Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for this afternoon's service. We thank you for brother Dylan being
here. We ask that you fill him with your spirit as he preaches your word to us and
edifies the church and we learn from him and your work. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Amen.
All right, good to see everyone back this evening. I just want to wish you guys all
Merry Christmas. You guys mean a lot to me. You guys are literally an answer to my
prayers. You know, living here for so long, having a church like this that stands in the
gap in my hometown is very, very special to me. So I appreciate all you guys. I hope
you guys have a great Christmas. We're here in Hebrews chapter number 10. Look down at
verse number 26. The Bible says, For if we sin willfully after that we have received
the knowledge of the truth. There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. So let's pray.
Lord, thank you so much for this day and thank you for this church. I pray that
you just help me to communicate the truth of your word tonight. Would you fill me
up with the Holy Spirit and just help everyone to pay attention and learn tonight. In Jesus
name we pray. Amen.
All right, the Talmud sermon is the real meaning of Hebrews chapter 10. The real
meaning of Hebrews chapter 10. This verse that I just read to you, verse 26, if you
go soloing for any amount of time, someone's going to throw this in your face. Someone's
going to say, hey, if you sin willfully, you have no more sacrifice for sin. And
people are going to always throw this in your face. And you know, as you go soloing
more and more, you'll realize that the main fight that we fight every single day
is the fight of eternal security. This is a fight that is always going to be happening
and it's something that we all as individuals have to be very, very sharp on.
So tonight we're going to be doing another Bible study in the book of Hebrews
chapter 10. And instead of just letting these false prophets rip one verse out of
context from a chapter and say, you can lose your salvation, we're going to look
at this whole chapter, teach what the whole thing is going through, teach what
the whole Bible is teaching in this chapter. So let's go to, so there in
Hebrews chapter number 10, number one tonight, no one has ever been saved by
the Old Testament law. Look at verse number one, for the law, so right away we get
the subject of the chapter of Hebrews chapter 10, for the law, having a shadow
of good things to come and not the very image of the thing can never with
those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers
there unto perfect. Now we should also be able to just close our Bibles and go
home. There you go, verse number one, the law, the sacrifices, they were never able
to make the comers there unto perfect, never. But right away we get the
subject of the chapter, look at verse number two, for then would they not have
ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had
no more conscience of sins. Paul's saying, look, if the law could have ever
saved you, we never would have stopped the animal sacrifices, they'd be going on
till this day. Go to Leviticus chapter 1 and leave a finger there in Hebrews 10.
Like I said, we're going to be coming there a lot.
Leviticus chapter number one, just to remind you again, what that verse is saying there,
it said that for the law having a shadow of good things to come. So what is the
shadow? It kind of projects an image of the real thing, right? It's just showing you
an outline of what the real thing would look like. So let's look at Leviticus chapter
number one, verse three. It's talking about an offering here, if his offering be a
burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish. He shall
offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation of the Lord and he shall put his hand upon the head of the
burnt offering and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for
him and he shall kill the bullock before the Lord and the priest Aaron's
son shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood round upon the
altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So see,
this sacrifice right here, what is this a shadow of? It's the shadow of the
sacrifice of Christ of course, right? Because what is it? It's a male
without blemish, right? Jesus Christ is the sinless Lamb of God and then it
says that he shall offer it of his own voluntary will. That's a picture of
salvation being a choice. You have to choose to put your faith in Lord Jesus
Christ. You have to choose to be saved and then look at where it says in verse
five and he shall kill the bullock. That's a picture of what our sin did to
Lord Jesus Christ. It's our sin that put him on the cross and we, although we
weren't the ones that physically killed Christ, our sin did kill Christ.
So as you can see there, even from the very beginning, the very first
chapter of Leviticus, the very first sacrifice there, what is it? It's a
shadow of things to come. It's a shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ. Go back to
Hebrews. Of course I didn't even keep my place there myself. So I'll read
through Hebrews chapter number seven verse 12. The Bible says, for the
priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the
law. So why is there a necessity that there's a change, right? Because what
Paul said there in verse two in Hebrews 10, for then would they not have
ceased to be offered. Why is there a need of a change in the law? Because those
offerings never could get you saved. It's that simple. So go ahead and turn to
Romans chapter 4 while I read through Hebrews 4. The Bible says, for unto us was the
gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit
them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. So you have today a
group of people called dispensationalists. They are huge in certain places in
America and certain countries like the Philippines. When it comes to American
Baptists that are there, they're almost all dispensationalists. And what do they
teach you? They teach you that there are seven different Gospels throughout
time, right? Well right here in Hebrews 4, the Bible says that the gospel
that's preached unto us in the New Testament is the same gospel that was
preached unto them. You're there in Romans chapter number four. Romans
chapter number four. Look there at verse number one. What shall we say then that
Abraham, our father, as pertaining to the flesh hath found? For if Abraham were
justified by works, he hath where of the glory, but not before God. For what
saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for
righteousness. So what is the saving agent in Abraham's salvation?
What is it? It's his faith. It's the fact that he believed. That's what gave
him his righteousness. Verse four. Now to him that worketh is the reward not
reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on
him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Verse six. Even as David also described it, the blessedness of the man under whom
God impudeth righteousness without works, saying blessed are they whose
iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. So what does the Bible teach right here?
