February 5, 2026 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (02/05/26), Hank answers the following questions:
How is the new covenant different from the old covenant? Christopher - MI (1:03)
What about the Christian practice of holy yoga? Tom - Nashville, TN (5:45)
Why did Paul tell Timothy to be circumcised but not Titus? Tony - St. Louis, MO (18:08)
What is the “perfect” mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13:10? Tony - St. Louis, MO (19:18)
Are there still people who can speak in tongues and prophesy? Tony - St. Louis, MO (20:29)
Can you help me understand the Word of Faith movement? Wayne - Jacksonville, FL (21:58)
How is the new covenant different from the old covenant? Christopher - MI (1:03)
What about the Christian practice of holy yoga? Tom - Nashville, TN (5:45)
Why did Paul tell Timothy to be circumcised but not Titus? Tony - St. Louis, MO (18:08)
What is the “perfect” mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13:10? Tony - St. Louis, MO (19:18)
Are there still people who can speak in tongues and prophesy? Tony - St. Louis, MO (20:29)
Can you help me understand the Word of Faith movement? Wayne - Jacksonville, FL (21:58)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Bible answer Man Broadcast with the President
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dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
here's Hank, Hannah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
A lot of you hanging on. We're going to go
right to our phone callers. First step is Christopher listening
on the web in Michigan High Christopher.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I think, how are you doing today?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I'm doing well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
My question is.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
This when I read the New Testament, especially in Romans
specific New chapter two, chapter nine, and in Galatians chapter three,
Paul seems to point out that God has always only
had one people, and that one people has always included
gentiles or non Jews. It was people who placed their
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faith in God, and now in the New Testament, who
place their faith in Jesus Christ. But whenever I hear
people talk about the New Covenant, they always refer to
it as if that's when gentiles were added. And seeing
if that's not the case, I wonder, well, what exactly
is the New Covenant? I know that in myself I
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think that, well, they worship different they don't worship the
types and shadows with the Temple's sacrificial system and things
like that. But other than that, I was wondering what
all did the New Covenant and concass or how is
it different from the Old Covenant.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, let me just sit back here for a moment
and applaud your understanding of the scripture. The prologue to
your question was profound. You're absolutely right. The covenants are
not qualitatively different. The Old Covenant and the New Covenant
are really the same covenant. But the New Covenant is
considered better for the very reason that you mentioned in
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the prolog to the question, and that is because the
blood of Jesus Christ is the better of the blood
of bulls and goats. Hebrews makes that plain, but qualitatively
you have the same covenant, one through types and shadows,
the other through the substance. The substance of Jesus Christ
fulfills the types and shadows, fact abrogates the types and shadows.
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Once Christ comes, there's no need for temple priest or sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, so pretty much kind of what I because it
seemed like it just seems so confusing because when you
hear people talk about it, they always seem to talk
about it as if that's when gentiles were added or
and to me, it doesn't seem like it. And if
that's the cases, like what do they call it the new.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Paveny, Well, no, you're absolutely right, because if you look
at the New Testament and you say that's when gentiles
are added, then you have to ask yourself, well, look
what's going on in the Old Testament with the rahab
or ruth. They're gentiles and the truest sense of the word,
one is a Canaanite, the other's a Moabite, and yet
they're in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Because it doesn't
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have to do with whether you're one particular nationality or another.
True Israel is from every tribe and language and nation
in people. True israel Is brought in to types and
shadows in the Old Testament, regardless of their genealogy. And
therefore you can have Egyptians that were part of the
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Covenant community. They were part of all of the rituals
pointing forward to Jesus Christ. That's why you can have
in the Book of Esther this beautiful saying that when
the nations look on and see how God sovereignly raises
up Esther to save the Jews from certain destruction, that
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on that day, realizing that God is sovereign, many of
those people put their trust in the sovereign God and
became Jews according to the text. So there's a difference
between Israel and true Israel. If you are a Jew
and you do not believe in Jesus, you're really not
a son of Abraham. And God can make out a
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rock's sons of Abraham. Abraham was the father of many nations,
not the father of a nation. That's why his name
was changed from Abram to Abraham, the father of many nations.
He only had one seed. That seed is Jesus Christ.
If we are in Jesus Christ, what does Paul say?
You are of Jesus Christ. You are the seed of Abraham.
