Who Are Those Who Can Never Be Saved?

tonight we start one of the portions of the book of Hebrews which is one of the most controversial chapters and these verses of certainly the New Testament quite possibly the Bible itself it's it's um it's something where churches denominations and Believers have divided over this issue um what's remarkable as you'll hear more tonight is that we're all going to be challenged here look we're at a great advantage uh being here together tonight because you didn't walk into a denomination I don't know if you realize that or not so wait a minute I pulled up that said Calvary Chapel yeah who cares I'm dead serious uh Calvary Chapel is not a denomination some people want to say it is but it's actually not a denomination you pay fees in dues to the hierarchy there's a governing body that tells you what to do what not to do uh well as there is I'm not aware of it I and and if they had something to say I wouldn't listen but we're going to follow Jesus here here's the thing is that this you didn't walk into a pre-loaded uh service whereby we must maintain a denominational Foundation are you hearing me where uh we don't have to come from a Catholic approach of this verse we don't have to come from a Baptist side approach uh we don't have to come from uh an Anglican approach we don't have to come from a Lutheran approach a presbyterian approach none of that the Bible is one but the views of men have divided things up and when you get carnal I just I'll just punch in the face right from the beginning when you get carnal you begin to follow the teachings and traditions of men instead of the Bible and you'll even sometimes uh go solo that you'll even say well I'm I'm I'm of Apollos I'm of cephas I'm of Paul as Paul spoke about them in the in First Corinthians but some people will say well I'm of I'm of Calvin or I'm of fill in the blank that's sad because I'm sure that if John Calvin was here today he'd slap you and say you should say that you're of Christ and so tonight uh we're just going to break it open but tonight boy I tell you if you guys can handle the next several weeks it'll be so healthy for you it'd be so good for us all so we're looking at a message series titled who are those who can never be saved how's that for a title who are those who can never be saved we're going to look at that starting tonight Hebrews chapter 6 beginning into verse 4. I'll read the even numbered verses if you read the one I think you only have one you've got one odd verse to read don't you verse five but let's read it slowly huh for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted the Heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit [Applause] if they fall away if they backslide if they fall away if they depart if they leave if they wander off it's impossible it's impossible he's saying to renew them again to repentance since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put him to an open shame wow father we pray that you would be our teacher tonight morale Lord be our teacher so father give us ears to hear what the spirit of God is saying to We The church here tonight we ask it in Jesus name and all God's people said amen you may be seated I'm going to ask you to take notes tonight certainly absolutely right in the margins of your Bible your Bible should be marked up you should be taking notes marked up Bible uh and then when your Bible gets all marked up you put a rubber band around it put it on the shelf and you get a brand new Bible and start all over again and uh yeah you just showed me your uh your iPad and you can't do that as an iPad there's something this listen your device that's glowing in your I know it's nice they're very very nice and shiny but it's not as romantic as having a book is having a book but but it works you you get the knowledge you get it all the same I get that stuff but for many of us who have been um or many of you perhaps I I can't speak to to myself on this but to many of you have been traditionally churched a church group of people there's a great amount of you uh as I said earlier that you uh have been trained if you if you know it or not you've been trained uh in your previous denominational experience to approach the Bible and what I call a um preemptive or a pre-loaded manner and that is to read into scripture the doctrinal influences of the denomination that you've come out of now this is a non-denominational church which means it's kind of cute I always think about this sitting right next to you is a Baptist sitting right next to you is a Lutheran sitting right next to you as a presbyterian and listen I have a blast with this one sitting right next to you might be a Roman Catholic who come to study the Bible how do I know they tell me they go to mass on Sunday but they come here on Wednesdays I say why do you do that and they said oh because we don't get the Bible when we go to mass we come here to study the Bible and so you are very welcome to be here keep learning keep studying because I know something about you you don't know eventually you're going to fall in love with the truth and you'll make the jump and uh some people come of the Cults Jehovah Witnesses are always here in fact we've caught some Mormons in the parking lot trying to get a hold of people and we in turn got a hold of them uh but listen you're welcome to be here learn and find out who the real Jesus is and find out what salvation is really like and on and on it goes but the worst thing tonight would be that someone who has churched coming to the conclusion well I'm stuck in this view because that's how I was brought up and I want to tell you tonight every one of us should always let the Bible do the teaching growing up there was a commercial on TV granted it was I think black and white TV in those days but there was a set of fingers or a pair of fingers walking through the Yellow Pages anybody remembered Yellow Pages before Google and all that stuff and it