August 10, 2021 Show with John Crotts on “Hope: Living Confidently in God”

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Good afternoon Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Lake City, Florida, and the rest of humanity living on the planet earth who are listening via live streaming at ironsharpensironradio .com. This is Chris Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Tuesday on this 10th day of August 2021, and I'm thrilled to have back on the program a returning guest for the first 90 minutes.

He is Pastor John Kratz, an author, a board member of the Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals, also known as FIRE, and senior pastor at Faith Bible Church of Sharpsburg, Georgia. We are going to be addressing his new book, published by PNR Publishing, Hope, Living Confidently in God, and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Pastor John Kratz.

Well, thank you so much, Chris. It's a joy to be with you today.

And why don't you let our listeners know about the Faith Bible Church of Sharpsburg, Georgia.

Yeah, so our website is US, and we are located on the south side of Atlanta, 1995. It has grace 26 years, generally through...

And how would you describe the Faith Bible Church, theologically?

Well, we would be, and we would be the master center of the divinity ministry, so I think when you come to visit, you get a warmth by week, really great. And I understand you operate there a counseling center.

We do, we do. We're part of the Association of Certified... So we have a training center as well, dynamic, so we kind of make a joke that everybody very nice and say that my job is a.

Subject. Yeah, I remember an old preacher from Mississippi many years ago told me in his gravelly southern accent, when he found out that I was from New York, where I originally lived for the majority of my life, he said, you folks in New York got it easy.

You just gotta get people saved. We gotta get them lost, then get them saved. That's right. And tell us about the Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals, where you serve on the.

Yeah, one more thing about our counseling ministry, because of the dynamic of the Co-Canada and then we're a network where we have fellowship together and encourage been part of it since... Well, their website, if anybody is interested in finding out more about FIRE,.

The Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals, go to firefellowship .org, firefellowship .org. And once again, to repeat the website of Faith Bible Church in Sharpsburg, Georgia, where John is the senior pastor, go to faithbiblechurch .us, faithbiblechurch .us.

Why Write a Book on Hope and Confident Living in God

Well, John, as you probably know, there are numerous books already available in print before you wrote your book on a subject that would be either identical or somewhat related to the concept of living confidently in God.

And of course, probably most of them are heretical and horrible and garbage, because they're giving the wrong people confidence that they are truly in God. They very often are lifting up the spirits and salving the consciences of unrepentant, unregenerate individuals.

And sometimes the books are actually reaching true believers, but seeking to instill confidence in them for the wrong reasons and the wrong ways. But why is it that you said to yourself, you know, I've got to write my own book on hope, living confidently in God?

Well, I had a pastor, and we were having breakfast. Scenarios, you were positive things. Why do you think that guy is so punchline? And instead, he said, the reason why he so always gives a positive message, negative play with the shock that I wasn't going to get a punchline.

We're the ones, we're the ones who have the right foundation and yet confidence.

Well, praise God. I think that this will be a valuable tool for reformed folk as well. Not only those that have a charismatic or Pentecostal understanding of confidence that is non-biblical, unbiblical, anti-biblical.

There are, I believe, and perhaps you agree with this, there are quite a number of reformed people, I believe, who also, although using the right vocabulary and having the right concepts laid out when they are going through a crisis, when they are experiencing a serious illness or witnessing something like that in the lives of others that they love, they rightly will put their trust in God and say that they will trust in what God's will is in those various circumstances.

But at the same time, I think that it is all too often the case that reformed folks such as us are overly pessimistic in God's will being the same as their own in regard to a situation being resolved or an ailment being healed.

Do you follow what I'm saying?

I think so. I heard David Pallison about God's sovereignty. We also need to remind those people God is so kind to us. I think that there's everything out to get us. He even gives unbelievers the beauty of God's sovereignty, a negative outcome in our lives.

Amen. I just want to read a couple of endorsements for this book. First of all, Brian Borgman, who is founding pastor at Grace Community Church in Minden, Nevada, says, John has excelled in this devotional format, turning the angles of biblical hope like a diamond, bringing forth the true hope we have in Jesus and his hope-giving word.

Beautifully stated endorsement. And also Stuart Scott, professor of biblical counseling and graduate program of the Master's Seminary. I should say professor of biblical counseling at the graduate program of the Master's University.

He says, John has written what I'd like to call spiritual B12 shots of hope. I encourage readers of this great book to take their own daily dose of hope in God and his promises and to spread it around.

Very excellent and powerful endorsements for this book. Well, why don't you start at the place where a lot of people who are going to be looking for a book like this, looking for encouragement like this, there are innumerable reasons why people need to be reminded of God's goodness.

They could be, as I've already mentioned, they could be seriously ill. They could be going through a divorce. They could have some kind of tragedy in the family regarding their children. They could be unemployed.

You could go on and on and on why people are giving up hope. People are tragically even perhaps on the brink of suicide. They are driven to despair. They are mourning and grieving the loss of a loved one.

Tell us the first thing that somebody grabbing this book when they're in any kind of a state of desperation and sadness and sorrow, what they should be doing to prepare themselves mentally and spiritually as they open the pages.

Of this book. Exactly right. I remember early by somebody who said we only need hope when they many people going through measure of to be by the Lord of difficulty. And I would just first I would I think I would say I really appreciate the 31 day devotional Raju from format is simply it's just a two page.

I'm thinking about the person where they might not be able to handle a biblical treatment. One at one feels like it is right. Amen. And one thing.

Turning to God Instead of Numbing Pain

That people very often tragically do and this is not only people outside of the body of Christ. I myself am guilty even as a Christian. Returning as a as a dog returns to his own vomit. I returned to the sin of habitual and really scandalous drunkenness for a season in my life.

I had when I came to Christ, I gave up drinking altogether. I was a really critically serious drunkard as a young man. Gave up booze, cold turkey as a new believer in Christ and remain sober for 18 years.

And then when things got difficult in my life, I fell back on a crutch and probably abused the substance of alcohol more than I did before I was in a before I was a Christian. And thankfully, I was put under church discipline.

In fact, by one of the sons of members of your church, the Grimaldi. Mark Grimaldi and Pastor Doug Totter put me under church discipline. And I think this is also a reminder to people or even maybe a first time introduction.

Discipline is not meant to be something horrible that happens to you. It's meant for the opposite reason. It's meant to restore you to God and to fellowship with the church. Absolutely. And I not only was under discipline, but I went to Hebron Colony in Boone, North Carolina, which is a Christian ministry, a Christian drug and alcohol recovery ministry or addiction recovery ministry for men.

They have a sister ministry in Asante, South Carolina called Grace Home. But I went to Hebron Colony in Boone, North Carolina, and thank God I left there totally delivered from even the inclination of the desire to drink again.

I'm not saying that everybody who leaves there leaves in the same mindset, but thank God that was the case for me. And I say this long-winded thing or explanation because I know that people all too often do not want to experience the mental anguish and pain and discomfort of a trial and they reach for something to numb themselves.

And that's one thing we should tell people. Even if you believe in a liberty to moderately drink responsibly and so on, that when you're going through something that's real serious, it would be wise to reconsider even tasting anything like that, at least during the period that you're going through the trial.

Am I right there?

Well, absolutely, especially if that's been an absolutely forbidding or drunkenness. And so we don't want to use, tell you to, we need to receive. But I know where good is it, you know, confidence, stronger I'll be to do the hard work, eventual deliverance.

I mean, in your situation, no doubt, this wasn't just one of the things you want to do any kind of crisis. But in fact, could you pick up on that when we return from our first advertising break?

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The Meaning of Hope and God’s Best Answer to Prayer

Welcome back. This is Chris Arnzen. And if you just tuned us in, our guest today for the entirety of the program, actually not for the entirety of the program, for the first 90 minutes of the program, he will be followed by Andrew Rappaport of Striving for Eternity Ministries.

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And I asked you before we went to the break to give us some biblical examples of how God gives us hope. But I think even before you do that, we should get a correct definition of what hope is, because in our vernacular, in this day and age, and perhaps even for centuries, very often, if not most often, hope is usually used in a pessimistic fashion.

In fact, Christians who believe they can lose their salvation, even if they are genuinely born again, sometimes if you ask them the question, do you believe you're going to heaven when you die? They will say, on occasion, I hope so.

And you will have that word used in various other ways when it's being expressed as an indication of pessimism, something that you want to happen, but you really aren't sure or you doubt it will happen.

But give us a correct definition, especially how you're using it in your title.

Right. Important distinction. We do have, if somebody was sick, there's not a guarantee from God that they will be healed. Grace to the future is kind of a negative thing. Do we have grace? We're thinking about the retreat he has made us, his Jesus, those who, we're not just, you know, wouldn't we be confident?

Yes. And although God very often does answer the prayers of his children, according to what they are asking from him, he also exceeds in how he answers those prayers, even far greater things than they are asking.

But one thing about a Reformed understanding of God's sovereignty is that as a believer, we know however God answers a prayer, even if it looks in this life on this earth, nothing like what we are asking for.

It is the best answer, because if we are his children, he will never answer a prayer or ignore a prayer in such a way that brings about something that will intend our ultimate harm. Even when a believer may pray to be healed and he dies of an illness, he is obviously in eternity with Christ, experiencing no sorrow, no pain.

But God will always answer a prayer in the best way. Am I correct on that? I mean, when I'm talking about, of course, his true children here.

Right. Yes, definitely. God's plan is the best possible. If we knew all that God was up to, we would never have any reason why we don't. The reason why we have to add to that would be because I care. We have a listener who wants to ask about 1 Peter 5, verse 7.

Let's see. I just had that.

Question in front of me. Where is it? Oh, Mike from Monroe, New York. He says, All your care upon him because he cares for you. May your guest please offer some pertinent comments upon us, upon this passage of Scripture.

Okay. I love this verse. Yes, anxieties on him. He's in the word care. He's not too busy to hear your prayers. He's called upon you to come. He's given you promises. I'm very full. Sunday sermon made us is so much better.

Instead, God has not just made us. It's what God does here.

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Just make sure you email me your full mailing address in Monroe, New York. We have an anonymous listener who says, Many of my friends are Pentecostal and charismatic. And very often, even if they are not a member of the extreme version of those things known as the Word of Faith movement, which is completely and utterly heretical, there seems to be an overconfidence expressed by them in the way that they pray, saying things like, I command this to happen, and that if any doubt were to rise up in your mind about something being answered exactly the way you are praying, it is sin, et cetera, et cetera.

How is the confidence you are speaking of.

Today different from that? Yes, Mike, the confidence that we are charismatic, but say in a presumption, we dare not come into God's presence, presume from the garden when he prayed that if it was submitted his will to God's, the Father's will, and prayed, not my will, but yours be done.

God's Word lined up with Scripture. When our prayers are lined up with our wishfulness on the danger, sometimes we don't know. Amen. And one of the travesties.

And absurdities of the many heresies involved in the Word of Faith movement is that if your prayers would always be answered the way that you want them to be answered, you very often would be bringing curses upon yourself, because God, being omnipotent, knows what the true best way to answer your prayer is, and that is very often not what you think it is.

Right. And sometimes God lets us know this, right? Right. There's been times in our life where we've seen that that prayer had been answered like I initially prayed about God's.

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