Radio Broadcast Wednesday 04/03/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P88 (04-03-24)

In Christ Jesus, You Have Eternal Life!

~ There are those that teach, that at some point in the future, you “get” eternal life. This is one of the reasons that many people believe they can lose eternal life, is because they don’t believe they have eternal life yet. They gloss over the scriptures, believing in the teaching of man instead of the word of God. They think salvation is getting their sins forgiven, and having them constantly forgiven their whole lives, thus if they do some sin (they can never tell you what that sin is), just that it will cause a person to lose eternal life. So because eternal life is some sort of future event, they see it as something they might not get if they upset God so to speak. It’s important that we understand the schemes of the devil. He has inverted the meaning of the words of God. He has taken things, that should be obvious to those who are truly in Christ and made them be something entirely different in meaning.

When a person places true faith in Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes to live in them immediately. It is not some future event. And the Holy Spirit is the same Life that raised Jesus from the dead. The same Holy Spirit gives us spiritual life too, the very moment of faith in Jesus. In the future we get a new body, that will house us, but right this very moment the new you (your spirit and His Spirit) are housed in a body of flesh and blood. So if you have the Son, you have eternal life. Stand firm in that foundation of Jesus in you, your only hope of glory.

~ Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. ^{1 John 5:12,13}

~ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. ^{Galatians 5:1}

~ “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.” ^{Hebrews 10:1-4}

~ “Now, here’s what we have to come to grips with guys. And that’s where this this thing of faith is thrown around. And we got big faith, we got little faith that is totally irrelevant. Jesus said if any of us had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could move mountains. I haven’t moved any of those lately. So I can tell you some what sighs my faith is somewhat smaller than that of a mustard seed. But you see the size of my faith is irrelevant. Because if I’m measuring my faith, I’m insulting God. I don’t have big faith, I have a big God. I don’t need big faith, all I have to do is to have enough to realize that that is God speaking to me. And if it’s God, then He knows a little bit more than I do. So I’m as well believe him and trust him. So when Christ comes and says, It is finished, there is no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus, there is no more judgment for your sins, there is you are complete in Christ, all of your sins have been taken away at the cross, all of your sins have been forgiven, you have been made perfect in the sight of God through your relationship with Christ Jesus, by that one offering you made perfect in the sight of God, all of those whom he has made holy, that through that offering, he did it once and for all, never to do it again. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. So if God was any further forgiveness, to be executed on your behalf by God, he would have to come and die again, he’s not going to do that. He’s going to come back the second time not to take care of sin. He’s already done that, but to bring salvation for those who are waiting on him. Now if though it is true, then the only thing Faith says is Lord, I believe it. That’s about all you can do, isn’t it? And so when we’re dealing with this, we have to take a look at this. Either Jesus did it all or he didn’t do anything at all. Either Christ finished the work or he didn’t finish it. Or if he finished part of it, which did he finish in which didn’t he? And who in the world is going to know? God’s grace is either total or don’t call it grace. People says that’s cheap grace. I don’t care. It’s cheap o4 expensive. It’s grace. And you do not because someone wants to abuse the grace of God don’t negate the fact of the grace of God. Either all of our sins are totally forgiven or none of them are forgiven. If some of them forgiven, and some of them aren’t, which ones are and which ones aren’t? And how are you going to know? Eternal life either lasts forever, don’t call it eternal life. Just call it temporal life.” ~ Bob George

