October 4, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank addresses the contention that many biblical accounts were recorded long after the fact and recklessly embellished; therefore, they are the stuff of myth and legend. However, Hank points out why that is hardly true.
Hank also answers the following questions:
What are your thoughts on the peace treaty with Israel that will start the seven-year tribulation? Shantell - Calgary, AB (3:07)
Are there generational curses? Bob - Vancouver, BC (6:40)
Do all Pentecostals believe in modalism, or are there different beliefs regarding the Trinity within the Pentecostal denomination? Cindy - Memphis, TN (15:13)
Am I right to say that believers who take their own lives will not go to heaven? Josh - Oklahoma City, OK (16:02)
I’ve heard you say, “Before we will see revival in the culture, there must be reformation in the pews.” Can you clarify this statement? Mike - Bentonville, AR (19:07)
Hank also answers the following questions:
What are your thoughts on the peace treaty with Israel that will start the seven-year tribulation? Shantell - Calgary, AB (3:07)
Are there generational curses? Bob - Vancouver, BC (6:40)
Do all Pentecostals believe in modalism, or are there different beliefs regarding the Trinity within the Pentecostal denomination? Cindy - Memphis, TN (15:13)
Am I right to say that believers who take their own lives will not go to heaven? Josh - Oklahoma City, OK (16:02)
I’ve heard you say, “Before we will see revival in the culture, there must be reformation in the pews.” Can you clarify this statement? Mike - Bentonville, AR (19:07)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. You
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
Have you ever heard this the contention that Biblical accounts,
ranging from the exodus of the Jews to the extraordinary
miracles of Jesus were not only recorded long after the fact,
but they were recklessly embellished. Therefore, at best, they are
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the stuff of myth and legend. That, however, though commonly
communicated in our culture, is hardly true. Why because the
Biblical accounts were not only recorded early by eyewitnesses, but
they were recorded in the context of an oral culture.
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And that point simply cannot be emphasized enough. Post Gutenberg,
we are primarily people of the printed page, but not
the ancients. In a predominantly oral culture, people practiced the
principles of memory, and therefore manuscript repositories augmented mental recall,
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not vice versa. If there's one one thing preserved in
the text of the Bible, it is the injunction to
record the word of God upon the tablet of your consciousness.
Solomon said, my son, do not forget my teaching, but
let your heart keep my commendments. Bind them around your neck,
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write them on the tablet of your heart. Nothing could
be more explicit than that. Joshua, equally explicit, said, do
not let this book of the Law depart from your mouth.
Meditate on it day and night, so that you may
be careful to do everything written in it, and then
these words. Then you will be prosperous and successful. In
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other words, it was not enough to record the sayings
of understanding on a common tablet. It was to be
inscribed on the tablet of one's consciousness. Why because if
you have it inscribed there, you can meditate upon it.
Not only that, but you can use it to make
a difference a lot. If you're hanging on, we'll go
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right to the phone, calls chan Tell Calgary, Alberta Kenneda,
Hi Chantel.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Hi Hank. I know the Book of Daniel really well,
and when I read that prophecy six years ago, I
was like, I was just rejoicing. I was like, Okay,
I've been watching. I have been watching and waiting since
study that. I figured all that out, but I am
just waiting for the net Like, is the next event
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on God's messianic timetable the signing of the seven year
peace treaty with Israel? And I believe it is the
pope or something to around that. I mean, I've studied,
I've looked on the inner I've checked the word that
King James version like, I'm really wondering about that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, well, let me say that my perspective on this
is that the abomination of desolation spoken of by the
prophet Daniel was predicted in the sixth century BC, and
it was fulfilled in the second century BC. Likewise, the
abomination of desolation spoken of by Our Lord and Savior
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Jesus Christ was predicted in the first century and fulfilled
in the first century, and Therefore, I don't think that
there's any reason to take the seven year tribulation that
took place in the time that Daniel predicted it would
be under Intacus the fourth Epiphanes, and translate that into
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the twenty first century. Nor do I think is there
any warrant for doing the same thing predicted by our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which took place historically in
the first century, and transplanting it into the twenty five century.
I think what we can say for certain on the
basis of scripture is that we do not know what
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is going to happen in the future, save the fact
that we have direct assurance from Jesus Christ that he
will appear a second time, and when he does, he
will put all things to write. The dead will be judged,
the problem of sin and Satan will be fully and
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finally resolved. The universe that now groans and travail will
be liberated from its bondage to decay, and we ourselves
will receive resurrected bodies and we'll live with a resurrected Christ.
