And now we will get on the hot seat, and you can bring it on.

We're going to do that.

This first one, Pat, is from Serita

who says, "my great uncle Frank just recently passed away

suddenly and I miss him terribly.

I see that God doesn't want us to talk to the deceased.

What am I supposed to do when I miss him?

Could you also explain further why God doesn't want

us to talk to the deceased?"

Well, those who talk to the dead

are involved with spiritism, and they're not

talking to the dead, they're talking to demons.

God does not let interplay take place

between those who have passed on and those who are still alive,

because it leads to all kinds of confusion.

But if you miss your uncle, you miss the loved ones,

talk to God about it and say, look, I miss it terribly.

Would you fill the void in my life?

And God will do that.

He'll come and take away the pain, take away the grief,

and take away the loneliness.

And He understands the grief, but at the same time,

we're not supposed to grieve like others

that have no hope, because we've got hope.

We know we'll get together with our loved

ones, those who died in Christ, we'll

be with them at that time.

And you can talk to them for all eternity.

All right?

This is Lance, Pat, who says, "it seems that women

are more sensitive spiritually.

Is there a biblical reference as to why that is?"

Well, not really.

The Bible says give honor to your wife as the weaker vessel.

Doesn't say they're more sensitive.

Let's face it, in the Old Testament

the people who got the revelation from God

were the men.

And it's maybe the culture we live in that women are now

more sensitive.

You certainly have, in the time of Jesus,

there were wealthy women who ministered to Him.

There were women who gathered around Him

after his crucifixion and helped with the anointing of his body

for burial.

And you remember it was a woman who

was there at the Resurrection who met with Jesus.

And she said, Rabboni, He talked to her.

So they've been sensitive all along,

and He was very kind to his mother.

If you want scriptures in the end of the Gospels,

you know, he looked at John.

He said, I want you to see your mother.

Look after my mother.

She's now your mother.

Take her into your home and look after her.

So he cared.

They cared.

But is there something that says women are more

spiritually sensitive than men?

I don't know it.

All right?

This is Ed, who says, "After the Rapture takes

place and all Christians are taken out of this world,

do the people left still have a chance of salvation,

and if so, how will that work?

Also, where in the Bible can I read this?

Well, you can't read it in the Bible,

because it isn't in there.

I mean, this is the teaching of the Plymouth Brethren

and is the teaching of the Scofield Reference Bible

and so forth.

But it's not what the Bible says.

The Bible says the Lord Himself will descend from heaven

with a shouted command, the trumpet

of God, the dead and Christ will rise first,

and we which are alive would be called up

to be with Him in the air.

That is the second coming of Christ.

But when He does, He will take charge of all the world.

So there's not going to be some secret rapture of catching up

people, and then a seven-year hiatus

after that where people do something else.

The Bible says immediately after the tribulation of those days,

then shall appear the Son of Man in heaven.

So it's the Bible indicates there's

going to be one second coming, not two-- or three, actually.

He came once, and he will come back.

Number two.

But he's not going to come back for one and half and then two.

OK?

This is Mickey who says, "I know a guy who is homeless.

He says that God has called him to be homeless.

Does God call people to be homeless?"

Well, there was a Prophet named Isaiah,

who God told to walk naked and barefoot for a couple of years.

It must have been humiliating.

I mean, to walk around with no clothes on for all that time?

I mean, he had to do it, and he called on Ezekiel

to lie on one side and then the other side

for the better part of the year.

So does He call people do that?

I doubt very seriously if there's anybody

that you have met who's a homeless person who

has been called to do that by God Almighty.

I think that he's in delusion, frankly.

OK.

This is a viewer who says, "how does one know what purpose God

has for his life?"

I think that will take another program.

Yeah, that's right.

But I think God has a plan for you, but I can't--

He does.

I can't tell you in 20 seconds.

Well, we leave you with today's Power Minute

from 1st Corinthians.

"But thanks be to God!

He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

Isn't that a wonderful scripture?

He gives us the victory.