security of the believer. What does the old Baptist slang for this? Once saved, always saved. Once saved, always saved. This is a beautiful doctrine, but it's one that's misused. If you go down to an altar, and you go through the motions, with a model prayer, and you both be baptized and everything, is that going to guarantee you a place in heaven? What is the problem with that? What was the problem with Judas? What was wrong with Judas? What was the problem with Judas? He didn't believe. No, it wasn't. There wasn't retentance, and there wasn't believing. OK? Baptism is not the mode of salvation. And just going and saying a prayer and reading out of a book like Gilbride's Four Spiritual Laws, going through that thing, and just go through the motions, that isn't all there is to it. What is salvation? Salvation is the Holy Spirit convicting your heart of sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. When you realize that you're undone, that you're a sinner, that you need to be saved, and you call upon the Lord to save you, that's the point of salvation. Now, you're going to go to heaven at that point right there. If you die, you're going to get to heaven. We're going to study baptism in a, let's see here, adoption and church. Baptism here in lesson number 21, we're going to get to baptism. But baptism identifies you openly that you're a child of God. That's what it does. Baptism doesn't get you to heaven. Baptism is a work of righteousness that you do after you've been saved. Now, there are a lot of wet sinners out there. A lot of people have been baptized and that don't know the Lord. They just don't. They are going through the ritual of a plan, a spare tire religion. You know what the spare tire religion is? When somebody gets sick, when you need a funeral priest or you need a wedding, that's when you meet the preacher. So you call upon him. My friend's sick, I'm sick, George is sick, so-and-so is sick, so pray for us now. But what is true salvation? It's a change of heartache. And when you have really looked at yourself the way you are, and you ask the Lord to forgive you of your sins, knowing one of these days that we are going to go into eternity, do you know anybody personally that's lived to be 150 years old that's still around? Do you feel like that, Brother Rex? I mean, in history, there have been a couple of people that live close to 200, around 200 years old in recorded history that we know of in the last 500 years. In Noah's day, on backwards, there were people, you know, Methuselah lived how long? 969 years. But you know what? Methuselah is dead. He didn't make it to the first millennium. But he lived a long time. But we all are fragile, we're all what we call terminal. Terminal means a lot. relating to the end. The end is coming. I mean, when you're young, like my daughter or this young lady over here, I mean, you've got a lot of time ahead of you. Look ahead and you can't even think about even slowing down, let alone being firm. Slow down. Well, salvation. Can a person once saved ever be lost again? John 6.37 to 2.40. John 6, 37-44. Anybody got that open? John, you got that open? This young lady right here. Every one the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never pass out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of Him who sent me. This is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose none of those He has given me, but should raise them up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." Alright. That pretty much says that a person, once they come to know the Lord, they cannot be lost. That's what we call once saved, always saved. Or another is security of the believer. Or, even yet, what is the other term? But remember what it is? Let's look at this again. All right? What's this P stand for here? Preservation or perseverance of the saints. All right? Preservation of the saints. That God will preserve those that are saved. They are preserved. A man one time, let's see, I can't remember his name right now. I'll find it in just a moment. Thank you. Can't think of it. He said, the very evidence of a child of God, that he is a child of God, Jonathan Edwards, is that he acts like a child of God and he is his life. A child of God can fall away from God. We all have done that sometime or another in our life. We can fall away from God, but does God let us stay there? The very evidence that you're not saved is that you can stay there and just go on your merry way. If you can do that, you can stay out of church and stay away from the Lord, and you can just go on and just be happy. The very evidence is that you don't know the Lord. Because if you're God's child, what's God going to do? Bring you back in the boat. All right. Psalm 89. Psalm 89. Let's look at that one. That's a pretty good verse. Psalm 89, 27 through 37. Are you over there, Catherine? Just almost, huh? In a different place than the old book, isn't it? Yeah. You're right. All right. I also shall make sin my firstborn, a highest of the kings of the earth. By loving kindness I will keep for him forever, and my covenant shall be confirmed to him. So I will establish his descendants forever in his throne of the days of heaven. If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgment, If they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will visit their transgressions with the lie and their iniquity. Now hold on right there. This is a promise from God. If you're