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What Is A Soul?

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01:15 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today
01:17 Bible Q and A question and answer.
01:19 We're so glad that you joined us.
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01:23 and we have been inundated in a good way
01:26 with all of the questions that have been coming in
01:28 from this newer program
01:29 we've been doing this for about two months or so,
01:32 now and we know that you like to delve into
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02:10 I think I got that right.
02:11 Sometimes I get that confused a little bit,
02:13 but thank you for sending in your questions to us here.
02:16 My name is Greg Morikone,
02:17 and I'm joined here on the set
02:19 with some great Bible students.
02:21 Right next to me is my dear wife, Jill.
02:23 So good to have you with us today.
02:25 Thank you sweetheart, joy to be here,
02:27 always a privilege to open up the Word of God, and study.
02:29 Absolutely, Pastor Ryan Day, so good to have you here too.
02:32 Amen.
02:33 I'm excited and ready to go for some Bible questions.
02:35 I can see you got that smile on your face.
02:36 Always. Amen.
02:37 And Pastor John Lomacang,
02:39 the pastor of our Thompsonville Seventh-day Adventist Church,
02:40 so good to have you here with us today too.
02:42 Praise the Lord.
02:43 The Bible always has answers
02:45 and we are also learning as we share.
02:46 Yeah. Yes, absolutely.
02:48 You know, before we went on the program here today,
02:50 we were messing with the tie, my knot tie here
02:54 and you know I've been tying this style of knot in my tie
02:57 for probably I'm thinking about that
02:59 like 35, 40 years not the same tie,
03:02 I've gone through ties through the years,
03:04 to make sure I clarify that.
03:05 But you know it's interesting you can get
03:07 and we're and I'm having troubles with it
03:08 because it always comes crooked,
03:09 I can't get straight on television that sort of thing.
03:12 You know it's interesting,
03:13 I've been tying it for like 35, 40 years,
03:15 and you can get stuck into a tradition,
03:17 or a rut, so to speak, but it's not always the best.
03:19 You know, a lot of times in life,
03:22 maybe some of our religious thoughts, beliefs,
03:24 we're in a rut or tradition
03:26 because mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa, you know what?
03:29 We can find answers in the Word of God.
03:32 You know not how to tie your knot for your tie,
03:35 but other answers like, what day do I worship,
03:37 what happens when I die
03:38 or other questions that you're sending in.
03:40 So we want to answer the questions that you send in
03:43 based on the Word of God
03:46 because God has those answers for us today.
03:49 So I want to encourage you to get your Bible,
03:51 study along with us
03:53 as we delve into the Word of God.
03:54 This is a rapid fire, we try to go through,
03:56 maybe 20 questions in about 45, 50 minutes,
04:00 so it's kind of rapid fire but it's a lot of fun.
04:03 If this is your first time to join us.
04:06 Before we start, I always like to open with the scripture
04:08 and then we'll have a prayer.
04:10 2 Timothy 2:15 says,
04:12 "Study to show yourself approved unto God,
04:15 a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
04:18 rightly dividing the word of truth."
04:20 So we're looking forward to today's study
04:22 all these questions that we have for today.
04:24 Great question, so Pastor John,
04:26 would you mind the opening prayer for us?
04:28 Sure.
04:29 Loving Father in heaven, it is a blessing,
04:31 as well as an understanding journey for us.
04:34 Yes.
04:35 You have given us the responsibility to share
04:37 what Your Word has said.
04:39 Yet the blessing has come,
04:41 every time we step into this bottomless cavern of riches.
04:46 Yeah.
04:47 We are enlightened ourselves.
04:49 And so, Lord, may we answer these questions humbly,
04:52 while we're teaching others You are teaching us.
04:54 Thank you.
04:55 And may all the glory go only to You.
04:57 In Jesus' name I pray.
04:59 Amen. Amen.
05:01 Amen. Thank you very much.
05:04 Pastor John, this question is for you,
05:06 and there's no name,
05:07 they came in with this question but it's a really good one.
05:09 And it says,
05:11 "What is the soul?
05:12 Is it your brain?
05:14 Is it your character?
05:16 Is it some mysterious spirit?
05:18 My friends say people have a soul but animals do not."
05:22 Okay. Wow.
05:24 Great question. It is a wonderful question.
05:26 One of the concepts today about souls,
05:28 the most common one is people say that
05:30 when you die your soul leaves your body.
05:34 The Bible doesn't teach that.
05:36 And I could see how many of them
05:38 can take scriptures and twist them
05:40 because Ecclesiastes 12:7 says,
05:43 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was
05:46 and the Spirit shall return to God who gave it."
05:49 But without finding out with that spirit is
05:51 as Job 27:3 says,
05:53 "All the while my brothers in me
05:55 and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils."
05:58 Well, how did the spirit get there?
05:59 Genesis 2:7,
06:01 "The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground,
06:03 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
06:06 and man became a living soul."
06:10 Don't forget, "became a living soul"
06:12 meaning when he was just a mound of dust,
06:15 being formed and my forensic pathologist friend says,
06:18 when we say God formed man of the dust of the ground
06:21 he says as a forensic pathologist,
06:23 you have no idea what God did, all the veins and the muscles,
06:27 and the sinew, and the various layers of skin,
06:30 and all the things that
06:31 it takes to keep the body alive.
06:33 Well let's look at some scriptures
06:34 to show that the soul is not some everlasting entity
06:37 that just continues to live after a person dies.
06:42 David the psalmist in his distress prayed
06:44 the prayer in Psalm 30:3.
06:45 He said,
06:47 "Oh Lord, You brought my soul up from the grave.
06:51 You have kept me alive,
06:53 that I should not go down to the pit."
06:56 David knew when he die, he is going down,
06:58 but he didn't die
06:59 so the Lord kept his soul alive.
07:01 He said, "You kept me alive."
07:02 That's the context right there.
07:04 Also you find the rich man that had many things in his barn.
07:09 Speaking of himself, he says,
07:10 "And I will say to my soul,
07:12 soul, you have many good goods later for many years,
07:15 take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."
07:18 What if the soul is some kind of ethereal mist
07:20 it can't eat, but he's talking about himself.
07:23 And lastly, we know that
07:25 the Bible makes it very, very clear the soul can die.
07:27 Ezekiel 18:4,
07:29 "Behold, all souls are mine.
07:31 The soul of the father as well as the soul of the son,
07:34 the soul who sins, it shall die."
07:36 So souls are not immortal.
07:38 That's the point I want to make.
07:39 Excellent, Pastor. Thank you very much.
07:42 Jill, this comes from Steward from Alabama.
07:45 And it says,
07:46 "Jacob's name was changed to Israel,
07:48 and he developed into a nation,
07:50 often referred to as the Israelites.
07:53 How did they become to be called Jews?
07:57 What's the origin of the name Jews?"
07:59 It's a great question.
08:01 This is gonna be a history lesson actually.
08:03 We know that God established His covenant with Abraham.
08:06 You can read about that in Genesis 12, in Genesis 15,
08:10 you'll see more in Genesis 17.
