September 9, 2023 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank shares his thoughts on the timeless biblical principle of giving and encourages listeners to make a profound difference in the world today through giving generously to churches and Christian organizations so that the gospel can go out to the ends of the earth.
Hank also answers the following questions:
How is it just for everyone to be condemned because of Adam’s sin? Since Romans 5 says that we all fell in Adam, does that mean everyone will be redeemed by Christ? (4:27)
Since the details of Jesus’ life between age twelve and thirty weren’t recorded in the Bible, how can we know that He was sinless? (15:38)
Should we take Mark 9:47 literally, or should this be spiritualized? (17:53)
Is it acceptable for believers to continue in sin since we have been forgiven in Christ? What exactly is sin? (22:09)
Hank also answers the following questions:
How is it just for everyone to be condemned because of Adam’s sin? Since Romans 5 says that we all fell in Adam, does that mean everyone will be redeemed by Christ? (4:27)
Since the details of Jesus’ life between age twelve and thirty weren’t recorded in the Bible, how can we know that He was sinless? (15:38)
Should we take Mark 9:47 literally, or should this be spiritualized? (17:53)
Is it acceptable for believers to continue in sin since we have been forgiven in Christ? What exactly is sin? (22:09)
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Heard all across the United States,Canada, and around the world. This
is the best of the Bible Answermanbroadcast with Hank Hannagraph. Hank as president
of the Christian Research Institute at CRII. Our desire is to equip you not
only to defend the historic Christian faith, but to become a winsome witness to
(00:27):
a spiritually hungry but skeptical world,because life and truth matter. To learn
more or to find resources to helpyou grow in grace, call eight eight
eight seven thousand CRI, or goonline to equip dot org. That's equip
dot org. The following program wasprerecorded and now here's Hank Hanagraph. Thank
(00:52):
you very much, Randian. Wewill go to your questions in just a
few moments. I want to startthe broadcast today, however, by saying
something about finances, because I amabsolutely utterly persuaded that the Bible teaches a
form of Christian capitalism, and whatI mean by that is responsibility associated with
wealth. It doesn't promote the possessionof money for the sake of money,
(01:19):
instead of encourage us to use moneyfor the sake of the kingdom. God
is the landlord. We're just tenants. We didn't arrive with anything, and
we most certainly will not take anythingwith us when we leave. It's important
to view wealth with eternity in mind, to lead your life here below as
(01:45):
a responsible steward, whether you havea little or a lot, so that
one day at the judgment God himselfwill richly reward you. This is what
Moses was communicating to the children ofIsrael when he talked about tithing. He
said, we tithe so that wemay learn to revere the Lord, our
(02:07):
God always, and therefore, learningto reverence God by giving is a timeless
principle. The tithing in the OldTestament ended up preparing God's people to become
hilarious givers. In fact, theBible chronicles the prayer of David where he's
(02:30):
thanking God for the very privilege ofbeing able to give to the work of
the Lord. Remember the words,who am I? Who are my people?
That we should be able to giveas generously as this. Everything comes
from you, And we have givenyou only what comes from your hand.
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And now I have seen with joy, said David, how willingly your people
who are here have given for yourpurposes? And that's the point. There's
no telling what we could accomplish inour generation. If we, like the
war generation, could catch the joyof contagious giving, not only would we
(03:19):
be empowered to spread the Gospel aroundthe globe, but we might as yet
leave an indelible mark on our generation. This is one of the reasons that
we're asking people to support the ministryof the Christian Research Institute. It's not
giving for the sake of giving.It is giving for the sake of the
(03:43):
kingdom. It is recognizing that weeither lay it for ourselves treasures on earth
or treasures in heaven. And thusit's not about what you have, it's
about how you use what you have. And I'm not just talking about money.
