Bibleline Radio Show – 2009-01-30

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So cherish the old again, close, Till my true peace and past I may die. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom, a ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Florida, declaring God’s love through radio and television, providing real answers to an ever-searching world to reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep Bibleline on the air in your community. Dial toll-free, 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now, Here’s a rebroadcast of Dr. Hank Lindstrom, host of Bibleline. Hi, this is Tom Perry for Bibleline Ministries.

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That’s 1-800-576-3771. Once again, we would like to thank you, the listener, for your prayers and support for Bibleline Ministries. God bless you. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline. I’m great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. We appreciate you and all of our listeners and look forward to being with you each and every day as we come to you from Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church. And we certainly look forward to being with you Monday through Friday.

And we hope that you’ll join us as often as you can. We have about 40 different series that I have taught that are available on CD. One series, exciting is the Holy Spirit, 12 Hours of Teaching. One is Revelation, 12 Hours of Teaching. Another is the spirit world, 12 Hours of Teaching. Of course, on many books of the Bible, we have 10 hours or 12 hours of teaching, including some of our best here as of later is the book of Jude, incredible book that bridges the sixty-five books or sixty-four books prior to it and then links it to the sixty-sixth book, the book of Revelation.

It’s a wonderful book just jammed with information and we did a wonderful series on that. We have the book of Romans, Romans, what an incredible book that is. This is the book that really sparked the reformation. You know, Martin Luther, the reformer, was a Roman Catholic priest. He was asked to teach the book of Romans at the University of Wittenberg in Germany. And, you know, after you get assigned a course to teach, you have to study it. And he’s studying the book of Romans.

And guess what? He gets to verse 16, and he gets saved. That’s right. Romans 1, 16 says, I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it the gospel is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believeth. Well, Martin Luther saw that verse and he got saved. He simply trusted Christ, believing the gospel message to death, the burial, the resurrection of Christ as the only means of his salvation. And that sparked, of course, the revelation shortly thereafter.

He nailed his theses to the church door there at Wittenberg, Germany. the Reformation was underway. This incredible book, we’ve got that on CD, 10 hours of teaching and I know you’re going to enjoy every minute of it. We deal with all the difficult passages including those with about predestination in Romans 9 10 and 11 and you’ll want to get that series. We also have the book of Hebrews. Boy, if there’s a book that is difficult, it’s Hebrews. Look in your Christian bookstore for a commentary on Hebrews or even if you have a commentary look at the length of what they say about Hebrews they pretty much skip it most Bible expositors just walk right on by Hebrews but we deal with all the difficult passages and go verse by verse and you’ll love the series on Hebrews Plus, we’ve got numerous others.

We just did one called 10 vital doctrines of the Bible. What a solid foundation that will give you. You can order that on DVD or CD. We’ve got a wonderful series on the Christian life called Meeting the Challenge. That’s on CD and DVD. You can call our operators after the program is over and they can help you if you want to order any of these things. Also, of course, you can go online. Our website is Blime-A-Line Ministries, and there you’ll find that you’ll be able to see these things and order them on the internet on our website, BibleLineMinistries.org, or dot com.

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Well, we’re going to talk a little bit about your testimony today. What is your testimony? I believe this term is so misused that most folks don’t even know what is their testimony. In churches, people often are asked to give a testimony. someone will volunteer and say their testimony as a goddess, heal them of some illness, or has helped them through some difficult crises, or that God has provided for some particular need, or that God has led them into some particular ministry, etc., etc.

Well, these are all really praise reports of answered prayer, or of God’s wonderful provision. And of course we ought to give praise, but technically these are not a testimony. That’s right. Also, when people think of testimony, they often point to your life and they talk about what you are doing or not doing. They say how you are living your life is your testimony. Well, guess what? The Bible says that the way we live our lives should adorn the gospel, but technically our Christian life is not our testimony.

Well, is that different than what you’ve been taught all your life? I’m sure. Our Christian life is important and it should adorn the testimony that has been confirmed in us. It says in the book of Titus, exhort servants or encourage servants to be obedient to their own masters and to please them in all things. Not answering again, not not perlording, but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things. So certainly we ought to adorn the doctrine of God and our Savior in all things, but that is really technically not our testimony.

