Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-09-09

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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. Now here’s the host of Bibleline. Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Israel. Well, 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 every day Monday through Friday. And here we are on Monday.

And we’re coming to you live from our studios right here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor. Thanks for tuning in. We’d love to get to meet you sometime. I hope you’ll come by and see us. If you’re coming in from out of state, we’re right next to the Tampa International Airport Very easy to find because we’re just a block west of the main north South Runway so if you get more than a block away from the airport you’re probably getting lost So come on by and see us if you live in the area certainly can come by and visit our resource center every day You can come by and visit a worship service.

We’d love to have you do that and I hope you will By the way, you can catch our services and our radio programs on the internet if you go to Bibleline ministries.org, Bibleline Ministries.org. If you click on the spinning globe, you can catch the radio programs. If you click on the camera, you can get the worship services. We have people from all over the world that actually are listening and watching our worship services. We have a year’s worth of Sermon City and Archive.

You can watch About two years or rather listen the two years of radio programs. They’re all there available this week We have a special thing coming up here Thursday night The 11th of September 9 11 we have Gushan Solomon coming from Jerusalem And he’s the man who’s been cutting the stones for the third temple I think you’ll find it fascinating if you come and listen to what he has to say and we’re getting close to the Lord’s return because we know that once we leave at the Rapture, the third temple will be rebuilt according to Bible prophecy and the preparations have been made.

And I think you’ll be excited by coming out and hearing and shaking hands with and getting to meet the man who’s actually been cutting the stones for the third temple. I’m excited. Thursday night 7 o’clock 9 11 here at the headquarters of Bible and at Calvert Community Church. We’re located just the block west of Tampa’s International Airport. So if you can come on this Thursday, that’s this week 9-11. We’ll be having Gershine Solomon and we invite you to come.

If you’re living there where you cannot come, we will be taping it on CD and also on DVD so you’ll be able to get that later if you want to watch it and you’ll catch all the information that will be given. So that’s Thursday 9-11 right here at Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. By the way, we have our wonderful resource center. We have lots of wonderful books in our resource center and including the Schofield reference Bible. That’s what I use.

The notes are geared to doctrine and are so helpful. They’ll keep you right on track. And I hope that you’ll get one. Now, when you go to the Christian bookstore, they’ll try to sell you the new hybrid, which is inferior. You want to get the 1909 or the 1917 edition, which is the one with Dr. Scofield’s notes. The later ones, they’ve added new notes, not by Dr. Scofield. Notes I would disagree with. And they’ve made other changes, which I think really do appreciate the value of the Bible.

In fact, they’ve watered down a lot of the Scofield notes so they don’t read as strongly and as clearly as they once did when Dr. Scofield wrote them. So you might want to check that out. Plus we have numerous teachings of mine on CD. We just finished recently the book of Peter. We got 10 hours of teaching on 1 Peter. We’ve got 10 hours of teaching on 2 Peter. I think you’ll love that series. We also have a Gospel of John, 20 hours of teaching we broke it into two halves so you can get part one, 10 hours of John or part two, 10 hours of John for a total of 10 hours.

We are talking about a trip to Israel in February of next year. If you are interested at all, please cause and we will be glad to send you the brochure. sure and just gives your name and address and we’ll mail that right out today and hopefully you will plan to go with us. It’ll be leading February 23rd, 10 days in Israel and we’ll be flying with El Al, but if you’d like to get in on the extra extension, a seven day extension leaving seven days earlier, We’ll go to Egypt, we’ll go to a lot on the Red Sea, we’ll go to the rock, red city of Petra in southern Jordan, where we believe the Jewish people will flee from the Antichrist during the tribulation period.

We’re going to be getting into the Bible and then we’ll be taking our calls. You might want to write down the phone number. It’s 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Give us a call. We’ll get you up and get ready to put you up on the air. And by the way, here we are approaching the end of this month, which is the Feast of Trumpets, and it’s possible that this is when the Lord would come and take us out. That means the rapture.

We believe that’s because the feast days were prophetic pictures of Christ coming, and he fulfilled the Passover by dying exactly when the Passover was being observed. exactly when the Passover land was being offered up. And the Bible tells us he was the fulfillment of that feast day. First Corinthians 5-7, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. And then we learn that the Feast of Unleavened Bread spoke of his body and his burial, and he was buried during that feast day.

