As we examined this verse
last week we found that this word condemnation Paul speaks of here is
a Greek word, katakrima {kat-ak'-ree-mah} and it means a Damnatory
sentence, hence condemnation. We found that it comes
from a rot word which means literally a -- damning or to give judgment against, and to judge
worthy of punishment, in other words, to condemn. Thus condemnation. And Webster defines Condemnation as the act
of condemning. Which is to pass judgment upon. Therefore, in this verse of
Scripture that we are dealing with this, Paul tells us that those who are in
Christ Jesus shall not come into the judgment.
[There is] therefore now no
judgment to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit.
We further understood from 1 John 1:7 that: If we walk in the light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship
one with another and the Blood of Jesus
Christ cleanses us from all sin. So the key is to be found walking in the
light.
Furthermore, we found that
Jesus Himself promised we would not go through the judgment as we see in,
JOHN 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that heareth my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto
life. Therefore if we are promised
a deliverance from the judgment by walking in the light, then to walk in the
light is of the utmost importance to us a
People,
The Amplified version
translates Jesus words in John 5:24 in
the following manner… “The person whose ears are open to My words
– who listens to My Message – and believes, and trusts and clings to and relies on Him who sent me has (possesses now)
Eternal Life. And he does not come into the judgment – does not incur sentence
of judgment; will not come under condemnation – but has already passed over out
of death into life. “
We further broke down these
thoughts of Christ by examining the attributes of those who will not go through
the judgment. These attributes are
expressed as those who {To believe, to trust, to cling to, and to rely on God. }
To Believe: Means to
take as true and have confidence in.
To Trust: Means to
have faith and confidence in the honesty, integrity, reliability and justice.
To Cling to: Means to hold fast and embrace.
To Rely on: Means to
confidently depend upon for support or aid…
Therefore, when Jesus says, The
person whose ears are open to My words – who listens to My Message – and
believes, and trusts and clings to and relies on Him who sent
me, (possesses now) Eternal Life. And
he will not come into the judgment – he will not incur sentence of judgment; he
will not come under condemnation – because he has already passed over out of
the result of judgment which is death and has already passed into life.
That is why God’s presence
is so important to us in this hour. He is here to deliver those who have
believed and trusted and relied upon His Word.
Remember, we are promised that when we are taken out of here, the
tribulation will set in. This tribulation period is spoken of in the Book of
Daniel as the Time of Trouble.
DANIEL 12:1 ¶
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that
time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in
the book. tsarah {tsaw-raw'} 1) straits, distress, trouble And we see the same thing spoen
of by Jesus in the Book of Luke chapter 21:
25 And there shall be
signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth
distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them
for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for
the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the
Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up
your heads; for your redemption
draweth nigh. apolutrosis
{ap-ol-oo'-tro-sis} meaning
redemption or -- deliverance
So we see that both The New
Testament and in the Old Testament we have a witness from God Himself that
during this time of trouble, or distress that He will deliver us or save us
from what is coming u\on the earth. And with this in mind, I would lik to study
this end-time deliverance which God personally performs for us on His behalf at
this end-time.
Years ago, in helping us to
understand Christ’s Parousia or Presence in this hour, and why He has
personally come down, brother Vayle
spoke of eleven reasons for
Christ’s Personal Presence.
1) He is here to make ready a prepared
people.
2) He is here to gather His Elect &
claim His Inheritance
3)
He is here to save the righteous from
perishing.
4) He is here to save the Elect from
deception.
5) He
is here to seal in the wise Virgins
6)
He is here to separate the chaff from
the wheat.
7) He
is here to raise the dead.
8) He
is here to change the living.
9) He
is here to put us in a rapture.
10)
He is here to Glorify His saints
11)
He is here to Judge the Living and
the dead. (Investigating Judgment) A Judge!
Now, tonight I want to
re-examine this third reason for Christ’s Presence, for as we approach this “D”
day, we will need to be more aware of His Presence than ever before. I call it
“D” day because it has a two-fold meaning. “D” for Damnation for those who
reject God’s Shout, and “D” for Deliverance for those who believe and have
entered into God’s Shout. Deliverance
and Damnation.
Now, He is here to make ready a prepared people, and save the righteous from perishing.
He said, 87-4
HEBREWS CHAPTER 3 HEB 57- America doesn't want the Gospel (You know that.); we just might as
well admit that. This Anglo-Saxon people is finished; that's all. There's no
more Gospel that America will receive. Oh, you get a few stragglings now and
then; but just as the Gospel, it's over. And you can't even preach to them,
can't talk to them. They won't believe nothing. See? They just got their own
hardheaded ideas, and they're set, and
the next thing's for this nation is judgment. She's going to have it too. It
may be through depression; it may be through an atomic bomb; it may be through
a great plague, a disease or something; but she's ready. It's a-coming;
thousands times thousands will fall.
