Are Jehovah's Witnesses Christians or a Cult?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1316 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. What does it look like to wait on the Lord?
2. Is it okay for little kids to take communion?
3. Does "Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated" mean that Esau went to hell?
4. Does "by his stripes we are healed" in Isaiah 53 promise physical healing?
5. Are Jehovah's Witnesses Christians or a cult?
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| 0:00.0 | Are Jehovah's Witnesses Christians or are they a cult? That's just one of the questions we'll be |
| 0:10.9 | answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi there. Happy Friday. I'm Bill Meyer, |
| 0:16.8 | along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez. This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. You can call us right now with your question. Here's the phone number. It's 833-3-the-core. That's 1-833-843-2673. Now, we're also live right now on Instagram and YouTube. You can watch us on either one of those |
| 0:40.3 | sites, and you can send your question to Adriel that way as well. And, of course, you can |
| 0:44.8 | always email us anytime. Send your question to Questions at CoreChristianity.com. First up today, |
| 0:51.9 | here's a voicemail from one of our listeners. This is Jim in Georgia. |
| 0:56.4 | The question is, people who say they are waiting on God to make the next to move in their |
| 1:04.6 | life, can they only commit to that if there's steady readers in the word, they're committed to reading every day. |
| 1:12.6 | And then can you say you're truly waiting? Thank you. |
| 1:16.6 | Hmm. So it sounds to me like this is a question about contentment. |
| 1:22.6 | And, you know, if somebody says, oh, I'm just waiting on the Lord to act, but is idle and is not |
| 1:31.2 | doing the things that they should be, there's a problem there. |
| 1:34.1 | And yet there are also situations where we aren't in control and we really are waiting |
| 1:40.5 | on the Lord, trusting in him. |
| 1:43.1 | And I do think that part of that waiting looks like prayerful meditation on scripture |
| 1:47.5 | and going back to the Word of God and trusting in him in that season of waiting. |
| 1:52.7 | But there's a difference between waiting and idleness. |
| 1:56.6 | And so I think we have to distinguish between those two things. |
| 1:58.6 | If somebody is just sort of saying, oh, you know, God is going to provide and I'm just waiting |
| 2:03.1 | on the Lord, but they're idle. Well, that person should be rebuked. I mean, that person should be addressed in the way that the Apostle Paul addressed the Thessalonians in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3, verse 6. Listen to what he said. we command you brothers |
| 2:16.9 | in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ |
| 2:18.9 | that you keep away from any brother |
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