Warnock and Chad Stendal - 10-21-95 (Has a Few Missing Parts) — George Warnock

Christ’s Victory Over Death and Hell

We seem like the account of faithful in this hour of great evil and great darkness. Come forth in the day of your light. Shining with your glory your presence. So hit away in the cloud of your presence that man will see Jesus.

I think my remarks this morning are Possibly going to be fairly brief. Maybe I'll have something more to say this afternoon. With Yes, but as a victim he didn't go there to suffer. He got a whole great big denomination now.

Several of them as a matter of fact the teeth that Christ went to hell and that. Maybe you picked it up on the TV. You know, it was not long ago. Here's this guy and all the demons of hell are stomping on poor little Jesus, you know, and then God with a word of faith Resurrect now you gotta give him rest resurrected if he said spiritually faith and.

So they visualize The resurrected Christ. God does this head his shoulders and so on first thing, you know, they got him. Can you imagine such nonsense? And What does the scripture say? It is finished At the cross not to be continued later down in hell.

See that's not God's plan. He's not going to continue it later down in hell. Christ doesn't go to hell to suffer. He goes as a victory takes captivity captive. He is the great Conqueror and you got it all in that psalm there.

You see and he opens these gates and so on and takes the part that pertain to him the bosom of Abraham. With all the Old Testament Saints, then he runs them right up to heaven and the book of Revelation.

You find him up there and they're saying hey, how long we got to stay here? And he says well just be patient until the last of the martyrs mind you. Is that it to your company? They gave him white robes?

Okay. Well, there's a lot of symbolism in there. But anyhow Christ took captivity captive, you see he didn't go down there to suffer. He goes down there as a victor okay, and so I just want to read this verse one more time because and if I get a little emotional It's because of the tremendous deception that this has been Perpetrated on the church and only in a very recent time.

Grace, Repentance, and the Struggle to Enter God’s Rest

This type of thing that cried that Christ died for us Spiritually or that God and Christ were separated from one another was unknown in the church till 1980. I can tell you exactly who brought it in how it was brought in and easy believism came in with the same time together with dispensationalism which allowed the Dispensationalist to put all the total commitment verses of the Gospels into a different Dispensation and then we can sit here with only believe the fact and you say no repentance no lordship a wrong use of grace now I wanted to emphasize that the true view of grace and the true rest that pertains to the people of God and There's this easy believism comes in there and says relax.

It's all of grace. All your sins are covered and They're trying to tell you to relax when you're still in known sin. See. What a delusion. What a complete there is a rest pertaining to the people of God, but that's a rest in victory.

You see and so the kingdom of God is taken by force by violence. Here's the struggle to enter into that rest. What a contradiction, huh? No. Our example is Jacob wrestling with the angel. See. Until the daybreak.

I will not let you go until you bless me and then his body is smitten, but he's a prince with God. You see that that's our path. And so That's the same pattern here then for all of us and that's why we have to struggle to enter into the rest.

The rest comes when everything that we know about is on the altar. You see now we can rest and say Oh brother Chad you're teaching fear and all this brother. You better be fearful. If you are not in perfect love because what casts out fear.

Perfect love casts out fear and if you haven't gotten to perfect love you better well be fearful if you haven't gotten everything on the altar, you're gonna have to struggle because the flesh doesn't like to die and so consequently There's a struggle there.

Can you get everything up on the altar? Then there's rest in victory this time not rest in sin, but rest in victory. You see that his finished work there is now he's in the yoke with you. That's why it's easy.

Just have to get that off my chest because it was bothering me for some time and. So anyhow, I think we should look at the blood. In Leviticus and then another verse or two and we're done in Leviticus 1711 for the life of the flesh.

The Blood, the Flesh, and Salvation from Sin

Leviticus 1711 for the life of the flesh now the flesh is the problem. That's why Christ has to come in the flesh. So we can control the flesh so Satan and the whole world and all the rest of us he can control the flesh he's the only one that can and Then as representative man the last Adam he gets that flesh over onto the cross and gets it crucified as representative man to break the power of the flesh and The sin and the devil over all mankind see that that's God's main purpose so that he can have fellowship with man.

Okay, so I want to understand the life of the flesh is in the blood. That's what the blood signifies death to the flesh when the blood is out of it. That's why you split the animal's throat and when the blood is out of it.

Then the flesh is dead and that's what it's talking about even back in the Old Testament and in the book of Hebrews It says without the shedding of blood. There is no remission of sins. What that means is without death through the flesh without you being crucified with Christ.

There is no remission of sin. Isn't something he did that you can accept. He doesn't have eternal life to hand out Independent of himself. He is eternal life. He is eternal. It's a gift. All right, but that gift is not some Eternal life that he's got Fixed up for you and just hands to you he is not only is eternal life, but The life is in him it is a gift.

All right, but the gift is Christ. Why. Because he wants this intimate relationship. That's why the gift is Christ. And that's why the good news is Christ in you. You see that the hope of glory Why is it the hope of glory because as soon as Christ is in you and starts working in you now You have a legitimate hope of glory.

You can see that God is transforming you. You've got the earnest. You've got the down payment, which is the Holy Spirit. See. So Now do you see what the blood means? The blood means death to the flesh and It's just like in Colombia.

There the guerrillas will get an amnesty. Provided they turn in their weapon. They don't turn in their gun. No amnesty. That's the same with us. So I demand That we stop our rebellion As a condition for salvation, oh salvation is unconditional.

I can give you conditions for the rest of the night here sitting in the scriptures and Salvation is not unconditional. God is not operating unconditional love and so The love is unconditional on his part.

It will always be there, but there are conditions for receiving it. Most certainly and So what the blood what happens here? Why did God receives the Right in the Holy the Holy mind you God received the blood From our high priest, which is Christ.

Okay. Now he enters the veil Of it through his flesh. He enters the Holy of Holies Through the veil, which is his flesh, which is significant. There's a flesh comes in here all the time. The flesh is the problem.

It's God's problem. It's our problem and That's why Christ gets the flesh crucified for all mankind. And all you got to do is Accept it through faith. And it will be legally yours as you identify in that death and by faith it becomes practically yours and sins.

You'll not have dominion over you. We're talking known willful transgressions. We're not talking sinless perfection or something. But because what God is going to do then is utilize that same gospel over and over and over again because the power of God unto salvation real salvation from sin not in it and so as he goes along here and Tomorrow let's say tonight you turn everything over to the Lord.

You confess forsake everything you see and on the one hand and You put trust and faith and confidence in Jesus Christ to deliver you from the sins. You just repented of on the other hand. That's why it's the death and the resurrection because we're going to come out of the kingdom of darkness.

We're going to enter the kingdom of life right now. There'll be a new creature. Oh, just like this. Okay, and so that gospel then continues to operate and Just as the as the good news goes out please God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that would believe that means trust him and He has that living word and it consists of the living word of the truth of the gospel what I'm preaching to you now.

The good news we have a new king. He dies for our sins he's resurrected for our justification you see that and. And sends us the Holy Spirit and then through His death and resurrection we identify with it immediately.

Water baptism not the water if your heart's not right nothing happens. But he wants it understood right at the beginning of the Christian life. You're supposed to be dead. Jesus Christ supposed to be alive.

Well, that's the way it was. Nobody was ever saved in the early church any other way. Nobody was ever put into a class of six months to study all the Christian theology of the denomination. Before they baptized you.

I mean that you were baptized right at 3 ,000 people were baptized that same day. Okay, not later. All right. And so here we've got this wonderful gospel operating now from now on and. And so then the Lord will show you something else you see maybe he'll overhaul your leisure time.

Okay, now it's been sin all the time, but sin is not imputed where there is no law. You're only responsible before God. The only thing that breaks fellowship is what you know that you are willfully transgressing you see that and you can be forgiven from all known sin and You can get the victory over through faith that faith is not just believing that it's done.

The faith is trusting Christ to do it in you. So we're going to have an actual salvation here. Not this phony one. Where you're pronounced righteous when you're sinning, that's not what God has in mind.

God has in mind victory over all known willful sin. And at that point you are blameless before God. This is they're all forgiven actually blame you see nothing against you like Paul says I know nothing against myself.

