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Questions 152 (COD Page 657)
Would you please explain Hebrews 6:4 and 6, and also explain Hebrews 10:26-39? Please explain whether this refers to the Holy Ghost people or the sanctified people; please explain the difference.
59 Well, let’s see where the person’s referring to, Hebrews 6 and 4. I love Bible questions that just–it pulls out something in you that you get you–get something that you wouldn’t get otherwise. Because you–you got what the other people’s thinking, what’s on their heart (see?), and you know what they’re doing. Now, there’s Hebrews 10, and here’s Hebrews 6 and 4. All right.
For it is impossible for those that were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
And have tasted of the...word of God, and the power of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew themselves again to repentance; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Now that’s one. Now, Hebrews 10:26. All right, Hebrews 10 and 26.
For if we sin wilfully after...we...receive the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin,
But a certain fearful looking for the judgment...the fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversary.
He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
...how much more sore punishment, suppose ye, shall he be worthy–though worthy, who has trod the–under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and...done despite to the works of grace?
60 They are both about the same thing. Now, I would like to explain this to the–the person. Now, if you notice here in Hebrews 6 and 4, it said, “It is impossible for those that were once enlightened...” That–that’s associates with this other Scripture that’s just read. If you have been enlightened and then turn away from your enlightenment, it is impossible for that person to ever regain his place again. See?
61 Now, Hebrews only tells the punishment that follows this rejection. It’s one of the horriblest things in the world is to reject Christ, is to reject Light of the Scripture.
62 Now, you notice, “For it is impossible for those which were once enlightened and has been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, if they turn away to renew themselves again unto repentance...” See? Here we are. “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted (watch), tasted the heavenly gift...” They been right on the edge of it: “tasted the heavenly gifts...”
63 Now, you notice they never had come to the baptism of the Holy Spirit. See? They was enlightened to it: “And tasted of the heavenly gift (See?), but were made partakers of the Holy Ghost (by tasting of it), and have tasted of the good Word of God, (part of it; See?) and powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew themselves...”
64 Now, Hebrews 10 here only gives the judgment for that.
“He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. How much sore punishment, though worthy, who has trod the Blood of Jesus Christ and counted it a unclean thing that they were sanctified by?”
65 Now, to put these two together to make the question for you, let’s take a Scripture and a person in the Bible that did this, and then we can find.
66 Now, all the church today is the antitype of the type. We know that. There’s a type and a antitype. Now, when Israel was on their journey from the land of Palestine, or, from Egypt going into Palestine, was a type of the church in the spiritual today on its journey to the promised land...You all agree with that don’t you? All the theologians agree with that, that that was the type.
67 They left Egypt. Egypt was the world. They come out, went through the waters of separation at the Red Sea through baptism, come out on the other side rejoicing and praising God, went to the–got the laws, and from there on to the promised land.
68 Well, did you notice just before they got to the promised land (see?), before they were to enter into the promised land, which would only been just a few days, ten or eleven days, maybe not much, ’cause it was only forty something miles. They would’ve went right on into the promised land, they’d come right up through the the year–the every–every stage of the journey that we’ve walked. And they come over, crossed over the Red Sea. Pharaoh’s army was drowned behind them. They were free from their enemies, started through the wilderness, and got to the edge of the promised land at Kadesh-Barnea, and there they failed. Why? Why did they fail?
Now, Moses said to the ten tribes, he said, “He’ll send a man out of each tribe to represent each tribe, to go spy out on the land to see what kind of a condition it was.”
69 Now, if that isn’t exactly up to the–your place this morning, where you come today. You...The church has come through justification through Luther, through sanctification through the Methodist, and now up to the time of the promise. The promise is the baptism of the Spirit, which is promised all through the Old Testament and New too (see?), the promise: “Behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you...” Peter said that on the day of Pentecost.
