Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 1:11 [Grieving the death of the unsaved] How do we biblically grieve the death of a loved one who wasn't saved? Since we don't believe in purgatory, and therefore we don't pray for deceased people, what is an appropriate (but still loving) response in this situation? And how can we kindly correct those who make a well-meaning offer to pray for a dead loved one without being harsh? 2. 8:20 [Plato & Christianity?] What does Plato have to do with Christianity? I recently read that Plato had as much influence on Christianity as the Bible. 3. 11:29 [Does Christianity impede critical thinking?] Is/was Christianity guilty of impeding critical thinking and exploring the mysteries of the cosmos and physics of the natural world? How would you advise a believer involved in both worlds? 4. 17:06 [Does God have a sense of humor?] Deep theological and philosophical question: Does God have a sense of humor? 5. 21:18 [Should I be rebaptized?] Are there biblical examples of people being baptized more than once? I was baptized LDS but don't consider it to be a legitimate baptism. I want to be rebaptized now that I found Christ. Is this ok? 6. 26:16 [About ‘gods’ of other religions] In Numbers 33:3-4, YHWH never denies other ‘gods.’ Are we then to understand gods of other religions (Allah, Zeus, etc.) as very much real ‘gods,’ albeit demons? 7. 32:00 [Does God really forget sins? Should we?] After forgiveness, all sin is wiped clean. Can a person then claim to have never taken part in certain sin in his past? If the Lord remembers our sin no more, why should we? 8. 35:17 [Is it biblical to mandate traditions?] The church I grew up in had extrabiblical "traditions" (women wear dresses, men are clean shaven, etc.), and justified this using Proverbs 22: 28 & Matthew 18: 18. Is it biblical to mandate adherence to tradition? 9. 40:38 [Answering skeptics’ claims online] I've been trying to reach skeptics online, but they've told me belief in God is irrational and that I must believe rape & torture are o.k. since I'm a Christian. They also call God evil, a murderer, and a megalomaniac, and say Christians are wasting their time believing in "fairytales." How should I respond to these claims, and how can I tell when a debate is not even going to be fruitful? 10. 45:35 [Should we pray against “spirits” of sins?] Is it Biblical to pray against spirits (e.g., the "spirit of" offense, laziness, depression, confusion, etc.)? What is a "Jezebel spirit," and is it real? 11. 51:15 [Perpetual virginity of Mary?] Did Mary remain a virgin? I've heard that the brothers of Jesus that are mentioned were actually his cousins, and that if she had other sons, John wouldn't have needed to care for her (John 19:26). 12. 58:16 [Defining persecution] Can you please define "persecution" and speak to whether these pastors imprisoned or being penalized for defying public health orders are in fact being persecuted? 13. 1:00:35 [Can secular songs be turned into worship?] What are your thoughts on using secular music as a form of worship music where half of the lyrics are secular words and the other half is supposedly Jesus’ words? 14. 1:02:34 [Do real Christians stop sinning?] Does 1 John 3:4-10 mean your aren’t a real Christian if you still struggle with sin? At face value that’s how it sounds, but then nobody would qualify for Grace - so I’m confused. 15. 1:11:30 [Why did God command death?] My 12 year old daughter asked me after reading Exodus 32: 28 “If God gives us free will to worship Him, why did He have Moses command the Levites to kill those 3,000 people who chose not to?” 16. 1:14:29 [Did God make individuals & not just mankind?] Even though I know people (as a whole) were made by God, because God made Adam, how do I know that I/people (individually) are also made by God, especially when they are conceived out of sin? 17. 1:17:03 [How to rekindle passion for God] How would you counsel someone who feels their passion for the Lord dying? (Not praying anymore, not reading the Bible, etc.) 18. 1:19:35 [Inerrancy & preservation of Scripture] How do you bring together an inerrancy and preservation to modern translations which say verses have been added and taken away (end of Mark, Acts 8: 37)? 19. 1:21:53 [Reliability of Scripture when Jesus was alone] How do we know parts of the New Testament are reliable that narrate Jesus when He is alone without witnesses? (Ex: Being tempted in the wilderness or His prayer in the garden of Gethsemane.) 20. 1:23:29 [Leviticus, uncleanness, and the Temple] What happens to people who become unclean (impure) in Leviticus? When they’re unclean for the whole day, are they just not allowed in the Temple, or do bad, negative things happen to them as well?
@@johnernest1207 Hi John! You're definitely not blacklisted. Have you been following the guidelines listed in the video description? What was the subject of your question? In order to help as many people as possible, I will skip questions he's answered in past Q&A sessions. I'd be happy to search our system for you if you tell me what subject you're hoping to hear an answer about.
@@sarahfaith316 is the system is questions that answered are the first 20 questions asked (that still not answered), so if we come in little late like 15 minutes after streaming on, we have no chance our question be answered? Because there already tons of question asked.
@@chaniee2982 Hi there! No, we don't necessarily answer strictly the first 20 that are submitted; There are many factors we consider while selecting the questions. Most of them end up being toward the very beginning right when question time opens, but not all of them. God bless!
I used to spend Fridays drinking beer or getting high now I spend them looking forward to these videos God used some videos of yours Pastor Mike on the conscious and has delivered me from my need to self-medicate
Coming back to this video to say- I was the person who asked the question about being rebaptized after coming out of Mormonism and finding the real Jesus. I just signed up to be baptized next weekend. Thank you for your encouragement Pastor Mike! God bless you!
Yeah I don't actually agree that they were re-baptized in water, since the text only indicates that Paul laid hands on them, but they were baptized under John first, and John was definitely no false prophet. So God bless you for being baptized FINALLY in his church and family!
I'm in the military and being in isolation as we've been for the last 9 days has been rough. This video was a major blessing right now. Thank you so much God and thank you so much Pastor Mike. I've been a fan for a little over a year now and God has used your ministry in a radical way in my life. God bless you and your family.
@@partoftheway4235 how so? If he's a false teacher, you have a Biblical obligation to warn people. I haven't noticed him say anything just totally against the Bible, so I'm curious.
@@jericawilson1484 I never said he is a false teacher or not. I said he don't teach the scriptures. "Teach" the "scriptures". "Teach precept upon precept in the "scriptures". He does what a lot of pastors nowadays do. They make a lot of statements without thoroughly backing them with the scriptures word per batum. And he claims to be an apologist. Well then he should be using the scriptures much much more. I don't listen to people that don't back what they say with the scriptures.
Elijah mocked the priests of Baal because he did not appear when they called to him. Elijah was like,... where is he? “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
On God having a sense of humor - I remember someone saying that when Jesus told Zacheus, "Today *salvation* has come to your home', it may have been a pun on Jesus' name (as the Aramaic Yeshua / Hebrew Joshua means 'Yahweh is salvation" / "Yahweh saves"). I plan to use this as justification for Dad-jokes if my family ever objects to them ;-)
@@wengel_eth From Wikipedia: "The name Yeshua is a shortened version of the name Yehoshua or Joshua and is the literal Hebrew word for *Salvation* ." (Yeshua comes into the Greek as Iesus which we transliterate into English as "Jesus"). Jesus had visited Zacchaeus' home, so when Jesus says, "Today *salvation* has come to your home" it could be a play on "Today *Jesus* has come to your home" - assuming Jesus was originally speaking in Aramaic / Hebrew.
Thanks Mike, my grandmother died last year and I had very little hope that she repented of her animosity towards God before her death. Her life was Hellish, both in what was done to her and the way she treated others leading to burnt bridges and ongoing poison (I think there were unaddressed issues with mental health as well). I struggled with anger towards God and the idea that she was suffering in hell after much of her life being misery and torment and isolation. It was one of multiple reasons I decided to reject God in my life for most of 2020. Praise the Lord I am back with my first love, and that the spirit of God could remain with me even despite my blasphemies of God, seeing Jehovah as the villain for so long until I was humbled and feeling so empty. Your ministry has been a huge influence in strengthening my faith and apologetics. Appreciate you big time, man! And appreciate your willingness to answer the needed and difficult questions from a biblical standpoint. God bless you and keep you faithful and unspotted from the world. Praying for you to continue in a victorious life with Christ!
Me too, I blamed God for how poorly I was treated in the church, then I realized I was in a cult. Oops... I was lazy and did not do my research and relied on what they told me, that was on me not God, now I worry if God can forgive me for blaming him. I have been ready Job and feel even worse as Job refused to curse God but I didn't and it wasn't his fault for my choices. Best to follow Christ and no man.
@@rosiej.1473 God can and does forgive you. Also Job was such a righteous man that God himself was bragging about him, we definitely aren't all at that level of faith and that's ok. We say Lord we believe, but help our unbelief. Lord we are saved, help us live in the newness of life through your spirit and the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ, casting off the old self and the bondage to sin and the systems that enslaved us in being under law rather than under Grace through faith. I'll be praying for you Rosie, God's forgiveness is not limited and can reach even those who hated him and called him evil at one point. While we were still enemies with God, Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6-11).
God is just, trust in this. To those who have been given much, much will be required. Jesus said of Judas, "it would be better for him if he was never born.
Thank you for serving in that manner and most of all still glorifying God and praying for them in you job! I truly pray that God blesses you at your work and continues to save lives.❤️❤️❤️
Hey Mike not sure if you'll see this but some of your answers to these questions helped with some serious doubts/struggles I've had for a while and your videos have really helped me have a new passion for seeking God and bringing Jesus to others!
19:04 The teachings of Augustine of Hippo in a nutshell. He did more harm to Christianity unintentionally than Emperor Diocletian did deliberately. Augustine had been a pagan, who became a leading Christian theologian and was mostly responsible for pushing the "pleasure = sin" mindset that has poisoned many churches ever since.
Hey pastor Mike, thank you so much for answering my question during your video today. I know you get flooded with tons of questions all the time, so I really appreciate your taking time to answer mine in such a gentle and thoughtful way. I ran into this passage several months ago sort of by accident and it has been bothering me ever since. Your response made the passage make a lot more sense and it was very helpful. I greatly appreciate you and your ministry, and again, thank you for answering my question. God Bless 🙂
I hope the lady, Deandra from the chat, sees this and hope someone can help her. She said she was suicidal. If you see this I feel the same way Deandra. I have been seeking God so long and I just can't get anywhere. Something keeps nagging at me that it'll never get better and to just go on. I pray for everyone feeling that way, in Jesus' name.
