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Truth of God - Trusting God in Times of Trouble (First Half)

3/25/2020

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First Half -
Trusting God in Times of Trouble
Understand that God IS God and claim His promises of protection.
Fred R. Coulter—March 21, 2020
First Half Video  *  Second Half Video  *  Transcript Second Half




 
​Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services! Everyone wants to know:
 
·         What’s happening in the world?
·         What’s happening in America?
·         Why are these things taking place?
 
Here we are in ‘shelter in place’ and stay home for 15 days!
 
·         Why are all these things coming upon us?
 
The least place that people would look would be in the Bible!
 
One of the most important things that people ignore, scoff at and reject is where the descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel are. We know where the Jews are in the area of the Middle East and then scattered around the world.
 
But contrary to the claim of Judaism, they are not all the 12 tribes. What happened to the ten tribes who were carried off into captivity by the Assyrians.
 
You need our book: America and Britain in Prophecy: Two Nations That Changed the World by Philip Neal.
 
I want to read to you that Jacob—the father of the 12 tribes of Israel—gave to Ephraim and Manasseh, whose father was Joseph. Remember that Joseph was the one who was sold by his brothers into servitude into Egypt.
 
Then being righteous he didn’t want to commit adultery with his master’s wife. So, she screamed and yelled that he tried to attack me. They arrested him and threw him in prison and there he was all alone.
 
Joseph had a dream, and there was the baker and attendant of the Pharaoh already in prison. Joseph was intelligent, organized, and he ended up being semi-in-charge of the whole prison. When the baker and the attendant had a dream, Joseph told them exactly what the dream was and what would happen. One would die and one would live. The attendant was the one who lived.
 
Then the Pharaoh had a dream of the fat cows for seven years, and the lean cows for seven years, and no one could tell the dream. The attendant said, ‘I remember that man in prison, Joseph, and he can tell you the dream.
 
So, Joseph was brought to Pharaoh and he told him the dream and that the dream was from God, and there are going to be seven years of extra plenty and seven years of famine; and it happened!
 
But first, the Pharaoh made Joseph second in command of all Egypt. Then later Jacob and the other sons came down into Egypt, and Pharaoh gave them the land of Goshen.
 
Just before Jacob was to die he blessed the two sons of Joseph: Ephraim and Manasseh. Let’s see what the blessing was and when this was to occur; quite an amazing thing, indeed!
 
We’re not going to read the blessing for every one of the 12 tribes; we want to focus on America and Britain. We will see what Jacob, the father, says. This is a blessing from God through Jacob to his descendants down through all time. This tells us, particularly, a very important thing.
 
Genesis 49:1: “And Jacob called to his sons and said, ‘Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days.’”
 
How long are the last days? God doesn’t tell us! But if we look back at history, after we read the blessing to Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, we can pretty well discern that something happened in the early 1600s with the colonization of North America, and the time leading up to that in Britain.
 
Let’s read what Jacob said to Joseph, who is the father of Ephraim and Manasseh. So, this applies to both Britain and America, and much more so today with America than with Britain, because Britain has already succumbed to many of their own sins and problems as we will see a little later.
 
Verse 22: “Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall…. [many people, lots of everything] …The archers have fiercely attacked him and have shot at him, and hated him” (vs 22-23). A perfect description of the world concerning America!
 
Verse 24: “But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob…”
 
Why is it that we say that America is the most blessed nation in the world? Because of right here! This blessing came to us from sea to shinning sea! Britain had its empire! But because of its sins down through time, they lost it.
 
Now America is going through some terrible times at this point. Right now we’re right on the verge:
 
·         What is going to happen?
·         How will the people react?
 
Let’s see the blessing; then we will look at some of the punishments that would come because of sin!
 
“…—from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel—” (v 24).
 
·         Why?
·         Why is it that the king and queen of England are coronated on a special chair with the stone underneath it?
 
The truth is that is probably the Stone of Jacob, going back thousands of years! They are coronated as king or queen ‘over your people Israel.’ Did you know that?
 
Remember this is to Joseph—Ephraim and Manasseh—right here:
 
Verse 25: “By the God of your father, Who shall help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of my ancestors, to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him, the ruler, the leader who was separated from his brothers” (vs 25-26).
 
That’s quite a blessing! Think about that in relationship to how England rose in power, and how America rose in power. Remember that these are for the last days. Think about which is the greatest nation in the world today, America! That’s because of God! That’s because we are mainly the tribe of Manasseh, with parts of all the tribes of the different tribes of Israel in America!
 
Deuteronomy 33:13: “And of Joseph he said, ‘Blessed of the LORD be his land, with the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath, and for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and with the precious things of the yield of the months. And with the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills” (vs 13-15).
 
Sound a little like treasure, gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and all of that sort of thing? That’s what it means!
 
Verse 16: “And for the precious things of the earth and fullness of it, and for the good will of Him Who dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers. His glory is like the firstborn of his bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth….” (vs 16-17).
 
·         Did that not happen with the British Empire?
·         Has that not happened afterward with America?
·         Yes, indeed!
 
“…And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh” (v 17).
 
What did we do when we came into the land? We had to have the separation with the Revolutionary War! Britain went on to conquer the empire and become the greatest power in the world leading up to WWI. America became a great power after the turn of the century going into the 1900s. Think about all the problems with all the victories, with all the ups and downs that we have gone through.
 
Let’s just number them by the wars:
 
1.       Revolutionary War
2.       War of 1812
3.       Civil War
4.       Spanish/American War
5.       WWI
6.       WWII
7.       Korean War
8.       Vietnam War
9.       1st Iraq War
10.   then we had the 2001—9/11—with the twin towers being knocked down and the Pentagon being attacked
11.   Afghanistan War
12.   The Iraq War
13.   and the other wars subsequent to that
 
Look at us today, when we started the Bible was the main instrument of learning. You can read the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, and the amendments and you will see that it’s based upon the principles of the Word of God! We were a very religious people!
 
Yes, we’ve always had our troubles and difficulties, but because people—Americans—would turn to God in times of trouble, who did we have in the worst time of trouble in this nation, the Civil War? Abraham Lincoln! He quoted more of the Bible and prayed more about this nation than any other President coming up to the current one that we have now—Donald J. Trump! And the President that we have now is relying on God more than any other President from the time of Lincoln until now.
 
But look at all the troubles that we are going through. Why do we have all these troubles? We will see how God looks at Israel, and when He looks at Israel He’s thinking mostly of Ephraim and Manasseh!
 
What has happened? You look at what has happened in England today! They have given up on God! Much more so than America. We have the agents and the people in America trying to get us to give up on God. But:
 
·         Let’s see what happens when people do that
·         let’s see what happen when people turn their back on God
 
This goes clear back to the Garden of Eden, and that’s why we have the troubles that we have. If you list all the troubles of all mankind down through all history up to this time, you’d have to ask: Why did they do it when God made it possible for them to have His blessing?
 
Isa. 5—God compares Israel to a vineyard. When you read the New Testament, you find that Jesus talks about the vineyard.
 
Isaiah 5:1: “Now, I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.”
 
·         we don’t live in the desert like the Arabs
·         we don’t live in the jungles like other people
 
We live in a very fruitful land!
 
Verse 2: “And He dug it up, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. But it produced worthless fruits.”
 
Stop and think: Most people in America have a Bible. If anyone has a Bible, they have it because God caused it to be there, because He wants you to have a Bible so that you can connect with God if you will read it. It doesn’t matter how it got there. In the world today there are more Bibles than any other book in the whole world when you count all the digital Bibles that are on smart phones, computers and printed Bibles.
 
But how many people read the Bible to understand how they are to live? One of the very first things that Jesus said—which is true through the whole Bible—is ‘man shall not live by bread alone—food alone--but by every Word of God!’
 
What have we done? Down through time we’ve gotten rid of God! Every time we get rid of God—out of government, schools, private lives, institutions, language and how we live our lives--we bring sorrow and evil!
 
It says here in Isaiah, woe upon us! That means extreme suffering! “…But it produced worthless fruits.”
 
Verse 3: “And now, O people of Jerusalem, and men of Judah…” Jerusalem is a type of all 12 tribes of Israel!
 
Since this was prophesied right there in the city of Jerusalem, and that’s where the Jews were at the time, God says:
 
“…I ask you to judge between Me and My vineyard. What more could have been done to My vineyard… [with everything] …that I have not done in it? Who knows? I looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard…” (vs 3-5).
 
I want you to understand that the laws and commandments of God are automatic! IF you leave God, you leave out God, you reject God, you have trouble! And look at what we have today!
 
Every once in a while we have an occasion to bring us back to God. But that’s only for a short time! Then right back to our own sinful ways!
 
“…I will take away its hedge, and it shall be consumed…” (v 5). Look at what is happening! Look at how it’s happening!
 
“…and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down; And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it” (vs 5-6)--or send too much rain, snow and cold!
 
Verse 7: “For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel… [that’s us] …and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress!”
 
Doesn’t that describe us today exactly? Look at the crime, the drugs, all the things that are going on! There’s another prophecy that is actively taking place: the stranger within your midst shall get up very high above you (Deut. 28:43[transcriber’s correction])! Is that happening? Yes, it is!
 
Notice that Isaiah lays out a step-by-step of the wrong things that we have done that has led to our problems. These are the WOES!
 
Verse 8: “Woe to those who join house to house, that lay field to field, until there is no place left, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!”
 
Think about it; look at our cities. Let’s take the city of New York where they have more Coronavirus than anywhere. Look at it! They’re not only side-by-side, they’re on top of each other: stacked! jammed! Look at all the problems that come because of that, and the crime.
 
Verse 11: “Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink…”--add to that drugs!
 
It’s an eye-opener: Watch NatGeo—National Geographic channel—when they have their secret operations that they go along and do documentaries of the drug dealers, and how they’re dedicated to evil, dedicated to wasting people’s lives. How did that get started? Because they rejected God!
 
“…who continue late into the night while wine inflames them! And the lyre, and the harp, the drum, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts…” (vs 11-12). You might say rock concerts! Look at all of that.
 
But here’s why the woes come! I don’t know what your life is like, but you need to think about it:
 
“…but they do not regard the work of the LORD….” (v 12):
 
·         everything He has created
·         the Word of God
·         what God commanded
 
Take one simple commandment; the only one of ten that says remember; that’s the one everybody forgets: Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy!
 
Whenever people turn their back on God, Satan comes and fills the void. So, what is a typical Saturday from Friday night to Saturday night like?
 
All kinds of festivities, drugs, games, operas, concerts, athletics of all kinds and sales during the daytime. All of those are breaking the Sabbath!
 
God says that IF will turn your foot away from the Sabbath, from doing your own business and work, THEN God will lift these things from us! But how many are willing to do that? All of those who are Sunday-keepers every week violate the fourth commandment! They think that they’re doing well, but that’s not what God said.
 
Look at this way: What if someone gave you $100,000 and said, ‘I want you deposit it in this bank’? But you and your friends took it out and spent it on yourself.
 
What kind of reaction would you expect? Apply that as an analogy to the Sabbath, which is a day that God says,
 
I will put My presence in , bless you and be with you IF you assemble to Me and learn of My Word. I will send My Spirit and bless you with knowledge and understanding, and IF you repent and are converted—and are faithful—I will give you everlasting life!
 
Think about that! ‘No! No! We can’t have any of that!’ So, they bring the WOE upon themselves!
 
“…but they do not regard the work of the LORD. Yea, they do not see the work of His hands. Therefore, My people are gone into exile because they have no knowledge…” (vs 12-13). That’s coming!
 
If you think that the Coronavirus is bad, just wait! If we keep going the way that we are, it’s coming sooner. If there’s some reformation and change, and some turn to God, it may be put off a while. But it’s coming!
 
Verse 18: “Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity…”--talking about all our entertainment and music industry, and our education, colleges and government!
 
“…and sin with cart ropes” (v 18). Everything is sin!
 
Just to give you an example: Vice President Mike Pence is head of the Coronavirus task force, to coordinate everything that’s going on. He opened with prayer to God. That God would guide him to help the people to turn back the Coronavirus. The news outlets went crazy! Why would he pray? Because He knows why these things are coming! That’s why!
 
Verse 19: “Who say, ‘Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!’” But they’re taunting God!
 
But God says, ‘You don’t do that! If you want to know about Me, you better come to Me and repent. You better obey me and keep My Word.’
 
NO! They just taunt God! So, look at all the troubles that come because of it!
 
Verse 20: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…”
 
Look at the ‘alphabet genders’ that we have today! I call it that because there re so many different genders that it takes up the whole alphabet! God says that everything should be through marriage, a man and a woman, children and family! But NO! they say, ‘we need the right,’ and whenever they say that they are saying
 
You let us do our own thing because that is our right, and we desire to sin and stuff it in Your face.’
 
Then they expect good to happen!
 
Listen! Coronavirus is going to turn out to be a very mild thing compared to what’s coming, unless there’s some repentance!
 
“…who put darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” (vs 20-21).
 
Yes, we’re smart, we’ll figure it out! We have all the modern tests and everything like this, and we will do it ourselves!
 
Wait until they meet the power of God! That will be a different story!
 
Verse 22: “Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink… [and add in all the other drugs that go with it] …who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!” (vs 22-23). Isn’t that what is happening? Yes!
 
We’ve got another website that was years ahead of what is going on now called: churchathome.org--Church at Home. We could foresee, according to the Word of God, down into the future that the only safe place to worship God is in your own home. But then there will come a time when even that will end, because Satan is going to come with great power and fury, and try and destroy everyone who loves God and believes Him.
 
But even if they kill them, God has a surprise! He’s going to resurrect them all! He’s going to send Christ to return to take over this world.
 
I want you to read v 24, and understand this. I want you to know what’s coming; v 24: “Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble…”--those little parts of the hay, wheat and barley; a little bit of the stock, husk and roots, and when the grain is removed, if it gets too hot, POOF! it explodes!
 
“…and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust because…” (v 24).
 
Here’s the cause, the reason why these things come; if you would be smart enough to take a Bible and read the Ten Commandments, look at them literally and look at the behavior of people all around the world and understand that there’s a Satan the devil and he has millions of demons working with him, then you will begin to understand why we have all of these problems.
 
God is calling His people to come out of that, and calling other people who want to turn to God and telling them to turn to God and He will help you! But if you don’t turn to God the next wave is going to be worse! And the one after that will be worse!
 
“…they have cast away the Law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel” (v 24).
 
God always gives warning! God never does anything unless there’s a warning that comes out. Anybody who has a Bible has it written down and sitting on the shelf of their own library. If they don’t read it, that’s their problem.
 
Everyone wants a blessing from God, ‘O God, don’t give me Your anger.’
 
Verse 25 tells us what God is going to do: “Therefore, the anger of the LORD is kindled against His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has stricken them; and the hills trembled, and their dead bodies were as filth in the midst of the streets. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still”--because there is no repentance!
 
·         this tells us what’s going to happen
·         this tells us why we have all of these problems
 
What are we going to do? Let’s ask all the people who say that they’re the people of God:
 
·         Do you really believe God? Really?
·         Do you really love God? Actually?
·         How did Jesus say that we are to do that?
 
The Protestants all claim the love of God and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. But you want to know something? That’s just the first half step! You have to come to God and love Him, as Jesus said. As He told Israel, this is also recorded in Deut. 6, because the Israelites wanted to know:
 
‘O Lord, what shall we do?’ The Scribe came to Jesus and said, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of all?’ Here was the answer: ‘Hear O Israel--put your name there—the Lord God is one Lord, and you shall love the Lord Your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength!’
 
·         Is that how you approach God?
 
For the world, they don’t even know, but for the people of God:
 
·         Are you a one-day a week Christian?
 
And even if you may keep the Sabbath:
 
·         How much different are you from the Sunday-keepers from the one-day a week Christian?
 
You may read some of the Bible, those things that are pleasant to you, but very few people want to read the things that tell you what God is going to do if you don’t repent and come to Him. He also says that of other churches, too.
 
This is where we are in all of this. This is a lot of trouble and difficulty, indeed!
 
Let’s see what God wants, and He lays this out for the nation of Israel, and in fact, all nations of the world now. But in particularly the nations of Israel, because they are the descendants of Jacob. Here’s what everybody wants, and notice how God expresses it in what we must do, and what kind of effort we need to put forth so that God will be with us and we will be on God’s side! Too many people want God to come on their side. But God is saying, ‘NO! You come on My side, because I’m God! I will bless you! You need Me, and I will take care of you!’ This is what He told the Israelites here:
 
Deuteronomy 28:1: “And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD your God…” That’s the most simple thing of all! God says obey My voice!
 
·         Did Adam and Eve? No!
·         Did most of the people down through history obey the voice of God? No!
 
It’s simple: obey My voice! You want things to go good; you want them to go well, obey My voice diligently!
 
·         not half-heartedly
·         not one day a week
·         but how you live
 
“…to observe and to do all His commandments, which I command you today… [this is a conditional clause] …the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth” (v 1).
 
·         Did God not do that with Britain and America? Yes, indeed!
·         What have we done? Look at it! Look a the inner cities wherever you go!
 
If you do, v 2: “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
 
Some is always going say—being a smart aleck—‘How am I going to hear the voice of the Lord God?’ Well, He made it easy for you to hear it! He had it written down and printed!
 
Is this not saying that the Lord is talking here? If you read it, you’re reading what He said! If you read what He said, you’re reading what He spoke! Then it says:
 
Verse 3: “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep. Blessed shall be your basket and your store. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face….” (vs 3-7)--just a small army!
 
God would fight the battle. Can the largest army in the world fight against God and prevail? NO WAY!
 
“…They shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. The LORD shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouses, and all that you set your hand to. And He shall bless you in the land, which the LORD your God gives you” (vs 7-8). How did we get here? Because God gave it!
 
Verse 9: “The LORD shall establish you a Holy people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. And all the people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you” (vs 9-10).
 
Since we haven’t done this, the next thing happens!

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Truth of God - Who Was Jesus? (Second Half) By: Fred R. Coulter - February 15, 2020

2/20/2020

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Who Was Jesus? - Second Half
IF you’re not searching for the Truth,
the veil of blindness is going to come over you again!
Fred R. Coulter—February 15, 2020
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I want to mention one thing about taking down the Church: I know this from a first person conversation with the man who brought the lawsuit against the Worldwide Church of God and threw it into a receivership. His name was Timmons, and he told me that Robert Kuhn advised them how to bring the lawsuit.
 
There was a lot of treachery and a lot of evil that was going on. I suspect, since Herbert Armstrong was over in Tucson at that time with congestive heart failure, that they figured that this would be such a shock to Herbert Armstrong that he would die. Well, he didn’t!
 
So, Rader had to be the savior of the lawsuit. If he didn’t, he would have been convicted by his own actions. So, he politically worked it out and got a law passed in the legislature in California that churches are not charitable institutions as a charity, but a non-profit organization as a church to serve the congregants. Therefore, it could not come under the law that applies to charities. So, Rader was stuck, he had to do it.
 
Let’s go on and see about this with Jesus in the Old Testament.
 
Deuteronomy 18:15: “The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, One like me. To Him you shall hearken,”
 
“The LORD your God…” has to refer to the Father. But that was not to the people in general. Who was in charge of the coming of Jesus Christ? God the Father! So, this isn’t saying that He’s speaking to the people.
 
Verse 16: “According to all that you desired of the LORD your God… [the One Who became Christ] …in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, so that I do not die.’ And the LORD said to me, ‘They have spoken well what they have spoken’” (vs 16-17).
 
In other words, they were well-intentioned, but they were wrong!
 
Verse 18: “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, One like you, and will put My words in His mouth. And He shall speak to them all that I shall command Him.”
 
That was God the Father, but He was not the Lord God of the Old Testament! This had to refer to the One Who would become Christ!
 
·         Are They both called the Lord God? Yes!
·         Are They both part of Elohim? Yes!
·         Are They both God? Yes!
 
Verse 19: “And it shall come to pass, whatever man will not hearken to My words, which He shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.” Peter understood that this applied to Christ!
 
Acts 3:22: “For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you from among your brethren, like me; Him shall you hear in all things that He shall say to you. And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people’” (vs 22-23).
 
There it is, they knew it applied to Christ! How did they know that it applied to Christ? Because right after they came to them on that Ascension Day He showed His hands in side and His feet and asked for something to eat and they gave Him honey and fish! Then what did He do? He opened their minds to the Scriptures concerning Himself in the Law, Prophets and Psalms!
 
Where would He start? Perfect place, Deut. 18! They understood it!
 
John 8:12: “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me shall never walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.’ Therefore, the Pharisees said to Him, ‘You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true.’ Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going….” (vs 12-14). No human being could say that statement!
 
“…But you do not know where I come from and where I go You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. Yet, if I do judge, My judgment is true, for I am not alone; but I and the Father Who sent Me” (vs 14-16).
 
Why? Because He had the Holy Spirit! The Father was with Him and everything. Isn’t it interesting that Jesus did all of the speaking? When there was the voice out of the heavens that said, ‘This is My Son in Whom I have great delight.’ It was a voice! It didn’t say the Father said, just a voice!
 
When the three of them were on the Mt. of Transfiguration—James, Peter and John—and the voice said, ‘This is My Son in Whom I delight, listen to Him,’ it was a voice!
 
Jesus said in Acts 5, ‘You have neither heard His voice, nor seen His shape at any time.’
 
Verse 19: “Then they said to Him, ‘Where is Your Father?’ Jesus answered, ‘You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would also have known My Father.’ Jesus spoke these words in the treasury while teaching in the temple; but no one arrested Him because His time had not yet come. Then Jesus said to them again, ‘I am going away; and you shall seek Me, but you shall die in your sin. Where I am going, you are not able to come’” (vs 19-21). It’s impossible for you to come!
 
How did Paul reaffirm that? Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God or see the Kingdom of God! It’s impossible for you to come.
 
Verse 22: “Therefore, the Jews said, ‘Will He kill Himself? Is that why He says, “Where I am going, you are not able to come”?’”
 
Listen carefully, because this tells you absolutely for sure that before Jesus was a human being He was in heaven!
 
Verse 23: “And He said to them, ‘You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world…. [couldn’t be clearer] …That is why I said to you that you shall die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM… [‘ego emi’] …you shall die in your sins’” (vs 23-24).
 
He was telling them Who He was. Remember when Moses asked the Lord, ‘When the children of Israel say who sent you tell them I AM that I AM has sent Me.’
 
Are there many other names of God? Yes! But I AM means that He exists as a Spirit being.’ How did He come to this earth?
 
If you think that you’ve had to do something that is humiliating, or humbling, think on this. We’ve read Philp. 2 many times, but let’s go over it and look at for what it’s really telling us. We know that:
 
·         God has form and shape
·         we’re made in His image
·         Jesus came from above
 
How did He come?
 
