Radio Broadcast Monday 07/22/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P134 (07-22-24)

Nothing Can Separate us From The Love of God For Those in Christ Jesus

~ Jesus loves you forever and ever. Nothing can kick the Holy Spirit out of you once you are in Christ Jesus and He lives in you. When you know God’s love for you, it changes your whole world forever. Do you really know the Truth of the word of God? Many many “Christians” give lip service to the word of God. Yet they have never fully believed in the word of God. Heck, there are people teaching that you can lose your salvation, because they don’t have a clue what salvation is. They think salvation is some sort of future occurrence, and people believe if a person somehow does good things in life that will result in salvation in the future with God. They think that a person can kick God out of them if they do some sort of sin, to the point that God will be done with them and throw them out of the Lamb’s book of Life. Yet when you question these types of people proclaiming this lie of Satan, they cannot tell you how much sinning would be required to kick out the Holy Spirit. And these types of people will actually demonize the word of God, that says nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. For they do Not know the Love of God, Jesus, God is Love.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it has been written:

“For Your sake we face death all the day;

we were regarded as sheep of slaughter.”

But in all these things, we more than conquer through the One having loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. _{Romans 8:35-39}

~ Continue in brotherly love. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said:

“Never will I leave you,

never will I forsake you.”

So we say with confidence:

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?”

Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood. Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore. For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name. And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way. And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you soon.

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly.

Be aware that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints.

Those from Italy send you greetings.

Grace be with all of you.^{Hebrews 13:1-25}

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “Are you convinced today? Nothing can separate you from the love of God. I am convinced that I live under an eternal covenant from the Lord Jesus Christ. I am convinced that there is no more sacrifice for sins. I’m convinced of that it’s in bedrock. I don’t need the theology anymore. The theology has done its work. It convinced me that nothing can separate me from the love of God. It has convinced me that there is no sin that is not behind the back of God. Never to see it again. I am convinced to that. Why am I convinced of that? The Bible tells me I am under an eternal covenant. Folks, do you realize that the reason in most of our lives that we still struggle with this forgiveness issue is because we’ve been struggling with the forgiveness issue? Now here’s what I mean is we’ve been taking the doctrine of forgiveness and putting it over here, just out there, isolated by itself, with no comprehension of all at how it fit into the huge plan of God. And so because we got it out here as a little doctrinal issue, the doctrine of forgiveness out here and not seeing how forgiveness fit into the completion of the work of God under the under the new covenant that we’re in today. So in as much as it’s just a little doctrine out here, well, we sit there and nitpick it from this angle, and we come up with the fact, well, that’s forensic forgiveness. We got Quincy involved in it, forensic forgiveness and personal forgiveness and parental forgiveness, and that’s judicial forgiveness, but this is parental forgiveness, and then come up with this harebrained idea that people do that absolutely is turning my stomach anymore because of understanding what the covenant did and what it cost Jesus to put this New Covenant into effect. When people come up and say, Well, now you know, when my son, if he does something wrong, why? He’s got to come to me to get forgiveness. So I read now I realize judicially now he is forgiven, but he needs to get his feet washed, and then we drag in that foot washing illustration, as if that had something to do with forgiveness. That has something to do with an attitude of servitude. It has to do totally with an attitude that of, I am God and came and washed your feet. What do you think you ought to be doing with one another? In other words, there should be no job that is too low in order to serve one another in love. That’s the attitude. Don’t ever think of yourself more highly than yourself than you ought. That there’s anything that is above your doing the job of a foot washing servant and a slave was the lowest job, the lowest on the totem pole. And the Lord Jesus Christ, God Himself, stripped himself and initiated to go and to wash the feet of His apostles. And said, Go, do likewise. No servant is greater than his master, and if I did this to you, go do likewise. Had nothing to do with forgiveness. And people come up with that harebrained idea, and in so doing, negate the cross of Jesus Christ.” ~ Bob George

