WEBVTT - Hour 2: Dive into the Mailbag 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.559 Hello, friends. Welcome to the second hour of Open Line 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:16.520 with Doctor Michael Ray Moody Radio's Bible Study Across America. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.800 I'm Michael Ray Melnick, I'm professor of Jewish studies and 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.800 Bible at Moody, as well as the undergraduate dean. I'm 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.160 here today and every Saturday trying to do my best 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.800 to answer your Bible questions. And normally, the bulk of 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:36.320 the program is your calls with your questions about the Bible, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.960 God and the spiritual life. But today it's all mailbag 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.279 all the time. So the best way to be in 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.559 touch is by going to our website, online radio.org. You 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.080 can post a question there. There's a link that says 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.880 Ask Michael a question and you can ask right there 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.159 and it'll come up in a future mailbag. But today 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.600 I'm going to be answering the questions you've sent in, 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.260 and not just me. Eva melnick, who's is an adjunct 0:01:00.260 --> 0:01:03.460 faculty member at Moody Bible Institute, as well as a 0:01:03.460 --> 0:01:06.740 contributor to the Moody Bible Commentary and Moody Handbook of 0:01:06.740 --> 0:01:09.700 Messianic Prophecy. And she is also she happens to be 0:01:09.700 --> 0:01:12.740 my wife, my favorite Bible teacher. She and I studied 0:01:12.740 --> 0:01:15.819 the Bible together all the time. I'm glad you're here, Eva. 0:01:16.220 --> 0:01:17.460 I'm so glad to be here. Yeah. 0:01:17.459 --> 0:01:19.100 This way you can answer the Bible questions. You don't 0:01:19.100 --> 0:01:19.860 have to text them. 0:01:19.980 --> 0:01:20.460 Yeah, that's. 0:01:20.459 --> 0:01:22.740 That's what they say. This is what you usually do. 0:01:23.140 --> 0:01:25.580 And then also, Tricia McMillan is here. She is the 0:01:25.580 --> 0:01:27.740 producer of Open Line and the person who put the 0:01:27.740 --> 0:01:30.539 mailbag together. Thank you so much, Tricia. Glad you're here. 0:01:31.380 --> 0:01:33.700 I love these programs. I love sitting around talking about 0:01:33.700 --> 0:01:36.500 the Bible. And we were laughing the first hour about 0:01:36.500 --> 0:01:39.580 how it took some time to get through those questions. 0:01:39.819 --> 0:01:41.980 And the reason it took some time was because we 0:01:41.980 --> 0:01:44.540 all talk about it. And I guess that's the fun part. 0:01:44.540 --> 0:01:46.260 That's why it's the Bible study across America. 0:01:46.260 --> 0:01:48.340 And Trish doesn't just put questions together. She's a she's 0:01:48.340 --> 0:01:52.060 a graduate of Moody Bible Institute I understand. I am yeah. 0:01:52.100 --> 0:01:53.140 And double graduated. 0:01:53.580 --> 0:01:54.220 Bachelor's and. 0:01:54.220 --> 0:01:56.940 Master's right. That's right. Yeah. That's she knows stuff. 0:01:57.260 --> 0:01:59.250 Yeah I love it. There are some times when people 0:01:59.250 --> 0:02:01.610 call the program and we know that we're not going 0:02:01.650 --> 0:02:04.290 to get that question on the air. And Tricia will 0:02:04.290 --> 0:02:06.730 get on the line and answer their question right with 0:02:06.730 --> 0:02:08.730 them off the air, which I love it when you 0:02:08.730 --> 0:02:10.370 do that. Yeah, yeah, when we. 0:02:10.370 --> 0:02:12.370 Have time, I try. Yeah. 0:02:12.370 --> 0:02:14.650 So anyway, we're going to go right back to questions. 0:02:14.690 --> 0:02:17.370 Yes. And some of these are very unique ones that 0:02:17.370 --> 0:02:19.210 we've not had before. And so I'm really excited to 0:02:19.210 --> 0:02:22.050 hear your answers to them. So our first question is 0:02:22.050 --> 0:02:25.690 from Betsy in Florida. She listens to R&B. When I 0:02:25.690 --> 0:02:29.530 read Jesus's answers to people's questions in the Bible, it 0:02:29.530 --> 0:02:32.970 seems like they don't match the question is this because 0:02:32.970 --> 0:02:36.530 of the translation? And so I wrote as one example, 0:02:37.250 --> 0:02:40.450 the rich young ruler, which I forgot to write down 0:02:40.450 --> 0:02:42.490 the actual verse. So I'm going to flip here to 0:02:42.530 --> 0:02:47.329 mark ten, where the rich young ruler asked, good teacher 0:02:47.330 --> 0:02:49.810 17 right? Yes, good teacher, what do I need to 0:02:49.810 --> 0:02:52.770 do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus responds, why do 0:02:52.770 --> 0:02:56.169 you call me good? Yeah. What? That's not. That wasn't 0:02:56.169 --> 0:02:59.320 the point of my of my question. And then he says, 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.840 you know, you know all the commandments, but but it 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.200 often seems like Jesus, it's not just here's what you 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.160 do or yes or no. You know, if it's a 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.320 yes or no question, it's a little more involved than that. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:12.120 And why? 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.760 I think that the very point, I mean, Jesus is good. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.440 So why does he ask that question? Why do you 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.280 call me good? I think he's trying to diagnose not 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.680 just for himself, because obviously he knows what's inside of us. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.560 Even in these interactions. He knows what's in man. It 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.360 says at the end of John two, but rather he 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.400 is helping the person think about why are they? Why 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.760 are you asking me this question? What are you trying 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.840 to do? Just butter me up? Do you really think 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.080 I'm good? Do you understand what I mean? What do 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.680 you call me? Good. Yeah, he's kind of probing. What? 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.520 That which he knows about the person intuitively or I 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:51.840 think omnisciently. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:52.880 Yeah. About us. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:57.460 Yeah. Not intuition, but Omniscience. Uh, so that's the one 0:03:57.460 --> 0:04:02.460 thing that he's doing. But he often doesn't give the 0:04:02.460 --> 0:04:08.460 answer that's expected. I think that that's just amazing. Uh, 0:04:08.460 --> 0:04:13.900 and it serves to show how unpredictable the Messiah is. Uh, 0:04:13.900 --> 0:04:15.780 I've got a book brewing that I want to write 0:04:15.780 --> 0:04:18.980 about that, that when you look at how Jesus responds 0:04:18.980 --> 0:04:24.660 to people, he always gives the unpredictable, unexpected answer. One 0:04:24.660 --> 0:04:29.659 of my favorite examples of that is Luke 13 and 0:04:29.660 --> 0:04:31.779 and the reason for that, it is it's sort of 0:04:31.820 --> 0:04:36.740 an upside down view of the problem of evil. And 0:04:36.740 --> 0:04:42.260 the reason I say that is it says in Luke 13, uh, 0:04:42.300 --> 0:04:45.300 some people came and reported to him about the Galileans 0:04:45.300 --> 0:04:49.500 whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Apparently Pilate, 0:04:49.500 --> 0:04:52.500 at their Passover sacrifices, took them, killed people, and mixed 0:04:52.500 --> 0:04:55.440 their blood with the sacrifices they were offering. He was 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.719 a bad guy pilot, right? And he responded, do you 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:04.000 think that these Galileans were more sinful men? Sinful than 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.600 all Galileans, because they suffered these things? What did we 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:13.520 expect of the Messiah when they came with that sympathy? Oh, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.440 I'm so sorry. This is. Wait, wait. I know what 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.040 your real question is. Were they worse? And that's why 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.120 God allowed it to happen. Do you think they were 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.760 more sinful than you are? And you're safe because you're 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:30.040 not sinful? No. I tell you, unless you repent, you 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.680 will perish as well. And then he says, or they 18. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.440 Then he. Jesus raises another problem of evil. This is 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.280 not human evil, but natural evil. We would call it 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.000 a tower in Siloam fell on them and killed them. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.080 Do you think they were more sinful than all the 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.760 other people who live in Jerusalem? No, I tell you, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.400 unless you repent, you will perish as well. And then 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.159 he tells the story of the barren fig tree. And 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.789 why it is that the barren fig tree gets to 0:05:55.310 --> 0:05:59.910 not be destroyed right away, which it should be, because 0:05:59.910 --> 0:06:05.429 the farmer asked for patience of the owner. He says, 0:06:06.390 --> 0:06:08.630 you know, I know it's not producing anything, but let 0:06:08.630 --> 0:06:12.549 me give it another year. I'll, I'll, I'll put some food, 0:06:12.589 --> 0:06:14.670 plant food around it. I'll fix it up and let's 0:06:14.670 --> 0:06:17.030 see if we can get more fruit. It's. And the 0:06:17.029 --> 0:06:20.230 decision is made to let it go for another year. 0:06:20.230 --> 0:06:22.750 Out of God, out of patience. And what he is 0:06:22.750 --> 0:06:27.950 saying is, the reason everyone doesn't experience evil is because 0:06:27.990 --> 0:06:31.990 God is being patient. He's giving you time to repent 0:06:32.270 --> 0:06:35.029 because if we all got what we deserved, we'd be 0:06:35.029 --> 0:06:39.510 flashed in an instant. We'd be gone. Uh, and this 0:06:39.510 --> 0:06:45.190 is an utterly unacceptable answer that focuses on God's mercy 0:06:45.310 --> 0:06:49.750 despite our evil, rather than, yeah, those people were bad, 0:06:49.750 --> 0:06:52.700 and that's why they got that. Do you understand? It's 0:06:52.700 --> 0:06:57.460 just an upside down answer and start studying Jesus answers 0:06:57.460 --> 0:07:00.539 to questions. I'd say 90% of the time he gives 0:07:00.540 --> 0:07:01.660 an upside down answer. 0:07:02.260 --> 0:07:03.060 Right? So these are. 0:07:03.100 --> 0:07:06.820 They're not translation issues as to why there doesn't seem 0:07:06.820 --> 0:07:09.540 to be a question and then a response that correlates 0:07:09.540 --> 0:07:10.420 to the question. 0:07:10.620 --> 0:07:11.460 It's a messianic. 0:07:11.460 --> 0:07:11.820 Issue. 0:07:11.940 --> 0:07:12.580 Okay. 0:07:12.620 --> 0:07:14.820 It's when you're the Messiah, you know what people need 0:07:14.820 --> 0:07:19.140 to hear, right? Yeah. That's, uh, I think that's it's 0:07:19.140 --> 0:07:21.420 one of my favorite things as I, as I've studied 0:07:21.540 --> 0:07:24.820 the Gospels, that's the thing that strikes me the most. 0:07:24.860 --> 0:07:27.780 I mean, read the Good Samaritan, the story. There's no 0:07:27.780 --> 0:07:30.980 such thing as a good Samaritan, right? Right. And so 0:07:30.980 --> 0:07:34.300 when the Lord Jesus gives the answer about the Good Samaritan, 0:07:34.300 --> 0:07:38.820 he what? That's not what we expected to hear, right? Uh, 0:07:38.860 --> 0:07:41.140 in the first century, there was no expectation that there 0:07:41.140 --> 0:07:44.500 was one good Samaritan. And the Lord Jesus tells that story. 0:07:44.620 --> 0:07:48.580 Who's the true neighbor? So, yeah, it's I love that. 0:07:48.740 --> 0:07:51.640 It's It's there's so many things I love about the 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.040 Lord Jesus, but when I study these, I'm thinking, wow, 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.120 this is just great. And as a teacher, one of 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.240 the things I've tried to do is sometimes when when 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.960 students ask questions in class, I try to answer not 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.600 the question that they're asking as well. In addition, I 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.520 want to answer the question that they're really asking the. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.840 Question behind the question. Question behind the question. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.160 And I think you do that on Open Line. We'll 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.920 talk about that sometimes off the air. Yeah. That there's 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.120 there's often a question behind a question that we, that 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:25.680 we really want to know. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:26.160 Yeah. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.720 Yeah yeah. That's what I do. Sometimes I'll probe for 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.040 it and sometimes I'll just answer it. I know right. Yeah. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.640 But that's, that's because I've watched the model of the. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.800 Lord and I've studied it. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Thank you 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:41.880 for that question, Betsy. Our next question is from George 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:47.359 on Facebook and Matthew 20 1028. Sorry, Matthew ten verse 28. 0:08:48.580 --> 0:08:52.220 It says, don't fear those who kill the body but 0:08:52.220 --> 0:08:55.179 are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him 0:08:55.179 --> 0:08:58.740 who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 0:08:59.740 --> 0:09:03.700 What does this mean? It seems to say that the 0:09:03.700 --> 0:09:05.740 body and soul will be destroyed in hell, and that 0:09:05.740 --> 0:09:09.100 those who go there won't suffer for eternity. Is that 0:09:09.140 --> 0:09:11.100 what it's saying? What is he trying to say? 0:09:11.300 --> 0:09:16.100 The question here is about Annihilationism. There are some people 0:09:16.100 --> 0:09:19.780 who teach that eternal separation from God is that those 0:09:19.780 --> 0:09:24.179 who are lost will just be after some time of suffering. 0:09:24.740 --> 0:09:28.579 They'll be poof, gone, annihilated, and then, and thereby they 0:09:28.580 --> 0:09:36.740 are eternally separated from God. Uh, I I, I think 0:09:36.740 --> 0:09:42.340 that some people feel that's preferable. Uh, I'm not sure, 0:09:42.700 --> 0:09:44.660 but I what I would want to do is stick 0:09:44.660 --> 0:09:46.940 to the text, what it's talking about when it talks 0:09:46.940 --> 0:09:53.370 about destroy the soul, or that's talking about eternal, perpetual, 0:09:53.490 --> 0:10:01.770 never ending destruction. It's the forever process. And, uh, there's 0:10:01.770 --> 0:10:02.689 a verse. 0:10:03.490 --> 0:10:08.530 In that revelation 1411. Sure. Um, that kind of sort 0:10:08.530 --> 0:10:11.370 of speaks to that. Hang on. Let me let me 0:10:11.370 --> 0:10:13.650 find revelation. Where is that? In the Bible. Oh, it's 0:10:13.650 --> 0:10:16.090 near the end. The end. Toward the end. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Here. 0:10:16.090 --> 0:10:21.610 Hang on. All right. 1411 says, and the smoke of 0:10:21.610 --> 0:10:25.930 their torment goes up forever and ever. Those who worship 0:10:25.929 --> 0:10:29.010 the beast and his image. And whoever receives the mark 0:10:29.010 --> 0:10:33.689 of his name. That's sort of a picture of what 0:10:34.370 --> 0:10:37.330 eternal torment is right there at the end. 0:10:37.370 --> 0:10:38.250 It never stops. 0:10:38.250 --> 0:10:43.410 It's never stopping. It's not annihilationism, but it is perpetual suffering. 0:10:43.690 --> 0:10:49.160 And and, you know, in Isaiah 56. I think that's interesting. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.800 This is not just a New Testament concept. It's also 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:57.360 an Old Testament concept. And also there's the verses that 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.000 Lord Jesus says, where, uh, where the worm doesn't cease, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:06.760 you know, and it's just that it's a forever ever thing. But, uh, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.920 and the fire never is quenched. Uh, but in Isaiah, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.280 let's see if I can actually find it in Isaiah 56. Uh, 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.679 I think it is it unless I'm I'm wrong, I'm 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.800 probably wrong. Uh, but there's a verse in it that 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:28.880 also talks about it. It's I'm sorry, Isaiah 66. How's that? Yeah. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.040 That's that sounds good. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.320 That sounds says, uh, they will see the dead bodies 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.160 of the men who have rebelled against me, for their 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.000 worm will never die. Their fire will never go out, 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.420 and they will be a horror to all mankind. So 0:11:46.260 --> 0:11:48.500 it's not just talking about their bodies there. It's talking 0:11:48.500 --> 0:11:59.380 about perpetual, eternal separation from God. Uh, Isaiah 66, verse 24. So, uh, 0:11:59.980 --> 0:12:02.220 let me just I'm going to try and pull this around. 0:12:02.460 --> 0:12:05.780 One of the most heartbreaking things is that people who 0:12:05.780 --> 0:12:12.020 were created to have eternal fellowship with God are because 0:12:12.020 --> 0:12:15.620 of sinfulness and rebellion against God, are going to be 0:12:15.620 --> 0:12:20.220 separated from him forever. And I have seen too many 0:12:20.260 --> 0:12:22.260 followers of Jesus kind of. When they get mad at 0:12:22.260 --> 0:12:23.820 people who don't know the Lord, they kind of gloat 0:12:23.820 --> 0:12:28.900 about this. You'll see. All right. But this should be 0:12:28.900 --> 0:12:35.500 the most heartbreaking thing that we've ever, ever encountered in Scripture, 0:12:35.500 --> 0:12:39.900 and it should be the great motivation that we're going to. 0:12:41.940 --> 0:12:44.840 Present the good news of Messiah and how much God 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.800 loves people to everyone. That's what I think is so crucial. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.920 This should be not something that we ever are happy about. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.360 This is only only something that should motivate us to 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.559 let the love of God be known to people so 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.520 they will trust in him. We're going to come back 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.200 with more questions in just a moment. This is open line. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:10.000 Stay right there. Did you ever feel Christians can't do 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.880 anything about the growing anti-Semitism in the world? 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Sometimes Bible reading can feel like looking 0:13:58.350 --> 0:14:01.470 at a bunch of puzzle pieces, not quite sure how 0:14:01.470 --> 0:14:04.790 they fit together. That's where Paul Benware survey of the 0:14:04.790 --> 0:14:08.990 New Testament comes in. This comprehensive guide helps you understand 0:14:08.990 --> 0:14:12.950 how each book fits into God's perfect plan. Connecting the 0:14:12.950 --> 0:14:16.110 dots from the Gospels to Revelation. It's yours. When you 0:14:16.110 --> 0:14:19.030 give a gift of any size to open line, call 0:14:19.030 --> 0:14:33.390 (888) 644-7122 or visit open line radio.org. We're back. I'm Michael 0:14:33.390 --> 0:14:36.150 Ray Zellnik and joining me today is Tricia McMillan. She 0:14:36.150 --> 0:14:38.870 put together the mailbag. It's an all mailbag all the 0:14:38.870 --> 0:14:43.580 time Program, and Tricia was concerned. I couldn't answer these questions. 0:14:43.580 --> 0:14:48.460 And so she also invited Eva Radulovic to be here 0:14:48.460 --> 0:14:50.900 so that she could make sure that the questions got 0:14:50.900 --> 0:14:53.820 answered appropriately. I'm glad you're here too, Eva. 0:14:53.860 --> 0:14:55.820 So, yeah, here we go. Having a good time. 0:14:56.980 --> 0:14:59.660 I love our Bible studies together and I love answering 0:14:59.660 --> 0:15:02.900 people's questions. So our next one is from Kenneth in Illinois, 0:15:02.900 --> 0:15:07.500 listens to WNBA. He is looking at John 14 two, 0:15:08.940 --> 0:15:12.340 which is when Jesus says he's going to prepare a 0:15:12.340 --> 0:15:15.860 place for us or for for them. Um, and he says, 0:15:15.860 --> 0:15:19.620 I've been bothered for many years by the translation because 0:15:19.620 --> 0:15:24.580 there are two different translations on this verse. One says, 0:15:24.580 --> 0:15:27.220 if it were not, so would I have told you 0:15:27.220 --> 0:15:30.380 that I go to prepare a place for you? This 0:15:30.380 --> 0:15:34.660 makes sense to him, he says. The other translations reverse 0:15:34.740 --> 0:15:36.780 take away the question to make it a statement and 0:15:36.780 --> 0:15:38.860 kind of reverse the meaning almost. And it says if 0:15:38.860 --> 0:15:41.240 it if it were not so, I would have told you. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.000 But there are a lot of statements that are not so. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.200 And Jesus doesn't tell us those. So which is the 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:48.800 more accurate translation? 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.800 Well, I'm going to just read it to you. Okay. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.960 Now just to clarify, this is you translating the Greek 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.080 on the air. Yeah. That's it. Okay. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:04.840 Uh, in my father's house, there are many rooms. Many 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.320 people say mansions. No. It's rooms. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.280 Maybe mansions is a nice idea. Yeah, it's. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.440 Actually apartments, to be clear. Dwelling places. All right. And 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.840 then it says if it were not so, then I 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.880 would have told you. For I go to prepare a 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.479 place for you. That's it. Then I would have told you. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.760 That's what I would have told you. So that's it? 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:27.320 I'm reading it. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.240 But why would he go to the trouble of telling you, hey, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:31.840 I'm going to make a place. Because if I wasn't 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.520 making a place, I would have told you I wasn't 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:34.440 making a place. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.920 He's the one that's been telling them all about eternal life. 0:16:37.740 --> 0:16:40.660 And if I wasn't going to do this, if you're 0:16:40.660 --> 0:16:43.180 going to be hanging around, floating on a cloud with 0:16:43.180 --> 0:16:46.860 your little harp, I would have told you. But no, 0:16:46.860 --> 0:16:49.140 I'm actually going to prepare a place for you. I'm 0:16:49.140 --> 0:16:52.180 not leaving you behind. Not to bring you back with me. 0:16:52.300 --> 0:16:54.420 I'm going to make a place for you. That's why 0:16:54.420 --> 0:16:55.220 I'm going ahead. 