Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, November 14, 2021
Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, November 14, 2021
This sermon talks about the fact that only those that have the eternal spirit from God, that already have eternal life in them, will believe the gospel.
“The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God!”
That “is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God!”
Acts 13: 48: “And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”
This Scripture tells us that the people that were already ordained to eternal life believed the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It means no matter who you come across or whatever type of sin that person may be in now, makes no difference. Our job is to witness to everyone that we can, and to pray for as many souls as we can, that they will come to the Lord.
Revelation 17: 8: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”
All those that will come to salvation have had their names written in the Lamb’s book of life from the foundation of the world.
You want to thank the Almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ, every day that He has chosen you from eternity to believe the gospel, to be “born of the Spirit” (John 3: 8).
You will be blessed.
Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, November 14, 2021
We listened to a sermon titled “The Election”, CD # 928B, preached by Brother Neal Frisby on 1/9/83 (AM).
In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:
The Lord foreknows us.
We are to witness, even though all will not be saved; we are to witness to all nations, we are to deliver (Matthew 24: 14).
Those that do not have the opportunity to hear about the Lord Jesus, the Bible says they will be judged by their conscience (Romans 2: 14 – 15).
If it were not for election, the whole plan of salvation would have been thwarted by Satan.
Satan does not like election because he was left out. He will not get the real seed of God.
If you believe the whole word of God, you are elected.
God is one personality in three manifestations (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) and not three different personalities.
Your faith will be more powerful, you will love the Lord Jesus more, when you truly understand election.
Shall not the Judge of the whole earth do that which is right? (Genesis 18: 25)
The Lord Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
By election, the Jews had to be blinded for the Gentiles to receive salvation (Romans 11: 1 – 36).
When the Lord forgives your sins, He will hold you all the way.
By His great diving love, the Lord reaches out to you.
The Lord told Elijah that He had elected seven thousand people in Israel that had not bowed unto Baal (1 Kings 19: 18).
If you believe the election of God in your heart, you will make it; He will hold you until that day.
Those that are elected will hear the whole gospel of Jesus Christ.
You are in good hands when you are in the hands of the Lord.
Your life is well planned by the Lord.
Those that are elected will believe in the Lord’s divine purpose, you will act on His word, you will witness that He is the King of glory and that He is eternal.
There is a great revival, a quick short work of righteousness, at the end of time among those that He has elected (Romans 9: 28).
You have not called me, but I have called you (John 15: 16).
You want to thank God for His election. He is going to make sure that you make it and there is nothing the devil can do about it.
The Lord oversees everything.
In you already is a measure of faith, the beginning of all the miracles that you will ever need on this earth.
The Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17: 21). Accept the election of God. There is no way that Satan will take you back.
I started the sermon.
Genesis 2: 7: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Man did not become a living soul until after God breathed into him, otherwise, he was just dust.
You are alive, you are able to go about your daily life, because God’s breath is in you. Without that breath, without that spirit that He gave to you, you will not be alive.
Ecclesiastes 12: 7: “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
When a person dies, the soul and spirit become one and returns unto God.
Those that came to salvation before death will go to the third heaven, paradise, which is their waiting place. Those that did not come to salvation before death will go to hell which is their waiting place until the day of judgement.
I read from Scroll # 18:
Yea, I formed man out of the dust of the ground. And I breathed into him the breath of “life.” And he became a walking spirit in the body I created for him, he was earthly and he was heavenly. The earthly will return to dust, but the heavenly will return to me, until I unite it again in the last days.
I read from Scroll # 43:
THE ELECT SPIRITS WHICH WERE PART OF GOD, BEFORE THE ELECT BODY WAS CREATED – The real you (the spiritual part) was with God before it was appointed a body upon the earth through seed. There is a fleshly seed and a spiritual seed which was united! The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God! That is why after death our body is changed into the inner immortal spirit, that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God! And He breathed it into each of us (Gen. 2: 7) “Behold saith the Lord do ye not know this Scripture? Ye were with Me when the Morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy!” (Job 38: 6,7). Our flesh body came upon earth by birth uniting with His spirit which was always with Him! And when we repent (salvation) we keep this spirit in order to always live with Him!! Read (Isa. 1:9 – Eph. 1:4) (Satan’s seed is a group, also the Lord has created a place for them.)
I continued with the Sermon:
It states: “The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God!”
It further states: “that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God!”
Only those that have the eternal spirit from God, that already have eternal life in them, will believe the gospel. They will repent, they will come to salvation, and will “keep this spirit in order to always live with Him”.
Acts 13: 44 – 48: “And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I HAVE SET THEE TO BE A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES, THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE FOR SALVATION UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”
The people that were already ordained to eternal life believed the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. They were glad and glorified the word of God because the gospel had a true ring to their soul.
It means no matter who you come across or whatever type of sin that person may be in now, makes no difference. If that person already has eternal life in him or her, if that person is already ordained to eternal life, he or she will eventually believe the gospel and come to salvation. “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities” (Psalm 103: 3).
Our job is to witness to everyone that we can, and to pray for as many souls as we can, that they will come to the Lord.
Revelation 13: 8: “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
It is only if your name has been written in the Lamb’s book of life that you will come to salvation.
The Lord set up an eternal plan wherein He had himself slain from the foundation of the world for our salvation and wrote our names in His book of life.
Revelation 17: 8: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”
Your name was not written in the book of life just yesterday or the day you were saved or the day you were born on this earth. Rather, all those that will come to salvation have had their names written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 21: 10 – 11: “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a Jasper stone, clear as crystal”.
Revelation 21: 22 – 23: “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”
There is no need for a temple in the holy city, the new Jerusalem, because in our glorified body, we are like the Almighty God. We do not have to go to a separate temple to see Him. He is dwelling with us.
1 John 3: 2: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
Revelation 21: 27: “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
This is one place that the devil will not be able to come to. Also, all those that did not come to salvation, whose names are not written in the book of life, will not be able to enter this eternal city. This is our eternal home with our eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1: 4 – 7: “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace”.
He chose us to come to salvation “before the foundation of the world” so “that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”. When the Lord forgives you your sins, you are now holy before Him.
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins”.
Luke 23: 39 – 43: “And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
Both thieves interacted with the Lord Jesus, but it was that thief, in whom was eternal life already, whose name had been written in the Lamb’s book of life from the foundation of the world, that was able to come to repentance. He told the Lord Jesus, the Almighty God: “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.”
John 3: 8: “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”
Everyone that is born of the Spirit has the Holy Spirit move upon him or her and comes to repentance. The gospel will ring true to your soul and you will come to salvation so as to keep the eternal spirit that the Lord God had already given to you.
John 10: 27 – 28: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
You are already His sheep and that is why you will hear His voice and come to salvation. He gives you eternal life – “The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God”; “that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God!”
You will never perish and no one can pluck you out of His hand.
You want to thank the Almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ, every day that He has chosen you from eternity to believe the gospel, to be “born of the Spirit”.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas