 if someone feels like I'm covering this too much. Well, and with all due respect, he says, isn't this the third one in the last week? Well, if I do it five times a week, I want you to understand the importance of this. My friend, John, I want you to understand the importance of this. The reason why this is important, Wayne, thank you by the way, I left off John 15, I'll cover that, but the reason why I'm doing this, as I said, maybe you didn't catch it in the beginning, but someone had said you don't answer or haven't answered some of these other verses. So I wanna do that and put it in one nice spot so where you can have all the different verses, whatever questions, whatever issue you have. Secondly, your salvation, John, is what this book is about. All of what we talk about, all of what we do, everything regarding that book that you read that I hope you hope, dear, is about your salvation. We don't know everything there is to know about God. We don't know everything that he's ever done or said, but what he has revealed to us is how we can be saved, all that we need for our salvation. It's why Paul said that all of these scriptures are inspired and so that we don't have to lack anything so we would grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord as it pertains to our salvation. Not a book on how to get rich, how to be physically fit, but it is a book on how we can be spiritually well and receive salvation. Thirdly, the last point in response to you. If I cover a particular topic too much, I apologize, but not really because you don't simply have to watch it. And I'm not trying to be mean or ugly, but there is a reason why this is being covered. Okay, so I don't wanna be mean or rude, but again, this is important. If you don't think so, that's fine. I'll tell you the reason why. Fourthly on the way out is that is because people who are believers are living as though they're not. And what I mean by that, they're living in a defeated life, thinking that they've done something, they feel bothered. There's always somebody in the chat that says wondering if they've done too much to lose their salvation. And we're gonna notice something in some of these questions that are coming up. So that being the case, let me go ahead and jump into them. So matter of fact, Wayne, since you brought it up, let me go ahead and go to that one since I don't have it written down. Let's go to John 15. And there's an issue with John 15. John 15, this was one of, John 15 does not state that you can lose your salvation. It's brought up a lot. As a matter of fact, John 15 was one of the passages that I used to think and I used to hold to to show that you can lose your salvation. Here's the reason why. As a matter of fact, let me switch these. I have the Greek and the English flipped. As I am the vine and my father's a vine dresser, every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me. And then he says, as a branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine. So neither can you unless you abide in me. So the issue is, do we have to abide? Do we have to remain? As a matter of fact, do we have to bear fruit? If a person who is a believer, if a person who's a Christian does not abide, does not bear fruit. According to this passage, this passage states that that person would be cut off and gathered together withered, gathered together and thrown into the fire. In other words, go to hell. Do I believe that's the case? Sure I do. I believe that if a person does not abide in the vine. If a branch does not abide in the vine. If a branch is not bearing fruit, that branch will be cut off. I agree with that. The issue is, does that describe a Christian? I believe that Christians will abide. We'll look at some of those later, but I wanna drop off, go back to John 15. Because as we read John 15, there's something important about John 15. And then it's gonna also solve one or two issues. In John 15, he says, I am the vine and you are the branches he who abides in me and I in him. He bears much fruit or part from me. You can do nothing. Now I wanna drop down to verse 16. He says, notice, he says, you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit and that your fruit would remain and whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you. So now what does it just say? He just stated that I have appointed you. In this word, I have appointed you to go and bear fruit. So the question is, and also to end to remain. So the question is, what did he just say? Yes, you must bear fruit. Yes, you must remain. But then he turns around and says, if you keep reading, you didn't choose me, but I chose you and I chose you. And look, that's what we have, what's called this henna clause that I appointed you in order. So his appointing, this is the Lord's appointing, is placing you in order that you should go and also fruit you would bear and also the fruit of yours would remain. So what does John 15 say? John 15 tells us that if you don't bear, if you don't remain, you'll be cut off, but I've appointed you to bear and to remain. Now, some are gonna say, well, that's only speaking of the disciples. If you think it's speaking of the disciples, that's fine. Then you should not, not you, but no one should bring that passage up. However, if it's not speaking of the disciples, if it's speaking kind of all inclusively, then we have the answer to John 15 in verse 16. Amen. So in that regard, you ought to remain and you ought to bear fruit. And he says that he will cause you to do just that. And we'll come to that passage in just a little bit. Now, let me go to another question. And guys, by the way, put a cue or question, put a cue so I can, so I can see if you do have a verse that I haven't gone over yet, but I've got several to go over. And so you might just wanna wait and you'll see that I'll probably get to the ones that you're thinking of. Let me move this. These are too crowded. Uh-oh. There it is. Okay, let's go to, you know what, let's go to 1 Timothy 119. This is one that comes up about faith being shipwrecked. So now, does 1 Timothy 119 teach that you can lose your salvation because it states about a person's faith, seemingly their faith being shipwrecked? So let's go to it. 1 Timothy 119. Matter of fact, let's go up a little bit further. Let's start in verse 18. This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you that by them you, that you fight the good fight, keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwrecked in regard to their faith. Now, this would seem to indicate that a person could shipwreck their faith. And what does that mean to shipwreck their faith? And what is meant by their faith? Well, a couple of things that we need to understand. One, let's go to the pastors and let's, what I wanna do is I wanna compare a couple of things. Notice who he brings up. He says, keeping the faith and a good conscience which some have rejected. Notice what he's talking about, rejected what? Rejected what? That's the key. I think that everyone needs to understand that when the Bible talks about someone departing or rejecting or falling away, it's always talking about the noun, the faith, the tenets of the faith, the teachings of the faith, not exactly having faith, believing, not the verb, but the faith. And we know that's what he's talking about here because we'll go back to it. He says, keeping the faith, having rejected, rejected what? Notice what's not being spoken of. It's not being spoken of that these people here are sinning. They have not shipwrecked themselves because of sin. They've shipwrecked themselves because of they have, because they have rejected the teachings. And notice the names that are brought up. Verse 20, among these are Himmeneus and Alexander whom I have handed over to Satan so that they will be taught not to blaspheme. Again, they are blaspheme going against a teaching. And what I wanna do is I wanna kinda compare, I wanna bring in a couple passages so he brings up a couple of names. He brings up Himmeneus and he brings up Alexander. So let's type in over here. Let's go to 2 Timothy. Uh-oh, did I spell it wrong? I don't know what it's doing. Give me a second up. Oh, I'm sorry, I gotta type in 2 Timothy. 2 Timothy 2, 17. And I want you to notice what he's speaking of. Notice here, he says, but avoid worldly and empty chatter for it will lead to further ungodliness and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Himmeneus and Pheletus, men who have gone astray from the truth. So we see that these people, they're not, their faith is in shipwreck because of sin. Their faith is shipwreck because they rejected the tenets of the faith. The other person that he brought up was Alexander. In 2 Timothy also, chapter four, we see what Alexander has done. Paul says in verse, let's start in verse 14, he says, Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds. Be on guard against him yourself for he what? He vigorously opposed our teaching. So 1 Timothy 1, 19, it's not them walking away from having faith because again, the Bible knows of no person. There's no example of someone who is believing and the Bible describes Christians as someone who is believing. The Bible knows of no one who has done that, but the Bible can speak of someone who will walk away from the core tenets, the core teachings of the faith, the faith, the noun. And that's just what happened with Alexander and Himinias. Amen. And let's see, let me go to the next one. This one, how about this one? Galatians 1, 6, Galatians 1, 6. Notice what he says in Galatians 1, 6. Some will say that Galatians 1, 6 teaches that you can lose your salvation, but does it? Let's look and see. Paul says, I'm amazed that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel. Again, we're gonna see that when people who seem to be deserting, or some may think that they are losing their salvation, notice what they are deserting. They are deserting from the faith, the tenets of the faith, not from believing. And here's another example. Him who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel. Not for sin. These people aren't being spoken of or wrong because of sin, because they're living a certain way. They're doing certain things. They've got to work for their salvation. No, that's not what Paul is bringing up. They have been, it's been introduced to them a different gospel. In this case, salvation by works. And so anyone who holds to that cannot be saved. As a matter of fact, while we're in Galatians, I wanna look up another passage in Galatians as well. Galatians 5-4, let's go there. And this is another passage that gets brought up often as to whether a person can fall away. And I want you to notice what Paul is saying, just like in chapter one, the same thing is happening here, verse four. He says, no, let's turn to verse three. He says, And I testify again, every man who receives circumcision that he is under the law, or under obligation to keep the whole law, just like we read in chapter one, that's the whole issue. These Judaizers have come in and they've caused people to believe that they can be saved by keeping the law. You and Gentile alike. And so verse four, notice what he says. Pay attention to the words. He says, you have been severed from Christ. Now, people will get a little bothered because they see this term, you have been severed as to say, we'll see the only way that you can be severed or have been cut off is because you were once there. Similarly, using the word falling away, that the only way you can fall away from something is first having been there. But that's not true. I use the example often about a football team early in the year who loses so many games that they have already fallen away from the playoffs, hadn't made it there yet, or you have been cut off from that side of the river, the bridge is out. You have been cut off, you've been severed. Does it mean that you were on the bridge or you were on the other side? No, it's just to denote that you have, you don't have a way to get there. That's the point there. And notice what he says. He says, he speaks about someone, a certain people. He says, you have been severed from Christ. Who? Who has been severed from Christ? Whoever it is you who are seeking to be justified by the law, you have fallen from grace. Anyone that is seeking to be saved by the law, anyone that is seeking to be saved by works. That's who he's speaking of. He's not speaking of anyone else. He's not speaking of you. He's not speaking of me or anyone else who knows that we are saved by faith. He's speaking of those people who want to be saved, who think they ought to be saved by doing works. And if you think you can be saved by works or probably even, maybe even, and here's the danger for some people, if you think you can be kept by works. Maybe Paul is speaking to some of you guys also. You have been cut off, you who try. And look what he says, you who are seeking to be justified. You who want to be justified by the law or by works. So Galatians one, nor does Galatians five, speak or teach that a person can lose their salvation. Amen. Alrighty, next one. Let's go to, here's a good one. People bring this up. Second Peter, let's go to second Peter. And I think there's two verses in second Peter. If I can push the button correctly. Second Peter, is it two? Yeah. Second Peter two, and then verse one, and then we'll also go to second Peter two, 20, chapter two verse 20 as well. So by the way, again, if you want me to cover a question or verse that I haven't gone over just yet, put a cue or question, I'll reexamine them at the end and then we'll go over them again. But also, let me just say this as well. Terry, thank you so much for the, for the two, I'll cover that as well. Also Wayne, thank you as well. And sure, and Sharice, I've marked your question. So I'll get yours in just a little bit. So that being stated guys, I will get to those other questions in just a little bit. Let's go to second Peter two, one, but false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Now I want you to notice a couple of things. Maybe you all, hopefully you all are seeing some, some little themes here. Hope, hopefully, maybe that's the case. I hope so. That is this. A lot of the passages that are brought up are brought up speaking about someone leaving the teachings, the tenets of the faith, the core essentials, what we believe. In other words, you can't be a Christian if you believe that Jesus is actually Muhammad in disguise. You can't be a Christian if you believe that all you have to do is stand on one leg and hop around like a bunny. Something that's other than what the scriptures teach. In other words, you cannot have your own gospel. You cannot come up or formulate your own way of salvation, nor can you forget or depart from what the Bible teaches. And we see that. So what does he say here in second Peter? He says, but false prophets arose, also arose among the people. Which people is he speaking of? Who do you think Peter has in mind when he says they also past tense arose amongst the people, the Jews? We've been told that. We know it's gonna happen. Now Peter is, now this is kind of, this letter is in general, but Peter still always has an eye and ear towards Jews. But this is also kind of all-inclusive. So he says, just as there will also be false teachers among you. And what will the false teachers do? They will teach something different. How do we know so? Cause he says, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies. Now, where people think that these people were safe because it uses this word right here, who were bringing swift destruction upon themselves, these people who were bought by the master. But now here's the question though. Does that necessarily mean that they were saved? No, it does not. How do I know? Well, there are other passages that let us know that there are people who have been bought by the Lord. As a matter of fact, let me think of some of these passages. If I can remember, matter of fact, hold on, let me see. I put my notes for that one over here. So let me see if I can remember this particular passage off top of my head. Nope, I can't remember what I believe it is. If I can remember lower. Oh, Deuteronomy, I'm sorry. Deuteronomy, I think it's 32 and five. I think, let me make sure. Let me make sure. Matter of fact, I know what I can do. I, let me fix, let me do this. There it is. I'm sorry. I was correct, 32, five. So now let's look at the passage. He is speaking of Israel. We all would agree that God has taken measures to bring them out. And there's something that he always says about them, not meaning or implying that they are saved. Notice what he says. He says in 32 five, he says, they have acted corruptly towards him. They are not his children because of their defect, but are a perverse and crooked generation. Verse six, do you thus repay the Lord? Oh foolish and unwise people. Is he not your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you? Now, what is he saying? He's not saying that these people are saved, that they were all believers, or that they were ever believers. Matter of fact, he has called them a foolish, a stiff neck. As a matter of fact, he's called them treacherous. He's called them unfaithful. He said that they have no faith. So he's not saying they once believed and then stopped. No, he's saying, especially them as a nation, are there some inside of Israel who will go on to be saved? Sure, but he's speaking holistically of them. And he says, so this term about those who once bought, he, all he's speaking of is what God has done for them, one, bringing them out and making a way for them. But he's not saying that he has purchased their salvation. Amen. Now, let me go to second Timothy. It's not second to the, where are we at? Second Peter, I'm sorry. Second Peter chapter two, verse 20. Let's start in speaking of these same people, by the way. Speaking of these same people, notice what he says. He says that these people, they are springs without water and misdriven by storm for whom the black darkness has been reserved. For speaking out of arrogant words of vanity, they entice by flesh and desires, by sensuality those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption. For by what a man is overcome by this, he is enslaved for if they have escaped defilement, the defilements of the world, by the knowledge, notice the word, the notice this theme that keeps popping up, the knowledge of the Lord and savior Jesus Christ, they again, they are again entangled in them and are overcome. The last state has become worse for them than the first. Notice what he says also, verse 21. For it would be better for them to not have known, to not have known the way of righteousness than having known it, than to turn away from the holy commandment, the holy commandment, these antelots, these teachings, the commandments of, that were handed to them. It has happened to them according to the true proverb. Ah, now we can see what they always have been. He says a dog returns to its own vomit. He does not call believers dogs. A dog returns to its own vomit and a sow after washing returns to its wallowing in the mire. So these are people who may have looked away, a certain way, but they have one left the teaching. It's their teaching and what were they always, they would have always been dogs. Evidence by the fact that they go back to their vomit, they've always been sows or pigs going back to their mire, they wallow in. So neither does 2 Peter, chapter two, verse one, say so, or 2 Peter, chapter two, verse 20, neither those indicate that a person who has believed previously has stopped believing and has lost their salvation. Amen. So I'm sorry, pushed the wrong button. Let's go to the next question. For some reason, John 10, 28. John 10, 20, 27, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna cover John 10, 27 because we've covered it enough. All John 10, 27 says that, I'm sorry, let me put on screen just for this moment. He says that my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. I really was hoping, I'm not trying to really go to John 10 today, at least 27, 28, but all it's simply saying is that my sheep, that's us, we know him, we know his voice and that what do we do as sheep, we follow him. He's just, he's given the indicative. He's telling them what sheep do, what all of his sheep do. As a matter of fact, he says that because they're his sheep, and I'm sorry, let me not do that. Let me not add a condition that's not there because others do the same thing. There is no condition that says that if you are his sheep, which by the way is implied, but if you follow him, there is no condition there that if you follow him, and if you hear his voice, there is no condition there. There's no condition to say that because of that, if you do that, then you'll be saved. No, as a matter of fact, what Jesus has said earlier that we will follow him. He speaks of the Jewish sheep, and he speaks of the Gentile sheep, and he says that those will follow him, and they will never turn away. So what you have to do, ladies and gentlemen, is you can't just take the verses that seem to say that you can lose your salvation and ignore the ones that seem to say that you cannot. It's okay to put them both together. I don't have a problem with the verses that people bring up that say that you can lose your salvation. Oftentimes, we're not even reading it in context because just like we just covered all of those passages, all of those passages that we talked about were about people who have left the tenets of the faith, their understanding, the beliefs. That's not one of these passages thus far has been someone who is not, I mean, who is in sin. Now, what happens personally, and we'll cover some of those also. It's not to say that the Bible doesn't address people that live in sin, but some of those passages, many of the passages that we talk about have to deal with someone walking away from the tenets of the faith, not believing the tenets or holding to the tenets of the faith, okay? And so, but Jesus says that another voice, they simply will not listen to. They will never, ever, ever. Jesus says that another voice, his sheep. So if you are a sheep today, he says you will never, never, ever, ever, ever listen or follow that voice, but you will turn and run away, okay? So let's go to the next one. And we may come back to John 10 because I think it might be pertinent. For some reason though, people think that, I don't know why, but there are those that believe that Hebrews chapter six, verse four through six, preaches or teaches that you can lose your salvation. So let's go to Hebrews six and verse, chapter six, verse four, starting verse four, he says, and by the way, this is