Philippians 2:5: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God” (vs 5-6)--meaning He was God! If you exist as God, you’re in the form of God!
 
Verse 7: “But emptied Himself…” What does that mean? He had to give up nearly all of His Divinity and be reduced down to a pinpoint of life to be impregnated into the womb of the virgin Mary!
 
That’s what He had to do to become a human being, Who was the Creator of human beings. He was the only One Who could be the sacrifice for the sins of human beings, because:
 
·         He was the One Who created them
·         He was the One Who judged them
·         He was the One Who gave them human nature and the law of sin and death
 
So, He “…emptied Himself…”! Exactly how that was done, we don’t know!
 
John 10:14: “I am the good Shepherd, and I know those who are Mine, and am known of those who are Mine. Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep…. [willingly; think about what He had to give up to do that] …And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring those also, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. On account of this, the Father loves Me: because I lay down My life, that I may receive it back again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down and authority to receive it back again. This commandment I received from My Father” (vs 14-18).
 
This also implies that there was a covenant between the One Who became the Father and the One Who became the Son. In giving up His spirit when He died, and it going back to God, God the Father promised that He would be raised from the dead and not see corruption. That was the covenant between Them.
 
Hebrews 10:7: “Then said I, “Lo, I come (as it is written of Me in the Scroll of the Book)…” This was written down!
 
Remember the Scripture that talks about the Scripture of Truth that’s in heaven? Dan. 10:21! So, this was written down.
 
“…to do Your will, O God” (v 7). Jesus said, ‘All right, I will do it, I will do Your will, and I will die, give up My life and lay it down, and You will give it back to Me, IF I fulfill everything!’
 
Verse 9: “Then He said, ‘Lo, I come to do Your will, O God.’ He takes away the first covenant in order that He may establish the second covenant; by Whose will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (vs 9-10).
 
Philippians 2:6: “Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself, and was made in the likeness of men, and took the form of a servant… [Greek: ‘doulous’--slave] …and being found in the manner of man…” (vs 6-8). Think about this!
 
God Who lives forever, didn’t give up living forever--still had life in Him—but reduced very, very small, way down to near nothing. He “…emptied Himself…” That means He divested Himself of His power as God, and willingly became a pinpoint of life! He was subject to receiving the genes of Mary into His physical flesh, which is where He got His human nature, from His mother.
 
His mother was the niece of Elizabeth, and Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron, and she was the mother of John the Baptist. That means that Mary’s father had to be of the line of David, and Mary’s mother was of the line of Aaron. So, in that bloodline you have king and priest! What is Christ going to be? King and Priest! Even in the flesh He had to those genes that related to that.
 
He “…emptied Himself, and was made in the likeness of men…”--everything that human beings do! He had to eat, sleep, elimination of the processes of the body, perfectly human in every way. But He had to have the Spirit of God and use the Spirit of God constantly. That’s why He was taught every morning by the Father (Isa. 50).
 
·         He wasn’t taught by the lying rabbis
·         He wasn’t taught the traditions of the Jews
·         He was taught by the Father
 
So intelligent was He that when He was 12-years-old and stayed back after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, He was in the temple with all of the high ‘mucky-mucks’—the chief priests and all of them—questioning them and answering questions. They were amazed at His understanding at the age of 12. Why? Because the Father was the One Who taught Him! The Father woke Him up every morning!
 
I don’t know how it worked, but the closest thing that I can think of is that you have this smart phone or tablet and you can see someone on it, that He saw the Father. But He had to have human nature from his mother. Otherwise:
 
·         Why come and be perfect and could not sin?
·         What good would that do?
·         How would He overcome sin? Condemn it in the flesh!
 
“…He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God has also highly exalted Him and bestowed upon Him a name, which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow took the form of a servant, of beings in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father” (vs 8-11).
 
Hebrews 5:5: “In this same manner also, Christ did not glorify Himself to become a High Priest…” He could not be a High Priest in the flesh; that was of the house of Aaron!
 
“…but He Who said to Him, ‘You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’ Even as He also says in another place, ‘You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchisedec’” (vs 5-6).
 
But that’s not going to be re-instituted until Christ returns. In a sense, the New Testament ministry is under the Priesthood of Christ, but we’re not priests.
 
Verse 7: “Who, in the days of His flesh, offered up both prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him from death…”
 
If He would have sinned, He would have died for His own sin. So, He had all of humanity on His person, being made in the flesh.
 
“…and was heard because He feared God. Although He was a Son, yet, He learned obedience from the things that He suffered; and having been perfected… [by never sinning, and overcoming] …He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him” (vs 7-9)
 
All of these things are necessary to understand precisely what God did. What a tremendous thing that it is. This is important in coming to the Passover.
 
Rom. 7 talks about that as long as you have the law of sin and death in you, you’re still going to sin and you’re going to expire and die in Adam. The only ones not subject to that will be the few who are still alive when Christ actually returns.
 
Romans 8:1: “Consequently, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
 
How do you walk when you find that you sin when you have the spirit of God? The Spirit of God brings to your mind that sin, so you can repent! When you repent there’s no condemnation, because you’re walking in the Spirit! That means that you’re leading your life according the leading of the Holy Spirit of God!
 
Verse 2: “Because the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has delivered me from the law of sin and death.”
 
The King James says ‘freed me.’ That means it would have to have been cut out of your genes in order to be free from it. Delivered is from the point of view that with the Spirit of God you can overcome sin by the exercising of the Spirit of God, repenting, living God’s way and keeping His commandments! That’s why we have the commandments of God written in our heart and mind!
 
Why? Because why you have in your mind is how you think and live! This is what needs to be converted; this is the whole thing of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: get out the sin and put in the righteousness of Christ! This is what it’s talking about.
 
Verse 3: “For what was impossible for the Law to do…”
 
Remember that the Law… we have it written, abbreviated, and hanging on the wall. If someone walks in here and is thinking lustful thoughts, that plaque doesn’t come off the wall and knock them on the head and tell him he’s sinning. The Law has no power to make you do anything!
 
You look at society and how many criminals are there? How many laws are there against everything that they’re doing? But they still do it!
 
“…in that it was weak through the flesh, God having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh… [the same sinful flesh that we have; that’s how great it was for Christ] …and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” (v 3).
 
That had to be! That had to be done! And that was done with His perfect sacrifice! Here’s the result of it once we receive the Holy Spirit:
 
Verse 4: “In order that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us… [I wonder how many Protestants read that] …who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
 
This is what Jesus had to do. It wasn’t just a simple, little operation that was easy to do. He had to pray, put down temptation. Satan was after Him and people were after Him. Even His disciples didn’t believe. He had to say, ‘O hard of heart, when will you believe?’ This is what He had to go through!
 
How anyone can say that Jesus was not the Lord God of the Old Testament before He came Jesus Christ of the New Testament, really doesn’t believe the Bible!
 
·         What happens when you have that?
·         When you begin making doctrine by not believing the Bible and claim that it comes from the Bible?
 
You’re bringing the veil back over your eyes! That’s exactly what it will do! We always have to be on guard against false doctrine! It’s something!
 
Acts 20—this is what we all need to do, and what all elders need to do especially. We have been given the responsibility to remain faithful:
 
·         to Christ
·         to God the Father
·         to the Word of God
 
and not have our own will! That doesn’t mean that we’re ‘namby-pamby’! We need to stay strong for the Lord!
 
Paul was going to Jerusalem and they knew that he was headed for trouble, so he called for the elders in Ephesus.
 
Acts 20:17: “Now, from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the Church…. [they had a huge church there] …And when they had come to him, he said to them, ‘You know how, from the first day I came to Asia, and all the time I was with you, I served the Lord with all humility and with many tears and temptations, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews; and how I did not keep back anything that was profitable, but preached to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, earnestly testifying, both to the Jews and the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ’” (vs 17-21)--just a summary of the Gospel!
 
After Paul was converted, he had to suffer a lot because of what he did to the Church before he was converted. That’s what God told him, and he did! He always remembered where he came from and what he needed to do.
 
Verse 22: “And now behold, I am bound in the spirit, and am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall happen to me there; except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me…. [and that’s exactly what happened] …But I myself do not take any of these things into account, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the Grace of God” (vs 22-24). So, there are two aspects of the Gospel:

  1. the Gospel of the Grace of God
  2. the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
 
And Paul mentions both of them here!
 
Verse 25: “And now behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more; wherefore, I testify to you on this day… [this was quite a day] …that I am pure from the blood of all, for I have not held back from preaching to you all the counsel of God” (vs 25-27).
 
Notice this warning, because we see how this happens. When people look to a man, follow a man and have good conduct—because they see the man has good conduct—when the man is removed, what happens? Look what happened to the Church, because they didn’t do:
 
Verse 28: “Take heed, therefore, to yourselves…” Everyone who is a teacher has got to:
 
·         take heed to himself
·         to the doctrine
·         to the Word of God
·         to the condition of the flock
·         to the things that he goes through
 
That he does not start establishing super-spiritual things that don’t come from the Bible! That don’t come from the Word of God!
 
“…and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers…” (v 28).
 
You’re overseeing the Truth of God for the flock of God! You’re not an overlord to rule them! If you don’t teach the brethren to rule their own lives, your rule can’t substitute for them! That’s what happened with too many ministers and elders. Then when there was no one there to supervise them, they didn’t let the Holy Spirit of God and the Word of God—through study and prayer—supervise them into doing the Truth!
 
So, you end up with all of this nonsense that goes on! No wonder Jesus said that when He comes ‘will the Son of man find true faith in the earth?’ even in the Churches of God! Paul warned them!
 
“…to feed the Church of God, which He purchased with His own blood” (v 28).
 
All the brethren belong to Christ, and we are only stewards to teach them the Word of God! That’s what it is.
 
·         we have no authority to rule over them
·         we have no authority to live their lives
 
We need to teach them to live their lives under Christ and before God independently with the Spirit of God. When we all come together, then we’re all brethren together! God will take care of it!
 
Verse 29: “For I know this: that after my departure grievous wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves… [looking them right in the eye] …men will rise up speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves” (vs 29-30).
 
We have seen that happen! We’re again looking at the possibility that it’s going to happen.
 
Verse 31: “Watch, therefore, remembering… [we’re remembering] …that for three years I ceased not to admonish each one night and day with tears. And now I commit you, brethren, to God and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified” (vs 31-32).
 
That brings us full circle back to the ministers and what needs to be done. I hope that they don’t go down this course, but I suspect that it’s too late. I suspect that when they have elders who receive paychecks, that if they don’t go along with the hierarchy that they will lose their paychecks, and at their age they don’t know what to do or where to go.
 
When you stand for the Truth alone, it does get lonely! It’s gets desperate and you don’t know where anything is coming from, and you’re going to have to trust God!
Scriptural References From A New English Translation (A Faithful Version)
 
1)      John 1:1-3, 14
2)      Romans 5:12
3)      John 8:41-58
4)      2 Corinthians 3:5-17
5)      Proverbs 30:5-6
6)      Deuteronomy 18:15-19
7)      Acts 3:22-23
8)      John 8:12-16, 19-24
9)      Philippians 2:5-7
10)  John 10:14-18
11)  Hebrews 10:7, 9
12)  Philippians 2:6-11
13)  Hebrews 5:5-9
14)  Romans 8:1-4
15)  Acts 20:17-32
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
 
·         Genesis 1:1
·         Ezekiel 36
·         Romans 7
·         Genesis 3
·         Exodus 21-23
·         Ephesians 6
·         John 20
·         Acts 5
·         Daniel 10:21
·         Isaiah 50
 
Also referenced:
 
 
Transcript Books and CDs:
·         The Nature of God (study pkg. #6)
·         God the Father was Not the God of the Old Testament
·         Who Is Jesus?
 
Book: A Harmony of the Gospels by Fred R. Coulter
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Who Was Jesus? (First Half) By: Fred R. Coulter - February 15, 2020

2/19/2020

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​Who Was Jesus? - First Half
IF you’re not searching for the Truth,
the veil of blindness is going to come over you again!
Fred R. Coulter—February 15, 2020
*(First Half Video)
*(Second Half Video)
*(Second Half Transcript) 

Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services!
 
Remember what Jesus said about when the Son of man comes? Shall the Son of man find the true faith on the earth!
 
It just came to my attention via the Internet that one of the larger Churches of God—United Church of God—is going to downgrade that Christ was the Lord God of the Old Testament.
 
That’s why it’s so important that we understand doctrines, which are teachings. Teachings are necessary so that we can understand the Word of God.
 
We’ve seen what has happened in the Churches of God whenever they want to change doctrine, they always go after the nature of God, both the Father and Christ. They always do! How can you say that Jesus was not the God of the Old Testament before He became Jesus Christ of the New Testament? When you read these first verses in John?
 
John 1:1: “In the beginning… [going clear back to Gen. 1:1] …was the Word… [‘ho Logos’] …and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
 
That’s a plain statement in Greek. It can’t be manipulated one way or the other. That is it! You can’t say that He was not God, you can’t say that He was entirely man.
 
Verse 2: “He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him” (vs 2-3).
 
You take all of the scientist trying to figure out how they can create life. What do they deal with? They deal with what has already been created! They can’t come to the knowledge of it—even if they do--without Christ!
 
You can’t get away from God! It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are or what you do, whether you believe or don’t believe, whatever!
 
Verse 14—another plain statement: “And the Word became flesh…”
 
The question is, have they already changed, or are they in the process of discussing it to change it? The latter! But it’s up to the Council of Elders to vote on it. How can you vote on what is a doctrine that’s contrary to what is Truth? How can you do that?
 
They’re probably going to say that He was exceptional and begotten by the Father and that’s when He came into being. We’ll have to wait and see, because there are probably many different ways that they will approach this.
 
Verse 14: “And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we ourselves beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father), full of grace and truth.”
 
There are many other Scriptures, so I want to do a little advertising; We have a lot of information for you:
 
These studies go verse by verse in the Bible to show you Who God is:
 
·         The Nature of God (Study Pkg. #6)

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·         God the Father was Not the God of the Old Testament—that is the God Who dealt with Israel and Who dealt with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
 
The One Who created man was the One Who had to be the sacrifice for man! Have to be! Why? When man and woman were created they were perfect physically, but not in knowledge! We don’t know how long that they had with God in the Garden of Eden, but God certainly gave them plenty of knowledge and information, because God does not bring on the adversary unless you know what the Truth is! We don’t know how long it was. But He made them, and when they sinned:
 
·         What did God do? He judged them!
·         What was the judgment? Their nature was changed! That’s what it was!
·         How did we get a sinful nature?
 
Read in Ezek. 36 that when He brings Israel back from captivity at the end, what is going to happen? He’s going to give them a heart of flesh! So, He’s the One Who pronounced the judgment against Adam and Eve. Both would have sorrow:
 
Women with children and child rearing. It says childbirth, but that means with your children through your whole life. That’s the way it is with women, because it doesn’t matter with women. It’s doesn’t matter if their children are grown, they still think of them as babies. That’s just natural.
 
Man would have sorrow working, because there would be thorns and thistles. So, apparently in the Garden of Eden there weren’t any weeds.
 
Romans 5:12: “Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world…”
 
Eve ate first! But Adam could have stopped her. And Eve knew that she shouldn’t touch it, because she says, ‘God has said we shall not touch it.’ That wasn’t her adding something extra, as some people say, that is additional teaching that they got from God.
 
“…by one man…” What was Adam’s sin? Not believing God, not obeying the voice of God, ‘because you listened to the voice of your wife’--or the woman. This tells us that when someone comes along to lead us in sin, we are responsible not to go along with it!
 
What was it that they had from God? Everything direct out of His mouth! He put them in the Garden of Eden and commanded Adam to dress it and to keep it, which also means to guard it!
 
So, they sinned! The judgment came upon them and the environment was changed, their nature was changed so that they had sin internal within them! A sinful nature! That’s called ‘the law of sin and death’ (Rom. 7).
 
“…and by means of sin came death… [as in Adam, we all die] …and in this way death passed into all mankind…” (v 12).
 
How does death pass into all mankind? Genetically! There us a death gene, and that can be activated whenever, if the circumstances work out. Even infants die if they get in a position that they can’t get off their belly and can’t breath--called crib death. They have done no sin, but the mother should have been watching so that wouldn’t have happened. Or you can live to be over a hundred; back then they could go hundreds of years.
 
But sin entered into the world “…and in this way death passed into all mankind and it is for this reason that all have sinned” (v 12).
 
The one who judged and gave the judgment that would be transmitted to all human beings from that time forward, which was the Lord God of the Old Testament. Only He, by the fact that He created human beings and gave that judgment to them, had to come as a human being, take within Him the law of sin and death that He gave to other human beings, and not sin so that His sacrifice by His death would cover every human being past, present and future.
 
All human beings come about by pro-creation, which began with Adam and Eve. Could you say that when He passed judgment on Adam and Eve, did He pass judgment on Himself? Yes, He did! What was given in Gen. 3 of the Messiah and His crucifixion? Right there in the Garden of Eden! So, it had to be.
 
The judgment on Satan was not finalized until Christ was sacrificed.
 
John 8 where the war of words between the religious authorities and Jesus.
 
John 8:41—Jesus said: “You are doing the works of your father.’ Then they said to Him, ‘We have not been born of fornication…. [the whole rumor of Jesus went everywhere] …We have one Father, and that is God.’”
 
Notice that not everyone who says that they have God as their Father really have God as their Father. It’s not what you profess, it’s what you believe that God has said, and that is what you profess.
 
Verse 42: “Therefore, Jesus said to them, ‘If God were your Father, you would love Me…’”
 
That also tells you that God the Father was not the God of the Old Testament, because they were working off the O.T.
 
“…because I proceeded forth and came from God. For I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why don’t you understand My speech? Because you cannot bear to hear My words” (vs 42-43).
 
Why? Because their minds were blocked by Satan the devil because of their sins! Whenever people living in sin—and correction comes along, and they don’t want to give up their sin—they won’t believe the Truth even if it’s spoken to them.
 
Verse 44: “You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to practice. He was a murderer from the beginning… [he inspired the murder of Abel] …and has not stood in the Truth because there is no Truth in him….”
 
We can add here any Truth that he starts out with, he perverts and twists into something that is not true! That’s how a lot of false doctrine gets started.
 
“…Whenever he speaks a lie, he is speaking from his own self; for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I speak the Truth, you do not believe Me. Which one of you can convict Me of sin? But if I speak the Truth, why don’t you believe Me? The one who is of God hears the words of God. For this reason you do not hear, because you are not of God” (vs 44-47). They were the ones who thought they were of God!
 
What happens when you think you are of God and then you begin to entertain false doctrine? Sooner or later your mind is going to be closed!
 
Verse 48: “Then the Jews answered and said to Him, ‘Are we not right in saying that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?’” You accuse without knowledge!
 
Verse 49: “Jesus answered, ‘I do not have a demon. But I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. Yet, I do not seek My own glory; there is One Who seeks and judges. Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps My words, he shall not see death forever’” (vs 49-51).
 
That’s an interesting statement; it doesn’t days that He won’t die. “…shall not see death forever”--the resurrection! “…if anyone keeps My words…”
 
Do we have all the words of Jesus that God wants us to have? Yes, we do!
 
Verse 52: “Then the Jews said to Him, ‘Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham and the prophets died; yet, You say, “If anyone keeps My words, he shall not taste of death forever.”’”
 
What do they always do? They always misconstrue what is said!
 
Verse 53: “‘Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets, who died? Who do You make Yourself to be?’ Jesus answered, ‘If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father Who glorifies Me, of Whom you say that He is your God. Yet, you have not known Him; but I know Him. And if I say that I do not know Him, I shall be a liar, like you. But I know Him, and I keep His Word. Abraham your father was overjoyed to see My day; and he saw it, and rejoiced’” (vs 53-56).
 
Verse 57: “Then the Jews said to Him, ‘You are not even fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM’” (vs 57-58)—Greek: ‘ego emi’! that’s the name of God! He told them plainly, ‘I was God’!
 
How are you going to get over that statement?
 
Note Transcript Book and CD: Who Is Jesus? All of these things that we’ve done through the years, because of all the false doctrines that come around, so you need to write for these things and get them so you’re not going to get caught into the trap that if something that is presented is logical, that it means that it’s truth. All logic sound logical, but all logic is not truth!
 
A question came up about the veil that covered the eyes. What’s going to happen is if people insist on accepting false doctrine—and that becomes official doctrine and teaching—could it be that it will undoubtedly will happen that the veil will come over again! It is a spiritual blindness! That’s what the veil actually is. Though you look at the facts directly, you don’t believe it.
 
2-Corinthians 3:5: “Not that we are competent of ourselves, or credit anything to our own abilities: rather, our competency is from God.”
 
This is what has to be with every minister and teacher. You don’t do what comes into your mind just because you think it is good. It must be from the Word of God and from God, and with His Spirit.
 
Verse 6: “Who also made us competent as ministers of the New Covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
 
Here’s the difference between the New Covenant and the covenant with Israel. Israel was a physical nation. God gave—at the time after the Flood—to Noah and all of his descendants when they formed the nations, that they had civil laws with the death penalty. So, different nations have civil laws, many of them similar and many different.
 
When God formed Israel and brought them to Mt. Sinai, they were a nation and they were going to have geographical territory in which they had to have what we call civil laws and that was the death penalty.
 
There are various different punishments and sacrifices for sin for a people who did not have the Holy Spirit. They were authorized to take a life for a life. They were authorized to have the judges make a person pay because of a certain offense.
 
For the thief he had repay sometimes four times, sometimes five times, in order to make restitution. You can read those in Exo. 21-23 and also in Deut. That’s the administration of death!
 
They did not have the Holy Spirit of God because Christ had not yet come. God only gave to the Holy Spirit to the patriarchs and a few of the kings and the prophets, that’s it!
 
This is what we’re talking about here. “…the Spirit gives life.” Why? Because rather than be executed, you can repent! That repentance has to be to God because you’ve transgressed His Laws. This is greater than the civil government, and it was necessary that the Church did not have the death penalty given to it to exercise against its members who transgressed, because the Church went into all nations of the world. All of these nations have their various civil laws!
 
You cannot have two sovereigns within one geographical territory. The sovereign government is the civil government.
 
Now, here comes Islam. They have the death penalty. What’s the problem they create when they are in another country when they take their death penalty and execute it in another country, which then is against the law of that country they are living in?
 
You can’t have two sovereigns! That’s why that was taken from the Church.
 
Verse 7: “Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in stones, came into being with glory, so that the children of Israel were not able to gaze upon Moses’ face because of the glory of his face, which glory is being set aside… [the glory of the Old Testament] …shall not the ministry of the Spirit be far more glorious? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, to a much greater degree the ministry of righteousness overflows with glory. And even the ministry of condemnation, which had glory, was not glorious in this respect, because of the surpassing glory of the ministry of life” (vs 7-10).
 
