December 19, 2024 • 15 mins
I am five years removed from a stem-cell transplant that saved my life. And seven years removed from an initial cancer diagnosis of stage four mantle cell lymphoma. I greet you with a heart of gratitude but also a spirit of resolve. Resolve to remember that life is fleeting. Resolve captured by the words, “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.”During the past twelve months, users have accessed our website equip.org from more than 230 countries—benefiting from our vast reservoir of unrestricted resources, such as the Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank Unplugged podcast, Bible Answer Man YouTube Channel, Daily e-Truths, and Christian Research Journal online, available to anyone with Internet access anywhere in the world.I am deeply grateful to all who answer by your continued support of the many outreaches of the Christian Research Institute. I am sincerely grateful for all you do to strengthen our 24/7 outreaches. Outreaches making a strategic difference at home and around the globe.As I approach three quarters of a century in age, I am acutely aware of the reality of being in the fourth quarter of my life. A life motivated by the apostle Paul’s admonition to “run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1–2).In closing, I’ve provided a link to our Website here. Thank you for the vital difference your year-end gift will make in so many lives. https://www.equip.org/product/year-end-gift-2024-hup/
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hi. I'm Hank Antigraph, President of the Christian Research Institute
and host of the Bible Instrument broadcast, the handcum Plug podcast.
I'm the author of a lot of books, but most
of all, I'm here as president of the Christian Research Institute,
an institute that I dearly love. I want to start
this short message to you by saying that I am
(00:45):
now five years removed from a stem cell transplant that
quite literally saved my life, and I'm seven years removed
from an initial diagnosis of stage four mental cell inphoma.
So as i'm speaking to you right now as a
dear friend or a supporter of the ministry, or someone
(01:05):
that I hope will become a supporter of the Ministry,
I'm doing so with not only a heart of gratitude,
but also with a spirit of resolve, resolved to remember
that life is fleeting, a resolve captured by words that
(01:26):
I have communicated over and over again in my writings
and my speakings. It might even sound trite, but it's
not those words. Only one life soon twill be passed.
(01:47):
Only what's done for Christ will last. As President of
the Christian Research Institute for almost four decades, I have
had a front row seat to some of the most
bizarre and dangerous cults in modern history. I think back
(02:09):
to nineteen ninety seven, where media outlets flocked literally flocked,
I mean they came in with helicopters to our headquarters
in southern California to gain perspective on the sociologically deviant
Heavensgate cult, a cult that ended that ended in the
(02:32):
largest mass suicide in the entire history of the United
States of America. Back then, our broadcast studios were quite
literally packed with television cameras as I conducted an exclusive
interview with the daughter of the co founder of this insidious,
(02:53):
treacherous cult. Now fast forward thirty years, we're now in Charlotte,
North Carolina. That's where our headquarters is today, and we're
deeply engaged as always in primary source research, and this
(03:15):
time on a theologically and sociologically deep and cult that
replaces the Old and New Testaments with the incoherent ramblings
of an alleged female reincarnation of Jesus Christ. This is
a counterfeit Christ who envisions herself to be the Jehovah
(03:40):
of the Old Testament and the Jesus of the New
and tragically, just as with Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana
and Bagwan Shree Rajinish in Puna, India, multiplied millions. Note
that carefully multiplied millions of devotees are swallowing this spiritual cyanide.
(04:06):
And so in the coming year, the Christian Research Institute
will release God Willing, a special edition of the Christian
Research Journal, in hopes of putting a final nail in
the coffin of this insidious Eastern Lightning cult. This is
(04:26):
a cult that was burst in China. It was birthed
in central China's Yellow River Valley. This is a cult
that is now spreading from there, from the epicenter of
Chinese culture in Hunan Province throughout the world. It's hard
(04:47):
to believe, but there are millions of adherents. And this
is a cult that significant religious studies specialists now characterized
as merely a new religious movement, a new religious movement
(05:08):
in quote unquote responsive dialogue with other Christianities. So this
cult has been normalized. It's been normalized in numerous Western
regions throughout the world. Well. Alongside the Christian Research Institutes
(05:29):
commitment to primary source research, we remain committed to equipping
the leadership of churches in places around the world, places
like India, Africa, Asia, places where multiplied millions of new
believers are vulnerable to the Kingdom of the cults and
(05:52):
the world of the occult, and so sufficient funds are
desperately needed to stain the flow of biblical teaching and
discipleship materials that continue to impact the lives of so
many believers in these exceedingly disadvantage places in our world.
