1 00:00:30,419 --> 00:00:31,115 No, that was good. 2 00:00:31,187 --> 00:00:31,999 Amen. 3 00:00:32,419 --> 00:00:34,079 One of my favorite songs. 4 00:00:34,659 --> 00:00:36,523 We're just sinners saved by grace. 5 00:00:36,651 --> 00:00:37,519 Amen. 6 00:00:38,179 --> 00:00:42,651 I do again remind you tonight we'll kind of go over that a little 7 00:00:42,675 --> 00:00:47,019 more about our standing before God versus our state before God. 8 00:00:47,179 --> 00:00:52,843 I'm thankful that before God, because I am in Christ, that I am. 9 00:00:52,931 --> 00:00:54,159 My sins are gone. 10 00:00:55,059 --> 00:00:55,723 They're gone. 11 00:00:55,771 --> 00:00:57,731 My sinful record's been erased. 12 00:00:57,915 --> 00:01:00,319 Christ's sinless record put in its place. 13 00:01:01,179 --> 00:01:05,203 And really that is, if you can, if you would, the foundation 14 00:01:05,251 --> 00:01:06,399 of eternal security. 15 00:01:07,019 --> 00:01:09,763 And so if you would, in your Bibles tonight, turn to Romans chapter 16 00:01:09,811 --> 00:01:10,403 8. 17 00:01:10,571 --> 00:01:12,759 We'll approach this a little different tonight. 18 00:01:13,659 --> 00:01:18,483 This sermon is adapted from some of Brother Stewart's stuff. 19 00:01:18,531 --> 00:01:23,715 So just to let you know, we have preached on eternal security 20 00:01:23,787 --> 00:01:25,329 many, many times. 21 00:01:25,789 --> 00:01:29,141 And I do think to have a few verses written in the back of your 22 00:01:29,165 --> 00:01:29,749 Bible. 23 00:01:29,909 --> 00:01:33,413 One of the main verses to be written in your Bible, John, chapter 24 00:01:33,461 --> 00:01:37,333 10, verses 28 and 29, somewhere in the back of your Bible, 25 00:01:37,381 --> 00:01:40,981 put eternal security, John, chapter 10, verses 28 and 29. 26 00:01:41,165 --> 00:01:44,405 And having to deal with no man can pluck us out of the Father's 27 00:01:44,437 --> 00:01:45,009 hand. 28 00:01:45,469 --> 00:01:50,645 I and my Father are one, Jesus said, and we know that, that once 29 00:01:50,717 --> 00:01:56,101 we are saved, once you accept Christ as your Savior, you are always 30 00:01:56,205 --> 00:01:56,869 saved. 31 00:01:57,029 --> 00:01:59,365 And we're going to go through that again tonight. 32 00:01:59,397 --> 00:02:04,741 But more from perspective of Romans chapter 4, Romans chapter 33 00:02:04,805 --> 00:02:07,461 8, than maybe from the practical. 34 00:02:07,525 --> 00:02:11,717 For instance, John 3:16 teaches eternal security, right. 35 00:02:11,853 --> 00:02:14,165 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, 36 00:02:14,197 --> 00:02:16,133 that whosoever believeth him should not perish. 37 00:02:16,181 --> 00:02:19,589 But what have everlasting life? 38 00:02:19,889 --> 00:02:21,961 Well, how long is everlasting? 39 00:02:22,025 --> 00:02:26,073 You know, so practically, I mean, just some good practical verses 40 00:02:26,201 --> 00:02:28,985 to know and to be able to recite. 41 00:02:29,017 --> 00:02:31,609 It's kind of like when somebody asks me, why do you use 42 00:02:31,649 --> 00:02:32,681 the King James Bible? 43 00:02:32,745 --> 00:02:35,369 Why do you use the King James Version of the Bible? 44 00:02:35,529 --> 00:02:39,401 And my first response usually is, because I believe it to be the 45 00:02:39,425 --> 00:02:41,069 most honest translation. 46 00:02:42,049 --> 00:02:46,121 And nine times out of 10, that's the, you know, the conversation 47 00:02:46,185 --> 00:02:47,161 ends there. 48 00:02:47,345 --> 00:02:48,841 But there is so much more. 49 00:02:48,945 --> 00:02:52,313 And so I have the other outline text tongues and translators 50 00:02:52,361 --> 00:02:55,669 that I will go through with somebody who wants to know more and 51 00:02:55,969 --> 00:02:56,761 delve into it. 52 00:02:56,785 --> 00:02:58,873 Well, that's kind of the way this is tonight. 53 00:02:59,001 --> 00:03:02,649 If somebody was to ask you, why do you believe that when you 54 00:03:02,689 --> 00:03:05,689 got saved that you will never lose it? 55 00:03:05,809 --> 00:03:08,633 That we do believe, once saved, always saved. 56 00:03:08,681 --> 00:03:11,673 In fact, as Baptists, many times we get made fun of that. 57 00:03:11,761 --> 00:03:14,219 We get made fun of because of that. 58 00:03:14,339 --> 00:03:16,123 And so what is your answer? 59 00:03:16,171 --> 00:03:17,835 And so again, John 10. 60 00:03:17,907 --> 00:03:20,155 And just to take them to some simple verses. 61 00:03:20,187 --> 00:03:23,051 And most of the time that's all you need to do. 62 00:03:23,235 --> 00:03:26,891 But the foundation of it is really justification. 63 00:03:27,035 --> 00:03:34,571 And that is when I got saved, my sins were forgiven, just justified. 64 00:03:34,635 --> 00:03:35,723 Remember justification? 65 00:03:35,771 --> 00:03:40,589 When I was a kid, I learned the definition was just as if I had 66 00:03:40,629 --> 00:03:41,597 never sinned. 67 00:03:41,693 --> 00:03:44,621 When I got saved, my sins were forgiven. 68 00:03:44,685 --> 00:03:47,677 And it was just as if I had never sinned. 69 00:03:47,773 --> 00:03:50,637 But see, justification is so much more than that. 70 00:03:50,773 --> 00:03:54,845 Justification is not only having your sins forgiven, having 71 00:03:54,917 --> 00:03:59,853 your sinful record erased, but Christ sinless, His law fulfilling 72 00:03:59,901 --> 00:04:03,981 life, his 33 and a half years of law. 73 00:04:04,165 --> 00:04:06,557 Sinless, lawful life. 74 00:04:06,613 --> 00:04:07,843 Sinless, his sinless life. 75 00:04:07,931 --> 00:04:10,803 Put in your sinful records. 76 00:04:10,851 --> 00:04:13,395 Place again. 77 00:04:13,467 --> 00:04:15,199 Brother Stewart said it while he was here. 78 00:04:15,819 --> 00:04:20,719 It's about again, my bank account was. 79 00:04:21,099 --> 00:04:24,131 I was negative in my bank account when I was born in this world. 80 00:04:24,155 --> 00:04:25,459 I was born a sinner. 81 00:04:25,619 --> 00:04:27,639 My bank account, very negative. 82 00:04:28,219 --> 00:04:32,291 And it just kept getting more and more negative as I sinned more 83 00:04:32,315 --> 00:04:33,351 and more and more. 84 00:04:33,515 --> 00:04:38,511 But when I accepted Christ as my Savior, my bank account was not 85 00:04:38,535 --> 00:04:44,299 only brought up to even, but he put money in the bank. 86 00:04:44,679 --> 00:04:51,567 Because not only was my debt forgiven, but Christ's again, His 87 00:04:51,623 --> 00:04:53,215 sinless record was put in his plate. 88 00:04:53,247 --> 00:04:55,259 I got money in the bank. 89 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:58,271 And there's so many illustrations for that. 90 00:04:58,295 --> 00:05:00,027 But look at Romans chapter 8 with me. 91 00:05:00,183 --> 00:05:02,079 Read verses 1 through 8. 92 00:05:02,459 --> 00:05:08,707 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in 93 00:05:08,763 --> 00:05:09,959 Christ Jesus. 94 00:05:11,819 --> 00:05:14,739 And we don't have time tonight, even though he gave me five 95 00:05:14,779 --> 00:05:15,719 extra minutes. 96 00:05:17,579 --> 00:05:19,039 Romans chapter one. 97 00:05:20,379 --> 00:05:27,357 Paul says there is no excuse for someone not understanding and 98 00:05:27,413 --> 00:05:29,409 knowing that there is a God. 99 00:05:29,749 --> 00:05:34,653 And he says the heaven, you know, they are willingly, willfully 100 00:05:34,701 --> 00:05:35,569 ignorant. 101 00:05:35,989 --> 00:05:41,709 In other words, they, they are denying God's existence because they 102 00:05:41,749 --> 00:05:46,813 willfully do so in order not to be subject to him, not to be accountable 103 00:05:46,861 --> 00:05:47,609 to him. 104 00:05:49,989 --> 00:05:50,969 That's it. 105 00:05:51,599 --> 00:05:55,799 And not only that, but the immorality, you know, again, all 106 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,535 those things found in Romans chapter one and then in Romans chapter 107 00:05:58,567 --> 00:06:01,703 two, there's an interview basically of three or four different 108 00:06:01,871 --> 00:06:04,007 people or classifications of people. 109 00:06:04,143 --> 00:06:08,775 The religious person, the societal, you know, elevated person, 110 00:06:08,927 --> 00:06:11,799 the Jewish person, and then the pagan person. 