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Okay, welcome back. Today we're going to address objection number five. This one says, "Unbelievers go to hell to pay for their sins."
Yeah, people actually teach this.
You give them 2 Corinthians 5:19 where Paul wrote that God stopped imputing sins to the world, but hey, you know what they do? They don't like that.
-So they take it and change the word "world," and they make it "believer."
-They make it "repenter." They make it "he who was baptized."
-They change the word "world" to "he that walked the aisle and gave his heart to Jesus."
God stopped imputing sins to the world. "Oh, no, we don't like that.
He only stopped imputing sins to the one who was water baptized, said the sinner's prayer."
God stopped imputing sins to the world. "Oh, no, let's change that to he stopped imputing sins to those who came forward,
filled out the card, and shook the preacher's hand.
Those who are faithful tithers.
Those who tarried long and received the gift of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues.
That's who he stopped imputing sins to."
No, no. -The world, the world.
Let me say it again: The world.
God stopped imputing sins to many who never stepped foot in a church. Matter of fact, most of the world has never stepped foot in the church. And the sooner you can get this in your brain,
the sooner you can start to communicate, to articulate this correctly and be of some good. -Actually be a minister of the gospel of Christ.
The world, not the believer. The believer is included, but this applies to the world.
Now, for me and the average thinking person, this genders several questions.
Like, if you can go to hell and pay for your sins, then how much does your sins cost? We can just tell people how much each sin costs and they can go there and pay each one of them off.
And if someone can pay for their sins, then why did Jesus have to come and die?
As we've seen with every objection, again, it appears that the limited forgivers didn't think this through very well. But as long as they keep supplying us with the material, we'll continue to do like (I was thinking about a poster I used to have on my wall as a child.) -
We'll continue to do like ol' Hammerin' Hank did back in the 70s. Step up to the plate and drive one deep left center. They're basically fastballs, waist high, straight down the middle.
Listen, the wages of sin is death, so that's what we earned.
We all earned death. What happened? Jesus stepped in, stepped up to the plate and cleared the way, cleared the basis so we could all have life.
He didn't give the world life, but he cleared the path.
He freely gave himself a ransom for all because it's not humanly possible for any of us, for any one of us to pay for their sins. Only someone without spot or blemish could do that.
Telling others that they might go to hell and pay for their sins is man-made. And as Satan would have it, it's just like every other false doctrine out there, folks. It takes the focus off Jesus and his finished crosswork. This is the ultimate policy of evil. Satan himself has designed this.
And no, Satan isn't out here doing this, doing that, running here, running there. No, he's designed it and the entire religious system under the control of man is doing it for him. He's sitting back with a brandy and a cigar watching this nonsense.
And to us here at Truth Time, it's like fingernails down a chalkboard when someone can't understand the simplicity that is in Christ and what he did on the cross. It's so simple.
It amazes us how Christ gave his very life's blood for the sins of the entire world (I know you want to change it to "believer," but it actually says "world") he did that. And yet we have ministers of Satan running around here teaching people that they can go to hell to pay for their sins.
As if the blood didn't work. Preposterous.
No one under this grace administration is going to hell for their sins. You go there because you don't have life. Dead people go to hell.
False teachers conflate forgiveness with salvation. They'll do it every Sunday morning and midweek if you'll let them. They'll hold a revival and conflate it every night. We've dealt with them conflating forgiveness and justification. -Being forgiven with being not guilty.
No, wrong.
Study your Bible.
These are all wrong teachings.
Just like it's wrong that if someone was forgiven at the cross, then that means they're heaven bound. No, that's incorrect. That's not our parenthetical news. Our parenthetical dispensation good news goes against that teaching.
Forgiveness is not a "get out of jail and enter heaven" card. Heaven is for those who have been justified. Justification only applies to believers: Those who have heard the gospel, put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ by believing the gospel and being sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. Ephesians 1:13.
So stop parroting what others say and actually crack open the scriptures and study this for yourself. It's just that simple. Think for a moment. Just think:
Since God cannot both dispense grace and impute sin at the same time, you should seriously ask yourself, "did the dispensation of grace, did it begin when I believed?"
"Did it begin when I went to the altar?"
"Did it begin when I got water baptized?"
"Did it begin when I said the sinner's prayer?"
"Did it begin when I repented of my sins?"
No, the dispensation of grace began before you were born. Before you were a smile on your mother's lips and a twinkle in your daddy's eye.
God has never, not a day, now listen, never, not a day in your life has he been waiting on you to do something so that he can at that time stop imputing your sins. You were born into the dispensation of grace. The non-imputation of sins was in existence before you arrived.
