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Can We Die In Paradise?

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01:15 Hello, friends, and welcome again
01:16 to another edition of 3ABN Today,
01:19 Bible Q and A, that's right.
01:21 During this time, we are taking your Bible questions
01:24 and we're providing an answer straight from the Word of God.
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01:39 Of course, as always wanna remind you
01:41 that you can send in your Bible questions.
01:43 And I'll probably give a few reminders
01:45 throughout this program,
01:46 but we wanna tell you exactly how you can do that.
01:49 There's two different ways you can do that.
01:50 First is by text.
01:52 And so you can text in your questions
01:54 to (618) 228-3975.
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02:02 So text in your questions or you can email us as well.
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02:12 Again, that's BibleQA@3abn.org
02:18 So send in those questions.
02:19 We've received hundreds of questions and you know what?
02:22 We're just working through them
02:23 as we do more and more of these episodes,
02:25 we're just...
02:27 We're just ciphering through them all
02:28 and just scooping them up as we go through
02:30 and answering them as we go along.
02:31 And so, again, we thank you so much
02:33 for sending in those questions.
02:35 I guess, before we pray and get right into our program,
02:37 I wanna introduce this incredible panel
02:39 as always.
02:40 Directly to my right, we have Miss Shelley Quinn,
02:42 and it's always a blessing to have you, Sister.
02:44 It's a delight to be here.
02:45 And I just have to tell you,
02:47 I don't know if you know at home,
02:48 but we're limited to two minutes on our answers.
02:51 So when we talk really fast, that's why.
02:54 Amen. It's fun.
02:55 Sometimes it feels like you're an auctioneer, right?
02:58 But it's good. It's all in good fun.
03:00 Pastor John Dinzey,
03:01 it's a blessing to have you as well, Brother.
03:03 Amen.
03:04 It's a blessing to be here and is,
03:06 good questions are coming in.
03:07 And I praise the Lord that people are studying the Bible.
03:09 Amen. Praise the Lord.
03:11 And all the way across this table,
03:13 Pastor John Lomacang, love your wisdom and certainly
03:15 appreciate all that you have to share with us today.
03:18 As each one of our panelists said,
03:21 it's an enjoyable time.
03:22 But once again, remember, we only got two minutes.
03:27 Sometimes the questions are longer than the answers.
03:31 That is the case in a couple of...
03:33 in a couple of situations.
03:34 But before we go right into our questions,
03:37 I'm gonna ask Miss Shelley Quinn,
03:38 if you would just give us a word of prayer at this time.
03:41 Absolutely.
03:42 Our loving heavenly Father,
03:43 we come before You with praise in our hearts.
03:46 We praise You for Jesus, Your Holy Spirit,
03:49 and we praise You for Your Word, Father.
03:51 You did not leave us as orphans.
03:53 You sent Your Spirit. You gave us Your Word.
03:56 And, Father, we thank You that Your Word is alive
03:59 and active and relevant in our lives today.
04:04 And we pray that You'll help
04:07 each one of us to answer.
04:10 Lead us by Your Spirit as we answer these questions.
04:13 And may we all be blessed.
04:15 We love You. We thank You.
04:17 In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
04:19 Amen. Praise the Lord.
04:22 Well, Pastor John Dinzey,
04:23 it looks like we're coming to you first.
04:25 Okay.
04:27 And this question is coming from Marisol in Erling.
04:29 And the question is, "Please explain Isaiah 65.
04:35 The word die makes me question.
04:37 If we will die in the new earth,
04:40 can we die in paradise
04:42 if we misbehave or are we secure?"
04:47 That is a good question.
04:49 And, Marisol, I say, you would say
04:52 that in Spanish Marisol in Erling.
04:53 Yes.
04:55 This passage is sometimes confusing to people
04:57 because Isaiah 65:17-20,
05:01 speak to us of a condition,
05:04 a blessing the Lord will give to the people of Israel
05:07 had they been faithful.
05:09 And I want to encourage you to read Deuteronomy Chapter 11,
05:12 to see all the blessings the Lord said,
05:14 if you do this, I'm gonna do this.
05:16 And you're gonna be blessed in your home, in your field.
05:20 You're gonna be fruitful. You're gonna have children.
05:22 And it's a marvelous, marvelous passage.
05:25 However, not all the elements of Isaiah 65
05:30 can be applied to the future life,
05:34 after sin is done away with.
05:36 Had the people of Israel,
05:38 it seems like the Lord, had they been faithful.
05:40 It seems like the Lord would bless them
05:42 with like a heaven on earth.
05:44 And so, Isaiah Chapter 65, I'm gonna read verses 17 to 20,
05:48 "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth,
05:50 and the former shall not be remembered
05:52 or come to mind,
05:54 but be glad and rejoice forever in what I create for.
05:57 Behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing
05:59 and her people a joy.
06:01 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people,
06:03 the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her
06:06 nor the voice of crying."
06:08 And now it says, "No more shall an infant dare die
06:11 but a few days nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days.
06:15 A child shall die 100 years
06:17 but the sinner being 100 years old
06:19 shall be a cursed."
06:21 So the word die is in here
06:22 because it's talking about before sin.
06:26 Now, when we talk about the New Jerusalem
06:29 after sin is over,
06:30 we have the promise in Revelation 21,
06:32 which I will read now.
06:34 "I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
06:35 for the first heaven
06:36 and the first earth had passed away."
06:38 Notice that they had now passed away.
06:40 This is after sin.
06:42 "Also there was no more sea.
06:43 And then I, John saw the holy city,
06:45 New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God
06:47 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
06:49 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
06:51 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men
06:54 and He will dwell with them and they shall be His people.
06:56 God Himself will be with them and be their God.
06:58 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes,
07:00 there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying,
07:03 neither shall there be any more pain
07:05 for the former things have passed away."
07:06 No, there will be no death
07:08 or suffering in heaven or the New Jerusalem.
07:10 Amen. Amen.
07:12 Thank you, Brother, so much.
07:13 All right, Miss Shelley Quinn, we're coming to you at this one
07:16 This question comes from Chandler...
07:18 Okay.
07:19 And Chandler says, "Why did God put
07:20 the tree of knowledge of good and evil there
07:22 if He knew
07:24 that people would partake of the fruit of it?
07:26 Also, why did He...
