The FLOT Line Show

Is it possible that you know God but do not understand the God you know? The only way you can come to God is through faith in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. “I am the way, the truth, and the life and no man comes to the Father but by means of Me” (John 14:6).  To understand God, you need to learn God’s protocol plan and realize Jesus Christ lives inside of you. You need the power of the Holy Spirit and the guidance of the living Word of God to execute God’s unique plan for your life.

"Our life is just a vapor trail that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (James 4:14). This life is temporal but there are eternal values. “The Word of God lives forever” (Jam 4:14, Heb 9:27, Ps 89:48, 1 Pet 1:24). You can have absolute confidence you are going to heaven when it is time for you to die (1 John 5:11). The timing and circumstance of a Christian’s death is God’s decision. Nothing can remove you from this life until God decides it is time. Don’t worry about how you are going to die. Focus on how you are living. If you have not made the most important decision in your life, where will you spend eternity—heaven or hell - don’t delay. Make the decision now. Don’t gamble on borrowed time. “What think ye of Christ?” Today could be the first day of your life.

“Whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13). I have been speaking for 53+ years presenting the Gospel and communicating clear Biblical principles. It all started when I read this Scripture: “Pray for me that utterance may be given to me to open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in bonds” (Eph 6:20).

In this episode of The FLOT Line, host Rick Hughes tackles two of the most essential questions in the Christian life: "How can I be sure of my salvation?" and "What does God expect from me now that I’m saved?" He explains what it means to walk in Christ—the basics of the Christian life, from eternal security to spiritual growth, and introduces two key tools for handling adversity through God's Word.

Divine discipline comes from God’s justice and love. He does it in grace to correct us and teach us before we self-destruct. “Whatever a man sows, this he will also reap” (Gal 6:7). Divine discipline is to wake us up, encourage us to get in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, and use our free will to get into God’s plan. “Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way and he who hates the reproof of God shall die” (Proverbs 15:10). If one doesn’t respond to increased stages of divine discipline, God may administer the sin unto death.

The spiritual life is living the life God designed for you. Learning spiritual skills gives you the ability to be independent of human solutions. Comprehension is critical. Your capacity to perceive and apply the Word of God can only come with the filling of the Holy Spirit.  “To them, God has chosen to make known the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col 1:27). Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit live in you—that’s the power of the spiritual life! The goal of the spiritual life: spiritual self-esteem gives you self-confidence in God’s plan. Spiritual autonomy gives you the ability to operate independently, stand-alone. Spiritual maturity is having maximum effectiveness in fulfilling God’s plan for your life. “I pray the God of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. And I pray the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so you will know what the hope of His calling is and what are the riches of His wisdom, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints” (Eph 1:17).

In the Lord’s last conversation with the disciples, He gave them these things “… so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full” (John 15:11). The disciples could have confident expectations of what God was going to do with them, through them and for them—and so can you. Objective optimism is a relaxed mental attitude from the inner joy and confidence that comes from the Word of God in your soul.  You can have a relaxed mental attitude despite any adversity.

The greatest joy is knowing you’re exactly where God wants you to be. You have a sphere of influence and can have an impact if you learn and use the 10 problem-solving devices. “I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you” (John 14:18) through the filling and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in you and with you wherever you go today. God gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us and lead us. Prayer is an important one of these things. Pray to God the Father using the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Personal love for God is your motivational virtue—the motivation for obedience and faithfulness to God. God wants us to be faithful. He is always faithful to us. “I will never leave you; I will never forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).

At the Last Supper, the Lord taught the keys to happiness. “Be kind to one another, forgive” (Eph 4:32). “Love one another as I have loved you” (John 13:14) is impersonal love. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. The focus of your faith should be Biblical solutions, not human solutions. Fear produces flight. Faith produces confidence. “Let not your hearts be troubled” (John 15:11). Fear and worry are not part of the Christian life. Sharing the happiness of God is objective optimism plus a relaxed mental attitude from confidence in the Word of God in your soul. 

Jesus personally taught the disciples for the last time at the Lord’s Supper. “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full” (John 15:11). The greatest joy you will ever have is when you know you’re in the middle of God’s plan and you have confidence in that plan. Sharing the happiness of God is a life with objective optimism with a relaxed mental attitude. You'll have joy and confidence from the Word of God stored in your soul. ’These things’ include forgiveness. “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God for Christ’s sake forgave you” (Eph 4:32).