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How are we born into this world dead or alive, spiritually? Dead. So we are born under the wages of sin which is death. And we remain under that death sentence until we do what? Choose what? Life and that’s why Christ said I came at you might have life what do we need life for? Because we’re dead. the resurrection and the life whosoever believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he what? Live and whosoever lives and believes in me will never what? Die. So the whole issue is life and death. So does God send somebody to hell? You send yourself. In other words by refusing life, how do you remain? Dead. That’s all. So you just remain in your state when you refuse to receive life. Now Christ said I didn’t come into the world to condemn it but to save it now, isn’t it interesting that we who are Christians, who claim to be indwelled by the living Christ, spend so much of our time condemning the world and so we’re out condemning the world and trying to make the world moral. So you got the Moral Majority, which is neither, neither moral nor the majority. And you got people out trying to preach morality when they themselves are not. And we’re not trying to clean up the world. Trying to get the world all cleaned up. Why? Because we’re in love with it. Well they think like get the world cleaned up, then I got a neater place to live. He said, We are Christ’s ambassadors. Isn’t that what he said? We are Christ’s ambassadors, and as though God we’re here we are there for Christ’s ambassadors. What’s an ambassador? Somebody represents another country than your own. Whereas our citizenship, it says our citizenship is in heaven. It says, We are aliens here, we’re in the world, but we’re not all of it. Right? If I was an ambassador to France, I’d be in France, but I wouldn’t be off France. If I if I took on their citizenship and renounce mine. I’d be in it and of it. But I’m in it. But I’m not of it. I’m an ambassador over there. My citizenship is the United States of America. I’m an ambassador in France. I’m in France, but I’m not all France. Now. is it my job as an ambassador in France to go out and pick up Moulin Rouge? To go down and try to get all the French quit drinking wine? To try to close down all the strip joints in France? Is that my job as an ambassador? No, what is my job as an ambassador? To represent the United States of America. Because of I don’t represent the United States of America, I will begin getting into the affairs of France. And before long, I won’t know whether I’m a citizen, there or here. And instead of being in France, but not up France, I’ve suddenly find myself in France and of France. And a man who tries to serve two masters at the same time is going to be a double minded man in all ways.

And if we who are ambassadors here on the face of this earth, represent the kingdom of God are all involved in trying to bring morality to the dead, who in the world is going to proclaim Christ to people because you don’t have time to do both of them. The reason the church in England today is in the shape that it is in it started out through the Wesley movement, another flame, a flame for God, preaching the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. After a while they got bored with Jesus and started to social issues one social issue after another social issue, after another social issue, you can hardly find the gospel proclaimed over there today. And the same thing is gonna happen in this country is evangelicals forget what our goal is, and what our job isn’t. Try getting involved in brain morality, to the dead when they alive aren’t even moral. If you don’t believe that, see what’s going on television. If you want to clean up some brother, we better go to our own churches. There’s plenty to clean up in there. We keep pointing our bony fingers at the world and before long the world says brother, I’m going to point my bony finger back at you buster. We say Oh, no separation from church and state. Well, what are you doing over there in our state? Friends, when the Lord Jesus Christ said that we’re ambassadors, he told us there’s one thing we’re here to do. And that’s to go out and tell people the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not counting your sins against you. And then as he said, I implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God, be reconciled. Christ is reconciled you unto himself, be reconciled to God. Why? Because God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us. So that in him in Christ, we might become the righteousness of God. It’s a good news of the gospel. Well, there’s no judgment for our sins. Our sins have already been judged. There’s no condemnation for the believer. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are there it is again in Christ Jesus. How come? Well, because through Christ Jesus, not because of you, but him, the law of the Spirit of Life, see the Spirit of Life, certainly free from the law of sin and death. What’s the law of sin and death? A man who sins will surely what? Die. What’s the law of life? The man who believes will surely what? Live the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is what? Life that’s why who has the Son has what? Life he does not have the Son does not have what? Life these things are written into you believe in the name of Son of God, know that you may what? Hope that you have, know that you have, what life what kind of life eternal life was that to be found in him. So you and I have been set free from the law of sin and death by the law of life. The very moment that we step out of Adam into Christ, Christ steps out of heaven into you, and you become born again of the Spirit of God. Christ comes to live within you. The in him you have forgiveness, redemption, the forgiveness of sins. The forgiveness provided for you at the cross is received in his life. And in Him we are now free from all condemnation. The reason that we are free from condemnation is nothing there to accuse you. Because all of your sins were already judged the verdict, guilty punishment, death, Christ took it all. There’s nothing else to accuse you of. It’s all been done. You’ve already been accused, you already been declared guilty. You’ve already experienced death, he took it for you and raised again to give life back to you. So there’s no condemnation. Now what the law was powerless to do, and it was weakened by this sinful nature of ours God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so He condemned sin in sinful man. So there’s no condemnation.

