Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P34 (11-14-23)
No One Goes In and Out of Fellowship With God
~ Pay attention to the details. When you are in the fellowship with God, you are always saved. No one goes in and out of fellowship with God. Satan wants you to think as though you do based on human terms, but God doesn’t kick you out of the family of God, nor does God get a little bit hacked with you when you sin. On the other hand, when a person is out of fellowship with God, they are dead, they are lost, they do not have the Holy Spirit living in them. These details are so important to understand. If Satan can get you mixed up on the details on the word of God, then he gets you with his lies. And there are a lot of people today that are teaching the lies of Satan. Do not be afraid to call out the liars and deceivers. By not saying anything, especially when you know truth, you become part of the problem by not exposing it. God wants to use you to share truth, ALL truth, not just the things that are nice (in your opinion) in the word of God. Jesus warned lots of people about different things. Are we to shut up our mouths and not say what is true? Are we to ignore certain scriptures because they make us feel uncomfortable in the flesh? By no means. God wants to use us as to the sharing of truth. Abide in Him. Don’t let your flesh rule your “good deeds” that come from God and God alone. And those good deeds are many times your very words that the Holy Spirit would have you speak out loud or share with others. Time is short in these last days, so pay attention to the details, and share those details with others.
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~ Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written:
“Be glad, barren woman,
you who never bore a child;
shout for joy and cry aloud,
you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband.”
Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. Galatians 4:21-31
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~ Egypt represents lostness. The desert represents legalism, man’s effort to reach up to God. And the Promised Land represents the time we walk in, and rest from the confidence of our own flesh and enter into an awareness. It’s all him and none of you. So legalism is this gigantic attempt that you and I make, or of the flesh to deal with sin. Legalism is as old as Adam and Eve when Adam and Eve came and sowed fig leaves for themselves in order to cover themselves. It was man’s attempt to try to make himself acceptable in the sight of God. And what did God do? Well, he killed an innocent lamb, an innocent animal, in order to take the skins of that animal, to clothe them with what they could not clothe themselves with the best that man could do with some fig leaves. And God clothed them that was the initiation of the grace of God, where he clothed them with his provision instead of what man thought of. It was a foreshadowing, a picture of you and me being clothed today in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, not clothed in our own righteousness, we don’t have any but clothed in him. And in his righteousness. Legalism, it’s self deceiving, it’s hypocritically pious, and assumes that sin polluted man, by strenuous effort, can live a life of holiness. And it becomes a masquerade, a devotional type of masquerade, to those of us who ever follow it. We imagine ourselves to be spiritual because of our dedication to rules. And we’re arrogant and ignorant of God’s own righteousness. And as it says, in the Scripture, they go about to establish their own righteousness without submitting themselves under the righteousness of God, not realizing that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. And since the fall of Adam man has tried to please an infinitely Holy God with his own righteousness. Instead of resting in the righteousness of Christ Jesus sowing our own fig leaves, instead of being closed by God’s provision.” ~ Bob George
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“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6:12