Radio Broadcast Wednesday 02/21/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P70 (02-21-24)

Jesus Wants to Give You Rest for Your Soul

~ We sometimes need to be reminded, that Jesus came to give us rest for our souls. Many folks have rebelled against religion, they have rebelled against the hypocrisy involved, they have rebelled against the people that act all holier-than-thou. And quite frankly, we are actually to rebel against those things. Because God doesn’t want us to be under the slave system. He came to set us free from all that garbage. And yes, it is filthy garbage. It is dung, as the Apostle Paul said. Throw it away. Don’t support your slave masters. Get rid of listening to those that would place you back under the yoke of slavery. For it is freedom that Jesus has set us free. Rest in Him today, and He will give you rest for your soul. He will never leave you no matter what. Come to Jesus for Rest today.

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ^{Matthew 11:28}

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~ ” Folks, when people realize and to get into all this religious stuff that I’m and we use terminology like I’m backslidden and what that means is I started sinning again, I got news for you never stopped. A person does not get in that condition because they’ve been sinning. They get in that condition because of the one sin of stopping to believe Jesus when He said, I’ll never cashed you away. I have forgiven your sins all of the. What causes you and me to walk away from God in our experience, is not a cause of what we’re doing wrong. But it’s because of our refusal to go to him who did everything right. It’s when man refuses to receive the forgiveness that’s been offered to him by Christ Jesus.” ~ Bob George

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So a person saying oh I love God but is a billy goat Christian the but but but. No they’re aren’t any buts connected to it. You cannot love God we loved him. Because what he loved us first, you can experience his love for you under the law. The law condemns. What does it say the law does? Kills. But the Spirit does what? Gives life. How can you love someone’s going to kill you? So it’s verbiage, which is what much of this stuff is anyway verbiage. There’s no depth of understanding. It’s just verbiage. I say so just after a while, it just gets as easy to say Praise the Lord. As it does today, how’re you doing? Praise the Lord hallelujah, Jesus, Jesus. Praise God, hallelujah. That has no meaning to it at all, just just verbiage. Folks, God wants us to grow up. And that’s what this book of Hebrews is about saying quit remaining babies like that I want you to grow. I want you to grow in the grace of God. I want you to understand why you believe what you believe. I want you to understand the depth of why you believe what you believe. This Jesus Is it because he lives forever we have a permanent priesthood. Therefore, therefore, because of that, he is able to save what? Completely completely. What does it mean when something has been saved completely? Kind of means he’s been saved completely. In the Greek that means he has been saved completely. It’s the same deal and and completeness can now can you add to completeness? Can you subtract from completeness? Remember when the scripture where it says you have been made? What? Complete in Christ. What does that mean? That you have been saved completely. Now, if you’ve been saved completely, could you lose what you’ve just been saved completely with? No, because the salvation that you received is dependent upon the one who made the oath not upon you who received it, is that correct or not? In other words, if you got a guarantee on a car, five year unconditional guarantee, and the transmission went out, would you really have to worry if the manufacturer was credible about getting it fixed? Well, you said, Well, you didn’t drive it very well, that’s not the issue. They guaranteed fix it. So you’ve gotten been guaranteed, based upon the qualification of the guarantor. And the guarantor saved you completely. So if you’re saved completely, then how could you lose your completeness? You see, when people say about the totality of salvation, and isn’t just verbiage, well, I’ve just come up with that, or that’s what we Baptist believe. Well, that’s what we charismatic. So that’s what we are into that kind of stuff. That’s a flimsy reason to believe anything. There’s reasons why you believe. And the reason apart, among many reasons, that I don’t believe, I know in the depths of my of my soul. And I know, you do too. I hope you do. That you have been saved completely is because the word says so it is there. And it’ll say so again, and another way and again and another way. And you say when we believe even they say Why that’s just a minor doctrine. No, it isn’t. When we believe we can lose their salvation, we are looking into the face of Christ and calling him a liar who says I’ve saved you completely. If you could lose your salvation, then your salvation is predicated upon you and what you’re doing, not me and what I’m doing, which is quite frankly, what all religion is anyway. And of course, then you get the people said, Oh, well, you teach people that there’s got to live like a devil said, I have noticed that not doing that anyway. I mean, I haven’t seen much sinless perfection in a legalistic church, have you? And that’s not the issue anyway. The issue is not what would you do? If. That’s not the issue anyway. And as much as I’m not God, I shouldn’t be concerned, what you do and what you don’t do. What I want to be concerned with is communicating truth. And what you do with that truth that’s between you and God. But it doesn’t negate the truth. When Christ says, You’ve been saved completely, he means you’ve been saved completely. And he is the one who did it. He is the only one with the indestructible life, he is the only one who has been raised from the dead, He is God, he always has been, he always is and always will be. And God promised something. And he said, believe it. It’s an indestructible life. So it says we have it he therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them. Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through Christ.

