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Speaker 1: Heard all across the United States, Canada, and around the world.

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This is the Bible answer Man broadcast with Hank Hanagraph.

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Hank is president of the Christian Research Institute at CRII.

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Our desire is to equip you to not only defend

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because life and truth matter. To learn more or to

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equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded. Now

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here's Hank Hanagraph.

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Speaker 2: Favvery much, Randy. Many people today believe that Jesus Christ

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was a good teacher. The Bible, however, demonstrates that Jesus

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Christ was God in human flesh. He is the superstar

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of biblical prophecy. And I've been talking about this as

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we promote a little resource that has a big punch.

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Reason being, you can remember the information it's provided for

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you in such a way that you can demonstrate that

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only Jesus Christ could emerge through the doorway of biblical prophecy.

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Over the last couple of days, I've talked about his

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ancestry and his birthplace. His crucifixion, however, is noteworthy as well.

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There's nothing new about crucifixion in general. In the sixth

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century before Christ, the Persian Darius the first, crucified three

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thousand political dissidents in Babylon. The fourth crucifixion was employed

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by the Grecian Alexander the Great, and the second the

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Grecosyrian beast Antiochus. The fourth Epiphanes, who crucified Jewish stalwarts

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who simply refused to be Hellenized. While thousands have suffered

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the horrors of crucifixion, Christ's crucifixion remains absolutely unique. He

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suffered more than any human He suffered more than the

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cumutive sufferings of all of humanity, for on the cross,

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the infinite Christ bore the sin and suffering of finite humanity.

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While few today doubt Christ's fatal torment on Calvary's Cross,

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it is one of the most well established facts of

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ancient history. It's conceded by friends and foes alike. There is, however,

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fierce opposition to the notion that Christ's crucifixion was predicted

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by the prophets venom found on the Internet is simply

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mind boggling. The problem, of course, is that such naysayers

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seem caught in the web of their own fundamentalism. They

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may be vaguely aware of the power of direct predictive prophecies,

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but remain blithely unaware of the explanatory power inherent in

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typological prophecy. The composite picture of crucifixion presented in the

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Old Testament is as graphic as it's gruesome. Isaiah foreshadows

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the suffering and death of Christ as the aim in

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the end of all the Old Testament sacrifices the enttetype

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of the sin offering, the trespass offering, the passover lamb

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itself silent before it cheers. Zachariah adds to the portrait,

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they will look on me, the one they have pierced.

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They will mourn for him as one mourns for an

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only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves

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for a firstborn son. Taking in isolation. The Old Testament

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passages do little to convince the stiff necked in total, However,

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they have the capacity of turning heads towards truth. John

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testifies to this very truth, so that you also may

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believe these things happened, so that scripture would be fulfilled.

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Not one of his bones will be broken. Long before

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crucifixion was invented by the Persians and popularized by the Romans,

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the prophets portrayed a crucified Christ who died on a

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cross so that the scriptures might be fulfilled and multitudes

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may come to a knowledge of the truth, his ancestry,

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his birthplace, his crucifixion, the date of his visitation, the

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fact that he would be an extraordinary miracle worker, that

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he would fulfill the law, and the prophets that he

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thousand CRI. A lot of you hanging on. Let's go

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right to the phone lines. First up as John listening

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on the web, Atlanta, Georgia. Hi John, Hey.

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Speaker 3: Hank, thanks for doing the heavy lifting so we can

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swoop in and get all your knowledge without having to

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do the hard work that you've done over the past

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what fifty years.

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Speaker 2: Well a lot of years.

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Speaker 3: Hey. I was watching this show the other night and

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it was about the homosexual riots in New York in

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nineteen seventy and this this lady said, you know, when

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I've finally found out, you know, how to be happy.

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I have gay people joining my church. I watched TV.

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gay character. So I'm just wondering, Okay, how should the

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modern Christian deal with the homosexual community. We see how

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far things have gone since nineteen seventy. I'm just wondering,

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all right, what should I tell my kids? How should

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I act? Because the gay people I know have always

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treated me nice. I've always been you know, good nice people.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the point is always the same, whether

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you are homosexual or heterosexual, whether you are a Jew

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or a Muslim, whether you're a Garden variety pagan or

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Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon, the point is always the same.

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The Gospel is what liberates, the Gospel is what redeems,

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and ultimately, the Gospel says this, we recognize that we

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are sinners, whatever that sin proclivity is, we repent of

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that sin, and we say God knows better. I'm going

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to turn and do it his way rather than doing

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it my own way, and then receive Jesus Christ as

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savior and Lord of our life. And he begins to

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clean up the dirt or the mess in the rooms

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that are unkempt, which is to say, the one who

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justifies us is also the one who sanctifies us. So

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it's not as though we come to faith in Christ

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then we have to stand outside the shower and get

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scrubbed off. It is the shower itself that cleans us.

