November 27, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (11/27/25), Hank encourages all who are listening in to enjoy their time on Thanksgiving Day with family and friends to the extent that they can. Thanksgiving is a day that Hank looks forward to every year. Yet Thanksgiving is not just a day; it is a daily manner of life. It is a key that opens the gate of Christ and allows Christians to enter and gain access to all His wonderful provisions and even more profoundly into all the splendor of His Being. “Open for me the gates of the righteous,” wrote the Psalmist, “and I will enter and give thanks to the Lord. I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation.” In the Wisdom of Solomon, we read that “the hope of an unthankful man will melt like the wintry frost and flow away like useless water.” Thus, we are exhorted to arise each morning and thank our heavenly Father for the abundance of His mercies, for the blessing of the Lord will melt like ice—evaporate like worthless water—at the appearance of the first rays of sunshine.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Bible answer Man on this very special
Thanksgiving day. Your host for the program is Hank Hetagraph,
President of the Christian Research Institute. We are on the
air because life and truth matter. The mission of the
Christian Research Institute is to equip believers to answer life's
essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to give the reason
(00:30):
for the hope that you have with gentleness and respect.
To find out more about the Christian Research Institute, Christian
Research Journal, Hank or the Bible answer Man Broadcast, just
log onto our website at equip dot org. Psalm one
oh seven, verse one says, Oh, give thanks to the Lord,
for he is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting.
(00:53):
All of us at cr I wish you and your
loved ones a blessed Thanksgiving focused on the Lord's goodness
to us.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The following program was pre recorded and now here's Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you very much, Randian. As always, you can contact
us via the mail at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte,
North Carolina, zip code two eight two seven to one. Well, today,
of course, is a very special day in our calendar,
and this is a special pre recorded show so that
I could spend my time as you do with family
(01:31):
members and friends. To the extent that you can enjoy
your time with family and friends, please do so. Today
is Thanksgiving Day. It's a day that I look forward
to each and every year. And yet Thanksgiving is not
just a day. It's a daily manner of life. It's
(01:54):
the key that opens the gate of Christ, that allows
Christians follow up of Christ to enter and to gain
access to all of his wonderful provisions. And even more,
it is a day in which we profoundly enter into
the splendor of the Lord's being. This is what the
(02:18):
scripture tells us. Open for me the gates of the righteous,
and I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.
I will give you thanks for you answered me, and
you have become my salvation. In the Wisdom of Solomon,
a book that I very much treasure, we read that
(02:42):
the hope of an unthankful man will melt like wintry
frost and then flow away like useless water. Thus we
are exhorted to arise every morning and think or Heavenly
Father for the abundance of his mercies, for the blessing
(03:06):
of the Lord will knelt like ice. Will evaporate like
worthless water. At the appearing of the first rays of sunshine.
Again and again, Scripture exhorts us to enter his gates
(03:27):
with thanksgiving. Of course, failure to do that very thing
is the stuff of pagan babblings. It's the stuff of
Colonel Christianity. Pagan said, Saint Paul know about God, but
they neither glorified God as God, nor gave thanks to
(03:52):
Him as God. Colonel Christians likewise fail to daily thank
God for his many blessings. They suffer from what might
best be described as well as selective memories. They're prone
to forget the blessings of yesterday as they thanklessly barraged
(04:15):
the throne of grace with brand new requests each and
every day. May you and I not follow in their path,
May we instead be like one of the ten. Maybe
you remember the story. As he was on his way
to Jerusalem, Jesus encountered ten men suffering the ravages of leprosy,
(04:41):
say horrifying disease. They stood at a distance, and they
were calling out in a loud voice. Jesus Master hath
pity on us. Having great compassion for their condition, Jesus
healed every last one of them. And yet and yet
(05:04):
only one of the ten, upon recognizing his healing, threw
himself at the Master's feet and thanked him. Immediately, Jesus asked,
we're not all ten cleansed? Where where are the other nine?
