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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-800-800-800-800-800-800-800-800-800-800-800-800. 576-3771. Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calvaryoftampa.org. We pray that you’ll 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.

Believe that there’s a God in heaven that wants to bless us, but because of things that we think and ways that we act, with holes in front us. And it didn’t have to be that way. He says, we have not because we asked not. And sometimes we don’t ask the Lord for the things that we want and need. And God would have given, but we didn’t ask. Or we didn’t meet the criteria. We didn’t do what God wanted us to do.

And so there’s a price that we pay. And that’s why I want the blessings of God upon my life. And so should you. So we know that this day is coming. I know that if I rebel against the Lord, I know that my heavenly Father, according to His Word, has to chasten me disciplining me. So I know that I’m not here to live as I please, but for the one who died for me and came back again from the dead.

When we leave this world, we’re We’re going to a place called the judgment seat of Christ. That is a rewarding stand where God is going to reward us for the things that we’ve done. Look there in 2nd Corinthians 5 and look in verse 10. 2nd Corinthians 5 and look in verse 10. Every Christian needs to understand that there is going to be a judgment of the believers works. So every believer is going to stand at the rewarding stand, the beamer.

It’s a judgment. Not that we’re going to be judged and have to pray a prayer, but to see what you could have had. To see what rewards God is going to give to you. To see how you’re going to serve the Lord in the kingdom upon the earth. see, I have not seen ear have not heard neither has entered to the heart of men, the things which God has prepared for them that love him. So there’s things God has prepared for them that love him.

And that means that there’s some things that because people don’t love the Lord, they’re not going to get. So you’re the one that decides for all eternity, some of the things you’re going to have and be able to do. You show, well, I don’t see it and I don’t understand it and you don’t make any sense to me. I’m living for right now and do whatever I want to do. Okay, go ahead. But payday’s coming. You’re gonna pay for that attitude.

There’s a price to pay for it. It’s not gonna come cheap. And that’s why the Bible says that God is gonna wipe away all tears from their eyes. That doesn’t take place upon the earth. That takes place when we’re with the Lord. There’s gonna be a lot of grief with God’s people. when they see what they could have had or how they could have served the Lord and what position for eternity. That’s why it says lay up treasure in heaven where you can’t lose it.

And yet there’s God’s children that think it doesn’t really matter, it doesn’t matter. Everything matters. But nobody can make you love God. Nobody can make you serve Lord. Nobody can make you real and genuine. You can be as hypocritical as you choose to be. You can fool everybody in this whole church. But the one that matters, you can’t fool him. You can fool me. But I’m not the one that’s gonna reward you. I’m not gonna give you any positions.

When we get up there, I’m not doing anything for you and you’re not doing anything for me. He’s gonna give you what you have earned. What you deserve. Getting there is by grace. What you have when you get there, you have to earn it. You have to deserve it. And if you don’t deserve it, you’re not going to get it. Rewards are earned. Salvation is a gift. It’s free. Always keep salvation and service separate. Salvation is what Christ did for me.

Service is what I do for Him. And so there’s this judgment. Look there in verse 10 for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ The Lord says we’re going to appear there He also talks about when the rapture take place. We’re going to this appear here in the moment the twinkling of an eye So we’re gonna disappear and appear You know, I can’t wait to be able to do that. I wish I could do it now I’d love to be standing up here right now.

And all of a sudden, hey, let me show you a trick. What are you waiting for? There’s truth found in the Word of God, and he says this, that every one may receive the things done in his body. That means in this life, in this body, according to that he hath done. You can’t cut it any other way. And this is a judgment to the Christ. This is in heaven. This is for every Christian You’re going to be rewarded when you get to heaven for what you’ve done in this body And if you don’t think it matters Whatever you want.

I’m greedy. I want all I can get I Want whatever God has for me I? Want all the blessings I can get now and I want all the rewards I can get when I get to heaven Now, I can want all that and desire all that because God told me it’s worth. But I would serve the Lord if I had not one blessing here and not one reward there. I’d want to tell people about this ministry of reconciliation. I have enjoyed for the last 40-something years telling people how to have eternal life.

I haven’t found anything in this whole world better to do with my life than that. is it anything better that a man can ever do and tell people how to have eternal life. And I know that when I get to heaven there’s going to be a lot of people in heaven because they heard the gospel through my lips. They heard me. I opened my big mouth and I said something and they understood and they trusted Christ as their Savior.

You say, you’re supposed to, you’re a preacher. I became a preacher because I was doing that. I don’t preach because, you know, it’s just something I decided I’m going to do. I wound up doing this because I was a soul winner before. Anybody can do it, that some people won’t do it. But God hasn’t called me. Yes, He has. You just don’t obey. You just don’t want to do it. You might be scared. Did you know if you let the fear stop you?

It’s costing. Every time you and I fail to do what God wants us to do, then there’s a price to pay. But if we’ll serve the Lord, we serve the Lord. that Jane, you’re making an investment. Did you know the best investment you can ever make is in the souls of people? Because you see, when we get to heaven and you see the people that are reached because of your investment. Some people are like investing and all the stuff that goes on in the world and you can do some of that.

But I would hate to think that’s where all my money ever went. I’ve always put mine in the people, in people, in people. Cause I wanna see the results what happens in people’s lives. I want people to serve and learn. So it’s very important. You are going to have to give an account to the Lord just like I am. Now the next thing I want you to see is this. This is a judgment right here. Seven-year tribulation period. This is where God is going to judge the world.

Number one, Israel in particular. Israel rejected the Messiah and they did not know the day of God’s visitation when God came to the earth, like He promised, Emmanuel, God with us. And the Word was with God and the Word was God and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory. The glory is of the only be gotten of the Father. Jesus Christ tabernacled among men and He was God in the flesh and He came just like the promise that He was going to come.

But Israel rejected them and because of that Israel has gone into all the nations of the world and so God has used the nations of the world to beat up on Israel all these years and the world today is turning against Israel. God is allowing that to take place. He says in the book of Zechariah chapter 12, he says, and I will gather all nations against Jerusalem. Chapter 14, talk about it, and I will gather all nations against Jerusalem.

And Jerusalem will be a burdensome stone and all the nations round the mouth, and it is. Every president seems to have trouble with the nation of Israel. But you see, Israel wouldn’t bother anybody if they just left Israel alone. But Israel has to keep defending themselves. Because you see, if they don’t defend themselves, they’re annihilated. Those are people. But God has promised he’ll always have a remnant. There’ll always be a seed. And one day that little seed is going to grow and be the greatest nation in the face of the earth that day is coming.

And I believe that we’re living at a time where, yes, there’s a few nations that would like to see Israel totally destroyed. And one of these days I’ll teach a class on the book of Ezekiel, chapter 38 and 39. We’re going to talk about Russia. We’re going to talk about Libya. And in Ethiopia, it talks about Iran. It talks about how they’re going to join together in the coalition, and they’re going to come down against Israel. But if we’re living at some very interesting times.

Did you know, I don’t believe they’re going to do that unless they can see that we’re tied up in so many other places or something happens to America? You know, if we get involved in a little war like over there in South Korea and North Korea, you know, we get involved there in the way in Afghanistan and where all theand you know, it wouldn’t take a few other hot spots. And it’s seen some big country could just take care of us.

It wouldn’t take much. Now, if I was president, I already know how I deal with some of the situation. That’s why I’m not the president. you remember this and somebody’s already suggested this that we want Obama to be a dictator. That came up. Somebody wants Obama to be a dictator. Then he could get things done. He can’t get anything done because those Republicans are kind of keeping from doing what he needs to get done but he was a dictator.

You know you got to wait until you have martial law and then you can’t have martial law until you have civil unrest. And so it wouldn’t surprise me that there’s those are going to be stoking the fires to produce civil unrest so they can declare martial law and all our rights and everything we have will totally be suspended. And buddy we’re not caught from something like this. They can happen just that quick. We’re living at the closing days. We believe that Christ to come back at any moment.

But this is going to be this great judgment of seven years upon the nation of Israel and upon this world. The last three and a half years in particular is going to be to call the great tribulation and there’s a judgment that’s coming. Now take your Bible look in Matthew 25, book of Matthew and chapter 25. When Jesus Christ comes back Again, to the earth, the Bible tells us that there is going to be the judgment of the nations.

Judgment of the nations, Matthew, chapter 25. And look there in verse 31, When the Son of Man, Christ, shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He set upon the throne of His glory. Look up here. When Jesus Christ comes back, in glory. Every eye will be able to see Him. This is after the tribulation here. This is only seven years long. If Christ came back now, this was seven years from now. Christ comes back to the earth and He sets up a judgment of the nations.

And those people that have trusted Christ as their Savior will go into the millennium and those that have not those are the goats and they’re cast into the length of fire everlasting destruction. Look in Matthew chapter 25, look at this in verse 32 and before him shall be gathered all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats and he shall set the sheep on his right hand the goats on the left.

Then shall the King, Christ, say unto them on the right hand come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. This is the kingdom he comes back here. There’s a judgment of all these nations that came against Israel. And individually, those sheep can go into the millennium, and I wonder what happens to the good. And he says here, in verse 34, those that had been blessed with the Father coming to the king preparing, and he says a bunch of things that we won’t get into that right now.

Then look in verse 40, and the king shall answer. And say unto them, Verily I send you in so much as ye have done it under one of the least of these my brethren, talking about Israel. You have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepare for the devil and his angel. And now look down to verse 45, then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I send you in so much as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.

And I’ll explain that later when I go to the book of Matthew, but right now verse 40, these on the left, the goats shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous and the life eternal. So that is a judgment of the nations that takes place right here. when Christ comes back at the beginning of the millennium. So only saved people go into the millennium. Later on, yet they’ll have children and their children will have to be saved. So maybe our soul winning days won’t be over.

But won’t that be something to be upon the earth a thousand years and glorified bodies? Four or five bodies, that’s what I’m gonna have. to appear and disappear I have a body just like the Lord and we’re gonna rule and reign with the Lord and there’s still people upon the earth that have entrusted Christ the Savior. David’s gonna be here. Jesus is gonna be here. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they’re all gonna be there. Noah, all of you, you want to see them all?

They’ve got all be right here and I don’t think there’s gonna be a pollution problem. Nobody talk about you. You know you can take all the people in the whole United States and all the world and put them all in Jacksonville, Florida, all the people in all the world can fit in one place. But now if you listen to the environmentalists, to me people, you gotta tell them. You know, it’s not gonna be long before you know, have they gonna sell a lot of this your healthcare problem?

Us old folks, y’all old folks, will have a duty to die. That’s one way of eliminating a lot of problems. just snuff you out. They’re cutting their own throat, but then nobody ever said they were bright. And then the great judgment of the bond of your… that day is coming. See, pay day, Sunday. You and I who know Christ is Savior, we’re gonna get paid when we get here. We’re gonna get paid. Can you believe it and can you be patient until then?

Can you be faithful? Even if it seems like everything is falling apart, just stay faithful. Just keep certain of it. Keep doing right because it will be worth it all and God is gonna make it worth your while. And you don’t have any idea because you can’t see God in the palace everything. Just give us little bits and pieces of it. It takes the wisdom of God not only to say what He does say but what not to say I’m glad God don’t tell us everything I’m glad I don’t know what’s gonna happen to me tomorrow I scared me to death I may not want to go to bed tonight but we all know that we’re gonna rule and reign with Christ thousand years like in the Garden of Eden and then the Greypight throne judgment for all the lost that I have their payday.

You say, well people treat me wrong and get away with it, I want to get even with them. You don’t know what, what, what, what, what. If somebody is keeping the books and they know all the facts in the case concerning every individual, you don’t have to take the engines. God will take care of things. Just be patient. You just keep doing what you’re supposed to do. You don’t have to get mad and ugly than anybody. Why? Because God will take care of that.

Every person who gets mean in England, does you wrong? It’s costing them. It’s costing them. There’s a price to pay. You see, we can’t live as we please and just get away with it. Nobody does. Whether you’re saved or whether you’re lost. And the Bible also tells us in the book of Jude that we’re going to judge the angels. Now that’s really not my socks off when I heard that. We are going to judge the angels. And there’s angels that God has put in the chains of darkness, waiting for the day of judgment.

And how are we going to do that? I don’t know. I don’t care. But because God said it, I believe it. And how and why? I don’t know. I don’t really care again. But I believe the book is true. And if you’re here this morning and you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, you don’t get away with it just because I don’t believe it. It’s still true. And let me just mention this to you before I close. If you do not believe that there is a God, that’s your privilege.

But nobody can make you believe something. And everything that I’m talking about is because I do believe it. I believe there’s a God. But if you do not believe that there is a God, then you ought to be able to satisfy your mind with some kind of evidence to prove that there is no God. I often have people say, prove to me there’s a God. Prove to me there isn’t. I’m not on the defensive. defend your position, prove that there is no God.

To do so, you need to know everything there is to know, because if there’s anything that you don’t know might be the knowledge of God. The? So do you, at this point in your life, know everything that there is to know? Is there anything that you don’t know? It could be the knowledge of God. You ought to also be able to go everywhere all at the same time. Because if there’s any place that you can’t go at the same time, it might be where God is.

So can you literally in reality and truthfully say there is no God, because can you be everywhere to know God isn’t there? No, you can’t really do that. You see, you don’t have any evidence that God does not exist because you can’t prove God does not exist. You’d also have to have the power to know everything, to be everywhere, all at the same time, to be able to intellectually state that you know there is no God. So since you can’t really prove that, you really don’t know that God does not exist.

I believe that He does exist. I believe that everything that I said, I believe that is the truth and that we’re living in the most exciting time in all of human history. If you’re here this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I will highly recommended because not to trust Christ as your Savior means that you will spend an eternity separated from God in a place called Gahina, the final lake of fire for all eternity, forever dying and never dying.

Now, I really don’t want to go there and the reason I trusted Christ as my saved you 49 years ago is because I wanted fire insurance. I did not want to go. But see this fire insurance has already been paid. All you guys do is accept the payment and you don’t have to worry about it. I’ve never had to worry about it since. See, I got insurance. He says, he that believeth on me hat everlasting life, that means with the Lord.

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. I already know where I’m going to be. I’m going to be in the holy city. That’s why that’s what he promised. I’m going to walk on streets of gold. I don’t have to die for it down here. There’s no real security in this world except what God promises. And what God promises, it’s true and it’s real.

Look up here. This hand represents you and me and the wallet represents sin. Now we all have sin on us. I was always under the impression good little boys went to heaven and bad little boys went to hell. But I didn’t know any good little boys. They were all bad girls too. But God says that he loves us. H what we did long. This is sins. all the things we’ve done against God. How many things do you have to do against God to go to hell?

One, one sin, and everybody in here has sinned. We’ve all lied, probably stole. We don’t want to go any further than that. But God loves us. He loves you. And for you to pay for that sin, me to pay for that sin is death and hell eternal separation from God. See we earned the right to go to hell. We earned it. The wages of sin is death. That means you earned the right to go there. But no man has ever earned the right to go to heaven.

Suppose you got to be perfect to go there. You just have to be a sinner to go there. So God says that He loves us and He wants us to go to heaven. And to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous. God and none of us are. So Christ says you can’t earn it. You can’t work for it. You can’t buy it. Eternal life is a gift. It’s free. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh.

He came into the world because He loves us. Pates our sin because it separates us from him. So Jesus Christ took our sins, paid what on the cross, came back from the dead. And he said that if we would believe that he did it for us, he’d put this payment to our account and we’d get to go to heaven on what he did. See, I don’t earn it. You don’t earn it. It’s free. It’s a gift. Going to heaven is free.

Anybody can have it. Whosoever will may come. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Now whosoever, anybody, whosoever, believe it. That’s all you got to believe he did for you. Should not perish. It means you won’t go to hell. But have everlasting life means you get to go to heaven whenever you die. So 49 years ago in a little old living room in Athens, Georgia, I believe that Jesus Christ paid for mine. Would you believe he paid for yours?

And if you will, then God said he would give you as a free gift. eternal life. You go to heaven on what he did. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed and no one looking around. If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you just talk to the Lord right now and say something simple like this? Or I know I’m a sinner. And I believe Christ died, paid for my sins, and I will trust Jesus Christ right now as my Savior.

That’s my only hope of one to heaven. And friend, if you’re making that decision, I would love to know it. I’d love to have prayer for you. But I don’t want to embarrass you or put you on the spot in any way. So I do this with heads, bow, knives, clothes, because see, nobody else sees, nobody else knows. Yes, I’m looking, I want to know. But I want to know if you’ll trust Christ right now as your Savior, and if you will, if you’ve never done it before, but you do it this morning, say, preacher, that made sense to me.

And I believe He did it for me. and I’m trusting him right now as my Savior. If you’ve already done it before, you don’t have to do it again. But right now, I will trust Christ as my Savior, and I’d like for you to pray for me. Would you just slip your hand very quickly and put it right back down? Then we’ll go off. Then we’ll go out, slip it up real quick, and put it right back down. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, your God’s child, understand how we live is important and how we live does affect the eternity.

Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together, for the truth of Your Word. Bless each one, we thank You for it in Christ’s name, 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 were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-800- Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air.

You can reach us toll free at 1-800-5. at Calvary of Tampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. Take your Bible, turn to the book of 2 Corinthians, the book of 2 Corinthians. I want to speak to you this morning on the subject of payday someday, payday someday. We like to work and at the end of the week, like to get paid.

But generally, that’s the way it works. Some people like to get paid even if they don’t do any work. You know, they want that job that starts at 12 o’clock and they get off at 1 o’clock and have an hour for lunch. And of course, there’s a lot of people going to school today and trying to get some degrees so they can go out and get that job, that the people who already had the degree have lost, because there was no work.

We live in some tough times, and I believe that it’s gonna get worse. I like to say, I think it’s gonna get better. There are those who teach that we are going to bring in a millennium into this world of peace and prosperity, and that science is gonna have the answer to everything for a long life and we’re just going to have it made. And that we’re going to do away with all wars. You know the war to end all wars.

We’ve had two wars like that. Didn’t work you. And we’re sitting on a powder cake today. Things are ready to explode high and wide. But we try to figure out how do we solve problems. The Bible put it this way. hearts failing them for fear, seeing those things that are coming up on the earth. You and I are not supposed to live in fear. We’re not supposed to be afraid. We know that things are going to get bad. We know that this isn’t all there is.

We know there’s more than this. So I want to kind of explain a few of these things to you this morning. And it might help you to be able to face life a little bit better. At least I hope it does. Second Corinthians in chapter 5. And you notice there, it’s a couple of scriptures that talks about the ministry of reconciliation. It’s a judgment, something that took place. Can people live like they please and get away with it? Can we even in America, can we violate the laws of God and get away with it?

It seemed like everybody thinks we can. We can just do whatever we want to do and the will of the majority. So we always make our decisions based upon what does people want. So we have politicians that say, I will represent you. You just tell me what you want. And so whoever has the most people on a particular opinion, then that’s how they’ll vote. I think that stinks myself. I think we ought to have men of character that know right from wrong, and that’s where they stand.

It doesn’t matter how many people are for it or against it. Is it right? Is it right? They don’t know the Constitution today, evidently, and they’ve never read it. And so many people don’t make wise decisions. But here in the book of Corinthians, I want you to see this. their in verse 14 for the love of Christ constraineth us motivates us because we thus judge that if one died for all then we’re all dead. So we’re gonna be talking about judgment.

Payday someday. And there’s things that God says that have to be paid, that people can’t just do whatever they want and get away with it. So the Lord evidently keeps the books. And he keeps the books on everybody’s actions, what did he say and what they do? He says in the last day the books will be open and every man will be judged according to his deeds. The book of Matthew, chapter 12, talks about every idle word will be brought into judgment.

So it doesn’t look like everybody can just do whatever and it doesn’t matter. Everything matters. So he says in verse 15, and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves. So in this verse is telling you and I, not only should we trust Christ as our Savior, but it is to affect the way we live. Look at it again, that they which live should not henceforth from now on live unto themselves. So it’s telling us what we’re supposed to do, not to do.

What he says, live unto this and but unto him which died for them and rose again. So the Lord is telling everyone who trusts Christ as Savior to live for him. You’re not to live for yourself. That means that you have to live by faith looking forward to the day when he’s going to pay you. There’s a payday coming. Now, payday for the believer is not here in this life. You know, I did something good, run to the mailbox and pick up my check.

You may serve the Lord all your life, but payday is not in this life. You may enjoy a few blessings along the way in a lot of hardship. But I just found out last night about 10 o’clock, a good friend of mine named Mike Schaeffer, Mary Dr. Stanford’s daughter, and she has got cancer. And so they sent out an email for people to pray for them. So I wrote her back a thing last night and And I says, we must always see the rainbow through the rain, to see the rainbow through the rain.

In other words, believing that God’s promises, regardless of how dark and black it may look at the time, His promises will always be there and God cannot lie and God will keep His word. Now, notice what He says in verse 16, wherefore henceforth, no we know man after the flesh, Though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more Because he was here in the flesh, but he’s not here anymore in the flesh Therefore if any man be in Christ is a new creature new creation all things are passed away behold all things have become new The new birth and everything becomes with it.

It’s all new You were a child of the devil I’m going to hell that Old condition has changed and passed away God now sees you as his child and all things are coming. You got a new birth, you got a new name. A whole bunch of things that happens because now you’re his child. But God says from henceforth, now on we’re not to live unto ourselves but unto him who died for us. And get what he says in verse 18 now.

And all things are of God, these new things he talks about. Even you’ll see that in the book of 1 Corinthians 2. But who reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ? When Jesus Christ went to the cross, He took the payment and became the payment for all the sins of the world. Because, you see, we committed the sin and everybody has sined, So Christ died for our sins on the cross. So He took our judgment. He paid our price.

He redeemed us. So all those who accept Christ as their Savior, the payment He made is put to their account. So we have been reconciled back to God. You see, I was an enemy of God. Me and God couldn’t live together, walk together, talk together. We could not get along together together and I couldn’t go there. But Jesus Christ went to the cross, paid for my sins. I accepted that. And so therefore the Father can accept me because I accepted his son.

And God sees me in his son. His son did this for me. So I have been reconciled to God. We’re not enemies anymore. I am his child. And because I am a child of God, I have been reconciled God and that’s why he says in the book of Romans to have peace with God. Peace has been made because of the payment Christ made on the cross for every individual. And God says He has given to you and I the ministry of reconciliation.

It means that we can go into all the world and tell every individual in the whole world they can be reconciled back to God because of the payment Christ made on the cross. So you have a ministry. I have a ministry. It’s the ministry. history of reconciliation. Look what he says here. He makes the statement in verse 18, and all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and get this, and you ought to underline this in your Bible, hath given to us.

Now, this is the ministry of reconciliation to wit in verse 19, tells you what it is. To wit or to witness to this fact that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses. Now that says the same thing in the book of Romans in chapter 4 verses 5 down to verse 8. But get what he says here. He says, not imputing their trespasses, their sins unto them, and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

So then, you and I have been made an ambassador for Christ. So God left us in this world, and we are here as His ambassador. We are from another country. We are only here temporary, and we are representing Him. So He says, going to all the world and He has given to you and I the ministry of reconciliation and so we have the ministry of reconciliation of the Word. So we’re to use the Word of God to let people know what He’s done for them because Christ took the judgment, the payment, the penalty for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world.

So that’s what he has already done. Now look what he says in verse 20. Now then we are, and you’re the underlying, these words, we are ambassadors. Now if you understand who you are, what you are, you are a child of God. What will help you to know how you’re to live and what you’re to focus upon is to realize why did God leave you here? How does he see things? He sees you in this life as his ambassador.

You do not represent you. You represent him. So you’re not to do anything that brings any shame upon him or that country where we’re going to. Cause we’re in God’s eyes from that country. We’re here in this country, just like we have ambassadors from all around the world who come to this country. And we have ambassadors here, they go to other countries. And they’re given what they call immunity. Sometimes they can do anything they want and you can’t touch them.

Well, we’re citizens of two countries, but that’s another sermon. Look there in verse 20. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ did be you reconciled to God. In other words, reconcile this in your mind that when you accepted Christ as your Savior, you had peace made between you and God. And now that message, that word, that helped you to see it and understand it, God says, I want you to explain this to other people.

That’s why for years, as much as I could with whatever money I’ve ever had, I’ve always put it back into people, for reaching kids for the Lord. Whether it was the bus ministry or taking kids to camp the youth minister we had or starting a Bible college or a Christian school or having the radio broadcast, the TV minister we had for you, all of it because we have been given a ministry of reconciliation. To reconcile people back to God because of the payment that He made on the cross.

Now look what He says in verse 21, for He hath made Him, Jesus Christ, who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So in him, God has given to you his righteousness. So whenever I trusted Christ as my Savior, I was placed by the Holy Spirit in him and in him, God cannot see me. I am hid and my life is hid. In Christ. And therefore, because I am in Christ, having his righteousness, I am good enough to go to heaven, not because of anything that I’ve done, but because of the payment Jesus Christ made on the cross for me.

So that is the ministry of reconciliation because Christ took our judgment on the cross. Now look there in 1 Corinthians and chapter 11. Now that you know Christ is your Savior, you know that you’re going to heaven, you and I are supposed to understand that you and I are going to have a payday. But when He talks about the chasting of His children, He doesn’t talk about chasting us when we get to heaven. He talks about chasing us while we’re here.

So you’ll notice what he says and look there in verse 28, of 1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 28 says, but let a man examine himself. Now the reason you study the Bible is so that you can discern right from wrong. Now if you use your own judgment, you’re going to justify things God condemns. You’re not going to see it the way God does. So whenever you don’t read the Bible or you don’t go to church, you will use your own reasoning, your own logic.

And there is a way that seems right unto a man, but it’s just not the truth. and therefore you will excuse or accuse unjustly. And so God says you study His Word so that you can examine yourself and you’re not capable of examining yourself without knowing the Word so that you can discern the right and the wrong of things based upon how God sees it. So he says, let a man examine himself and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

This is talking about the communion service for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily because he doesn’t discern it. In the last part of that verse, it says not discerning, not discerning the Lord’s body. But there’s many areas in our life that we may not be able to discern. You may know Christ is your Savior, but you can’t discern whether or not do I take this job or I take this job. Do I marry this girl or don’t marry this girl?

How do I raise my kids. You say, I have raised kids, no problem. You don’t have any teenagers yet. You’ll learn. You may think you have it all down until you wind up with some kids. And they’ll teach you what you don’t know. And you need discernment. You need to know the Word of God. And God’s Word will help you. But now get what He says. In verse 13 He says, for this cause, many are weak, sickly among you, and many sleep.

That means are dead. That means in this life. It means that you can’t live as you please and get away with it. There is a price to pay and God is going to chasten and discipline you and correct you. Now he doesn’t do that because he hates you. He doesn’t because he loves you and every son whom he received it he chastens and scourgeeth. That’s what the Lord says. So you need to know that and understand that because if you don’t, you live your life and thinking that, you know, it really doesn’t matter.

Everything matters. Listen to me, husbands love your wife and you need to study the word of God to know how to love your wife. Wives, submit yourselves to your husband. You have to be strong in the Lord to do that. That’ll take a lot of the grace of God. And you want your children to obey you. Why should they obey you if you don’t obey God. Why would you get upset with their disobedience and rebellion if you’re rebellious yourself?

Are you walking with God? Are you serving God? And then he makes a statement, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of ours. And that’s written to the Christian, 1 John 1, 9, so that the Christian in discerning his life see the things that he does is not appropriate and will correct the problem. So he makes the statement there in verse 31, for if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But do you think he’s talking about just judge yourself lightly or talking about judging yourself according to the truth of the word of God?

So if you don’t know the word of God, you’re not gonna be a good judge and in verse 32, but when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world. You see up here? During this time of our life. This is where we are right now. The last 2,000 years, called the church changer. This is where we are. Now we know that the raptor is gonna take place one of these days.

But until then, we gotta live here in this body. And God says that the Christian is going to be chasing or disciplined because of the things that he says and does. So even though you don’t always see the consequences of your sin or your rebellion, they are still happening and there’s prices that you’re paying. And maybe you don’t think it’s that bad until you get to heaven and you see what it cost you. There has been things that I was going to do for my one son.

I had something that was really great, really special that I was going to do for him if he obeyed me. But because he did not obey me, I did not give him what I was going to give him. And it was good. And he would have loved it. But because of his rebellion, I did not give it to him. And I never told him about it. My son is now in heaven. He died when he was 28 years old.

But he has no idea what he could have had if he had obeyed. I believe that there’s a God in heaven that wants to bless us. But because of things that we think and ways that we act, he withholds and promises. And it didn’t have to be that way. He says, we have not because we ask not. And sometimes we don’t ask the Lord for the things that we want and need. And God would have given. but we didn’t ask or we didn’t meet the criteria.

We didn’t do what God wanted us to do. And so there’s a price that we pay. And that’s why I want the blessings of God upon my life. And so should you. So we know that this day is coming. I know that if I rebel against the Lord, I know that my heavenly Father, according to His Word, has the chastening discipline me. So I know that I’m not here to live is I pleased but for the one who died for me and came back again from the dead.

When we leave this world we’re going to a place called the judgment, see the price. That is a rewarding stand where God is going to reward us for the things that we’ve done. Look there in 2nd Corinthians in chapter 5 and looking verse 10, 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and look in verse 10. Every Christian needs to understand that there is going to be a judgment of the believer’s works. So every believer is going to stand at the rewarding stand, the beamer, it’s a judgment.

Not that we’re going to be judged and have to pray a prayer, but to see what you could have had to see what rewards God is going to give to you to see how you’re going to serve the Lord in the kingdom upon the earth. You see I have not seen ear have not heard neither has entered through the heart of men the things which God has prepared for them that love him. So there’s things God has prepared for them that love him and that means that there’s some things that because people don’t love the Lord, they’re not going to get.

So you’re the one that decides for all eternity, some of the things you’re going to have and be able to do. You show, well, I don’t see it and I don’t understand it and you don’t make any sense to me. I’m living for right now and do whatever I want to do. Okay, go ahead, but pay day is coming. You’re going to pay for that attitude. There’s a price to pay for it. It’s not going to come cheap. And that’s why the Bible says that God is going a white boy all tears from their eyes.

That doesn’t take place upon the earth. That takes place when we’re with the Lord. There’s going to be a lot of grief with God’s people. When they see what they could have had or how they could have served the Lord and what position for eternity. That’s why He says lay up treasure in heaven where you can’t lose it. And yet There’s God’s children that think it doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t matter Everything matters But nobody can make you love God.

Nobody can make you serve or nobody can make you real and genuine You can be as hypocritical as you choose to be you can fool everybody in this whole church But the one that matters you can’t fool him You can fool me But I’m not the one that’s gonna reward you I’m not gonna give you any positions When we get up there, I’m not doing anything for you and you’re not doing anything for me. He’s going to give you what you have earned, what you deserve.

Getting there is by grace. What you have when you get there, you have to earn it. You have to deserve it. And if you don’t deserve it, you’re not going to get it. Rewards are earned. Salvation is a gift. It’s free. Keep Salvation and Service separate. Salvation is what Christ did for me. Service is what I do for him. And so there’s this judgment. Look there in verse 10, for we must all appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ.

The Lord says we are going to appear there. He also talks about when the Raptor takes place, we’re going to disappear here in the moment, the Twinkling of an Eye. So we’re going to disappear and appear. You know, I can’t wait to be able to do that. I wish I could do it now. I’d love to be standing up here right now. And all of a sudden, hey, let me show you a trick.

What are you ready to put it? There’s truth found in the Word of God. And he says this, that everyone may receive the things done in his body. That means in this life, in this body, according to that he hath done. You can’t cut it any other way and this is a judgment to the right. This is in heaven. This is for every Christian You’re going to be rewarded when you get to heaven for what you’ve done in this body And if you don’t think it matters Whatever you want.

I’m greedy. I want all I can get I want whatever God has for me. I Want all the blessings I can get now And I want all the rewards I can get when I get to heaven Now I can want all that desire, all that because God told me it’s worth. But I would serve the Lord if I had not one blessing here and not one reward there. I’d want to tell people about this ministry of reconciliation. I have enjoyed for the last forty-something years telling people how to have eternal life.

I haven’t found anything in this whole world better to do with my life than that. There’s anything better that a man can ever do and tell people how to have eternal life. And I know that when I get to heaven, there’s going to be a lot of people in heaven because they heard the gospel through my lips. They heard me. I opened my big mouth and I said something and they understood and they trusted Christ as their Savior. You say, you’re supposed to, you’re a preacher.

I became a preacher because I was doing that. I don’t preach because, you know, it’s just something I decided I’m going to do. I wound up doing this because I was a soul winner before. Anybody can do it. Some people won’t do it. But God hasn’t called me. Yes, He has. You just don’t want to obey. You just don’t want to do it. You might be scared. Did you know if you let the fear stop you? It’s constant. Every time you and I fail to do what God wants us to do, then there’s a price to pay.

But if we’ll serve the Lord, we serve the Lord. chain. You’re making an investment. Did you know the best investment you can ever make is in the souls of people? Because you see, when we get to heaven and you see the people that are reached because of you’re an investment. Some people are like investing in all the stuff that goes on in the world and you can do some of that. But how about hate to think that’s where all my money ever will.

I’ve always put mine in the paper, in the paper, in the paper. So I want to see the results of what what happens to people’s lives. I want people to serve the Lord. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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We pray that you’ll 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. See, a lot of people, they want to be used but they don’t prepare themselves. A lot of people love the same, but you don’t prepare the same. He’s been singing in the shower. That’s why I’ve never heard of it. And lo and behold, he, you know, he finds out, you know, he’s up here singing, she’s going, oh, does he serenade you yet?

No. But it’s wonderful to be able to try something. Just because you’ve never done it before doesn’t mean you can’t. What would you like to do? Some people are a good soul and that James is a good soul But you know how come he’s a good soul in her? It just happened one day. It just took over his body and he didn’t He just been doing it for a good while. That’s all you do. I have one thousand and thousand people to Christ But it’s all because I started with just one this one and then got another one and get another one And you just keep on keep on and that’s why you get a whole bunch of them and so you try to prepare yourself to be used fit for the master’s use so that God can use you.

And you’d be surprised that people has got a lot of talent and abilities but just have never ventured out to see just what they can do. Fear will hold you back but after you, you know, you do it for a little while and then it’s not as hard. Just like that first time you got to witness to somebody. You have to have that first time. This one guy, he’d never been bear hunting before. And he said, well, what do I do?

He says, oh, it just comes natural. You just know what you’re supposed to do. So he went with a bunch of guys up into the woods. Well, the guy went out of the house and after a while they heard him. And they heard him hollering. They opened the door and he’d come running down over here and a big old bear was chasing him. He says, open the door. So they open the door and he ran in the bear and run it behind him.

He ran out the back door, slammed it closed. He says, y’all clean out and I’ll go get another one. But you got to have that first one that you got to clean. You got to get that first and after a while. You know, the first one is a rough one. But after you did it, it becomes easier for you.

Take your Bible and look there in the book of Acts chapter 21. Acts chapter 21. Don’t you see this? Acts chapter 21. Now you know the apostle Paul in the book of Acts chapter 20 was talking about going to Jerusalem and he said that didn’t know everything was going to be following me there but he made the statement that bonds and afflictions abide me. Now look in chapter 21 and verse 10 and as we tarried there many days there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus and when he was come into us, he took Paul’s girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said, thus saith the Holy Ghost, so shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that own of this girdle.

And shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard these things, both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. There warn in Paul, don’t go. Verse 13, then Paul answered, What meaneth ye to weep and to break my heart? and you are on the line of these words for I am ready. Not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Now, that’s being ready. He’s not only ready to be bound, but he’s ready to die, prepared to die. That’s taking a big step. Let me ask you to. Everybody knows in this life you’re going to have to… You’re going to suffer. Are you ready to suffer anything, whatever it may be, for the cause of Christ? Have you already resolved that in your mind between you and God, Lord, I don’t care what it is. I don’t care how bad it is.

I’m ready to suffer regardless of what it might be. You’re free to use me any way you want. However you deem necessary for your honor and glory that by my body, whether I live or whether I die, Christ may be magnified in my body. I’m ready. Do you know what my job is as the pastor that gets you ready? I’m supposed to get you ready for heaven. So you try to take and give the gospel so that the lost people can trust Christ as Savior.

Is my job done just because you want somebody to Christ? No, just begun. That’s just the first thing. That just gets them to heaven, but are you prepared to meet the Lord? So we try to get people prepared to suffer. And that’s one of the most hardest things you can do, to try to prepare people to suffer. Now you know you’re going to, right? have no idea I could write a book over all the things that I’ve done and that I mean that brought suffering just suffer not because you did something wrong but because you did something right.

I remember one time I was way down there in the Grand Canyon we’d gone down there there was an Indian tribe there called the Havasu Pai Indian tribe the guy that used to bring in the mail by horseback still does it, named Charlie Chamberlain. He came to our Bible, called his whole family, and his wife was a have a survive. And his kids went to our Christian school. And I met him down in the canyon, when we was having camped down here one year.

And we’re down here in the bottom of the canyon. And four or five of us was checking out the lower parts of the canyon right before it gets to the Colorado River. The Colorado River River is one wild river when it gets into the gorge. Well there’s this waterfall that had two big waterfalls down here. One’s a 60-foot drop and another one’s a 90-foot drop. But it was beautiful down in the bottom of the canyon. Well we had circled around behind one of the waterfalls and when we did my son didn’t go he stayed over there because he was young at the time.

We all went on the back side of the waterfall and so we decided that we’d just dive through the waterfall and each one dove through the waterfall and went on the other side and I just waited everybody gone I’m the oldest you know I should let them go first big mistake so I’m there all by myself and I just didn’t feel like this diving through the waterfall I just eased into the water and thought I just swim through the But as I began to swim thirsty and I went under the waterfalls so I closed my eyes and I just kept swimming and I kept swimming and I realized it’s getting darker.

I didn’t push off enough to get through the waterfall and a 90 foot waterfall coming down will push you down. on. It was pushing me down into the lake. But I didn’t know it at first and I didn’t take a lot of air with me. I wasn’t planning on staying for a while. But I would begin to hurt and it was dark and I couldn’t go up. I was doing everything I could to go up. I’m trying to go up and water is pushing me down.

It just wasn’t working. And it came to me what was happening. And so then I started going forward and get out of the waterfall. And when I got out then I started going up and then I could start seeing it started lightening up. And then when I finally got to the top of the water and I busted through my lungs were burning and I was hurting. And I looked over there and all four of the guys were sitting on the thing a hundred yards away from me, looking the other direction.

They had no clue what almost happened to me. How close I came to being taken out of this world. Later on they was telling us in the village of it some guy. We’re on an expert professional diver from Colorado dove off of it and the waterfall got him and he drowned. He didn’t come out of it. And he was a professional swimmer. I thought, the Lord has to look out for me. There’s no reason I should be alive. But I believe the devil has been after me over and over again because there’s so many little stories that I’ve got that if it hadn’t have been for the Lord.

I’d have been dead. I don’t deserve to live. But since I am alive, I want to give it all I got to the Lord. I want to be ready when the Lord comes back. I want to serve Him as faithfully as I can because He has been so good to me. And I realize I live only by the grace of God. Did you realize if it wasn’t for the Lord, you’d already be dead? God is keeping you alive. He is protecting you.

And we don’t even know how many times we could have been killed in some car wreck, but God has blocked us here and there and protect us and put a hedge about it. That’s what he said. You know, he did the Job. And I believe that he does the same thing for us. But he says, oh, yes, I’m ready. Looking at Romans in chapter one, Romans in chapter one. This I really love. It’s so simple. It’s just a simple little thing.

But look there in verse 14. Now the Apostle Paul has wrote a letter to the Roman Christians and he says, I want to come there because I want to have some fruit among you. In other words, I want to win some people to the Lord there. Oh, he did get there. But he went in captivity. He went there and eventually they chopped off his head. But look what he says in verse 14, I am deader, both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise.

I am deader.” You gotta underline those three words. You see, this is how Paul saw himself. You see, I am a deader. It means I have something that belongs to somebody else. I owe somebody something. We see, we have been trusted with the gospel. we owe the gospel to the lost man. That’s why we try to figure out every way possible that we can get the gospel out. In verse 15, so as much as in me is, as much as in me is, I am ready.

In your underlying those three words, I am ready. What was he ready to do? To preach the gospel. I’m ready. If he’s ready, that means he’s prepared. It means he’s ready to suffer whatever it takes to get there. I believe the reason the Apostle Paul appealed to Caesar when he stood before King Agrippa was so that he could get to Rome. And they took him to Rome. Now you’re reading the book of Acts where the ship was broken apart.

You come 100 guys, we’re going to drown. And they assured them, he says, nobody’s gonna die. Everybody’s gonna be cool. And even whenever they finally got out of the shipwreck and finally got to shore, they was cold, they built a fire, and then when they built a fire, a snake bites him, a poisonous snake. And the rest of the people just wait to see, this must be some bad man. He’s got to be a bad man for all this bad stuff to happen to him.

So they waited to see him die. And then when he didn’t die, they went from a bad man. He must be God. So boy, that people’s attitude can change quickly, can it? But see, Paul was ready to suffer. He was ready to die. He was ready to preach the gospel. And that means that nothing would hold him back. They didn’t matter what he has to go through. Does it matter how much you have to suffer? Does it matter how much you heard?

Now remember in Paul’s day they did not have Medicaid, Medicare, they didn’t have Social Security, they didn’t have hospitals on every corner, they didn’t have the VA, and look what he-he did. Forty Jews at one time took out a vow. Go what? They killed it. They said, we will not intersleep until we kill that man. Now how long has it been since somebody said there’s gonna do that to you? We’re afraid of saying something because they might say something to hurt my feelings.

Something so simple keeps us from saying anything. And yet he would do it and they’d beat him half to death. One place they stoned him to death. Now he was ready. Now let me ask you a question again. Are you really ready to serve them on? Are you ready? Is God free to do anything in your life to get you wherever he wants you to be? Is he free to take all of your wealth away if it might be for his honor and glory?

Can he do that? And you won’t get mad at him. Are you really ready? I don’t know if most Christians are really ready to have everything wiped out. I’ve given up homes. I gave up a motor home one time. Those were about $150,000. Just give it up. Took the money and gave it to a bunch of people. I saw Betty, I said, we can start all over again. We don’t need it. Don’t matter. And then a couple of years later, 20 years later, God gave me another home.

You can take that one away if he wants to. See, it don’t matter. But when you fall in love with the things of this world, there’s great sorrow when you lose them. And then you’re always in trouble trying to figure out how to keep things. If you don’t have anything, you don’t have to worry about it. You say, well, I don’t want to get quite in there. I told my father a lot one time. I said, I want God to use me.

He says, in time he will. All right. I mean, I don’t want God to hold back. He says, what do you mean? I don’t know. I just don’t want him to hold back. I mean, I want God that’s free or free to do anything he wants to me. He teach me any lesson that he thinks I need to know. However, he wants to do it. He says, you’re married to my daughter. He says, this is all well and good for you, but you got a wife and you got couple kids.

He says, I want you to consider that. Oh, you know, sometime I never think about that. I think, Lord, just whatever you want to do, however you want to do it, let her rip. And I think, now if I was the wife, my husband said something like that. I’d kill it. Well, maybe I’d quite kill it. You know, just half dead. Because you know, you’re thinking about it. Wait a minute. You don’t know what you’re saying. And I’ve seen the Lord do a lot of things in my life.

And sometimes I think, I ask for this. This is my fault. I ask for this. But sometimes you have, you have, He got to the place where he said, well, I don’t mind you testing me, but not so bad. Because there’s some things I’m ready and I’m trying to anticipate what God’s going to do next. And he ain’t never done what I thought he would do. He fools me every time. Something will happen that will take me to the death’s door a way that I never thought about.

I’ve been there in an emergency room and I watched my wife looking at me because they didn’t know if I was going to make it or not. And I come so close to dying two times in the last ten years. And didn’t know if I’d pull through. But the Lord had just given me so many interesting stories. But it makes life exciting. Now, at this stage in my life right now, because right now I feel as healthy as I’ve ever felt in my life, I feel good, but I also know tomorrow can be a different story.

You can have everything go wrong and everything fall apart so quick. And it won’t matter what you’ve done, you’ve got to face what’s in front of you today or tomorrow. And you don’t know how bad or not severe it’s going to be. So I would recommend, don’t get too high on that horse. Don’t think you can handle everything. Because there have been several times when I just didn’t know how I’m going to handle this. And I didn’t think it could get this bad or this worse.

And God has some lessons to teach you in humility. You think, I’m ready, I can handle anything. And God says, oh, you think so, huh? And they won’t be long before God can bring you to tears and bring you to your knees. And Lord, I guess I wasn’t really that ready. But I can guarantee you this. God is preparing you today, even by the things that I say, sometime off the cuff. You might need it tomorrow next week or six months from now.

Or you say, man, I wish I’d have had that six months ago, because you are going to be tested. God is going to see just how much character and integrity you have because it’s The way God does things. God is alive and he’s working. Look what he says, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome. Also, for I am not ashamed. Here’s why. I’m not ashamed of a gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God in the salvation to everyone that believe it to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

So in his gospel message, he always presented in verse 17 the righteousness of God verse 18 the wrath of God and That’s why when Guys like me and Hank and others when we present the gospel We always try to show the wrath of God against sin and The love of God the righteousness of God because see the gospel message has to be explained. You have to say what it is and what it is not. Look up here. Now this hand represents you and me and the wallet represents sin.

Now we all have sin on us. When we explain that, yes God says that he loves us but he hates our sin, the wages of sin is death. That reveals the wrath of God. And the wages in being death is eternal separation from God. So you explain in God’s wrath and hatred for sin. Now, when he talks about we have to be perfect to go to heaven. You’re showing the impossibilities. You have to be as righteous as God to go to heaven.

But see there in that verse 17, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed. So the gospel message that we reveal, and preach, it should tell about the righteousness of God. See, they’re versating for the wrath of God is revealed. So, in our gospel story and our presentation, we should always try to include those two things. And this is why we always call it the bad news, the good news. The good news is you can have the righteousness of God given to you as a free gift.

And because you and I cannot save ourselves, we need a Savior. And there’s only one. That’s Jesus Christ. to the world, took our sins, paid for to form the cross. Now, Christ dying for our sins shows the wrath of God, even upon His Son, and He paid for our sins. But after the payment for the sins was made, God brought Him back again from the dead. For it says in the book of Acts 2, He was not holding the dead.

In other words, it wasn’t His sin. It was paid for. God can bring His Son back to life. the Bible says that God would give us his righteousness and we would go to heaven on his. That’s good news. So the gospel should have these two things in Paul said, I am ready to preach the gospel to those in Rome also. In the word he willing to go there. One thing that I’ve tried to keep is whether it was in Colorado or Georgia or even here, ready to go wherever God wants me to go, whenever God wants me to go.

And you have to be very careful how tied down you get. But I told you all this, I love this ministry here. I love you people. You didn’t work your way all the way into my little peeping heart. And I want to help prepare the people here at this church to be used by God. I’d love to see this church accomplish as much as any church can ever accomplish for the Lord because of their love for the gospel, our love for souls, and where everybody knows how to witness.

They’re ready to do so. They’re ready to give their will. They’re served. Do whatever has to be done for the cause of Christ. I used to always hear my father-in-law tell me, he says, the world has never seen what God can do to one man that’s totally given to God. I’ve often wondered, has the world ever seen a church that’s totally yielded to the Lord? Has the world ever seen a church like that? Are we just a church like everybody else?

Are we different? Are we different? Are we unique? One thing that I was talking to somebody earlier about Ray Stanford or Dr. Hank Lindstrom and I was influenced by him. He gave to us something really different and unique of any one man that I’ve ever known. One was the clarity of the gospel. That was always in the Bible, but it wasn’t brought out like it was until we heard him. He influenced our lives. He really did. That’s been a long time.

So we got the clarity of the gospel. He also gave us the wallet illustration. Nobody ever had that. Except Ray Stanford, he saw a man named Ari Torrey who was written in a book and I saw it in there, but never explained like Ray did it. Ray took the seven steps, the principles and applied it. So he gave us an awesome message and then explaining it with the seven steps in the Walla illustration. He gave us the youth ranch ministry, which most people have never heard about the youth ranch ministry.

It was a way for people to serve on where it was, a teenage Bible study, a way to reach the teenagers with the gospel. And then he also gave us the two natures. And the two natures is that teaching where we understand why we do what we do. So he gave us these things and the fifth thing was the outline of the gospel. But it was just all so powerful, so unique. And whenever you left Florida Bible College, you felt like you have something that’s different and unique.

And even in this ministry, y’all still have that love for the gospel, the simplicity of it. We still use the seven steps in it, in the wall of illustration, in the two natures. But anyway, I enjoy talking to you, but I just want you to be ready. If I was to ask you this Sunday morning, I want you to give a three-minute testimony. You should say, preacher, I’m ready. You ought to be able to give a testimony if it takes three minutes or if it takes five minutes or if it takes an hour.

You always tell them what you thought, what you found out, what you did. He said, and give your testimony. If I say, get up here and give me a gospel presentation, you just go through all seven steps. Step number one, you go right through the seven steps. And you can do this. Alrighty? Let’s pray Shiahiah. Father, we do thank you so much. You’ve been so good to us. And Lord, we know that wasn’t for your strength, your grace. Lord, none of us would be.

He was in contact with us, brought us together, and we prayed Lorded. We would prepare ourselves to be used. And Father, we want to be ready when you come. And for the opportunities you’ve given us, they come in all different ways and disguise some time even as work. But help us to be wise and do right. Let’s see the person here. Some people are having a hard time. were told to pray for one another and to exhort one another, encouraging one another.

And Father, because I want everybody here to have every blessing that they can get. And when they get to heaven, I want them to have every reward they could have received. And I thank you for those who have worked in labor back there in the O’wanna program, bless each one of them and all the kids. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen.

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I thought I’d speak to you a little bit about, are you ready? Are you ready? Years ago, I used to love the arm wrestle. For some reason or other I had a little unique, I could take their hand and I twisted it in and then just pull it toward me. And they’re always trying to push it down and I’m just pulling, you can pull it towards you. And I could pin, anybody I arm or I could pin them. And even when I was 45 years old, I had some college kids, they took me on, they wanted to challenge through some arm wrestling.

And it just broke their heart when, you know, I just pinned them and they couldn’t stand it. And it’s not because it’s straight, it’s a little technique. And so, and they’d get a hold of my arm and they’d just go, bam! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready. So then somebody has to go to the guy. One, two, three, and then you go, and then sometimes, one, two, and then they slam you, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You’re supposed to go on three, I wasn’t ready. And then sometimes I try to steal off guard because you can catch a person off guard, you can slam your hand down quick. Well, sometimes they work the other way and they got mean. I mean, I like to break your arm off. But are you ready? Or you say, on your mark, get set, go! You know, it’s just a way of, are you ready? Are you ready? I remember one time I had a, this man and woman came to me, they wanted to get married.

I said, sir, you think you’re ready to get married? I’m ready, I’m ready. Six months later, I wasn’t ready. But you think you’re ready and you’re not ready. There’s a lot of people that are not ready to die. They’re just not ready. And there’s a lot of Christians that are not ready to meet the Lord either. Oh, they may know the Christ to say, but they’re just not ready. And so it’s important to be ready. I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Luke chapter 12.

Luke in chapter 12. Now, remember this. If Satan is ready to attack you, remember? He is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may what? Devour. Well, if the devil is ready to devour you, you better be ready to defend you. So when is he ready to get you? So you better be ready. And if you’re not ready to defend yourself, then you might get devoured. And you don’t want that to happen. So here in the book of Luke in chapter 12, Look there in verse 35.

Now Jesus is talking here and he says, let your loins be girded about and your lights burning. Now chapter five, it talks about, you know, let your little light shine. We sing that song, this little light of mine. Well, the word light there in chapter five of Matthew is talking about men seeing your good works. Your good works. then they may glorify your Father, which is in heaven. So when you wanna let your little light shine, you’re talking about letting your works shine forth.

That they may glorify your Father, which is in heaven. So it’s not just a matter of living a good life and everybody just ooh and aha hah holy you are. If you don’t give the credit to the Lord and now they’ll know why you’re doing it, then you get all the credit and the honor and the glory. And that’s stealing. You’re robbing glory from God and God doesn’t like that. So he doesn’t mind you getting a little credit as long as you give the credit to him.

So make sure that you do that. So he says in verse 30, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding. Now, this of course is talking to the children of Israel. It’s talking about when the Lord comes back at the end of the tree relation period. You’ll see here in the book of Lucy, they didn’t know nothing about the rapture. They just knew that the Lord’s gonna, he told them, I’m coming, I’m coming back.

But here he’s talking about coming back at the end of the tribulation period in Israel. They’ll see him and so on. But you and I are supposed to be looking for the Lord too. But we’re looking for the Lord to come before the wedding. You say, how did we know that? Well, because we’re the bride. So we’re not coming from the wedding. We’re talking about going to the wedding. So the rapture is Christ coming back and getting us. So he comes for his saints.

Seven years later he comes back with his saints and he’s telling those people, you better be ready because you don’t know when I’m coming. Well now a lot of the same things can be said about the rapture. We don’t know exactly when he’s coming and we should be ready. We should be looking for the Lord and not be ashamed before him at his coming. So look there in verse 36 again. you yourselves like on demand that wait for their Lord.

You and I shouldn’t live like we’re waiting for the Lord to come back. And if we’re waiting for the Lord to come back, doesn’t mean that we sit around and do nothing. The word wait means to like people who wait on a table, they’re serving. We’re supposed to be serving the Lord, looking for Him to come back at any time. And then notice what it says in the last part of verse 36. That when he cometh and knocketh, they may open into him.

And that word immediately, it means they should be ready at any time, any moment. And I don’t believe most Christians are really that prepared, like they’re really looking for the Lord to come back. And yet, I believe that he is. Look what else he says. He says, blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching. You’re on the line of find watching. So when he comes back, he wants to find you watching, looking for him.

Like you expect him. And that means the way you live reveals your expectancy. And if you’re messing around and playing games and you’re not serious about the things of the Lord, you’re not looking for the Lord to come back. But he says, there’s going to be blessed. Those servers going to be blessed. And look what else he says to those people that are going to be here talking about when Christ comes back at the second coming to the earth when Christ returns to the earth.

Burley, I send you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meet and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so blessed are those servants. If you don’t know when he’s coming. Now of course we know this is talking about the end of the tribulation period but much of the same truth can be applied to the rapture. And then he says in verse 39, and this know that if the good man of the house had known what are the thief would come he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken through.

If you know when he’s coming, you ought to be ready and prepared to meet the Lord because one of these days he’s gonna happen. He’s gonna show up. Now look what he says in verse 40. Verse 40, you ought to underline this verse. Be therefore, and you ought to underline that word, ready. Be therefore ready for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not. Now this, I believe is referring to the tribulation saints, but it’s also could refer to when he comes the first time for us.

He could show up at a time that you don’t think, well he’s not gonna come today, he’s not gonna come this week, he’s not gonna come this year. Well we already know he’s got to come in September, October, so we’ve got months to go and we don’t have to worry about because we already know when he’s coming. I mean, Hank’s talked that too, right? So we know that he’s got to come this fall. Well, one of these falls he’s going to come.

So in between that, well, he didn’t show up this year. We’ll wait till next year because he’s not going to come back today or next week. We got time. So we can piddle until all about September 1st. I think we ought to get serious about it. What do you think? You think you got another year or two years? Or is it possible that the Lord says, “‘Fold you all, here I am, ready or not, here I come.” I used to love to play that.

Hide and seek. We’re not a good game. They should tell me we’re going to play hide and seek and now we all go hide. And then they went and done something else, I’m still hiding. An hour later, I’m still hid. But now I want you to see this in Luke chapter 12 look there in verse 46 Because there’s servants that are not going to be doing what God says he what he’s gonna He’s delaying his God Let’s just looking verse 45 But and if that servant saying his heart my Lord they layeth his coming Shall begin to beat the men servants and maidens and to eat and drink and to get drunk Well see that because he’s not looking for his pastor to come back So it makes a difference in how you live.

How you live depends on, do you really believe that the Lord could come back at any time and you’re looking for Him, you’re expecting Him? But in verse 45, but if that servant’s in his heart, my Lord did lay at this coming and shall begin to beat the men’s servants and the maidens. Looking in verse 45, the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he look at not for him. And at an hour when he is not aware will cut him a sonder and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers But in these simple little scriptures see he used like the word Lord light as a master who has servants It’s not talking about going to heaven But just talking about being ready using an illustration to let you know that here’s a man who’s got some servants And he’s got a boss over him and so he doesn’t believe he’s coming back

So he begins to not be a good steward of what God’s entrusted him with, or what the man entrusted to him. So he says here in verse 47, and that servant which knew his Lord’s will, master’s will, and get this prepared not himself. Neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. Verse 48, but he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. Now look at the part of this verse.

This is the part that you need to underline Because there’s a principle here that explains what the story is about For unto whom soever much is given of him shall be much required And to whom men have committed much of him they will ask them more now talking about what men do But isn’t it also true that when God who knows what you know? Does God right now know what you know? Is everything that you know? He knows what you have said under and listened to for how many years?

To whom much is given, much is what? Required. So, God is going to hold you more accountable because you could have done more. There are some people who don’t know as much so they’re not held accountable for what they don’t know. So, you say, well, then I’d be better off not knowing anything. Sure, Agnus is blessed. No, no, no, no, no. There is a responsibility. And God says He wants us to know His will and to do His will.

And the part up there in verse 47, that knew His Lord’s will and prepared not. You know, I could preach a whole sermon just on that one statement. They knew the Lord’s will but did not prepare themselves. Do you think there’s the Christians that are like that? That they never prepared themselves to be used and therefore they never do anything because well I don’t know what to do or I can’t do that or I can’t do that. Of course you can.

You know, let me tell you that. You know why I can play the guitar? The little bit I can, you know why I can play the guitar? Before me and Betty ever got married. I don’t know where the guitar came from. It might have been mine, I don’t know. But I would strum the guitar. I didn’t know how to chord it. I just strum it. It didn’t matter what the song was, what key it was in. I still just, all I did was strum it.

And I would sing the Betty. And she just said to her, like, you know, she’s looking to, you know, listen to the greatest singing and all the world. And I got a voice like a potato grater, but you know, she’d sit there and just, oh, and I sing to her. I sing, come and say it by my side, little darling and she just said to her.

Well, this was back then when I was around. Nothing mattered. I just sang and strum the guitar. And then one day I bought me a nice guitar. But I was going to save some money and fix this electrical cord. And so I’m trying to strip the wire down to the metal so I can get at it and put some black tape on it and make another connection. And I went, we didn’t want it like that. I had cut right across my knuckle.

the bone and I looked at that finger and it was pearly white and it didn’t start bleeding yet. It was just looking at me. My bone, like I see my neck all the way down. And then all of a sudden here she came. It was starting to overflow. And anyway, I went to the doctor and they stitched it in here and they stitched it across their inside. And then they stitched it on the outside, put a thing on it.

I said, Doc, I like to play the guitar. He says, son, you’ll never use that finger. That finger will never bend anymore. You cut down into the knuckle. You cut all your muscles and your tendon. You cut it off. He says, you virtually almost cut off your whole finger. That broke my heart. Because that would have ended my serenading days to my dear little darling. And so I sat there one day, but I’m going to use that finger. And so I took the stuff off of it.

The stitches were all over the place. And I sat there and I rubbed that thing. I said, I’m going to use this finger. I’m going to massage this thing. And I’m going to work this thing. And I’m going to stretch this thing. And I’m going to have me a thing. He says, you’ll never be able to do it. I’m going to do it. I worked that thing. And I was sitting there doing something at the table. And I was just rubbing that thing.

And after a while, I looked down here at it. And I wonder if I could bend it. I want to try. I couldn’t move it, so I’ve been like that. I don’t know what happened. The Lord had to heal my finger. He did something. And so I decided I’m going to learn. I want to learn how to play the guitar. And so when I went to Florida Bible College, and there’s Ray Stanford and all these guys up there in Hank Lindstrom, and they were all up there, and they played the guitar every ranch meeting at the camps and all.

And I’d sit out there and I’d think, man, I wish I could play the guitar. I don’t know how. So I got me a guitar and I started beating that thing at the death and I had to start working on my fingers and finally learn a chord and I get another one so far. And then I went to Indian camps. At Indian camps they didn’t have many they could play the guitar and I was still learning and so I would fake my way through it.

I’d stom and I’d pretend like I was doing something I’d I didn’t have no clue where I was at in general, but they didn’t know it. It sounds bad anyway. And after a while, I went to Colorado and I started with a Bible study with two little kids. And they didn’t know, but one of them trusted the Lord. And they can think, you know, I got more kids, more and more and more. And I would just play the simple chords that I could, because the only ones I knew.

next thing you know we had 25 in our powerhouse five and I had five and six hundred teenagers coming to ranch and I like to totally forfeited the whole ministry of youth ministry just because of this one little finger it would have changed my whole ministry and then we had over 200 kids go to Bible college from that youth work all because something you know so simple I can do this you say well I don’t know how to do it you can you can do whatever you set up your mind to do.

