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Hemel Hempstead Paintball Site's Listing
Paintball St Albans8
12 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
St Albans is the closest Paintball site to Hemel Hempstead
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Our excellent St Albans venue is the largest and busiest paintball site in the South East of England and certainly the most popular serving London. With an incredible selection of highly-developed and sophisticated game zones along with some of the country's best marshals, the paintballing on offer is second to none.
Situated in the county of Hertfordshire, the site is located exactly where the M1 meets the M25. Our top notch Bricket Wood venue is only 20 minutes from Central London and can be reached easily by train (change at Watford and catch the St Albans train, jump of at Bricketwood and you are about 8 minutes' walk away). Because of this site's fantastic transport links it attracts players from all over the South East but is particularly popular with players from London, Watford, St Albans, Luton, Milton Keynes, Slough, Stevenage, Reading and Welwyn Garden City.
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Paintball Hertford
Hertford is the closest Paintball site to Hemel Hempstead
35 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
One of the UK Scenario Paintball scene's most influential paintball sites, is situated in Hatfield near London. A mere 5 miles from the M25 Junction 24, WWP is easily accessible from London, and the otuskirts, Cheshunt, St. Albans, Harlow, Welwyn Garden City, and Watford. We specialise in providing corporate entertainment and team building days, as well as stag/hen parties and birthdays. We have 65 acres of woodland with 14 fields of play including Hamburger Hill, Fort Ranger, The Village, Snake Field, Tournament Training Field and Bridge Attack. Even if there are only one or two of you, we can fit you in with others for a full day's adventure.
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Paintball Broxbourne
36 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
At last, an extremely fun and safe version of Laser paintball for 8 to 15 year olds. That's right, our centre covering paintballing in Hertfordshire and London now has the most exciting addition to it's combat armoury. Low impact paintball is an experience that uses low velocity paintball guns, firing extremely fragile paintballs. It's a new event that's set to become a phenomenon for birthday parties and kids parties. We are the only centre for paintballing London and Hertfordshire to offer this form of low impact paintball. Kids paintballing has never been more safe and exciting.
Paintball Woking
43 minute drive from Hemel HempsteadA 46 acre site with a mixture of woodland and urban game zones. There are 4 main gaming areas, including the Fortress and Killing House.
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Paintball High Wycombe
48 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
A smashing 16 acre war zone, with 10 unbelievable game zones. You and your mates will tackle a series of paint-blasting, rollercoaster mission scenarios, including attacking the fort, capturing the flag and the heart-racing shooting alley of the Tyres.
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Paintball Bishops Stortford
50 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
This paintball battleground is set in 60 acres of dense forest and caters for as many as 100 players at a time. Compete with friends and enemies alike in harrowing game zones like Jungle Zone, The Trench and The Pen. There are plenty of bunkers, barricades and hay bales to take cover between.
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Paintball Cambridge
56 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
This epic woodland venue features plenty of obstacles, bunkers, barricades and paint. Lots of paint. Compete in any of our thrilling action-packed games, like Trench, Jungle, Headquarters and Toxic. With our excellent facilities, helpful staff and exciting game zones there's something for any wannabe soldier here.
Paintball Northampton
56 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
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The enemys advancing toward your headquarters, water on both sides and no time to retreat. Your only option is to fight your way out of our 7 themed game zones. Dominate the fuel dump, rescue the POW, and storm the fort to capture the enemys flag amongst many more!, so why not Join the conflict at Northamptons premiere paintball venue where our friendly well trained staff will ensure you have an action packed day to remember in our unique location.
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Paintball Bedford
59 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
With over 25 acres of perfectly adapted paintball terrain, highly sophisticated game scenarios and fully trained marshals our epic Bedford site is second to none. Combine this with a fantastic location between Bedford and Northampton this a must visit paintball field and we can't wait to greet you on the front lines for some truly adrenaline pumping action!
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Paintball Dorking, Surrey
61 minute drive from Hemel Hempstead
For an all out action paintballing extravaganza you need look no further than our awesome Dorking venue which will provide this and much more besides! We have some fantastic Game Zones and unbelievably exhilarating paintballing scenario's that will completely blow you away with their high octane action....definitely one not to be missed!
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India has long been a dominant outsourcing destination and that hasn't changed, based on recent research from the Everest Group, which tracks the relative maturity of different global services destinations. Latin America and Africa saw increases in outsourcing activity in 2010's second quarter, while activity in Eastern Europe slowed.
Click through for further insights based on Everest's heatmaps, which look at the number of captive delivery centers and third-party delivery centers established across the globe. The heatmaps are published in Everest's quarterly Market Vista reports, which include additional data about outsourcing activity.
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The server executes a Service directive to generate the response to send to the client. The server looks at each Service directive to find the first one that matches the type, method, and query string. If a Service directive does not specify type, method, or query string, then the unspecified attribute matches anything.
If there is more than one Service directive, the server applies the first one that matches the conditions of the request and ignores all remaining Service directives.
For the PathCheck and ObjectType directives, if another object has been matched to the request as a result of the NameTrans step, the server considers the Service directives in the matching object before considering the ones in the default object. If the server successfully executes a Service directive in the matching object, it will not execute the Service directives in the default object, because it only executes one Service directive.
Consider an example where the server receives a request for the URL D:/server_name/jos.html. In this case, all directives executed by the server are in the default object.
The following NameTrans directive translates the requested URL to D:/oracle/webserver7/https-server/docs/jos.html:
NameTrans fn="document-root" root="D:/oracle/webserver7/https-server/docs"
Assume that the PathCheck directives succeed.
The following ObjectType directive tells the server to look up the resource's MIME type in the MIME types table:
ObjectType fn="type-by-extension"
The server finds the following entry in the MIME types table, which sets the type attribute to text/html:
type=text/html exts=htm,html
The server invokes the following Service directive. The value of the type parameter matches anything that does not begin with magnus-internal/.
Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST)" type="*~magnus-internal/*" fn="send-file""
For a list of all wildcard patterns, see Appendix B, Using Wildcard Patterns.
Here is an example that involves using another object:
The following NameTrans directive assigns the name personnel to the request.
NameTrans fn=assign-name name=personnel from=/personnel
As a result of the name assignment, the server switches to processing the directives in the object named personnel. This object is defined as:
<Object name="personnel"> Service fn="index-simple" </Object>
The personnel object has no PathCheck or ObjectType directives, so the server processes the PathCheck and ObjectType directives in the default object. Assume that all PathCheck and ObjectType directives succeed.
When processing Service directives, the server starts by considering the Service directive in the personnel object, which is:
Service fn="index-simple"
The server executes this Service directive, which calls the index-simple function.
As a Service directive has now been executed, the server does not process any other Service directives. However, if the matching object did not have a Service directive that was executed, the server would continue looking at Service directives in the default object.
There is usually a Service directive that does the default task (sends a file) if no other Service directive matches a request sent by a browser. This default directive should come last in the list of Service directives in the default object to ensure that it only gets called if no other Service directives have succeeded. The default Service directive is usually:
Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST)" type="*~magnus-internal/*" fn="send-file"
This directive matches requests whose method is GET, HEAD, or POST, which covers nearly all requests sent by browsers. The value of the type argument uses special pattern-matching characters.
The characters *~ mean anything that does not match the following characters, so the expression *~magnus-internal/ means anything that does not match magnus-internal/. An asterisk by itself matches anything, so the whole expression *~magnus-internal/* matches anything that does not begin with magnus-internal/.
So if the server has not already executed a Service directive when it reaches this directive, it executes the directive as long as the request method is GET, HEAD, or POST, and the value of the type attribute does not begin with magnus-internal/. The invoked function is send-file, which simply sends the contents of the requested file to the client.


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Norwegian researchers in Trondheim have achieved surprising results by exploiting nature's own ability to clean up after oil spills.
Scientists know that marine bacteria can assist in cleaning up after oil spills. What is surprising is that given the right kind of encouragement, they can be even more effective.
"We know that oil spills happen -- and that they will happen again," says Roman Netzer, a researcher and biologist at SINTEF. "We also know that this can have a major negative impact on the natural environment. This is why we've been studying a series of chemical and biological analytical techniques to assess the levels of seriousness of oil spills. We also wanted to find out whether so-called bioremediation represents an effective approach to cleaning up after such accidents," he explains.
Bioremediation is nature's way of cleaning up. Plants, bacterial decomposers or enzymes are used to remove contaminants and restore the balance of nature in the wake of pollution incidents.
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When we clean up after an oil spill of a given size, such as along our shorelines, we start by applying mechanical methods using spades and brooms, combined with chemicals. However, we shouldn't deceive ourselves, even when the worst of the spill has been cleared away. The surface usually conceals oil buried deeper in the sediment.
"It is here that biological, or bioremediation, methods, come into their own," says Netzer. "This approach can make cleaning up operations even more thorough, and cost-effective. We wanted to find out what works -- and how. And not least to gather data that can be used to support decision-making processes in situations where nature needs that little extra help" he explains.
So the researchers set up a number of experiments in the marine laboratory. Their aim was to look into how the microscopic residents of the oceans, such as bacteria and other microbes, can assist us in cleaning up pollutants, and whether they are capable of restoring the natural balance afterwards. And not least, to determine the limiting factors involved in this process. It was only after they had failed to achieve any significant response from their initial experiments, causing them to change the experimental parameters, that their sensational results emerged.
