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Welcome once again listening friends to a fresh install of the Bible answers live and if this is your 1st time tuning into the program as you can tell from our name this is a live interactive Bible study we are broadcasting around the world via the Internet and across North America on over 150 stations My name is Doug Batchelor And tonight Pastor John loss is preaching up in Canada and so with the help of our team here in the studio I will be winging the computer in the phones to the best of my ability and I solicit your prayers and that's a good time for us to pause right now and I invite you to pray with me and let's ask God to bless this program loving Lord we thank you for the technology that makes it possible for us to communicate and broadcast the world around the country and to virtually every corner of the planet I pray that through your divine providence in the interaction of your angels people will find this frequency and in so doing will find principles of truth that will touch their hearts and change their lines we commit this program Lord to your glory and ask that you bless it in the name of your Son Jesus name it all listening friends I trust. That you were intrigued design I was reading about this famous multimillionaire or indeed one of the 1st billionaires John d. Rockefeller Sr the one who started the Rockefeller legacy and it's interesting that though he was raised a dedicated Christian he became obsessed with amassing wealth and evidently had a gift for it because he was the undisputed richest man in the world but he was miserable What will it profit a man I think gains the whole world and loses his soul and Proverbs tells us that a little bit of. Property with contentment is better than great revenue with strife and turmoil a man's life Jesus said does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses and the Lord also told us that it's easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven and still many churches and pastors teach that the evidence of God's blessing is wealth and the Bible doesn't teach that the evidence of God's blessing is a love joy peace the actual use of Christ in the life of the Lord might bless some with money most of us can't handle it or manage it if we are faithful in that which is the least he's more inclined to give us more but that's it he and we have a free offer we'd like to send you if you'd like to know more about what the Bible principles are about the wealth prosperity and being faithful with what God has given us from a biblical perspective then we'd like to send you our color study guide it is color in every page Illustrated going through all the Bible scriptures sprinkled with amazing facts and it's called In God We Trust it's free all you got to do is call that toll free number in North America it's 8083567 for 708356747 telling you're listening the Bible answers live and will send you. Tonight's restudy guide and teacher pencil hand is through the program we're going to give you some other resources as people ask questions you might want to jot them down and capitalize on those things matter of fact you can even go to the amazing facts and website and request a catalog of the hundreds of Bible study materials witnessing materials that we carry to enhance your Christian life and your witness and that website is amazing the facts dot au argy. As our custom we like to go to. The Internet and take some of the questions that people have sent us on our 1st question is asking about the 24 elder is that are found in the Book of Revelation are they Old Testament prophets where they come from. First of all I would direct you to 1st Chronicles 23 earths for I think the key to understanding these 24 elders around the throne of God that praise the Lord in heaven is very similar to the 24000 that David had assigned to praise the Lord and to serve the Lord in the earthly temple the number 12 in the Bible is a number that describes the church Revelation 12 you've got a woman not that this chapter means anything but in Revelation Chapter 12 you've got a woman with 12 stars above her head that's the Church of God and then you have the New Jerusalem where the church will live 12 gates 12 foundations 12 different kinds of fruit on the tree of life and these are all symbols of the church. Who are those 24 elders will probably mostly from Old Testament patriarchs prophets and king is who were resurrected when Christ rose from the dead and that's one reason John saw them around the throne the earlier leaders from God's work across the span of time . Hope that helps with that well by the way the book 144000 if you don't want to ask for free copy of that book who are the 144000 that also touches on the same principle as the 24 around the throne the next question is asking is the book a Song of Solomon an allegory between Jesus and His church if not can you explain the Song of Solomon I just taught a lesson on this couple of months ago is a beautiful beautiful. Story in the Bible and it appears to be a love story that was between Solomon and evidently. Young virgin a named advice shag who was assured of might the Bible tells her that she ministered to David before his death and nurtured him. But she was still a virgin and it sub believed that someone may have fallen in love with her she was supposed to be very beautiful but she was from the country of shit I'm something of a shepherdess girl and so it's a