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Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P81 (03-19-24)

The Sacrifice of Jesus Took Away The Sins of The World

~ Do most people really believe the word of God today? Nope. Hardly anyone believes the word of God. They simply give lip service to what they hear and never exercise faith in Jesus and what He did on the cross for them. They refuse to come to the knowledge of TRUTH. For they would rather believe the lies that they were taught from childhood, and listen to the teaching of man instead of the teaching of God. So many today are caught up in the world today, that they even refuse to study to see if things are so. As we have said repeatedly, a person has today at their fingertips the ability to be as a Berean. They can study the scriptures for themselves, and ask the Holy Spirit to give them wisdom in understanding to see if things are accurate or not. And, we should not trust in anyone, not even ourselves and our own understanding of things for each of us were born into a world of lies. Once you understand that, then you can begin to understand the true nature of God, the perfect GOODNESS of God and the true nature of evil in the world. It’s always important to go back to the foundation, Jesus, God in the flesh, who took away the sins of the world at the cross. God is no longer counting sins against people today. That’s All people, not just you and me. That includes the most vile of people out there in the world too. We don’t like to think about that, but God is the righteous one and he knows everyone’s heart. Once you rest in the finality of the cross, and understand salvation is life, then your whole world changes. But one thing that does not change, is TRUTH. Jesus is the Truth, the Life and the Way. There is only one way to be saved for anyone, by faith in Him and what he did on the cross for you. It’s a Life and Death issue.

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, my God.’”

First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

“This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”

Then he adds:

“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”

And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. ^{Hebrews 10:1-18}

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~ “And folks, that’s what religion has done. It has come to this earth and perverted and distorted the true message of the gospel, which is is all Jesus and it’s none of you. I didn’t give you an identity a man made identity I gave you an identity from God Himself. The very moment that I stepped out of Adam into Christ, and Christ stepped out of heaven into me, he made me a child of the living God. And that’s who I am forever. And any of these other identities that I put on myself are totally secondary. And they’re all man made, and they don’t amount to a hill of beans. So God came and he told me that we’ve been made holy set apart by the sacrifice of Jesus once and for all. Now, again, comparison day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties again and again, he offers the same sacrifices, which can never what? Take away sins never can take them away. Cover them Yeah, take them away, No. But contrast. When this priest is offered for all time, one sacrifice for sins, what did he do? Well, he sat down at the right hand of God. And since that time, he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. Look at this one, folks, because by one sacrifice, he has made perfect not only have we been made holy, we’ve been made perfect forever those who are being made holy, who’s being made holy, those who have been made holy. So you’ve been set apart by God, you’ve been made perfect in the sight of God by God. How do you enter into that? The only way you can when something’s already been done for you. By faith. It’s either believe it or call God a liar.” ~ Bob George

