Latest / The Word On Demand / Open Line with Dr. Michael Rydelnik - Hour 3: October 31, 2026 - Bible Study with Mike Vanlaningham
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- 0:09S1: Three hours. Are you kidding me? How could we possibly
- 0:13S1: have enough questions for three hours? Well, friends, here we are.
- 0:17S1: It's the third hour of open Line and the lines
- 0:19S1: are filling up. So, so glad you're joining me for
- 0:23S1: the third hour of Open Line right now with me,
- 0:25S1: Doctor Michael Ray. My guest today, Doctor Michael Van Laningham.
- 0:30S1: I'm the professor emeritus of Jewish Studies and Bible at
- 0:32S1: the Moody Bible Institute. And Michael is a retired professor
- 0:36S1: of Bible at the Moody Bible Institute. And we're having
- 0:39S1: the Bible study across America, having a great time talking
- 0:43S1: about your questions about the Bible, God, and the spiritual life.
- 0:47S1: Only two lines open. So whoever jumps in first with
- 0:50S1: your fast dialing finger, now's the time to call with
- 0:53S1: your question. Uh, (877) 548-3675. That's eight. (877) 548-3675. See if you
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- 1:06S1: can always post your question by going to Open line
- 1:08S1: radio.org and click on the link that says Ask Michael
- 1:12S1: a question. There are so many questions here. We better
- 1:16S1: start going. Okay, so let's go right back to the phones, Mike.
- 1:19S1: We're going to talk to Mark in Plainfield. I guess Plainfield, Illinois,
- 1:24S1: listening on WMBI. Welcome to Open Line, Mark. How can
- 1:27S1: we help you?
- 1:30S2: Hi, Michael. Can you guys hear me? I'm in my
- 1:32S2: truck now. I was at home, but then I had
- 1:33S2: to run out. Can you still hear me?
- 1:35S1: Yes, I sure can. But you drive safe. Okay.
- 1:38S2: I'm going to pull over right now.
- 1:40S3: Good. Thank you.
- 1:41S2: Um. Uh, I thank you for taking my call and
- 1:46S2: first time caller, but I've been a, a long time
- 1:48S2: supporter of Moody Bible. Um, so my question is, and
- 1:54S2: without naming names, I had a friend who I, That
- 1:58S2: I went to church forever. He moved to Texas. Now
- 2:02S2: he's a part of a church that believes in, I
- 2:04S2: think the pulse millennialism that, uh, that the devil is
- 2:08S2: bound and that the world is just that we're just getting.
- 2:12S2: It's just keep getting better and better. You know, I
- 2:16S2: just wanted to know your opinion on that. What or
- 2:19S2: what scripture I can look to that that maybe gives
- 2:24S2: a better explanation. I think I know some, but.
- 2:27S1: Mhm. Well, first of all, I, I post-millennial means that
- 2:31S1: the Lord Jesus will return when, uh, the church ushers
- 2:35S1: in this wonderful age of peace and righteousness. And at
- 2:39S1: the end of it, the Lord Jesus will return, and
- 2:43S1: that Satan is bound and that the church. So we're
- 2:46S1: now in the millennium, right? Right. To say that Satan
- 2:51S1: is bound today, you know, to say that Satan is
- 2:55S1: bound is, I think, uh, seriously mistaken. Uh, and I
- 3:02S1: think that that's, uh, that that's just not something. And,
- 3:08S1: you know, uh, when I was a student in college
- 3:11S1: 50 plus years ago, I remember a teacher saying, you know,
- 3:14S1: after World War One, no one believed in postmillennialism anymore.
- 3:17S1: And really in 1974, when I was in college, no
- 3:21S1: one did believe in Postmillennialism. But somehow, though the world
- 3:25S1: has not gotten any better, people still believe in Postmillennialism. And, uh,
- 3:32S1: the other thing maybe Mike wants to talk about is
- 3:34S1: the order of the, um, millennium in revelation 20, or
- 3:38S1: is there something else you were going to mention, Michael?
- 3:40S4: Well, one of the things I was going to mention is,
- 3:42S4: I mean, I agree with you, Michael, that if this
- 3:45S4: is the kingdom and if Satan is bound right now,
- 3:47S4: I want my money back because this is not this
- 3:51S4: is not a good thing. And, and, um, we have
- 3:54S4: to remember that that while Jesus has conquered all the
- 3:58S4: demonic powers and authorities and all everything, nevertheless, it doesn't
- 4:03S4: mean that they're bound. Um, it talks about how in
- 4:07S4: Ephesians chapter six, verse 12, our struggle is not against
- 4:10S4: flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers,
- 4:13S4: against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual
- 4:16S4: forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Um, stand firm, therefore, uh,
- 4:23S4: against Satan. And so let me just propose that if
- 4:26S4: in fact he's bound, why do we have a struggle?
- 4:29S4: Why are we struggling against him? So it's a future
- 4:33S4: thing yet. Um, in the book of revelation, it talks
- 4:37S4: about how there's going to be the kingdom and it's
- 4:39S4: going to be glorious for a thousand years. Satan is
- 4:43S4: bound during that time, but it's utopia. It's the Garden
- 4:46S4: of Eden on earth for the entire earth. And then
- 4:50S4: he's loosed again for one last rebellion that he that's
- 4:55S4: put down. And then we get into the eternal state
- 4:58S4: after that.
- 4:59S3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 5:00S1: So, uh, you know, when I look at revelation 19,
- 5:03S1: you see, first of all in heaven, the marriage supper
- 5:06S1: of the Lamb in revelation 19, where the bride, the church, uh,
- 5:11S1: and the Lord Jesus are united forever the marriage supper
- 5:15S1: of the Lamb. And then which has the church in
- 5:20S1: heaven during the tribulation, because the church has already been raptured.
- 5:24S1: And then it says that the Lord Jesus returns the
- 5:27S1: rider on the white horse horse. But the armies that
- 5:31S1: were in heaven followed him on white horses, wearing pure
- 5:34S1: and white linen, just like the bride in the marriage
- 5:38S1: supper of the Lamb. So the church returns with him.
- 5:41S1: They come to the defense of Israel at the last battle,
- 5:44S1: and the church is doing what it was always supposed
- 5:46S1: to be doing, which is standing with Israel, not attacking Israel.
- 5:51S1: And that is what's going to happen. And he's King
- 5:55S1: of kings and Lord of lords. He defeats all the armies.
