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pre recorded to start today's Bible answer Man broadcast. Here's

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your host, Hank Canagraph.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Brandy.

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Speaker 2: Is always great to be in studio as we answer

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your questions throughout the United States and Canada, indeed around

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the world. I was reading earlier on today Philippians chapter four,

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where the apostle Paul says, I read, joice greatly that

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at last you have renewed your concern for me. Indeed,

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you have been concerned, but you had no opportunity to

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show it. I'm not just saying this because I am

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in need, because I've learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

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I know what it is to be in need, I

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know what it is to have plenty, but I've learned

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the secret of being content in any and every situation,

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whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or want,

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because I can do everything through Him who gives me

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the strength. And yet it was so good of you

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to share in my troubles. Moreover, as you Philippians know

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the early days of your acquaintance with the Gospel, when

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I sit out from Macedonia, not one single church shared

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with me in the matter of giving and receiving except

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you only for even when I was in Fessalondaica, you

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sent me aid again and again when I was in need.

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Not that I'm looking for your gift, but I am

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looking for what may be credited to your account. Paul

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never talks about a give to get scheme, But what

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he does talk about is participation in the Gospel. And

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what he makes clear, not only here but elsewhere, is

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that while you can't take what you have with you,

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you can send it on ahead. We're talking about His

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laying up for ourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and

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rust do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break

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in and steel. For where your treasure is there, your

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heart will be Also. We're asking you to stand with

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us all this month's shoulder to shoulder in the battle

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for life and truth. You can do just that in

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a say secure fashion on the web at equip dot org.

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We'll go right to the phone lines. Warren. He's listening

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in Canada, Edmonton, Alberta High Warren.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get too much into my testimony,

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but my son went through a six year battle with

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cancer and ended up going home to the Lord. And

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one of the things I've struggled with is like in

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Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, you know his plan to prospress,

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or in the Psalms where it talked about delight in

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me and I'll fulfill all your desires? Should those things

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be taken literally? And if so, then do I look

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at that as a reflection of a chink in my faith?

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Aren't her type of thing? Or what's the best way

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if you've interpret that?

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Speaker 2: Sure? And I don't think that any Christian can look

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at life from merely a temporary perspective. One of the

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realities that we have is that we live in a

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fallen world. In that fallen world, the death rate is

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one per person. Everyone is going to make it. We

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all get sick, eventually, we all die. That is the

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reality of the life that we live in, this temporary flesh.

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And so Christianity doesn't come along anywhere and give us

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a peaceful way to come to terms with the maladies

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of life, but rather something far greater away to overcome

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them through resurrection. So are we promised a panacea. No,

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what we're promised is peace. My peace, I give unto you,

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not as the world gives peace in the midst of

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the storm. And so we don't give to curry favor

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from God. We give because there are real needs in

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the world that we can meet as embassadors for Jesus Christ.

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And certainly the war generation understood just that. They knew

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what it meant to catch the contagious joy of giving,

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and as a result, they were empowered to spread the

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gospel around the globe. They fed the hungry, they clothed

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the naked, they cared for the sick, They founded centers

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of Christian education, hospitals, relief organizations. They left an indelible

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mark on their generation. When you think about why we

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are today losing the culture wars, its lack of commitment,

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its lack of sowing seeds for a harvest, and oftentimes

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it is the horrifying notion that giving is for temporary

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prosperity or for financial prosperity. If we give, we will

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be prosperous and successful. But we do not measure success

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and prosperity the way that the world does. The point

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is is that we view wealth with eternity in mind.

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The scriptures teach us to lead our lives here below

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as responsible stewards, whether we have a little or a lot,

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so that one day at the judgment God himself will

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richly reward us. So go back to the phone lines

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and talk to Lee. He's in Arkansas, High Lee.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Hello, I was wondering if you could help me

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with something that a lot of us struggle with, especially

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the younger generation. The homosexual agenda is bombarding us all

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the time, and I'm wondering if maybe you could use

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a little bit of scripture to help us. You know,

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make sure, because we ask all the time, you know,

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are we doing the Ryan thing by standing against the

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homosexual agenda of the same sex marriages? Because there's a

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lot of progressive Christianity out there, and it can be

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very confusing when you have you know, so called Christians

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that stand, you know, in favor of this stuff. You know,

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it seems like it's really starting to wear us down.

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I was wondering if you had some scripture to encourage

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us to keep standing strong against that kind of candice.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think you have to look at the

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broader issue, and that is participating in the principles of

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the Kingdom. This is what we're called to teach people about.

