The Days Of Noah and Lot

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth, mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father. We thank you for this day Father, in Jesus’ name; we worship your holy name! Bless every person that is listening; every person that is reading. I ask you to please give us all understanding of what you are saying in this program. Thank you Father, in Jesus’ name, Amen.  

Today we’re going to talk about The Days Of Noah and the days of Lot. Let’s turn to Luke 17:20-37. So Jesus was speaking: Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, The Kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, See here! or See there! For indeed, the Kingdom of God is within you. Then He said to the disciples, The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, Look here! or Look there! Do not go after them or follow them. For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under Heaven shines to the other part under Heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from Heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. Remember Lot's wife. Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. Two will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. Two will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left. And they answered and said to Him, Where, Lord? So He said to them, Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

Let’s turn to Genesis chapter 6 and read about the days of Noah. Verses 5-13, Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the Earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The Earth also was corrupt before God, and the Earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the Earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the Earth. And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the Earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the Earth. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. Chapter 7, verse 1, Then the Lord said to Noah, Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.

Now let’s read about Sodom and Gomorrah. Gen 19;1-17, Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. And he said, Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way. And they said, No, but we will spend the night in the open square. But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally. This is talking about homosexual fornication. So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, and said, Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! This is talking about the whole city! The whole city came out against them, both old and young. Verse 8, See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof. And they said, Stand back! Then they said, This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them. So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door. But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door. Verse 15-17, When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city. And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed. Verse 23-29, The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. How important it is that a person intercedes for someone; so important! Abraham interceded for Lot, and God remembered Abraham when He brought Lot out of Sodom. So it was Abraham’s intercession that saved Lot’s life. So how important it is that we pray for others in this wicked generation! Ezk 16:48, As I live, says the Lord God, neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit. Today we are committing abominations; great abominations!

2Pe 2:1-22, But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked, for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds. Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment… 

And so we are in the days of Noah, and likewise, in the days of Lot. Our nation has become as Sodom and Gomorrah. The things that are going on in this nation are a great vexation to the soul of every righteous person, even as in the days of Lot; for that righteous man, dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds: even the willful slaughtering of innocent babies in the womb, the perverse preaching and teaching of young children in the schools, teaching homosexuality and transgenderism, and utter perversion and confusion to little children, rampant, aggressive homosexuality, and corruption on every level. And so are we on the verge of the revealing of the Antichrist and the great tribulation.  As it is written in Dan 8:23,  And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences will stand up. The abomination of desolation is upon us. The great tribulation will soon come to pass, and after three and one half years, Jesus will be returning in the clouds of Heaven. Mat 24:29-31,  Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the Earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 

And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now is the time to seek the Lord, while He may be found. If we have this hope in us, of Jesus’ returning, and the first resurrection of the saints of God in Christ, now is the time to be purifying ourselves, even as He is pure; to separate ourselves from all this gross evil in the Earth. 2 Cor 6:14, …For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For you are the Temple of the living God, as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. How easy it is, in this hour, with cell phones and computers, and all kinds of media and technology, to touch what is unclean; to look upon that which is evil. The scripture says, I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. 2 Cor 7:1, Therefore having these promises beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Holiness, without which no man will see the Lord.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)

 Christian Sex

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Amen, thank you Father for this day; thank you Father. We just bless your holy name Father; we give you thanks in Jesus’ name. Lord, bless every person listening; every person reading; help us all to have understanding of the truth of your Word, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s program is called, Christian Sex. Let’s turn to Gen 2:18, And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him. Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 

Let’s turn to Heb 4:12,  For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Come boldly to the throne of grace to ask for grace in the time of need: when you’re being tempted.  You have to ask.  If you are a single Christian, and you want a husband or a wife,  ask.  Ask God to bring the right person into your life. Then ask Him for grace concerning your sexual desire: to give you grace until He gives you your mate. He knows what you’re going through, and His grace is sufficient for you, if you will believe, not for you to sin, but for righteousness in the face of temptation. He has been there. Jesus was a teenager, tempted in every way as we are; He was a young man surrounded by many women who loved Him very much. He was tempted, yet He never sinned. Do you know what really helped Him? It was His love and respect for His Father, and the fear of God in Him, and His love for us. He knew that if He yielded to any temptation to sin, that it would be against His Father, whom He loved, and against us, for whom He was our only hope of salvation. If He had sinned, just once, He could not have been offered as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. When you are being tempted, ask God boldly for grace. Do you want His grace in your life, to help you keep from sinning against your Father in Heaven, who loves you so much that He gave His beloved Son to die for you upon the Cross, or against your brother or sister in Christ whom you love? Or do you love yourself and your pleasures more? Are you more interested in gratifying your own lusts than in loving and respecting and honoring your Father and your Lord, the one who loved you and washed you from your sins in His own Blood, and the one who you say you love? Do you love them, or do you love yourself? 

