Bibleline Radio Show – 2009-03-13

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Great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning in. We want to welcome you and all of our listeners to the Bibleline program as we come to you from our studios right here in Tampa at Calvary Community Church located at 4811 George Road in Tampa. We’re just a block west of the Tampa International Airport, just four-tenths of a mile south of Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa. I would love to invite you to drop by and take a look at our resource center and shake our hands and get to meet us.

And we hope that you’ll take advantage of that. Anytime you’re nearby, knock on the door and say hello. We’re open until about three every day and hopefully you’ll be able to drop by sometime. I have a new track that I have produced that I’ve written called Am I Going to Heaven? It has 20 questions on here that deal with the current terms that are being used today and it’s really one that is very effective, I think, in leading people to Christ.

I shared this track with a young lady last week and as she read over, I said all 20 of those that are offered their fee to check as to what you think you might have to do to heaven are wrong. And she said, is it wrong to follow Jesus? That was one of the choices. And I said, no, it’s not wrong to follow Jesus, but you don’t get to heaven by following Jesus. You get to heaven by trusting Jesus.

Well, anyway, we have an answer why each of these terms are wrong, including let Jesus into your heart or commit your life to Jesus Christ or get your life turned around or surrender your life or make Christ the Lord of your life. All of those terms are used in this track. It’s a wonderful track to really bring clarification to somebody who’s already saved. And also of course bringing the gospel to somebody who is lost. We offer these in our resource center.

You can get them and use them in your evangelism. And we also have several other tracks. It’s really terrific. If you want to come by on a Sunday, we worship at 10.30 in the morning 6 p.m. in the evening and you might want to come and join us at 6 p.m. for that service and we do a lot of singing and we enjoy the study of God’s Word and of course 10.30 on Sunday mornings. The phone number here I’ll give it out now is 1-800-576-3771 that’s 1-800-576-3771 and we’d love to have you call us but hopefully you have your Bible there and we’ll take a look at a couple of of things.

We’re living in an exciting time. There has been an earthquake that caused damage to the Temple Mount. Stones collapsed in the area of the Western Wall and as a result. Also, around the bulge in the Southern Wall, a large crack has developed in the Eastern wall of the Temple Mount. Apparently, the Dome of the Rock, an Arab mosque, has a crack and damage to the dome. And so, in any case, the Arab newspapers reporting that the Dome of the Rock of the Temple Mount has been badly damaged as a result of the February 11th earthquake in Israel.

Isn’t it fascinating? What’s significant is we believe a third temple has to be rebuilt right after the rapture and the antichrist will desecrate it and then Jesus will come back and cleanse it at the second coming at the end of the tribulation period and The whole area is unstable and it could be that another good earthquake Could bring it all down prepare the way for the third temple to be built. You know the Holy Spirit comes to indwell the believer at the moment you believe and is one of four acts of the Holy Spirit that all occurs a result of trusting Christ as Savior at the moment of belief.

You know a believer is born again of the Spirit at the moment you believe. A believer is in dwelt with the Spirit of God at the moment you believe. The believer is placed in the Christ body that’s called the baptism of the Holy Spirit that happens at the moment you believe and the believer is sealed S E L E D with the Holy Spirit Ephesians 1 13 and 14 at the moment you believe and all four of these happen simultaneous with belief.

The moment you believe you are born again. By the way, once you’re born again, you cannot become unborn any more than you can be unborn from the human race. Did you know that you can’t become unborn physically once you become born into the human race? Even if you die, you’re still going to live on. Your soul will live on for eternity, and you will always be a descendant of Adam, and always be a member of the human race. In order to enter God’s family, the Bible says you have to have a brand new birth, and it is a birth of the Spirit that places you into the family of God.

John 1 12 says to as many as received Christ, to them God gave authority for them to become the sons of God and the daughters of God. To them that believe or trust on his name. When you trust that Jesus died for you, shed his blood, paid your sin debt and full by his death that the cross was buried and rose again from the dead. God saved you. That’s right. At the moment you believe, you become saved. And from that moment on, four things happen at the moment of that belief that make it impossible for you to ever be lost.

