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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. The next verse, none that doeth good, they are all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good, no not one. That’s talking about God’s viewpoint of every person born into the world. There is no one born into this world perfect. There’s no one who lives a perfect life.

No one is righteous before God. So he says, all have sinned the next statement. All have sinned. You know these words all, all, none, none. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. He’s short of God’s perfection. See, God is perfect and like we say, heaven is perfect, but man is not perfect. Man is a sinner. He’s come short of perfection. Way short. He said, well, I was almost there. No, you weren’t. Not even close. The next verse that are the wages of sin is death.

So you know and understand a little bit about yourself. That’s an old sinful nature that you are. That’s the what God calls in his word, the old man, the old man. The wages of sin is death. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So yes, we’re all going to die, but the gift of God is eternal life, it’s free. We earned the right to die, but we did not do anything to earn the right to have eternal life.

So we earned the right to die, but not to have eternal life. We’ve done nothing for that because eternal life has to be a gift. And if it’s is the gift of God, then it could not be something we deserve. Wages is what you earned. You deserve We all die, we deserve the die. Look at the next statement. Romans chapter 9 and verse 8, everyone born into the world, we are not the children of God. And that’s why he says that is they which are the children of the flesh.

These are not the children of God. So everyone born of the flesh, God is not your father. And we’re not all brothers and sisters in the Lord. You may wish you were but it’s not true You’re not a child of God until you’re born into his family Look at the next statement God says cannot inherit the kingdom of God said you don’t have a right to return the life You don’t have a right to inherit the kingdom of God To inherit means that you’re in the line.

It means that you are his child No, we are his creation Once we’ve trusted Christ as our Savior and our His children, then the Bible says that we are heirs of God and join heirs with Christ. So we inherit, but not until we have the new birth, not until we’re born into God’s family. So He says here, you cannot inherit the things of God. And He makes this statement in letter H, salvation is not of the flesh. the flesh.

For by grace, so you say through faith that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. Children of the flesh cannot see or enter the kingdom of God without being born again. Needs born from above. And of course, as you read and study the gospel of John, it keeps it clear that you must be born again. And it says that which is born of the flesh, flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

So marvel not that I said of thee you must be. Now there’s things that the Christian God says that we should do this or we should do that. We’re loving we should do. This is something you must do, or you will not see the kingdom of God and you will not enter into the kingdom of God. So you must be born again. There is no exceptions. So if everyone who trusts Christ is Savior, they’re born in the God’s family, they will enter it and they will see it.

So look at the next page. The new nature. This is the one you received when you trusted Christ as your Savior. Remember God did not. change the old man. And this is why there’s some people who don’t understand the new birth is they think that you’re still the old man who are making corrections. And that’s why they like to use the word convert. Now you can use the word convert. And I’ve had people say that, you know, I’m Yankees convert.

I mean, I’m not glad that you’d be the Lord’s. But if you’re a convert, you can take a garage and convert it into a living room. But when you did that, the garage is no longer there. It’s into something else. So it’s totally changed. So people believe that when you trust the Christ is your Savior, any man who is in Christ is a new creation. Old things are passed away and behold, all things have become new. So therefore, if you say I trust the Christ, I’ll give you a new creation.

Old things are passed away. Everything now is new. So there’s evidently all these new changes are going to be in your life. And then when they don’t see them, then evidently you’re not a very good convert, because your life wasn’t converted. You supposedly live a converted life. It’s changed. There’s no change. So evidently you’re not saved because people look for that change and difference in your person’s life. Well, what God is saying is something totally different. You see, there’s this old man.

Many preachers believe that when you get saved, God changes this old man. And so takes away his sinful desires and gives him this new spirit. So he don’t want to do all those bad things anymore. So therefore all these chains are going to take place because you see God took away his old sinful nature. They were eradicated. He’s done away with it. So now he’s going to be totally different. And when they don’t see that, then well he didn’t mean business.

And so that’s why a lot of these people say, well they can’t live the life. They can’t make these changes. And therefore they would rather just die and go to hell and try to live a life of been a hypocrite. And that’s because some preacher, because they don’t understand it, they get them all messed up. Your old man, God never touches, doesn’t change it. What he does is he gives you something new. This new birth comes with new desires and all that.

And if you satisfy these desires, they will grow. And if you don’t, these will grow. You see, you’re just making decisions about who controls the body. You got one body and both of these living inside of this one body. So there’s where your struggle goes. So that’s why you can have the desire. You want to serve a Lord, do right. At the same time, you don’t. And so it’s a battle. And many Christians never get victory in the Christian life.