·         Who is a chief example of that? Paul!
·         What did he do before he was converted? He was carrying out the civil authority and religious authority of the Sanhedrin to take those who believed and imprison them, chain them and cause them to be put to death!
·         What did God do with him when he was converted? He said, ‘Saul, look what you’ve done, I’ve got a hangman’s noose out here for you and we’re going to kill you.’ NO!
 
God gave him repentance! And Paul never forgot that.
 
Repentance with forgiveness is greater than sentencing, and carrying out a sentence against people because of sin!
 
So, this civil penalty and civil laws that were in the Old Testament were set aside! In the Millennium they’ll be re-instituted because the Kingdom of God is going to be over the whole world. But that will be rarely used.
 
Verse 11: “For if that which is being set aside came into being through glory, to a much greater degree that which remains is glorious. Now then, because we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech; for we are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face, so that the children of Israel could not gaze to the end upon the glory that is now being set aside” (vs 11-13).
 
When Moses up there the second 40 days, he absorbed so much Spirit of God that his face shined! So, in order to not scare the children of Israel he put a veil on his face until that glory subsided.
 
Verse 14: “But their minds were blinded… [that’s the veil] …for to the present hour the same veil has not been removed, but remains at the reading of the Old Covenant; which veil is removed in Christ.”
 
·         How many people today still have the veil?
·         Do all the Protestants still have the veil? Yes! When they read the Old Testament and read the laws, they say that they’re all done away!
 
Watch some of the latest Church At Home segments {churchathome.org} and Randy has clips in there about those ministers who say that the Law is done away. They show the law, the tablets of stone, just disintegrating and there’s nothing left. That’s what the carnal mind wants:
 
Don’t tell me I’m sinning, I don’t want to know a thing about sin. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’ll be able to handle it.
 
Well, most of the time they can’t! But that’s how they think!
 
Verse 14: “But their minds were blinded; for to the present hour the same veil has not been removed, but remains at the reading of the Old Covenant; which veil is removed in Christ.”
 
You understand the laws and commandments of God! You’re not looking for a way around them. Jesus said, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God!’ Therefore, we understand the Ten Commandments and the spiritual ramifications of them. That’s what it’s all about.
 
The same thing applies doctrinally. IF we go back and start putting the veil over our eyes—because we have a doctrine our a belief that is contrary to what is revealed in the Word of God, and we insist that it comes from God--what happens? BOOM! The veil comes back again! It’s automatic!
 
Verse 15: “For to this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their hearts. But when their hearts turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now, the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (vs 15-17).
 
When did the veil come upon them? When they heard the Ten Commandments and they said, ‘Moses, you speak to God and we’ll do what you tell us to do, but don’t let God talk to us!’ That’s when it came! That’s automatic with a carnal nature. How many people know that you:
 
·         shouldn’t lie?
·         shouldn’t steal?
·         shouldn’t commit adultery?
·         shouldn’t sell drugs?
·         shouldn’t take drugs?
·         shouldn’t prostitute
·         shouldn’t cheat your neighbor?
 
They all know, but with the veil they see only a benefit to themselves, that if they do it, they will gain an advantage! That’s why they do it!
 
When you have the Truth of God, know about it, we’ve seen this, and I want you think on this deeply:
 
From the days of Christ all the way down to this day, the Jews reject Jesus Christ, except a few of the Messianics and even they do not understand everything, just some things. But the Jew’s purpose is to take down any group that tries to keep the laws and commandments of God. They believe—especially with the Sabbath and Holy Days--are only for them!
 
Who are the two main individuals, with other accomplices, in WCG that took it down?
 
1.       Robert Kuhn! A Jew, from the Kuhn-Lowe Banking family! Why would he come to Ambassador College and be a flunky wiping oil off the floor of the printing press building? He came so that he could be recognized and lifted up! Who did that? Garner Ted Armstrong! Kuhn became Armstrong’s alter-ego and controlled him!
 
2.       Stanley Rader! He came in early and held his peace, kept his position until the death of Loma Armstrong. Then he moved to totally control Herbert Armstrong.
 
I know from first hand testimony that Kuhn and Rader talked on the phone nearly every night for extended periods of time.
 
·         Why would they do that?
·         What were they talking about?
 
The ultimate goal was to take down the Worldwide Church of God. You don’t do it all at once! You create confusion, and bring your lieutenants in and get them in positions of authority. Then you pull the master plug and what was that? In 1976, and I’ve got the paper right here:
 
Ministerial Conference, 1976: Passover and the Bible in the Church Today by Lester Grabbe and Robert Kuhn
 
Robert Kuhn wrote most of this! Lester Grabbe was a lieutenant of Robert Kuhn. What do you do? You attack the most fundamental doctrine in the Church and create doubt, suspicion and fear, and claim that the Jews 15th Passover is the correct date! This is the paper that they wrote.
 
This is what you need. Why is that important? I had published A Harmony of the Gospels 1st edition and the 2nd edition was on its way. I said in there that ‘if we come to any knowledge concerning the Passover I’ll be sure and let you know.’
 
They stirred up a great storm and to this day it still has its effects. That 40-page paper is filled with lies and contradiction! But when you dumb people down and have ‘good time Joe’ all the time, then when the crisis comes, no one is equipped to answer it!
 
So, I had a problem. We had just moved into our house and I had my office in a little bedroom on the backside of the house. I had to find out the truth. We had this conference, and you’d be surprised at all the ministers that fell for the 15th Passover.
 
How are you going to find the Truth? In the Bible! It all had to do with:
 
·         When was evening?
·         When was between the evenings?
·         When did a day start?
·         When did a day end?
·         What did they actually do in the Old Testament?
 
I said this proposition to myself: If you cannot find in the Bible the absolute proof of the 14th, the absolute proof of ‘ben ha arbayim’ and the 14th, then the Jews are right.
 
Of course, the Jews claim they’re right! In one sense they are. When they’re not in the land of Israel, they cannot keep the Passover. So, that’s how they ended up with eight days of Passover with the Seder meal, which should have been the Night to Be Much Observed.
 
So, it took a while to find it and research it. When these doctrinal differences come up, you have got to get into the Scriptures and you have got to prove these things from the Word of God!
 
You can’t take something because it sounds logical and people would like to do it—I’ll add in a new addition:
 
There’s the Rock Valley Church down in So. California, and they meet on Ascension Day on Sunday to celebrate the ascension of Christ into heaven. I dare you to show me any place in the New Testament that commands that! You can’t find it!
 
This has to be guide in everything that you do doctrinally; Proverbs 30:5: “Every Word of God is pure…”
 
·         What do we have? The Truth of God! Every word!
·         Who inspired to give it to us? God did!
 
“…He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him” (v 5). If you don’t put your trust in Him, you have no shield!
 
What does Eph. 6 say about the forces of evil against us, and Satan against us?
 
Verse 6: “Do not…” IF you have a veil over your face, you don’t understand that:
 
do not commit adultery do not steal do not murder  
“…add to His words, lest He correct you and you be found a liar” (v 6).
 
How is God going to correct you? Very simple, if you’re not searching for the Truth, the blindness is going to come over you again!
 
It’s a correction that they won’t even know, because they think that what they’re doing is good. Let’s apply this to the Ascension Day.
 
·         Where were the apostles? They were locked up in a room for fear of the Jews (John 20)!
·         Why were they afraid of the Jews? Because the soldiers were told to say that the disciples stole the body!
 
They were afraid of being arrested by the authorities!
 
·         What were the rest of the disciples doing? They were working!
 
The women were coming down with the Aramaics to anoint His body even more. There was no meeting. You find no meeting later in the New Testament.
 
Why? Because the Ascension Day was between God the Father and Jesus Christ! That’s Their day!
 
We need to preach and teach about it. But to say let’s all gather together and we’ll have an official meeting here on Ascension Day… Guess what day that is this year? Easter!
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Truth of God - "Human Nature, Sin and Conversion" (second half)

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​Fred R. Coulter—October 31, 2015 Part #2
Transcript First Half
Aren’t you glad that you are not struck dead the instant you sin? Why doesn’t God do that? 
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(Second Half of Video)

Full Video@CBCG.orgAren’t you glad that you are not struck dead the instant you sin? Yes! Why doesn’t God do that? Because you already have the law of death within you and perhaps as you exercise your choices, you may repent! Sometimes it may take you a while to come to repentance. Let’s see how God has done it
through Christ.
 
Paul talks about all the sins. You can read the first part of it.  
Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God…”—everyone; no
one is exempt.
 
I’m not going to get into a detailed discussion of the difficult things to understand in Rom. 3, but the righteousness of God means His justification. Justification comes upon repentance, which God leads you to do, and the sacrifice of Christ and His shed blood applied to you individually. 
Verse 23: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; but are being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God has openly manifested to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, [justification] in respect to the remission of sins that are past” (vs 2325). All sin is past, because the instant you commit
it, it becomes a past sin.
 
Paul shows that it’s not by works and he shows that God is a God of the Jews and the Gentiles and you’re not abolishing Law.
 
Rom. 6 is about baptism. That’s why Jesus came and said, ‘Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.’ He was the Representative of the Kingdom of God. That’s why Peter preached, ‘Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins and you shall received the gift of the Holy Spirit.’ Receiving the Holy Spirit is the key for how we overcome sin.    
Romans 6 1: “What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? MAY IT NEVER BE!….” Paul said, ‘No! No!’      
When you’re baptized, you are “…baptized into His death” (v 3). God applies the death of Christ to your life as payment for your sins. We are buried with Him through baptism. This is a symbolic death. You die! You’re telling God, ‘Yes, I’m going to die in this watery grave.’ For what purpose? Now your life is  going to change! 
You’re going to come up out of that grave, and we’re to “…walk in newness of life” (v 4).
That’s what it’s all about.           
Verse 8: “…we died together… [v 9]: …knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has any dominion over Him. For when He died, He died unto sin once for all; but in that He lives, He lives unto God. In the same way…” (vs 8-11). Here is how we are to live after we are baptized. God forgives all your sins, then we will see that He gives you His Spirit to give you enough strength to begin to overcome the sin within. Here’s how we are to look at our lives. 
Verse 11: “In the same way also, you should indeed reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God through Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal body by obeying it in the lusts thereof” (vs 11 -12). 
What does this tell us? You still have the law of sin and death within you! How have you been delivered from it? Not by removing it, but by having
been given the Holy Spirit to overcome it!
 
Verse 12: “Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal body by obeying it in the lusts thereof.”
{note James. 1, how all that comes about}
 
Verse 13: “Likewise, do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin…” Don’t be giving in to sin. Sin will come easy. God still does not come and destroy you, but He will convict you in your mind and heart so that you will repent! God wants you actively involved in overcoming sin within your life, within and without.
 
“…rather, yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not rule over you because you are not under law, but under grace” (vs 13-14). You are under grace because you receive the Holy Spirit of God.  
Romans 7:1: “Are you ignorant, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law rules over a man for as long a time as he may live?” Everybody in the world is under law. Law judges automatically all the time. Whether known or unknown, it judges you--interior in your mind, exterior to the world —but under grace.
Grace means that you now have access to God so that you can repent if and when you sin. You have a direct relationship with God the Father and Jesus Christ. The rest of the world does not; they don’t know anything about it. There may be some people trying to quit this, that and the other, but they’re not trying to overcome the sin within through the Spirit of God so that they can develop the character of God and the mind of Christ. So, don’t let it rule over you.    
Romans 6:15: “What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? MAY IT NEVER BE! Don’t you realize that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are servants of the one you obey, whether it is of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (vs 15-16). There’s still that law of sin and death working within us, but having the Spirit of God we have the circumcision of the heart       . 
Verse 17: “But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you.” We are not to get all involved in sin again.          
Verse 14: “For sin shall not rule over you…” It doesn’t say you won’t sin.            
Romans 7:9: “For I was once alive without law… [the knowledge of the Law] …but after the commandment came… [came to its understanding] …sin revived, and I died.” How did he die? He died in baptism! After he received the Holy Spirit of God,
what happened?
 
Verse 10: “And the commandment, which was meant to result in life, was found to be unto death for me; because sin, having taken opportunity by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore, the Law is indeed Holy, and the commandment Holy and righteous and good. Now then… [you find out about the Law and the commandments] …did that which is good become death to me? MAY IT NEVER BE! But sin…” (vs 10-13). This is why you have the law of sin and death within you. So, when the knowledge of the Truth comes:
 
“…in order that it might truly be exposed as sin in me by that which is good, was working out death; so that, by means of the commandment, sin might become exceedingly sinful” (v 13)—lying, cheating, stealing, adultery, idolatry, taking God’s name in vain, all of the Ten Commandments. We are not under law as the world is. We are within law. Now, to give us the strength to overcome sin and to recognize it when it comes within, God has done this: 
Hebrews 10:14: “For by one offering He has obtained eternal perfection for those who are sanctified.” Perfection         is          a           process,            not instantaneous, for those who are sanctified. We’ve been sanctified because we’ve received the Holy
Spirit.
 
Verse 15: “And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after He had previously said, ‘This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days,’ says the Lord: ‘I will give My laws into their hearts, and I will inscribe them in their minds’” (vs 15-16). That is an amazing thing! How is it
written there? 

  • by study
  • by prayer
  • by repentance
  • by God’s Spirit
 
That’s why when you sin, you recognize it as sin. Whereas, before you knew God—repented, were baptized, and received the Spirit of God—you didn’t know it was sin. You may have thought it’s bad and shouldn’t do it. Just like a thief. When he first starts stealing, the first time he steals it’s probably, ‘Whoa, but I got away with that.’ The next time he steals, got away with it, and the next time he
steals, gets away with it.
 
I like that program on American Heroes Channel, I (Almost) Got Away With It. What happens? When Satan gives you a benefit stealing and you have all this loot, you got a benefit. You steal $10,000 you got $10,000 to spend. You think that’s a benefit and you succeeded in that. What happens when you spend it all and you’re still not caught? You’re either going to go apply for a job and put on your application: What you have done: ‘I just robbed a bank for $10,000.’ They’re not going to give you a job. 
What do you have to do? Since you haven’t repented, you haven’t forsaken it, you go steal again. This time you really hit the jackpot; you come up with $27,000, and you think that you’re really getting away with this. But all time the police are working and catching up with you. I remember watching the one where there were off-duty policemen who were robbing banks and they finally got them. There’s one Scripture that says very clearly, ‘Be sure your sins will find you out.’ That
means that they will be exposed!
 
That’s why you need the commandments written in your heart and your mind, so you know what is right, you know what is wrong. God has given you now the ‘spiritual standard’ required to keep those laws and has given you the Holy Spirit. Let’s talk about receiving the Holy Spirit.      
Colossians 2:10: “And you are complete in Him [Christ], Who is the Head of all principality and power in Whom you have also been circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ” (vs 10 -11).
That is the circumcision of the heart! That is not a heart transplant; there’s a difference. If you understand about the physical circumcision with men, it doesn’t remove everything, just part of it. What this does, this takes away part of your human nature and you are to grow in grace and knowledge to have it replaced with love, truth, character and the laws and commandments of God!            
Verse 12: “Having been buried with Him in baptism… [Rom. 6]…” That’s how you receive the circumcision of the heart: baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit!  
“…by which you have also been raised with Him through the inner working of God, Who raised Him from the dead. For you, who were once dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has now made alive with Him, having forgiven all your trespasses. He has blotted out the note of debt against us with the decrees of our sins, which was contrary to us; and He has taken it away, having nailed it to the cross” (vs 12-14). That’s forgiveness, circumcision of the heart and receiving of the Holy Spirit of God. 
When we receive the Sprit of God it is a begettal. It is not a transformation to make you a spirit being instantly, because God wants us to overcome the sin within. That’s why, with the circumcision of the heart and the mind, you’re going to remember some of the things in the past, not that God has failed to forgive you. He has forgiven you, but that’s like a history lesson written within: how stupid was that; I’m not going to do that.             
You won’t think of it all the time, but there will be times when that will come. That is so you can use the Spirit of God to overcome: the washing, the cleansing within! Just like David prayed, ‘Wash
me thoroughly from my sin.’ It’s a process.
 
Ephesians         1:13—concerning         Christ   “In Whom you also trusted after hearing the Word of the Truth, the Gospel of your salvation; in Whom also, after believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” That is the circumcision of the heart and mind!             
Verse 14: “Which is the earnest…” The earnest is the down payment very much likened unto this: When a new life is begotten in the womb of the mother by the father, it’s not ready for birth for nine months. It’s got to grow; It’s got to develop; everything has to be in place. Just like with us. Once we receive the begettal of the Holy Spirit:            
  • we are to grow in knowledge
  • we are to grow in grace
  • we are go grow in repentance        
We can look back and see the things we repented of maybe a long time ago and we’ve had a flash back to that and we think, how rotten and terrible that really was. Then you grow in deeper repentance. That’s why we repent every day. As you go along you will be able to, in fighting the battle against the carnal mind within, repent when it first comes up as a thought.  That’s what God wants us to do.
Just like the Sabbath. If one Sabbath made you perfect, let’s go to Sabbath services. Yep! It’s going to be quite an experience. You’re going to be changed from flesh to spirit. You’re going to rise up
in the air. You’re going to be perfect. No!

  • we need the Sabbath
  • we need the Bible
  • we need the Word of God
  • we need the Spirit of God
  • we need to see how sinful sin really is        
Exactly as Paul said, ’When the commandment came…’ That means that when he was baptized, received the Holy Spirit of God and God began writing the commandments within his heart and in his mind, he began to see how awful his life really was, especially persecuting the Christians. He was forgiven of that, but he never forgot it.    
Just like us. There are certain sins that you have forgotten completely. There are other sins that come back and haunt you. Why is that? Because you only have the earnest! A circumcision is the
beginning, not the perfection! Perfection comes dayby-day—some cases, hour-by-hour, minute-byminute, depending on what your circumstances are. You grow in grace and knowledge, and you overcome. You’re able to focus on what God wants. That’s why thoughts will come into your mind that you don’t want. The law of sin is still there. What do you do?  Repent of it and ask God to help you!
Have you ever had an obsessive thought come? like a stupid song? You’ve had that happen, especially from a commercial! All the commercials are the most deceptive of all. Everybody’s happy, everybody’s doing good, oh, what a wonderful thing, take this medicine, it’ll kill you but you’ll smile to your grave.    
“…of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession… [it’s like the lay-a-way plan] …to  the praise of His glory” (v 14).
Paul had to fight sin. He has many occasions in 2-Cor. and 1st & 2-Tim. where he reminds everybody of what he was before he was called. Think about Paul, #1 enemy of the Church, #1 handyman of the high priest, going out persecuting and killing Christians. God knocked him down and
he had a change of attitude right quickly.
 
Romans 7:11: “Because sin, having taken opportunity by the commandment… [where there is no law there is no sin] …deceived me, and by it killed me.” You think that if you do something that will be a benefit for you, even though it is a sin, you’re going to get away with it, but he didn’t, it
killed him.
 
Verse 12: “Therefore, the Law is indeed Holy…” That’s not what the Protestants say. They say Jesus did away with the Law. Proof that they don’t have the Spirit of God! They may have some understanding of some things. Do you think God Who created everything that there is to run by laws that He created, is going to do away with those? Just because sinners sin is God going to come along and say, ‘Oh, now, now. That’s all right. I’ve done away with the Law so anything you do is just fine now?’ Never happen!  No!
“…and the        commandment Holy     and righteous and good. Now then, did that which is good become death to me? MAY IT NEVER BE!…. [to show them that if he continued in transgressions, he would die] …But sin, in order that it might truly be exposed as sin       in me” (vs 12-13). Within! 
That’s why it says in Heb. 12 that we need to keep looking to Jesus Christ because we’re ‘so easily beset with sin.’ God knows we’re going to sin, but He hasn’t given us carte blanche to sin. He has given the vehicle through grace, prayer and repentance to be forgiven so that you will be strengthened, so you will not sin. That’s a life long project. 
“…by that which is good, was working out death; so that, by means of the commandment, sin might become  exceedingly sinful” (v 13). 
  • Isn’t that what happened with David? 
  • Isn’t that what happened with you? 
  • Isn’t that what happens with everyone that God calls? 
  • Yes! 
You begin to see the sin:
  • your lying
  • your cheating
  • your deceitfulness
  • your wickedness
 
We’re coming up on Christmas time. Here’s a benefit from Satan: We can all have a good time. Let’s stop at Halloween first. All of the kiddies go out: 
  • introduce them to death
  • introduce them to trick-or-treating
  • introduce them to extortion           
There are a lot of people willing to be extorted, so they have piles of candy and they come. The kids get all this candy and you go home. I remember when I went out and I came back with a big bag full of goodies: candies, cookies and everything like that. I put it out on my bed and looked at all of that and I thought: I got it made! Like kids are going to do, they’re going to gorge themselves on all the sweets and in two weeks they’re going to have a flu
epidemic at school.
 
Satan gives you a benefit. You don’t think that is sin. When my Mom took me out trick-ortreating, I didn’t say, ‘No, Mom. I’m not going, that’s sin.’ She gave me a bag and said, ‘Let’s go fill it up.’ I said, ‘Fine!’          
How does Satan work? Incrementalism! A little bit at a time! You’re going to see this year the beginning of an onslaught of Satan to deceive the whole world in the greater occult experiences. Halloween is becoming an adult thing; adults are spending as much or more on Halloween than they do on Christmas. It is the first holiday of the year that celebrates death and all the gruesomeness that goes with it and everything else that takes place.     
Verse 14: “For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am carnal, having been sold as a slave under sin.” Bring that out with anyone. Tell a thief to stop stealing. ‘Well, I know how to do it.’       
I remember watching this one program that what the police finally did, they conceded to the greatest jewel thief in the United States. He would come into the high-priced, expensive hotels and steal the jewels from the top paying customers that would come in there. They never could catch him. Finally, they caught him. They said, ‘All right. If you tell us how you do this, we’ll strike a deal with you and not put you in prison, but you better never steal anymore.’ So, he said, ‘Thank you,’ and told them how he did it. Every time he stole, that was a benefit. That’s how Satan works, but somebody always suffers.  
Verse 15: “Because what I am working out myself… [in other words, you’re going to live your life by yourself, without God] …I do not know…”           
  • you don’t know what you’re doing
  • you don’t know where you’re going
  • you don’t know what the purpose of life is             
“…For what I do not desire to do, this I do; moreover,, what I hate, this is what I do” (v 15). This is the struggle that now takes place once you
have the Holy Spirit of God. 