I have a conscience void of offense. And we're to maintain that every day. That means we have to die with Christ every day. I'm crucified daily. There has to be a time in which you say search me Oh Lord.

See if there be in me any wicked way and if there is what do you do the gospel? Repentance and faith based on the death and the resurrection. Not just trying to tell Everybody that well Christ paid it see and I continue in it.

See and and put the penance on him. But is not interested in penance not on your part not on Christ's part either. He wants a death and resurrection he wants a conversion and he wants over each sin an Acknowledgement a repentance and a faith and an overcoming all through his power.

See that not your own work. You see how that works now as the Lord shows you something new maybe your finances are not in order and Maybe you didn't think that was important, you know for a few months and then Lord gets on your case.

It starts bearing in on the fact at that point if you reject what he's saying, you're in rebellion and that's very serious. But as soon as he shows you these things. Then get your will over on to God's side.

They all right. That's that's true. I acknowledge that that shouldn't be there and so and I want it gone. I give you all liberty to work that out of my life and he can do it instantaneously or he could start bringing circumstances but if you maintain faith then his job is the grave and Through his power.

He will transform you from faith to faith from More and more like the Lord Jesus Christ. He's. That perfection process probably never ends in this life. Paul didn't think so. He pressed on to the mark the high.

So I don't know anything about myself, but that doesn't finally justify me, you know, Lord might show me something tomorrow. And so he presses on. We've lost the whole idea of pressing on of running a race.

We think we got the prize right now big and it can never be taken from us. What a colossal Reception we say. Oh, well, it's eternal life. How can you lose eternal life easy? Because it's only eternal life in the sense we're thinking of it in English and Greek it is not in Greek we have a double meaning to eternal.

One is the quality of the life. The other one is the length and you can have either one in focus without implying the other. What do I mean in Jude? We were talking about Sodom and Gomorrah are Destroyed with eternal fire.

Same word. Okay. What does it mean? Is it still burning? Is it gonna burn forever? No. It's not still burning. Why was it eternal fire? Because it was God's fire. It was another it was an ordinary fire.

It was the quality of the fire. You see that and So here when we're trying to pull Little English word on God and expect him to be all impressed. Boy, you know, I mean Hey, I thought I had eternal life.

Yeah, make your calling an election. Sure. Many are called and few are chosen. Now, that's the system all these conditions are sitting and So that's everyone I understand how it works them see how we go on to perfection and.

And that's the goal but specifically so we can both serve God and Have fellowship with God both. And that's that's why God wants all these things cleaned up. And that's why he gets right in the oak with us and as soon as we got everything turned over we rest from our own effort.

We rest in victory his victory now, the enemy is Satan and God fights the battle for us. He's in the yoke that's why I see him and So we're marching here together because he's utilizing us, but it's his power, you know.

The Atonement and Identification with Christ

And what a travesty this other thing is on the true God what a time and How many people have it has it be seen? Those millions of people down there. Trying to just have fun in their old age and All the vices coming back in you know.

It pains me and let's pray that God will send forth laborers into his harvest season. Not only for the totally lost but for those who made a profession of faith and the now I'm backing away from it for whatever reason and They have been deceived as it says in Galatians.

Don't let anybody deceive you. You are going to reap what you sow and that's it and so. Has anybody got any questions on the on the atonement how it works and you see that God did not turn his back on Christ.

Totally out of character. He lays the iniquities of us all. Christ died for our sins and it's a physical death. He died. You see how that physical death can wipe it all out. It says who shall bring any charge against God's elect.

It is Christ who died for us. You see that he died. We benefit from it, but nobody can bring any charge because you can't bring a charge against the dead. Yeah, but if you're not dead and crucified with Christ, then of course All the charges are open.

Not only that you're gonna be in big trouble to get at the Judgment Day. Because the Lord's going to say to you. Hey. You say you believe that I died for you. So then what are you walking around? Fully alive in the flesh for.

Okay, and your whole life will be a testimony against you if you didn't really believe that Christ died for you he did. He'd be dead and Jesus Christ would be alive that's a whole different thing. So the evidence against you say well I did all these things, you know the story.