He came back from the dead on the Feast of First Fruits, which always occurred on a Sunday, He has called the first fruits of the resurrection in first Corinthians chapter 15 He fulfilled that feast day and then on the fourth feast the feast of Pentecost this church age began and It began on a Sunday on the feast of Pentecost and we believe the fifth feast the feast of trumpets will conclude this age And God will turn back to his purpose for Israel So that one, by the way, is this September 30th and is a two-day celebration.

So it will be also including October 1st. It could be if this is the year, we don’t know what year it’s going to happen. But if it’s this year, we could be leaving the planet in about three weeks and wouldn’t that be exciting? So I don’t know. We don’t know the date. We’re not setting a date. But it is interesting to watch and to speculate and to look for the return of Christ. And he’ll come on the Feast of Trumpets, I believe, whatever year he comes, and it would not be something if he came this year.

Well, in any case, we are running out of time. Time is running out. Turn, if you will, in your Bibles to Hosea, Chapter 5. What an amazing passage. Hosea, Chapter 5. We have here a prophetic passage that lets us in on the numbers as to when Christ would return. It tells us here, and I believe that these are prophetically the words of Jesus Christ when he came the first time here to be our Savior. If you read with me, Hosea, chapter 5, and if you look at verse 15, it says here, I will go and return unto my place.

I believe that’s Jesus. The word is almost the same as in the New Testament. And when he was rejected, he said he was going to go back to his place, where he came from. And there he was going to prepare a place for us. Many says here tell they the Jewish people that is acknowledge their offense here. They had rejected him. The one who had come. He was the first to be their Savior. He came to the temple and you know they didn’t recognize him.

They didn’t accept him, but they rejected him in effect in Matthew chapter 12. As they admired the temple, they almost worship the temple. Jesus said to them, there is one standing here. That’s greater than the temple. Wow, think about it. He’s talking about himself. He is the one for him the temple was created. God Himself and the temple is created to be His house and He says there is one standing here that is greater than the temple. While they rejected Him and so He says I am leaving Him.

Going back to heaven the New Testament record tells us the same thing and then it goes on to say and they shall seek by face and they shall seek me the interflictions and they shall seek me early. What we’ve seen now, the Jewish people finally go back to the land as they have been afflicted and persecuted around the world. The latest of course was Hitler who killed so many Jewish people. Chapter 6 now goes on and continues the story and here we have the cry of the Jewish people and they say, come and let us return unto the Lord.

For he hath torn, and he will heal us. He hath smitten, and he will bind us up. Verse 2 I want you to pay special attention to Hosea 6.2. It says here, after two days, will he revive us? That’s the Jewish people will be revived as a nation. And in the third day, we shall live in his sight. Well, isn’t that interesting? You know that the Jewish people will be living in the sight of the Messiah here on the earth during the thousand year rule of Christ.

That thousand years is called the day of the Lord. And so here is a thousand year day. Now we have the answer. If the third day is a thousand years in length, then the first two days have to also be a thousand years in Lincoln, but it’s really saying here, let me read it. Ozea 62, after 2,000 years, will he revive us, the Jewish people? And in the third thousand years, he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight.

Wow! My friend, how long has it been since Jesus was here and was rejected and left? It’s been 2,000 years. The 2,000 years are up. We are right there on the very edge of the 2000 years being completed and then what will happen? God is going to raise the Jewish people up and He will rule over them and they will live in His sight while He is visibly ruling over the earth from Jerusalem. Does that excite you? I’ll tell you, this is exciting.

It actually tells us that it will be 2000 years between the first temple and the second Second Temple, or rather the temple that was there in the time of Christ, and this third one that’s coming up. Jesus, when he went into the temple, and he said, there’s one standing here that’s greater than the temple. They rejected him, and then he predicted, with great preciseness, the destruction of that temple, and it was destroyed by the Romans in 8070. There is no temple right now.

But then he goes on to say in chapter 24, Matthew, when he was asked what would be the sign of his coming, he talks about another temple that will be built during the tribulation period and then he will come back. So guess what, we are about ready to see that take place. The Christians are watching, the Jewish people have been preparing. I just got back from Israel, trip number 15, and I’ve never seen such consensus among the people that they wanted to get that temple built back.