speaking to people who have placed their faith in Christ. However, what is the book of Hebrews about? That's vitally important. I'll come to that in a second, but let's read this. And this we will do if God permits for in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance since they again crucified to themselves, the Son of God and put them to open chain. Now a couple of things, a couple of questions, a couple of points. One, you've got to get past all of the participle phrases, all of the participles that are there. And so you see for in the case of those who have once been enlightened. And then here comes some commas that if you just go ahead and move past the commas, you can get to the whole point for in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift, if verse six and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again. So the point is, it is impossible, impossible according to the passage, impossible. So if you are those that teach that you can lose your salvation, then he's saying it's impossible for you to get it back. The issue is, what is he stating in the entirety of the book? What is the book of Hebrews about? Who is it written to? Now, because it's written to Jews who have placed their faith in Christ, that doesn't mean that we can't glean anything from it at all either, we can't. But the primary audience are these Jewish believers, which is why the book is called to the book of the book, to the Hebrews. The reason for that is because in this book he addresses, the writer is addressing what is like being a Jewish believer now in Christ. Because he continually goes over different aspects of Judaism that we as Gentiles wouldn't know about unless we read it in the book. If you don't grow up in Judaism or didn't grow up in Judaism, you would not know what he's speaking of. But he covers issues regarding the law and how there's this new covenant for Israel. He covers how they have a new high priest. And the whole point that he's speaking of is one, all the elements of atonement are met here, but met greater. One, there's a high priest, but there's a better high priest, namely Jesus. One who does not have to atone for his own sins before he makes an obsession for us. Secondly, there's a scapegoat, not like the old covenant scapegoat, but in this case, Jesus is the lamb who takes away the sins of the world. And then third, he is the sacrificial offering. And then if you read further from chapter six, seven, eight, nine, and 10, and we'll go to Hebrews chapter 10 in just a second. But there you'll notice that he speaks about how his blood pays the debt even more so than the other. And if the debt has been paid, then there is no longer a need for a debt to be paid again. There is no longer any sin issue. If the debt is paid, then the debt is not owed. That's his point. And so his point is, if you think, he's speaking hypothetically, and we know so because if we keep reading through chapters six and seven, eight, nine, and 10, that if you were to be, if you're able to fall away, you cannot come back. What he's speaking of, if you reject what he's done, and you were to fall away, it's impossible to come back. Why? What's gonna bring you back in the first place? The same thing that brought you to the first place, what's gonna bring you back again? Well, his death, he's not gonna die again. Well, well, wait a second. I have faith in the previous atonement. That's not the way atonement works, ladies and gentlemen. Under the rules or under the condition of atonement, go back and read the Old Testament. The way this would work is the atonement for this year was good for this year. You couldn't go back the following year. You couldn't next year say, you know what? I placed my faith. I humbled myself last year. So was good this year. No, there has to be another atonement, which is why he would give it, as a matter of fact, the writer says, year after year after year, but in this case, it was done once. And so if you have to, if you rejected that atonement, there's not a second one or a third one or another one coming. That's his point. So his point is, if you could lose it, if you could fall away, then you can't. But he goes on to comfort them and tells them, basically take heart, it will not happen. Now that being the case, let's go to Hebrews 10, verse 26. And in this particular passage, this is a passage that I actually struggled with a little bit, not because of, I thought or wondered if you can lose your salvation. That was never the case for me. I wondered, does this passage lead me to believe? I, as a matter of fact, I struggled with it publicly with you guys. That is this speaking that anyone who doubts the efficiency and effectiveness of his blood are these people in danger of salvation being lost? My question is, is it the folks that think that they can lose their salvation? Are they doing what this passage is bringing up? Notice what he says. Now, by the way, it starts off with four, the post-positive gar in the Greek. So it starts off with four, four, four what? Well, we'll come back to this later. A minute and a half time and do it today, but we'll come back to this later date, but understand, understand if you go on sinning is brought about after some minutes. Why he says four, if we go on willingly sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there are no longer remaining sacrifices. What is he saying? If after receiving this, you shun it, you reject it, much the same way that others rejected himmeneus and Alexander, philetus, that other people that Paul brought up earlier in the New Testament, if you reject that teaching, there is no sacrifice for your sin. That's it. There is no other sacrifice. There can be no other sacrifice. This is it. As Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you reject that, then that's it for you. And so if you willing after knowing this and you reject it and you go on sinning, there is no sacrifice for sin, but a terrifying expectation of judgment. Now take this to what it's saying, if you reject this and you go on willfully sinning, notice what he says again. This is much like what he says in Hebrews 6. There no longer remains a sacrifice for sin. So you can take it one or two ways. Both ways foreclose their position. One, he's saying, and this is the way I think he's saying, that there is no other sacrifice left for you. Or you could take it that he's saying that if you go on doing so, well then you can't be saved after that. There's only two logical conclusions that you can take from this. There's only two ways that you can read this, that if you go on sinning after knowing the truth, then there is no longer, there no longer remains. There is no sacrifice for sin. Or the way that I think this is saying is that because this is under the way that the Jewish atonement is set up, that if there's this atonement set up, there's a sacrifice for sin, you reject that, well there's nothing else for you. But now notice what he says, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Anyone who sets aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severe punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified and has insulted the spirit of grace. And so here we've got this blood that's given for you and you possibly, I don't hold that view anymore where you don't feel as though it's effective. Is that what he's saying? No, but I think it's still the same rejecting what was done, there's nothing else for you. He says, verse 30, for we know him who says that vengeance is mine and I will pay, and again the Lord will judge his people. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of a living God. Now I want you to notice what he says though as he smiles this all up. As we go to verse 39, notice what he says, he says, but we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. So what does he say? That's not you, cheer up. That's not you, you are not of those who shrink back to destruction. What you are are those who have this faith to the preserving of the soul. Amen, so this is not speaking that and to get further clarification, all we have to do is just go back a few verses earlier or a few chapters, chapters eight, chapter nine and chapter 10. If you're gonna bring up chapter 10, 26, you gotta bring up the earlier parts of Hebrews chapter 10 as well, as well as Hebrews chapter nine, as well as Hebrews chapter eight. As a matter of fact, let me read a few passages in Hebrews chapter 10. Let's start in verse nine. He says, behold, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this we will have been sanctified. So who's he speaking to? He's saying by this we will have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. How many times? Once for all. Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. So think about this. How we read Hebrews is to say that these sacrifices can never take away sins, the old sacrifice. But this sacrifice does take away sin. Are we to say it takes away sin momentarily or as long as we're doing good, as long as we are obeying the Lord? Well, if that's the case, that's exactly what the old sacrifices did. The old sacrifices were good enough. And then if you never committed another sin after that, if you live godly, if you never disobeyed the Lord, if you had no need for any sort of payment for your sin, well, then you're fine, but you're not. So those sacrifices are required yearly. As a matter of fact, as often as you would sin because there were other sacrifices that you would also have access to. But he says he compares those sacrifices with what Jesus has done. He says those sacrifices can never take away sin but having offered one sacrifice for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God. So his sacrifice does take away sins and it's not temporarily like the old sacrifices do. His sacrifice takes away sins permanently. Verse 14, for by one offering, look what he says, he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. So those, and by the way, this is a present middle part of simple. So this is kind of ongoing. So those who are being sanctified, he says those of us who are being sanctified, he says you have been perfected. This is the perfect 10. So this is a past action. So therefore, by the time you get to verse 26, you need to have understood all that was said previously verses 25 and before. So does 26 preach that you can lose your salvation? Absolutely not. If it does, it will go against everything that he spoke of in the earlier parts of chapter 10 and all of nine and eight and seven and six. Amen. Let me click that. The federal says I do violence to the Levitical priests with parallels. I would love for you one day to tell me how so. Oh, okay. Let me answer that, Cherise. Matthew, this also had been brought up too. So if you forgive others, their transgressions, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your father will not forgive your transgressions. Well, here's the question. Who are these people? Is it possible, is it possible that these people, if you got a question, just put a cube beside it. I'll come to your question guys in a second. Or I would just wait just a minute and then I will come to your questions after I go through these. But who is Jesus speaking of? Is he speaking of believers? Is he speaking of non-believers? Is he speaking of anybody? Well, on this, let's just make sure that we weigh