Questions and Answers with Andrew Rappaport

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Does light have mass? Yes, and no. Light happens to function as both a wave and a particle as a particle. Light does have mass as a wave light does not have mass. It is a trick question. Just saying all right.

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Jesus Calling and Discernment About Inspired Books

So let's begin we do we have we have some already in the chat room. Let me let me try to answer some that are in the chat room, which send that over to me because I didn't see it. Okay. There we go. So have.

The first question is have you had people speaking to you about Jesus calling. All right. So Jesus calling is a book. What's her name. Sarah something. I forget her last name. I'm sorry. I do have the book downstairs.

What we have with that is. We have a woman who wrote a book and it's really important to understand how she wrote this book how she claims. She wrote this book. She claims in the introduction at least the first edition that she was she really didn't write the book, but that a spirit possessed her and wrote the book.

Now if a spirit is possessing you and it's not the Holy Spirit. It's a demon. Okay, the fact that she wrote some things there are some things I can't recall recall offhand. I could I could look it up, but there are some things that she wrote that are you know, not in line with scripture.

Which means God didn't write it wasn't Holy Spirit writing as she claims. And if if she's claiming that she was possessed by a spirit and it's the Holy Spirit then what she's writing is scripture. What's that young a Sarah young?

Okay. There we go. Thank you. Someone's put in the chat room. Okay, Sarah young is her name and so basically what you have is you have a woman that is claiming that she Was inspired to write this by a spirit now.

It is either gonna be scripture or it's not if it's scripture. That's because it's written by the Holy Spirit if she's as she claims is not scripture. But written by a spirit that would be demonic and you should avoid it.

Just because it's written in a devotional way doesn't mean it's it's a good thing to be reading. So we need to be careful with that book. Another question that just came in why did Paul have Timothy circumcised the Jewish believers have Have to do things that are not required of Gentiles.

All right. Good question what we see in the New Testament. We see that that Timothy Paul felt the need to circumcise Timothy. Timothy was had Jewish mother and grandmother, but Was well Had a Gentile father and so he was not circumcised and Paul felt the need to circumcise him now note Paul did not feel the need to circumcise Titus.

So there's a difference there. I think the difference is is that when Timothy and Paul were ministering they were ministering specifically to Jewish people and In the temple or the synagogues where they would have had an issue because Timothy was well known being a Son of a Greek man and because of that it would it could have been an issue.

We don't know everything that was going on at the time. But we do know that there was a difference that Paul made with Timothy Versus Titus where Titus there wasn't the need to circumcise him Timothy.

There was he felt an Ouch that hurts as an adult you feel it. I don't remember my circumcision. I was eight days old. I'm glad for that. But the reality is is he was circumcised and Paul felt it necessary for his testimony a Couple things with that is what would you be willing to do or give up for your testimony for Christ's sake?

Just saying it's not to think about. Okay, I was just asked if I have any other any resources that I could give for for Jesus calling book. I would actually say I don't know if he has anything. Justin Peters.

Justin Peters ministries has a lot of things out there. I'm sure he has something on that book. He has spoken on that book. He will be speaking by the way at NorCal fire just saying if you want to come out and attend it.

You know you can come. You know, what's that. Oh NorCal fire dot info. NorCal fire dot info second week in September Jason Justin should be out there. So if we get if you get some questions throw them into the chat room, please and if you're logged in as a guest in the chat room, please try to log in as yourself create a Chat we I guess is what we're using chat.

We account so that we would be able to. We'd be able to know who you are. Oh. Okay, let me look there. I was just told there's another book to mention in the chat good book quote another Jesus unquote calling by Warren B Smith, I have not read this book, but someone in the chat says that is another book you can use.

So That would be Something I'm hearing that I did see though. Did you see it. Mitch is doing a dance? I would like to see a video of that Mitch doing a dance. What was he dancing at the the answer to Timothy and Titus the fact that he wasn't circumcised or you don't know.