I saw signs in the stores, I heard conversations, and the things are all prepared and ready to go, and the Jewish people are anticipating a third temple. I think that means we’re close to the Lord’s return. Have you trusted Price as your savior? If you haven’t, you need to do that. I was led to believe that salvation was earned and it was by works! I was always on the impression that when I died, there would be a great big scale in heaven.

There would be great big books that would be brought out that recorded all the things you did in your life. That when your name was called, they would open the books and they would read off the good things and the bad things that you had done. Angels would assist. They would put weights on the scale to represent the good things and the bad things. and it wants to scale, teeter, totter, back and forth, and you hope for the best that you had enough good works that way are bad works and therefore be ushered into heaven.

Guess what? Most such thing in the Bible, that is absolutely a fabrication of the devil. You will not find it in Scripture. There is no scale. The Bible says salvation is not of works, Ephesians 2, 9. It is not of yourself, Ephesians 2, 8. It is not of works, not of keeping the law or by anything that we would do. The whole book of Romans I think makes that super clear. It’s by Jesus Christ. You see it was His death that provided for our salvation.

Let me just read for a second from Romans 5. Romans 5. And it says here that God commended, verse 8, His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, or in the state of sinning Christ died for us. Verse 9 of Romans 5. Much more than being now, not later, but now justified by his blood. How were we justified before God? It’s not by our works. It’s by his blood. Romans 5 and 9. Much more than being We now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him because of his blood shed at the cross.

We will be saved from the wrath of hell. Then it says in verse 10, If when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by not our good works, not church membership, not by what we do for God, but by the death of his son. Much more being reconciled we shall be saved in my Bible reads by the Lord. His life, not by life. It’s amazing to me. Most of Christianity gets us backwards and they put the focus on your life and what you’re going to do and what you need to do and ultimately if you continue to do it, you’ll make heaven one day and that’s of course a lie.

We’re not saying based upon what we do. We’re being saved based upon what Christ did for us and we’re justified by His blood, by his life and therefore save from the wrath of hell and deliver to be with him forever. And the Lord is coming. He’s coming soon. And I think that we ought to be excited and looking and watching for that return. I’m not going to include all of our phone lines are lighted up. We invite you to call at 1-800Effect576-3771.

1-800-576-3771. And by the way we have Gershahn Solomon coming from Jerusalem this Thursday night, 9-11, at seven o’clock and he’ll be talking about the temple being rebuilt and he has been cutting the stones for forty years. It ought to be exciting. We’re going to have a video recorded for you and you’ll be able to get that if you’d like to be there in a sense at the meeting by hearing the recording or watching the DVD. We have Claude in Toronto, Canada, Canada and Claude welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Claude over there Yes, okay.

You’re on the morning Good morning On Friday you had a lot of people calling in and the anti-Christ Yeah, I have no idea who the anti-Christ is and none of us will know and we won’t be revealed till after the rapture So anything we say now is just pure speculation Yeah, but according to your teaching, I respect a lot. You say that if we confess Christ and accepting Him, then we are saved. Next one.

Your, your, your, um, this man. Well, if you familiar with the church that he comes from, it’s black liberation theology, which really is not Christian at all. What they do is they use Christian terms to, uh, to promote their, uh, their, uh, social agenda. And this has been a clever thing that’s been done by not only the black liberation theology, but others where they talk about salvation, but they don’t mean from hell to go to heaven. And they talk about redemption.

They don’t mean from hell or to be delivered from the penalty of sin. They’re talking about social redemption, to be delivered from the ghetto, to have a better lifestyle, to be able to interact in better in their community and so on, so on, to get better jobs and better pay. Has nothing to do with Christ at all. Go ahead and take a look again. You’ll, I think, find it impossible to find a clear statement about how to go to heaven from the Reverend Long’s church ended in Chicago.

But if the person himself confesses Jesus Christ and says he’s a Christ and he was baptized. What I’m trying to say is coming out of that church, I would suspect that the language is a disguised language. It means something different than it means to you and me. It doesn’t mean that he believes in Christ as a savior to save you from hell, But as a revolutionary who would make social change and I believe that’s the emphasis if you read carefully what Obama is saying He believes in Christ was the greatest revolutionary that ever came and he’s not talking about Taking you to heaven He’s saying about McCain that he’s gonna be the anti-Christ or whatever, but he attributed that to Barack because of his name name i was reading in e-bruz eleven for the yesterday and i thought they were acting that you know he’s a minor

it the name in state world and everything like that so they are supposed to name the right to the monthly name but it’s a biblical name i don’t know the answer i mean I mean McCain might be the Antichrist. I have no idea who the Antichrist is. I just know we’re living close and we can have fun speculating. And I just know that not everybody who claims that they are a Christian are a Christian. Like it says in Matthew 722, Maine will say, Ward Ward in that day.