You’re born again of the Spirit. as you’re forever unable to remove yourself from the first birth in its consequences, as far as being a member of the human race, you cannot also become unborn spiritually. Once you’re born again, you’re born again once and for all. But there are some churches that have you come back in order that you might be born again again, and then be born again again and again and again and again and again and again. No such possible thing could happen.

you’re born of the Spirit, it is forever. And so what happens, I think, in those situations is that they’re telling you probably that they’re still trying to be saved because they don’t even understand the plan of salvation because eternal life is eternal. And once you trust Christ, you’re saved forever. And if you believe you can lose, you’re really trusting in your works and you don’t understand it. And the minister who’s teaching that is not born again. Therefore, he doesn’t have the Spirit of God.

So therefore, how in the world can discern the Bible and make good sense of it to you. A lot of people, I believe, are sitting under unsaved pastors and priests and rabbis who don’t know the Lord, cannot make heads or tails of the Bible. Did you know it says in 1 Corinthians 2, 14, the natural man, the unsaved man, receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God? They are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve I’ve heard a person say, the Bible doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s just a bunch of nonsense. Well guess what? They’re telling me they don’t know the Lord. Because the natural man, the unsaved man, the unregenerate man, the person who’s not been born again cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. First Corinthians 2, 14 write it down.

But once you believe, once you have trusted Christ as your only means of heaven, you’re born again. Verse 5 1 says, whosoever believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God is born of God. Verse 4 goes on to say in 1 John, whatsoever is born of God overcome with the world, and this is the victory that overcome with the world, even our faith. Verse 5 is even better. It says, who is he that overcome with the world? Answer.

He the believer that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. When you believe trust that Jesus Christ died for you, paid for your sin, debt and full was buried and rose again from the dead. When you believe that he is God who took on flesh, that he’s the Son of God. God gives you the gift of everlasting life. You become born again and you are stuck. What I mean by that, you have to go to heaven whether you like it or not.

Once you become born into the family of God, you’re going to be in the rapture whether you like it or not. kicking and screaming, that’s right, you’re going to go up. If you don’t want to go, you’re going to go up anyway. Oh, learn to live with it. Isn’t that great to know though? I mean, really, we have fun with this whole thing, but once you’re saved, you’re saved. Once you’re saved, you’re saved forever. If you’re not saved forever, you’re not saved.

There’s only one kind of salvation God offers that’s eternal life, not probation, but it’s everlasting life. And the moment you trust Christ, you receive it. The people who don’t have it right, they always say, well, I’m hoping, I’m working. I’m guessing. I’d like to. I certainly hope so. And it’s all because they’re basing their salvation on their works and they know that their works aren’t over yet and nobody’s evaluated them yet. So they don’t know. But the blue true believer knows it’s all based on the finished work of Christ.

Therefore, the believer can know and be assured of salvation from the moment they believe. That’s got to be the best news you ever going to hear. And we have Roger in Brandon. Roger, welcome to Bibleline. Morning Pastor Hank, I appreciate you so much brother. I just wanted to say how surreal it was. We had a neighborhood watch, our first meeting here in Brandon in a Jewish temple. They were kind enough to allow us to use their facilities the night after my wife and I saw the passion and it was kind of surreal.

But I wanted to ask you how do we, the Jews of today, I mean it’s one thing to have lived when jesus was walking the earth and reject them but knowing all that we know today how is it possible that these intelligent uh… i think you would agree that your average uh… orthodox you especially is is truly seeking the truth would you not yeah i think uh… so how do they miss him you know at their own sader dinners they hold up the leg of the perfect lamb you know at the fader how how is it just a blindness i mean well there’s there’s such a connection there well you know i symbolism in reality they think they are on their way there they’re working at it and i and the first comes to my mind is john five thirty nine where he’s talking jesus is talking to a jewish audience

religious leaders and he says search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and there they would testify of me and you will not come to me that you might have life so they they have the scriptures they think that in the scriptures they have eternal life because they’re following all these rules but they’ve missed what the scriptures tell about the savior and they will not come to christ that they might have life because eternal life is in the person of christ patrick arm jesus’s frustration with the jewish leadership was very obvious in matthew uh…

my question is when he and that there’s exclamation point correct after each sentence of you viper’s youth make all right were they standing there in your in your mind you can’t hear them being in here shot of him well absolutely i don’t think he hit anything from anybody and he spoke openly to them and uh… and pronounce the judgment upon and i was in love of course of course you know but he says it and and the verse that really catches my attention there in the twenty three weeks pronouncing this uh…

seven-fold judgment upon them He says in verse 33, you serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? And the answer is, if they reject Christ, they could not escape hell. And yet they thought they were going to escape hell because they were living, trying to keep the laws of Moses to earn their way to heaven. But he says, you’re going to not escape the damnation of hell because you’re rejecting me. Right. And the whole point is that, and then he further goes on down and he said, I would have gathered your children together.

