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We welcome you to our program.
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Thank you. Let's
talk about the Bible.
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There are questions on
the translations of the Bible.
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Over such a period of
time people start to distrust
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the new modern translations,
some are paraphrases.
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The question that
is sent in by Silvia
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an email from Australia is,
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which is the best
Bible translation to use?
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There is so much
confusion, she says.
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Good question,
Silvia. It was Silvia?
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It was Silvia from Australia.
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Yeah, thank you, Silvia.
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I love personally
the King James Version.
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I memorized much of it you know,
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Who has believed our report?
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And to whom is the
arm of the Lord revealed?
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Isaiah 53, it is translated
of course in the 1600's.
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Long time ago, 400 years ago.
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And therefore
some of the expressions
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are rather quaint and
they are really out of date.
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That is why we
need new translations.
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The New King James
Version has trying to improve
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the old King James
Version but hasn't done so.
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It has improved the meaning but
it has lost much of the beauty
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and the glory of
the King James Version.
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The most important
thing is to read the Bible
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whatever the translation.
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Our problem today is
that we don't take time
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for the reading of scripture.
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I read from, mainly from
the New International Version.
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I think that's an
excellent translation, the NIV.
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This Bible is
just about worn out
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then you have the New American
Translation, it's very good.
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Most of the
translations are good.
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You should stay away from
paraphrases or interpretations.
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Now with that being contentious.
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One church uses the clear word,
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but it's not the word
at all it's a commentary.
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I have spoken to the author who
was a very godly good scholar
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and he never wrote it in
the way that people use it.
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It's a commentary on scripture,
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it's more than a paraphrase
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but we shouldn't
use it for doctrine,
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we should not use it
for serious Bible study.
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For our devotions its fine
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but you need to get a
good translation like the NIV,
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New American Standard
Bible and there are others.
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And it's hard to beat
the Old King James Version.
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It's fine. Yes.
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But you should
get up a translation
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that is a translation not
a paraphrase. Yes, exactly.
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And there is a flow on question
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from another
person, he is from India
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I hope I pronounce her
name correctly, Shantanu.
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Shantanu Shantanu
an email from India.
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Shantanu says, what
is the difference between
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Thou and you in the Bible?
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Should thou or you be used?
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I understand that
thou is a harsh word used
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in the old English language,
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please explain this for
us on from the last question.
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Thou was the way people spoken
the days of the King James.
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It's Victorian
English and Queen Victoria
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or Queen Elizabeth,
Queen Elizabeth rather.
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The Elizabethan age
the age of Shakespeare
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it was all these and thous,
we don't speak this way today.
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If those people
were living today,
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they would say you
and yours and so forth.
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And so modern
speaks translations
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do not use the
language of 400 years ago.
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They use the language
of today as it should be.
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Isn't that what Jesus
himself-- That's what Jesus did.
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Jesus spoke in the
language of His day.
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He didn't speak in the language
of hundreds of years B.C.
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Yes, yes, now,
let's go back to the word,
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we have another
Bible text top question,
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comes from Barris an email again
from the computer the internet.
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How do you explains
Colossians 2:16, 17?
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Can we look that up? Yes.
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Colossians 2:16,
17, an email from Barris
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asking about your opinion
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on this Bible text,
Colossians 2:16, 17.
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Barris is worrying about this.
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I can understand this, Barris
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because this
text is used to prove
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"that the seventh-day
Sabbath is abolished." Okay.
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So this is the text
that is brought out to say,
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the Ten Commandments
are really done away this,
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especially, the fourth one.
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And let me read
this, Let's hear.
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"Therefore do not
let anyone judge you
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by what you eat or drink,
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or with regard to
a religious festival,
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a New Moon
celebration or a Sabbath day.
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These are a shadow of
the things that were to come,
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the reality,
however, is found in Christ."
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Now, the Bible says here,
don't let anyone judge you
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by what you eat or drink,
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or with regard to
a religious festival,
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a New Moon
celebration or a Sabbath day.
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Now, Pastor James,
listen to this one.
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That which proves too much
proves nothing at all. Okay.
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That which proves too
much proves nothing at all.
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If this text does
away with the Sabbath
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it also my friend, does
away with eating and drinking.
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Well, do you believe in
eating and drinking? Yes.
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And now, it wasn't
Barris who asked this question?
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It was Barris, yes.
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And Barris, do you
believe in eating and drinking?
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Oh, yes, you do.
Of course, you do.
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Well, then you got no
reason to give up the Sabbath.
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What it is talking about
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is the system of
man made traditions
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that governed these things.
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Now I think I got a text
here in the same chapter,
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verse 8 says, "See to it
that no one takes you captive
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through hollow and
deceptive philosophy,
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which depends on human tradition
and the basic principles
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of this world
rather than on Christ."
