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Who Then Can Be Saved?
Whosoever */will/* call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
Romans 10:13
With man this is impossible . .
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He cannot do it.
Man can do many things but not that.
Amazing to think of all the things that man can accomplish and yet to see his extreme weakness.
With the increase of technological ability, man seems increasingly unable to manage his own life and affairs.
The lives of the leading men and women of society seem to be shaken and so fragile.
The inner man is so much under the control of Satan himself.
He is the author of chaos, destruction, decay.
Our brilliance is dimmed by our inability to manage ourselves.
It is the personal life of man that needs control and is falling apart for lack of it.
There are some people in this world known only by God.
It is better to be known than to be an enigma.
We may go to church with them week after week and never know what beats within their hearts.
There may be people here today who have never made a personal declaration of faith in Christ.
I think that there is personal victory and progress when people take that step.
*Difference between the “can’ts” and the “won’ts”.*
It is impossible for man to be saved, in other words they cannot accomplish their salvation.
Whosoever will . .
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salvation is most always a greater hurdle to the will than anything else.
Eagle & The Wolf
Man looks on the outward appearance but God sees the heart.
To the disciples this man looked like a prime prospect.
They were astonished that he did not make the grade.
They were not conscious of their own sacrifice.
There is that possibility in the church today that people can construct their own façade and hide behind it.
While this man was consumed with the process of gaining everything the disciples were consumed with the
process of losing~/leaving everything.
The disciples who then would qualify to be saved?
In their minds this refusal made a statement relative to the few who seem to find the way.
The most receptive group of people in a given church to challenge relative to giving, outreach, etc are those who are already active in the process.
There are a “few” relatively speaking who will be saved????
Many are called – few are chosen.
There is a narrow way and a broad road.
Few there be.
Many will say unto me Lord, Lord.
Total Lordship of Christ is a pre-requisite to enter the kingdom.
The responsibility of wealth weighs heavily in the process.
Money is a difficult thing to give up.
The following words are from an old engraving on a cathedral in Labeck, Germany:
Thus speaketh Christ our Lord to us:
You call Me master and obey Me not.
You call Me light and see Me not.
You call Me the Way and walk Me not.
You call Me life and live Me not.
You call Me wise and follow Me not.
You call Me fair and love Me not.
You call Me rich and ask Me not.
You call Me eternal and seek Me not.
If I condemn thee, blame Me not.
See: Isa 29:13; Luke 6:46; Titus 1:16; Jam 1:23-25
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Cannot be my disciple . . .
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We are often more impressed with what our eyes can observe than anything else.
If people look right and fit easily we don’t ask too many questions in the church.
This makes it easy for people to follow spiritually self-destructive paths and by the time we discover their problems it is far too late to do anything about it.
*/Early detection/* is the answer.
Jesus knows our hearts and we know the hearts of people that we spend time with.
*Often ineffective for people who have no mutual relationship to speak into another person’s life.
One of the very real notions of the body of Christ is that we are connected and it is through that connection that we grow.
* People who skirt the fringes of church life are often unaffected by the gospel.
*We are to hold one another accountable.
That is those who mutually invest in each other’s lives*.
Have a tendency to want to hide our struggles and our problems from each other.
This provides a place for the devil to work undetected.
Isolation – My business is my business
Anonymity – I’m not accountable for what I say.
Privacy – I’ll do it my way.
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Anything that the devil can do to break the connection will be something that he will use to precipitate our downfall.
People “disconnect” in the summer months and the fell removed when the Fall rolls around again.
*The rich young ruler was known only by Jesus.*
What was the difference between this man and the disciples who walked with Jesus?
The call to discipleship is no different than the call to Christ.
People who come to God must do so on His terms, convinced that they are no longer the people who know what the best for their lives is.
In his book, The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote of what he called the Great Divide: 'The first step which follows Christ's call cuts the disciple off from his previous existence.
The call to follow at once produces a new situation.
To stay in the old situation makes discipleship impossible.'
William Barclay writes:
It's possible to be a follower of Jesus without being a disciple; to be a camp-follower without being a soldier of the king; to be a hanger-on in some great work without pulling one's weight.
Once someone was talking to a great scholar about a younger man.
He said, "So and so tells me that he was one of your students."
The teacher answered devastatingly, "He may have attended my lectures, but he was not one of my students."
There is a world of difference between attending lectures and being a student.
It is one of the supreme handicaps of the Church that in the Church there are so many distant followers of Jesus and so few real disciples.
Wilbur Reese writes with biting sarcasm:
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please
Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.
I don't want enough of him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant.
I want ecstasy, not transformation.
I want the warmth of the womb not a new birth.
I want about a pound of the eternal in a paper sack.
I'd like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
How much of God do you want?
See: Deut 6:5; Luke 14:
The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others.
He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.
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