What then is your testimony? Well in 1 Corinthians 1, 6, we learn that the Corinthian believers have the testimony of Christ confirmed in them. Let me read the verse. Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 1 Corinthians 1-6. By the way, every believer has the testimony of Christ confirmed in him or her. Our testimony is really the testimony of Christ that we have embraced when we trusted Christ as our Savior. Notice that Jesus warned Paul that he should make haste and get the quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me, Acts 22 18.

Let me read that again. Make haste, get the quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me, Acts 22 18. In other words, thy testimony, Paul’s testimony concerning me, Jesus is the one that’s speaking here is of course the testimony concerning Christ. Please note that Jesus told Paul that his testimony, Paul’s testimony, was concerning Jesus Christ. It says in the verse, Thy testimony concerning me and what Christ had accomplished at Calvary. Jesus told Paul that the Jews in Jerusalem would not receive his testimony or Paul’s testimony.

But later Paul tells us in his letter to the people at Thessalonica, that the Gentiles at Thessalonica believed his testimony. Second Thessalonica in thessalonica says, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all of them that believe because our testimony among you was believed. In that day. In other words, at the return of Jesus Christ, many believers will admire Jesus Christ because they were saved by hearing the testimony of the Apostle Paul, which was the testimony concerning Christ that Paul embraced and was confirmed in him and in you and me as believers that we should share.

Your testimony is therefore the message of the death, the barrel, the resurrection of Jesus Christ that you embraced at the moment of your salvation when you trust the Lord. to Jesus Christ as your Savior. Or in other words, the gospel is your testimony. Paul says, and listen to this one, Romans 1, 16 that we began with, I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it the gospel is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believe it.

To the Jew 1st and also to the Greek Romans 1, 16. The gospel of Christ was the testimony Paul the Apostle. Paul’s testimony was the message that he preached, which was the testimony of Christ. Let me quote the verse again, for I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for if the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it. That was the message that Paul preached. That was Paul’s testimony. That was the testimony that you and I have also.

When we trust Christ that testimony is confirmed in us according to 1 Corinthians 1-6. Paul’s testimony was the message that he preached which was the testimony of Jesus Christ. This testimony is confirmed in every believer. Again let me quote 1 Corinthians 1-6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, we obviously are to take that testimony and proclaim it. And so Christ testimony, or the testimony that God gave concerning Christ, is the testimony that’s confirmed in us.

That’s the testimony that we’re to share and give. And so when Paul witnessed or gave his testimony, he gave the gospel. Look at Acts 26, 22 and 23. When giving his testimony, Paul says, this This is what he would do. Having, therefore, obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than which the prophets and Moses did say should come, that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from it ahead and should show light unto the Gentiles and to the people.

So obviously again Paul gave testimony concerning Christ and that was Paul’s testimony. So our testimony is not a praise of money. We have praise of monies in many churches. How many would I give testimony? People give a praise of money. Well I praise the Lord that I’m well, I was sick. Or I praise the Lord that I got a job. I was without work. I praised the Lord I was able to make my mortgage payment this month. I didn’t have the money at the time.

And on and on and on. Or I praised the Lord that when I fell I didn’t break any bones in my body. And I hear these all the time. And those are praise reports. That’s not your testimony. That’s not your testimony. That’s not your testimony. The testimony of the believer is the testimony of Christ that God gave concerning Christ that we believed, embraced, and were saved by, that was confirmed in you at the moment you believed according to 1 Corinthians 1 and 6, which is the testimony that we proclaim.

And so when we give testimony, we give the gospel. We give the message of Christ. message that we proclaim is the testimony as to how we were saved and how we are to present that to others. John the Apostle tells us that his testimony is the testimony of Jesus that he received. In Revelation 19, 10, he says, I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Think about that. Here’s John the Apostle the great Apostle that wrote five of the New Testament books the Gospel of John the three epistles of John and The book of Revelation and John the Apostle tells us that his testimony is the testimony of Jesus that he received Same thing I’ve been saying all along Let me quote I am thy fellow servant John says and of thy brethren that have the testimony of

Jesus Who has the testimony of Jesus? Everyone that has put their trust in Christ? He has that testimony of Jesus. According to the first Corinthians 1, 6 that testimony is confirmed in them at the moment of belief and they’re saved eternally. And that testimony is the testimony that we’re to share. So if you were to ask me to give testimony, I would say I was lost and headed for hell, but Jesus Christ loved me and came down from heaven and took on a human body and went to the cross of Calvary.

