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Any attempts to conquer the flesh directly end in failure. All of them. The Sin making its home in us is too powerful. Only One was able to battle it, and successfully conquer it. Anyone else thinking they can do it—or that they NEED to do it subsequent to the cross—is a fool. That Sin still makes its home in us in spite of what God says about it is a gift of God providing us opportunity to recognize Christ's victory BY FAITH. If Sin were not in us, where the recognition of Christ? If we could successfully conquer Sin on our own, where the reliance on Christ? Confidence in one's ability to conquer the flesh is the ultimate example of confidence IN flesh. But as Paul says in Philippians 3:3, we are those "having no confidence in flesh." The apostle Paul is the perfect example of someone attempting for years to conquer his flesh. The more he was able to "polish the outside of the cup," the more his insides seethed with anger and disgust against those who were not trying as hard as he. The man at last realized that his battle against flesh would alway be a losing one. When did this happen? When he at last contemplated the MEANING of the Son of God's six hours struggle on the cross. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1421_You_Can't_Effing_Conquer_Your_Flesh.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Paul's inspired analogy in Romans chapter 7 PROVES that our transference from condemnation to justification was never about what WE did, but about what Someone ELSE did. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1420_Even_While_Sinning_We_Were_Transferred_From_Condemnation_to_Justification.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Paul writes in Romans 6:19 to "present your bodies as slaves to Righteousness." How does one do that? By contemplating the most righteous thing (the salvation of all), accomplished by the most righteous Being (God). Conversely, what is "present[ing] your members to Uncleanness and to Lawlessness"? Hm. Well, I would say that it's considering and staring at the most Unclean and Lawless thing that exists is the world today, and that would be Christianity's beloved teaching of Eternal Torment. MZ/IB Archive: WCCD Grace Café Series: The Truth Found in the Original Languages (June 9: Hour 1): https://youtu.be/4aK5_qy84Fk?si=C3y-B6d10FT-NXlT MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1419_What_Happens_When_You_Contemplate_Eternal_Torment_Vs_Contemplating_the_Salvation_of_All.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

In Paul’s gospel, our peace depends not upon what we do but what we believe about ourselves. And what we believe about ourselves depends on what we are told about ourselves. In Romans chapter 6, there are only two sources of information along this line: 1) Sin, and 2) Righteousness. Whichever one we listen to, to that one we become slaves. Nowhere in Romans 6, 7, or 8 are the recipients of this letter told to do anything besides hear and believe the right teaching. Righteousness does not come by doing righteousness, but by hearing and believing the gospel OF righteousness. (The good news—the gospel of Righteousness—is that Christ’s righteousness is now ours via faith.) Righteous acts will follow in the wake of believing a righteous message. Thus, Christianity has everything backwards. According to this religion’s warped “gospel,” one must behave oneself in order to hear a good report concerning oneself. In Paul’s gospel, the good report comes first—in spite of one’s behavior. This is so counterintuitive to how humanity generally operates that this gospel is generally not believed. Christians want good news—as long as it's not TOO good. In the Christian “gospel,” there must be room for individual performance (uninfluenced individual performance) and thus the opportunity to out-perform others. Without an opportunity for the flesh, Christians are simply not interested. They do not see the point of a gospel that is not behavior oriented. They cannot fathom that the gospel of grace is about Christ and not them. It is presently beyond their ability to grasp. God loves us, not because we first loved Him, but because His essence is love. Paul’s gospel is the greatest expression of this—in words—to ever land upon the earth. MZTV 98: Condemned and Redeemed Without Consent: https://youtu.be/6A2ga-hsOJE?si=xopmHmL4NUxvJsAg MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1418_Teaching_Not_Willpower_Delivers_From_Sin.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

One of the most startling passages of Scripture is when our Lord told His disciples: "Coming is the hour that everyone who is killing you should suppose he is offering divine service to God." How is it possible for a human being to be so screwed up in the head to suppose that by killing God's people they are actually doing a service to God? Paul explains it in Romans 6:13. Why shouldn't he be able to explain it? He was once one of these people. Paul explains it most succinctly to the Romans when he tells them to not be "presenting your members, as implements (weapons) of injustice, to Sin" (Romans 6:13). The preoccupation of religious people is their attempt to become righteous by their own works. Saul the Pharisee worshipped this path, describing the phenomenon to the Philippians in 3:6 as "becoming blameless." This "becoming blameless" in the flesh was in fact a dire sin. And yet this sin disguised itself as an act of righteousness. (By this subterfuge, Sin deceives hundreds of millions.) This phenomenon is more easily understood by recognizing that Satan poses as a messenger of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). The religious person, therefore, assuming that he or she is on a shining path to blamelessness (a path to eliminate sin from his or her life), is in fact presenting him or herself to Sin. What does Sin then do with such a person? Sin hijacks these individuals and uses them as weapons ("implements") of injustice. How so? The self-righteous person, unwittingly becoming a slave of Sin, persecutes those who recognize themselves as delivered from Sin via the death of Christ on the cross. By such an ingenious method does God use religious people to persecute the truly righteous, who thereby obtain a better resurrection as "it is graciously granted you, not only to be believing on Him, but to be suffering for His sake also" (Philippians 1:29). MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1417_Sin_Disguises_Itself_as_a_Path_to_Righteousness.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Paul writes in Romans 6:12, "Let not Sin, then, be reigning in your mortal body, for you to be obeying its lusts." We were taught in our church days that—CERTAINLY—this verse is warning us not to sin. But do you notice how, in the Concordant Literal New Testament, Sin is capitalized? This is because, here and through Romans 8, Paul is personifying sin. He is personifying it as the power that once condemned us. This section, then, is not about sinning, or even sins. It's about Sin itself. Sin is REIGNING in our mortal bodies when we listen to its voice and let it accuse and condemn us. Thus, the people like us who are ignoring Sin and basically telling it to go screw itself—we are the ones who are not letting it reign, whereas those who fight Sin as a vocation (speaking of Christians now, that strange gaggle of religionists who live as though Jesus Christ on the cross did NOTHING about Sin), THESE are the ones who are actually letting Sin reign. Christians bow down to Sin's "power" every day. Moment by moment, they give Sin the megaphone of their lives; they give it right to boss them around, to make them think they can't look God in the eye, to make them doubt that Jesus Christ did anything at all against it, and to even cause them to doubt their salvation. Wow, talk about Sin being on the throne of a life. Can a person possibly bow down lower to the supposed power of Sin? And then notice how Paul says, "...for you to be obeying its lusts." As you will hear in this video, the Greek word translated "obey" here means "to hear and to heed." Whose lusts are we talking about? Whose lusts are the topic of conversation? Were were taught that this passage is all about OUR lusts. And we believed it! But wait---didn't we read the passage? Paul can't say it any more clearly here that he's talking about SIN'S lusts. Sin has lusts? Oh yes it does. And it demonstrates these lusts through the manipulation of Satan, the Father of Lies. Sin LUSTS to condemn you. Sin LUSTS to talk you out of your justification. Sin LUSTS for you to take your eyes off Christ. Sin LUSTS for you to pay attention to it at all costs. Remember, the personification of Sin is a figure of speech. Sin is not literally an animated personality. Thus, the lust is figurative also. The THING, Sin, cannot lust. But the Adversary, manipulating the SPECTER of Sin, manifests HIS lusts through It to scare you out of your justification and into doubting your very salvation. Don't let Sin be reigning. Don't listen to Sin's sickly desires. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1416_Romans_6_is_About_SINS_Lusts_Not_Yours.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Just when you thought God's acceptance of you could not get any more radical... Donation to Martin: https://martinzender.com/donation_mz.htm MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1415_Shocking_Advice_From_Paul_Pretend_You're_Already_Perfect.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

