The Narrow Path 10/22

And as radio broadcast by Steve Greg Moore live for an hour each week afternoon, Monday through Friday. We are on this is what Thursday so I can sometimes lose track of days because they're all similar, but we have today and tomorrow this week for you to join me if you have questions about the Bible that you like to ask maybe about the Christian faith of the Christian life.

Or maybe you see things differently than the host doesn't like to balance comment.

I welcome you to call me here. I we are saline or to open at the moment. The numbers 844-484-5737 that's 844-484-5737 first color today is Nicholas from Blaine, Washington Nicholas, welcome to the neuropathic for calling you that I wanted to. I read a lot of neat feet I learned nightly or that you a lot of eats and compared to the light perception and generally looking for your interpretation. They have Matthew 722 and Galilee that okay well Matthew 722 Jesus says not anyone who says to me Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he does the will of my father in heaven. That's the verse before return just as many will say to me that they Lord, Lord, we've not have we not prophesied in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name that I will depart, I will say to them, depart from me. I never knew you, you who practice lawlessness.

So what Jesus is apparently referring to is the day of judgment when there will be people apparently many use the word, many will be there who have actually some confidence that they are Christians and that they have's and that they have served Christ and that the evidence of it is that they have cast out demons in prophesied and didn't done mighty works in his name out to tell you the truth I don't know very many people who do those things but I've known some, but many of them. He said would be a people who were will discover that they weren't really his and said I never knew you. Now that is a scary thing because frankly I don't very often cast out demons, nor do I prophesied to mighty works in Jesus name.

And that being so, it would seem these people had more impressive credentials as Christians that I have and yet they weren't even say so, what's the how my supposed to deal with that. Well, we have to assume that verse 21 explains the passage you asked about verse 21 he said not everyone who says Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but those who do the will of my father in heaven. So we have to assume that the people who were saying, Lord, Lord, we did such and such things. They were in themselves, not servants of Christ. They weren't doing the will of the father in heaven.

This doesn't mean that is not God's will for people prophesied cast out demons or do mighty works, sometimes it is his will to do so. But that's not apparently when you talk about doing his will, means that you're living your life to do his will, and so your will. In other words, it's not just not just they did some things that were his will for them to do, which is apparently made and how they recidivate. They do some individual acts in the name of Jesus and they feel like they're serving Jesus, but really doing God's will is a lifestyle for a disciple of me think about his disciples to whom he speaking they had left their nets. They left third jobs left their families and were falling around now that's a pretty intensive change for them and not everyone is called to leave their families leave their jobs to follow Jesus, but you can see that what they had done was decided that God's will, doing God's will, doing what Jesus wants is going to define who they are to define their lifestyle. It's not just something that will yielding to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath and give their ties into a few religious things and figure that's good. Endear them to God, nor even doing things in the name of Jesus. On occasion, but rather living one's life with the mind to do God's will rather than one's own will and there's a lot of people who are religious, who you know they actually are fond of Jesus. They admire Jesus and they even know they they think they believe in Jesus but in fact they don't live for that coming day by day.

The choices they make and are not with a mind to do the will of God. Although they may hope that it is the will of God, they're making their choices hard in a different basis to make interest on the basis of they want to do this. This is their plan.

This is not gender their dream and they're not known they're not doing everything simply because there they found recently that God wants them to. So it's that it's that really the it's what the life is committed to is, those who do the will of God would be not just those who occasionally do some things that are will of God, but who are their life is a life of doing God's will and even those who don't have that going on sometimes will do impressive religious things but he's saying that's not really what is coming looking for. No timeline and that editing and are you actually going… After that the Christian life starts at a certain point, the point where you repentance, surrender genuinely to Christ as your Lord and King and and yet you're not at all perfect. You know it's like a baby when the little babies born you hope he grows stronger. Hope he gets wiser if he's a good child if he recognizes his parents authority shall be an obedient child, but he'll learn more as he gets older. First of all, what obedience requires what is what the will of his parents are and also of course he'll gain more understanding of how to do it how to live to please his parents. Let's face it, kids don't always want to please their parents but that's the role of the child role of the child is to please and obey the parents. If the child does something that displeases the parents.

