July 30, 2025 • 47 mins
In Episode 72 of the Legacy Bible Podcast, we revisit a powerful message from Chuck Rains originally delivered on March 10, 1991. Rooted in Numbers 23:19, Matthew 5, and Hebrews 1–2, this sermon explores the unchanging nature of God’s Word and the absolute truth embodied in Jesus Christ. Rains challenges listeners to understand that God’s promises are unbreakable, Christ fulfilled every word of prophecy, and the Scripture is utterly reliable. A moving and convicting reminder that in a world of shifting values, God’s truth stands firm.
Scripture References:
•Numbers 23:19 – “God is not a man, that He should lie…”
•Matthew 5:17–18 – Jesus’ fulfillment of the Law and Prophets
•John 17:4; 19:30 – “It is finished.”
•1 Peter 2:22–24 – The sinless, truthful life of Christ
•Hebrews 1–2 – God’s final word through His Son
Key Themes:
•The absolute truthfulness and reliability of God’s Word
•Jesus as the fulfillment and personification of the Word
•The danger of minimizing, spiritualizing, or altering God’s promises
•God’s judgment and grace as inseparable elements of His truth
•The believer’s call to live righteously in response to the truth
Takeaways:
•Scripture is unbreakable and every word will be fulfilled.
•Jesus not only spoke the truth — He is the Truth.
•God’s Word is not to be altered, softened, or doubted.
•The Christian life is empowered by the Spirit to walk in righteousness.
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Well friends and welcome to the Legacy Bible podcast. My name is Marcus Onate and I will
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be bringing to you another from the massive tape collection of the Fellowship Bible Church
in Joliet, Illinois. And today you're going to be having one from March 10th of 1991.
And it's titled An Alterable Truth, the Word, the Son, and the Promise of God. Sounds pretty
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good. Alrighty, so we'll be getting right into that. And I'll see you on the other side
of it. Once it opened in Numbers chapter 23, I want to look at something there in verse 19.
It's one of the verses of the Old Testament I think that's worth memorizing. In the 50-day
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adventure on Thursday and Friday, I'm sorry, on Friday and Saturday, you were helped to get
ready for our worship today. And the subject of our worship today is what? Truth, truth.
As we look at that, I want us to see something first about the character of God from Numbers 23,
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19. God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent. Has he said
and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good? Now look at that verse.
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God is not like men. Men can speak and then not do what they say they'll do. Maybe not even intend
to do what they say they'll do. That's deceit. That's a lie. When somebody speaks their word,
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their very life should stand behind their word. When God speaks, when he says, I will do something,
he does it. He cannot. He not only does not lie, he cannot lie. He's not a man that he should lie,
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and as Paul says to Titus, God who cannot lie, impossible. If God has said something, you may take
it as true. Don't soften it. Don't spiritualize it away. Don't undermine it. Don't weaken it.
When God speaks, you may trust in it. If it's a word of judgment, listen, rest assured. God is
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not in the business of giving out empty threats. If it's in the matter of a blessing,
look, listen, God is not in the business of trying to pat people on the back.
He doesn't do that. Not in that sense that one says untruths just to make somebody think they're
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trying to please them and then turn against them when their back is turned. God is not like that.
When God speaks, he speaks in truth. He's not like a man. He cannot lie. He will not lie. And when
he says something, he will do it. That is the character of God.
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Now let's see something about the Lord Jesus from Matthew.
Let's go to Matthew's gospel because in Matthew 4, no, Matthew 5,
we see something about the Lord Jesus relationship to God's word.
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When God speaks in his word, he will fulfill it. What is the Lord Jesus relationship to God's word?
Matthew 5, I want to read it verse 17. He speaks to the matter of the law.
But I want to read the full phrase here. Do not think that I am come to abolish the law or the
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prophets. I do not come to abolish but to fulfill.
Now some people read that this way. Do not think that I am come to abolish the law.
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I do not come to abolish but to fulfill. Do you see or the prophets in there?
Or the prophets, the little phrase or the prophets forces you to deal with the reference to the law in a
little bit different way than you might otherwise do it. Because the law, as it
use several places in the scripture, can perhaps refer to the 10 commandments, the law of God
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and the law of God and graven on stones given to Moses.
And at times that is what it does refer to. The law and other times can refer to the whole body
of commandments. The Pharisees thought there were 611 or 13 or something like that. I always get
that number a little confused in their writings anyway. They think there is some number like that.
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They thought there were some number like that of laws and commandments, ordinances,
all the things that God had commanded his people to do. So in the sense that there is that
larger body of the commandments. Now the law is also used in some places to refer to the whole
of the word of God. Now one way that the Jews made sure
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that their listeners understood which application they were using the word law in, one way that
they made sure of it, if they intended to speak of the whole of the word of God, was this way.
They would add the law and the prophets. The law in a general sense would sometimes refer to the
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five books of Moses. We call it the Pentateuch. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
That often is called in the Bible, the law. The law. The other writings after that
were often referred to as the prophets. The prophets. Now it's true you have some books of history there,
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first and second Samuel, first and second kings, first and second chronicles. You have some history
there and you have history kind of working its way into all the texts of the Old Testament really.
Actually you have a wonderful amount of history in Genesis and Exodus, right? With all the story
of from creation to the coming of God's work among the people of Abraham, as Nietzsche's Abraham,
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and then multiply his seed. That's really all history, but it's included in what is called the law,
the Pentateuch. The prophets kind of spanned the rest of the Old Testament.
Now sometimes they wanted to be very, very specific so that you would understand
that they meant the whole body of what God had given. And so they would say the law and the prophets
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and the Psalms. And they would speak that way. But the law in the prophets is a general phrase for
meaning the whole Old Testament. The whole Old Testament. In other words, here comes the Son of God into
the earth. He's born of a woman incarnate, grows to manhood at about 30 years of age, as Luke says in
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the first chapter of his gospel. He comes into his ministry. He comes to the river Jordan,
John the baptizer baptizes him. God, this Father speaks from heaven, the Spirit of God descends upon
him as a dove. And he steps into his ministry for three years. In those three years of ministry,
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this is his attitude about the law and the prophets. His attitude is, do not think that I am come to
abolish the law or the prophets. I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you,
until heaven and earth pass away. Not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the law
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until all is accomplished. Now, would you please read the second reference to law in verse 18,
as it is defined in verse 17 by the Lord Jesus, the law or the prophets.
