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February 10, 2015 7:48 pm
Harvest messages are brought to you by harvest partners receive free email daily devotions or to become a harvest partner, please visit us online@harvest.org. I guess tonight is Don Stewart have already introduced them to you. I want to mention some of the new book that… He is a brand-new book coming out. It's not out yet. This is an advance copy installed living in the light of eternity, understanding, death, dying in the afterlife. This is a whole mother topic we should just talk about on a particular night because we do the program together. I would say it good portion of the questions are always on the afterlife. There's so many questions about this topic, but he is a new book out on it.
Yet this book out of the rapture that we talked about last time in 10 reasons you can trust the Bible some floods welcome Don Stewart as he comes out.
Looking back on nice to be back right away doing what we need to move that Mike can we angle this Mike, this is the best thing for you. Just hold the bike would rather do that. So glad beard and I like holding Mike that only holding on like a tired eyes my life likely to be held by you done your sort of like the Yoda of the Christian faith. You know your you just know all this stuff. Yes I do yes you okay so what talk about three topics I we have a lot of fun together. We do not you today. By the way, during the reign of our.
Here's my reason. I forgot fairly bad okay I'll be there next Wednesday, God willing, but with about three topics tonight.
Number one, we can talk about going on in our world right now a lot of crazy things happening never to some of the things you do within your book, the afterlife have been held, and so forth.
And if we have time. The Christian life in general for syllogistic writing and it's on the news right now. You can't miss it. All we hear about these days is just Islamic terrorism right in all the ways that it rears its ugly head from vocal hair into his ball more often, Al Qaeda and especially Isis or isolate or sometimes called an you know just when you think it can't get any worse, it gets worse to me. There was this attack and ran against at the newspaper and those of folks that were killed there and then of course the two Japanese gentlemen that were tragically beheaded by Isis. But now, this latest video they released about Jordanian pilot that was shot down in I want to go into too much detail about this man was chained in the cage and he was set on fire and its it's incomprehensible to think of what is going on and then the UN just came up with a new report and they told us that Isis is using children as suicide bombers, humans, human shields and militants are selling abductive children as sex slaves and killing others. There Don there crucifying children's their bearing children alive and this is insane and so as we look at what's going on right now. Okay, we have to deal with what it is it these are all expressions of his locker and were not seen that these people are speaking for all of his but they are speaking for a certain percentage of it there and what is when will these groups have in common and what is their agenda and maybe address a little bit of the idea of what is called the caliphate. Yet Islam wants to have a worldwide ruler worldwide caliphate as it's called. The problem is there's not just one stream of his locale.
There is the Sunnis such as Isis or isolate okay there's the shield switches around okay. She is a 10% of Muslims the Sunnis about 90%. But even within the Sunnis I saw Isis there killing other Sunni Muslims and were not system but a neighbor lady and pilot was correct, correct, and he was of Sunni Muslim to because they do not believe that there sort of like fundamentalist the Isis to your you got a hold of the Koran, word by word literally. If you don't deny him up with your head and grade the barbarism here is is in a reminds us of things that you know we read the Old Testament things we can even imagine.
And so someone signs the last days of violence. Genesis 611 the Lord said, remember the sign in the days of Noah, so shall be in you know is in the last days as the days of Noah violence fill the earth and of course the Hebrew word for violence is Hamas, hostility or violence there naturally. See you and now we just had this event that the national prayer breakfast and the president addresses through and tell us a little bit about what he said yeah he said if you saw today.
Remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds.
The name of Christ. They told the audience of Christians there to get off their high horse from criticizing Islam and other religions and he said no God condones tear yet Mohamed is depicted in the hadith which is the authoritative traditions of the and of the prophet, saying this now you're responding like I'm responding now. No go. Condones tear now.
Eric said yes. Now were to receive bond and respond all right. Yet Mohamed is depicted in 50 as having said I have been made victorious through terror as a quote from you know therefore that is stated outside supports tear is not accurate because indeed in Islam. This is taught throughout. This is what we would call the moral equivalency argument exacts you and it's a will there's been atrocities done in the name of Christ, but why go back yeah 80 900 years ago, that is. I mean, let's deal with what's happening right now and what's motivating it and how to deal with the I could something in the music never heard before that this is unlike a hard target you know when we were in World War II we knew our enemies exactly and we knew where to find our enemy and we can meet them on the battlefield, but in this battle were in today with all these variations of it. Expressions of Islamic terrorism.
I heard someone say that that Isis actually is an army. It's on the standing army recruits come in server time and go out and went take their place. So they're moving constantly in the Senate training camp up in the paragon so this is a very difficult thing to deal with it yet and the recruiting all the time new people and parents are actually spending their teenage children now become part of Isis. Believe it or not, because I think this is serving and you're right Greg you don't know the is the person living next to you. Just a normal average Muslim or the you know and Isis person you don't know that's the whole problem and that's the scary thing about you just don't know what I wanted to talk briefly to a man that knows a lot about this. He's actually been in combat. He's a Navy seal.
His name is Chad Williams and actually he's one of the interim pastors here at harvest works with our Crusades and Chad is on the news all the time.
Becky was just on Fox news today like when we roll that little clip of Chad on Fox News today is the right you know it we want to things on the news, but you been in combat and you talked about your mentor and the this horrible thing that happened to him. Tell us a little bit more about that and how that impacted you as Scott held in state immunity wasn't just an ordinary Navy shows an extraordinary one holds all kinds of records is the youngest man to ever major shield training 17 years old or champion pen athlete fastest Navy seal is filtering optical course and a kinda funny thing is the only man you've ever beaten the beast he be a chimpanzee running through an obstacle course in a program called members beast, but I idolized him I mean I would, you know, take mental pictures of his arms back on Mars be just like Scott's one day and I remember him telling me just before he was going out of Iraq is tell me know Junior about to go do this thing referring to Iraq. That is when should know something never told anybody ever trained forces.
I know you can make it through shield training so you can't reason with me. Let me know Iraq soon to be a couple months long you can go to boot camp a couple months long vinegar start shall trail be back and see go through and I'm never turning on the television. As he was already out there and I see his face on the TV and at first the picture of him smiling and I'm just like with Scott doing on TV again it and let me know you to be on TV, but then the snapshot changes are now looking at video footage and the same arms.
