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Weekly Bible Study – November 26, 2018; Study: Unbelievers, both angels and humans, also have their final day in the Supreme Court of Heaven. Part 2.


Unbelievers, both angels and humans, also
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Prepare yourself for learning the Word of God!

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge (confess) your sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father).

1 John 1:9 says: "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (known sins) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [unknown or forgotten sins]." NKJV (New King James Version) [italics added]; we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, the promised Messiah, as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to simply exercise faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life; when you do, you will instantly receive Eternal Life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life." NKJV [italics added]

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:


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Unbelievers, both angels and humans, also have
their final day in the Supreme Court of Heaven. Part 2.


We are now getting ready to complete our eighth commandment concerning the judgment of the believer as we have already noted last Sunday, so, what about the unbelievers?

For the unbeliever his human good, not his sins, but his good deeds are judged evaluated and rejected.

Rev 20:11-12, And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

Ergons = is the Greek word for deeds, works, and labor. The word can also mean that which designates the one who commissions the work or encompasses the unity of human conduct.

2Co 10:11, Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed [ergon] when present.

The word “deeds” is the Greek noun ergon it means to work, to toil (as an effort or occupation), it has nothing to do with sins.

Look at how useless and idiotic it would look like in 2Co 10:11, Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in [ergon – works or sins] when present.

Now, that doesn’t fit at all to translate ergons to sins.

Frequently ‎ergon ‎is used of a deed done or being done: as a work of GOD or as work from our LORD.

Heb 1:10, And, “Thou, LORD, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works [ergons] of Thy hands;”

Heb 4:3, For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest,” although His [ergons] works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Heb 4:4, For He has thus said somewhere concerning the seventh day, “And God rested on the seventh day from all His [ergons] works”;

So, you can see how foolish it would be if we just used and translated “ergons” to sins.

In general phrases, ‎ergons ‎can express the personality of relationship to a power or group; (Rom 13:12) Ergons ‎is also a criterion for evaluation in judgment.

Scriptural passages on ergons referring to works or deeds and has nothing to do with sins, whether the believer knows it is sin or not, is not the issue; it simply doesn’t matter, Matt 5:16.

Matt 5:16, “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

The idea that ergons also can refer to the “treasure of good works” is taught in 1Ti 6:18, Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works [ergons], to be generous and ready to share.

Ergons is referred to as deeds in Rev 20:13-15, And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.


So, all of the unbelievers, both angels and humans, also have their final day in the Supreme Court of heaven.

One of the most vital passages concerning the Angelic conflict and the place of Hades and the Ten Commandments is found in Eph 4.

First of all, Hades is said to be a place where GOD’s people have gone, Acts 2:27, 31, 1Co 15:55.

Look at Acts 2:27, Because Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, Nor allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay.

Acts 2:31 he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay.

Hades is also a place where unbelievers have gone, Rev 6:8, 20:13-14.

Rev 6:8, And I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. And authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Rev 20:12-14, And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.

And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

There are also four major compartments of sheol or Hades.

Paradise is where the Old Testament believers resided after death before the resurrection of our LORD.

Torments is where all unbelievers reside, Luke 16:23.

Tartarus is where certain fallen angels, called beni ha Elohim in Gen 6, reside.

The abyss contains demons who transgress the boundaries of the human race = the location of the demon king, Satan’s right hand man, called Abaddon. He will have quite a future in the Tribulation period.


In Rev 9, he breaks out of this jail with the help of Satan who also has now been cast out of heaven in the middle of the Tribulation and can never return to heaven again.

Remember that the Tribulation period is a seven year period in which the first three and a half years Satan, as the god of this world, blesses all mankind with great blessings wanting to be worshipped by him.

However, Satan finds out very quickly once again that God’s word is true because in spite of all the blessings Satan gives to humans they still remain selfish, arrogant, critical, judgmental, and definitely implacable or impossible to please or satisfy.

Therefore, in all of his frustration, anger, jealousy and especially his bitterness, Satan brings the last three and a half years of the worse time the world has ever or will ever face or go through.

So that we have the first 3.5 years of great blessings and then we will receive 3.5 years of the worse time in all of human history.

Remember I said that Satan is bitter and so the second half of our verse in Heb 12:15 tells us what motivates Satan and his bitterness.

You’ve heard it before, I’m sure you’ll hear it over and over again as we await our Lord and His bride returning with resurrected believers to save the world from complete destruction.

Scripture: First, look at what bitterness does to others; Heb 12:15, See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

There are passages like this and more that warn us about that time when the Lord comes back to deliver or save His own people at the end of the Tribulation Period before mankind would be completely wiped out. And we also know that…how and why?