When Christ was on the cross, He struggled against Sin. He was not struggling not to sin, but struggling against the thing Itself. Can we all agree that the moment Christ died was the moment at which this struggle ceased? "In that He died, He died to Sin once for all time, yet in that He is living, He is living to God. Thus you also be reckoning yourselves to be dead, indeed, to Sin" (Romans 6:10-11). At Christ's death, it was no longer possible for Him to be vexed by or wrestle against Sin. By reckoning that death to ourselves, NOW, we can live lives free of the vexations and struggles against Sin. This does not mean that we no longer sin, but that we are no longer vexed by or struggling against it. Being free of the struggle, what now is to be our occupation? We are free now to live to God. MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Cafe Series: The Last Enemy To Be Destroyed is Death (June 8 - Hour 2): https://youtu.be/0l_w8UP5DDY?si=myyohuKdIAuckhCk MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1414_The_Practical_Effect_of_Having_Died_With_Christ.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Can you imagine a bigger insult to Christ than believing that flesh still stands in the way of one's peace with God? And this is AFTER God sent Christ to die on the cross for the purpose of condemning Sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3). It's as though the Christians are saying, "Thanks for condemning Sin in the flesh, Jesus, but we don't really trust it, so we've decided to condemn Sin in the flesh ourselves. We're sure You won't take it personally. It will probably work better when WE do it because, well, You supposedly did it 2,000 years ago, but we didn't actually SEE that, and of course You are aware that we just can't believe anything we don't see, and so we hope You don't mind if we just fight this flesh thing ourselves, because at least our own sweat is something tangible to us." Romans chapters 6-8 is NOT about how not to sin. These chapters are about what to do about sin ONCE IT OCCURS. (It is vital to understand this.) Because once Sin occurs, that's when Satan moves in, using the Sin to make you doubt your justification, doubt Christ, doubt God, doubt everything. Christians doubt every one of these things (they still think flesh is a problem; the don't believe Christ actually did anything against it), even while fancying themselves the greatest champions of God and Christ. What a joke These people are the greatest INSULTERS of God and Christ. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1413_Christians_Are_Convinced_That_Flesh_is_Still_a_Problem.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Christians believe that "nothing, consequently, is now condemnation to those in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1) applies only to people who aren't sinning. But the truth is that this can only apply to people who ARE sinning. If no one were sinning the possibility of condemnation could not even enter the conversation. The "nothing" of Romans 8:1 can be only one thing: Sin. The marvel of "No Condemnation" is based on being "in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). It is NOT based on "those who are no longer sinning." Otherwise, Paul would have said, "Nothing, consequently, is now condemnation to those who are no longer sinning." If no one is sinning, then Paul's use of "nothing" is moot. There has to be something existent in this context that could POSSIBLY bring one into condemnation, else Paul could not say that "NOTHING is now condemnation. That something is Sin. This truth REQUIRES that people still be sinning. The key, again, is not the cessation of sin, but being "in Christ Jesus," Who condemned Sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3). MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1412_NO_MORE_CONDEMNATION_Is_It_Really_True.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Once you realize what a big, fat, hairy, glorious predictable rut God is in (this is an ultimately comforting revelation), you will understand just who the two witnesses of Revelation 11 will be. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1411_I_Think_I_Know_the_Names_of_the_Two_Witnesses.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com BUY Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Religious people hate to see others claiming to be sons and daughters of God but who, at the same time, don't work, aren't fretting over their flesh, and are visibly relaxed in the freedom they have in Christ. The principle is real, especially among the religious set: Misery Loves Company. Even worse when these non-workers explain that God gives them the HIGHEST place in the universe, at God's right hand. This sends the religionists into fits of rock-throwing. Where rock-throwing is illegal, they resort to maligning the character of the freedom people, and shunning them. In Galatians 5, the apostle claims that anyone truly heralding grace and freedom in Christ will be persecuted. By whom? By religious people, of course. But anyone heralding any type of law, works, or cooperative salvation ("Christ gets you started but you have to finish it") will escape this trauma. Well, the entire earth grasps the law-ish concept of "Behave or else." But the grace concept of "behavior has absolutely nothing to do with salvation" can only be grasped by a supernatural dose of spiritual insight. Welcome to the supernatural dose of spiritual insight. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1410_The_Art%20of_Shutting_Down_Religious_Agitators.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

Most people think that "falling out of grace" happens when you sin too much. But this is ridiculous (and impossible), as sin only inspires grace to increase (Romans 5:20). Grace was MADE for sin. Sin is the petrie dish where grace flourishes. So what's the deal? The deal is right in the context. Those who fall out of grace do so by attempting to justify themselves through law. Isn't THAT ironic? It's not sinning that causes one to fall out of grace, but rather the fleshly/religious effort required to STOP sinning. Will this gospel of ours ever cease to amaze us? MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Café Series: Satan Loves Religion: Christianity's Bondage: June 8, Hour 1: https://youtu.be/I-yi1oN-6xg?si=f4GBPFjADsER9GUp MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1409_What_is_Falling_Out_Of_Grace.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