said let your fingers do the walking through the Yellow Pages that's how you found stuff and um so what a good thing to keep in mind is this let your fingers do the walking through the Bible well wait a minute Pastor I got to check that out I got to go to my denominational manual and under the category of what I'm supposed to believe seriously and you wonder why people have no unction and no passion and no power about God's truth it's because they don't own it for themselves so there's a there's a time when a baby must be fed and then there's a time when you put the spoon in the baby's hand what happens is it messy oh it's messy but it's got to happen you don't you listen you don't spoon feed a five-year-old okay the only way that you would do that is if your child is severely severely uh handicapped by whatever means and there's Grace for that obviously the mom or the dad deals with that situation differently but listen if you're 20 years old and we're still talking to you in baby talk you can drive your car I know you can go ahead turn the key Now put on that bright blinky light something's wrong okay and remember in Hebrews 6 the author is walking us through a growing deepening relationship with Jesus Christ he just told us last week that we need to forget those things that we've built upon they're secure we got that salvations from Jesus Christ it's the blood we've now escaped Eternal judgment we know about the laying on of hands we understand the foundational in fact let me read it to you it's Hebrews 6 verse 1. therefore leaving the discussions of the elementary principles of Christ let us go on to completion or Perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works we already know about that and a faith toward God got it and of the doctrine of baptisms plural yep we understand that water the body of Christ being baptized into Jesus also Jesus baptizing the the believer with the Holy Spirit we got all that of the laying on of hands yep got that of resurrection of the Dead understand that can't wait and of Eternal judgment that's what's coming to a christ-rejecting world and you and I as the church standing before the Lord Jesus in the day of the Judgment seat of Christ and that's going to be a great day if you think about it where we are going to be judged by Jesus for our faithfulness to what he's called us to do verse 3 and this we will do if God permits and the Beautiful Thing is God will permit meaning Paul is announcing or I believe it's Paul he's saying as we continue on and God gives us time let's go for it and I hope I speak for all of you tonight that we all have a sense of urgency do we not we have a great something's up I'm not talking politics I'm talking about you feel it every Christian I know has got this urgency there's it's almost like uh man something's coming and I gotta make sure that I get done for Jesus what he's called me to do so let's go and it's a beautiful thing it's like fire and um it's increasing and I'm really glad about that because I'm getting older but the fire is increasing and it's not because I'm getting older hallelujah it's because we're at the end it's a remarkable time and look I'm very self-serving in this uh comment I'm about to make I believe in the entire world and of course for America the only answer is the church and you are that answer because you're growing on and you're growing on deeper and so we're going to look at what is the correct view can we know oh yes we can know if church we let our fingers do the walking through the Bible regarding this very very controversial portion of scripture a lot of lead into this I'm going to ask you to write some things down very important second Timothy 2 verse 15. be diligent think of that be diligent to present yourself approved to God how's that a worker who does not need to be ashamed what's the criteria rightly dividing the word of Truth every Christian is to know how to use their Bible not Google not denominations not pastors popes or priests think of it you directly connected to your Bible is the will of God that's so important listen it's so important that when a pastor Pope or priest is teaching from the Bible Acts 17 11 says that you are to be judging those who teach the word of God against or by the word of God did you know that how are we going to know if we're being led astray you won't know unless you know your Bible think of it thus a lot of people are being led astray today because they're not in the word they're not reading the word I had a very Godly saintly woman yesterday tell me it was awesome is that it was just I know it's from the Lord she just said listen uh you're busy God's blessed the church and he's and he's blessed the ministry in so many ways I want to tell you something don't miss one day of Bible reading she said Pastor Jack and I was in Orange County when this woman stopped me and she said Pastor Jack I'm telling you Satan is hunting down you and your church and your family to destroy what God is doing all around the world through that church there at Chino Hills and I'm telling you right now don't miss one day of Bible reading because the enemy is stalking and hunting and waiting for an Open Door don't give it to him man let me tell you that came right from the throne you could tell wow and that's true that we are to be rightly dividing the word of truth if you rightly divide the word of Truth you won't be led astray by some of the teachings that are applied to the portion of scripture we're looking at tonight if I ever get through the introduction second II Timothy 3 16 and 17. again our fingers are walking all scripture is given by inspiration of God and it's profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction and righteousness verse 17 that the man of God may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work no denomination needed no need to add water it's all there right here in the Bible it's incredible it's awesome let the Bible interpret