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And in the metaphor, you have Christ who justifies us,

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Christ who sanctifies us in Christ who one day will

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glorify us. So, no matter what someone's proclivity is in

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terms of sin, sexual or otherwise, the Gospel is that

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which liberates and redeems. Now, as far as modern sensibilities

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are concerned, there's nothing in the Bible that's outdated. We

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can't say somehow or other that the Bible no longer

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is tenable in an age of scientific enlightenment. In fact,

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we might say exactly the opposite. The more evidence that

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we have, the more we can be absolutely certain that

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the Bible is rooted in history and evidence, that the

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Bible is the infallible repository for redemptive revelation, that it's

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everything necessary for faith and practice. So we still want

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to communicate the message of the Gospel, rather than being

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conformed by the culture. Because what are we called to

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be as Christians. We're called to be change agents in

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the culture. We're called to be ambassadors for Jesus Christ.

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The fact that it's not politically correct not impede our

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progress in the least. I can tell you this from

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a personal standpoint. Over the years I've taken the hard road,

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whether in my book Christianity in Crisis or Counterfeit Revival

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The Apocalypse Code, I have never tried to say that

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which is politically correct or popular. Why because truth matters

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and I genuinely care to carry out the mission and

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the vision that God has given to the Christian Research Institute.

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Now in the process, sometimes you find yourself out of

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the mainstream, you find yourself under the pile, you find

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that people no longer support you. But that's not the point.

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The point has never been popularity. The point is always

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to do what you do because truth matters, and ultimately

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we only have an audience one that one is God.

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with more from Hank Hannagraph. Winston Churchill once declared, you

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because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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the very words of God himself. Three years in the

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truth matters. Yet, an encounter with Christians in the underground

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Speaker 1: And now here's Hank Hanagraph.

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Speaker 2: Here very much, Randy and my phone lines doctor Chris.

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Speaker 5: Hi Chris, Hi, Hank, thanks for taking my call, my pleasure.

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I have a friend who recently has disclosed that he

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adheres to thee A millennial view of scripture, and my

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alarm bells went off real quick when I got into

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a bit of a debate with him. And I'm wondering

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what your position is on that, And further, I feel

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like it's twisting scripture, and it mayn't be heretical. So

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I was just wondering what you thought about that.

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Speaker 2: Well, the first thing I think about that is the

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timing of the tribulation or the meaning of the millennium

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is not something that we want to affix the word Harris.

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This is something that we can debate vigorously as Christians,

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but we simply don't have to divide over. So I

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wouldn't have fixed the word heresy to this. There are

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Christians who believe that the millennium is a period of

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time between the first and second comings of Christ, so

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they still associate an indiscriminate amount of time, perhaps two

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thousand or more years to this timeframe. We don't know

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at this point, or a non millennial can't tell you

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exactly how much time will elapse because the second Coming

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of Jesus Christ is not yet taking place. The pre

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millennial position is a position which says that after the

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second Coming of Jesus Christ, people will be saved and

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there'll be a one thousand years semi golden age with

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a rebuilt temple and reinstitute of temple sacrifices, and some

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then there'll be a great apostasy at the end of

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this millennial age, and then the eternal state. I personally

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that what Revelation is communicating is not a quantity of time,

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but a quality of vindication for the martyrs. In other words,

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they will suffer for a short time, their vindication will

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be an eternal vindication. But I think ultimately to settle

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this in your mind requires something that I think few

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people spend enough time with, and that is an understanding

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of the art and science, a biblical interpretation. To understand

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the Book of Revelation, and this includes Revelation chapter twenty,

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where this idea of a thousand years is repeated six times.

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grasp of the Old Testament scriptures. If you do not,

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you might get caught going off on a fantastic fantasy

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journey as opposed to rooting or grounding yourself in the

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wellspring of Old ten Testament information. Want to go back

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to the phone lines, talk to Roxanne Hi.

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Speaker 3: Roxanne Hik, I was wondering if you think Jewish people

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go to heaven.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it has anything to do with ethnicity.

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I don't think it has to do with your background

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or your genealogy, whether you're a male or a female,

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whether you're Jew or Greek, what your station in life is.

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All it has to do with is are you in

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Jesus Christ. If you are in Jesus Christ, then you

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are the seed of Abraham and an air according to

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the promise. This Paul makes very very plain in Galatians

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chapter three. Abraham only had one seed. That seed is

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Jesus Christ. If you are in Jesus Christ, you are

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the seed of Abraham, as I said, The Bible explicitly

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says you are then an heir according to the promise.

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So Abraham was called to be the father of many nations.