You might have a jot or tittle reference in the King James, you do jot or tittle.
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What's meant there is first by jot the yod, which is the smallest of the letters.
And what is just given to you as tittle, in your marginal notes, maybe in your new American or other
Bible like new King James. Well, Ed Sprockle would know this as a seraph, a seraph in the English
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language is just a little extension of a letter, little thing that's stuck on some fonts or some
styles of letters to make the letters look a little bit fancy. You know, instead of just having a stroke
for an eye, they have these little things sticking out on the edges, or if it's an R, they have a
little thing up there. It's a little little projection of the letter. You don't need it to have an R or an
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I. And so that in English, that would be the word. That's the idea that we'd try to get over to you.
It's a little little extension of the letter. However, I'll tell you something in Hebrew,
that's not quite it, because in Hebrew, they do put little things like dots or little extensions
of the letter on their primary letter. But when they do, they change its meaning.
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Now, the seraph doesn't change an R at all, or a T or an I. It doesn't do a thing to it.
It's still a plain old R or T or an I, but not in Hebrew. You can have the smallest letter
or the smallest addition to a letter, the tittle.
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And the Lord Jesus is saying, not one of the smallest letters, not one of the smallest little dots
or additions to a letter will cease to come to pass. It will all come to pass, because he says,
until all is accomplished. Now, the Lord Jesus relationship to the word of God is this,
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he came to fulfill it, not to destroy it, not to set it aside, but to fulfill it.
He came for that purpose.
And he said, you know, he went on to teach, you better understand this.
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Every part of it, every last letter, the smallest letter, every little stroke, every little dot
of anything that God has given shall be fulfilled.
In other words, if God said it, it shall be done.
And his relationship to it is to fulfill it,
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to agree with it and do the part of the incarnate sun to make all the promises that relate to him
and all the works that relate to him come to pass in and through him, that he would in no way
frustrated, but more than that, not just not frustrated, but that he would be with a willing
vessel for the Father to use to make those promises come to pass. He was here for that
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to fulfill it. In John 17, he's talking to the Father in his, what we often call his high priestly
prayer. That's just a label. Think of the Father listening to the Son, the Son speaking to the
Father on our behalf. And that's his role as our high priest. But John 17 verse four,
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listen to what our Savior says to his Father, I glorified the on the earth, having accomplished
the work which Thou has given me to do. You know what he's saying? Father, everything you gave for
me to do or gave to me to do, I've done every work, every word, everything you gave to me to do,
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I've done what has he done? He has fulfilled it. I think there is a therefore a very meaningful
statement from the Lord in John 19, right in this connection at verse 30.
When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, he said,
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It is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
It is finished. That's not a statement of defeat. That's a statement of victory.
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It's done. I've completed it. What did he complete? All that the Father gave him to do.
Every jot and every tittle. To the letter and to the dot. He did it. He completed it.
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That's his relationship to the Word of God.
To do all that it was his to do for our sake. Peter speaks on that. Let's go to Peter's little book,
verse Peter, chapter two.
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And he's really quoting from the Old Testament when he does this, but I'm going to use Peter's
quotation of it because Peter goes on to say some other things. First Peter 2 22,
speaking of our Lord's sinless life, he says, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in his mouth.
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Do you remember Numbers 23 19? God is not a man that he should lie.
God does not lie. God does not deceive.
And when our Savior was on this earth, he did all that the Father gave him to do.
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And when it was finished, this could be said. He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in
his mouth. You could examine every word, every word that the Lord had ever spoken in his earthly
time. On this earth for our sake, you could examine every word and you would not find one lie,
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you would not find one instance of deceit. Absolutely perfect. His word was true. Don't you remember
how he referred to himself in John 14 6? I am the way and the truth and the life.
He in fact, in John 1 1, is even called the word. In the beginning was the word and the word was with
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God and the word was God. It will all come to pass. It is all true. He is true. He is the word.
His relationship to the word of God isn't simply to fulfill it in action in this life. He is its
very fulfillment. He is the very embodiment of the word of God. He is the word. He is God in
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carne. And now God glorified for our sake. He did no sin. And here when Peter has said that,
he gives us an appeal. I'm going to read the connecting verse of 23. And while being reviled,
he did not revile in return. While suffering, he uttered no threats, but kept entrusting himself
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to him who judges righteously. I know that's a connecting verse, but it's proof really of verse 22.
If you want to test the life of Christ and push it to the extreme, you know, all truth can be
tested by pushing it to the extreme. You push the matter of life to the extreme and what do you
have? You have Christ suffering. The cross was the extreme. It was when people were reviling him.
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They span upon him. They they they they smote him. I was reading this morning of that scene
when he was before the high priest and one of his trials, the trial before the high priest.
And one of the guards standing there by him, when Jesus said something to the high priest that
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the guard thought was out of order, apparently it says he he smote him. So it seems like he took
his staff and drove it into his body somewhere just, you know, fog, you know, against his body
somewhere, maybe in the stomach or in the back or wherever. To think that the Lord could be
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injured could be could be beat could be could be smitten like that with the accusation that he
had spoken wrongly. That man was convinced that he had but he had not. He never said a word that
was wrong. He never lied. He never deceived. He is true. It's it's a it's a fearful thing to think
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that that man would have in his death suddenly found out if he hadn't received Christ by then
that now he was going to have to deal with Jesus of Nazareth as his eternal judge.
I pity that man if he didn't trust Christ later because there's no hope for him in all eternity.
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Can you imagine coming before the white throne of judgment and having
God accuse you of having smitten the Savior and calling him a blasphemer, someone speaking an
untruth, a liar? He who is true. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross
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that we might die to sin and live to righteousness or by his wounds you were healed.
You were healed from the disease of sins control, of sins penalty and power.
