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Vernon McGee who for over 30 years answered the many questions of his listeners his programs and ministry of the through the Bible radio network one of the perennial controversies in the evangelical church concerns the free will of man and the sovereignty of God on one side you have what are called Arminians and on the other Calvinists we will go into all the differences of the 5 points on either side but one of them is in focus today perhaps the most controversial it's known as limited atonement the teaching that Christ died only for those who accept him and not for the last so a listener in Rogers Arkansas says I find scriptures which say that Christ died for all but I hear it explained away with the argument that the Scriptures apply only to all those who believe or will believe but I think that he died for all sin would you please make this clear for me. Well let me say that 1st of all the view that you mention and call it Calvinistic is not exactly accurate you are giving the hyper Calvinistic view many of us are Calvinists we don't believe what you've said that is that the elect are all ready predestined to be saved and the non-elect are not well if that were true of course why in the world go through that process of living down here then why not just put the elect in the heaven and the non-elect the place they are going and let's get started with eternity but that just isn't the way that it is you need a scripture that Christ died for all and a scripture that they cannot contradict and that Scripture is found in 1st John the 2nd chapter the 2nd verse it says he is the pro pay she asian for our sins and don't let that big word start a year and cause your plea from the territory because it simply means mercy seat where he is the mother sees the you see that was in the tabernacle I'm r.c.c. And that's where the nation Israel received mercy of God blood put on the mercy seat made it possible for God to deal with senators and so here this is carried through he is the mercy. For our sea ends and not for hours on Lee but also for the say ends of the whole. He died for the sins of the whole world. And another approach to that has been those that said that is death problem was not adequate to slay you all and the interesting thing is he's the end thing that God tabernacling in human flesh and he did that in order that it might make it possible for all the beasts say and we are in that trials stage now and I do not have any right to say Who are the lack and you do not have any right to say Who are the non-elect although not as controversial as the previous issue concerning the Atonement speaking in tongues can also cause a flurry of debate these days so this listener in Aloha Oregon asks What is your opinion about the charismatic movement particularly the issue of speaking in tongues. Let me say to you that the Charismatic Movement is a movement that is at heart it's evangelical some people you're going to be surprised to hear me say that but it is I have lessened on t.v. Recently I have an opportunity and I'll especially when I'm not preaching on Sunday is if I preach Sunday morning or go to church Sunday morning I don't generally take any kind of an appointment for Sunday night if I can get out of it so I've heard quite a few preachers who are Kyra's Vladik that have preached a very clear Gospel message and I do want to say that that they do that and I don't want to throw rocks that they are because they have preached in the same gospel that I am preaching now I regret that they've gone off on the speaking in tongues for instance my position is that speaking in tongues was a gale and their eyelids search on tell it was established and Paul wrote the current tense and said whether that be Tums they show sees We've had them and now we don't have them and let's not have them now we don't need them what we need today instead of speaking in tongues we need those that can take the Gospel the Word of God in different languages different tongues to the different peoples throughout the world today I've been kidded by several of my friends we're now broadcasting in different languages throughout the world well one of my friends is why you get after these people speaking in tongues says Use speak and tons and I do and I like that kind of speak in tongues but it's not my tongue that speak in those languages by the way I just make the master tape and that is copied out but in manual. Form but not hands of a person who speaks another language and then they translate it over into their language and they listen to the type that they have of the message I gave and that even helps them with why that should be given and so we're speaking in tongues and I like that down the tongue but I don't find that these are accurate that day and they do emphasize the working of the Holy Spirit and I like to see that emphasize but not just the way that they are doing it but if I had to choose between the way they had done it and most of our churches today that is the type that I was brought up and and have been and go to now why they pay no attention to the person and work of the Holy Spirit one of the tragedy of the hour is we hear that we want to make people welcome in our church well believe me is the Holy Spirit welcome in your church people don't mention the fact that the Holy Spirit and Laos believe there's a need wants to work through you he launch you to exercise the gift and he will empower you you know fill you with the spirit that you might be able to function in that thing God's called you to do now I think I've said enough on that but to kill it and that we believe right now that this matter of the speaking in tongues is not necessary and that it leads I'm afraid to all kinds of access as and I've heard some of the folks that