# Jesus’s Supposed Questionable Morality, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 20 Aug 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (08/20/26), Hank responds to the assertion that Jesus had teachings of questionable morality, such as barring heaven to the wealthy, approving of slavery, and condemning sinners to hell. Hank answers the following questions: I’ve heard your comments on the book Heaven is for Real, but didn’t the Rich Man and Lazarus see each other in Luke 16? Jim - Calgary, AB (6:38) Was there a time when God told Israel to punish evil, but because they didn’t, God decided to punish them for not punishing the evil ones? Richard - OK (15:11) I was told that the Bible is more of a guide, and that heaven is not real and is just a state of being we find within us. How do I respond to that? Sarah - Kansas City, MO (18:11) Can you simplify what you said about the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, regarding how they could see without physical eyes? Peter - Bozeman, MT (21:23) Can you read a passage of Scripture and get something out of it, and then years later come back and get something different out of it? Peter - Bozeman, MT (24:41)

## Transcript

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[0:47] Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Brandian. We'll get to your questions
[0:49] Speaker 2: in just a moment. Do want to mention what I
[0:52] Speaker 2: promised to mention on yesterday's broadcast, and that is a
[0:56] Speaker 2: response to the article titled as Atheists Know you can
[0:59] Speaker 2: be Good with God. And in the article, Jerry Coyne
[1:04] Speaker 2: makes a comparison between his morality and the morality of
[1:10] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, and in his view, his morality is obviously
[1:16] Speaker 2: superior to the morality of Jesus Christ. Well, how's he
[1:21] Speaker 2: proved that? Well, in part, he proves that by saying
[1:25] Speaker 2: that in the New Testament, Jesus preaches principles of questionable morality,
[1:32] Speaker 2: and he gives three examples, barring heaven to the wealthy,
[1:37] Speaker 2: approving the beating of slaves, and damning sinners to the
[1:42] Speaker 2: torments of hell. And of course, anyone who has read
[1:47] Speaker 2: the Bible even once knows that what he is writing
[1:53] Speaker 2: is nonsense. But if you do not have discernment skills,
[2:00] Speaker 2: and if you do not know how to mine the
[2:02] Speaker 2: Bible for all its wealth, you can easily be fooled
[2:09] Speaker 2: by the jerry cons of the world. Is it true
[2:13] Speaker 2: that Jesus bars heaven to the wealthy? Of course not certainly.
[2:18] Speaker 2: He did say that it is easure for a campbell
[2:21] Speaker 2: to go through the eye of a needle, then for
[2:24] Speaker 2: a rich man to go into heaven, and in doing
[2:27] Speaker 2: so he was using hyperbole. In fact, the disciples throw
[2:32] Speaker 2: up their hands and say, if that's true, who then
[2:36] Speaker 2: can be saved? And the enigmatic response is that with
[2:40] Speaker 2: man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
[2:47] Speaker 2: In other words, Jesus Christ lived the perfect life. That's
[2:50] Speaker 2: the point. He lived the perfect life that we could
[2:53] Speaker 2: never live, and offers us his perfection as an absolutely
[2:57] Speaker 2: free gift, a gift we cannot earn or deserve. We
[3:02] Speaker 2: can simply reach out the hand of a beggar and
[3:08] Speaker 2: receive the gift of a king. And that gift was
[3:10] Speaker 2: offered to the rich young ruler. It was not Christ
[3:16] Speaker 2: who rejected the rich young ruler, but precisely the opposite.
[3:22] Speaker 2: Jerry Coyn is just dead wrong. Does Jesus approve the
[3:26] Speaker 2: beating of slaves? Perish the thought he gets this by
[3:33] Speaker 2: a misreading of the parable of the stewards. This has
[3:38] Speaker 2: nothing whatsoever to do with actual slaves or beating for wrongdoing.