08:12 And that covenant was that
08:13 God was going to make of Abraham,
08:15 a great nation, and we see Abraham had a son, Isaac.
08:19 Isaac had a son, Jacob.
08:21 Jacob's name was changed to Israel
08:25 after he spent that night wrestling with the Lord.
08:28 We know that the sons of Israel went into Egypt,
08:33 but 400 years later,
08:34 they came out of Egypt as the nation of Israelites.
08:39 We see them wandering 40 years in the wilderness,
08:42 on their way to the Promised Land.
08:44 They arrived at the Promised Land,
08:46 and are the nation of Israel.
08:48 Now, we have the time of the judges
08:50 then we have the time of the kings,
08:52 we have Saul, we have David, Solomon,
08:55 and then after Solomon,
08:56 there was a rending of the kingdom,
09:00 the northern kingdom 10 tribes stayed
09:02 with the northern kingdom of Israel,
09:04 and then two tribes
09:06 that would be Judah and Benjamin
09:08 stayed as the southern kingdom.
09:10 The northern kingdom was taken away captive 722 BC,
09:14 the Assyrians came, they completely annihilated
09:17 the northern kingdom of Israel,
09:19 and they were taken and they were dispersed
09:21 or settled amongst other nations,
09:24 completely lost sight of.
09:26 But the southern kingdom remained.
09:29 They were, of course, taken captive to Babylon in 605 BC,
09:33 but they came back after those 70 years.
09:36 Those are the people that we refer to as Jews today
09:41 from the southern kingdom because of the tribe of Judah,
09:45 they're referred to as Jews today.
09:48 So the Jews went into captivity in Babylon,
09:51 they came out from captivity,
09:53 and the nation we know as the Jews
09:55 would be those two southern tribes today.
09:57 Good, that's very interesting, good history lesson,
09:59 so we have a little history lesson, we did.
10:01 Good job.
10:02 Pastor Ryan, this is from Kyle,
10:05 "What does the Lord say about wearing jewelry,
10:09 especially engagement rings and wedding bands."
10:11 All right.
10:13 That's a full question.
10:14 Yeah, that is a full question
10:15 and again lots that we can discuss on this
10:17 but in short here, I just want to make it very clear that God.
10:20 God created gold,
10:22 He created silver, He created the pearls,
10:24 He created all the jewels, and the wonderful things
10:26 that people often want to apply as ornamentation
10:29 to their body jewelry.
10:30 So it's not that God in and of itself
10:32 is against those jewels
10:34 or against the gold or against the silver.
10:36 It's often the fact of our pride
10:38 and our haughtiness
10:39 that is often associated
10:41 when we wear these type of things
10:42 that God speaks negative of in the Scripture
10:45 and we find a fluidity of this
10:46 all the way through the Scripture
10:47 from Genesis to Revelation.
10:49 For instance the first time this comes up
10:50 where God tells the children of Israel,
10:52 and uniting himself together
10:53 He tells Jacob in Genesis Chapter 35, He says,
10:56 "Look, I want you to build me an altar,
10:58 and I want to, I want my people
10:59 to be consecrated as my people."
11:01 And one of the stipulations was,
11:03 they had to remove their false gods
11:04 from their camp
11:06 and they had to remove their jewelry
11:07 and we see that reference there.
11:09 Genesis 35:1-4,
11:11 and it says there in verse 4, it says,
11:13 "So, they gave Jacob, all the foreign gods
11:15 that were in their hands
11:16 and their earrings which were in their ears,
11:18 and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree
11:22 which was by Shechem."
11:23 So they were willing to say okay,
11:24 "We're going to follow the word of the Lord."
11:26 God was very clear,
11:27 take it off, don't wear it, right?
11:29 Also we see this come back up.
11:31 Many years later, again, as Jill was telling the history
11:34 of after the captivity in Egypt,
11:36 God is wanting to again reunite Himself with His people,
11:39 and so they had come out of Egypt
11:41 with earrings and nose rings
11:42 and all these different ornaments
11:44 that they were wearing.
11:45 And God has another meeting and He says,
11:47 "Look, if you're going to be My people,
11:48 I want you to be a special people,
11:49 remove those things."
11:51 And so in Exodus 33:4-6. And I'm just gonna read.
11:55 I'm gonna read verse 6 there, it says,
11:57 "So the children of Israel stripped themselves
11:58 of their ornaments, by Mount Horeb."
12:01 So we see God again telling them,
12:02 you are stiff-necked people,
12:03 and you need to be consecrated,
12:05 you're going to be My people you need to look peculiar
12:07 and separate from all the other heathen nations.
12:09 The wearing of ornamental jewelry is often associated
12:11 especially from a historical perspective
12:13 with the other nations around.
12:15 God wanted His people to be separate.
12:17 Again, not that He's against these things
12:18 but He wanted them to look different
12:20 and appear to be different in character
12:22 and on the inside and out.
12:24 It kind of goes back to that
12:26 your body is the temple
12:27 of the Holy Spirit's perspective.
12:28 On the inside, God definitely wants
12:30 to clean you up on the inside,
12:31 but He also wants the outside to appear holy as well.
12:34 And we have all the way through
12:36 and I'm running out of time here,
12:37 but I just wanted to just make a few mentions.
12:38 We need to be able to have a willing heart
12:41 to follow the Lord.
12:42 In fact that's exact word that's used
12:44 in Exodus Chapter 35
12:45 when God had asked them to make an offering to them
12:48 on behalf of the tabernacle.
12:50 If the people of God came forward
12:51 it says, then everyone whose heart was stirred
12:54 and everyone whose spirit was willing,
12:55 they brought the Lord's offering,
12:57 and, of course, in those,
12:58 down there in verse 22, it says,
13:00 "They came before men and women
13:01 who many who had a willing heart
13:03 and brought their earrings their nose rings,
13:04 their necklaces, all of their jewelry of gold
13:06 and they gave it to the Lord."
13:08 That's the same thing,
13:09 we find this all the way through
13:11 even into the New Testament,
13:12 where God says, you know, don't wear this,
13:14 the plating of the hair,
13:15 of the wearing of gold or jewelry
13:16 or any of those things,
13:18 but the inside man is what matters.
13:19 So we have to be separate.
13:21 We even see in Revelation there with the two women,
13:23 one who's decked with all of the gold and the silver
13:26 and the pearls of the world.
13:27 The other woman which is called to follow the natural lights
13:29 that God created.
13:31 So there is a clear attitude communicated in the Bible,
13:33 and that is that God says,
13:35 "Don't wear. Take it off.
13:37 Be clean, be My holy peculiar people."
13:39 Amen.
13:40 Thank you Pastor Ryan, yeah.
13:41 That's a lot.
13:43 That's a full question
13:44 for a short period amount of time.
13:46 Some grace period right there.
13:47 Yeah, for sure.
13:48 It's good answer.
13:50 Pastor John, this is a really good question here.
13:51 This comes from Joel in North Carolina.
13:52 Thank you, Joel.
13:54 And it says,
13:55 "What is the investigative judgment?
