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Cessation of the Gifts & Dispensationalism: In a previous show you were talking to someone about a Church that don't believe the Gifts of the Spirit are for today, but that the Calvary chapel does. but to be weary of dispensationalism, so what is Dispensationalism? |
God Ordaining Ever Step: Does God ordain every step of our life? |
Bittersweet Announcement: Dan Springmeyer, who orchestrated the Sabbath Debate w/ Doug Batchelor, died the day before. |
Burial as opposed to Cremation: Is there something wrong with cremation as opposed to burial? |
Cursing Christ or Acknowledging Christ: It says in 1 Corinthians 12 that no one can say the name of Jesus is a curse by the Spirit of God & no one can acknowledge that Jesus is Lord unless a believer. What do you think about the accuracy of this? [1 Corinthians 12:3] The Gift of Speaking in Tongues: Are there basically 2 kinds of Speaking in Tongues? One where you don't have to interpret & another where you do have to? |
Glorifying the Gospel by Jesus' Death: Jesus glorifying God by His Death, is that the purpose of the gospel? What about the Resurrection? Isn't that more important? |
The Gospel: The gospel IS about us, is it not? |
Preachers & Teachers Learning New Knowledge: Do preachers & teachers need to continue to study & grow in their Biblical insights? Do they need to be presenting new insights, new knowledge, from God? Going to Seminary: Do you think pastors/teachers need/should go to Seminary for their training? [Luke 2:41-50] |
Charging for the Gospel: Why do Ministers charge for the gospel? |
Spouse more Spiritually zealous than the other: What about husbands who are not the best Christian leaders in their home and community, who are not as spiritual or zealous their wife? [1 Peter 3:1-6] |
Balaam: Who was Balaam who King Balak of the Moabites tried to get to curse the Israelites? [Numbers 22] Nicolaitans: Who were the Nicolaitans that Jesus didn't like so much in Revelation? [Revelation 2:6,15] |
Chastisement of the Lord: What is the chastisement of the Lord? |
Nicolaitans: I have an alternative view about the Nicolaitans, that they had a victory over the people. |
Contacting a Previous Caller: How do I contact the caller that would like help with the work he's doing out in the Reservation. |
No Gentiles: Where did gentiles come from if we are all from Adam & Eve? We're all family. There's no such thing as Gentile, according to the caller. |
Any Good Books about Living Through us: Can Steve please recommend some good books for inspiring growth in the Lord, living through Jesus. (A.W. Tozer) |
Fulfillment of the Law: Why don't we still do all the law's rituals? |
More Sinful the Closer to Christ: It sort've seems the closer i'm getting to Jesus, the more sinful i see myself. |
Don't Have to Repent anymore: So once we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord & Savior we don't have to repent anymore since He forgave our Past, Present & Future sins? Is that true? [Romans 6] |
Our Resurrected Bodies in Psalm 23: Is the temple possibly be talking about our resurrected body in Psalms? [Psalms 23:6b] |
Irvin Baxter: Do you ever listen to Irvin Baxter, End of the Age? How does your view align with his? |
Doing God's Will, Always Repenting, & Chronic Pain: I'm trying to always conform to God's will & not my will, but i'm always continually repenting, but always in chronic pain. |
Genealogy of Jesus & Joseph: Why is Jesus' step-dad Joseph's genealogy so important in Matthew 1 when he wasn't even blood related to Jesus? [Matthew 1, Luke 3:23-38] |
Justification, Sanctification, Glorification: What are the definitions of Justification, Sanctification, Glorification? Glorification: Are we already glorified when we come to Christ through our salvation? [Romans 8:30] |
Privacy from God: Does God know everything that is going on in our private lives? Are we not allowed some privacy? Exorcisms: What happens if someone wants you to do an exorcism? is it immediately effective or not? |
Destruction of Jerusalem: Is the Jerusalem prophecy still to happen in our future or already past? [Zechariah 9-14] |
Jesus' Name: Where did the name "Jesus" come? |
Holding Cell for the Wicked Dead: Where do the wicked go after they die, some type of holding cell? |
Child punished for Parent's Sin: Can a child be punished or suffer for the parent's sin? {Ezekiel 18, Exodus 20:5] |
Paying Tithe: Abraham paid tithe to Melchizedek, so tithing is still enforced, is it not? [Hebrews 7, Matthew 23:23] |
2 Sticks in Ezekiel: Ezekiel holding 2 sticks & putting them together, what did that mean, & what do Christian Zionists do w/ this? [Ezekiel 37] |
Prophecy Hampering Second Coming: Are there any prophecies that need to be fulfilled before Jesus comes back? |
