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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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Mending broken people
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to 3ABN Today
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and today is 3ABN Today Q and A
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Bible questions
that we received from you
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and we are going to ask
these questions to our panel,
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the family of 3ABN,
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and we have Sister Shelley Quinn
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with us today.
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Welcome. Well,
it's good to be here.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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Pastor Ryan Day.
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I'm here and accounted for.
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Here and accounted
for. Praise the Lord.
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And Pastor Lomacang.
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Always good to be on
the Bible answered program.
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Praise God for that.
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Amen. Amen.
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And so we have
received your questions,
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and they are ready to
be presented to our panel.
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And before we do that,
since this is a Bible Q and A,
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we go to the Lord in
prayer because we depend on Him
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to bless us with the answers.
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And so we also encourage
you to join us in prayer
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so that your
mind will be receptive
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to God's Word.
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So let's go to
the Lord in prayer.
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I ask Sister Shelley
Quinn to pray for us.
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Absolutely.
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Our loving Heavenly Father,
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we pause again today
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to come before You
in the name of Jesus.
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Lord, we need Your Holy Spirit.
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We are mere mortal men
and we need your leading,
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we pray in the name of Jesus
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that these questions
we pondered over Lord
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with this already
sought You for the answer.
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Help us to
deliver it in such a way
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with Your anointing
that it makes perfect sense.
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And, Lord, may
you get all the glory.
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We thank You for
our precious viewers.
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We thank You, Lord,
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that they are entrusting
us with these questions.
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Please entrust us now
with the answer in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, I want to let you know
something right off hand that
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we try to answer as
many questions as possible
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during this hour.
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And I can assure you
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that each one of
them could spend more time
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on each question,
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but because we're trying to get
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as many questions in as possible
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there's well, we
try to limit the answers
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to something
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We have already prayed
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and we are ready
to ask the questions.
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The first one goes
to Pastor John Lomacang.
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Romans 6:14 says,
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"For sin shall not
have dominion over you,
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for you are not
under law but under grace.
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What law is this
verse referring to?
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Is it referring to
the Ten Commandments
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or the ceremonial laws?
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Also, what does the
phrase not under the law mean?"
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This is from
Julie from South Dakota.
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Okay, great.
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That's Romans 6-14.
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And when you read
the context of that
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Paul is not referring
to any law in particular,
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he's referring to
law as a principle.
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And let me give
you an understanding
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of exactly what that means.
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If and I want you
to hear me carefully.
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If the law, if the
power of sin can make you sin.
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I'm gonna slowdown
and say that again,
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if sin can make you sin,
it has dominion over you,
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but it cannot make you sin.
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We are, first it
starts with a temptation
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and then we yield.
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Let me walk you
through the steps.
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So when it says,
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for sin shall not
have dominion over you,
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Paul is talking about
the principle of the power
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of what sin does.
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Here's the example
of that, Romans 6-16.
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Sin does not
have dominion over you
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until you yield.
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Here's Romans 6:16,
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"Do you not know that
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whom you present
yourselves slaves to obey,
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you are that one's
slave whom you obey,
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whether of sin leading to death
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or of obedience
leading to righteousness."
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The King James
Version uses the phrase yield.
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When you yield,
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you discover, wait a minute,
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I'm no longer in control,
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because one
leads to righteousness,
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the other one leads to death.
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The evidence of
that is Romans 7:17.
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But now, it is no
longer I who do it,
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but sin that dwells in me."
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Paul is saying,
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"Wait a minute,
sin is now in control.
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What I want to do, I can't do,
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what I don't want to do,
that's exactly what I'm doing."
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That is the dominion over you.
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The power of the power that
you have yielded yourself to
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that is now in control.
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Let's go further.
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The second parts of that,
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for you are not
under law, but under grace.
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It means that we gain salvation,
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we do not gain
salvation legalistically,
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we gain
salvation by God's grace.
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We don't gain salvation
by measuring up to a law.
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Salvation is solely on
the basis of God's grace.
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Salvation is not
a legal transaction
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on our part,
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but a legal transaction
on the part of Jesus.
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He paid the price,
the legal requirement,
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the wages of sin is death.
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And then he extends
to a salvation by grace.
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That's why it says,
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law can either save you
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and law cannot cause you to sin.
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When you yield, it has dominion,
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Christ breaks that dominion
and then extends to us grace,
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that's when we are no
longer under that law,
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the power to make us
do what we want to do
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what we don't want to do.
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But we're under
the grace of Christ
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that now works his
will through us and in us.
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Hope that was clear to you.
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Paul says
clearly in Romans 3:24,
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"Being justified
freely by His grace
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through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus."
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That's a free gift,
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not a legal
transaction on our part.
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Praise the Lord.
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This is one of that...
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Romans 6:14 read like this,
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"For sin shall not
have dominion over you,"
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that's powerful,
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and we should understand
that and embrace that.
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Let's go to
Sister Shelley Quinn.
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This is another
question that has come in.
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We do not have a person's
name or where it came from.
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We want to encourage
you to send that in as well.
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So they can help us
as we do this program.
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Here's the question.
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"Did Jesus lose His
omnipresence for eternity?
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Or did He get it back
after His resurrection?
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Can you please share
where you find your answers?"
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Absolutely.
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In Philippians 2:5-8,
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the Bible says that
Jesus emptied Himself.
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God emptied Himself of His glory
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of His divine prerogatives,
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He took on the flesh of mankind.
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And when He took on that flesh,
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He was physically limited
to be one place at one time.
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He was
resurrected in that flesh,
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Luke 24:36-39 said
after his resurrection,
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he showed his, the nail
wounds in His hands and His feet
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and He told His disciples,
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a spirit doesn't
have flesh and blood
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like flesh and bone says I have.
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He walked the earth for 40
days after His resurrection,
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and He ascended to
heaven in that glorified place.
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Acts 1:11 says,
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"This same Jesus
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who was taken up
from you into heaven
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will so come in like
manner as you have seen him
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go into heaven."
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I love what Paul says
in 1 Corinthians 15:45.
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Jesus is the last Adam.
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He is the new
representative of humankind,
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and He is at the
right hand of the Father.
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He is our high priest it says.
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Hebrews 4:15 says,
that can sympathize with us.
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But Jesus said in
John 16:7 to His disciples,
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it's to your
advantage that I go away
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because if I do, if I don't,
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he said, the
helper can't come to you,
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but if I do, I'll
send the Holy Spirit.
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Why was it to their advantage?
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So that Jesus could
be present in their heart
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through the Holy Spirit.
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In Ephesians 3:16-17, Paul says,
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be strengthened with might
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through the
Spirit in the inner man,
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that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith.
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"Jesus' omnipresence
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is achieved
through the Holy Spirit
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who is one with him.
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But the Holy
Spirit is now in all.
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Thank you. Praise the Lord.
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Well, here's the question
I cannot give to Shelley
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nor Pastor Lomacang
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because it is addressed
specifically to Pastor Ryan.
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So it says here,
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"In a previous episode,
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you only read one
Bible text in Genesis
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concerning gay marriage,
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which was about a
man cleaving to his wife.
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Gay men and women
call their other partner,
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husband or wife.
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Can you please read
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some of those more
direct emphatic scriptures
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that you referenced."
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This is from Marianne?
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Yeah, absolutely, I
appreciate this question.
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And I appreciate the opportunity
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to be able to clarify,
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because if I remember correctly,
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that particular
question that was given to me
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was the second question
asked in the very first episode,
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and it was my
very first question.
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And we were
trying to stick within
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that two minute time frame,
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and I let time get away from me
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and didn't get
to read more text.
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But I do want to be very clear
that the Bible makes it clear.
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In fact, let me just
make this clear, clear
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that God is very much
very clear in His Word
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that He stands strongly
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against the
practice of homosexuality,
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it was not in His plan.
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It's very clear that
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God condemns that
particular lifestyle.
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And He makes it very clear that
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that marriage
between and relations
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should only occur
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between a married
man and a married woman.
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Very, very clear on that.
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Now, where do we get this from?
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We read a couple of texts here.
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I referenced these
texts in the first episode,
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but I want to read
them at this point.
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Leviticus 18:22.
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Notice what the Bible says.
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It says, "You shall not lie
with a male as with a woman, "
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speaking to the males.
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Of course, this was instruction
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given to
Levitical priesthood as well
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as the children of Israel.
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It goes on to say,
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"It is an abomination.
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So a man to lie with the man,
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God says, it's an abomination."
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I'm not going to
have that, right?
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Leviticus 20:13, says,
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"If a man lies with a
male, as he lies with a woman,
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both of them have
committed an abomination,
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they shall
surely be put to death,
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their blood shall be upon them."
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So this was something
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that was so strong
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within the Lord's
understanding of His mentality,
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His feelings, His attitude
towards these practices,
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He says, it's
worthy to be put to death.
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And He instructed this,
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so during the time of
the children of Israel
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under Moses' leadership,
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but the one that I think is
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even more clear
in the New Testament.
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I'm going to read
from Romans 1:24-32.
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And the Bible goes
on to say, it says,
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"For this reason,
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God gave them up
to vile passions."
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Talking about the,
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those, the unrighteous
of those particular days.