I'm talking about your time and talentas well. Use it for God's
glory and for the extension of Hiskingdom. You can give him as say
(04:06):
secure fashion on the web and equipeddot work, or you can give by
writing me at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip code
two eight two seven one. Doyou remember Resource Consultants As always they're standing
by. They can take your calland your gift at Tripolate seven thousand and
the letters CRI A lot of youhanging on, We'll go right to the
(04:28):
phone calls. First up is Roger. He is listening in the desk of
California. Hi Roger, Hi,Hey, how are you good? How
are you good? God? Blessyour ministry. I'm wanting help explaining original
sin as a partation of fall ofman from my understanding, and I want
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to make sure I get this right. That Adam represented all of humanity,
he was kind of in proxy forus, and then when he chose to
sin, therefore, when he felons, in all of humanity felons, And
(05:10):
if my understanding is correct, thenmy question is, how does that How
can we understand that from God's perspectiveof being just because we didn't vote for
Adam to represent humanity or to representmyself. And I understand that one could
(05:34):
say, well, if I wasin if any human was in Adam's position,
they would have done the same thing. But then I think we're starting
to say that they doing that,that we're starting to say that God judges
on what one could have done orwould have done. And I don't think
we can say that because I couldhave been born another in another century could
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have have been a horrible person thatI don't have to ask God to forgive
me of all the things I couldhave done, So if you could,
I don't know if I'm making sure. Oh yeah, a very eloquently presented
question. And you know, Ithink that Paul addresses this in Romans chapter
five, where he says that justas the result of one trespass was condemnation
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for all humanity, so also theresult of one act of righteousness was justification
that brings life for all men.For just as through the disobedience of the
one man, the many were madesinners, so also through the obedience of
(06:44):
the one man, the many willbe made righteous. So through no act
of our own, as you correctlyexpressed, we are condemned, and through
no act of our own we areoffered salvation. So that's where justice comes
in. This is what happens tous. God justly provides a way of
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escape for all human kind. Sowe have all ratified Adam's sin. But
if we are found in the secondatom, then we will find the best
of all possible worlds, a worldin which we will forever be able not
to sin. And as I saidso many times on this broadcast, if
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we don't like being represented by Adam, because the idea of representation appears unfair
than perhaps by the same logic,we don't want, in the interest of
fairness, to be represented by Christ. So we have the second atom as
a means by which we can bereconciled to a holy God. Now,
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God could have done things otherwise.He could have created a world in which
there was no sin. We couldhave been like chatty Kathy Dolls. You
pulled the string and outcomes the preprogrammed response I love you, I love
you, I love you. Butthen love would not be meaningful. So
God created the potential for evil,and the operative word, of course,
is potential. By giving us freedomof choice, we actualize that evil through
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our representative Adam, and all ofus have ratified the choice of Adam.
So we're all justly and condignly condemnedfor our own sin. Okay, So
then in Romans, when there's almosta parallel between Adams sinning and representing us
and and Jesus. But with Adam'ssin, when through one man humanity sin
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was I don't know the rycheological term, but sin was placed on humanity automatically.
Does that mean salvation is automatically placedon humanity because Jesus Christ died.
Well, no, not really right, we have to choose it, yeah,
yeah, exactly because we are createdin the imago day in the image
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of God. And being created inthe image of God means that we do
have the ability to choose. Andif in fact, we choose for Christ,
then we will have a relationship withhim. But there's nothing in scripture
that mandates that we must do so. Again, if we must do so,
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love is rendered meaningless. God isnot a cosmic rapist that forces himself
on people. Instead, God,the ultimate personification of love, continues to
grant people the opportunity to live withhim in time and also in eternity or
the inverse, which is to saythat God does not rub out the crowning
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jewels of his creation. Even ifthey decide that they don't want a relationship
up with him, He continues tosustain them in existence, albeit apart from
His goodness as glory and his grace. So, if I can freely choose
Christ to represent me, why amI not given an opportunity to freely choose
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to have Adam not represent me?Well, the scripture lets you know,
not only that Adam is your representative, but that you have ratified Adam sin
so that you are justly and condignlycondemned, which is to say that no
one can say I have not sinnedof my own volition. Okay, perfect,
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you know, I really appreciate youin the time, They answered out
very well, thank you so much. Their God us you in your ministry.
