WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:10.560 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey everybody we're gonna dive 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:17.200 into a rapid fire session which is very cool. This is unrehearsed where you send me 4 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:22.480 questions and I'm gonna answer them without preparation and without any 5 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.840 pre-knowledge whatsoever and I hope it's a blessing to you. So let's dive in, 6 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:28.760 let's see what happens. Let's go. 7 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:38.840 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:45.240 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:51.960 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes, 10 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:57.480 then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has 11 00:00:57.480 --> 00:01:05.080 to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Hey everybody we are back to a rapid fire podcast together. 12 00:01:05.080 --> 00:01:11.800 Rapid fire is where you send me questions. I am not aware of the questions. There's no rehearsal 13 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:18.600 of the questions. It is raw. It is real and hopefully very beneficial. Here's how they came about. 14 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:24.120 I did ask recently, hey we've got a rapid fire session coming up in one of our podcasts. We 15 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:30.200 would love for you to shoot us some questions and those questions came in but not to me. They came 16 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:39.080 into the producers here of the jackhibbs show and that's how this comes about and so all of this 17 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:47.160 with hopes of it answering your questions and really explaining that which is relatable today 18 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:54.120 and what's going on. Now again, your questions could be anything from is the earth flat 19 00:01:55.080 --> 00:02:01.880 to capital punishment. I don't know what it's going to be but I'll do my best and I think the 20 00:02:01.880 --> 00:02:07.400 rule is this. Is the rule one minute? So the rule is I have to answer it in one minute and do 21 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:15.000 the best I can at that. Some of the questions I'm guessing at a time like this, at the time of 22 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:23.400 this recording, we're just here at the end of September right now and so some of the things, 23 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.800 if I have the time, I'm going to direct you. If I've answered some of the questions more in 24 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:35.160 death, either in interviews or a message or a previous podcast, then I'm going to direct you to 25 00:02:35.160 --> 00:02:42.280 further study about that further study. You can look into it to get more detail. So Lord help 26 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:50.600 us, Lord help me, but may this be a time of growth and and a greater awareness of the value 27 00:02:50.600 --> 00:02:56.520 and of the perfection of your Bible in Jesus name. Amen. All right, guys, first question. 28 00:02:57.880 --> 00:03:02.120 When the rapture happens, will backsliders and prodigals be raptured too? 29 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:11.080 When the rapture happens, will backsliders and prodigals go up as well? Yes, they go up. 30 00:03:11.160 --> 00:03:18.840 They go up because listen, the rapture being caught up and found worthy to go up is not a 31 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:23.240 worthy question. It's an ashamed question. The Bible says that we should walk and be ready and be 32 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:28.920 watching less than he comes, we be ashamed. It doesn't say that the prodigal or the backsliders 33 00:03:28.920 --> 00:03:36.760 not going up, it means that they are going to be ashamed that is coming. There's no rapture 34 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:42.600 qualifications other than this to be born again. Can you be born again and be a backslider? Yes, 35 00:03:42.600 --> 00:03:47.240 you cannot be a backslider without being born again. But if you're backsliding and the rapture 36 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:53.160 takes place, are you left behind? No, you're just ashamed on the way up because you wasted your time. 37 00:03:54.360 --> 00:04:01.720 Hopefully that makes sense. Time. All right, if you can only use one old Testament book to 38 00:04:01.720 --> 00:04:07.960 demonstrate that Jesus's birth, death, and resurrection were prophesied, which book would it be? 39 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:15.080 Genesis chapter 3 verse 15. Genesis 3 15. It's God speaking to Satan, Adam and Eve are listening, 40 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:22.600 and the Lord lays out the plan of salvation, and the Savior will be of divine birth. That's why the 41 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:30.920 S is capital in seed of the woman that from Eve's genealogy, from Eve's humanity, the Messiah will 42 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:38.360 come and he will destroy, crush the head of Satan, and Satan will crush the heel of the Messiah that 43 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:46.920 is inflict pain. Of course he did, but the victory is Satan loses, Christ redeems us, and mankind 44 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:52.200 is rescued from their sins, all wrapped up in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15. 