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Does your hand like your other hand? Is your hand like all your body, or does it just like the hand? You see, is it patient with each other? Are we envious of each other? Are we boastful because we know more than somebody else. Are we proud? So proud that we can’t say I was wrong? You realize those are about the three hardest words in the world, in the world, to say “I was wrong,” what we normally say for I was probably wrong, which is like not saying anything at all. So you don’t know that’s probably wrong, not sure, but probably, but to be able to say no, I was wrong. I judged you rather. I judged you. I was wrong. Easily angered. You know, people take pride in being a hot head. Can’t we think that’s macho, and if I can get really angry somebody, boy, that’s just, I just made my day, folks, that’s a mind of a lost person, not a saved person. I’m not saying you can’t do that as a saved person, because you can. I’m saying that’s how you think when you’re lost. I’ll guarantee you that. I spent 36 years like that, and I couldn’t wait to go home and tell Amy how I just tongue lashed somebody just Zorro with the tongue that day, yeah, just came, just absolute, just as proud of myself as to how I just Zorroed them, just proud of myself with it. And if I could just insult somebody real good, I had my day had been made. That’s the mind of a lost person, not a saved person, but a lost person. And we get proud of the fact is, as the fact that I’m a hot head, I get mad easily. Isn’t it amazing, folks, isn’t it amazing how we say we understand this grace of God that he was trying to teach us in the Book of Hebrews. But in practical experience, I wonder if we really do understand, if we really have come to the conclusion that it is truly all of Jesus and none of me, till it isn’t just a theology, it has become a reality. We say, we make statements about ourselves. We say, well, and we’ll have people do that.

People just say, I’m just I’m just a worrier. Well, what, if I walk up and said I’m just an adulter. From God’s vanished boys, what’s the difference? What’s the difference? You tell me, what’s the difference? Without faith, what is it? Impossible, Please, God, can you be having faith and be worried at same time? Can you when you’re worried about something, where’s God, down here? Where are you up there? If I’m worried about something, that means that what? Well, if I, if I’m the ones got to worry about it, then guess who it is. It’s going to have to solve it, because I’m sure not counting on him to solve it, because I was counting on him to solve it, would need to be worrying about it, right? So the fact that I’m worrying about it shows me that I’m the one who has now put him down here and me up there, and I’m worrying about it because I’m the one who has to solve it. And I want to tell you, if you’re the one that has to solve it, you ought to be worried. But that’s the root of worry. Now, what is that? It’s not trusting the Lord. But see, that’s not as bad as one of the filthy five and the Dirty Dozen. You see, we say we believe God, but do we believe that looking with a person with lust in your heart is the same as if committing adultery? Do we really believe that? I don’t think so. You see, it’s lip service that we give to truth. It hasn’t hit home yet. We’re still playing religion because it hasn’t hit home. And that’s what this book of Hebrews is trying to tell us. This is an eternal an eternal covenant, an eternal covenant, saying your sins and lawless acts, I will remember no more the sin issue has been dealt with. And when I looked at sin, I didn’t look at just the manifestation. I looked at what sin is, and that’s unbelief, and all of you have fallen short of the glory of God. Each and every one of us, All have sinned. There’s none righteous. No, not one. And yet we stand as if we are righteous because of what we don’t do, and don’t give one clue as to what we do do. And that’s what this book of Hebrews is about. Are we worry warts? And if we are, that’s we’re not saying this in order to beat ourselves to death. Now we’re worried about being a worrywart. The issue is, worry is not going to stop by stopping to worry. You’re not going to quit worrying by thinking, How do I quit worrying? Worry is going to be eliminated when you understand he is faithful. Worry is eliminated when you understand that God is at work in you to will and to do of His good pleasure, and that he is going to equip you and me with everything good in doing His will and work in us that which is pleasing to Him. I’ll work the faith into you as you understand I am faithful. That’s what the book of Hebrews was written for, to understand the faithfulness of God. Why? So I can walk free, free from what? Free from worry, free from stress, free from thinking it’s up to me to pull this thing off, because we can’t. He told us that all along, apart from me, you can do. How much? Nothing, nothing.

