Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 14
Here is another Scriptural line of reasoning to support my belief (my “theory”).
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin [which all men do] is the servant of sin. … 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
You can’t be “free from sin”, and also (sometimes) commit sin. That is an impossibility!
To commit sin, is to be a servant of sin. But to be “free from sin”, is to NEVER commit sin.
And even more so… to be “free from sin” is to NOT BE ABLE to commit sin.
If you commit sin, ever, even just rarely, then you are NOT “FREE from sin”.
If you are free from sin, it means you CANNOT COMMIT sin.
Likewise, if you are “free from righteousness”, it means you CANNOT DO righteousness.
Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness
Romans 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
If you commit sin, then you serve sin, and you cannot do righteousness.
If you do righteousness, then you serve righteousness, and you cannot commit sin.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, …
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Christians and unbelievers, saved and unsaved, we ALL commit sin in the flesh sometimes. At least occasionally, right?
Well, if ALL sin, then ALL are “free from righteousness”.
No man “upon the earth” CAN DO righteousness. No man “upon the earth” IS CAPABLE OF DOING a true good work.
If your judgment is not THIS BINARY, then you don’t truly understand true judgment!
You cannot be free from sin, and yet also COMMIT sin (sometimes).
You cannot be free from righteousness, and yet also DO righteousness (sometimes).
No man CAN BOTH commit sin AND do true righteousness.
Whichever one you do… whichever one you have the ability to do… that is the ONLY ONE that you can “serve”, the only one that you DO serve… and you have NO ABILITY to do/serve the other.
Romans 6:17-18 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin [“Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin”], but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin [which is only possible if one has lost the ABILITY to commit sin], ye became the servants of righteousness. … 20 For when ye were the servants of sin [that is, when you committed sin; when you COULD sin], ye were free from righteousness.
A man is only capable of serving ONE of the TWO.
Until a man has obeyed “the doctrine”, the gospel, he is “free from” (has no ABILITY to do/serve) righteousness. But once he has been saved, he is ‘free from sin” (has no ABILITY to do/serve sin).
At salvation, there is a 100%, binary change in a person’s master.
At salvation, there is a 100%, binary change in a person’s ability to serve that master.
And at salvation, there is a 100%, binary change in a person’s ability to do the works that bring forth fruit unto that master.
You can’t serve one a little bit, and serve the other more.
You can’t serve one on Saturday, and serve the other on Sunday.
(The false brethren will “Amen” at that one! But this isn’t about your choices… it is about your ABILITY!)
You cannot do a good work in the morning, and then commit a sin in the evening. You CANNOT! NO MAN can. It is IMPOSSIBLE!
You can’t serve one for 20 years and then serve the other for 1 minute, and then go back to serving the other for the rest of your life. You CANNOT serve two masters.
This isn’t about what you CHOOSE to do on a daily basis. This isn’t about how you choose to live your life. This isn’t about who you WANT to serve, or who you CHOOSE to serve.
This is about your ABILITY to serve.
And even so… this isn’t about your ability to consistently serve… as if it were about whether you can maintain a commitment to doing MOSTLY good. This isn’t about whether you feel bad when you sin and then you recommit to doing mostly good.
This is about whether you CAN DO even one good work… or whether you CAN DO, even one evil work.
This is about what capability is IN YOU.
Philemon 1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
James 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
If one good work is in you, then there is EVERY good work in you.
But if one evil work is in you, then there is EVERY evil work in you.
Luke 11:34-36 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. 36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, …
Do you TOTALLY understand this passage? I don’t! But I get one thing very clearly from it: you can’t have part good, and part evil, in the same body.
If there is part light, then the whole is light, and there is no part dark.
But if there is part dark, then there is no “true light” (Jn 1:9, 1Jn 2:8), at all, anywhere, in the whole body. Not even a little. Not even a part. “NO PART!”
And it is the exact same thing with righteousness, and unrighteousness.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
You cannot have both in you. If you have one bit of light, then you have
No man has the ability to do BOTH.
In this world, there is grey. There are shades of light… shades of grey… in this world.
