Transcript of message from TV Broadcast 663 -- taken from Closed Captioning Text

-- Brother Jimmy Robbins: It came to me rather forcibly, so I'll just give out just a little nugget of truth. You know Peter, as far as I'm concerned, was one of the chief apostles. He had some faults, but he had some grit, and he had some daring things that he did. When the going got tough, he kind of cut and run. But here's the thing--he's the only one that asked the Lord to let him walk on the water--none of the rest of them. So don't be too hard on Peter.

Also, when the enemy came to arrest our Lord, Peter cut off the man's ear. Now that wasn't what the Lord wanted him to do, but he was ready to fight. He told the Lord...he told Him first of all that this was not going to happen to you. They're not gonna capture you. They're not gonna crucify you. And He didn't even speak to him as Peter. He said, "...Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me...."

Now Peter wasn't demon possessed. He had received a thought from the enemy. He spoke it forth. Jesus said to him that he would deny Him three times--three times before the cock would crow. He did that. I think in one of the gospels he cut his eye and Jesus' eye contacted one another, and it says he went out and what?

-- Congregation: Wept bitterly.

-- Brother Jimmy Robbins: Wept, bitterly. His mind was flooded with, oh my God, He came and got me and my brother Andrew, and we joined Him in His ministry. We were there through the thick and thin. I never realized that I would do what I did. Surely I must be a reject. Surely I must have lost what I had. I lied against my Lord. I denied my Lord. I spat on the ground and I cursed. Why did I do that? I would to God that it would have never happened.

And the devil was pounding him over the head--you're guilty, you're guilty. You're not one of His. You're guilty. You're deceived. There's no hope. Your future is over. I go a fishin'. That's what a lot of us have done--we've gone a fishin'. Not that that's bad, but it's bad if you do at the wrong time.

And Jesus said this, go tell my disciples and Peter. Go tell 'em, and Peter--especially Peter. You know Jesus loved his brother, his disciple, the apostle Peter. If any one of you today is carrying a heavy load of guilt and you're ladened with whatever it is, God loves you. Jesus loves you. That's why He died on the cross is to forgive you your sins. You are forgiven.

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You have every right to worship the Lord today. You have every right to put your head back and stand up straight and say, I love my Lord. It's under the blood today. You're washed. You're clean. You're free. But I'm telling you this that the Son of the living God by the shedding of His blood has washed you whiter than snow. You are free beloved.

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You are a child of the King, and don't let the devil beat you up any more. God wants to work in your hearts and my heart, and it's something deeper needs to be done in every one of us. But the Lord has forgiven us. He's forgiven me. He's forgiven you. Praise God.

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-- Brother Mike Szelak: Praise the Lord. That was a good thought, Brother Jimmy. It's something the Lord wants us to know that we are free from our sins if we've been born again. I was thinking about... a thought came to me that that last chorus song they sung-- the part where he talks about going down under the water and then coming up to live in the newness of life.

I just had a thought about... you know the Lord isn't interested in just us coming to Him and then saying, can you take care of this sin that I just committed and then the slate'll be clean, then I'll go on and do a better job for you. That's not what the Lord's interested in. There's no rest in that, absolutely no peace. What God wants is for us to have His rest. To know that, as that chorus song that was sung, I'm not my own. I'm His.

I've got a couple of scriptures here. The thought that I had regarding that song was that when we're born again and we're baptized into the body of Christ, it's symbolic of what happens to us internally. We are, to our soul, our spirit, our heart, we are baptized into His death. I had this thought earlier in the week and its just been a blessing to me all week--Romans chapter 6.

You know if you're dead...if we had a dead person here, could he...would sin have any...would there be any problem with him sinning? He's dead to sin--dead to sin. And when we're in Christ, when we're baptized into Christ, we too are dead to sin--eternally dead to sin. You say, well I don't feel dead to sin and I know that in myself there's no good thing. But it's really not what we see, it's what God sees. That's all we need to be concerned about.

In Romans, chapter 6 here, I want to be brief 'cause I know time gets away. Verse 3 here it says, "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried...." This is something that is... it's factual. In annals of time when everything is passed away, and on that Day of Judgment, this is all that's going to matter right here.

"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin."

