October 6, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/06/25), Hank answers the following questions:
Is Jesus currently a physical man or a spirit? Roger - Modesto, CA (0:53)
Can you explain the gift of speaking in tongues? Kenny - St. Louis, MO (4:17)
Is grace an empowerment from God to enable us to do miracles? Michael - Atlanta, GA (8:04)
When did the rite of circumcision begin? Who circumcised Moses? Was Adam circumcised? Hannah - Tulsa, OK (15:13)
Can you explain the resurrections mentioned after the death of Christ in Matthew 27? Stuart - Nashville, TN (20:19)
Did Moses write the final chapters of Deuteronomy? David - Memphis, TN (24:43)
Is Jesus currently a physical man or a spirit? Roger - Modesto, CA (0:53)
Can you explain the gift of speaking in tongues? Kenny - St. Louis, MO (4:17)
Is grace an empowerment from God to enable us to do miracles? Michael - Atlanta, GA (8:04)
When did the rite of circumcision begin? Who circumcised Moses? Was Adam circumcised? Hannah - Tulsa, OK (15:13)
Can you explain the resurrections mentioned after the death of Christ in Matthew 27? Stuart - Nashville, TN (20:19)
Did Moses write the final chapters of Deuteronomy? David - Memphis, TN (24:43)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thanks very much for Randy. We'll go right to the
phone lines. First up today is Roger and Modesta, California. Hi. Roger, good,
thank you, good good.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Thank you for your ministry and CI. My question is
is I was hoping you could help me out When
we say that Jesus is currently man and in heaven.
My question is is other ramification for those who believe
that he was somehow transformed and is now spirit instead
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of believing that he is currently mad.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah. Well, of course, what's important to recognize is that
on the basis of Scripture. We say he is forever
in flesh, that he is theanthropist, the god Man, and
we can demonstrate through history and evidence that the Bible
is utterly reliable. And therefore we bow our knee before
God's revelation of himself to us in scripture. And again,
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Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead, and that is the
earnest of our resurrection. So the fact that he is
forever in flesh has great ramifications for us in terms
of our hope of resurrection. The very thing that animated
the early Christian Church, it caused the early Christian Church
to be able to undo an entire empire in the end,
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it is because they knew that Christ rose, and they
know just as certainly that they too would rise, immortal, imperishable,
and corruptible.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, I have a follow up question with that, which is,
if we believe heaven is a place of awareness and
not awareness, how do we reconcile the fact that Jesus
Christ is glorified man in flesh, physical but not in
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a place of awareness.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, you're talking about two different things here. When we're
talking about human beings. Human beings at death are absent
from the body. They're present with the Lord. And so
when we talk about human beings, human beings are body
soul unities and an unnatural rending of body and soul
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and death. So in that sense, souls which do not
have extension in space have awareness, but do not have
as it were, awareness. But that's not what we're saying
with respect to Jesus Christ. We're saying that Jesus Christ
is already resurrected the earnest of our resurrection. So at
some future point in time, we too will once again
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have awareness because the veil between Heaven and Earth will
be removed as it were, and God's space will invade
our place. So when we talk about heaven in the
ultimate sense, we're talking about a real physical universe transformed
by the work of Jesus Christ through his death and
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resurrection through his passion on the Cross. So what happens
to our bodies in terms of resurrection goes hand in hand,
which with what happens to the universe. The universe is
also transformed, but it remains a physical youuth. And again
we have to see that Heaven and Earth now are conjoined.