- 5:57S1: Satan is bound. Revelation 20 and then it says, the
- 6:01S1: thousand year reign begins. So we've got the marriage supper
- 6:04S1: of the Lamb in heaven, the church returning with the
- 6:06S1: Lord Jesus at the Second Coming, and then the defeat
- 6:11S1: of all these armies at Armageddon. And Satan is bound.
- 6:16S1: And then the next step is the millennium, the 1000
- 6:19S1: year reign of Jesus on earth, followed by the new
- 6:21S1: creation and revelation 21 and 22. So just reading it
- 6:25S1: logically doesn't make any sense to to put us in
- 6:30S1: the millennium now before the Lord Jesus returns. It just
- 6:33S1: doesn't make any sense. So I hope that helps. Mark.
- 6:37S1: Does it?
- 6:39S2: Do they believe after Christ ascended that that's when all
- 6:41S2: this began.
- 6:43S1: That's when the kingdom began? Yeah. Because of the the
- 6:45S1: birth of the the growth of the church.
- 6:48S2: You just think of all the evil things that have happened,
- 6:51S2: you know, from then till now like that, like the Holocaust,
- 6:54S2: you know, I mean, gosh, how could it? How could
- 6:57S2: it be? It's just.
- 6:58S1: Yeah. Well, listen, World War One is supposed to have
- 7:00S1: put it, put it away, but it didn't. So, uh,
- 7:03S1: there's always people that want to believe, uh, things that
- 7:06S1: are mistaken. It's sad to me, but, uh, love your friend.
- 7:10S1: Encourage him. Uh, I to me, I couldn't go to
- 7:14S1: a postmillennial church, but, uh, if he's going there and growing,
- 7:18S1: you just want to encourage him and see if maybe
- 7:21S1: you can help him understand the scriptures. Thanks for your call, Mark.
- 7:23S1: Really appreciate it. We're going to talk to Dan in Scottsdale, Arizona,
- 7:28S1: listening online. Welcome to Open Line. Uh, how can we
- 7:32S1: help you today?
- 7:35S5: Yes. My question is, uh, the tree of life. Is
- 7:38S5: that considered to be like Jesus?
- 7:42S1: In my opinion, the tree of life is the tree
- 7:44S1: of life. It's not symbolic of Jesus. It is a
- 7:50S1: tree of life placed in the garden and, uh. And
- 7:55S1: then the danger was after they, uh, Adam and Eve fell,
- 7:59S1: they would in that condition, eat from the tree of
- 8:03S1: life and live forever in their fallen state before being redeemed.
- 8:08S1: So the tree of life only becomes active once again
- 8:11S1: in the new creation after we have been glorified in
- 8:14S1: our bodies. So tree of life is a tree of life.
- 8:17S1: What do you think, Mike?
- 8:18S4: I agree. Um, we, we have evidence in revelation 22
- 8:23S4: that the tree of life is there and the sun
- 8:25S4: is there. And so it's not quite that Jesus is
- 8:28S4: the tree of life. You have both. And so I
- 8:31S4: think it's a literal tree that's symbolic of eternal life.
- 8:35S3: Mhm. Yep.
- 8:36S1: Tree of life is the tree of life. Sometimes if
- 8:38S1: the plain sense actually all the time, if the plain
- 8:41S1: sense makes sense, seek no other.
- 8:43S3: Sense.
- 8:44S1: Lest it result in nonsense. That's the. That's a good
- 8:48S1: rule of interpretive, of interpretation. Rule of thumb. Okay. Thanks
- 8:52S1: for your call, Dan. We're going to talk to another
- 8:54S1: Dan in Deerfield Beach, Florida, listening on WRMB. You know,
- 8:58S1: I'm coming to Florida in January. Uh, we're going to
- 9:03S1: do an open line live down in Boca Raton that's
- 9:07S1: not far from Deerfield Beach, is it?
- 9:10S6: No, not at all. Uh, pretty close.
- 9:13S1: And I don't know if that's opened yet for registration. Well,
- 9:16S1: while you're asking your question, I'll check on that. Go
- 9:19S1: ahead with your question.
- 9:22S6: Well, um.
- 9:27S1: Go ahead with your question.
- 9:28S6: Our our political, um, elections are being held in a
- 9:32S6: few days. And, uh. I know Jesus says to love
- 9:41S6: your enemies. Does that include political Enemies as well, because
- 9:47S6: I'm having. A problem with. Enemies of our country that
- 9:57S6: are infiltrating our government. Um.
- 10:01S1: Like you know what? Let's just stop here. I see
- 10:04S1: your question is written here. Uh, and, uh, this is
- 10:12S1: what you're asking. Can we love Muslims? Now, I, I
- 10:16S1: recognize that political Islam is distinct from, from just a religion.
- 10:25S1: It's a political ideology. And, uh, with that said, uh, I,
- 10:35S1: I don't think that the Lord Jesus is making distinctions here.
- 10:39S1: We're to love our enemies and to love them means
- 10:42S1: to want what is best for them. What is best
- 10:46S1: for anyone, whether you like the religion of Islam or not,
- 10:50S1: is to want what's best for Muslims. Whether you, uh,
- 10:54S1: don't appreciate political Islam or not is to want what
- 10:57S1: is best for them. And what is best for them
- 10:59S1: is to come to know the Lord Jesus. And so
- 11:02S1: you need to be praying for your enemies to come
- 11:05S1: to know the Lord Jesus. You need to be praying
- 11:08S1: for them to experience God's goodness and his forgiveness. By
- 11:11S1: knowing the Lord Jesus, you need to pray. Praying for
- 11:14S1: people to bring them the gospel. Uh. That's how you
- 11:17S1: can love your enemies and not, uh, and not think
- 11:24S1: of people as just our enemies. Think of them as
- 11:27S1: people whom God loves. Don't you think?
