MSL: March 28, 2024

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All right, everyone, welcome to the show.

It's me, Matt Slick, and you're listening to Matt Slick Live.

I hope the Lord blesses you today, and by His grace, we'll have a good show.

Now, just so you know, there's going to be no live radio show tomorrow, because it's Good Friday.

We're taking it off.

And so there you go.

And if you want to give me a call, all you have to do is dial 877 -207

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and we can get to those.

And okay, ooh, interesting stuff.

So I'll just read through some of the questions and some of the comments and things like that.

Already.

Now, we have nobody waiting right now, so I'll probably end up getting to those.

Now, because we don't have a radio live show tomorrow, I might do Hate Mail, Whack -O -Mail today,

just depending on how it goes today.

All right, now, let's see, let's see, let's see, just want to,

oh yeah, yes, my wife and I were talking about this, and she brought it up, so I thought I would

mention it again.

We talked about it yesterday a little bit, but the ministry and people associated with this

ministry have been under some spiritual attack.

And so, I was just saying to people, to let you guys know out there, Radioland,

that you could pray for us.

The Lord knows what's going on, but there has been a lot of stuff, a lot of things lately, and

it's just what it is.

And so, please pray for our protection and guidance and the furthering of the Kingdom of

God that we hopefully will be able to

use, that God will be able to use us the way He wants to.

We do not want to get in the way, so we're asking that you would bless us with your prayers, you consider

praying for us, we would really like that if you would do that.

All right, having said that, I think what I'm going to do

is get into the outlook here.

In fact, the new version is just now opening up on my computer, so hopefully everything will be the same.

And there we go with that, and okay, get, oh man, look at that.

So let's go over here to, come on, oh my goodness.

You know, timing is not always that a great thing here, so, hmm,

okay, well that's nice.

What I want to do is simply go to my favorites, I have a lot of favorites in my program,

and as I get into stuff, now it doesn't let me find them for all

of the hate mail and the wacko mail.

So what I'm going to do is, oh, I see, okay, good.

All right, well, tell you what I'm going to do, oh man, you know, of course it's going to happen

right now.

Hey, if you want to give me a call, 877 -207 -2276, I want to hear from you, give me a

call.

Now, as you know, Easter is coming up, and so Easter is the

resurrection.

And so I wanted to talk a little bit about what the significance is of the

resurrection of Christ, because without that resurrection, there is no

Christianity.

If you want to say that Christianity is false, the way to do it, if you can find some logical internal

inconsistency that just proves it can't be false, you can do that.

But the main thing, you can't do it, but you can try.

The main thing to consider is that Christianity is

verified or falsified based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If Jesus has not been risen from the dead, then Christianity is false.

It is that simple.

If Christianity is to be found to be false, it's because Jesus did not rise from the dead, but he did rise from the dead.

And in 1 Corinthians 15, 14, Paul the apostle said, if Christ be not raised,

our preaching is in vain, our faith is in vain.

So we have to have that faith and trust and knowledge and belief in the

resurrection of Jesus Christ.

So if Jesus has not been raised from the dead, then our faith

is useless.

So the resurrection of Jesus is the thing that proves that Christ is exactly

who he said he was, and that he accomplished exactly what he prophesied he would do.

In John 2, 19 through 21, Jesus says, destroy this temple in three days, I will

raise it.

Up.

And he was speaking of the temple of his body.

So Jesus was the one who is telling us very clearly, very specifically,

that he would be the one who would raise up his own body.

That's incredibly significant because what he's doing is he's showing us that he has the power to do that

because that's who he is.

He's God in flesh.

So if he's not physically risen from the dead, then that means a sacrifice on the cross was not accepted.

If it was not accepted, then that means that Jesus would have stayed in the ground.

But he did not stay in the ground, he was resurrected.

This is the proof that Christianity is true.

It's the proof that Jesus Christ is exactly who he said he was.

That's why the resurrection of Christ is so significant.

Because without that resurrection, Christianity is false.

It's that simple.

It's that simple.

If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then Christianity is not true.

So I just want to let you guys know that.

That is a really important doctrine.

In fact, it's one of the essential doctrines of the Christian faith.

Without it, there is no faith.

Have you ever thought about that?