111 00:06:11,919 --> 00:06:14,939 And Paul says all of them are guilty before God. 112 00:06:15,679 --> 00:06:17,783 The pagan is guilty before God. 113 00:06:17,911 --> 00:06:20,055 The religious person is guilty before God. 114 00:06:20,167 --> 00:06:22,103 The Jew is guilty before God. 115 00:06:22,231 --> 00:06:24,711 Because then chapter three tells you why. 116 00:06:24,815 --> 00:06:26,619 Because all are sinners. 117 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:29,991 Doesn't matter whether you're religious, doesn't matter whether 118 00:06:30,015 --> 00:06:32,375 you're a Jew, doesn't matter whether you're a pagan. 119 00:06:32,487 --> 00:06:35,463 We are all for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 120 00:06:35,511 --> 00:06:38,999 Romans chapter three and then Romans chapter four and five. 121 00:06:39,039 --> 00:06:40,423 I'm saying, I'm giving the outline anyway. 122 00:06:40,471 --> 00:06:41,927 Romans chapter four and five. 123 00:06:42,063 --> 00:06:47,275 It illustrates for us that Abraham and David were saved by grace 124 00:06:47,307 --> 00:06:48,219 through faith. 125 00:06:48,379 --> 00:06:49,643 How was David saved? 126 00:06:49,691 --> 00:06:51,599 How was Abraham saved? 127 00:06:52,099 --> 00:06:53,691 And then chapter six. 128 00:06:53,875 --> 00:06:55,771 Once you get saved, I'm thankful. 129 00:06:55,835 --> 00:06:57,083 Romans chapter six is there. 130 00:06:57,171 --> 00:07:00,043 You do not have to yield yourselves as an instrument of unrighteousness. 131 00:07:00,171 --> 00:07:02,635 You've been saved not only from the penalty of sin, but Romans 132 00:07:02,667 --> 00:07:05,355 6 says you're saved from the power of sin. 133 00:07:05,387 --> 00:07:07,199 You've been given power over sin. 134 00:07:08,259 --> 00:07:09,339 What shall we say then? 135 00:07:09,379 --> 00:07:11,299 Shall we continue in sin that grace should abound? 136 00:07:11,419 --> 00:07:12,083 God forbid. 137 00:07:12,131 --> 00:07:14,467 How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer? 138 00:07:14,483 --> 00:07:17,107 Therein again we don't have to live in sin anymore. 139 00:07:17,123 --> 00:07:22,399 We've been given victory when we can have victory over sin through 140 00:07:22,699 --> 00:07:26,227 the Holy Spirit, through the Lord Jesus Christ, the grace he gives 141 00:07:26,243 --> 00:07:26,371 us. 142 00:07:26,395 --> 00:07:27,795 That's Romans 6, Romans 7. 143 00:07:27,867 --> 00:07:29,187 Y'all know what that one is, right? 144 00:07:29,323 --> 00:07:36,083 Paul is saying as he said, you know, salvation is through grace, 145 00:07:36,131 --> 00:07:36,643 through faith. 146 00:07:36,691 --> 00:07:38,083 That's the way Abraham got saved. 147 00:07:38,131 --> 00:07:40,393 That's the way that David got saved. 148 00:07:40,521 --> 00:07:46,349 And we no longer have to be subject or in slavery or in bondage 149 00:07:46,769 --> 00:07:48,233 under the power of sin. 150 00:07:48,361 --> 00:07:50,041 We've been given power over that. 151 00:07:50,145 --> 00:07:53,529 In chapter seven, Paul says, the things that I would do, those 152 00:07:53,569 --> 00:07:54,857 are the things I don't do. 153 00:07:54,993 --> 00:07:57,849 The things that I should do, those are the things I don't do. 154 00:07:57,889 --> 00:08:00,505 And he just says, there's a war within my members. 155 00:08:00,577 --> 00:08:01,829 Romans chapter 7. 156 00:08:02,449 --> 00:08:04,153 Alright, so you get set. 157 00:08:04,321 --> 00:08:05,513 You realize you're a sinner. 158 00:08:05,561 --> 00:08:06,637 You, you get saved. 159 00:08:06,733 --> 00:08:09,581 You've been given power over the penalty of sin, the power of 160 00:08:09,605 --> 00:08:09,997 sin. 161 00:08:10,093 --> 00:08:12,685 And now there's a war going on inside of you. 162 00:08:12,757 --> 00:08:14,889 Because that old man, the new man, are just. 163 00:08:15,189 --> 00:08:16,649 They're fighting it out. 164 00:08:17,029 --> 00:08:19,597 The old nature of the new nature, however you want to express 165 00:08:19,653 --> 00:08:21,129 it, are fighting it out. 166 00:08:21,909 --> 00:08:23,485 And so Paul said that war. 167 00:08:23,557 --> 00:08:26,205 But he said at the end of chapter seven he says, but I thank 168 00:08:26,237 --> 00:08:29,929 God who hath given me the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 169 00:08:30,469 --> 00:08:33,621 And that's why he starts chapter eight with now. 170 00:08:33,725 --> 00:08:37,461 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in 171 00:08:37,485 --> 00:08:38,437 Christ Jesus. 172 00:08:38,613 --> 00:08:40,165 In other words, I'm not condemned anymore. 173 00:08:40,197 --> 00:08:43,381 My sins have been forgiven, who walk not after the flesh, but 174 00:08:43,405 --> 00:08:44,053 after the spirit. 175 00:08:44,101 --> 00:08:47,349 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me 176 00:08:47,389 --> 00:08:49,413 free from the law of sin and death. 177 00:08:49,581 --> 00:08:53,349 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, 178 00:08:53,509 --> 00:08:54,821 God sending his. 179 00:08:54,925 --> 00:08:57,009 In other words, we can't keep the law. 180 00:08:57,389 --> 00:09:00,289 The law was given to show us that we can't keep it. 181 00:09:00,859 --> 00:09:03,439 The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. 182 00:09:04,139 --> 00:09:08,339 God sending his Son, his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh 183 00:09:08,499 --> 00:09:11,091 and of sin, condemned sin in the flesh. 184 00:09:11,235 --> 00:09:14,531 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who 185 00:09:14,555 --> 00:09:17,219 walk not after the Spirit, but after the flesh. 186 00:09:17,299 --> 00:09:18,003 After the Spirit. 187 00:09:18,051 --> 00:09:18,679 Sorry. 188 00:09:19,899 --> 00:09:22,243 Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 189 00:09:22,291 --> 00:09:22,979 Verse 5. 190 00:09:23,099 --> 00:09:26,355 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, 191 00:09:26,387 --> 00:09:27,299 but they that are after. 192 00:09:27,339 --> 00:09:29,075 After the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 193 00:09:29,187 --> 00:09:33,155 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded 194 00:09:33,187 --> 00:09:34,579 is life and peace. 195 00:09:34,739 --> 00:09:38,003 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God. 196 00:09:38,051 --> 00:09:41,235 For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be 197 00:09:41,307 --> 00:09:41,491 so. 198 00:09:41,515 --> 00:09:46,359 Then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 199 00:09:47,019 --> 00:09:48,599 Cannot please God. 200 00:09:49,099 --> 00:09:53,459 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. 201 00:09:53,539 --> 00:09:55,987 If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. 202 00:09:56,043 --> 00:09:59,439 Now, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 203 00:09:59,879 --> 00:10:01,099 Everybody see that. 204 00:10:01,479 --> 00:10:05,055 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin. 205 00:10:05,167 --> 00:10:08,383 The Spirit, the Holy Spirit is life because of righteousness. 206 00:10:08,511 --> 00:10:12,703 But if the Spirit notice again capital S Spirit of him that raised 207 00:10:12,751 --> 00:10:14,671 up Jesus from the dead, we could go on and on. 208 00:10:14,775 --> 00:10:20,863 Chapter eight is talking about again that the flesh and the Spirit. 209 00:10:20,991 --> 00:10:25,193 And now we have the Holy Spirit inside of us who enables us 210 00:10:25,311 --> 00:10:26,969 to overcome the flesh. 211 00:10:27,389 --> 00:10:31,253 To overcome the flesh, you do not have to be subject under the 212 00:10:31,261 --> 00:10:31,781 flesh. 213 00:10:31,925 --> 00:10:34,005 You don't have to be in slavery to the flesh. 214 00:10:34,117 --> 00:10:36,489 You do not have to be bondage to the flesh. 215 00:10:36,989 --> 00:10:41,605 You can overcome it through the Holy Spirit, through the Spirit 216 00:10:41,637 --> 00:10:42,341 of God. 217 00:10:42,485 --> 00:10:44,049 I'm so thankful for that. 218 00:10:45,069 --> 00:10:50,763 So the Baptist distinctives are a collection of biblical truths 219 00:10:50,861 --> 00:10:52,419 unique to Baptist. 220 00:10:53,719 --> 00:10:54,575 Be careful. 221 00:10:54,687 --> 00:10:56,619 I'm saying it that way for a reason. 222 00:10:57,159 --> 00:10:58,047 I'm not saying. 