- 11:29S4: Mike V write in Romans chapter 12, starting at verse 20. Um,
- 11:34S4: this is citing the Old Testament now. But if your
- 11:36S4: enemy is hungry, feed him. And if he is thirsty,
- 11:39S4: give him a drink. For in so doing you will
- 11:40S4: heap burning coals on his head. Nobody knows what that means,
- 11:43S4: by the way. And then it goes on to say,
- 11:45S4: do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- 11:48S4: And my suggestion would be, Dan, that if you knew,
- 11:52S4: if you know Muslim people who are around you with
- 11:55S4: whom you're personally acquainted, then you should absolutely be practicing
- 11:59S4: that as they have needs. If you can serve them
- 12:01S4: and help them, then you should. It would be the
- 12:03S4: right thing to do. And it's also my opinion, the
- 12:06S4: right thing to do, to ask God to frustrate the
- 12:09S4: efforts of Muslim terrorists and any terrorist, and that God
- 12:14S4: would keep them from such horrendous activity. And so it's
- 12:18S4: perfectly legit to do both things, I believe.
- 12:22S1: You know, I just want to say my wife, Eva,
- 12:24S1: we had a neighbor when we lived in Chicago. She
- 12:27S1: was a very, very serious Muslim. She wore the not
- 12:30S1: just a hijab. She wore her. You could only see
- 12:34S1: her eyes, you know, she was completely covered. And she
- 12:37S1: had a new baby. And the day that she walked
- 12:39S1: out the first time with the new baby, Eva went up.
- 12:42S1: We were walking our dogs and let me see your
- 12:45S1: new baby and talked with her. And then always made
- 12:47S1: an effort all the time to be as loving and
- 12:50S1: kind to this woman. Uh, every time she saw her. And,
- 12:55S1: you know, they started bringing. This is so wild. She
- 12:58S1: would bring food to our house. Uh, there were some
- 13:01S1: times when we weren't able to cook because of some
- 13:04S1: medical things, and she just would bring food to house spontaneously. Uh,
- 13:09S1: just we had such a sweet because of eva relationship
- 13:13S1: with this neighbor. And, and, and the main thing that
- 13:18S1: Eva was operating under is a key rule of evangelism,
- 13:22S1: which is love people till they ask you why. And
- 13:26S1: it was very unusual for a Jewish family where we
- 13:29S1: were clearly Jewish. I don't think we we were, as
- 13:32S1: evidently followers of Jesus, although she did find out that
- 13:35S1: we were followers of Jesus, but we were clearly Jewish
- 13:39S1: and yet we loved her and she wanted to know why.
- 13:43S1: And that's the key. Love people until they ask you why.
- 13:47S1: And that's that's even people that have a religion that
- 13:50S1: we disagree with. So anyway, thanks for your call. I
- 13:53S1: really appreciate it. Uh, we're going to take a break here.
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- 14:38S1: I'm Michael Ray. Mike Vanlandingham is here with me. Uh,
- 14:41S1: I'm getting used to having you here. I don't know
- 14:43S1: if I can do this program without you, Mike V, that's.
- 14:46S3: Uh.
- 14:46S4: I like I said, I don't think you need no help.
- 14:50S1: I think I do, but anyway, it's great having you here.
- 14:53S1: I really appreciate it. Uh, you know, we, we have
- 14:56S1: been associated as team members at Moody Bible Institute for
- 15:00S1: a long time. You know, I would go through the
- 15:03S1: halls and people would say, because they have the moody
- 15:06S1: commentary which we worked on together, they'd say, love the
- 15:10S1: two Michaels. They would people that worked at, uh, at
- 15:14S1: the school, others, not the faculty. They didn't care much
- 15:17S1: about us. But the no, that's not true. But just
- 15:21S1: people who worked in radio or just in, in the,
- 15:25S1: the different administrative floors, uh, they would always talk about
- 15:28S1: associating us together. They saw us as real team, you know,
- 15:32S1: and I just appreciated that so much because we, we
- 15:36S1: are a team. I mean, that was six and a
- 15:37S1: half years of our life.
- 15:38S3: Six and a half years.
- 15:39S1: Yeah. That was amazing. And, uh, I love all the
- 15:43S1: teammates I work with on Moody Radio. Uh, what a
- 15:46S1: real team it is. And, uh, Omar, uh, he we
- 15:51S1: put up with him, but otherwise, everyone. No, no, we
- 15:52S1: love Omar, and we love Karen. Uh, here. And Tricia,
- 15:57S1: who tells us what to do and all those things
- 15:59S1: really important. And I especially appreciate the kitchen table partners
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- 16:23S1: sure if it's still true, but for many years, when
- 16:25S1: people became a kitchen table partner, they sent them the
- 16:28S1: commentary on Romans from the moody Bible commentary written by
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- 16:33S4: Or the Daniel commentary written by.
- 16:35S3: None other than.
- 16:36S4: Michael Ray.
- 16:37S3: Dolnick.
- 16:37S1: They would send yours, not mine. I don't know why
- 16:40S1: that was, because.
- 16:40S3: It was my radio program.
- 16:42S4: They put Daniel out, too. Michael. They did?
- 16:44S3: Yeah.
- 16:45S1: Yeah. So anyway, uh, if you're interested in becoming part
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- 17:01S1: to me. Every time I hear about a new kitchen
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- 17:07S1: part of the open line family, appreciate it. Uh, we
- 17:10S1: are going to talk to Diane in Concord, New Hampshire,
- 17:14S1: listening on W. I think that's W and H. My
- 17:19S1: eyes are not so good anymore, but that's what it is,
- 17:22S1: I think. Welcome to Open Line, Diane. Welcome from New
- 17:25S1: England to the Midwest here. How can we help you?
- 17:30S7: Yeah. Thanks for taking my call.
- 17:31S1: Hey, what's it like in Concord, New Hampshire, these days.
- 17:34S1: Is it cold yet?
- 17:36S7: Somehow I knew you would ask that question. It is cold.
- 17:39S7: We've had like, very still. The sun is warm by
- 17:43S7: like 2 or 3 or 4:00 in the afternoon. But
- 17:46S7: we've had some frost pretty much every morning for the
- 17:49S7: past couple of weeks. All the leaves are off the
- 17:51S7: trees except for the oaks, but yeah.
- 17:55S1: Well, you know, I used to live in New York
- 17:57S1: and I thought, I'll never live in New England because
- 17:59S1: it's too cold. So what did I do? Now I
- 18:01S1: live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and it's so stinking cold.
- 18:05S1: And it snows like from November through February every day.
- 18:08S1: I don't know what I'm doing here, but you know,
- 18:10S1: my grandkids are here. What can I say? So there
- 18:13S1: you go. Yeah.
- 18:13S7: I wouldn't trade you though.
- 18:16S1: No.
- 18:16S3: Um.
- 18:18S7: My question is from Genesis. And the verse 316, when
- 18:27S7: God did the consequences of their choices to the woman
- 18:33S7: and the man, and that second part of 16 where
- 18:40S7: it says, your desire shall be for your husband, and
- 18:42S7: he will rule over you. And I know this is controversial,
- 18:46S7: and I'm just looking for some clarity, because I've come
- 18:51S7: across people who won't commit to anything on that verse.
- 18:53S7: But when I go to the concordance and look up desire. Um,
- 18:59S7: and then it goes to the Hebrew, it's corresponds it
- 19:03S7: to um, chapter four. And it also corresponds it to
- 19:07S7: the word used in Song of Songs. But the other
- 19:12S7: words listed under desire are, are something different. So, um,
- 19:17S7: looking for perspective.
- 19:18S1: Okay, so the word is used. The word tissue is
- 19:21S1: used three times in the Hebrew Bible. Uh, perhaps in
- 19:26S1: Song of Solomon. It refers to romantic desire, but clearly
- 19:30S1: in Genesis It does not in Genesis, because we have
- 19:35S1: almost a virtually identical phrase in the very next chapter,
- 19:39S1: in chapter four. And I think that's designed to give
- 19:43S1: us a clue as to what it means in Genesis 316.
- 19:47S1: And so I'm going to just go to Genesis four
- 19:50S1: and read you what it says. Uh, this is when
- 19:54S1: Cain is thinking about killing his brother Abel, right? And
- 19:57S1: the Lord, the Lord says to him, uh, if you
- 20:03S1: do not do what is right here, ready? Sin is this.
- 20:06S1: Verse seven. Sin is crouching at the door. Its desire
- 20:10S1: is for you. There's the word desire. Its desire is what?
- 20:13S1: To to control you. Its desire is to control you.
- 20:17S1: That's the idea of desire. That's what sin wants to do. Cain.
- 20:22S1: Sin's desire is for you. It's to control you. But
- 20:26S1: you must rule over it. You must dominate that desire
- 20:29S1: to sin. Uh, and so then you go back to
- 20:34S1: Genesis 316, and now God has already made the man
- 20:40S1: the leadership of, of the family in Genesis two. What
- 20:44S1: do we know about man's leadership of the earth? He's
- 20:48S1: the one given to name all the animals. That's his.
- 20:53S1: That's a mark of dominion. And then when Eve is
- 20:57S1: is made, the first thing he does is he names her.
- 21:01S1: And so, uh, that shows that he's already the leader in,
- 21:06S1: in God's design of the family he's to lead. Not
- 21:10S1: that she's inferior, but there's a, a relationship of leadership,
- 21:15S1: a complementarian relationship. Uh, and then in Genesis three, when
- 21:24S1: they sin, uh, your desire to control. That's the idea
- 21:29S1: will be for your husband, but he will dominate you.
- 21:34S1: And that's the idea of rule. I think this is
- 21:36S1: the battle of the sexes, because God created man to
- 21:38S1: be a servant leader, and God created the woman to
- 21:41S1: defer to his leadership. And then what happens in the
- 21:45S1: in the fallen marriage state is that the wife will
- 21:50S1: desire to rule, to control, and the husband will desire
- 21:53S1: to dominate. And they're not going to reflect in the
- 21:56S1: fallen state what God intended marriage to be from the start,
- 22:00S1: which was the husband to be servant leader, the wife
- 22:03S1: to be the deferential spouse. And what happens is, uh,
- 22:09S1: control and domination happening. It's the battle of the sexes.
- 22:13S1: And that's why in Ephesians five, and I'm going to
- 22:16S1: let Michael talk about this, uh, Ephesians five in, in
- 22:20S1: the Messiah coming to faith in Jesus. What does that
- 22:23S1: do for marriage? It leads to the husband being a
- 22:26S1: servant leader. Go ahead Mike.
- 22:28S4: Well, I, I think a lot of women look at
- 22:31S4: the idea of being submissive, and they really bristle at that.
- 22:35S4: And frankly, if I were married to their husbands, if
- 22:37S4: I were a woman married to their husbands, I might
- 22:39S4: bristle too, because some husbands are way, way too inclined
- 22:43S4: to want to oppress their wives. But, um, the harder role,
- 22:47S4: in my opinion, according to Ephesians in Ephesians chapter five,
- 22:50S4: starting at verse 22, is the husbands role. It says,
- 22:53S4: husbands love your wives, just as Christ also loved the
- 22:55S4: church and gave himself up for her. It sounds like
- 22:58S4: that that the husbands role is to be a sacrificial,
- 23:02S4: loving mate and not just somebody who browbeats his wife
- 23:07S4: so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by
- 23:10S4: the washing of water with the word go, and goes
- 23:12S4: on from there. The wives be submissive to your husbands.
- 23:15S4: Seems to me it's easier for a wife to be
- 23:17S4: submissive to a godly, loving husband. But even if she's
- 23:23S4: not married to a man like that, it's still her
- 23:25S4: responsibility to do her very best to be submissive to him,
- 23:29S4: no matter what his spiritual condition might be.
- 23:32S1: But the point in Ephesians five. Don't you think, is
- 23:35S1: it's overcoming that fallen state of the battle of the sexes,
- 23:38S1: the rulership, the control, the, the, the domination. And instead
- 23:43S1: the wife is deferring to her husband and the husband
- 23:46S1: is the servant leader. And that's what God intended marriage
- 23:50S1: to be from the outset.
- 23:51S4: We absolutely now have the resources in Christ to reverse that.
- 23:56S4: And we should, with the power of the Holy Spirit
- 23:58S4: and with the help of Jesus in our heart, we
- 24:01S4: can come closer to what God's ideal is for marriage.
- 24:04S4: As we see with Adam and Eve before the fall.
- 24:07S3: Yep.
- 24:07S1: That's it. Anyway, thanks for your call, I appreciate it. Uh,
- 24:12S1: we only have a minute, but I think we can
- 24:14S1: answer this one quickly. Lisa, if you ask your question
- 24:18S1: right away, uh, we can answer it.
- 24:23S3: Hi.
- 24:24S8: Um, thank you for taking my call. My question is,
- 24:28S8: I'm going to set it up in, um.
- 24:30S1: You don't set it up. Just ask your question. Just
- 24:33S1: go ahead.
