Posted by: thaishin | December 2, 2022

What does Galatians 4:12 mean?

Open line radio on Oct 1, 2022 hour 2.

Listener:

We are doing a study on Galatians and we are at Galatians 4:12. And it says “Brothers, I entreat you because as I am, for I also have become as you are” and I am a little confused about that statement.

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

I think a good background for this is 1 Corinthians 9 when Paul says: “To the Jews I became a Jew, though not under the law, though I am not under the law of Moses, he means, he’s freed from the obligation of the law to keep the law of Moses, he says without the law I became as without law, though now without the law of God, this overarching law of God that he wants to obey but the expression of it under the law of Moses is though he may keep it as a cultural identification with his people, he is not bound by it. And so when we look at 1 Corinthians 9, I think it kind of helps you understand because these Galatians are saying Gentiles need to convert to Judaism, they need to be circumcised before they could believe in Jesus and when they convert to Judaism and were circumcised, they took on the entire yoke of the law. They believe that the works that required of them were the law of Moses. Not the ones that were repeated in the New Covenant but actually the laws of Kosher, the laws of circumcision, the laws of Shevat and all these details and he says I beg you brothers, become like me, meaning liberated from the law of Moses and under the law of the Messiah, for I also became like you, to those without law, I live as without law, when he was among Galatians, he wasn’t trying to live an orthodox Jewish life, so he’s just saying become like me, liberated from the law of Moses, just like I live among you, live in a way that make you think I have keep the law.

Gal 4

12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you … -njkv

12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: … -kjv

12 I beg of you, brothers and sisters, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. … -nasb

12 I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. … -niv

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Posted by: thaishin | November 25, 2022

Why is rebellion described is as a sin of witchcraft?

Openline on moody radio on Nov 12, 2022 hour 1.

Listener:

Good morning Dr Rydelnik, concerning 1 Samuel 15:23, rebellion is as a sin of witchcraft, a preacher I watched says rebellion is witchcraft but another preacher specifically called it out and says rebellion is not witchcraft, it is just like witchcraft, which is correct and do we really care? Thank you.

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

Well, it is not witchcraft because witchcraft is witchcraft and rebellion is rebellion. It’s not in the text actually said. When you read verse 23, rebellion is as or is like the sin of witchcraft, in the context, it wasn’t witchcraft that Saul carried out, it was his action to disobey God about the destruction of the Amakelites and king Agag …

Listener:

Yes

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

Now what was Saul most noted for as king when it came to cleaning out the land?

Listener:

I think one time he took some stuff that he’s not supposed to take, maybe?

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

One of the good things that Saul did is as we find out in 1 Samuel 28, is that in chapter 28 verse 3, Saul had put the mediums and necromancers out of the land, one of the good things he dealt with witchcraft, he didn’t want it in the land of Israel, which was good but then he rebels against the Lord,

Listener: I see where you are going …

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

He says has the Lord delighted in offerings and sacrifices? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to listen than the fat of lambs, for rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry, in other words, you’re saying I am doing ok because I dealt with divination, I dealt with it, I’m good and did what God wanted about that and then he says rebellion against God, outright rebellious disobedience is as if you have said you did the same thing that you said you have already cleaned up. It’s not the same thing, it’s the same kind of heart attitude.

1 Samuel 15

23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” -nkjv

23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. -kjv

23 For rebellion is as reprehensible as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as reprehensible as false religion and idolatry. Since you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.” -nasb

23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.” -niv

1 Samuel 28

3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land. -nkjv

3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. -kjv

3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land. -nasb

3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land. -niv

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Posted by: thaishin | November 17, 2022

Why is there a need for the believer to ask for the Holy Spirit?

Openline Radio on Nov 5, 2022, hour 1

Listener:

Looking at Luke 11:13, which says that God will give us the Holy Spirit if we ask Him, specifically it says if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? When we are born again, God gives us His Holy Spirit at conversion, can you explain why we should ask for the His Spirit when the Holy Spirit is indwelling in us?

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

Just remember when the Lord Jesus said this, it was before Pentecost, the Lord Jesus in the upper room discourse taught that there is going to be something different with the birth of the Church. In the old testament and even in the days of earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit was not in all believers, only in some believers and that He was not permanently in believers, He could be taken away, which was why David prayed take not your Spirit from me when he repented. The Lord Jesus makes a big point in the upper room discourse that He will send the Helper, the Comforter, different translations for that, the Paraclete, and that that One will be in all of us and He will never leave us and when does that start? It starts with the birth of the Church, at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit falls in Acts 2. And so the Lord Jesus was speaking to a group of people who were not yet, at that time He was talking in His earthly ministry, when people could still pray for the Holy Spirit and He did not come to them automatically.