223 00:10:58,103 --> 00:10:59,119 Here's what I'm not saying. 224 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:02,575 I'm not saying there's not other denominations and other churches 225 00:11:02,687 --> 00:11:08,499 out there that teach parts and even maybe most of these truths. 226 00:11:08,999 --> 00:11:12,159 But the collection of these 12 truths that we're going to be going 227 00:11:12,199 --> 00:11:14,979 over make Baptists unique. 228 00:11:15,639 --> 00:11:18,639 Make Baptists unique in that we believe all 12. 229 00:11:19,019 --> 00:11:21,411 All 12, because the Bible teaches all 12. 230 00:11:21,595 --> 00:11:23,219 And so make sure you understand them. 231 00:11:23,259 --> 00:11:27,347 We're not saying there's not other churches out there preaching 232 00:11:27,363 --> 00:11:29,667 the gospel or preaching even teaching eternal security. 233 00:11:29,723 --> 00:11:32,899 There's others out there who believe that, but we're saying collectively 234 00:11:32,979 --> 00:11:37,939 as we go through this Baptist distinctives that it makes Baptists 235 00:11:38,019 --> 00:11:38,499 unique. 236 00:11:38,579 --> 00:11:39,075 Let's pray. 237 00:11:39,107 --> 00:11:42,835 Heavenly Father, Lord, as we come upon this important subject 238 00:11:42,867 --> 00:11:48,689 tonight, help us again to understand and to know and to cherish, 239 00:11:49,269 --> 00:11:52,349 Lord, the righteousness we received in your dear son, Jesus 240 00:11:52,429 --> 00:11:53,049 Christ. 241 00:11:53,429 --> 00:11:56,449 We thank you and love you in Jesus name, Amen. 242 00:11:56,949 --> 00:12:00,685 Our theme verse for this series is second Timothy, chapter 243 00:12:00,717 --> 00:12:01,773 two, verse two. 244 00:12:01,941 --> 00:12:06,317 And Paul told Timothy, the things that thou hast heard of me 245 00:12:06,453 --> 00:12:11,255 among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men who shall 246 00:12:11,287 --> 00:12:13,939 be able to teach others also. 247 00:12:14,479 --> 00:12:23,687 And again, the church has been given the responsibility to be sure 248 00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:26,459 that we pass on truth to the next generation. 249 00:12:27,439 --> 00:12:32,391 We are caretakers of the truth, the truth of the Bible, the 250 00:12:32,415 --> 00:12:35,607 doctrines of the Bible, the teachings of the Bible, the teachings, 251 00:12:35,703 --> 00:12:37,353 the that are found in the Scriptures. 252 00:12:37,481 --> 00:12:40,937 And those things that we've been taught, we're to teach those 253 00:12:40,993 --> 00:12:43,881 same things to the next generation. 254 00:12:43,945 --> 00:12:45,513 The same, he says the same. 255 00:12:45,601 --> 00:12:50,425 The same commit thou to faithful men who then can also teach 256 00:12:50,537 --> 00:12:53,401 the next generation those same truths. 257 00:12:53,545 --> 00:12:56,249 The first truth we covered was the Bible. 258 00:12:56,409 --> 00:13:00,409 The Bible is the singular, absolute, fully sufficient and final 259 00:13:00,449 --> 00:13:02,087 rule of faith and practice. 260 00:13:02,273 --> 00:13:07,531 Again, it is the ultimate standard of truth and the ultimate 261 00:13:07,595 --> 00:13:09,439 standard when it comes to application. 262 00:13:09,859 --> 00:13:16,427 So this is the final authority for everything in my life, for everything 263 00:13:16,483 --> 00:13:17,451 concerning the church. 264 00:13:17,515 --> 00:13:23,147 This is the absolute and final, fully sufficient rule of faith 265 00:13:23,243 --> 00:13:24,571 and practice. 266 00:13:24,715 --> 00:13:28,773 That was the first truth of the first Baptist distinctive that 267 00:13:28,781 --> 00:13:29,397 we covered. 268 00:13:29,493 --> 00:13:32,249 The second one a few weeks ago was salvation. 269 00:13:32,669 --> 00:13:36,885 Salvation from the wrath of God for our sins is by grace, through 270 00:13:36,957 --> 00:13:42,609 faith, solely in the person, life and work of Christ. 271 00:13:43,869 --> 00:13:44,809 Amen. 272 00:13:45,149 --> 00:13:49,189 Jesus said it himself, I am the way, the truth and the life. 273 00:13:49,309 --> 00:13:53,009 No man cometh unto the Father but by me. 274 00:13:53,799 --> 00:13:55,983 Again, the first one is the Word. 275 00:13:56,031 --> 00:13:57,535 The second one is salvation. 276 00:13:57,647 --> 00:14:01,759 And without the word of God, this Bible, the Scriptures, there 277 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:03,219 can be no salvation. 278 00:14:03,959 --> 00:14:09,375 The Bible says in Romans 10:17 that faith cometh by hearing and 279 00:14:09,447 --> 00:14:09,871 hearing. 280 00:14:09,935 --> 00:14:11,327 By the word of God. 281 00:14:11,503 --> 00:14:12,899 By the Word of God. 282 00:14:13,239 --> 00:14:15,359 I'm thankful for the word of God. 283 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:17,219 Without it, there'd be no salvation. 284 00:14:17,639 --> 00:14:20,887 Without Jesus Christ's life, death and burial and resurrection, 285 00:14:21,023 --> 00:14:22,579 we are without hope. 286 00:14:23,839 --> 00:14:28,583 I believe Paul put it pretty good that in Corinthians that if 287 00:14:28,591 --> 00:14:33,419 there was no resurrection, our faith is in vain. 288 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:38,855 And then he said in verse 20, he said, but I'm glad I'm summarizing, 289 00:14:38,967 --> 00:14:41,607 but Jesus Christ did rise from the dead. 290 00:14:41,783 --> 00:14:46,151 And so we believe and we know that Jesus Christ is the right hand 291 00:14:46,175 --> 00:14:47,275 of the throne of God. 292 00:14:47,447 --> 00:14:51,539 Salvation is solely through faith, by grace, through faith in 293 00:14:51,579 --> 00:14:54,755 Jesus Christ, it's only by grace through faith. 294 00:14:54,947 --> 00:14:55,731 How do we know that? 295 00:14:55,755 --> 00:14:58,339 Well, there's many illustrations of that in the Bible. 296 00:14:58,499 --> 00:15:04,483 Maybe one of the most revealed one is the thief on the cross. 297 00:15:04,531 --> 00:15:07,811 When Jesus Christ is dying there on the cross, two thieves beside 298 00:15:07,875 --> 00:15:08,387 him. 299 00:15:08,523 --> 00:15:13,485 One of them, he said to him, today, thou shalt be with me in paradise. 300 00:15:13,627 --> 00:15:16,909 Today he didn't go get baptized. 301 00:15:17,409 --> 00:15:20,829 He didn't have to, you know, give, give money to the church. 302 00:15:21,329 --> 00:15:25,497 No, he said, today again, baptism doesn't save you. 303 00:15:25,633 --> 00:15:27,721 Good works do not save you. 304 00:15:27,905 --> 00:15:31,993 Salvation is found solely in the person, life and work of Jesus 305 00:15:32,041 --> 00:15:32,633 Christ. 306 00:15:32,801 --> 00:15:33,465 That's it. 307 00:15:33,537 --> 00:15:34,153 Period. 308 00:15:34,321 --> 00:15:36,629 It is the narrow way, the Bible says. 309 00:15:37,009 --> 00:15:40,409 And sometimes we get called narrow minded because we believe 310 00:15:40,449 --> 00:15:40,649 that. 311 00:15:40,689 --> 00:15:43,467 Well, I'm narrow minded and then believe that because that's 312 00:15:43,483 --> 00:15:44,799 what Jesus taught. 313 00:15:45,299 --> 00:15:46,639 That's what he taught. 314 00:15:48,659 --> 00:15:51,159 So today is eternal security. 315 00:15:51,459 --> 00:15:55,355 So this is number three, number three of 12, eternal security 316 00:15:55,427 --> 00:15:56,507 of the believer. 317 00:15:56,683 --> 00:16:00,907 And the phrase we usually hear with this is once saved, always saved. 318 00:16:01,083 --> 00:16:02,443 Once saved, always saved. 319 00:16:02,491 --> 00:16:05,679 We've been using that same expression forever. 320 00:16:06,259 --> 00:16:10,453 And that is again by putting your trust in the works of Jesus 321 00:16:10,501 --> 00:16:14,677 Christ, we are therefore, or you are therefore kept according 322 00:16:14,733 --> 00:16:20,229 to 1 Peter 1:5, kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, 323 00:16:20,309 --> 00:16:22,869 ready to be revealed at the last time. 324 00:16:22,989 --> 00:16:24,089 We are kept. 325 00:16:24,429 --> 00:16:28,329 Kept by the power of God through faith we are kept. 326 00:16:28,669 --> 00:16:31,941 I'm so thankful that I know that when I was six years old, I 327 00:16:31,965 --> 00:16:35,839 accepted Christ as my Savior in first John. 328 00:16:35,879 --> 00:16:39,455 John says that ye might know that ye have eternal life. 329 00:16:39,607 --> 00:16:43,615 I'm thankful that I have a salvation that's not a hope so salvation, 330 00:16:43,807 --> 00:16:46,351 but that is a know so salvation. 