07:28 Why didn't He kill Satan right then and there
07:31 so that He wouldn't annoy us now?"
07:34 That's a good question, Chandler.
07:37 God...
07:38 When God created Adam and Eve,
07:40 He set them
07:41 in the Garden of Eden, Chandler.
07:43 And it was, that means garden of pleasure.
07:45 It was a garden of delight. It was a paradise.
07:48 Everything was very good.
07:51 There were many beautiful trees from which they could eat.
07:54 Only one tree was prohibited.
07:57 The knowledge,
07:58 the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
08:02 God created Adam and Eve as free will beings.
08:08 He even made His angels creatures a free will.
08:12 And there is a cosmic conflict that is going on.
08:16 We know that Satan got his heart lifted up.
08:20 He was a covering cherub. His heart was lifted up.
08:23 Isaiah 14 says, "He trafficked lies about God."
08:27 Ezekiel 28 says,
08:29 "And he got one-third of the angels
08:32 to believe in his lies."
08:34 You know, God can't lie.
08:35 Satan's got an advantage.
08:37 He was the father of all lies.
08:41 He was a liar and a murderer from the beginning.
08:43 So what happened is,
08:46 even though God is a sovereign being,
08:50 He is omniscient.
08:52 He knows all.
08:53 The Bible tells us that God shares His governance
08:59 with a divine council, a heavenly council.
09:02 We see it in Psalm 82:89, Psalm 89,
09:06 Nehemiah 9:6, Job 1:6,
09:10 1 Kings 22:19 and Daniel 4:17.
09:15 So here's what I believe happened.
09:17 I believe the reason God didn't zap Satan,
09:21 as soon as the sin was because
09:23 then people might believe the lies.
09:25 The other creatures would have said,
09:27 well, maybe he was right.
09:29 God isn't fair. Right.
09:30 God is too restrictive.
09:32 So then when He created Adam and Eve,
09:35 He put that one tree in there as a test of their loyalty.
09:41 They had,
09:44 they abused their freewill just as Satan did,
09:48 but God had to let this cosmic conflict.
09:51 The heavenly council said,
09:53 "We're gonna give Satan a short time to see
09:57 if he knows
09:58 or if he can prove what he's saying."
10:01 He can't. Wow.
10:03 You really needed two minutes for the first part
10:05 and two minutes for the second part
10:07 of that question,
10:08 but you did a fantastic job,
10:10 summing it up in such a short time.
10:11 Great. Thank you.
10:12 Pastor Lomacang,
10:14 we're coming to you at this time.
10:15 This question is dealing with Mark 13:32,
10:19 and this person says, "Mark 13:32 says no one knows,
10:23 not even the Son of God who or when Jesus is returning.
10:27 Would it be a lie to say that the Son
10:30 who is God does not know?"
10:32 Well, that statement in Mark was recorded
10:34 when Jesus was in His earthly ministry,
10:36 in the condescended form before His crucifixion,
10:39 before His resurrection, before His ascension.
10:41 And He was speaking from the human perspective.
10:43 Remember the Bible says
10:45 the Lord prepared a body for Him.
10:46 So He came forth into the world in the birth,
10:48 even though the seed was planted by the Holy Spirit,
10:51 He experienced the birth as you and I are,
10:54 you and I have experienced.
10:56 In the human sense He did not know.
10:59 However, when He rose to life,
11:00 He made a declaration that makes it clear.
11:03 He does know now.
11:05 First of all, Matthew 28:18,
11:06 we start when Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
11:09 'All authority is given me in heaven and in earth.'"
11:12 So He talks about the authority now in heaven and on earth.
11:15 How could you have all authority,
11:17 but still be in the dark?
11:18 That's the first point.
11:19 Secondly, Isaiah 46:9-10
11:22 is not a declaration of the Father
11:26 as much as it is a declaration of the Creator.
11:29 He said, "Remember the former things of old,
11:31 for I'm God and there is no other.
11:32 I am God, and there is none like Me."
11:34 What did He say?
11:36 Declaring the end from the beginning.
11:37 When He condescended,
11:39 that knowledge was withheld from Him in His human form.
11:41 However, He started making it very clear to the disciples
11:45 in His earthly ministry.
11:47 He says, "Learn the parable of the fig tree.
11:49 When you see all these things know that it is near."
11:51 Right.
11:52 But after His ascension,
11:54 John the Revelator contains in,
11:59 in the Book of Revelation,
12:01 which is the revelation of Jesus Christ.
12:03 A statement that I now know He does know.
12:06 Jesus couldn't say in Revelation 22:12,
12:09 these words, "And behold, I am coming quickly.
12:13 And My reward is with Me to give to everyone,
12:15 according to his work."
12:16 He couldn't say I am coming quickly
12:19 if He didn't know when He was returning.
12:20 Right.
12:21 So the condescended statement,
12:23 no one knows the day nor the hour was the frailty
12:28 and the limitations of humanity.
12:30 But when all authority was returned to Him,
12:33 He did know.
12:34 Right. Wonderful.
12:36 Praise the Lord for that.
12:37 And if you're just now tuning in at this moment,
12:39 or in this time
12:40 and hour Bible questions and answer program,
12:43 we wanna tell you how you, again,
12:44 can send in your questions.
12:46 And there are two ways you can do that.
12:47 The first way is, of course, by text
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12:57 You can text in those answers or you can email us
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13:08 So send us those questions.
13:09 We're excited to give a Bible answer to those.
13:12 Pastor Dinzey,
13:13 coming back to you for this one.
13:15 And this is coming from Marjorie,
13:17 from Massachusetts.
13:18 And she says,
13:20 "I know we aren't supposed to work on the Sabbath.
13:22 However, since the Sabbath is from sunset on Friday
13:26 to sunset on Saturday,
13:28 does that mean, for example,
13:30 those who work from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
13:34 during the winter season,
13:35 when the sun sets around 4:00 PM
13:38 are breaking the fourth commandment?
13:40 To be more general when the Sabbath hits,
13:43 does all work need to cease immediately,
13:46 no matter how long or short it is?"
13:49 Okay, well, I have to say
13:51 that we sympathize with Marjorie,
13:53 and this is a good question and a challenge
13:57 that many Christians
14:00 that want to observe the seventh day Sabbath
14:02 according to God's commandment, as found in Exodus 20:8-11.