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Back in these days,
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there were influences
that came into the church.
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Human influences some of
them were based upon Gnosticism
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and they came and they
perverted eating and drinking.
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They perverted the
Commandments of God
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and they perverted the
keeping of the Sabbath.
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The great Dr.
Samuele Bacchiocchi
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takes the same view point in
his book from Sabbath to Sunday
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and he points out and he shows
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yes, the Sabbath
is mentioned here
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but the Sabbath in the
context of human traditions.
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The human traditions our
blessed Lord did away with.
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He had nothing no time
at all for human traditions
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so he abolished human traditions
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but Jesus went on
eating and drinking
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and keeping the
Commandments of God
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and observing the
Seventh-day Sabbath.
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And He certainly did.
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And look I have
another question from Aaron,
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which is along the same lines.
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Follow me on this it's a little
lengthy but I will ask it.
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I have heard the gospel
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and have the
conviction of the Holy Spirit
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that I'm a sinner
and need a Savior,
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I confessed all my sins,
asked Jesus to forgive my sins,
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come into my life
to be Lord of my life.
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I'm now born again, Aaron says.
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I have experienced
God's power in my life
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and I have completely turned
from sin and serving the Lord.
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Not afraid to die, he says.
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I know my name is in
the Lamb's Book of Life
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but I'm attending services
on Sunday and not Saturday.
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Am I lost in sin?
Will I not go to heaven?
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Is Sabbath keeping
a must to be saved?
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I thought everything is
symbols and types of Jesus
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which is the true reality.
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I came to Him and I
found rest for my soul.
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Is He not the
Sabbath of the Lord?
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I thought that sprit heart core
or centre of the Sabbath is rest
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and that rest is Jesus,
I'm I wrong? Aaron asks.
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Aaron, that's not a
question that's a commentary.
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That is a commentary.
It's an excellent commentary.
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That fly's well
into the last question.
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Aaron, there is a little saying,
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"I would not
work my soul to save.
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For this my Lord has done.
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But I would work like any slave,
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for love of God's Dear Son."
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I'm not saved by my works,
but I'm not saved with outworks.
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I'm saved by faith alone
but a faith that is never alone.
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I'm not saved
by faith about just
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I'm just saved only by
faith. Yes, only by faith.
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But the faith it saves
me is demonstrated by works.
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The faith that, James, it
says the faith that saves me,
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is demonstrated by works
or else it is a false faith.
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Now Aaron, I don't doubt
your Christian experience,
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not for one moment,
you have come to Christ.
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Your name is written in
the Lamb's Book of Life.
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Are you lost? No, no, no.
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But there is a text in the
Bible in 1 John 1:7, it says,
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"If we walk in the
light God gives us light."
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You may not be baptized but
one day God is going to show you
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the truth about baptism
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and you are going
to walk in the light
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and you are
going to get baptized
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and He is going to show
other truths to you also.
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Even though you are saved
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He wants you to keep walking
in the light of God's word.
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And remember
this, Jesus is our Lord,
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our Savior and our example.
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And Jesus was a Sabbath keeper,
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the apostle Paul
was a Sabbath keeper,
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all the apostles
were Sabbath keepers,
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all the Bible
writers were Sabbath keepers.
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Did they do this in a legalistic
way to earn salvation?
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No, but because
they loved Christ
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and because the
Sabbath represented the gospel,
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they kept the Sabbath
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as a demonstration of
their faith in Christ.
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And as we said
sometime ago, Pastor James,
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the Sabbath is the
rest day, Genesis 2:1-3.
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It is the rest day, that
makes it the blessed day.
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The Bible says, the
God blessed the seventh-day
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that makes it the best day.
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But all the way
through the Holy Scriptures
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the Sabbath is--
wait for it, a test day.
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It was a test day
in the days of Jesus.
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It was a test in
the Old Testament.
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It was a test in
the days of Mosses.
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It is a test in these last days
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and the Bible says, Jesus said,
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if you love Me
keep My commandments.
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Very good answer,
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very good answer to
a very good question.
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Very good question.
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We are going to come back with
more questions in just a moment
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but we will do that
after this important message.
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And welcome back to our
Fresh Hot Potatoes program
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with Pastor John
Carter in the kitchen.
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If we cooking
potatoes, you are the cook.
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We have got you in the hot seat
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and we have some
wonderful questions
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coming in from our
viewers and from our friends
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on the internet, the email
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and we love to
receive these questions.
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I have an
interesting question for you.
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It's a little bit different
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but I think it will speak
to a lot of viewers out there.
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It's from Vanessa, she
writes, I read in the Bible
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that our sprit
goes to God when we die
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and an animal
sprit goes to the earth.
