John 7:40-44: All or Nothing

Scripture Reading

John 15:1–5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Intro

What does true discipleship look like?

What does it really mean to follow Jesus?

In our world of easy-believism and lukewarm Christianity what does it look like to live an all or nothing life for Christ?

That is the question we are answering today from John 7:40-44.

And my goal for today is to inspire you to live more and more of your life for Jesus Christ or maybe, if God were so gracious to start living for Him in the first place.

And the Big Idea for today is...

Jesus divides.

And if we are to be His followers we must be divided wholly unto Him.

To give you a little bit of a road map today we are going to spend a little over half the sermon in the first point.

That’s where we really dig into the theological principle of this passage.

Jesus is the Great Divider of Men who divides those in Adam from those in Christ.

And then the second half of the sermon we are going to spend looking at the necessary applications of that principle.

What does it mean to be divided unto Christ?

Where we are going to ask a lot of questions and I hope they are as convicting and edifying for you as they were for me.

So let’s start with point number 1...

I. Jesus is the Great Divider of Men

John 7:40–44 When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” So there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

The words John is talking about are the words of Jesus just before this in verses 37-38.

“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” (John 7:37-38).

The words are a promise of salvation.

Come to Christ. Believe in Him and you will be saved.

Gospel

Its the great promise of the gospel.

We are all lost and dead in our sins.

Condemned already under the holy and righteous wrath of God.

But God, in His great love for us, gave His only Son, Jesus Christ to live a perfect and sinless life, and die the death we deserved on the cross paying the full penalty for our sin and satisfying once for all the wrath of God...

And He rose again three days later so that whoever believes in Him would also rise again with Him from spiritual death to spiritual life.

The full forgiveness of sins and reconciliation - peace! - with God.

And this salvation is a free gift.

Its not something you earn. Its not something you work for.

Its not based on merit or good works.

It is 100% a gift of God’s free grace in Christ.

Grace Alone. Faith Alone. Christ Alone.

He died in our place for our sins.

His death becomes our death.

All our sin was laid on Him, and He shed His blood to make atonement for our sin and wash us clean.

And through faith in Him, God clothes us in Christ’s perfect righteousness.

No more sin. No condemnation (Rom 8:31). Its removed as far from us as east is from the west (Psalm 103:12).

And all that’s left is God’s love, mercy, and grace.

But only through faith in Christ.

There is no other name under heaven by which men must be saved (Acts 4:12).

Not our own name in our own strength and power…Not someone else’s…Only Christ!

And in response to these words there was a great division over Him.

Divisions

Prophet

The first group of people said This really is the Prophet.

This is something that has come up again and again in John (John 1:21, 6:14).

The Prophet was the Prophet like Moses prophesied Deuteronomy 18 (Deut. 18:15-18).

A new Moses to come lead the people in truth.

In Jesus’ day there were several different opinions about who this prophet would be.

Some people rightly believed the Prophet would be the coming Messiah.

This is what the Christians believed in the early church looking to Jesus as the One True Mediator - Prophet, Priest, and King - between God and His people (Acts 3:22-23, 7:37).

Others did not view the prophet as the Messiah but the forerunner to the Messiah.

The one who would point to the true Messiah, and say “There He is! There’s the answer to all our sin!”

This is, evidently, the position these people believed.

And then here’s the key…

By calling Jesus the Prophet these Jews believed Jesus was someone special.

That He was a good man sent from God to speak the very words of God.

But that’s it…

Their “faith”…if you want to call it that…didn’t go any further.

They believed that Jesus was someone special, someone sent from God, but they didn’t believe all that Jesus claimed Himself to be.

The Messiah! The Son of God incarnate in human flesh.

They might have liked Jesus, but they didn’t believe in Him.

They didn’t come to Him as the Fountain of Living Waters put all of their faith in Him.

They liked a lot of what Jesus said, but Jesus’ words, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink,” fell on deaf ears.

“Good Christian People”

This would be similar to “good Christian people” sitting in many churches today.

And I use that term lightly.

I don’t mean Christian as in those who have put their faith in Christ.

I mean Christian as in those who merely profess the name of Christ.

Who settle for playing the part without any genuine faith.

They might go to church and have good Christian morals, but they don’t actually believe in Jesus or follow Him.

Oh sure. They affirm the truth.

They know the Scripture. They can tell you the gospel.

They believe Jesus actually died and rose again, but they’ve never come to Him as their personal Lord and Savior.