(05:26):
That may well be the question of the ages. Every
day we experience the grace of God. Yet how many
of us daily throw ourselves at the feet of Jesus
and thank him? I personally am tremendously convicted even as
(05:47):
I utter these words. How many times has God answered
my prayers? How many times has He answered my prayers
directly specifically? And yet how few times have I thanked him?
Each new day? We ought to approach God over flowing
(06:08):
with thankfulness, overflowing with thankfulness, as we devote ourselves to prayer,
being watchful and thankful. Such thankfulness is an action that
flows from the certain knowledge that our heavenly Father knows
precisely what we need and will supply it. Thus, says
(06:35):
Saint Paul, we are to rejoice, always, pray, continually give
thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for
you in Christ Jesus. Well over the years I have
found the psalms to be a rich reservoir for my
(06:56):
daily prayers of Thanksgiving. While many psalms are are tremendous
templates for Thanksgiving, Psalm one one hundred and eighteen, and
that's Psalm seventeen and the Sebtuagint, which I prefer. But
many are tremendous templates for Thanksgiving. But this Psalm provides
(07:20):
a particularly powerful treasury for Thanksgiving because it reminds us
that the mercy of the Lord endures forever. It reminds
us of God's deliverance from the snares of this evil
world system. It reminds us of the reality that God
has allowed me to live yet another year. That's why
(07:47):
Verse seventeen and eighteen are exceedingly precious to me, particularly
in light of the fact that I almost died twice.
The words are memorable. I shall not die, but live.
I shall tell of the Lord's works. The Lords has
chastened me and corrected me, but he did not give
(08:08):
me up to death. But all of us, whether you
almost died or not, can thank the Lord this Thanksgiving day.
For all of us hearing these words have been granted
yet another year to live, another year to lay up
for ourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do
(08:30):
not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steel.
All who are yet in the land of mortality can
thank God for the Kingdom of Heaven, which Jesus likened.
Unto treasure hidden in a field. Remember the parable. When
(08:52):
a man found it, he hid it again, and then,
in his joy, sold all that he had and bought
that field again. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a
merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of
great value, he went away. He sold everything he had,
(09:16):
and then he bought it. That treasure, that pearl of
greatest value is Christ in his church. Receiving Christ, being
incorporated into his body, requires us to be completely sold out.
It requires us to surrender all things in order to
(09:39):
receive the life of Christ, to immerse ourselves in the
life of the Church. I want to talk about that
and much more as we continue this special Thanksgiving Day
program that'll be coming up in just a few moments
after the break. In the meantime, I do want to
(10:00):
urge each and every one of you to get a
copy of On Wealth and Poverty by Saint John Chrysostom this,
as I've said, is a literary pearl. In it, Saint
John Chrysostom takes Christ's famed Parable of the rich Man
and Lazarus and attempts to plum its immeasurable riches, knowing
(10:22):
all the while that no one will be able to
empty all of its wealth, such as the nature of
this abundance. The deeper you dig, the more divine thoughts
will gush forth, For it is a never failing spring.
Your copy available on the webit equipped dot org as
(10:45):
you stand shoulder to shoulder with me this Thanksgiving Day
and the battle for life and truth.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
For modern prosperity preachers, Christ is a means to our ends,
leading many to the Master's table, not for the love
of the Master, but for what is on his table,
a crude commodification of faith, placing consumerism above the cross.
The early church father John Chrisisdom passionately examines christ Parable
(11:10):
of the rich Man and Lazarus, showing that the contrast
between prosperity preachers and the teachings of Christ could not
be starker. Chris System's Christian classic on Wealth and Poverty
is not a feel good book for a feel good generation.
