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His name above all names shall stand Exalted more and more
At God the Father's own right hand Where angel hosts adore
Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name
once rude
His name shall be the council.
Excellency everybody, but the apology, please open up with a word of prayer.
Amen. Amen. All right, if you want to take your hymnals turn to page number 116.
It's page number 116. He leadeth me.
page number 116.
Here
Sometimes where Eden's bower's bloom, My water still or troubled sea,
Stilt is his hand that leadeth me.
excellent singing everybody. At this time, we will have our announcements.
Alright, good morning everybody and good singing this morning. Welcome to
Church Foundation Baptist Church. Our first of the week is Galatians 3 verse
number eight where the Bible says there is neither Jew nor Greek. There is either
bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For a ye are all one in Christ
Looks like we got a lot of familiar faces
So the service times and the so many times are pretty self-explanatory except for I will say brother Paul
You're leading the so many times today
Printed maps. Okay. Yeah, so if you're interested in going so many today, you can talk to brother Paul or your brother Ryan
And we have the maps for that because we sent all the information through a WhatsApp group
So if you're not in that group, you have to talk to someone to get information for the so many
Our upcoming events that we have is today,
Brother David Akers is preaching from,
he's from Boise, Idaho, him and his family.
He's preaching the morning and the night service,
so you guys get a break from me.
That's why everybody wants to shout out there,
like, someone else is preaching, let's come to church.
Okay, so I'm not a fan of just maybe slightly okay, but no I'm glad to see everybody come and support
Brother David preach because from the preaching I've heard from him. He's a great preacher
So I'm excited to see what he has for us this morning and for tonight
Our next upcoming event that we have as well is on September 27th.
We have the Cheney soul winning marathon.
So if you're interested in that, you can talk to Brother Ryan as well.
It's been a little Utah lately, but we got to conquer a little Utah, okay?
We win it for Jesus Christ.
The real Jesus Christ, not the Mormon Jesus, but that's...
I'm not even preaching, okay, but now I'm tempted.
October 26th, we have our church picture day,
so my wife is gonna be doing photos for families,
or even if you're a single, they're good for just,
you know, Christmas cards, holiday cards,
if you believe in holidays and all that kind of stuff, okay,
but different thing for another day as well.
You guys are tempting me, it's just, go on.
Psalms 46 though, verse number one,
it is the children's memory verse,
so if you're a kid and you wanna recite that to Kylie.
The definition of kid I guess is kind of loose. So if you just want some candy go and tell this verse to Kylie and you can get yourself some
And before I get into the prayer requests, I'd like to say,
I think Brother Paul and Miss Victoria were gone,
but we handed out the prizes for the Old Testament challenge.
So these are the cups that we did.
Brother Jeremy from our church down in Vancouver
actually made these.
And I was trying to offer him money for them,
but he wouldn't take it.
He just said he wanted to be a blessing to the church.
So if you want to send a thank you to him,
I kind of gave him the idea for the design,
but then he engraved it all into it.
So it says Old Testament Challenge 2025.
And then he has our theme verse on the back of the the mug
And if you guys weren't aware we basically did a challenge where we did the Old Testament in six months
So it was kind of a grind to do that
We had like a if you took depending on how you did your grace days you had about a month to do them, but
It's just that's a lot longer than the New Testament because when you have like well one month talent
I feel like it's easy to keep the motivation for one month might be like taper off at the end
But like it's kind of just a one-month thing, but for like six months
That's a long time to keep yourself motivated. So hand these out to brother Paul in this
Victoria, and I think
If he does come tonight though, we have the other one up here
And I think the last person who needs theirs is miss Larissa
But thank you for participating in the challenge.
Thank you for, there was a ton of people that did it.
We have eight people.
And it's impressive because, you know,
there's a lot of churches nowadays
that have people that have never read the Bible at all before.
But we have the New Testament challenges here
and the Old Testament.
So if you follow both those challenge
is then you've read through the whole Bible,
which is a great feat
because sadly a lot of Christians don't read through the Bible,
even though that's the thing that they're supposed
to be living by.
There's a sermon in that too,
Let's pray do ever the God. Thank you so much for this one
All right, so we're going to do Psalm 119 and that is actually going to be in your blue books
So if you don't have a blue book in front of you
Would you or somebody to share with?
Would you raise your hand?
Hard to do just straight out of the Bible. So if there's anybody else that needs a copy I have two more here
But that's going to be Psalm 119.
Alright, hopefully enough people have them.
But we're gonna sing Psalm 119 we'll sing it out on the first
Thank you so much for all that you have.
I'm over it in my thankfulness.
Let us never forget that your service and my requirements.
Thank you.
Welcome everybody to Sher Foundation Baptist Church. If you could go ahead and take your bibles and turn to John chapter number six
John chapter six and as always here at Sher Foundation Baptist Church
We read the entire chapter before the preaching
John chapter six the Bible reads
After these things, Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberius,
and a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did on them
that were diseased.
And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.
And the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto
When shall we buy bread that these may eat?
And this he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Philip answered him, 200 penny-worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one
of them may take a little.
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, sayeth unto him, There is a lad here,
which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes.
And Jesus said, make the men sit down.
Now there was much grass in the place,
so the men sat down in number about 5,000.
And Jesus took the loaves,
and when he had given thanks,
he distributed to the disciples,
and the disciples to them that were set down,
and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
When they were filled, he saith unto his disciples,
gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Therefore, they gathered them together
and filled 12 baskets with the fragments
of the five barley bloves, which remained over and above
unto them that had eaten.
Then those men, when they had seen the miracle
that Jesus did, said, this is of a truth.
That prophet that should come into the world, when Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea, and entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum, and it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
and the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
So when they had rowed about five and 20 or 30 furlongs,
they see Jesus walking on the sea
and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid.
But he saith unto them, it is I, be not afraid.
Then they willingly received him into the ship,
and immediately the ship was at the land wither they went.