Definitely prayers for everyone who is feeling lost and without hope. Jesus, You are the Way, the Truth and the Life I pray that You send brothers and sisters to minister to the lost and hopeless, that they may come to know You and Your love and mercy towards all who are broken and seeking answers.
Hey Mike, love your ministry, such a blessing, thank you…the binding and loosing is a Jewish idiom about legally binding and legally loosing 😊 God bless.
Marcia, you ARE joy! Heavenly Father, I lift Marcia’s name to you in prayer. Let her be strengthened through her ailments, let her feel your overwhelming love and grace that she may find joy and motivation each morning that she wakes. Father, thank you for the beautiful Christian daughter Marcia that she shared with us her struggles that we might pray for her knowing that you love her personally and we rejoice in knowing he will grace her with eternal love. Amen. Marcia, be strong, be at peace, and know that you are being thought of and prayed over. Be well, my dear!
@@DanMowry thank you so much for the wonderful prayer and perfect timing for it is my birthday today and it was a great ending to the evening. I even took a screenshot
Just a Pastor? How Humble.. GOD BLESS YOU Pastor Mike. GOD BLESSES What Your Doing Through HIM... You Serve Your Time for CHRIST Well.. I LOVE n Look Forward to YOUR VIDEOS.. You are such a Blessing to me n I Learned SOOO Much from You. THANK YOU!!!
I was struggling a bit until the question regarding 1 John 3 : 4 - 10 came up. I forgot all about this. I read someone’s thoughts on this a long time ago saying that it meant you can’t sin without it pricking you’re conscience. You can’t sin and not care. Of course the vitally important thing then which is to ask for forgiveness, is then detailed in the later verses. I feel so much better now. Thank you so so much and God bless , Mike.
I was apart of the deliverance ministry and I agree 100%. We just don’t want to give up our sin. I got caught up on how NON-freeing it was when Jesus came to free us. I think there is a place for deliverance, but to blame all this other stuff on demons when we’re just not able to stop our sin, that’s a problem.
I know this is an old video. This first question got to me, although I have seen many. My 1st born passed in my arms in 2021 from cancer, he could no longer talk & he shook his head admitting he did believe in God & Jesus was His Son, as I repeated John 3:16. He shed a tear that I wiped dry & he was gone. I believe he was saved. By brother passed in 2022, I dont believe he was saved, but only he & God know, he was gay, I hope he repented. He would not talk to me about it. He was curious as to why I did not fear death. I said I feared what was left behind, but I believed I knew where I was going because I repent, am forgiven & believe I am saved. I was holding his hand when he passed. In 2023, my 2nd born was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, I tried to talk to him about Jesus, he said, mom, I did this to myself, I believe & me & God are good, he passed 3 months later in my arms. My prayer is that they are okay, that they had their own personal encounter with God. I wonder, but pray they are with the Lord. Prayer, the Bible, & support give me comfort. Sorry for long post, that will probably never be seen since it is so old, but felt i needed to post for some reason. 😊🕊🙏 God Bless.
The issue could be because the dominant view that we have been taught of Monotheism is that if the other gods are real beings that they are rivals to Yahweh. But we know that Yahweh is the only Creator. Heiser's view is that they are real but in rebellion to Yahweh. He is the Most High Almighty God and He is species unique. Ontologically none of the others are or can ever be like Him. He is above all and there is none like Him. He is called God of God's for a reason in my opinion and these gods being real in no way diminishes His majesty as He is the only Uncreated Being that exist. Hope this helps.
My thoughts on the whole "Do christians stop sinning?" question is that it is a matter of intention and mindset. Are you saying you're a christian and desiring to pursue God and Christ and grow and change, but are stumbling and have things you struggle with and want to stop? Then I'd say you're a christian. However if you're somebody who deliberately sins, has no remorse, no desire to change, doesn't think about their motivations or behavior. Somebody who has no motivation to pursue God, then I'd say that person isn't a christian. Even if they claim to be.
Thank you Pastor Mike for the loving biblical teaching that you give us today, we need it more then ever in this darkness times where thruth is subjective..I lost my beloved son David 4 years ago, he was 25 years old, it was a sudden death..brain aneurysm, we went to church he listen the gospel but he never made a profession of faith on the Lord; this is hasn't been easy and it will go with me to the day I died...The Lord is good despite of what happen to us..thank you brother Mike.
Thank you Mike. I’ll catch up on this one. No doubt it will be insightful. I enjoy doing live Q&A myself, and always wanting to learn more from people like yourself! 👍🏼😊
Hi Mike, I have a follow-up question on being rebaptized. I was baptized at 16 as a Christian believer. After I got married we moved to salt lake City and I was converted together with my husband and baptized into the LDS church. A few years later, we Read some history, and long story short we left the lds church. I have renounced everything that has to do with the LDS Church. And have found a good Christian church once again and have been learning and growing as a believer. My question is since I have been baptized once before, then rebaptized into the LDS church, do I need to be rebaptized again? I hope this makes sense. Thanks!
17:15 I like to imagine god has the best jokes. Like just hearing one could have any of us laughing for weeks. Sometimes I like to imagine everyone in heaven doing whatever it is they do and all the sudden god just drops the like funniest joke that gets all of heaven into one big laughing fit.
"I'm looking to understand what it says, not force it to say what I want." - Now THIS statement is something many people, particularly our brother Michael Jones of InspiringPhilosophy when it comes to the Book of Genesis, should take note of! ❤❤❤
I have a beef about using secular songs as worship, with that in mind, church has been doing this for centuries! How do I reconcile this? Music of the past I have no recollection of (the old bar songs of England for example) but current songs I do (for example the perverted hallelujah song). If the song is going to remind me of perversion, I cannot praise the Lord with this in mind. Does that make sense? Worship music is for pleasing God and not myself, not my flesh. The mega church mentality of trying to reach the unchurched is the opposite approach to how the apostles preached the gospel. These goals are more about these false teachers who want thousands who follow them and send them money. They get rich, the gospel never gets preached. So, I don't trust any worship leader attempting to redeem worldly music to please the crowd either, to me they are just tickling the ears to keep them there so that the money comes in.
Great insights here. Concerning the 2nd baptism, I was baptized again - once as an infant and once when I was born again in my early 40s. I believe we all need to be baptized again/born again.
Hey Mike, appreciate your sincerity but Catholics aren’t only ones to hold perpetual virginity view of Mary. Orthodox, Martin Luther, and Calvin did as well. Google. God bless.
On the science question, Psalms 19 and 24 put it perfectly. The whole of science testifies to the supremacy of the Creator. As a scientist my greatest goal is to go to heaven so I can have some of my life long questions answered by the master. imo you can't be a scientist and not be an awestruck Christian 🤷🏽♀️
This was a fantastic shirt, Pastor Mike. Nice color and the collar was ironed. That was MY sense of humor 😂. Thanks so much for your ministry, and love of orange tic tacs.
Please please please do a video on Isaiah 3:12 and how that correlates with the times today. With the neo Nazi 3rd wave feminism and children given discretion on having an abortion, getting the “day after” pill or receiving a government funded sex change all without parental consent. Women unable to forgive, driving agendas due to bitterness and hatred.
Nicely done, Mike! I've read and followed Heiser's work for long enough to say that I think his view and yours overlap in several key areas: First, you both would affirm that behind the so-called "gods" of the ancient world and pantheons of antiquity, there stands actually real, intelligent, spiritual beings who are opposed to God. Second, you would both agree that these spiritually evil beings are of a completely different nature than God. Yahweh is uncreated, eternal, and has no rival in any sense whatsoever. These elohim or demons are created, fallen, and finite beings and (while still very powerful) can't even begin to compare to God. Seems to me that the real difference you highlighted in your brief answer here is really about precisely who these beings are and where they fall along the "pecking order" of the spiritual world. If you haven't read Heiser's book The Unseen Realm or his follow-up Reversing Hermon, I'd recommend digesting them as you prepare to do a future video on this topic. You are always so well prepared for your videos and reading those will give you a much clearer picture of Heiser's position so that you'll be prepared to critique it directly if you still end up holding a different view. Thanks so much for your work and ministry! As a fellow youth pastor, I really appreciate it!
I would love to hear a more in depth discussion of what Dr. Haiser calls the "Deuteronomy 32 Worldview". This is a reference to Deuteronomy 32:8-9, but the content from Dr. Haiser I have heard goes beyond that single excerpt.
I love when you said “I’m gonna start fires. These are ways people avoid personal responsibility”. My husband is a trainer and has heard many of these responses as well . We have seen what denial does to people 😣
As for God having a sense of humor, think about what God did to the Philistine villagers who harbored the stolen ark of the covenant. > . . . . He gave them all hemorrhoids. :-D
@Pond3r Thiz Think about it. God could have struck them all dead or He could have killed a select group of them; He could have struck them all blind or deaf or both. Any of those actions would have led to the Israelites getting the ark back. . . . . But instead God chose to inflict them all with hemorrhoids. Whatever village they stored the ark in would suddenly all come down with hemorrhoids. . . . Why do you think God chose that particular form of punishment? I think God was displaying his sense of justice as well as his sense of humor.
Mike, You are a blessing for everyone that have the opportunity to learn from you. I greatly admire you for the great work you are doing spreading, defending, and teaching the true gospel of our LORD JESUS CHRIST. I am so proud of you and so confident to share your youtube videos with family and friends because you transmit your love for GOD and willingness to teach from the bible and about the bible!!!!!!. I really enjoy everything you do and thanks GOD for using your transparent, genuine, and humble personality to teach us HIS WORD. GOD blessed you and your family including your cats. Hortencia Aguirre, a 61 years old and former catholic
My old church actually did an entire 6-8 week study on the 'spirit of Jezebel.' It was weird. They were constantly casting out this 'spirit of Jezebel.' It never sat right with my husband and I. It is nice to hear someone explain this more clearly.
29:00 Just to clarify Michael Heiser's view: elohim is the word used for spiritual beings in the OT. They are not ontologically different from angels and demons, but rather angels and demons are elohim, as is God; however, the Lord is a species unique elohim because he is the creator of all others. So all spiritual beings are elohim, but God is King Elohim, which seems to lineup with Christian theology. God created angels, but all of them are spiritual, non-material beings.