331 00:16:46,495 --> 00:16:49,951 I can lay my head down at night and go to sleep knowing that 332 00:16:49,975 --> 00:16:52,703 if I were to die in my sleep, that heaven would be my home. 333 00:16:52,871 --> 00:16:58,991 Even though before I went to sleep I may have, you know, was eating 334 00:16:59,055 --> 00:17:03,299 too much and may have, you know, committed some kind of sin 335 00:17:03,459 --> 00:17:05,399 that has to do with eating. 336 00:17:06,139 --> 00:17:09,715 And I know that when I go to bed, I'm still going to heaven. 337 00:17:09,747 --> 00:17:13,411 In other words, if I sinned right before I went to bed, if I 338 00:17:13,435 --> 00:17:18,419 had a, if I did, if I did something or I said something or 339 00:17:18,459 --> 00:17:21,679 I thought something, there you go. 340 00:17:22,539 --> 00:17:25,811 That would have been a sin that even though that happened right 341 00:17:25,835 --> 00:17:28,661 before I went to bed, right before I fell asleep, if I was to 342 00:17:28,685 --> 00:17:31,169 die, I know heaven would be my home. 343 00:17:32,509 --> 00:17:35,849 The Bible calls that is what helps give us joy. 344 00:17:36,589 --> 00:17:39,769 It's what helps us have joy as Christians. 345 00:17:40,989 --> 00:17:44,805 So eternal security, everlasting life once and forever 346 00:17:44,917 --> 00:17:49,173 eternal forever again as we Think about this eternal security 347 00:17:49,261 --> 00:17:50,005 of the believer. 348 00:17:50,037 --> 00:17:51,509 All right, so let's look at these words. 349 00:17:51,589 --> 00:17:53,013 Eternal means forever. 350 00:17:53,061 --> 00:17:54,588 I mean, that's pretty easy. 351 00:17:54,788 --> 00:18:00,252 Christ's sacrifice has an eternal dimension to it. 352 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:01,084 Listen to this. 353 00:18:01,156 --> 00:18:07,068 Christ's sacrifice on the cross has an eternal dimension to 354 00:18:07,108 --> 00:18:07,500 it. 355 00:18:07,604 --> 00:18:10,028 And you'll know the verses when I mention them. 356 00:18:10,068 --> 00:18:12,988 First Peter, chapter one, verses 18 through 20. 357 00:18:13,108 --> 00:18:16,888 Forasmuch, as you know, I'm going to go ahead and turn over there. 358 00:18:17,268 --> 00:18:19,084 Maybe it's been a while since you've seen these verses. 359 00:18:19,116 --> 00:18:20,888 Look at one Peter, chapter one. 360 00:18:21,969 --> 00:18:24,521 Give you two seconds to get there if you want to go there. 361 00:18:24,625 --> 00:18:28,789 First Peter, chapter one, verses 18, 19 and 20. 362 00:18:29,329 --> 00:18:37,065 All right, so again, the point here is that our salvation, the sacrifice 363 00:18:37,097 --> 00:18:42,361 of Jesus Christ, has an eternal dimension to it. 364 00:18:42,385 --> 00:18:44,869 Can I remind you that God lives outside of time? 365 00:18:45,649 --> 00:18:47,669 God is not subject to time. 366 00:18:48,609 --> 00:18:52,857 In Genesis, chapter one, verse one, in the beginning, God created 367 00:18:52,873 --> 00:18:54,189 the heavens and the earth. 368 00:18:54,849 --> 00:18:56,029 Time began. 369 00:18:56,449 --> 00:18:58,629 Before that, there was no time. 370 00:19:00,289 --> 00:19:02,729 One day there'll be no time. 371 00:19:02,769 --> 00:19:08,201 Again, time will be over, and there will only be eternity. 372 00:19:08,345 --> 00:19:12,169 So God put the first dot on the line, and he'll put the final 373 00:19:12,209 --> 00:19:13,153 dot on the line. 374 00:19:13,281 --> 00:19:17,681 But God lives outside of time, so there's an eternal dimension to 375 00:19:17,785 --> 00:19:18,417 salvation. 376 00:19:18,513 --> 00:19:19,089 So look at this. 377 00:19:19,129 --> 00:19:21,041 First Peter 1:18. 378 00:19:21,225 --> 00:19:24,913 Forasmuch, as you know, that you were not redeemed with corruptible 379 00:19:24,961 --> 00:19:25,549 things. 380 00:19:25,929 --> 00:19:28,129 All right, so you're not purchased with corruptible things. 381 00:19:28,169 --> 00:19:32,113 The silver and gold from your vain conversation, received by tradition 382 00:19:32,161 --> 00:19:33,429 from your fathers. 383 00:19:34,009 --> 00:19:36,529 So we're not saved by tradition, not saved by things received 384 00:19:36,569 --> 00:19:40,181 from our fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a 385 00:19:40,205 --> 00:19:46,409 lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained 386 00:19:48,189 --> 00:19:52,949 before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these 387 00:19:52,989 --> 00:19:55,301 last times for you. 388 00:19:55,485 --> 00:19:56,309 What does that mean? 389 00:19:56,349 --> 00:20:00,689 It means he was foreordained before the foundation of the world. 390 00:20:01,149 --> 00:20:04,693 That he would die, that he would be buried and rise again from 391 00:20:04,701 --> 00:20:06,909 the dead before the foundation of the world. 392 00:20:06,949 --> 00:20:08,209 Before time began. 393 00:20:10,549 --> 00:20:15,469 Before time began, it was already in the mind of God that Christ 394 00:20:15,509 --> 00:20:18,049 would die and be buried and rise again from the dead. 395 00:20:19,109 --> 00:20:20,141 You could say it this way. 396 00:20:20,165 --> 00:20:21,645 It'll blow your mind, it blows mine. 397 00:20:21,677 --> 00:20:28,077 And it's really hard to wrap your head around because there's 398 00:20:28,093 --> 00:20:28,989 no time with God. 399 00:20:29,069 --> 00:20:33,671 Christ did die in eternity past. 400 00:20:33,855 --> 00:20:35,287 He died in eternity future. 401 00:20:35,343 --> 00:20:37,099 Because there's no time with God. 402 00:20:38,239 --> 00:20:39,699 Boom, there you go. 403 00:20:40,479 --> 00:20:42,375 It's hard for us to comprehend. 404 00:20:42,567 --> 00:20:47,059 Someday get to heaven, Lord willing, be able to grasp it more. 405 00:20:48,159 --> 00:20:52,951 So the sacrifice of Christ has an eternal dimension to it he was 406 00:20:52,975 --> 00:20:56,103 the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world to God. 407 00:20:56,151 --> 00:20:59,883 Again, Jesus Christ was made before the beginning of time. 408 00:20:59,971 --> 00:21:02,075 And therefore remembering God is eternal. 409 00:21:02,107 --> 00:21:02,811 He's outside of time. 410 00:21:02,835 --> 00:21:04,987 So salvation must be eternal as well. 411 00:21:05,043 --> 00:21:08,347 So salvation is eternal because the sacrifice that Christ 412 00:21:08,403 --> 00:21:09,599 made was eternal. 413 00:21:12,739 --> 00:21:14,079 Good job, everybody. 414 00:21:18,579 --> 00:21:19,319 Security. 415 00:21:19,619 --> 00:21:21,771 So eternal security of the believer. 416 00:21:21,835 --> 00:21:24,327 Security settled, fixed, locked. 417 00:21:24,523 --> 00:21:26,111 Salvation is of the Lord. 418 00:21:26,255 --> 00:21:28,579 It's secure because he is secure. 419 00:21:30,679 --> 00:21:32,767 And once it's secured, it's forever. 420 00:21:32,863 --> 00:21:34,623 In other words, God never changes. 421 00:21:34,751 --> 00:21:36,059 He's always the same. 422 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,299 Next, the security of the believer. 423 00:21:41,719 --> 00:21:44,751 All right, so again, the only one who has security is the one who 424 00:21:44,775 --> 00:21:45,647 believes. 425 00:21:45,823 --> 00:21:50,761 The believer is one who puts their trust in Christ Jesus, who 426 00:21:50,785 --> 00:21:54,969 puts their trust in Jesus, that puts their trust in who he is 427 00:21:55,009 --> 00:21:56,469 and what he did for them. 428 00:21:56,769 --> 00:22:00,089 Again, putting their trust in him and him alone. 429 00:22:00,249 --> 00:22:02,553 His life, his death, his resurrection. 430 00:22:02,681 --> 00:22:09,349 So we have the security of the believer, the security fixed, certain 431 00:22:10,209 --> 00:22:14,349 salvation once saved, always saved. 432 00:22:14,689 --> 00:22:16,589 Again, one time reckoning. 433 00:22:16,969 --> 00:22:18,709 A one time reckoning. 434 00:22:19,449 --> 00:22:23,441 And based upon the merits of Christ, the merits of Christ, in 435 00:22:23,465 --> 00:22:25,429 other words, Christ is worthy. 