Romans 15:16 - How We Are Made Believer-Priests, Pt. 3 (11/13/2022)

Amen.

Wow that was marvelous.

I was thinking about I know just enough music to be dangerous with it but I know enough to

know that that's amazing that the two of you put that together.

And just beautiful.

Thank you beautiful.

And I agree with you we should like have that all organized where something like that happens every Sunday and

we do have an unusual amount of musical talent in a congregation this small.

I mean it's such a blessing even have a couple name the musics and so

that.

I mean think about that.

It doesn't get better than that.

It's all orchestrated isn't it.

It's so so marvelous all right.

Well thank you so much that was a blessing.

And and when you think you know I sit there and think well I can't do

that but I will be able to do that in heaven because I've already asked part of my prayer life is I've asked the Lord to let me be able to sing when

I get to heaven so hopefully I'll be able to even by then.

But and I've also I pray for Ron the same prayer too and

I've messed with you.

I appreciate you more than anybody because because you will you will do it.

And now you're a blessing.

I'm serious about that to to lead us in singing and that was a great choice today.

So we've had a great start today.

So good to see each and every one of you.

And you're right it is a great crowd today.

But we had a huge Sunday school class today.

I think Ben and Dave must be out you know soliciting during the week

come we pay you money you know whatever.

I don't know what you guys are doing but it's working.

It's great.

So all right.

Well we best get started because we never have enough time.

I noticed Dave said he ran out of time this morning.

I think that's just part of how it is when you're teaching.

There's so much you know you literally could go all day on just about any topic.

So we're in Roman chapter 15 verse 16 where it says that the Gentiles can even

offer up acceptable sacrifices.

So we kind of stopped right there and started talking about that a lot.

And we've been talking about how when you get saved God makes you to be a believer priest.

And what does that have to do with.

And we've talked about quite a few aspects of this.

But really what's funny is years ago I did a study on the believer priest and

everything that we've talked about for how many Sundays now six or seven Sundays.

All of that's just Roman numeral one and we haven't finished it yet.

We'll finish maybe what we started last Sunday morning.

All that's just like the very first part of this amazing concept that really comes to

fore when you go into the Old Testament and you look at what the priests did and what their role was and realize that is

just a picture.

It's like a a model of the real thing.

That's what we're supposed to be doing now.

The spiritual side of it that was a physical picture of the spiritual thing that we're supposed to be

involved in right now on this planet in time and space while we see what

seems to be the whole world falling apart.

Oh hey by the way let's see.

Matt could you bring me my phone.

I can't preach without a phone just like you your bibles are on the phone.

I don't even know where I put it.

It's up there somewhere.

Do you see it.

I gotta read.

I gotta read something something to you here

because to show you the environment that we live in.

In case you don't know did I get the camera in about the right place.

Ben.

Or can you tell.

Yeah that was just luck.

Okay so we just you do know we just had an election.

Correct.

If you want to if you want to call it that let's

see.

I was just looking up something.

Let me see if I can find this right quick.

Joseph Biden.

Oh it didn't.

It's not showing at all.

That's too bad.

Oh there it is.

Okay I'm looking at a particular precinct in Nevada

and Biden during the presidential election only won 53 percent

of this particular precinct.

It's called Clark County.

Remember that number.

Barely over half.

Right.

Barely over half.

Okay.

So here's what happened after the after

election day on Tuesday.

The entire week they're still counting votes in that particular state for whatever reason.

I mean like Texas was done by midnight Florida was done by midnight.

We have millions more people than they have there.

So they just take they stretch the thing out and they just leisurely in the dark corners

late at night count these things that the press called called batches

of votes that just come in from somewhere.

So here's here's what happened there now by the way this has to do with the control of the senate

all right.

So on election day in that particular state in Nevada there were

two people running Cortez Mastos was the incumbent senator and

she was running against a guy named Adam Laxalt and the AP concluded

that Mastos lead would carry.

Now this was after a whole week went by after election day.

This is like Saturday following election day on Tuesday they concluded that she will win even if

Republican Adam Laxalt made gains in rural Nevada counties that

are still counting votes so they're not even done yet.

As of yesterday they still weren't done counting all of the votes in the out.

You know where the farmers and ranchers live.

And guess what they are.

You think they're Republican or Democrat.

They're Republican.

So you wonder okay why are they taking so long counting those votes.

And why do they wait to count them after they count all the rest of these batches that come in in

between election day and Friday they wait till Saturday to finish off the outlying Republican votes.

So here's what happened.

Her victory allows the Democrats to retain control of the Senate with at least 50 seats and

Vice President Kamala Harris is the tiebreaker now.

This is true even if Herschel Walker wins in Georgia.

So even if he wins we still we still lose the Senate because of what happened here in this

county the Associated Press called the Nevada Senate race for Democrat Senator Masto.

They called it in her favor on Saturday I mean a whole practically a week after the election day

after a batch of votes from the Las Vegas area a pristine part of our

country by the way Matt and I spent the night there once after a trip in some beautiful mountainous areas

but we had to fly home from there.

We were freaked out all night in that hotel and could not wait to get on that plane.

We literally thought we were going to blow away in a sandstorm and that the devil had taken over while we were

there.

He did.

The devil chose that one day to destroy the place while we were there but we finally flew out the next morning praise

God.

Anyway so this is where we are in this particular decided the entire Senate of the United

States of America the most powerful nation in the world was decided right there in Nevada.

And the gambling mecca of the United States of America.

And you know as Baptists we don't gamble.

You know that.

Right.

Because they a lot of reasons but anyway I'm kind of saying that tongue -in -cheek

but I don't.

I don't gamble.

So I don't know if y 'all do or not but I hope you have better things to do with your money like

like give it to the school you know what I mean it's a way better gamble because you get treasures

in heaven.

All right.

So so all right.

So they called this and gave it to Masto on Saturday after a batch of votes from the

Las Vegas area gave her a 5 ,000 vote lead that the AP determined she would not

relinquish.

They hadn't counted the Republican votes from the outlying areas yet but they already called it in her favor.

Masto benefited in mail ballot counting since election day.

So these were all mail -in votes.

Where's Dave.

Dave tell everybody what they need to watch.

What's it called.

2 ,000 mules.

Jot that down.

Google it.

An interesting thing is you won't find it because they removed it from everything.