  • you’re tempted 
  • you sin 
  • you don’t know why you do it       
  • Were you perfect in temperament all this week?
  • Was every word out of your mouth nothing but praise and glory to God?
  • How about the thoughts in your mind?
  • Were your thoughts only on God?
or 
  • Were they on something else, and that something else was sin in your mind?
!
            Now what do you do?       
That’s why you have to have God’s Spirit to repent, pray and ask God for strength.           
Verse 16: “But if I am doing what I do not desire to do, I agree with the law that it is good…. [the Law is still good, there’s nothing wrong with it] …So then, I am no longer working it out myself; rather, it is sin that is dwelling within me” (vs 1617). Because you still have the law of sin and death within you, and your deliverance comes from exercising the Holy Spirit to overcome. God wants
our full-time, active involvement:

  • in overcoming sin
  • in studying and learning righteousness
  • in learning how to do things God’s way     
Our full-time effort in life! That’s what we’re here to learn. That’s why God just doesn’t say, ‘Oh, good. You repented. Let’s take the law of sin and death out of you.’ You going to live forever in the flesh? Never happen! Not going to happen! The sin is still there.  
  • that’s why temptation comes along
  • that’s why you lose your temper 
  • that’s why you even swear            
Maybe you’ve quit swearing but you’ve got another word in place of it. So, you use that word now because you’re not swearing, but it still means the
same thing.

  • Do you perfectly love everyone? No!
  • Do you have some people you don’t care for? Yes!
  • What are you going to do about that?
  • How are you going to handle that?             
Those are all things that come along!
 
What if, when you get older? I’m 80-yearsold and I remember things that I did as a kid. Why do I remember that? That’s a reminder that you’ve been a sinner from day one! I remember when I would lie, my mom sent me out—there were hazelnut trees around where lived—and I had to pick my switch. I would try to bring in a little thicker one that didn’t sting as much. She’d say, ‘Go out and get a thin one.’ Then she’d go whack! whack! whack! on my calves and everything. ‘Don’t you lie again.’     
I was rambunctious. At five-years-old I’d walk five blocks down to the park and spend all day there. I’d play with the kids and come home.            
‘Where you been?’ Been down at the park. What’d you do?’ Swinging, sliding, doing all of this. Don’t you know something may happen down there? No! ‘Well, you stay home.’ So I went again. ‘You stay home.’ I went again. ‘All right. I’m not going to switch you for it. Here’s the clock up on the mantle of the counter of the fireplace. You stand there with your arms out.’ 
First time 15 minutes: ‘Get ’em up! Get ’em up!’ So, I got through the 15 minutes. The next day. Gone again, come back. ‘All right, a half hour. ‘Get ’em up!’ That went on until I got up to an hour. My mom finally surrendered and said, ‘Look, if you’re going to go, let me pack a lunch for you.’ So, I quit going.
 
That’s the sin within! We can laugh at it because it’s humorous because it has to do when you’re a kid. Think of that behavior when you get older. Think of what it is when there’s rebellion. ‘I’m going to take the car and go out.’ You be careful. Drive carefully. ‘Yep.’ So you crash it at 100mph and kill somebody! Sin within! You don’t
know what you’re doing. 
 
“…For what I do not desire to do, this I do; moreover, what I hate, this is what I do” (v 15). That’s what happens when you sin. You don’t like it, God’s Spirit convicts you, reminds you of it so you can repent ; that’s what God wants!
Verse 18: “Because I fully understand that there is not dwelling within me—that is, within my fleshly being--any good….” Where did we start? Matt. 19, ‘there is none good but God,’ Jesus said to
the young man!
 
“…For the desire to do good is present… [my intensions were good] …within me; but how to work out that which is good, I do not find” (v 18). 
 
Have you ever had it where you want to do something really nice and lovely for someone and what happens? You have the best intensions possible, but it ends up in a fight and an argument and you just walk away angry and mad. I know that’s never happened to you     —has it?
Even within the Church is it okay that you love some people more than others? Yes, because Jesus loved John more that the other disciples, but He still loved them within the Church! Because of personality differences, or something—you’re kind to them, you’re good to them, you love them—but it’s not necessarily a bosom buddy type of thing where it’s huggy-kissy all the time. You better be
careful about that.
 
Verse 19: “For the good that I desire to do, I am not doing; but the evil that I do not desire to do, this I am doing.” This is the pull of human nature!
 
You have a thought come into your head that you know didn’t come from God. You have a memory from the past, and that memory from the past is a history lesson, just like you read in the Old Testament all the history; just like we read about David. That’s a history lesson. He’s forgiven! God has forgotten it! He’s going to be raised as king over Israel forever!
 
God understands we’re weak in the flesh. He’s going to forgive when we repent. It’s not if we sin, because there’s no if about it. You are going to! So, it’s when you sin.
 
Maybe you’ll be really inspired after this sermon today and you’re going to be really resolved that you’re going to do better. You’re going to be really resolved that you’re going to sit down and have those nice little talks with yourself and say:             
  • Now, {your name}, you know what you need to do. Yes! 
  • You know that you ought to do this. Yes! 
  • Are you going to do it? Yes! 
  • Why didn’t you do it?       
That’s how it works. This is why:
 
Verse 20: “But if I do what I do not desire to do, I am no longer working it out myself, but sin that is dwelling within me.” Why does God leave the law of sin and death within you? He leaves the law of sin in you so that you will learn to use the Holy Spirit to overcome and so that you will learn that you can’t overcome unless you repent!    
He doesn’t know what sin you’re going to do. You don’t know what sin you’re going to do. Tomorrow, tell me what sin you’re going to do at eleven o’clock in the morning. You don’t know. Neither does God, because there’s free moral agency. Maybe at eleven you won’t sin, but maybe at three o’clock in the afternoon, you will. Who knows? This is why prayer is every day, led by the Spirit of God to change and grow and overcome. If you have a thought flash from the past, repent of it, get it out of your mind and ask God to clean your mind. 
How are you going to get your mind cleaned up? Think of all the garbage that is in there. There’s a lot of garbage in the brain. Everything you’ve ever done is still recorded there somewhere. They know with brain surgery that you can touch a certain place in the brain and they can smell smells, while they’re under surgery. It’s recorded there. Conversion of the mind becomes the important thin             g!
The truth is, we’ll just project ahead: none of us will be perfect until the resurrection. Just like when you’re begotten you cannot be born. You can never, in the flesh, be totally perfect. You are in the process of being perfected spiritually so that at the resurrection God will finish that perfection. Then you shed everything; you leave everything behind.
 
Verse 21: “Consequently, I find this law in my members, that when I desire to do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man” (vs 21-22). You’re not trying to resist against the laws of God. You’re not trying to go out and sin, but sin is there and it pops
up.
 
Verse 23: “But I see another law within my own members, warring against the law of my mind, and leading me captive to the law of sin that is within my own members.” The law of sin is still there!
 
Stop and think for a minute. Suppose you could be perfect in the flesh. Would you not go around and look at other people in their sins and just condemn them up and down, one way or the other? Think of the arrogance it would be if that were possible. 
That was the problem with Job. Maybe I ought to follow this up with a series on Job. I’ve done some in the past, but I’ve read the transcripts recently and it’s not sufficient. That’s what Job did. ‘I’m so good. God has got to come down here. I need an umpire or a judge. I’m going to take God to court so He can know how good I am.’ God took him to court and he found out he wasn’t so good.        
Here is what happens when you begin to see how sinful sin is as he said; Verse 24: “O what a wretched man I am! Who shall save me from the body of this death? I thank God for His salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of this, on the one hand, I myself serve the Law of God with my mind; but on the other hand, with the flesh, I serve the law of sin” (vs 24-25). That is when you sin because it’s still within you!
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​Full Video@CBCG.org
Scriptural References:
​Mark 7:21-23
2)Jeremiah 17:9-10
3)Colossians 1:26-27
4)Philippians 2:5
5)Matthew 19:16-17
6)Romans 5:12
7)Romans 8:1-3
8)John 1:1, 3
9)Hebrews 5:5-9
10)Romans 2:4
11)James 1:13-16
12)Psalm 51:1-7
13)Romans 3:23-25
14)Romans 6:1-4, 8-14
15)Romans 7:1
16)Romans 6:15-17, 14
17)Romans 7:9-13
18)Hebrews 10:14-16
19)Colossians 2:10-14
20)Ephesians 1:13-14
21)Romans 7:11-17, 15, 18-25
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
  • Isaiah 50 
  • Hebrews 12          
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Truth of God - "Human Nature, Sin and Conversion" (first half)Truth of God - "Human Nature, Sin and Conversion" (first half)

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Fred R. Coulter—October 31, 2015
Transcript Second Half
​• How do our minds work?
• If God forgives sin and       forgets it, why do we   remember it on different   occasions?
• Does that mean that God   has  not forgiven that sin?
• What does it actually mean? Let’s look at the human mind. 
(First Half of Video)
(Second Half of Video)
End Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services!  
  • How do our minds work?
  • If God forgives sin and forgets it, why do we remember it on different occasions?
  • Does that mean that God has not forgiven that sin?
  • What does it actually mean?       
Let’s look at the human mind.
 
We’re all born with human nature, and our human nature is not the same as it was when God originally created Adam and Eve. After Adam and Eve sinned, their nature was changed so that they were subject to death and they had a hostile nature to God that is called the law of sin. Paul writes of ‘the law of sin and death.’ You can see this in little infants. They want their own way. They’ll fight and squabble and war. The biggest problem is separating them. Notice what we are by nature.     
Mark 7:21: “For from within, out of the hearts of men, go forth evil thoughts…” This is by nature. Even some thoughts that we think of as ‘good,’ are evil. Without God’s Spirit to guide us, you’re st uck in this conundrum.
“…adulteries,    fornications,     murders… [everything that human nature does] …thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, guile, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness; all these evils go forth from within, and these defile a man” (vs 21-23).  
Let’s see how Jeremiah describes it. We will see that no man has the power by his own works to save himself. We also can see that no person is able to extend their life very far. Every once in a while, if you watch Fox News and watch Bill O’Reilly, they give a salute to someone whose 95, 102, and so forth, but they still die. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes that if a man live 1000 years twice-fold and dies, that’s vanity. None of us are going to reach that in the flesh; we’re all going to wear out and collapse before that. We’re talking about the nature,
the heart and the mind.
 
Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is deceitful above all things…” That’s the first thing to remember, you’re going to deceive yourself. It’s easy to do. Do people live by lies? Yes, they do! Everything that we read in Mark 7:21 that’s the way people behave and we’re going to see that even though there are heinous crimes committed, there are those who have absolutely no remorse in doing them. They think they’re right!
“…and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (v 9). A person does not even know his or her own mind without the Word of God to tell them what it really is. You’re not aware of the sins. You may think that you’ve done some wrong. You may have a little guilty conscience, but you justify that and move on.  
Verse 10: “I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” God says He’s going to judge.  
Let’s see where God is going to take us. Here the problem: How do you get from Mark 7:21 and Jer. 17:9 to this:  
Colossians 1:26: “Even the mystery that has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been revealed to His saints.”   
  • Isn’t it a mystery that no one understands human nature? 
  • Isn’t it a mystery that no one knows what God is doing, yet, it’s revealed in the Bible? 
 
The Bible is the most published book in the whole
world, and yet, it is the most ignored.
 
Verse 27: “To whom God did will…” Understand this: What we know and what we understand comes from the will of God!
 
“…to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (v 27). 

  • How is God going to come from total dedication to evil—the carnal mind, hostile against God—to Christ in you? 
  • What is that to do? 
  • How is that going to be done?
 
Here we’re describing the beginning, when we start to understand about God, to the ending of it at the resurrection. First, we have to have something in between,  which is: 
Philippians. 2:5: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus”—to have the very mind of Christ. You have to let this happen, and it cannot happen without the Spirit of God. This is
what we are going to cover today.
 
Matthew 19:16—this is a very revealing statement: “Now at that time, one came to Him and
said, ‘Good Master…’” 

  • Was Christ ‘good’? Have to say so! 
  • Was He perfect? Yes, He was! 
  • Why does He say this?      
“…what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?’ And He said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good?” (vs 16-17). Why did Christ say that? Because He was in the flesh! What kind of flesh? That’s the question!            
“…No one is good except one—God” (v 17). Let’s ask another question that is hard for
people to grasp. Jesus came to the earth:

  • divested Himself of all of His glory as God
  • was impregnated into the womb of the virgin Mary
  • was born as any ordinary human being
  • lived His life        
Here’s His ministry. Why would He say, ‘Don’t call me good,’ when He was truly the only good person on earth? Remember what happened when Adam and Eve sinned: 
  • they were cut off from God
  • they were sentenced to death to have the law of death within them
  • their human nature was changed to be hostile against God, which is called the
‘law of sin’
 
Paul describes this as ‘the law of sin and death.’ Did Jesus die? Yes! He had to have the ‘law of death’
within Him.
 
Romans 5:12: “Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by means of sin came death…” So, in this way death passed into all mankind. They know there is a death gene. The scientists have been trying to figure out where it is so they can modify it.             
It is for this reason that all have sinned. If you have a nature that is carnal, physical and subject to death, it is also subject to sin. That’s why all sin regardless of their age. Isn’t that what the Scriptures say? ‘All have sinned and come short of the glory of God!’ All you have to do is just watch the news. Sin is going on: 
  • everywhere 
  • every place
  • every country
  • every city
  • every town
  • every village
  • every human being           
Even the saints have a hard time with it. We’ll explain why he writes this in Rom. 8. We will get to why He says, ‘consequently,’ a little later.       
Romans 8:1: “Consequently, there is now no condemnation to those who ar         e in Christ Jesus…”
  • What does it mean to be in Christ Jesus? It means you have to have the Spirit of God!
  • How do you get the Spirit of God? Through repentance and baptism!
 
“…who are not walking according to the flesh… [living your life just any way you want to live it] …but according to the Spirit” (v 1). You can’t live “…according to the Spirit” without the Spirit of
God.      
What did God say to the Israelites when they said to Moses, ‘Everything that God said we’ll do’? What did God say? ‘Oh, if there were such a heart in them that they would,’ because it takes the Spirit of God and God didn’t give them the Holy Spirit of God. That’s why they were to keep the laws and commandments of God in the letter of the Law.
 
That’s what I also explained on how do you understand/study the Bible. You begin with the simple things, obey His voice! You start in the letter of the Law, but unless you come to repentance so you can receive the Spirit of God, you cannot walk in the Spirit the way God wants you to.         
Verse 2: “Because the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus…” —includes:
  • repentance
  • baptism
  • receiving the Spirit of God
  • growing and overcoming  
That’s what the New Testament is all about.        
“…has delivered me from the law of sin and death” (v 2). What do you mean delivered? Did God, when we’re converted, remove the ‘law of sin and death’? No, He did not! It even says of the saints that die that it’s a delight, it’s a blessing from God,
that you die in the faith. 

  • Were we delivered completely from the law of sin?
  • Did God remove sinful inclinations from out of our being? No!
  • Why did He say “…delivered me…”?       
Because when you receive the Spirit of God, you now have the Spirit of God to lead you and to convict you in heart and mind so you can repent and overcome human nature! Otherwise, if you’re made perfect as soon as you’re baptized and receive the Holy Spirit of God… We’ll talk about what baptism does and why it works the way that it works, which answers the questions:    
  • Why do you still have sin within?
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How do you overcome it?
  • How do you change?        
By yourself, maybe you can improve yourself to do certain things, but you cannot get rid of the law of sin and death,  but He has delivered us.
  • How are we delivered from death?
  • When does that come? 
  • The resurrection!  
We’ll talk about the law of sin in a little bit.         
Here’s why Jesus did not say He was good, did not even allow someone to come and say, ‘Good Master.’ He said that there’s only One Who is good and that is God. With Jesus as God manifested in the flesh, how many Gods were there in heaven? One,
the Father!
 
Sidebar: All you Sacred Namers don’t get mad, but the only revealed name in the New Testament of God is the Father and of Christ: Jesus and the Christ . That’s it!
Verse 3: “For what was impossible for the law to do, in that it was weak through the flesh…” How many people know right from wrong but still continue to do wrong? They’re carnal and fleshly! Maybe if you’ve been taught while you’re growing up, right and wrong, good and evil, you’re not going to be so inclined to go out and do things that are sin:

  • you know that you shouldn’t kill
  • you know that you shouldn’t commit adultery
  • you know that you shouldn’t steal
  • you know that you shouldn’t lie     
You know the one on coveting most everyone forgets, because you’re striving after all the things that you want, but you have some knowledge of right and wrong. 
What we’re doing today in this society, we’re not teaching them right from wrong. Look at what’s happening: everything is right in their own eyes, all the lawlessness everywhere; all through the weakness of the flesh, all through the carnal mind. Here’s the solution:             
“…God, having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh… [exactly as our sinful flesh is sinful flesh] …and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” (v 3). Whose flesh was it condemned in? Jesus’ flesh! Why? 
 
You may have heard some people say, ‘For God to judge Adam and Eve that way and give them the law of sin and death within their very beings, that’s not fair. For every human being to be born with the law of sin and death within them, that’s not fair.’ God works on justice, not fairness!            
  • What did God do? 
  • Who was the Creator of mankind?             
John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. [v 3] …All things came into being through Him…” All human nature and all human flesh is a result of Jesus Christ. He was the One Who created Adam and Eve. 
In order to be a Savior of all of mankind, He took upon Him, through His mother Mary—there was never an immaculate conception with Mary, she had human nature—He received human nature and carried within Him, in His fleshly being, ‘the law of
sin and death.’ Yet, never sinned!

  • You think you have a hard time overcoming sin?
  • Was Jesus tempted? Yes, indeed!
  • Was it difficult? Yes, indeed!
 
Hebrews 5:5 talks about the priesthood and Christ’s priesthood: “In this same manner also, Christ did not glorify Himself to become a High Priest… [on the earth] …but He Who said to Him, ‘You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’ Even as He also says in another place, ‘You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchisedec’” (vs
5-6). 
 
He could not become that High Priest in heaven until He brought the perfect sacrifice condemning sin in the flesh. It was difficult for Jesus. Yes, He had the Holy Spirit. Yes, the Father taught Him. That’s why He was never taught by the rabbis. God the Father taught Him, woke Him up every morning and taught Him (Isa. 50).             
Verse 7: “Who, in the days of His flesh, offered up both prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him from death…” What does that mean? The wages of sin is death!
 
God risked everything coming in the flesh and taking upon Himself human nature and also to fight against Satan the devil. Think of that! 

  • Is God just? Yes, indeed! 
  • Is God fair?         Yes, indeed! 
He did that for all mankind and since He’s the Creator of all human beings, then His life and His death as a sacrifice with His shed blood can be applied to all of those who repent. Sin was condemned in His flesh on the cross and in His life that He never sinned, though He had the law of sin and death within Him. There’ll be some theologians
that’ll say, ‘You’re way off base here.’
 
“…and was heard because He feared God. Although He was a Son, yet, He learned obedience from the things that He suffered” (vs 7-8). We don’t know all the things that Jesus suffered. We don’t have anything recorded about that. We have some things, but not all.            
Verse 9: “And having been perfected…” Is God perfect? Yes! Why did Jesus come and take on human flesh? To be perfected as the sacrifice for all human beings and to be able to bring eternal life to
them!
 
“…He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him” (v 9). Obey My voice! Simple as can be! Some of the things are hard to understand. As I brought out at Church at Home {churchathome.org}, it’s easy to understand the Ten Commandments. There’s nothing difficult about them. Obey Him! How does this apply to us? First of all, it is God Who leads us to repentance.
 
Romans 2:4: “Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the graciousness of God leads you to repentance?” You see your sins in the light that you see them and in the light that God sees them.  
Let’s talk about the sin between David and Bathsheba and the killing of her husband Uriah: Here’s the king: 
  • all power
  • loved God
  • wrote hundreds of Psalms
  • was a real battler and a warrior fighting the
battles that God told him to fight
 
So much so, that God gave him the plans for his son Solomon—who by the way, his mother was
Bathsheba—to build the temple. Think of that!
 
Think of all that went in with it. David did have the Spirit of God, just like us! We have the Spirit of God! Do we sin? Yes! David really sinned; so did Bathsheba. She knew her husband was gone to battle, and apparently their house was right next to the house of King David. She bathed on the rooftop knowing that the king would walk by and see her. So, she had her part. David made a lot of mistakes. He could have said, ‘Uh, oh! No way!’ We say today, ‘No way, José.’ He didn’t!  Lust got enticed!
Let’s see how sin works even if you have
the Spirit of God, if you do not resist it!
 
James 1:13: “Do not let anyone who is tempted say, ‘I am being tempted by God…’” Did God tempt David to lust after Bathsheba? Of course not! Notice the process. This happened to David. He saw her and thought, ‘Woo, woo!  
“…because God is not tempted by evil, and He Himself tempts no one with evil” (v 13). What does God set before us? Choices! Life and death,
blessing and cursing!
 
Here’s David: What’s he going to do? What’s he going to choose? He had a chance to not get involved. He could have thought, ‘Oh, I’ll never do that to one of my generals, one of my captains, or maybe a major,’ because Joab was over Uriah. He didn’t put it down.      
Verse 14: “But each one is tempted when he is drawn away…” With his own human nature. Of course, when Satan tempts you he gives you a benefit. The benefit was, ‘This would be spectacular with this woman!’ She was there bathing letting the king know, ‘I’m all ready!’ So, when the king’s messenger came, she didn’t send a note back saying, ‘Tell the king I cannot come.’ She could have, but she didn’t. David sent the messenger. Now somebody else is involved and knows what’s going
on. Think of that! So, she came.
 
Can you imagine all the servants in the household of David, after she came? They knew what was going on! She even stayed there until she was clean then went back home. David should not have done that. 
That’s how human nature works. He justified it all the way along. He probably said, ‘I’m king. I can do whatever I want.’ It seems to me we heard that of some narcissists in America. After all, ‘I have great desire for her.’ Satan will give you a
benefit; so, she came.
 
The Proverb says that what is ‘spoken in secret a little bird is going to fly away with it.’ Can you imagine the waggling tongues that went with that? Can you imagine the next morning when the servants looked around and said, ‘Oh, she’s still here?’ Of course, they knew what went on. The reason I’m bringing this out is because that’s how
sin entices!
 
Verse 15: “And after lust has conceived… [it did] …it gives birth to sin… [he committed adultery and she committed adultery] …and sin, when it is completely finished, brings forth death.” That’s exactly what happened!  
So, he thought, ‘She left, she went home.’ It must have been about six weeks later, she sent a message to the king, ‘David, I’m pregnant.’ What did he do? He said, ‘I’ve got to get rid of the evidence.’ He worked it out with Joab, the commander. He wrote a special note to Joab and had a messenger take it to him to put her husband Uriah the Hittite right up in the thick of the battle and when he’s there, back away and let him die. So, he did. Can you imagine what Joab thought? Joab had to do a lot of dirty work for David! I don’t think he
had too good of an opinion of David.
 
Why am I bringing this out? To show you the process of sin with even those who are converted, that unless you overcome it every day, it will take you down! We know what happened, he didn’t repent of it. Finally, God had to send Nathan the prophet, and he told David about the rich man who took the poor man’s little ewe to make a feast for his friends. David got all angry and Nathan looked him right in the eye and said, ‘You are the one.’ 
What happened? Everything was in rebellion from that day on. The sin of one man affected the whole kingdom. It affected his family and the child died. God took the life of the child. Can you imagine if that child would have lived with all the hypocrisy of everything that went on? Just think what his name would have been called with the wagging tongues of all the people talking about it! If he would have inherited the throne, there would have been absolutely no respect at all. David did repent. This is how it comes about. It brings forth death. 
Verse 16 “Do not deceive yourselves…”
That’s what he says here.            
Psa. 51 is David’s repentance. This helps us to answer the question as to why God does not take away the law of sin and death from us immediately. That cannot happen as long as we’re in the flesh.        
Psalm 51:1: “Have mercy upon me, O God… [He forgave David; Nathan said, ‘Your sin has been forgiven.] …according to Your loving kindness; according to the greatness of Your compassion, blot out my transgressions”—all the series of those things leading to that affair and afterwards. 
Verse 2: “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity…” We’re going to talk about the ‘washing of the water by the Word’ a little later. You have to have your sins washed away. We will see that that is
a process. It doesn’t happen all at once.
 
“…and cleanse me from my sin, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me” (vs 2-3). He could see the greatness of his sin. That’s why it talks about that sin may
become exceedingly sinful.
 
Someone who commits a murder or somebody he doesn’t like, that’s nothing to him. He doesn’t understand about murder. Someone who steals from someone because ‘they have more than I do and I’m going to take it.’ They don’t view that as sin. Look at it on the lawless riots that they’ve had in various cities. They smash in the windows, burn cars, loot the stores, take everything and they’re innocent because someone has something that they want and they take. There’s no remorse.            
David understood what it was after Nathan came and really let him have it. He fasted for how many days hoping that the child would live, but it didn’t. 
Verse 4: “Against You, You only, have I sinned…” When you sin it’s against God first and then the other people. Everybody suffered from that.    
A good example is what we’ve experienced with the Church. Remember what happened? It’s all scattered. Here we are in small groups, getting older and all of that thing, that’s all part of it! It affected every one of us. How was your attitude when you were living through those things and finding out what was going on? Miserable! That’s how all of Israel was because of the sin of David, and it took them some time to get over it. David realized that he sinned against God directly! This was after God promised that he would never lack for a descendent to sit on his throne. After that fantastic promise, God did not take away that promise, because God’s Word stands. 
“…and done evil in Your sight, that You might be justified when You speak and be in the right when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity…” (vs 4-5). That means with the law of sin and death, not that his mother committed adultery to have him as a child.         No!
“…and in sin did my mother conceive me” (v 5)—because the law of sin and death comes right with conception. It’s right there.  
Verse 6: “Behold, You desire Truth in the inward parts…” That is the goal of repentance, baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit! What’s in the inward parts before that? Deceit, lying, all the works of the flesh (Mark 7:21)! Isn’t it true that ‘The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?’ Even King David fell to that. 
Psalm 51:6: “…and in the hidden part You shall make me to know wisdom”. That’s why you’re going to learn  from the things that you did.
If you think of that again after you’ve repented of it, does that mean that God has not forgiven you? No! That doesn’t mean that God has not forgiven you but it means that is a memory of history for you to learn not to do that. How about here with David. It’s written for all of us! Won’t David be surprised when he’s resurrected and finds out? 
Verse 7: “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me… [David says it in v 2, ‘wash me.’] …and I shall be whiter than snow.” 

End of the first half of this transcript.
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Truth of God - "Review of Noah’s Flood,God the Father & Jesus Christ" (second half)

1/2/2020

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Fred R. Coulter—December 28, 2019 
Refuting the problem of Judaism and false doctrine that Jesus was a created being. 
The title of this message - Review of Noah’s Flood,
God the Father & Jesus Christ. ​
(Second Half of Video)
​(First Half of Video)
Transcript Second Half along with Scriptural References:


Transcript Books and CDs:
·         The Lord God and the Most High
·         God the Father was Not the God of the Old Testament
 
We have lots of studies/Transcript Books; we have a catalog and you can order four series at a time.
 
We had a discussion during the break and of all the details of what is right and wrong and this, that and the other thing, the most important thing is that you:
 
·         love God
·         love Christ
·         love the Truth
·         keep the commandments
·         love your neighbor s yourself
 
Then what you have is the right perspective so you don’t get carried away and run off on junkets of some of these things that come along like we’re discussing now. Some of them are disgusting!
 
We’re going to look at a number of Scriptures that tell us the difference between God the Father and Christ.
 
Hebrews 1:1: “God Who spoke to the fathers at different times in the past and in many ways by the prophets, has spoken to us in these last days by His Son… [that is through the New Testament] …Whom He has appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made the ages” (vs 1-2). That agrees with John 1:1-3!
 
Verse 3: “Who, being the brightness of His glory and the exact image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His own power…” Remember that Jesus said, the last thing He told the apostles in Matt. 28: All power and authority is given to Me in heaven and in earth! That means that God the Father gave it to Him!
 
“…when He had by Himself purged our sins…” (v 3).
 
The reason that Jesus came to purge our sins is that He was the Lord God of the Old Testament. He was the One Who made Adam and Eve. So, the best sacrifice is for the One Who created them to become flesh and never sin. That sacrifice can cover every human being.
 
If it was God the Father Who was working in the Old Testament, the Most High and not the Lord God under the Most High¸ then the Most High would have had to come in the flesh and be the perfect sacrifice.
 
“…sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; having been made so much greater than any of the angels, inasmuch as He has inherited a name exceedingly superior to them. For to which of the angels did He ever say, ‘You are My Son; this day I have begotten You’?….” (vs 3-5).
 
That goes back to Psa. 2. The Son did not become the Son until He was impregnated into the womb of the virgin Mary.
 
“…And again, ‘I will be a Father to Him, and He will be a Son to Me’? And again, when He brought the Firstborn into the world, He said, ‘Let all the angels of God worship Him’” (vs 5-6).
 
There are quite a few things in John 1 that help us understand. As a matter of fact, I was looking at when I did the Gospel of John series; that will be 30 years ago. Maybe I ought to do it again.
 
John 1:12: “But as many as received Him…”
 
·         to understand that He was the Son of God
·         to understand that He forgives our sins
·         to understand that He is our High Priest in heaven right now
·         to understand that He will be our soon coming King when He returns
But you
·         receive Him
·         believe Him
·         obey Him
·         love Him
 
That’s all in the word receive!
 
“…to them He gave authority to become the children of God…” (v 12). In the Greek there are two words for child:
 
1.       ‘huios’—singular, a son
·         ‘huio’—plural; offspring in general
·         ‘teknon’--children by the Father
 
That’s why you receive the Holy Spirit as a begettal. That’s why Peter said that ‘you have been begotten again.’ (1-Peter 1). Your first begettal was through your mother and father for physical life. Begotten again is receiving the Holy Spirit so you can become a ‘tekna’ child and all of them together are children—‘teknon’—of God.
 
The Protestants have that from the King James as ‘adoption.’ That’s incorrect! It should be sonship!
 
“…even to those who believe in His name; who were not begotten by bloodlines… [doesn’t matter who you are] …nor by the will of the flesh… [that it’s all planned out] …nor by the will of man, but by the will of God” (vs 12-13).
 
·         What is the will of God? His plan!
·         How has He revealed it? Through His Sabbath and Holy Days!
 
Verse 14: “And the Word became flesh…” That’s what they’re going to end up with! He was like God! He was flesh! And they will misinterpret it and go to Luke 1 and try and prove it that way.
 
“…and tabernacled among us (and we ourselves beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father), full of grace and truth” (v 14). That’s referring to the Transfiguration!
 
“…full of grace…” is the mercy, truth and love of God! God’s love for you to give you the Holy Spirit and all of that!
 
What is the Holy Spirit called? The Spirit of the Truth! We are sanctified, that is made Holy by the Truth. That’s accomplished by the Holy Spirit by writing the laws and commandments in our heart and mind. That’s why it’s so important when we cover all of these nitty-gritty details that we keep in mind the big picture!
 
Verse 52: “And He said to him, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God descending to and ascending from the Son of man.’”
 
·         What was it like with Jesus?
·         Were there always angels all around?
 
It would have to be by this! You know that on the Passover Day every detail had to be worked out by the angels and the part that Satan played with Judas.
 
Verse 18: “No one has seen God at any time…” How did Moses speak to God? He spoke to the one who was God, Who was with God! This is saying that no one has seen God the Father, the Most High, at any time! That covers everything in the Old Testament!
 
“…the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (v 18).
 
Let’s see that repeated again, and we will look and see exactly what we’ve been talking about here. God’s greatest work is being done with His Holy Spirit in converting our mind. When there is sin, that’s where it is, it’s in the heart and in the mind! It’s quite a thing! The more that you have the Spirit of God in your mind, the more it’s going to reveal to you how much sin is buried in your mind. There’s a lot of it! Why? Because you’ve grown up and have all these other things!
 
Plus, today, we have so much crashing in on us with television, e-mails, iPhones, iPads, Twitter, Facebook, whatever. All of that; everything crashing in on us! There are some people who can’t stand to have it quiet. They get up and they turn on the music. Then they hop in the car and they turn on the music. The ones who are really messed up are the ones who have sound blast through your whole body. When one of those drive by in your neighborhood and it’s booming and the whole neighborhood is vibrating.
 
After Jesus healed the man on the Sabbath and told him to pick up his bed and walk. His bed had to be like a sleeping bag, but the Jews exaggerated with their traditions what it means to not carry a burden. Would it be a burden to carry a knapsack or sleeping bag on your arm. The Jews found the man who was healed and said, ‘Who told you to carry that?’ Well the man who healed me said to ‘pick up your bed and walk.’ ‘Who was it?’ I don’t know. Later he said that it was Jesus, so they found Jesus and here’s the encounter because they wanted to persecute Him:
 
John 5:17: “But Jesus answered them, ‘My Father is working… [present tense participle] …until now, and I work’”--on the Sabbath Day!
 
·         What work is God the Father doing on the Sabbath Day? Spiritual work!
·         What work was Christ doing on the Sabbath Day? Spiritual work!
·         Was He out building a building? No!
ü  He was healing!
ü  He was forgiving!
 
Verse 18: “So then, on account of this saying, the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, not only because He had loosed the Sabbath…”
 
In other words, the only way to keep the Sabbath is the way the Pharisees say, very strictly! But He loosed it! Some people think that that means destroyed the Sabbath or broke the Sabbath! But that’s no so! He loosed it!
 
Remember the Pharisee, the doctor of the law? He asked Jesus which was the greatest commandment. Jesus said, ‘Love God with all your heart, mind, strength and being, and your neighbor as yourself. The doctor of the law said, ‘You answered correctly. But tell me, who is my neighbor?’
 
Then Jesus gave the parable of the man who was on the way up from Jericho to Jerusalem and beaten up by robbers and left to die. Here comes a priest, ‘Oh, I can’t get near that, because I’m going up to work at the temple. I can be unclean.’ So, he didn’t help the man. Here comes a Levite, ‘I can’t do that, I can’t help him; I’m going to go do great things at the temple.’
 
So, here comes a Samaritan, which the Jews hated with a passion! What did he do? He picked the man up and put him on his beast of burden and took him to what we would call a motel, an inn back then, and told the person—after he had dressed his wound and put oil and wine on it. You might think about that in relationship to when you have a wound. He told the innkeeper, ‘Here’s some money and you take care of him and when I come back if I owe you anymore I’ll pay it.
 
Then Jesus looked at the doctor of the law and said, ‘Tell me, which one loved his neighbor?’ Remember, the doctor of the law would not have gone over to help him. He said, ‘I suppose the one who helped him.’
 
“…but also because He had called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God” (v 18). Then He caught them again in John 10.
 
So, after He made Himself equal with God, v 19: “Therefore, Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, the Son has no power to do anything of Himself, but only what He sees the Father do. For whatever He does, these things the Son also does in the same manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing….’” (vs 19-20).
 
That shows you part of the communication they had back and forth. I imagine that they were constantly in touch with each other all the time.
 
“…And He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may be filled with wonder. For even as the Father raises the dead and gives life, in the same way also, the Son gives life to whom He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son” (vs 20-22)--because He came in the flesh and experienced all the temptations that we do!
 
He is the One to make the judgment. To whom do we give an account for our lives? Paul writes that we all come before the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for ourselves!
 
Verse 22: “For the Father judges no one…” [they’re going to have trouble with this one!] …but has committed all judgment to the Son so that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father Who sent Him” (vs 22-23).
 
What one problem does this reveal? that’s 2,000 years old? that no one can solve? The problem of the Jews! They have rejected Christ and they think that they’re honoring God and they cannot.
 
Look at how awful it has been. Read the book of Jeremiah, and you read what Jesus said when they rejected Him. So, the only thing you can do is have pity on the Jews. It would be great if many more of them would be converted. Remember how many of them were converted when everything first started? They were all Jews the first 12 years!
 
Verse 24: “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who hears My Word, and believes Him Who sent Me, has everlasting life and does not come into judgment; for he has passed from death into life.”
 
That’s why everyday the daily prayer is forgive us our sins as we forgive others! Sometimes it takes a while to complete the second part.
 
Verse 36: “But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works that the Father gave Me to complete… [to finish] …the very works that I am doing, themselves bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself, Who sent Me, has borne witness of Me. You have neither heard His voice nor seen His form at any time” (vs 36-37).
 
What happens when you invent your own religion?
 
Verse 38: “And you do not have His Word dwelling in you… [because they base everything on their traditions] …for you do not believe Him Whom He has sent. You search the Scriptures, for in them you think that you have eternal life; and they are the ones that testify of Me. But you are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life” (vs 38-40).
 
When we get all the Scriptures together referring to Jesus from the Old Testament to the physical life and testimony of Jesus Christ, it’s going to be overwhelming.
 
Verse 41: “I do not receive glory from men; but I have known you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves” (vs 41-42)--right back to what we’re talking about! All the important details that we have mean nothing unless we have the love of God in us!
 
Verse 43: “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; but if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How are you able to believe, you who receive glory from one another, and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?” (vs 43-44). That is because Christ could not be called God while He was in the flesh!
 
Verse 45: “Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you… [present tense, showing that the Law of Moses apply and are binding] …even Moses, in whom you have hope. But if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote about Me. And if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My words?” (vs 45-47).
 
Those Scriptures can tell you a lot. That means that Moses wrote about the Lord God Who became Christ. That also means that in order to understand the Scriptures…
 
Luke 24—this is after Christ’s resurrection when He suddenly appeared when they were all gathered together and He ate the fish and honeycomb:
 
Luke 24:44: “And He said to them, ‘These are the words that I spoke to you when I was yet with you, that all the things which were written concerning Me in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures” (vs 44-45). That’s the work of the Holy Spirit!
 
The key action that we have to have to even begin is the Sabbath. That’s the key; that’s where you start. If you’re searching for God, especially on the Sabbath, when you come to the conclusion that it says, ‘Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy, and you start keeping it Holy from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, that’s the first key to begin opening your mind.
 
Why? Because then the seven Spirits of God are looking to those who are seeking God, and will come help open your mind! It doesn’t come because of study or theological degrees. It comes by the Spirit of God!
 
The whole Gospel of John talks more about Jesus Christ and what He Himself did than any of the other Gospels.
 
John 8:12: “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me shall never walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.’” What is the Light of Life? It is the enlightenment of your mind with the Truth of God!
 
Verse 13: “Therefore, the Pharisees said to Him, ‘You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true.’ Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from and where I go’” (vs 13-14).
 
The birth of Christ was in Bethlehem. But the mother and stepfather Joseph[transcriber’s correction] got there just before He was born. They left a little after 40 days later. Gone! When He started His ministry, where did He begin? He did one thing in Jerusalem to fulfill the prophecy that He would ‘suddenly come to His temple’ (John 2).
 
He came in there and what did He do? He made a scourge of cords and chased out all of the animals and threw over the moneychangers! Then He soon left, and most of His ministry was in Galilee and all around there. That’s what bugged the leaders of Judaism more than anything else. He didn’t come to them and align with them.
 
He came to the people whom they neglected. They sent to John to try and find out if it was he. It wasn’t! Then when Jesus came and showed up, they didn’t believe it. When He came back to the temple there (John 5 & 8) it was during the time of a Holy Day. Here in John 8 is right after the Feast of Tabernacles.
 
Verse 15: “You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. Yet, if I do judge, My judgment is true, for I am not alone; but I and the Father Who sent Me. And it is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. I AM One Who bears witness of Myself, and the Father, Who sent Me bears witness of Me.’ Then they said to Him, ‘Where is Your Father?’…. [because of all the rumors] …Jesus answered, ‘You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would also have known My Father’” (vs 15-19).
 
Verse 20: “Jesus spoke these words in the treasury while teaching in the temple; but no one arrested Him because His time had not yet come. Then Jesus said to them again, ‘I am going away; and you shall seek Me, but you shall die in your sin. Where I am going, you are not able to come’” (vs 20-21). The Greek there is from dunamis’: you don’t have the power to attain it!
 
Verse 22: “Therefore, the Jews said, ‘Will He kill Himself? Is that why He says, “Where I am going, you are not able to come”?’…. [tie in John 1:1]: …And He said to them, ‘You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. That is why I said to you that you shall die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins’” (vs 22-24).
 
When He said that they knew that was a name of God, v 25: “Then they said to Him, ‘Who are You?’….”
 
1-John 2:20: “But you have the anointing from the Holy One… [the Holy Spirit] …and you have knowledge of all things… [obviously it doesn’t pertain to everything in the world] …pertaining to salvation. I did not write to you because you do not know the Truth, but because you know it, and you understand that not one lie comes from the Truth” (vs 20-21).
 
·         Jesus always told the Truth
·         the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth
·         the Word of God is the Word of Truth
 
Verse 22: “Who is the liar if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?…. [that tells you about all of those false apostles] …He is the antichrist—the one who denies the Father and the Son. Anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either” (vs 22-23).
 
That’s the problem of Judaism and false doctrine that God the Father was the One Who was the Lord of the Old Testament. You’re denying that Christ was God before He became a human being.
 
Verse 24: “Therefore, let what you have heard from the beginning dwell in you; if what you have heard from the beginning is dwelling in you, then you will be dwelling in the Son and in the Father.”
 
That’s the problem with Protestantism, very seldom to you hear them talk about the Father. Everything is all about Jesus.
 
It’s important that we cover these things so that we stay grounded! Remember, everything comes back to the fundamentals.
 
·         love God
·         love Christ
·         keep the Sabbath
·         keep the commandments
·         keep the Holy Days
 
That’s the framework on which everything we do is structured! We need to stay close to that!
 
 
Scriptural References:
 
1)      John 1:1-7
2)      Luke 1:30-32
3)      John 1:1
4)      Hebrews 1:1-6
5)      John 1:12-14, 52, 18
6)      John 5:17-24, 36-47
7)      Luke 24:44-45
8)      John 8:12-25
9)      1 John 2:20-24
 
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
 
·         Isaiah 45
·         John 14
·         Matthew 28
·         Psalm 2
·         1 Peter 1
·         John 2; 5
 
Also referenced:
 
·         Book: Sanctification of the New Moon by Moses Maimonides
·         Sermon: The Truth About Noah’s Flood
·         Transcript Books and CDs:
  • The Lord God and the Most High
  • God the Father was Not the God of the Old Testament
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Truth of God - "Review of Noah’s Flood, God the Father & Jesus Christ" By: Fred Coulter (first half)

1/2/2020

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Fred R. Coulter—December 28, 2019 
Refuting the problem of Judaism and false doctrine that Jesus was a created being. 
The title of this message - Review of Noah’s Flood,
God the Father & Jesus Christ. 
(First Half of Video)
(Second Half of Video)
Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services!
 
Last week we went over the Flood of Noah, and we stayed dry! It took four days to have the chart typeset, and you will get it in the coming letter. {Note that it can be found on the website--truthofGod.org—along with the video sermon}
 
Review the Calculated Hebrew Calendar, which is based on lunar months and solar months. The Roman calendar that we have today is a solar calendar; it does not take into account any of the lunar months.
 
How do you reconcile so you can have the Calculated Hebrew Calendar, which is a lunar/solar calendar? That’s where the 19-year time cycle comes in! It’s not an invention plucked out of the air. It is a mathematical determination that the closest that the lunar months and the solar month come to near exactness is 19 years. The difference is two hours.
 
How do they compensate for the two hours? You do just like they do for the leap year in the Roman calendar! You collect a quarter of the year for three quarters, then you have a leap year, which we have this coming year—2020. strange as it is, there are five Sabbaths in this coming February. That’s a very rare occurrence! That brings in an extra day with the 29th day, which reconciles the difference.
 
With the 19-year time cycle they take the two hours and do the same thing, and then they advance one day. That coordinates it and keeps it all going. In addition to that adjustment in the 19-year time cycle, there is a 247-year time cycle. This 247-year time cycle coordinates everything to bring it into balance again.
 
In the Calculated Hebrew Calendar there are 12 years that has a common year. The common year is 12 months. Then there are seven leap years, and the leap years have an extra month. As you look at your calendar car—a new one is coming soon—you see the things come along with a deficiency of 20 days. Then it’s caught up.
 
That’s because of the sequence of adding in the leap year. There are seven leap years and year 19 is always a leap year.
 
Common year—can have 353, 354, 355 days; all of that depends on the movement of the moon. Why? The movement of the moon is very peculiar! Sometimes, after the setting of the old moon, before the first rising of the new moon it’s less than 14 hours. Sometimes it is almost a day. That’s just the way the moon operates.
 
Sometimes it’s closer to the earth. A couple of months ago the moon was really big and was close to the earth. Sometimes it’s far away from the earth. Sometimes the orbit is a little wobbly. In the Calculated Hebrew Calendar all of those factors are taken in.
 
One other thing: in observing the new moon, many times what appears to be the new moon is not the new moon on the calendar. Why? Because sometimes from the new moon to the full moon is 13 days and some odd hours! Therefore, you have to have a postponement so that you will have the full moon on the proper day.
 
Sometimes from the new moon to the full moon is almost 16 days. But on the calendar the full moon is on the 15th day of the 1st month, and the 15th day of the 7th month with a full moon.
 
Let me explain about the full moon: there’s only one instance when the moon is absolutely full. In between it’s waxing or growing toward it, and then waning from it. But viewing it on the earth it looks like a full moon.
 
