Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-09-17

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So cherish the old and grandpa’s Till my true old peace and past my later life. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Coming to you. 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. Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast. We appreciate you and all of our listeners.

I look forward to being with you every day Monday through Friday as we come to you live from our studios here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church. Thanks for tuning in to Bibleline today and you can catch this program on the Internet right now live streaming and you can also catch it after. the program is over. It’ll be there for a year or two. You can go back in archives and catch the past programs. You might want to try that and I think you’ll find that enjoyable.

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So there’s a good chance that your child’s name will be there. And let me tell you, when you play it, they stop. At least my granddaughter would absolutely stop in her tracks. She does and she just listens and it talks to her in a way that nobody else can. It tells her that God says she’s special and God so loved her that he gave his son and it opens the door for evangelism to your children and your grandchildren. If you really want to open a door big and wide, excuse me, you may want to order this particular CD for your children or grandchildren.

and you can do it right over the internet. And if you don’t have a computer, you’re welcome to call and get the 800 number. And we have people that will guide you through it without a computer, so you can sample it and see what it’s like. Good to be with you today. We’re excited about what’s gonna happen over this weekend. Of course, we’re getting closer to the Feast of Trumpets. We believe Christ is coming back shortly, and we hope that you’re a believer, because if you’re not, and if the Lord does come this year, you’re going to be left behind, and you certainly wouldn’t want that to happen.

Jesus Christ is coming back. We don’t know what year, but He’s coming on a piece of trumpets, I believe, whatever year He comes, and He’ll fulfill that peace day, and up we’re going to go, and that would mean this year, September 30th and October 1st, a two-day celebration, and we’re getting Milled up. He’s coming this year and he might not. And then we’ll wait another year and then maybe another year and so on until he comes. But definitely it’s exciting to think about the fact that Christ could come within the next two weeks.

And if he did, would you do anything different in the next two weeks knowing that you’re running out of time? By the way, Bibleline is coming to you live out of time. This Sunday is coming up on Thursday, Sunday, and this Sunday is our third Sunday. It’s a great time to come visit us if you’re in driving distance. We’re going to have our dinner. We have lunch, every third Sunday. You’re welcome to come and join us for our 1030 service.

Then stay for the lunch dinner. Bring your family, bring your Bible, bring your appetite. Join us for 1030 worship and then stay for a wonderful time of fellowship. I’d love to have you sit with me and we’ll get a chance to talk and meet one another and that’ll be this Sunday, the third Sunday, the 21st of September and you’re welcome to come and be a part of that. That’s this Sunday at Calbury Community Church in Tampa. Again, if you’re out of town, you can’t come to these events or functions here.

You can always go online and catch our worship servers live and you can also catch our resource We had Gershans Solomon here from Jerusalem and he is an Orthodox Jew who has been involved in cutting the stones for the third temple which we believe the proportions are already. It could go up immediately if the rapture would happen and that’s what will happen if the rapture does happen. We have the entire evening, two hours and twenty minutes available on a DVD and it turned not to be really good.

We just finally saw the final copy of that and it’s available for a gift of $20. You can get the DVD. You can play it for your whole family or your church or for your Sunday school class. But the DVD of the whole event is available now for a gift of $20 to Bible on call and we’ll be glad to mail that out to you. And I think you’ll be glad that you’ve gotten it. We’re going to get into the Bible for a few minutes Then we’re going to take our callers and if you want to call in the number is 1-800-576-3771.

That’s 1-800-576-3771. So give us a call and you can get up on that line and be ready to be the first ones who get on the air today. And we’d love to have you do that. If you turn within your Bible to Galatians chapter 1, you’ll find that the Bible here defines the gospel in a wonderful way. It says in verse 3 of Galatians chapter 1, Grace, BTU, and Peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, verse 4 says, Who gave Himself for our sins that He might deliver us from this present evil world.