beautiful story of romance in the context of a wedding. What's the word for it it's not a play but it's like a song that they saying back and forth between the groom and the bride is it an allegory of Christ and the church yes absolutely you read about Christ loving the church as a husband loves his wife and protecting the church and the whole context of salvation is in the imagery of a wedding Jesus that I go to prepare a place for you like that honeymoon mansion and he's going to come and receive us on the him so yes Song of Solomon talks about the frankincense and myrrh that you later see brought to Jesus and many of the same symbols from his life I hope that helps a little bit will once again if you have a Bible question as phones become available calling your call will get through that number into the studio was 800 God says that's 463-7297 and this is probably a good time for us to pick up the phones and see who is calling in all right why don't we start with Michael who has been waiting for a little while calling from Lake Placid Florida welcome to the program Michael. By thanks for your patience and your question tonight Ok Mike Mike Mike you know. If you truly either cry your. Duty after Yeah according to 1st degree. Murder you know verse by verse 20 and 15 verse 5 and you know I'm surprised by your question because I don't remember ever reading the Jesus appeared to to Judas but let me see what we're talking about here and that he was saying of see for us in the 12 the word see 1st there is another term for Peter is that the one you're talking about you know if you're going to do well and then the 12 Well keep in mind that. Judas was replaced by Matthias Jesus did not appear Sorry Jesus did not appear to Judas because Judas killed himself the same day the christ was executed and so it's not possible that Jesus after his resurrection appeared to Jesus because you just was dead at that point. That's what got me so funny about it but now I know that Judas was really great after the Pentecost that's true. Well keep in mind that Luke I'm sorry Paul is is writing here in general terms. The 12 was a description for the apostles were it's true at that point when Jesus appeared to them they were really only 11 of them left but they were referred to as the 12 and so I wouldn't be hung up on that saying well who was that 12 that was a name that appeared to me that was applied to the Apostles his inner circle of 12 you know even if one of them wasn't there they still were called the 12 and soon I'm saying it was a title so I want to get hung up on the number because the Bible's really clear Judas died he committed suicide the same day of the crucifixion so that makes sense maybe a mistake of the writer knows no mistake it's just that if you're looking at the word 12 as numerical value it seems like a conflict but if the number 12 is used as a title for the apostles for that group then it's not a problem I can even show you in the Bible where it refers to the 12 tribes of Israel speaking of writing a letter to the Jews when 10 of those tribes have been carried off captive and they can't be accounted for but it refers to them as the 12 tribes of Israel. In the New Testament when the Peter and James when they send their messages to the tour try to the 12 tribes of Israel there's about 12 of them anymore a lot of them have been absorbed in America so I want to get hung up on that Michael and I hope that helps a little By the way that lesson 114-4000 talks a little bit about spiritual Israel in the 12 tribes in that lesson to moving along here let's talk to Keith who's calling from winter Georgia in listening on the Internet Welcome to the program Keith I've got a question for you. How exactly would a Christian lose his or her salvation. Well I believe that salvation is gained by a choice in surrender salvation Tenby a lost by retracting that choice and rebellion Ok so it's the reverse even I'm struggling with the something guard related or you know I didn't say that I I gave it to you cheeseburgers want to know what that was but then I go all the national I should have done that would please forgive me I'm kind of with Sometimes I waver back and forth expressly when you talk about keeping the Sabbath I sometimes I question. You know I don't know I don't think any person in their right mind would going to you know I just want to make sure I'm still on the right path even though I struggle with them well every Christian's struggles with sin you know that I think the key is key and I thought a lot about this too we need to avoid legalism and legalism can being where our focus is so much on ourselves that we're going from day to day old lord I just entertained an impure thought I guess I'm lost now and I've got to you know get rebaptized then and it's like this up and down roller coaster through the day whereas in reality it's not the occasional good deed or the occasional Misty that determines whether we're Christian it's the direction and the trend of the life I like the way Paul talks and he said Do not let center reign in your flesh reign no reign means sitting on the throne when we accept Christ there is a new master on the throne and if there is some area in your life where sin has dominion sin shall no longer have dominion Paul says dominion that doesn't mean you know if you've got a kingdom where there is general peace and security doesn't mean there's no burglars in the empire it means that they're the Dominion