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00:48 Hello and welcome back to 3ABN Fall Camp Meeting
00:53 2018. I'm so excited to be here
00:56 with the chairman of our board: Bruce Fjarli.
00:59 I'm Jason Bradley and we have a wonderful panel
01:03 where they will be answering questions - Bible questions -
01:08 that have been submitted by some of you
01:11 and some of the viewers at home.
01:13 So we have Pastor John Lomacang.
01:16 We have Pastor C.A. Murray.
01:18 We have Shelley Quinn and we have Pastor Ryan Day.
01:23 So... Bruce, are you going to ask our first question?
01:27 It's good to be here with everyone here
01:29 and everyone at home.
01:31 Our first question is for the panel, and panel:
01:34 we've gotta go quick 'cause we have a lot of questions.
01:38 Where is it in the Bible written
01:40 "to strengthen your unbelief? "
01:44 Where is it written in the Bible
01:46 "to strengthen your unbelief. "
01:49 In one of the gospels... I know that.
01:53 I think the problem is that the text doesn't read
01:56 "strengthen your unbelief. "
01:58 Someone asked "strengthen my unbelief. "
02:02 I think that's what we're dealing with.
02:04 Well I think the quote is when he said: "Lord, I believe.
02:07 Help Thou my unbelief. "
02:10 Yeah... so...
02:12 I don't think that we can strengthen our own belief.
02:15 That's in Mark 9:24.
02:17 There you go... thank you. Mark 9:24.
02:21 Mark 9:24 and the Bible reads as follows.
02:26 Here it is... Mark 9:24:
02:29 I like the fact that you guys got right to the questions.
02:33 Yeah, we have a lot of questions.
02:34 "Immediately the father of the child cried out and said
02:38 with tears: 'Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. ' "
02:42 Mark 9:24.
02:44 Technically you don't want to strengthen your unbelief.
02:47 You want to strengthen your belief.
02:49 So he asked for strength in his belief.
02:51 He had some faith... he wanted stronger faith.
02:54 And you know we really... It is God that works in us
02:59 to will and to do His good pleasure.
03:00 So He is the One we want to call on just as this man did.
03:04 "Lord, help Thou my unbelief. "
03:07 But Romans 10:17 says "Faith comes by hearing
03:12 and hearing by the Word of God. "
03:14 So if you want to strengthen your belief
03:18 get into the Word of God
03:21 and learn to claim His promises
03:24 and pray them back to Him. And you will not believe
03:28 how God will work in you to strengthen your belief.
03:32 Amen! OK, so now we have a question that says:
03:36 "Will there be a secret rapture? "
03:40 No.
03:43 Care to elaborate?
03:47 "As the sun shineth from the east to the west
03:50 so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. "
03:52 Nothing secret about the second coming of the Lord.
03:54 It will come as a thief in the night, true, but you've got to
03:56 keep on reading: "In the which the elements shall melt
04:00 with fervent heat. " So there's nothing secret
04:02 about the second coming of the Lord.
04:03 He's not trying to sneak in here.
04:05 When He comes we'll all know.
04:08 The description comes to my mind when people ask that question
04:12 first of all I rarely have some- one call it a secret rapture.
04:15 I think that's more something that we've kind of tagged
04:18 to that because that's essentially the idea
04:20 that people are communicating: the fact that Jesus is going to
04:22 come kind of quietly, very suddenly
04:25 and you know people are going to start vanishing out of nowhere.
04:29 But all through the New Testa- ment and even parts of the
04:32 Old Testament we have those texts where we are shown
04:36 the events or the details given to us pertaining to the second
04:39 coming of Jesus. One of those that stick out to me
04:42 is I Thessalonians chapter 4.
04:44 And I like to call it the loudest verse in the Bible.
04:46 This is definitely not a secret rapture or a secret coming
04:50 at all for it says here in verse 16
04:55 "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a?
04:58 shout, with the voice of an archangel, with the trump of God
05:01 and the dead... " It's going to be so loud
05:03 and non-secret that it's going to wake the dead up
05:06 because it says: "the dead in Christ will rise first.
05:09 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up
05:11 together with them in the clouds... "
05:13 So that's not secret!
05:14 "to meet the Lord in the air and thus shall we always be
05:18 with the Lord. " And I always like to read the last verse,
05:20 verse 18: "Therefore comfort one another
05:22 with these words. " It's comforting to know
05:24 that Jesus isn't going to sneak up on us.
05:26 He WILL be know when He arrives.
05:29 That's right. And Psalm 50 and verse 3
05:34 speaking about the coming of the Lord:
05:35 "Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. "
05:39 Not only will He not be silent
05:40 as pointed out by I Thessalonians
05:42 but it says: "A fire shall devour before Him
05:45 and it shall be very tempestuous all around Him. "
05:48 So you see that if He's coming back...
05:52 Why would the most important event in human history
05:57 be a silent event?
05:59 Nothing that happens in humanity...
06:01 You have the World Series, the whole world knows.
06:03 You have the NFL championship, everybody knows.
06:06 The presidency, anything that's happening in Congress,
06:09 the whole world is watching.
06:10 Why would the King of the Universe tiptoe back
06:14 when that's the most important event in human history?
06:17 That's right. He'd never come quietly.
06:19 If you read Luke's gospel of the first coming,
06:21 you've got angels, you've got a star.
06:24 He's never snuck in...
06:25 He's certainly not going to sneak in the last time.
06:27 I'm looking forward to that day. Our next question
06:30 is on forgiveness. Does Jesus forgive someone
06:33 who does not want forgiveness?
06:35 And part two... this is a two-fer...
06:38 part two is: Should we forgive someone
06:40 who does not want forgiveness?
06:46 I John 1:9: "If we confess our sins,
06:48 He is faithful and just to forgive. "
06:50 Predicated on confession.
06:54 Now that's Jesus.
06:57 We're not quite there yet
06:59 so we need to forgive for our own salvation and our own sake.
07:04 Ellen White says that one of the reasons we don't
07:06 forgive is because we carry around - she uses the term -
07:08 "a big old bucket of pride. "
07:11 That's why we don't want to for- give: because they did it to me.
07:15 And if we can get rid of our pride
07:17 and be humble as servants
07:19 we would find it a little bit easier - a LOT easier -
07:21 to forgive.
07:22 Not forgiving someone is you taking the poison
07:26 and hoping they die.
07:27 OK. And forgiveness, really,
07:31 the first thing about forgive- ness is it frees the person
07:33 who extends the forgiveness.
07:35 You know, Jesus said: "Father, forgive them, for
07:37 they know not what they do. " And we know, we can look back
07:39 now on His closing life's record,
07:41 and not say that He ended His life with malice
07:45 or with anger or with hatred.
07:47 He extended forgiveness to those who didn't even know
07:50 what they did. And a lot of times
07:52 the reason why we extend forgiveness is because people
07:54 don't understand the impact of what they've done on us.
07:57 But the person as you said, Bruce,
07:59 thank you for sharing that line,
08:01 the first person that becomes free is the one that extends
08:04 the forgiveness... because to reiterate
08:06 you can take poison all your life, and in many cases -
08:10 as a matter of fact in ALL cases -
08:12 you'll die before the other person does.
08:15 And the other thing about that: you'll carry with yourself
08:17 a burden when other people have mentally and emotionally
08:21 moved on... and you're carrying burdens.
08:24 We find people many, many years later...
08:26 That's why the Lord was met by the paralyzed man and his
08:30 friends brought him to the Lord as they broke open the roof.
08:33 One of the first things Jesus said: "Your sins be forgiven
08:35 you. " Because that man's condition was based on something
08:39 that brought about this need for being forgiven.
08:43 And the thing that gave him the freedom was the Lord
08:45 forgave him first which facilitated the healing
08:49 that was the next aspect in his experience.
08:52 So forgiveness leads to not only spiritual wholeness
08:55 but physical healing.
08:57 Amen! Now here's a question that you hear asked a lot.
09:01 Is it a sin to be tempted?
09:04 No. The Bible says that Jesus was tempted in all ways
09:08 as we are. Uh-huh. The sin... You know, it's interesting
09:13 because when you think of lust
09:19 people will call lust a temptation.
09:23 No... lust is a sin.
09:24 Jesus said that if you lust after another woman
09:30 or someone who's not yours,
09:32 then you've already committed adultery in your heart.
09:36 The temptation comes... Let's say that someone
09:39 walks in front of you scantily clad
09:42 there's a temptation. You've got to turn your eyes away.
09:46 Turn your eyes to Jesus
09:48 and not let lust come into your heart.
09:52 You know you've heard the saying that you can't stop a bird
09:56 from flying over your head
09:58 but you can stop them from nesting.
10:00 And so that is something that the Bible tells us in Hebrews
10:04 that He was tempted in all ways as we are yet without sin.
10:08 And we've got to hang onto that.
10:12 The passage that comes to my mind when I'm asked this
10:15 question is James chapter 1 verses 14 and 15.
10:19 It actually gives us the clear differentiation
10:22 between sin and temptation.
10:24 Verse 14 says: "But each one
10:27 is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires
10:31 and enticed. " I think all of us fall into that category.
10:33 But notice verse 15. It says: "Then
10:36 when desire has conceived
10:39 it gives birth to sin.
10:43 And sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. "
10:46 So it's not a sin to be tempted.
10:48 We're all tempted as she said Christ was tempted.
10:50 But when we give in to that...
10:52 when we succumb to those desires and that temptation...
10:54 then sin is born.
10:56 Ryan, include verse 13 because that gives such a beautiful
11:00 picture I think that answers the question directly.
11:02 Oh, yeah... I like this: "Let no one say when he is
11:04 tempted 'I am tempted by God, ' for God cannot be tempted
11:08 by evil nor does He Himself tempt anyone. "
11:11 Amen! So don't converse with your temptations.
11:19 Next question: how do you explain reincarnation?
11:25 How do you explain reincarnation?
11:28 Spiritualism.
11:30 Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say it's a form of spiritualism.
11:35 Reincarnation is not Biblical,
11:37 so the quick answer that I would give to someone
11:39 is that it's not Biblical.
11:41 You can't find one text in all the Bible
11:44 that spells out that kind of ideology or concept.
11:50 I would just say reincarnation is a myth.
11:54 I mean, the Bible is very clear
11:56 that when we die we sleep.
12:00 We're not awakened till... John 5:28-29.
12:05 When Jesus returns all who are in their graves
12:10 will hear His voice.
12:11 Death is a sleep, so reincarnation is a myth.
12:17 "If a man dies, shall he live again? "
12:20 In all of the ancient languages, all of the ancient countries
12:23 there is something akin to reincarnation.
12:26 The Jews had it. They had this idea that if you lived
12:29 one way in this life you would live the opposite way
12:31 in the next life. It is a perversion of a Bible truth.
12:36 The truth is we will be... and I say this advisedly...
12:40 "reincarnated" after the second coming.
12:43 But that is a work of God under the auspices of Jesus
12:49 not some karma outworking that we do ourselves.
12:53 Hmm. Incarnate means inherent.
12:59 Jesus was incarnate God...
13:04 unborrowed, underived.
13:06 The incarnation aspect pre- supposes that there is something
13:10 in you that never dies.
13:13 That's why you reincarnate.
13:15 But there's nothing in humanity that continues to exist
13:19 after death.
13:21 And so the Lord made it very clear. I'll just give you
13:24 a couple of examples here. In Genesis 3:19
13:27 the Lord said to Adam: "In the sweat of your face
13:29 you shall eat bread till you return to the ground.
13:33 For out of it you were taken; for dust you are
13:35 and to dust you shall return. "
13:37 Returning to life... another form of life...
13:41 is not what the Bible supports.
13:42 Returning to your condition before you were created
13:45 is what the Bible says... not reincarnation.
13:48 That's returning... returning to dust.
13:50 And you stay there. You are not reincarnated
13:53 by your own inherent... I know what Pastor C.A. meant.
13:56 He made a very clear point
13:58 that the life that you experience again
14:01 comes from the Lifegiver.
14:03 And the trumpet of God brings that back to life.
14:06 So when Paul says: "You died and your life is hidden with Christ"
14:09 "hidden with Christ in God... "
14:11 he is saying "Every record of every human life,
14:14 everybody that ever was born,
14:16 the record of their existence is kept by God.
14:19 And I used to think that... The one thing I learned
14:21 and Ellen White made this very clear
14:24 we would say "OK, nothing survives death. "
14:26 That's true. There's no soul that continues to go on.
14:30 You don't live in a different location
14:32 and there is no existing afterlife.
14:34 But the one thing that survives your death is your life record.
14:41 That is what determines
14:43 which resurrection you are going to be in.
14:45 And that life record is what Christ keeps.
14:51 Every man shall receive a reward according as his work shall be.