13:57 'Cause we hear that mentioned quite a bit so what is that?"
13:58 Well, the investigative judgment
13:59 is not for God,
14:01 because God knows everything that's the thing about it.
14:03 And the investigative judgment
14:05 is simply if I could put it in a nutshell.
14:07 When you profess, what you profess
14:10 must be displayed by how you lived.
14:13 Let's go to the end of the story.
14:15 We're in heaven now for thousand years.
14:17 And the Bible tells us in the Book of Corinthians,
14:19 know that we will judge angels.
14:21 Now for God to be vindicated
14:23 we have to determine whether or not,
14:25 every decision that God made
14:26 about who is saved and who is lost
14:27 was a just decision.
14:29 That's where the investigation comes in.
14:32 The investigation is not to determine
14:34 that God knows something,
14:36 because He knows everything.
14:38 But it's to say,
14:39 "Okay, Lord,
14:40 we agree with the decisions you've made."
14:43 And so we find in Revelation 15:3.
14:46 The Bible says,
14:47 "They sing the song of Moses the servant of God,
14:50 and the song of the lamb saying,
14:52 'Great and marvelous are Your works,
14:54 Lord God Almighty just and true are Your ways,
14:58 O King of saints.'"
15:00 And then 16:7,
15:04 "And I heard another from the altar saying,
15:05 'Even so, Lord God Almighty,
15:07 true and righteous are Your judgments."
15:10 Now where does the investigative judgment,
15:14 where is it focused?
15:15 It's not focused on people in the world
15:17 because they make no profession to even know the Lord.
15:19 True.
15:21 So we're not going to say, well, he drinks, he smokes.
15:22 You don't even look to the people of the world
15:26 to investigate how they live
15:27 because they've never made any profession to the Lord.
15:31 But 1 Peter 4:17 says
15:33 "For the time has come
15:35 for judgment to begin at the house of God.
15:38 And if it begins with us first,
15:41 what will be the end of those
15:42 who do not obey the gospel of God?"
15:45 Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved,
15:48 where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?
15:51 So the Bible is in essence saying
15:53 and I use a great illustration.
15:55 If your wallet is missing and you have five children,
15:57 would you go to the neighbor and ask them,
15:59 did you take my wallet?
16:00 No, you begin with your children.
16:02 You say to your kids.
16:03 I've taught you not to steal.
16:04 So you're saying, as my children
16:06 I taught you how to behave.
16:08 Your behavior is not in harmony with his family.
16:12 In the same way God is saying,
16:13 "I've taught you how to live.
16:15 Your behavior is not in harmony with his family."
16:19 James 2:12 says it this way,
16:21 "So speak and so do as those who will be judged
16:26 by the law of liberty,
16:28 not only how we live, but how we speak.
16:30 Every idle word that we speak we will give an account."
16:34 Matthew 12:36,
16:35 "Each of us shall give an account to God
16:37 of themselves."
16:39 Romans 14:12,
16:41 and it says in Hebrews 4:13,
16:43 "There is nothing hidden in from his sight,
16:45 but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him,
16:48 to whom we must give an account."
16:51 And finally, Jeremiah 2:22, that's why Jeremiah says,
16:55 "For though you wash yourself with lye
17:00 and use much soap,
17:02 yet your iniquity is marked before me,
17:05 says the Lord."
17:06 So God sees it all. He does.
17:08 Nutshell of it, the investigative judgment
17:10 is to measure by what you profess
17:12 is how you live.
17:14 Amen. Pastor, wow, excellent.
17:15 Thank you very much.
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17:46 Absolutely.
17:47 Pastor Ryan, good question here from Susie from Jamaica.
17:51 We're hearing from all over the world,
17:52 that's really neat too.
17:54 Says,
17:55 "What type of war unrest took place in heaven,
17:58 physical or verbal is the account in the Bible?"
18:01 Okay, that's a great question. It is.
18:03 Revelation 12:7 actually is the text we're referring to.
18:08 And the text says,
18:09 "And war broke out in heaven,
18:11 Michael and his angels fought with the dragon
18:13 and the dragon and his angels fought."
18:16 And see, when you read that kind of on the surface
18:18 you kind of get this somewhat Star Wars
18:20 looking scene you might ride in.
18:22 You know Jesus and Satan, you know with their swords
18:24 or heavenly swords or whatever it is,
18:25 and there's this very, very, you know,
18:27 physical element of fighting.
18:29 Now the word here war
18:30 and this is where you have to do a little bit of a...
18:32 Go little bit deeper and do a word search here.
18:34 But the word war in the original Greek here
18:37 is the word polemos,
18:38 and it can indeed
18:40 if you go to your Greek Lexicon
18:42 and you look at that, it can indeed
18:43 mean that there's very much
18:45 could be a physical element there,
18:47 war like fighting
18:49 some type of physical struggle there.
18:51 Very much could have been.
18:53 However, when you read,
18:54 kind of read within the context
18:55 and study within, you know, in connectivity
18:58 with other texts in Scripture,
18:59 you know, it's hard for me to see
19:01 not saying that it could not have happened.
19:02 It's hard for me to see how as a creative being
19:04 going to challenge the Creator, right?
19:07 I just can't imagine,
19:08 you know, the devil showing up and be like
19:09 "All right, Jesus, I'm gonna challenge you
19:11 in a boxing match to the death," right?
19:13 I just can't imagine that
19:14 and so when you dig a little deeper
19:16 into that word polemos,
19:17 it's also where we get certain words
19:19 like polemic, okay?
19:21 Which is also word the derivative of,
19:24 derived from that is the word we get our word politics.
19:26 And, of course, we know the very heart of that
19:28 is simply, it's a fighting of words,
19:31 it's a contention of thought and idea.
19:34 And so the nature of the war
19:36 that I believe is happening here
19:37 in Revelation 12:17, when it says,
19:39 "Michael and his angels fought,"
19:41 we know according to a previous episode,
19:43 that Miss Shelley Quinn made it very clear,
19:44 Michael is Jesus.
19:46 So this is Jesus and the devil and the angels.
19:48 There's a war of thought and idea manipulation,
19:52 the devil had launched a war,
19:54 manipulation of thought and idea to try to turn
19:56 the angels away from God,
19:58 and he was able to do that with one-third of the angels
20:01 as we see they were cast out.
20:02 So I believe very clearly in study with also,
20:05 Ephesians 6:12, where it says that,
20:07 "We do not wrestle against flesh and blood.
20:09 It's a spiritual warfare."
20:10 It's a spiritual war of thought and idea,
20:13 a manipulation of those thoughts and ideas,
20:15 I believe is what was happening in that war.
20:17 Excellent. Yeah, good.
20:18 Thank you Pastor Ryan.
20:20 Jill, this comes from Heather.
20:22 It's a rather long question comment here,
20:25 so we'll start with,
20:26 "What is the truth concerning how completely changed
20:29 our hearts have to be to qualify us
20:32 for that final transition when our Lord returns?
20:36 Well people who die suddenly
20:38 or even those who are converted a moment before their death
20:40 qualify for that change to immortality.