Let’s turn to 2 Tim 3:1, But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! Is this you? Are you in this list?  I sure was, for many years, after I became a Christian.  I was still loving myself and my pleasures more than I loved God, and that got me into much trouble. One day, I got honest with God. On my face I confessed to Him what kind of person He already knew me to be, and I asked Him, with all my heart, to hear me, and to change me to truly love Him and the people in my life. He heard my prayer, and He began to work on me. It was not easy, but, as much as I am, I am a different man than I was years ago. He will do the same for you. That’s why Jesus came: to save us from our sins and to change us; to make us righteous through faith in Him and what He did for us, in His great love, upon the Cross. He did not come to condemn us, but to save us from our sins. In order to overcome sin in your own life, you’re going to have to want this; you’re going to have to ask Him to do this with all your heart. He promised us that whoever will seek after righteousness shall be filled. The most important part is love. You must acknowledge, if you are like I was, you must acknowledge to Him that you don’t love Him like you should; that you love yourself and your pleasures more, and you don’t love your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife like you should. If you will just humble yourself before Him, and them, and repent for not really loving them; for dishonoring them with your selfish, self-centered behavior; for not respecting them, and then ask God to change you and seek Him until He does. If you want the things that Jesus gave Himself upon the Cross to give you, you can have them, if you really want them; if you will seek Him and ask Him with all your heart. He knows if you are sincere and He will respond. If you are, He will have mercy on you and grant you His grace. His grace will work in your life when you are honest and sincerely seeking after righteousness and holiness; when you truly want to love Him and honor Him, and love others as yourself. If you want to continue to love yourself, your money, and your pleasures more, you will not find His true grace. 

The covenant of marriage before God: 

When you marry someone as a Christian, you enter into a physical union: man and woman, before God. You both make a commitment of love and faithfulness before Him and before other people: a public commitment to love one another, and, as a Christian, it is not only to one another, but to God and to the people who are witnessing your marriage. And it is not until you have entered into this covenant before Him that you may enter into physical union with His blessing. Heb 13:4, Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. If you enter into any sexual contact; sensual, sexual indulgence, before you enter into your marriage covenant with God, it is sin. No, you’re not in faith; no, you’re not covered by His grace; you are gratifying your lust and you are loving yourself, not your partner, and not God, and you are in sin. There is no condemnation here. If you will seek God about this, He will show you, and you can repent and find grace in His sight. You must acknowledge the truth about this to Him, and to your mate, and you must repent for dishonoring them and dishonoring God. The same is true for any sexual behavior outside of your marriage covenant. Fornicators and adulterers God will judge. If you will not repent, God will judge you according to your works, as He has promised many times throughout the Scriptures. Jesus said, I’m going to give unto everyone of you according to your works. If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. 

If you are a Christian and you have a relationship with a brother or a sister, either an engagement, a betrothal, or marriage, this applies to you. The main question is, do you love the Father?  Do you love Him?  Do you love Jesus?  Do you love the person you are involved with?  You say you do. If you really do, then prove it before God by doing what pleases Him above all else.  Both of you, honor Him, through repentance and faith and obedience to His Word, and ask Him for grace to do things His way. That is what is best for you.  He will honor you and give you grace if you do this, and He will bless you both. You want His honor; you want His blessing, for the one whom He blesses is truly blessed. God sent His Son into the world to bless us by turning away every one of us from our iniquities. Turn to Him! Turn to Jesus! He said He would never leave you nor forsake you. 

1 Cor 7:1, Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 1 Cor 6:15, Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For The two, He says, shall become one flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality, (fornication). Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14) 

 Of Whom A Man Is Overcome

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father for this day. We  thank you Lord, in Jesus name, for this program Father. I pray that you will bless me to speak clearly what you want spoken, Amen.

Psalm 118:8, It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Today’s program is called, Of Whom A Man Is Overcome. Let’s turn to Psalm 146:1, Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! While I live I will praise the Lord; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his plans perish. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made Heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked He turns upside down. The Lord shall reign forever—Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord! Verse 3, Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his plans perish. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God… Hallelujah! Thank you Lord!. 

Let’s turn to 2 Pet 1:19, And so we have the prophetic Word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. Chapter 2, verse 1, But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage. 