For example, Matt 24:19-22, “But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babes in those days! But pray that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath; for then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall. And unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be cut short.”

Now, let us note one of the major areas where Satan loves to steal blessings from and that is any area of your life that you are prospering in especially fruit picking.

Gal 5:17-23, For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. Now the deeds [ergons] of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control; against such things there is no law.

In this passage, the fruit mentioned belongs to the believer who will not allow Satan and the kingdom of darkness to give the devil an opportunity, Eph 4.27.

The believer who obeys this truth of doctrine will produce the fruit that is mentioned in Gal 5:22-23. On the other hand, the believer who does not obey the doctrines that are found especially in the epistles, they allow Satan and his kingdom of darkness to steal their fruit away.

This includes what Gal 5:22 calls the fruit of the Spirit.

So, this is the type of believer who allows the kingdom of darkness to take away what Gal 5:22 calls the fruit of the Spirit – As well as their love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control;

Now, as the Ephesians so also are the Galatians.

In the vacuum of their souls, they continued to worship the gods of Mount Olympus, who were not gods but demons.

Psa 96:5, For all the gods of the peoples are demons.,

Now in 1Pe 3:20, who [the fallen angels in prison] once were disobedient, when the patience of GOD kept waiting in the days of Noah,

I told you that our Lord is patient and longsuffering as He waits to come back. GOD kept waiting under the principle that grace always precedes judgment.

Now, back in 1Pe 3:18-20, For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

This is not and cannot be a reference to water baptism or baptismal regeneration because those who went under the water were destroyed.

However, the water that drowned the unbelieving world was also used to deliver the eight souls who were believers and true humanity, Noah, his wife, and his three sons and their wives.


The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life: Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.
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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is— you have trusted in Him for eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to take-in God’s Word or participating in a Communion Service, so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge your sins privately directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry, also called the convincing ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher and the pastor’s message is the vehicle the Holy Spirit uses to convince you what you are learning is true or not.

1 John 1:9 says—“If we confess [simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:



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Sermon: Exo 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.” Let’s Talk about Sex. Part 2.


Satan has one main goal in the life of every believer = to lead all believers astray.

Matt 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you.

Any area that you do not have sound doctrine in, is an area open to deception.

Idolatry leads to deception which leads to is demonization of the soul and personality of the believer or unbeliever living in the cosmic system and influenced by sexual immorality.

This leads to deception where “thought transference” of demon doctrines are taught to the believer or unbeliever in the cosmic system.

“thought transference” – referring to human viewpoint or worldly thinking.

Col 2:4 I keep on communicating these things in order that no one may delude you or deceive you with persuasive arguments.

1Co 3:18 “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become foolish [realize that he is a fool] that he may become wise.

Even the woman in the garden, who was perfect and didn’t have an OSN ended up deceived by the craftiness and subtlety of Satan.

2Co 11:3 But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray [deceived] from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

It is the “mind” which is led astray first, not the body!

She was not just tricked and partially deceived, but in 1Ti 2:14, quite deceived.

Deception is the invasion of the soul, especially the mind, emotion, and self consciousness of the soul.

The result is the “invasion” of the human personality of the believer or unbeliever who lives in the cosmic system.

Deception is also the infiltration of satanic thought which is why Satan’s thoughts are called doctrines of demons, 1Ti 4:1.

It just isn’t expressed in terms of evil, but in terms of improving this world, doing nice things for your fellow man, and supporting such things as crusades.

Deception is the invasion of the soul with thought that is false thinking, i.e., the policy and principles by which Satan operated prior to the creation of man and afterwards as the ruler of this world.

Satan desires to promote sin and evil or to improve this world and try to make himself to be equal with God?

Isa 14:13 “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Here is where the alert pastor comes into the picture and reveals the spiritual and invisible purpose of “True Idolatry” which comes in by means of blinding and deceiving us from divine solutions.

For now we are deceived by looking at marriage, family, money, wealth, friends, social life, materialism, fame, fortune or power as a means of blessings and but we forget the Blessor.

In idolatry, you always end up elevating anyone or anything over the Lord God or Jehovah Elohim.

Psa 39:5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths [any of various units of length varying from about 2¹/₂ to 4 inches based on the breadth of a hand], And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah. NKJV

Psa 96:5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens.

One of the most popular cults in the ancient world was the Phallic Cult.

I am going to suggest some principles that I believe explain why they fell into these temptations which were found in their “promise” land.

The Old Testament is a wonderful illustration and pattern of our walk with God as Christians and the spiritual warfare we face daily.

God promised His chosen people a land overflowing with milk, honey and abundance where they could settle and live and worship God.