20:43 I have heard some presenters/pastors
20:46 say that we all have to change before we leave earth.
20:49 Will there be a continuum
20:51 that reflects each person's achievement,
20:53 bearing in mind the promise
20:55 that he who began a good work in us
20:57 will be faithful to complete it."
20:58 This came from Heather. Thank you.
21:00 Thank you so much, Heather, for that question
21:02 and there's actually several questions inherently
21:05 within that one question,
21:06 so we're going to unpack too.
21:08 The first question I see is the first question,
21:10 meaning do our hearts,
21:13 how right do we have to be with God
21:15 to qualify for a translation.
21:18 How perfect you can say do we have to be?
21:21 The only thing we take to heaven,
21:23 you and I, is our character.
21:25 The Word of God says in Revelation 22:11,
21:27 "He who is unjust, let him be unjust still.
21:30 He who is filthy, let him be filthy still.
21:32 He who is righteous, let him be righteous still.
21:34 He who is holy, let him be holy still."
21:38 Now, we don't have time to address this,
21:40 but this holiness, this righteousness
21:43 is a result of Christ living in the heart of the believer.
21:48 It's a result in Romans 6 of us dying to that old life of sin
21:53 and rising to newness of life.
21:56 It's a result of 2 Corinthians 5:17,
21:59 "If we are in Christ,
22:00 we are a new creature and the old things have passed
22:04 and the new has come."
22:06 That means that
22:07 our character is going to look like Jesus
22:10 at the point of translation.
22:12 And that is a result of the work of the Holy Spirit
22:16 and us surrendering to Him.
22:18 Now the question number two,
22:20 what happens if you had 50 years to surrender
22:24 and become more like Jesus
22:25 versus someone who accepted Christ
22:27 like the thief on the cross
22:29 and was dead that same day,
22:30 or someone who accepts Christ
22:32 and then dies in a car accident,
22:33 what about that?
22:35 I think about the parable of the workers in the vineyard.
22:37 This is a Matthew 20, we won't read it,
22:39 but Matthew 20:1-16,
22:42 remember the worker who went out early in the day,
22:44 they were paid one denarius for a full day's labor.
22:47 The one who went out at the sixth
22:49 or the ninth hour was paid one denarius,
22:51 the 11th hour worker received the same wage.
22:56 Now the other workers got upset,
22:58 and you see this in verses 11 and 12.
23:01 They complained to the land owner,
23:04 saying these last men only worked one hour
23:07 and you made them equal to us
23:09 who have worn the burden and heat of the day.
23:12 You know what I learned from that
23:13 is that our expectations are not always true,
23:16 right and biblical.
23:18 I learned from that that God looks at the heart,
23:20 we look at the outward appearance
23:21 and say yesterday they were drinking, smoking
23:23 and carousing with woman.
23:25 They accepted Christ and they died,
23:27 how can they be perfect in that moment,
23:29 we don't see the heart.
23:31 You and I are saved by grace through faith,
23:35 not by our works or lack of them,
23:38 not by the quantity of those works,
23:40 not by the righteousness of those works,
23:42 not by the time length of those works.
23:46 We are saved by grace through faith.
23:48 And I believe that God accelerates sanctification.
23:52 God knows the heart, God knows in that moment,
23:55 if that person has surrendered everything to Jesus,
23:57 in that moment they stand righteous
23:59 before the Father,
24:01 as if they have never sinned.
24:03 And we have the promise that throughout eternity
24:05 we can be growing more into the image of Jesus.
24:08 Amen. Wow. Thank you very much.
24:11 Yeah, that was packed question there.
24:13 So thank you for unpacking and answering that
24:15 from the Word of God.
24:16 Pastor John, this doesn't have a name with this question.
24:19 Again, it's a good one though, it says,
24:21 "In the Bible there are two things that say
24:23 we should do in remembrance of me.
24:26 One is washing each other's feet
24:28 and the other is communion.
24:29 Please explain this to me."
24:31 Okay.
24:32 Communion is a renewal of our commitment to Christ.
24:36 It's also a reconfirmation
24:39 that we have previously accepted
24:42 the righteousness of Jesus as our righteousness,
24:46 and you find in the Bible,
24:48 the broken body and the shed blood
24:50 are the two symbols of the communion service.
24:53 The foot washing, let me summarize it,
24:54 is the ordinance of humility,
24:57 revealing the desire to be a servant,
24:59 not, Jesus said,
25:01 "I didn't come to be served but to serve."
25:04 And he is saying in order to be a follower of Christ,
25:07 our hearts need to be hearts of humility
25:10 where Christ first abides.
25:12 Humility is the foundation to exaltation.
25:15 But the Bible talks about the blood,
25:17 why is the blood necessary?
25:19 Let's talk about the grape juice.
25:20 Matthew 26:28,
25:22 "For this is the blood of the new covenant,
25:24 which is shed for many for the remission of sin."
25:27 And Hebrews 9:22 says,
25:28 "According to the law
25:31 almost all things are purged with blood,
25:34 and without shedding of blood there is no remission."
25:36 So, if there is no shedding of Jesus' blood,
25:39 there is no removal or no taking away of the sin.
25:44 It's amazing how the red blood of Jesus
25:46 can make our red sin cleansed.
25:50 It's amazing, isn't it? Praise the Lord.
25:51 But the blood is a symbol of the redemption.
25:53 1 Peter 1:18-19,
25:55 "Knowing that you are not redeemed
25:57 with corruptible things like silver or gold,
25:59 from your aimless conduct
26:01 received by tradition from your fathers,
26:03 but with the precious blood of Christ
26:05 as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."
26:09 And so Revelation makes it very clear.
26:10 So, let me go down to the broken body.
26:12 The broken body is an indication
26:14 that Jesus is not just our substitute,
26:17 but He is our propitiation.
26:19 Yes.
26:20 That means He's the appeasement for the price
26:23 that was necessary to redeem us from the transgression and sin.
26:28 That's why the Bible says you are bought with a price,
26:31 therefore glorify God in your body
26:34 and in your spirit,
26:36 which are God's.
26:37 Amen. Amen.
26:38 Thank you very much, Pastor.
26:40 And again, thank you for submitting these questions.
26:42 Pastor Ryan, before we give you this question.
26:44 I just want to touch on this
26:45 because there's so many questions
26:47 that are coming in here,
26:48 so many answers, you know,
26:49 they're being given in such a short period of time, you're,
26:51 maybe feverously trying to write them down at home.
26:53 We want to encourage you,
26:54 you can always watch these episodes
26:56 again on YouTube
26:57 or brand new, 3abnplus.tv 3ABNplus,
27:02 that's 3ABN and P-L-U-S.tv
27:06 and you can watch these programs again, again,
27:07 stop, pause, write your notes down.
27:10 But, Pastor, also what's very exciting is
27:11 that you've been working on a website
27:13 that will be taking the majority
27:14 or a lot of these questions,
27:16 and people can actually go online and do searches.
27:18 Tell us briefly about that that's coming up?