A good rule uh let the Bible interpret the Bible how's that well I read the Bible to see um you know to see what to see what you can find in it let's be honest if you read the Bible to see what you can find in it you'll find it you may not find it in the right context I mean you know some people play Bible roulette don't do that at home you could get hurt but somebody I needed Lord I need to know what to do I need to know what to do and you you know you don't have a Bible diet so you do Bible roulette and you go like this and then you go right here and you just go and Judas went out and hung himself that's not good guidance it's out of context and Yacht not to do that you don't want to do that the Bible inspired given God breathed that's why the scripture and the original languages have no error they're they're without error the inerrancy of the Bible is a real deal and so in Paul's farewell address to the Believers at Ephesus in Acts chapter 20 verse 26 he says therefore I testify to you this day so he's got all these pastors that have come there at miletus uh regarding the Ephesian elders and he says therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men can you imagine saying that that means every wow Paul is saying every person that I've come in contact with I've told them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ his conscience is clear on that for I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God therefore take heed to yourselves into all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to Shepherd the Church of God which he purchased with his own blood I love that take care of the house of God listen this is what pastors are supposed to do how give them the word Jeremiah God said through Jeremiah I'm going to send to My People Israel Shepherds who will teach my people the word of God listen with all due respect pastors are not to be your best friend we're not to be your tennis buddy or your golf pal most importantly Above All Things is that a pastor is to speak into your life the word of God why because it is a supernatural uh feeding trough that we experience at the Bible and pastors are to be held responsible for giving out the full counsel of God that means everything the fun stuff and the not so fun stuff the easy stuff and the controversial stuff because there's a day coming but I love the fact that we're supposed to teach or feed the church which God birthed with his own blood that to me is awesome Jesus Jesus bought every one of us with his blood he owns US and and we come together at a time like this and then again on Sunday to get refueled with the word to get back out and do it and so I want to just read this to you as we get set up it was true in the first century as it was or it is true today when two thousand years ago as the Lord had not returned to establish the promised Kingdom many grew faint in their profession of faith and lacked a deep personal relationship with Christ tragically shortly Jesus's Ascension shortly after Jesus's Ascension many began to give up on waiting and went back into their former relationship with Judaism after all what had been what had come after all what had come out of the Judaism was the fact that it did have divine origins being the Old Testament the old Covenant this was a very serious thing for True Christians for true Christianity in the Fulfillment that is that Christianity is the Fulfillment of the Old Testament scriptures you need to remember that do you remember when we talked about the judeo-christian worldview the reason why you hear that phraseology is because the judeo-christian world view is in Harmony One with another because it's it's all biblically based it's not the Islamic Christian worldview is it or it's not the judeo Islam well no we think Christianity is a gentile thing Christianity is the Fulfillment of the Old Testament promises and scriptures but listen don't confuse Old Testament teachings and what is known as Judaism today as being one and the same thing Judaism today predominantly leans upon the traditions of men more than the scripture if you have Jewish friends as I do they're heavily into the teachings of Rabbi so-and-so and the other Rabbi so-and-so and when you bring up to them scripture they will be honest they'll tell you I've never heard that verse before or I've never read that book before or I only read the first five books I've never read any of the other Hebrew Prophets but Christianity is the Fulfillment of all of those from Genesis to Malachi and what happened in the first century church was that people gathered together to the gospel preaching got all excited about it but remember even the disciples said Lord will you restore the kingdom now at this time and he said it's not for you to know the times and the seasons that the father has said in his own care but you go now and you go to all the world and preach the gospel they wanted the kingdom to happen now it's kind of like you and I accepting Christ now and then going to heaven wouldn't that be great look we want Jesus to come back now but watch watch what's happening this is what was going on at the time of the authorship of the book of Hebrews remember it's the book of Hebrews he's writing to those who were Hebrews who had come to a saving or at least a professing knowledge of Jesus but some were giving up some were turning back why we know that some in church history when he's not coming back it's been 20 years he didn't come back we're just going to go back to Judaism it's still there but something to change mind you something had changed there is no power in it in fact we'll get to it tonight a whole lot had changed where there was in fact no place to go to I'll explain that in a moment sounds like a brutal statement so I want to show you three things and we'll let's look at it together three views number one there are those who hold to the view that the people described in these verses are Christians who lose their