You got a body, you got a mind, you can do it. Play your harmonica. This is the easiest breathing. You can breathe, you can play a harmonica. Anybody here is breathing, you’re already doing part of it. See how you do it? I do put a harmonica in there to go. Hey, I’m building your self-esteem. I’m trying to convince you. You can do something, but If you say, well, I can’t do that. Of course you can’t, if you don’t do something, but there that is.

It’s a piece of cake. So he’s right, it’s a piece of cake. Oh, you gotta do it, hurry. amines, but you start off with something simple, a little bitty song, and then somebody, I’ve had somebody say, man, I can do all that too. If I had your talent, where do you think I got it? Kmart? See, a lot of people they want to be used, but they don’t prepare themselves. A lot of people love the same, but you don’t prepare the same.

He’s been singing in the That’s why I’ve never heard him. And lo and behold, he, you know, he finds out, you know, he, he’s, he’s up here singing. She’s going, oh, does he share an age of yet? No. But it’s wonderful to be able to try something. Just because you’ve never done it before doesn’t mean you can’t. What would you like to do? Some people are a good soul and that James is a good soul in her. But you know how come he’s a good soul in her?

You just happened one day, it just took over his body and he didn’t. He just been doing it for a good while. That’s all you do. I’ve won thousands and thousands of people to Christ. But it’s all because I started with just one, this one, and then got another one, and then get another one. And you just keep on, keep on, and that’s why you get a whole bunch of them. And so you try to prepare yourself to be used, fit for the master’s use, so that God can use you.

And you’d be surprised that people has got a lot of talent and abilities, but just have never ventured out to see just what they can do. Fear will hold you back. But after you, you know, you do it for a little while. And then it’s not as hard. Just like that first time you got to witness to somebody. You have to have that first time. This one guy, he’d never been bear hunting before. And he said, well, what do I do?

He says, oh, it just comes natural. So yeah, you’ll just know what you’re supposed to do. So he went with a bunch of guys up into the woods. Well, the guy went out of the house. And after a while, they heard him. And they heard him hollering. They opened the door and he’d come running down over here on the big old bear was chasing him. He says, open the door. So they opened the door and he ran in the bare end, right behind him.

He ran out the back door, slammed it closed. He says, you all clean out and I’ll go get another one. But you got to have that first one that you got to clean. You got to get that first and after a while. You know, the first one is a rough one. But after you did it, it becomes easier for you. Take your Bible and look there in the book of Acts chapter 21. Acts chapter 21. Won’t you see this?

Acts chapter 21. Now you know the apostle Paul in the book of Acts chapter 20 was talking about going to Jerusalem and he said that didn’t know everything was going to be following me there but he made the statement that bonds and afflictions abide me. Now look in chapter 21 and verse 10 and as we tarried there are many days there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus and when he was come into us, he took Paul’s girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said thus saith the Holy Ghost.

So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle and shouting, deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard these things, both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. They’re warning Paul, don’t go. Verse 13, then Paul answered, what meaneth ye to weep and to break my heart? and you are underlying these words, for I am ready not to be bound only but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Now that’s being ready. He’s not only ready to be bound but he’s ready to die, prepared to die. That’s That’s taking a big step. But let me ask you to do it. Everybody knows in this life you’re going to have to suffer. Are you ready to suffer anything, whatever it may be, for the cause of Christ? Have you already resolved that in your mind between you and God, Lord, I don’t care what it is. I don’t care how bad it is.

I’m ready to suffer regardless of what it might be. You’re free to use me any way you want. However you deem necessary for your honor and glory that by my body, whether I live or whether I die, Christ may be magnified in my body. I’m ready. Did you know what my job is as the pastor to get you ready? I’m supposed to get you ready for heaven. So you try to take and give the gospel so that the lost people can trust Christ as Savior.

Is my job done just because you want somebody to Christ? No. Just begun. That’s just the first thing. That just gets them to heaven, but are you prepared to meet the Lord? So we try to get people prepared to suffer. And that’s one of the most hardest thing you can do to try to prepare people to suffer. Now, you know you’re going to, right? And buddy, you have no idea. I could write a book over all the things that I’ve done and that brought suffering.

Just suffer. Not because you did something wrong, but because you did something right. I remember one time I was way down there in the Grand Canyon. gone down there, there was an Indian tribe there called the Havasupai Indian tribe. The guy that used to bring in the mail by horseback still does it, named Charlie Chamberlain, he came to our Bible college, brought his whole family, appears wife was a Havasupai. And his kids went to our Christian school. And I met him down in the canyon, when we was having camp down here one year.

And we’re down here in the bottom of the canyon. And four or five of us was checking out the lower parts of the canyon right before it gets to the Colorado River. The Colorado River is one wild river when it gets into the gorge. Well, there’s this waterfall. They had two big waterfalls down here. One is a 60-foot drop and another one’s a 90-foot drop. But it was beautiful down in the bottom of the canyon. What we had circled around behind one of of the waterfalls.

And when we did, my son didn’t go, he stayed over there because he was young at the time. We all went on the backside of the waterfall. And so we decided that we’d just dive through the waterfall. And each one dove through the waterfall and went on the other side. And I just waited to everybody gone. I’m the oldest, you know, I should let them go first. Big mistake. So I’m there all by myself. And I just didn’t feel like just diving through the waterfall.

I just eased into the water. I thought I’d just swim through the waterfall. But as I begin to swim through the sea, and I went under the waterfall so I closed my eyes and I just kept swimming. And I kept swimming. And I realized it’s getting darker. I didn’t push off enough to get through the waterfall. And a 90 foot waterfall coming down will push you down. It was pushing me down into the lake. But I didn’t know it at first and I didn’t take a lot of air with me.

I wasn’t planning on staying for a while. But I would begin to hurt and it was dark. And I couldn’t go up. I was doing everything I could to go up. I’m trying to go up and the water’s pushing me down. It just wasn’t working. And it came to me what was happening. And so then I started going forward and getting that money at the waterfall. And when I got out, then I started going up and then I could start seeing it started lightening up.

And then when I finally got to the top of the water and I busted through, my lungs were burning and I thought I was hurting. And I looked over there and all four of the guys sitting on the thing. A hundred yards away from me, looking the other direction. They had no clue what almost happened to me. How close I came have been taken out of this world.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. And just keep looking up.

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Revelation chapter 19 tells us something that’s wonderful, wonderful, wonderful going to happen. In Revelation 19 and verse 11 says, And I saw heaven opened, Behold a white horse, And he that sudden hymn was called faithful in true, And in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire. Known as head were many crowns, And he had a name written that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vestredipton blood, And his name is called the Word of God.

And his armies which were in heaven followed him horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. And he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vester and on his thigh a name-written king of kings and Lord of lords. The book of Revelation is the last book in the Bible.

And it ends by stating that you are not to add to the Word of God, nor take away from the Word of God. It also makes the statement in the first chapter, and by reading it, you would be blessed. So there’s some extra blessings to those people who read the book, believe the book, and practice the book. But because it deals with so many things that are future, many times we don’t think it has anything to do with the time in which we live.

But But understanding the future events is to help us to be found faithful now. Booker Revelation deals with Jesus Christ being the judge of the earth. He is the judge that makes war. It talks about the lion making war. It talks about the wrath of a lamb making war. And so the Bible tells us that God has committed to the Son, the judgment of all mankind. The purpose of revelation to instruct and to encourage believers in Christ through a presentation of Jesus in his role as the judge.

John 522 talks about, for the Father, Judgeeth, no man, but has committed all judgment onto the Son, the right that He has to be our judge. The characteristics of the judge is found in Revelation chapter 1. There are things that John, who was about 90 years of age, who had been exiled on the Alapatmas, and what he saw. He said, I was in the Spirit of the Lord’s day and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet saying, I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last.

It means there’s nobody before him and he is the end. When he talks about he is the beginning and the ending of our faith because when we trust Christ as our Savior our faith just began. But also we are to end our lives with our faith in the Lord. He says, what thou see it right in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia. The church age is the period of time in which we live.

So the book of Revelation is written to you and I to understand things that we’re supposed to know because it’ll make a difference in our life, the purpose of our life and the purpose of our church if we understand it. But I fear that today many people do not get a grasp of these great truths that are found and God’s Word. He said unto Ephesus, unto Smarna, and Pergai, and Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, every one of these churches, the seven churches that he mentions were seven churches that existed at this time in Asia Minor.

And there were candlesticks. The candlesticks were the lampstands. That we’ll talk about just a moment. He said, I turn to hear the voice that spoke with me. All this is in Revelation chapter 1, considering the characteristics of the judge. What is this judge like? He said, I turn to see the voice that’s spake with me and being turned. I saw seven golden candlesticks. Those are lampstands. And in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot and gird about the patch with a golden girdle.

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet likened to fine brass as if they burned in a furnace, and his voice is the sound of many waters, and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth when a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun, shine it in his strength. I’ll have a brief review on the first part of that personal scripture that we just read, where he says, and I turn to see the voice of him that spoke with me and being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the son of man.

With people, we feel like you don’t have a right to be my judge. And you may feel like I don’t have the right to be your judge. Well what man has the right to judge another because we have all sinned. We’re all sinners. Jesus Christ was born as the son of a man, as the son of man. He lived upon this earth, he never committed a sin, and therefore he earned the right to judge the rest of us because he was born as the Son of Man.

Now, there’s another title that’s given to him called the Son of God, but right now we’re talking about him as the Son of Man. And then it says they’re in the book of John in chapter 5 and verse 22 and 27. That is the Father and Judge of no man, but I’ve committed all judgment unto the Son. He has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of Man. The activity of the judge in the midst of the churches.

In other words, what is the role that God has through Jesus Christ right now, even though he’s seated in the heavenlies over the church right now during this period of time? Don’t think for a moment that he doesn’t know what’s going on. Here we’re talking about how that God is able to see and know everything that happens in every church that’s called His church, that He knows to be a church. Not all churches are churches. go by the name of churches, but they’re not churches.

There’s only certain churches that God recognizes His church. He says, in chapter 2 and chapter 3, there are seven churches that are mentioned. This is the next thing that you find in the book of Revelation. And he says, unto the angel of the church of Bethathost right, these things said, he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. Therefore, remember from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works.

The thing that he had against this church was that they had left their first love. So he knew, now we’re not talking about how to get to heaven, we’re talking to Christians, those who believe on the Lord, in the individual churches. And though all these churches existed at that time, they also represent the way churches are today. There are different levels in which churches go through the various stages of the same seven churches that are mentioned in chapter two and chapter three.

But he says, you’ve done everything right. But the only thing that you lost was that you lost your first love. You don’t love me the way you used to. But you still do the works. You just don’t have love. He says, repent or I’m going to remove the candle signal. In other words, I’m going to remove you as a lighthouse. Every church is to be a lamp, a lighthouse to the people on a hill. So therefore, this church and every church that name the name of Christ that is of Christ, God says that He’s watching and He can close the doors.

And the last thing we ever want is for the Lord to write over this church Ichabod, which means the glory of the Lord is departed, which can happen. It’ll happen when the people in the church lose their love for the Lord. When you lost your love, the word doesn’t matter. God wants the love of every one of us. So he goes through every one of these seven churches. And here we talk about in John, 1 John, it talks about for whatsoever is born of God, overcome the world.

And this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith, who is he who overcomes the world but he who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. This is when you trust Christ as your Savior. This is a one time deal. This happens to one time that you do it. Single instance of faith. But the great thing of understanding the book of Revelation is that it talks about they who overcome. So we’re talking to the Christians in the church, but we’re talking about individuals in the church who will serve the Lord all the days of their life.

When he talks about the church at Smyrna, he talks about even unto death, it means serve the Lord until the end. What’s going to make us serve the Lord until the end? In other words, it’s one thing to start off certain the Lord like a ball of fire and you can climb like a rising star and then you fizzle out. God doesn’t want his children fizzling out. He wants us to serve the Lord all the days of our life.

Wouldn’t it be a shame to serve the Lord for most of your life and then toward the end of it right before he comes back or right before you die, you mess up? Don’t let this happen to you. Guard against this because there’s something that will happen to those who are serving the Lord when the Lord returned or those who serve the Lord even unto death and the Lord talks about he shall eat of the tree of life. I don’t know what it is.

I don’t even care. But whatever it is, it must be something because it separates you from those who can. When he talks about there, you have also the power, the power that will rule over the nations. I don’t understand all that, but I know it’s in the book and I know what it says. And so he says, power over the nations and I’ll confess his name. He says, I’ll give you a new name that nobody else knows, even talks about himself in chapter 19 of Revelation about he has a name that nobody else knew what it was.

Now of course one day we will, but there’s a lot of things that we don’t know but God just kind of dangles them out there and says look it’s going to be worth it. Believe me, trust me. It’s one thing that trust Christ is Savior that gets you into heaven. What you have for eternity depends on what you and I do with the knowledge that God has given to us. Therefore we need to know and this is keeping his works until the end.

That means serve the Lord all the days of your life and many people will. A lot of people will not. The Bible says in Revelation 4 and chapter 5, John says that he was caught up into heaven and he saw the throne, he saw the the rainbow and he saw the four and twenty elders around the throne and he saw the four living beasts. There is the lion and the lion represents the book of Matthew and the the beast the the ox represents the book of Mark and the man represents a man which is the book of Luke and the Eagle represents Jesus Christ and so you have the four gospels the four pictures of Jesus Christ that forms one portrait that when we get to heaven we’re going to see this thing now a man literally left this world John and went to heaven and

literally saw heaven and saw these things in heaven. And God used him to write these things and tell us about it because it is a true place. These things are real. One day we’re going to be there and we’re going to see all of this. Now the next thing that happens is there is the in chapter 5 a seven sealed book, a book that nobody had the right to open. Jesus Christ has the right to open this book. Jesus Christ is pictured as the lion of the tribe of Judah.

He’s also pictured as the lamb that took away the sin of the world. And so you have two things. When Christ came the first time, he came as a lamb, they thought he would come as a lion, but he did. He came as a lamb, but the next time he’s coming back as a lion, and he’s going to rule and reign upon the and the Bible says he’ll rule with a rod of iron. This is the identification of the judge of all mankind.

This is who he is. Chapter five verses six through seven. It says, and be held and low in the mist of the throne and the forebeest and in the mist of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God’s end, forth in the all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that set upon the throne. This is Jesus Christ, who is the only one who has the right to open the seven seal book.

And this seven seal book talks about him. He is the lamb that had the seven horns. Right now, there may be a few questions and doubts about understanding all these things, but just to know this, it is real. It is coming. What he said is true. And you ought to be thankful that you know Christ as your savior. The next thing that talks about is the activity of the judge among all mankind, and this is talking about the seven-year tribulation period that lies ahead of us.

Well, the Bible describes that in the last days, their perilous time shall come and people will die of pestilence. That’s incurable diseases. Do we have any incurable diseases in our world today? Yes. It’s coming. So, it’s going to take place upon the earth. Talk about the sun will turn black like ash and that the moon will turn into blood. Now whether or not that’s because of things that are upon the earth, it gives it that appearance, whatever. I don’t care how God does it.

Only that God says it and God’s going to pour out his wrath upon the sun, upon the moon, upon the earth and the land, the water, the sea, the trees, the green grass and every living thing is going to feel the wrath of the land. it is coming. Then you have in chapter 6, you’re talking about the four horses of the Apoket, talking about these things that are going to take place. These are the judgments that is going to take place in the opening of the seals at the beginning of the sixth chapter.

The only one who had a right to open the seventh seal book was Jesus Christ. And now he’s opening these seals and you have in Revelation chapter 6 verse 1 and 2, and I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, come and see it. He says, and I saw him, behold, why horse? And he that said on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer.

This is the rising conquest by the anti-Christ of rebellious mankind. Now those people who reject Jesus Christ as their Savior. When the rapture takes place, all of us are gone. Only those who have not trusted Christ as their Savior are still left here upon this earth. And the anti-Christ is going to rise to power on the backs of unbelievers. And they’re going to fall in love with this guy because he’s going to convince them that he is the good knight in shining armor and the world is going to go after this individual.

He says, and when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second be say come and see and they went out another horse that was read and power was given to him that set their on to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword. This is because after the man comes into power and starts his rise they become the war of bloodshed and all of this is going to take place and then it says in the book of Matthew in chapter 24 Jesus Christ made this statement.

He says and he shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, see that you be not troubled for all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet, for nations shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilence and earthquakes, and diverse places, all these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

The nation, those that are going to be hated, is the nation of Israel. Right now, it’s almost to the point where all of the nations of the earth do hate Israel. There’s only a few nations that are standing behind Israel and that’s Britain and America and the rest of the world could care less what happens to Israel. And that’s the truth. And they just happen to be the strongest nation that right now can deter the evil from destroying them.

The black horse of famine because after war there is generally famine because there’s nothing to eat, the prices are high and people don’t have money and people will die. The Bible says one third of the world’s population is going to be destroyed. And then DePaul talks about the pale horse of death, which is because of the pestilence. It’s going to destroy the people. And you’re talking about some very ugly things coming down the road. Now this is what’s going to happen during the tribulation period, opening of these first four seals.

Then you have in chapter 16 of the book of Revelation that talks about the bowls of judgment. There’s seven different bowls of judgment that God is going to take these bowls. He says, therefore, and He’s going to pour them out upon the earth. This is God, the judge of the earth. And this is what He’s going to do. Hail stones and 120 pounds are going to be coming down from the sky up on the earth. Can you imagine what little beady hail stones do?

Think of a hail stone that weighs 100 pounds coming down from the In the Bible talks about the great earthquake and great judgment, the earth rocking upon its axis and all the judgment is going to take place. And it talks about also the beast is going to have all kinds of demonic forces and the pestilence and the rivers are going to be dried up, the river Euphrates to make way for the kings of the east and they’re coming. And there’s people over in the east right now that want to come across and it’s go straight on across and you’ve got China.

I don’t know how all of the pieces together. I don’t even care how all of the pieces together because I won’t be here with this all piece together. All I got to know is what the book of revelation says to believe it and what does it do for me? What do I want this knowledge? How is Is this supposed to benefit me? How is it supposed to change me? Well, it will and it does. And the Bible says those who have the mark of the beast are going to be hit with boils and sores all over their body.

These eases that come to fond them and they will hate the Lord even more. This is chapter 16 of the book of Revelation. And the Bible talks about everything that in the oceans are going to die. The fish are all going to die in the rivers and in the stream. They’re all going to die. We are living at a very dangerous time in our world because we’re at the place where the world can be destroyed by mankind. And God said that he does not intervene.

Man will destroy man from the face of the earth in Matthew chapter 24. And the Bible says, and when they try to drink water, the water is bitter. The water turns to blood. It talks about the moon turning to blood, or is it because it looks red and blood? I don’t care how all of it happens. I don’t give it as real or if it’s not real. I just tell you what the book said. And I believe the Bible from cover to cover and even believe the cover because well, it’s got my name on it.

The judgment also, the Bible says that the sun will become so hot, so hot that men’s bodies will be scorched and they’ll be burned. I don’t know if they’ll die because the Bible says they’ll seek death and can’t find it. They hide in the rocks and the caves and so forth and then they’ll try to get away from the wrath of the Lamb and cannot do so. That time has come. Thus demonic power is going to have all of his forces here.

You talk about all the evil that can be in the world. It’s going to be here. It’s going to be manifesting. And the only thing that keeps him from doing it now is because of the Holy Spirit that is in the believers, in the world, and once the Christians are taken out of the world, this free range. Satan can do whatever he wants to do with all those unbelievers because they refuse to believe on him. And the world is going to have the worst ruler that it’s ever had.

But that’s just the beginning. Because Jesus Christ comes back in power and great glory at the end of the book of Revelation. We’re talking about in chapter 19. And when And he comes back, see that’s some bad news, but there’s good news coming. At the end of my radio broadcast, I always refer to keep looking up. He’s coming, keep looking up. He’s coming. You should live every day believing. He’s coming today. He could come today. He could come this moment.

He could come next hour. But live like that. It’ll keep you pure in your life. It’ll help you in your thoughts. It helps you in your actions. It helps you in your worth when you believe and really believe. Jesus Christ is coming back. The return of Christ coming. Then when Christ comes back in chapter 19, He takes the beast and the false prophet and their cast into the lake of fire. And then the Bible says that at the beginning of the thousand year reign, that He takes the the devil and an angel in chapter 20 and binds him and cast him to the bottomless pit.

And so for one thousand years Satan is bound and we’re ruling and reigning with Christ upon the earth of a thousand years. Then after that he has come out and there is a judgment. The next thing that’s going to happen is for the great white throne judgment. The great white throne judgment shows us the activity of the judge about the lost of all the ages. And remember that they are coming. And I saw a great white throne in him that set on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no place for them.

those who have not trusted Christ of Savior. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were open. And another book was open, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works.

And death Yet in hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. God wants you and I to know this, even though this is future. This is way on out there. But the reason this is important for us to know now is because all those people that we see and that we work with and that we talk to and that are our families.

If they have not trusted Christ as their Savior, they are going to spend an eternity in the lake of fire. Like it or not. Don’t want to hear about it or it doesn’t matter. This is truth. This is where it’s going to be. This is the end result. Many people don’t like to live their lives thinking of the consequences of their decision, looking down the road. What about at the end time? But I believe that it’s wise for us to do so.

Now at the Great White Throne Judgment, millions and billions and billions of people. I believe will stand. And even Christians are going to be there. We’re not going to be judged, but we’re going to be witnesses. Because we’ve already had our judgment. Christ was our judgment on the cross. And we’ve already been to the judgment, see the Christ and receive the rewards that we’re supposed to have. But here is talking about God’s judgment upon them and he’s going to open up the books.

The books are open. That’s all the different books. And I believe it talks about in 139th Psalm. He says that all of your members are recorded in the book. There is a book on you. There’s a DNA. code. Mankind, scientists didn’t write no DNA code. God did that. Every one of us are originals. There’s no other copies from us. And then the Bible says, another book was open, which is the Book of Life. The Book of Life is the Lamb’s Book of Life.

See, there’s the books in which we are recorded when we’re born into the world. That’s the Book of the Living. We can die. In the Book of Life, you cannot die. And that’s why the Lord says rejoice that your names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, because once your names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, they can never be blotted out. Your name can be blotted out of the book of the living. That’s when you die.

And the Lord says, in spite of everything that’s done at the judgment, it simply just came down to the conclusion. If your name is not recorded in the Lamb’s book of life, whosoever was not recorded in the Lamb’s book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And then we have the characteristics and the aftermath of what the judge is going to do in the future. The judge becomes the ruler of the New Heavens and a New Earth, Revelation chapter 1 and chapter 22.

He says, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more seed. and says, and I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. It’s 1500 miles high, 1500 miles wide and 1500 miles long. One holy city. We are going to live in the holy city and is a good possibility to ill hover above the earth.

He said, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men. and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And then the Bible says, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away, Revelation 21.

And the streets are made out of pure gold, and it is so pure that you can see through it. It’s like a sea of glass, but it’s pure gold. And what we’ll walk on in heaven, people kill for one another down here. Wouldn’t it be a shame for you to spend your life for the Almighty Dollar and work yourself to death for nothing but money and you’re going to take and walk on gold when you get to heaven. There’s more things more important than money down here.

Just what do we do with the time that God’s given to us? How holy of a life do you want to live? How God’ll do you and I want to be. And behold, He says, I make all things new. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area.

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calvaryoftampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family.

I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation 20, the book of Revelation and chapter 20. We’re going to look at four different things here in these few verses from verse 11 to through verse 15. One will be the setting, one the summons, the secrets and the sentence that’s found here in these verses. You and I are to proclaim to the world that God wants people to know that there is a great, quiet, throne judgment coming.

And this is something that every person is going to have to attend. The setting is called the great, quiet throne that takes place. There’s also going to be a new heavens and a new earth because the first heaven and the first earth be done away and it says they’re found no place for them. At this setting it’s called the Great Quiet Throne, great because of the power that’s going to be there. You realize there is no one with the power of God except God.

No one greater. Down here people are trying to put together all kinds of ways to prove to the world they have more power than someone else. A fighter wants to beat another fighter because then he’s the greatest of all time. And somebody’s not trying to outrun somebody. There’s always the gains and the competition that we have competing against one another, nation against nation, race against race. Everyone trying to wield more power in order to put fear into other people.

But the thing is, there is no power greater than God’s. The great, white-thrown judgment, great because of its power, but the word power means the authority. He has the power, the authority, this judgment to do whatever he wants to do. That is power. To have that kind of authority. There is no appeals court. And to be able to summons the whole world to attend. And the Bible says the angels will be there. And I believe that you and I as believers will also be there, but we have an escape.

We have a substitute. We don’t have to be judged. It’s right because of its purity. Purity because it’s going to be a judgment that will be just. Remember whatever God does, whatever His power that He has and His authority to make whatever decisions and to execute whatever judgment it has to be right. God has to be fair. He has to be just in whatever he does. That’s why over and over again he is called the righteous judge that he is.

But it’s the great white throne and just thrown because of its purpose. Why are we standing here? Because it’s a throne. It’s a judgment. Everybody is going to be judged, judged according to what? The Bible says the books will be open and they will be judged out of those books according to their works. And therefore yes every man needs to be getting together his evidences for his defense because should he stand before God and lose his case the results are devastating.

The punishment is eternal separation from God in a literal fire burning hell forever. Also, the summons is to the great and the small. It’s to the living and the dead. And the Bible says even death and hell will deliver up the dead which were in them and they will stand at this great white throne judgment. So the summons goes out and you and I are supposed to be letting people know, look, you’ve been summons and you will appear. Down here, people jump bail when they’re supposed to appear.

The other thing is the secrets of every individual are going to be revealed. It means the hidden motives of the heart. Not only has the deeds that you have done been recorded because the Bible says your judge is according to your works out of the books. So that means that all your deeds are being placed in a book along with your thoughts and the motive and the intent of your heart. That’s powerful. That means that there’s a lot of things that nobody knows about.

A lot of things you kept secret. But the Bible says what is secret here, one day will be shouted from the house top. In other words, everybody will know. If I was a lost man and knew all of this was true, that scared me to death. But see, you’re looking at an individual. I’m not worried one eye-old about the great white throne judgment. I’m not scared. You say, what about all those bad things you’ve done? And all those bad thoughts you’ve had over the years, I don’t have to worry about it because none of my sins can ever be brought up.

Because see I had a substitute. I had someone pay for all of my sins so I won’t be judged. Am I glad? God helped the person who has not accepted a a substitute, someone to stand in their judgment for them. But someone has already took my punishment and I don’t have to take it. And I’m so thankful for that. I want you to know two things about the sentence that’s going to be given at this great white-throat judgment. One, it is sure.

It is sure because God said, they shall be judged. And if God says, they shall be judged, they shall be judged. And also the severity of this judgment. You see, it’s not just going to be a slap on the hand. It’s not going to be, I’ll give you three strikes in your out. This is not going to be some little warning. The punishment here is called the second death. It’s called being cast into the lake of fire. Now take your Bible, look there in the book Revelation chapter 20 and verse 11.

Revelation chapter 20 and verse 11. I want you to notice there in verse 11, he says, and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no place for them. So the Bible does teach that after the thousand year reign upon the earth that the devil will be cast into the lake of fire found there in verse 10, where the beasts in the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.

That’s where the devil is and his angels, the beasts in the false prophet and that’s That’s where the people are that have already rejected Christ’s Savior and at the end of the tribulation period we’re casting to the lake of fire. But it’s not over and there’s others that are coming. I want you to hold your place here and look in 2 Timothy 4. 2 Timothy and 4. There’s a verse mentioned there that I’d like to share with you that also sheds a little light on this concerning the judge at the Great White Throne Judgment.

This is on page 1281, 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 1 says, I charge thee therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. The quick are the living or those that have trusted Christ as Savior and have eternal life. And the dead are those that are spiritually dead. And he says, the judge is the quick and the dead at his appearing. See when he appears and he takes us out and we stand at the Judgement City of Christ.

But there’s others who will not be at the Judgement City of Christ because that one is for the Christian, that’s for the believers, that’s to receive rewards. But then there’s another judgment that’s coming at the end of time and he says, at the end. of the kingdom or in his kingdom. So at his appearing and his kingdom. So at the end of the thousand years there is going to be the great white throne judgment. So that’s something that even the Apostle Paul was preaching to the churches in those letters.

The letters concerning Timothy here in Revelation now in chapter 20. Look again in verse 11. And I saw great white throne and him that sat upon him. it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no place for them. Verse 12, And I saw the dead small and great stand before God. The dead means those that are living even today but have not trusted Christ as Savior, they are spiritually dead. They’re cut off from the source of eternal life.

They’re cut off from the source of God. But they’re physically they’re alive. When you and I talk about death or dying, well death means to us to be absent from the body. But absent from the body doesn’t mean you don’t exist anymore. It simple means you’re not living there in the body anymore. You’re absent from the body but you’re present with the Lord. But you’re still very much alive. You see, when God created you, you will always be. You will never cease to be.

You’ll just be in a different place. That’s all. You’re only in this world for a few short years. But the house that you live in, your body will not last forever down here. And you don’t know how long it’s going to last. It could last 50 years, 60 years, 70 years. You could die tomorrow. But when the body goes, you got to move out. And the Bible says you’ll either be with the Lord or you’ll be in a place of torment.

Now here He makes a statement in verse 12, and I saw the dead small and great. So it doesn’t matter if you’re small or if you’re great, it doesn’t matter. You are going to stand at the great white throne judgment. This is an appointment for every individual, unless of course they have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Now notice what he says here and the books were open. There’s books that will be open by which when you were born into this world, everything that you have done is in these books.

They are recorded and so there is the book of the living and there’s also a book of those who have eternal life. Look at this. And the books were open and another book singular was open, which is the book of life. You see there’s the Lamb’s book of life. Well the Lamb’s book of life is the book that you get into when you trusted Christ as your Savior and we’re supposed to rejoice that our names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

You see your name’s not written in the lambs book of life until you trust Jesus Christ is your Savior. Anyone whose names are not found written in the lambs book of life, don’t go to heaven. You see what he says under in verse 15, and whosoever was not found written in the book of life. That’s the lambs book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. So you see there’s two sets of books that will be open. The one set of books, that’s the one that contains their works.

The other one contains the name of when you trusted Christ as your Savior. So if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, your name is not in the Lamb’s book of life. Your name is in the book of living. Even Moses said, Lord, blow out my name out of the book of the living, but he wasn’t talking about the Lamb’s book of life. He was talking about the book of living. Take my life while I’m upon the earth.

And God will not, He says, not blot your name out of the book of life because that cannot be done. That’s why when you read in the book of Genesis in chapter 5 when it says and Noah lives so many years and he died and Lambent lives so many years and he died and Matheus lives so many years and he dies, but they all died. That’s the book of the generation of Adam. But in Matthew chapter 1 you have the book of the generation of Jesus Christ.

Those who are born into the family of God there are no deaths recorded because you see once you’re born in the God’s family you can never die. That’s a different book. This one is a book of eternal life. This one over here is your human life, your physical life. So yes human life is temporary. My spiritual life is eternal. This one will die, but the other one will never die. And that’s why Christ says, if a man believe in me, he shall never die.

And though he died physically, yet he shall live. That’s because he has eternal life. And so there are these two books. That will be opened. And these books is to contain the works that an individual has done. Look what he says, which is the book of light there in verse 12. And he says, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their work. So their works are going to judge them.

What is the requirement to get to heaven? You have to be perfect to go to heaven. You have to be righteous. And so you’ve never done anything wrong. Anybody here like that? No, don’t you raise your hand. You have to be righteous to go to heaven. But you see, there are people that do not believe, one that there is a God, they don’t believe in heaven and hell, and therefore they don’t need a Savior, and they don’t worry about what they do.

Then there’s others who believe that, yes, there is a heaven, and you’ve got to be real good to get there, they’re going to do the best they can. So you have some. You have some people that believe there’s a heaven and there’s a hell and they figured they can’t make it anyway so they might as well have a ball before they get there and hope that somewhere along the line out of the goodness of God he’ll let him in anyway and so they always intend to get right with God and never do.

Is the works to determine whether or not they go to heaven or hell? No. They’re going to be judged not to determine their destination because their destination has already been settled. You see a man is already condemned while he yet lives. He that believe it in Christ and him is not condemned but he that believe if not is condemned when? Already because he hath not believed. So you see a man doesn’t to stand at the Great White Throne judgment to find out if he’s condemned or not, he’s always already condemned.

That’s why he’s been hauled into court. There’s charges that have been filed against him. Remember, the Bible says that whenever you and I, we commit this sin. That means we have broken God’s law. All these transgressions of ours were wrote on a piece of paper and nailed to Christ’s cross. So when he died, he died for all our transgressions. But he did it for the sins of the world, but see, not everybody will accept that payment that was made for.

So now that little piece of paper with all their sins, now they’re going to have to account to God and they’re not cleared. This payment is put to your account only when you believe that he did it for you. And think of how many multitudes of people have not accepted this payment Christ made for them. You see this is an awful place to have to be. Have you ever thought about this? Think about all the people that do not know the Lord, don’t like God, don’t like anything to do with Christianity and loves to just do anything that they want to do in sin.

They are not very comfortable in a godly church. They’re not God, they’re not comfortable. They don’t feel at home. They’re uneasy. I’ve even met Christians that don’t like to go to church and don’t like to do godly thing, but it’s not because they’re not saved, it’s because they want to live ungodly. You see, when you want to live godly and do right, God’s people are okay to be around. But when you’re not right, you don’t want to be around them.

You’d rather be with the people who are like that in the world. So you’re more comfortable with them because you see when you want to clean up your life, well then you need to hang around people who are also trying to clean up theirs. But when you don’t want to it doesn’t matter who you hang around. Interesting. But it’s an awful place. But when you stop and think that the Bible says no man has seen God and lived. You can’t see God and look upon him because it would kill you.

Because his holiness his pureness and his power, the Bible says it with blind, you would kill you. So that’s why when Christ came into the world, he was God in the world, he had to veil himself. So you can see his physical form. But if you saw God without that form, then it would kill you. Now people are going to stand at a judgment and be face to face with God. Now they’ll be standing in a body that won’t be like the body they have now because it will be a body that will live or exist forever.

A body that will be able to be cast into the fire that burns with brimstone and\- never die like a burning bush that burns and never consumed. Here’s a perfect God meeting a sinner. And here’s a sinner that’s got to try to justify clear himself in front of God. What evidence is he going to use? So God opens up the books and let’s look at the evidence. Now, is this man by his work and by his actions, by his needs, going to be able to prove to God he never sinned?

God has all the facts. God has the evidence. There will not be a substitute standing there saying, look, Lord, let him go because I’ve already paid for his sins. No, it’s too late now. That payment was rejected. He stands alone and he has been summons to appear and the sentence is to be rendered. Look what he says there in verse 13, and the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hail delivered up the dead which were in them.

You see death is where the body is placed in the grave. So the bodies will be brought forth. the soul is in hell and so the soul will be brought forth. So death and hell or the body and the soul will come together and stand at this judgment. What is going to be the sentence of all of this? You’ll notice there in verse 13, in the last part of it where he says, and delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their words.

Every man, you don’t have to worry about what somebody else did or did do. How many times I’ve heard people say, well I’m just as good as they are. I’m not as bad as they are. And they do something they say, well everybody else does it. What’s that got to do with you? Every man is going to be judged for what he hath done. And eventually for you and I, those that have trusted Christ as their Savior. The Bible says every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Remember, going to heaven is free. That’s free. That’s what God did for us. Christ died, paid for our sins, and we get to go to heaven and it didn’t cost us anything. That was the gift. What I have when I get to heaven, all those rewards, if there are any of them, those rewards are earned. That’s what you get as a result of your works down here. We see we don’t do good works to determine our destination. Our destination is determined by our belief or unbelief concerning what Christ did on the clock.

If I believe he did it for me and trust him as my Savior, I go to heaven. My destiny is fixed. If a man does not believe that, then he is lost. He goes to hell for all eternity. His destiny is fixed. One thing is not yet been fixed. I am now in the process of my Christian life. By the deeds that I do, I am either earning or losing rewards in heaven and the blessings of God now. The lost man by his deeds until the day he dies.

By what he says and what he does and how he thinks and all those things about him is determining the amount of punishment that he receives Inhale, but you see the judgment is not to determine your destination. It’s to determine the amount of punishment that is going to be upon an individual that goes to hell. In verse 13, if a person wants to trust in their good works to get them to heaven, your good works must be perfect works.

There can be no sins against you, not one sin written against you. If in this book one sin is written against you, that’s all it takes to send you to hell for all eternity. Look there in Revelation chapter 21 and verse 27 very quickly, and there shall and know wise enter into it talking about this holy city, the heaven, anything that befiled, neither whatsoever work of the domination or make it a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

See, going to heaven, going to the holy city, living forever, never has anything to do with how you lived. It’s was your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. The only way your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life is when you were born into God’s family. When you accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you were born into God’s family and you’re now his child forever and now God is going to reward every Christian according to his works after he’s been saved.

The lost man is going to receive various degrees of punishment. Look there in verse 14 of chapter 20. And death and hell with body and soul. Remember the book of Matthew in chapter 10? It says, fear him which is able to take body and soul and cast it into hell. Well that’s who he is and that’s the power that he has and whether anybody likes it or don’t like it, think he was right or unread. He has the power to do it and he said this is what he’s going to do.

If I was a lost man and I knew this and I could see this and I can understand it, you know what I’d do? If I thought I had any sense at all, I’d get saved. I’d get saved. I would believe that Christ died and paid for my sins so that I could have eternal life and go to heaven when I died so that I wouldn’t have to go to hell. That’s a good reason for getting saved. I had a man tell me one time with that.

You got saved for the wrong motive. I said, don’t tell me. He said, you ought to get saved because you love God. I said, I didn’t love God. Didn’t know God. I got saved for one reason. I didn’t want to go to hell. And I thought that was a pretty good reason. And afterwards, I kind of fell in love with him, but not before. Look what he says there in verse 14. And death and hail were cast into the lake of fire.

This is the second death. Remember there in chapter 20, he’s also talking about over there in verse five and six about the first resurrection. The second death and the second resurrection have no power. Means they have no authority, no rights, no privilege, nothing. And they are cast into the lake of fire. That’s the second death. So those who have not trusted Christ as Savior will die twice. Once they died when they were separated from their body. That’s physical death.

That’s the first death. Second death is when you’re separated from God’s spiritually for all eternity. You don’t want that one. Now look in verse 15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. So the question is very simple. Is your name recorded in the book of life? is your name recorded in the book of life. Look there in Revelation chapter 13 and verse 8. It makes a statement, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship Him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

So that shows you that not everybody’s name is in that book. But the question is, is yours? Is your name in the Lamb’s book of life? Do you know you have eternal life, and that you’re going to heaven when you die? If you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you’re lost. And if you’re lost, you’re going to stand at the great white throne, judgment. And once you stand there, you are automatically condemned. You have no hope. Look up here.

This end represents you and me and this wall represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us, but He hates our sin. Everybody sins. Everybody is condemned. But God loves us. And He says for us to pay for that sin, eternal separation from Him. But He wants us to have eternal life and to go to heaven. To go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God and none of us are. And by our works we can never be good enough so that’s why we needed a Savior.

You cannot earn your way to heaven. This hand represents Jesus Christ and God in a flesh came into the world because he loves us. H.S. sin because our sin separates us from him. So Christ took all of our sins, paid for the mother cross and came back from the dead. And he said that if we will believe that he did it for us, he’d put the payment to our account. We go to heaven on what he did for us.

I don’t earn it, I didn’t deserve it, but I sure will accept it. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Let’s pray, shall we? You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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There are some people today, and they believe that the church has replaced the nation of Israel called replacement theology. It is not true. God has the nation of Israel, and there’s promises that He made to Israel that He will keep. And there’s things that God has promised to the church, and He will keep. They are not the same thing. And so therefore you and I are part of the church. We’re not a part of the nation of Israel. We’re part of the church.

And get what he says here. He said, for the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and without an image, without an ephod, without a terraphin. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their king and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days. So God says that Israel in the latter days will come back. Now they’ve been out of the land.

How long has the temple been destroyed? 2000 years. Now in the book of Hosea it also makes the statement about after two days, the return. And so Israel has fulfilled what God said in His Word. Now you name another nation that had these things prophesied against it. Where the nation would be totally uprooted, their temple destroyed, the people scattered upon the face of the earth. And then after 2,000 years they come back to their land and become established as a nation.

Name one, there isn’t one. Only one nation has ever done that and it just happens to be the nation of Israel. It’s just a coincidence, isn’t it? Or is it possible that there is a true and living God and His Word is true and His prophecies are true, His prophets spoke the truth and maybe we ought to believe it. And if He’s telling the truth about that, maybe He’s telling the truth about everything else that he said. I believe it.

All vote. There are no prophecies before the rapture. The only thing that we’re looking forward to is the Lord to return. You see, I believe that Jesus Christ is coming back in the air and all of those who know Christ’s Savior will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. That’s in the book of 1st Thessalonians chapter 4, 13 down to verse 18. So therefore that is going to take place.

That’s what we are looking forward to. We’re not looking for the blessed tribulation. We’re looking for the blessed hope. The blessed hope. We often say, I’m looking for the upper taker, not the undertaker. I’m looking for him to take me up, not take me down. Although there are no prophecies before the rapture, there are multitudes that follow the rapture. Because the tribulation is only seven years long, many events must be in preparation before the rapture, and some of them are as follows.

It means the Jewish people must return back to the land. In the book of Isaiah in chapter 11, it says this, Israel will return back to their land. So God’s Word is true, and They are back, but they’re in unbelief Number two great blasphemies worldwide will be spoken against God Against God and against Israel Now the Bible says in the book of Zachariah in chapter 10 also chapter 12 that God says I will bring all nations Against Jerusalem now.

He said God said he’s going to do this And all the nations are going to turn against that little, bitty nation. And how do you think that little, little nation of Israel is going to be able to survive when all the nations turn against Israel? When it says all nations, it seems like, well, maybe America and Britain has to also. How would you like to be in Israeli living in Israel? And you see over 50-something Muslim nations who want to drive you into the sea totally annihilate you.

And all they need is a couple of little item bombs to do it with nuclear warheads. Now Israel will have to defend itself. Isn’t it amazing that we are living at the time when the exact nations, not all of them mentioned, but these exact nations have also fallen in with the nation of Russia? Number three the world as a whole will turn and kill God’s people now. This is what’s coming God says this is going to take place Does the world seem like it loves Christians today?

You know what’s interesting a guy by the name of Rick Perry Evidently he had gone to the Liberty University and gave a speech or a testimony And it was on the radio and I heard part of it right before James Taylor came on and And he was talking about how he came to know the Lord and so forth, you know. And I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I thought, well, great. But, you know, it didn’t take long before the news media got wind of what he said.

And they already have declared. He just nailed the coffin closed and he’s on the inside. talking about religion, talking about religion. That automatically just disqualify him because he’s talking about religion. Do you know George Washington talked about religion in Christ? Do you know Abraham Lincoln talked about religion in Christ? I thought to myself, self. If I ran for the office of the President of the United States, what do I do with my religion, Christianity. Do I take it and put it in a box and take it down to the bank and lock it up and leave it there because I don’t want to offend anybody.

That’s my right. That’s what we’re talking about. I have the right to believe what I believe, to say what I believe. So I listen to a few comments by individuals that are always trying to take the Christians and shut them up. Don’t talk about Christ. Don’t talk about God. Don’t talk about the Bible because that upsets people. You know what upsets me? Do they ever care about what upsets us? If, ideally, they don’t care about what we think. What about the Christians?

They don’t care about Christians. They don’t want to offend the the religion of Islam, what? They’ll cut off your head. And if they say something about us, well, what are we supposed to do? Love them, love your enemies. Now, something’s wrong here. If I’m to love you and you’re to kill me, I gotta hunch, there won’t be many of us left, unless God intervenes. Did you know that doing the tribulation period upon this earth, when Christ takes the believers out And yet there’ll be multitude because of the seed that’ll be sown, 144,000 Jewish evangelists to be preaching and a multitude of people are going to trust the Lord of all languages all over the world.

And most of them are going to die. Physical execution, they’re going to die. And the Bible says it’ll be be beheaded because it says in the 20th chapter of the book of Revelation And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of the Lord. That’s during the tribulation period. Cause the first part of the tribulation period is peace and safety. He said, when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction come up upon them. And in the middle of this seven year tribulation period, a man who’s gonna come on the scene and he’ll be able to convince the people with a bunch of lies.

You and I know that if somebody’s really lying, all right, lying, we’d catch that, wouldn’t we? Everybody will see that. Did you know half of America can’t tell when somebody’s lying? They’re so deceived, and they cannot see it. Look at number four, wars, threats of wars, and conflicts. Matthew chapter 24. There’s some things in here about ethnos and basalea, the word ethnic, ethnos, race, basalia, nations. And it talks about race against race and kingdom, nations against nations. But look at it number five.

Number five, strife and discord within the family and church will increase. Second Timothy chapter 3 says this, that perilous times shall come and is written to the believers in the last days. You stop and think, isn’t it true that majority of homes today have been destroyed? marriages, children. And one of the things that John the Baptist was going to do when he came on the scene, it says in the prophecy concerning him in the book of Luke, he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.

Wouldn’t it be great if all fathers love their children? And we do what we do because we love our children. It causes you to watch your testimony, everything that you say, everything that you do. We cannot preserve a nation unless we can preserve the education of our children. If you don’t preserve the education of the children, then you’re leaving them vulnerable to every ism and spasm throughout there. Number six, famine, pestilence, and epidemics will spread throughout the world. Do you realize how close we are to famine in America?

Do you know all the floods and the fires and everything that’s been going on, it wouldn’t take much for us to be hungry. And not just to be hungry. The Bible says, Great Famine is coming upon the land. It talks about the whole nation. You realize that now people are selling our corn to make fuel and we’re going to pay for that down the road and that we get some of our food from other countries. You know what? I’ve always wondered, how in the world can we buy food from South America?

They can grow it, send it all the way up here, and people make a profit off of it, and the people that live here can’t have a cheaper price than what they will. Something’s wrong. something’s driving up the price. We are going to be in Hertzville soon. And I’ve said this before and I’ll say it to you again. I believe you would be wise to make sure you have some food stored up. I think it’s just a matter of Christian principle for the times in which we live.

It wouldn’t take long for anything to happen and all of a sudden a little a little rush on all the stores would empty them out in a few hours. And if you didn’t get there and you don’t get anything, do you realize how ugly America can be if there’s no food to eat and how wicked we can become for the sake of life? Did you know that God warned Israel about this very thing and says the day will come when you will look at your son or your daughter and say, mmm, mmm, you look good.

You look good enough to eat. And they boiled their own children and ate their own children. Now I’m not making that up. It’s in the Bible. I just don’t have time right now to show you all of this. If I did, it would take me six months to get through this message. Look at number seven, Russia will invade Israel. It was in the paper. Israel has found oil and Israel has found silver and gold. They say that in the Dead Sea, you know, things always go to the bottom.

And those are heavy metals and they sink to the bottom. And that in the Dead Sea is enough wealth that is greater than all the wealth and all the world. You know, that’s a lot, a lot of wealth. You know, the Bible says, and Asher shall dip his toe in oil. Well, that’s in the book of Genesis, right before Jacob died, and it was one of the prophecies about his son. Asher shall dip the tip of his toe in oil.

There’s oil in Israel, and they’ve also found natural gas. Russia is going to come down against Israel. We all know that. It’s equal 38 and 39. But if you look at number eight, these are nations that God said over 2,500 years ago are going to be siding with Russia. There’s no way they could have known that in advance. But now think about these nations that it’s list right here. You can get your Bible and go back and look at them.

And Libya, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Iran will be allies with Russia. Would you say that that’s about the way it is today? Coincidence, huh? And how would the men that wrote God’s Word known that if they were just men and only wrote what man knows and what man thinks, you know, the Bible does not contain all of those mistakes that man makes. The Bible is truth. The Bible is accurate. And you can know the truth if you want to know the truth.

You have in your hands an up-to-date book on what’s going to take place in the future. And buddy, I’ve always wanted to know I have a curious mind. Look at the next thing, number nine, Bible talks about homosexuality and sexual immorality will increase. In Luke chapter 17, talk about remember as it was in the days of, not just Noah, as it was in the days of Lot. When it says as it was in the days of Lot, in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, it’s not talking about the one day the judgment fell is talking about their manner of life before the judgment fell.

What were they doing? What was their sin and what is going on in the world today? And now there are, and I heard this on the news the other day, of little children over, I think it was over in Europe, that had their name down as a hate crime because they simply use the word gay. They use the word gay and they were just talking about having a gay time, but they took that as a hate crime and now as a hate crime it goes on their record even though they’re five and six years old and it’ll stay on their record for the rest of their life.

All of this is coming to America. The day will come when I will simply preach a biblical sermon And I probably will come along and say something like, you know, homosexuality is a sin and could cost me my ministry and throw me in jail. And you say, no, that won’t happen. I hope you’ll come and visit me. Look at number 10, Jewish temple to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. You and I know there has got to be a temple rebuilt in Jerusalem.

And the reason is because the antichrist, the head of the last world government goes into the temple and claims himself that he is God, exalts himself that he is God, and demands that people worship him. And will set up an image and declare that people must bow down to this image or they will be executed. Oh that’s coming. Number 11, talk of world peace. they shall sit, they, because the judgment is coming upon the world, and when the world begins to talk constantly about world peace.

Nobody’s been doing that lately, have they? Has anybody been talking about global peace? Global peace? Well, this is why they have the so-called United Notions. the United Nations is supposed to develop world peace. It was started right after the Second World War so that there will never be any more wars. And since that date, America has never won a war. We haven’t won a war since then. We’ve had to compromise. I say, if we’re going to fight a war, you fight to win and it doesn’t matter how you win, you win.

They want to destroy us, kill our families and we don’t want to hurt their feelings. But number 12, nations joining together to establish a final world government and all of these so-called crises that we’ve had and so government do something, save us, save us. So we all look to the White House to save us and Congress to save us And deliver us from this devastating dilemma. Well, they don’t want to save us. They don’t want to save us. You see, they got to destroy our form of government.

They’ve got to destroy capitalism because capitalism and communism are not compatible. You owning property, you owning things, you doing what you think you want to do, is it will not work with socialism and communism. It can’t work together, can’t live together. So if we have, and we do, we have probably close to 50% of Congress that are socialist.

I’m not lying to you. Many of them already stated they signed documents to this fact. And so if you are a social, you do not want to save our country as it is. You do not want to have a good sound financial basis like silver and gold, which is according to the Constitution. They want to inflate our money. I noticed the other night when they were on the Republican debate. And then I sat there and I listened and they asked a question about the Federal Reserve.

Oh, I wish they’d ask me that question. The Federal Reserve is not a part of the federal government. The Federal Reserve pre-ence, fiat money means it’s worthless pieces of paper. It’s not backed by anything. It’s just like you can get your own printing press and print your own money. It has no value to it except the confidence you put into it. I would say do away, totally do away with the Federal Reserve. you do not need the Federal Reserve.

They’re not supposed to manipulate the economy, the rise and fall of stocks and all these things. Now there’s a better way to run a country. And I would do away with health, education, and welfare. You don’t need any one of them. I would do away with the EPA. I don’t know how I’m telling you this, I’m not running for office. But I just think once in a while, I just gotta let you know what I think, because I love our country.

I love our freedoms that we have. I want to keep on preaching the Word of God and preaching the truth, and I can see the encroachment coming. I can see them tightening the noose. I can see them turning the vice on the envelope, and I can see us being squeezed, and people being squeezed and losing more and more of the freedoms. Till after a while, you and I, we won’t be able to move. We will wait until it’s too late, and then you won’t be able to do anything.

There’s a few people in this country that do see and understand what’s being done. And I do pray that there’s enough people that can see what needs to be done and will do something to preserve our country. The way that our founding fathers intended it to be. So that you and I can continue to live a life that’s quiet and peaceful. So that we don’t have to become mean and ugly down the road. So that we don’t have to see God’s judgment upon our nation.

Therefore, I do believe that these things that is being done in our country and under the guise of, well, you know, it’s liberty and the homosexual can do what they want and all that. I believe that it is a wicked, wicked sin. It’s destroying our homes. It’s destroying this country. It’s destroying the churches. And so therefore, you now have my humble opinion on these issues, not all of them. But look up here. You and I know that Christ is going to come back, but He’s coming back for His children.

If you are not a child of God, you don’t get to go. You don’t get to go. You must be a child of God to get to go to heaven. And Christ could come back at any moment because all the things that we just covered are things that must be fulfilled in the tribulation period, and the nations of the world is already choosing upside. We’re almost there. I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And buddy, that’s close.

So that means that the rapture has to be very, very close. People have been preaching this for over 2,000 years. Wouldn’t it be great if you and I were the ones that you and I were the ones that get this one-time experience? Because you see, there are certain things that have happened in history that not everybody got to enjoy that. See, all of us got to be there in the garden. Wouldn’t that have been neat, too? Not all of us got to see, well, we didn’t get that big boat ride during the flood.

I wouldn’t mind that as long as I was in the ark. I wouldn’t mind seeing the children of Israel come out of Egypt in the water party, but it only happened one time in history. I wouldn’t mind being there at the resurrection of Christ, not so much the crucifixion. I wouldn’t mind seeing the resurrection, but it only happens once. The day of Pentecost, I’m the Holy Spirit of God, that happened one time in history. Now the next thing is for the rapture.

It will happen one time in history, and I pray that that will be during my lifetime. And if you only give in 70 years to live, I’m running out of time. Look up here. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents all the things we do the wrong. God loves the whole world. and so that you don’t misunderstand, regardless of the religion of Islam. I’ve tried and I have led many of them to Christ. I’ve seen hundreds trust the Lord.

When Mary and I went there to Egypt, I just went over there to see him last week because of Betty’s birthday. And so we decided we’d ride over and see Ray. And he sat over tears down his eyes because he says they came in the very church that we had been in and killed 109 people with machine guns. this mowed him down, the very people that we talked to. He said, I’m so glad that we got a chance to go and talk to them.

But a lot of them can trust the Lord. A lot of them just don’t know. They never understood. But God loves the whole world. So should we. We don’t have to love their sin or no one have to love their ideology, but we can love the person. And so the Bible says that that to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. We have all sinned and we’re all condemned.

And God says you can’t save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into this world because he loves us. He hates our sin because our sin separates us from the Lord. So what Christ did was took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, He said that if you and I would simply believe he did it for us. He would put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Christ did for us.

That’s good news. That’s free. No tricks to it. If I offered you my wallet and you accepted you’d have a wallet, I offered you my Bible and you accepted you’d have a Bible. If Christ walked in here and offered you eternal life and you accepted what would you have? Eternal life. And if it’s eternal life, it lasts forever. You can know that you’re going to heaven when you die. Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around.

If you’re here tonight, you’ll never trust the Lord. Or if you’re watching by internet, I pray that you will trust the Lord. Because there’s no tricks to it, there’s no damage to it. You don’t have to join this church. You don’t have to join any church. You don’t have to give any money. You don’t have to stop anything. You don’t have to join anything. God loves you. He paid for your sin. He said, if you’ll believe he did it for you, he would save you and give you eternal life.

And you can know that you’re going to heaven when you die. So friend, I pray that you would. And if you will make that decision, I’d like to have prayer for you. We just slip you in it very quickly and say, yes, pray for me. I will trust Christ as my Savior tonight and pray for you. I want you to pray for me. Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together. We’re thankful that we have your word that we can read and study it so much we don’t know.

But these are a few things that we do know from what your word says. We’re living in some crucial days. And Lord, I pray that our president will make the right decision that those in Congress would try to really protect our country and make wise decisions. And there’s a lot of people that are hurting. And I pray Lord that they would put you first. Think about what you would want them to do. Help us to realize one day we will have to stand before you and get an account.

So we ask your blessing upon us as a church in our nation. In Christ and in the brain, 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 were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-7 Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-8 3771, online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calbryoftampa.org.

We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. I know that not everybody agrees on everything, that we teach concerning the Bible. Hopefully we agree on the gospel. That’s a heaven-held issue. Some things on prophecy we may not always agree on. But that’s okay. It’s a little give and take here and there. But we’re living at some exciting days.

Let me tell you something that is going to be very, very interesting, I believe. As you know, there’s been a great effort made to have the Muslim nations try not to hate us so much for being what we are and who they are. And so I think the President Administration has been over backwards to try to be sweet and nice to them so that they would love us. I don’t think they do yet. And we know that there’s been movement in Turkey where they have kicked out the Israeli ambassador and also done in Egypt.

And remember, that was a little treaty that got made years ago when you asked for air fat, done in Egypt because of Jimmy Carter. I think that’s spot the only major thing he did. That looks very fragile right now like there’s not gonna be a continuance of that there is hatred growing around the world for America for whatever reasons and Israel is It has like they’re like put in a vice and They’re trying to tighten the old vice down Now Israel doesn’t have a lot of friends There’s not a lot of nations around the world that would really defend Israel.

They were talking about the, from Tila that came in and from Syria and they wouldn’t let him know dot there. Anyway, they were a little skirmish. Not good stuff happened. But you know, we are committed to protect Turkey. That’s one of the things that we are committed to doing, just like we’re committed to support South Korea, Japan. You see, they don’t really have to have their own individual armies because America is committed to supporting them so they can spend all their money on the economy and stuff because they don’t have a worry about a military because we’ll take care of that for them.

And we also have gone on a limb for Turkey. Now what do we do if Turkey decides to guard or send ships into the Gaza area in order to have some ships come in with goods? Of course they wouldn’t bring arms. And Israel is dead set on stopping that. And if Israel stops that and goes to war with Turkey, whose side does America go on? Interesting. One of the things that if you have watched the news at all and you know what’s being done and the position of the White House at this present time, you know that there’s not a lot of love there for the nation of Israel.

That’s just the facts of the matter. I am not making this up. So in the Security Council, which America is and has the right of veto power, there is a move on now to Have the Palestinians recognized as a state, so which has to be brought up. And in doing that, it means that they’re going to try to get the United Nations to accept them and to support them. And so that puts pressure upon America because if all of them do but America, It means that the present administration must decide to support Israel and go against all the other nations, or to go for the State of Israel and go against all the nations, or support the Palestinians and their state, which would represent all the Muslim countries that are all for it.

And Saudi Arabia has already declared what America better do. Isn’t it interesting? Do you realize how quickly everything in this world can change? The enjoyment we really enjoy it right now can be in turmoil by the end of this week. And if you boil it down, it means that Obama, the President of the United States, must decide and pressure is on to either support Israel or the Muslim nations. And the question is what do you think he will do?

Now let me just mention this to you. I’m not trying to make anybody mad or anything like that. But if, if, as it has been stated by Him Himself, He has declared and stated He is a Muslim. And there’s other times when He says He is a Christian. So majority of people don’t really know what He is. And I’m just stating that this is what He has said. So it is confusion. Let’s just pretend I’m the president of the United States.

Okay, let’s just pretend I’m the President of the United States. Let’s just pretend that I am Obama. But we’re pretending, let’s just pretend that if I was of the Muslim faith, it would be very difficult to support the nation of Israel. But if I was President and knew that I may not get another chance and the goal of the religion of Islam is to overthrow America and Israel in all countries because their gold of the religion of Islam is to conquer the world.

And you are to be either converted to the religion of Islam or enslaved or killed. Those are your options. So you don’t have a lot of options and none of them really look good, but you look and see that over 50 nations have been overtaken by the religion of Islam. And they were not done because they won the people over by their peaceful religion, but by the sword, because a few will dominate many, and they are willing to kill for what they believe, and they will harm others who don’t believe the way they believe.

Now they don’t do that at the beginning until they’re in power and believe that they can force. This is being done right now in places across Europe where they’re declaring zones, Sharia law zone. Now I’m not making that up. It’s in Britain, it’s in France, and in other countries. And they will keep on until they take over that country. If I was president and knew that my goal, if I was of the Islamic faith, I would not surrender the presidency of the United States.

I would not do it. I wouldn’t care what I had to do. Now, if you’ll remember back, I mentioned a year or so ago that eventually what you see happening in some of the countries and other countries about the riots taking place because you see what it does, there’s a system to it. You get it to where everyone wants the government to do things for them. And so the government can’t do anything for you until it takes something from you.

So you pay all these taxes to the government and the government promises to take care of this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this. So eventually the whole country becomes a Ponzi scheme. The whole country. It means that there will be a bunch of people that will reap the benefits and the goodness of all their people paying into the taxation of a country. And there’s going to be people who are going to really enjoy it. It’s going to meet their needs, but it can’t sustain itself when you find out that they demand more from government than the people can pay.

So that leads to a clash between the people and the government. So the people will demand their right from the government because they promise they took money and they owe, fulfill it, don’t do it, and their street riots and all this. And everybody’s mad at the government. But the people are the one who put that government together. They’re the one that voted for those people in place. and because they are just like they are. Deeply in debt, the government goes deeply in the debt because we put people in there that do what we do.

Water seeks its own level. And so there’s riots in the streets. And I said, I believe sooner or later, there will be enough dissension in this country where people are going to defy their government demand from government and some of the so-called peaceful marches and things like that that we have now are going to turn ugly in America and people are going to have enough and they’re going to fight against each other. Now they’ve already started that with those that are unionized and those that are not and there’s a division coming in this country and never has there been such a clear division between Republicans and Democrats, independent, all this and is headed for a clash.