That doesn't mean they're not a child. It just means there child needs to learn as place needs to learn whether to do now when we become Christians were doing that voluntarily, a baby is born into the family voluntarily. It just comes because nature brought him weeks I God brought them but the person is born again. They had to make a choice about that. You have to repent yet to believe and that's making a choice to change. But having been born again. You know you've already committed yourself to being a follower of Christ, you commit yourself to be a son of God and feel your life is then up like say a processor journey learning more about how to please God and that remaining committed to do so. So even when you're not doing real well at it because press you've don't understand well our year your foolishly distracted by something briefly and you end up doing the wrong thing. That doesn't mean you've decided not to follow Christ and deciding to follow Christ is when you never slip up, but it does mean that unless you have decided to follow Jesus unless it is your commitment that you he's your Lord and your his servant follower. If you haven't done that you don't believe in Christ in a believer because what you have to believe is a Jesus is the Lord that's what the gospel is, he's the king and so until someone believes that they haven't believe the gospel. I make okay Nicholas, thank you for call Paul from Georgia looking to the narrow path. Thanks for calling. Oh William Ln., Craig on YouTube talking about the idea that there was no human person of Nazareth that rather that God the son took on a second nature, but there is only one person that is the divine person and on the sea record. Talk about that and also how that might relate to the idea that James dealt with the possible God be tempted and yet you look tempted in every way okay since the first thing I did, I didn't hear what William Ling Craig said that you're referring to, but I have a hard time believing he said it quite that way because knowing him. He holds very Orthodox Christian beliefs and to say that there was no man, Jesus of Nazareth. There was only what God, I don't know why I can't understand exactly how you are explained and I'm not sure if that's the way he explained it the way I understand it is, as the Bible says that Jesus existed as God from the beginning and at a certain point, he took on flesh. He took on human nature and he did so by becoming a real human being. There really was a man, Jesus of Nazareth as I Paul says to Timothy, there's one God and one mediator between man and God.

The man Jesus Christ. So he refers to Jesus, even as in his ascended state as a man who is the mediator between man and God. But he was he was what God is when God takes on human nature.

He had human nature and and God, nature now. I can't explain that very well, but it does come into play when when you asked the question.

If God can't be tempted with evil. Like James said.

How could Jesus be tempted with evil and that is something that is a very important thing to sort out because many people think that because Jesus was God.

No, he just walked around appearing to be human beings like like God put on the human costume that was really just God, in which case he wouldn't be able to be tempted. But the fact that Jesus was tempted means that he really was human.

He was God having taken on humanity, but not not just by putting on a hollowing custom made him look like a man, but by actually becoming a man and taken on human weakness actually coming through the line of David as simple points out in Romans one wanted to and that he came as a son of David according to the flesh, he took on human weakness. He took on human vulnerability and he actually in the New Testament. It's much more emphasize that he was a man then that he was God. We do, we do know that he was God who would become a man. And that's of course a mysterious thing we know another no other case I don't of any analogies for bike week, we can say this, that Jesus humanity is much more emphasized in the New Testament, then his deity or course if we if every time is called the son of God. Recall that his deity and that might not balance out the website but to actually statements that would indicate God. Jesus is God himself, and not just the son of God, those statements are very rare in the New Testament there true that there rare. It's not the emphasis emphasis is that God actually humbled himself, he emptied himself and took on the form of a servant, became one of us and became subject to death. You see when you ask how could Jesus be tempted. Since God can't be tempted a whole bunch of other things in our same kind of question. How could Jesus die when God can't die. How could Jesus become weary when God doesn't become weary. How could Jesus have areas of ignorance, which he did any case, said he did. He said there were things he didn't know, but only the father but God doesn't have any heirs of ignorance so we have to say if up if Jesus had all these weaknesses and limitations that humans have that that God does not have.