In man’s judgment, there is grey area. But in the spirit, in the truth, there are no SHADES.
Isaiah 60:19-21 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: [in those lights, there are shades, there is grey, there is non-binarism under the sun] but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
That is how God is going to make the new creation: the new heaven and the new Earth.
His works, are ALL RIGHTEOUS, with NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. No darkness, no shades. No single thing that is “not good”.
Truthfully, spiritually, with God, there is no NON-BINARISM.
If you have a capability in you of doing one evil work… then you have no ability to do a good work.
To God… if there is a little evil in a thing… then everything that comes out of it is evil, because the whole thing is “full of evil”. And that is what WE men, in the flesh, are.
Ecclesiastes 9:3 … yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil …
“Oh, not me… God gave me a new heart! I can do good now!”, they say.
Well… do you still have the ability to sin???
Yes or no? If God put goodness in your heart, then there is NO PART DARK; there is no sin.
If you CAN sin, then you ONLY sin, and then you CANNOT do good.
When we talk about true good things… we must talk in BINARY. We must speak “in absolutes”!
An unsaved person can’t serve/do sin mostly, but then SOMETIMES serve/do righteousness. He isn’t CAPABLE of both.
A Christian can’t serve/do righteousness mostly, but then SOMETIMES serve/do sin. He isn’t capable of both.
A person’s ability to serve, his ability to DO, is BINARY!
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Almost everybody, takes this BINARY statement, and immediately applies to their fleshly lives, to make it NON-BINARY!
People think, “well, you technically CAN serve both, but just not effectively.”
People think, “you CAN serve both… for a while… but you will eventually have to choose whether you want to sin, or you want to do good.”
People think, “well what Jesus was really saying there, was that if you TRY to keep serving both, you won’t succeed. Eventually, you’ll pick one to do most of the time, and the other you’ll only do rarely.”
Friends, that is NON-BINARY, and it makes Jesus a liar.
Or, people think, “you can DO both, but you can’t SERVE both. See, you can technically DO both, but whichever one you MOSTLY do, that is the one that you’ve CHOSEN to serve.”
People think, “If you aren’t REALLY a Christian, then you can live a Christian life for a while, you can serve God for a while, but eventually, inevitably, you’ll go back to living a life of MOSTLY sin.”
This just isn’t what Jesus said.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters…
Its not about man’s choices. Its about man’s ability.
It’s NOT about man CHOOSING between doing good and doing evil.
It is about man’s BINARY ABILITY to ONLY DO either good OR evil.
Not over the course of a man’s life… but in just one single work!
John 8:34 … Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
All it takes is ONE SINGLE WORK to define who you serve.
If you sin, then you are the servant of sin. If you do good, then you are the servant of righteousness!
You CANNOT do both good AND evil. You CANNOT do good works AND sin. No man CAN!
Matthew 6:24-33 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. [It’s not about your choices… it is about your ABILITY! You CANNOT serve God, and also serve… this other thing… which Jesus calls “mammon”. Those are the only two options! So what is “mammon”?] 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? … 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek🙂 for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
There are only two masters that can be served. Jesus and Paul are teaching the same things, with different words.
Where Paul teaches no man can serve righteousness and SIN…
Jesus taught that no man can serve God’s righteousness and THE FLESH!
My friends, serving THE FLESH… is serving SIN!
Serving men’s flesh (yours or OTHERS) is NOT serving God.
Serving men, in this world, is not serving God.
Loving your neighbor, in this world, is not serving God. It is serving THE FLESH. It is serving SIN!
There are only two options: two types of service, two types of works.
If you do a work that is NOT God’s righteousness (salvation/eternal life), then it is SIN!
No man CAN, both serve the flesh (the body, your life, or other men’s lives), and do true righteousness.
No man is CAPABLE of doing service to God, and service to the flesh.
No man is CAPABLE of doing service to God, and committing sin.
Every work that you do, is either serving God in truth, or it is serving sin.
It is one or the other. Not both. And… not neither!
It has to be one or the other.