I mean a serious clash. And so when there is going to be enough of the riots and so forth in the street because of people demanding the government do something and every time they will create a crisis and then everybody the people demand the government to do something. And so the government always tries to find a solution to the crisis that they created. And then after that one and we get further than the debt, they create another crisis. And this crisis, we’ve got to demand government do something, got to do it now.

So then government has to come up with another solution which only gets us in worst at why because they’re the problem. They can’t solve the solution. I traced a sermon a couple weeks back on what’s wrong with America. I’d love to get that message into hands of every politician in America. They don’t know what the problem is and that’s why they can’t solve it. And so they’re going from one to the other. So now in the last couple weeks, now we have another crisis.

And so we’ve got to solve this one and what do you hear? Pass this bill now, now, now, now. So it’s another crisis created but will it solve the problem? It will not solve the problem. And people are mad on on both sides, Christians have never been tried like they’re going to be tried. You’ve never been tested like you’re going to be tested. And so when there becomes such disunity and people becoming mean and ugly toward their neighbors and their government and because of wickedness that will take place, I believe there have to be then a declaration of martial law and martial law will suspend all of our constitutional rights and the president has enough executive orders that have been passed by previous presidents that can give a man dictatorship rights to this country.

And it can happen like that. You can go to bed one night and wake up the next day and you’ll be surprised how fast what we now enjoy will be all over. And I believe that once we lose it, we will never get it back. If you study the Bible, you can see and you should understand the direction that we are headed. And so therefore if I was this type of individual, and I hope and pray that I’m wrong, that I would not want to give up the presidency of the United States.

One of the reasons is this. You and I know that in the last days there has to be a world power capable of controlling the whole world and there is no country like America. And what would it be like if the wrong person got control of America with all of our nuclear power. Ma’am. Oh, nothing’s going to stop the rapture. It’s going to come right on schedule, right dead on time. But what you need to understand is this. You and I have a responsibility why we’re here to always do right to try to put up a wall of resistance against the devil.

Resist the devil and he’ll flee. But the reason is most of the God’s people don’t resist the evil that comes. So, but I do believe that the rapture will take place right on schedule. I’m not trying to hurry it and I’m not trying to hold it back. But I believe that we need to understand the times in which we live. And if I was the President and if I did believe that, I would do something, some way, because the biggest turmoil in this country, and let me just say this, if I was a Marxist, if I did believe in the extreme socialism and communistic type of philosophy and rule of a government, then in this capitalistic society, it would be something I would despise because I don’t want individuals to have rights, I don’t want them to own their business, don’t want them to own their capital,

I would believe that government is the answer and that everybody pay in the government and the government control everything. Then if I really believe that then I would make sure that I wouldn’t do anything to protect our form of government or our way of life or our economy. I will tell you one thing and I’ll do something else. I’ll tell you this but I’ll do this. I’ll tell you this, but I’ll do this. And remember the anti-Christ when he comes on the scene is going to be able to deceive the whole world.

He will tell lies. You and I need to understand that not everything that they tell us is the truth. You probably didn’t know that. But don’t believe everything you hear. Don’t even believe everything I say. But we’re living at a time when it’s getting sometime a little on the fuzzy side about what’s right and what’s wrong. And now they’re trying to turn people against some people call the tea party. I don’t know if I fit in that bracket or not.

All I know is I’m a Christian and I love my country and I want to preserve my country and I believe there’s constitutional rights that I’ve been given by God. See, that God had given us the right to do things and to fulfill our responsibilities. So therefore we want a government that will give me the freedom to fulfill my responsibilities as a husband, yours as a wife, my responsibility to children and our church to do what we want. We want freedom and we want to be left alone.

What man has a right to deprive us of fulfilling our responsibility that God gave to us? Who is man? He’s not higher than God. He’s not over God. And why should we let another man control everything that we have and steal everything that we have? But we’re doing it and we’re not doing much about it. But anyway, that was my introductory remarks. I don’t have a lot of time, but I did want to share that with you, only because this week could be very important.

And of course, you know what’s coming in the next week. Something called Ross Hashanah. And something about the time when lo and behold, the Lord just liable to come back. Now he could. Now he’s saying he is, but it’s a good possibility. But if he comes back, fine, if he don’t, that’s fine with me too. I just want to do whatever I can. What time I have before the Lord comes back. But look what I have here. wars and rumors of wars.

Now there’s a lot of wars around this old world, haven’t been much time of peace. But Christ had made the statement, ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled, the end is not yet. Now when he wrote this, or this was written in Matthew 24, this is talking right before he comes back at the end of the tribulation period. This is the beginning of the tribulation period. Now, look at the next little statement I have here.

Hosea the Prophet clearly tells us that the latter days are a specific time when the Jewish people would return to the state of Israel after dispersion throughout the world for nearly 2,000 years. So in the book of Hosea chapter 3, look what I got here in the notes here. And this is what it says, For the children of Israel shall abide many days. 2000 so far. Without a king Israel has no king. There hasn’t been a king here since Jesus Christ came and he was rejected.

And he was the only one that had the right to be the king. And since him, nobody has the authority to claim the throne of Israel. The reason for understanding this and believing this is because there are some people today and they believe that the church has replaced the nation of Israel called replacement theology. It is not true. God has the nation of Israel and there’s promises that He made to Israel that He will keep. And there’s things that God has promised to the church and He will keep.

They are not the same thing. And so therefore you and I are part of the church. We’re not a part of the nation of Israel. We’re part of the church. And get what he says here. He said, for the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and without an image, without an ephod, without a terrifen. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their king and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.”

So God says that Israel in the latter days will come back. Now they’ve been out of the land. How long has the temple been destroyed? 2000 years. Now in the book of Jose it also makes the statement about after two days the return. And so Israel has fulfilled what God said in his word. Now you name another nation that had these things prophesied against it, where the nation would be totally uprooted, their temple destroyed, the people scattered upon the face of the earth, and then after two thousand years they come back to their land and become established as a nation.

Name one. There isn’t one. Only one nation has ever done that, and it just happens to be the nation of Israel. It’s just a coincidence, isn’t it? Or is it possible that there is a true and living God, and His Word is true, and His prophecies are true, His prophets spoke the truth, and maybe we ought to believe it. And if He’s telling the truth about that, maybe He’s telling the truth about everything else that He said. I believe it.

Although there are no prophecies before the rapture, The only thing that we’re looking forward to is the Lord to return. You see, I believe that Jesus Christ is coming back in the air and all of those who know Christ’s Savior will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. That’s in the first Thessalonians chapter 4, 13 down to verse 18. So therefore that is going to take place. That’s what we are looking forward to.

We’re not looking for the blessed tribulation. We’re looking for the blessed hope. The blessed hope. We often say I’m looking for the upper taker, notBeg I’m looking for him to take me up, not take me down. Although there are no prophecies before the rapture, there are multitudes that follow the rapture because the tribulation is only seven years long. Many events must be in preparation before the rapture and some of them are as follows. It means the Jewish people must return back tos the land.

In the book of Isaiah, in chapter 11, it says this, Israel will return back to their land. So God’s word is true and they are back but they’re in unbelief. Number two, great blasphemies worldwide will be spoken against God, against God and against Israel. Now the Bible says in the book of Zechariah in chapter 10, also chapter 12, that God says, I will bring all nations against Jerusalem. Now you say, God said, He’s going to do this. And all the nations are going to turn against that little obitination.

And how do you think that little, little nation of Israel is going to be able to survive when all the nations turn against Israel? When it says all nations, it seems like, well, or maybe America and Britain has to also. How would you like to be in Israeli living in Israel? And you see over 50-something Muslim nations who want to drive you into the sea totally annihilate you, and all they need is a couple of little item bombs to do it with nuclear warheads.

Now, Israel will have to defend itself. Isn’t it amazing that we are living at the time when the exact nations, not all I mentioned, but these exact nations have also fallen in with the nation of Russia. Number three, the world as a whole will turn and kill God’s people. Now, this is what’s coming. God says this is going to take place. Does the world seem like it loves Christians today? You know what’s interesting? A guy by the name of Rick Perry.

Evidently he had gone to the Liberty University and gave a speech or a testimonium. And it was on the radio and I heard part of it right before James Taylor came on. And he was talking about how he came to know the Lord and so forth, you know. And I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I thought, well, great. But you know, it didn’t take long before the news media got wind of what he said.

And they already have declared he just nailed the coffin closed and he’s on the inside and talking about religion, talking about religion. That automatically just disqualifies him because he’s talking about religion. Do you know George Washington talked about religion in Christ? Do you know Abraham Lincoln talked about religion in Christ? I thought to myself, self, if I ran for the office of the President of the United States, what do I do with my religion, my Christianity? Do I take it and put it in a box and take it down to the bank and lock it up and leave it there because I don’t want to offend anybody?

That’s my right. That’s what we’re talking about. I have the right to believe what I believe, to say what I believe. So I listen to a few comments by individuals that are always trying to take the Christians and shut them up. Don’t talk about Christ. Don’t talk about God. Don’t talk about the Bible because that upsets people. You know what upsets me? Do they ever care about what upsets us? Evidently they don’t care about what we think. What about the Christians?

They don’t care about Christians. They don’t wanna offend the religion of Islam. Why? They’ll cut off your head. And if they say something about us, well, we’re supposed to do it. Love them, love your enemies. Now, something’s wrong here. If I’m to love you and you’re to kill me, I gotta hunch. There won’t be many of us left. unless God intervenes. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold.

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And I’ll thank you to say it will not be long before there will be special laws made in Congress to protect Islam. Because, see, there’s people going to be speaking out against it, and how that the teaching itself is detrimental to America. And how all of these kind of selves are nothing but hate-mongering selves that turns people against America. and they’ll want Sharia law and they’re going to want to change it, our Constitution. This is common. And anything said or done, that will offend them, is going to make the news.

And they’re going to have to have special protection. So I don’t believe they could just wait. Now in verse four, we have it where the Lord Himself, God the Father, says that He is going to sit in the heavens shall land and the Lord shall have them in derision. Well, you’re right here. Look in Psalms 37 to 37 Psalm 37 Psalm and look here in verse 13. We talked about the wicked there in verse 12. The wicked plot up against the just.

upon him with their teeth. The Lord, he ought to on the line that shall laugh at him, for he seeeth that his day is coming. You see, the Lord knows the future, and God is allowing these people to come together and in their judgment they wanted to kill Christ. He said he was the king of the Jews and therefore the Romans. Now we have one king and that was Caesar. They got a problem. So they were able to turn the people, the religious leaders, the Romans, all against him.

And so they crucified Christ and he was put on the cross. But the Lord says, you go ahead and you plan. You work, you do your esteem. But there’s a God in heaven that looks down and sees the affairs of men and he makes statement. He says, fellow, it ain’t over yet. Do your worst. And then he says, the Lord shall have been in derision. The Lord is a time coming when God is going to speak. Now, hold your place right here and look in Proverbs in chapter 1, the book of Proverbs and chapter 1.

Proverbs chapter 1, and I want you to look there in verse 22. Verse 22. Proverbs chapter 1 and verse 22 says, How long ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity, needs to be naive? And the scourners delight in their scourning and fold hate knowledge. In other words, but they appear to to be bright. They appear to be so wise. They’re so intelligent. But in God’s eyes, it’s just the opposite. You see, there is a God. Jesus Christ is his son, and he is true, and he is right, and he’s never wrong.

A man reveals his wisdom by what he does with God, with Jesus Christ. And there are many fools who mock, make fun of. So he says here in verse 23, turn you at prove, beCHAPTER I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make no my words unto you because I have called and you have refused. I stressed out my hand, no man regarded. But you have said it not. That means count as nothing, all of my counsel and with none of my reproof.

But this is God said, look, I have sought you. I have sent you prophets. I have sent you the God be mentioned. I have sent you my word. I told you in advance when I would come, how I would come, how I would live. I told you everything in advance, but you wouldn’t listen to me. You wouldn’t listen. So they did what they wanted to do. God says, I’m gonna do what I’m going to do. Now, get what he says.

He says in verse 26, I also will laugh at your calamity. I will muck when you’re here coming. When you’re here coming as desolation and your destruction come into the world when when distress and anguish come upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek merely, but they will not find me. And they that hated knowledge did not choose the fear of the Lord. They would none of my counsel. They despised all my reproaches.

they’re therefore shall they eat the fruit of their own way and they’ll reap what they sow.” I just do that in there. I love you. I appreciate that. Now go back there to the book of Psalms. God who sits in the heavens looks down and he sees the wickedness of man and knows what they’re going to do, but God can take the wickedness of man and accomplish his purpose. And it says in verse 5, then shall he speak unto them in his wrath vex them in his sword displeasure.

In other words, he is going to put a curse upon them. God can curse a nation or bless a nation. And I believe in America we are going to see some of the cursing upon America because we have thrown away all of God’s reproof. warning we have not heeded and listened like we should. Now this is as a nation. You change your nation by changing your laws and we change in our laws because we’ve changed our God. I’ll preach a sermon on the changing of the gods.

Well anyway. Look in verse 6, yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. When Jesus was born, the book of Matthew, it says, King of the Jews, King of Israel. Jesus Christ was the King from the day he was born. He is King, and he has the right to be the King. And he says, I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. Now there’s two things that I want to bring out concerning this verse.

One is whenever Jesus Christ was taken upon Mount Zion and whenever He was upon the Mount and crucified, I believe that God has taken the wicked acts and the wicked deeds of the people. When He says in the book of Acts, you have by wicked hands have taken and slain and he says, by the Tournament Council of God himself. As God looks down to the telescope of time and God used the the seafulness and the wickedness, the ungodliness of men and, they rejected his son and put him on the cross, that God had determined to use them to accomplish his purpose and when Christ was owned across, that God says, like, I set my son upon that hill.

I send him into this world. Jesus says a body has filed prepared me. So Jesus Christ went to the cross. Now you and I know there’s a time coming when he’s going to come back to the earth and he’s coming back and his feet’s going to touch upon the mountain. It’s going to cleave in in the midst. So he came twice when he came into this world and was crucified and then he’s coming back again. But I want you to see this.

I believe you have here perhaps the voice of the Lord himself, Jesus Christ, because of what he says in verse 7, I will declare the decree the Lord, L O R D, Jehovah, the Father, have said on the meat the Son, So he said, Thou art my Son. This day have I begun thee. Now in the book of Acts, it will show you that This scripture refers to when Jesus Christ came back from the dead. We often read that verse John 3, 16, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, His only begotten Son.

The begotten Doesn’t necessarily always refer just to the birth, but when he gave his son and brought him back from the dead So Jesus Christ died on the cross and The father brought him back from the dead. We talk about being born again brought back to life brought him back and Jesus Christ Was the begotten son Came back from the bit But when he came back from the dead it’s because he was placed upon that mountain He died in paper the sins of the world so God can use the Ravages of man Why does he raid?

What is he so upset about imagine a man God can take the wickedness of man and accomplish his purpose now He says here in verse 8 asked of me and I will give thee the heathen for vine inheritance. And the othermost part of the earth for by possession, this is because there is going to be, and you can see his person. He is worthy to rule in verse 7. He has the right to possess the earth, and And as I’ll make the earth my footstool and he will rule and Everything and everybody will be in subjection to his authority Now the world today Can reject his authority?

They can reject the influence they can reject all of his calcium all of his recruits But God says that they will come when I’ll send him to heavens and I’m gonna do the last thing. He says, it mends hearts failing them for fear, seeing the things that are coming upon the earth. And they don’t have the answers. That God says He’s going to rule. He’s going to work. And He says here in verse nine, when He talks about the heathen for thine inheritance, He talks about those who will trust Christ’s Savior as a result of the payment that He made on the crossborn.

You see, every nation upon the earth, one day the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of Christ. And then he says in verse 9, Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. When Christ comes back after the seven year tribulation period upon the earth. Sir, He comes here for us, He comes back here with us, and when He comes back, The Bible says he will rule with a rod of iron. And the thousand year reign upon the earth, nobody gets away with anything.

That’s where he talks about if a man slaps you on the cheek, turns on the other cheek. That’s when he’s talking about if a man suges you and takes your coat, give him the other one too. And it did you to go one mouth, go two mouth. Don’t worry about it. There’s a king here that likes everything. And nobody violates his law. Jesus Christ will rule with a law of iron. And he says in verse 10, as a conclusion, he says, be wise, and here’s that word, do out of underlying or circle it.

Now, I believe it’s the Holy Spirit that woo’s us, wins us, convicts us, peaches us, and actually, warns us. But he says, be wise now, therefore, you kings, be instructed to judge us of the earth, serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. In verse 12, kiss the sun lest he be angry, and he parries from the way. When his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him. When he talks about blessed are they?

I believe there’s two words that I like to throw in on what this is referring to from the book of Romans. David who wrote this Psalm that God used, made the statement, blessed is he who sins are covered or paid for in the New Testament. And blessed is the man and the home God will not impute sin. Isn’t something that God does not impute my sin to me? in beauty to his son Christ paid for it paid paid. Blessed is that man but this verse right here even though it’s in the Old Testament it’s the same as we would find in the New Testament.

Blessed are all they that put their trust their faith in him who the one that died the one that the world rejected that were against his anointed against his Christ. Now let’s just pretend for a second. You and I as individuals can’t do much about what nations do. It’s representative of the collective of the people. But look there in the second song. And you’ll notice that if you put this to the person you and me, an individual, regardless of what the nations do as a person, that you realize that you also fall into this category.

Why did you rage? Why you saw against God? Why are you so against Jesus Christ? Why do you imagine things that are not true? Did you know that not to believe there is a God is vain imagination? Not to believe that there is a hell is vain imagination. Remember what you’re thinking and imagine something? You say It was not real, but it is real. And you may come to the same conclusion that these nations did when Christ came the first time.

Why did the heathen rage? Why do you? I talked to so many people what nothing to do with God, nothing to do with Christ. Don’t even want to talk about the Bible. No, you can talk about everything in the world, but say you want to talk to them about the Lord. Have you ever had anybody take the Bible and show you how to have eternal life? And so many of them, I don’t talk about that. I don’t talk about that.

I tried to witness to a lady at a restaurant. I said, ma’am, can I absolutely do you know where you’re going to go when you die? She was so nice and so sweet. She brought me my food and she had a smile on her face and she was so joy, she poured my coffee. And I asked her a simple question and she says, I don’t want to talk about that. But we’re not going to talk about that. She says, I don’t want to talk about that.

And all I asked is, do you know where you’re going to go when you die? What was her problem? I don’t know what’s happened in that four-woman’s life, but it wasn’t good. Something had made her mad. I don’t know if she heard that she had to earn you a way to have her or what. She realized she couldn’t just give up. Go to hell anyway. But I’ve seen her several times since then. And she’ll be nice in front of you, but if I even say the word, anything about God, the Bible, if I even just show her my picture on the front of that track, is like, a natural, natural.

Now I know you never had anything like that happen. And they take counsel against God. They wanna live their lives, as though there is no God. That’s why they never pray. They don’t need the Bible because they imagine a thing, an empty thing, and their lives are empty. They have nothing. They have no hope. They have no real belief, no solid foundation. And they wanna get away from anything that has to do with God’s authority. They don’t care for churches and they don’t care for creatures.

Can you believe there’s people in this world that don’t like creatures? that breaks my heart. I’m one of the nicest preachers that I know. Why everybody wouldn’t like me, I even don’t understand. But it says in verse 4, did you know that you can mock God now? You can run from God. Do anything you want to do. But God says your calamity is coming, your day is coming. And just like, for example, Terrace taught a terrorized neighborhood because they’d be committed to murders.

Nevermind the neighborhood scared today. God says, you just went to life. God is gonna terrorize this country. He’s gonna bring terror to this world. Men’s hearts failing them. People wanting to die and can’t die, running, trying to hide in the rocks of the mountains and the dins and the caves trying to get away from God. And God is going to terrorize this world. This world hasn’t seen terror like God’s going to bring. That day’s coming. And God says, he’s going to sit in heaven and have them in derision.

In other words, they don’t know what to do. They can act so big and so smart like they got all the They don’t have the answers. The people in Washington, they don’t have the answer. Our hope isn’t there. Our hope is in the Lord, and we trust the Lord. And we pray for them that God will be able to still work His will through rebellious individuals, just like He did the first time. Now, you saw how the world was set when Christ came the first time and what they did, and this is what they’re going to do the second time.

And the world is going to come together, and there’s going to be what we call the great battle of Armageddon, where the nations of the earth are going to vote themselves in, and they’re going to have them one guy in charge of everything. everything. They don’t need God. They’re going to all come together because they got a common cause and they’re going to put all the nations of the world under their authority. A one-world government, globalization, it’s common. We’re already in condition for it, little by little.

And so the Lord says, in spite of how you think and feel, I sent my son to the cross to pay for your sins. And all that you have to do is accept that payment Christ made on the cross for you, and you can have as a freak yet, that everlasting life. But so that you know Christ is coming back. He is going to rule. He’s going to reign. And all these nations that were against Him are going to bow before Him.

And every knee shall bow. Every tongue will confess. He is the Lord. He is the Lord. to the glory of God the Father. So God says, and God says, he has given him a name which is above every name, and that heaven for his inheritance. In other words, like Christ says to his Father, I go to the cross and I pay for the sins of the world. What am I going to get out of this? God says, I’m going to take all those people and give them to you.

And so that’s why Christ says in the book of John, all that the Father did me shall come to me because Christ is the one who died for them. And now unto the Father is going to give them this is your inheritance. That’s why we’re called heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. You and I will belong to him. You see in verse 10, verse 10 it kind of shows you the intellect of man, the mind of man.

And verse 11 talks about the emotions of man, the trembling, the fear. In verse 12 about the will of man, the deliberate choice that every person has to make, blessed is he that puts his trust in him. Nobody can make you do this. But somewhere along the line you need to understand. You can mock God today, reject Christ today, but one day your calamity is on its way. And you might wait too long. I believe you can trust Christ’s Savior as long as you draw your breath.

But who knows what frame of mind you’re going to be in at that moment. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Now is when you should trust Christ as your Savior. And you may be here and you’ve heard this stuff all of your life and you’ve never really trusted Christ as your Savior. It’s amazing that so much good stuff is in one song. So hopefully you’ve listened and you’ve learned a little bit about the second song.

It’s a great one. Look up here. This hand represents any man, you and me. This wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. God says that we’re ungodly. It means that we’re not like God. We’re separated from God because of sin. You see, heaven is perfect. not. We committed sin and we have to pay for it and the wages of sin is death and hell. Eternal separation from the Lord. So God says that He loves us but He hates our sin but we committed the sin we have to pay for it.

So the Bible says that to go to heaven and you have to be perfect and you’re not by your works you never will be. You will never be be able to produce enough works to make you perfect. It doesn’t work that way. You are a sinner and your best works are sinned. The best you have to offer. Go. Go. It’s filthy ranks in God types. So, if we get this idea of trying to earn your way to heaven by your good work, they’re not good.

And they’ll never be good enough. You have to be perfect. And that’s why it’s hopeless. No man can save himself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. Came into the world because he loves us. Hates our sin because separates us from Christ, took the sin, paid for on the cross, came back from the dead. He said, if we would believe that He did it for us, He would put the payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us.

If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you do it right now? Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bond, every eye closed, no one looking around. If what I’ve said made sense to you, would you trust the Lord? Pray you may have mocked God long enough. heard it and you don’t want his authority, you don’t want anything to do with him. Whether they will come when God will laugh at you. And you’ll call and he says, I will not answer.

I pray this because you understand and you’ll trust Christ as your Savior now today. And even when a person stands at the great white throne judgment and casts into the flames of hell. They can cry out all they want to. God will not hear. It’s too late. So why not right now and quietness of this moment? Just say something to the Lord like this, Lord, I’m a sinner. And I believe you died on that cross and paid for my sins.

And I’m going to trust you. That’s my only hope of going to heaven. Friends, if you’ll do that, God will save you, give you time of life, we did do it. I’m going to ask you just a moment to raise your hand, raising your hand does not save you, just lets me know that what I said made sense to you, and I like to have prayer for you. And one of all the public lives, yes I’ll trust Christ as my Savior this morning and preach I like you to pray for me, we just slip it up real quick, put it up that down, and one of all, just God bless you now, you can put it down.

Anyone else, just slip it up real quick, Yes, God bless you man. Other others, anyone else? Our follow we thank you so much for this time together, for the opportunity to study your word, and pray especially for the individual who we indicated by them up with that hand that they would trust you as their Savior. And follow by doing so they become your child. You’ll never cast them out in that all of them. We pray, Lord, you will be done in this person’s life that you put a hedge about and then protect them.

that they can study your word and get into a good Bible believe in teaching church and grow strong. We ask a blessing upon this church, our state, our country. And Father, we know we have many that do not know you, do not want your will to be done. And Father, we pray that you would work through the leaders that we do have and accomplish your will in Christ’s name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr378.

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live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.

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Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-7 God’s Word on Bible Mind everywhere, every time. Hear God’s truth on Bible Mind. Welcome to Bible Mind with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bible Mind to continue on the air.

You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576. 3771, online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calbreyoftampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. You know I heard about this man and woman. Well they got married and he was going to be a pastor. He took the church and he noticed that his wife had a chain around her neck with a key on it.

He says, what’s that key for it? She had always changed the subject, but she would never have attended. Fifty years passed. He kept wondering what’s that key hanging around your neck for? He said, I just got the new. She says it’s the key to the footlocker. Okay, well what’s in the footlocker? He said, I want to know. So she unlocked it and opened it up and there was $13,000 in cash and $5,000. She says, what’s this? She says, I decided when you became a pastor, I was going to take and put an egg in this cedar chest or this footlocker for every bad sermon you had.

Well, he thought this was pretty good, only five-searned and fifty years. He said, well, what’s the cash for? Well, every time I got a dozen, I sold them. If you have a wife that has a footlocker and she has a key around her neck, there’s more than meets the eye. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Psalms, the book of Psalms. The first Psalm deals with the individual and the second Psalm deals with the nation. But you know that a nation, well, is composed of individuals.

But in the first Psalm, it kind of gives us some ideas about the believer and how we’re supposed to be separated from the ungodly. He talks about here through different things, walk, not, stand it, sit it. But it says walk not after the council, that’s evil principles, not according to standing in the way of sinners, no evil practices. And also to sit in the seat of the scourmple or evil partnership where you get with the wrong people and do the wrong things.

And Proverbs 1 says, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. So Christians are supposed to be separated, and the believer is supposed to be saturated. And that’s why in verse 2 talks about his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law that they meditate day and night, so the believer should be separated in verse 1 of chapter 1. And the believer should be saturated with the Word of God in verse 2, and in verse 3 he is to be situated near the water so that you can be refreshed at all times.

Now he says the ungodly are not so. So there’s things that’s going to happen to the ungodly. And so they have three words that mentions to them, the ungodly, the sinners, the scornful. And so that’s mentioned in here. And in verse 6 says, for the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. And then he’s going to tell us some of the things he’s going to do. Now whenever you have nations come together and nations have ideas about what they think is best for the people.

Alright. Well, you know, there’s this issue right now that’s going on in our government, especially among the people I should say. Somebody wants to build a mosque up there in New York. But they’re talking about trying to build a mosque up there and we have people saying, you know, they have a constitutional right. we have people say that we don’t need that there because of the religion. So there’s a lot of closing cards on both sides. What really has irritated me a little bit, nobody has called me up and asked me my opinion.

Now, are you hearing? Oh, somebody’s calling me. Yes, oh you want no my opinion on the mosque being built in New York City? Well let me tell you what I think because I knew you wanted to know. All you have to do is find out what is the religion of Islam? It is a political machine. It’s a war machine. It is not a peaceful religion. The goal after taking over 56 countries, the goal is to take over America. Now there are over 3,000 mosques in America.

Now that ought to be enough. But you see, the purpose of it is to teach people how to be good Muslims, according to the religion of Islam, which means to submit. And to get everyone to submit to their religious belief. So they’re not here because they want the freedom guaranteed to us by the Constitution because as soon as they can, they will replace our Constitution. And America is not going to stay free. Look at all the countries where they have dominated.

Are we free there? Can we go there and have churches? No. And if they come here, eventually it take away our freedom. So therefore, I would say anyone who wants to come to this country, to destroy this country, and not according to the principle of lay down by our founding fathers, I would say, no way. No way, it should not be done. But anyway, that’s not what I’m talking on this morning. I just want to throw that out there because why do they heat and rage?

Why do the nations rage? Because you see, they want to break free from God’s authority and God’s influence. The word bans, the word cords. As you see there in verse three, let us break their bands of thunder and cast away their cords from us. They do not want the authority of God over a nation because that makes a nation subservient in subjection to God if there is a God. And they don’t want the authority nor do they want the influence.

That’s why there’s a move to try to eliminate any form of Christian influence in this country. If Christianity is true, then they have to submit to it. But you can’t, in Christianity, force people to believe it’s doctrine. And we have no justification to kill anybody if they don’t believe what we believe. other religions, that’s what they will do. And that is coming. So I want you to see this in Psalms 2. He says, why do the heat and rage?

Now in verse 1, 2, and 3, you’ll hear the voice, the voice of the people, the voice of the nations. And in verse 4, 5 and 6, Verse 6, but you’ll hear the voice of God the Father. Verse 7, 8, 9 is kind of like there’s the voice of the Son of God. And then, 9, verse 10, 11, and 12, the voice of the Holy Spirit, because He’s the one that does the seeking and the pleading, the convicting. So you have these four voices mentioned in these scriptures.

as you study it being. Second Psalm, we call it a messianic Psalm because it deals with the Messiah. It’s a prophecy about Christ in the future. And so he lays it out and it begins with the very first verse about why do the heat enrage and yet that scripture is quoted in the New Testament. When it’s quoted in the New Testament, it refers to when Jesus Christ came the first time and was rejected and he was crucified. So when Jesus came into the world the first time, here a thousand years in advance, we have David telling us what’s going to happen and who’s going to do what?

So this is a messianic song forecasting the future. It sets the stage for the coming world rebellion. The coming world rebellion. Have you ever heard that history repeats itself? If we find out what happens, the first time Christ came and how things were set up, what the people did, then you’ll have an idea because history will repeat itself, how it’s going to be when Christ comes back the second time. Now, many of us who know the scriptures believe the scriptures, believe there’s a good possibility the Lord could come back very, very soon.

But we don’t know the exact day of the hour, but there has to be some similarities because, as I mentioned last week, there were the four feasts for the springtime that were fulfilled when Christ came the first time. there are the three faiths in the fall of that price I believe will fulfill when he comes the second time. The song here deals with these two comers. It talks about the first time he comes and the second time that he comes and the condition of the world when he is crucified.

So when it says here why do the and he’d enrage into people, imagine a vain thing. When they were imagined, it means they think the wrong thing. They’re thinking something that’s wrong, but they make decisions. It’s the wrong decision. So if it’s the wrong decision, they do the wrong thing. And when it comes to the Lord, they did the wrong thing. So there’s people who even today who are thinking the wrong thing. They imagine the wrong thing. They believe a lie.

The Christians today in America by many on the left consider the Christian the biggest threat to America. That’s not a joke. And therefore they’re keeping their eyes upon us. They fear us for some reason, because we don’t just automatically swallow everything the government says. We challenge it. We want to know what the Constitution says and what you’re doing, if they don’t jive, we speak up. We say something about it. And unless you know truth, you can’t discern air and they don’t like it when somebody points set out that they’re wrong on something.

So he said, why do the heathen rage and the people imagine the main thing? And this scripture is mentioned there in the book of Acts in chapter four, where it talks about the people that were involved when Jesus Christ was crucified. They had talked about Herod, Pontus Pilate, and the people, the Romans, and why did the heathenry talking about them because they represented the world at that time and they imagined something that was not true and they believed a lie because in front of them they had the only perfect man that’s ever lived and the Bible says in the book of Corinthians if the princess of this world if they were so smart.

If they were so wise, then why did they crucify the Lord of Glory? In other words, maybe they weren’t so smart after all. Now this is going to be hard for you to understand. Government isn’t always right. The majority of people are not always right. We’re living also at a time in America where I don’t believe our government is right. They’re not on the right page. that they don’t see things, they don’t understand things. But remember those… Groups came from individuals.

Like in Psalms chapter 1, it talks about the individual, but man who does saturate himself with the word of God, and the ungodly, the seat of the scornful and mock to make fun, what we’ve got all those people here today. Nothing has changed in 2000 years. So he says in verse 2, because he, in verse 1, It tells us the commotion of the nations. It talks about the cry of rebellion. But this is the voice of the nations in rebellion to God against his anointed one, which is the Messiah.

And so the people that were here, Jesus Christ, was the truth. Why wouldn’t they believe the truth because they believed a lot? They imagine vain things, things that have no truth to it, no water, no substance to it. And that’s the way a lot of people are today. And so he says in verse 2, that kings of the earth sit themselves and the rulers take counsel together. This shows their hostile confederacy. Have you ever noticed that sometimes you know people and worn by among each other all the time.

But whenever they had the destruction of the two towers, you know, there was a moment there in history where Democrats, Republicans, anything, they all came together, same chamber, and they sang God bless America. Everybody seemed like they just loved America. It just seemed like all of our differences were gone, And we are united for the cause of America. And they sing proudly and they pledge allegiance and they get all these things in all of America. But we will stand together.

Has anything changed since that moment? You know if you could find that common denominator that brings us all together. What do you know? The Romans hated the Jews. and hated the Romans. But when Christ came on the scene, they hated Him more. So they could all come together because they found a common denominator to hate more than each other. They hated God. They hated His anointed one. They hated Christ. And so He says, they took counsel together. They reasoned among themselves.

They planned. They connived. In verse 3, they came to the conclusion, let us break their bands as thunder. They didn’t want God authority over them and they did not want the influence. You see, we live at a time where they don’t want God’s authority and and they do not want the Christian influence. And there are people who get together. And it is amazing that even in this time, now I am not a friend of the ACLU, the anti-American civil rights union, I’m not their friend.

I don’t believe they’re a friend of America. But it’s amazing how people can get together for the cause of Islam, and you watch, you mark my word. I’ll venture to say it will not be long before there’ll be special laws made in Congress to protect Islam. Because see, there’s people gonna be speaking out against it and how that the peach in itself is detrimental to America. And how all of these kind of cells are nothing but hate mongering cells that turns people against America.

And they’ll want Sharia law, and they’re gonna want to change it, our Constitution. This is common. And anything said or done, that will offend them, is gonna make the news. And they’re gonna have to have special protection. So I don’t believe they just wait. Now in verse four, we have it for the Lord Himself. God the Father Says that he is going to sit in the heavens shall laugh and the Lord shall have them in derision Why you’re right here looking Psalms 37 the 37th Psalm 37 Psalm And look here in verse 13 We talked about the wicked, there in verse 12, the wicked plot up against the just.

Nash upon him with their teeth. The Lord, he ought to unwind the line, it shall laugh at him, for he seeeth that his day is coming. You see, the Lord knows the future. And God is allowing these people to come together and in their judgment they wanted to kill Christ. He said he was the king of the Jews and therefore the Romans, I want to have one king and that was Caesar. They got a problem. So they were able to turn the people, the religious leaders, the Romans, all against him.

And so they crucified Christ and he was put on the cross. But the Lord says, you go ahead and you plan. You work, you do your esteem. But there’s a God in heaven that looks down and sees the affairs of men and he makes a statement. He says, fellow, it ain’t over yet. Do your worst. And then he says, the Lord shall have been in duration. The Lord is a time coming when God is going to Now hold your pleasure right here and look in Proverbs in chapter 1.

The book of Proverbs and chapter 1. Proverbs chapter 1 and I want you to look there in verse 22 verse 22. Proverbs chapter 1 and verse 22 says, how long ye simple ones, when you love simplicity, needs to be naive and the The corners delight in their scorn and fold hate knowledge. In other words, but they appear to be right. They appear to be so wise. They’re so intelligent. But in God’s eyes, it’s just the opposite. You see, there is a God.

Jesus Christ is his Son, and he is true, and he is right, and he’s never wrong. A man reveals his wisdom by what he does with God, with Jesus Christ. And there are many fools who mock, make fun of. So he says here in verse 23, turn you at my reproved. Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make no my words unto you because I have called and you have refused. I stretched out my hand, no man regarded.

But you have said it not. That means count as nothing, all of my counsel, and with none of my reproof. This is God’s and look, I have sought you. I have sent you prophets. I have sent you to God be men. I have sent you my word. I told you in advance when I would come, how I would come, how I would live. I told you everything in advance. But you wouldn’t listen to me. You wouldn’t listen. So they did what they wanted to do.

God says, I’m going to do what I’m going to do. Now, get what he says. He says in verse 26, I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when you’re here coming. When your fear coming as desolation and your destruction coming to the world, when distress and anguish come upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they will not find me. And they that hated knowledge did not choose the fear of the Lord.

They would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof, therefore shall they eat the fruit of their own way, and they’ll reap what they sow. I just do that in here, I thought you’d appreciate that. Now go back there to the book of Psalms. God who sits in the heavens looks down and he sees the wickedness of man. and knows what they’re going to do, but God can take the wickedness of man and accomplish his purpose. And it says in verse 5, then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, vex them in his sword displeasure.

In other words, he’s going to curse upon them. God can curse a nation or bless a nation. And I believe in America, we’re going to see some of the cursing upon America because We have thrown away all of God’s reproof, God’s warning. We have not heeded and listened like we should. You Now, this is as a nation. You change your nation by changing your laws, and we change in our laws because we’ve changed our God. I’m going to preach a sermon on the changing of the gods.

Well, anyway. Look at verse 6, yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. When Jesus was born the book of Matthew it says, King of the Jews, King of Israel. Jesus Christ was the king from the day he was born. He is King and he has the right to be the king and he says I have set my king upon my holy ill of Zion. Now there’s two things that I want to bring out concerning this verse.

One is whenever Jesus Christ was taken upon Mount Zion, whenever he was upon the Mount and crucified, I believe that God has taken the wicked acts and the wicked deeds of the people. When he says in the book of you have by wicked hands have taken and slain and he says by the permanent counsel of God himself as God looks down to the telescope of time and God used the the seafulness and the wickedness the ungodliness of men and they rejected his son and put him on the cross that God had determined to use them to accomplish his purpose and when Christ was on the cross that God says like I set my son upon that hill.

I send him into this world. Jesus says, a body has found prepared me. So Jesus Christ went to the cross. Now you and I know there’s a time coming when he’s going to come back to the earth and he’s coming back and his feet’s going to tuck up on the mountain. He’s going to cleave in the mist. So he came twice when he came into this world and was crucified and then he’s coming back again. But I want you to see this.

I believe you have here perhaps the voice of the Lord himself, Jesus Christ. Because of what he says in verse 7, I will declare the decree the Lord, L O R D, Jehovah, the Father, had said on the meat the Son. Because said, Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee. Now in the book of Acts it will show you that this scripture refers to when Jesus Christ came back from the day. We often read that verse John 3 16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, his only begotten Son.

The begotten doesn’t necessarily always refer just to the birth, but when he gave his son and brought him back from the dead. So Jesus Christ died on the cross and the Father brought him back from the dead. We talk about being born again, brought back to life, brought him back. Jesus Christ was the God and Son. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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Thank you, Bible. Turn to the book of 2 Peter, Chapter 3, 2 Peter, Chapter 3. The second Peter chapter three talks about several places about the promises of God. Remember in chapter one it talks about the divine promises, the precious promises of the Lord. See there in chapter one, just look at that verse where it talks about the precious promises of the Lord. and there’s a precious faith and there’s a divine power and in verse 4 whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.

Now one of the greatest promises that God said would take place is the one that He is coming back again. You see there in verse 4 where He says in chapter 3 and saying where is the promise of His coming. In other words, even the world knows that Christ promised to come back. They’ve heard it all over the place. Christ is coming. Somebody told me today that Christ came back and raptured out some church. So there’s always somebody. But remember, when Christ comes and takes us out of here, it will be quite a deal.

But anyway, He’s talking about the promises of the Lord. Where is the promise of His coming? He calls the promise He’s coming back. But the Bible tells us these are precious promises, great and precious promises. Now He kept the first promise about Him coming just like He said. Now He says He’s coming back again. But He says there’s going to be scoffers in the last eight mockers making fun that He’s not going to come. But Jesus is coming back and he could come back at any time.

He could come back today. And the Lord has designed this in such a way that we would always be thinking about him coming back at any moment, any moment. So if you don’t believe he could come back at any moment, you have something wrong in your theology. He is and he did promise. But now notice what he said. Here in verse four, where is the promise of his coming? I also want you to take your Bible, look there in 2 Peter chapter 3 and look in verse 13, nevertheless, we according to, and here’s those two words again, his promise, his promise.

We’re supposed to believe the promise of God because what we believe about his promises makes a difference on how we live. That’s why he says in the last part of that one verse, verse 11 chapter 3, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? What kind of a person should we be in this life because of his promise? But when you lose sight of his promise, you lose the motivation for living godly.

You have to believe that it’s true. I am going to stand to the judgments of the Christ. That is a truth. That’s a promise. And that I’m gonna have to give an account. That’s a promise. So we have an appointment and we’re going to keep it. I was at a restaurant yesterday and I Had this waitress come up there and I was eating a little bowl of oatmeal I like the old mill. Old Mill is good for you. At least once a day.

Anyway, she came up to the table and I I says ma’am I says um I’m going to be looking at you about a little over a thousand years from now. We’re going to be seeing each other again. And she looked at me. I said, in about a little over a thousand years, we’re going to see each other again. And I said, Nitza would really, really help me out. Because I’m going to have to give an account of why I never told you how to have eternal life.

And I said, it would only take a minute. I said it would really take a burden off my shoulders. She said, I got a minute. So they had a little thing there with all the sugars in it. You know the sweet and the load on that. I said, let this represent sin. And I went through and explained the gospel. When I got through, I said, does that make sense? She said, yes, it does. I said, will you trust Jesus Christ right now as your Savior?

She said, yes, I will. I said, boy, you have really took a load off my shoulders. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much. So anyway, it was just an way of opening the conversation because you know, you don’t know how much time you’re going to have. It’s because you got some promises in the word of God that it’s gonna be worth it all It’s gonna be worth it. So anyway, he says what kind of a person is supposed to be so we know there’s promises that God is made There’s people that don’t believe the promises, but you and I are supposed to he says watch out for the mockers Because they’ll cause you not to believe the promises of God not to believe what God’s word said So look there in verse one.

He says in verse one the second epistle beloved I now write unto you and both what I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance.” See, like I said before, sometimes the preacher doesn’t have to give you something new all the time because anything that you learn has already been in the book for 2,000 years. So any great truth you learn from the word, it’s already been there 2,000 years old. But we’re supposed to be reminded. So the preacher likes to take the pot and stir it, stir it up your mind, trying to get you to think about the things that are important.

Otherwise, did you know that if you didn’t go to church and Sunday school and study the way, did you know you drift a little bit, but you don’t even know what’s happening? You drift slowly and you have to what you don’t even know where you are. You don’t know what you’re doing. You don’t know what you stand for anymore. You don’t know what you believe anymore. Stay faithful. So he says in verse two that you may be mindful of the words you see there in the one word The mind stir up your remember the mind is where the battle is There is a battle for the mind And so whenever a false teacher gives you a false message.

He’s trying to get your mind The Lord is trying to get your mind Look there in 2 Corinthians in chapter 10, I want you to see this, this is a very good verse, 2 Corinthians in chapter 10. Look there in verse 3, verse 3. 2 Corinthians 10, verse 3 says, for though we walk in the flesh, or it means in the body, we do not war after the flesh. He says in verse four, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, mighty through God to the pulling down of stronghold.

But where are these strongholds? Look what he said in verse five, casting down imaginations up here in your mind, casting down imaginations and get to every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. So the reason you study the Word of God is because you can’t trust your mind, you can’t trust the way you think, you can’t trust your logic. And a lot of people got that. Everybody’s got opinions, they’re like Harlan Pitts, everybody got them, they all stink.

Then you have the Word of God, so So you study the word of God so that the word of God can find all of these imaginations and these strongholds that lead you astray and it can take all of those things and cast them down. Look what he says. Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. If it’s against the knowledge of God, you don’t want to walk that way. You don’t want to believe that way.

Get this. bringing into captivity every thought that’s your mind. In other words, to capture my mind, to capture my thoughts. Where I can think about the things that God wants me to think about so that I candetail the thing God wants me to do and get what he says in the captivity, every thought to the what, obedience of Christ. So we study the Bible so that we can get this other junk out of our mind and think about what God wants us to think about so that we can have victory in our Christian life.

Bring it into subjection. Let’s see what he said in verse eight. And having an a readiness to revenge all disobedience. How do you revenge disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled? You see, when you do what is right, warr you just took vengeance upon your disbelief, upon everything and every thought that was againstioxid, your obedience to God takes its revenge against that which is wrong.aughtered. So that’s why your mind is so important. Go back here to 2 Peter chapter 3.

So we know that he says, I want to stir up your mind. In verse two, that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last day scoffers walking after their own lusts, mockers, people that will make fun of you. Now, if you try to witness on the job, you’re going to have people that’s going to mock you a little bit and make fun of you.

Some people can’t take the heat so they stay out of the kitchen. Some people just revel in it. You know, there’s two things I never argue about, and that’s religion and politics. That’s all there is. One’s how you think, and one’s how you live. That’s religion and politics. You might as well just jump into it and have yourself some fun. But no truth, and always battle with truth. Remember the Bible says that Paul disputed with them? argued disputed with them Paul did So he says here and verse 4 and say and this is what they say Where’s the promise of his coming?

For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the evolution Is it creation? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it does say that All things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creator. In other words, nothing’s changed. Everything’s the same. Nothing’s going on. All of his promises, don’t believe him. But he says, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did I make a promise back there with a man named Noah that there was going to be a flood?

And it’d be 120 years that there’s going to be rain, and I was going to destroy everybody. wasn’t in the art, did I keep my word? I kept this word. So you see, they’re ignorant, willingly ignorant of truth. We got people like that today trying to rewrite history because they don’t like the way our founding fathers laid out the Constitution. Now they’re trying to find everything wrong with our founding fathers so that we don’t have to believe the Constitution because it’s just a piece of junk.

It is not a living document. It was written. It’s stated. It’s solid. It doesn’t have to be messed with. But we have people today that don’t like that because it grants to us freedoms. And they don’t like us having all the strength. See, government don’t trust you. They don’t trust us. So they got to control us. That’s why they don’t want you really to be educated in school. They want to teach you what to think, but not how to think.

Because see, you can control animals and herd cows and so forth like that because see, they don’t think. Well, you got to get people and you got to dumb them down where they can’t think for themselves. They don’t know the Constitution. They don’t know their rights. They don’t know when you’re ignorant, you’re easy to enslave. You cannot enslave free people that are intelligent, that no truth. Because they know truth and they could spot it. But there’s other people that don’t know.

So he says here, all things continue. He says in verse by for this, they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God, the heavens were of old, the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was been overflowed with water perished. When he says, where by the world that then was, that’s past tense. But the heavens and the earth which are now, that’s present tense. By the same worder kept in store, reserved under fire, that’s future.

So you have past, present and future. God knows what he’s doing. And God keeps his word and God is not slack concerning his promise as other men count slackness. In other words, time doesn’t mean that much with God like it does with us. In other words, we think of a thousand years ago, a long time. God says this just like that. See what he says in verse 7, but the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word are kept in store reserved under fire against the day of judgment and in perdition of ungodly men.

word the first time, gonna keep his word the second time. But you gotta believe the promises of God. So in verse 80 says, but be leaven, be not ignorant. Now they up there, they’re willingly ignorant, but he says to his brother, don’t be ignorant. He says this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. This is why some people believe that there’s a good possibility that from Adam and Eve to the flood, you know about 2,000 years and from flood to the cross of 2,000 years and it’s been almost 2,000 years since six days.

And we know that the millennial rain upon the earth is going to be a day. That’s the Sabbath day. You got six days, rest on the Sabbath day, 6,000 years, you got seven. And so it’s a day of rest. So you’ve got a week and there’s a lot of truth probably to it. But if it is true, we are living at the end of the sixth day, which means that Christ is supposed to come back very soon. See the tribulation period, the seven years tribulation period is part of the sixth day.

The seventh day is totally separate period of time. But anyway, he says he that this world is being reserved because there’s going to be a fire at the end of it. Is there a fire coming? God’s going to renovate this earth by fire. It’s going to be one big old ball if I go and burn everything up. It’s everything in this world is going to be consumed. Everything can burn up. And talking about global warming. Now I have no idea where Al Gore is going to be at this time.

I don’t know. But anyway, look what he says here in verse 8, but beloved be not ignorant of this one thing, one day is with the Lord is a thousand years and a thousand years of the day. So time is not the same as it is with us. It looks like a long time for us. When God says, I’m coming back, we say a thousand years, we’ve been waiting two days, two thousand years. That’s a long time. He says, but God is not slack concerning the promises.

God will keep his word. Let’s see that in verse 9. The Lord is not slack concerning in his promise as some men counseled. But his long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repent. God wants every person to change his mind and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to have eternal life. God given us a chance to reach as many people as we choose to reach. Wouldn’t it be great if we could reach the world from this church right here?

Look there in verse 10. Verse 10 says, but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. Now this day of the Lord I believe is a reference to the tribulation period because he’s talking here about the thief and the night. The thief at the night is when it comes for the rapture. That’s when it comes in the night. See we are children of the day, church age. The night is the tribulation period. What separates two days a night.

And so when Christ comes and takes us out of here, the thief in the night, the specific day of the Lord. Now get what he says to him. He says, “‘Which the heaven shall pass away with a great noise in the element shall melt with fervor and heat? Now you have going from one of where we are to what’s going to happen. All this is based on the promises of God. There’s going to be the thief in the night.

When Christ comes back and judges the earth, then you’ve still got a thousand year reign. Then He’s talking about the renovation of the earth by fire. It’s kind of like in one verse, all the things that are coming. He said, I just want to stir up your remembrance because I want you to live godly. And so he says here, and the elements shall melt with fervor and heat. Now many believe this is talking about the cracking apart of the atoms, the loud noise, the fervor and heat, the cracking apart, the melting, all that stuff.

The earth also and the works that are there in shall be burned up, burned up. So that doesn’t happen right there at the end of tribulation period, but it does happen whenever God brings down fire and the earth is renovated by fire. We’ll see you in verse 11. See and then that all these things shall be dissolved. Talk about the earth itself. What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy behavior? That word conversation refers to also not what you say, but also what you do, your manner of life and godliness.

So God says that we should live a separated life, we should be godly because of His promises. He is coming back just like He said He’s coming back. Now He’s going to take us out of here. And I think we ought to live like we believe He’s coming back soon. He says in verse 12, the way you live is because of what you’re looking for. See, look, looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God. in the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, the element shall melt with fervent heat.

Nevertheless we, according to his promises.” Look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. So we’re looking beyond this life. We’re looking beyond the tribulation period. We’re looking way beyond the thousand year reign upon the year. We’re looking past the great white throne judgment and lo and behold, there it is. The new heavens and a new earth. See, we’re kind of like cheating. We’re looking at the end results. We’re looking at where we’re going. Now, can we believe the promises of God and how that I live my life?

life and then on is going to affect what I have when I get there. You see, trusting Christ is Savior gets you there, but it doesn’t give you anything there. Rewards must be earned. Position must be earned. You’re doing that by how you handle all of your individual problems today. And remember this, you’ll be judged according to your faithfulness in your position that God gave you. God is going to reward you accordingly to your faithfulness to him. And you may have a position that some man down here thinks he’s going to have him.

He may be down on the bottom. I mean, we’re all in heaven, but you don’t have the same position just like he said about the stars. They all glory with different glory. In other words, they’re all stars, but they don’t have the same radiance, but they’re all stars. And so how God’s going to do all of that? I have no clue. I don’t really care. I’m only telling you what He said He’s going to do, and that it will be worth it.

See what He says there in verse 13? Nevertheless, we, according to His promise, you ought to underline those words, His promise. Look for new heavens and a new word. What? Because He promised. Now we should always sometimes get folks upon what, you know, the promise of some little promise down here. You know, he’s going to give me this and give me that and take it, take it that. Remember, with Israel, God promised them wealth of the land and help in the land.

Put none of those diseases upon them. God didn’t promise that to us in the New Testament. You see, in the New Testament, God has promised us all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. So, see, we look at something different. Now, we can apply a lot of the Old Testament principles to our life, and it can improve the quality of our life. But there’s many of the promises God made to them that does not apply to us. Now not all of them, but you have to look at them and see what they’re talking about.

And I believe that you can kind of figure out some of the things. Just like when he says, if my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves and call upon the Lord and forsake their evil ways, I will heal their land. Now that’s a promise that God made to Israel, but He made it to Solomon when Solomon was praying about the dedication of the temple. Now we can apply that, but God didn’t apply that to America.

That doesn’t mean if we do this, then God will spare America. We have no promise of that, but I can apply that and say that we ought to do it anyway, whether He delivers us or not, we ought to do right. Get what He says. He makes a statement here in verse 14, where for it, 11, seeing that he look for such things. And you’ll notice the words, we keep coming, look, look, look. You see, what you’re lookingvelope depends on what you consider the validity of the promises that God made.

He said, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace without spot, spot and blameless. That ain’t perfect, but when you do something wrong, you correct it. You do something wrong, you believe you correct it. Don not do something wrong and keep going wrong. As a child of God, we can always correct things. In verse 15, an account that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation. The reason that God is so long suffering and it seems like it is taken forever is to give us opportunities to win more people to Christ.

And yet we may not be taking advantage of that opportunity. Isn’t that they were able to reach the known world in Christ’s day. And here we have everything and we still can’t do it. Still people that have languages, never have been reached, never have heard the gospel. So this is why it’s so important. When you trust Christ as your Savior, God saves you. From hell gives you eternal life and you’re going to heaven whenever you die. But when you trust the Lord, let’s see, you trust the Lord as your Savior today.

Well, God may not take you to heaven yet. He might leave you here for another 10, 15, 20 years. So there’s things in the word of God that God wants to teach you of what He wants you to do. Why did He leave you here? And so God says it because of how I want you to live and which I want you to live for. In the last part of verse 15, even as our beloved brother Paul, also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you.

As also in all his epistles, speak unto them of these things in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable rest as they do also to other scriptures. But with their own destruction. In other words, there’s some things in the scriptures that’s hard to understand. But when you don’t study the word of God, you don’t become strong enough. You never understand some great truths. And it’ll affect your life. That’s why you want to study as much as you possibly can.

Now look at the last two verses very quickly. He says, ye therefore be loved it. So he’s talking to those who know the Lord. Seeing ye know these things. I’m trying to stir up your mind. You know these things before. Be where, lest ye also, be led away with the air of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. So you don’t fall from salvation, but you can fall from your steadfastness, and you can be led away. Can a Christian be led away?

Yes. Can you get to the place where you’re not as faithful as you used to be? You’re not as stable as you used to be. Yes, it’s possible. And so the devil has his ministers, God has his ministers. You better pick wisely. Who you choose. It’s not necessarily the best church to go to just because a preacher is real nice. I’d rather be mean and tell the truth than to be nice and tell a lie. I’m nice though instead.

But I’d want you to believe the scriptures because it’s really what the Scriptures say so that you can be strong like God wants you to be and get to being led away with the era of the wicked. So a Christian, a believer, can be led astray what they call backslide. Now generally the word backslide is a reference in the Old Testament like to the nation of Israel. Most Christians have never gone far enough forward to slide back but most people believe that backsliding means you now you’ve lost your salvation, Now you’re going to hell.

No, I don’t believe that. The Scriptures don’t teach that. But once you trust Christ as Savior, you can fall from your steadfastness, but you’re still His child. God may have to chasten you. Whoop you a little bit, but you’re still His child. Look in verse 18, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Growing in grace, that means learning how to be merciful. Wasn’t God merciful to you and I? Didn’t God show us grace when we didn’t deserve it?

Growing in grace is whenever you can show mercy to other people, not vengeance, mercy. And you can bestow grace upon other people. Doing things for people that then would deserve it, that you do it anyway. And when they wrong you, you can show them mercy. Grow in that. That’s That’s a sign of maturity. But if you’re one that’s always got, I’m gonna get even if it’s the last thing I do, you’re not growing too strong in grace. You’re just growing in meanness.

Wouldn’t that be pathetic? For God to let you live. And all you did was grow up to be a mean old man, or a mean old woman. Let’s pray, shall we? You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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See, Christ is getting ready to come back and he’s gonna reign forever and ever and ever in our new heavens and our new earth. Oh, we’re close. And then he says here in verse 16, and the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their thrones fell upon their faces and worship God, saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and was and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hath reigned.

So he ain’t done it yet, but it looks like it like he already has. So he kind of like jumps out into the future and he comes back and he’ll tell you some more things going to happen and he jumps back out there and he comes back and tell you some more things going to happen. And look what he says in verse 18, and the nations were angry and the wrath is coming out of the land. The wrath is coming.

See, it was the wrath of the Lamb is coming. Now the wrath has arrived. It’s arrived. You’re doing this period of time right here. It’s a short period of time, three and a half years, the devil knows he has, but a short time. See, the devil believes in prophecy, the devil believes the Bible better than most Christians do. So he’s in verse 18, the wrath is come and the time of the dead, that they should be judged and that thou should have give reward unto by servants the prophets and to the saints.

them that fear thy name small and great and should get to destroy them which destroy the earth. Are we living at a time when people are able to destroy this earth? God’s going to come back and destroy them that would destroy the earth. And he says in the book of Matthew in chapter 24, it makes a statement that the great tribulation that’s coming. And if God does not intervene. No flesh would be left alive. Well, weACTION at the state that exists in emergency.

That man can destroy man from the face of this earth. And they579 know what little nut is going to mash some little button and fire some little missile. And when these days we’re going to see some mushroom cloud over some city here in America. You say, you believe all that? Yes, I do. I’m a realist. I’m not going to take my head and put it into the sand and close my eyes like it’s not going to be possible. Yes, it is possible.

We haven’t yet suffered as a nation like some nations have suffered. And Christians, we have had it so nice and so easy and so cozy for so long. We don’t know what it would be like to have to sacrifice for what we really believe. So he says in verse 19, and the temple of God was opened in heaven. And there was seen in his temple the Ark of the Covenant. So you say, where’s that covenant? You know the Ark, the Raiders of the Lost Ark, is trying to find out.

I already found it, this right there. God says it’s in heaven. But anyway, I believe there’s another one. I believe there’s another one. And I believe there’s a good possibility. It’s under the Temple Mount. Look there in Revelation chapter 14. Revelation chapter 14. And look in verse 10. Revelation 14 and look in verse 10. He says that during this period of time in verse nine, we’re looking in verse nine. And the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice, if any man worshiped the beast and his image and received his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wind of the anyora on the land, the wrath of God, the wrath of God.

Which is poured out without mixture. In other words, God’s not going to dilute his wrath with mercy. During this period of time, no mercy. God is going to unleash his fury. In other words, have you ever wondered why if God can destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, why is he not doing something about what’s going on in our nation today? Be patient. It’s coming. God is going to have enough. and judgment is going to fall. God’s wrath is coming. You and I, as a child of God, we can’t live as we plead because God says he’ll beat the Torah out of us if we do, maybe take us home before our time.

But those people who rebel against God want nothing to do with the Bible, nothing to do with Jesus Christ, hey, if there’s anybody you don’t want to make mad, be God. You don’t want to make God mad. And look what he says in verse 10. The same shall drink of the wind of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb and the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever.

That sounds like a long time to me. And they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. But wrath of God, see, is coming. Look there in the verse here, look in verse 19. In verse 19, it talks about this great big old bowl. And it is great big old bowl. It’s really a big old valley. It’s the plains of Jezreel in the place called Megiddo. They called it the Battle of Armageddon, but that’s another sermon I’m going to go in there.

This is a great big old bowl. And God’s going to go out there and he’s sending out his angels and cutting down all these big old grape vines and dragging these grape vines. They’re people from all over the world into this great big old valley. And then God says he’s going to jump in there with his feet and smash him. And it says the blood’s gonna run for about 200 miles. God’s gonna be angry. People can play around with God all they want to, but God is a good God.

God is a loving God. God’s a kind God. He’s a compassionate God. But don’t make him mad. And people are making God angry. God is getting upset. And God is going to judge this world. He’s gonna judge Israel because they rejected their Messiah. and you’re going to judge the world because they still rejected the Messiah. Everything deals with Jesus Christ. What do you do with Him? So He says here in verse 19, and the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, gather the vine to the earth and cast it into the great winepress.

And you’re out on the land these words, the wrath of God. The wrath of God. And the winepress was trod without the city and blood came out of the winepress. Even until the horses bridled by the space of a thousand and six hundred for a long time. Almost two hundred miles. And that’s a long ways. But this is what God’s word is saying is going to take place. Look there in chapter 16 of Revelation. And look in verse 1, and I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

And you’re on the line that were filled up. In other words, the bowl is full. And God has had enough and he’s sending forth these angels and says, I want you to take these bowls of judgment and dump them out upon the earth. So there’s seven bowls of judgment. They don’t happen exactly the same time. They happen consecutively. In other words, this one and then this one and then this one and then this one and then this one. But while this judgment is going on, this another one poured out.