436 00:22:25,849 --> 00:22:30,401 The merits of Christ, in that he alone gave Himself for us, the 437 00:22:30,425 --> 00:22:37,069 God of the universe became flesh and our Creator died for us. 438 00:22:37,849 --> 00:22:44,389 Thus the merits of Christ, our salvation is based upon him, his 439 00:22:44,429 --> 00:22:45,129 merit. 440 00:22:45,629 --> 00:22:48,613 One time reckoning on the merits of Christ. 441 00:22:48,701 --> 00:22:52,357 Salvation is secured by transferring our trust from any other 442 00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:55,189 source of salvation unto Christ and Christ alone. 443 00:22:55,349 --> 00:22:57,289 Once saved, always saved. 444 00:22:59,949 --> 00:23:05,621 Again, a lot of times we get made fun of that term because they 445 00:23:05,645 --> 00:23:08,149 will come back with, well, if you're once saved, you're always 446 00:23:08,189 --> 00:23:10,991 saved, then that gives you, you can live like you want. 447 00:23:11,015 --> 00:23:16,751 Then if you can't lose it, then you could just live like you 448 00:23:16,775 --> 00:23:17,695 want to live. 449 00:23:17,847 --> 00:23:19,199 You live how you want to live. 450 00:23:19,239 --> 00:23:22,815 And of course we have to deal also with the radical grace movement 451 00:23:22,847 --> 00:23:25,391 that believes because of God's grace you can just live like you 452 00:23:25,415 --> 00:23:27,499 want and God's grace will cover it up. 453 00:23:28,439 --> 00:23:32,255 So as we think about that, we think about again those important 454 00:23:32,327 --> 00:23:35,619 truths that no, that's not true. 455 00:23:36,719 --> 00:23:40,119 Paul said that the grace of God is not a license to do what you 456 00:23:40,159 --> 00:23:40,695 want. 457 00:23:40,847 --> 00:23:43,671 In fact, the grace of God was given to us that we might live a 458 00:23:43,695 --> 00:23:48,247 godly life that enablement the power of God, the power of the Holy 459 00:23:48,263 --> 00:23:48,551 Spirit. 460 00:23:48,615 --> 00:23:52,599 That grace that saved us is the same grace that enables us to 461 00:23:52,639 --> 00:23:56,579 live a godly life, to live a life pleasing to the Lord Jesus Christ. 462 00:23:56,879 --> 00:23:59,671 And so when we think about that term, when somebody says to 463 00:23:59,695 --> 00:24:02,361 you, well, if you believe that, then you believe you could 464 00:24:02,385 --> 00:24:05,481 just live however you want to that's not the case at all. 465 00:24:05,665 --> 00:24:09,865 Those who are truly saved will not live in habitual sin. 466 00:24:10,057 --> 00:24:11,721 Will not live in habitual sin. 467 00:24:11,785 --> 00:24:15,549 Those who are truly saved will not live in habitual sin. 468 00:24:16,369 --> 00:24:21,321 I don't have the verse written down, but I had someone come to me 469 00:24:21,345 --> 00:24:21,609 with those. 470 00:24:21,649 --> 00:24:25,097 There's a verse there that talks about how that those who live 471 00:24:25,153 --> 00:24:28,597 in adultery and fornication and drunkenness will not inherit 472 00:24:28,613 --> 00:24:29,797 the kingdom of God. 473 00:24:29,973 --> 00:24:31,285 That's absolutely true. 474 00:24:31,397 --> 00:24:35,461 Those who live in those, those who live in idolatry, those who live 475 00:24:35,485 --> 00:24:38,357 in adultery, those who live in fornication, those who live in drunkenness, 476 00:24:38,453 --> 00:24:41,445 who habitually live in those things will not inherit the kingdom 477 00:24:41,477 --> 00:24:41,765 of God. 478 00:24:41,797 --> 00:24:42,181 Why? 479 00:24:42,285 --> 00:24:43,689 Because they're not saved. 480 00:24:45,069 --> 00:24:48,309 Because as a saved, born again believer, you can't habitually live 481 00:24:48,349 --> 00:24:49,409 in those things. 482 00:24:49,869 --> 00:24:51,797 I could also preach that from the book of John. 483 00:24:51,853 --> 00:24:53,291 I could preach it from the book of James. 484 00:24:53,405 --> 00:24:56,783 There's many other ways in which we could preach and teach that. 485 00:24:56,951 --> 00:25:01,471 Again, James says, if you say you have faith, but that faith is 486 00:25:01,495 --> 00:25:03,327 shown by our works. 487 00:25:03,503 --> 00:25:06,175 Jesus even said by their fruit, you shall know them. 488 00:25:06,327 --> 00:25:10,335 And I know again, we have to be careful with that because God 489 00:25:10,367 --> 00:25:12,099 is the one who inspects the fruit. 490 00:25:12,679 --> 00:25:17,087 Be careful about us inspecting the fruit, but understand that someone 491 00:25:17,143 --> 00:25:21,443 who lives in habitual sin, the Bible makes it clear they're not 492 00:25:21,531 --> 00:25:21,891 saved. 493 00:25:21,955 --> 00:25:24,003 And that's the point of eternal security tonight. 494 00:25:24,051 --> 00:25:25,667 Is this the point I'm making? 495 00:25:25,723 --> 00:25:29,619 Is because you're saved, because you know Jesus Christ your 496 00:25:29,659 --> 00:25:32,439 Savior, you will not want to sin. 497 00:25:33,979 --> 00:25:34,627 Why? 498 00:25:34,763 --> 00:25:35,811 Why is that true? 499 00:25:35,875 --> 00:25:39,299 Well, because Second Peter chapter one says you received a new 500 00:25:39,339 --> 00:25:43,347 nature when you get saved, when you really, when you accept 501 00:25:43,403 --> 00:25:46,731 Christ as your Savior, you receive a new nature. 502 00:25:46,915 --> 00:25:52,159 And that new nature you received, it affects your actions 503 00:25:53,059 --> 00:25:54,959 because it affects your wants. 504 00:25:56,339 --> 00:25:59,359 You don't want to sin. 505 00:26:00,259 --> 00:26:06,299 And therefore you are constantly reminded of that by your 506 00:26:06,339 --> 00:26:12,639 nature, by your new nature, your new nature gives you new appetites. 507 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,539 New appetites. 508 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,943 I know when you first get saved, it's really evident when you 509 00:26:17,951 --> 00:26:21,703 first get saved, there's very much an evidence of a new nature 510 00:26:21,751 --> 00:26:24,247 and wanting to read the Bible and learn more. 511 00:26:24,303 --> 00:26:28,455 And many times you'll see someone who either has just gotten 512 00:26:28,487 --> 00:26:30,487 saved or maybe they rededicated their life. 513 00:26:30,543 --> 00:26:32,487 And man, you'll see the appetite change. 514 00:26:32,543 --> 00:26:35,383 And man, they just start delving in the word of God. 515 00:26:35,511 --> 00:26:36,823 They want to be here every service. 516 00:26:36,911 --> 00:26:39,111 And man just see the fire burning. 517 00:26:39,175 --> 00:26:39,719 I love that. 518 00:26:39,759 --> 00:26:40,939 I think that's amazing. 519 00:26:41,739 --> 00:26:45,619 Hope that's we ought to encourage that and we ought to all 520 00:26:45,659 --> 00:26:47,239 be on fire Amen. 521 00:26:47,819 --> 00:26:50,499 Because we received a new nature and with that new nature we 522 00:26:50,539 --> 00:26:53,587 received a new appetite again. 523 00:26:53,643 --> 00:26:58,919 We received a new disposition, the very nature of God. 524 00:27:01,019 --> 00:27:05,763 Understand that when you got saved, the Holy Spirit came and indwelt 525 00:27:05,811 --> 00:27:06,399 you. 526 00:27:08,229 --> 00:27:13,485 One preacher said, he said somebody asked him the question, 527 00:27:13,557 --> 00:27:15,329 well, how do I know if I'm saved? 528 00:27:16,469 --> 00:27:21,245 He said, well, the preacher answered him, said, well, the Holy 529 00:27:21,277 --> 00:27:22,809 Spirit came and indwelt you. 530 00:27:23,749 --> 00:27:27,309 And the preacher said to that man, he said, and something that 531 00:27:27,349 --> 00:27:29,129 big moves in, you're going to know it. 532 00:27:30,869 --> 00:27:32,689 I'm just telling you that's true. 533 00:27:33,199 --> 00:27:37,591 Something that big comes in and dwells you, you're going to know 534 00:27:37,615 --> 00:27:38,179 it. 535 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,743 Again, I'm not talking about a feeling or some emotional necessarily 536 00:27:42,791 --> 00:27:47,159 response, but I'm saying there's going to be a different one 537 00:27:47,199 --> 00:27:47,779 too. 538 00:27:48,159 --> 00:27:51,099 And it's going to happen quickly. 