If we could receive it today, we're... it's just like Jimmy said, the sin problem is taken care of. The question is, are you born again? Have you got Christ's Spirit on the inside? Has He come in? Has He taken care of your sin debt? If He has and you... really there is no issue. Sin is not the issue. We are free from sin because we've been buried. Our old man has already died to sin. There was another scripture here that says that Christ, what He did... I tell you we just can't get away from the cross. It's so wonderful.

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It says in verse 10 here. "For in that He died, He died..." not for sin, it says, "...unto sin once..." He died unto sin once. "... But in that He liveth, He liveth unto God." He died unto sin and if we are baptized into His body, we are dead to sin. We have been...we have died unto sin ourselves. I wish we could get a better picture of this, but it's true.

Colossians chapter 3...you don't have to turn there. I want to read one little scripture. "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Folks, it's a wonderful thing. It's a beautiful thing to see that Christ has paid our sin debt in full. We don't have to be in bondage to sin, because we're dead unto sin. I praise God for what He did.

-- Brother Dean Smith: Praise the Lord. I had a couple of scriptures come to me and a couple of thoughts. One of the things that Arnold said kind of triggered me to get on up. One of the scriptures come to me, "There is therefore now no condemnation..."

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You know last Sunday's service, one of the songs come to me, it comes back to me again. "Where do the broken hearted go to find comfort for their pain?" Another scripture come to me, and I believe this is somehow or another what slips my mind from time to time, and it possibly could slip yours. It's actually one of my favorite scriptures.

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood..." You know Phil Enlow said something on that scripture one time. He said, do you know that we're royalty? We're royalty. Satan would tell us that we're not. Satan would tell you that you failed, or that you made a mistake. Beloved, there is nothing that you can do in your family cycle that would change your last name--nothing. If you're an Edder, you'll be an Edder. If you're a Smith, you'll be a Smith. You might change it yourself, but the bloodline that you was born with will still be an Edder or a Smith. Beloved, I'm telling you, if you have Christ's blood in you, Satan cannot take that away from you.

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It is sealed. That's what we have to understand. It is sealed. You know what royalty... You know Brother Thomas has ministered many times about the ring being stamped in the blood. We are stamped. We are sealed with His blood. There's nothing we can do, there's nothing Satan can do to take that away from us--nothing.

The other thing, a thought come to me about the highest court. I thought about the Supreme Court, you know the world of men might change it, but Christ himself, God himself can't change what He's set in motion because He honors His Word more than His name. We are sealed, beloved. We are the chosen generation. We're children of the King.

There's nothing... I don't care if you've made the mistakes. We all make mistakes, but you know what, Brother Enlow, Brother Phil said on that same tape, he said, He knew us before we was issued a social security card. He knew us before we was given a driver's license. But yet, He still chose to die for us, to love us. There's nothing...we're in the Son's hands and the Son is in His Father's hand. We are a protected people.

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-- Brother Tony Talbert: You know the enemy... The enemy, he desires one thing and that is to bring us into bondage in one way, form, or fashion. Because what he does is, he takes away what God has freely given to us, which is His peace, His rest, the fruit of the Spirit. That's what these men are talking about here this morning. The Lord's trying to encourage you, encourage me that we're free from sin. When Christ died, He put away the law. How are you gonna accuse somebody when there's no law that says thou shalt not do this. It's been put away in Christ. We're free.

Now we do mess up and God chastens those that are his. His Word says, "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son...." Every one of us, we have scourges. There's none of us that have arrived. Matter of fact, oftentimes we get kind of high and mighty in our own mind, and He purposely allows us to fall flat on our face to bring us back to remember where our hope's at.

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But we cannot be separated from the love of God. Go read Romans 8. You can read it today, you can read it tomorrow, you can read it yesterday, you can read it ten years, if the Lord don't come between now, and it says the same thing. His Word don't change. We need to take Him at His Word. What we need to do is take His Word and we need to tell the devil that he needs to go back where he come from, 'cause he's just the accuser. He has no basis to accuse us before God. What's his basis? What is his basis? The basis that we have of justification is Christ's blood.

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What are you gonna do? What're you gonna take away from that? There's a reason why He sat down at the Father's right hand after He had offered his body a sacrifice. The work was complete. We're complete in Christ. Nothing can take that away from us. I don't care how deep in the valley you get, under the valley, how high up on the mountain; you cannot separate God's people from his love.