The answer to the prayer, of course, that the Lord
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taught us to pray.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Okay, awesome. Thank you so much, sir, and thank you
for the program and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You got a roger. Thank you for your call back
to the phone lines. We'll talk to Kenny next. Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Kenny, Hey,
how you doing, Hank good?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Thank you, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I heard you're speaking about the guests of the spirits
and tongues and whatnot. And I went to a men's
meeting and they gave like the plan of salvation and
then after that they gave, I guess so like an
invitation for you to be filled with the spirit. And
I know that speaking in tongues is not the evidence
of being saved, but they were saying that, in my
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mind basically that the evidence of being filled with the
spirits is tongues. And I want you to kind of
break that down. And plus, I've never really even seen
when you were talking to the other person you were
talking about because action. And I'm kind of on the
fence about that because I've never ever seen tongues display
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the way the Bible displays it. There's never usually, I mean,
is there always a bunch of people in tongues, and
then there's nobody that gives you an interpretation. So I
kind of would like you to kind of break that
down with it as well well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And that's exactly what you just did. You broke it down,
and whether you know it or not, you did so
on the basis of scripture. First print in chapter fourteen
gives guidelines if tongues are spoken. Also, it's very important
to understand what tongues are and how the Bible uses
the word tongues. And again, the way you understand that,
it's just by reading the context surrounding the use of
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the word tongues. But to your original question, has become
increasingly common for Christians to suppose that the full Gospel
includes the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence
of speaking in tongues. And therefore we have to answer
the question that you broached. Is speaking in tongues the
evidence of being baptized by the Holy Spirit. Well, let's
look at scripture. The apostle Paul says that believers are
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all badized by one Spirit into one body. That's in
First Corinthians, chapter twelve. Yet not all who believe speak
in tongues, and therefore tongues may be a manifestation of
the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but tongues cannot be
the manifestation. Furthermore, even if one does speak in tongues,
it's not a guarantee that they have been baptized in
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the Holy Spirit. Why do I say that, because Scripture
says that if I speak in the tongues of men
and angels but have not love, I'm only a resounding gong,
a clanging symbol. In fact, Paul says, without love, I'm nothing.
And therefore, social psychological manipulation tactics like you've probably experienced
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in what you were probably alluding to in the meeting,
such as the pure pressure or subtle power suggestion, can
induce a static utterances that are wholly apart from the
Holy Spirit. And then, as the Bible makes plain, the
normative sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit is
not speaking in tongues, but the confession of Jesus Christ
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is Lord, the repentance from sin, obedience to God. Those
who live in accordance with the Spirit have their mindset
on what the Spirit desires. We see in Scripture the
mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled
by the spirit is life and peace, as Paul. And
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therefore the fruit of the spirit is not merely speaking
in tongues, but it's love and joy and peace. It's
patience and kindness and goodness, its faithfulness and gentleness and
self control. The bottom line is righteousness, not tongues. Is
the core of Christianity compressed in a single word.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Man, I was about to say, preach up in here,
what but I thank you Mary. I'm sitting here with
my wife, were writing home from work, and that really
cleared up some things. So I think both of us
and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well. Thanks for tuning in. Back to the phone lines.
We'll talk next to Michael in Atlanta, Georgia, listening on
the web. Hi Michael, Hey, Henk, how you doing good?
Thank you all right?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Hey Man, I listen to.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
You a lot.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I really do appreciate everything your ministries are doing. I
have a question about God's grace. I've been listening to
a lot of pastors, and a lot of them you've
talked about, like a Krecho Dollar. There's also another pastor
out there who writes many many books. John there here.
They basically speak strongly on the thought of grace being
more than just salvation and there to gift from God,
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to forgiveness of things, but grace also has God's empowerment
and for us to take advantage of that. And you know,
they they pick a lot of different scriptures where you know,
Jesus speaks of you know, as the Father sent me,
now I'm sending you to do greater works and things
like that, and how we need to take advantage of
God's graces and empowerment. And I was wondering what your
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thoughts on work in that copic.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, first of all, I think you have to consider
the messengers in this case both are false teachers Kreflo Dollar,
who lives in the land of heresy a good deal
of the time when he's communicating his nonsensical statements. And
I've written about this in pretty clear detail in a
book called Christianity in Crisis twenty first century. So that's
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not just again an assertion, it is an absolutely defensible argument.
So he mistakes all kinds of things, including the very
nature of God himself, so it's not a small step
for him to mistake the grace of God. And of
course the whole bent of people like this is to
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say that by the grace of God we are able
to appropriate faith, and faith is redefined as a force.
