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- Many of you send in questions

you'd like to hear answered on the show

so we want to do that rightnow as we look at your email.

Gordon, this first onecomes from Roger, who says:

How do we reconcile the giftof the word of knowledge

with the biblical admonitionagainst being a medium?

- Roger, the two have nothingto do with each other at all.

The Bible condemns thosespirits that peep and mutter,

and mediums, what they're claiming,

is they're in contact with the dead.

They're not in contactwith the dead at all.

They're in contact withwhat the Bible calls

familiar spirits, andthese are demonic entities

that want to bring confusion to you,

that want to lie to you,

they want to peep and mutter to you.

And it's all designed to be a counterfeit

for what God wants to bringyou, which is His Holy Spirit,

a pure spirit that edifies,that builds you up,

that exhorts you.

And here's what the great thing

that the word of knowledge does.

It brings healing to people.

That is not demonic at all.

Jesus had this whole comparison

between what is of God and what is not.

That's where we get thehouse divided against itself,

where people were accusingJesus of casting out demons

by the spirit of Beelzebub.

Don't confuse the two.

When you see salvations,when you see healings,

when you see peopleedified, exhorted, built up,

encouraged in theirfaith, that is a pure word

from the Holy Spirit.

Hold on to that.

Bible also says let's test the spirits.

Let the prophets prophesyand the others judge.

So test it.

Does it agree with scripture?

Do you see the same evidence in the Bible?

A lot of different tests to apply to it,

but the biggest one is doesit exhort, does it build up,

does it edify, does it encourage,

does it bring the love of God?

If those things are happening,then it's wonderful.

- Well I'm gonna jump down tonumber three for time's sake.

- All right.- Okay.

Is obedience necessaryfor salvation, Julie asks.

How obedient do we haveto be to get to heaven?

- All right, well here's abring you up short scripture

from Matthew 5.

Unless your righteousness exceeds

the righteousness of thescribes and Pharisees,

you will by no means enterthe kingdom of heaven.

Now that seems to be impossible,

but here's some encouragementfrom the book of Jude.

To Him who is able tokeep you from stumbling,

and to present you faultlessbefore his presence of glory

with exceeding joy, to God our Savior,

who alone is wise, be glory andmajesty, dominion and power.

He makes us perfect.

He makes us more righteousthan the Pharisees.

By all means, obey, obey, obey,

but confess your sins before Him.

Here's a word.