It is NOT Possible
Hebrews 10:4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:4)
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The Battle Against the Impossible
What is man, Oh God, that thou art mindful of him? What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalm 8:4) How does Adam and his children and descendants stand before God? They all stand in the willfulness of sin. Man is driven in all directions of life by sin. Man, in his state of sin, in Adam, is driven to fight the impossible. Tell the sinful nature of man that something cannot be done, and he will reply, Watch me. Tell man that he cannot cross the oceans, and he will die trying. Tell man that he cannot cross or conquer a continent and he will fight wars upon wars to prove that he can. Tell man that earth is his home and that he should stay within those boundaries, and man will do all to fly and to one day leave his home in protest of the divine will. Tell man that salvation is THROUGH and IN the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will stop man in his tracks, for now man is made aware of his sinful will. Mankind will follow everything to rebel against the divine will because of sin. Tell mankind to call on the name of the LORD and he will fabricate all kinds of ways to reach God, however, because of man’s sinful will it is impossible.
The word of God tells us (through God’s own breath) that man cannot acquire salvation EXCEPT he must be born of God THROUGH the divine sacrifice and Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. Man may stand on the moon as a conqueror, but he cannot save his own soul for this is impossible for man. But with God NOTHING is impossible, or beyond God’s GREAT and omnipotent power. For with God nothing shall be impossible. (Luke 1:37) Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. (Matthew 22:29) The verse in Hebrews 10:4 declares that ALL the blood of bulls and goats COULD NOT take away sin. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
From the garden to the cross all the sacrifices that were offered with blood were ONLY a shadow of God’s divine blood on the cross of Calvary. ALL the blood that was shed could not atone for sin and take it away for there was a remembrance of that sin each and every year, and it could not make the comers to those sacrifices CLEAN before God. Righteousness could not be fulfilled except in the blood of Christ for God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. How much more is the value of the blood of Christ above all the blood of the bulls and the goats. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14)
The high priest on the day of atonement in the Old Testament (beginning with Aaron) carried upon his heart the weight of his own sin and the sin of the nation of Israel, and this priest of the earth approached God to atone for the sin with the blood of bulls and goats. All this was the shadow of the fulfillment of the day of atonement when Christ would give His life and blood on the cross of Calvary for the sin of the whole world; therefore, He has the divine right to judge all men in His own righteousness that He fulfilled on the cross of Calvary. He is the merciful Savior, and, once again man must face this profound question, how can man save his own soul?
In Hebrews 9:14, we have the question regarding the VALUE of the blood of Christ that God asks of humanity. . . . How much more shall the blood of Christ. But why this question? Because sin has an inward home in all man. Man is conceived in sin. I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psalm 51: 5) Man will protest against this very fact in the word of God. They cannot bear to see themselves or their mother and father conceived in sin. And yet, this first transpired all the way back to Adam and Eve. When Cain, the first child of Adam and Eve, was conceived, he was conceived in sin because sin was IN both of his parents. Cain and all of mankind cannot escape sin for they are conceived by the very sin that came into the world and because of Adam’s transgression and disobedience against God, sin has become part of mankind, and it is the sinful will that drives man. In verse 5 of Psalm 51, all of mankind are shaped in iniquity.