The day following when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there
Saved the one where into his disciples were entered and that Jesus was not with his disciples into the boat
but that his disciples were gone away alone.
How be it, there came other boats from Tiberius,
Nion to the place where they did eat bread,
after that the Lord had given thanks.
When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there,
neither his disciples, they also took shipping
and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus.
And when they had found him on the other side of the sea,
they sayeth unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
Jesus answered them and said,
Verily, verily I say unto you,
ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles,
but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.
Labor not for the meat which perisheth,
but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life,
which the Son of man shall give unto you,
for him hath God the Father sealed.
They said unto him,
What shall we do that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them,
This is the work of God, that ye believe on him,
whom he hath sent.
They said therefore unto him,
What sign showest thou then, that we may see and believe thee?
What does thou work?
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written,
he gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Then, Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread
from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread."
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger,
and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
But I said unto you, that ye also have seen me,
and believe not.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.
And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.
For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will.
but the will of him that sent me, and this is the Father's will which hath sent me,
that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last
day, and this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeeth the Son and believe
The Jews then murmured at him because he said,
I am the bread which came down from heaven.
And they said, is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph,
whose father and mother we know?
How is it then that he sayeth, I came down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them,
murmur not among yourselves, no man can come to me
except the father which hath sent me, draw him.
and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is written in the prophets,
and they shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard
and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me.
Not that any man hath seen the Father,
save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
Verily, verily I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
I am that bread of life.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven
that a man may eat thereof and not die.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.
And the bread that I will give is my flesh,
which I will give for the life of the world.
The Jews, therefore, strove among themselves,
saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Jesus then said, Jesus, then Jesus said unto them,
verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye
eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood,
ye have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood hath ever
hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
dwelleth in me, and I in him.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father,
so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
This is the bread which came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead.
He that eateth of this bread shall live forever. These things said he in the synagogue as he
Many, therefore, of his disciples, when they had heard this, said,
This is in hard saying. Who can hear it?
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it,
he said unto them, Does this offend you?
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up
where he was before? It is the Spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you,
But there are some of you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they
were that believed not, and who should betray him.
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given
unto him of my father.
From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, will ye also go away?
then Simon Peter answered him,
Lord, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words of eternal life,
and we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ,
the Son of the living God.
Jesus answered them, have not I chosen you twelve,
and one of you is a devil?
He's spake of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon,
for he it was that should betray him,
being one of the twelve.
Brother Kyle, could you please pray for the preaching?
Thank you Lord, for the gift of your word.
Please follow the brother with the spirit
as he preaches from you, Jesus,
and the bread to you.
And well thank you everybody for showing up and thank you brother Remi for having me out here
It was it's been a great weekend so far meeting new faces
And I just want to thank you everybody for welcoming me and my family with open arms
It was a great day out at Silverwood yesterday. That was probably the first time
I think in the last like 13 15 years that I've been at amusement park and even step
thought about stepping foot on a roller coaster.
I'm glad I didn't throw up on anybody.
So hey, that's a blessing, right?
I'm sure any other day, probably, I don't know.
I'm kind of a puker, so I'm sure I would have just
spewed everywhere at somebody.
But no, it all worked out.
It was a great time.
Thank you, everybody.
We're there in John chapter number six.
Look, let's start at verse number 29.
Jesus answered and said unto them,
this is the work of God,
that you believe on him whom he hath sent.
They said therefore unto him,
what sign shall thou then,
that we may see and believe thee?
What does thou work?
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert.
As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven,
but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven, for the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
that ye also have seen me, and believe not.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.
And him that cometh to me, I will know why is cast out.
For I came down from heaven not to do my own will,
but the will of him that sent me.
And this is the Father's will, which hath sent me,
that of all which he hath given,
given me I shall lose nothing.
but I should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me,
that everyone which seeeth the Son
and believeth on him may have everlasting life.
And I will raise him up at the last day. Let's pray.
Dear Lord God, I thank you for this church.
I thank you for everybody here that showed up, Lord.
I pray for boldness. I pray for your spirit right now, God,
as I preach your word, Lord.
I pray that I'm able to preach it clearly, Lord,
and that it be edifying.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
The title of my sermon this morning is...
Once saved, always saved, or you're not saved.
And let me just start off by saying this,
this is not optional.
This isn't just a secondary issue doesn't this isn't just oh
You know, it's you don't have to believe this. It's okay if someone doesn't believe this, you know, they're still saved
They're just mixed up on things. They'll come around. No, this isn't optional
This is part of the gospel. This is a vital piece of the gospel. All right
the Bible says here Jesus said I will in no wise cast out any of my sheep I
should lose nothing we need to take these words serious as Bible believing
Christians I have five points for you this morning I hope I could get it get
it all down I might be I might have the spirit of pastor
Thompson on me this morning. I might I might preach a little long
So forgive me ahead of time. So point number one is this salvation is free
Salvation is free. What is the gospel in first Corinthians 15?
Verses 1 through 4 says more over brethren. I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you
Which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand.
By which also ye are saved.
If ye keep in memory, which I preach unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain.
What is believing in vain?
That's, or what is vain?
Producing no result.
It means it's useless.
It means it's empty.
It means it's meaningless.
So the thing is, we have to believe the right thing.
Or else, if you don't believe the right thing,
then your faith, whatever you're putting your faith into,
is meaningless, it is empty.
We have to make sure we're believing the right thing.
For I delivered unto you, first of all,
that which I also received,
how that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures.
And he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the Scriptures.
According to the Scriptures, it's the death,
the burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
That's the gospel. That's what gets people saved and there's a little thing called salvation
It's actually a big thing. It's a big deal. It's the most important part of the Christian life
It's a free gift and the Bible says that it's eternal
That it is eternal life. The most famous verse in the Bible
John 3 16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
That whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life, eternal life.
This is a big deal.
And notice in that most famous verse in the Bible, what's missing?
You, yourself, us, our good works, our good life.
That anything you do, anything that I do, we can never amount to the sacrifice that God gave of his Son.