this with everything else that he says. If a person is a believer, if you have faith in Christ, what does the Bible teach us? The Bible tells us that, you're right, the Bible tells us that those people who are believers in Christ, they are a new creature. Their hearts have been changed. They have a new disposition and a new disposition towards sin. So therefore, here's a person with a brand new heart that the Lord has regenerated. He now lives in them. That person is a person who will not hold grudges. These are people who will not be unforgiving. Now does that mean they will be forgiving immediately? Well, no. If someone were to slap you across the face, if someone were to do something to you right now, would you forgive them immediately? No, that's not likely. Some will, some will, some will not. Dependent on how egregious it is, depending on how you felt. There's a lot of different circumstances. You might not forgive them at this one, but there are some that will come back after a while and then turn around and forgive the person. Eventually the Lord will give you this ability to forgive. Amen. Okay. And I'll just see you guys' question, guys, but I, and some of your questions that you're asking, I will, I'm actually gonna cover they're on the slate to be covered. So let me go to this one. Let's go to James 519. James 519 was one of the passages that I used to struggle with. I used to think that James 519 was teaching that a person could stray away. Notice what it says, James 519, brethren, if any among you strays away from the truth and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns the center from the errors of his ways will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. Now, a couple of things. I struggled with this until I actually found someone, actually I went to someone who actually knew the Greek, but it wasn't the Greek that settled it, but it was the Greek that confirmed it. Notice what he says, my brethren, now you notice it in the English, if any among you strays away from the truth and turns him back. Now it seems to say though, let the one know that who turns the center from the error of his ways will save his soul from death. So this is talking about someone, this is talking about someone not being saved. This is salvation on the line here, right? Because it says save their soul from death. I asked a person and he said, well, no, this is talking about physical death. This isn't talking about a believer. No, this is talking about someone's soul being saved from death and will cover a multitude of sins. So this is clearly speaking about salvation, but notice what he says. He says he calls the person a sinner. This person is called a sinner. The adjective that is used there is a sinner. In the Bible, believers are not called sinners. That's one indication that's something we ought to look at, but then also notice what he says, my brethren. People say, well, wait a second, he's calling them brethren. He absolutely does. But is he talking about brethren walking away or straying away? No, he says, brethren, if any among you, all of your English versions say that, if any among you. The way that you would likely say this, and certainly in the Greek you would say this, if any of you, what was the adding among do? Well, it changes the focus. The focus goes from not you, but someone among you. For example, as we see every Sunday in churches or when we go around a bunch of professed believers, the issue is this. When are you ever around a multitude of believers and you are 100% sure that all of them are saved? What do you do if someone is not saved? What do you do if someone who says they're saved? And they're like Alexander or Felidas or they're like the brother who is sleeping with his father's wife. He says, well, I should say the brother who was sleeping with his father's wife. Paul said to get rid of him, but in this case he says the one who turns away or strays away, go back and get him. He says, go back and by the way, let you know the one that goes and do it, the brethren, that the person that you're going to get is a sinner. Now someone will say, and I've heard this data before, then wait a second, Corey, this eontis in the Greek, eontis anhamun, which is if any among you, that's also used a few verses earlier. And this part does not, could not mean believers, I'm people amongst the believers. It means the believers also, where do they get that? Well, because when they go to chapter five earlier in verse 13, it's used also. And guess what, ladies and gentlemen, it's used the exact same way. It's speaking of those who are among them. The problem is it's not speaking of what a lot of folks think it's speaking of. How do I know? Because if that's the case, then we have a severe problem. James 513, if any among you, and also the same phrase, tees anhamun, if someone anhamun, someone among you is suffering. Now, we have tended in many cases to take this as a physical suffering. And I've covered this before. I may just end up leaving a link to it in the descriptions to the video about James 513 to show that this is not speaking about a physical suffering, it's speaking of a spiritual suffering. The word that's used here is used in other cases to signify physical and spiritual. So how do you know? Well, a couple of ways we can know. Then he must pray. Anyone, is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. Is any among you, same word again, tees among you, is if anyone among you, now by the way, the word anyone is just whomever. That's all inclusive. But among you would be the ones who I would say is not the believer. If anyone among you is sick, and this word sick is also used guys for a spiritual sickness, their spirit is the issue. Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sin, they will be forgiven. Wait a second. Why does the issue of sin come up if this is about being healed of a sickness? Because there were other times where the person had a sickness in other parts of the Bible and sin was, you bring up sin, but sin or not being in sin was not the reason why they were a healed. In this case, he's speaking of a spiritual issue. How do I know? Because he says the Lord will raise him up and if he's committed sins, question. He will do that, but have we ever prayed us Holy Ghost-filled people? Have we ever prayed for someone to be physically healed? And what happens? Let's just be honest. Most cases when we pray for someone to be healed because we encounter people all the time who are sick. What percentage would you say of those people that you prayed for to be healed, got healed? And I mean, instantaneously. Not a lot. Well, that would mean that this passage isn't telling the truth. Well, it is if the passage is speaking spiritually speaking. And so spiritually speaking, he's talking to the brethren. And if any among you brethren, spiritually speaking is suffering. Then you pray this prayer of faith and the Lord will raise him up and forgive his sins. Because what's connected to this is sins. And so the reason why I'm bringing this up is because the same word is used and Hamun is the same wording that's used in James 519. Eonti's Hamun, which is if any among you. It's not speaking to the believers. It's speaking to those amongst the believers. And what do we see all throughout the New Testament? Believers warning and told to warn non-believers. Paul warns people to make sure that they have their faith. Jesus does so. Peter does so. We're constantly warned to make sure that you are a believer. Make sure that everything is okay with you. Make sure that you have Christ. That's the point with James 519. Amen. Alrighty. So thus far, guys, I have covered 1st Timothy 119. I'm sorry, I've covered John 15. I've covered Matthew 16. I've covered 1st Timothy 119. I've covered Galatians 1, 6, and Galatians 5, 4. I've covered 2nd Peter 1. I'm sorry, 2nd Peter 2 verse 1, 2nd Peter 2 verse 20. I've covered John 10, 27, Hebrews 6, 4, Hebrews 10, 26, and James 519. Let me go to Hebrews 2 and then Hebrews 3 as well. And then I will go to Romans 11. Hebrews 2 is similar to verses 3 as well. Remember, these people, these Jews want to adhere to Judaism. The problem with Jews is, or the nation as a whole, is they were, as the prophets called them, whereas God called them through the prophets, treacherous, faithless, wicked. Chapter 2 verse 1 of Hebrews says, For this reason we must pay close attention to what we have heard and not drift away from it. Remember what we said before? Oftentimes when we see this issue of someone losing their salvation potentially, the passages that are brought up is not about them losing it or drifting away because of sin. In this case, it's about something that they heard, knowledge, understanding. They drift away from the faith, the tenets of it. Anybody can believe for a moment or understand this is what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that Jesus died on the cross for me. The Bible teaches all in that I needed to die, but he died in my place and God accepted his sacrifice. And so because of that, if I place my faith in him, then I'll be safe. There are a lot of people that believe the story or that's what the Bible teaches. And there were some growing up that said, you know what, I think I believe that, but then as they grew up, I reject that. Now I went to church because my mother sent me, my father sent me, what have you? But now I think it's all fairytale, the Bart Ehrman's of the world. They have rejected the faith, not ever having faith, but rejected the faith. And Hebrews 2-1 is saying the same thing, pay closer attention to what we have heard. This is from the Greek word, achu-o. So what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it, drift away from what? What you have heard. Amen. So let's also go to Hebrews 3. This is one that comes up. Take care, brethren, that there be in you or not be in you, any of you, an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. Hmm, does that mean that a person can believe and then stop believing? No, it's not what it says. It says a heart that is, as it says, apasthias, which is they don't believe. Make sure that you're a person that believes, instead of a person that doesn't believe, that person that falls away, that it hears the word apasthani, which is to place yourself, this is the word means to place yourself or to revolt away from the living God. Make sure that that's not you. That's all Paul. That's all the writer of Hebrews the same. Make sure that is not you. What has always been the case, the same thing all throughout Scripture, where they've been with the nation of Israel, where they've been with the church after the cross, make sure that you believe in what the Lord has done. Make sure that it's not you that doesn't have a heart that doesn't believe. Amen. So no, because the question is, who's had these people ever believed? We see this term falls away and what we do, we tend to ascribe how we would see it in English or how we would think that we would see it. Now all folks that speak English don't see it this way, but he's never saying that you ever were of him. Okay, make sure that that's not you. In other words, believe. And then he goes on to talk about them believing. Amen. Oh, this is good. Let's go to, here's one. Romans 11. Similar to Hebrews, I would say Romans 11. Okay. In Romans 11, let's start in verse 