Then we simply have to factor that into the into our understanding of what it means for God to become a man. He empties himself of some of his privileges as God he has to trim himself down to our size which means he can't be for that moment Jesus was not invisible that he was, not omnipresent is not omniscient is not omnipotent. He was, not immortal because he died and he was, not immune from temptation, but if he had never taken on human form, he never would've expressed temptation or death or wariness or limitations he saved, it's the self-limiting of God in becoming one of us that so amazing, so such an act of humility on his part and vulnerability so they could die which God cannot do so. I believe that by becoming one of us.

Jesus subject himself as the Bible says to all the temptations we have, says he was tempted in all points like we are, yet without sin. So how could he have since God Attended how could Jesus be tempted. I think the answer briefly would be. He was tempted because he was human, and human beings are subject to testing, interisland, and he was after all the boxes. The second Adam, he played a role in history that is analogous to that of Adam. In some respects, and Adam was tested and failed the test and brought disaster on the world. Jesus was tested. Also, an pass the test and brought salvation for all those who are in him so he had to have that vulnerability he had to be tested like Adam was tested.

I appreciate your call Judy for Martinez, California.

Welcome to the neuropathic circling. I find it with holy of holy I thought I made it somewhere and I can't find it here.

Mention getting the sickness or the width that yeah I'm well I I have always read that the sickness of the veil covering the entrance to the holy of holies was a handbreadth now, a handbreadth they didn't have the same exact measurements we have now.

Didn't have it all standardized. But if you stretch out your hand. As far as you can stretch it. The tip of your little finger to the tip your son is a breath handbreadth and that was the approximate thickness of the of the veil from what I have read now it doesn't say that in the Bible know it doesn't say how thick it was in the Bible. The information I assume comes from other Jewish writings that may be in the Talmud. It might be Josephus who gives us that information.

I don't know but I mean there's there are extra biblical sources. Sources outside the Bible that give us some information and I'm not sure where that bit of information came from because it isn't in the Bible doesn't tell us about how thick it was like 6 inches or something you know that's a pretty sick pretty sick curtain you think you Judy.

I got this Danielle in fair Oaks, California.

Welcome to the narrow path telling that really inquiring on how to politically about some really having a hard time this year. Well you should vote your convictions and values. Now you have to realize that you almost anytime there's an election there are you there are no candidates that are perfect people, other, how can there been very few candidates I measure who actually even Christians mean most of them claim to be. But as far as what we know to be a Christian.

Very few choices we've had for president. For example, offer centers are our convincingly Christian.

