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Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P20 (11-12-24)

Man Without The Holy Spirit is Dead and Does Not Have God Living in Them For Life

~ “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.” John 3:36

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

Life and death are important for us to understand for today. When people think of life, or death, they normally think only on the physical level. They have no idea that there is a spiritual level that is much more important than the physical. When the first Man, Adam and Eve (Man ~ Male and Female) sinned, the Spirit of God departed from them. For in the beginning, Adam and Eve (Man) were created alive with the Holy Spirit living in them. That’s how God intended Man to be. To be one with God. To have God living in them. To have the Spirit of God living inside them, giving them eternal LIFE. However, when Man decided that he didn’t need God to determine right from wrong, and decided to venture out on his own, separate from God, God’s Spirit departed from them. On that very day Man died spiritually. And when God said, on the day you eat thereof, you shall surely die. “but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” Genesis 2:17 This was NOT some future event. It happened immediately just as God said it would. It happened on that very moment they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they DIED. God’s Spirit departed from them. God’s Spirit is LIFE. And the absence of LIFE is Death.

So it’s also important for us to understand that we were ALL born in Adam, dead to the Holy Spirit living in us. We were born dead spiritually, for our spirit was not merged with His Spirit at the time of our physical birth. It’s only when we are born again of the Spirit of God that we have New Life that is eternal. When New birth takes place, a person accepts Jesus, God in flesh by faith. First of all we need to understand that Jesus took away everyone’s sins at the cross. And now He says, “come to Me” and receive LIFE. God wants to place His Spirit in Man, and those that are His, do indeed have the Holy Spirit living in them. Those that do not come to Him by faith do NOT have the Holy Spirit living in them for Life.

So when you share Jesus today, make sure to explain it as a life and death issue. It’s NO longer come to Jesus to get your sins forgiven issue. For that is a lie of Satan, because all your sins were forgiven at the cross, yet all religions wants us to continue believing the ongoing forgiveness lie. So instead, speak TRUTH today, be sure to place your faith in Jesus for Life. For He alone is the Resurrection and the LIFE!

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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~ Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:1-21

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.”

~ “Now again, guys, what is death? It is the absence of what? Life. What is darkness? The absence of light. This condition of the world is dark. When the sun comes up, it dispels the darkness. But darkness is the condition of the world. It dispels the darkness. When the sun goes down, we just return to our normal state of darkness. On the day that man sinned, you will surely die the life of God that was in Adam. Adam was created alive, bodily, soulishly and spiritually, alive in all ways. On the day that you eat thereof, you will surely die. The life of God departed from his human spirit, and he died spiritually. That human spirit of ours that differentiates us and between the animal kingdom and the human kingdom did not die dead, dead. It died to what vacated it, and what vacated your human spirit was God. So man is left with a human spirit very much alive and longing for God. And that’s why man is insatiably religious. That’s why man, as Edward told in all things that man has this God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man that can only be filled by His Son, Jesus Christ, that vacuum that was created at spiritual death must be filled or we will die empty. Why does man walk around feeling there’s something missing? Because there’s something missing, and what is missing is the life of God living in his creation, and we can no more function as a man without God living in us, because God in the man is indispensable to the humanity of the man, and man can no longer function without God. Then that light bulb can function without electricity in it, or your car can function without gasoline in it. It cannot function without gasoline. Man cannot function without God, living in Him as God intended man to function.” ~ Bob George

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Well, let’s turn to Romans five last week as we talked about the fact that how we came to a therefore in this passage in Romans, this Book of Romans is, without question, probably the most phenomenal books that has ever been written on the face of the earth. And it’s the logic of why you and I need salvation. It’s also the way and the means in which God provided salvation for all men, Hebrew and Gentile alike. And as we talked about that, how, from God’s vantage point, he only divides up humanity in three ways, the Hebrew the and the Gentile, and then the ecclesia, which is called the church, which is called out people from both Hebrew and Gentile. The opposite of being a Hebrew is not being a Christian. The opposite of being a Hebrew is a Gentile, and the opposite of being a Gentile is a Hebrew. And Christ came to save both the Hebrew and the Gentile alike in an identically the same way, he reduced all of humanity down to the state of spiritual death, when Adam came into this world and stood at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and said, God, I do not need you to determine right from wrong and good from evil. I will do that on my own. God said to Adam on that day that you make a determination that you are going to be the determining factor as to what is right and wrong and good and evil. On that day, you will surely die to God, and you will be alive to yourself on your own, to make your own decisions. Whenever we refuse to go to God and to go to God’s word to determine what is right and wrong and good and evil, and we determine on our own that I don’t need that instruction. I will determine it myself. I will make my own rules and regulations on my own. He says, you’re dead. Now, from that day forth, Man had a problem. It’s called spiritual death, and that death entered into all humanity on the day that Adam died, death entered into the world. Spiritual death.