And they’ll say, have it we preached in your name and healed in your name. Christ will say to that group, I never knew you. And the reason why is they bypassed the cross and the blood and salvation by faith, and they were attempting to be saved by their works and not by Christ. So it’s a tricky game we have to listen very carefully to what people have to say because many who claim that they are Christians are not. And the Bible is very plain to say that.

It says many of those which go in at the broad way and fewer of those that find the narrow way and Christ of course is the way. He’s the narrow way. All under the same idea that you’re saying they say they’re Christians, they could be baptized, they could be wherever. I agree. In fact, I think 90% of Christianity is a counterfeit. So what do you think about that? I think most of it is false and every time I talk to somebody and I witness to them I’m surprised again and again that they don’t know the gospel.

They don’t know how to be saved and they’re just following what they’ve been taught and they need to be evangelized. That’s why I’m on the air because I have a burden for those that are lost and my trust is to try to get people that are lost, say whether they be a church member or whether they be just a plain old heathen. Okay, that was just my view. Good point. Yeah, thank So that’s a good point and I appreciate your call, but I just know that.

Thank you so much. That was Claude. We’re going to go to Angel in St. Pete. Angel, welcome to Bibleline. You’re on the air. I’m over here at church. I’m at the birds church in Pasadena, Florida. I got a couple of guys here at church here. We got some free-well believers and we got some five-point cowards. We’re having a little talk here. We would like for you to explain Romans 9 We’re talking about Jacob and you saw me because Roman’s, or he’s talking about a Sure.

If you can get 6th, 1th, 9th, verse 9th, you’re 23 and that’s a heavy duty test. There’s a lot of verses there. But basically God chose between Jacob and Esau before they did anything good or bad. While there was still in the womb, which one would be the one through whom the Messiah would come? He never chose Jacob’s salvation. He never chose Esau to be lost. And the quote there where he says, Jacob, I love them, Esau, I hated, was hundreds and hundreds of years later.

After they had already lived and died and their descendants had come along for hundreds of years, that’s quoted from Malachi. And obviously God made the right choice. and i think that’s what he’s saying he chose the one that was more spiritual uh… to be the one through the messiah would come the descendants of east all were pretty much all uh… very very uh… profane and uh… and not uh… and secular and and godless and they never went in a path that’s sought out god but the descendants of jacob are the ones who did and and although jacob was not perfect Jacob was the one through whom he chose.

And so God is not saying here that he chose one to be saved over the other, but he’s saying that his purpose of election, how that he would choose to save a person, not on the basis of works, but on the basis of his invitation, he would choose which one through whom the Messiah would come. I’ve got to go to break here, so we’ll break this conversation off. And again, we’ll be back for a second half hour of Bibleline.

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So don’t go away. I’ll be right back. A Bibleline will be back in a moment. Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. All right, I’m back from that short interlude there. I’m so glad to be able to be with you today. It’s Monday and we have a whole week ahead of us and I hope you’ll be joining us each and every day. We’re excited about this Thursday having Gershan Solomon here from Jerusalem to tell us about the rebuilding of the Third Temple and his role in cutting the stones and how the Jewish people apparently seem to be ready for the first time in 2000 years of history for the building of that temple.

I think we’re in the times that God spoke about and we’re getting close. So pray for those meetings that we’ll have and if you are in the area you can come, but otherwise you can order the CV or the DVD of that event this Thursday 9-11 at 7 p.m. By the way we are going to Israel Lord willing if the Lord doesn’t come this year at the Feast of Trumpets which he might and if he does we’re not going to Israel.

But if you doesn’t come, you might want to call and get a copy of the brochure so you could maybe make plans to go with us. It’s an incredible trip. And I’ve been 15 times, this will be number 16, we studied the Bible on location all day long. And wow, you just will learn so much. It’s like a year’s worth of Bible training in a Bible college. I mean you’re just going to get a concentrated study all day long every day while you’re there and that’s going to be fantastic.