In fact, I was watching a show, actually watching Shogun, it was pretty good, it's pretty interesting.

And it's on Hulu.

And so they were talking, I watched the first two

episodes, and I was watching the second.

One.

It's really well done.

And what I found very interesting was how

the idea of Christianity had gotten into the Japanese culture.

And they had this idea of who Christ was from the Catholic perspective, and then a Protestant

one was coming in.

It was really interesting because the Protestant guy was saying that the Catholics were heretics, and they were calling for their heretics.

And the Japanese didn't care either way.

But I was watching this whole thing, I was watching this whole thing, and I was thinking of

who the Japanese would worship, what their religious system was.

And the reason I was thinking about this, of course, is because, well, they need Jesus.

Now, a lot of people don't know this, but Christianity was really taking over Japan about 400 years ago.

And then the Japanese rose up and killed hundreds of thousands of Christians, killed them.

That's a whole other topic.

Okay, sorry about that.

That cleared my throat.

And so I was thinking, if I was a missionary there, if I was a

missionary there, what would I be telling them?

It comes down to the resurrection, that Jesus Christ walked on water, rose from the dead.

He performed miracles.

He raised other people from the dead.

This is the thing that I would be focusing on.

This is what I would go for.

I'd say the proof of Christianity lies in the fact

that he died on that cross and rose from the dead.

This is the thing I think is so significant that we have over all of the

religious systems, besides the doctrine of the Trinity, which is unique, and the God -man, which is not that unique

depending on how you want to look at it, but the resurrection is something after three days, not

just after a little bit of time, like 20 minutes, five minutes, but after three days.

This is the proof of Christianity.

So we're going to be celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ within Christianity, and it is a demonstration of the truth

of who Christ is and what Christianity stands for.

Praise God for that.

Let's get to John from Georgia.

John, welcome.

You are on the air.

Hi, Matt.

How are you doing today?

Oh, hanging in there.

Hanging in there, man.

Just dealing with troubles and stuff like that.

A little bit of an internet thing going on there.

But everything's good.

So what do you got?

Good evening.

First of all, I'm a non -believer, but I appreciate your, I guess, ministry.

I mean, I always enjoy talking to believers, no matter if we disagree or not.

Respectfully.

What are you then?

I'm just curious.

What are you?

I'm a non -believer.

Yeah, I guess.

Yeah.

You would classify me as an atheist.

But I appreciate what you do.

I enjoy talking to people who believe.

Respectfully.

But yeah, my question is about free will.

Now, I do understand that you're a Calvinist and you believe that free will is choosing

what we do according to our nature and all that stuff.

But my specific question was, if God foreknows what we're going to do,

as the Bible says, and God can't be wrong, then wouldn't it

follow that we can only do what He knows, therefore, we don't really

have free will because we only can do one thing.

You understand what I mean?

Yes.

I would like to get you on top of that.

It's a common criticism raised against the idea of God knowing everything.

Then there's a response that has been offered on two different levels, two main levels.

One is called Molinism and the other one is Open Theism.

Molinism says that people have the free will in a libertarian

sense.

What that means is that they're not restricted by their sinful nature and that they can freely choose God

and God knows under which circumstances they will choose Him.

So He then works the best scenarios for the greatest good.

The Open Theist would say that God does not know the future exhaustively because He can't know our free will choices because

if He does, then we can't make a different choice when we're going to make it.

And the problem there is that the logic of both is short -sighted.

In the first one, it ignores biblical statements regarding the restrictions of

freedom upon the unbeliever.

The Bible says that he cannot understand spiritual things, cannot receive them, and that

God the Father must grant that they come to Christ.

I can go through all kinds of verses like this.

So the Molinist disregards those.

Not completely, but they really don't

consider what they really mean.

They have to kind of dismiss them in order to solve what they think is a problem.

The Open Theist will just assume libertarian free will in the sense that you can choose anything you

want irrespective of your fallen nature so the unbeliever is freely able to choose Christ.

Just use the right information.

And God doesn't know the future.

The problem here is, see if I can make this logical as well as biblical.

If the Christian God exists and He knows all things actual as well as potential, and before He made

anything that exists, He in His mind knew all things that could exist under all circumstances

including all choices.

But the choices can only be manifested if God creates them.