And then now you got two of them going on. Then they poured out this one. And now three of them going on. Then you pour out the next one and now you got all four of them going on and he gets it worse and worse and worse and worse and no let up the worst period of time on The face of the earth look down in verse 7 and one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials That’s word vials.

There should really be bowls because a bile is kind of long and narrow and The bowl is more flat and wider This is something that God’s going to pour out his bowls of judgments upon the entire earth. And he says, the vials, and you ought to get this full of the wrath of God who liveeth forever and ever. Now, is there anything in the Bible talks about the love of God? Well, yes. God loves us. But whenever you reject the love of God, there’s nothing left but the wrath of God.

I would rather accept Jesus Christ today as my Savior than to have to face him down the road as my judge. You see, he is my Savior. I accepted the payment he made on the cross for my sins. I have eternal life. I’m going to heaven when I die. I can’t change it. God can’t change it. That’s the best news in all the world that a man can know where he’s going to spend eternity. But there’s people that do not want anything to do with God.

Now look in chapter 16 of the book of Revelation. In chapter 16 of the book of Revelation, you’ll notice they’re in verse one. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. So we’ve had the seven seals, the seven trumpets. Now pour out the bowls of judgment upon the earth. And it says in verse two, and the first went, poured out his vial upon the earth.

And there was a noisomen, a grievous sur upon the men which had the mark of the beat. Did you know that we’re living in a time where they want to give everybody a number or an embedded chip in your hand, your forehead? Isn’t that something, that was in the Bible 2,000 years ago. and it has to happen during this period of time. Are we close or what? You say it’s just a coincidence. You can believe that if you want.

I take it more seriously. I say somebody back there had to know what was gonna happen. How did they know that Israel would be out of the land for 2000 years and go back to their land? And it’s the only nation in all the world that’s ever done it. But the Bible says that’s what’s gonna happen. They did just a coincidence, it’s not. No, if you want to know truth, you can know truth. Or you can take your head and put it in the sand and be done, be ignorant.

Ignor’s his bliss. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Or you can open up your eyes and say, good night, look what’s going on in this world. And if you haven’t trusted Christ as your Savior, but it’d be the smartest thing you could ever do. I’m not talking about joining the church. I’m not talking about you being baptized Simon eyes or anything else. I’m talking about will you trust Jesus Christ as your only hope of going to heaven when you die Because he died on that cross for you and then you’ll notice in verse three It talks about the second angel poured out his val upon the sea who’s doing is God God is pouring out his vows upon the earth the bowls of judgment his wrath and In verse four he talks about upon the rivers the fountains of water and then you look down there in verse eight

The fourth angel poured out his valop on the sun. The power was given unto him. Distorts men with fire, but in so much heat. You talk about global warming? This is global warming. I like to see what our goal is going to do about this. Probably penalize God. No doubt, there’s got to be a he. In verse 10, the fifth angel poured out his valop on the seat of the beast, the throne. And his kingdom was full of darkness, and they’re gnawed.

They gnawed their tongue for pain and blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their source, and repented not of their evil deeds. Still didn’t change their mind. Nothing would work. And so God says it’s just leading it all down to that final climax where he’s going to judge him at the Battle of Armageddon. You see there in verse 12, and the sixth angel sounded and poured out his valop on the Great Grover Euphrates and their waters there are dried up the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Do you know they’ve done some of this in Turkey where they tried to control the water? Of course, the high rain don’t like it. And so they can close off the water, make way for the kings of the east. And the Bible says in chapter 9 of the book of Revelation about 200 million soldiers. Do you know there’s only one country in all the world that can put in honors, 200 million soldiers just happens a lot east of Israel?

little place called China. But now look there in verse 13. He says, and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of mouth of the beast, and the false prophet. That’s the devil, the anti-Christ, and the religious leader. The unholy Trinity. And you know how a frog catches his prey come. And they’re going to come on the thing and buddy they’re going to be able to just talk the people into anything.

We’re going down a slope we’re going to never get out of. And everybody just watching itensual. And in verse 14, and they are the spirits of devils, working miraclestheless which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief, bless it as he that watch it, then keep it as garments lest he walk naked and they see ashamed, and he gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue.

Armageddon. That’s when Christ comes back. and power and great glory. He’s bringing them in and he’s going to destroy every last one of them. Won’t be much of a battle. But that day is coming. Now in verse 17, in verse 17 he said, and the angels poured out his valence of the year. And there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is done. Now there’s another place where he said on the cross it is finished.

It means the payment that he may made for the sins of the world was paid for. It was done. It is finished. There’s a time coming when he’s going to say, it is finished. It is done. He’s poured on his wrath upon the earth. Israel is going to be annihilated if God doesn’t intervene when he does. And they’ll see him and the scars in his hands and say, where did you get those scars in your hand? He says, when I came in the house of my friends.

And it says, and Israel will be saved as in a day. And they’re going to believe that Jesus Christ is their Messiah and accept Him. And He will be their King, the King of the nation of Israel. And Israel one day will be the greatest nation on the face of this earth. Mark my word, no, mark His word because it’s the truth. And it says, there’s nothing ever been like this time that’s coming up on you. You’re looking for Satan.

And there were voices and thunders and lightens and there was a greater quake, such as was not since men were upon the earth. So mighty an earthquake. And you notice there’s a lot of earthquakes happening around this world world. And it’s going to get worse and worse and worse in Christ. There will be more and more and more of it. And it’s a common. We’re living in a very exciting time. I am glad, very glad to know Christ is my Savior and know that I’m going to heaven whenever I die.

Now, I want you to see this in Revelation chapter Look at verse 19, look at verse 1, Revelation 19, look at verse 1, and after these things, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven. That’s probably more than 144,000 that some people like to say. But anyway, say, Hallelujah, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. Get this, for true and righteous are His judgment, for He had judged the great whore. done, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and had avenged past hits, avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

So he was going to avenge. Now it’s done. Job’s done. In chapter 20, into the millennium. See, the things in Scripture line up perfectly. People say, well, you can’t understand the book of Revelation. Evidently, they haven’t been the Calvary Community Church. Because the Bible is very simple and it’s very clear. And I want to give you one last laugh that you need to say. Look in John chapter 3, the Gospel of John in chapter 3. Look in verse 16, for God so loved the world that it gave his only begotten Son.

Now whosoever, believe it in him, should not perish but have everlasting life. Verse 17, for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world. But that the world through him might be what? Might be saved. So God loves the world and God wants the world to be saved. But the world don’t want to be saved. They don’t want to be saved from their sin. They don’t want to be saved from the penalty of their sin. of darkness because their deeds are evil.

They’d rather not have the knowledge of God. They don’t want to think about God. Just do whatever I want to do. Like God, get off my back. Verse 18, he that believeth on him is not condemned. But he that believeth not is condemned already. Why? Because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. The only reason the man is condemned. It’s not because Christ didn’t pay for all of his sin because he did that.

It’s because he doesn’t believe that Christ did it for him. That’s the only reason the man goes to hell. Christ says, go into all the world and preach the forgiveness of sins. He can’t forgive anybody of any sin unless he paid for it. So he paid for all the sins of the world and says, preach the forgiveness of sin. God can forgive you. In other words, if he forgives me, it means it’s like I never committed it. If he forgives me of 10 sins, it’s like I never committed those 10 sins.

sins. When the people forgive me of all of my sins, then it’s just like I never committed one. I go to heaven on what he did for me. Now, buddy, that’s good news. There’s no tricks to it. There’s no gimmicks to it. That’s the best news inRomney. But now, see, everybody doesn’t believe that. I can’t make people believe msec. I’m not God. I can’t reach up there and get ahold of God and bring them down here and say, Hey, there he is.

I can’t prove God to anybody. People can believe whatever they want to believe. I chose to believe this book. I chose to believe what I’m teaching. And this is what he says here. Look in verse 36, he that believe it on the sun have everlasting life. Those that do believe it, God says you have everlasting life. When? Well, when you believe it. You mean if I believe it right now? Then right now God says He gives you everlasting life.

Oh, what if I choose not to believe it? Well, look what He says in verse last part of it. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life. You shall not have eternal life. But look at the last part of that verse and And you ought to underline that verse. The wrath of God abides on Him. Alright, here you are right here. Here is the wrath of God. And every person in this world is living under the wrath of God.

Because all have sinned. Now Christ took the wrath of God for our sins. But if you don’t accept that payment, the wrath of God is still over you. And it’s only until the day of execution, and you don’t know when it’s going to be, you don’t know when you’re going to die. And one of these days, you’re going to die. And the wrath of God, you’re going to be in a literal fire burning hell for all eternity, and it didn’t have to be that way.

It’s because you would not. It’s not that you could not. You chose not to believe. You could have believed, and yet you’ll find yourself in hell for all eternity and knowing you’ll never get out and you didn’t have to be there. The horror of thinking about stuff like that. And you’ll remember back to the day you said at Calvary Community Church and you heard this preacher tell you all you had to do is trust Christ as your Savior and you refused, you refused, but you didn’t have to refuse.

See, I’m not going to heaven because I’m a preacher. I’m not going to heaven because I try to do right. I’m going to heaven because God is good. He died and paid for my sins and I trusted much my Savior. But see, if you don’t trust Christ as your Savior, you’re living every day under the wrath of God. And one of these days, the wrath of God is going to fall. You see, he offers you now his love. But if you reject his love, then you’re going to get his wrath.

The wrath of God is going to fall. I pray that you’ll be smart, that you’ll be wise. The wrath of God is coming. The worst period of time in all of human history is right ahead of us. And I pray that if the rapture was to take place, I pray that you have trusted Him as your Savior, that you made sure that your wife or your husband and your kids and your loved ones, you want them to go to heaven when you die.

And tell them, you may be the only one that will reach them. It was my father-in-law that explained this to me. And the older I get, the more precious that moment becomes to me. I didn’t think about that much at the beginning, but the older I get, the more real it comes to me. I’m so thankful that that man explained the gospel to me about everything else. Best news in all the world. Look up here. Somebody got me some new sin for Christmas, and I appreciate it.

See, my sin was always black. This is got a little red and black mixed into it. A little brown. I guess it covers everybody red and yellow, black and white. But anyway, this sin represents you and me. The wallet represents sin. Now, we all have sin upon us. It means we’ve all done things wrong. God says that He loves us. Now He hates our sin, but He loves us. But see, sin has to be paid. And since we’ve all sinned, we all have to die.

We sin is dead. So since we’ve all sinned, we’re all condemned. But God loves us and wants us to have eternal life. And he showed us how much he loved us by what he did for us. He says, you can’t earn eternal life. You’ve got to be perfect. And you’re not perfect. None of us are. You can’t be good enough to get to heaven. It’s not by your works. It’s not by your good deeds. You can be sincere, but you’re sincerely wrong.

You can’t save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. God and I. flash. He came into the world because he loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from him. Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And he said, if you’ll believe that he did it for you, he’ll put that payment to your account and you get to go to heaven on what he did. You see, for God so loved the world that he gave is only begotten Son.

The who’s the word for believing in him? You believe he did it for you, should not perish means you won’t go to hell, but have everlasting life. For God had made him Jesus Christ, who knew no sin to be sinned for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. See, I go to heaven on his righteousness, not mine. He took my sins, gives me his righteousness. If God gave me his righteousness, would that be good enough to go to heaven on?

Yeah, I go to heaven on what he did. That’s the best news in all in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning and have never trusted Christ as your Savior, the wrath of God is coming upon the nation, it’s coming upon the whole world. We can’t do anything about that. But the wrath of God is also coming upon you. You can do something about that.

As you said here this morning, do you have any fear of God? Do you have a fear of dying? Do you think about it? Do you wonder where you’re going to spend eternity? Why not right now in the quietness of this moment? Just talk to the Lord and say, Lord, I don’t understand it all, but I believe Christ died andQuotes paid for my sins. I want to go to heaven when I die. I believe you did it for me.

I’m going to trust you right now as my Savior. Friend, I’m not going to have you forward to come and embarrass you or I don’t want you to sign a card or I’m not here to put you on a spot. But this is so important to me. It should be important to you. But I’m going to ask in just a moment for you to raise your hand, not to save you. But I’m going to ask you to raise your hand in just a moment if what I said made sense to you.

that made sense to me. And this morning, I trusted Christ as my Savior. If you’ve already done it, you don’t have to do it again. But this morning, this moment, if you’ll trust Christ as your Savior, would you let me know by just flipping your hand up real quick and put it right back down? And what’s all? Yes, God bless you, buddy. I appreciate that. See, trusting Christ as your Savior is to sign a good judgment. Only a fool would turn on a free gift.

Anyone else before we close? So yes, I want to trust Christ as my Savior. If you want to be certain, I’m going to heaven when I die. Anyone at all. Our Father, we thank You so much for all You’ve done for us. Especially for the one that indicated that they would trust Your Savior. By doing so, they become Your child for all eternity. You give Me eternal life and You’ll never cast them out and never lose them. And Father, we ask Your blessings upon each person here.

We do pray, Father, for wisdom for those that are in place of leadership because we suffer the consequences of their decisions. and we pray that they’ll do right. We ask your blessings upon each person here, their families, this church, and we thank you for your goodness to us. 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 were blessed by today’s message.

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I want to speak to you on the subject called the wrath of God, the wrath of God. But we would love to speak on the love of God. And I speak on the love of God every week when I explain the gospel and how much God loves us. And so we need to know that yes, God demonstrated his love for us by down on the cross, paid for the sins of the whole world. And what he did for one person, he did for everybody equally the same.

God is not a respecter of persons. So yes, God loves the world. But the bad news is the world doesn’t love God and the people of the world. Most of them don’t love God. Nations don’t love God. And they want to do away with God. We have, I believe, a movement on in America to do away with God. They don’t want children taught about God. They don’t want them to read the Bible. They don’t want them to pray. They are stripping our heritage from our Christian heritage.

that we’ve had in the founding of this country. So I don’t like what I see coming. The world is in a pitiful state. We are seeing some of the results of people’s rebellion to God. And there’s consequences to people denying the rule of God over their life. You can do it as an individual, as a family, and as a church, and as a nation. So there’s a price to pay. your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation in chapter 12.

This is a chapter that’s kind of like a parenthetical expression in a sentence. You can put it in and take it out. It doesn’t hurt the flow of the message. But there’s something here that gives us an insight of what’s going to take place in the last days. The time that’s right ahead of us. Let me just show you just a little bit. We have the cross, and this is the time in which we now live, called the church age.

It’s lasted about 2,000 years. The next thing on God’s timetable is for the rapture to take place. That’s where God’s going to take out of this world, those individuals that have accepted Christ as their Savior, regardless of who they may be, wherever they may be, on the whole earth. So that day is coming. As soon as that happens, there is what we call the seven-year tribulation period upon the year. This is the worst period of time that the world has ever known.

It’s known as the 70th week of Daniel. It’s known as Jacob’s trouble, the time of Israel’s trouble. Now during this 70 week of Daniel, it’s only seven years long, but this is the most wicked period of time upon the face of the earth, and it’s right ahead of us. Now, I know that we would love to hear about all the good things that are going to happen in the future, but I have to be honest with you. I didn’t write this book, but I do believe this book.

And what I’m going to tell you, if you believe the Bible, you just do your dead level best to prove it wrong. All I want is chapter and verse, because I will give you chapter and verse. And I want you to have your Bible, and that’s why I want you to look at it and read it. In the Bible, this seven-year period of time right here, which is right ahead of us, is going to be composed of two different…

segments of time. The first three and a half years is known as the time of sorrow. It’s three and a half years long. It’s when the anti-Christ who heads up the last world government and buddy there will be a heading up of a last world government. There’s even people in America that is thinking globally instead of our sovereignty as a nation of America and be an independent of other nations, which is where I believe we ought to be. And this is going to be a peace treaty time that will be made with the nation of Israel.

Isn’t it amazing that what happens over in Israel makes front page in the world? Because we were there in Jerusalem, in the old section of Jerusalem, and they had to block off one of the streets because of where we were in the bus, and there were soldiers everywhere, and we heard gunshots. And 13 people were killed. We were there and it was on that one day and when we got back on the following day, it was front page in the Wall Street Journal.

Now there’s a lot of things happening everywhere in all the world, but when it happens in Israel that’s a different story. Because you see God’s timetable starts and stops with Israel. But Israel was destroyed by Titus when he came in from Rome 70 AD and late siege against the city. And it fell. The Jews were scattered for almost 2,000 years, went back to the land, become established as a nation, and then there’s going to be a peace treaty that’s going to be made.

And isn’t it true that even the Obama administration and all administrations have tried to make peace between Israel and their enemies? So far it hasn’t worked. Without the Prince of Peace, there will be no peace. And Israel wants peace. Almost to the place of being able to, and willing to give away their land and whatever they can for peace. And the world is siding against Israel. Our administration is slowly turning against Israel. And it’s going to get worse and worse.

And the Bible says that all nations were turned against the little o’ nation of Israel. of Rhode Island, and yet there’s a God in heaven that’s watching all of this on planet earth. And it’s going to be so important. So God says that the day is coming when he’s going to pour out his wrath upon the entire world. And it says it will come as a snare to enslave everybody that will be on the earth. Now you and I that no Christ is saved, it will be taken out of here at the Rapture.

A peace treaty will be made. The first three and a half years is the anti-Christ deceiving the world, persuading them to give them their power to Him so that He can rule over them. You say they’ll never do it. They’re doing it now. People in America today will very willingly and easily give up all of their freedom if the government will promise to take care of you from the womb to the tomb. That’s what this whole health care bill is about.

You want something from the government, but the government can’t give you anything until it takes it from you first. Have you gone out to a restaurant lately and bought two eggs and some toast and hash browns and noticed it can cost you six, seven, eight dollars? Is it because the food’s worth so much more now? It’s because your dollar isn’t worth anything anymore. It’s already taken its effect and you’re going to be paying more. This whole thing is a way of draining America dry.

We’re going to pay for our sins. Did you know that God said in His Word when He told the nation of Israel, He says, if you will serve me and honor me, I’ll put none of the diseases of the heathens upon you. And we wouldn’t have to worry. Health care is serving God, and God will take care of your health. But we don’t serve God like we ought to, and we don’t take care of our health like we ought to.

That’s why we’re in such a mess that we’re in. And everybody’s doing everything they can to live a little bit longer. It’s a little bit longer. It’s gonna sink us. We’re gonna die anyway somehow, somewhere, some way, but anyway, that’s not my sermon for today. Look, all this side stuff, that’s just French benefits. In the middle of this tribulation period, the Bible says that the anti-Christ will go into the temple in Jerusalem and claim himself that he is God.

And that will be the worst period of time that the world has ever known Satan during this period of time. Know that he hath but a short time. So look there in Revelation in chapter 12 and look in verse 5. And she brought forth a man, Shai-Hu, this woman, a woman, that he talks about there in verse 1. and draw all of that. Who was to rule all nations? This is the nation of Israel and the child is Jesus Christ.

And he was to rule and her child was caught up under God and to his throne. And there’s been a 2000 year gap because of it. And the woman fled into the wilderness where she had to place prepared a God that they should feed her. There are 1,203 score days. That’s three and one half years. So, Israel is going to have three and a half years, they’re going to have to flee for their life. And we believe that’s going to be in place in the Lord part of Jordan, a place called Petra.

At least that’s my honest opinion. In verse 7 it says, and there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, the dragon fought and his angels. Pervailed not, neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out. serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. So we know that the devil and his angels are going to be here and this will be the worst period of time in all the world.

The last three and a half years is called the great tribulation. First part is just the time of sorrows. The Antichrist is taken over and he’s taken over because he’s going to promise peace and safety and abundance and people are looking today for some world leader to come on the scene and promise him peace. And people will give everything they have for the sake of peace and prosperity, security. There is none in this world. And the last two and a half years, the worst period of time the world has ever known, and you’ll look there in verse 12, therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them, woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the seed.”

Now get this in mind. He says, those that are in heaven, rejoice. Those on the earth, woe unto you. I’m glad I’ll be up here when this is going on down here. And look what else he says, for the devil is come down unto you and you’re the underlying these three words, having great wrath. See, doing this period of time, the devil is going to unleash all the wrath he possibly can. He’s going to be as mean and as ugly and as detrimental as he can and destroy whatever he can and he aimed his focus mainly upon the people and God is going to let him do it.

He’s going to try to destroy it and totally annihilate the nation of Israel. He’s coming after everybody that doesn’t believe what he is saying and doing and will worship him and multitudes of Christians are going to be killed. Multitudes from every nation are going to be killed. Look there in chapter 6. Chapter 6 of Revelation. And look at verse 9. Now the first four seals have already been opened. So he says in verse 9, and when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw unto the altar the souls of them that were slain slain for the word of God.

You see, whenever you die, when you trust in Christ as your Savior, your body, yes, goes in the grave. But your soul is in heaven. This is in heaven. You’re up here to be absent from the body, present with the Lord. So this is those that are in heaven. They’ve already been slain. That were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they, and they cried with a loud voice saying, How long, Lord, holy and true, thus, thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth, because, see, while they were on the earth, and because of their love for the Lord and because of their testimony, they were slain, they were killed, murdered, and now they’re in heaven, they say, Lord, how long before you avenge our blood on them on the earth?

Listen, the lost men, the wicked nations of this world, they can do whatever they wanna do, but they’re gonna lose in the long run. We’re gonna win and we don’t have to be afraid. But there’s some evil things that are coming upon this earth. I get what he says. And it says in verse 11, and white robes were given unto every one of them. And it was said unto them that they should rest yet a little while until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled.

In other words, God said, it ain’t over yet. You got a little bit more time. And there’s some more that’s going to be killed. And then he gets into verse 12, and I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal and lo, there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood. Stars of heaven fell upon the earth, even as a fig tree casser untimely figs when she’s shaken of a mighty wind.

The heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondmen and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, said to the mountains and the rocks, fallen us and hide us from the face of him that set it on the throne and you’re to underline this phrase and from the wrath of the Lamb.”

Now, you ever see a lamb lose its cool? This is araught that’s getting angry when Christ came the first time. They were they were looking for somebody to deliver them from the iron heal of Rome. You know that knight in shining armor. When he comes back here, he’s coming back as the lion of the tribe of Judah. But it says, I saw this lamb as it had been slain. And this is talking about the wrath of the lamb. In other words, Jesus Christ is going to get even.

There’s vengeance coming. God has tolerated an awful lot of evil. God has tolerated your wickedness. Some of you said in right here, God’s tolerated your wickedness, but God has seen everything. God knows everything and God is a loving God and he’s a patient God. But let me serve you notice, you’re not gonna win. He gonna beat that power out of you. And if you know him as your savior, God’s gonna take and cut out your legs from under you buddy and he could take you home before your time.

He ain’t through with you yet. You can’t mock God and you mock God by mocking sin and thinking, I can live as I please and get away with it. No you can. No man can. No family can. No nation can. And neither can a church. Where to be holy people? God be people. And putting God first. Now look what he says there. In verse 70, and the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stay.

So we know that this is the beginning of the day of wrath. So we’re at the middle of the tribulation period. This three and a half years is the worst part of time that the world has ever known. You see the devil is going to do everything he can during this period of time. He’s poured out his wrath upon the earth and then you’ve got the Lord and the Lord It’s poured on his wrath, buddy. I wouldn’t want to be here.

But you know there’s people sitting here right now. If you never trust, he Christ is your Savior. If the Raptor took place, hello. You ought to understand this is what’s going to take place. I have no desire to stick around for any of this. But he says it’s coming. Take your Bible and look there in Revelation chapter 11. Revelation and chapter 11. Revelation chapter 11 and look in verse 15. Remember this in the book of Revelation it opens up seven seals.

The seven seals are opened and then there’s seven trumpets. Like he opens up the seven seals and then seven trumpets. Tanta-ranta-tata-tata-tata and makes an announcement and boom! There’s seven angels that pours out the seven bios, the bowls of judgments but upon the earth. So there’s seven seals, seven trumpets, getting your attention. The seven angels will sound. And then there’ll be seven bowls of judgment that God will pour out his wrath upon the earth because God says that his wrath is full.

The bowls are full of judgment. There were God says, I’ve had it up to here with you. You know what he did when he got sick and tired back in the time of, what was that guy’s name? No one, anybody remember what he did to the world back then? Destroyed the whole earth. But it says, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Jesus Christ is coming back. He’s coming back for his saints. And here he’s going to come back with his saints, but buddy in between there, I wouldn’t want to be here upon this earth.

because this earth is about to receive the wrath of God upon it. And White House can’t stop it. The Democrats can’t stop it and the Republicans can’t stop it and no independents can stop it. Nobody’s gonna stop this. The world government isn’t gonna stop it. Don’t put your confidence in man. We’re gonna put our confidence in the Lord. But look at verse 15. And the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever.

See Christ is getting ready to come back and He’s going to reign forever and ever and ever. There’s our new heavens and our new earth. Go away, close. And then He says here in verse 16, and the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their sigs or their thrones fell upon their faces and worshiped God. Sin we give thee thanks. Oh Lord God Almighty Which art and was an art to come? Because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hath reigned so he ain’t done it yet But it looks like it like he already has So he kind of like jumps out into the future and it comes back and it’ll tell you some more things gonna happen in his Just jumps back out there.

He comes back to you some more, more things gonna happen and look what he says in verse 18 and the nations were angry and And I wrath is come go to underline the rat is come see It was the the wrath of the lamb is coming now the rat has arrived It’s arrived. You’re doing this period of time right here. It’s a short period of time Three and a half years the devil knows he had but they short time see that the global believes in prophecy The devil believes the Bible better than most Christians do So he’s in verse 18, thy wrath is come and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou should have give reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints, and then that fear thy name, small and great, and should have destroyed them which destroy

the earth. Are we living at a time when people are able to destroy this earth? going to come back and destroy them that would destroy the earth. And he says in the book of Matthew in chapter 24, it makes the statement that the great tribulation that’s coming. And if God does not intervene, no flesh would be left alive. We’re living at the state that you can say it’s an emergency. But man can destroy man from the face of this earth.

And they don’t know So what little nut is going to mash some little button and fire some little missile, and when these days we’re going to see some mushroom cloud over some city here in America. You say, you believe all that? Yes, I do. I’m a realist. I’m not going to take my head and put it into the sand and close my eyes like it’s not going to be possible. Yes, it is possible. We haven’t yet suffered as a nation like some nations have suffered.

Christians, we have had it so nice and so easy and so cozy for so long. We don’t know what it would be like to have to sacrifice to what we really believe. So he says in verse 19, and the temple of God was opened in heaven and there was seen in his temple the Ark of the Covenant. So you say, where’s that covenant? You know the Ark, the Raiders of the Lost Arts in trying to find out. I already found it.

It’s right there. God says it’s in heaven. But anyway, I believe there’s another one. I believe there’s another one. And I believe there’s a good possibility it’s under the Temple Mount. Look there in Revelation chapter 14. Revelation chapter 14. And look in verse 10. Revelation 14 and look in verse 10. He says that during this period of time, in verse 9, we’re looking in verse 9 for it. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worshiped the beast and his image, receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand.

The same shall drink of the wind of the anorta on the land. The wrath of God, the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture. In other words, God’s not going to dilute his wrath with mercy. During this period of time, no mercy. God is going to unleash his fury. In other words, have you ever wondered why If God can destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, why is he not doing something about what’s going on in our nation today? Be patient.

It’s coming. God is going to have enough and judgment is going to fall. God’s wrath is coming. You and I, as a child of God, we can’t live as we plead because God said he’ll beat the Torah out of us if we do. Maybe take us home before our time. But those people who rebel against God want nothing to do with the Bible, nothing to do with Jesus Christ. Hey! If there’s anybody you don’t want to make mad, it should be God.

You don’t want to make it. God. Mad. And look what he says in verse 10, The same shall drink of the wind of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb, and the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever. That sounds like a long time to me. And they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveeth the mark of his name.

But wrath of God, see it’s coming. Look there in the verse here, look in verse 19. In verse 19 it talks about this great big old bowl. And then this great big old bowl is really a big old alley. It’s the plains of Jezreel in the place called Megiddo. They call it the Battle of Armageddon, but that’s another sermon I’m going to go in there. This is a great big old bowl. And God’s going to go out there and he’s sending out his angels and cutting down these sickles, and cutting down all these big old grapevines and dragging these grapevines.

They’re people from all over the world into this great big old valley. And then God says he’s going to jump in there with his feet and smash him. And it says the blood’s going to run for about 200 miles. God’s going to be angry. People can play around with God all they want to, but God is a good God. God God is a loving God. God’s a kind God. He’s a compassionate God. But don’t make him mad. And people are making God angry.

God is getting upset. And God is going to judge this world. He’s going to judge Israel because they rejected their Messiah. And you’re going to judge the world because they still rejected the Messiah. Everything deals with Jesus Christ. What do you do with Him? So He says here in verse 19, and the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth. gather the vine of the earth and cast it into the great winepress. And you are on the line these words, the wrath of God.

The wrath of God. And the winepress was trod without the city and blood came out of the winepress, even until the horses bribed about the space of a thousand and six hundred for a long time, almost two hundred miles. And that’s a long ways. But this is what God’s word is saying is going to take place. Look there in chapter 16 of Revelation and look in verse 1 and I saw another sign in heaven Great and marvelous seven angels having the seven last plagues for in them is filled up the wrath of God And you’re on the line that were filled up in other words the bowl is full And God has had enough and he’s sending forth these angels and says I want you to take these bowls of judgment and dump them out upon the earth.

So there’s seven bowls of judgment. They don’t happen exactly the same time. They happen consecutively. In other words, this one, and then this one, and then this one, and then this one, and then this one. But while this judgment is going on, this another one poured out, and then now you got two of them going on. Then they pour out this one, and now three of them going on. Then you pour out the next one, and now you got all four of them going on, and it gets worse and worse and worse and worse and worse.

No let up. The worst for the time on the face of the earth. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Our two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calbra Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and mutha- and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach This is told free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calvaryoftappa.org. We pray that you, 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.

You’ve ever heard that statement? I can see the writing on the wall, the hand writing on the wall. Well, that wasbleacher, justateful hand riding on the wall.!!!!! That’s where they got cousin it. I don’t reason you’re laughing because you know and you know now that I know you know. But the hand was riding on the wall but nobody knew what it says and it says that his knees were smoteing one another. I wonder what that meant. He scared the death.

Daniel told him this is what it means. See there in chapter five. Verse 26, verse 26, this is the interpretation of the thing, many which God says has numbered thy kingdom, finished it. So this gold is gone. It’s been numbered, it’s finished. And then he says there, thou art weighed in the balances and are found wanting. And verse 28, thy kingdom is divided given to the Medes and the Persians. See, that’s the next kingdom afterwards. And now the Bible tells us history is being unfolded.

God tells them what’s gonna happen in advance, names the kingdom, and even names the Grecian afterwards. But what I want you to see there is in chapter seven. The time came when under the first reign, the year of the reign of Belshad, he had another nightmare. Daniel had a vision. And he says that he saw weird stuff, but he says, I saw four beasts come up out of the sea. See in verse 3, four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

Each one of them is different. And it goes down through here and kind of describes what they’re like. But what I want you to look at is in verse 7, because this is the fourth one. Look up here just a second. You had one, the head of gold, two, the knees and the purses, the arms, three, the Allegheny Empire, the Roman Empire, and the last one, number five, is defeat with the ten toes. Now when he says thou art the head of gold thou have been numbered and finished it.

Now that left four more. So now he says I saw four Beast coming up. But when did he see the vision? The only one bell shazzy was still rolling. He saw four that shall arise. And so he says here, they’re different from each other. But in verse seven, after this I saw in the night vision, behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly. And it shall had great iron teeth, devoured to break in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it.

And it was diverse from all the beasts that were before had ten horns. These ten horns becomes ten kings that had ten toes. This is the last one. Now we know that the Babylon Empire was here historically and they’re gone. We know that the region, the Persians ruled and they’re gone. That’s where you had Darius and Cyrus. Then you had the Alexander and Empire. They’d come and they’d gone. We’ve had the Roman Empire. They’d come and they’re gone. Now we have the last one going to be composed of ten toes.

So ten nations are going to come together. And this is where a lot of times people get split, very divided on prophecy and how to put it all together. We know the pieces are there but we can’t fit it together. And the thing about putting a puzzle together is you don’t not try to force it. It’s supposed to be fitting there real nice. If you’ve ever done it with something to put the puzzle and then it won’t work, always have some scissors and cut it where you’ll make it fit.

Or just make sure you have a hammer, you know, hammer the thing in there. And so sometimes that’s what we want to do with the prophecy that’s still ahead of us, trying to decide now what does God mean when he says this or this? Now we know that this is going to be a bad time, says there’s never been a nation like this, and that this one is worse than all the ones that went before it. Now some people say that this is a revival of the Roman Empire.

Well, it says that whenever the stone hits upon the toes that it destroys all of the kingdoms. So is it possible that in the last days all of them will be in a sense revived, but it’s going to compose all these kingdoms. Good possibility. But look what he says here in verse 9, and I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days, I believe is a reference to the Lord God Himself. The ancient of days did sit whose garment was widest snow, and the hair of his head liked the pure wool.

His throne was like the fiery flame in his wheel that burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him, thousands ministered unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and books were open. Boy have we advanced in time. All the way into the time of maybe the great white throne judgment when the Lord Himself will judge. But He says a lot of things in here that we need to understand.

We also know at the end of the tribulation period the worst part of time the world ever known. It looked there in verse 11. I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horns may. I beheld even till the beast was slain, his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame at the end of the tribulation period. When Christ comes back on a white horse, the battle of Armageddon, the Bible says the beast and the false prophet were taken and cast into the lake of fire.

So all this revelation stuff has got seeds of it planted back here in the Old Testament and they were taught these things. But Daniel have to be honest, said he did not understand all of these prophecies. And the Lord told him, says, seal up the book until the time of the end, and many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. But I don’t think it’s talking about just the knowledge technology, which yes, that’s increased. But the knowledge of understanding the Word of God is said, seal this book until the time of the end.

And then this book, knowledge shall be increased. You’ll be under understand things that they couldn’t even understand 2000 years ago. Because see, we have the book of Revelation. We’re living at some very exciting times. Who would have ever dreamed how you could have ever saw people around the world and the witnesses being killed and then somebody around the world been able to see it happen? Man, we got everything today. You could see anything anywhere at any time. See, that wasn’t even possible a hundred years ago, fifty years ago, but it can be seen today.

And there’s things that God has mentioned that only could have been fulfilled in our time in which we live. what he said. In verse 12, he says, as concerning the rest of the beast, they had their dominion taken away. Yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. I saw in the night vision and behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancients of days and they brought him near before him.

And there were given him dominion and glory and a kingdom. This is the stone that was cut out of a mountain member, there was the nation of Israel. And there was a stone that was cut out. They didn’t want him. He was rejected. And this stone is coming back. And at the end of the tribulation period, this stone is going to destroy the Gentile powers upon this earth. And Jesus Christ is going to set up the kingdom of Israel.

And Israel will be the the greatest nation on the face of this earth. Today, it’s one of the smallest nations in the world. Isn’t that just a coincidence? Just a coincidence? It is surrounded by all those Muslim nations over there, and they hate Israel and want us dead. And here’s a little old nation of Israel, existing only by the provident, your hand of God, and they want to destroy Israel. Look what he says. He says here in verse 4, he says, and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people, nations and languages should serve him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion, means it lasts forever, which shall not pass away means it lasts forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, which means it’ll last forever. Sound like permanent to me. This is talking about his kingdom. Now you and I are Saints of the Lord. Now there’s saints in the Old Testament. There are saints in the New Testament. There are saints doing the tribulation period. There’ll be saints doing the millennium. But look what he says here in verse 17.

These great beasts which are four are four kings which shall arise out of the earth. So see some people try to take the first one here and say well that’s that’s Babylon. No, Babylon’s already off the scene. These are four that shall arise. So you can’t start with Babylon again. That’s where everybody gets it all messed up Take off my head. Don’t rub not real. This is gone and He had a vision about four more kings and the last one was made up of those ten toes one two three four I can count and I even went to the public school but You count four and so the question comes up as a I want to know about the fourth beast I mean, I have an inquiring mind and I want to know.

But look what he says in verse 18, but the saints, saints, those are those that have trusted Christ as their Savior. Saints are those who have been sanctified, set apart, made pure, and holy, because they believe that when Christ died, they trusted Him as their Savior and they have eternal life and they’ll go to heaven when they die. We’re seeing now this has been written, but this is talking about future. The saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom and you ought to underline that word forever.

And then it says forever and ever. I want to know how long that is. Now the kingdoms of this world are not going to last forever. I don’t hear what this president administration is going to try to do. It doesn’t matter what Russia wants to do. It doesn’t matter what Japan wants to do. It doesn’t matter what China wants to do. It doesn’t matter what the Euro-Pier nations want to do. God is in control. And we know who’s going to win when it’s all over with.

And if you take my life so be it, I am a saint of the most high and I’m going to rule in the kingdom forever. I got his word on it. Now if he was right about all these other kingdoms in order before they ever existed, you think he might be right about that last one. Good possibility. You see the verse 19, then I would know the truth about the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others. Exceeding Drephel, whose teeth was of iron and his nails of brass, which devoured brick and pieces and stamped the residue with his feet.

And the ten horns that were in his head and of the other which came up and behold, whom three fell. Look in verse 21, I beheld and the same horn which made war with the same. Now there’s an antichrist. social mention over there in verse 8 of the previous chapter, talk about the little horn. This is the antichrist, the head of the last world government that’s going to come on the scene and he’s going to make war with the saints and doing the tribulation period, multitudes of God’s people are going to be killed.

They’re going to be killed. That’s why when you read the sixth chapter of the book of revelation. It talks about in the fifth seal how that I saw the souls of them. And then it talks about they cried out to the Lord, how long, oh Lord, holy and true, without not avenge our blood upon the earth. That day is coming. In chapter 7 and also in chapter 14, but especially chapter 7, where did these come from? He says, these are they which came out of the great tribulation and have made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

So there’s a multitude of people from all nations are going to die, but there’s going to be 144,000 Jewish evangelists that are going to be preaching all over this world when the Raptor takes place and there’s going to be a lot of people who are going to trust the Lord. And there’s going to be a lot of people killed because they were refused to serve this last beast. The last beast is the one that’s going to say, you’re going to have to do things his way are you going to die?

And the way they’re going to kill you is by chopping off your head. Now you tell me who likes to go around chopping off heads, and they are getting stronger and stronger and stronger. And we’re going to face them here in America. We send our troops over there and we let them build their moss right here in America and take the the Koran, which is nothing more than the weapon of mass destruction. It pollutes the mind, it darkens the mind, and it causes them to be so evil and thinking that they have to kill anybody that’s not of their belief.

Now I’m not making this up. If you don’t understand what I’m saying, your head has been in the sand too long. He says he’s gonna prevail against them. See the last part of that verse 21? prevail against him until the ancient of days came. And that’s when he comes back at the end of the tribulation period. And then get this. And judgment was given to the saints of the Most High. And the time came that the saints, and you ought to underline this, possessed the kingdom.

This day is coming. I am excited about knowing Christ is my Savior, serving the Lord. I can see all the evil coming upon the earth. I think it’s a riot that the people who claim to be such experts in so many areas are so dumb. They can’t figure out how to solve problems and their goal is to a redistribution of wealth and why the American people will stand by and let this happen is beyond me. It ought to be stopped.

And I don’t care how it stopped, it ought to be stopped. And you can take that in any way you want. If we can’t do it by the ballot, then we better do it by the bullet. Is that clear? You say you’re a preacher. You got it that I am. Now I know this book, and I believe this book, and I believe the time is coming. Well look there in verse 27, and the kingdoms, and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.

And all the minions shall serve and obey Him. Christ is coming back. The people of the world and all of their nations and all of their technology are not going to build a utopia upon this earth. You’ve heard a lot about the world and how it was like in Germany under Hitler. Picture the whole earth like that. That’s what’s coming. The Bible talks about brother will hate brother. Nobody will trust anybody. And the love of many will wax cold.

We’re talking about some dark days coming down the road. And it talks about the four horses of the apocalypse, which they take peace away from the earth. And then they bring the war, and then they take in their famine in the land. And people are dying of all kind of pestilence because there’s no cure. That’s coming. When you’re talking about one-third or one-fourth of the world’s population been destroyed. Now, take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation, chapter 10.

Revelation in chapter 10. Revelation chapter 10, there is a statement about a mighty angel that comes down from heaven. You see there in verse one? And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. Rainbow was upon his head and his face was as it were the sun, feed as pillars of fire. He had in his hand a little book, and he said his right foot upon the sea and his left foot upon the land.

Crowd with a loud voice. And down in verse 5, and the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. And he says in the last part of verse 6, that should be no time, no longer. In other words, times up, times up. And we know how important it is for us to understand that God is in charge and He has a time schedule. And He talks about the fullness of times and when the fullness of time become in.

God is right on schedule. Is it not true that Jesus Christ was born on time? Didn’t a rapture take place on time? Oh, there hasn’t come yet, but I’m talking about when Jesus Christ went up into the air. It was right on time. And when the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, it was 50 days from right on schedule, God is an orderly God and He’s always on time. I saw this one time and somebody had wrote from this 10th chapter and this is what it says.

I dreamed that the great judgment morning had dawn and the trumpet had blown. I dreamed that the nations had gathered to judgment before the white throne. On the throne came a bright shining angel, And stood on the land and the sea, And he swore with his hand raised to heaven That time was no longer to be, And know what a weeping and wailing as the lost were told of their fate. They cried for the rocks and the mountains. They prayed, but their prayer was too late.

The mortal man came to the judgment, But a self-righteous rags would not do. The men who had crucified Jesus had passed off as mortal men do. The soul that had put off salvation. Not tonight I’ll get saved by and by. No time now to think of salvation. At last they had found time to die. And oh, what a weepy and wailing! As the lost were told of their pain. They cried for the rocks and the mountains. They prayed, their prayer was too late.

It’s not sung the best, but that’s how it goes. Time shall be no more. That day is right ahead of us. Did you realize if the Lord came back today? We only got seven years for the tribulation and then we’ll be in the millennium. Did you realize that just seven years from now, we could be standing in glorified bodies and a paradise upon this earth. Never to hurt, suffer anymore, but to worship the Lord and know that we were on the winning side.

We won and the saints will possess the kingdom forever and ever and ever. So between now and then, keep looking up. Don’t be down in this heart of what you see coming. Because if they keep looking a little bit further, you can see something else coming. A lot better and a lot brighter and more wonderful than anything we could ever imagine. Look up here. If you’re here and you have never trusted Christ as you’re saying here, I know you’ll get saved by and by.

One of these days about the road to hell is paid with good intentions. Always intending to, but why not right now? Take care of it. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents sin. It’s something that all of us have done. Whatever it is, you did it so did I. We have all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. Nobody’s perfect. And God says that we have to pay for it, and the wages of sin is death and hell.

That’s why everybody dies. But God loves us. Did you know that God loves you? And He proved His love for you because He wants you to go to heaven, but you have to be perfect and you’re not. You see, we committed the sins and we got to pay for them so there’s no way for us to go to heaven. We can’t go to heaven. Impossible. Unless God does something for us. God says you can’t earn eternal life, you can’t work your way there.

You’ll never be good enough. That just makes you a religious hypocrite. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. H, our sin because it separates us from him. So Jesus Christ, who had no sin, didn’t have to die. But He took ours, died for us, died in my plate, died and paid for my sins. Well, if He paid for my sins, wouldn’t it be crazy and dumb on my part to go to hell and pay for it?

When He paid for them, you don’t have to pay for something twice. All I have to do is believe He did it for me. think of all the things in all the world, God made it so simple. If you’ll believe I did it for you, I’ll give you eternal life and you get to go to heaven at what I did for you. How much easier could he have made it? It’s the easiest thing in all the world. How can you go wrong by trusting the only true and living God there is?

You don’t become a religious hypocrite. You’re not claiming to stop something or be something or join something. You don’t have to live a certain way, make promises and pledges you’ll never keep. All you got to do is I’m a sinner. I believe Christ paid for my sins and I’m trusting Him to take me to heaven when I die. How simple, how easy. Best news in all the world. I pray that you have the good sense to trust the Lord.

Let’s pray, shall we? With a head, bow, knife, clothes, and no one looking around. If you’re here this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior. Would you trust Him? Would you believe that He died for you? I’m not going to have you forward because I don’t want to embarrass anybody. I’m not asking you to sign anything or to do anything. I just want you right where you are. Will you trust the Lord? God said, if you would trust Him as your Savior, He would save you right now from hell and give you right now eternal life.

And you can know that you’re going to heaven and whenever you die. Don’t you want to be one of those saints that lives forever with the Lord? I do. I’m glad I took care of that almost 50 years ago. So it has been nice clothes and no one looking around. I’m gonna ask in just a moment that if what I said made sense to you, I’m gonna ask you to raise your hand, raise in your hand is not gonna save you.

It just lets me know that what I said made sense to you and friend I’d like to know. And I’d like to have prayer for you in closing. That’s all. So, if you’ve already trusted the Lord, you don’t have to do it again. But if you never have, and you want to say, I want to be sure I’m going to heaven when I die and preach it, would you pray for me? Would you slip your hand very quickly, but a wrap it down?

Is it him or the hall? Just very quickly. No tricks to it. No gimmicks to it. Yeah, what at all? I pray that you have trusted Christ as Savior. Our Father, we do thank you so much for the free gift of eternal life and for giving us your words so we can understand the things that are coming up on the earth, help our hearts to be knit together in love for one another, and help us to reach as many as we can while we can.

But we know we may not be able to change the world, but we do want to make sure the world doesn’t change us, help us to do right, until we live with Godly as we should and looking for you to come in Christ that 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 were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1 800-576-3771. Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calbryoftampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family.

Good to have you here this morning. I want you to take a Bible and turn to the book of Ecclesiastes. the book of Ecclesiastes. But here in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter three, I wanna talk to you about being able to see in a moment of time. You have people that try to predict the future. Some people do palm reading. You see the signs, you know, madam, blah, blah, blah, read your palm. I’ve watched people, said it houses and they would, let meudebom, mm hmm.

Oh yeah, yeah, that’s a deep groove. And yeah, you’re gonna get married, you’re gonna be six foot tall and you’re gonna have five kids and y’all have, of course, y’all never did that. But everybody always tries to say, if they can figure out what’s gonna happen next. I believe we have a lot of politicians today trying to figure out what’s gonna happen next. Where are we headed? I believe we are living at some very exciting days. More exciting probably than most people wished.

But here in the book of Ecclesiastes, it kind of gives us some things that let you see. Things that happen in a moment in time. Now you and I, we live in time. There was a time when we were born there’s a time when you’re going to die. And God has got everything under control in case you didn’t know that. Well, there are in verse 1. He says to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

Means you have to have time to pursue every purpose. It’s got something you want to do, it takes time to do it. He says it’s time to be born, time to die, time to pluck up that which is planted. Time to kill. Time to heal. Time to break down. Time to build up. A time to weep. And a time to laugh. A time to mourn. A time to dance. A time to cast away stones. A time to gather stones together.

Time to embrace. A time to refrain from embracing. A time to get. A time to lose. A time to keep. And a time to cast away. A time to win. And a time to sow. A time to keep silent. And a time to speak. A time to love. And a time to hate. A time of war. A time of peace. Now if God told you now, I’m going to let you be born into this world, you say, well, what am I going to do?

Well, I’m going to let you have some time. You say, well, what’s time? Well, that means you’re going to have some time to do this and this and this and this and others. A little period of time, life to live long enough to do a little this and a little that. And you look at that and say, you mean, this is what I’m going to, this is my life. Oh, it’s pretty much just what your life is going to consist of.

Yeah. And it’s true. So as time goes on and in the process of time, you and I will go through a lot of this same stuff. And then He makes a statement. In verse 11, He had made everything beautiful in His time. Also, He had set the world in their heart. That word world means like eternity. Even though we’re limited by different periods of time, we have within us the desire to live forever, which is a contradiction of itself.

We all know we’re going to die, and yet we want to live. But if we live here in this life, it’s consumed with so much trouble and heartache and disappointment, discouragement, like there’s no end to it. Look down in verse 14. He says, I know that whatsoever God do it, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor can anything be taken from it. And God doeth it that man should fear before him. Look at verse 15.

That which hath been is now. And that which is to be had already been. And God requires that which is passed. If that won’t blow your mind, nothing can blow your mind. You’re talking about God is the great I am, and whether it’s past, present, or future with the Lord, it’s now. You know, I think we’re just a little bit short of understanding God. Now God understands us, and He gives us little bits and pieces to let us see how we’re going to live in consequences, sorrow.

But what about beyond this life? He says, now during this period of time, there’s going to be kingdoms that are going to come up on the earth. I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Luke chapter 4, the Gospel of Luke and chapter 4. For most people have heard of the story about Jesus Christ going up into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And you know that we could add in a little bit more about that, you know, a time to heal, a time to kill, a time to war, a time to die, a time to be born, a time to be tempted, a time of trials, tribulations.

A time that you’re going to have to deal with the devil. A roaring lion who seeketh whom he may devour. Where Jesus Christ came into the world, he was born. When he got ready to begin his ministry, the Bible tells us that the devil came to get him. In verse one it says, And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost. Return from Jordan, led by the spirit into the wilderness. Now the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness. Being 40 days tempted of the devil, and in those days he did eat nothing.

And when they were ended he afterwards was hungry. Well you would be hungry too if you hadn’t ate for 40 days. I’m hungry now and I’ve already had breakfast this morning. Verse three, and the devil said unto him, if thou be the Son of God, command thee stone that it may be made bread. The words look who you are. Oh, you got to do it just boom. And they can take a stone and turn it into bread. Don’t you wish you could do that?

Jesus could do that. And Jesus answered him saying, it is written that man shall live, not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. In other words, the word of God is more important than food for the body, the food for the soul. He says, and the devil takes him up into a high mountain, showed unto him, and you ought to get this, all the kingdoms of the world, and underline this in a moment of time, just a moment of time, how he was able to show Jesus Christ, all the kingdoms of the world.

Now, he probably wasn’t able to show him the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. But he was able to show him the kingdoms of the world. And he says, it’s given unto me. In other words, it’s like the devil has certain amount of power. He can do a lot of things. And we read in scripture that the Lord sets them up and the Lord sets them down to my kings. And can a nation rise without the knowledge of God, but God allows the devil to have certain powers to do certain things.

He is called the Prince of the power of the year. So there’s a lot of things he can do, but he is limited. He cannot do everything. Only what God permits. The devil content me, but he has limitations. He can’t do anything to me, he wants to do. Read the book of Job and you’ll see that. But get this in verse six, and the devil said unto him, all this power will I give thee. and the glory of them.

For that is delivered unto me, and to whom, soever I will, I give it.” Now, he might have been telling the truth, but he could have been lying. You know, he is a liar. But now he made an offer to Jesus Christ. Look, if you just serve me, just worship me, I will give you the kingdoms of this world and all the glory that goes with it. Now, remember when Jesus was born into the world, He was born king of the Jews.

He came to claim a throne, the throne of David. And he was going to set up a kingdom upon this earth, and all the other nations of the earth will come to Jerusalem, and Jesus Christ will rule this world. But here’s the devil offering him all of this. When God, the Father has already offered him the other. You see, you and I are making choices all the time. You see, God has offered us so much if we serve Him.

But the devil is also offering you an awful lot if you serve Him. And here you are. You reveal your wisdom by who you serve. If you’re not serving God, you’re serving the devil. You say, well, I’m neutral. I don’t serve either one. You don’t get it. There’s the Lord. There’s the devil. not neutral and not to serve God is to serve the devil. But you just don’t know it because he deceives. He don’t tell you everything. But notice what he does say here.

In verse 7, he says, If thou will worship me, all shall be thine, if you’ll worship me. Well, what is worship. How do I worship the devil? In verse eight, and Jesus answered and said to him, get thee behind me Satan, for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou, and here’s that word, you ought to underline it, serve you worship by service. If you’re notÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ for the Lord, you are living for the devil.

If you’re not serving the Lord, But you are serving that ever. Now whether you like it or not, it’s immaterial to me. But if this book is true and I believe it is true, then I’m going to teach it the way SIGN it. And this is how I see it. Christ says, if you’re not with me, you are against me. How can you call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say? So there is a responsibility that God has given to us.

But this one little statement here where he talks abouttif the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time largeDownload take your Bible and turn to the book of Daniel in chapter 2, the book of Daniel and chapter 2. at times I will repeat a few things that I’ve taught before, but then I will end in a few new things that I haven’t taught before. So there’s always going to be a certain element of review, things you’ve heard a lot of times, and something maybe you haven’t heard.

But in the book of Daniel in chapter 2, I want you to look in verse 31, Daniel is telling the king of Babylon, never can answer what he had dreamed. You see he had a nightmare. And you’re talking about something 600 years before Christ. Look what he says in verse 1, Thou, O King, sauced and behold a great image. This great image whose brightness was excellent stood before the end, the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was a fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, belly and his thighs of brass, legs of iron, feet, part of iron, part of clay.

Thou sauced till that stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, and were of iron and clay and break them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, the gold, broken the pieces together, and became like they chapped for the summer-threshing floor. And the wind carried them away. That no place was found for them. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. Now this is a prophecy of what’s going to happen in the future concerning the times of the Gentiles.

You see, Israel was under Gentile rule. And so therefore it’s the times of the Gentiles when God is allowing Gentile nations to come and go. And he names these kingdoms in advance and tells you what’s going to happen, how many there’s going to be. But then he tells you there’s going to be one kingdom going to consist of ten toes. And those ten toes, well that’s the feet of the beast. And there’s this man standing there. Just very simple.

Very quickly. I just want to kind of show it to you. Come up here and just stand right here, right quick. This is the image of the beast. Now remember he says, the form there oblous terrible. The form there oblous terrible. Now not just just reading the Bible. But now he said the head was the head of gold. And then there was the arms of silver and the belly and so forth of brass and the legs of iron and the feet part of iron and clay and there was ten tote.

So he says to Nebuchadnezzar, he says, the thou art the head of gold. So that’s the head of gold. So hold out your arms. That’s the mead and the Persians. then the belly, that’s the Alexanin Empire, and then he can’t do that long. Then the legs is the Roman Empire, and then you have the one with the toes. Okay, thanks, you can be seated. Give me a big hand. I mean, that was hard. But now he saw this image of this beast, and he says, now these are kingdoms that’s going to be taking place in the world from Nebuchadnezzar.

But look there in verse 35 again. Verse 35, then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, the gold, broken the pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floor and the wind carried them away. No place was found for them and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. The stone is Christ. Christ comes back at the end of all these Gentile nations that’s going to rule upon the earth.

The tomb of those 10th and destroy the Gentile ruling empires. The stone is filled with the whole earth. In other words, his kingdom grows. So there’s these kingdoms mentioned in advance. Now look there in verse 44. Remember now we’re reading something that was written a long time ago, 2600 years ago, and what’s interesting is four of those kingdoms have come and gone. Now there’s one more left. That’s the one that’s right ahead of us. It’s the next kingdom, according to the word of God, that’s going to appear upon this earth.

And then whenever says, and in the days of these kings, shall the God of heaven set up his kingdom. Look there in verse 44. In the days of these kings, the 10 kings, shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall, and you ought to on the line this, never be destroyed. and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for how long?

Forever. So it doesn’t matter what comes and goes and what happens until this point. We know how it comes out in the end. We know we’re going to win. We know this, but now we also need to understand what’s going to happen before the end. Now get what he says in verse 44, for as much as thou saw us, that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver and the gom, the great God hath made known to the king, which shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is certain, the interpretation thereof short.

Now turn to chapter 5. In chapter 5, a grandson, Belchaser, is ruling in Babylon, and he has taken the utensils from the temple that came from Jerusalem, and he’s having a big party, a big banquet, they’re getting drunk and pretty prideful until he saw a man’s hand right on the wall. You’ve ever heard that statement? I can see the writing on the wall, the handwriting on the wall. Well, that was a hand. Just the hand writing on the wall.

That’s where they got cousin it. I don’t reason you’re laughing because you know. And you know now that I know you know. But the hand was writing on the wall, but nobody knew what it says. And it says that his knees were smote him one another. I wonder what that meant. He scared the death. Daniel told him this is what it means. You see there in verse 26, verse 26. This is the interpretation of the thing, many which God says has numbered by kingdom, finished it.

So this gold is gone. It’s been numbered, it’s finished. And then he says there, thou art weighed in the balances and are found wanting. And verse 28, thy kingdom is divided given to the meat. And the Persians, So that’s the next kingdom afterwards. And now… . . . . . . . . . The Bible tells us history is being unfolded. God tells them what’s going to happen in advance, names the kingdom, and even names the Grecian afterwards. But what I want you to see there is in chapter 7.

The time came when under the first reign, the year of the reign of Belshad, he had another nightmare. Daniel had a vision. And he says that, um, He saw weird stuff But he says I saw four beasts come up out of a sea See in verse three four great beast came up from the sea diverse one from another each one of them’s different and It goes down through here and kind of describes what they’re like But what I want you to look at is in verse seven Because this is the the fourth one look up here.

Just a second You had One had a gold Two, the Medes and the Persians, the Arms. Three, the Allegheny Empire, the Roman Empire, and the last one, number five, is the feet with the Ten Tows. Now, when he says, Thou art the head of gold. Thou hath been numbered and finished it. Now that left four more. So now he says, I saw four. Beast coming up. But when did he see the vision? The only one bell shazzy was still ruling.

He saw four that shall arise. And so he says here, they’re different from each other. But in verse seven, after this I saw in the night vision, behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly. And it shall had great iron teeth, devoured and break in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of And it was diverse from all the beasts that were before had ten horns. These ten horns becomes ten kings that had ten toes. This is the last one.

Now we know that the Babylon Empire was here historically and they’re gone. We know that the region, the Persians, ruled and they’re gone. That’s where you had Darius and Cyrus. Then you had the Alexander and Empire. They’d come and they’d gone. We’ve had the Roman Empire. They come and they’re gone. Now we have the last one. Gonna be composed of 10 towers. So 10 nations are gonna come together. And this is where a lot of times people get split, very divided on prophesying how to put it all together.

We know the pieces are there, but we can’t fit it together. And the thing about putting a puzzle together you don’t not close to try to force it. It’s supposed to be fitting there real nice. Have you ever done it with something to put the puzzle and then we don’t work? Always have some scissors and cut it where you make it fit. Or just make sure you have a hammer, you know, you can hammer the thing in there. And so sometimes that’s what we want to do with the prophecy that’s still ahead of us.

Trying to decide now what does God mean when he says this or this? Now, we know that this is going to be a bad time. It says there’s never been a nation like this, and that this one is worse than all the ones that went before it. Now some people say that this is a revival of the Roman Empire. Well, it says that when the stone hits upon the toes, that it destroys all of the kingdoms. So is it possible that in the last days, all of them will be, in a sense, revived, but it’s going to compose all these kingdoms.

Good possibility. But look what he says here in verse 9. And I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days, I believe, is a reference to the Lord God Himself. ancient of days did sit, whose garment was widest known, and a hair of his head liked a pure wool. His throne was like the fiery flame in his wheel that burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him, thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.

The judgment was set and the books were open. Boy have we advanced in time. All the way into the time of maybe the great white throne judgment when the Lord himself will judge. But he says a lot of things in here that we need to understand. We also know at the end of the tribulation period, the worst period of time the world’s ever known. It looked there in verse 11, I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horns may, I beheld even till the beast was slain, his body destroyed and given to the burning flame.

At the end of the tribulation period when Christ comes back. On a white horse, the Battle of Armageddon, the Bible says the beast and the false prophet were taken and cast into the lake of fire. So all this revelation stuff has got seeds of it planted back here in the Old Testament and they were taught these things. But Daniel have to be honest, said he did not understand all of these prophecies. And the Lord told them, says, seal up the book until the time of the end.

And many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. But I don’t think it’s talking about just the knowledge technology, which yes, that’s increased. But the knowledge of understanding the Word of God, he said, seal this book until the time of the end. And then this book, knowledge shall be increased. You’ll be under understand things that they could even understand 2,000 years ago. Because we have the book of Revelation. We’re living at some very exciting times. Who would have ever dreamed how you could have ever saw people around the world and the witnesses being killed and then somebody around the world been able to see it happen?

Then we got everything today. You could see anything anywhere at any time. See, that wasn’t even possible. A hundred years ago, fifty years ago, But it can be seen today. And there’s things that God has mentioned that only could have been fulfilled in our time in which we live. Look what he said. In verse 12, he says, As concerning the rest of the beast, they had their dominion taken away. Yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

I saw in the night vision and behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days. And they brought him near before him. And there were given him dominion and glory and a kingdom. This is the stone that was cut out of a mountain. Remember there was the nation of Israel. And there was a stone that was cut out. They didn’t want him. He was rejected. And this stone is coming back.

And at the end of the tribulation period, this stone is going to destroy the Gentile powers upon this earth and Jesus Christ is going to set up the Kingdom of Israel and Israel will be the greatest nation on the face of this earth. Today it’s one of the smallest nations in the world. Isn’t that just a coincidence? Just a coincidence? It is surrounded by all those Muslim nations over there and they hate Israel and want us dead. And here’s a little the low nation of Israel, existing only Baba, provident your hand of God, and they want to destroy Israel.”

