Eternal Judgment [circa 2009] (Part 2) | Ep. 178

The greatest threat to your soul isn’t the sin you see in others, but the grudge you refuse to release. We open with Paul’s warning in Romans 2 about judging while doing the same things, then move straight into Jesus’ hard line on forgiveness: if we will not forgive, we will not be forgiven. The parable of the unforgiving servant becomes the lens—an unpayable debt erased, a peer throttled over pennies, and a king who hands the merciless to the tormentors. Mercy is not optional; it’s the shape of a heart that understands grace.

From there, we press into a contested question: can someone fall away after truly knowing Christ? Hebrews 6 and 10 paint a sobering picture of willful sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth—treating Christ’s blood as common and insulting the Spirit of grace. Peter adds his own warning with the dog and sow proverb, exposing the tragedy of returning to what Christ delivered us from. This isn’t about tripping in weakness; it’s about choosing rebellion with eyes open, and it confronts a shallow view of “eternal security.”

We also frame judgment through Jesus’ sheep and goats: works as evidence of allegiance, not currency to buy heaven. Feeding the hungry, welcoming strangers, visiting prisoners—these acts reveal whether love has taken root. With Revelation 20’s great white throne in view, and Paul’s list of the works of the flesh in Galatians 5, the call is pointed: be washed, be sanctified, and walk in the Spirit. Release grudges, refuse presumption, and endure in obedience. If you’ve been forgiven much, forgive much—then keep walking with a childlike heart that holds fast to Jesus.

Chapters

• 0:03 A Vision Of Circulation And Purpose
• 0:25 Romans 2 On Hypocrisy And Judgment
• 2:28 The Hard Warning About Unforgiveness
• 5:03 The Unforgiving Servant Parable Explained
• 10:58 Eternal Judgment Versus Eternal Security
• 15:41 Hebrews 6 And 10 On Falling Away
• 19:04 Blasphemy Against The Holy Spirit Clarified
• 22:28 Peter’s Warning: Dog And Sow Proverb
• 24:51 Who Truly Has Eternal Security
• 25:29 Sheep And Goats: Works As Evidence
• 28:22 Great White Throne Judgment In Revelation
• 31:46 Works Of The Flesh And Inheritance
• 34:28 Only The Obedient Enter The Kingdom
• 36:09 Final Exhortation And Audience CTA

