Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 17
The reason why so many people THINK they are Christians, when they’re not, is that the works of our own hands (really the works of Satan) are deceitful works:
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, … 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Because men have “pleasure in unrighteousness”… because they love the works of this world… God is going to give them a man who is full of the deceivableness of unrighteousness, which is in them.
To men, he is going to do “good works”. The working of Satan comes to men looking like wonderful things… but they are lying wonders, deceivableness of unrighteousness.
All the very best works that men do (the good ones) are just the works of Satan, in disguise….
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. …
And that spirit of Satan is the spirit that works in all of mankind!
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
If you ever disobey, then that spirit is what works in you. Even when you do good!
All Satan’s works are evil… but many of them, ARE GOOD in this world. Satan doesn’t only do evil works in this world.
Luke 4:5-6 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Satan gives! Satan give good things to men (worldly things, fleshly things)!
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. …
To God, your flesh can do only 1 type of works: unrighteousness!
But within the works of unrighteousness, I believe there are 2 types: apparent unrighteousness, and DECEIVABLE unrighteousness.
Psalms 58:1-2 … Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Everything you do in this world comes out of your wicked heart, which works the working of Satan.
But when it comes out, it doesn’t look so bad, right?
According to man’s judgment… Lying isn’t as bad a murder, right?
Stealing a dollar isn’t as bad as stealing someone’s whole bank account, right?
A person improving men’s lives is surely better than a person destroying men’s lives, right?
People who love others are good, while people who kill others are evil, right?
We think this is judging righteously, but our judgment (our weighing) is based on DECEITFUL weights.
Micah 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Those weights… man’s judgment of good and evil… came from our father Satan.
If you think, “Christians aren’t perfect, but they’re better than before”, you are judging by deceitful weights. And… YOU are not counted pure.
If you think there is any true good work that men can do, they you’ve made that determination using deceitful weights. You weighed men’s works against the wrong thing!
Our works are going to be weighed against HIS works.
Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Your “good works” may deceive men’s judgment, but they won’t deceive the Lord’s judgment.
The Bible also says there are “deceitful lusts”: lusts that have disguised themselves, and deceived you into thinking they are good things.
If the deceitfulness of sin is that sin disguises itself as good things, so that men think they are doing good, while they are really sinning….
Then deceitful LUSTS, are when lusts disguise themselves, so that men think they have good desires, while they are really just evil desires.
Men think their “good” desires, come from God, but really they come from Satan.
Ephesians 4:22 … the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Think about the things that men desire in this world.
Sex, and money, and power, and fame, and drugs, and fighting, and warring, and killing, and winning.
Yes. Men desire those evil things.
But also(!) … Marriage, and children, and family, and friendships, and food, and clothing, and health, and education, and good and honest jobs, and rest, and peace, and love, and kindness, and happiness.
Man lusts for good things too!
The evil lusts… mostly those aren’t deceitful. Mostly, they’re apparent. Everyone knows they are evil.
But the “good” ones? When men desire those, they don’t think they are “lusting” . They don’t think they’re sinning. It is those “good” lusts, that are most deceitful!
James 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
When you lust, it produces sin. Whether after an evil thing, OR a good thing … it produces sin!
Now, when you lust after a GOOD thing in this world (like a happy and healthy life) … where did that desire to do good, and the KNOWLEDGE to do good come from? You say “it came from God!”
No… it came from “the tree of knowledge of good and evil”.
Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
God didn’t MAKE the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, nor did He plant it. God just made it “to GROW”.
So if God didn’t make the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, who did?
Satan did! And planted it himself!
Matthew 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
A tree cannot produce both good and bad fruit. And that tree of the knowledge of good an evil, produced death. Adam died! So, everything that came from that tree, including man’s KNOWLEDGE OF good and evil, produce death.
Your KNOWLEDGE of good and evil… THAT is what you need to repent FROM: from believing dead works matter.
For a time, God winked at this, but now, God commandeth all men every where, to repent of their knowledge of good and evil!