is held by a good king if Christ has got the minion of your life then sin does not have a clutch on you if a person is addicted to a practice then you need to worry about your relationship with the Lord because you should be liberated if a person is a practicing alcoholic or homosexual or you know whatever the temptation might be they can't tell everyone that Jesus set them free. I mean Peter follow the Lord and still he fell. But I don't believe that he lost his salvation he repented and his relationship with the Lord was intact so you don't say you had like a 30 years you could require me to. You know the best study out there yeah it's a good question we actually have several and I'm trying to think of what the best one would be but among our study guide series we've got a study guide on salvation that talks about the relationship between law and grace and I would recommend that if you were to were to read rescue from above you call our resource line and ask for rescue from above and that I think would be a real blessing for you. Thank you good question and now we're going to talk with a deal who's calling from Lake Placid Florida and listening also on the Internet Welcome to the program as he'll. Think you. Have a question about regulation chapters. About writing in this climate. This woman referred to a church. Leader a woman well you can you can ask this question Have you ever seen a real woman riding on a beast with 7 heads and 10 horns. So. You know right away in it's the whole thing is filled with symbolism for one thing the woman has a paragraph in her forehead I mean it is a virtual paragraph calling her a babbling mother of harlots and so forth so it is a symbol there are 2 primary women in Revelation the 1st woman is in Revelation 12 she is a symbol for God's true church and it says she's close 'd with the sun moon and stars now that's the light Jesus said You are the light of the world right to the church. Yeah then you've got this other woman in Revelation 17 and she is contrast it with that 1st woman because she's close with earthly beauty gold precious stones pearls and she's called a harlot the 1st one is a symbol of the bride of Christ and she's bringing forth a man child be the other one is called the harlot and the mother of harlots and so there one is the true church and one is the false church and the mother of all false religion Ok so if I believe I strongly believe that these 2 women represent actually literal churches that's true they're actually literally true just in today well that the daughters of Babilon are literal churches they represent the varying fractions of a pos think Christianity you know there are so many different divisions of Christianity that are not Biblical but they call themselves Christian you know the best thing I could recommend is equal we've got a lesson that is specifically called The Other Woman The whole lesson is on Revelation 17 and you know what I'm eating in to take the regular price of free internet and in half for you if you call the resource number we'll send it to your for half of free whatever that is and read that I'd like to know what you think the whole lessons on Revelation 17 and you can't go wrong there. Next call let's see who's in line here Rose is calling from Huntington New York listening and w.m.c. Amy thank you for calling Rose your question about a guy. Can you hear me yes a loud and clear Ok this question quite a lot of controversy a metric shifting i women converted but not her husband. Actually continue to croak that which is there because I'm going I've got things like work better there's you continue this continued to cook that food I don't know . Well I can answer that question by changing the scenario the scenario can deceive people because it seems like such a gray area or it might seem so harmless. If a husband now I believe that wives should respect the priestly authority of husbands in a marriage but that does not mean that the wife should submit herself to obey a husband who's asking her to break any of God's commandments. And if the husband says to his wife you know I want you to go to the supermarket and I want you to you know bring me home some drink some beer or some cigarettes or she's not obligated to do that because why would she want to support the habit that's the string him. If she sends her husband says look I want you to go out of the corner and buy some a crack cocaine for me right if you really love me and respect me you're going to do this and I've seen husbands that have manipulated their wives this way some husbands. Mistreat their wives and say well you've got to submit to whatever I ask you to do and they're very. Despotic into ridicule and the way they apply that and if this wife has a conviction that something is against the Word of God Whether it's. You know a drug habit or some other bad behavior she is not obligated to submit to that if the fund believed that they would do it they would continue to cook the food in order to keep their marriage together you know what I would do if I were that wife I would you want to as a Christian bend over as far as you can to meet people and to serve and if he were to say you know I'd like you to continue cooking clean meat for me well then she should do it she didn't have to eat it if she doesn't want to a lot of wife cooks things for their families they may not like as the family likes it but if he's asking her to do something that the Bible calls of all the