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You are an heir according to the Covenant. Doesn't matter
whether you're Jew or gentile, slave or free, male or female,
you are a son or a daughter of Abraham.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Amen. Well, thanks sank for you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And I've talked about that in a book called The
Apocalypse Code. Find out what the Bible really says about
the end times and why it matters today. Let's go
back to the phone lines now we'll talk to Tom
listening in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Hi. Tom, Hi, how you doing. I'm doing well, good
talking to you.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Well, thank you, thank you. My question is regarding Holy Yoga,
where they've taken some of the aspects of yoga out
and consider it as a ministry where the eighth station
they focus on scripture, they don't focus on the empty
of the soul, etc. And I just wanted to get
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your take on that. Do you think that that can
be reconciled and turned into a good thing? You know,
part of the argument is, you know, the other side
doesn't have an exclusive rights to breathing or certain positions
and things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, I mean light of the fact that words are
not unifical, they're equivocal. I suppose you can have holy
smoke and you can have holy yoga. That you're you're
sort of denuding yoga of what yoga really is. Yoga
is a sanscrit word that means to yoke or to unite,
and the goal of yoga is to encouple oneself from
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the material world and unite yourself with the God of Hinduism.
So I think there's a danger and trying to strip
yoga of what yoga really is, and in fact getting
people who are untaught to think that they're in some
kind of a neutral practice. I don't know that if
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I was a Christian, I'd want.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
To call it holy yoga.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But there are multitudes who are being seduced into believing
that the asanas, for example, are spiritually neutral. But nothing
really could be farther from the truth. Asaunas are not
mere body positions or stretching exercises, their actual part and
parcel of a practice called yoga. And so there was
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a yogi that said, in a humorous way, to think
of asanas as mere body positions or stretching exercise, as
analogous to believing baptism is just another underwater exercise.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I think that we recognize in baptism there's something really
sacred going on, and the yogis recognize that in asanas
there is something very sacred going on.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
From their perspective, right, I'm.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
In agreement with you. I just you know, some folks
have been in dialogue with phil that they they're doing
something that's leading people to focus on Jesus rather than
the other in giving health benefits, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, if they're really doing that, all the work power
to them. I mean, there are a lot of body
positions that you get into when you're in yoga that
are actually good for a golf swing. They're good for flexibility,
but they're a body position and they shouldn't be associated
with yoga in the truest sense of the word, because
I'm not going um and I'm not trying to be
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one with Nirvana or one with the universe. I got
a completely different objective in mind, and that is they
had a golf.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Ball farther right, I looked at the Holy yoga website,
and one thing that their statement of faith was very
orthodox in terms of what they believe in the Bible,
et cetera. But then there was a statement of practice
that I felt was a point of concern, and they
talked about ever since God created the universe, there's a
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vibration in the universe, and Hindus called that as om,
but we avoid that term. But I don't think there's
any biblical or scientific evidence for a vibration in the universe.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Well, no, there isn't. And remember that the use of
UM is to work the devote into an altered state
of consciousness, because the mind is seen to be the
obstacle to enlightenment. So there's a purpose in UM. It
is to connect with the universal vibration, to connect with nirvana.
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It is a way of connecting with Brahma. So I'm
going to be careful of this syncretism where we take
a little bit of this and a little bit of that,
particularly in an age and when Christians don't even know
what they believe in why they believe, By and large,
it's a very dangerous thing to take someone that is
unschooled and unlearned and try to become culturally relevant in
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the way that a lot of Christians are trying to
become culturally relevant today. We're becoming microcosms of the culture
instead of change agents in the culture which we are
called to be. We're coming to Station Break right on
the inside of the Break with more of the Bible
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank very much, Randy. Before we go back to our callers.
Since yoga was brought up before the break, I want
to say just a couple of words about yoga. I've
actually developed an acronym yoga, and I think it's apropo
today because since Swami Vivekananda first introduced yoga to the
West more than one hundred years ago, yoga has become
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as American as apple pie. Consumers drop billions every year
on classes and books and videos and CDs and DVDs
and clothing and mats and who knows what. It has
been widely embraced by Roman Catholics and mainline Protestants, and
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over the past several years there's actually been, as alluded
to with the Caller, a Christian yoga movement that's been
among evangelicals. So because of its rock star status, I
developed the acronym yoga to give people a memorable overview
on what yoga actually entails. The why reminds us of
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the word yoga. It means to yoke, to unite, and
in the case of yoga, to unite oneself with the
God of Hinduism, commonly understood to be Brahmin, the impersonal,
cosmic consciousness of the universe. The O represents um, and
it is a mantra that is repeated over and over
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and over again as a principal way of working yourself
into an altered state of consciousness. And the objective of
achieving this altered state of consciousness is always the same.
