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Classic Christianity – Book of Galatians P27 (09-25-24)

Whoever Believes in Jesus Has Eternal 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 Salvation is a Life and Death issue. Salvation is LIFE. Life Eternal with God is LIFE. Life is salvation. A person is saved from death and is given life. The problem is most people don’t realize they are dead. There are billions in the world that are the “walking dead.” How do we know that? Because without the Spirit of God living in them, they are dead. The word of God tells us that is so. They are dead people walking all over the place. And most people don’t want to believe that. They think they are saved because Satan convinced them they are saved by doing something, and keeping in good standing with God, going to their confession booths, ongoing vending machine forgiveness of sins with God, making sure you do more good works than bad works, whatever those may be, getting baptized in their church, going to communion in their church, helping others out, giving to the poor, tithing, becoming progressively better and better, doing holy things, and on and on it goes. People would rather believe the lies that they are doing something in order to merit the grace of God. And even Satan has changed the meaning “Grace” for billions of people to mean that it is earned. And therein is the problem. The pride of Man loves propping themselves up and saying to God, “look how much I have done for you.” And He will say, “Away from me you evil doers, for I never knew you.”

Only by Faith in Jesus will a person have eternal Life. And Life Eternal begins at the very moment the Spirit of God comes to live inside a person. This is key. Don’t let anyone convince you that you don’t have eternal life the moment you place Faith in Him. For the one that has the Son of God, HAS LIFE! If Jesus is in you, there is NOTHING you can do to kick Him out of you. Remember, no amount of good works gets a person saved, and likewise no amount of sinning gets a person unsaved. Otherwise, it would make the word of God , Jesus a liar. And we know that Jesus is TRUTH, and cannot lie.

People need to hear the truth of the word of God. Don’t beat around the bush with people. Tell it like it is. Be bold. Be a Truth teller.

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

“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

“For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.” Romans 10:4

Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else. For each one should carry his own load. Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.

See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ. For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers.

Amen. Galatians 6:1-18

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.”

~ “I sat with a young lady in Toronto, who was talking afterwards with a chaplain and myself, and she was saying, Well, what do you think about these people, because they don’t believe eternal security? What do you think about these people just teach, well, I can come to Christ and go do anything I want to and and I have eternal life. I said, let me see if I can help you with this. And I went over what I just went over with you, that what caused spiritual death was sin. The wages of sin is what? Death, but what the gift of God is what life. Now, in order to give you life eternal, he had to deal with the cause of death eternally. Because, had he not dealt with the cause of death eternally and gave you life the next time you sinned, you’d die again. So do you see the impossibility of losing what salvation is? We say, Do you believe in eternal security? No, I believe in eternal life. We need to keep the word life to mean salvation, because that’s what salvation is, is life. He who has the Son has what? Life. He who has a Son is saved. Same thing, but we now have an explanation of what salvation is. It’s life. It’s his life, living in me, which is my only hope of glory, and the only way that I’m going to get that life is by faith. And if I don’t need life, I’ve already got life. And I don’t need a little life, I need all of it. And so when you come to Christ, you come to Christ for all that he is, that all he did, that all that he is, all that he was, and all that he ever will be. And you come to him for life, and you’re saved from the wages of sin, which is death, by the gift of God, which is life. You’ve crossed over from darkness into light, into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have something redemption and the forgiveness of sins. It’s over. It’s done. There’s no more asking for what you already have. You already have forgiveness. So when you’re asking, you’re saying, I don’t believe that you took away my sins.” ~ Bob George