0:16:55.620 --> 0:16:57.660 Okay, so I would have told you what was going 0:16:57.660 --> 0:17:01.180 to happen. Yeah, because if it wasn't this other way. 0:17:01.180 --> 0:17:02.980 This way that I have been telling you, I would 0:17:03.020 --> 0:17:04.659 have told you that. Because I would have told you 0:17:04.660 --> 0:17:05.859 what was actually going to happen. 0:17:05.900 --> 0:17:06.580 Yeah, yeah. 0:17:06.580 --> 0:17:08.260 That's okay. So I haven't been lying to you this 0:17:08.260 --> 0:17:08.660 whole time. 0:17:08.700 --> 0:17:09.540 Exactly right. 0:17:09.580 --> 0:17:12.780 That's basically what he's saying. Yeah. Okay. Well, I hope 0:17:12.780 --> 0:17:15.660 that clears that up. Kenneth, um, when I saw your question, 0:17:15.660 --> 0:17:18.340 I was like, yeah, that's a great question. Because even 0:17:18.340 --> 0:17:21.500 in my notes in my Bible, it has a little 0:17:22.100 --> 0:17:24.900 footnote that says and some translations say this. And so 0:17:24.900 --> 0:17:28.580 it is confusing to know which is the right. Why 0:17:28.580 --> 0:17:30.260 did some put a question mark in there just to 0:17:30.260 --> 0:17:32.020 make it seem make more sense? 0:17:32.900 --> 0:17:35.619 For example, the translation I worked on, which was the 0:17:35.850 --> 0:17:39.210 CSB once. Once it was all in, the editors were 0:17:39.210 --> 0:17:41.330 reworking it and making sure everything was right. They had 0:17:41.330 --> 0:17:45.970 an English stylist who makes sure that it's I mean, 0:17:46.010 --> 0:17:49.570 it really says the same thing either way, but making 0:17:49.570 --> 0:17:51.929 it so that that's what they have. They always have 0:17:51.930 --> 0:17:54.490 an English stylist trying to make sure that it's understandable 0:17:54.490 --> 0:17:55.850 to the English reader. Okay, to. 0:17:56.490 --> 0:17:59.890 To have the least amount of confusion with what they're reading. Okay. 0:17:59.930 --> 0:18:02.890 All right. So kind of related to that, Nathan in 0:18:02.890 --> 0:18:05.649 Washington listens to me and wants to know are the 0:18:05.650 --> 0:18:08.649 kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven the same 0:18:08.650 --> 0:18:12.930 thing or are they different? We have Jesus teaching about both. Um, 0:18:12.970 --> 0:18:15.770 in the New Testament, in the Gospels, are they the 0:18:15.770 --> 0:18:17.490 same thing or are they different things? 0:18:18.250 --> 0:18:23.650 Well, uh, first of all, there are there were interpreters 0:18:23.650 --> 0:18:28.090 in the early 20th century and late 19th century that 0:18:28.090 --> 0:18:30.610 treated the kingdom of heaven as it was used in 0:18:30.609 --> 0:18:34.919 the Gospel of Matthew as something distinct from the From 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:40.919 the Kingdom of God in the other gospels. And the 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.200 problem with that is they don't understand that Matthew was 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.480 written to Jews, and that Jewish people often used a 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.600 euphemism for the word God, and the euphemism that was 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:57.640 commonly used was heaven, because that's God's abode. So you 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:02.720 can talk about where God is. The kingdom of heaven 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.960 and the kingdom of God are exactly the same thing. Uh, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.320 does that make sense? Uh, so. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.560 Yes. So instead of saying his name. Yes. Because he 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.760 was the one who cannot be named. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:16.680 So they would say heaven. 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.200 The ineffable name of God, the unpronounceable, unspeakable name of. 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.520 God that we talked about last hour. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:23.359 Yeah. 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.080 Then then what you do is you say, uh, heaven. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.960 Heaven, the kingdom of heaven. And you say it's mostly 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.600 in Matthew where the phrase appears. Yes. Because Matthew is 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:32.800 a very Jewish gospel. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.340 Yeah. Writing to Jewish people. And so Matthew is using 0:19:36.340 --> 0:19:39.699 the euphemism kingdom of heaven. Now, what is the kingdom? 0:19:39.700 --> 0:19:44.260 The kingdom is the rulership of God. And, uh, what 0:19:44.260 --> 0:19:47.940 what that refers to. Now there is a sense where 0:19:47.980 --> 0:19:50.740 God is our ruler, our king, right now. Um, but 0:19:50.740 --> 0:19:53.219 very often in Scripture, when it talks about what the 0:19:53.220 --> 0:19:56.180 kingdom of heaven will be like, it's also a very 0:19:56.180 --> 0:20:00.740 Jewish idea, which is the mouth of God. Uh, when 0:20:00.740 --> 0:20:02.780 is that going to come? Eva, you should tell us. 0:20:03.660 --> 0:20:07.340 The kingdom, the ultimate kingdom. When Messiah comes and reigns 0:20:07.340 --> 0:20:10.139 on the throne of David for a thousand years. Yeah. So? 0:20:10.140 --> 0:20:12.820 So in a sense, we have the beginning of it now. 0:20:12.859 --> 0:20:16.220 It's now. Not yet. Yeah. But now. Not yet. Yeah. 0:20:16.260 --> 0:20:20.139 Because he's reigning over us spiritually. Mhm. So the kingdom 0:20:20.140 --> 0:20:24.300 of heaven is among us, right. But one day he's 0:20:24.300 --> 0:20:27.139 going to be really among us, ruling us at the 0:20:27.140 --> 0:20:29.939 kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God. Uh, when 0:20:29.940 --> 0:20:31.180 he reigns from Jerusalem. 0:20:31.619 --> 0:20:35.080 So is it a similar idea to sanctification that we 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.359 are sanctified? But we are. We are still always in 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.080 the process of being sanctified. Yeah, it's in the same way, the. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:42.000 Same kind of idea. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.959 There's a a now lesser version, but there will be 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.479 a completed version later. I see what you mean in 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:48.760 terms of the Kingdom. Yeah, there's. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:53.040 The the present sanctification, which is a process and ultimate sanctification, 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:54.600 which is when we're glorified. Okay. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.240 So in the same way, this, this kingdom, we are 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.160 in the kingdom of the kingdom. 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.520 Spiritually, in this kingdom, obviously, he's reigning over us. He's 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.760 our king. Okay. Right. But then there will. 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.800 Be an ultimate the at the millennial reign. Yeah. The king. 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:09.400 The ultimate kingdom of God. Yeah. 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.240 The the lion and the lamb are not lying down together. 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.520 There's no end of war. Now. Right now. Yeah. You know, 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.080 death is common now. Won't be common then. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:22.360 Okay. So with this, thinking about the kingdom of God, 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.919 is this part of with this language or the kingdom 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:31.350 of heaven? Is this kind of lumped not lumped. Is 0:21:31.350 --> 0:21:37.150 this kind of connected to the the king, the reigning 0:21:37.150 --> 0:21:41.750 ruling king that they were expecting of the Messiah? Yeah. 0:21:41.790 --> 0:21:42.310 So like his. 0:21:42.310 --> 0:21:44.709 Lord Jesus deals with this. They expected the Messiah to 0:21:44.750 --> 0:21:48.790 come and kick out the Romans and establish peaceful reign 0:21:48.790 --> 0:21:51.430 with Israel at the head of the nations, and what 0:21:51.430 --> 0:21:54.510 the Lord Jesus says was right now we've got a 0:21:54.510 --> 0:21:58.910 spiritual kingdom for you. Okay. Uh, and you can experience 0:21:58.910 --> 0:22:02.910 spiritual peace if you believe in the Messiah. I will 0:22:02.910 --> 0:22:07.150 reign over you now, but ultimately I'm going to return, 0:22:07.310 --> 0:22:10.350 and then I'm going to establish that kingdom of peace 0:22:10.350 --> 0:22:14.590 on earth. Okay. And so that. That's what it is. Okay. 0:22:14.630 --> 0:22:16.070 Yeah. All right. Thank you. 0:22:16.109 --> 0:22:18.190 And I think that's a little bit of why why 0:22:18.230 --> 0:22:22.790 Jesus is talking about in the, in the least, uh, 0:22:22.830 --> 0:22:27.190 favorite promise to claim in John 1633 when he says 0:22:27.190 --> 0:22:29.270 these things, I have spoken to you so that in 0:22:29.380 --> 0:22:32.659 me you may have peace. In the world you will 0:22:32.660 --> 0:22:37.139 have tribulation. But but be encouraged. I have overcome the world. 0:22:37.180 --> 0:22:38.100 Yeah. He's our king. 0:22:38.140 --> 0:22:40.420 He's our king now. Right. 0:22:40.460 --> 0:22:43.660 All right. Thank you for that question, Nathan. Randolph in 0:22:43.660 --> 0:22:47.420 South Carolina, listen to the Good News Network. Um, and 0:22:47.420 --> 0:22:52.379 says that Paul appeals to Caesar in acts because of 0:22:52.380 --> 0:22:59.220 his Roman citizenship. The Jewish people bring Jesus before Pontius Pilate. Um, 0:22:59.540 --> 0:23:03.740 who was Roman? Right. Roman ruler. Okay. So was Jesus 0:23:03.740 --> 0:23:07.619 a Roman citizen also? Pontius Pilate gave his verdict that 0:23:07.619 --> 0:23:10.220 he found no laws of Rome were broken by Jesus. 0:23:10.260 --> 0:23:13.220 What was Paul born in Rome? I mean, like, what's 0:23:13.220 --> 0:23:15.540 the difference between the two that he could claim that? 0:23:15.580 --> 0:23:18.380 Could could any Jewish person under this Roman jurisdiction that 0:23:18.380 --> 0:23:19.860 they were living in claim that. 0:23:19.859 --> 0:23:21.900 Only American, an American, would ask this. 0:23:21.900 --> 0:23:23.460 Question. 0:23:24.220 --> 0:23:28.720 Because we have birthright citizenship if we're born in America. Yeah, 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.120 we're citizens of America, right? It's the Roman Empire. Did 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:33.920 not have birthright citizenship. Okay? 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:35.560 Yeah. If you were born in the Roman Empire, it 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:36.919 didn't give you birthright citizenship. 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.480 Yeah. So then how was Paul, a Roman citizen? 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:45.200 Well, either. Probably his father purchased it. Oh, uh, there 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.840 were certain things that you could do. Remember when Paul 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:52.679 says that he's a Roman citizen citizen, and he says, uh, 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.159 you you purchased your citizenship? I think he says to 0:23:56.200 --> 0:24:00.080 a centurion, but I was born a citizen. So probably 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:04.040 his father purchased it. And and Paul was born into 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:08.160 that because it is passed down to your children. Okay. But, uh, 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.920 everyone is born in the Roman Empire. Was not a citizen. 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:16.960 Sometimes the emperors would grant soldiers from other countries that 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:21.399 joined the Roman army citizenship as a gift for, uh, 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:23.440 you know, they didn't get the GI Bill. What they 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:27.180 got was, was citizenship. Okay. And the And the privileges 0:24:27.180 --> 0:24:30.860 of that. So he was under the Lord. Jesus was 0:24:30.859 --> 0:24:34.820 under the governance of Rome because Rome was governing Judea. 0:24:34.980 --> 0:24:38.140 And that's why he was brought to Pontius Pilate. Someone 0:24:38.140 --> 0:24:41.780 would say governance. Some would say oppression. But nevertheless, they 0:24:41.780 --> 0:24:47.139 were governing authority in Judea. Um, on the other hand, 0:24:47.220 --> 0:24:49.700 he was not a citizen. Uh, so he could not 0:24:49.700 --> 0:24:54.379 have claimed I appeal to Caesar, as Paul did. Okay. Uh, 0:24:54.420 --> 0:24:57.139 later on in the book of acts, because he was. 0:24:57.140 --> 0:24:59.460 Paul could do that because he was a Roman citizen. 0:24:59.460 --> 0:25:02.340 But the Lord Jesus was just a he was Jewish 0:25:02.340 --> 0:25:03.100 from Israel. 0:25:03.740 --> 0:25:06.420 Okay. And had not purchased a Roman citizenship. 0:25:06.420 --> 0:25:10.460 And there were certain there were certain, um, Roman cities, 0:25:10.460 --> 0:25:13.580 cities that they had jurisdiction over where the people who 0:25:13.580 --> 0:25:18.740 were from those cities had colonies. Yeah. Colonies that had citizenship. Yeah. Okay. 0:25:18.780 --> 0:25:21.580 Like Tarsus or like Philippi. There were I don't. 0:25:21.580 --> 0:25:24.300 Know if Tarsus was was a colony, but Philippi. 0:25:24.420 --> 0:25:26.330 Philippi. Yeah. So, so. 0:25:26.530 --> 0:25:28.290 But the the land of Israel was not. 0:25:28.410 --> 0:25:29.570 Was not okay. 0:25:30.290 --> 0:25:30.890 All right. 0:25:31.090 --> 0:25:31.570 Thank you. 0:25:31.609 --> 0:25:32.610 That helpful. Yes. 0:25:32.609 --> 0:25:37.409 Very and sherwin-white Roman citizenship and law I think. Yeah. Right. 0:25:37.450 --> 0:25:40.570 Is the name of the book. Anyway, uh, we're going 0:25:40.570 --> 0:25:43.010 to come right back with more of your questions. These 0:25:43.010 --> 0:25:45.130 are such great questions about the Lord Jesus. Maybe we'll 0:25:45.130 --> 0:25:47.209 have more, I don't know, but the questions about the Bible, 0:25:47.250 --> 0:25:49.410 God and the spiritual life. So don't go away. This 0:25:49.410 --> 0:25:52.209 is Michael, Eva and Trisha answering your questions. We'll be 0:25:52.210 --> 0:26:01.770 right back. 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Tricia what 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:51.600 have we got next? 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:54.480 All right. David from Illinois listens to me and said, 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:58.480 I recently heard about a deliverance ministry and the main 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:01.040 scripture that they use to support the power to cast 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:06.119 out demons is from Mark 16 verse 17. Is this 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:09.200 verse speaking to all believers, or was it just for 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:10.200 certain believers? 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:16.199 Well what? Mark 16 verse 17 says, uh, has to 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:20.119 do with us casting out demons. Now, before we do 0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:22.780 anything else, let me explain what deliverance ministry is. It 0:27:22.780 --> 0:27:26.500 generally says that when we keep on sinning, it's because 0:27:26.500 --> 0:27:29.700 there are demons controlling believers. The Bible says greater is 0:27:29.700 --> 0:27:31.899 he who is in you than he is in the world. 0:27:31.900 --> 0:27:39.660 I don't think that certainly demons and Satan can have influence, oppress, 0:27:39.700 --> 0:27:45.220 attack believers, but I do not believe they. It's reasonable 0:27:45.220 --> 0:27:52.220 to cast demons out of followers of Jesus because God 0:27:52.220 --> 0:27:56.740 possesses us, not demons. And so, uh, the, the verse 0:27:56.740 --> 0:27:59.900 that he's speaking of these signs will accompany those who 0:27:59.900 --> 0:28:03.180 believe in my name. They will drive out demons. Well, 0:28:03.180 --> 0:28:05.060 that doesn't say whether it's in believers or not. Now, 0:28:05.060 --> 0:28:08.660 the problem with deliverance ministry is it does say that 0:28:09.859 --> 0:28:13.260 it is driving demons out of followers of Jesus. And 0:28:13.260 --> 0:28:16.660 so I think that's one problem. Second issue is this 0:28:16.660 --> 0:28:21.400 is an interesting passage because it is part of the Addendum, 0:28:21.400 --> 0:28:24.520 so to speak, that some scribe put onto the gospel 0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:27.919 of Mark. And it's I don't believe it's part of 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:32.640 the earliest and best manuscripts. And the footnote in mine 0:28:33.920 --> 0:28:38.360 says in this bracketed area it says verses nine through 20. 