1 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:08,600 With everything so far. It's always a it's always a 2 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,200 pleasure to be here and I look forward to a great meeting. 3 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:17,000 I'm going to read a passage this morning from the 9th chapter of 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,500 Hebrews beginning with verse 24 of this chapter. 5 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:26,800 And in this place we hear the Divine writer saying or Christ 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,800 is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,500 the figures of the true but into heaven. 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:39,000 In itself now, to appear in the presence of God for us, nor yet, 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,500 that he should offer himself often as the high priest 10 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:46,300 entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others. 11 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:50,500 For then must, he often have suffered since the foundation of 12 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:55,000 the world, but now once in the end of the world hath, he 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,400 appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and as it 14 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,900 is appointed unto man once to die, but after this This the 15 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:07,400 Judgment. So Christ was once offered to 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,100 Bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him. 17 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:16,700 Shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation? 18 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:20,100 Want to talk on a theme this morning. 19 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:23,900 That I think all of us should be interested in, but before we 20 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:28,400 speak certainly, we do feel disposed to pray. 21 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:33,900 I know that you have been recipients of god good gift this 22 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:37,400 week by virtue of the fact that you're able to be here today 23 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,400 even as I have and we're thankful for God's blessings 24 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,900 wish to express our thanks to him and call upon his old 25 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:47,600 prevailing name. So at this time, let us Us 26 00:01:47,600 --> 00:02:16,700 humble ourselves in prayer. Well, this morning, we're going 27 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:19,000 to have a little homemade blessing. 28 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,100 A young preacher. One time was complaining about 29 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:27,200 not being able to find sermon material. 30 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:32,300 And one of the older Brethren is reported to have told him boy, 31 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,100 get your Bible. There's hundreds of them in the 32 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:38,700 Bible and of course, that's true. 33 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,400 Not like to suggest another source of ideas and that is to 34 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:49,500 get your concordance. And to look at that, I became 35 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:53,800 intrigued recently with the conjunction of contrast that we 36 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:59,400 have on the board here, but now 18, Robertson states that this 37 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:05,600 term constitutes a strong contrast as opposed to at that 38 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,900 time. So, here we have a contrast at 39 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:15,300 that time. But now, and he also defines the 40 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:20,600 word as except for the fact, but means, except for the fact, now 41 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,700 means at the present time, so, I got my concordance day on and I 42 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:28,500 find several places. These where that little 43 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,500 conjunction is used. So I would like to know this 44 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,600 just a few of those and I believe it will be something 45 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,200 that you're interested in. And Hebrews the 9th chapter and 46 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,600 verse beginning with verse 24, we know that the book of Hebrews 47 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,700 is extolling, the virtues of Christ's Administration if you 48 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:55,000 will of, as opposed to that of Moses. 49 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,500 And he said, in verse 24 Christ, is not entered into the holy 50 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:03,200 places made with hands which are the figures of the true. 51 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:06,900 But into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God 52 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:11,300 for us nor yet that he's He should offer himself often as 53 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,100 the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with 54 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,500 blood of others or then musty often have suffered since the 55 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:23,400 foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the 56 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,700 world hath, he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of 57 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:31,900 himself and as it is appointed unto men once to die. 58 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:35,600 But after this the Judgment so Christ was once offered to Bear 59 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,600 the sins of many and unto them that look for him. 60 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,500 Him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation? 61 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:49,200 Notice, if you will, that contrast He would often have 62 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,200 suffered since the foundation of the world, if he had to do is 63 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,100 the high priest of the Old Testament. 64 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:59,300 But now, but now once in the end of the world or the End of the 65 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:03,900 Age, the Jewish, or the Mosaic age, happy appeared to put away 66 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:09,600 sin by the sacrifice of himself. That's a wonderful thought there 67 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:14,200 because the sacrifices of the Old Testament prefigured and 68 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,300 foreshadowed the sacrifice of Christ. 69 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,500 Did you know that way back Yonder in the Garden of Eden. 70 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:26,200 When man first was put upon this Earth and was given the 71 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:31,700 beautiful paradise in which to live, that was a test for Adam. 72 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:37,100 I presume. Adam was surrounded by 73 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:41,100 everything that the heart of man could possibly desire. 74 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:44,200 The Bible said that there were fruit trees. 