14:07 And I believe based on your question
14:09 that, you know, already the answer, Marjorie,
14:12 because you say, you know,
14:15 that you're not supposed to work on the Sabbath.
14:16 Unfortunately, society does not conform
14:19 to God's requirements.
14:22 We're living in a sinful world.
14:25 So the hours of work are not exactly the hours
14:27 that as God would have it, let's say.
14:30 So this is, this presents a challenge.
14:32 And I know you want to do God's will
14:33 because you are concerned.
14:35 So I would encourage you to pray
14:37 and ask the Lord to help you
14:40 in this challenge that you're facing.
14:43 But I must say that the answer is yes,
14:47 all work is supposed to stop when the sun sets
14:50 and the Sabbath begins.
14:51 It is the time of the Lord that is supposed to be sacred.
14:55 It's supposed to be holy.
14:56 And so I encourage you to pray
14:59 and ask the Lord to help you as you request.
15:03 And my suggestion is you request to your supervisor
15:06 to allow you to leave earlier by working,
15:11 perhaps starting earlier on that day
15:13 or some other way to work out for you
15:16 so that you can keep God's Sabbath day holy.
15:21 And this way you will be in harmony with the Lord,
15:25 because it is better to obey God rather than man.
15:28 Now, the wonderful thing is I have faced this.
15:30 And a wonderful thing is I can tell you from experiences
15:33 that God somehow will work it out for you.
15:36 He will bless you.
15:38 He wants to know that you are willing
15:40 to cooperate with Him in this, and He will help you.
15:44 And you may be surprised at how God works it out.
15:48 You may be challenged.
15:49 Some people have even lost their jobs
15:51 and they think it's all over because supervisor demands.
15:53 You've got to be here or you're gonna be fired.
15:55 Some people have been fired, some have been hired back,
15:57 and then some find a better job
16:00 because God is gonna be looking out for you.
16:03 Very, very nice. Appreciate that answer.
16:05 In fact, I can give a testimony to that
16:08 because I once was let go of a job
16:10 because I didn't really understand
16:11 my rights and all that.
16:13 And I asked my boss off to be off on the Sabbath
16:15 from sundown Friday night,
16:16 sundown Saturday, and he let me go.
16:18 But it wasn't a couple of weeks later,
16:20 the Lord gave me a better job with more money
16:23 and better hours and every Sabbath off.
16:26 So just ask the Lord, follow the Lord.
16:27 And He will always bless you. Praise the Lord.
16:30 All right, Pastor Lomacang,
16:31 I'm gonna come back to you for this next question.
16:33 And this is coming from Erling of Sweden.
16:36 I hope I'm saying that correctly.
16:37 E-R-L-I-N-G, Erling or Erling.
16:40 This person says,
16:41 "I hear that some or a lot of Adventists claim
16:45 that we just shall worship one day of the week
16:48 on Sabbath or on the Sabbath.
16:51 I hope they are wrong,
16:52 but I can't find it in the Bible
16:54 that we shall worship every day.
16:57 Please help me with this one?"
16:58 Sure.
16:59 Thank you for the question, Erling.
17:01 First of all, the question comes down
17:02 to the interpretation of what worship means.
17:05 Now corporate worship, I think is what you're talking
17:07 about, where we gather together one day a week,
17:09 and the Bible supports that.
17:11 First and foremost, it was a convocation
17:14 throughout the Old Testament among the Jews,
17:16 and then the life of Jesus.
17:17 Luke 4:16.
17:19 He went into the synagogue every Sabbath,
17:21 and stood up to read.
17:22 And you find in the Book of Acts
17:24 or many references.
17:25 I'll share those with you in just a moment,
17:26 but let's get back first to the issue of worship.
17:28 The Christian doesn't worship the Lord one day,
17:31 and this has been a big stumbling block
17:33 among people that say, well, I worship on the Sabbath.
17:36 Well, if your life is not an act of worship every day,
17:38 then you don't know who the Lord is.
17:40 You know, when Paul says in Romans 12:2,
17:42 that we should present our bodies
17:44 as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God,
17:48 which is our reasonable service.
17:50 The New International Version says
17:51 which is our spiritual act of worship.
17:53 You say, we see we are a living sacrifice...
17:57 Sacrifices brought to the Lord for the purpose of worship.
18:00 Your life every day should be an act of worship to the God
18:03 that you claim to be your Lord and Savior.
18:06 Let me translate that differently.
18:08 We don't live one way during the week
18:10 and then another way.
18:12 We just switch when the sun goes down
18:13 and say, okay,
18:14 now I hope my life is a living sacrifice holy
18:17 and acceptable to God.
18:18 Well, let me also translate the other part of that.
18:21 The Bible doesn't establish that we should honor
18:24 the Sabbath every day either
18:26 because the Sabbath is only one day of the week
18:27 that is blessed.
18:28 And that's the day that the Lord says
18:30 thou shalt not do any work,
18:32 that is specifically laid aside for that corporate worship,
18:36 that gathering together.
18:37 And you find not only in the life of Christ,
18:40 but in the Book of Acts 13:42-44.
18:43 The Bible says, "So when the Jews went out
18:44 of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged
18:46 that these words might be preached to them
18:48 the next Sabbath."
18:49 So they knew there was a sermon,
18:51 the next Sabbath.
18:52 And the Bible says also in verse 44,
18:54 "On the next Sabbath,
18:55 almost the whole city came together
18:57 to hear the Word of God."
18:58 In Acts Chapter 13, then in Acts Chapter 18.
19:01 And by the way, this is after the ascension of Jesus,
19:04 the Apostle Paul met every Sabbath
19:06 with the Greeks and the Jews.
19:08 And the Bible says in Acts 18:11,
19:10 "He continued there a year and six months."
19:12 That's 78 weeks in a row that the Apostle Paul spoke
19:16 to the Jews and the Greeks and the Bible said,
19:18 what did he do in Acts 18:4?
19:20 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath
19:22 and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.
19:25 So the day of worship as a corporate body
19:28 was not disputed in Scripture.
19:30 We also find that Paul taught
19:32 and spoke for three Sabbaths in a row.
19:34 And this is talked about in Amphipolis and Apollonia
19:37 where they came to Thessalonica in Acts 17:1-3.
19:41 Here's the point I want to make.
19:43 Every day we should live our lives
19:44 as a spiritual act of worship to the true God.
