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Praise the Lord. 03:17 Pastor James Rafferty, it's always a blessing to have you. 03:19 Good to be here, Ryan. 03:21 All right, praise the Lord. 03:22 And last but not least, Pastor John Lomacang. 03:25 Yes. It's always a blessing to have you, Brother. 03:27 This program teaches me how to condense God's Word 03:31 and try to make it clear. 03:33 Praise the Lord, He can do that through us. 03:35 Two minutes. 03:36 It's tougher than it looks, but you know what? 03:38 It keeps us on our toes, keeps us sharp. 03:41 And so before we get right into these questions, 03:43 Pastor James Rafferty, I'm going to ask you 03:45 to have a prayer for us, my Brother. 03:46 Let's pray. 03:48 Father, again, we want to thank You 03:49 for this opportunity to open Your Word, 03:51 answer the questions that have been coming in from viewers. 03:54 We know some of them are heartfelt, 03:55 some of them are struggling, 03:57 needing answers that can redirect their lives, 03:59 they can give them a completely different picture 04:02 of who You are in the gospel and can help them 04:05 to be guided and directed in the way of truth. 04:08 We just pray that Your Holy Spirit 04:10 will be the teacher, and that Spirit will fill us 04:13 as we open these pages and as we speak to the viewers, 04:16 and even those who haven't sent in questions, 04:18 Father, just pray that You'll bless each one, 04:20 each one that's listening, each one that's viewing. 04:22 We ask these things in Jesus' name. 04:24 Amen. Amen. 04:26 Amen. Praise the Lord. 04:28 All right, as soon as I saw this question, 04:29 I knew I was coming to Pastor Lomacang 04:31 first with this one. 04:32 All right. And this is actually directed to you. 04:35 "Pastor Lomacang, seeing that Christmas is a pagan practice, 04:40 why am I seeing decorations 04:42 in the Adventist Church everywhere?" 04:45 Okay, or every year? 04:47 Well, the key about this is we have to separate 04:50 holiday from Holy Day, paganism from Christianity. 04:55 There are certain Bibles and there are certain verses 04:57 in the Bible that seem to allude to the idea 05:00 that this pagan practice was something 05:02 that was taken from Old Testament times 05:04 in Jeremiah Chapter 10. 05:06 I'll read these verses for you, starting with verse 2. 05:08 "Thus says the Lord: 05:10 'Do not learn the way of the Gentiles, 05:11 nor do not be dismayed at the signs of the heavens, 05:15 for the Gentiles are dismayed at them." 05:17 Verse 3, "For the customs of the people are futile, 05:20 for one cuts a tree from the forest, 05:22 the work of the hands of the workmen with an ax, 05:26 they decorated with silver and gold, 05:27 they fasten it with nails and a hammer, 05:29 so that it will not topple." 05:31 When you go further into the story, 05:33 you find that they then, they bowed to them 05:35 and they worshiped these trees, they prayed to them. 05:38 And that's not what Christians do at all. 05:40 Now, there are holiday symbols, gingerbreads, stockings, 05:46 lights, all these things are, these are paraphernalia 05:49 of a holiday. 05:52 If you catch yourself bowing to your stockings 05:56 at in front of the fireplace, then you don't know Jesus. 06:00 If you find yourself bowing 06:01 to the lights on the Christmas tree, 06:04 or bowing to an evergreen or anything 06:06 that has to do with any holiday at all, 06:09 whether it's Easter or Christmas, 06:10 I noticed that, two times of the year, 06:12 I noticed that a lot of Christians, 06:15 in particularly since I'm an Adventist pastor, 06:18 I address this issue among a lot of Adventists 06:19 twice a year. 06:21 Some people say, "Well, why do you observe Easter?" 06:23 We don't observe Easter, but we recognize 06:25 the resurrection of Jesus. 06:26 Amen. That's right. 06:28 And the symbol of the resurrection of Jesus 06:29 in the Bible is baptism, death, burial and resurrection. 06:32 We don't worship the sunrise services, 06:34 we don't gather on Sunday morning, 06:36 your face with the rising sun, 06:38 we don't sing those songs and make this a pagan practice 06:41 as was the case throughout a lot of pagan observances. 06:46 Christmas is a holiday, it's a holiday. 06:49 And for those who are Adventists, 06:51 Ellen White even addresses this issue in Adventist Home, 06:53 she said, "This is a time of the year 06:55 where it's difficult to pass the season 06:57 by without noticing it." 06:58 And it's a heartfelt, I'm paraphrasing, 07:01 it's a heart show that we give gifts to one another. 07:04 If we do not forget to give gifts to the Lord's house, 07:08 she says, in which you erect a tree 07:12 and put gifts large and small for the furthering 07:15 of God's work on these trees. 07:17 That's right. 07:18 And so, we don't see these as symbols of following 07:21 a pagan practice, 07:22 or turning God's house into a pagan place of worship 07:25 because the key difference between paganism 07:27 and Christianity is these were all objects 07:30 of worship taking the place of God. 07:32 Anything that becomes an instrument 07:35 that takes the place of worship to God is an idol. 07:38 It doesn't matter the holiday, 07:39 even if it's your car or your house or your job. 07:42 Right. Okay. 07:43 Simple, Wonderful answer. 07:44 Thank you. 07:46 All right, Pastor John Dinzey, 07:47 coming to you for this next question. 07:49 This one comes from Giselle from Trinidad. 07:51 And it says, "I have a question about Revelation 22:15. 07:57 It says, why is there still evil outside 08:00 the New Jerusalem 08:01 when it says in Revelation 20:10, 08:03 they were destroyed? 08:05 Please explain." Okay. 08:06 Well, let's go right there to Revelation. 08:10 And we're going to go to Revelation 22:3-5. 08:14 I want to say something really quick here, it says, 08:16 "There will be no evil outside of New Jerusalem, 08:21 or anywhere else in the universe after sin 08:23 and sinners are destroyed in the lake of fire." 08:26 None. 08:27 Remember that Romans 6:23, says, 08:30 "The wages of sin is death." 08:32 So when Revelation 20:10, says that they are destroyed, 08:36 they are done, they perish, they no longer exist. 08:39 So let's look at the description 08:42 of the New Earth and actually the description 08:44 of the New Earth and the New Jerusalem 08:46 begin in Revelation 21:1, 08:49 and they run all the way to Revelation 22:5. 08:53 I'm going to read Revelation 22:3-5, 08:56 "And there shall be no more curse, 08:58 but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it, 09:01 and His servants shall serve Him. 09:03 They shall see His face 09:04 and His name shall be on their foreheads. 