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00:02 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:05 Join us now for Today special program. 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:34 Lord, let my words 00:39 Heal a heart that hurts 00:44 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:01 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Today 01:16 and today is 3ABN Today Q and A 01:19 Bible questions that we received from you 01:23 and we are going to ask these questions to our panel, 01:26 the family of 3ABN, 01:27 and we have Sister Shelley Quinn 01:29 with us today. 01:30 Welcome. Well, it's good to be here. 01:32 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 01:34 Pastor Ryan Day. 01:36 I'm here and accounted for. 01:37 Here and accounted for. Praise the Lord. 01:39 And Pastor Lomacang. 01:40 Always good to be on the Bible answered program. 01:42 Praise God for that. 01:44 Amen. Amen. 01:45 And so we have received your questions, 01:48 and they are ready to be presented to our panel. 01:52 And before we do that, since this is a Bible Q and A, 01:55 we go to the Lord in prayer because we depend on Him 01:58 to bless us with the answers. 02:00 And so we also encourage you to join us in prayer 02:04 so that your mind will be receptive 02:06 to God's Word. 02:07 So let's go to the Lord in prayer. 02:09 I ask Sister Shelley Quinn to pray for us. 02:10 Absolutely. 02:12 Our loving Heavenly Father, 02:14 we pause again today 02:15 to come before You in the name of Jesus. 02:18 Lord, we need Your Holy Spirit. 02:21 We are mere mortal men and we need your leading, 02:26 we pray in the name of Jesus 02:28 that these questions we pondered over Lord 02:32 with this already sought You for the answer. 02:35 Help us to deliver it in such a way 02:39 with Your anointing that it makes perfect sense. 02:43 And, Lord, may you get all the glory. 02:46 We thank You for our precious viewers. 02:49 We thank You, Lord, 02:50 that they are entrusting us with these questions. 02:54 Please entrust us now with the answer in Jesus' name. 02:57 Amen. 02:59 Amen. Amen. 03:00 Well, I want to let you know something right off hand that 03:04 we try to answer as many questions as possible 03:06 during this hour. 03:08 And I can assure you 03:10 that each one of them could spend more time 03:13 on each question, 03:14 but because we're trying to get 03:16 as many questions in as possible 03:18 there's well, we try to limit the answers 03:20 to something concise and precise. 03:22 So please understand this. 03:23 Let me tell you 03:25 how you can participate in this program 03:26 because many of you already have done so. 03:28 You can send an email to Bible Q and A. 03:32 That is BibleQA... 03:34 BibleQA@3abn.org. 03:37 BibleQA@3abn.org. 03:41 If you prefer to text, 03:42 we have a number just for that 03:44 a (618) 228-3975, 03:48 (618) 228-3975. 03:51 I will repeat (618) 228-3975 03:55 and that will get your text to us 03:57 here at 3ABN 03:59 and, of course, 04:01 you can use that also for prayer requests 04:02 and we appreciate your prayer request as well. 04:04 We have a pastoral team that prays for your request. 04:08 We have already prayed 04:09 and we are ready to ask the questions. 04:11 The first one goes to Pastor John Lomacang. 04:14 Romans 6:14 says, 04:18 "For sin shall not have dominion over you, 04:22 for you are not under law but under grace. 04:25 What law is this verse referring to? 04:29 Is it referring to the Ten Commandments 04:31 or the ceremonial laws? 04:33 Also, what does the phrase not under the law mean?" 04:38 This is from Julie from South Dakota. 04:41 Okay, great. 04:42 That's Romans 6-14. 04:43 And when you read the context of that 04:45 Paul is not referring to any law in particular, 04:47 he's referring to law as a principle. 04:50 And let me give you an understanding 04:51 of exactly what that means. 04:53 If and I want you to hear me carefully. 04:57 If the law, if the power of sin can make you sin. 05:02 I'm gonna slowdown and say that again, 05:04 if sin can make you sin, it has dominion over you, 05:09 but it cannot make you sin. 05:11 We are, first it starts with a temptation 05:13 and then we yield. 05:15 Let me walk you through the steps. 05:16 So when it says, 05:18 for sin shall not have dominion over you, 05:20 Paul is talking about the principle of the power 05:23 of what sin does. 05:24 Here's the example of that, Romans 6-16. 05:27 Sin does not have dominion over you 05:29 until you yield. 05:31 Here's Romans 6:16, 05:32 "Do you not know that 05:34 whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, 05:37 you are that one's slave whom you obey, 05:40 whether of sin leading to death 05:41 or of obedience leading to righteousness." 05:43 The King James Version uses the phrase yield. 05:46 When you yield, 05:47 you discover, wait a minute, 05:49 I'm no longer in control, 05:50 because one leads to righteousness, 05:52 the other one leads to death. 05:53 The evidence of that is Romans 7:17. 05:57 But now, it is no longer I who do it, 05:59 but sin that dwells in me." 06:01 Paul is saying, 06:02 "Wait a minute, sin is now in control. 06:04 What I want to do, I can't do, 06:05 what I don't want to do, that's exactly what I'm doing." 06:09 That is the dominion over you. 06:11 The power of the power that you have yielded yourself to 06:15 that is now in control. 06:17 Let's go further. 06:18 The second parts of that, 06:19 for you are not under law, but under grace. 06:21 It means that we gain salvation, 06:23 we do not gain salvation legalistically, 06:27 we gain salvation by God's grace. 06:30 We don't gain salvation by measuring up to a law. 06:33 Salvation is solely on the basis of God's grace. 06:37 Salvation is not a legal transaction 06:39 on our part, 06:41 but a legal transaction on the part of Jesus. 06:43 He paid the price, the legal requirement, 06:46 the wages of sin is death. 06:48 And then he extends to a salvation by grace. 06:51 That's why it says, 06:52 law can either save you 06:54 and law cannot cause you to sin. 06:57 When you yield, it has dominion, 07:00 Christ breaks that dominion and then extends to us grace, 07:03 that's when we are no longer under that law, 07:06 the power to make us do what we want to do 07:08 what we don't want to do. 07:09 But we're under the grace of Christ 07:11 that now works his will through us and in us. 07:14 Hope that was clear to you. 07:15 Paul says clearly in Romans 3:24, 07:18 "Being justified freely by His grace 07:21 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." 07:24 That's a free gift, 07:25 not a legal transaction on our part. 07:27 Praise the Lord. 07:29 This is one of that... 07:30 Romans 6:14 read like this, 07:33 "For sin shall not have dominion over you," 07:34 that's powerful, 07:36 and we should understand that and embrace that. 07:38 Let's go to Sister Shelley Quinn. 07:40 This is another question that has come in. 07:42 We do not have a person's name or where it came from. 07:46 We want to encourage you to send that in as well. 07:49 So they can help us as we do this program. 07:53 Here's the question. 07:54 "Did Jesus lose His omnipresence for eternity? 07:59 Or did He get it back after His resurrection? 08:03 Can you please share where you find your answers?" 08:06 Absolutely. 08:08 In Philippians 2:5-8, 08:09 the Bible says that Jesus emptied Himself. 08:12 God emptied Himself of His glory 08:15 of His divine prerogatives, 08:17 He took on the flesh of mankind. 08:19 And when He took on that flesh, 08:21 He was physically limited to be one place at one time. 08:26 He was resurrected in that flesh, 08:29 Luke 24:36-39 said after his resurrection, 08:34 he showed his, the nail wounds in His hands and His feet 08:38 and He told His disciples, 08:41 a spirit doesn't have flesh and blood 08:44 like flesh and bone says I have. 08:47 He walked the earth for 40 days after His resurrection, 08:51 and He ascended to heaven in that glorified place. 08:55 Acts 1:11 says, 08:56 "This same Jesus 08:58 who was taken up from you into heaven 09:00 will so come in like manner as you have seen him 09:05 go into heaven." 09:08 I love what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:45. 09:10 Jesus is the last Adam. 09:13 He is the new representative of humankind, 09:15 and He is at the right hand of the Father. 09:18 He is our high priest it says. 09:20 Hebrews 4:15 says, that can sympathize with us. 09:24 But Jesus said in John 16:7 to His disciples, 09:28 it's to your advantage that I go away 09:30 because if I do, if I don't, 09:33 he said, the helper can't come to you, 09:34 but if I do, I'll send the Holy Spirit. 09:37 Why was it to their advantage? 09:41 So that Jesus could be present in their heart 09:43 through the Holy Spirit. 09:45 In Ephesians 3:16-17, Paul says, 09:50 be strengthened with might 09:51 through the Spirit in the inner man, 09:53 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. 09:57 "Jesus' omnipresence 09:59 is achieved through the Holy Spirit 10:02 who is one with him. 10:05 But the Holy Spirit is now in all. 10:08 Thank you. Praise the Lord. 10:10 Well, here's the question I cannot give to Shelley 10:14 nor Pastor Lomacang 10:15 because it is addressed specifically to Pastor Ryan. 10:18 So it says here, 10:19 "In a previous episode, 10:21 you only read one Bible text in Genesis 10:24 concerning gay marriage, 10:26 which was about a man cleaving to his wife. 10:30 Gay men and women call their other partner, 10:33 husband or wife. 10:34 Can you please read 10:36 some of those more direct emphatic scriptures 10:38 that you referenced." 10:40 This is from Marianne? 10:41 Yeah, absolutely, I appreciate this question. 10:43 And I appreciate the opportunity 10:45 to be able to clarify, 10:46 because if I remember correctly, 10:47 that particular question that was given to me 10:49 was the second question asked in the very first episode, 10:53 and it was my very first question. 10:55 And we were trying to stick within 10:56 that two minute time frame, 10:58 and I let time get away from me 10:59 and didn't get to read more text. 11:01 But I do want to be very clear that the Bible makes it clear. 11:04 In fact, let me just make this clear, clear 11:06 that God is very much very clear in His Word 11:11 that He stands strongly 11:12 against the practice of homosexuality, 11:15 it was not in His plan. 11:17 It's very clear that 11:18 God condemns that particular lifestyle. 11:21 And He makes it very clear that 11:22 that marriage between and relations 11:24 should only occur 11:26 between a married man and a married woman. 11:28 Very, very clear on that. 11:29 Now, where do we get this from? 11:31 We read a couple of texts here. 11:32 I referenced these texts in the first episode, 11:34 but I want to read them at this point. 11:36 Leviticus 18:22. 11:39 Notice what the Bible says. 11:40 It says, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, " 11:44 speaking to the males. 11:45 Of course, this was instruction 11:46 given to Levitical priesthood as well 11:48 as the children of Israel. 11:49 It goes on to say, 11:51 "It is an abomination. 11:52 So a man to lie with the man, 11:53 God says, it's an abomination." 11:55 I'm not going to have that, right? 11:56 Leviticus 20:13, says, 11:58 "If a man lies with a male, as he lies with a woman, 12:01 both of them have committed an abomination, 12:05 they shall surely be put to death, 12:07 their blood shall be upon them." 12:09 So this was something 12:10 that was so strong 12:12 within the Lord's understanding of His mentality, 12:14 His feelings, His attitude towards these practices, 12:17 He says, it's worthy to be put to death. 12:19 And He instructed this, 12:20 so during the time of the children of Israel 12:22 under Moses' leadership, 12:25 but the one that I think is 12:26 even more clear in the New Testament. 12:28 I'm going to read from Romans 1:24-32. 12:32 And the Bible goes on to say, it says, 12:33 "For this reason, 12:35 God gave them up to vile passions." 12:36 Talking about the, 12:38 those, the unrighteous of those particular days. 12:40 It says, "For even their women exchanged the natural use 12:43 for what is against nature," 12:45 okay? 12:46 "Likewise also the men, 12:48 leaving the natural use of the woman, 12:50 burned in their lust for one another." 12:52 So he's not talking about this in a positive context. 12:54 He goes on to say, 12:56 "Men and men committing what is shameful, 12:58 and receiving in themselves 13:00 the penalty of their error which was due." 13:03 And then he goes on to list all of these different sins 13:05 that will not inherit the kingdom of God. 13:07 And among those, of course, is sexual immorality 13:10 and, of course, the practice of homosexuality. 13:13 The Bible is very, very, very clear. 13:15 And we need to be very clear on that. 13:17 Well, we also have to be careful also, though, 13:19 and I just want to say this, 13:20 and take the extra time to make this clear. 13:22 Many times we can have such a passion 13:24 against these certain sins, 13:26 especially if we don't suffer from them ourselves, 13:29 that we want to make it clear, 13:30 let the world know that these things are horrible, 13:32 and they were wrong. 13:33 But you know, I actually have friends 13:36 that have suffered from this homosexual lifestyle. 13:38 And if you talk to them about this, 13:40 they'll be glad to admit and they have admitted, 13:42 yes, the Bible is clearly against it. 13:44 It's not the Lord's will, 13:45 but they often feel as if they are attacked, 13:48 because it seems like 13:49 sometimes people want to uplift 13:51 and make homosexuality a horrible, horrible sin 13:54 above any other type of sin. 13:56 And we need to make sure that sin is sin, right? 