And then we have what's called approximate conditions, which means that He creates conditions in which

people operate.

And their choices cannot be independent of God.

It cannot be that He doesn't know.

Because that's not the Christian definition of God.

So the issue here then becomes, how does God know what will occur?

Then this gets to the issue of God's relationship to time and causation.

It gets complicated, but one of the illustrations I use is that God can bring about exactly what He

desires without violating, so to speak, your free will.

So if you and I were standing at a restaurant and to my right, your left, is a window.

And I can look out the window when I choose and point and say, what the heck is that?

And you turn your head and look.

I got you to do what I wanted you to do while you still had free will.

Now it's a simple illustration, but we can expand on that.

A little bit after the break.

So hold on, John, I know we're going through a lot there.

Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages.

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Alright everybody, welcome back to the show.

Let's see, I don't know if we still have John on or not.

I think we lost him.

I like it when atheists call and we have discussions.

Believe it or not, I think I have a pretty good reputation among most of the atheists.

A lot of Christians are very vituperous, let's just

say.

Aren't very nice to a lot of atheists.

I try and treat them well and with respect.

And I try and answer them according to the questions that they've asked.

And so I try that and I listen to them.

And I've used a lot of their complaints, a lot of their objections to write articles, to generate

articles.

And I've done that a great deal.

So I can only hope that by God's grace, that, oh my goodness, there's a yawn!

Whoa!

Sorry about that.

I can only hope that by God's grace that they'll be saved.

That's all I can hope for.

That's a thing I've been wondering about a lot lately.

In Acts 9, God just knocked Paul off his horse and saved him.

I mean, intervened.

Paul was using his free will to go out and kill and destroy the Christians.

And yet the Lord Jesus just intervened in his life.

Saved him.

He just did it.

And he got saved.

And Paul said, Well, who are you?

When Jesus knocked him off his horse.

In Acts 9.

He didn't even know who he was.

What's really interesting is that Jesus, you know, saved him.

Interfered in his life.

Intervened in his choices.

And overrode what Paul was freely choosing to do.

Go out to kill.

Knocked him off his horse.

Stopped it.

Told him who Jesus was.

Paul repented.

Now, there's a verse in Acts 16 -14.

And I'm going to read it to you.

Because it's another verse that's related to this kind of a topic.

A woman named Lydia from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was

listening and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

Alright, so we see these places where God knocked

He knocked Paul off his horse.

Saved him.

Opened Lydia's heart to receive the things spoken by Paul the Apostle.

In Philippians 1 -29 it says that God grants that people have faith.

Well, here's my question.

Why isn't God doing it to more people?

That's my question.

And I don't have an answer.

It's something I've been wondering.

Because when people talk to me about, you know, He wants all to be saved.

Well,.

I kind of wince when I hear them say that.

Now, I know what the Bible says.

1 Timothy 2 -4 and 2 Peter 3 -9.

He wants all to be saved.

I get that.

But when I'm told that I have to ask the questions.

Why doesn't He do this to everybody?

Because He certainly can.

Why doesn't He do it to everybody?

That's a question.

If God wants everybody to be equally saved to everybody

and it's just up to our free will well then can't God just

open the heart to make them believe?

Can't He knock us off of our high horses.

And just speak.

Out of the air and cause us to become blinded like He did Paul and then get baptized

by somebody else and then you regain your sight and your trust in the Lord Jesus?

Why doesn't He do that more?

This is a question I ponder semi -regularly and I ask God when I'm praying

sometimes I'll say, Lord, would you please save more?

You know, and I don't know.

Sorry about that.

I don't know why I don't know why God doesn't save more.

Now.

The thing that makes me wonder is is there something else going on.

That.

There's an interaction with God in our nature in our

wills and somehow whatever that is that's the ultimate

determining factor and that is such a kind of a vacuous.

Thing for me to say.

Because it's so nondescript but I think a lot of people might say, well yeah, of course there is.

Well if there is, then what is it?

And if we can't identify it I don't like saying, well this is what something might be, we don't have

any idea.

If it's true, I'm just going to go with it and that's just not how we want to do theology.

And so I'm really puzzled by this.

I really am.

I have a daughter, two daughters actually that I pray for, for their salvation.

And.