So the question is what must we vote for weekly. We can't just offer some because he is or is not a Christian because most of them won't be able to vote at all them if they're not registered, but we don't need to vote in a Christian because this isn't a Christian country. This is a free country. People of all religions are free to have equal rights in this country does not like Israel, which was a country where ever is required to worship Jehovah be stoned to death. You know this is a country which is pluralistic and therefore people are allowed to believe what they want to and they should not be molested for it. So if if we believe in the American issues like that and being distinctive. That way, then we should vote for those people who will protect those liberties because the protection of all people's liberties includes the protection of ours and so we should look for candidates that really believe in upholding the Constitution because the constitutions were those liberties are granted now when I said as Christians we should we should vote for the candidate that promotes Christianity no, not necessarily because were not were not voting in a church leader were voting in a political leader were really voting on man and you know a manager or CEO of the country and his religious views are perhaps significant in determining whether he might be an honest man or not, but we can't always guarantee we don't even know how many people who run for office is sincere when they tell us that religious views so what we need to look as their record. I think now as far as choosing between I don't know if you think of the presidential candidates with all the given to two presidential candidates want to know first of all, do they do, they credibly stand for the things they say they stand for now the other thing is, let's assume they do, then what it what is it they stand for now. I have to say I'm not a Republican but I'm not a Democrat event I remained independent because I don't identify with the party, but I will say that if I look at the things that I want a government official to stand for the Republican Party is much closer to my values, then the dinner for one thing I'm not a racist in the Democratic Party is Democratic Party has always been racist and they founded the Ku Klux Klan, they they they were the ones who crave the Jim Crow laws there, and once who resisted the equal rights amendment and the Democrats have always been the ones who are anti-Black and because they pretend to be. Otherwise now, but even the way they do so is antiblack because even black lives matter is really not pro-black. It's it's a great therefore abortion, and if your for abortion. You believe in killing millions of black babies die every year because that's what is the abortion industry does. So I mean if your for abortion you're really antiblack because no Margaret Sanger, who started Planned Parenthood was outspokenly determined to wipe out the black race through abortion. That was what she wanted abortion to do and that's largely what is happening. Most most abortion clinics are in black neighborhoods so you know this is racism. The Democratic Party has always been racist. They still are. Now there trying of course to be racist against whites, but that's because they want to start a race war. Of course, I mean that's why there's people breaking things in the streets. This is this the beginnings of of race war, which didn't exist really before the Democratic rabble-rousers went out so good. Now I'm again I say this as a criticism of Democratic Party as myself, not a Republican but I but just as an independent person saying I if if people stand for those kind of things I could never vote for them and so I do think no-trump. Of course has leaves much to be desired, and everybody knows that everybody and trumpeters has has had a checkered past and ever knows that you know he's is a little bit offensive and obnoxious, but but you know I'm not voting for president who will be nice and lovable. I'm looking for president who will actually do the right thing and as near as I can tell from Mike's point of view the four years that Mr. Trump is been present. He's done the right thing and what one thing is done that no president has done yet is kept all of his promises that he could keep you know he's he's actually seems to have more character than any candidate we've had in my lifetime because he actually made promises people voted for him to keep his promise, and that's exactly what he spends four years doing, fulfilling the Christmas letter Christian say you no weld. Trump used to be a womanizer. Well maybe he was.

I don't think he's been a womanizer in the White House like Clinton was like John F. Kennedy was now. I don't think he is.

I heard rumors that Mr. Trump got got converted and became a Christian during the campaign.

I won't argue that he did.

I don't know what I heard from a source that is fairly reliable and I would say well it does seem like he's cleaned up his act. You know, so I'm not can hold against him. What he did before he was a Christian or or when he was a private citizen again up a private citizen may really do a lot of bad things without hurting me by the president whose immoral in office.

That's that. I have an interest in that it I'M the one he's governing all yeah and you're not alone. There's a lot of Christians who who find Trump to be an offensive individual to have an offensive pass and things like that and say as a Christian I can't vote for a man like that.

But what kind of man.

Can you vote for. You know there really hasn't been a candidate in my lifetime, whose life is been exemplary and sinless, and so forth, and therefore gifted side okay I'm not going to get a sinless man. Let me at least get a man who do the job is been hired to do. You know that would be my my take, and I think that at least I think Trump believes in doing the job that the president is hired to do. Now I will say this to not vote for Trump of course be just to stay home because you like Trump or Biden is is a risky thing you know you might stay home and not vote in an bide my winter or trumpet when I don't know but whoever wins if it's not, it's not the candidate who stands for what you stand for and you didn't vote for the opponent of that person then you realize that you missed an opportunity to to vote in somebody who will at least preserve some of the things you believe in it as opposed the candidate will demolish everything you believe in, and I appreciate your call go take a break.

As you can say thank you for joining us.

We have another half-hour coming up were not at all done.