19:47 We don't turn off on worship and turn it off.
19:49 We should be a living sacrifice holy
19:51 and acceptable to God in our acts,
19:53 our words, our deeds, and our choices every day.
19:56 And then we will be a living sacrifice
20:00 and an acceptable attitude of worship towards our Lord.
20:04 But He only blessed one day as a day of corporate worship.
20:07 Amen. Praise the Lord for that. Thank you.
20:10 All right, Miss Shelley Quinn,
20:12 coming back to you for this next question.
20:14 And this comes from Yvonne from Harlem, and she says,
20:18 "Jesus is called the Son of man.
20:20 So why does God refer to Ezekiel as the son of man?"
20:24 You know, it's interesting, Yvonne,
20:26 Ezekiel is referred to as the son of man, 90 times,
20:29 this just indicates his humanness.
20:32 Ezekiel was a member of the human race
20:36 through whom God was going to try
20:38 to reach other lost perishing souls.
20:42 Now the Messiah,
20:44 Son of man is a Messianic title for Jesus Christ.
20:48 You're right.
20:50 Because Jesus was the seed of a woman,
20:54 Jesus became God, became a human being,
20:59 took on our flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.
21:03 And you know what?
21:05 Son of man, I'm gonna come back to that
21:08 'cause He identified with us as in our humanity,
21:13 when He took on our flesh.
21:16 Son of man is used 107 times in the Old Testament.
21:19 Only once to Jesus in Daniel 7:13-14.
21:25 Daniel says, "Behold,
21:26 one like the Son of man coming with the clouds of heaven.
21:30 He came to the Ancient of Days,
21:32 and they brought Him near before them.
21:35 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom.
21:38 And His dominion is an everlasting dominion.
21:41 His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed."
21:46 Jesus favorite title for Himself was Son of man.
21:49 He used it over 80 times.
21:52 In Mark 10:45, he says,
21:54 "Even the Son of man did not come to be served,
21:57 but to serve
21:58 and to give His life a ransom for many."
22:02 The Son of man is used as a term 88 times
22:07 in the New Testament.
22:09 And only once does it refer to a natural born human.
22:14 So it's a messianic title of Jesus.
22:17 Jesus was called Messiah, Christ, the Seed,
22:20 the Son of man, last Adam, the only begotten,
22:24 the first born, a Lamb of God, Son of God,
22:28 and the surety of the covenant.
22:30 Amen. Praise the Lord.
22:31 Thank you, Miss Shelley. All right.
22:33 Pastor John Dinzey,
22:34 I'm gonna be coming to you for this next question.
22:35 This is a question coming from Tony
22:37 and Tony says,
22:38 I hear many say that the end is near
22:40 where the Christ's return could be any day.
22:44 I get that.
22:45 I get the sense that they think the end will be any day,
22:49 certainly before the end of this year,
22:51 is this correct or am I misunderstanding?
22:55 Yes. This is a good question, indeed.
22:57 And I believe many people are wondering the same thing.
23:00 There are all kinds of doctrines.
23:02 The Bible says that every wind of doctrine
23:04 will be blowing.
23:06 And so where do we go?
23:07 We've heard people talk about the Lord is coming any day now.
23:09 And then we hear some people saying,
23:11 projecting it into the future.
23:12 So what is it?
23:14 So let's go to Matthew Chapter 24.
23:18 In Matthew Chapter 24,
23:19 you have Jesus giving signs
23:22 that would come just before His coming.
23:24 And I remember as we went...
23:27 As you study Matthew 24, you will...
23:30 You can probably do like a checklist.
23:32 Yes, this has been fulfilled. Yes, this has been fulfilled.
23:34 Yes, this has been fulfilled.
23:36 But when you get to Matthew 24:14,
23:40 it is difficult to measure when this is exactly done.
23:44 Only God knows.
23:45 Notice what it says, "And this gospel of the kingdom
23:47 will be preached in all the world
23:49 as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come."
23:53 So how do we know when that is done?
23:55 God knows.
23:56 However, we can pretty much look at the situation and say,
24:00 "Wow, 3ABN is on satellite all over the world.
24:04 We're covering the world via the internet,
24:06 and books and pamphlets have been printed
24:09 and practically in every language of the world
24:12 the gospel has gone through,
24:14 but there are some unreached people they say.
24:17 And I can tell you
24:19 that a lot of work needs to be done.
24:21 God's people need to get on the ball
24:23 and cooperate with the Lord
24:24 and bring this gospel message to the whole world.
24:28 Now, your question is,
24:30 you get the sense that it could be any day.
24:33 Looking at the prophecies.
24:34 When you look at Matthew 24:25,
24:36 look at the Book of Daniel, look at Revelation,
24:40 especially beginning in Revelation Chapter 13
24:43 and onward.
24:44 You see that there are some things
24:45 that are talked about in the Bible
24:47 that seem to be coming soon.
24:51 When you talk about an image to the beast,
24:54 and when you talk about a mark of the beast
24:58 and life and death sentence,
25:00 whoever doesn't take the mark,
25:02 the idea that this could happen any day,
25:04 you have to put that aside
25:06 because Jesus cannot come tomorrow
25:09 based on this, or maybe the next day.
25:11 However, we can see that these things
25:14 can happen rather quickly,
25:15 perhaps who knows, perhaps during a year,
25:18 all this can take place,
25:20 but we don't know the day nor the hour.
25:23 And so our part is to be watching and praying
25:28 and cooperating with the Lord,
25:29 sharing the gospel with other people.
25:31 You're not gonna be able to say the Lord is coming next month
25:35 or the month after that.
25:36 However, we are supposed to be ready.
25:38 And so I encourage you to read Matthew 24,
25:40 Revelation 12 and onward,
25:42 and you will see that Jesus Christ is coming soon.
25:45 You can look at the science.
25:46 I read now from Matthew 24:42-44,
25:49 "Watch, therefore for you do not know
25:51 what hour your Lord is coming, but know this,
25:54 that if the master of the house had known
25:56 what hour the thief would come,
25:58 he would have watched and not allow his house
26:00 to be broken into.
26:02 Therefore you also be ready,
26:05 for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
26:08 So be ready, place yourself in the hands of the Lord
26:12 and you will be ready.
26:13 Praise the Lord.
26:15 Thank you, Pastor Dinzey, for that.