Narrow Path's Show Introduction Music: I really the introduction music to your show. Is that you playing the guitar? Blessing God & God blessing us & lifting Hands: You said recently said that the it's the greater man that blesses the lesser man, so God blesses us, more than we are blessing God, with praise & worship & the lifting hands in, but what about these verses in Psalms? [Psalm 63:4, Psalms 134:2] |
Cremation: Is cremation okay or do we need our bodies for God to raise us? |
Narrow Path's Show Introduction Music: I was always like your introductory music too. Jesus Leaving it up to the Priests of the Catholic Church: So did Jesus really leave the Catholic church to tell us what to do? [Matthew 23:2-3] |
Home Church: What does your home church consist of? What are some of the problems you have had with it? [1 Corinthians 14:26] |
Nation of Israel: Do you not think the state of Israel is legitimate? |
The Calvinist & Arminianist Debate: What is the best book of the Bible to go through to debate Calvinism & arminianism? [Romans] Church Membership: So you are against Church Membership? Do you have anything in your lectures about that? |
Adam & Eve's Naked Conscience: Why is this verse here, Adam & Eve being ashamed of their nakedness as a result of the Fall? |
Choosing Unbelief: What is the main reason for disbelief? |
Hell-Universal Reconciliationism: What are your views about Universal Reconciliationism (what the caller calls, "restorationism")? |
Monetary Tips: Is it godly to give tips in restaurants? |
Testimony about LGBT Concern: I just wanted to share what I mentioned on a previous show that I don't have to worry about not getting the job because the LGBT concern. (followup, 6/22, last Q) Black Hebrew Israelites: African Americans the true Hebrews/Israelites, the lost tribe of Israel. I'm leaning on believing that. What do you think? [Deuteronomy 28, Galatians 3:26-29] |
Jews in the End Times: Are the Jews going to play a significant role in the end times? |
Male & Female: Why can't people just let people do what they want as far as what sex people want to be, a Christian niece asks the person making the call, being influenced by college says. [Matthew 19:4] |
Losing One's Salvation: Can you lose your salvation in Christ? |
Free Will & Being Born Again: So according to the Gospel of John we can't choose to be born again, so we don't really have free will? Is that right? [John 1:13] |
Religiously Abused People: How do we help people who were hurt by "religion"? |
Marijuana: How do you feel about using marijuana? |
Women Learning in Silence: Women being silent in the church, what does this mean? Paul says it's because Eve was the one who was deceived, but wasn't Adam stand right there beside her the whole time? [1 Timothy 2:6] Novice Christians as Elders: What was Paul saying about newly converted shouldn't be elders of the church lest they fall into the same downfall of pride as Satan did? [1 Timothy 3:6] |
Losing Faith: Even if you do walk away from God, you could still being pursued by God/ |
Spiritual Suicide in College: Caller thinks Steve was right on when he said you are basically sending your children to a spiritual death when you send them to secular colleges. Reincarnation: Is reincarnation is in the bible? |
Justification by Faith: So Martin Luther re-discovered the fact that we are Justified by Faith alone, so did God use a proviso for all the people who were taught by the Catholic Church that it was by works? |
Abomination of Desolation: When the Disciples aske Jesus, "when shall these things be?", what is the Abomination of Desolation? [Matthew 24:15, Daniel 9:26-27] |
Charismatic Movement: Where did the passion go that saw in the Charismatic Movement we saw in the 70s? Was that experience that I had just a spill-over of that happened with you & the Jesus Movement? |
Tithing: My husband & I have been being convicted to tithe, wondering how to do it, who to give it to? |
Cast Down & Not Forsaken: What did Paul mean by being Cast down & not forsaken? So who casts us down? Who forsakes us? [2 Corinthians 4:9] Overcoming Evil with Good: How do I overcome evil w/ good when people leaving messes for me to clean up? |
Book of Jasher: Have you ever seen or read the Book of Jasher? |
Homosexuality & LGBT Community: LBGT community needs our love & kindness. How should we be meeting their needs? |
Sufferings of Christ: I'm wondering about having the sufferings of Christ that Paul was talking about in Philippians. Can you explain it? [Philippians 3:10-11] |
Glory of the Lord: What is Paul talking about in the last verse of 2 Corinthians 3, the veil being removed & us able to see the glory of the Lord? [2 Corinthians 3:18] |