I got a mental picture of you this day in my mind I'm looking at them down as lifeless as you got this anger Iraqi mob. They surrounded him. His clothing smoldering on fire in the rope and they wrap around his legs and they videotape everything and they sent the footage back to the stage to try and scare us so there hanging upside down from the Fraser River bridge. I'm just watching as she is. He's burning in the chanting and Arabic solutions the graveyard Americans Falluja the cave art Americans and as such it's kind of a similar thing to what's going on right now the Jordanian pilot there there trying to fear in the hearts of people. But really, those flame she put a fire in our heart to be courageous and go after wrap our minds around what like to be a real calm. We've not done it but you know you go through all this training and then the first day you know you ready to go when it really happens is what you thought it would be. Is it just terrifying or if you train yourself to deal with this and dependent going to the mode of your training or wears a little bit of both. The woman doesn't like when you first come under fire in your in your first encounter with the enemy. I think with the privilege of getting to go through shield training are so highly trained that when the bullets are a real this time around. Just got a kinda remind yourself that if this hits the docket sting. It's going to hurt. It's really gonna take me out and I member even the last operation I when we actually got set up on an ambush and were taking fire from three different directions and the rounds going over your head to sounds like a snapping belt you know and you think yourself of any one of these rounds hits me in the face. It's lights out. I'll be stand before the Lord. But then there's this kind of concern. As a Christian like wow you know some of these guys. I'm not really so sure I know by all indications are not going to good place they get hit by one of these things so there are no winners in war. I mean, we won that battle. We got ambushed.
You know there's a lot of guys that died that night though and one difference between us and in them. I guess you could say that were always trying to preserve life wherever possible.
The guy the ringleader that actually set up that ambush we found wounded and alive and we carried him into our own hospital to save his life. These are the stories that often are told about what happens out there only other stories will Chad you know you Chris. You mentioned your faith and I want to have you another time when the interview you and going your story in depth, but it also is willing to listen Don to get out okay. There is a place for the military.
You don't talk a little bit about the just war theory one is right for a country to defend itself to take up arms how how do we look at this sort of thing as Christians because we sometimes attend will know we should turn the other cheek and go the extra mile of what point do we say no that we have to defend ourselves and defend our people which are viewing all I know that, individually speaking you know we are to turn the other cheek if somebody wrongs us were not supposed to go after them and trying to avenge ourselves, but at the same time we are allowed to defend ourselves in Jesus when he sent his disciples out. I remember he something with a money back for money, a knapsack to put things in for sandals to walk on and sorts to defend themselves and so a lot of people get mixed up with the sixth commandment. They think that it's you know thou shall not kill but know the word is his murder. So the difference is going after innocent people.
And in shedding blood maliciously. What were doing is that were actually protecting and were advancing freedom or stopping evil men that when I was over there there's there's men that strapped a mentally handicapped women with suicide vest and shove them off into a crowd, so I don't know Christian manager they wouldn't want to get up and go do something about that.
So work were helping the helpless as the Scripture said, trying, and that's your responsibility and then we think of Christians are to what point do we have now to advance the gospel. This is a war of ideologies. This is a world worldviews.
It is not just a military war and that's kind of a component, no one seems to want to deal with, you know. And so, as a Christian and as an evangelist of God is gifted you to preach the gospel. How do you take your story as a Navy seal and use it to bring people to Christ.
I think that most people can sympathize with soldiers that are overseas shedding their blood for the sake of freedom you for that saying of emissive and they're so thankful they're so appreciative of soldiers that go overseas and do that, but sometimes I just don't really understand what the cross is all about. And so you can hear a pin drop in room sometimes we talk about these guys are laid down their lives and they could just take that lens and look through it to get a clear view of what the cross is all about your look something like this you might monster who is a US Navy. So he jumped on a hand grenade to absorb the blasted that grenade on himself so that others could live. He laden his life down you know the Scripture, I need a greater love has no one than this one that lays on his life force friends.
This is what Christ did at the cross, when he went to the cross. He absorbed the blast on her some hand grenade but absorbed the blast of our sin upon himself.
Why so that we could live with him in eternity.
And so, greater love has no one than this one that lays in a slight first friend you could see it. Men like Mike on sewer and even greater look to the cross as the proper perspective of the Lamb of God takes away the sin of the world thanks to finally everything I want to hear Donna going on here so were going to bring Chad back and it will look like to think him, but because he is a whole other story is so much more to say but it's another to fears the Bible prophecy Donna.
So here's all the stuff happening dependent freaks people out.
As the Bible told Okey already alluded one Scripture about as it was in the days of Noah and were thinking about.
I ran for a moment, the kind of you broadening this a little bit is really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is been asked is been asked to come and address the members of Congress.
I believe in the month of March 30 think it is and does some more for that somewhere against but he wants to talk about the real threat of Iran, we talk about a niche and like I ran where they fit in the prophetic puzzle. Okay Aranda's ancient Persian fact, until 1935, the name of the country great was purchase change to a ran Navajo history.