When I'm praying sometimes to me it's so simple God, all you have to do is just grant

them faith grant them repentance, like you do in the Bible just speak

out of the air to save them.

Why don't you do that, you did it to Paul.

Why don't you open their hearts to respond to the things spoken of by the apostles and the prophets as he did

to Lydia in Acts 16 -14.

In Proverbs 21 -1 God moves the heart of the king where he wishes it to go

to you.

It has been granted to believe, Philippians 1 -29.

And this is the work of God that you believe in whom he has sent, John 6 -29.

So I honestly am at a loss as to why God doesn't

save more now.

I'm not complaining because God is a sovereign king.

He does.

What he wants with his creation.

Now people might say well man he does it because people don't want it.

Well Paul the apostle didn't want it.

Paul the apostle was out going out there killing Christians and persecuting the Lord Jesus.

He didn't want to do that but Paul got saved because God intervened.

So what, this idea of well they don't want to, so that's gonna stop God.

Let's just say you have a hardcore atheist.

Let's just say there's a particular atheist that is really a mean.

Horrible.

Person and he hates everything about Christianity.

And he.

Works on destroying the Christian faith.

Let's just say that's the case.

Whoever he might be does he want Christianity?

Of course not.

Does he believe it?

Of course not.

Does he reject it?

Yeah he rejects it.

His free will is to do all that.

Right.

Okay so all God's gotta do is just appear in front of him in his glory

and the guy will instantly realize that he's a sinner in the presence of holiness

and he will want Jesus.

Why doesn't God do that?

And the only answer I've been able to come up with is that God

chooses not to.

Why does he choose not to?

Now that's another question I don't have an answer to.

Because when he saved me, not that my experience means anything, but it was kind of a

Paul experience.

It was a very profound very profound presence,

not just ooh I feel something.

No no no, it was.

It was.

Just on the floor wailing and weeping.

In the.

Realization of the horror of my own sin in the presence of incredible

purity and holiness.

Well.

Why doesn't he do that to more?

I don't have an answer for that.

Oh well there's a break, hey.

Look if you want to give me a call 877 207 2276 we'll be right

back, we'll get with Paul from North Carolina please stay tuned.

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Here's Matt Slick.

Alright everybody welcome back to the show, let's get on with Paul from North Carolina, Paul.

Welcome, you're on the air man.

Uh.

Hi Matt, my name is Patrick.

I've talked to you before.

Ok.

I've taken my call.

Ok.

My question is John 17 5 when it says

Jesus says father glorify me with the glory I had with you from the beginning.

What was in your opinion, what does that mean?

Ok.

So according to John 1 1 in verse 14 Jesus is the word which was God and made flesh

and we see from the incarnation that Jesus has two natures a divine nature and a human nature.

We call this the hypostatic union.

And so we see from varying verses like John 1 1 in verse 14.

In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God.

Verse 14 the word became flesh and dwelt among us so that God became flesh.

So we see Jesus walking and talking and eating and sleeping demonstrating his

human nature.

But we also see aspects of him in his relationship as God where he walks on

water by a miraculous force by prophesying his own resurrection by raising people from the

dead and things like this.

So we see in him the attributes of both natures the divine nature as well

as the human nature.

Alright so the attributes of both natures are ascribed to the single person so he

has a divine set of attributes and a human set of attributes.

So the one person said I am thirsty I will be with you always even to the end of the earth.

So the one person claimed the attributes of both natures.

The divine nature which is the second person of the trinity became flesh.

Therefore the attributes of the divine nature belong to the person of

Jesus and the second person of the trinity existed eternally in the past.

So therefore since God shares his glory with no one Isaiah 42 .8 then what Jesus

says is Father glorify me together with

yourself.

With the glory which I had with you before the world was so the I is

the person speaking but what he is doing is claiming the attributes of his divine nature for himself and

claiming the attribute of glory from the pre -existence for himself.

And that is what that is makes sense.

My question is

how could he glorify anything better than God.

So when we say that when we say that he is God we have to understand that God in the Christian sense is

by nature triune.

We have a doctrine called divine simplicity which means that God is one simple.

Thing.

Picture a glass sphere you can see through it you can hold it in

your two hands.

It's one thing.

It's a glass sphere.

It's simple.

God is like that in his nature.