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And folks, that’s what religion has done. It has come to this earth and perverted and distorted the true message of the gospel, which is is all Jesus and it’s none of you. I didn’t give you an identity a man made identity I gave you an identity from God Himself. The very moment that I stepped out of Adam into Christ, and Christ stepped out of heaven into me, he made me a child of the living God. And that’s who I am forever. And any of these other identities that I put on myself are totally secondary. And they’re all man made, and they don’t amount to a hill of beans. So God came and he told me that we’ve been made holy set apart by the sacrifice of Jesus once and for all. Now, again, comparison day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties again and again, he offers the same sacrifices, which can never what? Take away sins never can take them away. Cover them Yeah, take them away, No. But contrast. When this priest is offered for all time, one sacrifice for sins, what did he do? Well, he sat down at the right hand of God. And since that time, he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. Look at this one, folks, because by one sacrifice, he has made perfect not only have we been made holy, we’ve been made perfect forever those who are being made holy, who’s being made holy, those who have been made holy. So you’ve been set apart by God, you’ve been made perfect in the sight of God by God. How do you enter into that? The only way you can when something’s already been done for you. By faith. It’s either believe it or call God a liar. People think they walk away from God because they sin. You don’t walk away from God because your sin otherwise none of us had ever knowing. I don’t think anyone in this room never say you’ve stopped sinning have you? You don’t walk away from God because you sin you walk away from God, when you forgive what refused to believe what he did in the midst of your sin. It’s the very thing when we fall away and let Satan come in and say, I’ll see you there, he didn’t like you anymore. You’re never gonna stop sinning if you understand what sin is from God’s vantage point. The Bible says that that which is not a faith is what? Sin. Wow and ask you a question is worry a sin? Can you worry and have faith the same time? How many of you out there have been a Christian for say, over 20 years? How many have you ever stopped worrying? How come? What are you? What are you been doing for 20 years? Persistent sinning. You’re not going to walk away from God because of what you do. What you do is what I stopped believing Christ and what he did in the midst of what I did. So if you’re going to grow in grace, my friend, you’re going to have to grow in grace by putting your faith in Christ and what He continually is doing in the midst of whatever you are continually doing. The very moment you take your eyes off of the provision of God, in the very moment, we can get God out there some place, he’s gotcha. The very moment that we can teach people that God’s hack that she’s got his back turned on you that is not true under New Testament, that is not true. Because of this New Covenant that took place where God ever turns his back on you and me. He made you perfect. It’s like turning your back on your body. How can I turn my back on my hands? My body is apart, my hands are part of my body. You can’t turn your back on your own body. And the minute that you can get people believing that type of thing, then you’ve got a person then saying now I’ve got to have to do something, do something, do something to to get back in graces with God. And the minute he’s you get into that mentality he’s gotcha. There’s only one way that we could walk and the fact that he made me forever perfect, not because I act perfect, not because I think perfect. But because he made me that way. And the only thing in a world and the only way in a world that I can continually enter into that is by faith. And that saying, Lord Jesus, thank you. I don’t understand this. Thank you. That is what draws you nearer to the love heart of God.

That’s what grace enables you to do. It is the grace of God, as Titus says, that teaches you to say no to unrighteousness. It’s not the law of God. The power of sin is in the law. Keep person under the law, you keep them under the power of sin. The grace of God is what teaches you to say no to unrighteousness because it’s the grace of God that keeps pulling it to a God of love. It’s the grace of God as the prodigal sons wallow with a pig’s that says, my father’s servants are living better than me. Father didn’t lay a law down on him. Said whenever you’re tired of the pigs come home. And the son returned home with the grace of God the full knowledge my father would accept me. Had his little forgiveness speeches little First John one nine planned gotta go back home first John one nine dad that never gave him a chance to came out and hugged him and kissed him, took him in and put a robe on him, had a party for him, never gave the son a chance to give his little speech. Because the forgiveness toward the Son from the Father was not predicated on what his son said to the Father. It was predicated upon the heart of the Father for the son. This whole thing is what God has done, not what you and I do.