Of course the Persian Empire. The Old Testament remember after you got the Medes and the Persian side of the Babylonians defeated them. Iran has had a really fascinating history. What's amazing Greg in Ezekiel chapter 38 it talks about a coalition the last days. I Persian is mentioned and along with another character Roche which is to be a proper noun referring to the present country of Russia and having a military alliance never in the history of the human race has there been a military alliance between those two geographical entities there which is modern-day Iran in modern-day Russia. Until now, and we have now military funeral packs being signed between the two nations, and so the scenario that the Bible predicted seemingly so impossible is not falling into place in a ran rusher to the very, very big players. Ella ran like we mentioned before she up Muslims only 10% of the Islamic world, but they have a view of the last days. A prophetic view that I final Imam Mahdi will come was basically in on the 12th one third of an Islamic Messiah is the of the Messiah and and they will know he's there by the fact that he kills the Christians of the Jews and then sets up this worldwide caliphate and that's what they believe is going to happen in the last days. Now the Sunni Muslims, the 90% of them have a different view of the last days in each other and kill each other since the seventh century and so Randall they believe in his the scary thing Greg they believe their divinely ordained to do this. That's why they're enriching uranium working on the bomb and saw a couple weeks ago. They had a rocket there that was shown a picture of it. About 90 feet high that would be at Intercontinental lipstick missile. That's not just a hit Israelites to hit us because were the big Satan Israel is a little slight so were the cross what they describe you and the little you when the crossings were that were the big Satan eligible the camera back okay so were talking about a fulfillment of prophecy unique that you recent and right is the alignment of records i.e. I ran Rick with Ross and we read about that in Ezekiel and their attack. Of course against Israel. It has to be regathered again and placed back in the land would Israel live so now pulling the camera back big picture prophetically worded since the line was say emergence of the antichrist tribulation. An rapture yeah but most likely the rapture the church takes place than this event happens, we don't know. I didn't write teaching for a while in Ezekiel 3039 we came up with 12 different views with the timing of its was not that clear. But it seems the church is out of here because at the end of Ezekiel 39 the eyes of Israel are open to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So seems rowdy when that takes place at psych as the Scripture says in Romans 1125 I believe you know blindness in part a seven Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become men so you could make a case or for the full gathering of those folks coming in the believe in Christ and then to God for the spirit out upon his list of the lightning round good girl are so smart. Just give here's terms we hear a lot and so give me like a 2 to 3 sentence definition of them hate the rapture of the church. What is this the catching up of living believers to meet the Lord in the air as their being caught up there. There their bodies are being changed him immortal for mortal immortal from crippled and corruption in the word rapture comes from where the Greek word her pod so the Latin verb, a pile which means to catch up, snatch away, so when people say the rapture is in the Bible, we would say well if you read a Latin translation, the word there is. But the hard pause of the catching away is that both are yeah that's right you tribulation. What is a seven year. Our technically 3 1/2 year period is called also the 70th week of Daniel. One last seven year. When God deals directly again with the nation Israel.
We are in the church are parentheses in the church age.
A God dealt with Israel in the past were now in the little parentheses one final seven-year. Called the great tribulation of the time of Jacob's trouble. Antichrist okay anti-means in place of the antichrist is tulip wax for theirs is the political leader the religious leader of the religious leaders called the false prophet.
The political leaders, a Gentile who come from Western Europe religious leader probably be Jewish. Pointing the people's this person is the one you want to worship.
First John 218 says there many antichrists already there antichrist singular is coming in the one we think of is his political leader. This beast of Revelation 13.
Okay millennium okay Latin for thousand.
So when we talk about the millennium. When does it happen in the big picture what we believe it happens after Christ comes back trying we can respect pre-millennium or before the millennium before that a literal thousand year reign of Christ on earth.
Not every Christian believes that but we do yeah that's right okay so the battle of Armageddon in Armageddon is more of a campaign in a single battle. The Valley of Megiddo or phone that's me. Please continue every she doesn't have the radio on, like he did. Sometimes during the month. Yes, and you weren't listening. Our station is well. I was a single Christian Christian radio division different. One different one.
I was on a way and I've been listening to Kate Kelly and it came on while I was on Aaron K with you. They were all Christians at all. I had given all Armageddon. Okay Armageddon is a series a campaign that The Valley of Megiddo is is this beautiful plane. The plane of Sharon there and in Israel. It's a it's a campaign that will last no culminate with the second coming of Christ there. Revelation 19 there in the city of Jerusalem, so you know the final great battles. The armies meet together there.
That's where the blood goes up to the horses bridle whiteout can be quite a scene hundred and 44,000. They are Jehovah's Witnesses. Of course, so are those okay Revelation 7 12,000 of each of the 12 tribes of Israel. There are very specific out their names and there will be witnesses there. There Jewish to be witnesses of Christ of the Messiah. During this great tribulation.
The messianic believers are correctly correct and that we read about the kings of these two. I think the kings of these could be China, Japan, maybe India to China itself could fulfill if there is, it talks about a myriad of myriads agreed to be taken literally 200 million man army Mel Tse Tung said in 1965 my back up against the wall course. It is now is dead but my back up against the wall.
I could feel them army of 200 million man that was in the mid 60s so the people were there.the populations and greatly the book of Revelation was written. There were 200 million people in the world. That's right yet predicted a battle that many men coming from the east China so here's a lot of times there's confusion about the rapture and the second coming right so the contrast is Telus with the similarities on the differences are hugely different because in the rapture, Christ comes for the church.
Yet in the second coming. He comes back with the church. Every Scripture about the rapture as it is, is gladness a bliss being in the presence of the Lord being in the father's house.
Every passage of the second coming as to a judgment so you get to just opposing events, so it's Christ coming first for his church than with his church. The first time together. The believers first Thessalonians 413 to 18 and then a judgment on the second coming. See that's what we call immunity. Okay, now here's my reading off a monitor like the partner to Teleprompter over there right here some questions that came in some through social media. Some I'm getting right now from some folks here right now so. But here's the one from Joe, why do you believe America or why is America not mentioned in Bible prophecy as a key player in the end, or are they a player at all for that matter know they're not were not okay several possibilities why because in. Here's what we assume in Ezekiel 38 and 39 when this coalition of eight nations comes down to invade Israel.
There is no nation that they are afraid of. Nobody can or will intervene on the side of Israel.
So we assume there's no superpower in the world, meaning the you know and forth with the demise of John Wade would say of the United States of America unswervingly so were not there. Meaning we're not either.
We don't exist or we don't have the political will the military.
The economic word. In other words, were not up or not. Superpower anymore and that's the sad reality of it. We been predicting along that line were to continue to see United States go down the drain. Unfortunately, simply because the Bible assumes that were not a player in the last days is it that you think were why we diminish how warm are so powerful today. Yeah well we can only guess. Yet, we can only guess a lot of reasons why I think part of it is having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. You know, because were seen in the world. Craig is a Christian nation.
We are the rest the world sees us as Christian. But then they look and come to America and they see things anything but Christian right and not that that's what's part of the sadness of all this that we were in a where the that's Ronald Reagan used to say the light shining on the hill when that was the idea behind America. You know the huddled masses, gathering together.
