What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

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Title : Realising the goodness of Father's house Scripture : Luke 15:11-32 Speaker : Br. Gavin Fernandes Date : 25 June 2023.

Series: James Preacher: Taylor Fleury Categories: Holiday Keywords: faith, works Location: Calvary Baptist Church in Hampton, ...

? Temple Baptist Church - 3-6-2024John 14:1-6? Introduction:? A.? Disclaimer time.? Don't you just love having to give a disclaimer because of the lack of biblical knowledge of most people?? So many people who never read the Bible get their “theology” from people who never read the Bible!? Oh, they read but they have no spiritual understanding.? B.? Some years back, the “Left Behind” series hit the bookstores and people everywhere what to know what was coming and where they stood with God.? This series was heretical.? Its vdery premise flew in the face of God as it contradicted what the Bible teaches about Eschatology.? I am not here tonight to either discuss or fix that.? ? C.? We teach these verses to show the unsaved how to be saved!? Jesus Christ alone!? His death, burial, and resurrection called the gospel is where salvation is found.? I have no problem at all with the application of the verses but that is not the interpretation within the context.? D.? The context is to saved men who feared being left behind, supposedly alone, and told that they would be with the Lord later not understanding where He was going or how to get there.? Both Peter and Thomas along with the other disciples (they allowed these two men to be the spokesmen), were afraid and confused.? E.? The questions asked:? 1.? Peter's problem was two-fold:? ? John 13:36-37? ? ? Simon Peter said unto him,? (1)? Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.? (37)? Peter said unto him,? (2)? Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.? 2.? Thomas' problem was two-fold:? ? John 14:5? Thomas saith unto him, Lord,? (1)? we know not whither thou goest; and? (2)? how can we know the way?? 3.? Now, I want to give these disciples a break!? Don't you just hate it when someone will not even give you the benefit of a doubt?? They had no Bible!? When the Lord spoke of resurrection, they had no examples other than Lazarus and it was the Lord who visibly and publicly raised him from the dead.? F.? Verse 6 does not settle a salvation problem though it does settle Who salvation is found in.? Christ!? These disciples did not need to be saved and the understood that salvation was through Jesus Christ. They were both saved!? Peter called Jesus Lord twice and Thomas called Jesus Lord once in the context.? G.? The context of verse 6 is both directional and correctional.? ? 1. Their questions were not caused by a lack of salvation but of insecurity in the impending absence of the Lord.? Lord, you are leaving, and we cannot go with you, but you said we will follow you to where you are.? ? 2.? ? Jesus' answer? was correctional.? How do we know where that is, and how do we get there?? ? a)? Religions and denominations here and around the world believe that the way to heaven either before salvation or after salvation is a “path” of their own making.? If you try to live right, treat your neighbor right, keep all the rules and regulations, you just might make it to heaven.? ? b)? Jesus Christ is the only Way of salvation, and He is the only Way to get to heaven!? 3.? Jesus' answer was directional.? ? a)? How do we get from this life and place to our eternal life and place?? ? b)? The answer is the same!? Jesus Christ!? He said that it is My Father's house (heaven) and I, Jesus, will take you there!? H.? Though we are saved, and have the truth, there are times when we are fretful and insecure.? 1.? “I am the Way!”? Not just the way of salvation but because Christ is coming back for them.? The way to somewhere has a starting point, a traveling point, and a finishing point.? ? a.? Jesus did not say that He was the end of the trip because He would be in His Father's house.? He simply said that He was the Way!? That is from the start of the trip throughout the trip until we end up where He is in the Father's house.? b.? As the Lord stood on the right hand of the Father as Stephen was dying, He will be with us from start to finish when we go through the Valley of the Shadow of Death.? c.? They, as well as we, will not have to cross Jordan alone.? ? d.? If we live until the rapture of the Church, it is the Lord Himself who will descend from heaven with a shout and the voice of the archangel.? If we die first, we will fear no evil because He will walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death with us.? Psalm 23.? e.? Jesus is the Way home!? He said that He would come and get them!? John 14:3? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.? 2.? “I am the Truth!”? The Lord's promises for both the present and the future are secure.? ? John 14:2? In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.? a.? Our Lord told His disciples that He must go while they must abide.? Yet, the Truth would remain with them.? b.? The disciples did not know at this time about the revelations that our Lord would later give to them and neither did they know about the fullness of the Holy Ghost Who would descend upon them.? He simply said, “Trust Me!”? c.? The Lord will say in a later chapter of John that it was expedient that He go away, otherwise the Comforter would not come.? Instead of dwelling with God, God would be dwelling within them.? d.? Grace and strength for every mile of the trip.? Their needs constantly being met by their Lord.? Sometimes, in our lives during hard times, God's promises happen a thrill per minute as He is always on time to meet our needs.? e.? The Truth that they would one day be “where I am.”? God's promises sure and secure!? 3.? “I Am the Life!”? The lives of the apostles are getting ready for a drastic change. It is in Christ that we live, move, and have our being.? ? Colossians 3:1-4? If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.? (2)? Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.? (3)? For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.? ? a.? Christ? is? their spiritual life.? Acts 4:12? Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.? b.? Christ is their temporal life.? ? It is in Christ that we live, move, and have our being.? ? Colossians 3:1-3? If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.? (2)? Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.? (3)? For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.? ? c.? Christ is their eternal life.? Matthew 28:20? “and, lo, I am with you alway,? even? unto the end of the world.”? Colossians 3:4? When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.? 4.? “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.? Simply said, you have nothing at all to worry about it.? As salvation is all of Christ, the rest of the trip at that point is all of Christ.? We will all end up at “where I am!”? Conclusion:? Their hearts were troubled because their future seemed to be insecure.? Often our hearts become troubled and insecure.? The answer to troubled hearts is the same for both the disciples and us today.? The Lord Jesus used these verses to reassure them that they would shortly be “where I Am!”

