Q&A with Bro. Zac Poonen | Austin CFC | 2024-09-22
Summary
The speaker addresses several questions, emphasizing that while God knows our hearts, trials are necessary to humble us and reveal our true spiritual state. He strongly advises believers to seek out churches that provide deep spiritual examination, comparing it to an MRI scan for the soul. Furthermore, he cautions against intellectual pride regarding personal revelation, stressing that we must remain teachable and accept guidance from others in our walk with Christ.
Description
We had a Q&A session with Bro. Zac Poonen at our 2024 conference with him. Questions: 0:50 - "Our child says they can’t relate to anyone at church. Is it a good idea to join youth group or activities at other churches to connect more?" 2:05 - "Are we under greater judgment and accountability because of the greater understanding and revelation revealed to us?" 2:57 - "How do we know what is God's opinion on us? Specifically, what does he think of how we are progressing in him?" 4:49 - "Are we not feeding off the revelation revealed to brother Zac? Don’t we have to work hard, seek our own heart, and seek the help of Holy Spirit to have our own revelation through God's word?" 7:55 - ""Deuteronomy 8:3 - 'He humbled and tested you in order to know what you was in your heart'; doesn’t God know what is in our heart and the end result of it?" 8:50 - "Guidance on how to meditate on the Word of God. Some practical things to follow." 11:28 - "How was the earth able to be populated after Adam and Eve? Is it right to assume God created more people, or were there some other means by which Adam's children were able to have kids. Same question for when Noah and his family got off the ark." 13:00 - "If the anointing of the Holy Spirit is essential for a victorious Christian life against the flesh and sin, how do we practice it in our church? How do we endorse the below mentioned verse, as we don’t encourage speaking in tongues in the church? In Acts 19:5-7, Paul laid his hands on people who had been baptized in the name of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit came upon them. They then began to speak in tongues and prophesy." 18:44 - "If someone hurts us so badly, doing evil for good, we don’t hurt them back, but can we avoid or keep a distance from them? They don’t ask forgiveness, knowing their actions, or didn’t even realize that we know what they have done against us. Should we still keep a good relationship?" 22:52 - "Whom should we consider as brothers or neighbors to obey the commandments towards brethren in forgiving, reconciling, and similar others: 1) Those who say they have experienced salvation; 2) Those who say they are Christians; 3) All the people of the world ?" 25:32 - "Should we seek to obey Luke chapter 11:5-13 in our daily lives as born again Christians, or are these verses no longer relevant to us because, after Pentecost, all Christians have been receiving the Holy Spirit automatically when they are born again - and so we do not need to keep on asking for it, after being born again?" 31:29 - "Is it okay for Christians to listen to secular music?" 34:25 - "How do you know that Jesus is real and not some myth?" 35:16 - "Some nonbelievers call the Bible a bad book because of a few words referencing Lot’s daughters’ adultery with their father, etc.. How do we defend our faith in those scenarios?" 37:23 - "What does it practically mean to abide in Christ?" 38:43 - "Is it okay for parents who have teenage kids in church to let them meet often? If yes, how do we help them to overcome their temptation towards the opposite gender?" 40:30 - "Please address the quantum of the risk and misuse of the free will that’s consistently impacting the world taking us nowhere but to destruction." 41:33 - "God uses evil for the sake of doing good to us. Yet the evil besides being used to do good persists permanently throughout. How to look into this?" 42:21 - "Though Thomas stepped in Kerala in 52 AD, and in spite of consistent teaching of Christianity across 28,278 churches plus thousands of chapels, the Christian population in India is restricted to only 2.3%. Unfortunately, out of that 2.3% Christian population, the number of those who are living like Jesus is almost negligible. How to look into this situation?" 47:34 - "Though Christianity is the only religion in Western countries, why doesn't everyone who knows about Jesus know how to live like Jesus?" 47:48 - "Almost everyone around me is severely influenced by Satan. No one wants to listen to me, and I am restricted in talking about Jesus. How do I take forward the Truth of the Living God? How can I bring change in at least one nonbeliever?" 48:49 - "Although I am praying day in and day out for my wife that she should accept Jesus as her Saviour, she remains neutral in spite of observing my faith in Jesus." 49:44 - "Can a Christian vote for Kamala Harris (she is pro-abortion, pro-transgenderism, and a lot of different anti-Biblical principles)?" 55:34 - "I’ve been struggling the past few days with anxiety and discouragement. How do I start ‘trusting’ and ‘submitting’ to God?"