20 of the first 21 institutions that were found in this country schools Harvard, Yale, William and Mary were founded to train pastors to go out and evangelize the rest the country we falling tremendously away from the cow. One of the red affairs of that Constitution pointed out that in this country was not founded by religionists but by Christians correct and you know there are historians to will give us a revisionist version then they'll try to edit that up and that this is the truth but were not claiming that all of America's Christian, but we have a clear we clearly have a Judeo-Christian foundations that we have strayed from and it seems to me the all we know judgment is inevitable. Every nation is a shelf life doesn't. No matter who I mean you go to the great nations of the world from Babylon to Greece to Rome, etc. they they had a beginning, middle and an end and that's good to be true of our country as well as any other country, but we were praying for his before that time comes that we could have perhaps another great spiritual awakening. Yet you know this. I was good to say this is the answer we want America's not in the Bible in the last days because no one's here, we got a great revival to rapture the church happens in the country's empty would not have a great answer and okay so let's shift gears now from last days of the afterlife.
Are you written a book on it so you're an expert you know the answer to every question, another lady, and we can ask about this a lot. Only every program we do two or three questions on this, it's interesting when it first started doing this with Pastor Chuck about a dozen 15 years ago I was. I should be surprised with the probably the main questions we get on the afterlife and get to afterlife questions the personal afterlife of human beings in the what's can happen in the future for the world. So this audio is a personal afterlife. What happens to us after we die or what happens to the world to another lightning round ready okay. What happens when a Christian.update their body goes in the grave in the spirit immediately with the Lord.
Second, what the Scriptures to check okay. Second Corinthians 58 absent from the body present with the Lord. Philippians 121 to 23 Paul says I the desired be with Christ and I know it was far better but you remain with you is more necessary for Stephen in acts 759 what is being stoned to death.
Yes, he looked up he saw the Lord Jesus standing on the right hand of God the father to to receiving so absent from the body immediately with the Lord to realize our spirit when it comes to the body will depends body goes in the grave, and you know it. It deteriorates but there's gonna come a time of the bodies can be raised resurrection body. The body is the shell is temporary, but were getting a new body someday. Greg, an eternal one. First Corinthians 1550 to 58. An immortal one and incorruptible want one that will never grow old never fade and you know and that's the promise we have.
That's right, and just sit in my flesh I will see God exactly no and the Scripture clearly teaches a bodily resurrection. Okay that I get assets all the time we get to heaven will we know one another well as G. Campbell Morgan said we know each other. Here we don't expect to be bigger fools in heaven then you are down here on earth I and now it says we first Christians 13 is working to know even as we are known yeah so will know more, not less.
So when yeah will continue to learn probably to Ephesians 27 talks about in the ages to come.
Experiences a great the richness of Christ. It almost seems disabled and to keep learning for all eternity. In other words, now we only use a small percentage of her brain as it is so up only doing more and have well that's a good question to have Joy's unspeakable member. Second Corinthians chapter 12 and Paul was take up the third heaven was his response to put where he can describe and describe this paradise down while he did ECE's paradise in the third heaven interchange. Likely there.
Yeah, I was caught up there and he said I saw and heard things that are not lawful for human big guy unspeakable. In other words, could put in human words. I think any any description we make any thought of heaven, would you begin to explain what is great okay so there's a lot of books that it been written on the subject of heaven lately. One of the best books I've read in the topic is Heaven by Randy Alcorn. That's where the theological book wonderful book for anybody want to know more about it. I also wrote a book called as it is in heaven just hadn't mentioned that it's also wonderful but not as good as Randy's, but it's out there, but Tom but I'm not talking about books like that. I'm talking about culture people alleged to have died in of Gandhi Kevin there's a lot of these books that have come out yet. I read an article the other day were one of the first people who wrote one of these books demands that I made the whole thing on exactly now you know how do we quantify with these people say how can we know if it's true or not, because I admit Christians that will safe while I know what Jesus looks like I read about it in this book, I will respond yeah and that's when the courts to deal with in this first book held near death experiences. The problem is there only near death not dead ones are been dead and come back and been dead for a thousand years and come back and tell us these people were kind of an in between death and the next life and they give testimonies now there's no way to judge what they are saying that in a way that like you said no way to examine it in a way to look at the evidence and here's the problem I have the Christians that do it. Quote unquote what people are saying as well.
Look what so-and-so said what heaven is like. In other words, the Bible is not enough.
We have to read so-and-so's book member.
What Jesus said in Luke 16 when Abraham's talk of the rich man. If only someone came back in the dead, they would believe in the Lord today have Abraham and the prophet Moses and the prophets let them believe the Scriptures let them believe them and even if one came back in the dead, they would believe in one did the Lord Jesus.
But you know if the apostle Paul was not allowed Greg to tell what he experience or how does anybody think they are somehow able I don't get it exactly right and you and I think that God is given us everything we need to know about heaven in the Bible to know more. He would have given us more but actually is quite a bit about heaven. There is a date and a lot about the new earth. And here's where some people don't understand that you know the Osama die and go to heaven to be with Jesus forever will that's kind of soon. It's kind of not true I beat you will go to be with the Lord in heaven.
That is the hope of the believers you mentioned to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Yet at the same time. The Bible clearly teaches that one day heaven, comes the word correct, the new Jerusalem dissent from heaven as a bride adorned for her husband ever get to be in the new word and new bodies doing real thing exactly know the Bible talks about planning vineyards. It talks about building houses and so this kind of addresses the question of you know what will their you know what will we have things to do, even the real meals you can elect real things, people forget about the yacht.
In fact, it's back to like the original paradise Adam and Eve had vastly did they just didn't sit around and yelled and the same thing true in the new life again. Great.
You know, God tells us little snapshot of what yelling of us could be so much better than we can ever imagine we will be idle. We will be sit on a cloud playing a harp for all eternity in and singing off key. You know that's not can happen as I happen at all. Here's a question. This is often asked, will we see our pets again in the afterlife. I know you want to see my Vanilla.
I know that Don is a cat white cat that loves you that's trying to get you like cats I I'm open okay you know it here in the Bible doesn't say one way or another.