09:06 There should be no more night there. 09:08 They need no lamp, 09:09 nor light of the sun for the Lord 09:11 God give them light, 09:12 and they shall reign forever and ever." 09:14 That's the description of the New Jerusalem. 09:17 In Revelation 22:6 begins a warning for those 09:21 that do not accept the Lord Jesus Christ, 09:23 and also an appeal. 09:25 Notice Revelation 22:6-7, "Then He said to me, 09:28 'These words are faithful and true.' 09:30 And the Lord God of the holy prophet 09:32 sent His angel to show His servants the things 09:35 which must shortly take place. 09:37 Behold," here's the warning, "I come quickly! 09:39 Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy 09:42 of this book.'" 09:43 So there you see a beginning of an appeal, get ready. 09:47 "Blessed is he who keeps the words 09:49 of the prophecy of this book." 09:50 Revelation 22:12-15, 09:52 "And behold, I am coming quickly 09:54 and My reward is with Me." 09:56 See, He's taking you back, New Jerusalem hasn't started. 10:00 "To give every one according to his work. 10:02 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, 10:05 the First and the Last. 10:06 Blessed are they that do His commandments, 10:08 that they may have a right to the tree of life 10:11 and may enter through the gates into the city." 10:14 So this is before the New Jerusalem descends, 10:17 but outside, in other words, those that did not accept 10:20 the Lord are going to be kept outside 10:22 and they will suffer the fate described in Revelation 20:10. 10:26 "But outside are dogs and sorcerers, 10:29 and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, 10:31 and whoever loves and practices a lie." 10:35 There's an invitation, Revelation 22:17, 10:36 "And the Spirit and the bride say, 'Come!' 10:39 And let him who hears say, 'Come!' 10:41 And let him who thirst come. 10:43 Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.'" 10:45 So there's still an invitation. 10:47 Amen. Wow. Amen. 10:49 That's a lot to answer in just a couple minutes. 10:52 Well, that's a great answer. Thank you, Brother. 10:54 All right, Pastor James Rafferty, 10:56 this is coming from, it looks like Idaho. 10:59 And this person says, "It troubles me greatly 11:02 that it seems to me that my individual prayer 11:05 is not good enough, if you will, for God to answer. 11:09 We are always urged to have many people pray 11:11 if the prayer is important. 11:13 Why does God require many people to pray? 11:16 Is not my personal prayer good enough?" 11:20 That is a very significant question. 11:22 And I just want to encourage you 11:24 not to be troubled any longer. 11:26 The Bible is very clear that individual prayer is powerful, 11:30 individual prayer is important. 11:32 Let's just look at a couple of texts. 11:33 The first one is in James 5:17-18. 11:37 It says, "Elias was a man subject to like passions 11:40 as we are, and he prayed earnestly 11:43 that it might not rain: 11:44 and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years 11:47 and six months." 11:49 Verse 18 of James 5, "And he prayed again, 11:51 and the heaven gave rain, 11:53 and the earth brought forth her fruit." 11:55 That was Elijah by himself praying, 11:58 God answering his prayers both times. 12:00 Now there are times when we need the prayers of others. 12:03 There are times when we have unbelief. 12:05 You know, Jesus met a man who said, 12:07 "Lord, I believe, help my unbelief." 12:10 Sometimes our faith is weak, 12:11 and we need the faith of others and the prayers of others. 12:14 But our individual prayer is good enough. 12:17 For example, our individual prayer 12:20 gives us forgiveness of sins, according to 1 John 1:9. 12:24 It gives us a new heart according to John 1:13-14. 12:28 It gives us direction in life, according to Psalm 32:8. 12:32 It gives us deliverance from evil according 12:34 to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew Chapter 6. 12:37 Daniel was pretty much alone toward the end of his life. 12:41 In Daniel Chapter 8, he was sick. 12:43 And he was faint, 12:45 because he couldn't understand the truth. 12:46 He couldn't understand the prophecies, 12:47 he couldn't understand the Word of God, 12:49 and he prayed, and he fasted 12:51 and there's no indication there was anyone else 12:53 with him praying or fasting. 12:55 That's right. He was praying, he was fasting. 12:57 And by the time he finished his prayer, 13:00 there was an answer from God. 13:02 And this was a serious prayer, this was an important prayer, 13:04 this was a significant prayer, because the answer came, 13:07 Gabriel came by the time he ended his prayer, 13:10 flying swiftly the Bible says, in Daniel Chapter 9. 13:13 Gabriel came to him to give him an answer to his prayers. 13:16 So we need to recognize 13:18 that individual prayers are powerful, 13:22 God hears them, God answers them. 13:24 But at the same time, 13:26 the prayers of others can really help us. 13:27 We already looked at James 5:17-18. 13:31 Let's go now to James 5:14-16, the previous verses. 13:36 "Is any sick among you? 13:37 Let him call for the elders of the church 13:40 and let them pray over him, 13:41 anointing him with the oil in the name of the Lord, 13:45 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick 13:47 and the Lord shall raise him up, 13:49 and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 13:52 Confess your faults one to another 13:54 and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. 13:57 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." 14:00 So here we have this combination taking place. 14:03 We have the fact that we can pray 14:05 and God will answer and we have the fact 14:07 that we need the prayers of others at times. 14:09 So basically, it does us good and strengthens our faith 14:13 to know that others are praying for us, 14:15 to know that we have the prayers 14:16 of fellow believers, 14:17 but that doesn't preclude God answering 14:20 our individual prayers as we pray for help, 14:22 for strength, for direction, for forgiveness, 14:25 for understanding. 14:26 God will answer individual prayers 14:27 and God will also answer the prayers of others 14:29 who pray for us. 14:31 Amen. Very well said. 14:32 Thank you so much, Brother. 14:34 All right, Pastor Lomacang, coming back to you. 14:37 This question is submitted by Jasmine and it says, 14:40 "Pastor Lomacang, 1 Corinthians 15:20, 14:44 refers to Jesus as the firstfruits of them 14:47 that slept from the dead. 14:49 What about the son of the widow Naim in Luke 7:14-15, 14:55 Jairus' daughter, Luke 8:54-55, 14:59 and also Lazarus in John 11:43-44?" 