You got it. Be right back. You thought only religions have dogmas,
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and alarmingly, the speed of thismindless rush to chaos in potential civilizational
collapse is gaining momentum daily. Thatmeans Christians need to wake up and wake
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org. And now once again hereis Hank Hannah Graph. Thank you very
much, Randy, and right backto our phone callers. Next up is
Michael. He's listening in Illinois.Hi Michael, Hi, think I listened
to you on my way home fromwork, and I'm really grateful for you've
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been on the Air had a questionthat I was approached with recently when I
was talking with someone. Basically,most of Jesus's early life, specific from
when he was twelve to when hewas about thirty, was not recorded,
and the challenge that I basically wasgiven was, since that part of Jesus's
life is basically not written about,how can we know that Jesus is sinless?
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And my initial response was basically thatJesus's accusers couldn't find anything to accuse
the mouth. But I wasn't sureof anything more than that. Well,
you know, there's a lot alongthat vein the Bible exonerates Jesus Christ saying
that he had no sin. Sothe Bible explicitly states that the Second Corinthians,
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chapter five, and that's not asingular statement. John says, and
in him is no sin, andPeter says, Jesus committed no sin and
no deceit was found in his mouth. Jesus himself went on to challenge his
antagonists, saying, can any ofyou prove me guilty of sin? So
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the Bible roundly demonstrates the Jesus Christwas sinless, and the antagonist had no
way of countering that and now youhave to obviously be able to demonstrate that
the Bible's reliable authority. And ifyou can do that, then you can
take these words at face value.Jesus Christ simply did not sin. In
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fact, had he sinned, hecould not have been our savior. Not
only that, but Jesus Christ demonstratedthat he was God in human flesh through
the immutable fact of resurrection, atthe power to lay down his life and
take it up again, thus demonstratingthat he was God. And so we
can take Jesus's own words for hissinlessness at face value, because he would
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know all things, even those thingswhich are not recorded in the Word of
God. Okay, all right,thanks, free answer. I think that
helps a lot. You got it. Back to the phone lines, Richard.
Next, he's listening in Marysville,Washington, NY. Richard, Yes,
Hello, Hank, I appreciate yourprogram. Thank you. I have
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a question about Mark nine, verseforty seven, where Jesus says, if
your right eye offends you or causesyou to offend, pluck it out and
cast it from you, for it'sprofitable for you to enter into life with
one eye than having two eyes tobe cast into hell. How literally should
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I take that or is that tobe spiritualized? Well, I don't think
it's a matter of spiritualizing it.It is a matter of Jesus Christ making
an emphatic point. In that emphaticpoint you actually quoted to me, it
is absolutely true that it is betterfor you to enter the Kingdom of God
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with one eye than to have twoeyes to be thrown into hell. Jesus
is using hyperbole in order to distressjust how important it is to be right
with God, and in fact,in the Sermon on the Mount, this
is one of the things that hedoes. He takes the law which the
Pharisees think that they can keep bytheir own power, and he extends the
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law to its logical conclusion, demonstratingthat we have no hope to be saved
apart from His selvific work on ourbehalf a foreign righteousness, not of our
own that comes from the law,but that which is through faith in crisis,
but puts it so. The ideahere is that we ought to think
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not just about temporary things, butrather we ought to place our site on
eternal verities, because at the endof the day, what matters is eternity.
Life is a vapor here today,gone tomorrow, but eternity lasts forever.
You can't take this in a woodenliteral fashion because even if someone had
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plucked their eye out in this life, that does not mean that when they're
resurrected, they're only going to haveone eye. The thing that we know
for certain is in the resurrection,for believers, we are going to be
like the caterpillar transformed into the butterfly. We're the same physically, but we're
going to be different organizationally, butcertainly be what we were intended to be
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before sin came into the world.So you can't take this in a wooden
literalistic fashion, otherwise you'd have sharenonsense. Okay, I guess i'd answered
my question. I was thinking aboutit in a literal fashion because my eye
does cause me to offend, andI've offended much and I've received chastisement for
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it, and that's why I askyou about the Yeah. But see,
if you think about this, wheredoes sin emanate from. Does it emanate
from the physical eye, or doesit actually start in a much more deep
systemic fashion. The fact that youare born and conceived in sin So what
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we need to do is conform ourways to the ways of Jesus Christ.