No good. I didn't know you Never broke through to the living God so There's any questions on on anything that we've we've covered you see how it works great faith through their glory and Why we need to be crucified daily why we need to be crucified have our sons sins together.

Yeah. Yes. Whom to know is life eternal and as I mentioned earlier, that's the Greek word to know intimately. Yeah, that's essential. We know Christ. He knows us and His Life is in us obviously because He's doing his thing.

If Christ be in you then you have to walk the same way the Christ walk. If the good works and the things like that that Christ should be doing are not there. Neither is Christ. That makes sense everybody yeah, you're quite correct and The I personally believe that the King James is correct.

But even if it weren't down on verse 4 it picks up the same theme and says who walks not after the voice but after these so that's a Perfect confirmation of the what I'm teaching is correct because there is now no condemnation.

What does now mean it means that your conscience is void of offense. You see once you have totally repented and turned everything over to the Lord. In one sense, you're perfect, even though you still got a long way to go, but they're certainly blameless.

Really blame us. You see the sins are all gone. You've turned everything over to Christ. Now you have to maintain that through a daily walk and yielding utilizing the gospel. Which they do so it says there's now that means there's nothing bothering your conscience now, you see.

Doesn't mean that there's no condemnation at the Judgment Day, which is where we take it. It says now there's now no therefore after all this business lined up here being in Christ now. That's it. There's no condemnation with two conditions that's right who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit and Just before that who are in Christ.

What does that mean? Means you're in Christ. He's the head. You're a member of the body you're functioning there. Then there's no condemnation because you're dead. How does that work practically? Beautifully when I first saw this I Had victory steady for three weeks and then finally no no knowledge of conviction of sin coming in at all because I was Walking in the spirit with every instance.

I was an engineer. I was an engineer right here. I was project engineer the radar station at Grand Rapids and so here I am with Walking love told me we're walking the spirit man. Every one of our decisions have to be Directed by the Spirit of God.

We've got to have peace and know that just whatever we're doing at any given moment as God is pleased with that's what God wants us to do and So that's walking the spirit and there's a promise you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh and so after three weeks, I was in a pickup truck and Here come this temptation to think these moldy thoughts that it's causing such problems, you know Satan's and take care of my mind put in an x-rated video right through the top of my skull and and I couldn't control it and I was so upset and that story is in my book there.

This book right here as is all the key doctrine the Lord showed me in the last 50 years. It's written in the last hundred and ten pages. So I said Satan and I'm not an emotional person. You know, I'm gonna how far you get with that.

And that I was so happy. I was I can't tell you the joy that was there. What was it? What was the joy about? Well, wouldn't it be awfully hard for Jesus to break that temptation of thinking moldy thought?

We didn't really have to struggle. That would be a hard one for him, wouldn't it? No, of course not. It's not that like that. Well the unequalness of the battle. Well, it just Caused me no end of joy and and laughter if you please think in a Satan trying to tempt Jesus Christ with that moldy stuff.

See and He's not going to get anywhere and he didn't you see. And so you see how this works now identification in the death. As long as you maintain that position, you see Satan can't touch you. I'll just give one verse to illustrate it.

Galatians 5 17. Galatians 5 17 says and the spirit wars against the flesh and the flesh against the spirit so you cannot do what you would now adverse is confusing in most translations what it means in the Greek and If you want a good Greek scholar to read it in writing what I'm going to say to you since it was a four volume word study will bring this back out and That That is that the The One thing he brings out is that it's Abraham Believed God and it was counted unto him as righteousness not instead of right.

Okay, and what was the other thought we were just working on that right place inside something. So there we have What what Vincent brings out and what the Greek clearly teaches is that the part you cannot do it to would Applies to both the flesh and the spirit.

So how does it read it reads if you're in the flesh the spirit can't do what it wants. But if you're in the spirit the flesh can't do it at once. It means you're in one mode or the other you are not in constant conflict now you can elect To take back your life and control it and get yourself in the flesh again.

That's true or you can be in the flesh and Start walking in the spirit and you have this but The two as far as a class is concerned Going on constantly Is not what that verse teaches it couldn't teach that because the verse right ahead of it and the first right on the other side of it are both victory verses you're not going to get a Chaos repeated verse in between and of course, that's what tipped me off and as I checked the grammar and everything.