This is the same iniquity that was found in Lucifer when Lucifer rebelled against God. The sin of Lucifer in heaven was caused by his own iniquity. And the sin of Lucifer was the seed of iniquity to not only overthrow God but to set Lucifer’s throne above the entire creation of God. When God saw the iniquity IN Lucifer, then THAT iniquity was judged BECAUSE of the sin it produced. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Ezekiel 28:15) Notice iniquity was found IN him, not ON him showing the inward creation of Lucifer as the anointed cherub, and this iniquity that was found IN him produced the sin that got him cast down to the ground. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:16) Although Lucifer was cast down to the ground with SIN, iniquity and enmity against God; it was the WILL of sin IN Lucifer to overthrow man by the temptation of Eve at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The whole temptation came from the sinful heart of Lucifer to overthrow mankind and to have preeminence, through sin, over man. Therefore, man, in Adam, brought sin into the world, and death by sin. The iniquity that was and is in Satan was then and now found in Adam, and both iniquity and sin would be passed on to ALL generations of mankind through man’s disobedience to God. Through the book of James we have a clue to the progression of man’s sin and man’s disobedience to God. James shows us what is WITHIN man that draws man away from God.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: (James 1:13) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. (James 1:14) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James 1:15) Do not err, my beloved brethren. (James 1:16)
If we take these words of James, and return all the way back to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and to Adam, who was created in the image of God, what drew Adam away from God? What enabled Adam to bring sin into the world and death by sin? It was his own lust in disobedience to the word of God. Adam listened to the words of Eve and the serpent, ye shall be as gods. Adam the Federal Head of the earth and Eve, his Helpmate, were both drawn away from God because of lust: to be equal with or greater than God, their own Creator. When God sought them out iniquity was found in them, consequently sin resulted in DEATH. Both Adam and Eve became sin. That’s right. They were the depositories of sin and they passed sin along into the history of mankind, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Their sin has been passed on to ALL generations in the very conception of life. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3:5) As Lucifer (in heaven) lusted to be greater than his Creator, now Lucifer passed this same sin to all of mankind. Adam became the Father of Sin in this world, and he would have the same enmity in his heart against his own Creator as Lucifer had in his heart against the Almighty; thus, the penalty of sin in Adam brought forth death. In Psalm 58, verses 3 – 5, God reveals more concerning sin in Adam, and in all of mankind. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Mankind will not accept these words from the psalmist, for sin has led man to believe, through his perverted intelligence, that man is inherently good, which the Bible DENIES with verses, such as Psalm 58:3-5. How many times have we heard the cries of the world that their questionable actions are based on a false moral principle that it is ‘for the children,‘ or that their actions are founded in the name of goodness ‘for the children.‘ Few in society look at the children (the newborn) as sinners before God. Man tries to justify himself, even in his children. And somehow, man equates an innocence that does NOT exist in the children that were conceived IN SIN and iniquity. I suppose that man feels a certain amount of justification in his own children, but remember, that the world of humanity looks through dark glasses and not through light rays of truth. Man is obsessed with the love of his own children except when it comes to abortion. Then there is no moral recognition of their own sin of murder, and the sin that is within them that existed when they were conceived IN sin and iniquity. The world closed their eyes to the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, the same as they do today with the dreaded sin and iniquity of abortion. Man collectively did not object to the Roman’s Colosseum with games of death and torture. Man has been deluded and deceived by his own heart when man refuses to recognize the killing fields created by governments through war and destruction, or through man-made plagues that are deliberately pushed into the public sphere to cause a silent cloud of murder to hang over the population of the world. Man justifies his own murderous actions in abortion and the brutal oppressive actions of their leaders because the heart of man is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) (Concerning the ‘death shot’ that has been forced upon the peoples of the world, it changes the rDNA in mankind and this has brought forth DEATH and innumerable physical problems. Refusing to release the evidence of what governments have willfully created reveals how deeply sin and iniquity lies with the hearts of man. Their demonic declaration of population control shows their purposeful evil heart is entrenched with sin. Just a little history: years ago, it was vigorously stated worldwide by ‘experts’ that hair spray was completely deleting the ozone and causing irrecoverable climate problems; then the cause of man’s problems passed on to the automobile, and all kinds of unimaginable lies have been produced by the governments of this world as man eagerly swallows their lies hook, line, and sinker.)