- 24:33S8: Oh, I was just wondering, um, we're after Jesus was born, um,
- 24:39S8: through his childhood up until he started his ministry, where
- 24:42S8: did it get lost that he was the Messiah?
- 24:45S1: It was never lost. It was never lost. I don't
- 24:48S1: think Mary for a second, uh, doubted what had happened
- 24:52S1: to her. She didn't doubt the shepherds coming. She didn't doubt, uh,
- 24:56S1: the the Magi coming. She knew that story. So did Joseph. Uh,
- 25:01S1: I'm sure that others knew it as well. Elizabeth knew it. Uh,
- 25:06S1: there's no doubt. But the actual public ministry only began
- 25:11S1: with the baptism of the Lord Jesus at the with
- 25:15S1: the ministry of John the Baptist. Don't you think, Michael?
- 25:17S1: That's when it went public.
- 25:18S4: Yes. That's it. I mean, we do have the episode
- 25:20S4: in Luke chapter two of Jesus when he was 12,
- 25:23S4: went up to Jerusalem with his parents, and he gives
- 25:26S4: evidence that he's aware of his messianic relationship with God
- 25:29S4: the Father. Um, did you not know that I had
- 25:32S4: to be in my father's house? That's not Jacob's house.
- 25:35S4: Joseph's house. That's God's house.
- 25:39S1: Well, that it's not forgotten. It was there. We'll be
- 25:42S1: right back with the mailbag in just a moment. So
- 25:44S1: stay with us. This is open line with the two Michaels.
- 26:04S1: Welcome back to Open Line. I'm here today with Mike
- 26:07S1: Van Laningham. Hi, my name is Michael Ray Dolnick, and
- 26:09S1: I'm so glad that Eva Rader is joining me right
- 26:13S1: now with the FEBC mailbag. So grateful that Far Eastern
- 26:18S1: Broadcasting Company partners with us to bring you the mailbag
- 26:21S1: every week for three hours. Really, really appreciate that. And, uh,
- 26:26S1: they do a marvelous job reaching people with media and
- 26:29S1: with personal engagement. If you want to check out and
- 26:31S1: learn more about them, their website is febc.org. And also
- 26:37S1: they have a great podcast called Until All Have Heard
- 26:40S1: with our friend Ed Cannon, who's the president of Febc.
- 26:44S1: Don't miss out on that. Check that out as well.
- 26:47S1: And I'm so glad that Eva's here. You know, Mike,
- 26:50S1: people never want to meet me. They always want to
- 26:52S1: meet Eva.
- 26:54S4: I can see why. Michael, I can't stand you. But
- 26:56S4: I love your wife.
- 26:57S3: She's great. Listen, I feel the same way.
- 26:59S1: About suing you. You know, we love Sue.
- 27:02S3: Okay?
- 27:03S1: So people want to meet Eva. I'm going to tell
- 27:05S1: you now how you can meet Eva. If you are
- 27:07S1: really interested in meeting Eva. She's going to be at
- 27:09S1: the summit next week, Saturday at, uh, Moody Bible Institute.
- 27:14S1: We're doing the really important summit opposing the new Christian anti-Semitism.
- 27:19S1: It's reviving again. There's an old Christian anti-Semitism. The new
- 27:23S1: Christian anti-Semitism looks awfully similar. And we are going to
- 27:27S1: address it. It's very important. If you want to find
- 27:29S1: out all the details, just go to our website, Open
- 27:32S1: Line radio.org. Click on the link about the summit. And remember,
- 27:35S1: if you do register and I hope you will, if
- 27:37S1: you are within the sound of my voice, you can
- 27:40S1: be there. And when you register, put in the code
- 27:43S1: radio 20, you get 20% off for a very, very
- 27:46S1: minimal registration fee anyway. And so hopefully we'll see you
- 27:51S1: next week. Mike V is going to be there, but
- 27:52S1: you get to meet Eva in person. Also, uh, someone
- 27:56S1: called earlier from Florida, from South Florida listening on W,
- 28:00S1: R and B and what they, uh, were asking, I
- 28:04S1: mentioned that I was going to be there and yes, indeed, uh,
- 28:08S1: you can come and register. It's the registration is open. Uh,
- 28:13S1: we're going to be in Boca Raton and it's going
- 28:16S1: to be a great conference. And so check it out.
- 28:19S1: There's a link on our website, Open Line Radio. The
- 28:24S1: link says Open line radio.org. The link says Open Line
- 28:27S1: Live Tour. Click on that and you'll see the information
- 28:30S1: about Boca Raton. We're going to be at Crossbridge Church
- 28:33S1: on January 23rd. I believe the date is. Yeah, that's it.
- 28:37S1: So don't miss out. And we're going to actually be
- 28:40S1: doing a conference with Chosen People Ministries. Uh, Friday night,
- 28:43S1: I'll be telling my Rich Freeman speaking on Friday night,
- 28:47S1: but Rich Freeman, uh, though he's speaking, I'm going to
- 28:50S1: speak about something that people always are nudging me to
- 28:53S1: talk about, uh, which is how I came to know
- 28:56S1: the Lord Jesus. I'm going to tell that Friday night,
- 28:58S1: and then Saturday we'll have an open line live that's
- 29:01S1: going to be a great conference and evil will be there.
- 29:04S1: So everyone that wants to meet Eva, that's when you
- 29:07S1: get to meet you. That's another one. Uh, is there
- 29:09S1: any other thing coming up where people will meet either? Yes,
- 29:12S1: the cruise will be going to Alaska, and that'll be
- 29:15S1: the fun part. I get to teach. Carl Claussen gets
- 29:17S1: to teach Micah Tyler's leading worship, but who's going to
- 29:20S1: be talking to everyone and being kind to everyone and
- 29:22S1: looking out for everyone? Oh, that will be Eva. So,
- 29:25S1: you know.
- 29:25S9: Milling around, saying hi to folks. That's what I do.
- 29:28S1: That's right. So anyway, uh, let's go to the mailbag.
- 29:30S9: Okay. Justin from Illinois, who listens on WMI, says he
- 29:34S9: attends an addiction group at his church.
- 29:36S1: Oh, we already did this one. First hour.
- 29:38S9: 000, that's right, that's right. The first hour is so
- 29:42S9: long ago. Yeah, I forgot that we did it. Never mind.
- 29:46S9: Let's let's hear about Gary's question. Gabby, who listens in
- 29:50S9: South Carolina, she says as a rather new Jewish follower
- 29:55S9: of Jesus the Messiah, I struggle with the concept of
- 29:58S9: Jesus being God. Yeshua never refers to Himself as God.
- 30:02S9: He always refers to the father as separate. However, the
- 30:06S9: only way to the father is through believing in Yeshua.
- 30:10S9: John actually suggested Yeshua is actually God. However, he makes
- 30:13S9: that claim when Yeshua never said that himself. Can you
- 30:17S9: help me figure this out?
- 30:18S1: Yeah. Listen, I just want to say, a lot of
- 30:21S1: times Jewish believers have a hard time figuring out the
- 30:26S1: triunity of God. And I'm going to tell you why
- 30:29S1: that is. And Mike will corroborate this. It's because Gentiles
- 30:33S1: have a hard time also figuring out what the triunity
- 30:38S1: of God. How it works. And I had a hard
- 30:42S1: time figuring that out. Someone once called up the program, said,
- 30:46S1: can you give a simple explanation of the Trinity? No,
- 30:50S1: I can't. Uh, but I can tell you the Bible
- 30:53S1: teaches it. And I also want to add here that
- 30:57S1: the Lord Jesus affirmed it, not just those around him,
- 31:00S1: but he himself affirmed it. I'm going to show you
- 31:03S1: one place, maybe two. Uh, and then Mike V, I
- 31:07S1: don't know if you want to jump in on this.
- 31:08S3: Sure.
- 31:09S1: But, uh, in Matthew 26. Uh. This is when the
- 31:16S1: Lord Jesus is on trial and before the high priest.
- 31:20S1: And in Matthew 26, I think it's around verse.
- 31:23S9: 64.
- 31:24S1: I think. Yeah.
- 31:24S9: Mhm.
- 31:25S1: Uh, this is what it says in verse 63. Jesus
- 31:32S1: is silent. The high priest said to him, by the
- 31:34S1: living God, I place you under oath. So now he
- 31:38S1: has to answer. Tell us if you're the Messiah, the
- 31:42S1: Son of God. The term Son of God means deity.
- 31:45S1: Back in Psalm two. Okay. And what the Lord Jesus
- 31:50S1: says is, you've said it. Now some people say you
- 31:52S1: said it, not me, but he's saying, you said it.
- 31:54S1: I've said it when I've when I use that term,
- 31:57S1: you've said it. It means, yeah, I agree with you.
- 32:00S1: But then he says, I tell you in the future
- 32:04S1: you will see the Son of Man seated at the
- 32:06S1: right hand of the power and coming in the clouds
- 32:10S1: of heaven. That's a quotation from Daniel 713. If you
- 32:14S1: go back to Daniel 713, a lot of people think
- 32:17S1: Son of Man refers to the full humanity of Jesus.
- 32:20S1: I do not think that if you go back to
- 32:22S1: Daniel 713, there's the the father image in the vision
- 32:28S1: that Daniel sees, and that's the Ancient of Days. And
- 32:32S1: there are thrones, a throne for the for the Ancient
- 32:35S1: of Days and a throne for one other. And who
- 32:37S1: is that? That's the Son of Man. And the way
- 32:42S1: Daniel puts it, one like a son of man deity
- 32:46S1: figure that looks like the son, like a like a
- 32:51S1: human being. He looks like a human being, but he's deity.
- 32:54S1: And he says that the Son of Man will be
- 32:59S1: seated at the right hand of power on that other throne,
- 33:01S1: fully God. And he will come on the clouds of heaven.
- 33:05S1: And so when the Lord Jesus says this, it is
- 33:07S1: so clear that he is affirming his full deity that.
- 33:11S1: What does the High priest do? He tears his robes
- 33:13S1: and said he's blasphemed. How is he blasphemed? By calling
- 33:16S1: himself God. So in this verse right here, the Lord
- 33:19S1: Jesus is claiming deity. What did you want to add
- 33:22S1: to that, Michael?
- 33:23S4: Just I, I think every time the the phrase son
- 33:27S4: of Man is used in the Gospels in particular, it
- 33:31S4: really is a reference to Jesus's deity, as you've just said,
- 33:35S4: that tie back to Daniel.
- 33:38S3: Every.
- 33:38S1: Time he says the Son of Man came to seek
- 33:40S1: and to save or whatever it is.
- 33:42S3: Right?
- 33:42S1: He's not just saying I'm fully human. He's saying I'm
- 33:45S1: the Son of Man described in Daniel seven.
- 33:47S4: Yeah, exactly.
- 33:48S1: Yeah. And Eva, you wanted to mention a couple of
- 33:51S1: verses from John.
- 33:52S9: Well, yeah. And John in John chapter eight, uh, sort
- 33:56S9: of toward the end of that passage, it's the same
- 33:58S9: what you can sort of understand. You can see what
- 34:00S9: people heard him saying by their reaction to what he said.
- 34:04S9: And in John chapter eight, in verse 58 and 59,
- 34:09S9: He uh, issue was had has said that your father
- 34:13S9: Abraham rejoiced to see my day. And Abraham saw it
- 34:17S9: and was glad. And the people, the Jewish people who
- 34:20S9: heard him said, you're not 50 years old. How could
- 34:23S9: you have seen Abraham? And Jesus said to them, truly
- 34:26S9: I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am. Therefore
- 34:32S9: they picked up stones to stone him.
- 34:35S1: So they understood what he was saying.
- 34:38S9: They understood what he was saying. And the same thing
- 34:40S9: happened a couple, couple chapters later, John writes for us
- 34:43S9: that that Jesus said before. Before that the father and.
- 34:48S1: The father.
- 34:48S9: Are.
- 34:48S1: One.
- 34:49S9: The father and I are one. And they said, ha!
- 34:54S9: They said, for a good work we do not stone you,
- 34:58S9: because they wanted to stone him when he said it,
- 35:00S9: but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make
- 35:04S9: yourself out to be God. So he did claim to
- 35:08S9: be God. He did identify as God.
- 35:10S1: Yeah. So that's a really important thing. It's much to
- 35:12S1: be said about the deity of the Messiah throughout the Gospels,
- 35:17S1: but the the old fallacy that Jesus never claimed it.
- 35:20S1: Not true. He did. He himself claimed it. And Michael
- 35:24S1: wants to add one more thing.