The Bible teaches that both Abraham and David both were
saved by faith. Now why is that important? Because people always like to
talk about how people during the law and before the law or after the law were
saved by works. So Abraham was before the law, David was after the law, and in
Hebrews chapter 10 we have Paul, that's after the law as well, all three of them
are saved by faith. So you mean to tell me that before the law was given
people were saved by faith, and all time after that people were saved by
faith, but God just wanted to make sure that Moses had to keep the law to a T
and to cross every T and dot every I otherwise he'd go to hell? You know it
doesn't make any sense. If David and Abraham understood that righteousness is
reckoned by faith without works, then Moses understood the same thing, and
right there in Hebrews chapter 4 the Bible taught how the
Gospels preached unto them, the same one that was preached unto us. Go to Romans
chapter number 10. Romans chapter number 10. You know this is the
biggest thing that separates us and the Jews that fell away from the
correct religion of God is that they didn't understand the sacrifice of
Christ, they certainly don't understand eternal security, but that is what they
missed. Romans 10 verse 1, brethren my heart's desire and prayer to
God for Israel is that they might be saved. You know Israel is not saved
today, they don't have that interceding sacrifice of Christ, they're still
trusting in their flesh to get there. And that's what the Bible says here
verse 2, for I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness and
going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believeth. So there you go and that's
even what people who are unsafe today don't understand, they're going about to
establish their own righteousness. They may have a zeal of God, but it's
not according to knowledge. But the Bible says there that Christ is the end of the
law to all them that believe, right? End of the law for righteousness to all
them that believe. See, when Christ came back and said, thinking not that I
am come to destroy the law, but to fulfill. So he didn't come to destroy
the law for, you know, things like the moral law, you know, murder still murder.
God doesn't feel any different about it than he did when he gave the
tablets to Moses. But he says that Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believeth. Why? Because Christ's sacrifice,
when you believe in Christ, his perfect obedience is counted unto you for
righteousness and the law is no longer applied to you for righteousness
sake as far as getting to heaven. Go back to Hebrews chapter number 10.
Hebrews chapter number 10. Verse 4 reads, For it is not possible that the blood of
bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the
world he said, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin as thou had no
pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me
to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering, in burnt
offerings and offering for sin, thou wouldest not, neither has pleasure
therein, which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy
will, O God, he taketh away the first that he may establish the second. So
right there from verse 7 to verse 9 is actually a quote from Psalm
chapter number 40. And he doesn't want us to be in the dark about
salvation, right? He doesn't want us to be in the dark about the sacrifice of
Christ. So what does he do? From Genesis to Revelation, you look in the Bible and you
see the Lord Jesus Christ. In Psalm chapter 40, he's not trying to confuse
us. He's trying to give us as many hints as possible. Hey, the perfect Lamb
of God, Jesus, he said, a body of sacrifice have you offered for me? I
come to do thy will, O God, to do thy pleasure, so that he can take away the
first and establish the second. So Romans 5a, I'll read it for you. The Bible
says, But God commanded his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. So there in Hebrews 10, the Bible is talking about how, you know, he
never even had pleasure in the burnt offerings and sacrifices. Why? Because
we're sinners. The only thing that he ever cared about with those
sacrifices was that it was the picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
was pleased seeing that it was a picture of what Christ would do, but
for us, we're sinners. But in Romans 5, it says, But God commanded his love toward us, in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us. Second Corinthians 5 21 says, For he hath made
him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. You know, people that don't understand this, it blows me away
how they have such a carnal and fleshly mind that they think that the
God of the universe, God Almighty God, can somehow be pleased with the smoke
and the blood of animals to save your soul, right? It doesn't make any sense.
When you understand when Christ came as the perfect Lamb of God, the sinless
Lamb of God, and died for us, who are sinners, that's the real sacrifice. That's
the real love that God cares about. Go to Isaiah chapter 1. Because we saw
there in Hebrews 10 that he said that he never even had pleasure in these
sacrifices. Why is that? Because God obviously didn't command these
sacrifices. Why did he have no pleasure in them? Look at Isaiah chapter
number 1. Verse 4, the Bible reads, A sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters, they have
forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they
are gone away backwards. Skip down to verse 11. To what purpose is the
multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord? I am full of the burnt
offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and I delight not in the blood
of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats. When you come to appear before me, who hath
required this at your hand to tread my cords? Bring no more vain oblations.
Incense is an abomination unto me. The new moons and sabbaths, the calling
of assemblies I cannot away with. It is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Your new moons and your appointed beasts, my soul hateth. They are a
trouble unto me. I am weary to bend them. So these people right here in
Isaiah, all they are are a forefather of the Pharisees that Jesus was dealing
with in his day. He's saying that in verse 4 there are sinful people
laying with iniquity. They're not obeying God. They're rebellious people.
They're hypocritical people. And even though they're doing all these
oblations, even though they're doing all these sacrifices, God looks down at
it and he says, I hate that. I have no pleasure in that. It's an abomination unto me.
You think about in Matthew chapter 3 when Jesus is rebuking the Pharisees.
He's saying, hey, these guys pay tithe of anise and cumin and mint and all of
these things. He goes, observe all the things that they say to do, but don't do
according to their works, right? Because they're hypocrites. Because there are
people that just, they are focused on the flesh so much, where they were
saying to their mother and father, it is a gift. It is Corban, right? They were
they were using their tithe money or they were giving their money to church
and saying, oh, I'm taking care of my parents. I'm honoring my mother and
father like God commanded me to. Jesus said these people are hypocrites. They
want to follow the law to make their flesh look good, but inside, you know,
there are people that honor God with their lips, but their heart is far
from him. So when it comes to these sacrifices, all it was, all it ever was,
was a picture of Lord Jesus Christ, was to glorify and what he is going to
do for us. He's a lamb slain from the foundation of the world, but God never
cared one little bit about the actual animals, about the actual blood.
