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Today you got questions, we've got answers stage for the line of fire with your host activist all the international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH. That's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown friends, this is Michael Brownson had to be afforded broadcast of the line of fire.

Today I'm going to be answering your email questions so I can hold off on your calls, but I've got some fascinating questions were going to be taking today. Real doozies also very sincere interesting one. Some mocking ones, but I want to get to as many as I can some diving right in. This is an anonymous question about speaking in tongues. Dear Dr. Brown I can the Christian distinguish between one authentically speak in tongues is a gift from the Holy Spirit or to self-induced speaking in tongues or three falsely speaking in tongues is a demonic deception or through such a thing as false and speak in tongues through demonic deception, great question and I appreciate it. Let me ask you a broader question in return.

How do you know that your truly saved and that it's not just a matter of self-deception or demonic deception. What you might say, will the spirit bears witness with my spirit that I'm a child of God, you might say my life is been dramatically changed from darkness to light and from disobedience to obedience.

You might say that I have a relationship with God and communion with him and there's free from that relationship and when I pray I see many prayers answered and because my father and those would be valid fruits and valid evidences of the new birth and certainly together make one very short, but the point is you don't have God coming down from heaven and opening up the scroll incentive. There is your name written right there were the heavens opening up and fire coming down and see you are now a child of God.

So we experience it. We believe the promises of God and then we have experience in harmony with the promises of God which gives us encouragement is real will. Jesus did tell us specifically in the context of asking for the Holy Spirit. Luke 11 that if you ask your father for good things, he will give you something bad. If you and sincerity go to God not looking for a mystical experience of looking for some kind of high. Dr. Singh oh any spirit out there, come and fill me if you say father.

I'm asking you for the fullness of your spirit so I can live for you more fully and glorify you more effectively in and be a more effective witness Lord, fill me afresh with your spirit. Jesus teaches explicitly reading Luke 11 Matthew seven as well, but specifically mentions the Holy Spirit in Luke 11 that if you ask an earthly father for Brady will give you stone if you ask him for a fish, he won't give you a snake so if you ask your heavenly father who's much better than an earthly father for the Holy Spirit. Your I can receive a demon edema so have the power to intercept prayers on the way to God that are prayed sincerely to the father and then come with her counterfeit answer. So that's the first assurance I have.

When I asked the second is as I pray in tongues. I have the witness of the Holy Spirit in my life I have that same Holy Spirit bearing witness in my life and bearing fruit in my life as I pray extended periods of time in tongues and by the way, I didn't induce it from the start. I didn't deserve it, or manufacture words until I become fluent type. I prayed, I felt something rising in me. This is January 4, 1972 I began to give utterance to it began to flow more and more fluently than my mind could be meditating on various verses and and I'm not saying those verses out I'm praying in tongues. In other words, it is something beyond my own brain operating at that time in a conscious way of making up words, notes the Holy Spirit speaking through me. I see the fruit of that as I pray I see deeper intimacy coming from what I see specific leading from God so I would look at in those ways the witness of the Spirit. The confidence that if we asked the father for Brady won't give us a stone that bears our lives as we pray in the spirit and the fact that, contrary to the other things you consciously say words of my praying effectively. That's how I say. You can be very calm. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown, welcome back to this is to Brown. Yes, you can hear the smile I've asked my joy to be answering your questions today but I'm only answering email questions. He can hold off on your calls will hopefully take some more calls of extra days next week. All right here is a question from Jen hello, saw your response about how horrific homosexuality is in the gobble sent to hell. Anyone that practices homosexuality. I'm a heterosexual woman living in Michigan married 18 years, the mother of three children need to ask how you choose what you believe in the Bible like you believe the Bible to be in error into the book which ufology followed completely to cut your beard you were mixed fibers just one fabric at a time to sacrifice children or animals in your yard using more waypoints to the Old Testament of the New Testament. If Jesus told you to love your neighbor leave the judgment of others to God you fall that are no drug daughters.

Did you sell them a modest interest in your answers, it seems your hatred, name-calling with human beings truly important to God's of the judging others is to send you just think you didn't really mean that one was so interested in your views their fascinating best, Jennifer hate Jennifer.

Let me first say that your email was ugly that your your email is insincere and mocking and misrepresents my position and even just takes an old famous letter that was written to Dr. Laura and then remixes it as is your own.

It's is really ugly to do that right is if you're sincere to misrepresents another person's position and I find it very hateful, actually hateful and judgmental.

The very thing that your accusing me of doing is is what you're doing. Just to be candid with you to be straight with you so number one I my position is the same as that of most Jesus and Paul that homosexual practice is sinful that adultery is sinful that sex out of marriage is sinful, that many, many other behaviors. Sinful that lying about people sinful gossiping about people sinful. Be proud and hypocritical sinful. Many of the sins I hold to what Scripture plainly says on that and that those who practice these things without repentance be adultery.

The drunkenness did murder be. It's the fornication sleeping together out of wedlock be at unrepentant covetousness and greed. Homosexual practice. They don't inherit the kingdom of heaven. They reject God's mercy, deliverance, and they don't make it know is good enough to make about God's mercy and if we persist in our sin.

We don't make it. That's the first thing second thing I don't choose what I believe the Bible really consistently. God gives certain lost Israel to keep them separate from the nations like there were mixed fibers for just one fabric at a time.

Things like that heat.

He never called his people sacrifice children or animals in their yard that's that's an aside, give them certain laws to keep them separate from the nations, and then he give them other laws that were universal. You say how can you tell the two apart you can because somebody says it just for Israel as he gives everybody summer reiterated New Testament summer not so very easy to see that which applies to everyone. So like the cutting of the beer that was commandment given to ancient Israel and and it also had to do with not following some pagan practices and things like that was a stylistic issue.

Same with mixed fibers of the same with dietary laws. These are primarily to keep Israel separate from the nations.

For example, the sacrificial system sacrificing animals in the temple. This was ultimately pointing to Jesus dying for our sins. So the purpose of the Old Testament is to get us to the new art it teaches us, in itself, but that gets us to the new. Then Jesus gives us the fullness of the story so if I follow the Bible consistently, plainly and in Jesus did tell me to love my neighbor which I do, and he also tells me to rebuke someone I see and sent it off if you read Leviticus when Moses says love your neighbor as yourself.

It's an immediate context of if you see your neighbor doing something wrong or someone sends you should rebuke them white for their good it, in other words, if if you sell your neighbor's kid about to run out in the street a five-year-old boy around the street get a ball that was rolling in the street and you saw a car coming what you do, you scream and yell hi stop stop.

It's not your kid but you care about your kid that didn't your neighbor's kid right it in the same way if if you saw your neighbor a stone cold drunk staggering out to their car and they're about to drive and try to throw the kids in the backseat and you think you have thereabouts get into an accident you grow say hey I think should be confident right now that's what love does you don't judge them in terms of condemn them to hell because of that you don't judge them in terms of what you must be an evil person that's where you're drunk.

Who knows what happened in those wider drunk but you out of love, speak the truth to them so I believe the ultimate judgment to God so I just quote Scripture that God says people live a certain way. Don't enter the kingdom of heaven I and then I offered them the same grace in the same mercy to everyone so on the what hatred you're talking about. If you cut me a bleed. Love if if you are my neighbor and you are lesbian woman and you are raising three kids, I'd be the best Navy ever had and actually the most love, probably any human being ever met that that was just a new neighbor to you because I really care about you as a person that I don't believe the two lesbians coming together as marriage in God's sight and I believe it's best for those kids to have a mom and a dab that's not hatred so I want to encourage you to check your own heart right. Check your own heart and examine it because looks at there's a lot of hatred and judgment to listen in their but I can help you with that the same Jesus who died to save me when I was a heroin shooting a list using hippie rock drummer in 1971. The same Jesus who died to save one of my friends who was a violent activist, and in India before becoming a Christian who feeds the poor and cares for the hurting and the dying of the same Jesus who saved my wife Nancy before we even knew each of the four were married when she was hard Cold Stone atheist for the caller committed atheist. The same Jesus that died to save homosexuals and heterosexuals. He died for you so I encourage you that that there is new life to be found in him all right is about to go out the number by habit, but I'm only answering your email questions to day. This is from Jeff I posted your recent article urging Pres. Trump to honor his word and move the USMC Jerusalem and the question arose. I noted in your writings.