Words are the containers of the force. And then they
go on to say that through the force of faith
one can create their own reality. What this is, in
essence is new thought metaphysics, repackage for Christian consumption. It
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goes under the guise of Christian teaching, but it is
hardly Christian.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Okay, okay, I guess that answers my question. May I
so much? You know, went through a lot of these
series of books with relentless and different courses like that,
and you know, the study guides and everything, and I
just recently, you know, called onto your ministry and sort
of the direction you were going, and I was just
wondering what your thoughts on that. I do thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You got to thank you so much for your call.
And again I've written about this and specifically about the
heresies of Kreflo Dollar and I about Christianity and Crisis
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
What's Randian. Let's go right back to our phone callers.
Next up is Annah listening in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Hey, Hannah, Oh, thank you very much. Hank. I listen
to you every day. I have two questions and also
then I want to make a comment. My number one
is when does circum decisions start with Abraham? Who is
who circumcised Moses? Was it God? And was Adam circumcised?
(15:37):
This came up in Sunday school. Sunday I've taught to
my ole study for nine years and it came up.
And of course as they left this to meet to bring
back the answers next week. And also let me say this,
I got all your books up to has God spoken?
And I'm sure the answers my questions is in some
of those books that I have found it. Anyway, it's
so good to talk to you, and now I'll stop listen.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, thank you much for your call. And of course,
the answer to the question of whether or not Adam
was circumcised. We don't know, but there's no reason to
think that he was. Circumcision as a covenant reality began
with Abraham, and of course Moses was the covenant lawgiver.
And what was particularly interesting in the sense of Moses
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is that while circumcision for Abraham was a sign of
the everlasting covenant between God and his people, a sign
of commitment to God, symbolizing that the Lord alone was
to be trusted and served. It's kind of like a
marriage covenant. What happened in Exodus chapter four, we see Moses,
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who's going to be the great lawgiver to God's people,
in disobedience to the law of circumcision. It seems in
this case that he was more willing to please the
wishes of his Midianite wife than he was the will
of the Lord, and therefore he had not circumcised his
own son. And of course, then in the story Zuppora,
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I believe it was circumcised the son to save her
husband from the wrath of God. But circumcision ultimately, in short,
was a rite of covenant that started with Abraham.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Like I've sent a sizeable this past week, and also
I requested everything you have on Muslims or Mormons. I
moved and I had everything and I've lost it, and
this question has come up even at my house now.
And I don't have any any of your information, and
I know you have a lot of it. But anyway,
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this and this is just such a pleasure to talk
to you. I've listened to you, I guess every since
you've been on the air. I'm eighty seven years old,
and it's just such a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well you have breaken my day.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Well, thank you. I'm still very active in education. I'm
a retired teacher, and I'm very still very active in
all the problems that we're having now, but I mostly
am endo the Bible. I do three Bible studies every
morning and anyway, but you are such a help to me.
And I have your books, you know, and your answer
books I have. I think I've got three of them,
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and has God Foken is my last one and I
haven't got into it yet, but I have all the
others that you've written up to now. And anyway, I
do help you all I can, and I just hope
that we get a good lot so that we can
keep you on the air. My friends, all my friends
know who hang Handigraph is, I tell you for sure,
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because that's all I do is just help out in
education as best I can and as wherever I can,
and study the Bible. And I'm just as happy as
I can be.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I just wonder if I can borrow a little of
your energy.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Oh yeah, well, anyway, well I do, I guess I'm
I do have a lot of energy. But I take
I feed the needy too. I buy potatoes by the
six and sixty pounds, take them to the church and
let people come and get them. And I cook for
needy people. I make stewd and I make cakes and
pies and baked bread and all this kind of stuff.
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But I am busy. But I listen to Haye Handigraph
every day at five o'clock. And I've done this ever
since I am ever since you've been on radio.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I think those years well, and I hope God keeps
you on this planet for a long long time because
you are definitely being used not by Mike nor by power,
but by His spirit. It has been just a joy
to talk to you today. You've brightened my day.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, I certainly do support you in every way I can,
and I do pray the same thing every day, and
I just thank him and praise him for the strength
and the average intelligence that he continues to let me
keep to share with others. And that's what I do.
