864 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 4 Book 72 - The Big Picture Salvation and Good Works 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 72 THE BIG PICTURE SALVATION & GOOD WORKS - 4 Okay, it’s good to see you all back. Now let’s do the last lesson for this book 72. In fact, this whole book will be more or less on this dispensational bit. In this whole series of twelve programs, we’ve been dealing with why we can look at a pre-tribulation Rapture. So, those of you joining us on television, we would like to welcome you to an informal Bible study. Again, as I’ve said so often, we’re not underwritten by anyone. We are just totally dependent on the Lord supplying and, my, how you do it. We want to thank you from the depths of our heart for the response from our listening audience financially, prayer-wise, as well as your letters of encouragement. Now, we’re going to hopefully bring this series to the point that I wanted to bring it. To show you without a doubt that we can believe and trust in a pre-tribulation out-calling, or what we call the Rapture, of the church. I want to make a few comments on the last half hour program that I didn’t really end up the way I think I should have. We’re going to go back and start with Romans chapter 7 verses 5 and 6, because you see, you cannot do anything in the Lord’s service except the Holy Spirit leads you and empowers you. And we have to show the Scripture to do that. So, if you’ll bear with me and come back to Romans chapter 7, then we’ll go back into I Corinthians. Then hopefully, the rest of the hour we’re going to show how we can be expectantly looking for that out-calling, the trumpet call, the Rapture, whatever you want to call it. All right, let’s turn to Romans chapter 7 and drop in at verse 4. Romans 7:4-5 “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; (the work of the cross) that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. (In other words, it’s to be a works element that brings forth more believers.) 5. For when we were in the flesh, (As we saw earlier this afternoon, every one of us were at one time in the lost estate.) the motions (or acts) of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.” That’s the Great White Throne Judgment. Romans 7:6 “But now (for you and me as believers) we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, (That’s the Holy Spirit.) and not in the oldness of the letter.” That is the law. All right, now the other verse that I’ve got to look at a minute before we go any further is I Corinthians chapter 12 verse 13. This is all tied to this same premise that the moment we believed the Holy Spirit came within us to indwell us, and He also baptized us into the Body of Christ. As I said, I think in the first program this afternoon, that’s the only baptism that counts for eternity. Are you a member of the Body of Christ? I don’t care what other churches you’re a member of. That doesn’t really count. Are you a member of this Body of Christ? Only the Holy Spirit can determine who goes into the Body. I Corinthians 12:13 “For by one Spirit (There it is again, the Holy Spirit.) are we (as believers now) all (every last one of us) baptized (or placed) into (Not a denomination, but what?) one body, (We are placed into the--) one body, whether we be Jew or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into (or partake of that) one Spirit.” Then that indwelling Holy Spirit prompts us to produce fruit for eternity and to be laborers in this building that God has commissioned us to build. Never forget that we cannot perform any work for God except the Holy Spirit leads us and directs us and empowers us. All right, now we’ve been pointing to the fact that all of these things that I’ve been talking about, everything is all tied up in this period of time that we call the dispensation of the Grace of God. That’s why I looked at Ephesians 3. I also had Sharon put up all these references and you can take them down. Hopefully you can see them. They all refer to that word mystery as Paul uses the term, which means a secret. Romans 11:25 we used earlier. No, I didn’t either. I used 16:25, “the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret.” We looked at Ephesians 1:9 and all these. Take them down in your notes if I don’t have time to address them this afternoon. These are all words and verses that have no bearing on anything of this upper timeline. This is all associated with the Dispensation of Grace. Now remember, the Old Testament timeline came through, and they all thought it would just keep right on going past the ascension, and they’d go into the Tribulation. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible