Except a Man Be Born Again He Can Never See the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew sixteen:15-19 {Jesus} saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? xvi And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed fine art yard, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, simply my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That k art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail confronting information technology. nineteen And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of sky: and whatsoever yard shalt bind on earth shall be spring in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on globe shall be loosed in heaven.
Last week we heard Jesus inquire His disciples, "Whom do you lot say that I Am?". Peter spoke upwardly. "1000 art the Christ, the Son of the Living God".
When Protestants and Catholics read the rest of the text, nosotros translate information technology differently. Catholics (and Beloved, if they are saved by organized religion in Christ, they are our brethren) read where Jesus said:
Matthew 16:17-19 Blest art chiliad, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and claret hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. xix And I volition requite unto thee the keys of the kingdom of sky
Catholics believe that, with these words, Jesus made Peter the Pope or highest say-so of the Church. Catholics believe that the Pope is a major foundation of the Church, that he is infallible (without fault). Catholics believe that Peter alone has the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. I disagree with this for a few textual reasons.
Jesus Died For Usa All, Fifty-fifty Sinful Peter
First of all, Peter is not infallible. Right after Peter told the Lord "Grand art the Christ, the Son of the Living God", we read:
Matthew 16:21-23 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised over again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall non exist unto thee. 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee backside me, Satan: thou fine art an crime unto me: for thou savourest non the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
No man, outside of Jesus Christ, is infallible. We are all sinners, Pope or otherwise. We all neglect. We are fragile creatures, a betoken recognized by the Apostle when he wrote:
ii Corinthians 4:6-8 For God, who allowable the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to requite the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we accept this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the ability may be of God, and non of us. 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but non in despair;
We who are saved are as fragile and fallible as earthen vessels, easily cleaved, easily misled. The foundation of the Church building is no mortal man. The foundation of the Church building is …
1 Timothy vi:15 {Jesus Christ}, the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; xvi who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
The Peter who best-selling that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God is the very same Peter that Jesus would subsequently call Satan, who savored not the things of God simply the things of this world. So no, the Church is not built on fallible man. The Church is built on the infallible Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. Jesus had to die on Calvary for us all.
"He drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that nosotros might drink a cup of mercy without wrath" (Oswald Chambers)
So what did Jesus mean when He told Peter,
Matthew 16:19 … I Volition give unto thee
the keys of the kingdom of heaven:
What are these "keys"? That's what I want to talk about. Notice Jesus' exact words to Peter. Jesus doesn't say "I am NOW giving you the keys", but He says "I Will requite unto you the keys". This is a promise of a future approval. They keys were non given to Peter, nor to anyone just yet. Jesus promises "I Volition give the keys". Do you lot see that?
At this signal in human being history the Church has not yet begun. Jesus said:
"upon this stone I Volition build my Church building"
Not "I am edifice", but "I will build". Simply like the Church is still future, the keys to exist given are still future. There is something that must happen before the Church tin can be. At this fourth dimension in history the Temple is still standing. People are still making animal sacrifices, waiting for the Messiah. The Messiah has come, The Christ, the Son of the Living God. Just something else must happen. Christ must go to the Cross of Calvary, making payment for our sins.Once the disciples heard the slap-up truth that Jesus ALONE is THE Christ {Messiah}, THE Son of the Living God, the Bible says:
Matthew 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and exist raised over again the third day.
Jesus MUST go to Jerusalem. He MUST endure nether the hand of the religious establishment. He MUST be killed. He MUST lay His life down, and MUST rise again on the tertiary day. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world (John one:29) must dice for united states of america. Sin is no trifle before God. Sin is an offense confronting an Eternal Being, the God Who made all things. Born into this world of sin, born of parents who are sinners, nosotros are the offspring of Adam, sinners all. The Apostle said:
Romans five:8-12, xv … while we were however sinners, Christ died for united states. 9 Much more and so, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the expiry of his Son, much more than, existence reconciled, we shall be saved past his life. xi And not but so, but we likewise joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we accept at present received the atonement. 12 Wherefore, every bit past ane man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and then death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: … xv … if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by ane human being, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Adam brought sin into the world. The madness that we see on the news, the riots, the murders, the evil trying to brand lawlessness normal, these are all the marks of the lost sinful soul. Those without Christ cannot do well before God, and rarely do well amongst man. The plowing of the wicked is sin (Proverbs 21:4). Every deed of human proficient done before God without Christ and His shed Blood is like unto filthy rags (Isaiah 64:half-dozen). Jesus said "A bad tree cannot produce skilful fruit" (Matthew 7:18). The Bible teaches that every human is built-in physically live, merely spiritually dead to God:
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged {from God} from the womb: they get astray as presently equally they be born, speaking lies.