For question number 12, I would really encourage you to consider if the health orders a just, and furthermore what is the importance of church at all. There is much more research I've done that I am throughly convinced that it's all evil but that would take much longer explain. Is it just to mandate that people allow their family members to die alone? If a family member wanted to risk being exposed and even quarantine afterwards how could an "official" mandate that someone was to die alone. And on top of that mandate that the surviving family members not gather together to encourage and comfort one another. To me this is one of the greatest evils. I lost my cousins exactly 4 days before the "15 days to slow the spread" (notice how the goal post continues to move and it does not reflect the data if you look at the numbers yourself). He was 40 years old (non-smoker and relatively healthy) and was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. He was doing well and last year it suddenly grew more and he was in the hospital for 2 weeks before passing. By God's goodness we were able to be with him, and many of my family members ( including my 76 year old grandmother) visited and weren't wearing masks or social distancing. None of us got sick and even his later packed funeral, with no one getting sick. If he could not see his 3 kids before passing and those kids could not be around family for support after is just so evil, I don't understand why Christian are so easily convinced that people in power are doing what's in the best interests of the public. No one is being forced to attend church, and suspecting pastors are in the wrong, when they are looking to God, but thinking public health officials are in the right when they are being lead by their gods of "science" is a big mistake (especially once you investigate or test their claims, look us the Tampa Bay 'super spreader event' and you will see they are just false prophets). Secondly, if church can take a break for a pandemic, then it can always take a break and is really not that important, or especially not as important as abortion clinics who never had to close.
I agree with you. It's also safer to meet now in the west than it has been for most of church history. From the time of Jesus untill about a hundred years ago, the risk of serious illness from attending church has been much higher than it is now.
I wonder if part of question 1 had to do with the horrible grief one feels about a loved one dying without any evidence of receiving Christ. I have felt this pain. I wasn't blaming God; I was simply tormented by the lingering thought of my loved one burning forever. I don't think that we should "play" God in claiming we know where everyone is. Is the last breath, the last chance someone has? I'm not sure.
Love your ministry Mike! I think God definitely used your comments about Jesus' brothers (regarding the viewer's question about the Disciple John being told by Jesus to look after His mother and the possible reasons why Jesus did not entrust his natural brothers to take on that role) to make me belly laugh!! I was only thinking earlier about what you said to someone else about God having a sense of humour as do we!!
1st question! Yes it's a tough thing but I've tried to say it this way. I've told it's not my call but from what I know he hadn't repented. If my Dad is Judged for his sin or if he's forgiven and with Jesus. Either way God is glorified.
I so enjoy your question & answer days - I love the heart you have for God & his word & its shines through you with every video I watch !! Thank you for doing what you do !! Kim- ohio
#4,,,SORRY MIKE ...god DOES HAS A SENS OF HUMOUR ,,,BUT THE PLANK IS NOT IT ...ITS jesus WAY OF SAYING THAT YOUR WOOD IS BIG , that you go look at your brother's twig?
Thank you very much Mike for your videos, I find more knowledge, wisdom, and Biblical information in your videos than I ever have in most of the churches or Bible studies I have attended, I enjoy your Q&A videos alot. Again, thanks.
Hi Mike Love listening to your TH-cam videos I have learnt so much biblical teaching and there are great questions. I feel I learn more from these videos than I do from going to actual church.
I have mused that if people use the Bible to try to tell women they can not wear pants, then how come men don't have to wear gown-like garments that were worn by men during New Testament times? :)
Hi! I know this is an old video, but I have a follow up question to question 1. I already felt weird about the idea of praying for those who have passed, but I don't understand why we can't retroactively pray for them is God exists outside of time. (I'm getting that idea from C.S. Lewis' metaphor about reality being a book that God can open, close, flip around in, but we the characters are stuck in the timeline. I know Lewis is just a human and doesn't have the last word of truth, so I don't want to be taking everything He says as correct theology. Thanks!
@59:00 For anyone interested, I think Allie Beth Stuckey had a solid take on this on her podcast this week; I believe it's episode 381. She also had a great interview last week with Erin Coates, wife of the jailed pastor in Canada.
@@hopelovegood8131 I do too, even if this Pastor is wrong, his actions are not severely worse than some men that have been released having sexually assaulted children and women again and again.
@@Elvtow and what's worse is he is defying order from the government. But atleast he is not envading any person's body or.consent let alone children. These.people are choosing to go to church by their own discretion. And even though it's kind.of reckless, atleast it's by these people's choice. Unlike people who repeadetly not only sexual assults women, but children.
It's definitely angels, although angels are not the right word for it. Been listening to Hiser and Sky watch TV and it fits so perfectly and explains a lot of Bible stories
@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ Because the word does mean God when translated into Arabic. What I'm saying is that the "Allah 'God'" of the Quran is not the same as the God of the Bible. They each have different attributes and different identities. They are not interchangeable.
@@ih82r8 the arabic word for god is ilāh, the god is al-ilāh, why don't they use these terms instead of Allāh? Allāh is the name of the God of Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad [PBUTA]
@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ I can't speak for Ishmael or Mohammed, but I can promise you that the God of the Koran is not the same as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and it is part of the deception of Islam to pretend that they are the same. If there is in fact a better word to use, then Arab Christians would be better off using it.
Does God have a sense of humor? LOL…God destroys humanity in a flood, and Noah, the only righteous man and survivor, finds his tent and gets drunk. Now THATS funny😆😂! God bless🙏🏼!
Mike, please stop acting like the word WORLD means every single person that has lived or will live. It is Kosmos, not oikumene. It's simply a way to say humanity in general. The Pharisees said the whole world was going after Jesus. Do you think China, Australia, Russia and every human in every nation on Earth was going after Him in the first century? I love your teaching, but you take the word WORLD out of context.
Usually your quick jabs or jokes are super funny to me. They are usually super thoughtful and give new perspective to things that I hadn’t previously thought of in that way however, 1:08:00 logic is flawed. Or at least your quick explanation is. Not for JUST our sins as Christian’s, but also for the whole world which is why limited atonement is false. I’m not a Calvinist, but I don’t think “also for the whole world” is enough to stake “Limited atonement is false” on. It’s not sufficient enough to be sound logically. I know you have videos where you go more in depth but I’d like to offer constructive criticism that if you make any sweeping remarks you should at least summarize your opinion in a way that is logically sound. I know you care about being held accountable to God for your teachings which is why I wanted to point this out to you. I am truly truly 😅 a huge fan and would love to be a moderator for you at some point in the future when I’m not overwhelmed with med school homework! ❤
Regarding Mary being given to John; Jesus would HAVE to give his mother to someone in his own family, like a brother or sister. This was, and is, Jewish law. Christ went to his Father THE unblemished Lamb. He had to be recognized as unblemished to fulfill the Law. Also, it isn't just Roman Catholic church that believes in the significance of Mary. So does all form of Catholicism: Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Eastern Right, and the Coptic Churches. Also, in the Magnificat the Bible says all generations will call her blessed.
God commands His children to love Him and to teach their children about the One and Only God and His ways. 📖“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one [the only God]! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being]. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be [written] on your heart and mind. You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.” Deuteronomy 6:4-7 AMP
Pastor Mike, I’m not sure I agree with your answer to the rebaptism question. 🤔. My instinct, to the person who was originally baptized Mormon, would be to ask them where their heart was at. I think we need to remember that God trumps the Mormon doctrine and folly. Does it matter which building it was? JMHO, God Bless.
An example God remembers sin, but God is also merciful when we have a repentant heart. 📖“The LORD said to the Israelites, “ Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines? Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed and crushed you, you cried out to Me, and I rescued you from their hands. Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you. Go, cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them rescue you in your time of distress.” The Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please rescue us this day.” So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.” Judges 10:11-16 AMP
Mike i love your channel.The answer to evolution question however,is simple-''If evolution is true,its not.'' ... The (macro)evolutionary narrative is the intellectual fruit of an unbiblical Worldview & Epistemology.But Objective Truth ,logical coherence cannot be ontologically justified from such pre-suppositions.This is because Truth,like laws of logic & mathematics is an abstract (supernatural) object.Obviously any theory that cannot justify the existence of objective truth & reality has no intellectual warrant to be considered objectively true or real.Because only the bible can logically justify the existence of Objective Truth,atheism could only be true if the bible is!Hows that for a paradox! (this is basically a condensed pre-suppositional argument btw)
Question 3 totally misunderstands the history of science. Christianity didn't hinder scientific discovery, it actually started it in many ways. Like Mike said, Christianity puts in place the assumptions that allow science to function. That's why the industrial revolution, happened after Christianity became widespread. Most of the greatest scientists of history were actually Christians who were trying to uncover the wonders of creation, people like Newton, Pascal, and Pasteur.
Concerning the "Jezebel spirit", I studied apologetics at Liberty University and while I'm tempted to brandish my credentials that, of course, isn't the best way to sawy the opinion of the people I've thought to make the case against the alleged "Spirit of Jezebel" Like you pointed out there is sparse evidence for such a spirit at best and none at worst. There is some slight irritation in that two of those people are my boss and my girlfriend. The irritation is in that they're both Christians with my girlfriend having well developed Bible memorization but her exegesis leaves something to be desired. She's pretty brught and studied pschology and works with children as a counselor. I myself am quite well read in the realm of psychology and while I personally feel that my insights amd intuitions are well founded when we borach the subject, she mentions her credentials sometimes as a wG pf saying her degree makes it so that she knows better than I do about particular thing. I find it better to concede to her, afrer some mild pushback, to avoid a silly argument or tension. When we talk about Bublical things, she disregards my education becasue she feels well read Biblically and knows, here and there, some Greek and Hebrew etymology. I've tried to be as gentle as I can in addressing that issue. Im not sure what else to do. I beleive I've thought well about it and tried a few different approaches. What else can I do. Maybe I'm missing something. If you see this Mike, I'd appreciate any insight lol
Mike, I always appreciate things you share brother. I fully agree with everything you said about it not being Biblical to mandate traditions. But I have to push back on what the example you used about proverbs. You used an example about raising a child in the way, but based on what evidence should we just dismiss something in the Bible because we didn't see it happen in our walk? As a parent myself I would be more inclined to take accountability and say I didn't bring them up in "the way" or misunderstood what "the way" was as the Bible intended before I would dismiss the verse as just a higher probability scenario. Remember that all scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Even the second verse of proverbs states that the proverbs are for wisdom AND instruction. Along with everything else between verses 2-7. It's not just wisdom and wisdom literature. There is instruction in there as well, and we should trust in God for what result/fruit will come for following the instruction. Love the 20 question videos you do. Please don't stop! Really interesting to see what questions the body of Christ has. Been really blessed to listen and learn.