75 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,800 There it must have been a beautiful place because So every 76 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,200 day, probably the temperature was just exactly right. 77 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:56,500 The climate must have been wonderful, it was also full of 78 00:05:56,500 --> 00:06:01,600 things that were good to eat and there was simply no reason for 79 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,800 anybody to be unhappy or dissatisfied in the Garden of 80 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,300 Eden. However, God had only two 81 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:11,000 prohibitions. One of them was a positive 82 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,900 command and the other was a negative command. 83 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,000 God said that he was to keep the garden to tell it and And to 84 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,700 keep it. And the other was that he was 85 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:23,600 not to eat of the fruit of the tree of which I commanded thee 86 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,300 saying, Thou shalt not eat there. 87 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:29,500 In the midst of the garden was the tree of knowledge of Good 88 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:33,500 and Evil. God said don't eat of it because 89 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:36,100 in the day that you eat thereof, you will die. 90 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:39,500 And there's no evidence that Adam failed in that first 91 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:46,000 command to grass and to keep the garden, but Eve was given to him 92 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:52,600 as we, well know, and Being as the Bible says the weaker vessel 93 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:58,400 Satan came through mother Eve and he appealed to her vanity 94 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:02,300 and to all of the three Avenues by which man is tempted. 95 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:06,000 He said, look at this fruit. Why it's beautiful to look at 96 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:11,000 besides that it tastes good and it'll make you wise. 97 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:16,400 She prays, he tried to suggest that maybe God had unduly and 98 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,400 restricted them has God said that you're not to eat of any of 99 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,700 the Trees of the garden. She said, no God said that we 100 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:24,800 could eat of all of the Trees of the garden. 101 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,600 But of that tree, were not to eat it or touch it. 102 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:32,300 Lest you die? So she understood God's command. 103 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,400 Very well and he said you won't die. 104 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:38,800 Why? You'll you'll be as Gods 105 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,100 yourself. You'll know good from evil. 106 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:44,300 He persuaded her that, that was the thing to do and of course, 107 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:47,100 she ate of it. And the Bible says that she gave 108 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:49,400 it to her husband and he did eat. 109 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,300 I've often wondered why Adam with full knowledge entered into 110 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,500 that sin, that digression from God's commandment. 111 00:07:58,700 --> 00:08:01,400 But as one of our older preachers pointed out some years 112 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,200 ago, I think it was true that he loved her so much that he 113 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:10,000 intended to share her faith. Whatever that was, and so he ate 114 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,900 all of it. Now, we Either guilty, pair 115 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:17,800 hiding out in the bushes. Somewhere from God, Made made 116 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,300 some little old skimpy fig Leaf garments with which to clothe 117 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:25,500 themselves, they were inadequate and so the voice of God sought 118 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:30,200 them out. Adam, Where Art Thou God, of 119 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,700 course new right. Exactly where Adam was what 120 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:34,500 Bush? He was hiding behind. 121 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:39,299 And he wanted Adam to see where he was. 122 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:45,300 And so, Adam says, well, we were afraid because we were naked and 123 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:48,200 so we hid ourselves. God said, have you eaten of the 124 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,100 tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not, eat 125 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,700 Madam had to confess that he had and so the Bible tells us that 126 00:08:55,700 --> 00:09:02,900 God made them coats of skin and immediately wonder where to get 127 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:05,600 that skin. While you know that occasion the 128 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,500 death of an animal, didn't it a victim, an innocent victim in 129 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:13,400 order to cover Adam and Steve, because they're covering that 130 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,200 they had made was inadequate. And so, the Bible says that he 131 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:23,600 made them coats of skin and thus, probably shed the blood of 132 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,100 the first sacrificial victim upon the face of the Earth. 133 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,400 Incidentally, that word atonement. 134 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:36,000 He made an atonement for their sin, that word, atonement means 135 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,100 a covering God, covered them with that sacrifice. 136 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:45,200 And thus, a way back Yonder in the Garden of Eden. 137 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,600 As it were, we see the picture of Christ's sacrifice. 138 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,200 Now in Genesis 3:15, Bible scholars. 139 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,200 Believe this is an allusion to Christ when he said to the 140 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:03,100 serpent that he would Breathe, the seed of the woman that he 141 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,800 loved the seed of the woman. And, and that he would crush his 142 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,300 head. The seed of the woman would 143 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:14,800 crush the Serpent's head, that's the only place where exclusively 144 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,100 seed of a woman is mentioned. Usually, you know, the man has 145 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:21,700 that role. But in this case, Case Christ 146 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:26,200 was to be born through a virgin and there's the prediction way 147 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,800 back Yonder in the Garden of Eden. 148 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:34,400 How beautiful a picture that is that Christ was prefigured in 149 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,800 foreshadowed back then. Some think that when God said, 150 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:46,300 when Eve, when God promised that to Eve and to Adam, and you 151 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:49,200 remember Eve brought forth her firstborn son. 152 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:51,500 She said, you remember what she said? 153 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:56,000 She said, I've gotten a man from the Lord, some seem to think 154 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,900 that, maybe she thought that was the Savior, but of course, it 155 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:04,100 wasn't man, had to be prepared for the coming of the Lord. 156 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,400 So ages as the ages swept past. Past. 157 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,300 We said other sacrifices which prefigured in for shattered the 158 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:17,000 coming of the Christ, we see on the knife that the children of 159 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,400 Israel left Egypt, we see a picture there. 