salvation but if that is true notice that there is no ability for them to repent or to be restored nor would they have the opportunity to return to Christ for it would be impossible for them to return this view does not allow for a backslidden Believer to be saved listen I'm not going to name names but they're famous names who hold the view one they believe that if you backslide by the way Define backslide to me the only thing I can do to define backslide or backslibden do you guys know what I'm talking about okay is this it appears in the Old Testament and it's assumed in the new but look at it this way you can't backslide unless you slid forward only a Believer can backslide does that make sense a non-believer cannot backslide does that make sense this is important this is important so there are those I'm not going to name them that believe and teach that if you backslide there's no coming back for you you're gone it's over for you so my question to them is Define to me backslide and they can't do it I've literally talked to a pastor who's known around the world who Hells this View and I said listen I get I I see why you believe what you believe listen because you came from a certain denomination that teaches this but let me ask you define to me backslidden backslide backslidden backsliding and tell me what what is it he can't do it because how do you qualify it is technically I could stand here dressed in white holding a Bible and be completely backslidden in my thoughts correct so we're you see the silliness of view one it's merciless it's brutal and by the way it leads to you it leads to the beating of the Sheep there's no hope in view one very famous View maybe the denomination you've come from holds to this View that's for you to go find out view number two there are those who hold to the view that this passage refers not to genuine Believers but to those who only profess to being Believers citing that verses four and five of chapter six are understood to refer to experiences that come short of actual salvation um I actually have no problem with uh view number two view number three there are others that's me who understand the passage to be an exhortation to True genuine Believers urging them on in their Christian growth and maturity having been practicing Jews remember it's the book of Hebrews under the old Covenant and thus having identified Jesus as Messiah there is no other form of Salvation this is very very critical this is very very important church because they are they're Hebrews who say I believe Jesus is Messiah that he died on the cross for me and they make that profession and they go to church and they've been worshiping with all the other believers including Gentiles uh but they become disillusioned by whatever it means maybe it's maybe it's that the Lord didn't come back or maybe life has gotten tough or things didn't go the way that I thought and um you know what most of my family are still Jews this isn't going the way that I expected I'm gonna go back the problem with going back is that there's nothing to go back to because when Jesus Christ rose from the dead technically Judaism was ended do you understand that the Messiah had come and you either understand that or you don't you either believe the Hebrew prophets or you don't you either read from Genesis the Malachi the whole thing or you don't and this is very very important so we'll be looking at this together one final thing is a great great quote by uh Dr Charles ryrie to this Dr Charles ryrie illustrates by saying that it is like a classroom of students who are told it is impossible for you students once enrolled in this course if you seek to turn the clock back which cannot be done just to start the course over again that will be impossible therefore let all of you go on into deeper knowledge of God I like that I like the way he put that Dr Rory continues the sentence is structured in such a way as to encourage the True Believer to press on While others who merely say they are followers of Christ not only in time will depart or fall away from all that they know but eventually turn back toward the old practices and traditions of the law for such a person who has rejected God's way of Salvation listen to this salvation itself becomes impossible for them because there is no other form of Salvation that exists apart from Christ do you get that everybody you're a Jew you you have an animal you have blood you sacrifice the lamb you go to the priest you get the covering uh you do all of the things and then you hear the gospel preached across town Paul's preaching it or Peter and you're listening and you go oh my goodness this is amazing and you leave all that because you see this is the Fulfillment he is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world wow oh this is amazing and then as time goes on as time goes on the luster the shine for whatever reasons it diminishes maybe you are not reading you're not listening you're not talking with you're not connecting and you even see God move you see things happen in the church you see maybe a miracle do you hear people talking about God and you feel you feel like you're in but not really totally in you're you're you go but you're not you know you just something's missing you don't know what it is and you look around and you see people worshiping and praising God and you don't get it you just go along with it then a time comes where Whatever by whatever testing or trial you give up if you've left your Jewish practices and you've come to Jesus as Messiah and you've said so you know what you've said you know what you've heard to then turn your back on that and go back to animal sacrifices of blood do you see it's impossible to renew you to repentance again you can't come back because you've already left it's not that you can't come back you won't come back because this is not good for me anymore I'm going to go over here oh this is great oh no it's not so great I'm going to go