Okay, he was just doing a dance. He just did a dance. All right. Mitchell is dancing. If you don't know who Mitchell is that's because you haven't been to one of our spreading the fire offense just saying All right.

Evil, Divine Sovereignty, and the Problem of Morality

So, let's start with the first. This question actually comes up. I think at any Q &A almost. But here's the first question. I get asked this a lot. How could? There be a God if there is evil in the world.

It's also worded as if God is all-powerful and all-good. Why is there evil the assumption? This is a question actually that's popularized by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins asked this question if if God is all-powerful and All good.

Why is there evil? The assumption he's making is that if God's all-powerful and he's good he must stop evil. That does not necessarily Compute just because God is good and just because God is Powerful doesn't mean he's gonna stop evil.

He's gonna do what's within his nature. He allowed evil to happen so let me start with the first the theological answer then I'm gonna answer how I would answer a Person on the street who doesn't believe in God.

The theological answer would be this that the fact that God allows evil is because God in his nature has decided that he's going to allow such things and In doing so it is part of his nature. Why. Because we see evil.

That means it's part of his nature. He allows it. It doesn't mean he causes it. But that being said What you have is people trying to say that one attribute negates another attribute like God's righteous holiness his wrath his justice all of those things is we in God allowing for Evil in the world it allows for his justice his mercy his grace his long-suffering His his Holiness his righteousness to be seen all these things make no sense.

If he didn't allow sin if you didn't allow evil. So in allowing evil it allows him to put other attributes of his on display now. He didn't force the evil. Satan was the first being to fall. If you remember in our classes on Systematic theology we address that in the fall of Satan and the fall of man and so.

Now how would I answer someone on the street because I'm not gonna give them that theological answer. I'm gonna give him a different question. And I'm gonna ask it as a question. If there is no God, how can you in your worldview explain evil?

You see when the professing atheist says that there's evil in the world. What's evil? I mean, how do you define evil. Evil is the absence of good? But how do you define good without God you can't? Ultimately what you can just say is that this is my preference or you can say might makes right.

I mean who's ever in power gets to make the decisions. But if you're gonna say who's ever in power gets to make the decisions, then can you honestly say that rape is wrong? No, you can't because that's a might makes right decision.

The person who's mightier gets to win if the if the girl is mightier she beats the guy up. If The guy is mightier he beats the girl up and rapes her. I mean, you know, it's that's basically a thing the victim if the victim is stronger The victim isn't raped and if the victim is not stronger The victim is raped and when you look at that does might make right?

No rape is wrong in every situation. Therefore When someone says rape is always wrong. Then might doesn't make right. Well, what about society? So if society says rape is right, then is it okay? You're gonna hear people that I'll say some crazy things to that.

They'll be oh, yeah, it's okay. Because you don't want to give up what they know to be true. I remember open-air preaching on a college campus in New Jersey. Yes I think was city in New Jersey and I had a gentleman named Kevin and he was trying to argue.

There was no absolute morality because if there's an absolute morality There's got to be an absolute moral lawgiver. And so he was struggling with this and so what he are. I asked him a question. I said Kevin.

It is was Hitler wrong. And he said Hitler was crazy. I said I didn't ask if he's crazy was Hitler wrong. He didn't want to answer that. Why didn't he want to answer it? Well because if Hitler Was wrong Then there's an absolute standard and what happened out what I didn't know at the time was his sociology class was out there and they all had come out and They were watching him in this open air and one of the students because he's like Hitler was crazy.

Hitler was it was nuts. Hitler was just wacko. He's saying all these things one of his classmates says why Kevin just say Hitler was wrong and Kevin Let's slip out of his mouth. What he knew to be true.

He said I can't he turns his friend. I can't say that he's wrong because if I say these wrong then there's a morale an absolute morality and that proves God exists. And I said, thank you very much Kevin you see people will say crazy things, but the reality is that if Atheism is true.