It is a desperately needed message thundering from the past
with prophetic urgency for the present. To receive your copy
(11:33):
of On Wealth and Poverty, call Aday eight seven thousand
CreI and make a gift to support the Christian Research
Institute's life changing outreaches eight eight eight seven thousand CRII
or visit us at EQUIP dot org. We'll be back
in just a moment with more from Hank.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Anagraph Truth Matters, Life Matters More details Hank Hanigraff's personal
pilgrimage from his long defensive truth to his discovery that
life matters more. Essentially two books in one. Part one
(12:13):
equips Christians to defend the essential truths of the historic
Christian faith. Part two explains why truth is necessary but
hardly sufficient. That the map is not the territory, the
menu is not the meal. We are created to experience
life to the full through union with God in Christ.
Is there more to the Christian life than what you
are experiencing? Truth Matters, Life Matters More unveils the unexpected
(12:37):
beauty of an authentic Christian life. To receive Truth Matters,
Life matters More for yourself or as a terrific gift
to a friend or loved one called eight eight eight
seven thousand CRI and make a gift to support the
Christian Research Institute's life changing outreaches eight eight eight seven
thousand CRI, or visit us online at equipp dot org.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
To fully grasp the significance of Christ's Messianic rule, you
must drink deeply from the wellspring of Old Testament prophecy
in Hebrews. As in the rest of the New Testament,
the Old Testament history of Israel is interpreted as a
(13:22):
succession of types that find ultimate fulfillment in the birth, death, resurrection,
and ascension of the Christ we celebrate at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Hank Hantagraph has penned The Heart of Christmas, a devotional
for the season, to ensure that just as you prepare
your home for Christmas, you likewise prepare your heart. Order
the Heart of Christmas, a devotional for the season, by
calling eight eight eight seven thousand and two seven four
or by going online to www dot equip dot org.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
In John Chryssustom's Christian classic on Wealth and Poverty, the
words of Christ take center stage. I was hungry and
you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave
me drink, as you did to the least of these,
my brethren, you did to me. On Wealth and Poverty
is full of timeless truth, and to absorb its message
(14:22):
is to be eternally transformed. What we do for the
poor and the downtrodden, those in need of food and water,
and those who hunger and thirst for the riches of
Christ's Kingdom reflects the ultimate reality of our inner state,
revealing whether we are of Christ or whether we are not.
To receive your copy of On Wealth and Poverty, call
(14:44):
eight eight eight seven thousand c r I and make
a gift to support the Christian Research Institutes Life Changing
Outreaches eight eight eight seven thousand c r I, or
visit us at equip dot org. That's equip dot org.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Now back to the Bible answer Man broadcast and your
host and Canigraph.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you very much, Randy. Prior to the break, I
was talking about a treasure, a pearl of greatest value,
which is of course Christ and his Church. To receive
Christ is to be saved through baptism in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
As Saint Paul makes plain, baptism is the tomb in
(15:38):
which we were buried with Christ. It is likewise the
womb in which we are reborn into a brand new life,
a life that is life to the full. All of
us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into
his death. We were therefore buried with him through baptism
(16:03):
into death. In order, just as Christ was raised from
the dead through the glory of the Father, we too
may live a brand new life. Through baptism. We are forgiven, cleansed, washed,
we are united with Christ. We are incorporated into his body,
the Church, and we are fashioned as a holy temple
(16:26):
in which the spirit of Almighty God dwells in transformational power.
But there's more, for we are not only saved at
a past moment of time, but, as the Apostle Paul
makes plain in his letter to the Flambia Christians, we
(16:47):
must continue to work out our salvation with fear and trembling,
for for we are fighting a great war against a
malevolent being, the vastness of whose inn intellect exceeds that
of any human who has ever lived. The being whose
intellect has been sharpened by malice from the primordial garden onward. Satan,
(17:14):
along with Hellish hordes have honed the craft of temptation.
He knew precisely what to say to tempt Eve to
fall into a life of constant sin terminated by death.
And twice, not once, but twice, the tempter found David's
achilles heel and scent flaming arrows deep into his soul.
(17:40):
And this, rather than solely rejoicing in the moment of
our salvation, we must immerse ourselves in spiritual disciplines. Pardon
the golf analogy, but those who wish to emulate tiger
woods do not become tiger like by simply dawning a
(18:01):
Nike swoosh, Nor do they win the Grand Slam of
Golf on merely droning Nikes just do it slogan. Instead,
they become tiger like through mental and through physical discipline.
More importantly, Christians who are engaged in a war against
(18:24):
the world, the flesh and the devil, do not become
Christ Like by simply mouthing Christian slogans. Instead, they are
being saved by offering themselves to God as living sacrifices. Prayer, fasting, almsgiving.
(18:47):
They all characterize the life of Christ, and so in
like fashion, these spiritual disciplines must characterize the lives of
those who sincerely desire to become christ Like. Spiritual disciplines are,
in effect spiritual exercises. Just as the physical disciplines of
(19:12):
weightlifting and running promote strength and stamina, so spiritual disciplines
promote righteousness. Here's the problem. Here's the problem with most Christians,
which is that they have never made the transition from
declaration to discipleship, from a past moment of decision and
(19:38):
baptism to the discipline struggle of being saved, to a
synergistic salvation in which you know, in the words of
the apostle Paul, we beat our bodies and we make
them our slaves, so that after we have professed to others,
we ourselves are not disqualified for the prize. If we persevere,
(20:03):
we have been saved. We are being saved, and we
will be saved at the second appearing of our Lord's Savior,
Jesus Christ. Such a salvation is aptly illustrated through the
splendor of marriage at the altar. When you say I
(20:26):
do you're married. But it's equally true that from the
moment onward, from the moment that you have made the declaration.
You work out your marriage by uniting your will with
the will of your wife, and there's a reason for that.
(20:52):
The reason is that both wills are crucial to the process.
It is a constant you of our wills to one another,
without which the whole of marriage, well, it'll be shattered
and broken. And if we persevere in the struggle, we
(21:14):
will maintain our vows until death do us part well.
The illustration, of course, is partial and incomplete, for in
salvation we are not only saved in being saved, but
we will be forever saved. Is a bride beautifully dressed
(21:36):
for her husband, you see, Unlike marriage, if we persevere,
our salvation will become an eternal reality. And this is
the ultimate prize for which we give thanks this present
Thanksgiving day. Even now, I am reminded of a chorus,
(22:00):
Give thanks with a grateful heart, Give thanks to the
Holy One, Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, his son.
And now that the weeks say I am strong, that
the poor say, I am rich, because of what the
(22:22):
Lord has done for us, for us, not just for me,
for my family, for my church, but for the world.
To give thanks with a grateful heart is to give
thanks in community, to give thanks as the body of Christ,
(22:42):
to give thanks as the very Church, which the apostle
Paul described as the ground and the pillar of truth.
Perhaps this Thanksgiving day you can give yourself to yet
one more day discipline. Think about taking a passage like
(23:04):
Psalm one eighteen again one seventeen in the Septuagint and
committing it to memory. Consider saying, over and over again
each day, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
His love endures forever. That those who fear the Lord say,
(23:31):
his love endures forever. There's so much precious wealth in
this psalm. Later on, the Psalm says, open for me
the gates of righteousness. I will enter and give thanks
(23:52):
to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord
through which the righteous may enter. I will give you
thanks for you answered me. You have become my salvation.
Think about this, and then David makes this messianic promise.
(24:12):
The stone, the stone the builders rejected, has become the capstone.
The Lord has done this, and it's marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day the Lord has made. Let us
rejoice and be glad in it. You are my God.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I will give you.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Thanks. You are my God. I will exalt you. And
what's interesting about this psalm is it ends precisely the
same way it begins, give thanks to the Lord, for
he is good his love. His love endures forever. This
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Thanksgiving make a resolution, that resolution being my thanksgiving is
not going to be just for a day, as paltry
as it sometimes is. But I'm going to learn to
give thanks as a way of living from this day forward.