15:03 You know, what I love about that question is, 15:05 in fact many were resurrected, 15:08 but none of them conquered death. 15:09 That's the key. 15:11 Everyone that you just named died again, but not Jesus. 15:16 The text you refer to is 1 Corinthians 15:20, 15:19 "But now Christ is risen from the dead 15:22 and has become the firstfruits 15:24 of those who have fallen asleep." 15:28 What's the difference between all those she mentions, 15:31 and Jesus Christ? 15:33 Revelation 1:18, 15:35 "I am He who lives and was dead, and behold, 15:40 I am alive for evermore." 15:43 You can't say that about any of the references you made. 15:45 Everybody that was raised, even Lazarus, 15:48 everybody that was raised in the ministry of Jesus 15:51 eventually tasted death, 15:53 and are in the grave waiting for the coming of the Lord. 15:56 And you find that also talked about in the Book of Hebrews 15:58 Chapter 11, those who died either 16:02 by torture or by natural death, or by hunger or starvation 16:05 or deprivation, they all died in the faith 16:08 and what were they looking for? 16:09 A better resurrection. Right. 16:11 Jesus because He rose, He now conquered death. 16:15 That's what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15:55, 16:18 one day we will be able to say, "O death, where is thy sting? 16:21 O grave, where is thy victory?" But who already said that? 16:25 Jesus did. I am the resurrection and the life. 16:29 He that believeth in me 16:30 though he were dead, yet shall he live. 16:31 Why? 16:33 Because I am the resurrection and the life, 16:34 life unborrowed, underived, original. 16:38 And so is Jesus alive today? Yes. 16:40 Are any of those mentioned that were raised in the ministry 16:43 of Christ alive today? 16:44 No. Jesus is the conqueror of death. 16:48 All those were temporary recipients of the resurrection 16:51 through the ministry of Christ. 16:53 Wow. Nice. 16:55 Got to love truth. 16:57 The Bible is sharp. Amen. 16:59 All right, Pastor John Dinzey, coming back to you. 17:02 This comes from Shelly in Fletcher, North Carolina. 17:05 And she says, "Can you please explain Luke 14:26?" 17:10 Luke 14:26, I will go ahead and read that. 17:13 It says, "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father, 17:17 and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, 17:21 and his own life, also, he cannot be My disciple." 17:26 This has confused many people. 17:28 And we have to look at this in consideration 17:32 of all of the scriptures. 17:34 Remember that husbands are told, 17:36 husbands love your wife. 17:38 So we see here that Paul is not contradicting Jesus. 17:42 What we have here in Luke 14:26, 17:44 that Jesus is saying, this is like a, 17:47 what they call a Hebrew, 17:50 not an idiom, but a way of expression. 17:53 That means love less. 17:55 He who loves, you're to love your father, 17:58 and your wife and your children 18:00 less than you love Me, 18:05 you're to love them less than you love Me. 18:06 This is what Jesus is trying to say. 18:09 So here, I'm going to now point you to a scripture. 18:13 Notice here, if Job had done this, 18:16 if he loved his wife above the Lord. 18:18 In Job 2:9, "Then his wife said to him, 18:21 'Do you still hold fast to your integrity, 18:23 curse God and die.'" 18:25 If he loved his wife more than God, 18:27 he would have done that, but he did not do that. 18:29 He had the right perspective. 18:31 And here in John 10:37, 18:34 Jesus now helps us to understand a little more. 18:37 He who loves father or mother more than Me, 18:40 see Jesus is not saying here, not to love them. 18:43 He says, you, he who loves them more than Me 18:46 is not worthy of Me. 18:47 And he who loves son or daughter more than Me 18:49 is not worthy of Me. 18:51 So here is to understand this is, 18:54 he who loves, looking at the text, 18:57 if anyone comes to Me and does not love less 18:59 his father and mother, wife and children, 19:01 brothers and sister, yes, and his own life also, 19:03 he cannot be My disciple. 19:05 You must love God above everyone else. Wow. 19:08 Nice, beautiful answer. 19:10 Thank you. 19:11 All right, Pastor James Rafferty, 19:14 this one's an interesting question. Okay. 19:15 This is coming from Minister B. K. Powell in Florida. 19:20 And it say, "If Yahweh is our Father, 19:23 and Yeshua is our Lord and Savior, 19:25 and the Holy Spirit is inside of all believers, 19:29 why is there a church on every other corner? 19:33 This can be very confusing to non-believers." 19:36 That's a good question. 19:37 And we need to look at this 19:39 in the broader perspective because, of course, 19:42 believers are filled with the Holy Spirit, 19:43 and we have the Father, we have the Son, 19:46 God is working in us and through us. 19:49 So why do we need church? 19:50 Well, there are several reasons pointed out in the Bible 19:53 why we have churches on every corner. 19:54 You know, the Bible talked about, 19:56 in Acts 2:47, 19:58 that the Lord added to the church daily 20:01 such as should be saved. 20:03 And back in the early Christian church era, 20:06 there were churches in homes, 20:08 a lot of people and believers couldn't actually have churches 20:12 and buildings, they were heavily persecuted. 20:14 So they would have little church homes, 20:15 little home churches everywhere. 20:17 And Paul would travel from place to place 20:18 and sometimes even by the riverside 20:20 where prayer and worship want to be made, 20:22 and he would gather with the believers. 20:24 What was the purpose? 20:26 To strengthen and encourage one another, 20:28 because we're told in the Bible, 20:29 1 Corinthians 12:14, 20:32 that the church is like a body 20:34 and different gifts have been given to that body. 20:37 And the gifts are for the edification 20:39 of the body, for the building up of the body 20:41 and the encouragement of the body. 20:43 So you as a believer, filled with the Holy Spirit, 20:45 led by the Lord, and following the will of God, 20:49 you have a gift that God has given you. 20:51 And that gift is not to be selfishly used for you 20:54 per only, it is to be shared with other believers. 20:57 You might have the gift of understanding, of wisdom, 21:01 of prophecy, of instruction, of teaching, of healing, 21:05 of edification, God has given all 21:07 of these gifts as the Spirit leads. 21:09 And these gifts are to be used in the church 21:12 to take the gospel to the world. 21:14 So we look at a couple other verses in Matthew Chapter 28, 21:17 where it talks about the Gospel Commission, 21:19 we call it. 21:20 Matthew 28:19-20. 