# Q&A: Division, Doubt, and Near-Death Experiences

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 23 Jun 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (06/23/26), Hank opens with a Facebook question from someone who asked, “Is it unbiblical to call yourself a Calvinist or an Arminian; a Lutheran or an Augustinian?” Hank also answers the following questions: How could God fulfil a land promise in 1948 to a people we know genetically did not exist? Dan - CT (2:49) Can a Christian go to hell for doubting God one day and believing the next day? Derek - Indianapolis, IN (8:55) Why was Eve not scared that a serpent could speak? Could animals speak in the Garden of Eden? Lance - OK (15:11) Are near-death experiences legitimate? Sheila - Brooklyn, NY (20:52) My friend says that he’s been talking to the spirit of his deceased wife. How can I explain that this is not his wife? Annie - Wichita, KS (22:14)

## Transcript

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[0:47] Speaker 1: and now here's Hank Canigraph.
[0:49] Speaker 2: Thank it was Randy, and we open the broadcast today
[0:51] Speaker 2: with a Facebook question. The question is is it unbiblical
[0:56] Speaker 2: to call yourself a Calvinist or an Arminian, a Lutheran,
[1:01] Speaker 2: or an Augustinian. Does it fall under the principle that
[1:05] Speaker 2: Paul taught to the Corinthians to not say I follow
[1:09] Speaker 2: Peter Paul, of Paulus or Jesus. That's a good question, actually,
[1:16] Speaker 2: And the passage in question is in First Corinthians, chapter three,
[1:21] Speaker 2: and I think we have to look at the context
[1:23] Speaker 2: of that passage but first of all, recognize that labels
[1:27] Speaker 2: can be useful for codifying complex sets of belief So
[1:32] Speaker 2: there's a use for labels in that sense, but they
[1:35] Speaker 2: can certainly devolve into divisive demarcats, and we don't want
[1:43] Speaker 2: to ever be divisive. And remember that the maxim that
[1:48] Speaker 2: we stand for at the Christian Research Institute is in
[1:52] Speaker 2: essentials unity, non essentials, liberty, and then in all things charity.
[1:58] Speaker 2: But the context of the passage in First Corinthians chapter
[2:00] Speaker 2: three and falls failure to rise to Christian spiritual maturity.
[2:05] Speaker 2: And that's the goal. It is to become spiritually mature.
[2:10] Speaker 2: Recognizing the Lord's work is the opposite of taking sides
[2:14] Speaker 2: and dividing from fellow members of the church by following
[2:18] Speaker 2: mere human men. God has given each member of the
[2:22] Speaker 2: Body of Christ a roll, and we are to see
[2:24] Speaker 2: God at work through all. And of course we see
[2:27] Speaker 2: that in Romans chapter twelve beautifully depicted. We are a body,
[2:31] Speaker 2: and every member of the body is significant. It is God,
[2:36] Speaker 2: It's not Luther or Calvin or Augustine. Who is the
[2:40] Speaker 2: source of everything. He is our source, and he is
[2:44] Speaker 2: the one in whom we are called to grow into
[2:47] Speaker 2: spiritual maturity. A lot of you hanging on. We're going
[2:50] Speaker 2: to go right to the phone calls. First up as Dan,
[2:54] Speaker 2: he's listening on the web in Connecticut.
[2:55] Speaker 3: Hi, Dan, Hi, How are you good?
[2:58] Speaker 2: How are you good?
[3:00] Speaker 3: I want to thank you, Hank. Since I've been listening
[3:02] Speaker 3: to you, I've been able to take off the dispensational blinders,
[3:08] Speaker 3: and I think what you're doing is so important. I
[3:11] Speaker 3: now understand the hermeneutics and how to use the Bible
[3:15] Speaker 3: to interpret itself. I have a quick question, Hank. Yeah,
[3:19] Speaker 3: how could God fulfill a land promise in nineteen forty
[3:24] Speaker 3: eight to a people we know genetically did not even exist?
[3:30] Speaker 3: And how do I explain this to my friends at church?
