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Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P99 (04-30-24)

Jesus is Our Ark of Salvation to All Who Believe ~ Faith

~ This is super clear to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, Jesus saves us from death. Salvation is Life. When a person receives Jesus, they receive Life for all eternity. Eternal life begins at the very moment someone places faith in Jesus. Jesus becomes our ark of salvation when we place faith in Him. And being on this side of the cross, the child of God will Never die, even though a person dies physically. For we have the Holy Spirit living in us today. And Jesus taught that directly himself. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26 When a child of God physically dies, they get their new resurrected body immediately and go into the presence of Jesus Himself. For flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. We need our new bodies for that.

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“Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today. Thank you God.”

~ "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith."

By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, obeyed and went out, not knowing where he is going. By faith he sojourned in the land of the promise, as in a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise. For he was awaiting the city having foundations, of which the architect and builder is God.

By faith also Sarah, herself barren, received power for the conception of seed, even beyond the opportune age, since she considered the One having promised faithful. Therefore also were born from one man, and he having been as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in multitude, and countless as the sand by the shore of the sea.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having embraced them, and having confessed that they are strangers and sojourners on the earth. For those saying such things make manifest that they are seeking their own country. And indeed if they had been remembering that from where they came out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they stretch forward to a better one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac. Even the one having received the promises was offering up his only begotten son, as to whom it was said, “In Isaac your offspring will be reckoned,” having reasoned that God was able even to raise him out from the dead, from where he received him also in a simile.

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things coming.

By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, dying, made mention concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions concerning his bones.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw the little child was beautiful, and they did not fear the edict of the king.

By faith Moses, having become grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, having chosen to suffer affliction with the people of God, rather than to have the fleeting enjoyment of sin, having esteemed the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking toward the reward.

By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the anger of the king; for he persevered, as seeing the Invisible One. By faith he has kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one destroying the firstborn would not touch them.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians, an attempt having made, were swallowed up.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days.

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those having disobeyed, having received the spies with peace.^{Hebrews 11:1-31}

~ “Well, let’s go on. So when Noah came along, he was warned about these things. To save his family certainly wanted to do that. And by faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. In other words, he said, if you’re going to destroy the world, I’m not going to be in it. If you got a way for me to be out of the world, I’m going to be out of it, they put him in an ark was he’s a picture of being in the world, but not of the world. When you’re in the ark, you’re in the ocean, but you’re not on the ocean. Because if you ever become of the ocean, you’re in trouble unless you’re a fish. And so it is a picture of how you and I walk in this earth. We’re in the world, but we’re in the ark. And that ark is Jesus.” ~ Bob George

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And so man comes along and says, Well, surely or Satan comes along, says Surely you don’t think that God said all your sins behind his back? That’s what He said. Well, now surely, you don’t mean that if you do something wrong, you don’t need to go back and tell God how sorry you are. Because, after all, that’s what you expect someone to do if they do something to you? Yeah, that’s what I expect. Well, surely, you don’t think God would be different than you? Well come think about it. I guess not. Why? Because God isn’t any bigger than you are. We have brought him down to us. And said, if it’s good enough for me, that it has to be good enough for God. What is that? Making ourselves as God. Now when God didn’t speak anything about being in and out of fellowship. He didn’t speak about that. You can’t find that in the New Testament. But man added to it. And the rationale behind it is the very thing I’m talking about. If it’s good enough for man, it’s got to be good enough for God, it just doesn’t make sense. And so we’ve got people believing Just like I did, that there’s some kind of a mark up there. I’m in some kind of out of fellowship with God some way, how are you? I don’t know. Again, what’s that based on? A writer out there saying that God isn’t out of fellowship with you, Bob, he loves you. If God isn’t out of fellowship, fellowship with me, how can I be out of fellowship with you? Have you ever thought that? If all of my sins are behind the back of God never see him again? Then? Why am I down here so preoccupied with my sins? Oh, because if you’re not, you’ll just go live like the devil, Bob. What have we done? While we’ve added to what God said. How easy is it then for Satan to deceive us when we add to what God said? Just as easy as it was in the Garden of Eden. Very simple. Surely, you don’t think God said that, do you?