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And so he’s saying they’re yet they want you to be circumcised so we can boast in your flesh. May I never boast except in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ only got one thing to boast about, and that’s the cross. Now, folks again, have you ever wondered, why do we carry the symbol of the cross? You say, Why don’t we carry some symbol of the resurrection? Well, I was in Canada last week. I did two interviews in Canada, one in Winnipeg and the other in Toronto. In Toronto, a place called Huntley Street. It’s a wonderful, wonderful facility there. And did about a 20 minute interview on television on Huntley street, about the same on the one in Winnipeg. But we were talking about that. And as I said, the reason for the cross is this, and people don’t understand this. The cross is universal in application. How many people did he die for the sins of? The whole world. How many people was he raised? For all people. But but only the ones who accept his life are saved. Whether you accept it or not, your sins were taken away. So you see, the cross is a symbol of the one who came and took away the sins of the whole world, not only ours, but the sins of the whole world, that is universal in application, there’s not a soul alive that has ever been born that you could not walk up to and have the authority as a child of God to say to them, I got good news for you. God was in Christ reconciling you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you. Could you say that to anybody? Absolutely, it’s scripture, isn’t it? Could you say that to someone in the jungles of New Guinea? Yeah, could you say it in the city of New York? Yeah, it’s universal, and therefore it’s truth. And so that is true that the sins of the whole world were taken away at the cross. Does that mean you’re saved? No, because you’re not saved by getting your sins forgiven. That’s a part of salvation, but it’s not in and of itself, salvation. So the cross, the reason it’s a symbol, universally, is because it’s the pronouncement of God saying, I took away the sins of the whole world. There’s no one who will ever go to hell because of his sins. Do we understand that, folks? There’s no sin that you have ever committed that was not taken away at the cross of Jesus Christ. Do you believe that? Now, some of us have tried to out sin God, but we can’t do it. There is no such thing as a sin unforgiven. They were all taken away at the cross. I have people who say, Well, what about my future sins? How many of your sins were in the future when Jesus died for them 2000 years ago? It appears to me that that would be all of them. And so there’s not a sin that has been, is or will be committed that was not taken away at the cross.

Now we talk about the atoning death of Jesus Christ. Did Jesus come to atone for sins. No, a bull and goat atoned for sins. And we hear preachers today continually talking about atonement, atonement, atonement. Say, What are you talking about? There is no atonement in the New Testament. Atonement was Old Testament way of getting your sins covered until the next covering. So atonement covered sin. Jesus took it away. And if you have a translation where atonement is used, check it out in the Greek. That is not the translation. It’s propitiation. It is a word that means it’s done. It’s final, it’s over. So knowing that to be true and knowing that the cross is the universal sign that your sins have been taken away at the cross. Can any of you go up to a person and say, if you don’t shape up that sin you’re going to hell? Can you or not? Is there any sin you could commit that would send you to hell? How about Hitler’s sins that couldn’t send him to hell? Gee Whiz. What about Stalin’s? What about Old Ben Laden? I’m not so sure about that one, too. Were those sins forgiven? Absolutely, absolutely. Are they saved? No. Why? Because they have not gone to where you received the forgiveness. It’s money in the bank, but I haven’t gone to the bank. So guess what? I’m going to die impoverished because I don’t go to where the money is, in the bank. And the scripture says in him, you have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Where is forgiveness that was provided for the whole world received? Where is it received? In Him. Now, what do you mean in him? What do we mean in him? The one that sacrificed for the sins, but more important than that is the one who was what? Raised from the dead.

And there’s where we’ve come with a half gospel. And in so many of our churches, and I say in the Baptist churches I went to, it don’t make any difference where it was, you got a great evangelistic call, but it’s always come get your sins forgiven. Get your sins forgiven. Get your sins forgiven. And so young people are buying a life insurance policy, a fire insurance policy. Who wants to go to hell? You got to be an idiot. So come forward and receive Jesus and forgive your sins and you won’t go to hell. That’s not true, and you go back to the pew as empty as you walk to the altar. Why? Because you don’t come to get forgiveness. You come to get life. And it’s not the just the physical Jesus that walked on the earth 2000 years ago. It’s the resurrected Christ. That’s why he said, without the resurrection, we’re to be pitied, of all people and are still in our sins. What’s the matter? Didn’t Paul understand the cross? How can he say that? Didn’t he know that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world? Was he confused on something? No, he wasn’t confused. He was just giving you truth. Without the resurrection, we’re to be pitied, of all people and are still in our sins. Why? Because without the resurrection, there’s no forgiveness, even though it was provided, it can’t be received any place except in the resurrected Jesus, not the Jesus who walked on the face of this earth, who healed the blind and made the deaf to hear, but the one who was raised from the dead, and today is seated at the right hand of God. That’s the resurrected Jesus. And folks without the resurrection were lost. And if you’ve never come to believe in the resurrection, you’re lost. We’re not saved by believing Jesus hung on a cross. You’re saved by believing he was raised from the dead. Now, in order to come to a resurrected Jesus and receive what He came to give you, eternal life, you have to believe in the eternal consequence of the cross. And we have people who teach the opposite of that. We don’t teach the finality of the cross. We teach, yes, He died for the sins of the world, but if you keep on confessing your sins, he’ll keep on forgiving you. That’s nonsense. It’s idiotic nonsense. I taught it for years. I taught nonsense for years. There’s nothing true about that. When Christ took away your sins, he took away your sins, and when he took it away, he took it away eternally. That’s why that act of the cross is as an eternal function as his resurrection is eternal. He had to die for all sins in order to give you eternal life, he had to deal with the cause of death eternally in order to give you eternal life. So had he not dealt eternally with the sins of the world at the cross, he could never have offered you eternal life.