21:23 That we are to take the gospel to all the world, 21:25 but doesn't just say take the gospel all the world, 21:27 says we're to teach all nations, 21:29 teach them, instruct them, share with them, 21:31 and of course, the Holy Spirit is our instructor. 21:34 So the Holy Spirit fills us, Jesus directs us, 21:36 the Holy Father reveals His will to us, 21:39 and we join together as a church to support 21:42 and preach and teach 21:44 and share that gospel with all the world. 21:45 So that's why you have churches in all these different corners. 21:48 That's why in certain towns where we go, 21:50 you have several different Adventist churches 21:52 I know because you have groups of believers 21:54 coming together to edify each other, 21:55 and take the gospel to all the world, Amen. 21:57 Wonderful. 21:59 You're watching 3ABN Bible Q and A. 22:02 If you're just now joining us, 22:03 we want to tell you exactly 22:05 how you can send in your questions 22:07 because we get these questions, 22:08 and we get to come on this program, 22:10 and we get to answer those questions 22:12 from the Word of God. 22:13 And so if you want to know how to send in those questions, 22:15 right now, there's three different ways. 22:17 The first way is by email, 22:19 just send us an email 22:20 at BibleQA@3abn.tv 22:26 Again, that's BibleQA@3abn.tv 22:30 And that you can email us there or you can text 22:32 in your question as well at (618) 228-3975. 22:38 Again, that number is (618) 228-3975. 22:44 And, of course, you can also send in, 22:46 if you're connected to us on Instagram, 22:49 if not, get connected to us, 22:51 as it shows on the screen there at 3abn_official 22:56 So at 3abn_official 23:00 Send us your Bible questions, 23:02 we would love to be able to give a Bible answer 23:04 for those questions. 23:06 All right, Pastor Lomacang, here we go. 23:09 Okay. This is for you. 23:11 It says, "Pastor Lomacang, please explain, 23:14 we shall be changed in a twinkling 23:17 of an eye at Jesus' comings." 23:20 This is coming from Jamaica. Okay. 23:22 That's a beautiful passage in the Bible. 23:24 And you're actually referring to 1 Corinthians 15:51-55. 23:29 Let me go ahead and read that and then we'll go 23:31 to the explanation. 23:32 "Behold, I tell you or show you a mystery, 23:34 we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." 23:39 Right off the bat, the word sleep there, 23:41 which is what we're not all going to do 23:43 is the symbolism to death when Lazarus was sick. 23:46 Jesus said to the disciples, Lazarus sleepeth. 23:49 And they said, "If he's sick, he needs to sleep." 23:51 But then Jesus said plainly, "Lazarus is dead." 23:55 For the Christian is called asleep 23:57 because from the moment you close your eyes 23:59 to the time you open your eyes, 24:01 there is no conscious passing of time. 24:04 So when the Bible talks about the twinkling of an eye, 24:07 let me continue in the verse. 24:09 "We shall not asleep," 1 Corinthians 15:51, 24:12 "but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling 24:15 of an eye at the last trumpet." 24:18 When is that change going to take place? 24:20 At the last trumpet, but notice this, 24:23 and I understand this very well. 24:24 If you've ever had surgery, 24:26 and you had to go under the knife, 24:27 and you will put out, 24:29 I remember going being wheeled into a room 24:31 getting surgery on my finger. 24:33 And I said, "It's so nice." 24:37 When I woke up, I was in the recovery room. 24:39 That's right. That's the twinkling of an eye. 24:43 There's no consciousness. 24:44 They're not people in the grave saying, 24:46 "Man, how long is this going to be?" 24:47 Right. "Hey, Adam, how long you've been in here?" 24:49 "Man, it's been like almost 6000 years." 24:52 No, the moment you close your eye 24:53 to the moment you open, people thought, 24:55 "Well, how fast is a twinkle?" 24:57 Now that's a blink. That's too slow. 25:01 A twinkle is a 1000 years, Jesus is coming, 25:06 that's the twinkle. 25:07 That's a beautiful comfort to know that the loved ones 25:10 that have passed away are not in heaven 25:11 looking down on our foolishness, 25:13 but they are waiting for that last trumpet. 25:15 They close their eyes X amount of years ago 25:18 and they will open their eyes in the moment, 25:20 in a twinkling of an eye. 25:22 All right. 25:23 I would ask you to illustrate that again, 25:25 but I think you did a good job. 25:27 Amen. 25:28 All right, Pastor John Dinzey, this is coming from C.W Jones. 25:33 And he says, can you, or it could be she I guess, 25:36 he or she says, "Can you explain Proverbs 16:1 25:40 in light of Matthew 15:18? 25:43 Okay, those are two interesting verses. 25:47 And I would say to you, 25:48 there's really no contradiction between the two. 25:51 At first glance, 25:53 I would say let's look at Matthew 15:18, 25:56 which says, "But those things which proceed out of the mouth 26:00 come from the heart, and they defile a man." 26:04 Here in Matthew 15, 26:06 you have to look at the context. 26:08 The context is, begins in Matthew 15:1, 26:12 but I'm going to start with verse 2. 26:14 "Why do Your disciples transgress 26:16 the tradition of the elders? 26:18 For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread." 26:21 And Jesus continues, and He is trying to help them 26:24 understand that washing hands, if you don't, 26:27 if you eat without washing your hands, 26:28 that's not going to defy you, 26:30 that's not going to corrupt your morals. 26:32 It was merely a tradition to wash your hands a certain way. 26:36 Now this happened to me when I went 26:37 to visit a synagogue, 26:38 they had me wash my hands a certain way. 26:41 Now, it's interesting here that it says, 26:44 "But those things which proceed out of the mouth 26:46 come from the heart and they defile a man." 26:48 Now, let's go to Proverbs 16:1. 26:53 "The preparations of the heart belong to man, 26:56 but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord." 26:59 So here we're talking about the heart. 27:02 Preparation belongs to the man or to the person, 27:05 and the answer of the tongue. 27:07 This is describing a person that the Lord wants to use, 27:10 but the person has to do, 27:12 make some personal effort to prepare his heart 27:14 to be used by the Lord, so that when the tongue speaks, 27:18 the message comes from the Lord, 27:20 such as a pastor preparing, a person preparing himself 27:23 to share the gospel with somebody else, 27:25 you have to prepare. 27:26 You have to pray, 27:27 you have to agonize in prayer for the Lord to give you 27:29 the message that the people need. 27:30 And then you prepare the heart in communion with the Lord, 27:35 the tongue will bring the message from the Lord. 27:38 Let's look here in a comparison of the Christians 27:42 and the wicked compare, notice. 