26:16 All right, Miss Quinn, I'm coming back to you,
26:19 and this person is asking all the way from India.
26:23 This is Samuel from India, and Samuel says,
26:27 "Adventists believe in God the Father,
26:30 God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit,
26:32 and three are equally God.
26:35 My question is, Revelation 4:2 and he quotes the verse here.
26:40 "And immediately I was in the spirit
26:41 and behold a throne was set in heaven
26:43 and One sat on the throne."
26:45 And then the question is, why is there only one throne?
26:49 What about the other two Gods?"
26:52 Samuel, we only believe in one God,
26:55 it is not God the Father, plus God the Son,
26:58 plus God the Holy Spirit.
27:01 It is God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
27:06 rather than one plus one plus one,
27:08 which equals three, it's one times one times one,
27:12 which equals one.
27:14 So the second fundamental belief
27:16 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
27:17 is the Trinity,
27:18 one God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
27:21 a unity of three co-eternal persons.
27:27 We believe that these three there's one being
27:32 three divine persons that exp...
27:36 They have the same nature.
27:38 They express the same purpose
27:40 and everything about their personality
27:43 and character are the same.
27:47 Now, let's look at chapter...
27:52 Your question in Revelation
27:54 in Chapters 1 to 3 of Revelation,
27:57 we see a prophetic vision
28:00 of the condition of the Church.
28:03 Chapter 4,
28:04 we see a symbolic vision of God's throne in heaven.
28:09 Everything is symbolic,
28:12 but just because God the Father is on the throne,
28:16 don't think that Jesus is not coming
28:20 because in Chapter 5,
28:21 Christ appears as the lamb as though it were slain
28:26 with seven heads and seven eyes.
28:28 So here's the point.
28:32 Just go to Google and look up my sermon,
28:36 His presence is in the cube, and you'll get more.
28:40 Here's a two-minute juiced version.
28:42 Go watch that sermon.
28:44 Praise the Lord.
28:46 Because that's a difficult topic.
28:47 Oh, yeah. Tough in two minutes.
28:49 Yeah, that's one of those atom, what was atom bomb topics.
28:52 Yeah, absolutely.
28:53 What's the title of that sermon just in case?
28:54 His presence in the cube.
28:59 Praise the Lord. By Shelley Quinn.
29:00 Amen. Amen.
29:01 Wonderful. All right.
29:03 Pastor John Lomacang,
29:04 I'm coming to you for this next question.
29:06 This question is coming from Cabrera and they ask,
29:10 "Why is it that the disobedience
29:12 of Adam and Eve is passed on to their offspring?
29:16 Yet one can argue that we had no part
29:18 in their decision making."
29:20 Hmm.
29:21 We've had a few questions over the course of our time
29:24 about people that were concerned
29:26 about the things that we didn't have a part in.
29:28 And I just wanna reiterate just in case you missed it.
29:31 We didn't have a part in where we were being born,
29:33 who our parents were,
29:35 what our nationality was going to be,
29:37 what our gender is.
29:39 We didn't have a part in any of that.
29:40 Those were decisions and choices made for us,
29:43 but there's one major decision and choice
29:45 that affects the entire human race.
29:47 And that is the nature of Adam.
29:50 We know in Acts...
29:52 In 1 Corinthians Chapter 5,
29:54 1 Corinthians 15:22.
29:57 The Bible says, "For as in Adam, all die."
30:00 Well, how's that Romans 5:12,
30:03 it gives us a picture
30:05 just as through one man sin entered the world
30:09 and death through sin and thus death spread to all
30:13 because all have sinned.
30:15 Now, what that mean is not saying
30:17 that everybody did something wrong
30:18 to fall into the category, but as is the DNA code,
30:23 one of the ways that we can tell,
30:25 I can tell my father or mother is
30:27 as we have the identity in our DNA.
30:30 And there's a sin DNA that Adam communicated to us.
30:35 The good news I believe is in 1 Corinthians 15:45.
30:39 The Bible says,
30:40 "As we have borne the image of the man of dust,
30:43 we shall also bear the image of the heavenly man."
30:46 Amen.
30:48 You see this nature that Adam gave to us
30:49 which condemns us to death, for all have sinned
30:51 and fallen short of the glory of God.
30:53 Romans 3:23
30:55 is not the thing that we should focus the most on.
30:58 We can't change where we came from,
31:00 but we could show a change where we're headed.
31:02 And I wanna give you the encouragement
31:04 is to say, well,
31:05 I could say, well, I had nothing to do with this.
31:08 I'm just an innocent victim.
31:09 Well, the victimization is not going to change,
31:12 but you've got the power in your own hand
31:15 to choose, to give your life to Christ,
31:17 put on His nature so that when He does return,
31:21 you would have a gift that even Adam could not give you.
31:24 And that is the gift of eternal life.
31:26 Amen.
31:27 Well said. I like that.
31:29 And perhaps you're watching right now
31:30 and tuning in for the first time,
31:32 from somewhere around the world and asking
31:33 what in the world am I watching?
31:35 You're watching one of the newest
31:37 3ABN Today programs entitled 3ABN Today, Bible Q and A,
31:42 in which we take your Bible questions
31:45 and we answer them according to the Bible.
31:47 And so actually there's a couple of ways
31:48 you can send in your Bible questions,
31:50 and in a future program,
31:52 we will try to take on your Bible questions.
31:54 So if you want to do that, there's a couple of ways.
31:56 The first time...
31:58 First way to do that is via a text message.
32:01 And, of course, that number is (618) 228-3975,
32:07 or you can email that in to
32:10 BibleQA@3abn.org
32:16 One quick correction, 1 Corinthians 15:49,
32:20 the image of the heavenly and the image of Christ.
32:24 Adam's image and Christ's image.
32:26 Just wanna correct that before we go any further.
32:27 Oh yeah, no, I appreciate that.
32:29 Thank you so much.
32:30 So send in your questions and we're gonna continue
32:32 on with our questions during this hour.
32:34 'Cause we have so many more left here
32:36 and I'm actually gonna go back to you,
32:38 Pastor John Dinzey,
32:40 and we're gonna be taking this question
32:42 from F. Campbell and this person says,
32:45 "How can I or anyone be able to memorize God's Word,
32:49 especially in this world that keeps us busy with work,
32:52 school and unforeseen circumstances.
32:55 I always admire how the Bible is memorized.