27:19 Yeah, absolutely so we're building it,
27:21 we're building the content for it
27:23 and hopefully here in the near future
27:24 we're going to have a website build.
27:25 It's going to be a Bible questions and answer database,
27:27 so a lot of that you're hearing here
27:29 in just a couple of minutes,
27:30 you're going to be able to see in a much detailed manner
27:33 on the website just simply by doing a search on the website.
27:37 So we hope to have that ready and available this year.
27:39 Thank you for working on that
27:40 because we're very excited about this
27:42 because it's all about resources,
27:43 right, about learning and growing.
27:44 So thank you for working on that.
27:46 This question here,
27:48 my notes here, so this one is a great question.
27:51 No name with it, but it says,
27:53 "Is the pope system the Antichrist?"
27:56 Okay.
27:58 The simple answer, and I understand
27:59 where this person is coming from...
28:01 So simple answer would be yes,
28:03 but we want to clarify what we mean by that.
28:05 Of course, when we say pope system,
28:06 we want to be a little bit more clear
28:08 that we're talking about
28:09 the Roman papal church state system.
28:12 Of course to be even more candid,
28:13 the Roman Catholic Church system.
28:16 We're not talking about individuals,
28:18 we're not here to throw people under the bus,
28:20 but yes, that office of the pope
28:22 is the leadership figure.
28:24 It is a leadership Antichrist figure
28:26 that leads out in this Antichrist system,
28:28 and we want to be very clear about that.
28:30 Where we get this from the time
28:31 that I have left the minute and a half,
28:34 where we get this from is,
28:35 when you simply do a responsible research
28:37 in Scripture,
28:39 between the chapters of Daniel Chapter 7.
28:41 Also you can throw in there Daniel Chapter 8 as well.
28:44 Also go over and study Revelation 13,
28:47 that first beast of Revelation 13
28:49 and as well as the harlot from Revelation 17.
28:52 The little horn from Daniel 7-8,
28:54 Revelation 13, first beast,
28:56 and the harlot of Revelation 17,
28:58 and you begin to pull out
29:00 some clear biblical identifications
29:02 that can only point to one earthly system,
29:05 and it happens to be that Roman papal church state system.
29:08 I have all of the lists here in front of me
29:10 of those identifications.
29:11 I'm not going to be able to read them all off,
29:13 we're talking about a small kingdom
29:14 that little horn.
29:16 We're talking about it rising up in Western Europe,
29:18 among the others in Western Europe,
29:19 a man at its head, eyes of a man,
29:22 a mouth that speaks words of blasphemy.
29:24 It's a blasphemous system that's been persecuting power.
29:28 All of this is coming from Daniel 7-8, by the way.
29:31 It thinks to change times and laws.
29:33 Daniel 7:25, changes God's law.
29:35 He goes on to become a world dominant power
29:38 reigns for 1260 years,
29:40 it wears colors of purple and red.
29:43 Revelation 17,
29:45 its headquarters are located on seven mountains.
29:47 Revelation 17:9,
29:49 and it has a relationship with the leaders of the world.
29:51 You put all of these,
29:52 allow the Bible to just speak to you
29:53 and see these clear identifications,
29:55 it can only point to one earthly power,
29:58 and it happens to be the system,
30:00 system of the Roman Catholic Church.
30:02 Wow. Good job.
30:04 Good job in two minutes.
30:05 And we believe, of course,
30:06 that God has people in all churches...
30:08 Absolutely.
30:09 Good spirit led people in the Catholic Church.
30:10 Amen. But you're talking system.
30:12 That's right. That's right.
30:13 I'm glad we're gonna have that website.
30:15 Yeah. That's right.
30:16 Coming soon, right?
30:17 Coming soon. Thank you, Pastor Ryan.
30:19 Thank you, Jesus.
30:20 All right, Jill, this comes from Tim, and he says,
30:23 "How can I be a mediator for my sisters.
30:26 They don't talk anymore,
30:27 even though they say they have forgiven each other?"
30:29 It's very sad.
30:31 "What can I say to help them reconcile with each other?"
30:34 There's many things you can do, Tim,
30:36 but I would say three things.
30:38 The first two focus on what you can do.
30:40 And the last one is on what the Holy Spirit does.
30:43 So the first is to pray.
30:45 We cannot change other people's hearts,
30:47 only God can.
30:49 You can't make your sisters reconcile,
30:51 you can't change them but God can.
30:53 James 5:16 says,
30:55 "Confess your trespasses to one another,
30:57 and pray for one another,
30:58 that you may be healed.
31:00 The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man
31:03 it avails much."
31:05 Prayer can move mountains.
31:06 Prayer can part the Red Sea.
31:08 Prayer can raise the dead.
31:11 Prayer can do anything.
31:12 Prayer can bring about reconciliation
31:14 between your sisters.
31:15 The second thing is to persist.
31:18 That means persistent prayer.
31:21 Luke 11:9-10 says,
31:23 "So I say to you, ask...
31:24 And in the Greek it means ask and keep on asking, "
31:27 And will be given to you,
31:29 seek and keep on seeking and you will find.
31:32 Knock and keep on knocking and it will be opened to you.
31:37 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds
31:40 and to him who knocks it will be open."
31:43 So don't just pray for your sisters and say,
31:45 "Okay, God, I'm done,"
31:46 and go off and do your own thing.
31:48 Pray, persist in prayer.
31:50 Commit every day a certain time to pray for your sisters.
31:53 Number three is what the Holy Spirit does,
31:55 and that is pursue.
31:56 John 16:7-8,
32:00 "I tell you the truth," Jesus is speaking,
32:02 "it's to your advantage that I go away,
32:04 because if I don't go away, the Helper,"
32:06 that's the Holy Spirit, parakletos
32:09 "will not come to you,
32:10 but if I depart, I send him to you.
32:12 And when he has come,
32:14 he will convict the world
32:15 of what sin of righteousness and of judgment."
32:19 So what I take from that verse
32:20 is that only the Holy Spirit will bring conviction.
32:22 Only the Holy Spirit will show your sisters
32:25 that they are at odds
32:26 and that they need to be reconciled to each other.
32:28 So allow the Holy Spirit to pursue them.
32:31 So pray, persist
32:33 and allow the Holy Spirit to pursue.
32:36 Amen. I like that.
32:37 Pray and persist. Excellent.
32:39 We want to invite you to submit your questions to us here.
32:42 You can email at BibleQA@3abn.org
32:47 or you can text us at 618-228-3975.
32:51 I just have to say thank you to Ladonna
32:53 who organizes all these questions that come in
32:55 because we have literally been flooded
32:57 with questions from you.
32:58 Thank you for submitting them.
33:00 Amen Pastor Ryan, I like that I think we're all amening that,
33:02 and thank you for submitting the question
33:04 but thank you, Ladonna,
33:06 for sorting all these out and getting this,
33:07 getting all of these to us.
33:09 Pastor John, great question here.
33:11 Pastor John but this is from John-John.
33:13 Well, I saw it.
33:15 Did you see that?
33:16 Yeah.
33:17 So, John-John has this question,
33:19 "Why is there so much confusion about this seventh day Sabbath?
