1 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: From the Christian Research Institute and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're 2 00:00:11,279 --> 00:00:14,720 listening to the Bible answer Man Broadcast with Hank Canagraph. 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,199 We're on the air because life and truth matter. The 4 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,800 mission of the Christian Research Institute is to equip believers 5 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,839 to answer life's essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to 6 00:00:27,879 --> 00:00:30,039 give the reason for the hope that you have with 7 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:35,119 gentleness and respect. For more information, go online to equip 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,880 dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now 9 00:00:40,439 --> 00:00:43,520 here's Bible answer Man host Hank Canagraph. 10 00:00:43,719 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Brandy. Before we go to our callers, 11 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,399 I want to make an urgent year end financial appeal. 12 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:53,200 I'm not talking about December as the year end. I'm 13 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,240 talking about the fiscal year end of the Christian Research Institute, 14 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,200 which is June thirty, and therefore I'm asking people to 15 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,000 make the very best gift they can and postmarket by 16 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,879 June thirty to help us continue touching lives all around 17 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,959 the globe. You can give them a number of different 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,760 ways in a safe, secure fashion on the Worldwide webbit 19 00:01:17,799 --> 00:01:23,200 equipped dot org. You can write me Box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, 20 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,680 North Carolina, zip code two eight two seven one Resource 21 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:31,000 Consultants standing by triple eight seven thousand and the letters cell. 22 00:01:31,079 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 3: Right. 23 00:01:31,239 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: Let's go right to the phone lines. First up as Gene, 24 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:38,120 he's listening in Charlotte, North Carolina Hygiene. Hi, how you doing, 25 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:39,359 Hank Well, thank. 26 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 4: You, thank you for taking my call. 27 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 5: Uh. 28 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,359 Speaker 4: First, I want to say I learn a lot from 29 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:48,519 your show, and I appreciate all the teaching that you 30 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:50,079 put on the radio. 31 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 2: Thank you. 32 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:57,319 Speaker 4: My question is about Second Corinthians five and eight. A 33 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:00,760 lot of the teachers that I know of the Bible, 34 00:02:00,959 --> 00:02:04,840 they read this. They read this passage as if it 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,280 says absent from the body, present with the Lord. But 36 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,240 when I read it in the King James version, it 37 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,400 says in the middle of the scripture, it says and 38 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,680 willing rather to be absent from the body and present 39 00:02:16,719 --> 00:02:20,240 with the Lord. Doesn't that change the context up? 40 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 2: Not really, because what Paul is pointing out in Second Corinthians, 41 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,800 he's writing to the Corinthians, and he's saying, we're always 42 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:31,080 confident because we know that as long as we are 43 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:35,400 at home in the body, we are away from the Lord, 44 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,159 which is to say, as long as we are in 45 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:44,240 the present world in life, we are separated from the Lord. 46 00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:48,639 We live by faith, not by sight, and thereforeces Paul, 47 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,639 we're confident and would prefer to be away from the 48 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,080 body and at home with the Lord, which is to 49 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,280 say that the moment that one dies, there's a separation 50 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:06,080 between body and soul, and then the soul is in 51 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,840 the presence of God, which is to say, absent from 52 00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:13,800 the body then is to be at home with the Lord. 53 00:03:13,879 --> 00:03:20,319 Now that extends ultimately to true humanity in redemption when 54 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:24,280 the Lord returns, because then we will be at home 55 00:03:24,479 --> 00:03:28,680 in the body and yet present with the Lord. In 56 00:03:28,719 --> 00:03:33,599 other words, we will experience the physical presence of the Lord, 57 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,759 very much like Adam and Eve did when they walked 58 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,800 with the Lord in the cool of the day. 59 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,719 Speaker 4: Okay, so what about Lazarus. 60 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: What about Lazarus which one. 61 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 4: When he died, When Lazarus died and Jesus ram called 62 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,960 him from the grave, yes, did he go to heaven too. 63 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,479 Speaker 2: Well, if you were absent from the body, you were 64 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,719 at home with the Lord. Lazarus was resuscitated and he 65 00:04:01,319 --> 00:04:05,960 came back and lived again in the body. So if 66 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,680 we're absent from the body, we're present with the Lord. 67 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,800 And the point here is that even after death, the 68 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,800 soul continues to exist. To ask where the soul is 69 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,000 is a category mistake, of course, because souls are non physical. 70 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:27,040 Therefore awareness does not apply to them, although awareness does 71 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,439 apply to them. So the point is that Lazarus, even 72 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,720 after his physical body died and was stinking as it 73 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,439 were in the grave for four days, his soul continued 74 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:47,360 to exist, to have active conscious existence. So we can 75 00:04:47,519 --> 00:04:52,399 presume that that soul was in fellowship with God again, 76 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,560 had awareness, not awareness what I mean by that. Again, 77 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,160 this is something that needs to be parsed for people 78 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,000 because a lot of people cannot conceive of a soul 79 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:15,079 being somewhere, and rightly so, because souls don't have extension 80 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,720 in space because they're non physical. So we can talk 81 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,079 about being in fellowship with God, but that is not 82 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,959 a locational term. It is a relational term. 83 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 4: So so last is probably they know way he went 84 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,160 after he just you know, hypothetically. 85 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:36,079 Speaker 2: No, I'm saying he did know where he went because 86 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:40,439 the soul has conscious awareness, so he would have been 87 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,399 aware of being in fellowship with God. 88 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,079 Speaker 4: Okay, well, thank you very much. 89 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 2: Hey, you got it. Good question, Jane. All right, let's 90 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:52,720 go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to 91 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,000 Kevin when Kansas City, Kansas, Hi, Kevin, Hi? You doing good? 92 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 5: Her? 93 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,439 Speaker 6: Are you pretty good? 94 00:05:58,519 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 5: Hey? 95 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,879 Speaker 6: I've got a question. This is regarding I talked to 96 00:06:01,879 --> 00:06:05,079 you here a couple two three months back. It's regarding 97 00:06:05,079 --> 00:06:09,199 divorce and remarriage, and it's based on Matthew nineteen specifically 98 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:14,519 verse nine. I've been doing some study. I myself fell 99 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,759 into a season of sin which led to a divorce, 100 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,199 and I eventually remarried, as. 101 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:20,879 Speaker 5: Did my ex wife. 102 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 6: And as I studied this, I realized that there are 103 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,160 a lot of people who teach that my current relationship 104 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:31,319 and my ex wife's current relationships are continuous, ongoing adultery. 105 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:33,920 And so it led me to look at this. But 106 00:06:33,959 --> 00:06:37,240 I know nothing about Greek grammar, and so what I 107 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,959 did was I looked at the church history, early church fathers, 108 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,040 things like that, and it seemed and I could be wrong, 109 00:06:45,079 --> 00:06:46,519 I could just be reading wrong, but it seemed that 110 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,439 they were stating that to engage in another marriage after 111 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:54,480 a divorce is sinful. Now I don't know if Matthew 112 00:06:54,519 --> 00:06:57,079 nineteen nine is a continuous state of adultery or if 113 00:06:57,079 --> 00:07:00,399 it was a one time act of adultery against you. 114 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:01,279 Help me figure that out. 115 00:07:01,399 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 116 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, let me tell you this, and 117 00:07:03,399 --> 00:07:05,240 this is the most important thing I'm going to say 118 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,560 to you, and that is you can't unscramble the egg. 119 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,959 You're remarried. Your ex wife is remarried, and therefore you 120 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,959 can't put humpty dumpty back together again. So don't look back, 121 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:23,439 press forward. God can restore the years that the locusts 122 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,800 have eaten. Commit yourself faithfully to your present wife, and 123 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:32,319 move forward. That's a very important thing to recognize, because 124 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,199 if you start thinking in a different way, you are 125 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,399 going to cause disruption in your present marriage, and you 126 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:46,399 simply don't want to do that. Secondly, there are consequences 127 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:50,480 to all sin, and those consequences follow inexorably like night 128 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,279 follows day. But that does not mean that God cannot 129 00:07:53,319 --> 00:07:57,720 bless or use you in your present marriage. Thirdly, let 130 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:04,480 me say this. There are exceptions by which people can 131 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:11,319 have a divorce under biblical sanction, and in the very 132 00:08:11,439 --> 00:08:17,079 text that you mention, Jesus notes one such exception, and 133 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:22,560 that is marital unfaithfulness. Paul in First Corinthians chapter seven 134 00:08:23,079 --> 00:08:27,920 does the same thing. He mentions desertion. In other words, 135 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:34,000 if an unbeliever leaves, the other party is not bound 136 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:40,000 in that circumstance. Beyond that, I think it can be 137 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,440 credibly argued that there are violations of the marriage covenant 138 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:51,840 that may constitute biblical grounds for divorce, even though they 139 00:08:51,919 --> 00:08:56,559 are not specifically named as such in the New Testament. 