539 00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:55,511 Something that big moves in, it's going to make a difference in 540 00:27:55,535 --> 00:27:56,151 your life. 541 00:27:56,255 --> 00:28:00,229 The indwelling of the Holy Spirit brings about in our lives 542 00:28:00,609 --> 00:28:05,241 again that new nature brings about in our lives a new desire. 543 00:28:05,385 --> 00:28:13,509 And that desire is a desire to do right, a desire to live right. 544 00:28:14,529 --> 00:28:16,265 Again, notice how I'm phrasing it. 545 00:28:16,337 --> 00:28:17,161 It's a desire. 546 00:28:17,225 --> 00:28:19,829 Paul said, I have a desire to do right. 547 00:28:20,529 --> 00:28:21,897 I don't always do right. 548 00:28:21,953 --> 00:28:25,489 He says, and sometimes the things that I again, I should do, 549 00:28:25,529 --> 00:28:26,081 I don't do. 550 00:28:26,105 --> 00:28:28,369 And the things that I shouldn't do, I do. 551 00:28:28,489 --> 00:28:31,921 He said, there's a war in my members and man, they're just battling 552 00:28:31,985 --> 00:28:33,025 out and that's what happens. 553 00:28:33,057 --> 00:28:35,709 But there is that want to, to do right. 554 00:28:36,969 --> 00:28:38,549 How do I know I'm saved? 555 00:28:39,609 --> 00:28:51,035 Because of the struggle, because of the struggle, the indwelling 556 00:28:51,067 --> 00:28:52,319 of the Holy Spirit. 557 00:28:53,699 --> 00:28:56,039 What an amazing, amazing thing it is. 558 00:28:57,459 --> 00:29:01,659 Also understand that Hebrews chapter 12 says that God loves his 559 00:29:01,699 --> 00:29:05,799 children and God will discipline his children. 560 00:29:07,139 --> 00:29:10,011 And the discipline of our Heavenly Father on his children is 561 00:29:10,035 --> 00:29:12,479 one of the evidences that we are saved. 562 00:29:13,299 --> 00:29:19,017 When we discipline our kids, we chastise them in order to get 563 00:29:19,073 --> 00:29:21,673 them back going the right direction. 564 00:29:21,801 --> 00:29:27,449 God does the same for us when we are out of line, when we miss 565 00:29:27,489 --> 00:29:32,989 the mark, he is disciplining us to get us back on the right path. 566 00:29:34,369 --> 00:29:39,673 And I will say to you, remind you, the Bible says there is a sin 567 00:29:39,721 --> 00:29:40,709 unto death. 568 00:29:41,089 --> 00:29:44,669 I believe that that is applicable to Christians. 569 00:29:45,409 --> 00:29:47,989 And that sin of the death is when you just come. 570 00:29:48,289 --> 00:29:52,777 There can be a time where God says, okay, I've had enough, that's 571 00:29:52,793 --> 00:29:53,349 it. 572 00:29:54,129 --> 00:29:55,709 Take you on to heaven. 573 00:29:56,769 --> 00:29:58,469 That's a little negative, wasn't it? 574 00:29:59,089 --> 00:30:02,869 I believe that's what The Bible says so. 575 00:30:03,889 --> 00:30:06,857 When we are saved, we're always saved. 576 00:30:07,033 --> 00:30:08,989 Once saved, always saved. 577 00:30:09,289 --> 00:30:10,353 Why again? 578 00:30:10,441 --> 00:30:15,169 Because that new desire we received, we understand and know 579 00:30:15,209 --> 00:30:18,305 that it's not a license to sin just because we say once we're saved, 580 00:30:18,337 --> 00:30:18,865 we're always saved. 581 00:30:18,897 --> 00:30:20,257 No, because we'll want to do different. 582 00:30:20,313 --> 00:30:21,633 We'll want to do right. 583 00:30:21,801 --> 00:30:26,641 All right, then next we'll say that the role of God in salvation. 584 00:30:26,705 --> 00:30:29,509 What is the role of the Godhead in salvation? 585 00:30:29,929 --> 00:30:32,849 What is the role of the Godhead in eternal security? 586 00:30:32,969 --> 00:30:33,969 Number one, the Father. 587 00:30:34,049 --> 00:30:35,041 The role of the Father. 588 00:30:35,105 --> 00:30:36,069 God the Father. 589 00:30:36,619 --> 00:30:38,931 We see this in Romans 8, 9. 590 00:30:39,035 --> 00:30:41,187 We covered this when we studied Calvinism. 591 00:30:41,283 --> 00:30:42,339 But I'm going to go read it. 592 00:30:42,379 --> 00:30:44,319 Romans 8:29. 593 00:30:44,859 --> 00:30:46,003 Very familiar passage. 594 00:30:46,051 --> 00:30:47,059 Well, at least 28 is. 595 00:30:47,099 --> 00:30:48,531 I'll read verse 28 first. 596 00:30:48,635 --> 00:30:50,739 And we know that all things work together for good. 597 00:30:50,779 --> 00:30:53,715 To them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose, 598 00:30:53,827 --> 00:30:57,971 for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed 599 00:30:58,115 --> 00:31:02,819 into the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among 600 00:31:02,859 --> 00:31:03,759 many brethren. 601 00:31:03,939 --> 00:31:08,935 So understand that God the Father's part in salvation and then 602 00:31:09,007 --> 00:31:12,871 our eternal security is that every believer is predestined to 603 00:31:12,895 --> 00:31:17,751 be conformed into the image, the likeness of His Son, Jesus Christ. 604 00:31:17,935 --> 00:31:20,727 Again, we think about sanctification as God is working 605 00:31:20,783 --> 00:31:25,831 on us and molding us and shaping us into the image of His 606 00:31:25,855 --> 00:31:26,103 Son. 607 00:31:26,151 --> 00:31:27,111 Ephesians chapter one. 608 00:31:27,135 --> 00:31:29,357 We covered this also when we studied Calvinism. 609 00:31:29,503 --> 00:31:30,257 Ephesians. 610 00:31:30,353 --> 00:31:32,273 By the way, we're not Calvinists. 611 00:31:32,321 --> 00:31:33,681 We are not Calvinists. 612 00:31:33,825 --> 00:31:39,505 Ephesians 1:4:5 is not talking about God predestined who gets saved 613 00:31:39,537 --> 00:31:40,385 and who doesn't. 614 00:31:40,497 --> 00:31:43,073 It's predestinating us to be sons of God. 615 00:31:43,121 --> 00:31:48,017 In other words, to be heirs of God, to be joint heirs with Him. 616 00:31:48,153 --> 00:31:52,705 So the sanctification includes the status of sonship. 617 00:31:52,897 --> 00:31:53,585 Sonship. 618 00:31:53,617 --> 00:31:58,035 There's a story told about a botanist who went to Africa somewhere 619 00:31:58,067 --> 00:32:01,795 and they were trying to find this rare flower and they spotted 620 00:32:01,827 --> 00:32:03,955 it down in a canyon, but they could not reach it. 621 00:32:04,027 --> 00:32:05,395 So they saw a little boy. 622 00:32:05,427 --> 00:32:09,619 And they asked the little boy, if they let him down in a rope, would 623 00:32:09,659 --> 00:32:12,771 he go down there and grab that flower and bring it back up to them? 624 00:32:12,795 --> 00:32:13,651 I said it right for you. 625 00:32:13,675 --> 00:32:17,043 Some of you flower and it brought it back up for them. 626 00:32:17,131 --> 00:32:20,707 The boy ran off, but in a minute the boy came back to them 627 00:32:20,763 --> 00:32:22,451 and he had a man with him. 628 00:32:22,635 --> 00:32:25,239 And the boy said, yes, I'll go down and get the flour. 629 00:32:25,579 --> 00:32:29,203 As long as you let him and pointed to the man. 630 00:32:29,291 --> 00:32:30,339 Hold the rope. 631 00:32:30,499 --> 00:32:32,199 He said, that's my daddy. 632 00:32:32,779 --> 00:32:36,199 He didn't trust them other guys, but he trusted his dad. 633 00:32:37,099 --> 00:32:39,079 We ought to trust our Heavenly Father. 634 00:32:40,059 --> 00:32:41,439 We are his children. 635 00:32:42,379 --> 00:32:45,235 And so again, he's holding the rope. 636 00:32:45,347 --> 00:32:48,423 No man can pluck us out of the Father's hand. 637 00:32:48,571 --> 00:32:50,351 Nothing, according to Romans chapter 8. 638 00:32:50,375 --> 00:32:53,359 If you read the rest of the verses, there can separate us. 639 00:32:53,399 --> 00:32:56,687 Nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ 640 00:32:56,743 --> 00:32:57,391 Jesus. 641 00:32:57,535 --> 00:33:01,615 And then the role of the Son, the role of Jesus Christ again. 642 00:33:01,767 --> 00:33:05,903 Once saved, we have been redeemed and we have been forgiven. 643 00:33:06,031 --> 00:33:10,099 We have been justified and we have been sanctified. 644 00:33:10,439 --> 00:33:11,071 Sanctified. 645 00:33:11,135 --> 00:33:14,079 All of these words, most of us who have been a Christian very long 646 00:33:14,199 --> 00:33:16,937 know may not quite understand them all. 647 00:33:17,073 --> 00:33:21,305 But that is what Jesus Christ has done and is doing in our life. 648 00:33:21,457 --> 00:33:27,113 Again, found in Ephesians 1:7, Romans 3, 25, Romans 5, 1 Colossians 649 00:33:27,161 --> 00:33:29,721 2:13 and 1 Corinthians 1:2. 