I sat with a young lady in Toronto, who was talking afterwards with a chaplain and myself, and she was saying, Well, what do you think about these people, because they don’t believe eternal security? What do you think about these people just teach, well, I can come to Christ and go do anything I want to and and I have eternal life. I said, let me see if I can help you with this. And I went over what I just went over with you, that what caused spiritual death was sin. The wages of sin is what? Death, but what the gift of God is what life. Now, in order to give you life eternal, he had to deal with the cause of death eternally. Because, had he not dealt with the cause of death eternally and gave you life the next time you sinned, you’d die again. So do you see the impossibility of losing what salvation is? We say, Do you believe in eternal security? No, I believe in eternal life. We need to keep the word life to mean salvation, because that’s what salvation is, is life. He who has the Son has what? Life. He who has a Son is saved. Same thing, but we now have an explanation of what salvation is. It’s life. It’s his life, living in me, which is my only hope of glory, and the only way that I’m going to get that life is by faith. And if I don’t need life, I’ve already got life. And I don’t need a little life, I need all of it. And so when you come to Christ, you come to Christ for all that he is, that all he did, that all that he is, all that he was, and all that he ever will be. And you come to him for life, and you’re saved from the wages of sin, which is death, by the gift of God, which is life. You’ve crossed over from darkness into light, into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have something redemption and the forgiveness of sins. It’s over. It’s done. There’s no more asking for what you already have. You already have forgiveness. So when you’re asking, you’re saying, I don’t believe that you took away my sins.

Now you can say whatever you want to. You can say, Oh, that makes me feel better, and all that stuff. So if it makes you feel better to hang Jesus back on a cross and crucify him again, that’s fine with me. That’s your prerogative. But don’t say that that’s faith, because it isn’t. It’s presumption. Jesus took away the sins of the world at the cross one time and for all never to be done again. And he says, When you’re in him, you have received that forgiveness. Now walk by faith in the fact that not you are no longer a person who gets forgiven. You are a forgiven person. You’re not a person who gets redeemed. You are redeemed person. You’re not a person who gets eternal life. You have eternal life. You’re not a person that hopes it will be seated someday in the heavenlies with Christ, Jesus, as far as he’s concerned, you’re already there. You’re not a person who gets justified. You are a justified person. You’re not a person. Contrary to what some people think, that you’re sanctified. You are a sanctified person, and you can’t get any more sanctified by what you do. And we have people who teach progressive sanctification, that you just keep getting better and better all the time. And I think just wait, just someday you’ll get so good you won’t need Jesus at all. Just think, what a joy that’ll be when you’re so wonderful that you won’t even need him. And there are people who think that I’m just getting better and better and better and better. I say, let me interview your husband. Let me interview your wife. We’ll see if they agree with that. You’re not going to get a better than the very day that you stepped out of Adam into Christ, and he stepped out of heaven into you, he set you apart. And folks, I want to tell you something. What we are set apart for is we’re set apart from the world.