Now it says the Holy Spirit also testifies about this to us. He says, This is the new cabinet that I will make with them. I’ll put my laws in our hearts, I’ll write them on my minds, he adds their sins and lawless acts, I will remember no more. And where these have been forgiven, there’s no longer any sacrifice for sins. If you’re not going to accept the forgiveness of Christ Jesus once and for all, not on and on. If there was Christ was forgiving you today and then forgiving you tomorrow, and you’re talking about no different than an Old Testament sacrificial system. Jesus Christ it says was today, forever interceding on our behalf. What’s he interceding for? Because of the accuser. The accuser zooming up saying you see what, Bob just did? And Jesus saying, Satan, did you see what I did? Or didn’t you see that sin Bob just committed? Didn’t you just see the depth that I died for? bed before Did you see what how much I’m doing for the church? Did you see how much I did a Calvary? It’s all Jesus, all interceding on our behalf. We’re walking by faith in His provision. And not ours. There is no longer any sacrifice for sin, if there was any further sacrifice to be executed, if there was any further forgiveness to be executed on your behalf. If without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. What would he have to do? He’d have to die again. Is he gonna do that? What do you conclude? By that one offering He did it all. Now it says in Second Corinthians, all of this is from God, all of it. It doesn’t leave anything for us, does it? If all of us from God, how much does that leave for us to do? Nothing. Who reconciled, past tense us to Himself through Christ and He gave us this ministry of reconciliation that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not counting men’s sins against them. He’s committed to us this message of reconciliation. That’s a message of a Christian to a lost person. The message of a Christian to a lost person is how can get your sins forgiven… That’s not the message. It’s not that if you don’t get your life cleaned up, God’s gonna zap you boy. That’s not the message. That’s not true. The message that God gave on to us, is God in Christ, reconciling you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you. That’s why we’re called Christ ambassador. An ambassador is someone who represents another kingdom. If I was an ambassador to France, my job would not be to go into France and try to moralize the French. It would not be to go into France and pick it Moulin Rouge. It would not be my job to go in and try to bring morality to those drinking Frenchmen. My job would be to go into France and represent the United States of America to be an ambassador and represent my country. The Bible tells you and me that our citizenship is where? It is in heaven. That’s why he calls us an ambassador. If our citizenship was here, he couldn’t call you an ambassador. Our citizenship is in heaven.

We are an ambassador in a foreign land in the world but not of the world. And the job of our ambassadors to represent another kingdom. And the kingdom that we represent is the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God. That up peered in the form of Jesus Christ on this earth who came to the earth to say, through this one act on the cross. I’m gonna make people perfect in the sight of God, not because of what they’ve done, but because of what I do. And our job is letting people know that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not counting your sins against you. When was that true? Well, the Bible tells us when we were yet enemies that’s lost. We were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life. You’re not saved by the death of Christ, you’re saved for the life of Christ. The wages of sin is death, and the gift of God is life. I came that you might have life because you’re dead. When you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave HOW MANY OF YOUR SINS? All of them. It’s amazing to me how we can say I understand this and then turn right around and tell people first John one nine is for the Christian if you confess, we’ll forgive you when he already said already have. That’s total double talk. It’s the very thing that negates and strips Jesus of the fullness of the cross is double talk. It says a double minded man is unstable in all ways. And it makes Christians unstable. But the reason that that is not taught is because we’re scared to death from the pulpit or from teachers to tell people that all of your sins are forgiven. Why? Because most of us have never progressed to their understanding of salvation beyond getting their sins forgiven. If Christ is ALIVE, living in you, that’s an insult to God to say that a Christ living in me is going to lead me to a life a lasciviousness, that Christ alive, coming to live in you, Bob, it is gonna give you a license to sin, as if I needed a license to sin I don’t know about you, I sin quite well, without a license.