140 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:04,159 So there are sins against the relationship that can rise 141 00:09:04,279 --> 00:09:10,720 to the level of adultery and desertion. So even apart 142 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:17,200 from the first two points, there are biblical grounds for divorce, 143 00:09:17,639 --> 00:09:21,480 they're not always the best option, which is to say, 144 00:09:21,519 --> 00:09:26,519 the best option is always reconciliation. And I always tell 145 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,200 people as long as the door to reconciliation is open 146 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,519 in terms of the marriage, there's always the possibility of 147 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,720 reconciliation even apart from the marriage. But as long as 148 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,639 the door to reconciliation is open for the marriage, you 149 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,159 should try to walk through that door. In your case, 150 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,399 that door has been irrevocably closed. So at this point 151 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,679 here's what you need to do. Forget what is passed 152 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:55,960 and move on. Be faithful in the present, recognizing that 153 00:09:56,039 --> 00:10:00,159 God can give you the joy of your salvation, and 154 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,600 he can grant a willing spirit to sustain you. He 155 00:10:03,639 --> 00:10:06,679 can blot out your sins, and he can give you 156 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,720 joy and fulfillment in your present condition, and use you 157 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,679 for His glory and for the extension of His kingdom. 158 00:10:14,879 --> 00:10:18,840 I know there are people that will say otherwise, and 159 00:10:18,879 --> 00:10:22,399 I have heard them say that, continuing in a present 160 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,759 marriage and so forth, it might as well have a 161 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:27,360 millstone hung around your neck and thrown in the deepest 162 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,639 part of the sea. Don't listen to that kind of nonsense. 163 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:36,639 Move forward in the grace of God, honor and cherish 164 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:40,639 your wife, and become an example of the grace of 165 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,200 God which He has so freely extended to you, not 166 00:10:44,279 --> 00:10:47,279 only for the rest of your life, but also for eternity. 167 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,000 I'm gonna have to leave it at that. We've written 168 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,679 an article on the Christian Research Journal on the biblical 169 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,600 grounds for divorce and remarriage. 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Now 228 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:10,480 back to the Bible answer Man Broadcast and your host 229 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:12,159 and Canagraph. 230 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy, and let's get right back 231 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:17,639 to our phone callers. Jeanette listening in Omaha, Nebraska. Your 232 00:15:17,679 --> 00:15:22,480 next Hi, Jeanette, Hi, Hank, thank you for your ministry. Well, 233 00:15:22,519 --> 00:15:22,879 thank you. 234 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:28,519 Speaker 3: I'm just wondering if we are essentially judged twice, one 235 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:32,639 when we die and then again when Christ returns. 236 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: And if that's. 237 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,279 Speaker 7: True, what are we being judged for. 238 00:15:37,159 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: The second time if the first time we are judged 239 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,320 for our salvation. 240 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in a sense you can say we 241 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:48,840 are judged twice. But there is a qualitative difference. And 242 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,080 let me explain that. There's a sense in which you 243 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,799 can see that there is judgment that takes place at 244 00:15:55,799 --> 00:15:59,919 the moment of death. You see that in Luke chapter sixteen, 245 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:05,159 the rich man and Lazarus are both judged. The beggar 246 00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:09,960 Lazarus ends up in Abraham's wisdom or paradise, so he 247 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,559 is found to be in relationship with God. He is 248 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:20,879 enjoying heavenly bliss, heavenly bliss being defined as being in 249 00:16:20,919 --> 00:16:25,919 the presence of God. The rich man, however, ends up 250 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:31,840 in torments, so he is experiencing judgment. However, when the 251 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,919 Lord Jesus Christ appears the second time and puts all 252 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,840 things to right, there will be a judgment that takes place, 253 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:46,399 and everyone will receive according to what he has done, 254 00:16:46,519 --> 00:16:49,840 which is to say, there are degrees of reward in 255 00:16:49,919 --> 00:16:56,080 heaven and degrees of punishment in hell. Jesus said, behold, 256 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,759 I come quickly. My reward is with me, and I'll 257 