33:23 And will this be a main problem
33:25 in the last days of earth's history?"
33:27 I think that question is somewhat rhetorical
33:29 because I think you answered the question with a question.
33:32 Yes, because there's so much confusion about it
33:33 is going to be an issue.
33:35 You don't have confusion about something that's clear.
33:37 That's right.
33:38 If it's an issue, it's because it's not clear.
33:40 Let's go ahead and establish a couple of parameters.
33:42 We have a seven day week that's world over
33:44 whether you are atheist, whether you are Buddhist,
33:46 whatever you may be,
33:48 the entire world is on the clock
33:49 of a seven day week.
33:51 But ask yourself the question,
33:52 why do we have a seven day week.
33:54 And what does that do
33:56 and the only place you can find
33:58 a seven day week is in the Bible.
33:59 That's right.
34:01 You can't point to a star, a moon,
34:02 a planet or a rotation of the sun,
34:03 going up or going down, it's only in the Bible.
34:06 What did God do with that seventh day?
34:08 Genesis 2:1-3,
34:10 "Thus the heavens and the earth
34:11 and all the hosts of them were finished."
34:13 Genesis 2:2,
34:15 "And on the seventh day
34:16 God and His work which He had done
34:18 and He rested on the seventh day
34:19 from all His work which He had done.
34:21 Then God blessed the seventh day
34:23 and sanctified it
34:25 because in it He rested from all His work
34:27 which God had created and made."
34:29 The only day of the week that was blessed,
34:31 sanctified and God who never gets tired rested
34:35 as an example to us is the seventh day.
34:38 you might say,
34:40 "Well which day is the seventh day?
34:41 Look at your dictionary, look at the encyclopedia.
34:43 People have made attempts to change calendars,
34:45 but the fact that history is the seventh day is Saturday,
34:49 the Sabbath, according to the Bible.
34:51 It's not Jewish, because there were no Jews
34:53 when God blessed the seventh day,
34:55 Jesus kept the Sabbath and He said in Mark 2:27-28,
34:59 "The Sabbath was made for man"
35:00 It was kept in the Garden of Eden
35:04 by the Old Testament,
35:06 by the New Testament followers of Christ,
35:08 the disciples of Jesus kept it, the apostles kept it.
35:12 According to what Ryan said and this is history.
35:14 Rome changed it,
35:15 it's going to be kept in heaven,
35:17 why is it not being kept now?
35:19 That's why when the Mount Carmel showdown
35:21 between Ahab and Elijah happened.
35:24 Look what Ahab said,
35:26 look what Elijah said to Ahab in 1 Kings 18:18,
35:30 "I have not troubled Israel but you and your father have.
35:33 In that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord,
35:36 and you followed Baal."
35:37 And lastly Revelation 12:17, when the Bible says,
35:40 "The dragon is angry with a woman
35:42 who keeps the commandments of God."
35:43 He's angry because the only one that's not being kept
35:47 and is being taught against is the one that Jesus says,
35:50 "Remember to keep it holy."
35:52 Amen.
35:53 And that's the Sabbath.
35:54 Wow. That's right. That's right.
35:56 Amen, Pastor. Thank you.
35:57 In two minutes, yeah, powerful. Amen.
35:58 Thank you and thank you for that question, John-John.
36:01 Jill, this I like this name, this comes from Genuine,
36:04 this is the person's name Genuine.
36:05 Genuine. I like that.
36:07 Yeah. Great name.
36:08 So Genuine's asking, Jill,
36:10 "When I read the book, Song of Solomon,
36:12 I just don't understand it.
36:14 What or who is the Song of Solomon about?"
36:18 Okay, well the Song of Solomon,
36:19 you can understand literally
36:21 and symbolically, allegorically.
36:23 I would submit there's more literal understanding
36:25 in the Song of Solomon,
36:27 but you can definitely see both.
36:28 The Song of Songs, it's really the best or most sublime song,
36:33 belonging to Solomon.
36:34 The King Solomon wrote it,
36:37 probably during the first half of his reign
36:39 before polygamy and idolatry got a hold of him.
36:42 This would have been...
36:44 If you look at Song of Solomon 6:8
36:46 it references 140 women in the harem
36:49 as opposed to his latter kingship
36:50 when there was 1000 women sitting in the harem.
36:52 Wow.
36:54 It was written, who the Shunammite is,
36:56 is there's some discussion on that,
36:58 some discussion, it could be Abishag,
37:00 which was David's nurse you could say
37:04 and his latter years, some discussion,
37:06 it could be Pharaoh's daughter
37:07 who was one of Solomon's first wives, it could be.
37:10 But the literal meaning of the Song of Solomon,
37:14 it's a love song.
37:15 It's a love story.
37:17 You see the courtship
37:18 in the first couple of chapters,
37:19 then you see the bridal procession
37:21 and wedding,
37:22 and you see the life of love after marriage.
37:25 The theme is courtship.
37:27 You can see that longing for each other.
37:28 You can see the expression of marriage, marital love
37:33 within the confines of a marriage relationship,
37:36 and there are some frank open discussion
37:39 in the Book of Song of Solomon regarding that physical love,
37:43 that God created between a husband and a wife.
37:49 The book really combats two extremes
37:51 asceticism, which is the dial of all pleasure,
37:54 and hedonism, which is the pursuit of only pleasure.
37:58 And then, of course, you can look at the book
38:00 as an allegory or a symbolism
38:02 of the love of Christ for His bride,
38:06 which is you and I, which is the church.
38:09 Wow. Amen.
38:11 Yeah. Thank you very much.
38:12 Excellent.
38:13 Pastor Ryan, no name with question, but it says,
38:15 "Can you explain the differences
38:17 between the rapture, and second coming of Christ.
38:20 Most Christians believe that the church will be rapture
38:23 before the tribulation,
38:24 but Matthew 24:29-31 states that,
38:27 "Immediately after the tribulation,
38:29 we shall see the Son of Man coming
38:31 in clouds with power and great glory."
38:34 Man, that's a powerful question.
38:36 Yes, it is.
38:38 And in fact to be frank, the person asked,
38:39 can I explain the difference
38:40 between the rapture and the second coming,
38:42 and the answer is no, I can't,
38:43 because in reality the rapture and the second coming
38:46 are the exact same event.
38:48 Now from an evangelical perspective,
38:50 obviously there are many people out there
38:52 who believe they are two separate events,
38:54 but the concept of rapture is found in Scripture.
38:57 The word rapture was not found
38:59 in the original text of Scripture.
39:01 And so what we want to look at here very quickly,
39:04 how do people get this idea
39:06 that there are two separate events,
39:09 the rapture that occurs some pre tribulation,
39:12 pre seven year tribulation,
39:13 and then seven years later, a second coming.
39:16 What happens is people go into Matthew 24,
39:18 and they take the first couple of chapters, excuse me,
39:21 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4-5,
39:23 and they tried to say that those events
39:25 are two separate events
39:26 when we read in 1 Thessalonians
39:28 from an evangelical perspective,
39:29 many people say that, that's the,
39:31 that's more of a rapture versus the Matthew 24
39:34 is more of a second coming
39:35 and I've had people explain it backwards.
