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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

Jean Ross

We All Have Reasons for Moving

No volume ever written has been more loved and quoted, and its words, sometimes simple and sometimes mysterious, should always be studied carefully.

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Now, Here's your host from Amazing Facts International, Pastor Doug Batchelor.

You want to hear an amazing fact about the world's longest walk.

George Megan, a former British sailor, was the first person to complete the Argentina-Alaska hike mostly on the Pan-American Highway.

Beginning in 1977 at the southern tip of South America, it took Megan 2, 425 days to complete the 19, 019 mile walk to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay.

During those 6 and a half years he took approximately 41 million steps, he wore out 12 pairs of Italian hiking boots, And he traversed the historically impassable 66-mile Darien Gap, where he was shot at and survived a knifing attack on skate.

During his epic journey, he secured 8 Guinness World Records.

That's taking your life and just saying, I'm going to see how far I can walk.

And you know, you and I were talking before the program, not only did he walk, you know, from the Southern hemispheres, Southern most point, I mean, other than Antarctica to the Northern most part of Alaska.

When he got to Texas, cause he started in the south and he went north, he decided to see the east coast of the U.S.

So he walked off the Pan American Highway all the way over to the east coast.

Then he walked all the way back again and resumed his journey up to Alaska.

And along the way, I should mention that his Japanese girlfriend joined him.

He had met while he was in the Navy and she would join him for a little stints of it.

They got married and he had 2 children during the whole time he was walking.

Well, you know, the Bible says that living your life, the kind of life you live is compared to a walk.

And of course, the first Psalm talks about blessed is man who does not walk in the way of the ungodly.

And then you've got the scriptures that talk about we wanna walk in the spirit.

That means living a life where we are spiritually focused.

I say then, walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

And that means keeping our eyes fixed on God, communion with God, being aware of His presence.

Another similar verse, Romans 8, 4, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

So every day we're making decisions how to walk.

And it reminds me when Moses admonished Joshua and the children of Israel for that matter, he says, you know, walk in the law of the Lord, do not turn to the right hand or the left.

And so every day we're sort of going, we're walking.

And the Hebrews use that term to talk about the direction of your life.

And we want to have that spirit filled life.

I think we have a free offer that talks about that.

The book is called Life in the Spirit and it is about how we can walk by faith day by day following God's guide, following that narrow path that leads to heaven.

You can also dial pound 250 on your smartphone, say Bible Answers Live, and then just ask for the book by name.

We'll be happy to send it to you in Canada or in the US, continental US, or Alaska.

If you're outside of North America, you can just go to our website, just amazingfacts.org And you can go to our library there and you can read the book online.

Again we want to thank you for being a part of this Bible study together, Pastor Doug.

And before we go to the phone lines, let's start with a word of prayer.

Dear Father, once again we are grateful for the opportunity, for the time to be able to open up your word and study.

And Lord, we ask that your spirit, we just spoke about life in the spirit, we ask that your spirit would come and guide us in our thoughts, our words, as we search the scriptures, Lord, be with those who are listening wherever they are.

All right, we're ready to go to our first caller.

In Luke 21, 34, it says, Let not that day of his coming be a surprise.

And so I'm wondering why it would be a surprise in Matthew 24 says you'll see plagues and pestilence wars and rumors wars Earthquakes and we see and we're seeing tens of thousands of people trying to escape Latin America You know because climate change is so difficult there.

Well, it clearly is gonna be a surprise for most of the world.

The Bible says that it's gonna overtake most of the world as a snare.

And Paul says to Christians, He said, be awake, be sober, be watching, because you are not children of the night that that day should overtake you as a thief.

But for most of the world, you can read in 2 Peter 3, it says the day of the Lord will come as a thief, meaning a thief doesn't send a notice when he's coming.

But most of the world, it's going to take them by surprise.

And even Jesus said, in such an hour as you think not.

So the problems in the world, and I do think We're living near the end, don't misunderstand.

But this is not the first time there's been global problems.

So Jesus said it's still going to surprise most people.

You know we do have a study guide that talks about the Second Coming of Christ and talks about the signs of the soon coming of Jesus.

It's called Ultimate Deliverance and It's all about the second coming.

We'll be happy to send this to you Gary or anyone that is listening.

You can also dial pound 250 on your smartphone and ask for that by name.

You know, and you made me think, reminded me that we also have that sermon book you can read online called Anything But Secret.

Talks about will there be signs, will it be a secret when Jesus comes?

A lot of people think there is a secret rapture before the visible second coming and that book explains that.

You can just go to Amazing Facts and read in our free book library anything but secret.

All right, next caller that we have is June listening in Nevada.

John, Pastor John, a blessed evening to you.

My question is In Matthew 7, turn to 1, and Jesus says, not all those who say the Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of God.

Now the limelight of My question is, what is the meaning of Jesus saying, you are lawless, does that include, can you explain further, does that include the right day of worship?

Yeah, and some people have a version that would say, Christ is warning, he said, you know, don't think just because you say Lord, Lord, he's gonna declare to a lot of people, depart you workers of iniquity.

And in the original Greek, iniquity means a lawlessness or sinfulness.

Well, it's certainly when people are sinning, they're breaking the law, but that would not be restricted to necessarily 1 commandment, but it's just a life of lawlessness, but it would certainly include people who know the law and ignore it.

So lawlessness is going to be, it's like Paul says in the last days, evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse.

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