It's the dull the critical thinking process because the mind
is seen to be the obstacle to enlightenment. The G
reminds you of the gurus who developed and disseminated yoyoga
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for the express purpose of achieving oneness with the impersonal
God of Hinduism. And these kinds of gurus have been
so successful in exporting yoga to the West it's today
common in classrooms and corporations, even churches. And then, finally,
the a in yoga serves to remind you of the
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Hindu word asana. And just as the repetition of the
word um is used to work devotees in altered states
of consciousness, the regiment of asanas or body postures are
used to achieve a feeling of oneness with the cosmic
energy flow of the universe. So an alarming number of
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Western Christians expose themselves to yoga. They suppose that they
can achieve physical and spiritual wellbeing through a form of
yoga divorced from Eastern underpinnings. In reality, attempts to christianize Hinduism,
only Hinduized Christianity. I've written about this in the Complete
Bible answer Book Collector's Edition. The acronym is there so
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you can understand exactly what yoga is all about. Let's
go back to the phone lines. Talk to Tony next
in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Tony, Yeah, I got a.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Question I want to ask you. We know that Timothy
as Titus both wack with Paul on the journey. Yes,
writ Poel to Timothy to be circumcised and not Titus.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, it's interesting. Let me give you the principle. In
Galatians five, Paul tells gentile converts that they're going to
be cut off from Christ if they allowed themselves to
be circumcised. And there's a reason for that because they are,
in the context of that communication, under the influence of Judaizers,
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who are making obedience to the law necessary for salvation.
There's another case in Acts chapter sixteen. There Paul has
Timothy circumcised for the sake of witnessing to the Jews.
So Paul becomes all things to all people, so he
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might by all means reach some of them.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
That's what's going on here, Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
In First Corinthians thirteen, verses eight through thirteen, I think
it was Paul that was talking about when that which
is perfect comes, all that will be done away. We
can you explain to me what exactly talking about? Yeah,
I said it was the word the Bible well, speaking
in tongues and prophesying and all that when the Bible
comes because they had not yet been completed.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, it does not refer to the completion of the canon.
It refers to the second coming of Christ, and that's
demonstrated in the context of the passage. If you go
down to verse twelve, you will see in context that
it can't mean the canon, where Paul says, now we
see but a poor reflection, as in a mirror. Then
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we will see face to face. Now I know in part.
Then I shall know fully even as I am fully known.
So restoration of all things is in view here. When
the creation is redeemed, all things will be then clear
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to us. So obviously we don't see face to face
or know fully now even though the canon is complete.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Now right, So is that people out here that still
speak in tongue and still prophesied.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, let me say this that as far as tongues
are concerned, I would say tongues are not normative. Can
God speak to someone in that manner so that someone
can communicate to other people through a tongue? Yeah, God
can do that, but it's certainly not the normative means
a tongue is a language. And if you look at
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what happened after Pentecost in the twentieth century, there were
people who are trying to go to foreign mission fields
and speak to people and languages that they hadn't learned.
They soon found out that that didn't work out too well.
As far as prophecy is concerned, no, God is not
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fore telling the future in the sense that God is
giving us information about what is going to happen in
the future. He's already done that. In the canon of scripture,
God does fourth tell through us. However, as we see
in First Corinthians chapter fourteen, which is the passage following
the chapter you asked about, and there you have prophecy
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in the sense of strengthening, encouraging, comforting people. So in
the sense of encouragement and exhortation and edification and equipping
and so forth. Yes, there is prophecy, but that is
not foretelling. It is forth telling.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hi, thanking, appreciate your same.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Hey, you got it, Tony, Thank you so much for
your call. When to go back the phone lines, talk
to Wayne. Wayne is listening in Jacksonville, Florida Highway.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
And now I got a question.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
My question is concerning the Faith movement. Could you explain
the concept of that movement for me.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, I've written a book about this called Christian in
Cristis twenty first century. But in brief, the idea is
an unbiblical idea with respect to faith. In Biblical theology,
faith is a channel of living trust between a human
being and their God, and faith is therefore only as
good as the object in whom it is placed. If
your faith is in God, it's well placed faith. Then
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you pray nevertheless, not my will, but Thy.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Will be done.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
If you're in the Word of faith movement, you say
praying thy will be done is making God out to
be a fool. Praying Thy will be done should never
be uttered by the lips of a twenty first century Christian.