You were healed. You were made able to do righteousness
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by the cleansing and indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit of God. You were healed because of
Christ's death in your place. The one who did no sin, the one who is his truth finished the work.
And now he says and view this and I've given you my salvation. Now you ought to do what? You ought to
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live to righteousness. Live with righteousness as your goal, as your experience, as your standard,
as your joy to do it to the glory of God. Which really means to let God be seen, let God be in
control in your life. The Lord Jesus set the way for us and became our Savior. I want you to go
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to Hebrews chapter 1 because here talks about the Lord Jesus being the vessel through whom God
spoke to us. Now God can't speak a lie. He is true. And what He spoke through the Lord Jesus is true.
Hebrews chapter 1, God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets,
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in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son,
whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world and He, the Son now,
is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature and upholds all things by the word of His power.
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When He had made a purification, when He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High.
So what God has done, though He spoke through prophets in past centuries, the writer of Hebrews is saying,
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now He's spoken to us, not merely through prophets, but through His Son. You must hear what Jesus says
as the word of God. You, of course, have to read the prophets and say, that's the word of God.
But now He's spoken even more surely, even more wonderfully. The word is no more perfect,
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but the method that He used is more wonderful. He actually spoke through His own Son. His Son is not the speaking truth. He is the truth.
He did all that the Father gave Him to do.
This is the Christ who's done the work of redemption.
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This is the one that is seated in the place of intercession now.
Here it is in 1-3. He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature and upholds all things by the word of His power.
When He had made purification for our sins, now that speaks. That's just the way of saying the cross.
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He made purification of your sin. Where? In His death on the cross. He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.
He's been elevated now to the place of honor, the right hand, place of power, the right hand, the place of glory.
What's He doing there? He's interceding for us.
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He's interceding on behalf of the ones that He had toned for, the ones that He purified.
He purified us of our sins.
And then He has the privilege, not only have been the one to purify us of our sins, to now intercede for us.
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When He purified us of our sins, He brought us into agreement with righteousness, into agreement with truth.
And now as our intercessor, He answers for us.
And He calls us by the Spirit of God to walk in righteousness, as I've read for you from 1 Peter there, 2-24.
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2-24. To walk in righteousness, He calls to us by the Spirit to walk that way.
But when we don't, He interposes His blood. His appeal is not to us and not to our good works, but to His blood.
Before God, you are seen as being in truth.
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And the appeal of God, in His Word, to His children, is that we ought to walk that way.
Now, chapter 2 of Hebrews, go over to the first verse of chapter 2 of Hebrews.
For this reason, we must pay much closer attention to what we've heard, lest we drift away from it.
For if the Word spoken through angels proved unalterable, when I stop right there,
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we're talking about the Word of God this morning and the truth of God.
We've called the Old Testament, the Law and the Prophets.
Now, a specific reference is being made here in Hebrews 2 to the Word of Angels.
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Not of prophets, but of angels. Angels are a special level of creation above man. They're not
made of this stuff of this universe. They were created wholly as individuals. They don't procreate,
they don't have little angels, little cherubs flittering around. That's not what the story tells
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us. Every angel is a separate, wonderful creation. Yes, there was a horrible rebellion,
and many of the angels followed Lucifer, son of the morning, who sought to elevate himself,
even to the height of the hill of God, to the throne of God, and had to be judged.
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And when he was all those angels, that followed him and his sin were cast down out of heaven
into the earth. They're not destroyed. They're here. They're active. They're called demons.
Lucifer is called Satan, the destroyer, the Apollion, the old serpent, the dragon, the red
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dragon, many other things, none of them good names. Father of lies, the siever, enemy of your
souls, I don't suppose the list of references to him could be any worse than it is in the Word of God.
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But the holy angels are called ministers of God,
flaming ministers of God, as though they're like flames of fire. They go forth from God's
presence to do God's will, and they always do God's will. Well, one thing that they did,
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they do a lot of things. We don't know all that they do, but we get some little clues through the
scripture here and there about things that they do. But one thing that they did, they had some part
in bringing a message to Moses, the message of the commandments, how God used them quite. We're not
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even that's not really fully explained for us in the Old Testament, where you undoubtedly go back
and read and say, well, what? How did that happen? You know, because the book of Hebrew speaks of
it happening, that it was by the instrumentality of angels that Moses received the law, and we can't
really find anything out about it. It's just a one of those things that you say, well, that's how
God did it. He sent the angel out with the message and Moses received it by the hand of the angels.
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Messengers, that's what they are, messengers, but listen to the sobering word about the word that
came to man through angels. It says, if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable,
any word that came to mankind through an angel was unalterable.
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You couldn't change it. It was absolute.
If God said it, it couldn't be changed. He stood behind it. The angel didn't bring along a commentary.
He didn't say, well, I heard God say something at the throne. Now let me tell you what I think it means.
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I want to give you my opinion. Of course, my brother angel over here doesn't agree with me,
but we would both like to share our ideas about this. That isn't how the word of God came
through angels. It came authoritatively. It came with precision. It came with exactness. It was
absolutely the word of God. They were faithful messengers, and it therefore was unalterable.
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It came indeed as the word of God. You see, God's word is truth.
They wouldn't dare tamper with God's word. I want to tell you something. There's a sober warning in
the book of Revelation to anybody that would tamper with God's word.
You might think that you can do what the angels wouldn't dare to do.
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Rewrite it a bit. Reconstruct it so that the message is confused or messed up a little bit.
Get your ideas into it if you do. For that book, I want to tell you, there's a curse upon anybody
that would do that. I don't know what God would do to work out the curse, but if God's word
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says he puts a curse on somebody that would do it, it is unalterable. That curse will come on that man.
The angel's word, and they brought it from the throne, was unalterable, and every transgression
and disobedience received it just recompense. When the angels brought the law, when angels brought
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the word of God, which is unalterable, when they brought the requirements by which men were going to
see the righteousness of God, and when a man broke those commandments, with every breaking of every
commandment, with every transgression, there was a just recompense, meted out by God. In other words,
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there was a judgment that went along with it. If you do this, I will do this.