He transforms our life. It's notabout maiming ourselves. It is rather partaking
of the means of grace so thatwe might be sanctified or daily conformed to
the image of Jesus Christ, andthen our desires begin to change. So
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if you start maiming yourself, youdon't really solve the problem. The problem
is the heart, you know.It's kind of like what Jesus said.
It's not what goes into a man'smouth and then into his stomach and out
of his body that ultimately defiles him. It is that which proceeds from the
heart. So the systemic issue isthe heart. So if you look at
it that way, if you takeeverything to its logical conclusion, you have
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to cut out your heart. Well, the heart is not even the issue.
It's not the physical organ. Aheart is a way of talking about
the seat of your being. Allright, I thank thank you kindly for
your un to appreciated. You gottathank you so much for your call back
to the phone lines. Darren Jonesboro, Arkansas, Hi, Darren, Hello,
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Hank. What I hear mostly inyou know, the Christian world,
as far as most of your televangelistradio creatures and stuff, commonly hold that
we are sinners saved by grace,and that pretty much you know, no
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matter what you do, you're goingto be a ciner. You're going to
sin, and that you don't worryabout that, you know, it's just
you know, if you've asked theLord into your heart and you've asked them
to say you at one point inyour life, and that's pretty much what
you've got to account on now.So what is the nature of sin and
Christian's life? Are we to continuein center or as the Lord reveals things
into us that our sin in ourlives, we're to cut that out.
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We're to work and not do thatanymore. Is that truth? Yeah?
Absolutely? In fact, because wehave the grace of God, should we
continue to sin? I mean,Paul's answer is, Heavens no. The
fact that we're covered by the righteousnessof Jesus Christ does not mean that we
sin with impunity, because there areconsequences to sin. I When you look
at the examples that the Bible givesin this regard, they are graphic.
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They grab you by the gut asit were. So David he takes a
senses which demonstrates that he's leaning uponthe arm of flesh rather than upon the
arm of God, a grievous sinin the eyes of God. Then he
has Uriah killed on the battle front, so we can have his wife as
adultery with Bathsheba. What happens,Does God forgive him? I'm absolutely certain
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that God does. You look atDavid's prayer of contrition in Psalm fifty one,
where says, save me from bloodguilt, Oh God, the God
who saves me, so my tonguecan sing of your righteousness. You know
he is absolutely torn apart by hissin. You see this even in Psalm
thirty nine. And God forgives him. But are there consequences? Absolutely the
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sword never leaves his home. Andyou look at Solomon and his sins.
The consequences of those sins are absolutelyincredible, such that they tear a nation
in two. You end up havinga northern kingdom and a southern kingdom.
So sin has its consequences. Andtherefore, though we are forgiven, we
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cannot sin with impunity because the consequences, as I like to say, follow
an nextuably like night follows day,Yes, sir, and that's true,
and that's what I believe. SinI've told some people. You know,
well, the Lord would let's saythat Jesus one day healed someone and would
say, your faith has made youwhole. Now go and sin no more.
You know, why would he tellsomeone to try to attept to do
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something that they can't do. Butwell, the idea here, though,
is not to tell them do whatthey can't do. But Jesus is saying,
do not continue to live a lifeof willful, continuous disobedience. Because
what happens when we embrace Jesus Christis not that suddenly we are sinless,
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as though we will sin no more, but rather that we are covered by
the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Andthen the Christ that covers us with his
righteousness begins a transforming work within us. It's called sanctification, daily conforming us
to his image. But that processis ongoing, and therefore even the Great
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Apostle Paul says, the good thatI would I do not, and the
evil that I would not I do? Who can save me from this body
of death? So we continue tosin, but we also continue in sanctification
until that day when we will bepractically sinless, and that is when Jesus
appears a second time. So nowwe're only positionally righteous before God, then
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we will be practically sinless as well. They have to leave it at that.