You often use the motif of an open letter to someone on public figure. For example, Donald Trump, Miley Cyrus was wrong. If you actually send your writing to the person your address and if so, give or find out that person reads what you've written to them. No debate or moral right or wrong on this, but just curious. Sure Jeff, thank you for asking.

Number one if I have any access to the person I reach out to them first. That's the first thing if if I have access to them.

I reach out to them first so many times in open letter never gets written because I reach out to the person first if if I don't have access to them.

For example, Pres. Trump or Miley Cyrus. I will post the. The letter, but then I will tweet it to them. I will get it to them and in that way you Miley Cyrus tweeted to her millions of tweets she gets for this and see himself, but I bet I did that. If I have a way to try to get it to someone that didn't response was all do that one comes to the president because I know people who are close to him and I know that that some things are written have been sent to the president once they been written with a red them or not. I don't know.

I always have that hope that he could well read it or that someone on his team or in his family could read it and and again I know that that folks close to have been asked to read some of my things. I know other open letters of red that other leaders have been come to me and said I brought this to so-and-so's attention. I told them they need to read sometimes they do get back to me. Some of gotten back to me with real humility and thanked me some of gotten back and say hey I wish you got to me first and I said sorry I didn't think I had access to you. Let's dialogue now. We've had constructive dialogue so it's it's been varied of some I've never heard back from reached out repeatedly and never heard back from some now have a relationship with me where anything happens and we immediately talk so you can come to me and say Dr. Brown or Mike you may hear this, but I want you know it's not accurate or here's the full story or if I see something that looks very odd and boy people are saying you need to address this like this is really bad. All right to them first and say hey this is circulating on being asked to address it. What would you like me to say in response. I don't want to miss represent you in some of said hey it's not what it looks like here's the whole story. Others who said yeah I wasn't clear in what I said. So it varies, but thankfully a lot of the stuff does get rid and I am writing for further edification as well.

I'm writing for the benefit of others who will read it.

I'm writing also hopefully to set the tone and say here's a good way to confront issues, so even if the individual involve the streets of Miley Cyrus.

I've heard say from parents of kids and the kids are fans of hers and they felt was important communication of the Christian leaders of said hey we we want to try to model the way we reach out to those we differ with what you have sold. There's a lot of different motivation in writing them.

But again, in short, if I have access to the person I go to them first.

If I don't have access will. Will try to get to them before the open letter and then once it's posted. I do my best to get it to the person. Sometimes there read sometimes the read back to thankful not happy times your thank God wants a really good fruit and as I feel led and prompted life like that. I care on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution of your exam is Dr. Michael Brown welcome back the line of fire Michael Brown thank you Barbara listening audience. Thank you for listening live on radio listening live online listening by podcast, so glad to have you as part of her listening audience and I do take the show so seriously and I hope and pray that the answers that we give our helpful to you if you send an email if we answer it online.

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Download our line of fire app. It's a terrific user-friendly app to listen to the show to listen to podcast call into the show to access our resources, so just go to the line of fire with Michael Brown in the app store. I believe it says Mark Pope is the design or something like that. You see that name, but that's the one you you'll identify the moment you see it. If you have an android phone, get the asked Dr. Brown at a SK or Brown that will link to show that will link you to all of our resources online. All right, just answering your E questions today. This is from Sonya. She was watching the Facebook Bob RS Dr. Brown Facebook page and I interacted with some folks there but unable to interact with with a fraction of the people and she she's confused now she saw a post recipient was attacking Pastor Bill Johnson as a false teacher okay and she so that I responded and said will some of the things you accuse him of being false teachers. The record actually find biblically so now so� I've no idea what to believe. So she is copying this post. She said I don't need to read all of Bill Johnson's books cover to cover. I'm sure that you have because of your hearty endorsement of him actually Bill Johnson is a is a brother in the Lord. He is a friend not a close friend of we've done some ministry here and there in the same conferences or meetings together, but we haven't spent a lot of time together, but I have folks that are been part of his church for years. Some grass for school had been on staff in the church for years and he is a brother in the Lord sure to agree with everything. Bethel teaches but he's a brother in the Lord. So I've never endorsed one of his books or anything like that had him on the radio. We had a great talk by our recent issues to him of accusations of come here and there's a deer that was taught is wrong.

Shouldn't been taught or no. That's false. We don't do that. He was candid, I open up the phones for anyone to call the criticism of knowing no one called or took advantage of that that they semi-get blamed for it, but he felt that they criticize didn't call to criticize of that day, but the woman that posted this responses is quite negative and she says once had established it is a false teacher by his own words and studied in the light of the authoritative inherent sufficiency of Scripture was necessary to search much further. Instead of waiting for him to repent and believe in Jesus Christ. He does not need to repent and believe in Jesus Christ as a believer in it, and if the only way the dream to be able to listen to this broadcast or read my books on answering Jewish objections to Jesus or be helped by my articles of all cultural issues is the only way you're going to be able to do that is if I damned to hell brother in the Lord's a false teacher well you listen to the wrong show. Okay, I need to search deeply your own heart friend. Look, there are people I work with that have all kinds of differences with with their brothers and sisters in the Lord and we work together for the larger common good. Look, I've dear friends that their cessation as they don't believe in the gas and power. The spirit for today have dear friends or Calvinists I have. I have friends that are post-millennial side of friends that are millennialist our friends at her dispensational pretrip.

We have many different beliefs on many things, but we are united together in Jesus, so when you sings repent, believe in Jesus, you're wrong. Your wrong number can tell you you need to repent and believe in Jesus, I would be committing the same error that your committee I saw you on time at the woman that posted this. So for example, she finds Bill Johnson to be exposed from his own words quote Jesus had no ability to heal the sick, you can cast out devils. He had no ability to raise the dead, and set himself in John 519, the son can do nothing of himself.

He had set aside his divinity. He did miracles is a man in right relationship to God because he was setting forth a bottle throw something for us to follow if he did miracles, his goblet will be extremely impressed that we have no compulsion to emulate what we see that cause commissioners to do a Jesus did more than we realize that he put self-imposed restrictions on himself to show us that we could do it to Jesus who emptied himself that he was incapable of doing what was required for him by the fall without the father's help or that may select an extreme statement to but Jesus said he did the miracles he did by the power of the Holy Spirit. In other words, that part of his self-imposed limiting was not to do miracles as God, but rather to do miracles by the power of the spirit.

Now he did them without measure eludes the spirit was on him without measure. We don't have the spirit on us individually without measure will not do all that he did.

Bill Johnson would be the first to say that there was an exceptional demonstration of the miraculous through Jesus to draw our attention to him as the Messiah's note. No question about that.

But Jesus said that he drove out demons by the spirit that that when he gave his inaugural speech in Luke four he said the spirit had anointed him to preach to heal the sick. There's no evidence that he healed anyone before that time. So just like as Almighty God. He knew everything to the self-imposed limitations on himself.

He learned to walk and talking fake that somebody could speak a trillion languages when he was born in the study went above but when he was a few months old old hat was because of self-imposed limitations so there are scholars who believe the same thing that Jesus did the miracles he did by the power of the Holy Spirit and not by his own deity. This woman announces Bill Johnson as unsaved or false teacher and hell bound heretic because he teaches what many of us teach based on Scripture.

Here's another example of Christ is not Jesus last name course correct squirting Bill Johnson. The word Christ means anointed one, Messiah, Christ is a title that points to experience was not sufficient that Jesus be sent from heaven to earth with a title yet to receive the anointing and experience to accomplish with the father desired.

What's the argument about that. He was anointed by the spirit for the task. Hence, he is the anointed one, the Messiah of the word anointing Bill justice means to smear the Holy Spirit is the oil of God, it was smeared all over Jesus that is water baptism then Jesus Christ implies that Jesus is the one smeared with the Holy Spirit. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit also needed to happen to Jesus for him to be fully qualified.

This was his quest receiving this anointing qualified him to be called the Christ, which means anointed one anointed one that experienced anointing there to be no title yet I don't necessarily think it that there's an implication of smeared as is the issue. Although you could argue that's that's tied in with the word but for sure. He's called the anointed one, because he was anointed the spirit of the Lord is upon that's what's written in Luke accident.