Well, every time somebody did what God told him not to do, he was faithful to follow through with
what he said he would do. You know that whoever will not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ has the
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wrath of God abiding on them. Do you know that if the man will not receive Christ, is their savior?
And he dies, that it is absolutely unalterable, that he will face the wrath of God, and he will
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exist under the workings of the wrath of God for eternity, and it is unalterable.
It is the truth. It is the Word of God.
How shall we escape? Verse 3 says, if we neglect so great a salvation, after it was at the first
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spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard. So the Lord Jesus came and he
spoke it, and then those that heard it came and spoke it. Aren't you glad you have the New Testament?
Not only do you have the Gospels, which required much that the Lord said, not all, because John
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explains the world couldn't contain the books. So God made a selection of what he wanted us to
have as a record of what the Lord said. We have that, and then we have the record in the epistles
of what those that heard him have to tell us.
It's wonderful. We have an authoritative word from God, and it is unalterable. Every
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John and every tittle, every smallest word and every extension of that word, every little dot of
it will come to pass. God is true to his word. God also bearing witness with them, both by signs
and wonders, and by various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will.
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God has borne testimony in the church. As the Spirit of God has given gifts,
you can read it. Here are the references. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7, 11, and 18, which tell you that it
is the will of the Spirit to decide who will have what gift is not the will of the man,
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or the woman. And by his will, he has left these gifts there, these testimonies,
as a witness to what? Why are they there? This is the explanation to underscore, to emphasize,
to call your attention to and require your response to this, that the word of God has been spoken,
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and it is true, and you're going to be held responsible for it. To obey it, that's what they're for.
That's the explanation. God has not only said it through prophets, he said it through the Lord
Jesus, he said it through those that heard him. He calls us to obedience to live in this victory.
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I'm going to stay in chapter two of Hebrews and show that to you as you go through that whole
chapter and come to the end of the chapter. Here's what you find in verse 17, still in context,
with what I've already read to you. Therefore, he had to be made like his brothers in all things.
This is speaking of the Lord Jesus. Then he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in
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things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For since he himself was
tempted in that which he has suffered, he is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
So the full purpose of God and bringing the Son into the world
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was that he should fulfill all the word of God while he was here and be able to say on the cross,
it is finished, and that then he would be lifted up to glory to sit at the right hand of the
majesty on high that now he himself was tempted.
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And that he has suffered, he is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
Now he is there as our high priest at the right hand of God, to come to the aid of those who are
tempted, to come to the aid of those who are God's children down in this earth.
He comes to our aid by the instrument or the person of the Holy Spirit working in us.
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He comes to our aid by the power of the Spirit of God, but the Spirit of God can only bring to you
what the Son has provided. So he has provided victory for you in your daily life. He wants you,
I'll put it this way, he wants you to live and walk by truth as he did.
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And he gives you the power to do it.
He provided it in his death. He releases it to you through the Spirit of God.
You can. You are able to do righteousness now, not only were you saved and
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made righteous in the eyes of God. He's calling you now. As you go through trouble to call in the
Lord Jesus and let him provide for you, as you go through this trouble, you're tempted, you're
tried, you can come to him and he's at the throne and he intercedes for you and he provides for you
and he gives you what you need. He comes to your aid as you have need. He supplies.
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Comes to your aid means he supplies and he supplies from the great riches in glory that there is
in God by Christ Jesus. There is no end to it. There is no exhausting of it. There's an endless
supply for your need so that you can walk by truth so that you can hear the word of God speak,
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you can obey it. There's a very powerful statement in the Gospel of John. I want you to keep it in
my John 10 verse 35. Lord Jesus is speaking, if he called them gods to whom the word of God came
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and I'm not going to get into an interpretation and explanation of why the Lord Jesus can do that
in saying it because all he's really saying is, look, even if you don't understand it,
that's really what he's saying, even if you don't understand it, if a thing is written in the word
of God, it is true. You know how he says it? With this part of the verse and the scripture
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cannot be broken. Now excuse this extreme statement. I'm going to do it deliberately
and I may know dishonor to the word of God. But if the word of God said, ducks can fly upside down.
If the temperature is below 100 degrees below zero and the moon hasn't risen yet.
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And it's the fourth of October.
And you're standing on your head watching. If that's what it said,
brethren, on the 4th of October, if the moon hadn't risen, you were on your head, ducks could
fly upside down. If it was below 100 degrees, below zero, it would be true. Aren't you glad?
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You can come to the word of God and you can read something and say, I don't know how God could
call men gods, small G with an S. I don't know how God could do that because we are not divine in any
sense. No, but he does apply that word to us as spiritual beings. If God said it, listen,
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it's true. Why? Because the scripture cannot be broken.
It is unalterable. Why? Because God is truth. God cannot lie.
And my Savior will feel the word. He is the word and there is no sin in him. There is no
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guile in him. He never lied. He did not deceive. His word is truth. He is truth. The word of God
cannot be broken. So if I read it and I find my God making promise to me, I can take him at his
word. And if he says, trust in me and I will make it come to past, I can trust him. If he speaks to
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me, I can believe it. What do I do with this? Here, God speak. You remember Jesus said many times,
he that had the ears to hear, let him hear. Oh, and he means by that, is this just because you have
these things hanging on the outside of your head doesn't mean that you're really getting the message.
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The sound may be going in there, but a lot of us have fuzz in there.
We don't get the message saying, listen, don't just think because you record the words
like a tape recorder that you have heard. What God wants is that kind of hearing which brings
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response. If you have ears, you better hear and respond from your heart to God. That's what he wants.
All right. Thank you, Pastor Raines for another message from the word of God. I don't know if you
noticed, it kind of cut off a little bit there at the end. Right. I missed the last few minutes or two
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from it. Well, that's how it is with these tapes. Sometimes they run out of tape and
you know, when It was recorded. That's all we got. Well, I didn't want to let that stop me from
putting this on. So because it's such a good, such a good message. So I think you get the
main part of it without having to hear the prayer at the end. But maybe next time,
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next one will be better. I don't know. It depends. That's how these old tapes are.