That's what the Bible teaches, but it does not give
us any timetable or any tells for that matter, in
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terms of what is going to happen in our epic
of time.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, well, I'm just waiting for that day. I just like,
I just want I'm loving the Lord's appearing and I
want him to come.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Back so bad and he will. He promised that he
will appear a second time, and that is the hope
of the believer. So it is something that we long for.
But in the meantime, we need to be fruitful and faithful,
recognizing that there are lots of people who are without
Christ and God ordaines not only ends but also the means,
and we are the means by which the Gospel can
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go out to the ends of the earth. So we
want to be found faithful and fruitful in the meantime.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Very much, Hank, You got it, John Tell, thank you
for your call. Back to the phone lines. We'll talk
next to Bob, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, another Canadian listener.
Hi Bob, Hi.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Hank, thank you for taking my call. Pleasure, Hank, I
have a question. I've wondered about this for a long time.
Generational curses as a post to these sons no longer
paying for the sins of the fathers. I'm confused about that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, Well, what scripture clearly communicates is that consequences, not curses,
are passed on through the generations, and in that sense,
the Bible says that children are punished for the sins
of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. By
way of analogy, a child of an alcoholic father will
likely suffer neglect and abuse as a direct consequence of
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their father's sinful behavior, or the descendants of those who
hate God are more likely to follow in the footsteps
of their forefathers. These are consequences, not curses, as you've
correctly pointed out. However, Scripture explicitly tells us that the
son will not share the guilt of the father, nor
will the father share the guilt of the son. In fact,
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ancient Israel quoted the proverb the fathers eat sour grapes,
and when the children's teeth are set on end. How
does God respond to that? He says, as surely as
I live, you will no longer quote that proverb in Israel,
the soul whose sins is the one who will die.
So this notion that is being perpetuated by people like
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Joyce Meyer and others with respect to generational curses is
pure pap and dribble. It is mythology. It has nothing
to do with a biblical worldview. It is something constructed
in a sensational fashion for people to follow, but has
no basis in reality.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Okay, now I understand. Thank you for explaining that. I
have a much better understanding now of that whole concept.
So thank you, Hank. I really appreciate that you've got it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Bob, thank you so much for your call. And of course, well,
the notion of generational curses is foreign to scripture. There
is a sense in which the curse of sin has
been passed on from generation a generation. I mean, we
look at the first atom, through whom all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, and then
the second atom, Jesus Christ, who has provided atonement for
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all who would receive the grace and goodness of God.
And therefore, Paul says, just as the result of one
trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result
of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life
for all men. Through no act of our own. We
are condemned. Likewise, through no act of our own, we
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are saved. So we're either found in the first atom
or the second atom. And of course, the whole purpose
of doing a broadcast like this is to demonstrate that
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to answer questions not as an end in themselves, but
a means to a very significant end. What is that end?
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Jesus Christ, through whom we can be declared righteous before God.
And that, in essence is the gospel. The gospel is
we are all sinners. If we repent of our sin,
if we receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, then
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you for much Randy, and let's go right back
to the phone callers. Next step is Cindy listening in Memphis, Tennessee,
listening to WCRV. Hi Cindy.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Okay, I just have one quick question.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Do all Pentecostals believe in once or is there a
variation in beliefs regarding the Trinity?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, what's interesting about this is that the Assemblies of
God Denomination was the first to actually call out oneness
Pentecostalism as a heresy. And that should answer the question,
which is to say, not all Pentecostals and the Assemblies
of God. Of course our Pentecostal believe in the oneness doctrine.
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In fact, most Pentecostals will say that the Oneness doctrine
is a heresy.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Okay, That's what I wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Thank you, you're welcome. Thank you so much for your
call back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
Josh and Oklahoma listening on the web by Josh.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
How are you, Hank, Thank you so much for this ministry.
My question is am I correct in telling someone that
if a follower of Christ does commit suicide, they will
not go to heaven. That's my question.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
No, you're not correct in saying that, and I'll tell
you why. Certainly, it is inconceivable for a believer to
take their own life, because if you think about this,
taking one's own life is ten amount of murder in
this case, the murder of oneself, and no Christian in
their right mind would ever contemplate doing something like that.
But not everyone is always in their right mind, which
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is to say. You can imagine someone who is sleep deprived.
I think it was General MacArthur who said fatigue makes
cowards of us all. But you can imagine someone leap deprived,
maybe because of pain or because of other circumstances. That's delusional,
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and in the midst of their delusional angst, doing something
they wouldn't do if they're in the right mind. You
cannot say that what they did excludes them from the kingdom.