13:58 It doesn't matter if it's homosexuality, 14:00 if it's thieving, if it's lying, 14:02 if it's murdering, 14:03 sin is sin, we should call sin by its name, 14:05 and not make any type of, 14:07 you know, worst case scenario out of it. 14:09 We should call it by its name, 14:10 say exactly what it says in the Bible. 14:12 Homosexuality is a sin. 14:14 And so are many other things as well. 14:16 Let's look to Jesus Christ. 14:18 And let's forsake our sins today 14:20 and give them over to Him. 14:22 Thank you very much. 14:23 Next question is for Pastor John Lomacang. 14:26 And this one mentions two scriptures. 14:31 "I would like you to explain Genesis 43:1-9 14:34 and Genesis 44:1-17, 14:37 why did Joseph have his cup placed 14:39 in Benjamin's sack? 14:41 What lesson should I learn from that?" 14:44 This is from Bridget in Trinidad. 14:47 I preached a sermon years ago called from Pits to Palaces. 14:50 And sometimes our lives begin in the pit 14:53 and we end up in a palace, 14:55 but we don't end up 14:56 where we are outside of God's will. 14:57 Your family may have started your life off in a pit, 15:01 but God could take that pit and end it in a palace. 15:04 This is a story of a young boy named Joseph, 15:07 who was maligned by his brother. 15:09 He had a coat of many colors. 15:11 I think part of the problem that Joseph had 15:13 where he just couldn't keep his mouth shut. 15:15 God was blessing him so much. 15:16 He just said, by the way, had a dream 15:18 and you guys gonna kneel to me, 15:19 I mean, I probably would have, 15:21 you know, as an older brother said, 15:22 "How can we shut this guy up?" 15:23 And he was one of the 12. 15:25 So they said, let's just get rid of this guy 15:26 because he's taken all the blessings 15:28 that are coming our way. 15:29 Unfortunately, they sold him off into slavery. 15:32 He ended up in prison. 15:34 He was wrongly accused by Potiphar's wife. 15:37 He was forgotten by the butcher and the baker 15:39 and the candlestick maker. 15:41 He was a person 15:43 that went through much difficulty. 15:45 But the question is, 15:46 why did Joseph have the cup placed 15:48 in Benjamin sack? 15:50 When his brothers came to Egypt, 15:52 seeking food because of the famine 15:54 that was gripping their own native land. 15:57 They met the governor, 15:59 and much older now, didn't recognize him. 16:02 And he spoke to them first by representative 16:05 until he revealed himself later on, 16:07 and wanting to teach them a lesson 16:08 about the gravity of their sins selling him off into slavery. 16:12 He said, "Bring back Benjamin." 16:13 And they said, wait a minute, wait a minute event. 16:15 Anything happened to Benjamin 16:16 because, you know, Joseph has already gone. 16:19 If anything happens to Benjamin, 16:20 dad is going to die. 16:22 He said bring him back, 16:23 so he put when Benjamin came back, 16:25 he put that cups in 16:27 and make sure it's in Benjamin's sack. 16:29 And boy, their hearts sunk thinking that 16:31 oh man, Benjamin could be now the victim 16:33 of the Egyptian Government. 16:36 Well, if you know the rest of the story, 16:38 the nutshell of it was this. 16:40 Joseph was teaching his sinful brothers 16:44 who are filled with hatred 16:46 about how their evil was turned around 16:50 and made good for God, 16:51 because had it not been for Joseph 16:53 being the governor in Egypt, 16:55 his family would not have been saved 16:56 in times of famine. 16:58 There's a very famous passage, what you meant for evil, 17:00 God turned around and used for good. 17:02 That's simply what the story is all about. 17:05 Thank you very much. 17:06 We go now from Trinidad to North Carolina. 17:09 Rida has a question. 17:11 Shelley, how about as you tackle this one? 17:13 "Can you explain 17:15 how people think that Jesus is Michael 17:18 if Michael is clearly taught that he is the archangel? 17:23 We typically think, Rida, 17:25 of angels has been winged creatures. 17:28 Let me make one thing clear. 17:30 Jesus is not a created being. 17:34 Jesus is our Creator. 17:37 In the Hebrew malakh and in Greek angelos 17:42 are words that are translated angel or messenger. 17:47 Messenger is often is angel with malakh. 17:51 Arch means chief, the principal, 17:54 the top, the highest. 17:56 So an archangel 17:58 is not a winged little created being, 18:02 it is the highest of God's messengers. 18:07 Now, in the Bible, there's only one named angel, 18:10 and that's Gabriel. 18:11 And Gabriel has the highest position 18:14 that an angel can attain. 18:16 In Luke 1:19, he says, 18:18 "I'm Gabriel, 18:19 who stands in the presence of God." 18:21 He is one of the two cherubim at the throne of God, 18:25 that's the highest an angel can become. 18:28 A messenger in the Old Testament, 18:32 we have a special messenger when you see an angel of God. 18:37 It's talking about a created being, 18:39 a winged being. 18:40 But there is a special messenger 18:42 in the Old Testament 18:44 is called the angel of God. 18:47 He appeared to Hagar, Abraham, Jacob, Balaam, 18:51 Gideon, Joseph, Manoah, Zechariah, 18:54 he led Israel by a pillar of fire 18:56 and a pillar of cloud. 18:58 And every time in context, the angel of the Lord speaks. 19:04 This is our covenant keeping God Yahweh. 19:09 There are five references in the Bible to Michael. 19:14 There are three in Daniel 19:15 where he is considered the prince, 19:17 the prince of the covenant. 19:19 That is a messianic title 19:20 we find in Isaiah 9:6 for Jesus. 19:23 There are only two other references 19:25 to Michael, 19:27 Revelation 12:7, 19:28 "War broke out in heaven, 19:30 Michael and his angels fought with the dragon." 19:33 Reminds me that 19:34 he is the captain of the Lord's army 19:36 just as he was in Joshua 5:14 19:39 when it talks about the angel of the Lord. 19:42 And then Jude 1:9, 19:44 "Michael the archangel 19:45 contented with the devil for Moses' body." 19:48 There's only two references in the Bible 19:50 for archangel. 19:51 Jude 1:9 that we just read is one 19:54 and the other is 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 19:56 "The Lord Himself will descend with a shout, 19:59 with the voice of the archangel 20:01 and the trumpet will sound, 20:03 the dead in Christ will rise first." 20:06 Michael, the famous commentator Matthew Henry says this, 20:13 "Michael is our Prince, the eternal Word, 20:18 the angel of the covenant, who is the Lord of the angels." 20:22 That's right. 20:24 Michael is the title for Jesus Christ. 20:27 Thank you very much. 20:28 I know you can keep going on that but time is limited. 