It Won't Matter After we Make the Crossing

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It Won't Matter After We Make The +Crossing+

Transcribed From Audio Tape No. 752
Preached July 18, 1999
By Brother Ben Howard
Dawsonville, Georgia

   I want to take a little thought on something I have been looking at in the scriptures here for quite some time. One morning this week it kind of came on my mind again. So, I want to take this thought, “It Won’t Matter After We Make The Crossing.” I am going to deal with it from this standpoint. A lot of times in this flesh we have our errors, and we make our mistakes. That is just part of getting through this world. It won’t matter once we make the crossing, whether we made every decision right or not. It is obvious that we are not going to make every decision right, and here is why. We only know the past, we are living in the present, but we can’t see the future. We can only anticipate what might happen in the future. A lot of times, it doesn’t happen the way we think it might happen, or the way that we have planned. Sometimes, it just doesn’t work out. So hence is the title of our message, “It Won’t Matter After We Make The Crossing”.
   What I want you to look at starting in Hebrews, is how the Apostle Paul wrote about Moses. Also we are going to see what Paul said when he wrote about Abraham, and what he said about Abraham’s wife Sarah. Also we will look at different ones, as they were wrote about by the men of God. Then we want to read some of what actually happened in their lives, and what was written about them. We will look at David, the man called a Prophet of God. We know that David made many mistakes, don’t we? He did many things that would have certainly been unethical, and actually shameful. When he was written about in the New Testament, not one of David’s mistakes was ever mentioned. That’s what I want you to notice in the Word of God. Every man from Adam on down through the Bible, in trying to do their best for God made many errors in judgment. They made many mistakes, stumbled and fell many times. It was Solomon that said, “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the wicked shall fall into mischief.” (Proverbs 24:16) See it’s not that you fall, it’s whether you get back up or not. That’s the thing about it. We are all going to fall. We are all going to make mistakes. We are all going to do things we wished we hadn’t done. Amen? There is one thing: It is not going to matter over there. It’s not going to matter when God writes about us, because He is looking at us as He predestinated us to be.
   Now when we look in the Word of God, we see Israel coming through the wilderness. Israel was aggravating Moses, and many times were going contrary to the Law of God. Yet God was having them go through the wilderness, the hot desert, leading them into the land of Canaan. They were in the wilderness for forty years. During that forty years time, they made a lot of mistakes. Many times Moses (being the leader), his anger would wax hot. Moses said, “You rebels.” I’m sure there was plenty more said that the scriptures do not tell us. They aggravated Moses to death, see? Many times he would get so angry that he would cry out at them. One time, they didn’t have any water and they started to complain. God told Moses to smite the rock (the Rock being a type of Christ) and water would come out, and it did. Then when they ran out of water again, God told Moses to speak to the rock. By this time, the children of Israel had gotten Moses so angry, that instead of speaking to the rock, he smote the rock. The water came anyway, but God said, “Moses you should have glorified me, instead of yourself.” This was a type of Christ, and He was smote only one time on Calvary’s Cross for the sins of the world.
   I want you to realize that we are a bundle of flesh, with the Spirit and ways of God in us. In our striving to do what the Will of God is, many times we get frustrated, because sometimes we can’t see the future or anticipate what will happen next. We make mistakes and sometimes we make wrong choices. Some people have a problem with their anger getting away from them, and say things they shouldn’t. Even David said, “I said in my haste, all men are liars.” (Psalm 116:11) In his haste, in his anger, when someone did him wrong he said, “All men are liars.” Notice carefully, “I said that in my haste.” This was showing the outer man. It is very important to realize there is an outer man to us, as well as an inner man. The inner man is the one that is redeemed. The outer man is the one that is not redeemed yet, but is going to be. Paul said, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” (Romans 8:22,23) We will receive this when we go through that door called death, or when we are translated as was Enoch. (Hebrews 11:5) This is a wonderful blessing for God’s children. We don’t really die. We just past from the visible to the invisible. We enter into the other dimension where the Glory of God is. Jesus said, “He that believeth upon me has already passed from death unto life.” So you can’t die. You’ve already died out to yourself, and surrendered your life to God. You have eternal life. Eternal is a word that means; there was never a beginning and there will never be an end. You may say Preacher, “I had a beginning.” Yes, you as a person had a beginning. The Bible says, “Christ in you, the Hope of Glory!” So when you received the Spirit of God in you, then you are receiving a life in you that didn’t have a beginning. That makes you as eternal as God is eternal. In 1st Corinthians 6:17; it says, “But He that is joined unto the Lord is one Spirit.” You can no more die than God can die, because you are a part of Him. You are a son and daughter of God! Praise the Lord! So, many things here won’t matter when we make the crossing. We should realize more and more, that what we did yesterday is not going to be a hindrance to us in doing the will of God. The only thing, it should be for our learning. When we make a mistake, then we should let that be a stepping stone to us. So we won’t do the same thing again and make another mistake. It is something like when you are serving God and you make a wrong choice. That wrong choice sometimes has consequences that you have to deal with. As long as you are walking in the Will of God, trying to do what is right, ultimately it is not going to matter (Romans 8:28).
   We are going to read a little bit here about what the Apostle Paul said about Moses, so turn to Hebrews, Chapter 3:1. It says, “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling (you are partakers of it, you have been called to repentance) consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; (2) Who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. (3) 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. (4) For every house is builded by some man; but He that built all things is God. (5) And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony for those things which were spoken after: (6) But Christ as a son over His own house, whose house are we, (we are Christ’ house, He lives in us) if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”

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