[3:48] Speaker 2: The actual, real life application of this parable is the
[3:52] Speaker 2: principle that the more one knows of and about Jesus Christ,
[3:56] Speaker 2: the more responsible one becomes. And as such there are
[4:01] Speaker 2: degrees of faithfulness and degrees of responsibility, with corresponding degrees
[4:07] Speaker 2: of reward and punishment. On faithfulness in our walk with
[4:12] Speaker 2: God is costly, faithfulness will be richly rewarded. And as
[4:19] Speaker 2: I mentioned on yesterday's broadcast, first century context of slavery
[4:24] Speaker 2: is much different than the kind of slavery that was
[4:27] Speaker 2: practiced in Europe and the American South. I write about that,
[4:32] Speaker 2: and has God spoken as far as hell is concerned.
[4:35] Speaker 2: Another issue that I deal with in the book. God
[4:38] Speaker 2: does not and Jesus Christ is. God does not damn
[4:44] Speaker 2: sinners to the torments of Hell. He gives them what
[4:48] Speaker 2: they want, which is to say, He's not a cosmic
[4:53] Speaker 2: rapist that forces himself on people. If someone does not
[4:58] Speaker 2: want his love, want a RelA relationship with him in
[5:01] Speaker 2: this life, he doesn't force it on them. If he did,
[5:06] Speaker 2: Heaven wouldn't be heaven. Heaven would be hell. The righteous
[5:11] Speaker 2: would inherit a counterfeit Heaven, and the unrighteous would be
[5:14] Speaker 2: incarcerated in Heaven against their will, which would be a
[5:18] Speaker 2: torment worse than Hell. C. S. Lewis was right. There
[5:21] Speaker 2: are only two kinds of people in the world, those
[5:23] Speaker 2: who say to God, thy will be done, and those
[5:28] Speaker 2: to whom God in the end says thy will be done.
[5:31] Speaker 2: In other words, if you do not want a relationship
[5:34] Speaker 2: with me, I will ratify your will. And yet He
[5:39] Speaker 2: continues to sustain them in existence though they have chosen
[5:47] Speaker 2: to live apart from His goodness and his grace. Much
[5:52] Speaker 2: more could be said. I've written about all of this
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[6:40] Speaker 2: up as Jim Calgary, Alberta, Canada. High Jim, Hi Hill,
[6:46] Speaker 2: You're welcome.
[6:47] Speaker 3: My question. I've heard a couple of people call in
[6:49] Speaker 3: about that book Heaven Is for Real. Yeah, I've read
[6:53] Speaker 3: the book, and I know you dis counted on your show,
[6:56] Speaker 3: but I guess it might question a couple of things
[6:59] Speaker 3: that i've You've a couple of things that I've heard
[7:01] Speaker 3: you mentioned that that you didn't agree with. Was one
[7:05] Speaker 3: was they didn't have bodies. They wouldn't be having bodies
[7:08] Speaker 3: in heaven. Is that Christ. No, because when you read
[7:12] Speaker 3: that story in Luke.
[7:14] Speaker 2: No, that that's not what I'm saying. Oh, but we'll
[7:16] Speaker 2: get to your question specifically if you get a question
[7:18] Speaker 2: about Luke. But let me just clarify what I'm saying.
[7:21] Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that Colton recalls that everyone's got
[7:27] Speaker 2: wings in heaven except for Jesus. And what I've said
[7:32] Speaker 2: is the scriptures teach that the believer's resurrection is patterned
[7:37] Speaker 2: after Jesus Christ number one, number two. What I'm saying
[7:42] Speaker 2: is that we do not have bodies after we die.
[7:48] Speaker 2: We have our bodies resurrected when Jesus Christ returns a
[7:53] Speaker 2: second time.
[7:55] Speaker 3: Right, But if you read that scripture with the rich
[7:59] Speaker 3: Man in Lazarus, because thesely says, now, it came about
[8:01] Speaker 3: that the poor man died like he was sitting at
[8:03] Speaker 3: the rich man's gate or whatever, and he was carried away.
[8:06] Speaker 3: So he's dead now, and the rich man died and
[8:08] Speaker 3: they're buried, and now in Hades, he lifted up his
[8:11] Speaker 3: eyes and being torment in torment, he saw Abraham and
[8:14] Speaker 3: he saw Lazarus. So there's got to be something in
[8:18] Speaker 3: between that they obviously saw, like the rich man saw Lazarus,
[8:23] Speaker 3: but they did. They weren't resurrected yet, they were in
[8:25] Speaker 3: Hades and in Abraham's bosom.