And I would have, you know, and he says, but because you would not and because you reject me, your house is going to be left. That’s the temple. It’s going to be left empty because I’m leaving. And you’re not going to see me until my second coming. All in that same chapter. I’m sure you joined me. My heart goes out to our friends, the Jewish people. And is there anything, have you seen the movie? I have. Is there anything you would recommend to reach out in a way to bring our Jewish friends to the realization that he is Yeshua Amashi of the Messiah?

Well, they need to recognize that this one who died 2,000 years ago, that they rejected, is still the talk of the town. Look at the whole world as talking about Jesus 2,000 years later. You have to say, you need to read, look and ask yourself the question of fresh, is this man the Messiah? Is he the Savior? Is he the Son of God? And certainly Daniel 9 chapter verse 9 and verse 26 tells us that the Messiah would be cut off according to the book of Jesus.

of Daniel, the prophet Daniel, and then Jerusalem would be destroyed and the temple would be destroyed and that happened in 8070. So I like to throw that in that the Messiah has had to have been here before 8070. Who do you think it might be? There’s only one Jewish one person who claims that he is the Messiah that was put to death in the way the Old Testament prophets said that he would, that is still being talked about 2,000 years later.

And every a moment of the hour we’re hearing people come in on it uh… right now and that’s amazing and hang not to wear out my welcome but they’re still waiting for the Messiah but isn’t it true they can’t identify him today because the records have been destroyed well they cannot uh… prove anybody’s uh… descent from uh… the lineage of david today except that the records are recorded in the new testament genealogy and i think that’s Even the Jews would have to say that’s got to be a reliable record Of Jesus, but they just didn’t accept him as being a Messiah I think they have to realize even the multitudes in that day called him the son of David Sure, I think the testimony is quite clear that Jesus was not just any Jew But he was of the descent of David and was fully qualified to be the

Messiah, but they rejected him right well God bless your brother and your ministry and we’ll keep you in prayer to be a light to the world. Thank you, thank you, thank you, John. Roger, that was Roger. We are praying for us to go on in other markets as we’d like to go nationwide, and if you’ll pray for us, and we need your help because obviously all these little things cost money to make it better and to be able to reach out further.

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We could not do it without your help. And we thank God for every one of you. we’re going to go now to philip and philip is in tampa florida philip welcome by one on the air uh… good morning patrick a arm i have a question First, I wanted to know I’ve been doing some studying Myles Stanford, and I wanted to know if you know him or about his teaching. It’s strictly great. And also, my other question was about, I heard you talking last week or something about that a lot of the spiritual gifts like speaking in tongues and prophecy and those have been done a lot.

done away with and i want to know where’s the script alright miles damford i think is a hyper dispensationalist i’m not too sure sometimes get different people mixed up there’s so many out there to keep track of but as far as the uh… spectacular gifts They were temporary nature. In 1 Corinthians chapter 13, 8 through 10, tells us that they would cease when the Word of God would be completed. The New Testament record that which is perfect came and was completed.

And around the year 80-96 when the book of Revelation was added to the Bible. And so that’s the end of those gifts. They’re God. And there’s nobody doing them today, not one, not one. We have Carl in Bradenton Okay, here we go. We’re trying to work out our radio. Okay. Well there. You’re on the air. Good morning, Dr. Hey, good morning You today good. I was one to ask you about the I know you talked about it the other day But I didn’t get it all down About your ass went in and what they call that in the 40 days and to move Could you go through that again for me, please sir?

I’ll be happy to do Carl and thank you for your call. Thank you That was Carl down in Bradenton. The phone number is now open for you to call in and get up on the air. There is no such thing as Lent. Shake your Bible. Lent, L-I-N-T might fall out, but no L-E-N-T will fall out because there is no L-E-N-T in your Bible. It is a pagan holiday. The 40 days, predate Christ by thousands of years. In fact, it goes all the way back to the book of Genesis chapter 10.