39:37 The second coming is,
39:39 is found more in 1 Thessalonians 4-5
39:41 and you know the rapture is in Matthew 24.
39:44 The truth of the matter is
39:45 when you do a clear, responsible word search
39:47 and you just compare the two,
39:49 you find it is the exact same event.
39:51 For instance, the word coming Jesus coming in the clouds
39:54 in Matthew 24 and 1 Thessalonians,
39:56 same exact Greek word parousia,
39:58 which simply means
40:00 Christ is coming to gather His people.
40:01 Christ is seen in the clouds in Matthew 24,
40:04 He's seen in the clouds in 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4.
40:07 We see the sound of a trumpet or hear the sound of a trumpet
40:10 in Matthew 24,
40:11 we see again a trumpet sound in 1 Thessalonians 4-5.
40:15 We see Jesus talking about
40:17 no man knows the day nor the hour,
40:18 Matthew 24 and Paul mentions the,
40:20 you know, the variation of the times and seasons,
40:22 brethren, I have no need to write to you for
40:24 you know that the day of the Lord is coming
40:27 as a thief in the night.
40:28 Notice there's a thief referencing.
40:30 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5,
40:32 "Jesus is coming back as a thief."
40:33 In Matthew 24,
40:35 "All of the wicked are taken away,"
40:36 in Matthew 24, "and destroyed."
40:38 "All of the wicked comes to sudden destruction"
40:39 in 1 Thessalonians 5.
40:41 And, of course, in both chapters
40:43 Jesus ends it with, watch, watch,
40:46 where the Son of man is coming soon.
40:47 So, it's the exact same event,
40:49 there's no pre tribulation rapture,
40:51 no seven years of tribulation,
40:53 although there is a tribulation.
40:55 But it's all the same event.
40:56 There's reason why it's called the second coming.
40:58 He came the first time, He's only going to come once
41:01 the second time, we just need to be prepared for it.
41:03 Amen.
41:05 Absolutely. Wow. Yeah.
41:06 Excellent answer, it's like military school,
41:08 it's like wow, bam, bam, bam.
41:10 It's incredible.
41:12 To God be glory. Yeah. Amen.
41:13 Thank you very much.
41:14 Pastor John, this is just a beautiful question,
41:16 it comes Youlde.
41:17 "What are the steps to being baptized?"
41:20 Beautiful question. Yes.
41:21 I love it because the Lord moves on hearts
41:23 to ask that question.
41:24 Let me just make six points, Jill.
41:27 One accept God's saving grace, Ephesians 2:8-9,
41:31 "For by grace you have been saved through faith
41:34 and that not of yourselves.
41:35 It is the gift of God, not of works,
41:37 lest any man should boast."
41:38 Let me give you a very revolutionary concept
41:40 you have been saved.
41:42 The gift is there.
41:43 You just have to accept it to be saved.
41:47 All provision has been made for you to be saved,
41:49 just accept the gift,
41:51 and the salvation now becomes yours.
41:53 But what happens when you accept God's grace,
41:56 something must follow repentance.
41:58 Yeah.
41:59 Acts 2:38,
42:01 "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized
42:04 in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
42:06 for the remission of sin,
42:08 and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
42:11 Watch, the gift of salvation,
42:12 then the gift of the Holy Spirit
42:14 to empower your life to live above the sin of the past."
42:17 But how does that repentance come?
42:20 Following confession.
42:21 1 John 1:9,
42:22 "If we confess our sins,
42:24 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
42:26 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
42:30 If all unrighteousness is cleansed,
42:32 then what are you?
42:33 Righteous by the character of Christ,
42:35 then you have to forsake that sin.
42:37 Don't go back to it.
42:38 Proverbs 28:13,
42:40 "He who covers his sin will not prosper.
42:42 But whoever confesses and forsakes them
42:45 will have mercy."
42:47 But now preparatory to baptism,
42:48 you have to be taught the essentials.
42:50 Acts 8:29-31,
42:53 the example of the Ethiopian eunuch.
42:55 He was on his way back to Ethiopia
42:57 and Philip was sent out into the wilderness
42:59 first evangelistic series where only one person attended.
43:02 That's right.
43:04 And he said, "Do you understand what you're reading,"
43:05 and he says in Acts 8:31,
43:07 "How can I understand unless someone guides me."
43:12 And he asked Philip to come up and sit down.
43:14 After the explanation, Acts 8:36,
43:17 now as they went down the road,
43:19 they came to some water and the eunuch said,
43:21 "See, here is water what hinders me
43:24 from being baptized."
43:25 And finally after you are baptized,
43:27 you accept the commission to go and lead others.
43:29 Matthew 28:19,
43:30 "Go and make disciples of all nations."
43:32 Wow. Amen.
43:34 Pastor, Thank you, Great six steps,
43:36 I mean, it's fantastic.
43:37 Thank you for that question.
43:38 Pastor Ryan, I tell you these questions here are just great,
43:42 I'll tell you, I love it.
43:43 He says, "Please explain the meaning
43:45 of one will be taken and the other left
43:48 from Matthew 24:40-42.
43:51 Please clarify who is taken, and who is left?"
43:53 Yeah. Absolutely.
43:54 So Matthew 24:40-42
43:57 is a great place to find this obviously,
43:59 that's one another one is Luke Chapter 17,
44:01 but to actually answer this question
44:03 we need to read what is found in Luke 17
44:06 because there's a clearer ending to that text
44:08 that gives us and sets the context
44:10 for who is being taken and who's being left.
44:12 And so let's read Luke 17:34-37,
44:15 these are those famous words,
44:16 "I tell you in that night
44:18 there will be two men in one bed,
44:19 that one would be taken and the other left.
44:20 Two women will be grinding together,
44:22 the one will be taken and the other left.
44:24 Two men will be in the field,
44:26 the one will be taken and the other left,"
44:27 So up to this point Jesus is just simply establishing
44:30 that when He comes back at the second coming,
44:32 there's going to be two groups,
44:33 there's going to be the righteous,
44:35 there's going to be unrighteous,
44:36 the sheep and the goats, the wheat and the tares, right?
44:37 There's going to be some that will be taken
44:39 and the question is where will they be taken?
44:41 Really there shouldn't even be a question
44:43 as to where those who are taken are taken,
44:45 because we know that clearly
44:47 according to Matthew 24:31, it says that,
44:49 "The angels with the great sound of a trumpet
44:51 they gathered together his elect
44:53 from the four winds
44:54 from one end to heaven to the other."
44:55 So the angels come down and gather,
44:57 they take the righteous,
44:59 where are they being taken to the kingdom of God.
45:01 This is also communicated in 1 Thessalonians 4:17,
45:04 when it says,
45:06 "Then we who are alive and remain
45:07 are caught up together with them in the clouds
45:08 that meet the Lord in the air, "
45:10 Why are they meeting them in the air?
45:12 Because God is going to take the righteous
45:14 to heaven with Him.
