Category: End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

How do we break free from self-made religion? How do live life in Christ apart from a bunch of rules? Are we going to put our confidence in the Bible-belt or what the Bible actually says?

• Chadrick asks about the final judgment and the separation of sheep from the goats in Matthew 25.
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• What about corporate fasts (and praying for something specific)? My sister-in-law has asked us to fast until noon everyday and pray for her husband in the ICU. Are we just going through the motions?

Categories: Faith End Times Christian Living

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

"Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. ..." Romans 7:4-5 Once we were apart from God, but in Christ we have drawn near to God and are clean and close.

• UNITED Conference - October 15-17, 2021 https://basicgospel.net/united/
• Will the Rapture take place before the antichrist is revealed?
• Why is Hebrews 10:24-25 so important to us?
• How do we know what we are asking is according to His will? What's His will?

Categories: New Covenant End Times Christian Living God's Will

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Under the Old Covenant, the fact that the sin issue was never dealt with once and forever, meant that there was always a division - the sin barrier - that kept the worshipper separated from God. Hebrews 10:1-4, 14.

• UNITED Conference - October 15-17, 2021 https://basicgospel.net/united/
• Can Christ heal me of a vision problem?
• What can we apply to us as a "royal priesthood" in 1 Peter 2:9 and to the priesthood in Malachi 2.
• What does the Bible say about the Rapture?

Categories: New Covenant God's Will Bible End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

The gospel of Jesus Christ really tells us that God is good. It is his eternal character. You don't have to wonder how God feels about you. He has said he freely has given you all things. He says you're blessed with every spiritual blessings. God is greater than you can every imagine.

• Harold asks for an explanation of 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11.
• Why would anyone be an enemy of the cross? What is it about the cross of Jesus that would cause someone to become an enemy?
• Can you please explain 1 John 5:16 and 17?
• If Jesus is the only way, how were Old Testament people saved?

Categories: End Times Jesus Christ Sin Old Covenant

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

What is the truth about God? God is love. God so loved the world... We need to get our ideas about God aligned with what He says about himself. Our view of God is distorted by our life of sin and death. But when we are born again we can know God as who He truly is. And that changes how we relate to one another.

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• Did Jesus shed his blood at any other time?
• Are we in the Great Tribulation? Do you believe in the Rapture?
• As gentiles, have we ever been under the law of Moses?
• How would you address a church that still preaches that Baptism is "an act of obedience", especially to youth ?

Categories: Theology Jesus Christ End Times Law Baptism

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Here in the United States of America we are celebrating the founding of our nation. It's a reminder of the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. Let's look again at the Gospel message. The message matters. Within this message is the wisdom of God, the power of God, and the freedom in God. "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, and by which you are being saved ..." 1 Corinthians 15:1-8

• Who is the author referring to in Hebrews 6:4-6? What does it mean to "again crucify to themselves the Son of God"? Is this for today?
• Monty asks about Jesus' second coming. The anti-christ has not be revealed yet.

Categories: New Covenant Hard Passages End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

"Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God." Romans 7:4 We belonged to sin and death, but Jesus set us free from that and we belong to Jesus.

• Does God intervene on car purchases? I prayed and nothing happened.
• I've always wondered about this passage ... Revelation 10:4, "Now when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them."
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• Christina is concerned about her unwed relative and how to work through their relationship.

Categories: Identity/Self Image End Times Christian Living

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8). This means that love never falls away, never departs from us. We can count on steadfast love in the person of Jesus Christ. This is our confidence in life.

• What is the meaning of "those who endure until the end will be saved"?
• Lois asks for clarification on being saved and speaking in tongues.
• A callers asks about Hebrews 6:4-6. Does this mean someone can walk away and never be saved?
• Is praying for prosperity something we do when we know that Christ is sufficient?

Categories: Love End Times Salvation Hard Passages Money/Giving

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

We are beneficiaries of the New Covenant. God is faithful and He has delivered on his promises. He did this in and through the person of Jesus Christ. What does it mean to you that God is faithful?

• What would it take to get the Word of God into different locked-down countries?
• Do Christians need to be ready for the return of Jesus?
• What's the Christian definition of humble?
• Brian prays that the message of grace heals the hurt we see.

Categories: Faith End Times Bible

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Richard Peifer

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 2 Peter 1:5-7

• Is Revelations considered prophecy as it is foretelling future events?
• Have you read the book of Enoch, Jublees, Jasher, if they are mentioned in the bible can we learn anything from them?