Great advice about internet debate and knowing if they want a genuine dialog or they just want to dump attacks. I like you will sometimes still engage if they aren't genuine but only for the sake of the audience listening in as they may be undecided and seeking real answers.
I would like to ask why the bible uses "judge" and not "punish". Does that mean the world that haven't been saved, they stand in trial for their sins, are they all 100% condemned, or are they just being judged and determined? Good example 1 Corinthians 6:2 "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" What does that mean exactly, and why use the word "judge" and not "punish"? I believe being clothed with Jesus' righteousness guarantees salvation and those who are not clothes are in "danger of hellfire".
Pastor Mike, if the Law of Moses was only for the Jews before Christ, why are people still believing that they can keep Moses's precept, of divorce and remarriage, in Deuteronomy 24:1-4?
Your View on the gods are basically the same as Heiser's view. They show up for the worship and of course are created by God. You may call them Fallen Angels or Demons but the Bible calls them sons of God, Princes of the Nations or Watchers. Same thing...
Hey Mike, love your ministry. For real. Quick thought on the “spirit of Jezebel” or spirit of laziness. Spirit can be a demon or an action or attribute of our own spirit. Can have other applications as well. God has not given us the “spirit of fear”. Which to me means there can be a spirit of fear. Deaf and dumb spirits. Unclean, evil and lying spirits. All Biblical. God even uses them for His own purposes at times. So I think someone can have the spirit of rebellion or laziness but it simply means their own spirit has those tendencies from their free will choice.i also believe that demons can make a human manifest those tendencies as well but the demon won’t have a name just an assignment. I have seen demons respond (leave) to being called out for their specific manifestations. Jesus name has absolute power. Saying someone has the spirit of Jezebel could mean that the persons actions align with the actions of Jezebel in the Bible. Those actions could be of the own sinful tendencies or from possession from a demon. Semantics I suppose. God bless!
Jezebel is spiritual system that clings to authority to manipulate things.Mostly working against the prophetic purpose of God. It was also seen at work in the New Testament with Herodias as she instructed the daughter to call for the head of john the Baptist, who Jesus said to the people, if you can receive it Elijah has come already, who was in the personage of John the Baptist. Hence the spiritual system (Jezebel spirit) called for the head of john. Because she didn't get Elijah's when she threatened to cut it off after the show down on mount carmel... just my 2cents. Life is spiritual...
inre: the Plato question No. Plato's teachings are the antithesis of Biblical teachings on all major questions. For example, Plato believed that mankind is essentially a slave by nature, and he also was a staunch teacher of the caste system, in which different laws apply to different classes of people. Moses, on the other hand, was unique in the ancient world; as a law code it was a legal framework for equality before the law, and taught that the man and woman are made in the image of God. Plato is also, in my view, the ultimate source of the persistence of the idea of the collectivization of property. In Moses, property is divided by lot amongst the thousands upon thousands of families, and it is illegal to move the boundaries, or for the family to permanently lose their inheritance. Even slavery in almost every case in the Law is a temporary condition. Karl R. Popper wrote an excellent book on this topic called The Open Society and Its Enemies, Under the Spell of Plato.
I always thought the verse where Jesus says "Woman, he is your son" is proof that Mary ISN'T the mother of God as some Catholics believe. I felt that's why he said it. "Woman" He's not saying "Mother" He said "Woman". There's another verse that correlates to this, when they come to get Jesus and say "Jesus, your mother and bothers and sisters are here to visit you." And He responds "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers and sisters? Those who do the will of God are my brothers and sisters and mothers."
I had bell notifications on just so I could ask a question but I missed it ☹️ Q: What is legalism? What is being legalistic? Can you be legalistic by trying not to be legalistic?
Legalism is following law strictly to follow law, as if it is by works that saves you (which is not how you are saved) A good example of being legalistic is one that Pastor Winger actually gave in this video, when he was referring to husbands and wives who don’t have sexual relationships other than to produce children. They are trying to follow whatever law they perceived from the Bible (or wherever they perceived this from) When in fact God gave us that pleasure as a blessing for two people (man and woman) becoming one in the eyes of God (marriage-sex) I can say by my own examples that yes, you can be legalistic by trying not to be legalistic. I stopped enjoying friendships, family, and romantic pursuits by trying to please God by following law, due to fear of punishment (part of my problem was I was a baby Christian still reading the Old Testament) Once I read the gospel (the New Testament, more specifically John-Acts-Romans) God gave me more discernment on what was sin vs. righteousness and that Jesus Christ was given to us by God to shed blood for all those sins and unrighteousness that we will continue to do because we will fail God till the day we die in our physical bodies. Every day we are to follow the Lord Christ, and if we pray for God to give us guidance we can look through ALL scripture , old and New Testament, for examples on how we should live our lives as Christ. The biggest thing I tell people is, if you don’t understand why you’re doing it, don’t do it. Cause there are reasons we are to be following “law” and I say law in quotations because when Jesus died on the cross we became no longer bound to law. But we can still follow by example, examples God and the living version of God provided.
I am grateful for your responses, I think in regards to the critical thinking question your answer could have also referenced critical thinking within scripture. I think Christianity in the western practice does impede critical thinking about any thing that does not follow tradition or accepted dogma. This is where I think the person asking the question was trying to go. I don't think people fess up to how stifling the history of Christian practice hasbeen. Q and A such as this is a perfect example. Look back over the past 200 years and where can you see Q and A and critical thought being as present. In my mind CS Lewis and yourself are a rarity when it comes to critical thought regarding world phenomenon and scripture.
It struck me as you were expounding on people blaming God when someone died and they were grieving; I feel like God tells me, No one knows the relationship another has with God, we can't.If we feel we do then that borders on judging.
@@republiccooper I don't know of anything authoritative to that affect, but that said I also don't see at first glance how that would matter to the conversation, kinda a "fun fact" if it were true to explain why he wasn't alive at the crucifixion, nothing more.
@@matthewpretorius6897 Wdym?!! LMBO?! having sex in marriage and have desires for pleasure IN MARRIAGE is not 'being a disgusting human being". It's being NORMAL! The marriage bed is NOT defiled ma'am/sir. The person was simply saying that it must have been hard for.Joseph because men/women have sexual desires that need to be satisfied by their wives/ husbands. So if she never had sex, then he has alot of discipline, especially since they were married. And LMBO. what do you mean they weren't garage human beings. THEY ARE SINNERS! They and we are By definition garbage and fallen short of the glory of God!
Jesus’ brothers were “not putting faith in him” at this time. It was not until after his resurrection that some became disciples and Christians. Thus, he entrusted his mother to a believer rather than his unbelieving brothers so that her spiritual as well as her physical needs could be looked after. John 7:5 His brothers were, in fact, not exercising faith in him.
I want to believe Jesus has another final moment with the lost at death, but there is no scripture to support this. I get this thought from the interpretation of 1 Peter that after Jesus died on the cross, He went to hades to preach the gospel to everyone who died before Christ, a final chance to choose Christ, but this also is probably a huge misinterpretation. How can we know the mind of God? Why would He choose some to be vessels of glory and others vessels of destruction? How is the best way to pray for the lost, because we are all in need of His great mercy to be saved.
Any church who doesn't properly exegesis the Bible is either ignorant and has no place in teaching or is attempting to control people. Either way they are dangerous and should be rebuked.
With regards to taking secular music and rewriting it into Christian music - Charles Wesley did that for many of his hymns - hymns that are now in many hymn books today.
Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference:
0:00 - Introduction
1. 1:11 [Grieving the death of the unsaved] How do we biblically grieve the death of a loved one who wasn't saved? Since we don't believe in purgatory, and therefore we don't pray for deceased people, what is an appropriate (but still loving) response in this situation? And how can we kindly correct those who make a well-meaning offer to pray for a dead loved one without being harsh?
2. 8:20 [Plato & Christianity?] What does Plato have to do with Christianity? I recently read that Plato had as much influence on Christianity as the Bible.
3. 11:29 [Does Christianity impede critical thinking?] Is/was Christianity guilty of impeding critical thinking and exploring the mysteries of the cosmos and physics of the natural world? How would you advise a believer involved in both worlds?
4. 17:06 [Does God have a sense of humor?] Deep theological and philosophical question: Does God have a sense of humor?
5. 21:18 [Should I be rebaptized?] Are there biblical examples of people being baptized more than once? I was baptized LDS but don't consider it to be a legitimate baptism. I want to be rebaptized now that I found Christ. Is this ok?
6. 26:16 [About ‘gods’ of other religions] In Numbers 33:3-4, YHWH never denies other ‘gods.’ Are we then to understand gods of other religions (Allah, Zeus, etc.) as very much real ‘gods,’ albeit demons?
7. 32:00 [Does God really forget sins? Should we?] After forgiveness, all sin is wiped clean. Can a person then claim to have never taken part in certain sin in his past? If the Lord remembers our sin no more, why should we?
8. 35:17 [Is it biblical to mandate traditions?] The church I grew up in had extrabiblical "traditions" (women wear dresses, men are clean shaven, etc.), and justified this using Proverbs 22: 28 & Matthew 18: 18. Is it biblical to mandate adherence to tradition?
9. 40:38 [Answering skeptics’ claims online] I've been trying to reach skeptics online, but they've told me belief in God is irrational and that I must believe rape & torture are o.k. since I'm a Christian. They also call God evil, a murderer, and a megalomaniac, and say Christians are wasting their time believing in "fairytales." How should I respond to these claims, and how can I tell when a debate is not even going to be fruitful?
10. 45:35 [Should we pray against “spirits” of sins?] Is it Biblical to pray against spirits (e.g., the "spirit of" offense, laziness, depression, confusion, etc.)? What is a "Jezebel spirit," and is it real?