I just share the truth to people, the love that
the Lord has for everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Amen, Well, it has just I tell you, this has
been a great call thing. Thank you so much for
calling in and for blessing our ministry and blessing everyone
that has had an opportunity to listen to your enthusiasm
and passion.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Oh well, thank you so very much, and thank you
for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You got it in. I'll tell you what, that kind
of a call will keep me going for years. I
want to go back to the phone lines. Talk next
to Stuart Nashville, Tennessee. Hi, Stuart, Hey.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Man, it's such a thrill to ask you a question.
In one of the gospel accounts, I think it's the
Gospel of Matthew, what took place at Jesus at the
I think it's at the resurrection, and there was an
earthquake and everything in the scripture says that there were
other people that had previously been dead that were also
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up and walking around. And I think in like one
commentary I had read it talked about that the writer
might be using some type of literary device trying to
emphasize a point. I wanted to ask you what you
thought your opinion on what the writers in Kent was
in bringing this point about.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, this is a very very difficult passage in the
Word of God, and it is only given in Matthew,
in this full permutation, and it's oftentimes considered apocalyptic language,
not meant to be taken literally. But the kind of
language that is used with respect to the death of
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kings and the present for that is pretty potent in
ancient literature. And so that is one of the ways
in which people look at that. Not only that, but
if you look at this passage. And by the way,
the passage is Matthew chapter twenty seven. This happens right
after Jesus cries out in a loud voice and gives
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up his spirit, and at that moment the curtain of
the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
The erth shook, and the rock split. Now, some of
that language itself is considered to be apocalyptic language, partly
due to the fact that if in fact the temple
curtain had been torn from top to bottom. One would
think that that would have been perhaps one of the
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most apocalyptic events that had taken place in ancient history,
and certainly would have been noted more frequently, not only
in biblical literature, but beyond extra biblical literature as well.
And then it goes on talking about the tombs broke
open and the bodies of many holy people who had
died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs,
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and after Jesus's resurrection, they went into the Holy City
and appeared to many people. That language, again the kind
of apocalyptic language that is pointing ultimately to the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, which is yet future, and the resurrection
of Jesus Christ being considered the earnest of all resurrections.
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So again, that's why many commentators believe the language points
forward to the resurrection, which is itself an inauguration of
the Esketon. The Esketon is our hope, the consummation of
all things, including our resurrection, are judgment and absolute righteousness. Now,
there are other people that will give plausible arguments for
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saying no, you can take that as being part of
the historical narrative so there is a debate. And granted
this is a very difficult passage to grapple with. I
haven't spent personally enough time with this passage. It's something
that I have thought about doing and I just haven't
got around to it. But this is a good reminder
that I should.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Okay, one real quick question, when a Lotter uses apocalyptic
type descriptions, does he also wouldn't he more than likely
do it more than one place as opposed to just
being apocalyptic in such a short and just all of
a sudden boom, I'm going to be apocalyptic as opposed
to showing hints of it in his other writing.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, and apocalyptic itself is a word that demands ex
because you know, if you look at the Apocalypse, John's
Apocalypse is an apocalypse not just in terms of foretelling,
but as an apocalyptics in terms of a linguistic matrix
that has its genesis in Old Testament literature. So yeah,
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I think when you look at John's Apocalypse, it's very
clear that you have to take into consideration that that's
a genre that isn't the same case when you come
to Matthew's Gospel. This is a historical narrative. So you're right.
It is because of that a very disputed passage in
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the sense that there are opinions on both sides of
the Alleger. Appreciate your call. When to got back to
the phone lines, talk to David in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Hi, David, Yes, Hello, Hank, Hi, Hey, Hank, pleasure to
talk to you. I've got a question out in my
recent personal devotion studying the Old Testament. Generally, he believed
and agreed that Moses wrote the first five books of
the Old Testament. Correct.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, that's something conceded by Jesus Christ himself. Now, that
would not mean that he wrote about his own death,
of course, although it wouldn't preclude that possibility in that
he could have been given supernatural insight as to what
would happen when he died. But it's more likely that
that was appended by someone like Joshua.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Okay, Well, that was my question. What's your thoughts on that?