Titus chapter 3 verse 4 and 5 say that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy
He saved us our own righteousness are as filthy rags
Anybody out there that thinks they're gonna get to heaven based on their merits. You're in for a rude awakening
All right, it's solely based on the Lord Jesus Christ blood sweat
and tears, the shedding of blood on the cross,
through the bearing, through bearing the sins of the whole world on himself by
dying on the cross of Calvary, that trusting that alone
is salvation, what gets us salvation, and of course the resurrected
resurrected body of the Lord. We needed Christ to fulfill
that special mission that God the Father bestowed upon His Son.
Romans chapter three, these are common verses.
We all use these out, soul winning.
Romans three verse 23 says for all have sin
and come short of the glory of God.
And then Romans six 23 says for the wages of sin is death.
And then
Here's the kicker, Revelation 20,
the reason, what is that death it's talking about?
In Revelation 20, verse 14 through 15,
it says in death and hell,
we're cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death,
and whosoever was not found written in the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire.
I venture to say 99% of our gospel presentations
start with these verses, these are very common.
But we need a Christ to come save us
from all the punishment of our sin.
What we deserve.
Because without him, there is no hope
we're hell bound without him.
Turn to Acts chapter two.
Acts chapter number two.
And while you're turning there, I'll read for you from Philippians chapter two verse six and six through eight
It says who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God
But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and
Being found in fashion as a man. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death
even the death of the cross.
Look, the scripture is true.
You know, it says that God is love
because he came in the flesh,
lived a perfect and sinful life,
or sinful, sinless life, excuse me,
sinless life that none of us could ever even amount to,
even come close to amounting to.
Look, he took upon him the form of a servant.
He came to minister.
unto us, humbled himself, being obedient unto the cross.
We've served such a loving God, you know,
the death on the cross, the shedding of blood,
you know, that was enough.
But we serve a God that goes the extra mile for us
to prove his point that, hey, once you're saved,
you're always saved.
I pay the price for your soul in blood.
Look at Acts chapter two.
Look at verse 31 he's seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in hell
Neither his flesh to see corruption. We serve a God that just goes the extra mile
It wasn't just the death on the cross
He actually paid the price for our sin the Bible says in hell in order to not be left somewhere
It means it has to be there
All right, the Bible says our Savior paid the full price,
the ultimate price for our souls,
for the redemption of our souls literally paid the price
in hell for three days and three nights.
That's what that verse is saying.
He literally took our place.
You know, we all deserve to go to hell.
Without Christ, we're all doomed.
Jesus said in Revelation chapter one, verse 18,
I am He that liveth and was dead.
And if he was dead, again, he had to have been to that place we all deserve, and behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen.
And have the keys of hell and of death.
And since he was sinless, hell couldn't contain him, so he resurrected from the dead.
Acts 2-24, you're still in Acts 2.
It says, whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death,
because it was not possible that he should be holding of it.
Turn to 1 Timothy chapter 3 and Romans 3.
There's going to be a lot of verses, so prepare.
1 Timothy 3 and Romans 3.
Is this water for me?
Yes, OK.
Thank you.
Yelling on the roller coaster yesterday took my voice away.
So why couldn't death hold him?
Because he was sinless
Well, why did it have to be this way exactly in?
Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 it says for yet made him to be sin for us
Who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him the price of our salvation
Was Christ's blood on the cross first Timothy chapter 3 look at verse 16 and without controversy
So we just stop right there. There's no doubts. There's no question. There's no if answer buts about it without controversy
So the gospel of Jesus Christ no controversy. There shouldn't be any questions
Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit,
seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world, received up into glory.
The death, the burial, the resurrection, the ascension,
no controversy, no if ands, buts about it.
So as I read these next verses,
while you're...
You're there in Romans chapter 3, hopefully.
Remember, this is without controversy.
There is no argument this morning.
Let's see.
Yeah, you're in Romans chapter 3. I'm gonna read for you one more verse in 1st John chapter 2 verse 2 it says he is the
Propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world
Propitiation some synonyms for that word is sacrifice
appeasement
Satisfaction the Bible also then reiterates John 3 16 a little differently by saying in 1st John chapter 4 verse 10
He says here in his love
Not that we love God, again, it's not about what we do or how good we are, but that He loved us
and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Christ was the complete satisfaction for our sin debt.
Romans chapter 3, look at verse 23, Paul writes,
for all have sin that comes short of the glory of God,
being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
whom God had set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God,
to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness,
that he might be just and the justifier.
of Him which believeth in Jesus.
Remission, what does it mean to remit?
It means departing, to cancel.
It means, another word for that is forgiveness,
real forgiveness.
So our sins, as far as east is to west,
completely gone in Christ.
Yeah, I'll turn.
So when Jesus said, for this is my blood of the New Testament,
which is shed for many, for the remission of sins,
he's saying he shed his own blood.
He laid down his own life as a sacrifice to lay aside,
to pardon, to cancel out our sin completely.
Completely.
Turn to Hebrews chapter 10.
So Jesus Christ is the propitiation,
the satisfying sacrifice in the eyes of God the Father
for our sin.
Not ourselves. Nothing else. There's no mix of anything. It's just Jesus alone and that's for sins past
That's for sins present and that's for sins future
Okay, he paid it all my friends paid it all in Hebrews chapter 10 the writer of Hebrews writes in verse 17 and 19 through 19
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more?
Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin.
Why is there no more offering?
Because he paid it all.
He removed it, he removed our transgressions
as far as east is from the west.
That's infinite.
That he completely, they're completely done away in Christ.
Having therefore a brother of boldness,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
So why can we have boldness in one saved, always saved?
Because he paid it all why can't we be so confident in this free gift of salvation?
That it's really eternal that it is exactly what he preached exactly what he says it is because we have it by believing
That all of our sin is bought and paid for in full
I know I'm kind of preaching the choir this morning, but this is serious
The shedding of Jesus Christ's blood was paid once and for all.
It's a done deal.
Just as it says, just a few verses before this in verse 10,
it says that, let's see, where does it say?
The Bible says that repentance and remission of sin
should be preaching his name among all nations.
And what does all mean?
It means all, okay?
That means once you're saved, you're always saved.
And if you don't believe that, then you don't believe the gospel.
OK, it's a vital point of the gospel.
We already read this Romans 6 23 for the wages of sin is death, but the gift
It's a free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9 says for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves
It is the gift of God not of works
Let's any man should boast for we are are his workmanship
Created in Christ Jesus
In 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 says therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
We need to be born again. You become something new in Christ.
All things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. Turn to John chapter 3.
And that leads me to my second point.
Eternal life starts the moment you believe.
So in John chapter three,
we start off by meeting this Pharisee, Nicodemus here.
And it's a good picture of your average person
who may have some sort of knowledge of God.
They go to church every Sunday.
They go to some liberal fund center or something,
but can't quite figure out salvation.
So verse number one.
There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews
The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him rabbi
We know that thou art a teacher come from God for no man could do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him
He even starts off
Saying the right thing. He's calling Jesus rabbi, which is master. He knows God is with him
He has an understanding of the Bible obviously. He probably is studied being a Pharisee. He's going to the synagogue regularly
Jesus answered and said unto him verily verily. I say unto you say unto thee except a man be born again
He cannot see the kingdom of God
Nicodemus saith unto him, how can a man be born again when he is old can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee,
accept a man be born of water and of the spirit.
He cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
And that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth.
And now here's the sound there, but can'ts not tell
whence it cometh and whither it goeth.
So is everyone that is born of the spirit.
Nicodemus answered and said unto him,
how can these things be?
So what's Jesus doing?
He's preaching in the gospel.
He's preaching the good news of salvation
that you must be born again.
In John chapter one, verse 12 and 13,
it says talking about Christ,
but as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name, which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God.
So you have to be born again.
You have to be born of God.
So we see that being born again, being born of the Spirit,
being born of God is synonymous with receiving Jesus,
believing Jesus, putting your faith and trust on Christ alone,
that salvation, nothing more, nothing less.
And Jesus is equating salvation through Him to being born again.
All right, this is the question.
We all run into out-soul-winning.
You know, we run into the scholarly type person
out-soul-winning, and look at verse 10.
Jesus answered and said to him,
art thou a master of Israel,
and knowest not these things.
It's like, you're a leader in your church.
You know, you maybe preach sometimes,
but you don't know any of this stuff?
Right.
It's like it's like these youth pastors or junior pastors people who went to Bible college or a seminary cemetery
Passers who preach a who preach a false works based salvation or want to mix faith and works
It's like or even people who maybe honor God with their lips, you know and say yeah
It's all by grace through faith alone. Amen, but then say things like eternal security isn't necessary
It's all right. They're just a little mixed up. It's not it's not it's not an issue as long as they believe Jesus
You know, it's it's fine. They could lose their they might believe they could lose their salvation if they if they mess up tomorrow
But that's okay as long as they what what they believe today is is all right
They believe in Jesus. That's fine. No, that that's not right
Art thou a master of Israel and know it's not these things aren't they all pastor and know it's not these things what it means to be
born again
Why does Jesus refer to salvation as being born again?
Because it's just like the flesh.
It's just a one-time event.
Being born, just a one-time thing,
and just like that physical birth.
You're only born once in God.
It's a one-time thing.
It's a done deal.
You become a child of God.
Once a child, you're always a child.
Galatians chapter 3 verse 26, it says,
for you are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
And here's why the birth analogy,
you know, I love the analogies that Jesus uses.
They're always perfect.
They're always perfect without spot.
They're just perfect during during childbirth think about this during childbirth. Who does all the work?
The mom exactly there. That's why they call it going into labor. You know, it's it's a work, you know
That's why they call it labor pains, you know
It's work bringing a child into this world and it was Christ who did the hard part for us
In order to get born again. It's as simple as that look at verse 11 and John chapter and John chapter 3
Verily, verily, I stand at the
We speak that we do know and testify that we have seen and you receive not our witness if I have told you earthly things
And you believe not how shall you believe if I tell you of heavenly things and no man hath ascended up to heaven
But he that came down from heaven even the Son of man which is in heaven and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness
Even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish
but have eternal life for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
that whosoever believe it in him should not perish should not go to hell but have everlasting life
so if you are born again this morning you have received eternal life you have everlasting life
it's a one-time thing you receive the gift it's free and when you're born again
What happens? It's a moment when you believe you're saved.
It's a done deal. Once saved, you're always saved.
How long is eternal? How long is everlasting?
You know, again, I'm preaching the choir here.
I think this is kindergarten stuff, probably.
But think about it. When you go out to soul-winning,
and when you're speaking with lost family members,
how many people are there who just cannot seem to grasp this concept?
You know, it's a scary world out there.
And Jesus said in Matthew 18.3, he says,
Verily I stand to you, accept you be converted
and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
God made salvation so easy at even a little child.
can understand it doesn't it blow your mind you could be preaching the gospel to a 50 year old and it's like this stuff is
Just right over their head, but then you could go preach to an 8 year old or a 12 year old
And they're like that makes sense
They could just quote back what you told them to quote back the full gospel to you in full
I believe that you know and it's easy for them
They want to call upon the name of the Lord for salvation.
They're like eager for it almost.
It's mind blowing.
Look at John 3.36.
He that believeth on the sun.
Half everlasting life that half is present tense. You have it now
You know you could drop the you know with any word pretty much in the Bible that ends with a th
You could just drop that th and replace it with an s. It's as simple as that
So when it says half everlasting life, it's it's saying he that believes on the son of son has
Everlasting life. It's right now. You have it if you believe these words you have
everlasting life right now in John chapter 11 in verse 25 through 26 Jesus
says this Jesus said unto her I am the resurrection and the life he that
believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth
and believeth in me shall never die believeth now this
Do you believe this do you believe Jesus this morning and John look at look at the rest of John 3 36
And he that believeth not the son shall not see life
But the wrath of God abideth on him if you're not born again the wrath of God abides on you
You must be born again, or what, or you're going to hell.