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I want to thank you for joining me for this
special Thanksgiving edition of the Bible Answerment Broadcast. And we
can give thanks in many ways, but one of the
ways we can give thanks is to extend our thanks
to others who are created in the image of God
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by giving to their spiritual and physical needs. And thank
you for joining me for the special edition of the
Pipelin Answerment Broadcast.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Thank you for listening to the Bible answer Man Broadcast
with Hank anagraph an appreciation of your vital gift to
help strengthen and expand the life changing outreaches of the
Christian Research Institute. Hank would like to send you a
book by the early Church father John Chris System on
Wealth and Poverty, Simply call eight eight eight seven thousand
(26:20):
CRII and make a gift to support CRI's life changing
outreaches eight eight eight seven thousand CRII, or visit equip
dot org. That's equip dot org. You can also write
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was pre recorded. The Bible answer Man Broadcast is funded
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Matters and life matters More.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Hank Hanigraph has dedicated his life to defending truth. Because
truth matters. Yet, an encounter with Christians in the underground
Church of China left Hanograph contemplating his Christian experience. They
were experiencing something beyond truth. They were experiencing life. Truth matters.
Life matters More by Hank Hanigraph is two books in one.
Because Truth Matters. Part one equips Christians to defend the
(27:25):
essential truths of the historic Christian faith. In Part two,
Hank explains why life matters more and how we can
experience the height of human existence union with God. Prepare
to move past intellectually knowing about God to experientially knowing God.
In Christ to receive your copy of Truth Matters, Life
Matters More, The unexpected Beauty of an Authentic Christian Life
(27:47):
called eight eight eight seven thousand CRI, and make a
gift to support the Christian Research Institutes Life Changing Outreaches
eight eight eight seven thousand CRI or visit us at
equipped dot org
Welcome to the Bible answer Man on this very special
Thanksgiving day. Your host for the program is Hank Hetagraph,
President of the Christian Research Institute. We are on the
air because life and truth matter. The mission of the
Christian Research Institute is to equip believers to answer life's
essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to give the reason
(00:30):
for the hope that you have with gentleness and respect.
To find out more about the Christian Research Institute, Christian
Research Journal, Hank or the Bible answer Man Broadcast, just
log onto our website at equip dot org. Psalm one
oh seven, verse one says, Oh, give thanks to the Lord,
for he is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting.
(00:53):
All of us at cr I wish you and your
loved ones a blessed Thanksgiving focused on the Lord's goodness
to us.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The following program was pre recorded and now here's Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you very much, Randian. As always, you can contact
us via the mail at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte,
North Carolina, zip code two eight two seven to one. Well, today,
of course, is a very special day in our calendar,
and this is a special pre recorded show so that
I could spend my time as you do with family
(01:31):
members and friends. To the extent that you can enjoy
your time with family and friends, please do so. Today
is Thanksgiving Day. It's a day that I look forward
to each and every year. And yet Thanksgiving is not
just a day. It's a daily manner of life. It's
(01:54):
the key that opens the gate of Christ, that allows
Christians follow up of Christ to enter and to gain
access to all of his wonderful provisions. And even more,
it is a day in which we profoundly enter into
the splendor of the Lord's being. This is what the
(02:18):
scripture tells us. Open for me the gates of the righteous,
and I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.
I will give you thanks for you answered me, and
you have become my salvation. In the Wisdom of Solomon,
a book that I very much treasure, we read that
(02:42):
the hope of an unthankful man will melt like wintry
frost and then flow away like useless water. Thus we
are exhorted to arise every morning and think or Heavenly
Father for the abundance of his mercies, for the blessing
(03:06):
of the Lord will knelt like ice. Will evaporate like
worthless water. At the appearing of the first rays of sunshine.