14:55 "Behold I come quickly and my reward is with Me. "
14:57 Your life record continues to go on
15:00 and that determines which resu- rection you are going to be in.
15:03 Amen. OK, Shelley and then we have to move on.
15:05 Yes... I just want to add this:
15:07 Reincarnation presupposes immortality.
15:11 The Bible tells us in I Timothy 6:16
15:14 "God alone has immortality
15:18 who lives in an unapproachable light that no man has seen
15:22 or can see. " And then in I Corinthians 15
15:25 it tells us when we put on immortality.
15:30 If you come up in the first resurrection,
15:32 I Corinthian 15:51 says: "We shall not all sleep - "
15:37 as in death - "but we shall all be changed
15:40 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye
15:42 at the last trumpet... " When Christ returns...
15:45 "For the trumpet will sound and the dead will rise
15:50 incorruptible and we shall be changed.
15:54 For this corruption must put on incorruption
15:57 and this mortal must put on immortality. "
16:02 But that happens at the first resurrection.
16:07 Amen!
16:08 OK... now how many of you have heard this question asked
16:13 before? Why do bad things happen to good people?
16:19 Why do bad things happen to bad people?
16:23 You know, the sun shines on the just and the unjust;
16:28 the rain falls on the just and the unjust.
16:31 No one is excluded from the results of sin.
16:35 And that's the answer to that.
16:37 No one is excluded from the results of sin.
16:40 The difference between those who have not accepted Christ
16:43 and those who have is the results of sin for us
16:47 are only temporary, but the benefits of righteousness
16:50 is eternal. For those who have not accepted Christ
16:54 the results of sin are eternal
16:56 and the benefits of Christ - the sun and the rain -
16:59 are temporary. So it happens to all.
17:02 Solomon, the wise man, speaking about humanity, he said
17:06 "Death happens to all. " The dog, the lion,
17:09 the human... it all happens to all.
17:11 But the one thing between the dog and us
17:13 is we have the promise of eternal life.
17:15 I think the presupposition is erroneous.
17:19 Christ said: "Why callest thou Me good?
17:21 There is none good but the Father which is in heaven. "
17:24 We look at a person's life. They seem to be going well.
17:27 Things seem to be going... we say "Oh, that's a good person. "
17:29 But you never really know what's going on inside.
17:32 Our righteousness is a gift of God through the justification
17:36 experience. And then, of course, He calls us righteous
17:39 and then sets about making us what He calls us
17:41 through the sanctification experience.
17:43 So who is inherently good?
17:45 Who inherently has righteousness?
17:47 No, not one.
17:49 Ryan, you got something?
17:51 You know, when this question is asked
17:53 the passage that comes to my mind is the parable of
17:56 the wheat and the tares.
17:58 And I just want to read these couple of texts here.
18:01 It says: "The kingdom of heaven is likened to man
18:04 who sowed good seed in his field. While men slept... "
18:07 notice... "his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat
18:10 and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted
18:13 and produced a crop then the tares also appeared. "
18:16 Now verse 27 is interesting:
18:17 "So the servants of the owner came and said to him:
18:22 'Sir, when did you not sow good seed in your field?
18:26 How then does it have tares? '
18:29 And then notice verse 29 here:
18:31 "But he said... " No... excuse me... yep.
18:36 He says: "No, lest while you gather up the tares... "
18:38 Excuse me... I've lost my spot.
18:40 Oh, verse 28. I skipped it:
18:43 "He said unto them... " these few words here...
18:46 "An enemy has done this. An enemy has done this. "
18:50 Verse 27 there's almost like an implied accusation
18:53 against the character of God there.
18:54 You know, sometimes when we ask that question
18:57 "Why do bad things happen to good people? "
18:59 we always want to also ask the question right along with it:
19:02 "Why doesn't God keep it from happening? "
19:04 And truthfully God was asked that question.
19:07 "Hey, Lord... didn't you sow good seed?
19:09 And how did these tares get here? " Almost like
19:11 "Did you have something to do with this? "
19:13 But of course the answer was: "An enemy has done this. "
19:17 Yeah... the enemy. We have an enemy, and he's...
19:20 he wants to destroy us - Absolutely!
19:23 to keep us from choosing Jesus.
19:25 Um-hmm. That almost reminds me back with Adam and Eve...
19:28 You know, Adam was saying: "Well, it was the woman that
19:31 You gave me. " You know, trying to blame God.
19:33 What other questions do you have?
19:36 What does the Bible say about cremation?
19:41 I was just listening to Pastor C.A. because
19:43 the point he made I really grasped onto it
19:45 but I don't know if you caught it
19:47 because he made a point that was really powerful.
19:49 He said: "It presupposes that we're good. "
19:52 But there's nobody good...
19:53 so bad things can't happen to good people.
19:59 There you go. I know they didn't get it.
20:03 Ain't nobody good!
20:04 Bad things can't happen to good people 'cause
20:06 there's nobody good. Yeah.
20:10 That's right. So... back to our next question.
20:14 There are a couple of examples or texts
20:19 and I cannot think of them - I don't know if you all can -
20:21 of cremation in the Bible.
20:24 We've done a lot of study on this because my husband and I
20:28 have determined we will be cremated.
20:30 And so we wanted to make certain
20:32 that that was scriptural.
20:34 But I'm sorry that I can't think of the text.
20:37 Can you? I can't think of a specific text in the Bible
20:41 that addresses the concept of cremation.
20:44 The fact that... I mean, if there's one I would love for
20:46 someone to show me. But as far as my knowledge
20:49 there's not one that I'm aware of.
20:51 And so I think it really just is up to the individual,
20:54 the person, to make that decision.
20:57 I know a lot of Christians who try to
21:01 make that sound bad or make others feel bad about
21:04 making that decision to be cremated
21:06 because it's our tradition here in Western culture
21:10 for the most part to bury the dead in the ground.
21:13 Again, as the pastor read earlier: "Unto dust you shall
21:15 return. " But you know, I had a gentleman one time
21:19 he kind of stopped me in one of my seminars
21:22 and he was rebuking me. "How could you tell someone
21:23 that they can make that decision on their own?
21:26 They should be buried as we should be buried.
21:28 Unto dust they return. " And I brought up the point:
21:30 "You know, there's a lot of people in the Dark Ages
21:32 that didn't have that choice.
21:34 They were burned at a stake
21:35 and they were martyrs for Jesus and they gave their life
21:38 for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
21:40 And I don't know how God's going to do it, but I know that
21:42 He can just speak the word and that person can appear
21:45 with a brand new body and they WILL go to heaven. "
21:47 Your text is: "In the beginning God created the heavens
21:50 and the earth. " And if past is prologue,
21:53 what He did before He can do it again.