Isaiah the 11th chapter, the spirit of the Lord was on Sultan to use these quotes as examples as examples that Bill Johnson is a full heretic is housebound. That is, as long as differ to some of his that's a false teaching in a hell bound a radical way. That's a difference we have about how it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 866343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome the line of fire is Friday brought you got questions, we've got answers, but be for you dial that number on answering email questions today so we will get extra calls gobbling next week on the broadcast. So everyone that wants to try to call and can give it their best shot, but right now I am answering email questions and someone is asked this question, is this a false statement someone teaching. This does this make them a false teacher, Jesus made a frightening statement regarding those who hold to Bible study versus experience. You search the Scriptures for then you think you have eternal life, and these are they which testify of me. If our study of the Bible doesn't lead us to a deeper relationship an encounter with God that is simply adding to our tendency toward spiritual pride we increase our knowledge of the Bible to feel good about our standing with God and to better equip us to argue with those that disagree with us in a group wanted to defend the doctrine is prone to this temptation without a God encounter Jesus did not save my sheep among my book is his voice that we are to know someone posted this on Facebook as a quote removal Johnson book is evidence that Pastor Bill Johnson was a heretic. While I don't find that statement heretical at all is not denying the authority of Scripture. He's not downplaying the importance of study of Scripture he sang Scripture that doesn't lead us to a deeper relationship with the Lord or study of Scripture that doesn't lead us to a deeper relationship to the Lord with the Lord is missing something if all I'm doing is learning doctrine so I can argue with you and prove your point is wrong. Upon doing is filling my head with knowledge and information and it doesn't lead me to a deeper relationship with God.

Then something is wrong. There again when the point is Bible study versus experiencing say why make that distinction. We are reading God's word to growing God to know him better to understand what he requires of us to understand who he is, so we can believe things about him better and that will lead to a deeper relationship with God. Didn't Jesus say this is eternal life.

John 17 three that made they may know you the only true God and Jesus the Messiah, whom you sent so eternal life consists in knowing God and knowing his son. So again I find nothing heretical in that regard, I find nothing heretical in saying that proper Bible study leads to a deeper experience in God. Proper Bible study leads to greater intimacy with God. Proper Bible study leads to deeper obedience and God. If it doesn't lead to Jesus and point to Jesus, then there's something wrong with it. I agree. I had a season in my life the late 70s early 80s when I got out of college and I was in grad school and my prayer life was down and and I was busy with school and newly married with the new family and and I was so caught up with study. I love studying the language is so much and and and I was digging in learning read the Bible in Hebrew and in ancient Greek and learning other ancient languages that that honestly, even though I was studying Scripture. I wasn't studying it to growing God as much as I was studying it to learn the languages of the Bible better and end yeah me and I was on some level. Look at what I was reading from a spiritual point of view, but it was more head knowledge and language information. Then it was divine truth penetrating my heart and my soul and that's that's the point that Pastor Johnson was making so you may disagree with other points is made or practices of his church. And that's a whole other discussion, but I find it shocking that someone will post that quote evidence say to me this is proof that he's not, save that he needs to repent and believe in Jesus. What kind of relationship person is supposed to did not save their saving relationship with God. Mess with Bill Johnson saying that's what the word helps new member in the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown was retuning in today on the line. Buyer Michael Brown left no note don't give out the number just talking to myself am answering your email questions today so we get to more calls hopefully next week but today just tackling some of these email questions that have come in all right. Let's see here. This is from Michelle hi Dr. Brown, my husband and I love listening to the line of fire. Thank you for this ministry really help me get a better understanding of how I should interpret the cultural climate around these Christian woman I've heard you talk on your show about many new stories related to professionals in the wedding industry refused to perform services, food, flowers etc. for gay weddings stay home mom and I work part-time from home as a freelance editor.

I typically work in casual block style articles for number of different companies.

I recently was a sign with a title like this. Best practices for LGBT friendly marketing. The article gives tips to small business owners how to be inclusive and inoffensive to the LGB community and their marketing strategy and promote strategy strategy and promo materials to a question for you is where I draw the line refused to edit any LGBT related article must agree with the angle or should I edit articles that portray a neutral tone draw Alana for like an article asking to celebrate the LGBT lifestyle. One honor God with any work I put my hand to assure appreciate any advice guidelines or principles you can share I'm sure not the only one finds itself in moral dilemmas in the workplace to Michelle, thanks for the kind words.

I'm so glad that broadcast in our materials are a blessing to you and your husband and ultimately you have to make a decision before God terms of can you do this in faith or not. What you do want to do for sure is is count the cost and determined to obey the Lord no matter what. In other words, you don't want. Fear of losing income or fear of losing other references, or fear of losing a job to influence you at all. You only want to be influenced by what's right and honoring in the sight of the Lord. So I trust by your tone that your fine with with taking a loss or even getting blackballed if it's out of honor for the Lord but but you and your husband.

You just be sure that that is the attitude that there's nothing hanging over you that skewing your thinking at all, for fear of doing what is right now if if this was me I I'm thinking this through, as as I answer you if this was me on communion with the Lord. Father one honor. You want to serve everyone. Can I do this I couldn't do this because it ties directly in with gay activists. In other words, it is part of a larger strategy to say use certain language terms mindsets concepts that will reach a particular audience that you might say but but look every year of your marketing to different people and and if you come to the conclusion that's fine.

And, in other words, how do we market to the Asian-American community how we market that to the Hispanic American committee of the Asian-American community or how do we market to the upper class of the middle class. The lower classes and that's all it is and and how do we market to conservative Christians and how we market to LGBT community.

In that sense okay whatever. It's just different people that they're trying to reach in and that's all you have to decide what is the product itself, or moral risk. The company itself tomorrow if not then than five, but my problem here again you have to weigh this for yourself is that this ties in with the larger activist agenda. This ties in with the larger activist agenda that excludes believers that that is often prejudicial against and discriminatory towards people of faith and conservative moral values.

It is part of a larger complex. This whole strategy. That is what would concern me the same language of inclusivity for gays and lesbians is the language of exclusivity for those who differ with them and that's where I would say okay am I in any way part of this larger activist movement and and look as any freelancer you take certain jobs and you don't take others right and that's going to be with any number of people that sorry can't do this long, but again you need to think through. Make sure that you're ready to suffer the consequences if they come that way and you have to come to your own conclusion before God. You may come to a different conclusion than what I'm suggesting but my guideline would basically be if doing this either endorses something I differ with or contributes to something I differ with on a deep moral level naturally have to draw the line. Otherwise, if you can serve gays and lesbians like everybody else. You gladly do that. All right, Jerry. My understanding is regarded Christopher JH Wright of Cambridge, should I be cautious regarding his writing on his room. General.

I read on Google. It is coming from replacement theology perspective instead of what I have studied in your teaching on Israel's future. Thank you so much for all you do in support of Israel and their destiny a Christopher Wright is is a fine biblical scholar, a fine Old Testament scholar with great great contributions in a number of important areas and I encourage you to take advantage of that. Yes he does hold to replacement theology and that he does not see for example the modern state of Israel as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy or the ancient national prophecies to Israel being played out today and I was reading a fine book of his on the Old Testament and the God of the Old Testament and then come to my surprise in the midst of it. He just spoke out against modern Israel today. I really see where it fit.

There is apparently a logical connection in his own thinking. I didn't see it but I do highly recommend the book just about there was little thing on his right.

I differ with and other books he's written. If I'm correct missions related books Old Testament admission and things like that.

I would be enriched by what he writes and I would appreciate his scholarship and his zeal for the Lord in the word of God and just recognize that he may make some statements here and there on Israel that that you would differ with all right, a Tammy Dr. Brown dual covenant theology is something I haven't heard discussed on your show. I know some people who stubbornly hold to this and teach this to others. I feel according to Scripture's doctrine of demons in such a general heresy that we should not fellowship with those who refuse to repent of this. I think that you really have to die most of the New Testament to believe in this survey have to deny the words of Christ, so that no man can come to the father except through him semi-right about this being a doctrine of demons according to first Timothy four and verse with six of the command withdraw for them.