But you can get it from Dave Huber.

So we'll give out his email address and his home address.

Or you can drive there and get a copy of this.

But you need to watch it because it shows how Donald Trump lost the election that he actually

won and it and it's verifiable.

It'll blow your mind all right.

But but not that that would have happened here in Nevada.

But I'm just reading this because I found it interesting.

This is stuff I like to read.

Most of you think I read theological works.

Did that when I was 20.

No.

Okay.

So Cortez Masto benefited in mail ballot counting since election day.

You might as well say after election was over basically winning in Clark County.

Now that's the county where Biden only won.

By what percent.

Because I asked you to remember it.

Barely 50 52 points.

No I think it's a little over 53 percent.

That's like barely half right.

Okay.

Same.

This is the same county now.

Um Laxalt.

Listen to this.

Laxalt saw his lead of some 19 ,000 votes at midnight on

election day.

He went to bed a winner and guess what.

By Saturday he woke up a loser.

19 ,000 votes ahead after election night.

That lead had now dwindled to about 900 on Saturday.

He was still ahead by 900 on Saturday yesterday.

Basically before the latest counted votes were added to the tally.

So now let me run this down.

I'm going to go back to Thursday.

This won't take long.

I know you want to hear the Bible.

But this won't take long.

Because like you're salt and light in this environment it should make you somewhat

serious about what your job is as a believer priest because probably some of you need to volunteer to

be missionaries to Nevada after I hear this.

But Clark County.

Okay about 12 ,000.

This is Thursday.

12 ,000 more votes appeared and were

tallied Thursday breaking roughly bringing roughly 62

percent to only 35 percent for the Democrat 35 percent for the Republican.

Now it was 50 50 for Biden.

But no this person gets 62 percent.

And Laxalt's overall statewide lead at this point dwindled from 19 ,000 to only 8

,000.

Friday still Clark County the county tallies 27 ,000

more votes.

Well I mean how did they have all these bags of votes in this one county.

In this one Laxalt only got 33 percent of those.

Supposedly by Friday Laxalt's lead shrunk to only

800 votes ahead.

He's still ahead after all of these batches of votes come from nowhere.

Right.

So Saturday officials late Saturday you know in the

dark corners of nowhere in the middle of the night in Las Vegas the most honest

place in the world officials late Saturday released tallies from another

batch of some 23 ,000 more votes and Laxalt only got 36 percent of

those.

So now he's behind by 5 ,000 votes and they don't think the votes from the ranchers and so forth can catch that.

So he so they called it lots of dead people

voted that night.

There you have it.

So now the Democrats maintain control of the Senate now you know we're gonna

win at least the majority in the house but we're probably for the same reason in the same places

Georgia Nevada and one other place where they're still counting votes uh we need

I think it's 218 uh wins and not wins but a total to to be able to

overdo a presidential veto which would give us control of the house and

we're only seven votes from that.

But do you think we will get them since they're still counting votes since last Tuesday.

We you know so there you have it.

So that's the environment that we're living in.

Some of us that are my age or older remember a place called the former Soviet Union.

It's where Russia is now but included much bigger territory and communism and atheism took

over there during Lenin Stalin and Lenin and and um we we thought

they were going to take over the whole world.

And then Ronald Reagan got elected by a miracle of God anytime a Republican election is a miracle of God like the parting

of the Red Sea because even with the cheating we win sometimes.

And uh did you know by the way that John F. Kennedy beat Nixon by a batch of votes

suddenly appearing after midnight or sometime around midnight in Chicago and he won by those few votes.

And John F. Kennedy would not have been president ever.

It would have been Nixon who was a Republican.

Nixon was ahead uh and then he suddenly lost because a batch of votes showed up in

Chicago under I believe John Daly was his name and he was known for cheating on

on uh election.

So it's been going on for a long time.

Well anyway so so now we have it where they will

control the Senate because Kamala Harris becomes the tie -breaking vote because it's 50 to 50

and in the House we will probably not quite get to the 218 which means we cannot overcome a veto which

means the Republicans have zero control of anything except the Supreme Court which has pretty

much ended federally funded abortion.

Hallelujah isn't that great.

And President Trump made that happen.

So hallelujah we got some young ones that are coming up going to be Republicans I can tell.

So I'm not a pastor sitting here telling you whether to be Republican or Democrat.

I don't care what you are.

I just want you to vote for the person who's uh who is most nearly aligned

with scripture as far as the actions that they will do in the government.

I don't really care about how they live their life because you're not voting for a pastor all right.

You're voting for a president or whatever.

You just need to look and see how they're going to lead the government.

And the ones that more closely fit the scripture such as no killing babies.

That's a big one.

I really don't think you need to look much beyond that one.

The others don't even matter compared to that one.

So just look at that one and vote for the person that won't kill the babies.

There you have it.

So it could be a Democrat could be a Republican.

I don't care.

Um so that's the end of the I decided to start this sermon with a rabbit trail rather than inserting them all in the

middle like I usually do.

So let's pray and ask the Lord to remove the from our minds that I just inserted but it

is real it is.

David's Sunday school lesson was fantastic today.

It was on how David was running for his life with Saul trying to kill him

when God had already anointed David as king.

Well God's already anointed us as king priests.

Right.

We're already we already are kings and priests.

And we will be running this world as the king part of us for a thousand years.

It's already done.

And yet here we sit running from the enemy like David was David.

Right.

We're just running from the enemy all over the place.

And sometimes we lose our I don't know our joy because we

focus on that enemy and the fact that they're trying to kill us every day and destroy us and destroy our testimonies

and our influence in this world every day.

But guess who wins in the end.

King David won in the end which is a picture of sitting on that throne for a thousand years.

And somebody in this room some unlucky person probably Ron is going to get to run Corsicana

and Navarra County for a thousand years.

You're tired already.

Amen.

All right.

Let's pray Lord thank you so much for your word.

And we ask your Holy Spirit to teach us today so that we might be useful in your hands as

you bring these thoughts to our minds when we need them as we talk to our friends and our family and maybe even a few

democrats around us in Jesus name.

Amen.

And I say that lovingly of course.

So we've been talking about this concept of believer priest.

We came down to this idea of how do we even become believer priest.

Well God makes us to be one.

It's not something we get because we're good.