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It says, "For even their
women exchanged the natural use
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for what is against nature,"
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okay?
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"Likewise also the men,
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leaving the
natural use of the woman,
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burned in their
lust for one another."
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So he's not talking about
this in a positive context.
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He goes on to say,
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"Men and men
committing what is shameful,
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and receiving in themselves
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the penalty of their
error which was due."
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And then he goes on to
list all of these different sins
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that will not
inherit the kingdom of God.
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And among those, of
course, is sexual immorality
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and, of course, the
practice of homosexuality.
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The Bible is
very, very, very clear.
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And we need to be
very clear on that.
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Well, we also have to
be careful also, though,
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and I just want to say this,
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and take the extra
time to make this clear.
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Many times we can
have such a passion
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against these certain sins,
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especially if we don't
suffer from them ourselves,
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that we want to make it clear,
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let the world know that
these things are horrible,
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and they were wrong.
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But you know, I
actually have friends
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that have suffered from
this homosexual lifestyle.
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And if you talk
to them about this,
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they'll be glad to
admit and they have admitted,
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yes, the Bible is
clearly against it.
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It's not the Lord's will,
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but they often feel
as if they are attacked,
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because it seems like
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sometimes people want to uplift
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and make homosexuality
a horrible, horrible sin
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above any other type of sin.
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And we need to make
sure that sin is sin, right?
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It doesn't matter
if it's homosexuality,
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if it's thieving, if it's lying,
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if it's murdering,
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sin is sin, we
should call sin by its name,
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and not make any type of,
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you know, worst
case scenario out of it.
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We should call it by its name,
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say exactly what
it says in the Bible.
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Homosexuality is a sin.
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And so are many
other things as well.
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Let's look to Jesus Christ.
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And let's forsake our sins today
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and give them over to Him.
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Thank you very much.
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Next question is for
Pastor John Lomacang.
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And this one
mentions two scriptures.
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"I would like you to
explain Genesis 43:1-9
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and Genesis 44:1-17,
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why did Joseph
have his cup placed
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in Benjamin's sack?
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What lesson should
I learn from that?"
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This is from
Bridget in Trinidad.
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I preached a sermon years
ago called from Pits to Palaces.
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And sometimes our
lives begin in the pit
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and we end up in a palace,
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but we don't end up
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where we are
outside of God's will.
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Your family may have
started your life off in a pit,
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but God could take that
pit and end it in a palace.
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This is a story of a
young boy named Joseph,
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who was maligned by his brother.
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He had a coat of many colors.
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I think part of the
problem that Joseph had
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where he just
couldn't keep his mouth shut.
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God was blessing him so much.
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He just said, by
the way, had a dream
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and you guys gonna kneel to me,
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I mean, I probably would have,
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you know, as an
older brother said,
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"How can we shut this guy up?"
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And he was one of the 12.
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So they said, let's
just get rid of this guy
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because he's
taken all the blessings
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that are coming our way.
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Unfortunately, they
sold him off into slavery.
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He ended up in prison.
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He was wrongly
accused by Potiphar's wife.
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He was forgotten by
the butcher and the baker
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and the candlestick maker.
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He was a person
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that went
through much difficulty.
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But the question is,
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why did Joseph
have the cup placed
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in Benjamin sack?
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When his brothers came to Egypt,
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seeking food
because of the famine
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that was gripping
their own native land.
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They met the governor,
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and much older now,
didn't recognize him.
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And he spoke to them
first by representative
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until he
revealed himself later on,
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and wanting to
teach them a lesson
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about the gravity of their sins
selling him off into slavery.
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He said, "Bring back Benjamin."
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And they said, wait a
minute, wait a minute event.
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Anything happened to Benjamin
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because, you know,
Joseph has already gone.
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If anything happens to Benjamin,
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dad is going to die.
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He said bring him back,
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so he put when
Benjamin came back,
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he put that cups in
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and make sure it's
in Benjamin's sack.
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And boy, their
hearts sunk thinking that
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oh man, Benjamin
could be now the victim
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of the Egyptian Government.
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Well, if you know
the rest of the story,
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the nutshell of it was this.
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Joseph was
teaching his sinful brothers
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who are filled with hatred
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about how their
evil was turned around
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and made good for God,
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because had it
not been for Joseph
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being the governor in Egypt,
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his family would
not have been saved
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in times of famine.
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There's a very famous passage,
what you meant for evil,
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God turned around
and used for good.
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That's simply what
the story is all about.
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Thank you very much.
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We go now from
Trinidad to North Carolina.
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Rida has a question.
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Shelley, how about
as you tackle this one?
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"Can you explain
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how people think
that Jesus is Michael
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if Michael is clearly
taught that he is the archangel?
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We typically think, Rida,
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of angels has
been winged creatures.
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Let me make one thing clear.
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Jesus is not a created being.
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Jesus is our Creator.
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In the Hebrew
malakh and in Greek angelos
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are words that are
translated angel or messenger.
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Messenger is often
is angel with malakh.
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Arch means chief, the principal,
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the top, the highest.
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So an archangel
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is not a winged
little created being,
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it is the highest
of God's messengers.
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Now, in the Bible,
there's only one named angel,
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and that's Gabriel.
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And Gabriel has
the highest position
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that an angel can attain.
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In Luke 1:19, he says,
00:18:16.69\00:18:18.33
"I'm Gabriel,
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who stands in
the presence of God."
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He is one of the two
cherubim at the throne of God,
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that's the highest
an angel can become.
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A messenger in
the Old Testament,
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we have a special messenger
when you see an angel of God.
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It's talking
about a created being,
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a winged being.
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But there is a special messenger
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in the Old Testament
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is called the angel of God.
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He appeared to Hagar,
Abraham, Jacob, Balaam,
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Gideon, Joseph,
Manoah, Zechariah,
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he led Israel
by a pillar of fire
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and a pillar of cloud.
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And every time in context,
the angel of the Lord speaks.
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This is our
covenant keeping God Yahweh.
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There are five references
in the Bible to Michael.
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There are three in Daniel
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where he is
considered the prince,
00:19:15.68\00:19:17.92
the prince of the covenant.
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That is a messianic title
00:19:19.45\00:19:20.96
we find in Isaiah 9:6 for Jesus.
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There are only
two other references
00:19:23.79\00:19:25.79
to Michael,
00:19:25.83\00:19:27.13
Revelation 12:7,
00:19:27.20\00:19:28.83
"War broke out in heaven,
00:19:28.86\00:19:30.20
Michael and his angels
fought with the dragon."
00:19:30.23\00:19:33.13
Reminds me that
00:19:33.17\00:19:34.54
he is the captain
of the Lord's army
00:19:34.57\00:19:36.44
just as he was in Joshua 5:14
00:19:36.47\00:19:39.74
when it talks about
the angel of the Lord.
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And then Jude 1:9,
00:19:42.64\00:19:43.98
"Michael the archangel
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contented with the
devil for Moses' body."
00:19:45.38\00:19:48.42
There's only two
references in the Bible
00:19:48.45\00:19:50.45
for archangel.
00:19:50.49\00:19:51.82
Jude 1:9 that
we just read is one
00:19:51.89\00:19:54.49
and the other is 1
Thessalonians 4:16,
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"The Lord Himself
will descend with a shout,
00:19:56.86\00:19:59.59
with the voice of the archangel
00:19:59.63\00:20:01.86
and the trumpet will sound,
00:20:01.90\00:20:03.23
the dead in
Christ will rise first."
00:20:03.26\00:20:06.40
Michael, the famous commentator
Matthew Henry says this,
00:20:06.43\00:20:13.17
"Michael is our
Prince, the eternal Word,
00:20:13.21\00:20:17.95
the angel of the covenant,
who is the Lord of the angels."
00:20:18.01\00:20:22.72
That's right.
00:20:22.75\00:20:24.09
Michael is the
title for Jesus Christ.
00:20:24.12\00:20:27.32
Thank you very much.
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I know you can keep going
on that but time is limited.
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Now we go to a
Bible prophecy question
00:20:32.16\00:20:34.40
and this is for Pastor Ryan.
00:20:34.46\00:20:37.33
What is the 1335th days?
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I know that in Bible prophecy
that a day means a year.
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What does the 1335th
days years refer to."
00:20:45.64\00:20:50.25
This is from
Frank in California.
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Yeah, absolutely.
00:20:52.85\00:20:54.18
So this actually goes
in with the same time frame
00:20:54.22\00:20:56.72
as the 1290 days,
00:20:56.75\00:20:59.35
both of which are mentioned
there in Daniel 12:11-12,
00:20:59.39\00:21:03.29
where it says,
00:21:03.32\00:21:04.69
"And from that time
00:21:04.73\00:21:06.06
that the daily
sacrifice is taken away."
00:21:06.09\00:21:07.76
Of course, that word
sacrifice is italicized,
00:21:07.76\00:21:09.93
because it's not in
the original language.
00:21:09.96\00:21:11.30
So it actually read,
00:21:11.33\00:21:12.67
and from that time that
the daily is taken away,
00:21:12.70\00:21:15.07
and the abomination
of desolation is set up,
00:21:15.10\00:21:17.44
there shall be 1290 days.