2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Your knowledge of good things, your understanding of how to do good things, and your DESIRE (i.e. lust) to DO good things … it all came from SATAN!
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do….
The lusts in your flesh are not only to do bad things in the flesh… you also have DESIRES to do GOOD things in the flesh.
The knowledge of good things, and the lusts to do good things – they both came from SATAN!
1st instance of “lust*” in the Bible:
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
That’s about Pharoah, chasing Israel into the Red Sea. And Pharoah, is Satan.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, …
Ezekiel 29:3 … Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon …
Satan was the 1st being in the Bible to lust (Isa 14:14 – “I will be like the most high”). He is the father of it, and we do HIS LUSTS.
2nd instance of “lust*” in the Bible:
Numbers 11:4-6 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Those aren’t BAD things according to men. Those are fine things to desire.
Get an honest job and work hard, and feed yourself. Those are men’s “good desires”, right?
Psalms 78:27-30 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, … 29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 30 They were not estranged from their lust. …
Man’s most clean desires, his “good lusts”, are for FLESH.
1 Corinthians 10:1-6 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
It might not seem fair, but just wanting fleshly good things… just fleshly food to eat, is lusting after EVIL THINGS.
If one were to lust after TRUE good things, he would have to lust after SPIRITUAL things!
God was giving them “spiritual meat” and “spiritual drink” (after a figure), but they wanted to mix in some FLESH!!!
“Jesus in the Spirit is great, but that heavenly stuff isn’t enough… I need some Earthly bread too! I need FLESH! Don’t just tell me my profit in salvation is all heavenly. I need some profit of flesh too! I need my flesh to be fed/profited too! I need to feel better and fuller! I’m not satisfied, here. I need something heavier than this “light bread”. I need something heavier and weightier… I need a profit of FLESH!”
Psalms 106:14-15 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
He gave them their meat – their flesh – what they lusted after. But their SOUL had no food.
He gave them their worldly good things, but took away the spiritual good things.
Psalms 81:10-16 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. … 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
The heart of man lusts after carnal things: not just carnal evil things, but carnal good things too.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Everything that you desire in this world, ever work that you can work in this world, is not of God.
That includes all the desires, and all the works, of men’s flesh.
Christians are not the only people that desire good / to do good.
Muslims and Buddhists and Atheists have desires of good things too!
Are THEIR good desires from God? Not a chance! ALL the lusts of man, EVEN THE GOOD ONES, are from our father Satan. And the ones we consider GOOD, those are the DECEITFUL ones!
A man’s LUST produces SIN. And sin produces death.
Ephesians 2:3-5 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; …
Paul includes himself. “We all” he says. He himself who said he was, “touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless”, himself also said he fulfilled the LUSTS of the flesh, and of the mind. Why??
Because his lusts and desires INCLUDED the GOOD works of the law too!
False brethren think “Jesus have me a new MIND and now I want to do good things”.
Well, is it ONLY good, all the time?
Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: …
If you ever think 1 evil thought, if you ever desire ONE evil thing, then you do NOT have a righteous mind (1Co 2:16). You have a fleshly mind.
Honestly, if you even desire a good thing in this world, you have a wicked mind.
You think “that’s crazy”. That’s because our lusts are SOOO subtle; so deceitful!
There are MANY false Christians in the world. And many of them have ASKED to be saved, praying a “salvation prayer”, in which they promise to turn from their sins and give their life to Jesus. To make Him “the Lord of their life”!
Well, if they asked God to be saved, then why didn’t they get saved?
Luke 11:10-13 For every one that asketh receiveth; … 13 … how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
You can’t say they weren’t sincere. You can’t say they didn’t mean it, or they didn’t want to be saved.
So why didn’t Jesus give them what they asked for, like He PROMISED He would?
Here is the reason… ready?
Their LUSTS!
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
The reason that people say a salvation prayer but don’t get saved, is because they are LUSTING for a profit in this world.
They are lusting after good things in this world.