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God living in you, leading you back to the old life that used to live that made just a miserable, it’s your turn to him to begin with, forget it. That’s an insult of the living God. But because the majority of people we never get beyond the cross in regard to what salvation is, all we see salvation is I got my sins forgiven. Now I’m that same old person, but I am forgiven. But if I keep for confessing, I’ll keep getting forgiven. And we’re no more than these jars that I was talking about. And we’ve never progressed beyond sterilizing jars, somebody said, you’re going to sterilize jars in order to canned food, we forget the in order to canned food, and we just keep sterilizing jars, keeping them clean, keep them clean, keeping them clean. And our whole life is spent trying to keep the jar clean, trying to keep the jar clean. We walk aisles and rededicate. I’ll keep it clean, Lord, if it kills me. And we were out the carpeting and churches coming forward to rededicate our lives to do what? Do better. I realized and been dipping it in that hot water enough Lord, and been keeping short enough accounts with God but I will. We don’t realize that God already cleansed your jar. He already forgave you of all unrighteousness not to stop there but to dwell you with his life and then seal that whole transaction never to be broken again. That’s a good News of the Gospel. And what he implores us and in essence said, for goodness sakes, folks, you could have seen me hanging on that cross. It’s what Paul said in the third chapter of Galatians. You foolish, idiotic, moronic, Galatians, who has hypnotized you said and cast an evil spell on you. You used to see the meaning of Christ’s death, as clearly as nod waved a place card in front of you. He said, Have you gone mad? And he said, let me ask you a question. Did you receive the Spirit of God by obeying the law? Or by believing what you heard? Which was it? Well, after beginning in the spirit, believing Why are you now trying to perfect yourself a human effort? You used to understand the meaning of Christ’s death on the cross you used to see it was done, you used to see it was finished. Now you’re back with your own sacrificial systems. And the Hebrews were running back to rebuild the altar. And then we come back to rebuild or confession booths. And then we come back to rebuild our altar calls. There was only one altar and that was over in Jerusalem, not here. Not any altar in New Testament Church. There’s only one altar, the one Christ was sacrificed on. And we come up with our own man made deals on how to get forgiven and keep forgiven, and keep getting forgiven and more forgiveness. And we never get on with what Christ came to give us and that’s LIFE.

So the whole teaching of the New Testament is about the finality of the cross. It’s over, it’s been done. And that’s what he’s begging you to be reconciled to God, I reconciled you how do he do it? By not counting your sins against you, believe it, walk in it, leave it it’s all it’s saying. Believe it. It goes ahead to tell you why you ought to believe it, because God made him Jesus, who knew no sin to be sin for you. So that in Him and in His life and your identification with him, you could become the righteousness of God, believe it. So the reconciliation that God provided for you and me required total forgiveness, not partial forgiveness, not a covering for sin, but a taking away of sin. First Peter 3:18 We’re gonna go through some of these passages, you’ll have time to look them up, but I’ll put them up here. For Christ died for sins, how many times? Once and for how many people? For all the righteous who was that? Jesus. For the unrighteous. Who’s that? Us. In order to do what? Bring us to God, to bring us to God, He died for us then, so that he could live in us now. That cross was provided, then permanent, done, finished, so that from that point forth, the Holy Spirit of God could go to the uttermost parts of the world appealing to every man and woman, boy and girl on the face of this earth, come unto me, come unto me, there’s nothing left to do except come unto me. There is no more sins to be forgiven, Come unto me. There is no more altar to go to, there’s no more confession booth to go to, there’s no more sacrifices to go to. It’s been done, Come unto me. The wages of sin is death, and the gift of God is life. Your dead, come unto me and receive life. That’s the whole thing. No, what’s what’s there left to do? Nothing. Nothing. Come unto me. It’s the appeal of God. He died for sins once to bring you to God, to come unto me. He was put to death in a body, but made alive in the Spirit.

For he rescued us in Colossians, from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the Kingdom of the Son he loves in whom we have redemption. What else do we have? Forgiveness of sins. How many of you ask God to redeem you every day? How come? How many times he’s gonna buy you back? Once. How many times your sins forgiven? Once. If you were under a teaching where you had to get bought back every day, what do you think it do for you in your relationship with God? When you’re under a teaching, teaching, you have to get forgiven every day. What do you think it does to you? The same thing as it would with redemption. What’s the only thing you could conclude if he kept after if you had to keep going back and getting redeemed? It’s not finished. What’s the only thing you can conclude you have to keep going back and getting forgiven? It’s not finished. How could you conclude anything else? Except it’s not finished. And Jesus said, It is finished. People are talking about their sins. I’ll tell you something, folks, there is no sin, in my opinion today that is any greater or more severe, severe or disgusting, then looking into the face of God who bled and died view and say, I don’t think it’s finished. I don’t believe you. I don’t believe that the wages of sin is death. I think it’s out of fellowship. I assume by at a conference that we had the other day in Atlanta, where do you find that in the Bible, and someone in the front row said, in the footnotes. It’s the only place you’re gonna find it in the footnotes, you’re not gonna find it in the Bible.