That's what the wrath of God abiding on someone means,
that they're going to hell, they're on their way to hell.
That's why we're at their door,
that's why we want to show them these things.
It's once saved, always saved, or you're not saved.
It's as simple as that.
Turn to John chapter five, John chapter number five.
And look at verse 24.
Verily verily I say unto you he that heareth my word and believe it on him that sent me half
Everlasting life and shall not come unto come into condemnation, but is passed from death
Until life once saved all we save your past from death until life, which means you'll never die
Of course, we understand this flesh that me and you are looking at right now. It's gonna see corruption
It's gonna go into the grave. What's he talking about? He's talking about your soul. That's what gets born again
That's what goes to heaven. It's your soul. That's what really matters
Jesus tastes the death for every man so that we don't have to
Made it easy for us. We all know we all understand this concept in here. I hopefully hopefully
And that same death we found in Romans chapter 6 verse 23 and the same death in Revelation 20 verse 14 and 15 that we read earlier
Is that that's what it's talking about hell going to hell and again?
If you want to see this in John chapter 6 verse 47, it's just probably a couple pages
Verily, verily I say unto you he that believeth on me half
everlasting life. If you believe, you have everlasting life. You have eternal life. It's
right now. Turn to Romans 4. These are some of my favorite verses in the Bible. A vast
majority of my own gospel presentations, I'll have something from Romans 4 in there. Whether
I'm turning there, showing it to them, or just quoting it, I will always use Romans
Just starting the 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 whereof to glory, but not before God
For what sayeth the scripture?
Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace
But of death here's the thing we all have this sin debt
You know we every single day we're all sinners still we're just racking up this sin debt
But the thing is Christ remits the whole debt in full past present and future
So these people who think they can rack up all these good works and maybe they'll get let in again
They're in for a rude awakening. They think they could repent all of all their sins and and go to heaven
Good luck. Good luck with that. They can never will never do enough to pay off that debt
We're all sinners there once a sinner always a sinner who can say I have made my heart clean
I am pure from my sin. Nobody can not a single person
Look at verse 5 but to him that work if not so the person doesn't work a day in their life for God
But believeth on him that justifies the ungodly his faith his faith alone is counted for righteousness
Now what Paul says next is is there to just lay it all a bed without controversy
Okay, even as David also described it the blessedness of the man and it's a whom God imputed righteousness without works that word impute or imputed
God it's like God inputs like on the TV you input a channel got inputs his
Righteousness into the believer saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven those are sins past and whose sins are covered
That's right now the sins you're dealing with today
Bless is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin so your future sins are done away in Christ
He won't even lay future sins to your charge. It's over with so why can't we have such confidence such boldness in our salvation this morning?
because
Christ paid it all. It's as simple as that friend past present and future our sins are
are as far as east is from west.
We're born again.
We understand fully what that means this morning.
Turn to Romans chapter eight.
So what does that mean?
Once you're saved, you're always saved,
or you're not saved.
So point number three is this.
Why we could be so bold in our eternal security
is that Christ is our mediator or intercessor.
Christ is our mediator.
In Romans chapter eight, look at verse 31.
What shall we say then to these things if God be for us who can be against us?
He that spare not his own son, but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely?
Give us all things see. What's the most important thing?
That he gives us freely well salvation eternal life
That's the most important thing if he again Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 and 9 says for by grace
Are you safe through faith and that not of yourselves?
It is the gift the gift the free gift of God
Not of works less any man should boast if you want to look back at Romans chapter 5. There's a few pages
backward in your Bibles
Romans chapter five verse 18, look at this,
therefore, as by the offense of one,
judgment came upon all men to condemn nation.
So we're all sinners, we all deserve hell,
we all have this sin nature that comes
from the offense of one, talking about Adam,
we're all of Adam's seed.
Even so, by the righteousness of one,
the free gift came upon all men
on a justification of life.
Go back to Romans chapter eight.
So by Jesus Christ alone by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men all of us on the
Justification of life we received that free gift of justification of life again
What is that eternal life and then Paul poses this question in verse 33 in Romans 8?
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect the elect are us this morning who are saved it is God that?
The answer is no one. No one could lay any charge on God's elect.
Not a single person. We're justified by God because why?
Because our faith is in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
Not our own selves. Not our own works. There's no controversy.
There's no argument. It's once you're saved, you're always saved, or you're not saved.
In Romans chapter three, verse 28,
you don't have to turn it, I'll just read it for you.
Therefore we conclude, so this is in conclusion.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law.
Romans chapter four, verse 25,
Jesus, who was delivered for our fences
and was raised again for...
justification. He's the propitiation. He died for the
remission of sins. It's over and over and over again in the
Bible. There's no confusion. There's no controversy. There's
no argument. There's a whoa, whoa, what about, you know, it's
it's okay that they don't really believe. No, this is on
pretty much every page of the Bible. You'll find something
about grace. Yeah. Alright. In Galatians chapter two verse
It says this, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith
of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified.
And again, people who are out there who want to trust on their works, their works plus
Jesus, they're in for a rude awakening.
A rude awakening.
They're gonna hear those words in Matthew chapter seven
after they say, Lord, Lord, all my wonderful works,
this good life I'm living.
What is Jesus gonna tell them?
I never knew you.
Depart from me ye that work iniquity.
None of us in here wanna hear that.
We wanna hear, well done, thou good and faithful servant.
Hey, you believed on me.
Amen.
Therefore, by the diesel law shall no flesh be justified in his sight."
So we got to clear these things up with people because most people believe that, hey, as
long as I'm a good person, I'll be let into heaven.
Nope, that's not what the Bible says.
You have to believe in Jesus Christ alone.
