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Steve Wohlberg -The Character of God Controversy

Steve Wohlberg

The Character of God Controversy, Part 2

The Character of God Controversy, Part 1

The Character of God Controversy, Part 3

The Character of God Controversy Question and Answer Session

I think it's rather fitting to be speaking inside of a building called Burden Hall.

I definitely have a burden for these topics, that's for sure.

What I wanted to do a little bit before we actually get into the meeting is just give you a quick overview about our ministry.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with White Horse Media, but we have a website, whitehorsemedia.com.

We picked the name White Horse because of Revelation chapter 19.

It's actually a great name when you're talking to somebody that's not even a Christian and you tell them you work for White Horse Media, they say, well, why did you pick that name?

And we say, well, let me tell you what it says in the book of Revelation chapter 19.

Anyway, Revelation 19 describes Jesus coming on a White Horse as the rider to deliver his people at the end.

And so we've just been inspired by that scene, so we picked the name White Horse Media because the word media implies reaching out through various ways, especially through the airwaves.

And we have a studio, we have a lot of television programs that we've produced.

We've just moved our ministry out of Fresno, California over to Newport, Washington.

I don't know how many of you have seen our programs on TV, on 3ABN.

We're also on a Baptist channel called Faith Television.

We have radio programs, we have DVDs, books, I give seminars, a lot of different things.

Most of the material that we produce is designed to be shared with the larger world around us.

We don't just want to talk to people in the church.

We wanna equip the saints to reach people outside the church.

Let me just quickly show you some of the books we have.

These are just little small books to share with people solving the mystery of death.

Great book dealing with the state of the dead and death and burial and resurrection.

Perils of Talking To the Dead, a little book that deals with spiritualism and television and all the programs these days that are communicating the idea that we can talk to our dead loved ones.

This is a huge issue today, perfect little book to share.

Then we have 1 on the millennium, dealing with the thousand year period and what happens at the end, the hot topic of hell, trying to expose the perversion of the character of God where people are taught that if you don't believe in Jesus you're going to go down under the ground and you're going to burn forever and ever and ever and ever.

This is just a good little book to share with that.

Another 1 called Perils of Harry Potter and Witchcraft, dealing with the Potter phenomena and dealing with Wicca and the growth of witchcraft among teenagers.

It's just a huge issue right now, and this is a very good little book.

There's people inside the church, believe it or not, that are checking out Wicca and casting spells and getting into magic.

We have another brand new little book called Discovering the Lost Sabbath Truth.

Just a great little book to share with people about the Sabbath.

It's very Christ-centered, very biblical, Old Testament, New Testament, focuses on Jesus, how He's the Lord of the Sabbath and what the Sabbath is really all about.

Then another 1, a brand new 1 that's just coming off the press in about a week called Decoding the Mark of the Beast.

There's a man looking up at his forehead where the number 666 are up there trying to figure out what is this subject all about.

The time is going to come and I think we're not far away from it right now with what's going on in the world and the economy and just the whole global scene that we are going to find ourselves in the midst of the crisis.

And these are just the kind of books that we need to be sharing with people and so that's why we have them.

We also have a little book called The Rapture Deception.

We just got an email from a Baptist pastor who read this book and just was shocked by it.

And then read another larger book called End Time Delusions which has been published by Destiny Image by a major Christian publisher.

It's in bookstores across the country, all family Christian stores, and it's just amazing the responses that we're getting from things like this.

And So now, and then we also have the character of God controversy.

This is 1 of the only books that I've written and Dr.

Lewis and I co-authored this, dealing specifically more with things that are going on inside the church.

This is happening inside and this is what I'm talking about here.

We'll have a box of these books in the back at the end of the last program.

I didn't bring a lot of things with me, but we have a few of these.

Anybody see The Ultimate Passover on the Hope Channel?

It's a brand new 45-minute documentary that we just produced, and actually was quite a while in the production, and it just came out on December 13 on the Hope Channel.

They're gonna be airing it for the next 2 or 3 months.

And it is designed to share Jesus Christ with Jewish people.

I don't think she'll ever listen to this sermon.

She's not going to go on audioverse.org and hear it, most likely, but I want to give her a copy of this DVD.

It should be printed or replicated in just the next few days.

And it's just, like I said, a 45-minute documentary.

Some of it was filmed actually in Egypt, in Israel, showing some little boy watching his dad put blood on the doors and how that ultimately pointed forward to Jesus as the Messiah who would shed his blood on the cross for the sins of the world.

It's designed to share Christ with Jewish people.

And then we have another 1 that's actually airing on 3ABN now.

I don't know if any of you have watched it, but it's called Islam Revisited.

It's a 13-part series that deals with Muslim issues, And it's really designed to try to break down prejudice and try to help us to reach out to a Muslim world.

And there's over a billion Muslims in the world.

So we're pretty excited that White Horse Media has a program to reach the Jews and a program to reach the Muslims.

And many times they're at odds with each other as you know, and we want to bring both groups to the foot of the cross, to help them to see 1 savior who loves both groups, the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael, he wants to bring them together at the foot of the cross and save as many as possible.

So if you have Muslim friends, you might be interested in that.

If you have Jewish friends, you might be interested in that as well.

As somebody mentioned, we're going to take up an offering.

I think it's at the beginning of the next meeting, right?

The money does not go to me, it just goes to our ministry to help keep us going.

We have a building that we're just about getting ready to get into, and we have a lot of expenses.

I pastored for many years, and finally the Lord just led me step out in faith, go forward and do this work full time.

So I left pastoral ministry and now this is all I do is write and preach and teach and we have TV equipment.

And as long as God keeps us going, that's as long as we'll keep doing this.

And hopefully the world won't be here much longer because Jesus will come.

So anyway, If you have your Bibles, I invite you to open up to the book of Matthew, chapter 26, verse 30.

We're continuing our discussion, our study of the character of God, the character of God controversy that is going on right now in the world and in our own church.

The book is written in a very respectful way.

We chose not to mention names, but the issues are very real.

And many of you understand some of these issues, and Dr.

Lewis and I have a burden to try to clarify some of these issues as much as we can because we just think it's very, very important that we are not deceived by a subtle devil who is trying to pervert what the Bible says about who's up there.

We need to know God as he is, as he is revealed in the Bible.

I was thinking about this today over lunch, that spiritually speaking, this is not a time for veggie meat.

Spiritually speaking, this is a time for meat.

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