Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-03-12

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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 in 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 for so glad that you’ve tuned in today and we’re here every day Monday through Friday And next week will be in Israel will be broadcasting Beginning Wednesday.

You’ll hear the programs 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 and 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 801-800-576-3771 get your name on the Israel list and we’ll talk to you as we think of 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. When we get back from Israel we’ll do second Peter, 10 hours of teaching on second Peter and then we’ll finish that Peter series. You’ve done numerous books of 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. That’s book number 65 out of the 66th. 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 explained 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 center 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 Scofill Bible. We have some beautiful additions in leather.

We have the large print and genuine leather 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 social 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. What a gift that is about three inches thick has every word in the Bible, every thee, every thou, every end, everybody, every shall.

gives you the original heaver and greek that it comes from house translated what it means and uh… you’ll be really really miles ahead of anybody else if you have a strongs concordance uh… in your library hopefully you have your bible handy will get into the bible for a few minutes and we’re going to be taking our callers and uh… you can call in if you like it one eight hundred five seven six three seven seven one one eight hundred five seven six 3 771.

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 programs sitting there. Plus you can catch the worship service. If you’re in the Tampa Bay area, I hope you’ll come and see. I’d love to be able to have you in my adult class at 915 and join us for our 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 onpread 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, be good going a week as 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 of Vlogdon, 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. 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’s 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’s 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. Just prior to this verse, it says in 2 Timothy 3, 16, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. And it’s profitable for doctrine, for approval, for correction, for instruction, righteousness, The man of God might be completely equipped, furnished unto all good words. What a great passage. You need to remember that. 2 Timothy 3 16. And 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 them, yes. He breathes through them the scriptures. When you speak, you inhale air and you breathe it out or your breath coming across your vocal 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’s 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’s living. It’s powerful. It’s 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 joints and the moral, the material, the material 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 and 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 Spirit and the 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 all 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’m not smiling 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’re 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’s 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 that are already printed out. You don’t have to turn in a Bible. You don’t have to look them up and you can just lead them right to a saving knowledge of 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! We’ve heard that so many times, but it’s kind of interesting to hear that a lot of tribes 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, that leads people to Christ.

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 the 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 in a 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, the technology of the day, 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 taking me while I was like my car was being repaired to my office and I invited him to church and he says, what kind of band do you have? That was all he was interested in.

It was the music. What kind of band do you have? And he said that that was what he wanted to find when he was looking for a church. A lot of people looked for the entertainment and you know it’s amazing how things have changed. I visited a church because there was a funeral service there and I got there early and I was, I think the first person I like to get places early and I sat down there just and meditated in the auditorium there.

And as I look forward, what was prominent, what was right directly in front of me, what was highest and uppermost in this auditorium, it was empty except for me, was a drum set. And I never forget that. I said, here in this church, it seems to me they’re exalting the drum set. They’re exalting that much more in a much less light an area was a pulpit. Or apparently, maybe, maybe the word of God would be preached. I don’t know if the word was preached there or not.

But you know, if you visit the old churches of Europe after the Reformation, you notice oftentimes the most highly exalted spot. Exalted spot on the front of the church was the pulpit in Some cases they had the pulpit raised up where you had to climb a staircase To get to it and the object lesson for the people was that that man Preaching behind that pulpit was bringing the very words of God to you and That was what was exalted was the word of God today The word of God is not exalted the pulpit is in a much lower position and is not so Highlighted as the music and the other things that entertain in tickle the ear What does the Bible say here in 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 3 the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having it to years

They want to be entertained and that’s what we see today. No longer is thegage of God exalted no longer is the word the most important thing about a church people choose churches for every other reason often many times not important one man was asked what is your church preference he fought for a moment he scratched his head and he said Red Brick. He chose the church, big architecture. Two offs, churches they choose are Muslims. Nothing but dead corpses inside.

Nobody spiritually alive. The Word of God has not preached and that’s sad. Well the Bible said that would be the sign of the end times that we’re in it. My friend says in verse 4, they shall turn away their ears from the truth. That’s the Word of God. And you’ll be turned on the fables. That means fiction. Look at how much fiction we have out there today. You go to the Christian bookstore, The story is about how much of it is fiction today.

