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Mike teaches today. 06/13/2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 12:7-10 PURGATORY? [PART 1] THE CHASTENING OF THE FATHER ON HIS CHILDREN Verses: Luke 16:19-31; 1st Corinthians 15:41; Luke 23:43,46; Revelation 3:21 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p9ifh4cmkbq72fw/AAAJ8yDRqzR7k-pxDQPQnTDva?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0u7t9amycnao241/AADaq7UcfzlNYDdybO6jI8Gea?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.” What we noted in lessons past is that the Father is vitally training His children to be first-born sons, co-rulers with His Victorious First-Born Son Jesus Christ in His Millennial Kingdom and beyond as kings and priests (that which He has typed in the first born inheritance of the Old Testament. (Deuteronomy 21:17, Revelation 3:21) The standard to which a Gospel Covenant first born son must achieve is holiness. The training only begins when a lost soul is reckoned justified in the imputed righteousness of Christ and becomes a child of God. No merely justified/born again in spirit is automatically whole or holy;…as the Christian is a new born, with a propensity to the World and is in need of training by God. As holiness in a man is equal to the ongoing crucifixion of the fallen nature while in koinonia with God through the imparted divine nature when his spirit is born again, this answers to His being the Father of spirits. This then is Scriptures answer to work out of your own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12) a work after having been saved. One thought to keep in mind: At this point our Father is not now as focused upon the sins of His children as much as it is upon their victory over the sin nature. These verses instruct us on the reality of God’s chastisement of Believers; it is therefore imperative for Christians to see the full picture in the Word of what God and ask the question what does God expect of a child of His to accomplish in Christ after being “saved”. And what does Holy Spirit direct author mean when he says; He chastises His children that they might be partakers of His holiness? Does this mean as many have said; the Loving Father only chastens by His Word? Does this mean as many have said; the Father only chastens His children while they are alive, in that when we Christians die we go directly to Heaven? And many more believe, in that they are apart of the largest Christian denomination on the earth, *Catholic that teaches it, that when you as a Christian die you immediately go to one of two places: Heaven where God and Christ now are, or *Purgatory (there being a third place Hell, but that is where only the Lost are supposed to immediately go). *PURGATORY (in definition of a Roman Catholicdoctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabitedbythesouls of sinners who are expiatingtheirsins before going to heaven. *Catholic means universal….Romanism is really what we are talking about when we say “Catholic”. The Catholic Church further defines Purgatory in their Catechism ‘As a purification (not here further defined as a real place or local, giving them room for the teaching option that there may not be such a real place but nevertheless a work that is done entirely within the soul) so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of Heaven. Which is experienced by those who die in God’s grace and friendship, but are still imperfectly purified ” According to Romanism/Catholicism then when one who has received Christ dies, they are judged as to where they will go…either to purgatory or Heaven. The Catechism clearly teaches, "Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of Heaven — through purification or immediately, — or immediate and everlasting damnation" (No. 1022). Let's dissect this teaching: When we die, our soul stands in judgment immediately. We Christian Catholics will have to account for our lives, for the good that we have done and for the sins we have committed. We (Catholics) call this the particular judgment because it is particular to each person. If we are free of all sin and the hurt caused by sin, we immediately will be welcomed into Heaven, where we…... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p9ifh4cmkbq72fw/AAAJ8yDRqzR7k-pxDQPQnTDva?dl=0

Mike teaches today. 06/06/2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 12:1-6 Verses: Mark 4:13-20; Philippians 2:3-11; Luke 6:20-26; 2nd Timothy 2:1-5 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/62uyi640hoyd0ls/AABn_vPyCD3n-gxmqn5JpiLva?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/695ufw64jio310h/AADriLXqevysP6OnjFr8LhlRa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 The life of a Christian answers to the course and the race according to God’s design. We are in Biblical spiritual training to run the course to attain unto the reward/prize of first-born sons to reside and rule with God from the heavens, and not fall out of the race. What was set before us in the 11th chapter of Hebrews was Scriptural examples of that inheritance, and also of those who obtained it; that is those who were the just continuing to live by faith. (Habakkuk 2:4) This being a spiritual dynamic outside the Mosaic Covenant of Law, as the earthly blessings promised in the Mosaic Law to the obedient Jew, were/are hindrances in running this race. VERSE 1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses….” This statement is the Old Testament saints set before us having successfully ran the race, as the Holy Spirit has openly declared, as He did in another place by Paul in 2nd Timothy 3:1-4:8… “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: (first resurrection day) and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” (them who love His appearing are them who are watching for and anxious for His appearing) These great cloud of witnesses all now await in Hades, the intermediate place of all dead, in the center of the earth (Luke 16), for that day of the awarding of the prize, that being a place in His Kingdom at the Second Appearing of Jesus. These being, now to us who are presently in the race, sure witnesses of exemplary lives lived in continuing faith through much sufferings evidenced by many achievements. The idea being clearly conveyed through their examples is that our course and race will have sufferings as well, and we do well to consider the testimony of their faithfulness unto the declared worthiness of the Spirit as encouragement to do likewise. There is no intent in the statement, nor any other Scripture, to convey to us that they or any other of the dead, are somehow personally observing or participating in what the New Testament saints are doing. VERSE 1b…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, (their threatening besetting sin in that day was drawing back to Moses in unbelief of Christ’s Return) and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” It is the reward for a well-run race after being “saved” that is set before us, to be realized at the Return of Jesus Christ to judge the participants. 1st Corinthians 9:24 says,“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.” Besetting sins and worldly weights were of great hindrance to carry while trying to run the race unto the Kingdom the Lord that had been set before them, and now the race set before us. Lot being a noticeable example; he having not been listed among those faithful who were well pleasing to God. Lot, having chosen the earthly, stumbled over the entanglements of the world and is seen as being disqualified. Worldly entanglements will impede us from the Kingdom of heavens as they did Judas, Demas, Ananias and Sapphira. (2nd Timothy 4:10, Acts 5) So clearly says the Words of Christ in His first instructive parable on the subject of the inheritance of the mysterious Kingdom of heavens. (See Matthew 13:11 in context of Matthew 13:18-23 and explained in Mark 4:13-20… “And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; -- such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/62uyi640hoyd0ls/AABn_vPyCD3n-gxmqn5JpiLva?dl=0

Mike teaches today. 05-30-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:20-40 Verses: Colossians 3:24; 1st Peter 1:7-9; Romans 8:23; Revelation 3:21, 22:12 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5282datvkgcbmux/AABlkPBq6PFAS3SKpD7GwP5pa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uurgbj1m2bhfxk7/AADsmGp9K_0h-e65OQk6ddXqa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 VERSE 20 “By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come” The things to come speak to the prophetic significance of the rights of first-born sons in God’s great salvation plan. Esau was the first-born by birth to Isaac but lost the blessing to Jacob, who became the appointed special son of God, through the experience at Jabbok, (Genesis 32) through whose seed God then called out of Egypt as a nation of first-born sons. (Exodus 4:22) That nation of Israel, God’s appointed first-born out of the Gentile nations, then in type became as Esau, who gave up the rights of the first-born, in their rejection and crucifixion of Jesus the Messiah, (“…We have no king but Caesar” John 19:15-16) and that being given to the heavenly bound nation of the New Man in Christ. Matthew 21:43… “Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” (Read Matthew 21:28-43) Israel is now, by the law of Moses, considered the “Slayer”, (Numbers 35:11) and shall remain so until the appointed High Priest is no longer in office, (Numbers 35:28) and then only can they return lawfully to their Land, where they may attain pardon after they have repented and accepted the returned Jesus as their Messiah. They then will have preeminence, as God’s first-born over the nations of the earth, as God promised Abraham. Ishmael and Esau’s enmity will then finally die. All will dwell peacefully in the tent of Shem. (Genesis 9) This is the Millennial future of restored Israel; the first-born of God, appointed to the earthly realm. The Book of Hebrews deals with the Christian unto the heavenly calling, (Hebrews 3:1) which if he is to answer, now as a born-again child of God, he must attain unto the first-born son’s adoption; and that by minding the things of the spirit/Spirit (Romans 8:15) for which, at Christ’s Return, he is awarded the “salvation of the soul” / the heavenly portion of the kingdom inheritance. The Holy Spirit is presenting Old Testament examples in typology to Christians; types in their either obtaining or not obtaining the first-born son’s rights unto ruler-ship with Christ in the heavenly realm. Some types of the sure loss due to unbelief and flesh, are structured around 5 major warnings; or the final gain of reward through continuing faith structured around this 11th chapter and those overcoming unbelief and flesh. The picture, then being presented is to Hebrews who are now Christians, whose forefathers were called out of Egypt as the first-born sons of God; who now having received Christ; are becoming a new creature. (Galatians 6:15) They have given up their national identity, that is to say no longer subject to the Law of Moses, nor are they any longer of Israel’s first-born status distinct from the nations of the World. They are spiritually no longer Jews, but are members of a New Nation; that of the New Man, where there is no distinction between Jew or Gentile. (Ephesians 2:15, Galatians 3:28) Theirs is the heavenly calling, that is unto REGAL first-born sons… “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (of adoption as sons, first-born sons, heirs in Christ to heavenly thrones. Read Revelation 3:21, 12:5, 20:4-6) The promise to Abraham was/is yet to be realized in two realms; that of the earthly and that of the heavenly. (Genesis 22:17-18) Israel, the first born natural progeny of Abraham, shall finally realize the earthly portion of the inheritance and the first-born of the regal heavenly calling in Jesus Christ, the Seed of Abraham, and will realize the future inheritance of the heavenly calling. Thus, for the Hebrew turned Christian, it was the relinquishing of identity with Israel’s earthly calling, (the turning back to they are greatly discouraged, as this would be a grave insult to Christ) and answering the higher and greater calling unto Christ in the heavenly realm. The Book of Hebrews in chapter 3 verse 3 makes the statement: “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation…” (the salvation of the soul) Christian teachers have tried to tie this verse to salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ… that “salvation” being presented as exclusive to.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5282datvkgcbmux/AABlkPBq6PFAS3SKpD7GwP5pa?dl=0