1 John 3:8-10 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
You only have to see a person sin ONE SIN… to have undeniable proof that that person is NOT a child of God.
That is what this passage teaches. Binaryism! Binaryism of works!
But you CANNOT try to apply this to the flesh to see it manifested who is saved and who is unsaved (spiritually).
Notice this: “whosoever doeth not righteousness”.
Even if you disagree with me that works are binary, and thus every work of a sinner is sin…
Even if you think there is some non-binary type of work, that is “not righteousness”, yet also is “not sin”… notice this…
If that type of “in-between” work exists… it is treated as SIN!
It is treated the same as “the works of the devil”.
Just one act that is NOT 100% righteous, is proof that one is not of God.
Proverbs 24:23 … It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
You think “Oh, well it may not be GOOD but at least it isn’t called SIN, right?” It’s like an in-between, right?
James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
I believe that if there is something that is “not good”, then to God, it IS sin. There is no in-between work.
With God… there is no such thing, as a thing that is “not good”, yet also “not sin”.
Ezekiel 20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
If something is “not good”, then it produces death.
One quick thought… “not good” is in the Bible 24 times. I believe they all agree.
The only one that could present a challenge to what I am teaching here is the 1st instance.
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Very quick thoughts in response:
This is not saying that Adam being alone, as God initially made him, was sin.
But, if Adam (the 1st man) had REMAINED alone, it WOULD have been sin.
Likewise, if Jesus (the 2nd man) had remained alone, it would have been sin too. Jesus HAD to do good, or else it would have been sin. If Jesus had not died/slept to purchase his wife, He would have done “not good”.
There is no in between work that is “not righteousness” and yet it is “not sin”.
There really isn’t anything non-binary, because if there is something non-binary… if you were able to make something non-binary (neither good nor evil)… then that thing is EVIL.
Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
If there is anything in between, it is not from God, it is from the Devil, so it is treated as EVIL; as SIN.
Thus, if men are “free from righteousness”, and they cannot do good… then the only logical, Scriptural, conclusion is… that everything we do in the flesh is sin.
Only the spirit of a Christian is capable of worshipping God in truth; of doing true good. But our flesh is completely INCAPABLE of serving God.
You say, “what are you talking about? It not as binary as you are making it. I sin sometimes, but I serve God sometimes too.” Or maybe you are more prideful, and you say, “Yeah, every once in a while I (commit/serve) sin, but for the most part, I pretty much consistently serve God.”
No. You don’t do both! You CAN’T do both. You (in your flesh) CANNOT serve God. Ever!
That isn’t me saying I’m better than you. That isn’t me saying that you don’t TRY to serve God. That isn’t me saying you aren’t sincere when you try to serve God.
That is me saying, that you, a sinner, are NOT TRULY ABLE to serve God with your flesh.
Service of God with men’s sinful flesh, in THIS WORLD, is NOT TRUE service.
John 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
“TRUE worshippers… worship… in spirit… and they… MUST worship… in spirit.”
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
A Real Christian knows that the flesh, ultimately doesn’t matter.
A Real Christian SHOULD also know that the flesh does not truly serve God at all.
The flesh can produce NOTHING GOOD towards God. Sinful flesh is ONLY capable of sin.
Only the spirit of a Christian is able to do TRUE service to God.
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, …
No man can serve God with his flesh.
True SPIRITUAL, service of God is “IN the gospel”: getting saved, and saving others.
Loving your neighbor, in the flesh, in this world, is not true service of God.
Rather, I believe, the logical conclusion of the Scriptures is, that loving your neighbor in the flesh, is serving SIN!
Sin, ONLY produces death. But a true good work, ONLY produces everlasting life.
Romans 6:20,22 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. … 21 What fruit had ye then in those things …? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
When you love your neighbor in the flesh, when you feed him, clothe him, heal him… does it result in everlasting life? Does he get everlasting life? Do you get eternal life?
When you give your money to charity, do those poor sick kids get everlasting life? No… they die, and you die! You both DIE.
So how can you say that your good works are the FRUIT of your salvation? “The end of those things is death!”