[8:27] Speaker 2: Well, if you're right about this, all of Orthodox Christianity
[8:30] Speaker 2: has been wrong throughout the centuries. So you've got a
[8:33] Speaker 2: new revelation here. That's the first thing I would say
[8:35] Speaker 2: to you, Jim. But what is it?
[8:36] Speaker 3: How do you put the story into the context.
[8:39] Speaker 2: Well, the context is that the rich man dies and
[8:43] Speaker 2: Lazarus dies, and they're experiencing an earnest of what is
[8:46] Speaker 2: to come. But they're absent from the body. They're either
[8:50] Speaker 2: in torment because they're absent from the presence of God,
[8:54] Speaker 2: or they are in Abraham's bosom or paradise, which is
[8:58] Speaker 2: a metaphorical way of saying they're in the presence of God.
[9:02] Speaker 3: But I guess my point is they could see, they
[9:04] Speaker 3: recognize each other. They could see each other. When the
[9:07] Speaker 3: last time I heard you talk about this, he said
[9:09] Speaker 3: that they wouldn't have had like old cold and couldn't
[9:13] Speaker 3: have recognized anybody because they wouldn't have had body.
[9:15] Speaker 2: Seeing is a way of they Okay, okay, but Jim,
[9:19] Speaker 2: I want you to know something right now, and I'm
[9:21] Speaker 2: not trying to impose authority on you here from the centuries,
[9:25] Speaker 2: But I'm simply trying to tell you something. If you
[9:28] Speaker 2: happen to be right, the Christian Church for two thousand
[9:32] Speaker 2: years has been wrong. Christian orthodoxy has always taught that
[9:37] Speaker 2: when you die, your body is buried, the non corporeal
[9:42] Speaker 2: aspect of your humanity is either present with the Lord
[9:47] Speaker 2: or is absent from the presence of the Lord, and
[9:50] Speaker 2: therefore torment. And then what happens is the Lord, Jesus
[9:55] Speaker 2: Christ returns, and Jesus put it this way, do not
[9:59] Speaker 2: be a man raised. A time is coming when all
[10:03] Speaker 2: who in the grace will come out. Some will rise
[10:05] Speaker 2: to live, and some will rise to be eternally condemned.
[10:08] Speaker 2: So Christian orthodoxy has always taught that when Jesus comes
[10:12] Speaker 2: a second time, the soul returns to the body and
[10:17] Speaker 2: the body is resurrected, immortal, imperishable, incorruptible. So if you
[10:23] Speaker 2: and Todd Burpo are right, then Jesus is wrong and
[10:27] Speaker 2: Christian Orthodoxy has been wrong. That's the choice you have
[10:31] Speaker 2: to make. And that's what I was pointing out about.
[10:34] Speaker 2: Heaven is for real. I'm saying Colton's heaven is not
[10:37] Speaker 2: for real. Certainly heaven is, but not the heaven that
[10:40] Speaker 2: he is describing, because heaven is what happens when Paradise
[10:45] Speaker 2: lost becomes paradise restored. What the rich Man was experiencing
[10:51] Speaker 2: is an earnest of what is to come. What Lazarus
[10:55] Speaker 2: was experienced is an earnest of what is to come.
[10:58] Speaker 2: One in torment, the other in list. But what is
[11:01] Speaker 2: to come doesn't happen until Jesus Christ returns a second time.
[11:07] Speaker 2: Then we receive our resurrected bodies. We'll be right back
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[15:12] Speaker 2: is Richard listening on Oklahoma.
[15:13] Speaker 4: Hi, Richard, Hi, how you doing today?
[15:16] Speaker 2: Good? Nice talking to you.
[15:18] Speaker 4: Oh, wonderful, wonderful. I've got a quandary here. I heard
[15:21] Speaker 4: a while back somebody told me that in the Old Testament,
[15:24] Speaker 4: when God was dealing with the Israelite, he said, I
[15:28] Speaker 4: want you to punish sin, and I want you to
[15:30] Speaker 4: put the sin out from among you. And then he
[15:32] Speaker 4: comes back later he says, look, you're not doing what
[15:35] Speaker 4: I told you to do. You're allowing sin to flourish.