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The Conflict Between the Impossible and the Possible
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:4)
He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. (Ezekiel 8:13) Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. (Ezekiel 8:14) It was Tammuz (a young male Phoenician idol) who the women of Israel wept for, ‘remember the children.’ The cult of Tammuz developed from the pagan Phoenician system that found a home in Babylon and became entrenched in the hearts of the women of Israel during their captivity in Babylon. This article will not go into any depth about Tammuz, but to merely inform that the fantasy of the death of Tammuz was used to draw hearts away from their true God, Jehovah. From Tammuz the mother-child theme of worship progressed attracting the emotionally challenged women of Israel to weep over a pretended idol of a dead son. The followers of Tammuz were women and as these women wept over a pagan young male figure of a deity, they burnt their own children in the fires of Moloch and Baal. . . remember the children. The death cult of Tammuz hid behind mother love. While sobbing over the imaginary death of a stone male image they had no problem watching the children from their own bodies tortured and viciously burned alive in the arms of another stone image. So much for false goodness and fictitious love in . . . for the children . . . and remember the children. As with all cultists, they bring death to things that are living, and twist death as a point of celebration.
This Moloch/Baal cult worshiped the ever-green tree. Why? The ever-green tree symbolized life for it was always green; therefore, the cultist cut a living tree down, removing life from it, and then decked it with a false artificial semblance of life. The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. (Jeremiah 3:6)
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 3:13)
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. (Jeremiah 10:2) For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. (Jeremiah 10:3) They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. (Jeremiah 10:4)
Side Note: EVERY GREEN TREE.
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: (Deuteronomy 12:2)
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2nd Kings 16:4)
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: (2nd Kings 17:10)
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2nd Chronicles 28:4)
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? (Isaiah 57:5)
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. (Jeremiah 2:20)
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. (Jeremiah 3:6)
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 3:13)
Then shall ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men] shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. (Ezekiel 6:13)
And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. (Ezekiel 20:47) ♦ End of Side Note: EVERY GREEN TREE.
The ever green tree changes not in the seasons, and to the world it is a symbol of everlasting life. Even when these trees are cut down, it takes a long time for the green to fade and die, it became the perfect symbol of their cult, and this cult developed into a world cult. The world created a time of festive celebrations to equal no other with the symbol of this evergreen tree. And then to draw MORE into the cult, they named a specific date for the worship of this tree and called it Christmas. And the ever green tree became the Christmas tree tying the knot of idolatry to the world of Christendom. (There was only one event that Christ called for remembrance . . . and that was His death.)
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake [it], and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. (Luke 22:19)
And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. (1st Corinthians 11:24) After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me. (1st Corinthians 11:25)
The goal of all cults is to draw man away from the Center of life and light, the Lord Jesus Christ. And one of the methods that Satan uses to accomplish his goal of distraction and enticement is to frame his demonic goal as goodness, happiness and love. Thus, this day of celebration is not built on the word of God, nor on the principles in the word of God, but this day has been kidnaped by Satan and hijacked by SatanClaus. The Christ child was brought into their abominable cult and a pagan date was proclaimed as His date of birth. This transitional shift from truth to deception was very successful, for it deceived the professing church of God and they have fallen subject to the abominable tree and the worship of the satanic cult that began with a mother idol weeping for her idol son Tammuz . . . remember the children.
The Spirit of God, in the book of Colossians, gives us a warning of these things in 2:8, Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. In Colossians 2:8, we have a warning. Notice that when the Holy Spirit gives this warning it is just before the Holy Spirit of God reveals that IN Christ is the FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily in verse 9. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9) Traditions of mankind are used to overthrow the preeminence of Christ and the fullness of His deity. Christmas is one of those traditions of a human institution and invention of a cult led by Satan to take the mind and heart AWAY from Christ and AWAY from the glory of Christ.