It doesn't mean that doesn't mean a constant conflict is a constant temptation. But yeah, as long as you walk in the spirit, you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh and that's the Word of God. You didn't say maybe or sometimes or more or less He makes these blanket statements.

You shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh then shall not have dominion over you. We don't believe it. Yeah. We've been taught the other. Oh, yeah, we've been every day word thought indeed. But the victory comes over known willful transgression that's a different category you see that you don't get imputed righteousness.

Continuing to steal and adultery and murder and all this stuff. God isn't going to give you imputed righteousness for that. He expects victory over that immediately. You get imputed righteousness only over the areas that God hasn't got to yet.

Songs of Mercy and Vessels for God’s Compassion

Yeah, that way. But as soon as God reveals something to you, he expects the victory over. That makes sense, okay any other question. Here's a matter to take up and carry. I Don't care how bitter the experience.

It will sweeten those waters from which you drink. That out from that sweetness there will come forth songs of the Lord songs of his late songs of his mercy. Which people will get those kind of songs.

They don't copyright them and charge you to use them. Something that God has brought in their lives. Dreams of mercy because he's neat he needs that kind of a people in this awesome day. That's ahead of us.

He needs vessels of mercy as a no time in the history of mankind. All the world needs now is the mercy of God. God's preparing vessels of mercy in the midst of this God's long-suffering over evil. He asked us to do long-suffering also be also patient as God is.

You want the fruit of the spirit? God is working it out in your life. If you're seeking him and not knowing and not make your perplexed and frustrated about many things God's seeking to work out in your heart and my.

There's a mercy. Compassion. I'm patient waiting upon him. I Read this passage and Finished almost before. There was a but behold There was a man in Jerusalem. His name was Simeon. And the same man was just and devout.

Simeon and Waiting for God’s Appointed Time

Waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Ghost was upon him. This man I call him an old man. Doesn't say he was an old man. So I'm not going to try and prove he was an old man. But I know that God When he prepares a vessel for some very important thing.

He waits long before he fulfills the promise. He waited long. For the time when he would bring Israel out of Egypt. He waited long to prepare a man to deliver that nation who having come into Egypt after some years a New-found who rose to the new not Joseph and began to bring great hardship upon them.

Ordained of God because God was preparing a people Through hard times through bondage for the day of deliverance. God waits long and The prophets not only the prophets but God's people who love him are continually crying.

Oh long. Oh, Lord. How long don't you care Lord? Don't you see what's happening? Have a cut shot into that state. It was a prophet of God he got into that when he looked at Israel, he saw them definitely saw them taken up in the and the Fishnets of their enemies like fish of the sea and then because they got Israel in their grasp and worship their God who profited them by giving them God's people as a prey and the sacrifice unto their God.

Offered up incense to their gods because God has given us this Faithful nation of Israel. God our gods have given it to us. Habakkuk cried Oh God. What's it all about? When you let your people be taken in the net and then they sacrifice to their gods and you don't do anything.

He wasn't complaining in the sense that of any bitterness. But there is a complaint before God that you utter in the prize your heart and In a heart that loves him and true prayer and intercession. Lord do something about this.

We kind here to do something about this. Then he said that looks to me. I've been reproving God. I'm gonna stand back and Hear what the Lord will say and as he stood himself upon the watchtower as it were to hear what God would say.

God told him the vision is for an appointed time. You can't rush that vision. You can't make it happen. Got an appointed time. God wants us to know that He has an appointed time. But he said it's for an appointed time.

But blessed is that man who waits for it. Because it will come in due season. It will not carry beyond at the point of time. It'll come right on time. Blessed is the man who waits for it. It's the vision carry wait for it.

It will come it will not lie. That's God. Where's you and I who are waiting an expectation for God to do something that we know he's promised. We can't seem to persuade him to do it. God says I've got an appointed time.

But in the meantime, we wait for it. It implies waiting before him being sensitive to him. Hearing his voice being alert all that's implied in waiting. So it was a simian. That's what I'm inclined to believe.