I don't know if it's just me, but put today's show in the Top Ten, All-Time. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1408_Paul_Has_a_Sin_Problem_But_It's_Not_What_You_Think.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

Another way this question can be asked is: Can one sin one's way out of grace? In the Circumcision evangel, the answer is "yes." But in Paul's gospel of the transcendent grace of God, the answer is clearly "no." Never is it more important, then, to recognize the differences between the Israel gospel and the gospel to the nations, than here. But even when considering the Israel gospel, Christianity insists that the penalty for going afoul of the law is eternal damnation. What? No. One simply exempts oneself from the thousand-year kingdom. For all of our Lord's threats while on earth, the penalties thereof pertained to the Millennium only. Never is one's eternal loss at stake, as there is no such thing, in Scripture, as eternal loss. Of course, only a knowledge of the proper translation of the Greek adjective "aionion" will inform one of this. An ignorance of said adjective is the foundation for nearly every doctrine of demons. Presently, I am being accused by a member of a Baptist church that I am making light of sin. Why? Because I believe, via Romans 5:20, that grace is more powerful than sin. Where one begins one's salvation in Paul's gospel via the spirit of God overwhelming the sin (Exhibit A: the apostle Paul), how is it that sin could then derail that salvation? For isn't the salvation predicated upon missing the mark? This argument is put to the test in the Galatian ecclesia, when our apostle discovers that members of the Circumcision have been spying out the freedom of the Galatians and insisting that, while their salvation may have begun in spirit, it must be completed in flesh. Hm. Let's see what Paul has to say about that. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1407_Is_Proper_Behavior_Necessary_to_Preserving_Salvation.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

"Where sin increases, grace superexceeds" (Romans 5:20). This is objective truth. The fact that Paul then says, "What, then, shall we declare? That we may be persisting in sin that grace should be increasing? May it not be coming to that" (Romans 6:1) does not cancel out the previous fact. It is just a warning to not abuse it. It's the same in Galatians 5:13. Paul warns the saints, "Do not use your freedom as an occasion for the flesh." This is instructive. Paul's answer to reports that, yes, there were probably some saints taking advantage of their freedom, isn't to withdraw the freedom or to punish the abusers of it, but rather to simply say, "Stop taking advantage of it" We are told that we are not to trust too many people with our grace and freedom message. (That is, with PAUL'S grace and freedom message.) "It's too dangerous," we're told, "to give this kind of grace and freedom to people LIKELY to exploit it." Paul heard this as well. The fact that Paul's answer to this is simply, "Stop doing it," tells us clearly that 1) the grace and freedom message will OF COURSE be likely to be taken advantage of by some, 2) the message itself is as opposed to law as can be, as there is no punishment mentioned for those who do exploit God's grace, and 3) nothing will make Paul rescind the truth, not even the presence of people abusing it. MP3: Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.comhttps://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1406_Nothing_Rescinds_Our_Freedom_in_Christ_Not_Even_Those_Abusing_It.mp3

Waiting for good things to happen in this life, or waiting for exciting prophecy to be fulfilled, is a literal drag. It's like we're being slowly pulled through the mud of time. This is why a fruit of the spirit is patience. The better we are able to endure waiting for something, the more joyful we will be. Will we need patience after being made immortal? That's a tough question. I say, "no." The need for patience implies a potential for anxiety. Will anxiety even exist for a perfected saint? Again I say, "no." Even in this life our apostle tells us, "Be anxious for nothing" (Philippians 4:6). Anxiety is clearly negative. Being such, it has no place in a world of perfected understanding. In this edition of MZTV, I consider how this works during the millennium between our snatching away and the Great White Throne Judgment, when many of our loved ones will still be dead ("...the dead do not live until the thousand years are finished," —Revelation 20:5.) Will their absence affect us then as it does now? ZWTF 7.31: The Truth About the Second Death. https://martinzender.com/ZWTF/ZWTF7.31.pdf MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1405_How_Will_Time_Feel_After_We're_Made_Immortal.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

Sometimes you just have those days when it hits you extra hard: I just don't belong here. MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Cafe' Series: Truth Brings a Deeper Experience of God (June 7, Hour 2): https://youtu.be/2Ndtf2GC5_0?si=jk1FEvMe-Gl2RMHU MP3 https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1404_We're_Not_Made_For_This_Planet.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