Folks, when you’re dealing with faith, you can’t have faith in what man has come up with you can. It’ll send you down a primrose path to Nowhere. Our faith has to be in what God said. See, it is so difficult for us to understand that in the midst of all of the stuff that we can do and think, and sometimes be, that God has taken that away, never to see it again. Isn’t that hard? Because we can’t do that. We can’t do that our memories as good as an elephant. Let me we remember forever. And so when it says God puts your sins behind your back, never think about him again. You think, Oh, my God, a lot smarter than me. And if I can not forget, how could he not forget? Because He’s God. And His ways are not our ways. And that’s why the Scripture says, Don’t lean on your own understanding. But in all things, acknowledge him, he then will direct your paths. Faith isn’t based upon how I perceive it. Faith is based upon what God said. Did God say it’s finished? Yes, then what do you conclude? How do you walk by faith if it’s finished? By walking by faith in what? That it’s finished. Is there anything about being in out of fellowship in the Scripture? Well, then why talk about it? Why discuss it? What is the relevance of it? Because again, that concept is based on you who is a variable. Not him, who is the constant. God is constantly in fellowship with you. God is constantly in relationship with you. If that’s true, what does faith say? Does faith ever say I’m out of fellowship with you God? When God says, I’m always in fellowship with you? Does it or doesn’t? What’s the only thing faith can say? When God says I’m always in fellowship with you? What’s the only thing faith can do? Say what? Thank you. Now, can you and I, as a person who is a child of the living God, totally redeemed, totally forgiven, can you and I walk in unbelief? Now that’s what the Bible deals with, is unbelief. One of the commending these people? For their faith. What’s the opposite of that? Unbelief. So can we as Christians walk in unbelief? Well, then why don’t we just say, I’m not trusting the Lord instead of talking about this stupid out of fellowship myth? Because out of fellowship means all kinds of things to all kinds of people. Doesn’t it? To one person, you being out fellowship may be one thing you may be another you might be another, not walking by faith, I’ll guarantee it’s the same with you as it is with him. You know, when you’re not trusting the Lord, when we’re not trusting, we’re not trusting him. It isn’t hard to figure out is it? It’s not nebulous. It’s true. Just I’m just not trusting you. And that’s what the Bible deals with. That’s the verbiage that the Bible deals with. That’s the verbiage that says, don’t eat of the tree of the other A Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, not the verbiage don’t even touch the thing. That’s man’s additive. God’s word was don’t eat it. God’s word is walk by faith or you walk in unbelief. Man comes along, and you walk in this and you’re walking in and out of fellowship. That’s man’s verbiage. But it isn’t God’s.

Well, let’s go on. So when Noah came along, he was warned about these things. To save his family certainly wanted to do that. And by faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. In other words, he said, if you’re going to destroy the world, I’m not going to be in it. If you got a way for me to be out of the world, I’m going to be out of it, they put him in an ark was he’s a picture of being in the world, but not of the world. When you’re in the ark, you’re in the ocean, but you’re not on the ocean. Because if you ever become of the ocean, you’re in trouble unless you’re a fish. And so it is a picture of how you and I walk in this earth. We’re in the world, but we’re in the ark. And that ark is Jesus.

By faith, Abraham devotes a pretty long time to Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive his inheritance. He obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going. Now again, we get in this obedience and everybody talk about obedience, it is like we are and you got to be obedient, to be obedient. Who in this room is obedient? You tell me one person, you know Jesus said He without sin. Cast the first stone. I said he without sin, get up and say I’m obedient. What is obedience? Believe in God faith. Isn’t that what faith is the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through what? Love. What’s obedience? Believe in God. What did Jesus say the world sin was? Unbelief in him. So what is disobedience? Not believing. What’s obedience? Believe in him. It isn’t something you’ve gut out. If I’m gonna just whoa, I’m gonna be obedient if it kills me. Why you got the wrong idea? Because if it’s killing you forget it. I mean, if God says to you, hey, I’m gonna destroy the world. I want you to build an ark. So I can save your family. We’d say Oh, well, okay, I’ll build one. I’ll be obedient to God and I’ll build me an ark. Man if you want your family saved, you go get some nails. When God says something to it whose benefit is it for? Ours. Obedience, legalistic obedience, forget it. God doesn’t care about that. But God is saying, I’ve said this. Do you trust me or not? Because if you trust me, you’ll go do it. The going and doing it is irrelevant. It’s a byproduct of do I trust you? Now if you’re going and doing it and still not trusting the Lord what good is that to you? Well say it’s like coming out and saying, Well, you gotta marry that girl. You love her? No, I don’t love her. Well, I want you to marry well, okay, I’ll go marry that will be obedient to Dad. So I’m gonna create a love for you in your heart, then you’re gonna want to marry her. God didn’t care anything about legalistic obedience. He wants a heart that has been molded into a realization that God is bigger than you and me. Bigger, you can trust him and rely upon him. He loves you. He cares for you. He’s the one who said cast your cares upon me how come? Because I love you. That’s why not Oh, okay. I’ll cast my cares on you. Thoroughly mon baggot stuff. I’ll be obedient to God. how come he obeyed God? Well he believed him, he is bigger him. And even though he didn’t know where he is going, boy I relate to that one. You don’t always have to know where you’re going. Do you folks? That’s how God works with us. He gives us a little light and says Bob walk through it. But I don’t know where I’m going, Lord. Well, you probably wouldn’t know if you knew.