It’s very interesting that there are two days of full moon. Why is that? That’s so that everywhere on earth those who keep the 15th of the 1st month and the 15th of the 7th month will be doing it on the full moon day!
 
When you look down on the earth from space, let’s start with New Zealand: sunset comes and it’s the Sabbath or the we could say the 15th day of the 1st month and they look west and that they see the full moon. The full moon goes around and it takes 24 hours to get clear around the earth, back to where it was, and then it’s waning.
 
When I did the four videos on the calendar, there was an experiment down by two crews: one crew was high on a mountain and were watching for the new moon. Another crew was below them at a way lower altitude. The group that was at the high altitude saw the new moon 14 hours and some odd minutes after the old moon had set. Those in the valley at the same latitude did not see the new moon. That’s the problem with visualization!
 
If you’re up high you may be able to see it. If you’re down low, you may not be able to see it. But that doesn’t mean that it didn’t occur. If you wait until the next night then that’s viewing the second night rather than the actual new moon.
 
The Calculated Hebrew Calendar is worked out so that the 15th day of the 1st month and the 15th day of the 7th month always have a full moon--always! I’ve never seen it vary and I was baptized 60 years next October. Never miss!
 
Once you have the proper calculations, then you can go forward in time and be correct. What’s important is that you can go backward in time and be correct.
 
When I did Noah’s Flood and the chronology coming up with 2369B.C. for the Flood was a chronology by Carl Franklin. When you do chronologies you can get the year almost accurately, but you can’t tell in the year that you do in finding genealogies if it’s a common year or a leap year. But the Calculated Hebrew Calendar will tell you. It was properly preserved.
 
I read the whole book Sanctification of the New Moon by Moses Maimonides. The western Jews—those Jews who escaped Palestine to get away from the war and the Muslims there—were in northern Spain and they preserved the text of the Old Testament and the Calendar.
 
Some people will not agree that God is able to cause the Jews—who were very rebellious and rejected Christ—to preserve the Calendar and the Old Testament. But they did, because God made them do it.
 
·         Can God make people—even carnal people—do what He wants them to do? Yes!
·         Can He make even enemies of God speak blessings to His people, because God wants them to speak blessings and not curses? That happened! The one who did that was Baalim!
 
It’s not dependent upon human frailties and mistakes; it’s dependent upon what God gave to the priesthood for calculating the times.
 
When they talk about observing the new moon, it’s always balanced off with the calculations, which always prevailed.
 
One last thing on observing the new moon: The Muslims today have just a lunar calendar and don’t take into account the solar events. So therefore, their Ramadan goes backward about ten days every year. The way that they determine when a month starts—and they can only do it because of modern communications—with three locations where they have three experts watching for the new moon. They’re in communication with each other as they’re observing.
 
If one of them sees the new moon and the other two don’t, then they postpone one day. If two of them see the new moon, they declare the day. What’s the difference? On the earth, in different places it will appear at different times! It will appear in the West before it appears in the East.
 
What did they do before modern communication? They weren’t spread around the world, so it was pretty much in the Middle East!
 
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Now let’s talk about the Flood of Noah. As I mentioned in the sermon The Truth About Noah’s Flood, on our website we have the Calculated Hebrew Calendar, and whatever year you want you just plug it in and you get the whole calendar.
 
I asked Ron to send me a calendar with 385 days. It turned out to be that in 2014-15 was a leap year with 385 days. But in going through and trying to work out the chart, I found that that 385-day calendar had the release of everyone out of the ark on the Sabbath. So, I said that the months start on Monday, Thursday or Sabbath. The first one that I had was on the Sabbath. So, Ron sent me one that was on Thursday. I went through that and tried the 355 and 360 days.
 
You have to have everything match so when they come out of the ark on the 27th day of the 2nd month of the 2nd year that’s when everything comes together.
 
So, those dates didn’t work. So, I went through and do it this way:
 
·         7 days they’re in the ark before the rain comes
·         40 days of rain; that can’t be part of the 150 days
·         the second 150 days decreasing, you cannot have the 40 days.
 
 
Referring to Chart—Year 2369:
 
Ø  8th month—Heshvan—next to last day—29th—is 150th day
Ø  30th day—waters start receding, start 150 days
Ø  day 32, 1st day of 10th month—Tebeth—tops of the Mts. 0f Ararat are seen
 
When you consider the waters coming 18 feet higher than Mt. Everest, you’ve got almost six miles of water from sea level.
 
Mt. Ararat is 17,000 feet high and when they saw the tops of it, it was just below 17,000 feet, in other words on the 10th month, 1st day, they see them, but there is still 3.2 miles of water to go down. So, where does the 40th day go?
 
Ø  10th month, 1st day there’s still 3.2 miles of water
Ø  10th month, 9th day, day 40 it’s just below 3 miles
 
This means that it’s about the 12,000 foot level on the mountains of Ararat.
 
This could not be the time when Noah starts sending out the dove and the raven. That has to go at the end.
 
What blew me away, because I just numbered the days, just like they were in the Bible and come to;
 
Ø  Year 2—14th month—Nisan 1st month—2368 B.C.
Ø  Gen. 8:13 the waters were drying up
Ø  Day 150
 
Therefore, the 40 days had to be after that!
 
Ø  2nd year—2368—14th month of Flood, 1st month of year—Nisan—day 2 40 day count begins
Ø  15th month of Flood—2nd month—Iyar—day 11 is the 40th day
Ø  12th day of month, Noah opens window and let the dove and raven out, and they came back
 
Then Noah waited seven days!
 
Ø  19th of Iyar, Noah sent the dove again and it returned with an olive leaf
 
Noah waited seven more days!
 
Ø  26th day of Iyar, Noah send the dove out again and it didn’t come back
Ø  27th day of Iyar, the land was dry and God let them all out of the ark
 
·         if that leap year were 383 days, it would not have worked
·         if that leap year were 384 days, it would not have worked
 
But 385 days, it came to the very day! Just by sitting down and going through the whole year, and numbering it all out.
 
I got an e-mail from someone—I’m glad I get e-mail and everyone keeps on you, which is good:
 
I recently obtained a Don Roth presentation of the calendar of Noah, which he figured 385 days.
 
It is not a word for word reprint, however, it was done by Carl Franklin and I did not know about Don Roth’s article until just last week. I went on to explain to him, that I didn’t take it from Roth. I didn’t know him or anything about it until I just got it. When you’re dealing with the same dates and the same number of days, if the math is correct it is undoubtedly the same.
 
Then he wanted to know how I figure the year of creation. That’s a good question that everyone wants to know. So, first of all, I did not know Don Roth’s calendar and what he says of creation. Secondly, before God re-created the things on the earth after the rebellion of Lucifer and the angels, the sun, moon and stars were already created long before.
 
We do not know exactly when the earth was created, but we find in the book of Job, chapter 38, that when God created the earth, the ‘angels sang for joy.’ So, how long after God finished the original creation of the earth, was it before the angels rebelled with Lucifer? We don’t know!
 
However, since the earth and moon were created before there was a rebellion, the earth and moon were apparently moved out of their orbital relationship to whatever degree we don’t know! After God renewed the surface of the earth for mankind on the fourth day, he set the sun, the earth and the moon in their proper relationship again.
 
The truth is, we do not know exactly when the original creation took place, nor do we know exactly when the rebellion took place, nor when the first flood took place or how long the earth was flooded completely.
 
That being said, the proper calculation of the Calculated Hebrew Calendar, once it was restored by God, we can go forward ad infantiam, we can do exactly the same thing accurately going backward ad infantiam.
 
When I started to do this Flood Chart, I did not know that 2369—the year that Carl determined was the Flood—was 385 days. So, when I asked Ron Cary to send 2369B.C. and you see the results of it.
 
The year of the Flood was 2369B.C. and you can see how that is verified by day-by-day numbering of the entire episode.
 
So, he wanted to know the day of re-creation by Carl and that’s 4004B.C. other than that I don’t know anything else, but that’s enough for us to determine what we need to know.
 
In Isa. 45 said that God created the earth for mankind, and He didn’t create it in vain!
 
Is He talking about the original earth? Or Is He talking about the re-creation of the original earth for mankind? The best we can determine is that in the book of Jude it says that the angels ‘kept not their original habitat.’ So, they were on the earth. Was it that they were to help mankind and they didn’t want to do it?
 
Once mankind went through the whole process of what God is doing with them, they would be over the angels. Is that why they rebelled? I don’t know! Some of this speculation, but all of these things are interesting but very, very hard for us to figure out or determine.
 
If God originally created it for mankind, then why did He have the angels here, living here and what they were doing? So, phase one must have been for the angels! How God was going to work that out we don’t know, but the rebellion and the flood that we find the earth flooded. It talks about creation in relationship to what God did the first seven days in creating and making the Sabbath and so forth.
 
So, we can’t determine whether Isa. 45 is speaking of when the angelic realm was in control, and then they rebelled and God made it for man. We don’t know how God made the division there, it doesn’t tell us.
 
We’re covering a lot of things that people often ask questions about, and our answers of necessity are incomplete. We can speculate on it, but speculation is not fact even though it can be logical. Remember that all logic is not Truth, but all Truth is logical!
 
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One of the groups out there is saying that God the Father was one of the Ones Who was on the earth and it wasn’t Jesus Christ. In order to justify it--because that’s not the Truth—you have to come up with something else.
 
John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was… [‘like’] …God”--that’s what they’re saying!
 
That would require the addition of another Greek word, which is ‘homoioo’ and it’s not there! The Greek is very clear!
 
“In the beginning was the Word…”
 
·         Greek: ‘en’—past tense for is, which is ‘estin’
·         this means He was there before the beginning!
 
“…and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
 
·         The way that is in the Greek: ‘kai theos en logos—“…the Word was God.”
 
You can have in Greek sentences reading backward and they translate it in the English you have to put it the other way around. It does not have the definite article. This is the Greek signifies that ‘logos’ being ‘theos’ had all the qualities of God, that ‘ho logos’ the God had. This is why God had it written in Greek. The Greek is tremendous!
 
Verse 2: “He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him. In Him was life, and the Life was the Light of men” (vs 2-4).
 
“the Life”—‘he zoe’--a feminine gendered noun. That does NOT make Jesus a woman, because all proper nouns have articles: masculine, feminine and neuter. We covered that in John 14: the Comforter is masculine, but the Holy Spirit is neuter.
 
This is why they do a slight of hand and say that there is a third God, the Holy Spirit.
 
Verse 4: “In Him was life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not comprehend it.”
 
“…the Light…” is a neuter noun—‘to phos’ from which we get the English photographic. How do you get photo graphics? With light!
 
Verse 6: “There was a man sent by God, whose name was John. He came for a witness, that he might testify concerning the Light…” (vs 6-7)--concerning Christ!
 
·         He’s called the Word—‘ho logos’—masculine
·         He is called the Life—‘he zoe’—feminine
·         He is called the Light—‘to phos’—neuter
 
Lesson #1: descriptive nouns do not change the gender of the main noun.
 
That’s interesting and I can show you in John 14 that the word Father is spelled four different way, because of the different ways of conjugation and cases and so forth. But it’s still Father. English is simple: Father is Father all spelled the same way. Not so in Greek.
 
Jesus is called: ‘iesous’ iezoe, ho zoe, iesoun’—all spelled differently. You have to be knowledgeable of the Greek in order to understand that that is telling us something.
 
·          ‘iesous’—nominative case
·         ‘iezoe’—of Jesus
·         ‘ho zoe—for  Jesus
·         ‘ton iesoun’—to or toward Jesus
 
All of that is in the Greek, and it’s all inner mixed and there is no definite way of the order of the verbs and nouns in a sentence. It’s all how they are spelled, so it gets a little tricky.
 
You cannot have like they have here in the first part that ‘logos en homoioo theos’--like God. Because the word isn’t there!
 
What do you suppose this is setting up for? That Jesus was a created being! We are made in the image and likeness of God.
 
Let’s go one step further. Remember what we covered when we first started with this heresy, that God the Father was the One Who was the God of the Old Testament. What did we discover in the Old Testament? The Lord God and the Most High!
 
Here in the New Testament the angel came and talked to Mary; Luke 1:30:”Then the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, because you have found grace with God; and behold, you shall conceive in your womb and give birth to a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest… [Is that not the same as the Most High? Yes!] …and the Lord God shall give Him the throne of David, His forefather’” (vs 30-32).
 
That agrees with John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” He was the Life and the Light! He was the Logos!
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Truth of God - "Overcome Through God’s Purpose for You." By: Fred Coulter (second half)

12/26/2019

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By: Fred R. Coulter—December 14, 2019
We learn obedience from the things that we suffer with action, thought and emotion
and doing what God wants; then perfection will come at the resurrection!
The title of this message - "Overcome Through God’s

​Purpose for You"
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​Now we will focus on perfection, and how does God do that? In order to do it, you have to start out first with creation and the creation of man! But you can’t have the creation of man unless you have everything on the earth provided for him before he begins. So, God did that.
 
Then you have to have reproduction. Nearly everything that God has made—plants, animals, fish, human beings, etc.—all reproduce. The reproduction is still a mystery to human beings.
 
I know that when I squeeze my lemon juice in the morning there are lemon seeds from the tree that’s inside the fruit and it’s right in the middle of it. So, I could take that and plant it in the ground and it would grow, and it will produce lemons after it grew to a certain height. It would continue as long as you watered it, fertilize it and take care of it, trim it and get rid of the weeds, etc.
 
Then with human beings, how are you going to make them so they’re not robots? Look at what people are trying to do today. They are trying to make robots, and they have this artificial intelligence. They’re warning that artificial intelligence is going to take over and destroy the world.
 
I don’t know if that’s true or not. The way I look at the book of Revelation, I see a lot of other things than artificial intelligence. You have to have a body, mind, heart and the spirit of man. You have to have free moral agency, and then you have to have God’s Laws, God’s Spirit all based on the love of God.
 
Then you have to have the superior sacrifice. That superior sacrifice is Christ—Who came in the flesh--God manifested in the flesh! Let’s see something about Jesus Christ and what He went through. As the Creator of mankind, He had to go through everything and suffer for mankind. That’s why He became human.
 
Hebrews 5:7: Who, in the days of His flesh, offered up both prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him from death…”
 
Most people don’t think about that. They think that Jesus came and it was so easy for Him, because He was God in the flesh. NO! He had human nature just we have. He had God’s Spirit more abundant than we, but He also was always in direct confrontation with Satan the devil.
 
“…and was heard because He feared God” (v 7). In other words, there was that chance that He couldn’t make it!
 
Verse 8: “Although He was a Son, yet, He learned obedience from the things that He suffered.”
 
Likewise with us, we learn obedience from the things that we suffer. There are difficulties and problems. You have:
 
·         mental suffering
·         physical suffering
·         suffering by watching other people suffer
·         sickness suffering
 
But notice what all of that did:
 
Verse 9: “And having been perfected…” That tells you something! Remember when the rich man came up to Jesus and said, ‘Good Master…’ (Matt. 19). That young man was kind of like Job. ‘What do I have to do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said, ‘Why call Me good, there’s none good by God.’ There was God manifested in the flesh standing right before the young man, and He did not consider Himself good, because He had to carry human nature, the law of sin and death in Him in order to condemn sin in the flesh.
 
Sin is not condemned in our flesh. It’s condemned in Christ’s flesh, so that through being perfected it will be condemned as we grow and overcome.
 
“…He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him” (v 9).
 
What did Jesus say? Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not the things that I tell you?
 
Here’s another reason, Hebrews 2:10: “Because it was fitting for Him, for Whom all things were created, and by Whom all things exist, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” Think about that! A lot of people say:
 
·         Why did God do this?
·         Why did God do that?
·         Why do human beings suffer?
 
You can see that on one of the Church At Home’s, there’s a an atheist there condemning God because of this, that and the other thing. That’s why you have the New Testament. That’s why Christ came, because He likewise suffered.
 
Verse 11: “For both He Who is sanctifying and those who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, ‘I will declare Your name to My brethren; in the midst of the Church I will sing praise to You.’ And again, ‘I will be trusting in Him.’ And again, ‘Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me.’ Therefore, since the children are partakers of flesh and blood… [and human nature, and all of that] …in like manner He also took part in the same, in order that through death He might annul him who has the power of death—that is, the devil” (vs 11-14). Remember ‘annul’ means to make it as if it never was!
 
Verse 15: “And that He might deliver those who were subject to bondage all through their lives by their fear of death. For surely, He is not taking upon Himself to help the angels; but He is taking upon Himself to help the seed of Abraham” (vs 15-16). That’s not the physical seed of Abraham; that’s the spiritual seed of Abraham!
 
That’s us! If you are Christ then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise! Let’s see what else Jesus said of Himself.
 
Luke 13:32: “And He said to them, ‘Go and say to that fox, “Behold, I cast out demons and complete healings today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected”’”--so He conflated the two together!
 
1.       His work and healings and things like that
2.       His resurrection at the end
 
Let’s see how Christ is doing that with us. We know in Psa. 34 it says, ‘Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers them out of them all!’
 
So, if we look at the difficulties and problems and see what we can learn from them, and stay close to God in prayer, study and understand them, then yes, we will also learn, because that’s part of the perfection. Let’s see how this develops.
 
We know that we have body, mind, spirit, heart, etc. We receive the Spirit of God and that unites with the spirit of man that all human beings have. Here’s what we are to do:
 
Romans 12:1: “I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice…”
 
·         What is the sacrifice? Giving up the things of the world! Giving up the things of self!
 
“…Holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service” (v 1).
 
·         What is your spiritual service? Love toward God, prayer, study, living God’s way!
·         What does God do with His Spirit in our mind? He writes in the commandments and laws of God in our heart and mind!
ü  that is conversion
ü  that is leading to perfection
 
The ultimate perfection will come at the resurrection!
 
Verse 2: “Do not conform yourselves to this world, but be transformed…”—Greek: ‘metomorphos’--change. Just like in your mind a bit at a time.
 
“…by the renewing of your mind in order that you may prove what is well-pleasing and good, and the perfect will of God” (v 2)--leading to perfection!
 
That’s how God has done it. That’s why we’re made in His image and likeness. That’s why He’s given us free choice! He doesn’t want us to be robots. Could you think about what it would be like to live in eternity with everybody being robots? That would be incredible! Let’s see how this is done. Be renewed in your mind. How is that being renewed? Notice the steps involved:
 
Philippians 2:1: “Now then, if there be any encouragement in Christ… “ This is what we’re talking about so that you don’t get discouraged and despondent because of the difficulties!
 
“…if any comfort of love…” (v 1)--God will give you comfort of love! God will answer your prayers when you pray!
 
“…if any fellowship of the Spirit…” (v 1). Isn’t it something that God gives us of His Spirit so that we can have fellowship with Him and Christ? That’s an amazing thing!
 
It’s not something tangible you can grasp because it’s spiritual. Can you grasp the law of gravity? No! How does it work? It keeps you on the earth! It lets water run down and everything else.
 
“…if any deep inner affections and compassions, fulfill my joy that you be of the same mind… [the mind of Christ] …having the same love, being joined together in soul, minding the one thing” (vs 1-2).
 
·         What is it that we are to do?
·         What is the one thing that we are to constantly seek?
 
The Kingdom of God and His righteousness! That’s the one thing! That’s the goal! This is what you do when there are troubles and problems, you have the goal that you are always going to.
 
Verse 3: “Let nothing be done through contention or vainglory, but in humility, each esteeming the others above himself…. [Who knows?] …Let each one look not only after his own things, but let each one also consider the things of others. Let…” (vs 3-5).
 
It comes from God, but you have to let! It’s like the door, you must open the door to let someone in. likewise with your mind. You must open your mind to what God wants, and let this happened!
 
Verse 5: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself…” (vs 5-7). Think about this!
 
·         What have you given up?
·         What did Paul say?
 
We brought nothing into the world, and we’re not taking anything out of the world!
 
·         What did you bring into the world?
 
You mom did all the work!
 
Verse 7: “But emptied Himself…” He gave up His Divinity to become pinpoint of life and be impregnated in the womb of the virgin Mary! She must have been some woman! Think of that!
 
Women today don’t want any children. They found out that women who never marry and don’t have children are some of the most unhappy women in the world. Why? Because you’re going against the purpose of God!
 
“…and was made in the likeness of men…” (v 7). In the beginning God said, ‘Let us make man in Our image and in Our likeness, male and female.
 
“…and took the form of a servant” (v 7)—Greek: ‘doulous’--slave! So that no one can say that ‘our ancestors were slaves and you got to get reparations for us.’ Get out and work and quit being stupid! Every race and people down through the history of mankind have been made slaves! Get over it!
 
Verse 8: “And being found in the manner of man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
 
What did He say of this? I have commandment from the Father! I lay down My life and I have a commandment to receive it back! No one takes it from Me; I lay it down!
 
Look at what Christ has done and then stop and think: What have I done in my life? God doesn’t expect that, because we’re not Christ! But there are a lot of things that we can do that God wants us to do for that perfection.
 
Colossians 1:20: “And having made peace through the blood of His cross…” That was a tremendous thing that happened!
 
Sidebar: What was going on in Jerusalem that last week? I imagine that there were angels everywhere, demons everywhere, and it was being all carried out exactly as God wanted it to be.
 
Remember what Jesus said when He was beginning His ministry and talking to Nathaniel? What if you see angels ascending and descending from the Son of man? That’s quite a statement!
 
Everything was prearranged to fulfill the prophecies. That’s why Jesus said, ‘Forgive them, they know not what they do.’ Remember how Jesus gave the instruction to keep the last Passover? They were coming into Jerusalem and He hadn’t told them where they were going to keep the Passover! He didn’t want to tell them because Judas was going to betray Him. He didn’t want them to come where they were keeping the Passover, so He said, ‘I tell you what, you go into the city and follow a man who is carrying a pitcher, and whatever house he goes there prepare.’
 
·         How did that work out?
·         How did they know which street to walk on?
·         How did the man carrying the pitcher happen to come exactly where the disciples could see him and then follow him?
 
Probably angels had it all arranged! They didn’t stop and ask what his name was and where he was going. Jesus just said to follow him. They went and said, ‘The Master says, ‘Where is the room that I may keep the Passover with My disciples?’ I got it all ready for you!
 
How did that happen? The angels were there making sure that it was done! I imagine that all of the demons were trying to frustrate everyone of these things along the line.
 
Verse 21: “For you were once alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works… [in your mind motivating your actions] …but now He has reconciled you in the body of His flesh through death, to present you Holy and unblamable and unimpeachable before Him” (vs 21-22) Absolutely nothing wrong!
 