The music is playing, but that just tells me I need to make an announcement that announcement is the narrow path is listener supported. If you'd like to help us down there. You can write to the narrow path, PO Box 1732 macula CA 92593 or you can go to the website. The narrow path.com. Click on the tabs is donated. And you can donate online or you can just take the resources that are for free@thenarrowpath.com you have to donate I'll be back in 30 seconds.

Stay tuned again to nearly the path that leads to life into the narrow path. Steve grand has nothing to me today but everything to get the radio show is over.

Go to the narrow path.com confetti learn and enjoy the three topical audio teaching blog articles teachings and archives of the narrow path radiation. Thank you for supporting the listeners. The narrow path that Steve grand when the narrow path.com radio broadcast. My name is Steve Greg and that we are live for another half-hour calls.

If you have questions about the Bible of the Christian faith, feel free to give me a call. Talk about. You might have a different viewpoint want to talk about that and you're welcome to number to call is 844-484-5737 and for those of you who want to call it good news. There are some lines open. That's not always the case. Sometimes I have to start half hour or the hour.

At the beginning, their same lines are full but if you call a few minutes. Maybe there's some right now there's actually several lines open, so feel free to call right now 844-484-5737 and I do want to remind you that I have a new book out on the subject of the kingdom of God, which is largely based on my lecture series on the kingdom of God from our website and it just came out and if you're interested you go to Amazon and get it. I don't sell it. Don't write to me at the narrow path and as for my book.

I'm not selling any but but you can buy it for you by books. Normally I would say this though, if you do read the book and like it. It don't like be glad to have you write a review of it and post it on Amazon when it looks brand-new.

It takes a while to amass some reviews and so when people look out of curiosity with no reviews are coupled.

There are couple there but it's just came out last week. If you happen to read the book and you feel strongly favorable or unfavorable. Write a review I'd like to see the unfavorable ones as well as the favorable once the book is called empire of the risen son, so if you go to Amazon my name Steve Greg and their use easily applicable come up with my other books and if you've read it, review it if you haven't read it, you might want to take my getting stuck to Paul from New York Paul. Welcome to the narrow path.

Thanks for calling that question and I noticed that about baptism and the amount that Litton and often times, the road back to me to Gitmo to America in Greek. Now I have to remember that okay I know it's Father's Day their native language that no meaning of the word that baptism and running water.

Running is not. It could be in an event that available then it could be says that okay let my question been baptized to American and the dead that you can format baptism in the word mean to them or does minimum subsistence active Greek languages used in secular Greek to refer to a woman dipping clothing into dye to die. The clothing, or to actually dipping anything into liquid.

The word bad teeth so is the Greek word for that, and so for me that's not even really I think seriously open to question the did okay says baptism should be in running water, if possible, warrant and guard warm water for cold was not available. Obviously he same. The word means -tipped base if there's not enough water, and there are perhaps places in the Middle East where there's not very much water. Then, instead of dipping just pour water over the head and said baptized in the name of the father son and Holy Spirit. So I mean yeah there is the concession made that one could pour if they are to place her is not enough water to do it the normal way it's eat makes very clear if there's not much water, then pour water over the head so it's you know he's trying to say, not Hebert day writers of the did okay are trying to say it's important to baptize and there some preferable ways to do it. Running waters preferable cold waters preferable. If you don't have those choices. You can bet dipping warm water standing what is not impossible.

All that has to dipping, but if there's not any water at all or not much you can just pour water over the head. So what we see is flexibility.

We don't see a redefinition of baptism into something other than dipping receive it. Dipping is assumed to be related, but pouring is something that can be done if there is have to accommodate the absence of enough water to dip somebody that my equipment would have been meaning to that man, who had been running in many denominations today that practice baptism through clearing to take the word meaning then had really not actually been baptized, and in maybe they haven't been immersed, but they've had a substitute ritual that stands for the baptism. That's insane saying you should get people but if there's no water to dip people then there's another ritual that will stand in instead of it so you know it's it's as good as it if you if that's all you can do it and be like saying this to be like saying under under the old covenant essay people retire required to type that is give 10% of their income to the priest and there to be all kinds of instructions about typing and and then one of them instructions might be. You don't really find but I mean this is hypothetically wonderstruck Harvey out if you don't even have any money or you don't have even enough money to divided into tents, then just give what you can and will call that your time.

