Grace in Focus

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are continuing a discussion from last episode — Did Jesus pay the penalty for our sins? What does the death of Christ accomplish? What do John 1:29 and 1 John 2:2 teach us? What are the benefits of Christ's death? What does

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about death, spiritual death, life and sin's penalty. Did Jesus pay the penalty for our sins through His death on the cross? What does it mean to be “Made alive together with Christ?” Please listen to this and

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about the pool of Bethesda mentioned in John 5:4. Was there an actual angel who periodically stirred the waters to give healing as described in this verse? Or was this some other phenomena that people just mystically believed

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a few questions about the distinction between the church and Israel. What is replacement theology? Has the New Testament church replace Israel? What is God's plan for Israel? Why is it important to think biblically about Israel today? Thanks for

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from a father of four children about the age of accountability. Is there an age of accountability? Is it a specific age or does it depend on a person's ability to understand the concept of eternal salvation? What

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about repentance. Is repentance merely a change of mind? Are there any verses in the Old or New Testament that say repentance is in any way required for or connected to eternal salvation? Please listen for a great

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from Romans 11:6, which is in the section of Romans where Paul is dealing with Israel. Is this verse parallel to Ephesians 2:8-9 or Galatians 2:16? All the passages in question refer to faith, works, justification, salvation, etc.

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about joy. Nehemiah said, “The joy of the Lord is your strength…” What is “the joy of the Lord?” How do I get the joy of the Lord? What if I don't feel this joy for a long

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a few questions about the end times. Some of the questions have to do with Satan, his incarceration, his final defeat and the whys of the timing of these events. Also, who is included in “the dead in Christ?” Thanks

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a few questions on the topic of assurance. Why is it – or how is it that we often assert that “Assurance is of the essence of saving faith?” How do we harmonize Salvation verses and passages about abundant living?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from a listener. This is about Paul Washer, who is an extreme Lordship Salvation preacher. The questionerclaims that Paul Washer only uses the words that Jesus uses. How then could we claim that his gospel is false? Please

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering two questions. One is from 1 Corinthians 15:1. What does it mean to Stand? Is it about maintaining eternal salvation orabout standing steadfastly in the Christian faith by the power of Christ's death, burial & resurrection? A second is from

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from Galatians 6 and about if works play some role in the acquiring of eternal salvation. Does this passage teach a works-based salvation? – Please listen, and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about a Muslim pleasing his parents who are against his conversion to Christianity. What is the balance between pleasing God and obeying parents especially as a young dependent teenaged person? Thanks for listening & never miss an episode

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are answering a question about John the Baptist, baptism, repentance and remission of sins. Was this about a national or an individual relationship with God? Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are once again answering one of your questions. In regard to the prodigal son, why did his father tell his brother about the prodigal having died and come back to life, if the story Jesus told about the prodigal does not support

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from 2 Thessalonian 1:8 about obeying the gospel. In this verse, is knowing God equivalent in meaning to obeying the gospel? How perhaps are they referring to the same thing yet different? Please listen to this and every

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about the belief by some that acquiring eternal salvation is a two-step process. Believing facts would be step one and trusting personally would be step two. Does the Bible in any way teach this? Why is this taught?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about faith. Does Romans 12:3 support that saving faith is a gift? (i.e.) Some say that the unbeliever cannot believe unless God gifts faith to that person. How does the context of Romans chapter twelve support or not

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about hyper-grace. What is hyper-grace? What is the difference between free grace and hyper-grace?Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering one of your questions. What about future sins? Are they already forgiven? Are there different kinds of forgiveness?Please listen, and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about God's will related to a tragedy, such as murder. What is God's will? What is God's sovereign will and what about His moral will? What about God's will in regard to sin and human choice? Please listen

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about God repenting in the Old Testament. What did God turn from? God didn't sin did He? Can God change His mind? Please enjoy, and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about forgiveness of sins and its relation to the gospel and to eternal salvation. What is the Bull's Eye when talking about eternal salvation? Thanks for listening & never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about election or being chosen and specifically what is it that we are chosen to? The question is asked in light of a couple of passages in Paul's prison epistles. Please listen today and each weekday, to the