160 00:11:21,100 --> 00:11:23,800 They had developed into a mighty nation. 161 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:29,200 God appointed Moses to lead them out and Moses had showed Pharaoh 162 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,900 all of these wonderful signs plagues that were designed to 163 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:36,800 mail his over hard heart and let the children of Israel. 164 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:40,900 And he had resisted every one of them he would agree to it and 165 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:43,400 then he would he would change his mind. 166 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:48,300 God said I'm going to give you one more and he will let you go. 167 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,300 God told Moses. He said you this is what you 168 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:56,100 tell the Israelites in every house you take a lamb. 169 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,700 You take one that is without spot and blemish and you kill 170 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:04,900 that lamb and you take its blood and you put it in a basin and 171 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:08,900 then you take hyssop. And you dip that hyssop, in that 172 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:13,100 blood and you strike it on the lentils and doorposts of every 173 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,300 home, way back there and ol Egypt. 174 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:19,100 We see the sign of the cross. And God says, when I see the 175 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:23,700 blood, I will pass over you. That's where that term Passover 176 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:26,500 came from. And so that night, the children 177 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:31,100 of Israel with feet shod and with staff in hand and with 178 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:35,500 everything that they intended to take were ready and it midnight, 179 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:39,000 a cry went up all over each. Require the blood had not been 180 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,000 applied and the children of Israel made their exodus. 181 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,500 Yes. Away back there in Old Egypt. 182 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,000 We see in that Passover Lamb. The picture of the Christ, the 183 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,700 blood separated from the body, indicated, of course, the 184 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:58,500 picture of death and that foreshadowed that Christ who was 185 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:02,100 to come again. The day of atonement rolled 186 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:07,400 around among the Jewish nation, and on this day once a year, The 187 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:15,200 high priest took his victim, a bullet and he put his right hand 188 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,000 upon that victim's head and he put that knife between his 189 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,400 teeth. And then he took his left hand 190 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,600 and he took that knife and he cut that innocent victims, 191 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:30,100 throat and shed, its blood. And that the Bible says, he took 192 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:34,100 that blood and he made an atonement first for his own sins 193 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:36,700 and then for the sins of the people. 194 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:40,100 Hebrews says in Hebrews 10 and verse 1. 195 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:44,100 However, for the law, having a shadow of good things to come, 196 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,400 and not the very image of the things can never with those 197 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,800 sacrifices, which they offered year-by-year. 198 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,800 Make the comers thereunto. Perfect for then, would they not 199 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,600 have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers 200 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,100 once purged should have had no more conscience of sins? 201 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:05,400 But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance of sins made of 202 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,500 a Sims every year. Here for it, is not possible 203 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:13,900 that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 204 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,500 All of those sacrifices, there was a remembrance, again, made 205 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:24,700 the scripture says every year, and finally, when Christ died 206 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,100 you see, he took away the sins of man. 207 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:34,000 Once for all the sacrifice on Calvary was once for all 208 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:39,000 incidentally. Once for all is a Translation of 209 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,500 the Greek word hapax. That's the one that's used for. 210 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:47,900 Once In, this passage in Hebrews and this word is of immense 211 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:51,700 significance and it's used several times in key statements 212 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:55,100 in the New Testament, for example, Christ has been 213 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:59,500 manifested in human form. Once for all we're told and 214 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:03,100 Hebrews 9 and 26, he suffered man's sins. 215 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:05,700 The righteous for the unrighteous were told in First 216 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:10,100 Peter 3:18 Teen. Once once, for all Christ died, 217 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:15,900 once for all Hebrews, 9 + 28, he offered his blood in heaven, 218 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:20,200 once for all Hebrews 9 and verses 12 and 26. 219 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:25,400 The faith that recognized Body of Proof, that was given to us. 220 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:31,400 Thief Faith was given delivered to the Saints once for all 221 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,600 according to Jude 3. It's appointed unto man once to 222 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,500 die once for all Hebrews 9 and verse 27. 