Jesus had to dice for our sins. He lonely is THE Christ, THE Son of the Living God. The Son of God died on Calvary for the sons of Adam. The Apostle said:
Romans iii:9-xviii both Jews and Gentile … are all under sin; 10 equally information technology is written, In that location is none righteous, no, not one: xi there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together go unprofitable; there is none that doeth expert, no, non one. 13 Their pharynx is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: xiv whose rima oris is full of blasphemous and bitterness: 15 their feet are swift to shed claret: 16 destruction and misery are in their means: 17 and the mode of peace have they not known: eighteen in that location is no fright of God earlier their eyes.
Creatures that are fallen from God cannot enter into God'south Heaven. They must be given the keys, for Heaven is locked out from those who are lost.
Jesus Volition Only Requite The Keys Of Heaven To Those Who Confess To The World That
" Jesus Is The Christ, The Son Of The Living God"
As Jesus speaks to His disciples this day, the Church is future and the Keys to be given are yet time to come. Jesus must go to Calvary. The Church is built on two time to come things:
The Cantankerous And Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and
The Coming of the Holy Spirit
The Spirit had not yet been given to man, for Christ had not yet died for our sins. Jesus declared …
John 7:37-39 If any homo thirst, allow him come unto me, and drinkable. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (Simply this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; considering that Jesus was not even so glorified.)
The Coming of the Holy Spirit cannot happen until our Lord goes to Calvary. The Lord began to teach the disciples that He had to depart, and that the Spirit of God had to come. We read:
John fourteen:15-17 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Male parent, and he shall give yous another Comforter, that he may bide with you for e'er; 17 fifty-fifty the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him non, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Once Jesus went to Calvary and rose again, the stage could be set up that the Holy Spirit come up unto God'due south people. To those who confidently confess that Jesus Lonely is THE Christ, THE Son of the Living God, God has sent the Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes to the Christian to teach u.s.a. more most Jesus:
John xiv:26 … the Comforter, which is the Holy {Spirit}, whom the Father will ship in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I accept said unto yous .
John 15:26 … when the Comforter is come up, whom I will send unto you from the Male parent, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Jesus had to go before the Spirit could come. This is why Jesus spoke of the Church and the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven as a future event. The Spirit could not come and indwell the Children of God until the Son made our adoption possible. Jesus told His disciples:
John 16:vii-14 … Nevertheless I tell you the truth; Information technology is expedient for you that I go away: for if I get not away, the Comforter will non come unto yous; but if I depart, I will send him unto you lot. viii And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you lot, but ye cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you lot into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; only whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he volition shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me:
When Jesus Christ died on Calvary, He fabricated payment for the sins of the world. When we telephone call on Him, assertive, He promises that the Spirit of God will come to us. It is the Spirit of God that brings the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. The Holy Spirit comes to every professor of Christ Jesus. The Bible declares:
Romans 8:9-11 Just ye are not in the mankind, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ten And if Christ be in yous, the body is dead because of sin; merely the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised upwards Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in y'all.
On the day that Jesus commended Peter for understanding the greatest truth ever told, Jesus had yet to become to Calvary. That was coming. Simply in order for God to save human being, it would require more than than only the sacrifice of Calvary. God would have to change the states. We are born into this earth sinners, children of Adam. But Sky IS GOD'Southward Habitation. Heaven is not where the Children of Adam go. Heaven is where the Children of God go.
It Is God The Spirit That Brings Us Both Life,
And The Keys To Sky
"It's not our color or behavior that ascertain who we are. At the core of who we are is God, the essence of being. And sometimes we lose sight of that." (Armstrong Williams)
We are born into this world spiritually dead. Only when nosotros confess that Jesus is THE Christ, THE Son of the Living God, then God sends His Spirit to us to brand us fit for Heaven. Conservancy is more than only a creed. When you confess Christ, believing on Him, God sends His Spirit into your life. You change. You must alter.