The Jews found out quickly that when the Israelites came out of the wilderness, they had to seize this land and take it for themselves.

The Devil knew this promise to the seed of Abraham and he set 31 hostile nations right in the middle of the Promised Land to stand in fierce opposition to Israel seizing their inheritance.

The Bible calls many of the men, giants, champions of wickedness, which were physically beyond anything that mankind had ever seen.

It is a place where the promises of God are experienced in all their fullness and a place where we bear abundant spiritual fruit for our God.

The Devil does not want us to enter the Promised Land and has set hostile giants throughout the land to prevent us from taking the inheritance that God has given us.

As Christians we must arise out of the wilderness and boldly go into this Promised Land and claim our rightful inheritance.

As Joshua did, we need to take the mountains of giants and slew every giant in our minds and hearts that has ever prevented us from living the more abundant life that God has promised.

The Promised Land and the battle with these giants is the manifestation of spiritual warfare and we must conquer every giant in Christ if we are ever to fulfill our purpose for this generation.

It is through Him that God’s greatest and most precious promises have become available to us men, making it possible for you to escape the inevitable disintegration that lust produces in the world and to share in God’s essential nature.

When we have faith in the promises and patience to wait on the Lord and not become weary and faint in our minds, God will fulfill every single promise in our lives; Heb 11:6.

All of these giants like unbelief, fear, doubt, and worry are all designed to get us to not have faith in the promise for without faith we will forever remain in the wilderness of the world and the flesh.

Is a giant going to rob of us our faith and defeat our thought life from bolding claiming and believing the promise?

The promises (epaggelma) refers to a declaration to do something with implication of obligation to carry out what is stated.

God is publicly announcing to the world that He is faithful to His promises and He will emphatically carry out His Word.

God cries out “Prove me now if I am not faithful.” Our confession should be, “Watch what my God will do!”

Malachi put it like this in his very popular passage; Mal 3:8-10.

Christian expectation in the average church follows the program, not the promises.

We must declare war on the mood of non-expectation, and come together with childlike faith.

You have rights as a part of your inheritance as a child of God, which God has decreed with all the authority of His inalterable Word as they are firmly rooted in God’s love, pleasure, purpose, and declaration for you.

You have a legal right to eternal life and a home in heaven.

You have a legal right to victory over the devil and his authority on the earth.

You have a legal right to freedom from the bondage of sin and all its consequences.

You have a legal right of deliverance from fear, worry, anxiety, and doubt.

You have a legal right to the Father’s protection and care.

You have a legal right to use the name of Jesus Christ in prayer, invoking its authority and power.

You have a legal right to be more than a conqueror in any situation.

You have a legal right to overflowing joy in all of life’s circumstances.

You have a legal right to the peace of God ruling in your heart, no matter how intense the problem or trouble.

You have a legal right to the wisdom of God. You have a legal right to confidence and boldness.

You have the legal right to have all of your needs met according to God’s riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

You have a legal right to do all things and be ready and equal to anything through Christ who strengthens you.

You have a legal right to salvation and wholeness in every area of your life.

You have a legal right to perfect health and deliverance from all forms of sickness and disease.

You have a legal right to prosperity and overflowing abundance in your life.

You have a legal right to be completely free from every form of depression, condemnation, guilt, misery, despair, and any other type of mental bondage.

You have a legal right to live and walk in the revolutionary and life changing love of God that proceeds from the heart of God.

You have a legal right to be changed at the return of Christ and receive a new body unlimited in scope and dimension.

You have a legal right to all the blessings of your inheritance in the family of God.

You have a legal right to the goodness of God abounding in every area of your life.

If we place such honor and importance on our earthly legal rights, how much more should we value, honor, respect, and claim our heavenly legal rights in Christ.

He says they were superhuman and abnormal beings and their destruction in Noah’s time was necessary for the preservation of the human race.

Deut 2:7, 10, 11, 20, 21 “For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.”’

The crossing of the Red Sea is a picture of Christ’s death for you and me — when he cuts us off from the world in all its attitudes, ways, and opinions.

Jordan = a picture of your death with Christ. When you bring your Adamic life to an end; when all that you are in Adam comes to an end — your reliance on yourself, your desire to have your own program, to live and make your own decisions.

All of these passages verses and principles are the reasons why idolatry and the Phallic Cult with the influence of sex are forbidden; Isa 2:8, 18 20, 21:9, 36:18 20, 37:12 19; Jer 3:6-11, 2:27 30, 7:17 20, 17:1 4; Eze 6:4-6.

Is the Phallic Cult around today?

Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Second Edition” = a cult means devoted attachment to, or extravagant admiration for, a person, principle, or thing etc.

The Webster’s Ninth New College Dictionary says that a cult is a great devotion to a person, idea, or thing, (especially), such devotion regarded as literary or intellectual fad or mania.

A cult is not necessarily devotion to a “god” as such, but it can also be devotion to an idea, especially one set up by the “god” of this world, Satan himself.

One of the most basic needs in the human race is the need to be loved, appreciated and wanted.

One of the main reasons why the Phallic Cult is still around today, although it is not titled the Phallic Cult is because most individuals do not understand the difference between natural desires and lusts.

One of the main reasons why the Phallic Cult is still around today is because most individuals do not understand the difference between natural desires and lusts.

Paul is actually telling us about the influences that are impelling and driving and urging the old self in us toward destruction.

Lust is the noun epithumia, the word itself actually means a strong or an overpowering desire.

Luke 22:15, “I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.”

The word for “earnestly desired” is the same word that is used elsewhere for lust — epithumia.

Matt 5:28 But I say to you, that everyone who looks on a woman to lust [epithumia] for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Matt 13:17 “For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired [epithumia] to see what you see, and did not see it; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

1Co 10:6 Now these things happened as examples for us, that we should not lust [epithumia] for evil things, as they also lusted [epithumia].

1Ti 3:1 It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to [epithumia] the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.


James 4:2 You lust [epithumia] and do not have; so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

Please notice that in these passages epithumia can mean lust or desire depending on not what it is directed towards but “how” it is directed toward those things.

It is true that lust can mean lasciviousness or an illicit, uncontrolled, overwhelming desire which originates from the old sin nature.

However, the dictionary defines lust also as a pleasure or delight.

It can also mean an intense longing or craving for something.

The overmastering and overpowering desires of most people are evil.

There is a difference between the legitimate desires and needs that a person has and the different lusts that are destroying many individuals inwardly.

The worship of a physical object or objects as God.

2. Inordinate attachment or extreme devotion to something.

An idol is actually defined as an object of extreme devotion, hence, it could be almost anything in a person’s life, here in our subject it is a reference to sex.

There is a difference between the legitimate desires and needs that a person hasand the different lusts that are destroying many individuals inwardly.

The natural instincts in all of us, such as hunger, sex, survival, self-defense are not wrong in themselves.

Nothing wrong with natural instincts. It is God who has put these natural instincts into man….including the instinct for sex and a need to be loved.

One of those main instincts is the desire to be loved, needed, held and for sexual encounters.

His various instincts and powers and propensities were put in such an order and peculiar arrangement in man that they are all meant to minister to his good and to his enjoyment of life.

These instincts which are mainly in man’s body, were meant to be under the “control” of his mind.

God’s will was that man should have dominion and control over his “natural” instincts.

The mind alone is not enough, God also gave man a conscience which is higher than the mind and gives instructions to the mind.

Man being made in the image of God, the conscience was meant in turn to be controlled by God himself.

Why celibacy is advocated by the Roman church and others.

There is nothing wrong with sexual desires.
To say so is to say that “God” put evil into man.

At the same time, however, we are all aware that all our instincts must be in their right place which means that they must be governed and controlled by the mind and heart.

Here is the tragedy of the whole cosmic system; that the order has been reversed and that mankind is being governed by his instincts.

This is a major reason why the Phallic Cult or a devoted attachment or great devotion to sex has hit our nation and the entire world.

When the “instincts” get into control they become lusts.

When that which is meant to be under control takes charge and governs the life, there is chaos….and that is exactly what is meant by lusts.

Prin Then: – Lust simply means that an affection or an instinct is taking charge of us and governing us.

The mind is being silenced.

The conscience is being ignored.

The state of man is one of chaos and confusion.

There is nothing wrong with the affections implanted in man but the affections must never become inordinate.

Evil desires everywhere are in control while reason and understanding have been pushed aside.

The decay and the steady movement toward destruction is simply the dominance of lust controlling the individual.

Man controlled by his lust is moving in the direction of decay.

The real ultimate and controlling power is deceit.

The lusts in turn manipulate the man.

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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Weekly Bible Study – November 19, 2018; Study: Unbelievers, both angels and humans, also have their final day in the Supreme Court of Heaven.


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Prepare yourself for learning the Word of God!

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge (confess) your sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father).

1 John 1:9 says: "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (known sins) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [unknown or forgotten sins]." NKJV (New King James Version) [italics added]; we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, the promised Messiah, as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to simply exercise faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life; when you do, you will instantly receive Eternal Life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life." NKJV [italics added]

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:


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Unbelievers, both angels and humans, also have
their final day in the Supreme Court of Heaven.