223 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:44,600 Once for all God will shake the earth and the heavens that is to 224 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:50,100 remove them according to Hebrews 12 and verse 27, the glory of 225 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:55,500 Christ sacrifice as set forth here consists of the complete 226 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:58,800 the final. The irrevocable nature of his 227 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:04,100 offering it was not a something to be repeated it was once for 228 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:08,200 all those offerings and sacrifices He's under Judaism 229 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,700 were repeated year after year, after year, but Christ's 230 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:16,700 sacrifice was once for all. And this passage eliminates any 231 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:21,800 idea that the church should have something to offer or sacrifice 232 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,000 in such a thing as the mass for example, because the one and 233 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,100 only efficacious sacrifice has been offered in heaven where 234 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:36,100 alone it could do any good and by the only one capable of doing 235 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:37,900 it. And that's Course, the Lord. 236 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:40,700 Jesus Christ. You know, in some quarters there 237 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:47,100 is teaching that in the mass Christ is re sacrificed that's 238 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:51,700 the meaning of that word, the mass but you know, under 239 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:56,600 Christ's administration his sacrifice was once for all. 240 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,400 But this passage also reveals the true purpose of Jesus coming 241 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,700 into the world. It was not to begin an Earthly 242 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:06,599 Kingdom, it was not to erect an Earthly. 243 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,500 Throne Our own. It was not to restore a literal 244 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:13,800 Kingdom to Israel. It was to put away sin by the 245 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:18,700 sacrifice of himself and those who view the crucifixion of 246 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:23,800 Christ, as something other than God's plan and envision, from 247 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,400 the beginning, have failed to grasp. 248 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,200 The most fundamental teaching of all the scriptures. 249 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:34,100 You see, God's offering of himself in the person of his son 250 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:38,200 upon the cross. That's the sin quite on of all 251 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,900 human forgiveness, and salvation. 252 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,000 And when the writer of the Hebrew letter said there in 253 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:49,300 Hebrews 9, so Christ was once offered to Bear the sins of 254 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:53,200 many, it brought to mind that statement of Isaiah, and Isaiah 255 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:58,600 53, and verses, four through six, God indeed had laid upon 256 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,700 him, the iniquity of us all the chastisement of our peace was 257 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:07,100 upon him. We did Esteem him stricken of 258 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:11,100 God and Afflicted. The little Jewish hierarchy had 259 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:14,800 their little day with him. They humiliated him, they 260 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,300 crowned him with every conceivable insult, they 261 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:21,900 inflicted upon Christ. The most heinous punishment, 262 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:24,400 that could be known to the mind of, man. 263 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,400 He was despised and rejected of men. 264 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,300 And thus, he died for the sins of many, but after his death 265 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,400 there quickly appeared the Judgment of God upon Christ. 266 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:41,300 He arose from the dead, the Supreme Court of the universe 267 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,800 reverse the adversity, decision of the saint. 268 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,500 He, he'd run and the Roman procurator and Christ was 269 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:52,000 elevated to the right hand of the Majesty on high. 270 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:57,500 Yes. But now we see the sacrifice of 271 00:18:57,500 --> 00:19:00,500 Christ. But there's another, but now and 272 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:05,600 that's here in Romans, 6 and verse 20 Where the Apostle said 273 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,900 for, when you were the Servants of sin, you were free from 274 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:12,800 righteousness. What fruit had you then in those 275 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,700 things, where I have your now, shamed, for the end of those 276 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:20,700 things is death. But now being made free from sin 277 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:25,400 and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto Holiness 278 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:31,600 and the end everlasting life for the wages of sin is death. 279 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:35,700 But the gift of God is eternal. I have through Jesus Christ. 280 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,700 Our Lord folks, this is a tremendous thought right here. 281 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:47,100 He said, one time you had, you had your life in sin, but now 282 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:53,200 now being made free from sin, what happened in the lives of 283 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,700 the Roman Christians, that cause them to cease to be Servants of 284 00:19:57,700 --> 00:20:00,600 sin and become Servants of righteousness. 285 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,700 That's a question. I want to explore for just a 286 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:06,400 moment. Moment in the 6th chapter of 287 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,600 Romans and verse 16. Paul said, no, you're not. 288 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:24,000 The righteousness. God be thanked that you were the 289 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:31,200 Servants of Satan. But now he says you're become 290 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:34,700 the Servants of righteousness, what happened? 291 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:39,600 That caused people to cease to be Servants of sin, become the 292 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:43,000 Servants of righteousness. Alright, let's notice his words 293 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,800 again. He said God be thanked that you 294 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:52,200 were the Servants of sin. But ye have obeyed from the 295 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,100 heart that form of Doctrine, which was delivered. 