If they are genuinely born again believers, they have everlasting life.
So on the one hand, I say what I say
with fear and trembling because I don't ever want to
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encourage anyone to take their own life. I don't want
to have anyone misunderstand what I'm saying in context. I'm
saying no believer would ever contemplate doing something like that
in their right mind. But it is not the unpardonable sin.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Okay, Okay, I just thought that, like Paul had contemplated
a couple of times, I thought and that I thought
that he was that. I thought it was not correct,
But okay, I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, this is the point. Go about it in a
different way. No single act is unforgivable, and the unforgivable
sin is a continuous, ongoing rejection of the forgiveness that
could be yours, and those who refuse forgiveness through Christ
will spend eternity separated from His love and grace. But
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those who sincerely desire forgiveness can be absolutely certain that
God will never spurn them. So again, while suicide is
not an unforgivable sin, those who take the sacred name
of Christ upon their lips, should not contemplate suicide. Our
lives belong to God. He alone has the prerogative to
bring them to an end, and therefore we should never
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take God's prerogative upon ourselves.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Okay, thank you very much, Hank.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Okay, God bless you. And I should also add to
the discussion that suicide is a direct attack on the
sovereignty of the very one who knit us together in
our mother's room. So we can't take the subject in
a cavalier fashion. But by the same token, we don't
want to go beyond what the scripture says either. I
want to go back to the phone lines. Now, we'll
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talk to Mike in Arkansas. Hi, Mike, Hi, Hank.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
It's great to talk to you. I'm a new listener.
Because my schedule, I just get bits and pieces of
the programs, but it's enough that draws. As soon as
I get in the car, I turn you on to listen.
So I really appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
The reason that I called is I've been out of
church for some years and I didn't want to go
into all the details. But I moved to a new
area and I feel that the Lord's called me to
get involved in the church locally. And you've mentioned something,
I think it was last week about reformation in the
pew or something to that effect. But listening yesterday to
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some of the callers that mentioned, you know, pastors using astrology,
et cetera, et cetera. Quite frankly, it's a little scary.
And I did ask for your free booklet about you know,
how to choose a good song a Bible based church,
and that's been helpful, But I just wanted to see
what the reformation, ifew, what that looked like, and for
someone like me in my situation, how you might uh,
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how does that work together? At this point, it's just
I just have to trust God to move forward, and
I want to see if anything to add to that
that all makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, I think what you've done already in terms of
getting the information on how to find a healthy, well
balanced church is what's most significant. When I'm talking about
reformation in the pew, I'm using that as a way
of speaking about the only way that we can change
the culture or see revival in the culture is if,
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first of all, the church gets back to doing what
the church is called to do. The church is called
to be salt and light in this world. It's called
to be a light, not a light hit under a bushel,
but a light that's on its stand that gives light
to a dark world. We're also called to be salt
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and light. But if the salt loses that saltiness, said Jesus,
how can it be made salty again? So if the
church is not a living force in the culture, then
the culture will devolve. So again, what I think so
often people look for is reformation in the culture. But
that only happens when reformation starts in the pew, when
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people who take the sacred name of Christ upon their
lips do what they're called to do as followers of
Jesus Christ. So that's actually what I'm talking about when
I talk about reformation in the pew.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Okay, that is very helpful, Hank. And as far as
how does that, I know the fundamentals, I guess I
need to look for in the shepherd, a good shepherd
in the local church. So that's just kind of a
that's just something that sounds like I'm just going to
have to go and sit and listen and pray and
ask God. To God and do my part. And I
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and over the years, I haven't been just dorm and
I do. I do my own study. I read the
Bible all the time. I want to learn which in
there it's exciting, and I want to be a part
of that. And I'd like to be involved in ministries
that are doing that. You know that that level of
Book of Acts type thing.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It might be helpful for you to get a flip
chart that I put together called doctrine, and what that
gives you is the essentials of the historic Christian faith.