It was just a picture, it was just a shadow of things to come.
First Samuel 15 22, I'll read for you. Behold, to obey is better than
sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams. You know, God cares a lot more
about your heart than he does your obedience, and obviously we preach against
these free in Christ bro people, right, that just say, oh, just, you know, do
whatever you want. You're free in Christ. You know, God wants you to obey
him. I'm not saying that that's what God is saying there. He's not
making light of that, but to obey is better than sacrifice, right? You
following the law to a T and, you know, having some heinous secret sins just
because you want to make your flesh look good, God's not going to care,
right? If you're, if you're giving your money to the church and saying,
oh, I'm honoring my father and mother, he's not going to care about
that. So go to Isaiah 53. You're there in the book of Isaiah. You're
here a little bit this morning as well.
Isaiah 53. So just like how the Old Testament, when God looks down at a
sinful people who are maybe doing the sacrifices, but they're still
wicked on the inside. They're not obeying him. They're hypocritical.
He looks down at their sacrifice and says, my soul loathes this. I
hate this. It's the same way when we bring our filthy rags of
works to God and say, hey, Lord, this is my righteousness. When
you don't have the blood of Christ applied to your heart, when
you're not saved and you're just presenting your good works, it's
the exact same. God sees you the exact same as he saw the
children of Israel. So you're there in Isaiah 53. Let's read
again, the only sacrifice that God ever cared about. Verse
five, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was
bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him. And with his stripes, we are healed. All we
like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his
own way. And the Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us
all. He was oppressed. He was afflicted, yet he opened not his
mouth. And it is, he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and
as a sheep before her shearers is dumb. So he opened it, not
his mouth. You know, God is, the Lord Jesus Christ is the
real name of God. He's the only sacrifice that ever
mattered. When we brought, or when the Old Testament saints
brought those sacrifices of lambs and of egotes and of bullocks,
all it was was a picture of right here in Isaiah 53, Jesus
Christ being bruised for our iniquities, him carrying our
sins on us and being brought to the slaughter for us. Go
back to Hebrews chapter number 10. People that say you can
lose your salvation, it shows you they don't really even
understand the sacrifice of Christ. It shows you they
don't even really understand the magnitude of what Christ
had to go through for us. Taking upon all the sins of the
whole world in his body in one moment, dying on the cross
for us, being separated from God the Father's fellowship
that he's had from eternity's past. John 17 talks about how
God the Father loved him from before the foundation of
the world. He's had that fellowship with him for all
eternity. And because he loved you and because he loved me, he
decided to separate that for us. And not only that, after
that, he descended into the pits of hell for three days
and three nights. And people say, Oh, you just need to live
a good life to get to heaven, right? Christ's sacrifice
when he did that, that wasn't enough to carry all my sins.
I'm such a bad sinner, I have to bring my filthy rags to
the table as well. It's wicked, and it's sending people
to hell. And that's why it's so important that we
understand this because false prophets that take chapters
like Hebrews chapter 10, where the whole chapter is
teaching eternal security, they take one verse out and
want to turn the whole entire chapter on its head, it makes
me sick. So number three, Christ's sacrifice is valid
for all people, for all sin, for all time. Hebrews chapter
number 10, verse 10, by the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Christ once for all.
And every priest stand at daily ministering and offering
oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take
away sins, but this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand
of God. So sorry, Calvinists, all means all. You know,
these sick perverts like James White and Jeff Durbin,
that want to say that the gift of God is faith, right?
God just chooses that I'm going to save brother Moses
and brother Josh, I'm not going to save him. And so
I'm going to allow brother Moses to have faith in me
and I'm not going to allow brother Josh to have faith in
me. What kind of a sick twisted God do these Calvinists
serve, where I'm just going to create people preordained
destined to hell, they have no choice, they have no
opportunity to believe in Lord Jesus Christ, they're
just born to die and go to hell. You know, right
there in Hebrews 1010, it says Jesus Christ, the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all,
there's no limited atonement, show me limited
atonement in that verse, Jesus Christ died for all,
and all means all. And then in verse 12, it says,
but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for
sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God.
God's sacrifice, God's grace that he gives unto us
is not limited to a single person, it's not limited
to a single place, or a single time, or a single
people or anything like that. I'll read for you
First Timothy 4-10, for therefore we both labor and
suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God
who is the savior of all men, especially of those
that believe. So if he's the savior of all men,
especially those that believe, that would make him
the savior of those that don't believe as well,
right? And of course, those that don't believe, if
they don't believe before they die, they will go
to hell, they will be separated from the love of
God at some point. But right now, if you're not a
reprobate, even if you're unsaved, God does love
you, and his sacrifice is available to you. First
John 2-2, I'll read for you, and he is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole world. There's
no way you can read just the King James Bible
and come away Calvinist. The only way you're
gonna be a Calvinist is if you're listening to
these people trying to deceive you by going back
to the Greek, by trying to make you believe
that the King James Bible is not the only
perfect word of God like James White, right?
Even though James White grew up independent,
fundamental, King James only Baptist, and now
his entire life's mission is to fight against
the King James Bible, you think he might be a
reprobate? Yeah, he might be a reprobate. He's
trying to deceive you, he's trying to get you
not to believe the word of God. So number, like
I said, Christ's sacrifice is valid for all
people. Christ's sacrifice is valid for all sin.