All kinds of fictional stories, many times very unsound doctrinally. And people buy… people buy it up. Get excited about it. Just like the Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis didn’t believeId Hell, didn’t believe Salvation was eternal, believed you could lose your Salvation, believed in Evolution, believed the Bible was flawed, and this man writes fiction and people will read that above the Bible. It’s so sad. I really don’t think He was a believer. I don’t think he was a Christian. He had the Roman Catholic priest come and give him last rice just before he died.

What does that tell you? My hope is in the Lord, that in rituals or rites or priests or ministers, there is no priest. There is no minister. There is no rabbi that can save you. Jesus said in John 14, 6, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. No man can come into the Father but by me unless you trust Christ. My friend, you’ll never be saved. But people are turning the fables today. They’ll buy those things off the shelves and they’ll go watch the movies about the fables, but how many people are into the Bible today?

It’s the last days. They would not endure sound doctrine as we approach the return of Jesus Christ. I’m Dr. Englund from this is Bibleline. Great to be with you. We’re gonna go to the phone lines. We have a number of people who are waiting already. You can dial us 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-767. 27-7. Welcome Miami. We’re glad that you are back up on the air this week. Monday I know lightning took out your station and you couldn’t hear us but we’ve been on the air down here in Miami now since Monday and we hope that all of you listening in the Tampa Bay area are aware that we’re on the air over the weekend.

Saturdays and Sundays at 10 o’clock as well as throughout the week Friday. Alright we’re going to go to Avon in Tampa, Florida and Avon welcome to Bibleline you are on the air. I’d like to ask you what is your take on this Obama-mania, the Obama-mania that we see going on and do you attach any spiritual significance to it? I think that in the last days that there would be obviously a lot of confusion. I think it’s a part of our culture today.

We’re looking for more like the how a person looks and how they sound and not so much about the substance or what they believe or their character or anything else. I think that’s we reflected pretty much in a lot of our political figures today. We’ve lost sight of the things that really count, just like we’ve lost sight of our churches. The Bible is what really counts and it’s not the entertaining features. I think that’s what people are looking for.

If you have that look and if you have that sound and if you have that cadence, that rhythm, whatever it is that charisma uh… then uh… that’s what people are looking for and uh… that’s what is selling and obviously uh… that’s happening the political realm as well uh… that’s my opinion what’s going on and i think that people don’t do their homework they just say well i like the way he sounds or i like the way he looks or i like the way he presents himself and it doesn’t matter what he’s saying uh…

they just are going for that uh… uh… hollywood uh… look and maybe that’s the answer i don’t know that’s my guess thank you for calling anyone the thing that interests me the uh… longer the campaign the more marmosianic overtones come through and the message you’re absolutely right and uh… obviously there will be somebody coming on the scene that will be the antichrist and after wonder as we look at the candidates ClarkPedfgio Are there any potential antichrist out there in our political system today?

And it may be so. But you’re right. It has a religious type of an overtone there too. And I’m not going to see any type of a thing. We know that Islam. He is looking for their amime, their Messiah. And of course Christianity certainly believes that first coming falls from the Messiah, the Antichrist, and then Jesus will come. And we’re living in the days when we’re seeing people ready to grab somebody like that because of the void, I think, of good leadership that we’re ready to grab anybody that can promise us, the future is going to be bright and everything is going to be fine when they fix it, when they change it, whenever they do.

But I think we are, obviously, if we read the Bible, know if we’re honest with ourselves, the Bible says only Christ is going to fix it. Until then, this world is on a path to go downhill and evil men will grow worse and worse than the Bible says until Jesus recurs. I think we can see that this happening fast. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ivan. Thank you for calling in. We’re now going to go to Tony in Richmond, Virginia.

Tony, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hey, Dr. Lesch, I’m going to make a comment in my question. The comment is, I thank God for your ministry, such as your socks off. I got saved, listening to the true gospel that you present. And I can’t, I know I probably won’t meet you here in this life, but I can’t wait to I can’t wait to meet you guys in there. You and James Taylor and Mike there, my brothers in Christ.

But the question I have is 1 John chapter 3 verse 6, if you could explain that. And also just explain the whole 1 John seems to be talking about a Bible. abiding in love. Did you just come up? Come back up and hang up. Thanks. Well, we’ll do it. You know, it talks here in 1 John 3 about the new birth and the new nature. You’ll notice in verse 1 it says, Behold what manner of love. The Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.