Imitating nature along the shoreline
Here at Brattørkaia in Trondheim, researchers have assembled a comprehensive "oil library" which they use in this type of research. The properties of the oils have been accurately measured and recorded, and this enabled the researchers to select the perfect oil for their experiment.
"The oil we chose is produced in large volumes on the Norwegian shelf, and is thus ideal for simulating a realistic scenario involving the accumulation of oil on a Norwegian shoreline," explains Netzer. "We then tried to simulate what happens in nature when oil becomes stranded," he says.
Sixteen tanks were filled with sediments, together with naturally-occurring bacterial flora, oil and seawater. The researchers also simulated the action of the tides by replacing the seawater and thus ensuring that there was an adequate supply of oxygen and nutrients. What then happened in the tanks was carefully recorded. But after a month of observations, only minor amounts of contaminants had been removed.
Biological analyses the most sensitive
Chemical and biological analyses carried out afterwards produced approximately the same results.
"However, we noted that the biological approaches, which analyse the concentrations of bacteria, their DNA, and oxygen consumption, were very sensitive and provided us with a great deal of information. Chemical approaches have to be very advanced in order to achieve the same detection thresholds" says Netzer.
"Even the results of the bacterial experiments were obviously disappointing," he explains. "But the biological results indicated that we were on the right track, and this gave us the idea to give nature a helping hand. We already knew that the bacteria would reproduce -- and thus be more effective in their work -- if they were provided with additional nutrients. In nature, bacteria flourish best in the presence of high concentrations of phosphates and nitrogen," says Netzer.
The problem is that the natural concentrations of these substances are insufficient," he says. So the researchers decided to give them a little supplement.
They also increased the water temperature, reduced the oxygen concentration and extended the duration of the experiment. The tidal regime was also adjusted, so that now there was a 12-hour interval (instead of the previous 3) between the introduction of new water to the tanks.
And this produced results! After one month, the researchers got their clear and unambiguous answers.
Analyses revealed that the extra nutrients had enabled the bacteria to work more effectively in breaking down the oil. At the same time, the increase in temperature, reduced oxygen concentration and adjustment of the tidal cycle produced no significant effect.
"We think that the data obtained from these experiments will be of considerable importance to the oil companies -- not least because they are now expanding their activities into environmentally-sensitive areas in and around the Barents Sea," says Netzer. He now envisages the introduction of a new weapon in the battle to clean up after oil spills.
"We believe that in time we will be able to make capsules which can attach themselves to rocks along the shoreline. These will provide the bacteria with ideal growing conditions by releasing nutrients as and when needed," says Netzer.
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The Morning After
Posted by antithesis Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 8:23 AM
Resuming working out after a day of rest is like starting over for me. It is especially so because I picked up some 3 lb weights from Target yesterday to use instead of whatever my sister-in-law had down there. I believe each of her weights were 1.5 lbs. I still count this as day 6 of 30 and it is complete *sips lemon water*.
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Dear Children, this is the end of our journey in space. During this journey, you witnessed the wonderful creation of the universe and saw that, with its precisely-tuned equilibrium, Earth is a planet specially created for us in the universe. Now let's briefly go over what has been discussed throughout the book. Our Earth is located in still, cold, lifeless space. If we compare space to a vast, desolate dry desert, then it would be no exaggeration to compare our planet to a castle in this desert. This castle protects us from desert storms and extreme heat, and provides us with everything we need. Just like this castle in the desert, Earth is our castle in space. Like a spacecraft travelling through space, it protects us against the dangers of space. Here, there is plenty of everything: water, air and everything we need. A castle could not come into existence in the desert spontaneously. This also holds true for our planet. It is obvious that Earth is a sign of a superior creation.
Moreover, millions of delicate balances, other than the ones you have learned about in this book, exist in the universe. What we have seen here alone definitely proves that neither the universe nor Earth could have come into existence by a series of gradual coincidences.
All these, again, illustrate an obvious fact. Allah, the Possessor of Infinite Power and Omnipotence, has created the universe, stars, planets, mountains and seas in perfection, and given life to people and all living things. This perfect creation of Allah is described in the Qur'an thus:
Are you stronger in structure or is heaven? He (Allah) built it. He raised its vault high and made it level. He darkened its night and brought forth its morning light. After that He smoothed out the earth and brought forth from it its water and its pastureland and made the mountains firm, for you and for your livestock to enjoy. (Surat an-Nazi'at: 27-33)
Dear Children! Always keep in mind that Allah created you and everything you possess. Everything is a blessing from Allah. You should always be aware of this truth, think about the blessings you have and be thankful to Allah for them.
They said "Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us.
You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise."(Qur'an, 2: 32)


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It is said that karate without kime is not karate. Kime is seen as the explosive power at the end of the technique. Those who do not know how kime transfers power call it snap. So how does kime transfer power?
The transmission of power is through the limbs (arms and legs). In general, use of our limbs are classified as two major techniques. The first is tsuki waza (thrusting technique) and the second being uchi waza (striking technique). Tsuki waza is force transmitted in a straight line. Uchi waza is force transmitted in an arc.
Again, kime is the timing of power generated by the body and the hitting limb simultaneously brought together on impact and penetration.
Also integral to kime is breathing (kokyu). At the point of impact, one exhales, which brings about the locking up process of the body.
Kime is the intensive concentration of power.
Pat Nakata


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It's really great to have you all with us tonight. You know, Sunday, a great big tall good-looking young guy came up to me after the Sunday night service, he said, "I want to come up and just tell you that I'm sorry I won't be there Wednesday night." Well, most of the people in our church don't feel the need to tell me when they can't come on Wednesday night...to be honest with you. But I really appreciated that. He just said, "You know, I just want you to know that it's important to me and I'm sorry I won't be there." He went on to say that he's a volleyball player at UCLA and they have a game tonight. And that was his reason for not coming. And I said, "On that basis, you are excused." I don't want to get in trouble with the volleyball coach at UCLA. But I really appreciate it when somebody has that kind of commitment to the fellowship and it's not always the case. And I'm very grateful that you're here tonight.
I'm blessed as I was in my study today, all day long in the Word of God. I spent about, oh, I don't know, eight or nine hours uninterrupted, except for about a ten-minute break. And just coming out of there, I just again thank the Lord for the privilege that I have to give myself constantly to the study of the Word of God. How enriching it is to me. I hope a little of that comes across to you in the ministry, but I know there's no way that all the things that I enjoy in the blessedness of that you can enjoy, at least to the degree that I do. And I'm very grateful. I don't know why God's been so good to me to give me that privilege and then to have you people give to the church to pay me to do that. But I hope in a little way we can give back to you some of the investment you've made in the time that I have to study the Word of God. But what a great privilege it is. I never cease to be thrilled. I never find myself growing uncomfortable doing it or saying, "Boy, do I have to go over this again?" Every new experience is a marvelous thrill.
In fact, I spent all day today with Peter. Which is definitely an up and down kind of thing. I was going through the part for Sunday morning on his denial of the Lord. Three times, you remember, he denied the Lord. And just a soul searching time because I see myself in Peter and the times when I fail to stand up for the Lord and what a terrible, terrible thing it is. You look at it from an objective viewpoint, looking at Peter, and you say, how could that crummy guy ever do that? You sort of turn around and say, but you've done it, too. So it's been a wonderful experience. And I just thought I'd take a minute to say thank you to you for giving me the privilege to study and pastor and share the things I learn, if not all of them, I hope a helpful portion of them.
Well, we'll do that tonight. It's question and answer time.
I hope my answers match your questions. So, what we want you to do is just come up to a microphone near and we'll take the questions and do all we can to give you an answer.
Yes. We'll start in the middle right here. I think Danny was the first one up there.
QUESTIONER: Thanks, John. I was just want to say thanks to you for the question and answer nights. And I always look forward to them...as you well know. This is a question I've been saving since you were preaching in Matthew 17.
JOHN: Oh brother.
Q: So, it has to do with to what extent do you believe that cases of epilepsy and lunacy today are due to demon-possession and would it be possible to cure these illnesses by casting out these demons through such as exorcism?
J: Yeah. I have to say this, I think personally from just understanding the New Testament record and knowing that demonic forces are powerful, strong and the fact is we do wrestle against not flesh and blood but principalities and powers according to Ephesians 6. I think a lot more mental illness and a lot more aberrant and abnormal behavior can be attributed to demonic work than we ever imagined. I think a lot of it is functional disorder. A lot of it such as epilepsy can definitely be due to a physical problem rather than a spiritual problem. But I think...what can be diagnosed as epilepsy can usually be diagnosed as such by virtue of some physical things. Today we have sophisticated enough diagnosis..diagnostic techniques to do that. But I think there is behavior that might appear to be epileptic that definitely could be demonic.
And the answer to the question "do I feel that a lot of it could be eliminated by casting out demons?" I don't believe necessarily today that the Lord calls us to cast out demons. I believe anyone who comes to Christ will be freed from that. And any Christian who is obedient to Christ will be freed from that.
It's not a question of having to go around and cast those out.