Thanks much for your ministry Tammy I appreciate you being so zealous about this and if you missed it because you wrote this email. Prior to this, but if you missed it on the Thursday, May 25 broadcast David Brickner I address that doctrine directly and then a caller called in with it and I dressed it further. So on the first hour of the Thursday show to follow the line of fire.org the first hour of the Thursday show. May 25.

We address it in depth definitively say that you must deny Jesus as the Messiah.

To say that Jewish people have a separate covenant with God and can be saved without him. So I wholeheartedly rejected and that since just a doctrine of demons in that it takes away incentive to share the gospel with the Jewish people. It says that they, unlike everyone else on the planet, for whom Jesus died has another way to God. It says that somehow they have mercy outside of the cross. It says that the words of Jesus in the words of the entire New Testament off. Also absolutely a serious error. As for fellow shipping with those who hold to that, if the person is a genuine believer but is in error.

There than I would fellowship with them with the hope of getting them to see the truth. There there.

It is not that they are safe practice living in adultery and refuse to repent. After break fellowship with them or are there committing serious violations of God's word in their practice and they refuse to to break away from that. Or they have denied fundamentals of saving faith for themselves.

But this is a serious error and obviously if this was a major issue to that person. It would be difficult for me to have quality fellowship with them.

If this was major to them because it's major to me if it was seven. They just held to on the side. Then I would I would fellowship with them and do my best. As the door was open to communicate truth with them again. For those not covered conversing with dual covenant theology.

It it says that Jewish people have the Sinai covenant.

They have the tour they have the law of God. They have the Old Testament they have their traditions that are God's chosen people manage their faith with their traditions and follow God's total raw and repent of sin and asking for mercy than they will be saved outside of the cross.

Many of you scratch your head. So how can they would be saved us on the cross. Of course not only so, Jesus did say to a Jewish audience that he is the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father but through him, and Peter said to a Jewish audience that there is no other name under heaven by which we may be saved and Paul reiterated that the gospel is to the Jew first and also to Gentile and on and on it goes. If Jesus is not the Messiah of Israel. He's the Savior of no one you cannot say Jesus is for the Gentiles, only that violates his whole mission who he is, violates of the foundation of why he came into this world to save his people from their sins of his people can be saved from their sins. Outside of the cross, then everyone can be saved outside costs if side is not safe, but we got time for a few more questions got Portland's way of I to check out my latest articles and videos and ask Dr. Brown gives the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH dear Jim is Dr. Michael Brown back to the line of fire. Taking your questions today are Friday questions. We've got answers. We do my best to get to as many as I can. Ruth Dr. Brown after reading a Facebook conversation with yours about false teachers are like to ask you if you've read the book the physics of heaven. Both Bill and Betty Johnson contributors along with others from Bethel. Reading this book is a long way in providing evidence that much false teaching is confident ministry. Here's just one quote Jonathan Welton by the way I disagree strongly. Jonathan Lachman, Israel eschatology invited them to come on my show and discuss the issues and he declined in the book the physics of heaven. Ruth quotes Jonathan Wallace saying this I found throughout Scripture the 75 examples of things that the New Age is counterfeited, such as having a spirit guide trances meditation always power objects clairvoyance their audience more these actually belong to the church with a been stolen. Clearly repackage okay on the surface of that that's that's a very disturbing quote absolutely disturbing quote.

I have the book I started reading it I didn't have time to get into more so I can't comment on it and if there's stuff in there that's wacky I'll say it is the stuff that comes out of Bethel that's wacky I'll say okay it's the start of the no hesitation with that is Westville Johnson plainly do you believe in this you hold to this no Jubilee missed no seminar staff set up. It was wrong we don't talk like that.

Now, you believe in this note, some people did it but we renounced it, fine art, and other things if they come up Wyoming's raise them. I got no problem with that. So yeah, this statement as I read it is wacky and and a bizarre however if what he's saying is that these are all New Age counterfeits of Biblical experiences that is not as wacky as it sounds. In other words, if you say that the New Age has practices like spirit guides trances meditation always power objects, clairvoyance, clear audience, etc. all of these supernatural things and this is demonic counterfeiting of real spiritual experiences like having and the angel of the Lord with us.

All right. And and New Age close having a spirit guide being led by the Holy Spirit, New Age, because of the spirit, God or the Holy Spirit reveals things to us in the New Age counterfeits it with clairvoyance or things like that. Then yet I would agree that the demonic realm is counterfeiting the true that the Holy Spirit speaks to us prophetically. The Holy Spirit reveals things to us.

The angel of the Lord to go with us always are certain times and and and New Age is counterfeiting those things. So if that's what he saying that these are all the counterfeits right trances.

Meditation wears in the Bible people I trances people to trances since that Oreo meditation in the demonic way as opposed to meditating on truths of God having our minds renewed, then the statement is not wacky so it depends on what he means by that right clairvoyance, things like that. Yeah, clear audience. Not exactly sure what that means but if you say these are the demonic counterfeits of the real gifts and power of the spirit, then yeah I agree there's a lot of demonic counterfeiting of the real things of the spirit yeah and and he lists those things that would be wacky okay so I have to read the whole thing to see exactly with what he saying there Elaine.

My husband joined the church several years ago called the Church of God, there's the United Church of God living Church of God, etc. all a break offs of the worldwide Church of God established by Herbert Armstrong while my husband just agree with everything the church believes he does focus on the Sabbath and the holy days sees me as requirements is a source of strain our marriage.

The fact that I go to church on Sunday and on the real Sabbath. He says it is documented that the Catholic Church is the one to change the Sabbath to Sunday, not job. With that said he system so that on Friday to send it on 70 must be observed for God Bible reading services, etc. you know of any biblical reason that the Sabbath was change. Thank you. Yeah Lane. This is definitely tough and and does cause tension in marriage. Obviously, for obvious reasons. But no, your husband is right and that nowhere in the Bible was the Sabbath changed to Sunday. He's right in that regard. However, the Sabbath commandment is not given as mandatory to the whole church.

The seventh day Sabbath commandment was not given to Gentile believers anywhere in the New Testament. And Paul even warned in Colossians 2 about people putting you under pressure to keep 1/7 day Sabbath, or to celebrate the biblical calendar to be under pressure to do that is a sign of spirituality and identified these things is a shadow so the substance was found in Christ. So your husband's right that it wasn't until mother on the fourth century where the church said officially that the Sabbath had been changed to Sunday, but it's pretty clear that Gentile believers from early on and maybe it usually was as well.

Rose early on Sunday morning to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus are celebrated later in the day and that led to the custom of the eighth day being set aside as a holy day of the Lord. So you are free in the Lord to worship on Sunday or worship on Saturday. If it works for you and your husband to do Bible study and prayer Friday night, Saturday, great good Sam tell Alyssa and I want to church on Sunday and this is the day I gather with other believers and this is what I like to the church.

The biggest issue is what do these churches really believe about salvation if if he says that you're going to hell if you don't observe the seventh day Sabbath or keep the biblical feast, then he's in real serious error in this deeper concern. If he does not trust Jesus for salvation and feels that you must keep aspects of the law in order to be saved. That is a deeper area of concern and and that's what I would really look at and focus on and pressed to see, does he really know what it means to be saved. Brian dear Dr. Brown just wanted to let you know that you request your request of most believers leaders to condemn such violence, meaning suicide bombing in Manchester and others will get very little news coverage, let alone repeated by the imams and mosques all over the world. Why the so-called Muslims moderate otherwise are too scared to do this. Many know that Islam often Aeschylus was to take out the self-righteous person.

How do you solve that. Well first, I'm one voice and I'm assuming that all imams around the world are going to know what I said repeated, but I do know that there are Muslims and Muslim leaders who read what I write and and perhaps I can be of some influence on them.

That's the goal.

That is the hope. But there are courageous Muslims who do speak out against Muslim extremism, the, the president of Egypt general sissy. He made a major address at Cairo University massive car university in front of probably thousands of Islamic leaders and scholars saying that we needed to reform the religion.