[3:35] Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, a couple of things. First of all, I
[3:37] Speaker 2: don't think we want to get into people's genealogy. We
[3:41] Speaker 2: don't want to talk about race. What we want to
[3:44] Speaker 2: recognize is that God does not distinguish between people on
[3:51] Speaker 2: the basis of their characteristics. We are all people, and
[3:55] Speaker 2: at the foot of the cross, a Palestinian is as
[3:59] Speaker 2: worthwhile as a Messianic Jew. So God doesn't make distinctions
[4:04] Speaker 2: artificially a nor should we, which is sort of in
[4:07] Speaker 2: concert with what I said in the opening to the
[4:10] Speaker 2: broadcast answering a Facebook question. But I think more to
[4:14] Speaker 2: the point, the children of Israel were warned by Moses
[4:20] Speaker 2: that if they followed the detestable ways of the pagans
[4:24] Speaker 2: living in the Land of Promise, they would be driven
[4:27] Speaker 2: out of that land of Promise, and disobedience against the
[4:32] Speaker 2: Lord caused that to happen. It resulted in dispersion. And
[4:39] Speaker 2: if you are dispersed or evicted from the land because
[4:43] Speaker 2: of disobedience, you're not going to be brought back into
[4:46] Speaker 2: the land because of disobedience. And I think that it's
[4:52] Speaker 2: important for us to say that we can defend the
[4:55] Speaker 2: right of the secular state of Israel to exist, but
[4:59] Speaker 2: the content that the modern state of Israel is fulfilling
[5:03] Speaker 2: a biblical prophecy is indefensible. I don't think that there's
[5:07] Speaker 2: any biblical defense for that whatsoever. In fact, if you
[5:11] Speaker 2: look at the words of Jesus Christ, he made it
[5:15] Speaker 2: clear that we should not be modern day Christian Zionists.
[5:20] Speaker 2: What happened with the disciples they were under a misconception.
[5:24] Speaker 2: They expected Jesus to establish Jerusalem as the capital of
[5:30] Speaker 2: a sovereign Jewish empire. In fact, that notion was so
[5:34] Speaker 2: ingrained in their psychees that even as Jesus was about
[5:38] Speaker 2: to ascend it to heaven, they asked, Lord, are you
[5:41] Speaker 2: at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?
[5:46] Speaker 2: But what does Jesus do. He doesn't say, yes, he
[5:51] Speaker 2: corrects erroneous thinking, and then he expands their horizons from
[5:56] Speaker 2: a tiny strip of land on the east coast of
[5:59] Speaker 2: the Mediterranean to the ends of the earth. You will
[6:04] Speaker 2: receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, he said,
[6:08] Speaker 2: as he is about to be taken up into heaven,
[6:10] Speaker 2: and you're going to be my disciples in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,
[6:14] Speaker 2: and to the ends of the earth. In effect, Jesus
[6:18] Speaker 2: left his disciples with instructions to exit Jerusalem, to embrace
[6:23] Speaker 2: the earth, and never entertain the thought of establishing an
[6:28] Speaker 2: earthly Jerusalem. And we see this clearly depicted in Galatians
[6:33] Speaker 2: chapter four by the apostle Paul, where he contrasts Hagar
[6:38] Speaker 2: and Sarah. Paul says, these things may be taken figuratively.
[6:42] Speaker 2: For the women represent to covenants. One covenant is from
[6:46] Speaker 2: Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves.
[6:49] Speaker 2: That's Hagar says Paul. Now Hagar stands from Mount Sinai
[6:54] Speaker 2: in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem,
[6:59] Speaker 2: because she is in slavery with their children. But the
[7:02] Speaker 2: Jerusalem that is above is free, says Paul, and she
[7:06] Speaker 2: is our mother. And in saying that, he's emphasizing that
[7:10] Speaker 2: all who fixate on an earthly Jerusalem with a rebuilt
[7:15] Speaker 2: temple and reinstitute temple sacrifices are in slavery to types
[7:19] Speaker 2: and shadows. On the other hand, all who recognize that
[7:23] Speaker 2: the shadow of Jerusalem has found fulfillment in the substance
[7:27] Speaker 2: of Christ are set free to inherit the earth. And
[7:31] Speaker 2: that's the big point. The point is not about a
[7:34] Speaker 2: tiny piece of land on the east coast of the
[7:37] Speaker 2: Mediterranean Sea. Because the Lord has replaced the land. He's
[7:43] Speaker 2: the antetype, fulfilling the type. Jesus has replaced Jerusalem, the
[7:50] Speaker 2: teacher has replaced the temple, all the law.