Transcript

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The vision received was that of blood cells traveling throughout the body, supplying the much-needed oxygen and other nutrients to the differing members of the body to fulfill their purpose. Once the blood cells are spent, they must return back to the heart to be refilled before being sent out again and fulfill their purpose. Paul in Romans 2 speaks about the judgment of others. O man, whosoever thou art that judges, for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou that judges doest the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judges them which do such things and doest the same, that thou wilt escape the judgment of God? In verse 6, he says, Jesus will render to every man according to his deeds, to them who by patient continuance and well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality and eternal life, but unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey right unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of a man that doeth evil. To who first? The Jew first, and also of the Gentile. Paul was speaking to those who were condemning and judging others, but who were walking in the same sins that they were judging others in. They were just as guilty. And so if they're just as guilty and they want to be unmerciful to this man or this woman walking in this, how much sore punishment do you think they are going to receive? Having judged other men of that guilty thing, if they were just as guilty. God will in the day of judgment render to every man according to his deeds. He said, If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. And as much as we might hate to admit it, I happen to think that unforgiveness may end up being the number one sin that causes the Lord's people to not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Because they have puffed themselves up with such knowledge and arrogancy within the faith that they think they have the right to judge those that are struggling, stumbling, and bumbling in the earliness of their walk with Christ and the sins that they still have not overcome yet. And it is quite clear, I mean, it's quite evident what Jesus just said here. If you will not forgive others their transgressions against you, he is not going to forgive your trespasses against him. That is sobering. Because this is a conditional promise, and not many of us Christians like to talk about how the blessings and the curses of God are conditional, they're based on what you decide. He has set a standard, he has said this is what's going to happen if you do this, this is gonna happen if you do that, and there's always an if then, cause effect. But he sets the standard and he says, okay, now walk in this, choose life or death. But it's up to you. And it's not just the written word in our Bibles, because there are times that some of us have heard the Lord God Spirit to spirit, and we have still not obeyed him. And that's just as disobedient as disobeying something written in the word. Later on, in Jesus' ministry, in Matthew's account of his ministry, Jesus comes back to this very principle of forgiveness. And He uses a parable to highlight the impact that it will have on his people. He said, The kingdom of God is like this. This is in Matthew 18, verse 23. There was a certain king which would take account of his servants, and when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him which owed him 10,000 talents. You might not understand currency in that day and age, but ten thousand talents, a rich man probably could not pay. It was that out of reach for a servant. And he continues on But for as much as ye had not to pay, his Lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made, and the servant, oh, he fell down and he worshipped him, and he cried out to his Lord, Have patience with I'll pay you everything. And the Lord had compassion on him. He had mercy towards him, and and it moved him to loose him of that debt. He just saw his pain and he knew his servant's never gonna pay it. Why am I gonna put him through this and his family and his children? I'm just gonna lose him. And so the king did. He forgave him all the debt. But that same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants, which owed him a hundred pence. It's like comparing a hundred pennies to ten thousand dollars. That's what it's kind of like. Just to give you a picture, an appreciation of how little this was to the servant. And that servant fell down at the servant's feet and said, Have patience with me, I will pay thee what thou owest. But that servant would not. But he went and he cast them into prison till he should pay all the debt. And many servants saw this and were deeply grieved. And they went to the king and they told the king what had happened. And the king was probably just astounded at what this servant just did for a hundred pennies. When he just forgave the man of ten thousand dollars. So that king calls him in and he says, You wicked servant, I forgave thee all that money because you wanted me to. Shouldn't you have had the same compassion upon that other servant? Isn't it just logical? Wouldn't it just be the right thing to do? To be forgiven of so much yet you could not find it in your heart to forgive him of that little bit. And the Lord was mad, he was wroth, extremely angry. And he delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. I want you to look at the person nearest to you, to the right or to the left. I want you to repeat after me. I want you to look into their eyes and repeat after me. Go ahead. Look into Josh's eyes, Jordan, right there. Not deeply, just look into his eyes. Repeat after me. Talk to them, tell them, repeat after me, so likewise shall my heavenly father do also unto you. If you from your hearts will not forgive every one of your brothers, their trespasses. If they should not forgive others. If you forgive others, your heavenly father will absolutely forgive you. But if you decide within your heart, I'm not going to forgive him, I'm gonna hold on to this grudge, I'm gonna hold on to this offense and this pain and this longing for vengeance, and I want ill will to happen to him, and I just want his whole party to come crashing down, and I want you to cry at your wedding, and I want you to cry at your marriage, and I want you to, I want, I want the worst to happen to you, then expect the Lord to treat you with the same amount of mercilessness because He will not forgive you. He will turn you over to the tormentors until your debt is paid in full. Yet here's the catch your debt is so great that you will never have the time or the opportunity to pay it all back. So your judgment in torment will be forever. It will be for eternity. Now, based on Hebrews 6, we read and we are sure that there is this word called eternal judgment. It's in the Bible because we've been reading Hebrews 6, 1 and 2. However, there's a very, very popular doctrine out there, and they believe in the doctrine of what's called eternal security. But those two words are not found in the scriptures, like eternal judgment is. Seeing that you crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and you put him to open shame