Speaking as a Muslim need to reform the religion and and I was told that he's a devout Muslim and he spoke out loudly and clearly. But yes, it can be scary. Yes, plenty plenty plenty do not speak out for fear of what would happen the way that you fix that is enough people speak out together that they now come with a unified front and thereby isolate those that are trying to take them out and then they combat those that are the extremists yet they hope to say that, but that's how it would happen hey friends at time already, be sure to download the aspect Brown app for your android phone or the line of fire app for your Apple phone for the line of fire with Michael Brown on the app store and enjoy the broadcast 20 4/7 CF, boy do we have some questions to answer.

Today you got questions, we've got answers stage for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH index 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown friends, this is Michael Brownson had to be afforded broadcast of the line of fire. Today I'm going to be answering your email questions so I can hold off on your calls, but I've got some fascinating questions were going to be taking today the real doozies of some very sincere interesting one. Some mocking ones, but I want to get to as many as I can some diving right in. This is an anonymous question about speaking in tongues.

Dear Dr. Brown how can the Christian distinguish between one authentically speak in tongues is a gift from the Holy Spirit were to self-induced speaking in tongues or three falsely speaking in tongues is a demonic deception or through such a thing as falsely speak in tongues through demonic deception, great question and I appreciate it. Let me ask you a broader question in return. How do you know that your truly saved and that it's not just a matter of self-deception or demonic deception. What you might say, will the spirit bears witness with my spirit that I'm a child of God, you might say my life is been dramatically changed from darkness to light and from disobedience to obedience.

You might say that I have a relationship with God and communion with him and there's free from that relationship and when I pray I see many prayers answered and God is my father and those would be valid fruits and valid evidences of the new birth and certainly together make one very sure, but the point is you don't have God coming down from heaven and opening up the scroll incentive. There is your name written right there were the heavens opening up and fire coming down and see you are now a child of God. So we experience it. We believe the promises of God and then we have experience in harmony with the promises of God which gives us encouragement. It's real will. Jesus did tell us specifically in the context of asking for the Holy Spirit.

Luke 11 that if you ask your father for good things, he will give you something bad.

If you and sincerity go to God not looking for a mystical experience of looking for some kind of high.

Dr. Singh oh any spirit out there, come and fill me if you say father. I'm asking you for the fullness of your spirit so I can live for you more fully and glorify you more effectively and and be a more effective witness Lord, fill me afresh with your spirit. Jesus teaches explicitly reading Luke 11 Matthew seven as well, but specifically mentions the Holy Spirit in Luke 11 that if you ask an earthly father for Brady will give you stone if you ask him for a fish, he won't give you a snake so if you asked your heavenly father who's much better than an earthly father for the Holy Spirit. Your I can receive a demon edema so have the power to intercept prayers on the way to God that are prayed sincerely to the father and then come with her counterfeit answer. So that's the first assurance I have.

When I asked the second is as I pray in tongues.

I have the witness of the Holy Spirit in my life I have that same Holy Spirit bearing witness in my life and bearing fruit in my life as I pray extended periods of time in tongues and by the way, I didn't induce it from the start.

I didn't deserve it, or manufacture words until I become fluent type.

I prayed, I felt something rising in me. This is January 4, 1972 I began to give utterance to it began to flow more and more fluently and in my mind could be meditating on various verses and and I'm not saying those verses out I'm praying in tongues. In other words, it is something beyond my own brain operating at that time in a conscious way of making up words, notes the Holy Spirit speaking through me. I see the fruit of that as I pray I see deeper intimacy coming from what I see specific leading from God so I would look at in those ways the witness of the Spirit. The confidence that if we asked the father for Brady won't give us a stone that bears our lives as we pray the spirit. The fact that, contrary.

Another thing is to consciously say words of my praying effectively.

That's how I say.

You can be very calm.

The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown back to this is Michael Brown and yes you can hear the smile my voice my joy to be answering your questions today but I'm only answering email questions, you can hold off on your calls will hopefully take some more calls of extra days next week.

All right here is a question from Jen hello, saw your response about how horrific homosexuality is in the gobble sent to hell. Anyone that practices homosexuality. I'm a heterosexual woman living in Michigan married 18 years, the mother of three children. I need to ask how you choose what you believe in the Bible like you believe the Bible to be in error into the book which ufology followed completely to cut your beard you were mixed fibers just one fabricated time to sacrifice children or animals in your yard you think more weight loss in the Old Testament and the New Testament. If Jesus told you to love your neighbor leave the judgment of others to God you fall that are no drug daughters. Did you sell them a modest interest in your answers, it seems your hatred name-calling, but human beings truly important to God's of the judging others is to send you just think you didn't really mean that one is so interested in your views their fascinating best, Jennifer hate Jennifer. Let me first say that your email was ugly that your your email is insincere and mocking and misrepresents my position and even just takes an old famous letter that was written to Dr. Laura and then remixes it as is your own.

It's is really ugly to do that to write is if you're sincere to misrepresents another person's position and I find it very hateful, actually hateful and judgmental. The very thing that your accusing me of doing is is what you're doing. Just to be candid with you to be straight with you so number one I my position is the same as that of most Jesus and Paul that homosexual practice is sinful that adultery is sinful that sex out of marriage is sinful, that many, many other behaviors are sinful, that lying about people sinful gossiping about people sinful being proud and hypocritical sinful.

Many of the sins I hold to what Scripture plainly says on that and that those who practice these things without repentance be adultery. The drunkenness did murder be.

It's the fornication sleeping together out of wedlock be at unrepentant covetousness and greed. Homosexual practice. They don't inherit the kingdom of heaven. They reject God's mercy.

They live in sin, they don't make it know is good enough to make about God's mercy and if we persist in our sin. We don't make it. That's the first thing second thing I don't choose what I believe the Bible really consistently. God gives certain lost Israel keep them separate from the nations like don't remix fibers for just one fabricated time.

Things like that heat. He never called his people sacrifice children or animals in their yard that's that's an aside, he gave them certain laws to keep them separate from the nations, and then he give them other laws that were universal. You say how can you tell the two apart you can because some he says just for Israel as he gives everybody simmer reiterated New Testament.

Some are not so very easy to see that which applies to everyone. So like the cutting of the beer that was commandment given to ancient Israel and and it also had to do with not following some pagan practices and things like that was in a stylistic issue. Same with mixed fibers of the same with dietary laws. These are primarily to keep Israel separate from the nations. For example, the sacrificial system sacrificing animals in the temple. This was ultimately pointing to Jesus die for our sins. So the purpose of the Old Testament is to get us to the new art it teaches us in itself that gets to the new. Then Jesus gives us the fullness of the story so if I follow the Bible consistently, plainly and in Jesus did tell me to love my neighbor which I do, and he also tells me to rebuke someone I see incident enough.

If you read Leviticus when Moses says love your neighbor as yourself. It's an immediate context of if you see your neighbor doing something wrong or someone sends you should rebuke them white for their good it, in other words, if if you sell your neighbor's kid about to run out in the street a five-year-old boy around the street get a ball that was rolling in the street and you saw a car coming what you do, you scream and yell hey stop stop. It's not your kids but you care about your kid that didn't your neighbor's kid right it in the same way if if you saw your neighbor a stone cold drunk staggering out to their car and they're about to drive and try to throw the kids in the backseat and you think you have thereabouts get into an accident.

You rose hey I think should be confident right now that's what love does you don't judge them in terms of condemned them to hell because of that you don't judge them in terms of what you must be an evil person that's where you're drunk. Who knows what happened in those wider drunk but you out of love, speak the truth to them so I believe the ultimate judgment to God so I just quote Scripture that God says people live a certain way. Don't enter the kingdom of heaven I and then I offered them the same grace in the same mercy to everyone so on the what hatred you're talking about. If you cut me a bleed. Love if if you are my neighbor and you are lesbian woman and you are raising three kids, I'd be the best Navy ever had and actually the most love, probably any human being ever met that that was just a new neighbor to you because I really care about you as a person that I don't believe the two lesbians coming together as marriage in God's sight and I believe it's best for those kids to have a mom and a dab of this not hatred so I want to encourage you to check your own heart right. Check your own heart and examine it because it looks at there's a lot of hatred and judgment to listen in there, but I can help you with that the same Jesus who died to save me when I was a heroin shooting a list using hippie rock drummer in 1971.

The same Jesus who died to save one of my friends who was a violent activist, and in India before becoming a Christian who feeds the poor and cares for the hurting and the dying of the same Jesus who saved my wife Nancy before we even knew each before were married when she was hard cold stone atheist for the caller committed atheist. The same Jesus that died to save homosexuals and heterosexuals. He died for you so I encourage you that that there is new life to be found in him all right is about to go out the number by habit, but I'm only answering your email questions to day. This is from Jeff I posted your recent article urging Pres. Trump to honor his word and with USMC Jerusalem and the question arose unwanted in your writings.

You often use the motif of an open letter to someone on public figure. For example, Donald Trump, Miley Cyrus was rendered to actually send your writing to the person you're dressing. If so, give or find out the person reads what you've written to them.

No debate or moral right or wrong on this, but just curious.

Sure Jeff, thank you for asking. Number one if I have any access to the person I reach out to them first. That's the first thing is if I have access to them. I reach out to them first so many times an open letter never gets written because I reach out to the person first if if I don't have access to them. For example, Pres. Trump or Miley Cyrus. I will post the. The letter, but then I will tweet it to them.

I will get it to them and in that way. Miley Cyrus tweeted to her millions of tweets she gets for this and see himself, but I bet I did that. If I have a way to try to get it to someone that didn't response was all do that when it comes to the president because I know people who are close to him and I know that that some things I've written have been sent to the president once they been written with a red them or not. I don't know.

I always have that hope that he could well read it or that someone on his team or in his family could read it and and again I know that that folks close to have been asked to read some of my things. I know other open letters of red that other leaders have been come to me and said I brought this to so-and-so's attention and I told them they need to read sometimes they do get back to me. Some of gotten back to me with real humility and thanked me some of gotten back and say hey I wish you got to me first and I said sorry I didn't think I had access to you. Let's dialogue now. We've had constructive dialogue so it's it's been very some I've never heard back from reached out repeatedly and never heard back from some now have a relationship with me where anything happens and we immediately talk. Some even come to me and say Dr. Brown or Mike you may hear this, but I want you know it's not accurate or here's the full story or if I see something that looks very ardent boy people saying you need to address this like this is really bad. All right to them first and say hey this is circulating on being asked to address it. What would you like me to say in response. I don't want to miss represent you in some of said hey it's not what it looks like here's the whole story. Others who said yeah I wasn't clear in what I said. So it varies, but thankfully a lot of the stuff does get rid and am writing for further edification as well. I'm writing for the benefit of others who will read it I'm I'm writing. Also, hopefully to set the tone and say here's a good way to confront issues, so even if the individual involve the streets of Miley Cyrus.

I've heard say from parents of kids and the kids are fans of hers and they felt was important communication.

Other Christian leaders of said hey we we want to try to model the way we reach out to those we differ with what you have.

So there's a lot of different motivation in writing them. But again, in short, if I have access to the person I go to them first, and if I don't have access will. Will try to get to them before the open letter and then once it's posted.

I do my best to get it to the person. Sometimes there read sometimes you read back to thankful not happy times your thank God for some really good fruit and as I feel led and prompted life is like that error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution.

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All right, just answering your E questions today. This is from Sonya. She was watching the Facebook model RS Dr. Brown Facebook page and I interacted with some folks there but unable to interact with with a fraction of the people and she she's confused now she saw a post where someone was attacking Pastor Bill Johnson as a false teacher okay and she saw the I responded and said will some of the things you accuse him of being false teachers. The record actually find biblically so now so� I've no idea what to believe. So she is copying this post. She said I don't need to read all of Bill Johnson's books cover to cover. I'm sure that you have because of your hearty endorsement of him actually Bill Johnson is a is a brother in the Lord. He is a friend not a close friend of we've done some ministry here and there in the same conferences or meetings together, but we haven't spent a lot of time together, but I have folks that have been part of his church for years. Some grass for school have been on staff in the church for years and he is a brother in the Lord sure to agree with everything. Bethel teaches but he's a brother in the Lord. So I've never endorsed one of his books or anything like that had him on the radio.

We had a great talk by our recent issues to him of accusations of come here and there's a deer that was taught. It's wrong should have been taught or no. That's false.

We don't do that. He was candid, I open up the phones for anyone to call with criticism of knowing no one called or took advantage of that that they semi-get blamed for it, but he felt that they criticize didn't call to criticize him that day, but the woman that posted this responses is quite negative and she says once had established it is a false teacher by his own words studied in the light of the authoritative inherent sufficiency of Scripture was necessary to search much further. Instead of waiting for him to repent and believe in Jesus Christ. He does not need to repent and believe in Jesus Christ as a believer in it, and if the only way the dream to be able to listen to this broadcast or read my books on answering Jewish objections to Jesus or be helped by my articles of all cultural issues is the only way you're going to be able to do that is if I damned to hell brother in the Lord's a false teacher well you listen to the wrong show okay and you need to search deeply your own heart friend. Look, there are people I work with that have all kinds of differences with with their brothers and sisters in the Lord and we work together for the larger common good. Look, I've dear friends that their cessation as they don't believe in the gas and power. The spirit for today have dear friends or Calvinists I have. I have friends that are post-millennial side of friends that are millennialist our friends at her dispensational pretrip. We have many different beliefs on many things, but we are united together in Jesus, so when you sings repent, believe in Jesus, you're wrong.

Your wrong number. I can tell you you need to repent, believe in Jesus, I would be committing the same error that your committee I saw you on time at the woman that posted this. So for example, she finds Bill Johnson to be exposed from his own words quote Jesus had no ability to heal the sick, you can cast out devils. He had no ability to raise the dead, and set himself in John 519, the son can do nothing of himself. He had set aside his divinity. He did miracles is a man in right relationship to God because he was setting forth a bottle for something for us to follow if he did miracles, his goblet will be extremely impressed that we have no compulsion to emulate what we see that cause commissioners to do a Jesus did more than we realize that he put self-imposed restrictions on himself to show us that we could do to Jesus so emptied himself that he was incapable of doing what was required of him by the fall about the father's help or that may select an extreme statement to but Jesus said he did the miracles he did by the power of the Holy Spirit. In other words, that part of his self-imposed limiting was not to do miracles as God, but rather to do miracles by the power of the spirit.

Now he did them without measure eludes the spirit was on him without measure. We don't have the spirit on us individually without measure.

We will not do all that he did. Bill Johnson would be the first to say that there was an exceptional demonstration of the miraculous. Through Jesus to draw our attention to him as the Messiah is owed. No question about that. But Jesus said that he drove out demons by the spirit that that when he gave his inaugural speech in Luke four he said the spirit had anointed him to preach to heal the sick. There's no evidence that he healed anyone before that time.

So just like as Almighty God. He knew everything to the self-imposed limitations on himself. He learned to walk and talking fake that somebody could speak a trillion languages when he was born. Instead he went to Cuba, but when he was a few months old old hat was because of self-imposed limitations so there are scholars who believe the same thing that Jesus did the miracles he did by the power of the Holy Spirit and not by his own deity. This woman announces Bill Johnson as unsaved or false teacher and hell bound heretic because he teaches what many of us teach based on Scripture. Here's another example of Christ is not Jesus last name course correct squirting Bill Johnson. The word Christ means anointed one, Messiah, Christ is a title that points to experience was not sufficient that Jesus be sent from heaven to earth with a title yet to receive the anointing and experience to accomplish with the father desired. What's the argument about that. He was anointed by the spirit for the task.

Hence, he is the anointed one, the Messiah of the word anointing Bill Johnson is means to smear the Holy Spirit is the oil of God, it was smeared all over Jesus that is water baptism.

The name Jesus Christ implies that Jesus is the one smeared with the Holy Spirit.