And there he died and shed his blood. paid my sin didn’t fall he was buried he rose again from the dead he’s alive forever more I trusted him to save me and he saved me that’s my testimony not anything else so it’s not when you look at somebody’s life and say boy they have a great testimony that is really not theologically sound when we talk to somebody and they tell us about Jesus and his death barrel in resurrection then And we say, wow, what a testimony.

That’s the testimony that every believer has in them if they’re a believer. And that’s the testimony that they’re to share with others. I’m Dr. Englundstrom, and this is Bibleline. We’re coming to you about a Tampa from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church. And I hope that you would focus in on really what your testimony is, and it’s the testimony of Christ that you should be sharing with others. If you’ve never accepted that testimony, then you need to.

And when you do, you become born again, you become saved, you become a child of God, and you’re saved forever. And again, we’re now going to turn to our callers. If you want to call in, the number is 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. We look forward to talking to you. If you have a question, this is your opportunity to call in and share that with us. And of course, if you want to leave a question off here, you may do so.

We have our first caller in that’s Edgar and he’s in Petersburg, Virginia. And Edgar, welcome to Bibleline your on the air. Hey, how you doing this morning, Doc? Good. I’ve got a statement and a question. Do you know a Dan corner of evangelical outreach? Yeah, but I don’t even want to mention his name. He’s apparently so messed up and so confused that it’s not worth discussing. Okay, well, I know he’s given me the skull and crossbones for the being the worst and most false body-bull teacher on the earth.

you know so and and and and and and he puts people in the in the same category with me is david jerema uh… charles and and and david hunt and uh… uh… john anchorberg i saw him in good company over where he slams all of us as being false profits okay okay i’ve heard of him yes i have okay all right arm is today um can you touch but i know it is not saying that there are three guards i need you to to illuminate on that please.

Sure we’ll do that for you Edgar. Edgar the word used about 3000 times in the Old Testament that’s translated God is Elohim, E-L-O-H-I-M and it really is a word that denotes the office of God. And so when it talks about Yahweh or Jehovah being God, the office of God is the word used their Elohim. It’s plural, the I Am on the end of it, lets us know that it’s plural. And plural in Hebrew means three or more. So it really gives us a hint at the Trinity throughout the Old Testament that God existed as the eternal Father, as the eternal Son, and as the eternal Spirit.

There’s one God, but He exists as three separate eternal persons. Wonderful word and it’s used throughout the Old Testament. I’ll never forget I had done college Some Jewish roommates, and I learned a lot about Judaism from them and of course I was able to Really learn how to witness the Jewish people through that experience in my college dorm and you know They always would say, they believed in one God. And I said, well, I believe in one God too.

And they said, no, you believe in three gods. And I’d say, no, we believe in one God. But he eternally exists as three separate eternal persons. And what really caused them great consternation. The first thing I would point out was that Elohim, which they knew and was very familiar with, but they never connected to dots. Elohim is plural, and I said, that’s three or more as they would know. And I said, how do you explain that? The Godhead, the office of God is a plurality.

And I began to learn how to lead Jewish people to Christ. and they need to know their Savior. Christ was a Jew. God took on Jewish flesh and all the first believers were Jews. All the apostles were Jews and they came to know Jesus. And of course they were surprised when Gentiles got saved. But now we’ve gotten it so turned around that sometimes we Christians, Gentiles, are shocked when we see a Jewish Christian getting saved. We shouldn’t because there’s one Savior and it says in Romans 10 12 that all are under the curse.