Stone Growing into a Great Mountain: Stone growing into a great mountain to fill the whole earth. [Daniel 2:35, Daniel 44-45] Man of Sin, Man of Lawlessness: In your series, "When Shall These Things Be?", you start to talk about what you think Daniel 7 & 2 Thessalonians, the Man of Sin & the Man of Lawlessness. But then you said you were out of time & would talk about that some other time. When do you talk about it further? [Daniel 7, 2 Thessalonians 2] |
Remembering the Bad Stuff in this Life: Caller doesn't think that we'll remember all the bad stuff anymore on the other side of glory, including lost loved ones. [Isaiah 65:16-18, Revelation 21:4] Estranged Children from the Lord: Children that are not following the Lord, caller will be praying for a previous caller who's son has departed the faith. |
Pre-Tribulation: Caller thinks Steve needs to go the Pre-tribulation Research Center Website. He thinks that he needs to read a paper from Arnold Fruchtenbaum that explain the Millennium. There will never cease to be a Levitical Priesthood, the caller thinks. [Jeremiah 33:16-18] |
Hank Hanegraaff: What do you know about the Eastern Orthodox church? My family & I have started attending one, & Hank Hanegraafff switching over has influenced our decision. |
Purgatory: Is purgatory biblical? I can't find it anywhere in the Bible. |
Parable of the Talents: In the Parable of the talents what is the severity of the master about? [Matthew 25:14-30] |
Single Parent Adoption: Should single people adopt? |
Demonic Pact & Its Ramifications: I made a demonic pact made when a youth, so what are the ramifications, does there need to be a special deliverance? [2 Corinthians 5:17] Addiction: Struggle with Addiction a lot. |
Parables: Weren't the parables generally directed to the people of Israel? |
Church Organization What is the role of leaders and the general hierarchy of organized church? I know you don't believe in Church Membership. [1 Timothy 3, Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12] |
In the Regeneration: In your paradigm of preterism & amillennialism, where do you place the 12 apostles, judging 12 tribes in the regeneration fit in? [Matthew 19:28] |
Concerned Salvation: Caller is questioning her salvation & concerned that she is not long for this world, & wondering what to do. |
Sleep Paralysis: Have you ever heard of sleep paralysis? What about anointing a room for protection? an ex-mormom wants to know |
Baby considered a Sinner: Why are we considered sinners as soon as we are born, even before we have a chance to sin? Bible Study Tools: Do you have any recommendations for tools to study the Bible, like a good Interlinear Bible that you use? A lexicon? |
Kicking Against the Pricks: What does it mean "it is hard to you to kick against the pricks"? [Acts 9:4-6] |
A Divided House: Binding the strong man, Satan bound, demons leaving but 7 more come and take over, I can't figure out what's happening here. [Luke 11] |
Sleep Paralysis: I, too, like felt a Sleep Paralysis, felt a force leave me. Baptizing in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Ghost The term God the Father , The Son & the Holy Spirit, to use for Baptism, is not even in the Septuagint. |
Prophets Today: Are prophets still part of the spiritual gifts for today? [Ephesians 4:11] Title Prophet: Is that what we'd call them, Prophet so & so? |
Color of Stones being Red: Color of the stones jasper & sardias in scripture, what is the meaning? |
Awarded According to My Righteousness: How can the writer call himself righteous according to his works? David says he wipes out his enemies, how is that righteous? [Psalm 18:20] |
Good because God Says it is or Because it is Good: Is something good because God is the one that decides what is good, or does God call it good because it is Good? |
Dispensationalism: Dispensationalism has legalism within the group that is causing division, that if you don't believe their paradigm your salvation is in question. What is Darby's primary point that the whole system is constructed on, & how can you refute that point? |
Panhandlers: What do we do about panhandlers? How do we respond to them? |
Homosexual Lifestyle Accepted in the Church: What do you think about Churches that are embracing the homosexual lifestyle? |
Ray Comfort: What do you think of Ray Comfort's ministry's evangelism method? |
Adoption: Someone was asking about adoption, & there is an abundance of availability of children. Not many infants, but teenagers, but 6 years old or up. Noah's son Ham: Noah's son, Ham, why was he cursed? |
Calling a church to Repentance: Preaching against sinners in church, accusing people in the church about their sin, is that right to do? |
Adam & Eve & Race: How did all the races come about if we all came from Adam & Eve? |
John MacCaarthur's View of the Nephilim: The Nephilim, are they demons or angles that had sex with women? John MacCarthur thinks so. [Genesis 6:4, Number 13:33] |