Well that sums it up pretty well. Jesus Christ gave Himself four hour sins. When He died on the cross, He gave Himself. No one took His life. He gave His life and we find that He gave Himself four hour sins. He died to to pay for the sins of the world, including your sins and my sins. And it says here that he might deliver us from this present evil world. So he delivers us. You know, it’s amazing. The opposite of what the Bible teaches here is religion.

And religion all has the common denominator that we deliver ourselves. That there’s something that we do that will deliver us. But notice it says he gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world. Salvation is a gift. It is something provided by God through Jesus Christ. It is completely of God and not anything of ourselves. We simply receive it by faith when we trust that Jesus Christ died to pay for our sins on the cross.

And amazingly, the devil tries to work people away from that simple message. It says in verse 6 here, I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. Paul was shocked that in such a short period of time the believers in the area of Galatia had gotten away from the simple message that had been presented to them that Christ gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from his present evil world.

And in season 7, which is not another… But there will be some that will trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ. So if the gospel is perverted, changed, altered, added to, or subtracted from in any way violated, it all of a sudden becomes another gospel which is a cursed message from God. Look at what they’re saying. though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, then that which we have preached unto you, let him be a curse.”

So any message that comes along, that contradicts the Bible we know is to be rejected as a false message. And basically it is a perversion of the true message of Jesus Christ. That message is, he did it all. He paid it all. And he gave himself far since that he might deliver us. But most people are taught that we deliver ourselves, that we have to go to church. We have to be baptized. We have to be faithful. We have to live out the Christian life.

And we have to do this and do that and do the other. And the Bible says, no, it’s not that way at all. And if you change your pervert that gospel, then it becomes a curse. In fact, in chapter 2, in verse 21, it says, I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. The word frustrate in Galatians 2.21 means to fort, to nullify, to make void, to cancel.

And obviously if you change the gospel in any way, you make void. This message is no longer the message that God gave, therefore it cannot save you. And it says to you, I do not frustrate. That means to thwart or nullify or cancel or make void the grace of God. For if righteousness come by the law or by works, then Christ is dead in vain. Think about it. died needlessly, uselessly, if you and I could have earned our salvation.

Christ could have stayed in heaven. Why did He come? Why did He die? If we could have gotten to heaven another way, and the answer is we couldn’t get to heaven another way, He’s the only way, and unless He had died, no one would have gone to heaven. Nobody would have ever been able to go to heaven because only through Christ’s death the righteousness of God be credited to the believer. It says if righteousness come by the law, which it doesn’t, then Christ is dead in vain.

Christ died on the cross so that His righteousness could be credited to your account at the moment you believe. I had a friend that lived down in Venice, Florida. We have listeners down in that area, that area and he had a boat and he would go out fishing and he named his boat Galatians 221 and I thought well that was interesting. Not too many people named their boats were the scriptural verse and I said how did that work for you?

He said it works great. He says I get on the radio and when I’m coming into the dock or whatever I’ll say Galatians 241, Galatians 221 to the dock or whatever and he says people get involved and ask the question And the easiest is why did I name my book, Galatians 2, 21, and he’s able to witness using that. What a great verse it is because it tells the difference between salvation which is a false message by works and the true message which is by Christ’s death.

And if righteousness could have come by any means other than the death of Christ, Jesus Christ died in vain. He could have stayed in heaven. Why did he die on the cross? Why? Because there was no other way for us to be saved. If you go back to Galatians 1 and verse 4, it says he gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world. So we are delivered from hell to go to heaven through faith in Christ and what he did for us at the cross of Calvary 2,000 years ago.

If you alter that message, it tells us here that that message then becomes a curse and it becomes a message that God curses. It says in verse 8, though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, then that which we have preached unto you, let him be a curse. Now we think about the moments when I think about this verse because the Mormon revelation . He comes from an angel and that angel was the angel Baroni that gave the revelation to Joseph Smith where he showed him those golden tablets in Palmyra in New York and gave him a special pair of glasses to put on so he could weed and decipher the information on those which became the Book of Mormon supposedly.