By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country. That’s what we are. For the Bible says we are we’re foreigners in an alien land, who’ve made or pitched our tents here. We lived in tents, as does Isaac and Jacob, who were their heirs with him with the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundation whose architects and builders God, not man. They realize their citizenship, as Jesus tells us is where? It’s in heaven. That’s why it calls us ambassadors here on this earth is because we don’t belong here. This is not our home, this is just, we’re sojourning here. This is just a little vacation land that we’re having here. Our home is in heaven. That’s what Abraham saw. By faith even though he was past age, Sara herself was barren, was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who made the promise. That’s faith. And so from this one man, and he was as good as dead came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand of the seashore. And Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Ishmael. All of these people were still living by faith when they died. They didn’t receive the things that promised. In other words, they never saw the Messiah. They only saw and welcomed him from a distance.

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And they admitted that they were aliens and a stranger on His earth. Guys, you know it’s important that is for us to keep that in mind. Because if we don’t keep that in mind, then our attitude is I gotta get everything I can get. Why do you think we live in a generation today where everybody is wanting their rights? I deserve this is, I deserve, I deserve? I deserve? How come? Because we’re in love with this place. If you got what you deserve from God, what would happen to you? Well you go to hell. If I got what I deserved from God, I would live in eternal damnation. I don’t know about you do, yeah I do too. So aren’t you glad from God’s vantage point that we don’t get what we deserve? If we got what we deserved, could there be a word grace in the Bible? No, Grace, is receiving what you don’t deserve. But you see, when we don’t see that we’re aliens here on this earth, then we have the idea I gotta get you know, it’s kind of the rule that God it’s the manmade Golden Rule Do unto others before they do unto you. And do unto others and then cut out and as get what you can, and if you don’t look out for number one who’s going to? So you see, we’re into a mentality that if we don’t see things from God’s vantage point that when God says, Bob, you’re an alien here on this earth, you, no need being in love with it, you’re gonna have your long anyway. And the older you get, the more real you see that as your life just fleetingly zips by you. We’re aliens were in the world, but we’re not of the world. And therefore, I don’t have to spend my life preoccupied with things with how much money I make, or how much money I don’t make, or whether I’m getting my rights or when I’m not getting my rights. But to be able to spend your life walking by faith and trust in a God who loves you, and gave himself for you, and came to live within you. And promised I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.