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit also needed to happen to Jesus for him to be fully qualified. This was his quest receiving this anointing qualified him to be called the Christ, which means anointed one anointed one that experienced anointing there can be no title yet I don't necessarily think it that there's an implication of smeared as is the issue. Although you could argue that's that's tied it in with the word but for sure. He's called the anointed one, because he was anointed the spirit of the Lord is upon that's what's written in Luke accident. Isaiah the 11th chapter, the spirit of the Lord was on him, so wanted to use these quotes as examples as examples that Bill Johnson is a full heretic is housebound. That is, as long as differ with some of his that's a false teaching in a help in a radical way. That's a difference we have about how it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 866343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome the line of fire is Friday brought you got questions, we've got answers, but for you dial that number on answering email questions today so we will get extra calls gobbling next week on the broadcast. So everyone that wants to try to call and can give it their best shot, but right now I am answering email questions and someone is asked this question, is this a false statement someone teaching. This does this make them a false teacher, Jesus made a frightening statement regarding those who hold to Bible study versus experience. You search the Scriptures for then you think you have eternal life, and these are they which testify of me. If our study of the Bible doesn't lead us to a deeper relationship an encounter with God that is simply adding to our tendency toward spiritual pride we increase our knowledge of the Bible to feel good about our standing with God and to better equip us to argue with those that disagree with us in a group wanted to defend the doctrine is prone to this temptation without a God encounter Jesus did not say my sheep among my book is his voice that we are to know someone posted this on Facebook as a quote removal Johnson book is evidence that Pastor Bill Johnson was a heretic will I don't find that statement heretical at all is not denying the authority of Scripture. He's not downplaying the importance of study of Scripture he sang Scripture that doesn't lead us to a deeper relationship with the Lord or study of Scripture that doesn't lead us to a deeper relationship to the Lord with the Lord is missing something if all I'm doing is learning doctrine so I can argue with you and prove your point is wrong. If on doing is filling my head with knowledge and information and it doesn't lead me to a deeper relationship with God. Then something is wrong. There again when the point is Bible study versus experience and say why make that distinction. We are reading God's word to growing God to know him better to understand what he requires of us to understand who he is, so we can believe things about him better and that will lead to a deeper relationship with God. Didn't Jesus say this is eternal life. John 17 three that made they may know you the only true God and Jesus the Messiah, whom you sent so eternal life consists in knowing God and knowing his son. So again I find nothing heretical in that regard, I find nothing heretical in saying that proper Bible study leads to a deeper experience in God. Proper Bible study leads to greater intimacy with God. Proper Bible study leads to deeper obedience and God. If it doesn't lead to Jesus and point to Jesus, then there's something wrong with it. I agree.

I had a season in my life the late 70s early 80s when I got out of college and I was in grad school and my prayer life was down and and I was busy with school and newly married with a new family and and I was so caught up with study. I love studying the language is so much and and and I was digging in learning read the Bible in Hebrew and learning some Greek and learning other ancient languages that that honestly, even though I was studying Scripture. I wasn't studying it to growing God as much as I was studying it to learn the languages of the Bible better and end yeah me and I was on some level. Look at what I was reading from a spiritual point of view, but it was more head knowledge and language information. Then it was divine truth penetrating my heart and my soul and that's that's the point that Pastor Johnson was making so you may disagree with other points is made or practices of his church.

And that's a whole other discussion, but I find it shocking that someone will post that quote evidence say to me this is proof that he's not say that he needs to repent and believe in what kind of relationship or person is most of them method and not say no that they're saving relationship with God. That's with Bill Johnson saying that's what the word helps the new member in the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown Selectric tuning in today on the line fire Michael Brown nope nope nope don't give out the number just talking to myself. I am answering your email questions today so we get to more calls hopefully next week but today just tackling some of these email questions that have come in all right. Let's see here. This is from Michelle hi Dr. Brown, my husband and I love listening to the line of fire. Thank you for this ministry really help me get a better understanding of how I should interpret the cultural climate around these Christian woman I've heard you talk on your show about many new stories related to professionals in the wedding industry refused to perform services, food, flowers etc. for gay weddings.

I'm a stay-at-home mom. I work part-time from home as a freelance editor. I typically work in casual blocks. All articles for number of different companies.

I recently was a sign with a title like this. Best practices for LGBT friendly marketing. The article gives tips to small business owners how to be inclusive and inoffensive to the LGB community and their marketing strategy and promote strategy strategy and promo materials. My question for you is where I draw the line refused to edit any LGBT related article must agree with the angle or should I edit articles that portray neutral tone draw line when I feel like an article asking to celebrate the LGBT lifestyle or honor God with any work I put my hand to assure appreciate any advice guidelines or principles you can share I'm sure not the only one.

Find yourself in moral dilemmas in the workplace. Hey Michelle, thanks for the kind words. I'm so glad that broadcast in our materials are a blessing to you and your husband and ultimately you have to make a decision before God terms of can you do this in faith or not. What you do want to do for sure is is count the cost and determined to obey the Lord no matter what.

In other words, you don't want.

Fear of losing income or fear of losing other references, or fear of losing a job to influence you at all.

You only want to be influenced by what's right and honoring in the sight of the Lord.

So I trust by your tone that your fine with with taking a loss or even getting blackballed if it's out of honor for the Lord but but you and your husband. You just be sure that that is the attitude that there's nothing hanging over you that skewing your thinking at all, for fear of doing what is right now if if this was me I I'm thinking this through, as as I answer you if this was me on communion with the Lord. Father will honor you all want to serve everyone. Can I do this I couldn't do this because it ties directly in with gay activism. In other words, it is part of a larger strategy to say use certain language terms mindsets concepts that will reach a particular audience that you might say but but look every year of your marketing to different people and and if you come to the conclusion that's fine. And, in other words, how do we market to the Asian-American community how we market the Hispanic American committee of the Asian-American committee or how do we market to the upper class of the middle class. The lower classes and that's all it is and and how do we market to conservative Christians and how we market to LGBT community.

In that sense okay whatever. It's just different people that they're trying to reach in and that's all you have to decide what is the product itself immoral as the company itself tomorrow if not then than five, but my problem here again you have to weigh this for yourself is that this ties in with the larger activist agenda. This ties in with the larger activist agenda that excludes believers that that is often prejudicial against and discriminatory towards people of faith and conservative moral values. It is part of a larger complex. This whole strategy.

That is what would concern me the same language of inclusivity for gays and lesbians is the language of exclusivity for those who differ with them and that's where I would say okay am I in any way part of this larger activist movement and and look at as any freelancer you take certain jobs and you don't take others right and that's going to be with any number of people that sorry can't do this long, but again you need to think through.

Make sure that you're ready to suffer the consequences if they come that way and you have to come to your own conclusion before God. You may come to a different conclusion of what I'm suggesting but my guideline would basically be if doing this either endorses something I differ with or contributes to something I differ with on a deep moral level, the naturally have to draw the line. Otherwise, if you can serve gays and lesbians like everybody else.

You gladly do that right Jerry. My understanding is regarded Christopher JH Wright of Cambridge, should I be cautious regarding his writing on Israel. In general, I read on Google. It is coming from replacement theology perspective instead of what I have studied in your teaching on Israel's future. Thank you so much for all you do in support of Israel and their destiny a Christopher Wright is is a fine biblical scholar, a fine Old Testament scholar with great great contributions in a number of important areas and I encourage you to take advantage of that. Yes he does hold to replacement theology and that he does not see for example the modern state of Israel as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy or the ancient national prophecies to Israel being played out today and I was reading a fine book of his on the Old Testament and the God of the Old Testament and then come to my surprise in the midst of it. He just spoke out against modern Israel today. I really see where it fit.

There is apparently a logical connection in his own thinking. I didn't see it but I do highly recommend the book just about there was little thing on his right.

I differ with and other books he's written. If I'm correct missions related books Old Testament admission and things like that. I I would be enriched by what he writes and I would appreciate his scholarship and his zeal for the Lord in the word of God and just recognize that he may make some statements here and there on Israel that that you would differ with all right, a Tammy Dr. Brown to covenant theology is something I haven't heard discussed on your show. I know some people who stubbornly hold to this and teach this to others. I feel according to Scripture's doctrine of demons in such a general heresy that we should not fellowship with those who refuse to repent of this I think you really have to deny most of the New Testament to believe in this survey have to deny the words of Christ, so that no man can come to the father except through him semi-right about this being a doctrine of demons according to first Timothy four and first with six of the command withdraw from them.

Thanks much for your ministry Tammy I appreciate you being so zealous about this and if you missed it because you wrote this email. Prior to this, but if you missed it on the Thursday, May 25 broadcast David Brickner I address that doctrine directly and then a caller called in with it and I dressed it further. So in the first hour of the Thursday show to follow the line of fire.org the first hour of the Thursday show.