You can’t become a son in God’s family without being born again. We are not God’s sons. We don’t have God as our Father until we’re born again. And so the whole theme in chapter 3 is about the new birth and about how the new birth that we have is not capable of sinning. If you read verse 9, it says, Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin. For God’s seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he’s born of God.

It almost seems like a contradiction When you read chapter 1 verse 8 where John the Apostle says, if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. So in verse 1, 8 it says, if we say that we don’t sin we’re deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. Chapter 3 verse 9 says, if we’re born again we cannot sin and it’s impossible because we have the nature of God, the seed of God remaining in us and therefore we cannot sin.

And so this presents a conflict. And the answer is that the believer has both. We have an old nature that still sins. We have a new nature, a new birth that cannot sin. And if you’re a believer, you have the struggle between the two. My new nature wants to please God. My old nature wants to please the flesh. And so we have a struggle where we have to choose every day to make the choices that are pleasing to God and are after the new birth and after the new man.

But if we are allowing the old man to control us, then we’re in deep trouble because then we will find ourselves doing the things that are filled with the flesh and that of course will get us into sin and get us away from the Lord. Again, I want to say to Miami, we’re so glad that we’re on the air down there. I was born and raised in Miami and I am especially glad that we’re there and we’re on for a half hour.

Now we hope to get to a full hour, but we need your help down there. If you could help us financially and pray for us, we’d like to get the full hour. But I wanted to say goodbye because you go off the air before the hour other stations do. And thank you for tuning in today, Miami. All right, we’re back now. And we’re at Tony and Richard in Virginia. And we’re talking about the fact that we have two natures, an old and a new, and that’s what first time free is talking about.

And the new nature doesn’t sin, but the old nature does. Tony, thank you so much. I hope that helps. We appreciate you calling into the program today. We want you to call the numbers 1-800-576-3771. If you’re in the town of A.A.R.E. come see us this Sunday, if you’d like. If you don’t have a church home, you’re welcome to come. If you don’t have a church home and you live in another city, guess what? If you have internet access, you can join our service live at 11 o’clock.

Go to the home page of our by the line ministries.org. Click on that camera at 11 a.m. and you’ll see the worship service come up live on your screen. And I hope you’ll do that and that would be great. Pass that word along to your friends. We have people that watch from Australia, from Europe, from Canada. We’re excited about what God is doing using our worship service webcast live. If you go during the week, you can catch a year’s where the sermon is all sitting there waiting for you to look at.

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Well, I’m not drinking this from India. Here we are on Friday. It’s been great to be with you all week long and next week we’re going to be in Israel. I hope you’ll be listening all week long as we bring you eight of the ten days we’ll be bringing you a broadcast right from Israel. So be listening and we’ll keep you updated and you can still call in with your questions or forward them by email to us. Just go to our radio page by clicking on the spin globe on the website Bibleline Ministries.

And it’s all set up for you to type your question. be able to get that instantly over in Israel on the computer. So do that. Just send us a little message about what your question would like to be about maybe the trip or about Israel or the Bible or whatever you’d like to ask and we’ll try to take and answer those on the air while we’re in the Holy Land. We have quite a number of people who say, hey, I’d like to go on that next trip and I’d like to have you, if you would, let me know that you’re interested and we’ll let you be a part of the planning of the next trip.

If you just would let me know what would be the best time for you to go. Would you like to visit another country or biblical place in the Middle East in addition to Israel? Let me know what your preferences are. We’ll try to include that in our planning process and give you a part of the planning for this. We hope you’ll pray for us while we’re in Israel and pray for a safe trip, but also pray for a real spiritual the trip is we have opportunity to come across many people who don’t know the Lord who are visiting there.

Some of them seeking for the truth and going there hoping they’ll find it. I’ll never forget years ago I had a man join my trip and it turned out that during the trip he said, could I come over and talk to you in your room and I said, sure. And he said, I know that my minister doesn’t know the truth, he’s probably not saved. And I I came on this trip just to find the Lord and I know that you have the truth I can tell would you tell me how to go to heaven and I led into Christ.

When that was wonderful and then when we got home from that trip he brought his wife down from Tennessee so I could leave her to Christ. And there’s a lot of people that are seeking and it’s a great opportunity for us to be able to share while we’re in Israel the gospel of Jesus Christ with people that are going there hoping to find the truth when they get to the Holy Land. But the truth is in God’s Word and we hope to proclaim that back here to the states from the land of Israel as we broadcast our programs in there.