again. Clearly, these scriptures describe those who have partaken in everything that we've been talking about in the principles of the doctrines of Christ. And the author states in Hebrews that it is impossible that you have experienced all that to be renewed again unto repentance. What does that mean? I'm gonna look into that, but what does that mean? What do you think that means right now? It is impossible to be renewed again unto repentance if they fall away. Now, on the face value, on the surface, this scripture seems to completely contradict the doctrine once saved, always saved. And if you decide to depart from him after you have been born again, you cannot be renewed again unto repentance, like you were renewed the first time you were born again. You see, you're not born again multiple times, you're only born again once. Just as Christ died once and for all men, once and for all time, so you are born again once. And if after that you decide to forsake the Lord, you cannot be renewed again. You can't sully yourself and then think, well, he's gonna clean me again. And I want to clarify that because I don't want you to think that you can't repent if you stumbled. I'm talking about falling away. And there's a biblical definition for falling away that's very different from you just stumbled today. You know, you you sort of tripped. Falling away is completely different, and I want to show you what that is. So the author in Hebrews he starts to clarify, he starts to elaborate why he just made these statements in verses four through six. So go to Hebrews chapter 10. And it starts with if again. If they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance was Hebrews 6. And now in Hebrews 10, he clarifies it and he says, For if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. Because if you despise Moses' law and you died without mercy under the two or three witnesses, how much sorrow punishment do you suppose will happen to those that thought, you know what? I'm born again. I can go ahead and just keep on sinning because once saved, always saved. Right? You can go ahead and I'm saved already, right? Right? I was born again, right? Well, then if I'm born again, I can go back. But you see, this is how the Lord sees it. You trodden underfoot the Son of God, you count the blood of his covenant where you were sanctified in, where you and you make it an unholy thing, and you do despite to the spirit of grace. In other words, you grieve the spirit of God, because if you've been born again according to the scriptures, and the spirit of God obviously is dwelling in you, you're not going to feel comfortable with going back to that way. And he is going to be offended that you think that you can. Because now the blood that sanctified you, now you're making it an ugly, dirty thing. It's worthless to you, is what you're saying to him. So the operative word here that helps us to understand what does it means to fall away is if we decide to sin willfully. I'm deciding and I don't care what He says or thinks, because I believe I'm once saved. I'm always saved. I could do anything I want now. Truly falling away is willfully sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth. That's that enlightened part. I received it, I heard the word. After tasting the heavenly gift, the Holy Spirit, after tasting of the good word and the powers to come, I actually walked in the power of the Spirit. Because if you decide to willfully sin after all of that, it's as if you crucify the Lord again, and you put his other hand again, and you stick the nail right on his feet again. That's how he sees it. How much sore punishment do you think you should have having done that to him again? Think of Moses. First time the water came from the rock. What was he supposed to do? Nope. The first time he was supposed to strike the rock. He struck the rock, it poured out water. Later on in the wilderness experience, what was he told to do? Speak to the rock. What did he end up doing? He struck him again. Jesus will not tolerate being struck again. He died once for all men, once for all time. He will not be put on the cross again. You pay for your sins because he's not going to pay for it again. Too valuable the first time to do it again. It would discredit what He did the first time, it would devalue what He did the first time. So I'm not paying for it again, He says. You pay for your own sins. In Jesus' own words, doing that is called blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. That's what it is. People come and they start saying, Well, I think I did the unforgivable sin. What is that? The unforgivable sin. In Matthew 12, verse 31, Jesus said, Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men. But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. You see, the sin described in the account of Hebrews, that is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. You were sanctified by the word, you were sanctified by the blood. You were sanctified by the Holy Ghost, and now you think you're gonna walk in sin? That's blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. And so this is the unforgivable sin, because it is the sin of the rejection of the Holy Spirit of God, who is the Holy Spirit of Jesus, who is Jesus Christ Himself. Romans 8, 9 and 10. The rejection of Jesus will never be forgiven. The rejection of his gospel will never be forgiven. The rejection of his disciples who are giving you the word will never be forgiven because you're rejecting him, not them. Peter, another apostle, spoke of this same subject matter that I'm describing to you right now. And in 2 Peter 2, 20 through 22, Peter says, if, there it is again, if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, same type of description Paul was giving, and they are again entangled like a pretzel or like a knotted string of rope in and overcome, their latter end is worse than in the beginning. For it had been better for them to have never known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn away from the commandment delivered unto them. But it has happened again. Unto them, according to the true proverb, the dog has turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that is washed to her wallowing in the mire. Two different apostles basically describing the same thing. Escaping the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Paul said after receiving the knowledge of the truth. Becoming entangled in the pollutions of the world again and overcome by them, that's falling away from your escape because you're now walking in the same mess that you just got out of. Your latter state is now worse than the first. It would have been better for you to have never known the way of righteousness than to have known it and turned from the holiness that was given to you. Like a dog eating his own vomit, like a pig after being clean and running back into the mud and the dung where which he came. So is the man who decides I can do whatever I want now that I'm one saved, always saved. That is the man who falls away from the salvation of the Lord. A man who sins willfully. And it's a damnable heresy. The only eternal security is not used by those two words, but it really is applied