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What is that mean and
what do you think God will do
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with all the many
animals that have died?
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I think we might need
to grab that in two parts.
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Oh, I think so.
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Vanessa, when it's says
the spirit returns to God
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it is referring to
this vital life force
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that God has placed
within us that goes back to God.
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But I have got
a text here that--
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it's a thoughtful text
so I'm gonna read it to you.
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It's out of the
Book of Ecclesiastes
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and this text talks about
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the breath of animals
and the breath of man.
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Let me-- give me
a moment to find it.
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Ecclesiastes 3:21 says,
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"Who knows if the
spirit of man rises upward
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and if the spirit of the animal
goes down into the earth?"
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So that's where
she is getting it from?
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Yeah, but it doesn't
say what she is thinking.
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It says, "Who knows if
the spirit of man rises upward
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and if the spirit of the animal
goes down into the earth?"
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Now, it doesn't say it
does go down into the earth,
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it doesn't say that.
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God has placed in every
creature the breath of life.
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In fact, the
term "nephesh chayah"
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which means a living soul
is used in the Book of Genesis,
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Genesis 1, not
only for human beings,
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its used for the
Wales in the ocean.
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The great sea
creatures have got--
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they are--they
have a "nephesh chayah."
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Well, they are living
souls. Yes, living souls.
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Now, when a person dies
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the Bible says,
the breath of life.
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This life force,
this intangible thing
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goes back to Almighty God
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and the person sleeps in
the grave until resurrection.
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And then when Jesus
comes, the dead are raised,
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immortal and
glorious, never to die again.
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Yes, yes. You see?
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Now, so we are assured
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concerning the
resurrection of God's people.
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Now, I can't tell people
what the Bible doesn't tell us.
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We are not told in
the Bible about animals.
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I can't find a text
in the Bible that says,
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you pet poodle is
gonna be resurrected.
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But I can find a text that
tells me that God loves people.
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The Bible tells
me that our Father is
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full of an inexpressible
love, it is so great.
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It is incomprehensible
and God loves you.
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Vanessa, He loves
you will all His heart.
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I think Pastor James,
I'm just thinking here.
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I think our God is so
great and our God is so good
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that if this would
enhance the world being
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and the joy of
His children in heaven
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I think He would give them that
which would help in that area.
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May be a pet, can
I give you a text?
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Yeah, will there
be animals in heaven?
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I mean that-- Yeah,
there will be animals.
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That may be Vanessa's
main concern here, you know.
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Vanessa it's going to be like
it was in the Garden of Eden.
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But there won't be a
chance of sin coming in.
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It's going to be
indescribable glorious
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and there will be animals there
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and they won't be
eating each other or us.
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Now, that is a great
question, lot of animal lovers.
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We are going to
go little deeper.
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We have an email from Matt,
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he says the Mass, what
is your take on the mass
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that Catholics
celebrate each week/day?
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The Mass is not a
satanic ritual like some claim,
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the mass is not a
repeat of the sacrifice
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that Christ once offered.
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The mass is to us
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like the passover is
to the Jewish people.
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The passover is a memorial feast
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so to us it's a
memorial feast, the mass.
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And then he goes on,
that sacrifice is made present
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in the last supper
this is speaking that the--
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he is basically saying that
the mass to them is a memorial.
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It's a long question but that's
the centre of what he says.
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And his name is Matt?
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His name is Matt and
he's asking about mass.
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Great question,
Matt, great question.
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However, Matt,
you don't understand
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the theology of your own church.
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Pardon I'm telling you this,
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because in Roman
Catholic Theology
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the mass is
more than a memorial.
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The Roman Catholic
Church has a system of priests
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and every priest
must offer a sacrifice.
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That's what the
priesthood is about.
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I'm a minister I'm not a priest.
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I don't offer a
sacrifice but the pope
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and his legions
of priests believe
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that they are indecisive and
they offer a sacrifice to God.
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In Roman Catholic theology,
the mass is a sacrifice
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and Christ is
offered up a thousand times
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on the altars of Rome. Yes.
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It is called an
unbloody sacrifice.
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The doctrine of
Transubstantiation,
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Pastor James,
that you know about,
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it teaches that the bread
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is actually turned
into the body of Christ
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and the wine is turned
into the blood of Christ.
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That's the doctrine
of Transubstantiation.
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Where do I get this from?
This is Roman Catholic theology.
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Roman Catholics
believe it is more--
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well, those at
least who are skilled
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in the teachings of
the Catholic Church.
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Perhaps the vast
majority of Roman Catholics
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are not aware of this.
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But the Bible teaches that
the Lord's Supper is a memorial.
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We have the Lord's
Supper we don't have the mass
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because the mass is a sacrifice.