Nimrod and his wife, Simoramis, They had supposedly a virgin-born son. She had a virgin-born son named Tamuz T-A-M-M-U-Z. The worship of this woman and her son spreads throughout the world wherever it went. The names changed but the system was somewhat the same. And in Egypt it was Ices and Horus, the mother and son. In Greece it was Venus and Cupid, the mother and her son. In Greece it was Aphrodite and Eros, the mother and son. In Israel it was Astroth and Bail.

And of course, Astroth, the short form is Astrar and the English form is Easter. And of course, we still hear people tell us that they’re going to celebrate Easter, which is really the mother of Baal. Why wouldn’t the world would you want to do that? I celebrate myself personally, the resurrection of Jesus again from the dead. I don’t even like to use the E word because the E word is the name of the mother of Baal. Bail’s mother is Easter.

That’s the English form of her name Astroth. And by the way, this virgin born son, Temuz, the counterfeit of Christ. There are two legends. One is that he had a hunting accident with a wild boar and his life hung in the balance, which is probably the legend that is most popular. And then the other one is that he died. But during the 40 days, people wept and fasted and prayed to the heathen gods. And on the 40th day, Tamuz comes back from the dead or survives his wounds and it is a celebration of a resurrection.

It’s the counterfeit of the resurrection of Christ. And so this weeping for Baal or Tamuz, when Constantine declared the world to be Christian in 3 21 AD, everything became Christian. The pagan celebrations didn’t go away. They simply gave him Christian names. So now all of a sudden the mother and her son were Mary and Jesus. You really have to ask you yourself, if the Mary that’s being presented to you is the Mary of the Bible, or is it the counterfeit Mary, Simoramis, the wife of Nimrod from Genesis chapter 10.

And is the Jesus you’re being presented, the Jesus that always seems to remain a baby in the arms of her mother and the baby that maybe remains at about 12 years of age when He’s presented that is somewhat silent and the woman takes president over the man and the woman is prayed to the woman is called the Queen of Heaven. These are all the titles of Simoramas. She’s called the Queen of Heaven. She’s called the Queen of the universe.

She’s and these are all titles at the Bible for bids in the Bible to be used. They are pagan in origin and they have nothing to do with Jesus Christ. And so we’re right now into this pagan time of Lent. And of course, good Friday also, I believe is a myth. It’s wrong. Christ was crucified on Wednesday, not Friday. You don’t have to be too smart to figure that out. But in any case, we find that Christ had to be crucified on Wednesday because there had to be 72 hours between His burial and His resurrection.

So Jesus Christ had to be crucified on Wednesday to get the three days and three nights between the two which Christ himself said that he would be buried for three days and three nights. So we have a lot of confusion, but what is interesting, and by the way, these stigmata’s that every year bleed on good Friday. I kind of chuckle about it because they bleed on the wrong day. If it was really of God, don’t you think they’d bleed on the right day?

They’d bleed on Wednesday, not Friday. And including this, Anna Epperson, who, I forget her last name right now, that is about to be beatified by the Catholic Church that was a source for the passion by Mel Gibson. And she was a stigmata who bled every Friday. And her writings were an influence in putting together the movie. But it’s interesting that connection. The Friday is not the day, but in all the stigmata’s and those others that weep and bleed on Good Friday are bleeding and weeping on the wrong day.

Statues weep and paintings weep and all these kind of things happen on Good Friday. It’s the wrong day. If it was of God, I think it would be at least on the right day. God certainly knew which day of the week it was that I think it had to be without a doubt. Wednesday and the Passover was Thursday of that week. We have a color from Land of Lakes and we are going to go right now to Jim. Jim is waiting.

Welcome Jim. Good morning. Jim, we got you back? I’m here. Alright, good. Oh, okay. Last night I was watching the TV program and… You were talking about the eye wills? Yes, in Isaiah 14. Right. And I have been bombarded by about three or four people about this six day creation thing. And I have brought up the eye wills also and they hit me with verse 12, the one just before there where it says that how thou art fallen from heaven.

Yes, yes. How do we explain that? Well, what is talking about here is how that when he tried to do that. to invade heaven, he was cast back down and he was judged. And of course then it talks about at the time when the Antichrist is cast into hell that the one in dwelling him, empowering him, is Lucifer, the one that had been cast back down from his invasion to heaven. And And then all of the kings of the earth and those that were powerful that had followed his influence in their life are kind of mocking him when he’s in hell.