What is the key characteristic of Christmas? It is man’s merchandising. From the worship of the Christmas tree to the offerings beneath the Christmas tree, it is Satan’s delusion in merchandising to take man’s heart away from God. Let’s go back to Ezekiel 28:16, By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Do you see the word merchandise in this verse? It was the merchandise that filled the heart of Lucifer, and this created the lust in his heart to overthrow God. Peter reminds us of Satan’s merchandizers that they will try to use US as merchandise for their own cult. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2nd Peter 2:3) In 2nd Peter Chapter 2, beginning in verse 1, the Holy Spirit tells us that there will be false prophets among the people and there will be false teachers among the people bringing in damnable heresies (one of which is the celebration of the birth of Christ through a twisted understanding of the goodness and love of God. But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2nd Peter 2:1) They will bring themselves to swift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious ways, not giving heed to the word of God, but allowing the traditions of men to overthrow and dilute the word of truth. AND if someone dares to tell them about their love for the cult of Tammuz, THEY, as well as the truth, will be evil spoken of. AND through covetousness and their merchandising they shall use feign words, ‘it is for the children.‘ And therein, they will make merchandise of you that same merchandise that was found in Lucifer. And to show you that this has been going on for a long time, the Spirit of God gives us these words whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2nd Peter 2:3) Peter goes all the way back to Lucifer, and tells us For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2nd Peter 2:4)
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2nd Peter 2:1)
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. (2nd Peter 2:2)
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2nd Peter 2:3)
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2nd Peter 2:4)
When people cast off all of their convictions of the truth with the excuse that ‘it is for the children‘ they are not only deceiving themselves, but they are also deceiving their own children. When they bring this cult into the church of God and place a giant Christmas tree behind the pulpit and falsely call it ‘a living tree,’ ‘the gospel tree,’ ‘the Christ tree,’ so that everyone is compelled to look upon that blasphemous image instead of the Christ of God then those preachers, those elders and deacons, and that congregation have cast off the true Christ of God. They fail to see what was in His work on the cross of the tree of Calvary. They can sing all the sweet hymns of Jesus but cannot see the abomination directly before them: the merchandising of Lucifer.
As merchandising filled the heart of Lucifer and has filled the heart of the church, in Revelation Chapter 17, we have God’s evaluation of this abomination, and this cult, for it is Babylon the great who is FULL of ALL merchandise. Read the list God in Revelation Chapter 18 of things that rule the hearts, minds and souls of mankind. God leaves nothing out, and she, this Babylon, is the mother of harlots. She is the mother of all fornicators and uses the merchandise of this world to deceive the hearts of men. She uses her merchandise in the natural world and sadly to say, she has surrounded the spiritual world as well for even the professing church has prostituted its own soul to this mother of harlots for the love of the lust of sin through the multitude of merchandise. As the women of Israel wept for Tammuz as the death of a son of their imaginations, their tears also flowed from an imaginary motherhood that did not exist in their hearts. So also, the world will weep on the day when this great whore of Babylon is destroyed by fire and the wrath of God. They will weep for Babylon not as the women of Israel had wept over Tammuz (the pagan god of stone) with crocodile tears, but the world will weep with great sorrow because the world will never regain what they exchanged their souls for.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Revelation 18:2) For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. (Revelation 18:3)
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, (Revelation 18:9)
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. (Revelation 18:10)
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: (Revelation 18:11)
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, (Revelation 18:12)
And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. (Revelation 18:13)
And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. (Revelation 18:14)
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, (Revelation 18:15)
A great apocalyptic epic is soon to come upon the entire world which is getting closer every hour in man’s history. It will be the moment in time that God will begin His judgment and wrath upon the world. And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. (Revelation 18:13) Notice that among the merchandise is THE SOULS OF MEN. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:26) For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36) Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:37) It is quite evident that in the last days Babylon the great will not only traffick in merchandise but will traffick in the souls of men.
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What Price the Soul of Man?
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:4) There is no earthly possession, no earthly wealth, no earthly position that is of greater value than the soul of man.