[7:55] Speaker 3: And prophets, everything that was written.
[7:58] Speaker 2: That's what Jesus said. He said, did not come to
[8:01] Speaker 2: abolish the law and the prophets. I came to fulfill them.
[8:04] Speaker 2: I tell you the truth. Until heaven and Earth disappear.
[8:07] Speaker 2: Not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen,
[8:09] Speaker 2: will by any means, disappear from the law until everything
[8:12] Speaker 2: has been accomplished. Jesus is the antetype that fulfills all
[8:17] Speaker 2: the types and shadows. And therefore I've said this before,
[8:19] Speaker 2: and I've written about this in The Apocalypse Cut. To
[8:21] Speaker 2: go back to types and shadows when the ultimate sacrificial
[8:25] Speaker 2: lamb has come is, according to Hebrews ten, amount to
[8:28] Speaker 2: trampling upon the sacred blood of Jesus Christ.
[8:32] Speaker 3: Hank, I have your book The Apocalypse Code upstairs. I
[8:35] Speaker 3: think I'm going to read it again, but I'm also
[8:37] Speaker 3: going to use Romans chapter nine, verse six, seven and
[8:42] Speaker 3: eight as kind of a foundation for my friends at church.
[8:48] Speaker 2: Well, bless you, my friend. Appreciate talking to you.
[8:51] Speaker 3: So much for what you're doing.
[8:52] Speaker 2: Hank, you got it you as well. Back to the
[8:55] Speaker 2: phone lines, Derek. He's listening on the web in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hi, Derek, Hi, Hang.
[9:03] Speaker 4: I had a question for you.
[9:06] Speaker 1: Can a Christian go to Hell for doubting one day
[9:08] Speaker 1: and believing God on the next day.
[9:11] Speaker 2: We all have doubts. I mean that's a human condition.
[9:14] Speaker 2: I mean there are times that you just are shaken
[9:17] Speaker 2: in your faith. And that's why we say you can
[9:20] Speaker 2: go back to the pillars and posts on which your
[9:24] Speaker 2: faith is founded, which is to say that we can
[9:27] Speaker 2: know that there's a God. The heavens declare the glory
[9:30] Speaker 2: of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands,
[9:32] Speaker 2: or as Paul put it, God's invisible qualities, his eternal
[9:37] Speaker 2: power and divine nature clearly seen through what has been made,
[9:40] Speaker 2: so that men are without excuse. So you can go
[9:42] Speaker 2: back to those pillars and posts. The first being God exists,
[9:47] Speaker 2: the second being that God has condescended to reveal himself
[9:51] Speaker 2: in Christ, and the third being we can know that
[9:54] Speaker 2: the Bible is divine as opposed to merely human in origin.
[9:58] Speaker 2: Other words, we have ample evidence. To have doubts is
[10:01] Speaker 2: not the sin, But to remain in doubt would be
[10:05] Speaker 2: a sin, because God has left us ample testimony, ample evidence.
[10:09] Speaker 2: But the human condition is we do have doubts, we
[10:13] Speaker 2: do have fears. We are like the children of Israel.
[10:16] Speaker 2: God just does a miracle for us. He sends the Manna,
[10:19] Speaker 2: and the next month we're saying, God, are you going
[10:22] Speaker 2: to do this again? I find myself in that condition
[10:24] Speaker 2: all the time. When God has done enormous miracles for
[10:28] Speaker 2: the Christian Research Institute over the years, and yet after
[10:31] Speaker 2: when miracle has happened a month later, I'm wondering, God,
[10:34] Speaker 2: are you going to provide again? So we all are
[10:37] Speaker 2: humans and we all suffer from those maladies, and we
[10:41] Speaker 2: have to confess them and know that He is righteous
[10:44] Speaker 2: and just. He will forgive us our sins and cleanse
[10:47] Speaker 2: us from all unrighteousness. Thank you, hey, hey, you got it.
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[15:10] Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy, and let's go right back
[15:12] Speaker 2: to the phone lines. Talk to Lance listening in Oklahoma Highlands.