Because you know he has died before the end of
Juteromede and Judio Army thirty four, did someone else like
that final chapter?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I would say that's the most logical conclusion. I think Again,
there are some people in the Christian community. That suppose
that God gave Moses supernatural insight as to what would
happen after he died. But I think it's more likely
that that was appended, according to common tradition, by someone
like Joshua.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Okay, yeah, okay, well that's what I wanted to find out.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thanks very much for Randy. We'll go right to the
phone lines. First up today is Roger and Modesta, California. Hi. Roger, good,
thank you, good good.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Thank you for your ministry and CI. My question is
is I was hoping you could help me out When
we say that Jesus is currently man and in heaven.
My question is is other ramification for those who believe
that he was somehow transformed and is now spirit instead
(01:24):
of believing that he is currently mad.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah. Well, of course, what's important to recognize is that
on the basis of Scripture. We say he is forever
in flesh, that he is theanthropist, the god Man, and
we can demonstrate through history and evidence that the Bible
is utterly reliable. And therefore we bow our knee before
God's revelation of himself to us in scripture. And again,
(01:49):
Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead, and that is the
earnest of our resurrection. So the fact that he is
forever in flesh has great ramifications for us in terms
of our hope of resurrection. The very thing that animated
the early Christian Church, it caused the early Christian Church
to be able to undo an entire empire in the end,
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it is because they knew that Christ rose, and they
know just as certainly that they too would rise, immortal, imperishable,
and corruptible.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, I have a follow up question with that, which is,
if we believe heaven is a place of awareness and
not awareness, how do we reconcile the fact that Jesus
Christ is glorified man in flesh, physical but not in
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a place of awareness.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, you're talking about two different things here. When we're
talking about human beings. Human beings at death are absent
from the body. They're present with the Lord. And so
when we talk about human beings, human beings are body
soul unities and an unnatural rending of body and soul
(03:02):
and death. So in that sense, souls which do not
have extension in space have awareness, but do not have
as it were, awareness. But that's not what we're saying
with respect to Jesus Christ. We're saying that Jesus Christ
is already resurrected the earnest of our resurrection. So at
some future point in time, we too will once again
(03:25):
have awareness because the veil between Heaven and Earth will
be removed as it were, and God's space will invade
our place. So when we talk about heaven in the
ultimate sense, we're talking about a real physical universe transformed
by the work of Jesus Christ through his death and
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resurrection through his passion on the Cross. So what happens
to our bodies in terms of resurrection goes hand in hand,
which with what happens to the universe. The universe is
also transformed, but it remains a physical youuth. And again
we have to see that Heaven and Earth now are conjoined.
The answer to the prayer, of course, that the Lord
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taught us to pray.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Okay, awesome. Thank you so much, sir, and thank you
for the program and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You got a roger. Thank you for your call back
to the phone lines. We'll talk to Kenny next. Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Kenny, Hey,
how you doing, Hank good?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Thank you, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I heard you're speaking about the guests of the spirits
and tongues and whatnot. And I went to a men's
meeting and they gave like the plan of salvation and
then after that they gave, I guess so like an
invitation for you to be filled with the spirit. And
I know that speaking in tongues is not the evidence
of being saved, but they were saying that, in my
(04:45):
mind basically that the evidence of being filled with the
spirits is tongues. And I want you to kind of
break that down. And plus, I've never really even seen
when you were talking to the other person you were
talking about because action. And I'm kind of on the
fence about that because I've never ever seen tongues display
(05:05):
the way the Bible displays it. There's never usually, I mean,
is there always a bunch of people in tongues, and
then there's nobody that gives you an interpretation. So I
kind of would like you to kind of break that
down with it as well well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And that's exactly what you just did. You broke it down,
and whether you know it or not, you did so
on the basis of scripture. First print in chapter fourteen
gives guidelines if tongues are spoken. Also, it's very important
to understand what tongues are and how the Bible uses
the word tongues. And again, the way you understand that,
it's just by reading the context surrounding the use of
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the word tongues. But to your original question, has become
increasingly common for Christians to suppose that the full Gospel
includes the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence
of speaking in tongues. And therefore we have to answer
the question that you broached. Is speaking in tongues the
evidence of being baptized by the Holy Spirit. Well, let's
look at scripture. The apostle Paul says that believers are
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all badized by one Spirit into one body. That's in
First Corinthians, chapter twelve. Yet not all who believe speak
in tongues, and therefore tongues may be a manifestation of
the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but tongues cannot be
the manifestation. Furthermore, even if one does speak in tongues,
it's not a guarantee that they have been baptized in
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the Holy Spirit. Why do I say that, because Scripture
says that if I speak in the tongues of men
and angels but have not love, I'm only a resounding gong,
a clanging symbol. In fact, Paul says, without love, I'm nothing.