They’ve never counted the cost, laid down their life, and followed Him.

They have an attraction to Jesus. An affinity for Jesus. But no real faith in Jesus.

They are white washed tombs. Clean on the outside, but dead on the inside (Matthew 23:27).

Maybe this is you.

You come to church. You know the truth.

You know that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

You like Jesus, and you like Christianity, but you’ve never taken the necessary step of putting your faith in Christ and submitting to Him not just as a good man or a wise teacher, but as the Son of God and Lord of your life.

Like Spurgeon said, you can have an orthodox head - all the right theology, and still have a dead, sinful heart.

“Christ the Cause of Division,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 47 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1901), 27.

Let me tell you that’s not saving faith.

That is dead and worthless religion.

You will not be saved by knowing a lot about Jesus or being loosely connected to Him.

Not everyone who says “Lord, Lord” who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven on that day (Matthew 7:21-23).

Some will hear the Lord say “I never knew you; depart from me you workers of iniquity”

Because its not being around Jesus that saves you. Its being in Jesus and that union comes from genuine, whole hearted saving faith.

And that’s the second type of people.

Christ

Verse 41: Others said, “This is the Christ.”

They heard the word of Christ and believed with saving faith.

They trusted in Him alone for salvation.

This is the Messiah who was promised.

The One God sent to save us from all our sin.

These are those who heard Christ’s call “If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink,” and they came to Christ and found all the water would ever need to satisfy their thirsty souls.

As Isaiah 12:3 says With joy [they drew] water from the wells of salvation.

No One

But then you had others who didn’t think Jesus was the Christ or even someone special.

Verse 41: But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” (John 7:41–42).

In other words, Jesus is no one. He is unimportant. Insignificant. Just another man.

There’s even a hint of scorn in their question.

Surely the Christ isn’t going to come from Galilee, is He?

Galilee was the boondocks…the sticks to these sophisticated Judeans.

Jesus as the Messiah is beneath them.

How many today refuse to come to Christ out of pride and the foolishness of the cross?

And besides all this, they pointed to two prophecies from the Scripture, to say that Jesus could not possibly be the Messiah.

The Christ would be descended from David, the great King of Israel.

And He would be born in Bethlehem, the city of David.

And heres the irony.

Jesus was.

The people knew Scripture! They knew what the Bible said about the Messiah.

But at the same time they were ignorant of Jesus and spiritually blind to the fulfillment of the Scripture standing right in front of them.

They assumed Jesus was from Galilee. But Jesus was only raised in Galilee.

He was born in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:5-6).

And…He was the offspring of David.

Through Mary, He was the biological descendent of David born of a virgin.

And through, Joseph, His legal and adoptive father, Jesus was descended from the royal line through Solomon giving Him not just the blood, but the legal right of the throne.

He was as much of a son of David as a son of David could be.

Prophecies

Jesus was the fulfillment of all the Messianic Prophecies of the Old Testament.

Its one of the ways we know Jesus was the Christ.

Born of a virgin. (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:22-23, Gen 3:15).

Called out of Egypt after His family fled there because Herod tried to kill Him (Matthew 2:14-15).

Betrayed for thirty pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12-13).

Pierced, cursed, hung on a tree with none of His bones broken. (Psalm 22:16, Galatians 3:13).

They divided his clothes by lot (John 19:24, Psalm 22:18).

He died, was buried and rose again (Psalm 16:18-20).

And He ascended into heaven at the the right hand of the Father to receive all authority in heaven and on earth and a kingdom that will never pass away or ever be destroyed (Psalm 16:8-10, Daniel 7:13-14, Matthew 28:18-20).

Just some of the prophecies that were fulfilled.

No one could fake that, let alone fulfill all of them without missing a single one.

But Jesus did. Because He is the Messiah.

And yet…these people listening to Jesus were absolutely blind to it.

Summary

This shows us the depth of Total Depravity and spiritual blindness of our sin.

You could be standing right in front of Jesus and totally ignorant to the truth of Christ.

They did not see Him with spiritual eyes. As the yes and Amen to all God’s promises (2 Cor 1:20).

And that is how many still see Him today.

Just another man. Unimportant. Insignificant.

Having nothing to do with me or my eternal destiny.

Ignorant of the light and the light and the truth that’s in Jesus.

Like the people in John 7, they simply ignore Jesus and all the ways that He is the fulfillment of our salvation and all the Word of God to go on their merry way lost, blind, dead in sin.