But guess what? The book of Mormon teaches a different gospel. It includes waterbeds, isn’t keeping the commandments, living the Christian life to be saved. And therefore it is under this curse. And so the curse of Galatians 1-8 is upon the Mormon church. It’s upon the angel Moroni. Because as I say, it was all Moroni, and Angel Maroney gave a message contrary to what the gospel message is in the Bible. And it says here, if you change it, if you alter it, then it’s a curse of God and that message of the Mormon Church is wrong.

Works for salvation and obviously we cannot work our way to heaven. We must trust Jesus Christ and Him alone. But you know, I would say most of Christianity has been contaminated with the false message of somehow our participation in adding some works of ourselves to get us saved. My friend, just like the dying thief, there is nothing you or I can do. He couldn’t do a thing. He was the end of the cross. He was dying. And the dying thief looked over to Christ and said, Lord, do you remember me when you come into your kingdom and Jesus said today thou shalt be with me in paradise.

He was saved by faith without works. He didn’t have a chance to join a church. He didn’t have a chance to get water baptized. He didn’t have a chance to do anything. He was dying and in the final moments of his life he simply trusted Christ and God saved him and he said today thou shalt be with me in paradise. Good news, isn’t it? I’m Dr. Englunds from This is Bibleline and we’re going to go to the phone lines and we have Geno in Tampa, Florida and Geno, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Good morning. I look at a question. I’m talking about two speeches. We’ll give the description of Antichrist where it says that he has no like for women and also… In Bible ware, the Catholic Church has been able to help baby Christ come to prominence in the future. They are the one who uplifts him to become the angel of Christ. I’ll hang up with him. Okay. There’s a… The first one is in Daniel chapter 11 and it really doesn’t say that the Antichrist doesn’t like women.

It says here in Daniel chapter 11 in verse 37, neither shall the Antichrist regard the God of his fathers, which seems to imply that he has Jewish blood flowing in his veins. It says, nor the desire of women. So it doesn’t say he doesn’t desire women. It says he doesn’t regard the desire of women. I believe the desire of women is to be a homemaker, to raise children and have children and raise them at home and so on. He doesn’t regard that, so he’s going to treat men like women.

We’re already there with the unisex ideas out in our world today where women go to war now and they fight right along the side of the men and they don’t get any special treatment. I think the Antichrist will be one who holds that same policy. In Revelation 7 it talks about the woman there and I don’t believe is the religious system that you’re referring to and how that it wides the beast. The beast is the Antichrist and obviously the wider controls the beast that he shry things.

If you were to get on a horse and the reins were placed in your hand you would be able to direct the horse in which direction you want to go and be able to stop and go and all those kind of things. And the same thing is as true here of the religious system will actually direct the rise of the Antichrist to power according to Revelation chapter 17. So there will be a cooperation between the One World Church and the Antichrist as he rises the power right after the Rapture.

Alright, we’re going to get a Stephanie down in Miami, Florida. Stephanie, welcome to Bibleignor on the earth. Turn your way down, Stephanie, because it’s a delay. We hear that after the fact. Oh, sorry about that. Reading from the New King James Version. I don’t have it with me, but if you can go ahead and read and expand on John 3.5. John 3.5, Jesus is accepted mainly born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

He is talking there about a fresh birth which is the water birth and he is talking about a new birth, a spiritual birth that occurs when you trust Christ as your Savior. It is not talking about baptism at all, the word baptize doesn’t occur in the chapter. If you read the context, it demands that that is the correct interpretation. Verse 4, John, rather Jesus told Nicodemus that he had to be born again. And notice what he’s thinking. He’s thinking in terms of another freshly birth because he says, how can I, when I’m old, go back into my mother’s room and come out and be born again?

So he was thinking about a physical birth. And then on the other side of the verse Jesus says that which is born when the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit of spirit. So the water birth is the flesh birth where you are enclosed in a sack of water in your mother’s room when the water sack breaks out you come and here you are that’s the flesh or the natural birth. But Christ is saying you don’t need another flesh birth you need a spirit birth.