45 00:04:54.600 --> 00:05:00.440 When we die, do we go straight to heaven? Some people say we are asleep until the second coming. 46 00:05:00.440 --> 00:05:05.880 Yes, some people are taught bad theology. Number one, to be absent from the bodies to be present 47 00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:12.680 with the Lord, in the book of Acts, Stephen's being stoned to death. He makes confession in front 48 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:18.840 of Saul of Tarsus, by the way, who remembers this. He looks up and he sees Jesus stand up at the 49 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:24.360 right hand of God the Father, no doubt to receive Stephen, and Stephen says so, and he sees it happening, 50 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:31.000 and he enters into glory. There is no such thing as soul sleep. It is a bad doctrine because it's 51 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:39.240 sloppy, sloppy theology. The body, when the body dies, the word says that Daniel, for example, 52 00:05:40.200 --> 00:05:45.000 God said, you're going to live a good old age, and you're going to sleep with your fathers. 53 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:50.440 The word is referring to the body. The body is going to be laid to rest in the earth, 54 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:58.600 but never is that spoken about the soul of the Spirit. In fact, in Luke 15 or 16, Jesus tells us 55 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:07.080 about an event where there's a man in Abraham's bosom at a time. Next, will the marriage 56 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:13.320 supper of the Lamb occur directly after the rapture during the tribulation or after the millennial 57 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:18.520 reign? There's a lot of great debates on this from great theologians on all views. 58 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:25.560 You're asking me personally, I believe based on Isaiah, chapter 26, 59 00:06:26.280 --> 00:06:32.200 Isaiah, chapter 26, I believe that the marriage supper of the Lamb takes place in heaven above 60 00:06:32.280 --> 00:06:38.200 during the tribulation period. That's my, I'm pretty sure I can argue that, but let me tell you this. 61 00:06:38.200 --> 00:06:44.440 I am not going to get upset if somebody teaches some other position because some great scholar say 62 00:06:44.440 --> 00:06:52.520 it's got to happen on earth after the second coming. Okay, I got that, but I just personally believe 63 00:06:52.520 --> 00:06:57.880 that it takes place during the tribulation period because the church is in heaven, revelation 64 00:06:57.880 --> 00:07:07.400 chapter 19, Revelation 4 verse 1, and that makes sense to me because of Isaiah 26 verses 19 to 21. 65 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:13.080 Read it later, you'll be blown away. It's pretty awesome. Isaiah 26 verses 19 to 21. Next, 66 00:07:14.760 --> 00:07:21.480 how do we find a good church? Pray. This is how you find a good church. You pray, 67 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:28.200 ask God to lead you, and then ask God to give you discernment. Number two, that's number three, 68 00:07:28.200 --> 00:07:35.880 isn't it? Pray, discernment. Number three, go to a church four weeks in a row, four consecutive weeks 69 00:07:35.880 --> 00:07:41.800 in a row before you leave to go to look at some of the church. You need to do that. Give God the 70 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:46.760 opportunity to speak to you because you know what? Maybe the pastor that day, I know how this is, 71 00:07:46.760 --> 00:07:52.680 maybe the pastor's off. He's struggling. It's been a bad study week. He's under attack himself, 72 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:58.200 and the message just doesn't come out right. Maybe the worship is weird that week. Maybe the 73 00:07:58.200 --> 00:08:02.920 greeter didn't greet you, so you're all upset, or maybe you didn't greet the greeter, and he doesn't 74 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:08.920 want you to come back. Anyway, the thing is this, give a church, any church you visit, give it four 75 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:14.760 visits in a row, asking for discernment and wisdom, and then move on, and then God will speak to you. 76 00:08:14.760 --> 00:08:19.000 He will let you know, because bottom line is this, when you show up and when you get there, you're 77 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:26.040 going to sense the presence of God. What is your stance on tithing? I've always believed it 78 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:31.160 to be 10%, but some scripture appears to apply that to priests under the law. 79 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:39.400 Yeah, listen, it's not 10%. The word tithe is what we're to give to the Lord, and if you read 80 00:08:39.400 --> 00:08:46.760 old and New Testament, it's more like 90% or 100%. When you look at the Old Testament, people, 81 00:08:46.760 --> 00:08:53.160 that's where the word tithe comes from. Originally, we are actually