a child of God, now first of all, we can't just take something out of the Bible and start making it mean what we want it to. What is this psalm about? What is it about? It's God's holy covenant with David's descendants. Have we been granted into this covenant of Abraham and of David in the New Testament? Yes, we have. All right. And it's also talking about in the nation Israel. Now, will God... And this is another type of the unconditional covenant that God makes with the saved and with the nation Israel. Unconditional covenant. What in the world does that mean? Unconditional covenant. It doesn't depend on us. It depends upon the maker of the covenant only, which is God. All right? It's an unconditional covenant. In other words, this covenant of salvation does not relate on anything from our side of it. In the Old Testament, and this is one thing that's very beautiful. We need to realize this. In the Old Testament, how many steps did the altars have that you walked up to? on the altars, in the Old Testament altars. Altar was an altar, it was what they called a pillar so many times, and it was called a place of sacrifice. All of the altars in the Old Testament, what did they stand for? And how many steps were there up to then? Anybody remember? Very important. Very important. By the way, could an altar be made out of hewn stone? Could you? It couldn't be made out of hewn stone. It had to be made out of natural stone, something that God made, or dirt. It could not be made out of anything that was hewn, or carved, or like a stonemason would chip away. It could not be a manufactured stone. The altar had to be of natural stone. Why? It's good that... Go ahead, Brother John. Not of any man's worth. Not of worth unless any man should boast. When we come to God, and we bring a sacrifice to God, that sacrifice stood for one thing. That sacrifice stood for Jesus Christ. Now about the steps. How many steps? Five? Well, that's a real good guess. Five is the what in the Bible? Well, five, the number five is the number what in the Bible? Grace. The number of grace. Okay, that's the number of grace. He said that was wrong. Seven? No. Six? None. There is nothing you can do to elevate yourself to the throne of God, or to God's mercy. No steps! But it's very important. There were no steps. God said, you shall not build an altar with steps to it. No. It's got to be out there on flat ground. It's got to be made out of either dirt or natural stones. Because salvation is not of works. Salvation is of God's work only, and He is the maker and the supplier of salvation to us. Okay? Kathy, where are you there? Now, read that last part that you had there, that good part there. Okay? That word there, loving-kindness? He is the Son or the Man of Loving Kindness. Who's the Man of Loving Kindness in the Bible? Just kind of take a guess. The one referred to, the Savior, the Man of Loving Kindness. The man that's full of grace. Jesus. The one that reigns. He is the conveyor of grace from God to man. Alright? And we don't walk up there. He came down here. And that's what all of this is talking about. Okay, go on, just a little bit, Sister Kathy. My lifetime is from Him who I give thoughtfully in my faithfulness. My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the evidence of my vows. Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful. All right. This is an unconditional covenant. Did God make an unconditional covenant with the nation of Israel? Now this might surprise you just a little bit, what I want to say right now. How many of you have ever heard of Replacement Theology? Brother John, do you know what Replacement Theology is? Could you tell us just a little bit about it? I believe that God is through with Israel and the church has taken its place. Alright, that God has finished with Israel and the church has taken Israel's place completely and that God will never ever turn to Israel again. Now who was the originator of this doctrine of the church history? The Catholic Church basically was the one that really propagated that was Augustine or Augustine as some people like to call him now, is calling Augustine. Now, who was the great Augustinian student during the Reformation? Who was that great Augustinian student that wrote the, you know, Augustine wrote the City of God and this man tried to bring in the Millennium. and legislate righteousness in Switzerland. Calvin, John Calvin. John Calvin. And Martin Luther. Martin Luther. Do you know what Martin Luther called for? Now, we have to realize that John Calvin and Martin Luther, what were their occupations? What were their occupations? They were lawyers. Thank you, brother. They were lawyers. Both of them were loggers. Now, right there is a strike. Strike one. Strike two! Let's look at what strike... What was their other occupation? They were Catholic priests. Alright? Now, the Catholic Church believed in the church state, didn't it? The church and the state were one. Okay? And Augustine, he believed that. That's where he began to propagate that kind of an idea. The Catholic Church, how it evolved, the Catholic Church did not exist as it exists today all the way back through history. They will try to praise themselves through all of the cults and everything else, but when you get back there till about 200 AD, they're Baptists. They ceased being Catholics at that time. Then they became what they call primitive Christians or Baptists. Okay? It changed. But