So the cross then was an end, not an end in itself, but a means of accomplishing this thing called reconciliation. Then the sin issue has been dealt with once and for all. Oh, guys, take a look at this just for a minute. If someplace down around 30 to 33 ad, Christ died for the sins of the world took them away. And here’s the timeline of eternity. Sometime between Christ’s death and eternity you were born. And one of these days obviously, you’re going to die that hasn’t occurred yet, obviously. So some time between your birth and the coming of your death. You have received Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Now in that timeline when you receive Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, how many of your sins were covered by the craft the cross? All of the. Now some people will say Well, Bob, I understand Christ dying for all my past sins but about my future sins? How many of your sins were in the future when he died for them 2000 years ago? All of them. Appears to me that will be true to some of your some of your old but you’re not that old. Yeah. All of them. Now the issue is, do we believe that? He made his complete and him for in Christ in Christ, all of the fullness of deity lives in bodily form and you have been given fullness or completeness in Christ. In other words, you’re complete in Christ.

Back in Indiana, we used to have apple trees in the backyard there’s little apples have come out, come out there remember those hard as a brick. And we’ve taken those apples when they get hard like that and have fights with them. And our day had been made when we could clock somebody in the head with one of those real good and now that that little apple was hard as a brick, let me ask you is that perfect apple coming out there as a perfect apple? It’s not a pumpkin. Is it? What is it? It’s apple is a perfect apple Is God gonna add anything to that? No. Everything that’s God is gonna get. Said when you came out of your mom’s womb everything you got you got right then. So if you didn’t know it had to grow. But but it was always there no nose was added no ears were added, no eyes right? Nothing. Nothing was that you are complete. Now. Were you mature. Neither was that little apple. That little apple through abiding in the life of the tree grew and matured. But it was complete. When you and I were born again you were what? Complete in Christ not gonna add anything to you. There’s no new spirit that’s gonna come in. There’s no new anything’s gonna be added no new ears, no new eyes, no nothing. You’ve got everything you’re gonna get. Now, what do you do? Well, you mature in that you grow in that you grow in your knowledge of the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it says that truth does what to us? It sets us free. So you’re not you can’t take away from completeness. You can’t add to completeness. So you’re going to have to rest in the fact that Lord you’ve done it all now live in it.

Now, here’s what we have to come to grips with guys. And that’s where this this thing of faith is thrown around. And we got big faith, we got little faith that is totally irrelevant. Jesus said if any of us had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could move mountains. I haven’t moved any of those lately. So I can tell you some what sighs my faith is somewhat smaller than that of a mustard seed. But you see the size of my faith is irrelevant. Because if I’m measuring my faith, I’m insulting God. I don’t have big faith, I have a big God. I don’t need big faith, all I have to do is to have enough to realize that that is God speaking to me. And if it’s God, then He knows a little bit more than I do. So I’m as well believe him and trust him. So when Christ comes and says, It is finished, there is no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus, there is no more judgment for your sins, there is you are complete in Christ, all of your sins have been taken away at the cross, all of your sins have been forgiven, you have been made perfect in the sight of God through your relationship with Christ Jesus, by that one offering you made perfect in the sight of God, all of those whom he has made holy, that through that offering, he did it once and for all, never to do it again. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. So if God was any further forgiveness, to be executed on your behalf by God, he would have to come and die again, he’s not going to do that. He’s going to come back the second time not to take care of sin. He’s already done that, but to bring salvation for those who are waiting on him. Now if though it is true, then the only thing Faith says is Lord, I believe it. That’s about all you can do, isn’t it? And so when we’re dealing with this, we have to take a look at this. Either Jesus did it all or he didn’t do anything at all. Either Christ finished the work or he didn’t finish it. Or if he finished part of it, which did he finish in which didn’t he? And who in the world is going to know? God’s grace is either total or don’t call it grace. People says that’s cheap grace. I don’t care. It’s cheap o4 expensive. It’s grace. And you do not because someone wants to abuse the grace of God don’t negate the fact of the grace of God. Either all of our sins are totally forgiven or none of them are forgiven. If some of them forgiven, and some of them aren’t, which ones are and which ones aren’t? And how are you going to know? Eternal life either lasts forever, don’t call it eternal life. Just call it temporal life.