27:44 Luke 6:45, "A good man out of the good treasure 27:47 of his heart brings forth good, 27:49 and an evil man out of the evil treasure 27:51 of his heart brings forth evil. 27:54 For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks." 27:57 This is all we can share for now. 27:59 All right. Good job. 28:01 That was a wonderful answer. 28:03 All right, Pastor James Rafferty, 28:04 coming back to you here, this is coming from 28:07 Madelle from the Philippines. 28:10 And they say, "The Bible says 28:11 that the moment we ask forgiveness of our sins, 28:14 the Lord will forgive and throw it in the depths 28:17 of the sea, He will no longer remember them. 28:20 Why in the Book of Revelation, every sin is being shown, 28:24 and all people could see it open? 28:26 All things done in secret will be revealed. 28:29 Please enlighten me with this." 28:31 All right, well, Madelle, 28:32 this is a really significant question. 28:36 You're right, there are, there is a revelation 28:39 of two judgments in the Book of Revelation, 28:42 the judgment for the righteous, then the judgment for the lost. 28:46 And we see that in the Gospel declaration 28:50 in Revelation 14:6-7, 28:52 where it talks about the hour of His judgment has come. 28:55 The reason why we have that is because we have an accuser 28:58 of the brethren in Revelation 12:10, 29:01 who accuses us before God day and night. 29:03 And guess what? 29:04 God wants to silence those accusations 29:06 and He wants to do it openly and publicly and permanently. 29:10 And so He's going to do that. 29:11 He's going to allow all of that to be exposed, not, 29:14 in actual writing, 29:17 like in papers or in videos or whatever. 29:20 But in our minds and hearts and our experiences, 29:22 we're going to feel the accuser accusing us of sins 29:25 we even confessed, and we know have been forgiven. 29:27 And that testing time is going to come to us 29:31 so that we can be settled into the gospel 29:34 of the forgiveness of Jesus Christ 29:36 so we can't be moved. 29:37 So we have this text in 1 Timothy Chapter 5, 29:41 actually two text, verses 24 and 25. 29:43 It says, "Some men sins are open beforehand, 29:46 going to judgment and some they follow after. 29:49 Likewise, also the good works of some are manifest beforehand 29:53 and they that are otherwise cannot be hid." 29:56 So God is going to hide all of the sins of believers 29:59 that go beforehand to judgment, 30:01 they've been cast into the sea, 30:02 they're gone, God's going to hide them. 30:03 The accused is going to come and try and accuse us, 30:06 and we're going to settle into the fact 30:07 that those sins have been forgiven. 30:09 Those who do not confess their sins, 30:10 those are going to be open, 30:12 they can't be hidden by the righteousness 30:13 of Jesus Christ, 30:15 and those sins will be exposed 30:16 according to Revelation Chapter 20. 30:18 The books are going to be open 30:19 and all those sins are going to cometh upon those 30:22 who have refused to give them to Jesus Christ 30:24 who paid the penalty for our sins, 30:26 who took our sins, our consequences, 30:28 they're going to come upon them 30:29 and they're going to suffer the second death. 30:31 So there are the two judgments in the Book of Revelation. 30:34 Our believers' sins 30:36 have been cast in the depths of the sea 30:37 and we believe that by faith 30:39 and that silences the accuser of the brethren 30:41 who accused us before God day and night. 30:44 That's a lot to say in that short amount of time. 30:46 Very well said. 30:48 Pastor John Pastor Lomacang, this is a short question, 30:52 but a simple question. 30:54 It says, "Pastor John, please explain 30:56 who are the hires in Micah 1:7?" 31:00 Okay, let's go to Micah 1:7. 31:03 And let's look at that passage together. 31:05 I have it right here in my notes, 31:10 going to that right now, Micah Chapter 1. 31:12 You know, that's a very good question, 31:13 because a lot of people can be confused 31:15 by what the Bible says. 31:17 And oftentimes, the difference is translations. 31:20 Right. 31:21 I'm going to read it in both translations. 31:23 I'll start with the King James Version, 31:24 Micah 1:7. 31:25 "And all the graven images 31:27 thereof shall be beaten to pieces 31:28 and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, 31:34 and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate, 31:38 so she gathered it of the hire of a harlot, 31:42 and they shall return to the hire of a harlot." 31:45 Now, if you read the latter part of the verses, 31:47 you see now what is the hire of a harlot? 31:49 It says it in the New King James Version, 31:52 same passage, "All her carved images 31:54 shall be beaten to pieces, 31:56 and all her pay, 31:58 as a harlot shall be burned with fire. 32:00 All her idols, I will lay desolate, 32:03 for she gathered it from the pay of a harlot, 32:07 and they shall return to the pay of a harlot." 32:09 Right. 32:11 That comes from the Hebrew word ethnon, 32:12 meaning payment, 32:14 or from the Hebrew word, tonol 32:16 which means inducement or reward. 32:20 So when the Bible talks about higher, 32:22 it is saying here, for those who go into a harlot, 32:27 they pay her, but that payment will be poured back on them. 32:32 The payment from the harlot is not a reward 32:35 that can be of any righteous value at all. 32:38 If you notice that it says, 32:40 and they shall return to the pay of a harlot, 32:43 for she gathered from the pay of a harlot, 32:45 it shall be returned. 32:47 This simple word hire means payment, 32:49 or inducement, 32:51 or the way that a harlot seduces her customers, 32:55 but nothing is for free 32:57 and that's what the hire means, payments, simple. 33:00 Well, nice. 33:01 Very well said. 33:03 All right, Pastor John Dinzey, this is coming from Lydia 33:07 all the way from Papua New Guinea. 33:09 And this is what she says, "If I happen to go to heaven, 33:13 and ask God, will He explain to me 33:16 the cause of my 14 year old firstborn son's death? 33:22 Will I ever meet and reunite with him? 33:25 Will I ever recognize him in heaven? 33:27 This has been my question since 2010 when I lost him." 33:31 Yes. Yeah. 33:35 We see the burden you carry and the pain 33:39 that is still there and wondering about this, 33:41 and we hope that the answer 33:43 we give will give you some encouragement. 33:46 First of all, you know, I'm sorry about your loss 33:49 and I pray that God will be your comfort. 