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changed from Abram to Abraham, and we see him as

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being the father of many nations. In that it's not

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about whether you are a particular ethnicity. It has to

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do with whether you are rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, you got it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. We'll go back

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to the phone lines now. Talk to Chris. He's listening

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to Oklahoma. Hi Chris, Hey, Hank.

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Speaker 6: I have a question for you. How would I explain

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to someone that thinks Jesus Christ is the only way?

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You know, the bay goes on when you say, well,

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someone in the third one country who haven't heard of

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Jesus Christ. If they never heard of him, that's their

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fault because it's in their will and they're not going

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to go to heaven. And I'm trying to explain to

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him that Jesus is the way, but it's not the

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only way. Am I right?

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Speaker 2: Well? Jesus said, I am the way, the truth in

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the life. No one comes to the Father but by me,

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So I think that words trump any other words. But

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here's how you need to look at it. Every single

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person gets the light of creation in the light of conscience,

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which is to say that there's an outer light in

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an inner light. The outer light is a light that

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demonstrates there has to be a God. If you look

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at any effect, it has to have a cause equal

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to or greater than itself. So when you look at

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the heavens, you know there is a God. But God

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has also written large a knowledge of himself on the

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tablet of our consciousness. So we have that inner light

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as well. And if we respond to the light of creation,

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light of conscience, we can receive the light of Christ.

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Which is to say that Christ himself made clear that

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the real problem is not that there isn't enough light.

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The real problem is that men loved darkness rather than

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light because their deeds are evil. So there is only

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one way by which you can be reconciled to the fight.

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There's only one who can bridge the chasm between our

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sin and God's holiness. That one is crystal, is pure,

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that one can give to us the sparkling robes of

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his own righteousness to cover our own righteousness. And there's

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no one else who can save us. We can't save ourselves.

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Mohammed can't save us, Krishna can't save us, No other

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earthly human being can save us. Only Jesus Christ, who

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is God in human flesh, can bridge that chasm between

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our sin and God's righteousness. That's the message of the Bible.

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And I'd add to that that it's never the absence

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of truth that damns, it's always the despising of truth

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that damns. And therefore, once again I refer you to

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the words of Jesus Christ who said light came into darkness.

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Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

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So again, the problem is not that there's not light

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that people can adhere to. It is that people are

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lost because they love darkness rather than light.

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Speaker 6: Well, Hank, you answered that. Thank you very much. Maygod

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continue to bless you in your ministry. And thankful who

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God bless you?

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Speaker 2: You got it. Thank you so much. And let's go

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back to the phone lines and talk to Carl next.

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He's listening in cal Grielberti, Canada.

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Speaker 7: Hi Carl, Hi, Hank. My question ties in nicely with

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one of your previous callers in terms of how we

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as leaders in the church deal with individuals coming to

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the church that are on church, no church background, or

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very little church background. They have a lot of sin

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in their lives, whether it be homosexuality or living common law.

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At what point do we offer them or extend them

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baptism and then also membership into the church. Well, how

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far along the sanctification process do they need to be

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to qualify for say, baptism and or membership.

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Speaker 2: Well, the entrance requirements are always the same. It doesn't

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matter what your station in life is, or what your

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gender is, what your background is. The entrance requirements are

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always the same for every single person, which is to

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say that we recognize that we're a sinner, we repent

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of our sin, and then we receive Jesus Christ as

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savior and Lord of our life. When we do that,

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then Jesus Christ comes in and it begins to clean

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up our life. So the entrance requirements again are realize

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you're a sinner, repent of your sin, and receive Jesus

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Christ as savior and Lord of your life. When you

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do that, then you're baptized. And you're not baptized as

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a lone ranger Christian, but you're baptized into the body

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of Christ. Christ is building a body we can't look

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down at any person. Do not be proud, says Paul.

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Do not be conceited, but be willing to associate with

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people of low position. So in the body of Christ,

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there's no hierarchy. I'm better than you, I'm cleaner than you,

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I've got more money than you. At the foot of

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the cross, there's complete equality, and we recognize that every

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person is necessary within the body. Now obviously if someone

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comes into the body and says, you know, I don't

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really care about this message that Jesus Christ has given

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by which you must be saved. Rather, I want to

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continue doing it my own way. Well, certainly they would

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not become members of the Body of Christ. They may

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be spectators looking on from without, but they're not members

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of the Body of Christ, and therefore they don't partake

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of communion. In fact, to let them partake of communion

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as part of the Community or the Fellowship of Blo

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would be eating and drinking destruction into their own lives.

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So we would protect them from those kinds of things

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because they would be harmful to them. We always want

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to protect the people, which are ultimately the crowning jewels

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of God's creation, even if they decide to live by

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the dictates of their own will. So again, the simple

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answer is, anyone who realizes that they're a sinner, repents

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of their sin and receive Jesus Christ should be welcomed

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into the Church with open arms, regardless of what their

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station in life may or may not be.

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