It really doesn't, but you know God has things in store for us. We can even imagine. I'm hope not only our pets will show up in heaven, but the tell us what they been thinking all these years to that's good. I would love what you love to know what they been thinking yeah I mean you look at will look at the first time an animal is spoken. No, no bail, had a jackass. That's right that's right. And when Satan came to Eve you know there and is well okay so here's some question, some folks are writing in Israel time after death we can still choose Jesus so they with their asking is what you die with a be another chance. On the other side and the answer is absolutely not Hebrews 9 $0.27 appointed human beings once to die, and after that the judgment of fates are fixed and again look.
16 the story that Jesus told the rich man and Lazarus. He was and 80s.
This rich man and he was separated from the righteous Lazarus was in with Abraham there, and yet he realized that was at his fate was fixed in this earth, and other words, once you go break.
That's it. There is no gospel of the second chance, no hope. This life is all that there is right okay so when we think about this. This next life.
Sometimes people wonder you don't wind when does a soul come into existence. One person asked the question is, is so created at inception or are we. Before we know what was there with Don before Don was conceived. No, no there's no preexistence of souls a cycle to rely. The way this is not my quest. I know I'm just trying to set you up. Of course you are sure okay no there's no such thing as the preexistence vessels. God knew us before we came on the scene in return Jeremiah B.
I'd for Friday.
I knew you. We had no knowledge, no comprehension of anything until we were conceived at conception, you know, we we become a living being and become a soul and something that's different.
The animal kingdom with an immortal or an eternal soul that God is given us immortality, not only it's interesting though is given only believers in mortality and that's eternal life with him. Unbelievers will exist forever, but not existing with any type of life and that's the difference there, but we were created in the image of God. The likeness of God, and we been made to know be forever his presence to we talked about what happens to a believer when the guys what happens to a nonbeliever, darkness, hopelessness, lostness. It's an old dislike.
Again, the curtain pulled back in Luke 16 and it's hard to imagine these rich man was in torment in Hades. He asked Abraham to send Lazarus to cool his you know his tongue because he was he was suffering and we can even imagine what the suffering consist of, and it's because he sent himself there. Greg, the Lord Jesus said in Matthew 25 the hell are the final judgment was prepared for the devil and his angels, not for the human race.
He has done everything to keep a person from going there. He is paid the penalty. He is taking the penalty of the sins of the world upon himself and all he says is this except my part, but if people want accepted their mate for eternity. Got nowhere else to go. That's right. CS Lewis said the gates of hell are locked from the inside. Correct and you know there's no question that God wants to do everything he can to keep you out of hell if you end up there it's really a lot of decisions that they give me through life and and really there's only one unforgivable sin that's written out the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, which is essentially rejecting the work that the spirit is come to do which is to convict and convince us of our need for Jesus Christ that the only sin God cannot forget noted Jesus and no hope. How can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation exactly exactly. You can, and that's the whole point Jesus in John 824 said the religious leaders.
The spiritual guys if you don't believe that I am he, you can a diner since let's offer a compassionate word, though for those that may of loved ones who died and their knowledge. They did not call upon the Lord, but yet we don't always know what happens in the last moment person's life.
So I think that's what we have to be very careful to say what we see with her, and hell don't actually when Jesus said Judge not lest you be judged. That's often misquoted, misinterpreted to mean that Christians really have no opinions or nutmeg evaluations a better rendering of the word judge should be condemned.
What are not correct someone I love the place to condemn and see there in hell because we are not is so gracious and within their last moments in that hospital better. You know in that situation there.
And if they call out to Jesus would forgive them, just as he forgave the thief on the cross exactly there is a criminal, probably an insurrectionist a murderer next to Jesus and all he said was a cord remember me and she said you're in that simple and that is that the grace of God think it is.
It's all the grace of God, not art. It never works.
If it were true anything off like that. Okay so let's shift gears now to a final lightning round with Don Stewart were talking not just about the Christian life in general. The Bible you've written a book on the Bible is the red one or the red one in the title is reason reason to trust the Bible okay so that was my first question, why should we trust about everything we've said tonight is based on Scripture right okay but is in the Bible. Some would say, full of contradictions. No okay so what do you say when you're talking when you're talking I'll put myself in the place of a nonbeliever he so your sharing the gospel with the and I think the Bible is full of contradictions. What would you say to me, such as well. I'm not going to have an exam never they never did and had never found any that actually do once in a while very very thin example of the contradiction they would find what your response is similar rather ridiculous. There was one person teaching at one of the local universities will mention it to some you may go to Cal State Fullerton but anyway never used number years ago and I do student was in his class come up to me and said my Rabbi said the story of Jonah is contradictory because you know that said, the whale, you know, went to a no spit of Jonah and then about and then it was an inland city out what the well walk across the land and made a joke of it.
The Bible says persona whale large sea creature, Jonah, and he walked in and of itself. Again, not understanding Jesus said something that answers this question Greg he says there's two things unbelievers don't understand number one they don't know the Scriptures and number two, they don't know the power of God. That's what he told the religious leaders you do greatly.
Eric you don't know what the Bible really says you don't know the power of the God of the Bible. So usually the so-called contradictions in oh are are ones that are in need of it.
In Scripture, or their misconceptions of what the Scripture says in elected God is good, wiser evil in the world. Things like I hope you have a good God with that and also the things you know there's a biblical answer that back without the Bible still really have an answer to the problem of evil because the Bible let's go to that question that you raised it because it is often not supportive you know you say that God loves me but they'll respond with Austin. How can a God of love allow all the tragedy in the world like this company write down the front pages of our newspapers and on the news programs things we've already alluded to, or how can a God of love allow the suffering we see in the world today. What is the best response to a question like with first young guy didn't create the world the way it is right. That's what we have to understand Genesis 131 says when he made the world he just did make it good. You made it very good right.
Something happened Genesis chapter 3.
Our first our ancestors, our first parents rebelled against God. Sin entered the world we live in an abnormal world.
So this is not the world God created and see here's the problem. Great people think what you don't sin and evil to be rational or logical by definition visit, it isn't. We live in a fallen world. But someday the good news. Revelation 21 five the Lord said, make everything new world. That's the promise we have here. What about when people bring up publishable.
I believe in evolution is your response. Why bother. Usually they don't have a reason to like it's a defense mechanism to get you to go away but they're gonna say you and I don't believe there's a God. I believe that we evolve.
We came from the sea and died just a highly evolved animal and therefore there is no God, there is no final judgment, etc. so that means life has no purpose right. Probably if I was using that argument I would use it to justify the choices I've made and I don't have to face ramification right.
