Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 23
1 John 3:16-18 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
If you believe the love of God is seen in giving worldly things… but you ever DON’T give (love) earthly things, then how can you claim the love of God is in you?
The example might be earthy, but the love of God cannot be not seen in the giving of earthly, worldly things. But it IS seen, in the giving of TRUE heavenly things. Giving someone eternal food and clothing.
If a person doesn’t give, then we can’t know he has the love of God in him.
But when he GIVES, this is when we can perceive the love of God… we can KNOW him by WHAT he gives, WHEN he gives. Whether he gives this world’s things… or he gives God’s things.
James 2:14-18 – showing “my faith by my works”, the example being GIVING “those things which are needful to the body”.
Matthew 7:15-16 – “ye shall know them by their fruits”
If you don’t divide flesh from Spirit, you have a huge mess, and you will be ashamed.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But I want to focus on this:
1 John 3:16 … we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
How do you do that??? Not, how do you “KIND OF LIKE lay down your life”, in a figure. Not how do you “live your life for someone else”. But how do you “lay down” your life, in TRUTH?!?!
Now, I have to apologize… because we’re about to go off on a bit of a tangent, in order to really understand loving others by LAYING DOWN OUR LIVES for the brethren.
But it is going to strengthen point # 14 here! Because I believe, the answer is…
For Christians, to “lay down our lives”, is to preach the gospel to win souls.
1 John 3:7— Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
This is absolutely NOT about fleshly good works. It CANNOT be.
We must DIVIDE it… flesh from Spirit! It must be about TRUE, SPIRITUAL good works.
1 John 3:11— For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
What is “to hate” the brethren? To reject their words!
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
“WE KNOW… because we love”. You just have to love ONE TIME! One true good work. One “loving” of the brethren is undeniable EVIDENCE of having “passed from death unto life”.
For a saved person, that is preaching the gospel (receiving the brethren).
But for an unsaved person that is GETTING SAVED (receiving the brethren)
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Loving the brethren is receiving their WORDS; receiving Jesus’ words.
Luke 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me;…
Loving the brethren is not a separate set of actions. Love of the brethren is accomplished when a person hears, and BELIEVES unto everlasting life!
1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
How can I KNOW someone is a false brother? By whether they hear me, or hate (i.e., reject) my WORDS!
That is the context. Knowing men by judging righteous, BINARY, judgment.
And this passage does not work without by dividing flesh from Spirit!
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
“Hereby perceive we…” – Reference back to v10: This is evidence of salvation! Spiritual evidence! It cannot be perceived BY FLESHLY WORKS!
We understand/perceive the love of God, in that Jesus laid down his life FOR US. Why? To GIVE us eternal life with Him!
Now, we OUGHT to do the same thing. Lay down our lives… to GIVE others eternal life with us!
Then, John gives a worldly figure to explain this spiritual truth.
Here is where people can get SOOOO messed up, to be ashamed, if they don’t study to DIVIDE these things!
1 John 3:17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
The context is how we can KNOW that we are, or that a person is, saved; a Real Christian.
The example (though it is based in the fleshly things) is of being UNABLE TO PERCEIVE the love of God, because someone does NOT GIVE.
You can’t take the negative of the example and ASSUME that if he HAD given “the world’s goods”, then the love of God dwells in him.
Boys at school.
You can’t perceive the love of God in the giving of fleshly things. That just can’t be the truth of this.
I believe the Scripture-supported principle is that, in one single work, we can know when men give, but we can’t know when they don’t give.
You can’t KNOW what is in a well, until you draw its water out.
So, if after the carnal example, we instead look at this spiritually, we can see that, if someone has God’s good things, and doesn’t give them, then we can’t KNOW that he has the love of God in him.
But if he gives in TRUTH – if he loves in GIVING (Deu 10:18) true good things – then we can KNOW that the love of God is in him/us.
1 John 3:18-19 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
“let us not love in word” – meaning: not in vain; not in man’s wisdom, but in spiritual understanding – 1Co 1:17,2:4-5,4:19, 1Th 1:5,2:13, Jam 2:16. We should love in giving spiritual things; profitable things.
“hereby we know” – BY what? By loving IN TRUTH! We know WHEN we LOVE/GIVE to the brethren IN TRUTH.
v14: “We know … [we are saved] … because we love the brethren”
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us…
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Well, how did Jesus love us?
1) By preaching to us. (Deu 33:3, John 5:20,15:9,15,17:26)
2) By laying down His life us.
And spiritually… I believe those are really the same thing.
How do we do #2, AS Jesus did?
John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Jesus laid down His life… and took it right back up, so that He could live together with us. Can you?
Jesus didn’t lose his own life permanently. But if you try to do this “great love” in the flesh, won’t you?
If you jump on a grenade, and sacrifice YOUR FLESHLY LIFE so others don’t die… is that loving AS Jesus has loved you? Is that laying down your life AS Jesus laid down His?
Is that dying for others, AS Jesus “died for” you?
How do we love others as Jesus did… how do we to lay down our life for others, AS He did?
Well first, we should understand HOW Jesus died for us, and we should understand the EFFECT of His death FOR us.
1 Thessalonians 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
If we die for others as Christ died for us… it must allow them to:
- LIVE
- Live TOGETHER WITH US
How does sacrificing your FLESHLY LIFE accomplish both of those?
Here are a few other requirements to lay down your life AS Jesus did:
- Jesus died… and rose again!
- Jesus died FOR THE DEAD.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Jesus didn’t die for people who were ALREADY LIVING living.
He DIED FOR the dead so, “that they… should… live… unto him.”
Are you able to exchange your life for the life of your dead child? AND… if you WERE able to… would you also then afterwards both live TOGETHER?
He died FOR us, that we should LIVE UNTO (not “live FOR”) Him.
May 13 2025
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 23
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 23
1 John 3:16-18 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
If you believe the love of God is seen in giving worldly things… but you ever DON’T give (love) earthly things, then how can you claim the love of God is in you?
The example might be earthy, but the love of God cannot be not seen in the giving of earthly, worldly things. But it IS seen, in the giving of TRUE heavenly things. Giving someone eternal food and clothing.
If a person doesn’t give, then we can’t know he has the love of God in him.
But when he GIVES, this is when we can perceive the love of God… we can KNOW him by WHAT he gives, WHEN he gives. Whether he gives this world’s things… or he gives God’s things.
James 2:14-18 – showing “my faith by my works”, the example being GIVING “those things which are needful to the body”.
Matthew 7:15-16 – “ye shall know them by their fruits”
If you don’t divide flesh from Spirit, you have a huge mess, and you will be ashamed.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But I want to focus on this:
1 John 3:16 … we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
How do you do that??? Not, how do you “KIND OF LIKE lay down your life”, in a figure. Not how do you “live your life for someone else”. But how do you “lay down” your life, in TRUTH?!?!
Now, I have to apologize… because we’re about to go off on a bit of a tangent, in order to really understand loving others by LAYING DOWN OUR LIVES for the brethren.
But it is going to strengthen point # 14 here! Because I believe, the answer is…
For Christians, to “lay down our lives”, is to preach the gospel to win souls.
1 John 3:7— Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
This is absolutely NOT about fleshly good works. It CANNOT be.
We must DIVIDE it… flesh from Spirit! It must be about TRUE, SPIRITUAL good works.
1 John 3:11— For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
What is “to hate” the brethren? To reject their words!
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
“WE KNOW… because we love”. You just have to love ONE TIME! One true good work. One “loving” of the brethren is undeniable EVIDENCE of having “passed from death unto life”.
For a saved person, that is preaching the gospel (receiving the brethren).
But for an unsaved person that is GETTING SAVED (receiving the brethren)
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Loving the brethren is receiving their WORDS; receiving Jesus’ words.
Luke 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me;…
Loving the brethren is not a separate set of actions. Love of the brethren is accomplished when a person hears, and BELIEVES unto everlasting life!
1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
How can I KNOW someone is a false brother? By whether they hear me, or hate (i.e., reject) my WORDS!
That is the context. Knowing men by judging righteous, BINARY, judgment.
And this passage does not work without by dividing flesh from Spirit!
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
“Hereby perceive we…” – Reference back to v10: This is evidence of salvation! Spiritual evidence! It cannot be perceived BY FLESHLY WORKS!
We understand/perceive the love of God, in that Jesus laid down his life FOR US. Why? To GIVE us eternal life with Him!
Now, we OUGHT to do the same thing. Lay down our lives… to GIVE others eternal life with us!
Then, John gives a worldly figure to explain this spiritual truth.
Here is where people can get SOOOO messed up, to be ashamed, if they don’t study to DIVIDE these things!
1 John 3:17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
The context is how we can KNOW that we are, or that a person is, saved; a Real Christian.
The example (though it is based in the fleshly things) is of being UNABLE TO PERCEIVE the love of God, because someone does NOT GIVE.
You can’t take the negative of the example and ASSUME that if he HAD given “the world’s goods”, then the love of God dwells in him.
Boys at school.
You can’t perceive the love of God in the giving of fleshly things. That just can’t be the truth of this.
I believe the Scripture-supported principle is that, in one single work, we can know when men give, but we can’t know when they don’t give.
You can’t KNOW what is in a well, until you draw its water out.
So, if after the carnal example, we instead look at this spiritually, we can see that, if someone has God’s good things, and doesn’t give them, then we can’t KNOW that he has the love of God in him.
But if he gives in TRUTH – if he loves in GIVING (Deu 10:18) true good things – then we can KNOW that the love of God is in him/us.
1 John 3:18-19 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
“let us not love in word” – meaning: not in vain; not in man’s wisdom, but in spiritual understanding – 1Co 1:17,2:4-5,4:19, 1Th 1:5,2:13, Jam 2:16. We should love in giving spiritual things; profitable things.
“hereby we know” – BY what? By loving IN TRUTH! We know WHEN we LOVE/GIVE to the brethren IN TRUTH.
v14: “We know … [we are saved] … because we love the brethren”
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us…
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Well, how did Jesus love us?
1) By preaching to us. (Deu 33:3, John 5:20,15:9,15,17:26)
2) By laying down His life us.
And spiritually… I believe those are really the same thing.
How do we do #2, AS Jesus did?
John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Jesus laid down His life… and took it right back up, so that He could live together with us. Can you?
Jesus didn’t lose his own life permanently. But if you try to do this “great love” in the flesh, won’t you?
If you jump on a grenade, and sacrifice YOUR FLESHLY LIFE so others don’t die… is that loving AS Jesus has loved you? Is that laying down your life AS Jesus laid down His?
Is that dying for others, AS Jesus “died for” you?
How do we love others as Jesus did… how do we to lay down our life for others, AS He did?
Well first, we should understand HOW Jesus died for us, and we should understand the EFFECT of His death FOR us.
1 Thessalonians 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
If we die for others as Christ died for us… it must allow them to:
How does sacrificing your FLESHLY LIFE accomplish both of those?
Here are a few other requirements to lay down your life AS Jesus did:
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Jesus didn’t die for people who were ALREADY LIVING living.
He DIED FOR the dead so, “that they… should… live… unto him.”
Are you able to exchange your life for the life of your dead child? AND… if you WERE able to… would you also then afterwards both live TOGETHER?
He died FOR us, that we should LIVE UNTO (not “live FOR”) Him.
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