January 13, 2021 Show with Dr. Robert E. Brunansky on “A Biblical Antidote to Pessimism in Very Dark & Disturbing Days”

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And I am thrilled to have a very first-time guest today on the program. His name is Dr. Robert E. Bernanski, and he is pastor of Desert Hills Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona. I first became familiar with Dr. Rob when I saw him as a fill-in host for Dr. James R. White of Alpha and Omega Ministries on the Dividing Line program.

This was back in December when I heard him do a phenomenal program on why Desert Hills Bible Church in Phoenix had refused to shut down amidst the mandates and hysteria predominantly being perpetuated by those in political power on the left and those that fall into line whenever the left barks their orders.

And I was so impressed by that program that Dr. Rob did on the Dividing Line that I posted the link to that. And I'm sure if you go to AOMIN .org, that's the website for Alpha and Omega Ministries, you can find with a search engine, I'm sure, all of the occasions, the programs during which Dr. Rob was the fill-in host for Dr. James R. White.

And just for your information, since you'll be likely using a search engine, his last name is spelled B as in boy, R-U-N-A-N-S-K-Y. But it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Shepherd's Iron Radio, Dr. Robert E. Bernanski.

Appreciate you having me.

Hey, it's great to have you on. And today we are going to be discussing, and I think a very appropriate theme, a very timely theme, a very necessary theme, a biblical antidote to pessimism and very dark and disturbing days.

But before we enter into our conversation on that subject, Dr. Rob, please let our listeners know about Desert Hills Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona.

Yeah, thanks. Unbelievers and seeking to glorify God quite a bit. And you can find series on social justice, gospel of Luke. We're going through Ephesians right now. I did a 12-part more, and you can find that on our YouTube channel.

Here are 10 years, and it's been a real joy to be up.

I'm assuming that since my dear friend of many years, going back to 1995, Rich Pierce, who is the president of Alpha and Omega Ministries, where Dr. James R. White is the apologist. I'm assuming that since Rich Pierce is a member of your church, that you are theologically reformed.

The last 10 years as I've been there, we've moved. The church has moved in that direction, and we are voting.

Great, and I'm just dying to know. I'm sure the curiosity has been raised even amongst our listeners. Your series on eschatology, what stance do you take on that very controversial issue?

Yeah, you know, it's come down on days a week, and probably there's a lot more weaknesses.

Yes, and even though we are going to be discussing a biblical antidote to pessimism, you still have the eschatology of historic premillennialism, which many folks would say is a pessimistic view.

That's right. You can still have the hope.

And by the way, I'm going to give our listeners our email address right now in the event that you'd like to join us with a question of your own. We are discussing, as I said earlier, a biblical antidote to pessimism in very dark and disturbing days.

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Please only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter. And I can understand since our theme involves these very dark and disturbing days that you may have an issue that has brought you to the depths of despair and depression that may lead you to want to remain anonymous.

I understand that. Perhaps even you have come to disagree theologically, doctrinally, or in practice with your own pastors or your denomination, and you'd rather remain anonymous. Or perhaps even you're a pastor and you've come to disagree with your own elders or your own denomination or fellowship or the predominant number of folks in your congregation, and you'd rather not make this public yet.

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But we have a tradition here, Dr. Rob, on Iron Sherpa's Iron Radio, whenever we have a first-time guest, we like to have that guest give a summary of their salvation testimony, which would include the type of religious atmosphere you were raised in, if any, and what kind of providential circumstances our sovereign Lord raised up in your life that drew you to himself and saved you.

Yeah, great. Not knowing, not attending church, you know, just from the time I was a baby, I was growing up in that tradition. And I do remember when I was young, probably, and my baseball card would judge me for my sin, and continued to grow.

And so, nothing's helping me grow in understanding of it. So, I'm very grateful for that testimony and for the presence of God in my life.

Now, how did you realize, specifically, in your Christian walk, that God had given you a call to enter into pastoral ministry?

Yeah, you know, initially, I was listening to a lot of solid Bible teaching, history, even div, and then about halfway, to be something in mindset, in dedication, called me two minutes, knew me before now.

And yeah, as a matter of fact, I think that's when God called me into ministry, seeking to honor the Lord through that.

Praise God.

Well, as I said, this is a very timely and, I think, necessary issue to address as brothers in Christ today, a biblical antidote to pessimism in very dark and disturbing days. I have been quite depressed, not only due to personal matters in my own life, lately, that have been magnified, but also, I've been down in the dumps, as it were, discouraged, angry about the things that seem to be angering and frustrating a lot of folks in the body of Christ, especially those from our theological point of view, although we are definitely not a monolith.

There are people who I think are part of the problem that is causing the frustration and depression. But, you know, we see, many of us, a new regime and government, which will be reigning here in the United States, where we fear those precious rights and privileges we have as Christians, and even as citizens, are going to, one by one, be stolen from us.

We fear that this election itself, and elections, plural, actually, that have taken place, many of us fear that they have been wrought with fraud and deception and theft. And we have seen people who raise objections to the elections being viewed as nut jobs, as being morons.

We see people who were once, at some level, political heroes of ours, who seem to have turned their backs on us as voters. You know, there's a lot of things going on that have brought people to the depths of depression, even people who are having a much harder time than I am having, people who have lost their careers, their livelihoods, their businesses, because of leftist totalitarian governments mandating their businesses to shut down for prolonged periods of time, with no real scientific basis for doing so.