Mar 10 2025
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 14
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 14
Here is another Scriptural line of reasoning to support my belief (my “theory”).
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin [which all men do] is the servant of sin. … 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
You can’t be “free from sin”, and also (sometimes) commit sin. That is an impossibility!
To commit sin, is to be a servant of sin. But to be “free from sin”, is to NEVER commit sin.
And even more so… to be “free from sin” is to NOT BE ABLE to commit sin.
If you commit sin, ever, even just rarely, then you are NOT “FREE from sin”.
If you are free from sin, it means you CANNOT COMMIT sin.
Likewise, if you are “free from righteousness”, it means you CANNOT DO righteousness.
Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness
Romans 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
If you commit sin, then you serve sin, and you cannot do righteousness.
If you do righteousness, then you serve righteousness, and you cannot commit sin.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, …
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Christians and unbelievers, saved and unsaved, we ALL commit sin in the flesh sometimes. At least occasionally, right?
Well, if ALL sin, then ALL are “free from righteousness”.
No man “upon the earth” CAN DO righteousness. No man “upon the earth” IS CAPABLE OF DOING a true good work.
If your judgment is not THIS BINARY, then you don’t truly understand true judgment!
You cannot be free from sin, and yet also COMMIT sin (sometimes).
You cannot be free from righteousness, and yet also DO righteousness (sometimes).
No man CAN BOTH commit sin AND do true righteousness.
Whichever one you do… whichever one you have the ability to do… that is the ONLY ONE that you can “serve”, the only one that you DO serve… and you have NO ABILITY to do/serve the other.
Romans 6:17-18 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin [“Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin”], but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin [which is only possible if one has lost the ABILITY to commit sin], ye became the servants of righteousness. … 20 For when ye were the servants of sin [that is, when you committed sin; when you COULD sin], ye were free from righteousness.
A man is only capable of serving ONE of the TWO.
Until a man has obeyed “the doctrine”, the gospel, he is “free from” (has no ABILITY to do/serve) righteousness. But once he has been saved, he is ‘free from sin” (has no ABILITY to do/serve sin).
At salvation, there is a 100%, binary change in a person’s master.
At salvation, there is a 100%, binary change in a person’s ability to serve that master.
And at salvation, there is a 100%, binary change in a person’s ability to do the works that bring forth fruit unto that master.
You can’t serve one a little bit, and serve the other more.
You can’t serve one on Saturday, and serve the other on Sunday.
(The false brethren will “Amen” at that one! But this isn’t about your choices… it is about your ABILITY!)
You cannot do a good work in the morning, and then commit a sin in the evening. You CANNOT! NO MAN can. It is IMPOSSIBLE!
You can’t serve one for 20 years and then serve the other for 1 minute, and then go back to serving the other for the rest of your life. You CANNOT serve two masters.
This isn’t about what you CHOOSE to do on a daily basis. This isn’t about how you choose to live your life. This isn’t about who you WANT to serve, or who you CHOOSE to serve.
This is about your ABILITY to serve.
And even so… this isn’t about your ability to consistently serve… as if it were about whether you can maintain a commitment to doing MOSTLY good. This isn’t about whether you feel bad when you sin and then you recommit to doing mostly good.
This is about whether you CAN DO even one good work… or whether you CAN DO, even one evil work.
This is about what capability is IN YOU.
Philemon 1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
James 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
If one good work is in you, then there is EVERY good work in you.
But if one evil work is in you, then there is EVERY evil work in you.
Luke 11:34-36 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. 36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, …
Do you TOTALLY understand this passage? I don’t! But I get one thing very clearly from it: you can’t have part good, and part evil, in the same body.
If there is part light, then the whole is light, and there is no part dark.
But if there is part dark, then there is no “true light” (Jn 1:9, 1Jn 2:8), at all, anywhere, in the whole body. Not even a little. Not even a part. “NO PART!”
And it is the exact same thing with righteousness, and unrighteousness.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
You cannot have both in you. If you have one bit of light, then you have
No man has the ability to do BOTH.
In this world, there is grey. There are shades of light… shades of grey… in this world.