are in that movement that have actually rebuke some of their members for being excessive in this display odd here a letter that's just come to my desk from the pastor of one of the largest Pentecostal churches out here in the. Less than I don't know a lot is God then and I thank God not a lot is God in that Elias one the one made it come up and prayed for him now unable to come at that time and they have made speak for them even though I totally disagree with the town's movement that that is not far today the same person also asks about those who have rejected the Gospel basing your question on 2nd that's alone eons to 11 she asks Will those who have rejected Christ prior to the Rapture have no hope of accepting him afterwards in that case they would be hopelessly any Turnley lost. Well when you state it like that you haven't quite said what Paul had in mind Paul says that those that get to hear the gospel today and reject it and keep on rejecting it and even the rapture the church will not change them that still reject it will cause them to believe a lie now that's actually true today have you noticed this that most of the people that are in clubs today most of those people have come out of churches that is they all lined churches Methodist baddest Presbyterian what have you and they've been in them and could have been maybe in a pretty dead shared was some I'm around a pretty dead church and they see these cults are very active and alive and they get connected with them and the interesting thing to me is that practically every one ever met that was gone into a coffee Christian that known that went into a cloak it's because of the fact that they heard the truth and they were not a Christian of course they heard the truth they probably were a cosmetic Christian they gave outward form of being a Christian but they never really accepted Christ as their Savior never attempted to grow in grace and then the knowledge of he on had no desire to know the Lord Jesus Well that call comes along and picks them all and that's the reason that one of the calls we came back home off of speaking trip and not an on Sunday mornin and we didn't have time to go to church and so somebody rang the doorbell and it was somebody from a call well I soon got rid of the. Elman her was a couple and they were coming around it was around 10 at 10 30 in the morning now they were coming around at that time why did they come around at that time because they wanted to find people that home who ordinarily belong to a church and ordinarily go but they stay home a great deal they may not be exact they may be a little cold that's kind of person they had like a mate of his leg got something that's hot out of that Evan and they want to tell them about it you see and it's those rope that go in the cults today so you'll have that same thing at the time of the rapture they'll be people at that time of the rapture that it will alert them when they said my dear mother told me about this and I didn't believe her and now she's gone and that person will accept Christ but they'll be another group that will have some excuse to offer or not accept and cries and they are the ones that will believe a lot and I think that these people today that have heard the docile and rejected it their candidates for every call that comes along every law that's been told a day our society attempts to be politically correct not wanting to offend anyone because of race culture ethnicity or gender but people are still concerned about these issues this person asks does the Bible say anything about interracial marriage and the answer is no there's nothing about that at all. But I want you to look at something with me for just a few moments depend on circumstances depend on a lot of things let me come back and let's get down and look at the as they call it today the bottom line what is the bottom line about all of this let's dig down a little bit deeper what is marriage to begin with marriages where 2 young people that have fallen in love with each other they come together and they want to get mad live together and raise a family. Now that's what marriage is actually all about now here is a young man the young lady just in the primary youth and everything looks rosy but there's some other considerations that need to be taken into consideration and one of them it was this other both questions are is one of a Christian the others are not now I made a practice of not marrying Christians and non Christians if they said to me when I'm sad I'm a Christian Another said I'm not a Christian I did not perform the ceremony just don't think that the work that too far apart and a young lady that used to turn my church right here in Pasadena years ago came in one evening to my study and she was actually had a daughter of wealthy parents and she was a very lovely girl she'd man a boy who was a bank clerk I used to be a bank clerk and I looked at that fella and he was just about as unsaved and just about as honoring as I was when I was a teenager and I bank clerk and I looked at the boy and I looked at the girl she was a sweet Christian and he was nuns a fella and I told her no I would not marry him and she thought it was horrible that I would not marry and she said we love each other and she said what's your objection I said I'll tell you what Jackson if I said you were up at the top of the economic scale and I know where that ball is because that's where I used to be he's down at the bottom of the economic scale is lifestyle and your lives are in 2 different worlds I can tell you that because I happen to have been up. Claire that matter rich girl and we didn't get married that's not because I made the decision but somebody higher up made the decision and I thank God Sensei and so I wanted to spare that girl a lot of grief and I told her I said no I