11. 51:15 [Perpetual virginity of Mary?] Did Mary remain a virgin? I've heard that the brothers of Jesus that are mentioned were actually his cousins, and that if she had other sons, John wouldn't have needed to care for her (John 19:26).
12. 58:16 [Defining persecution] Can you please define "persecution" and speak to whether these pastors imprisoned or being penalized for defying public health orders are in fact being persecuted?
13. 1:00:35 [Can secular songs be turned into worship?] What are your thoughts on using secular music as a form of worship music where half of the lyrics are secular words and the other half is supposedly Jesus’ words?
14. 1:02:34 [Do real Christians stop sinning?] Does 1 John 3:4-10 mean your aren’t a real Christian if you still struggle with sin? At face value that’s how it sounds, but then nobody would qualify for Grace - so I’m confused.
15. 1:11:30 [Why did God command death?] My 12 year old daughter asked me after reading Exodus 32: 28 “If God gives us free will to worship Him, why did He have Moses command the Levites to kill those 3,000 people who chose not to?”
16. 1:14:29 [Did God make individuals & not just mankind?] Even though I know people (as a whole) were made by God, because God made Adam, how do I know that I/people (individually) are also made by God, especially when they are conceived out of sin?
17. 1:17:03 [How to rekindle passion for God] How would you counsel someone who feels their passion for the Lord dying? (Not praying anymore, not reading the Bible, etc.)
18. 1:19:35 [Inerrancy & preservation of Scripture] How do you bring together an inerrancy and preservation to modern translations which say verses have been added and taken away (end of Mark, Acts 8: 37)?
19. 1:21:53 [Reliability of Scripture when Jesus was alone] How do we know parts of the New Testament are reliable that narrate Jesus when He is alone without witnesses? (Ex: Being tempted in the wilderness or His prayer in the garden of Gethsemane.)
20. 1:23:29 [Leviticus, uncleanness, and the Temple] What happens to people who become unclean (impure) in Leviticus? When they’re unclean for the whole day, are they just not allowed in the Temple, or do bad, negative things happen to them as well?
This is like the 6th or 7th time in a row that my question doesn’t get answered. Am I blacklisted or something?
@@johnernest1207 Hi John! You're definitely not blacklisted. Have you been following the guidelines listed in the video description? What was the subject of your question? In order to help as many people as possible, I will skip questions he's answered in past Q&A sessions. I'd be happy to search our system for you if you tell me what subject you're hoping to hear an answer about.
@Morgan My pleasure, friend! :)
@@sarahfaith316 is the system is questions that answered are the first 20 questions asked (that still not answered), so if we come in little late like 15 minutes after streaming on, we have no chance our question be answered? Because there already tons of question asked.
@@chaniee2982 Hi there! No, we don't necessarily answer strictly the first 20 that are submitted; There are many factors we consider while selecting the questions. Most of them end up being toward the very beginning right when question time opens, but not all of them. God bless!
I used to spend Fridays drinking beer or getting high now I spend them looking forward to these videos God used some videos of yours Pastor Mike on the conscious and has delivered me from my need to self-medicate
You just made my day Travis!
@@MikeWinger I should also thank Sarah for sending me the videos too
@@LTOR81 Wow, praise God brother! You're so welcome!!
@@sarahfaith316 Praise God indeed!
I love everything about this comment. Praise God, Travis, that you find your fulfillment in Him now. God bless you!
Coming back to this video to say- I was the person who asked the question about being rebaptized after coming out of Mormonism and finding the real Jesus.
I just signed up to be baptized next weekend. Thank you for your encouragement Pastor Mike! God bless you!
That’s great! God bless you Stephanie
Yeah I don't actually agree that they were re-baptized in water, since the text only indicates that Paul laid hands on them, but they were baptized under John first, and John was definitely no false prophet. So God bless you for being baptized FINALLY in his church and family!
I'm in the military and being in isolation as we've been for the last 9 days has been rough. This video was a major blessing right now. Thank you so much God and thank you so much Pastor Mike. I've been a fan for a little over a year now and God has used your ministry in a radical way in my life. God bless you and your family.
May God be with you as you are in the military! And thank you for your service! I'll pray for you❤️❤️
Why are you in isolation?
You are my favorite teacher of the Bible, your honesty and humility with wisdom is incredibly helpful ! ♥️
He don't teach the Bible!
@@partoftheway4235 how so? If he's a false teacher, you have a Biblical obligation to warn people. I haven't noticed him say anything just totally against the Bible, so I'm curious.
@@jericawilson1484 I never said he is a false teacher or not. I said he don't teach the scriptures. "Teach" the "scriptures". "Teach precept upon precept in the "scriptures". He does what a lot of pastors nowadays do. They make a lot of statements without thoroughly backing them with the scriptures word per batum. And he claims to be an apologist. Well then he should be using the scriptures much much more. I don't listen to people that don't back what they say with the scriptures.
Elijah mocked the priests of Baal because he did not appear when they called to him. Elijah was like,... where is he? “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
@@matthewbauerle7153 LOLL!! I love Elijah.
@@matthewbauerle7153 That is my husbands favorite account in the Bible!
On God having a sense of humor - I remember someone saying that when Jesus told Zacheus, "Today *salvation* has come to your home', it may have been a pun on Jesus' name (as the Aramaic Yeshua / Hebrew Joshua means 'Yahweh is salvation" / "Yahweh saves"). I plan to use this as justification for Dad-jokes if my family ever objects to them ;-)
I don't think it was a pun...
That doesn't sound like a pun? Idk where you think that was a pun.
@@wengel_eth From Wikipedia: "The name Yeshua is a shortened version of the name Yehoshua or Joshua and is the literal Hebrew word for *Salvation* ." (Yeshua comes into the Greek as Iesus which we transliterate into English as "Jesus"). Jesus had visited Zacchaeus' home, so when Jesus says, "Today *salvation* has come to your home" it could be a play on "Today *Jesus* has come to your home" - assuming Jesus was originally speaking in Aramaic / Hebrew.
Thanks Mike, my grandmother died last year and I had very little hope that she repented of her animosity towards God before her death. Her life was Hellish, both in what was done to her and the way she treated others leading to burnt bridges and ongoing poison (I think there were unaddressed issues with mental health as well). I struggled with anger towards God and the idea that she was suffering in hell after much of her life being misery and torment and isolation. It was one of multiple reasons I decided to reject God in my life for most of 2020. Praise the Lord I am back with my first love, and that the spirit of God could remain with me even despite my blasphemies of God, seeing Jehovah as the villain for so long until I was humbled and feeling so empty. Your ministry has been a huge influence in strengthening my faith and apologetics. Appreciate you big time, man! And appreciate your willingness to answer the needed and difficult questions from a biblical standpoint. God bless you and keep you faithful and unspotted from the world. Praying for you to continue in a victorious life with Christ!
Me too, I blamed God for how poorly I was treated in the church, then I realized I was in a cult. Oops... I was lazy and did not do my research and relied on what they told me, that was on me not God, now I worry if God can forgive me for blaming him. I have been ready Job and feel even worse as Job refused to curse God but I didn't and it wasn't his fault for my choices. Best to follow Christ and no man.
@@rosiej.1473 God can and does forgive you. Also Job was such a righteous man that God himself was bragging about him, we definitely aren't all at that level of faith and that's ok. We say Lord we believe, but help our unbelief. Lord we are saved, help us live in the newness of life through your spirit and the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ, casting off the old self and the bondage to sin and the systems that enslaved us in being under law rather than under Grace through faith. I'll be praying for you Rosie, God's forgiveness is not limited and can reach even those who hated him and called him evil at one point. While we were still enemies with God, Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6-11).
@@josephreusch Thank you! You brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for your Christian love.
@@rosiej.1473 you are very welcome, God bless! :)
God is just, trust in this. To those who have been given much, much will be required. Jesus said of Judas, "it would be better for him if he was never born.
I work in hospice. I pray for my patients who do not know Christ before they die. After they die, my prayer focus is only on the grieving survivors.
Thank you for serving in that manner and most of all still glorifying God and praying for them in you job! I truly pray that God blesses you at your work and continues to save lives.❤️❤️❤️
Hey Mike not sure if you'll see this but some of your answers to these questions helped with some serious doubts/struggles I've had for a while and your videos have really helped me have a new passion for seeking God and bringing Jesus to others!
“I think these are ways for people to avoid responsibility for their own issues” subscribed immediately
19:04 The teachings of Augustine of Hippo in a nutshell. He did more harm to Christianity unintentionally than Emperor Diocletian did deliberately. Augustine had been a pagan, who became a leading Christian theologian and was mostly responsible for pushing the "pleasure = sin" mindset that has poisoned many churches ever since.
Hey pastor Mike, thank you so much for answering my question during your video today. I know you get flooded with tons of questions all the time, so I really appreciate your taking time to answer mine in such a gentle and thoughtful way. I ran into this passage several months ago sort of by accident and it has been bothering me ever since. Your response made the passage make a lot more sense and it was very helpful. I greatly appreciate you and your ministry, and again, thank you for answering my question. God Bless 🙂
I hope the lady, Deandra from the chat, sees this and hope someone can help her. She said she was suicidal. If you see this I feel the same way Deandra. I have been seeking God so long and I just can't get anywhere. Something keeps nagging at me that it'll never get better and to just go on. I pray for everyone feeling that way, in Jesus' name.
I hope you find the Lord and some peace
I know it had me very worried I was going to see if I could talk to her but I think she disappeared
@@Melissa-C2023 Thank you ma'am and hope we can all pray for that lady.
@@addiedobbs2515 I hope she comes back to the comments or gets help somehow. Hope we all can pray for her.
Definitely prayers for everyone who is feeling lost and without hope. Jesus, You are the Way, the Truth and the Life I pray that You send brothers and sisters to minister to the lost and hopeless, that they may come to know You and Your love and mercy towards all who are broken and seeking answers.
Hey Mike, love your ministry, such a blessing, thank you…the binding and loosing is a Jewish idiom about legally binding and legally loosing 😊
God bless.
