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Dr. Chuck Missler (RIP) is an internationally known author, is among the best-known Bible expositors in the world, and is a prominent speaker on the subject of Bible prophecy and is featured on many Christian radio and television stations worldwide.
24 Video Series On The Book Of Revelation by Chuck Missler:
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JD Farag started his first Bible Study in 2004. As a strong supporter of Israel, JD’s focus is on Bible Prophecy, oftentimes pertaining to the Middle East. In addition to weekly Prophecy Updates, Pastor JD teaches through the bible Sunday mornings and Thursday evenings at his church in Kaneohe, HI. JD and Kellie currently live on the windward side of Oahu with their three children Elias, Levi, and Sabia.
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The Complete Sufficiency Of Christ’s Atonement for sin is more powerful than anything I know.
Who needs a license to sin?
We are fine without a license and sin regardless right? And ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6), and ALL HAVE SINNED and fall short.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” (Romans 3:23 KJV)
In regards to salvation and works to ‘remain saved‘, Paul called that idea boasting in pride and foolish.
” O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” (Gal. 3 KJV)
Salvation is based on BELIEF, NOT BEHAVIOUR. Rewards and loss of eternal rewards is based on a believer’s works. Scripture is clear on that. But our salvation can never be lost by our failures in sin after the moment of our salvation.
So our works and how we live after the moment of salvation DO MATTER, for sure (Eph. 2:10).
Ultimately, it comes from within and moves outwardly from our new Spirit. God changes our minds and hearts and gives every believer desires.
Many quote Romans 6, but what about Romans 5 for context ? Look at the focus Paul gave on “FREE GIFT” and “MUCH MORE“. Grace abounds over our lives as born again believers.
What believer really thinks he can just go on sinning without real negative consequences? For that matter, what believer feels no remorse over failures in sin? The indwelling Holy Spirit guides. When we fail and sin, we feel the indwelling Holy Spirit pulling us toward confession do we not? God is not surprised when we fail in sin. He foreknew every sin we will commit in our lives from the foundation of the world, yet Christ still died for us in great love to save us.
What we do have is the security of knowing that when we do sin (and until our bodily resurrection, we will) we are not risking the loss of our salvation. All our sins are all paid in full by christ (1 John 2:2).
Jesus knew every sin of our life, and carried them ALL to the cross where He died for them in our place, 2000 years ago. At that very moment our forgiveness was assured in His foreknowledge (Colossians 2:13-15).
All we have to do is believe to accept THE FREE GIFT of eternal salvation through true belief on Christ . (Eph. 2:8-9, Romans 5)
Writing to believers, John wrote that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from —ALL– unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).
Christ paid for all sins of the whole world as a FREE GIFT, not just believer’s sins.
“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:2 KJV)
As a FREE GIFT, it can be accepted in belief on Christ or rejected (John 3:18), but never worked for nor earned (Eph. 2:8-10, Gal. 3, 5:4-5). Only Christ accomplished that for us.
Christ died for all sins, past and future. I ask you… DID IT WORK? YES, IT MOST CERTAINLY DID! AMEN.
“Nevertheless, whereto we have ALREADY ATTAINED, let us WALK BY the same rule, let us mind the same thing.” (Phil. 3:16 KJV)
Just saying a prayer or going to an alter call ; not sure if you are saved. The belief in Christ saves, not words, and the belief must be REAL BELIEF and trust on Christ.
We fail and sin as believers, but we need to know WHO GOD MADE US IN CHRIST, something many saved believers still have not learned. The Truth sets us free indeed.
In Jesus prayer for us He said,
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17 KJV)
Oh yes. Not all born again saved believers are disciples (which is defined as a learner).
That said, we all should be!
As believers, our focus is getting THE TRUTH IN US from God’s Word. And we will find ourselves sinning less. We live outwardly as we believe in the mind.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12 KJV)
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Dr. Ralph “Yankee” Arnold accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior at the age of 18. The major thrust of Dr. Arnold’s ministry is soul winning. He is known for his clear presentation of the gospel and his fervent appeal for sinners to be saved. His sermons challenge and motivate Christians to win souls as a result of yielding their lives to Christ. As an evangelist, he speaks out clearly and unmistakably on the issues that effect fundamentalists, warning against compromise with liberals and modernists.
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Dr. Cucuzza has served as the pastor of Northland Bible Baptist Church since 1981. The church continues to grow under his leadership, and the church has many different ministries and outreaches. He believes strongly in expository preaching and teaching, and has taught the majority of the Bible verse by verse. In 2006 he received his doctorate in theology from Solid Rock Theological Seminary. Dr. Cucuzza is also an adjunct faculty member at Dayspring Bible College and Seminary in Lake Zurich, IL., where he has taught several courses dealing with pastoral ministry.