We’re all sinners and there’s no difference between Jew and Gentile. We all need to trust Christ in order to be saved. Thank you Edgar for that call and we hope that that has helped. We’re going to go now to Brian in Tampa Bay. I hope he’s not all about hope you’re not swimming it says take a bag you see somewhere in the area right here yeah but hey good morning doc and uh… got left in the name of jesus followed you can hear me right i sure hear you what’s your question okay to make sure all right i got a couple questions on maybe just want to be done up uh…

number one is um… i know and i agree with you on how you state the fact that you know one salvation is a permanent and i agree with you i just don’t know i stumbled across uh… a couple of scriptures one of them being uh… you tell me about this how it says uh… three things you can count on i mean i thought those might not be the exact words but If we die with him, we will live with him.

If we suffer with him, we will reign with him. If we disown him, he will disown us. well that’s not true there’s no What do you think about? Go ahead. There’s no verse that says that. No, it does say, if you deny him, he will deny you. Never does it say disown. That’s a total different ball game. And what he’s talking about there is in Matthew 10 that if you deny him, that means the whole chapter is talking about witnessing.

Read it carefully. Matthew 10, Christ is sending out his disciples. He tells them to go out and proclaim the message of the gospel. He says, if you do that, you’ll be rewarded. But he says, if you deny me, then I’ll deny you before the Father. What he means is that if you witness and live for Christ, Christ will profess unto the Father. The Father will reward you when you stand before Him one day at the judgmental seat of Christ.

But if you deny Christ, in other words, if you did nothing, you did not witness, then he cannot say to the Father, boy, you did a great job because you didn’t. He’s going to deny giving any praise to the Father about you and therefore you’re not going to have any rewards But it’s not talking about loss of salvation Now when you talk about salvation it says in Timothy that even if you deny him God is faithful and cannot break his promise Let me read to you 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 13 it says Even if we believe not, let me go to Mac, verse 12 here.

This is probably the passage of the Refernivore. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us. And that’s talking about rewards. But it says, if we believe not, yet he abided faithful, he cannot deny himself. So even if you stop believing, he’d still be saved, because Christ has made a promise that once you trust him, at that moment you’re born again and you’re forever his child no matter what occurs later in your future.

You might have a mental breakdown and forget that you’re saved and had not even recall the incident. But once you’ve been saved, there’s no chance for you to become unborn once you’re born again and plus he gives you eternal life and he keeps us saved. So you can’t be lost once you’re saved. Don’t that happen. But I mean things are making me stumble because he says you know to him who endorsed to the end shall be saved And and you know if you continue believing if you continue doing this You know what I’m one at a time now enduring to the end has to do again with the physical life Then it says in Matthew chapter 24 13 if you endure to the end It’s talking about if you’re in the tribulation period and you’re saved then you managed to endure The Bible is not going to be saved physically to live into the thousand year reign of

Christ. If you are killed, you will not enter the Millennial Kingdom as one of its subjects. You will not be able to do that. It is not talking about losing your salvation. It is not even talking about gaining salvation. It is talking about physical death. And in the context you’ll see that it says in verse 22 there that Christ will come back and shorten a tribulation period at just seven years in length. And if he hadn’t done that or if he doesn’t do that, which is still future, then mankind would annihilate themselves.

It says it would be no flesh saved on the earth. In other words, no flesh left on the earth. They would all be annihilated by the battle of Armageddon. Christ didn’t come back and interrupt it and stopped the period in just seven years in length and set up his kingdom here on the earth. So basically you have to go and look at each case individually. So hopefully we’ve handled two of them. What was the third one? Are you still there?

Yeah, I’m still here. That’s two of them, but you just have to go out on one at a time here. And I guess it does get overwhelming and causes you to stumble if you get hit with a barrage these things at one time and you don’t deal with each one individually. Every one of them can be answered. They all have to do it. You know, yeah, he says a lot of things in there that make you think like it’s about how you continue, but we already know it’s Grayson and you know something he’s done, there’s nothing we can do to get there.

The Christian life is about continuing. You know, if you read John 8, it talks about if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed? You said it doesn’t say you’re saved. He says you become a disciple when you continue I see you guys. This is called rightly dividing the word. We gotta take a break here. We’ll be back Go away Bibleline will be back in a moment to pledge your support for Bibleline Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771 that’s 1-800-576-3771 Well, it’s great to be with you today.