So you save with us every day and you’ll kind of have an update of what we’re doing and where we are and what’s going on and I think that you’ll find that enjoyable. We’re going to be joined the stations that have been on break now and we’ll come back and do a second half hour by the line. So I hope you have your radio right there ready to go tune it up and keep it tuned right where it is and here we go Bibleline Part 2.

Would you like to call Bibleline and ask Dr. Lindstrom a question? You can. Just pick up your phone and dial 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Alright, we’re back from that break and it’s great to be with you again. This is Bibleline, we’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios at the Calvary Community Church. We’re on the pastor’s Friday and we hope that you attend church some places weekend. If you’re in the area, please come by and see us.

We’re looking to right next to Tampa’s International Airport at 4811 George Road in Tampa. By the way, if you are looking to find us, if you go to our Internet site and you go to the pages that contact us, it’s already set in there with our address. If you just typed in yours and it submit, it’ll give you a math quest. directions on how to get here from anywhere, I guess, in the US and A. So, makes it easy for you.

So, we’ve got it all set up ready to go to make it convenient for you to find us from wherever you might be. We hope to come by. If not, get on the internet and you can join our worship service Sunday morning, wherever you might be in the country, outside the country, anywhere in the country. And you can do that at 11 o’clock Sunday morning, catch our worship service live. Otherwise, you can go there during the week and catch a year’s worth of sermons ready to go.

And there’s two years worth of Bible and program sitting there in archive that you can listen to as well. And that’s exciting. By the way, we have a lot of things in our resource center that are excellent. We have that book by Dwight Pentecost called Things That Become Sound Doctrine. One of those chapters is on repentance, nails it right on the head that repent does not mean to turn from sin. It does not mean sorrow for sin. That means to change your mind.

And the change of mind that is repentance and salvation is to change your mind about how you are saved. How we are saved through Christ and not through ourselves, we are saved through Christ and not through the church, we are saved through Christ and not by our works. And he makes it very, very clear. It’s a great book. We have a number of books by Dwight Pentecost. We have about eight or more and those are all good. Plus books by Charles Ryewich is another great author I like and we’ve got a great book on prophecy by John Walvern called Every prophecy of the Bible that is incredible.

It’s about eight or nine hundred pages. It’s thick It’s loaded and I didn’t count all of them, but I think he’s got them all I want a title on every Every prophecy of the Bible. He didn’t say most he said every so I’m telling you it’s quite a book and and I think it’s It lives up to its name. We have of course the Scofield Bible. The old Scofield is what you want to get. If you go to your Christian bookstore and you’ll be sold the Wall One.

The new hybrid Scofield, they’re selling in the bookstore now, is a washout. The notes are watered down. They’ve added new notes that are not bad. I just don’t feel they don’t identify them as new notes that are not bad. I just don’t feel, oh, if Dr. Scofield only knew, he’d come out of the grave I think and go after these people, but unbelievable what’s happened today, just to, I guess, keep the market for the Schofield Bible. They’ve constantly come out with something new, and I guess it attracts the marketplace, but if you’re looking for truth, you really want the old Schofield Bible far superior.

Well, we are going to go to the phone lines. We’ve got a bunch of We’re going to go all the way to Manson or Mason rather Michigan. We have Larry on the line and Larry, welcome to Bibleline you on the air. Hi Larry. I’m thankful that you’re heard in the greater Lansing area. I’ve heard people from Potterville and from Sherlock and from Lansing and from from like a desk even now you’re hearing me from my son and I’m so thankful that your own.

I do have a question, the last caller you had spoke of the Holy Spirit. And he, you mentioned, well, to make it brief, when you’re born again, the Holy Spirit comes to reside in you. Is that right? Thumbs up. That is absolutely correct. And it says in thessalonians when that he who let will be let will let until he be taken out of the way. Is it true that in that the Holy Spirit is indwelling the believer and therefore that’s the reason that all the believers are called up the boo of the Lord?

Absolutely. Absolutely because when the Holy Spirit goes we go and he’s the one, actually the word let now means to hinder, it’s changed its meaning to the exact opposite since 1611. So saying the one who hinders in equity in this world that is the Holy Spirit dwelling in us who are the believers. When he goes we go and that’s the rapture and then the Antichrist is revealed and Christ will then come back seven years later to destroy him instead of his kingdom.