Now again, guys, what is death? It is the absence of what? Life. What is darkness? The absence of light. This condition of the world is dark. When the sun comes up, it dispels the darkness. But darkness is the condition of the world. It dispels the darkness. When the sun goes down, we just return to our normal state of darkness. On the day that man sinned, you will surely die the life of God that was in Adam. Adam was created alive, bodily, soulishly and spiritually, alive in all ways. On the day that you eat thereof, you will surely die. The life of God departed from his human spirit, and he died spiritually. That human spirit of ours that differentiates us and between the animal kingdom and the human kingdom did not die dead, dead. It died to what vacated it, and what vacated your human spirit was God. So man is left with a human spirit very much alive and longing for God. And that’s why man is insatiably religious. That’s why man, as Edward told in all things that man has this God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man that can only be filled by His Son, Jesus Christ, that vacuum that was created at spiritual death must be filled or we will die empty. Why does man walk around feeling there’s something missing? Because there’s something missing, and what is missing is the life of God living in his creation, and we can no more function as a man without God living in us, because God in the man is indispensable to the humanity of the man, and man can no longer function without God. Then that light bulb can function without electricity in it, or your car can function without gasoline in it. It cannot function without gasoline. Man cannot function without God, living in Him as God intended man to function.

And so we go through the motions, and we go out seeking and searching, and we try one affair after another affair, and one bottle after another bottle, and one drug after another drug and activity all over the place, and we and we bury our lives with activity. So I don’t have to sit back and think as to what’s going on inside my life. And there were some people who are insistent, constantly involved in entertainment and being around people and partying, because I don’t have to sit and think as to how empty I am inside. And you got people who travel all over the place, and they go there and they go here and they travel here and they travel why? So they don’t have to be still long enough, as the Bible says, Be still and know that I’m God, because it’s only when you get still that you know that he’s God. And so we go to all of these things. We even go to churches. And then when we go to church, we get active. And we got to do this and do this and do this, kind of the opposite of our group, but we become Do, Do Christians, until just give me activity. I don’t want to know Jesus. I don’t want to know how empty I am inside. I just want some activity to keep me busy. And that’s the condition of man apart from God. And so God was meant to live in his creation. That’s how God designed man to live in his creation. And as I said, that apart from that, we’re not even we’re not there. We’re like a car without spark plugs in it. We can’t function properly.

And so this whole area of the book of Romans was explaining about how that God dealt with both the Hebrew and both with the Gentile, reducing us both to the same level of spiritual death, and then offering us spiritual life. Now in Romans five beginning, there’s the therefore, and you say, what’s a therefore, therefore, it’s because of what he just got through saying in the first four chapters, in regard to the fact that the righteous will live by faith. And therefore, since we have been justified by faith, and guys, remember you have reconciliation. That’s what took place at the cross where God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not counting their sins against them.

Now, guys, listen, minute. God died for the sins of the whole world. He did not die for some sins. He died for all sins and all men back to Genesis, back to Adam, forward to eternity. All men’s sins were dealt with once and for all at the cross, not some mens’, all mens’. A gentleman called me the other day on the radio, and he said he was studying Calvinism, and he asked the typical questions about, Do I believe in limited atonement? I said, I don’t believe in either one of them. I don’t believe in limited and I don’t believe in atonement. Atonement was the covering of sin. That’s what took place with the blood of a bull and goat. Don’t insult the blood of Jesus by saying that his provision at the cross was the same as that of a bull and a goat. There’s no place in the Bible where it says Jesus atoned for sins. It says that Jesus took away sins. Behold, the Lamb of God, who what? Atoned? Who took away the sins of what? The whole world, and not only died for our sins, but the sins of the whole world. I said, Where Calvin was off is where many, many Christians today are off, and that is a belief system that getting your sins forgiven is salvation. There’s where he’s off. And folks, where your premise is off, everything is off. Are we together? If, if you’re, if you’re going to send up a rocket and it’s off by just a fraction down here, it’ll miss the moon by 100,000 miles. If your premise is off, your findings are off. The findings of experimentation are no more accurate than the original premise. The premise is that you’re saved, by getting your sins forgiven, nothing could be farther from the truth. Your sins are already forgiven, you’re saved from a consequence of sin. And what is the consequence of sin? Death and forgiveness does not provide life to the dead. Life provides life to the dead, and we’re going to hit that passage.