33:53 You know, God is, shows us in different places 33:57 in the scriptures that 33:58 He is concerned about us. 34:00 You know, we read about the people of Israel, 34:02 He says, in all their affliction, 34:03 He is afflicted. 34:05 And we have scriptures that help us understand this. 34:09 Notice in Isaiah 1:18, you know, she has come, 34:14 now let us reason together, 34:15 God wants to reason with us. 34:17 And many times Jesus said, "Ask, and you shall receive." 34:21 So in a sense, God wants to enter 34:24 in communion and communication with us 34:25 and I'm sure that when the time comes, 34:28 and we are with Him, 34:29 we can ask Him any question we want. 34:32 He will have an open door policy, 34:34 you know, we have open door policy here, 34:36 but Jesus will be available, accessible, 34:39 and you can ask him anything you want. 34:42 So here in the Scripture, 34:45 I want to point to you in Isaiah 45:11, 34:48 "Thus says the Lord the Holy One of Israel, 34:50 and His Maker ask me of things to come concerning my sons, 34:54 and concerning the work of My hands, 34:56 you command Me." 34:57 So the invitation He gives to us in this earth, 35:00 I believe that invitation will be available. 35:02 Ask Me concerning My children, and He will answer to us. 35:07 In Daniel 2:28, just taking the first part, 35:10 there's a God in heaven who reveals secrets, 35:13 and He will reveal to you whatever concern you may have. 35:18 And so, Revelation 21:4, 35:22 this is not just a statement concerning, 35:26 okay, those tears, 35:27 I'm just going to wipe them out? 35:29 No, in Revelation 21:4, 35:30 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." 35:34 In this act of wiping tears from their eyes, 35:37 there's also a consolation, there's also a explanation, 35:41 there's a something is done 35:44 so that your tears are wiped away, 35:47 and you will feel at peace, 35:48 you will feel satisfied with what God has done 35:51 because He is merciful, just and good. 35:55 And it says there shall be no more death, 35:57 neither sorrow, nor crying, 35:58 neither shall there be any more pain 36:00 for the former things are passed away. 36:02 Now your question is, 36:04 will I ever meet and reunite with him? 36:06 The answer would be yes, 36:08 if your son accepted Jesus Christ 36:09 as his personal Savior, 36:11 and if you have given your heart to the Lord, 36:12 and if you are faithful to the end, 36:15 you will have the joy of meeting your son. 36:17 And this is why the message to the church of Smyrna 36:21 in Revelation 2:10 at the end, 36:23 it says, "Be thou faithful unto death, 36:25 and I will give you the crown of life." 36:28 So there's a crown of life promised us, 36:30 a crown or life promised to you, 36:32 and you have that hope of meeting your son. 36:35 And I encourage you to be faithful until the end. 36:37 Amen. 36:38 Amen. 36:40 Praise the Lord. 36:41 All right, Pastor James Rafferty, 36:43 this comes from Maj all the way in Maryland. 36:45 Okay. 36:47 And they say, "Can you please explain 36:48 what predestination means in the Bible?" 36:51 Okay. Predestination is a huge word. 36:55 And it simply means to decide ahead of time 36:58 or to predetermine, 37:01 and the Bible applies predestination 37:03 in two ways. 37:04 Number one, we're told that Christ 37:07 was predetermined or foreordained 37:10 before the foundation of the world, 37:12 to die as our Savior, if we were to sin, 37:14 and we can read those verses 37:16 in 1 Peter 1:18-20. 37:21 1 Peter 1:18-20. 37:23 It says, "For as much as you know that 37:27 you were not redeemed with corruptible things 37:29 as silver or gold from your conversation, 37:32 your vain conversation received 37:34 by tradition from your fathers, 37:35 but with the precious blood of Christ, 37:37 as a lamb without blemish and without spot 37:40 who verily was foreordained," 37:42 that's the word right there, foreordained, 37:44 predestined, predetermined, "foreordained 37:46 before the foundation of the world, 37:48 but was manifest in these last times for you." 37:51 So Christ has been predestined 37:54 to be our Savior. 37:56 Now, who He's even predestined to save? 37:58 Well, He's been predestined to save the human race. 38:01 And that is every one that came from Adam and Eve, 38:04 everyone that came from Noah and his family, 38:07 all of us have been predestined to be saved. 38:09 Amen. 38:10 The question is, are we going to receive 38:13 the predestination that is for us in Jesus Christ? 38:16 That's right. 38:17 So the whole world has been predestined, 38:19 we've been called, justified, 38:21 sanctified, glorified in Christ. 38:23 That's the package deal that we have 38:25 when we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. 38:27 The question is, are we going to receive the calling? 38:29 Are we going to respond to it? 38:31 Are we going to receive the justification? 38:32 Are we going to receive the glorification? 38:35 Are we going to receive the sanctification? 38:37 To some degree, 38:38 we all taste a little bit of it. 38:40 No one does anything good, 38:41 no one does any sanctified work. 38:43 Even the bike who stops at the pedestrian crossing 38:46 to let that old lady pass by, 38:48 that is all from God. 38:50 But we have to ask the question, 38:51 will we allow our entire lives to be swallowed up 38:53 in God's will for us 38:55 and accept His predetermined plan for us 38:58 in Jesus Christ? 38:59 All right. 39:01 Predestination in two minutes. 39:02 That's right. 39:04 Give me a couple more minutes and I can clear it up. 39:06 That was a great answer. Thank you, Brother. 39:08 All right, Pastor John Lomacang, 39:10 this is coming from Betty in Chesapeake, Virginia. 39:12 Okay. 39:13 And she says, "Is Elijah supposed to come first 39:17 before Jesus? 39:18 Where does Elijah fit 39:19 into the end time scheme of things?" 39:22 Okay, let's go to Malachi 4:5-6. 39:25 Right. 39:26 "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet 39:28 before the coming of the great 39:29 and dreadful day of the Lord." 39:31 Verse 6 of Malachi 4, 39:33 "And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children 39:35 and hearts of the children to their fathers, 39:37 lest I come and strike the earth with a curse." 39:40 That's the prophecy in Malachi. 39:42 When Jesus came, after Malachi, 39:44 the next voice you hear is the voice of Matthew. 39:47 There was silence after the prophecy of Malachi. 39:51 Then there was one sent to prepare the way for Christ. 39:54 And you go in John Chapter 1, 39:56 you read these words in John 1:6, 39:58 "There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 40:01 This man came for a witness to be a witness of the light 40:05 that all through him might believe." 