Folks, the reason that it is Jesus only is because that’s how God had to arrange that. You see, when you’re dealing with this area of salvation, you have to see God and all of his fullness and you have to see man and his condition. And the wages of sin is death. And the gift of God is life. And so the issue with man and God is an issue of life and death. And if the wages of sin is death, and all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, then that means all are dead. And if all are dead, what’s the only solution to death, life and life cannot be generated in a corpse. If a corpse is going to come to life, something called Life’s going to have to get into that thing, because death can’t produce life. And so the condition of mankind is a condition of spiritual death. And the reason that Christ is not a way or a truth or any life, but the Way, the Truth and the Life is because he’s the only one who had life. God looked at man and said, Man needs life. And the only life that they need is God’s life. And so I will send my Son God to this earth to give them life. He’s the only one that couldn’t give us life. Buddha couldn’t give you life Confucius couldn’t give you life. Mohammed couldn’t give you life. A Baptist can’t give you life. Presbyterian couldn’t give you life. Catholic priests can’t give you a life. I couldn’t give you a life. You can’t give each other life. If spiritual life is not there the only way you could get life as if it was given to you. So we didn’t have life. That’s what salvation is folks life. What are you saved from? For the wages of sin. What’s the wages of sin? What’s the solution to death? Life. You see religion twist that, as it always does, and it makes the issue sin. And so all we think about is sin, and sin and sin. That’s what the Old Testament that’s all I had to think with because they were living under the law, the law demands you think about sin all the time. What else can the law demand, that’s what the law is talking about isn’t it. It forces you to think about you. There’s no option except to think about you. That’s what the law demands of you. There isn’t anything to do with life. It has to do with performance. Christ said there’s something beyond this behavior that everyone’s so concerned with. And there’s a reason for that behavior. Folks, it’s like looking down at a, at a corpse and sitting there saying, I wonder why it’s stinketh. Let’s see, if we can figure this out. I wonder if he had a background? I wonder if his mother didn’t treat him nice. He didn’t sit there. Why does he stinketh? He’s dead. And folks, that’s the way it is. Why do we behave this way? Let’s sit down and sit down and figure out why you behave this way. Your dead that’s why you behave that way. You’re behaving like a dead corpse. That’s what you are. We’re sitting around trying to figure that out, as if I could get it figured out, would that make you alive?

And so the whole world is sitting around trying to figure out a corpse wandering was acting like a dead person. It’s because it is dead. That’s why it’s acting like a dead person. Life is the issue of salvation. That’s why Jesus is not just something Well, I just kind of got this guy out of the blue. And if you believe in him, that’s it. That’s not it. Christ was God. God was solving a problem. He saw man in his pitiful condition and said I’m gonna go solve it for them. How come? Because I love them. Now it goes ahead to say that he lives then he saves completely those who come to God through Him. Well, what is again the world want to do? They want to try to come to God now the way you see again. And so what are we doing? Well, I’m coming to God, I’m coming to God, I’m coming to God. What are you doing? Well, I’m praising, I’m praying. I’m having meetings. You know, I’m sitting over there and clap my hands to Buddha. I’m praying seven times a day, and everybody’s gonna pray and pray and pray and pray that. Say what are you doing? Trying to get nearer to God praying and praying and praying. If I just talk long enough, he’s gonna hear me after a while. After all my husband does. And so we got all that data. It’s all religious stuff. You come to God, not just to come to God, you come to God for what He alone can give you. What alone can he give you? Life. What’s your problem in Why do you want to come to God? Because you’re dead. I want to come to God and work Under God who want to come to Goddess, well, there’s something missing, you obviously haven’t experienced him coming to you. And so we have to realize there’s something beyond just Jesus. Jesus just didn’t come on the scene and say, Okay, now if you believe in me, that’s it. Jesus was sent by God, God Himself coming to this earth to provide for you and me what we don’t have. LIFE. And that’s why when Jesus says, I am the resurrection, and the life and whosoever believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever lives and believes in me, will never die. What happens when we believe that we come to God through who? Jesus, the only one who could give you life. Now it says, such a high priest meets our need. Who’s the only one could meet that need? One who is holy, blameless. Holy, set apart by God. Holy means exactly what he was. Holy. Blameless is his relationship down here. Nothing we can even blame him for. People came to Jesus to crucify him. He said, For what sin are you accusing me of? And the only reply they could have is not for any sin. We can’t find a sin. Well, that’s getting pretty good when we can’t find a sin in somebody. We couldn’t even find a sin in him. And his arch enemies, were able to say I don’t find any fault with you. I can’t find a sin that you’ve done.