00:21:17.47\00:21:20.38
And then verse 12,
00:21:20.41\00:21:21.74
"Blessed is he who waits
and comes to the 1335 days."
00:21:21.81\00:21:27.05
And the person who
submitted this question,
00:21:27.08\00:21:29.45
Frank, it was,
you're absolutely correct,
00:21:29.48\00:21:32.42
to apply the day for
a year principle here,
00:21:32.45\00:21:34.92
as this particular time frame
00:21:34.99\00:21:36.73
fits all the way up
to the time of 1844.
00:21:36.76\00:21:41.00
And I'll provide some support
for that in the time given.
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So first of all,
to understand this,
00:21:43.67\00:21:45.17
you have to
understand what the daily is.
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Now that's a
whole another question
00:21:46.57\00:21:48.04
in and of itself.
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But the word used here
00:21:49.44\00:21:50.77
in the original Hebrew for daily
00:21:50.81\00:21:53.31
is the word tamid.
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And tamid simply means
continual or perpetual ongoing.
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Now what is it
that was continual
00:21:59.68\00:22:01.68
on ongoing and perpetual?
00:22:01.72\00:22:03.22
In this instance,
the tamid, the daily
00:22:03.25\00:22:05.42
was everything
that the priest done
00:22:05.45\00:22:07.42
in the Holy Place
00:22:07.46\00:22:08.79
and the Most Holy
Place of the sanctuary.
00:22:08.82\00:22:10.83
There were two
surfaces in the sanctuary,
00:22:10.86\00:22:12.49
the yearly and the daily,
00:22:12.53\00:22:14.56
everything that was
carried out in the Holy Place.
00:22:14.60\00:22:16.67
And, of course, the...
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.77
I said Holy Place and
Most Holy Place earlier,
00:22:18.80\00:22:20.67
it should be the
courtyard and the Holy Place.
00:22:20.70\00:22:23.07
I want to make that
correction very clear.
00:22:23.10\00:22:24.64
The courtyard and the Holy Place
00:22:24.71\00:22:26.44
was called the daily.
00:22:26.47\00:22:28.08
Every single one of
those articles of furniture
00:22:28.11\00:22:29.91
and everything that was done
00:22:29.94\00:22:31.38
in the courtyard,
and in the Holy Place
00:22:31.45\00:22:33.52
was done on a daily basis.
00:22:33.55\00:22:35.12
And it points forward
00:22:35.15\00:22:36.95
to the ministry of Jesus Christ,
00:22:36.99\00:22:38.79
the daily mediatorial
ministry of Jesus Christ
00:22:38.82\00:22:41.99
is our bread of life,
our light of the world,
00:22:42.06\00:22:44.63
our intercessor, our sacrifice,
00:22:44.66\00:22:47.73
and you can find
each and every time
00:22:47.76\00:22:49.96
that in the Book of
Leviticus and Exodus,
00:22:50.00\00:22:52.43
that the altar of
sacrifice is mentioned,
00:22:52.47\00:22:55.44
the altar of burnt sacrifices,
00:22:55.50\00:22:57.27
and the table of showbread
00:22:57.31\00:22:58.67
and the seven
branched candlestick,
00:22:58.71\00:23:00.18
all of which is
used that same word
00:23:00.21\00:23:02.18
tamid, the daily,
00:23:02.21\00:23:04.21
it's a daily works
00:23:04.25\00:23:05.58
where it points to
the daily work of Christ.
00:23:05.65\00:23:07.28
So we get to that 1335 days,
how do we make sense of it?
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Well, when the
daily is taken away,
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let's go back and read it.
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It says when the
daily is taken away,
00:23:14.99\00:23:17.93
that daily was taken
away prophetically in 508 AD.
00:23:17.96\00:23:23.10
Now what happened in 508 AD?
00:23:23.13\00:23:25.47
May give you a little
bit of quick history here
00:23:25.53\00:23:26.97
so we can move on
with our other questions.
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You said quick history.
00:23:29.44\00:23:30.77
Yeah, quick history.
00:23:30.81\00:23:32.17
508 AD,
00:23:32.21\00:23:33.54
Clovis the king of the Franks
00:23:33.58\00:23:34.91
basically
converted to Catholicism.
00:23:34.94\00:23:37.71
But when he
converted to Catholicism,
00:23:37.75\00:23:39.25
not only did
that open up the door
00:23:39.28\00:23:41.02
for church and
state amalgamation,
00:23:41.05\00:23:43.32
but it also opened the
door for the priesthood
00:23:43.35\00:23:46.86
man to become a
replacement for them
00:23:46.89\00:23:50.06
daily
ministering work of Christ.
00:23:50.09\00:23:52.43
That is the abomination
which brought about desolation,
00:23:52.46\00:23:55.66
the fall in 1798
of that papal system,
00:23:55.70\00:23:59.30
they put man in place of Christ.
00:23:59.33\00:24:01.74
So that's why
there in Daniel 12:11-12.
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It makes it very clear,
00:24:06.17\00:24:07.51
"Blessed is he
who waits and comes
00:24:07.54\00:24:08.88
to the 1335 days. "
00:24:08.94\00:24:11.25
If you count from
508 AD 1335 years later,
00:24:11.28\00:24:17.19
it brings you to
the time of 1843, 1844
00:24:17.22\00:24:21.52
where God has, was
rising up a movement
00:24:21.56\00:24:23.93
that was about to restore
the message of the sanctuary,
00:24:23.96\00:24:27.20
God's holy law
00:24:27.23\00:24:28.66
and bring about the
final finishing work
00:24:28.73\00:24:32.00
of this earth and this kingdom.
00:24:32.03\00:24:33.50
Wow. Praise the Lord.
00:24:33.54\00:24:34.87
Thank you very much.
00:24:34.90\00:24:36.24
Well, the next
question is for you at home.
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That's right.
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You at home I have
a question for you.
00:24:39.84\00:24:41.18
Do you have a Bible question?
00:24:41.21\00:24:42.64
You can send it in to 3ABN,
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00:24:45.51\00:24:47.22
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Perhaps you heard something
00:25:12.07\00:25:13.48
in this program
so far that you say,
00:25:13.51\00:25:15.44
hey, I want more
information on that.
00:25:15.51\00:25:17.65
So ask your question,
00:25:17.68\00:25:19.01
so that we can bring
it to our panel here.
00:25:19.08\00:25:21.15
So let's continue now.
00:25:21.18\00:25:23.08
Let's go to
Sister Shelley Quinn.
00:25:23.12\00:25:25.22
How about this question here?
00:25:25.25\00:25:27.42
My husband, oh,
this is a sad one.
00:25:27.46\00:25:29.52
"My husband committed
suicide a couple of years ago.
00:25:29.56\00:25:33.13
I struggle to
make peace with it.
00:25:33.16\00:25:35.96
And I struggle to forgive him.
00:25:36.00\00:25:38.40
How do I forgive and forget."
00:25:38.47\00:25:41.44
And this is from
a struggling widow.
00:25:41.47\00:25:43.97
I have some personal
experience with this.
00:25:44.01\00:25:45.87
So my heart goes out to you.
00:25:45.91\00:25:48.18
Suicide is a
heartbreaking tragedy,
00:25:48.21\00:25:51.31
it is bewildering.
00:25:51.35\00:25:53.75
And it is so difficult to
as a survivor of the suicide
00:25:53.78\00:25:57.95
to get above and beyond that.
00:25:57.99\00:26:00.22
First, I want to just tell you,
00:26:00.26\00:26:01.62
sometimes suicide seems
like it's so selfish, it's not.
00:26:01.66\00:26:05.56
People who commit
suicide have a secret.
00:26:05.59\00:26:10.90
They're just in.
00:26:10.93\00:26:12.27
Their heart is in an angst.
00:26:12.30\00:26:13.94
They're
desperate, they've lost hope.
00:26:13.97\00:26:16.74
So what happens though
00:26:16.77\00:26:18.51
the aftershock
is so bewildering,
00:26:18.54\00:26:20.84
you will be
confused, you feel abandoned,
00:26:20.88\00:26:22.84
you feel
betrayed, you feel angry.
00:26:22.88\00:26:25.75
Anger is a natural emotion
00:26:25.78\00:26:29.22
as you're going
through this grieving process.
00:26:29.25\00:26:31.39
And by the way,
the grieving process
00:26:31.42\00:26:33.66
for normal
grieving is about two years,
00:26:33.69\00:26:36.26
but they say for
suicide it's three to five years
00:26:36.29\00:26:38.76
to get over this.
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.16
It's very devastating.
00:26:40.20\00:26:41.50
How do you forgive and forget?
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God can help you forgive.
00:26:43.47\00:26:45.67
You won't ever forget.
00:26:45.73\00:26:47.64
I mean, that's
just being honest.
00:26:47.67\00:26:49.80
What you need to or
what I would suggest,
00:26:49.84\00:26:53.41
ask God to give you
00:26:53.44\00:26:54.78
a divine
awareness of His presence.
00:26:54.81\00:26:56.41
Hebrews 13:5, he says,
00:26:56.44\00:26:58.31
"I'll never leave you,
I'll never forsake you."
