Living Springs Q&a

Q&A #201: Pastors Doug, Blake, and Kyle discuss the following: 1.How come Psalm 14 and 53 are so close to the same? Why repeat it? 2.If we are to lean into grace, and anticipate God's grace already at work in our lives, are we failing to do this when we reach out to professional help (i.e. counsellors, etc), or asking for people to pray with and for us in our time of need? 3. Could Judas be in heaven? 4. In Luke 16: 1-9, the parable of the fired manager (or whatever), Jesus commends the manager for his shrewd plan to discount everyone's bills. The one word that trips me up in the last verse is “eternal” when Jesus says, “I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends, so that when it is gone, you will have eternal dwellings.” Why does Jesus use the word eternal? Is not the only (good) eternal dwelling in heaven? 5.What is the difference between the spirit and the soul? Where does the soul go when we die? According to ECC 12:7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to