0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:44.240 Many manuscripts omit bracketed text. So that's what I would say. However, 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:49.880 one of the most important lessons about deliverance ministry I 0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:53.800 find in the book of Ephesians when it talks about 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:58.040 us being involved in spiritual warfare. When I look at 0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:02.240 that passage in Ephesians six, it doesn't say that we 0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:07.400 are to. Cast out demons. It says, this is why 0:29:07.400 --> 0:29:09.640 you must take up the full armor of God, so 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:14.120 that you may be able to resist in the evil day. 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:17.239 And then it even use uses the word stand or 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:21.910 stand against, which is the same root as resist. In 0:29:21.910 --> 0:29:25.750 this passage. And then. Ever. Ever. 0:29:26.350 --> 0:29:28.150 What was that? Wait, wait, what was. What was that 0:29:28.150 --> 0:29:30.230 Ephesians passage for people to write down at home? 0:29:30.310 --> 0:29:35.709 It's Ephesians chapter six, verses 13 and following. Yep. And 0:29:35.710 --> 0:29:38.230 then you've got a verse for us too, don't you? 0:29:38.270 --> 0:29:42.830 I do, I do. Um, in first Peter it says 0:29:43.070 --> 0:29:47.030 chapter five, uh, first Peter chapter five, verse eight and nine, 0:29:47.150 --> 0:29:52.670 it says, be sober. Be of sober spirit. Be on 0:29:52.670 --> 0:29:56.510 the alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a 0:29:56.510 --> 0:30:01.550 roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm 0:30:01.550 --> 0:30:04.590 in your faith, knowing that the same experienced suffering is 0:30:04.630 --> 0:30:07.990 being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. 0:30:08.070 --> 0:30:09.750 So what are you supposed to do when when he 0:30:09.790 --> 0:30:11.030 seeks to devour us? 0:30:11.070 --> 0:30:13.790 It doesn't say cast out. What does it say? Resist. 0:30:13.790 --> 0:30:14.830 Don't remove. Resist. 0:30:14.830 --> 0:30:18.310 Resist, resist. And what are you supposed to be firm 0:30:18.420 --> 0:30:18.900 in your faith. 0:30:18.940 --> 0:30:20.620 Yeah, but what's the key word, though? 0:30:20.900 --> 0:30:21.700 Resist. 0:30:21.940 --> 0:30:22.060 And. 0:30:22.060 --> 0:30:25.780 Tricia. Yeah. James four seven says, therefore, submit to God. 0:30:26.020 --> 0:30:29.140 But resist the devil and he will flee from you. 0:30:29.580 --> 0:30:31.940 And then verse eight says, draw near to God, and 0:30:31.940 --> 0:30:33.220 he will draw near to you. 0:30:33.540 --> 0:30:35.100 Yeah. Okay. But resist. 0:30:35.100 --> 0:30:36.340 The devil, and he will flee from. 0:30:36.340 --> 0:30:40.740 You. Exactly. So when we talk about spiritual warfare, Ephesians 0:30:40.740 --> 0:30:44.860 six first Peter five James four, it's not remove the 0:30:44.860 --> 0:30:47.420 devil and then you won't sin. What is. 0:30:47.420 --> 0:30:48.020 It? 0:30:48.140 --> 0:30:53.220 Resist, resist, resist. Stand against. And how do we resist? 0:30:53.260 --> 0:30:55.980 We resist with the Word of God. We can even 0:30:55.980 --> 0:30:58.220 quote it. We can resist. 0:30:58.340 --> 0:31:00.940 Well, and that's what Jesus did at his temptation. Exactly. 0:31:00.980 --> 0:31:02.260 He quoted the word of God back. 0:31:02.380 --> 0:31:05.740 And we can resist, uh, by putting on the armor 0:31:05.740 --> 0:31:08.500 of God. Uh, there are so many things we can do, 0:31:08.500 --> 0:31:11.100 but what we can't do is we can't cast out 0:31:11.100 --> 0:31:18.920 the flesh. But we can resist the enemy. So that's, uh, 0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:21.239 by the way, I just think that's one of the 0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:24.640 great lessons that we. It's easy to say, I was 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:26.400 just going to cast out this demon, and then I 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:29.760 won't have the, you know, problem with gluttony anymore. No. 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:31.840 Go on a diet. There we go. 0:31:32.280 --> 0:31:37.200 So thank you for that question, David. Related to this, 0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:39.560 Sharon wrote us on Facebook and wanted to know what 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:42.520 the reasoning behind the order of putting on each piece 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:46.560 of the armor of God is in Ephesians six. Um, 0:31:46.560 --> 0:31:50.120 she has prayed, starting head to toe, but that doesn't 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:52.400 seem to be what the Bible is teaching. Can you 0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:54.880 kind of go through what the. Is there a reasoning 0:31:54.880 --> 0:31:57.920 behind the order in Ephesians six verses 13? 0:31:58.000 --> 0:31:59.960 Well, I'm not sure if the I can say that 0:31:59.960 --> 0:32:02.600 there's an exact order, but I think when it says 0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:06.120 put on the armor of God, wouldn't you say it's 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:10.160 much more of a practical lifestyle than praying something on? 0:32:10.160 --> 0:32:15.700 We don't pray on the armor. What we do is, Uh, 0:32:15.700 --> 0:32:19.820 it says stand or, uh, the idea of resist against stand, 0:32:19.820 --> 0:32:24.700 therefore with truth like a belt. So what we need 0:32:24.700 --> 0:32:26.900 to do is live our lives based on the truth, 0:32:27.940 --> 0:32:34.260 and then, uh, righteousness. Like armor. Like armor on your chest. 0:32:34.340 --> 0:32:38.660 We have to, uh, I think, experience righteousness, which would 0:32:38.660 --> 0:32:42.780 be justification by faith in Jesus and then living in 0:32:42.780 --> 0:32:46.420 accordance with that. Uh, and have our feet. You can 0:32:46.420 --> 0:32:49.620 go through it sandaled with readiness of the gospel. So 0:32:49.620 --> 0:32:51.420 we have to be ready to go and tell anyone 0:32:51.420 --> 0:32:56.580 about Jesus. These are lifestyle situations. So often people think, 0:32:56.580 --> 0:33:00.020 if I just pray this, then I'm safe in in 0:33:00.020 --> 0:33:07.740 spiritual warfare. No, this requires a lifestyle that affects how we, 0:33:07.740 --> 0:33:11.860 the way we live, is how we will be successful 0:33:11.980 --> 0:33:13.020 in spiritual warfare. 0:33:13.060 --> 0:33:14.930 Yeah, and I think it think it has to do 0:33:14.930 --> 0:33:18.010 just exactly like you say that it is. It is 0:33:18.010 --> 0:33:21.130 a lifestyle that allows us to stand firm. I think 0:33:21.130 --> 0:33:23.210 that's that's the big word that we see over here 0:33:23.210 --> 0:33:23.850 in this. 0:33:24.050 --> 0:33:25.250 Which is related to the word. 0:33:25.250 --> 0:33:29.290 Resist. The word resist. Right. And I don't think that 0:33:29.290 --> 0:33:31.530 it's like you say, it's not like a, it's not 0:33:31.530 --> 0:33:35.010 like a, a code for how you should be, what 0:33:35.010 --> 0:33:36.850 you should do for a second and third. I think 0:33:36.850 --> 0:33:38.890 these are all things that should be done all the time. 0:33:38.890 --> 0:33:42.010 Normal lifestyle, normal lifestyle. What I think is so funny 0:33:42.010 --> 0:33:44.770 is that people would like I think this is just 0:33:44.850 --> 0:33:47.970 my nature. I'm not trying to criticize others. I would 0:33:47.970 --> 0:33:50.250 like an easy answer to the issue of sin. 0:33:51.170 --> 0:33:51.770 Yes, I. 0:33:51.770 --> 0:33:53.690 Would like I would like it. Just, you know, if 0:33:53.690 --> 0:33:54.330 I just. 0:33:54.370 --> 0:33:56.370 Take this pill and you won't see anymore, I. 0:33:56.370 --> 0:33:59.250 Just pray on this, this, these things and I'll be 0:33:59.290 --> 0:34:03.010 I'll be good, you know? But this is talking about 0:34:03.130 --> 0:34:07.810 having a transformed life, which happens through prayer, I think 0:34:07.850 --> 0:34:11.930 is one of those spiritual disciplines, but other spiritual disciplines 0:34:11.930 --> 0:34:15.920 as well that as we practice spiritual disciplines, God uses 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:19.080 that so that we can live a righteous life as 0:34:19.080 --> 0:34:22.640 we do. As we practice spiritual disciplines and seek openings 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:25.160 to share the gospel, we have our feet shod with 0:34:25.160 --> 0:34:26.440 the gospel of peace. 