He is not glass of course.

But his divine nature is one thing.

It's simple.

It means one thing divine simplicity.

But that one thing is triune in nature.

So within that aspect of that glass sphere all of what it is in every place of that

glass sphere is the same in its nature as any other place in the glass sphere.

That's how the trinity is that any aspect of it belongs with all the other aspects.

Yet at the same time there is distinction within the persons of the trinitarian essence and

nature.

Now how that works.

I can't tell you.

It just does.

It's just what's revealed in scripture.

So when Jesus then is go ahead

go ahead.

You know ok it said the word was God.

The word was with God in John 1 but then when it said the word became flesh.

You know Jesus born of a woman so he was a human being.

My question would be in John 17 when he asked the father to glorify him

with the glory he had with him from the beginning.

Wouldn't that mean that Jesus wanted to go back to being the word of God.

Nope so you have to understand also that Jesus was made under the law Galatians 4 .4 and

for a while a little lower than the angels that's Hebrews 2 .9.

So what he's saying here is when he's talking out loud he's actually

claiming to be God because he's showing distinction father.

That means God the father.

The Jews understood that glorify me together with yourself.

He just stopped there.

What do you mean by that.

Were you there with him.

And there's a glory that belongs to you.

And he says with the glory which I had before the world was now wait a minute.

That's talking about the created effort of God himself who brought all things into existence.

And Jesus is claiming to have been there now.

This is a definite claim of his deity right here.

But what he's doing is showing the distinction between himself and the father.

And since he's under the law made lower than the angels then because of his humble status as the

Carmen Christi of Philippians 2 .5 -8 says that he humbled himself and

emptied himself.

We don't know exactly what that means but this is what the scriptures teach.

So then he would say glorify me with the glory I had with you.

So he's claiming to have that.

And he's saying from the father glorify me with what I had with you.

He's showing out loud how great he is and who he is to the disciples

as they would hear him say this.

That would take them back.

Whoa.

He's claiming to be the equal with the father because Isaiah 42 .8 says God shares his

glory with no one.

And he says glorify me with what I had with you God.

He's claiming to be God right there.

Very profoundly.

Okay yes.

He is God always has been God and he always will be.

From his incarnation on the God man he will always have two natures.

That's correct.

Jesus is a human being but called the son of God you know God said you are my son

on the resurrection on the cross when he died.

Before that he asked the father glorify me with the glory I had when I was with you.

Before the beginning I think Jesus is asking him let me go back to being the word of God

because Revelation 1913 actually says his destiny will be dipped in

blood and his name is the word of God.

So Jesus his name today is the word of God.

Do you believe that?

Well yes and no.

You see when you say that he went back to being the word of God that's not correct.

He always was the word of God because it says the word became flesh and dwelt among us.

So he was the word of God as a man with two natures.

And he ascended into heaven and he still he still is in a physical body he still has his body.

Well no because that's why when I said the word became flesh it changed.

It was born of a woman and it was a human being Jesus but God said you are my

son.

So I think that I don't believe Jesus is God on earth for 30 years.

I believe he was the word of God before he was born by Mary but today

he's been resurrected back to being the word of God.

So was the word God as it says in John 1 .1 in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God.

Yes but when the word became flesh it changed.

It was born of a woman.

You have a problem.

If the word was God and God cannot change then how is it

possible for the word which is God to change.

Ok.

It says the word became flesh.

Ok but hold on I got you.

I understand what you're saying but the bible says that God does not change.

Malachi 3 .6 he doesn't change.

If the word was God then the word cannot change.

Why would you say it is changing when it can't.

Well then why do you call it the hypostatic.

Human.

Ok.

It's not changing.

It's not changing.

The word never changed the nature.

The word is always divine and it was in union with another nature the human nature.

So the one person of Christ has two natures the word which was God

and the human.

So the word of God never changed.

You can't have it.

It's impossible for the word to change.

It's not possible.

You have to stop that it just doesn't work.

It's a legal.

Statement.

John 19 .30.

Look.

God by his nature does not change.

Hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on.

I've talked to you many times.

I know who you are.

I've talked to you so many times.

I'm going to ask you some questions.

You have to focus.

Do you agree or do you not agree that God's nature does not change.

Does it change or not change.