supposed to be giving God a lot 82 00:08:53.160 --> 00:08:58.120 more than what we keep, but we're selfish and stingy and we're creeps about that. So we say we 83 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.960 trust God, but then we hang on to our money, because that's really our savior, right? That's what's 84 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:07.240 really going to get us through at the end of the month is our money. That's wrong. So don't ever get 85 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:14.360 caught up into tithe as in 10th, because biblically, the Old Testament says, and I forget the exact 86 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:21.640 amount, but the ministry was to receive something like 30% with all of the temple worship and all 87 00:09:21.640 --> 00:09:27.320 of that, including the priests and all of that. But then in the New Testament, it's not 90%. It's 88 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:34.440 100%. It's 100%. So you say, Jack, well, how do I do? You talked to God about what the amount 89 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:38.680 should be? Here's the criteria. You have to be a cheerful giver. God told the Corinthians. You 90 00:09:38.680 --> 00:09:46.360 got to be a cheerful giver. I was a little bonus time. How did Pride begin in heaven? Where did 91 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:51.640 Lucifer get that idea? And the wretched, stinking heart of Satan, whose name was Lucifer in the 92 00:09:51.640 --> 00:09:59.000 beginning, the glorious angel crowned perfectly with the with if God could work over time on creating 93 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:09.640 angels. He did with Lucifer. Read Isaiah, chapter 28, and Ezekiel chapter. I'm forgetting. Isaiah 94 00:10:09.640 --> 00:10:21.400 28, Ezekiel something. Is it Isaiah 14? Yeah, Isaiah, maybe Ezekiel 14 or 17, Isaiah 28. I'm all 95 00:10:21.400 --> 00:10:25.800 messed up on this. Hey, forgive me. But here's the deal. The Bible tells you right then in the 96 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:30.360 scripture. It says you were perfect in all your ways until sin was found in your heart. Pride 97 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:35.800 was found in your heart. Angels worship God also like we do. That means angels have free moral 98 00:10:35.800 --> 00:10:41.000 agency, which means worship to be true has to be worshiped by choice. Satan got jealous. It tells 99 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:46.200 you in the Bible. He wanted to be like God. He wanted to have his throne established above God. He 100 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:51.640 wanted everybody to worship him. And so he had pride in his heart. And he sinned. And he was 101 00:10:51.800 --> 00:10:58.680 cast out. How old will we be in heaven? What about a baby who dies in the womb or someone who is 102 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:05.160 100 years old? How old will they be? Isaiah tells us that both in the millennium and we can 103 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:10.520 project that into into eternity. The Bible says that in the millennium, for example, where the 104 00:11:10.520 --> 00:11:17.240 millennium is the 1000 physical reign of Jesus Christ, his politics from Mount Zion in Jerusalem 105 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:22.360 at the second coming. The Bible says in the book of Isaiah that when a man dies at the age of 100, 106 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:27.560 people will mourn as though a child has died. That's during the millennium because mortals, 107 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:33.400 you and I will not be mortals at that time. They will die. But what about eternity? 108 00:11:33.400 --> 00:11:38.840 Ah, in eternity. How old will we be? Nobody knows. Some people speculate and say we're going to be 109 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:44.040 at the age of Christ. That's a good guess because I don't think we're going to have perpetual 110 00:11:44.040 --> 00:11:50.280 babies crawling around in heaven. That's that doesn't seem right. Adam and Eve were created in 111 00:11:50.280 --> 00:11:57.800 their mature state. So what if God decides that you, even if you were a miscarried child or 112 00:11:57.800 --> 00:12:02.760 an aborted child, what if in eternity, we are all of the same age? 113 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:11.400 What are your thoughts on social drinking? His alcohol fine as long as you don't get drunk. 114 00:12:11.400 --> 00:12:15.720 We just went through this in our verse by verse, chapter by chapter, Bible study in the book of 115 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:24.360 Romans, chapters of 14, 14 and 15, and it is this, nowhere does the Bible say you cannot drink. 