19. So you will say that branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in, verse 20. Quite right. They were broken off this word here on believe. The same Greek word that's used in Hebrews for they're not believing. They didn't believe. You cannot take this. You should not take this to say that they used to believe. It doesn't say that they stopped. Where is the passage in the Bible? There is none, by the way. That says a person stopped believing. There is none. But these people had no faith. Think about Israel, because he's speaking about Israel here. Israel, these branches, these Jewish branches were broken off. Why? Because they did not believe. That's always been their case. What God's promise was that he's gonna cause them to believe. He's gonna, not all of them, but he's gonna cause them to believe how by making them jealous. And then they will, at some point in time, the whole prophecy of Isaiah 53, then they will believe. But a partial hardening has come upon them and a spirit of stupor. And that hardening has come until the fullness of the Gentiles. So he says that, but you stand by your faith, do not be conceited, but fear, for if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Behold the kindness and severity of God to those who fail to burden them. How can a person, how can a person, because as Paul's saying here in verse 22, behold, I'm sorry, verse 21, he will not spare you either. Is he threatening them with being cut off? Well, if you are of the same that they are. Meaning, look, notice what he says. He says, and they also, if they do not continue, if they do not continue in their unbelief, meaning if they don't keep being unbelievers, we'll be grafted in, for God is able to graft them again. Meaning that he's gonna graft them back in because he's gonna cause them to be believers. So notice, he says, for if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and we're grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? Well, what about us? Is it possible? Is it possible? Possible that we, ourselves, could be cut off. The only way that a believer, a professed believer would be the same as those others who thought they were in those Jews. He says, make sure that your righteousness does not surpass those, make sure, I'm sorry. Jesus says, make sure that your righteousness surpasses those of the scribes and the Pharisees. Well, what was the scribes and the Pharisees? The scribes and the Pharisees felt that they got in because they were Jew. They felt privileged, they felt they had this. Now there are those also who feel the same way, who are not Jewish, but who are Gentile believers, who feel the same way. Don't have that same sort of arrogance that the Jews have because what you will indicate is that you are not saved. Why do I say so? Because we cannot forget, ladies and gentlemen, what he has told us about believers. So let's just remember what he has said. Someone says, Cor, you are wrong. You can say I'm wrong, but give me a verse. Give me a verse. We are adults, so you gotta say why a person is wrong. Jesus said, God said, remember this, because as I'm going through all of these verses, I only have one or two or three. There's more than one or two or three, but I've got more than enough verses, but still no one answers. No one has still answered John 10, 4, and 5. No one has ever answered John 10, 27, 28 in the Greek. No one has ever answered Jeremiah 32, 39, and 40. No one has ever answered Ezekiel 36, 25 through 28. Haven't answered that. Those are true too. So if a person wants to say that these verses here prove that you can lose it, then what do these other verses also prove? What does Ezekiel 36 prove? What does Ezekiel prove? Remember this, keep this in light of your scriptures. Let's go to Ezekiel, and I'm still going to make my way through to get you guys questions. How do you say that you will lose it, or you can walk away when he says two verses in the Old Testament? I will sprinkle clean water on you and you'll be clean. He says, you'll be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you and will remove the heart of stone from you. He says, verse 27, I will put my spirit within you and how do you lose your salvation? If he says, I will cause you to walk in my statues and you will be careful to observe my ordinances, keep that in mind when you say this passage over here proves that you can walk away. But then if you can walk away, then we've got a glaring contradiction in the scriptures. Why do I say so? Because in Jeremiah 32, 39, I will give them one heart just like he's always prophesied to do. I will give them one heart and we cover this ad nauseum over and over and over again. At some point in time, somebody who believes you can lose it is going to at some point in time act like there's another part of the Bible and address these passages. It says, I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me, how long? Always. Always for their own good and for the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them so he says I will not turn away from them and I will put the fear in me so that they will not turn away from me. So you've got to overcome that gigantic mountain of him saying I won't turn away from them and they won't turn away from me when they have the spirit in me. Who has the spirit of God in them? Every single person, according to Paul that has placed their faith in Christ because they have been baptized every believer, the one from one second in the faith and one from one decade or 20 decades in the faith. And this regeneration that precedes that or causes that is also work of God. So you've got some humps to get over. Now, if you think I'm wrong about the interpretation which is possible. It's possible and it's fine. I could be wrong about the interpretation or my explanation of these passages. But at some point, some time before you leave this earth answer those passages. Pick one. Ezekiel 36, Jeremiah 32, John 10, 28. And by the way, don't add to the text as we covered if there's no if, no condition in John 10 at all. Let's go to the next passages. Let's go to, oh, let's go to Revelation two. Revelation two, this is when it comes up. Revelation two, I'm not going to read all. Someone put Revelation two. Someone wanted me to read all of verses one through 29. I'm not reading that. A few of chapter two. To the angel of the church in Ephesus, right. The one who holds the seven stars in right hand and the one who walks among the seven golden lamb stands. So now we're talking about the angel, that's the messenger or the pastor, the elder, the preacher of the house. The lamb stand is the actual church itself. How do we know so because it tells us that earlier in verse 20, chapter one. I know your deeds. Notice what he's saying though. Notice what he's saying. I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance. So what did he just say? He's literally saying, I know that you are persevering. I know your perseverance. It's going to be difficult to come to any part of this verse and say that these people don't persevere. They don't keep it. They don't keep going, keep moving. He just says, I know your perseverance. And that you cannot tolerate evil men and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and they are not. And you found them to be false. And you have pers, and you have, he says again, you have perseverance and have endured again for my name's sake and have not grown weary. These aren't people that are losing it. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore remember from where you have fallen, meaning where you have left. It's not mean that they lost their salvation. You see the word fallen? They've fallen out of salvation. He just said that they have endured. He just said they've endured. So he says, repent and do the deed. I'm sorry, repent and do the deed you did at first or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent. Well, here's the question. Here's the question. Someone, listen, I'm not responding to you only. Someone will say though, if you remove the lampstand, then you're not saved. Well, what is a lampstand? The lampstand is a church, the actual local church that they're in. What happens and what has happened throughout history are churches established and that church is no more. The church that we're speaking of, were there other churches planted after that? May have been, probably so maybe, but that's all he's speaking of. This is not salvation. We know so because what does he say in chapter, let me go to it, chapter 120, if I can get back over to this screen. As for the mystery of the seven stars, which you saw in my right hand in the seven golden lampstand, the seven stars are the angels or the messengers of the seven churches. And the seven lampstands are the seven churches. Those are the church itself, okay? Not their individual salvation. So chapter two of revelation does not speak of a person losing their salvation. Amen. Okay. Matthew chapter seven, 21. Someone wanted me to underline, he says that I won't go to it, but I'll just go ahead and quote it. Does Matthew seven, 21, 22 and 23 state that you can lose your salvation? Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, should enter the kingdom of heaven. Which one is a good hint that the person that he's speaking of, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, that everyone who says so is not a Christian, which we already know, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my father who was in heaven, the one that's doing it. So they'll say, well, you have to be doing it. You have to be doing it. But then he says, at the end, they've done all these different things. He says, I'll declare to them, I never knew you who practiced lawlessness. So they practice lawlessness, but what's the point? I never knew you. The I never knew you part nails it. They were never known by God. They may have thought they were. There are plenty of people who thought they were. There are plenty of people who believed, who believed that they were once saved. But if Jesus says, I never knew you, well, then guess what you never worked. You were never saved because you were never known by God. Amen. First Timothy four, one. I won't spend too much time on this because I know I actually do have a video on this, but therefore, I'm sorry, wrong passage. Does first Timothy four, one show that you can lose your salvation? Well, it says, the spirit is what he says that in latter time, some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and Dr. the demon again. We know he's speaking. We know he's speaking about the faith. Again, let's put on the screen. Let's notice what he says. Fall away from the faith. It's a noun, the faith taste, pisteos, which is the faith, not falling away from having faith, from believing, no, from the faith. And we know he's talking about the sentence of the faith, the doctrine, because he says paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. So what are they doing? They are bringing about these different teachings. First, Timothy four, one does not teach that you can lose your salvation. It teaches that these people are going to bring about these destructive doctrines that are going to call people to depart, move away from the actual truth. Thereby never being saved in the first place. You cannot be saved if you don't understand the truth of