Deliverance, Salvation and Order are a mere confession away.
Yet in confessing, one should be aware that there is new path to proceed on.
Let’s take a look at the confession first.
32 “Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven. – Matthew 10:31-33
This statement is yet more evidence that Christianity as taught by Christ is on based on faith. What you believe in your heart will manifest from your mouth. Faith in the correct object of your faith is crucial to your salvation. Jesus follows this teaching with the truth that He is the only way.
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, leading to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, leading to salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes upon Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him, 13 for “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” – Romans 10:8-13
8 “And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God, 9 but he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God. – Luke 12:8-10
You can have “Faith” in anything. You can have faith in the concrete bock holding up your car while you work under it. That doesn’t mean that the concrete block is responsible much less capable of being a making you righteous before Holy God. (Quite frankly, a concrete block is not designed to hold up a car either).
When Christ declares the truth that leads to Salvation, it’s not a blind faith, nor is it one that defies evidence of the truth. The Bible is a collection of divinely inspired writings that spans across 1600 years by over 40 authors in multiple languages. When you compare this to other famous writings, the writing of the Bible stands out quite miraculously.
Archeological and historical research have only helped confirm validate the truths of the Bible.
When people abide by the moral laws declared as God’s truths, peoples’ lives get better, they become better people who love their neighbors and not desire to kill them for not being a Christian.
Christ calls each of us into personal relationship with God Himself, not into a social order or religious institution as the critically essential necessity. The Gospel is simple, it is direct.
When God accepts you completely through the righteousness of Christ, this is a divine act of Grace and there is nothing that compares in this world. Some relationships that share some similarities are the closest most devoted earthly relationships would be the acceptance of a child by a his or her parents and comrades-at-arms on the battlefield.
Simultaneously, God calls Christians to lead and stand firm in their beliefs for the sake of Christ and the glory of God. Becoming a Christian is not just life as usual. You cannot have a true calling from God and your life not begin to change either suddenly or gradually, but there will be change. You attitudes towards the Bible must necessarily change also.
The eternal kingdom of God begins now for all believers, not after they die.
23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. 24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. 25 For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? -Luke 9:23-25
Regarding serving Jesus Christ as Lord
25 Now many crowds were going along with Him, and He turned and said to them, 26 “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. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions. – Luke 14:25-33.
This does not mean we should disrespect our family, but in most people’s understandings, the Lordship of Christ, His righteousness and holiness, becomes weighted as we lead a life in worship to God. The place of God in our lives is one of transcendence above all other considerations. Jesus is Lord is not mere lip-service for Sunday meeting.
Maybe you’re just understanding this concept, it’s understandable as regardless of your age, if you haven’t been guided or alerted to these truths before. It is the normal mode of operation of the world to distract you with many things. Things that effectively prevent you from coming to grips with truth, instead the world would desire us to be consumed by base needs and distractions, often through hedonistic pleasure, immoral sexuality, incessant entertainment. All these things are not bad in the correct Godly context, but without discipline, the effects will drive a wedge between you and your relationship with the One True Living God.
Are you being duped by choosing surrogates to place of your personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
To exacerbate things, the problem with religion and heretical churches are intermediaries often create obstacles. Anything that purposely places itself between you and God is subject of conflict of interest. Even with good intentions there can be conflicts of interest that can be moderated if every believer takes seriously their personal study of Scripture.
We could all be little more cautious. The First and Second Commandments demand great sobriety. It wouldn’t be too much of a reach to ay that religion is by its institutionalization man-made. Religion of any sort takes each practitioner towards hypocrisy and away from truth. One could almost make the statement: religion is hypocrisy. Religious leadership is to a greater extent, by nature of creating offices, position of minor lords, hypocritical. Jesus’ greatest condemnations were against the religious Jews. By its nature, providing surrogates and false idols, religion deemphasizes the glory and grace of God and the essential truth of the Gospel and the Lordship of Jesus Christ, without whom we would all be damned.
Keep in mind the clear examples at the beginning of Gods Covenant with Abraham. He was declared righteous because of faith. Move onto the end of Christ’s earthly ministry, the thief on the cross, by faith, was promised to be with Christ in paradise. That’s good news for each of us, knowing God has presented to cure for eternal damnation.
The family is the essential God ordained unit. Before the Fall, there was only Marriage.
You wouldn’t want the church to become your children’s parent, much less the govenment, right? But when we make the church pastor or priest a surrogate for your own spiritual relationship to the One True Living God, who through Jesus Christ has called you into a personal relationship, well… then you have to some degree given up your responsibility as like a father who gives his children to the state.
We are saved by faith as was Abraham and the thief on the cross, however, and subsequently, as was seen more in Abrahan’s example, we see an imperfect man tested and corrected as he follows in faith and obedience. Doctrinally, we call this Sanctification.
Of course it’s important to be in felllowship and accountable to other believers, but that does not remove your first responsibility in developing your personal relationship with Christ.
Counting the Cost
Anyone who has decided to achieve a goal in life, has a vision of completion and also accepts that there is a path to be travelled in order to achieve that goal. For some contemporary military examples, “I want to become a Qualified Navy Submariner” or “I want to become an Army Paratrooper.” These awards are not just given to you, you know there is a tough path ahead and those who achieve these goals are willing to subject themselves to the tests to qualify for them. Sometimes you end up on a sh*t list, but your drive to be what you set out to achieve drives to do better. Moreover, those who strive to achieve their combat designations know that the badge is not the end, they may be called to put their very lives on the line in order to fulfill the true meaning of the awards that that have achieved, to remain in readiness and to put themselves in harms way when duty calls.
28 For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? – Like 14:28
Becoming a follower of Christ also offers the same paths, with guidelines provided through Scripture, that test each person who will follow in the steps of the Lord and Savior.
No one just says they are something of importance and does not change their life to achieve becoming that which they have declared. If you declare yourself a Christian and are not influenced by the Holy Spirit to lead your like in Godly ways, maybe you are not really a Christian.
What’s your attitude towards the Bible? Is it an authority in your life or just another piece of literature?
Are you a doormat or a bystander when evil manifests itself.
Do you feel tension when someone needs to stand as a shining light in the darkness? Are you called to forcibly stand for both truth and against evil. Are you drawn to loving compassion or even prepared to deliver just lethality against evil doers.
God is a God of Order and not chaos.
Chaos and the institutionalizing of chaos and corruption is of Satan.
God’s Order calls men a woman to seek a closer relationship with Christ. In the case of Marriage, a couple must exert effort to stand strong in their faith and to help establish families as an earthly model of Christ and the Church. This instructs men to lead and protect as husbands and fathers as well as women who fill complementary and synergetic roles in the family. The ultimate goal of a Christ-centered family is for succeeding generations to teach the ways of a Godly household, following Christ and striving for generational faithfulness that brings people back or keeps people in a right relationship with God, a relationship that glorifies God as the source of all blessings.
It all begins with a confession of belief, of faith in the God who produces all blessings and who offers Grace to all and Salvation to those who choose.
Jesus taught, 25 …“I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?” – John 11:25
For a one minute explanation of the Gospel from the late Pastor John MacArthur, watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCP9UcC7BzE
For a review of the Ten Commandments: https://www.challenyee.com/the-ten-commandments/
ACT LIKE MEN a short talk given by John MacArthur (click on the link)
All quoted excerpts have footnotes removed, usually from Legacy Standard Bible (LSB), sometimes from New International Version (NIV), on rare occasion the Amplified Bible (AMP).
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16 Jul 2024