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Speaker 2: Thank very much, Randian. Before we go to our callers,
I want to draw attention to a booklet that I
have put together that I want to send to you
when you support the ministry of the Christian Research Institute.
Of all the billions of people who have lived on
this planet, only Jesus Christ could emerge through the doorway
of Biblical prophecy. And that's why I've titled this booklet
Jesus the Superstar of Biblical Prophecy. And I've given you
the prophecies in such a way that you can remember them.
All The detail is in the booklet, but you can
remember the prophecies because they're identified with the first seven
letters of the alphabet. His ancestry A was marked thousands
of years prior to his birth. His birthplace B, the
birthplace in Bethlehem, was likewise foretold. The circumstance and its
surrounding his death prophesied in minute detail before crucifixion was
ever invented. The d date a visitation predicted within a
historically narrow timeframe. I want to come back to that
in just a moment, an extraordinary miracle worker the E
who would f fulfill the law and the profits and
a light to the gentiles g so that salvation would
go out to the ends of the earth. The prophecies
concerning him are simply so precise that the probabilities is
someone fulfilling them by chance simply do not exist. As mentioned,
I want to focus for just a moment on this
date setting, because the Bible in fact does some date setting.
It sets the date of Christ coming onto the stage
of human history in relatively narrow date parameters. Today, however,
there are false date setters In fact, I would say
that date setting is the bane of modern day controversialists.
In reality, no one knows the time of Christ's return,
no one knows the end of the world. For tend
prophets continue to tell people what their itching ears want
to hear. But true prophets spoke as they were carried
along by the Holy Spirit. I think it's utterly ironic
that Camping cites Amos three p. Seven in vindication of
his claim. Amos could rightly say, the Lord God will
do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants
the prophets. Why because he was a true prophet of God,
and therefore he rightly told God's people what the future
held in store. Unlike date setters, who attempt through esoteric
numerology to calculate the exact date of the Rapture and
the precise date of Christ's first advent, the prophets provided
date parameters which, in concert with ancestry, birthplace, crucifixion prophecies
and the like, pinpoint Jesus as the prophesied Messiah, and
rather than casting aspersions on the scriptures, they demonstrate that
God has indeed inspired the sacred text in the span
of human history. The time frame set by such prophecies
is narrow. Indeed, Christ would not come prior to the
last oracles spoken by the prophet Malachi, nor could he
be born after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
His advent would not occur prior to the last prophecy
concerning his coming. He would be preceded by John, who
would come in the spirit and power of Elijah, and
it would come prior to the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple.
The prophet Hagei made this equally plain in prophesying the
coming of Christ would cause the glory of the Second
Temple to surpass the glories of the First. I've written
about this and so much more in the book that
Jesus the Superstar of Biblical Prophecy. It is available for
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Let's go to the phone lines. Talk to Connie in Palmdale, California. Hi, Connie, Hey, Hey,
how are you. I'm well? Thank you.
Speaker 3: Oh. You know, I've listened to you guys for probably
twenty five almost thirty years, and you're the only person
I could think to call because I know you tell
the absolute truth and I am having a real hard
time finding a true Bible teaching, scripture, believing, honest church.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well what do I do? Yeah? And Connie, here's
the deal. You need to know what you're looking for.
He who aims at nothing invariably hits it. In other words,
the idea is not to shoot the arrow at the
wall and draw the bullseye around where it lands. It
is to determine where the bullseye is to begin with.
And I think in this case, what you want to
do is look for a church that is committed to
the true worship of God through prayer, praise, and the
proclamation of the Word. You want to look for a
church that genuinely exemplifies the oneness of believers, as delineated
by the apostle Paul in Romans chapter twelve. And then thirdly,
you want a church that's equipping you so that you
can be a witness to the world. So I think
those are the three basic ingredients that you want to
look for. Now. Churches do this differently. There are churches
that have one kind of ecclesiology and churches that have another.
And what I mean by that is there are some
churches that don't have a pastor Lanite dichotomy. In other words,
when the people get together, everybody's involved in prayer, praise,
and the proclamation of the Word. So they prepare during
the week, and then they prophesy what they have prepared,
not in the sense of foretelling the future, but rather
in the sense of forth telling the word that the
Spirit has given to them to edify the body. There
are some churches who have a pastor who prepares during
the week to teach the Body of Christ. But the
real issue here becomes, we want to worship God in
spirit and in truth, through prayer and through praise and
through the proclamation of the Word, so that what is
communicated corresponds to the reality that God has encapsulated in
his word. So again, you want to look for a
church that genuinely worships, that genuinely exemplifies oneness, and that
equips the body for witness. You can remember that by wow, worship,
oneness and witness. That's really what you're aiming at.