I hope you’ll go. We’ll go to the Dead Sea. We’ll go to the Sea of Galilee. We’ll go to the Mediterranean. We’ll go to the Hill of Calvary and we’ll go to the Tomb of Christ. We’ll see it all and we hope that you’ll be there with us as we travel over there this coming February 23rd. If you want, we have a seven day extension that would make it a total of a 17 day trip and that will take us to Egypt and the Cairo Museum and the Pyramids and the Nile River and we’ll go to a lot and then the city of Petra in southern Jordan which is really a city carved out of the rock, 40 square miles of city ready for the Jews to flee there from the Antichrist during the Tribulation period.

Well in the case we’re having fun and if you want to get some of our resources we have lots of teachings on many different topics. If you have a topic you’re going to be a question about whether it would be baptism or predestination or salvation or a book of the Bible. We have CDs where I’ve taught on it I think most likely and you’ll be able to listen to Rose and We’re going to do a second and a half hour Bibleline, so we’re going to return to those stations that have been on break and hope you’ll stay with me.

Here we go, part two of Bibleline. 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. Now here again is dot… Alright, we’re back for now, break, and we’re enjoying being with His Monday and we’ll and we’ll be here locally all week long. Thursday of this week we have Gershan Solban coming from Israel. You’ll be here at our headquarters in Tampa at the Calvary Community at seven o’clock.

9-11, that’s this Thursday. And we hope you’ll be able to come. If you’re driving distance, plan to come and invite your guests. And we’ll have a super time. And this is the man that’s been cutting the stones and things are prepared for a third temple. We’ve been seeing the evidence over the past couple of years as things have been accomplished to make sure that that temple worship came. Again, they’ve already been practicing with those that are of the priestly tribe of co-half to make sure that they do it right.

So, I mean, once they build the building, it’s not like, okay, if you’d like to sign up to work in the temple, they’ve already picked out the people. They already identified people that can demonstrate that they’re of the tribe of co-hath. They have to be not only from the tribe of Levi, but a particular family, that that family alone, according to Leviticus, is eligible to handle the sacrifices and to work in the temple. So, it’s exciting that they go right there.

I hope you will come close the night and meet the man who is using to build the temple that Christ will come back to. That is Thursday of this week. Also if you want to go on the trip to Israel with me, if the Lord does not come and snatch us out this feast of trumpets, we will leave February 23, 2009. If you call and leave your address, we will send you a brochure and I will send it out today.

you begin to look it over and make your decision. It’s going to be a great trip. Two parts Israel only for 10 days and then a seven day extension to Egypt and Jordan and to a lot on the Red Sea which you’ll make it a 17 day trip if you do the whole trip. So you can look that over and make your decision and if you have any questions you can call me. We were talking a little bit about Romans He says here about Moses, he says that Moses does in verse 15, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Well guess what? If you read the context here, God said he would have mercy on those that would trust Jesus as their Savior and he would not have mercy on those that do not trust Christ as Savior. So it’s not like God makes up your mind for you or makes your choice for you. No where is the Bible ever teach that? But God determined a long time ago, He says, I’m going to have mercy on those that I want to have mercy on, and I’m going to have no mercy on those that I don’t want to have mercy on.

And here’s the difference. If you would believe on Christ, then I’ll have mercy on you. If you notice later it talks about here the Gentiles in verse 30 which didn’t come under the teachings of Israel, yet it says they followed not after righteousness, but they obtained the righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. So it’s talking about because they chose to trust Christ, God had mercy on them and He saved them because of their faith in Christ. So if you read the whole chapter, we go verse by verse.

And if you want to get my Romans series, I’ve got a whole series of teachy on Romans that I go very carefully through these passages in Romans 9 and 10 and 11. I think you’ll find that very helpful. But nobody can say that God made the choice for you. It is definitely your choice. we don’t have day and st pitties bird and uh… day Welcome to Bibleline You’re on the air. Hello Pastor. I had two quick points and you had a caller on Friday’s show that said at the end of the world has been foretold over and over again and nothing has happened.

And he probably doesn’t realize that his statement is actually fulfilling a Latter-day prophecy in 2 Peter 3, 3, 3, 4 knowing this first that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own last and saying where is the promise of this coming For since the father’s fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation amen And then another thing about Daniel seven-eighth week prophecy It’s just an interesting note that at a new seven years of radical cycle begins on Rolshashana September 30th that could just be the 70th week Wow You know there’s lots of little hints that we’re close to maybe this this will be the the rapture date this year I don’t know, but I’m I’m definitely not Living as though he weren’t I’m gonna say Lord.