Liar and Deceiver

Finally there were those who opposed Jesus.

Verse 44: Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

No one laid hands on Him because it was not yet His appointed time.

Already in chapter 7 Jesus has said multiple times, My hour has not yet come (John 7:6, 8).

Jesus was sent to fulfill all righteousness, preach the Word, and accomplish everything necessary for our salvation and under God’s sovereign hand who planned and purposed our salvation, He would not die until that time.

And some wanted to arrest Him because like the chief priests and the Pharisees, they thought Jesus was a liar and a deceiver.

A Blasphemer.

Some people even thought He was demon possessed (John 7:20).

At any rate they did not believe Jesus was who He said He was and did all that they could to oppose Him.

These are those who resist Christ.

Blaspheme His Name.

Who hate the Lord and rage against the church.

Jesus Divides

And the point of all this is Jesus divides.

Verse 43: So there was a division among the people over Him.

Everyone loves Jesus until He starts making demands on your life.

Everyone loves the goods and services Jesus.

The one who will answer all your prayers and bless your life in exchange for a little bit of religion.

But they can’t stand the repent and believe Jesus.

The lay down your life Jesus.

The die to yourself, take up your cross, and follow me Jesus.

That’s the Jesus people break over. Everything rises and falls on Him.

You see it here.

Some say He’s the Prophet.

Other’s say He’s the Christ.

Some say He’s no one special, and still more say He is a liar and a deceiver leading people astray.

Division Bad?

And you might say, but isn’t division bad?

The Bible does condemn division. It leads to bitterness, envy, and strife.

All kinds of quarrels and factions.

Things that are killers to a church because they distract from the ministry and worse, go against our Lord’s prayer that we would be one and strive to love one another in unity as a a testimony to the world of the power of the gospel and the love and forgiveness that we have in Jesus Christ.

But not division grounded on and rooted in the truth.

Truth divides.

Talking about division Paul even says in 1 Corinthians 11:19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

Its not division if its rooted and grounded in the truth.

Contending for the faith.

God’s Word is the standard, and any deviation from that is the division.

Not those who hold fast to it.

And Christ, who is the incarnate Word, the truth of God incarnate in human flesh is the great divider of mankind.

Everyone has to answer the question: What will you do with Jesus?

Look at what Jesus even said.

Matthew 10:34–36 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

In the parallel passage in Luke Jesus says I did not come to bring peace, but division (Luke 12:51-53).

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.

Now what is Jesus saying?

He’s not saying that He came to poison family relationships or that we don’t need to worry about honoring the 5th commandment to honor our Father and Mother.

Christian husbands, wives, children parents are all called to sacrificially love their family.

What Jesus is saying is I came to save sinners and make such a sharp divide between those who believe and me and those who don’t that it severs even the closest family ties.

That there is such a sharp difference between Christian and Non-Christian that not even physical family, the closest bonds we have, can hold it together.

Jesus divides.

He divides Believers from Unbelievers.

Life from Death (John 5:24).

Light from Darkness (John 12:46).

The children of God and the children of Satan and the world (John 8:44).

In Christ we are a new creation that changes absolutely everything.

That supersedes all human loyalties and relationships.

Basically what Jesus is saying is that there are only two types of people in the world.

Everyone has to decide what you are going to do with Jesus.

And how you respond to Him will you in one of two camps - camps that will determine your life, salvation, and ultimately your eternal destiny:

Jesus divides…and He divides all humanity into one of two groups: those in Adam, and those in Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Adam was the first Man.

And every single person that has ever been born is in him…he is our father.

And when Adam fell we all fell. We all sinned in Him. We inherited His sin nature and were made sinners ourselves with all the death and condemnation that brings.

Therefore…In Adam all die.

But Christ is the Last Adam. The perfect Adam.

Where Adam fell and trusted in His own wisdom Christ obeyed and said, “Not my will, but your will be done.”

And just as Adam’s sin was transferred to us when we were born in Him, Christ’s righteousness is given to us when we are born again.

Through faith we are placed in Christ to receive all the blessings, promises, and salvation Christ has purchased for us.

So also in Christ all shall be made alive.

Paul summarizes this in Romans 5:18–19 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men [that’s Adam], so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men [that’s Christ and His death on the cross]. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

Summary

Jesus causes division among the people, not just in opinions of Him, but based on those opinions He divides all mankind into those in Adam and those in Christ.

Those dead in their trespasses and sins, under the wrath and condemnation of God...