We are out of time for thisedition at the Biblelanceman Broadcast. Look
forward to seeing you timorrow with moreof the show. We appreciate you tuning
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spoken? Are the words of Scripturemerely human in origin? Or are they
in fact the very words of Godhimself? Three years in the making and
based on two decades of research andreflection. Hank Hanagraph's monumental book, Has
God Spoken answers what is surely themost important question facing our world and Has
(27:27):
God Spoken? Memorable proofs of theBible's divine inspiration. Hank counters the contentions
of the Bible attackers and clearly showsthat belief in the Holy Scriptures is not
a guess or a wishful thinking.It is the only logical conclusion after an
honest examination of overwhelming evidence ordered HasGod Spoken? From the Christian Research Institute
(27:49):
by calling eighty eight seven thousand CRIIor go online to equip dot org.
Equip dot org
Heard all across the United States,Canada, and around the world. This
is the best of the Bible Answermanbroadcast with Hank Hannagraph. Hank as president
of the Christian Research Institute at CRII. Our desire is to equip you not
only to defend the historic Christian faith, but to become a winsome witness to
(00:27):
a spiritually hungry but skeptical world,because life and truth matter. To learn
more or to find resources to helpyou grow in grace, call eight eight
eight seven thousand CRI, or goonline to equip dot org. That's equip
dot org. The following program wasprerecorded and now here's Hank Hanagraph. Thank
(00:52):
you very much, Randian. Wewill go to your questions in just a
few moments. I want to startthe broadcast today, however, by saying
something about finances, because I amabsolutely utterly persuaded that the Bible teaches a
form of Christian capitalism, and whatI mean by that is responsibility associated with
wealth. It doesn't promote the possessionof money for the sake of money,
(01:19):
instead of encourage us to use moneyfor the sake of the kingdom. God
is the landlord. We're just tenants. We didn't arrive with anything, and
we most certainly will not take anythingwith us when we leave. It's important
to view wealth with eternity in mind, to lead your life here below as
(01:45):
a responsible steward, whether you havea little or a lot, so that
one day at the judgment God himselfwill richly reward you. This is what
Moses was communicating to the children ofIsrael when he talked about tithing. He
said, we tithe so that wemay learn to revere the Lord, our
(02:07):
God always, and therefore, learningto reverence God by giving is a timeless
principle. The tithing in the OldTestament ended up preparing God's people to become
hilarious givers. In fact, theBible chronicles the prayer of David where he's
(02:30):
thanking God for the very privilege ofbeing able to give to the work of
the Lord. Remember the words,who am I? Who are my people?
That we should be able to giveas generously as this. Everything comes
from you, And we have givenyou only what comes from your hand.
(02:53):
And now I have seen with joy, said David, how willingly your people
who are here have given for yourpurposes? And that's the point. There's
no telling what we could accomplish inour generation. If we, like the
war generation, could catch the joyof contagious giving, not only would we
(03:19):
be empowered to spread the Gospel aroundthe globe, but we might as yet
leave an indelible mark on our generation. This is one of the reasons that
we're asking people to support the ministryof the Christian Research Institute. It's not
giving for the sake of giving.It is giving for the sake of the
(03:43):
kingdom. It is recognizing that weeither lay it for ourselves treasures on earth
or treasures in heaven. And thusit's not about what you have, it's
about how you use what you have. And I'm not just talking about money.