salvation. What the gospel preaches, if you have a different gospel, such as what we see in Galatians, you cannot be saved. You're trying to be saved by some other means other than by faith in Christ, which is the remedy for salvation. Again, he says they are falling away from the faith, not from having faith. And what are they doing? They're listening to different teachings. Amen, moving right along. We covered Romans 11. John 5.24, I don't know why a person brings this up, but someone asked, does John 5.24 show that you can lose your salvation? John 5.24 does not teach that you can lose your salvation. Matter of fact, quite the contrary, it teaches the opposite. John 5.24 says this, truly, truly I say to you that he who hears my voice, the one that's hearing my word and the one that's believing in. How does the Bible describe us as believers? The believing ones that believes him who sent me has eternal life. That person, it is present tense. They have eternal life right now. They have life going into the eternity and does not come into judgment but has passed out of death. Notice he says they does not go to judgment. They will not be judged. They will not be judged, but this word right here, this Greek word, metababacon, it's a perfect tense for they have passed tense, I mean perfect tense, meaning they will not go to death. They will not suffer death, but go to life. So this passage teaches the exact opposite. If you have faith in Christ, this is a passage that you could hold on to to know that you are secure. Why? Because he says you have already, you have already passed, in the past you have passed judgment and you've gone into life. You won't come into judgment. You've passed death and will go into life. Amen. Okay, one last one and then I'm gonna take some of your questions that you said, that you put up. 1 Corinthians 9, 27. Does 1 Corinthians 9, 27 teach you to salvation? No, it does not. Let's go to it. It says, but this is Paul speaking, but I discipline my body and make it my slave so that after I preach to others, I myself will not be disqualified. And so some will have the natural tendency, I don't know if it should be natural, but the tendency to think that disqualified means that Paul is worried about losing his salvation. This word that's used here is the Greek word adachymus. And so it means to, it can mean to be disqualified, unappealing, unappeasing, failing, unacceptable, useful, or unuseful. The question is, does Paul think that he is in danger if he doesn't do what he's supposed to do to lose salvation? And remember what Paul's goal is. Paul is talking in 1 Corinthians 9 and 1 about his apostleship. And so Paul's goal is to bring us to Christ. These Gentile believers of Christ. That's what Paul's first focus is, trying to prove that he is an apostle. And he says, are you not my workmanship? Am I not your apostles? What Paul is trying to prove. And he goes here to verse 27, to show that he is doing everything he can to keep himself prepared, his body, mentally, all of that intact, so he can do just that. Otherwise, if he doesn't, he will be unuseful. Now, if you think that Paul is concerned about losing his salvation. Notice this word that's used here. Again, it's put it back on the screen. This word adachymus. Now I want to go to another passage, just a few pages later. I'm sorry, not a few pages later, but in another, the next letter that Paul sends to the church of Corinth. In 2 Corinthians 13, 15, let's go there. 2 Corinthians 13, is it 15 or five? Let's put 15 on. I think it's 15. Uh-oh, I need to at least spell it right. So 2 Corinthians 13, I think it's 15. If not, we'll move. No, it's 13, five. 13, there is no 15. 13, five. Yeah, there it is. No, I want you to know what Paul is saying. Paul says, test yourself to see if you are in the faith. Huh, okay. This is when Paul is warning of someone not being saved. Examine yourself, or do you not recognize this about yourself, that Jesus Christ is in you unless indeed you failed the test. What's the word here? The same Greek word, adachymus. But I trust, look what he says, I trust you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test. Look what he says. Because hate esmen uke esmen adachymus. So Paul says that we are not disqualified, or using the same word. Paul has just come back and said that that's not me. If you think that Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians 927 that he's trying to not be disqualified, Paul is saying, I'm not disqualified. I won't be. He says, that's what I am. I am qualified, that won't be me. So therefore, by the way, this is an example where sometimes the Greek does help. A lot of times it helps. In this case, it does. So know what that word is, and then how it's used. Amen. All right. Terry, by the way, again, thank you for the super chat. She says, here it says Matthew 1232. Okay, let's go there. Matthew 1232. Okay. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him either in this age or the age to come. What Terry's bringing up is what's called the unpardonable sin. Jesus has just done something before the people and the people, certain people are upset. They're bothered. They're not doubting that a miracle or a demon hadn't been cast out. They're not doubting that. They're just stating how it was done by. Their arms are folded. They have a sour face. Well, yeah, he did it. That was something miraculous. That was awesome. That was amazing. Yeah, I'll give you a hand clap, but you only did it by Satan. Well, the problem is they knew full well that it wasn't by Satan. How do I know? Because if we go to John three, Jesus is having a conversation with one of their colleagues. Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus. He says, this man, Nicodemus, came to him by night and says, Rabbi, we, who? The other Pharisees know that you have come from God as a teacher for no one can do these signs unless you come from God. So what did Nicodemus do? He's telling that they know, by the way, Jesus already knew himself, that they knew full well that he was of God and was doing this is by the power of God, not by the power of bells above. This was not some sort of Satanic a cooperation between the devil and Jesus to cast out demons. Cause he says, if the devil cast out demons by the devil, then he has a house that's divided. That cannot stand. But I'm casting out these demons by the power of God. They knew that and they still rejected it. Why? Because for them, it was ruining their fame. They were losing powers and they were losing money and power. And so they had concocted plans to get rid of him. He knew that and for you to know full well that it's Jesus. Now, some will say that it's highly unlikely and I might kind of fit in there that it's highly unlikely that you or anyone else could do what's described as far as this unpartable sin because it's to witness Jesus doing it, knowing full well who he is and the power that he's in. And then to deny that, well then there's no salvation for you because if you reject that, what are you gonna accept for salvation? And so that's not us. We don't have the ability, I don't think so to do that because even though we might see someone else say they've done something and we rejected or when we're not sure. Cause in many cases, not that we rejected, it's that I'm not sure about that. Can you help us? Can you talk to us? Because oftentimes those who do those things don't wanna have a conversation with someone who's gonna kind of hold what they're doing under scrutiny. And so it looks like the devil. It looks something satanic. It doesn't look like what's in the Bible. And they'll say, well, you have blasphemy of the Holy Spirit because this is the work of the Holy Spirit and you deny it. No, we're not denying the Holy Spirit. We're not even denying something that has occurred. We don't know if anything's occurred and we're also rejecting your statement without any sort of proof. So that's what that is. That's a good question though. As B-Boy says, I never knew you. Yeah, that's the same one in Matthew seven. Yeah, the ones that he told, if God says, if the Lord says, I never knew you, then I never knew you. Those who could never say, well, I used to have salvation. No, you didn't. No, you didn't. He says, bring me on one day. Federal, you can come on Friday. You can come on Friday. Amen, I'll be here in prime time on Friday. So if you want to come on on Friday, you can come on. Can a child willfully let the father's hand, let go of the father's hand, yes or no? We don't have an example of that. Cause again, what we have to do, what we absolutely have to do is remember everything else that he said. He says that we will never depart from him. We won't go after anybody else. Well, what about the passages where he says that there are these sheep that he goes after? Well, first of all, what hasn't happened, the cross hadn't happened. And then two, he's gonna tell us later on that his sheep won't do so. But notice if the sheep in the passage, the parable of the 99 sheep, what did Jesus do? Was the sheep lost? No, the sheep, he went out and got his sheep back, didn't he? He will not lose one. Remember, Jesus is the one making a statement. He's the one making the statement that I will not lose one. How do we take that to mean? When he says, I will not lose one. I will not lose any. And you shall call his name Jesus for he shall save his people, but only if they do right. That's not what the passage says. Because it's the same system that we had previous to the cross. So, all right, ladies and gentlemen, let me see, let me, let me scroll, I'm sorry, got the wrong thing on. Let me scroll and start marking some of you guys' questions, some of your verses. If you have a question, if you have a verse, put it in there, put a big gigantic cue, I will get to it. Let's see. Okay, Phillip, you've been asking, ask your question, Mr. Time to Save Souls, ask your question. Okay, one, I'll get that question. I think I already answered that with Nivellus, but I'll mark it anyway just in case. Matter of fact, I'll tell you what, you guys do me a favor. You guys, if I haven't, go ahead, if I haven't covered the verse that you wanted or you have a question, go ahead and put your question in again. That way I don't have to scroll all the way back up and look for it, okay? So, let me put some more of these. Okay, yeah, Nivellus, I've covered all those passages. One says Romans 839, can you explain that? I will go to Romans 839 right now. Okay, neither height nor death nor any created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. By the way, notice what he's saying. This whole issue about salvation is about, I mean, about eight, chapter eight and nine is about salvation, about us being saved. And it's gonna happen and there's, he's saying, this is a good verse, by the way. He's just saying, there's nothing that is going to be able to separate you from the love. He goes through a litany of things, goes through a laundry list of things and he says, nothing, absolutely nothing. This reminds me, by the way, this reminds me of me saying to my daughters or my grandchildren or my children, you don't have to worry, I'm gonna do this. And then they come back and worry. He says, nothing will separate you. Can you all name something that's not covered by what he said? Can anyone name something, put it in a category that's not