? Temple Baptist Church - 1-31-2024John 13:10-11; 18-30? Introduction:? ? What a sad story!? I know that Judas was a traitor and led the religious crowd to the Garden where He was.? But the world has been and continues to have multitudes of “spiritual traitors” as well as Christ rejectors who die out of the will of the Lord and spend an eternity in a place called hell!? A.? Who was this man, Judas Iscariot?? ? There are theories about who Judas Iscariot is and who he might be during the Tribulation Period floating around.? Was Judas the incarnate devil?? Will Judas be resurrected during the Tribulation Period as Antichrist?? They use such verses as these to substantiate their theories.? John 6:70-71? Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?? (71)? He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.? John 17:12? While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.? Acts 1:25? That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.? B.? I will not take the time to dispel these theories? but will say that I do not believe that Judas was either the devil, as many wicked people are referred to in that manner.? I believe that the Bible teaches that Judas was just a man.? ? C.? Judas Iscariot.? The only disciple who was non-Galilean but was born of the same Tribe as Christ Jesus: The Lion of the Tribe of Judah.? ? Genesis 49:8-12? Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.? (9)? Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?? (10)? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.? (11)? Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:? (12)? His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.? Judas – The Greek spelling of the Hebrew word? Judah:? of the posterity of Judah and its region.? Iscariot -? inhabitants of Keri-oth.? A city in southern Judah in the Negev.? D.? ? Why was the Lord “troubled in spirit?”? ? John 13:21? ? When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.), we find that Jesus was “troubled in spirit” because “one of you shall betray me.”? ? ? 1.? Because Judas Iscariot was a friend of Jesus Christ.? a)? Prophesied in one of the Davidic Psalms:? ? Psalms 41:9? ? Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.? b)? Performed in the betrayal of Judas Iscariot:? Matthew 26:48-50? Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.? (49)? And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.? (50)? And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.? c)? For those who teach that Judas Iscariot? and Antichrist are the same, Jesus Christ would have never called the devil “friend.”? 2.? Because Jesus Christ died for the sin of the whole world which included Judas Iscariot!? John 3:16-17? For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.? (17)? For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.? 1 Timothy 2:4? Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.? 1 John 2:2? And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.? In John Gill's Commentary, a 17th? century “theologian” and pastor (who was also a Calvinist) explained “the whole world” as 1) the Old Testament Saints who believed on the Messiah plus all the New Testament Saints who would believe on Christ Jesus, both Jew and Gentile.? The “whole world” is the entirety of all who ever lived or would ever live!? Typical Calvinistic “stretching” the Word of God to prove their damnable heresies.? E.? Judas Iscariot was prophesied in Psalm 55.? Psalms 55:12-15? For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:? (13)? But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.? (14)? We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.? (15)? Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.? 1.? The interpretation of the Psalm? was about Ahithophel, David's counselor and Bathsheba's grandfather, who betrayed David.? ? ? 2.? The prophesy of the Psalm, which is Messianic, was about Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Christ.? ? F.? Judas Iscariot.? 1.? Judas Iscariot was a Disciple.? “one of you”? ? John 13:21? ? When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.? a.? Judas Iscariot's Calling.? ? The Lord chose Judas as He did the other disciples.? b.? Judas Iscariot's Circumstances.? ? He saw, lived with, and heard Christ.? He shared the same conditions as the other disciples.? His accountability was great.? c.? Judas Iscariot's Communion.? ? He spent a lot of personal time with Christ, a personal friend to Judas as He was to the other disciples.? ? d.? Judas Iscariot's Choice.? ? He had the same right to choose as the other disciples.? 2.? Judas Iscariot was a Deceiver.? “Lord, who is it?”? John 13:24-25? Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.? (25)? He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him,? Lord, who is it?? a.? Judas Iscariot Deceived others.? ? The other disciples could not believe that it was Judas.? John 13:26-29? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.? (27)? And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.? (28)? Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.? (29)? For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.? b.? Judas Iscariot Deceived himself.? ? Matthew 26:25? Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.? c.? Judas Iscariot never Deceived the Lord!? ? John 13:26-27? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.? (27)? And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.? 3.? Judas Iscariot was a Damned Man.? ? Matthew 26:23-24? And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.? (24)? The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.? a.? Judas Iscariot's Discovery.? Matthew 27:3? Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,? b.? Judas Iscariot's Discourse.? ? Matthew 27:4? Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.? c.? Judas Iscariot's Despair.? Matthew 27:5? And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.? 4.? Judas Iscariot's Decision.? ? I believe that the Bible teaches that Judas Iscariot could have been saved up to the point that he received the sop.? When John asked the Lord who would betray Him, Jesus said, “To whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.”? Judas did not have to take the sop from the hand of our Lord but could have said, “Forgive me, Lord.? I do not want the sop.”? John 13:26-27? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.? (27)? And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.? Conclusion:? Here we find the sad end of a life that could have been saved but chose to reject the Saviour.? Not the Devil, not the future Antichrist, just a man for whom Christ died.?