We are now getting ready to complete our eighth commandment concerning the judgment of the believer as we have already noted last Sunday, so, what about the unbelievers?

For the unbeliever his human good, not his sins, but his good deeds are judged evaluated and rejected.

Rev 20:11-12, And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

Ergons = is the Greek word for deeds, works, and labor. The word can also mean that which designates the one who commissions the work or encompasses the unity of human conduct.

2Co 10:11, Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed [ergon[] when present.

The word “deeds” is the Greek noun ergon ‎— as you can see it means to work, to toil (as an effort or occupation), it has nothing to do with sins.

Look at how useless and idiotic it would look like in 2Co 10:11, Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in [ergon – works or sins] when present.

Now, that doesn’t fit at all to translate ergons to sins.

Frequently ‎ergon ‎is used of a deed done or being done: as a work of GOD or as work from our LORD.

Heb 1:10, And, “Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works [ergons] of Thy hands;”

Heb 4:3, For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “ As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest,” although His [ergons] works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Heb 4:4, For He has thus said somewhere concerning the seventh day, “And God rested on the seventh day from all His [ergons] works”;

So, you can see how foolish it would be if we just used and translated “ergons” to sins.

In general phrases, ‎ergons ‎can express the personality of relationship to a power or group; (Rom 13:12) Ergons ‎is also a criterion for evaluation in judgment.

Scriptural passages on ergons referring to works or deeds and has nothing to do with sins, whether the believer knows it is sin or not, is not the issue; it simply doesn’t matter, Matt 5:16.

Matt 5:16, “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
The idea that ergons also can refer to the “treasure of good works” is taught in 1Ti 6:18.

1Ti 6:18, Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works [ergons], to be generous and ready to share.

Ergons is referred to as deeds in Rev 20:13-15, And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.

Rev 20:14-15, And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

So, all of the unbelievers, both angels and humans, also have their final day in the Supreme Court of heaven.

Now, one of the most vital passages concerning the Angelic conflict and the place of Hades and the Ten Commandments is found in Eph 4.

First of all, Hades is said to be a place where God’s people have gone, Acts 2:27, 31, 1Co 15:55.

Look at Acts 2:27, Because Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, Nor allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay.

In Acts 2:31 he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay. Hades is also a place where unbelievers have gone.

Rev 6:8, And I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. And authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Rev 20:12, And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

Rev 20:13-14, And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

There are also four major compartments of sheol or Hades.

1. Paradise is where the Old Testament believers resided after death before the resurrection of our Lord.

2. Torments is where all unbelievers reside, Luk 16:23.

3. Tartarus is where certain fallen angels, called beni ha Elohim in Gen 6, reside.

4. The abyss contains demons who transgress the boundaries of the human race = the location of the demon king, Satan’s right hand man, called Abaddon.

He will have quite a future in the Tribulation period.

In Rev 9, he breaks out of this jail with the help of Satan who also has now been cast out of heaven in the middle of the Tribulation and can never return to heaven again.

Remember that the Tribulation period is a seven year period in which the first three and a half years Satan, as the god of this world, blesses all mankind with great blessings wanting to be worshipped by him.

However, Satan finds out very quickly once again that God’s word is true because in spite of all the blessings Satan gives to humans they still remain selfish, arrogant, critical, judgmental, and definitely implacable or impossible to please or satisfy.

Therefore, in all of his frustration, anger, jealousy and especially his bitterness, Satan brings the last three and a half years of the worse time the world has ever or will ever face or go through.

So that we have the first 3.5 years of great blessings and then we will receive 3.5 years of the worse time in all of human history.

Remember I said that Satan is bitter and so the second half of our verse in Heb 12:15 tells us what motivates Satan and his bitterness.

You’ve heard it before, I’m sure you’ll hear it gain as we await our LORD and His bride returning with resurrected believers to save the world from complete destruction.

Scripture: First, look at what bitterness does to others; Heb 12:15, See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

There are passages like this and more that warn us about that time when the Lord comes back to deliver or save His own people at the end of the Tribulation Period before mankind would be completely wiped out. And we also know that….how and why?

For example, Matt 24:19-22, “But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babes in those days! But pray that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath; for then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall. And unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be cut short.”

Now, let us note one of the major areas where Satan loves to steal blessings from and that is any area of your life that you are prospering in especially fruit picking.

For example, look at Gal 5:17-23, For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. Now the deeds [ergons] of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of GOD. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control; against such things there is no law.

In this passage, the fruit mentioned belongs to the believer who will not allow Satan and the kingdom of darkness to give the devil an opportunity, Eph 4.27.