Now let’s go on. May I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. I want to ask you a question, how fond is the world of you when you stand up and claim, I am a born again, blood soaked Christian? I can’t even get on jury duty. They say, What do you do? I’m a Baptist minister. I hate sin and I don’t believe in psychiatrists. Out you go. I never have to serve on a jury. Think the world loves you? You know what the world thinks of you and me as a born again believer? I’m not talking about people who talk about the good Lord and the good boy upstairs, and God, anybody can say that. I’m talking about people who say I am a born again believer. You know what the world thinks of you? You’re a bigot. You’re a bigot. You have no sympathy for anybody. You’re not accepting. That’s the big word today, accepting, that’s what the world thinks of you. You’ve been crucified to the world. They’ll like you. World doesn’t like me, world doesn’t like you. Now, if you compromise, they’ll like you. And we were talking to a doctor the other day said, Oh yeah, I come to God through Jesus, but there’s plenty of ways to come to God. So I said, Well, you never got to worry about the world hating you.

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Do you know why in the end times when the Antichrist comes and we’re out of here, either our bodies or our bodies dead, and we’re out of here either one of those two? Don’t know which one’s going to be. You know what it’s going to be saying? Good. Riddance. Good riddance. God got rid of the troublemakers, all of these intolerant, non accepting people, these people that believed that we all worship the same God. Muslims worship the same God. They say, Isn’t that the strangest thing you’ve ever heard in your life that a Muslim worships the same God we do, the God that I worship gave a testimony about his Son. He said, This is a testimony. God’s testimony, the wonders they will all believe in. He who has a Son has life. He who does not have the Son, does not have life. These things I’ve written unto You who believe in the name of the Son of God and know that you may what? Know that you have eternal life. Is that same God, you have, same God that says Jesus was just a prophet, but Mohammed’s a better one? Is that the same God? How could the same God write one thing in this book and write another thing in another book and then write another thing in another book? Is the God of the Muslim that wants to run the Jews off the face of the earth. Is that the God of Israel, who loves the Hebrews and sustained them and is coming back for them someday, and the ones that every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, is that the same God? Got to be insane, not the same God. And yet the world wants us to all get together and say, Oh, it’s same God. No, it isn’t only reason you’d think it was if you don’t know your scripture, and that’s the problem today. Or people are reading books instead of the book, and you have people reading this book and this book and this book and this book and this book and this book and this book and this book and then quoting what’s in the book, and no one’s reading the book to know what truth is, truth that will set you free. So I want to tell you something, folks, the world is dead to you. And Paul said, I’m dead to the world.

There is nothing in this world you go out into business today, and you go out in any kind of business, and you go in as a born again believer who believes in the inerrancy of the Word of God, and you believe the Bible says is true. And I want to tell you, you’re going to be ostracized a lot more than you’re going to be accepted, unless it happens to be with another Christian. Is that true or not, guys? So when you come to the Lord, you’re set apart. You’re not set apart because you go to church. You’re not set apart by how you wear, your hair, or your dress. You’re set apart by because of what you believe, and even more importantly, because of whom you believe. That’s what sets you apart. That’s what it means to be sanctified. Set apart. I’m set apart because I’m a believer in Jesus. I’m not a church goer. I’m a believer in Jesus. Are you a Baptist or Presbyterian? No, I’m a believer in Jesus. When I signed up down at the vet, said, What religion are you? I said, I’m a child of God. She looked at me like I was nuts. Then I’m not familiar with that denomination. We’re children of God. We’re not Baptists, Presbyterian, Methodist press. They’re not going to be, not going to be those in heaven. There aren’t going to be a Presbyterian Catholics in heaven, just children of God, just people who, by faith, have believed and accepted in the resurrected life of Christ, Jesus and folks, it’s more than just an acknowledgement of an event. It’s eternalizing it. I believed all my life Jesus died on the cross. Was I saved? Of course not. I believed all my life he was raised from the dead. Did you most of your life? We all believe that were we saved? No. Why? I didn’t know he did it for me. You internalize things. He did that for me. I thought he did it for the world. I guess I thought it wasn’t in the world, and I didn’t know he did it for me. This is something Jesus said, Bob, I did this for you. I took away your sins. I was raised from the dead to give you life. Because you’re a mess. You don’t have to sit around and think about how a mess the world is. You’re a mess, and you need new life. He did it for me. When you internalize that and personalize that. That’s when you’re born again. You can sit all day long saying, Oh, that’s nice. Did that for the world never affect you at all.