21:55 Is it any harder for God to recreate a body that has been
21:58 burned to ashes or that over the centuries
22:01 has disappeared through the natural process?
22:04 If God can do one, God can do the other.
22:07 Ashes to ashes... dust to dust.
22:09 Whether you create the ashes or nature creates the ashes
22:12 they're still ashes... and God has the power
22:14 to make something out of nothing.
22:17 Um-hmm.
22:19 OK... excellent answers.
22:23 Now people want to know "Where is God when I am hurting? "
22:29 Psalm 34... let's go there.
22:34 The question is: "Where are you in your attitude
22:37 about God when you're hurting? " That's really the issue.
22:40 God has often been praised for the blessing
22:42 and blamed for the pain.
22:46 That's the sad reality even among Christians.
22:49 I said to someone and Pastor C.A. talked about this.
22:53 You know, we go back... Before the Internet I've known Pr. C.A.
22:57 Just to kind of give you an idea and he's known me that long too.
22:59 Wow! But the point I'm making is... Yeah, before the Internet.
23:02 Before Al Gore created the Internet we've known each other.
23:06 See all this gray hair he has?
23:08 Notice I have none.
23:11 This is called "evolution. "
23:14 But what were we talking about? What was the question?
23:19 Oh boy... see what happens when you take exits?
23:22 What was I saying?
23:23 That's a part of aging. Where is God when I am...?
23:25 Where is God? Psalm 34.
23:27 Psalm 34. One of the reasons why the Lord doesn't allow
23:30 some people to go through trials is because they will deny God.
23:36 Psalm 34... look what the Bible says.
23:40 Psalm 34... we're going to start with verse 17.
23:47 "The righteous cry out and the Lord hears
23:52 and delivers them out of... " How much?
23:55 "all their troubles. "
23:57 Where is the Lord? Verse 18:
23:59 "The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart
24:03 and saves such as have a contrite spirit. "
24:08 Where is God? Verse 19:
24:10 "Many are the afflictions of the righteous
24:14 but the Lord delivers him out of them all. "
24:17 Amen! Amen. So don't tell your
24:22 God how big your afflictions are.
24:25 Tell your afflictions how big your God is.
24:27 Amen! It is the same issue the disciples had.
24:31 In the storm Jesus didn't leave the boat.
24:34 He was just taking a nap.
24:36 The boat rocked Him to sleep but to them it was a storm.
24:39 So many times we look at our trials and not our God.
24:42 That's why Ellen White says in the Desire of Ages
24:44 "The Lord allowed the lightning to flash to remind them
24:47 in their darkness that Jesus had not changed His location. "
24:50 Um-hmm. They saw Him sleeping and they woke Him up.
24:53 Said: "Do You not care that we perish? "
24:54 It's those ridiculous questions that don't get an answer.
24:57 He didn't say: "Of course I care! "
24:59 He said: "Why are you so fearful? How is this that you
25:02 have no faith? " And you'll discover in those
25:04 moments when your faith is challenged
25:06 it's your faith that's challenged... not your God.
25:08 Um-hm.. Amen. That's right!
25:10 Psalm 3:3 says: "You, O Lord, are a shield
25:13 for me, my glory, and the One who lifts up my head. "
25:18 Your head has to be downcast to be lifted.
25:21 And I believe with all of my heart that
25:24 God allows things to come into our life
25:27 for our eternal benefit.
25:30 The worst year of my life
25:33 I can look back on now
25:35 and say was the best year of my life.
25:39 Because this is when God taught me to return His Word
25:43 to Him in prayer.
25:45 And His Word does not return void.
25:48 He taught me the power of His Word.
25:51 And so I am now... I mean, God was...
25:55 He cupped His hand under my chin and He lifted my face
25:59 to look at Him full-faced.
26:02 And I now can look back on that horrible
26:06 year of trial. It was a horrible year of illness.
26:10 It was everything, but I look back and I say
26:14 "Thank you, Lord, for allowing that in my life. "
26:19 Because it taught me to be totally dependent upon Him
26:23 but He also taught me truly that II Corinthians 1:20
26:27 "All of His promises are yes and amen in Christ Jesus. "
26:31 Amen. Ryan? Yeah. You know, the Great Commission.
26:35 What does Christ say? "Lo, I am with you? "
26:37 "Lo, I am with you always. "
26:40 Christ is indeed in the heavenly sanctuary
26:43 but He is omnipresent through the Spirit.
26:46 And I love the beautiful imagery that we have in
26:49 Revelation chapter 5 where we see that baby Lamb
26:53 that appears before the throne slain.
26:55 But the Bible says that there you find the seven eyes
26:58 within that Lamb which are the seven Spirits of God
27:01 that go throughout all of the world.
27:03 So Christ is present through the omnipresent Spirit
27:08 and He's with us. And so the Bible says that
27:11 the Father... Well we are told that the Father was with Christ
27:15 while He was hanging on the cross suffering.
27:16 You know, I have to believe that the Spirit of God was with
27:19 His people when they were suffering through the scripture.
27:21 And so I believe that same thing for us.
27:23 He is with us always. It is very difficult
27:26 to just put a period on some of these things.
27:28 I love Hebrews 13:5-6.
27:31 One: there is a reassurance that God will be our Helper.
27:34 That He will never leave us nor forsake us.
27:37 And then it say we can boldly say
27:40 "God is our Helper. " So even in those tough times
27:43 when it seems like you're alone
27:44 you can boldly state "God is my Helper;
27:47 I'm not doing this alone... He is by my side. "
27:49 I have learned... in 2008 was a bad year for me,
27:54 Shelley. I don't know what year was bad for you
27:56 but 2008 was bad for me.
27:58 And I learned to praise Jesus for the problems I was having
28:02 and He gave me great comfort through that.
28:05 Amen... Amen. And one last thing.
28:08 Shelley talked about this in the first hour of the program.
28:11 That very question that was posed
28:14 about why do bad things happen to good people,
28:15 where is God when hurt comes
28:17 is what I'm addressing with the sermon Coming With Clouds.
28:21 Because we live in clouds. I'm not going to say any more.
28:23 It's addressed in the sermon Coming With Clouds.
28:26 I encourage you to be here.
28:27 But I want to give one more text in Revelation 3.
28:29 Look at this text in Revelation chapter 3
28:32 and verse 8.
28:35 This was the message to the church of brotherly love...