Okay. And if you notice, but it was kind of close to when we had before, it was
the second my list here, episode 70, said the unchanging God and his unfailing love. So this is
an ultra rule truth, which is kind of same thing. But God doesn't change. He's the same yesterday,
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See you next time.
Well friends and welcome to the Legacy Bible podcast. My name is Marcus Onate and I will
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be bringing to you another from the massive tape collection of the Fellowship Bible Church
in Joliet, Illinois. And today you're going to be having one from March 10th of 1991.
And it's titled An Alterable Truth, the Word, the Son, and the Promise of God. Sounds pretty
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good. Alrighty, so we'll be getting right into that. And I'll see you on the other side
of it. Once it opened in Numbers chapter 23, I want to look at something there in verse 19.
It's one of the verses of the Old Testament I think that's worth memorizing. In the 50-day
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adventure on Thursday and Friday, I'm sorry, on Friday and Saturday, you were helped to get
ready for our worship today. And the subject of our worship today is what? Truth, truth.
As we look at that, I want us to see something first about the character of God from Numbers 23,
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19. God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent. Has he said
and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good? Now look at that verse.
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God is not like men. Men can speak and then not do what they say they'll do. Maybe not even intend
to do what they say they'll do. That's deceit. That's a lie. When somebody speaks their word,
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their very life should stand behind their word. When God speaks, when he says, I will do something,
he does it. He cannot. He not only does not lie, he cannot lie. He's not a man that he should lie,
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and as Paul says to Titus, God who cannot lie, impossible. If God has said something, you may take
it as true. Don't soften it. Don't spiritualize it away. Don't undermine it. Don't weaken it.
When God speaks, you may trust in it. If it's a word of judgment, listen, rest assured. God is
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not in the business of giving out empty threats. If it's in the matter of a blessing,
look, listen, God is not in the business of trying to pat people on the back.
He doesn't do that. Not in that sense that one says untruths just to make somebody think they're
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trying to please them and then turn against them when their back is turned. God is not like that.
When God speaks, he speaks in truth. He's not like a man. He cannot lie. He will not lie. And when
he says something, he will do it. That is the character of God.
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Now let's see something about the Lord Jesus from Matthew.
Let's go to Matthew's gospel because in Matthew 4, no, Matthew 5,
we see something about the Lord Jesus relationship to God's word.
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When God speaks in his word, he will fulfill it. What is the Lord Jesus relationship to God's word?
Matthew 5, I want to read it verse 17. He speaks to the matter of the law.
But I want to read the full phrase here. Do not think that I am come to abolish the law or the
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prophets. I do not come to abolish but to fulfill.
Now some people read that this way. Do not think that I am come to abolish the law.
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I do not come to abolish but to fulfill. Do you see or the prophets in there?
Or the prophets, the little phrase or the prophets forces you to deal with the reference to the law in a
little bit different way than you might otherwise do it. Because the law, as it
use several places in the scripture, can perhaps refer to the 10 commandments, the law of God
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and the law of God and graven on stones given to Moses.
And at times that is what it does refer to. The law and other times can refer to the whole body
of commandments. The Pharisees thought there were 611 or 13 or something like that. I always get
that number a little confused in their writings anyway. They think there is some number like that.
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They thought there were some number like that of laws and commandments, ordinances,
all the things that God had commanded his people to do. So in the sense that there is that
larger body of the commandments. Now the law is also used in some places to refer to the whole
of the word of God. Now one way that the Jews made sure
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that their listeners understood which application they were using the word law in, one way that
they made sure of it, if they intended to speak of the whole of the word of God, was this way.
They would add the law and the prophets. The law in a general sense would sometimes refer to the
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five books of Moses. We call it the Pentateuch. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
That often is called in the Bible, the law. The law. The other writings after that
were often referred to as the prophets. The prophets. Now it's true you have some books of history there,
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first and second Samuel, first and second kings, first and second chronicles. You have some history
there and you have history kind of working its way into all the texts of the Old Testament really.
Actually you have a wonderful amount of history in Genesis and Exodus, right? With all the story
of from creation to the coming of God's work among the people of Abraham, as Nietzsche's Abraham,
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and then multiply his seed. That's really all history, but it's included in what is called the law,
the Pentateuch. The prophets kind of spanned the rest of the Old Testament.
Now sometimes they wanted to be very, very specific so that you would understand
that they meant the whole body of what God had given. And so they would say the law and the prophets
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and the Psalms. And they would speak that way. But the law in the prophets is a general phrase for
meaning the whole Old Testament. The whole Old Testament. In other words, here comes the Son of God into
the earth. He's born of a woman incarnate, grows to manhood at about 30 years of age, as Luke says in
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the first chapter of his gospel. He comes into his ministry. He comes to the river Jordan,
John the baptizer baptizes him. God, this Father speaks from heaven, the Spirit of God descends upon
him as a dove. And he steps into his ministry for three years. In those three years of ministry,
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this is his attitude about the law and the prophets. His attitude is, do not think that I am come to
abolish the law or the prophets. I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you,
until heaven and earth pass away. Not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the law
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until all is accomplished. Now, would you please read the second reference to law in verse 18,
as it is defined in verse 17 by the Lord Jesus, the law or the prophets.
You might have a jot or tittle reference in the King James, you do jot or tittle.
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What's meant there is first by jot the yod, which is the smallest of the letters.
And what is just given to you as tittle, in your marginal notes, maybe in your new American or other
Bible like new King James. Well, Ed Sprockle would know this as a seraph, a seraph in the English
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language is just a little extension of a letter, little thing that's stuck on some fonts or some
styles of letters to make the letters look a little bit fancy. You know, instead of just having a stroke
for an eye, they have these little things sticking out on the edges, or if it's an R, they have a
little thing up there. It's a little little projection of the letter. You don't need it to have an R or an
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I. And so that in English, that would be the word. That's the idea that we'd try to get over to you.
It's a little little extension of the letter. However, I'll tell you something in Hebrew,
that's not quite it, because in Hebrew, they do put little things like dots or little extensions
of the letter on their primary letter. But when they do, they change its meaning.
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Now, the seraph doesn't change an R at all, or a T or an I. It doesn't do a thing to it.