[15:16] Speaker 5: Thank I want to say I appreciate your ministry. My
[15:19] Speaker 5: question is I want to get your thoughts on the
[15:21] Speaker 5: Book of Jenna says he is being tempted by the serpent.
[15:25] Speaker 5: She's not scared of a talking serpent. And I want
[15:29] Speaker 5: to know if this was a minor detail, or do
[15:30] Speaker 5: you think that animals will had the ability to speak
[15:34] Speaker 5: in the garden.
[15:35] Speaker 2: I think a couple of things that we could say,
[15:36] Speaker 2: is the biblical imagery of a twisted serpent is, of
[15:40] Speaker 2: course a masterful portrayal of Satan's fall. Once he held
[15:45] Speaker 2: a privileged position in the economy of God, and now
[15:49] Speaker 2: he is even lower than the livestock. They have legs,
[15:54] Speaker 2: after all. He, however, crawls on his belly and eats dust. Obviously,
[15:58] Speaker 2: serpents don't eat DUTs. But those who read the Old
[16:02] Speaker 2: Testament immediately recognize the metaphor. You've got to know the
[16:06] Speaker 2: Bible because the kinds of metaphors that are used in
[16:11] Speaker 2: the Bible are used throughout, which is to say, usually
[16:16] Speaker 2: you're going to find that the metaphor is used more
[16:18] Speaker 2: than once. And this, of course is the case with
[16:22] Speaker 2: the serpent. It is used certainly more than once. I
[16:25] Speaker 2: think of Micah, who, like Moses, uses the imagery of
[16:29] Speaker 2: a serpent to depict the nation seeking to thwart the
[16:34] Speaker 2: purposes of God, and micro writes they will lick dust
[16:38] Speaker 2: like a snake, and like creatures that crawl on the ground. Obviously,
[16:43] Speaker 2: the nations are not literally snakes. So the metaphor is
[16:48] Speaker 2: a metaphor that communicates not only to us, but to
[16:52] Speaker 2: Moses' original audience that audience was intimately acquainted with the
[16:59] Speaker 2: imagery of the serpent, because during their sojourn in the desert,
[17:04] Speaker 2: the lethal venom of fivery serpents had been emblazoned upon
[17:10] Speaker 2: the tablet of their consciousness. They would forever remember the
[17:14] Speaker 2: bronze serpent Moses lifted up in the Araba. And as
[17:18] Speaker 2: that bronze serpent was the image without venom, so the
[17:24] Speaker 2: image of the invisible God, who came in appearance a
[17:27] Speaker 2: sinful flesh, was without sin. Wow. Man is an incredible picture.
[17:33] Speaker 2: And the serpent was not just emblematic of seduction and death,
[17:37] Speaker 2: but was an exemplar of a savior who would die
[17:41] Speaker 2: so that we might live. So again, the prophet Moses
[17:45] Speaker 2: described Satan as an ancient serpent, and the apostle John
[17:50] Speaker 2: likewise uses imagery with respect to Satan, but in his
[17:55] Speaker 2: case that of an ancient dragon. And again, this doesn't
[17:59] Speaker 2: tell us what Satan looks like, but it teaches us
[18:03] Speaker 2: what Satan is like. So Satan is an ancient dragon,
[18:09] Speaker 2: he is a serpent, and that imagery points to the
[18:14] Speaker 2: wiles of the devil. We can be absolutely certain, however,
[18:18] Speaker 2: that what's going on in scripture is an image that
[18:23] Speaker 2: we can relate to, but an image that doesn't tell
[18:26] Speaker 2: us what Satan looks like. Because today we are tempted
[18:31] Speaker 2: very much like Adam and Eve were. Satan tempts us
[18:35] Speaker 2: through mind to mind communication. We know biblically that Satan
[18:39] Speaker 2: is non corporeal, non physical, and therefore he doesn't have
[18:45] Speaker 2: vocal chords, but he can tempt us. And what he does,
[18:48] Speaker 2: as it were, and I'm using metaphorical imagery here, but
[18:51] Speaker 2: you can follow me in this, he does as it
[18:54] Speaker 2: or sit on our shoulder and whisper into our ear.
