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October 11, 2010
THE FAITH OF CHRIST
October 10,2010
Hello everyone and thanks for being here today. I pray for each and every visitor I get to be here to be built up in the faith. I think about you often and wonder how far the Gospel is spreading and hoping that you will bring friends and introduce them to the Word of God rightly divided.
Someday we are all going to have to give account for our deeds here on Earth. If you are saved it will be a good work or a bad work. You will also be rewarded if you are saved for the good deeds.
If you for some reason are not saved, you will not be rewarded for anything but will be cast into hell so be very sure that you are saved and don’t rely on religion to get you there. Religion is man made. Do not rely on your Pastor telling you that you are saved, no one has that ability. Do not rely on some prophet or some famous man on TV. to tell you are saved.
Being saved is a personal experience and it is totally by faith, Not of works. I am afraid a lot of “good” people are going to end up in hell because they thought that being a member of a certain church or organization assures them of salvation.
I really don’t like to teach messages with or about hell but it is so important that you know if you are saved or not that it needs to be present in your mind and if you are not saved, the most important thing you can do is get saved. I have to tell you there is a hell and there is fire there and eternal torment and I know some people are trying to air condition hell but its going to be just as hot no matter what, and you are going to be alone and in total darkness and weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and there is no relief not so much as one drop of water to touch your tongue to. It is eternal, how can you not think of this on a daily basis if you are not saved? I have had people tell me they don’t think they would go to hell if they died and I have heard people say they don’t think they would go to heaven either if they died, well brethren, there is no in between.
Today I’m going to show you something that most of you don’t know and I’m certain of it because of the reaction I get when I mention it to someone. It is this; You are saved by the Faith of Christ, if you are saved at all. Think about that for a minute.
What do I mean by “The Faith of Christ”? When God looked ahead before the foundation of the world He saw that the Jews would turn away from him. In God’s love and Total mercy He also foresaw that a bunch of Gentiles that were outside the covenants of promise and did not bless the seed of Abraham and were not allied with Israel would believe if there was a means that they could believe by. Example: The Jews did NOT receive Christ when He came, nor would they keep the law, nor would they turn from worshipping idols. They basically looked for any reason they could to satisfy the lust of the flesh as many people still do today.
God in His infinite Wisdom looked ahead before the foundation of the World and saw a lot of people out there in the future who were not Jews that WOULD believe on His Son. Back before creation there had to have been a discussion about these people with the Father The Son and the Holy Ghost, and maybe more but Im not sure because this had to be kept secret or Satan would have done everything in his power to Prevent the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. How so? If Satan and the princes of this world had know that when they crucified the Lord of glory, thy would not have done it. Why? Because if Satan could he would destroy every human on the face of the Earth and especially the Jews back there in the Old Testament, because they were at one time Gods chosen people.
So a deal was made; I imagine God said to the Lord Jesus there are a bunch of people out there who would believe even though they were not Jews, and since the Jews were going to reject the Lord, God gave them up and gave salvation to lowly dogs such as us. Why do I say dogs? Because that’s all you would have been in a Jews eyes back there before they were cast off. The Jews wouldn’t have anything to do with you, except to destroy you as the Lord commanded Joshua to do when he entered into the promised land. Why? Because they worshipped idols and ate things sacrificed to gods, and made their children pass through the fire to worship a god whom I will not mention his name, because God hates it; they were the epitome of sin, so the lord commanded them to all be destroyed lest they would start worshipping the gods of the gentiles, which Baalim taught Israel to do. Jeroboam also put 2 golden calves up for them(Samaritans)10 tribes to worship at Dan and Bethel.
Back to the Faith of Christ: God needed a way to get us to himself but there was a large problem, the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sins. Only something so far beyond my
Comprehension could be done to bring us to God. That was that Jesus volunteered to come and live a sinless life and become a perfect sacrifice to redeem us to God. So it was, and no one knew about this But the Holy Trinity.
Next thing, no one had ever been raised from the dead before that lived forever, if they had been raised from the dead, they would eventually die again. So God promised His Son if he would leave His exalted position in Heaven next to the Father and come into this world and be born of a virgin, by the Holy Ghost coming upon her, live a sinless life and be put to death on a cross as a criminal, then God would raise Him from the dead. Why is this important? Because it had never been done before.
I believe with all my heart Christ lived by faith without ever seeing God the father although God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself not imputing their trespasses unto them. God and the Lord Jesus Christ literally bought(purchased) the whole world with His sinless blood and you belong to Him whether you believe it or not, so one day, since God owns you, you are going to have to give and account of your life while you’re here.
Believe that Christ indeed came into this world, knowing Israel would reject Him and that he would be crucified and raised from the dead, and when he died all your sins were in the future, so when Christ died He paid for ALL your sins past present and future. He kept the law blameless and on Calvary the Lord became everything that you are by nature and practice,(sin) He died for the sins of Hitler, Mussolini, Osama Bin laden, and not only that but he died for ME!
I have not included a lot of scripture in here this time but its in your Bible if you want to look it up and you should make it your job to look it up and see whether I have told you the truth or not. The Bereans were more noble than others because they searched the scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. So be like the Bereans.
The truth is you will either believe this or not, the choice is yours. So adding a lot of scripture will not change your mind, if you are advanced enough in your faith you already know this but if you are not I may have shown you something here today that is beyond what you will hear from the “greats” out there, that accuse other ministries of not having any “TEETH”. I’m not putting anyone down, I am encouraging them to prove this to themselves, it is for your salvation and theirs if they’re saved.
Your blood is on my hands for what I have written today and I heartily encourage every minister everywhere not to take peoples salvation lightly it is the reason you are on this earth and to show others after you receive it. I have no other reason to show you these things than because I love you and you need to know it. I will have to give an account just as you will someday, so be sure your right before you go teaching people the kingdom message for salvation today.
The way you get saved is BY the Faith of Christ, by believing on what he did for us by Faith on Calvary and your Faith in what the Lord did for you. This may be beyond comprehension at first but these scriptures will clear it up. Your salvation is based on Faith, not on works. Do not let some silver tongued preacher tell you otherwise. Your eternity is at stake.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Verse 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. V20. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live; yet not I , but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Puts a whole new light on Faith doesn’t it?
Verse 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
The Lord removed the law at the cross, you need to praise God every day and night for that, because you cant keep the law, we would have all ended up in hell. The only one to ever keep the law without sin was The Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
Amen
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