May 25. We address it in depth definitively say that you must deny Jesus as the Messiah. To say that Jewish people have a separate covenant with God and can be saved without him.

So I wholeheartedly rejected and that since this a doctrine of demons in that it takes away incentive to share the gospel with the Jewish people. It says that they, unlike everyone else on the planet, for whom Jesus died has another way to God.

It says that somehow they have mercy outside of the cross. It says that the words of Jesus in the words of the entire New Testament off also absolutely a serious error.

As for fellow shipping with those who hold to that, if the person is a genuine believer but is in error. There than I would fellowship with them with the hope of getting them to see the truth.

There there. It is not that they are say practically living in adultery and refuse to repent. After break fellowship with them or or their committing serious violations of God's word in their practice and they refuse to to break away from that. Or they have denied fundamentals of saving faith for themselves.

But this is a serious error and obviously if this was a major issue to that person. It would be difficult for me to have quality fellowship with them. If this was major today because it's major to me if it was tough.

They just held to on the side. Then I would I would fellowship with them and do my best. As the door was open to communicate truth with them. So, again, for those not covered conversant with dual covenant theology. It it says that Jewish people have the Sinai covenant.

They have the tour they have the law of God. They have the Old Testament they have their traditions that are God's chosen people and if they're faithful through traditions and follow God's total raw and repent of sin and asking for mercy. Then they will be saved outside of the cross familiar scratch your head same house they would be saved us of the cross.

Of course not only so, Jesus did say to a Jewish audience that he is the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father but through him, and Peter said to a Jewish audience that there is no other name under heaven by which we may be saved and Paul reiterated that the gospel is to the Jew first and also to Gentile and on and on it goes.

If Jesus is not the Messiah of Israel. He's the Savior of no one you cannot say Jesus is for the Gentiles, only that violates his whole mission who he is and violates of the foundation of why he came into this world to save his people from their sins of his people can be saved from their sins. Outside of the cross, then everyone can be saved outside costs if side is safe, but we got time for a few more questions that Portland's way of your check out my latest articles and videos and ask Dr. Brown gives the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH dear Jim is Dr. Michael Brown back to the line of fire taking questions today are Friday breakfast question. We've got answers. We do my best to get to as many as I can. Ruth Dr. Brown after reading a Facebook conversation with yours about false teachers are like to ask you if you've read the book the physics of heaven. Both Bill and Betty Johnson contributors along with the Bethel Reading this book is a long way in providing evidence that much false teaching is correct that ministry here is just one quote Jonathan Welton by the way I disagree strongly. Jonathan Lachman, Israel eschatology invited them to come on my show and discuss the issues and he declined in the book the physics of heaven.

Ruth quotes Jonathan Wallace saying this I found throughout Scripture the 75 examples of things that the New Age is counterfeited, such as having a spirit guide trance meditation are as power objects, clairvoyance, clear audience more these actually belong to the church with a been stolen.

Clearly repackage okay on the surface of that that's that's a very disturbing quote absolutely disturbing quote. I have the book I started reading it I didn't have time to get into more so I can't comment on it and if there's stuff in there that's wacky I'll say it is the stuff that comes out of Bethel that's wacky I'll say okay it's the start of your no hesitation with that is why is Bill Johnson plainly do believe in this you hold to this no Jubilee miss no seminar staff set up.

It was wrong we don't talk like that. Now you believe this know some people did it but we renounced it, fine art, and other things if they come up Wyoming sprays them. I got no problem with that.

So yeah, this statement as I read it is wacky and and a bizarre however if what he's saying is that these are all New Age counterfeits of Biblical experiences that is not as wacky as it sounds.

In other words, if you say that the New Age has practices like spirit guides trance meditation are as power objects of lines clear audience, etc. all of these supernatural things and this is demonic counterfeiting of real spiritual experiences like having and the angel of the Lord with us. All right. And and New Age calls having a spirit guide being led by the Holy Spirit, New Age calls of the spirit guide or the Holy Spirit reveals things to us in the New Age counterfeits it with clairvoyance or things like that. Then yeah I would agree that the demonic realm is counterfeiting the true that the Holy Spirit speaks to us prophetically.

The Holy Spirit reveals things to us. The angel of the Lord to go with us always are certain times and and and New Age is counterfeiting those things.

So if that's what he saying that these are all the counterfeits right trance meditation wears in the Bible. People are trance people to transfer since that Oreo meditation in the demonic way as opposed to meditating on truths of God having our minds renewed, then the statement is not wacky so it depends on what he means by that right clairvoyance, things like that. Yeah, clear audience. Not exactly sure what that means but if you say these are the demonic counterfeits of the real gifts and power of the spirit, then yeah I agree there's a lot of demonic counterfeiting of the real things of the spirit yeah and and he lists those things that would be wacky okay so I have to read the whole thing to see exactly with what he saying there Alain. My husband joined the church several years ago called the Church of God, there's the United Church of God living Church of God, etc. all a break offs of the worldwide Church of God established by Herbert Armstrong while my husband disagree with everything the church believes he does focus on the Sabbath and the holy days sees me as requirements as a source of strain our marriage. The fact that I go to church on Sunday and on the real Sabbath. He says it is documented that the Catholic Church is the one you change the Sabbath to Sunday not God. With that said he system so that arthritis on that onset of the must be observed for God Bible reading services, etc. you know of any biblical reason that the Sabbath was change. Thank you you Alain. This is definitely tough and and does cause tension in marriage. Obviously, for obvious reasons. But no, your husband is right and that nowhere in the Bible was the Sabbath changed to Sunday. He's right in that regard. However, the Sabbath commandment is not given as mandatory to the whole church. The seventh day Sabbath command was not given to Gentile believers anywhere in the New Testament. And Paul even warned in Colossians 2 about people putting you under pressure to keep 1/7 day Sabbath, or to celebrate the the biblical calendar to be under pressure to do that is a sign of spirituality and identified these things is a shadow so the substance was found in Christ. So your husband's right that it wasn't until mother on the fourth century where the church said officially that the Sabbath had been changed to Sunday, but it's pretty clear that Gentile believers from early on and maybe it usually was as well. Rose early on Sunday morning to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus are celebrated later in the day and that led to the custom of the eighth day being set aside as a holy day of the Lord. So you are free in the Lord to worship on Sunday or to worship on Saturday. If it works for you and your husband to do Bible study and prayer Friday night, Saturday, great good Sam tell Alyssa and I want for church on Sunday and this is the day I gather with other believers and this is what I like in the church.

The biggest issue is what do these churches really believe about salvation if if he says that you're going to hell if you don't observe the seventh day Sabbath or keep the biblical feast, then he's in real serious error in this deeper concern.

If he does not trust Jesus for salvation and feels that you must keep aspects of the law and order to be saved. That is a deeper area of concern and and that's what I would really look at and focus on and pressed to see, does he really know what it means to be saved. Brian dear Dr. Brown just wanted to let you know that you request your request of most Alibris leaders to condemn such violence, meaning suicide bombing in Manchester and others will get very little news coverage, let alone repeated by the imams and mosques all over the world. Why the so-called Muslims moderate outdoors and too scared to do this. Many know that Islam often. Aeschylus wants to take out the self-righteous person.

How do you solve that.

Well first, I'm one voice and I'm assuming that all imams around the world are going to know what I said and repeated what I do know that there Muslims and Muslim leaders who read what I write and and perhaps I can be of some influence on them.

That's the goal. That is the hope. But there are courageous Muslims who do speak out against Muslim extremism, the, the president of Egypt. General CC.

He made a major address at Cairo University massacre University in front of probably thousands of Islamic leaders and scholars saying that we needed to reform the religion. Speaking as a Muslim need to reform the religion and and I was told that he's a devout Muslim and he spoke out loudly and clearly.

But yes, it can be scary. Yes, plenty plenty plenty do not speak out for fear of what would happen the way that you fix that is enough people speak out together that they now come with a unified front and thereby isolate those that are trying to take them out and then they combat those that are the extremist yet big hope to say that, but that's how it would happen hey friends at a time already, be sure to download the Esther Brown app for your android phone or the line of fire app for your Apple phone for the line of fire with Michael Brown on the app store and enjoy the broadcast 20 4/7 CF,