These are the main in the plain things, and healthy,
well balanced churches make them the main in the plain things,
from the deedy of Jesus Christ to the certainty that
he will return again, and when he does, he will
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put all things to rights. So that might be a
very helpful resource, because there certainly are a lot of
churches that deny a central Christian doctrine, even mainstream Protestant
churches sometimes they're known as mainline Protestant churches. They deny
the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, or they deny the
supernatural incarnation of Jesus Christ, so they in essence demathologize
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the Bible. They take all the miracles out of the
Bible because they've bought into philosophical naturalism that everything has
to be explained through purely natural processes. So I think
that may be a very helpful resource so that you're
certain that you're in a church that embraces the main
and the plain things.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I think that's great. I appreciate it's been great talking
to you, And like I say, I'm a new listener
and I really look forward to the drive home now,
and so please keep up what you're doing. And I've
never had this. The first time ever in the last
several weeks heard of you and what you do, so
I'm really excited about participating.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, bless you, Mike, Thank you so much for calling.
I look forward to getting that flip chart out to you.
I think it'd be very helpful.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
God bless Thank you, Hank.
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(27:29):
Memorable proofs of the Bible's Divine inspiration, Hank counters the
contentions of the Bible attackers and clearly shows that belief
in the Holy Scriptures is not a guess or wishful thinking.
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From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. You
are listening to the best of the Bible answer Man
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
Have you ever heard this the contention that Biblical accounts,
ranging from the exodus of the Jews to the extraordinary
miracles of Jesus were not only recorded long after the fact,
but they were recklessly embellished. Therefore, at best, they are
(01:13):
the stuff of myth and legend. That, however, though commonly
communicated in our culture, is hardly true. Why because the
Biblical accounts were not only recorded early by eyewitnesses, but
they were recorded in the context of an oral culture.
(01:35):
And that point simply cannot be emphasized enough. Post Gutenberg,
we are primarily people of the printed page, but not
the ancients. In a predominantly oral culture, people practiced the
principles of memory, and therefore manuscript repositories augmented mental recall,
(01:56):
not vice versa. If there's one one thing preserved in
the text of the Bible, it is the injunction to
record the word of God upon the tablet of your consciousness.
Solomon said, my son, do not forget my teaching, but
let your heart keep my commendments. Bind them around your neck,
(02:21):
write them on the tablet of your heart. Nothing could
be more explicit than that. Joshua, equally explicit, said, do
not let this book of the Law depart from your mouth.
Meditate on it day and night, so that you may
be careful to do everything written in it, and then
these words. Then you will be prosperous and successful. In
(02:47):
other words, it was not enough to record the sayings
of understanding on a common tablet. It was to be
inscribed on the tablet of one's consciousness. Why because if
you have it inscribed there, you can meditate upon it.
Not only that, but you can use it to make
a difference a lot. If you're hanging on, we'll go
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right to the phone, calls chan Tell Calgary, Alberta Kenneda,
Hi Chantel.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Hi Hank. I know the Book of Daniel really well,
and when I read that prophecy six years ago, I
was like, I was just rejoicing. I was like, Okay,
I've been watching. I have been watching and waiting since
study that. I figured all that out, but I am
just waiting for the net Like, is the next event
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on God's messianic timetable the signing of the seven year
peace treaty with Israel? And I believe it is the
pope or something to around that. I mean, I've studied,
I've looked on the inner I've checked the word that
King James version like, I'm really wondering about that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, well, let me say that my perspective on this
is that the abomination of desolation spoken of by the
prophet Daniel was predicted in the sixth century BC, and
it was fulfilled in the second century BC. Likewise, the
abomination of desolation spoken of by Our Lord and Savior
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Jesus Christ was predicted in the first century and fulfilled
in the first century, and Therefore, I don't think that
there's any reason to take the seven year tribulation that
took place in the time that Daniel predicted it would
be under Intacus the fourth Epiphanes, and translate that into
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the twenty first century. Nor do I think is there
any warrant for doing the same thing predicted by our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which took place historically in
the first century, and transplanting it into the twenty five century.
I think what we can say for certain on the
basis of scripture is that we do not know what
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is going to happen in the future, save the fact
that we have direct assurance from Jesus Christ that he
will appear a second time, and when he does, he
will put all things to write. The dead will be judged,
the problem of sin and Satan will be fully and
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finally resolved. The universe that now groans and travail will
be liberated from its bondage to decay, and we ourselves
will receive resurrected bodies and we'll live with a resurrected Christ.
That's what the Bible teaches, but it does not give
us any timetable or any tells for that matter, in
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terms of what is going to happen in our epic
of time.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, well, I'm just waiting for that day. I just like,
I just want I'm loving the Lord's appearing and I
want him to come.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Back so bad and he will. He promised that he
will appear a second time, and that is the hope
of the believer. So it is something that we long for.