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are once again answering one of your questions. What is the New Covenant? Is the New Covenant operative today? To whom does the New Covenant apply? Please listen – and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about what is necessary in order to be born again. Is it necessary to admit you are a sinner? Is the forgivenessof our sin(s) the main issue? Please listen to this and every episode of the Grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing remarriage and a reference by some teachers that remarriage means a continuous state of adultery. If this is so, will this affect one's eternal destiny? Thank you for listening to the Grace in Focus Podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about God's love for believers. Does he show more love to some than others? Does God love all believers in the same amount and the same way? Is the issue more about how or even whether we experience

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are addressing a question about a woman's role in the local church. When can a woman speak and/or not speak during a church meeting? What does Paul say? Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are once again answering one of your questions. In the Parable of the Sower, Is Jesus presenting that once sown, there is only one chance for the seed to be effective? Please listen and never miss an episode of the Grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about children taking communion. Also, part of the discussion is a question about child baptism. Do we have to let children “prove” by their actions they are saved before we let them participate? Please listen to this and

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing passages that are “Tough Texts.” Hebrews has five warning passages. What are they warning about? What you think about these passages will determine what you believe about eternal salvation and assurance of that salvation. Thanks for listening to the Grace

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates continue a series on “Tough Texts,” and will be looking at James 2 and the “Faith without works is dead” phrase. Is there such a thing as dead faith? If there are no works or fruit, is faith faulty? Is this about

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are addressing another “Tough Text” – two chapters in Revelation where overcomers are mentioned. How does a person get to be an overcomer? Why does Jesus keep saying “I know your works?” What victory needs to be won in order to be

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are once again looking at a “Tough Text” in Mark's Gospel. In chapter 8:34-38, the Savior is clearly talking about some pretty heavy works. So could this possibly be about salvation, or is it not obviously about something else like discipleship or

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are continuing their exploration of various “Tough Texts” with the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Does this parable argue that works are necessary to make it into the kingdom of heaven? Please listen to this and every episode of the Grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing a passage from John's gospel in their “Tough Texts” series. John 5:28-29 seems to say that doing good (vs. believing) will bring everlasting life. How can this be reconciled to the rest of what John says about being given everlasting

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates continue a series on “Tough Texts”. Romans 10:9-10 is another one of these. Who is this passage addressed to? Why do these verses seem to be the “closer” passage for so many gospel presentations? Why is Romans so misunderstood? Thanks for listening

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are addressing another “Tough Text” – a chapter in Luke where Jesus tells three parables about lost items. What do these lost items represent? What is the point of these three Parables? What is the condition of the representative items in regard

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are once again looking at a “Tough Text” in Luke's Gospel. In chapter 13:1-5, Jesus talks about some people who died, some because of Pilate's meanness and some others who died because a tower fell and they happened to be under it.

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are continuing their exploration of various “Tough Texts” with the Parable of the Four Soils. It is a tough text because it is often not interpreted properly, but Jesus actually interprets this one for us! So how can some misinterpret it? Please

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing a famous passage used (wrongly) to promote Baptismal Regeneration. Why is this passage in the Bible and how should we understand it? Please listen and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing another parable in the Olivet Discourse. Or is it actually a parable? This one is about the “Sheep” and the “Goats.” They are the Tribulation survivors, but whom do the sheep and the goats represent? Why are they being separated?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are addressing another “Tough Text” – “The Parable of the Talents”. What is a talent? Why are the servants given different amounts of talents? What are the lessons of this parable? Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are once again looking at a “Tough Text” in Matthew's Gospel. The Parable of the Ten Virgins is our topic for this episode. Who are the characters in this parable, and what is the parable driving at? How should it be understood

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are continuing their “Tough Texts” series. Who is the just and who is the unjust servant of Matthew 24? This is one of many stories Jesus told during His teaching on the Mount of Olives. We call this teaching, “The Olivet Discourse.”

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing a famous passage used (wrongly) to promote Lordship salvation. Why is this passage abused and what is the proper interpretation saying that is actually the opposite of Lordship salvation? Please listen and never miss an episode of the Grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing another text that is often misused in reference to eternal salvation. “By their fruits your shall know them…”. Let's do a hermeneutics practicum… What are the “Fruits” and who is the “Them?” Thanks for listening & never miss an episode

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing the preamble to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount – The Beatitudes. Do the beatitudes necessarily describe someone who is a believer? Is the “Blessed” equivalent to the “Believer?” Are the beatitudes a checklist to see who is a “True Believer?”

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are starting a new series looking at some of the “Tough Texts” in the Bible – especially in regard to eternal salvation and free-grace theology. What are the problem passages? They'll introduce the series today, so stay tuned for the next few