650 00:33:29,825 --> 00:33:35,669 All four of these words I am thankful that I know that Jesus Christ 651 00:33:36,769 --> 00:33:39,629 is now at the right hand of the throne of God. 652 00:33:40,459 --> 00:33:44,899 That Hebrews says that he is my great high priest who went in 653 00:33:45,019 --> 00:33:49,635 to the holy of holies in the heaven and gave his blood and sprinkled 654 00:33:49,667 --> 00:33:51,519 his blood on the mercy seat there. 655 00:33:51,819 --> 00:33:58,339 Having obtained redemption for us, having obtained salvation for 656 00:33:58,379 --> 00:34:02,819 us through his blood, our sins have been forgiven. 657 00:34:02,979 --> 00:34:07,391 Through the sacrifice that he made, our sins are forgiven. 658 00:34:07,535 --> 00:34:10,959 And he now, as our great high priest and advocate. 659 00:34:11,119 --> 00:34:11,759 What is that? 660 00:34:11,799 --> 00:34:12,815 Well, it's a lawyer. 661 00:34:12,847 --> 00:34:14,511 He's called alongside. 662 00:34:14,575 --> 00:34:16,735 He's there advocating for us. 663 00:34:16,887 --> 00:34:21,615 We use the illustration that when God looks down and he sees. 664 00:34:21,647 --> 00:34:23,099 And again, this is. 665 00:34:24,119 --> 00:34:25,967 It's just conjecture here. 666 00:34:26,023 --> 00:34:27,743 As God looks down, he sees me. 667 00:34:27,831 --> 00:34:29,459 He doesn't see my sins. 668 00:34:31,079 --> 00:34:34,191 Or when I do sin, it would be Jesus who said, well, I died for 669 00:34:34,215 --> 00:34:36,815 Him, I shed my blood for Him. 670 00:34:36,967 --> 00:34:38,739 His sins are under the blood. 671 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:40,659 He's our advocate. 672 00:34:41,319 --> 00:34:42,539 Everybody with me. 673 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,135 Alright, so if you could lose your salvation, how good of an advocate 674 00:34:47,167 --> 00:34:47,899 is he? 675 00:34:48,919 --> 00:34:50,031 That's a good question. 676 00:34:50,135 --> 00:34:51,871 I never really thought of it this way. 677 00:34:51,975 --> 00:34:54,719 If he's our great high priest and you can lose your salvation, 678 00:34:54,799 --> 00:34:57,179 then how good of a high priest is he really? 679 00:34:58,519 --> 00:35:01,391 In other words, it would make him a failure as a high priest and 680 00:35:01,415 --> 00:35:02,819 a failure as an advocate. 681 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,099 I just never saw it that way. 682 00:35:10,479 --> 00:35:13,111 Alright, you can write that down somewhere and think about that 683 00:35:13,135 --> 00:35:14,179 one for a little bit. 684 00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:17,031 He is our great high priest. 685 00:35:17,095 --> 00:35:17,911 I'm so thankful for that. 686 00:35:17,935 --> 00:35:22,391 And then lastly the Holy Spirit again, all three of the Trinity 687 00:35:22,455 --> 00:35:23,863 involved in our salvation. 688 00:35:23,991 --> 00:35:27,287 Titus, chapter three, verse five, speaks about and talks about. 689 00:35:27,423 --> 00:35:30,105 He is the one who regenerates the believer. 690 00:35:30,287 --> 00:35:32,309 John says that he's the one who seals. 691 00:35:32,389 --> 00:35:36,565 And Ephesians says he seals the believer and then he indwells 692 00:35:36,597 --> 00:35:37,269 the believer. 693 00:35:37,349 --> 00:35:39,289 And he does so forever. 694 00:35:41,469 --> 00:35:42,329 Forever. 695 00:35:43,629 --> 00:35:44,533 John 19. 696 00:35:44,621 --> 00:35:47,109 Ephesians, chapter 1, Ephesians 4 speak about him being 697 00:35:47,149 --> 00:35:50,889 the earnest of our salvation, that he's the down payment. 698 00:35:53,149 --> 00:35:55,449 It shows that the believer's been purchased. 699 00:35:56,609 --> 00:35:57,593 What were we purchased? 700 00:35:57,641 --> 00:35:59,389 With the blood of Jesus? 701 00:36:00,689 --> 00:36:02,089 We've been purchased. 702 00:36:02,249 --> 00:36:03,629 We've been sealed. 703 00:36:04,129 --> 00:36:08,153 The earnest of that, the down payment of that is the Holy Spirit 704 00:36:08,201 --> 00:36:09,641 that indwells you. 705 00:36:09,825 --> 00:36:13,549 And one day Jesus is coming back for his purchase. 706 00:36:14,289 --> 00:36:16,989 He's coming back for what he bought. 707 00:36:19,249 --> 00:36:22,199 And he left the Holy Spirit as a down payment. 708 00:36:22,779 --> 00:36:23,719 Amen. 709 00:36:24,139 --> 00:36:25,279 Isn't that good? 710 00:36:26,859 --> 00:36:28,371 We take the Holy Spirit for granted. 711 00:36:28,435 --> 00:36:29,679 He lives in you. 712 00:36:31,579 --> 00:36:32,879 He lives in you. 713 00:36:36,379 --> 00:36:40,639 What we lost in Adam, we find in Christ. 714 00:36:43,019 --> 00:36:46,153 What demerits we received in Adam. 715 00:36:46,331 --> 00:36:47,889 I like this analogy. 716 00:36:48,949 --> 00:36:55,421 The merits of Christ replace, by the way, the merits of Christ. 717 00:36:55,605 --> 00:36:57,053 It replaces those. 718 00:36:57,141 --> 00:36:59,649 But neither one was ours. 719 00:37:04,549 --> 00:37:06,669 None of our merit gets us to heaven. 720 00:37:06,829 --> 00:37:10,413 None of our merit obtains salvation only through Christ. 721 00:37:10,581 --> 00:37:14,299 Christ fully paid for our sins. 722 00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:15,767 Christ. 723 00:37:15,903 --> 00:37:16,759 I put it this way. 724 00:37:16,799 --> 00:37:20,779 Christ was fully punished for all our sins. 725 00:37:21,999 --> 00:37:23,047 Get this now. 726 00:37:23,103 --> 00:37:28,375 If he is the sacrifice or the Lamb slain before the foundation 727 00:37:28,407 --> 00:37:35,415 of the world, then he died not for just my past sins, but my present 728 00:37:35,487 --> 00:37:37,499 sins and my future sins. 729 00:37:38,789 --> 00:37:42,461 And that's why David could say, blessed is a man whom God does 730 00:37:42,485 --> 00:37:44,809 not impute sin to. 731 00:37:45,429 --> 00:37:50,653 In other words, when I sin, my legal standing before God, my righteous 732 00:37:50,701 --> 00:37:52,489 record before God does not change. 733 00:37:53,989 --> 00:37:54,989 Doesn't change at all. 734 00:37:55,029 --> 00:37:57,929 Because sin cannot be imputed to my account. 735 00:37:59,269 --> 00:38:00,461 Hallelujah. 736 00:38:00,605 --> 00:38:02,569 Because if it did, I would fail. 737 00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:04,183 I would go to hell. 738 00:38:04,231 --> 00:38:07,899 Because I can't live a life as Jesus lived. 739 00:38:08,399 --> 00:38:09,639 But what did Jesus do? 740 00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:11,379 He came and died in our place. 741 00:38:11,999 --> 00:38:13,815 He died for our sins. 742 00:38:13,927 --> 00:38:15,575 My sins were placed on him. 743 00:38:15,647 --> 00:38:20,739 And he fully paid the price for my sins, past, present and future, 744 00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:23,459 for the sins of the whole world. 745 00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:28,535 And because salvation is not based upon what I do, but based upon 746 00:38:28,567 --> 00:38:29,175 what he done. 747 00:38:29,247 --> 00:38:32,689 I can't lose it because. 748 00:38:33,309 --> 00:38:33,813 Listen. 749 00:38:33,861 --> 00:38:37,249 Because sin can't be imputed to my account. 750 00:38:38,669 --> 00:38:44,661 Because my account has already been filled and it's the righteous 751 00:38:44,725 --> 00:38:46,129 record of Jesus Christ. 752 00:38:47,149 --> 00:38:54,101 Now, again, definitely a difference between my position and. 753 00:38:54,205 --> 00:38:57,769 Practically, I'm still a sinner, saved by grace. 754 00:38:58,819 --> 00:39:00,251 But I'm so thankful. 755 00:39:00,315 --> 00:39:02,759 Positionally, before God, I am in Christ. 756 00:39:03,299 --> 00:39:07,051 I know that's hard for us to wrap our head around. 757 00:39:07,235 --> 00:39:08,715 But just got to think of it again. 758 00:39:08,787 --> 00:39:12,539 If you had two pieces of paper out here, one had all your sins all 759 00:39:12,579 --> 00:39:15,659 written on it, and over here you had all the righteousness of 760 00:39:15,699 --> 00:39:16,459 Jesus Christ. 761 00:39:16,579 --> 00:39:18,939 When I got saved, all these sins were erased. 762 00:39:19,019 --> 00:39:23,345 And his record, his 33 and a half years of sinless record was, 763 00:39:23,387 --> 00:39:26,209 was put in the place of my sinful record. 