296 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:59,900 You being then made free. Consuming, you became the 297 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:03,200 Servants of righteousness. Now, there was something that 298 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,800 happened in the lives of the Romans that caused them to cease 299 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,300 to be Servants of sin and become Servants of righteousness. 300 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:14,500 What was why? He said God be thanked that you 301 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:18,200 were the Servants of sin. But ye have obeyed from the 302 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,000 heart that form of Doctrine, which was delivered. 303 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,700 You what was that form of Doctrine? 304 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,000 Form is a likeness of any thing, isn't it? 305 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,300 You know what it is? When you're building something 306 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:38,800 like sidewalk, you'd you lay a form out, you fill it up with 307 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:43,500 liquid concrete and when it dries, it has that form. 308 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:50,200 You see, or maybe, maybe you want to make something else. 309 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,400 Maybe somebody wants to form something like a statue, and it 310 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,500 Bears, the likeness of whatever it is, that you're making. 311 00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:03,400 I remember reading one of the Gospel preachers in Borden who 312 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,000 told that during when he was a boy. 313 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,600 He said that it was evidently after the Civil War and that he 314 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,500 had found some old bullet mold somewhere and he said there was 315 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:21,900 also a quantity of LED and they would have fun melting that led 316 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:24,500 getting it, hot and melting it and pouring it into the bullet 317 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:27,500 molds and making bullets. And he said then when they got 318 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:31,400 the bullets made They'd melt those down and recast them 319 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,200 again. Fun was in the making of the 320 00:22:33,208 --> 00:22:35,800 bullet, you know? Finally, they used up all of 321 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,600 their lad and so they cast about to find something else to use 322 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:45,600 and got into his mother safe and found some biscuits and he took 323 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,300 the biscuit dough and poked it into the bullet moles. 324 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,400 And he said, they came out in the form of bullets, they were 325 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,600 biscuit bullets, sort of fly out. 326 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,500 And I mean, sort of flabby, E and pale but he said they were 327 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:03,500 bullets. They were shaped like bullies 328 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,400 but you know, I just want a mole does. 329 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:08,900 That's what a form. Does it it casts it into the 330 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:11,700 likeness of whatever the The Forum is. 331 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:17,300 Now there's a form of doctrine that they obey that caused them 332 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:22,300 to be to become Servants of righteousness, to cease to be 333 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:24,600 Servants of sin and become Servants of. 334 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:25,400 Right? What do you suppose? 335 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,500 That was Well let's look at what we are commanded to do to become 336 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:34,300 Christians were commanded to believe, partly, do you see and 337 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:39,300 believe anything that looks like a form of the doctrine somebody. 338 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:42,600 So what's the doctrine? Will Paul explained that First 339 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:47,600 Corinthians 15 and verse 3? He said I delivered unto you 340 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:53,300 that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins 341 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:56,500 and that he was buried and that he rose again. 342 00:23:56,700 --> 00:23:59,300 Third day. Now that's the likeness. 343 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,900 Now, Paul said there that you will beta form of, that 344 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,300 Doctrine, which duck was delivered posted. 345 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:08,900 This is what I believe is, right here. 346 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,700 You see anything in belief that looks like this? 347 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,600 I submit you don't. That's a command. 348 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,900 We have to believe. Nothing. 349 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:19,900 And then we're commanded to repent. 350 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,100 You see anything in Repentance? That looks like this over here. 351 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,100 The death burial resurrection of Christ. 352 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,500 I'm Frank to say I don't well what we're commanded to confess 353 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:33,100 Christ with our mouth. Matthew 10:32, you see anything 354 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:35,300 here? That looks like this over here. 355 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,400 Not really no. But what about baptism? 356 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:43,000 You see anything at baptism? That's another command. 357 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,700 Jesus said, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. 358 00:24:47,100 --> 00:24:49,700 You see anything? Baptism that looks like this. 359 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,000 Let's look at Romans, 6 and verse 1 verse 4. 360 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,100 It is for, he says No, you're not but so many of us as were 361 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:01,700 baptized into Jesus. Christ were baptized into his 362 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:04,000 death. Therefore we are buried with him 363 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,200 by baptism into death like as Christ was raised up from the 364 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,100 dead by the glory of the father, even so we also should walk in 365 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:12,100 newness of life. Or if you've been planted 366 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,900 together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the 367 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:18,400 likeness of his resurrection. That's a beautiful picture is 368 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,500 now notice again. He said, God be thanked. 369 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,900 You were the Servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart. 370 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:28,300 That form of Doctrine which was delivered. 371 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:31,600 You being then made free from sin. 372 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,600 Ye became the Servants of righteousness, I think it's 373 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,200 obvious and evident what it is that makes us free from sin and 374 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,300 causes us to become children of God or Servants of 375 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:46,500 righteousness. What Paul did not say is 376 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:49,600 significant, he didn't say thank God. 377 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,700 You pray through or thank God you only believed he said thank 378 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:56,000 God. Yeah. 379 00:25:56,100 --> 00:26:01,000 Have obeyed obeyed, what that form of Doctrine, which was 380 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,500 delivered. You now, when were they made 381 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,700 free from sin when they believe know? 382 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,800 When they prayed through those say that when the Holy Spirit 383 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,700 fell on them, no, according to Roman's 6, 17 and 18. 384 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,000 It was when they obeyed that form of Doctrine. 385 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:22,800 But I want to notice another now and that's the now of position. 386 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:28,200 Now, we've noticed the now of, Christ's sacrifice the now of 387 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,500 forgiveness. Now, we're in a blessed position 388 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,300 out of Christ's death on the cross and our obedience to the 389 00:26:36,308 --> 00:26:41,600 gospel, grows another precious word here in Ephesians 2:13. 390 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:47,500 He said, but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far 391 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:52,800 off are made nigh by the blood of Christ again and Ephesians 5 392 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,600 and 8. 84. You were sometimes Darkness. 393 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,800 But now are you light in the Lord? 394 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,300 Walk as children of light. Again, Peter puts it another 395 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:06,100 way. Peter said in First, Peter 2 and 396 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,700 25 for you, worry, sheep going astray. 397 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,000 But her now, returned under the shepherd and Bishop of your 398 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,700 souls seems like the Old Testament was in Paul's mind, 399 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:22,000 constantly, the background verse In this passage seems to be 400 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,600 Isaiah 57. And Obtain that says, I create 401 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,400 the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him. 402 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,800 That is far off, and to him that is near sethe Lord. 403 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,600 I will heal him, but the wicked are like, the troubled sea. 404 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,800 When it cannot, rest, whose Waters cast up mire and dirt. 405 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:46,300 There is no peace saith. My God to the wicked, those 406 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:50,500 words far off. In both the Old Testament and 407 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:53,100 the New Testament are a reference. 408 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,200 To the Gentiles. That's what he's talking about 409 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,300 when he says them that are far off. 410 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:03,700 That's us, folks. Did you know that back in 411 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:09,000 ancient times, anything that was a far-off was held to be 412 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,700 detestable even among the pagans. 413 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:16,800 The English word, profane derives from a Latin word 414 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:23,100 protocol off on 0 which literally means for our off away 415 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,700 from the Temple. In other words, the utter 416 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:30,300 depravity of the whole pre-christian Gentile, 417 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:34,500 civilization is expressed by these words are far off. 418 00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:38,100 They were far off from the temple, from covenant 419 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:40,400 relationship with God. Don't you see? 420 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:45,600 But the blood of Christ, cleanses from sin and makes it 421 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,500 possible for the profane, the far-off to enter the temple of 422 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:53,200 God? Patience to 14. 423 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,200 He says he is our peace who hath made both one and hath. 424 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,300 Broken down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in 425 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:03,600 his flesh, the Commandments contained in ordinances. 426 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:09,300 Again in Ephesians, these passages here, make a blessed 427 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:13,100 comparison of what we were with what we are. 428 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:18,800 He said we were dead in trespasses and sins. 429 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,400 We were walking according to the prince of the power of the air. 430 00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:28,000 We were having our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, 431 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:32,300 fulfilling the desires of the Flesh, and of the mind, we were 432 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,200 by Nature the children of Wrath, even as others. 433 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,800 But now I want to counter the other. 434 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,100 Now that is his death on the cross and our obedience to the 435 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,100 gospel. We are in Christ work. 436 00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:47,000 Quick and we're sitting in the Heavenly places. 437 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,900 We're no longer a far-off, but were made nigh by the blood of 438 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:54,200 Christ and were returned to the shepherd and Bishop of our 439 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,300 souls. It's that blessed position and 440 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:02,700 it's not after we die. It's now, but now he says, but I 441 00:30:02,708 --> 00:30:07,100 would have consider another now and that's the now of practice. 442 00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:11,400 You know are blessed position in Christ. 443 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:18,800 Forgiving is no excuse for folded hands and Pious laziness 444 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,600 anymore than it is the license to live as we please. 445 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:29,900 What we were and what we are impels us to consider, soberly 446 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:33,200 what we should be. What we should be. 447 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,300 Peter said in First Peter 2 and 9 you're a chosen people. 