There's no there's no lawgiver, no judge, so fight it'll take a gun and shoot you between the eyes. I will have to pay for someday. Right.
Well, you'd probably have to pay by being arrested by the law, but if I don't care because you know who's the law for gonna catch me first see that's that's that's the idea. You know, back in the 60s.
The hold ideal God was one God is in the drop in the my I have a contact lens.
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That's okay. Okay. How about the other I you know I only have in 19 will you do for reading. Okay, my distance is pretty good. Is it just really look at how many fingers okay what it's always to really die anyway.
Now in the back of a serious thing. There is a person set of God is one equal to anything. Everything in what's wrong. The man said it was Charles Manson and he looked it out in his life and the problem is great if you don't have a eight any type of basis for morality than what's right what's wrong, I mean what's wrong with what out of Hitler did national socialism in the 30s with you putting Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals to death because they were part of the you know the area and the perfect race white when he caught wrong see just play the logic out and it falls apart so quickly, so it that's a good way to kind of refute the argument, but then ultimately though we is apologetic to find apologetic is that word means give a defense, a reason for what you believe an apologist gives intelligent, rational offense for what and why we believe we want to remove those arguments or have that then would we want to do that you want to get right to the cross of Christ and that's the thing. The ideas to clear up roadblocks that are keeping people for seeing Jesus. We always want them to break always want to bring them to Christ. Not when an argument not sure how smart we are bringing to Jesus you okay so here's some question from the folks here. What happened to the fallen angels.
Where did they go well most of them went with Satan there fallen angels or demons that they're the ones causing havoc. Ephesians 6 says they're very well organized.
Some of them know which is rather frightening, actually been in change since their father can be released during the great tribulation so you don't really want to be around these Labeling That That There so Bad They Been Kept Locked up from Day One. So There Are Demons Here Today If Their Arguments Are Fallen Angels They Are, What Can a Demon Do in the Life of a Christian Contrasted with the Life of a Non-Christian for a Christian and Nothing That God Won't Allow God Only Allows like We Read in Job Satan to in Only Have so Much He Could Do without a Live Mission.
They Had Asked Permission. Same with Demons with a Non-Christian. I Think It's in Anybody's Game Because They Don't Belong to the Lord, Not His. And so If You're an Unbeliever You're Playing with Fire with You Know Demons, the Occult, and Things like That. It's Dangerous. It's Really Really Dangerous Because You Don't Have the Protection of God with You, As Believers, You Know He's Looking after Us Is an Interesting Question. Will Mormons Go to Heaven. Not If They Believe Mormon Gospel Talk about That Okay.
The Mormons Believe Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints That the God They Worship, Elohim Was Once a Man He Lived a Righteous Life. He Died Was Resurrected and Now He's the God of This Planet and Mormons Believe the Doctrine of Exultation, but Mormon Males Can Become a God Someday Males Ladies Not the Females. They Can Become a God and so Many of the Mormons That Are Temple Mormons Where What's Called the Magic of the Holy Underworld. The Time Gap, Including by the Way, Mitt Romney Did That. I Member Dave Ross Saying I Never Thought I'd See the Day Wide Vote for Someone for President Was Wearing Magic Underwear.
But Anyway, As It May Have a Different Gospel Different Jesus a Different in Fact, Let's Make It Very Clear Joseph Smith Junior Claimed When He Was He Saw a Revival in Upstate New York That He Sought the Lord and the Lord Appeared to Miraculously and Showed Him When He Asked Which Church to Join. He Said I Must Join None of Them All. Their Teachers Are Corrupt, They Provided They Draw near to Me with Their Lips, but Their Hearts Are Far from Me, so One Fell Swoop. Joseph Smith Junior Said God Told Him That All Christians Are Corrupt. The Teachers Are Teaching False Doctrine. The People Are Bunch of Hypocrites. That's Why Want to Do the Restored Gospel and so We Are Merely Responding to Them. People Suwannee Tech Mormons We Don't. They Attacked Us Where It's Responding Their Attack. They Claim to Be the Restored Church or Not. They Got a Different Jesus, a Different Gospel of That Galatians Chapter 1 Says Even If an Angel from Heaven, Preach a Different Gospel B of the Divine Name Hannah Maintains That Alleging Alone.
I Guess His Name Is Moron I Write with This Message That Is a Different Gospel Altogether Filling the Charges You Know Will Meet Mormon People in the Very Wonderful Results Very Family Oriented, Very Hard-Working, and It's on an Evaluation of Them As a Person Huddling in on It Comes down to Theology Exactly Comes Done with the Bible Teaches We Can Just Make This up As We Go. So They Have To See Their Need for Jesus Christ and See Them from the Biblical Perspective, Not from yet Another Book That Doesn't Mormon Consider the Book of Mormon Equal in Authority the Scripture You Got for Parts of Four Thing Sources of Authority, the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, Doctrines and Covenants and Also the Teachings of the Mormon Church. They Call They Believe Is a Living Prophet That Can Actually Add to Know What the Previous Scripture Say, but Greg with All Cults Have One Thing in Common Its Works Righteousness Is Not What Christ Is Done for Us. It's Jesus Christ and This Yeah You and Them Mention Jesus but That's Not Enough, We Have To Add to It. But the Bible Says We Can Add to It. Jesus Said It Is Finished.
It Is Complete and That's the Mark of Occult Jesus Christ and This Jesus Christ. When Elizabeth Waited to Share the Gospel with the Lord. Well, I Know It's Interesting When They Come to My Door. I Really Believe That God Sends in There Because Is Always One That Wants Me to Talk to. I Don't Know Who It Is. After I Find out I Just Look at Them. I Will Now I Want All Ignore the Other One and Look in between the Eyes or Preach the Gospel to Invariably Know What They Say Use Just Sound like My Grandmother. You Sound Exactly like This. So Someone's Been Praying for and so on. One of the People along the Way. This Time They Need to Know Jesus and I Believe in Their Heart of Hearts They Do What They'll Do, They'll Share a Testimony about How You Know God Show Them That the Book of Mormon's Were God, Joseph Smith the Prophet of God and Turning Heart Discerning Heart. The Burning in the Bosom and Also I Get That When I Have Talked As to but I Then I Share My Testimony and I Got. And God Showed Me That the Book of Mormon Is Not the Word of God, Joseph Smith, a Prophet of God's Were Our Week One Objective Things Can You Show Him They Sit on the So-Called Noting No Not at All Because Everybody Got a Testimony. But What's It Based on and Will and What Kind of Factual Information Is There and There's None There with Mormonism Is Difference between the Beliefs of Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses Okay Mormons Are Polytheists. They Believe in Many Gods Jehovah's Witness or Monotheist Believing in One God, but Again Well Yes and No Because They Believe Jehovah Created No Jesus, the Little Guy Joe Was Actually the Big down Is That Jesus Christ Is God Not Correct.