20:32 Now we go to a Bible prophecy question 20:34 and this is for Pastor Ryan. 20:37 What is the 1335th days? 20:41 I know that in Bible prophecy that a day means a year. 20:45 What does the 1335th days years refer to." 20:50 This is from Frank in California. 20:52 Yeah, absolutely. 20:54 So this actually goes in with the same time frame 20:56 as the 1290 days, 20:59 both of which are mentioned there in Daniel 12:11-12, 21:03 where it says, 21:04 "And from that time 21:06 that the daily sacrifice is taken away." 21:07 Of course, that word sacrifice is italicized, 21:09 because it's not in the original language. 21:11 So it actually read, 21:12 and from that time that the daily is taken away, 21:15 and the abomination of desolation is set up, 21:17 there shall be 1290 days. 21:20 And then verse 12, 21:21 "Blessed is he who waits and comes to the 1335 days." 21:27 And the person who submitted this question, 21:29 Frank, it was, you're absolutely correct, 21:32 to apply the day for a year principle here, 21:34 as this particular time frame 21:36 fits all the way up to the time of 1844. 21:41 And I'll provide some support for that in the time given. 21:43 So first of all, to understand this, 21:45 you have to understand what the daily is. 21:46 Now that's a whole another question 21:48 in and of itself. 21:49 But the word used here 21:50 in the original Hebrew for daily 21:53 is the word tamid. 21:55 And tamid simply means continual or perpetual ongoing. 21:59 Now what is it that was continual 22:01 on ongoing and perpetual? 22:03 In this instance, the tamid, the daily 22:05 was everything that the priest done 22:07 in the Holy Place 22:08 and the Most Holy Place of the sanctuary. 22:10 There were two surfaces in the sanctuary, 22:12 the yearly and the daily, 22:14 everything that was carried out in the Holy Place. 22:16 And, of course, the... 22:18 I said Holy Place and Most Holy Place earlier, 22:20 it should be the courtyard and the Holy Place. 22:23 I want to make that correction very clear. 22:24 The courtyard and the Holy Place 22:26 was called the daily. 22:28 Every single one of those articles of furniture 22:29 and everything that was done 22:31 in the courtyard, and in the Holy Place 22:33 was done on a daily basis. 22:35 And it points forward 22:36 to the ministry of Jesus Christ, 22:38 the daily mediatorial ministry of Jesus Christ 22:42 is our bread of life, our light of the world, 22:44 our intercessor, our sacrifice, 22:47 and you can find each and every time 22:50 that in the Book of Leviticus and Exodus, 22:52 that the altar of sacrifice is mentioned, 22:55 the altar of burnt sacrifices, 22:57 and the table of showbread 22:58 and the seven branched candlestick, 23:00 all of which is used that same word 23:02 tamid, the daily, 23:04 it's a daily works 23:05 where it points to the daily work of Christ. 23:07 So we get to that 1335 days, how do we make sense of it? 23:11 Well, when the daily is taken away, 23:13 let's go back and read it. 23:14 It says when the daily is taken away, 23:17 that daily was taken away prophetically in 508 AD. 23:23 Now what happened in 508 AD? 23:25 May give you a little bit of quick history here 23:27 so we can move on with our other questions. 23:29 You said quick history. 23:30 Yeah, quick history. 23:32 508 AD, 23:33 Clovis the king of the Franks 23:34 basically converted to Catholicism. 23:37 But when he converted to Catholicism, 23:39 not only did that open up the door 23:41 for church and state amalgamation, 23:43 but it also opened the door for the priesthood 23:46 man to become a replacement for them 23:50 daily ministering work of Christ. 23:52 That is the abomination which brought about desolation, 23:55 the fall in 1798 of that papal system, 23:59 they put man in place of Christ. 24:01 So that's why there in Daniel 12:11-12. 24:06 It makes it very clear, 24:07 "Blessed is he who waits and comes 24:08 to the 1335 days. " 24:11 If you count from 508 AD 1335 years later, 24:17 it brings you to the time of 1843, 1844 24:21 where God has, was rising up a movement 24:23 that was about to restore the message of the sanctuary, 24:27 God's holy law 24:28 and bring about the final finishing work 24:32 of this earth and this kingdom. 24:33 Wow. Praise the Lord. 24:34 Thank you very much. 24:36 Well, the next question is for you at home. 24:38 That's right. 24:39 You at home I have a question for you. 24:41 Do you have a Bible question? 24:42 You can send it in to 3ABN, 24:45 so that you can have your question answered 24:47 by our panel. 24:48 That's right, you can participate 24:50 by writing to BibleQA@3abn.org. 24:54 BibleQA@3abn.org. 24:57 Send in your question, if you prefer you can text. 25:00 The number for that is (618) 228-3975, 25:05 (618) 228-3975. 25:07 One more time (618) 228-3975. 25:12 Perhaps you heard something 25:13 in this program so far that you say, 25:15 hey, I want more information on that. 25:17 So ask your question, 25:19 so that we can bring it to our panel here. 25:21 So let's continue now. 25:23 Let's go to Sister Shelley Quinn. 25:25 How about this question here? 25:27 My husband, oh, this is a sad one. 25:29 "My husband committed suicide a couple of years ago. 25:33 I struggle to make peace with it. 25:36 And I struggle to forgive him. 25:38 How do I forgive and forget." 25:41 And this is from a struggling widow. 25:44 I have some personal experience with this. 25:45 So my heart goes out to you. 25:48 Suicide is a heartbreaking tragedy, 25:51 it is bewildering. 25:53 And it is so difficult to as a survivor of the suicide 25:57 to get above and beyond that. 26:00 First, I want to just tell you, 26:01 sometimes suicide seems like it's so selfish, it's not. 26:05 People who commit suicide have a secret. 26:10 They're just in. 26:12 Their heart is in an angst. 26:13 They're desperate, they've lost hope. 26:16 So what happens though 26:18 the aftershock is so bewildering, 26:20 you will be confused, you feel abandoned, 26:22 you feel betrayed, you feel angry. 26:25 Anger is a natural emotion 26:29 as you're going through this grieving process. 26:31 And by the way, the grieving process 26:33 for normal grieving is about two years, 26:36 but they say for suicide it's three to five years 26:38 to get over this. 26:40 It's very devastating. 26:41 How do you forgive and forget? 26:43 God can help you forgive. 26:45 You won't ever forget. 26:47 I mean, that's just being honest. 26:49 What you need to or what I would suggest, 26:53 ask God to give you 26:54 a divine awareness of His presence. 26:56 Hebrews 13:5, he says, 26:58 "I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you." 27:00 Your maker is your husband, he's with you. 27:03 Take your anger before the Lord. 27:06 And if, as you release that anger to God, 27:10 He can put forgiveness in your heart for your husband. 