[18:58] Speaker 2: The whisper cannot be heard with the physical ear, but
[19:02] Speaker 2: it does penetrate the ear of the mind. Now we
[19:05] Speaker 2: don't know how that kind of mind to mind communication
[19:09] Speaker 2: takes place. We don't even know how the mind can
[19:12] Speaker 2: cause the physical synapses of the brain to fire, but
[19:15] Speaker 2: we do know that that kind of mind to mind
[19:17] Speaker 2: communication does take place. Otherwise Paul in Ephesians chapter six
[19:22] Speaker 2: would not have taught us to put on the full
[19:25] Speaker 2: armor of God so that we can withstand the wiles
[19:30] Speaker 2: of the evil one. So again, the short answer to
[19:33] Speaker 2: the question is Satan is non physical, non corporeal, and
[19:38] Speaker 2: the imagery used is not to tell us what Satan
[19:41] Speaker 2: looks like, but rather to teach us what Satan is like.
[19:45] Speaker 2: And let me follow that up with one more point.
[19:48] Speaker 2: That same thing is true when we see images of Jesus.
[19:52] Speaker 2: If we see an image of Jesus portrayed as a lamb,
[19:55] Speaker 2: we should not suppose that Jesus is physically a lamb.
[19:59] Speaker 2: Or if Jesus is variously depicted as a lion, we
[20:04] Speaker 2: should not suppose that Jesus is literally a lion. He
[20:08] Speaker 2: is the lion of the tribe of Judah, And if
[20:11] Speaker 2: you know your Bible, that language should have significant meaning
[20:16] Speaker 2: to you. And even the depiction of Jesus in Revelation
[20:20] Speaker 2: chapter one is not meant to tell us what Jesus
[20:24] Speaker 2: looks like, but rather what Jesus is like. So he's
[20:27] Speaker 2: not literally wearing a robe reaching down to his feet.
[20:30] Speaker 2: His feet are not literally like burnished bronze caused to
[20:34] Speaker 2: glow in a furnace. His tongue is not literally like
[20:37] Speaker 2: a sword. These are all depictions meant to communicate something
[20:43] Speaker 2: about the beauty, the prowess, the purposes of our Lord,
[20:47] Speaker 2: and we fail to recognize that if we miss the
[20:52] Speaker 2: meaning of the metaphor want to go back to the
[20:54] Speaker 2: phone lines. We'll talk to Sheila next in Brooklyn, New York.
[20:57] Speaker 4: Hi, Sheila, I want to just thank you for your
[21:00] Speaker 4: show and I pray to God continue to bless you.
[21:03] Speaker 4: My question is regarding near death experiences. I've just seen
[21:08] Speaker 4: a lot of it lately, a lot of shows with
[21:10] Speaker 4: people who've experienced death and they've either gone to heaven
[21:14] Speaker 4: or hell or both, and I just wanted your take
[21:17] Speaker 4: on it.
[21:17] Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of things about near death experiences. The
[21:21] Speaker 2: one thing that we can deduct from near death experiences
[21:25] Speaker 2: is that there is life after death. However, the stories
[21:29] Speaker 2: that people come back with are oftentimes based on false
[21:34] Speaker 2: presuppositions about heaven and hell, and there are a lot
[21:38] Speaker 2: of those kinds of stories out there right now. They're very,
[21:40] Speaker 2: very popular. And so again, as with anything else that's subjective,
[21:45] Speaker 2: we're not suggesting that experience does not have value, but
[21:49] Speaker 2: we are suggesting that you take your subjective experiences and
[21:55] Speaker 2: test those experiences in light of that which is true. Therefore,
[22:00] Speaker 2: the Bible becomes the final court of arbitration by which
[22:05] Speaker 2: we test the experience. So subjective experiences are notoriously unreliable,
[22:11] Speaker 2: and that's why it is critically important that we test
[22:15] Speaker 2: those experiences. Want to go back to the phone lines
[22:19] Speaker 2: now and talk to Annie listening on which talk Kansas.
