SHOULD CHRISTIANS KEEP THEIR MONEY WITHIN CHRISTIAN LENDING AND BANKING SERVICES? HOW DO YOU SHARE WITH A 12-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN OUR ALMIGHTY GOD?
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- All right.
- Okay, time for some questions.
You ready?- Let's go for 'em, yeah.
- This is Holly, who says, "Dear Pat.
I've been watching youhear the Lord for words
of knowledge for healingduring the program
for a long time.
How does God normally speak to you
during this time and was there a time
when you were nervous to do this on air?"
- There was a time when I was scared
to death to do it on air.
I mean, you couldn't believe it.
You think well, am I hearingfrom the Lord or not?
And, my great story had to do
with the peanut butter thing.
I'm sitting there just like I am now.
We're ministering and allof a sudden this thing,
there was peanut butter everywhere.
I can taste it and see it and smell it
and it was everywhere.
And I said I don't know what this is,
but somebody's involved with peanut butter
and I think you're being healed of cancer.
And lo and behold, there was a woman
who had just dropped ajar of peanut butter,
it was on the floor andshe was on her knees wiping
it up and watching the program
with a little TV set
and the Lord healed her.
But it was peanut butter.
But you think, am I gonnasay that on television.
It was crazy, but God is able
and we're seeing literally hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of people
who are being healed
as the Lord is giving us
the word of knowledge, all right.
- Well, Pat, this is William.
He says, "Hi, Pat, I've been wondering
for a long time, should Christians keep
their money within Christian lending
and banking services?
I do not want my money with a bank
that does not have Christian values
and I was wondering whatyour thoughts are on this?"
- If you know a bank thathas Christian values,
I don't know what it is.
I have my account with JP Morgan Chase.
They do a real good job
and I've got a special team of people
who handle certain accounts and
the banking system is just too big
to worry about are theyChristians running it.
I don't know of any firm
that can say well,we're Christian bankers.
It just doesn't compute, all right.
- This is Vincent, who wants to know,
"How do you share with a 12-year-old boy
who doesn't believe in our Almighty God?"
- Ask that little 12-year-old boy,
you know, there was an idol maker
who made statues that people worshiped
and he said, "Okay, I'm making statues
that people worship, butmy hand makes these statues
and my hand makes the statues,
but who made my hand?"
And he said, "I want to worship the one
who made my hand."
And I think you ought to ask
that little 12-year-oldboy could you tell us
who made your hand.
And ask him say, look, when you die,
where are you going?
What's going to happen to you next?
And let him think, it is appointed unto
a man once to die andafter that the judgment.
And I don't know how sophisticated
this 12-year-old is,
but if you confront himwith what God has done,
the greatness of God and, you know,
the relationship that he has with you,
I think it will help you a lot, all right.
- This is James, who says,
"Pat, electric cars are great
and will save a great dealof money in the long run.
We do not have the power to generate
enough electricity tocharge all these cars.
California can hardlykeep the lights on now.
How will we recharge thebatteries of 300 million cars?"
- Well, that's a problemthey're gonna have to deal with,
but I think they're alreadystarting recharging stations,
interesting, some of the big oil companies
are already changingto recharging stations
and just like how couldyou provide gas and oil
in all these cars?
Well, you have to have a network
and they begin little by little
as a filling station here,
another filling station,
before long you've got roads.
Same thing with the electric cars.
We'll have charging stations.
I wouldn't worry about it, all right.
- Okay, this is a viewer who says,
"Hi, Pat, I just read in John 3:13
that no one except Jesushas gone to heaven.
No one has ascended to heaven, he says,
but he who came down from heaven,
that is the Son of Man who is in heaven.
Didn't Elijah and Enoch go to heaven
in the Old Testament?
Doesn't Bible say that there is
a great chasm between earth and hell
that no one can cross?"
- I don't really, you'reasking several questions
and I don't know.
Yes, they were caught up in a whirlwind,
but, you know, the Bibletalks about several heavens.
Paul said, "I was caughtup into the third heaven."
There's there's the heavenright above the earth
and, you know, I don't really,
that question is just toocomplicated to answer.
- There may not be ananswer this side of heaven.
- All right, there's noanswer this side of heaven.
I'll leave it at that.
But the Lord, he showedus when we saw Jesus,
"He that has seen me has seen the Father."
That's what Jesus told us, all right.