God gave him the promise early in life. Because he waited long. He waited till he was wishing he could die, but he couldn't die. God wouldn't let him die. God says you're not gonna die till you see the Messiah.

Where is that? That vision became his burden. You got a great vision. But God's gonna do it won't be meaningful to you. So it becomes a burden a Burden sometimes too heavy for you to carry. That's why many times we read the burden of the Lord.

No prophet is about to speak and the burden of the Lord Burden, I used to want a burden. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a prophetic utterance direct from God. Wouldn't that be wonderful. If it's truly from the heart of God.

It'll be a burden on your heart. But you must carry. Until it's fulfilled. That might take a long time if it doesn't take a long time that might mean a lot of hardship a lot of trials. But what I'm saying is the vision becomes a burden.

And so it was this thing and became a burden and we discover that when it was all over. But because it became a burden and though he realized time was dragging on he was getting older and older. He knew he couldn't die, but I sense he wanted to die.

I gather he was an old man, but I can't imagine God giving him this vision a month before as a young man. And then a month later he goes down to the temple and sees it fulfilled. I can't imagine that.

Because if that was so he wouldn't say when he had seen that Christ he come in to the temple. But I'll read it as I promised. There was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same man was just and devout.

He was he was walking with God. He was doing what God said if you can't walk with God and say what to do with it. He was just he was doing righteous things were not told of any righteous things he did that doesn't matter.

Because the one thing for which he was born was still ahead of him, but he was waiting. While he was waiting he was doing God's will. I know that but those things the Holy Spirit didn't seem fit to mention.

Because the important thing for which he was born for which he was called Was to reveal to take the Messiah in his arms and declare him to Israel. That was the thing that was important in God's sight.

You say why is that important? You'd better ask God why it's important. He's going to have a people Walking with him serving him waiting for him. He voted to him just holy. Who's going to? Present the glory of God to his people.

When our Christ comes again in power and great glory and every I shall see him. I know that. But before that he's going to come to his temple. And he's going to be heralded by a people whose hearts are humble and meek and holy before him we're going to receive him and They're going to go to people in the name of the Lord and say I what so ever I have I give you.

And Christ will overshadow them. He'll be in them and they'll be in Jesus and Jesus will be in them. You know, that's Christian. I dare say many didn't quote John 15 abide in me and I and you. Wonderful, and it is wonderful.

Union with Christ and the Manifestation of the Sons of God

But I don't think we've begun to Understand The glory that there is in that union with God as I abide in the yoke of Jesus. And he abides in me. I Am them and thou in me, I mean, I know it's beautiful and we try to explain it.

But we won't know the reality of it until it becomes. Something very real within us is real in us as it was in Jesus when he knew That the father was with him always. That everything he did was because the father was prompting him to do it.

Every word he spoke he knew it was the word of the father dwelling in him. That was doing the speaking and the working and the comforting and the exhorting and the rebuking whatever it was it wasn't his doings that was the father because as That be lost in the Old Testament that bond slave who was liberated on the seventh year for every Hebrew slave had to be liberated in the seventh year of their bondage and Set free totally free.

Realizing that this is a master. I've served that I never had it so good in my life. I don't want to go out free. So it is in our redemption. God's redeemed us Purchase us with his blood. Brought us out away from the marketplace.

Set us free. But we will discover and we'll never discover to freedom until that liberated slave Comes to the master who redeemed him and says Lord Jesus. I Will not grow tree. Pierce my ears through with an all.

That henceforth on my fear only what you tell me do only what you tell me to do. That's waiting on God. Union with that kind of a man. And so the time came for fulfillment and because he was waiting on God.

He was in the Holy Ghost. And he went down to the temple and I don't even know when he walked down to the temple that day if he knew He was gonna see the Messiah that day, I don't know God might have led him to the temple many days.

Perhaps coming away just I don't know. We don't know in what manner he was going to see the Messiah and we're not. Had no under no reason to believe he knew. All he knew was he was led of the spirit. I've got to go to the temple.

So I'll bring us more and more to that place where we're led by the Spirit of God. But these are the sons of God. And these are the people that creation is longing for a people that the Romans Ain't. Paul says creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God and I deliberately quoted that scripture.