He says marvel not in verse 7 that I said unto you you must be born again So the second birth everybody has the first birth everybody has the water birth But not everybody has the second birth then unless you have the second birth of the spirit. You cannot go to heaven The spirit is the Holy Spirit, but the water is basically what I’m saying. Everybody The water birth is everybody’s in a sack of water and then in your mama and when the water sack breaks out you come and That’s just a known fact obviously and so you enclosed in a sack of water the amniotic fluid in your Mother’s womb and when that water sack breaks in that you come so that’s the that’s the birth of water the birth of the spirit is a spiritual birth where you’re born again into God’s family, you’re born of the spirit and that spiritual birth is essential to go to heaven.

You have to have a second birth of the spirit. Okay, and so I’m just wondering why did they bother with the baptism in Acts if it’s not important? Well, I didn’t say water baptism was important. I baptized hundreds of people by immersion, but we don’t do it to save them. We do it as a testimony. So water baptism is a testimonial on the person who believes on Christ’s Savior that they are cleansed of their sin by the blood of Christ.

And so when a person is baptized, the water is merely symbolic. And it symbolizes how they’re cleansed or sinned by the blood of Christ. But John 3 has nothing to do, zero, to do with baptism. Nothing at all. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Stephanie. John 3 is often used to support web baptism, but there’s no baptism in the chapter. It’s just not there. There is no baptism there. All right. We’re going to go now to Lou in Tampa for them and we welcome to my blend you’re on the air welcome on a doctor and i can’t wait to hear you morning good i’ve got some people that would like to know about the uh…

showing on the mountain that was directed uh… uh… uh… as far as towards christian to the to the gentile to the jews i mean is it wrong to the percain dot and uh… just explain who that is for it’s not for a not buying up a listen to you okay thank you all right It really has to do with the Kingdom that will be established here on the earth when Christ comes and such of His Kingdom. That would have happened at the first coming had He been accepted by the Jews, but they rejected Him and that Kingdom has been postponed and had it been had Christ been accepted as the Messiah.

That Kingdom of Peace on earth would have occurred 2,000 years ago. It’s still to come and it has to do with the… Wools of the kingdom and how the Christ will be ruling here on the earth is king, and it’s a wonderful message, but it’s really not the message for today. In there is the Course, the Lord’s Prayer, which is really the disciples prayer. He taught the disciples how to pray. And you’ll notice the words. He says, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be the name thy kingdom come.

It’s a prayer for this future kingdom where Christ will rule over the earth. The Word will happen. It says, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Well, we’re out of time here. We’re coming up on this break time real fast. Again, we want you to know that Bibleline is listeners supported, and if you want to help Bibleline, you could really help by praying for us and by giving a gift to Bible Line. You could call and you could give a gift by credit card over the phone, or you can call and ask for an envelope to be sent and mail a gift in, or you can give on a secure website on our online bookstore.

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We’re going to take a break. I’m Dr. Englester. I’m going to say we’ll take a break for a few moments and we’ll come right back and do a second half hour. So don’t go away. I’ll be right back. Don’t go away. Bibleline will be back in a moment. Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. Well I’m Dr. Englund, it’s great to be with you. This is Tuesday. I mean Wednesday, and here we are from our studios in Tampa, Florida, bringing the program to you.

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And hopefully you will join me for the trip of a lifetime. I’ll tell you, it will be life transforming. You will learn so much in that time of travel over there and it’ll just enrich your life forever. So think about that and call and ask for the brochure on Israel to be sent out to you. Don’t forget we have some wonderful resources including the Scofield Bible, the Strongings and Coronins, many common theories. We’ve got books on evangelism, we’ve got Frax, we’ve got CDs of my teachings, DVDs of my teachings and we have of course the special CDs and the DVD of the Goshan Solomon event last week where he came from Jerusalem and we talked about the building of the Third Temple.