That was a very unique ministry of Christ and the Apostles in a sovereign way. Christ just spoke to demons and they left and the Apostles as well. I think today we have no such ministry existing in the church but the promise, "resist the devil and he'll flee from you." And we come to Christ, "Greater is He that is in us than He that is in the world." So, yes, I do believe that much of mental illness is a result of demonic and Satanic activity. But it's hard to just isolate it because it's a result of sin, it's a result of willful choices made by human beings and it certainly involves Satan.
And if we knew the truth, we would know that standard psychological answers don't solve that problem. I think we basically in our contemporary psychological approach to these problems have come to the fact that, you know, for the most part, psychology doesn't help. And so, if you have severe problems, what will happen...and I can tell you, I've been in mental institutions all around this area calling on people and visiting people and so forth...inevitably what happens when a person goes in there is they don't have any cure, they just give them medication to calm the symptoms. They can't deal with the problems.
I just got an article the other day across my desk which I've started to read which basically talks about psychology and its inadequacy. There's another new book called Psychological Seduction written by the man who is a chairman of the psychology department at Boston College, I think it is. Who is a very respected academetician who says psychology as such, the whole business is bunk because it's shown now that they can't get to the problems just through psychological means. As a solution it doesn't really work. So I think the reason it doesn't work in many cases, sometimes it does, people just need guidance, but the reason it doesn't work is because the forces there are greater than can be dealt with just human information or human technique.
And I think it is supernatural. But I think the answer is to come to Christ and then to live an obedient life. I don't want to over simplify but I think that's it.
Q: Can I ask one more quickie?
J: One more.
Q: I've been following the Bible science panel and they spoke of the age of the earth in different years. By analyzing the, you know, So-and-so begot So-and-so and all that, how does the Bible say that the earth is?
J: Well, one of the things we have passed down to us was what was known as Ussher's dates. There's a man named Ussher, U-s-s- h-e-r, and he did some calculations based upon the genealogies of Genesis and many of those genealogies early in Genesis have time, you know they tell us how old people were and so forth. He figured that all out and estimated therefore that everything sort of began in 4,000 B.C. and it's 6,000 years old.
The problem with that is that genealogies are not necessarily comprehensive genealogies. In other words, it may say So-and-so was the son of So-and-so, and skip three generations. In other words, he is a son...he's really a great grandson, so we can't...we can't isolate the chronological history of the world down to the specifics of the genealogies because there are definitely points at which the genealogies skip. But even with genealogical consideration, we wouldn't be anywhere near beyond 10,000 years because, as I say, Ussher's date came down to 4,000 just using the genealogies. And if you expand them a little bit, it isn't going to be much beyond that.
Q: Okay, thanks a lot, John.
QUESTIONER: Can I ask you a real quickie?
JOHN: Everybody's got a real quickie tonight.
Q: I'm confused about something. A lot of Jewish apologists object to the fact that Isaiah 53 and verse 9 says that the suffering servant has done no violence, okay? And Segal(?) in his book brings this out, he says, "How can Jesus Christ be the Messiah because verse 9 specifically says He done no violence, yet He went into the temple and scourged the moneychangers, drove them out, you know." Obviously there was violence. How do we answer that?
J: Well, He did know violence in the sense that He committed no crime worthy of death. The only thing He did in the temple was what should have been done. That's not violence. God does no violence either. Violence indicates an unjust havoc, an unrighteous act of aggression or evil. What was done by the Lord in the temple was what should have been done. That was not violence. What was going on in there was violence. He put the violence out and brought it back to a place of prayer. He...it was unviolence.
So, I think that's an easy thing to point out. I think what the prophet is saying is that there was nothing that He had done that would make Him in any sense worthy of any execution. We find that, don't we, I don't know if you've been with us on Sunday morning, but we're going through the trial of Christ.
There's absolutely nothing. They can't come up with anything.
They didn't even...and I didn't point this out Sunday, but I should have...they didn't even bring up that argument. So Segal's one up on the Pharisees. They didn't even bring that up.
They didn't even make a case out of the fact that He did that in the temple as an act of violence because they knew that if they started talking about that, they were going to get it because everyone knew that it was just flat robbery, that the violence was their violence. And Jesus brought it back to where it ought to be. So they didn't even bring that up which they would have done if they thought there was a case there. Okay?
Yes sir.
QUESTIONER: Excuse me. Thank you. I have a young daughter who came home the other evening, you know, we sent her to Khater(?), we're Jewish, it's a synagogue. And I guess they taught her a little bit or enough, anyway, we were eating our evening meal and she said to me, she said, "Daddy, why do we eat the animals?" So I gave her the best answer I could, I said, "Ask your mother."
Right, who went on to tell her, "Well, we don't kill the animals." But then she said, "If I give you $5,000 to kill somebody and you do it and we both get caught, I can't tell the judge I didn't do it because we both get the electric chair."
So I didn't know what to answer her so I went out to the different churches. Now I see 3,000 people three times a day leaving this church on Sunday, so I figure, since I've gone to the Catholic Church and they told me, "Well, the reason that we eat the animals is because they don't have a soul..." No, I'm sorry, that wasn't the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church said, "The reason we eat the animals is because we're smarter than they are. They don't have the sense to run away."
Well, I said we're smarter than mental retards but I never heard of sweet and sour idiot, or broiled moron or fried imbecile. We don't eat our mental retards. So that couldn't be the answer. So then I went to the Christian churches, the different ones, the Episcopalian...because I had to answer my daughter, she asked me a question. And the Christian church said, "Well, the animals don't have a soul and we do." Well I know now in my own mind that anything that feels pain or craves affection has a soul because it's the soul that does the craving or the feeling of the pain. You step on a dog's foot and...
J: It yelps.
Q: ...it feels pain. What feels the pain, it's the soul. Okay.
Then the Jews are going to tell you it's okay because it's kosher. What makes it kosher? Cause they say a prayer over it.
What's the prayer? God forgive me for killing this poor animal.
You know...I don't know... So, I figure, well, I'm a computer analyst so I put this in the computer, right? You put certain data in and it's going to give you an answer. Well, I put in:
Thou shalt not kill...not animals or human beings, just thou shalt not murder. Actually from the translation from my understanding, from Hebrew or Greek, to, you know, the translation was different from murder to kill, so it was thou shalt not murder.
J: Right, that's right.
Q: Okay, it didn't go on to say thou shalt not murder a human being, it says thou shalt not murder period. So when you put in "thou shalt not murder" on one hand and on the other hand "eat a cheeseburger," it comes up "error message."
J: Sure.
Q: So it doesn't make any sense there. So I can't tell this to my daughter. So, I really didn't know what to tell her other than it's not because animals don't have a soul, because they do.
And it's not because they don't have the spirit, we've got a dog at home that has a lot of spirit. Jumps over a fence like you wouldn't believe. So, since they have souls and spirits and it's not okay to eat them if you're the one that doesn't kill them because you're as guilty as the butcher that does. Then, my God, I don't know what...
So, I went to the...I figure I'll go to the Indian school, right? Now they have a saying over there that says, "If it will run away, swim away, or fly away from you, don't eat it." Cause if you do, you'll have to deal with the soul doler...what they call. And I don't know, I asked what's this soul doler? He said...they said that's who doles the souls to the folds and the molds that hide in the holes. Right? And so I said, "Geez, you mean everything has a soul." He says, "Well, behind every pair of eyes there's someone looking through them." That's what eyes are for, looking through. And I couldn't disagree with that. So I guess everything has a pair of eyes is someone looking through the...
J: How old is your daughter?
Q: Four.
J: Four.
Q: Very brilliant young lady. I hate to hear the question she's going to start asking me at eight.
J: I was going to say, when she's eight, you better do something.
Q: I'm going to leave the house, yeah, leave the house.
J: If my four-year-old daughter said to me why do eat the animals, I probably would have said because they taste good.
Q: That's a good answer.
J: And leave it at that, you know. I probably...somebody said if your daughter asks you what time it is, don't take your watch apart.
Q: Yeah, well I understood that my daughter wasn't really asking why do we eat the animals, what she was really asking behind it...and then I just said that she would have asked me the next question because she is a brilliant little girl. She would have said...what makes the life of a human being more important than that of an animal?
J: Sure. Let me give you an answer. First of all, you can trust your computer. The other day I read about a guy who was trying to translate the Bible from English into Russian using a computer. He put a Russian dictionary in and then he put the English Bible in and he figured the computer would select the right Russian word. And he took the verse, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." And it came out, "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten." So you really cannot trust a computer to interpret Scripture.
Q: Not to translate.
J: Let me give you an answer from the Scripture, okay? And the answer is a very simple one, I believe. I believe that God...and this is indicated to us both in the Old Testament and the New Testament...created the animals for the purpose of food. In other words, that is their created intent. In the Old Testament, God outlined very clearly...and again, you're back to the authority of Scripture. And I appreciate you coming to ask the question, I really do. But we believe that you've got to have a standard. In other words, if all you do is try to dream up logical opinion about things, you're going to have people who differ and you're not going to know where the right answers are.
So you accept a standard. And to us the standard is the Word of God. We didn't invent it. We have had it passed down to us.
And when the Word of God says something, we believe it's true.