You should never ever ever say that, because that is
a faith destroying phrase. Now why do they say that,
Because they believe faith is a force. Words are the
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containers of the force. Through the force of faith, one
creates their own reality. So if you have enough faith
in your own faith, then you can have anything you want,
because it is a force that you muster up. God
had faith, he was able to positively confess Jesus Christ
into existence, and then Jesus Christ, after he had lived
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the perfect life, was on the cross and he became
the personification of sin and therefore had to be born again.
But it was God's faith that got Jesus Christ into
the faith filled universe once again. And it was by
God's faith that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead.
And so if we become like Jesus Christ in the
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exercise of the force of faith, then we can have
everything that's not nailed down. We can have unlimited health
and unlimited Well that's the basic idea.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So basically those people are Caltic.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
They are they have a different Jesus and a different
gospel and act. In terms of word of faith, Jesus
Christ was born again and he became the first of
those who were born again. And because we are born again,
in their view, we can do what Jesus Christ did.
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But there are a lot of other cultic ideas that
they communicate, including the idea that God made Adam to
reproduce himself.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
God's reason for creating Adam was his desire to reproduce himself,
I mean a reproduction of himself. And in the Garden
of Eden. He did that. He was not a little
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like God, he was not almost like God.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
He was not.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Subordinate to God. Even now this is hard on the human,
but I'm telling you what the Bible said. The Bible said,
let us make man in our image and give him
the minion.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And that was Kenneth Copeland. He is one of the
leaders of the Word of Faith movement. And if that
doesn't shock you, there is a tape that I did
Christianity in Crisis, in which you can hear Word of
Faith teachers defend and define doctrines that come right out
of the Kingdom of the cults. They have a different
view of God, they have a different view of Man,
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and they certainly have a different view of what faith is. Again,
in their view, faith is a force words of the
containers of the force. Through the force of faith, one
can create their own reality. If you want a full
overview on what the problem is with Word of Faith again,
my book Christianity Crisis twenty first century not only gives
the problem but also the antidote how to live with
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a genuine faith, the kind of faith exemplified by those
in the faith Hall of Fame Hebrews chapter eleven. We're
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Welcome to the Bible answer Man Broadcast with the President
of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canigraph. Our mission is
to equip you with answers to share the hope that
you have within you because life and truth matter. Why
because being armed with truth will equip you to counter
the corrosive worldviews at work in our world today, while
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experiencing the authentic Christian life will make you a winsome
witness of the purpose of life, which is to experience
union with God and Christ, both for today and for
all eternity. For more information about CRII and the Bible
answer Man Broadcast, our phone number is eight eight eight
seven thousand CROI. You can find us online at equip
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dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
here's Hank, Hannah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
A lot of you hanging on. We're going to go
right to our phone callers. First step is Christopher listening
on the web in Michigan High Christopher.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I think, how are you doing today?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I'm doing well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
My question is.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
This when I read the New Testament, especially in Romans
specific New chapter two, chapter nine, and in Galatians chapter three,
Paul seems to point out that God has always only
had one people, and that one people has always included
gentiles or non Jews. It was people who placed their
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faith in God, and now in the New Testament, who
place their faith in Jesus Christ. But whenever I hear
people talk about the New Covenant, they always refer to
it as if that's when gentiles were added. And seeing
if that's not the case, I wonder, well, what exactly
is the New Covenant? I know that in myself I
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think that, well, they worship different they don't worship the
types and shadows with the Temple's sacrificial system and things
like that. But other than that, I was wondering what
all did the New Covenant and concass or how is
it different from the Old Covenant.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, let me just sit back here for a moment
and applaud your understanding of the scripture. The prologue to
your question was profound. You're absolutely right. The covenants are
not qualitatively different. The Old Covenant and the New Covenant
are really the same covenant. But the New Covenant is
considered better for the very reason that you mentioned in
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the prolog to the question, and that is because the
blood of Jesus Christ is the better of the blood
of bulls and goats. Hebrews makes that plain, but qualitatively
you have the same covenant, one through types and shadows,
the other through the substance. The substance of Jesus Christ
fulfills the types and shadows, fact abrogates the types and shadows.