And therefore, social psychological manipulation tactics like you've probably experienced
(06:44):
in what you were probably alluding to in the meeting,
such as the pure pressure or subtle power suggestion, can
induce a static utterances that are wholly apart from the
Holy Spirit. And then, as the Bible makes plain, the
normative sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit is
not speaking in tongues, but the confession of Jesus Christ
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is Lord, the repentance from sin, obedience to God. Those
who live in accordance with the Spirit have their mindset
on what the Spirit desires. We see in Scripture the
mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled
by the spirit is life and peace, as Paul. And
(07:27):
therefore the fruit of the spirit is not merely speaking
in tongues, but it's love and joy and peace. It's
patience and kindness and goodness, its faithfulness and gentleness and
self control. The bottom line is righteousness, not tongues. Is
the core of Christianity compressed in a single word.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Man, I was about to say, preach up in here,
what but I thank you Mary. I'm sitting here with
my wife, were writing home from work, and that really
cleared up some things. So I think both of us
and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well. Thanks for tuning in. Back to the phone lines.
We'll talk next to Michael in Atlanta, Georgia, listening on
the web. Hi Michael, Hey, Henk, how you doing good?
Thank you all right?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Hey Man, I listen to.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
You a lot.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I really do appreciate everything your ministries are doing. I
have a question about God's grace. I've been listening to
a lot of pastors, and a lot of them you've
talked about, like a Krecho Dollar. There's also another pastor
out there who writes many many books. John there here.
They basically speak strongly on the thought of grace being
more than just salvation and there to gift from God,
(08:37):
to forgiveness of things, but grace also has God's empowerment
and for us to take advantage of that. And you know,
they they pick a lot of different scriptures where you know,
Jesus speaks of you know, as the Father sent me,
now I'm sending you to do greater works and things
like that, and how we need to take advantage of
God's graces and empowerment. And I was wondering what your
(08:59):
thoughts on work in that copic.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, first of all, I think you have to consider
the messengers in this case both are false teachers Kreflo Dollar,
who lives in the land of heresy a good deal
of the time when he's communicating his nonsensical statements. And
I've written about this in pretty clear detail in a
book called Christianity in Crisis twenty first century. So that's
(09:24):
not just again an assertion, it is an absolutely defensible argument.
So he mistakes all kinds of things, including the very
nature of God himself, so it's not a small step
for him to mistake the grace of God. And of
course the whole bent of people like this is to
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say that by the grace of God we are able
to appropriate faith, and faith is redefined as a force.
Words are the containers of the force. And then they
go on to say that through the force of faith
one can create their own reality. What this is, in
essence is new thought metaphysics, repackage for Christian consumption. It
(10:06):
goes under the guise of Christian teaching, but it is
hardly Christian.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Okay, okay, I guess that answers my question. May I
so much? You know, went through a lot of these
series of books with relentless and different courses like that,
and you know, the study guides and everything, and I
just recently, you know, called onto your ministry and sort
of the direction you were going, and I was just
wondering what your thoughts on that. I do thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You got to thank you so much for your call.
And again I've written about this and specifically about the
heresies of Kreflo Dollar and I about Christianity and Crisis
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
What's Randian. Let's go right back to our phone callers.