28:39 the church He had nothing negative to say about.
28:41 Look what He says in verse 8.
28:43 "I know your works.
28:47 See, I have set before you an open door
28:50 and no one can shut it. "
28:51 Look at this: "For you have a little strength,
28:55 have kept My Word... " And here's the key:
28:58 "and have not denied My name. "
29:00 So often when trials come
29:02 Christians are the first to deny His name.
29:06 And when blessings come
29:07 they're the first ones to praise His name.
29:09 We've got to decide. We cannot be the fountain of bitter water
29:12 in times of difficulty and sweet water
29:14 in the times of prosperity.
29:16 Because the world is looking to us, our inconsistency will
29:19 result in somebody's loss.
29:21 That's why Lot's wife was lost: his inconsistency.
29:23 Um-hmm. So we have to know that when difficulty comes
29:25 God wants us to reveal to the world in our difficulty
29:28 that we serve a God greater than the god of this world.
29:31 Um-hmm. OK... next question.
29:33 Where in heaven does Jesus live?
29:38 Where in heaven does Jesus live?
29:41 I'm not sure where He lives but I know where He works.
29:46 OK. And if we study Daniel we understand
29:50 that His occupation now is in the sanctuary.
29:54 He's pleading cases... looking at cases.
29:56 We believe in a pre-advent judgment
29:59 from Revelation 22.
30:01 "I am coming and My reward is with Me. "
30:04 That means it's already been decided who's gonna
30:06 get that reward. So He is taking care of business
30:09 in His Father's house even as we speak.
30:11 Amen.
30:14 OK... well, this question:
30:17 Will we be keeping the Sabbath in heaven and the new earth?
30:28 Isaiah 66 verses 22 and 23.
30:33 Don't you just love the way they know the verses
30:35 right off the top of their heads? I just...
30:38 John gives me a blank stare
30:41 and then he goes to the text. It's wonderful.
30:46 Why are you in Psalm 12?
30:49 Isaiah 66 verses 22 and 23.
30:52 You're getting old, man... that's Isaiah.
30:55 Oh, you're in Isaiah 12. It's the gray hair. It's OK.
30:59 All right. Isaiah 66 verse 23 speaking of the new earth:
31:05 Excuse me, my voice is crackling.
31:08 "It shall come to pass from one new moon to another
31:12 and from one Sabbath to another
31:15 all flesh shall come to worship before Me says the Lord. "
31:20 That's right. So that is... You know,
31:22 when you think - I think it's Revelation 22-
31:27 that says all will see His face in the New Jerusalem.
31:33 I don't know about you, but I can't wait
31:35 for face-to-face communication with the Lord.
31:39 So when the New Jerusalem comes down to earth
31:42 we're going to have not only our home in the city
31:47 but Isaiah says we're going to go out and we're going to build
31:50 places. We'll have a country home; we'll have a city home.
31:53 We'll be coming in to the New Jerusalem
31:55 every Sabbath - any time you want - with absolute access
31:59 to God. But every Sabbath
32:02 we're going to have the most incredible worship service
32:08 in the New Jerusalem. That's right.
32:10 You know, she just... That verse that we just read
32:13 in Isaiah 66 clearly tells us that we will be keeping Sabbath
32:18 in heaven. I have run across a lot of Christians
32:21 who say: "You know what? I have no problem keeping
32:23 Sabbath in heaven. I just don't have to keep it
32:25 right now on earth. " We run into this quite often.
32:28 But the passage that comes to my mind that I love to bring up
32:31 and it's so simple and that's The Lord's Prayer.
32:34 When they asked Him "Lord, teach us how to pray"
32:36 what did He say? Yeah. They even made a song to it.
32:40 "Our Father, which art in heaven,
32:42 hallowed be Thy name. "
32:44 Now this next part: "Thy kingdom come;
32:47 Thy will be done... " Where?
32:49 "On earth as it is in heaven. "
32:53 So we should be keeping it now
32:55 as we will and as they are keeping it in heaven.
32:59 I'll be glad when I get to heaven 'cause I'll be able
33:01 to sing. I like that.
33:07 Here's a confirmation scripture
33:08 that it's going to be kept in heaven.
33:10 I Chronicles 17:27.
33:12 "For You have blessed it, O Lord,
33:14 and it shall be blessed forever. "
33:17 There's nothing wrong with the Sabbath.
33:19 It was blessed in perfection; it will not be eliminated
33:23 in perfection. It was blessed in a perfect environment;
33:26 it will not be deleted in the next perfect environment.
33:31 OK... next question: Is it important
33:35 to attend church services?
33:38 Is it important to attend church services?
33:42 Hebrews 7:25.
33:45 No.. not 7 is it? Wow!
33:48 See, as young folks see what we would do is we would think
33:50 a hashtag and put goals by that.
33:52 See, you just knew Hebrews 7:25!
33:57 Hashtag goals. "Forsaking not the assembling of ourselves
34:00 together as the manner of some is
34:02 but all the more... " That's right.
34:06 Don't forsake the assembling. Now Hebrews 7:25 is
34:08 "He is able to save to the uttermost. "
34:11 It's not... Yeah, it's not 7:25.
34:15 No? It's good to be... Anyway, it's Hebrews 10:25.
34:21 10:25. Hebrews 10:25.
34:23 OK, go ahead and read it.
34:25 Oh, oh. Well you quoted it right just had the reference wrong.
34:30 OK. Praise God for that.
34:34 Encouragement is the word.
34:38 Are you going to read it? Don't all jump in at once.
34:41 I think we're trying to be kind to each other here.
34:44 "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
34:47 as is the manner of some but exhort one another
34:53 and so much more as you see the day coming. "
34:57 You know, the reason that... Well, first of all
35:00 why do we go to church?
35:04 Why do we go to church? To worship God.
35:07 If we don't... I ask audiences sometimes
35:10 and people will say: "Oh, to hear the Word. "
35:13 "To fellowship. "
35:16 If we're not going to church to worship the Lord,
35:20 we're not going to church for the right reason.
35:23 We should be going to worship.
35:25 But there is something about corporate worship and the
35:29 fellowship that when we get together...
35:33 You know, Peter said that the devil is "like a roaring lion
35:38 seeking whom he may devour. "
35:41 When we were in South Africa we saw a lion
35:46 single out its prey.
35:49 And what they do is if there's one that's not
35:53 quite with the herd then the lions start circling it.
35:58 And they get them isolated and that's when they take them down.
36:02 The reason we should be going to church
36:05 is because it buoys our faith.