And the Scripture says, for example, in 1 Timothy, "All things are to be received with thanksgiving." It says that some will come along and say don't eat this and don't eat that, but Scripture says all things are to be received with thanksgiving.
Now in Acts chapter 10, there was a group of Jewish people who came to a Gentile and Peter was in that group. He had been raised kosher. He had never eaten anything that wasn't kosher.
He was threatened by the thought of eating something that wasn't kosher. And the Lord was making a transition and so the Lord give him a vision of a sheet coming down and every kind of animal was in that sheet. And Peter said in his vision, "I can't eat those things, I've never eaten anything unclean." And the Lord said to him, "What I have called clean, don't you call unclean."
In other words, the Lord said it's all now to be eaten and received with thanksgiving. So the best answer to the question is that Scripture says that God has given us those things for food to be enjoyed from Him.
Now, as far as an animal having a soul or a spirit, in a sense as you use the terms, an animal has a soul if by soul you mean an internal sort of consciousness...not a self consciousness. In other words, an animal doesn't know that it's an animal, it doesn't know that it's a dog, it doesn't know its name, it has conditioned reflex, it is an outer and an inner creature. In other words, there's a physical part and there's an immaterial response part within an animal you could call a soul.
Q: Like an uncovered nerve? Is that what you're saying?
J: No. It's more than a nerve. It's not just a nerve. It is...let's put it this way. An animal is neither self-conscious, that is an animal doesn't know its an animal or know its name or understand itself...and neither is it God conscious. It cannot know God.
Q: I have a dog at home that doesn't know it's unconscious. I mean, it's like conscious...it knows that it's alive.
J: Sure. It knows it is...it doesn't know it's alive, it just is alive. Yeah. And it has the ability to be trained for certain impulses like Pavlov proved. But an animal has no...has no God consciousness, an animal has no self-consciousness. I mean, this could be...
Q: Conscience...you mean, is that what I'm trying to understand?
It doesn't have a conscience. There's no shame.
J: Right, doesn't have a conscience. Has no sense of morality, no shame, that's right.
Q: But when it gets hit by a car, it knows its alive.
J: I don't know that it knows its alive, but it feels the pain.
Q: It runs away from the car...so he must know that that's a...
J: Reflex...reflex. So, but Scripture indicates to us that the bottom line is, I mean, if you just look at the Scripture that an animal is made by God, animals were created by God for purpose and one of the purposes was food. Now, further, animals were not only created for food for people but frankly, animals were created for food for animals. The whole system of the animal kingdom is a self-consuming system. Everybody has a predator, everybody has an enemy in that system.
Q: Isn't it interesting though that carnivorous animals don't eat other carnivorous animals? You never see a lion eating another carnivorous animal. It's always herbivorous animals that are being eaten by the carnivorous ones...lions eat sheep...you never see a sheep eating any type of carnivorous animal. Do you?
J: Well, I don't...yeah, I understand what you're saying...I don't know that there might not be some exceptions to that. But as a general rule that's true. But anyway, the system is such that man is made in the image of God. And that means that man is self-conscious, man is God-conscious, and that is beyond any animal. It's very distinctly in the creative pattern, God created everything that He created and then He created man in His own image, with conscience, with a sense of right and wrong, with morality, with self-consciousness, God-consciousness, the ability to build relationships, a sense of shame, da-dit-da-da- da-da. And that's why man is a sacred being whereas an animal is a part of the whole system of the world which depends for survival upon the consumption of that system.
Q: Now if I go home and I say this to my daughter and she says to me, "Well, Daddy, if we're supposed to be so conscience and so aware of our conscience, our morality of shame and guilt and so on, so what...then why even though it's allowed to...if God says here's a cow, you can eat it, right? Why even though we know we can would we go ahead and kill a poor innocent animal who has done nothing wrong when there are plenty of bananas, fruits, whatever vegetables and so on and so forth." They're available to eat but why would we just go ahead and be the murderer, actually.
J: Well, that's not...what the intention of murdering has to do with people, nothing to do with animals. In the first place, what you have to realize is all the animals are going to die anyway.
Q: So are human beings, though. We don't eat human beings.
J: Right. But... a human being is protected by the laws of God.
An animal is made for food.
Q: That's what the question my daughter wants to know the answer to. Why?
J: The answer I'm trying to give you is that the Bible says that all those things are to be received with thanksgiving. The only answer you need to give your daughter is "that's the way God designed the world to work."
Q: That's all I have to say...and she's going to say okay.
Right? Is that all...okay, thank you.
J: Good. Yeah, and that is the ultimate answer. I mean, that's the way God...I've said that to my kids a thousand times.
That's...I don't know anything more than to say that's the way God designed it to be. So enjoy your Big Mac...don't worry about it. Okay. Thank you. Come back, by the way. We'd like to have you back.
Q: Oh, thank you.
QUESTIONER: Thanks, John. I go to LOGOS and we were discussing 2 Thessalonians and we got into chapter 2 and discussing the Rapture, concerning the Rapture. And I've always been along the lines of a pre-trib Rapture. And I got into chapter 2 there and some things seem to contradict themselves. If you could just comment on what the apostasy is and what the day of the Lord is concerning in chapter 2.
JOHN: Okay. Chapter 2 verse 1 of 2 Thessalonians, "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus and by our gathering together unto Him that you be not shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, word, letter," so forth and so on.
What was happening in the Thessalonian church was that some people were fearful that they has missed the Rapture. They were afraid that they had already missed it. And so Paul is writing to inform them that that's not happened. So verse 3 says, "Don't let anybody deceive you. Don't let anybody tell you you've missed the Rapture."
You haven't missed not only that...but the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The whole idea of that phrase in verse 1, the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, may be a more comprehensive statement. But it certainly would include, I think, the Rapture. But the whole idea...they were being told that everything was happened...had happened and they had been left out. So don't let anybody deceive you.
That's not going to happen until first of all there is an apostasy. "And the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God," and so forth and so forth and so forth. So I just think what he's saying there is the whole idea of the coming of Christ cannot come to fullness and fruition until these things take place. And they have not taken place.
Q: Okay, what do you consider the apostasy? Is that a special event or is that just a progressive...?
J: It's a falling...yeah, I think it's a progressive falling away from the truth. It could be...you know, I'm not sure that I'm that this particular point, really, in the first place, I don't think it's the Rapture. Some people believe it's the snatching away. They make it the Rapture. I think it's an apostatizing. Now the question is, is it an apostasy in the Tribulation after the Rapture, or is it an apostasy that begins before the Tribulation, you know, and then...
Q: Well, it would have to be after the Rapture though...or before the Rapture because...
J: Well, yeah, and I think the answer to that is it is before because it says in verse 7 "The mystery of iniquity is already at work." So the mystery of iniquity is already at work. The apostasy, in a sense, is already at work. The culmination of all of this is the coming of the Lord. Don't think that's happened because the rest of this stuff hasn't even unfolded fully yet.
The man of sin hasn't been revealed, and so forth.
Q: So, then we're going to see who the man of sin is...the Antichrist?
J: Not necessarily. He's not saying you'll see it, he's just saying it hasn't happened.
Q: Well, will he be revealed to the world then?
J: Sure. But not to us.
Q: Why not to us?
J: Because we won't be here.
Q: Well, it says that the man of lawlessness has to be revealed before "it" shall come in verse 3.
J: That is the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the day of the Lord...the day of the Lord is always associated with judgment. Okay? It is always associated with judgment.
And what he is saying is that the judgment has not happened because this hasn't happened. I'm just saying that...it's not a question that sorts out the Rapture here. I don't see that you can sort that out. He's just saying somebody may be telling you you've missed it all, whatever, part of it. I'm telling you the final end hasn't come, the day of the Lord, the time of judgment, he focuses on, hasn't come because the man of sin isn't revealed and so forth and so forth and so on. He's not necessarily saying that you're going to see that. He's just saying it can't have happened because this event has not taken place. Okay?
Q: Okay...good, thanks.
J: And let me just say this. This question comes up a lot.
Second Thessalonians is basically a book that needs great intense study. It's got some very unique features in trying to sort out all these factors. But in general, I think the pre-tribulation Rapture is the only...is the only doctrine that makes any sense in Scripture. You can come to Scripture and you can shoot it down. I mean, you can follow some of the people that have wanted to postulate a post-trib Rapture, a mid-trib Rapture, whatever.
That means that we're going to be raptured at the end of the Tribulation or in the middle rather than before. But the problem is, you can knock down the pre-trib theory by reinterpreting words and reinterpreting verses but you find it...I do anyway...almost impossible to build up a post-trib theory. It just doesn't survive...scrutiny. So I really believe the church will be raptured first, then the Tribulation and then comes the Lord in judgment. And I think that's all the writer here is saying is that you didn't miss that because before that happens there has to be the falling away. And some people say that's the Rapture...the catching away...and they say apastasia(?) means rapture. I don't feel that way. I think it's apostasy.
And then the man of sin who opposes and exalts himself and so forth, and it's already working that way, verse 7 says. But that wicked one will be revealed...and lying wonders, and da-dit- da-da, and finally after that is going to come the day of the Lord. So I don't think the Rapture is even in the discussion, really, I think he's just talking about the day of the Lord. Of course, before that will be the Rapture. Okay? Good....oh, we're over here...