Look what he says. He says here in verse 4, he says, and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, means it lasts forever, which shall not pass away, that lasts forever, and is Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, which means it will last forever. It’s sound like permanent to me. This is talking about His Kingdom. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Look there in John chapter 6. If Jesus Christ is the Lord, then I would expect him to be able to do a lot of things like remember when he went up on the mountain and he was to be tested. And he had an 8 for about 40 days, 40 minutes is enough for me. He had an 8 for 40 days. It says afterwards he was hungry and the devil says, if you are who you claim to be, why don’t you just take those stones and make them in the bread?

I just said, what about hot biscuits? We’re just a little butter in it. I used to take my mom used to make those hot biscuits. And we’d take peanut butter and molasses, and we’d stir it all up. And then we’d just stop it. They need a fork. And you’d just stop it. Just get it all over your face. It’s just a slop. Everyone’s going to know how you get some in your mouth. And that stuff. And he had an eight for 40 days and says, if you have the power, you know what?

Later on, he did, but he did it on his timing, not because of the devil. But here in the book of John, I want you to look at this here. John chapter six, looking verse five, first five says, and when Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company coming to him, and he said to them, when shall we buy bread that these may eat? Now this he said to prove her to the test and for he knew in himself what he was going to do.

Now he already knew what he was going to do. So he knew before that he’s going to take some you know, fish sandwiches for everybody and there was no McDonald’s around. He’s going to make some. Bill of Antigene 200, penny work is a bread. It’s not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little. One of the disciples Andrew Simon Peter’s brother said to him, there’s a land over here. He had five barley loaves and two small fishes, but they said among themselves, he said, well what’s that among so many?

Jesus says, make the men sit down. Then there was much grass in the place of the men sat down the number about 5,000. I’d like to have 5,000 feet. That’s just the men. Now I mean women and children were there. And Jesus took the loaves and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, the disciples to them that were sent them and likewise of the fishes as much as they would, and when they were filled, he said unto his disciples, gather up the fragments that remain.

Take the baskets and get all the stuff that was left over. Is he in charge of food? If he is who he claimed to be, if he could supply us with salvation, eternal life, and he has the power to heal these bodies, and he supply us with a fish sandwich. Now he didn’t do it all the time, but he did it in his own good timing. There’s some things you can’t make God do, but that doesn’t limit God. God’s still God970.

And you never know when he’s going to pull one on you. I have seen God miraculously do things for me that I it just blew my mind, but he doesn’t do it every day of my life. There was one day when I was in college class and I teaching the kid not the word neh, don’t worry, don’t worry, God always come through. I was telling him that because I was word sick. I had a bank note but ten thousand dollars.

I had to have it that morning by nine o’clock when the bank opened. I had no money. We had a $10,000 note at B.P. The leaders in the church, they didn’t know what to do, so they just said, pre-trail handling. So I’m teaching my personal evangelism class at 8 o’clock and I told them I said, I’m gonna have to cut the class short because I’ve got to get down to the bank. And I said, I want to auto pray.

I said, because there’s a big need and I just like to auto pray. I said, I need some money and I’m just trusting the Lord to come through. I was sick. But you know, you’ve got like you got to keep them in the face in the believe them. And I walked out of that classroom and I had to go across the auditorium. And on my way about four or five kids followed me. I turned around and said, look, I’m sorry.

I don’t have time to talk to you right now. Can’t take any questions and answers. So I kept on walking and a couple of them dropped off. By the time I got down to the doctor and right then, it’s a couple more still finds it. So look, I don’t have time. I don’t want to be mean, untying, rude, nothing like that, but I can’t talk to you. right now. So they all dropped off. I went into my office, there’s one new girl, she just followed me right now with this.

I was a little perturbed. I don’t like people defying me all the time, you know. I’m not told what to do. She walked right behind me. And I turned and I said, look, I’m sorry. I didn’t, she says, how much do you need? I said, I need $10,000. She said, okay, she took out a checkbook and she started writing. And I thought, you know, $100, $250, that ain’t going to help me. And that’s a drop in the bucket. This is one of my college students.

She said, bro, I said, what are you doing? She says, I’m writing you out of check. I said, I can’t pay a back. I said, I don’t have any money to pay a back. She says, you don’t have to. She gave it to me and I looked at it for $10,000. I know the college and I didn’t have $100. And here I got a kid sitting here. They can sit and write me out of check for $10,000. And I was trying to get rid of her.

And the Lord was chasing me all down to the hallway, not to the auditorium. They even chased me in my office, trying to get me to take this $10,000. But I didn’t know it. You know what? I’ve had needs like that since then too. I’m often one where she was at and she never did show up. You never know. But that doesn’t limit God. God, because of his wisdom, may choose to meet that particular knee over and above that it just blow your mind.

But he has the power to do it. And you need to recognize that. That’s what causes a Christian never to give up, because prayer and venture the Lord’s will may be this, to work on miracle, to do something wonderful, to do something great. And you don’t know when, you don’t know how you’re going to do it, but he’s God. And he can take the fish and he can take the bread and he can multiply it. And he can take that hundred dollars you’ve got or that five hundred dollars you’ve got.

And he can multiply it, makes you know, you don’t have a clue. How do I know you were able to pay your bill, but you did it. And then years later, you’ll look back and you’ll say, God did this for me. God did this for me. And God, all he wants from you is for you to be thankful and you to praise him. And they give him credit. Sometimes we try to steal honor and glory from God. That’s why whenever people pray, you’ll hear him say, and we’ll give you the praise, the honor, the will give it to you.

know is whether you will or you won’t. And that could be one of the reasons why he doesn’t come through on your behalf because you see he knows just like he knew what was in them. He knew what he was going to do. Look to the Lord and trust him. But he is the Lord over the elements of the world. I want you to look at another one. Look in Matthew chapter 21. Matthew and chapter 21. I’ve often read this and kind of like the stories in charge of nature.

Now we know that sometimes we think, well, but death did all of this and did it, but the devil is limited. He can only do what he does when the Lord gets in permission. So you might credit him with something, but behind the scene there’s a God in heaven that’s in charge. I believe that God is in charge of the weather. I really do. I believe God is in charge of the rain, the hurricane, the tornadoes. I believe God is in charge.

I believe God is in charge of nature, of trees, of birds. Liberty says in verse 18, Matthew chapter 21, now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. When he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing there on, but leaves only and said unto it, let no fruit grow on thee henceforth forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. Somebody says, look what kind of a bad attitude he had.

I mean, Jesus was just a man with a bad attitude. Yeah, that’s the tree withered. I don’t give up by his attitude. I’m concerned to feed the tree withered. You want to try it with a good attitude? Just walk up to a tree and be with you and see what happens. But do you believe that God is in charge of nature? That God can bring the storms, that God can waddle the grass, that God can cause the drown. Remember whenever Joseph was sold down into Egypt, did you know the Lord knew that I, 20 years later, hey, I’m gonna bring a big old famine.

You know, Jacob and them, they would have never come down there if they had all the water they needed. Though he wouldn’t send his sons down there to get some food. But there’s a whole story behind it, but God’s the one that says there’s gonna be seven years of twenty seven years of drought. Well, how did, how did they know God’s in charge? He could have let there be fourteen years and I didn’t. Hey, there’s a God who rules in heaven and he knows what he’s doing.

He has a plan and he’s going to work his plan. Whether you, that guy, you don’t and whether you know it or not, he is working in your life. There’s God in heaven that is giving you personalized attention every day of your life. There’s things He’s allowing to come into your life and there’s things He’s withholding from you. He could be blessing you or He could be cursing you based upon an attitude problem that you may have. You see, you might need an attitude adjustment.

Have you ever had children that needed an attitude adjustment but he’s in charge. He’s in charge and he’s God. This is what he does. Look there in Luke chapter 19 and look in verse 30. Luke 19. Jesus was going to go into the city of Jerusalem and He needed a way to get in there and fulfill some scripture. There was a way in which he was going to fulfill this. He told his disciples, he said, I want you to go and find this donkey, this coal.

I believe that it was a wild coat. It says where a man had never sat. Have you ever tried to kill my horses? Never been ridden What do you think happens? And if you ride that horse you still got to be careful in when you don’t ride it for a long time I’ve been thrown from a horse. It is not a good feeling I’ve been on several horses and When you don’t know how to ride a horse and you’re riding along You know and there’s a certain speed that a horse can go and but it is not comfortable There’s a price to pay.

When you get off that horse, you look like a bite out of a donut. This is what happened here. I want you to look there in verse 30. Go into the village over against you in the witch at your entrance you shall find a coal tide. We’re on it yet never man sat and loose him and bring him unto me. And they did that and they brought him and he got on, I don’t think it’s the wisest thing to do, but evidently he must be in charge.

It doesn’t make any difference. Did you know there’s another story where they came to Peter and says, hey, do you in your matinee, do you pay taxes? He said, yeah. Jesus told him and says, you knucklehead, we don’t have to pay that tax of him. But anyway, he says, you didn’t already gave you a word, good on here and catch this certain fish and then that fish is a coin and take that coin and pay our taxes with it.

He knows there was a fish under the water somewhere that has a coin in his mouth. Because he’s gone. He knows we’re all the fish are, but he knows them all by name. And when every one down there to go fishing he just happened to catch the right fish. Evidently, he is in charge of fish, of animals, the animal world, the demon world, the world of nature, the atmosphere, everything. He is Lord of all. He’s in charge of all.

Everything. If you wanted to have a friend, can you think of anybody better to have on your side than the one who is in charge of everything? Everything. To provide food, heal the body, the world, you name it. Nobody has anything on him or over him. He is the preeminent one. There is nothing or nobody greater than the Lord Himself. Let me ask you a question. Do you believe that Jesus has power over death? When he was here, did he ever heal anybody?

You ever heard a man named Lazarus? And here’s this guy that’s been dead for four days and Jesus knew he was dead. But he knew what he was going to do. And when Mary and Martha had questions and darlin’ to pity her, it wouldn’t have happened. He didn’t want to be there. He let him die. He could have kept him from dying. And there’s going to be loved ones that you have. And there’s going to be people sitting right here that God can keep you from dying or He can allow you to die.

He is in charge of death. He’s in charge of life. And sometimes there’s nothing you’re going to do about it. And you have to just accept His will. We didn’t ask to be born. Sometimes we don’t even ask to live. And you may not even ask to die. We’d like it if we didn’t grow old. But we’re going to. We stay here long enough. Take your Bible and turn to the book of 1 John chapter 5. John in chapter 5, is he in charge of death?

Yes, he is. He says he has the keys of death and the hell. He’s in charge. This is why you can’t go wrong by trusting the one that is all powerful, the God that can do anything that you and I know anything about. And to know him as your Savior and to know that you’re walking with one and obey in one that can open up doors you never thought possible and he can close doors he can change things so quickly and blow your mind but always just keep believing keep believing that the one they can do all these things that’s That’s why God says in everything by prayer.

Everything, pray always about everything because we have an unlimited God. Looking first John chapter 5 verse 13, look what he said, this will knock your socks off. Verse 13, these things have I written unto you that they leave on the name of the Son of God. I wonder who that is. Jesus Christ that you may want. Know that you have eternal life. Who said that? The Lord God Himself who has the power over death. He has the power over life.

He has power of eternal life. And He says, I can give eternal life to whosoever who trusts me for it. I can give it to him. Look there in verse 11, this is the record that God have given unto us eternal life. And this life is where in his Son. He the half the Son, Christ, half one, he the half not the son of God, half not life. So whether you have eternal life or not, depending on whether you have the Son.

So when you accept the Son, you get eternal life. That’s why you can never lose eternal life because he says, I will never leave you and I will never forsake you. He is eternal life. Eternal life is an oboeing, it’s a person. Look down here in verse 20, and we know that the Son of God has come and have given us an understanding that we may know him, that is true. And we are in him, that is true. in his Son Jesus Christ.

This is the true God and what? And eternal life. So when you accept him, you have eternal life and he can give eternal life to anybody because he is eternal life. And then he said, I’ll never leave you and I’ll never forsake you. That’s pretty good. Let me quarrel over with this verse. Look there in John chapter 6 and verse 47. John chapter 6 and verse 47. John 6 47 says, very, very, I say unto you, he that believeth on me half that are lasting life.

Do you see why you can trust him? Look who he is. He’s the Lord. He’s the Lord. And he, the Lord, he’s the one that said eternal life is the gift of God. It’s not a works list. Any man should vote. So if he says it’s free, and And it’s a gift. What right with any preacher or any church have to tell you differently? They have no authority. All authority was given to him and he says it’s the gift of God.

Not a works list any man should boast. So when you trust Christ as your Savior, God gives you as a free gift everlasting life. Look up there. This is you and me. This is sin. all have sin on us. Now God says that he loves us, but he hates our sin. And God says the pay for that sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell. Now you and I, now we don’t want to go to hell.

If this is true, I don’t want to go there. Well who said it was true, the one that has all this power. He’s the one that says more about hell than need in about heaven. Is it what I believe in heaven, but I don’t believe in hell. Where did you find out about heaven? What in the Bible? Well, it also teaches about hell in the Bible. What right do you have to pick and choose? He said, oh, and you don’t need someone to down the cross and pay for your sins to keep you from a place that don’t exist.

God loves us. Wants us to go to heaven and to go to heaven, you have to be perfect at right. This has got to none of us are perfect. all sinners, we cannot save ourselves. The Bible says that Jesus Christ God’s son came into this world. He was perfect. He had no sin, so he didn’t have to die. But he loved us. And he took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead. And God said that if we would believe he did it for us, he would put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Christ did for us.

Now remember this, this morning you are either still lost because you were born in sin, you live in sin, you are not in sin. Or if you believe that Jesus Christ took your sin, then you’re no longer in sin and you no longer have to pay for sin because he paid it for you. So I trusted Christ as my Savior and God gave me the free gift of eternal life. Now He gave me eternal life. How long would it last?

Forever. And if it lasts forever and all my sins are paid, where will I go when I die? They haven’t. Who said so? God. Now is there anybody over Him? Then who can annull it? Who who can change it. He can’t change it. He gave his word. I can’t even change it. When I trusted Christ as my Savior 50 years ago, God gave me eternal life. I became His child. I’m going to heaven when I die. And nobody can change that.

Not even God. God can’t kick me out. He said, I’ll never cast you out and I’ll never leave. That’s His word. That’s His promise. You can’t trust God. Who can I can trust him. I want you to look at this one verse. Matthew 28, Matthew 28, and look in verse 18. Matthew 28, verse 18 says, and Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me. In heaven and in therefore teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever.

I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world, amen. All power. What do you need? You trust that Christ is your Savior. What are you facing? What situation do you have that is just impossible to solve? I know a God who deals with matters I know a God that can shaw anything. He can deliver anybody. But you got to believe him. And trust his wisdom because of all the things that he did, it may not be the proper timing.

He may have something better for you. Sometimes he has a higher calling than letting you live. Trust the Lord. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head, bow, maybe I close, no one looking around. If you hear this morning, and if you have never trusted Jesus Christ, and you’re your Savior. Would you do it? I’m not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to have you stand up or come forward. Don’t want anything from you. But right where you’re sitting, would you just talk to the Lord and say something like this?

Lord, I don’t understand it all. I got a lot of questions, got a lot of doubts. So many things I don’t understand. But Lord, I know I’m a sinner. And I believe that you are who you claim to be. You are the Lord. And I believe you came into this world and died on my cross, paid for my sins. And today I’m going to trust you as my Savior. And if you’ll trust Jesus Christ right now as your Savior, he’ll save you right now.

From hell and give you eternal life and you can know that you’re going to heaven when you get up to leave. You can do it right now. So in the quietness of this moment, is there anyone else that says, yes, that may sense to me. And I’m going to trust Christ as my Savior, and preach I like You to pray for me. Then we just slip your hand up very quickly and put a rut back down. And you don’t even have to raise your hand if you say, God knows who You are and knows where you are.

Let me ask another question. You didn’t know Christ as your Savior. Have you been heavy verdant lately? Is it finances? Is it health? Is it just a thing you just don’t know and don’t understand? Feel frustrated and you just need the Lord to comfort you. Can you just trust the Lord when it seems so impossible? Would you let God have a chance to work it out? Put it in his hands and leave it there. And don’t worry about it.

I can solve so many things in his way. Just lean on him a little bit. You know what the problem is? We’re going to handle it. You and the Lord make a majority. You and the Lord, you can do anything. Our follow we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us and for the power that you have because of who you are. And Lord, we don’t understand sometimes how things are going to work. We can’t see very clearly sometimes.

But father, I know that because of who you are, the wisdom that you have, your timing, your provision, your healing, whatever it is as always, right on time and you’re never late. Help us to learn the lessons you have for us, to go through the experiences because we know what’s best, and help us not to learn our more complaint. Thank you for all you’ve done for us and for these people. Bless each one. In Christ and we pray. Amen.

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I Need to inform you That should should And once we’re shined on love, Lord Jesus Christ comes back this week. I will not be here next Sunday. How many of y’all if the Lord came back this week are planning on going with him? Let me see your hand. All right. How many of you plan on sticking around? Okay. Look like everybody wants to go. That’s a good sign. That’s a good sign. The Lord says, you’re going to give a crown to those who love his appearing.

And I don’t care if it comes right today or tomorrow. I just want to keep serving until then. Until then. Once you take your Bible and turn to the book of Mark, chapter 12, the book of Mark, and chapter 12, I want to speak on Jesus Christ, the Lord of all. Or I guess you could call up the Lordship of Christ, but I want you to know He is Lord of all. And He has all power to do what needs to be done.

Mark 12, and look there in verse 28, verse 28, one of the scribes came and having heard them reasoning together and perceiving that He had answered them well. him which is the first commandment of all. Jesus answered him, the first of all the commandments is here O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord by God with all by heart and with all by soul and with all by mind. And with all by strength, this is the first commandment.

And the second is like, namely this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. If you and I had to keep the law to be saved, then we would have to fulfill these two commandments because the law is fulfilled in one word love. And if I didn’t love, I’d have to love the Lord with all my heart, my body, soul, and strength. And I’d have to love everybody else the same way. And the Lord says, if a man could keep the law, then barely righteousness should have been by the law.

Many people believe that this is really the crux of lordship salvation, making Jesus Christ the Lord, the master of their life. If he’s the master, then that makes me the servant. Do I have to serve the master in order to be saved. If you had to do these two commandments, this is the law. This is the fulfillment of the law. So a man can’t be saved by keeping the law. It means that no man loves God with all his hard mind, body, soul, and strength.

and no man loves his neighbor as himself. It would be great if we did. If we loved everybody the way we’re supposed to, what need any laws? That’s why he says where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, the freedom. We have to have laws to control those people that will not do these two things. This is where all of our problems come right here. Does a man have to make Christ the Lord and the Master of his life to be saved?

That’s the issue. I believe Jesus is the Lord. That’s who he is. But do I have to have him the Lord or the Master of my life in order to be saved? Do I have to serve and bow to the Master in order to earn my way to heaven by walking a straight and narrow way? Do I have to deserve the right to go to heaven? And the answer is no. So, man does not have to make Christ the Lord and the Master of his life.

He is the Lord. I don’t make him Lord. He is the Savior of the world. I don’t have to make him Savior of the world. It’s who he is. I may or may not recognize that. I may not understand that. But it doesn’t change the fact he is still the master. And should we obey the master? Yes, we should, but we don’t have it within us to do it. We may desire it. And you may wanna love the Lord with all your heart, but you can’t and you don’t.

And maybe you wanna let your neighbors yourself, but you don’t. No man can perfectly fulfill these two great commandments because this is what entails all the law. So when you read the 10 commandments in the book of Exodus, you’ll find the first four are generally to the Lord and the sixth to man. This is what he’s talking about. Take your Bible looking John chapter four, the gospel of John and chapter four. Now we’ll be looking at quite a few scriptures, so kind of, you know what, you’ve fingered it, boys, and a while like that.

So you can really flip through the scriptures. But John chapter four, And I want you to look there in verse 42. And verse 42, this is on page 11, 20, and an old scope, a reference Bible. And verse 42 says, and sent unto the woman, now we believe not because of thy saying, but we have heard him ourself. And we know that this is indeed the Christ, the savior of the world. Now, because it says, Savior of the world, does that mean that the whole world will save?

No. He is the Savior. He is the only Savior in the world, and He did die in order to save the world, but He gave us a choice. Now, I can allow Him to be my Savior, but it doesn’t change the fact that He still is the Savior. After I trust Christ as my Savior, It is the will of God that I serve the Lord. I don’t make him the master. I don’t make him the Lord. It’s who he is.

I can choose to serve him or not serve him, but it’s still the will of God. And he is still who he is, regardless of whether I recognize it or not. There are some people who teach it. You must make Christ the Lord and the master of your life in order to be saved. Some people will tell you that in order to get saved, you must accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. And you wanna know what do you mean by that?

And so you have to sometimes get people to define your terms. What do you mean by as my Lord and Savior? Do you mean that I must make him the Lord, the master of my life in order for him to save me? And if I don’t make him Lord, he will not save me. Now there’s people who teach this. They teach that. But I don’t believe it’s true. I don’t make him anything. I must recognize that I am a sinner and cannot save myself, but I do not.

And he does not require me to serve him in order to be saved. He will save me by faith and faith alone in Christ alone. And I kind of like that. Looking Romans 10. chapter 10 there’s a scripture there that’s kind of looks like it might be able to throw you just a little bit. Romans chapter 10 looked there in verse 9. Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and it makes this statement that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus shall believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead without shop he saved.

But with the heart man believed it under righteousness, but the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So I believe what Christ says and who he is, and I confess it with my mouth. Confessing it with my mouth will not save me or never save anybody. But I am to believe. In order to get God’s righteousness. And because I received his righteousness, I am saved in my mouth. I’m too confessive because faith coming by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

But I should believe that he is the Lord Jesus. Another way of wording that is he was Jesus is Lord. That’s who he is. I must recognize Jesus Christ is not just another man. It’s not just believing on anybody called Jesus. This is the Jesus. Jesus that is the Son of the living God. This is the Lord Jesus. See, He is deity. He is God. And I should believe this and understand this. I want you to take your Bible and look at the Philippians in chapter 2.

Philippians in chapter 2. But I want you to see this down here. Where talks about in verse 9 Wherefore God had highly exalted him given him a name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and Things under the earth and that every tongue Should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father recognizing that Jesus Christ isn’t just anybody named Jesus.

Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one, the suffering one, the one that was going to pay for the sins of the world. Jesus Christ died, was highly exalted and given the name, and that everybody should recognize He is the Lord. Another way of saying He is is God, be is God. And if he is God, then he deserves to be worshiped as God. Jesus Christ deserves our recognition of who he is. Now, I want to show you that if he is who he claims to be, it should be demonstrated in scripture because you know in the book of Matthew chapter 28 says all power is given unto me.

Now before all power was given unto him after his resurrection and his name was highly exalted. All the miracles that he did, he said he did it by the power of the Holy Spirit, not because of his own power, though he had power. But he didn’t utilize that deity that he had and those attributes of God. But they were like set aside just for a while, he became a man. Now he was truly man and truly God. But the Bible says that Jesus did what he did by the power of the Holy Spirit.

A look there in John chapter 1 and verse 12. We know that he is the Lord in salvation because of Romans and chapters in that we just looked at. But in the book of John chapter 1, look there in verse 12, John chapter 1 and verse 12. And verse 12 says, but as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. Who gave you the right to become a child of God? God Jesus Christ did.

As many who come to Him. To them gave He power to become the sons of God, to those that believe on His name. So he is the Lord of the He’s in charge of salvation. And so nobody can get saved unless they go through him. There is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby you can be saved. You cannot be saved, believe in the name of the game, or Peter a model, it will not work. There is no other name because there’s nobody else that can save you.

So he is the Lord. He’s in charge. He is God of salvation. Take your Bible and look there in the book of Matthew, chapter 12, the book of Matthew and chapter 12. You know, there was a problem here. He had done a lot of wonderful things, but he even cast out devils. Look here in verse 22. Verse 22, this is then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind dumb. He healed him in so much that the blind and the dumb both spake and saw.

And all the people were amazed and said, is not this the son of David? See, they didn’t see him any more than just somebody in the line. But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, this fellow does not cast out devils, but by the yells above the Prince of Devils. See, some people can see who he is, some people could not see who he was. Oh yeah, he was the son of God. He was the son of David, the Messiah, the promised one.

But not everybody believed. It didn’t change the fact of who he is, just because of other people’s unbelief. Like some people, they don’t believe there’s a God. Okay, does that do away with God? No, God’s still God. And he still does what he does. and our unbelief doesn’t change God. God is still God. And verse 25, and Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them, every kingdom divided against itself has brought to desolation every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself. In other words, if I’m the devil and I cast out the devil, why would I destroy my own house? So he says in verse 27. And if I buy the yells about the Prince of Devil, if I cast out devils by whom do your children cast them out, therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils in your underlying statement by the Spirit of God, you see they were saying that you are doing what you’re doing by the power of the devil.

He said I’m doing it by the power of the Holy Spirit. Now he had his own power, but there was the God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Jesus as a man humbled himself to the Father and depended totally upon the Father and did all that he did and all of his miracles. Everything was done by the power of the Holy Spirit. And he depended and yielded and the Holy Spirit had freedom to work to the Son. Of course, this is Son of Volak, I guess a little bit of a way supposed to be today.

You see, you and I, we don’t have no power of our own. Though I am a son of God, I’m a child of the kingdom. But we live and do what we do, not buy our power. But by the Holy Spirit that lives within us. Now take your Bible and look there none. Book of Mark. Take a look in the book of Mark. Look in chapter 5, Mark chapter 5, and look in verse 25, is Jesus the Lord over the demon world?

Well, they can cast out demons, I would say, he qualifies. You see, if he has all power, he should be able to do anything at any time, whatever he things best. And when you see what he can do at different points in his ministry, you know, he’s not limited. He’s not limited. Look at verse 25, and a certain woman, which had an issue of blood 12 years, suffered many things by many physicians, and she had health care. No, and she spent all that she had and was nothing better and rather she got worse.

Have you ever gone to the doctor instead of getting better? He got worse. Well, he kind of scares you today to go to the hospital. They say more people die in the hospital than anywhere else in the world. So the remedy is just out of the hospital. Anyway, people are going to die and some people, doctors are limited. There’s only so much that they can do. And she didn’t spend all of her money. The doctors hadn’t held. So he says, when she heard in verse 27, Jesus came in the press behind.

She touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Straight away, the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she had been healed of that plague. Jesus immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned about in the presence, says, Who touched my clothes? And the disciples said to him, dossias the multitude, throng in thee, and sayest thou who touched me? But see, it wasn’t just that somebody touched him.

Somebody touched him with faith. Somebody believed something. And isn’t it something that Jesus Christ had the power over illnesses and over sicknesses? You see, if he doesn’t, why do we pray? Why do we ask God to touch and heal anybody? He doesn’t have the power to do it. But you and I are supposed to believe that He is the Lord. He’s God. God’s not letting God can do this. And when sometimes it seems like the doctors, well, they can’t handle everything.

They don’t know everything. Sometimes they’re right. Sometimes they’re not. But we want, we want people to do all that they can. But we know that he’s the great physician and things are in his hands. And he may allow us to be healed and he may allow us to die. Eventually all of us are going to die if the Lord doesn’t come back soon. I watched the man that was in the hospital and I do I knew there’s no way this man’s gonna come out of the hospital But he said my name I told Rick I said we’re gonna take your name off the prayer miss we don’t need to pray for you no more And when if you just saw me in the hospital like I did you wouldn’t think he’d get up there never walk again but here he is But you don’t have any idea the

Lord can intervene and do what he wants none. You’re not just supposed to trust him because if he can heal anybody of anything, you might need to trust his wisdom of whether he does it or not. If he kept us all alive, you realize that we could be born 500 years old when these old creaky bodies, but the day is coming. But he touched in here so he has the power and he has Lord over disease of plagues of anything like this.

Look there in John chapter six. You know if Jesus Christ is the Lord then I would expect him to be able to do a lot of things like remember when he went up on the mountain and he was to be tested and he had an eight for about 40 days. Man 40 minutes is enough. Yeah, an eight for 40 days. It says afterwards he was hungry and the devil says, if you are who you claim to be, then why don’t you just take those stones and make them in the bread?

I just said, what about hot biscuits? We’re just a little butter in it. I used to take my mom used to make those hot biscuits and we’d take peanut butter and molasses and we’d stir it all up and then we’d just stop it. You need a fork and you just stop it. Just get it all over your face. It’s just sloppy. Everyone’s going to know how you get something in the mouth. And he had an 8th of 40 days and says, if you have a pocket.

You know what? Later on, he did. But he did it on his timing, not because of the devil. But here in the book of John, I want you to look at this here. John chapter 6, looking verse 5, verse 5 says, And when Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company coming to him and he said to them, I fella, when shall we buy bread that these may eat? Now this he said to prove her to test him for he knew in himself what he was going to do.

Now he already knew what he was going to do. So he knew before that he was going to take some, you know, some fish sandwiches for everybody. And there was no McDonald’s around. He was going to make some. Philip answered him, 200 penny worth is a bread. It’s not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little. One of the disciples, Andrew Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, there’s a land over here. He had five barley loaves and two small fishes, but they said among themselves, he said, well, what’s that among so many?

Jesus says, make the men sit down. Then there was much grass in the place so the men sat down the number about 5,000. That’s just the men. I mean women and children were there and Jesus took the lows and when he had given thanks he distributed to the disciples the disciples to them that were set down and Like was of the fishes as much as they would and when they were filled he said into his disciples gather up the fragments that remain Take the baskets and get all the stuff that was left over Is he in charge?

If he is who he claims to be, if he could supply us with salvation, eternal life, and he has the power to heal these bodies, can he supply us with a fish sandwich? Now, he didn’t do it all the time, but he did it in his own good timing. There’s some things you can’t make God do, but that doesn’t limit God. God still God and you never know when he’s going to pull one on you. I have seen God miraculously do things for me that it just blew my mind, but he doesn’t do it every day of my life.

It was one day when I was in college class. I teach them the kids, not the words, yeah, don’t worry, don’t worry. God always come through. I was telling them that because I was worried sick. I had a bank note, but ten thousand dollars. I had to have it that morning, by nine o’clock when the bank opened. I had no money. We had a ten thousand dollar note at the pay. The leaders in the church, they didn’t know what to do, so they just said, preacher I handle it.

So I’m painting my personal evangelism class at 8 o’clock and I told him, I said, I’m going to have to cut the class short because I’ve got to get down to the bank. And I said, I want you to auto pray. I said, because there’s a big need and I just like the auto pray. I said, I need some money and I’m just trusting the Lord to come through. I was sick. But you know, you got to keep them in the faith, in the believing.

And I walked out of that classroom and I had to go across the auditorium. And on my way, about four or five kids followed me. I turned around and said, look, I’m sorry. I don’t have time to talk to you right now. Can’t take any questions and answers. So I kept on walking and a couple of them dropped off. By the time I got down to the doctor and right and then a couple more still finds out, I said, look, I don’t have time.

I don’t want to be mean, untying, rude, nothing like that, but I can’t talk to you right now. So they all dropped off. I went into my office. There’s one new girl. She just followed me right now with this. I was a little perturbed. I don’t like people defying me all the time, you know. I’m not told what to do. She walked right behind me. And I turned and I said, look, I’m sorry. She says, how much do you need?

I said, I need $10,000. She said, OK. She took out a checkbook and she started writing. And I thought, you know, $100, $250. That ain’t going to help me, none. And that’s a drop in the bucket. I mean, this is one of my college students. She said, bro, I said, what are you doing? She says, I’m writing you out of check. All right. I said, I can’t pay a back. I said, why don’t I have any money to pay a back?

She says, you don’t have to. She gave it to me and I looked at it for $10,000. I’m the president of the college and I didn’t have $100. And here I got a kid sitting here. They can sit and write me out of check for $10,000. And I was trying to get rid of her. And the Lord was chasing me all down through the hallway, down through the auditorium. They even chased me in my office, trying to get me to take this $10,000.

But I didn’t know it. You know what? I’ve had needs like that since then too. And I’ve often wondered where she was at and she never did show up. You never know. But that doesn’t limit God. God, because of his wisdom, may choose to meet that particular need over and above that will just blow your mind. But he has the power to do it. And you need to recognize that. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

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Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound. We will be changed. Hot up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.

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So what you’re trying to do is find the right people at the right time that are receptive. And you lure them. Just like the devil lures them to do wrong, you lure them to accept Christ as their Savior, and you give them the bait and say, look, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The hosts who ever believe within Him should not perish but have everlasting life. A verse I often use every time I pull out my track, I’ll show them on the front how that little fellow on there’s, that’s when I was 17 and had hair.

They usually laugh a little bit, a little chuckle, doesn’t hurt anything. Now, so let me show you something on the inside. Look at this verse. It says, these things have I written unto you that they leave on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. What’s the purpose of reading that? It’s bait. You can know you have eternal life. You can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. And so I use that.

You’re luring people. But we’ve got something everybody needs to know. And so just remember that. Next statement, don’t give God orders. Just report for duty. Just report for duty. Look in Luke chapter 17. Look over there, it’s his first. Now book of Luke chapter 17. But you do need to understand that you and I are not to give God orders. He is the commander in chief. He’s the boss. He tells us what to do. And all we’re supposed to do is say, yes, sir.

Look what he says in verse seven. But which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle? Will say unto him by and by and when he has come from the field, go and sit down and eat. And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sub and gird thy sub and serve me till I have eaten and drunk them, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drunk.” Women, a servant’s been out there plowing and feeding cattle all day.

He comes in the house and he’s posed a serve and work and feed you and make sure you’ve You’ve got something to eat and to drink before he does. I like these kind of servants. You say, who’s they talking about? Not much of a wife. No, not really. Look in verse nine. Does he think that servant, because he did the things that were commanded him? I should think not. But in verse 10, So likewise ye when ye shall have done,” and you ought to underline thisolars, draw a circle around the word all, “…when you have done all those things which are commanded you, say we are unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do.”

You and I insert in the Lord the thing that goes beyond the call of duty is the love that we have for the Lord. To go beyond that which God requires of us and do more. To sacrifice. You see you have not sacrificed unto the Lord when you have simply given that which God requires. Sacrifice is when when you go beyond that. Most people never go beyond. I believe a lot of people think that serving lawyers just like tipping the Lord a quarter, you know, and hope it just leaves me alone.

You know, this is a token of my appreciation. Thanks, God. Now, I’m free to do whatever I want to do with the rest of my life. I don’t think it’s going to work that way, but verse 10 is a good verse to keep in mind. Just say, Lord, I’m just a unprofitable servant. I really don’t deserve anything. I’ve only done that, which was my duty to do. You see, in the book of Romans in chapter 12, brethren, I beseech you that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

That’s just something that we ought to do. Don’t you think that all of God’s people ought to serve the Lord? If we never get another blessing, if we don’t get anything, we don’t get one reward. We still ought to do it. I’m just an unprofitable servant, and you won’t God do what He feels free to do to us whenever we get to heaven and what He chooses to give? I believe God is such a good God. He’s gonna blow our minds.

When you get there and you see what God is going to give you, it’s going to blow your mind. Let me give you another statement. A man does not fail or fall in service, unless he is unfaithful. Get that. A man does not fail in service unless he is unfaithful. Turn in your Bible and look in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 4. 1 Corinthians 4-2. See there in verse 2, Moreover, it is required, required in stewards that a man be found rich.

Popular. Just faithful. All God wants you to do is what you can do. God doesn’t want you to do what you can’t do. So the preacher has no right to require of you anything. God doesn’t require of you. I don’t have any authority to try to get you to do something God doesn’t want you to do. True? All I want you to do is what you believe God wants you to do. So all I try to do is teach you to book and try to challenge and motivate you with what the Word of God says and hopefully you’ll respond.

So another good statement let me give it to you. You may dodge the responsibilities, but you cannot dodge the consequences. So as you go through life, you can, you ever play dodge ball? Somebody trying to hit you with the ball and you try to dodge out of the way? Whenever my uncle came to pick us up out of Georgia, my mom and all were six kids, they came down from Pennsylvania to Georgia to get us out of Georgia because of my dad was a drunk and he was trying to kill my mom and beater and all that kind of stuff.

So anyway, they were going to get us out there. But he had a new car he had just bought. This was in 1949 and he had a nice 1949 Dodge. And I used to You played dodgeball and I thought, man, to get a car that you played dodge car in. And you’re driving down the road and you’re trying to dodge cars. I mean, I was only seven years old, but I thought that’s what it was for. And I didn’t understand.

But you can as you go through life dodge your responsibilities, try to figure out ways to get out of doing what God wants you to do. You can dodge the responsibility. You don’t have to reach the Bible. I dodged that. I don’t have to witness anybody. Boy, I dodged that. And you can dodge all you want. But understand, you cannot Abedin the consequences of your decisions. You and I are going to have to give an account to the Lord for what we have done.

And that might not be pretty. Because God’s the one that knows what you could have done with your life. God does. Another statement, He who abandons Himself to God will never be abandoned by God. I know if I abandon myself to the Lord’s hands, I’ll never be abandoned by Him. He said he’ll never leave. He said he never leave. I’m talking but I’m talking about the will of God.66666666 If I abandon more than the will of God for my life never have to worry about God.

Without taking me or blessing me or giving me everything that I need to do whatever he wants me to do. Because now I know it’s God’s response. God doesn’t dodge his responsibility. Another statement. Satan crushes our spirits by getting us to bear tomorrow’s burdens on today’s grace. See God says he gives us the grace that we need for every day. But Satan wants to crush our spirits by getting us to bear tomorrow’s burden on today’s grace. We’re supposed to believe that when tomorrow comes, God will give me the grace I need to bear that burden for that day.

As he says in the book of Matthew chapter 6, sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. In other words, God will give to you and I, all that we need for each day, but it’s wrong to borrow from the past or from the future, live each day, moment by moment. Walk with the Lord moment by moment, day by day. Another statement, God won’t pay you on the first day for the rest of the week. God doesn’t pay you on the first day for the rest of the week.

You have to put in the time and the work and the effort, and then you can expect to get paid. Did you know, let me show you this to you. Look there in the Gospel of John, chapter 4, the Gospel of John and chapter 4. They had just gotten back from having their whoppers at Burger King, and they came up Jesus and they said, are you hungry? He says, I have meat to eat that you know not of. See there in verse 32?

And then the disciples said one to another, hath any man brought him ought to eat? Didn’t anybody bring him something to eat? What’s he talking about? Now, of course, Jesus was talking about his meat was to do the will of him, that sent him. There is a satisfaction of doing what God wants you to do that the world will never understand. And food will not satisfy this desire and drive that you have. There’s more to it. So he makes a statement there in verse 34, Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.

Say not either yet for months and then come of harvest. But what’s he saying? Don’t think that one of these days down the road, we’re going to… He says, the harvest is ripe now. But a lot of you are always planning in the future. One of these days, like that guy that, Mont-Pauquetel, every time he walked out the screen door, it fell off its hinges. And he’s, I’m going to fix that one of these days. And I thought, I didn’t see him say that in about four movies, and he never did fix that door.

But I’m going to fix that one of these days. So he says, by the way, just to say along the line, the men in Washington can’t fix the problem because you have to fix the men in order for them to fix the problem. And they do not have the wisdom of God to fix the problem. But look what he says here in verse 36, and he that reapeth received. What’s that next word? Wages. It means that God will pay you to be a soul winner.

God will pay you because He’s talking about reaping the harvest, winning soul. God will pay soul winners. It didn’t say he pays everybody else, but soul winners. And gather a fruit that will last forever. Well that’s living for something that’s worth living for. Let me give you a couple more of these. Never ask God to lighten your load, but strength to bear it. See, serving the Lord is not the absence of problems, but the addition. I used to have a couple of thousand of these and I memorized them and I would sprinkle my messages with these things.

Now I have to admit my memory is not as good as it used to be because when you don’t use it you lose it. And so when I do evangelistic work I just preach sermons. But whenever you’re trying to build people strong, you need all these things. See, I’m not interested in you just being able to explain the gospel to somebody. You’ve got a life to live, and if you don’t stay strong in the Lord and your personal life, you won’t be witnessing to anybody because your life will fall apart.

I want you to stay strong and understanding some of these things will help you to be strong. And there are things that have helped me. So I believe that you’re not much different than I am, and if it helps me, it probably will help you. I heard this one about a missionary. Attempt great things for God and expect great things from God. I saw that at Boca Raton in 1964. It was on a sign there in what we used to call the the old hot box that we had all of our meetings.

And they’d have 400 kids there, no air condition here in Florida in the middle of the summertime. And that’s how we used to have camp. Now we have to have air condition, don’t we? We just got to have air condition. Well, I remember when we didn’t have their condition. But be that as it may. And I saw that sign. It makes me think, I want to attempt great things from the Lord. And I expect great things from God. But see, if you don’t attempt anything, you ought not expect anything.

Because you don’t deserve anything. Faith drives a man to action. That’s why it says, faith without works is dead. Because faith in the Lord produces a love and an action in his life. Oh, you may know Christ is your Savior going to heaven when you die. But you’re not there yet. You still got life to live. Another statement. When you flee temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. I like that. When you flee temptation, don’t leave a forward in address.

A person controlled by moods will not be faithful or won’t be used. You see, have you ever seen somebody? Here’s the line of what we were considered to be normal. And there’s people who can go way above the line of being normal. Everything is just wonderful. And they’re just getting off, laughing about everything. They’re the life of the party. But when they get discouraged and down, they go that much down below the line of normal.

They’re really excited and positive and excited. And then they’ve moments of despair and away down here. So, how high you go above, you generally go below. And that’s what we call a yo-yo, a yo-yo. And a lot of Christians are just a bunch of yo-yos. And so, when you start maturing in the Lord, You don’t go so high above the line and you don’t go very far below the line.

This is a sign of an undisciplined mind, ruled by emotions. And God can’t use that word because they’re unstable. It’s like having two minds. A double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. Now, the good statement. Children of the king should use the language of the court. Are you a child of the king? Shouldn’t you talk like your daddy? Shouldn’t you know his word? Do you know I can be a Rhine Christian sometimes? And they never quote scripture.

They never talk about the Lord. I don’t know if they can quote any verses at all in the Bible. This was written by your dad. Your daddy wrote this. You’re his child. A child of God should learn how to talk like his dad a little bit. And so when you study the word of God, you’ll learn so much and you spend a little time with him and you’ll begin to think like God thinks. I mean, it’s supposed to work that way.

Another good point. It is a great sin to tolerate a little sin. It is a great sin to tolerate a little sin. Don’t talk cream and live skim milk. Don’t let friendships influence your dollar. Beware of making a decision when you are discouraged. Well, I have many times I’ve had to use that. I’ll be talking some couple and because her and her husband, they just heard her husband, they had a fight and I said, look, don’t make a decision when you’re down and discouraged.

They’ll generally try to make one to get you out of a problem. I mean, maybe the Lord doesn’t want you out of the problem. He wants you to go through the problem and learn some lessons that He asked for you. Don’t think that God always wants you to run from a response, but run from a problem. running because wherever you go it’s going to catch you. It’ll find out where you are. Next point, not serving the Lord is like a train off the track.

Satan likes us to be active but not productive. If you draw breath God has a purpose for you. Do you remember me using that a couple of times here? If you have a pulse, you have a purpose. Don’t you all remember any of these great bits of wisdom that I’ve taught you all the last two years? If you have a pulse, you have a purpose. So you’re supposed to remember all these things. Another good one. If God never slumbers or sleeps, why should both of us stay awake at night?

If God never slumbers your sleep, why should both of us stay awake at night? Another good one, if you place everything that you have into the hands of God, it won’t be long before you’ll see God’s hand in everything that you have. And you’ll see God working in this area, and God’s working here, and God’s working, God’s working. And you say, boy, it’s so good to see God working. Well, see, God works because you put it into his hands.

You do think that God says to do, When you begin to see God working, it worked that way. No man is greater than his prayer life. No man is greater than his prayer life. You need to talk to the Lord all the time about everything. And that’s how you cast all of your cares upon the Lord. Joined Talk to the Lord. He’s your Father. Another good statement. God is beyond the reach of prayer, except that which is beyond Sova will of God.

God grinds the axe. He plans to use. Do you feel like sometimes God is just grinding on you? It could be like He’s grinding and sharpening the edge of an axe. Whys why would you sharpen the edge of952 ax? To cut wood ii. Should you sharpen the ax before you cut the wood or after you($the wood? Or in the middle of cutting the |–. You should sharpen the ax before you cut the wood. And then sometimes in the mist of your work a Christian can begin to lose his edge.

So you sometimes have to stop and get the ax sharpened again. Sometimes God is working your life because he’s just knocking off some of the rough edgesFIX out Comey life. You know WRITE is doing just be patientMars. And the last one I’d like to give to you Define God’s will is defined yourself and your purpose Nanto Define God’s will you find yourself and your purpose Who am I? Who made me? What am I doing here? Where did I come from?

Where am I going? What does God want me to do? So finding the will of God is finding yourself and the purpose for your life. And you do that, you’ll be all right. Look up here. Let this hand represent you and me. By the way, let me just say this. You have no idea and I really don’t either. How many people are watching our broadcast so always be praying and be thinking of those that might, see, you may know Christ is your savior.

You might not even need to hear this again, but if somebody’s watching and they’ve never heard before, do you think I should do it just for the sake that they may hear and understand it? You will probably be in your mind. You’ll be praying for those people that have never heard right. Whew, man, we’ve got to cut people here. This is you and me. The wall of represents sin. We all have sin on us. God says that He loves us.

I believe that. I really do. I even believe that I’m a sinner. I even believe that I’ve done things wrong. Why would I believe that? Because God said so. And if God hadn’t have said so, I’d still believe it. I know. But God loves me. He hates my sin. And He says to pay for my sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell. But God loves me, wants me to go to heaven. And to go to heaven I have to be perfect, as righteous as God, and I’m not perfect, I’m not as righteous as God.

Not even close. God says you cannot save yourself, you cannot work your way to heaven. There’s no amount of good deeds you can do to save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ, he’s the Lord, God in the flesh. Came into the world because he loves us, he hates our sin, but he does love us. So I guess you could say that we are all loved. Well, some person loves us or not is another thing, but we know that God does love us.

So Christ took all the sins of the whole world and paid for them on the cross. He came back from the dead, and this death payment that He made, He says if we would believe He did it for us, He would put that payment to our account. See, I didn’t really make the payment. He did it for me, that substitution. He did it in my place. So he paid for my sins. He paid for your sins. He paid for the sins of the whole world.

So anybody in the world can believe he did it for them. And God said, I will put this payment to your account. And you don’t have a debt anymore. You don’t have any sins to pay for. They’re all paid. You get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for you. That’s the gift of God. And all you have to do is believe that. And he says, these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God Jesus Christ, that you will not perish but have everlasting life.

You can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. Best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bowed and every eye closed and no one looking around, if you’re here, you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior. Why not just talk to him right now and say, Lord, I don’t understand at all? But Lord, I know that I’m a sinner. I believe you died on the cross for me. And I’m going to trust you and you alone is my only hope of going to heaven.

And friend God says, if you would trust him, he would save you and give eternal life. So in the quietness of this moment, whether you’re here in the auditorium or listen, would you right now accept Jesus Christ as your Savior? Would you trust him? You that are in the auditorium, if you’re trusting Christ as your Savior, you never had before, but tonight for the first time, you say that made sense to me and preach our life for you to pray for me.

Would you just slip in it very quickly and put a wrap back down? Zenio was all. Our Father, we thank You again for all that You’ve done for us. We’re thankful that we have some of these bits of wisdom that are based upon what Your Word has to say to help the challenge and motivate us to appreciate all that you’ve done for us and what you can do. We pray that as we walk with you and abide in you that we know that Satan is going to do whatever he can do, tempt us and delete us astray.

Help us to stay as close as we can to walk with you as we ought to. Bless each one here. In Christ and 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 were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Another question. If you were God, would you hire yourself? If you were God, would you hire you to work for Him? Are you worth getting paid for by the Lord? Did you know that whenever you serve the Lord, God is paying you? God’s gonna pay you? It’s just not payday yet. But we’re supposed to labor now, believe in payday’s coming later. And that God is going to reward us, and it will be worth it all. Do you believe that?

I believe that. I believe payday’s coming, and I can wait. Payday’s not here. That’s right, when you do good things for the Lord down here, don’t expect everything to be wonderful, and everybody love and appreciate it. They may do it, they may not. It doesn’t matter because you know God hired you and God is going to pay you. I guess he could fire you too, huh? Time to come on home boy. Next statement, the Lord’s approval is worth all the sarcasm of your friends.

The Lord’s approval is worth all the sarcasm of your friends. And doesn’t matter who your friends are, or people to work with, even sometimes people at home, people at church. You can’t convince everybody of everything that you do or why you should do it. But you should be convinced that if God wants you to do certain things and you do that, then if it’s acceptable to God that ought to be pleasing to you. The next statement is, give eternal issues proper priority.

In the book of Matthew in chapter 6 and verse 33 it says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things will be added unto you. So it’s a get your priorities straight. put the Lord first in everything. Always be reasoning in your mind. What does God want me to do? What is God’s will for my life? Because you can live your life, and everybody does, but they don’t all live it for him.

So you can live your life and totally waste your life. Only in the dictionary does success come before work. alphabetically success starts with a S. Work starts with a W. So only in the dictionary does success come before work. But in reality you have to do the work in order to be successful. Let me have you take your Bible and turn to the the book of 2 Corinthians, the book of 2 Corinthians, chapter 12, sent to be spent. See, you and I, when we trusted Christ as our Savior, He gave us eternal life and wants us to love Him and to serve Him.

He wants to love others through us. But He makes a statement in verse 14 of chapter 12, 2 Corinthians chapter 12. Look in verse 14, Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you. For I seek not yours, what you have, but you. So you are more important than the things that you have or accumulate. God loves you. That doesn’t mean God loves your house, and God loves your car, and God loves your kitty cat, I don’t know how he feels about kitty cats, I should take that back.

But I know God loves you, and you’re supposed to believe that God loves you. And God has allowed us to have and enjoy many things in life, but don’t think those things are more important than the one that gave them to us. The Lord is more important to you than anything you presentlySIGN or enjoy>>>>>>>> because you can lose all of those things. Because everything that you see is temporal. It’s all temporal. He said, what does that mean? It don’t last forever.

So he says, I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. That’s the only verse in the Bible that I’m not sure I agree________________________. Now that I’m getting older and I’ve got a couple kids, I, you know, they ought to take care of Papa when he gets old, you know, the grandkids. So I think that what we’re supposed to do, to train them to take care of us when we get old.

But it says, but the parents for the children. So you and I are supposed to be given them something worth living for. It’s not always the things, it’s the character. It’s them learning how to trust the Lord. Walk with the Lord, lean upon the Lord. We should be leaving spiritual values with our children. Look in verse 15, he said, and I will vary gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

You ought to underline that. That’s a beautiful statement. I almost feel sorry for Paul when he writes this. He had gone to this place. He led these people to the Lord. And then somebody else comes along and turns them against Paul and he has to defend his apostleship and they just turned against Paul and they said things against him and he says all that I have gone through. He mentioned that in chapter 11. All of that that I’ve gone through.

The cares of this world, the cares of the churches, he says I have spent my life for you and the more I love you the less I’m loved the more I do for you the less you understand and respect. Now if that happened to the Apostle Paul is there a possibility you might do something for somebody and they do not do not do not appreciate you or what you believe or stand for and all the love that you try to show.

I’ve had people that I’ve led to Christ and they were just almost worshiped me. Greatest guy in the world. And then after a while, totally turn and hate you and tell you, I hate you. I said, what did I do to you? I don’t know. I just hate you. I’m against you. You would think you ought to have a good reason, but you can’t explain it. You’re just going to have to go through it. Keep serving the Lord in your way.

Because this happened to him. It will happen to you. And you’re going to do things for people and you’re going to give them your life. You’re going to give them your choice time. And they won’t care. And there will be no respect. Sometimes we see that without sometimes our children, maybe even the grandkids. They could be somebody where you work. They could be at home. And all of a sudden it just seemed like things can change and you don’t know what’s happening.

The devil can work behind the scenes. You can’t see him, but he works on people’s minds. He can cause people to believe things, to imagine things. Remember this, the devil cannot make you sin. He can only tempt you to sin. So don’t blame everything on the devil. You just happen to have something within you that he can tempt you with. There’s a little song that, yeah, not too temptation, for yielding is sin. But a lot of people, you sense it when you yield to it.

You’re going to be tempted. Another statement that I want to give to you. Don’t reject in the dark what God gave you into light. And that’s Matthew 516, I’ve already mentioned that to you. Don’t get too busy polishing your armor and not sharpening your sword. It’s not a matter of just seeing the beautiful foliage on the tree. Look how beautiful that tree is. Look at the way those branches are. Look at the beautiful leaves on the tree. Yeah, but is there any fruit on the tree?

Well, there’s no fruit, but look at the leaves. I think there’s a story in the Bible about that. The Lord is looking for fruit. And so sometimes you’re so busy polishing your armor, or you make sure you’re in church all the time and you read your Bible and do all these good things, and you just shine and shine and shine and shine. But no fruit. You’ve never learned how to use the sword of the Spirit. What is the sword of the Spirit?

I wonder what that is. The sword of the Spirit, according to Hebrews 4 and verse 12, is the word of God. The word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividedness of the soul and spirit and of the body. And so you have a tool that you’re supposed to use and it’s the sword, but many people don’t. They’re dull of hearing. They’re sword is dull. can’t cut as they should. When the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God a workman, that word is chopped up.

You’re talking about making one clean sweet, though we can a clean cut and rightly divide the Word of God. And a lot of people, they don’t have that sharp edge. You see, that’s what causes you to be able to make wiser decisions for down the road. Study the Word of God and God will bless you because of it. Another statement that I’ve used for years, and then I had to kind of look at it with a little question mark.

Souls are unreached because they’re unloved. Now, if I don’t reach them is because I don’t love them. Are there still lost people in this world because they’re unloved? Because if we really loved them, we would reach them. But I know the responsibility doesn’t fall upon just one person, but the Church of the Lord has a responsibility. But if I don’t reach them, does that mean they’re unloved? No, I believe the Lord still loves and loves all of them. But we’re supposed to look at it this way, that concerning what Christ did on the cross for us, for the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judged that if one died for for all than all were dead, and that they which live should not henceforth from now on live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.

So we’re supposed to let the love that God has for that lost person motivate us to reach the lost person, because they’re not unloved, because God still loves them. It’s just that we don’t love the Lord enough to reach the unreached. Anyways, just something to think about. When you can’t sleep at night, don’t count the sheep, talk to the shepherd. You ever heard that one before? That’s a good one. Don’t talk to the sheep, talk to the shepherd. Don’t count the sheep.

I’ll never forget how many times I have been knocked out. You know they give me some anesthetics. I’m laying there and there with this bright light, you know, on lip-fixing, do some surgery on me or whatever. And we’re gonna give this year stuff to you and you won’t feel too much in just a little bit. And it won’t be long this. Okay, count from 100 backwards. 199, 98, 97, 96. 1997, 1996.

I mean, I have never got down to 90 yet. I’m always gone. And I remember one time they were going to do a heart castener or something. They were going to run up to him and check my heart and my lungs and all that stuff. So they called in all the family and they thought this was going to be a bad surgery. So they didn’t know if I was going to have to have open heart surgery or what. So all the kids were there and a few grandkids were there.

And I’m laying there on this table and this guy says, now there’s a little monitor right there. All you got to do is just watch what we do with you on that little monitor right there. Okay. So they started, I guess. Next thing I know that Mr. Arnold, Mr. Arnold, we’re through, through when you’re going to start. They were already through. I’m waiting for them from the start. And they said, well, we ran all that stuff up through you.

There’s nothing wrong with your arteries. They’re squeaky clean. And I thought, I told them that, but they didn’t believe me. But they had given me a stress test and thought I was fixing the croak. And I hate to go through all that, nothing wrong, but I’m glad that was nothing wrong. But sometimes you just have to ride through some of these things and you never know. You just keep talking to the Lord. Just talk to the Lord about everything.

And I don’t know if God broke the machine and healed the machine, or if He healed me, and I never will say, I don’t know. I have no clue. But anyway, they told me, He says, you have the heart of a 20-year-old athlete in superb condition. I said, well, thank you. They told my father-in-law the same thing right before he died. He went to the hospital, he got a heart checkup, and they gave him a clean bill of health, and he’s in great shape.

Perhaps I had a heart attack and we went to see him in Georgia and he says, well, on your way back to Georgia. I mean to Colorado, he says, if you see this bucket come down out of the sky, he says, turn around and come on back. You’ll know I kicked the bucket. And he had a sense of humor. And he was in the hospital and everybody loved this guy. My father-in-law, the lady-in-law, he was one unique individual. I came back to do his funeral.

And I’ll never forget this nurse. She took her head around the door at the house. She says, are you an evangelist? I said, yeah, I tell people how to have eternal life. You’re on a shout of a doubt by simply accepting the payment. Jesus Christ made them to cross for him. Oh, I said, do you know where you’re going to go? And he dies. He said, now I said, well, come on in. Let me talk to you. So she came in and said, I led it to the Lord.

We had about eight nurses trust the Lord at the funeral. That was so neat. So God sometimes He takes one in order to get the gospel to somebody else. God’s behind the scene working. He knows what He’s doing. Just trust Him. Another little statement I have now is your future is determined by your obedience to God today. Have you ever heard that when we say that before? Another statement. If God isn’t as close as He used to be, who moved?

If God is not as close as He used to be. So I just wanted to get close to the Lord again. God had moved. He’s right where you left Him. Remember this, the Bible talks about abide in Him. It means just get as close to the Lord as you can. In the book of 1 John chapter 2 verse 28, it says, My little children abide in Him that when He shall appear, you may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

You’ll read the same thing in the Gospel of John in chapter 15 about his children, abide in him. He says, without him you can do nothing. So the closer you get to the Lord, the more strength and grace you’ll have, the more you can do for the Lord. And you will not burn out. The only reason you burn out is because you got too far away from the fire. He’s the fire. And if you’ll stay close to the fire, you’ll stay warm.

If you get real close, you might even get on fire for the Lord. You’ll get hot.” Another statement, don’t be afraid to get out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. But always understand that there’s always someone who might want to cut off the limb. So when you get out there on that limb, but that’s where the fruit’s at. In other words, some people are afraid to get away from the trunk of the tree where it’s safe. And to get out I sat there on that limb and try to reach some fruit because there’s always a risk involved.

There’s possibilities you could fall and get hurt. And nobody wants to get hurt. So sometimes we just let that fruit go. I had a friend of mine. Well, I would say he’s a close friend, but I met him back in 1964 in the summer. He was a chaperone on a bus taking some kids from up in Chattanooga to camp with Dr. Stanford at Mokoritone. His name was Barney Holland, and he was going down as a chaperone just like myself.

But he was a little bit older than I was. And so we had a good trip down, good trip back. And then he was going down for another trip and on his way back, he saw all those old orange trees out there. So all those oranges out there on the tree. So they stop the bust, he gets out, crosses, oh, it’s on the expressway, and he gets over a fence and goes out there and he gets them orange. He wanted to get him some oranges to take back.

He just didn’t want to pay for them. He just wanted to get some. And a bee stung them on the neck and his neck swelled up in 15 minutes he was dead. I do believe that it’s good to have fruit, but it’s good to get your own fruit. Get it the right way. Do the right thing. Realizing that you have within you that which every man needs. You see, the world will try to lure you and tempt you to do that which is wrong.

Did you know that every man in this world, there is a certain desire. They don’t all have it at the same time. The desire to live forever. And you have it. And so what you’re trying to do is find the right people at the right time that are receptive. And you lure them, just like the devil lures them to do wrong, you lure them to accept Christ as their Savior. And you give them the bait and say, look, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.

The hosts who ever believe within him should not perish, but have everlasting life. A verse I often use every time I pull out my track, I’ll show them on the front how that little fell on theirs. That’s when I was 17 and had hair. They usually laugh a little bit, a little chuckle, doesn’t hurt anything. Now, let me show you something on the inside. Look at this verse. It says, these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

What’s the purpose of reading? Now, it’s bait. You can know you have eternal life. You can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you’re dying. And so I use that. You’re luring people. But we’ve got something everybody needs to know. And so, just remember that. Next statement. Don’t give God orders. Just report for duty. Just report for duty. Look in Luke chapter 17. Look over there, it’s his first. Now book of Luke chapter 17. But you do need to understand that you and I are not to give God orders.

He is the commander in chief. He’s the boss. He tells us what to do. And all we’re supposed to do is say, yes, sir. Look what he says in verse seven. But which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle will say unto him by and by and when he has come from the field, go and sit down and eat. And will not rather say unto him, make ready, wherewith I may sub and gird thy sub and serve me till I have eaten and drunk them, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drunk.

Women, a servant’s been out there plowing and feeding cattle. All day he comes in the house and he’s supposed to serve and work and feed you and make sure you’ve got something to eat and to drink before he does. I like these kind of servants. You say, who’s they talking about? It’s not much a wife. No, not really. verse nine, verse nine. Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I should think not.