(06:16):
I think about the panoply of a year, the year
twenty twenty four, this year, or c or I where
the Christian Research Institute has been focused on equipping Christians
in the realm of historical literacy as well. On the
hand Unplugged podcast, we provided five insightful broadcasts that cover
(06:41):
Christian history from Pentecost to the present. Why did I
do that because in the words of Jacob Neusner, and
by the way, he was one of the most published
authors in history. In his words haunting words, he reminded
us that civilization hangs suspended from generation to generation by
(07:07):
the gossamer strand of memory. He said, if only one
cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its
children what it has learned from its parents. Then the
great chain of learning and wisdom snaps that admonition. That
(07:31):
admonition is reminiscent of Moses. Moses who exhorted the people
of the Promise to impress the words of the Almighty
upon the hearts of their children and their children's children,
to talk about them when you sit at home, when
you walk along the road, when you lie down, and
(07:52):
when you get up. If truth matters, and most certainly does,
the Church must take the task of Christian education seriously,
not editain, but educate, equip ourselves and our children to
always be ready to give an answer to everyone who
(08:15):
asks you to give the reason for the hope that
you have, but of course do it with gentleness and
with respect. And so during the past twelve months, we
have as a ministry offered so much to the world.
Users have accessed our website equipped dot org from now
(08:41):
more than two hundred and thirty countries, and thus these
people have benefited from our vast reservoir of unrestricted that's
a keyword, unrestricted resources that includes the Bible answer Man
broad cast, the handcum Plug podcast, the Bible answer Man
(09:04):
YouTube channel with over one point six million yearly views,
the Christian Research Journal Reads podcast, Bible answer Man, Instagram account,
Daily e Truths, and the Christian Research Journal Online, which
(09:26):
now is available to anyone with Internet access anywhere in
the world. One more task worthy of note is that
the Christian Research Institute is also engaged in a surpassingly
important and culturally relevant project on artificial intelligence and transhumanism.
(09:48):
I've often said that artificial intelligence is the best marketing
cliche ever invented, because there's a big difference between artificial
intelligence and actual intelligence, between artificial intelligence and what it
really is artificial information anyway, and the secular humanist pursuit.
(10:14):
Multitudes live under the delusion that we have killed God
and that we are now Gods ourselves. Under the guise
of technologies such as AI, they imagine that we have
discovered the ultimate path towards utopia. Transhumanism takes this technological
(10:36):
delusion a step further. Humans become deciders, deciders not only
ungender as in transgenderism and species as in transpeciism, but
the ultimate dystopian delusions, a delusion in particular whereby humans
(11:01):
may decide how long they will live and even whether
they will succumb to death itself. Secular humanists have even
distorted the imagery of sacred scripture to advance their dystopian illusions.
I think of the liberal politician and journalists Jules Antoine COSTAGNERI,
(11:24):
who sacrilegiously sabotage scripture when he said this, I will
build a new Eden for myself, which I will populate
with mine own kind. I will station the invisible sentinel
of progress at its entrance, and I will place a
(11:47):
flaming sword into his hands, and he will say to God,
thou shalt not enter here. And some a battle is
being waged. And the question that now remains is simply this,
(12:07):
will we conform to the culture or will we transform
the culture by Christ and his Church. I'm deeply grateful
to all who answer by your continued support of the
many outreaches of the Christian Research Institute. I'm sincerely grateful
(12:28):
for all you do to strengthen our twenty four to
seven outreaches. Outreach is making a strategic difference at home
and around the globe. Well, I'm approaching three quarters of
a century in age, so I'm acutely aware of the
(12:50):
reality of being in the fourth quarter of my life,
and a life increasingly motivated by the Apostle Paul's add
to run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Fixing your eyes on Jesus, the Author and the perfector
of our faith, who, for the joy set before him,
(13:12):
endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at
the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him
who endured such opposition from sinful men, that you do
not grow weary and lose heart, because in your struggle
against sin you have not yet resisted the point of
(13:32):
shedding your own blood, as Jesus did for us. We
have the opportunity to carry that message forward. We live
in a real world. The Gospel's free. Someone has to
put in the plumbing. So we're asking you to stand
shoulder to shoulder with us in the battle for life
(13:55):
and truth. By supporting our ministry prayerfully and financially. You
can give in a number of different ways. You can
write me, of course at Post Office Box eighty five hundred, Charlotte,
North Carolina, zip code two eight two seven one. You
can also contact us through many platforms and give. One
(14:23):
of the primary platforms, of course, would be equipped dot
org or website. If you have benefited from this ministry,
if you have a vision foreseeing how this ministry is
benefiting the world, particularly in areas where people are unreached,
or areas where the church is still in its infant
(14:45):
stage and the leaders need to be equipped. If you
see that vision, please stand with us. Support this ministry
prayerfully and financially. I don't often do fundraising appeals, but
as we approach the end of the year, I suppose
(15:08):
this is the quintessential appeal. Please stand with us, become
a supporter of the ministry of the Christian Research Institute
and all of its various outreaches. You'll make a difference
for time and for eternity. Thank you so much,
Hi. I'm Hank Antigraph, President of the Christian Research Institute
and host of the Bible Instrument broadcast, the handcum Plug podcast.
