March 10, 2020 Show with Joe Jacowitz on “An Amazing Update on Joe Jacowitz’s Bout with Terminal Cancer”

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And I am so thrilled to have back on the program a dear friend of mine, Pastor Joe Jackowitz of Christ Bible Church in Pleasanton, California, and founder of First Love Radio, First Love Missions, and First Love Publications.

And perhaps many of you will remember that we had Pastor Joe on the program a number of months ago when he gave us some very frightening news about his own health. He had been diagnosed with a very serious and deadly form of leukemia.

In fact, he was given a rather frightening prognosis of having a 40 to 60 percent chance of survival. And we are thrilled to have an amazing update on Pastor Joe Jackowitz's bout with terminal cancer today.

In fact, I was the very first one who had the privilege of receiving a phone call from Pastor Joe when he left his doctor's appointment where he was given this amazing update that we are going to reveal to you momentarily.

But it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Pastor Joe Jackowitz. Pastor Joe, are you there? Yeah, you scared me there for a minute. Well, before we go into your health situation, why don't you let our listeners know about Christ Bible Church in Pleasanton, California, and all of the ministries affiliated with.

First Love.

Okay. Christ Performed Baptist Church 4 of our ministry. By the way, just if I might...

Hopefully you'll remember to repeat that information later on as well.

Sure.

Great. And that would be 4 o 'clock p .m. Eastern Standard Time. Actually, Eastern Daylight Time, I believe it is now. Yes. And since we are still on the theme of sickness, I just wanted to, before I forget, ask a prayer request of our listeners and, of course, of you as well, Pastor Joe.

My oldest brother, John, who is in his 70s, he lives in Texas, and he is battling a critical stage emphysema. He was rushed to the hospital a week ago today, actually, because he could not breathe. And it turns out that on top of his critical stage emphysema, he has an aortic aneurysm.

And that's a very deadly situation. This could burst at any moment and very likely kill him instantly. So I appreciate your prayer for him physically, but also spiritually. My brother, John, is not a believer.

And I just thank God that after years of trying, he finally met about a week ago in the hospital. My dear friend, Pastor Mac Tomlinson of Providence Chapel in Denton, Texas, a Reformed Baptist congregation, only about 10 minutes away from where my brother lives.

My brother has been very resistant to meet with Pastor Mac, and he couldn't even explain to me why. It was obviously a spiritual battle going on. And so I just had Mac visit my brother without announcing his coming.

And my brother was thankfully very pleased by the visit. He wasn't upset that I did that. He said Mac is a wonderful man, and he's looking forward to follow-up visits, hopefully that will actually occur.

But please keep all of that in prayer for me, if you will. And so let's go back to the original situation regarding your health, Pastor Joe. So let our listeners know exactly why it is that you had an examination that brought to light your condition of having a very serious form of leukemia to begin with.

And how long ago was that specifically?

Well, that was on my mother-in-law's blood test. With blood, the top four major sessions, the first forms of leukemia. My doctor is like a bomb, it lights up.

Yeah, in fact, these treatments, chemotherapy in particular, they can be just as deadly as the disease itself, can they not?

They give you this...

In fact, I couldn't do a follow-up interview after our initial interview when you gave the frightening announcement about your condition. You didn't sound frightened. I'm sure that you did battle that as well in your private life.

But you were responding, at least publicly, with a very strong faith and admirable courage, in my opinion. But after that initial interview where you were announcing your condition, we were going to do some follow-up interviews and we were unable to because of your just totally being robbed of energy from the chemotherapy.

Well, that's true. But I knew that I go in once a month to get a monitor and make sure that once a month and only God's grace...

Praise God. Amen. And it's good to hear something positive about chemotherapy because I have heard, unfortunately, many stories of folks who have passed because of the chemotherapy itself, which sometimes results in pneumonia and that can be a very deadly situation.

But I'm so thrilled that God used the chemotherapy this time in a way that brought you healing. And if you could, for a moment, discuss a Christian response to this news because not every Christian reacts the same way.