You know in hundreds and they would initially be literally type the word type means 1/10 okay and but instructions not tithing might recognize their situations for someone simply has so little like the little the womanhood to mites to pennies and she put in the offing.

How does she give 10% of that she figures 50% hundred percent or all or none of so the point is, she wasn't tithing. Technically, because she couldn't that was the officer she actually gave all, but I'm saying that it in a set of instructions about typing. It's assumed that tithing means 1/10 but there might be after several instructions about things and if you can't get 1/10 if that's an impossibility, then this will be acceptable in the absence of opportunities to time and I think the same thing with baptism. If you can't get them then pour water from instead it'll work okay. My question is what I'm gathering is saying is that it is not baptism but it is as a another ceremony that could do about that. It's not technically dipping right but I mean the fact that the did okay says that does not mean that the Greek language that baptism doesn't mean dipping that it does it doesn't means immersing them just getting relaxed, and prevent yourself. You said your second question never taken long wondered about Don that I've often heard it preached that he had I been popular and had a Sunday and took a miracle for God to give Abraham his son. I now after that died hand had done six popular for him to have that not Abraham done that well because the reference to couture's six sons which Abraham fathered were not told that that most people think that story about Keturah and her six sons is reported out of chronological order. It's not known whether these sons I Keturah were born at the time the reported write an earlier time and are only reported at the end of his life in order to fill in a detail that had been passed over without mention earlier this this is the way the Genesis narration often is it'll often tell the story of a person's life not leave not giving every detail because the story doesn't want to be broken up with unnecessary details. But then as movement as the person is dismissed from the narrative will throw in something about his life, it's that's somewhat important that happened earlier and so's you at the end of Abram's life. I guess it's in the 24th or 25th chapter of Genesis mentions that he had six sons by this woman in Keturah also and you know that could have happened earlier before he got sold after all when when he sent off Ishmael. It says that he sent off his conch the sons of his concubines.

Interestingly so he had it actually says when Ishmael was sent away along with his mother when he was about 16 years old. That along with him.

Abram sent away the sons of his concubines plural. So some feel that Keturah was a concubine in Hager's guide to running the Ishmael and the six sons were all concubine children who were born prior to Isaac and they're just not mentions of the stories of as we've already heard about Isaac and Ishmael because of their role in the story, but that it mentions the details of these guys be born. Now another view that has been suggested which I don't consider to be as likely is that when God made when God made Abram virile again so that he could have Isaac father Isaac that he remain virile for a long time afterwards was able have other children after Isaac. That's not impossible, but it's not. It doesn't strike me as as as likely as the suggestion that Keturah sons are born are mentioned out of chronological order that they were perhaps born before Isaac and therefore before Abram was too old to have children and be my thought, let's talk to Scott from Phoenix, Arizona. Welcome to the narrow path, thanks for telling our goal or not it raining and I think I realize that I was in my path and I believe and I went out at the charismatic or in the back thing, but now I know the different be a lot of people like to buy a Christian president or whatever have you know I would vote for person and their and about the Christian needing there right yes they call this is a follower of Christ, and their associated with the body of Christ. If the conference is a brother Paul said if they're living in fornication don't associate with them.

I do not now, so that's good. So what's what questions you have for me. People know now and that well if I were you, and you have been like them you had been doing to yourself I would talk to them and say you know you and I've been living wrong and the way we believe it is wrong if we could live that way we should call ourselves Christians because the word Christian refers to somebody who's following Jesus. And when we lived when we fornicate and get drunk and when we parted like that were not followers of Jesus were were lined were taking his name in vain. So we have to decide whether to give up our sinful ways or whether it stop calling ourselves Christians. Those are really the only two options and if you had done it went no, I understand. I know I've been there, I'm saved by grace I can get away with stuff I Jesus said if you love me, keep my commandments.