But you’re absolutely right. The Holy Spirit, yes, is the one that remains in us and when he goes we go with him because he’s going to be in his forever. The question I have in particular is in Philippians 2 verse, I forget the verse, it says, let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus. And sometimes it seems like you can’t hardly do it. Well, you’re right. Obviously we’re constantly striving as Christians to become more Christ-like in our behavior and in our mental state.

and here’s talking about us being humble and recognizing who we are as God sees us as Christ humbled himself. He was equal with God. He is God. And then he, as it says there, he thought it not Robert, it’d be equal with God. But he humbled himself and became a man and was obedient to the Father’s will to give his life at the cross of Calvary and not to pay for our sins. And we need to be also willing to do whatever God wants us to do as a believer.

Have that same mind of submission and humbleness and obedience that Christ had. Is he as a man exhibited all those qualities that need to be in us as well if we’re going to be a real useful servant of Christ? Price. Well I appreciate that but and it’s like you mentioned that gentleman there’s a constant war goes on with you and within the believer I believe. Well really. Between the two natures. Yeah, the caller earlier from Richmond was talking about the two natures there.

We have a war between the flesh, and Paul talked about that. He says in Romans 7, he says, I know that in my flesh, well, it’s no good thing in how to perform that which is good. I find that. He says, for the good that I would, I do not, but the evil that I would not, that I do. He was constantly fighting with the old nature, and we all do, as believers, and we have those two natures within us.

He describes pretty well the fight the struggle in Romans chapter 7 that a believer has Yes. Well, I just want to say God bless you and keep on preaching across the price that those who are lost at spiritualism, as I know, gave him the game said that this morning. We have no right to expect anything, but it would be foolishness to don’t believe her. Amen. Where are you good to hear from you? Thank you Stay warm up there in Michigan.

I know it’s got to be cold today Ah, yes sir. It’s been tomorrow Haha The Lord is halloween. All right. Thank you and that was Larry in Mason, Michigan. We have now Bob in Old Town, Florida and What a nice quaint name isn’t it? Old town for the Bob, welcome to Bibleline Hello, I’m Alabon. Go ahead, John. Thank you for taking my call. I have a question and it’s where Jesus was lifted up. He said if I’d be lifted up, I’d draw a man to myself and that he died for the sense of the whole world.

How does that contrast, not that there is a contrast, but how does that contrast with the parables were written? he said that the truth is hidden so that they might not felt so they wouldn’t believe in the state do i have that right which you cut from that i’m gonna hang up unless and thank you so much okay bob And the answer is yes, God desires for everybody to be safe. He draws all bin to himself, but you have the choice to turn it down.

And some people resist and the mouths are stubborn and they’re obstinate and they fight against that and take that all the way to hell. They die without Christ and are eternally lost. Until you draw your last breath, Christ is drawing you toward Himself and the Holy Spirit is convicting you of your need and you’ll never find real peace until you find the Lord because we’re designed that way. We need the Lord every one of us. And we are He’s the one that can satisfy the deepest longings of our heart.

The French scientist Pascale, who discovered to us the laws of vacuum, said that every man has a God-shaped vacuum within him, that only God can fill. and I believe that’s really true that we are designed toitely citizerto be incomplete and unsatisfied until we find the Lord. And we all need the Lord. But not all will come to him. Many will resist that and reject it. And they have the will to be able to do so. And so it’s true.

John 1232, Christ said if he was lift up on the cross which he was, he would draw all men to himself. So now going to Mary Ann, and Mary Ann is in Orange City, Florida, and Mary Ann, welcome to Bible on you on the air. Hello. Hi there, Mary Ann. Yes, my question is, basically our true nature is the old, I was raised with God, looks at us. Well, as far as our position is concerning, he sees his righteous and he sees the new birth and the fact that we’re safe forever.

But in the actual natural state that we’re still in with our simple bodies that we still live in, we have a struggle between our sin nature and our new nature and obviously the believer every day needs to make choices to not follow after the flesh but follow after the new man. I’m so good. Then God sees us as ourselves and Jesus. Well, exactly. He sees us.

He sees us as righteous. He sees us forgiven. He sees us as a child of God. He sees us as his possession, but yet we still in the real world here, we still struggle with that sin nature. And obviously if we yield ourselves to the Lord, we can have the fruit of the spirit in our life, we can earn rewards and be blessed and rewarded here and in eternity for our faithful service to Him. You’re very welcome. Mary Ann in Orange City, Florida.