Look at our spirits, folks sometimes look at how we perceive things. You see, all of this is a part of this discipline of God. All of it is a part of the discipline of God, which is saying, How is the way you’re thinking about this match up with the truth of how you should think about that as a child of God. How does it match up? How does it match up? You hold resentment in your heart toward anybody? How does that match up with the word of God? How does it match up? Does it or doesn’t it? Do you hold unforgiveness in your heart toward anyone? How does that match up with the word of God? How does it match up? It doesn’t, does it? These are all attitudes, folks, all attitudes of the heart that God has to deal with lovingly, kindly, sweetly, gently, but firmly, a gentle heat. Do you know how most of us approach life? We hit the 500 degrees. Now we know that 1500 is what’s going to make us chip proof we hit the 500 degrees. And says, Brother, I am out here. You’ve just seen last of me. I don’t want to go through that pressure. I don’t want to go through those trials. I don’t want to go through those tribulations. I am out of here instead of realizing stick in there because you’re going to get 500 more degrees on you, and after that, 500 more, but I want to tell you something. At the end of that process, you’re going to be chip proof and able to be used over and over and over and over again. It is the very thing that Paul says in Corinthians. Praise be to God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who comforts us in all of our problems, so that we, in turn, can comfort others with the same comfort that we received from him. When? When we were going through our pit experience, When we were going through our trial and tribulation, we came to the end of our own sufficiency, and we drew upon Christ, and he was faithful. And I learned something. He’s faithful. How did Paul write? I am convinced that nothing can separate you from the love of God. Why? Because he had been through about everything that could, and he found out nothing did. Trials didn’t, tribulation didn’t, nakedness didn’t, the sword didn’t. Nothing could separate him from the love of God. To be able to come to a conclusion, I am convinced of something. And folks, there is the issue of the Christian life. I’m convinced of something. Have we formed that attitude? I am convinced of something, not just out here in this dinky theology, but if your theology hasn’t brought you and me to the point of conclusion that theology isn’t worth a flip, and all we do is to have our heads full of theology with not an ounce of reality. Conclusion, I am convinced. I am convinced that nothing can separate me from the love of God. Nothing.

Are you convinced today? Nothing can separate you from the love of God. I am convinced that I live under an eternal covenant from the Lord Jesus Christ. I am convinced that there is no more sacrifice for sins. I’m convinced of that it’s in bedrock. I don’t need the theology anymore. The theology has done its work. It convinced me that nothing can separate me from the love of God. It has convinced me that there is no sin that is not behind the back of God. Never to see it again. I am convinced to that. Why am I convinced of that? The Bible tells me I am under an eternal covenant. Folks, do you realize that the reason in most of our lives that we still struggle with this forgiveness issue is because we’ve been struggling with the forgiveness issue? Now here’s what I mean is we’ve been taking the doctrine of forgiveness and putting it over here, just out there, isolated by itself, with no comprehension of all at how it fit into the huge plan of God. And so because we got it out here as a little doctrinal issue, the doctrine of forgiveness out here and not seeing how forgiveness fit into the completion of the work of God under the under the new covenant that we’re in today. So in as much as it’s just a little doctrine out here, well, we sit there and nitpick it from this angle, and we come up with the fact, well, that’s forensic forgiveness. We got Quincy involved in it, forensic forgiveness and personal forgiveness and parental forgiveness, and that’s judicial forgiveness, but this is parental forgiveness, and then come up with this harebrained idea that people do that absolutely is turning my stomach anymore because of understanding what the covenant did and what it cost Jesus to put this New Covenant into effect. When people come up and say, Well, now you know, when my son, if he does something wrong, why? He’s got to come to me to get forgiveness. So I read now I realize judicially now he is forgiven, but he needs to get his feet washed, and then we drag in that foot washing illustration, as if that had something to do with forgiveness. That has something to do with an attitude of servitude. It has to do totally with an attitude that of, I am God and came and washed your feet. What do you think you ought to be doing with one another? In other words, there should be no job that is too low in order to serve one another in love. That’s the attitude. Don’t ever think of yourself more highly than yourself than you ought. That there’s anything that is above your doing the job of a foot washing servant and a slave was the lowest job, the lowest on the totem pole. And the Lord Jesus Christ, God Himself, stripped himself and initiated to go and to wash the feet of His apostles. And said, Go, do likewise. No servant is greater than his master, and if I did this to you, go do likewise. Had nothing to do with forgiveness. And people come up with that harebrained idea, and in so doing, negate the cross of Jesus Christ.