32:58 And I would love to learn." Praise the Lord.
33:00 I praise the Lord for this question
33:02 because it is a wonderful question
33:04 and I congratulate you,
33:06 but now you have to take the step
33:08 and make an effort
33:09 because without the effort, then doesn't come the blessing.
33:12 Yes, this is wonderful to do.
33:14 In Psalm 119:11 says,
33:16 "Your word I have hidden in my heart
33:19 that I might not sin against You."
33:21 You remember that when Jesus was tempted,
33:23 He said it is written or Jesus took time
33:25 to try to memorize the scriptures.
33:27 Well, how do you do that?
33:28 That's the question.
33:30 So first you have to read, meditate upon God's Word.
33:33 That's step number one,
33:35 and a method that most people use,
33:38 a lot of people use is to repeat it.
33:40 What I like to do is to take bites, you know?
33:43 For God so loved the world.
33:45 I take that bite and I meditate upon it.
33:48 I think about it.
33:49 And then I add a little more,
33:50 that He gave His only begotten Son.
33:52 So I consider those two and think about those
33:56 and repeat them several times.
33:58 For God so loved the world
34:00 that He gave His only begotten Son.
34:02 Then you add a little more and you repeat and you repeat.
34:05 This is one of the best methods to learn.
34:08 This is what many people use.
34:09 There's some people memorize some Bible verses,
34:11 but some people memorize chapters
34:15 on this method and others.
34:17 Another method is scripture songs.
34:19 Many people have written scripture songs
34:22 just going to the internet type scripture songs.
34:25 And you will see that some people have put to music,
34:28 some of the scriptures,
34:30 and this is a wonderful way to memorize scripture.
34:32 So I encourage you to make an effort.
34:35 And by the way, a lot of people have
34:37 these smartphones these days.
34:40 You can have the Bible there, glance at it from time to time
34:43 and little by little you will see
34:45 that you're memorizing more and more of God's Word
34:47 and you'll be strengthened as you do so.
34:50 Amen. Amen.
34:51 Praise the Lord for that.
34:53 Pastor Lomacang,
34:54 this next question is coming from Ronald in Maryland.
34:58 Okay.
34:59 And Ronald actually asked a very good question,
35:01 which as evangelist
35:03 I think we all have heard this at some point but he says,
35:06 "Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath.
35:09 When I accept Jesus, am I not accepting the Sabbath
35:13 And as long as I pray...
35:14 As long as I praise and worship Jesus.
35:17 He is my Sabbath."
35:19 So... I like that way.
35:22 That's a good, that's a good point.
35:23 Yeah. That's great spiritual acrobats.
35:25 I really wanna appreciate you for trying to do that,
35:28 but I guess you better have a net
35:31 because you're gonna land on some hard ground
35:32 trying to just land on your feet.
35:34 This is a...
35:36 This is something that a lot of people struggle
35:37 with spiritually
35:39 and we're living in a day and age
35:40 where I asked the question, how can we accept Jesus,
35:45 but reject the Sabbath
35:47 and still think it's praise and worship.
35:50 You cannot accept Jesus and reject the very thing
35:53 He says, remember.
35:54 That's right.
35:56 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
35:57 Just imagine saying, Lord, I love you.
35:59 And I worship You,
36:00 but I am not keeping Your Sabbath.
36:02 I know you said I should remember,
36:04 but I'm choosing to forget,
36:06 but I love You anyway.
36:07 Now try that on your wife.
36:09 If you're married and see how far that goes.
36:12 And I'm just being very candid with you
36:14 because there's a new kind of religion nowadays.
36:17 We have this atmosphere of praise and worship.
36:19 If we lift our hands and we say,
36:20 I love you Lord, that, that omits obedience.
36:23 Friends, we cannot do that. That's right.
36:25 The Sabbath is one of God's Ten Commandments,
36:27 try breaking the other nine
36:28 and still try to convince the Lord that you love Him.
36:31 It's not going to work.
36:33 The Ten Commandments are commandments,
36:34 not suggestions and not multiple choice.
36:37 Jesus made it clear.
36:39 Luke 6:46, "Why do you call me Lord,
36:41 Lord and do not do the things which I say."
36:43 Jesus kept the Sabbath.
36:45 Luke 4:16, His disciples kept the Sabbath.
36:47 The apostles kept the Sabbath.
36:48 There's nothing wrong with the Sabbath.
36:50 The Sabbath is not the issue.
36:51 Jesus said in 1 John 2:6,
36:54 "He who says he abides in Me,
36:56 ought himself also to walk just as He walked."
36:59 You will never be lost
37:01 if Jesus is your perfect example
37:03 and you do what He did.
37:04 But if you say I know what He did,
37:06 but I'm gonna do the opposite.
37:08 And I'm gonna just say, I love you, Lord.
37:10 I'm gonna praise You.
37:11 I'll sing my heart out to You.
37:13 Here's what He will say to you.
37:14 Matthew 15:8,
37:16 "These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
37:18 they honor Me with their lips,
37:20 but their hearts are far from Me."
37:22 So, brethren, let me make it very clear,
37:24 if you love the Lord, prove it by how you live,
37:28 walk as He walked.
37:30 Hmm.
37:32 Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. All right.
37:34 Miss Shelley Quinn coming to you.
37:37 This is from Stephanie in Washington and she says,
37:40 "Did Jesus lose His omnipresence for eternity?
37:43 Or did He get it back after His resurrection?
37:46 Can you please share where you find your answers?"
37:49 Certainly, let me set this up
37:51 because what Stephanie is referring to is
37:54 Philippians 2:5-8 refers to Christ as God
37:58 who humbled Himself to become a man.
38:01 He took on our flesh.
38:03 He emptied Himself in a...
38:06 It's kenosis in the Greek, not of His deity,
38:10 but of His divine prerogative is His glory
38:14 and His eternal riches.
38:15 So we know that when He was in the flesh,
38:19 He was limited to being in one place at one time,
38:22 He was resurrected in the flesh.
38:24 Luke 24:36-39.
38:27 He shows them His, the nail wounds.
38:29 And He says, hey,
38:30 a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones as you see here.
38:33 He walked for 40 days on the earth
38:35 after the resurrection,
38:37 then He ascended in the flesh.
38:40 And in Acts1:11,
38:41 the angel said, hey, the same Jesus
38:44 you're seeing taken up.