And they say to him in verse 10, all they shall speak and say unto thee, art thou also become as weak as we. Art thou become like unto us. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave. The noise of thy vowels and the worm is spread under thee and the worms cover thee. And so he says, how is it that you fall in Lucifer? I mean, here you were this powerful, powerful angel that once tried to invade heaven from the earth and were cast back down.

How did this happen to you? And so it’s a mockery of him, but it’s in the future looking back at the events that took place in the past. Yeah. I only want other statement that I’m gonna let you go. If I heard that… Gotta go to break. I’ll be right back. Hold on, Jim, and I’ll go to break. I’m Dr. England’s from this is Bible and stay tuned right here don’t go away I’ll be right back to answer your question after this short break.

In a simple way, Bibleline will be back in a moment. To pledge your support for Bibleline, give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. Alright, I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom and this is Bibleline. It’s Friday. We’ve had a wonderful week. If you’d like to go back and hear the programs from the week, you can go to the Internet and listen to them all in archive. You can also, by the way, uh, Download them for your IP. We have podcasting. They’re free. You can have these set up to go right to your computer every day and put them into your iPod and care about with you and play them as often as you like.

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let people know about our program and that exciting so we do have the bible line uh… shirts and ball caps the shirts are for a gift of twelve dollars in the ball caps for a gift of ten dollars thank you joe who is our are uh… are embroider who does these uh… caps and and church force we’re gonna go back to jim and lend the lakes and finish up with you jim i’m sorry that we had to put you on the break no problem no problem uh…

the only thing i was going to say heck was that uh… i had heard the other day first off we all put those nails in jesus hands absolutely well out we’re all guilty and uh… i heard that franklin graham was on a uh… morning talk show and the woman who was interviewing him ask him who he thought had jesus on that cross and they said that she bowled her head when he pointed his finger at her and said you did it and i did it and everybody else did it so he got the word to million that morning well that’s great isn’t it yep so any other over that you were still praying for you thank you jim and uh…

that was jim up in land of lakes but you know is this is a wonderful opportunity for us to witness right now everybody’s uh… the buzzword is all about the film about jesus and I believe that we are having a great opportunity here for us as Christians that may not last long where we can talk about Christ and the conversation is open. People are asking and they are asking that question. Who is responsible? And basically we have the opportunity to tell people who Jesus Christ is and what He did it across.

And I am not sure that the film is going to lead everybody to Christ, but it might be the door to open the conversation. so that you and I who are believers can leave that soul to Christ. So take advantage of your believer and you understand the gospel and you know how to be saved. I hope you’ll take advantage. Alright we’re going to answer a question. Jenna called in and she’s not on the air but she left a question for us during the break and she said, explain the ripping of the veil and she wants to know the chapter and the verse.

Well, thank you for that call, Jenna. And the answer is over in Matthew 27 in verse 51, where it says, Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And what does that mean? Well, the holy of holies was separated from the other part of the temple called the holies, and it was separated by this veil that they say was about eight or 12 inches thick made of animal skins and that you could not take two teams of horses tied to it and rip it apart.

And yet God ripped it apart because what it meant was now that men could actually enter into the very presence of God because sin had been paid for. Did you know that all the Old Testament saints had to go to the heart of the earth and wait in a place called Paradise? And when Jesus died, he went down and met the dying thief in Paradise, he had announced liberty to those that were there because they had what I call layaway salvation, they had to wait They had believed the promise of salvation and were saved, but had to wait in the heart of the earth until it actually was paid for.

Once the penalty for sin had been made, the veil was rent by God because it says it was rent from the top to the bottom. If men had rented, it would have been rented from the bottom to the top, but God tore it from the top to the bottom. and we believe it was God saying now the way in the very presence of God is now made possible through the death of Christ. And so this side of the cross, guess what?