36:09 It builds us up.
36:11 We go and worship with others, and you can maybe be having
36:15 a down day. Somebody else can pray with you.
36:18 But when you let Satan isolate you
36:23 and keep you away from church
36:25 watch out, 'cause your enemy is like a roaring lion
36:30 seeking whom he may devour.
36:32 We've got two things: diaconia - which is a teaching;
36:35 and koinonia - which is a fellowship.
36:36 You need them both. If you're in a church
36:38 that's all teaching and no fellowship,
36:39 it's kind of dry. If you're in a church that's all fellowship
36:42 and no teaching, it's kind of dry.
36:47 That's right.
36:48 You need them both.
36:49 You need Spirit and truth.
36:52 Absolutely. I just want to add to that
36:54 go back to our previous point we made earlier.
36:57 On earth as it is in heaven.
36:59 We just read a text that says "from one Sabbath to another
37:03 all flesh will come and worship before Me
37:08 saith the Lord. " So we're going to be coming
37:10 before God and worshiping Him in heaven.
37:12 And we should now. Why wouldn't we?
37:15 In Revelation 4:8 we should take an example from the angels.
37:18 You know, this is not a good question for me
37:20 because I have a soapbox. People don't see it,
37:22 but I have it.
37:24 I just don't know why people don't like to come to church.
37:27 And I used to think it was me but it's not.
37:30 Because Elder Brooks said: "Sun melts butter and hardens clay. "
37:34 It's the condition of the human heart.
37:37 I have taken off of my shoulder
37:40 the burden that it's maybe what I said.
37:43 You know, somebody once said to me... I remember
37:45 as a matter of fact it was Mike Tucker.
37:47 We were down in Texas at the pastor's meetings
37:49 in 2015, and he said to me:
37:52 "John, are you staying out of trouble? "
37:54 I said: "No... why should I? "
37:56 And he said.. I said: "Well the disciples
37:58 were always in trouble; Jesus was always in trouble. "
38:00 And He said that If you live a righteous life,
38:03 you will suffer persecution so why should I?
38:05 And he said: "I like that! I'm going to preach that
38:07 from now on. " And here's the point:
38:09 when you don't have a love that has to do more
38:15 than with just a few hours in the day...
38:17 The Sabbath is a day of fellowship.
38:20 It's not a day of visitation; it's a day of fellowship.
38:23 And sometimes we have the idea...
38:26 It's amazing to me that Catholicism is pushing for the
38:29 whole day of Sunday to be holy
38:31 and we find Adventists that are pushing for less of the day
38:34 to be observed as holy.
38:35 What better place should it be found among those except
38:39 who say they keep the Sabbath?
38:41 We should show the world how it should be kept.
38:44 And the angels in Revelation 4:8 there's a text here:
38:47 "The four living creatures each having six wings
38:49 were full of eyes around and within. "
38:51 And listen to this: "And they do not rest day nor night. "
38:54 The word there rest is the day for Sabbath.
38:57 They do not rest day nor night
38:59 but what are they doing? They're worshiping God all the time.
39:02 If you don't worship God during the week,
39:04 then Sabbath is not going to be a substitute for what you
39:06 don't do other days. Um-hmm.
39:08 Now, you're married. Correct? Right? That's right.
39:12 Shelley, you're married. Pastor Murray, you're married.
39:14 Pastor Lomacang, you're married.
39:16 And Bruce, you're married, too. Correct?
39:19 That's correct. Are you? No, I feel singled out.
39:26 Now.. will there be marriage in heaven?
39:31 YES!
39:32 Amen.
39:35 Yes. Now, can I add
39:38 you know, God is not going to say to Angie
39:40 "Drop John when you get to heaven. "
39:43 Praise God, 'cause my wife and I have a saying
39:46 "Together forever... eternity in view. "
39:52 Marriage was instituted before sin entered the world
39:55 just like the Sabbath.
39:56 And since the Sabbath is eternal so is marriage.
39:59 We get mixed up. We're going to go to heaven for 1,000 years.
40:02 There won't be weddings there. You know why?
40:04 We're going to heaven to address the final stage
40:06 in the eradication of sin.
40:09 God is not going to say: "Sorry, C.A.
40:12 Irma don't want you any more. "
40:15 No... there won't be weddings performed in heaven.
40:18 That's what's being said.
40:19 And I won't be giving... If you ever go there,
40:21 you won't be saying to somebody: "You want to marry my
40:22 daughter? " Not during the thousand years in heaven.
40:25 Marriage will not be annulled in heaven
40:28 any more than the Sabbath.
40:30 Wow! I'd better get married before I go, then.
40:35 He got it. He heard you, Pastor.
40:38 You had something, Ryan?
40:40 Yeah, I just... I like Pastor Doug's response to this.
40:43 He says: "I can't picture Jesus handing out
40:46 divorce slips as we're walking through the pearly gates -
40:49 you know - to all of the couples. "
40:51 You know, and I can't see that either.
40:52 I got back to the idea that we are told
40:57 in inspiration and even in the Bible that
40:59 just as God began the scripture as we see there
41:02 where God creates a beautiful, perfect atmosphere
41:04 before sin ever entered the picture
41:06 what did God establish in the Garden of Eden? Two things:
41:08 marriage and the Sabbath.
41:10 So I don't see any evidence where we see that God is
41:14 going to reverse that or get rid of it.
41:16 I think that it's going to continue on, and I'm going to
41:18 look forward to living with my sweetheart in my mansion.
41:21 You just want some points!
41:26 Well technically we'll have two mansions, so we'll just
41:28 go back and forth, right?
41:30 She'll have a mansion; I'll have a mansion.
41:32 We'll go back and forth at the same time.
41:34 Right, the same time.
41:36 OK. All marriages in heaven will be happy marriages.
41:40 Amen... Amen. That's right, brother. That's right.
41:42 Sometimes some of us are bur- dened with an unhappy marriage.
41:45 Not myself. But... when you get to heaven
41:49 your marriage will be happy.
41:51 That's right. You'll be having a wonderful marriage.
41:53 OK. Who is Michael?
41:56 Is He Christ?
41:59 Prove it from the Bible.
42:01 OK. Who is Michael? Is He Christ?
42:06 Prove it from the Bible.
42:07 Text and verse. Yeah.
42:10 I would like to start in Exodus
42:15 chapter 3
42:20 if I can get there.
42:25 In Exodus chapter 3 we see a conversation
42:29 happening between Moses and this
42:32 what appears to be... it says an angel of the Lord
42:35 but we are told later that it is none other than God Himself
42:37 speaking from this bush.