But in verse 10, so likewise ye, when ye shall have done, and you ought to underline this or draw a circle around the word all, when you have done all those things, which are commanded you, say we are unprofitable servants. We have done that which was our duty to do.” Now you and I insert in the Lord the thing that goes beyond the call of duty is the love that we have for the Lord. To go beyond that which God requires of us and do more, to sacrifice.

You see, you have not sacrificed unto the Lord when you have simply given that which God requires. Sacrifice is when you go beyond that. Most people never go beyond. I believe a lot of people think that serving the Lord is just like tipping the Lord a quarter, you know, and hope it just leaves me alone. You know, this is a token of my appreciation. Thanks God. Now I’m free to do whatever I want to do with the rest of my life.

I don’t think it’s going to work that way. But verse 10 is a good verse to keep in mind. Just say, Lord, I’m just a unprofitable servant. I really don’t deserve anything. I’ve only done that which was my duty to do. You see in the book of Romans in chapter 12, Brother and I beseech you that you present your bodies the living sacrifice, holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. That’s just something that we ought to do.

Don’t you think that all of God’s people ought to serve the Lord? If we never get another blessing, We don’t get anything. We don’t get one reward. We still ought to do it. I’m just an unprofitable servant, and you want God to do what He feels free to do to us whenever we get to heaven and what He chooses to give. I believe God is such a good God. He’s gonna blow our minds. When you get there and you see what God is going to give you, it’s gonna blow your mind.

Let me give you another statement. A man does not fail or fall in service, unless he is unfaithful. Get that. A man does not fail in service, unless he is unfaithful. Turn in your Bible and look in the book of 1 Corinthians 4. 1 Corinthians 4-2. So there in verse 2, Moreover, it is required, required in stewards that a man be found rich. Popular. Just faithful. All God wants you to do is what you can do. God doesn’t want you to do what you can’t do.

So the preacher has no right to require of you anything. God doesn’t require of you. I don’t have any authority to try to get you to do something. God doesn’t want you to do. True? All I want you to do is recip what you believe God wants you to do. So all I try to do is teach you to book and=> and motivate you with what the word of God says and hopefully you’ll respond. So RandomRedditor, you know the good statement, let me give it to you.

You made the responsibilities, but you cannot dodge the consequences. So as you go through life, you can ever play dodge ball. Somebody trying to hit you with the ball and you try to dodge out of the way. an. However, my uncle came to pick us up out of Georgia. My mom and all was six kids. They came down from Pennsylvania to Georgia to get us out of Georgia because of my dad was drunk. He was trying to kill my mom and beat her and all that kind of stuff.

So anyway, they were going to get us out there. But he had a new car he just bought. This was in 1949. And he had a nice 1949 Dodge. And I used to play Dodgeball. And I thought, man, to get a car that you played Dodge Car in. And you’re driving down the road and you’re trying to dodge cars. I mean, I was only seven years old. But I thought that’s what it was for. And I didn’t understand. But you can as you go through life.

dodge your responsibilities. Try to figure out ways to get out of doing what God wants you to do. You can dodge the responsibility. You don’t have to reach the Bible. I dodged that. I don’t have to witness anybody. Boy, I dodged that. And you can dodge all you want. But understand, you cannot dodge the consequences of your decisions. You and I are gonna have to give an account to the Lord for what we have done. And that might not be perdied.

Because God’s the one that knows what you could have done with your life. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3777. 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe at the upper right corner of our homepage.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.

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Want to take your Bible and turn to the book of Proverbs, the book of Proverbs? I want to share a few things with you because you’ll often hear me say these things that I say them doing sermons and they’ll be a little quote. And I love quotes. I love seeing things that I’ve seen on signs at different places. Sometimes somebody will come across something good and they’ll send it to me. Sometimes it’s just because I’ve read a book and I read a certain thing.

I have preached whole sermons with nothing but just a lot of little quotes. But there’s something that I want to give to you, but then I want to take and use some scripture just to kind of help you to see how you should apply it. All of us need help. And I want you to see this verse here in the book of Proverbs, Proverbs chapter 25. And look in verse 11, verse 11, where it makes the statement a word, fitly spoken, is like apples of gold.

When’s the last time you had an apple made out of gold? Been a while. If you did, it would be pretty valuable. Or a pitcher of silver. That’s probably all I’ve had is a pitcher of it. I never had it. I’d like to have a whole bunch of it. You know, like a ton of it. That would be all right. But he says, a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver. As you read the proverbs, you’ll find that pro verb, it means more than meets the eye, pro in verbum.

And it’s a statement that’s made, but there are sometimes other meanings that you can find in it, and it’s like digging little nuggets out of a gold mine. And so the Bible talks about that in the book of proverbs and chapter two about digging treasures and hunting for it and searching for it and finding the wisdom of God and how much you can buy the merchandise you can purchase with wisdom. You can have all the money in the world but you can’t buy wisdom with it.

And so learning the word of God is the most important thing that you’ll ever do in your life. And so there’s a lot of neat sayings in the book of Proverbs and they will help you to be wise in your relationship to man. The book of Psalms helps your heart to be warm toward the Lord. And if you want to have some activity in your life then you read the book of Acts and then make sure you want to go to work and do something.

So different books has a different responsibility of trying to raise God’s children and would help us. Here’s a couple that I had given to you and some of these I had given to you just recently, but I want to go down through them fairly quickly. But just listen to these because each one of them will teach you something that you need to know. Courage is, I remember, courage is fear that says it’s prayers and goes ahead. A lot of time we think, well courage is the absence of fear.

No, it’s in the presence of fear. Sometimes we’re afraid to do certain things because that’s the human element of our makeup. We have a physical body. We’re still human. I didn’t stop being human to be because I trust that Christ is my Savior. I got a new birth, but I still got to have a physical body, not to have a mind that… It’s going to mess up sometimes, not lately, but it has been. And so we have things that we need to learn and to do and to trust.

And sometimes I have courage and just trust the Lord in spite of understanding how it’s going to be fulfilled and how it’s going to happen. Another statement I had is, a Christian can’t waste time without affecting eternity. Think about that. You can’t waste time without affecting eternity. And I, given another statement over and over again, is your future is being determined by your obedience to God today. Another way it’s in eternity is being affected by your obedience to God today.

Because the things that we do today is going to affect eternity. So if we waste a time here, we are affecting eternity. And therefore, when you understand that it causes you to maybe want to try to accomplish as much as possible to try to be diligent in your walk with the Lord. Another one I have down is what really counts is that which you send ahead and not which you leave behind. You’ve heard this guy, a Warren Buffett, a billionaire.

I can’t fathom how much that would be. I can’t even fathom what a trillion would be or a billion would be or a million would be. I have a hard time understanding what a thousand looks like. But just to think, he says, we ought to tax all those rich folks and take more money from them. He actually says that. But see, it doesn’t matter how much they tax him because he’ll have enough left over. Now let’s just say that we’re going to tax him to where he had only a little left, like the rest of everybody else, and see if he still believes that.

I bet you he wouldn’t go for it then. So it’s not how much you give, it’s how much do you have left. When we leave this world, what did we leave behind? So it is important. A light shines the brightest in the darkest places. So whenever we want to let our little light shine, or as the scripture says, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.

So men are supposed to see our good works, But we’re not supposed to do good work just to be seen of men. But the light shines the brightest when it is the darkest. But don’t we have a little element of fear when we see God’s hand moving for the light switch? And you know he’s fixing to turn off the light? And we get an element of fear. We get scared. And God says that we’re supposed to learn to trust Him even whenever it’s in the dark.

And another statement I like is don’t doubt in the dark what God gave you in the light. You know, when things were right, when things were good, when everything is going great, and you’re strengthening the Lord, you’re commenting on the Lord, everything is a-okay, you’re good to go. And then when things get looking pretty dark, don’t doubt in the dark what God gave you in the light. Now is the time to apply it and see what God will do.

Another statement I like is the price for shining is burning. The price for shining is burning. And you’ll hear some people say, well, I’ve just been burned out. Well, I’ve been walking with the Lord for 51 years. I don’t know what that would be like. I burn out. Does that mean I have no more light? That means I haven’t been putting any wood on the fire. There’s no hot coals anymore. That means I’m lukewarm. What does it mean? I’m burnout.

I mean, my plate is so full I don’t have room for anymore. I don’t think that’s what it means. But a lot of people don’t have any more energy, no more strength. I can’t take anymore. I’ve had it and I want to quit. Stop the earth, let me off. Well, the light that shines the brightest shines the brightest at home. Or in other ways, the light that shines the fathers shines the brightest at home. Where should your light shine?

Everywhere but at home? life should shine better at home where it’s the closest than it should a long ways off. So the light that shines the brightest should shine the brightest at home. So always keep that in mind. It is easy to get the notes of the teacher into the notes of the students without getting into to the minds of either one. Did you know that you can take notes and never put them into your mind, but you’ve got notes.

And you can teach those notes to somebody else who writes and takes notes. So everybody’s got notes, but nobody knows anything. So you can get the notes of the teacher into the notes of the student without getting to the minds of either one. You can come to church and read your Bible and hear it read and it never sinks into your mind. You really don’t know what he’s talking about. Remember the devil is alive and well on planet Earth and when it says in some of the seed where’s fell by the wayside.

That means the devil got that before you did. And then some seeds, well, it falls upon stony grounds. You say, what’s stony grounds? A person who got rocks in their head. I mean, they’re hard-headed. It’s hard for things to grow on solid rock. Would you plan on solid rock? So So even though you may hear the word, your head, your mind might be filled with rocks and the seed can’t grow. And then sometimes it says it falls upon, well, well, there’s some good soil, but there’s briars and thorns and it comes up and it chokes you half to death.

I remember a story one time about the Samaritan, good Samaritan, don’t remember that. came up and choked him half to death. The next day he went down to Jericho and climbed the sick of more tree. Oh, that’s another story. Next statement I want you to understand is there are two ways to get to the top of a tree. You can climb it or sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow. Now, people, they can hear that, but they don’t really get what it’s talking about.

If you want something, is it better to Climb and work for it, or just to sit on and do nothing and just, well I’m just trusting the Lord. You have a God may have given you the strength and the grace that you need to work for something, to have something, to do something, to be something. It takes effort. In other words, you’re supposed to sow before you reap and some people just want to sit and dream and never do anything at all.

The The next statement is the worst thing that can happen to you is to miss God’s will. Think about that. Here you are on planet Earth, it’s going around, days are coming, days are going, years are passing away. The worst thing that can happen to you in this life is to miss the will of God for your life. Is it God’s will for you to go to heaven? He says he’s not willing that any should perish. So it is God’s will for you to go to heaven.

Wouldn’t it be a shame for you to miss that? of all things that have happened on the planet, I’m glad that I trusted Christ as my savior. I know I’m going to heaven when I die. But do you know that God has a will for your life? And he has something he wants you to do with your life. Wouldn’t it be a shame to miss that? So of all things that we would ever want in our life, it should be the will of God.

Do you want the will of God for your life? How bad do you want it? bad enough to study, to find out what it is, and how God can use you to a fullist extent. I saw something that one time I was up in Tennessee. I was having some dark moments in my life, and I went by and I saw this sign, says, the will of God will not lead you, where the grace of God cannot keep you. When I saw that, Moa, I sat there in my car, And I saw that on the sign in a churchyard.

I pulled over the side of the road and I just cried. Because I was trying to figure out how God was gonna keep me where I believed He put me. And I found out that the grace of God can keep me whether we’ll have God can lead me. Do you believe that? You should believe that. That’s what God wants us to do. Next statement, God’s leading is never contrary to his word. We often talk about the will of God, doing whatever God is that he wants for.

He will never lead you contrary to his word. The Holy Spirit that lives within you is a Holy Spirit, not an unholy spirit. The Holy Spirit, the Lord gave to you the day you trusted Christ as your savior. So you have God living within you. and he will never lead you to do anything that’s unholy, or lead you to do anything that’s not like God. That would be ungodly. Ungodly means you’re not like God. Godly means you’re like God.

So God always leads you, the Holy Spirit, to do right. And always within the boundaries of the Word of God. So just because you want to do something doesn’t mean it’s right because well I prayed about it. A lot of people do a lot of sinning because they said I prayed about it. Yeah, but did you get an answer? Well, I don’t know about that, but I prayed about it. It’s important to get an answer and an answer is it.

Well, you see, that’s what I’m saying. That’s why you have to study the book. To find out, is it in agreement with the revealed word of God? Because God, the Holy Spirit, will not lead you contrary to it. Next statement. Let God steer the car, but you keep your foot on the gas pedal. Isn’t that good? Let God steer, but you’ve got to have your foot on the gas pedal. I used to listen to teachers and preachers all the time.

And sometimes it seems like they’re on the right road, they’re in the right car, they’re in the right lane, but they’re not going anywhere because there’s no gas in the car. They’re just sitting in the right place at the right time in the right direction, but there’s no gas. They’re not going anywhere. They’re not going anywhere. And it’s like the little kid, you know, gets behind the steering wheel of the car. like sign the fix. And all they’re doing is playing but they’re not going anywhere.

It’s easier for the Lord to steer you when you’re moving. And some people say, Lord, guide me, guide me, guide me. God says, why? You’re not moving? steer a wheel when the car is not moving. Just something to think about it. God wants men who will get the job done, not the one to explain why they didn’t do it. Is there anything God wants you to do that you are incapable of doing? Can God, who is perfect, makes no mistakes?

Can He try to get you to do something that’s totally impossible for for you to do, God will enable every one of us to do what He wants us to do. The problem is, not God, we don’t want to do what God wants us to do, or we will not do what God says to do. Not that we can’t. Another question. If you were God, would you hire yourself? If Would you or God, would you hire you to work for Him?

Are you worth being paid for by the Lord? Did you know that whenever you serve the Lord God is paying you? God’s going to pay you? It’s just not payday yet. But we’re supposed to labor now the leaving pay days coming later and that God is going to reward us and it will be worth it all. Do you believe that? I believe that. I believe pay days coming and I can wait. 8 days not here. That’s right, when you do good things for the Lord down here, don’t expect everything to be wonderful, everybody love and appreciate it.

They may do it, they may not. It doesn’t matter. Because you know God hired you and God is gonna pay you. I guess he could fire you too, huh? Time to come on home boy. Next statement, the Lord’s approval is worth all the sarcasm of your friends. The Lord’s approval is worth all the sarcasm of your friends. And it doesn’t matter who your friends are, or people to work with, even sometimes people at home, people at church. You can’t convince everybody of everything that you do, or why you should do it.

But you should be convinced that if God wants you to do certain things and you do that, then if it’s acceptable to God, that ought to be pleasing to you. The next statement is, give eternal issues proper priority. In the book of Matthew in chapter six and verse 33, it says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added unto you. So it’s a get your priorities straight. Always put the Lord first in everything.

Always be reasoning in your mind, what does God want me to do? What is God’s will for my life? Because you can live your life, and everybody does, but they don’t all live it for him. So you can live your life and totally waste your life. Only in the dictionary… Does success come before work? Alphabetically, success starts with a S. Work starts with a W. So only in the dictionary does success come before work. But in reality, you have to do the work in order to be successful.

Let me have you take your Bible and turn to the book of 2 Corinthians. The book of 2 Corinthians chapter 12 sent to be spent. See you and I, when we trusted Christ as our Savior, he gave us eternal life and wants us to love him and to serve him. He wants to love others through us. But it makes a statement in verse 14 of chapter 12, 2 Corinthians chapter 12, look at verse 14, Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burdensome to you.

For I seek not yours, what you have, but you. So you are more important than the things that you have or accumulate. God loves you. That doesn’t mean God loves your house and God loves your car and God loves your kitty cat and God I don’t know how he feels about kitty cats. I should take that back but I know God loves you and You’re supposed to believe that God loves you and God has allowed us to have and enjoy many things in life But don’t think those things are more important than the one that gave them to us The Lord is more important to you that anything you presently have or enjoy Why?

Because you can lose all of those things. Because everything that you see is temporal. It’s all temporal. You say, what does that mean? It don’t last forever. So he says, for I seek not yours, but you for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. That’s the only verse in the Bible that I’m not sure I agree with. Now that I’m getting older and I’ve got a couple of kids, You know, they ought to take care of Papa when he gets old, you know, the grandkids.

So, I think that what we’re supposed to do, train him to take care of us when we get old. But it says, but the parents for the children. So you and I are supposed to be given them something worth living for. It’s not always the things, it’s the character. It’s them learning how to trust the Lord, walk with the Lord, lean upon the Lord. We should be leaving spiritual values with our children. Looking verse 15, he said, and I will vary, gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

You’re to underline that. That’s a beautiful statement. I almost feel sorry for Paul when he writes this. He had gone to this place, He led these people to the Lord, and then somebody else comes along and turns them against Paul, and He has to defend his apostleship. And they just turned against Paul, and they said things against him. And he says, all that I have gone through. He means that in chapter 11. All of that that I’ve gone through.

The cares of this world, the cares of the churches. He says, I have spent my life for you. And the more I love you, the less I’m loved. The more I do for you, the less you understand and respect. Now, if that happened to the Apostle Paul, is there a possibility you might do something for somebody and they do not do not. Do not appreciate you or what you believe or stand for and all the love that you try to show I’ve had people that I’ve led to Christ and they were just almost worship me greatest guy in the world and then after a while Totally turn and hate you and tell you I hate you I said, what did I do to you?

I don’t know I just hate you I’m against you. You would think you ought to have a reason, a good reason, but you can’t explain it. You’re just going to have to go through it. Keep serving the Lord in your way because this happened to Him. It will happen to you. And you’re going to do things for people and you’re going give them your life. You’re going to give them your choice time. And they won’t care. And there will be no respect.

Sometimes we see that without sometimes our children, maybe even the grandkids. They can be somebody where you work. They can be at home. And all of a sudden it seems like things can change and you don’t know what’s happening. The devil can work behind this scene. You can’t see him, but he works on people’s minds. He can cause people to believe things, to imagine things. Remember this, the devil cannot make you sin. He can only tempt you to sin.

So don’t blame everything on the devil. You just happen to have something within you that he can tempt you with. There’s a little song of, yeah, not to temptation. For yielding is sin. But a lot of people, you sense it when you yield to it. You’re going to be tempted. Another statement that I want to give to you. Don’t reject in the dark what God gave you into light. And that’s Matthew 516, I’ve already mentioned that to you. Don’t get too busy polishing your armor and not sharpening your sword.

It’s not a matter of just seeing the beautiful foliage on the tree. Look how beautiful that tree is. Look at the way those branches are. Look at those beautiful leaves on the tree. But is there any fruit on the tree? Well, there’s no fruit, but look at the leaves. I think there’s a story in the Bible about that. The Lord is looking for fruit. And so sometimes you’re so busy polishing your armor, or you make sure you’re in church all the time, and you read your Bible and do all these good things, and you just shine and shine and shine and.

But no fruit. You’ve never learned how to use the sword of the Spirit. What is the sword of the Spirit? I wonder what that is. The sword of the Spirit, according to Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 12, is the word of God. The word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the divided in the sun or soul and spirit and of the body. And so you have a tool that you’re supposed to use, and it’s the sword, but many people don’t.

They’re dull of hearing. Their sword is dull. They can’t cut as they should. When the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God a workman, that word is chopped to them. They’re talking about making one clean sweet, though we can a clean cut and rightly divide the Word of God. And a lot of people they don’t have that sharp edge. You see, that’s what causes you to be able to make wiser decisions for down the road. Study the Word of God and God will bless you because of it.

Another statement that I’ve used for years, and then I had to kind of look at it with a little question mark. Souls are unreached because they’re unloved. Now if I don’t reach them, it’s because I don’t love them. Are there still lost people in this world because they’re unloved? Because if we really loved them, we would reach them. But I know the responsibility doesn’t fall upon just one person, but the church of the Lord has a responsibility. But if I don’t reach them, does that mean they’re unloved?

No, I believe the Lord still loves and loves all of them. We’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our home page.

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So live today! And every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us totally. free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made through the Bible-lined website at calvaryoftampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family.

Take your Bible and not turn to the book of 1 John, the book of 1 John in chapter 5. As you notice, started there in verse 10. Verse 10 makes this statement, He that believeth on the son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his son.

that have the Son half life and he that have not the Son of God have not life. So whether you have eternal life or not, depending on whether or not do you have the Son? If not do you have the church? Do you have this certain preacher? Do you have all your good works? Do you have the person? So you can have all those things but if you don’t have Christ you got zero. But if you have Christ you have enough.

Christ is all you need to go to heaven. He that hath the Son hath life. If I got that, it’s all I need. It’s eternal life. He that hath not the Son hath not eternal life. So he says in verse 13, these things have I written unto you that believe. It’s all you have to do. That believe. On the name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ that you may know that you have eternal life. So can you know you have eternal life?

Well, yes, if you have Christ. So Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. It’s okay to worship Jesus Christ. Why? Because he’s God. You can bow before Jesus Christ. Why? Because he’s God. He’s not an idol. He is God. But if you take salvation away from Him and put it into anything else is to put that above God. And that makes God angry. That makes God mad. God is a jealous God. God says that’s wicked. That’s an abomination and we’re not to do that.

Now let me just mention this to you. In the book of 1st Samuel in chapter 15 there’s a little story about Samuel telling Saul what to do and when he became king and how to deal with the Amalekites. He didn’t fully obey. And the Bible says that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. And the Bible talks about it. It is idolatry. It’s idolatry. Not to obey the Lord. So I wrote this little statement down. The reasons for rebellion are as witchcraft and idolatry, nothing for a moment.

Even if you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you know you’re going to heaven when you die. The reasons that you give for not fully serving the Lord with all of your heart is witchcraft because it’s rebellion, it’s idolatry, you worship your excuses more than obedience to God. So can a Christian be involved in idol worship? Worshipping the excuses or the reasons why you’re not fully serving God like you all to. You may use a church as your reason for justification and you can use somebody else as a reason.

You can use your people where you work as a reason. I don’t kill what it is. Are there reasons those excuses? Do they supplant the word of God? Do you put those above what God has to say? Many people do. I want to read a couple things to you that I have because somebody has offended me. If the differences between what the Bible teaches and what the capital is, what the Bible does, what the Bible does, what the Bible does, what the Bible does.

church teachers are insignificant, then we are to be blamed for being divisive and therefore destructive to the unity of the Christian faith. However, if the differences are irreconcilable, then the wrong belief condemns somebody to an eternity separated from the Lord. So are the differences that we have and what we believe? And keep us in mind, this is not designed to attack anyone but to defend our position, my position that I have in the Word of God. Because there’s many people that become very hurt and very offended if you say something about their religious belief.

But it’s okay for them to say it about us. There’s a religion today called the religion of Islam. It’s okay for them to take our Jesus Christ off the cross and to say that he never came back from the dead. It’s okay for them to mutilate our religious beliefs. But don’t you say one word against their religion Because that offends them and they’ll cut off your head because you made them mad. Oh I take offense to that. If it’s good for the goose, good for the gander.

But that’s okay. It’s not going to change what I believe. But there’s others over one billion people that are also Roman Catholic. Now I’m not attacking the Roman Catholics. If you’re Catholic, listen to what I’m saying, that’s all. But follow my thinking. I just want a person to know what they are saying about me and what I believe because there has been an attack made and I think you ought to know what it is and so I don’t have no other way of doing this except in a public forum because otherwise you won’t be here and then I won’t be able to tell you.

So let Let me read this to you. For all its serious problems, the Roman Catholic Church cannot be faulted for misunderstanding what evangelicals are fundamentalists. Believe in the gospel of salvation, since it is spelled out in no uncertain terms in Romans and official canons and decrees. So they fully understand my position because they wrote it down and it’s in their material, it’s in what they teach. The following citations are from the Council of Trent, which met over a 19-year period, primary to denounce the teachings of the Protestant Reformation.

Although the Council met in the 16th century, its decrees were reaffirmed by the Church’s most recent counsels both Vatican I and II. Consider Catholicism’s position on what evangelicals uphold as the gospel. In other words, they will tell us what we believe. Now, this is what they say we believe. The sixth session, Canon 9, if anyone says that the center is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, let him be anathema.

So they say, this is what we believe, and those that believe this, let them be anathema. Now the word anathema, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary, is a condemnation. of formal curse and is used in excommunication a person. So if I believe this heresy and they’re calling this heresy and if I believe that I’m supposed to be cursed, excommunicated, destined for hell. The sixth session, Kenan 12 said this, If anyone shall say that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in the divine mercy, which remits sins for Christ’s sake, or that it is this confidence alone that justifies us, let him be anathema.

That’s what I believe. So they fully understand what I believe. And, they say, I need to go to hell for what I believe. I have been under a curse for believing what I believe. And because I don’t believe like they believe, they get to go to heaven and I get to go to hell. They say this. I’m just telling you what they said. Don’t get mad at me. I haven’t said anything against them yet, have I? I’m only telling you that they understand who I am and where I’m coming from and what I believe.

And so far, they’re right. So I’m telling you, they’re right. This is what I believe. But they say, I should be anathema, a cursed. In the sixth session, Canon 30, if anyone says that after the reception of the grace of justification, the guilt is… is so remitted and the debt of eternal punishment so blotted out to every repentant center that no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged either in this world or in purgatory before the gates of heaven can be open let him be anathema.

Boy they got it down what I really believe. I can’t believe they really understand what I believe so well. So they know where I’m coming from. Now I’m not talking about you. I don’t know what you believe. I’m just telling you about what I believe. The seventh session, Canon 4th. If anyone says that the sacraments of the new law are not necessary for salvation, but without them men obtain from God through faith alone the grace of justification let him be anathema.

Well they nail me again. They’ve made four statements and all four of them is what I believe to the hilt. I really believe that a man is justified, made righteous by faith and faith alone. Now unless a man or a church is perfect, how can the unjust justify the unjust. You didn’t get that, so I’m going to repeat it. Unless the church or a person is perfect, then that means they are unjust. How can the unjust justify the unjust?

It can’t I believe that what is written in the world is so important. Roman Catholic process of salvation through works. So Paul gives the biblical teaching that salvation is by grace through faith and not of. Of what it is the gift of God, Ephesians two eight nine Paul insists that to him that work if not, but believe it on Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. His faith is counted for righteousness. And again in Galatians, but that no man is justified by the law and the sight of God, it is evident for the just shall live by faith.

Demanding that works are necessary for salvation is an outright rejection of Christ’s perfect and complete A toman for sins on the cross. Therefore I take issue. Can the unjust justify the unjust? No. Christ alone is the justifier of the unjust because he is just. He is righteous, he is perfect. He can declare me perfect in righteous because the payment he made on the cross was put to my count by faith and faith alone. Now, I wrote down something also, and I wrote this, do they have idols of silver, gold, or wood that they pray to or through are used for protection?

This is just a question, it’s not an attack, but do they not? Is the pope made more than a man? Just think not just think. Think. Think. Do they make him to be more than a man? If he’s just a man, then he’s a man like all men. And he’s a sinner like all men. God says that God is true, that God is perfect, God is righteous. Every man is a liar. Would that include him? Would that include him?

It’s just the Bible. I’m not attacking anything. But is every man a son of God’s word says there is none righteous no not one there’s none that doeth good no not one all have sinned and come short of the glory of God if that is truth then the pope is not perfect he’s just a man and And if he’s just a man to be made into more than a man, his idol worship, his idol worship. I didn’t say that, God said that.

You can’t lift men up higher than they are. They’re just a man. The best man in this world is ever lift, he’s just a man. And he’s a sinner at that, but he’s just a man. For example, if you make a woman more than just a woman, did you exalt that person to be more than a woman? Or is he just a woman? Mary was used by God. The Holy Spirit planted that seed, that holy thing inside of her womb.

and she gave birth to the Son of God. But she was just a woman. She was a virgin. And she declared about Jesus her savior. If he is her savior, would that mean that she needed to be saved? If she needed to be saved, does that mean she was a center? To make her any more than what she is is witchcraft, rebellion to God. It’s heresy. She’s just a woman that God used. She’s not to be prayed to or through.

I don’t need Mary to get to God. Jesus came to open up the way, that I can have access unto the Father through the Son, and no one else. It’s idolatry, it’s wickedness that plays anything between you and God except the man Christ Jesus. He is the mediator, the only mediator, there is nobody else, and to to make something into more than what God’s Word says is idolatry. God is a jealous God.

It’s not to be done. The church, the Catholic church stole the saving power from Christ and claimed salvation is in her church. Now think about who Christ is, what He did on the cross. He died to pay for all the sins of all the world so that everybody in the world can be saved because of Him, to steal that power away from Christ and claim it for your own, our church can now save you. And you must belong to our church is heresy.

I didn’t teach that. God’s Word says that. Don’t get mad at me. If I’m going to teach this book, teach the book or throw the thing on the trash and go do whatever I want to do. Go sell cars. But this book is true. God says there is truth and there is heresy and there is lies. There is deception. The priest, and I preached a couple of weeks ago, on who can forgive sins. No man can forgive you of any sin when the sin is against you and God.

If you sin against me, I can forgive you. You sin against me, I can forgive you. But if you sin against God, you’ve got to deal with Him. No man can intervene. And there are priests of different religions. And they’ve stole from Christ the power of forgiveness. And they claim it. We have it. You come to me. Confess your sins to me. And to lift any man above a man is idolatry and it’s wicked. The Catholic Church has left a helpless naked man on the cross with no power to save.

And that’s why you still see him hanging on their cross. because he has no power. He can’t save anybody. Cause he has no power. He can’t save anybody. A c- According to their religion. But I don’t believe Jesus is on the cross. He died on the cross and I believe he was buried and he came back from the dead and that he lives forever in heaven and that he will give to me and only him. The free gift of eternal life.

If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior and Him alone, you’re not saved. And you are anathema. No, I didn’t say that. God did. That’s why Christ died so that you and I can know that we have eternal life. He didn’t put that into people’s hands. He didn’t put it into a building or a church. It’s in a message. The gospel points everyone to Jesus Christ. That’s from Romans chapter 1 and verse 16, but I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it.

Everyone that believes can have the power of God to save them. And see, the devil will do whatever possible. Just strip away from Christ the power to save. And what the devil does is… is interject works into salvation. Because if a man is saved by grace means you don’t deserve it. You don’t earn it. You don’t work for it. They always say, well, there’s a few things you have to do. You’ve got to do this and then you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do this.

And anytime you add to it, you can never know for sure if you’re going to go to heaven. I know that I know that I’m going to heaven when I die because of what Jesus Christ did for me. And understanding you well this morning, I did not attack the Catholic church. I agreed with what they said about what I believe. And I told you what God’s word said.

They state what they believe. I stated what the word says, and you can take it from there. But I believe that what God’s Word says is the truth. Let me show you something. You never seen this before. Let this hand represent you and me and the wallet represents sin. Now the Bible says that we all have sin on us. That means that everybody’s in the same boat. Nobody’s any better than anyone else. Listen to me. God’s Word says we have all sinned all.

None of us are good enough to go to heaven. That means that Mother Teresa will not go to heaven because Mother Teresa did good works. That means that the Pope will not go to heaven because the Pope’s trying to do good works. It means that Mary is not going to heaven because Mary’s trying to do good works. It means that no Catholic priest or mother superior or anybody is going to heaven because they do any good not only them, but anybody else in the whole world.

It means that Yankee Arnold, this preacher, I’m not going to heaven because I do good works either. And neither is Fred down here. He’s not going to heaven because he’s been a good boy. And Peter over here, he’s going to go to heaven because he’s been good. No, he’s not. No man. My wife is a good wife. Been married to her going on 52 years. But she can’t go to heaven because she’s been such a good wife. She cannot earn her way to heaven.

She is in reality no better than Mother Teresa or Mother Superior. But in the eyes of God we are all sinners and there is no difference. We are all the same in God’s eyes and you don’t put and lift a man up to be more than a man. Just a man. Just a man. And you understand that I am just a man. But God loves us. He loves all of us the same. God so loved the whole world. And he paid for all the sins of the whole world.

So that anybody in the whole world, if they would believe that Christ did it for them, they could know they have eternal life. You see, to go to heaven, you have to be perfect. Nobody’s perfect. That’s why you can’t earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. There’s only one way to get to heaven. And that’s to believe that when Jesus Christ, who was God’s son, came into the world, because he loves us, that He paid for my sins.

He paid for all of them. And all that I have to do, the only thing I can do is believe He did it for me. And God made it on the level that anybody can have it. You see, if I accept it as a free gift, and He gives me eternal life right now as a free gift, can I know I’m going to heaven if I have eternal life? If all of my sins are paid, there’s none for me to pay for.

Then what sin is going to condemn me to hell? I can’t go to hell. I’ve got eternal life. So can I know I’m going to heaven before I die? Yes. But if my going to heaven depends upon my good works, well, then I’ll have to wait till I live my whole life before I find out if they were good enough. That’s why most people don’t know where they’re going when they die because they don’t know how they’re going to live.

How good are you going to live? Am I going to mess up before it’s all over with? That means you’re trusting in your good deeds to get you to heaven and God says you can’t save yourself. Don’t try that. Don’t go down that road. Just be honest and admit, Lord, I’m a sinner. I believe Jesus Christ paid for my sins and I’m going to accept that payment He made for me so I don’t have to pay it. And He made that payment for you.

And the day you trust Him, He gives you as a free gift of everlasting life. And you get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for you. Would you trust Him? Would you trust Jesus Christ and Him alone as your only hope of going to heaven? I hope of going to heaven. I pray that you will. Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you’re here this morning, maybe you’ve heard these things before, maybe you haven’t.

But you say that made sense to me. And I want to be certain of going to heaven when I die and preach out life for you to pray for me. Friend, I’m not going to have you forward. I’m not going to embarrass you, but right where you’re sitting. If what I said made sense to you, would you trust the Lord? I’d like to have prayer for you and I’m going to ask you in just a moment to raise your hand.

Raising your hand doesn’t save you. It just lets me know that what I said made sense to you. I’m not trying to put you on the spot. I just know that we don’t have a guarantee on life and you may never come back. I might never get a chance to talk to you again. And I would hate to think that you left this auditorium without trusting the Lord. So in the quietness of this moment, just between you and the Lord, would you say, Lord, I know I’m a sinner.

I believe Christ died and paid for my sins. And I’m going to trust Him. I’m not going to trust a church. I’m not going to trust a preacher. I’m not going to trust a priest. I’m not going to trust nobody but you. Friend, how can you go wrong by trusting the only true and living God there is? He knows who you are. He knows what you’ve done. Knows what you’re going to do. Still loves you. Would you trust Him?

Would you believe He died for you? And He said, if you trust Him as your savior, He would give you the free gift of eternal life and you get to go to heaven whenever you die. Whatever the reasons are that you use for not trusting the Lord becomes an idol that you worship. You put it between you and him. Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together. Bless each one for being here. We pray your will to be done in Christ and 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 were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 P3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the Spinning Globe in the upper right corner of our home page.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and everyday, believing that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.

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Take your Bible and turn to the book of Exodus, Book of Exodus at chapter 20. Exodus chapter 20, the Lord admit with the people there at the foot of the mountain and Moses was given the ten commandments and the eleventh commandment. I bet most people don’t know the eleventh commandment. It’s keep the other ten. But Exodus chapter 20 and verse 1, and God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, thou shall have no other gods before me.

Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven, above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy on two thousands of them that loved me and keep my commandments.

Did you catch two phrases in all of these verses, one that says, that loved me and one that says, that hate me? The first commandment is, love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mine, body, soul, and strength. And most people don’t. Aren’t you glad we don’t have to keep the 10 commandments to go to the to heaven because if you did we wouldn’t make it. God says salvation is a gift that it’s free. But there’s something else that I wanted to mention to you in these words and that is a question that I wanted to put to you.

Do you worship idols? Do you worship idols? I want you to notice what God says here and it makes a statement in verse three, thou shall have no other gods before me.” Now we know there is no other God except the true and living God. All the other ones are fake gods. There’s only one true God but there’s many gods made by people and they make up their own gods. The Bible even calls Satan the God, the prince of the air.

So there’s other gods and you might even have a few gods you’ve made up. Everybody seems to have another God. But I wrote a few things down that I think are important. I want you to look in verse three where he makes a statement, Thou shall have no other God be for me. And idle represents another God. An idle represents another God, something that you worship other than the true God. You say, well, that’s not me. I ain’t through yet.

Did you know you can make sports a God? Did you know you can make money a God? Did you know you can make your wife or your husband or your children a God and put them before the Lord? In other words, God says he is a jealous. God, He doesn’t want anybody making anything God but Him. And He won’t tolerate any other gods, man-made gods. And many people have idols, things that they worship in the place of God. Government can become a God to you.

The White House can become God to you. The Devil can become your God. God. You’d be surprised how many other gods there are. And there’s a lot of religions that have a lot of idols and worship false gods. I know that there’s nobody like that here. Look at verse 4, Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven, above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth, thou shall not bow down thyself to them nor serve them.”

It’s talking about making images of things that becomes your God or as an image of your God that you bow down to and you worship. I don’t believe it’s talking about having your picture taken. Have you ever had somebody say, let me take your picture and they say, you know, it’ll break the camera. It’ll break the camera. I had that happen and it literally broke their camera. They broke their camera.

That broke my heart. I knew I had a face that would stop a clock, but not break the camera. But look in verse five, in verse five, idols means that you don’t worship God, and if you don’t worship God, then God says you hate Him. You hate Him. See what he says there? And the last part he says, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. So it’s not wise for you and I to put anything between us and God.

It becomes an idol. It’s a substitute for the true God. God is a jealous God. God told his people that when you go into the land, you’re not to carry out of Egypt, the idols of Egypt. You’re not to worship the gods of the people in the land where I’m sending you for sex and showing mercy onto thousands of them and you ought to underline these three words. That love me, that love me. See, God wants you to love Him more than anything else in the world.

And because God is a jealous God, and you ought to know what jealousy is like, jealousy is the fear of being replaced. Now, I don’t think God lives in fear, but God does not want to be replaced. You see, whenever a girl acts a boy and another girl comes along, She gets jealous because she’s afraid of being replaced. Jealousy is the fear of being replaced. God doesn’t want you to replace Him with anything or anybody whatsoever. So God says this is what He wants us to do.

So is there a difference between the true and the living God? Take your Bible and turn to the book of Psalms, a hundred and fifteenths Psalm. The hundred and fifteen Psalm. Now remember this, I am not attacking anybody’s religion. I will refer to some that attack my beliefs, but I’m not attacking anybody else’s belief. But if somebody does attack what I believe, should I then not have the right to defend myself. If I’m a tax shouldn’t I not be able to defend myself?

I think that most people would agree. Yes, you do. And so, yes, I will. I’m the sweetest guy in all the world. Wouldn’t hurt a flea. Psalms 115. I want you to look there in verse 1. Verse one, not unto us, O Lord. Not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth’s sake. Well, that sounds pretty humbled on it. Give God all the credit. Give God all the glory. What? Because he deserves it.

Salvation, going to heaven. God said it’s not of works lest any man should boast or take some of the credit. Take some of the glory. So God says that a man cannot save himself by his works. does not want to give glory to the man. Because God’s already declared the man can’t save himself so he can’t take credit. He can’t both look what I’ve done. A person who tries to earn their way to heaven by their good works are robbing honor and glory from God.

Saying, look at me. I get to go to heaven because I sung in the choir. I went to church. I gave money. I was a goody, goody, two shoes. Therefore, because of all how good I was, I get to go to heaven.” And God says, not by works of righteousness, but by His mercy He saves us. Oh look what He says in verse 2, wherefore it should the heathen say, where is now their God. Where is their God? So I wrote down a little statement saying, heathens have idols.

Heathens have idols. Heathens have false gods. You and I are supposed to know the true and living God and therefore we don’t need an idol. We don’t worship a man. We don’t worship a building. We don’t worship statues or any kind of man-made objects. We worship God and Him only. And now I look there in verse three, but our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever, he hath pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

So when men take silver and gold and wood and carved and make themselves little idols or little statues and the size of it is not the issue, whether it’s small or whether it’s big. And you can go into some churches and they’ll have big statues and and they have a little statues, but they say, these don’t, we don’t worship them. They just represent then if you was to take them all and throw them in a heap and burn them all, what would be their feelings about that?

Or do they not worship these things? God says not to do so and making a little idols. Things that you believe that this is going to protect me. God says, I’m God. I do the protecting. What does these little idols or big idol? What do they take away from the true and living God? What would you focus upon them that you cannot focus upon God? So he says here, it’s not important what you and I think about it. It’s not important what we He wanted to mean of what it represents to us.

Look what God says about it. So He says in verse 4, their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not. Eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not. Noses have they, but they smell not. they’ll not. They have hands, but they handle not. Feed have they, but they walk not. Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them. So is everyone that trusted in them.

The purpose is there’s some certain amount of human trust that put into an idol that’s made by man’s hands. And God says, don’t do it. Period. You don’t do it. Now take your Bible looking 135th Psalm, the 135th Psalm. And the 135th Psalm, I want you to look there in verse 15. Verse 15. And notice verse 15, he says, the idols of the heathen are silver and gold the work of men’s hands. They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not.

They have ears but they hear not. Neither is there any breath in their mouth. They that make them are like unto them so as everyone that trusts us in them. Same thing we read while it goes. So, heathens have idols. That’s because you don’t know the true and living God. I don’t need an idol. Don’t need one. Now, I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation in chapter 22. The book of Revelation, chapter 22.

So in Revelation chapter 22, I want you to look there. In verse 8, look in verse 8. And I, John, saw these things and heard them. When I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things. Then said he unto me, see thou do it not. For I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book. and you ought to underline these two words, worship God.

Bowing before a man that you think more than a man is idle worship. It is wrong. It is wicked. It is an abomination to God. God says, no, you don’t do it. You are only to bow in order to worship the true and living God. He’s the King. He’s the Lord. Now take your Bible and look there in the book of Revelation 19, for Revelation chapter 19. We know that one day we’re going to be in heaven and we’re going to go to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

And the Bible says that we’re going to be dressed in the righteous acts of the saints because we just came from the judgment seat of Christ where we have been rewarded but what we’ve done for the Lord. And so, however we’re dressed is going to be a reflection of our service to the Lord and what we’ve done for Him. So he says there in verse 7, let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come and his wife hath made herself ready.

And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the white or fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. And he said unto me, write, blessed are they which are called unto the married supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me, These are the true sayings of God. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not, I am thy fellow servant, of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus.

Worship God those two words again. You only worship God. You don’t bow to a man in order that he He is more than a man. He’s in place of God and He becomes an idol to a person. God says you don’t do that in His word. Take your Bible now and turn to the book of 1 John, the book of 1 John in chapter 5. As you notice starting there in verse 10, in verse 10 makes a statement, he that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.

that believe if not God hath made him a liar. Because he believe if not the record that God gave of his son. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his son. He that hath the son, half life, and he that hath not the son of God, half not life. So whether you have eternal life or not depends on whether or not do you have the son. If not do you have the church, do you have the certain preacher, Do you have all your good works?

Do you have the person? So you can have all those things, but if you don’t have Christ, you got zero. But if you have Christ, you have enough. Christ is all you need to go to heaven. He that hath the Son, hath life. If I got that, it’s all I need, is eternal life. He that hath not the Son, hath not eternal life. So he says in verse 13, these things have I written unto you that believe. That’s all you have to do.

That believe. On the name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, that you may know that you have eternal life. So can you know you have eternal life? Well yes, if you have Christ. So Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. It’s okay to worship Jesus Christ. Why? Because he’s God. You can bow before Jesus Christ, right? Because he’s God. He’s not an idol. He is God. But if you take salvation away from him and put it into anything else is to put that above God.

And that makes God angry. That makes God mad. God is a jealous God. God says that’s wicked. That’s an abomination. And we’re not to do that. Now, let me just mention this to you. In the book of 1 Samuel in chapter 15, there’s a little story there about Samuel telling Saul what to do, and when he became king and how to deal with the Amalekites, he didn’t fully obey. And the Bible says that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.

And the Bible talks about it. It is idolatry. It’s idolatry. not to obey the Lord. So I wrote this little statement down. The reasons for rebellion are as witchcraft and idolatry. Nothing for a moment. Even if you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you know you’re going to heaven when you die. The reasons that you give for not fully serving the Lord with all of your heart is witchcraft Because it’s rebellion, it’s idolatry. You worship your excuses more than obedience to God.

So can a Christian be involved in idol worship? Worshipping the excuses are the reasons why you’re not fully serving God like you ought to. You may use a church as your reason for justification, and you can use somebody else as a reason for justice. You can use your people where you work as a reason. as a reason. I don’t care what it is. Are there reasons, those excuses? Do they supplant the Word of God? Do you put those above what God has to say?

Many people do. I want to read a couple things to you that I have because somebody has offended me. If the differences between what the Bible teaches and what the Catholic Church teaches are insignificant, then we are to be blamed for being divisive and therefore destructive to the unity of the Christian faith. However, if the differences are irreconcilable, then the wrong belief condemns somebody to an eternity separated from the Lord. So are the differences that we have and what we believe?

And keep us in mind, this is not designed to attack anyone but to defend our position, my position that I have in the Word of God. Because there’s many people that become very hurt and very offended if you say something about their religious belief. But it’s okay for them to say it about us. There’s a religion today called the religion of Islam. It’s okay for them to take our Jesus Christ off the cross and to say that He never came back from the dead.

It’s okay for them to mutilate our religious beliefs. But don’t you say one word against their religion? Because that offends them and they’ll cut off your head because you made them mad. Oh, I take offense to that. If it’s good for the goose, good for the gander. But that’s okay. It’s not going to change what I believe. But there’s others over one billion people that are also Roman Catholic. Now, I’m not attacking the Roman Catholics. If you’re Catholic, listen to what I’m saying, that’s all.

follow my thinking. I just want a person to know what they are saying about me and what I believe because there has been an attack made. And I think you ought to know what it is. And so I don’t have no other way of doing this except in a public forum because otherwise you won’t be here and then I won’t be able to tell you. So let me read this to you. For For all its serious problems, the Roman Catholic Church cannot be faulted for misunderstanding what evangelicals are fundamentalists.

in the Gospel of Salvation. Since it is spelled out in no uncertain terms in Romans, in Rome’s official canons and decrees. So they fully understand my position because they wrote it down and it’s in their material, just in what they teach. The following citations are from the Council of Trent, which met over a 19-year period, primary to denounce the teachings of the Protestant Reformation. Although the Council met in the 16th century, its decrees were reaffirmed by the Church’s most recent Councils, both Vatican I and II.

Consider Catholicism’s position on what evangelicals uphold as the Gospel. In other words, they will tell us what we believe. Now this is what they say we believe. succession canon nine. If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, let him be anathema. So they say this is what we believe and and those that believe this let them be anathema. Now the word anathema according to Webster’s new world dictionary is a condemnation.

It’s a formal curse and is used in excommunication a person. So if I believe this heresy and they’re calling this heresy and if I believe that I’m supposed to be cursed. Excommunicated. Destined for hell. The sixth session, can in 12, said this, If anyone shall say that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ’s sake or that it is this confidence alone that justifies us, let him be anathema. That’s That’s what I believe.

So they fully understand what I believe. And they say, I need to go to hell for what I believe. I have been under a curse for believing what I believe. And because I don’t believe like they believe, they get to go to heaven and I get to go to hell. They say this. I’m just telling you what they said, don’t get mad at me. I haven’t said anything against them yet, have I? I’m only telling you that they understand who I am and where I’m coming from and what I believe.

And so far they’re right. So I’m telling you they’re right. This is what I believe. But they say, I should be anathema, accursed. In the sixth session, canon 30, if anyone says that after the reception of the grace of justification, the guilt is so remitted and the debt of eternal punishment so blotted out to every Repentant Center that no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged either in this world or in purgatory before the gates of heaven can be open, let him be anathema.

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Acts chapter 1 verse 8, When ye shall receive the Holy Spirit, so it means they hadn’t received the Holy Spirit yet, ye shall receive power to become witnesses on the being, and so forth. So even though he said, there’s something else, he says, now, when this time comes, and you go forth and preach the gospel, he says there in verse 23, and whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them. Whosoever sins you retain, they are retained. In other words, it’s a word about being bound and being loosed.

It’s kind of like when people are married. We say they are bound, means enslaved. No, they’re bound together. Loose means you’re free. So there’s people that are not married and they’re free. And there’s people who are married, they’re bound. Now take your Bible and look there in the book of Matthew and chapter 16. Matthew and chapter 16. And look there in verse 19, verse 19. Verse 19 it talks about giving to Peter the keys of the kingdom. In verse 19, and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.

And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. There’s things that you and I can do down here that God will honor up there. And when he’s talking about this binding and loosing, it means there’s individuals who are bound by sin. And he says, if you know the truth, the truth will make you free. So people are bound, and those who believe on Christ are loose from sin. And God in heaven will honor the decisions that you and I make down here.

For example, here you are. You’re a bound in sin. You are born in sin. You live in sin and you will die in sin to be eternally separated from God for all eternity. Now that is not what God wants. So he says, go and declare the gospel. The good news of what God did about this because you can’t save yourself. The preacher can’t save you. No priest can save you. No church can save you. There’s only one Savior, that Jesus Christ.

So he go and declare this gospel, the good news that I will forgive all their sins. And if a man believes it, hear, God will honor that there. If a man does not believe it, hear, God will not honor it there. In other words, it’s up to the individual to either believe or not to believe the gospel of Jesus Christ. So you and I have the blessed privilege of declaring this wonderful message to individuals that may never hear the gospel.

So by our telling them this message, they can believe it here and now. You see, when I trusted Christ as my Savior in that little old living room 51 years ago, I was 18 years old. God saved me and gave me eternal life. Because the gospel was declared, I chose to believe it. My sins were forgiven, I became a child of God and I’m going to heaven whenever I die. I’m not dead yet, but whenever I die, I know I’m going to heaven because it was a gift.

It’s free. I didn’t earn it. I didn’t work for it. I don’t deserve it. So the Bible tells us that we have in your hands the message, the key that opens up the door for all these people, all they have to do is believe it. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life and he that believeth not shall not see life ${ But the wrath of God bites upon Him. So yes, you and I have been given the gospel which is the key on how to get into heaven.

So we go and we tell people what God said. We declare it. And even though we may declare it. We are not the ones that forgives the sin. We’re not the one who gives them eternal life. Your salvation doesn’t depend upon me, forgiving you of your sin. You’re going to heaven depend upon whether or not will you believe that when Christ died, He died for you. And you trust Him as your Savior. Take your Bible looking Acts chapter 2.

The book of Acts chapter 2. And first 21, I love it when we study the Bible. Acts chapter 2 verse 21 it says and it shall come to pass that whosoever Shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved So your salvation depends on the Lord saving you It not call upon your pastor not call upon the priest not call upon the church Call upon the Lord Shall be saved whosoever will believe it see that whosoever it means anybody doesn’t matter who you are When Christ died, He paid for the sins of the whole world, and that’s why it’s so important.

Now look in Acts 13, Acts 13. And I want you to look there in verse 38. Verse 38 says, be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Now, before we go any further, what man? through this man. What man? Well, I’m glad you asked that. Look there in verse 29, verse 29, when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, laid him in a Separatgoth.

I wonder who he’s talking about yet. Got any clues? And then in verse 30, but God raised him from the dead. So we must be talking about the one that died on the cross that was slain and was placed in the grave and came back. So he says here in verse 31, and he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. And we, and here’s that word, declare.

If we declare unto you, glad titans, glad titans means gospel. That’s the gospel. We declare unto you the gospel. How that the promise which was made unto the Father, I mean in the Old Testament, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up Jesus again. As it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son. This day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, He saith on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to seek corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation, by the will of God, fell on sleep, laid in the tomb, and saw corruption. But in verse 37, he whom God raised again, saw no corruption. That’s why he was raised in three days. They say corruption starts on the fourth day. I don’t know. Don’t care. I just know what the Bible says and I believe it.

And then he says in verse 38, so we know we’re talking about Jesus Christ and his death on the cross. Now look at the results of this man that died on the cross. You see, no man did this for you. No preacher did this for you. A preacher doesn’t die for you. A preacher can’t save you. No church can save you. save you, only Jesus Christ. So he says in verse 38, be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the what?

Forgiveness of sin. So having your sins forgiven is a result of hearing something preached about that man. So that’s why we go into all the world and preach about Jesus and who he is and what he did, that he died on the cross for all the sins of the world and that by believing you may have life through his name only through him see there verse 39 and by him Jesus Christ all that believe you see that word all all that do what believe you mean that’s all I have to do that’s all God requires is will you believe he did it for you.

You see, there’s some people who say, well, you got to go to church, you got to give money, you got to live a certain way, you got to do all these good deeds. In other words, what they’re saying is you got to deserve the right to go to heaven. God ain’t going to let you go unless you deserve it. That’s contrary to everything this book teaches. It’s not the Bible. The Bible is that a man is saved by grace through faith, that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.”

Look at what he says here. When he makes the same inverse term and by him all that believe are justified from how many things. All things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. In other words, the law could not save you. The law could not justify you. The law could not forgive you of one sin. The law can only condemn you, but it cannot save you. Now, Christ can save you. But the only reason he can save you and forgive you of your sins is because somebody had to pay for those sins because the wages of sin is dead.

Somebody had to die to pay for your sins. That’s what Jesus did. Jesus died so that you and I could have all of our sins forgiven. And that’s why he says, preach this message. So we declare the good news, the gospel of what Christ did, how that people can have all their sins forgiven. If all my sins are paid for, then all my sins can be forgiven. But he can’t forgive me of all of my sins if he only paid for half of my sins.

Does that make sense? But He paid for all of them. So they’re all paid for. Look in Acts in chapter 10, the book of Acts in chapter 10. Acts chapter 10, to show you that the acceptance or the rejection on earth is honored by God in heaven. You see, you can’t wait till after you die to make the decision. A lot of people think, well, I’ll just decide later, later, later, later. Always later. Kind of like the Congress right now kicking the can for the down the road.

How far are you going to kick this can down the road? I don’t want to make a decision right now. Kick it down the road. Did you know that sooner or later you’re going to run down the road? Sooner or later that’s all she wrote. Not what you’re going to do. Now you’ve got to deal with the situation, but you know you may not be in a situation where you can deal with the situation. You may not have all of your senses working.

You get taken out of this world just that quick. So look there in the book of Acts look at verse 34 Acts chapter 10 verse 34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth. I perceive God is no respecter of persons It means that a God does not like anybody more than you and hate anybody more than you He loves all of us the same He’s not a respecter person. So what he did for one person, he did for everybody.

So he makes a statement in verse 35, but in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. But nobody works righteousness. That’s why he says he can’t find anybody’s righteousness and all of our righteousness are his filthy rags. Christ says that he’s going to take and cut down every tree that brings not forth the fruits of righteousness. Well that means everybody born into this world is going to get cut down. That’s why every man sends every man dies But God’s the same for all of us So when he died he had to die for every man because every man is a sinner Every man has come short of God’s perfection So he makes the statement verse 36 the word which God sent into the children of Israel preaching peace by Jesus Christ He is Lord of all And you’ll notice that this is the word that was preached to

Israel and preaching peace by Jesus Christ. So they knew him about Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. But anyway, in verse 37, that word I say ye know, which was published throughout all Judea and began from Jerusalem or Galilee, after the baptism which John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him, and we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they slew and hanged on a tree, no doubt as to who we’re talking about.

And any time that refers to this one that died on the cross, it always refers to in verse 40, him God raised up the third day and showed him openly not to all the people, but under witnesses chosen before of God, even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. Now get what he says in the next two verses. Very, very powerful verses. In verse 42, and he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he which was ordained up God to be the judge of quick and the dead.

Now, look in verse 43, to him give all the prophets witness. This is in the Old Testament. They all prophesied about this, told about this. Now it’s happened. As he says, even in this thy day, that through his name, get this through his name, whosoever, anybody, whosoever, That’s what, believe it in Him. Shall receive. You see, your sins were not forgiven just because Christ died on the cross. Just because you know that He died on the cross. A lot of people preach that.

There are a lot of people who hurt all their life. Christ died on the cross and paid for the sins of the world. And if you ask them, where are you going to go and you die? Well, I don’t know heaven. I hope they don’t get it. They still don’t understand it. Why would a person to be hoping they’re going to go to heaven? Why would anybody have to hope they’re going to heaven? I know I’m going to heaven.

Is there a difference there? That’s the difference. I know I’m going to heaven. Why? Because I believe what he said. And he made this statement through his name, nobody else. Who’s who are believing in him and you’re the underlying, the last part of this verse? Shall receive remission of sins? That’s what the book said. Now, to close on this because I think it’s so important. I want you to take your Bible, look at in the book of Hebrews in chapter 9.

Hebrews and chapter 9. Well look there in chapter 9 of Hebrews and verse 11. Verse 11 says the verse 11, but Christ be in come and high priest. Is he a priest? He’s a priest. Not just a priest, he’s a high priest. The high priest was the only one who had the right to go between the veil and to the the veil and to the where the ark of mercy was, where the blood was supposed to be sprinkled once a year for the sins of the people.

But see he didn’t have any sin but he went into that holy place and the Bible says he offered his own blood upon the altar for the sins of the whole world once and for don’t have to do it again because he when they did it in the Old Testament they always did it all the time they were making these sacrifice all But this time one man, one sacrifice, four sins forever. And look what he says. He says in verse 12, Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained what kind of redemption?

Eternal redemption. That eternal means a payment that was made once and for all. He never has to make it again. When Christ came 2000 years ago, He paid for all the sins of all the world once and for all and never has to be done again. That’s why He’s able to do what He did. Look in verse 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit, offered Himself without spot, He had no sin. Purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

You see, your works are dead work because they come from a dead man. You’re separated from God. You’re dead, separated in sins and trespasses. Though therefore your sins, your dead works could never save you, could never forgive you of any sin. You needed Christ. You need His death payment for your sins. There is no other name given under heaven wherebyRelest we must be saved. And so he then he makes the statement here in verse 15. For this cause, he is the mediator of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament that were which are called might receive the promise of Enuara on the line eternal inheritance.

It means you’ll become God’s child forever. You will inherit the free gift of eternal life forever. you will be God’s child forever for this cause that by means of death, the repayment that he made on the cross. All this was what he did for us. And then he talks about the testament. I’ve used this before, but let me just mention to you very quickly. If I was to die, my wife and I, we have a will made out. But in this will, we say, oh, my daughter gets this, my son gets this, and the grand kid might get this or whatever.

And so we have a little will made out, but this is of no value until I die. And I’m not planning on dying anytime soon. So I have a will, but the will is of no value until I die. Well Christ has a will made out. He made out a will. And so in this will, He’s left all these people, all these things in it. is only for those who are part of his family. So if you’re in the family of God, you’re in his will.

So you see, by you trusting Christ as your Savior, you become God’s child. And as a child of God, you have a right to study the will and see what’s yours. I mean, if a man was a billionaire and he left you in his will, would you want to see the will? Would you like to see, what? You see, the word of God is the will of God. It’s his will. He made out a will. But the will is no good until he dies.

Well, I got news for you. He died. Came back from the dead to guarantee the will. To make sure you get what you’re supposed to get. I’m not going to. I’m not. the statement in verse 16, but where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is a fourth-afterman or dead. Otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator lived. Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood, but when Moses was spoken, every preceptor of all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats with water.

And the scarlet woolen, the hystop, and sprinkle both the book and all the people saying, this is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood. But get this last part. And without shedding a blood, no remission of sin. In other words, there is no forgiveness of your sins if there’s no shedding of blood.

So that’s why Christ had to die and shed his blood. And another reason is this. It says in the book of Leviticus chapter 7, in verse 11, for the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. So if God’s going to shed his blood, that’s how he gave his life. So in order to give his life, he had to shed his blood.

And that blood was purified blood. That blood was incorruptible blood. That blood was precious blood. That blood is what he offered upon the altar as a continual payment for all of the sins of all people or all time. And so that’s why he can forgive us of all of our sins because, you see, it can only be forgiven because somebody had to die and give their life to pay for our sins. And isn’t it a shame that there’s people today that go to church all the life and never really understand this.

And they think they’ve got to be good to go to heaven. And there’s not one verse in the Bible that says you have to. Because if you did, you couldn’t make it. You don’t have to be good to go to heaven. You’ve got to be perfect. And none of us are perfect. We’ve all sinned and come short of the glory of God. Look up here just a moment. You’ve never seen this before. You know what is so interesting? to hear some of the stories about some of these teen natures and college age kids that have been going out so with him.

Peter called me up the other night. I think it was last night and said they had about 50 or so that could have trusted Christ as their Savior the other night. And that’s just from those that these kids are going out and talking to me. I mean, they’re getting to where they’re both. They’ll walk up to anybody on the street in the mall and talk them. Do you know where you’re going to go and you die and explain the Gospel to them.

You said they can’t do that. That’s what the disciples did years ago, and they shook the known world. This hand represents you and me. This wallet represents all the bad things that we do. It’s all of our sins. You see, we committed the sin. We ought to pay for them, but the Bible says that God, He loves us. And the wages of sin is death, eternal separation from God since everybody sins. Everybody’s condemned. We’re all in the same boat.