For those who do not obey 2Jo 1:8, “Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.”

The believer who obeys this truth of doctrine will produce the fruit that is mentioned in Gal 5:22-23.


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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Internet Church Service – November 18, 2018; Sermon: Exo 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.” Let’s Talk about Sex.

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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is— you have trusted in Him for eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to take-in God’s Word or participating in a Communion Service, so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge your sins privately directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry, also called the convincing ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher and the pastor’s message is the vehicle the Holy Spirit uses to convince you what you are learning is true or not.

1 John 1:9 says—“If we confess [simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:



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Sermon: Exo 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.” Let’s Talk about Sex.


Commandment #7 is designed for the Protection of Marriage = Exo 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.”

Col 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body [eyes, ears, hands, feet], as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

Five Sins = immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires, greed, which all are said to be some sort of a manifestation of demonic worship or the worship of idolatry.

Col 3:5 Therefore, consider the members of your earthly body [eyes, ears, feet, hands, etc.] as dead to immorality [sexual activity outside of marriage] impurity [abnormal sexual activity],passion [abnormal sex lust], evil desire [overwhelming desire for sex], and greed [craving for sexual activity], which keeps on amounting to idolatry or the worship of idols or demons.

The Phallic cult is part of licentious reversionism or the promotion of all kinds of sexual activity and is referred to in 2Co 12:21; Eph 4:19, 5:5, Rev 2:14, 20 23.

Used – Eph 4:19 = some believers have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Used in Eph 5:5 For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Used in Rev 2:14 where it describes the believers in the church of Pergamum and who are mixing doctrines of demons and making money out of religion and impurity.

1. In Rev 2:14 some hold to the teaching of Balaam (making money on religion and orgies.

2. Some keep teaching about Balak who was known for putting stumbling blocks in the way of God’s people.

3. Other believers and even unbelievers were eating food and things sacrificed to idols,

4. There were those believers and unbelievers who acts of immorality, namely religious orgies.

Because of all the danger that accompanies sexual sins with the influence of Phallic Cult and reversionism, it gives Satan a room in the soul to work upon in the life of the believer.

Eph 4:27 ‘Do not give room or a space in your soul to the devil.” because if you do, you will be influenced and, in some cases, overwhelmed by the devil who goes about like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour.

The Phallic Cult was forbidden by God to Israel in Exo 20:3, 23, Deut 4:28, 5:7, 6:14, 8:19.

All of this is because no nation ever survives the spread of the Phallic Cult and being under the influence of excessive sexual LUSTS.

It motivates the human race to get involved in the whole realm of sexual sins as in the Phallic cult, Eze 22:1-16, 23:37 49.

Are you going to face her with all her outrageous obscenities.

In all their killing, they’ve piled up guilt and in all their idol making, they have become filthy.

“you have brought your day near and have come to your years;” = they have forced a premature end to their existence — sin unto death.

Vs. 4 = says in effect. “I‘ll put you on exhibit as the scarecrow of the nations, the world’s worst joke.”

From far and near others will mock those believers involved with idolatry and adultery and they will be infamous in filth, notorious for chaos.

Even their leaders, the princes of Israel among you, will be involved in crime and their community will be disrespectful and abusive toward parents, abusive to outsiders, oppressive against orphans and widows.

They treated our Lord’s holy things with contempt and desecrated His Sabbaths and became familiar with God’s word which is prohibited by the word of God.

The Message Bible translation says in Eze 22:9 “You have people spreading lies and spilling blood, flocking to the hills to the sex shrines and fornicating unrestrained.”

In verse 11, idolatry promotes sex which is now anarchy. Anyone is fair game: neighbor, daughter in law, sister.

In verse12, Murder is for hire, usury is rampant, extortion is commonplace. “And they have forgotten God.”

In Jer 9:14, the prophet Jeremiah tells us why this happened to them as they followed idolatry “But they have walked after the stubbornness of their heart [the scar tissue of their hearts] and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

1. Incest

2. Fornication

3. Homosexuality

4. Bestiality, Lev 18:3 25

Demonism, Lev 20:6;

Human sacrifice, Lev 20:1 5;

Rejection of authority, Lev 20:9;

And social degeneracy, Lev 20:10 23.

The entire religious background of the Phoenician Phallic Cult is found in what is known as the “Epic of Ugarit” (or as some say u-ga-ri-tic).

In this Epic or long poem, the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation are recorded.

God the Father is counterfeited by the god called “el.” The son is counterfeited by Baal.

Baal has a struggle once a year with mot, the god of death, and he (mot) dies, which is a counterfeit of the cross.