I'll read for you Galatians 2-22, I do not
frustrate the grace of God, for if
righteousness come by the law, then Christ is
dead in vain. And one thing I always ask
people out solely if they think that you have
to do good works and have faith, I remember
this verse, I say, okay, so if I had to stop
sinning, then why did Christ die? If it was
something that I can do to achieve my salvation,
then why did the perfect Lamb of God have to
suffer and go to hell for three days and three
nights for me if I could just do it on my own?
It makes no sense. So his sacrifice is valid for
all people, for all sin, and for all time. I'll
read through Revelation 13-8, and all that dwell
upon the earth shall worship him whose names are
not written in the book of the land, sorry, the
book of life of the land slain from the
foundation of the world. So he is slain from the
foundation of the world, when even though Jesus
Christ hadn't physically come and put on a body
like unto sinful flesh, you know, in the Old
Testament, his sacrifice was just as available
to those Old Testament saints as it is to us
today. They were looking forward to the cross. We
were looking back at the cross and
dispensationalists like to make fun of us all
the time for that. That's what the Bible
says. The Bible teaches that David, how did he
get righteousness? By faith. By faith in what? By
faith in God, by faith in the sacrifice of
Christ. Have you ever read Isaiah 53? Hello? The
sacrifice of Christ. Yeah, it didn't say Jesus
Christ is going to be taken by the Romans, and
Jesus Christ is going to be crucified on a
cross, and they're going to put a nail. You
know, the Bible doesn't get in that much
detail about his sacrifice, but it was enough
for people to understand that he is going to
take their sins. Read Isaiah 53. He's going to
take their sins. By his stripes, we are
going to be healed. That's how people in the
Old Testament were saved. And you know, the
God of Calvinism is a psychopath. So go to
Hebrews chapter number 10. You're still there.
Look at verse number 14. For by one offering
he had perfected forever them that are
sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost is also
witness to us, for after that he has said
before, this is the covenant that will make
with them after those days, saith the Lord, I
will put my laws into their hearts, and in
their minds will I write them. Number four, once
someone is saved, they are saved forever. Right
there in verse 14, he said, for by one offering
he had perfected forever them that are
sanctified. Once you're sanctified, once
you're saved by the blood of Christ, you're
saved forever. There's nothing you could do to
ever lose that. John 5 24 says, verily, verily,
I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting
life, and shall not come into condemnation, but
is passed from death unto life. You're going
to tell me that someone can lose their
salvation, you're calling Jesus Christ a liar
three times in one verse. Hey, he said, guess
what, you're going to have eternal life, you're
not going to come into condemnation, and you
are passed from death unto life the moment
you believe. So I'm not going to be calling
Jesus Christ a liar, I'm going to believe
that his sacrifice was good enough, not just
to save me right now, but to save me
forever. John 3 36 says, he that believeth on
the son, hath everlasting life, and he that
believeth not the son, shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him. This
is why people that believe you can lose
your salvation are not saved, okay? Because
they're not believing the son, they're not
believing that Jesus Christ's sacrifice was
enough for them. Turn to Ephesians chapter
number one, Ephesians chapter number one, I'll
read for you again in Hebrews 10 where
it says, this is the covenant that I will
make with them. Well, who's the them
there? It's those that are sanctified that
we just read about. This is the covenant
that I will make with them after those
days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws
into their hearts, and in their minds will
I write them, and their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. It said the Holy
Ghost is a witness to us in that verse.
It said, look at Ephesians chapter number
one verse 13, in whom also you trusted,
after that you heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation, whom also
after that you believed you were sealed
with that Holy Spirit of promise. That's
why in Hebrews 10 he's able to say
that the Holy Ghost also is a witness to
us. How is the Holy Ghost a witness to
us now? Because this is the covenant that
I will make with them after those days
saith the Lord, I will put my laws into
their hearts, and in their minds will I
write them. That's what God promised
to do for us that are sanctified in
the New Testament. What's the Holy
Ghost's witness to us? That we're
sealed unto the day of redemption.
Hey, if you're sealed, you're sealed. If
you're sealed, you're sealed. You
cannot lose your salvation. Okay, go
back to Hebrews chapter 10. I'll read
for you Psalm 103. We're going to get
into application later. I'm just going
through this chapter, going through what
it teaches. Psalm 103. As far as the
east is from the west, so far have he
removed our transgressions from us. So
when David was writing this, he was
saying, hey, God's already removed my
transgressions as far as the east is
from the west. Okay, so let's see there.
Look at verse number 18.
Now where remission of these is, there is
no more offering for sin. Why is there no
more offering for sin? Because Christ
was that last offering for sin.
Remember he sacrificed once for
all, the Bible says. Having therefore
brethren boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new
and living way, which he had
consecrated for us through
the veil, that is to say his flesh,
and having an high priest over the
house of God. And I won't get too far
ahead of myself, but we see there
again that where remission of our
sins is, there's no more an offering for
sin. Why was the law changed? Because
there's a necessity that the law has
been changed because Christ came to
make that sacrifice. So let's go here.
Where did I stop reading there? Number 23.