Luke 11

13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” -nkjv

13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? -kjv

13 So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” -nasb

13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” -niv

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Posted by: thaishin | November 10, 2022

About hermeneutics

Openline Moody Radio October 8, 2022 hour 1

Micheal Rydelnik:

I want to talk about something with you, Tricia, I looked over the questions that we are hopefully getting to today and I have been noticing about the pattern also, not just with questions I got sent in but frequently, I have ideas of about why people have questions, and part of it is, I think that people don’t realize that the bible is written in the way that we speak. It’s written with figures of speech, and so although we believe that the bible is literally true, I like to say it is realistically true. Because it is real, it is not always literal. I mean when the Lord Jesus call Herod that old fox, right? Do you think he has a bushy tail?

Tricia Mcmillan:

No

Michael Rydelnik:

No, What does it mean, do you think?

Tricia Mcmillan:

He was sly and cunning

Michael Rydelnik:

There you go ….

Tricia Mcmillan:

Like a fox …

Michael Rydelnik:

Yeah, anymore than you say it’s raining cats and dogs, I mean it’s a figure of speech

Tricia Mcmillan:

Right

Michael Rydelnik:

An idiom and in any case, what people do? They will take a figure of speech and say that’s not literally true. Now, there’s another thing that I noticed people do, again in terms of realistic language is that they want all numbers to be exactly precise and sometimes the bible uses round it off numbers. The bible speaks in general terms. Now, sometimes they are very precise, if you look at the prophecy of Daniel 9, I think the prophecy goes right down to the day and sometimes it will give precise amount of time for something happening, but sometimes the bible speaks in round numbers and then when it does have a precise number, people start shouting “Contradiction, contradiction!” Now, I suppose sometimes that happens in real life too. Don’t you think?

Tricia Mcmillan:

I think so. It happens to my husband and I. He’s a big picture guy, he can summarize things very well and I get stuck in the minutiae. He might say “There might be around 10 people” and I say no, there were twelve …

Michael Rydelnik:

Yeah

Tricia Mcmillan:

As if he is wrong but he’s not, there were about ten …

Michael Rydelnik:

Exactly. It’s just that …

Tricia Mcmillan:

But there were twelve. They were accurate stories… as we were telling them…

Michael Rydelnik:

I always say that as best as I can tell, the birth of the Messiah was in 4 or 5 BC, now that we calculated and the death and resurrection happens in the year 33 and that would make the beginning of Jesus’s ministry about the year 29, 30 somewhere around there…but Luke says when the Lord Jesus begins his public ministry, he was around 30. Now, if you were born in 4 BC and this is 29, He was about 33, 32, you know zero year, so he goes from -1 to +1 BC, the next year is 1 AD, so he’s about 32 or 33 when he began his earthly ministry, which I feel totally comfortable that he is around thirty. Other people will say that can’t be because he has to be 30, exactly. And so they take the year 30 as an alternate date for the year of the crucifixion.

Tricia Mcmillan,

Yes, yes.

Michael Rydelnik:

I want to tell everyone. Everyone take a deep breath, when you see these things, many of the alleged contradictions that you see in scripture or many of the confusing aspects of it are from being overly wooden literal. Not allowing round it off number, not allowing figures of speech, and if we would just do that, we wouldn’t have trouble. Now, that does not mean that it’s not true, I mean that’s what were talking about before. When Nate, you mentioned would be more general and you would be more specific but you were both telling the truth. We are not saying that the bible has an error or a figure of speech is an error or that a rounded number is an error, it’s just an alternative way of talking. I think it’s just important that as a general rule, when you read the bible, don’t read it in a wooden literal fashion and I think it will serve answering some of the questions that people have. So, that’s a little ‘hermeneutical’, that’s a big word, interpretive, that’s what hermeneutics means, interpretive guidelines to recognize that the bible speaks of real speech that we use all the time.

Tricia Mcmillan:

Where’s the place to know if this is a specific number that have meaning or to know in Daniel that this is the specific number versus say ‘Exodus’?

Michael Rydelnik:

When you calculate it, when it seems it is very precise, it is very precise. Well, you know what, if you have 2 numbers and they are close to each other and one is a rounded number and one is a little bit more precise with more details, then you would know, one is rounded and the other is more precise. I guess that’s how you would do it.