Mike teaches today. 05/23/2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:8-19 Verses: Romans 1:17; 1st Peter 1:3-9; Habakkuk 2:4; Genesis 12:1-4 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ug3dkib0rc1gno5/AAB5oiI_-saqpTeZOzcnHtTGa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ldr34h4v0odyom/AABYWWl_l73olRUCwmL3swlxa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 HEBREWS 11:8- 19 Faith as related in the life of Abraham. After the flood of Noah, a new contagion of sin set in; idolatry; a religious system formed in the bowels of Babylon, and has continued til today by the forbearance of God, whose destruction is sure and near. (Revelation 17 & 18) Even Abraham was once an idolater. (Joshua 24:14-15… “Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”) Understanding the “faith” dynamic of Abraham begins in the Land of Ur, when he was just Abram. God ‘persuaded’ Abram to come out of the Land of Ur and follow Him to a land He would show him and would one day give him. That land declared as being/terra firma at first, as far as he could see from the highlands above Sodom (Genesis 13:14) and later from the Euphrates to the Nile. (Genesis 15:18) And so he crossed over the river Euphrates (becoming the first Hebrew; meaning crossed over or passed through) and wandered seemingly aimlessly all his life. (Is that sentence correct?) (Hebrews 11:9) But this answers to this man of faith to whom God had revealed the Resurrection that kept him in the state of humble contentment free from the cares of the World (more on this later). The spiritual reasoning behind was that Abram’s being persuaded was the faith in God’s Word that drew upon the Grace (power) that God in His mercy had extended towards sinning and fallen Man as the just means by which he might escape His Curse of eternal death due to sin. But this saving faith falls far short of God’s intended purpose for man. Generally, a Christian’s perspective of God’s Salvation Plan will be found poignantly narrow and shallow. It is mainly limited for them to be removed from the threat of eternal death in Hell/Lake of fire, and receive a home in Heaven. But From God’s perspective, the Salvation Plan is the wise balance of His Holiness and Justice with His Loving-kindness and Mercies in… His realization of the purpose for which He created Man; and that to happen and culminate over a 7000 year restorative period. The dealing with satan eternally, who is the author of evil; and all those who align themselves with him, and that being over the same period of time. Faith has two required applications to accomplish God’s Salvation Plan. Both of these are presented to us in Scripture in Abraham’s life. Only two things were/are but necessary for the spirit’s rebirth and the eternal life transaction part of God’s Salvation Plan: 1) trusting God’s persuading Word of promise 2) the offering of blood atonement. Read Genesis 12:1-4. Scripture doesn’t give a lot of background but its evident that Abram was persuaded and had 1) faith in God’s Word of promise, in that he departed and crossed over the Euphrates, and it is no less evident; gleaned from all over Scripture, that he must have 2) also made blood atonement as well. In that God had previously established the necessity of blood offering with Abel (and Adam before him) as the means to be accepted before Him. (Genesis 4:4) And therefore it was necessary for Abram to offer the blood of a certain type of animal in order that he might be accepted “saved” / receiving the divine power of the nature of God into his dormant spirit (Hebrews 4:12). This is the readily attainable, merciful, saving faith in God’s Old Testament and New Testament Gospel Word of eternal life, which is simply based upon those two factors. In them, God’s Holiness and Justice are met to a degree and thereby there was a degree of reconciliation, that equates to justifying faith with imputed right standing. This faith Abram had to exhibit first; as man must be made spiritually alive (that which right standing has in view), before he can then hear and in another application of faith, follow God in the further, much more extensive, and demanding restorative process in holiness unto the reward of obedience; the inheritance in the future “Promised Land.” DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ug3dkib0rc1gno5/AAB5oiI_-saqpTeZOzcnHtTGa?dl=0

Mike teaches today 05-16-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:4-7 Verses: Genesis 4:1-15, 6:8,22; 7:1; Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27; 2nd Timothy 1:7 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lbuwlyy3c1u92vf/AAAtFooWA3w3Ne-Y4urFGMiha?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/th2x90vvjk8d9dm/AABUVPeZF4WjtPfHY0_GQmiBa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 The doctrine being set forth here and throughout Scripture is Jesus Christ’s Return when the rapture and first resurrection shall take place. It is this time when He will judge His people and the World. Now we are needing to set ourselves against the false doctrines that have invaded the Christian community; that a believer goes gloriously to heaven at death. This false doctrine diminishes the need for resurrection or rapture, and therefore the importance of Christ’s Return when these are to take place. FAITH IS THE DIFFERENTIATING FACTOR BETWEEN ABEL AND CAIN. Hebrews 11:4 “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain…” Abel was the first example of the God-liked kind of faith. He was the man of faith; Cain was the man of ‘unbelief”. (BOTH MEN BELIEVED IN GOD. BOTH MEN HAD A DEGREE OF REVERENCE FOR GOD. But unbelief is not just not believing something; but the persistence in stubborn resistance after having been shown ample reason to believe.) Cain refused to deal with the result of sin as God had prescribed, that is with his sinful nature in light of God’s Holiness. Cain resisted the idea that Abel embraced; that of humble awareness of the sinful fallen nature and the need for propitiation by blood of an acceptable animal for acceptance. (Before the Fall, Cain’s offering would have been acceptable but after the Fall, a bloody sacrifice was required.) Cain refused to see himself in the light of God’s requirement and followed his own religious way of worship. Even with further hardening of heart after God’s gracious correction and warning, unto murder. (See Genesis 4:7 where God warns Cain about sin crouching at his door.) This example of Cain and Abel, (these two being representative of “believers” in God) has a practical application today and was typically the state of Paul’s day; in that Paul echoed the Old Testament prophetic word found in Psalm 40:6, Isaiah 1:11, Jeremiah 6:20, and Amos 5:21-22. These verses had declared that… “In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.” [Hebrews 10:6] That was the exhortation to religious Jews; that God was now accepting the offering of the instructed younger one, with the rejection of the older’s; and that being, as in the type, after much instruction and forbearance. (See Acts 18:6 where Paul, after many years of going to the Jew first, then extended the gospel to the Gentiles.) The result was the same as Cain’s resistance to God’s manifest Blood offering, in the refusal of following, even with the strongest of evidence that it was now the means by which God would forgive and accept, was met with the violent persecution by the elder brother. Israel then answers to Cain in the slaying of Jesus Christ, a far more righteous One. It is Israel who is shut out and, “went out from the presence of the Lord…” It is Israel who then lost the status and rights of the first-born (Matthew 21:43), who as the anti-type is the cursed from the earth; the marked fugitive and vagabond in the Earth. (Genesis 4:11-12) But let no nation or individual make the fatal mistake and do them harm, for they yet have the “mark” of the Lord upon them as His seed. This, all nations know well. (Matthew 23:23-39) God judges His people; but woe unto those He uses. (Matthew 25:31-46) By which he (Abel) obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: And by it he being dead yet speaketh.” (See also Genesis 4:4…“And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering…” both offerer and offering) The Lord had respect unto Abel (). Most likely this means He consumed it instantly with fire; and he was justified by his blood offering; as we also are justified by the Blood offering and thereby have access into His presence unto sanctification. (Romans 5:9, Hebrews 4:14-16) Tampering with the text of Scripture alters THE PROMISE of God…either by giving a false basis for faith and hope or by destroying where true faith should be (His Word as the credible source) and ....... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lbuwlyy3c1u92vf/AAAtFooWA3w3Ne-Y4urFGMiha?dl=0

Mike teaches today. 05-09-2020 THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:2-3 Verses: Job 38-41; Proverbs 18:21; Mark 8:34; Matthew 12:35-37; Romans 8:16-17 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4szi218eh4tz17s/AAABBiLNfrDJqv3kNK6B3Riwa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wj4p3vc4rnnxl1s/AAB5dt0ZeSYTEqWqMOAj9VMIa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Verse 2 “For by it the elders obtained a good report…” “For by it (faith/trust in God’s Word and promises) the elders obtained a good report…” (Faith is the standard of their worthiness set by God)….why are the elders (heroes of Faith) of the Old Testament being brought out? Because they had obtained God’s favor. Overcoming Faith in the Old Testament consists of the same spiritual element as it does in the New Testament. And is now to be illustrated to the Hebrew Christians as the rekindling reminder to their waning faith and hope, that once was firmly set upon the Gospel Covenant reward of great recompense, at the return of Christ. And that they should not lose faith, faint or give up and turn back (“But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?” Galatians 4:9) lest they, as a consequence, would forfeit all the glorious promises of the future heavenly kingdom of Jesus Christ. And as a boost to their decreasing faith and hope, these examples to follow of God- approved men with like passions and circumstances are freshly set before them. These men and women who finished the race strong had now all passed into the afterlife having been approved to inherit the promises of God by the one differentiating factor from all others that lived at the same time they did: FAITH AND PATIENCE. Paul had previously mentioned an example in passing on to God’s Oath in Hebrews 6:11“And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. This is comparative to having a title on something you haven’t seen before.) Verse 3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” “Through faith (“faith” being an internal feeling caused by a firm trusting in the Word of God) we understand (we are told by someone {in Scripture} who was told by God, things only that can be known by God, since no man was present at creation or recreation, and then perceive through intuition and thought that it is truth. Romans 12:3) that the worlds (all the matter wherein we exist) were framed by the word of God (called into existence through His inherent power… not by “faith” construed to be a tangible substance released through His mouth, did He Create, as some have foolishly and recklessly reckoned to promote by twisting the Word to say: “We understand it was by faith that God framed the worlds.”… This is a non-Scriptural modern-day ideology that “faith” is a tangible substance, released by the mouth. And the line of error goes like this: Since we are created in His image, we also have this substance faith with the power of creation; or to bring things into existence as we “….calleth those things which be not as though they were.” And when you roll that string out to its conclusion, it is faith in your own faith, a subtle means by which the enemy moves the focus of faith in an all powerful God to a “faith” power resident in Self, released by the mouth; from faith in the One with the power to fulfill His promises to faith in oneself’s faith. And that being by believing and confessing “faith-filled words” based upon selected Scriptures that they have determined to be the promises of God for Believers in this life, in order to manifest/bring into existence, as God did in Creating, things that will enrich their misguided lives. Let us note; light was; not because God spoke, but because it was God that spoke. God need not speak to Create or bring to pass. God Speaking is an expression of God’s will, thoughts, and actions in communication and explanation that He uses in order that His Created beings with intelligence may comprehend His marvelous ways and means (See Job 38:7 and read all of chapters 38-41 which is a DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4szi218eh4tz17s/AAABBiLNfrDJqv3kNK6B3Riwa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches today 05-03-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 Verses: Zechariah 3:1-7; Matthew 21:42-43, 23:38-39; 2nd Thessalonians 1:11; 1st Thessalonians 2:12; 1st Corinthians 9:24 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ze1wct80w2mu74e/AAApjBxOF1pK_uq0d4GT87Vaa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pff5pt30jum2kt9/AADbNbT5eLHK4R4ZOrknBQPFa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 The Book of Hebrews, more than any other Book in the Bible, lays before us most clearly the contrasting of the “Gift of eternal life and the Prize of eternal inheritance.” The clear understanding of which gives the depth of meaning to God-ordained Grace, Faith, and Hope. Thus we briefly review this great truth obscured by modern-day mainstream Christianity before entering this great Chapter. 1) THE STATEMENT OF THE GOSPEL OF SAVING GRACE to Hebrew Christians: “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” [Hebrews 2:7] This verse establishes that every man may through accepting Jesus Christ’s suffering of death as his own, be imputed Christ’s righteousness and receive the gift of eternal life. 2) THE STATEMENT OF REWARD FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE AFTER REDEMPTION And furthermore, beyond this saving grace of tasting/accepting eternal death, every man so doing, is granted the clear invitation to privilege of greater intimacy. “For we are made partakers/companions of Christ, IF (the “if” cannot be a reference to what we already have attained, that is to say the gift of eternal life, but to something beyond and in addition to) we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end…” [Hebrews 3:14] This is similar to 2nd Thessalonians 1:11… “We pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling.” Of Christ it is written in Hebrews 1:9… “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” The Son of God / Son of man then is to have fellows. These are those He is appointed to bring into His House; that is “…in the bringing many sons unto glory.” [Hebrews 2:10] “…partakers of the heavenly calling…” [Hebrews 3:1] This being after having answered the call to come out of the lost World; “I (Jesus) pray for them: (His regenerated disciples) I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine.” [John 17:9] See the type of this promised inheritance in the heavenly calling after the justifying cleansing, from Zechariah 3:1-7…. Joshua, doing nothing, stood silent before the Lord, covered in filthy rags, as all men do lost in the World, but willingly consenting to the divine intervention, having (graciously) his iniquity pass from him. This answers to justifying faith and imputed righteousness. But now afterwards, we see the high calling in verse 7: “Thus saith the LORD of hosts; IF thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, AND I WILL GIVE THEE PLACES TO WALK AMONG THESE THAT STAND BY.” This is a striking view of the future heavenly calling up into ministry ruling; that place and service where holy Angels only now tread (read of the manifest promise of Revelation 2:26-27 in Revelation 12:5). The typed concept of this passive willingness with blood offering, followed by responsible service, is fully portrayed in Leviticus chapter 8 - chapter 10 verse 3. We are to be of these promised companions/bride only if we are found to have held fast the beginning of our confidence of calling, being steadfast until the end, who do not offer “strange fire” …who do not in the end “defile their garments”, and “to keep himself unspotted from the world.” [James 1:27] What is in view throughout the Book of Hebrews is not justification but sanctification, and this loss or reward of place in Christ’s heavenly Kingdom at His Return. Those who do attain through worthiness (according to the Words of Christ in Luke 20:35) are prophetically portrayed in Revelation 14:4-5, 17:14b, 19:7-9, 20:4-6. This prize/reward is glory with unrestricted access to the King of kings, residing in His high place, (1st Thessalonians 2:12) that place of residence into which merely saved/justified subjects are excluded. (See how this is typed in Esther1:13-14 with Revelation 22:3-5. Read) These grand privileges are set before all saved, who have passively stood and accepted Christ as their vicarious offering unto eternal life, who have then after been given charge of faithful service that they might obtain the prize. (1st Corinthians 9:24) 3) THE WARNINGS OF HEBREWS…THE RECOMPENSE FOR THE UNFAITHFUL IN SERVICE. “Jesus has... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ze1wct80w2mu74e/AAApjBxOF1pK_uq0d4GT87Vaa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches today. 2020-04-25. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS 10:32-39 Verses: Luke 17:33; Matthew 24:48-51; 1st John 3:1-3; Revelation 2:5; 4:2 Study Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9yzan2go3rkmdmx/AACZcQ28JWnYU5lZtCe79q_Aa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ij3chn3wp7stm2m/AABlRp42pcC8SEq4Up6SXeUja?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 After the fourth great warning to the Hebrew Christians which we spoke of in verses 26-31, the first church of Jesus Christ, who had stood faithfully for 30-40 years, were then faced with the temptation of abandoning their living faith in Jesus Christ and loving community with one another. Their severe warning is immediately followed by fortifying words not to succumb the temptations set before them in VERSES 32-39. Where it is written, “But call to remembrance the former days… (when you received the supernatural light of the Gospel Covenant followed by your zealous behavior of the enlightened, and willingly suffering persecution and the forfeiting of this world’s goods)…knowing (having sure knowledge) in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better an enduring substance… (according to the received heavenly calling; (Hebrews 3:1) a great contrast with those who received the earthly calling where they were granted all Egypt’s booty, and not even a dog dared bark at them) (Exodus 11:7)…cast not away therefore your confidence, (let the mind be renewed in the sure hope of that calling and cause humiliation and repentance)… which hath great recompense of reward…ye have need of patience, THAT AFTER YOU HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD (righteously by faith in Christ live) YE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE (the promise of His Son’s Coming again with reward)…if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him…who draw back unto perdition;” {destruction, ruin} (this is the similar threat with encouragement in continuance in righteous living with patience given by Christ to the Church of Ephesus just a few years later. “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” [Revelation 2:5] Is not this the warning’s design, that is, of the great loss of reward for the “faithless saved” (faithless Christian) to put the Christian back in mindful posture to ever be vigilant in his resolve to live a righteous life in order “..to lay hold upon the hope set before us”? That we enlightened Christians might not be subject to any exacting recompense for our contrary doings against the will of God, and that being potentially very severe. Knowing this: the Father will not let His called children abuse their position. He will not hold them unaccountable for living a life like those unregenerate, whom He has promised severe eternal punishment. Is it not modern-day Christendom that takes the place of the Garden serpent and says: “Yea hath God really said..?…. Ye shall not surely die…” (Genesis 3:1,4 and Hosea 4:9) “You are the loved children of God in Christ. Doesn’t the Word say, “for God has not appointed you unto Wrath”? That half-truth deceives Christians into a presumptuous mindset that causes them to willfully stop walking circumspectly before God, and to stray. The are in need of reminding, and sometimes by chastening, that Christians who walk unrighteously will not inherit the kingdom of heavens. (1st Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:21, Ephesians 5:5) The Hebrew Christians casting away their confidence equates to the removal of the candlestick/lampstand. (Revelation 2:5) The end result of their actions if they give up is that the power of sustaining grace is removed, righteous living spurred by faith and hope with testimony is lost, and with it the possibility of goodness and acceptability in His Kingdom Coming. “Christ is become of no effect unto you…..ye are fallen from grace.” [Galatians 5:4] Note as extremely important; the exhortation to not cast away our first works’ confidence and to repent shows the great efficacy of the believer’s repentance in the restoration of grace, (the Divine influence upon the heart) in the turning aside of the threatened and sure sore judgments. We should be able to find ourselves in all the warnings of Revelation 1-3 or in the warnings to the Hebrews. VERSE 37 “For yet, a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” WHAT IS THE CHIEF NEED OF THIS WORLD?....THE RETURN OF THE CONQUERING KING AND HIS GOVERNMENT. (Psalm 96:9-13) Revelation 1:19 “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter…” Christ breaks up the future time table in two parts until His Return. “…the things which are (ongoing)…” that is to say.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9yzan2go3rkmdmx/AACZcQ28JWnYU5lZtCe79q_Aa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 04-18-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS 10:26-31 THE FOURTH GREAT WARNING TO CHRISTIAN BRETHREN IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS Verses: Matthew 10:28, 12:31, 25:50-51, 25:30; Numbers 15:22-28, 30-36; Luke 12:4-5, 14:25-35 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1sksacmc5ah20sf/AAAtihe0LTsPnsNmAh5PmqSBa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhju61gfzf40vnm/AADXCAyDwW3-avIXRKkLe5Rba?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 We have previously brought out the realities of Christ’s two-part Atonement application (Matthew 28:19-20 that answers to its two teachings). Firstly, that of the wondrous welcome into the Holiest Place, and that through the one-time event of justifying faith in the uniting of faith with truth; confessing the need and receiving the gift of eternal life; (Luke 1:77) for which there is no further offering necessary. This assurance of debt paid is the act of the justifying Judge, Who after reviewing the charges brought against me finds me, the accused sinner, not guilty before the Law. The Atonement Blood of Christ satisfied the demands of the Law, in that what Christ did was imputed to my account. I reckon the Divine law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the penalty of the law of sin and death. I am dead to them because my Substitute died to satisfy them. I reckon myself dead to them, for I have been crucified with Christ, and in newness of life, in a newly made way, alive unto Christ. And the second part of the Atonement being the ongoing necessity of the sanctifying faith application, (1st Thessalonians 5:23… “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”) that of enlivened conscience directing unto minding the things of the Spirit/spirit through the renewed mind to Christ’s Words. Being unto fruitful and loving obedience, with confessions of ongoing shortcomings and sins in Heaven at the throne of grace. And that for granting mercy and grace in order to hold fast the shield of faith and not fling it away in patience lost, to finish the race, to battle, to overcome the flesh, to attain unto His promises and incomparable reward in the coming kingdom of Christ. And this great two-part Atonement is offered to the Blood-sprinkled and sealed Believer as an expression of loving obedience by the Son of God to the Father. And in the presentation and realization of this great Atonement, is the intent of full salvation for the recipient. There is an ongoing loving response by us expected by the Father as seen in previous verses. The Holy Spirit then turns and leads us immediately to the 4th great warning of the Book of Hebrews VERSES 26-31, that of the Father’s severe judgment response that should be anticipated as a fearful prospect to the sealed child of God in Jesus Christ (not for the babe in Christ). The prospect for harsh punishment awaits those more mature believers who were thoroughly enlightened and with intimate knowledge, who then willfully and willingly (as opposed to willfully and unwillingly) commits awful adversarial type sin. For God has just indignation for this type of person’s willfully committed sins, who is thereby guilty of critically abusing His Son’s ultimate selfless sacrificial offering. This severe warning is directed and warranted against the vacillating Hebrew Christians (and all other Christians down through time) that they might continually be fearfully alert and that they may steer clear of those destructive rocky shallows that threaten to sink their boat. Here in the Book of Hebrews is Scriptural example of willful apostasy of once zealous and faithful Christians, but in the face of long standing persecution are now wavering. This is the same warning warranted for the end-time believer waxing into like coldness due to wavering wholeheartedness because of ever increasing iniquity. (Matthew 24:9-12…“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”) The same warning extending to those critically appraising the goodness of the Father in the complacent Church of these end times. (Revelation 3:16… “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”) This warning is an amplification in intensity of the same warning of Hebrews 6:1-8, as it is a warning presented from the deeply offended Father’s viewpoint.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1sksacmc5ah20sf/AAAtihe0LTsPnsNmAh5PmqSBa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 04-11-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 10:15-22 Verses: Matthew 3:11; John 15:6; 2nd Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 22:12 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/53inusdnzpekj02/AAAIkPynpciQ8w-rij07tpHWa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ngffpzw498hlb2/AAAqpOkihV9mifZcjhVJweAya?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 To review, let’s read verses 9-14… Then said he (the Son), Lo, I come to do thy will, O God (the Father). He taketh away the first (testament), that he may establish the second. By the which will (the second testament) we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath (made provision for those to be) perfected forever them that are sanctified. THEME OF THIS LESSON: The expressed love of the Son for the Father and the expressed love of the Father for the Son. VERSE 15: “WHEREOF the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us….” (note twice in this chapter the Holy Spirit is personalized 15 & 29) not the inward witness of Romans 8:16, but the outward witness of Scripture as in John 15:26…“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me…”) The Holy Spirit, being the Author of this Epistle, has bore witness to the Hebrew Christians in these last few verses of Christ, the Son of God, being yielded completely in spirit, soul and body to the Will of the Father. Who had prepared for Him that human body that Christ might willingly and lovingly offer up Himself as the Son of man, as the ultimate Propitiation offering for fallen man. Who abundantly satisfied the Just Holiness of the Father for estranged man, once and for all. We, being the seed of Adam, are born into this world with a fallen sinful nature condemned under the curse of eternal death for Adam’s original sin. Jesus Christ’s Propitiation is extending the privilege of forgiveness and eternal life in the rebirth/or enlivening of our personal spirit with the eternal divine nature. This gracious “rebirth” one time event, has a partial reconciliation effect; in that the spirit being now of the divine nature may therefore have ongoing access into His Holy Presence. That is to say by right; through this justifying faith in Christ’s Propitiation, with this stamp or seal of the Holy Spirit, in that His righteousness is imputed to him. This eternally settled matter answers to VERSE 18: “Now where remission of these is (the inherent eternal curse of death for Adam’s sin, and all my own sins to the point of rebirth), there is no more (need of) offering for sin.” VERSES 19-20 “Having therefore (on this basis), brethren, boldness (liberty) to enter (for the reminder of our entire lives here upon the earth) into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a (this) new and living way which he hath consecrated (newly made) for us, through the veil (where we may now proceed confidently but not without due reverence), that is to say, his flesh… (as the incarnate Son of God in that body prepared) And now additionally, that is to say, beyond redemption’s forgiveness, but on the same Propitiation basis, a very necessary provision of forgiveness for ongoing sins for a sincere earnest and repentant Believer determined to hold fast to the confession of his faith. While in the course of his life in this World, he battles in the quest of ATTAINING unto the promised heavenly inheritance for those who overcome being in view (Hebrews 3:1 with Revelation chapters 1-3) VERSE 21-22 … And (now to that end) having (Jesus) an high priest over the house of God (in Heaven); Let us draw near (in enlivened spirit to the throne of grace {Hebrews 4:16} and that conditionally) with a true heart (in spirit and renewed mind in loving obedience to His Word) in full assurance of faith (to be later taken up in chapter 11), having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience (inward conviction cleared by repentance) , and our bodies washed with pure water (an the ongoing outward sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit). (VERSE 23 with verse 35) Let us hold fast the profession (confession in hope for the future reward) of our faith (worthy of our great effort) without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised)…Cast not away therefore your confidence (living faith represented in action), which hath great recompense of reward”. He is faithful as the High Priest of.