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Alright, we’re back from that break and this is Bibleline and we’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church. We’re on the pastor. Guess what? This Sunday coming up is the third Sunday. We’d love to have you if you’re driving this is come on out and visit with us. And if you do, you can stay for the 1030 service and then stay for a wonderful lunch dinner, great home cooked food and that will follow the service every third Sunday.

We do that. It makes it kind of nice if you’re driving a distance you can just stay and eat with us and make it a real wonderful event for you and for your family. And you’re welcome to bring your family, your appetite, your Bible. And join us for that 1030 service this coming Sunday, the 21st. And then stay for the lunch dinner that will follow. It ought to be exciting. And I’d love to sit with you and talk and we’ll get a chance to enjoy the food and the fellowship.

We are looking at an Israel trip in February. If you want to get that brochure, please do call in and leave your address and we’ll mail it out today so you can make your plans to go to Israel. Also if you would like you can go to our website and catch our radio programs, our TV programs, our worship services and look at our online books where everything is available on the website BibleLineMinistries.org. We do have the two hour and twenty minute DVD of the last Thursday’s meeting with Gershaun Salwin.

That was an exciting evening and it’s all captured on DVD, Good Quality, and you’ll be able to get that if you call in and order that today. gift of twenty dollars you can have the DVD that covers the two hours and twenty minutes of Gershahn being with us here in Tampa. We’re going to go to the phone lines. That number is 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. We have Rick in Tampa and Rick, welcome to Byblin. You’re on the air. Good morning, Pastor.

Good morning. Hi, I have a question. How do the Lord judge a person come judgment day and they are ignorant of his word, never heard his word, never been taught his word or anything? How does God judge that person? Okay, the Bible says they’ll be judged and found without excuse. If you turn to Romans chapter 1 in verse 18, it says in verse 19, rather, that which may be known of God is made known in them, for God hath showed it unto them.

So basically there’s no such thing as a born atheist. plans within everyone, a knowledge of the fact that he exists, and therefore they become responsible to seek him. They may not know about Christ, but they know that there is a God, they know they are accountable, and so verse 20 says the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his power and his Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

They won’t be able to say, hey, I didn’t know there was a God. They will obviously have to admit that they knew that and you have to teach somebody to be an atheist. There is no such thing as a born atheist. And so God seeks the lost person. His Holy Spirit can mix them with sin, righteousness and judgment. You read that in John 16 and as a result they are to seek Him and if they seek the Bible Bible says they will find, Jeremiah 29 and 13 says, you shall seek me and find me when you shall search me with all your heart.

And you see examples of that throughout the Bible and I see them in real life all the time. If a person is seeking the Bible promises back in the book of Job that God will keep him alive through battle, through war, through disease until a messenger can get to him and give him that wonderful message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. And so they won’t have an excuse and God can get the gospel anywhere. in the world to anywhere and I’ve let people to Christ all over the world and I’ve read people from all over the world to Christ here in America It seems like if you’re a witnessing Christian God will bring you across the paths of those that are seeking and You’ll find that they come from all over and it’s a Wonderful to see how God works that out, but that’s the answer

They will they’ll find him if they’re looking for Okay, so there’s no such thing as a primitive people that doesn’t have any kind of access of the world. to the… Well, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have access to the outside world, but that God can access them. You know, God knows their heart, their mind, no matter where they live. And I think sometimes it becomes more difficult here when you have a lot of counterfeit Christianity. It is more difficult to find the Lord here than it would be in an environment that’s devoid of all of that.

But I find that seeking people bump into me and I’m able to lean into Christ. It’s wonderful. A lot of people are going to cry from all of us out of America, from Europe, from Israel, from the Far East. They seem to cross my path. If they’re seeking my friend, they’re going to hear the message and have an opportunity before they die. They will not have any excuse. Okay. Thank you very much. You’re welcome. I have an article written on that that I think is very interesting.