I'm talking about your time and talentas well. Use it for God's
glory and for the extension of Hiskingdom. You can give him as say
(04:06):
secure fashion on the web and equipeddot work, or you can give by
writing me at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip code
two eight two seven one. Doyou remember Resource Consultants As always they're standing
by. They can take your calland your gift at Tripolate seven thousand and
the letters CRI A lot of youhanging on, We'll go right to the
(04:28):
phone calls. First up is Roger. He is listening in the desk of
California. Hi Roger, Hi,Hey, how are you good? How
are you good? God? Blessyour ministry. I'm wanting help explaining original
sin as a partation of fall ofman from my understanding, and I want
(04:49):
to make sure I get this right. That Adam represented all of humanity,
he was kind of in proxy forus, and then when he chose to
sin, therefore, when he felons, in all of humanity felons, And
(05:10):
if my understanding is correct, thenmy question is, how does that How
can we understand that from God's perspectiveof being just because we didn't vote for
Adam to represent humanity or to representmyself. And I understand that one could
(05:34):
say, well, if I wasin if any human was in Adam's position,
they would have done the same thing. But then I think we're starting
to say that they doing that,that we're starting to say that God judges
on what one could have done orwould have done. And I don't think
we can say that because I couldhave been born another in another century could
(06:00):
have have been a horrible person thatI don't have to ask God to forgive
me of all the things I couldhave done, So if you could,
I don't know if I'm making sure. Oh yeah, a very eloquently presented
question. And you know, Ithink that Paul addresses this in Romans chapter
five, where he says that justas the result of one trespass was condemnation
(06:23):
for all humanity, so also theresult of one act of righteousness was justification
that brings life for all men.For just as through the disobedience of the
one man, the many were madesinners, so also through the obedience of
(06:44):
the one man, the many willbe made righteous. So through no act
of our own, as you correctlyexpressed, we are condemned, and through
no act of our own we areoffered salvation. So that's where justice comes
in. This is what happens tous. God justly provides a way of
(07:11):
escape for all human kind. Sowe have all ratified Adam's sin. But
if we are found in the secondatom, then we will find the best
of all possible worlds, a worldin which we will forever be able not
to sin. And as I saidso many times on this broadcast, if
(07:32):
we don't like being represented by Adam, because the idea of representation appears unfair
than perhaps by the same logic,we don't want, in the interest of
fairness, to be represented by Christ. So we have the second atom as
a means by which we can bereconciled to a holy God. Now,
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God could have done things otherwise.He could have created a world in which
there was no sin. We couldhave been like chatty Kathy Dolls. You
pulled the string and outcomes the preprogrammed response I love you, I love
you, I love you. Butthen love would not be meaningful. So
God created the potential for evil,and the operative word, of course,
is potential. By giving us freedomof choice, we actualize that evil through
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our representative Adam, and all ofus have ratified the choice of Adam.
So we're all justly and condignly condemnedfor our own sin. Okay, So
then in Romans, when there's almosta parallel between Adams sinning and representing us
and and Jesus. But with Adam'ssin, when through one man humanity sin
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was I don't know the rycheological term, but sin was placed on humanity automatically.
Does that mean salvation is automatically placedon humanity because Jesus Christ died.
Well, no, not really right, we have to choose it, yeah,
yeah, exactly because we are createdin the imago day in the image
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of God. And being created inthe image of God means that we do
have the ability to choose. Andif in fact, we choose for Christ,
then we will have a relationship withhim. But there's nothing in scripture
that mandates that we must do so. Again, if we must do so,
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love is rendered meaningless. God isnot a cosmic rapist that forces himself
on people. Instead, God,the ultimate personification of love, continues to
grant people the opportunity to live withhim in time and also in eternity or
the inverse, which is to saythat God does not rub out the crowning
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jewels of his creation. Even ifthey decide that they don't want a relationship
up with him, He continues tosustain them in existence, albeit apart from
His goodness as glory and his grace. So, if I can freely choose
Christ to represent me, why amI not given an opportunity to freely choose
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to have Adam not represent me?Well, the scripture lets you know,
not only that Adam is your representative, but that you have ratified Adam sin
so that you are justly and condignlycondemned, which is to say that no
one can say I have not sinnedof my own volition. Okay, perfect,
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very well, thank you so much. Their God us you in your ministry.
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much, Randy, and right backto our phone callers. Next up is
Michael. He's listening in Illinois.Hi Michael, Hi, think I listened
to you on my way home fromwork, and I'm really grateful for you've
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been on the Air had a questionthat I was approached with recently when I
was talking with someone. Basically,most of Jesus's early life, specific from
when he was twelve to when hewas about thirty, was not recorded,
and the challenge that I basically wasgiven was, since that part of Jesus's
life is basically not written about,how can we know that Jesus is sinless?