as we see the Catholic Church evolving by 300 AD, we know that the Church of Satan became one under Augustine. Okay? Or not Augustine. Augustine was working with it, too. But, when John Calvin and when Martin Luther started the Reformation, Martin Luther knew who Baptists were. The Baptists asked him to join them, but he did not want to become a Baptist, he wanted to establish, he wanted to reform the Catholic Church. That's what he wanted to do. And so finally, he established a state church. This church and the state were one in what nation? Germany. Now, when Martin Luther was to replace the theology problem, he called for the incarceration of all Jews. Martin Luther did. He said that they ought to be punished for what they did to the Messiah. They called for all of them and he said all of them ought to be, every Jew on the face of the earth, ought to be exterminated. Alright? He said that they ought to have them in work camps and concentration camps. They ought to neuter all the men and that the women should not be allowed to have any babies. They wouldn't be aborted or whatever. Until they were all gone. Done away with. Now, if Martin Luther could have done that, now, his predecessor, or his descendant, basically, did. Who was his descendant? Who was the real, huh? Hitler. Hitler really went after what Martin Luther had called for. Okay. What was the conflict between those two? What? Okay, there's a long time. You know, Luther was back there in what we call the Middle Ages, the 1400s, 1500s, in that area. But Hitler, all Hitler did was put him to work and to force what Luther had called for. But Hitler had different motivations. He basically used the same, his idea was that the Jews were the cause of all problems. And he wanted to have a scapegoat for their economy and everything else. And he used them as a scapegoat, but he called for their incarceration and their extermination, which they did. Okay? So here we are. We got that. It came from way back in. But the real problem was replacement theology. Now, if replacement theology is correct, the unconditional covenant that God made with Israel is also a type of what? Of salvation. So, if God would divorce Israel completely and finally, it would be a kind of a type of you losing yourself, as you would. But it's not so. Israel calls, was called, and they are called, and God will use them. In the millennial reign, they believe in amillennialism, all that. They don't believe in the tribulation period. They don't believe in the rapture, or any of that. This is replaced with theology. And John Calvin's a group, and Martin Luther's still are basically the same thing. Number two. By what power are the saved kept?" 1 Peter 1, 3-5. Our young lady, are you over there yet? 1 Peter 1, 3-5. 1 Peter 1, 3-5. to be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, unforeseeable, and unfading, kept in Heaven for you, who are being protected by God's power to pray for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. And you brought that out really good. That's a nice looking Bible you got there too. Five things fastened in tension. How are you kept by the power, by what? How are you kept? By what power are you kept? By the power of God. Okay. We are kept by the power of God. His power, not our power. It has nothing to do with us. No steps on the altar. No huge stones on the altar. Israel is Israel's calling is irrevocable. Your calling and election is irrevocable once you have been saved. Once you have been saved, once you really know the Lord, that calling and election is irrevocable. Number three. Number three. What kind of life is the believer given? John 3.15, 3.16, and 3.36. Heard you there, young man. All right. That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. Alright, whosoever believes in Him, by the way, that's a continuous believing, that's something that the child of God does, he should not what? Perish. Perish, but have everlasting life. This goal number 16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Okay, but have everlasting life, that means have right now. He has everlasting life. I think the old King James says, hath everlasting life. The grammar is a little bit old, but hath also meant something that was continuous action. He has it now. It's done. All right? And John 3.36. 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 abides on him. Okay. The wrath of God abides on the lost. and the non-believers, but the mercy of God and His love abides on he that does believe. Number four. Is sin counted against a person who has been justified by faith? Romans 4, 5-8. Brother David, are you over there? Romans 4, 5-8. But to him who does not work, but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Just as David also described the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works. Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin. Alright, now when God looks upon you as a saved person, what does He see? What does he see when God looks upon those that are saved? The righteousness of His Son. You are clothed in it. You're clothed in the righteousness of the Son of God. That's what he sees. He sees that cloth. He sees that cloth, that clothing, the clothing of righteousness, right? That's beautiful. It's thinking yourself dressed up in the righteousness of God. It's not your righteousness, but it is God's righteousness. It is by grace we are saved, all right? Number five, the list of things Paul said cannot separate the saved from the love of God, Romans 8, 38 and 39. This is a real good, uh, uh... Are you there, Brother, uh, Rhett? Who wrote this? Romans 8, 38, 39. I know this young lady probably is. Do you want to read that? What translation do you have? It's a translation, isn't it? All right, Romans 8. What is it? Paul Holman? Okay. Alright, Romans 8, 38, 39. We're going to see how this reads here. So I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Alright. Boy, does that just about cover it all. Can you separate yourself from God? No. Can angels separate you from the love of God? How about any government force? No government force. Nothing present. Nothing past. Nothing in the future. It's going to be able to separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. Which is in Christ Jesus. That's it. Alright. Number six. OK, fill in the blanks for a lesson on security of the believer, John 5 and 24, and Jesus says this, that the believer right now has, he has eternal life, OK, and that he shall not in the future come unto what? Judgment or condemnation. But is past, completed action, from? Death. Unto? and spiritual for eternal life. Eis tein doei, unto eternal life. We were studying this morning, not the Old Testament. We talked about Jehovah passing over Egypt. Jehovah passed over. We also realize that there's no such thing as a dead angel. You're not going to find that in the Bible. Who passed over Egypt? God did, Jehovah did. Jehovah passed over Egypt. Now, when Jehovah went by a house that had blood on the door top and on the sides, the doorposts, he did not go in there, all right? But those that didn't have that, now he said, don't go out the door, you kill the lamb with this Passover lamb. By the word Passover means to hop over, to skip over that house Jehovah did. But if a house did not have that, what happened? Into that house went the destruction. The destruction. And that word destruction there, It comes from basically two Greek words, as far as I've seen some writers trace it. Holēs, or holē, or holos, all right? And another word is phōntōs. I'm Greek, you know, this is Greek, all right, but you can read most of it, because most of it looks just like English. Let's look at this holos. That there, this is like an H. And holos, we have an English word that comes right out of Greek. What word do you think that might be? Holos? Huh? Holos? This is real simple. It's real simple, isn't it? Okay, holos. H-O-L-O-S comes from it, okay? That's real good. We swallow this W, and it's an H, just like this one right here. Okay? Now, Thonotos. What's Thonotos? Thonotos. That is spiritual death. When Jehovah did not pass over a home, it was done dead. Wholly dead. Done. The final act. Dead. Death and destruction. There was no way out and no place else to go. It's done. That. When you come before God, if you don't have the blood of Jesus Christ, it's just like the Passover houses that didn't have the blood on them. You're holy and entirely dead. No way out. Is there a second chance on the other side? Can you get them out of there in any way? No. You make that choice on this side of the veil, not on that side. Over there. All right. I thought I'd share that little word with you because it's... and that's where it says the destruction went into the hall. The destruction. Let's go on a little further. How about the judgment is passed? They dashed it from death unto life eternal, number 7, and those whom Jesus gave eternal life ever perish. John 10, 28. John 10, 28. Are you there, brother John? Yeah. Alright. And I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish, and no one shall smash them out of my hand. Alright, eternal life. Let's look at that word for a minute. Eternal life. Now, why? All right, there's a ton of sugar palates that come from Greek words here. OK, one of them is phaios. What word in English do you think comes from that word? Biology. Alright, biology. How about zoe? That's another term for zoe. You'll have a life eternal. Zoe. What word do you think in English comes from this word? Huh? Zoology. The study of life. How about a zoo? When you go to the zoo, what do you do? You go look at living creatures, don't you? Alright? Life eternal. Now, this life eternal, if you were saved for 82 years, and all of a sudden you weren't saved, you didn't have eternal life, is that eternal life? No. How about if you were saved for five years? How long is that? That's a five-year salvation plan. That's all, OK? So it's not eternal, is it? So eternal life, eternal salvation is forever, isn't it? It couldn't be eternal life if it didn't last forever. Simple as that. All right? Number eight. Is any person able to pluck the same out of the Lord's hand? John's in at 28 and 29. So we read 28, didn't we? All right, now we're up for 29. John, are you still there? Or are you someplace else? My Father who gave them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. All right, so we are kept by the power of what? God and the Father, actually the Godhead, all right? We are made in the image of God, aren't we? Are we? We're made in the image of God. Let me get some of this off of the blackboard here. Some people like these videos so they can see what's going on with the class. All right, let's do this again. I know maybe you're getting tired of this, But I had one of my students watch me do this for about a year, and all of a sudden one day she goes, I don't understand. It