He's Michael the Archangel of the Old Testament.
He Sees the First Creation of Jehovah God, Who in Turn Created Everything Else.
The Mormons Believe in You Know Many Gods You Know and and a Plurality of Gods Actually in God Had a Mom You Don't Got a Wife, Mother Goddess, and That Sort of Thing.
Walter Martin Years Ago and Every Hearing Him and He Talked about Kind of the Earmarks of Occult Right Said That Most Cults Had Certain Similarities Number One, They Always Have a Prophet under a New Roof, a Man That Comes Are Sometimes a Woman That Speaks for God Right There. They Are Not to Be Question. So for the Mormons at St. Joseph's a Different Source of Authority Than the Average Citizen.
Secondly, They Have Another Book That Is Equal to the Scriptures so for the Mormons It Would Be the Book of Mormon As Well. The Right Jehovah's Witnesses Wraps the Writings of the Charles Lies Russell and the Star Next to Our Society at Thirdly They Believe That the Only Way to God Direct That You Have To Become One of Them to Get to Heaven and and Then There's Other Earmarks As Well.
But Those Are the Similarities Here's Because Shifting Years Old and a Question. Why Did Jesus Say, My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me As He Hung on the Cross.
At That Time Is Something None of Us Can Understand Because Jesus Took the Penalty of the Sins of the World upon Himself and in Some Sense Greg That None of Us Could Even Begin to Understand God the Father and God the Son Had Some Type of Separation There for That Time and People Will Say, but Was Only for a Short Period of Time and You Know and and All of Eternity.
What Is It Matter, I Don't Think We Could Even Comprehend Because of That Time.but the Darkness Member over over Jesus and There Is a Something Going on a Trip Some Transaction Going on between God the Father and God the Son, That None of Us Can Even Begin to Understand Because the Penalty of All of Our Sins Was Placed upon Them at That Time Is Wholly Harmless, Undefiled, Sinless Son of God and so I Would Think Again We Can Begin to Comprehend.
So Let's Think the Can Land This Playing We Talked about so Many Things You Normally Think about Our Own Life As a Christian, How Important Is It to Have Regular Bible Study. Why Should a Christian Open the Word of God on a Daily Basis.
It Is Crucial Because the Bible Is God Speaking to Us. We Speak to Him in Prayer. He Speaks to Us. This Is Our Textbook. This Is This Is the Battle Plan and If We Want Know How to Live Life We Look at God's Word Right If We Don't. Otherwise, What Is Kinda Going on Her Own Way. We Have a Plan That Tells Us Who We Are. Why Were Here What's Gonna Happen to Us When We Die, How to Live Our Life, and You Know If We Don't Follow the Plan. It's like You Know If You Don't Follow Any Instructions You Get off off the Straight and Narrow Road, so It's Absolutely Essential That We Understand the Bible Study and Read It Know It and Learn and Memorize It If All Possible.
I Think One of the Biggest Problems We Have in Churches Today Is There's a Biblical Illiteracy Time of People Have a Working Knowledge of Scripture and I Think When You Have a Good Understanding of What the Bible Teaches. You Will Be Able to Sort so Many Other Things out Them.
You Could Spend All Day Researching Every Called Every Aberrant Believe, but As an Illustration, We Probably Both Use That One Person Work for Scotland Yard in the Counterfeit Department Spotting Counterfeit Money.
He Was Asked the Question. You Know You Are Handled Counterfeit Currency and in the Said No I Just Handle the Real Thing. All the Land That I Know the Folsom Exactly so More Conversant with Scripture. We Know What This Book Teaches Week We Develop What Is Called a Biblical Worldview Totaling We Begin to See Things the Way Biblical Lands and so We Go That's Not Right. This Is Good This Is Wonderful and We Need to Learn to Think Biblically. Don't Leave yet Because Sometimes a Similar Talk to the Claim to Be a Christian. We All Had This Happen and It's like It's Not Right or Something Is Wrong. You Talk Long Enough, You Find out That They Have Some Mild Theology.
While Believe about Jesus of the Bible and If You Know the Bible, Then You Know Right Away Whether off the Track, but You Gotta Know What You Gotta Study It Doesn't Come by Osmosis. You Have To Sit There Study It, Learn It and You Can't Study the Bible Hit Miss Could Usually Miss More Than You Hit Gotta Do It Consistently.
You Gotta Be Learning God's Word and Were Never Can Arrive Either Grade. The More We Know, the More We Realize There's Still More to Learn. Someone Once Said Wisely. Every Time You Cut down a Tree of Ignorance Holding Forest Arises Because You Realize How Much You Don't Know and That's Keeps You Humble to and Not but It's Exciting His Work. Learning These Treasures from God and I Mean That's It's Fabulous.
Studying the Bible Is Allowed to Do It That We Do. Would Love to Talk about and I Never Get Tired of Any Other Never Know the Bible Says That Faith Comes by Hearing and Hearing by the Word of God so I Think Even Just Having This Conversation a Bolsters Your Faith and Yeah Yeah That's What I Believe and Maybe Answers A Few Questions but I Find Even When I Hear Things I've Heard before to Hear Them Again Reaffirms My Faith and Did You Know We Need to Believe Our Belief That We Need to Doubt Our Doubt Is Always Good to Have Our Faith, Reaffirm How Important Is the Church in the Life of the Believer. Absolutely Essential Were Told Not to Forsake the Assembling of Ourselves Together Because Here's Why Talk about This Today on the Air. By the Way, I Wasn't There. I Know You Were Missing.
