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Speaker 2: Let's go right to the phone lines. First up as Gene,
he's listening in Charlotte, North Carolina Hygiene. Hi, how you doing,
Hank Well, thank.
Speaker 4: You, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: First, I want to say I learn a lot from
your show, and I appreciate all the teaching that you
put on the radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: My question is about Second Corinthians five and eight. A
lot of the teachers that I know of the Bible,
they read this. They read this passage as if it
says absent from the body, present with the Lord. But
when I read it in the King James version, it
says in the middle of the scripture, it says and
willing rather to be absent from the body and present
with the Lord. Doesn't that change the context up?
Speaker 2: Not really, because what Paul is pointing out in Second Corinthians,
he's writing to the Corinthians, and he's saying, we're always
confident because we know that as long as we are
at home in the body, we are away from the Lord,
which is to say, as long as we are in
the present world in life, we are separated from the Lord.
We live by faith, not by sight, and thereforeces Paul,
we're confident and would prefer to be away from the
body and at home with the Lord, which is to
say that the moment that one dies, there's a separation
between body and soul, and then the soul is in
the presence of God, which is to say, absent from
the body then is to be at home with the Lord.
Now that extends ultimately to true humanity in redemption when
the Lord returns, because then we will be at home
in the body and yet present with the Lord. In
other words, we will experience the physical presence of the Lord,
very much like Adam and Eve did when they walked
with the Lord in the cool of the day.
Speaker 4: Okay, so what about Lazarus.
Speaker 2: What about Lazarus which one.
Speaker 4: When he died, When Lazarus died and Jesus ram called
him from the grave, yes, did he go to heaven too.
Speaker 2: Well, if you were absent from the body, you were
at home with the Lord. Lazarus was resuscitated and he
came back and lived again in the body. So if
we're absent from the body, we're present with the Lord.
And the point here is that even after death, the
soul continues to exist. To ask where the soul is
is a category mistake, of course, because souls are non physical.
Therefore awareness does not apply to them, although awareness does
apply to them. So the point is that Lazarus, even
after his physical body died and was stinking as it
were in the grave for four days, his soul continued
to exist, to have active conscious existence. So we can
presume that that soul was in fellowship with God again,
had awareness, not awareness what I mean by that. Again,
this is something that needs to be parsed for people
because a lot of people cannot conceive of a soul
being somewhere, and rightly so, because souls don't have extension
in space because they're non physical. So we can talk
about being in fellowship with God, but that is not
a locational term. It is a relational term.
Speaker 4: So so last is probably they know way he went
after he just you know, hypothetically.
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying he did know where he went because
the soul has conscious awareness, so he would have been
aware of being in fellowship with God.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Hey, you got it. Good question, Jane. All right, let's
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
Kevin when Kansas City, Kansas, Hi, Kevin, Hi? You doing good?
Speaker 5: Her?
Speaker 6: Are you pretty good?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 6: I've got a question. This is regarding I talked to
you here a couple two three months back. It's regarding
divorce and remarriage, and it's based on Matthew nineteen specifically
verse nine. I've been doing some study. I myself fell
into a season of sin which led to a divorce,
and I eventually remarried, as.
Speaker 5: Did my ex wife.
Speaker 6: And as I studied this, I realized that there are
a lot of people who teach that my current relationship
and my ex wife's current relationships are continuous, ongoing adultery.
And so it led me to look at this. But
I know nothing about Greek grammar, and so what I
did was I looked at the church history, early church fathers,
things like that, and it seemed and I could be wrong,
I could just be reading wrong, but it seemed that
they were stating that to engage in another marriage after
a divorce is sinful. Now I don't know if Matthew
nineteen nine is a continuous state of adultery or if
it was a one time act of adultery against you.
Help me figure that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, let me tell you this, and
this is the most important thing I'm going to say
to you, and that is you can't unscramble the egg.
You're remarried. Your ex wife is remarried, and therefore you
can't put humpty dumpty back together again. So don't look back,
press forward. God can restore the years that the locusts
have eaten. Commit yourself faithfully to your present wife, and
move forward. That's a very important thing to recognize, because
if you start thinking in a different way, you are
going to cause disruption in your present marriage, and you
simply don't want to do that. Secondly, there are consequences
to all sin, and those consequences follow inexorably like night
follows day. But that does not mean that God cannot
bless or use you in your present marriage. Thirdly, let
me say this. There are exceptions by which people can
have a divorce under biblical sanction, and in the very
text that you mention, Jesus notes one such exception, and
that is marital unfaithfulness. Paul in First Corinthians chapter seven
does the same thing. He mentions desertion. In other words,
if an unbeliever leaves, the other party is not bound
in that circumstance. Beyond that, I think it can be
credibly argued that there are violations of the marriage covenant
that may constitute biblical grounds for divorce, even though they
are not specifically named as such in the New Testament.