takes, there's a time element in learning, always. Time element in learning. God, we have the Father, and who else? The Son, and then what else? Holy Spirit. All right. So, with the Father now. God said He made us in His image, didn't He? All right? So what part of the image do you think the Father is? The mind. The mind. Okay? Mind or soul. All right? That's the place of knowledge in all of this, okay? Now, the Son. What part of you, of the human race, do you think is made according to the pattern of the sun? The body. Now about the Holy Spirit, what part of you do you think, if you're triune in nature, what part of you is made like the image of God? Now, when you're born into this world, when you're born into the world, the spirit that you have there is the spirit of disobedience. Alright? When you are born again... Is the spirit your soul? No. The soul that's over here, that's the one father, okay? That's the soul. Now, some people are going to argue about this, but the Bible says the body and the spirit and soul, we know, talks about. All right. The spirit is that which gives your body life. And Adam only gives you temporary life. And death. I've said this before. I want you to get this down. My teacher told me this one When I was in the seminary, I guess I listened to him say this for five years. One of my teachers, Dr. Carl Farrar. And I listened to him, and I thought I believed it. And I thought I understood it, until all of a sudden, about ten years later, jar! I really got the idea of it. He said, no woman ever gives the sin nature to a child. She may be sinful. but she never is capable of giving the sin nature to the child. Alright? The father has in who? Has in Eve all sin? What's it say in Scripture? Has in Adam all sin? For one blood, that's what we are. One blood. Adam's blood. Not one drop of the woman's blood ever goes into the child. The only way you get the blood from the mother to the child is if she was shot for something. Okay? But the blood in that child comes from the father. Okay? Not the mother. Okay? Their genetic structure, we have genes from both sides, alright? But the blood, and in the blood is what? The Bible says. Life. Okay? In the blood is life. So the father gives life to the sun. If a woman never knew a man, a woman basically has a thousand embryos in her. Okay? A thousand embryos. She could have a thousand children. That's possible. All right? That's the way God makes it. How long is a millennial reign? How long did Eve live in that much back there? Just about a millennium, didn't she? All right? All right, and over here again in the millennial, the millennial reign of Christ, how long is that? A thousand years? How long are women going to be able to have children? They're going to have about a, they can have a thousand children. But a woman can't have one child without a man. It's impossible. You have to have a man to have a child. You have to have the sperm in the embryo before it becomes life. Okay? Now Jesus was of a virgin birth. He had no earthly father at all. Who was his father? Basically, himself. He is God, alright? But God, the Spirit, says, came upon Mary and impregnated her with the seed of God. So now, what do we have here? We have a man and God. We have the God man, don't we? Was he all man, physically? Yes. Did he have a sin nature? Why? He had no earthly father. Would he have ever died? No. He would never have died. Outside of that realm, just like Adam was in the garden before he sinned. All right? Now, here we have the God-man, but he did die, didn't he? Did Pontius Pilate kill him? Did the high priest kill him? Who killed Jesus? He didn't get killed at all. That's the answer. He gave up his spirit. He was beaten so bad, where the cat-and-knife tells that he should have died from that loss of blood and the tremendous torture that was implemented upon him. When he was crucified on the cross, some people lived two and three weeks crucified. Did you know that? They drove nails through their carpal tunnels. That's a terrible place for all the nerves to go. They drove the nails through the carpal tunnel and through his feet. They basically would suffocate on the cross because they had to pull themselves up to get a breath of air and to exhale. When they finally wear out after days on the cross, usually they die. But Jesus was beat to death first, basically, before he would ever fall on the cross. Then he was nailed to the cross. And when it came to the time that it was finished, the sacrifice was made, he said, what? It is finished. And he deposited his spirit with the Father. All right. was the perfect, the perfect form of Trinity in Christianity. There is the perfect form of Trinity. And we even have that example in the Gospel of John going on. We see Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist, okay? John the Dipper. And we see Jesus standing there, we can see Jesus. We hear the Father from where speak. From heaven speak, He said, This is my son, in whom I am well pleased, hear, listen to him. All right? And then we see another epiphany. That's a display where we see God breaking into the human race and showing something. Every time we see this, there's a monument there, OK, of some sort. Now, what was this great, fantastic epiphany there? We see the Holy Spirit not a dove, but like a dove coming down with wings like a dove and lighting upon him. So here we have the true Trinity. Just think about that. Now was Jesus body, spirit, and soul? Was he? Sure he was. Was all of the Godhead represented in the person of Jesus Christ? Yes. All that. We see the mind of God. We see the brilliance. When he was 12 years old, he was debating with those rascals there, the Pharisees and the scribes and the temple and all the doctors, the rabbis, and he was dumbfounding them because they were dealing with God. He was explaining his word to them because it was his word. Jesus said, he said, in my word. Whose word was it? His word. All right. Number 9, what are we told about those who are in Christ Jesus? Romans 8, verse 1. Are you there, young lady? 8 and 1. Okay. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, but who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. All right. There is no judgment or condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. All right. When God begins a good work and to save, will he forsake it? What did it say back there in Psalm 89 earlier? He said, Once I have put my name on it, once I have sworn by my name, my holy name, I will not forsake it there. Now, it's Philippians 1 and 6. What is Philippians 1 and 6, Kathy? Are you there? Philippians 1 and 6. I can see you're bucking that new Bible out. You're getting it broken. Yes. For I am confident of this very thing, that he who began his good work will be made perfect in and to the day of Jesus Christ. All right. That word there means perfectus, epipelesis. All right. Teleo is where we have the end result, the mature result. All right. Epi is compound. It makes that he will, God looks at you right now. as a finished product. God's not, He is not hampered by space and time, is He? Did God become flesh, John 1, 14, and the word, the Jehovah, flesh He began, became, it is, flesh He became. Did God become flesh so that He could understand our infirmities? or so that we could understand that He understood our impermanence. God is omniscient, isn't He? Do you think that He knew what it was going to be like walking around in human flesh and in the garbage pit of humanity over there for thirty-three and a half years? He knew that in eternity past before He ever created anything because He is omniscient. Why did God become acquainted with man in the person of Jesus Christ? So He could pay for our debt of sin. And so we can look back in the space of time and realize that God does know how we feel. Ever been tired? Was Jesus tired in life? Did he ever get hungry? Did he ever get distressed? The most distressed time that I see him, I mean, it was bad when he was being whipped by the cat and knife bill, but he felt no stress. That kind of ninetales would be eternity past before he ever created one day. Where was the most horrible time in his ministry? Where was his penance? Where did he sweat great drops of blood? Where? In the Garden of Gethsemane, where the weight of your sins and my sins and of the whole world was placed upon him. What did he say to Peter and the bunch that were around there? Couldn't you wait up with me for one hour while he was praying? That's where the wait was. That's where, you know, how many of you have ever been tortured mentally? By zombies? That's where the mental torture was. Do you think Jesus was tortured mentally there? Now it was all coming about. He knew what it was going to be like for the eternity of the past, but now in the space of time, it's the torture. All right. Number 11. What has the Lord done for those who are sanctified? Hebrews 10 and 14. Hebrews 10 and 14. Who's got that? Brother David, you got that right there? He has protected forever those who are being sanctified. All right. By one offering. God came into this world to make that offering. And by one offering, we are sanctified forever. All right? By one offering. Number 12. John says that one born of God does what? 1 John 5 and 4. 1 John 5 and 4. We're going to be there in this book off and on here. 1 John 5 and 4. Are you there, Brother David? It overcomes the world. Alright. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This victory does not overcome the world, our faith. Alright. Whoever is born of God, or that thing which is born of God, okay? That thing which is born of God overcomes the world. Why? Because Jesus overcomes the world. Now, let's look at this spirit here. Now when you're born, the spirit that you have in you was inherited from your father, okay? That spirit and that blood, okay? And that spirit and that blood gives you breathing life, but that breathing life is terminal. It's going to be ended one of these days. When you are born again, when you ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save your soul, remitting you of your sins, and calling upon Him, that spirit that was in you is exhaled. Simple illustration. It's exhaled, and the Spirit of God comes in you, and you're indwelt by the Spirit of God. That Spirit of God brands you, marks you, and identifies you forever from now on through eternity. Through eternity. Just think about that. You are marked from that time on through eternity to be God's child. To be His child. You're marked forever. Alright. Number 13. Does the Lord want his people to know that they have eternal life? 1 John 5 and 13. 