And you have people who might be a lot younger, who have very tiny children at home, who are going to react one way, or they might even be younger than that and single and have a whole future ahead of them.

So they thought and they hear this news. And then, of course, you have those who are senior saints who believe that they have lived a completely fulfilled life and are ready to go home to be with their creator and their Lord, Savior, and friend, Jesus Christ.

So you have all different kinds of reactions that people may have, even if they are seasoned Christians, even if they have a very strong, unwavering faith in Christ. You can have all different kinds of reactions.

So if you want to just chime in about your own reaction and also give, perhaps, some words of caution that we need not expect every single Christian to respond the way you did.

Well, yes.

Amen.

May God that God has healed us, the God of all grace and mercies. And I praise the feeling. The reason God wants me around. And one of the biggest lessons that God has in life and death on our hearts, the larger perspective created us and above measure.

You remember that passage?

Yes.

He says many things about the nature of the Christian life, about the essence as we learn.

Now, I think that there's a couple of very important things that we should warn our listeners about. First of all, the misuse of truth. There are those among us who can pontificate while we are at the bedside of somebody who is seriously ill.

And even though we may be well intending and actually speaking biblical truth, the manner with which we present this truth or these truths and the timing can turn something true and wonderful and good and godly into salt in the wounds.

It can come across with a self-righteous tone that we are lecturing those that are in the state of misery, in the state of terror, perhaps facing an unknown future. Don't we have to be very careful about misusing the very truths that you just quoted from the lips of the Apostle Paul or from the pen of the Apostle Paul?

We have to be very careful about misusing these things and the timing and manner with which we present them. Am I right?

Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We don't want to condemn them. God will show them to try to explore reasons why they may be experienced and identify the reason why they're suffering. What are their needs?

Find out why. You know, lack of wisdom is a part of Barsilai's work.

The Christian Response to Serious Illness and the Misuse of Biblical Truth

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We also, just previously, before the break, during our first half hour, we had Pastor Joe announce the glorious, wonderful, amazing news that thanks be to God and His goodness and mercy and grace, Pastor Joe, who had a very frightening prognosis of having only a 40 to 60 percent chance of survival from a rare form of deadly leukemia, he is now cancer-free.

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We do have an anonymous listener who asks, I heard your recent interview with Justin Peters, who I know was your guest speaker at your last Iron Sharpens Iron radio pastor's luncheon. He is truly a remarkable brother in Christ with cerebral palsy on a mission to expose the deadly and damning doctrines of the word-of-faith deceivers.

If you could have your guest explain a little bit about this very prevalent and very sinister element of heresy within the church. Yes, that is very true. Justin Peters, dear friend of mine, was our most recent speaker at the most recent Iron Sharpens Iron radio pastor's luncheon.

And by the way, I'm going to be announcing later on in this show the phenomenal news about our upcoming speaker in May, May 29th, to be precise. But this word-of-faith movement, this is more than just the clumsy and perhaps even sinful mishandling of God's word when a brother or sister in Christ with very good intentions fails miserably at ministering to somebody with a serious illness.

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...flesh and our vain, humbling God in prayer form of and in many other situations at the workplace...

Yes, and we need to pick up right where you left off there because we have to go to our midway break. This is a longer-than-normal break that we have in the program, our midway break, because Grace Life Radio, 90 .1 FM in Lake City, Florida, airs this program twice daily in a prerecorded format, and therefore they need to localize Iron Sherpa and Zion Radio to Lake City, Florida by airing their own public service announcements.

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For those of you who missed that first half of the program, Pastor Joe, a number of months ago, was diagnosed with a rare form, a very deadly form of leukemia. He was given a frightening prognosis of having only a 40 to 60 chance of survival.

And then we got the much better and glorious news that he is now cancer-free. Of course, we need to still pray for Pastor Joe in regard to this illness because sometimes it does return with a vengeance.

But we are trusting in the Lord that he is going to remain healthy and well and have many years of future in his life waiting for him so that he can continue to proclaim the glorious gospel of sovereign grace.

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