100
JEZEBEL RELIGION 61-0319 When God sends forth a message and tells the people, and they
don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine,
death, spiritually speaking, physically also. You watch for a depression, brother. You think you've seen something;
you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing. You think you're dying
for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You just wait, long
and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll be a famine
in the last days," said the prophet, "and not for bread and water
alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice will be quiet
in the wilderness somewhere, hid away.
He ordained the ravens, His servants. Bless them birds, His servants,
that kept the voice of--of Elijah alive during the time of his--his isolation
from the church.
Now, let’s go to the Word
tonight as we examine this thought on His Being here for the purpose to save us
from perishing.
2 Thes: 1 – 2:13 read all
1 Peter 1: 5,9,10 end time Revelation bringing salvation. 2 Peter 2: 12
- 13 while they feast with you. 3: 9, 1 Thes 5:9, 2 Thes 2: 13Titus 2: 11,
Hebrews 2: 1 - 4, Hebrews 9: 28,
]
Now, then, how does he deliver us?
11)
He is here to Judge the Living and
the dead. (Investigating Judgment) A Judge!
[ Rev 3: 14-21, James 5: 7-9, John 12: 48, Matt 3: 12, 7: 15-23, 13:
24-30, 36-43, 47-49, 25: 1-11,
2: Thes 1: 7-10]
E-37 MAKING A WAY 56-0304 Now, we've come to the place again where the
judgments are piling up. And if that day in the antediluvian, how much more of
today, when the ending of the history of time, when the ending of history of
the nations, and with coming to a climax, how much more is the wrath of God
upon millions of more people, heaping together until sin has steeped in the
world, until she's a tottering like a drunk man staggering home at four...?...
Done gone beyond the moon and stars, until it's reached the garments of
Jehovah, of Sabaoth. Then she's
staggering under the load of her own man-made theory, of her own self preservation, or her own theologies. They've taken the
commandments of God and making them of non-effect by teaching the traditions of
man. Loving the praises of man more than the praises of God, our teachers have
become lukewarm and placing upon joining churches, saying, "That's all
right, long as you belong to church, just forget about it."
E-29 LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD 56-0723 And He said, "As it was in the days of
Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." The judgments is bound to strike, for man had continually to get
evil. All their thoughts was evil. They had all kinds of devicities like we got
today, really a smarter people than we are today. They built the pyramid, and
sphinx, and many of those things there that our modern machinery couldn't
touch. We couldn't no wise touch it.
They must've had a controlled atom power. Gasoline power, electrical
power, would never lift those boulders and build such as the pyramid. They
weigh hundreds of tons, and setting away in the air, almost about a city block
high mostly. And how did they ever get them up there? That's the mystery, and
so perfect mason till a razor blade couldn't go between them: honed down. They
are masterpieces, mastermind.
E-13 WHEN DIVINE LOVE IS
PROJECTED 57-0126E God loved the world that He... The smiting of the just judgments
that belonged to us, they were all smitten onto Christ. And out of Him came
forth rivers of living waters, speaking of the Spirit, that a perishing people
might live. The waters of life coming from Him, a smitten sacrifice, an
accepted One... And no matter how little... I love God for that.
E-22 CALLED OUT 58-0109 Noah went into the ark for safety. Lot came out of Sodom. One came
out; the other went in. What is it the type of, when it's conglomerated
together? It's the type of the Church coming out of the world for safety, and
going into the ark of Christ to go to glory. One come out, the other went in.
One come out to keep from being destroyed with the world; the other one went
into the ark of safety. And Christ is the Ark of safety. And remember. Before that the judgments of hail, fire, and darkness swept over Egypt,
Israel made her way to Goshen where there was light. And Egypt was left to wander in the darkness. Men and woman, listen to me now. Before
you're left on this earth of misery, and canker here in sin, run to the Light
as hard as you can go, the Light, Christ Jesus, and accept His Message of
mercy. "Hurry," said the
Angel, "and escape thither, for I can't do nothing till thou has come
out," judgment cannot come.
197 ONENESS 62-0211 This thing of this Council of Churches is
nothing else in the world but a--a stir of the foolish virgin, to be left here
on the earth for a picking for the antichrist. But the real church of God will float like old Noah did, and go on into
glory just as sure as I'm standing here. That's why He's gathering them
together. That's what the Voice is speaking forward today. That's what God's
a-doing, is gathering one from Los Angeles, and one from Philadelphia, and one
from Georgia, and so forth, gathering them together, His people that's willing to
believe the Word of the living God. "As it was in the days of Noah, so
will it be in the coming of the Son of man, wherein the few was saved, just a
very few." All right, our Holy
Ghost ark will float right above the judgments of God, 'cause we're already
judged, as we've confessed Jesus, and He took our judgment.
