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Grace in Focus — 197 episodes

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1

How Do We Harmonize “God Hates Divorce,” Malachi 2:16 With “God Permits Divorce” Matthew 5:31-32; 19:8-9?

2

Is God Cruel?

3

Why Are There Imprecatory Psalms?

4

What Is Redemption and Why Is It Important?

5

Will the Judgment Seat of Christ Be Like the Seven Letters in Revelation 2-3?

6

How Do I Evangelize My Grandkids?

7

Review/Conclusion – Assurance of Salvation

8

Practical Ramifications of Assurance of Salvation, Part 2

9

Practical Ramifications of Assurance of Salvation, Part 1

10

Assurance in the Gospel of John, Part 2

11

Assurance in the Gospel of John, Part 1

12

How Is Assurance of Salvation Gained?  – Part 2

13

How Is Assurance of Salvation Gained?  – Part 1

14

What Is the Definition of “Assurance of Salvation”?

15

Assurance of Salvation in Church History

16

How Do We Harmonize Matthew 7:7-11 With Roman 3:11?

17

Why Do We Have to Believe to be Saved?

18

The Fallout After Nathan Confronts David

19

The Story of the Missing Shower Curtain

20

What Can We Learn From the Davidic Covenant?

21

What is up With Saul and the Witch at Endor?

22

What Can We Learn From David Sparing King Saul’s Life?

23

What Can We Learn From King Saul’s Life and Backsliding?

24

What Did Samuel Mean When He Said God Would Make Saul a New Man?

25

What Does “Thou Shalt not Kill” Mean and Not Mean?

26

What Is the Significance of the Genealogies in Genesis?

27

Can the Creation Account Be Harmonized With Materialistic Evolution?

28

Can the Word “Day” in Genesis One Refer to an Indefinite Period of Time?

29

What Does it Mean That We Are Created in the Image Of God?

30

Will Some Believers Really Be Ashamed at the Bema?

31

What Is the “Genesis of a Revival? Does a Revival Always Begin With Contrition Over Sin?

32

Does Romans 11:22 Teach That Salvation Can Be Lost?

33

Shouldn’t the Four Gospels Really Be Considered Old Testament Literature?

34

Was Jonah Really Swallowed By A Whale?

35

Presenting Your Testimony – Conclusion

36

Presenting Your Testimony – The Best Way to Give a Testimony

37

Presenting Your Testimony – Mixing Eternal Salvation and the Discipleship Test

38

Presenting Your Testimony – Objections to Paul’s Testimony

39

Presenting Your Testimony – Misconceptions

40

Presenting Your Testimony – Intro

41

Jesus’ Preincarnate Appearances – Gideon / Manoah – Pt 05

42

Jesus’ Preincarnate Appearances – Moses – Pt 04

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Jesus’ Preincarnate Appearances – Moses – Pt 03

44

Jesus’ Preincarnate Appearances – Abraham – Pt 02

45

Jesus’ Preincarnate Appearances – Adam / Joshua / Abraham – Pt 01

46

Can You Have Faith in Christ and Never be 100% Assured?

47

Do Unbelievers Have a Spirit?

48

Does John 14:12 Mean Believers Will Do Good Works?

49

If We Don’t Forgive Others, Will We Go To Hell? – Pt 02

50

If We Don’t Forgive Others, Will We Go To Hell? – Pt 01

51

What Are Your Five Favorite Old Testament Books? – Pt 4

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What Are Your Five Favorite Old Testament Books? – Pt 3

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What Are Your Five Favorite Old Testament Books? – Pt 2

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What Are Your Five Favorite Old Testament Books? – Pt 1

55

Why Understanding the Old Testament Is so Important

56

Were Jonah and Job Real People and Why Does it Matter?

57

What Is Replacement Theology and How Does the Old Testament Disprove it?

58

In Colossians 1:4, How Are Redemption and Forgiveness Connected?

59

In Nahum 1:7, Is Trust Synonymous With Faith and Believing?

60

If Jesus Is Life and Gives Life, Why Did He Have to Die to Make Us Savable?

61

Can Believers Today Commit the Unpardonable Sin? Also: How Can I Be Sure My Faith in Christ Is the Right Kind of Faith?

62

Why Are There Degrees of Torment in the Lake of Fire? Also: Can Saving Faith be Illustrated by Trusting in a Parachute?

63

Do You Need to Know When You Were Born Again?

64

What Part Should Our Experience Play in Interpreting the Bible?

65

Do Southern Baptists Believe That Assurance Is of the Essence of Saving Faith?

66

Can the Spiritually Dead Respond to Christ?

67

Did Jesus Emphasize Hell in His Evangelism?