It's not something we get to do because we were great at other stuff.

It's like he just names us one.

He anoints us to be believer priest.

Now we're kings too.

But that part won't be happening until the thousand year millennial kingdom.

I'll promise you you're not going to get to run Corsicana.

Probably until that happens.

Ron.

So don't even try.

You might get gunned down.

But at that point if they try to gun you down it'll be fruitless because you'll be in your

glorified body.

You'll be immortal.

And so anyway we talked about that now we were in first Peter

chapter one starting with verse three.

In case you missed that you might want to jot that down to go back and read some of this.

But the first thing that we noticed was that we become believer priest according to his abundant

mercy.

It's about mercy.

It's not about us doing good works and earning it.

It's all about God's mercy.

And Titus 3 5 through 7 we talked about that.

It's according to his mercy by the washing regeneration and renewing of the holy spirit we get saved.

We get born again.

And along with that one of the things that he does there's over 33 things he does in an instant when he saves us.

One of them is he makes us believer priests.

But it's according to his abundant mercy.

And it talked about we're born again and all that.

I don't want to rehash everything we talked about last time so you can go back and listen to to it out there

on our website.

So first Peter chapter one verses three through nine we covered last Sunday.

Now let's do this.

Let's drop down to verse 18.

So turn with me to first Peter chapter 1 verse 18.

I want to pick it up right there.

I would love to get through this part and get into

what's actually roman numeral 2 on this study of believer priests and get into the old testament a little bit with you.

Just give you a taste of that this morning because it's really quite amazing.

All right.

Verse 18 first Peter 1 chapter 1 and verse 18 for as much then as you know that

you were not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold from your vain

lifestyle received by tradition from your fathers.

Boy could you ever stop there and talk a little bit.

You know I would start with the Roman Catholics.

They had the biggest batch of tradition from their fathers that they put on the same level as this book or

even higher than it in many places that's really bad.

But then I've got to go right down to the Bapto -Catholics and the Pento -Catholics and the

Church of Christo -Catholics and the Methodo -Catholics.

And they're all doing it.

Every great denomination goes through a cycle from God being sovereign and in control of all things to man

has to get a little more and a little more until there ends up in Arminianism where man is controlling really important stuff

in the church including changing the gospel from is not even the gospel of the bible anymore.

But no one recognizes that because they don't remember what the gospel is that has already happened in America.

It's not even the same gospel and I don't have time to talk about it would be a rabbit trail for this particular sermon.

But I sure do love that rabbit trail.

But I'm not going to talk about it today.

Unless someone pulled my arm then I would have to talk about it a little bit.

But anyway let's just put it this way.

Here's the true gospel blood of Jesus.

Plus nothing.

I'll leave it at that for this morning.

You can't add anything to it.

You didn't do it.

It's something God did to you.

Thanks for pulling that arm.

Um run.

And it's called the operation of God.

You're the patient and it's heart surgery.

And you can't do your own heart surgery.

Ever figured that out yet.

You can't do that.

Someone has to do it to you.

Someone way more skilled has to do it to you.

And it's heart surgery.

And the bible says God is the surgeon and he.

And it's called the operation of God.

It has nothing to do with you or your works or anything that you do.

Nothing.

Nothing whatsoever.

The cause of your salvation has nothing to do with you.

It's the parents that birth the babies.

And Jesus said it's like being born again.

And the baby has nothing to do with his own birth.

He just enjoys it.

That's the same way salvation works.

Right.

So there's your rabbit trail.

But but that's that's what the bible teaches the gospel is nowadays the gospel is really different.

Even in the baptist churches.

Now you got to do two things.

Not.

It's not enough for the holy spirit.

It's not enough for this.

Why we're reacting our sins had he quickened us.

I mean brought us to life.

Boom.

It's done.

That's the cause of salvation.

Oh but after that there's a lot of things that happen.

They're called effects things that you do because you are now saved.

And the churches want to grab two or three of those things and put them in front say well you got to do that to get saved.

That's not the gospel.

And that's what I meant by saying the gospel is not the same anymore.

Oh what do I got to do to get saved.

There's nothing you can do.

But every church tells you you got to do something.

Anybody ever been to one that didn't can you name it for me.

Any church that didn't tell you.

Here's what you got to do to get saved.

Well if you got to do it you didn't get saved that way.

Now I got to be quick.

Yeah.

Is that what you're trying to remind me.

Oh yeah.

Thanks.

That's true.

This church does not say that.

But I got to be quick to say this because I messed up once.

And the first time I ever thought of this and preached it.

Oh it cost me some heartache.

And one of our members who thought they weren't saved anymore.

But uh if you went down to the aisle and the preacher said here's what you got to do to get saved.

You hear the gotta see that's a work.

We're not saved by works of righteousness.

Uh which we have done.

But by his mercy he saved us.

That's Titus 3 -5.

Right.

But he says you gotta pray this little prayer dear Jesus come to heart and save me.

Amen.

And you got to repent from your sins and you got to believe in Jesus.

Shake my hand.

You're now saved.

That is not the gospel.

Well I said I taught that one Sunday and one of our members quit coming.

And I asked him why.

And he said well that's what I did.

So I guess I'm not saved.

And I said wait a minute.

I messed that up or said okay you are saved.

I proclaim you saved.

You're saved.

Because I knew the man he man was saved.

No doubt in my mind he was saved.

But I had talked him out of it for about a week.

No about two or three days I guess.

And so here's the deal.

I said I apologize to you for saying it that way.

Here's what I will always say in the future if you come down the aisle and the preacher tells you stuff you got to do to get saved.

And you do the stuff.

It doesn't save you.

But neither does it unsave you.

Because by the time you left that pew to come down to talk to the preacher you were already saved because the bible

says whosoever desires to call upon the name of lord shall be saved once your heart desire changed out there.

You were already saved because the holy spirit did that to you.

It's not something you can even do.

You were lost five seconds before that and the whole week before that you didn't want to be a christian.

You're out there god of your own life.

And all of a sudden something happens.

You might have been in the pew.

I was in my car driving to work when it happened to me.

Who knows where you are.

And all of a sudden just something happens and you look up and you say wow I think you could run my life better than me.

Here's my life.

And you don't even know why you did it.

Well that's called being called right.

You're called by the holy spirit and that's how salvation works.