It's still a plain old R or T or an I, but not in Hebrew. You can have the smallest letter
or the smallest addition to a letter, the tittle.
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And the Lord Jesus is saying, not one of the smallest letters, not one of the smallest little dots
or additions to a letter will cease to come to pass. It will all come to pass, because he says,
until all is accomplished. Now, the Lord Jesus relationship to the word of God is this,
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he came to fulfill it, not to destroy it, not to set it aside, but to fulfill it.
He came for that purpose.
And he said, you know, he went on to teach, you better understand this.
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Every part of it, every last letter, the smallest letter, every little stroke, every little dot
of anything that God has given shall be fulfilled.
In other words, if God said it, it shall be done.
And his relationship to it is to fulfill it,
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to agree with it and do the part of the incarnate sun to make all the promises that relate to him
and all the works that relate to him come to pass in and through him, that he would in no way
frustrated, but more than that, not just not frustrated, but that he would be with a willing
vessel for the Father to use to make those promises come to pass. He was here for that
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to fulfill it. In John 17, he's talking to the Father in his, what we often call his high priestly
prayer. That's just a label. Think of the Father listening to the Son, the Son speaking to the
Father on our behalf. And that's his role as our high priest. But John 17 verse four,
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listen to what our Savior says to his Father, I glorified the on the earth, having accomplished
the work which Thou has given me to do. You know what he's saying? Father, everything you gave for
me to do or gave to me to do, I've done every work, every word, everything you gave to me to do,
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I've done what has he done? He has fulfilled it. I think there is a therefore a very meaningful
statement from the Lord in John 19, right in this connection at verse 30.
When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, he said,
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It is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
It is finished. That's not a statement of defeat. That's a statement of victory.
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It's done. I've completed it. What did he complete? All that the Father gave him to do.
Every jot and every tittle. To the letter and to the dot. He did it. He completed it.
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That's his relationship to the Word of God.
To do all that it was his to do for our sake. Peter speaks on that. Let's go to Peter's little book,
verse Peter, chapter two.
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And he's really quoting from the Old Testament when he does this, but I'm going to use Peter's
quotation of it because Peter goes on to say some other things. First Peter 2 22,
speaking of our Lord's sinless life, he says, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in his mouth.
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Do you remember Numbers 23 19? God is not a man that he should lie.
God does not lie. God does not deceive.
And when our Savior was on this earth, he did all that the Father gave him to do.
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And when it was finished, this could be said. He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in
his mouth. You could examine every word, every word that the Lord had ever spoken in his earthly
time. On this earth for our sake, you could examine every word and you would not find one lie,
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you would not find one instance of deceit. Absolutely perfect. His word was true. Don't you remember
how he referred to himself in John 14 6? I am the way and the truth and the life.
He in fact, in John 1 1, is even called the word. In the beginning was the word and the word was with
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God and the word was God. It will all come to pass. It is all true. He is true. He is the word.
His relationship to the word of God isn't simply to fulfill it in action in this life. He is its
very fulfillment. He is the very embodiment of the word of God. He is the word. He is God in
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carne. And now God glorified for our sake. He did no sin. And here when Peter has said that,
he gives us an appeal. I'm going to read the connecting verse of 23. And while being reviled,
he did not revile in return. While suffering, he uttered no threats, but kept entrusting himself
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to him who judges righteously. I know that's a connecting verse, but it's proof really of verse 22.
If you want to test the life of Christ and push it to the extreme, you know, all truth can be
tested by pushing it to the extreme. You push the matter of life to the extreme and what do you
have? You have Christ suffering. The cross was the extreme. It was when people were reviling him.
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They span upon him. They they they they smote him. I was reading this morning of that scene
when he was before the high priest and one of his trials, the trial before the high priest.
And one of the guards standing there by him, when Jesus said something to the high priest that
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the guard thought was out of order, apparently it says he he smote him. So it seems like he took
his staff and drove it into his body somewhere just, you know, fog, you know, against his body
somewhere, maybe in the stomach or in the back or wherever. To think that the Lord could be
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injured could be could be beat could be could be smitten like that with the accusation that he
had spoken wrongly. That man was convinced that he had but he had not. He never said a word that
was wrong. He never lied. He never deceived. He is true. It's it's a it's a fearful thing to think
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that that man would have in his death suddenly found out if he hadn't received Christ by then
that now he was going to have to deal with Jesus of Nazareth as his eternal judge.
I pity that man if he didn't trust Christ later because there's no hope for him in all eternity.
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Can you imagine coming before the white throne of judgment and having
God accuse you of having smitten the Savior and calling him a blasphemer, someone speaking an
untruth, a liar? He who is true. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross
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that we might die to sin and live to righteousness or by his wounds you were healed.
You were healed from the disease of sins control, of sins penalty and power.
You were healed. You were made able to do righteousness
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by the cleansing and indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit of God. You were healed because of
Christ's death in your place. The one who did no sin, the one who is his truth finished the work.
And now he says and view this and I've given you my salvation. Now you ought to do what? You ought to
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live to righteousness. Live with righteousness as your goal, as your experience, as your standard,
as your joy to do it to the glory of God. Which really means to let God be seen, let God be in
control in your life. The Lord Jesus set the way for us and became our Savior. I want you to go
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to Hebrews chapter 1 because here talks about the Lord Jesus being the vessel through whom God
spoke to us. Now God can't speak a lie. He is true. And what He spoke through the Lord Jesus is true.
Hebrews chapter 1, God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets,
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in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son,
whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world and He, the Son now,
is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature and upholds all things by the word of His power.
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When He had made a purification, when He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High.
So what God has done, though He spoke through prophets in past centuries, the writer of Hebrews is saying,
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now He's spoken to us, not merely through prophets, but through His Son. You must hear what Jesus says
as the word of God. You, of course, have to read the prophets and say, that's the word of God.
But now He's spoken even more surely, even more wonderfully. The word is no more perfect,
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but the method that He used is more wonderful. He actually spoke through His own Son. His Son is not the speaking truth. He is the truth.
He did all that the Father gave Him to do.
This is the Christ who's done the work of redemption.
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This is the one that is seated in the place of intercession now.