116 00:12:24.920 --> 00:12:31.000 But the Bible does say you cannot get buzzed, you cannot get drunk. The Bible does say to somebody 117 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:37.320 who's dying, give them strong drink. Why? Well, we do that today, but we use, we use morphine, 118 00:12:37.400 --> 00:12:43.560 or we use medication to comfort people in their pain and in their dying. But look, I'm not 119 00:12:43.560 --> 00:12:48.520 advocate for drinking for this reason. Number one, I have a hard time keeping as many dendrites 120 00:12:48.520 --> 00:12:54.040 that I own alive, let alone killing 10,000 with every ounce of alcohol. The second thing is, 121 00:12:54.040 --> 00:13:00.040 we are forbidden to stumble any brother or sister publicly or maybe even at table. If you and 122 00:13:00.040 --> 00:13:04.840 your wife or you want to have a glass of wine over your spaghetti at home, that's your business, 123 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:10.280 but we can't take it outside and stumble anybody. And if we stumble anybody, then our freedom 124 00:13:10.280 --> 00:13:19.400 has become a sin and God doesn't approve of that. What are your thoughts on women preaching, 125 00:13:19.400 --> 00:13:26.680 not a pastor, but teaching and preaching? The book of Acts teaches us that women can teach, 126 00:13:26.680 --> 00:13:31.720 but they cannot use their authority over a man. Yes, Paul did say, I do not suffer a woman to 127 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:39.080 teach. That is in the context of women in the place of pastoral position and authority over 128 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:46.520 the church. That's forbidden in the Bible, but women teachers to women is fantastic. Listen, women, 129 00:13:47.880 --> 00:13:56.120 look at Ananias and Sephira, not Ananias and Sephira, sorry, Priscilla in Aquila. Priscilla was a 130 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:01.640 tremendous disciple, her and her husband, over the man Apollos, who was a great minister of the 131 00:14:01.640 --> 00:14:08.120 gospel. And they were friends of Paul as well. Listen, a woman can teach over women, a woman can 132 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:14.840 teach men in a special setting like we had Elizabeth Elliott speak at our church here several times 133 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:20.280 and she was the first one to say, Pastor Jack asked me to speak, I'm not pastor and I'm not 134 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:25.960 usurping authority. I was asked to teach or to tell all of you our life story, Jim Elliott and 135 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:33.240 myself. And so it's to be done biblically and right. But there's no such thing as a female pastor, 136 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:41.160 it's forbidden in scripture. Don't you think the bears eating the kids in second kings to 23 through 137 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:49.880 25 was a harsh punishment for calling Elisha Baldi? No, first of all, they, this is what they said to 138 00:14:50.520 --> 00:14:57.960 Elisha. They were mocking him because the ministry of Elijah had just fallen upon Elijah. 139 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:04.120 And so they're not acknowledging the authority of God in the great prophet Elisha. 140 00:15:04.920 --> 00:15:10.600 They make fun of him and they say, go up, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head, 141 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.840 another translation. Hey, you think you're such a big deal Elisha? Why don't you go up into heaven 142 00:15:14.920 --> 00:15:21.880 like Elijah did because we don't recognize your authority. And the Bible tells us that these kids 143 00:15:21.880 --> 00:15:28.200 were consumed by she bears. I love that. No, that's not harsh at all. Number one, aren't you glad you 144 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:33.960 live in the New Testament era because God could do that all day long and be justified in doing it? 145 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:40.200 No, listen, they disrespected a prophet of God was, it was like disrespecting God himself 146 00:15:40.280 --> 00:15:45.640 because prophets held that office of such reverence. And so when they made fun and made light of, 147 00:15:45.640 --> 00:15:52.120 Elijah had this event happen. God judges these kids and they're consumed. By the way, 148 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:57.720 they're not little kids. These are probably teenagers or young guys. And I think it's kind of awesome 149 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:02.440 that out of the, I would love to see that happen today. It'd be pretty cool that if somebody's 150 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:08.280 making fun of some godly man, that bears came out of the woods and ate them up. Would that be great? 151 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:15.720 Nobody would make fun of gods. Man, maybe kind of wild. How do, how do I prove using the Bible 152 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:21.640 to my adult kids that league that a legal marriage with a certificate is what they need to do? 153 00:16:22.920 --> 00:16:27.400 I think you're asking this. If somebody goes and gets a legal marriage and gets married, 154 00:16:27.400 --> 00:16:32.760 guess what? Before the state of California or the US government, they're married. It's a, 155 00:16:32.760 --> 00:16:37.640 it's a contract. They're married. They're married. What you're concerned about, I think, is, 156 00:16:37.640 --> 00:16:43.720 are they married before the Lord in a spiritual marriage? No. Unless they're believers. 157 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:53.960 So that's why, by the way, our Puritans, our Puritans in America never had ceremonies like we do 158 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:59.800 today. They were married before the magistrates because it was already assumed that they're 159 00:16:59.800 --> 00:17:06.760 walking before the Lord. So today, you can be married before a sea captain, captain of a ship, 160 00:17:06.760 --> 00:17:13.800 a judge, or a minister. And if you do that, you are, you are legally married before the state of 161 00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:18.040 California, for example. But does that mean you're married before God in the spiritual union? 