Baal also had a wife sister, Anoth, who finds his body and brings it back to life (the counterfeit of the resurrection).

The goddess of sex, murder, warfare, and love. In Phoenician she is Ashtarti or Ashtarrith; In Latin she becomes Venus.

I gave it to show you the importance of idolatry as it relates to deception because that is all an idol is —- a lie or a nothing manifested by something or someone.

Isa 43:21 “The people whom I formed for Myself, Will declare My praise.”

Prov 16:4 The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil.

Col 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created by Him and for Him.

Col 1:17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Matt 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you.

Any area that you do not have sound doctrine in, is an area open to deception. Anything that we think or do, that is not oriented to the way God thinks is open to deception.

Idolatry leads to deception which leads to is demonization of the soul and personality of the believer or unbeliever living in the cosmic system.

It leads to deception where “thought transference” of demon doctrines are taught to the believer or unbeliever in the cosmic system.

Col 2:4 I keep on communicating these things in order that no one may delude you or deceive you with persuasive arguments.

In 1Co 3:18, Paul said, “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become foolish [realize that he is a fool] that he may become wise.

Even the woman in the garden, who was perfect and didn’t have an OSN ended up deceived by the craftiness and subtlety of Satan.

2Co 11:3 But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray [deceived] from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

Notice that it is the “mind” which is led astray first, not the body!

According to the Bible, she was not just tricked and partially deceived, but in 1Ti 2:14, quite deceived.

Deception is the invasion of the soul, especially the mind, emotion, and self consciousness of the soul.

The result is the “invasion” of the human personality of the believer or unbeliever who lives in the cosmic system.

Deception is also the infiltration of satanic thought which why Satan’s thoughts are called doctrines of demons, 1Ti 4:1.

It just isn’t expressed in terms of evil, but in terms of improving this world, doing nice things for your fellow man, and supporting crusades.

Deception is the invasion of the soul with thought that is false thinking, i.e., the policy and principles by which Satan operated prior to the creation of man and afterwards as the ruler of this world.

Satan desires to promote sin and evil or to improve this world and try to make himself to be equal with God?

Here is where the alert pastor comes into the picture and reveals the spiritual and invisible purpose of “True Idolatry” which comes in by means of blinding and deceiving us from divine solutions.

For now we are deceived by looking at marriage, family, money, wealth, friends, social life, materialism, fame, fortune or power as a means of blessings and we forget the Blessor.

In idolatry, you always end up elevating anyone or anything over the Lord God or Jehovah Elohim.

Psa 39:5 “Behold, Thou hast made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Thy sight, Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Psa 96:5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens.

One of the most popular cults in the ancient world was the Phallic Cult = some principles that I believe explain why they fell into these temptations which were found in their “promise” land.

1. Immorality of all kinds, Lev 18:3 25, e.g, fornication, cultic prostitution, homosexuality, etc.

2. Idolatry related to the Phallic Cult always includes human sacrifice, Lev 20:1 5.

3. Frenzied group sex, Lev 20:1-5.

4. Demonism, Lev 20:6.

5. Rejection of authority, Lev 20:9.

6. Spiritual, social, and cultural degeneracy, Lev 20:10 23.

7. Bestiality and incest is forbidden and those involved in them pay the penalty of capital punishment or death, Lev 20:14-21.

8. Masturbation, Deut 12:29-31; Gen 38:8-10.

9. Merchandising feminine beauty, Eze 16:15, which refers to revealing certain parts of the female body to what Eze 16:15 calls “every passer-by who might be willing.”

10. Excessive use of alcohol and the promotion of nudity among the sexes, Hab 2:15-16.

Idolatry and the Phallic Cult were responsible for the downtrend of client nation Israel; Isa 2:8, 18 20, 21:9, 36:18 20, 37:12 19; Jer 3:6-11, 2:27 30, 7:17 20, 17:1 4; Eze 6:4-6.

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Saturday, November 10, 2018

Weekly Bible Study – November 12, 2018; Study: Remember our Lord’s evaluation is of the “good” we produced in time, to see if it was “human good” or “divine good.”


Remember our Lord’s evaluation is of the “good” we
produced in time, to see if it was “human good” or “divine good.”

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Prepare yourself for learning the Word of God!

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge (confess) your sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father).

1 John 1:9 says: "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (known sins) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [unknown or forgotten sins]." NKJV (New King James Version) [italics added]; we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, the promised Messiah, as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to simply exercise faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life; when you do, you will instantly receive Eternal Life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life." NKJV [italics added]

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:


Study to show yourself approved to God!

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Remember our Lord’s evaluation is of the “good” we
produced in time, to see if it was “human good” or “divine good.”