I you might come this year. So I’m gonna give it all I got Hi guys, it’s Brandon, and just wanted to tell you about this. Start watching for the Rapture. Hey, man. Close the pan. Amen. Thank you Dave. I appreciate that call that was Dave and Saint Pete. Yeah, those who scoff about where is Christ coming? Thank you.

that’s predicted in Peter Peter said that that’s exactly what would happen and and they’re fulfilling prophecy in doing that. And we’re now going to go to Curtis in Jacksonville, Florida. Curtis, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Yes, good morning, Pastor. Good morning. I was since last I taught with your head of stroke. I’m so sorry to hear that. But I was calling to ask you a while back you gave me a restitution of heaven. I would like you to repeat them for me please.

All right. We talked about heaven being in the North in our universe. And if you look at Leviticus 1, 11 and 12, they would offer the sacrifices northward before the Lord. So obviously, when you offer a sacrifice northward, it implies that the one you’re offering it to is in the north, and that’s God. So here it is in the north. We find that Psalm 75.5 tells us that salvation comes from the north. So it doesn’t come from the east or the south, it comes from the north.

So again, the implication is the one who gives salvation is in the north. In Isaiah 14, chapter 14 of Isaiah verse 13 and 14, Satan, when he won to overthrow God and take over heaven, he said he wanted to go to the north. He wanted to sit upon the Mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. So Satan wanted to go to the north. He knew that’s where God resided and he wanted to sit upon God’s throne.

And Job 26-7 tells us that there is an empty place, a void in the north, where there are no stars. Another I think reference to the fact that heaven is there in the north. So it’s void of stars, but yet that’s where the new Jerusalem exists and where the heavenly city that God lives in is right now. So those are some of the exciting verses and I hope that helps you Curtis and we’ll be praying for you. I’m sorry about your stroke.

God bless you and thank you for calling in today. Alright, that was Curtis and we’re now going to go to Mary in Richmond, Virginia and Mary. Welcome to Bibleline. Good morning, Hank. Good morning. I first started off saying that I would not like to see such an inspirational program being turned into a political talk show. And I must say that I’m calling in reference to the Barack Obama. And as an African-American mowing myself back in the early 60s, I too fought for political and some a believer in Yahweh Yeshua, and because I fight for political and social reform does not take away my confession.

And so I would suggest to those who are calling in with those kind of comments, let’s judge each one back their heart. And only our father, Yahweh Yeshua the Messiah, knows their heart. And let’s keep this program still to be clean and promote the kingdom of God. And on behalf of Barack, I don’t think that he would make a confession like that and not know Yeshua as his personal failure, yet fight for political and social reform. So let’s be careful with the program and let’s keep it inspirational and let all the naysayers and all those other folks, let’s just see what will happen and let that being so judgmentally gets on another.

And we’ll say yes, I fight, I fought for social and political reform but I do confess sure it’s my personal favor. That’s great. Well I pray that he is a Christian and I don’t know. All I can do is wait and see like you say we’ll see. One day we’ll know. Let’s not turn into a political talk show. Let’s keep it inspirational and try to get as many souls into the kingdom of heaven as we can. Amen. Well I didn’t think we turned it into a political show but it’s interesting that people are speculating and we have to just be cautious though when we listen to what people say that we have to ask ourselves are they really a believer or are they not and is this just rhetoric that we hear within and I see that every day in all kinds of denominations and with people every day that claim in one breath or

a Christian and in reality they don’t really know the Lord. Thank you Mary I appreciate that calling. We’re going to now go to Rob in Port Charlotte, Florida. Rob, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hi, I just had a question about where you’re talking about before when you say it’s not what you do to go to heaven. I realize that you have to believe in Jesus to make it to heaven. I also feel that it does depend on what you do after you find Jesus in your life.

Just from some of the things I was reading in the Bible, he was talking about people cats, not demons in his name when they walked into the gates of heaven. and he says you wicked thing, I never knew you. You know, and then James also, Jesus’ brother said, what is faith is nothing without works. And you know, Jesus said you have to pick up your cross daily and things like he’s gonna come like a thief in the night and that’s something about, you know, like the people drinking the trumpets and beating their servants.