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.719 So I think another thing that's interesting about this passage 0:34:28.719 --> 0:34:32.920 is that it it it's so many of these different 0:34:32.920 --> 0:34:36.719 items are quotations from the book of Isaiah. Oh, yeah. 0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:39.520 I think that is very interesting too, because it shows that, 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:41.760 you know, all the Bible is important, all the Bible 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:43.920 is applicable. We need to spend time in it to 0:34:43.920 --> 0:34:46.080 get to know him in order to stand firm. 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:48.319 I think sometimes Paul was reading Isaiah when he wrote 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:49.280 that I wonder too. 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:50.280 So anyway. 0:34:51.440 --> 0:34:53.799 But yeah, that's that's I think the key I've heard 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:55.920 many people say just pray on the armor of God. Well, 0:34:55.920 --> 0:34:57.839 you can do it. It's not going to help. What 0:34:57.840 --> 0:35:00.040 you have to do is live the armor of God. 0:35:00.480 --> 0:35:04.880 And that comes with, uh, practicing spiritual disciplines. 0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:06.440 All right. Thank you for that. 0:35:06.480 --> 0:35:08.360 Yeah. Let's take a break. All right. We're going to 0:35:08.360 --> 0:35:15.100 come back with more of your questions In just a moment. Uh, 0:35:15.100 --> 0:35:18.100 this is open line. It's an old mailbag program, so 0:35:18.100 --> 0:35:20.580 you can't call today. But even right down here, she's 0:35:20.580 --> 0:35:25.620 answering questions. Tricia is asking and also answering questions. Appreciate that. Uh, 0:35:25.620 --> 0:35:28.020 and I'm going to be right back. I'm Michael Ray Dominic. 0:35:28.060 --> 0:35:29.940 You're listening to open I. We're all going to be back. 0:35:30.140 --> 0:35:47.140 So don't go away. Welcome back to Open Line. Tricia 0:35:47.140 --> 0:35:49.500 McMillan is here with me. I'm Michael Ray Melnick, and 0:35:49.500 --> 0:35:52.420 Trish is asking the questions you've sent in. Eva Ray 0:35:52.860 --> 0:35:56.540 is here as well. Answering questions with me. She is 0:35:57.020 --> 0:36:02.100 my my ultimate kitchen table partner. 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One from Gordon in Florida, 0:37:18.750 --> 0:37:23.990 who are both trying to talk with friends about their faith. 0:37:24.469 --> 0:37:28.589 And their friends are raising concerns and saying that the 0:37:28.590 --> 0:37:31.830 Bible is untrustworthy because it's been edited so many times 0:37:31.830 --> 0:37:34.430 that you can't trust what it says, or that they've 0:37:34.430 --> 0:37:37.150 made up stuff after the fact that's been put into 0:37:37.150 --> 0:37:41.469 the Bible. Um, how could they respond to this? And 0:37:41.469 --> 0:37:44.149 are there any resources you would recommend that would help 0:37:44.190 --> 0:37:47.390 assess the accuracy of the Bible to show that inerrancy 0:37:47.390 --> 0:37:48.670 and that it's trustworthy? 0:37:49.550 --> 0:37:52.669 Well, I'm going to just say Eva's like she's so 0:37:52.670 --> 0:37:57.270 big on history and geography. And yeah. 0:37:57.870 --> 0:38:00.350 I think that's one of the reasons that we can 0:38:00.350 --> 0:38:02.790 have real confidence in our faith is because it is 0:38:02.989 --> 0:38:07.190 based in time and history, geography. But as far as 0:38:07.190 --> 0:38:10.180 the as the manuscripts themselves, the reliability of the manuscripts. 0:38:10.260 --> 0:38:12.020 I'll just talk about the Old Testament for just a minute. 0:38:12.060 --> 0:38:14.100 Michael can maybe pick it up on the new. But 0:38:14.100 --> 0:38:17.180 I think one of the greatest evidences for the reliability 0:38:17.180 --> 0:38:19.620 and accuracy of the scriptures as we have it was 0:38:19.620 --> 0:38:23.219 the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. And they were 0:38:23.219 --> 0:38:28.180 discovered in 1947, in Qumran by the Dead Sea. And 0:38:28.380 --> 0:38:32.540 those manuscripts that had been hidden there before the Roman 0:38:32.540 --> 0:38:37.700 destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. these manuscripts date back to, say, 0:38:37.739 --> 0:38:44.420 200 BC, B.C., 200 years before the Messiah came. They 0:38:44.620 --> 0:38:47.860 are virtually the manuscripts that have been found and translated 0:38:47.860 --> 0:38:50.859 word for word, for the documents that we have in 0:38:50.860 --> 0:38:53.700 our Bibles today. They're very little. 0:38:53.700 --> 0:38:57.860 Difference. And before that, the earliest Old Testament was like. 0:38:58.140 --> 0:38:59.180 About 1100 A.D.. 0:38:59.180 --> 0:39:01.620 Yeah, about a thousand, let's say. So. So it threw 0:39:01.620 --> 0:39:05.219 back the manuscripts more than a thousand years. And they're 0:39:05.219 --> 0:39:05.500 still the. 0:39:05.500 --> 0:39:06.640 Same, and they're the same. 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:09.359 So there wasn't any corruption that was happening. Now you 0:39:09.360 --> 0:39:12.240 could find there's a textual variant or this or that, 0:39:12.239 --> 0:39:14.319 but that's the great thing. One of the reasons why 0:39:14.320 --> 0:39:17.279 the New Testament, I could say is accurate is that 0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:22.319 we have so many manuscripts. Right? And with all these manuscripts, 0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:26.040 you can see the variants. But even when there's a variant, 0:39:26.040 --> 0:39:29.960 it's so textual criticism, it only affects less than 1% 0:39:29.960 --> 0:39:33.600 of the New Testament in terms of anything. And even 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:36.840 then it's so easy. So it might be something about 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:40.800 it might say our or your and they are used synonymously. 0:39:40.800 --> 0:39:44.200 That's a good bit of the differences. And then there 0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:47.480 are things when we look at those manuscripts, if I 0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:52.040 sent you ten notes written by ten students and they 0:39:52.040 --> 0:39:56.840 all say, happy birthday, Tricia, and each one spells happy 0:39:56.840 --> 0:40:00.400 birthday wrong, but in a different way. Okay, we still 0:40:00.400 --> 0:40:03.560 know what the original note that they copied said, which 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:06.739 was happy birthday. Happy birthday. And that's what we have. 0:40:06.780 --> 0:40:10.259 We have so many variants with the New Testament, so 0:40:10.260 --> 0:40:13.020 many manuscripts. When we put them all together, we know 0:40:13.020 --> 0:40:17.380 what this original was. So it is accurate and strong. 0:40:17.739 --> 0:40:19.339 Yeah. If there are two, two books that you want 0:40:19.340 --> 0:40:21.100 to think about that you might want to pick up 0:40:21.100 --> 0:40:25.180 and read for yourself. It's one is seven Reasons Why 0:40:25.180 --> 0:40:28.100 We Can Trust the Bible by Doctor Erwin Lutzer, published 0:40:28.100 --> 0:40:30.540 by Moody Press. And if you want to go publishers, 0:40:30.580 --> 0:40:34.300 Moody publishers. I'm living in the past. Yeah. And and 0:40:34.300 --> 0:40:37.380 also Josh McDowell's book on evidence that a man's verdict 0:40:37.380 --> 0:40:39.900 has a very strong presentation of the reliability of the 0:40:39.900 --> 0:40:41.859 New Testament and Old Testament text, the. 0:40:41.860 --> 0:40:43.299 New evidence that demands a. 0:40:43.300 --> 0:40:47.060 Verdict, the new evidence. Because that's a revised version, right? Okay. 0:40:47.180 --> 0:40:50.100 The new evidence that demands a verdict by Josh McDowell 0:40:50.340 --> 0:40:52.979 and seven reasons Why we can trust the Bible by 0:40:53.020 --> 0:40:56.939 Erwin Lutzer. Mhm. Okay. All right. Thank you for that. 0:40:56.940 --> 0:40:59.859 Our next question is kind of related. Um, James in 0:40:59.860 --> 0:41:04.130 South Carolina says Paul states to Timothy that all scripture 0:41:04.370 --> 0:41:07.969 is given by inspiration of God. But it seems he 0:41:07.969 --> 0:41:11.290 could have only been referring to the Old Testament, right? 