68

Why Is the Calvinist Understanding of John 3:16 Misleading?

69

What Are the Major Calvinist Denominations?

70

What Are the Different Types of Calvinism?

71

Is Belief in the Forgiveness of Sins a Saving Message?

72

Does John 1:12 Present Two Steps to Salvation?

73

Is it Sin to Do Anything Without Faith?

74

Does John 3:16 Tell How to Be Born Again?

75

How Many Ways Are There to Pray?

76

What Does Luke 20:35 Mean About the Resurrection and Marriage?

77

Should We Pray, “Lord Have Mercy on Me”?

78

Should We Ask for Forgiveness for Unknown Sins?

79

Is Belief in Jesus Enough?

80

Is Believing in the Forgiveness of Sins the Bullseye in Evangelism?

81

Are All Who Believe on Jesus as Savior Born Again?

82

What Is the Call to Salvation?

83

How Can We Cast Our Anxieties on Christ?

84

Which of Chafer’s 33 Blessings Do You Agree / Disagree With?

85

Is Securing My Salvation Up To Me?

86

How Can You Know If You Yourself Are Saved? – Part 5

87

How Can You Know If Anyone Else is Saved? – Part 4

88

Does Ephesians 2:8-10 Say Works are Required? – Part 3

89

Does Either John 3:16 or 3:36 Support Lordship Salvation? – Part 2

90

Free Grace vs Lordship – Part 1

91

Do Bible Gifts Always Refer to Something Free?

92

What Is the One-Minute Gospel?

93

What Does “Does Not Have God” Mean in 2 John 9?

94

What Does Resurrection Mean in Philippians 3:10-14?

95

What Is the Free Grace Response to the New Perspective on Paul?

96

Do Mormons and Lordship Evangelicals Have Different Gospels?

97

What Does Death Mean in the Bible?

98

Does Matthew 7:21 Say We Must Continuously do the Will of God to be Saved?

99

Is Romans 8:1 About Condemnation or Servitude to Sin?

100

Why Did Peter Threaten Simon the Sorcerer?

101

Does God Speak to Us With Impressions?

102

How Can We See God’s Wrath Today?

103

Are Jewish Believers the Same as Gentile Believers?

104

What Does it Mean for Our Transgressions to Be Removed as Far as the East Is From the West?

105

Why Does Receive Mean in John 1:12?

106

Is it Wrong for a Believer to Fear Death?

107

Did Moses See God Face to Face?

108

Can Believers Sue Other Believers?

109

Does a Lack of Conviction of Sin Prove You’re Not Saved?

110

Why Does Jesus Call Himself “The Resurrection and the Life” in John 11:25?

111

Should Evangelism Be Our Primary Focus in Life?

112

Is Man Still in God’s Image? Also Does Romans 5:12-21 Refer to Physical or Spiritual Death?

113

Can We Have Assurance That We Will Persevere?

114

How Do We Know the Word “Believe” in John 3:16 Does Not Mean Commit, Since it Does in John 2:24 and Other Verses?

115

Is Continuing to Believe in Christ a Work?

116

Can We Go to Heaven If We Don’t Keep Going to Church?

117

Did DTS Free Grace Stalwarts and Professors Hold to Four-Point Calvinism?

118

Did the Old Testament Teach Bodily Resurrection?

119

Does Matthew 7:21 Say that We Must Continuously Believe to Have Everlasting Life?

120

Does 2 Timothy 3:15 Say the Whole Bible Is Evangelistic?

121

Can a Person Get Assurance From John 3:16 Without Being Told About the Promise of Security?

122

Has the Kingdom Already Started at the Judgment of the Sheep and the Goats?

123

Do You Have Plans to Reprint “The Omega Reunion” or Any Other Writings About the Eternal State?

124

What Are Some False Appeals for Evangelism and Discipleship?

125

Does Psalm 18:20 Refer to David’s Imputed Righteousness?

126

If I Believe That Jesus Is God’s Only Begotten Son (John 3:16), Am I Born Again?

127

How Many Verses in John’s Gospel Are Evangelistic?

128

What Study Bible Would You Recommend?

129

What About the Vice Lists and Believers Suffering With Addictions?

130

What Advice Do You Give to Believers Who Are Suffering With Addictions?

131

What Does “Let the Dead Bury Their Own Dead” Mean?

132

Should We Follow Ray Comfort’s Example and Begin Evangelism by Trying to Convince People They are Sinners?

133

Are We Arrogant to Reject the Teachings of the Early Church Fathers?

134

How Can God Judge Us for Sins He Has Forgiven?

135

Does 2 Peter 2:1 Say There Will Be False Teachers Among Believers?