Greet one another with a Holy Kiss: It says to greet one another with a holy kiss, what did this mean? |
Abrahamic Covenant:
Is the abrahamic covenant unconditional? Unconditional & conditional promises from God |
Mercy upon whom I will have Mercy: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, can I embrace this promise even though God was talking to Moses & setting the terms? [Romans 9:15] |
Jesus' Words on Paper: Did Jesus know His words would be written down? Paul's Writings: Do we rely too much on Paul's writing? Paul's insight and directives as binding? He was the chief advocate for the Gentiles? |
Steve's Most interesting Experience from the Bible: What is the strangest experience you had involving the Bible? Transcendental Meditation: Caller relays a story about transcendental meditation. |
Trinity: If you deny the Trinity, you can't be saved, is that true? It is a heresy not to believe that, people tell me. How can I refute that? |
God is knitting us love: The bride's garment is a metaphor for us; righteous deeds, to please God or just us acting naturally once in awhile? [Colossians 2] |
Institutional Church: If the institutional church is not important then why does Paul emphasize deacons & elders so much? |
Death Penalty: What do you think of capital punishment, the Death Penalty? |
Pastors receiving a Salary: Should pastors receive a salary? [Matthew 10] |
Eternal Security: Once saved, always saved, glorified & sanctified in God |
The Trinity in John 1: In the beginning was the Word, is this about the trinity? questioning the repetition of the first two verses. [John 1:1-2] |
Mark Taylor Prophesies: Mark Taylor prophesies Trump will stimulate a revival? End of Prophecy: Are there still prophets & prophecies today based on Hebrews 1:1? [Hebrews 1:1] |
End of Life Ministry: I'm working with people who are in their last days, but i'm wondering some firm Scripture I can give people are on their deathbed. |
Life & Death is in the Tongue: Do you believe that life & death is in the tongue? [Proverbs 18:21] |
Paul Tillich & Don Cupitt: Have you ever heard of these people? Jesus Calling Himself Messiah: Why didn't Jesus ever call Himself the Messiah? |
Righteous by Obedience or by Faith: Are we made righteous by obedience or by in faith in Christ? [John 5:29, Romans 3:10] |
Dispensationalism & Amillennialism: I've heard you talking about Dispensationalism & Amillennialism, what are these? |
Prevenient Grace & Irresistible Grace: Can you please tell me the difference between "Prevenient Grace" & "Irresistible grace"? |
Home Church Network in California State: Is there a network on a Website you can go to find home churches in California? |
Melchizedek-King of Salem: Melchizedek, the preincarnate Christ, King of Salem, King of Peace, High Priest who lives forever [Genesis 14:18] |
Seventh Day Adventist: I had become a Christian through the Salvation Army. What do you think of the SDA? Is there a reason we shouldn't see them as true Christians? |
Eternal Security: How come you didn't use a couple examples in the Bible in refuting the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine, especially the Prodigal son story? [Luke 15:11-32] All Sins Covered by Atonement: Are all our sins, for all eternity, covered by the atonement? Charles Stanley holds the view that one cannot lose their salvation. |
Christians & Military Duty: Should Christians be a pacifist? |
Churches in the Santa Cruz Area: Do you know of any good churches to recommend in Santa Cruz area? |
Coming Back to Christ: So you say you can lose your salvation, but can you come back under any circumstance? |
Christians & Politics: Should Christians try to influence politics? [1 Thessalonians 4:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:12] |
Idolatry: What is idolatry? [1 John 5:21] |
Calvinism & Arminianism: Calvinists believe that people have no choice, but still have to go to hell if you weren't chosen? That's like a person who is born blind being punished because he can't see. If Calvinists believed in annihilationism, that'd be ONE thing, but to think that you are predestined to Eternal Torment, that is another. |
Believing in the Name of Jesus: What does it really mean to believe in the name of Jesus? [John 1:12, Acts 5:40-41] Ceremonial Law or Moral Law as our Tutor: What was paul talking about in Galatians 3, the ceremonial or moral law or both? [Galatians 3:24-25] |
Laying on of hands on people: The laying on hands on of people, is this descriptive or prescriptive? [Acts 8:14-17] |
My ex-wife going to Bethel: My ex-wife going to a Bethel church, & I want to help her, & called the pastor if he would do counseling with us, & he said I had to go through a program called, Sozo, an inner healing program. What do you think? |
Pre-Pribulation Rapture: The Pre-Tribulation doctrine will make people not ready, catching them off guard. |