Okay, so number five here, let's
read verse number 23. Let us hold fast
the profession of our faith without
wavering, for he is faithful that
promise. And let us consider one another
to provoke unto love and to good
works, not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together as the manner of
some is, but exhorting one another and
so much the more as you see today
approaching. So number five, now that
we're saved, now that we're saved, we
should do good work. So you mean to
tell me that the Apostle Paul, who
wrote this entire chapter from verse 1
to verse 22, from verse 1 talking
about the law to verse 22, talking
about the sacrifice of Christ, the
whole time he's telling you, hey it's
the sacrifice is eternal, it's good
for all people, it's good for all sin,
it's good for all time. This whole time
he's telling us that you can never
lose your salvation. And then he's
going to show up on verse 26 and
say, yeah, you can lose your
salvation. What a dumb way of
reading the Bible, where you can
read just 25 verses in a row of
just hammering in a concept that you
can never lose your salvation. And
then you see that one verse is
like, oh, that makes all the rest
of this chapter invalid then because
I guess it's just saying you
lose your salvation. You know, when
we read the Bible, we need to
make sure we're reading things in
context. What's the context of
this chapter? The law, the
sacrifices, the Old Testament, the
perfect sacrifice of Christ. Now, he
says, now in verse 22, he says,
now that we know we're saved, now
that we know we'll never lose
our salvation, verse 22, now let
us draw near with true heart in
full assurance of faith. Hey, we
have full assurance of our
salvation. We're assured we're
never going to go to hell.
Having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscious and our bodies
washed from pure water, let us
hold fast the profession of our
faith without wavering, for he is
faithful that promised what he
promised in hope of eternal life,
which God that cannot lie promised
before the world began. And let
us consider one another to
provoke unto love and to good
works. You see, although God is
very clear in the Bible that
we're saved by faith, although
God is very clear in the
Bible that we'll never lose
our salvation, he's just as
clear that once we're saved,
he wants us to do good works
for him. That is not at all.
Paul never de-emphasized that
point. And you hear all the
time, people try to twist
Ephesians chapter two. I'll
read it for you. Everyone's
familiar here. Ephesians chapter
two, verse eight, it says, for
by grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of
yourselves it is the gift of
God, not of works, lest any
man should boast, for we are
his workmanship created in
Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them.
There's no doubt you're saved
by grace through faith, but
once you're saved, God has
ordained that you should walk
in good works. You should do
works after you're saved, but
it is not any part of your
salvation. It doesn't get you
saved. It doesn't keep you
saved. All it is, is it gets
you rewards in heaven. It
allows you to be in fellowship
with Christ. It allows you to
please God. It allows you to
love God. It does not get you
to heaven. So let's see where
I'm at here. Let's go to,
let's go to Romans chapter
number six. And just to show
you that Paul definitely
believes that we should be
doing good works as Christians,
not for salvation, not for
salvation, but Paul definitely
does emphasize this in
scripture. Romans chapter
number six, the Bible says,
what shall we say then? Shall
we continue and sin that grace
may abound? God forbid, how
shall we that are dead to
sin live any longer therein?
Know ye not that so many of
us as we're baptized into
Jesus Christ, were baptized
into his death? Therefore we
are buried with him by
baptism into death, that
like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory
of the father, even so we
also should walk in newness
of life. So we say, should
we continue to sin just
because we're saved? God
forbid that right? God forbid
that we would do that. How
can we that are dead to sin
live any longer therein? How
can we knowing all the pain
and suffering that Christ went
through for us, how can we
just have that in our mind
and say, yeah, I'll just
keep, keep doing horrible
sin, no big deal. You know,
the blood of Christ, it's
not that big of a deal to
me, the fact that I'm
saved, who cares? Paul's
saying, God forbid that you
would do that. Now, of
course, if a person does do
that, will they still be
saved? Absolutely. They'll
still be saved. Will they
be least in the kingdom of
heaven? Like Matthew chapter
five says, of course, they'll
be least in the kingdom of
heaven. They have very many
rewards. Absolutely not. You
know, and then he goes on to
talk about baptism right
there. He's saying, so does
baptism save us? Of course
not. He said that the reason
we're baptized is so that
verse four, therefore we are
baptized with him by baptism
into death that like as
Christ was raised up from the
dead of the glory of the
father, even so we also
should walk in newness of
life. What's our baptism
signifying? It's signifying,
Hey God, I want to walk in
newness of life. I want to
live for you. I want to do
good works, but it's not what
saves us. Go back to Hebrew
chapter number 10 and another
good verse that I give people
out solely when they're
thinking about, you know, I
have to believe in Christ, but
I also have to do good
works. Galatians five four
says Christ has become of no
effect unto you. Whosoever you
are that are justified by the
law, you're fallen from
grace. So if you trust 99% in
Christ for your salvation and
just 1% of your own good
works, hell is the end of
that equation. Hell is the
end of that equation. Why?
Because Christ has become of
none effect unto you. And then
right there in verse 25 in
Hebrews, he's talking about now
that we're, we, now we have
full assurance of faith. Now
that we know that he is
faithful, that promise now
let's exhort one another to
love and to good works, not
forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together as the
manner of some is, but
exhorting one another and so
much the more as you see the
day approaching. So to say
that works are involved in
salvation would be to say
that if you don't go to
church, that you're not going
to heaven, which a lot of
people believe that, right?