When we die, Jenna, we’re absent from the body, present with the Lord, absent from the body, present with the Lord. We’re gonna go to Stephen in Clearwater. Welcome to Bible Life. Shalom, and Grosesham. Amen. Calling because of your previous caller? Yes. and the previous columnist wanted to know about uh… jewish people in the days of jesus and what their belief uh… of who he was yes be found in the colin or i was searching uh… as uh… an unbelievable uh…

this particular passage of the time it really uh… convinced me that he was who he said he was because the time it or the writing uh… of the rabbis their commentary said that Jesus was a sorcerer who led many people astray. Now for me, that number one, he existed, he was a real person because if anybody would want to disprove him as being some of historical, it would be the rabbis who rejected him. Secondly, it said that he had a following because he led many people, and suddenly he had miraculous powers.

When that’s something, boy, you’re giving us a lot of good information here, Stephen, we appreciate that. And the people today, I have been with people who are called the programmers, they try to get Jewish people out of cults like Christianity and the Hasidic, the ultra orthodox. I believe that Jesus did his miracles because he went into the Holy of Holies and wrote the name of Yare, the secret name of God on the inside of his garment and used that name to do is miracles uh…

i goodness yes it’s it’s it’s it’s so convoluted and thinking because when god’s sovereignty no one could use god’s power without god’s consent exactly you’re absolutely right although is wonderful i’m i appreciate you sharing that with us that’s very helpful well if people are more about uh… but you believe in and jesus is a messiah uh… my website is a lot of information uh… would you believe about hell and it’s really made in the course of our office for the rabbis are very knowledgeable and in the bible itself but actually they spend most of their time studying the commentaries and they don’t read the passages that uh…

reveal the truth about the messiah of israel amen now i mean i understand i can understand because i think a lot of uh… ministers uh… uh… that claim to be christian do the same thing they don’t know their bibles at all and they’re just reading from other sources and as a consequence they don’t have uh… have a right all the time and that’s what happened in the first century the people didn’t have access to the scrolls that were expensive they were rare they depended upon the power season the scribes for their interpretation and that’s why when jesus before the miracle of exercising a demon from a mute remember in order to do a nexicism you know the name of the demon to cast it out of Jesus did this miracle that only the Messiah could do and after they had this um…

you to both death and couldn’t speak and to cast out the demon they all turned to the leaders the Pharisees and they said is not this the son of David isn’t this the Messiah yes that point is when the Pharisees said no he cast out the demons by the power of the elves above and they blackened the Holy Spirit and that generation was a condemned generation. Amen. Well Stephen, thank you so much for sharing that with us today and what is your website address?

It’s lastdayscalendar.net. Alright lastdayscalendar.net and we thank you so much for sharing that with us today. And I thank you for your hearts and the Jewish people and for Israel and for the and I appreciate that every show you make sure you let people know what they can do to act and faith to accept God’s grace in the finish work of Christ. That’s a real blessing. Amen. Well, thank you, Stephen and Shalom. Shalom. All right, Jewish believer and adding some extra insight here as to from the writings of the Jewish people themselves as to what they felt about who Jesus Christ was or is at the time when Christ was here.

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Tim called in, he’s not on the air right now and he asked a question about Philippians 2, 12. And I know what it says before I even get there. says, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Now if you read the passage carefully, it doesn’t say work for, it does not say work for, it says work out. In other words, these are people that are saved and now God wants us to display the salvation by telling others about it.

And it talks about us being lights in a dark world with the gospel of Christ. So the working out has to do with displaying. Verse 13 of this chapter says, for it is God which worketh in you for to do his will and to do of his good pleasure. So God is in us as believers and he wants us to work out or display what he’s doing inside of us. So that’s a great passage and the fear and trembling has to do with the fact that we’re going to give an account as believers one day for rewards.

And so we ought to take this very seriously. It doesn’t mean we’re going to lose our salvation, which is impossible, But we can lose that on rewards and it warns us to be fully aware that this is something that is serious as a believer that we ought to be living for Christ and letting others see Christ in us or hearing of the plan of salvation through us as we speak it through our lips. Hebrews chapter 6 verse 4 was also asked about by Tim and Hebrews 6 4 talks about it’s impossible for those who are once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift and so on, talking about people that are saved, if they fall away, and it’s not talking about following away from salvation, that’s impossible.

But if you fall like Peter says, from your steadfastness, from your confidence, from your assurance, from serving the Lord regularly, it’s saying that it’s impossible for you to become saved again. It really is saying you have to get back up, back up, get back on your feet and start serving again. So the passage is not talking about a loss of salvation, but it’s saying that once you’re saved, you’re saved forever. And if you fall away, it’s impossible to go back and be saved again because why?

