If We Have Free Will In Heaven Can We Choose To Sin There?

God gave Man (Adam and Eve) free will in the garden. But when man fell into sin, man's will became in bondage to sin. At salvation, man's will is freed.

When we go to heaven we won't choose sin anymore. Here are some reasons:

First, Satan won't be there to tempt us.

Second, the lessons of the consequences of the Fall will be so ingrained in us.

Third, the sight of people being punished in hell will deter us from choosing sin.

Fourth, we will have perfect insight into things. We will have perfect insight about the character of sin and see it clearly with all its ugliness.

Fifth, being rid of a sinful nature and having a new nature, we will have a perfect hatred of sin just like the Lord Jesus Christ

Sixth, we will be perfectly filled with the Holy Spirit, walking in Him.

Seventh, the sight of the glory of God will attract us to Him and will cause us to love Him even more with all our hearts. 


Eighth, if God was chosen and loved here in this fallen world with significant temptation, then all the more there in heaven, where every single temptation would not be allowed.

Explain Psalm 15:4---Are We To Despise The Wicked? What About Loving?

Ps 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised, But he honors those who fear the LORD; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

Just as we don't esteem anyone who wants to kill and rape our own mothers, so a godly person does not esteem those who hate God.

The godly despises the ungodly person for his lifestyle but he also loves him enough that he wants him to repent and be saved.

Is It Wrong To Condemn?

Biblically, the word "condemn" just means to declare as guilty and to treat as guilty. It's the opposite of justification. When you say to a murderer "That is wrong, you will be punished in hell for it," you are, by that very act, condemning.
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Is it wrong to echo God's judgments that He revealed in His Word about it? No.

Righteous condemnation is not wrong. We have the right to call something as wrong and declare God's punishment of it, so we have the right to condemn. However, the EXECUTION of that condemnation (sending the guilty to hell) is not ours. It is God's. You can't do it anyway, even if you try.

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Is it wrong to condemn? It is wrong to condemn the guiltless but it is not wrong to condemn the guilty.

Mt 12:7 "But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Does Deuteronomy 10:17 teach that there are many gods and lords?

De 10:17 "For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.

In the absolute sense, there is only one true God and Lord of all---Yahweh. However, the pagan nations worship other gods and lords. 1 Corinthians 10:20 states that these are demons:

"Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons."(1 Cor. 10:20)

These are nothing but idols. "Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth---as there are many gods and many lords" (1 Cor. 8:4-5)

The verse (Deut. 10:17) is saying that whatever gods and lords the pagans worshiped, God is sovereign over them all. He is greater. He is more powerful. He is above them all.

Explain Spiritual Maturity In Simple Terms

Spiritual maturity is simply Christ-likeness. The more Christ is formed in you, the more mature you are. May God grant me holy desires as He works to sanctify me.

Explain "Judge Not, That You Be Not Judged" In Matthew 7:1 Please

Let’s take a look at the verses:

Mt 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

2 “For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

3 “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

4 “Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye?

5 “Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Consider three things here: a) The Person Addressed b) The Point Announced and c) The Principle Advanced

* The Person Addressed

Notice verse 5, these verses are addressed particularly and specifically to a “Hypocrite.”

A hypocrite is someone who playacts a role. He is someone who assumes a character that is not really true to his person in real life. In Greek, the word “hypocrite” was used with actors on stage who wore masks as they playact. 

* The Point Announced 

The point of these verses is that if we are hypocrites, then we have no right to judge others. We have no right to say that what others are doing is wrong when we ourselves are doing the very same things (even worse) that we find wrong in others. The Lord was talking about hypocritical judgment. 

The whole situation is silly. The Lord Jesus deliberately used a silly illustration (a man with a plank in his eye offering to help a man with a speck in his eye) to emphasize the silliness of it all.

* The Principle Advanced

However (notice verse 5), the Lord Jesus does allow us to judge others on the condition that we have first cleaned up our own act. The verse is not a blanket, across-the-board prohibition of making a judgment. It says: “First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

When we see that others are doing wrong, we (if we are not hypocrites) are in the position to rebuke or admonish the one who is doing wrong, not out of self-righteous condescension but out love and affection. We point out their erroneous ways to lovingly help. 

What's The Difference Between Law And Grace?

Law was basically a system of merit. Blessing was conditioned on man's performance. It blesses the deserving. Law says: "Do this and live." Law makes demands but does not supply the power. Law goes together with meritorious works and self-effort.

Grace, on the other hand, is based on the undeserved favor of God in Christ Jesus. Man does not work in order to be blessed but works through love because he is blessed. It blesses the undeserving. Grace says: "Believe and live. And now that you are alive do this." Grace beseeches and then gives the power to do it. Grace goes together with reliance and faith.