Even though this whole
chapter spent time on talking
about how we're saved, you
know, you would have to
believe that if you miss
church, you're going to hell
because you're breaking God's
law. It's craziness. So
number six, when we sin
willfully, God will judge us
harshly. So it's not only
important just to talk about
what this verse is not
saying in Hebrews 10 26 that
people like to twist. It's
important to teach what it
is saying. So we've gone
through so far this whole
chapter, just laying down the
basics of salvation. It's all
pretty straightforward, all
pretty simple, but verse 26,
for if we sin willfully, after
that we have received the
knowledge of the truth. There
remaineth no more sacrifice
for sin. So what is this
teaching? It's saying, Hey, if
you know what's right after
you, after you're saved, if
you know what you should be
doing, if you know what you
shouldn't be doing, and then
after that, you decide to go
against it. You decide not to
do good works for God. You
decide to keep doing wicked
sin. The Bible says, then you
have no more sacrifice for
sin. What is this talking
about? Go back to Leviticus
chapter number four, Leviticus
chapter number four, because
obviously this is not talking
about salvation. So Leviticus
chapter number four,
let's read at verse number
13. The Bible says, and if the
whole congregation of Israel
sins, this is talking about the
whole people. If they sin
through ignorance and the thing
be hid from the eyes of the
assembly, and they have done
somewhat against any of the
commandments of the Lord
concerning things which should
not be done and are guilty.
When the sin which they have
sinned against it is known,
then the congregation shall
offer a young bullock for the
sin and bring him before the
tabernacle of the
congregation. So if the whole
congregation of Israel sins,
guess what? The Bible says
they're still guilty, but
here's what they could do.
And he says, Hey, here's
this offering that you can
make. Okay. Then it gets in
looking for number 22, when a
ruler has sinned. So we
talked about when the whole
congregation sinned. Now let's
see what the rules are for
the rulers. When a ruler has
sinned and done somewhat
through ignorance against any
of the commandments of the
Lord, his God concerning
things which should not be
done and is guilty. You're
still guilty if you sin
through ignorance. Verse 23, or
if his sin were with you at
sin, come to his knowledge,
he shall bring his offering a
kid of the goats, a male
without blemish. Look at verse
27. And if any one of the
common people sin, so we've
talked about the whole
congregation. We've talked
about the priest. Now we're
talking about the common
people. They sin through
ignorance while he doeth
somewhat against any of the
commandments of the Lord
concerning things which ought
not to be done and be
guilty. Or if his sin, which
he hath sinned, come to his
knowledge, then he shall
bring for his offering a kid
of the goats, a female
without blemish for his sin,
which he hath sinned. So
are you catching a pattern
here? When you sin through
ignorance in the Old
Testament, God's saying,
Hey, you're still guilty.
You're still accountable for
your sin. You don't get a
free pass just cause you
didn't know. If you sin
through ignorance, you're
still guilty, but here's the
offering that you can offer
for salvation. No, we just
learned Hebrews 10. None of
those ever bought salvation.
What was it for then? It was
to restore fellowship with
God. It was to make them
right with God again. You
sin through ignorance, common
person, here's what you
would have to sacrifice. If
you sin through ignorance,
priest, here's what you
would have to sacrifice. If
you sin through ignorance,
whole congregation, here's
what you would have to
sacrifice. But you know
what you'll not find in this
chapter? If any man sinned
willfully, here's what he
can offer. There is no
sacrifice like that. Why?
Because after we have sinned,
for if we sin willfully after
that, we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice
for sins. What does that
mean? It means that when you
sin knowingly, there's
nothing you could do to
stop the chastisement of
God coming your way. There's
no offering of atonement or
of peace that you can make
with God. There's no
offering you as a pastor or
you as a whole congregation
can offer to God to make
him not punish you for
your sin. Whom the Lord
loveth, he chasteneth and
scourges every son whom
he receiveth. That is
what this verse is talking
about. You'll not find in
the book of Leviticus where
you can just sin willfully
and throw a sacrifice to God
and you'll be good. Why
is this? Hebrews chapter
number 10. Verse number 27,
but a certain fearful
looking for of judgment.
That judgment is coming to
you when you sin willfully
and fiery indignation which
shall devour the
adversaries. He that
despised Moses' law died
without mercy under two or
three witnesses of how
much sore punishment suppose
ye shall he be thought
worthy who hath trodden
underfoot the son of God
and have counted the blood
of the covenant wherewith
he was sanctified an
unholy thing and have
done despite under the
spirit of grace. Why is
there not an option for
you to bring a sacrifice
to God after you sin
willfully? Because it's
like you're counting the
blood of Christ an unholy
thing because it's as if
you're stomping all over
the body of the Lord
Jesus Christ. You're
walking over him. When
you sin willfully, there's
no more sacrifice for
sins for you, but a
certain fearful looking
for judgment coming your
way. That is what that
verse is teaching. It's
not teaching you could lose
your salvation. It's
saying if you're saved and
you sin willfully, you
better be afraid because
judgment is coming to you.
And it talks there about a
story in Moses' day. He
then despised Moses' law.
Let's go to that story
and see what that's
talking about. Numbers
chapter 15. Numbers
chapter 15. We get an
example of what this
looks like in practice.
Numbers 15, look at verse
number 27. The Bible says,
and if any soul sin
through ignorance, then he
shall bring a she goat
the first year for a sin
offering. This is what
we just talked about,
right? If you're sinning
through ignorance, here's
your offering that you
can make to God. Verse
28, and the priest shall
make an atonement for the
soul that sent it
ignorantly when he sent it
by ignorance before the
Lord to make an atonement
for him and it shall be
forgiven him. He shall
have one law for him
that sent it through
ignorance, both for him
that is born among the
children of Israel and for
the stranger that so
journeth among them, but
the soul that doeth
ought presumptuously. So
now we get an example
of what the Bible says
happens to a person that
sins knowingly presumptuously
on purpose. Whether he be
born in the land or a
stranger, the same
reproachth the Lord, and
that soul shall be cut off
from among his people
because he hath despised
the word of the Lord and
hath broken his
commandment. That soul
shall utterly be cut off.