764 00:39:26,509 --> 00:39:29,689 And that is all that God sees. 765 00:39:30,349 --> 00:39:35,685 Because in Christ Jesus, all my sins were paid for on the cross. 766 00:39:35,877 --> 00:39:39,609 Either he was a substitute or he wasn't. 767 00:39:41,869 --> 00:39:46,609 Either he truly died in my place or he didn't, but he did. 768 00:39:47,389 --> 00:39:51,099 He died so that I wouldn't have to. 769 00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:53,899 He paid the price. 770 00:39:54,199 --> 00:39:56,939 He took the penalty so I wouldn't have to. 771 00:39:58,359 --> 00:40:00,079 And he paid for those sins in full. 772 00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:01,499 I've been born again. 773 00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:03,391 By the way, you're born again. 774 00:40:03,495 --> 00:40:07,071 You're born into this world physically one time, and you can 775 00:40:07,095 --> 00:40:08,799 only be born again spiritually one time. 776 00:40:08,839 --> 00:40:12,367 Or else you'd have to be born again over and over and over again 777 00:40:12,423 --> 00:40:13,327 every time you sinned. 778 00:40:14,945 --> 00:40:15,961 Doesn't make sense either. 779 00:40:16,025 --> 00:40:16,537 Right. 780 00:40:16,673 --> 00:40:17,385 So the analogy. 781 00:40:17,417 --> 00:40:18,425 I did that on purpose. 782 00:40:18,537 --> 00:40:21,429 So the analogy is we've been born again. 783 00:40:21,889 --> 00:40:24,073 The analogy is a physical birth. 784 00:40:24,201 --> 00:40:27,641 And why would we have to continue to be born again over and 785 00:40:27,665 --> 00:40:28,329 over and over again? 786 00:40:28,369 --> 00:40:29,869 It wouldn't fit the analogy. 787 00:40:33,329 --> 00:40:35,309 You can't be unborn either. 788 00:40:38,369 --> 00:40:39,513 Wouldn't fit the analogy. 789 00:40:39,561 --> 00:40:40,149 Right. 790 00:40:41,739 --> 00:40:44,947 Abraham and David were saved by grace through faith. 791 00:40:45,043 --> 00:40:49,635 Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter 4 and 5 make that very, very 792 00:40:49,707 --> 00:40:50,319 clear. 793 00:40:51,259 --> 00:40:53,587 And once you're saved, you're saved forever. 794 00:40:53,763 --> 00:40:55,043 You receive a new nature. 795 00:40:55,091 --> 00:40:57,315 When you get saved, the Holy Spirit comes and indwells. 796 00:40:57,347 --> 00:41:01,399 You become a child of God, join heirs with Jesus. 797 00:41:05,269 --> 00:41:13,341 It wasn't earned, wasn't based upon our merit, wasn't based upon 798 00:41:13,405 --> 00:41:14,449 our works. 799 00:41:15,269 --> 00:41:17,213 And because it wasn't, it's not. 800 00:41:17,381 --> 00:41:18,649 You can't lose it. 801 00:41:20,469 --> 00:41:23,581 When somebody asks me about again once, they'd always say, well, 802 00:41:23,605 --> 00:41:26,929 they say, well, you know, I believe I can lose my salvation. 803 00:41:27,349 --> 00:41:29,289 Well then you're working for it. 804 00:41:29,829 --> 00:41:34,789 If you believe you can lose it, then you're working to keep it. 805 00:41:35,729 --> 00:41:40,041 My Bible says, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, 806 00:41:40,225 --> 00:41:44,585 but according to his mercy, he saves us for by grace are you saved 807 00:41:44,617 --> 00:41:47,129 through faith and that not of yourself. 808 00:41:47,289 --> 00:41:49,705 It's a gift of God, not of works. 809 00:41:49,737 --> 00:41:54,709 Lest any man should boast the imputed righteousness of Christ. 810 00:41:55,889 --> 00:41:57,429 Imputed to my account. 811 00:41:58,549 --> 00:42:05,469 I know a devil said, that is one of the greatest doctrines in 812 00:42:05,509 --> 00:42:06,209 the Bible. 813 00:42:06,869 --> 00:42:15,209 And once you grasp, will help you to never, ever, ever question 814 00:42:15,749 --> 00:42:17,009 your salvation. 815 00:42:19,509 --> 00:42:25,739 Talking about the joy of the Lord, the peace that passes all understanding. 816 00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:37,607 A lot of that has to do with your confidence and your trust in 817 00:42:37,663 --> 00:42:42,299 knowing that you know that you know that you know that you're saved. 818 00:42:42,879 --> 00:42:45,751 And I'm telling you tonight, if you're in a position where you 819 00:42:45,775 --> 00:42:48,919 don't know, maybe you are in a position tonight where you think 820 00:42:48,959 --> 00:42:49,959 so, but you don't know. 821 00:42:49,999 --> 00:42:52,659 So you need to get that right. 822 00:42:53,359 --> 00:42:55,111 You really need to get that right. 823 00:42:55,295 --> 00:42:59,031 And many in the auditorium tonight would attest to that, that 824 00:42:59,055 --> 00:43:02,503 maybe they made a profession when they were a little kid and there 825 00:43:02,511 --> 00:43:03,559 were some questions about it. 826 00:43:03,599 --> 00:43:07,143 And sometimes you get to thinking about those things. 827 00:43:07,311 --> 00:43:09,579 Well, make sure you get it settled. 828 00:43:10,399 --> 00:43:14,379 But once settled, it's settled forever. 829 00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:17,559 You don't need to get saved two, three, four, five times. 830 00:43:17,599 --> 00:43:21,409 You get saved one time, one time forever. 831 00:43:24,789 --> 00:43:28,209 I would say to the crowd that believes you can lose your salvation, 832 00:43:29,669 --> 00:43:37,373 I will remind them that the Bible says that it's a sin to envy 833 00:43:37,421 --> 00:43:38,369 your neighbor. 834 00:43:39,109 --> 00:43:40,317 Exodus, chapter 20. 835 00:43:40,373 --> 00:43:44,809 The law makes it very clear, the New Testament expounds on it, 836 00:43:45,279 --> 00:43:46,903 that even our thoughts. 837 00:43:47,031 --> 00:43:50,567 If we are to look upon a woman and lust after her, we've committed 838 00:43:50,583 --> 00:43:51,111 adultery in our heart. 839 00:43:51,135 --> 00:43:53,819 In other words, our thoughts are also sin. 840 00:43:54,479 --> 00:43:56,899 Can anybody go one day. 841 00:43:57,839 --> 00:44:00,743 Can you go one day without a sinful thought? 842 00:44:00,911 --> 00:44:03,607 And I'm not saying we could go without a sinful action, but maybe 843 00:44:03,623 --> 00:44:03,959 you could. 844 00:44:03,999 --> 00:44:06,471 Maybe you could go one day without a sinful action, and I think 845 00:44:06,495 --> 00:44:08,259 that could happen. 846 00:44:08,799 --> 00:44:14,605 But can you go one day without a sinful thought about, you know, 847 00:44:14,757 --> 00:44:18,029 the anger on the inside that you didn't let go out your mouth, 848 00:44:18,189 --> 00:44:19,729 but you had it on the inside. 849 00:44:21,109 --> 00:44:21,517 No. 850 00:44:21,573 --> 00:44:22,689 No, we can't. 851 00:44:23,509 --> 00:44:31,129 We need a savior who would die and pay the price for our sins, even 852 00:44:31,429 --> 00:44:33,889 our sinful thoughts. 853 00:44:34,549 --> 00:44:38,375 And they're under the blood of Jesus, the precious blood of Jesus 854 00:44:38,407 --> 00:44:43,419 Christ as a lamb without spot, without blemish, for all eternity. 855 00:44:44,799 --> 00:44:45,559 Let's all stand. 856 00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:47,179 We'll have a first invitation. 857 00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:49,415 Hymn 159. 858 00:44:49,487 --> 00:44:51,895 Jesus, I come after we pray. 859 00:44:51,927 --> 00:44:54,695 Heavenly Father, we thank you for salvation. 860 00:44:54,887 --> 00:44:58,103 And Lord, we thank you for the confidence we have in your son, Jesus 861 00:44:58,151 --> 00:45:01,415 Christ, who gave his life, shed his blood for us, was buried 862 00:45:01,447 --> 00:45:05,723 and rose again from the dead that we might have everlasting life. 863 00:45:05,891 --> 00:45:08,443 I'm thankful that I can know that I'm saved. 864 00:45:08,491 --> 00:45:09,947 I don't have to hope so. 865 00:45:10,083 --> 00:45:13,359 I'm thankful that I'm saved for all eternity. 866 00:45:14,819 --> 00:45:18,811 So thankful that I can lay my head down at night having peace and 867 00:45:18,835 --> 00:45:22,059 contentment knowing that if I was to die, heaven would be my home. 868 00:45:22,099 --> 00:45:22,763 Thank you, Jesus. 869 00:45:22,811 --> 00:45:24,199 Thank you, Lord, for that. 870 00:45:24,899 --> 00:45:26,331 In Jesus name, amen. 871 00:45:26,395 --> 00:45:26,499 As.