Why we were yet in our sin had he called us.

That's the cause of salvation.

Then all this other stuff is stuff that happens because we are saved.

And churches want to move that in front and say but you got to do that to get saved.

You see how.

It's not the gospel.

Okay rest my case on that.

So uh it's not the gospel anymore because you're putting effects in front of the cause and saying you got to do

it now.

You're no better than the roman catholic church.

You have got tradition the church tradition of what your church says you got to do whatever

it is.

Your pentecostal grew up.

They had even more like you had to have short hair.

Women had to wear dresses.

Men could wear shorts though women had to have really long hair.

And their dress had to be up to here like this.

I'm getting older.

I need to wear clothes like this because this thing my grandbabies like to grab this and play with it so

loose now.

So I'm going start lifting weights and build these muscles out like this.

You watch matt.

Where's matt.

You're going to help me.

Right.

And ben when you get moved out there we're going to we're going to do a operation of god on this right here.

Or I could just get it clipped and do this.

See.

But you know what.

You know what.

The problem you know the problem with that is because when you do that right it takes your mouth and does this.

So then you got a really wide mouth.

I don't know.

Rapture lord jesus come quickly.

I don't like getting old.

Baby boomers don't like getting old.

We don't get old.

Do we just don't get old.

We just look old.

Oh well whatever all right.

I was playing with parker the other day on the floor.

Where's parker.

He'll remember we were down there playing the little gi joes and I was telling him about the good ones.

You know you guys know about the good ones that were this big when they came out and he looked at me

and said papa I can see part of your head through your hair.

And I said I said well parker you know when you get over your hair gets a little thinner.

And he says papa I can see your whole head through your head.

I swear.

And I said parker you can play by yourself.

And I went and found me jimma or somebody after that

who has never mentioned my hair.

Maddie's never.

Abby's never sam never.

You see.

Yeah that's how you figure out who gets the inheritance.

Sorry ben all right.

So look at this first peter 118.

I knew there was some bible in the sermon somewhere for for as much as you know that you were

not redeemed bought by paying a price.

What is it that bought you something.

Plus nothing.

What was it.

The blood of jesus.

Plus nothing you were redeemed with not redeemed by corruptible things such as

silver and gold and stuff from the vain traditions of whatever church group

you grew up in and they all have them.

None of that saved you.

None of that was the cause of your salvation.

Doesn't the bible say that.

Look at verse 19.

But that that means okay.

So how do you get saved.

But with thee.

Not.

You know the word thee means like this is the only thee this precious blood

of christ as a lamb of god without blemish and without spot.

That is the only thing that can save us now.

That blood was shed but it had to be applied to us individually.

The passover in the old testament is a great example that they had to take the hyssop weed and dip it in the blood of the sacrificial

lamb which pictured jesus coming in the future.

And they had to shake it on the doorpost and the death angel passed them by and they it saved

their children and their family.

But they had to apply that blood.

And that hyssop weed is a picture of faith but it's also a picture of the holy ghost

because it is the holy spirit when he calls you while we were yet in our sins hath he

quickened us.

That means brought us to life.

What he did was he became the hyssop weed in a sense because he applied that blood to you

individually.

And every one of us got saved at a different moment in time in a different place and in a different way with regard to what we were

thinking was saving us which is the prayer that we prayed.

We thought that's what saved us.

And yet that very prayer was a response it was an effect of the fact that the holy spirit had already saved

us and made us want to be that way.

Because two seconds before that we didn't want to be that way.

Well anyway it's miraculous isn't it.

And so he calls us he he places this blood and

sprinkles it on our soul at a moment in time which we call our spiritual birthday.

And at that moment we are born again because of the work that the holy spirit did on us and did over 33

things.

He gave us the faith of jesus not our faith.

Jesus's faith was given to us as a gift.

He gave us his himself he placed himself the holy spirit in us and sealed us in there until the day of redemption.

He gave us the very righteousness and purity and perfection of jesus and imputed that to us if it

were as if it were ours and gave our sins to him while he was on the cross because god father can

transcend time and he and he died with our sins on him and we live with his righteousness in us.

All of this was done and i don't know about what 28 other things.

And that's the work of god in our life and part of it was he made us to be a believer priest

while this was happening.

So we were saved not by the tradition of the church but with the precious blood of jesus as a lamb without

blemish and without spot.

Who barely truly was foreordained.

Brother david you believe in foreordination.

Yeah kind of because it's in the bible hundreds of times jesus was foreordained before the

foundation of the world.

So jesus was slain in the father's mind before he created anything.

Yes amen.

Can't get the adults to do it but them babies will do it.

Yeah i got it man.

I'm gonna sick him brother preacher.

Who.

Really.

Who barely was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these

last times.

For you.

Don't you think it's pretty cool that paul and the apostle peter both called their

lifetime to be part of the end times.

So if they're part of the end times how much closer are we to the second coming.

Yeah.

Because there's a lot of stuff that's happened that hadn't happened yet.

When they said that such as israel uh was destroyed after they said that and then

put back together again in 19.

Whatever it was 40.

When was it night.

No 19.

Uh when was it 1943 or something like that.

No it was after world war ii.

So 48 48.

Thanks.

Yeah.

So wow.

Now that had happened yet.

And uh you'd you'd never seen uh president biden offer a pig.

I'm sorry it's probably not him.

Boy i could say something really funny but i am not going to say that.

I'm not going to mention who the pig could be.

But anyway that he offers on the altar which is going to be a sign.

It hasn't happened yet but it could happen soon.

Um i ain't being bad today.

Who barely was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times.

For you jesus was the greek word for manifest is interesting because it means

it comes before our senses so like it's a spiritual thing that you can't see smell taste or feel

that is made to be physical where you can see smell taste and feel it.

And jesus was manifested.

The bible says that jesus was all of the fullness of the godhead in a body

so physical so we could see.

The bible says he was god with us because we can't that you can't even fathom what the father is.

You say well he's a spirit.

A lot of people picture him as an old man on the throne.

The father is not shaped like a man and he's not on a throat.

He's a pure spirit being which is indivisible.

If you could picture we don't know what spirit is but if you could picture it as particles lots of particles of something

each particle would be fully god.

Now think about that.

He's because he's indivisible.

So you you've never seen the father.