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So we’ve said before, if you see someone out there bobbing up and down in the ocean, you pull up in your motorboat, and your keen mind picks up when you see him going down for a third time this guy needs saved just sharp mind picks it up immediately. So you’re down you say well, how do you save that person? Somebody says by example by, oh by example, oh okay, well, I jump out and say watch me. And all of a sudden he’s gone. Any way how else do you save somebody? Oh well, you read to him. So I show him a book on how to swim. Salvation is when I pick that guy out of the water and dump him in the boat, isn’t it. But does that salvation? See because on the way back for sure that guy cusses and he got so happy about being saved. He started dancing. God forbid. And I got so disgusted with him, I just pitched him overboard, pitched him back. Is that salvation? No, it just a reprieve. Salvation is when you pick the guy up, stick him in a boat and deliver him safely to the shore. Now you’ve saved him. Anything else is temporal. Anything else is a reprieve. Don’t even call it salvation. So when you’re talking about eternal life, it either lasts forever or don’t call it eternal life. Now when did you and I receive eternal life? The minute we had what? The Son. See, it’s not the sweet by and by, it’s the minute you have the sun you have what? Life. Now either it’s finished in regard to the forgiveness issue or it’s not finished? And if it isn’t finished, then how much more does he have to do? And how would you know, because he certainly like I read about it in the Bible? You know what happens folks? We say, Well, yeah, Christ might have finished his work, but I’m not finished with you. Christ might have finished but I’m not finished with you I’m going to make sure you shape up. And man takes on the position of trying to shape up people, instead of trusting the God who saved them, to shape us up. Either we’ve been reconciled to God or we’ve never been reconciled to God.

So as I said, faith must have an object and the object of our faith concerning forgiveness is Christ and His finished work on the cross. Now faith is being sure what we hope for and certainly what we don’t see. But it’s by grace that you’re saved through faith. It’s not from yourself, it’s a gift of God, not of works, so that no man can boast. Bible tells us that everything that is not a faith is sin. As you receive Christ Jesus the Lord continue to live in Him. And how did we receive Him? By faith. How do you live in Him? By faith. By faith in what? How good I am? No how wonderful He is. The Righteous One will live by faith. Who’s a righteous one? People who have been made righteous by Christ Jesus. How are they gonna live? By faith in the one who made me that way, will preserve me. And without faith, it’s impossible to please God. Now folks, coming to that is entering into the Sabbath rest of this talk about in the Scripture, there remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For anyone who enters God rest also rests from his own works, just as God did from his. And therefore let us make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall by falling short or following the example of the disobedience in other words, the ones who didn’t enter into it. And therefore, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience, and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope that we profess for He who promised is faithful. He who promised is faithful. What did Christ promise? He said, I’ll complete the work I beginning. What does religion say? You need to complete it. Christ said, I’ll complete it. He said Faithful is He Who called you who also what? Do it. Who called you? Christ. Who will do it? Christ. I’m convinced that he is able persuaded that He is able to complete that work that he began in that day. It’s all Jesus and none of us.