won't marry you and I told her the reason and I said that bank clerk not a Christian doesn't want to become a Christian he comes to church at you because he's in love with you and he wants to marry you and he may be interested in your money I don't know that but he may be interested in your money and she said all my no documents he would never do a thing like that well I said we'll wait but I can't marry you and she fell out with me and went and that's somebody else Mary and she got married and the year didn't go by she came into my office one day and she's crying and she told me it didn't work and she again when I had a mate I'm going to get a divorce and things that got that bad and I told her not to get a divorce I said you're mad tell him let's see if you can work something out well she was unable to work things out she did wait a few more months and the girl then finally got a divorce and I say to you friends there are many things that separate people today now we have a question from a listener in Santa Barbara who's concerned with the relationship of Israel to the church she understands that Israel is God's earthly people in that God has made earthly promises to Israel she also says that the church is Christ's heavenly bride with no such earthly promises so she asks during the Rapture will save Jews be included with the church. No friends save Jews are in the church they are part of the church you see when the day of Pentecost came being part of the nation Estoril was not the important thing from then on as long as the church is in the world the large easements you remember said that night going after the garden I am the true vine you are the brain she is I am the genuine vine and where was I thank that they're gone but the Temple and the gates of the temple were open that night but woven in the vat gate and gold was a vine and that vine was a symbol of the nation Israel and he's saying to them to be a necessary ally is not the important thing from now on the important thing is to be identified with me now unfortunately today we have the expression of talking about Christian Jews I don't know why we've dropped the end of that fallacy of saying that they're not Christian Jews they're members of the Body of Christ if they've accepted Christ and we don't talk about German Christians are Scottish Christians are Arab Christians we yes lump them together and say they're Christians and that's the important thing and that's always should be but for some reason we always say he is a Jewish Christian or a Christian Jew but they are no longer a Jew they are made one in prize same as a German are male or female are all made one in Christ how important it is to see that and I trust that will make it clear to you now this party goes on though and says I will appreciate your understanding of this difference another passage in. Romans $111321.00 speaks of Gentiles being drafted into the vine of Israel this speaks to union as does the if Asian language if the 7 year tribulation period is the time object of travel in the church is raptured out of that this speaks of division to me if this is confusing Well it's confusing and if you think of the fact that Christian Jews may not be included at the rapture or they may not be part of the Body of Christ when they are not one of the churches taken out of the world God turns again to the nation Israel and serve this division now it's not a question of being in the church it's a question now of accepting cries and his rulership over there except being him has not only savior but he sat and is a large in King when he comes to rule on this earth I trust maybe that clarified that some will wot and I noticed that in spite of the fact our questions are so different and reveal a great deal of Bible teaching that's going on today it does reveal also a hopeless confusion between Israel and the church I suppose that's the most confusing thing that we have right now and believe me it really it brought in the Lion I digress for just a moment to say they have that tell you learn to Mike with distinctions in Scripture that are known as dispensations you will never have a knowledge of the Word of God you find yourself contorting and distorting all kinds of scriptures to fit into whatever system of Fiala Jr of Bible interpretation that you. Dob to me the greatest thing that ever happened in the study of the Bible was to find out about the dispensation and to find out that today I'm not on the same basis Adam was I don't have to watch out for a certain tree and not eat the fruit of it and I'm not in that nest and sation that time of God's dealing and if you wanna know the truth I'm glad that I wasn't here at the time that God gave the law to Moses I wouldn't want to been under that Mosaic system for anything in the world and at the heart of it was a sacrificial system and that's where salvation took place nobody ever got saved keeping the law you know now we've come to a new day and this is a dispensation of grace and the day God is calling out of the whirl of people to his name now in the Old Testament and the largest at the very beginning he offered himself as he in it was born in Kenya offered himself as a king sent his Apostles to go to the law sheep of the house of Israel with the gospel of the kingdom and he was turned down and then 20 ish and that marvelous statement come unto me all that labor and I have a lady now rests your that's the rest of redemption that's the message that started to go out and after he told them that Karin the Jerusalem Tel after is ascension after the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost you're to wait because something new began on the day of Pentecost and I don't know why that people have difficulty saying that I find out that seminary professors have the hardest time of understanding the B