WHAT TIMOTHY KNEW! SALVATION IS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT!
by Keith Hunt
"AND HOW FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD YOU HAVE
HAD A KNOWLEDGE OF AND BEEN ACQUAINTED
WITH THE SACRED WRITINGS WHICH ARE ABLE TO
INSTRUCT YOU AND GIVE YOU THE UNDERSTANDING
FOR SALVATION WHICH COMES THROUGH FAITH IN
CHRIST JESUS .... EVERY SCRIPTURE IS GOD-BREATHED
- GIVEN BY HIS INSPIRATION - AND PROFITABLE FOR
INSTRUCTION, FOR REPROOF AND CONVICTION OF SIN,
FOR CORRECTION OF ERROR AND DISCIPLINE IN OBEDIENCE,
AND FOR TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS (THAT
IS IN HOLY LIVING, IN CONFORMITY TO GOD'S WILL THOUGHT,
PURPOSE AND ACTION), SO THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY
BE COMPLETE AND PROFICIENT, WELL-FITTED AND
THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK." -
2 TIM.3:15-17 (Amplified Bible)
**ALL ARE SINNERS?
"THE LORD LOOKED DOWN FROM HEAVEN UPON THE CHILDREN OF MEN, TO
SEE IF THERE WERE ANY THAT DID UNDERSTAND, AND SEEK GOD.
THEY ARE ALL GONE ASIDE, THEY ARE ALL TOGETHER BECOME FILTHY:
THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO, NOT ONE." PS.14:2,3.
**WHAT SIN DOES
"BEHOLD, THE LORD'S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT IT CANNOT SAVE:
NEITHER HIS EAR HEAVY, THAT IT CANNOT HEAR: BUT YOUR INIQUITIES
HAVE SEPARATED BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GOD, AND YOUR SINS HAVE HID
HIS FACE FROM YOU THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR." ISA.59:1,2.
**GOD'S CALL
"SEEK YOU THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL YOU UPON HIM WHILE
HE IS NEAR: LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS
MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL
HAVE MERCY UPON HIM, AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY
PARDON. FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, NEITHER ARE YOUR
WAYS MY WAYS, SAITH THE LORD. FOR AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN
THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY THOUGHTS
THAN YOUR THOUGHTS. ISA.55:6-9.
**HOW GOD WILL SHOW MERCY
"BUT THE MERCY OF THE LORD IS FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING
UPON THEM THAT FEAR HIM, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO CHILDREN'S
CHILDREN - TO SUCH AS KEEP HIS COVENANT, AND TO THOSE THAT
REMEMBER HIS COMMANDMENTS TO DO THEM." PS.103:17,18.
**HOW GOD FORGIVES
" ... HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN .... SURELY HE HATH
BORNE OUR GRIEFS, AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS .... HE WAS WOUNDED FOR
OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES .... ALL WE
LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY .... AND THE LORD HAS LAID ON HIM THE
INIQUITY OF US ALL ... HE WAS CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND OF THE
LIVING: FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF MY PEOPLE WAS HE STRICKEN ....
WHEN YOU SHALL MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN .... BY HIS
KNOWLEDGE SHALL MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT JUSTIFY MANY, FOR HE SHALL
BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES .... HE HATH POURED OUT HIS SOUL UNTO DEATH
.... AND HE BARE THE SIN OF MANY..." ISA.53:3-12.
**COMMANDMENT KEEPING IS A CONDITION!
**LET US READ PSALM ONE. WHAT A PSALM TO START THE BOOK OF PSALMS!
**NOTICE THESE VERSES IN PSALM 119
"I HAVE GONE A STRAY LIKE A LOST SHEEP, SEEK THY SERVANT, FOR I
DO NOT FORGET THY COMMANDMENTS." v.176.
"I HAVE LONGED FOE THY SALVATION, O LORD, AND THY LAW IS MY
DELIGHT." v.174.
"LORD, I HAVE HOPED FOR THY SALVATION, AND DONE THY COMMANDMENTS.
" v.166.
"SALVATION IS FAR FROM THE WICKED: FOR THEY SEEK NOT THY
STATUTES." v.155.
"HORROR HATH TAKEN HOLD UPON ME BECAUSE OF THE WICKED THAT
FORSAKE THY LAW." v.53.
**LET US READ AGAIN THE CONDITIONS FOR RECEIVING GOD'S GRACE AND
MERCY
"BUT THE MERCY OF THE LORD IS FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING
UPON THEM THAT FEAR HIM .... TO SUCH AS KEEP HIS COVENANT, AND TO
THOSE THAT REMEMBER HIS COMMANDMENTS TO DO THEM." PS.103:17,18.
**SALVATION AND THE SABBATH
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, KEEP YOU JUDGMENT, AND DO JUSTICE: FOR MY
SALVATION IS NEAR TO COME, AND MY RIGHTEOUSNESS TO BE REVEALED.
BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT DOETH THIS, AND THE SON OF MAN THAT
LAYETH HOLD ON IT, THAT KEEPS THE SABBATH FROM POLLUTING IT,
AND KEEPS HIS HAND FROM DOING ANY EVIL.
NEITHER LET THE SON OF THE STRANGER, THAT HATH JOINED HIMSELF TO
THE LORD SPEAK SAYING, 'THE LORD HATH UTTERLY SEPARATED ME FROM
HIS PEOPLE' - NEITHER LET THE EUNUCH SAY, 'BEHOLD I AM A DRY
TREE.'
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO THE EUNUCHS THAT KEEP MY SABBATHS,
AND CHOOSE THE THINGS THAT PLEASE ME, AND TAKE HOLD OF MY
COVENANT. EVEN UNTO THEM WILL I GIVE IN MINE HOUSE AND WITHIN MY
WALLS A PLACE AND A NAME BETTER THAN OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS: I
WILL GIVE THEM AN EVERLASTING NAME, THAT SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF.
ALSO THE SONS OF THE STRANGER, THAT JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE LORD
TO SERVE HIM, AND TO LOVE THE NAME OF THE LORD, TO BE HIS
SERVANTS, EVERYONE THAT KEEPETH THE SABBATH FROM POLLUTING IT,
AND TAKES HOLD OF MY COVENANT. EVEN THEM WILL I BRING TO ME HOLY
MOUNTAIN ....." ISA.56:1-7.
**A PROPHECY FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE
**READ IT IN MALACHI THE FOURTH CHAPTER.
**NOW READ MY STUDY CALLED "SAVED BY GRACE."
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Written 1989
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