QUESTIONER: On Acts 16:31, okay, I have many friends of mine, I come from a pentecostal background, and they use this Scripture to claim their family's salvation. And I've read the Scripture myself and I don't believe it. I believe that a man has to give an account to God for his own salvation. And it says here, "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." And I think people should deal with this with other Christians and let them know that that's not so in the promise...
JOHN: Yeah, the verse, of course, it's the Apostle Paul and he was in jail. And the earthquake came and the jail doors were thrown open and all the stocks and chains were broken and everybody started to leave. And the jailer knew he'd lose his life and all this. And, you know, he was going to kill himself and Paul stops him and says, "Don't harm yourself." And the guy must have known that Paul was an evangelist. He must have known the message he preached because he comes in and says, "Sir, what must I do to be saved?" What must I do to be saved. And what is his answer? "Believe on the Lord JEsus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house."
And what these people are saying is that if you believe, that means salvation for your whole house. There's several problems with that. The man says...what must I do to be saved?
And he said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And then he says, "And thy house the same." In other words, what is everybody in his house have to do? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The construction there forbids that that it mean anything else. He doesn't say believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou and thy house shall be saved. Thou shalt be saved. And the offer is extended to thy house.
And by the way, that thing doesn't hold water anyway because the term here for house involved everything that was in his house, family members, servants, and everything. And the people who advocate family salvation out of that verse don't necessarily want to extend it to the mailman, the gardener or anybody else who works for them. So...no, obviously, even back in the Old Testament, very clearly God identifies individual salvation. And the same thing is all the way through the New Testament.
And when people will take one little verse like this and build a doctrine of family salvation on it, you know, it's completely imposed on the text rather than in the text. And I'm glad you pointed that out because a lot of people are claiming that. And that's...you can't claim that. Your house can be saved the same way you can. What he's saying to the jailer is I'm telling you you must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved. And it's the same for anybody else.
In other words, this isn't something special just for you, this is available for anybody in your house.
Q: Thank you, John.
J: And...it says they spoke the word of the Lord...here's the key to it...I didn't finish yet...so listen, verse 32, "And they spoke unto him the word of the Lord," and they didn't just speak to him but it says, "And they spoke to him the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house." Why? Because everybody else if they were going to be saved had to hear the same message and believe the same message. Otherwise they could have just spoken it to him and let it go if everybody was saved on his salvation.
"And he took them the same hour of night and washed their stripes and was baptized, he and all his. And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them...listen to this...and rejoiced believing in God with all his house." Did you get that?
What does that mean? That everybody in the house what?
Believed. Yeah, it's very clear. I mean, I'll tell you, it just boils my blood when people take verses out of the middle of nowhere and just...build theology around them, when all you have to do is keep reading...you know. Something...I don't know what it is in the human mind that makes people want to come up with their own little doctrines. I can't imagine anything worse than misinterpreting the Scripture. I..inside of myself I would rather die than do that. I just wouldn't want to do that. Truth is the most sacred thing we posses, isn't it? And I just...boy, that's why I'm a believer in good training so that you can handle the Scriptures accurately. I mean, this is not somebody's ideas you're throwing around, this is the Word of the living God. I mean, you better get it right.
QUESTIONER: John, I want to thank you for the things that we've all been learning about our response to the government. And my question...I understand what you're saying how we need to back our government, even though it's not the best government, even though it's not a Christian government, there is no Christian government, only Christian people, and I also understand when you say that we shouldn't be into full-time political even Christian political activism, even though there are some people who are employed, Christians employed, full time in politics.
But, now my question is what about people who are interested in some of the political things that are happening, say the gay rights bill, or right now there's a bill open for public comment on rights for newborn children who have some physical deformity and they're allowing them to die and it's...and so that's open for public comment. And I'm wondering, what is our responsibility to the government to let our legislatures legislators know how we feel?
JOHN: I think and I think I may have said this, maybe not clearly enough, but you see, I believe we need to take every means available to us as citizens to effect change in our country legally. And every time you have an opportunity to do that, you need to do that. As a conscientious Christian, if there's any way that you can legally protest against abortion...I saw in the Daily News today that Tom Bradley says now he's going to appoint more gays. He's going to be giving more gay appointments, he's sorry that he's overlooked the homosexuals.
Well, I mean, that's sickening to me...you know, and I'm sure it is to all Christian people. But I don't...what I...I'm not going to go down and shoot Tom Bradley, but if I am...if there's a forum where I can say what needs to be said, then I want to say that. If there's a letter that I can write, then I need to write that letter. If there's a vote that I can make, then I need to make that vote. And if the Lord called me to be involved in government or in civil service as a policeman, or as a county prosecutor or district attorney or a...I don't know what, you know, working even as a legislator or something, I don't see anything wrong with that.
The thing that concerns me is the illusion that Christians banding together using political means can bring the Kingdom, or expedite the Kingdom. I think what we have to do...and what happens is, when Christians...they start out with good intentions to be involved in moral issues, and I'm not against that. I think Christians ought to stand up against abortion and gay rights and the ERA and a lot of other things, I really believe that we ought to take our stand on those issues. But somehow, what happens is, in the midst of wanting to take the right and legal means to take a stand and preach and proclaim against sin, we get diverted into the illusion that we can change our country by effecting changes in the political system. And I think...I mean, we want to vote, we want to vote together on some things.
We ought to know, for example, who are the legislators in the state of California who are pro-abortion and we ought to let them know where we stand. It's a fine line.
And I know in my own case, if I feel like I need to write a letter to a senator, I write a letter. If I feel like I don't care to do that, I don't do that. But I want to use every legal means, every means within in my power, I want to teach and preach here so that it's very clear what we believe and we make a statement and we teach our people what they're...what their stand should be in the world. But what bothers me is when I know many pastors who have literally abandoned the church and abandoned the pulpit and abandoned studying the Scripture, abandoned teaching the Bible to run around and get themselves associated with the Mormons and the Moonies and all these co-belligerence to gain certain religious freedom.
You know, to me it's what...to paraphrase, like Sam Ericcson does, what shall it profit the church if we gain our freedom and lose our message? I mean, what's the point? So we just have to be sure we're clear on what our message is. And it...what I'm saying too is that because my government isn't all it ought to be doesn't mean that I can shoot people in my government or that I can be an unruly citizen, disobey the law, not pay my taxes, so forth and so on. I take all the legal means. Does that help?
Q: That does. And thanks.
J: Okay...good.
QUESTIONER: I, too, appreciate last Sunday night's message, the Christian's relationship to government, John, and my question is directly related to that. How do you feel about a march?
Christians are marching. I saw Frankie Schaeffer leading, I believe, an anti-abortion march and let's just say that it was done legally, it was done...people conducted themselves the way they should. And it was not done under the auspices of a local church name, it was concerned citizens. I'd like your thoughts on that.
JOHN: Yeah, I don't have a problem with that. If it's done right and it's done in a proper way and it's not a rabble. You know, people do it for one reason, they do it to get on television. That's basically it. Or to get the people on capital hill to see them doing it so that they know there's a large constituency there. I think if it's done properly and done respectfully and shows due respect to the people involved, I don't have a problem with that. But when the crowd is stirred up, you know, to thinking evil against the legislators or when it becomes a rebellious thing and it's fomenting and they're saying ugly things about our nation or about people in positions of leadership, then I have a problem with that. But I think if it's done right as a citizen, if you have...if you want to express yourself that way, that's great.
The thing that concerns me is when I see men of God who've been called to the teaching of the Word and the preaching of the Word abandoning themselves to all these kinds of things. I will be very candid with you. I really feel that in...this is a personal feeling...in the last few years of Francis Schaeffer's life, the tremendous capability that he had demonstrated to help the church get on track apologetically got totally lost and he was so busy marching here and marching there all over the place that those last years before he went to heaven were not as productive, in my mind in terms of theology and apologetics, as the prior years had been. And that's only a value judgment on my part. I'm not...you know, I'm not certainly second guessing what he did in his life. But as I look at his life and realize that it seemed in those last years that he was so concerned about marching and protesting and doing this and doing that that it diverted those energies away from the Word and away from that great contribution that, at least I felt, he made in the earlier years.
So, it's a question of priority. I think it's fine to have a part in that. Certainly if there was an anti-abortion protest in the state and everybody wrote letters and so forth and so on, I mean, I would want to be a part of that. I mean, I wouldn't even resist, you know, marching and showing where I stood on that if it was done right. But I would not divert the energies and the time and the calling of God in my life to do that because I feel the strength is in, you know, carrying out the ministry of the Word.
Q: Thanks.
QUESTIONER: Yes, John, my question regarded how we as Christians are to view the new wave of science creating life as they want to call it in the laboratory, the test tube babies, the sperm banks?
We had also seen a documentary on channel 28 regarding actually recreating a womb-like environment in a laboratory so that they could actually watch the development. And we just had our second gift from the Lord two weeks ago and we had it by the means that God provided. And He does say in Psalm 139, "Thou doest weave me in my mother's womb," and how do we associate that with our....?