00:26:58.35\00:27:00.95
Your maker is your
husband, he's with you.
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Take your anger before the Lord.
00:27:03.72\00:27:06.12
And if, as you
release that anger to God,
00:27:06.15\00:27:10.33
He can put forgiveness in
your heart for your husband.
00:27:10.36\00:27:14.56
Just remember Romans 8:32 said,
00:27:14.60\00:27:17.53
"He who did not
spare his own Son,
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.77
how will He not
freely give you all things."
00:27:19.80\00:27:22.60
And Deuteronomy 33:27 says,
00:27:22.64\00:27:25.81
"The Lord is your refuge
00:27:25.87\00:27:27.84
and underneath are
His everlasting arms,
00:27:27.88\00:27:30.75
He will thrust out
the enemy of unforgiveness
00:27:30.78\00:27:33.85
from before you saying destroy."
00:27:33.88\00:27:36.25
I recommend read books
00:27:36.28\00:27:38.12
by Christian authors
who have experienced this.
00:27:38.15\00:27:41.56
Find a support group of people
00:27:41.59\00:27:43.83
who've gone
through the same thing.
00:27:43.86\00:27:45.19
Pray for others
00:27:45.23\00:27:46.56
who've gone
through the same thing,
00:27:46.59\00:27:47.93
and perhaps seek a
Christian counselor,
00:27:47.96\00:27:51.13
a professional
Christian counselor,
00:27:51.17\00:27:54.74
who can help walk you
00:27:54.77\00:27:56.81
through all of these
devastating emotions.
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We're sorry. Amen.
00:27:59.61\00:28:01.01
Wow. Amen.
00:28:01.04\00:28:02.44
Wow. It's a tough question.
00:28:02.48\00:28:04.48
In difficult time
may the Lord be with you.
00:28:04.51\00:28:07.72
Well, this next question
is kind of interesting here
00:28:07.75\00:28:10.55
because I've heard
it asked different ways,
00:28:10.59\00:28:13.62
but this one wants to know.
00:28:13.66\00:28:16.49
This was Pastor
Lomacang, how about you?
00:28:16.52\00:28:19.03
"Would we still
look the same in heaven
00:28:19.09\00:28:21.93
or would we look different?
00:28:21.96\00:28:23.60
I've heard some people
say they want a little change.
00:28:23.63\00:28:26.70
But this one wants to know if...
00:28:26.74\00:28:28.67
This person wants to know
if they will look different."
00:28:28.70\00:28:30.81
This question is based
off 1 Corinthians 15:42-44.
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You want to read that
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or you want me to
read that for you?
00:28:38.31\00:28:39.65
Sure, I'll go ahead and read it.
00:28:39.68\00:28:41.02
Okay. Go for it.
00:28:41.05\00:28:42.38
It says, "So also
in the resurrection
00:28:42.45\00:28:43.79
of the dead,
00:28:43.82\00:28:45.15
the body is sown in corruption,
00:28:45.19\00:28:46.52
it is raised in incorruption.
00:28:46.55\00:28:47.89
It is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory.
00:28:47.92\00:28:50.23
It is sown in weakness,
it is raised in power."
00:28:50.26\00:28:52.96
Right away, it's
alluding to the fact
00:28:52.99\00:28:54.46
that it's not
going to be the same.
00:28:54.50\00:28:56.00
What it went down
00:28:56.03\00:28:57.37
looking like it's not
going to come up the same way.
00:28:57.40\00:28:59.50
The dishonor is going
to be replaced with honor,
00:28:59.53\00:29:02.87
the weakness is going
to be replaced with power.
00:29:02.90\00:29:05.54
And the corruption
is going to be replaced
00:29:05.57\00:29:08.18
with incorruption.
00:29:08.21\00:29:09.68
There's going to be a
change not only in how we look,
00:29:09.71\00:29:12.18
and I'll use a few
examples in the Bible.
00:29:12.21\00:29:14.65
The Lord is saying to us,
00:29:14.68\00:29:16.05
we're not going
to look the same.
00:29:16.08\00:29:17.72
My favorite passage
in the Bible, 1 John 3:2,
00:29:17.75\00:29:20.82
"Beloved, now we
are children of God."
00:29:20.86\00:29:23.76
Listen carefully,
00:29:23.79\00:29:25.13
"And it has not
yet been revealed
00:29:25.16\00:29:28.63
what we shall be."
00:29:28.70\00:29:30.67
Man, Ryan,
there's hope for me yet.
00:29:30.70\00:29:32.07
Right.
00:29:32.10\00:29:33.44
"But we do, but we know
that when he is revealed,
00:29:33.47\00:29:37.74
we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is."
00:29:37.77\00:29:41.18
And Paul later on
in Colossians says,
00:29:41.21\00:29:43.21
"He will change our vile bodies
00:29:43.24\00:29:46.05
that may be fashioned
likened to His glorious body."
00:29:46.08\00:29:50.05
So we know we're not
going to have the same bodies.
00:29:50.09\00:29:51.89
My wife wants me to
have a lot of muscles.
00:29:51.92\00:29:53.42
I said, "Honey, hold on.
00:29:53.46\00:29:55.39
Let's wait till
we get to heaven.
00:29:55.46\00:29:56.86
I promise.
00:29:56.89\00:29:58.23
I promise one day
00:29:58.26\00:29:59.59
I'm gonna look
very, very powerful."
00:29:59.63\00:30:01.10
But here's the
glorious evidence of that.
00:30:01.13\00:30:04.27
Paul says in 1
Corinthians 13:12,
00:30:04.30\00:30:06.60
"For now we see
in a mirror dimly."
00:30:06.63\00:30:09.34
We don't
understand everything now.
00:30:09.40\00:30:11.71
"But then face to
face now I know in part,
00:30:11.77\00:30:14.41
but then I shall know
just as I also am known."
00:30:14.44\00:30:18.35
How did this
play out in real time
00:30:18.38\00:30:20.82
when Mary was
in the garden tomb,
00:30:20.85\00:30:23.12
and she was
having a conversation
00:30:23.15\00:30:24.49
with the gardener.
00:30:24.52\00:30:26.96
It was not until he
called her name Mary
00:30:26.99\00:30:29.92
then she
realized, wait a minute.
00:30:29.96\00:30:31.39
This is not the gardener.
00:30:31.43\00:30:33.19
In John 20:16.
00:30:33.23\00:30:35.73
Jesus said to her,
00:30:35.76\00:30:37.10
Mary, she
turned and said to Him,
00:30:37.13\00:30:39.23
Rabboni, which
is to say, teacher,
00:30:39.30\00:30:42.07
it was the voice of Jesus
that she was familiar with
00:30:42.10\00:30:46.37
because He was surely a
whole lot more glorious.
00:30:46.41\00:30:49.84
She didn't see all
the blood and the scars
00:30:49.88\00:30:52.48
The only thing remaining
was a scar in his hand,
00:30:52.51\00:30:55.55
surely, I mean, the nail prints
in his hand and in his side,
00:30:55.58\00:30:58.75
in his side and the
thorns possibly on his brow,
00:30:58.82\00:31:01.69
but I tell you, He
came forth glorious,
00:31:01.72\00:31:05.99
and one day our vile bodies
00:31:06.03\00:31:07.76
will be fashioned like
unto His glorious body.
00:31:07.76\00:31:11.27
So if you having issues
with how you look right now,
00:31:11.30\00:31:13.90
hold on, the
Lord is not done yet.
00:31:13.94\00:31:18.04
Thank you so much.
00:31:18.07\00:31:19.44
Now we go to Pastor Ryan.
00:31:19.47\00:31:21.81
"If we are saved by grace,
00:31:21.84\00:31:24.65
why are we being
judged by our works?
00:31:24.68\00:31:27.28
The Bible says
00:31:27.32\00:31:28.65
the Lord is going
to reward good works."
00:31:28.68\00:31:32.25
All right.
00:31:32.32\00:31:33.66
Well, the simple
answer to this question
00:31:33.69\00:31:35.39
is that the reason why
we are judged by our works,
00:31:35.42\00:31:38.46
even though we are
saved by grace is because
00:31:38.49\00:31:40.66
if you read Ephesians
2:8, it's got the full story.
00:31:40.70\00:31:44.67
If you go off
what is being said,
00:31:44.70\00:31:46.20
we are saved by grace,
00:31:46.23\00:31:48.00
but it says we're
saved by grace through faith.
00:31:48.04\00:31:51.67
Okay, not of ourselves.
00:31:51.71\00:31:53.34
It is the gift of God.
00:31:53.38\00:31:54.91
So we're saved by
grace through faith.
00:31:54.94\00:31:57.61
But why are we
judged by our works?
00:31:57.65\00:31:59.15
Because our works tell
the story of our faith, right?
00:31:59.18\00:32:02.78
And so let's look at this
from a biblical perspective.
00:32:02.82\00:32:05.62
Jesus did say
00:32:05.65\00:32:06.99
that He says in
Revelation 22:12,
00:32:07.02\00:32:09.29
that He is
coming quickly, He says,
00:32:09.32\00:32:10.66
My reward is with me
00:32:10.69\00:32:12.06
to get everyone
according to his works,
00:32:12.09\00:32:14.20
even to the all seven of the,
seven churches of Asia Minor.
