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The Rapp Report with Andrew Rappaport is a podcast providing Biblical interpretations and applications. It is a ministry of Striving for Eternity.
Rapp Report Daily episode 85
The touching story of a Mormon woman that contacted Andrew who was upset that he was evangelizing Mormons. After Andrew shared some information and the website for Mormonism Research Ministry she realized she needed to leave Mormonism.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 84
Andrew discusses the new book Sharing the Good News with Mormons. This book is available at the Striving for Eternity store
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Rapp Report Daily episode 83
Why should anyone do open-air evangelism? It seems so outdated. We will cover why Andrew did open-air evangelism at the Mormon Manti Miracle Pagent.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 82
Should Christians go to a Mormon event to evangelize them? This podcast explains some reasons why we should go to an event by other religions not to protest but to share the truth with those that are deceived by false religions.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 81
What happened to the Rapp Report daily yesterday? Did something happen to Andrew? Yes, something did happen and he will discuss it on this podcast.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 80
What is the Jewish view of how someone gets saved?
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Rapp Report Daily episode 79
To understand Judaism's view of salvation we must first understand their view of man's existence and sin.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 78
What is Judaism's view of Jesus? Judaism has a view of the Messiah but they believe it cannot be Jesus.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 77
What does Judaism teach about God?
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Rapp Report Daily episode 76
Judaism has four authorities. Each authority will be explained so that you know how to understand what Judaism believes.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 75
When Jesus's brothers challenged Him to openly go to the feast, He went but no publicly. Jesus did go but in secret. Context is important when interpreting Scripture.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 74
Jesus's brother challenged Jesus to go to the feast opening and not in secret and the question asked is, did Jesus lie when He stated that it was not His time, yet did go?
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Rapp Report Daily episode 73
Jesus uses a Jewish idiom to tell people to always anticipate the coming of the Lord when he claimed that only the Father knows the day and the hour.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 71
When Jesus claims that He does not know the day or hour only the Father knows, he was not claiming that there are things that He does not know. He was claiming that we must always be ready for the coming of the Lord.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 71
Some claim that Jesus lied in Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32 seems to claim that Jesus did not know something and yet He claimed to be God and to know everything. Is Jesus a liar or is there a much easier explanation.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 70
Sometimes we hear Christians tell us that we are not to judge other Christians. However, Paul disagrees in 1 Corinthians 5:6, when he tells us that we are not to judge outsiders of the church but to judge the church.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 69
Would it surprise you to know that Jesus commanded us to judge others? He did in John 7:24. The issue that Jesus addressed is that we are not to judge others by outward appearances but to judge by a righteous standard, God's Word.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 68
Jesus does not tell us not to judge others in Matthew 7:1. He addresses the hypocritical judgment of the Pharisees. The issue that Jesus addresses is that we must hold ourselves to the same standard that use to judge others.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 67
Matthew 7:1 states, "Judge not, that you be not judged". Does that mean that we are not to judge others? Well not if you continue reading the context. The issue Jesus is making is not that we should not judge others, but the standard that we use to judge others.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 66
One of the unwritten rules of our culture is the claim that one cannot judge other people. Often people quote the Bible, thinking that the Bible teaches that we should not judge other people. That is not what the Bible teaches. When a person calling you judgmental, they are making a judgment. If judging others is wrong by their standard, then they should not judge you.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 65
The easiest type of literature for interpreting Scripture is instructional literature. This is where we will get most of our doctrine from. This form of literature is found in most of the letters in the New Testament.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 64
Prophetic literature is one of the most difficult types of literature in Scripture to interpret. Therefore must be handled carefully. Most of the prophetic literature is dealing with history that has really been fulfilled. In the unfulfilled prophecies, one must remember that they are often thumbnail sketches and not as detailed as many would like to believe.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 63
Wisdom literature is one of the many types of literature in Scripture. In interpreting wisdom literature one must understand the interpretation rules for Hebrew poetry, but it goes beyond that. One must always remember that wisdom literature deals with generalities and not promises.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 62
The key to interpreting Hebrew poetry is looking for the parallelism. Hebrew poetry does not rely on rhyme but on parallel thoughts. Being able to recognize the type of parallelism will help in the interpretation of Hebrew poetry.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 61
The key to interpreting Hebrew poetry is looking for the parallelism. Hebrew poetry does not rely on rhyme but on parallel thoughts. Being able to recognize the type of parallelism will help in the interpretation of Hebrew poetry.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 60
Historical narratives are one of the most abused types of literature in Scripture to be interpreted. It is essential to understand the proper rules for interpreting historical narratives.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 59
Historical narratives are one of the most abused types of literature in Scripture to be interpreted. It is essential to understand the proper rules for interpreting historical narratives.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 58
Historical narratives are one of the most abused types of literature in Scripture to be interpreted. It is essential to understand the proper rules for interpreting historical narratives.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 57
Historical narratives are one of the most abused types of literature in Scripture to be interpreted. It is essential to understand the proper rules for interpreting historical narratives.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 56
The first rule of Bible interpretation is identifying the type of literature of the text. Different types of Biblical literature have different rules of interpretation. It is essential to understand the rules before attempting to interpret the Scripture.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 55
Is there hope for a parent who lost a child? We should not have false hope and try to make the Scripture say what it does not say. However, too many parents who have lost a baby, there is hope.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 54
In 2 Samuel 12:23, David uses a Jewish idiom to describe death as final. This was not a promise that he would see his child in heaven.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 53
When we look at 2 Samuel 12:23 the question must be asked could David have received a special revelation about the death of his child. We know that David knew his child would die through special revelation from Nathan. Could David have also received a special revelation about where his child would be after death? The text does not make that clear.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 52
Many believe that David claimed that all children go to heaven. However, when we look at the passage that many use in 2 Samuel 12:23, we do not see that claim at all.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 51
Do babies go to heaven? This is an emotional topic that many struggle to answer. On this week's podcast, we will look at the key passage of Scripture that many used to assure themselves to the affirmative.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 50
What should be the Christian response to evil? Christians recognize that evil exists in the world, but instead of denying it or trying to avoid accountability, we embrace it and turn to in repentance to our Savior. As Christians, we should be encouraging others who do not know Jesus Christ to do the same. The presence of evil is the recognition that we sin against a holy and just God. The solution is repentance.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 49
Atheists have no way of explaining the origin of evil. However, we know what the origin is from the Bible. The entrance of evil into the universe began with Satan followed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of been. When Adam and Eve sinned they brought the corruption into the entire universe and as our federal heads brought the sin nature upon every human being.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 48
Even though professing atheists argue there is no absolute standard of morality, they always talk as if there is. Listen to the language that they use and you will hear words of an absolute standard. However, they cannot appeal to an absolute standard without God. So they have to deny the very language they use in an attempt to justify their worldview.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 47
If there is no God, there is no standard for morality. People know that morality exists and act as if it is absolute but by what standard can they appeal to if there is no God?
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Rapp Report Daily episode 46
Is this like to say that the presence of evil proves that God cannot exist. However, they could not account for evil without God’s existence. Chemical reactions cannot produce moral goodness or evil.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 45
Should a Christian drink alcohol? In modern Western cultures, there is very little reason for a Christian to argue for the drinking of alcohol. They do not need it for dysentery and very few have any medical reasons for it. However, some believe they have that liberty. The most important thing for those Christians is to not cause another brother or sister to stumble.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 44
Can a Christian drink alcohol? There is no sin in drinking alcohol in and of itself. The Scripture has always been clear that drunkenness is a center. One must ask, however, why do they want to drink alcohol with so many options available. The motivation behind the drinking of alcohol can be the determiner between sin and not sin. Drunkness is always a sin in Scripture.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 43
Did Jesus drink alcohol? There are some who would like to believe that Jesus Christ never drank alcohol because they believe that all alcohol drinking is a sin. However, we see in Scripture that Jesus did, in fact, drink alcohol. Jesus being God cannot sin. Therefore if Jesus Christ drank alcohol than drinking alcohol cannot be a sin. However, Scripture has always made it clear that drunkenness is always a sin.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 42
Is drinking alcohol a sin? The drinking of alcohol in and of itself is not a sin. The Scripture is clear that drunkenness is always the same. Some try to excuse drinking in the first century as if there was no alcohol content. This is untrue.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 41
Did people drink alcohol in the first century? The answer is yes they did. Alcohol served a purpose in killing dysentery in water. In fact, people would have had to drink some level of alcohol to avoid being sick from the water. In the first century, they did not have water filtration as we do today. In many places around the world, people have to be careful with the water they drink. The first century was no different. However, there is a difference between the alcohol that they would have had for their water and what the Bible calls a strong drink.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 40
Can someone who is has been divorced be qualified as a pastor or deacon? Many people look to 1 Timothy and believe that when it says that a pastor or deacon is a husband of one wife that it means one wife for life. They would argue that this disqualifies a divorced person. However, it would disqualify a widower but not a divorced person that never remarries.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 39
Many atheists try to make the claim that the Bible's authority is a circular argument. They believe that Christians make the argument that the Bible is an authority because the Bible says it is an authority. However, that is not the argument we make. The reason the Bible is an authority is that Its Author cannot lie, making a truthful and trustworthy.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 38
When someone claims that they used to be Christian we often find that they have a lack of basic understanding of the Bible. Even those who say they went to seminary and studied to be a pastor show ignorance in basic Bible doctrines. And yet they use the claim that they used to be a Christian in an illogical way to claim authority that they do not have.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 37
There is one key Bible verse that proves that no one that makes the claim that they were once a Christian ever was. In 1 John 2:19, states that anyone that leaves the Christian community does so because they were never part of the Christian community. The purpose of the verse is to show that those who leave do so to expose they were never a Christian. Christian is one that would always persevere to the end. Therefore, when someone says they were once a Christian they are admitting that they have left what they cannot leave. Thus, they were never a Christian, they were only a hypocrite that stopped pretending.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 36
Sometimes you hear people make the false claim that they de-converted from Christianity. The argument they make is that they were once a Christian and trusted in God as in the Bible as the ultimate authority, however, they have now changed their understanding. This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of what it means to be a Christian. To be a Christian requires one to put their ultimate trust in God and the Bible. When someone has their alternate entrusts in something they cannot be convinced otherwise. When a person claims that they have de-converted from Christianity that is proof that they never were a Christian because her ultimate authority was not God and the Bible but themselves.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 35
In this 2-minute podcast, we will address the fifth of five characteristics of a cult. The fifth trait of a cult is that the organization endangers any that will leave the group. They cause a spiritual and sometimes physical danger.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 34
In this 2-minute podcast, we will address the fourth of five characteristics of a cult. The fourth trait of a cult is that the organization that they will isolate their members from any outsiders.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 33
In this 2-minute podcast, we will address the third of five characteristics of a cult. The third trait of a cult is that they will claim exclusivity on the truth. If you leave their organization in the minds of a cult left the truth.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 32
In this 2-minute podcast, we will address the second of five characteristics of a cult. The second trait of a cult is that they will set up some authority, be it an organization or person, that has control specifically over the interpretation of Scripture but often becomes control over people's lives.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 31
In this 2-minute podcast, we will address the first of five characteristics of a cult. The first trait of a cult is that they will twist Scripture to give new meanings and doctrines that they can use to their advantage while sounding like they are providing the truth.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 30
This 2-minute podcast answers the challenge that atheists make that Christianity is just a God of the gaps. The fact is that atheism is just a science of the gaps.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 29
This 2-minute podcast discusses the question of how much knowledge of the doctrine of the Trinity does one need to know to be saved.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 28
This 2-minute podcast discusses the third of three things that make Christian unique from all other religions. There are only two religions in the world, one of Divine effort and one of human effort.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 27
This 2-minute podcast discusses the second of three things that make Christian unique from all other religions. No religions have a God that is both just and merciful, except Christianity.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 26
This 2-minute podcast discusses the first of three things that make Christian unique from all other religions. The first of these is that Jesus is the object of Christian worship because He is fully God and fully man.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 25
This 2-minute podcast discusses the argument from atheists that claim that God cannot exist because there is evil in the world. However, the presence of evil is proof that God exists.
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This 2-minute podcast proves the Biblical proof that Jesus died on Friday not Wednesday or Thursday.
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This 2-minute podcast discusses when a day begins. In the western world a new day begins at midnight. However, in Judaism the day begins at sunset.
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This 2-minute podcast addresses that a day does not always mean a 24-hour day. So when Jesus stated that he would be buried three days it does not mean three literal 24-hour days.
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This 2-minute podcast asks the questions that many have been asking of late, what day did Jesus die? Some think that Jesus could not have died on Friday as traditionally believed because if he was buried for three days must mean that it must be three 24-hour days.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 20
This is a 2-minute podcast. Logic deals with examining arguments for two factors: validity and soundness. Validity deals with examining the form of an argument to see if it is valid, where soundness addresses and valid argument in which all premises are true.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 19
This is a daily 2-minute podcast. The "poisoning the well" argument is a logical fallacy that is very often seen. It is an attempt to discredit an entire argument based on one point.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 18
This is a 2-minute podcast. The ad hominem argument is one of the more frustrating logical fallacies to deal with because it is personal in nature. However, recognizing what an ad hominem argument provides a victory in an argument. When one must resort to an ad hominem argument it means that they cannot defend the argument itself.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 17
The strawman argument is a very common logical fallacy that many people use, many without even knowing it. However, identifying the strawman argument will help to identify when a person cannot support their own argument.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 16
Critical thinking is a skill that many lack, but is very important. The first key to critical thinking is learning to ask questions and recognize logical fallacies. Most people do not recognize when someone cannot support their own argument.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 15
A very important principle when it comes to interpreting Scripture is to always emphasize the clear passages of Scripture over the more difficult to understand passages. There are times when passages seem to contradict each other, however, if you start with those passages that are consistent through Scripture and clear to understand they will often help to explain those that seem to be in contradiction.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 14
One thing that you can see consistent with every cult, is an overemphasis of the Old Testament over the New Testament. we always must remember that the New Testament takes precedence over the Old Testament. This is an important principle in interpreting Scripture. Remember that Scripture was progressively given over time and people learned more of God's revelation over that time.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 13
One of the most important lessons you can ever learn to interpret the Bible is the importance of context. Context provides the framework for interpretation. There are many different views of context that come into play with interpreting Scripture. We not only have the immediate context of the literary work there were dealing with, but also the cultural context, the historical context, and the spiritual context.
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Presuppositions are very important. Every one of us comes to the text of Scripture with the presupposition. In this podcast, we are going to discuss the role the presuppositions play in interpretation and how it relates to the principles of interpretation.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 11
There are two methods that people use to interpret the Bible, either by presuppositions or by following the principles of interpretation.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 10
There are many today who claim that the only Bible is the King James Verison (KJV). Was this the intent of the original translators? The answer is no, as seen in the preface to the original version of the KJV.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 9
With the introduction of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, there is some today that claims it was inspired. However, if that were true then God introduced theological confusion with the invention of two new words; baptize and deacon.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 8
Why did the 1611 version of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible include the Apocrypha? The answer to that is in the history behind the creation of the KJV. King James wanted one translation of the Bible for the country that both Roman Catholics and Protestants could use.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 7
It may surprise many to discover that the 1611 King James Bible (KJV) contented the 39 Old Testament books, the 27 New Testament books and the 14 Apocrypha books. If the KJV 1611 was inspired as some believe than the Apocrypha books would also be inspired by God.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 6
Many people believe that the first translation of the Bible was the King James Version (KJV) completed in 1611. This is simply not true.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 5
In this episode, we examine Christianity's view of the eternal state.
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In this episode, we examine Christianity's view of salvation.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 3
In this episode, we examine Christianity's view of sin.
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In this episode, we examine Christianity's view of God.
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In this episode, we examine Christianity's view of authority.
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Rapp Report Daily episode 522
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Rapp Report episode 118
Troy Fraiser & Joel Bourdess join Andrew to discuss their podcast Revived Thoughts. They talked about the importance of listening to sermons of great pastors many of whom you may have never heard of before.