covered by the categories that Paul goes through? Then he goes on to say, he says that it is Christ, it is God who justifies you. So if he justifies you, well then, who can bring a charge against you? What does that mean, what does it mean to be justified? It means to be declared right. You are declared right by none other than the Lord. So if he declares you right, then not even you yourself can declare you unright or not right. So that's the whole point. He goes through these scriptures to give us confidence, to give us comfort, just like he does in John 14. He says, do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many dwelling places. He says, if it were not so, I would not tell you. For I go to prepare a place for you. Notice what he says, and here's a condition. If the if is there, if I go and prepare a place for you, then I will, I will come back and receive you. Amen, that's comforting. Don't let someone say no, he's going to prepare a place, but he ain't coming back for you. Reject that. Now, again, the person that disagrees, please give me your passages. Is there, by the way, are there any passages thus far that I have not covered that you think shows you can lose your salvation or that someone else believes that you can lose your salvation? That's, by the way, that's a good point too. That's a good point, Brother Brimstone. Brother Brimstone. When we see it, how many times do we see saved in the past tense have been saved or in the present active participle? So saved or saving? And so if that's the case, if you have been saved and then at some point in time in the future you are not saved, then guess what, guess what the greatest lie told you was that you were saved, not what saved? Well, not really. You're saved, duh, but you got to get over here first. Well, then I'm not saved, duh, right? But that's a good point, very good point. Yeah, so if you can save your, lose your salvation, how many times can you get, can you lose it? And how many times can you get it back? The answer is zero, according to Hebrews, you can't. By the way, let me just say this. I just love it when people say, you're wrong. Guys, I mean, this is not nothing new. I save it, and I'll keep saying it. I'll keep saying it because I want better for my brothers and sisters. But if you're gonna say I'm wrong, tell me why. Tell me why, while I'm right now, I'm looking, I don't know if y'all realize that it's getting close to 2,000 comments have been submitted. Now, not all of them have been towards me. Sometimes you guys are talking to each other, but there's almost, so we'll get it over 2,000 comments. That's typical. It's a lot of comments, and that's on slow mode. So when you say I'm wrong, and you don't tell me, I might not see that comment again. So tell me right there, you're wrong because of X, Y, and Z. And then, oh, okay, let me mark it, and I'll come back to it. I see every day, of course you're wrong. You're this one. Okay, fine. Don't you love me, or at least love the Lord enough to tell me why I'm wrong and then bring me out of my error? That's what I would do. That's what I would say. Somebody's upset about that, but I don't know why you would be. If I saw that you were wrong, I'd tell you. I would tell you. So, by the way, might as well ask it, does anyone who believes, let me ask this question. Let me ask this question. I just wanna ask this question. All of you in the chats, is there anyone in the chats that believes you can lose your salvation? Just put a yes. If you believe you can't, a person can lose your salvation. If a person can be saved a day and not save some time in the future, put a yes in the chats. Not you guys, so no no's, only the yeses. I just wanna know, is there anyone that believes that you could forfeit, lose, whatever, walk away, fall away from your salvation? That's dangerous that you ask that I'm asking that question. And the same as you say yes, because I do have some questions for you. So I would love to know, is there anyone that believes that you could fall away, forfeit, lose? Whatever you wanna say. Is there anyone that believes you can lose your salvation? Or did y'all, did y'all block him or ban him or something that the guy could ask me to answer his question? Okay, I got melted us down too. I just, I have a question and you all would have to concede that I've answered your questions. If I haven't, I'm willing to answer it right now. And if I haven't answered perfectly enough, then I'll do it again. But my question is, I just wanna hear your response. Okay, I'll get that replayed with some, I'll do that. Perry says yes, okay. So all of you that says yes, that say yes. And those who will watch this video later and say yes. My question is, my question is, you're right, Gina. I'll get that in a second. I'll get that, matter of fact, we marked it. Gina, Gina Hart's poetry. Oh, you didn't block him? He just left. Time out for a second, time out for a second. This is, this is, let me drink some water. Let me drink some water. I think I do a good enough job. I might be wrong. You all helped me. The two hundred of you that's in the chat right now, you help me. I think, I think I do a good enough job of responding to people that wanna talk to me. Now I can't do it all the time, every time. But if you have a question, if you have a concern, or if you just don't like me and you wanna say something to me, I make myself available. I even, of recent time, have even put the link up. You don't have to email me to get it. I put the link up and you can just hop on. Anyone that hops on, I'll bring you on. So everybody on YouTube or in America or in the world that doesn't like me, you could've come on and made your point. Now, I'm gonna give back the energy that you give me back. Cheshamp said something to me. Now I realized this, I won't say who it's about, but it said that when I did a particular debate, you're just too nice. And I was, I wanna be deferential or whatever because I don't know the person. So I wanna be nice or whatever. But I'm just gonna be me. I'll be pleasant, but if you take it to 10, I'll take it to 10. If you take it to four, I'll find what we get for. But you literally have the ability to start making a video or making a comment. There's one lady, she's made, I don't know how many videos. And I said, listen, you can come on and talk to me. You can send me a question. Well, I don't wanna talk to you. Why do you keep tagging me? Which is fine, which is fine. It's this funny. I'm not, listen, I don't get angry about YouTube stuff. It is what it is. We are big boys, we're big girls. There are some people out there that bothers me. If I had here, I'd pull it out. When people on YouTube get bothered that someone else on YouTube or someone else in the world, disagree with them and may have even called them a name. Wow. Here, you can go in and come on and have a conversation. You could text me. You could, well, you can't text. So by the way, by the way, what's funny is a lot of the folks that have these issues, they literally have my phone number. So anyway. But yeah, so if you wanna come on, by the way, this Friday, you come on Friday, I'll put the link in there. And so when you wanna, hey, where I don't like you, I think you're this. You are bum, you're horrible, you're this, that. Really, wow, okay, fine. Now pray for me. But yeah, I did go over Galatians. If you want me to, Avana, I'll go over Galatians again for you in just a second. But let me answer these people who I asked earlier. If you believe you can lose your salvation. They say, there's those that say yes and there'll be those that come later and say that you can. So my question is, I'm not gonna even go to my, go to the passage in the New Testament. And this is where I'll go and answer Gina's question. In the Bible, God says that he will put his spirit in us. And so I want your explanation. He says that when he puts his spirit, not my spirit, not the LGBTQA2A2 spirit, not that spirit, not some strange spirit, but his spirit. When he puts his spirit in us, ladies and gentlemen, what did he say is gonna happen? When he says he puts his spirit in us, did he not say he's gonna cause us to walk in his teachings? And did he not say that he's gonna not turn away from us and that we won't turn away from him? Am I correct? In my understanding of the English. If that's the case, how do you guys who believe you can lose your salvation explain those passages? Because you have to deal with them at some point in time. You gotta deal with those passages. That's all I'm asking. Cause I might be reading it wrong. I might be looking it wrong. I might be understanding it wrong. Now I'll go to Ezekiel because, my dear friend, Gina says, she asks a question. Where is it? Gina asks a question. Where are you at, Gina? There you are, Gina. She says, Ezekiel 1824 makes this argument confusing. And it can be, it can be. But remember, and this is what we do over here. We want to, remember I said I have a literal, grammatical, historical, hermeneutic. So the literal part is easy to understand. That means that we read it literally until we can't. Until there's no reason for us to read it literally. It's impossible, okay? So when he says that he spoke with God face to face, well, it's not literally because God didn't literally have a face. But we understand the meaning even in a literal context. That's just human beings. Because there's no society ever in the history of mankind that ever had a non-literal way of speaking, ever. But oh, what the Bible does. That's what I mean by literal. That's the way you read. Grammatical, taking what the words say, the tenses, the cases, the clenches, all that stuff like that. But then the historical portion. There is a chronology to what's being stated. So in Ezekiel, he's speaking of Israel, but he's also going to show, speaking of what he's going to do with the world as well. But this is mainly regarding Israel. But notice what he says. He says in verse 24 of chapter 18 of Ezekiel, he says, but when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? Well, the obvious answer is going to be no. He cannot live. No, he's in trouble. You're out of here, bucko. As Opie Cunningham would say, bucko, you're out of here. If you were once righteous, excuse me. And as he says, turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, well, then does according to all the abomination that a wicked man does, will he live? You should be righteous. You turn away and start doing all sorts of stuff. No. Well, the problem with, and so if we look at who he's speaking of, who is he speaking of? Verse 25, yet you say the way of the Lord is not right. Here now, O house of Israel, is my way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right? So he's speaking collectively of Israel. But now, someone individually this applies to as well, you're not living right. You were in right standing. Now, go back to verse 24. He says, turns away from his righteousness. If a person is righteous under the Old Testament, in the Old Testament, under the Old Covenant, question, what made a person righteous in the first place under the Old Covenant? Does anyone know? What made a person righteous? Well, what made them righteous was that their sins were atoned for through these offerings, the day of atonement principally. And so they could be in right standing, but you're not in right standing forever because this was a yearly thing annually. And so therefore you had to keep doing it and keep doing it. So it's possible to be in right standing, go out and commit iniquity, live how you wanna live. Cause what you didn't have and you was always putting your heart. Live how you wanna live. Will you still be in right standing? No. Could you get back in right standing? Sure. Could you get back in right standing and then turn around and leave it? Yes, you could. What does that sound like? That sounds like the exact same system that some people think that we have today. You can be in right standing today, go out and sin, be unrighteous, come back, repent, get saved again, be right, do it again. Well, if this exact same thing that we have today is we had then, then why in the world did Jesus have to come and die? Nothing changed. Ah, something did change, which is why we go to Ezekiel 36, which is why we bring this up. So we leave Ezekiel 18 and go to 36 and notice what he says, what God is, now God is gonna do something different. Now what he's gonna do is he's gonna sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. So once he's sprinkled clean water on you, once he does so, you will be clean. Then notice what he says, I will put my, I will give you a new heart and a new spirit. Now he's the same element that Jesus talks about in John 3, water and spirit. Verse 27, I will put my spirit within you and cause you since your problem is you going around and just committing iniquity and not following my teachings, I'm gonna cause you to walk in my statutes and you'll be careful to observe my ordinances. So therefore you're right. It can be confusing, but what God is saying here in Ezekiel is that how you were is not gonna be how you will be when I put my spirit in your heart, which is what he promised in Deuteronomy 30. He says first and then to fix your heart and get your heart right, but they won't. But he says in the future, I will do so to you. Amen. So good question. Questions, if sacrifices were used to atone for Israel's sin, how did Abraham atone for his sins? The sacrifices in temple practices didn't exist yet. So how was Abraham able to be seen as right before the Lord? Well, all God has commanded anyone regardless of or irrespective of the dispensation that they were in was faith in God. Whatever God was doing, you have faith. So whatever God told you to do, then in you trusting that, then you would be in right standing, whether it was able. Remember that he preceded Abraham, but he's in the faith hall of fame in Hebrews 11, whether it was Enoch or Abraham or Moses or whomever, faith in God. Anything that even whether preceding the law, during the law, after the law, faith in God, was he said in Hebrews 11, it is impossible to please God. Without faith, it is impossible to please him. So that's how. That's a good question, very good question. Okay, I can't tell you how. By the way, I deserve, I deserve a round of applause. I can't tell you how bad I am today. I've been doing bad the last few days. I have been doing bad the last, I'm coming down with something, but I said, me slamming my cup for dramatic effect, dog on it, I'm gonna push through. I'm gonna be like Michael Jordan in the finals against Utah Jazz. I may have the flu or coming down with something, but guess what? I'm gonna push through. All I needed is my friends on YouTube, the greatest YouTube family ever in the history of YouTubedom, the greatest set of moderators ever, and my coffee in the world's greatest coffee cup, Joey. By the way, I don't know if I've ever told you his name, his name is Joey. Been with me since I first won my federal tour and been with me through thick and thin. Yep. Oh, because I love you people. Yeah, I've been doing, yeah, I've been doing bad. I've been, it's been rough. It's been one of those, you know, your neck is squeezed, you get hot, you get cold, you got a headache. Why, I don't know why his name is Joey. I just, I chose that name Joey. It just, it just stuck. Isn't that a tough name for a coffee cup? This is Joey. This is Joey. Yeah. And Joey has battle scars. Joey had a bottom. There was a bottom to Joey, but some overzealous correctional officer took my bottom and threw it away. Why? Because in the middle, I had a picture of my family and he said that was altering the mug. And so he took my picture out. He didn't throw it away, but he threw the bottom of the way. Oh man. Oh man, it hurt me, hurt me, hurt me. Cory, I drink too much coffee. I'm almost trying to say that's an impossibility. How do you drink too much coffee? No, you actually can. You actually can. When you drink so much coffee that even when you drink it and you go to sleep, you're drinking too much coffee. Yeah. Lovely said, you're getting old. No, I'm getting old. I know that. I know that. No, I'm kidding. I know that, yeah. But I'm happy getting old. By the way, I'll put an alert out today though. There will not be a Bible study this Saturday. There will not be a Bible study this Saturday. So, we may make it up, but it won't be this Saturday. What do I think of women preachers? Well, I mean, who they're preaching to? If they're the office of a pastor, then no, no, no, no, no. But if they're out there as missionaries and so forth, then amen. So, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Replay wisdom, I forgot about yours. Let me hold on one second. I forgot about the question that you asked. I do have it marked too. Okay, let's put them from Leviticus 19 to, oh, this isn't one difficult one. Let's see, does it, please clarify, clarify, be holy as I am holy. Or does it mean be clean from our sinful life? Yes or no, yes or no. He's not asking you when, okay, when I teach this, let me give you the basic, and man, I'm just, wow, this hit me. But let me give you the basic way of understanding, being holy, this is just a basic, there's more to it. So don't come at me, I'm just giving it basic. When he says to be holy, think about just being different. We're set apart, we're over here, different, different. We're not like them. I go to the football game, now I wouldn't do it nowadays because people are crazy, but if I go to football game and I go to Cowboys State, AT&T Stadium, Coastal Plain and Cowboys, I got on my coat stuff. Yeah, I'm standing among 70, 80,000 Cowboy fans and letting them know I'm not with you, I'm different. Well, I wouldn't do that, that would be foolish nowadays because somebody might get drunk and wanna fight and I can't beat up 80,000 people. I might get five or 10,000, but no, I'm kidding. I wouldn't do that, I think it's dangerous. It's not wise to wear, unless you got a bunch of other people wearing New Jersey, but I'm not gonna do that. But interestingly enough, do you know how many Cowboy haters you'll find at a Cowboy game? It's like, wow, but anyway, so we are to be different. I'm not like you, we ain't the same. Who am I not, who am I not like? I'm not like the world, we're different. Me and the world are different and so I'm calling you the Lord, I'm calling you to be different. How so? Well, think about what he did with Israel. He gave them these different things to do to show that they will be set apart. Excuse me, the dietary laws? Notice he never caused those things unclean. He didn't call a pig unclean. He says that they are unclean to you. Why? Because those dietary laws, if they were to follow keeps them separated from the people that eat those things. Okay, these pagans, they love pig feet, they love bacon. So I like bacon and because I like bacon and the pagans like bacon, now we can eat together and we end up doing just what God didn't want to happen is we start co-mingling our guys and it's not that they end up worshiping our guys because isn't that interesting how when you get involved with the world, the world doesn't adopt your God, you adopt the world's God. He knows that so he does things, set these things up to keep you separate to be different. I've set you apart. Now holiness also conveys a holiness to it, meaning that I'm also being made above, I'm being made better. It's not to be made perfect because you can't be perfect. Now he will see you as perfect and he will perfect you along the way. But to be made holy, he's simply saying I want you to be more and more like me. To be more and more like me, you necessarily have to be separate from them, different. You are not like them. See yourself as not like them, not in an arrogant fashion where you look down your nose at people and you walk high-minded. No, but you see yourself like him wanting to bring them like Paul did. I'm committed to the wellbeing of these people who don't know the Lord. I'm committed to them seeing more of the Lord and loving him like I do. Amen. Doggone, I should have made that into a video. All right, ladies and gentlemen. So I don't faint on... People are putting bacon in there. Will we go to sleep in heaven? I don't know. I don't know. Listen, I can promise you this though. If we do go to sleep in heaven, it's gonna be the best. I couldn't say night sleep because it won't be night, but it'd be the best sleep we'll ever get. But I don't know. I don't know. I mean, we'll have glorified bodies but I don't know that we'll get tired. Do I think Paul's letter to the church will be God, will God breathe? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. How do I know? Because Paul says that all scriptures are God-inspired, God-breathed, right? Well, that couldn't have included his, but Peter equates his Paul's writings with being scripture. So I would have to say yes. Yes. Everything that comes out of their mouth is on par with every other thing that came out of everyone else's mouth. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, I just caught that too, Dinah, Joey. I'm sure you love your Joey better than my Joey. And I would say your Joey can talk to you. But, oh, I'm sorry, Ivana, I did say this. What did you say? I did say I had to go over Galatians five real quick. I'm sorry. I always say I'm leaving and I never leave. Galatians five, one. Paul is addressing these Judaizers. I do a better job explaining it earlier in the video, but Paul addresses these Judaizers. These people that are coming to these Gentiles and saying you must convert to Judaism first, get circumcised, obey certain tenets of the law, and then place your faith in Christ. And he says then that you who are seeking to be saved or justified by the law, you've been cut off. You can't be saved. He's not saying that you were saved. He's not saying that you were part of it and you fell away, because that's not what the word fall away connotes. It just means like a sports team was cut off from the playoffs earlier in the season because they lost so many games. They went about doing things the wrong way. So you're cut off. You can't get there or the bridge is washed away. You are cut off or you severed from the other side, not that you were ever on it or on the other side. So that's what that is, okay? All right, ladies and gentlemen, I love you guys so much, but I have got to go get me some sleep. I'm about to fall out, doing really rough. But I'm gonna get me some fluids in me, lay down and let TV watch me while I go to sleep, get some rest and so I can be refreshed tomorrow. I'm pretty sure there'll be some bad videos about me tomorrow. I need to watch them. Anyway, God bless you guys.