Speaker 3: This is what I'm running into. It seems, you know,
on the surface. Then you start hearing the undertow that
isn't really biblic Oh, the scripture is being misquoted, is
being taken out of context. You know, I've literally walked
out of more churches than most people have walked into.
And you know there are maybe I'm too nitpicky.
Speaker 2: I don't know, and maybe you aren't actually.
Speaker 3: With the Holy Spirit. And I've never spoken in tongues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's a good point. That's a classic case
in point. That's an issue that you can debate vigorously,
but it's not an issue over which you have to
leave a church, which is to say that it's a
secondary issue. The essentials are the main in the plain things.
Trust me, I can't remember a church service in many
years where I haven't had some small point of disagreement
after the pastor has spoken or after people have prophesied.
But that isn't a point of division because it's a
secondary issue. Where we have to stand shoulder to shoulder
is on essential Christian doctrines. Those are the doctrines for
which the martyrs shed their blood. So an essential unity,
non essentials, liberty and all things charity. That been very helpful,
very much, so well, Conny, appreciate you so much, and.
Speaker 3: God bless you lads. You're still in the air.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Conny. We'll be right back. Please don't touch
that dial.
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Speaker 2: Very much, Randy, and let's go to Charlie next listening
on Alabama. Hi, Charlie, Hey, hey.
Speaker 4: I've been holding for a good bet. I listen to
your program a great deal and now I am fine.
And what I want to ask in Matthew's Gospel in
the seventh chapter that Jesus makes this statement, Uh, do
not throw your throw the dogs? What is sacred? And
do not cast your pearls among swine? What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good question, Charlie. And one of
the things you may want to refer to is what
happened in Acts chapter eighteen when Silas and Timothy come
from Macedonia and Paul devotes himself exclusively to preaching and
testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. But
when the Jews opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook
out his clothes in protest, and he said to them,
your blood be on your own heads. I am clear
of my responsibility. From now on I will go to
the gentiles. So, in essence, this is an example of
what is meant when Jesus says, do not give dogs
what is sacred. Do not throw your pearls to pigs.
If you do, they may trample them under their feet
and then turn and tear you to pieces. Now, unclean
animals pigs ate vile food. Dogs were scavengers. They would
bite the hand that feeds them. And therefore this was
a metaphor unicating that you can't talk anyone into the kingdom.
Thus you should preach to those whose hearts are prepared
by the spirit of God. And what I mean by
that is you can't harvest green fruit. You can only
harvest what God prepares. That's why I always say I
don't do what I do by might or power, but
by God's spirit, because I can't do anything. Only the
Holy Spirit can change your heart. So I can harvest
what God prepares, but I can't do more than that.
Speaker 4: All right, I say, in essence, what Jesus is saying
is if you tell the someone and they don't buy
into the gospel and everything Black Paul and them does.
It's just in other words, just shake it off and
just go home or just leave it to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: Then yeah, absolutely, Charlie. And one thing you have just
demonstrated is though you're physical eyes can't see, your spiritual
eyes certainly can see. So you're definitely cited from a
spiritual perspective.
Speaker 4: All right. That gives me a lot of encouragement. Just
what you said right than the last of it. And
I want to say, God bless you and I hope
you have a golden, golden afternoon.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Charlie, you as well appreciate talking to you.
It's a delight. Want to go back to the phone
lines now and talk to friends. Scene listening in Atlanta, Georgia. Hi,
friand Scene.
Speaker 5: Hey Hank, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: You got it.
Speaker 5: You know, I've been a Christian for a lot of
years and when I sin, at the end of the day,
when I pray, I profess my sins. Recently I heard
someone in a study say that once you're forgiven, you
are forgiven for all time and you do not have
to confess your sin ever to God again. I have
not found a verse that supports that, and I was
hoping if there is such a verse, you could provide
that for me. But I don't line up with that thinking.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you don't, because it's stinking thinking. I mean,
it's sort of like me saying to my wife, I
told you I loved you when I married you. Don't
ask me to say it again, or you know what
I'm going to tell you one time, honey, and that
is I'm sorry for anything I might do wrong throughout
the duration of the decades of our marriage. But don't
ever ask me to say it again. I mean, obviously
that wouldn't fly very well. And I think from a
spiritual perspective, the same thing is true. We want to
keep short accounts with our Lord, and the Bible is
very clear. And first John, if we claim to be
without sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not
in us. And then says John, but if we confess
our sins, he's faithful and just and will forgive us
our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. And if
we claim we have not sinned, we make about to
be a liar. And his word has no place in
our lives. Now, the point here is, yes, it is
true that we are covered with the righteousness of Jesus Christ,
but we are yet sinners, and therefore we have to
actively daily confess our sins. Jesus taught us that very thing,
forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Now I know what the rejoinder is. It is by
people who teach the false teaching in this regard. They say, well,
you know, that's old covenant stuff that's gone away. So
when Jesus taught his disciples to pray the Lord's prayer,
that's the old covenant stuff. It no longer applies to
us today. And that is an insidious lie. Not only that,
but James five sixteen says, therefore, confess your sins and confess.
