have felt very very safe we haven’t seen anything that would alarm us or out of the order never heard even a car backfires.

So we’re doing well. And thank you for all of you who’ve told me that you’re praying for us. And we certainly appreciate that. And perhaps it is so peaceful because you all have prayed because I know some of you have expressed concerns and said you’d be praying. And whatever you’re doing, keep it up because your prayers have been answered so far. We have just have a wonderful time. We want you to know that you can call in with your questions and we’ll get them so don’t hesitate to call.

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Today we went up to northern Israel to the most northern border. In the biblical times Israel extended all the way to the area called Dan. That’s where the tribe of Dan settled and that’s way up near the Lebanese Syrian border. That’s where the Mount Hermon is and where the source of the Jordan is and we saw the water flowing right out of the ground, a river that would flow down to the Sea of Galilee. In Israel, everybody drinks water from the Jordan because it goes into the Sea of Galilee and then is pumped really all the way down as far as the Negep, 200 miles to the south.

And with a very sophisticated computerized system, Israel drinks from the Jordan River. That’s amazing. We stood there today and saw the river flowing right out of the ground. We saw trout swimming in the Jordan River right from the very get-go. wonder how to get in there right at the very beginning and But they’re there and then we got to have lunch right on the edge of the Jordan and we could hear the water Racing by the edge of our tables as we had lunch right there at the northern edge of The country you’re in the Bible it talks about the land of Israel as being the north the south from Dan to and Brishiba is down in the desert south in the Negev and Dan is the northernmost area just before you get to the Lebanese.

The expression talks about the most northern part of Israel to the southernmost part and it’s still true today. Dan is that area. But we saw not only the Jordan, and by the way the word Jordan refers to the combining of three major tributaries that all come together to form one river. And the word Dan is in that river because it all has the origin up there where the tribe of Dan settled in the Bible. So, Jordan has to do with the joining together of the three tributaries and comes from the area of Dan where the water flows down into the Sea of Galilee.

And then it flows out of the Sea of Galilee and flows further south all the way down to the Dead Sea and then of course that’s the end of the Jordan River. Water flows into the Dead Sea but doesn’t flow out of the Dead Sea and we’ll talk more about the Dead Sea when we get a chance to get down there which will not be for a couple more days but we’ll talk about that as well. We also drove them up onto what is called the Golan Heights and this is the area that once belong to Syria on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee.

The mountain ridge there is so rich. We just saw such beautiful colors of green, so many orchards and farming there by the Israelis. And we saw the Syrian border. And we saw the Syrians not too far from where where we drove. We also saw this in very innovative reduction of electricity by the Israelis. Some of these great big towers with big blades on it to catch the wind and turn and they generate electric power. We saw about eight of those churning away.

There wasn’t a whole lot of wind today, but they were still churning in apparently all producing electricity. And we had a wonderful time seeing the bunkers of the Syrians that would fire down upon the Israelis when Syria had been stolen to go on heights. And we also saw many of the Israeli tanks that were sitting in readiness should anything happen and Israel have to defend her country from aggression outside. But we had a wonderful time seeing all of the Golden Heights, which took time, but we just really couldn’t, I guess, just drink it all in.

You might say, as we saw so many beautiful things about the land coming to life again. I want to read from Ezekiel because it really ought to thrill everybody to see what’s happened here in Israel because it is a Certainly a fulfillment of Bible prophecy Ezekiel in chapter 36 talks about in the last days What would happen in the land of Israel and it says here?

Thus the Lord God in the day that I shall have cleansed you from all of your iniquities. I’ll also call you to pause you to dwell in the cities and the ways shall be built. Verse 34 of Ezekiel 36 says, and the desolate land shall be tilled whereas the laid desolate in the sight of all the past by. And then it says, and they shall say in verse 35 of Ezekiel 37, this land that was desolate has become like a garden of Eden.

And the waste and desolate and ruined cities have become tensed and are inhabited. We have seen that. Amazing. We have seen the land come like the garden of Eden, just beautiful, beautiful fields and green, orchards of plums and apples and oranges and grapefruit and all kinds of different fruit. And everything just looks so healthy and so good. In fact, when we’re eating here, we can tell the difference in the taste. I just feel better eating the food here. It just is so nutritious.

I think the land is so rich. God said that this would be a sign that God has Really brought the Jewish people back into their land. Verse 36 says, Then shall the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, the Lord, have built the ruin places and plant that which was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken it and I will do it.” And amazing. So we see the land really coming to life and the waste and death of places being and that’s all a fulfillment of processing.

We can see with our eyes what the thousands of years ago would take place in the land. A little earlierSOURCE the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land. You shall dwell to the Jewish people God is speaking. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

It says here in verse 24, I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all countries and bring you into your own land. That’s pretty plain, isn’t itresist? He would take the Jewish people out of the nation where they’ve been scattered, bring them back into their own land, and they would dwell in the land that God had once given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And that the land would be built and planted, and it would become like the garden of Eden.