They are lusting to do good works, and make themselves better, and have a better life, in this world.
“Are you suffering? Lonely? Depressed? Homeless? Addicted? Suicidal? Is your life a mess? Come to Jesus, friend. He’ll help you. He’ll fix your life! He’ll give you peace and joy, and completely change your life!”
“Come to Jesus, friends! He’ll take away your addictions and your evil desires. He’ll come into your life and help you live for Him. He’ll take away your desire to sin and He’ll give you a new desire to do GOOD works.”
“Come to Jesus, friends! He’ll give you the power to live a righteous life. He’ll help you put away your sins! He’ll help you do good!”
“You want proof? Just look at me! Look what He did for me in my life. I was a mess, and now look at me! He can do it for you too! If you’ll just give your life to Jesus, it will be a better life! Look at me, you can be like me! Clean and sober… healthy and well groomed… and on a stage with a microphone and a crowd… maybe have your own (lucrative) Christian podcast… and you can help other people fix their lives too!”
“Come to Jesus, friend. Don’t try to put away your sins and THEN come to Jesus! Don’t try to get off drugs and THEN come to Jesus! Don’t try to fix your life and THEN come to Jesus. Come to Jesus and THEN HE will fix your life!”
That is how Jesus is preached today by the false brethren. And the world eats it up! Why?
Because of our deceitful LUSTS!!!
All men LUST after a profit in THIS WORLD.
And we think that those desires are GOOD, and not evil, because our lusts are DECEITFUL!
We think “that isn’t lusting! Those are godly things!” No… they’re WORLDLY things. They’re just our same OLD man’s sinful lusts, in disguise.
Ephesians 4:22 … the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
The old man… that is what men are lusting to satisfy.
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
There is NO GOOD THING in our flesh. And that INCLUDES(!) our will to do good.
Our desire to do good is NO GOOD THING!
Why? Because it is just our flesh… TRYING TO SATISFY FLESH!
Apr 1 2025
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 17
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 17
The reason why so many people THINK they are Christians, when they’re not, is that the works of our own hands (really the works of Satan) are deceitful works:
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, … 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Because men have “pleasure in unrighteousness”… because they love the works of this world… God is going to give them a man who is full of the deceivableness of unrighteousness, which is in them.
To men, he is going to do “good works”. The working of Satan comes to men looking like wonderful things… but they are lying wonders, deceivableness of unrighteousness.
All the very best works that men do (the good ones) are just the works of Satan, in disguise….
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. …
And that spirit of Satan is the spirit that works in all of mankind!
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
If you ever disobey, then that spirit is what works in you. Even when you do good!
All Satan’s works are evil… but many of them, ARE GOOD in this world. Satan doesn’t only do evil works in this world.
Luke 4:5-6 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Satan gives! Satan give good things to men (worldly things, fleshly things)!
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. …
To God, your flesh can do only 1 type of works: unrighteousness!
But within the works of unrighteousness, I believe there are 2 types: apparent unrighteousness, and DECEIVABLE unrighteousness.
Psalms 58:1-2 … Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Everything you do in this world comes out of your wicked heart, which works the working of Satan.
But when it comes out, it doesn’t look so bad, right?
According to man’s judgment… Lying isn’t as bad a murder, right?
Stealing a dollar isn’t as bad as stealing someone’s whole bank account, right?
A person improving men’s lives is surely better than a person destroying men’s lives, right?
People who love others are good, while people who kill others are evil, right?
We think this is judging righteously, but our judgment (our weighing) is based on DECEITFUL weights.
Micah 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Those weights… man’s judgment of good and evil… came from our father Satan.
If you think, “Christians aren’t perfect, but they’re better than before”, you are judging by deceitful weights. And… YOU are not counted pure.
If you think there is any true good work that men can do, they you’ve made that determination using deceitful weights. You weighed men’s works against the wrong thing!
Our works are going to be weighed against HIS works.
Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Your “good works” may deceive men’s judgment, but they won’t deceive the Lord’s judgment.