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We’ve got a wonderful series on the class. Jesus is coming. Are you excited? I think this is going to keep you on the edge of your seat or up on your feet or on your tippy toes as we watch how the Bible unfolds the future. What we’re seeing in our headlines today is reflected in the Bible thousands of years ago. We hope you’ll take advantage of this wonderful 10-hour series of teachings on Jesus is coming. We certainly believe he is and the time is getting short.

I think Christ will be back very, very soon. We have about 40 different series that I’ve taught that are available on CD. One series, exciting, is the Holy Spirit, 12 Hours of Teaching. One is Revelation, 12 Hours of Teaching. Another is the Spirit World, 12 Hours of Teaching. Of course, on many books of the Bible, we have 10 hours or 12 hours of teaching, including some of our best here as of later. is the book of Jude, incredible book that bridges the 65 books or 64 books prior to it and then links it to the 66th book, the book of Revelation.

It’s a wonderful book just jammed with information and we did a wonderful series on that. We have the book of Romans. Romans, what an incredible book that is. This is the book that really sparked the reformation. You know, Martin Luther, the reformer, was a Roman Catholic priest. He was asked to teach the book of Romans at the University of Wittenberg in Germany. And you know, after you get assigned a course to teach, you have to study it. And he’s studying the book of Romans.

And guess what? He gets to verse 16, and he gets saved. That’s right. Romans 1, 16 says, I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it the gospel is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believeth. Well, Martin Luther saw that verse and he got saved. He simply trusted Christ, believing the gospel message, the death, the burial, the resurrection of Christ, as the only means of his salvation. And that sparked, of course, the revelation shortly thereafter.

He nailed his theses to the church door there at Wittenberg, Germany, and the Reformation was underway. This incredible book, we’ve got that on CD, 10 hours of teaching and I know you’re going to enjoy every minute of it. We deal with all the difficult passages including those with about predestination in Romans 9, 10 and 11 and you’ll want to get that series. We also have the book of Hebrews. Boy, if there’s a book that is difficult, it’s Hebrews. Look in your Christian bookstore for a commentary on Hebrews or even if you have a commentary, at the length of what they say about Hebrews, they pretty much skip it.

Most Bible expositors just walk right on by Hebrews. But we deal with all the difficult passages and go verse by verse and you’ll love the series on Hebrews. Plus we’ve got one called 10 vital doctrines of the Bible. What a solid foundation that will give you. You can order that on CD. You’ve got a wonderful series on the Christian life called Meeting the Challenge. That’s on CD and DVD. You can call our operators after the program is over and they can help you if you want to order into these things.

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Welcome to Bibleline. Good morning, sir. Good morning. The question I have today isn’t through a verse in the Bible that teaches about a prophet being right a hundred percent of the time. Never missing anything. Well, that’s exactly right. And Deuteronomy chapter 13 is the passage gives you the test of a true prophet. What was that? Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy, the fifth book of your Bible, chapter 13. 10, 13. Isn’t it interesting? And I know it’s just quite by coincidence, but false prophets are discussed in chapter 13.

There’s a lot of them going on out there right now. Oh my goodness, they’re everywhere. And this is the time that the Bible spoke about it. the last days it said there would be many false preachers that would come along and we have them. They’re all over the place today. So you just almost can look out and say I’m probably looking at a false prophet. You really have to look very carefully and listen very carefully to what they say.

And if they don’t agree with the Bible, then the Bible says it’s because they have no light in them. Isaiah 820, my favorite verse, if they speak not according to this word, that is the word of God, it is because there is no light in them. James, thanks for the call. Thank you. All right. That was James over in Seminole. We have been in Clearwater, Florida and Ben, welcome to Bibleline your next. Good morning, Dr. Han. Good Good morning.

I just want to have a question. I know this isADRA gonna come soon for his church that we call. He’s gonna get the sugar to be wrapped. But also… Also in Matthew 2431, Jesus does not come with that group. He is in the angel. Now I want to know if that group in 24, Matthew 2431, if that group is in Matthew 2431, if That group is going to be the first part of the Church. That group is just Jewish.