And we are saved though at the moment we believe and we’re considered by God as righteous and he sees us completely forgiven of all of our past present future sins, but we still have that struggle while we’re still here in this body. We’re going to go to Leonard now and he’s in Richmond, Virginia and Leonard welcome to Bible in. You’re on there. Okay, my question is I hear a lot of opposite of person whosoType with God dealing with about the two births and also the two deaths.

I was reading Genesis when God told us, clearly die. The death did come immediately. The death was, you know, the death. Do you just clear that up a little bit for me this morning? Sure. It was basically spiritual death occurred at the very instant, but it was two-fold, physical death followed. And the same is true of every one of us. We are born into this world, spiritually dead, because of Adam’s sin. but we physically will die all as a result of the curse and because of Adam’s sin.

But if you’re born once, you’ll die twice. But if you’re born twice, you’ll die once. I think that helps really illustrate the whole thing. If you’re only born physically, you’ll experience not only physical death, but the eternal second death to be cast into the lake of fire forever and ever and ever. But if you’re born twice, if you have the first birth end, then you have the new birth. by trusting Christ, you’ll only die once, but you’ll never be hurt, the Bible says, of the second death, which is hell.

So you’ll never go to hell. And guess what? If you’re living at the time of the Rapture, you may not even die once, because there will be a large group of people that will never die at all, that are just going to be caught up bodily at the event of the Rapture and meet the Lord in the years. So that’s truly exciting. Leonard that’s what’s going on there with the tubers. I hope that helps. We’re now going to go to Angel and Angel is in Tampa, Florida.

Angel welcome to Bible and you’re on the air. Hey, so I’m coming up and I don’t like to call. I just listen to you. I wish you a pen strip to his or your people. I know this story that I’ve been calling today. My pastor is at the 21th thing. It’s like they are there, deep feet. If you have faith. If you have faith, faith, a little muscle or seed. Most of this calls you be avoided. You’re not talking about, I live from faith, my friend.

I’m praying for you. I get my paycheck today, I send you some money my friend. I will support you. Yesterday I found a brother from Microsoft Word. I was a town farm woman. Finally, I see somebody that said, I love you. Because I love the congregation, these people did not love me. I mean, if I find Christians out there, I’m persecuted, my friend. They told me I’m my job not to talk about religion. I talk for Jesus, I live in Jesus.

You know, I think why, man. They’ve already my freedom of speech. They’ve already laid my freedom of choice and religion, but I don’t. I have no rights. I’m a Christian. I’m a Marine. I’m praying for the city of Berkeley, California. I don’t know that nonsense. I’m praying for this nation. I’m praying for you as well. This brother is a scientist. I have no faith. I don’t. I’m my people. I’m my neighbor. I’m come to a church again. You are my church.

And I’m going to support you with my money on Trata, you, Amuri. That’s what I want to say. I hope you understood my Spanish. My English is not that good either. And I love you, man. I love you very much. God bless you. God bless you Angel. I understand every word you said. and praise God for people like you. We need more people like you that do have faith. I’ve had so many of our listeners which have been, and I appreciate their concern, that have been worried about me going to Israel and they’ve asked me not to go.

They don’t want me to get blown up over there. But, you know, I believe that God has gone. I said, and I believe we’re going to have a wonderful safe trip. And if I live my life based upon what might happen, I think I would not even get my car and enter the traffic out here, especially even close to where we are right now in Tampa. The traffic, I hear the sirens all the time and always pray for those people that the sirens are signaling the ambulance is going to their aid, you know.

But thank God that He watches over us and thank you Angel and God bless you and we’re going to try to battle down until the day that Jesus mentions us out, hopefully, and present Christ to as many as we can. Thank you for offering the support. We are listeners support it. We have no other means of support. This is how this program goes. We started off with the opportunity to be on the air here on this station in Tampa for fifteen minutes.

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I said, well, if you want me to, I will. And he says, I just, the Lord sent me here, he was from out of state and said, I want to have you use this for whatever is on your mind here because I just feel like there’s a need. And I opened it up and it was for $30,000. And I said, oh my goodness, you have answered the prayer. I’ve been praying every day whether we should go on the air with Bible and I said this will get us going.