God revealed Himself using words. With these words, God composed sentences. These sentences contain nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Being the poetic type, God employed many figures of speech. He invented all of this primarily for the purpose OF revealing Himself—although "Innocents Abroad" was a pleasant side-effect. Why did God do it this way? The answer is extremely important and is the key to understanding God. God chose words and sentences because, as with the physical world, words and sentences (and certainly figures of speech) follow immutable laws. This is the kindest cut imaginable. Imagine there were no laws. There could then be no revelation. Then the One bent on revealing Himself would be found clawing air, for all intents and purposes rendering Himself mute. Since immutable laws are essential to the grasping of a language-loving Deity, would it not follow that learning and abiding by these laws would become the surest and safest route to a proper understanding of God? And that disregarding the laws would lead inevitably to chaos and mistakes of the most embarrassing kind? Atlanta Conference: May 32-June 2: https://martinzender.com/May-June_2024_Atlanta_Body_of_Christ_Salvation_Conference.pdf MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1403_Safeguarding_Truth_With_Laws_of_Language_and_Rules_of_Scriptural_Interpretation.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

It is always good policy to rely on God's declarations rather than one's private opinions, but this becomes hugely important when considering spiritual events—events that one would deem to be uber-fantastic: the snatching away, the future glory of the body of Christ or, in our most recent considerations, the lake of fire and the second death. A lake of fire into which people are cast, by God, so as to keep the fifth eon from their experience is something so foreign to us that any normal person, upon hearing of it, would straightaway shut up and listen carefully as the very Author of the thing paused to explain it. But no. For some reason, human beings, hearing of the lake of fire, are quite prone to (and strangely comfortable with) elbowing God out of the way (or just grabbing the microphone from Him) to tell the world what THEY think about it. ("Ladies and gentlemen, as you can plainly see, the Deity was primed and ready to lend us a firsthand explanation of the lake of fire, but, um, Freddy here....") And so the insanity begins. My thing? Shutting up and letting God talk. So here is my response to the man who wrote me after the Willard, OH conference—the man who was quite disappointed and extremely saddened by God's explanation of the lake of fire (it just didn't excite or amaze him), preferring the explanation of a guy from Corydon, Indiana named Phil Scranton, who sprinkled enough fairy dust and planted enough petunias around the lake of fire that it finally became, to the objector, a thing of beauty, desirability, and (let's not forget) amazement. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1402_Believe_God_Rather_Than_Rely_On_Your_Own_Understanding.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

Witness the sorts of objections waged by second-death deniers as I read a letter from a man who attended the Willard, Ohio conference of 2007. Where does the three year-old come in? You will see. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1401_A_Three-Year_Old_Weighs_In_on_the_Second_Death.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

There are some who are so enamored of their personal theory that the lake of fire and the second death are some sort of divine reform/training school for human beings that, even if you were to show them the literal lake of fire, they would not believe it. The law of the metaphor is a beautiful thing in that, whenever we find a metaphor in Scripture (or anywhere else), we can be certain that the two nouns that make up the metaphor are literal. EVERY TIME. As God would have it, Revelation 20:14 ("This is the second death, the lake of fire") is provably a metaphor. Thus, the lake of fire is literal (yes, it is a literal lake of fire) and the second death is literal (yes, no one will be found alive in the second death.) But again, these things just won't matter to some people. They are too proud of their own opinions. One of these people is Phil Scranton, a friend of mine who has written a book on the lake of fire in which he stubbornly insists (law of language be damned; Scriptural laws of interpretation be damned; flawed premises be damned) that the lake of fire will be a wonderful learning experience for millions of people. In fact, even parents who failed as parents on earth will get an opportunity to re-raise their failed children in the lake of fire! The most sickening aspect of Phil's belief is the human supposition that God is not able to judge human beings who have not lived for a long time (young children and aborted babies are included in this group). To solve this twisted, self-invented problem, Mr. Scranton twists and re-invents the lake of fire until it becomes a place where these short-lived individuals can go on and live extended lives so that God is finally able to properly judge them. Phil's book was based on a report by a Hollander named Oosterhaus, which was passed on to another Hollander named Fred Niemeyer, which was then passed on to Phil Scranton, who made hay of it—that is, until the hay is incinerated at the dais of Christ. Until that time, it is my honor to demolish this God-defiling, death-glorifying theory. To all who have ears to hear, the lake of fire is exactly what God says it is: the second death. And death is exactly what God says it is: the opposite of life. As God is so clear on these matters, what strange power compels humans to fight Him every step of the way? 1) FALSE IDEAS CONCERNING THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD, 2) IGNORANCE OF THE DEFINITION OF DEATH, 3) IGNORANCE OF LINGUISTIC LAWS, 4) ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING THE USE OF SULPHUR, 5) IGNORANCE CONCERNING THE TIMING OF THE ABOLITION OF DEATH, AND 6) THE MISTAKEN BELIEF THAT DEATH IS A PUNISHMENT FOR SIN. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1400_The_Law_of_the_Metaphor_Proves_It_The_Second_Death_is_Literal.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