I have Parkinson’s which comes with depression and I often feel guilty for lacking motivation or joy. Thank you for clarifying that it’s not a sin
Marcia, you ARE joy! Heavenly Father, I lift Marcia’s name to you in prayer. Let her be strengthened through her ailments, let her feel your overwhelming love and grace that she may find joy and motivation each morning that she wakes. Father, thank you for the beautiful Christian daughter Marcia that she shared with us her struggles that we might pray for her knowing that you love her personally and we rejoice in knowing he will grace her with eternal love. Amen. Marcia, be strong, be at peace, and know that you are being thought of and prayed over. Be well, my dear!
@@DanMowry thank you so much for the wonderful prayer and perfect timing for it is my birthday today and it was a great ending to the evening. I even took a screenshot
@RejoicingSon thank you so much for the awesome prayer you said for me. It means a lot to me.
Happy Birthday!!
Marcia, still keeping you in my prayers. Be well, sister.
Just a Pastor? How Humble.. GOD BLESS YOU Pastor Mike. GOD BLESSES What Your Doing Through HIM... You Serve Your Time for CHRIST Well.. I LOVE n Look Forward to YOUR VIDEOS.. You are such a Blessing to me n I Learned SOOO Much from You. THANK YOU!!!
I was struggling a bit until the question regarding 1 John 3 : 4 - 10 came up. I forgot all about this. I read someone’s thoughts on this a long time ago saying that it meant you can’t sin without it pricking you’re conscience. You can’t sin and not care. Of course the vitally important thing then which is to ask for forgiveness, is then detailed in the later verses. I feel so much better now. Thank you so so much and God bless , Mike.
8:30 I thought the question was play-doh. Made me very curious 😂
I was apart of the deliverance ministry and I agree 100%. We just don’t want to give up our sin. I got caught up on how NON-freeing it was when Jesus came to free us. I think there is a place for deliverance, but to blame all this other stuff on demons when we’re just not able to stop our sin, that’s a problem.
I know this is an old video. This first question got to me, although I have seen many. My 1st born passed in my arms in 2021 from cancer, he could no longer talk & he shook his head admitting he did believe in God & Jesus was His Son, as I repeated John 3:16. He shed a tear that I wiped dry & he was gone. I believe he was saved. By brother passed in 2022, I dont believe he was saved, but only he & God know, he was gay, I hope he repented. He would not talk to me about it. He was curious as to why I did not fear death. I said I feared what was left behind, but I believed I knew where I was going because I repent, am forgiven & believe I am saved. I was holding his hand when he passed. In 2023, my 2nd born was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, I tried to talk to him about Jesus, he said, mom, I did this to myself, I believe & me & God are good, he passed 3 months later in my arms. My prayer is that they are okay, that they had their own personal encounter with God. I wonder, but pray they are with the Lord. Prayer, the Bible, & support give me comfort.
Sorry for long post, that will probably never be seen since it is so old, but felt i needed to post for some reason. 😊🕊🙏 God Bless.
Yes, please Mike, make a video about this "gods thing".
Do not agree with Michael Heiser, but do not really get why.
Help!
The issue could be because the dominant view that we have been taught of Monotheism is that if the other gods are real beings that they are rivals to Yahweh. But we know that Yahweh is the only Creator. Heiser's view is that they are real but in rebellion to Yahweh. He is the Most High Almighty God and He is species unique. Ontologically none of the others are or can ever be like Him. He is above all and there is none like Him. He is called God of God's for a reason in my opinion and these gods being real in no way diminishes His majesty as He is the only Uncreated Being that exist. Hope this helps.
My thoughts on the whole "Do christians stop sinning?" question is that it is a matter of intention and mindset. Are you saying you're a christian and desiring to pursue God and Christ and grow and change, but are stumbling and have things you struggle with and want to stop? Then I'd say you're a christian. However if you're somebody who deliberately sins, has no remorse, no desire to change, doesn't think about their motivations or behavior. Somebody who has no motivation to pursue God, then I'd say that person isn't a christian. Even if they claim to be.
Thank you Pastor Mike for the loving biblical teaching that you give us today, we need it more then ever in this darkness times where thruth is subjective..I lost my beloved son David 4 years ago, he was 25 years old, it was a sudden death..brain aneurysm, we went to church he listen the gospel but he never made a profession of faith on the Lord; this is hasn't been easy and it will go with me to the day I died...The Lord is good despite of what happen to us..thank you brother Mike.
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Thank you Pastor Mike, I always learn so much from you.
Thank you Mike.
I’ll catch up on this one. No doubt it will be insightful. I enjoy doing live Q&A myself, and always wanting to learn more from people like yourself! 👍🏼😊
Hi Mike, I have a follow-up question on being rebaptized. I was baptized at 16 as a Christian believer. After I got married we moved to salt lake City and I was converted together with my husband and baptized into the LDS church. A few years later, we Read some history, and long story short we left the lds church. I have renounced everything that has to do with the LDS Church. And have found a good Christian church once again and have been learning and growing as a believer.
My question is since I have been baptized once before, then rebaptized into the LDS church, do I need to be rebaptized again? I hope this makes sense. Thanks!
Thanks Mike ; learning such a lot, and filling in the gaps of what I know, challenging what goes on in our church,
17:15 I like to imagine god has the best jokes. Like just hearing one could have any of us laughing for weeks. Sometimes I like to imagine everyone in heaven doing whatever it is they do and all the sudden god just drops the like funniest joke that gets all of heaven into one big laughing fit.
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The devil continues to accuse us and remind us of our failings. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed
"I'm looking to understand what it says, not force it to say what I want." - Now THIS statement is something many people, particularly our brother Michael Jones of InspiringPhilosophy when it comes to the Book of Genesis, should take note of! ❤❤❤
I have a beef about using secular songs as worship, with that in mind, church has been doing this for centuries! How do I reconcile this? Music of the past I have no recollection of (the old bar songs of England for example) but current songs I do (for example the perverted hallelujah song). If the song is going to remind me of perversion, I cannot praise the Lord with this in mind. Does that make sense? Worship music is for pleasing God and not myself, not my flesh.
The mega church mentality of trying to reach the unchurched is the opposite approach to how the apostles preached the gospel. These goals are more about these false teachers who want thousands who follow them and send them money. They get rich, the gospel never gets preached.
So, I don't trust any worship leader attempting to redeem worldly music to please the crowd either, to me they are just tickling the ears to keep them there so that the money comes in.
Great insights here. Concerning the 2nd baptism, I was baptized again - once as an infant and once when I was born again in my early 40s. I believe we all need to be baptized again/born again.
Hey Mike, appreciate your sincerity but Catholics aren’t only ones to hold perpetual virginity view of Mary. Orthodox, Martin Luther, and Calvin did as well. Google. God bless.
On the science question, Psalms 19 and 24 put it perfectly. The whole of science testifies to the supremacy of the Creator. As a scientist my greatest goal is to go to heaven so I can have some of my life long questions answered by the master. imo you can't be a scientist and not be an awestruck Christian 🤷🏽♀️
This was a fantastic shirt, Pastor Mike. Nice color and the collar was ironed. That was MY sense of humor 😂. Thanks so much for your ministry, and love of orange tic tacs.
Please please please do a video on Isaiah 3:12 and how that correlates with the times today. With the neo Nazi 3rd wave feminism and children given discretion on having an abortion, getting the “day after” pill or receiving a government funded sex change all without parental consent. Women unable to forgive, driving agendas due to bitterness and hatred.
In regards to music why use that which is questionable when you can use soo many God honouring songs that are available?
Nicely done, Mike! I've read and followed Heiser's work for long enough to say that I think his view and yours overlap in several key areas: First, you both would affirm that behind the so-called "gods" of the ancient world and pantheons of antiquity, there stands actually real, intelligent, spiritual beings who are opposed to God. Second, you would both agree that these spiritually evil beings are of a completely different nature than God. Yahweh is uncreated, eternal, and has no rival in any sense whatsoever. These elohim or demons are created, fallen, and finite beings and (while still very powerful) can't even begin to compare to God.
Seems to me that the real difference you highlighted in your brief answer here is really about precisely who these beings are and where they fall along the "pecking order" of the spiritual world. If you haven't read Heiser's book The Unseen Realm or his follow-up Reversing Hermon, I'd recommend digesting them as you prepare to do a future video on this topic. You are always so well prepared for your videos and reading those will give you a much clearer picture of Heiser's position so that you'll be prepared to critique it directly if you still end up holding a different view.
Thanks so much for your work and ministry! As a fellow youth pastor, I really appreciate it!
I may be a couple years too late but I love that shirt!
I would love to hear a more in depth discussion of what Dr. Haiser calls the "Deuteronomy 32 Worldview". This is a reference to Deuteronomy 32:8-9, but the content from Dr. Haiser I have heard goes beyond that single excerpt.
I definitely look forward to Friday’s thanks to pastor Mike’s live streams!! So edifying and insightful
Subscribed today, great way to fellowship...enjoyed your teachings & advise as follower of the Redeemer, Creator, Lord of all - Christ of the Bible
I love when you said “I’m gonna start fires. These are ways people avoid personal responsibility”. My husband is a trainer and has heard many of these responses as well . We have seen what denial does to people 😣
Great video, as always. Jesus bless you brother!
It's been said here before but i appreciate the way the question showcased on the thumbnail is always addressed first.
Are you saying it’s wrong to eat a whole box of tic tacs cause oops 👀😂😂😂😂 j/k
Lol I was totally thinking the same thing!!!! 😂😂😂
@@betsiecrother1443 😂😂😂
As for God having a sense of humor, think about what God did to the Philistine villagers who harbored the stolen ark of the covenant. > . . . . He gave them all hemorrhoids. :-D
YESSSS!!! I love that story. And how they would wake up and find the idol in the ground or broken, bowing to the ark. I love God!!! Praise Him!❤️❤️
@Pond3r Thiz Think about it. God could have struck them all dead or He could have killed a select group of them; He could have struck them all blind or deaf or both. Any of those actions would have led to the Israelites getting the ark back. . . . . But instead God chose to inflict them all with hemorrhoids. Whatever village they stored the ark in would suddenly all come down with hemorrhoids. . . . Why do you think God chose that particular form of punishment? I think God was displaying his sense of justice as well as his sense of humor.
Always encouraging to hear people ask good questions and have a good discussion on them. Love you brother, appreciate the work you do.