back over here because it's traditions and I'm used to it where are you going to go for salvation this can't save you that over there can save you but you don't want that anymore so the Bible says it's impossible to renew them again unto repentance because they don't have any mode of forgiveness because they have broken ranks with the Salvation provided by God does that make sense now can we make that mistake this way we can be living right now in this age and you and I could say for example I accept Jesus as Lord and Savior what is that he died on the cross for my sins he rose again from the dead and you ask people are you a Christian yes tell me what that means and they'll tell you exactly what that means and then after some time we don't know how long whatever situations issues of Life hit them and they'll wind up leaving Christ and going into the world or back to the world did they lose their salvation I don't think they did because they didn't have it they never had it the Bible tells us if they had it they would have stayed with this until the end the Bible says that they were with us but they were not of us and they went back into the world so listen this is going to be a deep few weeks because we're digging down into where you and I are at each of us so number one write it down it's verse four who are those who can never be saved it's those who put themselves in an impossible situation for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the Heavenly gift and have become partakers of the holy spirit so consider this everybody when we look at this we're talking about some key words look at the word impossible that word impossible means unable powerless it means without a path or without a course in other words have you ever heard the term don't burn your Bridges well in in a very poor analogy it would be like burning your Bridges so mark this down they were looking back to the past when I say the past I'm not talking about a psychological past I'm talking about a religious past they wind up saying No this Jesus is not good for me anymore you say Jack I'm not I'm not connecting with the message yes you are I'm going to ask you right now do you know anyone in your life who once accepted Christ maybe they went with you at the Crusade or they went forward at the church or they they signed up or whatever and um after a few months or a few years you never saw any fruit but they eventually they just flat out stopped fellowshipping altogether do you know anybody like that this is exactly what we're talking about here if you if you found them today you may not have seen them in years and maybe the two of you went forward at The Crusade and said this exact same prayer did the exact same thing but you haven't seen him since and you you see that you meet them and they're living in the world and they're they're living for the world and you're you're like what happened to you what do you mean what happened well last time I saw you you and I went forward at The Crusade together oh yeah yeah you know what I went to church for a while I checked that up for a while but um it just wasn't for me that person can tell you the gospel that person can recite it they can even admit yeah yeah I went for it I read my Bible a few times they sit listen what made them go forward they sensed the conviction of the Holy Spirit the spirit of God was moving and working convicting them but what happened they didn't continue on they believed their belief never took them to Faith and that's very critical that's very important and the Bible says to those who have done this there's no place to bring them back to they have they have by and large have said Jesus isn't the one for me well then where are you gonna go you see how it's impossible to renew them again into repentance because they can't find forgiveness anywhere else they have rejected God's salvation and that's who he's calling out here and so we're looking at those who are on this course of going back to the past I want to reiterate something I said in the introduction remember that at this time of the writing where would they have gone there's no priesthood think about this they come out of the traditions of men they Embrace Jesus but not fully they depart from Jesus where are they going to go there's no priesthood there's no temple in 70 A.D the temple was torn down imagine that there's no Ark of the Covenant there's no temple in Jerusalem it's a wasteland there's no lamb there's no sacrificial lamb there's no more Passover real true Passover they may celebrate Passover on a calendar but there's real no true Passover there's no blood what are they going to do what are you going to go to you might be here tonight and you're saying well you know what I'm I was invited here by a friend yeah yeah I know all this stuff there's a danger of you being almost a Christian you know and this is a very serious portion of scripture that now you see why many churches don't even teach on it because it just generates all kinds of questions it shouldn't generate questions it should cause you and I to take stock of where we are with Jesus and conclude Hallelujah there's no Messiah there's no power there's no gospel if you depart and it's so possible in our 21st century right now in these days and the days that are coming upon us as a church I say church this church all churches the church and the Earth it's very possible you guys things are happening so fast would you agree things are just so fast we dare not try to predict three months from now what could be going on because we don't have a clue what's going to happen what's going to happen you guys when if the Bible teaches that the Rapture is true it's for real the word rapture is a Latin word it's caught up in your English Bible so don't get worried about it if you want to do Greek it's harpazzo which to me sounds Italian like something you should eat I'll take two heart puzzles with extra sauce right but in Latin it's it's uh we