It gives lots of examples. And that’s on my website. If you have internet access, go to the bottom right hand corner of the home page. And Dr. Lynch, some articles and look up the heathen. What about the heathen? And I explain that quite thoroughly. We’re going to Felix in Tampa, Florida. And Felix, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hi, good morning pastor. She is a white Jesus Christ called himself. All right, these are special terms You know the phrase some of in the Hebrew means to have the same nature to be in essence the same as and When Christ is called the Son of man, and then he was fully a man and when he’s called the Son of God of many was fully God.

So it didn’t mean that God had a baby, but it meant that he was fully God. For example, James and John in the New Testament were called the sons of thunder. Did that mean that their daddy’s name was Mr. Thunder? No. We know the Bible tells us that they were the sons of Zebedee. But apparently their nature, their being, their character, They were like thunder. Apparently they were hotheaded, easily set off. If you looked at them or touched them the wrong way, they’d probably take a swing on you, and they were called the Sons of Thunder.

Barnabas in the New Testament was called the Son of Consolation. That mean his dad and his name was for Consolation? No, not at all. The Hebrew usage meant he had the ability, the nature, the qualities about him that he could console and comfort people. And so Barnabas was called the Son of Consolation. When Place was called the Son of God, the High Priest said that’s blasphemous and he ripped his clothes because they knew he was claiming to be God.

And when he’s called the Son of Man, he meant that he was fully and completely a man. So Jesus is both, he’s the God-man, he is fully God and fully man and he has both of those qualities described by those names. Okay, thank you. Also Matthew 529. Okay, Matthew 529. I’m turning there right now. And let’s see here. And 529 says, you write I offend the pluck it out and cast it from the forward is profitable for the that one of my members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast in help.

The first thing is that you don’t want anything to hinder you from fighting the gospel and trusting the Lord as your savior. I know I’ve shared the story before, but I talked to a young fellow that was a young wealthy child of a very wealthy man in Tampa here. And he was a jet-setter and he was getting ready to head on a trip around the world. And his dad said, could you talk to my son? I’m concerned he’s going on this world trip and he’s not saved.

I’d like you to witness to him. And I said, I’d be happy to. So we set up an appointment in the sun. He looked at his watch and said, you’ve got one hour, give it your best shot. So I explained everything and he wasn’t buying anything. And finally I said, what would it take for you to come to believe the truth of the Bible? And he said he didn’t really know. I said, well, what if God did something dramatic?

And I believe that if you were to agree with me in prayer, God would do it. Let’s say that you leave here today and you’re in a car accident and your right leg is severed. Would you believe if that happened? And he said, no. I said, well, what if we made it very specific? And we said that your right leg was severed exactly six inches above the knee and it was a clean cut. And would you believe then? And I said, I believe that if that’s what it would take for you to get saved that God would take your leg so that you would be able to go to heaven and have a whole body in heaven.

And I said, would you let me pray that? He said no. So anyway, we prayed that he said that he would let me pray that God would interfere in his life and bring him to seek the truth. Well, guess what? He left and I didn’t see him for quite a long time. And when he came back to see me about a year later, he said, you know, he said, I left on that trip. My first stop was Kenya, Africa.

And as soon as I got there, I caught a terrible case of hepatitis. I spent six months in the hospital there in Kenya and almost died. And he told this awful story when he went through. And he said, you know, I thought about that prayer that you prayed. And he got saved. And by the way, he then went off to become a missionary. He’s serving in South American today with a tribe that nobody has really ever been ever reached before.

Isn’t that a wonderful story? But he got saved as a result and he almost lost his life as a result, but God got his attention. And so the Bible says it’s better if you lost your leg or an eye or a toe or a foot or whatever it would take to get your attention so you would seek the Lord and find him to be saved. That’s great. Thank you, Pastor. You’re so welcome. Thank you for the call. That was Felix.

We now have Rob in Largo, Florida. Rob, welcome to Bibleline You’re on the air. Hi, Pastor. How are you today? Good. Hey, I got two questions. The first one is real easy. Loop 12-5, there’s one that we should fear. I’m turning it right now. Luke 12 verse 5 says, and I say unto you my friends, be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that there’s no more that they can do. And that’s obviously telling us that there’s only one that can really put you in hell forever, and that’s God himself.