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When the Lord Jesus Christ did not come to forgive judicially and parentally, and when you and I try to equate the forgiveness of God to how I treat my kids, what are we doing again? Bringing him down here and elevating me up there and saying, if that’s the way I do it, for darn sure, God’s going to do it that way. Because I’ll tell you, for one sure, God sure couldn’t be any more righteous than me. So instead of elevating ourselves up to his kind of forgiveness, we drag him down to ours, and form our theology around what we would do instead of around what he did. And it’s a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And this is what Paul is, or the author of Hebrews, is trying to tell us in here. This is all him. He’s the one who did all of this. He is the one who initiated this eternal covenant. Now, if you got an eternal covenant that says their sins and lawless acts, I’ll remember no more. Guess how long you ain’t going to remember your sins anymore if you have an eternal covenant. So what do we do with that? Well, we come down and teach people you lose your salvation. Well, if you can, then there’s no eternal covenant, because we look again at salvation, is the doctrine of salvation, instead of seeing how salvation ties into the huge picture that is unfolded for us in this book of Hebrews that we’ve had the privilege of studying for all these months together. You see, there’s more to salvation than the doctrine of salvation. There was a huge plan of God that had to be put into effect that was eternal in scope. And because we don’t see the big picture, we can’t see the little picture, we can’t identify the part because we don’t know what the whole looks like. And that’s what this book has enabled us to do, is to see the big picture of God, so that we can identify the pieces that it took to make up the big picture.

Brothers, he says, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for I’ve written you only a short letter. And then he says, I want you to know that brother Timothy has been released, and he’ll arrive soon. I’ll come with him to see you greet all your leaders and all of God’s people, those from Italy, send you their greetings. Grace be with you all.

The Covenant, the New Deal, folks, as we look at this new covenant that we stand in today, we need to realize that a covenant is an agreement. It was a sacrificial sealing of an agreement. In the Bible, you’re going to see many covenants that are made. You’ll see a covenant between nations made, and the way that was done was no covenant was ever made or duly established without a sacrifice, tribes, man to man, party to party, nation to nation, were covenants, and what normally took place on that was that an outside element, a sacrifice was made a part of that sacrifice offered to God, bringing him involved in that covenant, and then the eating of the rest of whatever was slain between the two parties, sealing that together. And so there was the eating of the flesh and the drinking of the blood in essence, in a in regard to a covenant, a covenant was something always represented. Something had to be died cut on we say today, I’m going to cut a deal. That terminology came from covenant deals. In order for the deal to be a covenant, something’s got to be cut. And so they would call it cutting a deal, cutting an agreement with somebody, whereas sacrifice had to be made.

In marriage, it’s called a covenant. And if you’re married under the way Christians were, you’ve got a covenant with God, and God, this is a woman that I am committing myself to and then to the woman. This is I’m committing myself and to the woman, to the man. I’m committing myself. There’s an intermediary in there. It’s God. That’s what covenants are.