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Once Christ comes, there's no need for temple priest or sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, so pretty much kind of what I because it
seemed like it just seems so confusing because when you
hear people talk about it, they always seem to talk
about it as if that's when gentiles were added or
and to me, it doesn't seem like it. And if
that's the cases, like what do they call it the new.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Paveny, Well, no, you're absolutely right, because if you look
at the New Testament and you say that's when gentiles
are added, then you have to ask yourself, well, look
what's going on in the Old Testament with the rahab
or ruth. They're gentiles and the truest sense of the word,
one is a Canaanite, the other's a Moabite, and yet
they're in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Because it doesn't
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have to do with whether you're one particular nationality or another.
True Israel is from every tribe and language and nation
in people. True israel Is brought in to types and
shadows in the Old Testament, regardless of their genealogy. And
therefore you can have Egyptians that were part of the
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Covenant community. They were part of all of the rituals
pointing forward to Jesus Christ. That's why you can have
in the Book of Esther this beautiful saying that when
the nations look on and see how God sovereignly raises
up Esther to save the Jews from certain destruction, that
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on that day, realizing that God is sovereign, many of
those people put their trust in the sovereign God and
became Jews according to the text. So there's a difference
between Israel and true Israel. If you are a Jew
and you do not believe in Jesus, you're really not
a son of Abraham. And God can make out a
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rock's sons of Abraham. Abraham was the father of many nations,
not the father of a nation. That's why his name
was changed from Abram to Abraham, the father of many nations.
He only had one seed. That seed is Jesus Christ.
If we are in Jesus Christ, what does Paul say?
You are of Jesus Christ. You are the seed of Abraham.
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You are an heir according to the Covenant. Doesn't matter
whether you're Jew or gentile, slave or free, male or female,
you are a son or a daughter of Abraham.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Amen. Well, thanks sank for you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And I've talked about that in a book called The
Apocalypse Code. Find out what the Bible really says about
the end times and why it matters today. Let's go
back to the phone lines now we'll talk to Tom
listening in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Hi. Tom, Hi, how you doing. I'm doing well, good
talking to you.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Well, thank you, thank you. My question is regarding Holy Yoga,
where they've taken some of the aspects of yoga out
and consider it as a ministry where the eighth station
they focus on scripture, they don't focus on the empty
of the soul, etc. And I just wanted to get
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your take on that. Do you think that that can
be reconciled and turned into a good thing? You know,
part of the argument is, you know, the other side
doesn't have an exclusive rights to breathing or certain positions
and things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, I mean light of the fact that words are
not unifical, they're equivocal. I suppose you can have holy
smoke and you can have holy yoga. That you're you're
sort of denuding yoga of what yoga really is. Yoga
is a sanscrit word that means to yoke or to unite,
and the goal of yoga is to encouple oneself from
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the material world and unite yourself with the God of Hinduism.
So I think there's a danger and trying to strip
yoga of what yoga really is, and in fact getting
people who are untaught to think that they're in some
kind of a neutral practice. I don't know that if
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I was a Christian, I'd want.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
To call it holy yoga.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But there are multitudes who are being seduced into believing
that the asanas, for example, are spiritually neutral. But nothing
really could be farther from the truth. Asaunas are not
mere body positions or stretching exercises, their actual part and
parcel of a practice called yoga. And so there was
(07:42):
a yogi that said, in a humorous way, to think
of asanas as mere body positions or stretching exercise, as
analogous to believing baptism is just another underwater exercise.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I think that we recognize in baptism there's something really
sacred going on, and the yogis recognize that in asanas
there is something very sacred going on.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
From their perspective, right, I'm.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
In agreement with you. I just you know, some folks
have been in dialogue with phil that they they're doing
something that's leading people to focus on Jesus rather than
the other in giving health benefits, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, if they're really doing that, all the work power
to them. I mean, there are a lot of body
positions that you get into when you're in yoga that
are actually good for a golf swing. They're good for flexibility,
but they're a body position and they shouldn't be associated
with yoga in the truest sense of the word, because
I'm not going um and I'm not trying to be
(08:47):
one with Nirvana or one with the universe. I got
a completely different objective in mind, and that is they
had a golf.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Ball farther right, I looked at the Holy yoga website,
and one thing that their statement of faith was very
orthodox in terms of what they believe in the Bible,
et cetera. But then there was a statement of practice
that I felt was a point of concern, and they
talked about ever since God created the universe, there's a
(09:13):
vibration in the universe, and Hindus called that as om,
but we avoid that term. But I don't think there's
any biblical or scientific evidence for a vibration in the universe.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Well, no, there isn't. And remember that the use of
UM is to work the devote into an altered state
of consciousness, because the mind is seen to be the
obstacle to enlightenment. So there's a purpose in UM. It
is to connect with the universal vibration, to connect with nirvana.