Last Day Events: What is the next major event to happen? Anti-Christ from Syria: Do you think the anti-Christ is going to rise out of Syria? |
It Take Two to be Guilty in Act of Adultery: it takes 2 people to commit adultery, so why do women seem to be held more accountable than men? [John 8:1-11] |
Yeshua Why is Jesus' name "Yeshua" not used, why is it hidden? |
Being Transformed: you change your thought processes by reading the Bible & focusing on Jesus, right? Saul becoming paul, he seemed to never have another relapse |
The Whore in Revelation: Is the whore in revelation 17 the catholic church being used by the muslims? |
Donald Trump Prophecy: That prophecy about Trump predicted by Mark Taylor is true, the caller thinks. |
Calvinism-Light & Total Depravity: Can you comment on Calvinism about God giving us Light, & we can all choose, & why 1 Corinthians 2 is NOT talking about Total Depravity. [John 1:4-9, John 3:19, 1 Corinthians 2:14] |
Laying on of Hands to receive Holy Spirit: I've been listening to your lectures about Christian Foundation, & do I need to have the laying of hand to be filled w/ the Holy Spirit? |
Demon Phenomenon: A story about Demon Phenomenon, Is it normal to go through what he went through? |
Being Alive without the Law: Can you explain what Paul meant by being alive without the law, but sin revived, & he died? Revealing what sin? Different names of the Gospel: Are there just many different names of the Gospel, but the same Gospel? |
The Law's Necessity: Jesus came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfill, caller thinks we are under the law. What does Steve think? [Matthew 5:17-19] |
Steve Gregg's Children: Do your children ever attend your meetings? Going on the Narrow Path: The "narrow path", does that mean only a few people are going to be saved? |
Peter & the White Sheet: I always thought the vision of the White Sheet that Peter had demonstrated that we are no longer under any dietary laws, there is no clean or unclean animals anymore. But after re-examining Acts 10, i'm wondering if that's really true. [Acts 10] |
The Disciple that Jesus Loved: Is john really the disciple that Jesus loved, because how could John, a fisherman from Galilee, be able to get past the Gate of the palace of the High Priest, but Peter wasn't able to? [Acts 4] |
Another Calvinist Debate: Would you consider doing more debates with Calvinist, but limiting what comes out of Romans? |
Marriage and Divorce: Biblical constraints on marriage and divorce [Deuteronomy 24] |
Being Drawn by God: It says you have to be drawn by God? How do I know I'm being drawn? |
Mosaic Law & the Levitical Priesthood: The Levitical Priesthood enforced the Mosaic law, right? Who enforced the Death penalty? |
Calvinism & Free Will: How can Calvinists say that God can't give people Free Will because can't God do anything He wants? Isn't He a Sovereign God? |
Tithing: The story of paying tithe to Melchizedek happened way before the Mosiac Laws, so it's still binding in the New Covenant. [Genesis 14] |
Evolution: What can you say about Evolution & Science relative to Christian traditions and beliefs? Did God use Evolution for creation? |
Satan Bound but Active: Do you actually believe satan is bound right now because he seems pretty active to me? |
Miracles in Jesus Name: If you can do miracles in Jesus name it seems you are pretty close to doing God's will, so wouldn't He be the One doing that? |
Tithing: Abraham tithed out of the spoils of war once, never his own wealth. |
Death: What happens after we die? What happens to our bodies? Our Souls or Spirits? |
Amillennialism: How does amillennialism affect your hope? |
"I Never Knew You": Doesn't what Jesus tells the miracle workers at the Judgment that He NEVER knew them prove that you can't really lose your salvation since He didn't say I knew you at one time, but now I don't? He said He NEVER knew them! [Matthew 7:23] |
Musical Instruments in the Church: Caller believes we are not allowed to use instruments, |
Spouse Saved by Default: Is paul saying that the unbelieving spouse is saved by default? [1 Corinthians 7:12-16] |
Michael Murdock & the Seed: What is Michael Murdock & seed money ministries saying by growing the seed? My mom thinks I should send him some moneys. |
Born Again....& Again: You can't be born again & again & again & again, so you shouldn't really be able to lose your Salvation. |
Losing your Faith: Just repent, start obeying Jesus again, if you find yourself start falling away. Acapella Music: Caller thinks it's Church History that the church didn't use musical instruments for the first few centuries, but it was just for singing & making melody in their hearts. |
Father, Forgive Them: "Father, Forgive them, for they know not what they do", does this apply to people today? |