And oh my goodness. And then we went from a 50 minute program to a half hour program. I said Lord I can’t afford that. We don’t have money to hardly pay for the 15 minute program. And you know the word supplied. We went ahead and then the opportunity arose for us to go to an hour show and I said well we can hardly pay for the half hour show. How can we possibly pay for an hour show? And we went out on faith trusting that God was supplied.

We were on the air. Then we went to other stations and then we went to the satellite. We went across a lot of the country now. The Lord has just provided all along the way through people just like you, like Angel, that are listening, that find the Bible and the blessing. Then encouraged in learning from God’s Word as a result of it and they want to see it continue. Thank God for all of you really because This is how we stay on the air.

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Anyway, we’re going to Israel this weekend, believe, and we’ll be broadcasting our shows because of the travel. Our first show actually from Israel will be heard Wednesday morning and then for eight days in a row, you’ll hear programs from Israel. And that will be exciting. But the first two days Monday and Tuesday you’ll not be able to hear them from Israel. So be listening for us and stay with us every day and pray for us throughout the whole trip.

And you’ll be informed and you’ll be able to call and we hope that you’ll enjoy the fact that we’re taking you along with us on this trip via the radio. You know, that’s kind of neat. And the technology is such that we can do that. And we have some wonderful people to people in Detroit that run the satellite and put us up on the satellite and our webmaster in Virginia, David Bauer. We have some great people that are behind the scenes that enable us to pull these things off and pray for us.

We hope that we’ll have a great, great trip. Be able to share with you every day what’s happening and you’ll get to like to ride us right along with us in the trip by Radio I think that’s gonna need you want to call us 1-800-576-3771 1-800-576-3771 and we’ll get you in here or right at the end of the program But we maybe get you up on the air today, but we’re just excited that we can come to you by radio from Tampa to really the ends of the earth as we know we have people that listen all over the world.

By the way, if you have friends or missionaries in other countries family, tell them about my blind because they can catch us anywhere in the world on the internet and I hope you’ll take advantage of that as well. Alright well let me just answer an unfair question. We have a number, Joanne, and Grover’s, and New York calls in with this offer of questions. She says, does cremation still get you to heaven? Also, can a person see or hear you any time after death?

What do you think about people who send a communicate with the dead? Well, question number one, creation, cremation will not stop you going to heaven. You’re still going to get a brand new body no matter whether you’re cremated or not. Also, can a person see and hear, I don’t believe they know anything about what’s going on here on the earth. It would bring sadness to heaven to see what’s happening here in this world. And also about people who said to communicate with the dead, they don’t.

Satan’s angels will impersonate the dead and you’re really going in the Satan’s territory whenever you try to communicate with your dead relatives. But you might find there will be communication and Satan and his angels know enough about your dead relatives that they will impersonate him but you’re not really communicating with the dead. The Bible says that’s impossible so you can’t. So when you try to do that you’re actually allowing Satan to have an advantage of over you. We’re gonna go to Tim and Wesley Chapel Florida.

Tim won’t come to Bible and you’re gonna be the last caller. We just got a few moments. So what is your question? What’s the question? Yes, I would like to get your opinion on 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 18 through 21 and I’ll hang up the record. All right, real quick. It’s talking about Christ dying one time to pay for our sins and being raised in in verse 18 by the Holy Spirit from the dead. Verse 19 and 20 says the same Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead preached to the people that were unbelievers in Noah’s day while they were living through Noah.

And they rejected it at only eight believe that was known as family and were saved or spared through that flood. And then verse 21 says the light figure, which is the baptism and Holy Spirit, places us in the Christ death, burial and resurrection. And by the Holy Spirit we are saved by the baptism, not with water. The middle phraser tells us that it says not to wash you right of the filter of flesh. Water will take away some tilt of your flesh.

So it’s saying it’s not the not water but it’s a good answer. The answer of a good conscience for God. If you’re saved, you’re saved because of what Christ did for you at the cross and how you have been placed in the Christ body. Thank you Tim. I hope that was really quick but get my series on 1 Peter and you’ll get a thorough explanation. We’ve got to run. Have a great week and I’ll see you in the air if not here on the earth sometime.

And pray for us as we go to Israel and listen to our programs as we broadcast from the Middle East. the presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida. Your donation 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, so we’d have fun being with you all this week and we’re going and having fun next week broadcasting to you from Israel.

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