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Rapp Report Daily 521
Andrew will be taking a break from the Rapp Report Daily for a few weeks for some needed time of rest.
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Rapp Report Daily 520
Are Christians distracted by politics and not sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ?
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Rapp Report Daily 519
Politicians cannot solve moral problems, only Jesus Christ can do that.
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Rapp Report Daily 518
As we enter the American election cycle Andrew provides a warning to Christians against political activism.
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Rapp Report Daily 517
Can Christians support President Trump with all his immorality?
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Rapp Report Daily 516
What was wrong about what Nancy Pelosi did at the State of the Union Speach?
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Rapp Report Daily 515
Everyone can claim that they are a victim. Is there a solution to overcome victimhood?
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Rapp Report Daily 514
Those that argue for LGBT claim that Christians are not loving if they do not promote LGBT, but is that true?
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Rapp Report Daily 513
Those that argue for LGBT claim that Christians are not loving, but is that true?
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Rapp Report Daily 512
Those that argue for intersectionality claim that Christians are exclusive, but is that true?
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Rapp Report Daily 511
Those that argue for intersectionality use Zacchaeus as an example or proof but is he really an example they should use?
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Rapp Report Daily 510
Many in the intersectionality crowd will make a claim of exclusivity. They will claim that you are being excluding of others, well their whole argument denigrates Christians and excludes them from discussion.
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Rapp Report Daily 509
Most corporations talk about their desire for diversity in the workforce. However, we see that this diversity is part of intersexuality it has a very anti-Christian message.
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Rapp Report Daily 508
Intersectionality leads to intolerance. Intersectionality is the idea that one group of people can force on another group of people wave thinking. Tolerance is the excepting of another person's point of view, but this forces a person to accept their point of view which is intolerance.
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Rapp Report Daily 507
Andrew provides a biblical understanding of what's wrong with intersectionality.
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Rapp Report Daily 506
What is intersectionality? This is a new term used within social justice circles to refer to the amount of victim status that a person has.
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Rapp Report Daily 505
When we realize that transgenders arguments about bathroom use are not logically valid then the only reason for doing so must be political.
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Rapp Report Daily 504
The question many in our society are asking is what does it matter which bathroom transgender's use. There is some simple logic that we can apply to show that they want to have a double standard.
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Rapp Report Daily 503
Many who promote transgenderism argue that gender is the way we identify, and yet in their arguments, they prove binary genders.
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Though many try to criticize Christianity because the Bible mentions slavery, they failed to consider that there are laws for more restrictive than slavery that they accept.
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Rapp Report Daily 501
Many people make arguments against Christianity because the Bible mentions slavery. However, they have not thought through the issue of slavery. Many will argue slavery is wrong because it is restrictive. However, prison is far more restrictive.
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Rapp Report Daily 500
Celebrating 500 episodes with a big thank you to you our audience.
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Rapp Report Daily 499
The core argument in abortion is really an ownership issue. The woman who says she has the right to do what you want for the body is arguing for ownership. So what is the difference between this is my property and this is my body?
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Rapp Report Daily 498
The key argument in the abortion debate is, that it is a woman's right to choose. However, there are two women and sometimes one man or woman that is affected by the choice. The question is does the child and the room have a choice in the decision?
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Rapp Report Daily 497
Many make the argument when it comes to abortion that it is the women's right to choose what she wants to do with her body. However, is that really the case? When we applied some simple critical thinking skills we see that argument falls apart.
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Rapp Report Daily 496
Christians often are challenged with many arguments. However, most arguments can be resolved with a small amount of critical thinking skills. Christians base their arguments on truth. That is what we want in critical thinking. This week Andrew will start a new series to apply critical thinking to cultural and social issues to show how they can easily be answered.
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Rapp Report Daily 495
Many people misunderstand Matthew 18:20 where Jesus says if two or three are gathered in His name there He is among them. We look at the context we end up seeing the meaning it has to do with church discipline not a church prayer meeting.
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Rapp Report Daily 494
Many misunderstand when Jesus says, "if two or three of you agree on earth about anything they ask it will be given to them by my father in heaven" to mean that God is obligated to give them what they asked. However, the context provides an improper meaning.
Rapp Report Daily 493
Many people misunderstand what James was saying when he asks if anyone is sick to call the elders. Many people think that this is some sickness as an illness when the context talks about suffering and those who me been beaten for their faith.
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Rapp Report Daily 492
Many people think that James chapter 2 teaches that salvation comes by works however they ignore the key verse, verse 14. James 2:14 makes it clear that he's answering a question about a face that should have works but does not have it and questions whether that specific faith can save someone.
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Rapp Report Daily 491
Many people think that the situation with the widow that gives her last penny is about giving. Our we look at the context we realize is a stronger message about the Jewish leadership.
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Rapp Report Daily 490
Who have been seeing that Jesus was being challenged by the Jewish leaders in an attempt for them to discredit Him only have Him answer their questions. But now Jesus starts to ask questions and the Jews have no answers.
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Rapp Report Daily 489
The Scribes thought that they could trap Jesus by asking him about which is the greatest commandment, something that the Jews debated hotly. And as the scribes thought they could trap Jesus to discredit him, they only discover that Jesus again answers with the perfect answer. Jesus explains that all of the law hangs on just one to love the Lord your God.
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Rapp Report Daily 488
The Sadducees try to trap Jesus on questions of the Resurrection. However, where they think they have in on answerable question they don't realize they're dealing with God! Jesus always has the right answer because he knows things about having the Jewish leaders did not.
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Rapp Report Daily 487
The Jews in attempt to trap Jesus challenged him with a question about taxes. They asked him whether Jewish people should pay taxes to Rome. They thought this would be a trap because Jesus would not be able to answer. However, Jesus always has the right answer.
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Rapp Report Daily 486
Jesus called out the Jewish leaders for their hypocrisy. He ended up giving a parable that they clearly understood. Basically challenging than that because of their lack of belief in God he would take what he's given them and give it to the Gentiles.
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Rapp Report Daily 485
Judaism and Christianity are very different religions. And it can be seen as the way they view Deuteronomy chapter 6. Judaism sees following the law the greatest commandment, being obedience to the law. It would focus on legalism where Christianity would focus on grace and mercy.
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Rapp Report Daily 484
Yesterday looked at the Christian view of Deuteronomy 6, but when Jewish people today examine the greatest commandment of Deuteronomy chapter 6 they have a very different view than Christians. Their view focuses on a legalistic system of things to do and not on loving the Lord their God. Another argument would be that they love the Lord their God because of their actions, but often it's the actions that get the focus, not God.
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Rapp Report Daily 483
Christians and Jewish people would have a very different view when it comes to how to view what is the greatest commandment described in Deuteronomy chapter 6. This episode we'll look at the view that Christians would have of this passage.
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Rapp Report Daily 482
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have a central belief that God is one. However, where is that found? Where do we get this teaching? We get it from Deuteronomy 6:4, where it says "the Lord our God, the Lord is one".
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Rapp Report Daily 481
A look at Deuteronomy 6:4-9 is viewed very differently between Jewish people and Christians.
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Rapp Report Daily 480
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Rapp Report Daily 479
Time to get back to work but is work a bad thing? Many do not have a biblical view of work and that could make all the difference as we get back to the grind.
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Rapp Report Daily 478
A new year is a new opportunity to make changes for God to work more in your life.
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Rapp Report Daily 477
It is time to turn that calendar to a new year, even a new decade. Christians should use this time to reflect on how God is working in their lives and identify areas that need some work.
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Rapp Report Daily 476
Are you getting ready for the new year? Do you have your New Year's resolutions in place? How can you make New Year resolutions that you can keep?
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Do not waste the opportunity that Christmas provides to share the true message of Christmas with those that need to hear it.
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For many Christmas is something that is celebrated once a year but should it be?
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Merry Christmas to one and all.
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December 25th was a pagan holiday that was given a Christian meaning. Some claim that celebrating Christmas on December 25th is the worship or celebration of a pagan holiday.
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Andrew addresses the issue that some Christians would say it is a sin to celebrate Christmas on December 25th.
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What Does Inspiration Mean?
What does it mean that the Bible is inspired? What does inspiration actually mean when we think in our culture that inspiration generally has the idea that someone has a feeling about something. It's not the same as what we see when it speaks of Scripture. In 2 Timothy 3:16, it speaks about "all Scripture being breathed out by God". This is a compound word in the Greek that is the only time this is used, actually, this may be the only time it's used in Greek. This is the first of its use, and it is the idea that God actually speaks out. It is the breath of God. When we think about our breathing.
You're hearing my voice that is actually sound waves coming through. and breathing into a microphone and you are hearing my breath and that voice that I have, and that's the idea of scripture. That scripture is the very voice of God. It is him breathing out, him speaking, and therefore when we think about scripture, it carries with it the authority.
From God because it is God's very word. It is God speaking to man. That is the idea of what inspiration means. When we comes to the Bible, this isn't our sort of song and it inspired me. No, this is different. This is the very voice of God.
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What Does it Mean that the Bible is Inspired?
What does it mean that the Bible is inspired? Inspiration identifies that supernatural work of the Holy Spirit in which he superintended, which means he controlled and directed the reception, it means to the writers and communication, that means to the hears and the writing, of the divine message, such that the product in the original writings is verbally and plenary, that means completely, both inerrant and authoritative, that means without error and an authority. The Holy Spirit superintended the human authors such that though their individual personalities and different styles in writing. Or can be seen. This was all the writings of God. In other words, this is God's very word, the clearest texts that we can have to see.
This would be in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, where it says, "all scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for proof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work". We'll dive into this verse more the next time we speak.
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Are There Missing Books of the Bible?
Are there missing books to the Bible? You will often hear this, argued that there are books of the Bible that have been left out. They are missing. Books like the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Judas or the gospel of Mary. There are all kinds of books that people claim should have been in the Bible and they were left out.
Well, the reason they were left out, is not because they are missing. They are left out because they were never Scripture. There are actually four letters that Paul wrote to the Corinthians. We know that because in first and second Corinthians, he refers to these other letters and we don't have those as scripture either. So not everything that Paul wrote was scripture. Not everything about Jesus was Scripture, but we recognize that.
In the first century, they knew Peter, recognize what Paul wrote as scripture, so they knew what was Scripture. There was a Canon, a measurement, of what is Scripture. That was basically, it had to be accepted at the time of its writing. It had to be copied in and seen as Scripture. It had to be consistent so that these missing books aren't consistent. They have errors in them, and there are not many copies. They weren't seen as being Scripture. They weren't used as Scripture, so they're not missing, and that. Is the misnomer. When people say missing books of the Bible are lost books of the Bible that word itself makes you think that they're missing when there's no evidence that they were ever part of the cannon. They're not missing cause they were never part of it.
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How Do You Know the Bible is True and Not Other Books?
How do you know that the Bible is true in other sacred texts from other religions or not books like the Quran with a book of Mormon or Bhagavad-Gita or others? How do we trust the Bible? Well, the way we can tell is that when you look at these other books, take for example the book of Mormon or the Quran, you have usually one author and within the one author, you see inconsistencies. You see things that are errors.
The Quran, for example, the author of the Chron did not know Christian theology and therefore he would argue that the Christian view of the Trinity is mother, Father, and Son, and that would not be the case of what the Trinity is. They also would define it as three gods. Well the fact that that contains an error in definition, we know it is false.
You have things in the book of Mormon giving details that do not work with any of the history that we know from the land in the Americas. You cannot substantiate any of the claims there. With the Bible, you can substantiate the claims in archeology and history. But you also see with 40 different writers over 1500 years, no inconsistencies in what they are teaching. Now, people will try making inconsistency saying, well, here you have, Jesus, heals one leper and somewhere else two lepers, things like that. What you end up seeing there is that one author is referring to one of the two people. That is not an inconsistency. Though the Bible is true because it is the one written by God. That's ultimately the answer.
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Rapp Report Daily 466 Why Should We Believe the Bible? Why should we believe the Bible? Now there are many who are going to argue that we should not believe the Bible. There are those who try to argue that the Bible is full of errors. It's been corrupted and changed, and we don't really know what the Bible is. We could deal with those on later podcasts. But the question, why should we believe the Bible? Many will say that the reason Christians believe the Bible is because the Bible tells them to believe the Bible, and that's circular logic and therefore bad logic. And we shouldn't believe the Bible because it's based on circular logic. Is that why we should believe the Bible? No. Now, circular logic is not always bad. It depends on whether it is a vicious circular cycle or not. But that aside, we're actually not dealing with that question. Why should we believe the Bible for a very simple reason? The Author of the Bible cannot lie. The Author of the Bible is always good. These are the reasons we believe in the Bible. It is not because what the Bible says about Itself, that we believe the Bible. It is because of Who the Author is of the Bible. God is the Author! God cannot lie. God is good. God is omniscient. Therefore we can trust what God says because God who cannot lie and knows all things wrote this book. Therefore, it is going to be without error in its original writing and trustworthy. Enter the Christian Podcast Community contest
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Rapp Report Daily 465 The Abortion Killer We have been looking at abortion and how it is wrong. We have to ask the question, what is it that is in the womb? Is it a human being or just tissue? Seeing ways we can identify that it is a human being and therefore murder is wrong. But there is something that is the abortion killer.
There is something that is used so effectively that it turns people away from abortion more than almost anything else, other than the gospel. The gospel is the greatest thing to turn people from abortion. However, there is one thing that medical professionals can use that helps them to put a stop in most people's minds to the question, what is it?
And that is a sonogram. You see, it is one of the things that you see in Congress and those that want to support abortion, the one thing they do not want to allow is sonograms. Because when a mother sees that child, in her womb that is forming and they look at that child, they know it is a child and therefore they do not want to aboard it. They know they are killing someone.
Now there are those mothers that just do not care and that is how callous our culture has become. There are many who know it is murder. They are not a victim. They know what they are doing, but they want to have their life and they want to have their comfort and a child is just going to interfere. But sonograms are something that pro-life groups have been using for a long time because the sonogram is the abortion killer.
Rapp Report Daily 464 Why Do We Fight Abortion? The question often comes up, why is it that Christians fight against abortion so much. Now for the culture, they want to believe that this is no big deal. This is just a bunch of tissue that is the woman's right to choose what to do with her own body. However, at the core of this argument is the question of ownership. You see, we fought as Christians against slavery because we said it was wrong to say, this is my property when speaking of a human being. Well, we would agree with that and argue the very same argument when people say, not this is my property, but this is my body. No, your body is not your property. That human being in the womb is not your ownership. You see, this is the same argument that is made with slavery, an ownership issue. I have ownership over doing what I want with my body, with anything within my body as I choose. And at its core, what they say is that the human being within the womb is not human. Very much like slavery, saying that African Americans were not human. It is the same issue as slavery. The difference is in abortion, it always ends in murder.
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Rapp Report Daily 463 Simple Arguments Against Abortion Looking at some very simple arguments against abortion. We looked at two in yesterday's podcast, which was the issue of size and environment and easy way to remember this is the acronym, SLED; size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependency. I got this from Stand to Reason, str.org but you can go to other places. I think this actually started with Scott Klusendorf. Now let us look at each of these.
Size, does size matter in determining what it is in the womb? Is it a human or is it just tissue? The argument is size. Well, size does not matter. Size does not make one more human or less human. A taller person is not more human than a not smaller person.
Level of development, does the level of development matter? The argument is then the wound someone is still developing, so they are not really human yet. Well, when they come out of the womb, what is that difference from being in the womb to out of the womb? The level of development did not change much. In fact, that level of development does not change for years. It is a slow process. At what point do they, is the development enough they become human?
Environment, whether they are in the womb or outside the womb, does it matter? The argument is that where you are makes all the difference. Well, not really because that, womb does not change what it is, whether they are human or not.
Degree of dependency, the degree dependency are they dependent on humans, on other humans. Well, our kids are dependent on us for 18 years or more. So none of these things support abortion. And these are the arguments that you can use against people that support abortion.