You’re already saved forever. And so at the moment you get saved, you’re saved eternally. And all you have to do is turn over to Hebrews 10 for further explanation where it says in verse 14, by one offering Christ perfected you forever. If you’re a believer, you’re perfected forever by his one-time sacrifice. And so it’s impossible to go back and become saved again or perfected again because you’re already perfected forever by the one-time sacrifice that Christ offered at the cross.

So Tim, I hope that helps. Flip-ins 2 and Hebrews 6 are talking about believers, is talking about serving, living for Christ, gaining rewards. Hebrews 6, 9 says we’re We’re talking about things that accompany salvation. It’s not talking about how to be saved. They were already saved. Verse 10 of Hebrews 6 says that God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love, but He’s gonna reward you for every deed that you did for the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything you do for Christ will last.

Everything done for self will pass. We have glory in the Son City Center on the line. Son City Center. Gloria is on the line and welcome Gloria to the Bibleline program. Thank you. I enjoyed listening to you. Well, great. I have a thought about the question of the people that keep saying that the Jews were responsible for Christ death. And I saw on television that one of the churches had a on their marquee. The Jews killed Christ. And I think of first Peter one twenty.

before the foundation of the world, God promised to send his son. Amen. I mean, if people don’t understand, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. Right. I don’t understand why no one has used that verse. Well, I have on my program already, but most of them are not doing that. It wasn’t some afterthought in the mind of God that Jesus was all of a sudden caught in wrong situation with a mob and then they killed him.

God had planned this from the foundations of the earth and it was all a part of God’s love and giving his son to die for you and for me. And so certainly we’re all responsible because he died for all of us but yet on the other hand it was God himself who gave his son. Right. You know it’s just hard for me to understand why hardly anyone is using that when they I know what they’re saying that He died for you and me and that’s terrific.

Well that church needs to be prayed for because obviously they haven’t got the picture right No, they don’t understand when Christ when found the Baptist said behold the Lamb of God Yeah, which take us away and they knew exactly what he meant Because they’d have all those sacrifices for atonement and it I don’t understand. I just don’t think Let me throw something extra into the loop here. Satan hates the Jewish people because the Jewish people are responsible for bringing about the Savior because Jesus is God who took on Jewish flesh.

And anti-Semitism is satanically sponsored and he’s the author of it and we should really be alert to that. Satan in fact Jesus told them the Jewish people in Matthew 24 that you’ll be hated above all nations for my name’s sake and it’s happening today and it’s really because Satan tells this lie that they are the ones fully responsible for the death of Christ and that’s not true. Right but I did meet a young man the other day and we happen to be in the long line of traffic.

He was driving and it was a business deal. I asked him if he would church he went to. He said, I go to a Messianic church. I said, oh, you’re a completed Jew. He was so excited to tell me all the scripture and what he believed about Christ coming again soon. And I asked him, how did he become a Christian and when? And he said, six years ago, my eyes were opened to Isaiah. Isn’t that interesting? It’s wonderful. And that’s been…

150 people in his group, he says. But he said in Jerusalem right now, there are 150 to 250 Messianic churches. Isn’t that wonderful? I was so excited and I thought I’d share that with you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Appreciate your call, Gloria. Okay, thank you again for your program. Well, you know, it’s really another sign of the Lord’s return because the blinders are going to come off the Jews in the tribulation period and millions will get saved and receive Jesus Christ as their Messiah and become saved.

And the fact that it’s already beginning to happen now is a clue that we’re already very near to the Rapture and the Tribulation period it will follow because the blinders are coming off and I believe it doesn’t happen automatically at the turning of the switch with the Rapture but it’s already happening this side and these Jewish congregations are planting seed with fellow Jews because the Messianic Jews, those who believe in Christ now, will go up with us the rapture but they’re planting seed with loved ones who will get saved after the rapture when we’re gone.

Isn’t that exciting? We’re going to go to Newport Ritchie and we have Charlie on the line. Welcome Charlie. I saw the movie The Passion and I thought that there was a wonderful movie and it’s done more for my Christian belief than 44 years of being a Catholic. I’m no longer a practicing Roman Catholic because of certain things that happened in the church. One thing, the pedophile preached, some of the nuns that have . . . . . . .