You never will see the father.

The only one who has ever seen the father is jesus.

So he's the only one who can tell us about the father.

And i got upset about that one time and told brother otis it bothers me.

I'll never see the father.

He said brother david you'll see the father someday through the eyes of jesus.

Think about that.

That's profound because i'm in christ.

Right.

Jesus can see him.

So i can see him anyway.

That's the sunday school teacher dave and ben that you guys have to follow along with brother bill

the physics professor.

But you can do it.

And you are doing it very well.

I might say because you guys had a teacher they didn't have me

and kate and ashton.

Right.

And charlotte.

But anyway so who barely was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in

these last times for you.

Who who is the you.

You always have to ask that who is the you.

Is it every person that ever lived in the world.

Because the because the modern gospel says jesus died for everybody.

The bible doesn't say that.

It says he died for the elect which means he died for the sheep not the goats.

Now we don't know who the sheep and the goats are sometimes sometimes we do know seemingly but sometimes we don't know.

But he always knows.

And he said of those sheep i will lose nothing now.

Maddie normally agrees with my sermons but today she she disagrees.

I'll go visit her this week.

She'll probably come back like a year ago that would have freaked her out if

i said that.

But now she's grown.

Who.

Okay catch this.

Look at verse 21.

There's so many little subtle things in this passage that the church at large today knows nothing about.

And i listen charlotte i were talking about this on the way we're not the only true believers in the world.

Seems like it sometimes like when you look at what churches that we know of in this town teach.

But god's got little pockets of people that believe right all around the world.

I run into them from time to time.

It always surprises me.

Does it.

You like when you run into somebody that actually gets it.

But there are thousands and hundreds of thousands of them probably around somewhere in the world.

Different places could be a whole batch of small groups like this one.

See they have batches of boats that come in after election day.

We have hidden batches of christians that are born again soldiers believer priests all over the

place.

But sometimes it feels like you're on that hill by yourself.

And there's no reinforcements.

But uh boy when those reinforcements show up as in that how many

angels are around us right now that we can't see.

I wonder.

But look at this who barely was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these

last times for you.

Who.

Now who's talking about the one that was manifest.

Who's that jesus.

That's god with us.

Right.

He was manifest for us who by him do believe in god.

Now what does that mean.

Now the modern gospel says you come down to this aisle and that preacher or someone in church is going to teach

you a prayer formula to pray.

And you're going to pray it.

And that's going to make you be a christian.

How come people like that who can answer that question.

Why do people like that.

Well go ahead.

You want to have control over who gets saved and who doesn't.

Right.

Especially moms.

Think about it.

Moms you got some of you more than one kid.

Don't you want to control that they all get saved.

Be honest with me.

Okay.

So here's what you would have to do it.

If you could you'd have to be perfect.

And you know what they might look at your hair someday and say you know what i can see your head through that hair.

And they're going to know you're not perfect.

And so if it was up to you they might not all get saved.

Might not none of them get saved.

Right.

Bad grammar.

Good preaching.

I have to say that because we got teachers in the room front row.

So so anyway wouldn't it be better if a loving

all -knowing pure love spirit being was in control of

saving your kids.

Who will never let them down.

Who will always be there for them.

Who will hear every prayer they preach.

Even be a prayer they preach.

That's not like a preacher every prayer they pray even before they get saved.

You know that salvation moment.

Even before that he hears every prayer that they pray.

Wouldn't that be better.

Let's see.

That's how it really is.

And humans don't like it because of what you said.

Because humans want to be in control of everything including god.

But we're not so it's by him that we believe.

You can't believe on your own.

The world tells you that part of the formula for getting saved is you've got to believe.

What do i got to do to get saved.

You got to believe.

Even the baptists say that do they not.

And some of them add repent.

Don't they.

How many of you went to a baptist church says you got to believe and repent.

Raise your hand.

I did.

Yeah.

So there's two things you have to do.

So those are works that you have to do to get saved.

And so now if that's true you could lose your salvation.

Because you might stop repenting.

You might go back to some of that stuff you you gave up right.

Am i right or not.

Like you live in a body of flesh.

You think you might could like do one of them again.

No don't get ahead of this sermon dave you know stuff you're not supposed to know.

I'm saying if you did it and you didn't know that stuff and you had you thought you got saved

by believing you're terrible.

He's like he's the choir right.

So all you're supposed to do say amen.

Okay all right.

So so like you didn't know that stuff and and you were he ruined this whole thing all right.

So hey don't laugh dave when we're on the back row he does that to y 'all while you're teaching too.

And so do i by the way anyway so like you don't know that stuff so i told i'm the preacher so

i told you got to believe and repent to get saved.

And you did it.

You came down dear lord i am so sorry for all that smoking and drinking that i used to do as dave hubert and i'm

sorry and womanizing i talked to her sometimes i know about that.

No i'm totally making this up totally making this up and he and he comes down and he prays that

prayer and i go shake my hand.

You're a christian right.

Isn't that how it works.

So what happens if not on some of that stuff.

But like you pick up the smoking again you never smoked all right.

Good example.

Then i wouldn't hate to pick someone that that's a problem for but so like he picks that up again isn't it true that if that's what

saved him that he just lost it.

Well that's why so many of your friends tell you that they you can't have eternal security because their

salvation was was based on stuff they did.

I don't care if it's just two little things believe and repent.

So what if you didn't.

What if our church didn't have to repent for you just got to believe.

Which first baptism.

Hey where i grew up that's all they had.

Was that one.

Okay.

So all of a sudden some loved one in your family gets really ill like we've had some really serious prayer

requests this year.

Haven't we still do today.

And someone gets deathly ill that you love so much with all of your heart.

I lost my mom this year.

Okay.

And you prayed lord raise them up.

I believe you'll save them and raise them up and give us more years together.

And then three weeks later they go to heaven.

And all of a sudden your faith is here.

Where is it now.

God didn't answer it because you think only a yes is an answer.

And your faith is way down here.

Well it can get so low that you'd lose your salvation if you had to believe to be saved.

Think about it.

I'm telling the truth.

I know i'm preaching too.

But some of it's the truth right.

Isn't that the truth.

So isn't it nice that your salvation.

It doesn't work that way.

Look at verse 21 again.

Who by him you believe in god.