1 John 5 and 13. And John has a little thicker speech he uses. He'll say, Metatothe, over and over again, these things. In the book of Revelation he says, Metatothe, these things, after these things, after these things, after these things. And then he says, he starts it off kind of like that right here at 1 John 5, verse 13. Are you there, young lady? 1 John 5, verse 13. Are you the one of you? Yes. I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. That you may know that you have eternal life. That you may know by experience that you have eternal life. These things have I written to you that you might know that you have eternal life. God wants you to know that you're saved. He wants you to know it. Number 14. Does the knowledge of being secure cause one to neglect, be neglectful or lazy or sacrificial in the cause of Christ? 2 Timothy 1 and 12. 2 Timothy 1 and 12. Brother Rex, are you over there? OK. All right. He is persuaded. Paul said that he was persuaded that God would keep him until that day. All right. He knew that. Number 15. What does the Lord do when a person believes? Ephesians 1 and 13. This is very beautiful. Ephesians 1 and 13. The book of Ephesians. The book of Ephesians actually isn't the book of Ephesians. What do you think about that? The book of Ephesians isn't the book of Ephesians. The book of Ephesians is a circular letter or a general epistle written to all the churches. It was in the early age, it was copied there at Ephesus and sent out. Many, many copies were sent out from Ephesus and it began to be known as the Ephesian letter. But if you look over there in your Bible studies and the science, it'll say in Ephesus was not in the early copies. It was a circular letter. So this was a letter to all of the churches. A letter from heaven to the churches. A letter from heaven to the churches. 1 in 13, what in the world does it say there? Are you there, young lady? Yes. Okay, that's a good one. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in him would you believe. You were sealed with a promise, Holy Spirit. Alright, you were sealed with this promissory note. You had a down payment. This is earnest money. This is what you call earnest money. Let's talk about earnest money. This is an old real estate term that goes way back when, all the way back in Abraham's time. When you were going to buy a property, you put a down payment on the property. Was the down payment ever refundable in earnest money? No. Couldn't get the money back. So you were sealed to be redeemed with earnest money. And what is the earnest money that God gives to each of the saints? His Holy Spirit. That's that Spirit right here, the one that marks you for salvation. That Spirit that marks you for salvation, that is your brand. That's your earmark. You're indelibly marked with God's Spirit because God becomes part of you. And it's not refundable. God can't have the Spirit back. It's non-refundable. That's the down payment. Non-refundable down payment. Okay, number 16, what is each believer given to assure him of completed redemption? 114. We don't have to go very far. All right, young lady, you are a good reader of loud. We're picking you up real good on the microphone. He is the down payment of our inheritance for his redemption of the possession to the praise of his glory. Alright, you are the non-refundable down payment. That's the way it should read. You are the non-refundable down payment. Or you have it in your person, in your entity forever. That you're going to be redeemed. Alright. Second Corinthians 1.22 and 5.5. Let's look at that also, because this is the same term used there. Second Corinthians 1.22 and 5.5. Are you there, Brother Rex? He has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts. He has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our, the word heart there, it means in your whole person, your whole entity, has a guarantee of redemption. All right? And 2 Corinthians 5 and 5, David, are you there? 2 Corinthians 5 and 5? Now he who has declared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. All right, has given us the Spirit as a guarantee of what? Complete redemption. Now God has not provided for your body right now. Here we are at Trinity. We have mind, soul, we have a body, and we have spirit. Now that spirit that's in us is going to be forever. That spirit never dies. Okay? Our soul and mind, it's not going to cease. It's not going to go out of existence. No one that ever becomes a living being from the time of conception onward ever goes out of existence. Period. Never. From that point in time on, you are eternal. You're either going to be with God or away from God, one or the other. Now, how about the body business? It disintegrates. It disintegrates. Now, like I said, the young people here, now you don't understand about this disintegrating business yet. But I can assure you that everybody over 50 and 60 has been acquainted with it a little bit. Unless you be like Wally, who never had a 6A until he was 83 years old, and he's lying. That's a lot of people out of existence. That's a blessing. These days they're making up for it, though, now after that open-heart surgery and all that. He's beginning to learn the lesson that we've been taught all the time. We do disintegrate. But God is going to change our bodies And they'll make him like unto the glorious body of his dear son. Alright? Number 17. What does the term earnest mean? That earnest money. That earnest down payment. That's a non-refundable down payment. Once God has started to work in you, once He has saved your soul, you are guaranteed to be with Him. Now, is that a good lesson tonight? On security of the believer? This should be a real