Acts 16 37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. -kjv 37 But Paul said to the officers: “They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out.” -niv 37 But Paul said to them, “They beat us in public without a trial, although we are Roman citizens, and threw us in jail. And now are they going to smuggle us out secretly? Certainly not! On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out!” -hcsb Context: Paul cast out the fortune-telling demon in a slave girl and the owner of the slave girl lost money because of that incident. The owner of the slave girl accused Paul and Silas of disorderly behavior and rebelling against the Romans. The mob attacked Paul and Silas and the magistrate threw them into jail. Later, Paul and Silas were released from jail and the magistrate wanted to settle the case quietly. Application: In this case, Paul used the law for his defense. In the same way, christians should go to court to defend their rights to exercise their religion if the law of the land are still on their side. Heard this from Moody Presents - Dr Paul Nyquist on May 22, 2016.
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Passages supporting the notion that a christian cannot lose his salvation: John 6 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. -kjv Romans 8 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -kjv Philippians 1 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: -kjv Heard this from "In the market with Janet Parshall" on May 9, 2016 when Dr Sam Storms answered the question: Can a christian lose his salvation?
Question from a listener on moody radio openline on April 30, 2016: I love Jesus dearly and I really want to believe that the Lord loves women as well as men but it seems that in the bible men are put in a higher stands with regards to God, male pronouns are always used unless women are specifically addressed. If God is no respecter of any persons, why is he/him is used instead of she/her? Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik: I think this is a function of language to be honest. Language always has used the male as the generic use for a person and then specified male or female. Here's the example I will give, it's in the creation, it says that God made man in his image, he made them male and female. So, we used to talk about mankind and now we talk about humanity. Mankind was a generic term for humanity and encompasses both male and female. That was how language was used. What happens is that as time goes on and we come into the modern era and the rise of feminism. People are looking at language and they want to change how we use language. The whole idea of Mr/Ms/Mrs, so what do we get? A nonmarried term Ms and was shocking to avoid whether a person is married or non-married. That was considered sexist and people started calling people Ms. There's other things going today and they are trying to make things indistinguishable. However, the language of the bible itself is just using man in a generic way. So when it says blessed is the man, it means blessed is the person and we have to not try to impose our own cultural sensitivities from today onto the scriptures. The bible is really affirming and it says in the creation narrative that women are made in the image of God. That grants women full and equal status to man. Women are elevated, you look at the proverbs 31, this was an oppressed society, the woman of valor described there, she's got a business, she's taking care of her family, she's serving God, she's the phenomenal woman and she's become the role model, not just for women but for men as well. Do not confuse gender neutral language which is part of our culture as somehow the fact that the bible does not use gender neutral language, which because it uses the man in the generic sense to represent humanity, do not take it automatically to mean that the bible is demeaning to women. It's just the way the language was used and the bible use the language of the time it was written.