So apparently it was the holy spirit who opened your eyes one day

wherever you were when it happened opened your ears where you could hear the gospel message.

You could see jesus is the messiah.

He is the shepherd.

And i'm a sheep and i'm hungry.

You've heard me say a million times that he's got the food and he became irresistible to you.

And and yes you were saved.

And after you were saved then you believed.

You know why.

Because part of what he gave you as a gift was jesus's faith.

And it doesn't depend on that prayer being answered yes or no.

Because i happen to remember one jesus prayed to god answered no lord would you take this cup for me.

So i don't have to die on the cross for them if you could.

If you could save them without me doing that would you.

And what did the father say.

No.

And what did jesus say.

Nevertheless thy will be done.

Right.

He had a faith that could not be crushed.

Ladies and gentlemen and you have that faith in you.

And that's what saves you.

So when your faith dwindles bring it back up to that tuning fork of jesus's and set it right

next to it.

And it'll begin to resonate at the same frequency again.

And you'll be fine.

But you don't lose your salvation because it's not based on your human belief.

It's based on perfect faith.

And so god by him you believed in the first place.

And by him you keep believing every day till you meet him.

Isn't that wonderful to know all right by him.

Do believe in god that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory.

That your faith and hope might be in god.

See first thing you got his faith and by him you

then believe because you had his faith.

Do you see this.

You see it right.

It's right here i hope you look at the bible when i'm talking.

So you know it's not me making this stuff up because it sounds like i am.

Because it sounds too good to be true.

But it's not dave.

It's true even it sounds too good to be true.

So here's his faith.

It saves you.

And then look down here at the end of verse 21.

Now your faith is in god.

It's like resonates at the same frequency.

But it's not the faith that saved you.

It's just the faith that you now have.

But you here's another cool thing once he gives you jesus's faith wouldn't you agree that if someone gives you a

gift that once you take the gift and have it it's now yours.

So that faith is yours too.

So now you've got you've got salvation.

The bible way that your faith and hope might be in god.

Now watch this.

Look at verse 22 seeing you have purified your souls in

obeying the truth.

Now the root word for the word obey in english in the greek it's pistis which means believe.

It doesn't mean obey.

It means to believe.

And it's translated obey in english because it means you believe.

It means you obey the gospel.

Well how can you obey the gospel.

Which is all a gift of faith which is not about doing it's about believing.

How do you obey the gospel.

The way you obey the gospel is you lay aside the roman catholic traditions.

You lay aside the bapto -catholic traditions.

You lay aside the pento -batholics catholic i can't even say it.

And the methodo.

That's easy methodo -catholics.

And you got my point.

You lay all the traditions the vain traditions of your father aside.

And you say okay none of that stuff saves me lord.

If you've shown me jesus i'm just so happy because you placed a desire in my heart for him.

Whosoever desires call upon the name of the lord is saved shall be saved and is

saved.

And so now i'm saved.

And now my faith and hope kicks in gear.

I can do some good works now i can repent now i can believe now i can do

good works.

I can get baptized in water.

I can do all these things.

And they're all effects of the fact that i'm already saved now.

So that your faith and hope might be in god.

Seeing that you purified your souls by obeying the gospel.

So what does that mean.

It means you lay aside what the world says saves you all the works and systems and the religiosity.

You lay that aside and you just sit at the feet of jesus and thank him.

That's faith.

You just look at the lamb of god who is perfect and gave his blood to totally pay your sin debt

in full.

Which means god the father now sees you as if you've never sinned and never will sin.

And there is no sin on you.

Whatsoever has been removed as far as the east from the west.

The bible says where does the east and west ever meet again.

Never.

It's gone.

So um think about that.

So your soul is purified because of that.

So obeying the truth is the same thing as just having the faith of christ.

Now think about this though in the context of verse 22 what

it's literally saying when it says that you obeyed the truth.

The word truth is a reference to the physical written word of

god.

This is the truth.

You obeyed it when you got saved.

Because when the holy spirit called you he showed you that jesus paid your sin debt

and he died for you and he rose again.

And he's just called you to himself.

And you said yes because you're the bride.

And he finally wooed you the place where you said yes.

And a marriage takes place.

Your soul is saved.

You become one with christ.

He is the groom you're the bride.

And all of that's pictured in the bible now.

So here obeying the truth is a reference to the gospel that's found in this book.

And the interesting thing about this book is that god is the author of it.

But men are the penman.

And god even though he could have he didn't choose to just give the bible written by his own hand.

He actually worked together with his children to bring this to be in the world.

And he said it's perfect and he said he preserves it to the last generation.

So it's physical and we have it and you can't get saved without it.

It's impossible for a human to be saved without the word of god.

All right.

So this is referenced as the truth here.

So that's the word of god seeing that you have purified your souls and obeying the bible the word of

god.

But look how you do it.

What does the next phrase say through the spirit who is that.

That's the holy spirit the who called you and said you remember that stuff your grandma told you from

the book called the bible about jesus died for your sin.

It's true.

So you have the bible which is sometimes called the truth.

Sometimes it's called the water because in ephesians it calls it the water of the word.

And then you have the spirit.

It takes those two ingredients for anybody to be saved.

And the only human part of it is that god used humans to get the written word to you.

And he chooses to use that.

And sometimes has to send human missionaries where you don't have this book to tell it to you or a radio

show or tv or a podcast nowadays.

So you hear the gospel the truth.

And then the holy spirit uses that information and brings it into your mind and opens your eyes enlightens it so that

you believe it.

And he does that at the moment that he saved you.

So you have those two ingredients again and again jesus christ mentioned them.

It's again and again seeing that you purified your souls and obeying the truth the word of god through

the spirit unto unfamed love of the brethren.

There's an effect that takes place.

One of the first things that happens and one of the greatest symptoms that a person's been saved is all of a sudden he loves other christians.

He wants to go to church whereas his whole life he never wanted to go because it was so boring

you know.

And they don't always sing rock music there most modern churches they do.

But sometimes we have actual music like we had this morning thanks to you.

Right.

Actual real music with melody lines

another great rabbit trail.

But anyway so the word and the holy spirit.

And then it brings the first effect is love.

Love in your heart for other people especially the brothers and sisters which was not there two seconds before you got saved.

And it's unfamed like you're not faking it.