joy for us. A lot of things in the world we see today is temporary. Temporary. But God has a tremendous reputation. He has never broken His word. Do you know that? He has never broken His word at all in history. There are a lot of people in history that were great men. How many of you ever heard of Wyatt Earp? Oh, you ever heard of Wyatt Earp? He was a real guy. I have a piece of paper at home that Virgil and Wyatt Earp were sheriffs of Esmeralda County, where I used to live in Nevada. They had a saloon and a restaurant and kind of a boarding house in Tonopah, Nevada, and they had one gold building out. And I got a spit suit that came out of his original box. White Earp's car. White Earp was a very famous man. He died, I believe it was, in 1929 in Hollywood, actually, is where he lived. There was an Earp building here in Bakersfield. Did you know that? There was an Earp building in Bakersfield. was a very famous man. He was a killer of men when it came time to do that. He was a sheriff. He was a lawman. He was a lawman up there in Esmeralda County. And when he was in Tonopah, Nevada, the gunfight at the OK Corral and everything, that was already over with. And here we are here in the late 1800s, and he came up to Tonopah, Nevada, him and his wife. They lived down by Fee Land and up in that area and down in Hollywood. And they would go up to Tonfall, Nevada. They had a gold and silver mine up there in Tonfall. And he had some partners. And Wyatt went with a covered wagon, not a covered wagon, but a buckboard in Tonfall to get some supplies. And then meanwhile some plane jumpers came out there and jumped his plane. And one of the guys were down in the hole there and they were having a shootout when he came back. And here Wyatt Earp was, he drove up here wanting one of his other friends in this buck horse. They got out, he said, take that shotgun and cover me. And he gets out there in the shooting and he goes up there and he said, what are you out here doing? They said, what business is it of yours? He said, that's my mind. He said, who do you think you are? He said, Wyatt Earp. They dove down in the hole. These pain jumpers did. And they were down there for several minutes and never said one word. Bunham finally stuck his head up and he said, Are you really Wyatt Earp? He said, Yeah, I wouldn't have said it otherwise. He goes back there and he talks with his flame delving partner. And this is history. This is real history up there. The guy gets back up there. Mr. Earp, can we leave? And he said, no. He said, get out there and put those markers back up and go to work. Now. And boy, they got out there and went to work. His reputation preceded him. That really happened. That's a real historical event that's come up long enough to talk about it even to this day. It's written in history books. God will never cut off history. and He'll never turn you loose. Once you are born again, you are born again from now on. You're God's child. All I can say is that live like one. If you're God's child and you don't want to live like God's child, you're going to get the rod. And we talked about that young lady. Read that verse over there a while ago. All right? That was in Psalm 89. All right? 27 through 37. If we're really God's child, we can't go the other way. Because He's going to get the rod after our south end when we're going north. You know the south end when you're going north? That's the other end. He will get us back in life. And He doesn't ever want you to do anything this bad for you. The only reason why He wants you to do His things His way is to save you from all of the suffering that you don't have to go through. Well, do you have any questions before I turn you loose on the world? Any questions? I'm glad you're taking part, you're a good reader. John, thank you for coming all the way from Chapter, and Rex, and Linda, and David, and all of you here tonight. Kathy, and I'm glad you're breaking in that new Bible. Can I just read the two verses again? Yes. I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principality, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything to meet or create things, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, the truth, and Jesus Christ, our Savior. That's something to read when you're dying. That's something to read to somebody when they're sick, when you're sick, when you're going through terrible trials. That will marry you out of this punitive memory, indelibly. Because it's really important, if you like, real important. And how many of you have ever had to trust in that? We've had to trust in it many times. Brother David, would you dismiss this prayer, please, brother? Dearly beloved Father, thank you for this day, for the many blessings we've received, and thank you for the words we've received from Christ again, and maybe to lay some of this knowledge we've been saying tonight to those who need, those who are sick and need with us to cast Jesus' name in their heart. Now if anybody ever asks you why you believe in security of the believer, go get your little book that offers the Bible and turn right over here to security of the believer. You've got all kinds of scriptures there to back you up. And then mark your Bible. Go back and mark it. Put that earnest money down there. Put it on the front. Put down payment and all that. That's really good. All right. Well, go out and do something eternal. I'm going to turn you loose on the world.