But in the meantime, we need to be fruitful and faithful,
recognizing that there are lots of people who are without
Christ and God ordaines not only ends but also the means,
and we are the means by which the Gospel can
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go out to the ends of the earth. So we
want to be found faithful and fruitful in the meantime.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Very much, Hank, You got it, John Tell, thank you
for your call. Back to the phone lines. We'll talk
next to Bob, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, another Canadian listener.
Hi Bob, Hi.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Hank, thank you for taking my call. Pleasure, Hank, I
have a question. I've wondered about this for a long time.
Generational curses as a post to these sons no longer
paying for the sins of the fathers. I'm confused about that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, Well, what scripture clearly communicates is that consequences, not curses,
are passed on through the generations, and in that sense,
the Bible says that children are punished for the sins
of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. By
way of analogy, a child of an alcoholic father will
likely suffer neglect and abuse as a direct consequence of
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their father's sinful behavior, or the descendants of those who
hate God are more likely to follow in the footsteps
of their forefathers. These are consequences, not curses, as you've
correctly pointed out. However, Scripture explicitly tells us that the
son will not share the guilt of the father, nor
will the father share the guilt of the son. In fact,
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ancient Israel quoted the proverb the fathers eat sour grapes,
and when the children's teeth are set on end. How
does God respond to that? He says, as surely as
I live, you will no longer quote that proverb in Israel,
the soul whose sins is the one who will die.
So this notion that is being perpetuated by people like
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Joyce Meyer and others with respect to generational curses is
pure pap and dribble. It is mythology. It has nothing
to do with a biblical worldview. It is something constructed
in a sensational fashion for people to follow, but has
no basis in reality.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Okay, now I understand. Thank you for explaining that. I
have a much better understanding now of that whole concept.
So thank you, Hank. I really appreciate that you've got it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Bob, thank you so much for your call. And of course, well,
the notion of generational curses is foreign to scripture. There
is a sense in which the curse of sin has
been passed on from generation a generation. I mean, we
look at the first atom, through whom all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, and then
the second atom, Jesus Christ, who has provided atonement for
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all who would receive the grace and goodness of God.
And therefore, Paul says, just as the result of one
trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result
of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life
for all men. Through no act of our own. We
are condemned. Likewise, through no act of our own, we
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are saved. So we're either found in the first atom
or the second atom. And of course, the whole purpose
of doing a broadcast like this is to demonstrate that
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you for much Randy, and let's go right back
to the phone callers. Next step is Cindy listening in Memphis, Tennessee,
listening to WCRV. Hi Cindy.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Okay, I just have one quick question.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Do all Pentecostals believe in once or is there a
variation in beliefs regarding the Trinity?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, what's interesting about this is that the Assemblies of
God Denomination was the first to actually call out oneness
Pentecostalism as a heresy. And that should answer the question,
which is to say, not all Pentecostals and the Assemblies
of God. Of course our Pentecostal believe in the oneness doctrine.
(15:53):
In fact, most Pentecostals will say that the Oneness doctrine
is a heresy.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Okay, That's what I wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Thank you, you're welcome. Thank you so much for your
call back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
Josh and Oklahoma listening on the web by Josh.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
How are you, Hank, Thank you so much for this ministry.
My question is am I correct in telling someone that
if a follower of Christ does commit suicide, they will
not go to heaven. That's my question.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
No, you're not correct in saying that, and I'll tell
you why. Certainly, it is inconceivable for a believer to
take their own life, because if you think about this,
taking one's own life is ten amount of murder in
this case, the murder of oneself, and no Christian in
their right mind would ever contemplate doing something like that.
But not everyone is always in their right mind, which
(16:46):
is to say. You can imagine someone who is sleep deprived.
I think it was General MacArthur who said fatigue makes
cowards of us all. But you can imagine someone leap deprived,
maybe because of pain or because of other circumstances. That's delusional,
(17:07):
and in the midst of their delusional angst, doing something
they wouldn't do if they're in the right mind. You
cannot say that what they did excludes them from the kingdom.
If they are genuinely born again believers, they have everlasting life.