162 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.920 No, because that's a spiritual event. But are you married? Legally, yes. 163 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:33.080 Are loved ones in heaven actually looking down on us? Can they see what's going on from there? 164 00:17:33.080 --> 00:17:37.720 We don't know for sure. It would be quite a bummer if your family could look down to see what 165 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:42.520 you're doing with your life and they'd be all bummed out. Or they could look down from heaven and 166 00:17:42.520 --> 00:17:47.640 see how often we mess opportunities or how carnal the church has become. They would be up in heaven 167 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:55.000 crying. That's my observation. I don't think they can see. But the book of Revelation tells us 168 00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:00.840 that those who will be beheaded during the true relation period for the gospel of Jesus Christ, 169 00:18:00.840 --> 00:18:06.920 they're very aware that there's others that will have to die and join them as well. But generally 170 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:12.680 speaking, I don't think others that have passed into heaven are aware because I think that it 171 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:19.080 would be somewhat of a chagrin to them to see what's going on here. But I can't be hard and fast 172 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:29.240 on that. I'm open to changing my mind on that. How do I handle family members that call themselves 173 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:34.600 Christians but are into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories? They don't read their Bibles. 174 00:18:35.560 --> 00:18:41.960 They can call themselves Christians all day long until they obey Jesus. I don't care who reads 175 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:46.840 their Bible. God only cares about who obeys the Bible. And is it an interesting and Matthew 176 00:18:46.840 --> 00:18:54.120 chapter 25, the criteria that Jesus will use against the world when he comes back to establishes 177 00:18:54.120 --> 00:19:01.400 kingdom is how did you treat the Jews, my brethren? Wow, Matthew 25. Go read it later. He's going to 178 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:06.840 judge the world in his second coming based upon how did you treat my brethren? And he's referring 179 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:13.800 to the Jews, not the church. That's the bride of Christ. Interesting, right? Watch out for any 180 00:19:13.800 --> 00:19:20.760 anti-Semitic sentiments because it is demonic and origin. It proves that somebody's under the sway 181 00:19:20.760 --> 00:19:26.440 of Satan's doctrines of demons and deceiving spirits. And it's going to grow. Mark my words. 182 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:32.360 Anti-Semitism is going to grow because Satan's leash is getting longer and longer as we approach 183 00:19:33.320 --> 00:19:36.760 the last days. Avoid them. Avoid them. 184 00:19:40.840 --> 00:19:47.080 Jesus said, you must be born of water and spirit. I understand the spirit part as being born 185 00:19:47.080 --> 00:19:52.280 again, but what is the water part? He actually explains it in John chapter 3. Jesus is talking 186 00:19:52.280 --> 00:19:57.880 to Nicodemus. And he's saying, hey, don't you understand this? You've got to be born of the 187 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:03.080 water and then born of the spirit. You have to be born once before you can be born twice. 188 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:09.880 The water is referring to us coming into this world from the matrix, from the womb of the mother, 189 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:14.600 the water breaks, we come into this world. It is not a reference to baptism because if it's 190 00:20:14.600 --> 00:20:19.080 a reference to baptism, then the thief on the cross didn't make it. The heaven and Jesus is 191 00:20:19.080 --> 00:20:24.280 wrong. Has nothing to do with baptism and water? It has to do with being born once. You need to be 192 00:20:24.280 --> 00:20:29.320 born twice to get into the kingdom of heaven. He's explaining to Nicodemus. Nicodemus, you came into 193 00:20:29.320 --> 00:20:34.680 this world once through your mother, born through water. The next world that you need to get into 194 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:39.720 is that you have to be born a second time by the spirit of God. Being born from above, we say 195 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:50.840 born again, that is born a second time. How do you know there are no other humans or intelligent life 196 00:20:50.840 --> 00:20:56.920 in the vast universe? What makes us so special? I think God's creation, Genesis chapter 1, 197 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:01.240 is what makes us so special. And it's just like God to establish all of the 198 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:07.640 firmament of the heavens for us to see His majesty and His glory and His beauty. It is very humbling 199 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:14.280 to realize that when you finally spot earth in the massive, massive, Milky Way, you have to say, 200 00:21:14.280 --> 00:21:17.720 what in the world is going on here? Either there's all kinds of other life out there, which is a 201 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:23.560 weird response, if you think about it, versus, wow, aren't we a humble little spec that God 202 00:21:23.560 --> 00:21:30.440 is focused as love upon? Having said that, I do not believe there's intelligent life elsewhere. 203 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.440 And by the way, I don't think we should be looking for it because we're not even intelligent enough 204 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:39.960 to figure out our own life. But the other thing is this, Jesus Christ died here. He didn't die 205 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:44.600 anywhere else. And I know that flies into face of a certain cult that ride their bikes up to your 206 00:21:44.600 --> 00:21:50.200 door, knocks on your door the shirt and tie. But this is the only one, this is the only planet. 207 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:55.240 And the other life that might be out there, can you call it life? I think it's demonic. I think 208 00:21:55.240 --> 00:22:01.080 there's deceiving spirits, spirits and angelic fallen creatures out in the other world. 209 00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:09.160 I'm 50 and just found out that my parents never baptized me or my siblings. We assume they had. 210 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:12.120 Does this mean we won't be accepted into heaven? 211 00:22:14.040 --> 00:22:18.840 Thank God you don't remember being baptized by your parents. You want to know why you would have 212 00:22:18.840 --> 00:22:25.960 only been traumatized by a little kid getting wet. You cannot be baptized by any human being 213 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:32.600 and then have that translate into your entrance into heaven, impossible. Listen to this. 214 00:22:32.600 --> 00:22:36.280 The Bible teaches that you must be baptized after you're saved. 215 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:41.720 After you're saved. So I love your question. Here's what you need to do. You need to give, 216 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:47.800 you need to go to Jesus Christ right now. Repent of your sins. Get alone with him and tell him your 217 00:22:47.800 --> 00:22:52.680 sins. Tell him that you've sinned against him. Repent of your sins. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, 218 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:58.600 the Bible says, and you shall be saved. After that happens, then go get baptized because baptism 219 00:22:58.600 --> 00:23:06.280 is a public display of a previous internal commitment. Don't ever put baptism in front of salvation. 220 00:23:06.280 --> 00:23:11.160 That's insane and a lot of religions do it and they're actually condemning people to hell 221 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.720 without them even knowing it. And again, tell me, Jesus said to the thief in the cross, 222 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:21.240 you'll be with me in paradise today. The thief in the cross was never baptized. Go figure that one 223 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:25.960 out. What if you were saved and you're driving down to the beach to get baptized and you get killed? 224 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:32.040 Are you going to go to hell? Nope. You're going to go to heaven. Water baptism is a public announcement 225 00:23:32.040 --> 00:23:35.080 of a previous internal commitment. It doesn't save you. 226 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:44.280 If our days on earth are determined and ordained by God, can we cut short our days by unhealthy living 227 00:23:44.280 --> 00:23:51.480 through smoking, drinking, overeating, et cetera? Nope. You'll just be miserable. You'll be fat, 228 00:23:51.560 --> 00:24:00.040 at a shape, ugly, hurting, diabetic, plugged into a lace potato chip machine. I don't know what, 229 00:24:00.600 --> 00:24:05.720 but your day is you can't hasten the day. You can't lengthen the day. God knows the day. So 230 00:24:06.600 --> 00:24:12.280 here's my recommendation. Eat and be as healthy as you possibly can so that you're usable. That's 231 00:24:12.280 --> 00:24:19.160 the question. If God has my day numbered, shouldn't I use my body to be healthy enough so he can use 232 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:25.640 it as well? Yes, that's the answer. Take care of yourself. God gave you this body to manage into 233 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:32.120 steward over. Don't do things that are going to hurt you and live for the glory of God. Hope that 234 00:24:32.120 --> 00:24:37.720 answers your question because it's that simple. Take care of yourself so God can use you. Don't take 235 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:42.760 care of yourself and you're going to rot away until your day arrives and that's a crummy way to live. 236 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:51.400 Crummy, chips, potato, crumbs, bread, cupcakes and cookies. 