So obviously if you don't keep his commandments, and you, the sound of your claims that love them is very hollow.

Well were were recruit required to judge people. That's entirely fact that's what Paul says in first Corinthians 5.

When he says, is a man in the church is living in fornication, you need to put them out of the church and they says you need to judge those people. He says he says we can't judge those who are outside the church, but those are inside we have to judge. He said, and we know you put that wicked person away for just read first five minute Dell answer question and I think the point where my family name or any you know part of the family may be because you're living an obedient life now is family your biological family has rejected you. Why because they understand now that well. I mean, that's kind of what's in that what Peter said in first Peter chapter 4, he said the time past of our lives has been enough of pleasing the pagans. He says when we walked of lasciviousness and lust some idolatries and abominable things he said, he says, so they think it strange that you don't run with them to the same excessive behavior and they speak evil of yourself.

So Peter said we live to please those people long enough we not to do that anymore and think they're going to think it strange that you're not doing it anymore.

I think it strange that you're not running with them the same way and they speak evil of you. So that's about it.

Apparently, it's about average. Peter messes that was normal in apostolic times and you're experiencing the norm in that respect, persecution for righteousness sake, whether published Scott. Hopefully you find some like-minded brothers, summer it's hard these days. I know that's nurse you. Many are called your chosen and even those were called and chose not all are faithful and only once become the ones who come with Jesus.

It says in Revelation hard called and chosen and faithful so if you just called or just chosen not faithful you're not in the group. All right, let's talk to Luke from Scottsdale, Arizona hi lucrative from you question today is about the old and all the God bringing in the Gentiles, and going back and reading like there's so many references to it and allusions to it and just curious what that would've been like for the Jews at that time to read the statement you nothing like it would be something that they were very excited about order something that they would yeah like to get your thoughts on that without been like for the original leaders you hear a lot about how big the Jews were trying to Gentiles and so forth and I was very largely true must been some goodhearted Jews who think that's a good thing. It's wonderful that the Gentiles reception. I can't believe that the whole race of Jews were evil minded, but we know that much of the Old Testament history. They were evil minded and Isaiah especially speaks a great deal about the Gentiles being coming in and being part of God's kingdom and and no, I don't know how people responded Isaiah's day, he was eventually signed into my king who didn't much like what he had to say. But was it wasn't because of the statement of the Gentiles, but I mean the profits they they were not very well received in general but there was a faithful remnant who did receive the profits.

I'm sure that those who followed Isaiah faithfully probably thought will grant him and God will save the Gentiles to that's fine, but their view would not of been that of the majority of the Jewish society who who really disdained the Gentiles, but use if they go back to their origins in the promise God made Abraham was that through Abram seed all the nations and all the families of the earth be blessed. So it never was God's purpose, even from the beginning of Israel's coming from Abraham and the promise of a datagram, it never was God's will that just the Jews would be say, but rather that through Israel through God's Abraham seed all the nations, all the Gentiles would be blessed to so they should've known and I'm sure some of them did. But probably a lot of them either didn't know or didn't like it because they were quite bigoted and racism is a problem and bigotry of the over religion is a problem for people. One is for the Jews really have that problem a lot so I'm not sure.

I'm not sure what the majority of the Jews did when they encounter those passages.

I don't know if they just ignored them. I mean think how many passages Christians ignore because it doesn't describe what they want the Bible to say I mean that when Jesus said, unless you forsake all that you have. You can't be my disciple and I should take up your cross and follow me can be my disciple and those are passages that a huge number of Christians who think themselves Bible believers just ignore them.

