25 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 1 - Book 3 - Noah, "Security of the Believer"

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 1 * PART 1 * Book 3 NOAH: SECURITY OF BELIEVER GENESIS 7 & 8 If we’re not under the blood then we have no salvation. Genesis 7:16 Jehovah is Christ in His Old Testament personality and so when the LORD, Jehovah, God the Son, invited them into the Ark and He became as I said before then that gyroscope, that maintained the safety of the Ark throughout all of the flood. Now remember there’s only one door in this Ark. John uses the analogy in his Gospel in chapter 10 that it’s the sheepfolds door and there’s only one door into the sheepfold. The Lord Jesus! Once we go into that door of salvation, who seals it? God does. There’s not a human latch on that door. God shuts us in! Let’s go to Romans first but in the back of your mind always remember what we’re trying to get out of this is that God shut the door. Well, if you’ve got Romans chapter 8, I like to just start right there with verse 1. What a promise! And always remember, God cannot lie! If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God and I trust you all do, then we have to rest on the fact that if God said it, that settles it. Romans 8:1a no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus…." There is nothing that God can bring against us in condemnation if we’re in Christ Jesus. Why? All right, let’s come on down through chapter 8 and go to verse 14. The Holy Spirit. And then in chapter 8 we have 19 times the Holy Spirit is used in just one chapter because that’s the answer for all the dilemma of chapter 7. Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they (might be? are the sons of God." "The sons of God, or children of God." Oh we may think that God should kick that person out of his family. No, that’s not salvation. Romans 8:15 Romans 8:16 The Spirit makes relationship with us known) that we are the children of God." Romans 8:17a "And then if children, then heirs (if we’re a child of God) of God, and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ,…" God did. The one that God had said in the beginning would be born. "For Ishmael will not live under the same roof with the son of promise, Isaac." Now that sounds almost cruel but remember God’s doing all this because Paul is going to use that as an allegory in Galatians chapter 4. Isaac stood for Grace." If God hasn’t begun a disciplining process in their lives, I doubt, I don’t care if they’re a preacher or not, I doubt if they’ve ever been a child of God because the Bible makes it so clear that if we’re a child of God, and if we begin to waver in our discipline, what’s God going to do? Once we’ve come into the Grace of God and we comprehend all that God has done for us, how can we help but want to serve Him? All right, now we’re in Romans chapter 8, come on down just a little further. Come down to verse 22. Romans 8:22-23 body." God is concerned in the salvation and the redemption of the body, soul and spirit. Once we enter into that Ark of Safety, which for us is the Gospel of salvation – that Christ died. Now then, in chapter 12 of I Corinthians. We have Paul expressing this concept of being in the Body. Instead of the Ark, we’re going to use the Body, the Body of Christ. Now in verse 12, he’s going to use the illustration of the human body as a type, if I may use that word, of the Body of Christ. All right, now look at the analogy in verse 12: "For as the body (the human body) is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.(and of course he’s making reference to the Body of Christ, the True Church) 13. Now what’s the next word?) All) baptized into one body,…" Now stop right there. Does the Holy Spirit baptize with water? Isn’t that right? Do you firmly believe that every member in your congregation is a born again child of God? Because you see, that’s the Holy Spirit’s work that when a person becomes a child of God, the Holy Spirit immediately places them and that’s what the word baptized here means, the Holy Spirit places them in to the Body of Christ. All right, so we are baptized or placed into the Body of Christ by an act of the Holy Spirit who can search the heart. The Holy Spirit will never place an unbeliever into the Body of Christ. You remember? We can’t judge and say well now that church member is not a child of God, that’s not our job. "…for by one Spirit are we all baptized into that body…." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible