Friday, June 17, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 03:57)
Are There Varying Degrees of Rewards for Saints in Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart II (03:57 - 10:13)
How Do Christians Uphold Christian Doctrines with an Intersex Child? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart III (10:13 - 15:39)
Is It Discriminatory Towards Homosexual Couples If We Do Not Allow Them to Marry Like Heterosexual Couples? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart IV (15:39 - 22:36)
Should Married Couples Use Forms of Birth Control or Contraception? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart V (22:36 - 26:25)
Should Secularism Be Considered a Religion Under the Constitution? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 17, 2022. I'm Elber Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.6 | Today we're going to spend the entire time with questions from the mailbox. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm going to turn first to a question that came in asking about |
| 0:21.3 | whether or not there are varying degrees of rewards for Saints in heaven. |
| 0:26.2 | And Daniel writing the question says that he knows the scripture points to the fact that Jesus |
| 0:30.8 | said in my father's house are many mansions from John 14. In Romans |
| 0:34.8 | chapter 2 verse 6 we are told that God will repay everyone according to his |
| 0:38.2 | works. Revelation 2, 12 and behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be." |
| 0:47.0 | Well I'm just going to say this. |
| 0:49.0 | As you look at the scripture we confront when it comes to heaven, something that staggers our imagination. |
| 0:55.0 | Now one of the reasons that staggers our imagination, it simply comes down to the word |
| 0:59.4 | infinite. So you can consider the word eternal in the same light. Eternal is actually a biblical word. |
| 1:05.0 | And as you think about eternal, here's the problem. It is infinite. |
| 1:08.0 | Now, our brains do not understand the infinite. We have the category of it, but by the very same token, |
| 1:14.8 | it's just a category into which we put |
| 1:17.5 | at least some things we can't understand. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, there's a theological formula that is at work here and it goes back to the old Latin |
| 1:24.6 | I'll use it in English the finite cannot comprehend the infinite. |
| 1:28.9 | So that means that we'll never be able to figure God out because after all he is infinite in his being and he is eternal |
| 1:36.4 | and so even as through the atonement accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ he gives to those |
| 1:41.2 | who are in Christ the gift of eternal life. We know that that means |
| 1:45.8 | when there is no time, but we have no consciousness now of what it means for there to be no time because what we think of is time one thing |
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