nation well she's not God comes 1st right right that's what I believe I believe the Bible says you have to remain faithful and so that you know I think you know all right thank you good question talking next to Leo who's been waiting calling from Enderson Indiana also listening on the Internet I think. Your question Leo. And the theme and I will say that one more time because you cut out a little bit on the Are you want to sell for a phone or cordless phone yeah I probably do I might be. All right and it's what is a dental 10 General Shepperd and I think. We're in a man one might be if you're in the form of Marion appeared to Danielle I let me read it for you Well I you know I in the. Radio programming I can't go through a lot of verses because it just takes more than the 3 or 4 minutes we try to budget for a call but very quickly Daniel 16 and wonder you heard right in one day hold like the similar to the of the sons of men touch my lips and I open my mouth and spoken said unto him that stood before me all my lord by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me and I have retained no strength for how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord for as for me straightway there remain no strength in me neither is there any breath left in me now this is several things in this verse 1st of all an angel is talking to him he is overwhelmed with. All as all of the prophets were John when he saw the Lord in vision in the Isaiah when he saw the Lord in chapter 6 and. All through the Bible when the Lord or angels appeared to these mortals the brilliance was so awesome it overwhelm them but at the same time Daniel's and vision and it was common for prophets to be in a trance where they did not breathe in their eyes were opened and some of wondered if he was referring here when he says is no breath left in me that he's in a trance and he's not breathing he's in a supernatural vision so and he's also overwhelmed by the things that he had revealed in chapters 8 and 9 about the persecution that would happen to God's people that's what he said my sorrows are turned upon me and I retain no strength. He was overwhelmed with what he saw was going to come upon God's people then they'll Chapter 9 he's praying about God for giving his people because these judgments are going to come so I hope that gives you a little insight that here really with my specific question would be part of what we're going to be coming or I think a lot of very very very Do you have the Bible you have a Bible there in front of you correct yeah it's heartbreaking because it was a lower case exactly and you'll find that sometimes even King David was called bored by his subjects and it was very common to call someone of authority Lord it's a term of respect and so I know that doesn't necessarily mean this was Jesus because they called angels that is well Ok then you could be reckoned 21 well. But I will show the that which is noted in the scripture for truth that there is none that hold is with me in these things but Michael your Prince Michael is another term that's used for the Lord Jesus He's the one of the Old Testament appearances of the Lord how you appeared and sometimes he's called Michael and you know there's a book that will send you and it's called Who is Michael the Archangel it touches on these verses right here and so it's free for the asking if he'll call 835 this is 801st 835-6747 Tell him you're listening to amazing facts and ask for the book leo called Who is Michael the Archangel going next to Eunice calling from Carmichael California listening on t f i n e r flagship station here in Sacramento Eunice Welcome to the program I. I how can we help you tonight when. Group well. You. Know. You're. Right you're. You know. You're you know hard. After like yeah like. Well ultimately that's a good question but I think ultimately would Jesus is promising here when he says fear not Little Flock it's your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom His believers were living in a time when the Romans looked like they had the kingdom and that they were press and Jesus said it doesn't look like you're winning but the meek will inherit the earth is going to be that's why he calls them a little flock like I mean sheep you're going to inherit the kingdom even though it looks like Caesar's on the throne right now it's going to belong to you now in connection with that the Lord gives varying gifts to his church to help spread the spiritual kingdom is the spiritual kingdom of God Is that him now you know what I'm saying. There's 2 aspects of the Kingdom we've got the kingdom of God that is within us now where Christ reigns in our hearts that's available now but someday the literal physical kingdom of the Lord will reside here on Earth the New Jerusalem will come down from heaven and this whole world will be recreated as a new heaven and you are where in tools righteousness. That's still future. So I hope that helps a little bit yeah. 