That group is dead in Earth. Explain to me that, please. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. Actually, Matthew 24 is talking about the second coming of Christ, seven years after the Rapture. It is talking about the many millions that will get saved after the Rapture during the Tribulation Period and at the Second Coming of Christ Jesus sends out His angels. At the Rapture Christ comes all by Himself. It says in 1 Thessalonians 4, 16, for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.

But at the Second Coming every eye will see Him, Revelation 1 and 7. So we know that there’s a tremendous difference between the Rapture and the Second Coming. In Matthew 24, what is in view is the Tribulation Period and the Saints that get saved during the Tribulation Period. Those are the elect that is talking about there. And when he comes back, he sends out his angels to gather them up. And they will of course be invited to enter into the thousand-year reign of Christ as we see in chapter 25 of Matthew at the judgment of the nations.

Thank you Ben for calling in. We now have Adam in Tampa, Florida. Adam, welcome to Bible Yes, that’s correct. My question comes from Matthew 10 verse 19, but when may I rest, you do not worry about what to say, how to say it, the time you will be given what to say. So not the you speaking with the Spirit if others are speaking through you. Is that a pie there? to us today or understand. I believe it does now.

I’ve heard preachers say that boy, I don’t need to study my Bible. I just let the spirit lead me. That’s really kind of craziness. We need to study and the Bible commands us to in 2 Timothy 2, 15. But then as you rise or have an occasion where you’re under fire, the Lord then will cause you to be able to recall the scriptures you need and will guide you so that you’ll know what to say. And certainly I know that when…

Many times I’m speaking I can I can this sense that the Lord is taking me to passages that he’d like to have me share and but I have to put him in there first or he can’t pull him up out of my head. When I do this radio show it’s we have two men right now manning the phones and I’m sitting here with just the Bible in my lap. I laugh. People come in to visit sometimes and they’ll say, this is not the way I thought it was.

I thought you had a whole team of people doing research and handing you answers and it’s not that way. I have my Bible open but many times I can quote the passages without even opening my Bible because I’ve memorized so much of it. That’s when you really can experience what you’re talking about in chapter 10 where You don’t have to worry about what to say when the occasion rises like for example in this radio show I am Prepared which the preparation occurred long before but when I get questions fired at me blindly because we don’t screen anybody We take them whatever whatever comes My way is what we take and the Lord of course I believe guides me to the right answers which I have already put away in my head So yes, I think it does apply.

Okay, in Korea as it goes down in 1020, I tell you the truth. You will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. Now how is that possible? Because we clearly know that people have given the goal by now in Christ’s second coming or what? Two things are going on. First of all, if you read it earlier in Matthew chapter 10, it talks about in verse 6, the gospel of the kingdom. King message is not being preached right now, but will be resumed by Christ’s disciples during the tribulation period and will be preached into all of those cities by the return of Christ at the Second Coming.

So it leaps ahead. This age you have to pull it right out of the equation and jump ahead to the tribulation period which is the last seven years of the Old Testament dispensation of law. So Adam, thank you very much and I hope that helped. We have Sam in Lakeland, Florida. Sam, welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Earth. Hi, good morning and I enjoy this program this morning. I was listening to the guy who was talking and I was talking to my brother a couple days ago.

And we were talking about this scripture about how to work out your own salvation. And I went over that scripture and I went over that. I went over it. And the only, and I was telling my brother because he was telling me that, like, working for your salvation. And when I was doing that, and I said, well, you don’t work out your salvation. A lot of people just switched that to say, work for your salvation. But when you say that work out your salvation, that means when Jesus insolent you, you’re working out of him because when you get saved, you don’t have no, I don’t want to work for him.

But when you get saved, like you took him out a few minutes ago, then you had that desire to want to teach the world. You want to tell people, so that’s what you call work out your salvation. I was asking you that question now. That’s what I would say to you. Well, you’re right on there. Sam, Sam, that is in Philippians 2 12, where it says work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. The fear and trembling has to do with the fact we’ll give it account one day at the Judge of the City of Christ for what we have done since we’ve been saved and the result will be reward or loss of reward.