Again and again, Scripture exhorts us to enter his gates
(03:27):
with thanksgiving. Of course, failure to do that very thing
is the stuff of pagan babblings. It's the stuff of
Colonel Christianity. Pagan said, Saint Paul know about God, but
they neither glorified God as God, nor gave thanks to
(03:52):
Him as God. Colonel Christians likewise fail to daily thank
God for his many blessings. They suffer from what might
best be described as well as selective memories. They're prone
to forget the blessings of yesterday as they thanklessly barraged
(04:15):
the throne of grace with brand new requests each and
every day. May you and I not follow in their path,
May we instead be like one of the ten. Maybe
you remember the story. As he was on his way
to Jerusalem, Jesus encountered ten men suffering the ravages of leprosy,
(04:41):
say horrifying disease. They stood at a distance, and they
were calling out in a loud voice. Jesus Master hath
pity on us. Having great compassion for their condition, Jesus
healed every last one of them. And yet and yet
(05:04):
only one of the ten, upon recognizing his healing, threw
himself at the Master's feet and thanked him. Immediately, Jesus asked,
we're not all ten cleansed? Where where are the other nine?
(05:26):
That may well be the question of the ages. Every
day we experience the grace of God. Yet how many
of us daily throw ourselves at the feet of Jesus
and thank him? I personally am tremendously convicted even as
(05:47):
I utter these words. How many times has God answered
my prayers? How many times has He answered my prayers
directly specifically? And yet how few times have I thanked him?
Each new day? We ought to approach God over flowing
(06:08):
with thankfulness, overflowing with thankfulness, as we devote ourselves to prayer,
being watchful and thankful. Such thankfulness is an action that
flows from the certain knowledge that our heavenly Father knows
precisely what we need and will supply it. Thus, says
(06:35):
Saint Paul, we are to rejoice, always, pray, continually give
thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for
you in Christ Jesus. Well over the years I have
found the psalms to be a rich reservoir for my
(06:56):
daily prayers of Thanksgiving. While many psalms are are tremendous
templates for Thanksgiving, Psalm one one hundred and eighteen, and
that's Psalm seventeen and the Sebtuagint, which I prefer. But
many are tremendous templates for Thanksgiving. But this Psalm provides
(07:20):
a particularly powerful treasury for Thanksgiving because it reminds us
that the mercy of the Lord endures forever. It reminds
us of God's deliverance from the snares of this evil
world system. It reminds us of the reality that God
has allowed me to live yet another year. That's why
(07:47):
Verse seventeen and eighteen are exceedingly precious to me, particularly
in light of the fact that I almost died twice.
The words are memorable. I shall not die, but live.
I shall tell of the Lord's works. The Lords has
chastened me and corrected me, but he did not give
(08:08):
me up to death. But all of us, whether you
almost died or not, can thank the Lord this Thanksgiving day.
For all of us hearing these words have been granted
yet another year to live, another year to lay up
for ourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do
(08:30):
not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steel.
All who are yet in the land of mortality can
thank God for the Kingdom of Heaven, which Jesus likened.
Unto treasure hidden in a field. Remember the parable. When
(08:52):
a man found it, he hid it again, and then,
in his joy, sold all that he had and bought
that field again. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a
merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of
great value, he went away. He sold everything he had,
(09:16):
and then he bought it. That treasure, that pearl of
greatest value is Christ in his church. Receiving Christ, being
incorporated into his body, requires us to be completely sold out.
It requires us to surrender all things in order to
(09:39):
receive the life of Christ, to immerse ourselves in the
life of the Church. I want to talk about that
and much more as we continue this special Thanksgiving Day
program that'll be coming up in just a few moments
after the break. In the meantime, I do want to
(10:00):
urge each and every one of you to get a
copy of On Wealth and Poverty by Saint John Chrysostom this,
as I've said, is a literary pearl. In it, Saint
John Chrysostom takes Christ's famed Parable of the rich Man
and Lazarus and attempts to plum its immeasurable riches, knowing
(10:22):
all the while that no one will be able to
empty all of its wealth, such as the nature of
this abundance. The deeper you dig, the more divine thoughts
will gush forth, For it is a never failing spring.