Next up is Annah listening in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Hey, Hannah, Oh, thank you very much. Hank. I listen
to you every day. I have two questions and also
then I want to make a comment. My number one
is when does circum decisions start with Abraham? Who is
who circumcised Moses? Was it God? And was Adam circumcised?
(15:37):
This came up in Sunday school. Sunday I've taught to
my ole study for nine years and it came up.
And of course as they left this to meet to bring
back the answers next week. And also let me say this,
I got all your books up to has God spoken?
And I'm sure the answers my questions is in some
of those books that I have found it. Anyway, it's
so good to talk to you, and now I'll stop listen.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, thank you much for your call. And of course,
the answer to the question of whether or not Adam
was circumcised. We don't know, but there's no reason to
think that he was. Circumcision as a covenant reality began
with Abraham, and of course Moses was the covenant lawgiver.
And what was particularly interesting in the sense of Moses
(16:21):
is that while circumcision for Abraham was a sign of
the everlasting covenant between God and his people, a sign
of commitment to God, symbolizing that the Lord alone was
to be trusted and served. It's kind of like a
marriage covenant. What happened in Exodus chapter four, we see Moses,
(16:42):
who's going to be the great lawgiver to God's people,
in disobedience to the law of circumcision. It seems in
this case that he was more willing to please the
wishes of his Midianite wife than he was the will
of the Lord, and therefore he had not circumcised his
own son. And of course, then in the story Zuppora,
(17:04):
I believe it was circumcised the son to save her
husband from the wrath of God. But circumcision ultimately, in short,
was a rite of covenant that started with Abraham.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Like I've sent a sizeable this past week, and also
I requested everything you have on Muslims or Mormons. I
moved and I had everything and I've lost it, and
this question has come up even at my house now.
And I don't have any any of your information, and
I know you have a lot of it. But anyway,
(17:39):
this and this is just such a pleasure to talk
to you. I've listened to you, I guess every since
you've been on the air. I'm eighty seven years old,
and it's just such a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well you have breaken my day.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Well, thank you. I'm still very active in education. I'm
a retired teacher, and I'm very still very active in
all the problems that we're having now, but I mostly
am endo the Bible. I do three Bible studies every
morning and anyway, but you are such a help to me.
And I have your books, you know, and your answer
books I have. I think I've got three of them,
(18:13):
and has God Foken is my last one and I
haven't got into it yet, but I have all the
others that you've written up to now. And anyway, I
do help you all I can, and I just hope
that we get a good lot so that we can
keep you on the air. My friends, all my friends
know who hang Handigraph is, I tell you for sure,
(18:35):
because that's all I do is just help out in
education as best I can and as wherever I can,
and study the Bible. And I'm just as happy as
I can be.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I just wonder if I can borrow a little of
your energy.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Oh yeah, well, anyway, well I do, I guess I'm
I do have a lot of energy. But I take
I feed the needy too. I buy potatoes by the
six and sixty pounds, take them to the church and
let people come and get them. And I cook for
needy people. I make stewd and I make cakes and
pies and baked bread and all this kind of stuff.
(19:10):
But I am busy. But I listen to Haye Handigraph
every day at five o'clock. And I've done this ever
since I am ever since you've been on radio.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I think those years well, and I hope God keeps
you on this planet for a long long time because
you are definitely being used not by Mike nor by power,
but by His spirit. It has been just a joy
to talk to you today. You've brightened my day.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, I certainly do support you in every way I can,
and I do pray the same thing every day, and
I just thank him and praise him for the strength
and the average intelligence that he continues to let me
keep to share with others. And that's what I do.
I just share the truth to people, the love that
the Lord has for everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Amen, Well, it has just I tell you, this has
been a great call thing. Thank you so much for
calling in and for blessing our ministry and blessing everyone
that has had an opportunity to listen to your enthusiasm
and passion.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Oh well, thank you so very much, and thank you
for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You got it in. I'll tell you what, that kind
of a call will keep me going for years. I
want to go back to the phone lines. Talk next
to Stuart Nashville, Tennessee. Hi, Stuart, Hey.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Man, it's such a thrill to ask you a question.
