Questions and Answers August 27, 2005
Grace Evangelical Society Southern California Regional Conference
Zane Hodges, Bob Wilkin and Arch Rutherford

Questions asked:

0:27 Do we need to believe that Jesus is God?

4:02 – What part does assurance have in believing? Is a person saved if they have never been 100% sure of their eternal security?

5:55 – Does the sanctification process only begin when Jesus is Lord of all areas of one’s life?

7:03 – Explain the difference between the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

9:30 – Does Free Grace theology the need for progressive sanctification?

11:30 – Please give suggestions on how to help churches who don’t present a clear gospel on how to direct them to present a clearer gospel. How can reach churches who present a false Gospel?

15:38 - If God chose some to election, then He did not choose others, how do you reconcile this with God’s love and justice?

18:45 – What do you think of 1 Timothy 2:4, “who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”?

21:32 – What is the difference between the Gospel in 1 Corinthians 15, the Gospel of the kingdom, and the Gospel that gives us eternal life?

27:22 What did Old Testament Saints believe in order to be saved?

31:25 If a person believes in Jesus for eternal life and later no longer believes in Jesus for eternal life. Is that person still saved?

32:30 – What is the Dispensationalism?

34:29 - Can you explain what is living water in John 4:14 and John 7:38?

37:36 - Acts 10:43, please interpret that again?

41:17 – Is it possible that Martha understood the Son of God in John 11, to be a reference to the promised Messiah in the Old Testament instead of implying deity?

49:23 –Given that Satan is at work blinding men to the gospel (2 Corinthians 4), would you expect some sort of covering over each of the 4 soils in the parable of the soils, where the seed could not go in unless God made it possible?