So there are sins against the relationship that can rise
to the level of adultery and desertion. So even apart
from the first two points, there are biblical grounds for divorce,
they're not always the best option, which is to say,
the best option is always reconciliation. And I always tell
people as long as the door to reconciliation is open
in terms of the marriage, there's always the possibility of
reconciliation even apart from the marriage. But as long as
the door to reconciliation is open for the marriage, you
should try to walk through that door. In your case,
that door has been irrevocably closed. So at this point
here's what you need to do. Forget what is passed
and move on. Be faithful in the present, recognizing that
God can give you the joy of your salvation, and
he can grant a willing spirit to sustain you. He
can blot out your sins, and he can give you
joy and fulfillment in your present condition, and use you
for His glory and for the extension of His kingdom.
I know there are people that will say otherwise, and
I have heard them say that, continuing in a present
marriage and so forth, it might as well have a
millstone hung around your neck and thrown in the deepest
part of the sea. Don't listen to that kind of nonsense.
Move forward in the grace of God, honor and cherish
your wife, and become an example of the grace of
God which He has so freely extended to you, not
only for the rest of your life, but also for eternity.
I'm gonna have to leave it at that. We've written
an article on the Christian Research Journal on the biblical
grounds for divorce and remarriage. You can get it online
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy, and let's get right back
to our phone callers. Jeanette listening in Omaha, Nebraska. Your
next Hi, Jeanette, Hi, Hank, thank you for your ministry. Well,
thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm just wondering if we are essentially judged twice, one
when we die and then again when Christ returns.
Speaker 1: And if that's.
Speaker 7: True, what are we being judged for.
Speaker 1: The second time if the first time we are judged
for our salvation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in a sense you can say we
are judged twice. But there is a qualitative difference. And
let me explain that. There's a sense in which you
can see that there is judgment that takes place at
the moment of death. You see that in Luke chapter sixteen,
the rich man and Lazarus are both judged. The beggar
Lazarus ends up in Abraham's wisdom or paradise, so he
is found to be in relationship with God. He is
enjoying heavenly bliss, heavenly bliss being defined as being in
the presence of God. The rich man, however, ends up
in torments, so he is experiencing judgment. However, when the
Lord Jesus Christ appears the second time and puts all
things to right, there will be a judgment that takes place,
and everyone will receive according to what he has done,
which is to say, there are degrees of reward in
heaven and degrees of punishment in hell. Jesus said, behold,
I come quickly. My reward is with me, and I'll
give to everyone according to what he has done. The
Bible consistently teaches us that what we do now counts
for all eternity. As far as the unregenatorre concerned. We
can safely conclude that a garden variety pagan is not
going to suffer the same torment or receive the same
sentence as someone like Osama bin Laden or a Hitler
or a Paul Pott.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. I've written about this in a number of
different forums, including my book Resurrection. There's a chapter there
that is not often preached on by modern day pastors,
but you will see by my references that Jesus Christ
did speak often about the situation regarding rewards. Do not
lay up for yourselves, or do not store up for
yourselves treasures on earth, said Jesus, wear moth and rust
corrupt and where thieves break in and steel, But rather
store for yourself treasures in heaven, where moth and rust
do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break in
and steal. For where your treasure is there, Your heart
will be also next up as Connie listening in Saint
Peter's Missouri.
Speaker 1: Hi Connie, Hi, thank you for taking my call a pleasure.
Speaker 8: My mother has been widowed twice, both wonderful Christian men.
But when she gets to Heaven, what is the relationship
for them at that point? I mean they'll know each
other as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Speaker 2: Yeah, widowed twice, who will she be married to? Well,
Earth is the breeding colony, Heaven is the homeland, and
therefore we can safely assume that in Heaven we're going
to be like the angels, not in that we're going
to be non physical, but we're neither going to be
married nor be given in marriage. As such, your mom
will have a relationship with all the redeemed, but that
relationship will be far different. That does not mean in
any way diminished, but far different than the relationship in
this time space continuum. I love my wife and married
to my wife. I'm not going to be married to
my wife in heaven. The relationship I will have with
Kathy is going to exceed the greatest joy I have
ever experienced with her in this lifetime. That's what I've
got to look forward to and so our relationships will
be different, not diminished, but better. We want to go
make the phone lines talk to Monica listening when Lincoln, Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Hi, Monica, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you very very much for picking my call.