The Bible also says there are “deceitful lusts”: lusts that have disguised themselves, and deceived you into thinking they are good things.
If the deceitfulness of sin is that sin disguises itself as good things, so that men think they are doing good, while they are really sinning….
Then deceitful LUSTS, are when lusts disguise themselves, so that men think they have good desires, while they are really just evil desires.
Men think their “good” desires, come from God, but really they come from Satan.
Ephesians 4:22 … the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Think about the things that men desire in this world.
Sex, and money, and power, and fame, and drugs, and fighting, and warring, and killing, and winning.
Yes. Men desire those evil things.
But also(!) … Marriage, and children, and family, and friendships, and food, and clothing, and health, and education, and good and honest jobs, and rest, and peace, and love, and kindness, and happiness.
Man lusts for good things too!
The evil lusts… mostly those aren’t deceitful. Mostly, they’re apparent. Everyone knows they are evil.
But the “good” ones? When men desire those, they don’t think they are “lusting” . They don’t think they’re sinning. It is those “good” lusts, that are most deceitful!
James 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
When you lust, it produces sin. Whether after an evil thing, OR a good thing … it produces sin!
Now, when you lust after a GOOD thing in this world (like a happy and healthy life) … where did that desire to do good, and the KNOWLEDGE to do good come from? You say “it came from God!”
No… it came from “the tree of knowledge of good and evil”.
Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
God didn’t MAKE the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, nor did He plant it. God just made it “to GROW”.
So if God didn’t make the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, who did?
Satan did! And planted it himself!
Matthew 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
A tree cannot produce both good and bad fruit. And that tree of the knowledge of good an evil, produced death. Adam died! So, everything that came from that tree, including man’s KNOWLEDGE OF good and evil, produce death.
Your KNOWLEDGE of good and evil… THAT is what you need to repent FROM: from believing dead works matter.
For a time, God winked at this, but now, God commandeth all men every where, to repent of their knowledge of good and evil!
2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Your knowledge of good things, your understanding of how to do good things, and your DESIRE (i.e. lust) to DO good things … it all came from SATAN!
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do….
The lusts in your flesh are not only to do bad things in the flesh… you also have DESIRES to do GOOD things in the flesh.
The knowledge of good things, and the lusts to do good things – they both came from SATAN!
1st instance of “lust*” in the Bible:
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
That’s about Pharoah, chasing Israel into the Red Sea. And Pharoah, is Satan.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, …
Ezekiel 29:3 … Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon …
Satan was the 1st being in the Bible to lust (Isa 14:14 – “I will be like the most high”). He is the father of it, and we do HIS LUSTS.
2nd instance of “lust*” in the Bible:
Numbers 11:4-6 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Those aren’t BAD things according to men. Those are fine things to desire.
Get an honest job and work hard, and feed yourself. Those are men’s “good desires”, right?
Psalms 78:27-30 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, … 29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 30 They were not estranged from their lust. …
Man’s most clean desires, his “good lusts”, are for FLESH.
1 Corinthians 10:1-6 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
It might not seem fair, but just wanting fleshly good things… just fleshly food to eat, is lusting after EVIL THINGS.
If one were to lust after TRUE good things, he would have to lust after SPIRITUAL things!
God was giving them “spiritual meat” and “spiritual drink” (after a figure), but they wanted to mix in some FLESH!!!
“Jesus in the Spirit is great, but that heavenly stuff isn’t enough… I need some Earthly bread too! I need FLESH! Don’t just tell me my profit in salvation is all heavenly. I need some profit of flesh too! I need my flesh to be fed/profited too! I need to feel better and fuller! I’m not satisfied, here. I need something heavier than this “light bread”. I need something heavier and weightier… I need a profit of FLESH!”
Psalms 106:14-15 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
He gave them their meat – their flesh – what they lusted after. But their SOUL had no food.
He gave them their worldly good things, but took away the spiritual good things.