And of course, there are even loved ones who have perished, audience members that are listening to this, perhaps, whose loved ones have perished because of the coronavirus, most typically older folks.

So there's all kinds of things going on in the dawn of 2021 that are leading many of us to despair. And I just want you to help us through this biblically, why Christians should never be felt as if all hope is lost, and just wallowing in depression and discouragement is really not the answer for a Bible-believing Christian, even though that is a temptation for many of us and a sin that many of us commit.

I think that's a huge temptation to become anxious and Christ is intended to function. You know, we see afternoon, you know, we'll probably each other and you, yeah, you know, then you add in that this is being closed to discourage people, you know, the big text, even though right here among you, or these negative events and privileges are shouldn't be surprised.

I speak to out me thinking about family members and things like that, things being lost, but at the same time, that's a challenge for me when I think about a week from having joy. Yeah, when you were talking about how the Bible is clear that we should not be surprised at all.

When trials come our way, either individually or as the body of Christ as a whole, I can remember when I was a new Christian and the church where I was saved and where I was a member, we were going on and on for years with no significant problem.

And I started to actually wonder, in fact, I think I may have even told my pastors at the time. I think that we as a church are in for a crisis and a trial or trials plural, because I can't believe that the devil intends to leave us alone while we are prospering numerically, growing in droves.

People were coming into the church and joining the church and membership in numbers that required us to begin looking for a new building. There were no deaths for quite a number of years, no public scandals, no overt scandalous, wicked sins that we were aware of being committed by members.

And I just kept thinking, this is too good. And although I was expecting trials to come, the specific trials that came were a shock and were a surprise. So it can be both, can't it? I mean, we could be fully expecting trials and tribulations, but sometimes the forms in which they come are a shock.

That's right.

Yeah, you guys probably all know. That's one of the big confusions.

In fact, we're going to pick up right where you left off there when we come back from our first station break. Absolutely. If anybody would like to join us on the air again, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N, gmail .com.

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We are now back with our guest today, who happens to be the pastor of a dear friend of mine, Rich Pierce, the president of Alpha and Omega Ministries, the ministry of apologists, Dr. James R. White, and Dr. Robert E. Bernanski is pastor of Desert Hills Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona.

We are addressing a biblical antidote to pessimism in very dark and disturbing days. If you have a question of your own that you'd like to send in, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com. Chrisarnsen at gmail .com.

Give us your first name, city and state, and country of residence. And before I take any listener questions, Pastor Rob, do you want to pick up where you left off and add anything to what you were already saying?

Yeah, I was, you know, the Word of God helps us and, you know, from being here to keep on rejoicing.

Praise God.

Okay, we have a listener from Moundville, Alabama. And his name is Ted. And he asks, your guest commented on the restrictions that churches are facing. As a result of the pandemic saying, in effect, that these restrictions were designed to disable the church.

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You know, you can look at what's going on in California with a new target of the shutdown is surely meeting or a lot of people aren't meeting. And forms be shut down, which could be wiped out. His target is the church and the kingdom of darkness.

He can't succeed on the people of God.

And in a more lighthearted vein, Ted asks, has your church experienced any negative feedback over the fact that you greatly resemble actor Ray Romano? I don't know if anybody has ever said that to you before.

Your photograph on your website is rather small. So I couldn't see the resemblance, but maybe Ted is seeing something that I can't quite pick up on.

Yeah, once in a while.

I definitely are. And while I'm at it, I might as well give a shout out.

I don't think anybody's left the church over it, though.

Might as well give a shout out to my friend, Rich Romano, who is Ray Romano's brother, lives on Long Island. And if you're listening, Rich, I hope that you are starting to visit Hope Reform Baptist Church in Coram, Long Island, New York.

And if you haven't yet, you better get over there or you're going to hear a lecture from me the next time I speak with you. We have Susan Margaret in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, who says, I am hearing from very theologically sound people that we as conservatives and Christians have to be very careful not to allow our bitterness and anger and even, dare I say, hatred towards those on the left cause us to disobey the scriptures when it comes to giving honor to our leaders that is due them, no matter how much we may oppose their ideology and their political agenda.

Do you have any counsel on how we can lessen our frustration, bitterness, anger, and even hatred that we might harbor towards someone like Joe Biden, who we believe has been involved in the greatest theft in political history, not to mention all of that has been going on in Ukraine and China with his family gaining millions of dollars illegally, et cetera.

But this is Susan Margaret in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

Yeah. Yeah. So I agree with Susan. I think there's ample evidence. Unfortunately, there isn't a court in the country that has the courage. You know, a proverb pretty well concludes, the only reason they're doing that is responded to the accusations, vindicates their...

But that doesn't to be, I think the Timothy two should be praying again, I think in the praying for that as well, that the evil doers, that praying for God's justice to be made known. But we think about some of these evil doers, the garment of violence covers them.

You know, if you look at, these are the tongue parade, he's seeking to be obedient, betrayed the generation of your... And again, there's just the people of God to hear the word of God.

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I'm pleased to do so and would like to ask you to prayerfully consider joining me in supporting Iron Sharpens Iron financially. Would you consider sending either a one-time gift or even becoming a regular monthly partner with this ministry?