only to those who take part in the first resurrection. Because the second death has no part in the first resurrection. Those are the ones with eternal security. They don't have anything to worry about. They've been perfected in Christ. They already reigned with him a million years, excuse me, a thousand years. But that's for the resurrection of the unjust into the lake of fire. But the lake of fire will never resurrection. They are the ones that have eternal security. And that brings us to the great white throne judgment. Jesus will be seated upon a throne, and Paul said that we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ in 2 Corinthians 5 and 10. Because everyone is going to receive the things that they have done in this body according to hath to that hat he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Jesus describes this event in a parable. In Matthew 25, verse 31. Jesus describes it like this: When the Son of Man shall come in glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate there as the shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats, and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left hand. Anybody want to switch sides? No? Okay, it's fine. And then the king shall say to those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungered and ye gave me meat. I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in. I was naked and ye clothed me and sick and ye visited me, and I was in prison and ye came unto me. But then the righteous are gonna wonder, huh? Lord, when did we see you hungered? Oh, when did we feed you? When would when were you thirsty and we gave you to drink? And when we saw a stranger, when did we take you in? When did all of this happen? And the king on the throne will say to them, Inasmuch as ye have done it into the least of these, my brethren, ye did it unto me. That goes back to that message. It's not that they have forsaken you. They've forsaken me. When you've given drink to another brother, you're giving it to the Lord. They are the embodiment of Christ in the earth. Now you remember Ezekiel 34, verse 2? The shepherds of Israel. Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves, they eat the fat, they clothe themselves with the wool, they kill them that are fed, and they feed not the flock. The disease have they not strengthened, neither have they healed the sick, they have not bound up those that have been broken, they have not brought again that which was driven away, they haven't sought that which was lost, but with force and with cruelty they have ruled over them. Every man will be judged according to their works. Works of righteousness in obedience, work of unrighteousness in disobedience. But let's go back to that parable, because I read that he seeked you again to have it fresh in your mind. You hear the words described of the shepherds, now hear what he says to those on his left hand. Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels, for I was hungered, you didn't feed me. I was thirsty, you didn't give me drink. I was a stranger, you didn't take me in. I was naked, you didn't clothe me. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't visit me. That's how the shepherds were described as treating the flock. And then they're gonna say to him, When did we see you hungry, thirsty, naked, prison? When did that happen? Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. But in contrast, the goat and the Tears will be placed on his left, and their judgment is surely everlasting and surely eternal. Now let's read the account, the real account of Revelation 20 of the great white throne judgment. 20. Verse 11. John is lifted up in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and this is what he sees in heaven. John said, And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged, condemned, out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged, every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of like was cast into the lake of fire. The eternal judgment takes place at the end of the thousand-year reign with Christ. After the second resurrection has taken place and is applied to the devil, death, and hell, and those that are not found written in the Lamb's book of life. This is the second death. Now to be practical, Paul describes those who shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Yes, they will be the Pharisees. Yes, they will be those who do not know God, those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, those who fall away even after being properly born again. But he says specifically in Galatians 5 19, speaking of the works of flesh that are manifested, which are these adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like, of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in the time past, that they which things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Don't be fooled by those who say they were born again and they're walking in these works of the flesh. They will not inherit the kingdom of God. Not fornicators, not idolaters, not adulterers, not the effeminate, nor the abusers of themselves with mankind, not the thieves, not the covetous, the drunkards, the revilers, the extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. It will not happen. And he says, Such were some of you to the Corinthians, but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. Paul is reminding them, warning them, don't fall away. Remember what we what he just got you out of. Don't go back and willfully sin, because I adjure you. I say it to the Galatians, I say it to the Corinthians, and I'll say it to every church that I write a letter to. This will not inherit the kingdom of God. Only those that do the will of our Father will enter the kingdom of God. Matthew 7 21. Only those that are born of the water and of the Spirit can see and enter into the kingdom of God. Only those that are converted, born again, and become like children will enter into the kingdom of God, Matthew 18, 3. Only those who receive the kingdom of God as a child will enter into the kingdom of God. Luke 8, or excuse me, Luke 18, 17. Only the children of the first resurrection will enter the kingdom of God. Luke 20 and 36, Revelation 20 and 6. Only the children of promise are the children of God who will enter the kingdom of God. Galatians 4 28 and Romans 9 8. Only the children of obedience will escape the wrath of God. Colossians 3 and 6. Only the children of light, the children of the day, will enter the kingdom of God. Only those who love God and are born of God will overcome the world. Knowing that all of this is true, and knowing that all of this is in the scripture, let us endure until the end. Let us be the overcomers that the scriptures require us to be. Let us hold fast to the faith that was once delivered to the saints by the apostles and the prophets of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us take inventory of ourselves and our walk with him and to these principles of the doctrine of Christ, and let us endeavor to continue in them. Because it is by doing so that we shall save ourselves and those that hear us. Amen. Share, like, subscribe, or follow. 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