There is no such thing as morality. We are just chemical reactions. Chemical reactions don't produce right and wrong. They just produce chemical reactions. So if I'm on the street and someone asks me that I argue that you are already accepting my worldview.

When you accept evil because evil is not something you can explain from your worldview. You can only explain it from the Christian worldview from a God who is good and is the definition of good. Therefore anything opposing to him is evil.

That'd be the answer to that one. We have another one in the chat. All right. How often so brother Ricky Gantz from G 220 radio asked this question. How often should a church take communion. Good question.

There is actually no real good answer to that. Some churches the first church I was in we used to take communion every fifth Sunday of the month. We would have a special lunch Service with lunch and during the lunch we'd take communion.

The church that I'm in now we do it the first Sunday of every month actually many of the churches I've been into it the first Sunday of every month I did attend a church that used to do it every Sunday.

Is there anything wrong with doing it every Sunday? No, is there anything sinful not doing it every Sunday? No. How often did the first century church do it? Well Acts chapter 2 42 to 46 seems to indicate That the church did it every week.

Maybe maybe even more often. As many as much as they gathered they broke bread now. There's two senses of breaking bread. And if you read that passage I gave you an axe to that breaking of bread is mentioned twice.

Now once I think it's the breaking of bread meaning a fellowship and another time I think it's the breaking of bread meaning the Lord's Supper. And so I think that they actually met in the early days weekly and I believe in.

The did a K the did a K is an early early writing. It's basically an instructional Book to the church kind of a how-to guide for the church and it seems to indicate that they would take of communion on a Regular basis almost weekly.

So there's not a hard fast thing. Now we let me get into some other interesting things. Can you have communion if you're shut in? The communion is supposed to represent the body of Christ the unity of the body of Christ.

And what Christ did for us and so a shut-in you go to a shut-in. Can they have partaking communion because the whole church isn't there? I think that you can have communion some people. Presbyterians would be against what's called private communion.

I think you could do that in some cases. I don't think it's wrong to have a dinner and have a time of reflection. Self-reflection on what Christ did on the cross. I think that's perfectly fine. Presbyterians probably would not take it that way.

And they would say you have to have an elder that's presiding over it and should be part of it. And you can't have your own church. You can't have your own church. You know, I think it's a good idea that you have a church service, but I wouldn't I really wouldn't see an issue with it.

Church Discipline and the Witnesses in Matthew 18

Here's a question that came in another one. Is there any of no? Okay, no more in the chat. So you guys in the chat get active here. Here's one that came in from Jersey Fire that was given to me. I was speaking at Jersey Fire on characteristics and traits of a disciple and discipler.

Out of Matthew 18, which people go, wait, what kind of passage is that to be preaching out of for discipleship? Well, actually it's good. It covers being a childlike, having a childlike faith, being humble and honest and teachable.

Talks about being protective, another characteristic. And I looked at Jersey Fire, I looked at the fact that we, you know, that disciples should be encouraging and not belittling. We looked at discipline and then we looked at being forgiving as a mark of that, of a disciple and discipler.

So here's a question when I was talking about discipline. The question is, in context of discipline, do you feel it acceptable to have the step of witnesses to be separate visits rather than a group meeting?

Otherwise, how literal do you apply this or is there room for flexibility based on circumstances, timing and availability, etc.? Let me first start with giving the background and do I have it? Yeah, thank you.

All right, here's, I have this chart that you can get on our website. I think it's like two or two, two dollars, two dollars, fifty cents. Process of reconciliation. It's a nice little flowchart. Looks really cool.

Actually, this is the old one. You want to get the new one. This is the old one. Newer one's a little better. Looks a little better. But in this, what you have is an explanation of how we should be going about the reconciliation process.

When it comes to confronting someone and you have to go to them. What was it? The banging was too loud? I'm sorry. I blew your ears. I blew the engineer's headphones off. All right. Well, I'm glad. You know what?