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Let me read to you
what the Bible says.
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And this is the book that Hebrew
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that talks about the
priesthood of the Old Testament.
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And there are no
priests in the New Testament.
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No, priest. There is one priest.
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There is one. Christ.
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Does the church need a
priest today? Yes, Jesus.
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"And by that will,
we have been made holy
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through the sacrifice
of the body of Jesus Christ
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once for all." Once for all.
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Hebrews 10:14,
"Because by one sacrifice
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He has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy."
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One sacrifice, the
concept of extra sacrifices
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goes against Holy Scripture,
it is wrong, it is blasphemous.
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And Matt is not aware of
these things, Pastor James.
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But he needs to
check with his priest
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or better still
with the catechisms,
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check with a good catechisms.
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The mass is a
sacrifice but there is only one.
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It happened 2,000
years ago on Calvary.
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Yes, good answer and a
good question from Matt.
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Thank you, thank you.
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I have another
very good question,
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I am glad you
passed me on that one.
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I'm Glad you answered it on me.
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Now, this is a question
from Maggie would be the name.
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Maggie. Maggie.
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Hers is a little long
but it's a good question too.
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It says here about
Seventh-day Adventists.
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She says that
the Adventists gospel
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is so different
from the biblical gospel.
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It's easier to spot but the
basis of the biblical gospel
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is what God does on
the cross. That's good.
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And she says that the
basis for the Adventist gospel
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is what, is about
the second coming.
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Do you think she says,
that SDA's would be ever--
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will be willing ever
to rethink their gospel
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and go back to the
Bible alone and the cross?
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God bless you Maggie, I
have some good news for you.
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Here it is, Pastor Venegas,
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I have no doubt
that there are Adventists
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who got a wrong on the gospel.
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I have got no
doubt, I have met them.
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I have met plenty of
Baptists who got it wrong too
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and Methodists,
some Presbyterians
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and Lutherans and Anglicans.
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I have met many, many
people in many, many churches
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who got a wrong on the gospel.
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But the Adventist church does
not teach what Maggie is saying.
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I have been an Adventist
pastors I say in Australia
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for donkey's years.
That's for many years.
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That's for a long, long time.
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I know what the church,
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the Adventist
church officially teaches.
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It may not be what every
Adventist preacher preachers
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it may not be what everybody
in the church pew believes.
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But I don't care, I'm
going to telling you about that.
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We believe, the
Adventist church believes
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that I'm saved by Christ alone.
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The Adventist church
teaches that on the cross
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Christ made an atoning sacrifice
for the sins of the whole world.
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Once for all, we do believe that
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we are saved by
works, Christ's works.
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We are not saved by our works
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because that works are
continually polluted by sin.
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We are saved by the
work of Christ in our place.
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We believe that we
are justified by faith,
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we do not believe that
justification make us righteous.
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Now, some Seventh-day
Adventists may believe that.
00:26:07.82\00:26:10.08
And preach it. And preach it.
00:26:10.11\00:26:11.86
and some Pentecostals
believe it too and preach it
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but this is not
what we really believe.
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They may preach it in
certain parts of the world
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more than in other
parts of the world.
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We believe--you can read
this in our statements of faith.
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Justification is a
declaration from God
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that declares that the sinner
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on the basis of Christ
merits is declared righteous.
00:26:38.18\00:26:43.59
Justification is a
declaration, not a making.
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The making is from
the Council of Trent.
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But after a person has
been declared righteous
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the Holy Spirit gets inside him
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and starts to make
him into a new person
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and then starts to
actually make him righteous,
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makes him into a new person.
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So the gospel that I believe
is the gospel that Billy Graham
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has taught, it is a
gospel that is taught
00:27:09.92\00:27:13.17
by great Christians like
Ellen White, H.M.S Richards,
00:27:13.20\00:27:18.33
George Vanaman, George
Vanaman one of my dear friends
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and I could go on and on and on.
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So don't judge
Maggie, the Adventist church
00:27:25.53\00:27:29.49
by the statements of a
few heretics in our midst.
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So in summary now
the cross is central,
00:27:34.25\00:27:36.75
the reconciliation that
Christ did for us is life,
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death and resurrection,
that is the gospel.
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Yes. But we must say too
00:27:41.40\00:27:42.71
the Second Coming is the
fulfillment of that combination.
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The Second Coming you know--
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We hardly have a
few minutes left, so--
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There is no much hope for us
if we believe only in the cross
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and don't believe in
the coming of the Lord.
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Yes. So that is the combination
of what Christ did on the cross?
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Yes it is and
that's why we teach it.
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And Pastor Carter, we
thank you again for reminding us
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with the basis of the true
gospel and for being with us.
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And we thank you also
for watching the program.
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