And those alive again…washed, cleansed, forgiven, justified through the perfect righteousness of Christ.

That is the theological principal of this passage...

That’s the Big Idea...

Jesus divides all Mankind into those in Adam and those in Christ through faith in Him.

And the rest of the sermon we are going to look at the application of that.

The first and most obvious is, what are you going to do with Jesus?

Is He just a good teacher? Someone sent from God with good moral teachings?

Is He just another man. No one special and someone of no account so you can tell yourself you don’t have to deal with Jesus and go on your way.

Is He a liar and deceiver. Someone false who you hate and you don’t has the right to have any claim on your life?

Or is He your Lord and Savior?

That is the difference between someone in Adam and in Christ.

Jesus is the great divider of men and everything…life, salvation, and eternity rises and falls on Him.

What will you do?

And that takes us to the second application from this passage.

Point number 2…

II. There is No Middle Ground with Following Jesus

What does it mean that Jesus is the great divider of the world? That everything rises and falls on Him?

There’s no middle ground.

You can’t sit on the fence.

With Jesus Christ…its all or nothing.

Matthew 12:30 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

This goes back to that division idea.

There are only two possibilities of relationship with Christ: with or against.

Jesus is the fork in the road for every man.

When it comes to Christ, you can’t be a little in or a little out.

He calls us to an all or nothing faith and an all or nothing discipleship.

An all or nothing faith…

Complete trust in Him.

He is the only Savior.

He is all our righteousness.

Our only God and all of our salvation.

And an all or nothing discipleship…

We don’t just trust Christ with all of our life, we follow Him with all of our life.

All of our life is to be brought into submission to Him.

We trust in Him as Savior and we follow Him as Lord…

Not just with some of our life…A little of our life…the parts of our life we are comfortable with giving up or fine living without with…

All of it…

There is no middle ground it is all or nothing.

Lukewarm

Lukewarm Christianity is an epidemic in our day.

I know I feel the tug in my own heart.

I have this comfortable Christian life…we grow lax…we get comfortable and we lose the zeal we had a first.

And let me implore you...

And I’m imploring myself and us as a whole church...

Do not settle for lukewarm Christianity.

Christ is worthy of so much more than our scraps and half-hearted worship.

Remember what He said to the church of Laodicea.

Revelation 3:15–16 I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!

1. Were that you were all or nothing not trying to play the middle ground…

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

And what’s Christ answer?

Verse 18 and 19...

Revelation 3:18–19 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

Be zealous and repent.

Run to Christ.

Hear the call of the all or nothing life.

If there are only two types of people - those in Adam and those in Christ - which one are we living like?

The Old Man satisfying the lusts and desires of the flesh?

Or the New Man Jesus Christ?

Let me tell you how lukewarm Christianity works itself out in my life.

You stop striving for Christ.

You stop putting in the pains of godliness.

You won’t grow by osmosis…we don’t fall upward into holiness.

There is a zeal…a striving…a discipline and intentionality necessary to live for the glory of Christ.

What do your efforts towards godliness and honoring Christ look like?

Are you living an all or nothing life?

That’s the question?

There’s no middle ground. Do we live like it?

What’s your plan for spiritual growth and godliness?

When I say plan I mean less of what are your religious check boxes and more is your life marked by a spiritual earnestness and intentionality for growth.

I know it can be hard so let me give you a few practical questions I ask myself, and I hope these are as convicting for you as they are for me.

What does an all or nothing life look like?

I had a convicting conversation with one of our members this week.

Do I respond to even the smallest conviction in my life or does sin have to get really really bad before I do anything about it?

Do I really take every thought captive…even the smallest ones and make them submit to Christ? (2 Cor. 10:5).

Do I strive to live a Christ honoring life with every aspect of my life?

My thought life.

Marriage.

Parenting.

Spouse. Work. Free time and Money.

Church.

Is there any part of my life that I’m holding back from Christ? that I’m not striving to bring into conformity to Him and His will?

Number 3...Am I making an intentional effort towards holiness or coasting in my faith?

Do I practice spiritual disciplines?

Do I lead family worship?

Is living for Christ something I’m trying to do or something I hope is happening somewhere in the background?

And number 4…Am I committed to a local church? Am I committed to this church?

Part of following Jesus is being part the people of God in a local congregation and not just out there somewhere an island trying to live a a fend for yourself faith and Christianity.

Some of you need to become members of a local church whether that’s here or somewhere else because you cannot grow in your discipleship without being a part of a local church body.