(09:52):
It is a way of connecting with Brahma. So I'm
going to be careful of this syncretism where we take
a little bit of this and a little bit of that,
particularly in an age and when Christians don't even know
what they believe in why they believe, By and large,
it's a very dangerous thing to take someone that is
unschooled and unlearned and try to become culturally relevant in
(10:16):
the way that a lot of Christians are trying to
become culturally relevant today. We're becoming microcosms of the culture
instead of change agents in the culture which we are
called to be. We're coming to Station Break right on
the inside of the Break with more of the Bible
Instemen broadcasts.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I've written about this, by the way, in.
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank very much, Randy. Before we go back to our callers.
Since yoga was brought up before the break, I want
to say just a couple of words about yoga. I've
actually developed an acronym yoga, and I think it's apropo
today because since Swami Vivekananda first introduced yoga to the
West more than one hundred years ago, yoga has become
(15:30):
as American as apple pie. Consumers drop billions every year
on classes and books and videos and CDs and DVDs
and clothing and mats and who knows what. It has
been widely embraced by Roman Catholics and mainline Protestants, and
(15:53):
over the past several years there's actually been, as alluded
to with the Caller, a Christian yoga movement that's been
among evangelicals. So because of its rock star status, I
developed the acronym yoga to give people a memorable overview
on what yoga actually entails. The why reminds us of
(16:15):
the word yoga. It means to yoke, to unite, and
in the case of yoga, to unite oneself with the
God of Hinduism, commonly understood to be Brahmin, the impersonal,
cosmic consciousness of the universe. The O represents um, and
it is a mantra that is repeated over and over
(16:36):
and over again as a principal way of working yourself
into an altered state of consciousness. And the objective of
achieving this altered state of consciousness is always the same.
It's the dull the critical thinking process because the mind
is seen to be the obstacle to enlightenment. The G
reminds you of the gurus who developed and disseminated yoyoga
(17:00):
for the express purpose of achieving oneness with the impersonal
God of Hinduism. And these kinds of gurus have been
so successful in exporting yoga to the West it's today
common in classrooms and corporations, even churches. And then, finally,
the a in yoga serves to remind you of the
(17:21):
Hindu word asana. And just as the repetition of the
word um is used to work devotees in altered states
of consciousness, the regiment of asanas or body postures are
used to achieve a feeling of oneness with the cosmic
energy flow of the universe. So an alarming number of
(17:43):
Western Christians expose themselves to yoga. They suppose that they
can achieve physical and spiritual wellbeing through a form of
yoga divorced from Eastern underpinnings. In reality, attempts to christianize Hinduism,
only Hinduized Christianity. I've written about this in the Complete
Bible answer Book Collector's Edition. The acronym is there so
(18:05):
you can understand exactly what yoga is all about. Let's
go back to the phone lines. Talk to Tony next
in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Tony, Yeah, I got a.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Question I want to ask you. We know that Timothy
as Titus both wack with Paul on the journey. Yes,
writ Poel to Timothy to be circumcised and not Titus.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, it's interesting. Let me give you the principle. In
Galatians five, Paul tells gentile converts that they're going to
be cut off from Christ if they allowed themselves to
be circumcised. And there's a reason for that because they are,
in the context of that communication, under the influence of Judaizers,
(18:49):
who are making obedience to the law necessary for salvation.
There's another case in Acts chapter sixteen. There Paul has
Timothy circumcised for the sake of witnessing to the Jews.
So Paul becomes all things to all people, so he
(19:12):
might by all means reach some of them.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
That's what's going on here, Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
In First Corinthians thirteen, verses eight through thirteen, I think
it was Paul that was talking about when that which
is perfect comes, all that will be done away. We
can you explain to me what exactly talking about? Yeah,
I said it was the word the Bible well, speaking
in tongues and prophesying and all that when the Bible
comes because they had not yet been completed.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, it does not refer to the completion of the canon.
It refers to the second coming of Christ, and that's
demonstrated in the context of the passage. If you go
down to verse twelve, you will see in context that
it can't mean the canon, where Paul says, now we
see but a poor reflection, as in a mirror. Then
(20:00):
we will see face to face. Now I know in part.