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:04,279 give to everyone according to what he has done. The 258 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:09,039 Bible consistently teaches us that what we do now counts 259 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:12,400 for all eternity. As far as the unregenatorre concerned. We 260 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:17,599 can safely conclude that a garden variety pagan is not 261 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,119 going to suffer the same torment or receive the same 262 00:17:21,279 --> 00:17:26,480 sentence as someone like Osama bin Laden or a Hitler 263 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:28,400 or a Paul Pott. 264 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,079 Speaker 3: Okay, thank you. 265 00:17:31,319 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 2: You're welcome. I've written about this in a number of 266 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,039 different forums, including my book Resurrection. There's a chapter there 267 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:41,799 that is not often preached on by modern day pastors, 268 00:17:41,839 --> 00:17:45,839 but you will see by my references that Jesus Christ 269 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:52,799 did speak often about the situation regarding rewards. Do not 270 00:17:53,319 --> 00:17:56,160 lay up for yourselves, or do not store up for 271 00:17:56,279 --> 00:18:01,279 yourselves treasures on earth, said Jesus, wear moth and rust 272 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,960 corrupt and where thieves break in and steel, But rather 273 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,240 store for yourself treasures in heaven, where moth and rust 274 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,720 do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break in 275 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:16,480 and steal. For where your treasure is there, Your heart 276 00:18:16,759 --> 00:18:20,599 will be also next up as Connie listening in Saint 277 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:21,440 Peter's Missouri. 278 00:18:21,519 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: Hi Connie, Hi, thank you for taking my call a pleasure. 279 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,799 Speaker 8: My mother has been widowed twice, both wonderful Christian men. 280 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,319 But when she gets to Heaven, what is the relationship 281 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,720 for them at that point? I mean they'll know each 282 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,599 other as brothers and sisters in Christ. 283 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, widowed twice, who will she be married to? Well, 284 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,319 Earth is the breeding colony, Heaven is the homeland, and 285 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,519 therefore we can safely assume that in Heaven we're going 286 00:18:52,559 --> 00:18:54,559 to be like the angels, not in that we're going 287 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,920 to be non physical, but we're neither going to be 288 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,799 married nor be given in marriage. As such, your mom 289 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:07,039 will have a relationship with all the redeemed, but that 290 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:12,279 relationship will be far different. That does not mean in 291 00:19:12,319 --> 00:19:16,799 any way diminished, but far different than the relationship in 292 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,640 this time space continuum. I love my wife and married 293 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,039 to my wife. I'm not going to be married to 294 00:19:22,079 --> 00:19:26,880 my wife in heaven. The relationship I will have with 295 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:33,319 Kathy is going to exceed the greatest joy I have 296 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,440 ever experienced with her in this lifetime. That's what I've 297 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,000 got to look forward to and so our relationships will 298 00:19:41,039 --> 00:19:44,759 be different, not diminished, but better. We want to go 299 00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:47,720 make the phone lines talk to Monica listening when Lincoln, Nebraska. 300 00:19:47,799 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: Hi, Monica, Hi, how are you? 301 00:19:50,039 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 2: I'm good? 302 00:19:50,519 --> 00:19:54,039 Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you very very much for picking my call. 303 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 2: Oh, my pleasure. 304 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 5: I was wondering. I actually was reading in your Bible 305 00:19:59,279 --> 00:20:04,160 answer book about forgiveness. Yeah, and I just was hoping 306 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,279 you could clarify, give me a little more understanding on 307 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:10,319 I guess my question is when or who you have 308 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:15,359 to forgive. I thought what I read implied or said 309 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,119 that forgiving someone isn't required if they aren't asking for forgiveness, 310 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,839 And then I kind of wondered if that principle applies 311 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:27,119 to God's forgiveness for us, you know, if we don't 312 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:34,640 actually verbalize please forgive me, or that I've sinned or Yeah. 313 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 2: And that's a good question, Monica. In fact, I think 314 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,759 the issue with God is very relevant to answering the question. 315 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:46,359 God objectively offers us forgiveness and the restoration of fellowship, 316 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:52,359 but that forgiveness is not subjectively realized unless we repent. 