JOHN: Well, I suppose everybody's got to draw the line somewhere. I don't know how to answer the question. It's such a broad question. Except to say, anytime you do anything other than the normal God-intended means, I get nervous. Okay? There are some things that seem to me to be just really beyond acceptance, like taking a conceived embryo and planting it in another person. I know they're involved in doing some of that kind of stuff. You know, you can go back to the bottom line of the thing and say, if the Lord meant you to have a baby, you'll have a baby. You don't need to go through all of that. On the other hand, if you can't have a baby, you can certainly adopt a baby. That's the pretty much traditional view.
That's...I feel very comfortable with that view. At the same time, I know there are couples that go see infertility specialists. In fact we have medical doctors in our church who are OB/GYN and infertility specialists and they do provide some kind of service to folks to let them know what their alternatives are. I don't think it's that they're advocating any of this stuff, but there are ways you can assist a couple. And somebody can say, well, if God wanted you to have a baby, you'd have a baby, so don't go to the doctor. But if you push that too far, you know, you're going to be holding on to a tree in the backyard with a leaf, you know, dropping your baby on it. I mean, that's a jungle approach. You know, we do want some help. And so we go to a hospital and if we can't have a baby normally we don't say, "Well, if God didn't want me to have the baby, leave it alone."
We say no, I'll take it Caesarean. I mean, just get the baby.
So, we're grateful for medical advances. It becomes a very difficult thing then to know exactly where you draw the line.
But I think as long...I think when you get outside the couple itself, that's where I have a problem. Either physically outside of them, or relationally. In other words, where you impregnate a woman with somebody else's sperm other than her husband...or where you have some kind of surrogate mother situation which is done all the time, of course, in breeding horses and things like that. Any time you get outside of working with those two people that God brought together for the production of that child, I think you've got a real ethical problem.
And it's going to get...it's going to get, you know, more bizarre all the time. You see, what...Crick and those guys used to sort of set the stage for this...but what they're after is generic engineering. And we're already a long way down the line.
Abortion is one step toward generic engineering. Abortion basically says we now have developed the right to murder anybody we don't want to be born. Okay? The more sophisticated our pre- natal technology becomes, the more able we are to determine the character and quality of the infant that's there. All right, if they can...if they can grow a baby in an artificial womb and chart the course of that baby and monitor that thing, they'll develop the technique to determine its physical skills, its mental skills, or whatever, they'll figure out ways to do that.
And then pretty soon it will be a question of who gets to live and who doesn't get to live. And then comes breeding and so forth and so on.
I really believe with all my heart, and some of these things that I'm...I say might sound frightening, and I think they are...I really believe that there are people who want to engineer the human race...the humanists. You see, they want to eliminate crime and they want to eliminate all the problems in society, they want to eliminate the drones on society, the welfare cases, the people who just eat up the resources of society and are problems and so forth and so on. The way to do that is to control birth, first of all. So first what did we have? We had a big wave of birth control...birth control...birth control. All the scare tactics in the world, right? We have too many people, too many people. I don't know if you know this, the entire population of the world fit into the state of Rhode Island...the whole world, okay?
But anyway, we've all been scared out of our wits about having too many babies. Okay? They did that for a long time.
The next step was we'll start to kill the babies and we'll do it under the guise of a woman has a right to her own body...which isn't the case at all. It's just murder, plain and simple. And of course it was basically generated by some Jewish lesbian women, the whole thing. And it's all part of a much bigger conspiracy than we understand. And I think it...you look behind the scenes and you will find that there are many people who are antagonistic to Christ behind the scenes and it's really something. I could talk about that some time.
But anyway, so step by step by step, then you come to the abortion thing and pretty soon there's a tolerance for some abortions. And now it's just anybody, anyplace, anytime can get an abortion. And it's become a method of birth control. And so the next thing in the engineering process will be to determine how the fetus develops and then we'll find out what fetuses we want and what ones we don't want. And then as...if we can plant sperm in anybody we want, then we'll start to do that. And it's all part of ultimately taking us to the point of engineering all of this stuff. It's really frightening. That's an attack on God and His sovereignty and so forth. And so I think anytime you go beyond the couple that God brought together and try to create a life, you've really got yourself into a serious biblical and ethical problem.
Q: Thank you.
J: Uh-hum.
QUESTIONER: Hi, John, my question is in 1 Corinthians when they talk about women are supposed to have something on their head when they're praying or whatever. Why doesn't that pertain to today? And also, people are always asking me why are some of us blessed and there's little children dying in Africa and starving to death? You've heard the question before, right?
JOHN: Yeah...well, those are good questions. Let me take the second one first. God is sovereign. I've always felt that more...the more non-Christian the nation is, the higher the mortality rate will be because Christians have the highest respected for life there is.
Look at our nation. The more we become non-Christian, the more we become humanistic, the easier it is for us to massacre infants by the millions. And you take a pagan country or Africa or whatever, India, you'll find in those countries there's a low regard for life, a very low regard for life. It isn't just as simple always as famine and so forth, it has to do with the whole regard for life. Unless you understand that people are created in the image of God, they're nothing more than what this man was asking earlier, it's animal life. So I think that that happens because there's a low regard of life.
The flip side of that is that I believe God in His mercy and grace sees the reality of redemption in that for a people who in many cases would never otherwise be redeemed. If...those...those nations that are the most unchristian have the the most...have the highest mortality rate which is to say that those little ones are taken safely into the arms of God before they can come to the point in their own nation where they will be unbelievers. So I think that that's part of that answer.
The ultimate answer is God is God. And God has designed the world the way He's designed it. Sin is running its course. God has offered redemption to all men. But evil has a place and God for the sake of His own glory and the sake of His own revelation of judgment and wrath against sin permits sin and its consequences and so it's a sovereign issue.
Q: Aren't we also responsible for helping to feed these people?
J: Oh there's no question, the Scripture makes it very plain that we are to share what we have...to reach out to the poor and the hungry. I mean, you read the Old Testament, that's just over and over and over again repeated as well as in the New in some places, too.
Now in regard to 1 Corinthians chapter 11 about a woman having her hair...or her head covered, what Paul is referring to there was in the Corinthian time there were distinctive ways in which a woman demonstrated her submissiveness. And a woman demonstrated her submissiveness with her hair, the covering of her hair. And woman had long hair. He says doesn't nature even tell you itself that if a woman have long hair it's a glory unto her? But in those days, the women wore a covering. And the covering was the symbol of their submissiveness. And the women, of course, in the Corinthian thing were going through a sort of an ERA equal rights movement, and they were throwing off their covering and shearing off their head. And Paul...Carcopino(?) in his book on Daily Life in Ancient Rome says they were running around bare-breasted with spears sticking pigs and climbing poles and, I mean, women's lib isn't anything new, they were doing it then, too...trying to be macho, wanting to equality with men.
So Paul is saying to them, "Look, you want to be sure that in your society if a covering...if a covering is a symbol of submissiveness, you keep your covering on because you want to demonstrate your womanliness and your submissiveness by God's design. And then he just supports that by saying, "Can't you see that God's designed a woman's hair to be unique to a woman?" And of course the argument scientifically is that a woman's hair grows faster than a man's hair does, demonstrating that God's intention for a woman is uniquely her hair. I think that says to us today that a woman should do her...I'm not saying that some of you are saying..."Oh boy, I hope my hair is long enough." I'm not saying that...what I am saying is that a woman's hair should be distinctly feminine. And a woman's demeanor distinctly feminine. And whatever it is in our culture that demonstrates femininity and a woman's unique God-intended role is how a woman ought to look.
Q: Thank you.
QUESTIONER: Good evening, John.
JOHN: Hi.
Q: I've been studying John chapter 17 and I was listening to your tapes this week. One thing that, you know, I praise God that I'm saved and that I know Christ and one thing that came out in the tapes was the fact that our names are already written in the book of life. And I guess my question is is that like predestination? And I'm sure you've answered this question before and it's probably on a tape, and I just haven't found the tape yet.
J: Yeah, sure, that's exactly like predestination. And I have answered this question before. And I don't hesitate to answer it again because I think there's an answer that will help you.
Everybody who believes the Bible believes in predestination. If you don't, you'll have to tear out some verses. We were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world, that's as clear as it can be. Our names are written in the Lamb's book of life from before the foundation of the world, it says that a couple of times in the book of Revelation. Predestinated, chosen, preordained, all that is there. In other words, every person who ever comes to Christ in the history of the world comes to Christ because before the world began God chose them for redemption.
That's clear in Scripture. Okay. So we believe that.
The problem doesn't come in believing that, the problem comes in harmonizing that with the call to respond to Christ and human responsibility. In other words, if we say, "Oh, well, since God does it all, I'm not going to worry about it. If He wants to save me, let Him save me. I'm certainly not going to get uptight. We don't need to preach the gospel. We don't need to tell anything to anybody, it's all done and if you're name's there, you're in, if it's not, so what? What's the point? Why should I evangelize? The people whose names are there are going to come, the people who aren't, aren't. So I'm not going to worry about it."
The problem with that is the Bible also teaches that whoever comes to Christ, He will receive. And Jesus said you will not come to Me that you might have life. But if you come to Me, I'll give you life. And when they didn't come, He said it was their fault. So the problem is I believe the Bible teaches predestination, everybody who is saved is saved because they are written down before the world began. I also believe it teaches you have to come to Christ and if you don't, it's your fault and you're responsible and you'll go to hell because you have chosen against Christ.