00:32:14.23\00:32:17.53
He says, I know your
works, I know your works.
00:32:17.57\00:32:19.83
He didn't say I
know your faith. Why?
00:32:19.87\00:32:21.70
Because the
works tells the story
00:32:21.74\00:32:23.37
of whether or not the
faith is genuine or not.
00:32:23.41\00:32:26.57
In fact, James Chapter 2,
00:32:26.61\00:32:28.14
this is that great
chapter you want to go to
00:32:28.18\00:32:30.35
when you want to
properly understand
00:32:30.38\00:32:32.25
the relationship
or the correlation
00:32:32.28\00:32:34.18
between works and faith?
00:32:34.22\00:32:36.25
And James spells
it out very clearly.
00:32:36.28\00:32:37.82
James Chapter
2:14, 17, 18 and 26.
00:32:37.85\00:32:41.82
I may not read all of this,
but I'm just referencing it,
00:32:41.86\00:32:43.99
James 2:14, 17, 18 and 26.
00:32:44.03\00:32:47.86
He says in verse 14,
00:32:47.86\00:32:49.20
"What does it
profit, my brethren,
00:32:49.26\00:32:50.67
if someone says he has
faith but does not have works?
00:32:50.70\00:32:54.20
Can faith save him?
00:32:54.24\00:32:55.74
And then verse 17,
00:32:55.80\00:32:57.14
"Thus also faith by itself,
00:32:57.17\00:32:59.84
if it does not
have works, is dead."
00:32:59.87\00:33:03.21
He makes that very clearly.
00:33:03.24\00:33:04.58
And then verse 26,
referencing here, it says,
00:33:04.61\00:33:07.05
"For as the body
without the spirit is dead,
00:33:07.08\00:33:09.35
so faith without
works is dead also."
00:33:09.42\00:33:12.79
Someone can tell you
all day long, you know,
00:33:12.82\00:33:14.42
"Oh, I love
Jesus. He's my Savior."
00:33:14.46\00:33:16.46
And they can
again, as Jesus said,
00:33:16.49\00:33:17.99
drawn nigh to
him with their lips.
00:33:18.03\00:33:20.06
But yet Jesus knows the
heart and how does he judge
00:33:20.10\00:33:23.26
whether or not a person's heart
their faith in Him is genuine,
00:33:23.30\00:33:26.67
the works tell the
story, the fruit of the words.
00:33:26.70\00:33:28.90
If someone takes me
out to a garden and says,
00:33:28.94\00:33:30.94
"Look at my apple tree,
00:33:30.97\00:33:32.31
and says, oh, look
00:33:32.37\00:33:33.71
how beautiful
that apple tree is."
00:33:33.74\00:33:35.08
You can tell me all day
long that that's an apple tree,
00:33:35.11\00:33:36.44
but I'm not going to
believe that it's an apple tree
00:33:36.48\00:33:38.35
until I see the
fruit of an apple
00:33:38.38\00:33:40.02
hanging on that apple tree.
00:33:40.05\00:33:41.38
The same thing
goes for us, my friends,
00:33:41.42\00:33:42.88
we can claim the name of Christ,
00:33:42.92\00:33:44.59
we can believe that
Jesus is our Savior,
00:33:44.62\00:33:46.49
all that we want mentally,
00:33:46.52\00:33:48.02
but the works, the
fruit of those works
00:33:48.06\00:33:50.26
will tell the story
00:33:50.29\00:33:51.63
of the
genuineness of that faith.
00:33:51.66\00:33:53.53
And if the faith is genuine,
00:33:53.56\00:33:55.66
then the person
shall be saved by grace.
00:33:55.73\00:33:58.80
Another text really quickly.
00:33:58.83\00:34:00.24
Romans 1:5, it says,
00:34:00.27\00:34:02.24
"Through Him, we have received
00:34:02.27\00:34:03.81
grace and
apostleship for obedience
00:34:03.84\00:34:08.14
to the faith among all
nations for his namesake."
00:34:08.18\00:34:11.05
So we're saved by grace.
00:34:11.08\00:34:12.51
And the response
of that should be,
00:34:12.55\00:34:14.58
I want my faith to be genuine.
00:34:14.62\00:34:16.42
And I want my works to show it."
00:34:16.45\00:34:18.85
Amen. Thank you so much.
00:34:18.89\00:34:20.99
Very good.
00:34:21.02\00:34:22.36
So now we got to Sister Shelley,
00:34:22.42\00:34:24.53
and it says here.
00:34:24.56\00:34:26.73
"One preacher says
00:34:26.76\00:34:28.06
we are living in hell right now,
00:34:28.10\00:34:30.83
meaning on this sinful planet.
00:34:30.87\00:34:32.90
If this is hell,
00:34:32.93\00:34:34.27
why do we have to wait
for those who die in Christ
00:34:34.30\00:34:36.71
to be raised first
in the resurrection
00:34:36.74\00:34:39.47
before we go to heaven."
00:34:39.54\00:34:40.88
This is from Princess.
00:34:40.91\00:34:42.41
Princess take note.
00:34:42.44\00:34:43.95
Okay.
00:34:43.98\00:34:45.31
In the Hebrew the word Sheol,
00:34:45.38\00:34:47.18
and in the Greek the word Hades
00:34:47.22\00:34:49.08
are both
translated into English hell.
00:34:49.15\00:34:51.69
They mean the place of the dead,
00:34:51.72\00:34:53.46
it's translated as
the grave, hell or pit.
00:34:53.49\00:34:57.19
There is another word
in the Greek, Gehenna.
00:34:57.23\00:34:59.56
It is used 12 times
00:34:59.59\00:35:01.00
and this is talking
about the lake of fire,
00:35:01.03\00:35:05.17
the hellfire that we
think of, for punishment.
00:35:05.20\00:35:09.10
One other Greek word
Tartaros is used only once.
00:35:09.17\00:35:13.38
And that's 2 Peter 2:4,
00:35:13.41\00:35:15.71
this is when God casts the evil
00:35:15.74\00:35:18.31
angels down to
hell, put them in chains,
00:35:18.35\00:35:21.02
and reserved them for judgment.
00:35:21.05\00:35:25.42
Notice that word
reserved, there is no hell yet.
00:35:25.45\00:35:29.32
Let me tell you
00:35:29.39\00:35:30.73
when, where and
why hell will exist.
00:35:30.76\00:35:34.20
When in john 5:28-
29, as you alluded to,
00:35:34.20\00:35:37.93
there are two resurrections,
00:35:37.97\00:35:39.67
there's a resurrection
of the righteous to life,
00:35:39.70\00:35:42.94
there's the resurrection
of evil to damnation.
00:35:42.97\00:35:46.11
In 1 Thessalonians
00:35:46.14\00:35:47.54
we know that those
who rise in Christ Jesus,
00:35:47.58\00:35:52.45
or who are in
sleep in Christ Jesus
00:35:52.48\00:35:54.78
will rise first.
00:35:54.82\00:35:56.22
2 Peter 2:9.
00:35:56.25\00:35:59.29
2 Peter 2:9 says,
00:35:59.32\00:36:01.26
"God reserves the unjust
for the Day of Judgment."
00:36:01.29\00:36:07.50
They are awaiting
00:36:07.50\00:36:08.83
that Great White Throne Judgment
00:36:08.90\00:36:10.50
of Revelation 20:11- 15
00:36:10.53\00:36:13.37
when they will be judged
and cast into the lake of fire.
00:36:13.40\00:36:18.01
Jesus explains
when, Matthew 13:40.
00:36:18.04\00:36:21.34
During...
00:36:21.38\00:36:22.71
When He's giving the parable
of the wheat and the tares.
00:36:22.78\00:36:24.91
He says the tares are
going to be gathered up,
00:36:24.95\00:36:26.75
they're going to be burned.
00:36:26.78\00:36:28.55
At the end, He said,
00:36:28.58\00:36:30.89
so it will be at
the end of this age.
00:36:30.92\00:36:34.92
Hell is yet future, where?
00:36:34.96\00:36:36.59
Revelation 29 says
that the evil of all ages,
00:36:36.62\00:36:41.23
they come up in
this second resurrection.
00:36:41.26\00:36:43.77
The New Jerusalem has descended,
00:36:43.80\00:36:46.97
and as they
attack the New Jerusalem,
00:36:47.00\00:36:50.04
it says fire came
down from God out of heaven
00:36:50.07\00:36:52.97
and devoured them.
00:36:53.01\00:36:54.51
Revelation 20: 14 says,
00:36:54.54\00:36:56.64
"Death and Hades are
cast into the lake of fire."
00:36:56.68\00:37:00.92
This is the second death.
00:37:00.95\00:37:03.35
That's what the Bible says.
00:37:03.39\00:37:04.72
It's the final eternal death.
00:37:04.75\00:37:07.26
And we can prove,
Revelation 26 says,
00:37:07.29\00:37:09.99
"Blessed and holy is he
00:37:10.03\00:37:11.96
who has part in the
first resurrection."
00:37:11.99\00:37:14.83
That's the
righteous because over such
00:37:14.83\00:37:17.00
the second death has no power.