get the word rapture in English it's two words cut up the Bible teaches that that could happen imminently at all time anytime for the last two thousand years it could happen at any time in fact there's a trigger by the way the book of Romans on Sundays The Book of Romans there's a reference to when the fullness of the Gentiles is complete and some have come to conclude and there's no reason why you shouldn't come to this conclusion that God knows the last Gentile that's to be saved when the church is full and then it's done can you imagine you imagine that last guy you're doing do you want to print of your sins and accept Christ yes I do you believe it died on the cross for you and rose again from the dead yes will you pray this prayer now dear Lord Jesus I believe in you and I give you my heart in my life and I confess you as my Lord and Savior and I pray it in Jesus name amen and it's the last can you imagine it's the last guy and then boom and the guy's like in heaven going why didn't I do this sooner [Applause] but what if that doesn't happen listen what if what if we're stuck here another five minutes or five years another 10 minutes or 10 years at this rate in America 10 years you don't want to be here I got friends buying land in Costa Rica they bought homes in Costa Rica that's where they're going uh I think I'd rather stay here I've seen the bugs in Costa Rica I'd rather deal with Al Qaeda than Costa than bugs so Texas there's bugs in Texas huge bugs everything's big in Texas including the bugs but you guys here's the thing what if listen this this is we've barely gotten into this study here's the thing here's here's the deal here's the deal if if the warning is given you better be careful what you are entertaining about departing from Christ because the fact is you ought to dig in deeper and find out more that's this is what's happening you're drifting he told us this a couple chapters ago you're drifting away hang on stand firm if you keep drifting you're going to drift away and it it's going to be made evident that you were never really in the family of God to begin with and I really want to stress that tonight because what if times get tough people I think it happened well I know it happened with some people during covet they gave up on Jesus they couldn't take it are you kidding me that caused them to fold on their look at my fingers faith they didn't have any faith they believed in him but when the going got tough they got going and it didn't even get tough that's nothing do you understand that coven was a joke compared to what's coming it says that says the Bible the people in turkey tonight are concerned about covid people if it gets tough guess what God's word has not changed listen listen we have to be careful we don't go like hoorah listen if the carpet gets yanked out from underneath your feet you lose your job the board decides that you're not the one any longer or you wind up losing your practice or your firm or that or somebody sues you I talk to a man yesterday I think it was who twice was on the brink of losing hundreds of millions of dollars he started a company with nickels built his company into worth hundreds of millions of dollars and there were pirates there were corporate Pirates trying to steal it from him and they got an ironclad attack to destroy his life and he told me he said I was five minutes away from becoming very very wealthy to becoming very very poor because they were eating me alive and he said the night before he said God this was your company from the beginning you did it all it shocked me anyway that you did this and so it's all it's I've honored you with it it's so God whatever and he said I went to the meeting and all the big wheels were there and all the attorneys were there and he walked in there ready to be like a lamb on the slaughter to walk out completely broke not a penny to his name and he said his attorneys wound up finding a clause a statement in some old minutes that were written in the corporate books and it turned out that what these guys had done the minutes had already anticipated it years in advance and it wound up completely uh destroying them and he was able to keep the company that he started and he said the the whole meeting was eight minutes long and he said he just walked out just saying God it's all yours it's always been yours is that awesome [Applause] awesome what if you're that child that you you gave your life to and for raises up to turn their back on Christ and hate you you've loved on them you've changed their diapers you've wiped their bottom and you fed them you stayed up with them all night and you wiped a snot from their face you brought them through you saved their lives when they were little you literally how many times as a parent save the life of their kids it's like every other day if it's not walking out into the highway it's making sure they get the right treatment or medicine or care or love and then the kid grows up goes to college comes back after their freshman year and says you're nothing but a loser and it rips your guts out and then what are you gonna do listen trials and difficulties hit us like it hit these two thousand years ago and they decided to bail the reason why they bailed is because they had no faith they only had belief fair weather followers so when the world slaps you in the face and it's going to slap each and every one of us listen it's going to happen God's word says it's unchanging you need to hang on to it and tonight you'll sit here and you'll hear this and you'll go yeah yeah okay and then who's who's to say that you go home tonight and all this is going to have to be it's no Theory now it's no Bible study it's life and you only understand what was it now he said what verses did he go to what was that or you'll say Where's God God why how could you do this to me walk out were you really his to begin with second Peter chapter 1 verse 10 second Peter chapter one I know we're in the