They're not the kind of passages they want to think about. I think that probably Israel had those kinds of passages in their prophetic books that they treated that were to they thought they were faithful just some passages. They just, skip over yeah great way to look at it, thinking about the story of Jonah and all the people of Nineveh repenting like if I yelled I had such a victory like that would be you know all the glory to God be super excited about is that he is just so bitter and angry is not happy and maybe it may be simply because Jonah hated Gentiles, or it may been those particular Gentiles than the people of Nineveh, because that was the capital of the Syrian interior was threatening his own nation. Israel and eventually destroyed Israel so he might've been particularly upset with the Ninevites and the Assyrians not as much because there is Gentiles merely, but because they were enemies of his nation.

But most Jews seem to have real prejudice against Gentiles. As such, she thinks I haven't answered your email because I haven't had time to answer emails sent to Galveston by Everett from San Pablo, California.

Welcome to the narrow path, thanks for telling me to question Everett Everett second okay yes much better thanks great great okay so my question is chapter 1 about God. Also she made the world, on that text. Also he made the world and the girls in the text also addresses down. It took about being made so much better than the Angels by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than date is explained with me being made sure that I will answer the question when it says that, through whom God made the world this quite an echo.

There you are you listening on the radio.

Okay, that's fine.

I too much echo through whom he made the worlds it could be that he's using the word worlds as we would we think of planets, other worlds, besides the earth, and they certainly knew about some other worlds and about Venus. They knew about. Of course they could see some planets with the naked eye, but I don't know how much they thought in terms of other plans being worlds we would. We often think of that term. Other worlds would probably mean other planets, but in those days. Other worlds could refer to other worlds. For example, in the Gentiles, the Jewish world of the Gentile world of the Roman world because the word is used that way in the Bible. For example, when Caesar Augustus declared that all the world should be taxed. He meets all the Roman world. There were other worlds in India and places like that that they knew about but he wasn't taxing them because they were part of that world. So it might mean human civilization sale as separate worlds.

I don't know exactly how the term is used in that case, but I suspect she might have been using the same way we would use in meeting other planets just on all the stars and all the all the bodies in the heavens, but I don't know if we could be sure about about his intentions there now it says that Jesus was made so much better than the Angels as he had obtained a better name than they have to realize in chapter 2, he says that Jesus was made light, like all men is made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, but after he suffered death. He of course rose from the dead and then ascended far above every Angel farm of all principalities and powers and so forth. So he is now made to be above all the Angels. He of course was that before become a man, but is not talking about the pre-incarnate Christ to start Jesus historically had been below the Angels like us and is made a little while all a below the angels says in Hebrews 2.

So then, of course, he was made greater than the Angels are being exalted to God's right hand after his resurrection, so I'm pretty sure that's what he's referring to. He's not.

He's not denying or referring to Jesus that having a preexistence before his birth in Bethlehem, but the Bible affirms that survey, but he's talking about Jesus known to us in history and we saw Jesus among us, but he's now been made above the Angels. He doesn't mention so much at that point that Jesus had for eternity bit above the Angels before he came to earth, please talk about what we can observe historically about Jesus. He lived among us.

He was the express image of God's person. The bright shining of his glory and he was ultimately made greater than the Angels by his ascension. That's I think is the writer of Hebrews is speaking of a victor in Charlotte North Carolina.

Welcome to the narrow path. Thanks for calling.

Thanks. I would on this time.

I'm sorry okay and 12. He will deliver to you what do you really mean and I know the names of course, is that there is great great amount at stake here. Our salvation is at stake, so we should have a serious reference serious concern that we get this right. Not were really afraid to go to hell step out of line, but we realize were living in a world drive us away from God and if we have only from God.

That's a terrible fate. We hear that just like we fear any great danger so means were taking this long.

Seriously, I'm sorry had to be some agreement on out of time you listen to the narrow path radio broadcast are website is the narrow path.com thanks for joining us. Let's talk again tomorrow