One time my pastor was asked, “What do you find the most exciting subject in the Bible?”

Jordan answered: “For me personally, it’s to stand back and look at who the Bible says Jesus Christ is and appreciate the fact that I’m in Him and that I’m complete in Him. He is the source of all my blessings, and the source of my true, real identity, and He's the one I have all my status in.

“You see, the thing that's so wonderful about the grace of God is that it makes Jesus Christ everything. And the Bible says that it ‘pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell.’ If you asked God the Father what is to Him the most exciting subject in all the universe, He'd say, ‘My Son.’

“Any way you slice it, dice it, look at it, think about it, take it apart, put it together, Jesus Christ is the apple of the Father's eye, as Psalm 17 tells us. He's the thing that causes the Father's heart to rejoice. He's the one.

“It's mind-boggling when you look at who the Scripture says He is. It sort of numbs your mind. It's so big, you can just never get your arms around it.”

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After the Flood, God added the institution of nationalism (to His already established institutions of family, marriage and volition) with the intent purpose of keeping in check man's ability to corrupt and fill the earth with violence and completely consume mankind.

Jordan explains, “The reason for nationalism, which is explained in Acts 17:24-26, was so that people would have boundaries around them; national boundaries to allow wickedness to be held in. It's an ingenious plan. The issue of government is an absolutely ingenious plan by God to protect the human race.”

The United Nations is an attempt to put into play Genesis 11—to make everybody work together in a so-called global economy. But the human race will never have a successful global political structure until Jesus Christ comes back and establishes His government. He will rule and reign with a rod of iron and it will be a forced monarchy—a forced planet-wide government ensuring peace and harmony.

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In Calvinism, adherents simply can't allow God to change from one dispensational system to another—as Paul tells us He did when He went from law to grace, or Israel to the Body of Christ—because their theology says He had to have prefixed everything ahead of time.

In Arminianism, they say, “Well, everything's open; anything man wants to do he can do and the choice is up to him.” With this they try to limit what God knows.

Jordan says, “When you come to that debate between the Calvinists’ ‘little God’ and the Arminianists’ ‘ignorant God,’ or limited knowledge God, and then you back up and just look at what the Bible says about the Lord Jesus Christ, He doesn't fit in either one of those models. You get a glimpse of His character and the awesomeness of who He is and it almost numbs your mind. You can't get your arms around it. It won't fit into all these little systems people have.”

When John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” that’s talking about God’s name: Word. The statement’s saying, "I am the ultimate ground of all being and existence. Without me, there's no existence. Without me there's nothing."

Paul says in Colossians that "by him all things consist." In Acts 17, Paul says of Him, "in whom we live and move and have our being."

How do you know there's a God? Well, how do you know who you are?

“You see, whatever you call God—whatever you name Him and whoever He is, if He's just that ‘holy other’ that you can't contact and don't know who is, like the Unknown God of the Athenians, at least you have to recognize there has to be some grounds for existence; some reason to believe you exist,” says Jordan. “There are great philosophers in the world who don't believe you exist. They believe all of this is an illusion.

“By the way, when Jesus said, ‘I am the truth,’ that's what He meant. He wasn't talking about, ‘I’m just always right and you're always wrong.’ He wasn't talking about truth like ‘two plus two equals four.’ He was talking about truth in the ultimate basic sense of the ultimate ground of all of our being and who we are—the essence of being—and Christ said, ‘It all resides in me.’ Now there's not a sane person on the planet who would ever claim that!”

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Jordan says, “You know how I know the Koran is a book of false teaching? Because it says all Christians believe in three gods. You know who they are? The Father, Jesus and Mary. I couldn't make this stuff up to make it any more ludicrous! You don't have to make it up; you just read it!

“I told an Islamist the other day, ‘I know what you're teaching is crazy wrong and it's a lie because your book is full of lies. I don't know any Christian who ever believed in three gods.’ He said, ‘Well, you MUST; this book says. . .’

“I said, ‘NO, that book is wrong and has never been right about that. No Christian believes in three gods! The doctrine of the Trinity tells us there's one God who's made up of three people, distinct and separate.’ ”