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And my initial response was basically thatJesus's accusers couldn't find anything to accuse
the mouth. But I wasn't sureof anything more than that. Well,
you know, there's a lot alongthat vein the Bible exonerates Jesus Christ saying
that he had no sin. Sothe Bible explicitly states that the Second Corinthians,
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chapter five, and that's not asingular statement. John says, and
in him is no sin, andPeter says, Jesus committed no sin and
no deceit was found in his mouth. Jesus himself went on to challenge his
antagonists, saying, can any ofyou prove me guilty of sin? So
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the Bible roundly demonstrates the Jesus Christwas sinless, and the antagonist had no
way of countering that and now youhave to obviously be able to demonstrate that
the Bible's reliable authority. And ifyou can do that, then you can
take these words at face value.Jesus Christ simply did not sin. In
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fact, had he sinned, hecould not have been our savior. Not
only that, but Jesus Christ demonstratedthat he was God in human flesh through
the immutable fact of resurrection, atthe power to lay down his life and
take it up again, thus demonstratingthat he was God. And so we
can take Jesus's own words for hissinlessness at face value, because he would
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know all things, even those thingswhich are not recorded in the Word of
God. Okay, all right,thanks, free answer. I think that
helps a lot. You got it. Back to the phone lines, Richard.
Next, he's listening in Marysville,Washington, NY. Richard, Yes,
Hello, Hank, I appreciate yourprogram. Thank you. I have
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a question about Mark nine, verseforty seven, where Jesus says, if
your right eye offends you or causesyou to offend, pluck it out and
cast it from you, for it'sprofitable for you to enter into life with
one eye than having two eyes tobe cast into hell. How literally should
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I take that or is that tobe spiritualized? Well, I don't think
it's a matter of spiritualizing it.It is a matter of Jesus Christ making
an emphatic point. In that emphaticpoint you actually quoted to me, it
is absolutely true that it is betterfor you to enter the Kingdom of God
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with one eye than to have twoeyes to be thrown into hell. Jesus
is using hyperbole in order to distressjust how important it is to be right
with God, and in fact,in the Sermon on the Mount, this
is one of the things that hedoes. He takes the law which the
Pharisees think that they can keep bytheir own power, and he extends the
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law to its logical conclusion, demonstratingthat we have no hope to be saved
apart from His selvific work on ourbehalf a foreign righteousness, not of our
own that comes from the law,but that which is through faith in crisis,
but puts it so. The ideahere is that we ought to think
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not just about temporary things, butrather we ought to place our site on
eternal verities, because at the endof the day, what matters is eternity.
Life is a vapor here today,gone tomorrow, but eternity lasts forever.
You can't take this in a woodenliteral fashion because even if someone had
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plucked their eye out in this life, that does not mean that when they're
resurrected, they're only going to haveone eye. The thing that we know
for certain is in the resurrection,for believers, we are going to be
like the caterpillar transformed into the butterfly. We're the same physically, but we're
going to be different organizationally, butcertainly be what we were intended to be
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before sin came into the world.So you can't take this in a wooden
literalistic fashion, otherwise you'd have sharenonsense. Okay, I guess i'd answered
my question. I was thinking aboutit in a literal fashion because my eye
does cause me to offend, andI've offended much and I've received chastisement for
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it, and that's why I askyou about the Yeah. But see,
if you think about this, wheredoes sin emanate from. Does it emanate
from the physical eye, or doesit actually start in a much more deep
systemic fashion. The fact that youare born and conceived in sin So what
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we need to do is conform ourways to the ways of Jesus Christ.
He transforms our life. It's notabout maiming ourselves. It is rather partaking
of the means of grace so thatwe might be sanctified or daily conformed to
the image of Jesus Christ, andthen our desires begin to change. So
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if you start maiming yourself, youdon't really solve the problem. The problem
is the heart, you know.It's kind of like what Jesus said.