In our church age, attendance and the counting of heads has become more important than the souls of men. They will take their money as they open the door to hell, so what can a man give in exchange for his soul? There is no earthly possession, no earthly wealth, no earthly position that is of greater value than the soul of man. Whether you want to accept this or not, it is the blood of Christ, the blood of the Almighty God that has been given for the souls of man. The love of money and wealth has been around for a long time; however, these are the signs of the last times. It is the way that man will love money, and for the lust of that money, that building program, the lust for that collection plate, they are deceiving souls in their love for money: the individual will sell his soul for a very small price. Judas sold his sold for thirty pieces of silver. And many others, both in the religious and political world, have sold their souls into slavery under ungodly men who rule the world of religion and politics through their merchandising. The last church of the seven churches in Revelation Chapter 3, is rich and increased with good, full of merchandising, deceiving the souls of man, and they have need of nothing. (Revelation 3:17) What can be left for Christ when the world has your heart? It has become customary for almost every family to be indebted to banks (legal loan sharks) and governments. They control the filthy lucre of this world. Why do banks have sleeping mates in the governments of this world? Because they work together as a united system to keep the people in SLAVERY to them when all the time, they wave a false flag of freedom.
Mankind insists that he is free. You have been duped all around, you have been duped by Satan for you are a SLAVE to sin. You have been duped by government because you are a SLAVE to taxes. You have been duped by religion in supporting their phony building programs and filling their collection plates. You have been duped by banks in paying their enormous interest rates and fees while they offer you nothing for any savings that you might have. In all that I have listed there is no sign of freedom. You are neither free from governmental abuse, nor free from religious abuse, nor from financial abuse through the banking system. You don’t need the Bible to figure this out. Your debt level tells you whether you are a slave or not. The saddest part of all is that the total professing church has swallowed their lie in both merchandising and in indebtedness. They use merchandising to build bigger and better edifices built on the backs and wallets of slaves under the delusion of ‘building for God.’ The same system that has forced people to become indebted to the world has also entrapped them into more indebtedness. They call their slaves their congregation or citizens for there are no true shepherds anymore for they have all run from the lion and the bear, and the wolf is at their heels for they are more of the world than they are of God.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. (John 10:11) But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. (John 10:12)The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. (John 10:13)
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The Simple Complexity of Salvation
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:4)
When God presented His Son to the world, this is what the world saw and thought.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? (Isaiah 53:1)
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (Isaiah 53:2)
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. (Isaiah 53:3)
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (Isaiah 53:4)
When they saw the Lord Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, Emmanuel, God with us, the manifest image of the invisible God, God was IN Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and they saw NO BEAUTY in Him. They not only rejected Him, but they DESPISED Him. His walk and life on earth condemned mankind for whom they were and who they are. The example that He lived was unattainable for anyone. ONLY Christ in God and God IN Christ could have come and paid such a price for the souls of man. The great Creator said . . . Foxes have holes, and birds of the air [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay [his] head.(Luke 9:58) Although this world belonged to Him (Psalm 24:1), and He owned the cattle on a thousand hills, the Son of man, the Creator of all things had nowhere to lay His head in this sinful world although this world belonged to Him (Psalm 24:1). The Godhead bodily was not only rejected of man but DESPISED as well, and no one esteemed Him as the God that had been manifested to take away their sin.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9) The Creator of all things became poor in laying down His life. He laid down the Body that was prepared for Him, to be the divine sacrifice above ALL the sacrifices that were past or could ever be. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (Hebrews 10:5) He was sent by the Father, but within His heart He cried out, ‘Here am I, send me.’ He came OUT of heaven’s glory to GIVE man the gift of life everlasting and the forgiveness of sin. Salvation is a simple yet complex salvation. He that believeth on the Son of God with the heart of faith is received by God IN that faith of Jesus Christ. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
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The True Treasures of Salvation
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:4)
The heart of the believer is surrounded with the treasures in heavenly places: the treasure of God’s wisdom, God’s righteousness, God’s sanctification, God’s redemption, the treasures of faith and grace, the treasures of eternal life, and an inheritance that fadeth not away: an inheritance surrounded with grace and truth in God’s beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1st Peter 2:9)
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (Revelation 1:6)
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10)
He has made us a kingdom of priests and kings within His glorious kingdom; however, the prince of this world wants mankind to be attracted to his kingdom, the kingdom of Satan. Satan wants us to be attracted to the satanic governments of the world, even the dark kingdom and black hole of the United States where every unclean beast and unclean fowl make their dens and nests. Isn’t it amazing that a nation and its people (as individuals) carry an enormous family debt so why should not their country follow suit? One look at the debt level of the United States and one can only conclude that it is bankrupt. However, their national monetary debt is just an example of the spiritual bankruptcy of their own souls. Although this nation is nationally bankrupt and spiritually destitute there is only one thing that keeps the flag flying and the church bells ringing: the delusion of freedom keeps the slaves shackled to debt working every day. Amazing that although shackled and indebted to their government and to the building programs of their religion they still believe that they are free. They do not see these shackles as they do not see the shackles of sin. Since Lucifer, through his satanic sin, overthrew Adam there has been NO FREEDOM. Adam ceased to be free when he believed the lies of the serpent. When Adam brought sin into the world, all who born into the world, were slaves of sin EXCEPT One, who was and is the Lord from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Mankind, under the rule of Satan, the prince of this world, and his current hosts of leaders are pulling out all of the stops by condemning everything that is good by exalting everything that is evil. You will not find this in the world news today, you will only find lies and deception for they have a NEED to deceive themselves as well as deceiving their listeners. We are told that in the end time that they will BELIEVE A LIE rather than believe the truth, and THIS delusion is self-evident today. A cancer can be stopped in its infancy by cutting it out of the body, however, if it is allowed to grow it will corrupt to a point of death. This is what has happened to world governments, and to the world religious systems. The little foxes that bit and chew the bottom of the vine have cut off all truth, and just as cancer, it has brought death to the vines.
When God used the word merchandise concerning Lucifer in Ezekiel 28, this same word can be seen as greed, and the greed of Satan was to control and overthrow the throne of God. Satan persuaded a vast number. One third of the angels of God to rebel with him in his satanic lust for greed of power, thus, there was WAR in heaven. When God overcame Satan and cast him down to the ground, then Adam brought sin into the world, thus, mankind became an ally of Satan. Both of God’s first creations: Lucifer in the heavenly realm of God’s creation, and Adam the first man created in the earthly realm became united together in the satanic war against God. This is why in the hearts of men there is a greed factor controlled by his sin. This greed can be for wealth, or power, or numerous other things that control mankind. So, man is living as a slave to sin in an ungodly world.
Spiritual slavery is spiritual indebtedness. I learned a long time ago that when men call themselves faithful Christians, if you look closer, that they are more faithful to the building program then to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When their building program compromises the truth, or the gospel, it is not the building fund that suffers but the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. How many preachers, falsely so called, have been hired because of their dynamic salesmanship and NOT for the spiritual wealth within their hearts. The gospel of wealth is NOT the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul explained this principle through the Spirit of God to the Philippians who were caught up in a gospel of worldly riches. The Spirit of God explained to them that although Christ was rich in that He created all things, He became poor and humbled Himself to the death of the cross.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:5) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: (Philippians 2:6) But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (Philippians 2:7) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:8)
The church has prostituted itself in their lust and greed for wealth. Even the tax exemption and the lies within it were swallowed by the church which gave the government power over all the functions, and over all the monetary wealth of BOTH the church and the individual within its congregation. The founders of the United States of America understood that the Christian church had to be completely SEPARATED from governmental control. What took place within the church was the business of the church, for it was God’s business, and as the Temple of Solomon, it was SEPARATED from the political dealings of the kings. The wealth and the distribution of the wealth of the church were to be NONE of the government’s business. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ was to be run under the government of God and NOT the government of the state. And hopefully, those who ruled the church would be of such a holy stature that they in turn would be a witness and an example for the political government of the United States of America. Tax exemption was built on lies, and those within the church community swallowed those lies because of their own greed. The founding fathers had more divine wisdom then we have today. Therefore, currently both the church and the world are ruled by ungodly people under the influence of the prince of this world and his kingdom. The shackles of sin and the shackles of monetary bondage have control over this world. Many claim that they are Christians, and yet, they cannot walk away from the ungodliness of their church. Don’t get angry with me, tell it to God, make all your excuses to Him, and see if He will believe you?