00:37:17.03\00:37:18.93
Why?
00:37:18.97\00:37:20.30
Here's the why.
00:37:20.34\00:37:21.67
Why did God flood the earth?
00:37:21.70\00:37:23.47
He turned the earth
into a lake of water
00:37:23.51\00:37:26.98
to purge it of sin.
00:37:27.01\00:37:28.94
He is at the end of all
ages after Christ has returned
00:37:28.98\00:37:33.31
and we've gone to
heaven for 1000 years.
00:37:33.35\00:37:35.82
He is going to have
that second resurrection
00:37:35.88\00:37:39.49
and turn the earth
into a lake of fire
00:37:39.55\00:37:42.36
to purge the earth of sin
and consequentially of sinners.
00:37:42.42\00:37:47.86
Praise the Lord.
Thank you for all of that.
00:37:47.93\00:37:49.56
I will say
00:37:49.63\00:37:51.00
an intense Bible
study in a short time.
00:37:51.03\00:37:54.84
Here we go Pastor
Lomacang, are you ready?
00:37:54.87\00:37:57.04
Yes. I think so.
00:37:57.07\00:37:58.41
This says here, this
is a follow up question.
00:37:58.44\00:38:01.18
"In light of the fact
that you do everything
00:38:01.21\00:38:04.05
to avoid a narcissistic
person in the workplace,
00:38:04.08\00:38:07.68
and they know that
00:38:07.72\00:38:09.08
you're doing everything
to maintain the peace.
00:38:09.12\00:38:11.39
What do you do
00:38:11.42\00:38:12.75
when you have to relate to them,
00:38:12.79\00:38:14.36
and they seize
these opportunities
00:38:14.39\00:38:16.66
to craft hurtful and
traumatic experiences?"
00:38:16.69\00:38:20.06
This is from Janice.
00:38:20.10\00:38:21.70
And this says the HR
and other administration
00:38:21.73\00:38:23.33
do you wrong all the time,
00:38:23.37\00:38:24.87
take them behind the barn.
00:38:24.90\00:38:26.23
I saw Shelley sitting there
00:38:29.10\00:38:30.57
and that's the angst
00:38:30.61\00:38:31.94
when you're
reading that question.
00:38:31.97\00:38:33.31
I had to lighten
the moment briefly.
00:38:33.34\00:38:34.68
No, don't take
them behind the barn.
00:38:34.71\00:38:36.21
We have rights in the workplace.
00:38:36.24\00:38:37.71
And I'm assuming
you're in America,
00:38:37.75\00:38:39.78
doesn't say where they're from?
00:38:39.81\00:38:41.15
No, it does not.
00:38:41.18\00:38:42.52
So I'm assuming
that you are at a place
00:38:42.55\00:38:43.89
where you can have your,
have your grievances expressed
00:38:43.92\00:38:46.52
to the
administration of your company.
00:38:46.55\00:38:48.96
Because that's the thing
I would recommend you do.
00:38:48.99\00:38:51.16
My wife was in a
similar situation.
00:38:51.19\00:38:52.76
I'll tell you the story.
00:38:52.79\00:38:54.10
And I know right now,
if she hears this question,
00:38:54.13\00:38:55.46
it comes to our mind.
00:38:55.50\00:38:56.83
She was in a
situation in her work
00:38:56.87\00:38:58.20
when she was
living in California,
00:38:58.23\00:38:59.57
when we lived in California.
00:38:59.60\00:39:01.00
And there was a lady
that was narcissistic,
00:39:01.04\00:39:02.64
just like this
giving her a hard time.
00:39:02.70\00:39:05.04
And she took her to task
in front of the supervisor,
00:39:05.07\00:39:08.11
accusing her just with a voice
00:39:08.14\00:39:10.98
and the vehement
nature that was just...
00:39:11.01\00:39:13.18
He called my wife
took her breath away.
00:39:13.21\00:39:15.95
And she stood
there and listened.
00:39:15.98\00:39:17.32
And the supervisor
watched her reaction.
00:39:17.35\00:39:21.06
She could have easily said,
00:39:21.09\00:39:22.92
who do you think
you're talking to?
00:39:22.99\00:39:24.33
I'm not a kid
00:39:24.36\00:39:25.69
that you can raise
your voice at me like that.
00:39:25.73\00:39:27.46
That's what the
human nature would do.
00:39:27.50\00:39:29.10
I mean, I'm from New York,
00:39:29.13\00:39:30.47
that's the first
thing comes to my mind.
00:39:30.50\00:39:31.83
You know, we have a
very vocal background.
00:39:31.87\00:39:34.07
But she listened carefully.
00:39:34.10\00:39:35.44
When the lady walked away,
she said softly to supervisor,
00:39:35.47\00:39:38.27
"Everything she
accused me of is not right.
00:39:38.31\00:39:40.04
That's not true."
00:39:40.08\00:39:42.28
You know, the supervisor said,
00:39:42.31\00:39:43.65
"Angela, I'm so proud of you.
00:39:43.68\00:39:45.98
You did not speak to her
the way she spoke to you.
00:39:46.05\00:39:49.82
I'm going to give you a raise."
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.79
And she got a raise.
00:39:51.82\00:39:53.29
And that lady not
long after that got fired.
00:39:53.32\00:39:56.16
You see, God will
fight your battles for you.
00:39:56.19\00:39:58.89
Here's what I would say
00:39:58.93\00:40:00.26
follow up in the
administrative steps,
00:40:00.30\00:40:02.70
supervisor, manager.
00:40:02.76\00:40:05.00
If you don't get any resolution,
00:40:05.03\00:40:06.63
go to the head administration.
00:40:06.67\00:40:08.24
If you get no
resolution within the company
00:40:08.27\00:40:10.91
and that job is
very valuable to you.
00:40:10.94\00:40:13.48
We have the EEOC
00:40:13.51\00:40:14.84
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
00:40:14.88\00:40:17.85
Now you might get
fired if you go that far.
00:40:17.88\00:40:20.38
But they cannot fire you
00:40:20.42\00:40:21.75
based on something
they've done to you.
00:40:21.78\00:40:23.35
And people have been
awarded large sums of money
00:40:23.39\00:40:25.75
for that kind of
workplace disturbance
00:40:25.79\00:40:27.92
and irritation and harassment.
00:40:27.96\00:40:30.09
But here's my
counsel that I end with.
00:40:30.13\00:40:32.73
Do not allow their treatment
00:40:32.79\00:40:34.93
to change your
Christian principles.
00:40:34.93\00:40:37.90
Amen.
00:40:37.93\00:40:39.30
Romans 12:18,
00:40:39.33\00:40:40.67
"If it is possible,
00:40:40.70\00:40:42.04
as much as depends on you,
live peaceably with all men,
00:40:42.07\00:40:46.64
and the Lord will
fight your battles for you."
00:40:46.68\00:40:48.78
Amen. Thank you so much.
00:40:48.81\00:40:51.38
Well, this is a question
that millions of people have,
00:40:51.41\00:40:54.68
Pastor Ryan.
00:40:54.72\00:40:56.05
"Where are we right now
in the Book of Revelation?"
00:40:56.08\00:41:00.62
Which chapter we're in.
00:41:00.66\00:41:02.49
Well, first of all we have to,
00:41:02.56\00:41:03.96
the best way to start answering
this question is to be reminded
00:41:03.99\00:41:07.23
that you can't read
the Book of Revelation
00:41:07.23\00:41:09.26
in a chronological sense.
00:41:09.33\00:41:10.67
It's not reading in like
in a chronological story mode.
00:41:10.70\00:41:14.07
There's a lot of repeat
and enlarge and expanding
00:41:14.10\00:41:16.37
throughout all the
Book of Revelation.
00:41:16.40\00:41:18.24
So we have to be very tactful
00:41:18.27\00:41:19.97
when we and studious
00:41:20.04\00:41:21.71
to know exactly where we are.
00:41:21.74\00:41:23.11
And personally, I believe
00:41:23.14\00:41:24.48
in all the
studies that I have done.
00:41:24.51\00:41:25.98
I see us in
Revelation Chapter 13.
00:41:26.01\00:41:29.95
I believe that
00:41:29.98\00:41:31.32
that beast that
received its deadly wound,
00:41:31.35\00:41:33.32
it has been healing.
00:41:33.36\00:41:34.69
It's not completely healed yet,
00:41:34.72\00:41:36.79
but it has been healing
00:41:36.83\00:41:38.16
and we know that
once it has been healed,
00:41:38.19\00:41:40.56
that there's going to be
another beast, a second beast
00:41:40.60\00:41:43.33
mentioned in
Revelation Chapter 11,
00:41:43.37\00:41:45.33
or excuse me,
Chapter 13:11 there.
00:41:45.37\00:41:47.60
It says that this beast
comes up out of the earth,
00:41:47.64\00:41:50.37
it has horns like a lamb,
and it speaks like a dragon.
00:41:50.41\00:41:52.94
I believe the second
beast is none other than
00:41:53.01\00:41:56.41
the United States of America.