Now how do you harmonize that? That's impossible.
Q: All right.
J: That's the problem. So you don't. You just believe both of them. You say, "But how can you believe two things that are mutually contradictory?" Easy...there are a lot of things in the Bible that are mutually contradictory or that are absolutely paradoxical on our level. And to illustrate it to you very simply...who wrote Matthew? That's not a hard question, is it?
Q: Matthew.
J: Who wrote Matthew?
Q: Matthew.
J: Matthew, all by himself sat down and wrote Matthew...
Q: And the Holy Spirit.
J: And the Holy Spirit...they alternated verses. You write one, I'll write one, you write one, I'll write one. Is every word in Matthew out of the mind of the Spirit of God? Is every word in Matthew also out of the heart of Matthew? How can it be all Matthew and all the Holy Spirit? That's two hundred percent, that's impossible, but that's exactly what it is.
Ask yourself this question, was Jesus God or man? The answer is yes. A hundred percent God, a hundred percent man, or half God, half man...half a man is nobody, and half God is nobody, He was all God, all man. That's impossible, too, that's an irresolvable apparent paradox.
Ask you this question. Who lives your Christian life? You say, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I Christ lives in me. Same thing, see.
Anytime you bring the supernatural level down to this, you're going to get a little bit of paradox left. And the wonderful thing about it is it's one of the greatest proofs that this is written by God because if it was written by men they'd resolve those paradoxes because men don't like them.
Q: Right.
J: And so the fact that you have those kinds of things tell us that God's mind is greater than ours, and that's the kind of God I want. I don't want a God that thinks like I do, or we're in trouble. So, when it comes to predestination and man's volition, when it comes to God's sovereignty and man's responsibility, we say the Bible teaches both of them. God's the only one who can understand how they come together. That's His problem, not ours.
All I know is that I am saved and I give Him the praise, but when people aren't saved, I lay the responsibility at their feet to come to Christ. And I cannot say well I don't need to do anything because the Bible commands me to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Okay?
Q: Thanks.
J: All right. Let's see...we'll go over here. We better not take any more folks, we'll just finish with these and then we'll be done.
QUESTIONER: Good evening, John. Sunday night on the Christian's responsibility to government, you used the example of the early church as a standard for the Christian community these days.
Well, about the tenth observation made by the historians in that day was that the early church was indifferent to the world's temporal materialism and political systems. Now my question is how does the "Salt Shaker" stand in relation to the example set by the early church which was basically they segregated themselves from government?
JOHN: Right. That's a good question. We have a little Salt Shaker that comes out each month and we're back to this same idea. The only thing you'll find in the Salt Shaker are issues related to biblical truth and morality. In other words, sin as over against righteousness. We're not going to...we're not going to put in there issues about whether they ought to pave Roscoe Boulevard, write your congressman. Or whether they ought to allow certain laws to pass related to schools or education or budget or zoning. In other words, what we're dealing with is moral issues when we feel there is due process by which we can articulate the Christian perspective.
Now in the last couple of days, Sam Ericcson has been here.
I was talking to Sam about how he fits because, you see, he's the head of the Christian Legal Society which basically is a group that functions in Washington, a group of Christian lawyers who go into the courts and lobby for the Christian viewpoint. And again, what they're doing is taking due process of law in an honorable and reasonable way, demonstrating Christian character and Christian testimony and articulating a Christian viewpoint on these issues. Now that's very vital. And that's what we're asking people to do in the Salt Shaker.
That's not political. That's...that's taking a voice in moral issues that face our nation and giving the Christian perspective. The editor of the L.A. Times one time said to me with...he was coming here and he said, the owner, he said, "You...why don't you ever use the platform there to get on the bandwagon for some of these really important political issues?"
And I said because the only thing I want to talk about is what God talks about, everybody's got their opinion, I think God has a right to be heard in the midst of all of this. And all we want to do is articulate the biblical view.
And it's key for us to have Christian lawyers who will go into a courtroom, for example, when a debate is going on and give a biblical viewpoint to an issue that is confronting the nation.
Right now the Christian Legal Society has three cases before the Supreme Court of the United States in which they articulate the biblical view. But they do so with a great sense of graciousness.
Let me give you an illustration. They put out a magazine, Christian Legal Society, and in it was an ad for attorney wanted by some law firm, it said a Christian attorney...Christian legal firm would like to hire a Christian attorney, da-dit, da-dit, da- dit. And the Jewish...one of the Jewish groups which by the way are behind a whole lot of this stuff because there is that ancient antagonisticism to Christianity, and we understand that and we love them anyway, but we understand there's an antagonism there. But...so this group called up the Christian Legal Society and said, "How dare you. It's unethical for you to put a Christian lawyer in there. That's discrimination," and so forth and so forth and so forth.
So the Christian Legal Society called them back in the next day or so. And Sam said, and he said, "I just want you to know that we want to be sensitive to you. We don't want to be a discredit to the legal profession. And if that is an offense to you in our magazine, we won't put that there anymore." And he said the girl was an attorney who listened to him in the Washington office and broke into tears that anyone would be that conscientious. It doesn't matter to them because they're magazine only goes to Christian attorneys, so they know what they're saying. But rather than make war, they would seek to make peace and express themselves in a gentle way. But when it comes to standing for truth, they need to be there to speak. And so what happens is they treat those people with kindness on that level, but when they get into the courtroom and those people are crying for the humanist viewpoint, they say this is what we believe is right based on the Scripture and the tradition that's been established by Christianity and so forth and so on.
So, it's a question of morality as over against just partisan politics and views on things that aren't moral issues.
Okay? That's a long answer to a short question. We'll hurry real fast. We have about five or six minutes, so quick...
QUESTIONER: Okay, I'll try to make this fast. I'm looking for your inner interpretation of Hebrews 10:26 in context with the passage, it says, "For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins." In desiring to use the Word of the Lord accurately, I've often used this passage in sharing with people who would consider themselves Christians and desire to continue to live with their girlfriends or Christians can justify getting divorces.
JOHN: Yeah, I think it's a non-Christian it's talking about. I think it's talking about a person intellectually convinced of the gospel who knows it but goes on living in sin, willfully already knowing the truth and if he rejects the sacrifice of Christ there's no hope. I think it's basically another one of the warning passages that are all through the epistle of the Hebrews.
Those warning passages are directed at people who are intellectually convinced of the truth of the gospel but will not separate themselves from sin and come to Christ. And the warning there is if you keep on doing that, you're really treading under foot the blood of the covenant and counting it an unholy thing.
In other words, you're trampling the blood of Christ, you're ignoring that. And there is no other sacrifice for sin. So I think it's a message to an intellectually convinced unbeliever who won't break with his sin. Now you may be giving it to the right people. They may say they're Christians, but if they continue in a protracted state of sinfulness, there's a good chance that that might be their case.
Q: Do you know of, let's say, what could be a better approach to someone who is a Christian, at least from God's perspective, when somebody is continuing to sin because they are really no longer...
J: Romans 6.
Q: Romans 6.
J: "Shall we sin that grace may abound? God forbid. If you died with Christ and risen then you better walk in newness of life and mortify the deeds of the flesh. So shall you live."
I'd hit Romans 6. And then Romans 7, the cry of Paul, "Wretched man that I am who wants to deliver...see himself delivered from that kind of thing." Yeah. But Romans 6 is the...I mean, thank...he says, you were the servants of sin but now you've become the servants of righteousness. If you're not a servant of righteousness, either you're not saved or you're contradicting everything your salvation means.
Q: Okay, thank you very much.
J: Uh-huh.
QUESTIONER: I have a family member that a couple of years ago was taken in by the Mormons. She had a great bad experience in her life. And she, my grandmother recently who lived up there died and they had converted her, she was very senile so I know...I have no doubt in my mind where she went. She didn't know what she was doing. But I know that they probably went through the baptism of the dead. Now she quoted to me some time back 1 Corinthians 15:29. And I've looked at that and tried to study it and figure out what are they saying because she said it says right in the Bible that you baptize for the dead, but yet Scoffield says down below in the footnote that they're not talking about that. But I have trouble understanding...
JOHN: Well, that verse just says, Paul is saying, why are people baptizing for the dead if there's no resurrection. And we're saying, what in the world does he mean by that, right? What is the baptism for the dead? It isn't even important what he means to us. People then knew what he meant.
There was some pagan cult at that time that was doing baptisms for the dead...today it would be the Mormons...but all Paul is trying to say is, he's trying to prove the validity of resurrection in general. In other words, the whole chapter is to prove there's a resurrection. And all he's saying is even the pagans understand that there's a resurrection, else why would they be baptizing for the dead? Do you understand?
Q; Yes.
J: In other words, he's only using what we would call a natural argument rather than a supernatural one. Like we say, for example, like the old story of immortality that's told about the little blind boy that was sitting on the top of a hill and he had a kite. And the kite was pulling against the wind and somebody said to him, "Can you see the kite?" And he said, "Oh no, sir."