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Rapp Report Daily 462 What is it in the Womb? One of the key things, when we look at the issue of abortion, is to ask the question, what is it? What is it that is within the womb? Is it just a blob of tissue or is it human life? That is the essential thing that has to be answered in the debate on abortion, and yet you will often find is the one thing that most support abortion do not want to answer according to science. Why? Because the science is not on their side.
What you have at conception is the forming of another human being. Now, it is in a smaller form, true, but it does not mean that that person is less of a person just because of their size. Size does not determine whether someone is human or not, or are smaller people less human? No. That would not be true. The fact that they are in a womb does not define whether they're human or not. The location should not make a difference. They are not suddenly human the moment they come out of the womb.
What you end up seeing is that child in the womb has a completely separate DNA from the mother and could even have a different sex than the mother. It is a completely different person. So we look at this, we look at two arguments that we can make, size does not matter and the environment does not matter. The science shows that they are a different person, with different DNA. So you have to ask, what is it that is in the womb? If it is a person you do not murder it.
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Rapp Report Daily 461 Do Men Have a Say in Abortion? One of the common arguments to shut down discussion for men when it comes to the issue of abortion is to say that men have no say in abortion. This is a woman's issue. However, do men have a say in abortion?
Well, we would first say as Christians that both males and females had say before they committed the act that created life in the womb, and therefore that is where the choice should have taken place. Once there is life, we do not murder the child for any reason, even if the child came about from some sinful act. It is never right to murder another human being, and that is what abortion is.
Now, do men have a say? Well, for those who want to argue that men should not have any say in abortion, if you are going to hold that consistently, then we better make abortion absolutely illegal until we have well nine women to vote on the courts. Because what made abortion legal was nine men. Nine men who chose in a court to say that abortion would be legal. Therefore, if men have no say, we should immediately make abortion illegal until enough women vote for it. And by the way, the majority of women in poll after poll always come out to say that they do not support abortion. They are pro-life. So they would never have abortion legalized.
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Rapp Report Daily 460 What is Special Revelation? What is special or supernatural revelation? Well, on yesterday's podcast we talked about natural revelation being that of nature. We can look at the stars and we can see something about the attributes of God. We can see that He exists. However, it is not enough to tell us why Christ came. It does not tell us the self-revelation of God enough to tell us his saving message for us. We can recognize our sin. We can see that or conscience that we violate God's law, but we need. A special or supernatural revelation, which is God's revealed truth to us. This is what we call the Bible or the Scriptures. This is what God has revealed to us in a special way, as an absolute authority for faith and practice. So we do not need to look to men, to theological systems, to confessions, to creeds, to know what God calls us to do. We have his very Word, God's Word. The Bible is all that we need for faith and practice. Many people want to look to psychology, culture. We do not need to look to those things. No, we have a special revelation, which is God's revelation of Himself to man.
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Rapp Report Daily 459 What is General Revelation? What is general revelation? General revelation is the revelation of God, of himself in nature, that natural revelation as we look to nature, this is the revelation of God that is clear to all of mankind, whether those who believe or those who do not, this is the revelation that God reveals. Something of his attributes, but not everything, but some things so that we can understand him. This is what we see in Romans chapter one. For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that were made. That is Romans 1 20. You see psalm 19 very clearly says, the heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. You can continue to read that, but what you see is that God uses nature to reveal himself. Not completely, but enough that people can know something of the attributes and nature of God. We can look at creation. and know he is a creator, a God of design. We can know God enough to see that He exists.
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Rapp Report Daily 458 What is the Message of the Bible? What is the message of the Bible? The Bible is the best selling book of all time for a very simple reason. It has an eternal message, a message that transcends time, transcends culture. Because it is from our creator. It is a message that regardless of where you are and what time period you may be in, it is always true. Because the Creator who created us knows us well The message of the Bible, in essence, is very simple. First, God is glorified in all things. That is the ultimate purpose of the Bible is that God is glorified. But an overriding theme that you see throughout the Bible is seen that man has violated God's law and that man cannot work his way to earn righteousness with God. He has violated God's law and is a sinner, a criminal in God's sight, and that God Himself made a way of escape that God Himself became a man and died for sin, that he became the redemption. You see that even the book of Leviticus, one of the earliest books that. God wouldn't be our redemption. We can have forgiveness of our sin through Jesus Christ. That Is the master of the Bible.
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Rapp Report Daily 457 How is the Bible Laid Out? How is the Bible laid out? Now, there is a distinction between the Christian Bible and the Jewish Bible. The Jewish Bible is going to be laid out more chronologically. But the Christian Bible is what we are going to deal with and let us start with the Old Testament. You have three major divisions. The law, the writings, and the prophets. The law are the first five books known as the Pentateuch, they are historical narrative. Followed by that is the other historical narratives that are part of the category of the writings. That is going to be Joshua through Esther. They are historical. Followed by the poetical, Hebrew poetry books, which is Job through Song of Solomon. Those are all considered the writings. Then you are the prophets. The prophets are broken down as major and minor. That does not have to do with the content as much as it has to do with the length. So the longer they are, that is the major prophets. The minor prophets are shorter. There is debate over Daniel versus Zachariah. They are both 12 chapters. You can argue that. In the New Testament you have historical, epistles, and revelation. Revelation in a category by itself, but the historical is broken down by the four gospels and the book of acts. Those are historical narratives. Then you have the epistles which are broken down by the volume of them. So Paul writing the largest amount, then Hebrews, James, Peter, John, Jude. Then you have the book of revelation. So this is basically how you have the Bible laid out.
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Rapp Report Daily 456 What is the Bible? What is the Bible? When we asked this question, many people get into challenges because they want to say that the Bible that we have today was formulated by the Catholic Church in the three hundreds. Well, that is a real problem. Why? Well, for one reason, a really good reason, is Peter recognize the writings of Paul as Scripture. So he knew when Paul wrote what he wrote, that was actual Scripture. We see that in 2 Peter 3:16 when he calls Paul's writings Scripture. So he recognized that, but we ended up seeing that early, in the first and second centuries, they had a recording of the books of both the Old and New Testament. Now old Testament, we have in the council of the rabbis in Jamina, where they met in 70 AD and they decided those books that were always accepted. By the way, that did not include those apocryphal books that the Catholic church accepts. By the way, they did not accept those books until the reformation time. That was a reaction to the reformation. But you saw that there were things that people saw as scripture because they had 1) prophetic authorship, 2) they had a witness of the spirit and 3) they were accepted by the church. That is what is called the Canon or measurement. That is what is the Bible.
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Rapp Report Daily 455
After stuffing your face with Thanksgiving do you consider the many riches that we have in this country? We have much to rejoice. However, do we reflect on the riches that we have in Jesus Christ?
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Rapp Report Daily 454
We have much we can learn from that first Thanksgiving. This country is in desperate need to learn the lesson of Thanksgiving. We all the division we need to learn to thank God and work with others.
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Rapp Report Daily 453
We can be thankful for God's revelation to people. We could not know about God unless He reveals Himself to us. He does that in two ways, through natural and special revelation. Natural revelation or nature is enough to reveal that God exists and something about His nature but we need special revelation to know about His salvation for people.
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The ark of the covenant provide us with an example of the failures of Israel and the provision of God. We can be thankful for God's provision for Israel and for us.
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Rapp Report Daily 451 Can We Really Know What Happens After We Die? Can we really know what happens after we die? This is often a challenge that we will hear that people will say, we won't know what happens until we die. Now, at its core of this argument, what you have is the case that people are saying that we cannot know something for sure without experiencing it.
Does that actually play out in other areas of life? If I run my car off a 1500 foot cliff, do I know what's going to happen? Yes. Gravity is going to take effect. I'm going to free-fall down, smashed a car, and probably die. I don't need to experience it to understand that if I inject myself with certain drugs, do I know what's going to happen? Well, if I'm going to take a hallucinatory drug, I'm going to start hallucinating. If I'm going to do other drugs that affect you, you, we can know the results of those things. If I choose to ignore cancer and my body, can I know what's going to happen? Do I have to experience it or can I know that cancer will spread? Well, yeah, we can know these things. We don't have to experience them.
So the underlying argument that they make that we can't know something until we experience it is just not a valid argument. So. Is there a way that we can know what happens after we die? Yes, we can know absolutely what happens after we die because someone who's been there has come back and told us. See, Christ not only came from heaven to earth who tell us about heaven, but he went back there and came and spoke with people even after he was back in heaven.
Rapp Report Daily 450 Is there a Waiting Period Between Death and Heaven/Hell? What happens after we die? Is there some sort of waiting period between death and whether we go to heaven or hell, the Roman Catholic church would call this purgatory. There are some who think that somehow there's this place where we go where we can work off the rest of our sins and eventually make our way to heaven unless really, really, really bad. However, there is no temporary place. What we see in Hebrews 9:27 it says, and just as it is appointed for man to die once and after that comes judgment, so you end up seeing is that it's appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment, there's no in-between. Now heaven and hell are a temporary place for we see in Revelation that, hell or Hades will be thrown into the Lake of fire. So the eternal resting place is the Lake of fire or the new heaven and new earth. So yes, in a sense we would think of as heaven and hell is a temporal place waiting for the eternal place. But that eternal place will also be a heaven or a hell being the Lake of fire. So, the idea that there's a place in between where we get a second chance as Mormonism or a Roman Catholicism with teach. We don't see that in the Bible. In the Bible, it is very clear. It's appointed unto man wants to die and then a judgment. The moment we die, we give account for what we've done.
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Rapp Report Daily 449 My God Would Never Send Anyone to Hell Many times we hear the argument, my God would never send anyone to hell. Well, that's actually true because the person who makes that sort of claim doesn't believe in the God of the Bible. Therefore, their God who wouldn't send anyone to hell because he does not exist. So that's true there. God wouldn't send anyone to hell. Because he is a figment of their imagination. The question is not whether your God would send anyone to hell. The real question is, is the God that actually exists? Will he send anyone to hell? And the answer to that is yes, he does because he's infinitely Holy. And because he's infinitely just his justice requires him to punish crimes and a crime is anything that acts outside of his nature. So why is lying a sin? Because God's not a liar. Why is murder sin? Because God's not a murderer. His nature is the standard. Therefore, he must punish all evil doers. Now we would like to compare ourselves to other human beings because that way we could feel better about ourselves, but the real comparison is with God. God is absolutely perfect and therefore we must be also, God does punish people to hell because he is just an Holy.
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Rapp Report Daily 448 Discussing Hell How do you discuss hell with a Christian who does not believe there is such a place? Now, there are those that profess to know Christ and yet they end up agreeing with Jehovah's witnesses and others that hell does not exist. Many believe this because they just do not like the idea of eternal punishment. But whether we like it or not, this is a reality. How do you discuss it with them? Well, I go to Daniel 12:2 which says "in many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to an everlasting contempt." So in the same manner that there is eternal life is this eternal contempt that we would call hell. You can also go to Isaiah 66:24 which says, "and they shall go out and look at the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me for the worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence of all flesh." You see, they wanted to deny there is an eternal consequence even though they sin and break the law of an eternal God. It is because God is an eternal being that we have an eternal consequence. So the question is, who do you focus on? Do you focus on man and what he thinks or in who God is? Because we violate a holy, infinite God, we have an eternal consequence. That is the reality.
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Rapp Report Daily 447 How Were OT Saints Saved? The question often comes up, how did Old Testament saints get saved? As if they got saved as somehow different than all people. No, we end up seeing in the book of Hebrews is that the Old Testament saints looked forward to what the Messiah would do. So they would have sacrifices, burnt offerings, things like this, that they would atone for sin. But they always knew, that was just a picture of what was to come. The Old Testament saints looked forward to the Messiah is coming when the suffering servant, as described in Isaiah 53, would come and be that final sacrifice. Now, many people tried to argue that old Testament saints were saved by works as if there is some other way to be saved other than grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ alone. No. What we end up seeing is they were saved the same way everybody else is, though. They looked forward to Christ and we have them for knowledge of looking back and seeing what Christ has done. So we look at what Christ has done in the past, they looked at Christ would do in the future, and we are both saved by grace.
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Rapp Report Daily 446 Why Is Hell Eternal? Why is hell eternal? Now, this is something that many people have a hard time understanding because we look at our own justice system and there is a punishment that is usually associated with the crime. So if you steal something, usually you do not have the same sentence as someone who murdered somebody. When we look at God's law, it seems that even one lie carries the punishment of eternal death. People think somehow that seems unfair. Now when we say, why is hell eternal? Let me start by saying it is not actually hell, that is eternal. It's the Lake of fire is the final resting place. We see that hell, which is sometimes referred to as Hades in Revelation 20:14 that death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire at that Great White Throne Judgment. So Hades, which is often referred to as hell, is a temporary place. Those that are there will eventually be thrown into the Lake of Fire, which is the permanent resting place. Now, why is it that hell or really the Lake of Fire is eternal? Why does sin against God carry an eternal punishment? That is the real question. The answer is this, God is infinitely Holy, infinitely just and because of His infinite nature, when we sin against Him, it carries an infinite consequence. So because we sin against Him, it takes forever to pay it. In other words, we never can pay it. God is that Holy.
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Rapp Report Daily 0445 Is Being Religious Enough? Many people try to say they do not need God. They are religious. As if being religious is enough. Is being religious enough? Does God, except our religion or religiosity? No, He does not. You see, God sets a perfect standard. We must be absolutely perfect in word in thought, and indeed. None of us can hold to that.
That is why the psalmist says, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". Every single one of us falls short of the mark and being religious is just a work. It is not getting right with God. It is us feeling better about what we do, thinking that that should merit something with God.
Remember being religious is an attempt to earn merit with God, is just a work. And we are not saved by works. We are saved by grace. In other words, the only work that matters is the work that Jesus Christ did on the cross. And when people say, but I am religious, what they are actually doing is saying that their works should count more than the works of Almighty God. When he came to earth, lived as a man and died on a cross. No, the simple reality, our works can never compare to what Jesus did on the cross.
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Rapp Report Daily 0444 My Sin is in the Past So I am a Good Person Have you ever been evangelizing someone and they tell you, well, I used to lie and I used to steal, but I do not do that anymore. That was all in the past and I am a good person and deserve heaven. Well, when it comes to God, there is no limitation on the time for crimes committed against Him. In other words, it does not matter that it was in the past. The fact is we have broken God's law. The moment we break God's law, we would deserve eternity in a Lake of Fire. God is long-suffering with us. He allows us to continue to live and unfortunately to continue to sin and we bring judgment upon ourselves.
However, God made a way of escape the fact that Jesus Christ, all-mighty God, came to earth and died on a cross that you and I could be set free and be forgiven of sin, is the only way that we could be in a right favor with God. You see, you and I will never be a good person. It does not matter how good we are today because we have already broken his law. Once we break the law of God, we become criminals in his sight. We do not like that idea. However, it is true. We are criminals in the sight of God.
He would rightly judge us because he is a just judge who is angry with the wicked every day. So your sins are in the past, but you still have a judgment day coming. It is appointed onto man wants to die, and then the judgment.
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Rapp Report Daily 0443 Is Sin God's Fault? Is sin God's fault. Now, some people try to argue that God made me like this, or God made the world like this, and therefore sin is God's fault. After all, isn't he in control of everything? Well, yes, God is in control of everything. However, just because He is sovereign, meaning there is not a single atom in the universe that is outside of His control, it does not mean that God causes everything the way we would think. God allows things to happen. He is still in control.
Think of it as a parent who knows their child is gonna do something wrong and sets up parameters to allow a child to fail to learn a lesson. Well God, also allowed His own creation to fail for His own purposes. Did he cause it? No. Satan was the first being to act in a sinful way in all of the universe, followed by other angels, then eventually Eve then Adam. So what you end up seeing is that all of creation has fallen and suffered the consequences of the curse because of what Adam and Eve ended up doing.