Law kills and condemns. Grace makes alive and justifies. Law says: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Grace says: "Love your neighbor as I have loved you."


There are many other differences but this should suffice.

What Can You Say About Gambling?

Gambling is destructive. It promotes covetousness, violates the work ethic taught in the Bible and it is something that is potentially addictive. In addition, it does not promote the development of Christ-like character in the Christian. On the contrary, it weakens it.

Can Evil Spirits Possess A Saved Sinner's Body?

There is no record in the New Testament wherein we can find any true believer being possessed by evil spirits. There was no exorcism ministries practiced among believers toward fellow believers.

The Holy Spirit is greater than Satan: 

1Jo 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Satan cannot even touch one of God's children to injure or harm him (and demonic possessions are always harmful and injurious): 

1Jo 5:18 "...he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him."

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for saved sinners. He who laid down His life will protect His sheep with all His might from demonic possession: 

Joh 10:28 "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

The believer (the entirety of him including his physical body) is Christ's possession. Look, it is in Christ's hand. The Good Shepherd assures that no one shall be able to snatch the saved sinner away from His hold to possess him

When the Lord Jesus rebuked Peter and called him "Satan" in Matthew 16:23, he was not indicating that Peter was possessed by Satan. No, He used the word "Satan" to mean adversary. Peter was being adversarial to God's cause.

Mt 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

In another translation, the word "adversary" is used:

Mt 16:23 and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.' (YLT translation)

Evil spirits only dwell in a house (man's body) wherein God the Spirit does not dwell and occupy:

Mt 12:43 "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.

44 "Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

45 "Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation."

What Is The New Birth?

The new birth refers to a spiritual event in which God imparts a new life, implants a new nature and forms a new man. It only happens to a sinner who trusts in the Savior for salvation.

Can You Give A Tip On How To Interpret The Bible?

Plainly and Normally Please!

God says what He means and means what He says. Therefore the Bible must be understood plainly and normally. Satan wants us to think that the meaning of a verse lies somewhere hidden or behind the plain, face value meaning of the text.

Deviating from the plain and normal understanding of the Scriptures is one of the reasons why the Bible is diversely interpreted. Plain and normal interpretation is not the culprit for the existence of various interpretations. It is the solution to it.

True, the Bible conveys a spiritual message. But its spiritual message is conveyed through plain and normal language. Satan has successfully smoke-screened the message of the Bible in many people's minds by propagating the idea that the message of the Bible lies somewhere under the plain and normal understanding of the text.

True, the Bible employs poetry and therefore employs a lot of figures of speech. Plain and normal interpretation recognizes and treats figures of speech in the Bible as such, fully aware that behind every figure of speech lies a plain and normal meaning. This method recognizes the figure of speech, treats it as such but looks for the plain and normal meaning.

Not everything in the Bible is poetic however. A lot of it is plain prose---straight forward and direct in-your-face words. What's poetic about "You shall have no other gods before Me" for example? Or "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life?"

Satan has robbed many of us of the Word of God by making us believe that the plain and normal understanding of the text is not the way to go in reading the Bible. Thereby, making many of us disobey God's plain revelations and commands. You can't be wrong when you take God at His Word PLAINLY and NORMALLY.

Explain 2 Corinthians 13:5

2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed you are disqualified.

This verse is often misapplied and misused. What the apostle Paul is actually saying in effect here is:

"You Corinthians are doubting my apostleship. Do you want proof that Christ is really speaking in me as an apostle? I will give you one: YOU YOURSELVES are my proof that I am an apostle. Examine yourselves! You became Christians because of me. Test your own selves. Don't you recognize that Christ is in you as a result of my ministry?--unless indeed you are disqualified. If you became genuinely saved because of my ministry, how can you be doubting my apostleship?"

Start reading from verse 3 and then jump all the way to verse 5 to get the idea. Verse 4 is a parenthesis, a digression.

2Co 13:3 since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

(4 For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you).

5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? --unless indeed you are disqualified.

The Corinthians were being misled by the teachings of false teachers in their midst. These false teachers were convincing the Corinthians that the apostle Paul was not a genuine apostle. That his message was false. Many of the Corinthians were led away from Paul because of this.

A) The apostle Paul had to defend his ministry in this epistle. As an example, just read chapters 11 and 12.

B) 2Co 3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?

2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

Paul does not need to have a certificate or letters of commendation for the Corinthians to accept him. The Corinthians themselves were his living letters of commendation certifying his ministry. They became Christ's because of Paul.