Hold on hold on.

You're not answering the question.

Hold on.

This is.

Non sequitur.

City.

Folks we'll be right back after these messages please stay tuned.

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Here's Matt Slick.

Alright everybody welcome back to the show.

Alright let's get back on with Paul.

Are you still there Paul.

Yes I'm here.

Okay now I'm going to ask you.

A very specific question.

Okay you and I have had so many conversations in the past and I mean this politely but you

have a habit of not answering questions.

You have a habit of answering something else going off a different topic.

When the question doesn't suit you you tend to ignore it.

That's what you tend to do.

Alright.

So I'm going to ask you a very specific question.

Can the divine nature of God ever change.

Yes or no can it change.

God can do anything.

So God's nature can change so he can stop being God.

Like I said God he's the creator of everything so he can do anything.

Okay here's a good example of you not thinking clearly.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful to you but I want you to understand that.

I ask a very specific question.

And when Malachi 3 .6 God says he doesn't change now you're saying that he can change.

So the bible says God does not change.

Do you think God can change.

Well.

You know God appeared 10 times in 40 days after the resurrection.

Okay I just moved on because we know who this guy is and he is a

consistent anti -christian and I've had many conversations with him that go just like this.

I'll ask a very specific question and he does not answer it he refuses to answer it and he goes off in a

different direction.

He does this all the time and I just don't want to get into it with him.

I've done it so many times before just used the time to fill the air a little bit so

that so that people can hear the kind of

discussions that sometimes arise when doing the defense of the christian faith when you find people who just can't

answer questions directly and they refuse to that's their own choice.

Derek from Virginia.

Derek welcome.

Hey man good to talk to you again.

I'm so thankful that God doesn't change.

Yes.

That's true.

If he would get.

Any smarter he'd kick me out.

That's what I think.

What's that.

I'm on a road trip with my family.

I have you on the speaker phone.

My young man had a question he wanted to ask and we

were just listening to your show.

And he has a question about death and about people who are sick.

And his question was in the bible where God healed people and

created miracles so that people would be drawn closer to him.

Why doesn't God do more of that today so that people will be drawn closer

to him.

Is that your question buddy.

That's a good question.

Yeah.

What's your son's name.

Keith.

Keith.

Hey Keith.

Heath Heath.

I'm waving at you.

There you go.

Alright hello.

Hello.

Ok.

So the answer is I don't know.

That's it.

I wish God would heal more.

My wife is in desperate need of healing.

And if he were to always heal whenever we asked then the world would be over populated.

We'd have people that 2, 3, 4 thousand years old and so it wouldn't look too good.

I mean I look bad now at 67.

When I look in the mirror just think what I'd look like at 2000 years old.

Be like that old 60's movie The Blob.

So that's one thing.

But I don't know why God doesn't heal more and I don't know why he doesn't do this more.

Maybe maybe.

It has to do with something like there's two things.

Sin came into the world through Adam Romans 5 .12 he represented everybody and he was

our federal head the male representation.

And so when he sinned sin fell upon him and upon his descendants that's us

and upon the physical world.

So now in the physical world we have sickness, we have famine we have plagues, we have earthquakes we have

dangerous storms.

We have all kinds of things that are bad that kill people, hurt people and so God uses

that kind of a problem in different ways.

For one, he allowed Jesus, God in flesh to be crucified

and that badness that's overall in the world and he

didn't heal Jesus from it let him die and in it the resurrection occurred

and we can be safe from our sins.

And this is one of the ways that God uses to bring glory to himself and to help others by

letting the sicknesses and the problems not just sickness.

There's sicknesses, people with deformed issues.

There are birth defects.

My wife and I lost a son to a birth defect and we have different things that happen.

So it's all one big package.

The other aspect of this is my wife for example is one of the rarest connective tissue disorders in

the entire world and she is in a lot of pain most of the time

she's in pain sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much but she's always in pain as an example of something, this is true and

yet she has never gotten angry with God.

She has never just complained and whined about it to God

and so possibly possibly this is a blessing to her in

that she is glorifying God through her suffering and she will

get a greater reward in heaven for.

Forever.

So that's another possibility why he may not heal.

Because if he does heal, everybody's fine.

Who's going to praise him when things aren't so good?