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:4) If ALL the blood of bulls and goats could NOT take away sin, surely, ALL the ungodly churches cannot take away sin. It is only God’s Christ; it is only the Lord Jesus who demands your ALL and ALL. You either stand up for Christ and His truth or continue to walk in the demonic kingdom of this world. Those who slumber, open your eyes, those who profess Christ do it out of a pure heart. There is a choice that everyone must make, you either stand with all the demonic churches in the world or stand with the Lord Jesus who is separated from sinners. Right now, the world is being turned upside down by sin, but the Lord, in all this evil, is NEAR, we are close to His appearance in the air and calling those of His flock home to heaven. You must answer the question, Do you have the oil of the Spirit of God in your lamps? You must share this oil of gladness with God’s Christ in your heart, if not then there will be no door in heaven opened for you. The only ones whom the Lord will receive are those who are FREE IN CHRIST.
So how much more does the blood of Christ mean to you? The price He paid FOR you and for your soul is FAR beyond the treasures of this whole world. Most people, who read these articles, have heard the gospel many times, but sadly many have not entered into Christ. The words may sound good whether you see them in the mirror of truth, but when you walk away, do these words fade into a heart that is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things? The heart of man will teach you to be a vehicle of complacency which is a form of imaginary Christianity. Complacency is a tool of Satan. Complacency teaches that you need not be concerned that your soul and that the souls of the people around you are in jeopardy. However, it is up to you to see and know the value of your own soul before God, and that your soul is worth more than all the blood of bulls and goats and the treasures of this world. You can pile all the church buildings one on top of the other, as Nimrod at Babel, and you will not pay for one soul, nor for one sin. Only the Christ of God can set you free under the veil of His own blood. He is calling a people OUT of this world for they are NOT to embrace this world. They are strangers in this world because God has made them citizens of heaven. If you do not feel strange in this ungodly world, then MAYBE you’re not a child of heaven, and the Spirit of Christ is NOT in you. God, through His Spirit, tells us emphatically NOT to love the world, or the merchandise of the world which adds us to all the things of this world.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1st John 2:15) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (1st John 2:16) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1st John 2:17)
I want you to see that this is not a plea. It is a DEMAND. The demand is that for the Christian, as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you MUST SEPARATE yourself from this ungodly world from both ungodly governments and from ungodly religious systems.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. The world does not care if you are a Christian, the world will have no mercy on your Christianity. They have no love for Christ, and they have no love for you. So, the reality of the Spirit of God is in the words, Love not the world. The world, as the Jews in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ while on the earth, declared that they would not have this Man, Jesus Christ to rule over them in the government, or in the realm of pharisaical rule, as there were THEN both Gentiles and Jews in their governments who would not have the Man Jesus Christ rule over them. Gentile and Jews are vain self-willed people, and they are ruled by Satan and sin. The Holy Spirit breaks it down in very simple words for the simple. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Everything that you have in this present evil world, all your possessions, EXCEPT the word of God, is a thing of this world. But we are NOT of this world, as Abraham, we are merely sojourners, we are strangers in a strange country or land.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: (Hebrews 11:9)
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Hebrews 11:13)
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. (Psalm 39:12)
Today, there is not much teaching concerning our sojourn on earth as Christians that we sojourn here on earth WITH God in our hearts. And just as WE are strangers, GOD ALSO IS A STRANGER to this world at our present time. What we fail to assimilate is that the apostles in their age knew that it was the LAST time, the end of days, and they saw in THEIR DAY a movement of evil produced by Satan in the Church. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (1st John 2:18) In the days of John there were many antichrists who had revealed themselves, however, NOT all the spirit of Antichrist is seen, for the spirit of Antichrist is as its father, the devil. Serpents hide under rocks, behind fallen limbs, within crevices, and many times man does not even know their presence until he is bitten with their venom. You should remember that a deceiver does not speak with an open heart, his heart is one of deception to lead you where he wants you to go, so that he can deny Christ subtly and try to persuade you to do the same. They are of their father the devil. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44) Their mouths are open sepulchres; their tongues are full of lies for the truth is NOT in them. They love to condemn the righteous for being righteous in the Lord. In dark rooms, they gather together under a false sense of righteous authority and leadership and slander the true servants of God. Through merchandising of the gospel they plot to persuade others to follow their pernicious ways. They cause fires to erupt among the saints with their tongues of false doctrines and deceit.
