God judges and removes from our personality
all that is unrighteous, all that is unholy, and all that is disobedient and self-seeking. This is an eternal judgment.
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. (Hebrews 6:2)
Because our sins have been forgiven, the old adamic nature is on the cross with Christ, and the new born-again nature has been raised to the right hand of God, we now are to proceed with the work of removing the bondages of sin from the old nature, including our body, soul, and spirit.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (II Corinthians 7:1)
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 10:39)
The raising of Lazarus from the dead is a picture of the Blowing of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement.
Lazarus had been dead four days. We have come through the first four feasts of the Lord while still carrying around a sinful personality in which death is dwelling in addition to our new eternal life.
Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. (John 11:17)
The Lord was now ready for the fifth day, the Blowing of Trumpets. The voice of Jesus raised the dead body of Lazarus, just as Jesus now is standing before His people and calling up their sinful personality to face eternal judgment.
The time has come for judgment to begin in the house of God. If we do not face it now we will in the Day of the White Throne Judgment-Christian or not!
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. (John 11:43)
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Lazarus hobbled forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes.
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. (John 11:44)
When we hear the Lord's voice today we begin to realize we are bound hand and foot with the graveclothes of sin and death. It is time for the sin to be judged and removed from us.
There are three areas of sin in our personality that must be dealt with: our love for the world, the passions, lusts, hatreds, and so forth that reside in our flesh, and-worst of all-our pride and self-will. The power of the Lord is able to save us from all three areas of sin, and the work is to begin now.
We cannot enter the feast of Tabernacles, the rest of God, until the enemies of the Lord have been put under His feet.
No doubt all Christians realize that sooner or later God must free us from our sinful nature. The new Jerusalem is not holy by imputation, by ascribed righteousness. It is not referred to as the holy city because Christ is holy while all His people continue in lust and violence. It is the holy city because every one of its inhabitants is holy and lives in a holy manner.
The cleansing of the royal priesthood is beginning now. If you are a Christian the Lord has come to assist you in putting to death the sins you practice. This will not happen instantaneously but it shall take place and it is an eternal judgment.
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. (Isaiah 4:4)
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. (Zechariah 13:9)
The cleansing of the priesthood is the baptism with fire of which John the Baptist spoke. We must be baptized both with the Holy Spirit and with the fire of Divine judgment before we are eligible and competent to rule with Christ.
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3:11-12)
The Judgment Seat of Christ began in the first century.
The Judgment Seat of Christ is in session today. You and I are being made manifest before the Judge today. We will not have to answer at a later Judgment Seat for the sins we confess and renounce today. After God has forgiven them and cleansed our personality they are ready for final eradication at the coming of the Lord. If after having confessed our sins and have turned away from them we then go back into sin there may prove to be no further opportunity to repent, just as would be true if we were admitted to the new world of righteousness and then turned and rebelled against God.
We are drawing near to the day when the awful edict will be given: "Let the filthy remain filthy; let the holy remain holy."
It is time to put an end to sin and to bring in everlasting righteousness.
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. (Deuteronomy 7:23)
The members of the Body of Christ are God's judges. As soon as they pronounce judgment against sin the angels of God will execute the sentence against the forces of evil. There are two armies, the army of judges and the army of angels. It will require the action of both armies to remove Satan from the thrones in the heavens.
We are so accustomed to being sorry for something we have done, and then two weeks later doing it again, and then three weeks later doing it again, that it is difficult for us to picture eternal deliverance. Yet eternal deliverance is taking place as Christians confess and renounce their sins. The Lord is appearing to us without sin unto salvation, unto deliverance from the power of sin. It had to happen sometime and the Scriptures point toward the day in which we are living.
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Peter 1:5)
Our sinful body has been shut up, like Lazarus in the tomb, for "four days." Now the old nature is being called forth and slain by the sword of the Spirit of God.
Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. (Joshua 10:22-24)
The sin is to be cast out of the warlike remnant of saints, then out of the remainder of the Church, then from every member of the saved nations until sin is gone entirely from the creation of God, except for the outer darkness, the Lake of Fire, and wherever else the wicked may be confined.
I am ready for all sin to be destroyed and its memory to be removed from the creation. Are you? Then rejoice because the Day of Atonement, the Day of Reconciliation to God, has commenced.
The end of the sin of worldliness.
The end of the sins of the flesh.
The end of the sin of self-will.
God delivers us from the sin of worldliness, from love for the world, from trust in the world, as we present our body a living sacrifice. This is the temptation of turning the stone into bread. Will we continue to look to the world for security and survival? Will we put our trust in things? Or will we live by every word that comes from the mouth of God?
God delivers us from the immorality of Satan that dwells in our flesh as we confess our sins and vigorously renounce them, thus passing judgment on Satan. As we confess our sins and renounce them God is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Here is the sin of idolatry, of worshiping Satan. Do we want the pleasures found in the kingdoms of the world? Are we willing to destroy body, soul, and spirit by permitting demons to express their vile, hideous slobberings in us? If we could see the drooling demons of lust, the grotesque demons of hatred, the reptilian demons of gossip and slander, the bloated demons of drunkenness, the leering monsters behind drug addiction, we would ask God to deliver us.
Do you know that when you use profanity an unclean spirit is in your tongue?
Your mouth is set on fire by Hell.
Worship God and look to Him alone for joy. In His Presence is fullness of joy and pleasure for eternity. You do not have to worship Satan in order to find joy.