Just for that, no, I won't do it again. All right. So, but what we have in church discipline, when it comes to disciplining, what one of the things I taught is that the first step, step number one, is you go to the person that sinned against you alone.

You don't go to other people first. You go to them directly. You go to them alone. The idea is to keep this as private as you possibly can. If the person agrees, if there's agreement on the sin, this is not, you know, that I come to you and I say, hey, I don't like the way you comb your hair.

That's not a sin. I got to be able to identify it in Scripture. And we got to agree that this is a sin, a sin issue. You know, look, you're committing adultery. You're cheating on your wife. You're having sex with someone outside of marriage.

That's a clear sin. So, in a case like that, we're going to address that. Now, if the person refuses to repent, that's when we go to step two. What's step two? Step two is that we go to them with two or three witnesses.

Now, let me explain some of the witnesses. And this is, I want to give some background before I answer the question. Witnesses does not mean that I go to my best friends and say, hey, come on, let's go approach this person and confront them.

No, I'm going to get two impartial people. I'm going to try to get someone that is completely impartial, that has no favoritism toward the other person or me, all right? And I'm going to try to get them to be a witness.

Now, what that means is I'm not going to go to them and gossip and tell them the situation ahead of time, all right? Because that's going to cause not only both of us to be in the sin of gossip, me giving it and them receiving it, but it's going to cause them to prejudge the situation.

Now, what you do is you go to someone and say, hey, look, would you come meet with me and another brother? Well, hey, Andrew, what's the situation here? You'll find out when we get together. I want you to hear both our sides at the same time so that you can see whether this person is refusing to repent or maybe you're going to tell me that I'm the one that's in sin.

So, come listen. And so, I would go a second time. Now, I think the first one when you go one-on-one and the one with witnesses are clearly separate events, okay? Now, if the person, you go with two or three witnesses and they refuse to repent still.

Now, those witnesses have witnessed the unrepentance. So, there's no restored relationship. Then, the third step is you go back to the church and you send the whole church after this person. You say, look, we had two or three witnesses that witnessed the unrepentance.

There is an issue here that needs to be dealt with. This is the issue. We're calling the church to go to this brother, go to this sister and call them to repentance to be restored in the fellowship. And so, the whole church starts calling them on the phone, you know, visiting them, Facebook messaging them privately.

So, that's where you want to do. Now, when you do that, if they still refuse to repent, then what you want to do is assume they're not a believer. Now, the steps between two or three witnesses and the going to the church, again, they're separate.

The last step is that the church actually votes to put the person out of the church and treat them like they're an unbeliever. Again, the whole goal in all this is restoration. So, it doesn't mean you excommunicate them and you put them at a farm, you never talk to them.

No, you share the gospel with them is what you do. And you hope that they'll repent and see their need for Christ because you got to assume that they're unsaved. Maybe they're just extremely, extremely disobedient.

And in that case, then again, you share the gospel and hope that they come to repentance of their sin and that they would be restored to the fellowship. That's something you want to focus on. So, I would say each one of these are separate events.

How quickly do you do each one of these? Well, it's going to depend on the sin and the situation. Paul seems to say that we should be a little bit quicker when someone sins publicly in such a way that it's an offense to the church.

1 Corinthians 5, a man is sleeping with his father's wife, I think it's a stepmother, and basically Paul's saying, no, you confront this and you do it public. Because what he's doing is well-known by the Gentiles and it's a stain on the purity of the church.

And that's the goal. It's restoration to protect the purity of the church, all right? So, that's how I would answer. And there is a lot that goes into the when do you do it, the timing and all that stuff.

And that's where this thing that I have that you can get at strivingforeternity .org. Go to the store, you can get the card, the process of reconciliation card. That flowchart will help you to know when should you go to someone, when should you not.

All right? So, all right. I'm just trying to look to see if there's anything else in the chat. You guys are kind of quiet in chat. Usually when we do these Q &A sessions, you guys come with all kinds of questions.

And usually I have a tough time answering them. All right. This question came in and you can tell this, again, this is from Jersey Fire when the topic was discipleship. Is there a good way to do discipleship, small group, one-on-one, classroom style at church, in homes?

What's the best way to do it? Well, it's going to depend. I mean, truthfully discipleship should be one-on-one. And so, you want to do it one-on-one if you can. And if you can't, then you want to, you know, I mean, there's times where some people, they just, they're so busy.

Sunday school and church is the best they're going to get. Well, that's not really the best. But the closer you can get to a one-on-one, the better. And so, you want to have a one-on-one relationship because there you're going to have the most intimate relationship.

With this, you could take our class on an Introduction to Discipling. It's what, like 24 classes, I think. We go through the book Growing in Grace, which again, you can get at the store, strivingforeternity .org.

And you could pick up Growing in Grace book, which is only like $6 or $7, $7 .50, $7 .50 plus shipping. And you could pick that up. And that's a book you can go through with a newer believer. But even in that book, and when you go through the class on that, you see that we dealt with the issue of trying to say that we need to be doing this one-on-one as best we can.

And we need to really be doing that because that's where some counseling type things are going to come in. What we call counseling is really discipleship. It's one-on-one living. So, one-on-one is going to be the best.

But maybe some people that still can be done in small groups, maybe not as effective, but you're still going to do some discipling there. You're going to do some discipling in church on in small church settings, small group settings.

And that's, these are fine, but the best, I would say, would be one-on-one. And by the way, I would say you can't, you can't do discipleship if you're outside of the church. I mean, if you're just, you know, if church is listening to the radio every Sunday, and that's your fellowship.

That's not fellowship. I'm just saying. All right, so yeah, this one is another one that always comes up. All right, so this one comes up on the street often. How could you trust the Bible? Wasn't the Bible written by men?

Trusting the Bible Written by Men

The argument that the Bible was written by men, again, I'm going to answer this one both theologically and then how I would answer it to someone on the street. So theologically, was the Bible written by men?

Yes. Was it written only by men? No. It was also written by God. So God wrote the Bible through men. So even though the men chose of their own accord, their own style of writing, and they they chose the words God superintended, meaning that God wrote His Word through them.

So everything that they wrote, God intended to be written. And in such case, we can therefore say that the Bible is God's Word because He wrote it through men. So theologically, we'd answer that that the fact is God wrote it.

That's why we could trust it because God cannot lie. God's an absolute authority, and He can't be wrong. Therefore, we can absolutely trust the Bible because of its author. Now, would I answer that way to someone on the street?

Well, not really because what are they asking in the question? When they say the Bible is written by men, they're really saying that men can't be trusted. And really what they're bringing up is the trustworthiness of the Bible.

And so in that case, can you trust the Bible if it's written by men? That's the argument. So here's how I answer it. I ask them, are you saying that the Bible can't be trusted because it's written by men?

They say yes. I like to ask it a couple times to force them to be committed to the position. So you're saying we can't trust the Bible because it's written by men. That's right. So because men wrote it, it has errors.

Is that what you're saying? Yes, I am. Do you believe in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution? Yes, I do. Wasn't that written by a man? Uh, yeah. You see, everything that we know has been written by men.

There's nothing that we learn, like in school, that wasn't written down by men. What we, everything we know is written by men. And they're suddenly gonna go, well, but by trustworthy men. Well, is that the issue?

So it's by trustworthy men. That becomes the question, well, what do trustworthy men say? And so is the Bible trustworthy? Now I can get into what's called textual criticism, higher criticism. And I have some background in that, so I'll get into that.

We do, if you take our class on systematic theology, we just got done with those classes on the doctrine of the Bible. And you can go through that when we dealt with the issue of textual criticism. But the reality is, then I can get into the thing of the fact that since God wrote it, it can be trusted.

All right? So that's how I would, oh, there's another question in the chat room from Brother Ricky Gantz from G220 Radio. Do you guys listen to G220 Radio? We're just curious. You should. It's actually a really good program.

It's one of the podcasts I download regularly. G220 Radio, Bible Thumping Wingnut, Alpha and Omega Ministries, Wretched. These are some regular things that I listen to. CARM .org, CARM Radio. So listen to G220.

A lot of good stuff out there. But the question he asks is, should you be sent by your church if you open air preach? So let me explain for some people what open air preaching is. I call it open air evangelism.

It's when you basically, you stand on a street corner and you share the gospel. I mean, that's really what it is. You raise your voice so that the gospel can be heard. And so the question there is, should someone be sent by their church when they do this?

I think it's better if they're in line with their church and their church is sending them out to do this. My church does. My church fully encourages me. In fact, my church supports it and backs it up.

The pastors of the church have come out with me. Even when I didn't attend the church I'm currently at, the church I currently attend, I've been going to on and off for many, many years. It's a church I was in the leadership of many years ago.

I was married in this church. So I'm back at that church. I always seem to come back as there's need. So as I go to that church, there are many people there that have come out with me when I do open air preaching.

Actually, I think every one of the pastors has been out with me, I believe, in my church when I have done open air evangelism. And so that's something that they fully support it. They encourage it. Even the previous church where I was helping out a man who was planting a church and starting a church, he would come out with me.

He's now, I've moved from that church, but he's still out there. Because of him coming out with me, he's now out there on his own. Well, I don't think completely on his own. He's got another guy from church that he's out there doing that with.

And so I think it should be done through the church. Now, if you're not a member of a church, if you're in between churches, does that mean you can't open air preach? I don't think so, but I think if you're gonna come to my evangelism team, I'm gonna take that into consideration and ask you, why are you not in church?

What are the issues? That becomes a concern. I do have a concern with people that are rushed into open air preaching because open air preaching can can feed pride, just like someone that gets behind a pulpit too soon can feed pride.

You can feel like you really are knowledgeable and you can nail those people on the street and I got the answers. And knowledge can puff someone up. And so because of that, we want to be careful. I don't rush people into open air preach.

I want to see them being humble. That's the number one thing. I was asked by a pastor, a youth pastor, who was training his people and they wanted to do some open air preaching. He says, how would you train people?

We started open air preaching. I said, teach them humility. Teach them about what it means to be humble. And if they can be humble, then you put them up. If you see a guy that's struggling with humility and he's being prideful up there, don't put him back up on the box.

That's kind of a thing that I would do. I don't want to have guys that are prideful up on the box. So I don't think it's a necessary rule. I do not think that the street is the church. So I don't think the rules that apply for church apply for the street.

I don't think that the street preaching is a pulpit. I understand in England when the church was outlawed, when biblical preaching was outlawed, they went to the streets with biblical preaching. If you're in a country where biblical Christianity is outlawed, then maybe we make an exception.

But if you're here in America or a country where the Christianity is not outlawed, I don't think that argument holds. Just because people in history have done it doesn't mean it's biblical. And I don't see anything in the Bible that defines the street as the church.

I think that's a redefinition of the church. So let's see, we have another question. How do you respond to someone who claims to be a Christian but they don't believe in biblical inerrancy? Okay, that's a good question.

Do you have to believe the Bible is without error to be saved? I don't think so. When I became a believer in Jesus Christ, remembering I came from a Jewish background, I never had a teaching on the Trinity.

I knew nothing of the Trinity. I knew Jesus was God. And I remember a friend of mine asked me, how could you have believed that Jesus was God and yet He was walking on earth? And my answer was, I don't know.

I mean, Jesus is God. He could do whatever He wants. He could be walking on earth as a man and still control the universe. He could be dying on the cross and still control the universe because He's God.

I don't know how that happens. Later on, I came to understand the doctrine of the Trinity. So can I not have a clear understanding of the doctrine of inerrancy and still be a believer in Jesus Christ?