But it doesn’t say work for salvation and says work it out. Then the next verse verse 13 of Flipkits 2 says that God works in us. So he’s in us and he wants us to display outwardly and the following verses go on to say how that we’re lights and we’re testimony in this world and so we’re working it out or displaying it outward as we open up the Word of God and share it with other people. James by the way And Chattanooga did have the question here.

I missed that. He wanted me to explain Matthew 24 12 through 13. So James about 30 miles from Chattanooga listening from Higdon, Alabama. That’s really, Chattanooga’s right on the corner there. And I’m sure we’ll get some people from Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee all listening on that station out of Chattanooga. And welcome to the broadcast today. We have James asking about Matthew 24, 12, and 13. It says in verse 12 of Matthew 24, because the iniquity of shell abound and the love of many shall grow cold, it’s talking about the terrible time, the tribulation period will be the seven years following the rapture.

He says, He will endure to the end the same shall be saved. I think I answered it earlier for another caller that is talking about physical salvation. If you notice verse 21, and if you have your pen handy, mark this James, it says, For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no nor shall ever be.” That hadn’t happened yet, but once it happens, it will be the worst time that has ever occurred in history past and never in history future after the tribulation period will there be a time as awful as this period called great tribulation.

Now verse 22, get ready and look for the word saved. those days should be shortened and Christ does come back. It is second coming and shortens them to just seven years of length. There should no flesh be saved. The fact that it says flesh be saved is talking about physical salvation, not eternal salvation. If you take that and draw a line over to verse 13, where it says, the one who endures to be in the same shall be saved, Verse 22 tells us it’s a physical salvation from the tribulation period to live into the millennium.

It’s not talking about eternal salvation. So that’s called rightly dividing the word of truth. You have to be careful to read the passage in Cebus talking about physical salvation or eternal salvation. There’s a verse in the book of Acts that we could probably start a new cult if we wanted to. Paul was on a ship at Storm and the word told him that everybody that would stay on board the ship would survive. The ship would end up sinking and they all got off and went on to an island.

But he told the people on the ship, except you bite in the ship, you cannot be saved. He wasn’t talking about going to heaven. He’s talking about a physical deliverance from that storm that if they bite in the ship, would not, I think it’s chapter 27 verse 35 of Acts, that you are not going to die if you remain on board the ship. Well can you imagine we could maybe design a church in the shape of a ship and we could tell people to come and bring their food and their clothing and just stay here and they accept your bite in the ship you won’t be saved and so on and start a new cult.

I could just imagine we You could do that tomorrow and people would probably come and buy into it and believe it. But obviously that’s not a correct interpretation. A biting in the ship or you won’t be saved. It’s not talking about eternal salvation. And it’s not the same physical deliverance here of Matthew either. But it’s obviously from that particular storm. We have Pat in Richmond, Virginia. and Pat, welcome to Bibleline. Hi Dr. Hank. I just wanted to let you know how much I love your ministry.

Thank you. And also I wanted to ask you about Beth Moore. Do you know anything about her? Not really a whole lot. I don’t pay too much attention to women preachers because I believe the Bible says that we shouldn’t have women preachers. So right up front I would say that we shouldn’t have women preaching. So first Timothy chapter 2 talks in verse 12 that I suffer not or allow not a woman to teach, nor do you serve authority over the men.

And so women are not to be the Bible teachers or preachers. And it gives you two reasons there. Why? Number one, Adam was created first and then Eve. So God gave the responsibility to the men simply before order, and he gave them the spiritual responsibility. In a home, the man is to be the spiritual leader. Unfortunately, all the men don’t take that leadership position, but they are to be the leader. And that doesn’t mean they’re the dictator, and that they shouldn’t listen to their wives input.

But certainly, ultimately, God’s going to hold them responsible. You know when the baby Jesus was born, God warned them of Herod’s intent to kill that baby and the Lord spoke to Joseph, didn’t he? He said, Joseph, take your wife and the baby down to Egypt, told the death of Herod. He didn’t say, Mary, take your husband. And the baby Jesus, you know? Oh, oh, boy. And whatever you read in the Bible, God led the family through the man. And if you’re married and your man is not leading, then you have to tell him, Hey, God expects you to be the spiritual leader here.