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/53inusdnzpekj02/AAAIkPynpciQ8w-rij07tpHWa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 04-04-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 10:1-13 THE RESULTS OF HIS SACRIFICE Verses: Luke 12:42-43; Psalm 40:6-8; Romans 12:1-2; John 13:10; Hebrews 11:13-15 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n1s6bx2ijvtoqef/AADj5DMorcDs765yovHECgzqa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/40f1xtexyv1gueh/AAC5uPIC7Tcr7HRfwb24Xdqma?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 VERSE 1 “FOR…” ties this verse back to the last verse of Hebrews Chapter 9… “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; (as the Sacrifice and High Priest) and unto them that look for him (not now as Redeemer, but as King of kings) shall he appear second time without sin (apart from sin, that is He will not be taking up that aspect again but will take up the aspect of perfect attainment and Judgment) unto salvation (in the Greek, the word salvation has three aspects; past, present, and future). Continuing in Hebrews 10:1, “For the law (Torah) having (but) a shadow (being unable to present the realities) of good things to come….good things to come is a reference back to that coming Salvation (future fullness of salvation). That is the fulfilling of the Gospel promises in the abilities of the King of kings unto those who are looking for His Return. That is to say, those faithfully doing His will (Luke 12:42-43) and answers to the fullness of having been previously redeemed. It is the being caught up to Him in the Clouds and the first resurrection experience, that … can never with those (inferior) sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.” (that is worthy of this heavenly calling, and the fullness of “unto salvation” expression) It is a grave mistake for a Christian to believe that the “good things to come” point to the Gospel that answer to present spiritual blessings here enjoyed and this World’s good things, as this greatly detracts from the Gospel New Testament truths. For we, as the Israelites before, are redeemed out of the kingdom of satan and are but yet in the wilderness. And the good things we receive after redemption here in the wilderness are but the essentials; such as bland manna and water from the rock, but these are not the “good things to come” when Christ Returns with salvation inheritance. For those things ceased when they came into possession of the Promised Land. (Deuteronomy 6:10-11) We, like the Israelites, are now sojourners in the land of the enemy. (See Hebrews 11:13-15) And that until Christ the King and Warrior comes back and casts satan down and out of the heavens in power, (Revelation 12:9) where war accompanies our salvation (our future fullness of salvation). We are not yet entered into that, our promised land, we are but sojourners, we are not yet to rule and reign. (1st Corinthians 4:8) On the contrary, our lives as Christians should be about service, suffering, and laying down our lives. It is to these Hebrews Paul exhorts to turn loose their tight grip on the things of this World (Hebrews 10:34-35), those earthly things even legitimately secured in the realities of the earthly Mosaic Covenant, and grasp the eternal realities, that it can only present in shadows, but seen clearly in the Gospel of “good things to come”. Many a Christian sadly has taken mistakenly the Old Testament that had undoubtedly promise and grant of earthly blessing, as now rightly theirs as Gospel participants in Christ. They argue that Christians, being the “Seed” of Abraham, are entitled to earthly and worldly things, mistakenly confusing themselves in the shadows with being inheritors of the earthly blessings, not realizing that the promises of the Law was limited to merely earthly blessing and possessions. Whereas it was and only can be a shadow of the Gospel good things to come, the future realities of an eternal inheritance for those faithfully in self-sacrificial service looking for fulfillment in Christ at His Return; that of ultimately attaining a place in holy Jerusalem descending into the new heavens and earth. (Revelation 21) The many SHADOWS in the Torah of the GOOD THINGS TO COME, such as our expectation of good things coming, is shadowed in Israel waiting for Moses to return from his ascending up the Mount. And in the additional shadowing from the return of the High Priest from coming out again from behind the veil that covered the Holiest Place. Christ the Sacrifice came to take away the “veil” of the shadow’s obscurity, by the means of His Body being rent. These are the realities of good things to come for those who have the veil removed from their eyes. Christ currently is High Priest and our Mediator within the Holiest Place, Who shall in the reality appear again in the fullness of His salvation Atonement to recompense and reward His followers. Let us not make... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n1s6bx2ijvtoqef/AADj5DMorcDs765yovHECgzqa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 03-28-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 9:16-28 Verses: Romans 1:16, 9:4; Exodus 24, 32:30, 34:1-10; Genesis 3-4; John 10:17-18 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aemcb70gohkm8co/AACUAv9wTsvF6EvtBKpbBDp6a?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rauf9f28jfdsw8d/AABbFu4J4cu4wCSmwf_vtAnLa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 CERTAIN PRINCIPLES THAT ARE BEING ESTABLISHED IN THE 9th CHAPTER OF HEBREWS: 1) “Covenant” is far different from “Testament”…effectively as far apart as Law is from Mercy and Grace. 2) THE HIGH PRIEST OFFICE LOOKS TO THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN and Redemption. WHEREAS THE MEDIATOR OFFICE LOOKS ON TO THE REST AND INHERITANCE. 3) WHAT IS THE NECESSITY OF THE SACRIFICE? IT IS NOT THAT CONTRARY MAY EXIST, BUT RATHER FOR GOD’S PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE. (Not sure what you meant by ‘it is not that contrary may exist?’) 4) The “eternal inheritance” is God’s gift to believers, through theTestament/Will of our Lord Jesus Christ. 5) It must be understood that the ‘Gospel Covenant’ is apart from the New Covenant with Israel. The New Covenant being in abeyance (temporary cessation or suspension) now since the Jews rejected it at Christ’s First Coming. (See Hebrews 8:8… “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…”) And now the call to Jew and Gentile is the “Gospel of the New Man” until the 2nd Coming of Christ, when the “New Covenant” with Israel will then be established. HEBREWS 9 VERSE 15 has just brought the idea of a new inheritance into view through Jesus Christ’s Blood. Whose inheritance? Israel’s in the first place; for it was them only who were under the first testament…. “And For this cause looks backwards to the first testament and Covenant, an earthly promised inheritance after Israel was called and redeemed out of Egypt. And so Jesus Christ, in contrast to Moses, is the Mediator of this new testament. The argument being set forth is that if the blood of animals in that First Testament had sanctifying and purifying power, (and that for atonement of sins and drawing nigh unto God in the flesh, in the realizing of the earthly inheritance) how much more then the Blood of the 2nd Testament, and Covenant of Christ should effect a new and greater inheritance; an eternal inheritance in the calling out of the new man in Christ. (Ephesians 2) This eternal inheritance was first then, as it should be, offered to the Jew and then to the Gentile. (See Romans 1:16… “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Here, “salvation” refers to the FULLNESS of salvation - an inheritance of eternal glory and not only eternal life.) Also see Romans 9:4) (Note in verse 15 that Paul interchanged the word “death” for blood. Being that the death of the testator being required is more readily understood.) VERSES 16-17 “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.” A Testament may be one person or a party, but a Covenant takes more than one person. A Covenant does not require blood; but a Testament must have the death of the testator and the proof of it. That is in other words, their blood, in order that the Will may be adjudicated. VERSES 18-21 “Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.” THE FIRST TESTAMENT is a reference to that ratifying with blood of Exodus 24:6-7, where the first testament was established upon the death/blood of bulls and of goats, thereby held forth as the “testator”. The Just idea being “… without shedding of blood is no remission (cancellation of a debt).” [HEBREWS 9:22b] From whence came that idea? At the Creation of Man, the implied Covenant in the Garden between God and Adam is that all will be well unless Adam disobeys God’s Command of not eating from the Tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:17) And when Adam and Eve rebelliously broke the Covenant Law, they suffered the accompanying Curse pronounced in the Covenant. “In the sweat of your face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return.” [Genesis 3:19] Adam’s sin broke the Covenant and brought the curse of “death” from God on man, as proclaimed, in dual manifestation form. Spiritual death (in that day {24 hours}) Physical death (in that day {1000 years - see 2nd Peter 3:8}, as Adam lived to be almost 1000 ) It is the 21st verse of Genesis 3 where we comprehend that the blood of animals was introduced to Covenant with Adam and his seed in order to extend mercy and to“partially” redeem. “Unto Adam also and to his wife did... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aemcb70gohkm8co/AACUAv9wTsvF6EvtBKpbBDp6a?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 03-14-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS 9:11-15 Verses: Ephesians 2; Acts 15:14-24, 21:18-26; 1st Corinthians 15:41-58; Numbers 19 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jw077v4531rxpcs/AADFoIYz_jQqPgfW0x6rSivFa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u9d403ucgk0rov5/AAAzfMAJOc2qb0N-Dme0tSeia?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 VERSES 11 & 12 “But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” The eleventh and twelfth verses lay the ground work of the subjects and the 13th through the end of the chapter the 28th verse, expand on them. 1) Jesus had become the High Priest, Christ; the Anointed One, not by the pouring over His head of the holy oil of the Mosaic Tabernacle, but by being submerged in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and that without measure. (Leviticus 8:12, John 3:34) 2) A High Priest of good things to come in contrast to high priest of those blessings in the present time and of an earthly type; those good things of Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26. This High Priest ministers on behalf of those who are to receive the fullness of Salvation through faith in Him, in the heavenly realm in the future Millennial Kingdom and beyond. 3) Jesus passed through the heavens (typed by the holy place) into Heaven (the holiest place) into the far superior Tabernacle, into the Holy presence of the Father. This is typed by the high priest who once a year passed through the holy place to the holiest place in the earthly Tabernacle. (Leviticus 16:17) 4) And in that it was the law to enter in to that Holy Presence alone, and only by the means of blood, so He entered alone, and remains alone while in the Holiest place, not with the blood of animals, but by the means and merit of His own far superior Blood. 5) And He has went in ONCE (as opposed to many times of the high priest of the earthly tabernacle) and for ALL (not just for the Jews, but for all mankind). In the superiority of His own Blood, He is the acceptable Sacrifice, and in His presentation of that Blood, He is the High Priest. In this entrance and means over 2000 years ago into the Heavenly Holy of Holies, He obtained eternal redemption for our souls. (Leviticus 17:11) VERSES 13 & 14 “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, (a reference to Leviticus 16) and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, (a reference to the Red Heifer of Numbers 19) sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through (no article the) eternal (no article the) spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? So the effects of the two different offerings, are compared. The argument hinges, for us, on the assumption of the validity of certain power granted in the offering of blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer had a real effective power to cleanse or purify the flesh/the “outer” man (that is to say the sensual body and carnal soul) that he might be thereby made fit then to draw nearer God. That is to say, nearer to His Presence which was then on the Earth. This given, then how much more does the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanse the Inward Man (the subservient soul with renewed mind) made so through the conscience/spirit? The one blood has to do with cleansing and purifying the flesh unto more dead works of service under the Law… as the carnal soul remains unaffected. While the other Blood affords the power to reach beyond the outer man to the purging and empowering of the inward man through the conscience within the spirit unto true service in living works unto a living God. The desired result of God, in the first and in the 2nd case, is nearness, closeness, intimacy unto unity, sonship. To go from people of God to sons of God. In the comparison, both applications must bring eternal life with rebirth of spirit, but what is being declared by Paul is that the blood of animals could not bring the Power of the Holy Spirit to bear upon the soul through yielded conscience. THE MILLENNIAL EFFECT of the blood sacrifices…. Scripture reveals the blood sacrifices shall be restored in the Millennial Kingdom upon the earth. WHAT…? Has not the Blood of Jesus Christ done away with any necessity of the shedding of the blood of animals? NO. Scripture not only reveals the reinstitution of animal sacrifices but much of the historical Mosaic ritual in the New Covenant with Israel. Some light on the Millennial subject can be seen in the continuation of the animal sacrifices and Temple ritual for some 40 years after Christ’s Ascension into... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jw077v4531rxpcs/AADFoIYz_jQqPgfW0x6rSivFa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 03-07-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS 9:1-10 Verses: Jeremiah 31; Revelation 1:12-13,20, 5:6, 14:4, 21:14; Ephesians 5:2; Hebrews 10:20; 1st John 2:2 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xho79tcrycwprnr/AAC5w08auAHy-5_VfFn4UX0ka?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pse6517fiouxyzu/AACrKKuGT6mTs0xwYcMgyikna?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Keep in mind the differences we have spoke about in lessons past. One being that the instructive words of the Book of Hebrews defines for us the differences between Jesus Christ’s Great Atonement as the “Gospel” or Good news for Christian believers, while also holding out the realities of His all-inclusive Redemption/reformation/correction as they apply to the annulling of the Old Covenant. BUT we also spoke about the future establishing of that “New Covenant” with the house of Israel, with its promises to be fulfilled only “..after those days…” (of Jacob’s trouble/ the great tribulation. See Jeremiah 31 with Hebrews 8:7-12). That is to say after their repentance, (when Israel is restored) then restoration’s promises are extended in the Millennium and beyond. Paul has been shedding intense light on the mysteries of the Gospel’s higher calling unto the heavenlies (Hebrews 3:1), and that by revealing the Scriptural mysteries of Jesus Christ in Heaven’s Tabernacle as the High Priest in Ministry there at the right hand of God. Those truths being shadowed, specifically in Abraham’s ancient Covenant and His blessing by that royal priest Melchizedek. Now in the 9th Chapter VERSE 1, Paul continues to discover unto those Hebrew Christians the typical meanings of those two veiled tabernacles (compartments); the holy place and the holiest place, and their furnishings ordained in the service of God as it relates to this earth. To what Paul refers to as a Worldly sanctuary, as they were made of this earthly material, made by the hands of man, and located in this realm, being temporarily suitable to this worldly earthly system. But they are just copies of that which is needed in the spiritual realm, and are therefore worthless in the augmenting of the spiritual system and therefore are no longer acceptable to God and thus were shortly to vanish away. (Those earthly gifts and offerings before God had ceased with Christ’s Atonement, essentially having been annulled as they had no benefit in them any longer.) VERSE 2 Paul briefly reviews the Tabernacle of Moses and its furnishings (as these with their practical application would be well known to the Hebrew Christians, but to most modern day Christians, little is understood of them from either the earthly or the spiritual application) before revealing their deeper spiritual and prophetic meanings, in that it had two tabernacles (besides the enclosed surrounding court yard). That is to say, two veiled compartments, wherein “…the first (veiled compartment) was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the holy sanctuary (place).” First, there is the more basic understanding that these two pieces of furniture both typify Jesus Christ, in that He is the illuminating Light of the World Who is to bring us out from the darkness of the World (John 8:12) and in the case of the Table of shewbread, He also is the Bread of life (John 6) in that He is also the heavenly sustenance to strengthen the heart in service to God. But going beyond that understanding, we can see that this first tabernacle, the holy place, may also be seen as the typing of two bodies of people set before the Lord; Peoples with two different destinies. The Lampstand/Menorah with its 7 branches are representative of the 7 Churches of Gospel participants in the heavenly calling; Christ the High Priest having trimmed and kindled them by the Holy Spirit (Exodus 30:7) is seen as He is in the midst of the 7 Lampstands, the 7 Churches of Revelation 1:12,13,20 with Revelation 1:4 and 5:6 and “… the 7 spirits (Specific ministering Angels under the authority of Jesus Christ) which are before his throne…” With “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth” (to minister to His Churches of the heavenly calling according to His will). Who, in Moses’ typing were yet nonexistent in that The Holy Ghost this signifying, the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was keeping its standing” VERSE 8. Now that which is represented in the holy place is a future people, those who will come into and walk in the Light of the Son of God with.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xho79tcrycwprnr/AAC5w08auAHy-5_VfFn4UX0ka?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 02-29-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 8 Verses: Hebrews 9:23; Isaiah 44:22; Zechariah 12; 1st Peter 2:4-5; Ephesians 2:20-22 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7rr9hgi3jcukddf/AADpgrYL-jSvl4pS2BTY5iP6a?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ydsklcu1twybvug/AAAAM4Hbdsl77yMkEwvY9kCfa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 THE HEAVENLY TABERNACLE There can be no understanding of the heavenly tabernacle without the understanding of the earthly tabernacle (this Epistle in particular should inspire all to study the Old Covenant). The earthly copy; which is highlighted by the Holy Spirit in chapters 7 - 11, (it being the pattern presented) for the purpose of drawing and attracting our attention to the original in Heaven. The 16th chapter of Leviticus and the Day of Atonement with its blood offering presented in the Holiest Place is brought into view in the opening verses of chapter 8. The realities reflected in the ancient rituals are brought to the forefront in Paul’s revealing argument of the heavenly tabernacle. Where he now begins to pull back the curtain of revelation as to the deeper meanings of the Mosaic priesthood and the tabernacle’s tri-part construction. That is in the shadowing of the High-Priesthood of Jesus Christ in Heaven’s tabernacle, Who and where having once and for all put away sin’s curse inherent to all mankind, being Adam’s seed, by the one time atonement cleansing application of His Own Blood upon the heavenly things (9:23) that now He may mediate and intercede in the power of that Atonement. The essential principle to a Christian that is being presented here is to know Jesus Christ, where He is now, at the right hand of the throne of His Majesty and in what great capacity, and that in the greater depth of our understanding, that we might open our hearts unto Him. That is to say as an example, a man does not “trust” another man naturally, but over time in close relationship he learns that he may trust that man. That is, he relaxes his fears and defenses and opens his heart to him; trusts him. So it is, in simple terms, Christ ever liveth, tirelessly, passionately giving Himself freely to maintain communion relationship with you. On the one hand, wooing you and on the other hand, defending you, that you may finally truly know Him. That is to say; open your heart fully to Him. This is the trust/faith that allows Him to finish the defining work on your sin nature, that He began in you with the atonement gift of the divine nature. Hebrews 8:1-2 opens with the introducing of the heavenly character or nature of the Priesthood as contrasted with the type, the more familiar earthly priesthood of Moses. “We (Christians now) have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty….” (Some who scoff at the reality of a literal throne in heaven with a literal right and left side, have forgotten that Jesus is resurrected in a body, albeit spiritual, yet tangibly real and visible in time and space, and is returning in like manner as He ascended (Acts 1:9) in the Son of Man’s body. (Matthew 26:64) Who now in the heavens; (a) minister (He being now wholly engaged, in this the Age of grace and mercy, with the putting away of the sin nature in those who would inherit glory in His coming kingdom) of the sanctuary (the Holiest place; that which is represented in Moses’ most inner place of the tabernacle as the Holy of Holies) of the true (the original as opposed to Moses’ tabernacle copy) which the Lord pitched (*pitched with a view of it being portable) and not man (Moses in particular who pitched the movable tent in the wilderness). That Heavenly Tabernacle was created by God and was necessary for Created beings that they might congregate together, in time and space with their Creator. (*It is not hard to see that this original Tabernacle, like its copy, was made portable by God, as seen in Ezekiel 1:4-28 & chapter 10 where when we compare to what John saw in Revelation chapters 4 & 5, he being caught up into the heavens associated with this World to see the prophetic happenings there in the end times, it then becomes evident that this place, its throne and its players are the same in these passages and are within the moveable Tabernacle wherein judgments are determined and pronounced, and it is what Job 1:6 may also reflect.This heavenly Temple Tabernacle, then moved within the first heaven, is replaced 1000 years later. “Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power…Death is swallowed up in Victory (1st Corinthians 15:24, 54-55 with Revelation 20:9,10,14) As this Tabernacle journeyings are over, God’s Salvation plan, the restoration of all things.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7rr9hgi3jcukddf/AADpgrYL-jSvl4pS2BTY5iP6a?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 02-22-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 7:20-28 Verses: John 17:5,24; Philippians 2:6; Luke 13:10-16; Ezekiel 28; John 5 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kpqei0hngbnazeh/AADA00Q7fN0zVawSt5GN9GCaa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6zwjpz4e5bk4rwd/AACqHZIa_xmwuVsHQeqyUPLha?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Melchizedek, the ancient king of Salem, having been mentioned in passing to the sluggish Hebrew Christians, now in this chapter is taken up by Paul in earnest, in hope of their minds and hearts being more prepared for deeper instruction. Paul’s argument here centers on Jesus Christ/Son of Man, who was not of the tribe of Levi, and therefore was never intended to be a high priest after the order of Aaron, but was always intended to be re-appointed after the order of the Eternal Son of God. As was Melchizedek in type, in that it is recorded in verse 3 that Melchizedek was “…made like unto the (Eternal) Son of God’. (John 17:5,24) Christ, having been before incarnation the Royal (King) Priest of Heaven, is after which Melchizedek’s, more ancient and royal order than Aaron’s, was patterned. Genesis 14:18 also declares Melchizedek as priest of the Most High God, not High Priest, as the pre-incarnate Son of God then occupied that place/position in Heaven. From this it can be seen that Melchizedek is a type for the royal priesthood in the millennium who are priests under the HIGH Priest, Christ. It should also be understood that God had always intended to re-appoint the victorious Son of Man back to Royal High Priest, and that it would then be forever. This is that which was obscured in Scripture from man and fallen spirits, that which had the “princes of this world knew…they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” And therefore this exalting to the Right Hand of the Father was accomplished in His unwarranted violent murderous death in the Wisdom of God (1st Corinthians 2:8) and was instituted in His Resurrection out from among the dead. (Hebrews 7:23-24; Acts 2:22-36) This is that Wisdom of suffering in loving service which the heavenly calling of ‘saved’ men is patterned after. (Hebrews 3:1 with 1st Peter 2:9, Revelation 1:6) Yes, we are required to suffer in order to inherit. But thankfully, we have the opportunity to daily approach the Throne of our High Priest to dispense to us mercy and grace in our time of need. Thus the Scriptural facts of Melchizedek should introduce to our hearts the wonder of God’s Salvation Plan to “…go on unto perfection” /complete fullness predetermined in Jesus the Son of Man. In that there was/is from ancient times a far superior spiritual economy with its greater royal priesthood, unto which redeemed Israel was called and failed (Exodus 19:5-6) and that which resulted was the Mosaic priesthood and ritual. Which was only a temporary stop-gap spiritual economy until the Son of God and Son of Man was to manifest, after which now Heaven has again its Royal High Priest now established. “For we have not an high priest (on earth) which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but (a High Priest at the right hand of the Father in Heaven who) was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” … “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them (unto the inheritance of royal priesthood in the heavenly calling) that are tempted” (in the giving up for reason of suffering). And this He does by the means of granting mercy and grace/the power of the Holy Spirit unto our divine nature/reborn spirit/inward man to those who sincerely seek and persist in obediently following Him