Mike, You are a blessing for everyone that have the opportunity to learn from you. I greatly admire you for the great work you are doing spreading, defending, and teaching the true gospel of our LORD JESUS CHRIST. I am so proud of you and so confident to share your youtube videos with family and friends because you transmit your love for GOD and willingness to teach from the bible and about the bible!!!!!!. I really enjoy everything you do and thanks GOD for using your transparent, genuine, and humble personality to teach us HIS WORD. GOD blessed you and your family including your cats. Hortencia Aguirre, a 61 years old and former catholic
My old church actually did an entire 6-8 week study on the 'spirit of Jezebel.' It was weird. They were constantly casting out this 'spirit of Jezebel.' It never sat right with my husband and I. It is nice to hear someone explain this more clearly.
I love you bro God really sent this video for me, just looked through the questions and so many were pressing on my mind recently.
29:00 Just to clarify Michael Heiser's view: elohim is the word used for spiritual beings in the OT. They are not ontologically different from angels and demons, but rather angels and demons are elohim, as is God; however, the Lord is a species unique elohim because he is the creator of all others. So all spiritual beings are elohim, but God is King Elohim, which seems to lineup with Christian theology. God created angels, but all of them are spiritual, non-material beings.
Yes, God has a sense of humor, he created giraffes didn't he? :)
LOL! and pandas! And bunnies!!
One of the church fathers said something to effect "What does Athens have to do with Christianity".
For question number 12, I would really encourage you to consider if the health orders a just, and furthermore what is the importance of church at all. There is much more research I've done that I am throughly convinced that it's all evil but that would take much longer explain.
Is it just to mandate that people allow their family members to die alone? If a family member wanted to risk being exposed and even quarantine afterwards how could an "official" mandate that someone was to die alone. And on top of that mandate that the surviving family members not gather together to encourage and comfort one another. To me this is one of the greatest evils. I lost my cousins exactly 4 days before the "15 days to slow the spread" (notice how the goal post continues to move and it does not reflect the data if you look at the numbers yourself). He was 40 years old (non-smoker and relatively healthy) and was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. He was doing well and last year it suddenly grew more and he was in the hospital for 2 weeks before passing. By God's goodness we were able to be with him, and many of my family members ( including my 76 year old grandmother) visited and weren't wearing masks or social distancing. None of us got sick and even his later packed funeral, with no one getting sick. If he could not see his 3 kids before passing and those kids could not be around family for support after is just so evil, I don't understand why Christian are so easily convinced that people in power are doing what's in the best interests of the public. No one is being forced to attend church, and suspecting pastors are in the wrong, when they are looking to God, but thinking public health officials are in the right when they are being lead by their gods of "science" is a big mistake (especially once you investigate or test their claims, look us the Tampa Bay 'super spreader event' and you will see they are just false prophets).
Secondly, if church can take a break for a pandemic, then it can always take a break and is really not that important, or especially not as important as abortion clinics who never had to close.
I agree with you. It's also safer to meet now in the west than it has been for most of church history. From the time of Jesus untill about a hundred years ago, the risk of serious illness from attending church has been much higher than it is now.
I wonder if part of question 1 had to do with the horrible grief one feels about a loved one dying without any evidence of receiving Christ. I have felt this pain. I wasn't blaming God; I was simply tormented by the lingering thought of my loved one burning forever. I don't think that we should "play" God in claiming we know where everyone is. Is the last breath, the last chance someone has? I'm not sure.
Love your ministry Mike! I think God definitely used your comments about Jesus' brothers (regarding the viewer's question about the Disciple John being told by Jesus to look after His mother and the possible reasons why Jesus did not entrust his natural brothers to take on that role) to make me belly laugh!! I was only thinking earlier about what you said to someone else about God having a sense of humour as do we!!
1st question! Yes it's a tough thing but I've tried to say it this way. I've told it's not my call but from what I know he hadn't repented. If my Dad is Judged for his sin or if he's forgiven and with Jesus. Either way God is glorified.
As a brit, I heard "What does 'Play Doh' has to do with christianity" 🤦♂️😂
Now that is an interesting question.
Please have heiser on. He also says that the epistles of Peter and Jude are referring to Enoch and the territorial categories in ephesians.
I so enjoy your question & answer days - I love the heart you have for God & his word & its shines through you with every video I watch !! Thank you for doing what you do !! Kim- ohio
#4,,,SORRY MIKE ...god DOES HAS A SENS OF HUMOUR ,,,BUT THE PLANK IS NOT IT ...ITS jesus WAY OF SAYING THAT YOUR WOOD IS BIG , that you go look at your brother's twig?
Thank you very much Mike for your videos, I find more knowledge, wisdom, and Biblical information in your videos than I ever have in most of the churches or Bible studies I have attended, I enjoy your Q&A videos alot. Again, thanks.
Friday Q&A are better than TGIF tv series when I was a kid lol
Hi Mike
Love listening to your TH-cam videos
I have learnt so much biblical teaching and there are great questions.
I feel I learn more from these videos than I do from going to actual church.
I have mused that if people use the Bible to try to tell women they can not wear pants, then how come men don't have to wear gown-like garments that were worn by men during New Testament times? :)
Hi! I know this is an old video, but I have a follow up question to question 1. I already felt weird about the idea of praying for those who have passed, but I don't understand why we can't retroactively pray for them is God exists outside of time. (I'm getting that idea from C.S. Lewis' metaphor about reality being a book that God can open, close, flip around in, but we the characters are stuck in the timeline. I know Lewis is just a human and doesn't have the last word of truth, so I don't want to be taking everything He says as correct theology. Thanks!
@59:00 For anyone interested, I think Allie Beth Stuckey had a solid take on this on her podcast this week; I believe it's episode 381. She also had a great interview last week with Erin Coates, wife of the jailed pastor in Canada.
My main issue is them releasing men who abused CHILDREN, while keeping him in jail.
@@hopelovegood8131 I do too, even if this Pastor is wrong, his actions are not severely worse than some men that have been released having sexually assaulted children and women again and again.
@@Elvtow and what's worse is he is defying order from the government. But atleast he is not envading any person's body or.consent let alone children. These.people are choosing to go to church by their own discretion. And even though it's kind.of reckless, atleast it's by these people's choice. Unlike people who repeadetly not only sexual assults women, but children.
@@hopelovegood8131 A murderer was released over an innocent Jesus. So no big surprise there.
It's definitely angels, although angels are not the right word for it. Been listening to Hiser and Sky watch TV and it fits so perfectly and explains a lot of Bible stories
26:34 Arab christians would be pretty offended by you referring to Allah as seprate from a God of the Bible
The Allah of the Quran is an entirely different being than the God of the Bible.
@@ih82r8 than why do arab Christians call their God Allah?
@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ Because the word does mean God when translated into Arabic. What I'm saying is that the "Allah 'God'" of the Quran is not the same as the God of the Bible. They each have different attributes and different identities. They are not interchangeable.
@@ih82r8 the arabic word for god is ilāh, the god is al-ilāh, why don't they use these terms instead of Allāh?
Allāh is the name of the God of Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad [PBUTA]
@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ I can't speak for Ishmael or Mohammed, but I can promise you that the God of the Koran is not the same as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and it is part of the deception of Islam to pretend that they are the same. If there is in fact a better word to use, then Arab Christians would be better off using it.
Does God have a sense of humor? LOL…God destroys humanity in a flood, and Noah, the only righteous man and survivor, finds his tent and gets drunk. Now THATS funny😆😂! God bless🙏🏼!
Mike, please stop acting like the word WORLD means every single person that has lived or will live. It is Kosmos, not oikumene. It's simply a way to say humanity in general. The Pharisees said the whole world was going after Jesus. Do you think China, Australia, Russia and every human in every nation on Earth was going after Him in the first century? I love your teaching, but you take the word WORLD out of context.
Usually your quick jabs or jokes are super funny to me. They are usually super thoughtful and give new perspective to things that I hadn’t previously thought of in that way however, 1:08:00 logic is flawed. Or at least your quick explanation is. Not for JUST our sins as Christian’s, but also for the whole world which is why limited atonement is false. I’m not a Calvinist, but I don’t think “also for the whole world” is enough to stake “Limited atonement is false” on. It’s not sufficient enough to be sound logically. I know you have videos where you go more in depth but I’d like to offer constructive criticism that if you make any sweeping remarks you should at least summarize your opinion in a way that is logically sound. I know you care about being held accountable to God for your teachings which is why I wanted to point this out to you. I am truly truly 😅 a huge fan and would love to be a moderator for you at some point in the future when I’m not overwhelmed with med school homework! ❤
Regarding Mary being given to John; Jesus would HAVE to give his mother to someone in his own family, like a brother or sister. This was, and is, Jewish law. Christ went to his Father THE unblemished Lamb. He had to be recognized as unblemished to fulfill the Law. Also, it isn't just Roman Catholic church that believes in the significance of Mary. So does all form of Catholicism: Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Eastern Right, and the Coptic Churches. Also, in the Magnificat the Bible says all generations will call her blessed.
God commands His children to love Him and to teach their children about the One and Only God and His ways.
📖“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one [the only God]! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being]. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be [written] on your heart and mind. You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-7 AMP
Pastor Mike, I’m not sure I agree with your answer to the rebaptism question. 🤔. My instinct, to the person who was originally baptized Mormon, would be to ask them where their heart was at. I think we need to remember that God trumps the Mormon doctrine and folly. Does it matter which building it was? JMHO, God Bless.
An example God remembers sin, but God is also merciful when we have a repentant heart.
📖“The LORD said to the Israelites, “ Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines? Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed and crushed you, you cried out to Me, and I rescued you from their hands. Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you. Go, cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them rescue you in your time of distress.” The Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please rescue us this day.” So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.”
Judges 10:11-16 AMP
Mike i love your channel.The answer to evolution question however,is simple-''If evolution is true,its not.'' ... The (macro)evolutionary narrative is the intellectual fruit of an unbiblical Worldview & Epistemology.But Objective Truth ,logical coherence cannot be ontologically justified from such pre-suppositions.This is because Truth,like laws of logic & mathematics is an abstract (supernatural) object.Obviously any theory that cannot justify the existence of objective truth & reality has no intellectual warrant to be considered objectively true or real.Because only the bible can logically justify the existence of Objective Truth,atheism could only be true if the bible is!Hows that for a paradox! (this is basically a condensed pre-suppositional argument btw)
Question 3 totally misunderstands the history of science. Christianity didn't hinder scientific discovery, it actually started it in many ways. Like Mike said, Christianity puts in place the assumptions that allow science to function. That's why the industrial revolution, happened after Christianity became widespread. Most of the greatest scientists of history were actually Christians who were trying to uncover the wonders of creation, people like Newton, Pascal, and Pasteur.