[15:38] Speaker 4: He says, okay, what I'm going to punish you because
[15:41] Speaker 4: you're not punishing the evil ones. Now, my question is
[15:45] Speaker 4: does that even exist in scripture and is that still
[15:49] Speaker 4: applicable today?
[15:52] Speaker 2: Well, I think the overall principle is blessings for those
[15:54] Speaker 2: who follow in cursings for those who rebel. That was
[15:58] Speaker 2: the history of Israel. When Israel inherited the Promised Land,
[16:03] Speaker 2: they were told in the same instance, that if they
[16:06] Speaker 2: follow the detestable ways of the pagan nations who were
[16:10] Speaker 2: in the land before them, that the same judgment that
[16:15] Speaker 2: followed those nations would follow them. In other words, Israel
[16:20] Speaker 2: was used as an axe of God's judgment against the Canaanites,
[16:24] Speaker 2: but later on Babylon in Assyria were the axes of
[16:29] Speaker 2: God's judgment against Israel. So the constant, ongoing principle is
[16:36] Speaker 2: again blessings for those who follow, cursings for those who rebel.
[16:41] Speaker 2: And in the ultimate sense, though all of us are
[16:45] Speaker 2: rebellious in one sense or another, we all have the
[16:48] Speaker 2: prerogative the opportunity to realize that we are sinners, to
[16:53] Speaker 2: repent of our sin, and then to receive Jesus Christ
[16:57] Speaker 2: as Savior and Lord.
[16:58] Speaker 4: Okay, God, is there any where would I find this?
[17:02] Speaker 2: Well? What I would suggest is that you take a
[17:06] Speaker 2: moment to read through the Bible, and that starts in
[17:09] Speaker 2: a moment, and it can be a pattern for the
[17:11] Speaker 2: rest of your life. But you can also just momentarily
[17:15] Speaker 2: turn to Deuteronomy chapter thirty. When all these blessings and
[17:19] Speaker 2: curses I have set before you come upon you, and
[17:23] Speaker 2: you take them to heart. Wherever the Lord your God
[17:26] Speaker 2: disperses you among the nations, and when you and your
[17:29] Speaker 2: children return to the Lord your God and obey him
[17:33] Speaker 2: with all your heart and with all your soul, according
[17:35] Speaker 2: to everything I've command to you today, then the Lord
[17:38] Speaker 2: your God will restore you, and he will restore your fortunes,
[17:42] Speaker 2: and have compassion on you, and gather you again from
[17:46] Speaker 2: all the nations. But again, this is not a verse.
[17:50] Speaker 2: This is understanding the panoply of scripture. What is scripture? Well,
[17:54] Speaker 2: Scripture starts with Adam and Eve. They fall into lives
[17:58] Speaker 2: of perpetual sin by death, and the rest of the
[18:01] Speaker 2: Bible is God's unfolding plan of redemption, culminating in a
[18:05] Speaker 2: new Heaven and a new Earth where in dwells righteousness.
[18:09] Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next
[18:12] Speaker 2: to Sarah listening on Casey Missouri. Hi, Sarah Hi.
[18:15] Speaker 5: Recently, somebody told me that they didn't think we should
[18:17] Speaker 5: take the Bible literally, that it's more of a guide
[18:21] Speaker 5: to list and lives like Christ. And I don't know
[18:24] Speaker 5: exactly how torrespond to that. They also said they didn't
[18:27] Speaker 5: think heaven was real, It's more of a state of being.
[18:30] Speaker 5: We confined with an S.
[18:32] Speaker 2: Well, they're simply wrong. And first of all, words are
[18:36] Speaker 2: not unifical, they're equivocal. In other words, they take on
[18:39] Speaker 2: the meaning that the context allows them to have. With
[18:43] Speaker 2: respect to the word literally, if you ask me, do
[18:47] Speaker 2: I take the Bible literally? I would say yes, But
[18:50] Speaker 2: what does that mean. It means that I read the
[18:54] Speaker 2: Bible as literature inspired infallible literature, and I always read
[19:00] Speaker 2: it in the sense in which it's intended, which is
[19:03] Speaker 2: to say, when God asks Adam and Eve, where are you?