It's easy to praise him when things are good but not when things are bad.

You know.

Stuff like that.

He's nodding his head he's taking it all in.

Good.

Good good good.

How old are you Heath?

Let me ask him.

13 you're a teenager now.

Oh boy well you can read that bible listen to your dad, we've talked before on

the radio and stuff, listen to him and read your bible and study, study the word.

Ok.

Well God bless you brother and we'll be praying for the battle the spiritual battle you're going through and we'll continue to

remember your life.

And we appreciate that, we really do need that all of us here do.

Well God bless.

God bless.

God bless you.

Bye.

And scanning through it oh that's right, it was about the Holy Spirit.

Why there wasn't a focus on the Holy Spirit, I went through that already.

So let's try.

Are either of the following views acceptable within the understanding of the Christian faith?

Full preterism, partial preterism.

Partial preterism is acceptable.

Full preterism is not.

Full preterism says that Jesus returned in the armies of

Rome and his return was symbolic when he destroyed Jerusalem.

That's full preterism and a lot of other things associated with it, and no it's not biblical

so it's to be rejected.

Partial preterism says that there was a destruction and things prophesied by Jesus which did occur

in 70 AD but Jesus is going to return fully and completely later on

and that that's an oversimplification.

But there you go, so full preterism is not biblical and I've talked to so many full preterists over the years

and I'll just refute them with Acts 1, 9 -11.

I just go there where it says Jesus will return the same way he saw him go up in heaven and they spiritualize everything in it.

When it's just.

The two guys are talking to the disciples, remember.

You saw him go up in the air yes, into the clouds, yes.

Well that's how he's going to come back.

Ok, that's how he's going to come back.

And so what they do.

It's a great cloud of witnesses.

They just go in and change the words meanings, they transfer meanings from other places in there and just

butcher it.

And I mean butcher.

I wonder if there's a stronger word for butcher.

Let's see.

It could be like an exegetical catastrophe.

Yeah, maybe, I don't know.

Alright, let's see what else we got here.

Uh ok.

Uh.

Let's see, I'm trying to find some quick quick and slick stuff here.

We've only got oh, about three minutes here, let's see if I can find one or two more.

Uh, does God love equally I don't know, who's equally what's his last name or is that his

first name.

Does God love equally, I don't know I don't know who he is or she.

Um.

But if, maybe, you mean.

Does God love all people the same.

Uh, yes in one sense.

No in another, yes, he lets the rain shine on the good and the bad and the etc, fall on the good and the bad

and the sun to shine on the good and the bad.

And that's Matthew 5, 43 -48 where it says God loves everyone equally.

But according to Psalm 5, 5 and Psalm 11 5, God hates those who do iniquity.

So, yes and no depending on how you want to emphasize it generically, he's loving to

everybody.

But specifically.

No, he's not Psalm 5, 5 and Psalm 11, 5.

There you go.

Alright, so um I think that's a good question for me to answer

for the website.

Alright, we've got about two minutes left in the show.

I just want to let you know that we're not going to be on the air tomorrow because it's Good Friday and we'll be back

on the air on Monday and I hope you all have a great resurrection day

and a good celebration of the mighty work of the Lord Jesus Christ who died on that cross and

rose from the dead and just remember that He died on that cross and

He bore our sin in His body on that cross, 1 Peter 2, 24.

And all who put their faith and their trust in Him in Jesus, not the God of Mormonism,

not the false gospel of Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy not in any of

the false teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

It has to be the one true God who's a Trinity there's only one being in all existence in all places

who's God, Jesus is the second person of the Trinity not one of three gods.

He's the second person of the Trinity.

He bore our sin in His body on the cross.

He died on that cross and He rose from the dead three days later.

Hence the resurrection hence Easter.

And all who put their faith and their trust in what Jesus did and what Jesus did alone alone

by faith alone in what Christ did alone on that cross, not in your baptism and Jesus, not in your

sacraments and Jesus, not in your goodness and Jesus, but Jesus of what He did alone, you put

your faith and your trust in Him and you ask Jesus to forgive you of all of your sins, He will and you'll be forgiven.

That is the message of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ it's exemplified in

scripture.

So praise God for all of that.

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Monday, have a great great weekend, God bless everybody, bye.