Speaker 2: Oh, my pleasure.
Speaker 5: I was wondering. I actually was reading in your Bible
answer book about forgiveness. Yeah, and I just was hoping
you could clarify, give me a little more understanding on
I guess my question is when or who you have
to forgive. I thought what I read implied or said
that forgiving someone isn't required if they aren't asking for forgiveness,
And then I kind of wondered if that principle applies
to God's forgiveness for us, you know, if we don't
actually verbalize please forgive me, or that I've sinned or Yeah.
Speaker 2: And that's a good question, Monica. In fact, I think
the issue with God is very relevant to answering the question.
God objectively offers us forgiveness and the restoration of fellowship,
but that forgiveness is not subjectively realized unless we repent.
And I don't think we should set a higher standard
than the standard that God sets and that is the
highest stand and that becomes the operative standard for us.
So my point is that forgiveness is always a two
way street. It takes someone who is willing to forgive
and someone who is wanting to be forgiven. Because if
you don't have both aspects, or both sides to the coin,
as it were, then restoration of relationship simply does not
take place. So from our perspective as Christians, we always
have to be willing to forgive, but on the other
side of the coin, you have to have someone who
is wanting to be forgiven. Because unless there is someone
who is wanting to be forgiven, reconciliation doesn't take place.
And that is true not only in personal relationships, but
certainly it is to the point of your prologue to
the question, it is true in our relationship with God.
God objectively offers us forgiveness, that forgiveness is not subjectively
realized unless we repent and embrace or receive Jesus Christ
as savior and Lord of our lives. Let's talk to
Jason next in Fresno, California.
Speaker 4: Hi Jason, Hi Hank, how you doing today.
Speaker 2: I'm well, Thank you.
Speaker 3: I just want to say you know, God bless you
for your ministry. My question is, I was talking to
my father about this the other day. If the Jewish
people do not believe the Judaism that Jesus Christ is
the Messiah, and we understand that he is the atonement
for our sins and animal sacrifice used to be that
blood atonement for our sins, then how does Judaism atone
for their sins? Now?
Speaker 2: Well, they don't, which is to say that there is
no more temple. So Jews do not practice temple Judaism.
They practice Torah Judaism. So there are different strains of Judaism,
but Orthodox Jews are known for their strict dedication to
the Mosaic law as reinterpreted by the rabbi subsequent to
the fall of Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, you know, Thank you so much, Hank, and
God bless you, your family and everybody over there. You
have a good day, sir.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Back to the phone lines, let's go to Gregory,
Kansas City, Missouri. Hi, Gregory, good afternoon.
Speaker 7: I was actually just calling. I read an article about
the Sahitic Coptic version of John one one and I
would just wanted to hear your take on that. Does
the fact that it's translated the same way the New
World translation is translated in Jonma one. Does that show
that that particular translation in Jomua one shouldn't be vilified,
or that it's actually grammatically correct in it actually a
pretty decent interpreting of John one. I.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't mean that at all. In fact, there
is plenty of manuscript evidence that points in the opposite direction.
But more to the point that Jehovah's Witness have a
very simplistic argument. What they say is if a definite
article does not appear before the noun, in this case
theos or God, then the noun has to be modified
by an indefinite article, and therefore they provide the rendering
in the New World translation the word was a god
as opposed to the word was God. But here's the point.
They don't even live up to their own rule, because
if they did, John one six would read there came
a man sent from a God. His name was a John.
It does take an expert on Greek syntax to recognize
that this is utter nonsense, and their grammatical gyrations end
up obscuring the genius of John. The construction of John
is so brilliant in that he expresses an idea in
the most concise way that he could possibly have stated it.
The word was with God and yet was distinct from
the Father. The grammatical genius in and of itself is
often lost by the tampering that the Jehovah's witnesses due
to the text of scripture. And this is not only
in John. Certainly they do it in colautions as well.
They add the word other four times following the fifteenth
verse in order to make Jesus Christ a junior partner
in the creation of all things, as opposed to the
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