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The King has landed in disguise, and he is calling

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all of us to a great campaign of sabotage.

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Speaker 5: As C. S.

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Speaker 2: Lewis put it, So we are those who are to

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say to the world, the King has landed. We can

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be co labors with Christ in changing this world. So

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it's not about a we they siege mentality against the world.

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It's not us boycotting the world. We can't do that.

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We're in the world, we're not of the world, and

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we transform the world through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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And we're not even encumbered with results. What we are

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called to is simply faithful. Now, in terms of biblical clarification,

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the Bible teaches us the principles of the King and

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the Kingdom, and in fact, the Bible tells us that

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those principles when it comes to same sex sexuality are

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so clear that even gentiles without access to direct revelation

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a scripture have enough evidence in the natural realm to

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discover God's aversion to homosexual behavior. And that's why in

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the Book of Romans, Paul describes both the perversion and

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the penalty. And I think that we do well to

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recognize that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality in some

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kind of capricious fashion. It carefully defines the borders of

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human sexuality so that our joy may be complete. It

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doesn't require an advanced degree in physiology to appreciate the

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fact that the human body is not designed for homosexual relationships.

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So whatever the slogans in the sound bites, they don't

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change the sciencecientific reality that same sex sexuality are devastating,

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not only from a psychological but also from a physiological perspective.

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So what are we to do? Are we to create

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some kind of a we they siege mentality. The LGBT

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community has donned an iron boot, seeking to crush anyone

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that stands in their way. And so we say, okay,

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you're going to do that. We're going to show you

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we have economic clout and power too, and We're going

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to put on an iron boot and we'll crush you back. No,

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we ultimately recognize is that the way that culture is

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changed is by changing the heart. And we recognize even

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more that the problem for lack of transformation in the

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culture is that we have not been salt in light

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in the culture. Well, we've been a essentially is a

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microcosm of the culture. So what we do is we

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tell people that they can become believers. Every eye closed,

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every head bowed, raise your hand, I saw your hand.

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You're now a believer. But if the appetites of the

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body do not change, then what you become is a

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baptized secular humanist, an imitator of the culture as opposed

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to a cultural transformational change agent. And then we divide ourselves.

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You wonder why the salt doesn't permeate the water. It's

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in ziplock bags, and quite a few of them were compartmentalized.

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So we're not affecting the culture. And now when the

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culture is going in a different direction, we say, well,

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we're going to boycott the culture. I don't think that's

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what we want to do. What we want to do

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is give ourselves afresh to not just an intellectual head fake,

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but rather to the transformational process that not only changes culture,

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but first changes us so that we become imitators of Paul,

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as he is an imitator of our Lord and Savior,

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Jesus Christ. Be right back and with more answers.

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Speaker 1: As the erosion of truth and hostility against Christians continues

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to perish than to live as slaves. Churchill sought to

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Atheism advances in the West, and slavery to secularity is

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Speaker 2: They very much, Randy, and I'm asking people to stand

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battle for life and truth. Again. Without your help, we

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Speaker 7: How are you today?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? Thank you.

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Speaker 7: I listen to your show all the time when i'm driving,

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which is ninety percent of my workday, and it's very

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thought provoking, which has brought me to this call today.

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I believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God.

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Breathed by God. My question is why is there not more?

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Why did it stop when it stopped? I mean, why

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did God quit communicating with us in written form? He

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inspired all the writings, and then it just stopped. I

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mean they were written on parchment and scrolls and whatnot.

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We progress to the age of cell phones and internet.

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I mean, why did God stop writing when he did?

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Do you what's your thought on that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And of course you can get the Bible on

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your cell phone today, on a smartphone, so it's not

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just on parchment or papyrus. But yeah, I mean what's

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important to realize is that God continues to speak to us.

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I mean, the Bible says the heavens declare the glory

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of God. The skies proclaim the work of his hands.

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Day after day. They pour forth speech night after night.

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They proclaim knowledge. There's no speech or language where their

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voice is not heard. Their words go out to the

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ends of the earth. So God continues to speak to us,

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but he will never speak to us in a way

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that's other than what He's already given to us, something

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that we have a basis for verification with. So what

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we have is the very real issue here of authority,

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God himself sets up the conditions by which new revelations

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must be ratified, and that is confirmation by those who

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were eye witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And

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therefore with the death of the apostles, there can be

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no new revelations. God can reveal things from what He

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has already given to us. And let me say that

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that is an inexhaustible treasure chest. I continue to dig

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into that treasure chest and learn more and more, and

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quite frankly, as I go through the scriptures each day

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I find out how little I already know about what

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could be known. So here I have been studying the

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Bible all these years, and I have just a little

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wisp of what could be known in the full scope

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of things that God has already given to us. So

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I don't think it's a matter of having more and more,

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but it's taking what we have and applying that in

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our lives, knowing it, memorizing it, but not just being

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familiar with the menu. You know, you could come up

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with new menus, but we have a menu that's inexhaustible

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to begin with. But it's not just about knowing that menu.

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It's recognizing that that menu points to a meal, and

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that's really where the payoff is. The payoff is to

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experience the living God. So Christ did not only save

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us by his death, he saved us into his life.

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He's come that we might have life and have life

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more abundantly. So while we're focused rightly on truth, we

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must also recognize that life matters more, that we can

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have life and have it to the full. And I

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think that's where people are missing out. It's not as

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though we don't have enough revelation. It is that we

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are not taking that revelation and seeing where it points

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and then partaking of where it points. And you know

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the other thing that's kind of interesting when you think

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about this, how in the world would we know know

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that someone is authentic unless we had something to test

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them by. I was reading through Charisma magazine and quite frankly,

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it put me into almost a state of depression. I

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just could not believe the truckloads of heresy in one magazine.

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And I kept thinking as I was reading through that magazine, Wow,

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if only people would test what is being said in

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light of what God has already said. Now, the new

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sightseers of today's generation. I mean, they say all kinds

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of crazy things, but if you look at the Apostles,

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we don't say what they say is crazy, because, first

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of all, there's a perspicuity, there's a clearness and consistency

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within itself. When you look at the scriptures, you also

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have those who were eye witnesses of Christ's majesty in

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contestify to the main and plain things, the fact that

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Jesus Christ is God, the fact that Jesus rose from

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the dead, that Jesus Christ is coming again. How many

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people today know the Ten Commandments or the twelve Apostles

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much less, wanting more and more sensational stuff. You know.

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Remember the big blood Moon's phase. I mean everybody is

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talking about that. Maybe big deal out of it, and

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that phase will pass it up. It's this titillation that

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really distracts people. It's not that we don't have enough. Okay,

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well tell me appreciate your call. Back to the phone lines.

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We'll talk to Karen as she's listening in British Columbia.

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Candidate Hi, Karen, Oh, okay, thank you for taking my call.

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You're welcome, Karen.

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Speaker 5: It sounds to me is if you might have partially

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answered my question actually when you were talking to the

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ladies just previously called uh huh. My question has to

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do with what is a prophet in your understanding of

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and what they do. I'd like to know, like, who

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is the prophets, what do they do, when are they

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in a lifetime, and where are they generally located.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's.

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Speaker 2: A good question. I would say that the New Testament

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has an idea of prophecy that's different from what you

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find in the Biblical revelation. So in the Biblical revelation,

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you have prophets in the Old Testament like Jeremiah or

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Isaiah or Ezekiel, and they were spokespersons for God. They

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would speak in God's word, would be on their tongue

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as it were, and they were ratified within the context

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of history. So if Isaiah said something would happen, it

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happened precisely as he said it would happen. And you

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know that God was speaking through these prophets, because as

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God himself said, I told you these things before they happen,

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so when they happen, you would believe. So the apostle

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and the prophets of the Old and the New Testament

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were infallible, and because they were infallible, and because you

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can't take what they said and punted off to good

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guessing or common sense or luck, we can have great

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assurance that these are the words of God. Now in

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the New Testament, Paul also talks about prophesying, but now

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he's not saying, let's be another little Isaiah or Ezekiel.

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He's saying, what we need to do is prophesy in

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the sense of strengthening, encouraging, equipping, edifying, exhorting the body

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of Christ. So what we do is we speak God's

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words after him or think his thoughts after him, as

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opposed to coming up with some new prophecy about what's

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going to happen in the So prophecy is not foretelling

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the future. It is forth telling. So we already know

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that the Bible is true because it corresponds to reality.

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What God said would happen did happen, So we have

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a reliable source. God, however, is not telling us anything

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about what's going to happen in the future. So we

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don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. We don't know

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what's going to happen next month. We don't know when

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Jesus is going to appear again a second time. God

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doesn't tell us any of that. What he tells us

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to be faithful, to continue to forthtell to encourage, exhort

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at a fine equip.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well, that answers my question for now, and I

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really appreciate that. Thank you so much.

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