Here it is in 1-3. He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature and upholds all things by the word of His power.
When He had made purification for our sins, now that speaks. That's just the way of saying the cross.
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He made purification of your sin. Where? In His death on the cross. He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.
He's been elevated now to the place of honor, the right hand, place of power, the right hand, the place of glory.
What's He doing there? He's interceding for us.
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He's interceding on behalf of the ones that He had toned for, the ones that He purified.
He purified us of our sins.
And then He has the privilege, not only have been the one to purify us of our sins, to now intercede for us.
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When He purified us of our sins, He brought us into agreement with righteousness, into agreement with truth.
And now as our intercessor, He answers for us.
And He calls us by the Spirit of God to walk in righteousness, as I've read for you from 1 Peter there, 2-24.
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2-24. To walk in righteousness, He calls to us by the Spirit to walk that way.
But when we don't, He interposes His blood. His appeal is not to us and not to our good works, but to His blood.
Before God, you are seen as being in truth.
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And the appeal of God, in His Word, to His children, is that we ought to walk that way.
Now, chapter 2 of Hebrews, go over to the first verse of chapter 2 of Hebrews.
For this reason, we must pay much closer attention to what we've heard, lest we drift away from it.
For if the Word spoken through angels proved unalterable, when I stop right there,
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we're talking about the Word of God this morning and the truth of God.
We've called the Old Testament, the Law and the Prophets.
Now, a specific reference is being made here in Hebrews 2 to the Word of Angels.
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Not of prophets, but of angels. Angels are a special level of creation above man. They're not
made of this stuff of this universe. They were created wholly as individuals. They don't procreate,
they don't have little angels, little cherubs flittering around. That's not what the story tells
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us. Every angel is a separate, wonderful creation. Yes, there was a horrible rebellion,
and many of the angels followed Lucifer, son of the morning, who sought to elevate himself,
even to the height of the hill of God, to the throne of God, and had to be judged.
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And when he was all those angels, that followed him and his sin were cast down out of heaven
into the earth. They're not destroyed. They're here. They're active. They're called demons.
Lucifer is called Satan, the destroyer, the Apollion, the old serpent, the dragon, the red
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dragon, many other things, none of them good names. Father of lies, the siever, enemy of your
souls, I don't suppose the list of references to him could be any worse than it is in the Word of God.
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But the holy angels are called ministers of God,
flaming ministers of God, as though they're like flames of fire. They go forth from God's
presence to do God's will, and they always do God's will. Well, one thing that they did,
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they do a lot of things. We don't know all that they do, but we get some little clues through the
scripture here and there about things that they do. But one thing that they did, they had some part
in bringing a message to Moses, the message of the commandments, how God used them quite. We're not
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even that's not really fully explained for us in the Old Testament, where you undoubtedly go back
and read and say, well, what? How did that happen? You know, because the book of Hebrew speaks of
it happening, that it was by the instrumentality of angels that Moses received the law, and we can't
really find anything out about it. It's just a one of those things that you say, well, that's how
God did it. He sent the angel out with the message and Moses received it by the hand of the angels.
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Messengers, that's what they are, messengers, but listen to the sobering word about the word that
came to man through angels. It says, if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable,
any word that came to mankind through an angel was unalterable.
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You couldn't change it. It was absolute.
If God said it, it couldn't be changed. He stood behind it. The angel didn't bring along a commentary.
He didn't say, well, I heard God say something at the throne. Now let me tell you what I think it means.
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I want to give you my opinion. Of course, my brother angel over here doesn't agree with me,
but we would both like to share our ideas about this. That isn't how the word of God came
through angels. It came authoritatively. It came with precision. It came with exactness. It was
absolutely the word of God. They were faithful messengers, and it therefore was unalterable.
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It came indeed as the word of God. You see, God's word is truth.
They wouldn't dare tamper with God's word. I want to tell you something. There's a sober warning in
the book of Revelation to anybody that would tamper with God's word.
You might think that you can do what the angels wouldn't dare to do.
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Rewrite it a bit. Reconstruct it so that the message is confused or messed up a little bit.
Get your ideas into it if you do. For that book, I want to tell you, there's a curse upon anybody
that would do that. I don't know what God would do to work out the curse, but if God's word
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says he puts a curse on somebody that would do it, it is unalterable. That curse will come on that man.
The angel's word, and they brought it from the throne, was unalterable, and every transgression
and disobedience received it just recompense. When the angels brought the law, when angels brought
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the word of God, which is unalterable, when they brought the requirements by which men were going to
see the righteousness of God, and when a man broke those commandments, with every breaking of every
commandment, with every transgression, there was a just recompense, meted out by God. In other words,
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there was a judgment that went along with it. If you do this, I will do this.
Well, every time somebody did what God told him not to do, he was faithful to follow through with
what he said he would do. You know that whoever will not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ has the
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wrath of God abiding on them. Do you know that if the man will not receive Christ, is their savior?
And he dies, that it is absolutely unalterable, that he will face the wrath of God, and he will
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exist under the workings of the wrath of God for eternity, and it is unalterable.
It is the truth. It is the Word of God.
How shall we escape? Verse 3 says, if we neglect so great a salvation, after it was at the first
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spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard. So the Lord Jesus came and he
spoke it, and then those that heard it came and spoke it. Aren't you glad you have the New Testament?
Not only do you have the Gospels, which required much that the Lord said, not all, because John
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explains the world couldn't contain the books. So God made a selection of what he wanted us to
have as a record of what the Lord said. We have that, and then we have the record in the epistles
of what those that heard him have to tell us.
It's wonderful. We have an authoritative word from God, and it is unalterable. Every
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John and every tittle, every smallest word and every extension of that word, every little dot of
it will come to pass. God is true to his word. God also bearing witness with them, both by signs
and wonders, and by various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will.
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God has borne testimony in the church. As the Spirit of God has given gifts,
you can read it. Here are the references. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7, 11, and 18, which tell you that it
is the will of the Spirit to decide who will have what gift is not the will of the man,
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or the woman. And by his will, he has left these gifts there, these testimonies,
as a witness to what? Why are they there? This is the explanation to underscore, to emphasize,
to call your attention to and require your response to this, that the word of God has been spoken,
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and it is true, and you're going to be held responsible for it. To obey it, that's what they're for.