[22:22] Speaker 6: Hi, Annie, I have a friend who for six years
[22:27] Speaker 6: says that he has been talking to the spirit of
[22:30] Speaker 6: his dead wife. And yesterday I spent quite a long
[22:34] Speaker 6: while with him showing him why all of the things
[22:37] Speaker 6: that this spirit says is complete blasphemy and is against
[22:42] Speaker 6: the scriptures. And his question was, but every time the
[22:47] Speaker 6: spirit talks to me, I make it identify itself by
[22:50] Speaker 6: passing the test that's in first John four one through three,
[22:55] Speaker 6: And this spirit will always tell him that Jesus is
[22:59] Speaker 6: the Christ and sounds like it makes the confession of faith.
[23:03] Speaker 6: And he sees the point that I'm making, But he
[23:07] Speaker 6: thinks that just because the spirit can identify itself, that
[23:13] Speaker 6: it is a true spirit. And I was hoping you
[23:16] Speaker 6: could give me some ideas of how to help him
[23:20] Speaker 6: realize that.
[23:21] Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, as you were speaking, I was thinking about
[23:23] Speaker 2: the words of the apostle Paul in Acts chapter sixteen,
[23:26] Speaker 2: where Paul is shutting up a demon possessed girl because
[23:31] Speaker 2: he does not want a false witness testifying to the
[23:34] Speaker 2: truth and Jesus does the same thing. And so this
[23:39] Speaker 2: is tricky business. And the reason it's tricky business is
[23:42] Speaker 2: whenever you're involved in the world of the occult or
[23:45] Speaker 2: the kingdom of the cults, you recognize a principle at
[23:49] Speaker 2: the face of it, and that is Satan does not
[23:52] Speaker 2: present himself in his naked deformity. If he would, we
[23:57] Speaker 2: would never buy into the lie. Rather, he disguises himself
[24:03] Speaker 2: as an angel of enlightenment. And therefore it is not
[24:08] Speaker 2: at all inconsistent for Satan to identify Jesus Christ's Lord.
[24:12] Speaker 2: We have biblical precedent for that. To know that Jesus
[24:15] Speaker 2: Christ's Lord, to know that he is Savior is something
[24:17] Speaker 2: that Satan may readily admit. Why because he wants to
[24:22] Speaker 2: slip in the falsehood as well. And the way in
[24:25] Speaker 2: which you ultimately have the ability to discern weat from
[24:29] Speaker 2: chaff and heat from light is to learn to put
[24:33] Speaker 2: on the full armor of God. And I deal with
[24:35] Speaker 2: this in some significant detail in a book called The Covering,
[24:39] Speaker 2: which is based on Ephesians chapter six ten through twenty,
[24:43] Speaker 2: where you learn not only what the pieces of the
[24:47] Speaker 2: covering are, but you learn what they represent. So it's
[24:51] Speaker 2: not just saying, well, I know what the belt of
[24:53] Speaker 2: truth is. You want to know precisely what it represents
[24:57] Speaker 2: and then how to apply what it represents to your
[25:00] Speaker 2: daily life so that you will not fall for the
[25:03] Speaker 2: wiles of the devil. Now, at a fundamental level, I
[25:06] Speaker 2: can tell you right now why this is wrong. And
[25:12] Speaker 2: that is the Bible simply tells us that it is wrong.
[25:16] Speaker 2: We're not supposed to be involved in necromancy. We're not
[25:19] Speaker 2: supposed to be involved in any occult practice. This is
[25:23] Speaker 2: delineated to us.
[25:25] Speaker 6: I showed him those scriptures and he said, well, that
[25:28] Speaker 6: her spirit is alive, so she's not really dead.
[25:31] Speaker 2: Well, he's partly right, though, right, because the question is
[25:34] Speaker 2: not is the spirit alive? The answer to that question
[25:37] Speaker 2: is absolutely emphatically yes, the spirit is alive. The question
[25:41] Speaker 2: is can we or should we be communicating with the spirit,
[25:45] Speaker 2: and the answer is emphatically no, as we find out
[25:49] Speaker 2: in the story of Soul and the Witch at Endoors.
[25:52] Speaker 2: So we should not dabble in what God tells us
[25:56] Speaker 2: not to dabble in. God sets parameters around our life
[26:00] Speaker 2: life for a purpose. The purpose, obviously, is so that
[26:04] Speaker 2: our joy might be complete out a time for this
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