40:09 John 1:8, "He was not that light, 40:13 but was sent to be a witness of that light." 40:16 And then you find in John 1:29. 40:19 He said these words as he introduced Jesus, 40:21 "Behold the Lamb of God 40:22 that taketh away the sin of the world." 40:24 So, when John was preaching, 40:27 multitudes are being gathered to hear John preaching, 40:29 and Jesus asked this question in Matthew Chapter 11. 40:32 He said in verse 4, 40:34 "Go and tell John the things which you hear and see." 40:37 And then John was preaching 40:38 and Jesus saw the multitudes going out in Matthew 11:7. 40:43 "As they departed, Jesus began to say 40:45 to the multitudes concerning John, 40:47 'What did you go out to see in the wilderness?' 40:49 And they began saying, 'We went to see. 40:52 "And he said," Do you see a man in good clothing? 40:53 What did you go out to see?' 40:56 And the Lord made it clear.'" 40:57 this is John the Baptist, 40:59 there is no prophet greater than he. 41:01 And then Jesus made the statement 41:03 because they asked about John's message. 41:06 "Is this Elijah?" 41:07 And look at Matthew 11:14, 41:10 "If you are willing to receive it," 41:12 that is John's a message, 41:14 "he is the Elijah who is to come. 41:17 He who has ears to hear, let him hear." 41:20 So that was in preparation for the coming of Jesus. 41:22 But what was Elijah's message? 41:24 We find that in the Book of 1 Kings, 41:26 Elijah warned Ahab 41:28 that he had forsaken the Commandments of God. 41:31 And that's why the Elijah message again, 41:34 is to be that. 41:35 Those who have forsaken the Commandments of God 41:37 must turn to the Commandments of God, 41:39 turn their hearts back 41:40 before the second coming of Jesus. 41:42 Amen. Amen. 41:44 Praise the Lord. 41:45 If Baal be God worship him, 41:47 but if the Lord be God worship Him. 41:49 Amen. Love that. Verses 18:18. 41:50 It's right. Beautiful. 41:52 All right, Pastor John Dinzey, this is your last question 41:56 before we go to our bonus round. 41:58 "How do we as Christians grow in a time of crisis?" 42:03 This question is coming from Maryland. 42:06 Thank you. 42:08 I first of all, I like to say that 42:10 we should be growing daily 42:13 through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 42:16 We're told to grow in grace. 42:18 In Matthew 6:1, it says, 42:22 "Give us this day, our daily bread." 42:25 Give us this day, our daily bread. 42:26 So daily, we need to be receiving from the Lord, 42:31 not only the physical bread, 42:32 but the spiritual bread so we can grow thereby. 42:35 Luke 9:23 says, "And He said to them all, 42:37 if any man will come after Me, 42:39 let him deny himself 42:40 and take up his cross daily and follow Me." 42:42 So daily, we are to be following the Lord 42:45 with all of our heart, 42:46 and we will be prepared for the crisis. 42:49 Because if you wait to grow in the time of crisis, 42:53 then you are going to be in serious trouble. 42:54 Now, do we grow in a time of crisis? 42:57 Yes, that depends on whether 42:59 or not you keep your eyes on Jesus. 43:03 If you face the crisis looking unto Jesus, 43:05 the author and finisher of our faith, 43:07 through that crisis, 43:09 He is going to be increasing your faith 43:13 as you trust in Him that He will be with you, 43:16 and you trust that what is written in Romans 8:29, 43:20 that all things work together for good to them that love God, 43:24 to them that are the called according to His purpose. 43:27 So yes, you can grow in a time of crisis. 43:30 But you should form a pattern, a habit, 43:33 a lifestyle, a way of living, 43:36 that you are continually 43:39 connected to the Lord. 43:40 That's why I read to you from John 15:5, 43:43 "I am the vine, you are the branches. 43:45 He who abides in Me and I in him bears much fruit, 43:49 for without Me you can do nothing." 43:51 We are to be continually attached, 43:54 connected to Jesus Christ 43:56 whether you have a time of peace 43:58 or whether you have a time of trouble, 44:00 and you will continue to grow 44:02 and He who has begun a good work in you 44:05 will complete it. 44:06 Praise His name. Praise the Lord. 44:08 I love that my favorite verse, Philippians 1:6, 44:10 we have the promise that Jesus 44:12 will complete that work until He comes. 44:15 Amen. I love that. 44:16 All right, Pastor James Rafferty, 44:18 this is your last question before our bonus round. 44:20 And this is coming from Candice. 44:21 And, Candice, I love your question. 44:23 That's a good question. 44:24 She says, "I don't understand the cleansing heavenly temple 44:27 in 1844. 44:29 The temple on earth had blood from the death of animals 44:33 that needed to be literally cleaned off. 44:35 What is cleaned off in the holy, 44:37 pure, sinless place in heaven? 44:39 And she says, blood is dirty." 44:42 I like that. I like that. 44:44 Very good question, Candice. 44:45 Let's just look at a couple of verses. 44:46 The first ones in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. 44:50 It kind of tells us 44:52 what the temple is that's being cleansed. 44:53 "What? 44:54 Know ye not that your body is the temple 44:56 of the Holy Ghost which is in you, 44:58 which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 44:59 For you are bought with a price: 45:01 therefore glorify God in your body, 45:04 and in your spirit, which are God's." 45:06 So Jesus Christ is in heaven. 45:07 And He's doing a work of cleansing 45:09 that correlates with us, with individuals. 45:12 We are the ones that are being cleansed 45:15 in this sanctuary Day of Atonement time. 45:17 Let's look at another verse. 45:19 This one's in Revelation 7:14, 45:21 it's pointing to the redeemed and this what it says? 45:23 "And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. 45:25 And he said to me, 45:27 these are they which came out of great tribulation, 45:29 and have washed their robes, 45:31 and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." 45:35 Apparently, the blood of the lamb is not dirty. 45:37 Apparently, the blood of the lamb 45:38 actually cleanses us and washes us 45:40 and makes us white. 45:41 Well, why is that? That's right. 45:43 Because the blood of the lamb is symbolic of the life 45:46 and death of Jesus Christ. 45:47 That's what the blood was really all about. 45:49 It was a symbol. 45:50 Even in the earthly sanctuary, 45:52 the cleansing wasn't the cleansing of blood. 45:54 The cleansing was the cleansing of the people 45:57 by faith in the blood of the animal 46:00 that was sacrificed as a type 46:02 or representation of Jesus Christ. 