C) He has been defending his apostleship since the first letter:

1Co 9:1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3 My defense to those who examine me is this:

ILLUSTRATION

One time a watchmaker woke up one morning hearing loud noises in the basement. He found out that his watches were having a protest rally against him. They were screaming and holding up placards that read: "You are not a watchmaker!!! You are false!!! Give us proof that you are indeed a watch maker!!!"

The watchmaker replied: "You seek proof that I am a watchmaker??!! Well, look at yourselves! Have I not made you?! Are you not genuine watches because of me?!"

The apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 13:5 was not telling the Corinthians to step back for awhile, have a neutral view of themselves and then find out whether they were indeed Christians or not. (Hey, the apostle Paul was sure that they were Christians. By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he called them "Brethren" 8 times in this epistle). He was telling them to examine themselves, confident that they will find out that they were indeed Christians. Vindicating his ministry as a result.

2Co 13:3 since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? --unless indeed you are disqualified.

2Co 13:6 But I trust that YOU will know that WE are not disqualified.

Look at yourselves! I trust that you will find out that we are genuine indeed.

The misapplication and misuse of this verse has often resulted in morbid introspection, depression and doubts concerning one's salvation. A Christian can never find assurance of salvation by looking at self. King David would surely have severe doubts concerning his salvation looking at his life when he backslid from God for a year. A sinner is saved by trusting in the Word of God, he will be assured by the Word of God.

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His Blood makes us safe. His Word makes us sure. Holy and righteous living, loving the brethren, spiritual growth etc. are confirmatory evidences. But the source of assurance is the Word of God; His promise and guarantee that whoever genuinely trusts in His Son will be saved. The repentant thief on the cross had little time for spiritual growth, he had no opportunity to love the brethren. All he had was the sure word and promise of the Savior. And it was enough.

P.S. It is true that the Spirit bears witness with our spirit. But the Spirit witnesses through the Word, not apart from the Word.

What About UFOs?

Although we do not deny that many UFO videos and photos are hoaxes and fakes, and that some are high tech military innovations, we nonetheless say that there are genuine UFO cases, that UFOs are real. Evidence however point to the fact that they are not extra-terrestrials. They are extra dimensional. They do not come from another planet or galaxy. They come from another dimension; the spirit world.

There is evidence that these "objects" have the ability to materialize and dematerialize without a trace. They can travel at speeds that defy physics. They can hover at close distances without making the slightest sound. They defy sonic boom effect. They have the ability to shape shift while in flight.

They can change size and color and can appear selectively to certain individuals; they might appear to you but not to the person beside you. They have the ability to penetrate the ground. Many witnesses say that these things appear to be alive almost. One witness said that he smelled sulfur when he saw one of them. (Demonic possession in exorcism is characterized by sulfuric smell). One UFO follower confessed that he saw a head floating in his room while a UFO was outside his house. On top of it all, UFO messages to their contactees are directed against one person: the Lord Jesus Christ.

Dr. Joseph Allen Hynek, an astronomer, was commissioned by the US government to study this increasing phenomenon. He literally studied thousands of UFO cases around the world for years. He set out to prove the UFO phenomenon as false at the outset. This became his life work. He came to the conclusion, after years of study, that UFOs are not inter galactic but "demonic." 

Jacques Vallee is another authority on UFOs. One of the most respected researcher in this field in the world came up with the same conclusion that these UFOs are not inter galactic but spirit beings.

What Is Wisdom?

Biblical wisdom refers to the right and successful use of knowledge in a practical way. It's having knowledge of the precepts and principles of the Word of God and knowing how to skillfully apply it in the situations of daily life.

A wise person is a person who lives skillfully. Sadly, it's possible to be high on knowledge but low on wisdom.

What's A Parable?

A parable is an earthly story with a spiritual meaning. It is something put beside another to make a comparison. It is actually a story that functions first as a picture, secondly, as a mirror and then a window.

A parable is a word picture. As you think it through, you see yourself in it. And then you learn a whole new perspective on spiritual and heavenly things.

A good teacher is one who can teach a truth through a story.

Is God's Love For A Saved Sinner The Same As His Love For His Unique Son---Jesus?

Yes. God's love for His adopted sons is the same love He has for His unique Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

God's love for saved sinners:

Ro 1:7 To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

God's love for His unique Son---Jesus Christ:

 Mr 1:11 Then a voice came from heaven, "You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

The same term of endearment He calls His Son is the very same term He calls saved sinners.

See it this way---let sunshine represent God's love. Let a vine represent Christ. God's love always shines upon Christ. Christ is the very center of God's love.

Now, saved sinners are branches grafted into the vine who is Christ. Since the branches are now in the vine, now a part of Him, the very sunshine that shines upon the vine is the very sunshine enjoyed by all its branches.

God does not only love the Head, He also loves the body with the same love He has for the Head. Christ is the Head while saved sinners are His body.