His iniquity shall be
upon him. So he lays
down the laws of the
land right here. Hey,
if you sin through
ignorance, here's your
sacrifice. If not, guess
what? You're going to
be cut off. Why?
Because you're
approaching God. Why?
Because you're stomping
on the tread of training
underfoot, the son of
God. Now here's the
example here. Verse 32,
and while the children of
Israel were in the
wilderness, they found a
man that gathered sticks
upon the Sabbath day,
which was a violation of
the Sabbath. Verse number
33, and they that found
him gathering sticks
brought him unto Moses
and Aaron and unto all
the congregation. And
they put him in ward
because he was not
declared what should be
done unto him. And the
Lord said unto Moses, the
man shall surely be put
to death. All the
congregation shall stone
him with stones without
the camp. And the
congregation brought him
without the camp and
stoned him with stones
and he died as the Lord
commanded Moses. So this
man, what did he do? He
sinned presumptuously. He
sinned knowingly. He sinned
on purpose. He knew what
the law of God said, not
to break the Sabbath day,
but to keep it holy. He
did it. And what was
the punishment for that?
He was stoned with
stones. Why? Because he
was treading underfoot,
the son of God. Why?
Because he was counting
the blood of the
covenant wherewith he was
sanctified and unholy
thing. And you do that.
And even in the New
Testament, read first
Corinthians chapter number
five, there's certain
things that you do that
will get you kicked out
of this church. And
guess what? There's no
more sacrifice for sin
for you. If you're living
in fornication, you're
going to be kicked out of
this church. There's
nothing that you could do
about it besides repent.
Right? You will have
that punishment of God
coming your way. And
even in the New Testament,
what it's talking about
in Hebrews, he's going
to bring us our
punishment. We have the
opportunity to repent and
get right with God, but
we don't have the
opportunity to get out of
the punishment of God, to
try to escape the
punishment of God. You
read first Corinthians
five, if you're a
drunkard, hey, guess
what? The judgment of
the Lord is coming your
way because you're going
to be cut off from the
congregation of the Lord.
You're going to be cut
off from Verity Baptist
Church, but guess what?
You can repent and come
back, but that doesn't
change the fact that
you're not going to be
able to escape the
judgment of God. God is
not a respecter of
persons. He doesn't care,
you know, about, He
cares about us as
individuals, but you know
what I'm saying? He
cares about your heart
as well. And go back
to, or turn to Luke
chapter number 12, just to
show you a few more
verses on this. Luke
chapter number 12. What
did Christ say about
this? Luke chapter number
12, the Bible reads in
verse number 48, Luke
chapter number 12, verse
48, the Bible reads, the
key that knew not and
did commit things worthy
of stripes shall be
beaten with few stripes
for unto whomsoever
much is given of him
shall much be required
into whom men have
committed much of him.
They will ask the more.
You know, this is New
Testament. Christians,
we've been given so
much by God. We have
the entire word of God
at our hands. We have
great churches to go to.
We have freedom in the
United States of
America to preach the
gospel at any time. You
can crack open the word
of God and learn from
him at any time you
could sing to the Lord
and praise him. We
live in freedom in
America. We have so
many luxuries that allow
us to serve God better
of whom to whom much
is given of him shall
much be required. And if
you sin inherently, you
know, you'll be beaten
with few stripes. The
Bible says you're still
guilty. You'll still be
beaten with stripes. But
man, when you sin
willfully as a New
Testament Christian, when
you sin willfully as a
member of Verity Baptist
church, when you're a
part of such a great
blessing of such a great
church like this, you
have such a great pastor
as a man like pastor
Roger Jimenez. When you
have so much, man, when
you sin willfully and
you're guys' position, you
better be afraid of the
fiery indignation of God
that's coming your way.
And I better be afraid of
the fiery indignation of
God that's coming my way
when I decide to sin
presumptuously. That's
what this chapter is
talking about. And
Hebrews is not talking
about losing your
salvation. Lastly, here,
go back to Hebrews
chapter number 10, Hebrews
chapter number 10. Lastly
here, God will reward you
when you decide to live
for him. Hebrews chapter
10 verse number 32, the
Bible says, but call to
remembrance the former
days in which after you
were illuminated, you
endured a great flight of
afflictions. Partly whilst
you were made a gazing
stock, both by reproaches
and afflictions, and
partly whilst you became
companions of them that
were so used. For you
had compassion of me and
my bonds and took joyfully
the spoiling of your
goods, knowing in
yourselves that you have
in heaven, a better and
enduring substance. So
Paul's saying, you know,
remember the former days
when you were on fire
for God, you were
enduring a great flight
of afflictions, you were
illuminated, you were
made a gazing stock, you
had reproaches and
afflictions, but you know
what you knew that you
had in yourselves in
heaven, a greater
substance. You'd realize
that what you were
doing for Christ matter
because you have rewards
in heaven. You know, I
love how the book, how
Hebrews chapter 10 is
laid out because it just
goes long, you know,
salvation, sacrifice of
Christ, eternal security,
fearful, fiery indignation,
and it ends on a good
note of rewards in
heaven. You know, when
you do decide to follow
God and you do decide
not to just live like
the world, not to just
willfully sin and tread
underfoot the son of
God, you know, you
have in heaven a better
and an enduring substance.
It's a better way to
live. The way of
transgressors, the way
of transgressors is
hard. The Bible says
when you decide that you
want to kick against the
pricks, right? And you
want to just live that
hard life of sin, of
knowingly sin. And you
know, all that judgment
is coming your way.
