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Transcript of message from TV Broadcast 464 -- taken from Closed Captioning Text -- Brother Thomas: It's possible, I believe, for some of these people to be saved. For instance now, some people believe in this--especially our Pentecostal brethren--they believe you get saved, then you are supposed to get another experience which is sanctification. Then you get another experience on down the line which is the baptism of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in other tongues. And they work to get you into all these experiences. However, they don't agree themselves, cause there is one of them that believes you just have two--salvation and then the baptism. They leave out that sanctification. And then we got some more that believes in that second one of sanctification and don't believe in the other. So it's a Babylon. It's confusion--just nothing but confusion. I'm glad we're complete in Him. ( congregational praise ). Hallelujah! I'm glad that He is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Everything you need is in Christ Jesus. ( congregational praise ). You are complete in Him! Now mind you I want to reiterate, if you are in Him, you have His righteousness. How righteous are you before God? As righteous as Jesus is. In Galatians the Apostle says, "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." We've got the best robe on. Praise God! Hallelujah! They believe in those three works of grace, they call it. Now, let's go over here to another scripture. I want to show you something. You get eternal life when you're saved and you'll "never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand," Jesus said in John chapter 10. "My father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand." Let me give you another scripture. John 6 verse 37, "All that the father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me..." I'll what? -- Congregation: "In no wise cast out." -- Brother Thomas: "No wise cast out," if you come to Him. I say not to a church, not to a religion, not to a mass but to Him. Hallelujah and you can't come, verse 44 says, except He draw you. That's why people today backslide and lose what they think they had. They're not being drawn. They just joined a church, that's all. But here's a scripture in II Thessalonians, chapter 2 and in verse 13. I want you to notice this. The apostle writing says, "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you ...." Now let me pause. Who did the choosing? -- Congregation: God. -- Brother Thomas: Who did the choosing? -- Congregation: God. -- Brother Thomas: God hath from when? -- Congregation: The beginning. -- Brother Thomas: That goes back a long way. It wasn't on the spur of the moment. It wasn't in Brother Hotshot's revival. ( laughter ). It wasn't in Brother Fancy Dan's revival or Sister Spirituality. He "hath from the beginning chosen you." That's the same beginning that refers to another scripture that says, "the beginning of the creation of God." From the beginning. And God has chosen you from the beginning. Now watch, what else? "To salvation through" what? -- Congregation: "Sanctification." -- Brother Thomas: "Sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth." You're not saved if you're not ... you're not even ... if you're not saved, you're not sanctified. If you are saved, you are sanctified because He sets you apart then. That's what the word means--set apart. Praise God! Hallelujah! Did you know... this is in John 17, let me see if I can find that. I'm trying to help some people out there and I believe will appreciate what we are preaching. Be patient with me, you'll get old too one day. ( laughter ). This is Jesus' prayer. He knew He was going to be leaving this world before long. Let's start in verse 11. "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee, Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are." Keep--He said keep. Jesus prayed that they be kept that those God had given Him. That sounds pretty good doesn't it? "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition;"--that's Judas again--"that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth." And the more of the word you get, the more that process takes place. See? "As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes, I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." Once again, "Neither pray I for these alone," listen to this now, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." That comes right on down to us. "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." You know something, I believe the greatest power and the greatest thing to convince people of the reality of God is where you find a group of people that's one. They can't withstand that--one, unity. Praise God! But you see, we have His prayer behind us. Those that He had been given, He kept. He said "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." That comes right down to us. Do you believe that God will answer Jesus' prayer? -- Congregation: Yes. -- Brother Thomas: I believe He will. Now, Now I want to give you some more scriptures. Let's go over to I Corinthians chapter 12. We are "chosen to salvation, through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth." Remember that now. That's in II Thessalonians, chapter 2 verse 13. I Corinthians chapter 12. Now this business of teaching that you have to speak in tongues to have the Holy Spirit or the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, whatever you want to call it, is a bunch of bull. That is not so. And I have the gift of tongues. I remember back there. I was seeking God. I said Lord, I believe what your word teaches about this and I want to preach it. I want to teach people. I want to tell them the truth. But I said, I need the gift. I didn't want it as in the evidence, but I wanted the gift. I asked Him for it and sure enough God gave it to me. One day I was praying at my bed, by myself, and the Lord came upon me and I began speaking in other tongues. It changed from about five or six different languages during the course of that. That don't mean that I had an evidence. If you're looking for an evidence, you're looking for something by faith. It's not by faith. If you've got to have an evidence, you're not walking by faith. Only reason...my motive was that I might be able to say to people that is not the evidence of the Holy