70 That is the Promise. The promised land is to live in this land of Holy Spirit. That’s God’s promise for the church, is to live in the power of the Spirit. It’s another world; it’s another land. You have to come out of the conditions that you been in, to come out to live in this promised land, to receive the promise. Remember the promise, “You shall receive power from on high, after this, the Holy Ghost is come upon you...”?
71 And Peter said that the promise that was made all down through the Testament, Old and New...You–you find promising on up, on up to that day of the Pentecost, and then they entered into the promise.
72 Now, those people had come out and had seen great signs and wonders in Israel. And then he sent some man out to spy out, one out of each tribe. And some of them come back to...Well, some of them wouldn’t go over. Two went over. When they come back, they had a bunch of grapes that taken two man to pack. Now, they had never tasted grapes. They was in–they were in the wilderness; and therefore, in that place was no place of fruit and stuff. They was fed from manna, bread from Heaven, and quails, and wildlife, and what they was fed on.
73 But now they were going over into the land, and they had a bunch of grapes that was so big that took two man to pack these grapes. And these two went over into the land and come back and give every one of them others on the bank a taste of these grapes. What did they do? When they went back, instead of rejoicing because they had a taste of the grapes, instead of that, they went back to their tribes and said, “Oh, but we have seen the great walled-in cities of the Philistines, or the Hittites, and the Perizzites and the–the–and all the different ites over there.” “Why,” said, “they are giants. Why, we look like little grasshoppers up the side of them. We can’t take that land. Why did you ever bring us out here anyhow?” See? And the Bible said that they all perished in the wilderness, every one of them; they died. What did they do? They were borderline believers. They come up to the real thing, and saw the promise, and felt that they wasn’t able to go over and take the promise.
74 Now, that’s exactly what’s come today through justification and sanctification. See? “Has trod the Blood of Jesus Christ wherewith he was sanctified,” it is the sanctified people that come up to a place where they see the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and they turn away and say, “It’s fanaticism; we cannot take it. We’ll be turned out of our classes; we’ll be turned out of our places. We’ll be turned out of our churches. We cannot do that (see?), because it’s contrary to our church teaching.” See? Has counted the Blood of Jesus Christ that brought him all this distance, right to the sealing of the promise, and then walk away from it. He said it’s totally impossible for them to ever be saved. See, see? Not the one that has walked over in the promised land...
75 Remember, Joshua and Caleb was the only two out of that entire group of two and a half million people that went over into the promised land, because they went over in the promised land, and got the blessing, and come back. And they said, “We’re able to take it, because God said so.”
76 And there they stayed. Why? Now, all those people were looking at circumstances, but Joshua and Caleb was looking to what God said: “I have give you that land; go get it.”
77 And that’s today, the people say, “Oh, if I be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, if I receive the Holy Ghost, if–if I would speak in tongues or prophesy, or if I would testify or shout in my church, they would put me out.” Go right ahead!
78 You say, “Well, I’ll tell you right now, I live a Christian life; I live a good, clean, sanctified life...” That’s true, but you’ve come to the showdown, come to the place, to the borderline. And if you turn away from that, then “it’s impossible for those who were once enlightened...” See?
79 In other words, a man comes through justification, he goes, says “I believe I want to preach the Word.” He gets saved; he said, “I’m tired of sin.” All right. Then he goes out, and first he still smokes, and maybe he lusts or something. After while he says, “God, this is not becoming to a Christian, especially a minister, to look upon women in the wrong way, to smoke cigarettes!” or; “I do take a sociable drink of beer with the fellows, but–and even my congregation, but it don’t seem right. Sanctify me, Lord.” And then the Lord sanctifies him, takes all that lust away from him, everything. Then he’s a sanctified vessel. Then what God presents to him is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. To do that, he has to come out of that bunch he’s with. There’s where he shows his color; then he backs down. What does he do when he backs down? He tramps the Blood of Jesus Christ that sanctified him, as though it was an unholy thing, not able to take him over there. Then it’s impossible for him to be saved. And then what does it was? But on to the fiery indignation and the judgment.
I hope that’s clear. If it isn’t, why, you let me know at another time. I got so many of them here, I...