00:41:56.48\00:41:58.05
And I believe that
00:41:58.08\00:41:59.45
as Bible prophecy
clearly states that
00:41:59.48\00:42:00.88
once that
deadly wound is healed,
00:42:00.92\00:42:02.42
it's not quite healed yet,
but it's certainly healing.
00:42:02.48\00:42:04.99
And I believe
we're fast approaching
00:42:05.02\00:42:06.72
that completely healed state
00:42:06.76\00:42:09.42
that the first beast is
going to create an alliance
00:42:09.49\00:42:12.06
with the second beast.
00:42:12.09\00:42:13.46
By the way, I'm
going to be very candid,
00:42:13.50\00:42:14.93
I believe that first
beast is none other than
00:42:14.93\00:42:16.53
the Roman papal
church state power.
00:42:16.60\00:42:18.70
And that second
beast is none other than
00:42:18.73\00:42:20.34
the United States of America.
00:42:20.37\00:42:22.00
And we have seen
in its early stages,
00:42:22.04\00:42:24.21
that the principles of
which this nation has stood
00:42:24.24\00:42:27.64
is very much lamblike
00:42:27.68\00:42:29.21
in its religious
liberties and freedoms
00:42:29.28\00:42:31.98
that we have been given.
00:42:32.01\00:42:33.35
But we're seeing those
00:42:33.38\00:42:34.72
religious liberties and freedoms
00:42:34.75\00:42:36.12
being eroded at each day so much
00:42:36.15\00:42:37.49
that we recently in
the last couple of decades
00:42:37.52\00:42:39.19
have clearly seen
this second beast,
00:42:39.22\00:42:41.29
this United States
power speak as a dragon.
00:42:41.32\00:42:44.76
And once that
deadly wound is healed
00:42:44.79\00:42:47.00
of the first beast,
00:42:47.03\00:42:48.33
there's going to be an
amalgamation of the two,
00:42:48.36\00:42:51.03
an alliance in
which we see very clearly
00:42:51.07\00:42:53.23
the verse 12 of Revelation 13,
00:42:53.27\00:42:55.14
and he's speaking
of the second beast
00:42:55.17\00:42:56.71
exercises all the authority
00:42:56.74\00:42:58.57
of the first
beast in his presence
00:42:58.61\00:43:00.04
and causes the earth
and those who dwell on it
00:43:00.08\00:43:01.98
to worship the first beast
whose deadly wound is healed.
00:43:02.01\00:43:05.18
We're talking about
that harlot of Revelation 17.
00:43:05.21\00:43:07.78
She's made the
world drunk with her wine.
00:43:07.82\00:43:09.92
We're living in that time frame.
00:43:09.95\00:43:11.75
We're living in that time period
00:43:11.79\00:43:13.12
in which Babylon has fallen.
00:43:13.19\00:43:14.56
And I think
00:43:14.59\00:43:15.96
once that
deadly wound is healed,
00:43:15.99\00:43:17.33
that's where we are.
00:43:17.36\00:43:18.69
We're in that healing process.
00:43:18.73\00:43:20.06
But once it's healed,
00:43:20.10\00:43:21.40
which I believe to be very soon,
00:43:21.43\00:43:22.76
Pastor Lomacang,
00:43:22.80\00:43:24.13
we're going to see
00:43:24.17\00:43:25.50
the United States
in this papal system
00:43:25.53\00:43:26.87
become very much more
active and an alliance state,
00:43:26.90\00:43:29.10
launching us into the future
of Revelation 12 and verse,
00:43:29.14\00:43:33.51
excuse me,
Revelation 13:12 and onward.
00:43:33.54\00:43:36.88
Thank you very much. Thank you.
00:43:36.91\00:43:39.18
Sister Shelley Quinn,
00:43:39.21\00:43:40.72
regarding the bronze
serpent in Numbers 21:4-9.
00:43:40.75\00:43:45.59
Okay.
00:43:45.62\00:43:46.96
"The SDA Bible
Commentary says that
00:43:46.99\00:43:48.92
the people knew that
00:43:48.96\00:43:50.33
the serpent was a
symbol of the Savior.
00:43:50.36\00:43:52.93
This whole
story has me confused.
00:43:52.99\00:43:55.13
How can the serpent who
depicts Satan in the Bible
00:43:55.16\00:43:57.97
also be a symbol of Christ?
00:43:58.00\00:44:00.50
How could looking
upon a bronze snake
00:44:00.54\00:44:02.57
bring healing to
those dying of a snake bite,
00:44:02.64\00:44:05.57
please explain."
00:44:05.61\00:44:06.98
This is from Linda.
00:44:07.01\00:44:08.34
Oh, Linda, Numbers 21:4-9.
00:44:08.38\00:44:10.68
God's people are
wandering in the wilderness,
00:44:10.71\00:44:13.21
God is providing
for them supernaturally.
00:44:13.25\00:44:16.58
And they murmur and complain.
00:44:16.62\00:44:18.92
This is the seventh time
00:44:18.95\00:44:20.29
they've murmured and
complaint against God
00:44:20.32\00:44:22.46
and against Moses.
00:44:22.49\00:44:24.09
Guess what? God's
patience runs out.
00:44:24.13\00:44:26.90
He sends fiery
serpents among them,
00:44:26.93\00:44:28.93
serpents are biting them.
00:44:28.96\00:44:30.47
Some are dying.
00:44:30.50\00:44:31.83
And then he tells Moses,
get that bronze pole out there,
00:44:31.87\00:44:35.34
put that serpent,
00:44:35.37\00:44:36.71
tell the people to
look and be healed.
00:44:36.77\00:44:39.44
I believe that
00:44:39.47\00:44:41.78
and that's Number
21:8, where he says,
00:44:41.81\00:44:44.58
"Make a fiery
serpent, set it on a pole,
00:44:44.61\00:44:47.05
and everyone who's bitten
00:44:47.08\00:44:49.02
when he looks at
it, he'll be healed."
00:44:49.05\00:44:51.15
In Revelation 20,
00:44:51.19\00:44:52.52
we see that the
serpent is the devil.
00:44:52.55\00:44:55.09
It's Satan.
00:44:55.12\00:44:56.49
So we know serpent is
a symbolic term for sin.
00:44:56.52\00:45:00.56
It's a symbol for sin.
00:45:00.60\00:45:02.20
So I believe my belief is
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that pole is representing
the cross of Jesus Christ,
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that serpent on the
pole is representing this sin
00:45:09.60\00:45:13.17
that Christ nailed to the cross.
00:45:13.24\00:45:15.61
Symbolically Jesus
said in John 3-14-15,
00:45:15.64\00:45:19.91
"As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness,
00:45:19.98\00:45:23.05
even so the Son of
man must be lifted up,
00:45:23.08\00:45:26.12
that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
00:45:26.15\00:45:29.49
but have eternal life."
00:45:29.52\00:45:31.23
2 Corinthians 5:21 says,
00:45:31.26\00:45:33.26
"He made him
00:45:33.29\00:45:34.60
who knew no sin
to be sin for us,
00:45:34.63\00:45:38.23
that we might become
the righteousness of God
00:45:38.27\00:45:40.37
in Christ Jesus."
00:45:40.40\00:45:41.94
So this is what
Peter said in 1 Peter 2:24,
00:45:41.97\00:45:45.24
that Christ bore our
sins in His body on the tree,
00:45:45.27\00:45:52.11
that we having died the sins
could live for righteousness.
00:45:52.15\00:45:55.68
Two more scriptures.
00:45:55.72\00:45:57.05
Colossians 2:15 says,
00:45:57.09\00:45:59.02
"That Christ disarmed
principalities and power;
00:45:59.05\00:46:02.16
He made a spectacle of them,
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overcoming them at the cross."
00:46:04.43\00:46:07.96
When the people
in the wilderness
00:46:07.96\00:46:10.50
looked to the pole,
00:46:10.53\00:46:12.87
because God told
them to look to the pole.
00:46:12.90\00:46:15.44
God told them, look to the pole,
00:46:15.47\00:46:16.94
look at this
serpent on the pole,
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you will be saved,
you will be healed.
00:46:18.77\00:46:20.94
You won't get
bitten by the snakes.
00:46:20.98\00:46:23.48
God likewise tells
Christians look to the cross.
00:46:23.51\00:46:27.58
When you are in the
shadow of the cross,
00:46:27.62\00:46:29.55
when you look in faith
at Christ Jesus knowing
00:46:29.62\00:46:32.82
He took your penalty,
00:46:32.89\00:46:34.36
all of your sin was put on Him
00:46:34.39\00:46:38.06
and nailed to the cross.
00:46:38.09\00:46:39.43
He took your penalty.
00:46:39.46\00:46:40.83
Likewise, we could look
to the cross and be saved.
00:46:40.86\00:46:43.06
That is right.
Amen. Thank you very much.
00:46:43.10\00:46:44.73
Pastor Lomacang,
00:46:44.77\00:46:47.17
"what is one expected
to do in lieu of buying
00:46:47.20\00:46:50.51
without the mark
00:46:50.54\00:46:52.31
and then there's
a question cash?"
00:46:52.34\00:46:54.08
Okay.
00:46:54.11\00:46:55.44
I want to segue
from what Shelley said
00:46:55.48\00:46:56.95
'cause I love that
explanation so well.