In man’s judgment, there is grey area. But in the spirit, in the truth, there are no SHADES.
Isaiah 60:19-21 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: [in those lights, there are shades, there is grey, there is non-binarism under the sun] but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
That is how God is going to make the new creation: the new heaven and the new Earth.
His works, are ALL RIGHTEOUS, with NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. No darkness, no shades. No single thing that is “not good”.
Truthfully, spiritually, with God, there is no NON-BINARISM.
If you have a capability in you of doing one evil work… then you have no ability to do a good work.
To God… if there is a little evil in a thing… then everything that comes out of it is evil, because the whole thing is “full of evil”. And that is what WE men, in the flesh, are.
Ecclesiastes 9:3 … yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil …
“Oh, not me… God gave me a new heart! I can do good now!”, they say.
Well… do you still have the ability to sin???
Yes or no? If God put goodness in your heart, then there is NO PART DARK; there is no sin.
If you CAN sin, then you ONLY sin, and then you CANNOT do good.
When we talk about true good things… we must talk in BINARY. We must speak “in absolutes”!
An unsaved person can’t serve/do sin mostly, but then SOMETIMES serve/do righteousness. He isn’t CAPABLE of both.
A Christian can’t serve/do righteousness mostly, but then SOMETIMES serve/do sin. He isn’t capable of both.
A person’s ability to serve, his ability to DO, is BINARY!
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Almost everybody, takes this BINARY statement, and immediately applies to their fleshly lives, to make it NON-BINARY!
People think, “well, you technically CAN serve both, but just not effectively.”
People think, “you CAN serve both… for a while… but you will eventually have to choose whether you want to sin, or you want to do good.”
People think, “well what Jesus was really saying there, was that if you TRY to keep serving both, you won’t succeed. Eventually, you’ll pick one to do most of the time, and the other you’ll only do rarely.”
Friends, that is NON-BINARY, and it makes Jesus a liar.
Or, people think, “you can DO both, but you can’t SERVE both. See, you can technically DO both, but whichever one you MOSTLY do, that is the one that you’ve CHOSEN to serve.”
People think, “If you aren’t REALLY a Christian, then you can live a Christian life for a while, you can serve God for a while, but eventually, inevitably, you’ll go back to living a life of MOSTLY sin.”
This just isn’t what Jesus said.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters…
Its not about man’s choices. Its about man’s ability.
It’s NOT about man CHOOSING between doing good and doing evil.
It is about man’s BINARY ABILITY to ONLY DO either good OR evil.
Not over the course of a man’s life… but in just one single work!
John 8:34 … Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
All it takes is ONE SINGLE WORK to define who you serve.
If you sin, then you are the servant of sin. If you do good, then you are the servant of righteousness!
You CANNOT do both good AND evil. You CANNOT do good works AND sin. No man CAN!
Matthew 6:24-33 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. [It’s not about your choices… it is about your ABILITY! You CANNOT serve God, and also serve… this other thing… which Jesus calls “mammon”. Those are the only two options! So what is “mammon”?] 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? … 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek🙂 for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
There are only two masters that can be served. Jesus and Paul are teaching the same things, with different words.
Where Paul teaches no man can serve righteousness and SIN…
Jesus taught that no man can serve God’s righteousness and THE FLESH!
My friends, serving THE FLESH… is serving SIN!
Serving men’s flesh (yours or OTHERS) is NOT serving God.
Serving men, in this world, is not serving God.
Loving your neighbor, in this world, is not serving God. It is serving THE FLESH. It is serving SIN!
There are only two options: two types of service, two types of works.
If you do a work that is NOT God’s righteousness (salvation/eternal life), then it is SIN!
No man CAN, both serve the flesh (the body, your life, or other men’s lives), and do true righteousness.
No man is CAPABLE of doing service to God, and service to the flesh.
No man is CAPABLE of doing service to God, and committing sin.
Every work that you do, is either serving God in truth, or it is serving sin.
It is one or the other. Not both. And… not neither!
It has to be one or the other.
1 John 3:8-10 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
You only have to see a person sin ONE SIN… to have undeniable proof that that person is NOT a child of God.