Now if you have a tear that comes into church and sits with us they fake it.

They know they hear your words and they'll start using them and you'll think they're saved.

And and yet the thing that's the hardest for them to hide is a lack of love.

Genuine unfamed not fake love.

So you know if you could see how they live in their home it would help because up here they're perfect.

Tears are great up here at church.

Even wheat can be great at church and not as great at home.

But we need to work on that.

Don't we in the home of all places we should have kindness gentleness tenderheartedness.

And our words should only be spoken in grace that it uplifts the person that we live with our people.

It should never tear them down when it does that's the devil in us.

So don't do it right.

So here here we have it.

The first symptom of salvation is love of the brethren.

See that you love one another with a pure heart fervently.

Now look at this being already born again.

So it's not the loving that saved you.

It's not like being good and loving people.

So therefore god saved me.

No you're already born again.

And seeing that you're born again you should be loving people not of corruptible seed like the

tradition of your but incorruptible seed now that again is a reference to the

word of god which is the seed and the holy spirit is the spirit.

And it takes both not of corruptible seed but incorruptible by the word of god there it

names it which lives and abides forever for all fleshes as grass and all the

glory of man is like a flower of grass.

The grass withers and the flower thereof falleth away.

But the word of the lord endureth forever.

And this is the word which by the gospel is preached to you.

So you got to have the bible especially the gospel message in the bible that is the blood of jesus plus nothing.

And then you have to have the holy spirit.

And then chapter two verse one starts wherefore laying aside all malice.

And that's kind of where we started with showing what the duties of the believer priest are.

So how did you get to become one.

Well the prior chapter that we just finished shows you how it's because god

himself drew you to jesus and jesus said no man comes to me unless the father draws him

and he says of them i will lose nothing.

That's eternal security if i've ever heard it anywhere.

But there's thousands of other places that it teaches it in the bible.

And now you have that salvation and you have just become a believer

priest now.

Um i finished that little section on believer priest.

And next time we're going to pick up uh roman numeral 2.

That was all of that for the last six weeks roman year one.

And that talks about offering sacrifices such as praise unto god that's hebrews 13 15

such as giving things to help other people that need it like money or whatever.

And that would be hebrews 13 16 such as giving your body as a living sacrifice.

That would be romans 12 1.

So we covered all these different sacrifices that we can offer that god accepts.

And next week lord willing we're going to pick up on a topic called keeping the

charge of the tabernacle.

And you might want to go out and read sometime somewhere around numbers 18.

And i know you won't do it because you won't have time.

But that's where we'll be.

Numbers in the old testament chapter 18 it starts to show you the duties of the old testament

priests and i'm going to show you what god means by that stuff.

It's a physical model of spiritual stuff you're supposed to be doing because you're a believer priest and it's amazing to see.

But before i let you go oh man that went a little over time.

Y 'all were a little too spunky.

I didn't lose you very early today.

So i got a little more for you here but not much.

I just want to show you just a couple of other verses to nail home this idea of the

word and the spirit is what saves us the water of the word or the truth of the

word and the holy spirit those two ingredients.

Now in first i just got a few verses.

You don't even look.

Just listen first john 5 7 and 8.

Now this is pretty interesting to me because there's an ongoing debate about whether the

trinity is even true or not.

God is one god who subsists as three distinct persons.

Is that true or is that not true.

And many people are trying to say nowadays that it's not true.

And the roman catholics invented it that is not true.

I can show you church fathers who talked about it a hundred years before constantine and he's the one who started the roman

catholic church by giving them government money a hundred years before he even lived.

The early church fathers were talking about the triune nature of god in their writings.

We have that but ignorant people and when i say that i mean people haven't had an opportunity to read that stuff.

They haven't looked at church history can easily be deceived by these judaizers.

They're usually part jew.

They're trying to teach you.

You got to worship on saturday and all this stuff.

And they bring legalism back.

And so they don't believe the trinity often.

So i've got a dear friend right now just sent me a text that wanted me to read a book by a guy and went checked out the guy and he's a

guy that believes the oneness doctrine.

Well that united pentecostal i don't know if you guys even know this you might not even know you were in it and you might not

have known it.

But united pentecostal believes what they call the doctrine of oneness.

I call them jesus only people because i've run into them in dairy queens and place and had arguments with them.

When i was younger i used to do that.

And they believe that all of god came into jesus.

And there's just jesus now.

And he's god.

There is no father and holy spirit.

It's just jesus.

And that's called the jesus only or the oneness.

All united pentecostals are taught that by their seminaries and by their pastors.

So actually that was one of the first heresies 2 000 years ago.

In the first 100 years of the church there was a heresy by a group called the gnostics who

didn't believe in the trinity.

And they they proved them wrong.

They out argued them and they they showed everybody.

No here it is in the bible.

You got to believe because the bible says it.

The trinity is in there.

And you don't hear about gnostics much anymore.

But guess who picked it up in modern times and believe just like the gnostics.

You ever heard of the jehovah's witnesses.

It's it's gnostic.

Um doctrine.

They believe.

You ever heard of the mormons.

You ever heard of the oneness.

People over at the pentecostal see you don't know.

They believe that.

But they do.

And and i'm not picking on them.

Goodness.

We need to talk to them.

We need to give them proof of the reason.

We don't believe that way.

Do we know that proof stuff.

Well let me give you the best one.

Look here at first john 5 7.

Just now here's what's interesting.

The modern versions.

Almost all of them new american standard niv.

They don't even have this verse in the bible.

They removed it.

You know why.

Because all of those come from westcott and hort which were two roman catholics scholars

who rewrote the bible and gave us all of our modern versions.

And they got it from only two versions.

There's five.

Oh there's probably seven thousand.

Now when i studied this there were around five thousand manuscripts or partial manuscripts of the new

testament.

They didn't use all those.

They just used two.

One of them was found in a wastebasket in sinai peninsula in an old monastery.

And the other was in the vatican library which is a roman catholic document.

That's where the new american standard uh the niv all of these that everybody uses in every church

even the southern baptist churches all around us use those rather than the king james which comes from all 5 000

of the manuscripts majority text.

Anyway it's a whole thing.

Well this verse is not even in those bibles.

And here it is.

First john 5 7.

Why would you think this would be removed.

For there are three that bear record in heaven.

The father the word.