I'm the author of a lot of books, but most
of all, I'm here as president of the Christian Research Institute,
an institute that I dearly love. I want to start
this short message to you by saying that I am
(00:45):
now five years removed from a stem cell transplant that
quite literally saved my life, and I'm seven years removed
from an initial diagnosis of stage four mental cell inphoma.
So as i'm speaking to you right now as a
dear friend or a supporter of the ministry, or someone
(01:05):
that I hope will become a supporter of the Ministry,
I'm doing so with not only a heart of gratitude,
but also with a spirit of resolve, resolved to remember
that life is fleeting, a resolve captured by words that
(01:26):
I have communicated over and over again in my writings
and my speakings. It might even sound trite, but it's
not those words. Only one life soon twill be passed.
(01:47):
Only what's done for Christ will last. As President of
the Christian Research Institute for almost four decades, I have
had a front row seat to some of the most
bizarre and dangerous cults in modern history. I think back
(02:09):
to nineteen ninety seven, where media outlets flocked literally flocked,
I mean they came in with helicopters to our headquarters
in southern California to gain perspective on the sociologically deviant
Heavensgate cult, a cult that ended that ended in the
(02:32):
largest mass suicide in the entire history of the United
States of America. Back then, our broadcast studios were quite
literally packed with television cameras as I conducted an exclusive
interview with the daughter of the co founder of this insidious,
(02:53):
treacherous cult. Now fast forward thirty years, we're now in Charlotte,
North Carolina. That's where our headquarters is today, and we're
deeply engaged as always in primary source research, and this
(03:15):
time on a theologically and sociologically deep and cult that
replaces the Old and New Testaments with the incoherent ramblings
of an alleged female reincarnation of Jesus Christ. This is
a counterfeit Christ who envisions herself to be the Jehovah
(03:40):
of the Old Testament and the Jesus of the New
and tragically, just as with Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana
and Bagwan Shree Rajinish in Puna, India, multiplied millions. Note
that carefully multiplied millions of devotees are swallowing this spiritual cyanide.
(04:06):
And so in the coming year, the Christian Research Institute
will release God Willing, a special edition of the Christian
Research Journal, in hopes of putting a final nail in
the coffin of this insidious Eastern Lightning cult. This is
(04:26):
a cult that was burst in China. It was birthed
in central China's Yellow River Valley. This is a cult
that is now spreading from there, from the epicenter of
Chinese culture in Hunan Province throughout the world. It's hard
(04:47):
to believe, but there are millions of adherents. And this
is a cult that significant religious studies specialists now characterized
as merely a new religious movement, a new religious movement
(05:08):
in quote unquote responsive dialogue with other Christianities. So this
cult has been normalized. It's been normalized in numerous Western
regions throughout the world. Well. Alongside the Christian Research Institutes
(05:29):
commitment to primary source research, we remain committed to equipping
the leadership of churches in places around the world, places
like India, Africa, Asia, places where multiplied millions of new
believers are vulnerable to the Kingdom of the cults and
(05:52):
the world of the occult, and so sufficient funds are
desperately needed to stain the flow of biblical teaching and
discipleship materials that continue to impact the lives of so
many believers in these exceedingly disadvantage places in our world.