Therefore, since we’ve been justified now through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, you have peace with God. And until you have peace with God, you can’t experience the peace of God, through whom we have gained access now to God through faith into this grace in which we now stand and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, and not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings. And that’s what we talked about last week. Why would you rejoice in your sufferings? It says because we know that suffering produces something. It produces perseverance. When you suffer, you have perseverance. You can either go away from God, or you can persevere with God. You can have this attitude that God is going to cause all things to work together for good, to those who love him and are called according to His to His Word and called according to him. That’s a promise of God. When I run through a trial and tribulation, I got an option. I can say, oh, what’s God? And I talked I heard the other night on a television interview, a person lost his son, mad at God. Why would you be mad at God? Everyone’s going to die. Is it fun to lose a child? No, it is not fun to lose a child. It’s out of sync. But that happens, does it not? People get killed. People use drugs, and there’s all kinds of things that cause death to occur to young people. And you don’t get mad at God, because that happened. Now, when you get mad at God, you’re going to go in this direction, when you realize that as bad as that hurts, and it does hurt, that God will take it and work it together for good if I let him.

And so there’s where we understand that suffering, when you approach suffering, with an attitude of God, that it’s going to produce in you perseverance, and that perseverance is what’s going to produce character in you. It’s the kind of character that people want to have. It’s a kind of character that when you run into trials and tribulation, that you don’t see a person crumble under the trials and tribulation. You see a person who stands tall knowing something, and that is God will cause it to work together for good as bad as it is, God will take it and work it together for good. God never makes bad good, never but he can cause it to work together for good to those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. So it produces character and that and then a character produces hope. And this hope we’re talking about does not disappoint us. Why? Because God has poured out His love in our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom he has given us.

So again, folks, prior to Christ coming into this world, and prior to the day of Pentecost, man was basically on his own. He needed the law in order to have tracks, so to speak, to run on. He needed the law as boundaries in which to live. The law was given when they came out of Egypt for to keep them out of total chaos. They had lived in slavery for hundreds of years, and when you live in slavery, you don’t make decisions. And so God had to give them laws and instructions. Here’s how you’re going to live to keep from total chaos occurring. And it was a blessed thing for him to do. And those were the tracks that you ran on. Those were the parameters that you lived by. But you see, the Hebrew people then took those as means of righteousness, that those who live by them are righteous and God and those who don’t aren’t quite so righteous, and so you had your righteousness all attached in obedience to the law. But he said, No, no, that is not going to that’s not where you’re going to find acceptance in the sight of God, because no man, it says, will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law, because the standard of God is 100% and that’s why James said, if we kept the whole law and just violated in one point, we’re guilty of violating all of it. No man can stand before God in His own righteousness.

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So God prepared a way whereby man could be made Righteous, not by our own works, but by the works of the Righteous One, who is Christ, Jesus. And so he says, You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Christ didn’t come to save good people. There aren’t any. Now we walk around thinking we’re really good, and we talk about that, oh, he’s such a good person. Jesus said to one a by good except God. When they call Jesus good teacher, he said, Why do you call Me good? No one’s good except God. So if you’re going to call me good, call me God. If you don’t want to call me God, don’t call me good. Little paraphrase, but that’s what he was saying. None of us are good. There’s not a person sitting in this room that if you plant you park your mind on sin, are not capable of committing it. You can park your mind any place and give into it. And so we have to guard our mind. That’s why it says in the scripture, guard your mind. Why? If you don’t guard it, Satan is going to bombard it. And this is where everything starts, folks right up here in his head. This is where all sin starts, right up here. And if we park our minds on it, we’re going to give in to it. It’s that simple. So that’s why he says, Don’t be conformed to the world, but transformed how? By the renewing of your mind, get your mind soaked in truth. And there’s only one source of truth for us, and that’s the word of God. He says, Get your mind soaked in this become, become a person who knows what truth is, and park your mind there. Because if you don’t, Satan’s going to take it and park it and park it someplace else. So he said at just the right time, when we were still powerless, God died for the ungodly. He didn’t die for good people. He died for us, the ungodly. And it says very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, although it says for a good man, someone might possibly dare to die, but God demonstrates His love toward us in that while we were yet or still sinners, Christ died for us.

Now, folks again, what is a sinner? Is it someone who goes out and does a nasty nine, the Dirty Dozen, the terrible 12? What is the sinner? A sinner is an unbeliever. That’s what you are and what you were prior to the time that you became a believer in the one whom God sent to save us from our sins. A sinner is an unbeliever. Christ died for you and me as we were unbelievers. No one was born into this world as a believer. No baby came out of his mother’s womb saying, Praise Jesus. You’re born lost. You’re born dead. And if you’re dead, you need life, and if you’ve never come to a place in your experience where you’ve recognized the truth that you are spiritually dead. You’re never going to turn to Him for spiritual life. Until you see your death why would you want life? And that’s where his resurrection has no meaning until you understand you’re dead. The Cross has no meaning until you understand you’re a sinner who needs you? You didn’t need to die for me. I’m okay. Haven’t you read the book? I’m okay, you’re okay. I’m going to write one called I’m not okay. You’re not okay, but that’s okay. Until you see your condition. You are not ready for the provision. If you’re not thirsty, you’re not interested in a water fountain, it’s only when you’re thirsty that you’re interested in where can I find water. It’s only when you’re hungry that you’re interested in finding out, where do I have food. And Satan gets us down to a point where he says, Oh, you’re not hungry, oh, you’re not thirsty. You just think you are. Here’s a little stuff. It’ll feed you up a little bit. And he’s saying us, God demonstrated His love toward us, and while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, and since we have now been justified by faith. Are you in Christ? Then you have been what justified by what? Faith in the justifier, faith in the One who came to justify you. How much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him? So since we have now been justified by His blood. And folks, if you want to know what blood is, Leviticus, 17:11 the life of the creature is in the blood. The life is in the blood. So since we. Have now been justified by His what? His life. How much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him? For when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his son. How much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his what? His life.