He’s one to fear. As far as man can turn the worst they can do is take your life, but then they can do no more to you. but God has control over your soul forever and ever and ever and we certainly need to fear him. And the Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. When you recognize that you have to deal with eternal living God and you recognize that that is a fearful thing. If you don’t know him as your Savior, it’s the beginning of finding him as a Savior and getting saved.

You know the question on I heard a guy on TV the other day I won’t say who it is He said that it was the devil because the devil has, you know, in verse 5, it says after he has killed he has the power to throw that person into hell. He said that the devil has only come to kill, steal, and destroy. And right when I heard that, a… a bell off of my head and I said you know what that’s not right because in my Bible I thought that’s that’s not the devil I said that’s God here’s a guy on because I knew that I agree with you it’s God is the one that we need to fear not seen another thing about the armor of God yes are those pieces of the armor Is that something that we have to practice that’s safe?

Say for instance, the breastplate of righteousness. Now, if I’m an unrighteous person, though I’m saved, trust in Christ, but I’m unrighteous. You know, there’s things going on in my life that just need to be changed. Does that mean that I don’t have that piece of armor? It may be you know suited up for battle with with the devil it talks to We wrestle not with flesh and blood but with you know Satan his principalities and powers and authorities and And so on and so it tells us how as a believer we need to be suited up so we can stand against the trickly of the devil and when he comes against us.

And so definitely that has to do with a Christian getting into the Bible and arming himself up and living as he ought to and you’ll be strong and the world will protect you from the devil. You have to work at the shoes of the gospel. I mean you, you’re not wearing the shoes of the gospel according to that. You know exactly it talks about having your feet prepared You know to bring the gospel and that means you study and you learn how to do that And I think that’s really the most important one there in Ephesians 6 verse 15 is that one because They’re having the rest of the armor on doesn’t mean much if you don’t take the gospel It’s when you your feet take you into the battle and bring the gospel to somebody that Satan then really will try to come after you and say then you need the arm or arm but if you’re just going to stand

in the corner as a good, good, good, good, good Christian, say he’s not even a body. You don’t even need to have the arm or arm or arm. He won’t. He’ll leave you alone. It’s only when you engage him as you get your feet going and take your body to somebody who’s lost and you’re trying to witness them about the Lord that Satan is not happy and he’s going to try to come after you. So it is important though us being Christians and you know living in the world we live in today to possess this armor if we’re going to be doing battle or for some people who claim to be Christians and they’re good people.

They’re not going to go out and get into the battle. Well, the one can do is greatly because you know basically the it’s just like in real war if you You know are firing at the enemy they’re gonna fire back. You have to say why are they shooting back at me? Well, this is because you should get them and if you know the devil a lot of Christians don’t even know There’s a war going on and that’s because they’re not engaged in the battle or not involved in anything spiritual or leading people to Christ or Or trying to make their Christian life go forward But if you are then Satan’s gonna be after you and obviously sin in your life will make you vulnerable to his attacks Well pastor, I appreciate your time and I appreciate your wisdom and I’m in agreement with you you know what you’re doing and what you all pray about and make

God continue to richly bless you. Thank you Robin. God bless you. We’re now going to go to Mary Lou in Sanford, Florida and Mary Lou welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Mary Lou? Hello Mary Lou are you there? Yes. Okay you’re on the air. Okay listen all I want to know what you do when you praise and worship is a new thing. We’ve been to church nine days and I don’t. I don’t actually find no information how to do it.

The Bible gets to say do it. Well, then you say do it. I think. I think the new praise and worship movement is not biblical at all. If you read the book of Acts and you read about the early church, it doesn’t say they came together for praise and worship. It says they came together to study the Bible, the Apostles’ doctrine, and to break bread and to pray and to witness. And there is nothing about even music there in that early church in the book of Acts.