in the overcoming of the flesh, the world, and satan. (Hebrews 4:16 with Revelation 12:11) Unto this great typical priesthood Abram gave homage. (Hebrews 7:4) The chief part of this argument in chapter 7 being; Jesus is not a high priest but the only High Priest, (and as the Levitical priesthood has been dis-annulled, the only priest at this time, on which we will have more to say later). As there is no other, nor will there ever be. And hinges on this Scriptural fact and understanding; that he who would draw near to God, unto the perfection He desires and requires (korban), must do so through this Royal High Priest or he cannot do so at all. (Korban being sacrifice unto the Lord. A sweet savor unto the Lord is us laying down our flesh upon the altar as a spiritual sacrifice unto Him.) “For the law made nothing * perfect, but the bringing in of a ** better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.” (Hebrews 7:19) (*As the Mosaic economy of Law with the Levitical priesthood was inevitably to prove temporary because it could not bring God’s desired goal; that of bringing a worshiping soul into a perfect state (verses 11,190)............. DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kpqei0hngbnazeh/AADA00Q7fN0zVawSt5GN9GCaa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 02-08-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 7:1-19 Verses: Genesis 14-15; Psalm 2, 110; Galatians 3:3,17, 5:4-14; Revelation 19:15-21 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/olag7cvbb9uvloi/AAAcQwab1eATN5X4dxzw1RmOa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gtn5c384e81f4v2/AAC-L0SgkmkbNkt-rFdyntxRa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 The first verses of Chapter 7 takes us to the events recorded by Moses in Genesis regarding Melchizedek, who Paul has twice mentioned in his argument in chapters past and then paused, and now takes him up in earnest to show us God’s meaning in the history recorded. Paul is looking forward and backward from Psalm 110, where previously Paul established the legitimacy of the Son being appointed High Priest at the right hand of God, and that being after the order of Melchizedek. He now brings our attention to Genesis 14:17-20… “And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of -- Chedorlaomer, and -- of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.” The differences between Melchizedek and the Law of Moses are to be derived from these verses in the Old Covenant. Paul now sets forth the strong assertion based upon Scripture, of how great a man Melchizedek; King and priest of Salem (Jerusalem) was, “Without father, without mother, without, descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.” [Hebrews 7:3] It is as much as what is not said in Scripture as what is said, when properly interpreted, as Paul shows that all understanding of Christ’s comparison to Melchizedek is understood from the Holy Spirit’s perfect limited portrayal of Melchizedek’s biography. He is so spoken of that he might be a perfect example of Jesus Christ, of whom the entirety of the Old Covenant was a reflection. So Melchizedek, having mother and father, and having lived and died, but on the pages of Scripture he in all points reflects the Son of God eternal. How great was he? So great an anointed man, that Abraham was blessed by him, “And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.” Even to him, Abraham tithed a tenth part of all the spoils from the battle of the Kings. Additionally, Levi being in the loins of Abraham, then effectively paid tithes also to him. The point being, in Chapter 7 of Hebrews, that Paul is establishing the superiority of Melchizedek’s person and priesthood over Abraham, and by extension to Levi and his sons, the heirs of Abraham and the appointed priests of the Mosaic Covenant. And further, Paul on the legitimacy of the 110th Psalm written by David, long after the establishment of the Law of Moses, which is reliant upon the Priesthood perpetuated after the order of Aaron, interprets the prophecy as being fulfilled by the appointment of Jesus Christ as King & High Priest of the Most High after the order of Melchizedek. Paul concludes as Old Covenant Scripture attests, to the superiority of Christ over the Levitical priesthood and the redundancy then of the Mosaic Law. (The entire sequence of events in Genesis 14 & 15 speak to an event in the future that is foreshadowed as well in Psalm 2, a confirming sister Scripture. When the Kings of the earth set themselves against the Lord and his anointed High Priest and victorious King; this greater than Melchizedek returns and shall break those 10 confederated kings along with all those of the earth gathered against Him with a rod of iron…and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel (Revelation 19:15-21). He shall also bless, after the intercession and mediation is done, when the “today” of grace is over, after the invitation to enter into His Redemption Rest with its cleansing has past. The time of recompense will have arrived, His courageous, humble servants will be blessed with Millennial glory for their complete trusting in Him, and the refreshing wine and bread will be served by the Master at the victor’s table. Again, note the type in the Old Covenant of the bread and wine being brought in after the slaughter of kings, for it relates to the antitype of how Christ (the King/Priest to whom Melchizedek points) blesses his faithful servants after the slaughter of the kings gathered against Him. Also note: There is no mention of rescued Lot among the blessed. He seems to be regarded as property of Sodom, which speaks loudly that it shall take more than mere justifying faith..... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/olag7cvbb9uvloi/AAAcQwab1eATN5X4dxzw1RmOa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 02-01-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 6:9-20 Verses: 2nd Peter 1:4-21; Genesis 22:15-18; James 1:8,22-25, 2:20, 4:1-10 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wa6bvbm21qtfp7z/AAD4ZuzpeETKi56g6We9kB5Qa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rlffe2xz6l7qb69/AAD-qXV1NXjN9BOpVWaM5bUaa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Now in Paul-like fashion, the strong rebuke with warning turns into tenderness and encouragement. “But, beloved, we are persuaded better things (better alternatives) of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” [Hebrews 6:9-10] It is easy to see that Paul saw these Hebrews as fellow regenerated Believers, in that their works of sincere love for the brethren were evidence of this, and his calling them the “beloved” shows them his warnings are out of love, not hate. The peril is real, but these are not religious hypocritical self-deceived people. They were once loving enthusiastic Believers, who had become slothful, in that they had lost confidence, and in being persecuted, they had become discouraged. The encouraging Words of the Father, of being mindful of reward for their efforts, are strong reminders of staying the course. That after the initial work of Christ for eternal life has been received, He is now the perfecter of their ongoing faith and works, and most assuredly is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. “…that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together…” [John 4:36] Hebrews 6:11 “And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” The statement is that God is not unrighteous that He has forgotten their labors of love….is this not their “first love” ? But patient faithfulness has great recompense of reward, in that faithfulness requires that love be not abandoned, but continue, and grow until the end of our lives. “And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love….” [1st Thessalonians 3:12] Love is a commandment of Christ, not just an emotional prompting we are waiting for, but an act of our will. It’s to be habitual. We have not signed a contract, but have entered into Covenant with promises. What has been set forth by Paul here in the Book of Hebrews is that the eternal Son of God was prophesied in the Old Covenant to be the Savior of Israel and the Gentiles, being the seed of Abraham, to be born of a virgin woman, and become the incarnate Son of God and Son of Man. Whose meritorious life and death brought defeat to satan who had obtained authority over man through the curse of death. Having brought this glory unto the Father, He was the first resurrected from among the dead in newness of life. Becoming the author of a New Creature, He Himself then becoming a life- giving spirit, and gloriously appointed to High Priesthood, and to sit at the right hand of the Father until the time appointed when He should return and receive His Kingdom. By which He had set forth the sure promises of inheritances to His servants, apostles, disciples, and followers who faithfully serve Him as His witnesses and ambassadors in the earth in His stead to Man-kind. Now to this, Paul took so much care to encourage that not one of these Hebrew laggards be found to fall short of at the Judgment Seat of Christ, specific to His own. Paul was revealing to them the great loss that they were about to incur. That being loss of inheritance into His heavenly kingdom because of lagging behind in slothfulness. He was encouraging them to be diligent “…to the full assurance of (their) hope unto the end…” That is to say, the end of their hope being the reward of the first resurrection in glory. And that in following the examples of those who, in faith and patience grew in the knowledge of God unto good works, had secured the promises or were in the process of inheriting those heavenly kingdom promises. (2nd Peter 1:4-21) In the continuing in that hope, it is essential to be renewing the mind to His Words, and the strengthening in the will of soul in ongoing loving service is also essential. That is exactly what is being reflected in Paul’s walk in Philippians 3:10-14. So it should be noted that “hope” is the point on which they were being exhorted forward, not their faith. Their “hope” is based upon the faith which they had already expressed and acquired in Jesus Christ’s Blood Atonement work, having been confirmed in the gift of regeneration (John 5:24). And therefore.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wa6bvbm21qtfp7z/AAD4ZuzpeETKi56g6We9kB5Qa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 01-25-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 6:1-6 Verses: Numbers 13-14; Psalm 95; John 5:17; 1st Peter 21-10; 1st Corinthians 3:15 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2kgwwiogczndvig/AACfe0aKm4NzJtB3C4a0g3F5a?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rn5y3wn7qkqpt6g/AADSKAE-S5t718TvL280OfULa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 We have up to this point declared and established the hidden meanings of the Old Covenant Words of Moses, in that all point to Jesus the Christ the Son of God / Son of Man as the perfect offering for all fallen mankind unto the Father. That God now speaks instructively to His New Covenant people through Christ’s words is seen in Hebrews 1:1-2…“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son…” And thus comes the first warning of the Book of Hebrews to reluctant Believers: “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, (a reference to the Old Covenant demand for observance) and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; How shall we escape (us escaping New Covenant judgment being even less likely), if we neglect so (much more) great salvation: (beyond an earthly to a heavenly) which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him…” [Hebrews 2:1-3] After the first warning, Paul continues his argument of the superiority of Jesus. He discusses how He had willingly taken on the nature of man, as the seed of Abraham, and suffered being tempted and tested in all points as man, even unto death. By His obedience unto suffering, even unto the place of death, He destroyed the devil and his authority over death, being the First Resurrected Begotten Son from among the dead, and was exalted to the right hand of the Father. He is greater than Angels and more worthy than Moses, as He was superior as a Deliverer and Messenger; having a greater Salvation calling Message for sons unto God’s glory, and now being appointed that great task as mediating High Priest; in that of bringing those many sons who will unto that heavenly kingdom glory of His House. “Whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.” [Hebrews 3:6] (Compare this with 1st Peter 2:1-10) Which leads to the 2nd warning in the Book of Hebrews to Believers starting in verse 3:7 (to 4:13) where Paul quotes an applicable passage from the 95th Psalm… “TO DAY if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved…So I SWARE in my wrath, they shall not enter into my REST” (see Numbers 13&14). Paul then further declares to the New Covenant Believers… “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.” [Hebrews 3:12]Three great things of note so far in Paul’s argument: 1) The Holy Spirit’s application of “To day”…Paul now also holds out as yet attainable, as did David to his generation, now over a thousand years later, the opportunity still exists to enter into God’s future “Rest”. This showing that the “Rest” into which the Israelites delivered from Egypt were to enter, the Promised Land, is but a type for the current calling unto God’s delivered by Jesus Christ from the kingdom of darkness, that they, like the ancient Israelites, don’t fall under judgment for stubborn unbelief and be refused entry into His Millennial Redemption Rest. “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” (Hebrews 4:1) …2) God “sware”… to those who were then in unbelief, that they would not enter into His typical “rest”, in that His Oath removes all question as to any possibility of their entering into that promised land “rest”. It was certainly put aside, as we saw. 3) The “rest” of that day was lost by the Israelites finally, by the provoking of God 10 times in unbelief in the wilderness. And by way of example, the Holy Spirit uses them as a picture of how followers of Christ may also finally lose their inheritance, that of being a partaker in the future heavenly kingdom. That inheritance being the 1000 year Redemption Rest of God; that greatest “rest” than set forth in the Israelites’ Promised Land type, and greater than that of Creation’s Rest after 6 days of creative work, after which on the 7th Day He rested. “To Day” is representative of........ DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2kgwwiogczndvig/AACfe0aKm4NzJtB3C4a0g3F5a?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 01-18-2020. THE THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTERS 4:14 - 6:8 Verses: John 19:30; Hebrews 6:4-8, 20; Numbers 14:11-12,20-23,25,30,35, Psalm 22 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iao26divq683xuk/AAD_Gb9X8sW1tCuWHgiiF3XQa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c8uckavime4yrzd/AADSux9A3zdyAP3WSpdtVNcta?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 HEBREWS 4:14-5:8 The last 3 verses of Hebrews 4 turns from having established that Jesus the Great Redeemer has entered into God’s presence and into His present work, having gone before us as forerunner (see Hebrews 6:20. He is forerunner of the Heavenly Calling to His Body of believers.) He had “finished” His work of being the Great Apostle (sent one) to this World. (John 19:30) Jesus being our Great Deliverer from the world was typed by Moses being the lesser Deliverer (sent one) to deliver the people from Egypt. And now Paul continues on and exhorts us through the 6th chapter and 3rd verse to labor that we might also enter into God’s future heavenly calling. That is to say, the Promised Land of His Redemption “Rest”. And so Paul leads us to the great subject of the necessity of His Priesthood… “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens… (That is to say that He passed through the heavens unto the realm of the 3rd Heaven where He is currently seated at the right hand of the Father. Using the typology of the Temple, the outer court is typed in the 1st heavens associated with this world, and the Holy Place is typed as the 2nd heavens and the Holiest Place or Holy of Holies is typed as the realm of the 3rd Heaven wherein the Father resides with Christ at His side as High Priest. As our intermediary, He intercedes for us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. …Jesus… (the Son of Man and) the Son of God, Let us hold fast our profession (confession). For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” (It is not enough that He, as our LEADER, has brought us out of the kingdom of darkness. For we are not yet clear of satan in this “wilderness”. We are yet subject to his fiery attacks, for he once was our master. And he is more powerful than we, seeing also that he has a dry kindling ally in our camp; which is our own fallen nature.) “…seeing then that…” (great need of sympathetic understanding and a representative before our God to address the accusations of our great adversary) “….we have a great high priest…” (greater than Aaron’s temporal earthly priesthood. As what is Aaron’s priesthood in comparison to that of the Son of God’s Priesthood, Whose priesthood covers all the heavenly places to intervene for us? For this great eternal Priesthood He was appointed, in that although He was tempted in all points as we, yet He was without sin. We are His, and He is ours. In that He became the acceptable unblemished offering for sin, unto Priesthood. (He then set aside the Old Covenant, as is seen symbolically in the high priest rending his clothes (Matthew 26:65), and upon His offering Himself on the Cross; the two earthquakes, the rending of the Temple veil from top to bottom, and out of the grave came those to witness of Him. See Matthew 27:50-55 and 28:2.) Paul carries our thought from 4:14 through 5:11 from the deliverance from the kingdom of darkness and begins to lay out the deeper things of God’s Word. One deeper thing being that attentive faith should progressively then carry the believer into spiritual maturity, such as the understanding that “…every high priest taken from among men is ordained (appointed) for men in things pertaining to God, that he might offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way… And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he has said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee….Who in the days of his flesh (while alive on the earth) when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered… This being no correction, as in an ordinary son, whose tendencies are unto disobedience, but to the Son of God, Creator and Sustainer of all things…never having to bow to a superior’s command. He never had a will other than that of perfect harmony with the Father’s. Now as the Son of Man, He was willingly put in circumstances... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iao26divq683xuk/AAD_Gb9X8sW1tCuWHgiiF3XQa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 01-11-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 3:1 - 4:12 Verses: Hebrews 3; Psalm 95; Acts 13:18; 1st Corinthians 3:16-17, 6:3; 2nd Corinthians 5:1-2, 11:3; Matthew 22:8-9 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aghqi970mv1hz7f/AACzFPvmZ17wZgnLP3FQjxgOa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k5qf0g8suk86um9/AABwRdMadSf_QXOke9c8c8ZYa?dl=0 Board Illustration: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aghqi970mv1hz7f/AACzFPvmZ17wZgnLP3FQjxgOa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Paul continues the argument to the wavering Christian in Hebrews 3:1-4:12, which was written to the Hebrew Messianic of his day. He takes up the subject of the New Covenant heavenly Kingdom calling and contrasts God’s two Mediators, their 2 “houses” and God’s 2 different “rests”. These are truths rooted in revelation from the Law or Torah (instruction, doctrine) in the word of God. Let us begin by reading the first 6 verses of chapter 3, with comments then to follow. “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. [Hebrews 3:1-6] “WHEREFORE, holy brethren… (Having been regenerated by God, now the sanctifying work of holiness (wholeness) by Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit equips us that we may be fit. See 1st Corinthians 3:16-17, Hebrews 6:4, Ephesians 1:13-14) …partakers of the heavenly calling… (Those who have accepted this call by faith and baptism in Jesus Christ, in the greater brotherhood and redemption; as contrasted with Israel’s earthly kingdom calling.) …consider… (by contrast or comparing) …the Apostle… (Paul is comparing Christ with Moses, their sent one, to deliver them out of Egypt and bring them into that Promised Land.) …and High Priest… (He’s comparing with Aaron; their high priest) …of our profession… (with that confession) …Christ Jesus; Who was… (“was” is added by translators, but it should be: IS, in that His work is not yet complete 2:17, for He is yet to lead sons unto glory) …faithful to him (God) that (has) appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his (God’s) house… (house here meaning: Israel, tabernacle, priesthood…Read Numbers 12:1-7.) …For this (Son of) man (Jesus) was counted… (judged and rewarded according to His person and work presented in the previous 2 chapters) …worthy of more glory than Moses… (in that Moses’ glory faded. See 2nd Corinthians 3:7-11) …inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his (God’s) house… (as seen in a comparison of Moses with Miriam and Aaron in Numbers 12:2-7) …as a servant, for a testimony… (All things God’s servant Moses said then may be completely accepted; such as His testimony of a prophet greater than himself to come.) …of those things which were to be spoken after… (This is a reference to what all of Paul’s arguments will continue to firmly rest upon; the things Moses gives testimony to which will be revealed later as only shadows of things to come. Some being the types of Melchizedek, Israel, the Tabernacle and its services, its priesthood, etc.) …But Christ as son… (set in glory as appointed Resurrections’ High Priest) …over… (as opposed to Moses in God’s house as a servant) …his… (God the Father’s) …own house… (Him being sole heir; The faithful Son) …whose (God’s) house… (now greater, being the greater spiritual reality of that shadowed in Israel, the tabernacle and the priesthood. Read 1st Peter 2:4-10) …are we… (to be as holy adopted sons unto glory, appointed to be Christ’s brethren) …if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope… (of his [heavenly] calling. Read Ephesians 1) …firm unto the end… (As Israel’s hope in the wilderness was being tested, and as the Hebrew Christians’ hope was being tested by persecution and long delay…likewise, surely our hope of the fullness of Redemption is being tested). One of the main objects of the Book was to encourage regenerated followers of Jesus in continued faithfulness in their hope and testimony of the Return of Christ, in the attaining of the promise of partaking in His heavenly kingdom. Christ is here and in..... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aghqi970mv1hz7f/AACzFPvmZ17wZgnLP3FQjxgOa?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 01-04-2020. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 2 (PART 2) [Bringing Many Sons Unto Glory] Verses: Hebrews 2; Psalm 8; 1st Corinthians 6:3; Romans 8:12-18; John 1:12-13 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rsbrr7rtuuwcw53/AABBcvktkKmWEFGIom2WJ8R3a?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ek9gddg2ptp2twa/AACgbTtSFVZzGwWmOA3jhW9da?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 JESUS IS NOT ONLY OUR SAVIOR, BUT HE IS TO BE OUR LORD…. CHAPTER 2 VERSES 5-18… We are carrying on with the thought and warning of there being no escape (Hebrews 2:1-3) from loss and punishment for the believing Christ follower who then carelessly does not heed the commands of Christ and thereby “drifts” past this “great” salvation. The greater salvation being a reference to privilege and responsibility from that wrought through Moses; where Angels spoke in authoritative representation unto Moses. (Read Hebrews 2:2, Acts 7:35-38, Exodus 3:2, Deuteronomy 33:2, Psalm 68:17) Which should be comparatively seen, as Paul’s argument goes, in accordance with its inherent inferiority. For this greater salvation is superior in Deliverance, Message and Messenger. It being directly intermediated by The Lord Himself and His Apostles “…spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.…” (Hebrews 1:2, 2:3) Hebrews 2:4 “….God also (referring back to Moses) bearing them (Christ & His Apostles) witness, both with signs and wonders, and different miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit.…” God validated the word given to Moses through Angels with marvelous signs and wonders accompanying that salvation (Acts 7:36). Paul continues to add to his overall argument of the superiority of this great salvation, by bringing to the Hebrew Christians’ attention that here too, as in the past, God did likewise validate it. Nothing is lacking in confirmation of this New Covenant greater salvation. And because of the greater Messenger and Message, there is therefore the much greater consequence of shunning the Word now being spoken. Scriptures attest to the involvement of Angels in man’s salvation plan throughout all Dispensations, starting with the failure of Man to take his appointed dominion (Genesis 1:28, 3:24). The points Paul now makes are: 1) that Angels, although superior and with authority now, will have no inheritance, nor have dominion in the world to come. (See Revelation 4:10 where the 24 elders/angels lay down their crowns/authority.) 2) For God, since before Man’s making, intended that Man would rule over all His Creation. THE COMING WORLD VERSE 5 …“For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” The word “For….” here refers back to the last verse of chapter one and is the general sense of 2:1-4 “Are they [angels] not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?” [Hebrews 1:14] What salvation? The “great salvation” in the world to come… That is to say resurrection inheritance as priests of God and of Christ in the future 1000 year reign of the Son of Man at His Return in His future heavenly Kingdom associated with this World. (Revelation 20:4-6) This is when the words of verse 8 will be fulfilled: “Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.” Man shall rule and administer then in the world to come. Unlike how it is presently, (as shown in verse 8b: “But now we see not yet all things put under him….”) as Satan and his angels now rule, and where now un-fallen Angels continue to be God’s appointed governors to carry out His Will. So it is in this present World’s state, essentially unchanged since the Gospel Message, that the Father lovingly calls for a glorious heavenly people to join the Son of Man, the Lord Jesus, in His future heavenly Kingdom. He will take His rightful place as King in this, His rightful Dominion, after having completely satisfied the Father’s Will in the obtaining of eternal glory-filled sons. And so it is now that Angels shall maintain their position of ministering spirits to facilitate that holy call, until it is complete. Then the sons of God, the joint heirs with Christ, shall be caught up and resurrected out from Hades, the intermediate place of all dead, and join Jesus in the heavenly realm associated with this World. They will rule as priests and kings in the beginning of the World to come, the Angels then being no longer in authority. (In this present world, Christians are to SERVE, NOT RULE as opposed to as in the world to come. Furthermore, it seems even Angels will be subject to these resurrected worthies. Read 1st Corinthians 6:3: “Know ye not that we shall judge angels?”) That the Angel Elders confess the superiority of Jesus is seen clearly in Revelation 5:8-10, where the Angels joyously declare His propitiating death as... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rsbrr7rtuuwcw53/AABBcvktkKmWEFGIom2WJ8R3a?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 12-28-2019. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 2 (The Greater Accountability of New Covenant Believers) Verses: Hebrews 2; 1st Corinthians 10; Colossians 3:23-25; Luke 12:47-48, 19:12-27; Philippians 3:14 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ekxp2jbtr8msthy/AAAxRBUtqLtP9wJWbdFDrNQha?