MS Top 6 Season 3 #12

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We've compiled this week's best, Matt Slick's Top Six. What I believe is to be a soft error. It just leads to more errors. The idea of two raptures is just unbiblical. It's not true. It's just not there. It's only one.

Number five. Sometimes I hear some preacher say, well, if you don't confess your sins, when you commit a sin, you'll die in your sins and you go to hell. Yeah. The theological term for that is abject stupidity, idiocy, stupidity, lameness. Yeah, if you don't confess every sin, then you die without confessing it, you go to hell. In other words, your salvation is dependent on how good you are and how you confess everything. Well, what if you don't remember all your sins? What if you go to confess a sin and you kind of forget about it? You just forget and then you don't confess it. Oh, I'm sorry. Got to go to hell now. They're amateur theologians who should not be allowed to preach or teach.

Number four. I keep hearing from a couple of teachers that Christ came back in 70 AD. Why would they preach that? They want to say that Jesus returned in the armies of Rome to destroy Jerusalem.

It's called full preterism or just regular preterism. But here's the thing that refutes it. Absolutely refutes it. This is what Acts 1, 9 through 11. This is what Jesus ascended into heaven.

Okay. He ascended into heaven. There it is. And after he said these things, he was lifted up while they, the disciples, were looking on and a cloud received him out of their sight. So what I'm going to conclude is that he was lifted up. They were looking on and a cloud received him.

Behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. And they said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come in just the same way as you have watched him go into heaven. That's how he's going to come back.

Number three. What is the spirit of Elijah? Oh, the spirit of Elijah is the style, motive and stuff that Elijah was. And it was reflected in John the Baptist. Remember, Elijah had a camel's hair mantle and so did John the Baptist. He wears camel's hair.

So, in order to have had access to the temple, work in the temple, it's possible that maybe Elijah's cloak of camel's hair was preserved in there and it was acquired by John the Baptist. Well, that's nothing more than conjecture based on a couple possibilities or some things that are true, but we don't know if it really happened. And that's what's going on. He was authoritative. He spoke.

He had that mantle. And so that's why it was prophesied he'll come later. And it's not reincarnation stuff. That's what's going on. The spirit of Elijah.

Number two. No problem with drugs, no problem with booze, but the ladies were there again. And I went right back to doing what I was doing before. What I'm concerned about is would Jesus still forgive me?

I repented to that and it's been about four years and I've been straightened out pretty good. But I'm really concerned that I screwed up. Oh, you did. You completely screwed up royally. Yeah.

Absolutely. Oh, yeah. You're lucky God didn't kill you. But he forgave you. Because the funny thing is, man, he saved you knowing everything about you.

He didn't pick you because of some good thing in you, but because of some good thing in him. He knew what you were going to be. And he loves you and he saved you. He knew you were going to stray. And he let you. Now you've repented yet again. And nothing but his mercy has walked with you. I'm not going back down that way again. Good.

You better not. Because you know better and you can't. Because the Bible talks about people who do that and God takes them out. And it's to protect them and it's actually to help them.

Number one. So I'm just letting you know, that's a serious thing. You go to First Corinthians five for that. That's where it's documented in the scriptures.

But you know what? Hey, brother, you're cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ. And how many of us have repetitive sins and still dabble in those things? There are different levels of sin, of course, but we all have those things we struggle with. Some of us who we've got things we've gotten rid of.

Hey, no problem. And there's some of the things that we have to deal with that they're like a chain dragging behind us. And we hear it when we walk through our spiritual life. We know it's there sometimes.

Sometimes it makes more noise when it's rocky and we turn to it sometimes. But God loves us. Not that it's OK. But you got to understand, he loves you. Goodbye, goodbye. It's time to go. Say goodbye.

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