It's not what goes into a man'smouth and then into his stomach and out
of his body that ultimately defiles him. It is that which proceeds from the
heart. So the systemic issue isthe heart. So if you look at
it that way, if you takeeverything to its logical conclusion, you have
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to cut out your heart. Well, the heart is not even the issue.
It's not the physical organ. Aheart is a way of talking about
the seat of your being. Allright, I thank thank you kindly for
your un to appreciated. You gottathank you so much for your call back
to the phone lines. Darren Jonesboro, Arkansas, Hi, Darren, Hello,
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Hank. What I hear mostly inyou know, the Christian world,
as far as most of your televangelistradio creatures and stuff, commonly hold that
we are sinners saved by grace,and that pretty much you know, no
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matter what you do, you're goingto be a ciner. You're going to
sin, and that you don't worryabout that, you know, it's just
you know, if you've asked theLord into your heart and you've asked them
to say you at one point inyour life, and that's pretty much what
you've got to account on now.So what is the nature of sin and
Christian's life? Are we to continuein center or as the Lord reveals things
into us that our sin in ourlives, we're to cut that out.
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We're to work and not do thatanymore. Is that truth? Yeah?
Absolutely? In fact, because wehave the grace of God, should we
continue to sin? I mean,Paul's answer is, Heavens no. The
fact that we're covered by the righteousnessof Jesus Christ does not mean that we
sin with impunity, because there areconsequences to sin. I When you look
at the examples that the Bible givesin this regard, they are graphic.
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They grab you by the gut asit were. So David he takes a
senses which demonstrates that he's leaning uponthe arm of flesh rather than upon the
arm of God, a grievous sinin the eyes of God. Then he
has Uriah killed on the battle front, so we can have his wife as
adultery with Bathsheba. What happens,Does God forgive him? I'm absolutely certain
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that God does. You look atDavid's prayer of contrition in Psalm fifty one,
where says, save me from bloodguilt, Oh God, the God
who saves me, so my tonguecan sing of your righteousness. You know
he is absolutely torn apart by hissin. You see this even in Psalm
thirty nine. And God forgives him. But are there consequences? Absolutely the
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sword never leaves his home. Andyou look at Solomon and his sins.
The consequences of those sins are absolutelyincredible, such that they tear a nation
in two. You end up havinga northern kingdom and a southern kingdom.
So sin has its consequences. Andtherefore, though we are forgiven, we
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cannot sin with impunity because the consequences, as I like to say, follow
an nextuably like night follows day,Yes, sir, and that's true,
and that's what I believe. SinI've told some people. You know,
well, the Lord would let's saythat Jesus one day healed someone and would
say, your faith has made youwhole. Now go and sin no more.
You know, why would he tellsomeone to try to attept to do
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something that they can't do. Butwell, the idea here, though,
is not to tell them do whatthey can't do. But Jesus is saying,
do not continue to live a lifeof willful, continuous disobedience. Because
what happens when we embrace Jesus Christis not that suddenly we are sinless,
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as though we will sin no more, but rather that we are covered by
the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Andthen the Christ that covers us with his
righteousness begins a transforming work within us. It's called sanctification, daily conforming us
to his image. But that processis ongoing, and therefore even the Great
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Apostle Paul says, the good thatI would I do not, and the
evil that I would not I do? Who can save me from this body
of death? So we continue tosin, but we also continue in sanctification
until that day when we will bepractically sinless, and that is when Jesus
appears a second time. So nowwe're only positionally righteous before God, then
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we will be practically sinless as well. They have to leave it at that.
We are out of time for thisedition at the Biblelanceman Broadcast. Look
forward to seeing you timorrow with moreof the show. We appreciate you tuning
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God Spoken answers what is surely themost important question facing our world and Has
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God Spoken? Memorable proofs of theBible's divine inspiration. Hank counters the contentions
of the Bible attackers and clearly showsthat belief in the Holy Scriptures is not
a guess or a wishful thinking.It is the only logical conclusion after an
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