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Jesus is Lord <\/p>\n
2 Corinthians 4:5 <\/p>\n
Cooper P. Abrams III
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ILLUS: As a boy I had an experience: In a revival meeting at Pinetops Baptist Church, I heard the gospel preached. It emotionally effected me and I walked an isle crying and told the preacher I wanted to trust Jesus. Many have been genuinely saved in such an experience, yet I was not. I was walked an isle and professed Jesus Christ. Yet, I was not changed. I was baptized in a little white robe, but the truth is my heart was a black in sin coming out as going in. I lived my life for ME. I loved to sin, with little or no conviction. When I truly was saved, there was no great experience, I again walked an isle, told a preacher I wanted to serve Christ. He improperly, asked if I was a church member! I said yes and he ask the congregation to accept me as a member on transferring my church letter!
But folks, what was outward done had no bearing on what took place in my heart. Christ came in and changed me and I have never been the same person I was since!
My father was upset, when several years later I realized that I had not been scripturally baptized and asked the church I was a member of to baptize me biblically. My father said, dismissing my actions, “You were saved as a boy.” I loved my Dad with all my heart and he was the greatest influence in my life for Christ. He died in September 2000 and went to be with the Lord and I miss him so very much. But dear friends, my dad was wrong. After I professed Jesus as my Savior and was baptized I never lived one day of my life for Him. I claimed Him as my Savior….but He certainly was not in my life and I was not a disciple of Jesus Christ. For seven years I was in military service and my dog tags said Baptist. that was not true. True Baptists are saved people who love the Lord….I did not.
e. Several things we must understand that the Bible teaches concerning Scriptural salvation.
These are the truths on the matter.
In Luke 8:12, Jesus explained in the parable of the sower that a sower sowed seed and as he sowed some fell by the way side and was stepped on and bird came and ate it.
In Luke 8:11, He said that the seed was the Word of God, The Scriptural Truth, God’s Truth to Man.
He further said that the Devil came and took the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. It is the Devil’s purpose: Steal the truth or hide it from you. To give false assurance that one is saved and yet still be in their sins. <\/p>\n
I. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION WITHOUT REGENERATION!
A. John 3:7, Jesus said “ye MUST be born again.”
B. Justification means the act of pronouncing one to be righteous, means acquittal, being justified means acquittal from quilt. Romans 4:8 “blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin”
C. Regeneration: Titus 3:5 “Not by works of righteousness that we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Being made new, having a new life, changed and one becomes something they were not before. Like the transformation of a butterfly.
D. Jesus Said: “Ye must be born again.”
“Except a man be born again, YE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD”.
There is no salvation apart from being changed II Cor 5:17 ” If any man is in Christ, he is a NEW creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.”
E. A man is not saved if his life is not changed.
Romans 8:9 “But ye are not in the flesh, 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.” <\/p>\n
II. FAITH THAT DOES NOT WORK IS DEAD, NO ONE IS SAVED BY DEAD FAITH. James 2:20
A. “Will you know, O vain man, that faith that has no deeds or works is dead?”
B. Faith in a man will produce evidence. It will cause action.
James says, the devils believe in Christ. They have belief, but it is not life changing. They have not been rejuvenated.
James 2:14, says, “What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?” It is not teaching works for salvation, but teaching how to authenticate true faith. Faith is obedience, faith produces works and if the works are not there, the faith is not there either.
ILLUS: I once had a little garden. Carolyn and I from that little garden got turnips and mustard salad, squash, a few peas, and several cucumbers. I was not able to get any corn, carrots, or water melons. Wonder why? There are no plants in my garden. I do not get these vegetables because there is nothing to produce them. Friends, if there is faith there will be some fruit.
Accepting the historical Jesus and being a church member or having some emotional experience will not save a person. Wanting heaven and God’s blessing will not save unless there is a surrender of one’s heart to Him. He only saves those who accept Him as their Lord.
In the New Testament the word “Lord” is found 711 times, and it means “the person to whom a person or thing belongs, the one who has power the of deciding over another as one’s master and lord”
C. Saving faith is a faith that works, not to be saved, but the words are the nature result of Christ’s life changing coming into one’s heart and life.