45:15 I think the ultimate question though is,
45:17 what about these that are left.
45:19 The evangelical kind of
45:20 pre tribulation rapture theory says
45:21 there's going to be people left behind,
45:23 alive during,
45:25 you know, for seven more years of tribulation.
45:27 The context of this, the key to this of understanding
45:29 this is verse 37 of Luke 17.
45:33 So notice how he just said,
45:34 "One will be taken, one will be left,
45:36 One will be taken, one will be left."
45:37 Then He follows with this, and the disciples say.
45:39 "Where Lord" and Jesus' response
45:42 "Where the body is,
45:44 there the equals will be gathered together
45:46 while the equals gathered together.
45:48 Because those who have been left,
45:50 they are slain at the coming of the Lord."
45:52 We see this in 1 Thess...
45:53 or actually 2 Thessalonians 2:1 and 8, where it says that,
45:58 "The wicked are destroyed
46:00 at the brightness of the coming of Jesus."
46:01 And if you read the equivalent verse there in Matthew 24:28,
46:07 it's actually, Matthew says,
46:08 "Where the carcass is,
46:10 there where the equals be gathered together."
46:11 So those that are taken are taken to heaven.
46:13 Those that are left are left behind,
46:16 but they are slaying
46:17 at the brightness of the coming of Jesus.
46:19 Wow. Excellent.
46:20 Thank you very much, Pastor Ryan.
46:22 Jill, this says,
46:23 "What is the difference between God and Satan?
46:29 The difference between God and Satan
46:30 is like day and night.
46:31 God is love. Wow.
46:33 Satan is a liar, he's a murderer.
46:35 He acts out of his own selfish interest.
46:38 You know, at the cross, we see the justice of God,
46:42 combined with the mercy of God,
46:45 the justice of God and that the claims of the law,
46:48 they must be met.
46:49 The wages of sin is death.
46:50 We're told in Romans 6:23,
46:52 but the gift of God is eternal life
46:54 through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
46:57 The claims of the law must be met.
46:59 That's why Jesus die,
47:01 but we also see the mercy of God.
47:03 He took my punishment and my sin on himself.
47:07 2 Corinthians 5:21,
47:09 "God made Jesus
47:10 Who knew no sin to be sin for us
47:13 that we might become
47:15 the righteousness of God in Him."
47:17 At the cross we also see the hatred of sin,
47:20 we see the effects of sin,
47:23 we see the unfolding of Satan's plan
47:26 to destroy Jesus,
47:27 and by extension, all of us.
47:30 You know if you contrast.
47:31 I see that Christ is the way, truth and life.
47:34 Satan is a liar and the father of lies.
47:37 Christ's law is holy, just and good.
47:39 Satan's law is wicked, cruel and egotistical.
47:43 Christ's love is unselfish sacrificing love.
47:47 Satan's love is self focused.
47:50 Christ came to save sinners, Satan came to claim sinners.
47:55 Christ spilled His blood to save me,
47:58 Satan sought to kill me.
48:00 Christ sets me free.
48:02 Amen.
48:03 Satan enslaves me.
48:05 Christ tells the truth, Satan twists truth.
48:09 Christ leads with humility, Satan leads with pride.
48:13 Christ brings peace, Satan brings division.
48:17 Christ heals, Satan enfeebles.
48:21 Christ uplifts the downtrodden,
48:24 Satan oppresses the downtrodden.
48:26 Christ convicts, Satan condemns.
48:30 Christ empowers, Satan cast doubt.
48:34 The difference between Christ and Satan is everything.
48:37 Wow. Wow.
48:38 Amen. Praise the Lord.
48:40 I'll take those notes.
48:41 Yes, exactly.
48:43 Amen, thank you very much. Thank you, Jill.
48:44 Wow.
48:45 Well, we only have about three minutes left,
48:47 we've got some of our, we call them bonus questions
48:50 or extra questions.
48:51 Do you all want to tackle numbers five in a few minutes?
48:54 Shall we do that?
48:55 So let's all dive in.
48:56 So the question from Jan says,
48:58 "Would you discuss Numbers Chapter 5,
49:00 and how this shows the love of Jesus?"
49:04 Numbers five is a very, it's a long,
49:07 detailed book of statutes, codes and regulations
49:11 and I just put it this way.
49:13 The Numbers 5 contain regulations
49:14 that govern community relationships
49:16 among the people of God,
49:18 and we have some of the same parameters today.
49:20 Here my quick examples.
49:21 If someone is sick, or infected with something contagious.
49:25 We establish parameters to govern the head,
49:28 to govern the handling of these individuals,
49:30 so the contagion is not spread.
49:32 It also established parameters of morality and relationships
49:36 and obligations that contains specific prescribed measures
49:39 that should accompany the resolution of those matters
49:41 in marriage and relationships
49:43 with those who are not, you're not married to,
49:46 and you don't understand how powerful regulations are
49:49 until the divorce happens.
49:51 And one spouses says,
49:52 "Thank God that there are laws to protect my interests."
49:56 God was establishing these so that Israel,
49:59 His people will know how it works.
50:01 So in a nutshell, it's true today,
50:03 medical community has laws,
50:05 law enforcement community,
50:06 judicial community, family court
50:08 and the like have specific parameters
50:10 to govern matters of all areas.
50:12 And the nutshell principle
50:13 behind all of that is Luke 6:31,
50:17 "And just as you want men to do to you,
50:20 you also do to them likewise,
50:23 love your neighbor as yourself."
50:24 Matthew 22:39.
50:27 And so that's simply what it is.
50:28 It seems very harsh,
50:30 but if you are on the receiving end,
50:31 you'll say thank God, those parameters are in place.
50:35 Yeah, excellent. I love that, Pastor John.
50:37 I would just one thing that stuck out to me
50:39 when you try to seek the love of God
50:41 when you're reading some of these harsh things,
50:43 or some of these harsh laws.
50:44 Really I see love
50:45 because it's talking about separating the lepers person
50:48 from the society from the camp and that is love,
50:52 because you're trying to protect other people
50:54 from becoming infected,
50:55 where they're talking about adultery
50:57 and unfaithfulness
50:58 and the jealousy possibly of a husband against his wife,
51:01 maybe even falsely accusing her of adultery,
51:05 and I see love evidence there because it's giving the woman,
51:09 the benefit of the doubt
51:11 and that society was very patriarchal
51:13 and the woman was usually,
51:14 she couldn't own, she didn't have any rights,
51:16 she couldn't do anything, she was squashed down.
51:18 And so this is actually extending more rights to her
51:21 than maybe they even had in their society.
51:23 Yeah. Excellent.
51:25 Pastor Ryan, any other comments.
51:26 I can't add anything to that.
51:28 It's worded very well.
51:29 Yeah, fantastic, because we know that God is love.
51:31 The Bible says that and we know that.
51:33 Yeah, He is our Father and He's our friend
51:35 and I tell you what a loving God
51:37 that we each one of us serve.
51:38 What we're going to do right now
51:40 is actually take a quick break
51:41 and then we'll be right back with some closing thoughts.
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