- 35:25S4: Well, and one one thing too. I mean, Jesus purposefully
- 35:28S4: did not advertise that he was the Messiah God incarnate,
- 35:33S4: because there would have been probably a revolt centered upon
- 35:37S4: him in. In which case they would have tried to
- 35:39S4: make Jesus overthrow the Romans, and that would have been wrong.
- 35:42S4: That's not why Jesus came on the first coming. And
- 35:45S4: so he kept things pretty quiet and didn't tell people
- 35:49S4: for that reason, I think.
- 35:50S1: And by the way, I always like to say that
- 35:52S1: the incarnate son was God incognito. I like that.
- 35:56S3: Right.
- 35:57S1: Yeah. Okay, let's ask one more question.
- 35:59S9: Okay. Let's let's let's do one more question. Um, Raphael
- 36:03S9: in Florida, who listens on KES says When Jesus says,
- 36:08S9: either you are with me or you are against me.
- 36:11S9: Why does Jesus not leave space for neutral ground about
- 36:15S9: believing in him? Why? Either or?
- 36:18S1: I don't think it's possible to be neutral about Jesus,
- 36:21S1: even if people think they are. You know, they've got
- 36:23S1: good feelings, they're Jesus positive and all that. But here's
- 36:25S1: the thing. It made me think of this old phrase
- 36:27S1: you can't be a little pregnant. You're either for him
- 36:31S1: or or not. You're either pregnant or you're not. And, uh,
- 36:35S1: anyone that decides that, no, I'm not for him. Uh,
- 36:40S1: believe in him. I don't believe in him. Then doesn't
- 36:43S1: matter if you feel good feelings about him or.
- 36:46S9: Kind of Jesus positive.
- 36:47S1: Yeah, I if you if you drown in the ocean
- 36:51S1: or you drown in your bathtub, doesn't matter. You're still drowned.
- 36:55S1: And if you don't believe in Jesus fully, don't put
- 36:57S1: your trust in him that he died for you and
- 36:59S1: rose again. It doesn't matter if you're neutral, positive, whatever, uh,
- 37:03S1: or just out outand out hostile. You're still not not
- 37:07S1: with him. And. And that's what that means.
- 37:09S3: Mike.
- 37:10S4: Yeah. And, uh, revelation chapter three, the reading in the
- 37:14S4: message to the church in Laodicea, Jesus says, because you
- 37:18S4: are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will spit
- 37:21S4: you out of my mouth. Literally. The Greek could be translated,
- 37:24S4: I will vomit you out of my mouth. That sounds pretty, pretty,
- 37:28S4: pretty final and lukewarm. Does Jesus want hot people? Yes.
- 37:34S4: Does he want cold people? Well, people say, well, you
- 37:36S4: can't be cold for Jesus. Well, except hot is a
- 37:40S4: hot drink is really refreshing in the winter, and a
- 37:43S4: cold drink is really refreshing in the summer. But lukewarm
- 37:46S4: is not good at any time.
- 37:48S3: And anytime.
- 37:48S4: Jesus.
- 37:49S3: Wants.
- 37:49S4: People to be hot and or cold for him, because
- 37:53S4: that's how they're going to be really committed to him.
- 37:56S3: That's it.
- 37:57S1: Well, thanks for those questions, Eva. We're going to break here. Uh,
- 38:01S1: when we come back, we'll take a few more questions.
- 38:04S1: The calls are still up there. We're going to do
- 38:06S1: as many as we can. Uh, I'm so grateful that
- 38:08S1: Eva came in with the mailbag. Mike V is here
- 38:11S1: helping me answer the questions. Grateful for all of you listening,
- 38:14S1: especially those of you who are calling. Really, really appreciate
- 38:16S1: that we're going to hopefully meet you live sometime soon, uh,
- 38:22S1: maybe even next week at the summit. Be right back.
- 38:25S1: This is Michael Ray, Dominic and Mike Vanlandingham on Open Line.
- 38:37S1: Welcome back to Open Line. I'm Michael. Mike Vanlandingham is
- 38:41S1: here with me today. Thank you so much for joining me. Michael.
- 38:44S1: And I, you know, I sometimes forget at the end
- 38:47S1: of the program, but I just can't even begin to
- 38:49S1: say how much I appreciate the whole team being here.
- 38:52S1: Shane answering the phones and Omar making sure that everything
- 38:55S1: sounds good, and Karen talking to the callers and making
- 38:58S1: sure everything is is right when we go on the
- 39:01S1: air and I just. And even Tara, who's been helping
- 39:05S1: out today. Uh, and I appreciate her input as well.
- 39:09S1: What a great team God has given me to work
- 39:11S1: with here. So appreciate all of you. Uh, and I
- 39:16S1: did want to say that chosen People ministry is part
- 39:18S1: of the team. They have been with us from day one,
- 39:21S1: and I appreciate their partnership with Open Line. And they
- 39:24S1: are offering you a free messianic Jewish calendar. It is
- 39:29S1: has all the Jewish holidays, has all the times that
- 39:31S1: you're looking for. But it especially has some really interesting
- 39:34S1: I found Shalom faith stories. It's got a little, little
- 39:38S1: blurb of, of a faith story of an individual each month.
- 39:41S1: And it's got a QR code. You can click on
- 39:43S1: it and see that person's video right there on your
- 39:48S1: phone or your computer, however you want to do it, uh,
- 39:51S1: that you can boom just like that. Get that by
- 39:56S1: clicking on the QR code and the QR code will
- 39:59S1: take you to that person's faith story. What I think
- 40:02S1: is kind of cool is this calendar, this time has
- 40:04S1: even my faith story on it, and I'm glad that
- 40:07S1: it's there. I'm grateful to talk about Jesus and how
- 40:09S1: he has changed my life. So if you want to
- 40:13S1: get that, just go to our website, Open Line radio.org.
- 40:16S1: Scroll down till you click on the link that says
- 40:21S1: A Free Gift from Chosen People Ministries that will get you.
- 40:23S1: Today's the last day. You can sign up for the
- 40:27S1: Messianic Jewish calendar with the I found Shalom faith stories
- 40:30S1: on it. That's going to be great. I hope you'll
- 40:32S1: do it. Uh, remember. Also check out our upcoming cruise
- 40:37S1: in Alaska. Uh, I think that's, uh, kind of exciting, uh,
- 40:44S1: that we're going to go to a cruise in Alaska.