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Posted by: thaishin | November 4, 2022

The meaning of the term ‘Evangelical’

Open line on moody radio Oct 29, 2022 hour 1

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

Tricia, as you drag in the mailbag, I see you are holding a book –

Tricia Mcmillan:

Yes

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

It’s our current resource “The fifty most important theological terms”. It’s a great help. Here’s why. I ask you: what is a good word in that book that most people don’t understand and you have picked one that is spoken so often but most people don’t understand it.

Tricia Mcmillan:

It is. It is the word ‘Evangelical’. It is used a lot in christian circles and a lot in the secular world, even the secular world is starting to use it. And so it gets thrown around a lot and I thought we might know what it means or what it used to mean but what does evangelical mean?

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

I was in seminary 43 years ago and I have a professor explain the word to me. I have never understood it before. I thought it meant someone who is an evangelistic person, someone who want to share the gospel, right? That’s not what it means. Does it?

Tricia Mcmillan:

No

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

It refers to someone who believes in certain fundamentals of the faith. That is a simple explanation. Fundamentals of the faith like the doctrine of inspiration of the bible, the inerrancy of the bible, the full deity of the Lord Jesus, the tri-unity of God, the need for personal faith decisions in the Lord Christ Jesus, substitutionary atonement and His resurrection. Right, that’s what it’s talking about, someone who believes that but also someone who, compared to fundamentalists in the past, who were culturally closed to society, evangelicals want to engage society. That was how the term developed …Now, I think it’s when it gets thrown around, and most people use it to mean, just as I understood it to be evangelistic, don’t you think?

Tricia Mcmillan:

Yeah. Or even like right wing fundamentalist…

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

Right, their political perspective …exactly. So, that’s a great term and one that we really should understand …

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Posted by: thaishin | October 29, 2022

Where did the Israelites get their supplies in the desert

Open line on moody radio October 15, 20122, second hour

Question from listener:

I have a question about when the Israelites are in the desert, in Exodus and Leviticus, we have all kinds of talk about the fire on the altar, about the lamps not going out, we have serveral million people cooking food to eat, they are in the desert, I am wondering where they got wood, where they got oil to keep the lamps burning, where they got the grain for the grain offering?

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

They have truck stops along the way

Listener:

Ha ha ha

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

It seems to me, we presume a couple of things, one is that in the wilderness there’s no trees, no shrubs, nothing like that and there are little areas of oasis that there are trees and there is shrub. I mean the real question is in the wilderness is where did they get water? And they go places where there is water and sometimes the water is bitter, remember? It has been made sweet and other places Moses have to strike or speak at the rock for the water to come forth, right?

Listener:

But God does that miraculously …

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

But, my point is that when you have those places that are oasis in the desert, that there is shrub trees all around and so you do have them in the desert and people have access to that. Secondly, with what we know with the story of Joseph, is that there were Ishamaelites who were working as traders going from the north through the fertile crescent down to Egypt and they have to pass through the Sinai peninsular and so it seemed to me that they would likely be encountering people, getting grain, getting oil, things like that, traders, so when I say truck stops, I was only joking but there were traders that were passing through and back then, people believe in free enterprise too and so they saw all those people in the wilderness, the traders would say ah! let’s pass through there and we will sell goods to them! So, that’s what happened.

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Posted by: thaishin | October 24, 2022

Prophecy of 70 years of captivity by the Babylonians

The captivity period of 70 years for the kingdom of Judah by the Babylonians was prophesied in Jeremiah 29:10

Jer 29

4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.  -nkjv

4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

10 For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. -kjv

4 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon:

10 For this is what the Lord says: “When 70 years for Babylon are complete, I will attend to you and will confirm My promise concerning you to restore you to this place. -hcsb

4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. -niv

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Posted by: thaishin | October 24, 2022

The sixth crown: the martyr’s crown

The sixth crown: the crown of being faithful until death

Rev 2

10 Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. -nkjv

10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. -kjv

10 Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have affliction for 10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown[e] of life. -hcsb

10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. [g]Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. -nasb

10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown. -niv

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Posted by: thaishin | October 24, 2022

The fifth crown: the crown of glory

The fifth crown: the crown for faithful pastors, faithful shepherds of the flock

1 Peter

4 and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away. -nkjv

4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. -kjv

4 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. -hcsb

4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading [f]crown of glory. -nasb

4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. -niv

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Posted by: thaishin | October 24, 2022

The fourth crown: the crown of life

The fourth crown: the crown of life for those enduring trials and temptations and persecutions

James 1

12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. -nkjv

12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. -kjv

12 A man who endures trials[c] is blessed, because when he passes the test he will receive the crown of life that God[d] has promised to those who love Him. -hcsb

12 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has [l]been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. -nasb

12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. -niv

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