[19:08] Speaker 2: I don't take that literally to mean that God doesn't
[19:12] Speaker 2: know everything, but rather this is a heavenly condescension that
[19:16] Speaker 2: is being used. There are times when the Bible uses hyperbole.
[19:21] Speaker 2: There are times when the Bible uses similes or metaphors,
[19:25] Speaker 2: or parables which are extended similes or metaphors. So the
[19:30] Speaker 2: Bible uses figures a speech, just as we use figures
[19:34] Speaker 2: a speech in common parlance. So if I tell you
[19:38] Speaker 2: that I'm having about a depression, you don't ask me
[19:41] Speaker 2: whether I'm having a fight on a low spot in
[19:43] Speaker 2: the road. You know precisely what I mean, because I'm
[19:45] Speaker 2: using a metaphor. When the Bible uses metaphors. If you
[19:49] Speaker 2: read that in a woodenly literal way rather than the
[19:52] Speaker 2: sense in which it's intended is literature, then you're going
[19:55] Speaker 2: to miss the meaning. So yes, I take the Bible literally,
[19:59] Speaker 2: But the Bible uses what literature uses figures a speech,
[20:04] Speaker 2: and therefore we have to take all of that into account.
[20:08] Speaker 2: As far as heaven is concerned, we are physical beings.
[20:12] Speaker 2: We now live in a physical universe. God created the
[20:16] Speaker 2: physical universe, and he created us as physical beings. We
[20:21] Speaker 2: have been separated from our redeemer, from the lover of
[20:26] Speaker 2: our souls by sin. We can also be restored to
[20:31] Speaker 2: that through salvation, and when that happens, we will experience
[20:37] Speaker 2: this universe restored. That's the story of scripture. The Bible
[20:44] Speaker 2: is not plectonic. It's very physical. We are awaiting the
[20:49] Speaker 2: return of a physical Christ, the restoration of a physical universe,
[20:57] Speaker 2: and we are awaiting the transformation of our bodies from
[21:02] Speaker 2: mortal to immortal, from perishable to imperishable, from corruptible to incorruptible.
[21:11] Speaker 2: So the Christian hope is in a physical resurrection in
[21:16] Speaker 2: a physical universe. So heaven is not just a state
[21:22] Speaker 2: of being. Back to the phone lines, we'll talk to
[21:24] Speaker 2: Peter next. He's listening on Bozeman Montana.
[21:26] Speaker 6: Hi, Peter, Hey, Hank, appreciate it. You gotta sum down
[21:31] Speaker 6: a little bit the recognition factor between Lazarus and the
[21:35] Speaker 6: rich man and Abraham.
[21:37] Speaker 2: Well, knowing is not seeing. I mean that's a category mistake.
[21:40] Speaker 2: I mean, here's what's going on. You can have the
[21:43] Speaker 2: word c being used as to know. It doesn't mean
[21:48] Speaker 2: that Lazarus has physical eyes. It doesn't mean that the
[21:52] Speaker 2: rich man has physical eyes. This is a classic example
[21:56] Speaker 2: of a parable. And you can't make a parable walk
[21:59] Speaker 2: on all If you do, you're gonna have nonsense. If
[22:03] Speaker 2: I say it's raining cats and dogs and you try
[22:05] Speaker 2: to take that figure of speech and try to make
[22:07] Speaker 2: it walk on all fours like a cat or a dog,
[22:11] Speaker 2: You're gonna miss the meaning of what I'm saying, which
[22:13] Speaker 2: is it's raining hard.
[22:15] Speaker 6: Okay, I get it. It's a parable form and I
[22:17] Speaker 6: miss that.
[22:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a parable. And what Jesus is saying, he's
[22:22] Speaker 2: saying there's a rich man he's enjoying all the luxuries
[22:26] Speaker 2: of life, and there's a poor man who is the
[22:30] Speaker 2: scourge laying by his gait. He's abandoned. He's experiencing torment
[22:37] Speaker 2: on this earth, but the roles are reversed after death.