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The only thing I got against you is you being a mere man, false conception claimed yourself to be God. That’s what we’re gonna that’s why we’re gonna crucify you. Not because of anything you’ve done, because you can’t find anything you’ve ever done wrong. It’s, it’s because what you’re saying, you’re claiming yourself to be God. Seems like they could have figured out that if they couldn’t if he didn’t have any sin, who he was. But they couldn’t even figure that out. And so not only was he holy, but he was blameless before you and me. Set apart from sinners. In other words, who’s the sinners? Us, dead. Doesn’t mean, we’re sinners because we’re out sinning, a sinner is a dead person. It’s an unbeliever that then it’s not come alive yet. So he was set apart from that. Remember, we talked about the first man Adam created alive spiritually, Jesus called the last Adam, the only man ever born alive spiritually. It says when he was the first born from among the what? The dead. Who are the dead? You and me call centers, dead people. He was the first born, the only man ever born alive, spiritually set apart, holy, blameless, set apart from everyone else exalted above the heavens. And unlike other high priests, he does not need to offer offer sacrifices day after day first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. Any priest has to if he’s going to offer sins for you, I got offered first for me. Because there’ll be no way for me to be offering a sin for you and not for me. Jesus didn’t offer any sins for himself. He didn’t have any. It said he sacrificed for their sins once and for all. He didn’t have to go back. Do you realize that under the priesthood that even if all of you, if I was a priest, and all of you lived all year and didn’t sin, I’d still had to go to the Day of Atonement? For who? For me. Because I’ll guarantee I couldn’t claim that. So I had to go for me anyway, not Jesus, he did at one time, he didn’t have to do it for himself. So the only other person that he had to do it for it was you. It says, Well, without the shedding of blood, there is no what? Forgiveness of sin. So how many times would he have to come and die just for you in one day? Not pointing you out, Bob, just happen to know you better most people. One time, one time, when he offered not the blood of a bull and goat. But he offered himself for the law appoints as high priest men who are weak. But the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has made been made perfect, for how long? For forever.

Let’s go back at the verse 25 a minute. All of this is talking about what Jesus did. He is able to save completely. There’s only one thing he says, is missing. There’s only one thing for you to do. What is that? Come to God, that’s all. Come unto Me. Jesus said, Come unto me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden. And I’ll give you rest and peace from your soul. That’s the only thing to do. Come unto me. That’s it. He didn’t say go out and get baptized. He didn’t say go out in the end and start doing good. He said realize there’s only one. That’s me. That’s Jesus. There’s no other priests. If you’ve been raised with priests, there aren’t any. It’s man made has nothing to do with that with God at all. It’s all man made. It’s not coming to a preacher or a pastor. It is come unto me, Jesus, the one who said all who come unto me, I will in no wise cast out. Say you’ve been made complete. He says completely. You come unto me, I’ll never cast you out. The one who said Come unto me and I will never ever, ever leave you nor forsake you. That kind of blows the idea, doesn’t it that I came to Christ, but I went out and blew it. To God left me. No, He didn’t. Not if you’re in Christ. It’s what John was talking about what he said they went out from among us, because they were never a part of us. If you ever walk away from Christ, it’s because you never walk to him. You’re playing religion and walk away from him. But it’s impossible for one who is in Christ to walk away from Christ. The reason for it is because if you walk away, he’ll follow you. Folks, when people realize and to get into all this religious stuff that I’m and we use terminology like I’m backslidden and what that means is I started sinning again, I got news for you never stopped. A person does not get in that condition because they’ve been sinning. They get in that condition because of the one sin of stopping to believe Jesus when He said, I’ll never cashed you away. I have forgiven your sins all of the. What causes you and me to walk away from God in our experience, is not a cause of what we’re doing wrong. But it’s because of our refusal to go to him who did everything right. It’s when man refuses to receive the forgiveness that’s been offered to him by Christ Jesus.

A little girl wrote to me a letter that came up to Glennairee for our last conference. From New York. I think she had 15 years of age that she had been raped by her father, all of her young life and left home at 14 or 15. She lived in Central Park. She lived with a guy and they had four kids. She lived again in the streets. Her husband was a drug addict. She was an everything that you can imagine. One of our ex one of the guys that was in our training befriended her. He was planning on coming to the conference at Glennairee, had his plane ticket, bought, had his reservation on they had already paid for the conference. He met this little girl and talked to her and said, I want you to go in my place. And he sponsored her. And when she came, she looked like she had lived in the street. She testified to the fact that when she was 16, and utter desperation, she had gone to a place and and had made an altar call and said received Christ. But she said the church that she was in taught her that the reason she had lost her marriage, and the reason she was all that was because of the sin she had committed. And so she said, she go through the place, and it clicked my heart because I can remember my own life, that same thing of saying, God, I love you too much. I can’t keep I can’t love you the way I do and keep doing what I’m doing. So I just miserable, I’ll walk away from you. Because it isn’t the case. I don’t know I love you. I do, but I just I keep blowing it. And so she said she walked away from what she thought was walking away from God. And she wrote a letter back that after that week, and I saw the transformation take place in her life. And after that week, how Christ did become real. And she realized it wasn’t anything that she could ever done to separate it from the love of God. Came to grips with the unconditional love and grace of God that may be given to her in Christ Jesus. And in her letter, a number of months later said she’d never been so happy. And she said, our kids want to thank you too, because everything I’ve learned, I’m passing on to them. And they too, are coming to know about Christ. Religion had that girl thinking God didn’t want to have anything to do with her. Truth said Come unto me. I will know wise ever cast you out. I am the one who saves completely. If you labor and are heavy laden, Come unto me. That’s not answering an altar call. That’s coming unto Him. That is realizing the one who is constantly standing at the door of our hearts and knocking and said open it up. And I’ll come into you. That is not only for initial salvation, that is also after we’ve been saved. Come on to me. If you labor and are heavy laden, what labors and heavy laden you? The law. You’ve gotten back under again. You’ve gotten back under performance orientation again. Leave it behind. Come unto me. I (JESUS) The one who saves completely. The one who is holding the one who is exalted above all the heavens, the one who is indestructible Life will always be interceding on your behalf. That one, come on to me. Let’s pray together.

Father, I pray that we can be freed from the burden that we sometimes experience, have tried to communicate without communicating truth and its fullness. There’s a reason why Jesus is the only way there’s a reason why he’s the only Truth and the only life. And many times we’ve never come because of lack of information. Just never been taught, we’ve never heard. And I pray that as we’ve gone over these things today that if there’s anyone here who possibly for the first time understood the fullness of the gospel of Christ that they’ll come to him today just come to Him by faith believing in you. Our hearts have been burdened. We know they’re not answers. We look for fulfillment in our husbands and our wives and our jobs and our professions. They’re not there, they’ll disappoint us every time. And you say Come unto me. Sometimes we do that sometimes we’ve come to you by faith, and then our eyes get back on the world again. And we try to find meaning and purpose to life again, in the same things that drove us to you to begin with. And you’re always standing there just sayin, come to me. Come to me. If there’s one today that has never done that. But your heart is responding to the truth of the gospel just turned to him and to be able to say, Lord Jesus, I really need you. And I want to come to you today through your Son Jesus Christ. To be my life to be my everything. Amen.

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