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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, 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.