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LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 48
Hebrews 3:12-19
My, it thrills our heart to see so many lost people coming to a knowledge of salvation but many, many more believers who have never had an understanding of the Scriptures are finally getting their eyes opened.
Alright, let’s go right back to Hebrews chapter 3. (I Corinthians 15:1-4) Hebrews 3:13
Now if you doubt when I call Judaism a religious system, back up with me to the Book of Galatians chapter 1, where the Apostle Paul is reviewing his own past. Let’s just start at verse 11. Galatians 1:11-13
Now consequently when I come down to verse 14, I am going to use the little word, "if." It’s not a matter of their being saved and then lost. Hebrews 3:13
Now verse 14.
Hebrews 3:14a
"For we are made partakers of Christ,…" I Corinthians 12:12
"For as the body (or human body) is one, and hath many members. I Corinthians 12:13a
Not just some who have had a particular experience, but every believer is) baptized (or placed into) one body, (which Ephesians calls the body of Christ.)
That composition of believers from wherever they are, whatever their station in life, at salvation they are brought in and become part and parcel of the body of Christ. Alright, so here we are placed into the body by the work of the Holy Spirit:
The human body as well as the body of Christ is not one member but many. And so, the whole analogy of the rest of this chapter is that God is building the body of Christ, individual by individual, placing them where He wants them. Alright, so is the body of Christ.
Now for 1,900 and some years God has been bringing them into the body one at a time. Kernels! Alright, so is the body of Christ. We’ve never lost our individuality. And God knows every one of us as an individual and yet the composite is the body of Christ will one day be complete. The body of Christ has to be taken out, and it will be. Because Paul alone, tells us about the forming of the body of Christ. Paul alone tells us how the body is to function in this world. That the body of Christ is being formed because as we became believers of the Gospel, we became partakers or companions of Christ by virtue of the fact that the Holy Spirit has placed us into the body. We are members of the body of Christ. Alright, back to Hebrews:
Hebrews 3:14a
if"…"
Oh, that scares so many people. Doesn’t that mean that if I do something particularly wrong that I will lose my Salvation?" It doesn’t say it is impossible if they have been saved. Now, I have had the same problem, especially with people in cults, as we call them. Don’t ever get the idea that we are talking about Hebrews who were saved and lost. Or that IF they can hang on they will still be saved. No, the IF is, have you really been saved? Yes, this if is a big IF for you if you have never been saved.
Hebrews 3:14
Not what we do, but think of all that God does the moment He saves us and sees our faith. Can God undo all of that? God WILL not! Or He wouldn’t be the God of His Word.
And so, the whole IF problem is, have they been genuinely saved, or have they merely tasted. Alright, so let’s go on to verse 15.
Hebrews 3:15a
What hardens hearts? Sin! Satan. Let me show you in II Corinthians, chapter 4, and let’s just look at verses 3 and 4:
Faith! See? Now reading verse 4 again.
II Corinthians 4:4
"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the visible image of the invisible God, should shine unto them."
So who keeps people in their darkness. Alright, back to Hebrews chapter 3, and verse 15 again, and then I want to come back to Romans again.
Hebrews 3:15a
Alright, how do we hear the voice of God? Well, Romans, chapter 10 tells us. Starting at verse 13.
Romans 10:1314a
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now verse 15.
Well, God. The Holy Spirit, see?) Now, remember, when Abraham believed God, He didn’t believe the Gospel as we understand it. Alright, now then, verse 17. Romans 10:17
"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
So by faith, or just, taking God at His Word comes by hearing. Alright, so verse 17 again.
Romans 10:17
"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
And it’s only the Word of God that can bring salvation to the human race. Now analyze that verse. Matthew 16 verse 16.
Matthew 16:16-17.
"And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. (now look what Jesus said in verse 17.) God opened his understanding! See? God did! And so never forget that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God!

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