And, you know, I just kind of feel like it’s, you know, just forgive you for you for whatever you do, but you do have to take oak of Jesus and do what he does it to do also. Well, that’s talking about discipleship. If you rightly divide the word, salvation is a gift that we received by faith and has nothing to do with our works at all, or we could have earned our way to heaven and Christ could have stayed and heaven never had to die.

But then he says, except you follow me and take up your cross daily and so on, you cannot be my disciple. And this is a totally different topic here. Judas, for example, was a believer, But Judas was never a believer. Judas went to hell because he never trusted Christ, and yet he was a disciple. So you could really get this thing backward. In John 664, Jesus said that he knew from the beginning who it was that believed not and who should betray him.

He was talking about Judas. So here is a person who is a disciple but not a believer. believer ought to become a disciple, but not every believer is. And if you become a disciple, the results are blessings and rewards. And the Bible makes that very clear that the disciple will receive a hundred fold return on his investment of his time, talents and treasures. Whereas the believer receives salvation because it’s totally purchased by Christ at Calvary. And if you read the Bible there and you read the New Testament letters, most of these believers were not disciples.

They were not living for Christ and the letters were written to address the fact that they needed to become responsible because they were going to give it a count one day and that would determine the degree of reward in heaven or the degree of loss of reward. I think if you are delinquent, God will chase in you. And he promises to interfere in your life. If you read 1 Corinthians chapter 11, talks about the Corinthian believers, living all kinds of lifestyles after they became saved.

And he says that if we would judge ourselves, then we wouldn’t have to be judged. But when we as Christians are judged, we are chastened or disciplined of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world. So the world is going to be condemned by the world but we’re in a different ball game where his children… And we’re disciplined by the Lord as He tries to get His on track to live a life that can be blessed and salvation though has nothing to do with our works.

And there are many in the Bible that lived a negative life after they became saved and they were still saved. They never lost it. And the Bible promises that they would never lose it. Thank you, Rob. That was a good point and I’m glad you made it and hope that that helps. helps and we’re now going to go on to tortilla in Chester Virginia or the welcome to my one you’re on there yeah hi you’re there hello just a time yes it is ma’am work that time this is dot their baron i call you often not in chest of Virginia yes ma’am and uh…

i heard on the radio from some of the uh… pastor and they are called a d o n a i referring to guard yes can you explain that to me um… if not in the uh… living bible routine games living bible that i’m looking at that that it’s a it’s a heavey word and the old testament it is one of the names for god it’s arbanoy and arbanoy means master or uh… uh… uh… it’s a term of respect And it’s oftentimes used before God’s personal name.

And so it’s Audenoy Yahweh, for example. And here we have the God of the universe that is deserving of our respect and our reverence and our admiration. And so Audenoy is a word like that. But they don’t usually give you the Hebrew word, you’d have to look that up. So in the King James, when you have Lord and small letters, capital capital L and then little or little R and then D. That’s always odd annoy. When you have God in all capitals or Lord in all capitals L capital you know O capital R capital D capital that is God’s personal name which is Yahweh and so sometimes you have those two put together but Illinois is a term of respect and the fact that he is the ruler of the universe.

Well the reason I ask is men’s of mine that are Christians and they had never heard of this either. New King James version, you know, and then I’m looking at Jim the flag of the star. Say anything about Adam, no one is that how you pronounce it? I don’t know. Being on the arm, buying it a way of joy and rejoicing even in the wilderness. Now that’s what I want to find out for sure because my friend didn’t understand this.

I had never heard of this. They had an old concern. It’s for real and if you have the Schothiel Bible now it will point out that it is the Hebrew word and it defines it and shows how it’s used in connection with God’s personal name. But I don’t know why he’s throughout the Old Testament and if you do issue it here, used in the synagogue on a regular basis as a name for God, but it is not his main name.

It is a name that simply is like Sir when you talk to somebody or Mr when you say a term is a respect in front of their name. So that’s the way it’s used in the Old Testament about God. Okay. Well now I do have your Bible too. I just don’t have it out here right now for a mountain. But anyway, I have only asked you something else, but I know you’re at the time. And I can’t remember the question.

Do you please stay on the air? I just think you are a guest and I hope that you received it soon. And if I think of that other question, I will call you sometime and ask you about it. But I did want to know about this because it’s very important, you know, that I understand it. Now I can tell my question, friend. Wonderful. That was your? alright thank you so much we have here in palm harbor for and the peter welcome to bimblain you’re on the air Hello, Pastor.