{380} GOD IN SIMPLICITY 63-0317M He's already told us this, the rapture, then judgments will strike:
sin, plagues, sickness, and everything. The people will cry for death to
take them when the judgment... "Lord, why is this judgment upon us when
You said that there'd be a rapture first?" He will say, "It's already come, and you didn't know it.":
God hiding Himself in simplicity.
WARNING THEN JUDGMENT 63-0724 Now, God
giving warning, prepare for a judgment. The atomic bombs are in the
hangars, everything's setting ready. And
God, before He can let this thing happen, He makes a call down through like He
did in Sodom, "Come out of it. Get ready. There's something going to
happen." Like in the days of
Noah, before God sent the waters to destroy the world in the great antediluvian
world that had come off into sin, and Jesus clearly said that it was a day just
like this. "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of
the Son of man." How that the women on the rampage, and marrying and
giving in marriage, and the great scientific achievements, and the smart
educated going into the intellectual side, and the little humble Flock setting
off to one side waiting the pending judgment and the escape. And before God
sent that judgment, He sent a prophet (Uh-huh.), just like He did to Hezekiah,
He said, "Get ready, for the judgments are ready to fall." And he
made the people ready for the time. Noah
made the people ready, and it was a call of mercy before judgment.
71 LOOKING UNTO JESUS 64-0122 Noah looked. We find out here, there was
another man looked by the name of Loah--Noah. He looked and saw the justice of
God upon--the just judgment of God, rather, upon a wicked Word-denying
generation, was being poured out. In his vision, as Noah was a prophet, God had
give him a vision of how to build the ark, and instructed him how to make the
construction, how it must be built. In this, how could Noah, unless this vision
being the Word of God, when he seen this wrath and making a way of
preparation... Always, before coming
judgment, there is a preparation made. It always is the Word of God. And when he was constructing the Word of God
together, bearing record that his vision was true and he believed in it,
scoffers made fun of him, and so forth. But Noah had looked ahead and seen the
justice of God had to require the judgment upon the people, and he constructed
an ark to save his own household. When he looked, he saw the coming wrath of
God, and he made preparations for the people to escape this thing. So did John
the Baptist, he made preparation for the escape. And so is the Holy Ghost, today, forerunning the coming of Jesus
Christ, is making a construction, the Body of Jesus Christ. We are baptized
into it, not by a creed, not by denomination or a handshake, but by the Spirit
of God we are baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ, a construction that'll
stand the judgments; because It's already been judged. "When I see the
Blood, I'll pass over you." Yes.
Noah, he looked and he saw
what was coming.
E-12 WATERS OF SEPARATION 55-0606 Now, I want you to notice. They went up a
mixed multitude, and that caused trouble among them as they got up there. But
God in His sovereign mercy, not willing that any should perish, but that all
might come to repentance, always makes a preparation of a way of escape for
those who desire to come by the way of escape.
He did it in the antediluvian world. He did it in the days of the
calling out of Noah, or Moses, rather, calling out of Israel. He did it in the
days of the Lord Jesus, and He's doing it yet today just before the judgments
are to strike the world. God is calling
out a people, those who are willing to walk and take God's preparation, how to
escape the wrath that's coming upon the earth. And I trust that none that's in
Divine Presence tonight, or will be, will ever have to stay here and suffer
through the great wrath of God that's soon to come on the earth. There's no way
of all of escaping it.
E-40 MARK OF THE BEAST 61-0217 I said, "That's the
clouds of God's wrath. God poured His wrath out upon Christ Who took my place
at Calvary. He died under the judgments and wrath of God. God poured out His fierce
judgment upon Him and He took my place." I said, "I was a sinner, and
He took my place." And I noticed tears coming up in the woman's eyes. I
said, "We're sinful, and we have no hope. But God knowed that we had to
stand these judgments, and Jesus took them for us. And them clouds hanging over
the cross was God's wrath pouring out upon Him. And He bore the wrath of God in
His own body that we might be free." Oh, what a story, what a truth.
The... God's wrath...
Q & A COD 64-0823M The Bible said He'll judge the world by Jesus Christ, and Jesus
Christ is the Word. So to me, it's the Word of God that He'll judge the world
by. That's right. And I believe His judgments are in the earth now, and I
believe... Let us seek with all of our heart to escape the wrath of the
damnation of the wrath of God that's going to be poured out upon this
unbelieving world; and there's no way at all for to it--escape it.