Concerning the "Jezebel spirit", I studied apologetics at Liberty University and while I'm tempted to brandish my credentials that, of course, isn't the best way to sawy the opinion of the people I've thought to make the case against the alleged "Spirit of Jezebel"
Like you pointed out there is sparse evidence for such a spirit at best and none at worst. There is some slight irritation in that two of those people are my boss and my girlfriend. The irritation is in that they're both Christians with my girlfriend having well developed Bible memorization but her exegesis leaves something to be desired. She's pretty brught and studied pschology and works with children as a counselor. I myself am quite well read in the realm of psychology and while I personally feel that my insights amd intuitions are well founded when we borach the subject, she mentions her credentials sometimes as a wG pf saying her degree makes it so that she knows better than I do about particular thing. I find it better to concede to her, afrer some mild pushback, to avoid a silly argument or tension. When we talk about Bublical things, she disregards my education becasue she feels well read Biblically and knows, here and there, some Greek and Hebrew etymology.
I've tried to be as gentle as I can in addressing that issue. Im not sure what else to do. I beleive I've thought well about it and tried a few different approaches. What else can I do. Maybe I'm missing something. If you see this Mike, I'd appreciate any insight lol
Mike,
I always appreciate things you share brother.
I fully agree with everything you said about it not being Biblical to mandate traditions.
But I have to push back on what the example you used about proverbs. You used an example about raising a child in the way, but based on what evidence should we just dismiss something in the Bible because we didn't see it happen in our walk?
As a parent myself I would be more inclined to take accountability and say I didn't bring them up in "the way" or misunderstood what "the way" was as the Bible intended before I would dismiss the verse as just a higher probability scenario.
Remember that all scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Even the second verse of proverbs states that the proverbs are for wisdom AND instruction. Along with everything else between verses 2-7.
It's not just wisdom and wisdom literature. There is instruction in there as well, and we should trust in God for what result/fruit will come for following the instruction.
Love the 20 question videos you do. Please don't stop!
Really interesting to see what questions the body of Christ has. Been really blessed to listen and learn.
I posted my question too early, then at the correct time I post the incorrect verse reference. Haha. Will try again
Great advice about internet debate and knowing if they want a genuine dialog or they just want to dump attacks. I like you will sometimes still engage if they aren't genuine but only for the sake of the audience listening in as they may be undecided and seeking real answers.
I would like to ask why the bible uses "judge" and not "punish". Does that mean the world that haven't been saved, they stand in trial for their sins, are they all 100% condemned, or are they just being judged and determined? Good example 1 Corinthians 6:2 "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?"
What does that mean exactly, and why use the word "judge" and not "punish"? I believe being clothed with Jesus' righteousness guarantees salvation and those who are not clothes are in "danger of hellfire".
Pastor Mike, if the Law of Moses was only for the Jews before Christ, why are people still believing that they can keep Moses's precept, of divorce and remarriage, in Deuteronomy 24:1-4?
Your View on the gods are basically the same as Heiser's view. They show up for the worship and of course are created by God. You may call them Fallen Angels or Demons but the Bible calls them sons of God, Princes of the Nations or Watchers. Same thing...
Hey Mike, love your ministry. For real. Quick thought on the “spirit of Jezebel” or spirit of laziness. Spirit can be a demon or an action or attribute of our own spirit. Can have other applications as well.
God has not given us the “spirit of fear”. Which to me means there can be a spirit of fear. Deaf and dumb spirits. Unclean, evil and lying spirits. All Biblical. God even uses them for His own purposes at times.
So I think someone can have the spirit of rebellion or laziness but it simply means their own spirit has those tendencies from their free will choice.i also believe that demons can make a human manifest those tendencies as well but the demon won’t have a name just an assignment. I have seen demons respond (leave) to being called out for their specific manifestations. Jesus name has absolute power.
Saying someone has the spirit of Jezebel could mean that the persons actions align with the actions of Jezebel in the Bible. Those actions could be of the own sinful tendencies or from possession from a demon. Semantics I suppose.
God bless!
Jezebel is spiritual system that clings to authority to manipulate things.Mostly working against the prophetic purpose of God. It was also seen at work in the New Testament with Herodias as she instructed the daughter to call for the head of john the Baptist, who Jesus said to the people, if you can receive it Elijah has come already, who was in the personage of John the Baptist. Hence the spiritual system (Jezebel spirit) called for the head of john. Because she didn't get Elijah's when she threatened to cut it off after the show down on mount carmel... just my 2cents. Life is spiritual...
I really appreciate this format , brother Mike.
inre: the Plato question
No. Plato's teachings are the antithesis of Biblical teachings on all major questions. For example, Plato believed that mankind is essentially a slave by nature, and he also was a staunch teacher of the caste system, in which different laws apply to different classes of people. Moses, on the other hand, was unique in the ancient world; as a law code it was a legal framework for equality before the law, and taught that the man and woman are made in the image of God. Plato is also, in my view, the ultimate source of the persistence of the idea of the collectivization of property. In Moses, property is divided by lot amongst the thousands upon thousands of families, and it is illegal to move the boundaries, or for the family to permanently lose their inheritance. Even slavery in almost every case in the Law is a temporary condition.
Karl R. Popper wrote an excellent book on this topic called The Open Society and Its Enemies, Under the Spell of Plato.
I always thought the verse where Jesus says "Woman, he is your son" is proof that Mary ISN'T the mother of God as some Catholics believe. I felt that's why he said it. "Woman" He's not saying "Mother" He said "Woman". There's another verse that correlates to this, when they come to get Jesus and say "Jesus, your mother and bothers and sisters are here to visit you." And He responds "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers and sisters? Those who do the will of God are my brothers and sisters and mothers."
I had bell notifications on just so I could ask a question but I missed it ☹️
Q: What is legalism? What is being legalistic? Can you be legalistic by trying not to be legalistic?
Legalism is following law strictly to follow law, as if it is by works that saves you (which is not how you are saved)
A good example of being legalistic is one that Pastor Winger actually gave in this video, when he was referring to husbands and wives who don’t have sexual relationships other than to produce children. They are trying to follow whatever law they perceived from the Bible (or wherever they perceived this from)
When in fact God gave us that pleasure as a blessing for two people (man and woman) becoming one in the eyes of God (marriage-sex)
I can say by my own examples that yes, you can be legalistic by trying not to be legalistic. I stopped enjoying friendships, family, and romantic pursuits by trying to please God by following law, due to fear of punishment (part of my problem was I was a baby Christian still reading the Old Testament)
Once I read the gospel (the New Testament, more specifically John-Acts-Romans) God gave me more discernment on what was sin vs. righteousness and that Jesus Christ was given to us by God to shed blood for all those sins and unrighteousness that we will continue to do because we will fail God till the day we die in our physical bodies.
Every day we are to follow the Lord Christ, and if we pray for God to give us guidance we can look through ALL scripture , old and New Testament, for examples on how we should live our lives as Christ.
The biggest thing I tell people is, if you don’t understand why you’re doing it, don’t do it. Cause there are reasons we are to be following “law” and I say law in quotations because when Jesus died on the cross we became no longer bound to law. But we can still follow by example, examples God and the living version of God provided.
I am grateful for your responses, I think in regards to the critical thinking question your answer could have also referenced critical thinking within scripture. I think Christianity in the western practice does impede critical thinking about any thing that does not follow tradition or accepted dogma. This is where I think the person asking the question was trying to go. I don't think people fess up to how stifling the history of Christian practice hasbeen. Q and A such as this is a perfect example. Look back over the past 200 years and where can you see Q and A and critical thought being as present. In my mind CS Lewis and yourself are a rarity when it comes to critical thought regarding world phenomenon and scripture.
It struck me as you were expounding on people blaming God when someone died and they were grieving; I feel like God tells me, No one knows the relationship another has with God, we can't.If we feel we do then that borders on judging.
If Mary remained a virgin, and Joseph her husband, then he should be getting the prize, lol
I've heard it said that he was an older widower when he married Mary and that when he married her he was already old and almost ready to pass on.
@@republiccooper I don't know of anything authoritative to that affect, but that said I also don't see at first glance how that would matter to the conversation, kinda a "fun fact" if it were true to explain why he wasn't alive at the crucifixion, nothing more.
I think you are thinking of Mary and Joseph behaving like you would. They weren't normal garbage human beings like me and you.
@@matthewpretorius6897 Wdym?!! LMBO?! having sex in marriage and have desires for pleasure IN MARRIAGE is not 'being a disgusting human being". It's being NORMAL! The marriage bed is NOT defiled ma'am/sir. The person was simply saying that it must have been hard for.Joseph because men/women have sexual desires that need to be satisfied by their wives/ husbands. So if she never had sex, then he has alot of discipline, especially since they were married.
And LMBO. what do you mean they weren't garage human beings. THEY ARE SINNERS! They and we are By definition garbage and fallen short of the glory of God!
@@republiccooper Is there biblical support for that?
Jesus’ brothers were “not putting faith in him” at this time. It was not until after his resurrection that some became disciples and Christians. Thus, he entrusted his mother to a believer rather than his unbelieving brothers so that her spiritual as well as her physical needs could be looked after.
John 7:5 His brothers were, in fact, not exercising faith in him.
I want to believe Jesus has another final moment with the lost at death, but there is no scripture to support this. I get this thought from the interpretation of 1 Peter that after Jesus died on the cross, He went to hades to preach the gospel to everyone who died before Christ, a final chance to choose Christ, but this also is probably a huge misinterpretation.
How can we know the mind of God? Why would He choose some to be vessels of glory and others vessels of destruction? How is the best way to pray for the lost, because we are all in need of His great mercy to be saved.
Any church who doesn't properly exegesis the Bible is either ignorant and has no place in teaching or is attempting to control people. Either way they are dangerous and should be rebuked.
With regards to taking secular music and rewriting it into Christian music - Charles Wesley did that for many of his hymns - hymns that are now in many hymn books today.