38:45 He's gonna come back in the same manner.
38:47 In 1 Corinthians 15:45,
38:50 we know that Christ is in His human flesh,
38:54 His glorified human flesh.
38:57 He is the last Adam,
39:00 the new representative of humanity.
39:04 And He said in Genesis 16:7 to His disciples,
39:09 "Hey, it is to your advantage that I go away,
39:13 because if I do not go away, the helper will not come.
39:17 But if I depart, I will send him to you."
39:20 What He is saying is in My flesh,
39:22 I can't be with you everywhere,
39:24 but I'm going to send the Holy Spirit.
39:28 And Ephesians 3:16-17
39:31 says that Christ lives in our heart
39:33 by the power of the Holy Spirit.
39:36 He says, Paul prays that you'll be strengthened
39:39 with might through His spirit,
39:41 in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your heart
39:44 through faith.
39:45 So through the Holy Spirit, who is one with Jesus,
39:51 Jesus still has His omnipresence.
39:53 That's right.
39:54 Very well said. Thank you.
39:56 Pastor John Dinzey,
39:57 this question comes from Rachel.
40:00 And she says, "What does it mean
40:01 that the unpardonable sin
40:03 is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
40:06 How do you blaspheme the Holy Spirit?
40:09 Okay. That's a very good question.
40:11 And one that sometimes brings people
40:14 into some great concern
40:16 and they fear they have a blasphemed the Holy Spirit.
40:20 I would like to say first that it is not a word
40:24 that you say or an act that you say at one time,
40:27 this is a continue...
40:30 The continued resistance of the Holy Spirit
40:34 to the degree of resisting to the point
40:37 that the Lord can do no more for you.
40:39 Because the resistance you have made
40:41 is you have rejected God.
40:44 How soon does that happen?
40:47 We cannot say,
40:48 but look at the scriptures reveal
40:53 that God is patient with us, forgiving and kind,
40:58 willing to forgive us practically anything.
41:00 And now let's go to the scriptures.
41:03 Notice how this is used here in Matthew 12:24 first.
41:08 "Now when the Pharisees heard, they said,
41:10 'This fellow does not cast out demons
41:13 except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.'"
41:16 So they were talking about Jesus,
41:18 that He was doing something through the ruler of the demons
41:20 when He had done it through the power of God,
41:23 through the power of the Holy Spirit.
41:25 So this is when you enter in not attributing to God,
41:29 acknowledging the work of the Holy Spirit.
41:31 You are beginning the process
41:33 of rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit.
41:36 And unless you repent
41:38 and you continue resisting God's grace
41:41 and God's offer a mercy.
41:43 Eventually your heart is hardened
41:45 and you will not listen to God's voice
41:48 and you just reject God completely.
41:50 Now, if you are concerned
41:52 that you have committed the unpardonable sin,
41:55 you are worried about it,
41:57 then you have not committed the unpardonable sin.
41:59 You are still concerned about your salvation.
42:03 Therefore, come to the Lord, repent of your sins and say,
42:06 Lord, come into my heart because it's still there.
42:10 Revelation 3:20, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
42:12 If any man hears my voice and opens the door,
42:14 I will come into him
42:15 and sup with him and he with Me."
42:16 The door of mercy is still open.
42:18 Praise the Lord.
42:19 Amen. Praise the Lord.
42:21 Thank you, Brother.
42:22 Pastor Lomacang, coming back to you.
42:24 And this question is coming based on,
42:28 I guess 1 Corinthians 2:9,
42:30 they say, "Should I love my enemies
42:32 even though they continue to falsely accuse me
42:35 of the same thing that I didn't do?"
42:37 Okay.
42:39 Well, nobody knows that frustration
42:42 better than Jesus, because they confused Him
42:47 with so many adverse personalities,
42:51 but we don't love people because they are lovable.
42:56 We love people
42:58 because our hearts have been transformed
43:01 and the love of God has been poured into us.
43:05 Now, if you fill up a glass,
43:06 I do this illustration on our...
43:08 We have a Zoom worship each week
43:10 with a group of people.
43:12 I had my wife get me a full glass of water.
43:14 And then I had to get me an empty glass of water.
43:17 And when Paul says the love of God
43:18 has been poured out into us,
43:21 I said, now I have something here
43:22 that I could pour out into something else.
43:25 If you try to serve God with an empty heart,
43:28 thinking that the love stems from you.
43:30 They're not gonna understand your frustration.
43:32 But if Jesus Christ is living in you,
43:34 then this is not an act of futility,
43:37 nor is it an effort that you put forth
43:39 that you finally accomplish,
43:41 but it is God working in you both to will
43:44 and to do of His good pleasure.
43:45 But notice this command of love is not something
43:48 that's arbitrary nor it's not even optional.
43:51 It's an evidence that we are disciples of Christ.
43:54 Jesus says, John 13:35, "By this all will know
43:58 that you are My disciples
43:59 if you have love for one another."
44:01 But what about your enemies?
44:03 Matthew 5:43, "You have heard that it was said,
44:06 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44:09 But I say to you love your enemies,
44:11 bless those who curse you,
44:13 do good to those who hate you and pray for those
44:16 who spitefully use you and persecute you."
44:20 That's where you're having a difficulty.
44:22 However, once again, when the love of God is in you,
44:26 why do you love?
44:27 We love because He first loved us.
44:30 Amen.
44:32 1 John 4:19.
44:33 So if you appreciate the love of God
44:35 while you are a sinner,
44:37 let that be evidence in you that you love others
44:40 because Christ has loved you first.
44:41 Amen.
44:43 Amen. Thank you, pastor for that.
44:45 All right.
44:46 Miss Shelley Quinn,
44:47 this question is coming to you and it says,
44:50 "I hear so much about once saved, always saved,
44:54 but in 1 John, you have to obey the commandments of God.
44:57 Are people saved if they return to their old sinful habits
45:01 or were they never saved?"
45:03 I'm gonna sound like I'm tooting my own horn,
45:05 but I just got through doing an hour long sermon on this.
45:09 And it is called the real truth
45:12 of once saved, always saved.
45:13 If you Google the real truth, once saved, always saved.
45:17 You can see all of this biblical support.
45:20 You got to add my name, Shelley Quinn.
45:23 Salvation is by grace through faith, we know this,
45:28 but the covenant of redemption,
45:30 there's three stages that we're going through.