book of Hebrews but we're in second Peter chapter 1 verse 10 therefore Brethren be even more diligent to make your calling an election sure for if you do these things you will never stumble for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ wow does that sound like Assurance people everybody look that's assurance Hebrew sounds kind of spooky right there just know this let the Bible interpret the Bible this is Assurance for those who have gotten serious with God if you're not serious with God get serious with God John 15 verse 4. Jesus said abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine neither can you unless you abide in me it's beautiful about that we're born again by the power of God the holy spirit's at work within us I don't have to worry about abiding I just need to do what I'm told to do it's called obedience When God says don't forsake the assembling together of my people listen up everybody God says don't forsake the assembling together of my people well do I need to go to church to be saved no of course not but did he say gather together yes in fact he said when you see the days getting really goofy weird exactly gather together more nonetheless so when the governor says Church can't meet that's that's not even a debate do you understand that listen the governor the pope if I ain't Jack were to have said can't meet sorry you can't meet then then you should have packed you'd have packed up and go somewhere Hey listen even if it was on the side of a hill we are commanded together what if a nuclear bomb goes off in Omaha what do we do stay indoors God says me gather together you understand that everything about running from God's people and from his his church which is not a building do you understand that this is this is do you understand that this is a bunch of junk this is metal glass Steel fabric wood do you understand that this is not the church you are the church and we meet in a field on the shore on a Mountaintop on the side of a hill it doesn't matter where we meet that's called Church okay and we're never to forsake that no matter what's going on in the world we are commanded the ones that are being addressed here they walk away when we abide in him he tells us abide in me in our response because we love him is okay what does that mean Jesus says hang out with me I'm going this way come on come follow me okay can you imagine if Jesus would have walked by Matthew's Tollgate and said come follow me and Matthew would have said I don't want to well he wouldn't he Matthew wouldn't have been in the Bible his book wouldn't have been the first one in the New Testament I tell you what he doesn't force you into the kingdom but once you walk in he knows how to hang on to you and he's got that ability to show you himself in such a way that the more you press into him the more you want to stay with him and um he goes on to Saint John 15 verse 5. I am the vine you are the branches and he who abides in me and I in him Bears much fruit for without me you can do nothing if anyone does not abide in me he's cast out as a branch and is withered and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned second Peter chapter 2 verse 20 second Peter 2 20. for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world watch this through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so whoever he's going to tell us about they know who Jesus is they know that he's Lord they know that he's Savior and they know that they have walked away from a polluted life they if they are so again entangled in them and overcome the latter end is worse for them than the beginning for it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them but as it as but it has happened to them according to the true proverb a dog returns to his own vomit and a sow a pig having washed to her wallowing in the mire why because pigs roll in the mud that's what pigs do dogs uh that's what dogs do well Pastor I just read the Bible recently that God Jesus is going to separate the sheep from the goats the people I'm afraid I'm a goat why are you afraid you're a goat why are you why do you think you're a goat I don't know I could be do you want to be a goat no that's probably because you're a lamb you're a sheep of his think of it by the way sheep they're very picky about what they eat sheep their cousins the goats they'll eat they'll eat your clothes off your body if you let them they'll eat a tin can they're insane have you seen them there's nothing they will not eat they'll eat anything they're like they're like people they're like people of the world I'll eat it the world eats anything and then they clap they clap the world the world watches a demonic music concert uh with Satan's horns and women this is we have to end at this this is epic foreign [Applause] the ungodly unbelieving anti-christ Progressive liberated world out there who claims a this was my thought I'm just sharing with you my thought the moment I saw the clip this all this happened in my head in a second ah that's what happened that's the people those are the people telling me how I should live my life watch and how my God doesn't matter and you keep your mouth shut you can do anything you want in your church but don't you take it out the outside of the doors and what do they do they they tell us that we're the knuckle dragging morons who live in in the first century right they not knowing that Christianity is the number one civil rights tool to set people free around the world no other faith in the world has the record we have on liberating slaves and you meant you name it and the word of Christ and the Bible brings dignity to an individual I'm watching Hollywood what was that thing Grammys or Emmys I never get there Grammys so the guy singing with Satan's horns all black with I mean all red with flames singing this demonic song here's the part that just cracked me up a woman just about naked in a cage all the women were caged and he's he's strutting