Recently I read what someone said about remembering certain things from your past, and how that can help you to be prepared for what is coming in the future. At first, I thought that was not true, because the Scripture talks about forgetting what lays behind and pressing toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. However, God started reminding me of something that I went through in my past which absolutely has everything to do with the things that are very soon coming upon the Earth, and that I better remember what I have learned, and not assume that I will not someday need to apply it in the situations that are yet to be. So today I’m going to share with you what I went through, and how God, in His great mercy, brought me through it and delivered me out of bondage. Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage. 

In the late 1980’s I was a man in need of deliverance; I needed help. I started going to a church where they ministered deliverance. There was power there, and I started getting set free; I started getting help, and I’m very thankful for that to this day. When I first went to this church, I was looking only to Jesus to deliver me through that ministry. But, more and more, over the years, I was there for over 20 years, I began to trust in the man in charge. He was strong in the flesh, and he began to be lifted up more and more in the people’s hearts. It is not an easy situation to understand, and, unless you have been through it yourself and come out of the bondage, it may be hard for you to grasp. What makes it so hard is that good things were happening and truth was being taught, and yet, at the same time, evil things were happening and lies were being taught. When you listen to a man teach the Word of God for many years, it is very easy to begin to think in your heart that they are a man of God. One of the main things I learned through my experience is that a false prophet will teach the truth, the Word of God, until he has won the hearts of the people, and then he will begin to bring in the lies, little by little, and since you already have been convinced that he is a man of God, and you are trusting in him, you begin to receive them; you eat the fruit of lies. Hosea 10:13, You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men. People trust in mighty men: strong men in the flesh, and they do not really trust in God with all their heart, and they reap iniquity. So it was with me. I ate the fruit of lies, damnable heresies, and I fell into sin. But God, in His great mercy, led me to real repentance: I had godly sorrow, and I confessed my sin to Him and He forgave me, for one reason: the sacrifice of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ upon the Cross at Calvary for my sins, and He washed me and cleansed me of my guilt and shame through faith in His precious shed Blood. Then, slowly but surely, He began to lead me out of darkness and into His marvelous light. I began to read the Bible and search the Word of God concerning the things that I had been taught. It was a fearful process, but God, through the truth of His Word, brought me out of that bondage. This man brought us into bondage by teaching us to fear him, and not God only. The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe, Proverbs 29:25.  

One day I made a commitment to God to believe what is written in His Word over what my preacher or any other man may say. It was a real commitment. As soon as I made that commitment to Him, my confusion left me and I began to see and understand God’s Word clearly. God led me to forgive my pastor and repent of my own sins, to my family and to God, before He would let me leave that church. Also, by the Word of God, He led me to judge what was going on in that church. I don’t have time to go there, but I recommend that you read the First Epistle of John. It is very powerful concerning deceit and deception. Since then He has continued to deliver me and walk me through many experiences to break me and teach me His good way. I know what it is like to be deceived by a man and to believe lies; I know what can happen to a person when you do. I also know that each one of us must take responsibility for our own sins before God. We are responsible for what we have done. We cannot blame someone else. 

After I left that church, I started following another preacher, and God went to great lengths to bring me to the place of repentance, where I finally stopped following a man; trusting in a man. It doesn’t matter how much truth they may teach, or how righteous they may appear, or even how much power they may demonstrate, you cannot put your trust in any man! You must trust only in the One who loved you and gave Himself for you: only in Jesus! I can remember sitting on the bed in my hotel room, when God delivered me from trusting in a man, and saying to Him, “Only you Jesus!” “Only you Father!” And so it is today. 

There is one coming very soon upon the world stage who will be walking in great power and deception, with a false prophet working great signs and wonders, so, if possible, to deceive the very elect. The Antichrist and the False Prophet are soon going to be revealed. The Antichrist, the man of sin, will be exalting himself above all that is called God. Don’t think that because you are a Christian that you will be ok. You must receive the love of the truth: His Word is truth. And you must be denying yourself, taking up your cross and following Jesus, and only Jesus, every day, continuing in His Word to be His disciple. If you truly do this, you may suffer, but He will never leave you or forsake you. He will preserve you if you will trust Him. There is a chorus that says, Turn your eyes upon Jesus; look full in His wonderful face, and the things of Earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)

 By No Means Clearing The Guilty

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father! Thank you Lord Jesus! We give you praise and honor and glory this morning, thank you Lord. Bless your holy name, Father, bless your holy name. Father, I thank you for this day; I thank you for every person listening and every person reading. I pray that you would minister to all of us the truth of your Word; the truth of who you are, and the truth of your ways which you have revealed in your Word, and I just pray for that in Jesus’ name, Amen. 