So look there at the next page. If the gospel we preach does not make one perfect immediately upon the new birth from above, it is totally ineffective in getting us to heaven. Why? Because if it doesn’t make me perfect immediately, then I can’t go to heaven yet. I’d have to wait until I have some progression in my life and I clean up my life and I stop something or join something. But if I trust Christ as my Savior and if it’s good enough, and if it makes me perfect and qualifies me so I can get into heaven, it has to do immediately.

Because I’m not going to keep on trying to get saved and get saved. No, I got saved one time. Saved means I’m saved from hell. I ain’t going there. I’m going to heaven when I die. That’s a new birth. So in the book of Matthew in chapter 1, you’ll see where it says, and this is the book of the generation of Jesus Christ. And he goes, don’t need to list all these people. But there’s no deaths recorded there. But in this statement here, I want you to see, In Christ we all inherit a divine nature and live forever.

Being born again has nothing to do with changing or improving the old man, but the birth of a new man. That’s what salvation is. Salvation is the birth of a new man. This new birth is born of God. It’s a spiritual birth. You cannot see a spiritual birth. You can see your flesh birth, but the flesh birth isn’t the one that’s going to heaven. It’s the spiritual birth that you have. Now look what he says here. Letter A, Jesus says you must be born again.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the spirit is spirit. Is he saying there’s two different things here? I evidently. Nicodemus says, Lord, how can a man, you know, get back inside of his mom and be born again? Evidently he didn’t get it. He says, how can you be a ruler in Israel and you don’t understand these things? Because it’s taught in the Word of God. And even though you only had the Old Testament, evidently there’s things that were taught in the Old Testament to help you understand this.

I won’t get into that right now. But it says, marvel not that I suddenly, you must be born again. There is no other way. See, this is the answer that Jesus gave. at the beginning of his ministry under the law. Jesus was made of a woman under the law. So he was under the dispensation of law. And when Jesus was here, how did he say a man was to be saved? Did he say you had to keep the 10 commandments?

No. He says you must be born again. The law cannot save anybody, never did. Law never made anybody perfect, doesn’t qualify. Just let you know you’re a sinner. The law only reveals all the weaknesses of the flesh. It lets you know you are a sinner, big time. You can’t even keep the first commandment. Let alone the other ones, thou shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart, mind, body, soul, and strength. Come on, do you really have you always?

All you had to do is fail one time, not loving him supremely. Look at that it be. At the moment of receiving Christ, as many as received Him, to them gave He the power, the authority, the right to become the sons of God, specifically tied even to them that believe on His name. Those that believe on His name, that’s all you had to do. when you talk about believing on his name, that name means something. The one who saves and keeps and provides and protects and defends and all that.

That’s all wrapped up in his name. See, they had named it meant something. I haven’t figured out what Yankee means yet. Well, a little bit, I’ve dug a little bit. And pretty good, you know. I am the symbol of America, you know. Arnold means strong as an eagle, you know, and that’s the emblem of it. Man, you can’t get any better than that, can you? But you mean like a man’s name was Joe Rottengate. What would you think about it if you believed in his name?

He probably had a gate that was what? Rotten. You know, like William Shakespeare. He probably shook a wicked spear. Well, you name me out of means something, you know, a motto. Well, that comes from calls he liked tomatoes. Aren’t you Italian? Italians have tomatoes on everything. The sauce, you know, it’s always, didn’t y’all invent the pizza? I love tomatoes. Oh, you do love tomatoes. What’s the name you love? I’ll see that he has a different definition for his name.

But when you believe in a name, so as he says here, as many that believe on him, when you believe it, then you should expect to receive it. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. OK, I believe that. Well, when should I expect to get everlasting life? Well, when I believe it, half, present tense right now, half everlasting life. Look at the next verse, letter C, being born from above lasts forever, being born again, not a corruptible seed.

So it’s showing you that it’s a different birth altogether, it’s not the flesh being transformed, it’s not the flesh being converted. That’s why you have to watch some of the preachers to talk about, you know, you need to be converted. Well, what do you mean? Define your term. I always like people to define your term. I talk to people sometime and they say, oh, I’ve been saved. I said, what do you mean by that? I’m trusting Christ as my Savior.

What do you mean by that? It’s amazing, you’ll find out we’re not on the same page. We don’t mean the same thing. Even to the point of, oh, you have everlasting life. But tell me, how long is that? Well, until you send again, you know. So you don’t just automatically believe what people say. You’ve got to ask questions. Asking questions can reveal an awful lot of things. But look what he says here. He says, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever, you were born of God by buy something that lives and abides forever.