E-58 INNER MAN 53-1212 He's provided a way like the brass serpent. He provided Jesus to
meet all that we have need for while we're in this journey between heaven and
earth.And believing that little meetings such as gathered around over the city
of true believers is the only thing that's keeping the wrath of God and
judgment from being poured out right now.
E-25 LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD 56-0723 Notice, and
while you're in that Body, you are just as free from condemnation as He is.
You'll never have to stand any judgment. God caused judgment to be struck upon
His Body. And if you're in Him, God cannot judge you; He's already judged you
when He judged Christ. Amen. And you
can't be under judgment no more. Christ took your judgment. And when you're
baptized into that Body of Christ, you are free from God's judgment. The wrath
of God will pass over you. That's why He said, "When I see the Blood, I'll
pass over you."
E-26 GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS
HERE 58-0625 Do you believe that we are
living in one of those wicked, and adulternous generations? Certainly, we are.
As I've said many times, that this nation can never escape the damnation, and
wrath of God.
E-8 CONFERENCE.WITH.GOD TIFTON.GA
60-0108 Lord, tonight, that we are partakers of His grace and of this
Eternal Life. Nothing that we have did or nothing that we could do, that would
merit such a blessing, but it's by the sovereign grace of God. And we humbly
accept it and believe it, and are anxiously telling others of God's way, a
provided way to escape the wrath of God at the day of the judgment, and be a
friend to Him, to enter into His Presence, with washed souls, through the Blood
of His Son, Christ Jesus.
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN 61-1231M And when we
look at Christ, you see the penalty. The only One, God Himself made flesh, God
coming to the earth, and took on Him the sin of all of us, and the judgment and
wrath of Almighty God was poured out upon His body, and there it was rivened at
the cross. That's the real judgment. He tread the winepress of the wrath of God
alone. Alone He walked the road. Alone He died with not no help from an Angel,
from a man, from His Church, from His mother, from His brethren, from His
Father. And forsaken by God, man, and nature, He died alone to show us that
even nature itself can't help us in the hour of death. There's no friend, no
priest, no pope, no pastor... It's death. But there was One Who took it for
us.
LOOKING UNTO JESUS 64-0122 Noah
looked. We find out here, there was another man looked by the name of Noah. He
looked and saw the justice of God upon--the just judgment of God, rather, upon
a wicked Word-denying generation, was being poured out. In his vision, as Noah
was a prophet, God had give him a vision of how to build the ark, and
instructed him how to make the construction, how it must be built. In this, how
could Noah, unless this vision being the Word of God, when he seen this wrath
and making a way of preparation...
Always, before coming judgment, there is a preparation made. It always
is the Word of God. And when he was
constructing the Word of God together, bearing record that his vision was true
and he believed in it, scoffers made fun of him, and so forth. But Noah had
looked ahead and seen the justice of God had to require the judgment upon the
people, and he constructed an ark to save his own household. When he looked, he
saw the coming wrath of God, and he made preparations for the people to escape
this thing. So did John the Baptist, he made preparation for the escape. And so is the Holy Ghost, today, forerunning
the coming of Jesus Christ, is making a construction, the Body of Jesus Christ.
We are baptized into it, not by a creed, not by denomination or a handshake,
but by the Spirit of God we are baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ, a
construction that'll stand the judgments; because It's already been judged.
"When I see the Blood, I'll pass over you." Yes. Noah, he looked and he saw what was coming.
ISRAEL AT THE RED SEA 2 53-0327 Now, we're coming down to
the last plague, last thing. God said, "I'm tired fooling now. I'm going
to give the last plague." Now, I want you to notice; the last plague was
death. Now, we've had earthquakes;
we've had wars and rumors of wars; we've had tidal waves, as Jesus said would
be, the sea a-roaring, man's heart failing, more heart trouble (number one
disease), fear, perplex of time, distress between the nations, horseless
carriages in the broad ways, all these things fulfilled. But the last plague is
death, not physically speaking, but spiritually speaking, death, spiritually in
the church. You notice it was amongst the sons: spiritual death. The church has
got more members than it ever had, thriving better than it ever did, and yet
the weakest in spirit that it ever was. That's true. That's just like it was in
Egypt.
ISRAEL AT KADESH BARNEA
53-0328 Notice. Then God, after fixing Moses,
getting him ready, sent out the--the signs, then the last sign we taken last
night was death. And we found out, that spiritual death in the church, the last
plague now, church drying up, blowing away. That's right. We're living in a
horrible time. How that the church, the old-timers that used to really have the
victory is losing out, dying time, letting the Blood get off the front of the
door. "When I see the Blood I'll pass over you."