Is it God's fault? No. We have to put the responsibility on those who actually took the action, and that would be Adam and Eve. They knew the consequence. They chose to sin any way. So we do not blame God for sin, but if it was not Adam and Eve, we would have done the same thing.
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Rapp Report Daily 0442 Do I Need to Clean Up My Life Before Becoming a Christian? Sometimes people ask, do I need to clean up my life before becoming a Christian? And what this actually does is show confusion on what it means to be a Christian. We can understand this confusion because every man made religion is going to be a system of morality. Being a system of morality, they are more focused on doing good things and not doing bad things. And that's the thought that Christians should somehow be perfect or the thought that Christians have to be people who are living generally morally better than everyone else. That is not what makes a person a Christian. A Christian is not someone who is better behaved than other people, though they should be after they become a Christian. When we say about becoming a Christian, that point when we go from not being a Christian to being a Christian, that point. Is one where it does not take cleaning up our life. In fact, it takes the recognition that our life is a mess, that we are sinners and cannot save ourselves. That is what it first takes to be a Christian. We have to recognize we're sinners in the hands of an almighty God who is just and holy and therefore we cannot do work to pay for it ourselves. We have to rest upon him. So becoming a Christian is when we turn from trusting ourselves or our good works or genealogy and trust in Jesus Christ and Him alone. That is what it means to be a Christian. Therefore we cannot do good works to be a Christian or clean up our life to be a Christian, we have to trust in Jesus Christ alone.
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Rapp Report Daily 0440 I am as Good as Any Christian Maybe you have heard the argument that a professing atheist would make that I am as good as any Christian. In New York City, they actually had an ad on bus signs that said, "good without God". The argument that they are making is that they do not need God to be morally good. They could be good without God. However, they are missing the mark. The issue is not can we be morally good without God. The issue actually is where do we get a standard of goodness from without God. You see the only absolute universal standard that we can appeal to for goodness is the very nature of God. So we need God when we say something is good. So can someone be good without god? Well, actually no they cannot. Because to be good requires God's existence. You cannot be good without God. Because to say something is good or evil requires the nature of God if you are going to say that there is no God, but you can be good, then the only thing that someone can appeal to then is a subjective standard. And the subjective standard does not hold because that is subjective. You cannot compare it to others. So every time someone says they are as good as any other Christian. They are actually requiring God's existence.
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Rapp Report Daily 0439 Does Everyone Have an Opportunity to Repent? Does everybody have an opportunity to repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ? You sometimes hear this argument worded as if someone in a tribal Village in Africa does not know who Jesus is and therefore, they do not have an opportunity to believe in Christ. However, what we see in Romans chapter 1 is that everybody knows God. Everybody knows God exists. So they are without excuse. So we have to recognize is yes, everybody has an opportunity to repent and trust in Jesus Christ. Because they know God. Even the atheist, well, they are actually in a professing atheist, because they actually know according to Romans 1 that God exists, but they suppress that truth in unrighteousness. God has not only given us creation to realize He exists. He has not only given us a God-consciousness so we know that He exists. But He has given us a conscience so that we know right from wrong and no one we do wrong, we are out of favor with Him and must get right. So yes, every time we sin we feel that guilt and that is an opportunity of the Holy Spirit working on us to bring us to repentance but some resist and some do not.
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Rapp Report Daily 0438 What is the Conscience? What does it mean to have a conscience? What exactly is the conscience? Well, conscience is a compound word with science or with knowledge. The conscience is a gift from God it is that very thing that tells us right from wrong. It is with someone who might refer to as a moral compass. The conscience is that element within the immaterial part of man that states when we do something wrong we get that sense of guilt. Guilt is actually a good thing. It tells us we are doing something wrong. However, when we sear our conscience, then what we are actually doing is we are convincing our conscience that wrong is right. We should never do that. Because when we see our conscience, we do not know right from wrong. Titus says, “to the pure all things are pure but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure but both their minds and their conscience is defiled.” So we have to be careful with our conscience. We have to take care of our conscience to make sure we do not defile our conscience. Our conscience is a gift that tells us when we are doing wrong. But if we continue to ignore it, then it no longer works properly. And what ends up happening is when we do wrong when it should tell us stop. We do not stop and we do harm to our soul.
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Rapp Report Daily 0437 What Does it Mean to Have Your Sins Forgiven? What does it mean to have your sins forgiven? Well, we first have to understand what sin is. Sin is when we break God’s law and that is punishable by eternal death. “It is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment” and when we find that we sit at that judgment God will judge us based on His law. If we broke His law that is what sin is. Sin means to miss the mark. So to be forgiving means that we are forgiven of the crimes that we have committed against God. That means that we deserve rightly an eternity in the lake of fire. Now that might seem harsh. Why do we deserve that? Because God is infinite and therefore when we break His law it has an infinite consequence. That forgiveness can only be paid by an eternal Being because it has an eternal consequence. So God alone can provide the forgiveness of sins. But what did it take? Well, He has to suffer that consequence. So when Jesus Christ went to the cross He suffered an eternal consequence for the sins that I committed. Therefore. I can be forgiven. This is something that only God can do and we see that in Mark chapter 2 when Jesus says to the paralytic man, “your sins are forgiven ” and the Jews are outraged because they realize only God can forgive sins. Forgiveness of sins means to be set free of the consequence.
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Rapp Report Daily 0436 What Does it Mean to be Born Again? What does it mean to be born again? Now, this is terminology that a lot of times, Christians do not realize they use but to an unbelieving world that did not grow up in a Christian home. We do not understand this. I grew up in a Jewish home, and the first time I heard that we had to be born again, I did not know what that meant. This comes out of John chapter 3, and this is one of the most known verses in all the Bible is John 3:16, but before that, you have in John chapter 3 a man by the name of Nicodemus. Nicodemus is a Pharisee, and he comes to Jesus by night. He probably came by night because he did not want to be seen by the other Pharisees. Nicodemus comes to Jesus asking Him some questions, and Jesus responds to him in verse 3, “truly, truly I say to you unless one is born again he cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven.” Nicodemus does not understand this, he asks, “how can a person be born twice?” And Jesus, kind of, reprimands him and says, “truly, truly I say to you unless one is born of water and of spirit he can either enter the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I say to you, ‘you must be born again'”. So what you see here is born again, actually means born from above. It is that we are born physically, but we also need to be born again spiritually means when God changes us gives us spiritual life.
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Rapp Report Daily 0435 What is the Difference Between Soul and Spirit? Have you heard the words; dichotomy and trichotomy? Boy do seminary students loved debating this one. The idea of dichotomy is that man is made up of two elements the immaterial and the material, in other words, the immaterial being the spirit and the material being the body and what they will argue is when you see the word soul or spirit, it refers to that immaterial part. Trichotomous are going to argue, we are made up of three parts the soul, the spirit, and the body. There three separate things. And they are going to say that the soul and the spirit are different. So which am I? Well, actually neither. I think that this is a fallacy of the excluded middle because of the way it is worded. If you define dichotomy as material and immaterial. Yes, I agree. If you say that it is that soul and spirit are the same thing. No, I do not agree. So, it all depends on how you define these things. What is the difference between soul and spirit? Well, body always refers to that physical part of man both agreed to that. However, when it comes to soul and spirit, there are some differing views. Now soul and spirit do have different words in Greek. Spirit always refers to the immaterial part of man. So that is always immaterial. Soul sometimes refers to the immaterial and sometimes refers to the body sometimes refers to the whole being. So, I would say soul can refer to the immaterial the material or the whole being.
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Rapp Report Daily 0434 Are We All Children of God? You hear this often that people will say we are all children of God. Some will try to argue that because we are all children of God, we are all going to heaven. Are we all children of God? Well not according to God we are not. We see in John 1:12-13, it says, “but to all who receive him who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of God. Who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God.” So what you see there is not everybody is called a child of God according to God only those who receive Christ who believe on his name. They are the ones and only they are the ones that have the right to become a child of God. So everyone is not born a child of God, even though we were made in God’s image. That does not make us a child of God. And it is not that we are born for our genealogy. That does not make us a child of God. That was what it means when he says not of blood nor of the will of the flesh not by your desire the fact that you are going to work hard at something not of the will of man not by the fact that you just desire to be a child of God. No your genealogy, your works, or your desired. None of those things make you a child of God, but God. It is only God who makes you a child of God. We are start off as his enemies, but God will adopt some of us into His family when we receive Him and believe on his name.
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Rapp Report Daily 0433 What Does Totally Depravity Mean? What does total depravity mean? This is something that often triggers some people and gets them not thinking about the proper definitions but false definitions. So we want to be precise in definitions that we give to things. Whether you believe in what is called Calvinism or not, or you do not even know what that refers to. Many people do not understand what it means when we say men are totally depraved. Some people think that it means that men do the most heinous things all the time. No, that is not true. Total depravity does not speak about the degree someone sins or the depravity of that sin. It does not mean that they are going to sin all the time to their greatest ability. What total depravity refers to is when Adam and Eve partook of that fruit and brought the curse of sin into mankind that when they ate of that fruit, they fell spiritually. They became spiritually dead and all of us are born in the state of being spiritually dead. But what was affected? Well, we know that our thinking was affected. We know that our emotions were affected. Where the debate is, it was our will affected. Why because some people want to say that we are will was not affected we could choose to believe in God and total depravity says no even our will was influenced and affected by the curse of sin. Therefore our will is bound by our sin?
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Rapp Report Daily 0432 Adam and Eve Did Not Die After Eating the Fruit A challenge we often see is that Adam and Eve were supposedly promised to die immediately after eating of the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil. We see this in Genesis 2:17. It says ” of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil you shall not eat for in the day you eat of it. You shall surely die”. So, people say well we have evidence that Adam and Eve ate of that fruit and they did not die immediately. However, we have an issue of which death? That is correct. We often think of physical death. God often thinks of spiritual death. So did Adam and Eve died spiritually, immediately the moment Adam ate of that fruit? Yes, he did. Note that Eve ate the fruit and gave it to Adam. But the moment Adam ate of the fruit, he recognized that he and his wife were naked. And so when God focuses on that, he says who told you you were naked. Well, the knowledge that they were naked was proof that they fell spiritually they died, spiritually. Now, yes the death process began physically, but what did it mean when God said you will surely die. He was speaking in a spiritual nature. That they would be spiritually dead. That is the state that we are born in. And so he did not die immediately spiritually the physical processes death began an eternal death is something awaiting those who refuse to accept Christ.
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Rapp Report Daily 0431 What Does it Mean to be Created in the Image of God? What does it mean to be created in the image of God? Some religions have some confusion with this. If you look at say Mormonism you are going to see that they believe that being made in the image of God means that if you look at man, you see what God looks like. They would say that God was once a man like you and me, flesh and bones and everything and that we are made in His image. [00:00:28] In other words, He was once a man, we are now men and therefore that is what it means. We end up seeing that being a child of God is not something that we can turn to and say that everybody is a child of God the way Mormonism would we see in John 1:12 that it says but “to all who receive Him who believe in His name he gave the right to become a child of God.” So, some will say that being in the image of God as being a child of God. Well, no, it’s not that either. [00:01:00] So what does it mean to be made in the image of God? Well, very simply it means that we have certain attributes that animals do not have that are like God. God has attributes some that are communicated to man and some that are not. You can look at those attributes that are communicated to man, that is what means to be made in the image of God or created in His image. It is the idea that we share certain attributes that animals would not share. It makes us different than animals. Not that we are God, but that we have certain attributes. They do not and we do.
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Rapp Report Daily 0430 Jesus Never Rose from the Dead Many make the claim that Jesus Christ never rose from the dead. This is an essential argument because if Jesus never rose from the dead then we would be dead in our sins. This is an argument that Paul makes and you end up seeing in 1 Corinthians 15 that if Christ did not rose from dead then Christians are the most pitied. So this is. A key element of Christianity, in fact, all of Christianity hinges on this. So what many will say is outside of the Bible Well, the Bible is a historical document so we should not reject that as I mentioned in yesterday’s podcast. However, the strongest evidence outside the Bible for the resurrection of Christ. It doesn’t come from the Bible though. That’s really really really strong evidence because people want to discredit that because they claim that that’s trying to prove the very thing that it’s arguing for. You could look at the historians at a time Josephus Philo others, but I would argue that if you really want to see some evidence outside of scripture for the resurrection look to the one group of people that didn’t want to admit that Jesus rose from the dead and that’s the Jewish people we end up seeing in the Talmud which was being written at that time of Christ. It was responding to that it was taking for granted that Jesus did rise from the dead so that would be some of the best evidence outside of scripture because that’s written by God. So that is the best but evidence comes from the enemies of God the Jews of the time.
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Rapp Report Daily 0429 Jesus Never Existed A common argument that we hear only in the last say 40 years is the argument that Jesus never actually existed. He was just a myth. Something that the gospel writers embellished. People later on in the Catholic Church made up. Whatever the arguments they try to claim to say that Jesus was never actually a historical figure. This is something that, well, it would be laughable, if we didn’t have to respond to even Bart Ehrman, who is not a Christian and spends all of his time trying to criticize Christianity, he even argues in his books that Jesus in the original gospels would never claim to be God and that the disciples embellish that and yet he would say there’s more historical evidence for Jesus than any other person in Antiquity. So what you end up seeing is we have plenty of evidence. We could look not only at the Bible that is actually a historical document. But we can look at the writings of Josephus and other historians of the time that also mentioned it. We see Jesus mentioned in Roman documents. The best argument is in the time of the writing. We see Jesus mentioned in other historical documents known as the Talmud the Jewish writings if there was anybody who would not want to identify Jesus as having existed or making it up it was the Jews. So we see lots of historical evidence that Jesus was a historical person.
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Rapp Report Daily 0428 How Can Christ's Death Pay for Someone's Sin? Sometimes people will challenge you with a question of how can one person's death pay the price of another person's crime or sin. In other words, how can Christ's death on the cross be a payment for the sin that you and I do when we break God's law where criminals. Yet we end up seeing in scripture, in 2 Corinthians. 5:21 says, "for our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God". Well, that certainly seems like the death that Christ paid on that cross was a payment for the sin that I committed and it seems like that is not fair just and a lot of people challenge this. However, this is nothing that is not unusual with the law. If you get a fine say you are speeding on the road and the judge issues you a $50 fine, but you don't have $50. Someone else can pay it. Now that person has to have the money and be willing to freely give it. But this is a jail sentence. Well, that can be as well. You can pay the jail time of another person. Now there are some rules with it. You have to be in a right state of mind. You have to be innocent of the crime. You have to be willing to do it and the person has to be willing to let you. It is no different with Christ. He was in the right state of mind. He knew what he was doing. He was willing to do it. We though have to receive that gift.
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Rapp Report Daily 0427 Did Jesus Know He was God? Did Jesus know that he was God incarnate? The claim that people try to make his somehow Jesus became a man and He stopped being God. As if when He became incarnate, He lost those attributes that make Him deity like omniscience. Well, the simple answer is no. Throughout the gospels, we see over and over and over again that Jesus can read people's minds. You can look at Matthew chapter 9. The Pharisee says when He says your sins are forgiven, they say who can forgive sins but God alone. He knows what is in the minds of men. This is evidence that he was still omniscient. Now if Jesus, being omniscient, was walking on Earth as a man while still being omniscient by the very definition of omniscience, He knows everything. So yes the simple answer, Jesus Christ while He walked the Earth as a man knew He was God all along. Now some people say but he grew in stature and knowledge or wisdom is some translations may say. That is true in His humanity. He seemed to grow but the reality is all throughout. He was still having the attributes of deity. He was all-knowing. He was God and he knew it.