27:14 Just remember Romans 8:32 said, 27:17 "He who did not spare his own Son, 27:19 how will He not freely give you all things." 27:22 And Deuteronomy 33:27 says, 27:25 "The Lord is your refuge 27:27 and underneath are His everlasting arms, 27:30 He will thrust out the enemy of unforgiveness 27:33 from before you saying destroy." 27:36 I recommend read books 27:38 by Christian authors who have experienced this. 27:41 Find a support group of people 27:43 who've gone through the same thing. 27:45 Pray for others 27:46 who've gone through the same thing, 27:47 and perhaps seek a Christian counselor, 27:51 a professional Christian counselor, 27:54 who can help walk you 27:56 through all of these devastating emotions. 27:59 We're sorry. Amen. 28:01 Wow. Amen. 28:02 Wow. It's a tough question. 28:04 In difficult time may the Lord be with you. 28:07 Well, this next question is kind of interesting here 28:10 because I've heard it asked different ways, 28:13 but this one wants to know. 28:16 This was Pastor Lomacang, how about you? 28:19 "Would we still look the same in heaven 28:21 or would we look different? 28:23 I've heard some people say they want a little change. 28:26 But this one wants to know if... 28:28 This person wants to know if they will look different." 28:30 This question is based off 1 Corinthians 15:42-44. 28:36 You want to read that 28:38 or you want me to read that for you? 28:39 Sure, I'll go ahead and read it. 28:41 Okay. Go for it. 28:42 It says, "So also in the resurrection 28:43 of the dead, 28:45 the body is sown in corruption, 28:46 it is raised in incorruption. 28:47 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. 28:50 It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power." 28:52 Right away, it's alluding to the fact 28:54 that it's not going to be the same. 28:56 What it went down 28:57 looking like it's not going to come up the same way. 28:59 The dishonor is going to be replaced with honor, 29:02 the weakness is going to be replaced with power. 29:05 And the corruption is going to be replaced 29:08 with incorruption. 29:09 There's going to be a change not only in how we look, 29:12 and I'll use a few examples in the Bible. 29:14 The Lord is saying to us, 29:16 we're not going to look the same. 29:17 My favorite passage in the Bible, 1 John 3:2, 29:20 "Beloved, now we are children of God." 29:23 Listen carefully, 29:25 "And it has not yet been revealed 29:28 what we shall be." 29:30 Man, Ryan, there's hope for me yet. 29:32 Right. 29:33 "But we do, but we know that when he is revealed, 29:37 we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." 29:41 And Paul later on in Colossians says, 29:43 "He will change our vile bodies 29:46 that may be fashioned likened to His glorious body." 29:50 So we know we're not going to have the same bodies. 29:51 My wife wants me to have a lot of muscles. 29:53 I said, "Honey, hold on. 29:55 Let's wait till we get to heaven. 29:56 I promise. 29:58 I promise one day 29:59 I'm gonna look very, very powerful." 30:01 But here's the glorious evidence of that. 30:04 Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13:12, 30:06 "For now we see in a mirror dimly." 30:09 We don't understand everything now. 30:11 "But then face to face now I know in part, 30:14 but then I shall know just as I also am known." 30:18 How did this play out in real time 30:20 when Mary was in the garden tomb, 30:23 and she was having a conversation 30:24 with the gardener. 30:26 It was not until he called her name Mary 30:29 then she realized, wait a minute. 30:31 This is not the gardener. 30:33 In John 20:16. 30:35 Jesus said to her, 30:37 Mary, she turned and said to Him, 30:39 Rabboni, which is to say, teacher, 30:42 it was the voice of Jesus that she was familiar with 30:46 because He was surely a whole lot more glorious. 30:49 She didn't see all the blood and the scars 30:52 The only thing remaining was a scar in his hand, 30:55 surely, I mean, the nail prints in his hand and in his side, 30:58 in his side and the thorns possibly on his brow, 31:01 but I tell you, He came forth glorious, 31:06 and one day our vile bodies 31:07 will be fashioned like unto His glorious body. 31:11 So if you having issues with how you look right now, 31:13 hold on, the Lord is not done yet. 31:18 Thank you so much. 31:19 Now we go to Pastor Ryan. 31:21 "If we are saved by grace, 31:24 why are we being judged by our works? 31:27 The Bible says 31:28 the Lord is going to reward good works." 31:32 All right. 31:33 Well, the simple answer to this question 31:35 is that the reason why we are judged by our works, 31:38 even though we are saved by grace is because 31:40 if you read Ephesians 2:8, it's got the full story. 31:44 If you go off what is being said, 31:46 we are saved by grace, 31:48 but it says we're saved by grace through faith. 31:51 Okay, not of ourselves. 31:53 It is the gift of God. 31:54 So we're saved by grace through faith. 31:57 But why are we judged by our works? 31:59 Because our works tell the story of our faith, right? 32:02 And so let's look at this from a biblical perspective. 32:05 Jesus did say 32:07 that He says in Revelation 22:12, 32:09 that He is coming quickly, He says, 32:10 My reward is with me 32:12 to get everyone according to his works, 32:14 even to the all seven of the, seven churches of Asia Minor. 32:17 He says, I know your works, I know your works. 32:19 He didn't say I know your faith. Why? 32:21 Because the works tells the story 32:23 of whether or not the faith is genuine or not. 32:26 In fact, James Chapter 2, 32:28 this is that great chapter you want to go to 32:30 when you want to properly understand 32:32 the relationship or the correlation 32:34 between works and faith? 32:36 And James spells it out very clearly. 32:37 James Chapter 2:14, 17, 18 and 26. 32:41 I may not read all of this, but I'm just referencing it, 32:44 James 2:14, 17, 18 and 26. 32:47 He says in verse 14, 32:49 "What does it profit, my brethren, 32:50 if someone says he has faith but does not have works? 32:54 Can faith save him? 32:55 And then verse 17, 32:57 "Thus also faith by itself, 32:59 if it does not have works, is dead." 33:03 He makes that very clearly. 33:04 And then verse 26, referencing here, it says, 33:07 "For as the body without the spirit is dead, 33:09 so faith without works is dead also." 33:12 Someone can tell you all day long, you know, 33:14 "Oh, I love Jesus. He's my Savior." 33:16 And they can again, as Jesus said, 33:18 drawn nigh to him with their lips. 33:20 But yet Jesus knows the heart and how does he judge 33:23 whether or not a person's heart their faith in Him is genuine, 33:26 the works tell the story, the fruit of the words. 