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Therefore Seat Man Is Supposed to Be and It Was They Were Playing Seat and They Don't Know What You're Talking about Exit Name I Gave Great He Is, like a Secondary Superhero. We Had to Give My Name and Seat Managers Came up with One Day You Call Me That When They Said Seat and I Was Seat Man What Is That Know Him like a Failed Superhero That Was Well. If the Shoe Fits You Know Where Know and I Decided No I Just Came up with the Name Because Greg Talked about in This and I Select Cycle Statement. I Don't Want to Say the Loyalty Is Important.
Okay Here's Here's the Program. The Program That You Were Not Today Were Supposed to Be Forgot. That's Okay I Take Part of the Blame for for Not Reminding Anyway Their People All the Time. We Do That Call Us up and Say Look, I Don't Need to Go to Church.
I Got 24 Seven Christian Radio. I Can Watch It You Know on the Internet. I Can Watch Whatever Why Do I Need Church and Here's Why. Because They Have Gifts and If They Don't Come to Church.
They Are Robbing Us of Their Gifts, Because God Has Gifted Everybody in the Body of Christ to Share with One Another.
We Need to Pray with One Other Way to Share Experiences One Another We Do Laugh with One Other Way to Cry with One Another Because This Is What Life Is All about.
That's Why the Church Is so Important It Is You, You Stop and Think about How Important the Churches in the Life of a Person. I Mean, You Know You Want to Get Married Where You Want to Do It in the Church When You Have Your First Child What He Wanted, Dedicated in the Church When You're Having Marital Problems. Were You Go, You Go to the Church. I Mean, Everything Revolves around It in.
It Needs to Be a Part of Our Life Are Going to Grow Spiritually and I Think It's Very Important to Be a Part of a Local Church and Most Pastors Would Agree with Me on This. You Know, I Think the Whole Idea of Church Hopping Is Actually Not Good for Your Spiritual Health. Know Not All His Is No Accountability. Now We Need Accountability We Need Someone and Knows Us Knows Who We Are, What You're Going through Because They Can You Know If They Know Us Well They Can Say I Can Tell, Some Is Not Right and I Pray for Us and They Can Ask a Week and You Know Because We Need That Because You Know We'll Go through Trials Many People to Be Accountable to. That's Right so Prayer What Is Prayer Defined Prayer Is Talking to God and Prayer Is Absolutely Important Because the Lord Jesus Found It Necessary to Pray the Night before. He Chose His Apostles. The Bible Said He Spent the Whole Night in Prayer.
Jesus Thought It Necessary to Pray How Much More for You and I Greg Yeah It's Talking to God Now. Prayers Basically Petition Asking Him Things Asking You Have Not Because You Asked Not the Lord's Is Either Yes No or Wait and He Doesn't Answer Every Prayer but We Asking for Certain Things. We Have Not Because We Asked Not, but It's Talking to God and Basically Petition Asking for Certain Things about a Person That's Been Praying for Something for a Long Time. Maybe It's in Unsaved Spouse or Maybe It's a Prodigal Child or Maybe It's a Healing Because They Have Some Kind of Problem or Even the Disability and Their Prayers and Answered What Why Does God Say Yes to Some Prayers, and No to Other Well with the "why" Questions Ones We Don't Know the Answer to That.
We Know This, That Jesus Prayed Three Times for the Same Thing in the Garden of Gethsemane and so We Are to Continue in Prayer until We Feel God Is Telling Us Not to Keep Praying about Something As We've Seen Things People Come to Christ. Years and Years after Site You Know Anybody Gave the People Give up Hope for Man. All Of A Sudden One Day Here.
They Are the Cross. That's Right, You Know, Jesus Said, You Know, Seek Not See Can You Keep Asking You Now and in the Greek and Read Greek of Courses You Give a Continuous Action to Keep on Asking You Keep Seeking You Keep Knocking and You Know It Will Happen. God's Timing Is in Control.
Okay, so Now Enclosing People There, Listening. Maybe There's Someone That Same Well I Don't Really Know How to Become a Christian. How Does a Person Become a Christian and Know with Certainty That When They Die They Will Go to Heaven and Know with Certainty That If the Lord Comes in Their Lifetime of the Rapture Happens Whether Walking This Earth That They'll Be Caught up to Meet the Lord in the Air. The Bible Says Very Clearly in First John Chapter 5 Verse 12 He That Has the Son of God Has To Life the One That Does Not Have the Son of God Does Not Have Life. In First John 513 Says Greg. These Things Have I Written to You That You May Know That You Have Eternal Life. If You Have Believed in the Name of the Only Begotten Son of God.
First John 223 Says You Can't Have God the Father without Having God the Son.
The Only Way to Get to God the Father through Jesus. The Holy Spirit Confirms in Your Heart That You Are a Believer in Christ. But You Have To Make That Step of Faith. You Have To Believe in Christ Drafted, except the Misfit That He Was the Perfect Sacrifice on Your Behalf. And When You Do That the Bible Says You Can Know That You Have Eternal Life. So We Would like to Extend an Invitation to Any of You Here or Folks That Are Watching. If You've Never Made That Personal Commitment to Jesus Christ. If You Don't Know That You Have Eternal Life Is like to Give You a Chance to Believe in Him Someone We Help Our Heads Right Now.
Father, I Prefer for Every Person Here and I Pray for Anyone Listening and Watching Right Now, That May Not yet Know You Lord Your Only a Prayer Away and You've Told Us in Scripture That a Phone Call upon Your Name We Can Be Saved in Lord I Pray That Folks Right Now That Don't Know You Would Do Just That and so When I Have Jabal If You've Never Called on Jesus. If You've Never Asked for His Forgiveness. If You Don't Know for Certain That If You Were to Die, You Would Go to Heaven.
Why Don't You Pray This Prayer out Loud or Were Ever You Are after Me Just Pray This Prayer after Me, Lord Jesus, I Know That I Am a Sinner and I Believe That You Are a Savior Who Died on the Cross for My Sin and Absorb the Wrath of the Father in My Place and Then He Rose Again from the Dead. Now I Am Sorry for My Sin and I Turn from It and I Choose to Follow You from This Moment Forward in Jesus Name I Pray That