Are Works and Fruit different? Questions and Answers with Pastor Robert Furrow
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 · April 19, 2023
In this Q&A episode of the Truth Quest Podcast, Pastor Robert Furrow from Calvary Chapel Tucson answers questions from viewers about topics such as works and fruit, the anti-christ's image, salvation, summoning of the prophet Samuel, angels and demons, the rapture, and sexual conduct. Viewers can submit their questions in the comment section.
Timestamps
00:00 Are works and fruit different?
11:41 Will the anti-christ’s image be AI?
16:11 Follow-up - 2 Thessalonians 2:10-1, were verses used to say that those who hear the Gospel before rapture, but don’t accept, cannot be saved because “they’re on road to destruction”?
21:13 If someone said, “I live a more pure life before God than I ever have, yet I now feel more convicted and contrite.” Is this normal?
24:55 1 Samuel 28:7–20 - Did God allow the witch of Endor to summon the prophet Samuel, or was it a demon that Saul was talking to? What are your thoughts?
30:39 If angels and demons are over cities and nations, then is it true when we pray or vote, something happens, we fight not against flesh and blood but principalities? Is this how we restrain?
34:55 What do you think was going on in Matthew 27:51-53?
40:14 I enjoy an alcoholic beverage or two, along with a cigar, now and then. Am I sinning and or displeasing God?
46:35 Paul says that before we are called home the antichrist must be revealed. Is it possible we will recognize him before the world?
51:08 What about back sliders at the rapture who didn't reject Christ? Are they like the virgins without oil?
54:04 Principal 16 stated “sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual,” your take?
56:16 If we Christians are judged on our motives, how will we be judged if we have an angel on our shoulder and a devil on the other?