Categories: End Times Bible

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Richard Peifer

If you want to know how to pray, just read through the letters of Paul and pay close attention to his prayers. In Ephesians 1:15 Paul writes: "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers..."

• What's your response to those who say to tithe because "it just works", and that they understand it's not required but do it because of the blessings attached to it?

Categories: Money/Giving End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Richard Peifer

How do we come into the knowledge of God? How do we know that God exists?

• What does it mean that our prayers are hindered in 1 Peter 3:7?
• Is Daniel 7 future or past tense?

Categories: Theology Prayer End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Here's an encouraging passage ... an explanation of God's grace. "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved ... Ephesians 2:1-10 In eternity we will be trophies of grace.

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• Is it OK to be married again after a divorce?
• I see in Revelations the Beast is able to Make War with the saints and win. I don't have to go down easy do I?
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• Clay asks for clarification of Hebrews 2:7.

Categories: Grace Marriage End Times Bible

Andrew Farley, Bob Davis

"I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds" Hebrews 10:16 The cross worked and the resurrection was a grand success.

• Does "by his stripes" we are healed means that healing is guaranteed?
• Joe asks if you have to be baptized to be saved. He hearing two different opinions.
• Pat asks how do you share the Gospel of Jesus Christ without scaring people away with Hell, fire, and brimstone?

Categories: Bible Baptism Christian Living End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

It's been one year since the first COVID case was diagnosed in NYC. And what a year it's been. But we have hope in Christ and we can always look to him for our sure foundation.

• Is the peace treaty that was signed a few months ago the beginning of the 7 years talked about in Revelation?
• My brother is dating and living with a Christian woman who is separated from her husband. If they were to die like this with all the convictions from God and not heeding His voice, would they end up in hell?
• What happened to people that arose from the graves?
• How should Matt 6:15 be interpreted and applied "through the lens of the New Covenant"?

Categories: End Times Christian Living Bible Forgiveness/Repentance

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

"Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. ... the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 God has made himself known in the person of Jesus Christ.

• How do I let go of the results when sharing the grace of God?
• Are we supposed to hear a trumpet before The Rapture happens? And what is the special blessing?
• When the bible talks about speaking in tongues, what does it mean by that?
• Jerry asks about having the Holy Spirit come into your life.

Categories: Jesus Christ Christian Living End Times Bible Holy Spirit

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

This month we're offering "Making the Case for Grace" for your gift to Basic Gospel. https://basicgospel.net/give Bob looks at Romans 5-8 as Paul argues his case.

• "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1 God did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We are justified by faith and Christ's righteousness is credited to us.
• Who is sitting on the throne: Jesus Christ or God? If it is Jesus Christ, is this the judgment seat of Christ described in 2 Corinthians 5:10?
• In Revelation what is being referred to by the abomination of desolation?
• Do prophets exist today? Do we listen to current day people who claim to be a prophet?

Categories: Grace End Times Bible Holy Spirit

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Hope is a powerful motivator in our day-to-day lives. Without hope we dry up. But with hope it breathes life into each one of us. When we recognize the hope of the Gospel it brings true meaning into your life. 1 Peter 5:6-7 "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you."

• Greg asks about Revelation 2 concerning what Jesus has against the churches. How can Jesus have something against the church if sins are forgiven?
• Aaron is looking for an explanation of 1 John 3:20. "for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything."
• Is it wrong to visit another church when I'm already committed to a church?
• Why in Revelation 2 and 3 does Our Lord hammer incessantly about repenting off ways that are not in line with His Word?

Categories: Hope End Times Bible Christian Living

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

The lynchpin of the Gospel is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. No one has put off the perishable and put on the imperishable other than Jesus. That's what he did. Mary was the first witness to his resurrection. And his disciples soon after. Paul was arrested for his belief in the resurrection. "Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?" Acts 26:8

• What is a true conversion?
• Will there be a trumpet sound to the hearing of everyone when Christ comes to rapture the church?

Categories: Resurrection Salvation End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

A recent survey revealed that 52% of Christians accept a "works oriented" means to God's acceptance. It also found that 63% of adults fell some typ of religious faith is more important that which faith. The law is weak and useless to salvation. The only thing the law can do is condemn us and sentence us to death. So no one will be save in obedience to the law. God doesn't grade on the curve. Where is eternal life to be found?

• Who is Malachi 3:10 addressing?
• Aren't we now in the days worse than "the days of Noah"?
• I have OCD and don't think God will heal me. Is this something I have to live with?
• Do I have to be part of a church?

Categories: Salvation Bible End Times Christian Living