0:41:11.810 --> 0:41:14.529 So based on that, he's in the New Testament because 0:41:14.530 --> 0:41:17.049 otherwise it's a source quoting a source. But why do 0:41:17.050 --> 0:41:21.250 we assume then, that the New Testament is inspired? Um, 0:41:21.290 --> 0:41:24.009 and then do we have evidence that God guided the 0:41:24.050 --> 0:41:27.689 hands when selecting the canon? So when when determining which 0:41:27.690 --> 0:41:31.330 books went into the Bible, how do we know that that's. 0:41:31.370 --> 0:41:34.410 Well, one of the things that that one of my 0:41:34.410 --> 0:41:39.930 favorite verses in First Peter is where Peter talks about 0:41:39.930 --> 0:41:46.410 Paul's writings and what he says. Let's see. 0:41:46.450 --> 0:41:47.290 Second Peter three. 0:41:47.450 --> 0:41:55.170 Second Peter three. Yeah. Verse 16. Uh, he says uh, 0:41:55.170 --> 0:41:57.850 about uh, just as our dear brother Paul has written 0:41:57.850 --> 0:42:01.370 to you, according to the wisdom given to him, he 0:42:01.370 --> 0:42:05.120 speaks about these things in all his letters, in which 0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:08.879 there are some matters that are hard to understand. Well, yeah, 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:13.040 I've read Romans. There are hard things in there. Uh, 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:18.719 the untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, 0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:22.760 as they also do with the rest of the scriptures. 0:42:22.880 --> 0:42:27.360 So what is Peter doing with Paul's writings? He's equating 0:42:27.360 --> 0:42:30.719 them with the rest of the scriptures. So here we 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:35.440 have a very early epistle by the Apostle Peter, and 0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:40.760 he recognizes the Apostle Paul's writings as Scripture. And so, 0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:43.359 you know, when Paul says, all Scripture is inspired, whether 0:42:43.360 --> 0:42:47.120 he was just mainly talking about the Old Testament or not, uh, 0:42:47.120 --> 0:42:52.560 that's one thing. But he also is included in Scripture 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:59.680 himself by the apostle Paul. Uh, Peter, Apostle Peter. Right. So, uh, 0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:02.700 I think that is one of the things that is 0:43:02.700 --> 0:43:05.259 really important to see that the whole New Testament was 0:43:05.260 --> 0:43:08.380 considered inspired. Uh, and. 0:43:08.420 --> 0:43:11.459 Yes, and also like really early in this, in this 0:43:11.460 --> 0:43:15.700 very chapter, the first couple verses of Second Peter three says, 0:43:15.700 --> 0:43:17.900 this is now beloved, the second letter I am writing 0:43:17.900 --> 0:43:20.420 to you, in which I am stirring up your sincere 0:43:20.420 --> 0:43:23.859 mind by way of a reminder that you should remember 0:43:23.860 --> 0:43:27.540 the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets. That'd be 0:43:27.540 --> 0:43:30.180 like the Old Testament, right? And the commandment of the 0:43:30.180 --> 0:43:34.620 Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles. So it's linking 0:43:34.660 --> 0:43:39.980 the the reliability and scriptural nature of the Old and 0:43:39.980 --> 0:43:41.060 New Testament. Yeah. 0:43:41.100 --> 0:43:43.820 And then Paul writes, this is kind of interesting because 0:43:43.860 --> 0:43:48.180 in first Timothy. Uh, second Timothy 316, we've got that 0:43:48.180 --> 0:43:50.460 he's talking about the Old Testament. But in first Timothy 0:43:50.500 --> 0:43:56.580 518 he says, uh, for the Scripture says, do not 0:43:56.580 --> 0:43:58.900 muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. 0:43:58.900 --> 0:43:59.000 Green. 0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:04.040 That's actually Deuteronomy 25 four is from the Torah, and 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:09.360 the worker is worthy of his wages. That's Luke ten seven. 0:44:09.840 --> 0:44:13.239 So what Paul is saying, the Scripture says, what does 0:44:13.239 --> 0:44:19.720 he include both Old Testament and New Testament? So that's important. 0:44:20.200 --> 0:44:22.640 All right. And then what, um, how do we know? 0:44:22.640 --> 0:44:25.520 Do we have evidence that when selecting the canon and 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:28.840 the books that belong in there, that God was guiding 0:44:28.840 --> 0:44:30.280 the hands that did that? 0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:32.000 Well, it just seems to me. 0:44:32.000 --> 0:44:33.400 How do you know when a book is in the 0:44:33.440 --> 0:44:37.200 canon is if it's inspired? And when the books were written, 0:44:37.200 --> 0:44:41.680 they were immediately received by the churches as inspired scripture. 0:44:41.680 --> 0:44:43.520 And that's what what it was. So that by the 0:44:43.520 --> 0:44:46.480 time you come to the late fourth century, when Athanasius 0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:49.960 gives his Easter letter, he is not determining the canon. 0:44:50.080 --> 0:44:52.359 He is recognizing what has been the canon. You can 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:54.920 see it, by the way, the Church Fathers have quoted 0:44:54.920 --> 0:44:57.600 the scriptures and they recognize the New Testament. They quote 0:44:57.710 --> 0:45:00.470 virtually every New Testament book as scripture. Okay. 0:45:00.830 --> 0:45:03.030 Let me just say, I encourage you to pick up 0:45:04.750 --> 0:45:07.230 Pastor Luther's book on the seven reasons why we can 0:45:07.230 --> 0:45:11.190 trust the Bible and understand what he's saying there. And 0:45:11.190 --> 0:45:14.270 don't look to Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code 0:45:14.270 --> 0:45:17.350 for the origin of the canon or any of that, 0:45:17.350 --> 0:45:21.030 because Dan Brown and Da Vinci Code completely, completely wrong. Mhm. 0:45:21.070 --> 0:45:22.469 All right. Thank you. 0:45:22.510 --> 0:45:23.270 Yeah. 0:45:23.270 --> 0:45:25.629 Well do you want to try and squeeze this. 0:45:25.630 --> 0:45:26.870 I'll answer so quick. 0:45:27.030 --> 0:45:30.710 Okay. Sharon in Indiana wants to say she appreciates the program. 0:45:30.710 --> 0:45:35.830 Matthew 121 Joseph is directed to name the baby Jesus. Um, 0:45:35.830 --> 0:45:38.670 and it cites Isaiah where the name they're supposed to 0:45:38.670 --> 0:45:41.430 name him is Emmanuel. Why do we address him as 0:45:41.430 --> 0:45:42.950 Jesus instead of Emmanuel? 0:45:43.710 --> 0:45:47.670 Well, Emmanuel was a throne title, just like in second 0:45:47.670 --> 0:45:52.189 Samuel 1224, Solomon was given the throne title of Jedidiah 0:45:52.190 --> 0:45:58.540 or Friend of God. So that Is is why Immanuel 0:45:58.540 --> 0:46:01.140 is a throne title, but Jesus is the personal name 0:46:01.140 --> 0:46:02.739 that he was to give. But let me just say, 0:46:02.739 --> 0:46:05.739 Jesus as the Messiah is still Emmanuel, not just at 0:46:05.739 --> 0:46:08.180 Christmas time. He is always God with us if we 0:46:08.180 --> 0:46:10.100 put our trust in him. If we believe that he 0:46:10.100 --> 0:46:12.980 died for our sins and rose again, he will be 0:46:12.980 --> 0:46:16.260 Messiah in us. He will live in us and never 0:46:16.260 --> 0:46:20.100 leave us. That's the good news, isn't it? Well, we're 0:46:20.100 --> 0:46:24.340 going to say goodbye now. Yes. Can't believe the program 0:46:24.340 --> 0:46:26.900 is over. But it is. Keep in touch with open line. 0:46:26.940 --> 0:46:29.540 First of all, thanks, Eva. Thanks, Trish, for for joining 0:46:29.540 --> 0:46:33.259 for this day. And also check out our website open 0:46:33.260 --> 0:46:36.260 Line radio.org has all the links you're looking for. Keep 0:46:36.260 --> 0:46:39.980 reading the Bible. We'll talk about it next week. Open 0:46:39.980 --> 0:46:43.580 line with Doctor Michael is a production of Moody Radio, 0:46:43.580 --> 0:46:46.940 a ministry of Moody Bible Institute. See you next week.