. . The middle of the year is going to Catholic school. As a matter of fact, lately I just have a run-in with a Catholic nun and my wife teaches at the Catholic school. I tell you what, they have some serious problems in the Catholic church and that’s very sad. I told them, I said, well, not come back to the Catholic church for one until they allow married men to become priests. You know there’s some other problems too, but to me that’s one of the biggest problems because of all these pedophiles To become to become priesthood and when you have bishops Especially this one bishops in particular.

There’s a pedophile himself that was looking over all these abuse cases I mean this is just downright disgusting. It’s vile Satan is running rampant in the church I’m not a Catholic bastard, but I mean I’ve been a Catholic all my life and it said my mother was in tears because I’m not no longer a practicing Catholic like Tolar versus Mom. I’m a Christian. I’ve never lose my Christian faith. But Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Savior. He always will be.

I mean, he died for our sins. He rose again from the dead. I mean, I’m more adamant about being a Christian now than ever. And it’s just really in the Catholic church but anyway the movie the passion to me was so moving and so awesome that you know Jesus suffered so much for us and he must love us a monthly to do this I mean more than a monthly I mean you can imagine how much he loves us because you know to me none of us are worthy and yet he loves us that.

Well that’s what I’m hearing from almost everybody that I’ve talked to that has seen the film, they’re all saying the same as you, that it has had a great positive impact upon them. And so we’re thankful for that. And I’m glad you called Charlie and all I can say is that we needed to share this good news of Christ with as many as we can. And this movie can be a wonderful catalyst to do that because people are talking about it and you can share your faith by talking about the film right now, at least while people are talking about it.

It’s an open door. Have you seen the movie, Hank? I have. Well, what was your opinion? Same thing. I think there are some things that are not biblically correct, but the major thing is right. Jesus suffered and died exactly like it described it in a film, and so I think it’s wonderful. No, I know where all this criticism is coming from. It’s coming from Satan. There’s a lot of atheists. There’s a lot of people that are anti-Christians. It’s just not anti-Semites.

They’re any Christians and you know that they’re going to do anything they can do absolutely You know to put their point across I mean with all these lesbians and gays getting married You know absolutely the pom and nations happening in our country to this day It’s no wonder that people around the world hate America man. This is a great Witness for Christ and a great opportunity for us as Christians to talk about him. God bless. Thanks Charlie Thank you Hank.

All right, that was Charlie and we certainly need to be taking advantage. I think if you’re a believer and you have a family member, a loved one that is not saved, if you had a problem in the past talking about Christ with them, this makes it easy right now. You can just bring up the film and it’s the hot topic today and you can tell them about Jesus and they’ll listen and they’ll probably ask questions. I think that’s great.

So take advantage right now. This is a time to talk about Christ. And I think it’s God’s last, I guess, one of the last warnings here to people. They won’t be able to say one day they never heard about Jesus because wow, I mean, everybody’s talking about Jesus. And it’s a marvel to me because here’s 2000 years since he’s been here. And look at the impact he’s having in our world today, even though he was here on the earth.

2000 years ago a person who’s an unbeliever has to deal with that wow this was no Ordinary man, but this has to be the living God who came to the earth and took on flesh to pay for our sins We have a first-time caller from Pinellas Park and this first-time caller is Cynthia and welcome to Bibleline Hello, I’m right here. Can you hear me? Yes? Yes, my question is I know that it seems like government is so corrupt and politics so corrupt.

And as Gushu says that… Can you speak up a little bit because I’m having trouble hearing you? Yes, it seems like that the government is so corrupt and politics are so corrupt. I know that Gushu says that when she comes back the government will be on his shoulders. What exactly does that mean? That means that Jesus when he returns is going to take over the planet and he will rule as king over the earth. And so all the governments will be upon his shoulder as he rules as king of kings and Lord of lords and the whole earth will have one king.

Zachariah 14 verse 9 says, in that day there will be one king over all the earth and that’s Jesus. Thank you. Alright, you’re very welcome and thank you for that call. We’re at the end of the show. We invite you to drop by today or call our number after the program, write it down 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. Give us a call today. Come by and see us if you like whenever you can, and we’re open until about three every day. And also, if you want to come by Sunday and worship with us, we worship at 10-30 in the morning and 6 p.m.

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