Sidebar: Remember Baalim? He wanted to curse Israel. So, Balak got over there and God let him take the money, but God said, ‘You only speak what I want you to speak.’ So, they had the sacrifices and Baalim got up there and started blessing Israel saying, ‘I see no sin in Israel.’
 
Think about that for a minute! Maybe those are not the exact words, but how many times did they rebel? How many times did they go against God? Think about when confronted with an enemy who wants to destroy them, God says, ‘I don’t see anything.’
 
That’s what it is also with the sacrifice of Christ with us. There is nothing against us! That’s why every day we grow and overcome.
 
Verse 23: “If indeed you continue in the faith grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which you have heard, and which was proclaimed in all the creation that is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant.”
 
That’s a statement of what they knew of the creation and the earth, and that’s a prophecy of the rest of all time down to the return of Christ.
 
Verse 24: “Now, I am rejoicing in my sufferings for you…” Think of that! He’s saying that he’s rejoicing in prison! I don’t know if he has chains on his wrists and feet, maybe now, who knows/
 
“…and I am filling up in my flesh that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ…” (v 24).
 
·         Why? Because Christ called him and said, ‘Paul, you are going to preach the Gospel, and you are going to suffer!’
·         Why was that? Because he so persecuted the Church!
 
But Paul rejoiced in that suffering!
 
Verse 25: “Of which I became a servant, according to the administration of God that was given to me for you in order to complete the Word of God; even the mystery that has been hidden from ages and from generations…” (vs 25-26). Think of that!
 
It would be really interesting if you had a microphone and you went out and did a survey, even right here in Hollister:
 
You live right here in this nice little town of Hollister, very nice little town wouldn’t you agree? Yes! What do you know about God? Why are you here? What is your purpose? You wouldn’t get any answer!
 
“…but has now been revealed to His saints; to whom God did will to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory… [What is the end of that?]: …Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus” (vs 26-28).
 
Be you perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect! Of course, the finality of that is the resurrection!
 
Verse 29: “For this cause I also labor, striving according to His inner working, which works in me with power.”
 
Don’t you think that the apostles are going to be absolutely astonished at the resurrection when they find out how long it really was from the time that they died until the time that Christ returned? What happened to the Church? How many were called? It’s going to be astonishing! That’s why we’re on the Sea of Glass for such a long time. We have a lot to learn and understand.
 
They’ll be astonished concerning the Bible, and how there were so many and how God preserved it. I told you what Daniel Wallace said, ‘All the Greek manuscripts, there were over 10,000 known. The difficulties and problems amount to about 1% corruption. Word order makes not difference, word usage and misspellings make no difference. You can always straighten those out.’
 
No other book in the history of the world is as old and has as many copies available, and is in many concurrent languages as today. That’s a testimony to the power of God. He says, ‘Go into all the world and preach the Gospel.’ What does God do, He gets it translated and sent out ahead of time.
 
Eph. 1 & 3 are some of the most inspiring Scriptures in the New Testament. Let me just suggest this to you: Whenever you get in a dump of depression… I had part of that one day this week watching all this nonsense, the lies and things, on the hearings. What I did is what we’re doing now. I went to Eph. 1 & 3 to get my mind on where we are going!
 
What is all of this going on? When you look at from the Word of God, while it might be gigantic out here in the world, it’s really pitifully small compared to what God is doing in our lives.
 
Ephesians 1:1: “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus… [that’s a prophecy wherever in the world] …Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (vs 1-2). This is what God gives to us!
 
Now notice what God is doing and what God is preparing at the same time:
 
Verse 3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things with Christ.”
 
·         receiving the Spirit of God
·         understanding the Truth of God
 
That’s the beginning! What is the completion? The resurrection and all that takes place with that, with Christ!
 
Verse 4: “According as He has personally chosen us for Himself…”
 
Remember that it says in John 6 that ‘none can come to Me unless the Father draw him.’ So, God the Father is actively working with Christ. And ‘none can come to the Father except through Christ!’ So, They work together!
 
“…before the foundation of the world… [that’s when they had the plan] …in order that we might be Holy and blameless before Him in love” (v 4). Where did we start? Right there!
 
Verse 5: “Having predestinated us for sonship…” The King James says ‘adoption.’ Not so! We’ve been begotten with the Spirit of God to be the sons and daughters of God, so it’s called ‘sonship.’ We are His children by begettal and by birth at the resurrection when we’re born again!
 
“…to Himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us objects of His grace in the Beloved Son; in Whom we have redemption… [look at this all put together] …through His blood, even the remission of sins, according to the riches of His grace, which He has made to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligence” (vs 5-8). Not stupidity! No all of this nonsense that you see on TBN today!
 
Verse 9: “Having made known to us the mystery of His own will…”

  • How precious is that?
  • How do we come by that?
    • by the Spirit of God
    • by the will of God
    • by our yielding to God by choosing to:
      • love Him
      • serve Him
      • repent
      • continue to humble ourselves before Him in the way that God wants
 
“…according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself… [tie in 2-Tim. 1:9] …that in the Divine plan for the fulfilling of the times, He might bring all things together in Christ, both the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth” (vs 9-10).
 
And the things in heaven has to be reconciled. Satan has no more coming to the Throne of God.
 
Verse 11: “Yes, in Him, in Whom we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestinated according to His purpose…” Put all of those things together:
 
·         the will of God
·         the purpose of God
·         the love of God
·         the calling of God
·         the sacrifice of Christ
·         giving us fellowship with Him
·         His Holy Spirit
 
All of these things together; why are you depressed? There’s no need to be depressed! But because we’re human beings we need to be encouraged! Aren’t these the words of encouragement that we need in times of depression? Yes, indeed!
 
“…Who is working out all things according to the counsel of His own will; that we might be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in the Christ; in Whom you also trusted after hearing the Word of the Truth, the Gospel of your salvation; in Whom also, after believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise” (vs 11-13).
 
That’s why blaspheme of the Holy Spirit is unpardonable! The Holy Spirit comes from God the Father to impregnate your mind and combine it with the spirit of man and the Spirit of Christ altogether so that we can develop the mind of Christ and all the things that we’re talking about here! That’s a fantastic thing, indeed!
 
Verse 14: “Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. For this cause, I also, after hearing of the faith in the Lord Jesus that is among you, and the love toward all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you…” (vs 14-17).
 
This is what we need. We’re coming into difficult times. We’re coming into more challenges against the Truth of God than ever before.
 
But He “…may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. And may the eyes of your mind be enlightened…” (vs 17-18).
 
It’s one thing to see something, it’s another thing to see and understand it mentally and spiritually. This is what Paul is talking about.
 
“…in order that you may comprehend what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints” (v 18).
 
Ephesians 2:17: “Now when He came, He preached the Gospel—peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have direct access by one Spirit to the Father” (vs 17-18). When you pray God hears!
 
Verse 19: “So then, you are no longer aliens and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of the household of God. You are being built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Cornerstone in Whom all the building, being conjointly fitted together, is increasing into a Holy temple in the Lord; in Whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit” (vs 19-22).
 
Now let’s look at a projection toward the complete fulfillment of God’s plan as Paul gave here in Eph. 3. Paul says that this was given to all the apostles and prophets at the same time. This was given so that it would be written down, and God knew that it would be transmitted down through time and history so that it comes down to us today.
 
Ephesians 3:11: “According to His eternal purpose… [right back where we started] …which He has wrought in Christ Jesus our Lord, in Whom we have boldness and direct access with confidence through His very own faith” (vs 11-12)--the faith that God gives us!
 
Verse 13: “So then, I beseech you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which are working for your glory.” Look at the positive things when difficulties come, like Paul!
 
Verse 14: For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named” (vs 14-15). That’s going to be a fantastic time, when we see the fullness of this!
 
Verse 16: “That He may grant you…” Put your name there. He’s saying you, not ye, which is plural you. But you directly, each one!
 
“…according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man” (v 16). When that happens then you can handle the difficulties and problems and see through it all!
 
Verse 17: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; and that being rooted and grounded in love… [right back where we started] …you may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height” (vs 17-18).
 
That’s to understand as completely as we can now, but just think about what it’s going to be like at the resurrection. The universe is so great that there’s no measurement that any man can come to give a reasonable estimate of it.
 
They have found that when they have these high-powered telescopes out on satellites and they aim at dark spots in the universe that when they get the photos back it’s filled with galaxies. Absolutely no end to it, and this is what God is calling us to!
 
Verse 19: “And to know the love of Christ, which surpasses human knowledge so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
 
What is that going to be like? All of our aches and pains that come along, because we’re physical, wearing down and coming to an end, will be all gone!
 
Verse 20: “Now, to Him Who is able to do exceeding abundantly…” To write things that are just unfathomable and then to say that:
 
He’s going “…to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us… [that’s an astonishing statement] …to Him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all generations, even into the ages of eternity. Amen” (vs 20-21).
 
That’s quite a thing, brethren! When we get down, turn to these two chapters, get on your knees and go to God and pray and read and ask God to help you, and He will!
 
 
Scriptural References:
 
1)      Genesis 7:11, 10
2)      Genesis 8:14
3)      2 Timothy 1:7-9
4)      Matthew 5:48
5)      Matthew 6:33
6)      Mark 12:28-31
7)      1 John 1:3, 6-10
8)      1 John 2:1-6
9)      Hebrews 5:7-9
10)  Hebrews 2:10-16
11)  Luke 13:32
12)  Romans 12:1-2
13)  Philippians 2:1-8
14)  Colossians 1:20-29
15)  Ephesians 1:1-18
16)  Ephesians 2:17-22
17)  Ephesians 3:11-21
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
 
·         Psalm 22
·         Matthew 19
·         Psalm 34
·         John 6
·         2 Timothy 1:9
 
Also referenced:
 
·         Booklet: www.cbcg.org/images/books/Which-Is-the-True-Calendar-of-God-3-28-16-Read.pdfWhich is the True Calendar of God? by Carl D. Franklin & Fred R. Coulter

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·         Church At Home: Why is Evil Rampant? {churchathome.org}
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Truth of God - "Overcome Through God’s Purpose for You." By: Fred Coulter (first half)

12/26/2019

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By: Fred R. Coulter—December 14, 2019
We learn obedience from the things that we suffer with action, thought and emotion
and doing what God wants; then perfection will come at the resurrection!
The title of this message - "Overcome Through God’s Purpose for You"
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Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services! (Fred rings his cowbell) Someone started a nasty rumor that I was in the hospital with a heart attack! So, just to let you know, I’m alive and I’m well. If I were sick and down, I would have Jonathan up here bringing the sermon!
 
Calendar Question:
 
I’ve gotten some comments on the Calendar booklet--Which is the True Calendar of God?—and we’re going to look at a framework. I’m going to study it and put it in proper perspective.
 
Genesis 7:11: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life… [he became 600 sometime before this] …in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.”
 
Verse 10: “And it came to pass after seven days…” Noah and the family were all in the ark for seven days before the Flood started!
 
So, let’s look at how long there were in the ark, because that is the main framework for everything else; everything else has to fit into that framework. This means that if they were in there for seven days that they went in on the 10th day of the month and “…on the seventeenth day of the month” everything cut loose. They went on 10th day of the 2nd month.
 
Genesis 8:14—this is the next year: “And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land was fully dry.” They left out of the ark on that day!
 
They were there 1 year+7 days +10 days. How long was that year? 360? 385? or 355? That’s what I’m going to have to determine to make it absolutely clear! But there’s one thing that this establishes. The time that they were in the ark was clearly established, wouldn’t you say? That’s clearly established!
 
How all of the other days fit in refer to the water. So, you have the ark and the family in the ark for 1 year, 7 days ahead and 10 days after the water.
 
How all the days of the water fit in, that’s the question. Someone just sent me something showing that if you add up all the days it’s 360. Well, you have to do your math correctly, and counting the water, the days of the water, does not necessarily equate to the length of the time that they were in the ark. So, we’ll leave it at that and let’s see what you can do.
 
What I’m going to do is take the calendar framework for 385 days, for 355 days, and for 360 days and see how it all fits.
 
A Little Politics:
 
Delores and I were talking about this nonsense of impeachment going on. I talked to someone the other day who said, ‘All Trump does is lie.’ I asked. ‘Why is that?’ Well, he never settles on anything. I said, ‘You mean like he told the Chinese that if they don’t make a deal he’ll do it after the 2020 election.’ Yeah, that’s what I mean. I said, ‘That is negotiating.’
 
·         Tell me which lie Donald Trump has deliberately spoken to deceive? Can’t find any!
·         How many lies did Obama give that caused trouble?
·         What happened after Obama told the Medvedev to ‘tell Vladimir (Putin) that I will have more flexibility after the election’?
·         What happened? The Russians invaded Crimea, took it and invaded Eastern Crimea, and Obama sent blankets and pillows to the Ukrainians for defense!
 
Obama didn’t raise anything about invading and taking Crimea.
 
·         What happened after Joe Biden and his ‘wonderful’ son Hunter went to China and came back and had that $1.5-billion set up in an investment company in America?
·         What happened?
·         Does anyone know?
 
Nothing was done by Obama!
 
·         What major thing happened? The Chinese developed that disputed island in the South China Sea and made an airbase out of it!
 
Obama didn’t even lift an little finger, or open his mouth for a single word! Two things need to understand about America:
 
1.       the Congress does not run the Presidency
2.       the ‘deep state’ does not run the Presidency
 
This is the battle that you are seeing! The Democrats are full of lies!
 
·         Was this similar to what Satan was doing to try and convince a third of the angels to follow him?
 
‘God is mean, nasty and harsh and He won’t let us do anything. Look I have glory almost like God! If we go to war and take over the throne, we’ll run the universe!’
 
·         Did that happen? Yes, it did!
 
That’s why truth is so all important!
 
*****
 
Now, because of politics a lot of people are depressed. If you watch the news and everything is all mixed up. Some people never search for the truth. A lot of people believe the lies, and a lot of people don’t believe the lies. It’s all mixed up and it leaves people depressed.
 
There’s a man who delivers some things to our house and he’s said that he’d been so tired for so long that it’s hard for him to get along and even function. It affects you, doesn’t it?
 
·         What do we need to do to keep from letting the world depress us?
·         What do we need to do to keep the focus of what we need to be doing?
 
That’s what we’re going to cover today!
 
Here’s the first thing to keep in mind, because God is greater than us and His graciousness is greater than anything we have every imagined. We’re going to cover the things that will help us, to inspire us to overcome any of these things that tend to drag us down.
 
You don’t like to watch the news and then see something like ‘shifty, nifty’ Schiff blither and blather lies, and everybody believe it! Here’s what you need to keep in mind:
 
2-Timothy 1:7—Paul is in prison: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of sound-mindedness. Therefore, you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner” (vs 7-8). Here Paul is in prison waiting to be executed. How is he keeping his spirits up there?
 
“…but jointly suffer with me for the sake of the Gospel, according to the power of God” (v 8). We’re going to suffer some things! We’re going to go through some difficult things!
 
Verse 9: “Who has saved us and called us with a Holy calling…” All of the saints are called the elect--Greek: ‘electos’--meaning selected!
 
If you get down, depressed and ‘woe is me,’ remember that God has selected you! God loves you! And we will see what we need to do in return, and what God will do in return. Here Paul is in a desperate situation inspiring Timothy.
 
“…not according to our works…” (v 9). What was Paul before he was converted? A top Pharisee! The Pharisees had a closed knit circle and he was one of the chief among them. Everything they did for approval was a work, a work, a work!
 
He’s showing here “…not according to our works…” We’ll look at the work of God’s a little later. I want you to apply this to yourself:
 
“…but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us… [God had this all planned how many eons before we even existed] …in Christ Jesus before the ages of time” (v 9).
 
How far back does that reach? The main thing here is to remember how important it is what God is doing that involves us. Everything else doesn’t matter. We know that we’re going to face a lot of difficult times.
 
I just did a couple of Church At Home {churchathome.org} Why is Evil Rampant? This is kind of a little sequel to it. How do you get along once you know that?
 
God’s purpose and timing: What is God’s purpose for us? Christ states it very early on! Matt. 5:48 is summary of everything that he brought up there. Everything in Matt. 5 has to do with how you think! That’s what conversion is all about. Before we were called and answered the called and are baptized, receive the Holy Spirit, we have what is called a carnal mind, which is enmity against God!
 
There are some people who are real nice and don’t think that they have enmity toward God. But they just can’t give up their Sunday-keeping and Christmas. That is enmity against God! It doesn’t matter if you say it nicely or shout it with acrimony! It’s still against God!
 
Matthew 5:48: “Therefore, you shall be perfect…” That’s God’s goal!
 
Think about when a baby is born. The only thing a baby knows when it’s born—because breathing comes automatically, the body is already working, the heart and everything else is working—and had a little practice in the womb by sucking its thumb, is to nurse. It knows nothing else. It may, by intuition and by the beginning of the forming of the working of the brain, understand/recognize the mother’s heartbeat and her voice. Everything else comes after that:
 
·         How did we grow up?
·         Where did we grow up?
·         What did we do?
 
I look back on my growing up, and I remember just certain things. I knew nothing about God. I heard a little bit here and there. One of our neighbors was Pentecostal and my aunt was a Sunday-school teacher. Whenever she would come over and visit us, she would bring her ‘cloth board,’ which was covered with felt. Then she would tell Bible stories with little cutout felt pieces: lamb, children, Jesus, and so forth. That’s about all I ever knew.
 
One time I was delivering papers early in the morning up in Seattle, and I went through a park and it was Easter morning. There were a lot of people there, so I went over and watching. Here are all the people, and when the preacher raised up this wafer of bread I didn’t know what it was, all the people bowed down. I wondered what this was; I knew nothing about it.
 
So, then I also remember after I got out of the Army I was at my sister’s and it was a Sunday, and I thought I’d go down to church. The only thing I knew was that the Catholics and Protestants were always at odds against each other. I go into this Episcopal church and they read the Apostle’s Creed: ‘We believe in the Holy Catholic Church.’ I said, ‘How can that be, these are Episcopalians and are Protestant and they say we believe in the Holy Catholic Church?’ I thought that this was crazy!
 
I knew nothing! Then I was going to college, had a job as a cook, and had my own little apartment. The truth is that
 
·         human beings were made to need God
·         He made us deficient
·         He made us incapable of solving our own problems our own way
 
When you have problems you look for help. The only thing I remembered was that ‘if you ask you receive.’ So, here I am walking at night and I could see a star or two and I said:
 
O God, the only thing I know is that if you ask you will receive. I’m asking. I don’t know what to do and don’t know where to go.
 
I had my little ole Nash Rambler, and in my apartment I had no television or radio. So, when going to college I could study Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Went to school Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I’m never out of my apartment at nine o’clock at night. Here I am in my Nash Rambler and I like classical music so I had it on that station. They started playing the dirge of Bach! That’s some of the most awful classical music that there is. I can’t stand it!
 
So, I turned it to another station and heard the first World Tomorrow program. As soon as I heard that I said, ‘That’ it!’ Then things went from there and I ended up at Ambassador College.
 
But we start from nothing to become perfected! That’s the whole purpose of why we exist!
 
Matt. 6:33: tells us what we are to do after we’ve been repentant, baptized and received the Holy Spirit.
 
Matthew 6:33: “But as for you, seek first…”—‘protos’ primary, the first and most important thing in our lives is God the Father, Jesus Christ, and]: …the Kingdom of God… [in that order] …and… [How is our behavior to be?] …His righteousness…” This tells exactly what our purpose is and what we are to be doing!
 
“…and all these things shall be added to you” (v 33)--all the physical things that you need! But look at what God is going to add beyond that.
 
How is this accomplished? First of all, God calls us and we answer the call. But God’s call is His love toward us. When we’re called, then how do we respond to God?
 
Everything that we do hinges on being perfected, seeking the Kingdom of God first, and then here is the first action that we do. It’s action, thought and emotion altogether. It’s our whole life.
 
Mark 12:28: “And one of the scribes who had come up to Him, after hearing them reasoning together and perceiving that He answered them well, asked Him, ‘Which is the first commandment of all?’” The Jews always do that! What’s the most important commandment? So, He told them!
 
Verse 29: “Then Jesus answered him, ‘The first of all the commandments is, “Hear, O Israel…. [put your name there] …Our one God is the Lord, the Lord. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” This is the first commandment’” (vs 29-30).
 
Look at how all encompassing that is! It involves thought, emotion, work and doing what God wants. This also gives us a good thought concerning conversion. This command makes mandatory all the rest of the commandments, if this is the first one! Like we’ve said concerning the Ten Commandments.
 
I just did this on Church at Home recently: Go to the Ten Commandments and tell me what’s wrong with them! Show me one thing that is wrong! You can’t! Why? Because God is love and all of His commandments are based on love.
 
The difficulties that we have is that we live in an evil world, because of Satan the devil. We’ve got these things interfering constantly, and that’s why we need the Sabbath every week. Just like the world has their thing every year, God has His thing every week and every year. Why? We learn, we grow, we add to that knowledge, and we come to understand! As we go along we also begin to understand how wicked and evil that human nature really is and how much we need God.
 
Verse 31: “And the second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
 
Let’s see how we put this in action. We still have human nature and God does not remove it from us, because it’s a process of overcoming. That’s why we all die, that ends that!
 
We have a lot of senior citizens in the Church. That’s just the nature of it as it is right now. I was talking to Harry Curley just before he died and he said, ‘You know, Fred, when I first came into the Church, I was always going to weddings. Now I’m always going to funerals. I said to him, ‘You know why? Because God is harvesting!’ So, don’t look at it as some great overwhelming tragedy that you can’t overcome, because no one yet has overcome death except Christ.
 
We’re all going to die one day. But isn’t it something, as we’re young and strong and all of this sort of thing, we never think of that. I mean, when you were 25, did you think about the day that you were going to die? At 30? No! at 40 you’re still going pretty good. At 50 you’re still going good. At 60, well, maybe a thought or two. At 70 a whole lot of thoughts. At 80 a lot of thoughts! And legal things written down such as wills, and if you have any possessions, who is going to get it?
 
Remember what Solomon wrote: What if a man lives a thousand years twice-fold and he leaves everything behind? He’s taking nothing! Look at those stupid Egyptians! Great pyramids, great tombs and ‘we’re going to all take it with us.’ They all died! A monument to Satan the devil and men’s stupidity because they reject God!
 
Because we have to overcome human nature, God  has given one thing in His great love through Christ. He is the perfect sacrifice for our sins. Remember what Paul wrote, ‘Not of works…’
 
Understand that before there were human beings, probably before there were any angels, before the ages of time, God had this plan! Now, way, way, way down in time, all of those of us are part of His plan and have been with all of those recorded in the Bible, plus a lot of those in the New Testament Church who were never recorded in the Bible. There are people that we have never heard of, never seen whom God is working with, because God’s plan is greater than we think!
 
·         Can God control the whole universe? Yes!
·         Can He control one cell? Yes!
 