In this episode of The FLOT Line, host Rick Hughes explores what it means to understand and live out God's will for your life. Drawing from passages like Jeremiah 29:11, Colossians 1:9-10, and others, Rick emphasizes that God has a specific plan for every believer—a plan rooted in His love, wisdom, and divine patience. Rick unpacks the difference between knowing Scripture and applying it (epignosis), discusses the characteristics of a worthy spiritual walk, and explains how to be a productive citizen of heaven while still on Earth.

The Four Generation Curse is a significant truth taught in the Bible. You need to know about it considering what is going on in this country. We’re living in a chaotic climate. If the anti-God trends continue, fueled by social media influencers, God will bring judgment to our nation. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you rejected knowledge, I will reject you” (Hosea). God requires us to LAG: Learn, Apply, and Glorify Him. Every generation is responsible for the decisions it makes, and the culture it chooses. Rejection of authority is the most prominent cause of suffering in life. Rejection of God will bring suffering to our nation. “There’s a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose jaws are like knives” (Prov 30:14). This is the last generation before God brings the fifth cycle of discipline upon a nation. This generation has a lust for power.

You have the power to destroy your own life and you have the power to make a great life. It all depends on your volition and your decisions.

We’re at the crossroads of history and it's time for us to step up and be agents of change. It’s time for us to step up and be influencers. It's time for us to commit ourselves to the Word of God and grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It’s time for you to get under a well-qualified pastor and grow.

We must be agents of change by means of the invisible and historical impact of the mature believer. 

Moses was the founder of a phenomenal fraternity called Jeshurun. This fraternity is still operating today and it has the most dynamic invisible impact in history. The Jeshurun fraternity is made up of mature believers that think Bible doctrine is more important than anything else in their life. 

Every believer is God's personal representative for the Lord Jesus Christ during their time on earth. You represent yourselves before God and represent Him before men.

In this milestone episode, Rick Hughes celebrates 20 years of The FLOT Line with reflections on the show’s beginnings, growth, and purpose: to clearly present God’s plan without manipulation or gimmicks. Rick shares key biblical principles on trust, obedience, and understanding God’s will for your life. He explains the concept of full-time Christian service, how to identify your spiritual gift, and the importance of living under the filling of the Holy Spirit. With practical illustrations and scriptural insight, this episode is a call to live the Christian life with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

The Bible tells us the only role model is the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's Who we are to model our life after. In 1 Peter 2:21, “For this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps: He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth.” So, Jesus Christ is our spiritual role model, He is our influencer.

You and your spiritual life can deliver our nation. One man with divine wisdom delivered this city, “There was found in that city a poor wise man and he, by his wisdom, delivered the entire city” (Eccl 9:14-15). Divine wisdom gives you insight and discernment. This verse applies to you today in our world of chaos and confusion. “The words of the wise heard in calm are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.” (Eccl 9:17). Your assignment, wherever you are, is to be a modern-day Noah. You are to warn of God’s coming judgment. You do this by lifting up the Lord Jesus Christ. This is your assignment from God, to re-present Jesus Christ in your field of influence. You are to be a spiritual influencer. Jesus Christ and his finished work on the cross is a magnet for those who are lost. “I will draw all men unto Me” (John 12:32).

The Word of God must be learned under the authority of a well-qualified pastor and that authority is vested in a spiritual gift. Your spiritual life is based on understanding God—learning the principles and the provisions He's provided for you so that you can begin to replicate the thinking of Christ.

God demonstrated His impersonal love for us by sending His Son to pay for our sins. When we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Savior we become a member of The Royal Family of God. At that point, we have the personal love of God as family members. Proverbs 8:17 says, “I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me.”

The only solution to deliverance is your spiritual life. God can and will deliver you and the nation if you have an invisible impact that has blessing by association. The overruling will of God combined with the directive will of God provides numerous deliverances from adverse circumstances in your life.

The Psalm of Deliverance:

“The king is not saved by a mighty army and a warrior is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a false hope for victory [the mechanized infantry in those days] nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength [talking about the horse]. Behold [the answer] the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those who hope for His loving kindness to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help; He is our shield. For our heart rejoices in Him because we trust in His holy name. Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us according as we have hoped in You.” (Psalm 33:16-22)

In this episode of The FLOT Line Show, host Rick Hughes tackles the powerful emotion of fear and how it can paralyze the Christian life. Drawing from the biblical account of Israel’s refusal to enter the Promised Land, Rick illustrates how fear leads to panic, emotional instability, and disobedience. He explains how to use God's 10 problem-solving devices—including the faith-rest drill—to stop adversity from becoming internal stress. Learn how courage, trust, and obedience to God’s Word are the antidotes to fear—and how your courage can be contagious to others.