Now folks as we came to the end of the 10th chapter of Hebrews where he says there is a New Covenant. And let’s just go ahead and begin in verse 11. And and we’ll close up. Day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties again and again and again. He offers the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. In some instances that’s still going on. and where it isn’t going on with a priest. It’s going on with First John one Niner. And older calls, same stuff. But when this priest had offered for all time, one sacrifice for sins, He sat down the right hand of God. And since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because look at this by one sacrifice, not two, not three, not 101 sacrifice, he has made perfect forever. Those who are being made holy, who’s being made holy, look up to firsthand by this will, this brand new will this New Covenant, we have been made holy, through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, not us once and for all. He made you perfect, he set you apart. And the Holy Spirit also testifies about this when he says this is the covenant, the brand new covenant that I will make with him after that time, says the Lord. I’ll put my laws in their hearts, I write them on their minds and he adds their sins, and lawless acts, I will remember no more. And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins. Throw away your all alter, throw away your confession booth. Throw away any technique that you think that you have to keep yourself forgiven. And to realize it’s been done once and for all. Now again, do you believe that? Is that true? Or is these scriptures we’ve been reading not in the Bible? If that is true, what can you walk out of here concluding in regard to what God has done with your sins? What can you walk out of here concluding? It’s finished. It’s done. Now is that good news? The kind of good news it’s a oh wow, that’s wonderful. I think I’ll just go live like the devil. Now what kind of insult to God is that to think that a God who lives in you is going to lead you to that mentality? Guys, if forgiveness could be obtained down there at an altar someplace, which it was in the Old Testament, could be obtained down there it was down there. A man walked to that altar by himself. And he got his sins covered. And he walked away from that altar, the same guy that walked to the altar, he walked there alone, he walked away alone, forgiven loner. When you and I come to Christ, we don’t come to Him for forgiveness. We come to him for life.

That’s why it says in Romans that while we were yet, excuse me, when we were yet enemies, 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, we’re saved for the life of Christ. Christ life living in you is your only hope of glory. When you come to Christ just for forgiveness, I say you could have Jesus could have stayed at home. He already had a system to get forgiven and forgiven and forgiven and forgiven. He already had a system for that he could have stayed in heaven and saved the torture. But that forgiveness could not give you life. All it could do is give you forgiveness. So people today are coming to Christ for forgiveness. Now if all salvation is is getting forgiveness and you come and say Well, boy, this message is great because now I don’t have to keep getting forgiven over and over and over again same person but I’m now forgiven. Why I just go I might as well go live like the devil. Say Yeah, that’s true. Probably because you don’t have anything sustaining you at all, any more than the Old Testament people do who got forgiven. But you come to Christ for something other than forgiveness you come to Christ for life. I came that you might have life. Whose life? My (Jesus) life living in you. Your hope of glory. Have you come to him? You come to the empty tomb, you come to the resurrected Christ to reaches down to you and me today with life says, Come unto me, not come unto my forgiveness not come unto my healing. Come unto me, my personhood, Jesus, and I’ll give you rest and peace for your soul. And we come unto him for what? Life, Christ alive living in me. And it says in Him, we have forgiveness, don’t get forgiven anymore. We have it now. So I can rejoice in the forgiveness that has been dealt with by God once and for all. But how much more do I rejoice at the fact that he gave me his life? To do what? Teach my mind control my emotions direct my will be my best friend closer than our own breath. That we can truly know what it means when we sing the song and he walks with me. And he talks with me. He tells me, I am his own. And to be able to have that personal, intimate relationship with a living God. A God like that leads you into lasciviousness? It’s an insult to Him. The reason that people do not want to hang on to the finality of the cross is because we don’t realize the reality of the resurrection. We don’t see salvation as anything is just getting sins forgiven. We don’t see that that forgiveness cannot be experienced out here. It’s only experienced in Him. And in Him, we have life. He walks with me. He talks with me. He tells me I am his own. And the joys we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known. That’s salvation.

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