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What we need to do, we need to believe His Word. We need to take His Word. Don't just hear it with your ears. Let it enter into your heart and then you'll have something to fight with. We're in a battle and we're victorious. The battle's already won. We're in the bottom of a ship over here eating the daggone crumbs with the mice and stuff, and we've got a first class ticket.

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Let's stand on what God's given us. He's defeated. We're not defeated. We're victorious. The words says that greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world, and "...this is the victory that overcometh the world..." What?

-- Congregation: Even our faith

-- Brother Tony Talbert: Faith--Faith in what? In the sky? It's faith in His Word, what He's given us. It's His covenant. We need to learn to live by it. This is the scripture that come to me. Let me tell you what the word says. I ain't... this ain't what Tony says, this is what the Word of God.

This is, beloved, this is what we need, not the letter. We need it revealed to our hearts, because we can take it to Him. We'd say, Lord, my petition--I'm basing upon what your promise says to me. It ain't because I'm worthy. It's because I'm yours. You've chosen me from the foundation of the world-- before the foundation of the world you've chosen me. You've given me your Spirit. Your blood was shed for me, not only my brother and sister, but for me. That's why I'm coming to you, Lord.

That's what we need to do. We need to come boldly before His throne of grace. He's there. Reminds me of Esther. We don't need to be afraid when we come before Him. We don't have to have a fear. We're His children. He purchased us with His blood. We don't have to come in fearful, to worry about the king holding out his scepter. We have an open door.

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Let me tell you what He's done with our sins. Let's go to...well let's just start in verse 1. "What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." We will never be justified. I don't care how good you ever get. I don't care if you cross your T's perfectly, if you don't drink, you don't smoke, you don't dip, you don't chew, you don't cuss, you don't look at women, you don't look at men, I don't care, you will never be righteous enough in yourself without the blood of Christ.

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"For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." Believe God. That's what we have to do, beloved. Just believe God. It's not hard. It's just contrary to our flesh. "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not..."--Excuse me--"...But believeth on him..."-- Who's that Him?

-- Brother Jimmy Robbins: Christ.

-- Brother Tony Talbert: That's Christ. "...But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly..."--That's we-- that's me and you--"... His faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works." So you can't add nothing to it. It's a free gift. What are you gonna add to a free gift? All you do is accept it and say, thank you Lord.

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That's all we got to do. It's by faith, accept it. He shed His blood. It's for us. Thank you Lord for shedding your blood for me. Hallelujah. We make it too difficult because we get our eyes... we listen to the enemy. He puts these thoughts in our minds and instead of by God's grace and by His help to give us discernment to discern where they're coming from, we just let him keep pumping 'em into our head. All it does is get us in more and more bondage. We're free. Praise God. The Word said that the Son has set you free, you're free indeed.

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"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?" Who's gonna do that? Christ justified us. He died for us. Let me finish this scripture and I'll shut up and sit down here. "Even as David also describeth the blessedness..."--verse 6--"...of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven..." Praise God, our past sins are forgiven. Hallelujah. Did it stop there?

-- Congregation: No.

-- Brother Tony Talbert: No. "...Whose sins are covered." Your sins now are covered. Did it stop there? If it didn't stop there, then that means our sins are saved up to now. Now we've got to walk the straight and narrow the rest of the way. You're gonna fail. You're gonna fail. I don't care how good you think you are, you're gonna fail. The Word says that anything that is not of faith is a sin. Who walks in perfect faith? I don't.

"Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." It's covered, beloved. He shed...He made one offering for sacrifice. One, there was no need for another one. He did all He needed to do in that one sacrifice. It paid for our sin debt. It wiped it away. Until the Lord comes, every sin that was ever committed in God's people has been wiped away.

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We need to reckon upon it. We need to tell it...Do like Brother Thomas told us oftentimes. We need to remind the Lord of it, we need to tell it to the devil, and we need to remind our self. Praise God.

-- Brother Jerry Krummrich: Words of a song came to me. It's not in the hymnbook though. I think it was by one of our heroes, Ray Stevens.