DISCERNING BODY OF LORD 59-0812 The last
plague that hit Egypt was death. The
last plague that's hit the church is spiritual death. What we need today is
a spiritual awakening, a spiritual awakening to discernment.
E-22 SPEAK.TO.THIS.ROCK CHATAUQUA.OH 60-0612 Notice, and when that final
and great night came, God said, "This is My final blow at Egypt. But
before I can strike this blow, I've got to bring My children to protection." And there was a sacrificial lamb killed, and
the blood was put on the post and the lintels of the door, and the congregation
went under the blood. Remember, that was the last plague that struck Egypt. And
the last plague that's striking the church today is the same as that was: a
spiritual death. Because as God led them literally, He leads us spiritually.
And the last blow at the--the enemy is death is striking, and all from under
the blood, is disfellowshiped by the Holy Spirit.
E-59 ONLY.BELIEVE CHICAGO.IL
61-0427 You remember the last plague hit Egypt? What was the last plague
hit Egypt which was the type of the church going out? Was death. What's the
last plague's hit the Pentecostal church? Spiritual death. It's going right on
back like the rest of the world: spiritual death. But the circumcised with the
blood on the door took the homeward march (That's exactly.) with a Pillar of
Fire going before them to lead them away.
{65} FIRST SEAL The 63-0318 And then God takes His messenger with the elect of that age, and
lays them away asleep, and then He drops
a plague upon them who rejected it: a temporary judgment. And then, after
that is over, then he goes on, and they denominate, and bring in denominations,
and start off with that man's work like of Wesley and all the rest of them, and
then it gets all in a scrapple again; and then another mystery comes forth.
Then what happens? Another messenger arrives on earth for a church age. See? Then when he arrives, he--the--the trumpet
sounds. He declares war. See? And then what happens? Finally then he's caught
away. And then when he's laid away, then
plague falls destroys them. Spiritual death hits the church and she's gone, that
group. Then He goes on to another one.
Oh, it's a great plan until it comes to that last angel. Now, he has no
certain mystery, but he gathers up all that's been lost in them other ages, all
the truths that wasn't truly revealed yet (See?), as the revelation come. Then
he reveals those things in his day. If you want to read it, there it is: A
Revelations 10:1 to--1 to about 4. You'll get it. All right. See?
{245} FOURTH SEAL THE 63-0321 Like He give Egypt, He give Egypt place to repent. What was that last plague? Was death.
That's the last plague that's hit the Pentecostal church. It's spiritual death;
she's dead. That's in the Name of the Lord. She's spiritually dead. He gave her
place to repent, and she rejected it; now she's dead. She'll never rise
again.
157 UNVEILING OF GOD 64-0614M They spiritually die now. This is the
spiritual veil. See? That was a natural veil. This is spiritual veil. See? They
keep walking right on in behind there; you can tell them. "Oh, I know. I
know that, but I..." Go ahead; it's all right; it only speaks... You
remember, the last plague in Egypt was death, before the exodus. The last plague on earth is spiritual
death before the exodus. Then they'll be cremated and turned back to the
dust, and the righteous will walk out upon their ashes. But the last thing is
spiritual death, rejecting the Word.
TRUE SIGN THAT'S OVERLOOKED 61-1112 Later years there come another sign; that
was Moses, a prophet. That was God's sign to Israel. They'd been four hundred
years in bondage. And God prepared a sign for them just before deliverance. And
he was a sign of deliverance to Israel and a sign of judgment to Egypt. Noah was a sign of deliverance to his people
and a sign of judgment to the lost world, the unbeliever. The very waters that
choked the world and drowned the world was the only means of saving Noah, only
thing that could save him was the judgment.
The only thing that'll save the church today is the judgment, God laying
the judgment to the plummet. But Noah preached the same. He become a sign.
TRUE SIGN THAT'S OVERLOOKED 61-1112
Elijah was a sign in his day. He was a sign of God's Word, judgment to
Egypt and deliverance to Israel if they wanted to believe him.
E-79 SIGN OF HIS COMING 62-0407 God had sent them a prophet for a sign, and
he did the sign. And they ignored the sign, and they went into judgment.
E-53 SUPER SIGN 62-0624 God always made prophets His sign. (I want you to
put your listening on now, 'cause I haven't got but about five more minutes.)
Notice. God shows His signs, and every time a prophet rises on the scene it's
always a sign: usually a sign of oncoming judgment, when God raises up a
prophet.
PSALMS 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify me.