33:28 If someone takes me out to a garden and says, 33:30 "Look at my apple tree, 33:32 and says, oh, look 33:33 how beautiful that apple tree is." 33:35 You can tell me all day long that that's an apple tree, 33:36 but I'm not going to believe that it's an apple tree 33:38 until I see the fruit of an apple 33:40 hanging on that apple tree. 33:41 The same thing goes for us, my friends, 33:42 we can claim the name of Christ, 33:44 we can believe that Jesus is our Savior, 33:46 all that we want mentally, 33:48 but the works, the fruit of those works 33:50 will tell the story 33:51 of the genuineness of that faith. 33:53 And if the faith is genuine, 33:55 then the person shall be saved by grace. 33:58 Another text really quickly. 34:00 Romans 1:5, it says, 34:02 "Through Him, we have received 34:03 grace and apostleship for obedience 34:08 to the faith among all nations for his namesake." 34:11 So we're saved by grace. 34:12 And the response of that should be, 34:14 I want my faith to be genuine. 34:16 And I want my works to show it." 34:18 Amen. Thank you so much. 34:21 Very good. 34:22 So now we got to Sister Shelley, 34:24 and it says here. 34:26 "One preacher says 34:28 we are living in hell right now, 34:30 meaning on this sinful planet. 34:32 If this is hell, 34:34 why do we have to wait for those who die in Christ 34:36 to be raised first in the resurrection 34:39 before we go to heaven." 34:40 This is from Princess. 34:42 Princess take note. 34:43 Okay. 34:45 In the Hebrew the word Sheol, 34:47 and in the Greek the word Hades 34:49 are both translated into English hell. 34:51 They mean the place of the dead, 34:53 it's translated as the grave, hell or pit. 34:57 There is another word in the Greek, Gehenna. 34:59 It is used 12 times 35:01 and this is talking about the lake of fire, 35:05 the hellfire that we think of, for punishment. 35:09 One other Greek word Tartaros is used only once. 35:13 And that's 2 Peter 2:4, 35:15 this is when God casts the evil 35:18 angels down to hell, put them in chains, 35:21 and reserved them for judgment. 35:25 Notice that word reserved, there is no hell yet. 35:29 Let me tell you 35:30 when, where and why hell will exist. 35:34 When in john 5:28- 29, as you alluded to, 35:37 there are two resurrections, 35:39 there's a resurrection of the righteous to life, 35:42 there's the resurrection of evil to damnation. 35:46 In 1 Thessalonians 35:47 we know that those who rise in Christ Jesus, 35:52 or who are in sleep in Christ Jesus 35:54 will rise first. 35:56 2 Peter 2:9. 35:59 2 Peter 2:9 says, 36:01 "God reserves the unjust for the Day of Judgment." 36:07 They are awaiting 36:08 that Great White Throne Judgment 36:10 of Revelation 20:11- 15 36:13 when they will be judged and cast into the lake of fire. 36:18 Jesus explains when, Matthew 13:40. 36:21 During... 36:22 When He's giving the parable of the wheat and the tares. 36:24 He says the tares are going to be gathered up, 36:26 they're going to be burned. 36:28 At the end, He said, 36:30 so it will be at the end of this age. 36:34 Hell is yet future, where? 36:36 Revelation 29 says that the evil of all ages, 36:41 they come up in this second resurrection. 36:43 The New Jerusalem has descended, 36:47 and as they attack the New Jerusalem, 36:50 it says fire came down from God out of heaven 36:53 and devoured them. 36:54 Revelation 20: 14 says, 36:56 "Death and Hades are cast into the lake of fire." 37:00 This is the second death. 37:03 That's what the Bible says. 37:04 It's the final eternal death. 37:07 And we can prove, Revelation 26 says, 37:10 "Blessed and holy is he 37:11 who has part in the first resurrection." 37:14 That's the righteous because over such 37:17 the second death has no power. 37:18 Why? 37:20 Here's the why. 37:21 Why did God flood the earth? 37:23 He turned the earth into a lake of water 37:27 to purge it of sin. 37:28 He is at the end of all ages after Christ has returned 37:33 and we've gone to heaven for 1000 years. 37:35 He is going to have that second resurrection 37:39 and turn the earth into a lake of fire 37:42 to purge the earth of sin and consequentially of sinners. 37:47 Praise the Lord. Thank you for all of that. 37:49 I will say 37:51 an intense Bible study in a short time. 37:54 Here we go Pastor Lomacang, are you ready? 37:57 Yes. I think so. 37:58 This says here, this is a follow up question. 38:01 "In light of the fact that you do everything 38:04 to avoid a narcissistic person in the workplace, 38:07 and they know that 38:09 you're doing everything to maintain the peace. 38:11 What do you do 38:12 when you have to relate to them, 38:14 and they seize these opportunities 38:16 to craft hurtful and traumatic experiences?" 38:20 This is from Janice. 38:21 And this says the HR and other administration 38:23 do you wrong all the time, 38:24 take them behind the barn. 38:29 I saw Shelley sitting there 38:30 and that's the angst 38:31 when you're reading that question. 38:33 I had to lighten the moment briefly. 38:34 No, don't take them behind the barn. 38:36 We have rights in the workplace. 38:37 And I'm assuming you're in America, 38:39 doesn't say where they're from? 38:41 No, it does not. 38:42 So I'm assuming that you are at a place 38:43 where you can have your, have your grievances expressed 38:46 to the administration of your company. 38:48 Because that's the thing I would recommend you do. 38:51 My wife was in a similar situation. 38:52 I'll tell you the story. 38:54 And I know right now, if she hears this question, 38:55 it comes to our mind. 38:56 She was in a situation in her work 38:58 when she was living in California, 38:59 when we lived in California. 39:01 And there was a lady that was narcissistic, 39:02 just like this giving her a hard time. 39:05 And she took her to task in front of the supervisor, 39:08 accusing her just with a voice 39:11 and the vehement nature that was just... 39:13 He called my wife took her breath away. 39:15 And she stood there and listened. 39:17 And the supervisor watched her reaction. 39:21 She could have easily said, 39:22 who do you think you're talking to? 39:24 I'm not a kid 39:25 that you can raise your voice at me like that. 39:27 That's what the human nature would do. 39:29 I mean, I'm from New York, 39:30 that's the first thing comes to my mind. 39:31 You know, we have a very vocal background. 39:34 But she listened carefully. 39:35 When the lady walked away, she said softly to supervisor, 39:38 "Everything she accused me of is not right. 39:40 That's not true." 39:42 You know, the supervisor said, 39:43 "Angela, I'm so proud of you. 39:46 You did not speak to her the way she spoke to you. 39:49 I'm going to give you a raise." 39:51 And she got a raise. 39:53 And that lady not long after that got fired. 39:56 You see, God will fight your battles for you. 39:58 Here's what I would say 40:00 follow up in the administrative steps, 40:02 supervisor, manager. 40:05 If you don't get any resolution, 40:06 go to the head administration. 