Your copy available on the webit equipped dot org as
(10:45):
you stand shoulder to shoulder with me this Thanksgiving Day
and the battle for life and truth.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
For modern prosperity preachers, Christ is a means to our ends,
leading many to the Master's table, not for the love
of the Master, but for what is on his table,
a crude commodification of faith, placing consumerism above the cross.
The early church father John Chrisisdom passionately examines christ Parable
(11:10):
of the rich Man and Lazarus, showing that the contrast
between prosperity preachers and the teachings of Christ could not
be starker. Chris System's Christian classic on Wealth and Poverty
is not a feel good book for a feel good generation.
It is a desperately needed message thundering from the past
with prophetic urgency for the present. To receive your copy
(11:33):
of On Wealth and Poverty, call Aday eight seven thousand
CreI and make a gift to support the Christian Research
Institute's life changing outreaches eight eight eight seven thousand CRII
or visit us at EQUIP dot org. We'll be back
in just a moment with more from Hank.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Anagraph Truth Matters, Life Matters More details Hank Hanigraff's personal
pilgrimage from his long defensive truth to his discovery that
life matters more. Essentially two books in one. Part one
(12:13):
equips Christians to defend the essential truths of the historic
Christian faith. Part two explains why truth is necessary but
hardly sufficient. That the map is not the territory, the
menu is not the meal. We are created to experience
life to the full through union with God in Christ.
Is there more to the Christian life than what you
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To fully grasp the significance of Christ's Messianic rule, you
must drink deeply from the wellspring of Old Testament prophecy
in Hebrews. As in the rest of the New Testament,
the Old Testament history of Israel is interpreted as a
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succession of types that find ultimate fulfillment in the birth, death, resurrection,
and ascension of the Christ we celebrate at Christmas.
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In John Chryssustom's Christian classic on Wealth and Poverty, the
words of Christ take center stage. I was hungry and
you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave
me drink, as you did to the least of these,
my brethren, you did to me. On Wealth and Poverty
is full of timeless truth, and to absorb its message
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is to be eternally transformed. What we do for the
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and those who hunger and thirst for the riches of
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revealing whether we are of Christ or whether we are not.
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Now back to the Bible answer Man broadcast and your
host and Canigraph.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you very much, Randy. Prior to the break, I
was talking about a treasure, a pearl of greatest value,
which is of course Christ and his Church. To receive
Christ is to be saved through baptism in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
As Saint Paul makes plain, baptism is the tomb in
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which we were buried with Christ. It is likewise the
womb in which we are reborn into a brand new life,
a life that is life to the full. All of
us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into
his death. We were therefore buried with him through baptism
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into death. In order, just as Christ was raised from
the dead through the glory of the Father, we too
may live a brand new life. Through baptism. We are forgiven, cleansed, washed,
we are united with Christ. We are incorporated into his body,
the Church, and we are fashioned as a holy temple
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in which the spirit of Almighty God dwells in transformational power.
But there's more, for we are not only saved at
a past moment of time, but, as the Apostle Paul
makes plain in his letter to the Flambia Christians, we
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must continue to work out our salvation with fear and trembling,
for for we are fighting a great war against a
malevolent being, the vastness of whose inn intellect exceeds that
of any human who has ever lived. The being whose
intellect has been sharpened by malice from the primordial garden onward. Satan,
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along with Hellish hordes have honed the craft of temptation.
He knew precisely what to say to tempt Eve to
fall into a life of constant sin terminated by death.
And twice, not once, but twice, the tempter found David's
achilles heel and scent flaming arrows deep into his soul.
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And this, rather than solely rejoicing in the moment of
our salvation, we must immerse ourselves in spiritual disciplines. Pardon
the golf analogy, but those who wish to emulate tiger
woods do not become tiger like by simply dawning a
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Nike swoosh, Nor do they win the Grand Slam of
Golf on merely droning Nikes just do it slogan. Instead,
they become tiger like through mental and through physical discipline.