So he’s saying to us that I’m not going to boast except anything in the cross of Christ through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. It, folks, if your mindset and your thoughts are still in the world, you haven’t been set apart, do we realize how many worldly thoughts we hang on to? They’re unbelievable. We hang on to them. You have people today who have much more confidence in Ritalin or Prozac than they do in Jesus, and you compromise your kids and put them on drugs when they’re little, they’re going to be a drug addict when they’re old, and don’t argue with me on that. I got too much examples to prove otherwise. And we buy the world, and we buy what the world says, and we grab a hold of what the world says and believe it like it’s gospel and it’s not gospel. And we have got to get our minds to the point where we look at this word. And folks, listen to me, you check your every thought up against the word of God. If it doesn’t match, get rid of the thought. It’s called foolishness to God, and you match your attitudes up against this word, and if your attitude is contrary to the Word, get rid of the attitude. It’s foolishness to God. We’ve got a book, and you’ve got the Spirit living in you, if you’re born again, to teach you the meaning of this book, because anybody knows what it says, But you have to have the spirit to know what it means. And we sit there in our foolishness and defend our foolishness, just like they were defending the foolishness of circumcision, just like we defend the foolishness that you have to be baptized to be saved, or defend the foolishness that God’s going to take your life away from you, that thing, those things, are foolish up next to the word of God. It doesn’t teach that. And so he’s saying, in conclusion to this, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation in verse chapter five, verse six in Christ, Jesus, neither circumcision or uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith, expressing itself through love. He’s now told us how to live your life as a new creation, expressing yourself through love. The only thing that counts are you born again? And we use the word, are you a Christian? It doesn’t have any meaning anymore. Of course, I am not a bad I’m not a Buddhist, not something else. I’m a Christian. Doesn’t mean anything. What means something is, Are you a child of God today, a child of the living God? The only thing that counts is, are you a new creation? Have you been born from above? I know you’ve been born from below. I can tell that looking at you, have you been born from above. No one is born a Christian. I had a person every day say, Well, I’ve always been a Christian. No, you haven’t. No, you haven’t. You may have grown up in a Christian church, but you didn’t become a new creation until the day that you, by faith, turned your life over to the living Christ to live his life in and through you. You’re just playing games. So no one’s born a Christian, no one’s born alive spiritually. We’re born dead and in need of life, and we turn to the only source of life, and that’s Christ, Jesus

Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God. He’s saying even to the HEBREWS, God’s people, this is what truth is. Peace and mercy to all who believe this, that’s the only way you’re ever going to have peace and mercy. Is when you faith these truths, finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. Paul said day and night I die daily for you, just as we celebrated the veterans and the people who are out fighting wars today so that we can live. And fought wars in the past so that we can live the Apostle Paul fought the ultimate war so that we could live spiritually. He was beaten as no man. He was shipwrecked, he was naked, he was of the sword, and yet in all things, he learned something. Nothing can separate me from the love of God, and I pass this love on to you. We have a soldier, the apostle Paul, who fought the battle to the end so that we might live grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Be With You. You in your spirit, brothers Amen, it’s the book of Galatians. Let’s pray together.

Father, we thank you so much for what you came to do and for the men that you passed this message on to. Everyone died a martyr’s death so that we could live. The world is not our friend. We need to quit trying to make it our friend. It’s dead to us, and we’re dead to it and Father, we still want one foot in the world and one foot in Christ, and we walk straggle legged down the street not knowing which one we’re in. And what the Lord is saying to us is, make up your mind, get in one or the other, but you can’t ride in both. And we realize, Father that we only have one source of truth to go to, and that’s you and your word, and we ask you now to embed into our hearts the meaning of walking by faith in the risen Christ. We pray these things, and thank you for them in Jesus’ name and for his sake.

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