As a matter of fact, it’s made in a miniature design of the universe. Guess what, out bodies have trillions of cells. Isn’t that amazing? Right while we’re sitting here, our stomachs and intestines are digesting breakfast, making room for our lunch that we’ll take in a little bit. Our bodies are adjusting to the heat and we’re going to need something to drink. You need water, air, food and all of those consist of cells. That’s amazing!
 
Just think about how much God loves you just in the physical creation. He didn’t put our ears in the back of our head. He didn’t put getting rid of the waste under our chin. He made us as human beings in His image! Now, he wants to make us in His likeness! How do we keep the first commandment going, loving God, and what does this produce?
 
1 John 1:3: “That which we have seen and have heard we are reporting to you in order that you also may have fellowship with us; for the fellowship--… [that’s what it is in the Greek; not a fellowship] …indeed, our fellowship--is with the Father and with His own Son Jesus Christ.”
 
That’s why we have prayer every day; little short ones all during the day. That’s how God leads you and guides you and gives you understanding. That’s also called, with God’s Spirit and God’s Word combined, the washing of the Word by the Spirit! We will see what that does in just a minute.
 
Verse 6: “If we proclaim that we have fellowship with Him, but we are walking in the darkness… [the way of the world] …we are lying to ourselves, and we are not practicing the Truth.” A perfect description of Protestants and Catholics!
 
They keep Sunday. There are some Protestants that do preach a good deal of the Bible. But if you ask them:
 
·         What is God’s plan? We go to heaven!
·         Why do you keep Christmas? That’s when Jesus was born!
·         Why do you keep Easter? That’s when Jesus was resurrected!
 
You’re walking in darkness and you are not practicing the Truth! The Truth is the Sabbath and Holy Days, and none of that other nonsense!
 
Verse 7: “However, if we walk in the Light…” We are, because:
 
·         the Word of God is Light
·         His Spirit is Light
·         His Truth is Light
 
“…as He is in the Light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His own Son, cleanses us from all sin” (v 7).
 
That’s the process of overcoming! Being cleansed of all sins!
 
Living in this age, we have more things smashed up against our brains and in our ears and eyes than any other generation has ever had, for good or for evil!
 
Jonathan just told me that they updated the Bible app, so if you if you have that you have to go and update it. They haven’t yet got it updated for apple, but it will be there. So, you have the Bible on a pad.
 
·         What do you do with it?
·         Do you use it?
·         Do you read it?
 
If you have it on your phone and you never use it, how much different is that if you have a Bible at home and it’s on the shelf. No difference!
 
Verse 8: “If we say that we do not have sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth is not in us. : If we confess our own sins…” (vs 8-9).
 
What does the daily prayer say? First thing, honor and hallow God! The next thing is ‘your will be done on earth as it is in heaven! Who is that referring to? To each one of you as you’re praying to God for His will in your life! Did Jesus have to do that on the night that He was arrested to be crucified? He had to agonize, because it was really a terrible thing that He went through!
 
Next time you have a little pity-party about how bad it is for you, go read what Jesus went through. Read Psa. 22. Then ask yourself: ‘What are my troubles?’ they’re nothing but God will help you with them!
 
“…He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (v 9). Seeking the Kingdom of God first, through the fellowship with God, and all of these things will be added to you, and become perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect! See how that fits together? That’s what we are to do daily.
 
I have to admit that this last week with all of this nonsense going on with this absolute satanic, insane impeachment going on, I was a little depressed. I was going around having my own little pity-party.
 
So, what I did, I told myself I had to stop that because there’s nothing you can do about it. What can you do about it? If you worry about it, what are you going to do? Nothing! So, concentrate on what God wants you to do.
 
Verse 10: “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.” Who is the one who says that God is a liar? Satan the devil!
 
1-John 2:1: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And yet, if anyone does sin…”--because you have the pull of human nature, lust the eyes, lust of the mind, and you have television, cell phones, billboard signs and everything like that!
 
“…we have an Advocate… [advocating, interceding] …with the Father; Jesus Christ the Righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world” (vs 1-2). And we know that is in God’s time and plan!
 
Here’s how we know that we are doing what God wants there’s a lot of people who say that they love God, ‘I go to church every Sunday. We have a marvelous Christmas at home.’ Or a Catholic would say, ‘I go to Mass every day.’ What did God say? Once year! ‘Every day! You must be so righteous, it’s incredible!’ No! You’re deceived! I had one man say, ‘I don’t agree with you with IFMA—Independent free moral agency.’
 
Verse 3: “And by this standard we know that we know Him: if we keep His commandments.” That’s our reciprocity back to God!
 
Verse 4: “The one who says, ‘I know Him’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.”
 
I tell you what! I was thinking of going to one of these reunions of Ambassador College; they had one in Pasadena this year and I thought that maybe I’ll go. Byron Norrod said that he went one time and ‘I would say that you wouldn’t want to go, because it would really make you disappointed and maybe even mad.’ He went and there’s everything under the sun, and was shocked to see one of his classmates who was a minister in the Church (WCG) who is now a minister in the Lutheran Church and he had a big gold cross!
 
This is why we keep His commandments; that’s back to God. Look what He’s done for us with everything else. Notice what happens here:
 
Verse 5: “On the other hand, if anyone is keeping His Word…” What does that mean? Everything that He has spoken!
 
What did Jesus say? The first thing out of His mouth with the temptation of Satan the devil, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God!
 
“…truly in this one the love of God is being perfected….” (v 5). You cannot be perfected without Law-keeping! Why? Law-keeping requires what? Mind, emotion and action!
 
“…By this means we know that we are in Him…. [this is becoming perfect, right here]: …Anyone who claims to dwell in Him is obligating himself also to walk even as He Himself walked” (vs 5-6). This is becoming perfect!
 
Would you say that Christ is perfect? Yes, indeed! Perfected through the flesh and through the resurrection!
 
Verse 6 is a good one for Protestants and Catholics. And Sunday, you know that’s the thing. Where does it say at any time Jesus saying that ‘you have heard it said of old time that God is Lord of the Sabbath, but I tell you I’m Lord of Sunday.’ Do you find it in the Bible? No way! Who is the lord of Sunday? There is one who is the lord of Sunday, who claims to be God, and that’s Satan the devil! Maybe you never thought of it that way.
 
·         Can Satan be sweet? Yes!
·         Can Satan be gentle? Yes!
·        Can he say he’ll give you a benefit? Yes! I’ll give you many benefits! Yes, he can!
 
That’s what the obligation for us!
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News, The 144,000 and The Unpardonable Sin - Second Half - by Fred R. Coulter

12/13/2019

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News, The 144,000 and The Unpardonable Sin (SECOND HALF)
Fred R. Coulter--
​December 7, 2019
There is something unique in Rev. 14. We will see that there’s a difference between the 144,000 in Rev. 14 and the 144,000 in Rev. 7. Rev. 7 clearly identifies the 12 tribes of Israel, and the                                               great innumerable multitude.
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There is something unique in Rev. 14. We will see that there’s a difference between the 144,000 in Rev. 14 and the 144,000 in Rev. 7. Rev. 7 clearly identifies the 12 tribes of Israel, and the great innumerable multitude.
 
Revelation 14:1: “And I looked, and I beheld the Lamb standing on Mount Sion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.” You don’t have that in Rev. 7!
 
Verse 2: “Then I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of great thunder; and I heard the sound of lyre players playing their lyres. And they were singing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth” (vs 2-3).
 
That’s an interesting phrase! This doesn’t give us any time period; no time period. Whereas, Rev. 7 it’s right there right after two years of the Tribulation. They’re redeemed from the earth.
 
Verse 4: “These are the ones who were not defiled with women…” Who is the worst woman of all? Babylon the Great! This has to refer to churches.
 
“…for they are virgins…” (v 4). None in Rev. 7 are called virgins! What does this mean? That the 144,000 here never had a problem with apostasy at all! They always believe God and kept the commandments of God.
 
“…they are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb” (v 4). Not the firstfruits, but as firstfruits!
 
Verse 5: “And no guile was found in their mouths; for they are blameless before the throne of God.”
 
Can we determine something from this if we examine the seven churches in Rev. 2 & 3?
 
Church of Ephesus: Revelation 2:4: “Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent… [of sin] …and do the first works; for if you do not, I will come to you quickly; and I will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent” (vs 4-5).
 
You would have to say that those in this group of the Church could not be called virgins, because they left their first love.
 
·         What did they do?
·         Where did they go?
·         How did this come about?
 
We don’t know, but it’s probably adding things in. remember that one of the things that John wrote in 1-John 5, ‘Little children, flee idols.’ Why would he says that? Because some were bringing in idols! We could conclude that of the 144,000 in Rev. 14, perhaps very few came out of the Church of Ephesus.
 
Church of Smyrna: Verse 9: “‘I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who declare themselves to be Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life” (vs 9-10). Not one bit of correction! He didn’t tell them to repent.
 
Church of Pergamos: Verse 14: “But I have a few things against you because you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.” If you commit fornication, you’re not a virgin! So, they had those sins.
 
Verse 15: “Moreover, you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.”
 
So, they had quite a few problems here: idols, wrongly taking the Passover, because the Eucharist of the Catholic Church is called the Sacrifice of the Mass!
 
They literally, in what they do, are saying that Christ is crucified again, because you get His blood and flesh right through eating the bread and drinking the wine, if the priest allows you to do it! Some priests drink so much that they’re almost drunk when they’re done.
 
Verse 16: “Repent! For if you do not repent, I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.”
 
They were so bad that Christ had to fight against them! That’s quite a thing when you consider it. We can conclude that those at Pergamos could not be considered virgins.
 
Church of Thyatira: Verse 20: “But I have a few things against you, because you allow the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants into committing fornication and eating things sacrificed to idols…. [sin] …And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent” (vs 20-21). This has to be talking about the Catholic Church!
 
It’s interesting that the Council of Trent was setup by the Catholics to try and combat the rising insurgency of the Protestants. They actually had some Catholics factions of that Council who said, ‘We ought to go by Scriptures only.’
 
There was the opportunity to repent, but what happened? Just like what is written in Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants: Cardinal Gibbon said that they concluded, ‘Since the Protestants kept Sunday, and Sunday was a Catholic institution or tradition, therefore, they were not keeping Scriptures only.’ They were following tradition and Scripture! ‘So, we will keep our traditions and follow Scripture.’
 
But the way they follow Scripture is very little! So, you can’t say that those in Thyatira were virgins.
 
Verse 21: “And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their works” (vs 20-21).
 
What eventually happened to the Catholic Church? In Europe it was very powerful in getting into the 1000-1400s and began eroding in the 1500s by the Protestants!
 
How did God eventually take care of the Catholic Church? Garibaldi and the armies of Italy in the 1870s revolted against the Catholic Church, because all of the areas of Italy were broken down into provinces that were run by the Catholic Church. So, he took all of them away and made the Catholics and the popes stay in the Vatican.
 
From that time until Mussolini, the pope never left the Vatican. No repentance! That’s how God came against them. It was not until Mussolini where they had the Treaty of Lateran when Mussolini recognized the pope that the pope was able to travel outside the Vatican area.
 
Verse 23: “And I will kill her children with death…” That’s exactly what happened when Garibaldi took over all of the Catholic Church and all of their territories in Italy!
 
“…and all the churches shall know that I am He Who searches the reins and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works. But to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak…” (vs 23-24).
 
So, Thyatira was one of the best and one of the worst. You can’t say that those of Thyatira were virgins.
 
Church of Sardis: Revelation 3:1: “…I know your works, and that you have a name as if you are alive, but are dead.” They don’t keep the doctrines the way that they should and are about to die.
 
Verse 5—if you keep the few things remaining, “…I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”
 
Church of Philadelphia: Verse 10: “Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the time of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world to try those who dwell on the earth.” They’re not told to repent here either.
 
Church of Laodicea: They’re told to repent!
 
So, out of the seven churches, only two were what you would call virgins!
 
Speculation: Do those who fall into that category the ones of the 144, 000 in Rev. 14? Will they actually be the Bride of Christ? Remember, when the Corinthians were sinning, Paul said, ‘Behold, I want to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ!
 
Well the Corinthians can’t because they’ve had all their sins.
 
·         Do you think that Christ would marry a non-virgin?
·         Will those of the 144,000 be the Bride of Christ and all the rest of us are the guests? Don’t know!
 
I tell you how I first thought of it: I performed a wedding in Fairfield and it went well. Then we had the wedding supper. It was very interesting and everybody was sitting around talking and having a good time. Then the band struck up the music and the bride and groom danced. I thought to myself, all the rest of us out here are guests. I wondered if that’s the way it’s going to be with Christ and the Bride? Don’t know!
 
That’s just speculation, but it may be true! It may be true in degree, but Who’s going to make that choice? God the Father and Jesus Christ!
 
Wouldn’t Abraham and David be part of the Bride of Christ? I don’t think so, I think they will be at a higher level! Much higher!
 
How would you separate the guests and the Bride from Christ’s time until today? God knows! He has to make the decision; it’s not up to us!
 
But we can that those of Rev. 14 are distinctly different from those of Rev. 7. In looking at that, since they’re called virgins… If they weren’t called that, you wouldn’t suspect that they would only be the Bride of Christ! But since it says that they are, and we read Rev. 2 & 3, and we only find two churches that we can classify as virgins, then there may be something to it. We don’t know!
 
It’s two-fold down through the centuries and at the end-time as well. We don’t know exactly how all of that is going to work. That’s the only distinction that we can make here with this.
 
The Unpardonable Sin:
 
A lot of people feel sometimes that they have committed the unpardonable sin and they’re really grievously upset and worrying about their salvation. Let’s see what Christ said about the unpardonable sin.
 
It’s very interesting with what Jesus says here; Matthew 12:30: “The one who is not with Me is against Me…” In another place He says that ‘the one who is for Me is not against Me.’
 
That’s those in the world who are carnal and not called, but are for God and not against Him, they’re just in the world.
 
“…and the one who does not gather with Me scatters. Because of this, I say to you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men except the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit; that shall not be forgiven to men” (vs 30-31). Why? Who sends the Spirit? God the Father and Jesus Christ!
 
We have the begettal to be the son or daughter of God, and we have the Holy Spirit to develop the mind of Christ! So, those are the two aspects of it.
 
·         What happens when someone commits the unpardonable sin?
·         Would they be grievous and repenting? No!
 
Verse 32: “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him…”
 
·         What did Jesus say when He was up on the cross? Father, forgiven them for they know not what they do!
·         How treacherous were they? As treacherous as could be!
 
“…but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming age” (v 32). There you find the second resurrection! There are two parts to the second resurrection:
 
1.       those who have not committed the unpardonable sin
2.       those who have
 
Those who have committed the unpardonable sin will go into the Lake of Fire. Those who have not will have an opportunity for salvation. What kind of attitude does someone have who commits the unpardonable sin? They will:
 
·         be hateful toward God
·         reject the Holy Spirit of God
·         reject the Word of God
·         be set in their ways and bitter in animosity toward God and will not repent
 
Remember the DVD message called The Delusion of Drugs. There’s a family trying to redeem a son, and the relatives were there, too. They pleaded with him, ‘Please, won’t you come back. Please!’ He said no! ‘Please, we’ll help you.’ No! No! No! and he got up and walked out.
 
If you haven’t watched that first segment, that is something! That shows you as close as you can get to the unpardonable sin. Absolutely no thought of repentance.
 
How bad can a person get into and still repent and receive forgiveness from God. What are two classic ones from the Old Testament? Manasseh! Look at what he did! He became king when he was very young, and things were already very corrupt.
 
2-Chronicles 33:1: “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.”
 
You can be thankful that we have Presidents that can only be in office eight years.
 
Verse 2: “But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel, for he built again the high places, which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, ‘In Jerusalem shall My name be forever’” (vs 2-4). Manasseh was really going at it!
 
Verse 5: “And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He also observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. And he set a carved image, the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, ‘In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land, which I have set apart for your fathers—if only they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses’” (vs 5-8). That’s quite a thing that he was doing!
 
Verse 9: “But Manasseh led astray Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and caused them to do worse than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to His people, but they would not listen” (vs 9-10). He spoke through Jeremiah!
 
Verse 11: “Wherefore, the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon.” Because Assyria ruled Babylon at that time!
 
Verse 12: “And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. And he prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God” (vs 12-13).
 
So, here we have a situation where this deep repentance was forgiven. The rest of the story is that he cleaned up the area around the temple and got rid of all the sacrifices to the other gods and so forth.
 
How many times was he repenting during that time of his repentance? It couldn’t be just one prayer! It would have to be really abhorring himself!’
 
Look at what Job had to go through before he abhorred himself! In a way he did worse than Manasseh, because he did everything that God said, but he took the credit for it all! He was, in his rebellion against God and in iniquity Job was worshipping himself instead of God! He even thought that he was on par with God, because he wanted to have a judge come and declare Job’s righteousness to God and settle the matter.
 
In a way—though Manasseh was more evil in what he was doing—Job was worse because Job had all the Truth, and yet, took the credit to himself instead giving all credit to God.
 
I’m sure that it was quite a spell that he was repenting, confessing and everything like that. It wasn’t just a one time prayer, ‘O Lord, forgive me.’ You can’t just have one small prayer and everything is forgiven. Read Psa. 51; you abhor yourself, you abhor your sins. You see that you have sinned against God greatly. That the only thing in you is nothing but sin! Then there will be forgiveness!
 
A little correction: Jeremiah wasn’t calling Manasseh to repentance, that was before, because Jeremiah started in the 12th or 13th year of Josiah.
 
Matthew 12:32: “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming age. Either make the tree good…” (vs 32-33). What is that likened to? Repentance!
 
“…and the fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for a tree is known by its fruit” (v 33). If it’s corrupt and unredeemable, that’s the unpardonable sin. There’s no way out of that!
 
It’s just like in the segment on Delusion of Drugs, there was not talking to this man to get him to stop drugs, to quit doing what he was doing. He said no to his mother, father, his aunt and sister. Then he got up and walked out.
 
Another example of the unpardonable sin is Satan the devil. He has not and will not repent. His ultimate goal is always to be like God, the Most High. He won’t repent.
 
Those who have never been converted, it’s possible that some will refuse to repent. But the unpardonable sin in Heb. 6 talks about those who have repented, receive the Holy Spirit and then quit!
 
Hebrews 6:4: “For it is impossible… [Greek means there is no power possible] …for those who were once enlightened, and who personally obtained the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit.” The heavenly gift is forgiveness, the gift of grace!
 
Verse 5: “And who have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they have fallen away… [to apostatize] …to renew them again unto repentance…” (vs 5-6)--nothing will get to them!
 
That depends on free choice. Will they repent? If they repent then they haven’t committed the unpardonable sin!
 
Manasseh probably came as close as anyone to committing the unpardonable sin, but he repented. But here it is that there’s no way “…to renew them again unto repentance…” Look at Cain; he did not repent! It showed he didn’t repent. He said, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ He didn’t fall down on his knees and say, ‘O Lord, I killed him; I got angry.’ Esau didn’t repent of selling his birthright. But he wasn’t converted. Here we’re talking about converted people.
 
“…seeing that they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves, and are publicly holding Him in contempt” (v 6). The attitude is complete incalcitrant and contemptuous attitude toward God!
 
Verse 7: “For the ground that soaks up rain coming often upon it, and also produces useful plants for those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God. But that which brings forth thorns and thistles is rejected and near to being cursed, the end of which is for burning” (vs 7-8)--which is the Lake of Fire! That’s the attitude of the unpardonable sin. There’s no way to bring them to repentance:
 
·         no remorse
·         no feeling
·         no nothing
 
Just hard-hearted, incalcitrant against God, against the Father, holding God in contempt, Christ in contempt and rejecting everything of God.
 
How many people will be that way? Don’t know! But I know of one man who may have come mighty, mighty close to it. But I have no idea. That’s why God judges the heart; He knows. There’s no way that we can even determine if someone has or not, because God alone knows!
 
Verse 9: “But, although we speak these things, beloved, we are persuaded of better things concerning you, even the fruits that accompany salvation. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love by which you have showed honor to His name, in that you have served the saints and are continuing to serve them. But we earnestly desire that every one of you be demonstrating the same diligence, unto the full assurance of the hope until the end; so that you do not become lazy, but that you be imitators of those who through faith and steadfast endurance inherit the promises” (vs 9-12). Then Paul goes back talking about Abraham!
 
Those are the odds and ends that I wanted to cover today. I would like to, in January, do a series in Galatians, because Galatians is one of the most difficult books in the New Testament, especially the way it’s translated in the King James. It has led many people to believe that you don’t have to keep the Law and that it has been abolished. But it actually teaches the opposite! 
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(FIRST HALF OF THE MESSAGE)
Scriptural References:
1)      1-Corinthians 15:20-23
2)      Daniel 7:13-25, 27
3)      Revelation 15:2-5, 8
4)      Revelation 19:9
5)      Hosea 5:10-15
6)      Hosea 6:1-2
7)      Revelation 6:12-17
8)      Revelation 7:3
9)      Jeremiah 18:1-10
10)  Revelation 7:3
11)  Ephesians 1:13
12)  Revelation 7:3-4, 9, 13-15
13)  Revelation 14:1-5
14)  Revelation 2:4-5, 9-10, 14-16, 20-24
15)  Revelation 3:1, 5, 10
16)  Matthew 12:30-32
17)  2 Chronicles 33:1-13
18)  Matthew 12:32-33
19)  Hebrews 6:4-12
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
·         Ecclesiastes 1
·         Deuteronomy 16:1-8
·         Revelation 13; 17
·         Hebrews 2
·         Matthew 22
·         Romans 13
·         Isaiah 41; 44
·         Ezekiel 9
·         1 John 5
·         Psalm 51
 
Also referenced:
Articles:
·         World Leader of The Salvation Army General Brian Peddle Meets His Holiness Pope Francis {https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr081119}
·         Pope Francis Declares that Christian Fundamentalists Are “A Scourge” {https://grandmageri422.me/2019/12/04/pope-francis-declares-that-christian-fundamentalists-are-a-scourge/}
·         British Court in Transgender Case, Bible Belief is “Incompatible with Human Dignity” {https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-court-in-transgender-case-bible-belief-is-incompatible-with-human-dignity}
·         ACLU Sues to Make Sure that Unborn Babies Can be Dismembered piece by piece in Cruel Inhumane Abortions
{https://dcdirtylaundry.com/the-aclu-sues-to-make-sure-unborn-babies-can-be-dismembered-piece-by-piece-in-cruel-inhumane-abortions/}
 
§  Sermon: Daniel/Revelation Prophecies Being Fulfilled
§  Booklet: Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants by Cardinal Gibbon
§  DVD: Delusion of Drugs
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