Now, folks, let’s take a look at this passage back to what I was talking to the man in regard to his reading of Calvin and of his Reformed theology. And as I said to him, there’s where Calvin was off. Calvin was off, and we’ve had people copying his being off for all of these years, thinking that, well, God couldn’t have died for all people’s sins. I mean, that would be universal salvation. Would that not be true, that if getting your sins forgiven, was salvation, just accepting that sin, Jesus, thank You for dying for my sins, and that’s all you had to do. Would that not be true, that if Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, that would be universal salvation? Are we together? Would it or not? So if you believe that, then you cannot believe what it says that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, because we know that universal salvation wouldn’t be true. I’m sure I wouldn’t be real happy going into heaven with Hitler. So you know somebody’s going to not going to be there. And so what you’re dealing with is the fact that if, while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son. Then Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, and that’s exactly what he did. He took away the sins of the whole world, he took away Hitler’s sins, he took away your sins, and He took away my sins. Is that salvation? No, no, that’s what he had to do to clear the deck to bring salvation. What is salvation? According this passage? Saved by his what? Life. You are reconciled to God through the death of his son. That’s reconciliation. God was in Christ, reconciling the whole world unto Himself, not counting your sins against you. That’s not salvation. It’s a part of salvation. It’s what God had to do to clear the deck, to bring life to the dead.

Now folks, if the Bible is true, if the Bible is true, and if the Bible says that we were all born into this world dead spiritually, if that is true, then do you have a problem? If you’re a Hebrew do you have a problem if you’re dead? If you’re a Gentile? Do you have a problem if you’re dead? Now those are the only two categories that God has. So that kind of includes the whole world, doesn’t it? Would you not have to say then that the whole world, as it says, was born into this world, dead spiritually? Are we together? Now, if you’re dead guys, you got a problem. You got a problem far greater than sins. You got a consequence you’re dealing with, and the consequence you’re dealing with is death. Now I want to tell you something folks, Moses cannot give you life. The Pope can’t give you life. Luther can’t give you life. I can’t give you life. There was only one person to give you life, and that is the resurrected one, Christ, Jesus. That’s why God sent him. He didn’t send him to form a new religion. He sent him to give life to the dead. He looked down upon his creation with compassion. They’re dead, and if you’re dead, you need life. And the only kind of life available to us is spiritual life, and the only one who could give it to you is Jesus. That’s not religion. Religion can’t give you life. How can religion give you life? I’m going to be obedient to the commands of God. Fine, that’s nice. It’s a nice goal. But how’s that going to give you life? I’m going to go to church every Sunday. That’s nice. How’s that going to give you life? You’re going to come into the church and get life. If you’re dead, you need life. The law, folks, is stringent. The law is without bending. It’s stringent, is it not?

If you have a corpse, Amy and I were talking about that this morning, you got a corpse, try to bend it. You. It’s stiff, it’s stringent, it won’t bend, and that’s what you and I are under, unless we’ve been freed from that unbending death and have become the recipients of life in Christ, Jesus. How much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life. My friends, this is the most important message that anybody can get a hold of, because it explains, in this one passage, what salvation is. It’s not religion as I say. It’s not being a Catholic. I have to laugh at the pope making Mother Teresa a saint. I’m not as good as Mother Teresa, but I was made a saint back when I was 36 and God made me a saint, and he made you a saint if you’re in Christ, that’s why you’re called saints. That’s why he didn’t address to all the old sinners saved of grace in Philippi and all the old sinners saved of grace and Colossae, he’s called them saints, did he not, not because they were good, but because they were saved. And so we have all kinds of things out there, and you got all kinds of religious stuff, and you got people walking around in dumb looking hats and robes and all this stuff and trying to make themselves look and act holy. That didn’t make you holy. But people fall for that stuff all over the place, fall for it teaching that is totally contrary to the Word of God and fall for it by the masses. Why? Because you don’t check it out against the word of God. Is Luther the standard of truth? Is the pope? No, no. What about korish? Where are you going to have to go to find truth? The Bible, the Word of God.

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