If you’re coming here week after week and you’re not a member or moving towards membership I promise, this is no benefit to you…at least not in the way it could.

You are missing out on what God has established to help you grow in your faith and discipleship.

And for our members…Do we love this church? Do we value this church as a gift?

Are we fulfilling our commitments and duties as a member to our church and one another.

And are we doing it with love and joy?

Don’t settle for a Lukewarm Christianity.

Strive with all your might for an all or nothing Christianity!

As Elijah said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him” (1 Kings 18:21).

Or Joshua Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:14-15).

There is no middle ground when it comes to following Jesus...

Are you living an all or nothing faith?

And finally point number 3...

III. Count the Cost!

The discipleship Christ calls us to…the faith that divides us from sin, satan, and the world is not easy believes.

An all or nothing Christianity comes with a price.

1. You Must Hate your Own Life

Luke 14:25–33 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple…So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Again, Jesus is not calling us to abandon the 5th commandment or Christian duties to our family.

What He’s saying is He must be our first and ultimate love.

That everything else, even those things most dearest to us, all fall to the wayside when it comes to Him.

He is our first and greatest treasure, joy, commitment, and Lord.

The same idea was in the passage we looked at earlier where Jesus said He came not to bring peace but a sword.

The verses immediately following that read Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it (Matthew 10:37-39).

The call to follow Christ is a call to lay down your life.

Number 2…

2. You Must Leave Everything Behind

Luke 9:57-62 in this passage we have three would be disciples who Jesus says make sure you know what your doing before you follow me.

Luke 9:57–62 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

You will follow me wherever I go?

What about into homelessness?

Into having nothing not even a place to lay your head?

Will you leave everything behind?

To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Now if there was a corpse at home this man would have probably been at the funeral.

So maybe this man’s Father was at home close to death, or maybe He had already died and the man needed to settle the affairs for His inheritance.

Either way, Jesus gives some of the hardest words He ever said. Leave it all behind and follow me.

Finally…

Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”

That doesn’t sound unreasonable.

I will follow you the rest of my life, just give me half a day to say goodbye to my family.

But...

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Its all or nothing. Leave everything behind.

Have you answered that call?

Has following Christ cost you something?

Your dreams, desires, priorities, or at the least…your sins?

Don’t put your hand on the plow and look back.

True discipleship calls us to leave everything behind and follow Him.

Number 3…

3. You Will Be Hated by the World

John 15:19–20 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

To be friends with the world is to be at enmity with God (James 4:4).

Have you left behind the love of the world and things of the world?

Do you live for the fear of man or the fear of God?

Summary

In short, following Christ will cost you. And it just might cost you everything, even the ones closest to you.

But in return you gain your soul.

Remember what Christ promised.

If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Following Christ might cost you everything but you will gain eternal life.

So you see its a serious price but only a fool would refuse to pay it.

Matthew 16:24–26 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

The Cost for Today

And here’s the kicker.

Counting the cost isn’t just something you do at the beginning of your Christian discipleship.

Its not something you do one time when you come to faith in Christ.

Its something you do every…single…day.

The cost of discipleship gives us a picture of what everyday discipleship should look like in your every day life.

Do you follow Christ with such an abandon of your wants, your preferences, your desires…

Your wisdom, and your right to call your own shots that it can be said of you that you hate your own life?

That everything falls to the wayside of your own life so that you could live for Christ?

Does your discipleship cost you something?

Have you left everything behind?

Do you look back with your hand to the plow?

Let me put it simply…have you left behind your sin or are you, like the Israelites, longing to go back to Egypt?

And are you willing to be hated by the world?

Have you died to the World and set your life on a path that lives for the approval of God and not man?

Have you, All or Nothing, laid down your own life?

Conclusion

What will you do with Jesus?

Everything rises and falls on Him.

And based on Him there are only two types of people in the world.

Those in Adam and Those in Christ.

Those dead and condemned in their sin and those forgiven and justified in Christ.

Which are you?

Today you could be in Christ.

Today you could be transferred - divided from - the Kingdom of Darkness to the Kingdom of Light.

But only if you repent and believe.

If you trust in Christ and His death and resurrection.

Only if you look to Him and say “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.”

Christ divides all of Mankind.

Are you in Adam or are you in a Christ?

And then which one do you look like?

Do you still live in the Old Man or have you put off the Old Man to live in the New?

Have you settled for a middle of the road, lukewarm Christianity?

Or are you living an all or nothing life for Christ?

Let’s Pray