That’s the new birth. That’s why once you trust Christ as your Savior and it’s born by the Word of God that liveth and abided forever. How long will your new birth last? Forever. See if you don’t see that then you can see all they think about is this old man getting dedicated to God. This old man stopping some of his bad things and this old man trying to conform to the image of Christ by committing himself to the Lordship of Christ.

And if he does it long enough he gonna make it. That’s It’s not the Bible, it has nothing to do with what the Bible says. The Bible is talking about a totally separate new birth. If you don’t get this one, it don’t matter what you go over here. It won’t matter how many sins you turn from, how much you commit your life to Christ, ask Him to come into your heart, live her lungs and an eyeball, or what? It don’t matter.

Nothing matters. You’ve got to have the new birth. it must be because of born by the Word of God. This new one is what lasts forever. You see, well, if I still sin in my life, that’s a sign that I’m not saved. No, when you sin in your life, that’s a sign that the old man is still there. Look at the next verse. Letter D, those born of God can not sin. 1 John 3, 9. Look what he says.

Whosoever is born of God, not commit sin. And it doesn’t mean he doesn’t practice sin. It means he cannot commit one single act of sin because the very next words tell you that. For his seed remained in him and he can not sin because he’s born of God. Now you’d be surprised, I mean different versions of our translation changed that verse because they just can’t believe that means that. But that verse means exactly what it says. Which one of these is born of God.

That one is born of God. This one cannot sin. Not one single act because it’s born of God. This is the one that was born of a corruptible seed. This is the one that’s got an old sinful nature. This is the one that sins. God didn’t do anything about that one. He gave you a new birth. This one’s the one that saved. This is the one is going to happen. One of these days, you’re going to die physically. So sent for nature.

See this old man, he lives inside of this body. And when the body is dead, he’s gone. So look at letter E. Letter E, you are seen by God as in the Spirit. This is how God sees you. When God looks upon you, you, but you’re not in the flesh. He doesn’t see you in the flesh. He sees you in the spirit. That doesn’t mean that you’re spiritually minded. It just means that’s the position that you have in Christ.

You see, this one is born of the spirit of God. This one is born of the flesh. Once you trust Christ to save you, God doesn’t see you in the old man. He sees you in the new man. That’s the new man. The spiritual birth. That’s how God sees you from now on. You’re his child. His children in inherit what the Father has. But God says the old man of the flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

The new birth can. This one can’t see the kingdom of God or enter into the kingdom of God. That’s why he says you must be born again. So when you’re born again, God gives you the new birth. You have indwelling you the Holy Spirit of God.” Now look what he says here. But you’re not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Why? Because your birth is more of the Spirit. And the Holy Spirit lives inside of every believer. So in John chapter 7, it makes a statement on that great day of the feast Jesus stood in, cried saying, if any man thirst, let him come into me and drink. And as the scripture half set out of his belly, she’ll flow rivers of living water. This fake key of the spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. But see, he hadn’t been glorified yet.

The spirit hadn’t been given yet. But every man who believes will receive the Holy Spirit in invasion chapter one verse 13 that whenever you believe on Jesus Christ, the very moment you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Now look at the last verse. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17. You are a new creation in Christ. Therefore if any man be in Christ… He is a new creature. The one that’s born of God in Christ. This is the new birth.

This new birth is new. Everything about this new birth is new. All things are new. The old thing is all old. Old thing, the condition is passed away. Behold, all things are become new. See, people who don’t get this, they’re not going to be able to do that. Say, here you are, and all you have is this old man, and you’re transferring all those bad things for some of the new way to live. And if you don’t live, right?

That’s because you didn’t really mean business. Because you still sin. You’ve got still, you’ve still got those, you’re still smoking cigarettes and you’re lying and doing things wrong and losing your cool, and they’ll just sign that you’re a lost man. So, but that’s not what the Bible says. So when you take that verse out of its context, this is talking about that which is new. And as you study the book of 2nd Corinthians in chapter five, it tells you some of these things that are new.

So now that you’re in Christ, this is the new birth, and what God wants you to have is new knowledge. That’s why it says the lost man, the natural man, does not discern the things of God because they’re spiritually discerned and he doesn’t have the Holy Spirit. But when you trust in Christ as your Savior, the Holy Spirit indwells you and teaches you all these new things from God because see God wants this one to live by something new by the Word of God itself.