More importantly, Christians who are engaged in a war against
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the world, the flesh and the devil, do not become
Christ Like by simply mouthing Christian slogans. Instead, they are
being saved by offering themselves to God as living sacrifices. Prayer, fasting, almsgiving.
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They all characterize the life of Christ, and so in
like fashion, these spiritual disciplines must characterize the lives of
those who sincerely desire to become christ Like. Spiritual disciplines are,
in effect spiritual exercises. Just as the physical disciplines of
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weightlifting and running promote strength and stamina, so spiritual disciplines
promote righteousness. Here's the problem. Here's the problem with most Christians,
which is that they have never made the transition from
declaration to discipleship, from a past moment of decision and
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baptism to the discipline struggle of being saved, to a
synergistic salvation in which you know, in the words of
the apostle Paul, we beat our bodies and we make
them our slaves, so that after we have professed to others,
we ourselves are not disqualified for the prize. If we persevere,
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we have been saved. We are being saved, and we
will be saved at the second appearing of our Lord's Savior,
Jesus Christ. Such a salvation is aptly illustrated through the
splendor of marriage at the altar. When you say I
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do you're married. But it's equally true that from the
moment onward, from the moment that you have made the declaration.
You work out your marriage by uniting your will with
the will of your wife, and there's a reason for that.
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The reason is that both wills are crucial to the process.
It is a constant you of our wills to one another,
without which the whole of marriage, well, it'll be shattered
and broken. And if we persevere in the struggle, we
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will maintain our vows until death do us part well.
The illustration, of course, is partial and incomplete, for in
salvation we are not only saved in being saved, but
we will be forever saved. Is a bride beautifully dressed
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for her husband, you see, Unlike marriage, if we persevere,
our salvation will become an eternal reality. And this is
the ultimate prize for which we give thanks this present
Thanksgiving day. Even now, I am reminded of a chorus,
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Give thanks with a grateful heart, Give thanks to the
Holy One, Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, his son.
And now that the weeks say I am strong, that
the poor say, I am rich, because of what the
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Lord has done for us, for us, not just for me,
for my family, for my church, but for the world.
To give thanks with a grateful heart is to give
thanks in community, to give thanks as the body of Christ,
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to give thanks as the very Church, which the apostle
Paul described as the ground and the pillar of truth.
Perhaps this Thanksgiving day you can give yourself to yet
one more day discipline. Think about taking a passage like
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Psalm one eighteen again one seventeen in the Septuagint and
committing it to memory. Consider saying, over and over again
each day, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
His love endures forever. That those who fear the Lord say,
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his love endures forever. There's so much precious wealth in
this psalm. Later on, the Psalm says, open for me
the gates of righteousness. I will enter and give thanks
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to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord
through which the righteous may enter. I will give you
thanks for you answered me. You have become my salvation.
Think about this, and then David makes this messianic promise.
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The stone, the stone the builders rejected, has become the capstone.
The Lord has done this, and it's marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day the Lord has made. Let us
rejoice and be glad in it. You are my God.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I will give you.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Thanks. You are my God. I will exalt you. And
what's interesting about this psalm is it ends precisely the
same way it begins, give thanks to the Lord, for
he is good his love. His love endures forever. This
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Thanksgiving make a resolution, that resolution being my thanksgiving is
not going to be just for a day, as paltry
as it sometimes is. But I'm going to learn to
give thanks as a way of living from this day forward.
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I want to thank you for joining me for this
special Thanksgiving edition of the Bible Answerment Broadcast. And we
can give thanks in many ways, but one of the
ways we can give thanks is to extend our thanks
to others who are created in the image of God
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by giving to their spiritual and physical needs. And thank
you for joining me for the special edition of the
Pipelin Answerment Broadcast.
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