45:33 We have been saved.
45:34 We're justified. We are being saved.
45:36 We're sanctified and we will be saved.
45:39 We will be glorified. Yes.
45:41 God has conditions to this covenant of redemption.
45:46 He does ask that we walk motivated by love
45:51 in obedience to His will
45:54 and stay in covenant relationship with Him.
45:56 The Bible clearly says
45:58 that God keeps covenant with those
46:01 who keep covenant with Him.
46:02 And you know, by the way, Malachi 4:6, God says,
46:07 "Hey, I'm the Lord, I change not."
46:09 So the same God of the Old Testament
46:12 is the God of the new.
46:14 Spiritual principles of the Old Testament
46:16 are echoed in the new.
46:18 In Ezekiel 33:18,
46:21 God says when the righteous turns from his righteousness
46:25 and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it."
46:28 In John 15:6, Jesus echoes this.
46:31 "If anyone does not abide in Me,
46:33 if he doesn't remain in Me, he is cast out as a branch
46:37 and withered and they gather them
46:38 and throw them into fire and they're burned."
46:41 God's message is consistent throughout Scripture.
46:44 God told Moses in Exodus 32:32,
46:48 He said, "Whoever has sinned against Me,
46:51 I will blot him out of My book."
46:54 This is the book of the redeemed,
46:56 the Book of Life.
46:57 And then in Revelation 3:5,
46:59 Jesus repeats this same idea in an...
47:03 In a reverse way.
47:05 He says, "He who overcomes," this is Revelation 3:5,
47:10 "shall be clothed in white garments.
47:13 And I will not blot out his name
47:17 from the book of Life.
47:18 See, Paul said, and everybody's always quoting
47:21 this in Romans 8:38-39,
47:25 "Nothing can separate us from the love of God."
47:28 How true that is.
47:29 Amen.
47:30 But we can separate ourselves.
47:32 Jesus said in Matthew 7:21,
47:35 "Not everyone who says to me,
47:37 Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven,
47:39 but he who does the will of My Father."
47:43 And He says, there's gonna be some
47:44 who come up to Him and say,
47:46 didn't we do this, and this, and this in Your name.
47:49 And guess what He's gonna say?
47:50 Depart from Me you who practice lawlessness.
47:53 I never knew you.
47:55 So we know from 1 John 3:4,
47:57 "Lawlessness is transgression of the law.
48:01 Sin is lawlessness."
48:03 He tells us, Paul told Timothy, "Hey,
48:05 if we deny Him, He's gonna deny us."
48:08 Right. So we've got, go to Google.
48:12 The real truth of one saved always saved by Shelley Quinn.
48:17 Well, chances are at this point.
48:18 Look, you send in those Bible questions
48:20 if we can't answer it,
48:21 Shelley is probably got a sermon about it.
48:24 No, that's a blessing though.
48:26 Thank you so much for joining us.
48:27 If you're just now tuning into the last few minutes,
48:29 but we have just enough time
48:31 perhaps, maybe to throw out
48:32 a couple of these bonus questions.
48:34 You know, I was just playing with you by the way.
48:35 Oh, no. That was a joke.
48:37 But you certainly are a blessing to this program.
48:39 We know, we love your sermons, Miss Shelley.
48:41 Thank you.
48:43 This question comes from Lisa in Ontario and she says,
48:46 "Can someone please explain Matthew 5:19?"
48:49 All right. Matthew 5รข |
48:51 And I'll go ahead and read that if you guys would like me to,
48:53 Matthew 5:19.
48:54 Well, here it is.
48:55 Okay, go ahead and read it then, Brother.
48:57 "Whoever therefore breaks one of these
48:59 the least of these commandments and teaches men
49:01 so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven,
49:04 but whoever does and teaches them,
49:05 he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
49:07 This is not talking about the order
49:09 in which you're gonna be called like,
49:10 well, you're number four, five six, seven.
49:12 The word there least means you.
49:15 The least you will be is called in the kingdom of heaven.
49:18 The Lord is saying that if anyone teaches you
49:20 to disobey the commandments, which He says,
49:22 if you love Me, keep My commandments.
49:25 Then the chances of you being in the kingdom of heaven,
49:27 it's the least thing that's going to happen.
49:29 So when you look at that,
49:31 the Lord is saying all of my commandments,
49:32 10 of them, I wanna say 10,
49:34 because many people think that
49:36 there are 640 that we have to keep
49:37 and we have to keep the Jewish ceremonies
49:39 and all that.
49:40 No, I'm just talking about the Ten Commandments,
49:41 the first four, our relationship to God,
49:43 the last six in our relationship
49:45 to our fellow men.
49:46 So let's not be led down the path
49:48 to violate these thinking
49:50 that somehow our relationship with Christ is still secure.
49:54 Amen.
49:55 Anybody else want to add to that before we move?
49:57 Yes.
49:58 Because when you go here to Matthew 5:20,
50:02 remember it says, "For I say unto you
50:03 that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness
50:06 of the scribes and Pharisees,
50:07 you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
50:10 So you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven
50:13 being a violator of God's commandments.
50:14 Amen.
50:16 Good point. Good point. All right.
50:18 We have just enough time for this next question.
50:21 And this person says in the Book of Numbers 21:8-9.
50:25 Moses made a bronze snake and the Israelites looked at it
50:28 and got healed from the snake bites.
50:30 Did the Israelites break the commandment
50:32 in Exodus 20:4-5?"
50:36 The second commandment is that you shall not worship idols.
50:40 Actually in Numbers 21:8,
50:42 we see God told Moses to create the serpent,
50:47 to have the people look at this bronze serpent
50:50 on the pole in looking to him for provision of healing.
50:56 They were not worshiping.
50:58 However, by the time Hezekiah comes along, he has to...
51:03 In Kings 18:4, it shows He had to destroy the serpent
51:08 because the people had begun to worship
51:11 and they were burning incense to it.
51:14 There's nothing wrong.
51:15 God had cherubs at the altar.
51:19 He had them in the embroidery of the curtains.
51:22 There's nothing wrong with religious images.
51:26 Hmm. Amen. Thank you for that.
51:28 Well, my friends,
51:30 we basically have come to the end
51:32 of our question and answer time.
51:33 We still have a little...
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51:36 of the break that we're about to take.
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