You could have freedom in Christ Jesus, the Bible is clear about that. In John 8:31-32, Jesus was saying “to the Jews who had believed in Him, ‘If you continue in My Word then you are truly disciples of Mine then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.’” You have an opportunity to be truly free today and for the rest of your life. We’re going to talk about that here for a moment. The Bible mentions freedom in many places. For example, in Galatians 5:1, “for freedom Christ has set us free …” What did He set you free from? He set you free from the law of sin and death. You don't have to go to hell. You don't have to go to the Lake of Fire. He took your place. He died for you. He was your substitute. In Galatians 5:13, “For you were called to freedom …” by God, not only to have spiritual freedom but to have physical freedom as an American in the US of A. God designed you to have freedom in this client nation of His.

So today the greatest problem that we have, the greatest problem that man has is the problem of sin and death. That's the greatest problem. And we have to solve that. So the good news is that Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, has redeemed us out of the slave market of sin and our debt to God was paid by Him so we are free - free from the penalty of death and free from the power of sin. And if you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you, in effect, accept the offering He made on your behalf. It is a free gift from the compliments of God. If you do not receive the free gift, if you continue to just drift around in life without any purpose, without any meaning, without any destiny then you're playing with fire. And if you play with God, you might get burnt.

You cannot hide from God. You are being carefully watched and you are being watched over. You’re being watched by the world, that's for sure, and you're being watched over by God, that's for sure. “Behold the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, all those who hope for His lovingkindness.”  (Psalm 33:18)

Can you trust God? Absolutely! Would He ever lie to you? No, He would not. Our Father would never tell you a story. He loves you. He provided for you. He gave His Son for you. It’s the most wonderful gift anyone could ever receive. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”

Nothing of the flesh ever pleases God. Any good deeds that are done while there’s unconfessed sin in your life—not filled with the Holy Spirit—is human good and is non-rewardable. 

Fools don't have any wisdom. Wisdom comes from Bible doctrine in your soul. When you have Bible doctrine in your soul you have wisdom or the Greek word sophia. Wisdom only comes from the knowledge that's first been learned. If you don't learn anything it's impossible to have any wisdom because what you've learned must be converted from knowledge into wisdom and then from wisdom into insight and discernment. A fool doesn't have that. “A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing their own opinion.” (Proverbs 18:2)

Are you controlled by your temper—or by the Holy Spirit? In this episode of The FLOT Line Show, host Rick Hughes shares how anger can damage your spiritual life, relationships, and peace of mind. Learn how to break the chain of emotional sins with biblical tools like impersonal love, grace, and divine viewpoint thinking. Discover how to respond instead of react—and live with the peace God intends for you.

“I am the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved” (John 10:9). What a wonderful provision and promise. Because of this verse, we know that our departed loved ones who have believed in Christ are face-to-face with their Savior. Remember, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). When you die as a Christian, your body goes to the grave, your soul and your spirit go to be with the Father and await the resurrection body. Even though we cannot see heaven or begin to understand the scope of God's abode, our departed loved ones are basking right now in His glorious provisions and enjoying their new environment to the fullest.

A lot of people think you go to hell because you commit sins. That's not true. All sins—past, present, and future—were paid for on the cross. What people go to hell for is refusing to believe that Jesus Christ is the anointed Son of God.

In David's case, as a young man, he's having some stress and he's having a lot of adversity because the king is trying to kill him. How he handles it, we can compare to your life and how you're handling some of the things that you're going through today. David waited on God's justice and did not execute his own justice. 

No man is too important to be replaced by God. Romans 13:1 tells us, “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except that which God has established, and the authorities that exist are established by God.”

Our freedom and the blessing of God on our nation depend on you. As goes your spiritual life so will go the history of the United States of America.

If you let your anger get away from you, you’re under the emotional control of the soul and if you let your emotions run you, you're going to make bad decisions. Your mind is designed to think not to emote. Whenever something happens in your life that you don't understand you can react to it with anger, bitterness, and frustration or you can respond to it with faith and trust in the Lord. It's up to the justice of God to handle the issue and He will. He will expose, He will discipline, and He will handle things.

 Mental attitude sins are sins you can commit while driving your automobile, sitting in your favorite chair, or just relaxing under the shade of a tree in your yard. You can do these sins without ever lifting a finger. They’re committed in your head, committed in your thoughts, in the mentality of your mind, and as you think words. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Proverbs 23:7). 