And I think today we have shifted away from the focus of the Bible and what the Krishna would be doing when they come together to worship. I think we’ve missed it. It’s now all about entertainment. Oh, thank you so much. It’s a big thing now. I don’t know why it’s such a big thing. Well, it’s because they’re making it a big thing and they’re making it an entertainment thing. Oh, yes. And people come and they’re, it’s like a Christian aerobics you’re up there on your feet and clapping your arms and jumping around.

And there’s nothing, like that, in the Bible. I really personally think the first worship leader, leader was Aaron and look at what happened. When Moses went up into the mountain he led the people and what did they do? They sang and they got drunk and they danced. They took their clothes off and everything else. And God of course was very, very angry at the first worship leader which was Aaron. He misled them into false doctrine. They built a golden calf that the people began to worship.

And so I believe that the worship leaders are going to bear a big degree of judgment against them because I think they can mislead the whole congregation to go in a direction away from God’s Word and I think it’s scary. Nowhere into the Bible does it give the position of a worship leader. We have elders, we have deacons. We have different positions within the church, but there’s no position called a worship leader anywhere in the Bible. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. You’re welcome. Baba. Okay. I was made a new over in Sanford, Florida, and now we’re going to go to John in Dunedin, Florida. John, welcome to my line. Hi. How are you, Pastor? Good. Listen, in the… The first fall of your church, and you eliminated a lot of confusion from my wife and my family, us all, so we’re very thankful. My question was, in the parable of the sower in the seat, it talks about the seat falls on different types of ground.

And it talks about some people receiving the gospel readily right away, but then I believe it says fall away. Or they got taken or something like that. know what I mean they the seed went in at first and started to grow and then it did it right. Sir, I think it’s time at the different groups. And the first one, they don’t ever get saved. It seems like the word is tickles their ear, and they seem to want to have it.

But the devil comes along and steals away that which they heard. And they are seeds sewn by the way, so they never become saved. They never go anywhere. So I think that first group is a lost group. And we have that today. people that will hear the gospel but they move on and they don’t trust the Lord as their Savior. The other groups are those that get saved but it’s only the last group that really becomes fruitful because they just freak in the Word and they’re so receptive that they grow and then they bear fruit as a Christian and that’s really where we ought to be as a Christian.

We ought to be good ground sucking up the Word of God, really desiring to know what God’s will is for our lives and living for him Thank you, son. Thank you, John. God goes to done and done eaten Florida and we have Let’s see here. We have Gregory in Miami and Gregory. Welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Good morning Good morning. How are you doing Hank? Good. Good. I’m not, I’m not, you don’t have a lot of time left.

I had two quick questions. Go for it The first one is coming from Luke, Luke’s repeated, the question to Jesus, first, might as be, you might say, I could just stick them all three, I’m going to talk about the servant’s duty. I’ve already got a piece and a message and the preacher was basically saying that we have the right to use faith as a servant. Do you think you can get out of context or conduct what you’re just talking about or use your is talking about us as the servants of God, we are the servants.

I don’t think he’s giving us anything like that. It says here, basically, if… It’s not the quantity of faith, but it’s what we place our faith in, and our faith is in Christ, who is God. And if we obviously ask him to do something in faith that is scriptural, he’s going to give us a yes answer. But he’s not going to say yes to everything that we ask or everything that we desire. So we have to be submissive. And I think we ought to pray as Christ taught us to pray, not my will, but I will be done.

So we can use faith as a servant. It is not proper at all, right? No. Yeah, I agree with you. The second question is John 3 verse 13, no man has ascended up to heaven, but he’s down from heaven even the Son of Man. Someone who believes in self-sleep uses that as a way of saying that we cannot, that when a believer dies, they do not go directly into the presence of God. What’s the response to that as? No, no, no, no.

We’re taking that verse out of context. What we’re talking about, Jesus is the only one who has ascended to heaven of his own power. There have been people who went to heaven, but he’s the only one who chose to ascend. I can’t say, I think I want to go to heaven right now and decide to go and depart here. That doesn’t happen. Only Christ did that. And that’s what it’s saying. We’re out of time. And again, thank you for listening.

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