The Spirit of God gave Paul an assurance that each step that he took was led by Christ and for Christ. Although men of Asia turned their backs on Paul, he found rest in his Master, the Lord Jesus Christ. These are just a few things that Paul, a true and faithful servant, had to deal with and it is still the same today for anyone who will be a good and faithful servant to God. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? (Galatians 4:16) O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (Galatians 3:1) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (Galatians 5:7) This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. (2nd Timothy 1:15)
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: (2nd Timothy 4:14) Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. (2nd Timothy 4:15) At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. (2nd Timothy 4:16) Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. (2nd Timothy 4:17)
These actions by churches were not uncommon to the apostles, many apostles were rejected from the early church that had turned away from Christ. John tells us that Diotrephes had turned John away from visiting the saints. I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. (3rd John 1:9) Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. (3rd John 1:10) Let’s not forget the Corinthian church: they denied the apostleship of Paul. Wherefore he gave them a list of the many things that he had suffered for Christ as proof of his apostleship which proof they did not have of themselves. And this has never ended, for even in the days of the apostles, the church had fallen in love with the world, and not with Christ. They wanted the world and Christ, and not Christ ONLY. To the true Christian, who loves the Lord Jesus with all their heart, soul and spirit, marvel not if the world hate you. As they treated our Master, the Lord of glory, they will treat those of the sons of God the same. Just remember, you are not redeemed with the blood of bulls and goats. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.(Hebrews 10:4) You are not redeemed with silver or gold that perishes. You are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ who gave Himself to God through the eternal Spirit. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14)
Now to the end of the church, when the false professors will run out of time, when the liars will have to swallow their own lies, when the antichrists will have to reveal their father the devil, when the church door that leads to heaven will be closed. These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ to an inapt church, one who had not been begotten of God. (Revelation 3:16)
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.(Revelation 3:16)
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: (Revelation 3:17)
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. (Revelation 3:18)
The word goods in this section of scripture could also be considered to be merchandise, as with Lucifer in Ezekiel Chapter 28. And as it goes with Lucifer, so goes the world, and so goes the church of the world. It has been this way for a very long time. It is sad that the souls of men have become enamored to an imitation gospel from the ministers of Satan. The pulpit no longer pulls man out of sin, but the perverted messages pull the lost souls of men into the pit of hell to wait for the second death and the eternal judgment of the lake of fire. The book before me is the Bible, it describes to me a God of mercy and grace, however, the books that will be opened at the great white throne judgment will be full of the works that every person outside of Christ has committed against the God of creation. And from those words of condemnation, they will be cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
The Spirit of God tells us in 2nd Corinthians, Chapter 13, that a man should take his eyes off of everyone and off of everything, and that a person, through his own heart, should examine his own self whether he is in Christ or not. In fact, the Spirit of God, through Paul, tells everyone that they should prove to themselves their own salvation.
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. (2nd Corinthians 13:4) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (2nd Corinthians 13:5)
This has been a difficult message for me (for I have lived and experienced the principles that I have written about) For the truth stands and will not falter. If no one stands with me, I know the Lord Jesus does, and I am persuaded that HE IS ABLE TO KEEP that which I have committed unto Him, my heart, my soul and my spirit against that day. For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. (2nd Corinthians 1:12) This message is sealed with the Spirits’ AMEN.
© Copyright 2023, Michael Haigh
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All Scripture references are from the King James Bible. (KJB)