Radio Broadcast Tuesday 07/23/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P135 (07-23-24)

We Are Under a New Covenant Forever and Ever

~ The covenant of Life Eternal is for everyone who places faith in Jesus. Eternal life happens the very moment a person places faith in Jesus, and the Holy Spirit comes to live in them to give them Eternal Life forever and ever. Eternal life is not some future event after a person physically dies. For we are housed in a body of flesh that is headed to the grave no matter what, and when this body of flesh and blood perishes, we get our new body of flesh and bone that never perishes. The new covenant is for everyone. It is freely offered to everyone, yet not everyone receives the offer, and are still in the mode of self sufficiency in all aspects of their lives. Many will even preach that a person can lose eternal life if they do some sin, or some amount sinning, of which they will never tell you how much sinning, or specifically what sin that is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. For they believe they are righteous in the sight of God based on what they do or don’t do, instead of trusting in Jesus, God in the flesh and what He did on the cross for them, and the Life He now offers to all people. They themselves have never exercised faith in the finished work of Jesus and what He did on the cross for them.

So as we finish up on the book of Hebrews, take everything we have learned, and apply faith from first to last. Allow Jesus to live His Life in and through you, for He eternally lives in you and will never leave you nor forsake you no matter what tribulations this life throws at you if you are in Christ Jesus. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17

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.”

~ “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 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, a cancer killed you, and back you went. After a while, you know what you would say, leave me alone.” ~ Bob George

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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 of Him, 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 to 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 see it again. I am convinced to that. Why am I convinced to 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 and 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, in 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, while we sit there, 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, 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’ve got an eternal covenant that says there’s 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 can 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. It. 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 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, a cancer killed you, and back you went. After a while, you know what you would say, leave me alone.

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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 forgiven 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 he restored life to 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 planned 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 play 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. But until we settle that issue, we’re going to always be wondering, do I have it or don’t I? And he’s saying, settle that issue. Folks come to the conclusions that he’s talking about settle the issue, the eternal covenant of the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s unbelievable in scope.

You’re going to see one of the greatest examples of God’s faithfulness in the last days. We’re under the covenant of grace. There’s one other covenant, and I’m going to read to you out of a book by a very knowledgeable Bible student in regard to this covenant, because there’s another covenant that is going to take place, but it’s not between God and man. It’s between Israel and Satan. It says the word is necessary, and it is a shameful covenant on the part of God’s covenant people, but it’s necessary. Many of the major covenants of Scripture are between God and Israel, but this covenant, which is a temporary in duration, is between Israel and antichrist. During the Great Tribulation, after the rapture of the church, Israel will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, and they will then plumb the depth of their apostasy and unbelief by resuming the sacrifices of animal on the temple altar, as was expressed in Daniel 9:17 there will be no more demonstration of total apostasy than the rebuilding of the temple. The rebuilding of the temple is just again, total rebellion against the cross of Jesus Christ. Just total rebellion, total apostasy. Again, nationally repudiating the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary. Eventually, the agreement with hell, this agreement with hell, Israel will set up the worship of the beast and his image in the holy place of the temple. The worship of the beast in his image is called the abomination that makes desolate, or the abomination of desolation during this great tribulation, it says Israel will make this covenant with the Roman Prince, head of the revived Roman Empire, and the first beast of Revelation, 13. Now it says we give here a paraphrase of Daniel 9:27, which we trust will make clear the reader the essential terms of this covenant with hell, it says, And he, the Roman Prince, head of the coming Revived Roman Empire, shall confirm the covenant with many of the people of Israel for one week. That means seven years. And in the midst of that week, at the end of the first three and a half years, he shall cause the sacrifice to cease the resumed temple offerings. And for the overspreading of the abominations, he shall make it desolate, the blasphemy of putting the image of the beast in the temple to be worshiped by men, even until the consummation, until the end of the Great Tribulation period. And that determined shall be poured that and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate of the Beast of Revelation. This firm covenant between many Jews and the Beast the coming Antichrist, is a covenant with death and hell in which the people will do as they have so often done in the past, and that is, ignore their God and turn to false gods, in this case, the Antichrist himself, and because of their terrible apostasy of sin, Israel will suffer special judgment during the Great Tribulation. In fact, the period is called the time of Jacob’s trouble, but through the judgments which will fall on Israel during that time, the nation refined will turn to Christ in repentance and will be saved. Why will they turn to Him and be saved? Because of a God who, in the midst of the apostasy and the turning away, still loves us and never ceases offering his salvation to those who are in total rebellion against Him. Now we know why Paul could say, I’m convinced nothing could separate you from the love of God, my friends, God’s patience with Israel and God’s patience with you and me, ought to be evidence enough for any of us to realize that we have a God that we can trust. That’s what the book of Hebrews is all about. We have a God that we can trust.

Well, let’s pray together. A Father, a plan such as you devised is beyond our mind and comprehension. The motivation behind it can be explained in no other way except love, not a love like we experience, conditional, irritable, judgmental, but a love that did not include any of those elements, a love that was total patience, not a little patient, total. Kind to those who are unkindly and are patient, to those who are impatient, loving, to those who are hateful, never keeping records of our wrongs, to those who do never being easily angered with those of us who are. Always trusting the best, to those who don’t trust others, always hoping the best, to those of us who very seldom hope the best, we see Father in that definition of love, a character that is far beyond our human experience. And what it does is enable us to see that that kind of love is indestructible, and it’s the kind of love that draws us unto you. To realize that we are totally loved by a God who, through 1000s of years remained patient and kind to the rebellious, but always reaches out to us like the father of The prodigal son, ready to throw a party to clothe us in His righteousness and to receive us as who we are, sons of the living God. So I pray Father, for these my brothers and sisters in Christ, and for myself, that as we continue to go through this life, to make us more sensitive to that love that has been shed abroad in our hearts, showered upon us in abundance. But don’t let it stop there. Let it flow out to others and to help to be able to be an encouragement to them as to the faithfulness of our Lord, Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray and honor and adore. Amen.

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