Pat Robertson
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Oh, there we go. Some life's biggest issues, such as why does God heal some and not others? How can you love a toxic family member? Do pets go to heaven? Has the Ark of the Covenant been found? Yes, it has.
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Be back with you at this particular place and to talk today about your questions and hopefully some honest answers.
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You call from all over America, and you left your voicemail questions. Today, we're going to hear your voices on the air, and I will do my best to answer.
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It wasn't the same without you, because you and I were in the war zone in Israel one time.
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Great to have Pat with us today. And we've got a question. We're going to start with Patricia. She's from Hawthorne, California. Go ahead.
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Well, the thing of it is you never know when you're going to die. So if you decide you want to spend your life sinning, death may come sooner than you thought. But you remember the thief on the cross? He said to Jesus, he said, remember me, Lord, when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus said, this day you will be with me in paradise. So the answer.
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He didn't say, have you said the sinner's prayer? Do you go to church? Have you done this? He said, this day, because it was a confession of faith in Christ. And yes, you can make it on your deathbed, but I wouldn't presume on saying, well, I'll send boldly that grace may abound. You know, don't even.
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She's so beholden to him. Thanks, Pat. Phyllis from Cincinnati, Ohio has this question for Pat.
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I don't think there's anything close worldly. I think we're all supposed to manage our affairs properly.
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Invest for their retirement. There's nothing in the world wrong with that. You know, we, I believe. Sounds like Daffy Duck. In the stock market, I believe in investing. And I think that we should be intelligent with our hands.
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Our money, you know, we're stewards and we're stewards of our life. We're stewards of what we do and we're stewards of who we are. So you are a steward and I'm not.
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Jesus said, when you render to Caesar what's Caesar, you render to God what's God. When you buy little Caesars and little Caesars, then you get pizza with God.
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Well, I mean, for example, giving, you've got to have some money to give. The more you get, the more you can give away.
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That's what I think. And I think God says, look, if you prove me with tithes and offerings, you read Malachi, I'll open the windows of heaven and pour you such a blessing.
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It'll come off later. What do you do with that blessing? Well, you can give more away. That's the way I think.
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Hey, amen. An interesting question from a viewer in Norfolk, Virginia.
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You know something? I think this is as good a time as we could possibly have had.
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Can you imagine? I was thinking today as I was eating. I ate oatmeal for breakfast.
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We live in a world of plenty. We have warm clothes. We have beautiful food. We have the abundance of food at the grocery store where you can get. And we have freedom in America.
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You know, heaven is going to be wonderful. But I do think that he's given us the right nice world to live in right now. And I don't think, you know, if I lived at the time of Jesus, I wouldn't have believed in him. And he was an itinerant preacher. And, you know, I wouldn't have believed in him. So many, only a few did. And they had.
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Liberal, yeah. Wait to see the fulfillment of prophecy, even then. So what time?
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This is as good a time in this country as you could possibly have. And I'm very grateful that I was born. As was said, I won the ovarian lottery. Yeah.
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That's right. And God says he appoints the times and the seasons. Exactly. And so we're all supposed to be here. That's right. You know, I love the fashion in the 40s. So if I could go back. I love Tradwise. I love Tradwise. It's so awesome.
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I go back to the 40s. I don't care about fashions. I care about life and health.
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We've had so many breakthroughs in health care and everything. I mean, this has been a wonderful time to live. Amen. Hey, man, I'm trying to keep my job.
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Hey, man, let's move on. Lee from Kenner, Louisiana, has this question.
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I think you can... Love them yourself if they've hurt you. If you have ought against any, you forgive them. But you don't have to be in the presence of somebody that's toxic. You know, the Apostle Paul says you don't even have to eat with certain kind of people. And I think if somebody's a Christian, for example, but... If you eat...
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You don't have to expose yourself to people who are unpleasant, who are, you know, they'll tear you down always. You know, you get in the presence of a negative thinking. Well, this is terrible. I feel so bad. Isn't the weather awful? You know, isn't the government terrible? They're all a bunch of crooks. You don't want to listen to that junk. So you're better.
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It's like, would you want to take a garbage can and pour it on your head?
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Every morning, the answer is no. So you don't have to be around them. So the fact that they're there in the neighborhood, just just avoid them. You can go someplace. There are lots of people in America and around the world. There were seven billion people. So surely you can find companions that are, quote, not toxic.
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Oh, I'm interested to hear this answer, actually. Well, you know, the question about money is, are you depending on, for example, are you praying? You know, before I came to the Lord, I played poker. And I mean, I'd sit there praying to pull to an inside straight.
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I mean, sometimes yes, sometimes no. But I mean, you know, if you put all your money out and you're gambling, that way is so destructive. But, you know, and I also think it's the wrong way to...
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I also think it's the wrong way to finance a country or a state with having legal gambling and all these get-rich-quick things. Ha!
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I think the best way to achieve money is little by increase the law of use. That's financial curve. If you do that, there'll be plenty of money.
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Well, playing the games, I mean, if you want to take $5 and put it in a thing like that and don't worry about it, I mean, I can't say that's a sin. That's your business. But if you begin to pray and let that be the source of your income, it is such utter foolishness.
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Send it to me and I'll do that on your behalf. Lynn from Clarion, Pennsylvania has this question for Pat.
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I think, you know, one of the biggest churches, I think, was out there in Arizona where the pastor rented some buses and he went out in the neighborhood to bring the kids to Sunday school.
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Go to church, but they love to have their children go to church. So if you've got a bus in the church and you say, I'll pick up your children at 9 a.m. on Sunday morning.
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And the next thing you know, mom and dad will follow. And I think that's how one pastor in Phoenix grew to one of the biggest churches in America by having a fleet of buses. I've got some old buses.
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Tell me more on that. Okay. Okay. Well, here's Cindy from Louisville, Kentucky.
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It made Steven Spielberg a pretty good movie in search of the missing Ark of the Covenant. I think it's long gone. I don't think there's any hidden Ark, but it did make an interesting movie, and that's where you got In Search of the Lost Ark.
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Good movie. Let's move on, sinners. Okay, this question from a viewer in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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I think the idea of a thief in the night means you're sleeping and you're not paying attention and all of a sudden this thief comes and you weren't expecting him. I think that's the concept is that he's going to come at a time when we're not really awaiting him and the world is not going to expect Jesus to come back again.
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But in terms when he does come, he will come with a shout of command, with the voice of the Ark of Abel, the Trump of God.
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It's going to be a big, big deal. It's not going to be quiet. It's going to be a big one. He will descend from heaven. Or trumpet.
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With the trumpet of God, but the thief in the night out here is that he's going to be unexpected.
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Paul said it won't come upon you unawares, because we are expecting, we know the Scriptures, but the world doesn't know the Scriptures. And so the world, you know, in the days of Noah, they were spending their time with all kinds of marriage and giving in marriage and having parties and all the rest of it.
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And then he said the flood came and swept them all away. That's the unexpected part of it.
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The cloud of wishes of those who have gone before, who have known the Lord, and he lists some of the champions of the faith who have, they're kind of like the witnesses that have lived before us. Mike Tyson, Tiger Booge. but an example. And so when we read the Bible, we read about these champions of the faith, one after the other, that are in these wonderful experiences with God.
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Here's an interesting question from Vincent. Oh, that was a very short answer. I didn't understand. Sorry, one more.
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I think the biggest one was getting started. I started this thing with $70. I had a U-Haul trailer. Four kids and no money. And I think we were up against it month after month after month. We didn't have enough money to do anything. And we were just crying, dependent on God for his mercy. That was the big struggle.