448 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,100 A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, A 449 00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:47,400 peculiar people. Yes, we're all of that, but this 450 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,700 is no place to stop reading. Let's go on. 451 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,400 He said that ye should Shew forth the Praises of him who 452 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,400 hath called you out of Darkness Into His Marvelous Light. 453 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:03,700 Now, Paul goes on to say, in Colossians 3 & 8, listen now, 454 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:11,700 but now you also put off all the These anger wrath malice 455 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:15,500 blasphemy filthy Communications out of your mouth and then 456 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:19,600 follows a list of practical duties and responsibilities 457 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,500 every day matters like lying domestic duties business duties. 458 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:31,300 You see, don't we see that what we should be and we should be in 459 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:35,900 practice. Now, what we are in profession, 460 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,500 we profess something. Now that we become Christians 461 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,500 and were to be in practice. What we profess, those whose 462 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:46,700 practice doesn't fit their profession. 463 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:51,200 Bring reproach upon the church, they tell the world that Christ, 464 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,400 and the church have done nothing for them. 465 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:57,400 And if you claim membership in the Lord's church, and you're 466 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:02,000 living in sin, let me tell you that you're hurting the church 467 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:05,800 because you You see the person who's out here, he just wants an 468 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,200 excuse for not being the Christian. 469 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:13,500 He wants to justify himself and so he measures himself by the 470 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:17,600 church member, who's not living a good life and he says, well, 471 00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:22,800 I'm as good as he is, so I guess I'm all right, you see? 472 00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:28,200 Because we're the only gospel that this old sinful world is 473 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,900 going to read. They're not going to read the 474 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,300 Bible. They don't look for Christ in 475 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:35,700 the Bible. They don't look for Christ in 476 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:39,200 nature but you know where they do look for Christ. 477 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,400 If you claim to be a Christian, they look for Christ in you. 478 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:49,100 If they cease in there instead of Christ, the church is hurt. 479 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:52,600 Here's a man over here somewhere who boast that, he's a church 480 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:57,300 member But in business, he puts over a shady deal at the 481 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:01,100 cocktail party. He drinks like everyone else out 482 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:05,200 on the golf course he uses profanity bets on the game. 483 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,400 He's not a good example. His life hurts the cause of 484 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,600 Christ. Somebody said that, you can take 485 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:18,700 a cork and put it in a bottle toss it into the ocean, and not 486 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:20,700 a drop of water will get into it. 487 00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:25,400 And, you know, in the same way, if a man has sin in his life, he 488 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,700 can attend worship every Sunday, but no blessing can come to him 489 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:34,700 because he has that sin in his life. 490 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:40,500 Unless our practice fits our profession, we bring reproach 491 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,600 upon the cause of Christ. Now I'm going to say something 492 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:49,600 that may sound harsh but I really have been convinced for a 493 00:33:49,608 --> 00:33:52,400 number of years that there's a lot of people on the face of 494 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,000 this Earth that are just going to hell with a lot of trouble 495 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:01,800 because they are not committed to Christ and to his cause. 496 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:08,300 So it's true, they attend worship at times, but they're 497 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:13,400 not faithful Christians. And what does it mean to be 498 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,400 faithful? You know the Bible says well 499 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,199 done thou good and faithful servant. 500 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:23,199 What does it mean to be a faithful Christian? 501 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:30,199 Well let's see. if I have a paper ball at home, that 502 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:36,000 supposed to deliver the paper every day, And he just delivers 503 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,300 that one day a week. Would you call that a faithful 504 00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:43,000 Paperboy? I don't think so. 505 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:47,000 Suppose I had a car. And one day a week, that car 506 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,699 would start would that be a faithful dependable car? 507 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,900 Not really. I've convinced Sometimes some 508 00:34:55,900 --> 00:35:00,600 are simply too slow for too lazy to be faithful. 509 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,000 Said that an ox and a mule one-time work together. 510 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:08,700 One day, the op said he'd had enough and he wasn't going to 511 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:12,400 work. So he stayed in the barn that 512 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,400 night he said to The Mule Did the boss say anything about my 513 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,800 not working today? And the mule said no, he didn't 514 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,500 say anything about you not working. 