Today’s program is called, By No Means Clearing The Guilty. Let’s turn to Exo 34:5, Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, (with Moses), and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation. Mal 3:6, For I am the Lord, I do not change… This is God. This is the way He is, and He does not change. He will not clear the guilty.  Are you guilty?  Or are you cleared?  Now let me say, right at the beginning, this program is not about condemning you or me or anyone else. This is about the truth of who God is, and how He said He deals with men and women. 

False grace does not clear you; it is a lie. Psalm 32, let’s go there. This is a very familiar psalm; people like to quote the first two verses. But we need to read a few more verses. Psalm 32:1, Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer. I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. The question is: are you guilty, or are you cleared? Remember, God said, By no means clearing the guilty. He said He is merciful; He said to Moses twice that He is merciful, and He is gracious, and He forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin, but He also said, by no means clearing the guilty. Let’s turn to 1 John 1:8, If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. That is the grace of God: the gift of His Son; through faith in Him; in His sacrifice, when the goodness of God leads you to repentance. Godly sorrow works repentance: you confess it; you acknowledge it, as David did in Psalm 51, and you forsake it. Let’s go there, Psalm 51. This psalm was written by King David after he had sinned with the wife of Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba, and also by killing her husband. Very serious sin, but God sent the Prophet Nathan to confront him. And when he confronted him, David said, I have sinned. He acknowledged his sin. Let’s read, Psalm 51:1, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean… By the way, hyssop refers to the blood. In the Old Covenant, it was the blood of the animal sacrifices. In the New Covenant it’s the Blood of Jesus, the final sacrifice; the spotless Lamb of God. They used hyssop to sprinkle the blood. So that’s what David is talking about, Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. And it’s only through the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that your sins can be cleansed.  …wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation… you see, he was guilty, and so he was confessing his sin. …and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise.  The Apostle Paul wrote, Godly sorrow works repentance: to be truly sorry for your sins. Repentance begins in the heart; it’s not just changing your mind, as some preachers say. 

So when you confess your sin to God, and you acknowledge it, He forgives it. God forgives you and He cleanses you by the Blood of Jesus, and you are cleared!, just as though you never sinned. There is only one way to be free from guilt: true repentance, with faith in the shed Blood of Jesus Christ, the spotless Lamb of God. This is not about condemnation! God is not condemning you. He gave His Son Jesus to suffer and die upon the Cross for your sins, so that you might be forgiven and cleared of all unrighteousness. In John chapter 3, Jesus said, This is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil... They will not come to the light. …for everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.

Satan knows that God will not clear the guilty; he knows that. So he goes about seeking whom he may devour by getting them in guilt before God, and then lying to them in different ways to convince them that they are ok with God. Meanwhile, unless they repent and confess their sin and be forgiven, believing in Jesus’ sacrifice, they will die in their sins, and they will perish. He knows this. It makes no difference how religious you are. God is not a  respecter of persons; He will not clear you if you are guilty. You must clear yourself!, through repenting and believing the Gospel, the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection. And you must continue daily to keep your conscience clear of offense toward God and man, denying yourself; taking up your cross and following Jesus, married to Him; serving God in the newness of the Spirit; doing the Father's will every day and every night. 

False grace teaches you that you are cleared of all guilt because of Jesus’ sacrifice and your faith in Him. True grace teaches you that you are cleared of all guilt when you truly repent and confess; acknowledge your sin to God, and that, when you do, He will not only forgive you, but He will cleanse you from all unrighteousness through faith in Jesus’ shed Blood. If you believe false grace, you believe that you are cleared and you are not guilty, but it’s a lie. Only the Blood of Jesus can cleanse you of your sin, and you must bring it to God for it to be cleansed and forgiven; you must confess it to Him with true repentance, from your heart; you must acknowledge that you have sinned against Him, and then, because of Jesus’ sacrifice for your sins, through faith in Him, you will be forgiven and cleansed. He loves you, and He delights in mercy; He wants you to be forgiven and cleansed and to be righteous before Him. But if you will not repent and confess your sin; if you continue in your sin, He will not clear you! In fact, He will visit your sin upon your children, to the third and the fourth generation. This is the truth about God and His forgiveness. Believe what He said about Himself! He did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 

This is why Jesus said that at the Last Day, not everyone who says ”Lord, Lord” will enter into the Kingdom of God, but they who do the will of His Father. Many will say to Him in that day, notice: many, “Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works in your name?” And He will say, “Depart from Me, I never knew you, you who practice lawlessness.” The righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. If you live after the flesh, you will die, eternally. But if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. No, you cannot live after the flesh and go to Heaven. That’s a lie, straight from the Serpent’s mouth. He says, “You won’t die.” And that’s what his preachers say. Don’t believe them! Believe what is written! God has made His ways clear in His Word. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)