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Well, we want to take some time

to bring it on with some of the questions

that you all have sent in.

And Pat, this first one comes from, interestingly enough,

Grace who says, "My mom says that I'm

at the age where I know right from wrong

and that I need to ask for forgiveness from God--

but I don't feel that way.

What do you think of this, Pat?"

We used to have a big discussion in the Baptist

church about when somebody reached

the age of accountability.

Until they reach that age, the stuff they did was unknown.

If there is no law, you don't understand the law,

and therefore you're not accountable, you're not guilty.

So at what point is it?

Age six?

Age seven?

Age eight?

So Grace, I don't know how old you are,

but if you're that old, you're old enough,

if you're in your teens absolutely.

But I don't think you need to, at age five or six,

go into a big penance and be [INAUDIBLE].

I don't think that is appropriate.

But if the stuff that you're doing that you know is wrong,

ask God to forgive you.

But you say you don't feel like it, well maybe

you don't have any sense that you've done something wrong.

That's what the occasion of accountability is.

If there is no law, there is no offense.

That's what the Bible says, OK.

This is Amy who says, "15 years ago, I attended a church

for a while and I was baptized.

But after so long, I stopped attending church,

and I denied God.

Is it possible to come to Christ again after I repent?"

Well, of course it is.

God is always willing to receive.

We get these questions over and over again,

because so many people know the Lord, and they fall away.

But I don't know in your case whether you really

were saved, whether you really came to the Lord.

And I don't know.

I don't know enough about you.

But I do know this.

Whatever is going on in your heart,

God will welcome you home.

It's like a child who's has wandered away from his parents,

and has left the house.

Look at the prodigal son, he wasted his substance

on riotous living, but he came home,

and the father gave a feast and welcomed him.

That's the description of God Almighty.

He opens his arm and actually runs to you to love you.

OK.

This is Eric Patrick who says, "How can I get respected?

My brother and sister-in-law moved into my mother's house

again for the third time in the last five years.

They don't do chores, they leave messes, and use me as a slave.

I'm tired of bailing my brother out of jail.

He and his wife are using my mother and me.

I lock myself in my room, and know it's not healthy.

I want help."

Man, I need to know more about you.

How old are you?

Are you a teenager, are you an adult?

What is your status?

Your brother and sister-in-law have moved into your mother's

house, and they've taken over.

I'll tell you, the mother, if she wants to,

could get a court order, a restraining order,

and throw those people out, and they need to.

They're free loaders and they're evil,

and they need to be made accountable.

I don't know what else to say, but I

don't know whether you have the opportunity to do that.

You need to talk to your mother.

But you and your mother need to be in agreement

that what these people are doing is wrong.

All right.

OK.

This is Julianne who says, "The Book of Revelation mentions

that there will be," quote, "'a new heaven and a new earth.'

Who will live on the new earth, or will people

be given a choice to live in heaven or on the new earth?"

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I think it'll all be so wonderful,

you'll want to enjoy all of it.

The earth will be marvelous.

I was reading today, and I remember

Speed Wilson, Colonel Wilson, brought this up,

and he was absolutely right.

We think of the rapture as the good people being taken out

of the earth, and the earth being

left for all the bad people.

But that's not what Jesus taught.

He said, in the latter day, the angels will come, and take out

of my kingdom all those that offend,

and cast them in the outer darkness.

And then the righteous will shine forth

as stars in the kingdom of their father.

I think this earth that's set up here is a pretty good place,

and God will renew it, but, nevertheless, this

is going to be the place where the righteous are going to be.

And you say, where we live,

I mean, we've got an awful lot to learn

about the solar system, about the universe we live in,

and I don't know it.

I'm asking for wisdom on it, because it's so vast.

But you said, where will you live?

You'll live in the middle of God's kingdom,

and if you are part of the chosen who accepted him,

it will be the most wonderful thing you could ever imagine.

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