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Day friends you are back to Bible answers live and we expect some of you have come on board along the way this is a bible interactive study program where you can call in with your Bible questions and that number one more time is 800 this brings you into the studio with your question 804637297 I guess you don't need me to remind you it's a free phone call and my name is Doug bachelor My name is John Ross pastored I'm going to go to the phone lines our 1st caller for the 2nd half he's risen and he is listening from New Mexico original rise and welcome to the program yeah good evening bastard going back to Iraq. Did you not make question. But I want to send you a coffee company are 2 is going to come out because I was the 1st one to Jason Marg I had crusade here in. Mexico nastier and it went through really really great and I'm looking forward to Part 2 to yes I can tell you right now we've recorded 90 percent of part 2 it's been very exciting this is just light years ahead is longer to where Part one was about 45 minutes of this one we've gone over all over the world getting footage Russians in all of the world but around Europe anyway and it's got the 2 women in Revelation the name of it cosmic conflict to a sort of the working title but it's called Revelation histories hidden. Mysteries and so. It's I think February they'll be done with the post production and it should be available then that's our target right now but it's going to be really good going to help people understand I'm great apostasy in the great reformation. I'm looking for like a duck by through anyway back to my question oh. Yeah 9. Bucks 5 except for did you know that David died but good Dad No not being Dad No 5 through art and even to memory of them you forgotten Yes and bear 6. Your job during 8 and your gender if you have young seems but when nation never again to day have parked in anything that happens under the sun right but in Revelation 6 the very stand it's the martyrs sad because in and out of Detroit. So very annoyed wholly untrue until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and bench our blood so how could they call the souls going to the altar if they're sleeping and how can they be crying out and talking to God right. Well 1st of all revelation is full of symbolism Revelation talks of course about a dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns by the way on the cosmic conflict 2 we actually created a 7 headed dragon with 10 horns and it is 3 dimensional it's very real. But that's obviously a symbol of something in Revelation when it talks about souls under the altar we have to ask Are there really saved souls that are under altar crying in heaven that want to be a very blissful experience when they're crying and moaning how long or they seem to be in a very melancholy state. Or is that really a symbol of these people who have been martyred for Christ their blood is crying out for justice just like when Abel died there in Genesis God said the blood he said the Cain the blood of your brother Abel cries to me from the ground Well you know the blood and blood cells were not screaming at God It's just a figure the justice was crying out to be for vengeance and that's that's what's happening here it's these souls are basically those who were martyred for the sake of Christ. They're saying their record is really calling out how long before we're avenged and got us in rest a little longer so there he goes on to say really you're going to rest and so it's just a metaphor for justice waiting to be vindicated I got to get thank you very much back after Dad absolutely we're thankful that you called in risen god bless and now you keep watching you'll see the cosmic conflict to come out pretty soon we have a website dedicated to the subject of what the Bible say's about death and I believe this specific passages dealt with at the website the website is called truth about death dot com w.w.w. Dot truth about death dot com We also have a study guide in titled The Dead really dead and we'll send that to you for free for call our resource line the number is 808356747 asked for the study guide on the subject of death the truth about death I next one is rich and he's listening in Canada Richard welcome to the program. Even in the request you recently which received your. Last industry. It piqued my interest because you seem to be teaching that. We should be worse. Yes that's correct. You know we believe that the 10 commandments were not saved by keeping any of the commandments but we believe the 10 Commandments are still 10 they're not 9 and that the commandment about the Sabbath is still one of God's 10 Commandments and the 7th day sabbath. Is not part of the ceremonial law like the Jewish feast days and those annual Sabbath that were really nailed to the cross it's something that began at creation and goes on through it even says and Isaiah the new earth so yeah God said remember to keep the Sabbath day holy We think that he knew we might be inclined to forget and that's what's happened with many churches they forgot about the Sabbath and keeping it holy yes. Church of. Bush promise some do 1st do. You mean. The date Yeah you know I. Know absolutely the week I'm listening to a sermon it's actually a book by a Puritan author in my car right now just an incredible and he talks about the Sabbath they kept the Sabbath very carefully but they kept the wrong day they kept the 1st day and I'm sure God bless them because they did it in sincerity and there's a lot of dear Christians that are keeping the wrong day as a Sabbath you know there are there are people that are celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25th but I think most of us know he wasn't born on December 25th . But if a person wants to keep the Sabbath day on the 7th day the way God says it should be done that's not the 1st day of the week when he rose it's what we would call Saturday and