46:04 And so what we have is we have Jesus Christ 46:06 coming to this earth and living a perfect life. 46:09 That animal that was sacrificed 46:10 in the earthly sanctuary was to be without blemish, 46:12 and without spot, 46:14 it pointed to Christ perfect life. 46:15 Then we have Him taking upon Himself our, 46:18 the consequences of our sins, our punishment, if you will. 46:21 So that perfect life, 46:23 and that substitutionary death in our place, 46:26 is what is represented by the blood, 46:27 the death is in the blood, 46:29 and the life is in the blood. 46:31 And that blood cleanses us from all of our sins, 46:33 from all of our failures. 46:35 Jesus ministers in the heavenly sanctuary, 46:36 and He applies His life and His death 46:39 to our lives as we give ourselves to Him 46:42 and confess our sins to Him. 46:43 That's the cleansing that's taking place 46:45 in the heavenly sanctuary. 46:47 Praise the Lord. 46:48 I like that. 46:49 The blood of the lamb is not dirty. 46:51 Praise the Lord. I like that. 46:53 Amen. 46:54 All right, here comes our extra questions. 46:55 Our bonus round, you guys ready? 46:57 Okay. All right, here we go. 46:58 This one is coming from Rene in Indiana. 47:01 And she says, "Was Balaam a true prophet 47:04 of God gone bad?" 47:06 Okay. Absolutely. 47:08 I mean, the Bible is really clear on that. 47:10 We're told that he loved the wages of unrighteousness. 47:13 And we find that in 2 Peter Chapter 2 47:15 and also in Jude. 47:17 And we know he was a true prophet of God 47:18 at one point 47:19 because God actually used him in spite of himself. 47:22 God spoke through him, God prophesied through him, 47:25 but he went for the money 47:27 as unfortunately we see people doing today, 47:29 pastors doing today, religious people doing today. 47:31 We get caught up in the money, 47:33 and that takes us in a wrong direction. 47:35 Wow. 47:36 You know something's got to be wrong 47:37 when your donkey starts talking to you. 47:40 I have a sermon that I preached called Dumb and Dumber, 47:42 which one was which? 47:45 Balaam's covetousness made him dumber 47:48 than the donkey he was on. 47:49 The donkey heard the voice of the angel, 47:52 Balaam refused to hear the voice of God. 47:54 He was once a man who listened, 47:56 but his donkey ended up being more obedient than him. 47:59 What a sad story. 48:00 Yeah, it is. Wow. 48:02 Want to add anything to that, Pastor? 48:03 No, I think that's, I agree with all that, 48:05 you know, Balaam, it's sad to see a person 48:10 allow selfishness and corruption 48:13 lead him to do something that God forbade. 48:17 I mean, to curse God's people, never should a prophet do that. 48:21 All right. 48:22 Amen. Amen. 48:23 All right, this is coming from Sharon, 48:25 in Mount Vernon, New York. 48:27 Okay. 48:28 And this is what she says, "What does the Bible say about 48:31 what happens to those souls 48:33 who died without ever hearing the Word of God? 48:36 Will there be a special resurrection 48:38 of these souls so they can be given a chance 48:41 to hear God's word and to accept Jesus 48:43 as their Lord and Savior? 48:45 Thank you." Let's go to the Book of Titus. 48:48 Okay. Okay, Titus. 48:49 All right, I'm going there now, 48:51 turning my Bible here to Titus. 48:56 That question was asked so many times 48:57 and the Bible gives an answer 48:59 because there is an assumption 49:02 that there are those who have never heard 49:06 the voice of God. 49:07 Okay. 49:09 Listen to this, Titus Chapter 2. 49:12 And then we're going to go to Romans Chapter 1. 49:13 All right. 49:15 Titus 2:11, "For the grace of God 49:17 that brings salvation has appeared to all men." 49:22 Now, we ask ourselves the question how? 49:25 We have to assume that we're not the only ones 49:27 that are extending God's grace. 49:29 Then you go to Romans Chapter 1. 49:32 Let's go to Romans Chapter 1 very quickly. 49:33 So the grace of God 49:35 that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 49:37 so nobody could say, "Well, 49:40 I hadn't heard about the grace of God." 49:41 All right. 49:43 That's not what the Bible says. 49:44 Then Romans Chapter 1, 49:45 we look at all the outlining 49:47 of the sins of the antediluvians. 49:48 And when you get down to about verse 20, 49:53 read that, James, for us. 49:55 "For the invisible things 49:57 from the foundation of the world 49:59 to the creation of the world are clearly seen, 50:01 being understood by the things that are made, 50:03 even his eternal power and Godhead, 50:05 so that they are without excuse." 50:06 So that they are without excuse. 50:08 So no one's going to be in the judgment say 50:10 I didn't have an opportunity. 50:11 We just don't know how. Right. 50:13 But God works in mysterious ways. 50:15 His ways are far above ours. 50:17 So I don't believe there's anybody 50:19 that's going to be in the judgment 50:20 that's going to be saying, 50:22 "I don't even know why I'm here." 50:23 No, that's not how God works. 50:24 Amen. All right. 50:26 I would like to add a verse because, 50:27 you know, the person is wondering 50:28 if there's going to be a special resurrection 50:30 for these people. 50:32 No, Hebrews 9:27, says, 50:33 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, 50:37 but after this the judgment." 50:39 So no second opportunity, 50:41 no second resurrection 50:43 to hear the gospel. 50:44 Got you. 50:45 And then Romans Chapter 2, 50:47 which continues on with Romans Chapter 1 50:48 basically says that those who don't know the law, 50:52 they don't know anything about God, per se, 50:54 but they have in their conscience 50:57 this law of good and bad, 50:59 of right and wrong, 51:01 and their conscience bears them witness 51:02 and they're judged according 51:03 to what they conscientiously believed 51:05 was the right thing to do. 51:06 And so we have Romans Chapter 1, 51:08 Romans Chapter 2. 51:09 And, of course, Hebrews, 51:10 we see all of this coming together 51:12 and telling us, "Yes, God is speaking to everyone." 51:13 Titus 2:11... I'm glad you brought that out. 51:17 Has appeared to all men. 51:19 And you know where that conscience 51:20 comes from? 51:22 The New Covenant. 51:23 I will put my laws in your mind and write them on your heart. 51:25 That's what the Bible says, if your heart condemns you, 51:27 then God is greater than your heart. 51:28 There's something in there that 51:30 He put there to give you a conscience 51:31 to know right and wrong. 51:33 Amen. 51:34 Beautiful, guys. Amen. 51:35 Wonderful answers. 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