That's a hard life, but
you know, even if you
have the reproaches, the
afflictions, um, the
gazing stocks, all of
these things coming your
way, when you have in
heaven, a better and
enduring substance, it's
going to motivate you to
make sure you're
choosing the right path.
It's going to motivate
you not to be singing
with willfully trotting
underfoot the son of
God. It's going to
motivate you to do right.
Revelation 22, two, I'll
read for you. If you
turn to Matthew six,
Revelation 22, two says,
and behold, I come
quickly. And my reward
is with me to give
every man according to
his works. You know, our
life is just a vapor.
We live on this earth
for a very, very short
amount of time. And
Jesus said, I'm coming
quickly with my rewards
for you guys. So what
are you going to make
of your life? Are you
going to be, you know,
the person in numbers
that picked up sticks on
the Sabbath day and
get stoned and cut off
from the congregation of
the Lord? Or you'd be
the person in first
Corinthians five that
goes off and commits
fornication and gets
kicked out of the
congregation of the Lord
and gets cut off and
has the fiery
indignation of God.
Or you're going to be
a person that has the
enduring substance in
heaven because you
chose to live for God.
Are you going to be
the person that's
great in the kingdom
of heaven? Like Matthew
five talks about
because you did the
things that Bible
teaches to do and
taught others also.
You're there in Matthew
six. I'll read one
more for you. Second
Corinthians five 10 says
for we must all appear
before the judgment seat
of Christ, that
everyone may receive
the bad thing may
receive the things done
in his body, according
to that he hath done,
whether it be good or
bad. That's something
that's just every once
in a while, you should
remind yourself like,
Hey, I'm going to stand
for this seat of Christ
someday. I'm going to
be staying before Jesus
someday. I'm going to
be staying for Jesus
someday. That's
something you need to
constantly remind
yourself of, because
when we live in this
world in this fleshly
world, and we get
caught up with work and
family and everything.
Sometimes we can forget
the bigger picture of
why we're here.
Sometimes we can forget
the bigger picture of
what we're going to
face someday. When you
remind yourself of
that, we're all going
to stand before the
judgment seat of Christ
someday. It'll motivate
you to do right.
Matthew chapter number
six, Matthew chapter
number six, verse 19,
the Bible reads, lay
not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth
where moth and rust
have corrupt and where
thieves break through
and steal, but lay up
for yourselves treasures
in heaven where neither
moth nor rust have
corrupt and where
thieves do not break
through nor steal for
where your treasure is,
there will your heart
be also. So that just
goes along with what I
was talking about right
there. It really comes
down to what you want
to do with your life,
what you want your life
to be. Ecclesiastes 12,
13 says, let us hear
the conclusion of the
whole matter, fear God
and keep his commandments
for this is the whole
duty of man. So don't
let, don't let people
taking one verse out of
context confuse you
about Hebrews chapter 10.
Hebrews 10 is a
beautiful chapter. It's
my favorite chapter in
Hebrews just because of
how it's laid out, how
it's talking about
faith, sacrifice, eternal
security, fear, but then
the good news, but then
the positive note, right?
So let us hear the
conclusion of the whole
matter, fear God and keep
his commandments for this
is the whole duty of man.
Make sure in your daily
life, you're remembering
these things. Make sure
you're remembering, hey,
I'm going to stand before
the judgment of the
seed of Christ someday.
I'm going to be judged
in my body according to
what I have done. And
that's both in this life,
right? And our rewards
will be given to us in
the next. But even
right now, if you sin
willfully after you've
received the knowledge of
the truth, right? You have
no more sacrifice for sins.
You're not going to be
able to get out of the
wrath of God or the
judgment of God in your
life. So if you want to
avoid that, what do you
do? You just obey. The
way of transgressions is
hard, but just hearken
unto the Lord. That's
the easier way. The
world's always going to
tell you that this book
has too much rules. It's
too hard to follow. You
know what? If you live
by this book, you'll
find out they're wrong.
It's a lot easier to
live by this book than
it is to live by the
world's standards. So
just in conclusion here,
number one, no one has
ever been saved by the
Old Testament law. Don't
let dispensationalists
wreck you at the door,
right? When you're
knocking on the door of
someone at 35 Baptist
Church, know what
Hebrews chapter 10 says,
know what Romans chapter
four says. Don't let
these false prophets
preaching multiple
gospels fool you.
Number two, the only
sacrifice that ever
mattered to God was
Christ's sacrifice. And
anyone who thinks that
our sacrifice, our
filthy rags is what
gets us to heaven, just
shows that they're
carnal, fleshly, and
that they don't
understand the true
magnitude of what
Christ did for us.
Number three, Christ's
sacrifice is valid for
all people, for all sin,
for all time. Don't let
the Calvinists fool you
either. Chapter 10 of
Hebrews is able to
destroy so much false
doctrine. It's
unbelievable. Number
four, once you're
saved, you're saved
forever. Number five,
now that we're saved,
we should do good
works, but good works
do not save us.
Number six, when we
sin willfully, God will
judge us harshly. Number
seven, God will reward
you when you decide to
live for him. Let's
pray. Lord, thank you
so much for this day
and thank you so
much for this Christmas
season where we
celebrate you coming
to earth and being that
sacrifice for us, God,
we can't thank you
enough for it. Just
pray that you help us
to always have a zeal to
win souls in this
community and to help
others be saved as well.
In Jesus' name we
pray. Amen.