Then I shall know fully even as I am fully known.
So restoration of all things is in view here. When
the creation is redeemed, all things will be then clear
(20:21):
to us. So obviously we don't see face to face
or know fully now even though the canon is complete.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Now right, So is that people out here that still
speak in tongue and still prophesied.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, let me say this that as far as tongues
are concerned, I would say tongues are not normative. Can
God speak to someone in that manner so that someone
can communicate to other people through a tongue? Yeah, God
can do that, but it's certainly not the normative means
a tongue is a language. And if you look at
(20:55):
what happened after Pentecost in the twentieth century, there were
people who are trying to go to foreign mission fields
and speak to people and languages that they hadn't learned.
They soon found out that that didn't work out too well.
As far as prophecy is concerned, no, God is not
(21:16):
fore telling the future in the sense that God is
giving us information about what is going to happen in
the future. He's already done that. In the canon of scripture,
God does fourth tell through us. However, as we see
in First Corinthians chapter fourteen, which is the passage following
the chapter you asked about, and there you have prophecy
(21:38):
in the sense of strengthening, encouraging, comforting people. So in
the sense of encouragement and exhortation and edification and equipping
and so forth. Yes, there is prophecy, but that is
not foretelling. It is forth telling.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hi, thanking, appreciate your same.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Hey, you got it, Tony, Thank you so much for
your call. When to go back the phone lines, talk
to Wayne. Wayne is listening in Jacksonville, Florida Highway.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
And now I got a question.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
My question is concerning the Faith movement. Could you explain
the concept of that movement for me.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, I've written a book about this called Christian in
Cristis twenty first century. But in brief, the idea is
an unbiblical idea with respect to faith. In Biblical theology,
faith is a channel of living trust between a human
being and their God, and faith is therefore only as
good as the object in whom it is placed. If
your faith is in God, it's well placed faith. Then
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you pray nevertheless, not my will, but Thy.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Will be done.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
If you're in the Word of faith movement, you say
praying thy will be done is making God out to
be a fool. Praying Thy will be done should never
be uttered by the lips of a twenty first century Christian.
You should never ever ever say that, because that is
a faith destroying phrase. Now why do they say that,
Because they believe faith is a force. Words are the
(22:58):
containers of the force. Through the force of faith, one
creates their own reality. So if you have enough faith
in your own faith, then you can have anything you want,
because it is a force that you muster up. God
had faith, he was able to positively confess Jesus Christ
into existence, and then Jesus Christ, after he had lived
(23:20):
the perfect life, was on the cross and he became
the personification of sin and therefore had to be born again.
But it was God's faith that got Jesus Christ into
the faith filled universe once again. And it was by
God's faith that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead.
And so if we become like Jesus Christ in the
(23:42):
exercise of the force of faith, then we can have
everything that's not nailed down. We can have unlimited health
and unlimited Well that's the basic idea.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So basically those people are Caltic.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
They are they have a different Jesus and a different
gospel and act. In terms of word of faith, Jesus
Christ was born again and he became the first of
those who were born again. And because we are born again,
in their view, we can do what Jesus Christ did.
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But there are a lot of other cultic ideas that
they communicate, including the idea that God made Adam to
reproduce himself.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
God's reason for creating Adam was his desire to reproduce himself,
I mean a reproduction of himself. And in the Garden
of Eden. He did that. He was not a little
(24:48):
like God, he was not almost like God.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
He was not.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Subordinate to God. Even now this is hard on the human,
but I'm telling you what the Bible said. The Bible said,
let us make man in our image and give him
the minion.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And that was Kenneth Copeland. He is one of the
leaders of the Word of Faith movement. And if that
doesn't shock you, there is a tape that I did
Christianity in Crisis, in which you can hear Word of
Faith teachers defend and define doctrines that come right out
of the Kingdom of the cults. They have a different
view of God, they have a different view of Man,
(25:35):
and they certainly have a different view of what faith is. Again,
in their view, faith is a force words of the
containers of the force. Through the force of faith, one
can create their own reality. If you want a full
overview on what the problem is with Word of Faith again,
my book Christianity Crisis twenty first century not only gives
the problem but also the antidote how to live with
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a genuine faith, the kind of faith exemplified by those
in the faith Hall of Fame Hebrews chapter eleven. We're
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