237 00:24:54.440 --> 00:25:01.160 Can you explain agnostic versus atheist views? Yeah, listen, I have more respect for an atheist 238 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:08.040 than I do in agnostic. Agnostic, the word agnostic comes from the word ignoramus. Ignoramus means 239 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:14.760 to believe that there can be something known, but you choose not to believe it, thus the word ignoramus 240 00:25:14.760 --> 00:25:19.800 or we use the word agnostic. It means, yeah, you know what? There's probably a God out there, 241 00:25:19.800 --> 00:25:25.000 but I refuse to know him versus the atheist. The atheist really believes that there's no God out 242 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.720 there. At least he's kind of sure he's there's no God out there. There's no there's more hope for 243 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:35.400 an atheist to come to Christ than an agnostic because an agnostic acknowledges the supernatural or 244 00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:41.560 the divine, but refuses to come. That's why the word ignoramus is such a strong word. It means, 245 00:25:41.560 --> 00:25:46.440 yeah, I guess I could know about him, but I'm going to choose not to know about him and we would 246 00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:54.120 say what an ignoramus versus an atheist who says, I don't think there's a God, but I'm hoping for 247 00:25:54.120 --> 00:26:04.040 debate. There's more hope for the atheist. Don't be an ignoramus. We're on a roll now. Give me your 248 00:26:04.040 --> 00:26:09.800 best argument on why Christians should be involved in politics because if we're not involved in 249 00:26:09.800 --> 00:26:17.960 politics, lunatics will be if if there is a void and there's no good in the void, no light in the 250 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:24.760 void, no righteousness in the void, if there's nothing right and good and light and godly and 251 00:26:24.760 --> 00:26:30.120 righteous in the void, the void will be filled by the bad. All you have to do is look around at your 252 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:36.760 own town or your city. Notice whenever good people do not get involved in anything, the lunatics do. 253 00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:43.720 Bad people do evil takes over. For example, look at Minnesota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 254 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:50.680 even Texas. How are they going so Islamic because good people refuse to do good? Good people 255 00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:55.400 don't get involved. They say, I'm not going to get involved in politics. Well, guess what? Muslims 256 00:26:55.400 --> 00:27:01.000 say, all right, we will. And we're going to wind up changing your government and throwing you 257 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:06.440 out. And if you think I'm kidding, kidding, go look at what the mayor of Dearborn just did to 258 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:12.040 that Christian guy who questioned Sharia law. The mayor said, get out of town. 259 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:22.200 Where was Lazarus when he died? Did Jesus said he was only sleeping, but he was raised from the dead? 260 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:28.680 Yeah, Lazarus body was sleeping. Lazarus was in fact dead. In fact, the whole, if you read 261 00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:33.640 the scripture in John's gospel, Jesus made sure that he didn't show up until Lazarus was dead 262 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:38.760 and buried. Why? Because Jesus was going to perform a miracle and he knew it. So where was Lazarus? 263 00:27:38.760 --> 00:27:44.600 If anything, Lazarus would have been with Abraham for a momentary time. Abraham is called Abraham's 264 00:27:44.600 --> 00:27:49.320 bosom. And I'm sorry, I don't remember this, but it's in either Luke 15 or Luke chapter 16, 265 00:27:49.320 --> 00:27:55.400 chapter 15 or chapter 16 of Luke's gospel. Lazarus would have been there, but only momentarily. 266 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:05.960 Because Jesus said Lazarus come forth. And Lazarus came out when it refers to his body sleeping. 267 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:13.080 That's exactly all that means is that he is body. Soma looks as though it's sleeping. 268 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:21.320 But the spirit never sleeps. Our souls in spirit never sleep. So hopefully that answers your question. 269 00:28:24.600 --> 00:28:31.160 Who do you believe wrote Hebrews and why? Yeah, I've tried so hard teaching the book of Hebrews 270 00:28:31.160 --> 00:28:35.960 for the last four years or so on Wednesday nights to avoid, even though I've slipped a few times. 271 00:28:36.760 --> 00:28:42.520 There's a lot of good theories, but none of them are as good as Paul himself, Paul the Apostle. 