My intention today was to present you with Part 2 of the Second Death teaching from the 2007 Willard, Ohio conference. But alas, there were technical issues with the file (these things happen), and so you will have to look forward to that presentation tomorrow. In the meantime, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed to watch THIS address from the Des Moines, Iowa conference of last September in which I present the saints with yet another reason to place their utter confidence in the Word of God concerning the next great move of God, namely, the snatching away of the living members of the body of Christ. MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Cafe: A Review of Our "Crazy'" Beliefs: (June 7, Hour 1): https://youtu.be/WhngGVcet_s?si=S_mpsvEPJfqQ5aCE MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1399_The_Practicality_of_the_Snatching_Away_Provides_Yet_Another_Proof_of_Its_Authenticity.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

In 2007 there was an awful report circulating among Body-of-Christ types claiming that the second death was not only figurative, but was a divine educational tool that would bring billions of people up to speed on the evils of self-confidence and the opposing wonderments of God. A believer named Phil Scranton became infected by this death-glorifying heresy to the point that he wrote his own report titled, "The Second Death," where he claimed, among other things, that the second death would provide parents another opportunity to raise their babies. In other words, the second death would right all wrongs. I was aware of these reports in 2007 and became sickened by them because of the way they glorified death. Paul called death "an enemy," yet these gentlemen were making death a miraculous agency of spiritual change. To get there, these fanciful reports ignored both laws of language and laws of Scriptural interpretation. Additionally, the authors of the reports demonstrated an alarming ignorance of the very definition of death. I used the 2007 Willard, Ohio conference as my opportunity to expose the lies of these reports. I specifically exposed Phil Scranton's booklet, "The Second Death." This may not have been so remarkable except that Phil Scranton himself was in the front row at the conference. Thanks to Jean Douglas, since deceased, who recorded hundreds of talks at dozens of Concordant conferences over a twelve-year period. Thanks also to Rob Wile of Canada who converted the video tape into an mp4 file for me, enabling me to bring the timeless truths concerning the lake of fire and the second death to you today. P.S. In 2007 I believed that everyone judged at the Great White Throne would be sent to the second death. I no longer believe this way. I believe that there ARE names written in the Lamb's Book of Life and, in fact, most people will NOT go to the lake of fire, but will rather have their part on the New Earth. The lake of fire is reserved for the truly evil of all eras, such as Jezebel, Adolf Hitler, Hillary Clinton, and Billy Graham. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1398_Rare_Video_Footage_The_Second_Death_is_Literal.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com

Death is the absence of life. Even when used figuratively (as in the father of the Prodigal Son saying concerning his boy, "This, my son, was dead") death is oblivion. The only difference between the literally dead and the figuratively dead is that the figuratively dead are breathing. Both are oblivious. In spite of this, some even in the body of Christ teach that not only is the second death figurative (it's not; it's literal), but that the people in the second death are coming to a realization of God. Part of the reason they believe this (besides being ignorant of figures of speech, metaphors, and the meaning of death) is that the fire in the lake of fire consists of "brimstone" ("sulphur" CLNT) whose root word is "theos," the Greek word for "God." Their reasoning goes something like this: "Since the root word for 'sulphur' is the same root word for 'God,' therefore God is in the lake of fire, therefore the people in the lake of fire are being educated by God." Never mind that sulphur is a cleansing agent that was used liberally in the worship of false gods. Would you like facts instead of human reasoning concerning the second death? You've come to the right place. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1397_Nobody_Learns_Anything_in_the_Lake_of_Fire.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com