42:39 And of course in this same passage, and I'm trying to find
42:42 the specific verse, but if you look here in chapter 3
42:45 the person speaking from the bush tells Moses
42:49 "Take off your sandals for where you are standing
42:53 is holy ground. " And we know that the presence
42:56 of God makes that holy ground. We know that he was speaking
43:00 to God. I'm trying to find that specific verse here.
43:03 Let's see if I can... Yeah, right here, verse 5:
43:05 "And He said: 'Do not draw near to this place;
43:07 take off the sandals from your feet
43:10 for the place where you stand is holy ground. ' "
43:13 We find the same thing happening in Joshua chapter 5.
43:17 If you go to Joshua chapter 5
43:19 and you said to prove it from the Bible
43:20 so I'm going to give my take on it.
43:22 And then Pastors, feel free to - and Shelley, feel free -
43:25 to jump in here. Joshua chapter 5
43:27 we have an interesting scene happening
43:29 between Joshua and this interesting character
43:33 that shows up with his sword drawn.
43:36 And he tells him... let me see if I can find it here...
43:42 While he's looking for it - I say that respectfully -
43:46 while he's looking for it, if you find 3 confirming scriptures
43:50 in the Bible that are unequivocal.
43:53 Who else can stand in behalf of His people
43:57 during the time of trouble other than Christ?
44:00 "At that time shall Michael stand up,
44:03 the great Prince which stands for the children of Thy people,
44:07 and there shall be a time of trouble. "
44:10 Michael there in the Hebrew as well as in the Greek
44:13 means "One who is like God. "
44:16 And there is no one else. Another one: Jude.
44:19 "Yet Michael, the archangel, in contending with the devil... "
44:23 Who can contend over the body of Moses
44:25 other than the One who owns the body of Moses?
44:28 And then Revelation: "Michael and His angels
44:32 fought with the dragon and the dragon and his angels
44:34 fought. " Who could fight against the devil
44:36 other than Christ?
44:39 And then the voice of the archangel.
44:42 Who is that? "The Lord Himself
44:46 shall descend from heaven with a shout...
44:49 with the voice of the archangel. "
44:52 That's right. The One who is above the angels.
44:54 That is Christ and His name is Michael.
44:59 Daniel 10 and I'm at verse 13
45:02 about half-way through. The Bible says:
45:05 "Michael... One who is like God. "
45:07 And that means One who exercises the same authority
45:10 as God. The one thing we know about Michael
45:13 in Revelation 19 when John fell to worship
45:17 that being the angel said: "See that thou do it not. "
45:20 Because angels don't accept worship.
45:23 The only One that is worthy to be worshiped,
45:25 the only One who accepts worship is Michael.
45:28 So that says that He is a being to be worshiped.
45:31 That means He is God. Amen. That's right.
45:33 You found that? Well, I was just going to make the connection
45:35 right here in Joshua chapter 5
45:37 where in the latter verses - verses 13 through 15-
45:40 we see that Joshua is having this encounter with
45:43 this individual who identifies Himself as the Commander
45:47 of the army of the Lord. So we know that Michael
45:49 the archangel... archangel in the original Greek
45:52 is simply the word archangelos which simply means
45:55 chief of the angels. So He's not a normal angel.
45:59 The original word for angel is angelos, which is
46:01 just simply messenger. But the chief of the messengers,
46:04 the chief of the angels, is Michael.
46:06 Now in Exodus 3 this same individual that says:
46:10 "Take off your sandals for where you stand is holy ground"
46:12 this same individual refers to Himself at the Great I AM.
46:16 "Who do I tell them that You are? "
46:18 "I am that I AM. " This same character in Joshua
46:22 tells Joshua to take off his sandals for where he stands
46:26 is holy ground. So this is no normal angel.
46:28 This is a holy individual. And we know that Christ
46:31 I believe it's John chapter 8 or John chapter 10
46:34 where He refers to Himself as the "I AM. "
46:37 He says: "Before Abraham was, I AM. "
46:39 And of course, as pastor brought out,
46:41 we are told in I Thessalonians chapter 4 I believe it is
46:44 that Christ is coming back with the voice of the archangel.
46:48 So there's no doubt that He is Michael the archangel.
46:50 And in the Hebrew the term I AM used in the present tense
46:52 like that is an indication that the person speaking
46:55 is calling Himself or naming Himself God.
46:58 We know that the angel of the covenant
47:01 in Exodus was Christ Jesus Himself.
47:05 See, we get... I think we get confused
47:08 because we think of angel as being a created being.
47:12 And the ministering spirits are created beings.
47:15 That's right. But angel means messenger.
47:17 I mean the angels are messengers of God.
47:19 And we're not the only, by the way... We're not the only
47:23 denomination or church that believes that Michael
47:27 is Jesus Christ. There's many many Bible scholars
47:32 who agree on that. Well I think you guys gave ample
47:35 Biblical proof - Amen - in answer to that question.
47:40 So this one is a two-part question.
47:43 Is it true we are saved by grace
47:46 but works is mixed in there somewhere?
47:49 So if we are saved by grace,
47:51 are we judged by our works?
47:53 Ephesians 2:8-10 says that we are saved by grace
47:58 through faith... NOT by works that we should boast.
48:01 And then 10 backs it right up, yes.
48:04 We are created for the good works that God prepared
48:08 in advance for us to do.
48:10 In Romans 6:16
48:15 the Bible says, or Paul says that
48:18 we are slaves to whom we obey.
48:23 We're either slaves to righteousness
48:26 or we're slaves of sin.
48:30 In I John 2:3-4
48:35 it says that if anyone says
48:38 he knows Him - he knows Jesus Christ -
48:41 yet does not keep the commandments
48:44 he is a liar and the truth is not in him.
48:48 Hebrews 5:9 says that Jesus Christ is the author
48:53 of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
48:58 So when you think about... You know, people get so
49:02 upset when we talk about obedience
49:06 but obedience is by grace
49:07 because Philippians 2:12-13 says
49:11 He works in us. It is God who works in us
49:14 to will and to do His good pleasure.
49:18 So we are saved...
49:22 Salvation belongs to God alone.
49:25 Um-hmm. But the Bible says that our rewards
49:29 will follow them. Yes, we are going to have our rewards
49:34 because of our obedience. We don't obey to be saved;
49:39 we obey because we ARE saved.
49:43 And one more point: the Ten Commandments
49:46 in Exodus chapter 20
49:49 are written in the future tense.