I personally am up to here in religion, and seeing people being continually dumped and put under bondage through this teaching that has permeated through the entire Christian world, that in essence is clearly designed and calculated by Satan, to keep calling God a liar directly in his face in the name of Jesus. When Christ said, it’s finished, he meant it’s finished. And if something’s finished, there’s nothing else to do. When he said, You’ve been made complete, it means you’ve been made complete, you can’t get any completer, or any less complete. When he said, You’ve been made holy, it means you’re not gonna get any holier than that. Nor are you gonna get unholy. When you’ve been made by God, perfect in the sight of God, it means you’re as perfect as you’re gonna get so you don’t need to strive anymore to try to be the special kid. And that plagues the Christian world, where we’re not satisfied to just be one of dad’s kids, I won’t be his special one. I want to be the one he likes best, dad, he likes me best. And we try to do that with Jesus, oh, God, I want to try to be special. When I first came to Christ as a little babe, I wasn’t satisfied just being saved I want to be special. I was special alright, fall flat on your face as a special one. God doesn’t have any special kids, just got kids. Quit trying you make yourself obnoxious, trying to be special. Just be happy to be a child of the living God totally loved as a child of God.

Where do we have forgiveness? In Him. We have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Are you in him? Then what do you have? If you’re in him, do you get forgiven? Or are you forgiven? You are. Well, what do you need to keep short accounts with God for? Where does First John one nine fit into all that? If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness, when he just got through telling you’ve already been cleansed of all unrighteousness all your sins have already been forgiven. Now, where does that fit in? Well, it doesn’t, not to a believer. Fits in quite well in context. If you’ll look at verse eight, that if you claim to be without sin, you deceive yourself and the truth not in you who’s the truth? Christ who isn’t in you? Christ. That’s why you’re claiming to be of that sin. How could you have the Spirit of God living in you claim to be without sin, when Truth’s living in you? You couldn’t. On the other hand, he’s saying to that last person whose truth not in you, you’re lost. You’re claiming something but you’re lost. On the other hand, if you agree with God concerning your sins, He’s faithful and just to literal translation have forgiven your sins, and have cleansed you of ALL unrighteousness. So you don’t have to fear agreeing with God concerning your sins.

Now, folks, I’m talking about forgiveness. I’m not talking about this ongoing process, where a child of God walks by faith. And when I walk by faith and my attitudes and my behavior is totally inconsistent with who I am, I will continually be agreeing with God, if I’m in Christ, His Spirit will bring that to me. And if I’ve got a junkie attitude towards somebody, God’s Spirit brings that to me and says, Bob, that attitude is not consistent with mine. Is it? No Lord it isn’t. What do you want me to do? Well, give me a chance to change it. Let me renew your mind. Have I agreed with God? Well, of course, in order to get forgiven? Of course not. It’s an insult to God. But in order to walk in the newness of life that has been given to you in Christ Jesus, whereby you don’t serve God with stones, laws written on stone, you’re free to serve a living God, who is constantly in the process of renewing our minds, teaching us truth that sets us free. Folks, as we’ve said before, just amplify it again, if this pen is forgiveness, and this Bible is Jesus, what do you do with a pen, put it in Jesus and said, Here’s Jesus. He didn’t say, Here’s forgiveness. You don’t come to Christ to get forgiven. He didn’t say, Here’s healing. You don’t come to Christ to get healed. You don’t come to Christ for miracles. You come to Christ for Christ. What do you get when you get Christ? You get the pen. They kind of get the pen out here without this now it’s a two for sale. How are we presenting Christ a lot of times in our evangelistic activity. I used to teach it this way. Come down, get forgiven. Come get the pen, come get the pen. You’ll walk away from that experience, the same guy that went to the altar, you’ll walk away from it. Still have forgiven sinner.

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