Our job is to glorify God the Father by replicating the life of Christ and re-presenting Him. In Romans 4:20, “Yet with respect to the promise of God, he [Abraham] did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God.” Giving glory to God is what we have to do. In 1 Peter 4:10-11, “As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to who belongs all the glory and dominion forever and ever.”

God allows unforeseen circumstances that often bring frustration so we would search His Word for the answers. How do you handle unfair circumstances in your life? Do you complain? Are you full of self-pity? Or do you have complete confidence based on trusting your heavenly Father? “Consider it all joy my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance” (James 1:2) Your afflictions are designed to test you and create within you new confidence and a new joy through spiritual growth.  A shallow soul produces shallow faith.

In this episode of The FLOT Line, Rick Hughes explores the Apostle Paul’s powerful challenge in 1 Corinthians 16:13–14: "Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love." Learn what it means to watch, stand fast, and grow in spiritual strength as you face life’s tests. A clear call to courage, commitment, and maturity in the Christian life.

The national impact of God's invisible champions sustains the client nation because it forms what we call a pivot—that core group of mature believers. If you want to be a champion for God you must be spiritually prepared—otherwise, God can’t use you. Isaiah 6:8, "I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

You have to be in synchronization with God's plan. You can't run ahead of God. and you can’t get behind God. If you're going to make different tracks in this country, it’s going to take some different thinking by people who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s going to require you to master, understand and perceive the Word of God, and metabolize what you learn into wisdom. If your timing is off, you’re going to have a problem. Without the Word of God, it's inevitable you will have a life of bad timing.

What is your anchor point in your life? Is it human viewpoint or is it divine viewpoint? All decisions you make in life must be governed by the Scriptures. Human viewpoint, human thinking is not Bible doctrine. The Bible tells you to renovate the way you think. “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His word.” (Romans 12:3)

It’s time to recover our strength spiritually, individually, and as a nation. We must RALLY—R = reflection. There are two ways we can learn how to live the life given to us: through the school of hard knocks or through the Lord’s grace provisions. “When I leave, I will send the Holy Spirit and He will be your tutor, your mentor; He will teach you.” (John 14:16,26). A = affection. Get back to a divine appreciation of Who and what God is. L = leave the world behind and return to your first love, your love for God the Father. L = learn and apply the Word in your circumstances and you will glorify God. Y = yield yourself to God’s plan. Have a personal sense of destiny. “In God, I put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Ps 56:11).

Prayer is important. Are your prayers getting through to the throne room of God? The Bible teaches us that prayer is a privilege of those who have become the children of God (John 1:12) those who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. “My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14). If we are to survive this cataclysmic time in our history, we must appeal to God and do it effectively.

If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, your focus must be on Him, not on the pandemic. Your focus must be on His promises, not on the news and the constant never-ending scare tactics perpetrated by the devil himself.

Jesus Christ provides freedom—He will set you free. Freedom from eternal condemnation and the control of the sin nature. Freedom from organized religion and a life of worry and stress. “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery” (Gal 5:1). By learning Scripture, we can take advantage of these freedoms provided by God’s grace. “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). God gives us volition, the freedom to follow His plan. It’s our choice—go down the “my way highway” or “serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15).

Without faith, it's impossible to please God. The one thing that God demands from you is faith. If you are His child by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, that means if you have believed and received Christ as your Savior, what do you have to fear? Not one thing.

The devil will use your fear to make you weak. The battle to get you to live by your emotions and not think clearly—with a divine viewpoint. This is how the devil defeats you. A relationship with Jesus Christ does not remove all the storms in your life but it gives you His assurance that He will ride out the storm with you. Your faith-rest is demonstrating confidence in God's plan and provisions.

The greatest news of all time is that God loves you. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). If you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you never have to fear death.

Spiritual IQ is totally different from human IQ. Spiritual IQ is the ability to have the invisible ministry of God the Holy Spirit take the power of the living Word of God in your life and place it into your soul where it becomes wisdom. “But whoever listens to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil” (Proverbs 1:33)

God does discipline us. The Bible says those whom He loves, He disciplines. Revelation 3:19, “Those whom I love, I reprove [or correct] and discipline; therefore, be zealous and repent.” There are two ways that God can teach us. He can teach us from instruction without pain or He can teach us from instruction with pain. It depends on how stubborn you are, and how arrogant you are, but God is going to discipline those that He loves.