136

Do English Translations Sometimes Promote False Gospels?

137

Does 2 Corinthians 5:17 Guarantee Internal Changes?

138

In Genesis 22:15-18, Was Abraham Justified Only Before Men?

139

Do the Birds in the Parables of Matthew 13 and Mark 4 Represent Satan?

140

Does Romans 10:9-10 Say We Must Confess Christ to Be Born Again?

141

Is the Roman’s Road Evangelistic Approach Valid?

142

Is Romans About Believers Being Delivered From Wrath?

143

What Is Positional Forgiveness and Is it Biblical?

144

How Do I Get My Name in the Lamb’s Book of Life?

145

Is John’s Gospel the Only Evangelistic Book in the Bible?

146

Must We Believe in the Substitutionary Atonement to Have Everlasting Life?

147

Why Not Live Like the Devil?

148

What Is the Difference Between Cleansing and Forgiveness?

149

Are Enduring to the End and Being in Fellowship With God the Same Thing?

150

What Does Forgiveness Bring in 1 John 1:9?

151

What Is the Difference Between Forgiveness and Cleansing?

152

Will Confessed Sins Be Judged at The Judgment Seat of Christ?

153

If Genesis 15:6 Is Where Abraham Was Born Again, How Did He Call on the Lord Before That?

154

Does John 5:45-47 Teach There Is a Difference Between Trusting and Believing?

155

What Is the Difference in Having Eternal Life and Believing That Jesus Exists?

156

Is the Salvation We Inherit in Hebrews the Same as Reaping Eternal Life?

157

Why Is the Saving Message Absent in the Synoptic Gospels?

158

When Interpreting the Bible, How Can We Know for Sure the Difference Between Typology and Allegory?

159

Is 1 John 1:9 Evangelistic?

160

How Are People Changed When They Believe for Everlasting Life?

161

Does One’s View of the Gospel Affect Discipleship?

162

Can One Have Eternal Security if They Believe Someone Else Can Lose Their Salvation?

163

Is It Better to Never Become a Disciple or to Become a Disciple and Then Fall Away?

164

How Can Our Bad Works Be Judged at the Judgment Seat of Christ if 2 Corinthians 5:10 Says Jesus Died for Our Sins?

165

How Do You Decide Whether Psuche Should Be Translated as “Life” or “Soul”?

166

Is Belief in General Revelation Enough to Be Saved?

167

Can We Impact People Who Disagree But Are Open?

168

Must We Be Contrite and Productive to Prove We Are Saved?

169

Is Believing That Jesus Is the Christ the Same as Believing in Him for Everlasting Life?

170

Can Our Pre-Salvation Works Influence Our Eternal Rewards?

171

Who Will Receive the Crown of Glory That Does Not Fade Away – 1 Peter 5:1-14?

172

How Are the Righteous Saved By Suffering For Christ – 1 Peter 4:12-19?

173

Why Are Our Suffering and Service Especially Meaningful in These Last Days – 1 Peter 4:1-11?

174

Is Suffering For Christ to Be Expected – 1 Peter 3:13-22?

175

How Are Wives to Submit to Their Husbands – 1 Peter 3:1-12?

176

Working Out Our Salvation – Government and Work (1 Peter 2:13-25)

177

Longing For the Pure Milk of God’s Word (1 Peter 2:1-12)

178

The Salvation of Your Soul in Relation to God and to the Brethren (1 Peter 1:13-25)

179

What Is the “Salvation of Your Soul” (1 Peter 1:3-12)?

180

Introduction to 1 Peter, 1 Peter 1:1-2

181

Does Revelation 14:11 Refer to Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT)

182

The Nations of the New Earth and Eschatology Wrap Up

183

What Is the Great White Throne / Final Judgment?

184

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Millennium

185

What Is the Judgment Seat of Christ and How Should We Live in Light of it?

186

Did You Know “Be Still and Know That I Am God” Refers to Judgment?

187

What Will Happen at the Second Coming of Christ?

188

The Seven Bowl Judgments – Part 2

189

The Seven Bowl Judgments – Part 1

190

Who Are the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11?

191

Is There Evidence That Judas Was a Believer?

192

How Should We Explain James 2 to Those Who Reject Eternal Security?

193

Is Persevering in Faith a Choice?

194

The Fifth and Sixth Trumpet Judgments (Revelation 9:1-21)

195

The Seventh Seal and the First Four Trumpet Judgments (Revelation 8:1-13)

196

The Fifth and Sixth Seal Judgments – Revelation 6:9-17

197

Revelation 6:1-8 – The Four Horsemen and The First Four Seal Judgments