When you’re talking about this area that this covenant that was entered into, we have to see that there was a huge covenant that, first of all, took place in the Godhead itself. That’s why it says God is one. Normally, there has to be a mediator. But in the case of this covenant, God is one. It’s the same person making a covenant within his own self, within his own being. God the Son, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, making an agreement among one another, one God and yet, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit making an agreement. The agreement between the Godhead was made because of the condition of his creation that had fallen in Adam, all of us dead, All have sinned, all fall short of the glory of God. And so an agreement was made in the Godhead that man, first of all, had to be forgiven, and that man need to be restored to spiritual life, because he was only a two thirds being, just two thirds there, he had lost his true identity. Because our identity is in the spiritual aspect of man, not the physical. It’s the spiritual that is eternal, not the physical, and to restore life, spiritual life, to man. And an agreement was made that before we could restore life to man that is called eternal life, eternal covenant, eternal forgiveness and a life that can’t be destroyed again by Satan, because that life that God gave to Adam when he created Adam was destroyed by Satan. And I want to restore life to man that can’t be taken away, that can’t be lost ever again, Satan thought he had this whole plan ruined when he convinced Adam and Eve to sin, and therefore their life left them. I got them and God saying, No, I’m going to do something different. I’m going to restore man to true life, a life that is indestructible, that cannot be taken away through sin ever again. And in order to give that kind of a life to Adam, what killed Adam to begin with, sin had to be dealt with. Because what good would it do to restore a man to life, and the minute they came to life, be exposed to the very disease that killed him again?

Let’s say cancer killed everybody. Everybody got it and killed it. So I’m saying, I’m going to bring you to life. You came to life and the cancer killed you. Back you went. You come to life, the cancer killed you, and back you went. After a while, you know what you would say, leave me alone. It’s no fun being dead today and alive tomorrow, and dead today and alive tomorrow. He said, I want to give them something that they don’t have, but I want them to have. Why? Because I love them, and that’s a life called eternal life. And in order to give a life that could never be taken away from man again, sin had to be dealt with, not like the blood of bulls and goats, where the priests had to go and sacrifice over and over and over and over again, but where sin is dealt with one time for all. And that’s what the Lord Jesus Christ did. He came and he dealt with sin one time, one time, and he cured the disease. He took it upon himself, and he who knew no sin became sin, so that in him we could become the righteousness of God. And he dealt with sin once and for all. New Covenant, their sins and lawless acts. I will remember how long? No more, no more. Without the shedding of blood. There is no sacrifice for sins, and I’m going to sacrifice once, and that’s it. That’s it. What do you do that for? Just so we could be walking around forgiving corpses, just so man can say, hey, I’m forgiven, praise God, I’m forgiven again, and I go out and screw up again. Well, praise God, forgiven again. I asked him, he did it again. Wash my feet. No, he forgave sin once and for all in order to do something that man never had before, and that’s giving life. What kind of a life? Eternal life, that was going to be protected by? What the eternal covenant, and it restored life the man, A life that’s indestructible.

Do you realize you and I sit in this room today, if you’re in Christ and not playing religion, and I mean a contrast the two. You’re in Christ, you can be in Christ and play religion. I’m talking about in Christ. You can be out of Christ playing religion. That’s all you can do. But if you’re in Christ, in this room today, you’re under an eternal covenant that was made by an eternal God. He is our high priest, and as it says, that death prohibited the existing priesthood from staying in office. But this priest lives forever to constantly intercede on our behalf. And that sin issue was dealt with once, and it was dealt with for all and forever, so that he could give you and me life eternal. Life eternal, the teaching that you can lose life eternal is an insult to the cross of Jesus Christ, and the reason it’s taught is because we don’t understand the big picture that was taught in the book of Hebrews. So my friends, when God gave us this eternal covenant that we’re in today, he secured your relationship in him once and for all. And then says, I pray that God will work in you and in me, that which is pleasing to Him, and that’s faith, work in you and me the fact that that’s over, it’s done, not just to look at that, as I said, as a doctrine, but have you concluded that? I mean, is that settled in your heart? Is it settled? I am a forgiven saint.

Satan comes up and says, Oh, I bet you, God didn’t get that one. Go talk to somebody else, but realize it’s finished. Don’t have to walk around playing anymore. I don’t even have to be involved in a whole bunch of doctrine anymore. The doctrine has done its work. That didn’t mean you don’t read the Bible, but you read it now out of different eyes, the issues settled I’m reading now just the enjoyment and the joy of seeing what I am. It’s like reading your will over and over again. Now I don’t read in order to get it. I’ve got it. Now I’m going to read it and enjoy it. You read it the first time to find out what you had. Now I read it to rejoice in what I got.

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