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/57nlpa8rpehlr7k/AAAXLu59eBWvE8V4t4XdHTkBa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 The second chapter begins with the first of 5 great warnings in the Book of Hebrews: “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip (or drift past them).” This holding on to shows that the warning is to continue in the Gospel message that they had heard: 1) the Gift of eternal life at the moment of faith that they had already received which is to continue in the HOPE of something already set before them as believers in the Son. 2) the hope of eternal glory in the heavenly calling, which is a reward, is subject to loss through faithlessness or neglect. The possibility of losing the hope of eternal glory and to reign with Him as His “…fellows…” (1:9) is in view. By their own negligence they could certainly be in danger of losing that for which they should hope for; the fullness of the Son’s Salvation Atonement. This is shadowed in the Israelites’ loss after their deliverance from Egypt ( See 1st Corinthians 10 where it speaks of them being examples to us). For all were brought out but only two prevailed in entering in to the calling to be set apart in a kingdom of kings and priests in the promised land. VERSE 2 & 3 “For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received just recompense of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation.…” So this great salvation is not saying, “How will you escape eternal perdition?” But it refers back to joint heirship with the Son in the last verse of chapter one.… “…who shall be heirs of salvation.” That is to say the Son’s full salvation compared to Israel’s is far superior than that of Moses’ salvation, in that He, being a greater Savior, and His salvation holds forth the greater reward of the First Resurrection in partaking in the glorious heavenly Kingdom of the Millennial reign of the Son and fellows (Revelation 20:4-6) as the ‘New Man’. Reigning in the power of that which was foreshadowed by the Holy Spirit in signs and wondrous miracles, and the casting out of satan and his demons, which is representative of that future greater salvation coming. That Kingdom’s greater salvation promise to come that could be lost by negligence is that which the entire Book of Hebrews was constructed around, and that which Paul put all his energies into to obtain… “I press toward the mark (goal) for the prize (first resurrection) of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” [Philippians 3:14] The multiple warnings being: if the Old Covenant being inferior carried the weight of just retribution for offenses, how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? This is not a warning word to the ungodly who refuse to accept pardon for sin inherited from Adam, but to those who are “saved” from the condemning Curse and Wrath. To those who are sure to be set before the Judgment Seat of Jesus Christ; where He will assume the role of Judge of His people and reward those worthy of inheritance and punish without respect or regard to person for wrong which they have done (Hebrews 10:30, Colossians 3:23-25). It is this reward of greater salvation or loss of Kingdom inheritance that the Holy Spirit holds forth throughout the Book of Hebrews. The understanding of the Gift and the Prize is the key to curing any theological difficulties within the Book. The drifting past is not heeding what we heard, just as sailors who are asleep at the oars drift past the sanctuary of the heavenly port. Unlike the gracious Gift of eternal life (see Romans 6:23), it requires effort to secure this great Salvation reward. Thus the examples Paul presents the Christian, one being….“let us run the race that is set before us” with a crown in view (1st Corinthians 9:24-10:15). 1st Corinthians 10 gives us the severe reality by the comparing of redeemed Israel with the redeemed by Christ in that “…every transgression and disobedience received just recompense of reward…” Which lays out the position of every Christian while they are alive on this earth plainly enough. As soon as the redeemed Israelites arrived at Sinai, commands of instructions with penalties were given. After Redemption/Deliverance, then came Instruction. And so the Christian delivered from the kingdom of darkness, is now instructed by Jesus Christ (our Greater Deliverer) with commands carrying penalties of sure loss of the Kingdom............ DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ekxp2jbtr8msthy/AAAxRBUtqLtP9wJWbdFDrNQha?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 12-14-2019. THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 (Written to Hebrew Followers of Christ) 2nd Timothy 2:15; Acts 1:45,10:44-48,11:15; 1st Corinthians 12:27-13:1,14:1-5,24-28 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/91zfywoo7rdmo4k/AACa5uq1kMKaRhWSxmCe9xd8a?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rpgcwsgf468c1qi/AAAa5EZHasz64KJaX33lw0aFa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 The Epistle was written sometime between 53 and 68 AD while the Temple services were still going on, before the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. It was written to Hebrew Christians (Hebrew followers of Christ); both those who were resisters to Truth and to those who were being tempted and persecuted by the strict followers of Judaism. These Hebrew believers were being pressured to stay away from “Christian” gatherings for fear of harsh and constant persecution. Great was the temptation with peril to fall back into Judaism under the law of Moses, where there was no means by which their sins might be dealt with. Nor would there be opportunity for inheritance in Christ’s Kingdom, the sure consequence of casting away their first confidence and drawing back unto perdition; hence the great warnings throughout the Book of Hebrews. The Book’s intent then is to encourage and exhort the faithful, rebuke the resistors, and bring about the restoration of the wayward to Christ. That at His Second Coming they would not be subject to severe judgment, but on the contrary, that they would be found faithful and thereby worthy of His Kingdom inheritance. The Book is written anonymously, but after some research it is not difficult to determine Paul was the author. The Book contains the longest sustained contending argument of any book in the Bible; that being the preeminence of Christianity (what came to be known as Christianity) over Judaism because of the superiority of Jesus the anointed One over all others. Over the prophets 1:1-3, the Angels 1:5-2:18, and Moses and the law. The latter being where the contention was most acute 3:1-6, they having been but servants, He being Son. Son being the “Name” He inherited as a result of His successful mission upon the earth. This key assertion and basis for the entire argument is presented in the first chapter of the Book. This first chapter then sets forth 3 very important understandings…. 1) that the Son was before Creation with God eternal. (eternal Son in the Godhead) 2) that He humbled Himself and came as a man. 3) His Resurrection and elevation as the Son of God/Son of Man to the highest position in Heaven. (at the right hand of the Father on the Throne) He is here, in this first chapter, presented as there now, forever exalted, and that by reason of His success, was appointed heir of all things and forever accepted at the right hand of the Father as Son. After having established the Son’s personal preeminence here in the first chapter, then Paul goes on to establish Christ’s superiority of Priesthood to the Levitical priesthood of Moses’ Law 4:14-7:28. And then it demonstrates Jesus Christ’s superior sacrifice offered in the superior heavenly sanctuary 8:1-10:39. Think of the great advancement beyond the Law of Moses that Jesus Christ so presented to us proclaims! And with it the demands to holiness (chapter 12). Five times in the Book, the Holy Spirit inserts specific warnings to the Believers based upon the theological argument preceding that section’s particular argument, those warnings occur in the following passages: 2:1-5; 3:7-4:13; 6:4-8, 10:26-39, 12:25-29. (These shall be highlighted with definition in their proper place.) THE BOOK OF HEBREWS is extremely focused on relating how the Old Covenant prophetic words and its types insure the establishment of the Truths of Jesus Christ set forth in the argument. So Paul begins in verse 1…. “God, who at sundry (various) times and in divers manners (different ways) spake in time past unto the fathers (the patriarchs and their descendants) by the prophets…” (God’s earlier works among men were accomplished over a long period of time through many men, and by various ways. Through dreams and visions, by audible voice, by sacrificial offerings and ceremonies, and types and shadows.) “…Hath in these last days (of growing evil, offset by Christ’s Atonement in mercy and grace, before Millennial days of glory) spoken unto us (in the enlightened terms and aspects of those things spoken in past Dispensations, the great difference in this Dispensation is that of the greater Messenger and Message) by a Son…” PAUL’S KEYNOTE PRESENTATION OF THE SUPERIORITY OF THE SON Within the first 4 verses, Paul describes the Son in His preeminence in 7 amazing terms, where it is to be seen that the Son is undeniably God’s ultimate source, His salvation intermediation; such grand descriptive terms.... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/91zfywoo7rdmo4k/AACa5uq1kMKaRhWSxmCe9xd8a?dl=0

Mike Balloun teaches on 11-30-2019. THE OVEREMPHASIS OF TONGUES 2nd Timothy 2:15; Acts 1:45, 10:44-48. 11:15; 1st Corinthians 12:27-13:1,14:1-5,24-28 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qh07b98eum6dk4k/AABO8u6GGGor9XQjWF0f6IGIa?dl=0 AUDIO: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mgps5r3xauwno3n/AADM_argwy7rKIrPTIZAU3GPa?dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 THE OVEREMPHASIS OF TONGUES AS EVIDENCE OF BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT “Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.” [2nd Timothy 2:15] The first verse of prophecy mentioned by Peter in explanation of the supernatural events occurring at Pentecost 2000 years ago are found in Joel 2:23-32. This is the word of prophecy that is the basis for the “Spirit” infilling/baptizing movement doctrine on down to our time, and to the return of Jesus Christ. It is the prophecy that Jesus Christ the Lord began to fill with meaning, and it is what John 7:37-39 had in view. It is understood from Scripture that to be born of the Spirit/spirit is one spiritual event while being baptized in the power of the Holy Spirit by Christ is another. The truth of this statement speaks to the command of Christ to His Disciples in Acts 1 that they should wait in Jerusalem “….for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” [Acts 1:4-5] That one may be born again but yet not be baptized in the Holy Spirit is also understood from Acts 8:16 with Paul’s encounter with disciples in Ephesus where he asked them “…..have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?” It grows apparent to the one interested enough to search the Scriptures that one may be a born-again believer and even be water baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and yet be without the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Although the separate events may be very close in time, as seen with Cornelius and family in Acts 10:44-48. And that for at least for some decades after Pentecost, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was still occurring. That it was recognizably the same as what was experienced at Pentecost 9-10 years prior, was proclaimed by Peter and the Jews who accompanied him to Cornelius’s house (Acts 11:15). Now in all three of these previous examples (the Day of Pentecost, then 10 years or so later with the events at Cornelius’s house, and then about 14 years later with Paul’s encounter with the disciples at Ephesus), the Scriptures declare the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was accompanied by “tongues”. Now in these 3 cases it is evident that each time the Holy Spirit fell upon them, “tongues” was a sign that followed. But what is not clear and conclusive is that in each and every time before and after that, that all who are baptized in the Holy Spirit spoke in tongues as evidence to their infilling. That tongues is not the only evidence or manifestation of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is clearly understood from Paul’s teachings on this subject in 1st Corinthians chapters 12,13 &14. Additionally, tongues are not given the great preeminence or significance that the Pentecostal or Charismatic tongues movements would give it. Seemingly, it is even contrary as tongues is listed next to last on the list of manifestations of the Spirit, and listed first in being contrasted negatively to Love being the more excellent means by which the Holy Spirit is manifested in baptismal evidence of growing spirituality (read 1st Corinthians 12:27 - 13:1). Speaking in ‘tongues’ is discouraged if not forbidden as an edifying means of ministry in the Church gathering, unless accompanied by interpretation. Spiritual gifts are to be desired secondary to obediently following after the manifestation of the Spirit in love. And that since love seeketh not her own, Scripture exhorts to seek those gifts that edify, and exhort, and comfort others as opposed to seeking and speaking in tongues as it relates to Church ministry (read 1st Corinthians 14:1-5). Now the question becomes: Is this Baptism of the Holy Spirit for today’s believer? And if so, is it the same? That the need for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit today just as it was then is hardly deniable. As to His manifesting, there are questions. Cessationism verses Continuationism Certainly many Christians believe Scripture declares the baptism of the Holy Spirit with gifts following continues just as it did on the Day of Pentecost, and will continue until “… when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” (1st Corinthians 13:10) That “…perfect…” to come is understood to mean (at the very soonest) at the Lord’s Return or (at the latest) after the Millennial Kingdom. Charismatics and Pentecostals fall...... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qh07b98eum6dk4k/AABO8u6GGGor9XQjWF0f6IGIa?dl=0