Heaven does non have open borders. Heaven is God'southward home, a place where God'south Children become. Apart from Christ we are Adam'due south Children. Merely confessing Christ, God sends His Spirit to us, to change u.s.a. from children of Adam to Children of the Living God. Jesus said:
John 3:iii Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot run into the kingdom of God.
Heaven is God's Home. You lot cannot enter the Kingdom of Sky, the Kingdom of God, unless yous are BORN Again. Yous cannot make yourself built-in again. Y'all cannot. Y'all could non make yourself born the commencement time, nor can you brand yourself built-in the 2nd fourth dimension. Hear the Lord:
John three:6-8 That which is built-in of the mankind is flesh; and that which is built-in of the Spirit is spirit. vii Marvel non that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. eight The wind bloweth where information technology listeth, and thousand hearest the sound thereof, merely canst non tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: and then is every one that is born of the Spirit.
There are many who profess to exist Christian, only their profession is but outward, much similar the profession of the Scribes, Sadducees, and Pharisees of Jesus' day. God must come up to you and change yous. He promises to do so when you confess that Jesus is THE Christ, THE Son of the Living God. When y'all,
Romans 10:9-xi …. if yard shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine centre that God hath raised him from the dead, k shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. xi For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall non exist ashamed.
Do y'all wish to enter Heaven? You lot need the keys. Profess Christ as He is, and God will bring y'all the keys. God volition come up to yous, and cause you to be born once more. Your portion is to lay your life down, to turn from being your own god, and plow to the Son of God. The Christian is the person who has
i Peter i:22-25 … purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye dearest one another with a pure centre fervently: 23 being born once again, not of corruptible seed, simply of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all mankind is equally grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 but the word of the Lord endureth for e'er. And this is the give-and-take which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Oh that God would reveal the great truth to yous, and that you would believe. When y'all believe on Christ the Holy Spirit will do His part.
Romans 8:13-17 …. if ye alive after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. fourteen For equally many every bit are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fearfulness; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby nosotros weep, Abba, Begetter. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that nosotros are the children of God: 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and articulation-heirs with Christ; if then exist that we endure with him, that we may be also glorified together.
If you are a Christian, indwelt past the Spirit of God, yous take they keys of Sky. If you have the keys, you have the Correct to be in Heaven. If you accept the keys, your DESTINATION is Heaven, where yous will live in eternity. Merely also if y'all have the keys, you take the correct to offering them to others.
If You Are Saved, Share The Keys With Others
Matthew sixteen:19 I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever thou shalt demark on world shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on globe shall exist loosed in heaven.
People accept argued nigh the meaning of this passage for years, but I see no difficulty in it. If yous have the keys of Sky, if y'all have confessed Christ as Lord and Savior, and God the Holy Spirit has inverse you, then share these keys with others. If a soul is saved hither (loosed from sin and expiry), then it will be loosed in Heaven (forgiven and adopted into the Kingdom). The Apostle Peter used the keys on the Day of Pentecost. Our Lord Jesus, having paid for our sins, told the states:
Matthew 28:18-xx … All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the proper name of the Male parent, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I take commanded you
In Acts 2 Peter shared the keys with crowds in Jerusalem, and 3000 entered the Church that mean solar day. In Acts 8 Peter shared the keys in Samaria, and in Acts 10 he preached to the Gentiles. Where people believed and confessed that Jesus is The Christ, The Son of the Living God, the Holy Spirit came and changed both hearts and destination. People are bound in their sins, enslaved to this globe. But where Christ Jesus is shared the Spirit can work. Bonds tin can be broken. Sinners freed. But if you refuse to accept the keys, then what is bound on earth is bound in Heaven. When you leave this earth, you will not get to Sky, just Hell.
Dear, the selection is yours.
Matthew 16:24-26 … If whatever man volition come up later on me, let him deny himself, and have upwards his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will salvage his life shall lose it: and whosoever volition lose his life for my sake shall find information technology. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his ain soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Do you know Jesus Christ as both Lord and Savior? If not, lay your life downward to Him. Believe that He gave Himself on Calvary for you. And, once you lot are converted, strengthen your fellow believers (Luke 22:32). Oh, how I pray that God'due south Spirit affect your souls, that yous come up to Jesus this very mean solar day. May God the Holy Spirit brand this seed cast a reality. In Christ's proper name I pray. Amen and Amen!
Source: https://bibleteacher.org/2020/08/30/the-keys-of-the-kingdom-of-heaven/
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