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Rapp Report Daily 0426 Jesus was Just a Good Teacher Jesus was just a good teacher. Well, this is a common claim, especially from Jewish people. Jews will try to say that Jesus was only a good teacher. Now that argument actually does not work. When you say Jesus Christ was good. You are going to have to define how because what we see is that Jesus Christ throughout the gospels clearly claimed that he was God. He said He is the I am. He said that the Father and He are one in essence. He took on titles of deity. He did things that only did he could do. He claimed things and only deity can claim. So what we see is that Jesus Christ claiming to be God would not be good. I think it is C.S. Lewis who had said this do not know who originated it, but Jesus could only be one of three things. He was either a liar in that. He claimed to be God and was not. Or He was a lunatic in actually thinking He was God when He was not. Or He was who He said He was and Jesus is Lord. But one thing you cannot say is He was just a good teacher. Because a good teacher would never deceive thousands of people into believing that He is almighty God and can offer to them the forgiveness of sin. No, Jesus was Lord.
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Rapp Report Daily 0425 Is Jesus Just One of Many Great Men of History Is Jesus just one of many great men in history? Well, you can never say that about Jesus because Jesus was more than just a man. Jesus made it very clear. He is God. John chapter 8:58, "Jesus said to them truly, truly I say to you before Abraham was I am." That is the very name for God. He claimed to be God. What do the Jews do? They pick up stones to stone Him. In John chapter 10, we end up seeing he says in verse 30 "I and the Father are one". And again the Jews pick up stones to stone Him. So he asks for what good works are you stoning me? And the Jews answered Him, "it is not for good works that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy for you being a man make yourself God." He even healed a man and he sees this man whose lowered in front of him in Mark chapter 2 and He says, "son your sins are forgiven" and the Jews there are enraged in there because they say who can forgive sins but God alone and he reading their minds says to them which is easier to say your sins are forgiven or pick up your bed and walk. So He heals the man proving that he was who He claimed to be almighty God, so He was not just a great man. He is the great man of history. He is the one all history is about. He is almighty God.
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Rapp Report Daily 0424 Who Is Jesus? Who is Jesus? Well, he is truly God and truly man. He is God Almighty, Eternal. He has all the attributes that God has. He became a man in flesh and had all the attributes of a man as well. Now the difference with Him is that he was tempted and never sinned. But I like how Paul provides an answer to this in Colossians 1:15-19. He states that Jesus is the image of the invisible God. Jesus is the firstborn of all creation. Jesus created everything that was created. So, therefore, He is Creator. Jesus holds everything together. Jesus is the head of the church. But all throughout that what we must remember is that Paul says that he must be preeminent. So everything is about Christ. Christ holds the universe that he created together because he is God.
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Rapp Report Daily 0423 What Does it Mean that God is the Creator? When people say that God is the Creator. What does it mean? Well, quite simply it means that God is the Creator. It means that God created everything that was created. We see this starting in Genesis chapter one where in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth, so he created everything that was first created. We see this more prevalently in Colossians, 1:15-23 where it states of Jesus Christ for by him all things were created in heaven and on Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were created through him and for him and He is before all things and in him all things are held together." So he holds everything together. Now an important thing to remember is when people say well that is of Jesus. But when we go back to Isaiah 44:24. We see that it says "thus says the Lord your Redeemer who formed you from the womb. I am the Lord who made all things who alone stretched out the heavens who spread out the Earth by myself." So it clearly says that God Alone created everything that was created and Jesus, therefore as the Creator must be God, so it means he created everything out of nothing.
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Rapp Report Daily 0422 Is It Biblical to Refer to God as Mother? There are many people who are having real issues with what the Bible says because God is referred to in a masculine sense. Now what you see is people want to know is it biblical to refer to God as God the mother or to refer to God in female gender. The simple answer is no it is not biblical. Now for many of the people who want to argue that we should be open-minded and allow God to be referred to with the feminine gender. Well, the simple answer that you should give to anyone like that is the fact that God identifies as a male. You see most of these people that would argue that God should be referred to as a mother will also argue that people should be able to use whatever pronouns they identify what God identifies as a male and identifies as father. Therefore. The only biblical way to refer to God is the way that he calls Himself not the way some liberal agenda wants to try to rewrite the Bible because they do not like the hierarchy that God created the ordained roles that God set in place. And so what do they do? They want to try to say God is Mother and therefore women are exactly equal to men in all things. That is not what the Bible says.
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Rapp Report Daily 0421 Is It Wrong to be Angry with God? Is it wrong to be angry with God? Well, the simple answer is no. It is never right to be angry with God because it shows that we do not understand our place and His place. He is the creator, the Sovereign, the Ruler of the universe, God! Therefore, we are not in a position where we can hold things over Him or have a rightful place to be making demands of him. Therefore, yes, anger with God would be a sin. However, does it mean that we are not emotional beings and there are times that we do act emotionally and for have feelings where we are upset with the things that God does or allows that we do not like. Well, yes, there are times that that occurs and there are times with people where they do get angry with God. So what is the solution to that the solution is that we have to know our rightful place before a holy God. God is the Creator. He is Holy and because of who He is. He has a rightful place to demand of us submission, but we do not always like that. But the way to change having anger with God is not to fight him but to submit to him to recognize our rightful place in His world that he created to recognize that he is the ruler. He is Sovereign not us.
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Rapp Report Daily 0420 What is the Difference Between LORD and Lord? In some translations of the Bible people ask the question, what is the difference between LORD or GOD versus Lord or God? There are these different spellings in several of the more literal or formal translations of the Bible your King James, New King James, ESV, New American Standard, and others. When we look at them There is a significance in that in the Old Testament and it helps us to understand which of the three names for God are used. Now if you see in all capital letters Lord or God that signifies that this is the word we would call Jehovah. This is the special name for God that self-existent God. That is the one that we think of when we speak of God. Now Lord where the letters are lowercase means Adonai. This is the idea that can be used for men as well as God. This is the idea that He is the Lord of everything. The third where you see God with a capital G and lowercase letters is the word Elohim. This is used only once to refer to men but it always refers to God that He is the master that He is in charge.
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Rapp Report Daily 0419 What Does It Mean to Find God? You ever hear people speak about "finding God". Always kind of wondered what that. Is He lost? No, it is not God who has lost its us who is lost. But what does it mean when people say they "found God"? Kind of interesting because when we look at our culture they talk about a "come to Jesus moment" a time where life radically changes for people. I remember I had to do an interview for someone who was getting a clearance. And so the investigator was asking because my friend became a Christian, but he never referred to it as conversion or becoming a Christian. He always said the big moment. He referred to it that way as if they want to detach themselves from something they actually have to do which is to get right with God. So when we say, what does it mean to "find God" while actually God finds you. You are the one that is lost. I am the one that was lost. God finds us in our loss depravity and redeems us. So the idea of finding God is not the way the secular world tries to think about it as if someone makes a big change in their life and it is for good. No finding God the way they are referring to it really means when somebody repents of their sin recognizing they are a sinner before God and turns to Christ and receives the gift of eternal life that he offers that is called The Gospel, but that is what it means to find God.
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Rapp Report Daily 0418 Why Did God Allow The Holocaust? Many challenge Christians with the question of why did God allow the Holocaust? Now, you always have to go back to the premise when people make arguments. What you see here is the premise that somehow if God exists, he could not allow for something like the Holocaust. The Holocaust is evil, in the postmodern thinking they really don't have a category for such an evil, but they try to say that. God cannot exist because the Holocaust happened. Now, this sort of question comes out in a world of different ways. We have already dealt with it with why does not God heal amputees things like that and almost every time we always refer back to Romans 9:14-23. Because God allowed this for his glory and people do not understand that. The reason so many people have a problem with this is because of the fact that they do not understand what really happened in Genesis chapter three. When the fall occurred it was brought a curse upon not only all mankind but according to Romans chapter 8 the entire universe groans because of that curse. So what you see is that people challenge this it is not a valid argument. But let us answer the question. Why did God allow the Holocaust will one reason the state of Israel? It wouldn't exist. But it does exist today was able to be reformed because what happened in the Holocaust God's plans are bigger than ours.
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Rapp Report Daily 0417 God is Imaginary The claim is often made that God is just an imagination of our minds or sometimes. They will say He is just a fairytale and really is that a legitimate argument? Well, not really because first off we must remember that people are not treating him like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny things we know are imaginary or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which we know is imaginary. No people realize that God is necessary. Because we have a world that was created could not have created itself. It could not be created from nothing and even the scientists try to argue that there was something in the beginning but we can not really know what it was. Now when they say that God is a fairy tale. They are trying to really avoid the issue that they have to give an account to God. And so just calling him a fairytale is a way of avoiding the issue try to push the burden of proof on us that believe in God. Now, there are two ways to deal with it. You can easily just say well, I'm not the one that believes that frogs can become princes or in magical bangs that start with nothing explode to everything or you could do a more presuppositional approach which is just to say that their world can not be defined without or world existing. In other words, they can not support the world that exists without first God having created it. They depend on this God that they claim is imaginary.
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Rapp Report Daily 0416 Why Won't God Heal Amputees? Now when you think about this challenge, this challenge has within it a presupposition that somehow God is obligated to heal everybody especially amputees. Now, the simple reality is that God allowed sin into the world for purposes that he felt would allow him to show his attributes. We have dealt with that on previous podcasts and the fact that he had has done this does not mean that somehow He is not a God of love or anything else the reality that you end up seeing is that God allowing amputees or people with challenges actually could be used to make people stronger. I remember once in New York City of going and evangelizing in a gentleman told me God does not exist because he prayed as a child to be healed of his intellectually challenged and because he was not he concluded God does not exist. However, he ended up telling me he was a vice president in his organization and I asked him how he got there. Well, he had to study harder than everyone else in school and work harder than everyone else in the job. And that's what got him there and I asked him a simple question. Would you have worked as hard if God answered your prayer and suddenly it clicked? He realized he would not be where he was had he not had to work harder than everybody else. Sometimes God has plans. We do not know about.
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Rapp Report Daily 0415 God is No Different Than the Flying Spaghetti Monster. How is a belief in God any different than a belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster? That's right. There are people who try to argue for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They call that the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarian. The reality is they think that this is a legitimate argument because they created something. The first we see of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was first described in a satirical open letter by Bobby Henderson in 2005. So this was never meant to be taken serious. It was something that was a protest to the Kansas State Board of Education's decision to permit Intelligent Design. They would argue that that's a religious View and yet the reality is the difference between God in the Flying Spaghetti Monster is well, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is never actually believed by anybody to exist. Nobody takes that seriously and really follows that however with God. Well, He is the necessary precondition to any kind of protest at all, when you sit here and argue for things that are immaterial like your ability to reason your knowledge claims all those things. They require an immaterial Source the universe requires a creator. That is who we call God.
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Rapp Report Daily 0414 What is the Key to Knowing God? What is the key to knowing god well? This may be a question that is more influenced because of the charismatic movement in Christianity. The simple answer really is to read your Bible, but the charismatic movement has made it as if that is just not enough. As if Scripture is not sufficient to really knowing God. We must have some sort of experience and that experience, of course, has to always be outdone by the next experience there for the past experience is not even enough to know the reality what you see here is that many people do not believe in the sufficiency of the Scriptures. God's Word is enough. You want to know God read His Word. How do you know another person other than hearing from them talking with them the way we speak to God is in prayer. The way we hear from God is in His Word, the Bible. So the key to knowing God is quite simple actually read your Bible. Read it every day. Do not think that there is something else that you are missing in the Scriptures. The very word of God is enough. You want to know God you want to know more read his word every day.
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Rapp Report Daily 0413 What is God's Will? A lot of people seem to think that somehow God has this hidden will that we have to spend our entire life trying to find is if he's got one plan for everything to work in the universe. Who is the right person for me to marry? Where is the right place for me to work or go to school and is if you choose the wrong thing, you are outside of God's will well that be a tragic thing when it comes to things like marriage because you cannot change that. Once you choose in other words. There are people who actually think well, I have chosen the wrong wife or husband and I must be outside of God's will forever. No. What we do see is some passages that talk about God's will we see Christ teaching his disciples to pray "Your kingdom come Your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven". We see Jesus in The Garden of Gethsemane praying for the Father's will to be done for when it comes to him going to the Cross. We see that in Ephesians chapter one that the purpose and will of God is about salvation. So God does have an overarching will but we have to keep in mind go back to the character and nature and attributes of God. God is eternal. So He is outside of time. He is omniscient. He knows all things. It is not as if God does not know what you will choose of the choices that you have in front of you and He is Sovereign and even though you make those choices, it is not that it's outside of his control. God is in control of all things. How do we choose the will of God? Well, we have the scripture to make the best decisions that are before us.
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Rapp Report Daily 0412 What Was God Doing Before he Created the Universe? What was God doing before he created the universe? Well, this question is a little bit of a logical fallacy. This is a fallacy called a category error. So the reason this is is that this question itself ignores the very nature and attributes of God. When we ask the question, what was God doing before? Well, it has that word before in it. And therefore that is a time-based question. Now God is eternal. He had no beginning and has no end unlike you and I that had a beginning and will live forever. We would be immortal but God is eternal. He had no beginning and no end he is actually outside of time. He created time. Therefore when we ask a question that requires. Something being bound by time such as the question, what was God doing before anything? It requires him to be bound by time. And God is not bound by time. God is outside of it. You and I are bound by time and that is what makes this question one that gets asked often but very hard for us to conceptualize the fact that God is outside of time. We cannot comprehend that in any way. So the question itself is difficult for us, but we have to understand the very nature and attributes of God is that he is eternal therefore the question is illogical because God is not a being that is affected or Bound by time. He is timeless. He is eternal.
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Rapp Report Daily 0411 Why Does God Allow Nature Disasters? Why does God allow natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis? I always find it interesting that people want to blame God. When there are natural disasters, what do insurance companies call it? They call it an "act of God". That is right. They blame God for things like that, but you never hear them crediting God when things happen that are good in the world. No, you end up seeing that the world wants to blame God for everything that they think is wrong and they want to blame Him. The fact is hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis and these things are an act of, the effect of sin in the world. You can go back to Genesis chapter three and see that when Adam and Eve fell, there was a curse. Well, how far did that curse go? When we can look at Romans chapter eight and see that that it affects the entire universe? Romans 8:18-24: 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. So all these things are the effect of the fall.
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Rapp Report Daily 0410 Does God Still Speak Today? One common thing that we end up hearing is the question, Does God still speak today? Now, this is more common, because of the charismatic movement and charismatic churches, where you are going to see this kind of thinking more prevalent where they believe that God should still speak to us audibly today the way that He did to the apostles and the prophets. Well, there is a distinction that we see in the time period of the prophets, the apostles, they were writing new scripture. That is right, what we end up seeing when God would do these miracles and things like this and speak to people that way. Well, what you saw was that they were writing Scripture, which is exactly what you see in 1 Peter 1:16-21, where He is explaining that we should rely on the prophetic Word. He says in verse 16, that "we did not follow cleverly devised myths, when we may known to you the power and coming of Lord Jesus Christ". But in verse 19, says, "and we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed" when we want to know what God's word is, we want to hear God's voice, we turn to his word. That is what Peter would encourage us. We do not need to hear God's audible voice. But many people think God's Word is not enough. That is really what comes down to when people want to say, Does God still speak today? He does, but they want something more than the written Word, but that is how God speaks. He speaks through the Word of God, the Bible, and therefore when people think that it is not sufficient, they look for something more. If you want to hear God speak as my friend Justin Peter says, read the Bible. If you want to hear Him speak audibly read it aloud.
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Rapp Report Daily 0409 Does God Tempt People to Sin? Some like to try to argue that God tempts us to sin. Now one example that is sometimes given is the account out of Genesis chapter 22. This is the account of Abraham being asked to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. And the argument basically goes that somehow God is tempting Abraham to sin to kill his own son as a sacrifice. Human sacrifice would be a sin. God is asking him to do that. Therefore, He must be tempting him to sin. A couple of things that people forget about this. First off, God is all-knowing, God is omniscient. God is eternal. He is outside of time. So God knew exactly what was going to happen, absolutely. Therefore He knew Abraham was not going to sacrifice Isaac. What do we know about Abraham? Well, from Hebrews, we know that Abraham was thinking, God asked him to do this and maybe He is gonna raise Isaac from the dead. The reality is, Abraham knew something of the character God and knew if God is asking him to do this, He is not going to do it without either raising Isaac from the dead or something else. He did not think God would stop him. The reality is no, God does not tempt with sin. We see this in James 1:13-14, "Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself contempt no one but each of you is tempted, tempted, when he is Lord and enticed by his own desires."