00:46:56.98\00:46:58.95
I'll just add to
that looking into Jesus,
00:46:58.98\00:47:00.82
the author and
finisher of our faith.
00:47:00.85\00:47:02.18
Amen.
00:47:02.22\00:47:03.55
You know, there are times
that are coming ahead of us
00:47:03.59\00:47:04.99
that we have no idea
00:47:05.02\00:47:06.39
what the gravity
of those times are,
00:47:06.42\00:47:08.22
the tenacity of the
times, the terror of the times,
00:47:08.26\00:47:12.26
the men's hearts
failing them for fear
00:47:12.29\00:47:14.23
in anticipation of the times.
00:47:14.30\00:47:16.46
We cannot adequately prepare
00:47:16.50\00:47:18.93
outside of a
relationship with Christ.
00:47:18.97\00:47:21.17
Amen.
00:47:21.20\00:47:22.54
You can't store up enough food,
00:47:22.57\00:47:24.31
you can't put enough,
you can't buy enough gold.
00:47:24.34\00:47:26.78
Lot of people say buy
gold is not gonna lose value.
00:47:26.81\00:47:29.58
You read the Bible,
00:47:29.64\00:47:31.05
the gold and silver
00:47:31.08\00:47:32.41
is going to be
cankered up as a witness,
00:47:32.45\00:47:34.02
it's going to be no use one day,
00:47:34.05\00:47:35.98
is going to be as though
00:47:36.02\00:47:37.35
every avenue of monetary value
00:47:37.39\00:47:39.69
is going to be erased.
00:47:39.75\00:47:41.69
In light of what
Ryan was talking about
00:47:41.72\00:47:43.22
when that coalition,
00:47:43.26\00:47:44.59
when the papacy
00:47:44.63\00:47:45.96
and the United
States coalesces together
00:47:45.99\00:47:47.60
and the kings of the earth
and the merchants of the earth
00:47:47.66\00:47:50.13
decides to establish
a standard of worship
00:47:50.17\00:47:52.53
that you choose
not to adhere to.
00:47:52.57\00:47:54.27
There's nothing you can do
outside of having that mark
00:47:54.30\00:47:57.71
to adhere and gain
access to products,
00:47:57.74\00:48:00.51
except the following.
00:48:00.54\00:48:02.34
Isaiah 33:16,
00:48:02.38\00:48:05.35
"He will dwell on high,
00:48:05.38\00:48:07.02
his place of defense
00:48:07.05\00:48:08.38
will be their fortress of rocks,
00:48:08.42\00:48:10.69
bread will be given you
and your water will be sure,
00:48:10.72\00:48:15.09
God will provide."
00:48:15.12\00:48:16.46
Psalm 37:25,
00:48:16.52\00:48:18.09
"I have been
young and now I am old,
00:48:18.13\00:48:20.00
yet I have not seen
the righteous forsaken
00:48:20.03\00:48:22.63
nor their
descendants begging for bread."
00:48:22.66\00:48:25.03
Philippians
4:19, come on, Shelley.
00:48:25.07\00:48:26.84
"And my God shall
supply all of our need,
00:48:26.90\00:48:30.67
according to His
riches and glory."
00:48:30.71\00:48:32.37
And lastly, Psalm 55:22,
00:48:32.41\00:48:34.98
a passage perfectly said
00:48:35.01\00:48:36.51
in the midst of the
turmoils of the last days,
00:48:36.54\00:48:38.88
cast your burden on the Lord,
00:48:38.91\00:48:41.12
and He shall sustain you,
00:48:41.15\00:48:43.45
He shall never permit
the righteous to be moved.
00:48:43.49\00:48:47.16
It's not about cash.
00:48:47.22\00:48:48.56
It's about Jesus.
00:48:48.59\00:48:49.92
Amen. Amen. Thank you very much.
00:48:49.99\00:48:51.99
Well, Pastor Ryan,
we have one for you.
00:48:52.03\00:48:54.50
We know that
Jesus Christ is God.
00:48:54.56\00:48:56.70
And He came into this
world in the form of a man
00:48:56.73\00:48:59.67
yet still is God, only
setting aside His glory.
00:48:59.70\00:49:02.80
We know that He gave up His life
00:49:02.84\00:49:04.94
to pay for the wages
of sin, which is death.
00:49:04.97\00:49:07.78
So it means that
Jesus died at the cross.
00:49:07.81\00:49:09.91
We know that
00:49:09.94\00:49:11.28
no one can take
His life from Him,
00:49:11.31\00:49:13.01
and that He willingly
gave it to take it back again.
00:49:13.08\00:49:16.95
The question that
puzzles some believers is that
00:49:16.99\00:49:19.39
when then God can also die,
00:49:19.42\00:49:22.09
thus leading them to
question God's immortality?
00:49:22.12\00:49:25.13
How do we address this concern?"
00:49:25.16\00:49:27.23
This one comes from
Ferdinand in the Philippines.
00:49:27.30\00:49:29.93
Amen. That's a loaded question.
00:49:30.00\00:49:33.17
And it really
requires a loaded response,
00:49:33.20\00:49:35.60
which I don't have
enough time to give.
00:49:35.64\00:49:37.34
But I just want to respond
00:49:37.37\00:49:39.41
with just a
question at the front.
00:49:39.44\00:49:41.81
How do we really explain
00:49:41.84\00:49:43.18
the immortal
nature of God, right?
00:49:43.21\00:49:44.85
That is really,
really at the end of the day,
00:49:44.88\00:49:46.65
beyond our understanding,
beyond our comprehension.
00:49:46.68\00:49:49.92
We have to be careful
00:49:49.95\00:49:51.29
when we start
talking about things
00:49:51.32\00:49:52.65
that we really
don't fully understand.
00:49:52.69\00:49:54.39
But that being said,
00:49:54.42\00:49:55.76
we can go off
00:49:55.79\00:49:57.16
what the
scripture reveals to us.
00:49:57.19\00:49:58.59
And we do know that the
Bible does clearly tell us that
00:49:58.63\00:50:01.40
Christ being the
immortal God that He was,
00:50:01.43\00:50:04.90
came a time and
to save man He chose.
00:50:04.93\00:50:08.10
And really the answer to it is
00:50:08.14\00:50:09.47
God can die
00:50:09.50\00:50:10.84
only if God allows
Himself to die, right?
00:50:10.87\00:50:12.57
And that's
essentially what Christ did.
00:50:12.61\00:50:14.28
He allowed Himself
to be humbled in the...
00:50:14.31\00:50:16.95
As Philippians 2:6-8 says,
00:50:16.98\00:50:20.72
"He being in the form of God,
00:50:20.75\00:50:22.08
He did not consider it
robbery to be equal with God,
00:50:22.12\00:50:24.62
when made
Himself of no reputation
00:50:24.65\00:50:26.19
taking on the
form of a bondservant
00:50:26.22\00:50:28.26
and coming in
the likeness of men.
00:50:28.29\00:50:30.86
And being found in
the appearance of men,
00:50:30.89\00:50:32.39
He humbled Himself
00:50:32.43\00:50:33.96
and became obedient
to the point of death,
00:50:34.00\00:50:36.43
even to the death at the cross."
00:50:36.46\00:50:37.80
And so we know it was by choice.
00:50:37.83\00:50:39.70
It's not that, you
know, like God can die.
00:50:39.73\00:50:42.14
God can only die
if God submits Himself
00:50:42.17\00:50:44.51
to be put in that situation.
00:50:44.54\00:50:45.91
And what does that say about
00:50:45.94\00:50:47.28
the loving character of our God?
00:50:47.31\00:50:48.98
What does that say about
the loving character of Christ?
00:50:49.01\00:50:51.15
You know, I'm also
thinking of Hebrews 2:16.
00:50:51.18\00:50:53.58
It says, "He took not
upon Him the nature of angels."
00:50:53.62\00:50:56.38
He wouldn't even take
the lower step of the angels.
00:50:56.45\00:50:58.92
He brought
himself even lower to say,
00:50:58.95\00:51:00.49
I want to become
the seed of Abraham.
00:51:00.52\00:51:03.39
And so He came here, He
made the conscious choice
00:51:03.46\00:51:06.73
to put Himself
under the Father's care,
00:51:06.80\00:51:09.33
under the Father's authority.
00:51:09.36\00:51:11.00
And He submitted, He
gave up His omniscience,
00:51:11.03\00:51:12.93
He gave up His omnipresence,
00:51:12.97\00:51:14.77
He gave up His all powerness too
00:51:14.80\00:51:18.04
so that He could humble
Himself to come save man.
00:51:18.07\00:51:20.78
In that case, God can do
it because God can allow it.
00:51:20.81\00:51:24.01
And in this case,
00:51:24.05\00:51:25.38
if we go any
further beyond that,
00:51:25.41\00:51:26.75
to try to comprehend it,
00:51:26.78\00:51:28.12
it's just difficult
to fully understand,
00:51:28.15\00:51:29.85
absolutely.
00:51:29.88\00:51:31.22
Thank you very much.
00:51:31.25\00:51:32.59
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00:51:32.62\00:51:34.26
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00:51:34.29\00:51:35.86
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