Romans chapter 8, verse 34, it says this, who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died.
Yay, rather, that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also make it intercession
For us keep your place in Romans 8 but turn to Isaiah 53
turn to Isaiah 53
Because we also we also see a synonym for intercession or intercessor in
first Timothy chapter
Chapter 2 verse 5 and 6 say where it says
For there is one God one mediator between God and man
The man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time.
So Christ is our intercessor, our mediator.
That means he's the one that petitions to Father God on our behalf.
He lets the Father know, hey, brother so-and-so or sister so-and-so, look, Lord, they believe
in me.
They're trusted in me.
He's our intercessor.
He's our mediator.
Let's see you're there in Isaiah 53. Look at verse 12. This is old. We all know these verses old testament prophecy of Jesus
It says therefore will I divide him a portion with the great?
And he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death.
And he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bared the sin of many, and made intercession
for the transgressors.
He made intercession for us, who break his law, who transgress against his commandments,
through Jesus' death on the cross, by becoming sin for us, and bearing the sins of many,
that Him alone, He alone makes intercession for us lowly sinners who trust on Him alone for salvation.
Put a ribbon or something there in Isaiah 53. We're going to go back there in a moment,
but look back at Romans chapter 8 in verse 35.
Romans 8 35 who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or
distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword as it is
written
For thy sake, we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter,
verse 37, nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor
things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to
One of these things can separate us from God.
We can't separate ourselves either.
Turn to John chapter 10.
Turn to John chapter number 10.
John chapter number 10, and look at verse 24.
Yeah, once you're saved, you're always saved
or you're not saved.
Look at verse 24, John chapter 10.
Then came the Jews around about him.
So again, we have the people who think they know better than God
coming to question Jesus again and
Said unto him how long does thou make us doubt if thou be the Christ tell us plainly
Jesus answered them. I told you and ye believe not the works that I do in my father's name
They bear witness to me, but ye believe not because you're not of my sheep
As I said unto you, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life.
And they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father which gave to me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Not even ourselves can pluck us out of his hand.
We're the children of God. It's like I always use this analogy. It's like if I'm holding my infant wherever he's at
Probably back there my son benign if I'm holding him by the hand with a firm grip
He could tug he could pull he's never leaving my grip, you know, and God's much stronger than we as parents
So if we tug we pull we get fall back into sin and become backslidden. We're still in the father's hand
Look at verse 30 I am my father are one then the Jews took up stones again to stone him
Jesus answered them many good works have I showed you from my father for which of those works do you stow me the Jews answered
I'm saying for a good work
We stoned me not but for blasphemy because that thou being a man make us thyself God
They wanted to kill Jesus right after he just got done preaching them eternal security
All Jesus is doing is saying hey, you receive me you receive the father also. Yeah, he's making himself equal with God
Amen, because it's I'll buy him alone by his sacrifice alone
You're one of Jesus sheep then you're in the hand of God
Jesus sheep shout never perish. No man should pluck you out of the hand of God
But what did Jesus tell them you believe not because you're not of my sheep?
What's Jesus saying if you're not one saved always saved and you're not saved if you don't believe eternal security
If you don't believe that I am he you're not saved
Nothing can separate the born again Bible believing
Christ believing
Christian from the love of Christ our Savior nothing
Nothing and it doesn't matter who wants to say otherwise. It doesn't matter who wants to deny what Jesus plainly taught
Jesus Christ is our intercessor.
He's our mediator.
It's the Lord Jesus alone.
He's our shepherd.
He's the good shepherd.
Once you're saved, you're always saved,
or you're not saved.
Without eternal security, we're all doomed.
We're all doomed.
We sin every day.
The thought of foolishness is sin.
I had a bunch of foolish thoughts
probably on my way over here this morning.
Without Christ, we'd all be doomed.
We'd all be damned.
And you know, something cool about Jesus
calling his people sheep.
You just look this up on Google, but sheep aren't like working animals like oxen are, you know.
Sheep aren't servile animals, meaning they're not used for labor like other animals.
People don't rely on sheep to carry heavy loads or plow or anything of that sort.
A sheep heavily relies on a shepherd to protect them and to save them from danger and to live their lives out.
So again Jesus always uses the most perfect analogies. I love it and and the life of a sheep is free of works
Free of works. He calls his people sheep and he's the good shepherd that never loses his sheep never
turn to 1st John chapter 5 and
Also, then prepare to turn to Ephesians chapter 1. We're gonna kind of go back and forth with those
Ephesians chapter 1 and 1st John chapter 5
So point number one is salvation is free
Point number two you receive salvation the moment you believe
It's in an instance in the twinkling of an eye
As soon as you put your faith on the Lord Jesus Christ call upon him for salvation
Receive that free gift of salvation you are saved
Point number three is Christ is our high priest he's our mediator he's our intercessor
He's he's the mediator of a better covenant the Bible says established on better promises
And point number four is this,
you're once saved, always saved
because you're sealed by the Holy Spirit.
You're sealed by the Holy Spirit.
First John chapter five, look at verse 10.
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. So who's this witness in himself or who's that witness in himself?
I believe it's a couple of things you can interpret this in a couple ways one you can judge yourself
You know you you know you believe the right gospel
You you know you are saved because you believe in the promises of God
You know it or number two Ephesians chapter one looking at Ephesians chapter one look at verse 13 through 14
In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation,
in whom also after that you believed.
So you've heard the word of God, you believed on Jesus Christ alone for your salvation, that
it's not of works, you're fully trusting on him, it says you were sealed.
with that Holy Spirit of promise,
which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession
unto the praise of his glory.
It's the earnest of our inheritance, like earnest money.
You know, when you go and put a down payment on a house,
it's serious money.
It shows that you're serious about buying that house.