40:08 If you get no resolution within the company 40:10 and that job is very valuable to you. 40:13 We have the EEOC 40:14 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 40:17 Now you might get fired if you go that far. 40:20 But they cannot fire you 40:21 based on something they've done to you. 40:23 And people have been awarded large sums of money 40:25 for that kind of workplace disturbance 40:27 and irritation and harassment. 40:30 But here's my counsel that I end with. 40:32 Do not allow their treatment 40:34 to change your Christian principles. 40:37 Amen. 40:39 Romans 12:18, 40:40 "If it is possible, 40:42 as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men, 40:46 and the Lord will fight your battles for you." 40:48 Amen. Thank you so much. 40:51 Well, this is a question that millions of people have, 40:54 Pastor Ryan. 40:56 "Where are we right now in the Book of Revelation?" 41:00 Which chapter we're in. 41:02 Well, first of all we have to, 41:03 the best way to start answering this question is to be reminded 41:07 that you can't read the Book of Revelation 41:09 in a chronological sense. 41:10 It's not reading in like in a chronological story mode. 41:14 There's a lot of repeat and enlarge and expanding 41:16 throughout all the Book of Revelation. 41:18 So we have to be very tactful 41:20 when we and studious 41:21 to know exactly where we are. 41:23 And personally, I believe 41:24 in all the studies that I have done. 41:26 I see us in Revelation Chapter 13. 41:29 I believe that 41:31 that beast that received its deadly wound, 41:33 it has been healing. 41:34 It's not completely healed yet, 41:36 but it has been healing 41:38 and we know that once it has been healed, 41:40 that there's going to be another beast, a second beast 41:43 mentioned in Revelation Chapter 11, 41:45 or excuse me, Chapter 13:11 there. 41:47 It says that this beast comes up out of the earth, 41:50 it has horns like a lamb, and it speaks like a dragon. 41:53 I believe the second beast is none other than 41:56 the United States of America. 41:58 And I believe that 41:59 as Bible prophecy clearly states that 42:00 once that deadly wound is healed, 42:02 it's not quite healed yet, but it's certainly healing. 42:05 And I believe we're fast approaching 42:06 that completely healed state 42:09 that the first beast is going to create an alliance 42:12 with the second beast. 42:13 By the way, I'm going to be very candid, 42:14 I believe that first beast is none other than 42:16 the Roman papal church state power. 42:18 And that second beast is none other than 42:20 the United States of America. 42:22 And we have seen in its early stages, 42:24 that the principles of which this nation has stood 42:27 is very much lamblike 42:29 in its religious liberties and freedoms 42:32 that we have been given. 42:33 But we're seeing those 42:34 religious liberties and freedoms 42:36 being eroded at each day so much 42:37 that we recently in the last couple of decades 42:39 have clearly seen this second beast, 42:41 this United States power speak as a dragon. 42:44 And once that deadly wound is healed 42:47 of the first beast, 42:48 there's going to be an amalgamation of the two, 42:51 an alliance in which we see very clearly 42:53 the verse 12 of Revelation 13, 42:55 and he's speaking of the second beast 42:56 exercises all the authority 42:58 of the first beast in his presence 43:00 and causes the earth and those who dwell on it 43:02 to worship the first beast whose deadly wound is healed. 43:05 We're talking about that harlot of Revelation 17. 43:07 She's made the world drunk with her wine. 43:09 We're living in that time frame. 43:11 We're living in that time period 43:13 in which Babylon has fallen. 43:14 And I think 43:15 once that deadly wound is healed, 43:17 that's where we are. 43:18 We're in that healing process. 43:20 But once it's healed, 43:21 which I believe to be very soon, 43:22 Pastor Lomacang, 43:24 we're going to see 43:25 the United States in this papal system 43:26 become very much more active and an alliance state, 43:29 launching us into the future of Revelation 12 and verse, 43:33 excuse me, Revelation 13:12 and onward. 43:36 Thank you very much. Thank you. 43:39 Sister Shelley Quinn, 43:40 regarding the bronze serpent in Numbers 21:4-9. 43:45 Okay. 43:46 "The SDA Bible Commentary says that 43:48 the people knew that 43:50 the serpent was a symbol of the Savior. 43:52 This whole story has me confused. 43:55 How can the serpent who depicts Satan in the Bible 43:58 also be a symbol of Christ? 44:00 How could looking upon a bronze snake 44:02 bring healing to those dying of a snake bite, 44:05 please explain." 44:07 This is from Linda. 44:08 Oh, Linda, Numbers 21:4-9. 44:10 God's people are wandering in the wilderness, 44:13 God is providing for them supernaturally. 44:16 And they murmur and complain. 44:18 This is the seventh time 44:20 they've murmured and complaint against God 44:22 and against Moses. 44:24 Guess what? God's patience runs out. 44:26 He sends fiery serpents among them, 44:28 serpents are biting them. 44:30 Some are dying. 44:31 And then he tells Moses, get that bronze pole out there, 44:35 put that serpent, 44:36 tell the people to look and be healed. 44:39 I believe that 44:41 and that's Number 21:8, where he says, 44:44 "Make a fiery serpent, set it on a pole, 44:47 and everyone who's bitten 44:49 when he looks at it, he'll be healed." 44:51 In Revelation 20, 44:52 we see that the serpent is the devil. 44:55 It's Satan. 44:56 So we know serpent is a symbolic term for sin. 45:00 It's a symbol for sin. 45:02 So I believe my belief is 45:04 that pole is representing the cross of Jesus Christ, 45:09 that serpent on the pole is representing this sin 45:13 that Christ nailed to the cross. 45:15 Symbolically Jesus said in John 3-14-15, 45:19 "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 45:23 even so the Son of man must be lifted up, 45:26 that whoever believes in Him should not perish 45:29 but have eternal life." 45:31 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, 45:33 "He made him 45:34 who knew no sin to be sin for us, 45:38 that we might become the righteousness of God 45:40 in Christ Jesus." 45:41 So this is what Peter said in 1 Peter 2:24, 45:45 that Christ bore our sins in His body on the tree, 45:52 that we having died the sins could live for righteousness. 45:55 Two more scriptures. 45:57 Colossians 2:15 says, 45:59 "That Christ disarmed principalities and power; 46:02 He made a spectacle of them, 46:04 overcoming them at the cross." 46:07 When the people in the wilderness 46:10 looked to the pole, 46:12 because God told them to look to the pole. 46:15 God told them, look to the pole, 46:16 look at this serpent on the pole, 46:18 you will be saved, you will be healed. 46:20 You won't get bitten by the snakes. 