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Sins committed by a believer of Christ for Salvation will not result in loss of Salvation. That stated, should we just sin all we want so that God’s grace abounds? No. We still have consequences for our sins and they are not good at all.
Damnation in hell is not a consequence of sin for a believer on Christ’s atonement but we should be transformed during our life as a believer. We renew our mind by the Word of God, guided by the Holy Spirit.
Confessing is agreeing with God that we sinned. All a person’s sins were forgiven on that cross because Jesus did not make a partial payment for just the sins of those who would believe; He paid for all sins of every person!
“2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and NOT FOR OURS ONLY, but also for the sins of THE WHOLE WORLD.” (1 John 2:2 KJV)
This ‘once for all’ payment of all sins (Hebrews 10:10) is given to us all as a GIFT of God’s grace and can be accepted or rejected because God gives us free will to decide. He asks us… ‘Here is a free unmerited GIFT. It is complete forgiveness of your life sins and makes you the righteousness of God, in Christ.’
….If the gift is rejected, the payment is not placed on the account of a person’s sin debt and they will one day pay for their sin debt themselves in a place called hell.
….If they accept the gift payment by belief on Christ and His once for all sacrifice for our sins on the cross (John 3:14-18, Hebrews 10:10) then they are freed of the debt ENTIRELY. All sins we commit are future from the cross, sins we comit after Salvation as well and all were paid for by Jesus’ ONCE FOR ALL payment , if we accept the GIFT of Salvation.
On that cross Jesus cried out.. IT IS FINISHED. In the Greek that was penned it is an accounting term meaning A DEBT PAID IN FULL.
Salvation is a gift to be received (Eph 2:8-9) by BELIEF ON CHRIST (John 3:14-18, 1 Cor. 15:1-4) not something we work to achieve nor keep. By believing on Christ….any sins comitted both before and after the moment of Salvation are already judged and paid in full.
From the moment of belief on Christ we are SEALED by the Holy Spirit:
” 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also AFTER THAT YE BELIEVED, YE WERE SEALED with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” (Eph 1:13-14 KJV)
Notice it is past tense and a believer was sealed from the moment of belief. That does not mean we have no consequences for sinning!!! There could be severe consequences such as physical death even and loss of eternal rewards. But damnation in hell for sins Christ already paid for in our place? Not for the believer.
“4 According as HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and WITHOUT BLAME before him in love:” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)
God knew every sin we would commit from the foundation of the world..yet He willing became flesh and paid for our sins anyway. Amazing love. Abounding grace!!
Both Matthew and Paul tell us that Christ will return to Earth physically as a ‘thief in the night’. Yet, many misunderstand to who this refers; believers or unbelievers? Context shows us.
In Matthew 24, it is all about the Second Coming of Christ and not about the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. In verse 29, we see that these prophesied future events will take place AFTER the Tribulation period.
Jesus says in verse 29,
“Immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days …”
“42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch THE THIEF would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” (Matthew 24: 42-44 KJV)
The context here is addressing UNBELIEVERS who survived the Tribulation period. To them Jesus’ Second coming will be a shocker. It will be as a thief in the night as they are unprepared for the event.
We also see Apostle Paul telling believers about the Day of the Lord in verses 1-3 below, which is the time period between the start of the Tribulation and the end of the 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth in the future. This includes the Tribulation Period (which starts with ‘peace and safety as Antichrist takes power and half way through turns to the evil he really is all about.) and includes the Second Coming of Christ event that they understood from the Torah. The first 3 verses are describing UNBELIEVERS who will not be taken up by Christ at the Harpazo Rapture. And then Paul switches to BELIEVERS. This is the right context.
“1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
》》 4 BUT YE, BRETHREN, ARE NOT in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.” (1 Thessalonians 5: 1-6 KJV)
》 Believers know the Lord is coming!
And we are COMPLETE IN CHRIST (Colossians 2) and are children of the light. And for us BELIEVERS IN CHRIST, “…God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,” (1 Thessalonians 5: 9 KJV)
Paul continues in the same chapter offering words of COMFORT to the believers in contrast to Jesus warnings in Matthew 24.
》 Unbelievers are warned to obtain Salvation before it is too late.
For UNBELIEVERS Christ’s appearing will be a shock! As a thief in the night. Warnings are given in Matthew 24 to the unsaved,
“48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24: 48-51 KJV)
This is describing a delay of time between the end of the Tribulation Period and the Return of Christ. Only those who endure in belief that Christ is coming will be saved. Some will waiver in their belief and be lost as we see in Matthew 25 and the Parable of the 10 Virgins. Some teach that as the Rapture event, but they are wrong by the context of Matthew 24:29.