Ghost. It's a gift. That's all. Of course they say there's two kinds. You got the gift variety and you got the evidence variety. That's a bunch of bull, too. -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: Would you tell us how you really feel about it!? -- Brother Thomas: Yeah, I can tell you. (laughter). I tell you this is a mixed up world. Religiously speaking, it's a mixed up world. Praise God! All right verse 27, I Corinthians 12. "Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles,"--now this is the order-- "secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." That's a gift. Then he asks the question, "Are all apostles?" -- Congregation: No. -- Brother Thomas: Now wouldn't we be a mess here if all of us were apostles? Nobody would want to listen to anybody else. ( laughter ). We wouldn't have anybody to preach to. We've got to have some common folks out here. "Are all apostles? are all prophets?" If we were all prophets, we would all be pointing to each other. "Are all teachers?" No. "Are all workers of miracles?" No. "Have all the gifts of healing?" No. "Do all speak with tongues?" No. That's why he asked that question. We don't all speak with tongues any more than we are all apostles, or all teachers. Praise God! Hallelujah! All right I'm going to try to finish up here in a little bit. I had a lot that I wanted to share with you today--Psalm 139. I'm trying to cut that down where I won't have so many scriptures. The Psalm, this is the Psalm of David, verse 13. "For thou has possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." Now does that sound like you lose your salvation? When God got his book down and had our...I don't know whether they even had an angel back then. I think Christ created the angels. But His book He wrote down your members before you ever thought about coming into existence. All right let's go to another Psalm. This is Psalm 89. "Also," verse 27, "Also, I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him." That's the everlasting covenant. That's the covenant we're under. "His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgements; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." ( congregational praise ). Does that sound like you can lose it? -- Congregation: No. -- Brother Thomas: "Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." It's his faithfulness. And you mean you commit your soul into his hands and He let you down one day when you don't do right? And you're not always going to do right. I don't mean to go out there and just roll around like a tasty morsel. There is something in us that wants to please Him. "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my mouth." Praise God! I'm going to tell you, you've got a great God. ( congregational praise ). Remember John 6:37, "All that the father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." Now I want you to hear another passage of scripture and I'm going to be through here today. This is Romans chapter 8. How in the world people can read these things and not believe what I'm telling you, I do not know. Beg your pardon. "And we know," verse 28, "that all things work together for good to them who are the called according to his purpose." Everyone that God calls everything works together for good in the ultimate sense. It may not look good. You may not see good, but it works together for good. ( congregational praise ). To them who are the called according to his purpose. Now watch the next verse. "For whom he did foreknow..." Did God foreknow you? How can the everlasting God that inhabits eternity--eternity past? Time was made for man. There was no time with God. None. From eternity to eternity; through Christ we enter eternity with him. Why shouldn't He know all things? He would be a limited God if he didn't. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed ..." That means to be made like. That's you. That's me. "... to be conformed to the image of his Son...." What for Paul? "That he," that's his son, the firstborn, "that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." He had us many brethren in mind. Isn't that wonderful! And I'm going to tell you, that "great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues," over there in Revelation, I believe it's chapter 5, that's a panoramic view of the saved of all ages. From the very first one, Adam and Eve, to the last one, till Gabriel's trumpet blows the last time--every single one. Not one will be lost. "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." That's in the past tense. And in the very same way that God said in Jeremiah 1, "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, and before thou camest forth from the womb I sanctified thee and I made thee a prophet unto the nations." That was before you was in the belly. Hallelujah! I ain't got time to give you another scripture over there in Hebrews, but it tells you about Levi paying tithes in Abraham. He didn't even exist. You say, how can that be? Don't ask me. How can God save a sinner like me or you? But He can, if we put our trust in him. Hallelujah! Let's go on here now, I'm going to try to get through here by tomorrow. ( laughter ). He had already glorified us. I believe it. I believe it. "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" I mean freely too. "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" These are questions. "It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." Listen now, these next few verses are the capstone. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" Talking about separating you from the love of Christ. "As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay," no, "in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." Now listen to this. "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." ( congregational praise ). And you want to separate one of God's children? I don't and I can't and you can't. None of those things. You've got a great salvation. ( congregational praise ). You've got a great God. And it is a gift of God. That's why when you meet Him up there, you can give Him the glory. Hallelujah! Can a saved person lose his salvation? Not this salvation. He might lose some other kind, but this salvation is eternal. Praise God! May God bless you. That's all. Hallelujah! Now there's going to be a lot of demand for these tapes -- these two here. 
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