49:52 That means they were promises.
49:55 God is saying to us that if we're in covenant relationship
50:00 with Him we're not going to have any gods before Him;
50:04 we're not going to bow down to idols;
50:06 we're not going to take His name; we're going to be so
50:09 excited to worship on the Sabbath with Him.
50:12 We will honor our parents.
50:16 We won't commit murder, adultery.
50:18 We won't steal; we won't bear false testimony.
50:20 We won't covet. Why?
50:23 Because that's what living in covenant relationship with Him
50:27 is all about. He came to save us from our sin.
50:33 That's right for sure. Works is not what gets us saved,
50:39 works is what shows up when we are saved.
50:43 That's right. It's the evidence of our salvation
50:46 not the method of our salvation.
50:49 I used to think I had to keep the commandments.
50:53 Now I feel I GET to keep the commandments.
50:57 I don't have to... I get to. They're a privilege.
51:01 A privilege to keep the commandments.
51:03 That's right. And forgiveness is available when I mess up.
51:08 All right, panel: How do you know God's will for your life?
51:13 How do you know God's will for your life?
51:17 I don't need to know God's will for my life.
51:20 That's one of the things that... Go to Philippians.
51:26 Go to Philippians with me.
51:27 I don't need to know God's will for my life.
51:29 That's one of the questions we ask when in fact we couldn't
51:31 even accomplish God's will if we knew it.
51:34 How many of you could accomplish it?
51:37 "For it is God who works in us
51:42 both too will and to do of His good pleasure. "
51:46 Paul made it very clear.
51:48 Some people use that almost as a hindrance to doing anything.
51:52 "I wonder what God's will for my life is? "
51:55 Get up and do something
51:57 and God will work out His will in your life.
52:00 You can't say: "I wonder which way to go"
52:02 and you're sitting in your car without the engine turning on.
52:04 The will of God is appointed...
52:07 Let's just go ahead and make it clear here.
52:08 In Philippians - here I am -
52:11 2... Look at this: Philippians 2:12.
52:14 "Therefore my beloved: as you have always obeyed
52:18 not only in my presence only but much more in my absence
52:21 work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. "
52:24 That's often what people see.
52:25 Verse 13: "For it is God who works in you
52:28 both too will and to do of His good pleasure. "
52:32 We cannot do God's will.
52:34 God does His will through us. That's right.
52:37 We are the vessel out of which He works.
52:39 We don't work to become His vessel...
52:41 we become His vessel and He works through us.
52:44 Ooh... but I do have a scripture.
52:46 I Thessalonians 4 verse 3 says:
52:49 "This is the will of God
52:53 for your life, and that is your sanctification. "
52:59 See, we are justified by the blood of Jesus Christ, right?
53:05 We're forgiven of those past sins.
53:07 But God's will for our life
53:10 is that we walk just as Jesus walked
53:16 on the earth, that we walk in the narrow path.
53:20 That we walk in the path of His life
53:24 where we will see pleasures at His right hand forever more.
53:29 So God's will for our life
53:32 is simply that we yield to the Holy Spirit
53:37 and He will work in us to will and to do
53:41 His good pleasure and Philippians 1:6 says
53:45 that He will complete the good work He's begun.
53:48 Amen. OK, now we only have a few minutes left
53:52 so we have to get through these next couple questions
53:55 rather quickly. One person said: I am
53:59 anxious all the time. Can I really trust in Jesus?
54:07 II Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 16.
54:10 Paul writes these beautiful doctrinal theses
54:14 but he couches them in some poetic language
54:17 all through the book of I Thessalonians.
54:19 "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself
54:21 and our God and Father
54:22 who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation. "
54:27 Which are two words I just love.
54:29 We can have everlasting consolation
54:32 "and good hope by grace comfort your heart
54:37 and establish you in every good word and work. "
54:41 So consolation is promised.
54:44 Comfort is promised.
54:46 A settling in and establishment is promised.
54:49 Good words, good works follow from that.
54:53 So be anxious for nothing.
54:56 He wants to establish you, to comfort you,
54:59 and to console you even in troublous times.
55:02 Amen! What do you have, Ryan?
55:04 Yeah, Proverbs chapter 3 verses 5 and 6.
55:07 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart
55:09 and lean not on your own understanding;
55:12 In all your ways acknowledge Him
55:14 and He shall direct your path. "
55:16 A person who's anxious perhaps may be suffering from anxiety
55:20 or whatever that might be.
55:21 You know, God just wants us to trust Him.
55:23 I think that's what this entire book is about. Amen!
55:25 From cover to cover God is pleading
55:28 with His children - with His creation -
55:30 to trust Him. I think if we do that
55:33 while the devil may throw his fiery darts at us
55:36 we know that God is in control.
55:39 And Isaiah 26:3 says:
55:43 "You will keep him in perfect peace
55:47 whose mind is stayed on You
55:51 because he trusts in You. "
55:53 So as we... When I feel myself getting anxious
55:57 I realize I've got my eyes on the problem
56:01 not on the Problem Solver.
56:03 Amen. So I return... You know, I often say:
56:05 "Lord, help me keep my eyes focused on You.
56:08 Increase my trust, Lord.
56:10 Let me not lean on my own understanding. "
56:13 And you know, He will bring that peace that transcends
56:17 all understanding. We've got about a minute left.
56:20 If you can't trust God, who can you trust?
56:23 Amen! And you know what? I think that God has given us
56:26 ample proof in His Word of why we should trust Him.
56:30 That's right. You know, Jesus came and died on the cross
56:33 for our sins. While we were yet sinners
56:36 He came and died for us.
56:38 And He is the same today, yesterday, and forever
56:42 so we know that what we see here is the way He still is.
56:46 Amen! The answers the panel provided tonight
56:48 shows we can trust God.
56:49 God's Word shows we can trust Him.
56:51 Absolutely... absolutely.
56:53 Man, I wish we had more time because, you know,
56:56 what I would love to ask you guys, all of you that speak:
57:00 "How do you prepare your sermons? "
57:02 Well, maybe we can ask that at another time
57:06 'cause I think that's a deep question that's going to require
57:08 quite a while to answer. Here's the answer:
57:11 we just trust God. There you go!
57:14 All right... well, there's the CliffNotes.
57:18 That's right... that's very good.
57:21 Well, thank you guys so much for answering these Bible questions.
57:25 And I hope that everybody's questions were answered.
57:27 And we are in store for a blessing with Pastor Ty Gibson.


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