That's the explanation. God has not only said it through prophets, he said it through the Lord
Jesus, he said it through those that heard him. He calls us to obedience to live in this victory.
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I'm going to stay in chapter two of Hebrews and show that to you as you go through that whole
chapter and come to the end of the chapter. Here's what you find in verse 17, still in context,
with what I've already read to you. Therefore, he had to be made like his brothers in all things.
This is speaking of the Lord Jesus. Then he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in
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things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For since he himself was
tempted in that which he has suffered, he is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
So the full purpose of God and bringing the Son into the world
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was that he should fulfill all the word of God while he was here and be able to say on the cross,
it is finished, and that then he would be lifted up to glory to sit at the right hand of the
majesty on high that now he himself was tempted.
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And that he has suffered, he is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
Now he is there as our high priest at the right hand of God, to come to the aid of those who are
tempted, to come to the aid of those who are God's children down in this earth.
He comes to our aid by the instrument or the person of the Holy Spirit working in us.
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He comes to our aid by the power of the Spirit of God, but the Spirit of God can only bring to you
what the Son has provided. So he has provided victory for you in your daily life. He wants you,
I'll put it this way, he wants you to live and walk by truth as he did.
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And he gives you the power to do it.
He provided it in his death. He releases it to you through the Spirit of God.
You can. You are able to do righteousness now, not only were you saved and
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made righteous in the eyes of God. He's calling you now. As you go through trouble to call in the
Lord Jesus and let him provide for you, as you go through this trouble, you're tempted, you're
tried, you can come to him and he's at the throne and he intercedes for you and he provides for you
and he gives you what you need. He comes to your aid as you have need. He supplies.
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Comes to your aid means he supplies and he supplies from the great riches in glory that there is
in God by Christ Jesus. There is no end to it. There is no exhausting of it. There's an endless
supply for your need so that you can walk by truth so that you can hear the word of God speak,
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you can obey it. There's a very powerful statement in the Gospel of John. I want you to keep it in
my John 10 verse 35. Lord Jesus is speaking, if he called them gods to whom the word of God came
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and I'm not going to get into an interpretation and explanation of why the Lord Jesus can do that
in saying it because all he's really saying is, look, even if you don't understand it,
that's really what he's saying, even if you don't understand it, if a thing is written in the word
of God, it is true. You know how he says it? With this part of the verse and the scripture
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cannot be broken. Now excuse this extreme statement. I'm going to do it deliberately
and I may know dishonor to the word of God. But if the word of God said, ducks can fly upside down.
If the temperature is below 100 degrees below zero and the moon hasn't risen yet.
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And it's the fourth of October.
And you're standing on your head watching. If that's what it said,
brethren, on the 4th of October, if the moon hadn't risen, you were on your head, ducks could
fly upside down. If it was below 100 degrees, below zero, it would be true. Aren't you glad?
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You can come to the word of God and you can read something and say, I don't know how God could
call men gods, small G with an S. I don't know how God could do that because we are not divine in any
sense. No, but he does apply that word to us as spiritual beings. If God said it, listen,
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it's true. Why? Because the scripture cannot be broken.
It is unalterable. Why? Because God is truth. God cannot lie.
And my Savior will feel the word. He is the word and there is no sin in him. There is no
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guile in him. He never lied. He did not deceive. His word is truth. He is truth. The word of God
cannot be broken. So if I read it and I find my God making promise to me, I can take him at his
word. And if he says, trust in me and I will make it come to past, I can trust him. If he speaks to
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me, I can believe it. What do I do with this? Here, God speak. You remember Jesus said many times,
he that had the ears to hear, let him hear. Oh, and he means by that, is this just because you have
these things hanging on the outside of your head doesn't mean that you're really getting the message.
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The sound may be going in there, but a lot of us have fuzz in there.
We don't get the message saying, listen, don't just think because you record the words
like a tape recorder that you have heard. What God wants is that kind of hearing which brings
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response. If you have ears, you better hear and respond from your heart to God. That's what he wants.
All right. Thank you, Pastor Raines for another message from the word of God. I don't know if you
noticed, it kind of cut off a little bit there at the end. Right. I missed the last few minutes or two
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from it. Well, that's how it is with these tapes. Sometimes they run out of tape and
you know, when It was recorded. That's all we got. Well, I didn't want to let that stop me from
putting this on. So because it's such a good, such a good message. So I think you get the
main part of it without having to hear the prayer at the end. But maybe next time,
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next one will be better. I don't know. It depends. That's how these old tapes are.
Okay. And if you notice, but it was kind of close to when we had before, it was
the second my list here, episode 70, said the unchanging God and his unfailing love. So this is
an ultra rule truth, which is kind of same thing. But God doesn't change. He's the same yesterday,
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and forever. Okay. So we'll be having more next week. And if you like, you could subscribe.
You could comment. I like comments. So far, my team member here, Jeff. He's the only one
leaving comments. And I like comments, even if they're from Jeff, especially if they're from Jeff.
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But if you liked what you hear, and you want to comment, comment on your favorite
app, you're listening up, or go over to YouTube and subscribe. Can leave comments there too, but
you can subscribe, subscribe would be good. It really helps out. And yes, we have a YouTube
channel. So if you want to send someone over there, maybe you want to send someone to, hey,
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listen to the Legacy Bible podcast, that would be a good place to send them too. Because I think
just about everybody knows how to get to, how to get to YouTube and just tell them to look up,
legacy bible Bible podcast. And we'll pop up there. You can check that out there.
And what else? Hmm. I don't know. I think that's it for this week. So I'll see you next week. Before
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then, you can, like I said, comment, subscribe, read your Bible, of course, read your Bible,
while listening to the podcast. Oh, good idea. And pray for the podcast. I really wanted to grow.
And go on right now, we're on episode, let's see 72. Wow. Okay, so things are going.
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So thank you for listening. And I'll see you again next week. And until then, have a great day.
See you next time.
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