And God says to go to heaven, you have to be perfect. Well, nobody’s perfect. How am I going to get there? Because see, I got all these sins. I can’t get in. Well, how can I get rid of them? Jesus Christ, this hand represents Jesus Christ, God in the flesh. He came into this 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 everybody, is he Christ, who had no sin didn’t have to die.

So he took all the sin of all the world, paid for it once and for all, for everybody’s sin made an eternal payment, one payment for all. Don’t owe anymore. So when I believed that he did it for me, he said he would put this payment to my account and all my sins are forgiven. You see, I paid for them. She got, came home, and accountable for my sin because I paid for my sins. I paid for all of them, Lord, in Christ.

He did it for me. So all mine are paid. He can’t hold me accountable for any of my sins. That’s grace. I don’t deserve that. I deserve to go to hell. But I’m going to go to heaven because of what Christ did. And there’s no tricks to it, no gimmicks. You don’t have to join this church to go to heaven. You don’t have to be water baptized to go to heaven. You don’t have to give any money to go to heaven.

I shouldn’t have said that. But you don’t have to do anything. All you have to do is believe that He did it for you. Preach the forgiveness of sins. To everyone that, believe it. If you’ll believe it, God in heaven is going to accept your decision. If you believe it here and now, it’s done there. But you have to do it while you’re here. And if you don’t accept it and you die without changing your mind, you’ll be eternally separated from God in a literal fire burning hell.

And it doesn’t have to be that way. Because eternal life is a gift. It’s free. Christ paid for all of our sins and said that when we believe he did it for us He would give us as a free gift ever lasting life for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son the whosoever they leave it in him should not perish but have everlasting life We go to heaven on what Christ did for us now you tell me ain’t that good news?

And I’m not even supposed to use the word ain’t but ain’t that good That gets gooder and gooder. The more I think about it. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you’re here this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I am not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to have you stand up and come forward. I don’t want anything from you. I just want you to receive something.

I want you to receive the free gift of eternal life. Would you believe that Jesus Christ died for you? God loves you so much. And He wants to forgive you of everything you have ever done once and for all. And you accept that payment, then you get to go to heaven whenever you die. And that’s why you can be sure of going because it’s free. It’s a gift. Friend, if it depends upon your good works, you’ll never know. You’ll never know if you’re good enough.

But I can tell you what the judge already said. He already says that your works are not good enough. that no man can earn eternal life. It’s not a works list any man should boast. So if you’re here this morning and you say, yes, that made sense to me and I’ll trust Christ as my Savior and preach our life for you to pray for me. And I just like to know what I said made sense to you. And I just want to know if you trust the Lord, and I hope that you do.

So we head by nice clothes. Anyone would all say, yes, that made sense to me and I’ll trust Christ right now as my Savior and preach our life for you to pray for me. We’ll just leave you in it very quickly, but I’ll wrap it down. Anyone at all. See, God knows who you are. It’s the decision you make right now. And God will accept that decision. Wouldn’t it be a shame to reject it? Do you believe it? All sins are forgiven.

Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together. We thank You for this church, for the good people we have here. We ask Your Blessings, Father, also, give us good fellowship. Thank You so much for all those that work so hard and make it possible. In Christ and 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 were blessed by today’s message.

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Turn to the book of Matthew, the book of Matthew and chapter nine. Matthew chapter nine. I want to cover a very interesting subject this morning. I’m almost afraid to, but it’s in the Bible and so I feel like I need to cover it. Because you know, to go to heaven, it’s because God has forgiven you or me of all of our sins. They are forgiven, like we never did them. And He can do that because He’s God. But there’s a reason why He can do that.

Now, I know that sometimes preachers are looked upon as somebody who can actually forgive you of sins. Can I forgive you of sins? If you sin against me, I can forgive you for what you did to me, but I can’t forgive you for what you did to God. God can, but I can’t. And I don’t believe any other person can forgive you of something that you did against God. Now I do want you to know that the Bible talks about when we declare the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are declaring something in that message.

We are declaring to a person that they’re all sinners. Now I’m not the one that goes into all the world and tell everybody you’re a sinner. I am declaring to you what God said. God says all have sinned. God said that. So whenever we declare the gospel, we’re telling them that Jesus Christ died on the cross and paid for their sins. I am not telling them that I died on the cross and I paid for their sins. I have yet to save my first person.

I’ve never saved anybody. I’d get credit sometimes somebody says, you saved me. No. I told you the message, I declared unto you the gospel, and you heard the gospel, and you believed the gospel, and God forgives you of all of your sins. So whenever I talk to an individual and I declare the gospel to them, I can declare unto them that all their sins are forgiven, though I didn’t forgive them of their sins, but I can declare their sins are forgiven if they have accepted the payment Christ’s mate on the cross for them.

When the Bible says in the gospel story that he that believeth on me hath everlasting life, I am not the one who gives to anyone the free gift of eternal life. I can declare unto you this truth that if you believe that Jesus died and paid for your sins, that God gives to you the free gift of eternal life. So I can tell a person that your sins have been forgiven, but I didn’t forgive them. And I can tell a person that they have eternal life, though I didn’t give it to them.

I can declare unto you what God said in His word that He that believeth on me are forgiven for all sins and have the free gift of eternal life. wonderful, wonderful message to declare. Now here in the book of Matthew and chapter 9, I want you to look there in verse 1. Verse 1 says, And he entered into a ship and passed over and came into his own city. And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on the bed, and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy.

Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee, and behold certain of the scribes said within themselves, this man blasphemeth. And Jesus, knowing of their thoughts, said, were for a thank ye evil in your hearts. For whether it is easier to say thy sins be forgiven thee or to say arise and walk. In other words, here’s a man that couldn’t walk. Is it easier to say thy sins be forgiven or rise up and walk? Which would be the easiest.

Because they knew that only God can do either one. Because they knew that only one that can really forgive sins is God. It’s not something that we go around practicing and Setting up our my own little booth and say now you come to me and tell me your sin and I’ll forgive you I don’t have that authority the Bible says that only God can forgive sins And he makes a statement here in verse six But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins So what gave him the right to come into this world and to forgive sins?

Well, because he’s the one they sinned against. He can forgive sins. You see, Jesus Christ is God, because you see, they said in another place that no man can do this except God. Only God can do these miracles that thou doest. He said to the man, he says, arise, take up thy bed and walk. So the power to raise a man from the dead or make the blind to see the death they hear, the dumb to speak or to forgive sins, it all comes from God.

Because if you can do one, you can do the other. And so it says that they all marveled in verse eight, when the multitudes sought they marveled and glorified God, which had given such power on the man. Here’s an individual that was able to perform a miracle and something equal to that was having your sins forgiven. See, one of the greatest miracles of all time, better than walking on water or raising the dead, is to have your sins forgiven because humanly speaking, see, it’s humanly impossible.

There’s nothing that a man can do between him and God that can cause all of his sins to be forgiven where God won’t hold him accountable. It’s going to take a miracle. And since every man has sinned, God says every man is condemned and there’s no way for a man to save himself. It would take a miracle. So to have your sins forgiven is a miracle. Now take your Bible turned to Luke chapter 24, the book of Luke chapter 24.

Now we’ll look at quite a few you verses, but I want you to look at this because they’re so important. Jesus Christ has already died on the cross, come back from the dead, and here He makes a statement to His disciples in verse 46, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoove Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day. Verse 47, that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem.

Now get this, that repentance. This is what the man is supposed to do. Remission of sins is what God is supposed to do. So we have a double-edged sword. So when we talk to people about the gospel of Jesus Christ, if a man will repent or believe the gospel, that’s what the word repent means, to change your mind. You can’t save yourself. There’s no good work you can do that will cause your sins to be taken away. If you was to do good for the rest of your life, that will not take away the wrong you did yesterday or 30 years ago.

You see, there’s no way of you taking away your sins as though they didn’t exist because you decided to do something good. So repent is to change your mind about saving yourself by your works because you can’t. And if you’ll believe the gospel, then by your believing, then your sins are forgiven. They’re not forgiven until you believe. But he can’t forgive you of your sin unless the sin debt has been paid. So that’s why Jesus Christ had to come into the world and make a debt payment for everybody’s sin.

Then that payment is put to your account and you’re forgiven when you believe it. There is no other way for a person to get to heaven. So get what he says here in verse 47 and that repentance and remission of sin should be preached in his name. So that means without his name, it can’t be done. It’s only because of who he is and what he did. Then we have the right to go into the world and to declare on to everyone.

Look, a payment has been made for all the sins of the world. If you’ll believe it, God will forgive you of everything you have ever done or ever will do. He forgives you of all of it. And that’s the only way you’ll ever get to heaven is because your sins are forgiven. Take your Bible-looking book of Matthew chapter 18. Here are some very important verses. Many apply all of this to the local church, but there’s more here than meets the eye.

That’s what the word proverbs means, pro-inverbum. More than meets the eye. You see it, but behind that is a greater truth, more in depth. So in verse 15, and you and I are supposed to forgive those who sin against us. So if you can understand that principle, you can understand the ones who sin against us. that God is talking about. Verse 15, Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, it means he did you wrong. Whatever it was, he did you wrong.

Go and tell everybody all about him. Now it says, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. You ought to underline that word alone. If he shall hear thee, thou has gained thy brother. In other words, that’s the reason that you would go to him, right? There were someone wrongs you, do you like to use that as a weapon to tear down somebody because you got to let everybody know what they did to you? That’s not love.

It’s revenge. It’s because you’re hurt and you’re bitter maybe and you can talk about the person try to pull them down because you got the goods and they really did wrong you and you might have been the really innocent individual. But is that how God says to deal with it? No. Majority of people will never do what God says to do. The reason you go to the person is because you want to win the person. They wronged you. Go to them because you want to help heal.

You want to correct a problem. And as the Bible says here in verse 16, but if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or more witnesses every word may be established because you know there’s always somebody says, well, I didn’t say that. Well, that’s not what I meant. So there’s always arguments down the road, you know. So if they won’t hear you alone, then next time he says, you get somebody else to go with you so they can verify what was said and done.

So he says, let everything be established in the mouth of two or more witnesses. That’s even under the law. In verse 17, and if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church. But if he neglect to hear the church, let him be under thee as a heathen man and a publican. In other words, you have delivered your soul. You did that which was right. And when you do that which is right on the earth, then God will accept that in heaven.

See, if you will go and you will forgive and you do the right things, God will honor that there. But if you don’t, then God is going to accept that and God is going to have to judge himself of what’s been done. You see, God in heaven will honor his word and his method when people follow his procedure. You hear what he says? In verse 18, “‘Varily I say unto you, “‘Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, “‘and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loose in heaven.'”

Now, this means your decision on the earth. God will honor. God will hold you to your word and what you did or did not do. So if somebody has ought against you and they come to you and you will not forgive them, you will not own up to it, you won’t admit it, when you could have, then God’s going to accept what you said or did. And God’s going to have to judge you. But if you will forgive, as the scripture tells us that we should, then God accepts that as you did the right thing and God don’t have to judge you.

See, God says in his word in the book of Corinthians, judging yourself, examining yourselves. And if we would judge ourselves, he will not judge us, but there’s a God in heaven that accepts your decision. Your decision to obey, and God will do accordingly, or disobey, and God will do accordingly, so that you understand that it’s not a game. And that things that happen in life are not just all bunch of accidents and stuff. a God in heaven that can be opening doors and closing doors.

And in verse 19 he says, more over I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father, which is in heaven. Now in its context we’re talking about here’s two people that have a problem with each other. And because they have a problem with each other, if they two come together and they agree and they solve the problem God’s way then God will accept that.

And so nobody gets punished, nobody gets judged because they judged themselves. And so when two people can’t agree it’s when the disagreement one’s going to be blessed and one’s going to be chastened. But when you agree then both can be blessed. You both learn. Thou hast gained thy brother. And that’s the purpose of why you do it. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all husbands and wives could learn this simple principle of forgiving one another, loving one another as God’s Word says?

So when he makes a statement down in verse 20, he says, for where two or three are gathered together in my name, there in the midst of them. In other words, God says, if you will honor my word and do what I told you to do, he says, it’s just like me being there. And whenever there’s two and when I’m on here, then you get another. Okay, you got three. But if you’ll do what God’s word says, it will work.

And so we are to forgive. So in verse 21, then came Peter to him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me? And I forgive him seven times. Verse 20, Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee until seven times, but until 70 times seven. Ooh, that’s a whole bunch. But you see that verse 21 where Peter says, how often shall my brother sin? And here’s those two little words you need to underline them against me, against me.

See, I can forgive all day long somebody who sends against me. But I’m not to forgive you for your sins against God. You have a God problem. Now what we usually say, well, if you’ve got a problem with somebody, you need to go see them. Have you sinned? Have you been to see God lately to take care of it? Because nobody can do this on your behalf. This is something you have to do. supposed to go to God? You don’t want to go to God.

Scared to death, go to see God. What? You know you’re guilty. And we have all sinned and come short of the perfection of God. So every man has sinned. Every man has guilt. God says all are guilty before God. Let God be true in every man, a liar. So the word of God teaches, yes, you can’t forgive us sin against God, but you sure can forgive people who sinned against you. Now, take your Bible looking, Matthew chapter 10. Matthew chapter 10.

The Bible says that God had given to the disciples various power to do various things. So he says here in verse one, when he had called unto him his 12 disciples, he gave them power, all kinds of power. Power to cast out unclean spirits. to heal all manner of diseases, all manner of sicknesses. And then he says down there in verse seven. And as you go preach saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, forgive everybody their sins.

No, he didn’t say that. But all these things they could do, but God’s the one that forgives of sins when it comes to salvation. In other words, to get me from here to heaven there, then God has to forgive me of all of my sins. That’s why he says to preach the forgiveness of sins because forgiving you of your sins is like giving you salvation. It means you’re forgiven. Then there’s no sin to condemn me because they’re forgiven. That’s a wonderful thing to know.

And being forgiven is what removes the guilt. I don’t have to be guilty no more. Why? Because all my sins are forgiven. like I didn’t do it. I’m supposed to see it from God’s viewpoint. That’s how God sees it. And God has removed my sin as far as the east is from the west and cast into the depths of the sea. I want you to see there in verse 7 and 8 again. As you go, preach saying, the kingdom of heaven is a hand, heal the sick, cleanse the leopard, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely have received, freely give.

So this is what He gave to them, but they were limited. They could not do everything. God didn’t give to you and I the power to forgive another man’s sins. I remember the story one time when Dr. A. Ray Stanford, the president of Florida Bible College. But Ray said he was crossing the street when he saw that this man had been hit by a car. He was laying up against the gutter and he was dying. And blood was coming out and the man wasn’t going to have long to live.

And the man laid there and he kept saying, he says, call me a priest, call me a priest. Well, there was nobody. There was just Ray. But Ray knows that according to the Bible, that when you and I trust Christ as our Savior, we become priest of God. So he told the guy, he says, I’m a priest. Now he wasn’t a priest of a particular church. But he was a priest in that he was interceding for an individual for God.

And so he says, I am a priest. But he thought that he would do certain things and so on. But Ray sent, he told him. says son listen to me you don’t have a lot of time left But what I want you to know is this, and you’ve probably heard a lot of this before, that Jesus Christ died on the cross and paid for all of your sins. He says, you’ve heard this before? You’ve heard that. He explained the gospel to him how that Jesus Christ loves him, paid for all of his sins, and all that he had to do to go to heaven was to accept Jesus Christ as a Savior.

He says, son, will you accept Jesus Christ as your only hope of going to heaven? He said, yes, I will. And right there was just a few minutes, man passed off the scene. Now, you can declare a man saved if he believes. You can declare your sins are forgiven if you believe. You can declare you have the free gift of eternal life if you believe. But if you don’t believe, none of it is effective to you. That’s why it’s the greatest thing in all the world to go into all the world and declare the good news, the gospel, this message that God has given to us.

Take your Bible and turn to the gospel of John in chapter 20. The gospel of John in chapter 20 is a very confusing verse. It’s caused a lot of trouble over the years. And I want to show you why. But remember, the Bible cannot contradict itself and there has to be unexplaination that harmonizes with all the rest of Scripture. The verse will not stand alone. It’s all Scripture has to perfectly dovetail together. And so when He makes the statement here, after He came back from the dead, He was talking to His disciples in the upper room, and it says there in verse 1 of John chapter 20 verse 19, then the same day at the evening, been the first day of the week, which was on a Sunday, the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews.

And then he makes a statement down here in verse 22. And when he had said, he breathed on them and said, under them, receive ye the Holy Ghost. Now, according to the Bible, the Holy Ghost had not yet been given. And the Holy Spirit was going to come on the day of Pentecost. So even though he said, receive ye the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit didn’t come until the day of Pentecost, which was 50 days after the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And so they didn’t receive it until later when they were baptized by the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2. And the Bible says that ye shall be received the Holy Spirit not many days hence, so they hadn’t happened yet. But he said, receive ye the Holy Spirit, even though they were going to receive it later. Just like he says in the book of Luke chapter 24, he said, in Matthew 28, going to all the world, priests to gospel. But in Luke, he says, wait until you are in dude with power from on high.

So it didn’t leave it, it didn’t have the power yet. Acts chapter one verse eight, when ye shall receive the Holy Spirit. So I mean they hadn’t received the Holy Spirit yet. You shall receive power to become witnesses on the being and so forth. So even though he said, there’s something else, he says, now when this time comes and you go forth and preach the gospel, he says there in verse 23, and whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them.

Whosoever sins you retain, they are retained. In other words, it’s a word about being bound and being loosed. It’s kind of like when people are married. We say they are bound. Means enslaved. No, they’re bound together. Loose means you’re free. So there’s people that are not married and they’re free. And there’s people who are married. They’re bound. Now take your Bible and look there in the book of Matthew and chapter 16. Matthew and chapter 16. and look there in verse 19.

Verse 19 it talks about giving to Peter the keys of the kingdom. In verse 19 and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. There’s things that you and I can do down here, that God will honor up there. And when He’s talking about this binding and loosing, it means there’s individuals who are bound by sin.

And He says, if you know the truth, the truth will make you free. So people are bound, and those who believe on Christ are loose from sin. And God in heaven will honor the decisions that you and I make down here. For example, here you are. You’re a bound in sin. You are born in sin. You live in sin and you will die in sin to be eternally separated from God for all eternity. Now that is not what God wants.

So he says, go and declare the gospel, the good news of what God did about this because you can’t save yourself that preacher can’t save you. No priest can save you. No church can save you. There’s only one savior, that Jesus Christ. So he go and declare this gospel, the good news, that I will forgive all their sins. And if a man believes it, hear, God will honor that there. If a man does not believe it, hear, God will not honor it there.

In other words, it’s up to the individual to either believe or not to believe the gospel of Jesus Christ. So you and I have the blessed privilege of declaring this wonderful message to individuals that may never hear the gospel. So by our telling them this message, they can believe it here and now. You see, when I trusted Christ as my Savior in that little-o living room 51 years ago, I was 18 years old, God saved me and gave me eternal life.

Because the gospel was declared, I chose to believe it. My sins were forgiven. I became a child of God and I’m going to heaven whenever I die. I’m not dead yet, but whenever I die, I know I’m going to heaven. Because it was a gift. It’s free. I didn’t earn it. I didn’t work for it. I don’t deserve it. So the Bible tells us that we have in your hands the message, the key that opens up the door for all these people, all they have to do is believe it.

He that believeth on me hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not shall not see life but the wrath of God abide upon him. So yes, you and I have been given the gospel which is the key on how to get into heaven. So we go and we tell people what God said. We declare it. And even though we may declare it, we are not the ones that forgives the sin. We’re not the one who gives them eternal life.

Your salvation doesn’t depend upon me, forgiving you of your sin. We’re going to heaven depend upon whether or not will you be lead that when Christ died, He died for you and you trust Him as your Savior. Take your Bible and look in Acts chapter 2. The book of Acts chapter 2 and verse 21, I love it when we study the Bible. Acts chapter 2 verse 21, it says, and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

So your salvation depends on the Lord saving you. It not call upon your pastor, not call upon the priest, not call upon the church, call upon the Lord, shall be saved. Whosoever will believe it. See that whosoever it means anybody. Doesn’t matter who you are. When Christ died, He paid for the sins of the whole world, and that’s why it’s so important. Now look in Acts chapter 13. Acts chapter 13. Now I want you to look there in verse 38.

Verse 38 says, be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Now, before we go any further, what man? Through this man, what man? Well, I’m glad you asked that. Look there in verse 29. Verse 29, when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, They took him down from the tree, laid him in a seperate cut. Wonder who’s talking about that? Can he close? And then in verse 30, but God raised him from the dead.

So we must be talking about the one that died on the cross that was slain and was placed in the grave and came back. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary community church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the Clear Gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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As you know, when we started this study in the book of Galatians, Paul says, I marvel that you’re so soon removed from him, that college into the grace of Christ, which is, he says, into another message. He says, you’ve been going into something else that I never taught you. And he says, there’ll be some that would trouble you perverting the gospel. And if you will, very, very quick, look in Galatians in chapter 1, look in verse 7. There’s only one true gospel, and that’s the gospel that saves the saving gospel, that if you believe on Christ, you can have as a free gift everlasting life.

And he says in verse 7, which is not another, those who teach works for salvation, but there be some that trouble you and would pervert or change the gospel of Christ. So in doing so, those who preach that you’re saved by grace, you have to believe in eternal security. If you do not believe in eternal security, you do not really believe salvation is by grace. Because why would you think a person could lose it if it was really free?

If it’s really free, then why do I have to pay a price to keep it? Why do I have to live a673 way to merit it? You don’t. Now, there were those who were teaching totally contrary to this, the saying, yes, you can trust Christ as your Savior, but you’ve got to do this and this and this. So they are in reality putting salvation by works. So Paul says, if this is true, why am I suffering persecution and not you?

You can distinguish the truth from the air by true Christianity is grace this, without works. And all the religions of the world add works to the message. Doesn’t matter who they are. It always boils down to what you have to do, how you have to live, how you have to perform. So Paul says, that is not my message. That is not the message that Jesus Christ gave to me. And that’s why he says in Galatians chapter 1, verse 11, and so on.

He says, I certify your brother that the gospel which was preached to me is not after man. Man did not tell him this message. Look there in Galatians in chapter 5, chapter 5. There were some that because of their false teaching causes a person not to run well. It means it doesn’t matter how well you live if your message is false. It’s like being a missionary and crossing the ocean and leaven those heathen and then you give them a false message and that is being done.

Majority of missionaries aren’t worth a quarter. So he says here in the book of Galatians in chapter 5, if you’ll notice there in verse 7, ye did run well. It means there was a time when they served the Lord, they were walking with the Lord and happy in the Lord and things were doing great. Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth? Anytime you get into a false gospel. You’re not obeying the truth. You’re not telling the truth.

It is a great sin to say God said when God didn’t say. That’s a great sin. Not to believe in one saved always saved or in eternal security. Not to believe that. There’s a great error. That’s doctrinal error. And the difference is heaven and hell. I’ve got little pamphlets that people have written over the years talking about that damn the old doctor of eternal security and it’s the gospel. So, nobody generally makes fun of those people who add works to the gospel.

They’re not generally under persecution. But you try to teach eternal security. Then they understand what you’re saying, because now you’re saying that you can be saved and not have to serve the Lord and still go to heaven when you die. And that is exactly what I’m saying. You do not have to serve the Lord to go to heaven. And that is contrary to the natural mind. Because we’ve heard all our life, you’ve got to do something, you’ve got to do this, you’ve got to do that, you’ve got to do something.

And so he says down here in verse 10 of chapter 5, he says, I have confidence in you through the Lord that ye will be none otherwise minded. In other words, you’ll believe the truth and you’re going to discard this error, but he that troubleeth you, that has this bad message, shall bear his judgment, whosoever he is. Doesn’t matter who it is. He says, even if an angel was to teach any other message than the message that you have been given, and the test of the gospel is grace.

So we say we believe that salvation is by grace, then why does how I live determine where I go? If salvation is by grace, it cannot affect my destination. But does that mean that I approve of and recommend that people just live like the devil? If you listen to me long enough, you’ll know I want to do everything I possibly can to challenge God’s people. Those that believe that salvation is by grace, to serve the Lord with all your heart, all the days of your life.

Now don’t I teach that? Yes, I do. But if you don’t, are you still saved? Yes, you are. There’s nothing that God can do to change it. And there’s nothing you can do to change it. It cannot be altered. It’s in stone. It’s in the Word of God. It’s written. It’s like in concrete. In the words, it’s not gonna change. A man is saved by grace or he’s not saved at all. And if he is saved by grace, he is saved forever or not saved at all.

Once saved, always saved, once forgiven, always forgiven. Once a child of God, always a child of God. Now, in verse 11, now notice what he says about the problems that he faces, versus what they face. In verse 11 he said, and I brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, or works for salvation, why do I yet suffer persecution? Why am I being persecuted? If I’m preaching works for salvation, He was being persecuted because he didn’t preach works for salvation. He says, why do I yet suffer persecution?

Then is the offense of the cross ceased. In other words, if I was to teach works for salvation, then the cross of preaching about the cross, there is no offense. I mean, there’s nothing to go forward with. There’s no message there. It won’t offend anybody. Why is what I’m preaching so offensive? Paul offended people everywhere he went because if you’re saved by grace then saved by religion won’t work. See the truth or it’s false. And so he says in verse 12, I would that they were cut off which trouble you.

And there’s a lot of people that’s causing a lot of trouble. You see what kind of trouble you’re talking about? Just hold your place right here but look there in the book of Acts in chapter 15. In Acts chapter 15 they had convened in Jerusalem at the church there and the apostles were all there. Paul was there. So we had all the big shots there and they had a consensus on what is the gospel? And Paul says they didn’t have anything to add to my message.

had no corrections on what I would preach it. And so he says here in verse 24 of Acts 15, 4, as much as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, causing them trouble, saying ye must be circumcised and and keep the law to whom we gave what? No such commandment. We never told them that. And they were not of us. This is not the same message that we have.

So they were troubling them with the words. The same thing that Paul is talking about over here in the book of Galatians. Now go to Galatians in chapter 6. So as believers in the Lord, He tells us not to become weak in well-doing. For in due season you shall reap if you don’t quit, if you faint not. The Lord just keep serving the Lord, even if you are persecuted for it. So he says in verse 10, and as we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are the household of faith.

I mean, you ought to be nice to everybody, but especially those who live under your roof. I mean, it would be nice to everybody else, but you’re always at war with those that are under your roof. No. And the God says those that are in the same family. Shouldn’t we get along? The only reason Christians can’t get longer is because of sin. Now I’m not saying who is, who’s fault, but it’s always because of sin. And that generally comes because of pride.

Somebody isn’t listening to the Lord. Could be both, but at least one in every argument. Somebody isn’t listening to the Lord. So he says here, in verse 11, ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine on hands. Now, I don’t believe he’s talking about the size of the letter because six chapters has nothing to do with the book of Romans and the first and second Corinthians. I believe he wrote Hebrews, but that’s beside the point.

So it’s not the size of the book, but I believe it because he wrote it with his own hands. And he says, and I believe because he had eye trouble, he made the letters very big so they could really see it good. So he says, you see how large a letter I have written unto you with my own hand. there also in Galatians in chapter 4, he talks about the problem that he was having. See there in verse 15, where is then the blessedness you speak of?

For I bear you record that if it had been possible, he would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me. Now, do I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? He said, when I first came there and I believe Paul had some bad eye problem. But whatever else he had, he had afflictions in the flesh. And somebody that went along and just to beat him up all the time. And whether or not it was just the devil working through various things or whatever, but Paul was under constant bombardment of the things of this world.

And I mean that he was just persecuted all the time. He says, I pay a price for this message that I have. And that’s why he says, don’t bother me. Don’t trouble me. Now see there in verse 17, from henceforth, he says, let no man trouble me. In the words, all these things that they have to say, whatever, it’s not gonna change me, it’s not gonna move me, I will not be altered. I have my face sent like a flint, I will not be moved.

He is committed to the gospel and the other is works for salvation. And he says, this is it. And this is where I stand at live or die. Leave me alone. Because I’m not changing. And all the persecution wouldn’t change the apostle Paul. You ever think about what Paul went through just to defend the gospel, the salvation by grace message. Let me ask you a question. How many of you have the scars in your body? where people have thrown stones at you for preaching the gospel.

I’m talking about where you have literally been stoned. See, living in America, we can freely worship and do what we want without persecution. Isn’t it wonderful? But you know, there’s some places, some countries, you don’t have that freedom. And there’s a great price to pay. Just to come together as a body of believers, and in many countries they have to do it to do it underground, but they can’t tell anybody. And then they infiltrate the group to find out who’s doing what, where, and then they come in and take the pastor and either arrest him or shoot him and some of the leaders in the church.

And this is going on all over the world. But we live in America. We haven’t really had to suffer for our belief. If you want to believe in eternal security, go ahead, because nobody else really cares. Does really people around care what you believe? No. And for the most part, you don’t really care how other people believe, do you? So we just said, as long as I get my own little pinkies inside the pearly gates, everything’s going to be fine.

And as long as the United States stays free until the rapture, everything will be okay with me. Did you know that that might not happen? And we could suffer persecution for what we believe. How many of you would like to have all five of the crowns? You’ve heard about the crowns, the five crowns? I mean, you’ve heard of five crowns. All right. How many of y’all would like to have all five crowns? Let me see. Now, one of those is called a martyr’s crown.

Let me ask that question. How many of y’all would like to have all five crowns? Let me see your hand. I always wanted to raise his hand. That’s because he’s so old he don’t care anymore. But see, we’re talking about the possibilities that you may have the honor. of getting a martyr’s crown where you literally died for your faith. You really suffer to death. Now, since you haven’t been stoned lately, have any of you had the cat of nine tales applied to your back.

How many of you have a black eye here this morning? Some scars from some knives or something that were somebody because of your faith in Christ, not because you did something stupid. I’m talking about because you are serving the Lord and you’ve suffered the consequences for it. Now, the apostle Paul could say that. See there in verse 17? He says, from henceforth, let no man trouble me, for I bear in your onlineness in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

Now, not just the ones that Christ had when he was crucified to the cross, but he says, I, I in my body, marks from my belief, because I suffered and I’ve been persecuted for taking a stand for the clarity of the gospel. See, the clarity of the gospel is an issue. And just because somebody else wants to add a little this and add a little that and so forth to them, he didn’t let it go. So that’s wrong. You see, when you believe the gospel, you defend the gospel.

There’s a offense and a defense as it goes forth it offends But we’re supposed to defend our offense for the simple reason that we want people to know This is what we believe and this is why we believe it and this is what’s wrong And so when you study phases to 894 by grace are you saved? through faith and that not of yourself. So it’s not on what it is, it’s what it is not. It is not of works.

It is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. So salvation is the gift of God. And the gospel is without works only by grace. And if I do really believe that salvation is by grace, then I would have absolutely no problem with God saving me forever. You see, if I believe how bad I am, think of how bad a man can be. If God can save him at any point, what’s the problem with God keeping him saved?

If Christ did pay for all of his sins, why would he have to go to hell and pay for any sin if they’ve all been paid? Somehow there’s people not able to think. They They can’t say that. They can’t understand. And I have a problem with people who have a problem with grace. Anyway, in verse 12, he says, now these people that preach that you’re saved by your works or kept saved by your works, they’re not interested in you.

They don’t really care about the people. That just gives them a following and look at me. I got all those people to change their lives. If you got a man who drinks to quit his drinking in order to be saved, did you get him saved? If you get a girl to stop being a prostitute in order for God to save her, then she didn’t trust the Lord. She trusted in her quitting what she was doing, as though she had to stop that in order to qualify for God to save her.

Salvation is by grace and grace alone, but there’s people who make merchandise of the people and look how great a job I’m doing because look how many people believe me. Are there a lot of people in the Mormon religion? Well then they must be right. Look how many believe it. Are there a lot of people in Catholicism? Why? They must be right. Look how many there are. What about the religion of Islam? They have to be right. Look how many people believe it.

So if something is right or wrong based upon how many people believe it, we’re in a heap of trouble boy. So I happen to believe I guess in a message that maybe most people don’t believe. Look what he says here in verse 12. As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh because of what they can get you to stop or start. That’s what they glory in. Look how many people we have. Look, I mean people stopped doing this and started doing that and it’s looking upon the differences and the changes made in a person’s life.

Did you know a man can come to church as a literal bum, guilty of every sin in the book, trust Christ is to save your happy eternal life and never change one thing in his life. You could have another person who come to church, totally changes his life, doesn’t drink, smoke, dip and chew and go with the girls who do. his Bible, sing to the choir, and could be as lost as a hound dog on the end of a soup bone.

And that guy that never made one change in his life, but he trusts Christ as a Savior. Now which one is justified before God? That man that simply just trusted Christ as his Savior never made a change in his life. He’ll go to heaven and that man will go to hell. But see, they revel in this because see, this is my convert. This is my fruit. So it’s not because you’re in love with them. It’s because you’re in love with yourself and they make you look.

The Bible is simple and clear. God loves us all the same. All that we have to do, all that we can. It’s trust Christ as our Savior. Now you preach the clear gospel. It’ll cause you more trouble. Because you can tell people, you gotta turn from your sins. Well, they expect that. You gotta live right. You gotta commit your life to Christ. Well, they expect that. Why? Because they believe works has something to do. And how you live has something to do with it.

So why should they persecute you? But what? This is what Paul’s talking about. He says, if that’s the truth, if I was teaching that, why am I persecured? And then the offense of the cross is ceased. This message on the salvation by grace is an offensive message. And the only way you can really prove that you really believe in salvation by grace is that you believe in eternal security. Once you’re saved, you’re saved forever and you can never lose it.

But if you believe you can lose it, you don’t really believe it’s free. You don’t believe it’s a real gift. And that it will maybe alone to you and it’s probation, but not salvation. Sorry you made the statement here. They want to make a fair show in the flesh. show in the flesh. They constrain you to be circumcised only last day should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. If they preach what Paul preached, they get persecuted. They’d be stoning them.

Well, that don’t sound too enticing to me. I mean, they just laugh at the beach with a cat of nine tales and throw you in a prison. Well, maybe you ought to just do a little bit of work, huh? So they changed the message. Look in verse 13, for neither They themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised that they make glory near flesh. They’re not concerned about them spiritually. It’s what makes me look good.

Look at my converts. I saw a person not long ago. I supposedly led him to the Lord 40 years ago. He’s a mess. I said, I think that might be one of my converts. Not the Lord. It might be one of mine. But salvation is a gift and you cannot discern whether or not a man is saved or lost by how he lives. You take, for example, and this is the truth. How many of you in here, if it was up to me to choose, are really saved?

If I had to be the judge, who’s really saved? I haven’t got a clue. Well, Mike works in the office. He has to be saved. No, he doesn’t. I mean, Fred over here. I mean, he teaches in Sunday school. He has to be saved. No, he doesn’t. You take Dan and he plays the guitar. Well, if I know the play the guitar, you ought to go to heaven.

I mean, he rejoices over the stringed instruments. That’s scriptural. I play the harmonica. So, I mean, God talks about, you know, the harps in glory land. Ha, you can’t go if you can’t play the harp. I must be saved. I can’t guarantee that any person in this room is. But I believe that you are because of what you tell me, that you’re trusting in Christ and Christ alone. But you see, the only one who knows the truth is the Lord.

Now why would you want to deceive Him? Because you’re deceiving yourself. Now if a man tells me I believe in salvation is my grace, but if I don’t live right, okay, you can’t teach a son’s school class and you can’t sing in the choir. But you can come to church, but you can’t be a leader unless you believe the same thing Salvation is a gift and that’s what blows most people’s mind because it’s just that’s that’s too good to be true That’s that’s too easy.

You got to do something and you don’t have to do anything Hmm It is verse 14. I love this verse because Paul talks about I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me Why? Because I was crucified with Christ in chapter two, remember? He says, but God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the only thing that I’m trusting in. Not into law, not in circumcision. I’m only trusting in that payment He made on that cross for me.

And look at this. He says, by whom? the world is crucified on the mane or dead to me because when you crucify your dead. And I unto the world. So when I died on the cross because Christ did it for me, he says, as far as I am concerned, the world is dead to me. I live only for Christ. I am dead to the world. The world is dead to me, but I’m alive unto God and he’s alive unto me.

Did you see that? You understand what I’m saying? Sometimes I never know if I’m getting across. I hope I do. Because I can talk. I ain’t talk on it all. on and on and on. When God told me, He says, boy, how you do go on and on and on. He says, for in 1st 15, He says, for in Christ, He says, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision, profit at anything, but a new creation, a new birth. It’s the new birth that makes the difference.

So when I trusted Christ as my Savior, I got a new birth. But if I trust in my work, I can’t get the new birth. You can trust into church, but you can’t get a new birth that way. The new birth comes only from Him. And you only get it from Him when you trust Him for it. And He says, if you trust Him, He gives you a new birth. But see, that’s life coming from life. And dead works can’t give life.

So you can’t earn eternal life by dead works of flesh. So he says in verse 16, for as many as walk according to this rule, in other words, you ought to understand I am saved by grace and I live from henceforth believing that I am crucified or dead to the world and the world is dead in the me. That’s not why I’m alive. I’m 11th of the Lord to do what God wants me to do with my life. That sounds like pretty good reasons to me.

And then he says in verse 17, for I’m henceforth now on, let no men trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of our Lord Jesus Christ. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, be with your spirit, amen, and amen, and amen, and amen. We have finally finished the book of Galatians. You didn’t think we were gonna do it, but there’s so much good in this book of Galatians that it did take us quite awhile. Let’s pray, shall we?

Our Father, we do thank you so much for your love to us, for giving us the most wonderful message in all the world, because you love us. We didn’t deserve to be saved, so how can we deserve to stay saved? You saved us by grace, we’re kept by grace. And Father, we have a message that, yes, it’s offensive to a lot of people. But help us to present it with love and care and compassion. Help us to win as many as we can while we can.

And Lord, it’s the only way to really show how much you really love us, to do something for us that we do not deserve. As you said in your word, God so loved the world that it gave us only begotten Son. The whosoever, believe it, then him should not perish, but have everlasting life. We thank you for that. 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.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day believing that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.

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You know, you have to be very careful how you perceive what other people are going through and the condemnation. God may just allow you to reap the same thing. I’m serious. You put down other people and you mock and make fun and you provoke. Did you realize that it’s coming back? It’s coming back. You’re sowing a win but you’re going to reap a whirlwind. Now you say I don’t want that. You didn’t. There’s enough problems in the world. There’s enough trouble in the world.

Well, that’s seeking more. I was always told don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. So you try to leave trouble alone. Don’t look for trouble, seek trouble, try to try to make trouble, but sometime when trouble comes you’ve got to stand up to it and do what’s right.println.com but get what he says restore such a one in the spirit of making is you ought to underline that. That means though you may have the opportunity to say, I told you so.

And you should have listened to me. You should be like me and you can be proud and pat yourself on the back. Because then I never did this and I never did that. You’re only about the grace of God. And if you get too big for your britches, you know God has a way of cutting people down the size. If you humble yourself to the Lord, then he says he will exalt you. You exalt yourself and God says he’s going to humble you or he can bring it down quick.

That’s why I don’t try to keep up with the Jones is just waiting to catch him on their way back. But it says restore such a one. That means trying to get the person that’s walking in the flesh to walk in this bed. So sometimes it takes time and a person wants to know that you really love them and you really care about them. Do you want the best for everybody in your family? Do you really want the best for your wife or for your husband?

Do you really want the best for their kids? Do they need to see the best examples they can? him. That good example of love and compassion and discipline will go a long way toward challenging and motivating others to do the same thing. Where do people see you the most? Home, work. You should not be one kind of a person at work in another one at home and then different in church. The way you are in church, you should be the way you are at home or on the job.

You shouldn’t be, there shouldn’t be three of you. You ought to be real and genuine wherever you are at all times. If you see me at a grocery store it should still be the same yank you see in church. And I believe that I ought to be just as godly and holy and righteous out there as I am here on Sunday morning. And if I am, aren’t you, should you be holy and holy on Sunday morning? And then the devil, the rest of the week, mean and ugly and unkind, he says, you which are spiritual, spiritually minded.

You’re obeying the Lord. He says, obey in this. Love one another. Don’t provoke people to do the things that are wrong. Guard your words. And then he says, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. So that’s your job is to get them restoration. Get them back to where they ought to be. And there’s a lot of Christians that are hurting and stumbling, worried, they got all kind of problems. And there’s opportunities, good lore. You can be an isolationist if you want.

In other words, I don’t bother nobody, nobody bothers me. I’m not interested. Nobody else’s life. I want everybody to leave me alone. It’s just me. If I was to live according to that, I’d be on the backside of some mountain up here in Alaska. in my little cabin. I could be totally satisfied, but knowing the Lord and knowing the book, I can’t do it. I can’t do it. So you’ve got to sacrifice some things that you might like to do because of what you know.

So you’re always trying to figure out how can I… But you know what I found out long enough? If you serve the Lord, it seems like God gives you your desires. He lets you enjoy this and enjoy this and he says, I have given you all things freely to enjoy. You see, God made this world for us to enjoy and I love to enjoy it. But I’m not in love with the world. But I can enjoy a lot of things in the world.

To me, go into church and study the Bible and meet Christians and challenge them and ranch and camps and all the things you’re with. with. I love that. I love it. I don’t mind sitting in the office and trying to get a radio broadcast done. I enjoy it. I love it. But I also like to travel and get out and do this and that and the other. Now get what he said. In verse 2, bear ye one another’s burdens.

But look down in verse 5, for every man shall bear his own burden. Oh boy, that don’t look like a contradiction to me. Part of your burden is to help bear someone else’s burden. But every man is responsible to bear his own burden. But not every man bears his own burden and needs some help. That ain’t complicated. You want to make sure that you can look at yourself in the mirror and say, I’m doing the will of God for my life.

Look at that verse there. You see there in verse two, bear ye one another’s burden and so fulfilled in your underline is the law of Christ. The law of Christ is the law of love. The whole law is fulfilled in one word, love. And that’s why it says in verse 15, and it says up there, verse 15, last part of verse 13 of previous chapter, talks about the concern that you have for others love. And so he says, bear you one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ, the law of love.

Give what else he said, for if a man think himself could be something when he is nothing, he deceiving himself. Is it possible that a person who walks in the flesh thinks he’s walking in the spirit and thinks he’s okay and everything’s fine. You know if you put on road colored glasses everything has a rose colored tint to it didn’t and it looks fine to you but everybody else can tell that something’s wrong. Kind of like this man one day he went to sleep, had a much cash.

His roommate came in there and had some Lindberghor cheese, put it all on his mice tax. Name by note Lindberghor cheese just don’t smell the best. Founded the guy, he woke up and walked over to the sink. Then the sink stinks. He opened a refrigerator. That man, refrigerator stinks. Walked up to his friends. You stink too. He says, the whole wall stinks. Where was the problem? Right under his nose. He was the problem. And sometimes there’s people who, you know, everybody’s wrong but me.

Like mama watching the parade and there’s a little Johnny shit. Look at that. Everybody’s out of step but Johnny. I guess it is perspective. But it says in verse three, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. If you don’t love the lost and you don’t love one another, enough to discipline your life, then God says, you deceiving yourself, you’re nothing. In other words, there’s no value there. The reason God left us here is that we might be profitable one to the other.

I just finished teaching on that in the book of Corinthians. That he has given this all gifts to profit with all. Now look what else he says in verse 4, but let every man prove or test his own work. Do you know the will of God for your life? Okay. How you doing? Are you doing what God wants you to do with your life? Are you learning to walk with the Lord? You’re trusting him. You’re praying like you should.

Do your steadiest work. like you should. Do you witness like you should or you’re concerned about lost people like you should? You see those are areas where you ought to examine yourself and then if you’re doing what God wants you to do then yourself approval between you and God your peace of mind. Well it doesn’t depend on what somebody else says or think. You know between you and God everything’s fine. See what it says. But let every man prove or test his own work.

And then shall he have rejoicing, get this and you ought to line those two words himself alone. You see, serving the Lord, you have to learn that my walk between me and God, it’s a personal thing. And whether somebody else sees it or don’t see it, agrees with me, it doesn’t agree, my walk between me and God is where I have my peace and I’m satisfied. Otherwise, you see, you try to live up to somebody else’s standards and you’re always going to let them down and let yourself down.

But if you can just get to the place where you just, I’m satisfied that I’m doing what I can with what I know where I am between men gone. And then say, you can have peace. Then you can try to help somebody. Do you know a person without peace, without joy doesn’t have much to offer anybody. Because most people are already miserable and you don’t need to give them that. But don’t you need to give people some hope, some joy, a little life, purpose for living?

Well then don’t you think you ought to have some? You ought to be an example of a happy Christian? Or are you an example of a miserable Christian? Maybe I better used to go to this restaurant. And every time you walk in there, hello, good morning. How y’all doing? Want to cut the coffee? But we walked into a restaurant that’s recently. And not a soul set a word to us. I said, hello, good morning. And they, ain’t that true, hon?

Ain’t it true? Happened this morning. So y’all make you thinking, they might be having a hard day. Maybe somebody lost a job. Maybe something happened in a family. But I didn’t have time to find out, but not everybody walks around with us a smile about none. And there’s times in your life when you’re not always going to be smiling and happy. But try not to let the main part of your life. You’ve got moments, yes, but it shouldn’t be your whole life.

That it characterizes the way you are. The Lord is good to us. Look what he says in verse 5, for every man shall bear his own burden. In other words, God has placed upon each one of us responsibility. Every man should carry his responsibility. In other words, to fulfill that which God has given to you to do. But there’s always people who can’t carry theirs as well. They don’t know what you know. They haven’t been through what you’ve been through.

And God wants you to come alongside and help to teach somebody, to encourage somebody. Did you know that even this morning, by the way that you are. Did you realize that you can encourage somebody or discourage somebody? Have you ever, let me give that up. During the church service, we got people that come and sometimes people have never been here before. They’re first time visitors and so on. And whenever they sing that first song and then after about two standards, it says, okay, everybody greet one another.

True? And everybody, Now, are you one that goes and meets and greets and smiles and encourages you the one that stands are waiting for somebody to come to you. Now you know everybody this morning is going to be watching you, don’t you? You know that now, don’t you? You know that? Now you can get out of your comfort zone. You say well, I just can’t meet people. Do it.

Just do it. You know that just shaking somebody’s hand might call somebody else like you know somebody think glad to see me anyway. Somebody I’ve been to churches where nobody talked to anybody. They didn’t talk to each other. And this is the truth. When we got ready to have a radio station down in Pueblo, Colorado, my brother was up in here in the Vista, and I was up in Denver area. So we was going down and trying to get a radio station put together, and we decided, we got to go to church down here someplace, because I was going to go on the road, and when I come back.

So we got to go to church. I said, OK, you visited a few church, and I visited a few church, and we’ll try to find out a really good, you know, friendly church. So we’ll come. I went down here. and I said, now, let’s just see how friendly they are. We walked into the church, not a soul set a word to us. We went in and sat down and nobody said a word. They stood, sung their songs, they met, the preacher of preach, got through, and nobody talked to us, tell them what I had to do, and preach and shoot my hands, thanks for coming.

That was the coldest church I’ve ever been in. Now my brother, I got with him later, he says, yeah, man, I have found a good church. All right. He says, when I walked in, they were so friendly. Everybody talked. I’m dying to find out where he went. He went to the same church I went to. See, I walked in there and I’m going to see who’s going to be friendly to me.

That’s not my brother. My brother goes into a church and takes over. He walks in with his hand out and talking to everybody. Hello? Whatever. You know, who are you and where you from? And you think he was the pastor? And we were talking about the same church. But see, he went in differently than what I went in. or that church is cold as ice. So Yankee, they were on fire.

And what I’m telling you is the truth. And this is my right hand. And that really did happen. Didn’t it? Did you know a lot that deals with the attitude that you come with? How much you even learn? Did you know that sometimes when you come to church, it’s good that if you could just take whatever’s bothering you? I know we can just cast it on to the Lord, but you haven’t done that yet, but can you just drop it for a while and just listen to what God may be teaching you?

Did you know that when you start getting involved in people’s lives and trying to help whatever we can? Do you know that sometimes it’s miraculous how that God seems to be solving some of your problems and you didn’t do anything with it? If you wait until you solve all of your problems to be friendly and nice to anybody, it may never happen. But you go ahead and you say, I’m just going to cast it on the Lord and let God take care of it.

And I’m going to try to encourage people. And you put a real genuine smile and a shake and you look a man in the eye, or woman, and look and write in the eye. And you’d be surprised how that God can cause a lot of other things that bother you. All of a sudden you don’t even remember what they all were. But there will be a few things that you got to solve. God is good. Look what he says here in verse 6.

Let him that is taught in the Word communicate unto him that teach it then all good things. So it is the will of God that you be taught in the Word. And it also makes the statement, communicate unto him that teach it then all good things. So there’s some that has to teach and there’s some that has to learn, but you’ve been taught. That’s why you come, you listen, you learn. And then the Bible talks about communicating, sharing back.

Now this can also be used as the preacher. If he feeds you spiritual things, then you take and give your material things. So there is a needs being met, which is what we do here at the church. It also, if you learn something, if you learn something, it might even be helpful to the person who taught you something to say, you know, I appreciate it. I learned something. I learned something that helped me. Did you know a person I don’t care who they are?

Love’s flattery. It’s not good to judge your life on it, but every once in a while somebody, they like to have somebody appreciate what they’ve said or taught. Teach us in the school class. Teach the adults. Win somebody to the Lord. Wouldn’t you love somebody to the Lord of the book? Stand up in church says, I just want y’all to know him. I’m so thankful that blah, blah, blah, let me to Christ. He shared the gospel with me. Or I was down and low and somebody came along and his name is blah, blah, blah, and he calls your name and says, that person really encouraged me.

You see, don’t walk around seeking to be encouraged. It’ll come. Seek to encourage. And remember, even in this verse one, It is the stronger person who takes the initiative. You ever have a problem between a husband and wife? It’s the stronger person that should take the initiative. Well, I’m just gonna wait. And the stronger person should take the initiative. Ooh, on the job somebody do you wrong. The stronger takes the initiative to make peace. Now if you’re too weak and you can’t do that, okay, you just have to wait until somebody takes the initiative.

I can’t stand the waiting process. But look what he said. In verse 7, he says, be not deceived, God is not mocked whatsoever. Man soweth that shall he also read. Now if you want to read good things, sow good things. You want to be mean, go through light that away, okay, then that’s what you’re going to do. You reap what you sow. And if you’ll put it in God’s hands, you’ll be surprised. All of our reaping isn’t over yet.

It ain’t over yet. We can sow a lot of good seeds down here and thorns and briars are all around it. But the day is coming, see when we get to heaven, you’re really going to reap. But look what else he says, for he that soweth to his flesh, this is talking to the Christian. So the Christian has an old nature and a new one. If you sow to the flesh, you’re going to reap corruption. You’re going to ruin your life.

But in verse eight, where he that sowed to the flesh, shall on the flesh reap corruption, but he that sowed to the spirit, shall on the spirit reap life everlasting. Things that will last forever when you sow to the spirit. See one is temporary, one is eternal. So it’s your choice. You can walk in the spirit, you can walk in the flesh. It’s your choice. But if you look at the works of the flesh, you’re not going to like those.

If you look at the fruit of the spirit, ah, you’re going to like that. joy, peace, long suffering, gentle goodness, faith, meat, and simple temperance. All the good stuff is with the Lord. And all the bad things are with the flesh. And so you’ve got a choice to make it. So that’s why you studied the Word of God. So that’s why He said, and let us not in verse 9, let us not be weary in well doing. Do you get weary doing right?

Yeah. Who doesn’t? Some of you in this room right now are probably a little weary of just doing right. We get tired of it, just then faithful. But why do we keep going then? It’s because it’s right. You know it’s right. You do it because it’s right. And look at the last part of the verse. For in due season, you ought to underline this. We shall reap if we faint not to meet if we don’t quit. If you don’t quit.

I think we can cover maybe a couple more verses here, but I probably won’t finish all this. But look in verse 10, as we have therefore opportunity, opportunity. Now sometimes opportunities will come your way. Sometimes you have to make opportunities. But understand is opportunities are like on wheels and they’re rolling your direction. And if you don’t take advantage of it, when that opportunity is there, that opportunity will keep on going past. Don’t you wish that years ago you would have come up with this idea about selling water?

Who in their right mind would have thought that you would be buying water? I mean everybody drank water right out of the tap and how many of us died? I used to drink it out of the creek, out of the lake. We had a whale bringing up there and there’s a frog in the water bucket. I even did it one time in a little snake in it. Now I didn’t drink the snake. I didn’t eat the snake. But there’s opportunities.

Remember that little piece of land that you was thinking about getting it one time, but it was $2,000 a naker, so it was way too much money. And today it’s worth $50,000 a naker. Man, alive where was my mind? I could have had a V8. But opportunities come and opportunities go. And the reason for preparing yourself is because when somebody that you know and you love is hurting So I love the help you but I got to go to three years of Bible college first That’s why you’re supposed to be learning as you go because there’s people that needs help as you go You can’t put them on hold for the next you know six months for example What if I is the pastor I said look I’m not gonna be here this Wednesday night and I want you to preach for me So I’ll preach it.

You gotta, I have to have six months notice. You ever heard the Boy Scout motto? What is it? Be prepared. On my honor, I will do my best to take what they give me and still to rest. No, not with him. To be honest, trustworthy, cheerful, brave, clean, reverent, I will do it to be honest, loyal. I used to know all 12 of them. And loyal and helpful for this kind of obedience of the fifty brave king, Haverick. I was a boy scout one time.blow down.

Then when I got thirteen, I became a girl scout. Finally got one. But anyway, he says, in the last part of verse 10, he says, Let us do good unto all men, but now get this, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. If you’re going to treat anybody right, treat God’s people right. Did you know if you don’t treat God’s people right God gonna slap you? That’s his child. What would you do if somebody slapped around your child?

That’s why you better treat me right. I’m his child and you start messing around with me and start having you know potted pastor and roast Reverend every day after church or something. God says okay bud you asked for it. That is my man. But see IPope I can’t do you wrong either, because you’re God’s child. I guess we don’t just love each other and be kind to one to another and provoke under good works as a season of book of Hebrews in chapter 10.

Salvation, that’s good. That’s free. We’re talking about the Christian and his service to the Lord. That’s what God wants us to do. Keep it in mind. Let’s pray, shall we? Father, we thank you so much for your blessing to us. We ask you to watch over and help us as we study your word to be able to discern how to apply, how to take advantage of opportunities that you give us and help us Lord to realize that if we become weary and well-doing, we’re not going to be wrong.

Not the things that we should, but to be found faithful 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 were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. and just keep looking up.

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All right, we’re in the book of Galatians. A book of Galatians, so turn in your Bible the book of Galatians. We have covered the subject of the two natures found there in the fifth chapter and to let a Christian know that if you walk in the spirit, you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. But we still have the lust of the flesh, even if you walk in the spirit. So you know that you’ve always got this battle in your life.

You’re always struggling. You’re warring all the time. It never ends. It will not stop until you lose the body. Hey, and that could be at any time. So, theemp the Lord tells us there’s some things that if we knew and understood, it could help us in our walk with the Lord. And believe it or not, it is the will of God that Christians, when you’re not able to win a lost man, we’re supposed to be set in the right example for the safe man, be thou an example of the believer in word, and deed, attitude, and so on.

And there’s a lot of Christians that have not yet matured to where they walk in the Spirit, they walk into flesh. So part of your responsibility as a Christian is to be able to discern when Christians are not doing right and you in a very meat-mannered way try to help them. So it’s not trying to point out their faults, it’s trying to figure out a way to help them get to where they should be. We always have Christians who have been called of God to walk around with their big magnifying glass and try to expose all the wrong in everybody else’s life.

Of course they never see their own, but they are very good at spot in others. So if you will very quickly, just look there verse 13 of chapter 5. We’ve already covered this, but just as a brief review for brethren. So you know you’re talking to the believer. You have been called unto liberty. That means you trust the crisis save you. You’ve been made free from the law, free from the power of sin. In other words, you still have sin in your life, in your body, but it’s power you do not have to yield to.

There is another power that’s greater than the power of the old nature. But it does say this, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh. In other words, don’t use, well, I can’t go to hell, all my sins are pain. And use my liberty as an opportunity to walk in the flesh, to live the way I want. And you’ll notice there’s lost people that will come to that conclusion. You mean to tell me you can trust Christ as Savior, and then you can just live the way you want to and you still go to heaven when you die?

Yes, yes you can. Now most preachers will always say, no, no, no, no, that’s not what I mean. Yeah, it is exactly what it means, but you can’t avoid the consequences. And this is why this portion we’re going to look at is going to deal with some of the consequences. So he says here in verse 13, but by love serve one another. So Christian living is not just winning the lost. It’s serving one another, serving each other. That’s why when we were having camp coming up in a couple weeks, we’re not going there to be served.

We’re going there to serve. Vacation Bible school is not to be served. It was to serve. It’s like Christ says he did not come to be ministered unto but to minister to give his life a ransom for many. So we’re to reach other people. That’s why we’ve been left here. That’s why we studied the Bible. so that we can be useful in helping other people. Now, a lot of times, you know, you can come to church and all your life and you can always be absorbing.

And you can know the Bible from one end to the other, but you’ve never served in your body, never done anything for anybody. You never caught anybody, you never won anybody. But you know that you’re supposed to, that’s when you really begin to live. That’s when your life becomes valuable, when somebody knows the value of what you know. And they understand what you’ve gone through and you’re able to help and to teach somebody else. So that’s why your example in life is so important.

But now take your Bible. Look there in verse 24, same chapter, chapter 5, but first 24. And when he says, and they that are Christ, that means you belong to Him. Have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust. That means when you trusted Christ as your Savior, his death became yours. So Christ died for us. So we have been crucified with Christ. That means that the Old sinful nature, the desires, the lost, the affection, were all crucified. Now, we’re supposed to live as though that’s true.

And we’re not supposed to live for the affections of the flesh, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. But that’s difficult, huh? I mean, we live in this world and it’s so easy we can see. And there’s things we like, there’s things we want to do, things we want to be. God says, can you sacrifice everything for what he wants? Now God says, look there in chapter two, look down verse 20. You’ll see a wonderful, wonderful verse here.

You ought to commit this verse to memory. I am confident or I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. It’s like I died, But he did it for me. Yet not I, but Christ live it in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, the body. I live by the faith of the Son of God, and gave Himself for me. So this tells you, okay, this is what happened. But this is why I live. I live for the one who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Now it would be great if all Christians did, but some Christians don’t. Now go back over to Galatians in chapter 5. And so he says in verse 25, if we live in the Spirit, in the word that’s where you have been placed. Once you trust the Christ is Savior, you’re in the Spirit. You have a spiritual birth. That’s how God sees you. God no longer sees you in the flesh as a lost man. He sees you in the Spirit as a saved man.

But since that’s where he sees you, that’s where you’re supposed to walk abide where you’ve been placed live according to who you really are you are a child of God so you should live like a child of God but of course we know that you’re also a child of the devil so that’s why sometimes you have a problem you want to live like the Lord and you want to live like the devil let me remember in Romans chapter 7 when I want to do good evil is present with me evil is present with me that’s a real sinful nature that you have inside of you.

Every time you want to serve the Lord, you want to do what’s right. Evil is always there telling you not to, not to. So he says in verse 26, let us not be desirous of Vanglory. What is Vanglory? Walking into flesh. Using the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life, and that becomes your goal. It’s going to cause you to live your life in vain. It will be empty. It will not satisfy.

You’re not going to get out of life what you really think you’re going to, because you see, a Christian has much more to live for than himself. A Christian lives for the Lord as he serves people and tries to reach the lost. So he makes the statement here in verse 26, provoking one another. In other words, we’re not supposed to provoke one another to vain glory, to empty living, the life that doesn’t count. Remember there’s a statement someone made only what’s done for Christ will last.

But he says here in verse 26 and go to the underlying that we’re provoking one another because this is what you do. Let us not be desire to vain glory. One another and we provoke them to end the indelency because see let’s say for example If you get the goods of the world and that’s your purpose in your golden life, you know you’re causing people to envy you And to be jealous of what you have Now doesn’t mean the things that you have is wrong You got to be able to use what every God gives to you for his honor and for his glory Because that God may give it to you today, but you know he may take it away tomorrow tomorrow.

The Lord giveth, the Lord take it the way. You should stay the same. You shouldn’t be any different. Your character should stay the same. Your character is what you are. Character is revealed by your conduct. Nobody knows what kind of a person you are except by the way they see you handle pressure or decisions, choices and life. Our whole theme of the camp we got coming up is going to be making decisions, making decisions, learning to choose how to decide.

Because isn’t it true that all of our life we’re making decisions every day of our life of what we’re going to do? Who we’re going to be, where we’re going to go, what we’re going to eat? Everything, all about decisions, decisions. Well, if that’s so true, shouldn’t we try to make the best decisions we can make? Well, then that means you’ve got to have a certain amount of knowledge in order to do that. You’ve got to be able to discern right from wrong.

So that’s why you have the Bible. Remember this, one hour of your condensed study of the Word of God will do more for your soul than a month of studying all the wisdom in all the libraries. So this is pure wisdom. When you say scripture, it’s pure, it’s pure script. Holy, it’s the Word of God. This can do something for you that all the wisdom of the world can’t do. And that’s why a little of this is better than a lot of that.