This past week we noted the difference between Divine good is the Greek word, agathos or human good, the Greek word phaulos both which are mentioned in 2Co 5:10.

2Co 5:10, For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good [agathos DG] or bad [phaulos – evil or human good].

This is a very important principle concerning not just what took place on the cross concerning our “personal sins” but also what happened to the “human good” that the old sin nature produced while on earth the Cross.

We are very familiar with sins being judged for all the human race but what happen to the good things or the human good man produced with his own power? The answer is the fact that the human good is not judged but is evaluated which is different than sins which were all judged.

In other words, personal sins are judged while the production of human good is rejected.

Remember our Lord’s evaluation is of the “good” we produced in time to see if it was “human good” or “divine good.”

And the main principle that He judges by is said to be His word, the word of God.

John 12:37-49, But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him; that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, He has blinded their eyes, and He hardened their heart; lest they see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and be converted, and I heal them.” These things Isaiah said, because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.

Nevertheless, many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me. And he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me. I have come as light into the world, that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness.

And if anyone hears My sayings, and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.” For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak.

Human good is that which Satan tries to steal from us and rob us by causing us to rely on the creature power rather than the power of the word and the power of the Holy Spirit; Rom 1:25.

Rom 1:25, For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Therefore, Human good must never be confused with morality or the legitimate production of the believer. There is legitimate morality and there is legitimate production of good called divine good. Therefore, Human good is the production of the believer who lives in the cosmic system and who does not rely on the power or the filling of the Spirit. Therefore, human good is not valid in God’s eyes.

Human good is simply the production of evil. All personal sins were judged on the cross while all human good is waiting to be evaluated at the “Bema Seat Judgment for believers” or at “The “Great White Throne Judgment” for the unbelievers, both angelic and human; Rev 20:11-15.

Whether it is altruism or any form of asceticism of self-sacrifice, human good is the production of the believer in Satan’s domain or kingdom, called in the Bible the cosmos or the world system. It is this world system that the Lord delivered us from says Col 1:13, For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

This is why to advance in the spiritual life, you must distinguish between human good and divine good; Heb 5:11-14.

Being arrogant means you have negative volition towards doctrine.

James 3:14, But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against doctrine.

In their arrogance, they are always murmuring and complaining about others while flattering others to gain an advantage over them.
Jud 1:16, These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

In dealing with some of the early problems in the beginning of the Church-age, Jude is writing, insisting, and even begging!

That they would you fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish.

Jud 1:3, Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

What has happened is that some evil people have infiltrated their ranks as our Scriptures warned us this would happen.

And therefore, beneath their pious skin are shameless scoundrels, Satan was trying to shed the grace of God and doing away with Jesus Christ, our One and Only Master.

Then in the next twelve verses he says in effect, I’m laying this out as clearly as I can, even though you once knew all this well enough and shouldn’t need reminding.

Here it is in brief: The Master saved a people out of the land of Egypt. Later he destroyed those who defected.

As Jud 1:6 says, And you know the story of the angels who didn’t stick to their post, abandoning it for other, darker missions. [But they are now chained and jailed in a black hole until the great Judgment Day.] Sodom and Gomorrah went through perverted sexual sins along with the surrounding cities that acted just like them, are another example to us.

The point being that relying upon human good and entering into legalism produces pride and pride makes one stupid; (Psa 94:8).

So the recipients were in no position to receive advanced doctrine. They were ignorant of doctrine, and added to that they had become involved in human good and the religious activity of their day.

Now, notice that the writer gives the reason why doctrine is hard to explain to certain believers in Heb 5:11, Concerning Him we have many doctrines to communicate [is the corrected translation] and hard to explain because you have become dull of hearing. They were not like that before.

They were positive for a while, then they would peel off, then they would come back, then they would peel off, etc. Finally, they regressed, to the place where they became dull of hearing.

Why?

Because once you repeat certain actions over and over again, you reach a place where you just continue to exist in that state or action. In fact, that is what the old sin nature is doing, it is “being corrupted” continually.

Eph 4:22, In reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit.

2Pe 1:2-4, Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

So, notice that even though the old sin nature is dead to God and it is in a state of constant corruption, all the unbelievers will keep on getting worse and worse in eternity, says the apostle John in Rev 22:11-15, “Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and let the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and let the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.

Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Heb 5:12-13, For though by this time you ought to be teachers, [or teaching other people] but you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God [basic doctrines all over again], and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness not self righteousness but divine righteousness.”

And, notice next, the reason is stated…because he is a babe, or immature.

Therefore, verse 14, Heb 5:14, But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.


The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life: Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.
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