Now, people who say these things show that they’re looking for a country of their own, it says, if they had been thinking about the country they had left, then they would have had the opportunity to return. They never thought about returning instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore, God was not ashame is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for the peace, I leave unto you, not peace, like the world gives you give I you. So let not your heart be troubled. In my Father’s house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you so. And I have gone to prepare a place for you. You and I already have a place prepared for us in the presence of the living God for how long? This temporal thing down here? No, eternally. And Abraham in seeing that, therefore did not care of leaving this place of his security and going into a land that he didn’t know. Because to Abraham, I’m not going to be in either one of those two places for very long anyway. So it doesn’t make any difference whether I spend some time here or spend it out there where I don’t know about I’m not going to be here on this earth long anyway. God’s got a place prepared for me of eternal consequences. So What’s it matter whether you live in Texas or New York? Or where you live? That’s irrelevant, I’m not going to be in either one of those places for very long. By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promise was about to sacrifice his one and only son even though God had said to him it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead. And figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death. God, Abraham figured out something. God said to Abraham, that the world is going to be blessed that the population of the world is going to come through your son, Isaac, and your offspring. And yet, he said, Go sacrifice your son. And the only thing Abraham could figure you talk about believing God is if God said that the world is going to be populated through my son, Isaac. And he says go sacrificing, then it has to mean that if I go sacrifice him God’s got to raise him from the dead, because I know full well that when God said the world is going to be populated through Isaac, that the world is going to be populated through Isaac and therefore I do not have any fear to sacrifice my son because I know God has the raising from the dead if he sacrificed because he promised something to me. Is that faith?And can’t you see Satan lien on the tree, now Abraham, surely you don’t mean? Surely don’t think he meant that or just stick a pin in it? It’s kind of hurt him a little bit.

Folks, that’s what believing God is all about. And you know, in there God used human reason in regard to truth as well. You know, sometimes we ignore that fact. And we just say we don’t use any reason if God says something, it is logical, even though it is totally from God, God is not illogical. Is that logical? Was that a logical explanation for Abraham to say, if God said that the world’s gonna be populated through my son, Isaac? And he also said, The sacrifice him then he must going to raise him from the dead? Is that logical? Well, of course, it’s logical. Was it logical from God’s vantage point? Absolutely. And so figuratively speaking, which was true because Isaac was as good as dead. He literally received him back from death. When coming across the field, God provided the lamb. Again, a picture of today, God will provide his own Lamb. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau regarded their future by faith Jacob when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph son and worship as he leaned on the top of this staff. By faith Joseph, when he was the end was near spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave them instructions about his bones. In other words, bear in the back there. By faith Moses parents hid him three months after he was born, because they saw that he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. By faith, Moses, when he had grown up refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. And he chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as greater value than the treasures of Egypt because he was looking ahead to his reward. And by faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger he preserved, persevered because he saw him who was invincible by faith, he kept the Passover in the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith, the people passed through the Red Sea on the dry land. But when the Egyptians tried to go, they were drowned by faith, he said, we are going to the promised land. And he opened it up and by faith, they walk through by faith, the walls of Jericho fell after the people were marched around them for seven days. By faith, the prostitute Rahab became, how’d she get in there? Well, because she welcomed the spies and was not killed, but those who are disobedient. Those who are disobedient, such as a prostitute. How did a prostitute get in the Hall of Fame? How did she get into the Hall of Fame? Because she believed God. You see her offering to God was the only thing God’s looking for. It comes from rest. And rest says Lord, I believe you. I believe in your promise regardless of what I’ve done, I believe your promise to be faithful. How would religion treat that? How many times have you and I heard well, that person says they’re a Christian. But how can someone do that ever go to heaven? You mean to tell me that if someone went out and murdered someone? Had someone mentioned that the other day? You mean to tell me that you somebody go out and murder somebody could go to heaven? And she’s living in adultery. Yeah, the one who said that living in adultery. Never entered her mind.

What’s the answer then? Is prostitution a profitable lifestyle? For some might be financially? I don’t know. Is that a profitable as a child of God? Is it permissible? Is it profitable? No. Now what would believe in God say? Let’s say it’s not profitable. It’s not what it’s cracked up to be. It’s not profitable. I got something better for you. Let me show you a better way. Go out and murder somebody. Is that profitable? No. Is it permissible? From God’s standpoint? Well, yeah, if it wasn’t it be a law? Will, the state gets you if you weren’t murdered somebody? Yeah probably spend as a Christian the rest of your life in jail. Praising God behind bars. Would it have anything to do with your not being a child of God? If you were indeed a child of God? No. So you see, how can it’s interesting, isn’t it how God has so many times used these extreme examples. It’s interesting how many times someone like a prostitute is used. Because you know, we think yuck. Who do they bring to Jesus in the square? With their stones in their hand? Well the same thing. What was his response to this? You without, without sin do what? Cast the first stone and only one there without sin was him. They all dropped their stones and he said, where are all your accusers? And well, they’re all gone said needed I accuse you get up and sin no more. What would your my attitude be toward that? To want to restore or want to condemn? Which is it?

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