And so I think sometimes we have gotten sidetracked. We chase the wisdom of the world instead of the Word of God. Now in chapter 6, let’s look there in verse 1, brethren, so we’re still talking to the believer and that you have an old sinful nature mentioned there in verse 17 and 19 of chapter 5. You also have in verse 22 and 23 about the fruit of this Spirit. So we are serving the Lord and part of our service to the Lord is to discern where other believers are in their walk with the Lord.

Not to be judgmental or condemning but to come alongside and try to help them. I enjoy watching people who who were at one level in their Christian life, and then after a little of my influence in their life watching grow, where they know more, they can do more, more challenged, wanna participate, wanna do something with their life. Because, see, serving the Lord is the power of God in your life is the power of influence that you have in other people’s lives.

Some people have very little power in people’s lives. They can influence them. You can lose the power of your influence by a sharp word, a dirty look. Just be an unkind. And you have lost the influence and that person’s life that could have helped. In other words, you can provoke a person to envy and jealousy and meanness and bitterness by the way you are. If you sow hatred, you reap what you sow. If you sow bitterness, you’re going to reap bitterness.

You sow ugliness, you’re going to reap ugliness. That’s why a lot of people are ugly. But you reap what you sow. And if you sow lava, you just love it or reap some. And if you sow mercy, you just love it or reap some. And so you want to sow the good things. And if you don’t get it from people, you get it from God. That’s why you always serve the Lord and do what is right and trust the Lord to bless you because you know there’s an eye up on how I watch in you.

And you don’t have to tell everybody all the sacrifices you make because the one you did it for saw it. If you do it just for people and they don’t see it, then you’re going to be discouraged. And then you sometime you have to let them know what you did for them. You know, just got to let them know or let somebody else know all the good things you did.

So he says, brother, if a man be overtaken in a fault, that means that you’re able to discern that there’s a Christian brother walking in the flesh. Now, who can discern when an other man’s walking in the flesh? Well, another man is walking in the flesh, but he’s not going to be able to help him. You which are spiritual, those that are walking in the spirit. You see, there’s two things. to be spiritually minded means you mind the Spirit, to be fleshly minded means you mind the flesh.

And so it’s just like having a child, does your child mind you? When you say does he mind you, it means does he obey you. So we talk about being spiritually minded means you mind the Spirit, you do what he says. To mind the flesh means you do what the flesh tells you to do. So you’re always listening and you’re always obeying. The thing is, is what kind of a choice did you make? And it all depends on you.

So he says here, if a man be overtaken in a fall ye which are spiritual, try to get him saved again. No, restore such a one in the spirit of meatness, consider yourself lest you also be tempted to do the very same thing you’re condemning. So an arrogant attitude may lead to an identical temptation. You know you have to be very careful how you perceive what other people are going through and the condemnation because God may just allow you to reap the same thing.

I’m serious. You put down other people and you mock and make fun and you provoke. Did you realize that it’s coming back? It’s coming back. You’re sowing a win but you’re gonna reap a whirlwind. Now you say I don’t want that you didn’t. There’s enough problems in the world. There’s enough trouble in the world. Well that’s seeking more. I was always told don’t trouble trouble trouble trouble trouble you. So you try to leave trouble alone. Don’t look for trouble, seek trouble, try to make trouble, but sometime when trouble comes, you’ve got to stand up to it and do what’s right.

But give what he says, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. You ought to underline that. That means though you may have the opportunity to say, I told you so. And you should have listened to me. You should be like me and you can be proud and pat yourself on the back. I never did this. And I never did that. You’re only by the grace of God. And if you get too big for your britches, you know God has a way of cutting people down the size.

If you humble yourself to the Lord, then he says He says He will exalt you. You exalt yourself. And God says He’s gonna humble you where He can bring you down quick. That’s why don’t try to keep up with the Joneses, just wait and catch them on their way back. But it says restore such a one. That means trying to get the person that’s walking in the flesh to walk in this bed. So sometimes it takes time. And a person wants to know that you really love them and you really care about them.

Do you want the best for everybody in your family? You really want the best for your wife or for your husband? Do you really want the best for their kids? Then they need to see the best example they can. That good example of love and compassion and discipline will go a long way toward challenging and motivating others to do the same thing. Where do people see you the most? Home. Work. You should not be one kind of a person at work, in another one at home, and in different in church.

The way you are in church, you should be the way you are at home, or on the job. You shouldn’t be, there shouldn’t be three of you. You ought to be real and genuine wherever you are at all times. If you see me at a grocery store, it should still be the same Yankee you see in church. And I believe that I ought to be just as godly and holy and righteous out there as I am here on Sunday morning.

And if I am, aren’t you? Should you be here? be holy and holy and then the devil the rest of the week, main and ugly and unkind. He says, you which are spiritual, spiritually minded. You’re obeying the Lord. He says, obeying this. Love one another. Don’t provoke people to do the things that are wrong. Guard you words. And then he says, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. So that’s your job is to get them restoration, get them back to where they ought to be.

And there’s a lot of Christians that are hurting and stumbling, worried, they got all kind of problems. And there’s opportunities, good lore. You can be an isolationist if you want. In other words, I don’t bother nobody, nobody bothers me. I’m not interested. Nobody else is alive. I want everybody to leave me alone. It’s just me. If I was to live according to that, I’d be on the backside of some mountain up there in Alaska. In my little cabin, I could be totally satisfied, but knowing the Lord and knowing the book, I can’t do it.

I can’t do it. So you’ve got to sacrifice some things that you might like to do because of what you know. So you’re always trying to figure out how can I, but you know what I found out long enough? If you serve the Lord, it seems like God gives you your desires. He lets you enjoy this and enjoy this and joy. And he says, I have given you all things freely to enjoy. You see, God made this world for us to enjoy.

And I love to enjoy it. But I’m not in love with the world. But I can enjoy a lot of things in the world. To me, going to church and studying the Bible and making Christians and challenging and ranch and camps and all the things you’re with. I love that. I love it. I don’t mind sitting in the office and trying to get a radio broadcast done. I enjoy it. I love it. But I also like to travel and get out and do this and that and the other.

Now get what he said. In verse two, bear ye one another’s burdens. But look down in verse five, for every man shall bear his own burden. Oh boy, that don’t look like a contradiction to me. Part of your burden is to help bear someone else’s burden. But every man is responsible to bear his own burden. But not every man bears his own burden and needs some help. That ain’t complicated. You want to make sure that you can look at yourself in the mirror and say, am I doing the will of God for my life?”

Look at that verse there. You see there in verse two, bear ye one another’s burden and so fulfilled in your underlineness, the law of Christ. The law of Christ is the law of love. The whole law is fulfilled in one word, love. And that’s why it says in verse 15 and it says up there verse 15 last part of verse 13 of previous chapter talks about the concern that you have for others love and so he says bear you one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ the law of love give what else he said for if a man think himself could be something when he is nothing he deceived with himself.

Is it possible that a person who walks in the flash thinks he’s walking in the spirit and thinks he’s okay. Everything’s fine. You know if you put on road colored glasses, everything has a road colored tint to it didn’t. And it looks fine to you, but everybody else can tell that something’s wrong. Kind of like this man one day, he to sleep. Had a much cash. His roommate came in there and had some Lindberghur cheese, put it all on his moustache.

Name by note, Lindberghur cheese just don’t smell the best. Founded the guy. He woke up and he walked over to the sink. Sink stinks. He opened a refrigerator. That meant refrigerator stinks. Walked up to his friends. stink too. He says the whole world stinks. Where was the problem? Right under his nose. He was the problem and sometimes there’s people who, you know, everybody’s wrong but me like mama watching the parade and there’s a little Johnny shit. Look at that.

Everybody’s out of step but Johnny. I guess it is perspective. But says in verse three, when he has nothing, he disables himself. If you don’t love the lost and you don’t love one another, enough to discipline your life, then God says, you’re deceiving yourself, you’re nothing. There’s no value there. The reason God left us here is that we might be profitable one to the other. I just finished teaching on that in the book of Corinthians that he has given this all gifts to profit with all.

Now look what else he says in verse 4, but let every man prove or test his own work. Do you know the will of God for your life? Okay. How you doing? Are you doing what God wants you to do with your life. Are you learning to walk with the Lord? You’re trusting Him. You pray unlike You should. Do you study His Word like You should? Do you witness like You should? Or you’re concerned about lost people like You should?

You see those are areas where you ought to examine yourself and then if you’re doing what God wants you to do then yourself approval between you and God your peace of mind. Well, it doesn’t depend on what somebody else says or think. You know between you and God, everything’s fine. See what it says? But let every man prove or test his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing, get this, and you ought to unline those two words himself alone.

You see, serving the Lord, you have to learn that my walk between me and God, it’s a personal thing. And whether somebody else sees it or don’t see it, agrees with me, it doesn’t agree. My walk between men God is where I have my peace. And I’m satisfied. Otherwise, you see, you try to live up to somebody else’s standards and you’re always going to let them down and let yourself down. But if you can just get to the place where you just, I’m satisfied that I’m doing what I can with what I know where I am between men God.

then say you can have peace and you’re like, then you can try to help somebody. Do you know a person without peace, without joy, doesn’t have much to offer anybody? Because most people are already miserable and you don’t need to give them that. But don’t you need to give people some hope, some joy, a little life, purpose for living? Well then don’t you think you ought to have some? You ought to be an example of a happy Christian Or are you an example of a miserable Christian?

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Turn in your Bible to the book of Galatians, The book of Galatians and chapter 5, I was in college one day getting ready to teach a class and I always said, turn in your Bible and the whole class got up and walked up to their front and put their Bible all over the communion table. I really don’t want you to turn in your Bible. I want you to keep your Bible but turn in your Bible to a certain scripture.

The book of Galatians. It’s interesting that we happen to have a good verse that deals with freedom. And of course, talking about the 4th of July and our freedom, Declaration of Independence. And here we are, 200 and something years later. God has been good to us better than we deserve, that’s for sure. In the book of Galatians in chapter 5, I want you to look there in verse 1. fast therefore in the Liberty where with Christ hath made us free may not entangle again with the yoke of bondage.

Now the law has a purpose. It’s to help us to restrain ourselves, to understand the consequences of breaking God’s law. The law wasn’t given to save us. But there is a spirit of the law or the the intent of the law. God has a reason why he gave the law. For example, if there’s a big old fire over there where she’s at, and I say, thou shalt not play in the fire. Well, that’s a law. Thou shalt not play in the fire.

So I make some little ordinances and I put a bench across here and I tell the kids don’t go on the other side of that bench. So the purpose and the intent is because I love the kid and I don’t want to get burn up in the fire over there. So I they don’t go past it because if you don’t go past this you won’t get that far. Well there’s people who are always trying to find a way around a law.

If you really want to do something you’re looking for a loophole and buddy we have a lot of legislators that know how to make something with Luke hold in them. And then there’s always people who because they had no intention of keeping the law kind of find a way to skirt around it. Now when you and I got married, I mean I didn’t marry you, I mean you didn’t marry me, I mean but when we got married, we got a little piece of paper, you know the mayor certificate, you had to get a license and so forth.

I’ve done a lot of these weddings. And this is the legal document supposed to be filed at the courthouse since blah blah blah. Well if this is the only thing that you have that makes you be faithful to your wife or your wife faithful to you, when you lose your love for the law, you’re gonna try to find a way to get around the law and look for a loophole. And today we have lawyers who make loopholes so that you can get out of anything that you got into.

But they have destroyed the intent of the law until death do us part. But then after a while, see, when you no longer have the same purpose in mind, you’ve lost the intent of this piece of paper. It’s just a reveal that you are and that you made a commit the nora vowel, there’s um… Within an individual, the desire to want to break the law. And God says, you can’t make people do right just by passing more laws. If you just keep passing laws, which is what Congress says today, we keep passing more laws and more laws and more laws.

But people have lost the desire to keep the law. So it doesn’t matter how many laws you pass, you don’t want to do it, you ain’t going to do it. So the spirit of the law has been broken. People don’t want to. Now if that happens with an individual where I have the law of God that is designed for my first birth, my flesh birth, it was not designed for the second birth. You’ll see the second birth is born of God, has no sinful nature, can’t sin, doesn’t need the law.

But my first birth, I was born with a sinful nature and I want to do wrong. And so God gave the law to control the flesh. And so there’s people who have trusted Christ’s Savior. And so God says that in Christ, you met the righteous demands of the law and you died and paid for your sins. Of course, you didn’t do it. He did it in your place. So So you died and was buried and came back again from the dead.

So he says, don’t go back to that. Don’t go back to the law. Well how do you go back to the law and become entangled with the law by walking after the flesh? And so when you choose to walk after the flesh, you destroyed the spirit of the new birth. The reason that God sets you free is so that you would be free to serve the Lord, not free to live like you please, not to go your own way.

There’s people in our country today who do not want freedom to serve God. They want freedom to live as they please. And it can never be. Because anyway, time that you do away with the law and people want to do like ever they want, you lose your freedom. And little by little in America because we’ve done away with that which constrains a man, then we’re going to have rebellion. And it’s getting worse and worse and worse. our public schools, college kids, even adults, we have lost the intent, the purpose of why God says what He says.

So people want to do away with the Bible. And so we have lost the original spirit and the purpose of the law, the main law. It is still good to have a law, thou shalt not steal. There’s nothing wrong with that law. did not come to destroy the law, he came and fulfilled the law. The law is still just. There’s nothing wrong with the law. The law is good. It is holy. It is just. It is spiritual. God says so in the book of Romans in chapter 7.

So here in verse 1 it says to the Christian, stand fast therefore in the Liberty where with Christ has major free. You are free from the curse of the law that you might freely serve the Lord because you love him because of all that he’s done for you. So it’s not because you have to, but if you really think about it, you should want to. God wants you and he wants me to serve him. So he says, now, don’t be deceived.

God is not mocked. So how do you mock God? My mocking sin. that I can walk in the flesh, go my own way without suffering the consequences. That’s mocking God. See there in chapter 6 and verse 7 of the book of Galatians, he says, Be not deceived, God is not mocked for whatsoever man soeth that shall he also reap. So he’s talking to the Christian, to the believer. So you as a child of God cannot live as you please and get a way with it.

So the Lord tells us that if you’re trying to save yourself by the law, Christ has become of no effect. If you’re trying to keep yourself saved after you trust the Lord, by your works, Christ is no effect. And neither is Christ having power in your life when you seek to walk in the flesh. So you’re a loser, loser, loser. When you don’t do things God way. So he says in verse seven, he says, he did run well. Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?

So he’s talking to the believers about not obeying the truth about how to live, how to run your race, how that you have run well. In other words, you start good, but can you finish? You start to race. Can you finish? I decided years ago when I started serving the Lord, I wanted to serve the Lord all my life. I wanted to give the Lord all of my twenties and all of my life. of my 30s and all of my 40s and all of my 50s and all of my 60s.

Well, I got about a year and a half to go in my 60s. Then when I get my 70s, I want to give them all of my 70s. And then when I get to my 80s, I want to give them all of my 80s. When I get to my 90s, I want to give them all of my 90s. When I get to 100, I want to give them all of those. When I get to 150, I want to give them all of those.

Say, aren’t you planning on dying? Never! Now if I do it’s going to really surprise me. It’s really going to blow my mind. Because I’m looking for the Lord to take me up in the rapture. And a way a lot of people to talk and I think it’s going to be this fall. That would be well who it may. That’d be fine. But now look here because I want you to see this in verse 13. He’s talking to the Christians about how you and I are supposed to live.

In verse 13, for brethren to the believer, you have been called unto liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, flesh. But my love served one another. So you and I, after we trust Christ as our Savior, are not supposed to use this liberty that God gave to us as an occasion to live the way I want to live, to live in the flesh, for the lust of the flesh, of the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life.

That’s not supposed to be my purpose in life. It’s supposed to be whatever God wants for me. Now it’s only what God wants. And so when you accept that, then you’d be surprised how you can face things. And he makes his statement. In verse 14, for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even it is, thou shalt love thy neighbor as by self. Because if you love your neighbor, then you don’t rob from your neighbor. You love your neighbor.

You don’t kill your neighbor. You love your neighbor. You don’t take anything it has. You don’t become in this in jealous and all that. It solves a lot of problems. Now the reason we have to have so many more laws passed and legislators are always in session and never is our freedoms in such jeopardy is when Congress is in session. Because anytime and they pass the law, it’s something else we can’t do. They said, they’re doing all this force.

No, they’re not doing anything for us, they’re doing it to us. That’s another sermon. And verse 15, he says, for if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another. In other words, a lot of Christians become cannibals. You know, they eat you alive. They’re always chewing you up, saying things against somebody, trying to tear them down and biting and devouring one another, gossiping. Those are not Christ-honoring things. So in verse 16, he says, this I say to you.

Now, this verse 16 is because of what we’ve already done read. And he makes the statement, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. So we still have the lust of the flesh. We still have an oath sent for nature. So walking in the spirit is our constraint upon the flesh for Phil and his desires. You and I don’t walk under the law to restrain the flesh. We’re looking for the Holy Spirit to give us the power to control the flesh because I’m no longer under the law.

I’ve been delivered from that. So I’m not I have the Holy Spirit given to me so that I can can walk in the Spirit and control the flesh. Now if you don’t walk in the Spirit, you have no power to control the flesh. There is none. You are at its mercy and there is no mercy. And you are going to sow the seeds of corruption. You’re going to walk in the flesh and God like this. I’m not so, in other words, I sow corn and you expect to reap cotton.

It won’t work. If you sow corn, you’re going to reap corn. If you sow cotton, you’ll reap cotton. He says, you’re going to reap what you sow. Be careful what you sow. So the Christian has the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit is the Lord of the person’s life, and he says, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, freedom. And it’s the thing that gives us the freedom from the lust of the flesh destroying our lives.

Now nobody can make you walk in the spirit. How do you walk in the spirit? Walking in the spirit is simply walking in obedience to the Lord. So the Holy Spirit that indwells you teaches you the Word of God so that you can walk according to His will. And so you must know the Word of God in order to know the will of God. So it is the will of God to know the Word of God. So you know the will of God, ain’t that clear?

And everybody always prays, Lord, lead God in direct, lead God in direct, and you never opened up the Scriptures. You’re a joke. He leads and guides and directs according to his word, but if you don’t ever study the word then you won’t know how to be led and guided. It’s a prayer, but you don’t mean it. If you don’t spend no time in this book learning the Word of God, this is what the Holy Spirit uses to bring to you remembers the things that you’ve studied.

Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly divided in the Word of Truth. Study! Well, I ain’t got time. You ain’t got time not to. So I can’t afford it yet. You can’t afford not to. It’s costing you dearly. You just don’t know it yet until you get to heaven and find out what it costs you. Now, verse 17 talks about a battle it goes on in the Christian’s life. This is after you trust the Lord.

For the flesh lusses against the spirit, spirit against the flesh. These are contrary to one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you should would or should. But if you be led by the Spirit you’re not under the what? You’re not under the law. The Spirit of God, if you yield to that then the Holy Spirit can give you the power to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit and you don’t have to fulfill the lust of the flesh.

But without doing that, see there’s nothing to constrain you. Have you ever wondered what you would do if you really had no restraints and no consequences. What would you really do? If you knew it really didn’t matter. There was no accountability. What would you really do? That’s what you really are without the power of the Holy Spirit you like. Because if you don’t want to serve the Lord and do what’s right, then do whatever you want. Who cares? What difference will it make?

But when you love the Lord and you want God’s will for your life and you want God’s blessing. Everything matters. Everything matters. And you can pass all the laws you want to, but it cannot make you holy and godly. Only by yielding to the Lord do you get the strength and the grace that you need to restrain the flesh. Now say for example here you are and you trusted Christ, your Savior, your God’s child, you’ve You know walking with the Lord for 30 years.

Your love for the Lord can help you to be faithful to your life. When that good looking bombshell walks by. But your love for the Lord can be greater than the lust of the flesh. And it restrains you. When somebody does you wrong and you want to just let them know how you really feel. I preached a sermon one day and this lady came out the door and she looked at me and she said, Why don’t you tell us how you really feel?

Thought I did. I thought I told how I really fell and you want to just unleash your fury well What can constrain you hold you back and The flesh wants to do this and you think The Lord has something else in mind and he can give you the power that you need now I want to show you some a little illustration then I want to give you some Scriptures on the notes that I gave you. I may get to those.

I may not. It don’t matter. You got them now. That’s why I like giving you some notes. It makes the Sunday school lesson twice as long. You got to listen to me now and instead of those later. But now look up here. Now you see me do this before but follow it one more time. This is the flesh. Born into this world, our physical birth. That which is born of the flesh flesh. So this birth came with a sinful nature and that’s why we sin naturally.

Nobody has to teach anybody how to sin. So, unnatural. So because of this sinful nature we all sin and because we all sin we all die. So God says that this one here these are not the children of God flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. So you have to be born again. So this man can’t go to heaven. Because you see you’ve got to be perfect to go to heaven and if we went to heaven just the way we are, well we, we’re lying still and cheating.

We turn heaven and this is what we did down here. Look what we did to the Garden of Aidan. Look at this world. Hello. Now, this is the flesh. When you trust Christ as your Savior, He doesn’t change this one. Many people think getting saved is God converting you and. You know, taking that garage where you put a car and we’re going to convert it into a living room. Well, the garage is God. Well, this is not God. God isn’t converting this.

Oh, man. When you trust Christ’s Savior, God gives you a new birth. This is not this one converted. This is a new birth. This one is born of God. And as many as received Him, the them gave He the power to become the sons of God. You must be born again. So this is the spirit birth. That which is born of the flesh, flesh, that which is born of the spirit. Spirit. So this is a new one. This one here is born of God.

So if it’s born of God, then God’s the Father. And God’s the Father, then I’m the child. And if I’m the child of the Father, well, he doesn’t have a sinful nature. Neither this is one. Since it doesn’t have a sinful nature, can’t sin. And if it can’t sin, it can’t die. It can’t die. How long will you be a child of God? Forever. So that’s why you can know that you’re going to heaven when you die. So when you trust in Christ, you say, if God gave you a new birth, You see, but I still got these old desires.

I want to do things wrong. Of course, that’s the first birth. You’ve had two of them, remember? One when you were born into the world. For example, myself. 69 years ago. 69? 68. I pick a whole hand. Oh, well, it don’t matter. This one was born. They had stopped laughing. And then when I trusted Christ as my Savior, when I was 18 years old, this was 49 years later. So, at a different age, this is the new one, this is the old one.

Now, these two births only got one body. Now, I’m going to get my body later to go with this one, but I haven’t got it yet. So this one here, you got to live in the same body with this guy. So they both live inside of me. So now, I only got one body. If this person died on its way up, I ain’t got no body. I can’t make that. But here you… I get sidetracked so easy. It’s so easy.

You didn’t know, if you don’t learn to laugh and have a little humor, you’re not going to live long. But you have these two natures living inside of you. And guess what they do? They fight. What are they fighting over? Who gets to use the body? Only got one, but they’re fighting over who gets to use it. Now the flesh wants to use it But he wants to use it so Who gets to win? The one that I say second to I mean I’ve got these two birth living inside of me and so God says if you will Walk in the spirit.

You will not fulfill the lust of the flesh It’s like you know here you have the body and that’s the car and you have Been driving into wheel all these years You trust that Christ is Savior, you’ve got a new birth and He gets in on the passenger side and God says, oh, I want you to drive. Well my old nature doesn’t want to give up the steering wheel. It wants to go where it wants to go, do what it wants to do and the speed it wants to do and it’s all about Him.

Well then now I got my new birth and God says I want you to turn to the right. And this one said I’m going to turn left. You’ve got a problem. And so you have these two next. So this one is the flesh, this is the spirit and you have got to make up your mind which when you’re going to feed. And so whenever you satisfy the desires of this one, you’re going to have the fruit of the spirit.

And if you don’t, you’re going to have the works of the flesh. So he says here in verse 17, the flesh and the spirit battle, they war against each other. Well, where do they live inside of your body? Get what else he said. In verse 19, now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. And it talks about and tells us which ones these are. And as you go down through here, it says, adultery, fornication and cleanness, la ceviousness, idolatore witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, murders, drunken and reveling, such like.

I’ll do it that day before that, totally in time, and fact that they would do such things, not inherit the kingdom of God. Look over here. The flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God. So I told you that before, I’m telling that again. So why should a Christian walk in the flesh? Shouldn’t. But what do you want for your life? You want the worst of the flesh? Be not deceived. You can’t walk in the flesh and produce the fruit of the Spirit.

In verse 22 and 23, talks about the fruit of the Spirit. And this is what you can have if you let the Holy Spirit have control of your life. It’s your choice. Nobody can make you do this. And you think more laws will make you do it. And this is why you can lay down all the laws you want to your wife, to your kids, to the church, country. You can’t make somebody spiritual. It’s an inside job. It’s got to be something they want.

And that’s why it’s so important, the education that the children receive when they’re small. But anyway, that’s another sermon that I might get into this morning. Like, might not, but might. But anyway, you have the notes on this, and I think they’re important for you to keep, and study that chapter a little bit more. All the things that are listed there in the works of the flesh, you are capable of producing. But you can have the fruit of the Spirit if you so desire.

It is your choice. Take your Bible now and turn there to the book of Corinthians. 1 Corinthians in chapter 11. Remember, as we have gone through some of this about the flesh and the Spirit, God wants you to learn His Word so that you can discern. You know, sometimes it seems like it’s kind of hard to distinguish between, am I walking in this flesh or am I walking in this spirit? And sometimes it gets kind of tricky. Sometimes you think, I think I am, but I’m not real sure.

But I believe that if you are seeking to do what’s right, it’s not right. God will reveal that to you. And whenever you find out you made the wrong decision, what should you do? Make the right one. Do you realize that the perfect will of God for your life is as close as the next decision you make? Did you know that the complete out of the will of God for your life is as close as the next decision you make?

That’s how long it takes. Don’t take very long. So anyway, here in the book of 1 Corinthians in chapter 11, he tells us that he wants us to examine ourselves. So if you were to examine yourself, and if you picked up that little piece of paper, and you look at all the things concerning the flesh, do you see yourself there? Or when it shows you the signs of the fruit of the Spirit, do you see yourself there? Which one you think categorizes you the best?

If there’s something in your life that you need to correct, don’t you think you should? And yes, why he says, examine yourself and talk to the Lord and get that corrected. Let’s pray, Sha’am. Father, we do thank you so much for your lessons to us, but it’s time together. Let’s each person here, no doubt, a lot of individuals are having a rough time. It’s a hard part in your life. we know that something’s always going on. And I pray that you’ll be real to them.

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You’d be surprised how much we can do if we just yield to the Lord and let God do things. but we’re always trying to sometimes manipulate God and it won’t work. So when he talks to the Christian, can a Christian fall from grace as a principle by which to live? Yes, he can. I can reject the love of God to motivate me to serve Him. And I can choose that I can do whatever I want according to how I think and place myself under the laws, though I can live according to my own rules and regulations.

So you’d be surprised how many people will tell you. You serve God your way and I’ll serve God my way. But their way isn’t God’s way. But in their mind, their way of living is they approved it. It’s acceptable to them. Therefore, get off my back, leave me alone. I just don’t live like you do and I don’t believe exactly like you do. Oh wait, wait a minute. If I’m doing it God’s way and you’re doing it God’s way, how come we can’t agree?

Somebody’s not doing it God’s way. And so you have a battle that goes on in your Christian life. So the lost man can reject salvation by grace. A Christian, because this verse is here to the believer in falling from grace. And if a Christian rejects living for the Lord because he loves the Lord, then he’s going to find himself yielding to the flesh. And when you yield to the flesh, there’s going to be certain consequences in your life. So what Paul said, he says, you did run well.

You knew this, you understood that you ran well. But what happened? Where is this joy, this happiness? Where’s this blessedness that you speak of. Well, some Judaizers came down here and told us that we have to do this and we have to do that. See, now, instead of coming to church because you love the Lord, you come to church because you have to. For example, let me give you an idea. We just finished vacation Bible school, right? I tried to do my dead level best not to make anybody do anything, but I tried to create an environment where everybody wanted to do something.

Now, that’s between them and God whether or not they’re motives is pure right. I can’t judge people’s motive. I don’t know. I gave up on that long time ago. But I was very pleased with how they yielded themselves. Those that worked in the kitchen, those that helped put up the wall pictures and all that stuff. And those that built the country store and all the items that had to be done. Somebody had to get the hay. And then we had our wonderful, beautiful, magnificent firehouse five did I make you come every night Jim back did I make you do that yeah I had to make him do it why did he do it because he wanted to I mean why did anybody do it why did the teacher do the team captains we had I didn’t make anybody do anything because they want to it’s a lot better way to serve the

Lord so a lot better way to live than trying to make people do things I can’t and I I don’t even try to make anybody do anything anymore. It just don’t work. It puts pressure on a person, then they do it just to please you. All I’m saying is you love the Lord, get involved. Do something. And I think we had more people involved than we had kids, I don’t know. But on the last night, I think we had between 130, 140 something like that.

It was in there somewhere in that range. We didn’t have any count. We did the night before and it was about 133. And I think we had more of the last night, but it was good in well, Lieutenant. And whether or not it’s just like Mary Ann over here working on the sound system and then when the league gets ready to do his thing and and and scared and all of a half the death with it. But you know, but everybody has has a job and some people were just kind of watching the park and lot making sure Nobody came in here and, you know, getting harmed in your body and things like that.

But all the different people. It’s a lot easier and a lot better when people just love the Lord and everybody gets along. There’s always a few little bumps in the road, but that’s because we got no sinful nature and we don’t think of everything. We don’t work out everything in advance. And we had to deal with some problems as they come up. You can’t always figure out everything that’s gonna happen. I wasn’t even sure how anything was gonna happen.

It’s just that we just do it. Just do it. We got camp coming up now. That’s our next big thing. And I thought, I’m going to have to transport the whole Fajas five over there to camp. Who’s going to be in your Fajas? I don’t know. I don’t care. We’ll work it out as we go. You see, that’s called faith. You can just trust the Lord with it down there. And don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about things. You said that kind of thing to do with what we’re talking about, everything.

This is what he’s talking about. Or you can just just trust the Lord. God’s in charge. And you just learn how to walk with the Lord. See, there’s probably times in your life when you did run well. As you’ve been times in your life when you didn’t run so good. And the problems of life, and it seems like somebody just stuck a the cog in the wheel, and won’t roll. Well, sometimes, you know, the transmission gets shot. And they just don’t want to shift gears like we used to.

And that we get older. You know, whenever I was singing some of the songs in here for the adults, I put them in the kid D. But we had all the kids in here. What kid did I put it in? Yavee. It’s a little bit higher. I can do them a little bit faster and it’s a little bit better for the kids. But as you get older, your voice gets lower. That’s why. There’s learning how to adjust. Like that’s what a transmission does in your car, to adjust.

And as times when you’re Christian, You’ve got to learn how to adjust according to the speed. You can’t always go the same speed all the time. Otherwise you’ll wear yourself out and you can’t do it. Learn how to do what you can do and learn how to trust the Lord and go with it. Now when he says here, you’re fallen from grace. You have rejected grace as a principle by which to serve the Lord. You see grace look up here.

flesh the lost man under the law. The new birth under Christ, love love. This is because of what he hath done for me. This is because of what I have to do. And so this is done and this is what I got to do. This is all based upon what Christ did. This is based upon what I got to do. And say, you’ll fail. You’ll get burned out. This This is burnout. I got a guy that just emailed me.

He’s ready to commit suicide. He’s burnout. I’ve known him for about 35 years. And then on top of that, when I got a phone call from another guy who’s going through it and he uses the same word, I’m burnout. He’s something thinking about commit. So just in one week, two people, I let him both of the Lord years ago. Sometimes I wonder if they were my converts or gods. But people don’t learn how to just walk with the Lord and trust Him.

They placed Himself back under the law. They start making unwise decisions, walking and living in the place. And whenever you do that, you get all tangled up in your mind. Get all balled up. And that’s why He says, be not entangled again with this yoke of bondage. It’s so much freedom to know that I can just, I can trust the Lord for anything and everything. I don’t have to see how God’s going to work everything out. He don’t have I used to think God owes me an explanation.

I always say, why? Why? Why? Why? I have an inquiry in mind, I want to know why. You owe me. Or I said, shut up. Have you ever told your kids, you just do it because I’m dead. I said so. Sometimes God says, because I said so. I gave you my word. You see, we think God has to explain everything to us before we obey Him. That dog won’t hunt. Now look what he says. In verse 7, you did run well.

Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth or to keep running well? Remember, all of God’s children would keep running well if they didn’t listen to something that causes them not to run well. There’s something wrong in a person’s theology. He says, this persuasion, come up not of him that called you. In other words, this isn’t from God. God didn’t tell you to do this. God didn’t put you back under the law. God says, my yoke is easy.

It’s just so hard to serve the Lord. Well, what yoke you got on. You got either a yoke go. Iron or his yoke is easy. You got either a yoke or iron or iron. This yoke is easy. So you can put your yoke of iron on and say it’s just so burdensome. You don’t want to live like that. That’s why he says don’t get entangled with that. And the way you get entangled with the law is trying to be happy, to be pleased, to be blessed by walking in the flesh.

So that’s why he says in verse 16, this I say then, that word then you ought to underline it because it refers to what’s written before this. Talk into the believer. Is verse 1 talked into the believer? Yes. Is verse 16 talking to the believer? Yes. So then chances are what’s written before it is talking to the believer. And then he talks about the battle that goes on in the flesh and the Spirit in verse 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

But look up here very quickly in verse 9. A little 11, 11 of the whole lump. Now we know that when you add just one word to the gospel, it destroys the gospel of grace. True? What if you added a little 11 and 11 is a type of what in the Bible? Sin. That’s why whenever we have communion we have on the leaven bread so that there’s no yeast in it so that it doesn’t rise because that takes time.

They had on leaven bread because of the immediate preparation to leave. That’s why it was unleavened. They didn’t want to take time for anything to rise so they had to eat it without yeast and yeast with a type of sin. It says a little leaven leaven at the whole lump. Now it’s It’s also mentioned in the book of Corinthians in chapter 5 about this word, leaven, and about the Passover. But what about in a Christian’s life? Let’s just suppose that you tolerate just a little sin in your life.

Not much, just a little bit. Is it possible that just a little bit of leaven in your life accepted? Can it permeate your whole life? later that one little gate you left open, you’re gonna lose the whole herd. You can lose all of your virtue, all your character through one little gate not guarded. So for a Christian, should you guard every area of your life? Every area you left. What about your thought life? Or about music that you listen to?

Movies that you watch. Is it true you got to watch everything? Man, they don’t take much. Here he makes a statement. In verse 10, I have confidence in you. So he said over there in chapter four, he says, I stand in doubt of you, let’s Christ be formed in you again. Then up there in verse 11 of chapter four, he says, I’m afraid, let’s I have bestowed upon you labor in vain, because they were not maturing in the Lord like they should.

Now whether he questioned their salvation or not, I don’t know. He might have. I don’t know. But I do believe that it’s written to those that he believe were believers. And he says, I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none otherwise minded. In the Lord, he says, when I sit you straight on this, I expect you’re going to listen to what I’m telling you that you’re going to make whatever adjustments you need to make.

I’ve got confidence in you. That’s why I’m telling you this. Every time I preach, I am expecting people to have changes made in their life. I don’t ask for decisions every week. If I’ve got a hundred people listening to me, I’ve got a hundred decisions every time I preach. Some are for it and some are again it, but I’ve got a hundred decisions. We had a vacation Bible school, how many trust Lord? I don’t know. But we gave the gospel.

And everybody had chances and opportunities to trust Christ’s Savior. Whenever you teach the Word of God, you’re supposed to believe that God can take His Word and give will. I’ve never saved His soul yet and I probably won’t start today. But I do like to be faithful in giving the gospel and explaining it, planting seeds. So He says, that you’ve been none otherwise minded. mind it, but look at the last part of that, but he that trouble with you shall bear his judgment whosoever he be.

In other words, people were teaching the wrong things. He says, and I brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, he said, if I preach that, Why am I being persecuted? I’m being persecuted because I don’t preach that. So what Paul? Didn’t you preach that you had to be circumcised and keep the law be saved? No. If I brethrened, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offense of the cross ceased. In other words, what causes Christians to be persecuted on the preaching of the cross?

When you make the preaching of the gospel. without works. If you preach by works, nobody bothers them because that’s the message of Sinn devel. The devil has his ministers. You preach eternal security and see if body is going to fly. Then you can be persecuted. Nobody bothers you and runs from you. If you just simply preach what everybody else does and you just got to be good and behave yourself and they expect that But Jordy of the lost people know that you’ve got to be good to go to heaven and bad you’re going to hell But it ain’t true Just tell me this migration grace along what you mean to tell me I can trust Christ as my Savior and live like I want And I get to go to heaven when I die.

Yes And see if they don’t say something I’ve even have Christians that dare not say something like that because listen you want them to understand it or not I I want them to really understand what I’m talking about. No, God will not cast you out. Somebody says, well, what about if I murdered somebody? I says, is that a sin? Yes, a pain. What if you commit suicide? Because they know if you commit suicide, you can’t ask for forgiveness for that.

So now you go to hell and I have done funeral for people who have committed suicide and some of them, some of them that I’ve led to the Lord. I says, let me just settle something right here for you. Many people believe that when a person commits suicide, they can’t ask forgiveness for that sin. So that means they don’t get to go to heaven. I says, it’s not true. I says, it’s suicide, a sin, yes it is. How many sins did Christ pay for?

Paid, paid. And Christ paid for all my sins, and there’s none left for me to pay for it. Why like that? Now look in verse 12, he says, I would, they were even cut off which trouble you. Now whether he’s talking about dead or totally severed from you, and in the book of regulations in chapter one, that they were accursed. No, they have an accursed message. Can a Christian get to where they preach in a cursed message? Yeah. But you and I, the Bible talks about in the book of Romans, he says, mark them which caused their visions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and what, avoid them.

That’s why you’re not supposed to go to churches that have false teaching, especially on the gospel, especially on the gospel. I would like for you to believe that so strongly, that if you get mad at the preacher, you still gotta stay because there ain’t no place to go. And you’d stay here just for the gospel’s sake. I think that’s a perfect good reason. In the Bible talks, striving together for the sake of the gospel. Not for the sake of the carpet, of the padded pew, or because of our wonderful choir, but for the sake of the gospel.

Think what Christians could accomplish in this world if they would get their chip off their shoulder and all God’s people weren’t they get for the sake of the gospel. what we can do. Be awesome. But we get hung up on little things. You know the people of Tata, they got a mountain out of a molehill. You know what’s the difference? There. This more dirt, probably. Look at what he says. In verse 13, for lost people, you have been called on the liberty.

Brethren, the I almost made the wrong word there, for brethren ye have been called unto liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the what? Fresh. I’m not making this up. This talking about fallings and graces talking about not walking in the flesh, but talking about walking in the spirit. And so he says, if you walk in the flesh, then you’re going to want to bring forth the works of the flesh. And the flesh is under the law.

Don’t get entangled with that. As a child of God, do I want God to bless me or to beat the Torah on me? That ought to be a no-brainer. Anybody ought to be able to figure that out? I realized a long time ago, if I serve the Lord God, is obligated by His Word. He has to bless me. Are you ready? Very much so. God has truly blessed me. And I know that. I know why. Because he said if I served him, he would honor me and he’d bless my life.

But I also know that if I rebelled against him, he’d bar the door. I have given him the opportunity, the beat the tar out of me. And I would rather just serve the Lord and accept his will, whatever it might be. I don’t care where he wants me to go, what he wants me to do, how long he wants me to live. I don’t have to worry about it, because I’m in his hands. Now fear enters when I’m not in his hands, when I’m not walking with him, when I’m not abiding with him.

That’s when the fears of the world overtake your soul, because now you’re afraid of growing old. Now you’re afraid of how you’re going to take care of yourself. Not you become afraid of people and death and you get afraid of jobs and money and fear. That’s the flesh. And it plays games with your mind. That’s where the worrying comes from here. And he says, perfect love casts us out. love that you know that he really loves you. Is that enough to carry you through?

All things work together for good for those who love the Lord. And if you love the Lord, then you’re walking in the school. And you know that nothing can happen to you without God’s approval, not good to know. That’s what he says. Now look what he says as he warns. He says, do not use the liberty as a cloak of maliciousness or the liberty to fulfill the lust of the flesh. And in last part of verse 13 says, but by what?

Love serve one another. Not the love is to become entangled with the flesh. It means the flesh is slowly making it’s a little 11. Remember I mentioned I preached a sermon one time on Amalek. A more sermon on Amalek. Remember I said you may show mercy to Amalek, but Amalek will never show mercy to you. You may show a little mercy to that little bad thought of that little bad deed. It’s not that bad. And you can accept it.

And And you watch it’ll grow and grow and a little leaven does what? Can permeate the whole low your whole life and then after all you lose direction You’ll lose something, but you don’t know what happened. You don’t even know how to have to fight back because it deceives So that’s why in Galatians in chapter 6 verse 7 says be not what? Be not deceived God is not mocked Well, how do you mock God marking sin you can walk in the flesh think whatever you want and it won’t matter everything matters Now do you want God’s blessings upon your life?

your thought life will determine your physical life if You don’t like the way you’re living Change the way you’re thinking Your actions are a byproduct of the way that you think. And the devil wants your mind, yes, who also wants your mind, the Lord. So he says in the book of Romans, he makes a statement, is that I beseech you therefore men and brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, only acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove or discover, because they good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

So, the devil been working on your mind lately. He works on everybody. And he doesn’t hear how he stops you or ruins you. He tries to get you to question and doubt God in the living fear. God failed you. God didn’t come through. Whatever it takes, now you know is you just smile and just say, God promise and God will fulfill. Remember that little poem that I wrote for my wife? We saw the rainbow through the rain. We saw the light within the night.

They’re not just words. It’s a principle by how you live. And I decided years ago I do not want to fall from the principle of grace in living in the line. Look up here. Letting this hand represent you and me and this wallet represent sin. Now we all have sin on us. Everyone here is a sinner. Just like me. We’re all sinners. God loves us. Now he hates our sin, but he loves us. All of us are in the same boat for all have sin.

All have come short of God’s perfection. The wages of sin is death and since every man sin, every man is condemned. And God wants every man to be saved and to go to heaven. So Christ died from sin. for all men. You see, to go to heaven, you have to be perfect, but nobody’s perfect. Nobody’s righteous. So that’s why no man can save himself. And so a man cannot do any good deeds to get to heaven because you see, it can’t be bought.

We’re already condemned the paper, what we’ve done. So a man has to be saved. This is Jesus Christ. God’s Son. God chose his Son to come into the world because he had no sin. He was His righteous servant. He took all of our sins, the sins of the whole world upon himself, came back from the dead, and the dead. God said that if we’ll believe that he did it for us, God is bound by his word. He has to save everyone who believes, who so ever believe it.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only be gotten, son, that whosoever be leaveth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. God from the foundation of the world has predetermined to save all those that will believe. And all those that will not believe, God has predetermined, they’ll spend an eternity separated from God and a literal fire burn in hell. Salvation is free. It’s a gift. And it’s whosoever beleiveth. Let’s pray show him. With every head bond, every eye closed, and no one looking around.

I hope you understand what I’m saying. I have no axe to grind. I just want to preach the book. And I want you to understand that God loves you. He’s in his son to die for you, to pay for your sins. He said, if you’ll trust him as your savior, he’ll give you eternal life as a gift. You don’t earn it. You don’t work for it. You don’t buy it. And God says, once he saves you, you’re his child forever.

They’ll never cast you out, never lose you. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, I hope you understand the importance of telling people, getting them out under the sounds of the gospel. Let God use your power of influence in the lives of other people to get them under the sounds of the gospel. It’s so important. Our Father, we ask Your blessings upon each person that’s here to help them to understand that You have chosen them. They have been elected, Anointed by you call to serve you, not to be saved, but because we are saved.

And I pray, Lord, that each person here will respond to you, correct anything in their life that needs to be corrected. And I love you with all their heart. 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 were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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We’re studying in the book of Galatians, so you take your Bible and you open it up to the book of Galatians. This is a very interesting portion of scripture. All of it’s interesting, but this year, portion really kind of is hard to grind on, you know, trying to chew. There’s a few statements in here that makes it very, I guess, kind of hard to explain. But that’s okay, we’re going to give it a stab, and if we come out all right, well fine, if we don’t, well, y’all keep studying this.

Remember, when you go to the Bible, Always go with an attitude to listen and to learn. As much as possible, to set aside any of your preconceived ideas or notions that sometimes we want to simply use the scriptures to verify what we believe or what we think, and it may not be true at all. So then we begin to manipulate the scriptures to make it say what we want. But if we could take our little brain and set it aside and only approach it, let God say what He says and then just believe it.

We would come out with so many more jewels, I believe. But here in the book of Galatians I’ll have to admit, there are a few places here that kind of gives me, it’s like chewing on a gristle. You just can’t get it all the way through, you know, and you just know on it. But hopefully we can explain a few of these things and it’ll make some sense to you. Look at Galatians in chapter 5, Galatians chapter 5. He says, Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty, where would Christ has made us free?

Be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Be whole, I, Paul, say unto you that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Protestify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole loan. Christ has become of no effect unto you, whosoever you are justified by the law, you are fallen from grace. Are we through the spirit? Wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision of a letting me think or on circumcision, but faith with which a work is by love.

You did run well. Who did hinder you? That you should not obey the truth. Now in this little portion of scripture you have to tie to the side. Are we talking here about the lost man? Are we talking about the saved man? We talk about how a Christian at Paul said he led him to the Lord To believe that they are saved and they have a problem with Understanding salvation or is it the Christian life that they’re having trouble with and He says you did run well, but now you’re not running like you used to is because they Don’t understand how to serve the Lord What is the problem?

What is the solution? Now, a little bit further on in the chapter, it talks about the two natures. See there in verse 16, look at verse 16. He says, this I say then, walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. So in this verse, when he says this I say then. So this is referring to the old birth and the new birth. the old nature, the new nature, is talking about how Christian is supposed to live, understanding the flesh and understanding the spirit.

But this portion of scripture follows what we just read. And what we just read talks about falling from grace. Now is it the lost man who rejects salvation by grace? Or is it the Christian who rejectsmination by grace? Well, it’s interesting both ways. Because if a man believes that you’re saved by your works, then Christ profits nothing. If you believe you have to keep the works or the works of the law, well retaliation for a lost man, it’s impossible.gars do ye any good?

And so if you look there in the last part of verse 2, Christ shall profit you nothing. And then if a man does want to keep the law to be saved, well how much of the law must he keep? Well verse 3 says, he is a debtor to do how much of the DISTRICT. The WHO lawiew. So if a lost man is seeking to be saved, well then the scripture is still clear that you cannot save yourself. And if you put yourself under the law to say, I’ve got to live in such a correlative deserve, regardless of whatever those laws may be.

A man made laws or the God given laws, but if you put yourself under the law, then you’ve got to keep all the law.sych. And then how much of the law? All of it? For how long? Wherever. All your life. And so that’s why he says in chapter three, in verse 10 for you that want to keep the law, he says you’re under a curse. For a curse it is the man that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

And it wouldn’t limit itself just to the moral law of the 10 commandments but the ceremonial laws and the sacrificial laws. Boy, you really got your hands full. How do you separate all that stuff? So then that means you got to go back to your heaven, study all the law and fulfill it all perfectly. Well, if it’s for salvation, we know what that is false. Is that what these Galatians were not believing? Or did they believe that they had now, once they were saved, they had to keep their salvation by keeping the law?

You know, now I’ve got to do this in order to keep my salvation. Well, if you do that, then what you’re saying is you’re not yet saved. So I’ve got to do this in order to be saved. So what you’re saying is I am not yet saved. Well then that doesn’t make any sense. So there’s people that were becoming troubled in their mind because he says in chapter one and verse six, he says, I marvel that you’re so soon removed from him.

They called you into the grace of Christ into another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that would trouble you and pervert how to change the gospel of Christ. This is the though man preach unto you any other gospel even on angel, letting be a curse separate yourself from anybody that teaches any other message other than the salvation by grace and grace alone. So the Christians, people that knew the Lord, were getting messed up. And so some were thinking that they had to keep now the ceremonial laws.

They had to do the sacrificial laws. They had to do the moral laws. They had to be circumcised to be saved because in 1st the book of Acts in chapter 15 says this is what they were told. So now they’re getting all of that. So Paul says here if you are seeking to be saved, look they’re in verse 4, Christ has become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law or you’re seeking to be justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.”

Now, is the lost man who sets grace aside and can’t be saved? Or if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ died in vain. So, the lost man can’t be saved by keeping the law, but neither can the Christian stay saved by keeping the law. Because, see, if you put a lost man under that and say, this is what the lost man has to do. And then you say, well, for those who trust Christ is Savior, now you’re saved by grace, but you’re now under the law and Christ will give you the strength and the grace to keep the law, to help you perform for the rest of your life.

And there’s a multitude of churches that teach that. So they believe that the lost man has to keep the law and now they say, and that you’re saved by grace, but you gotta keep the law to stay saved. And if you don’t live it, then you lose it. Or as the sign, you never had it to begin with. And all that is in error. None of it’s true. You’re saved by grace, and you and I are supposed to live by grace.

Remember this. A good way to understand him. The lost man in the flesh. God gave the law. The law was to govern the lost man, the man in the flesh. To restrict him from doing what he would normally just do according to his old sinful nature. So there’s consequences. And those consequences like being stoned to death might keep you from doing something you shouldn’t do. But when you remove the consequences, then what to constrain the old nature of man.

So that’s why in our world today, we have people that are passing laws to remove the restraints, the consequences of doing it, not your fault. It’s a society’s fault. Society is the reason why you’re the way you are. So we’re just going to set you free, but in setting you free, they have only made you a slave. But people can’t get it. They don’t understand so look what he says here. He says in verse Or ye are fallen from grace If it’s talking about a lost man a man reject salvation By grace remember I use an illustration.

There’s the water pipe brings the water or by Grace the water pipe or you saved it brings the water and And so when you believe on Jesus Christ, see, you get the water, but it’s by grace. You reject the water pipe by grace, you can’t get the water. So there’s people are trying to save themselves by their works. That won’t work. So the believer, when he is saved, he is no longer under the curse of the law on the lost man.

And that’s because the lost man died. You see, when you die, the law can’t touch you. Law cannot condemn a dead man. So when you believe Christ died and was buried and rose again for you, then you died and you were buried and you came back from the dead. So God sees you as a new person, a person who has already died and paid for your sins. The law can’t touch you. You’re free from the law. Now you’re a child of God and you’ve been raised to walk in newness of life.

Now this is how God wants us to live. We should live as though we don’t even have a sinful nature. We should live like, there’s only the Lord and I’m a child of God and my new birth and that’s what I want. But see, if I didn’t have an old sinful nature, I would automatically serve the Lord because I loved him. But I wouldn’t love the world. I wouldn’t love the flesh. The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, wouldn’t be a problem to me, because see, I would only have a new birth, and it has no corruptible seed.

And so therefore I would just naturally serve. But see, in reality, even though judicially, this is true, I still have this old man, and he just follows me everywhere I go, and he never leaves me alone. And so what I have to do is realize the new person is not under the law. The law was called the flesh, the first birth. Christ says, I am now under the law of love. I serve the Lord. I do whatever I do because I love the Lord.

And so I live and serve by grace. God bestowed his love upon me. That was by grace. So now as a child of God he wants me to live this way. But if I as a child of God put myself back under the law, then what I’m saying is that I have chosen to live in the flesh.

And to live in the flesh is to be under the condemnation of the law. So he says, be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. You’ve been set free from it. Don’t go back under it. Mean don’t walk in the flesh. When you walk in the flesh, you placed yourself back under the law. See, that’s never been changed except judicially when Christ died and paid for your sins. But you see, God did not destroy the law, people fail the law.

And so that’s why he says in verse 16, there is this choice that you and I have. Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Verse 16 is the answer to verse 1. When it says, stand faster for in the liberty where with Christ has made us free, be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage, mean for you and I not to place ourselves back under the law. And how do you do that?

By choosing to live in the flesh. Where it is I, me, my, I will perform, I can do this. And we don’t walk and trust the Lord to work through us. You’d be surprised how much we can do if we just yeet. to the Lord and let God do things. But we’re always trying to sometimes manipulate God and it won’t work. So when he talks to the Christian, can a Christian fall from grace as a principle by which to live?

Yes, he can. I can reject the love of God to motivate me to serve him. And I can choose that I can do whatever I want according to how I think and place myself under the laws so I can live according to my own rules and regulations. You’d be surprised how many people will tell you. You serve God your way and I’ll serve God my way. But their way isn’t God’s way. But in their mind their way of living is they approved it.

It’s acceptable to them. Therefore, get off my back, leave me alone. I just don’t live like you do. And I don’t believe exactly like you do. Oh, wait, wait, wait a minute. If I’m doing it God’s way and you’re doing it God’s way, how come we can’t agree? Somebody’s not doing it God’s way. And so you have a battle that goes on in your Christian life. So the lost man can reject salvation by grace. Christian because this verse is here to the believer in falling from grace and If a Christian rejects living for the Lord Because he loves the Lord Then he’s going to find himself Yielding to the flesh and when you yield to the flesh there’s going to be certain consequences in your life So what Paul said he says he did run well Well, you knew this, you understood that you ran well.

But what happened? Where is this joy, this happiness? Where’s this blessedness that you spake of? Well, some Judaizers came down here and told us that we have to do this and we have to do that. See, now, instead of coming to church because you love the Lord, you come to church because you have to. For example, let me give you an idea. We just finished vacation Bible school, right? I tried to do my dead level best not to make anybody do anything, but I tried to create an environment where everybody wanted to do something.

Now that’s between them and God whether or not their motives is pure, right? I can’t judge people’s motives. I don’t know. I gave up on that long time ago. But I was very pleased with how they yielded themselves. Those that worked in the kitchen, those that helped put up the wall pictures and all that stuff and those that built a country store and all the items that had to be done, somebody had to get the hay and then we had our wonderful beautiful magnificent Firehouse Five.

Did I make you come every night? Jim, did I make you do that? Yeah, I had to make him do it. Why did he do it? Because he wanted to. I mean, Why did anybody do anything? Why did the teacher do it? The team captains who we had, I didn’t make anybody do anything because they want to. It’s a lot better way to serve the Lord. So a lot better way to live than trying to make people do things.

I can’t, and I don’t even try to make anybody do anything anymore. It just don’t work. It puts pressure on a person, then they do it just to please you. All I’m saying is you love the Lord, get involved, do something. And I think we had more people involved had kids, I don’t know. But on the last night, I think we had between 130, 140, something like that. It was in there somewhere in that arrangement. We didn’t have any count.

We did the night before and it was about 133. And I think we had more of the last night. But it was good in well-attentant. And whether or not it’s just like Mary Ann over here working on the sound system and then Lee gets ready to do his thing and scaring all of us half the death with it. But you know, but everybody has a job and some people were just kind of watching the park and lot making sure nobody came in here and you know getting harmed anybody and things like that.

But all the different people. It’s a lot easier and a lot better when people just love the Lord and everybody gets along. There’s always a few little bumps in the road but that’s because we’ve got no sinful nature and we don’t think of everything, we don’t work out everything in advance and we had to deal with some problems as they come up. You can’t always figure out everything that’s going to happen. I wasn’t even sure how anything was going to happen.

Just do it. Just do it. We got camp coming up now. That’s our next big thing. And I thought, I’m going to have to transport the whole five house five over there. Who’s going to be in your car? I don’t know. I don’t care. We’ll work it out as we go. You see, that’s called faith. You can just trust the Lord with it down there. And don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about things. He says, that got anything to do with what we’re talking about, everything.

This is what he’s talking about. Or you can just, just trust the Lord. God, God’s in charge. And you just learn how to walk with the Lord. See, there’s probably times in your life when you did run well. As you’ve been times in your life when you didn’t run so good. And the problems of life, and it seems like somebody just stuck a the cog in the wheel, won’t roll. Well sometimes the transmission gets shot and they just don’t want to shift gears like we used to and we get older.

Whenever I was singing some of the songs in here for the adults, I put them in the kid D. But we had all the kids in here. What kid did I put it in? G-V. It’s a little bit higher. I can do them a little bit faster and it’s a little bit better for the kids, but as you get older, your voice gets lower. So I’ve learned how to adjust. That’s what a transmission does in your car, to adjust.

And as times in your Christian, you’ve got to learn how to adjust according to the speed. You can’t always go the same speed all the time. Otherwise you’ll wear yourself out and you can’t do it. Learn how to do what you can do and learn how to trust the Lord and go with it. Now when he says here, you’re fallen from grace, you have rejected grace as a principle by which the serve the Lord. You see grace look up here.

The flesh, the lost man under the law, the new birth under Christ, law of love. This is because of what he hath done for me. this is because of what I have to do. And so this is done and this is what I got to do. This is all based upon what Christ did. This is based upon what I got to do. And see, you’ll fail. You’ll get burned out. This is burned out. I got a guy that just emailed me.

He’s ready to commit suicide. He’s burned out. I’ve known him for about 35 years. And then on top of that, when I got a phone call from another guy who’s going through it and he used the same word, I’m burnout. He’s something thinking about the commit. So just in one week, two people, I let him both through the Lord years ago. Sometimes I wonder if they were my converts or gods, but people don’t learn how to just walk with the Lord and trust him.

They placed themselves back under the law. start making unwise decision, walking and living in the place. And whenever you do that, you get all tangled up in your mind. Get all balled up. And that’s why he says, be not entangled again with this yoke of bondage. It’s so much freedom to know that I can just, I can trust the Lord for anything and everything. I don’t have to see how God’s going to work everything out. He don’t have to explain anything to me.

I used to think God owes me an explanation. I always say, why? Why? Why? Why? I have an inquiry in my mind. I want to know why you owe me. Of course, that shut up. Have you ever told your kids, you just do it because I’m dead. I said so. Sometimes God says, because I said so. I gave you my word. You see, we think God has to explain everything to us before we obey Him. That dog won’t hunt.

Now look what he says. In verse 7, you did run well. Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth or to keep running well? Remember, all of God’s children would keep running well if they didn’t listen to something that causes them not to run well. There’s something wrong in a person’s theology. You got to learn what the word of God says and believe it and hang on to it and just don’t move. So he says, this persuasion come up not of him that called you.

In other words, this isn’t from God. God didn’t tell you to do this. God didn’t put you back under the law. God says, my yoke is easy. So so hard to serve the Lord. Well, what yoke you got on? You got either a yoke, go iron or his yoke is easy so you can put your yoke of iron on and say it’s just so burdensome you don’t want to live like that that’s why she says don’t get entangled with that And the way you get entangled with the law is trying to be happy, to be pleased, to be blessed by walking in the flesh.

So that’s why he says in verse 16, this I say then, that word then you ought to underline it because it refers to what’s written before this. Talking to the believer. Is verse one talking to the believer? Yes. Is verse 16 talking to the believer? Yes. So then chances are what’s written before it is talking to the believer. And then he talks about the battle that goes on in the flesh and the spirit. In verse 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

But look up here very quickly in verse 9. A little 11th, 11th, the whole lump. Now we know that when you add just one word to the gospel, it destroys the gospel of grace. True? What if you added a little 11 and 11 is a type of what in the Bible? Sin. That’s why whenever we have communion we have unleavened bread so that there’s no yeast in it so that it doesn’t rise because that takes time. They had unleavened bread because of the immediate preparation to leave.

That’s why it was unleavened. They didn’t want to take time for anything to rise so they had to eat it without yeast and yeast with a type of sin. It says a little leaven leaven at the whole lump. Now it’s also mentioned in the book of Corinthians in chapter 5 about this word leaven and about the Passover. But what about in a Christian’s life? Let’s just suppose that you tolerate just a little sin in your life. much just a little bit.

Is it possible that just a little bit of leaven in your life accepted? Can it permeate your whole life? Sooner or later that one little gate you left open, you’re gonna lose the whole herd. You can lose all of your virtue, all your character through one little gate not guarded. So for a Christian, should you guard every area of your life? every area. What about your thought life? What about music that you listen to? Movies that you watch. Is it true you got to watch everything?

I mean they don’t take much. Here he makes a statement. In verse 10 I have confidence in you. So he said over there in chapter 4 he says I stand in doubt of you. Let’s Christ be formed in you again. Then up there in verse 11 of chapter 4 he says I’m afraid unless I have bestowed upon you labor in vain because they were not maturing in the Lord like they should. Now whether he questioned their salvation or not, I don’t know.

He might have, I don’t know. But I do believe that it’s written to those that he believes were believers. And he says, I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none otherwise minded. In the Lord, he says, when I sit you straight on this, I expect you’re going to listen to what I’m telling you. that you’re going to make whatever adjustments you meet. I’ve got confidence in you. That’s why I’m telling you this. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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If you’re in the area, we welcome you to visit us. The address for Calvary Community Church is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634. Our Sunday morning services begin at 1030 and at 6 o’clock on Sunday evening. Live broadcast of our services may be seen by going to our church website, calvaryoftampa.org. Thanks for joining us on Bible Live, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold.

Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound. we will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.