46:23 God likewise tells Christians look to the cross. 46:27 When you are in the shadow of the cross, 46:29 when you look in faith at Christ Jesus knowing 46:32 He took your penalty, 46:34 all of your sin was put on Him 46:38 and nailed to the cross. 46:39 He took your penalty. 46:40 Likewise, we could look to the cross and be saved. 46:43 That is right. Amen. Thank you very much. 46:44 Pastor Lomacang, 46:47 "what is one expected to do in lieu of buying 46:50 without the mark 46:52 and then there's a question cash?" 46:54 Okay. 46:55 I want to segue from what Shelley said 46:56 'cause I love that explanation so well. 46:58 I'll just add to that looking into Jesus, 47:00 the author and finisher of our faith. 47:02 Amen. 47:03 You know, there are times that are coming ahead of us 47:05 that we have no idea 47:06 what the gravity of those times are, 47:08 the tenacity of the times, the terror of the times, 47:12 the men's hearts failing them for fear 47:14 in anticipation of the times. 47:16 We cannot adequately prepare 47:18 outside of a relationship with Christ. 47:21 Amen. 47:22 You can't store up enough food, 47:24 you can't put enough, you can't buy enough gold. 47:26 Lot of people say buy gold is not gonna lose value. 47:29 You read the Bible, 47:31 the gold and silver 47:32 is going to be cankered up as a witness, 47:34 it's going to be no use one day, 47:36 is going to be as though 47:37 every avenue of monetary value 47:39 is going to be erased. 47:41 In light of what Ryan was talking about 47:43 when that coalition, 47:44 when the papacy 47:45 and the United States coalesces together 47:47 and the kings of the earth and the merchants of the earth 47:50 decides to establish a standard of worship 47:52 that you choose not to adhere to. 47:54 There's nothing you can do outside of having that mark 47:57 to adhere and gain access to products, 48:00 except the following. 48:02 Isaiah 33:16, 48:05 "He will dwell on high, 48:07 his place of defense 48:08 will be their fortress of rocks, 48:10 bread will be given you and your water will be sure, 48:15 God will provide." 48:16 Psalm 37:25, 48:18 "I have been young and now I am old, 48:20 yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken 48:22 nor their descendants begging for bread." 48:25 Philippians 4:19, come on, Shelley. 48:26 "And my God shall supply all of our need, 48:30 according to His riches and glory." 48:32 And lastly, Psalm 55:22, 48:35 a passage perfectly said 48:36 in the midst of the turmoils of the last days, 48:38 cast your burden on the Lord, 48:41 and He shall sustain you, 48:43 He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. 48:47 It's not about cash. 48:48 It's about Jesus. 48:49 Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. 48:52 Well, Pastor Ryan, we have one for you. 48:54 We know that Jesus Christ is God. 48:56 And He came into this world in the form of a man 48:59 yet still is God, only setting aside His glory. 49:02 We know that He gave up His life 49:04 to pay for the wages of sin, which is death. 49:07 So it means that Jesus died at the cross. 49:09 We know that 49:11 no one can take His life from Him, 49:13 and that He willingly gave it to take it back again. 49:16 The question that puzzles some believers is that 49:19 when then God can also die, 49:22 thus leading them to question God's immortality? 49:25 How do we address this concern?" 49:27 This one comes from Ferdinand in the Philippines. 49:30 Amen. That's a loaded question. 49:33 And it really requires a loaded response, 49:35 which I don't have enough time to give. 49:37 But I just want to respond 49:39 with just a question at the front. 49:41 How do we really explain 49:43 the immortal nature of God, right? 49:44 That is really, really at the end of the day, 49:46 beyond our understanding, beyond our comprehension. 49:49 We have to be careful 49:51 when we start talking about things 49:52 that we really don't fully understand. 49:54 But that being said, 49:55 we can go off 49:57 what the scripture reveals to us. 49:58 And we do know that the Bible does clearly tell us that 50:01 Christ being the immortal God that He was, 50:04 came a time and to save man He chose. 50:08 And really the answer to it is 50:09 God can die 50:10 only if God allows Himself to die, right? 50:12 And that's essentially what Christ did. 50:14 He allowed Himself to be humbled in the... 50:16 As Philippians 2:6-8 says, 50:20 "He being in the form of God, 50:22 He did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 50:24 when made Himself of no reputation 50:26 taking on the form of a bondservant 50:28 and coming in the likeness of men. 50:30 And being found in the appearance of men, 50:32 He humbled Himself 50:34 and became obedient to the point of death, 50:36 even to the death at the cross." 50:37 And so we know it was by choice. 50:39 It's not that, you know, like God can die. 50:42 God can only die if God submits Himself 50:44 to be put in that situation. 50:45 And what does that say about 50:47 the loving character of our God? 50:49 What does that say about the loving character of Christ? 50:51 You know, I'm also thinking of Hebrews 2:16. 50:53 It says, "He took not upon Him the nature of angels." 50:56 He wouldn't even take the lower step of the angels. 50:58 He brought himself even lower to say, 51:00 I want to become the seed of Abraham. 51:03 And so He came here, He made the conscious choice 51:06 to put Himself under the Father's care, 51:09 under the Father's authority. 51:11 And He submitted, He gave up His omniscience, 51:12 He gave up His omnipresence, 51:14 He gave up His all powerness too 51:18 so that He could humble Himself to come save man. 51:20 In that case, God can do it because God can allow it. 51:24 And in this case, 51:25 if we go any further beyond that, 51:26 to try to comprehend it, 51:28 it's just difficult to fully understand, 51:29 absolutely. 51:31 Thank you very much. 51:32 We now have to take a break, 51:34 and we'll be back in a moment 51:35 to receive final comments from our panel. 51:38 We'll be back. 51:40 If you're enjoying our 3ABN Bible Q and A, 51:42 then tell your friends. 51:44 Each Monday we'll bring you a fresh program, 51:47 answering the Bible questions you send us 51:49 and we'll use God's Holy Word to shed light on those texts 51:52 that seem difficult to understand. 51:54 If you would like your questions answered 51:56 on an upcoming program, 51:57 just email them to us. 51:59 Our email address is BibleQA@3abn.org. 52:04 That's BibleQA@3abn.org. 52:08 You can also text us your questions by sending them 52:11 to (618) 228-3975. 52:15 That number again is (618) 228-3975. 52:20 Be sure to include your name and where you live, 52:23 and then watch 3ABN Bible Q and A |
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