515 00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:27,400 But I had a long talk with a butcher on the way home but you 516 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:33,400 know, God can't use lazy people. You check the Bible folks and 517 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:38,100 you'll see that the ones that God has used mightily have been 518 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:42,300 those who are busy. People who already working 519 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:46,100 Proverbs 19 and 24, says a slothful man. 520 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,000 Height of his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it 521 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,700 to his mouth again. What a picture of a man who's 522 00:35:54,700 --> 00:36:00,200 even too lazy to feed himself. I'd heard this old story ever 523 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,200 since I was a child at home about some old worthless boy in 524 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,500 the community, who was just so lazy. 525 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:10,300 That he wouldn't provide for his family, too, lazy to do 526 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:12,900 anything. Finally, some neighbors, made it 527 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:14,100 up. They just going to take him to 528 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:19,100 the cemetery and bury him. Somebody said, well don't do 529 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:22,200 that. I'll give him a bushel of corn. 530 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,500 And said he raised his head up from off, the wagon looked over 531 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:29,400 and says his it shelled. They said, well, no, you'd have 532 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,000 to Shell it. He said drive on boys. 533 00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:36,700 Well, you know, that's a picture of a lazy person and some people 534 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:39,900 are too lazy to get up on Sunday morning as you have today, and 535 00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:43,600 attend worship too. Lazy to attend midweek Services, 536 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,100 too. Lazy to attend gospel meetings, 537 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:49,400 too lazy to do anything for God and others. 538 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,100 And yet, the only ones that are going to be saved according 539 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,600 Order to Jesus are those who are good? 540 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,600 And Faithful Servants, Matthew 25, and 23. 541 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,500 His lord said unto him. Well done. 542 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,600 Good. And faithful servant thou Hast 543 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,700 been Faithful over. A few things. 544 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:10,100 I will make thee ruler over many things. 545 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,200 Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. 546 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,200 What about us are? We faithful Christians but now I 547 00:37:18,207 --> 00:37:22,000 want to notice one and then I'll be through this morning the now 548 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,200 of either calvary or condemnation. 549 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:30,300 Let's remember the awful consequence of rejecting, the 550 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:34,100 now of the Cross. And the now of gospel obedience 551 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:39,700 and that produces the now of blessed position and practice. 552 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:44,600 Abraham is speaking to the rich man in the 16th chapter of Luke, 553 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:50,700 And I know I've heard sermons on that one phrase of that 554 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:56,400 fearfully solemn passage son, remember but there are two other 555 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:01,200 words of terrible significance. In a Luke 16 and 25. 556 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:06,100 He said but Abraham said Son. Remember. 557 00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:08,500 That thou and thy lifetime, receiveth. 558 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:15,300 I good things and alas, likewise Lazarus, evil things but now he 559 00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:21,500 is comforted and thou are tormented You see, one time he'd 560 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:25,400 had it going his way. One time when he was leaving in 561 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,700 God's world, he drank God's water. 562 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,200 He breathe gods, are he enjoyed God? 563 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,800 Sunshine. He ate God's food. 564 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,700 But he serve the devil and now the situation is reversed. 565 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:46,900 Now, he says, you're tormented Lazarus, all he had was evil 566 00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:50,300 thing. Now he is comforted what a 567 00:38:50,308 --> 00:38:55,100 contrast, the rich fool thought, he had much Goods laid up for 568 00:38:55,100 --> 00:39:01,700 many years. God said thou fool this night? 569 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:06,500 Shall thy Soul be required of the he and God were running on 570 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:11,200 different timetables. So there comes one day that 571 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,900 final retribution. The tables were turned we may 572 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:19,400 have had our way and other times but now it's sins, awful 573 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,800 penalty. And the only way out is through 574 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:27,500 his provision, it's either the now of calvary or the now of 575 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:31,500 condemnation. For the condemnation is now, 576 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:36,000 even though he'll comes later, you remember what Jesus said in 577 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:41,400 John 3:18 Jesus said he that believeth on me is not condemned 578 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:46,700 but he that believeth not is condemned already because he 579 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:49,000 hath, not believed in the name of the only begotten, Son of 580 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000 God, you don't have to die to be lost. 581 00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:55,600 The person who's lost is lost all the time. 582 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,500 Whether he's home or whether he's at way, whether it's at 583 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,800 night or in the daytime, doesn't matter. 584 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,300 He's lost all the time. And the only thing that stands 585 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:11,600 between him and that awful Abyss that we read about in the Bible 586 00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:16,500 is the pulsations of his heart when that stops. 587 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:22,200 The now. Of condemnation takes hold. 588 00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:26,200 However, if the condemnation is now. 589 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,100 So, is the Deliverance? Now the Bible said is the day of 590 00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:33,900 salvation. Now, if we will believe and 591 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:39,500 Obey, as the scripture says, the work is done, He saved old 592 00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:44,800 tonight as the old gospel song says, thank God for the fact 593 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:50,500 that we can obey now and receive that promise of our Lord. 594 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,300 I don't know how you stand with God today. 595 00:40:55,900 --> 00:41:00,000 I don't know what your relationship with the Lord is, 596 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,900 but I know that every person here today knows exactly what 597 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:06,300 that is. 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