Who can tell me who the word is.

That's jesus.

Because john chapter 1 verse 1 says in the beginning was the word.

The word was with god and the word was god.

And it goes on talks about.

And he was manifest in the world.

It's jesus.

Right.

So you got the father the word and the holy ghost.

And these three are what one.

They're one god but three distinct persons.

There's your trinity.

That verse has been removed from almost every modern version of the bible except the king james version.

Did you know that people say why you pick on those other versions.

Because i don't like the fact that they removed the trinity.

They couldn't remove it because they forgot to take the one out in genesis where god's name is elohim and he said

let us make man in our image.

What does that mean.

It means there's an us there before anything else existed.

But anyway it's pure ignorance.

But it's the next verse i want to talk about before lunch.

It's verse eight.

Look at it.

And not only do you have those three three distinct persons but one god.

Right.

Not only have those three.

There are three that bear witness on the earth.

Now look what he names the spirit the water and the blood.

And these three agree in one.

The word agree is not in the previous verse because it means they're one.

This one says they agree in one.

Now some scholars try to say where it says the trinity is one.

It just means oh they just agree.

It doesn't really mean they're one.

Well it says they're one.

And the next verse says they agree in one.

Why is that difference there.

I i don't know i get tired of these people messing with the bible.

But look at that you have the spirit which is obviously the holy spirit.

And you have the water.

Now if you go into ephesians 5 26 it says that he might sanctify and cleanse the church with the washing of the water

by the word.

So the water is a picture of the bible.

And then you have the blood and that's what has to be applied.

So it's really only two things.

The mechanism to save you is the water which is the bible and the spirit.

And they apply the blood to you all.

Right.

Now in jude chapter 3 it says i beloved when i gave

all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation.

So it's talking about the new testament concept of how people are saved which is the new testament.

It was needful for me to write to you and exhort that you should earnestly contend for the faith which means

the christian faith in its purest form in the first century before you had two thousand years of people

trying to corrupt it.

Right.

The faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

And if you look at that in the greek it means it was already delivered by the time that was written.

It had already been fully delivered once and for all which means the new testament.

So it's not like god still adds to it like so many people believe.

Oh well i saw a vision today god told me to tell you this.

Well you just added to the word of god.

If that's true none of that's really true or real anymore.

Hebrews chapter one verse one proves that many other places.

And so does jude three.

Right here and then in john 4 chapter 10

jesus answered and said unto her if thou knewest the gift of god and who it is that says to you

give me to drink.

Thou wouldst have asked him and he would have given you living water.

That's jesus talking to the woman at the well leading her to the lord.

And he's talking about giving her water.

What kind of water did he give her his word all.

Right.

Jesus answered said to her whosoever drinketh of the water shall thirst again talking about the real

water in the well the physical water.

But whosoever drinks of this water that i will give him shall never thirst again.

But the water that i will give him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life.

That's what the bible does once you see it once open your eyes are open and you see it and you can understand it.

But the hour comes and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father.

Look at this in spirit and in truth that's the bible.

So you have the spirit and you got the bible.

So not only does it take those two ingredients to be saved it takes those two to worship and it takes those two to grow.

For the father seeketh such to worship him.

God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit.

And in truth it's not enough to feel all good and have a bunch of jumping up and down like bunnies because rock music is

played and and we're just into the spirit and all that you also have to have the truth which is this.

And this is what is lacking in a lot of those kinds of churches.

They don't dig down into this.

They don't have time.

They just spent 45 minutes listening to their rock music.

They got like 10 minutes for a little devotionette.

So they got a lot of spirit and a word.

Now people like us sometimes we got a lot of word and we don't have enough spirit like i'll hear

charlotte back there.

That's right.

And i hear some of the kids going back on the back too.

I don't hear a lot of amen and going on and there should be.

I mean like not.

Not just because i want to hear it but like if if i if i hit a tune or something that rings in your heart

because you've seen it studied it before you are allowed to say that's right if you want to

but if you do it too much it'll irritate even me.

So you know what i'm saying there's a balance.

There's a balance like i don't want i've seen them i'm running down.

I'll jump up here and get right in the preacher preach it preach it because they're so excited don't do this.

Okay.

But anyway so spirit and worship in spirit

and in truth.

And the woman said to jesus i know that the messiah comes which is called to christ and when he has come

he will tell us all things.

And jesus looked at her and said he that speaketh unto thee is he wow giving

goosebumps.

Here's the go to lunch.

Revelation 22 17.

And the spirit and the bride say come that's the holy spirit calling people to

get saved.

And the church which is us witnessing the people giving them the book this gospel that's all we can do is

give them the book part the truth part the water.

But the spirit is with us.

You see the spirit's inviting them and the church is giving them the water.

That's our job.

And let him that here here it's a come and let him.

That is a thirst.

Well what.

How does he get thirsty for this book.

The holy spirit has to call him.

He makes you thirsty because you weren't thirsty yesterday.

You weren't reading any of it because it was boring.

And now all of a sudden you want to get in there and see what it says because you've just been saved.

Right.

And let him that here it's a come and him that is a thirst come.

And whosoever will there's your free will.

But it's not free.

It's influenced.

And who influenced it.

The holy spirit.

And if you're lost who influences your will every minute of every day.

The bible says satan does at his will he moves you at his will.

So it's not your will but your choices are important.

And so here we see that whosoever will choose to do so whosoever will choose to love the lord

let him take the water of life freely.

If you will then you do it.

Well you will when the holy spirit makes you to will.

And then when you do you can't lose that because it was from god.

Wow.

That was a long one today.

But uh that's what you get for being lively.

Let's stand and rejuvenate our liveliness.

I know i killed it no doubt in my mind.

I know i went i was even tired up here.

So let's pray lord thank you so much for your word.

We just ask you to put it deep in our heart.

So it's there when we need it.

When you need it in our lives you need us to use it as salt and light.

And so lord help us to be light in this really dark generation that we live in.

In america we're surrounded by people who don't know much about anything even worldly

things.

They don't know much.

And they certainly don't know much about the gospel.

So help us to be your servants to be believer priest to hold your hand and hold their hand.

And bring them to you.

And lord we just ask you to go with us into our time of fellowship.

Now bless the meal.

We're about to have in jesus name amen.

You are dismissed.

Finally.