the same day that you still keep today there's no no command in the Bible to keep holy the 1st day of the week the church started doing that through tradition as a compromise for the pagans in Rome. Oh hundreds of years after Christ. And so we are 7th day Sabbath keepers and as are a lot of other Christians out there. We have a Web site dedicated to this subject as well it's called Sabbaths Truth dot com And I'd like to encourage Richard if you take a look at their website and anyone wanting to learn more about this important subject is just Sabbath Truth dot com and there's tons of scriptures that it's read and study and. There's actually videos you can watch dealing with the subject Sabbath Truth dot com You know we're very excited about that site because. When you search on Yahoo or Google and you type in a word like Sabbath or Sabbath day they'll be 91000000 possible sites you could go to and they'll rank on the page the importance of the sites of the value of the sites or how many people visit the site based on what page it is if it's the 10th page or the 1st page this website is usually the 2nd website when you search the subject Sabbath on Google it's because it's got all the information at one place and so we recommend it friends Sabbath truth lots of other people are using that Sabbath treat dot com as a history how to keep the Sabbath you know what were the efforts to change it through history it's an important truth that a lot of Christians are rediscovering and we need that rest we need that blessing that God put into the 7 and I scholars Heidi thank you Richard she is listening in North Highlands California with the program Hi How are you doing well. Ok I'm. We we have there's. Church and they've been going to our church for maybe 25 years or more and. I keep I keep getting the. Feeling that the Holy Spirit telling me to say something and say something but then there's other people in the church that try to. Tell me if I say something like like. I guess kind of like being a hypocrite because my life isn't perfect I shouldn't say anything and I'm not sure what to do because I well know if you've got if you've got 2 people in a church whether they're. Lesbians or homosexuals. And they're openly. Acknowledging that they're practicing that lifestyle people may struggle with tendencies and be Christians in good standing everyone gets is tempted that's different but when a person basically embraces a sentence as look I want everyone to accept it when the Bible clearly condemns it I would hope that the pastors and the leaders in that church would counsel with these individuals and say Now you realize this lifestyle that you're putting forward the Bible says it is wrong that it's a perversion of God's plan Ok and I should be able to talk to my pastor about it and then the best thing would be for yeah you 1st visit with the pastor and you know make sure that. He's aware he may be already counseling and talking to them and so. So you don't double up on people that could be you know dealing with an issue. And then again you may feel impressed that they go to them alone this scripture for that to just approach them and say you know do I misunderstand but do you guys think that this kind of relationship is something that God approves of. And it's pretty clear but you know we've got Romans Chapter one Verse $26.00 and it says For this cause God gave them up to a vial of affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature and likewise the men leaving the natural use of the women burning their less one towards another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meat and they do not retain the knowledge of God or God in their knowledge and it just is very clear when you read through the writings of the New Testament even the Old Testament that. The strongest possible terms are used to condemn and for good a practicing homosexual lifestyle. Oh Ok Ok thank you very very much yeah absolutely you know we have a book that the Who We don't mention often but I think we still carry it and it just talks about the challenge in our age you know the gay community is clamoring for acceptance on every front and they want to be normalized and it's grandstanded in television and it's called Return to Sodom and by Gary Gibson I think if we still carry that will send your free copy Heidi called Return to Saddam the number Kohli's 808356747 in the books in title return to sodomy and that number is 808-356-7478 mix Callie is Karen and. She was listening from Detroit Michigan Karen walking with program Welcome thank you so much for taking my call and happy holiday Likewise thank you. I recently finished a master's program 3rd thing for religion and I'm just trying to find my way and I remember reading a passage in the book that that about and I don't remember the exact number but if that if your mother and father for thank you I'm all that you need but yet I know that period they honor thy mother and I father thought about that very day might be long but if you have a mom and dad that is not seeking God or not in the where God will condemn you will he if you choose not to associate. In a toxic relationship right I think the verse you're talking about is Psalm 27 verse 10 when my father and mother forsake me the Lord will take me up. Yes And I say claim that verse myself because my mother and father were very excited when I became a Christian and thought that I'd go off my rocker. And I said well you know just