So on the one hand, I say what I say
with fear and trembling because I don't ever want to
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encourage anyone to take their own life. I don't want
to have anyone misunderstand what I'm saying in context. I'm
saying no believer would ever contemplate doing something like that
in their right mind. But it is not the unpardonable sin.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Okay, Okay, I just thought that, like Paul had contemplated
a couple of times, I thought and that I thought
that he was that. I thought it was not correct,
But okay, I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, this is the point. Go about it in a
different way. No single act is unforgivable, and the unforgivable
sin is a continuous, ongoing rejection of the forgiveness that
could be yours, and those who refuse forgiveness through Christ
will spend eternity separated from His love and grace. But
(18:20):
those who sincerely desire forgiveness can be absolutely certain that
God will never spurn them. So again, while suicide is
not an unforgivable sin, those who take the sacred name
of Christ upon their lips, should not contemplate suicide. Our
lives belong to God. He alone has the prerogative to
bring them to an end, and therefore we should never
(18:41):
take God's prerogative upon ourselves.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Okay, thank you very much, Hank.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Okay, God bless you. And I should also add to
the discussion that suicide is a direct attack on the
sovereignty of the very one who knit us together in
our mother's room. So we can't take the subject in
a cavalier fashion. But by the same token, we don't
want to go beyond what the scripture says either. I
want to go back to the phone lines. Now, we'll
(19:08):
talk to Mike in Arkansas. Hi, Mike, Hi, Hank.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
It's great to talk to you. I'm a new listener.
Because my schedule, I just get bits and pieces of
the programs, but it's enough that draws. As soon as
I get in the car, I turn you on to listen.
So I really appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
The reason that I called is I've been out of
church for some years and I didn't want to go
into all the details. But I moved to a new
area and I feel that the Lord's called me to
get involved in the church locally. And you've mentioned something,
I think it was last week about reformation in the
pew or something to that effect. But listening yesterday to
(19:48):
some of the callers that mentioned, you know, pastors using astrology,
et cetera, et cetera. Quite frankly, it's a little scary.
And I did ask for your free booklet about you know,
how to choose a good song a Bible based church,
and that's been helpful, But I just wanted to see
what the reformation, ifew, what that looked like, and for
someone like me in my situation, how you might uh,
(20:11):
how does that work together? At this point, it's just
I just have to trust God to move forward, and
I want to see if anything to add to that
that all makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, I think what you've done already in terms of
getting the information on how to find a healthy, well
balanced church is what's most significant. When I'm talking about
reformation in the pew, I'm using that as a way
of speaking about the only way that we can change
the culture or see revival in the culture is if,
(20:38):
first of all, the church gets back to doing what
the church is called to do. The church is called
to be salt and light in this world. It's called
to be a light, not a light hit under a bushel,
but a light that's on its stand that gives light
to a dark world. We're also called to be salt
(20:59):
and light. But if the salt loses that saltiness, said Jesus,
how can it be made salty again? So if the
church is not a living force in the culture, then
the culture will devolve. So again, what I think so
often people look for is reformation in the culture. But
that only happens when reformation starts in the pew, when
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people who take the sacred name of Christ upon their
lips do what they're called to do as followers of
Jesus Christ. So that's actually what I'm talking about when
I talk about reformation in the pew.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Okay, that is very helpful, Hank. And as far as
how does that, I know the fundamentals, I guess I
need to look for in the shepherd, a good shepherd
in the local church. So that's just kind of a
that's just something that sounds like I'm just going to
have to go and sit and listen and pray and
ask God. To God and do my part. And I
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and over the years, I haven't been just dorm and
I do. I do my own study. I read the
Bible all the time. I want to learn which in
there it's exciting, and I want to be a part
of that. And I'd like to be involved in ministries
that are doing that. You know that that level of
Book of Acts type thing.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It might be helpful for you to get a flip
chart that I put together called doctrine, and what that
gives you is the essentials of the historic Christian faith.
These are the main in the plain things, and healthy,
well balanced churches make them the main in the plain things,
from the deedy of Jesus Christ to the certainty that
he will return again, and when he does, he will
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put all things to rights. So that might be a
very helpful resource, because there certainly are a lot of
churches that deny a central Christian doctrine, even mainstream Protestant
churches sometimes they're known as mainline Protestant churches. They deny
the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, or they deny the
supernatural incarnation of Jesus Christ, so they in essence demathologize
(22:55):
the Bible. They take all the miracles out of the
Bible because they've bought into philosophical naturalism that everything has
to be explained through purely natural processes. So I think
that may be a very helpful resource so that you're
certain that you're in a church that embraces the main
and the plain things.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I think that's great. I appreciate it's been great talking
to you, And like I say, I'm a new listener
and I really look forward to the drive home now,
and so please keep up what you're doing. And I've
never had this. The first time ever in the last
several weeks heard of you and what you do, so
I'm really excited about participating.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, bless you, Mike, Thank you so much for calling.
I look forward to getting that flip chart out to you.
I think it'd be very helpful.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
God bless Thank you, Hank.
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