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"Turn your Radio On." Remember that? I forget all the words, but I think he's talking about having a new receiver, a new frequency, hearing a different message. We're talking about here, what Tony's talking about, and what all the men have been talking about is the truth of God that cannot be received with the natural mind.

But being dead...when we die, God gives us a new mind or we're just like we were before. He gives us a new heart and a new mind. And what kind of natural people walking around on this earth with the same old mind you're born with can praise God for being a saved sinner? Nobody can until they're born again.

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Over in Romans 6 where Mike was reading, back in verse 6. "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him..." Knowing this and taking what Tony just said as absolute, indisputable fact. "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him..." Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 1, verse 18.

These are scriptures we've all heard before. When we can ponder them and just accept them as absolute concrete fact, it helps us. It helps me. When I get my mind shut down and just let the Lord reveal, this is my Word, son. This is what I said. Don't think about it, just rejoice in it. "For the message of the cross is foolishness to them who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."( NKJV ).

This ain't thoughts, this ain't words from people that you know. This is the power of God speaking to us. The gospel, Jesus Christ coming and dying on that cross and shedding the blood that could justify the sins of all of us, only the power to God could do such a thing. This is no Greek mythology or fairy tale. This is the power of the almighty God that the natural man not only hates, but he can't believe a word of it. Only when God touches us can we really receive this.

"...I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this age? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" Yes, He has. We need to believe that. It's not... some of the things this world debates, and debates, and debates, it's already settled in the eyes of God. And it's already settled in the hearts of us believers.

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I mean there is a consequence for sin, so naturally the thought process that helps us think about condemnation, it don't die until God just makes it go away. When we can not... when condemnation can't touch us no more, then we're free and we're free from our sin then, when we really believe what Christ did for us on the cross. You know there's a difference between just making a mistake and messing up, and there's a difference in defending a God who's gonna punish you and kill you because you're not righteous enough to be in His presence. When we think about the big picture, what God has really done, everything else is small. We got lots to rejoice about.

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"...it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." --those who believe. Not everybody can believe God's Word. When He touches our hearts and reveals to us who He is and what He has done through Christ on the cross, and He puts something in us that said, yes, I believe who you are and what you did. That is a momentous occasion. Now that's a turning point in our eternal destiny.

Everybody was known of God but God knew everything before the foundation of the world, but there's a turning point in those who are God's. There's a turning point in their life when God speaks to their heart and they fall on their knees before Him and say, you're Lord. I'm yours. I know what you did. I believe it. I'm a new creature from this point on.

You know that's not a turning point for everybody. There is a Hell. There is wrath on those who don't believe. We need to remember that. That's one of the things that makes us be more humble knowing that we are among those unworthy, who God did choose to birth belief in, to call out and say, you are mine, child.

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We can be thankful for that. That does something here that's real. Over in verse 30 it finishes. "But of him you are in Christ Jesus..."--you are in Christ Jesus. "...who became for us wisdom from God." These are positive statements. I want to accept them as that. With my renewed mind that God gave me, I want to accept that statement as absolute positive truth, positive fact. Anybody who wants to debate with God can go ahead. I'm gonna humble my mind and believe what He said.

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"But of him you are in Christ Jesus who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." Hallelujah. I'm thankful. These words are precious to me. They're honorable words. I can't live up to these honorable standards, but it don't matter. God's given them to those that are His.

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"That as it is written, he who glories let him glory in the Lord." If we know that we are known of God, we have something to glory in. Praise God.

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We're humble-- I mean we're humbled by God. The knowledge of the truth that we're unworthy, wretched sinners saved only but completely by the blood of Christ. You know that humbles us but yet, it's truth. We do have something to glory in because what He did, He did and what His Words says it was worth, it's worth that much. It saved us to the uttermost. It has been done.

I'll finish up back here in one more verse in Romans 6. I don't think Mike read this. It was right where he quit. Tony mentioned reckoning. Verse 6 of Romans 6 says, "Knowing this, our old man was crucified with him...." Knowing it, believing it, absolutely accepting what Christ did for us, that comes first.

And then in verse 11 it says, "Likewise you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus." We are alive to God, our Savior, the one who made all this happen for His glory. We are a part of that because of who He is and what He did. We can count on that, amazing as it sounds. The Word says, "...Ye must be born again." God does that. He puts new life in us--His life. Amazing as it seems, He does that.

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