I know, some out there, you're real special and the non-imputation of sins just couldn't have been in existence before you arrived. I can assure you that the cross work was accomplished without you. -Without me. Didn't need us.
And as a truth that none of the princes of the world knew, for had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified Christ Jesus. (1 Corinthians 2:8)
Sadly, most can't digest this. -Just can't do it. Can't digest the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
For many, all they've done is learn enough about grace to sound a little smarter than the average Baptist, but have still yet to grasp the Ephesians 3:10 manifold wisdom of God.
Saints, in Christ, we have boldness to preach these unsearchable riches. We're different than the worldwide religious system. We've leveled up and we've got the knowledge to go out and make this known. The mystery of the gospel. -Go make it known.
The assurance that we have in Christ is what allows us to step out of our comfort zone and go take this word of reconciliation as ambassadors. Go take it to the world. The religious system's not going to do it, so don't wait on them.
Understanding Paul's gospel will equip you to (Acts 28:31) preach the kingdom of God and teach those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence. No man forbidding us. No man. We become multidimensional, which allows us to exercise our discernment and go meet others right there where they are.
The work Jesus did for the world's reconciliation did not save one living soul. Salvation requires a faith response. Reconciliation is making two compatible with one another. It's the process of making peace between two parties. -Peace between two parties who were previously alienated from one another.
The enmity that once separated the two has been removed.
Thank you, Lord.
This doesn't mean there's an automatic relationship. It just means that what once stood in the way of a relationship has now been removed. The enmity is gone and the situation has been made amicable. The parties are no longer at variance. This is a wonderful thing.
It's a one-time event that took place on Calvary's cross. And it's not a recurring event that takes place over and over and over at each individual moment that someone hears and believes the gospel. -That's salvation.
It was there on the cross where Jesus completed, he did everything necessary in order to remove the hostility that previously separated God from the entire world. The death of Christ was the only conciliatory action needed to make it possible for God to conciliate himself with the world.
Now listen:
There is a teaching out there saying that at the cross everyone was made alive. Quickened. -No, that's incorrect. If you're quickened and made alive, then you got life. That's universalism. There's some out there that don't claim universalism yet teach universalism.
No one was quickened and made alive at the cross.
No one.
God in Christ reconciling himself to the world is not the same as "be ye reconciled to God." Can you not hear the difference? Perhaps you may just want to say that out loud a couple of times. It's different.
God did exactly what Paul said he did in 2 Corinthians chapter 5. But clearly, to anyone with walking around sense, you can see there's a response needed. We'll go deeper into the quicken and made a live study later on.
But right now, if you're here today and like many are telling us, you're hearing this good news and you're having a light bulb moment, praise God.
Well, today, you're coming to the realization that you've been trusting in your belief for forgiveness.
You're coming to the realization that you've been trusting in an altar call for your forgiveness.
You're coming to the realization that you trusted in water baptism, that you trusted in saying some words, confessing, sinner's prayer, asking for forgiveness, repenting of your sins.
Thank God you're coming to that realization and thank God for the letters, emails, and phone calls. Keep them coming because you can change all that by simply believing the words on the page. The words on the page that came straight from God instead of the words behind the pulpit that come straight from man.
In this current dispensation, there is no such thing as limited forgiveness. -Put a big X mark through it. It's a social construct. It's made by man.
The perfect, sinless blood of Christ doesn't need your belief, doesn't need your aisle walking, your dipping yourself in a tub of water, opening up your mouth and saying some words, nothing like that.
It doesn't need you to activate what was accomplished almost 2,000 years ago. That makes no sense and you should know that.
Just as both his burial and his resurrection are so without your belief. Both of them. No difference.
You're believing it doesn't make it so.
You're believing it makes you saved.
Think about that.
You come to 1 Corinthians 15.
People go, "oh, here's the gospel and I know the gospel and let me go preach the gospel." Well, you ought to understand what you're reading before you can go preach it correctly because let me tell you, it's a package deal.
If you have to believe for 1 Corinthians 15:3, then you got to believe for 1 Corinthians 15:4. If you're believing it makes him dying for your sins so, then you need to believe it before he can resurrect himself.
It all happened and it happened without your belief.
It's a matter of fact.
Don't believe the gospel thinking that that forgives your sins.
That don't forgive your sins.
Your sins were forgiven but you know what?
-As said by the Philippian jailer there, "what must I do to be saved?" -Not, "what must I do to be forgiven?"
Believe to be saved.
Grace and peace.
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