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Rapp Report Daily 0408 Does God Make Mistakes? Does God make mistakes? Well, this is a question that many will ask because of us. The problem they have is basically to think that God is like us. Let us first think about what a mistake is. Mistakes are a result of the fall. A mistake is when you do something that is wrong. So what are they really asking is, Can God do anything that is wrong? But once you say something is wrong, you then have to ask, what is the standard, you have to go back to a standard to make anything right and wrong? So the question is, if someone is making a mistake, that means that they have done something wrong, which means there must be a standard in which to compare, what is the standard that we have to compare? Well, the only standard that is absolute, universal and immaterial, would be God Himself. God, Himself is the standard. And therefore, if we are going to compare everything, when we say we make a mistake, we are doing something wrong. But when we talk right and wrong we need a standard and that standards God. Well, I think you see where this answer is going. No, God cannot make a mistake. Now, some people may say, but I think that God should do things some other way than He does. What they are doing when they do that is they have set themselves up as the standard, and they want to replace God and put themselves in that place. Well, We have to always go back to say, what is the issue? And you want to ask, what is the standard if the standard is God, then he cannot be wrong and cannot make a mistake.
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Rapp Report Daily 0407 You Believe in God but not Santa Clause Some professing atheists like to argue, why do you believe in Jesus or God, but you do not believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny? This is a logical fallacy because what they are trying to do is attribute God and Jesus equal with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Jesus actually walked the earth and we have lots of historical evidence for that. So we know He is a real person. We know that the claims of Him are documented very early that He was God. So we look at those things and you end up seeing there is no evidence that Santa Claus existed. Okay, there was a Nicholas who gave out presents, but that was not the Santa Claus people talk about today. And the Easter Bunny does not exist. Here is the irony, though, why do the professing atheists argue against Jesus and God, but they do not argue for the non-existence of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. I have never seen atheists stand outside of the picture taking where Santa Claus is in the malls the way they do when we are doing open-air evangelism. Oh, boy, do they stand there and say we must stop and they heckle and challenge us. I never see them do that at the malls with Santa Claus. I think the reason is that we all know Santa Claus is not real. And we all know God is. So that is the thing. That is one of the proofs that they are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.
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Rapp Report Daily 0406 What is YHWH? What is YHWH? We sometimes see that people refer to this and sometimes it is referred to as Jehovah. This is what is this is known as the Tetragrammaton, from the Greek, "tetra" meaning four and "grammaton" means letters thus the compound is "four letters". Now, they could be YHWH, or since there is no 'y' in the Hebrew it would actually be JHVH. So there you end up seeing why people say Jehovah. Some people pronounce this as Yahweh because they are looking at just the consonants. Now remember, in Hebrew, there are no vowels in the writing. So you have to have the vowels spoken to know what vowels are there. Well, this term is something we see in Exodus 3:14 where Moses comes to God, and says, who are you, and He says, "I am that I am". "I am" that is that four-letter word and Jewish people do not want to break the second commandment and use God's name in vain so they never pronounce it they always substitute the word, Adonai. So where do we get Jehovah from Jehovah comes from those consonants, JHVH, and the vowels from Elohim, making the word Jehovah. So this is a name that was so sacred in Judaism, they would not even pronounce it.
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Rapp Report Daily 0405 Where was God on Sept 11th? For about 18 years now we have heard the question, where was God On September 11th? Well, God was right where He always is, in control of everything. Now, the thing that people have to realize is that just because God's in control of everything does not mean He is going to rule everything the way people want it ruled. In other words, what we often find is that people think that God should do things the way they think He should do things. Now, let us start with one basic thing, God is omniscient. That means that God knows everything. The second point, God is good. In fact, we would not know what good is other than by the nature of God. So when we look at these things, we know that God is not going to do things that are evil, and God knows everything there is to know. He is also omnipotent, meaning He is all-powerful. He could do whatever He wants that is within His nature. And so what do we see, we see that God does allow sin to occur. It does not mean that He can not be present when evil exists. No. God is still in control, even though evil is happening. What really shook everyone in 9/11/01 was not the fact that God was not in control. It was that postmodernisms said that there was no such thing as evil, and they came face to face with what evil looks like. They were living in a dreamland, and it ended, But God is still on the throne.
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Rapp Report Daily 0404 The Names of God Reveal His Character So we wanted to continue from looking at the major names and look at some of the names of God and in doing so, we are going to start with those that are from the name El or Elohim. First is El Elyon, this is the idea that God is the most high God that shows that characteristic of Him. We also will El Shaddai, has the idea of the God who provides We have El Oman, which is the everlasting God. El Rio, which is the God who sees. Jehovah Jireh is the Lord provides. Jehovah Rapha, is the Lord our healer. Jehovah Nissi is the Lord our banner. Jehovah Mekaddeschem is the Lord our sanctification. Jehovah Shalom is the Lord our peace. Jehovah Sabbath is the Lord of hosts. Jehovah Rio is the Lord our Shepherd. Jehovah Tsidkenu is the Lord our Righteousness, Jehovah Shammah is the Lord are present. So you see here in these different names for God, some of the characteristics that we can learn about who God is, and know something more about him. This is why studying the names of God can be
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Rapp Report Daily 0403 What Are the Major Names for God? What are the names of God? Well, there are several names of God that describe the character of God, there are three main categories that we could put them in El or Elohim, Adonai, and what is called Yahweh or Jehovah. I am going to deal with these three here and then get in some of the other names for God, in another post. Elohim is a plural name of El, it means strong one or almighty and it refers to God's Majesty. This name is one that is a plural which allows for a teaching of the Trinity. The name Adonai has the meaning of ruler, lordship, or sovereignty. The name Yahweh, or Jehovah, takes more time to explain. Well, first off, this is a meaning of the self-existing one. This is a very special name for the covenant relationship God, and it is so holy, so sacred that Jewish people would not pronounce the name for God to not break the commandment of using God's name in vain. So you have the consonants, remember, in Hebrew writing, you did not have vowels written down, so we do not know the proper vowels, because it was never spoken. So what many Jews would do is replace the word Adonai in the place of this to not use His name in vain. So we do not know which vowels, we do not know the proper pronunciation. And that is why you will sometimes see it worded that way.
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Rapp Report Daily 0402 What Does it Mean to Have a Free Will? What does it mean to have a free will? The fact that God gives us a free will is something that is assumed by many? Is it really free? Well actually no. When we talk about a free will we must deal with this in very specific points. There is two words here free, and will. The idea of free has the idea that we have this will being described as unencumbered by any outside influences. The idea of a will is a volition, the ability to choose. Now, what is very clear to all of us and in Scripture is that we have a will, you and I can make choices. The question is, are those choices free? Well, actually no way those choices are choices that we make, but we are enslaved to sin as unbelievers. As it says in Romans, therefore, we do not have a free will. We have a will that was affected by the fall of Adam and Eve, and therefore that will is enslaved to sin. Until, of course, the point that we become a believer, when the Holy Spirit indwells us we now have the ability to freely choose between good and evil. So we only have a free will when we become a Christian.
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Rapp Report Daily 0401 Does God Love Everyone? Does God love everyone or just Christians? Now, this is a challenge that really has come up in recent decades because of a gospel tract. There was a gospel tract that was written: "God Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life". That is a false idea. If you think about it, what is the wonderful plan that God has for the unbeliever? Hell? That does not sound so wonderful? What are they going to have a wonderful life on Earth? Not always. God does has a wonderful plan, but it is not for us. It is for God and for His glory. The focus shifted from focusing on God and who He is to focusing on man and who he wants to be. This has been a struggle ever since Genesis chapter three. So does God love everyone? Well, in one sense, yes, He has a general love for all that in Acts, it says that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. But we talk about his special love. Well, let us first look in Psalms 7:11. It says, "God is a righteous judge. And a God who feels indignant every day". He is angry with the wicked every day is a New King James says it but more important is Psalm 5:5, "the boastful shall not stand before your eyes you hate or evil doers". So many people hate that verse. Why? Because it clearly says God hates not just the sin. He hates the evildoers. So no, God does not love all people equally.
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Rapp Report Daily 0400 Why Does God not End Evil? If God is a God of love, why has he not dealt with ending evil? This is a challenge, we often hear that somehow His love is in opposition to dealing with evil. This is a commonly made argument. However, this is a limited argument when you think about the fact that God is greater than just one or even two of His attributes. He is all of His attributes. So when we think of who God is, is God love? Yes. Is God. Holy? Yes. Is God just? Yes. Is God wrathful? Yes. We do not like to think about that. Now, if God is just He must punish evil. However, He is also long-suffering, which means He does not punish evil immediately. So to display His long-suffering, He must put up with evil. We see this in Romans 9:22, where it says, "what if God desiring to show his wrath, and to make known his power has endured with much patience, vessels of wrath, prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory, for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory". So you see there that God is long-suffering and patient, and those attributes can only be shown if He allows evil to continue .... for a while.
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Rapp Report Daily 0399 Can Demons Repent? Will God allow fallen angels and Satan to repent? Now, this particular one is a more difficult type of challenge to answer for one simple reason. We do not have a lot of Scripture that goes into detail about angels, both holy and unholy. So what do we know? We do know there was a group of angels that were created. We do not even know which day they were created completely, but we know they must have been early enough because Scripture says that the angels saw creation. We know that they were there early in creation. At some point, we do not know when, but we clearly know it was before the fall of man, Satan and many angels fell, those angels we know as demons. The only Scripture verse we do know is in Matthew 25:41. He says, in verse 41, "then he will say to those on his left, depart from me, you cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels". So It seems that the devil for sure and his angels were prepared beforehand for hell. So that would give the only indication to say the answer to this is no they cannot repent.
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Rapp Report Daily 0398 Did God Create Satan? If God created everything does that mean He created the devil? Well, the simple answer is, yes. God created Lucifer, also known as Satan. The question is, did He create him, sinful? No, he did not. He created Lucifer with an ability to make a decision and Lucifer chose to disobey God and actually wanted to make himself God. That is what caused him to fall. He then tried to use that same ploy on Adam and Eve and brought sin into mankind. So the issue is, did God know that Satan would do that? Of course, He did. He knows everything. But that does not mean He caused it. We see in Isaiah chapter 14, start verse 13, this is referenced to Satan and his fall when he said, "I will ascend to heaven, above the stars of God, I will set my throne on high, I will sit on the mount of the assembly in the far reaches of North, I will ascend above the heights and clouds, I will make myself like the Most High". You see what cause Satan the fall was his own pride. God gave him the ability to choose. He chose wrongly. So did God create Satan? Yes, He created everything that exists. But He did not cause Satan to fall.
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Rapp Report Daily 0397 Why Did God Need to Rest on the 7th Day? Why did God need to rest on the seventh day of creation? This is a challenge we sometimes get.and yet this challenge is a little bit of a problem. The reason being is, well, it is a logical fallacy. It expects the answer that God had to somehow do something that God had to rest, but He did not actually have to. The reality is when we talk about God creating the entire universe out of absolutely nothing, not like the nothing that the evolutionist argue that nothing is actually something. We are talking nothing that actually means nothing. When God created everything out of nothing, why did he take so long? The evolutionist will say, well, He could not have done it that quickly. But the reality is, He created everything out of nothing. He could have done it in a split second, but He chose to do it in six working days with one day of rest. Did He actually need to rest? No. In fact, He could have created everything in a split second, He chose to do this in seven days so that we would have an example of a workweek. You see this in Exodus chapter 20 that God said that He worked for six days rested on the seventh and that is a pattern for you and I, that we are to work for six days and have a day of rest. God did is an example for us.
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Rapp Report Daily 0396 Does Prayer Change God's Mind? Can we change God's mind with prayer? Now the first question we have to ask and this is, can we actually change God's mind, period? Let us first address that because there are two passages of Scripture that people try to use to say that God changes His mind. One is Genesis 6:6 this is where "the Lord regretted that he made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart". That sounds like he has regret, and a change of heart and wishes he did otherwise. But the stronger one that many will turn to is Jonah 3:10, "when God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he said he would do to them, And he did not do it." So people will say with Jonah, that because of the action of the people because of their prayer, that caused God to change his mind. Now, one does God changed his mind? Well, no, because He is omniscient. He knows everything outside of time. Do the prayers affect the outcome? Well, depends on how you look at it. To you and I, the answer would be yes, but not to God. Remember, He is outside of time. Therefore, when He relented, He already knew they would pray and therefore their repenting was part of His plan. When He chose to relent, He already knew they were going to pray
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Rapp Report Daily 0395 Does God Cause Man to Sin? If God is in control of all things, does that mean that He makes people sin? This is an idea that many people challenges with because the thinking is that somehow if God is sovereign, in other words, the belief that God is in control every atom in the universe, then He must cause everything to happen. That is not true. In fact, we have a doctrine called the doctrine of concurrence, which basically teaches that God can use even sinful acts to bring about His glory. Now, the greatest example of this is in the Old Testament in the book of Genesis, at the very last chapter of Genesis chapter 50, where you have Joseph. Joseph's brothers come to him, his father died, they are afraid that he is going to pay back them for what they did to him and they send a message saying, Hey, dad wanted you to, to let us go, and to forgive us. What does Joseph end up saying? Joseph ends up saying that he is not God. And that in verse 20, it says, "as for you, you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good to bring about many people should be kept alive today". So God can use the sinful actions that we do, and use them to bring about good and His glory. It doesn't mean we should go about sinning but it does mean that He is in control of all things.
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Rapp Report Daily 0394 Why Doesn't God Destroy Satan? The argument goes like this if God is all-powerful, why doesn't He destroy Satan? Now there is an assumption in that question and challenge that we have to recognize right off the bat. That is that somehow Satan is not fulfilling the purposes of God. Now, in the last episode that we talked about Satan and why God created him, We looked at Romans chapter nine, specifically in verse 22, which states that God to display His wrath allowed sin, but notice the difference he did not cause it. He allowed Satan to violate His law. I do think that is interesting because most of the people that would give this challenge would say that somehow God has to be in control of all things. And if God forced everything to happen, and left no choices of his free moral agents, then would they complain that God made them puppets and they have no choice? Well, the reality is, why doesn't an all-powerful God destroy Satan? Because Satan is God's devil? That is what Martin Luther referred to him as. Satan is God's devil, he does not do anything that God does not allow. He is fulfilling the very purposes of God. So Satan, even though he is trying to destroy God is actually doing exactly as God plans, because God is sovereign, Therefore, Satan cannot do anything that God does not allow. That is the thing we end up realizing he serves God's purposes.
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Rapp Report Daily 0393 Why Did God Create Satan? If God is all-knowing, why did he create Satan, who He knew would fall? Now this challenge can actually be extended to why did Adam and Eve fall if God knows everything? In other words, He is omniscient, then why did He do such a thing? This is hard for us to understand as humans, but Scripture does provide an answer for us. This can be found in Romans 9:14-23, especially verses 9:17 and 9:22. Paul talks about the injustice of God. Is there injustice with God? He says in verse 14, by no means he talks about the scripture saying, verse 17, that God rose Pharaoh up for the exact purpose of hardened Pharaoh heart. And it says in verse 17, it is specifically "for this is the very purpose that I have raised you up, that you might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed on the earth". So God rose them up specifically for that purpose. But we get the answer in verse 22, "what If God desiring to show his wrath, and to make known his power has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction", So God actually allows this allows people to sin, so he could display attributes of His that can never be displayed without people sinning, God would never be able to show His love, His long-suffering His wrath, and these others unless people and Satan chose to violate His law. So It is actually an act of showing His attributes.
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Rapp Report Daily 0392 Can God Make a Rock so Big He Can't Lift It? This is some of the arguments some people try to make as if they think this is a real good logical proof that God cannot exist. They asked questions like, can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it? Or could God get lost? Or different things like this. And although a lot of people think it is a really great argument, it shows a lack of understanding of things like logic, because what this is, is a logical fallacy known as a category error. Why is it because they think that if God is all-powerful, then he can make anything and if He can make anything, He can make a rock that is so heavy, that even He cannot lift it. The thing that you have to understand is that God is God and those qualities that make him God do not change. So the thing you have to understand about this is His nature. So when they talk about the nature of God being that He is omnipotent and then trying to use that as the creator and put those at odds with one another. Well, the simple answer is God, He is the creator. He can create anything. And any rock He creates, He can lift because He is that powerful. He does not even need to lift it because He is outside of matter. So It is a logical fallacy when people use this kind of argument.
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Rapp Report Daily 0390 Why Can't God Just Forgive Sin? Why does not God just forgive people instead of requiring there be a payment for sins? Not to sound insulting, but it sounds like something every child would say when they are caught doing something wrong, "why can you not just forgive me and let it go?" And people say there should be no consequences for their actions? Yes, that is exactly how it sounds like a little child trying to get his way from his parents when he was caught doing something wrong. That is exactly how we sound to God when we demand or claim that God should somehow not punish us when we violate His law. He has made it clear what His law is. He gave us a conscience, so we would know right from wrong. So we have no excuse. We can look at creation (Romans 1) and know that God exists and know something of His attributes, to know He is a God of design, that He is the Creator. He gave us our conscience that reveals guilt when we break His law. So we know and we are without excuse, but we like little children do not want to have to pay the consequence for our crimes for our sin. And that is exactly what this argument is about. The reason why God just does not forgive is because God is just. Psalm 7:11 says, "God is a just judge and He is angry with the wicked every day". That is why God cannot just sweep it under the rug because He is just and there must be a consequence.
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Rapp Report Daily 0389 If Suicide is Wrong then Why did Jesus do it? If suicide is wrong, then why did God commit cosmic suicide? This is an argument some of the new atheists try to make as if Jesus Christ, taking His own life on the cross is an attempt of suicide. That might be if it was that Jesus was created in the image of God and not actually, God. What you end up seeing here is a category error on what suicide actually is, and why it is wrong. The reason that suicide is wrong is that it is the taking of life, even your own because people are made in the image of God. God would say that we are not to murder and to take your own life is an act of murder, even if it is your own. However, what Jesus Christ did on the cross was not an act of murder. He gave of his life. Remember, He was on the cross, given enough time, He would have died just from natural circumstances. But He being God was in control of His life. The fact that He could be having His hands stretched out and His feet having nailed into the cross, He could not take His own life if he was not God. So the irony is when they say, Jesus took His own life, what they are actually arguing without realizing it, is that they are admitting that He had to first be God, that in that act, He could give up of his own life. That proves He is God therefore, it was not suicide, and they just lost the argument.
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Rapp Report Daily 0388 Why did God Need To Die to Save People? Why would God Need to die in order to save people for Himself? Now this argument that we hear from people is one that is lacking in understanding of how wicked sin actually is and the consequence that sin actually brings. The fact that God has to die, should tell us that sin is such a wicked thing, and so evil. This is the extreme that ends up happening, that God Himself is the only sacrifice that could be made. Now, why is that? Well, because when we sin against an infinitely holy God, it carries with it an infinite consequence. And that consequence requires an infinite amount of time. It is forever. You and I, being temporal beings, we have to pay it forever. Therefore there is no other human being that could pay it for us. No one would be able to do that, other than an infinite Being. So the fact that Jesus Christ is God, being eternal, His death once in time, counts for all of eternity. That is why when we see that Christ dying on that cross is the only payment we can have for sin because He is an eternal being. This is one of the things that makes Christianity unique because other religions are based on a system of teaching. But Christianity is based on an act of Jesus Christ, that He died in our place because He was the eternal being.
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Rapp Report Daily 0387 God Says not to Kill but He Kills We are often challenged with the argument that God says, "you shall not kill" but then He kills. So they will ask why does God contradict himself? Well, let us ask the question, did God actually say, "thou shalt not kill", no. When we look at what it says in Exodus chapter 20, and that is the passage that they often want to go to what it says there is, "thou shalt not murder", not kill. There are two different words that we have in both the Hebrew and in the Greek. Here we are looking at Hebrew, that speaks about murder not killing. They are not the same thing. These are two different events. The issue that we end up seeing in them is the fact that killing is an act where someone will maybe slaughter an animal where someone is taking another life in a general sense. However, murder is a little bit different. Murder is not just some random act, but it is taking of an innocent life. In other words, the fact that someone may, in a just war, take someone's life is not considered murder. It is considered killing. The taking of someone's life who is unjustly taken, that is what is called murder. So the command that God gives is "thou shalt not murder". They want to say, 'well, God kills", well He does. Because God is just and when He kills, He is killing people as an act of justice because they have sinned against a holy God.
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Rapp Report Daily 0386 Why did God Command the Extermination of the Canaanites? A common argument that many people have is that God is somehow this evil monster because of the fact that he commanded the extermination of all of the Canaanites, even including the children. Let us look at this and examine this biblically. So what do we see? Well, what do we know historically about the Canaanites? We actually find out that, they were warned by God, many times. They were being judged for their sinfulness. The first thing we have to realize is many people want to somehow say God is wrong because He exterminated a whole bunch of people. The real question is, was God being just in exterminating a whole bunch of people for the fact is that these people that we have now learned from history, that these people in the Canaanites were people that were so wicked. They would teach children as young as three and four years old, to be raped by adults to be having sex with animals. And the animals, why did they have to be killed? While once an animal starts having sex with humans, they can not differentiate anymore. What you end up seeing is that, yes, God, in an act of justice, declared that all of the Canaanites needed to be wiped out, both adults and children, even the animals. Why? Very simply because they were a wicked, wicked people. That is called God's justice. He could have taken their life the first time they sinned. He was long-suffering with them until that time, but that time was enough.
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Rapp Report Daily 0385 Is God Fair? Now, this often comes up when speaking of the extermination of the Canaanites, and somehow, God is not fair, that He would basically wipe out a whole group of people. Let us deal with the first issue of is God fair? Then we will deal with the Canaanites. So is God fair? Absolutely! He must be because of the very definition of what is fair comes from the nature of God. That is how we know what fair and unfair is, it comes from the very nature of God. Therefore, there is no way to even have a standard to judge what is fair and unfair without first precluding God. And the only absolute, universal standard that you can have to judge what something is fair is God Himself, His nature. So Yes, God is fair. But what about the Canaanites? Wiping out a whole group of people? That does not seem fair? Well, those Canaanites should have been killed? The moment they disobeyed God's law, they should have had justice. God was long-suffering with them, but they were so rebellious they ended up having even their children killed. Yes, even the animals. Yes, because they were so wicked. They were training children as young as four, five years old, to be raped to be having sex with animals. The animals did not know the difference between the animals would keep having sex with humans. The whole population had been wiped out because that was God's justice on a wicked population.
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Rapp Report Daily 0384 Why Does God Demand Worship? One of the things you are going to see throughout the Bible is the fact that scripture is quite clear that God expects, in fact, demands that people, human beings, worship Him. Now, people want to ask the question, why does God demand to be worshiped? However, God as the creator, we see that from the very first verse of the Bible in Genesis 1:1, that God is the creator of everything. Therefore, the question is poorly worded. Actually, it is not why does God demand our worship. In fact, by the nature of God, the Creator, demands worship that we should give to our Creator, as the creation? The real question that should be asked is, why do we think we have a right not to worship Him?
That is a question that no one wants to ask themselves, but it is the real question at stake. When people ask this question because as his creation, we should be created to worship Him. The fact that God gave us a will and allows us to be rebellious because that is what it is when we do not worship Him. It is called rebellion and it only shows that God is a God that is long-suffering. However, by the creation/Creator relationship, we must worship our Creator.
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Rapp Report Daily 0383 Is God Sexist? Sometimes the question is, is the Bible sexist? The argument here is that a lot of people seem to think that somehow to emphasize one sex or gender over the other is somehow wrong. Now, this is really changed, at least in America in the last 10 years, because the whole idea of gender has changed. This argument is because God refers to himself in the male gender, and seems to deal with men. Therefore, people somehow like to say that God or the Bible is sexist because it seems in their mind, to put men in front of women or above women. However, when we look in the Bible, we do not see that men are superior in any way to women. There were cultural things that were going on. The fact that men would be the ones that would do the work and women would be the ones to stay at home is going to mean that men will be discussed more than women. But is it sexist for God to refer to Himself as a male? Well, here we have the issue that God chose to create men first, and that becomes the issue He wants male headship. And this is something that theologically we understand, This is the way God created it. So we have to let God be God. The issue is that people want to be God. Now in our day and age, people want to say, we should accept people the way they identify, Well, God identifies as a man, Therefore, except the way He wants to be called.
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Rapp Report Daily 0382 Are there Different Gods of the OT and NT? Why is the God of the New Testament so different than the God of the Old Testament? Well, this is an argument that is not actually all that new. Actually, the early church fathers had to deal with this. Very early in church history, Marcin had come up with the idea that there were two different gods, one of the Old Testament that was somehow a wrathful and hateful God, where the God of the New Testament was this loving God. However, what we end up seeing is, that not true. The God of the Old Testament is consistent, and the same God of the New Testament. However, what people fail to recognize because they want to focus on somehow God has changed, when God cannot change, is who God is dealing with has changed. In other words, God in the Old Testament is dealing with a nation, the nation of Israel, who was supposed to be as a nation representing Him, and He had rules and laws for them to follow as a nation of ambassadors, a nation that represented Him. Now He deals with a church, a church that is from all over the world from many nations, still representing Him. However, we do not come as one nation conquering, we come as people from all the nations sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. So it is not that God changed. It is who He is dealing with changed, no longer Israel, but now the church
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Rapp Report Daily 0381 What Does it Mean to Fear God? Now, many people know that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. We see that in Proverbs1:7, and there we see "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, fools despise wisdom and instruction". So we would often say that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. But what does the fear of the Lord actually mean? Does it mean we are to be so afraid of God that we tremble in our boots? Well, actually, no. The idea of fear is to captivate attention. That is really what we are doing when we say the fear of the Lord, that the Lord our God captivates our full and undivided attention. Now, this is a way I like to illustrate this, it is helpful for me, maybe it will be for you. If you were discussing earlier that day with your spouse, what color to paint a room, or maybe discussing even your 401k then all of a sudden you are on the street and someone pulls out a gun and asks for your money or your life. Are you worried about which color you wanted to paint that room anymore? Or even the thoughts of how to invest your 401k? No, because the man with the gun has captivated your full attention. You are thinking of nothing else. Oh, there are other things you think like your family, but the important part of this is that your full and undivided attention is on that person and so it should be with God.
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Rapp Report Daily 0380 Does God Change His Mind? Sometimes we are challenged with the argument, Did God change his mind? Now, where do we get this from? Well, this comes from Genesis 6:5-7.
5 bThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every cintention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And dthe Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it egrieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
We see here that people will try to say, God did not know what man was going to do somehow. As if He is not omniscient, and He regrets what He did because He made man and man's evil and therefore, God did not know the future. In other words, they try to argue God is not all-knowing. He is not omniscient.
However, the fact that God speaks to man at a point when man does evil, and He says He regrets having made man is not the fact that He did not know what man would do, but the fact that He regrets what man has done. People sometimes get the focus wrong. God still knows everything.
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Rapp Report Daily 0379 If God is Omnipresent will He be in Hell? If God is omnipresent, will He be in hell forever? Now let us first start with what omnipresent means. Omnipresent means that God is everywhere present. In other words, there is nowhere that you can go where God is not present. Now there is a falsehood that many teach. Many people teach that God is absent from hell or God is not in hell. They say that when people go to hell, they will spend eternity without God's presence because God cannot be in the presence of sin. Well, that's actually not true. Just read the book of Job, and Satan himself has to appear before God. Clearly, God can be in the presence of sin. God being omnipresent means He is even here on earth. And yes, there are sinners here too. Do not let the unbelievers know because well, they think there are only hypocrites in the church. The church is filled with people that believe that are sinners saved by grace. So when they sin, it is what they already admit. It is when the unbeliever's sin when they say they are good that is hypocritical. That aside, what you end up seeing is what we see in hell is not the absence of God's presence, but the absence of a relationship with God. God will be in hell. God's being in hell will actually be even worse because what we will see is that God in hell is the reality that they are without a relationship with Him. And that will make it all the much worse.
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Rapp Report Daily 0378 Is There Anything God Cannot Do? Is there anything that God cannot do? If so, does that mean that he is not omnipotent? Now, this actually is a logical fallacy, Sometimes people word this question as is can God make a rock so heavy he cannot lift it? Well, there are things God cannot do. In Titus 1:2, it says that God cannot lie. Therefore, there are things God can do. God cannot do anything that is outside of his nature. God will do everything within his nature, but there is nothing He can do outside His nature such as sin. God cannot sin, because sin is a violation of the nature of God. By the way, when we talk about good versus evil, we understand what good is because it is defined by the nature of God,
Evil is the opposite of that which is the nature of God. So are there things God cannot do? Yes, there are things God cannot do. However, does this have anything to do with his attribute of omnipotence mean, meaning that He is all-powerful? Well, the answer to that is, no, No, it doesn't. Those are category errors. The fact that He is omnipotent means that He is all-powerful, but it has nothing to do with the fact that He cannot do anything outside of his nature.
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Rapp Report Daily 0377 What are the Communicable and Incommunicable Attributes of God? When we talk about the attributes of God, the question that is often asked is what are the communicable and incommunicable attributes of God. Now, I do not classify the attributes got in this way. I classify them as attributes of deity, which are those that would be incommunicable, those that are communicable, we would find, at least I would as attributes of morality and attributes of personality. So, there are some different ways to clarify these things. However, we talk about the attributes of God, those that are communicable are those, that man, as well as maybe even angels, also have. So, you can think of these attributes as things like intelligence, emotions, or love things like this, that not only does God have, but man has as well, those attributes that are incommunicable or attributes that God alone has now in my classification, This would be attributes of deity, those attributes that God alone has and no one else. In other words, things like omniscience, omnipotence, omnipotence, things that define God as God. In other words, if you have these attributes, you would be God and only God has these attributes. So when we look at these, these are the differences between God and everyone else.
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Rapp Report Daily 0375 Why Does God Punish for Eternity? Why would God punish someone for eternity for a temporal sin? This is something we hear often and the reason it is a struggle for some is because they do not understand the nature of God and therefore the nature of sin. We have to remember that God is eternal. God is eternally and infinitely holy, infinitely just and infinitely righteous. Therefore, when we break God's law, there is an infinite consequence to it. Not because of the sin itself, but because of who we have offended. I often use this illustration to try to help people understand this. If you were to threaten my life, the police would tell you to stay away from me, and there probably would not be much that would come of it. However, if you threaten the President of the United States, his life, well, you would probably be in jail for 48 hours, until they can find something else to hold. You want to see if the threat was real. In other words, there was a difference in the consequence, and yet the threat was identical. What made the difference? The difference was, who was offended? When it comes to God, He is an infinitely holy being. Therefore, that carries with it an infinite consequence. Yes, the sin may be temporal and similar to others, but it is against the holy infinite God.