around like the king and all these women were bowing down to him that's the world that tells us we're nuts that's the world that's telling us that we are not we don't believe in equal rights we don't believe In fairness while they put women in a cage for entertainment how many kids were watching that show and said I guess women in a cage naked is okay and this was a huge hit I guess and listen when that performance was over the crowd went nuts cheering nobody was speechless nobody stood there nobody nobody said that's wrong nobody grabbed a fire hydrant and or not a fire hydrant a fire extinguisher [Applause] the world has gone Antichrist and the world applauds and I just thought what a blazing blazing manifestation of their hypocrisy they say you know this toxic masculinity uh yeah they showed that quite graphically they talked about how women need to be elevated and not made to be sex objects well that's not what they portrayed in the whole gig this world is polluted a person who is religious and not rooted in Christ will in some way shape or form I mean honestly I guess maybe that might that production might Allure somebody away I mean man you got to be messed up but it doesn't matter what it is dear Church there are things trying to get to the door of your heart to try to approach you dressed up like a hypothetical uh mailman or FedEx you know or Amazon delivery guy but he's not bringing your shoes you know he's not bringing your vitamins the Bible says Satan is like a lion roaming around seeking whom he may devour and you want to be very very careful and when your mind starts thinking thoughts of self justification and self-argumentation and self -centeredness that well it's I I've put up with this long enough I deserve better you know I just don't have the thrill in me anymore it's time to move on you have fallen for literally Satan's tactics and the question is were you really even a believer in the first place very serious stuff barely got into it uh it's a normal Wednesday I guess father we we just we come now tonight and God we just pray at this moment it should be a good time for us to rededicate our lives right now to say to you father search our hearts Lord look deep within us now see if there be any wicked way in me Lord I am asking father God that if there has been a stone left not only left unturned in our lives but that stone has been very guarded maybe it's a stone in your life my friend that you have really maintained all around it that nobody move it it's a it's a stone that you know what's under it you think nobody else does but I want you to know that stone that stone is going to grow into a millstone that's that stone is not going to be a stone it's going to become a rock it's going to become a mountain that will drown you in the depths of the sea if you let it I'm asking you tonight my friend to you talk to God about that thing in your life maybe it's Pride maybe you see yourself so spiritually Superior to other people and it's a stone maybe tonight friend there's been things in your life that you've just settled for you have just concluded I guess this is just how it's going to be till I die I'm I'm going to be a Christian but these things are going to just be in my life this addiction or this thing you know what it is I don't need to tell you I want you to know tonight that you can right now just tell him right now Lord I don't want Satan to have a handle to be able to get into my life I'm going to ask you right where you're at silently in your own words to rededicate your life all of us I would I mean this from the bottom of my heart if every one of us just were to say something like this right now Lord I'm in this body of Believers or I'm in your church in the Earth the bride of Christ and Lord I'm asking you to strengthen the things in my life that remain things that are good the Earth has moved the Quake has hit everything's falling down but this Lord strengthened that strengthen Lord what little faith I have Lord fortify it please Jesus I Need You and God those things that are in my life like that stone or like that thing Lord I'm asking you to extract It Like a Surgeon please Lord and if I try to stop you don't listen to me Jesus if I say no no no no no not that not that Lord don't listen to me prepare me for heaven prepare me now for your use whatever you want me to do and Lord I do it right now an earthquake could hit underneath my foot right now and I want to be ready I give you my life Lord afresh today anew so Lord when you tell me to gird up the loins of my mind and to put on the Weaponry the Armament of the soldier at the exact same time I have to say will you help me put it on Lord protect us watch over us you've promised as we pray Lord May no temptation that we're led into succeed May no weapon formed against us proper prosper father May no home or marriage represented here tonight be invaded by an outsider if that's happening right now I ask in the name of Jesus Christ Lord that you'd intervene by whatever means necessary that you'd protect and watch over that home and that you'd rescue God we give you our lives in total church family let's stand if you would I don't know if this means anything to anybody but in one of the trees in our backyard is a it's a big sycamore tree it's 30 feet tall easy it's massive and uh there is just no way you're going to get up into that tree but you know what happened some time ago a branch broke off and it left just a just a stub sticking out from the trunk and it was just enough that if you grab that you can pull yourself up enough to get into the tree massive tree but it's accessible to any one of us because there's a little remnant of something sticking out of the side that once was a branch and to me that's how Satan works there might be a little handle that's there in your life that he's using to get in It Off shut it down close the door

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Published: Fri Feb 10 2023