Can Christ be present in a person and there be no evidence of if? Can Christ regeneration a person, and that person go on the same way they were before they were regenerated?
Do you think that God can indwell a person and that person be not changed and living in open sin, and ignore the presence of God? That is not what God says. He says :
Therefore IF any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17) Did no the word IF proceeds the statement.
III. THE MARK OF TRUE SALVATION IS THAT THE PERSON PERSEVERES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
A. Matt. 10:22. “ye shall be hated of all men for my name sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.”
Revelation 2:26, 3:5, 21. Those that overcome, are given power over nations, clothed in white raiment, names not blot out of the book of life, and Jesus will confess his name before the Father, and will grant to sit the person to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in His Throne.
B. The Child of God remains in the family.
I John 2:19, “they went out from us; but they were not of us, for if they had been of us they would no doubt(means absolutely) have continued with us; but they went out that it might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”
1. Over the years I have had a lot of people come to our church to visit and some even joined professing themselves to be born again Christ. However, some left the our church and quit attending. They said they were saved, and were trusting Christ yet, they went back into sin.
2. Why? They apparently were not part of the family.
ILLUS: Why do some children and teens run away from home? Sometimes is because of abuse, yet many run away for other reasons. They are in rebellion and they do not like what is in the home. They do not what to be told what to do or have any restrictions on their lives. They do not love their parents because if they did they would stay with their family.
3. Many come to church and seem for a while to do well, but in time they wither and die on the vine, because their roots were not on firm ground. They built on sand, and when trouble came and they were tested in the storm they withered away.
ILLUS: A child gets in trouble and finds himself in danger. Who does he cry for? Mother or Father. Why, he’s in the family and he knows who loves him and whom he loves.
III. FAITH IN A JESUS CHRIST WHO IS NOT ONE’S LORD AND MASTER IS A FAITH IN A ANTI-CHRIST OF ONES OWN MAKING.
A. The Jesus who saves is the Jesus who is the Lord and Master of ones life.
1. Luke 6:46. “Why do you call be Lord, Lord and do not the things what I say?” 2. You cannot separate the Lordship of Christ from Christ. You cannot take away His being your Lord, and have Him be your Savior.
3. He saved and is Lord, or He is not Lord and does not save. <\/p>\n
B. You cannot refuse to follow the commandments and instruction of the Scriptures and call Jesus your savior.
1. You cannot believe on a half-Christ.
We take Him for what he is—the anointed Savior and Lord who is King of Kings, Lord of all Lords or we reject Him.
A. W. Tozer said, “The Lord will not save whom He cannot command.”
IV. TRUE SALVATION IS MARKED BY REPENTANCE.
A. Matt. 5:13, “The publican, standing afar off, would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying God be merciful to me a sinner.”
B. Greek work “repentance” means “to precede after with a change of mind.
1. Five times in Revelation 2-3, Christ instructs the disobedient churches to “repent”.
2. It means to change one’s mind about a prior action and to turn from it and not do it again, because one sees the error of the act.
3. Being sorry for sin is not the same thing as repentance. One can be sorry and continue in the action, only when we repent of an action do we overcome it.
4. Biblical repentance involves a changing of mind from sin and disobedience, to turn to God and obedience to him.
C. The natural working of Christ in Salvation is a seeing of oneself as a sinner, and a turning from that sin to the Lord.
Conclusion:
1. Phil. 2:13 “For it is God which worketh in you, to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
2. It is the natural reasoning of man and a trick of Satan to try and steer a person from the truth.
3. Many have been deceived. Yet, in this room this morning no one need continue any longer under a false hope or deception.
4. Genuine salvation, frees from not only the judgment of sin, but the obligation to continue to sin. Christ frees the sinner, eternally and presently from sin.
5. Have you been born again? Have you truly become a disciple of Jesus Christ. Do you follow Him and His word. Are you growing in Christ. Are you more mature and more yield to him today they you were a year ago.
6. Believe and trust in Christ, yield your life to HIM, today. <\/p>\n
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