Well, in 1 Corinthians chapter six, verse 19 through 20,
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Jesus purchased everyone's soul in this room.
by his own body, his own blood, he purchased redemption for every man. He tasted death for
every man. He is the savior of all men, especially to those that believe. God is so serious about
salvation by his grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone that he seals every born-again
That's good news. That's the gospel right there that it's hey good tidings that you're sealed with a promise from God
Everyone quotes God is love
God is love but the emphasis of that love is on the fact that he sent his son to die for you to pay for the remission of sins
He is the propitiation for not our sins only but also for the sins the whole world
We're bought with the price the Bible says
And what does that price mean to us this morning?
Keep your finger in 1 John chapter five,
and you should still have like a bookmark
or ribbon or something in Isaiah 53.
Look at Isaiah 53 verses three.
We're gonna look at verses three through 11.
He is despised and rejected of men.
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid as it were our faces from him.
He was despised and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows,
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.
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 gone astray
We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all
He was oppressed and he was afflicted. He opened not his mouth
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter the Bible says he's the lamb of God that take away the sin of the whole world
That's what John the Baptist said and as a sheep before her shears is done
So he opened, if not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment.
Who shall declare his generation?
For he was cut off out of the land of the living,
for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked
and with the rich in his death.
The Bible says, for he hath made him to be sin for us.
Who knew no sin?
The Bible says, curse is everyone that hangeth on a tree.
The Bible says in Galatians chapter three verse 13,
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law
being made a curse.
For us, continuing verse number nine,
because he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth,
yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
He is the propitiation, the satisfaction for our sins
in the eyes of Father God.
He's the ultimate sacrifice for the payment for our sin.
Look at verse 10, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
He hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin
He shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand
He shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied here in his love
in 1st John chapter 4 verse 10 it says here it is love not that we love God but
that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins remember
he's the satisfactory payment for our sin debt in the eyes of God the Father I'm
repeating myself a lot this morning but that's because the Bible repeats itself
a lot on this issue in Romans chapter 5 verses 1 and 2 it says therefore being
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom also we have access by faith into this grace,
wherein we stand and rejoice in hope,
in the glory of God.
Yeah, God is love.
He commended his love toward us.
He demonstrated his love toward us
in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
You know, it's repeated over and over and over again.
John 3.16, for God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son.
Died on the cross for our sin that whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have ever lasting life
What's the message I'm preaching this morning? It's once you're saved. You're always saved or you're not saved
Look look back at 1st John chapter 5
Because the Bible says we have to believe this we have to again, this isn't optional. This isn't just a secondary issue
As an actual Bible believing born again Christian, we are going to believe these words that we're about to read
First John chapter 5 look at verse 10
He that believeth on the son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar
Because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son. There's no if answer buts about it
There's no question. There's no controversy. You are going to believe this record that God gives us if you're saved
This again, this isn't optional. All right, if you don't believe this record
We're about to read you're calling God a liar has got a liar. No and this is actually point number five
My last point this evening or this evening this morning. God cannot lie
God is faithful concerning his promise about eternal security about once you're saved. You're always saved look at verse 11
And this is the record
that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know.
That we can know for sure that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God and this is the confidence we have boldness we have confidence in this and this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will he here with us we have the confidence in eternal security this morning we have the confidence that that.
what it says in John chapter 6 verse 40 in our text this this morning that if you believe the
sun whoever sees the sun may have everlasting life that's the will of God so how why do we have
confidence this morning in internal security how does anybody have confidence in going to heaven
it's because it's once you're saved you're always saved you're not saved
You know and anybody who stands against this what what are they saying actually what what what are they putting their confidence in?
And they're putting their confidence in them and themselves exactly in their own works
What they're saying is they have confidence in them being a good person or living a squeaky clean life turn to Revelation chapter 20
What you know, there's a saying that says the road to hell is paved with good intentions
You know you want to trust yourself you want to be judged by your so-called good life or your good works
When you're in hell
You're it's gonna be a rude awakening
Okay, when you're in hell or when you're standing at that great white-throwing judgment and Christ, you know it says hey
Why should I let you in you're like well all my works all my good life
Apart from me either working equity
And if you reject God's promise you reject one saved always saved
Look at Revelation chapter 20 look at verse 11 and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face
The earth and the heaven fled away
And there was found no place for them and I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were open
Another book was open which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books
according to their
works
You know the term the quick and the dead you know the people who are made alive and the dead the saved have life
But the dead
dead in their trespasses and sins. If you're not once saved always saved, you
should be quaking in your boots. You know you you should be wearing some adult
sized diapers. You know if you don't believe in once saved always saved when
you're standing before the face of of them in the earth that that flee away
from from his presence.
Look at verse 13 and the sea gave up the dead witcher in it and death and hell delivered up the dead
Which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works. This is talking about unsaved people
Death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. There's not a single saved person in this event that we're reading
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire.
Again, if you're not once saved, always saved.
You're calling God a liar.
You're not saved.
Turn to Philippians chapter one.
Now me and my wife,
we've been working on this particular family member
and my wife's kind of been hounding them.
It's, we love this person.
We hope they understand the truth eventually.
They they sent my wife this quote. This is their their quote
My salvation definitely does not hinge on believing once saved always saved
Again, we love this person dearly. We want to see them saved, but that's not salvation that you're hinged on there
That's being hinged on splitting hell wide open if you actually believe that hey
I'm eternally secure and not being eternally secure.
That doesn't make any sense.
That's cognitive dissonance.
You're believing two opposing ideas.
You need to repent toward the gospel.
The true gospel that once you're saved,
you're always saved.
Jesus Christ paid it all.
If you believe anything but eternal security,
that's not good news.
Eternal security is good news.
Oh, but it's both, you have to have a little bit of both.
It's both works and faith.
You know, I heard a Baptist preacher just recently,
maybe about a month ago.
Listen, a Baptist preacher said this, okay?
He said that James too, when it says faith without works
is dead, he said, oh, those people, they have fake faith.
That doesn't even make any sense.
Like how do you have fake faith?
It's either you have it or you don't.
There's no in between, okay?
There's no in between.
That is garbage out of the pit of hell.