317 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,480 And I don't think we should set a higher standard 318 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,119 than the standard that God sets and that is the 319 00:20:59,279 --> 00:21:03,759 highest stand and that becomes the operative standard for us. 320 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:09,039 So my point is that forgiveness is always a two 321 00:21:09,079 --> 00:21:13,599 way street. It takes someone who is willing to forgive 322 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:18,160 and someone who is wanting to be forgiven. Because if 323 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,839 you don't have both aspects, or both sides to the coin, 324 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:27,839 as it were, then restoration of relationship simply does not 325 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:33,079 take place. So from our perspective as Christians, we always 326 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,440 have to be willing to forgive, but on the other 327 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,079 side of the coin, you have to have someone who 328 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,319 is wanting to be forgiven. Because unless there is someone 329 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,640 who is wanting to be forgiven, reconciliation doesn't take place. 330 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,599 And that is true not only in personal relationships, but 331 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,359 certainly it is to the point of your prologue to 332 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,079 the question, it is true in our relationship with God. 333 00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:05,640 God objectively offers us forgiveness, that forgiveness is not subjectively 334 00:22:05,759 --> 00:22:13,759 realized unless we repent and embrace or receive Jesus Christ 335 00:22:13,759 --> 00:22:17,759 as savior and Lord of our lives. Let's talk to 336 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,079 Jason next in Fresno, California. 337 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 4: Hi Jason, Hi Hank, how you doing today. 338 00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 2: I'm well, Thank you. 339 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,279 Speaker 3: I just want to say you know, God bless you 340 00:22:27,319 --> 00:22:30,039 for your ministry. My question is, I was talking to 341 00:22:30,039 --> 00:22:33,319 my father about this the other day. If the Jewish 342 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,000 people do not believe the Judaism that Jesus Christ is 343 00:22:37,039 --> 00:22:40,519 the Messiah, and we understand that he is the atonement 344 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,160 for our sins and animal sacrifice used to be that 345 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:47,839 blood atonement for our sins, then how does Judaism atone 346 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,000 for their sins? Now? 347 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 2: Well, they don't, which is to say that there is 348 00:22:53,559 --> 00:22:58,359 no more temple. So Jews do not practice temple Judaism. 349 00:22:58,799 --> 00:23:05,680 They practice Torah Judaism. So there are different strains of Judaism, 350 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:11,039 but Orthodox Jews are known for their strict dedication to 351 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,599 the Mosaic law as reinterpreted by the rabbi subsequent to 352 00:23:15,599 --> 00:23:16,799 the fall of Jerusalem. 353 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 3: Yes, well, you know, Thank you so much, Hank, and 354 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,920 God bless you, your family and everybody over there. You 355 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:23,880 have a good day, sir. 356 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,279 Speaker 2: Thank you. Back to the phone lines, let's go to Gregory, 357 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:32,119 Kansas City, Missouri. Hi, Gregory, good afternoon. 358 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 7: I was actually just calling. I read an article about 359 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:40,240 the Sahitic Coptic version of John one one and I 360 00:23:40,279 --> 00:23:42,720 would just wanted to hear your take on that. Does 361 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:45,880 the fact that it's translated the same way the New 362 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,440 World translation is translated in Jonma one. Does that show 363 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:53,920 that that particular translation in Jomua one shouldn't be vilified, 364 00:23:54,039 --> 00:23:58,079 or that it's actually grammatically correct in it actually a 365 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,799 pretty decent interpreting of John one. I. 366 00:24:01,319 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 2: No, it doesn't mean that at all. In fact, there 367 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,000 is plenty of manuscript evidence that points in the opposite direction. 368 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,640 But more to the point that Jehovah's Witness have a 369 00:24:12,839 --> 00:24:16,759 very simplistic argument. What they say is if a definite 370 00:24:16,839 --> 00:24:20,799 article does not appear before the noun, in this case 371 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,000 theos or God, then the noun has to be modified 372 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:31,720 by an indefinite article, and therefore they provide the rendering 373 00:24:31,759 --> 00:24:35,519 in the New World translation the word was a god 374 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,960 as opposed to the word was God. But here's the point. 375 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,640 They don't even live up to their own rule, because 376 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:51,240 if they did, John one six would read there came 377 00:24:51,279 --> 00:24:58,079 a man sent from a God. His name was a John. 378 00:24:59,599 --> 00:25:03,640 It does take an expert on Greek syntax to recognize 379 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:10,400 that this is utter nonsense, and their grammatical gyrations end 380 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,279 up obscuring the genius of John. The construction of John 381 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,839 is so brilliant in that he expresses an idea in 382 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,920 the most concise way that he could possibly have stated it. 383 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:32,599 The word was with God and yet was distinct from 384 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:37,200 the Father. The grammatical genius in and of itself is 385 00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:41,759 often lost by the tampering that the Jehovah's witnesses due 386 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:44,599 to the text of scripture. And this is not only 387 00:25:45,279 --> 00:25:49,000 in John. 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