And he said, "Well, how do you know it's in the air?" He said, "Well, I feel the tug of the string that I hold in my hand." And the old adage was and that's the way it is with immortality.
Even pagan people feel the tug of immortality that there's life after death. That's why Indians buried ponies with the dead braves. That's why people in Greece put a coin in the mouth of a dead body so that he could pay his fare across the mystic river of death. That's why they put a canoe in a Pharaoh's pyramid, so that he could go down the river of life in his canoe.
In other words, there's something in the human heart that longs for immortality. And Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians 15, if there's no resurrection, then why are these people baptizing for the dead? Even the pagans feel the pull of immorality.
Q: Thank you.
J: And, of course, it was an error and it still is with the Mormons that do it.
QUESTIONER: John, all of us started with Adam and we're all descendants of Adam. And yet there are many different races around the world. And my question has to do with the origin of different races and also language. I think language was at the tower of Babel, that God dispersed in different languages. Did everybody speak the same language up to that time? And...
JOHN: The whole earth was one language, it says that in Genesis 11.
Q: And is that true with races, also?
J: Yeah, I think basically once they were scattered and scattered all over the earth, then, of course, different ethnic groups began to develop. But you have to go even back before that in to Genesis chapter 9 where the Lord took the three sons of Shem...Noah...Shem, Ham, Japheth. And I can just quickly refresh your thinking on that, I think. Genesis, just a brief answer, 9:24, 9:25, and he said, "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, Canaan shall be his servant. God will enlarge Japheth, he shall dwell in the tents of Shem."
Took the three sons. Canaan would be a servile people.
Shem would be the blessed people, the Semitic people out of which comes the Arabs and the Jews and so forth. And Japheth would be the colonizing people who would enlarge, mostly going into Europe. And so here even from the sons of Noah, God begins to separate out the races.
Now as to how it is that they took on physically distinct characteristics, that was because that's the way the Lord began to create them. And the tower of Babel only contributed to that as they were scattered in different places, there's a certain amount of adaptability. Black people are black because they came from a place where they needed that as opposed to Scandinavian people, very very white, and so forth. So the Lord in the process of the development of the races, you know, allowed them to adjust and adapt to that particular thing.
Frankly, some of it there are no answers to except that God in His sovereignty designed it that way. But you go back to Genesis 9 with God sorting out the three sons and separating them apart. And then Genesis 11 where He scatters them all over the world. And they begin to identify themselves as unique ethnic groups with their own language and develop their own characteristics. Okay?
Q: Thank you.
QUESTIONER: Good evening, John. First of all, I have an example that may be a good way to look at predestiny verses free will and that is very likely or possibly, I shouldn't say even likely, that the Lord gave Satan all the pieces the chess game. In other words, every individual as we're born were born in Satan's camp.
And that the Lord then said, "Satan, look I'm going to show you the names in this book that I have here and these names I'm going to call at a given time. And because of the power of My love and only the power of My love, when I call their name they will come to Me out of their love and there won't be anything you can do to stop them." That gives a possible...
JOHN: I think that...well, I think I understand what you're saying. I'm not sure Satan...I'm not sure God gives him any information. But I understand what you're saying. Sure, there...we're all there bound by Satan, but when He draws us it is...this is what the old theologians called "irresistible grace." That is, when the Lord sets out to save you, He will save you.
Q: Just out of the power of His might...
J: That's right, the power of His drawing sovereign love.
That's right.
Q: Now I've got two questions, two of them that have been with me for a quite a while. First of all, I have a brother-in-law who is involved with a church somewhat on the cultic side, I believe. He's given me a couple of verses that their group believes that the tribulation occurred in 70 A.D. And that this generation in Matthew 24 verse 36 genea also? as he puts it means this generation. And that the word "millennium" does not necessarily mean a thousand years.
JOHN: Well, it does mean a thousand years, but he's reinterpreting it.
Q: Can you give me something to say to him that would turn it back around...also, you know, he's a real stickler about the genea also thing.
J: Yeah, I would say to him, expose yourself to some other material, you know. If you really want to know the truth, don't get locked in to that situation. Be willing to study some other sides of that. Obviously he's in the wrong place and he doesn't have the where with all to make the decision himself, so he becomes a victim of whoever teaches him. But...I mean, there's nothing you can say about an isolated thing like that. You'd have to take the guy back and teach him hermeneutics. In other words, you've got to learn how to interpret the Bible. This is back to where we started tonight. If you don't know the principles to interpret Scripture, it's for sure you're going to come up with the wrong answer. It's for sure, it's a guarantee if you don't know what you're doing.
And it's amazing, you couldn't fly an airplane with training and you couldn't operate on somebody with training and you couldn't run a computer system without training. And you couldn't do a lot of things without training, but people think they can pick up the Bible and tell you everything it means off the top of their head. And if they've got any personality or any charm or any dynamics, they can get a bunch of people to follow them.
It's the old story in California. Grow a beard, say you're Moses...you'll have 50 followers in a half an hour. And you can build your own little kingdom and you can just keep unloading on them. And as long as you keep them happy and think they think they're really into the deep stuff, you've got them.
But...again it's tragic that people don't know how to interpret Scripture. And the best thing you can say to someone like that is you need to expose yourself to some alternatives.
Read some things. Give him some good things to read. Let him listen to tapes that we've preached on that or someone else has.
Say if you're really...if you're really objective and really want to know the truth, listen to this. Find out if he's open. If he's not open, you're stuck. If he is, then maybe you can feed him some stuff that will help him to see, you know, where his error is.
Q: I had asked him why the Dead Sea was still dead, but he didn't have an answer...
J: Didn't help, huh?
Q: The other question that I had was do you believe that Christ as He exists now is a material being and if so, do you believe that before He was incarnate, He also existed as a material being?
J: The answer to the first question is yes, but not a material being as you know it or I know it because there's a body of resurrection, 1 Corinthians 15 again. There is a body of resurrection, there's one kind of body and another kind of body and another kind of body and a body of birds, and a body of animals and a body of resurrection. And He has a body, a body that, He said, "I'm not a spirit, you see the flesh and bones that I have." He went through the wall and yet He was there and they could see Him and touch Him and feel Him and all that, so He has a supernatural body which is a visible body.
I do not believe He possessed that before the incarnation.
I think a body Thou hast prepared Me, He says in Hebrews, a body Thou hast prepared Me. So I don't think He entered into that body until His incarnation, then fully became the incarnate Christ, now is the glorified Christ...Son of man, Son of God.
Q: In Genesis 18, do you believe He just...
J: Well, I think God appeared in some manifest form. As to what kind of material form it was, I don't know. You're talking about Abraham and Sarah, and God coming on the scene.
Q: I'm just wondering whether, you know, that...a lot of people believe that that was Christ.
J: Yeah, I think it was God and I think He appeared in some form.
Let me just get these last two very quickly, okay? Thank you. We'll go right here real quick and then I'll go over here.
QUESTIONER: Is it wrong and how would you tell a fellow Christian that it is to get involved with some of these multi- level marketing things, such as Amway, where you set your sights on certain material things or wealth. And then come back and say, "Well, it's all going to be for the glory of God cause when I get all this money, I'll help support retired pastors," or I'll do this or I'll do that?
JOHN: Here I am. No, I'm not going to retire. No. It's all a question of motive. Nothing...you know, nothing is wrong with that kind of thing if your motive is right. And who can say whether the motive is right, the Lord knows that. I mean, if you're in it to get the biggest car and the biggest house and the biggest ring and the biggest gold watch and the fattest diamond bracelet and parade, I mean, if you're working at Sav-On sweeping to do that, it's wrong. Or, if you, you know, underneath a car and that's your goal, that's not a good goal. So it isn't a question of what kind of organization are you in, it's a question of what's in your heart. I know people in various multi-level organizations who have pure motives. Unfortunately those organizations many of them tend to corrupt their motives because all they do is dangle materialistic goals in front of them. But there are people who resist that. And again it's a question of where your heart is.
Q: Yeah, cause the main thing they do is they tell you to get a picture of something that you want, put it on your refrigerator...
J: Hey, you know, my wife washes our clothes with Amway soap, it's great stuff. It's a good product.
Q: Oh, I'm not putting the products down.
J: I think it's cheaper at the Price Club, but I'm not going to... Anyway, but it's a good product. But...so we get it from very lovely people and it's wonderful.
Q: So it's just a question of...
J: Yeah, where your heart is. Sure.
Well, great. We're going to have to cut it off. Sorry.
Okay? Next time...write me a letter, all right? I'll answer my mail. Thanks, folks, for tonight. I hope we covered some things that were helpful to you. And we'll do it again sometime.
Let's stand for a word of prayer and we'll be on our way.
Thank You, Father, tonight for our fellowship. Thank You for all these folks who have come to share with us. And thank You, Lord, that we can look to Your Word and find all these many answers, a range of subjects and we know, Lord, when we have this truth that's in Your holy book, we know whereof we speak. Even the things we don't understand are okay, too, because You do understand. And we accept the fact that we can't know everything but what we do know causes us to rejoice. And may we realize that the Scripture says though a man be a fool, though a wayfaring man be a fool, he need not err. The truth is so clear.
So help us, Lord, to be faithful students. And bless us until we meet again on Your day in Christ's name. Amen.
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