272 00:28:42.520 --> 00:28:47.400 Why? Because when it comes to theology, when you begin to dissect the word usage, 273 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:55.400 what the writer assumes the readers know, it's very what is known as Pauline. It's very Pauline 274 00:28:55.400 --> 00:29:02.120 and its structure. And even at the end of the book of Hebrews chapter 13, he begins to end his 275 00:29:02.120 --> 00:29:08.040 wonderful theological treaty by saying to them that I hope to see you soon. I hope to come to 276 00:29:08.040 --> 00:29:14.600 you soon. That's very Paul-like in his epistles. I believe Paul wrote it, but listen, 277 00:29:14.600 --> 00:29:19.800 for whatever reason God didn't want us to know, or else we would have known. But if it's written 278 00:29:19.800 --> 00:29:25.400 to the Hebrews and it is, it makes sense that they would have automatically assumed that they knew 279 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:32.440 that a Hebrew is writing to them about being a Hebrew believer in Yeshua Hamashia, Jesus as the 280 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:42.760 Hebrew Messiah. Is it true you believe in all millennialism? What is your definition of that? 281 00:29:42.760 --> 00:29:49.400 How in the world did you ever come to the conclusion that I believe in all millennialism? I don't 282 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:55.560 know where you're at or what you're watching or listening to? I condemn all millennialism. I'm not 283 00:29:55.560 --> 00:30:04.680 a Catholic. I'm not a Lutheran. All millennialism is a doctrine of demons, in my opinion. All millennialism 284 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:12.120 means Jesus Christ is not coming back to establishes kingdom for a thousand years. I am a pre-millennialist 285 00:30:12.120 --> 00:30:19.080 which means Jesus Christ returns ahead of his 1000 year reign. So you read wrong, you listened wrong 286 00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:27.880 or you're reading the wrong internet crazies. Listen, mark it down. I am a futurist, pre-millennialist, 287 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:39.160 pre-tribulational, pre-rapture, literalist when it comes to the Bible. So watch out what you read. 288 00:30:42.360 --> 00:30:47.720 If someone is dying but can no longer speak, can they accept Jesus Christ without actually 289 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:54.680 speaking his name and just thinking it? Absolutely, yes. Thank God, right? Thank God. You say, 290 00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:58.680 yeah, but if you confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall be saved. Listen, 291 00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:03.640 there's God's grace is in there. How many people who have been in a coma? Could not speak, 292 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:08.840 could not move? And when they revive, they tell us, I heard everything that happened the whole time. 293 00:31:08.840 --> 00:31:14.760 I was locked in my body. Well, what if somebody's in a coma and they cannot speak? But somebody's 294 00:31:14.760 --> 00:31:19.080 sharing with them alongside the bed. And by the way, if you know anybody in a coma, you better go 295 00:31:19.080 --> 00:31:24.440 to them now and share the gospel with them and tell them because many times people in a coma 296 00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:30.600 can hear, but they can't respond. God knows their heart. He knows if they're saying yes to him. 297 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:35.480 You think just because they want to say yes, oh, I'd love to say yes, but my mouth won't work. 298 00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:40.280 I guess I'm going to hell. Come on, let's cut God some slack. He's much more gracious than we are. 299 00:31:40.280 --> 00:31:50.280 Last question. What does revival mean and what does a spiritual awakening mean? 300 00:31:50.280 --> 00:31:57.320 Revival means, okay, we can't have revival unless you have vive. I'm not joking. This is true. 301 00:31:57.320 --> 00:32:08.120 Vive. What is Vive? Vive is the word for life. Revive is relife or to have relife again. 302 00:32:09.080 --> 00:32:16.680 Revival is only exclusively reserved for the individual believer and the church. 303 00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:25.400 It does not apply to the unchurched or the unbeliever. But we know from history that an awakening 304 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:32.360 is when people are provoked in their heart, unexplainably, supernaturally, not by any human 305 00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:39.960 resource where they begin to think thoughts like this. I'm a sinner. I'm going to hell. I'm lost. 306 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.600 I need to be saved. I need to be rescued. Where do I go? Oh God, help me. And they call out to 307 00:32:44.600 --> 00:32:51.880 God the loss become saved in an awakening. The loss come to Christ in an awakening. And the church 308 00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:58.040 returns back to Christ in this order. This is how it's gone historically. The church is revived. 309 00:32:58.040 --> 00:33:04.840 The church becomes beautiful and holy and pure and equipped. And when the awakening takes place, 310 00:33:04.840 --> 00:33:11.160 the people who are lost get saved by going to a church that's alive. That's how it works, folks. 311 00:33:11.160 --> 00:33:18.200 So are we in the midst of a revival? We don't know yet. We will not know if we're in the midst of a 312 00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:28.280 revival until the church is righteous and holy and she becomes attractive to the lost that 313 00:33:28.280 --> 00:33:34.520 experience awakening because God will bring the lost to a church that's saved so that they too 314 00:33:34.520 --> 00:33:39.560 might be saved. And so that's the last question. If you guys like this, let us know 315 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:46.200 because I love it. I hope hopefully you love it. And anyway, listen, thank you for being with 316 00:33:46.760 --> 00:33:50.760 this. As always, it's a joy. 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