going to have to let the Our Father in heaven adopt me now the Bible says only your parents in the Lord. You know as far as you can and show respect and honor to your parents you should always they may ask you to engage in conversation or behavior that is against your principles and you're going to have to respectfully disagree with them and say you know mom dad while I love you I can't participate in that yeah and I know you know my mom once asked me to lie about my age when I went to a movie so she'd get a lower rate and that always bothered me and I think I did back then but you know later in my life when my mother or father would ask me to fudge on the truth and say well everyone does it I say well you know I can't do that as a Christian now it's even if it is a small thing it's either true or it's false and I wasn't disrespecting them you know if your parents tell you to go rob a bank because they look I love and respect you but I'm not going to do that and I So on your parents in the Lord as long as it's in in agreement with the principles of God. Right so I think why does that help what of that Abbott area where it is keeping you from being who got wants you to be is the person who got me because I think we are a buyer to be better people want to be Christ like it's far it's not you know what I mean to you if if you need to do that you might write your mom and or dad a letter and say you know mom dad I love you and I respect you but right now I hope you'll understand I need a break in our relationship for a while and you don't want to ever write him off for ever because people change but there's nothing wrong with you know if if there does lead me the wrong way and if you do nothing but fight when you're together then you're right I'm a nice a kind a loving letter and say I hope you'll understand I love and respect you but you know I just I need to have a little space and I want to give you some space and take some time and see if they see their heart soften and maybe things will be better Been there done that in 80 that's why Yeah yeah yeah Ok Ok other thing about that. I'm not I'm not sure if you how do you set and incorporate incorporate career. Like I said I'm new to the prayer experience so if there's something in a bible or if there book that you can suggest where you people that are new in the where yeah we know how to fast and to pray at the same time simultaneously Well 1st of all the book we're offering tonight would be perfect for you and it's called Teach us to pray and are you able to do is really access the Internet. Time well I've got a website when I say I've got a website I've got a sermon on the amazing facts website and it's called when you fast and it was fascinating got a lot more information than I can give you in 30 seconds and so anyone out there if you've got questions on fasting you can go to the website amazing facts dot org and look under the sermon archives and just type in when you fast and you know Jesus didn't say if you fancy said when you think that's assuming that people would and so that's a good question fasting and prayer how do you do that and there's a lot of different ways very quickly you can do a fast where you don't need any food you should still drink water you can fast from certain foods you can fast one meal a day their number ways and you just you're giving yourself more to the feeding of the spirit in the body keeping your head clear and it just really makes you think about spiritual things more if Thank you for your questions Karen and bless you and your new walk with the Lord I mean Eric and he's listening in Michigan Eric welcome to the program Eric in Michigan I love I on the air. Actually Minnesota but so far right. The question I have what should a Christian do when they expect that there's an evil presence in their home or a spirit and a bible offer any guidance or instruction on. Well I don't think that evil spirits . Find a lot of entertainment in possessing 2 by fours and sheet rock I think that there may be spirits that will harass a person and it's not really a house that's haunted Devils don't care about speaking up a building with no one there to care about harassing people and so if you're you know being harassed by a devil and it may happen there may seem like it happens more one place in another I think the answer is just in the name of the Lord pray surrender yourself to God ask Him to take it away and I know this may sound strange but. I would say so what and what I mean by that is I used to be afraid about the devil you know spooky me here and there and things going bump in the night and finally to occurred to me why am I letting that bother me I already know there's a devil I believe in God I believe there's a devil and so when those things happened I just got were ignored it sure and you know what the devil seemed to lose interest because it didn't bother me anymore and then he lost interest and you know once a Christian knows a terrible is out there yeah just now I believe that there are devils and I believe that they try to distract you and calls all kinds of problems and I just said look I'm going to keep my attention on God that I'm not going to get spooked every time the devil wants to spook me sure is there anything in the Bible you know I did some reading just last night nope I got my book to read a lot and you know I've heard other yes on the radio other times but you know these things hate you know the Word of God they do