And so that you’ll have new thoughts and new results in your life. And so this is why God says in 2nd Corinthians 5 that he made this statement, for the love of Christ constraineth the motivates us because we thus judge that if one died for all, then all were dead, that they which live should, should, not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him who died for him and rose again. So those who have trusted Christ to save you, yes, we should live for the one who died for us.

But if you don’t, it never affects the new birth. It’s still a child of God. You’re still going to heaven. But you’re not going to get out of your life the things that God wanted you to receive. There’s a purpose in living. There’s a reason why God does what He does. You say, well, But what I still sin, what happens then? See, if you walk in the flesh, means after the flesh. That’s why you’ll notice even in the King James it makes us very clear.

There’s a difference in walking in the flesh and walking after the flesh. The lost man walks in the flesh. The saved man walks after the flesh. As you read down to the book of Romans 8. So a Christian can walk after the flesh because of your choice and what you’re doing. If you walk after the flesh, you’re going to produce the works of the flesh and your heavenly Father is going to chase in you and discipline you. Now if you walk in the Spirit and fulfill the desires of the Spirit, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

You always have them. You’ll always have that feeling of rebellion and vengeance and hatred and jealousy and envy. You name the sin, it’s all right there. So what you have to do is let this one become stronger than this one so that you can have victory in your Christian life. Look up here. This hand represents you and me. The wall of represents sin. The Bible says we all have sin on us. This represents the world. Everybody. All have sinned and comes short of God’s perfection.

Nobody’s qualified to get to heaven. We’re all in the same boat. And God says to go to heaven, we’d have to be perfect as righteous as God and nobody’s perfect. We’ve all sinned to come short of God’s perfection. God says, you can’t earn your way to heaven. It’s not by anything that you do. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord, God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because our sin separates us from God.

So what Christ did for one person, He did for all. He took all the sin of all the world and paid for it, came back from the dead. And God from the very beginning had already been planned, salvation for man. And He said that He has already determined before any man was born, before he did any good or before he did any bad. He’s going to save all of those that will believe Christ did it for them. And if you’ll believe he did it for you, God has already given his word.

See, when I trust he Christ is my Savior, when I was 18 years old, God had to save me. He promised. He has to keep his word. And he says that he’ll never cast me out and never lose me. I’m going to heaven because of what Christ did for me. Nothing else. Nothing else. So telling people the truth, good thing or bad thing. You see, most preachers think they can’t hold their people if they tell them the truth. So then let them live in fear, you’ve got to live the life.

You’ve got to go to church, you’ve got to give you money because what the most preachers want, they want the members and they want the money. They don’t care anything about the soul. You’re not here to impress me, and I’m not here to impress you. I’m here to teach the truth. the people like it or they don’t like it. Christ did it all. He’d for all of our sins for everybody in the world. And He says, preach the gospel to every creature because God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever, whosoever, believe it than Him, should not perish but have everlasting life.

Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed, every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning, maybe you’ve heard all of this, but you never understood. Maybe you’ve never really trusted Christ as your Savior. Would you trust Him in Him alone? Don’t trust in your life. Don’t look at your life as, well, I know I’m saved because I go to church or I do this and I do that. That’s not the reason. That’s not the evidence that you’re saved.

A lost man can do all of those things. Would you trust Him in Him alone? Would you believe he died because he loved you? And if you’ll trust him as your Savior, he would give you eternal life. Would you believe that? I’m going to ask in just a moment for a raise a hand. Raise in your hand doesn’t save you. I’m not going to have you forward. I’m not going to embarrass you. But while I go, I ask for people to raise their hand.

If they trust the Christ as Savior, well, maybe you couldn’t honestly do that. But I want to give you the chance. You see, it is your decision. It’s an important decision. Determines your destination. So when the quietness of this moment, just between you and the Lord, would you just say, Lord, I don’t understand at all. But I believe Christ died and paid for my sins. And right now I will trust Jesus Christ as my only hope of going to heaven and preach our life for you to pray for me.

So would you just slip your hand very quickly but right back down to the end of the day, And I want to be certain I’m going to have an out trust crisis my Savior right now. Anyone’s all. If you trust the Christ as your Savior, your God’s child, be aware of the teachings of Calvinism. It’s subtle sometimes, but it’s dead need. Father, we thank you so much for this opportunity to teach your Word and help us to have a greater respect for the payment you made.

You see, it was bigger than most people think. It covered more people than most people think. Your grace has been extended to more people than most people think. Because Father, you do say by grace, whosoever calls, whoever believes, we thank you for it. Was he a person here? in Christ’s name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message.

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