How about step up to the plate and do your job? Okay. Okay. That is great. Well, thank you, Dr. You have a blast day. Alright, YouTube Pat, thanks for calling in from Richmond, Virginia. We are now going to Mary Ann in Sarasota, Florida. Mary Ann, welcome to Bibleline Year on the Year. Hello. I’m Pastor. Thank you for all that you do with your program. I’ve learned an awful lot and I respect you a lot. Thank you. You know, I wanted to ask you about Hank Hanograff.

I’ve listened to him for a while and I just, you know, there’s just so much. maybe you know about him? I disagree on his position where he believes Christ has already returned. He’s a preterist. I have his book here, The Last Disciple. It’s all about John the Apostle and how they establish an early date for the book of Revelation saying that the second coming occurred in AD 70 and they they give an early date to the last disciples writing of Revelation as about 80 60 or so so that they say the tribulation period was from 80 63 to 70.

The Christ came back and all of his power and glory in AD 70 but just nobody saw him. And I can’t buy that at all. So he doesn’t believe in the pre-tribulation rapture and he believes Christ has already come back and that we’re in the kingdom and all of that is nonsense. And so that’s my major disagreement with him, but he does a good area in the area of the cults and so on. And we have a couple of his books here in our Resource Center.

I like the book Christianity and crises, but when he gets off in the areas of eschatology, which is the fancy word for prophecy, I think he’s totally wrong. So then how is he classified? How would you classify him? Not as a false prophet. No, not as a false prophet, but certainly some areas I think just confuse the modern believer because Jesus is coming. And no doubt about it, we’re anticipating that return at any time. They say he’s already come and that’s certainly I don’t believe is true.

And when the Bible says how he was all of his power and all of his glory, that didn’t happen in 80-70. They said it was the Roman armies and that was Christ coming back and they destroyed Jerusalem and that doesn’t meet the Bible description that I see. And I’m anticipating Christ to come anytime. I’m ready to go. Yes. And I am too. It’s made me really curious and I’m not as intelligent maybe as you are of course. I know the Bible pretty well but I like to listen to him about certain things.

I’ve met I think, I’ve shaped his hand and I’m sure he’s sincere with his beliefs but I think he’s wrong in those areas. And so where does that lead him as far as like well, patient and all because you’re not supposed to lead a little one. I think bad doctor and breeds bad doctor and I’m sure that just filters his whole thinking. You know, and so definitely, you know, I can shake his hand and accept him as a Christian brother but I would say he’s wrong in many areas and I would have to disagree with him if we had a debate I would be on the other side of something.

So then okay so if he keeps on doing this. Well it’s the Lord’s hands I have no control over other preachers. I’m just trying to alert people to what the Bible does say and then you have to make it your own mind. And we do have to know God’s word ourselves. Amen. so but thank you so much for your opinion thank you maryon in sera so the florida calling and we have gary gerry in zephyr hills florida uh… gerry welcome to bible on your own ear turn your radio down i could hear it in the background i need to ask you a question what i found exactly What I’m doing is trying to figure out how many hours they actually took class.

Jesus was actually before Pilate around 6 a.m. in the morning. He was placed on the cross at 9 a.m. The Bible says the third hour of the day. The daylight period begins at 6 a.m. and so 9 o’clock a.m. would be the third hour. The darkness came over the land at 12 noon or the sixth hour. at the ninth hour uh… christ actually died that was three o’clock in the afternoon and by six p.m. or sundown he was placed in the grave so that’s kind of the way it lays out the talking that actually from the time you’re talking about these he was on the cross six hours he was nailed to the cross at nine a.m.

he died at three p.m. okay thank you alright we’re about out of time we have lots more people waiting on the phone here i wish we could take them all and uh… you might have to just call back again tomorrow if you haven’t trusted christ would you do that just a lord on the center i don’t understand a lot about the bible but i believe jesus died and shed his blood paid my sin that full is buried in rosig in for the dead i trust him right now to save me he will and that’s great uh…

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