I’m open to add something and if I’m off or I’m incorrect, please correct me. In regards to some of the previous callers… callers it seems to me that there’s an emphasis being placed on the actual profession or the confession of state and not really understanding that salvation is really the belief and trust of the promise thought jesus in in john chapter 12 He didn’t believe it on me, believed not on me, but on him that sent me. So it’s the promise of God the Father, Jesus being desacrified to pay me for our sins.

But the Salvation Plan being created by God the Father, that’s what our promise is. That’s what our trust is, is in that promise. If Ham says that he believed the promise of God and that’s what his salvation is. So in Matthew chapter 7, of course, Jesus says that many will state to me in that day, Lord, Lord. And I think that really goes into saying that it’s not the confession of the profession itself. it is the underlying belief and trust that each person has.

So the Bible clarifies again and says that only God knows and will judge the hearts and minds of men. So a deceiver, if you will, could say the things that may sound right, but truly in his heart, he may think something different. Am I off on this? No, I think you’re absolutely right. And it’s really that individual. They must trust Christ as their Savior. And for babies in clarification here, I remember when my sister got me onto the Bible, and I got saved to the two of us, but my other brother, my other sister to Christ, and the four of us went after my mom and dad, and we got the whole family saved.

Then we went after the relatives, and got granddad saved. But you know, we never really took for granted that Grandad was saying, that he would confess the right words. I’ll never forget my dad and say, let’s get the car to me. And let’s drive over and check out Grandad. And we’d get him in on the back porch. And we would grill him until we were absolutely convinced that he was on the same page with us and he was trusting Jesus alone.

This is only hope of heaven. And when my Grandad finally died, there was no doubt in my mind because we had checked him out again and again and again. And I think that’s something that we all want to make sure our relatives, our loved ones, are saved and we need to make sure that what they’re saying is in line with what the Bible is teaching and that they’ve really trusted Christ to be their Savior. And it’s not their confession that saves them.

It’s their personal trust in Jesus Christ as a Savior that saves them. And again, I think some people that maybe feel the peer pressure of like, let’s say, and maybe this was the case with your grandfather, you Belichick, your grandfather may have felt that peer pressure, everyone’s getting up on me. So I stay the right thing just to keep the heat off of me and they may not really in fact believe that. And so, and I think as Christians, for me, what I understand the Bible to see and how I can judge, I don’t take the opportunity to judge somebody in terms of what their salvation is.

They say that they trust in the gift of price, then the only thing that I’m left for me that I think to judge accurately is what are the things that they do and say after that apart from it, in other words, what are their works? Let me take a look at the things that are going on to see whether they are in line, But don’t think I can challenge their salvation. I can look at the things that they do and say and determine whether they’re living according to what the Bible says Very good.

Yeah, and I think that is a definitely true and of course we would try to trick my grandfather We would ask him trick questions and and so we we knew that he couldn’t wiggle around And unless he really did believe the truth. We were certain of his salvation. Thank you Peter We appreciate that very much and a very good point. We’re not going to go to Anthony in Tampa, Florida. Anthony, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hey, what’s happening?

How you doing this morning? I had a quick question, and it’s a quick five-second-per-degree report. The question I had was, you know, people always seem to be defending Barack Obama in his Christianity, but as far as I know, he belongs to the Church of Christ, and my question is, if you’re not baptized, you’re not going to be saved. Even if you put your trust in Christ. If you’re you’re not paid and if you die before you get baptized you’re going to hell.

You are you Manziel? So that’s my question. Is that real salvation or isn’t it? Well, I agree with you. Good. Most every Church of Christ I’ve ever met has a list of about 20 things you must do in order to be saved. And obviously, it’s based on works and it’s based upon things that you’re going to do to get you there, not what Christ did for you. So sometimes it’s really tricky when you’re hearing people talk to you have to ask the right questions and say, well, is there anything in addition to faith in Christ?

The Bible is the only way to have a life that you need to be saved. And many times they’ll say, Oh yeah, you got to be baptized and you got to join the Church and you got to live the Christian life and you got to. And all those are wrong answers, because the answer is nothing but the blood nothing but the blood nothing but Christ can save you. And that’s the only way to heaven. And so you really have to be able to come up with some questions that will reveal that to find out whether the person’s trusting Christ alone or Christ plus something, Christ is not.

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