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Rapp Report Daily 0374 Prove that God Exists We get this challenge a lot. Usually what they want you to do is give scientific evidence for that proof. In other words, they want you to use science to prove that God exists. This is actually a logical fallacy. It is a category error. Why? Because science is the study of the material world. God is immaterial. Therefore, science can never be used as the means of studying the immaterial world, which is where God is. So when we look at the study, we have to look at philosophy or religion, to understand the study of God, When they want scientific proof for God's existence. Well, they actually have several dilemmas. The dilemma they have is that they want to rely on their ability to reason which is required to do the science that they want you to use. However, in their worldview of a purely material world where there is no God, there is no immaterial world. There is no ability to reason. Chemical reactions do not produce material things. They can only produce material things. So they have themselves a different problem. They are relying on the Christian worldview to deny the Christian worldview. That is a dilemma that they have not us.
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Rapp Report Daily 0373 What is the Trinity? Well, the Trinity is actually a doctrine that was formulated in the fourth century. Now, some people argue, well, it is not in the Bible, we do not see the word Trinity anywhere in the Bible. That is true. You also do not find the word Bible in the Bible. So do we not believe the Bible is the Bible because the word Bible does not appear in the Bible? No, the Trinity is a doctrine that is a solution to a problem. Most people do not think about it this way, because they think the Trinity is the problem.
Well, if you remove the doctrine of the Trinity, you have yourself a dilemma. That dilemma is that we see throughout Scripture, that God the Father, is called God. He has the attributes of God, He does the works of God. We see that Jesus Christ, throughout the Bible, is called God has the attributes of God and does the works, that only God can do. We see that the Holy Spirit is referred to as God, that He has the attributes of God, and that He too does the works that only God can do. So all three of these Persons are called God, have the attributes of God and do the works of God, and yet we see Them separate and distinct. You can look at Jesus's baptism. You see all three of them present at the same time. So they are different, not different modes. If you remove the doctrine of the Trinity, you have a problem that the Trinity solves
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Rapp Report Daily 0372 Did Man Create God? The challenge we get is that man created the idea of God. In other words, the thought that God did not create man but man created God, Maybe you have been challenged with this question. Whenever I hear this, it makes me think of Genesis chapter three, because in the garden, the serpent said to the woman in verse four, "you will not surely die, for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil". So what we end up seeing there is that these people want to try to say that man created God. The fact is that that is impossible because there had to be Someone or something that created everything. Whatever that Someone or something is, that is God. So you have to have an uncaused cause, we dealt with this in an earlier episode, but when we look at the immaterial world, there is no way around the fact that there is the requirement for an immaterial being to create and that is God. We have universal, absolute, immaterial elements in the universe and that requires a universal, immaterial, absolute Being and we call Him, God. God created man, not the other way around.
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Rapp Report Daily 0371 Did God have a Cause? The challenge for today is the challenge of if everything needs a first cause, then where did God come from? Now, many people think that this is an argument that proves that nothing created everything in other words, that there was no God because God needs a cause. However, there's a problem in the logic, What you end up seeing is, in philosophy, there is the idea of an uncaused cause. In other words, there must be something that created everything from nothing. There must be something that was before everything. That thing or Person did not have a beginning and does not have an end. In other words, God did not have a cause. Everything that has a beginning had a cause. However, God had no beginning, therefore, God had no cause. This is something we have to understand about God that He is eternal. He had no beginning and He had no end. The Scriptures are clear on this, that He was before the universe was created. Therefore, He did not have a cause, because He did not have a beginning, it is a logical fallacy when they try to argue that God must have a beginning because He must be caused.
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Rapp Report Daily 0370 Is God Masculine? Why do we use a masculine name for God as a pronoun? Now, this comes up often by people who want to say that we should be open-minded to the fact that God can use female genders or that God is a female. They would like us to think about that, that the question is very simple. When you get challenged with this, the first question to ask the person is, whether or not they believe that a person should be able to be used the pronoun that they identify with. In other words, we live in a culture that tries to say that everybody has a right to the gender of their choice based on how they identify. If that is the case, well, the very simple answer is that God identifies as a male. Therefore, anybody who believes that we should respect the identity that someone prefers to be used, they should respect the pronoun that God prefers, and He calls Himself a male. Now, this does have I am sure to do with federal headship and why He created man first, He could have created female first, He chose that, for whatever reasons he knows, but the fact of the matter is, God identifies Himself as a man and so should we.
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Rapp Report Daily 0369 Who is God? Well, that's a very interesting question. Sometimes people will ask, well, even Moses asked it, We see this in Exodus chapter three, When Moses was being told to go back to Israel in the account with the burning bush, he knows of the fake gods of Egypt. But Moses said to God, in verse 13, of Exodus three,
13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”
And that is really an attribute of God that we see him explaining there, that God is self-existent. The fact that we end up seeing here is that when we look at God and He says, "I am" that is what He calls Himself, He is referring to the fact that He is a self-existent being, that He had no beginning and no end. That is an essential part of who God is. We know God is a triune God, He is three Persons; Father, Son, and Spirit, but all those Persons are one Being; God. The fact that He has no beginning and no end is important to know who God is.
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Rapp Report Daily 0368 The challenge: God Does Not Exist. Many people make the claim that God does not exist thinking their claim alone is enough to prove it. However, they have no proof of that claim. So what do they do? They try to shift the burden of proof and put it onto a person that claims that God does exist. This happens when you have someone that is challenging you. They are trying to shift the burden of proof because they take an impossible position. But can we easily prove God exists? Well, Yes, we can. Now, if God does not exist, and we are just a product of purely a material world, then what we would expect to see is that everything is purely material. We shouldn't see any immaterial entities such as our ability to reason, truth, knowledge, laws of logic, and morality, all of these things are immaterial. Your love for your spouse can be seen outwardly, but the idea of love is a concept and concepts are immaterial. They are not a material thing. They are not something that you can mix chemicals together and produce. So when an atheist or someone that denies God exists, claims that they do not believe God exists when they are using their God-given ability to reason. That is why Psalm 14:1 says, "the fool says in his heart, there is no God". Because for them to have an ability to reason God must first exist.
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Rapp Report Daily 0367 The challenge is that Jesus Christ never claimed to be God. But is it valid? Did Jesus actually claim to be God? Well, one thing we have to do when we look at this is understanding that language and culture changes. So we have to understand what happens with Jesus's words by those that reacted to it. So If you go to John chapter eight, and you look in there, you end up seeing that Jesus Christ ends claims to be, "I am", "I am" as a name for God. You see this in verse 58, Jesus said to them, "truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was I am, so they pick up stones to throw at him". Then you go to John chapter 10. And he said, in verse 30, "I and the Father are one, The Jews again, pick up stones to stone him. Jesus answered them, I've shown you many good works for my father, for which of them are you going to stone me and the Jews answered, It is not for good work, that you're there we're going to stone you but for blasphemy for you, being a man, make yourself God". So that they at the time understood He was claiming to be deity. Now If you want another passage to look at would be Mark chapter two, they drop a paralytic in front of Jesus after ripping a hole in the roof, he ends up saying, "Your sins are forgiven", knowing the hearts of men, He says this, and the scribes say, "who can forgive God, but God alone, He is committing blasphemy". And Jesus ends up saying so you know that He has the authority to forgive sins. He says the parabolic rise up and walk, proving that not only did he claimed to be God, but he proved that he was God.
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Andrew discusses Samson the 13th judge.
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Andrew discusses the judge Adbon.
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Andrew discusses the judge Elon.
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Andrew discusses the judge Ibzan
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Andrew discusses Jephthah and the vow he made.
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Andrew discusses Jair the third of 4 judges during civil war.
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Andrew discusses Tola the second of 4 judges during civil war.
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Andrew discusses Abimelech the first of 4 judges during civil war.
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Andrew discusses Gibeon and the faith he needed to be a judge.
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Andrew discusses Deborah as both judge and prophetess and not She is not what so many think she is.
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Andrew discusses the 3rd judge, Shamgar.
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Andrew discussed the second judge of Israel, Ehud.
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The first of the 13 judges is Othniel. Andrew provides some background to him and his family. Rapp Report Daily 0353
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There is a cycle to the book of Judges. There are 7 cycles represented by the 13 judges. Each cycle contains four elements:
Israel’s disobedience Oppression at the hands of their neighbors because of their disobedience Israel repentance and crying out to the Lord for deliverance God delivers Israel by sending a judge
However, each cycle is short lived and usually ends with the life of the judge. Each cycle also progresses the overall disobedience of Israel. There are five basic reasons for the cycles of Israel’s moral and spiritual decline:
Disobedience in failing to drive the Canaanites out of the Land (Judg. 1:19, 21, 35) Idolatry (2:12) Intermarriage with wicked Canaanites (3:5, 6) Not heeding judges (2:17) Turning away from God after the death of the judges (2:19).
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Andrew starts a series on the judges of the Old Testament. Who were the judges? Military leaders? Religious leaders? or Civil leaders? Rapp Report Daily 0351
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Evangelism can be a fearful thing but is also very exciting. Rapp Report Daily 0350
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Andrew talks about having a game plan for evangelism and who is the hardest person to witness to. Rapp Report Daily 0349
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Andrew is traveling but talks about how to handle answering questions that you do not know the answer to and how to always get back to the gospel in a conversation. Rapp Report Daily 0348
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Andrew is traveling but talks about the fear of evangelism. Rapp Report Daily 0347
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Andrew is traveling but encourages you to evangelize someone today. Rapp Report Daily 0346
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The secret to encouragement is that when you encourage others it will also encourage you. Rapp Report Daily 0345
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Encourage people with the Word of God. Rapp Report Daily 0344
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Praying for people is one way to encourage them. Rapp Report Daily 0343
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When we remember a person's name or details about their life the next time we meet them it encourages them. Rapp Report Daily 0342
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So after discussing encouragement, this week. Have you been encouraged? Have you encouraged others? Here's the thing, when we look in the Scriptures, we see that there are many people who have relationships with one another, where their relationship is one of encouragement we see this with Jonathan and David. They were friends who were so close that they were a great encouragement to one another. We think about this with Paul and Barnabas, in fact, if you know the meaning of the name Barnabas and you know the account in the book of Acts, you realize that was actually not his given name. Barnabas is a nickname, it means, son of encouragement. In other words, Barnabas was such a man of encouraging others that it became his nickname. He and Paul went on missionary journeys together and were able to have an impact for the kingdom of God. But think about Barnabas, can you be a Barnabas to others, to be such a person of encouragement that you would have a nickname of a son of encouragement. Would that be your nickname well may not be today but can each of us make a plan that this will be, how we want to be known. We want to be known as someone who encourages others so much so that people will start to nickname us one of encouragement. Rapp Report Daily 0340
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Encouragement means to give someone confidence or boldness to do something. I want to encourage you, this week but one of the things that encouraged me was a tweet that I got, we got a tweet from a pastor down in Cebu, Philippines. Pastor David wanted to encourage both Justin Peters and myself because of the conference that we had done down there. And he sent a message. and this is a very encouraging message now let me let you know that in the Philippines there's an issue with tithing. They put it up as a doctrine that's almost like a sin if you don't give 10% to the church that comes into play. We had spoken also about women's role in the church if women should preach and this is what he said the conference, by the way, was called snatch, so you're going to hear that. Here's what he said. "update on snatch local pastor in Cebu preached on Sunday that from now on, they will only preach from Scripture and have rejected tithing as a doctrine. A woman was also asked to preach but she said, 'No, I won't find a man to do it'. That's greatly encouraging to both Justin and I why because it says that people understood the things that we are teaching as being from Scripture, and they were willing to stand up with boldness and take action that encourages me to encourage others. Rapp Report Daily 0339
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Many years ago, when I started doing my Striving for Eternity Academy, the free courses that we offer on YouTube for people to learn theology, an introduction of world religions, how to interpret the Bible, how to disciple someone, we have all these courses out there. And I was struck over many years, the fact that when I would go to funerals, I would hear people say some of the most encouraging things about a person who just passed away. And the thing that always strikes me is how much those people when they were alive, would love to have heard about those things. I started at the end of my shows to try to find one person that we could seek to as a group to encourage each week because I realized, and maybe if you think about it, too, when you've ever been to a funeral, you hear how encouraging people speak of someone. I remember once with a young man who actually took his own life in despair. And person after person after person came up saying what an impact he made on their life. And I realized this young man probably never even knew it. Because people kept that to themselves. I wonder if things would have been different if they encouraged him while he was still alive. And that's what I would like to encourage you to consider to do to encourage others as much as you can while they're still alive. You don't know the impact it may make Rapp Report Daily 0338
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In 1 Thessalonians 5:11, we see it says, "Therefore encourage one another and build one another up". This is something we should be doing. And unfortunately, not enough of us do this. We should be trying to encourage one another as much as we can. We often think about the fact that we would like to be encouraged. And yet, we don't think as often as we should about other people needing encouragement. In fact, one of the things I often find in counseling people is the fact that they are upset when someone is not encouraging them. And they gave very little or no thought whatsoever about people they could be encouraging. We should be encouraging one another in the body of Jesus Christ in the church. It's something we should be doing. And yet many of us if we're going, to be honest, fall short of that instruction. We should be looking at the people we are in contact with today. Think about this and think about as you go about your day, who can you encourage, seek out someone in your day today to encourage because there's somebody that you're going to come in contact with that you can encourage even today. You may not have thought about it before today, but do it today. Rapp Report Daily 0337
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Have you ever gotten something that really greatly encourages you? I want to talk this week about things that encouraged us. I want to give you some examples, but we need encouragement. Many of us when we try to go through life pretending like we can handle everything. We don't need anyone else. We don't need to know what other people are thinking because we're good enough strong enough, whatever it may be, to be able to do this on our own and the reality is, every one of us if we're going to admit it needs encouragement, in fact, Scripture says that we should be encouraging one another. We don't like to admit that do we, but we should. We need to encourage one another, there's actually a many one another's in the Bible and maybe one day I will do a podcast on that. The fact that we should be about the business of encouraging one another it's something we need to do. It's something that the Bible calls us to. And when we think about it and by the way, I should mention this is in 1 Thessalonians 4:18 that it says, "Therefore encourage one another". And so, the thing is, we should be about that business we should be doing that. And I want to encourage you. This week, we in different ways. I hope that you're encouraged. First off, by reading the scriptures. That is the greatest source that we can ever have encouragement in our life. Rapp Report Daily 0336
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God's attribute of forgiveness
As we look at the last of the attributes of God that we want to examine this last one in the area of morality is one of forgiveness. This is one that as Christians we value the most, we think about the forgiveness of God. The fact is that God forgives us as it says in 1 John to continually come to him asking forgiveness, over and over again, which is an amazing thing kind of brings us back to so we looked at last couple episodes, with long-suffering, but he welcomed us with open arms.
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God's attribute of kindness
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God's attribute of long-suffering
Rapp Report Daily 0333
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God's attribute of mercy
Rapp Report Daily 0332
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God's attribute of grace
Rapp Report Daily 0331
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God's attribute of love
Rapp Report Daily 0330
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God's attribute of faithfulness
Rapp Report Daily 0329
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God's attribute of truth
Rapp Report Daily 0328
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God's attribute of wrath
Rapp Report Daily 0327
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God's attribute of goodness
Rapp Report Daily 0326
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God's attribute of justice
Rapp Report Daily 0325
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God's attribute of righteousness
Rapp Report Daily 0324
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God's attribute of holiness
Rapp Report Daily 0323
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God's attribute of self-determination
Rapp Report Daily 0322
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God's attribute of intelligence
Rapp Report Daily 0321
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God's attribute of emotion
Rapp Report Daily 0320
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God's attribute of self-consciousness
Rapp Report Daily 0319
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God's attribute of life
Rapp Report Daily 0318
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God's attribute of spirituality
Rapp Report Daily 0317
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God's attribute of unity
Rapp Report Daily 0316
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God's attribute of sovereignty
Rapp Report Daily 0315
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God's attribute of omnipresence
Rapp Report Daily 0314
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God's attribute of omnipotence
Rapp Report Daily 0313
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God's attribute of omniscience
Rapp Report Daily 0312
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God's attribute of immensity
Rapp Report Daily 0311
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God's attribute of eternality
Rapp Report Daily 0310
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God's attribute of self-existence
Rapp Report Daily 0309
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