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MON MAR 9, 2026 W PASTOR RON ARBAUGH OF CALVARY CHAPEL

March 9, 2026·52 min·3 clips

The wheat and tares parable is used to argue that real believers and pretenders sit together until judgment.

1. The Word To Stand on For Life opens with Pastor Ron Arbaugh answering Bible questions on a Monday after preaching on Revelation 4:1 and the rapture of the church. 2. Pastor Ron Arbaugh, from Calvary Chapel in San Antonio, hosts the call-in show and uses questions from Pam, Kirby, Nacho, Albert, Carla, Clay, Steve, Pamela, Neil, and an anonymous caller. 3. The episode asks how Christians should think about Scripture, rapture timing, spiritual gifts, and public claims about faith. 4. Pam’s question about the Ethiopian Bible leads Ron to say the 66 books of the canon are the full and complete Word of God. 5. Ron contrasts the Ethiopian Bible and Catholic traditions with the authority of Scripture and says books added through tradition do not qualify as God’s Word. 6. Kirby’s mention of The Late Great Planet Earth prompts Ron to point listeners to John F. Walvoord’s rapture book and his Revelation commentary instead. 7. Nacho’s question about the wheat and tares in Matthew 13 gives Ron a way to explain why believers should not try to uproot false believers by human judgment. 8. Ron says Jesus alone knows hearts, and he connects that parable to the rapture by saying the real believers will be gone and the pretenders will remain. 9. Albert’s question about pre-tribulation rapture teaching leads Ron to argue that doctrine must match the character and nature of God. 10. Ron uses Genesis 18 and Abraham’s conversation about Sodom and Gomorrah to argue that God does not judge the righteous with the wicked. 11. He says the Great Tribulation is the wrath of God poured out in Revelation 6, ending with people hiding from “the wrath of the Lamb.” 12. Ron also says there is not a single verse that justifies post-trib, mid-trib, or pre-wrath rapture theories. 13. An anonymous caller brings up David French and James Tallarico, which leads Ron into a warning about “progressive Christian” language. 14. Ron says Tallarico’s claims about God being “non-binary” and “pro-choice” conflict with essential Christianity and with the Bible’s teaching on God and murder. 15. Carla’s question about Luke 2 lets Ron say Jesus was fully God and fully man, and that he “veiled his deity” while living as a human. 16. Ron says Jesus learned as a child, prayed as a child, and never acted “on his own initiative,” citing John 5 language about doing what the Father does. 17. The show’s tone is conversational and direct, with Ron moving quickly from email questions to live calls and then back to the inbox. 18. Ron mixes pastoral teaching with sharp disagreement, especially when he says seven mountain theology is “heresy” and when he distinguishes biblical theology from political rhetoric. 19. Listeners who want Bible Q&A on rapture, tongues, and Scripture authority. 20. Listeners who want a light show without theological debate.

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A live Bible call-in hour that turns into a firm doctrinal warning about Christian belief.

Pastor Ron Arbaugh uses this live call-in hour to draw a firm doctrinal boundary around Christian belief. He moves from Bible questions and everyday concerns to a direct warning about a public figure whose views on God, abortion, and sexuality he sees as outside authentic…

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