You have to make the choice to justify Satan or condemn him. As long as you agree to behave in an immoral fashion you are justifying Satan. In this case, at the Judgment Seat of the future you will have a considerable part of your personality burned away that your spirit may be saved or you will be cast into the Lake of Fire. No person who continues in the sins of the flesh will be permitted to inherit the Kingdom of God whether or not he or she names the name of Christ.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. (Ephesians 5:5)
The Christian teachers of today are claiming these two passages do not apply to Christians, or if they do they do not mean what they say.
If such is the case, none of the New Testament applies to Christians and the text does not mean what it states. Let us throw the Bible away and continue in our delusions.
The Scripture is being attacked today. We have heard reasons advanced why the commandments of the Gospels do not apply to Christians, why the Book of Galatians does not apply to Jewish Christians, why the Book of Hebrews does not apply to Gentile Christians, and now some are claiming we are not supposed to read the Book of Revelation because no one understands it. All of this is aimed at convincing Christian people we have not been commanded to live righteously.
Would anyone like to remove First John from the Bible?
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. (1 John 3:7)
We are to name our sin clearly, what it is we are doing. Then we are to renounce it with all the power we have. God will forgive us and cleanse us. In the future we shall find that its power has been weakened enough for us to resist it successfully. As time goes on the sin that has been confessed and renounced will grow increasingly weak until it does not cause us much of a problem.
Some sins that are a major part of our personality have to be contended with throughout our discipleship. But God always gives the victory. It is an eternal judgment. It never is God's will that His child walk in known sin.
Do you want the sin to go? Then tell it to go clearly and forcefully. Dogs, horses, and demons respond well to clear, forceful directions. The power to set us free is available now. Put it to the test and see for yourself.
Remember, you must assign your old nature to the cross. And you must be living as a Christian, praying, reading your Bible, meeting with the fervent saints, giving, serving, and doing all else that the Scriptures command. If you are not obeying the Scripture you will not be able to gain eternal deliverance. The demons will be back to see if their house is available.
One reason Christians do not gain moral victory is that this is not what they truly want. They ask for prayer and deliverance but in their heart of hearts they are afraid of change. They are double-minded. If this is the case with you, ask a strong saint to pray for you to gain the desire for deliverance. If you remain double-minded you never will be delivered.
This that we are teaching is the doctrine of eternal judgment and it follows the resurrection of the dead. The death, resurrection, and ascension we experience when we sincerely come to the Lord Jesus are spiritual but genuine experiences. God is willing to count us crucified with Christ and alive in Christ if this is what we desire. Then we can move forward with the program of judgment and deliverance.
It may be noticed that during the first resurrection from the dead (Rev 20:4-6) no books are opened. This is because the saints who attain to the first resurrection, the members of the royal priesthood, already have been judged. It remains only for Christ to remove the last vestiges of worldliness, immorality, and self-will from them and to clothe them with the robe of righteousness that they have kept clean by continued washing in the blood of the Lamb, according to the procedure we have just described.
Those who attain to the first resurrection, the resurrection that will take place when the Lord appears, at the beginning of the thousand-year Kingdom Age, cannot be harmed by the Lake of Fire. The fire has no authority over them.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. (Rev 20:6)
No more endless striving against sin! Now it is time to put sin to death by the Spirit of God, to put our foot on the neck of God's enemies that have buffeted us all these years.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)
We are not stating we never will be tempted again or that we will not have to guard our body carefully, beating it down continually so after we have preached to others we do not disqualify ourselves. This struggle shall continue until we die or until the Lord returns. In the world we shall have tribulation.
But instead of endlessly being sorry for the same old sins repeated again and again we now are going somewhere. We are on a path that leads to the moral image of Christ and to untroubled rest in the Person and will of the Father.
We haven't as yet described the third area of sin-that of self-will. Self-will is by far the hardest area in our personality to deal with. Self-will cannot be cast out, as in the case of the sins of the flesh. Self-will has to be burned out by suffering.
Even the Lord Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered.
We overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of our testimony concerning good and evil, and by loving not our life to the death.
God allows Satan to put us in prison. It is there we gain the crown of life-authority and power to govern by the Life of God.
Remaining in the prison of God is very difficult. Every nerve in our body screams for release. It is the temptation of the pinnacle. Will we put God to the test by jumping off "in faith"?
How many of God's people of today are willing to remain where God has placed them, day after day doing what they do not care to do; month after month having their fervent desires denied them.
True ministry comes only from the cross of deferred desire. Until we die we cannot give the resurrection life of God to other people.
The pillars of Hell cannot be torn down until the Christian bows in death to self-will.
The eternal judgment of our sin includes the destruction of worldliness from our personality; the destruction of sin from our personality; and the destruction of self-will from our personality. "I am the almighty God. Walk before Me and be perfect. And now give Isaac back to Me."
Will we do it? Our judgment is not complete, fruitfulness and dominion will not be ours, until Isaac is offered on the altar of God.
Satan cannot be cast from the heavens until some of the believers overcome him by permitting the Lord God to judge them totally in the three areas of personality we have mentioned. There are such believers. They are submitting to God. They are attaining to the first resurrection from the dead.
You can be one of these who overcome the adversary. Why don't you look to the Lord right now and tell Him of your desire to be counted among the Gideon's soldiers of the last days.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Rev 12:10-11)