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As a believer in eternal security from the very moment of belief on Christ’s finished work (Ephesians 1:13-14), there has been a drastic change in our Spirit, in our inner person which has been born again. Made a New Creature and MADE the very righteousness of God IN CHRIST. This NEW US which Apostle Paul calls THE SPIRIT is real.
Are we perfect in the Spirit? God says YES. How about our minds though? Our minds still need renewing by the Word of God. Our mind is where our beliefs are. The new us at our core being has been changed but we still have ‘wrong old thoughts and wrong old beliefs’ about many things. By reading the Word of God we start seeing who Christ has transformed us into. Now FREE FOREVER from our debt of sins we ‘change our mind’ (the very definition of the Bible English word REPENT) about many things as we read the Bible and see God’s truth as the Holy Spirit COMFORTS us.
These changes in beliefs work outwardly into our lives effortlessly as by believing right will result in how see things and determine decisions and how we respond to others in love. Our inner beliefs allow God to work through us and so we do the good works Christ has set before us to accomplish.
Salvation happens in a moment. Our core being made eternal by belief on Christ’s FINISHED WORK (John 3:14-18, 1 Cor. 15:1-4, Eph. 1:13-14) but our sanctification is an ongoing process in our life as we change our mind by the truth of the Word of God that the Holy Spirit guides to BELIEVE.
When we focus on not sinning it is the same as following The Law and the Bible is clear that the result is we will sin more, not less. It is the opposite of how the world thinks. The world view is all about our performance. Do good to be good. Keep in mind that it is Satan who is the ruler of this world.
“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become EXCEEDING SINFUL. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.” (Romans 7:12-14 KJV)
“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED in his sight: for by the law is the KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.” (Romans 3:20 KJV)
“Moreover the law entered, that the offence MIGHT ABOUND. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:” (Romans 5:20)
“The sting of death is sin; and the STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW.” (1 Corinthians 15:56 KJV)
As believers, we are not under the Old Covenant of Law following by self righteous efforts. We are under the New Covenant which has replaced the Old Covenant. We are under the GRACE OF GOD through Jesus Christ. So when you fall into sin, God wants us to be focusing on a Christ conscious, not a sin conscious. This means that when you struggle with sin (we all will), God wants you to be conscious that in Christ you have forgiveness of sins through His blood. ALL your sins were already paid IN FULL by Christ on the cross 2000 years ago. God foreknew every sin you will commit in your life, before you were born. And Jesus paid for them ALL.
God wants us to be conscious that “…the was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)
When we are Christ-conscious, we will have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:” (Romans 5:1 KJV)
We believe that we are the righteousness of God in Christ.
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Cor. 5:21 KJV)
So when you STRUGGLE with sin and feel a failure, don’t be overly conscious of your failure and feel bad or condemned. Instead, be conscious of who you are in Christ, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and continue your walk with God!
Confess your sins to God which means to AGREE that you sinned. Sorry you sinned, ask God to help you overcome the temptation in the future. Focus on His love for you and His grace and you will find yourself sinning less.
“Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” (Hebrews 4:1 KJV)
Yes. Think about Peter. He believed Jesus was the Messiah and as such was saved. Yet he denied Christ not once but three times swearing before men. Jesus always foretold Peter he would deny Him three times but that He prayed for Peter to come back in faith after feeling such shame for doing it. And Peter was restored to strengthen the other disciples. He did not lose Salvation. He was eternally saved by his BELIEF on Christ as Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3, repetitively, regarding how a person is born again and justified in Salvation.
“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:33 KJV)
As believers, knowing what Christ went through to save us on that cross, shedding His blood for us, we hope that we would have enough courage to withstand persecution, even unto death. However, if a person is tortured for their belief in Christ and denies Christ verbally, yet in their heart still fully believes, are they still saved? Jesus paid such a high price in the greatest love there is for us. Would He deny a saved believer for verbally denying Christ under such duress?
The TYPE of denial matters in understanding this subject. Jesus was talking to the disciples right? Keep in mind Judas Iscariot. He did not deny Christ out of fear or distress. His act of betrayal for silver was a complete denial. Although Judas was with Christ, traveled with the disciples and Jesus, he never believed Jesus was the Messiah. He was not a saved believer. And even though he felt remorse and guilt for being responsible for Jesus horrible death, he still did not believe He was the Messiah and committed suicide unsaved.
Do you see the contrast between Peter’s denial and Judas’ denial of Christ. Yes! It is about BELIEF and not outside appearances. Don’t get me wrong, we should all stand up for our belief in Christ. The Gospel is the power to be saved eternally! Yet. I am saying God looks at a person’s heart. Not everyone is strong enough to withstand torture and persecution. They may act one way outwardly to protect themselves but inwardly they are a true believer.
For this reason I believe they are saved.