(06:16):
I think about the panoply of a year, the year
twenty twenty four, this year, or c or I where
the Christian Research Institute has been focused on equipping Christians
in the realm of historical literacy as well. On the
hand Unplugged podcast, we provided five insightful broadcasts that cover
(06:41):
Christian history from Pentecost to the present. Why did I
do that because in the words of Jacob Neusner, and
by the way, he was one of the most published
authors in history. In his words haunting words, he reminded
us that civilization hangs suspended from generation to generation by
(07:07):
the gossamer strand of memory. He said, if only one
cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its
children what it has learned from its parents. Then the
great chain of learning and wisdom snaps that admonition. That
(07:31):
admonition is reminiscent of Moses. Moses who exhorted the people
of the Promise to impress the words of the Almighty
upon the hearts of their children and their children's children,
to talk about them when you sit at home, when
you walk along the road, when you lie down, and
(07:52):
when you get up. If truth matters, and most certainly does,
the Church must take the task of Christian education seriously,
not editain, but educate, equip ourselves and our children to
always be ready to give an answer to everyone who
(08:15):
asks you to give the reason for the hope that
you have, but of course do it with gentleness and
with respect. And so during the past twelve months, we
have as a ministry offered so much to the world.
Users have accessed our website equipped dot org from now
(08:41):
more than two hundred and thirty countries, and thus these
people have benefited from our vast reservoir of unrestricted that's
a keyword, unrestricted resources that includes the Bible answer Man
broad cast, the handcum Plug podcast, the Bible answer Man
(09:04):
YouTube channel with over one point six million yearly views,
the Christian Research Journal Reads podcast, Bible answer Man, Instagram account,
Daily e Truths, and the Christian Research Journal Online, which
(09:26):
now is available to anyone with Internet access anywhere in
the world. One more task worthy of note is that
the Christian Research Institute is also engaged in a surpassingly
important and culturally relevant project on artificial intelligence and transhumanism.
(09:48):
I've often said that artificial intelligence is the best marketing
cliche ever invented, because there's a big difference between artificial
intelligence and actual intelligence, between artificial intelligence and what it
really is artificial information anyway, and the secular humanist pursuit.
(10:14):
Multitudes live under the delusion that we have killed God
and that we are now Gods ourselves. Under the guise
of technologies such as AI, they imagine that we have
discovered the ultimate path towards utopia. Transhumanism takes this technological
(10:36):
delusion a step further. Humans become deciders, deciders not only
ungender as in transgenderism and species as in transpeciism, but
the ultimate dystopian delusions, a delusion in particular whereby humans
(11:01):
may decide how long they will live and even whether
they will succumb to death itself. Secular humanists have even
distorted the imagery of sacred scripture to advance their dystopian illusions.
I think of the liberal politician and journalists Jules Antoine COSTAGNERI,
(11:24):
who sacrilegiously sabotage scripture when he said this, I will
build a new Eden for myself, which I will populate
with mine own kind. I will station the invisible sentinel
of progress at its entrance, and I will place a
(11:47):
flaming sword into his hands, and he will say to God,
thou shalt not enter here. And some a battle is
being waged. And the question that now remains is simply this,
(12:07):
will we conform to the culture or will we transform
the culture by Christ and his Church. I'm deeply grateful
to all who answer by your continued support of the
many outreaches of the Christian Research Institute. I'm sincerely grateful
(12:28):
for all you do to strengthen our twenty four to
seven outreaches. Outreach is making a strategic difference at home
and around the globe. Well, I'm approaching three quarters of
a century in age, so I'm acutely aware of the
(12:50):
reality of being in the fourth quarter of my life,
and a life increasingly motivated by the Apostle Paul's add
to run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Fixing your eyes on Jesus, the Author and the perfector
of our faith, who, for the joy set before him,
(13:12):
endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at
the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him
who endured such opposition from sinful men, that you do
not grow weary and lose heart, because in your struggle
against sin you have not yet resisted the point of
(13:32):
shedding your own blood, as Jesus did for us. We
have the opportunity to carry that message forward. We live
in a real world. The Gospel's free. Someone has to
put in the plumbing. So we're asking you to stand
shoulder to shoulder with us in the battle for life
(13:55):
and truth. By supporting our ministry prayerfully and financially. You
can give in a number of different ways. You can
write me, of course at Post Office Box eighty five hundred, Charlotte,
North Carolina, zip code two eight two seven one. You
can also contact us through many platforms and give. One
(14:23):
of the primary platforms, of course, would be equipped dot
org or website. If you have benefited from this ministry,
if you have a vision foreseeing how this ministry is
benefiting the world, particularly in areas where people are unreached,
or areas where the church is still in its infant
(14:45):
stage and the leaders need to be equipped. If you
see that vision, please stand with us. Support this ministry
prayerfully and financially. I don't often do fundraising appeals, but
as we approach the end of the year, I suppose
(15:08):
this is the quintessential appeal. Please stand with us, become
a supporter of the ministry of the Christian Research Institute
and all of its various outreaches. You'll make a difference
for time and for eternity. Thank you so much,
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