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Your Questions, Honest Answers: - December 8, 2020

MY SISTER-IN-LAW JUST DIED, AND MY CONCERN IS THAT SHE WAS NOT SAVED. HER SON KEEPS SAYING AT LEAST SHE IS IN HEAVEN NOW, BUT IS SHE? ACCORDING TO JESUS THE ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER IS THROUGH JESUS. WHAT DO I SAY? Read Transcript


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- Well, it's that time.

Email questions for you.

This first one comes from Andrew.

He says: Hi, Pat.

I've prayed for many healingsfor the past five years

and I watch your program five days a week.

You, Wendy, and Terry mentionitems I've asked healings for

and I have claimed them,

but those healings have not happened.

Why?

- How can I tell you why?

I don't know. I don't know.

You know, if I regardiniquity in my heart,

have you done something wrong

or do you have resentment in your heart

toward somebody else?

Are you truly believing?

Are you surrendered?

I mean, there's so many things.

You said, "Why don't youget my prayers answered?"

Go before the Lord and say,

"Lord, teach me, show me, show me,"

and God will, He will show you exactly.

He'll put His finger right on it.

If you're willing to obey,you'll find a miracle.

And that's what, ask Him, and say, "Lord."

Don't ask me. You ask God, okay.

All right.- This is Cheryl,

who says: John 20:23 in the NIV says,

"If you forgive anyone'ssins, their sins are forgiven.

If you do not forgive them,they are not forgiven."

Does this mean that if someone I wronged

is holding a grudge againstme and has not forgiven me,

my sin against them is unforgiven?

Even if I've asked them to forgive me,

but they're choosing notto, so I'm not forgiven?

- You know, a lot of times,

we read into the Biblepersonal message to us.

The Bible says Jesusmet with His disciples

and He gathered them together and He said,

"For you guys, if you forgivesins, they're forgiven."

But I think broader, the bigthing was binding and loosing.

The whole idea, He said,"If you bind a regulation

on somebody, then it's bound in heaven.

If you loose it, it's loosed in heaven.

So as the church, we have the power

to lay on people the obligations

or we have the power to take them off.

But in terms of that, yousaid, "That's personal to me."

No, it's not.

It was said when Jesus was meeting

with a small group of His disciples.

Okay.

- This is Pat, who says: Please help me.

Most of my family are not saved.

My sister-in-law just died

and my concern is that she was not saved.

Her son keeps saying atleast she's in heaven now,

but is she?

According to Jesus, theonly way to the Father

is through Jesus.

What do I say?

- Look, it's not for you to say

what somebody's ultimate destination is.

You just say, "Well, look, Ipray you're right," (chuckles)

and you know in your heart they're not.

Because there's only oneway to come to the Lord

and that is through being born again.

"Except a man be born again,

he shall not enter the kingdom.

He shall not see the kingdom of heaven."

So if a guy's not born again,he's not going to heaven.

Bottom line.

But you don't have tobe the ultimate judge.

It's in God's hands, and it is.

I mean, you don't know the answer.

Maybe he cried out to God before he died.

You don't know.- Yeah.

- Here's one last one.

- Okay, this viewer says:

I gave my life to Jesus in March of 2015.

It's been a constantstruggle with the devil.

My wife's not saved.

It makes it that muchharder to live with her.

I keep asking Jesus to touch her heart.

I try to talk to her,

but she doesn't really wantto hear what I have to say.

How long should I keepliving in this environment?

- Until she leaves.

The Bible says,

"If the unbeliever is pleasedto depart, let them depart.

The brother or sister'snot bound in that case,"

and if they don't leave, youmade the decision, old buddy.

It's yours.

So, just pray that, somehow,

the Lord will lead her to the Lord,

and in the meantime, youget right with God yourself,

and maybe by your godly example,

she'll see something inyou that's so wonderful

and want to know how come.

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