Psalms 81:10-16 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. … 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
The heart of man lusts after carnal things: not just carnal evil things, but carnal good things too.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Everything that you desire in this world, ever work that you can work in this world, is not of God.
That includes all the desires, and all the works, of men’s flesh.
Christians are not the only people that desire good / to do good.
Muslims and Buddhists and Atheists have desires of good things too!
Are THEIR good desires from God? Not a chance! ALL the lusts of man, EVEN THE GOOD ONES, are from our father Satan. And the ones we consider GOOD, those are the DECEITFUL ones!
A man’s LUST produces SIN. And sin produces death.
Ephesians 2:3-5 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; …
Paul includes himself. “We all” he says. He himself who said he was, “touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless”, himself also said he fulfilled the LUSTS of the flesh, and of the mind. Why??
Because his lusts and desires INCLUDED the GOOD works of the law too!
False brethren think “Jesus have me a new MIND and now I want to do good things”.
Well, is it ONLY good, all the time?
Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: …
If you ever think 1 evil thought, if you ever desire ONE evil thing, then you do NOT have a righteous mind (1Co 2:16). You have a fleshly mind.
Honestly, if you even desire a good thing in this world, you have a wicked mind.
You think “that’s crazy”. That’s because our lusts are SOOO subtle; so deceitful!
There are MANY false Christians in the world. And many of them have ASKED to be saved, praying a “salvation prayer”, in which they promise to turn from their sins and give their life to Jesus. To make Him “the Lord of their life”!
Well, if they asked God to be saved, then why didn’t they get saved?
Luke 11:10-13 For every one that asketh receiveth; … 13 … how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
You can’t say they weren’t sincere. You can’t say they didn’t mean it, or they didn’t want to be saved.
So why didn’t Jesus give them what they asked for, like He PROMISED He would?
Here is the reason… ready?
Their LUSTS!
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
The reason that people say a salvation prayer but don’t get saved, is because they are LUSTING for a profit in this world.
They are lusting after good things in this world.
They are lusting to do good works, and make themselves better, and have a better life, in this world.
“Are you suffering? Lonely? Depressed? Homeless? Addicted? Suicidal? Is your life a mess? Come to Jesus, friend. He’ll help you. He’ll fix your life! He’ll give you peace and joy, and completely change your life!”
“Come to Jesus, friends! He’ll take away your addictions and your evil desires. He’ll come into your life and help you live for Him. He’ll take away your desire to sin and He’ll give you a new desire to do GOOD works.”
“Come to Jesus, friends! He’ll give you the power to live a righteous life. He’ll help you put away your sins! He’ll help you do good!”
“You want proof? Just look at me! Look what He did for me in my life. I was a mess, and now look at me! He can do it for you too! If you’ll just give your life to Jesus, it will be a better life! Look at me, you can be like me! Clean and sober… healthy and well groomed… and on a stage with a microphone and a crowd… maybe have your own (lucrative) Christian podcast… and you can help other people fix their lives too!”
“Come to Jesus, friend. Don’t try to put away your sins and THEN come to Jesus! Don’t try to get off drugs and THEN come to Jesus! Don’t try to fix your life and THEN come to Jesus. Come to Jesus and THEN HE will fix your life!”
That is how Jesus is preached today by the false brethren. And the world eats it up! Why?
Because of our deceitful LUSTS!!!
All men LUST after a profit in THIS WORLD.
And we think that those desires are GOOD, and not evil, because our lusts are DECEITFUL!
We think “that isn’t lusting! Those are godly things!” No… they’re WORLDLY things. They’re just our same OLD man’s sinful lusts, in disguise.
Ephesians 4:22 … the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
The old man… that is what men are lusting to satisfy.
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
There is NO GOOD THING in our flesh. And that INCLUDES(!) our will to do good.
Our desire to do good is NO GOOD THING!
Why? Because it is just our flesh… TRYING TO SATISFY FLESH!
By Pastor • Christian Doctrine, Eternal Security, False Prophets/Doctrine, Good Works, Identifying False Christians, Problem Texts, Salvation • 0