And people would look at it and say, wow, this is the Lord that has done this. and the nations that are grown about you shall know that I don’t want to Ford build the ruin places and plant that, which is desolate. I have spoken it and I will do it. Well, we’re living in the last day. I believe price and turn is very soon. I don’t believe we have a whole lot of time left. And one of the big evidences, of course, is the Jewish people are back in the land and that we are seeing the waste and ruined cities being built again.

And the desolate and waste place to be planted and becoming like the garden of Eden. So we believe these are pure signs that the Lord’s coming is right around the corner. That’s exciting. And we just marveled, I think, in how everything was so green and so rich and so fruitful. Apparently Israel is exporting fruits and vegetables to the rest of the world. And so every day there are shipments of all kinds of fruits that leave Israel or Europe and other parts of the world as they are really a very, very agricultural nation today.

And we were looking today at an area that’s really the bread basket of Israel, not only the Valley of Jezreel, but the Golan Valley. It takes us all the way up north to the Mount Hermon. By the way, we were looking at Mount Hermon from a distance, but it’s over 7,000 feet high and its snow camp nearly all year long. We saw the snow on sitting on top of Mount Hermon in the north. H-E-R-M-O-N and it is the really the northern most part of Israel in the area where Dan settled but when those those melt that really supplies the waters of the Jordan that really supply the nation of Israel with their water so this is a very very significant area and by the way they offer snow skiing we didn’t have time to take them up on it today but they have some ski slopes and people can go to

Mount Herman and enjoy Muskegee. In that amazing we live in a country that’s so little and yet it has everything from a snow-capped mountain in the north to beautiful valleys to mountains the desert and also flaming the lowest place on the face of the earth that’s seeping 1300 feet below sea level. Wow I sure hope I can entice you to go on the next trip because I think you would have a wonderful wonderful time if you did decide to go with us.

Here we have a question that just came in and this one says, read Ephesians 1,13 and then expand on it. Well that’s a wonderful verse to expand on because it tells us that at the moment you believe, and not just believing anything, but the gospel message that you become saved and God the Holy Spirit comes and involves you and seals you. Until you’re actually in heaven. That is absolutely dynamite. Ephesians 1-13, let me read it to you. And it says, in whom, speaking of Christ, you also trusted.

After that you heard the word of truth, and then it makes it more specific, the gospel of your salvation, the goodness message of the death, the burial of the Lord. burial and resurrection of Christ. In whom also after that you believe. Let me just point out if you have a Scofield reference Bible, it points out here that the tense is not clear in the King James Bible. It should mean in whom having believed you were sealed. You can see that in the center reference column there of the Scofield Bible that is saying here that belief and being saved and having the Holy Spirit come into you and sealing you is all simultaneous.

So it’s not a subsequent act. There are those who teach wrongly about the Holy Spirit and teach that you believe and are saved and then subsequently in a later time receive the Holy Spirit. That’s not true. The Bible teaches having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit. So having believed, that means upon your belief you were sealed when you believe what? The word of truth is the gospel of your salvation. And it says here the seal is actually God himself.

So in order for somebody to become lost, once they become saved, someone would have to be stronger than God, the Holy Spirit, to be able to break you away from the salvation that he is sealed with by the Holy Spirit the moment you believe. And so you are sealed and that means security means you are his possession and that no one can break that seal because obviously they would have to be stronger than God and there is no person like that.

Verse 14 tells us the Holy Spirit who indwells the believer at the moment of belief is the earnest of our inheritance. The word earnest is a word that means down payment. We use it sometimes in legal ways, but the word earnest is Old English, but it really means down payment. And so God is in earnest about completing our salvation. And in order to do that, He He gives us the Holy Spirit to prove that He is. Now if you were to want to purchase something and you were really in earnest about completing the deal and finishing it out, you would put down a down payment.

This goal earned us money. If you remake and change your mind or for whatever reason, do not buy whatever you put the down payment on. Guess what? You lose your down payment, don’t you? Well, guess what? God has given us the Holy Spirit at the moment we believe because He is at the earth about completing our salvation. And so if you ever lost your salvation which is impossible, God would have to force it to Holy Spirit to you. That would mean if you went to hell, the Holy Spirit would have to go to hell with you.

Now if that’s not going to happen, I’ll guarantee you, God the Holy Spirit is not going to go to hell forever. But if you ever somehow could lose your salvation and be lost as a Christian, then the Holy Spirit, which is the earnest or the down payment of your salvation, would have to be forfeited by God to you. And the Holy Spirit would have to go to hell with you. Just not going to happen. Impossible! So I love this verse in particular, 13 and 14, because I learned early on about these passages, I know that I’m eternally secure as a result.

I always spirit himself as the seal and in the symbolism of scripture a seal signifies number one a finished transaction number two ownership and number three security so once you get saved I tell people you’re stuck You have to go to heaven with it like it or not tough break learn to live with it A lot of people are surprised that you’re anybody say that, but you know it’s a fact. Once you trust Christ, you cannot undo it, you cannot reverse it, you cannot ever lose it.

You are kept saved by God and you’re saved eternally. Well we have here, LaVette, in Tampa, Florida who calls in with this unsafe question. I mean, it’s an off-air question. And Levette says, what is the will of God for all believers? Well, there are numerous verses. But one of them, which is kind of specific about it in a particular area, is in 1 Thessalonians 4. In 1 Thessalonians 4, it says in verse 18, in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God and Christ Jesus concerning you.

So one thing that is for sure that God’s will for every believer is that we would give thanks in everything. But obviously I think you’re speaking more specifically about what God would have us to do as a Christian and obviously we are to obey His Word not to be saved but because we are and submit ourselves as a living sacrifice to serve the Lord. Let me have you go to Romans 12, where it says, I plead with you, therefore brethren or believers, by the mercies of God, or that means in view of the mercy that God has had upon you, that you present your body as a living sacrifice.

It says you are holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove that means discover what is that good and perfect, and here is the answer, will God. So, in order to discover what God’s will is for your life specifically, you have to be willing to do it. A lot of people are saying to God, show me your will and then I’ll decide whether I’ll do it or not.

And if you’re operating into that principle, you’ll never discover God’s will. You have to first say to God, I’m willing to do your will. I’m willing to submit in my life as a living sacrifice. I’m willing to do whatever you want me to do, say whatever you want me to say, go wherever you want me to go. If you are willing to do that, then God says you will discover what is well. It has to open it up to you and you will find out and know beyond any doubt what God would have you to do.

So here is a great passage, LaVette. I hope it helps you. But you present your body a living sacrifice and you tell the Lord I am going to live for you every day and do whatever you want me to do and not be conformed to the world but be transformed by these reading of the scriptures, the renewing of your mind. And you’ll discover what God has for you to do. Thank you for that call and for that question that was lived in Tampa, Florida.

We have an anonymous, a caller from Tampa that calls in and says, what will Christians be doing during the millennium? of the thousand years, do we move back in? That’s an interesting question. Well, what will Chris be doing during the millennium? We that are saved, who will come back with Christ in his second coming, will be ruling and reigning with Christ during that time. If you read Revelation chapter 20 verse 5 and verse 6, it says that we will be serving Lord and will be doing tasks that will be very rewarding during that time.

And after the thousand years that we move again, well the answer is yes because the Bible says God is going to destroy the search by fire. He’s going to create a new heavens and a new earth and we’re going to live in the new Jerusalem and enjoy the new heavens and new earth for all eternity. of the open-up’s anonymous entampment. We have here a caller from Saul and he’s down in Bradenton, Florida and he says, could you please explain for me Acts 14 verses 11 through 18.

So I’m going to turn there right now Saul and I hope you’re listening and we’ll try to get an answer to you for that question. That’s Acts 14, and we’re going to look at verse 11 through 18. Here it says in Acts 14, I’m almost there. It says here in verse 11 through 18. Oh, it says… And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices saying in the speech of Lyconium, the gods who come down to us in the likeness of death.

What happened here is they thought Paul had to be a god because of the miracles that he was able to do. But he obviously told him he was not. But then guess what? Then they changed their mind and decided they wanted to kill him. So people can’t make it put mine. We’re out of time. I wish I had more time. time for that question. Maybe we’ll pick it right up tomorrow, but we have to run. We’ll be back tomorrow and I hope you’ll join the program.

Tomorrow’s will still be in Israel and be sharing with you things that are happening. Again, I hope that you will tell your friends about these broadcasts and I hope you’ll tune them in yourself every day either on live radio or by going to our internet site, BibleLineMinistries.org and touching the program there. We are out of time, but please keep looking up. Jesus is coming and in the meantime we hope you will be in the chance to see you sometime and if you can make sure you listen to the radio programs especially while we are in Israel and you will be able to keep up with us.

Keep looking up. Jesus is coming. You have been listening to Bibleline, the presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida. to Bibleline makes it possible for this ministry to continue in your area. Bibleline’s address is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634. Or visit Bibleline online at biblelineministries.com. Be sure to tune in for another edition of Bibleline from Calvary Community Church of Tampa, Florida. Well, I’m Dr. Englund, for a minute. Sure has been great being with you today and let me tell you, we are having a wonderful time in Israel.

Wish you were here. We’re staying on the Sea of Galilee and we’re traveling all around exploring Northern Israel and in a couple of days will be headed south and Stay in Jerusalem explore Southern Israel and well, of course get on a plane and come back to the United States We are excited because so far we have had just a marvelous time and it’s been We are praying that we will see others come to know Christ while we are here.

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And if you do that 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, you’ll catch the worship services. of the programs. We have to run, but we will be back tomorrow, Lord Willie, and thanks for tuning in today. I hope you have really enjoyed the podcast, and I am Dr. Inchlister of saying we will be back tomorrow. I hope you will join me. Until then, keep looking up. Jesus is coming, and we believe very soon. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida.

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