That is what this passage teaches. Binaryism! Binaryism of works!
But you CANNOT try to apply this to the flesh to see it manifested who is saved and who is unsaved (spiritually).
Notice this: “whosoever doeth not righteousness”.
Even if you disagree with me that works are binary, and thus every work of a sinner is sin…
Even if you think there is some non-binary type of work, that is “not righteousness”, yet also is “not sin”… notice this…
If that type of “in-between” work exists… it is treated as SIN!
It is treated the same as “the works of the devil”.
Just one act that is NOT 100% righteous, is proof that one is not of God.
Proverbs 24:23 … It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
You think “Oh, well it may not be GOOD but at least it isn’t called SIN, right?” It’s like an in-between, right?
James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
I believe that if there is something that is “not good”, then to God, it IS sin. There is no in-between work.
With God… there is no such thing, as a thing that is “not good”, yet also “not sin”.
Ezekiel 20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
If something is “not good”, then it produces death.
One quick thought… “not good” is in the Bible 24 times. I believe they all agree.
The only one that could present a challenge to what I am teaching here is the 1st instance.
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Very quick thoughts in response:
This is not saying that Adam being alone, as God initially made him, was sin.
But, if Adam (the 1st man) had REMAINED alone, it WOULD have been sin.
Likewise, if Jesus (the 2nd man) had remained alone, it would have been sin too. Jesus HAD to do good, or else it would have been sin. If Jesus had not died/slept to purchase his wife, He would have done “not good”.
There is no in between work that is “not righteousness” and yet it is “not sin”.
There really isn’t anything non-binary, because if there is something non-binary… if you were able to make something non-binary (neither good nor evil)… then that thing is EVIL.
Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
If there is anything in between, it is not from God, it is from the Devil, so it is treated as EVIL; as SIN.
Thus, if men are “free from righteousness”, and they cannot do good… then the only logical, Scriptural, conclusion is… that everything we do in the flesh is sin.
Only the spirit of a Christian is capable of worshipping God in truth; of doing true good. But our flesh is completely INCAPABLE of serving God.
You say, “what are you talking about? It not as binary as you are making it. I sin sometimes, but I serve God sometimes too.” Or maybe you are more prideful, and you say, “Yeah, every once in a while I (commit/serve) sin, but for the most part, I pretty much consistently serve God.”
No. You don’t do both! You CAN’T do both. You (in your flesh) CANNOT serve God. Ever!
That isn’t me saying I’m better than you. That isn’t me saying that you don’t TRY to serve God. That isn’t me saying you aren’t sincere when you try to serve God.
That is me saying, that you, a sinner, are NOT TRULY ABLE to serve God with your flesh.
Service of God with men’s sinful flesh, in THIS WORLD, is NOT TRUE service.
John 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
“TRUE worshippers… worship… in spirit… and they… MUST worship… in spirit.”
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
A Real Christian knows that the flesh, ultimately doesn’t matter.
A Real Christian SHOULD also know that the flesh does not truly serve God at all.
The flesh can produce NOTHING GOOD towards God. Sinful flesh is ONLY capable of sin.
Only the spirit of a Christian is able to do TRUE service to God.
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, …
No man can serve God with his flesh.
True SPIRITUAL, service of God is “IN the gospel”: getting saved, and saving others.
Loving your neighbor, in the flesh, in this world, is not true service of God.
Rather, I believe, the logical conclusion of the Scriptures is, that loving your neighbor in the flesh, is serving SIN!
Sin, ONLY produces death. But a true good work, ONLY produces everlasting life.
Romans 6:20,22 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. … 21 What fruit had ye then in those things …? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
When you love your neighbor in the flesh, when you feed him, clothe him, heal him… does it result in everlasting life? Does he get everlasting life? Do you get eternal life?
When you give your money to charity, do those poor sick kids get everlasting life? No… they die, and you die! You both DIE.
So how can you say that your good works are the FRUIT of your salvation? “The end of those things is death!”
By Pastor • Christian Doctrine, Good Works • 0