Open—Bill Weiss
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My chosen.
God bless every.
Heard remark.
Within last week that.
A wise man has something to say, and a fool has to say something, so I hope this isn't the latter.
I want to turn back to something that.
Tim had for us here in.
Hebrews, chapter 12.
I really appreciate what he had to say, bringing out the doctrine connected with eternal security. And so I'm not going to do that again here. I wouldn't.
Be able to do it anyway as well as we've had. I just want to make a short illustration.
So I told everybody to turn there and still turning it.
In Hebrews chapter 6.
And this is one of those verses that Brother Tim talked about that's often trotted out.
By folks that can say that you can be saved and lost again and one particular expression within that verse.
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Were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and one might say, well OK, that means they must have been saved.
But notice it doesn't say indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
OK.
Suffer with me a little bit on this that we're going to dive a little bit into the language here, but.
Go ahead and turn now to Luke Chapter 5. But just kind of.
I don't say hold your finger in this place, but remember the phrase Partakers of the Holy Ghost. We're going to come back to it.
What I say Luke chapter 5.
I'm going to read just a little bit to get the sense of it here.
Chapter 5. Verse One. And it came to pass, that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Knessett, and saw two ships standing by the lake, But the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their Nets. And he entered into one of the ships which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon.
Launch out into the deep and let your Nets down for a draft.
And Simon answering, said unto Master, We have toiled all night, and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net.
And when they have this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net break, and they beckoned unto their partners during the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships. So they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man of the Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him at the draft of fishes which they had taken. And so was also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners.
Simon and Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not, from henceforth thou shalt catch.
Men.
Partners.
Partakers. OK, this is the word I want to look at here because this is the word that's sometimes used by folks and it's confused with salvation in the portion we had in Hebrews 6.
The word used.
For partners, and I'm looking for the men in the other boat. There it is OK, They're partners which were in the other ship.
Now hold your finger there on verse 7 and then go down to verse 10.
And there's another word translated partners here.
They're the same word in English.
They are not the same word in Greek.
The word here partners in the with Simon and others in the boat that the Lord was in, is a word that may be familiar to some of you. It's quinonos, from where we get the word for fellowship.
OK, they were.
Partners with a connection.
OK, the other one, seven and verse 7, the guys in that boat without Jesus, we're doing the same work. They were both catching fish. We don't know who caught more than another. It was all part of the same work. But as Tim pointed out earlier.
Judas himself was doing the work with the others, but it turned out that he wasn't real.
The other word here is metokos. These were the partners in the work that they were doing, but they were not partners of.
The word connected with fellowship is partners of they were associates of Jesus.
Otherwise they look the same, look like they were doing the same work.
OK, but the Holy Spirit used a different word for the men in the boat with the Lord.
And so remember I told you to mentally keep your finger back in Hebrew. 6 the partakers.
Of the Holy Spirit back there is the same word to use for the partners in the other boat.
And I'm going to close right here, but just simply ask you. You may be doing the work of the Lord.
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You may be hearing, meeting, listening attentively, or not, but which boat are you in?