because of the different banks perfect I don't know if there's a specific spot I just called my heart yes read and it led me to a verse the music of God you know it says that when Saul was tormented by an evil spirit David would play this heavenly music and the evil spirits would leave him so Christian music the other thing is reading the Word of God and of them prayer and then our former caller Karen was asking about fasting one time this disciples couldn't cast his evil spirit out of a boy Jesus said this kind only comes out through fasting and prayer so you might spend some time in fasting and prayer recess the Lord to stifle those devils that are doing that and send his angels in the house good angels. You know after the angels do so I could go anyway all right good question they caught him very see at that thank you Eric and by the way we do have a website people wonder about ghosts and we have a new website out there that deals with some of those issues and it's called Ghost Truth dot com ghost Truth dot com We have Gemini's listening in Tennessee Jim welcome to the program. Are you doing that i doing well how can we help you. I was ordered to. Do this and you know I thought I had separate. My body. What did he mean by that well he was using when he said his body and he said I am the bread that came down from heaven. His life was the embodiment of God He said if you seen me you've seen the Father so Jesus is God incarnate God came into human form and everything he said and everything he did God was living out his life in a human form and so he said when you eat my flesh what he meant by that was I'm that bread they came down from heaven and my words are the bread of life and when he said drink my blood he's not you know telling us to resort to being either vampires or cannibals he's just basically saying take my word take my teaching into your life and receive it you know it's in John chapter 6 with Jesus it except eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in yourself in Chap the 60 of John 6 disciples saved in the 1st 60 sorry verse 6 The disciples said this is a hard saying who can understand it saving the disciples of puzzled as to what Jesus meant when he said you have to eat my flesh and drink my blood in response to that Jesus sitting verse 63 and I think this is the point that Pastor you making Jesus said the spirit it is the Spirit gives life the flesh profits nothing the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they all I suggest is explained what he meant by the words that he speaks that's what some belies by his flesh perfect that's really all about the Word of God. And I hope that helps a little bit Jim and that helped a lot with great well we've got a book will be happy to send you and it's called the high cost of the cross and it talks a little bit about these issues. The number Kohli's 88356 m. 47 in the book again these entitled The high cost of the Cross call and ask for it back to send to you we have Brandon who is listening in Michigan Brandon welcome to the program. I know question yes you're on. My question I was asking you where you had said it we're on the radio about. It my kids are very. Very good I just want more about it well you can read in John Chapter 1231 Jesus is speaking and he said now is the judgment of this world now shall the prince of this world be cast out. John 14 verse 30 Jesus is speaking again said here after I will not talk much with you for the prince of this world comes and he has nothing in me and then you can look in John 16 verse 11 he says he's also of righteousness because I go to my father and you'll see me no more of judgment because the prince of this world is judged you know even the devil said to Jesus if you bow down and worship me you know I'm the king of world I'll give you the world so Satan really kidnapped this planet like a hijacker does a plane and Jesus redeemed it back at the cross so the world does belong to the Lord God says you know the Earth is a lord in the fullness thereof but the people in the world most of them are sinners they're on the broad road to destruction and they're being controlled by the devil and so that's really what that's talking about Brandon and I hope it didn't mean to confuse anyone I don't want to understate the power of Christ but Jesus recognized that the devil has taken possession of most of the people and places in this world . And it's only through Christ Greater is He that is in you that he that is in the world again would like to remind anyone wanting to learn more about the subject to call and ask for the study guide did God create a devil in the number to call is 808356747 the study got a uni's to God create a devil you will go to the amazing facts website amazing facts dot orgy and if you type in the search box at the website I just type in it did God create a devil you can actually read the study guide for free online I even think about in the Lord's Prayer when we say Viking I'm calm why would we pray Thy Kingdom come except it's not here right there's another king that's contesting the kingdom of God but friends Jesus the King of Kings he's going to be victorious in the end you can probably tell we've got run out of time but in the last couple seconds amazing facts dot org We'd love to hear from you you can keep us on the air by making a donation just click donate contact us let us know God bless We'll talk again next week. 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