[22:42] Speaker 2: The parable is intended to say that when you die,
[22:48] Speaker 2: you are going to be either in the presence of
[22:50] Speaker 2: God or separated from the presence of God. And if
[22:52] Speaker 2: you are separated from the presence of God, you're gonna
[22:55] Speaker 2: be in torment. And that torment is expressed as flames
[22:59] Speaker 2: of fire in this particular parable. Elsewhere it's expressed as
[23:05] Speaker 2: black as darkness forever. But again, these are metaphors to
[23:09] Speaker 2: communicate just how horrible it will be to be separated
[23:13] Speaker 2: from the love and goodness of God for all eternity.
[23:16] Speaker 2: And so the rich man talks, He asks the Lord,
[23:19] Speaker 2: I mean again, this is Jesus Christ giving a heavenly condescension.
[23:24] Speaker 2: He's talking about heavenly things in ways that we can
[23:26] Speaker 2: relate to. He's talking about how horrible this is. And
[23:30] Speaker 2: so in this parable, the rich man says, well, can
[23:33] Speaker 2: I at least go back and one my five brothers
[23:35] Speaker 2: that they don't come to a place like this, and
[23:37] Speaker 2: the enigmatic responses they have Moses and the prophets, if
[23:41] Speaker 2: they don't believe them, they're not going to believe even
[23:43] Speaker 2: if someone rises from the dead. In other words, the
[23:46] Speaker 2: point here is they have the Law Moses, they have
[23:49] Speaker 2: the prophets, and therefore they have everything necessary. Even if
[23:56] Speaker 2: the rich man would return back in his body and
[24:00] Speaker 2: live on the earth and preach to his brothers, it
[24:02] Speaker 2: wouldn't be more than they already had. They had plenty.
[24:06] Speaker 2: In other words, as Jesus pointed out the Nicodemus, light
[24:09] Speaker 2: came into darkness mentle of darkness rather than light because
[24:12] Speaker 2: of Deed's REvil So they've got plenty of light. They're
[24:14] Speaker 2: just not responding to the light that they have. And
[24:16] Speaker 2: if they were responding, they get more light.
[24:18] Speaker 6: Okay, I'm getting it now. You know, I have been
[24:22] Speaker 6: listening but for maybe six months, and I've learned an
[24:25] Speaker 6: awful lot more about how to mine the Bible and
[24:30] Speaker 6: understand it, you know, in its overall sense, rather than
[24:35] Speaker 6: try to pick out little portions and confuse myself.
[24:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
[24:40] Speaker 6: You know when Hebrews where it says that the word
[24:43] Speaker 6: is sharper than a two edge sword cutting a bone
[24:47] Speaker 6: marrow alive? Do you believe that you know you can
[24:52] Speaker 6: read a portion of scripture? Have the Holy Spirit speak
[24:56] Speaker 6: to you in one way, and say maybe five years
[25:00] Speaker 6: to read the same passage and have it speak to
[25:03] Speaker 6: you in a different manner.
[25:04] Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, er, no, no, absolutely. I mean I think
[25:08] Speaker 2: that there are various levels of death to which you
[25:12] Speaker 2: can go as you mine the Bible for all its wealth,
[25:16] Speaker 2: and therefore you can read a passage and get something
[25:19] Speaker 2: good out of it at one particular juncture in your life,
[25:22] Speaker 2: and then later on, as you grow in the grace
[25:24] Speaker 2: and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, you can see
[25:27] Speaker 2: even more riches in that same passage. But remember, the
[25:31] Speaker 2: Bible is never going to be contradictory such that you
[25:34] Speaker 2: can get one meaning out of at one time and
[25:37] Speaker 2: then an opposite meaning or a contradictory meaning out of
[25:42] Speaker 2: it at some other time in the future. That's never
[25:44] Speaker 2: going to happen. But you can have precept upon precept
[25:49] Speaker 2: and layer upon layer of richness and meaning as you
[25:52] Speaker 2: plum the depth of scripture. And this is one of
[25:55] Speaker 2: the reasons I wrote my book has God spoken proof
[25:57] Speaker 2: of the Bible's divine inspiration. So if you get it,
[26:01] Speaker 2: enjoy it, learn from it, and use it for God's
[26:05] Speaker 2: glory and for the extension of His kingdom. We'll be
[26:07] Speaker 2: back tomorrow.
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