Like what the heck is fake faith?
What is that? It's either you have it or you don't you know quick trying to confuse the gospel. Okay, well
Mormons, but yeah, really any any religion of the Sun. That's not once you're saved. You're always saved
Literally, it's any religion. You name it. They're gonna believe something weird like that
Romans chapter 11 verse 6 says and if by grace then is it no more works
Otherwise grace is no more grace and if it be of works, then there's a no more grace
Otherwise grace is no more grace. It's either one of the one or the other folks
It's either one or the other if it's and if it's of works, and we're all doomed
We're all doomed. We don't measure up to Christ. We don't measure up to God because there's none good. No, not one
There's not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sineth not, the Bible says.
And thank God it's not of works of righteousness which we have done.
Thank God it's once saved, always saved.
Thank God it's by his mercy he saved us.
Philippians chapter number one I tell you to go there Philippians chapter number one look at verse number three
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine for you all making requests with joy for your
Fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now being confident of this very thing
That He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Why are we so confident?
Because it's God who performed a good work in us through our fellowship in the Gospel,
believing the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
In Titus chapter 1 verse 2 it says,
In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world began.
God's not an Indian giver, folks.
I know that's kind of politically incorrect to say.
He's not an Indian giver, okay?
It's not like, okay, I'm gonna give you eternal life, psych!
Just kidding, no.
God's not slack concerning his promise
as some man counts slackness, okay?
You know, first draw on chapter five.
Look at first draw on chapter five again.
Well, I'll just quote for you don't have to turn there and this is the record that God has given to us eternal life
We have to believe that record that he gave it to us
It's a free gift and this life is in the son. How do we get it by Jesus alone?
He that half the son half life
So if you have Jesus if you have the father you have life and either have not the son of God half not life
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may know we have confidence
We have assurance in Jesus Christ because we know that we're on our way to heaven because of what he did
Nothing about what we do
It's according to his will
That's why we have confidence. That's why we have we have boldness in these things
That's why we have the bullness to go knock on doors and show people
And look, again, I know I'm preaching to the choir this morning, but this is the gospel.
It's simple, folks.
So simple, even a little child can understand it.
It's believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Period.
It's done.
If you're once saved, all we're saved, you're saved.
But if you're not, you're not saved.
It's as simple as that.
If someone doesn't believe eternal security, they're both adding to and taking away from
the gospel.
Taking away God's promise, effectively making the Word of God an uneffect in their life.
And they're adding to it as well, if they don't believe once saved, always saved because
they're adding themselves.
They're mixing in themselves somehow.
If you're not once saved, always saved, you're saying Christ finished work on the cross was
not enough.
Plain and simple.
Plain and simple and you might think why can't people just get it?
It's simple because in first Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18 it says for the preaching of the cross
It's a them that perish foolishness
The preaching of the cross is the gospel
Okay, the gospel is the death the burial and resurrection and that's foolishness to those that that don't believe
It's foolishness to the unsaved. It's the fact that God paid it all past present and future to give us eternal life
But to the unsaved that's just foolish that's just foolish they just don't get it
It's eternal life. It lasts forever. It's eternal security. It's once saved always saved or you're not saved
Which in my opinion the fact that it's once saved always saved. That's a demonstration of the love of God
It's a demonstration of the power of God that he's able to preserve a soul
But to them that parish that's just foolishness. Oh, you believe you you could just live however you want
You'll still go to heaven. That's foolish. That sounds way too good to be true
Well, you know what Jesus said these two things he said with men it is impossible
but not with God, for with God, all things are possible.
And he also said, if thou canst believe,
all things are possible to him that believeth.
Even eternal security.
So like quit trying to insert man's logic into the gospel.
Quit trying to put your own logic into the workings of God.
You know, there is no wisdom, nor understanding,
nor counsel against the Lord.
Christ said, my grace is sufficient for thee.
For my strength is made perfect and weakness
You know, it's grace through faith that save you saves you not your feelings not what you feel right now
Oh, I just think it's too good to be true. It is it is true, and it is good
And you know to an extent it is too good. We don't deserve it
One last place and I'm done here turn a Jude
Turn a Jude so why did why did I need?
Why did I feel the need to preach this sermon this morning?
Jude chapter, uh, Jude chapter, Jude, Jude 1.
Look at verse 3.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write on to you of the common salvation,
why does he call it common salvation?
Because everyone is saved the same exact way.
By believing the same gospel, the same eternal security,
everyone receives the same gift.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
It's a one-time thing. It's all that needed to be.
That's why I'm preaching this, to earnestly contend against all that opposed the gospel.
Because if you're not once saved always saved you're not saved. Let's pray. Dear Lord God. I thank you for this church
I thank you for the opportunity
To preach this message that you laid on my heart Lord and I pray if there'd be anybody in this room that
Doesn't believe these things that they would receive the gospel this morning Lord and believe on you and trust on you alone
For salvation what I pray for the soul winning to come
This afternoon Lord that you would lead our feet to those that would be receptive so that we would see
Someone call upon the name of the Lord this afternoon Lord and even if there's no one Lord
We just we just pray that we're able to even quote a verse Lord and plant some seeds this afternoon Lord
And I pray for this church. I pray for
Brother Remy and Miss Kiley Lord, I thank you for them,
that they're here in Spokane to lead this church, Lord.
I thank you for all the brothers in this church, Lord,
that step up to the plate in time of need
to fill this pulpit, Lord.
And I just continue to pray for this, for this church, Lord.
And I pray that we all go our separate ways
in peace and in safety, Lord,
and to all bring us back to our places.
if you want to take your hymnals we're going to turn to page number 316 page number 300 and 16
I have decided to follow Jesus page number 300 and 16
Jesus I have decided to follow Jesus I have decided to follow Jesus no turning
back no turning back don't go with me still
for me the world behind me the cross before me the world behind me the cross
before me no turning back no turning back all right excellent singing
everybody brother Ryan you please close the water park brother Ryan would you
Amen.