In one of the gospel accounts, I think it's the
Gospel of Matthew, what took place at Jesus at the
I think it's at the resurrection, and there was an
earthquake and everything in the scripture says that there were
other people that had previously been dead that were also
(20:46):
up and walking around. And I think in like one
commentary I had read it talked about that the writer
might be using some type of literary device trying to
emphasize a point. I wanted to ask you what you
thought your opinion on what the writers in Kent was
in bringing this point about.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, this is a very very difficult passage in the
Word of God, and it is only given in Matthew,
in this full permutation, and it's oftentimes considered apocalyptic language,
not meant to be taken literally. But the kind of
language that is used with respect to the death of
(21:26):
kings and the present for that is pretty potent in
ancient literature. And so that is one of the ways
in which people look at that. Not only that, but
if you look at this passage. And by the way,
the passage is Matthew chapter twenty seven. This happens right
after Jesus cries out in a loud voice and gives
(21:46):
up his spirit, and at that moment the curtain of
the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
The erth shook, and the rock split. Now, some of
that language itself is considered to be apocalyptic language, partly
due to the fact that if in fact the temple
curtain had been torn from top to bottom. One would
think that that would have been perhaps one of the
(22:08):
most apocalyptic events that had taken place in ancient history,
and certainly would have been noted more frequently, not only
in biblical literature, but beyond extra biblical literature as well.
And then it goes on talking about the tombs broke
open and the bodies of many holy people who had
died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs,
(22:29):
and after Jesus's resurrection, they went into the Holy City
and appeared to many people. That language, again the kind
of apocalyptic language that is pointing ultimately to the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, which is yet future, and the resurrection
of Jesus Christ being considered the earnest of all resurrections.
(22:50):
So again, that's why many commentators believe the language points
forward to the resurrection, which is itself an inauguration of
the Esketon. The Esketon is our hope, the consummation of
all things, including our resurrection, are judgment and absolute righteousness. Now,
there are other people that will give plausible arguments for
(23:13):
saying no, you can take that as being part of
the historical narrative so there is a debate. And granted
this is a very difficult passage to grapple with. I
haven't spent personally enough time with this passage. It's something
that I have thought about doing and I just haven't
got around to it. But this is a good reminder
that I should.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Okay, one real quick question, when a Lotter uses apocalyptic
type descriptions, does he also wouldn't he more than likely
do it more than one place as opposed to just
being apocalyptic in such a short and just all of
a sudden boom, I'm going to be apocalyptic as opposed
to showing hints of it in his other writing.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, and apocalyptic itself is a word that demands ex
because you know, if you look at the Apocalypse, John's
Apocalypse is an apocalypse not just in terms of foretelling,
but as an apocalyptics in terms of a linguistic matrix
that has its genesis in Old Testament literature. So yeah,
(24:17):
I think when you look at John's Apocalypse, it's very
clear that you have to take into consideration that that's
a genre that isn't the same case when you come
to Matthew's Gospel. This is a historical narrative. So you're right.
It is because of that a very disputed passage in
(24:39):
the sense that there are opinions on both sides of
the Alleger. Appreciate your call. When to got back to
the phone lines, talk to David in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Hi, David, Yes, Hello, Hank, Hi, Hey, Hank, pleasure to
talk to you. I've got a question out in my
recent personal devotion studying the Old Testament. Generally, he believed
and agreed that Moses wrote the first five books of
the Old Testament. Correct.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, that's something conceded by Jesus Christ himself. Now, that
would not mean that he wrote about his own death,
of course, although it wouldn't preclude that possibility in that
he could have been given supernatural insight as to what
would happen when he died. But it's more likely that
that was appended by someone like Joshua.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Okay, Well, that was my question. What's your thoughts on that?
Because you know he has died before the end of
Juteromede and Judio Army thirty four, did someone else like
that final chapter?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I would say that's the most logical conclusion. I think Again,
there are some people in the Christian community. That suppose
that God gave Moses supernatural insight as to what would
happen after he died. But I think it's more likely
that that was appended, according to common tradition, by someone
like Joshua.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Okay, yeah, okay, well that's what I wanted to find out.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Thank you very much, you got it time for this
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you tomorrow with more.
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