- 40:46S1: Iva will be there, so you get to meet Iva. Uh,
- 40:48S1: and so check that out. That's on the website. The
- 40:50S1: link is there as well. And that leads me to say,
- 40:54S1: I want to talk with Tony in Ketchikan, Alaska, listening
- 40:59S1: on KTM. Uh, because you're in Alaska. I don't know
- 41:02S1: if I'm going to be in Ketchikan, I hope so.
- 41:04S1: I have to look at the itinerary of that cruise.
- 41:06S1: But welcome to Open Line. Tony, how can we help you?
- 41:10S10: I hope you are going to be, uh, thank you,
- 41:12S10: doctors to Michael's. And, uh, I am a coffee table partner.
- 41:19S10: Thank you. And I want to say thank you for
- 41:22S10: having one hour and through your program. I so very
- 41:24S10: much appreciated, but I need, uh, if you please, I
- 41:28S10: need the help. If you can coach me into one
- 41:31S10: challenge I have with the family members, they, uh, according
- 41:36S10: to the Bible, it says our body is a temple
- 41:39S10: of the God of God. And the family members have
- 41:43S10: tattoos and some are okay, and some are very kind,
- 41:46S10: evil figures. And, uh, I'm trying to talk into, but
- 41:53S10: I would like, if you please give me some input, some, uh, Guidance,
- 41:58S10: how to talk to these family members about tattoos that
- 42:03S10: they have on their bodies.
- 42:04S1: Well, what are their tattoos signify? What do they say?
- 42:09S10: Um, I cannot really interpret it, but they have this
- 42:13S10: feverish of evil stuff, like.
- 42:15S1: Evil stuff that's never good. Even wearing a chain with
- 42:19S1: a pendant, that's evil. So. But here, let me just
- 42:22S1: talk about tattoos. Uh, Leviticus 1928 says you're not to
- 42:26S1: make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put
- 42:29S1: tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord. Now, I
- 42:33S1: don't think that what they have now, most people that
- 42:36S1: have tattoos, they have a rose someplace or, uh, a
- 42:39S1: name or sometimes a Hebrew word or something like that.
- 42:42S1: They're not doing that because they're involved in pagan worship.
- 42:46S1: And that's what this is forbidding, uh, engaging in Canaanite
- 42:51S1: worship with tattoos. And so no, I don't think that
- 42:57S1: applies to the tattoos that people are getting. I'm glad
- 43:01S1: I don't have a tattoo. I wish that no one
- 43:03S1: I knew had tattoos, but I don't think that they're
- 43:06S1: disobeying this. There was a guy that called me up
- 43:08S1: once at home. He got my number somehow and he said,
- 43:10S1: I heard you answering Bible questions. And he said, uh,
- 43:14S1: my daughter has a tattoo. Um, and I'm thinking about
- 43:19S1: kicking her out of the house. She's like 19 years old.
- 43:21S1: She's a college student living at home. I said, what
- 43:25S1: is her tattoo say? And he said, Jesus. And she
- 43:28S1: had it on her foot. So whenever she, uh, looked
- 43:31S1: down at her foot, she would see the name Jesus
- 43:34S1: and remind her to look up. And I thought, man,
- 43:37S1: this guy's got a 19 year old daughter that loves
- 43:39S1: Jesus and he wants to throw her out. That would
- 43:42S1: be a big mistake. So I asked him, what did
- 43:44S1: he eat for breakfast that previous Saturday? I guessed and
- 43:49S1: I was right, he said I had bacon and eggs.
- 43:52S1: And I said, you know, Leviticus 11, just a few
- 43:55S1: chapters away, would forbid you to eat bacon. But you
- 43:59S1: did anyway. And and he said, well, that's different. I said, why?
- 44:04S1: Because he said, we're not under the law. I said, well,
- 44:06S1: tattoos are there under the law. And, uh, and he said, oh.
- 44:12S1: And I said, don't call me at my house again, but,
- 44:16S1: you know, go embrace your daughter and tell her you
- 44:17S1: love her. That's what I told him to do. And so, uh,
- 44:21S1: I actually went to guest speak at a church the
- 44:23S1: following Saturday and Sunday, and he was a visitor there,
- 44:27S1: which was kind of surprised me. He said, oh, you're
- 44:28S1: the guy I talked to. So but anyway, the point
- 44:31S1: is we need to be as gracious as we can
- 44:34S1: be there, not disobeying, especially if they're, uh, you know,
- 44:39S1: a lot of things are pretty benign and, and love
- 44:42S1: people and care about them and not actually argue with
- 44:47S1: them about their tattoos. That's what I would say. That's my,
- 44:50S1: my best answer that I can give you. Okay.
- 44:55S10: You said if there were some English figures.
- 44:57S1: Then what you want to do is see their heart
- 44:59S1: turn to the Lord, and then you deal with that.
- 45:01S1: First you want to see them turn their heart to
- 45:04S1: the Lord. Okay.
- 45:06S10: Very much appreciate it.
- 45:07S1: Before you deal with the skin, deal with the heart.
- 45:10S1: That's that's what you want to deal with. So anyway, uh,
- 45:15S1: someone asked, and I don't think I have time to
- 45:17S1: get you on the air, but they want to know
- 45:18S1: what's the single best statement to begin a conversation about
- 45:22S1: Jesus with the Jewish person. And, Mike, I think you're
- 45:26S1: going to believe I don't think a single statement does
- 45:28S1: it do what it does have a life. In Romans 1111,
- 45:33S1: it says, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make
- 45:35S1: Jewish people jealous. We need to talk about our lives,
- 45:38S1: what our relationship with the Lord is. Uh, God answered
- 45:42S1: my prayers. God gave me encouragement. The word of God.
- 45:45S1: This verse from the Bible really spoke to me. Don't
- 45:48S1: you think that's the best way? Is.
- 45:51S4: Yeah, that's that's how people are going to be attracted.
- 45:54S4: That's how they're going to start asking questions. And I
- 45:57S4: think that is the way to go.
- 45:58S3: Yeah.
- 45:59S1: So establish a relationship. Talk about your own walk with
- 46:02S1: the Lord. And, uh, and then they're going to say, mm,
- 46:06S1: I want what you have and then they'll ask you
- 46:08S1: about it. So that's where I'd go. Can you believe it?
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