There is a present active subjunctive, which means it's a
grammatical construction which denotes continuing action, such as keep on confessing.
So you have an epistle that I start out with
that's specifically written to believers, and in essence is communicating
that while our sins cannot damage our relationship with God,
they can certainly destroy our fellowship with God. Or put
another way, our sin does not break our union with God,
but our sins certainly can break our communion with God.
Speaker 5: You know, you talked about the sin zone, where you
take a verse and you take it out of context,
and that's exactly what was done when I sat in
on this study. And the primis there was, well, once
you're saved, and you do contest your sin, and that
all those verses that you mentioned, even down to the
Lord's Prayer, was a command to you, if you will,
to come clean before the Lord once and for all
and give your life to Christ, not that it's a
continuous daily exercise. And I feel that those verses dealing
with confessing sin in the Bible in this case were
used to support this concept that this person is trying
to get awful on everyone. And it's like I said,
I don't.
Speaker 2: Line up with that, so well, I'm glad you don't.
And this is where you have to test all things
and like a scripture and hold fast to that which
is good. When Jesus said to his disciples, this then
is how you should pray. I think the idea that
you would have in clear common sense is that Jesus
is giving his disciples a pattern, a template for praying.
So every phrase is meaningful, and sometimes the meaning of
the phrase isn't self evident at first blush. But if
you look at it closely, and I wrote a book
about this, The Prayer of Jesus, you look at it closely,
every single precept of that prayer is powerful, it's poignant,
it has deep and abiding meaning. And you just can't say, well,
that's old Covenant doesn't apply to us today, as though
you can rip that out of your Bible, because that
applied to another epic of time has no meaning today.
In fact, what we should do is recognize that certainly
there are types and shadows in the Old Testament that
are abrogated in the New Testament, but this is not
one of them, and there's no indication that it could be.
First of all, it's not Old Testament, it's New Testament.
It's not Old Covenant, it's New Covenant. And there's not
a qualitative difference between the Old and the New Covenant,
except for the fact that the blood of Jesus Christ
is better than the blood of bulls and goats, and
therefore there's no need to offer bulls and goats when
the ultimate sacrificial Lamb has come, So temple, priest and
sacrifice are abrogated because the Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb has come.
But that does not mean that the teachings of the
Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb are old covenant and need to be
abrogated as well.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much, and God bless you and
your ministry. And I joy listening to you every day
at this time while I'm driving home from work.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for insing.
Speaker 1: Have a good day you too.
Speaker 2: Back to the phone lines, we'll talk next to Maria.
She's listening in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Speaker 6: Hi, Maria, Hey, Henk cal you. We love your ministry.
My husband and I I have a question which has
to deal with free masonry in the church, especially in leadership.
I go to a Southern Baptist church and what kind
of devastated that we've found out some of this information
and upon going to speak to the leader about it,
we would that he does not have an issue with them.
What can we do because we don't want to sit
under that Number one and two? Are there any truth
teaching churches that you can recommend to us in the
Fort Mill wack Hill, Charlotte area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be able to recommend a number of good
churches to you. You're never going to find a perfect church.
Speaker 6: But what you want to say now we know that,
we just do not want to do with the deception
of that in the leadership.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's an appropriate response on your part.
Freemasonry is not compatible with Christianity. One is a no.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 6: I've gone to your website, I've read it. I've done
a lot of research in the last few days online
and as just appalled.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think with gentleness and with respect, you
need to let the leadership know that, know why you're leaving,
and then find a healthy, well balanced church. And if
you hang on, we'll be happy to help you in
that regard.
Speaker 6: That will be awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, you got it.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your poll, Maria. Thank you
so much for tuning in too today's edition of the
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surely the most important question facing our world. In Has
God Spoken? Memorable proofs of the Bible's Divine inspiration, Hank
counters the contentions of the Bible attackers and clearly shows
that belief in the Holy Scriptures is not a guess
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an honest examination of overwhelming evidence ordered has God Spoken?
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